Who is Yonatan Zunger ? A phony pseudo-leftist ?

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  Curiously, I can't find much background information on this Yonatan Zunger. He is not connected to any " left " organization that I respect.
  
   The pseudo-left is hostile to working class " democracy ". They usually wallow in effete " identity politics ".
  
   Are THEY hoping for a very undemocratic coup against President Donald Trump ?
  
  [ Breitbart
  Leftists celebrities and activists are spreading a conspiracy theory from a Google engineer that President Trump is planning a secret coup against the United States, causing the topic to trend on Twitter Monday.
  “The administration is testing the extent to which the DHS (and other executive agencies) can act and ignore orders from the other branches of government,” claims Yonatan Zunger, a “Distinguished Engineer at Google, working on the Privacy team” according to his LinkedIn profile, in a blog post titled “Trial Balloon for a Coup?” published to Medium. “This is as serious as it can possibly get: all of the arguments about whether order X or Y is unconstitutional mean nothing if elements of the government ....]

Ruling class fear of SOCIALISM revival

Understand how in the free eBook “10 Biggest Lies of Socialism”

[ "  Less than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism seems to be undergoing a revival.

Under socialism, the idea is that everyone pays taxes and the government, in an equitable way, provides its citizens with the things they need.

Sure socialism may sound wonderful – all is shared, universal equality is realized, and we all live happily ever after.

But, that is not how socialism works in the real world. "]

        Yes,  LET THE RULING CLASSES TREMBLE - Radical Ron

Talk Radio host John Depetro makes a come back

Very much " on the left " myself I did enjoy John DePetro's entertainment gifts. On my blog ( http://radicalrons.blogspot.com ) I did defend his FREE SPEECH rights from a very illiberal liberalism in Rhode Island. Often enough John spoke truth to power. I will TUNE IN again.

John DePetro Radio ‏@JohnDePetroshow Jan 27

John DePetro Show returns to the radio weekdays 1:00-5:00pm 1540 AM WADK...watch

Gender identity controversy - a gift to politically correct charlatans everywhere

Boy Scouts Will Admit Transgender Boys

This controversy of gender identity is a gift to politically correct charlatans everywhere.

 Cannot any honest biologist assert that DNA determines the sex of an individual ?

 Has any " female " without a functional womb ever given birth to a child in the long history of the human species ?

And KINDNESS to " different people " almost originated with the New Testament.

Of course, the Boy Scouts should not REJECT any kid.

Really - if Trump fails ?

[“We should expect that the political pendulum will swing with even more force to the other direction the next time. With people even further to the left than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren! There are people right now who are prepared for the next four years to be a failure, people who cannot wait to be there to address the frustrated American people and introduce them to their own vision of radical hope and change. So the stakes are extremely high.”]

We had to give up two beloved pets at Providence Animal Rescue

Providence Animal Rescue 

Ron Ruggieri

Just a few days ago my good friend Dorene Rousseau of Randall Manor in Cranston had to give up her beloved pets " Mindy " and " Dottie " at the 34 Elbow St. Animal Rescue.

She is still crying about this loss of " family ". We hope our precious - getting old- canine friends find a loving home and are treated with kindness for the rest of their lives.

 Dorene is 75 years old and diagnosed with bone cancer. She was just unable to keep these adored and faithful companions here at Randall Manor. I cared for Mindy in recent months. We would love to hear about Mindy and Dottie finding a new home.

  [ Providence Animal Rescue League

34 Elbow Street
Providence , RI 02903
(401)421-1399

            ]

Petition that British royalty not receive " vulgar " American president ?

Any democratic socialist would point out that in the year 2017 the British monarchy is more of political abomination than the" legitimate " president of the United States, a blunt speaking- at times " vulgar " - right wing nationalist, Donald Trump . 

The YOUR HIGHNESS flunkeys would welcome the war criminal " Corrupt Hillary ", Wall St. Hillary, Hawk Hillary ? 

What can be more vulgar than the mixture of Hollywood royalty with Britain's effete aristocracy and frequently- in- the- tabloids " royals " ?

 " 900,000 Brits Sign Petition to Block Trump’s State Visit Due To ‘Misogyny and Vulgarity’ "

 Nor can I imagine the face of Jacksonian Democracy getting a " royal welcome " early in the 19th century.

 

 British Snobbery vs. American vulgarity ? Derived from a Latin word, I would choose the " vulgar " crowd any day.

 

Quickly a democratic socialist USA would shut down our nuclear arsenal

With the applause of the common people of the whole world a real government of democratic socialism in the USA would shut down our military industrial complex overnight.

And it would begin with the most useless of all: the nuclear arsenal.

 The coming massive anti-war movement in the United States might remind you of the old Vietnam War era question : " What if THEY start a war and nobody shows up ? "

Not a single regime involved in today's wars worth any American's blood

The bipartisan pro-war New Colonialism foreign policy in the Middle East created this unprecedented refugee crisis in the first place.

 Now phony Democrat " liberals " show a false face of compassion and tolerance to the oppressed Muslims of the world. There is not a single regime in the Middle East -or any NATO state bordering Russia - that is worth one drop of any working class American soldier's blood.

 What is the protection of plutocracy at home worth ? Hale Hillary ? Hale Trump ?

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  Trump order on
  refugees, Muslims
  sparks confusion,
  worry

  Star Tribune · 11 hours ago
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  Growing fallout
  from Trump's new
  immigration
  crackdown

  Salon · 15 hours ago
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  Day one of Trump
  refugee ban sparks
  chaos at U.S.
  airports

The Democratic Party is DEAD !

Hillary Clinton- " Corrupt Hillary ", " Hawk Hillary " - campaigned as the Queen of the Status Quo not as the savior of the environment - which would involve REAL antagonism to the military industrial complex, to global capitalism.

 It would have made more human sense to have supported Jill Stein of the Green Party or to support some truly INDEPENDENT ( of the American ruling class ) candidates for national leadership in 2020.

 The Democratic Party is DEAD - having burned all bridges to working class Americans.

The Democratic Party is just too hopelessly ideologically invested in " identity politics ". Will it find some fresh new way to pander to RACE, GENDER, and SEXUAL ORIENTATION ? It has burned all bridges to those working class " deplorables " who handed the presidential election to the right wing nationalist Donald Trump.

The American working class will not be frightened back into the bosom of the treacherous ( ask " socialist " Bernie Sanders ) Democratic Party - now evolved into a neo-con war party.

Hillary as savior of the Good Earth ?

Wise advice from