Lefty LoungeJun 09, 2021
Oklahoma City Bombing and controversy with Richard Booth
I remember everything about the day the OKC bombing happened. I also remember thinking I "had it right" when I figured it was "domestic terror," but I know now that the story is far more complex. The reason we know this is because of the work of folks we talk about today with my guest Richard Booth (@booth_okc).
He joins me today to discuss his research and address some recent drama in the OKC research community.
CITATIONS
Richard's extensive OKC archive
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, by Wendy Painter
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters, by Andrew Gumbel & Roger Charles
Nuts & Boltzmann, Substack by Boltzmann Booty
How Reagan's ghost still haunts the living; plus stop confusing 'Stalinism' & 'communism'
Kartik Krishnaiyer joins for an expansive chat about the ghost of Ronald Reagan in current political trends (erm, quagmires). Break out your trusty smudge stick and let's exorcise some demons.
CITATIONS
Rick Perlstein's books can be found here.
Commie Santa & the Magical Orphan [class and the holidays]
One Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real...but it didn't sink in until the next year.
COGNITIVE WARFARE: NATO is colonizing minds to undermine OUR society (it's their stated goal!)
Are your BELIEFS your own? 'Cognitive Warfare' is happening right now on all forms of media and social media. What are you gonna do to avoid the draft? Or have you already been conscripted? Listen to find out.
CITATIONS
Behind NATO's 'cognitive warfare': 'Battle for your brain' waged by Western militaries — by Ben Norton, The Grayzone
NATO REPORT #1 — "Cognitive Warfare" [this is what i refer to as the 'nonpartisan' report]
NATO REPORT #2 — "An attack on truth and thought" (Johns Hopkins/NATO) [this is the "red meat" report]
More NATO documents on cognitive warfare found here.
Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning from 2015; covid news & psyops fun
THIS WEEK
Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download)
Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi)
Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015
Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck
Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall)
Is this how Democracy ends? The peril of using RW assumptions to make left arguments
Covid discourse from the "left" is constructed with rightwing logic, and it's not playing out well. Examining Dr. Vinay Prasad's "How Democracy Ends" essay which you can find on Substack and YouTube.
Nathan J. Robinson's essay: "Don't Use The Right's Assumptions To Make The Left's Arguments."
Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning in 2015; covid treatment news & psyops (really!)
THIS WEEK'S STORIES
mins 0:00—15:00
Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download)
Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi)
mins 15:00—39:00
Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015
mins 40:00—1:14:00
Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck
mins 1:14:00—1:21:00
Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall)
Covid conformity, culture war, trauma, and living chronic
Time for The Left to play catch-up on Covid. Some are leading the way while others continue to disappoint. Appealing to authority is not a good look for the The Left. Also, a philosophy major tells me I had a wrongthink.
Your mind is a battlefield (thought I'd give you a heads-up)
The alignment of tech, media, and pharma has doomed our pandemic response, as shown by an extraordinary Rolling Stone FAKE NEWS controversy. RELATED: new trust-in-media crisis. Don't let "Sensemaking" technocrats colonize your brain, please.
Plus! Facebook continues to be an evil and stupid thing.
STILL MORE! Zeroing in on early covid treatment.
CITATIONS
Trust in Media Hits NEW CRISIS LOW, Axios
ROLLING STONE BOGUS ARTICLE "Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals"
Ivermectin Overdose NOT An Issue At Oklahoma ER, KXMX radio fact checking (with hospital rebuttal of bogus article)
I-MASK+ prevention and early outpatient treatment protocol for Covid-19, FLCCC Alliance
Making Sense of Sensemaking: what it is and what it means for pandemic research, The Atlantic Council
Facebook Hires ex-NATO press officer as intel officer to censor speech, The Grayzone
How the media is gaslighting you -- PLUS continuing adventures in TIA
Quick follow-up from last week on "My Vaccine Hesitancy Journey": puzzling doctor visit might be explained later in episode.
Then, how FEDERAL AGENCIES under Health And Human Services are dictating how the media covers healthcare.
A medical doctor in British Columbia shares what he learned about "micro" blood clots, and then loses everything.
CITATIONS
How the FDA manipulates the media, by Charles Seife, Scientific American
Censorship is called “transparency,” by Charles Seife, Scientific American
Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation, by Joseph Bernstein, Harper’s
My own 'vaccine hesitancy journey'
My own vaccine hesitancy journey; what has happened along the way; and what might actually work to get people protected.
CITATIONS
Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed, by Charles Eisenstein
The deserving and undeserving unvaccinated, by Libby Watson
Here's a Terrible New Idea: Making the unvaccinated pay higher insurance premiums, by Natalie Shure
How the left FAILED us on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
Brook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science.
Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students.
CITATIONS
Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist)
Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race, by Sam Husseini, Salon, April 24, 2020
Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science, by Sam Husseini, Independent Science News
Sam Husseini website
Some history of biological weapons manufacturing and trade (how we armed Iraq with chemical and biological WMDs), by Norm Dixon, 2004, Counterpunch
For more information check in with #DRASTIC on Twitter
Quislings are subverting your movement; US goes mask-off RE Afghanistan; also FL Covid struggle
In the first half, Brook Hines on the subversion of social movements (especially now on social media). How to spot 'em, squash 'em and move along.
Then Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to share observations on Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and how DeSantis is very much worse than Trump.
CITATIONS
"Subversion of social movements by adversarial agents"
Sen. Robert Byrd 2003 floor speech on invasion of Iraq: "I weep for my country."
Ron DeSantis partners with Fox News on Covid/masks in Florida schools
Alan Grayson, the March for Medicare For All, and how we beat the Snallygasters
Former Congressman Alan Grayson joins to discuss the March For Medicare For All and how you beat the Snallygasters that stand in our way.
Brook provides some M4M4ALL context, then the interview begins at the 6-minute mark.
CITATION
https://graysonforsenate.org
White House to police SMS messages + social media; also new GOP fashy strategy
Brook Hines and 'Space Coast Caller' on why Biden can't actually peek into our text message for wrongthink.
Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report this week --> how the GOP is planning for a new Fuhrer (prolly Trump).
CITATIONS
The CLASSIC First Amendment issue inherent in government using private platforms to police wrongthink; by Matt Taibbi
Tara Reade on her lawsuit against Sally Albright, big tech censorship, and more
Brook Hines chats with Tara Reade about suing Sally Albright; big tech censorship; and how political parties colonize your mind.
CITATIONS
Left Out: When The Truth Doesn't Fit In, by Tara Reade available on Amazon
Follow Tara Reade on Twitter @ReadeAlexandra
Left Bitches on Spotify
Katie Halper Show on YouTube
Richard Medhurst on YouTube
Independence Day: exploding with FREEDOM (and fossil fuels)
Brook Hines reviews the week: Tara Reade sues Sally Albright and @realKHiveQueenb (aka Bravenak; aka Bianca Delarosa). The Gulf of Mexico and Caspian Sea are both on fire. LAPD bombs neighborhood. Assange case falls completely apart...and more.
Also "intellectual capture" is the new regulatory capture: Matt Taibbi's latest on freedom of speech is a perfect Independence Day read.
Jeanine Molloff on Exxon lobbyist CAUGHT on camera while Joe Biden is pressured to end fossil fuel subsidies.
CITATIONS
Kamala Harris's office environment is toxic; rife with backstabbing — Politico
Key Assange witness RECANTS; media fails to mention it — FAIR
Tara Reade sues Sally Albright; complaint filed in District Court for District of Columbia
How the left failed us [ourselves] on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
Brook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science.
Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students.
CITATIONS
Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist)
Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race, by Sam Husseini, Salon, April 24, 2020
Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science, by Sam Husseini, Independent Science News
Sam Husseini website
Some history of biological weapons manufacturing and trade (how we armed Iraq with chemical and biological WMDs), by Norm Dixon, 2004, Counterpunch
For more information check in with #DRASTIC on Twitter
Blacklisting the left again; Censorship & Jan 6 siege
Brook Hines and @JustinInBmore discuss insidious Twitter initiative to blacklist and censor the left. Also, unity for me but not for thee. And what's the deal with AOC's Courage To Change PAC?
Jeanine Molloff on freedom of speech and January 6 insurrection.
CITATION:
@JustinInBmore Medium article: AOC's PAC donates to RW incumbents
DSA icepick memes and WSWS: normalizing violence against the left
Neo-Stalinist memes attacking Trotsky-style socialists are put in historical and social context in conversation with Eric London and Joseph Kishore of WSWS.org. This expansive discussion covers much ground in addition the "icepick discourse," including the devastating impact of the ruling class's weak response to Covid-19.
CITATIONS:
An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of DSA: by David North
Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's Last Year, a 6-part series by David North
Resources at WSWS and Marxist Library
Eric/Joe in conversation with with Chris Richards (video and transcript)
How'd COVID start in the first place? Why are states cutting pandemic aid? What's wrong with Missouri?
[so many questions!]
Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors).
SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong.
Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens.
CITATIONS:
Starving people to force them back to work, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson
Biden cuts pretty much all campaign promises from next budget deal, Washington Post, Jeff Stein & Tyler Pager
Did US-funded research in Wuhan cause the pandemic?, Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson
Origin of COVID: did people or narture open Pandora's Box at Wuhan, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade
[this is the first and most important piece on pandemic origins]
100 days FDRvBiden, UFOs, UN agrees ACAB
Brook Hines with @mugrimm on his FDRvsBiden 100 days project
Also, "How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously," in The New Yorker (really!)
Jeanine Molloff with UN Rapporteur Marjorie Cohn on the new UN report on policing in the US.
"Commission finds anti-Black police violence constitutes crimes against humanity," Truthout, by Marjorie Cohn.
Glamping neolibs & sockpuppetry; Superleague fiasco; Cops serving corp interests
Brook Hines on Neoliberals Glamping in Death Valley: celebrities, sockpuppets, and manufactured paranoia.
Read the new Substack here email updates --> https://brookhines.substack.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley
Kartik Krishnaiyer on the big capitalist failure of the "superleague."
Jeanine Molloff on the everlasting awfulness of cops.
Russian bounty story collapses + how police have legalized murder
Brook discusses the shocking collapse of the Russian bounties story.
Jeanine Molloff on how US police have legalized murder.
Troubling origins of DSA and AOC
The DSA's anticommunist history and AOC's capitalist history.
Two surprising tales that make sense together.
Citations:
The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Eric London, wsws.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party, by Eric London, wsws.org
AOC silencing the left? • Comforting adequacy of Joe Biden • New Jim Crow in GA
Brook Hines analyzes the two Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez articles currently circulating widely. The history of left factionalism tells us where we are, and provides insight into what's coming next.
Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell on the supremely comforting adequacy of Joe Biden.
Jeanine Molloff offers a searing rebuke to Jim Crow 2.0 now evident in Georgia.
CITATIONS
"Talking socialism: catching up with AOC" in Democratic Left, a publication of Democratic Socialists of America, by Don McIntosh
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party" in wsws.org, World Socialist Web Site, by Eric London
"Supercharged McCarthyism seeks to divide left," Brook HInes on Substack (referenced in AOC segment)
Supercharged McCarthyism is dividing left; vaccine apartheid
Brook Hines on her new Substack article: Supercharged McCarthyism seeks to divide the left.
Click thru for article and sign up for my new Substack :)
Jeanine Molloff with part 3 of vaccine apartheid and #NotDyingForWallSt.
Think tank creatures attack the left; FL's best nature; vaccine apartheid
Brook Hines provides a preview of new series on the new fake fascist scare on the left.
Kartik Krishnaiyer launches new Florida Squeeze YouTube channel featuring natural Florida's best kept secret spaces.
Jeanine Molloff continues #NotDyingForWallSt with in-depth look at how monopolies created our vaccine apartheid.
Medical apartheid! Austerity's dark surprise! socialism for beginners!
Brook Hines with a few thoughts.
Esha Krishnaswami gives us a "beginner's guide to socialism." Part 1 of my chat w/Esha.
Jeanine Molloff on medical apartheid and the need for a "People's Vaccine."
CITATIONS
In Memory of County Heyden: "What are our non-party Democrats teaching the people?"
Historic.ly on Substack
Sundays with Lenin on YouTube
More information on The People's Vaccine
Is Sinema doing Biden's bidding? Also, libertarian socialism is totally a thing!
Part Two of this week's MEGAPOD.
Two special guests join for political conversation, analysis and speculation:
Kartik Krishnaiyer on his new piece "In Defense of Charlie Crist," and why some Florida "progressives" aren't all that. Some are. We break it down.
Chris Richards (The Eclectic Radical) joins to help me understand "libertarian socialism" and chew the fat on big ideas.
CITATIONS
"In Defense of Charlie Crist" by Kartik Krishnaiyer at The Florida Squeeze
Chris Richards on Twitter
Kartik Krishnaiyer on Twitter
Twitter suppression fail, Move Left Idiots, #NotDyingForWallSt
Brook Hines reports on Twitter enforcing your faith in NATO, and how Twitter speech regulations backfired and made The Grayzone go viral. Also Grayzone: how the UK pays Reuters, BBC and Bellingcat to create the news.
Anthony and Komrade join to discuss the 1-6 Capitol insurrection; how socialism works in RED areas, why Cuomo is awful, how we're creating vaccine banana republics and chad Parenti vs virgin Chomsky.
Jeanine Molloff on the Justice Report continues her series #NotDyingForWallSt with a widely circulated story on how billionaires got richer during the pandemic (spoiler alert: they cheat).
Move Left Idiots for January 6 with special guest Brook Hines.
Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/moveleft/episode-187-capitol-coup-craziness-ga-election-results-the-house-speaker-vote
iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/move-left-idiots/id1224866279?i=1000504560524
CITATIONS
The Grayzone reports on leaked documents showing UK govt in payola scheme with Reuters, BBC, Bellingcat by Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone article on leaked documents goes viral following Twitter warning label intended to suppress article, backfires by Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté
Plutes & cable news oppose Covid relief, and impeachment PT 2
Brook Hines on how Zuckerberg, Gates and Bloomberg created a fake think tank to oppose any kind of economic relief for suffering Americans. Also, Valentines to the CIA and why pluralism isn't what it used to be
Jeanine Molloff on impeachement and the 14th Amendment.
CITATIONS:
Sirota's Daily Poster on "Opportunity Insights," a fake think tank and how cable news bought it hook, line and sinker.
Joe Biden takes Medicare hostage in asinine game of chicken.
Propaganda, means-testing, Jewish Space Lasers, voter suppression
0-30 mins: Brook Hines on how we could do without "Secret Conspiracies to Save Democracy" (see all links below)
30-60 mins: Mystery Caller calls in to discuss Joe Biden's history of means-testing.
60-75 mins: Rick Spisak and a raft of special guests present "Jewish Lasers From Space."
90-120 mins: Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report on new voter suppression efforts.
LINKS!
Time Magazine on the "conspiracy to save democracy."
New York Times on a "Ministry of Truth" for Biden's Administration (reality czar)
New Republic on how the Dem Party doesn't understand Q-anon.
An analysis of coordinated bot armies of the Dem Party
Stimmy betrayal, FL idpol, and Jewish Lasers From Space
Brook Hines on how we're fixin' to be screwed on stimmies. Also, forget any kind of public option.
Kartik Krishnaiyer on how Florida's vote by MSA reveals the limits of idpol.
Your guide to GameStop: An explainer on short selling, short squeeze.
Jeanine Molloff on Marjorie Taylor Green's (Jewish Lasers From Space).
CITATIONS!
Kartik's stunning MSA analysis of Florida presidential votes
BrotherQ explains how hedge funds, short selling, and short squeeze works RE GameStop et al (follow @andraydomise)
Jonathan Mann (music) Jewish Lasers From Space (follow @songadaymann)
No Labels crafting Biden's Covid relief + how 9 Reps changed Congress
Brook Hines: No Labels group crafting Biden's Covid relief package.
Kartik Krishnaiyer: Think a handful of Reps can't change Congress...think again!
Rick Spisak: Frontline Tampa nurse braces for super-spreader Super Bowl
Jeanie Molloff: Prosecute Trump; ignore Marco Rubio
The Biden agenda & history; attacks on the left; behind the insurrection
Brook Hines on the Biden agenda. Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to provide history and context on pushing agendas through Congress.
Brook returns to address coordinated attacks on the left --> #Ghive
Jeanine Molloff on The Justice Report: insurrection, white supremacy, and Donald Trump.
Examining the Parler Putsch
Brook Hines with Kartik Krishnaiyer on likely next steps to be taken by House and Senate leadership.
Rick Spisak in conversation with Denis Campbell on how the US is looking from the UK.
Jeanine Molloff says the Gabby Giffords shooting was a portent to the siege on the Capitol.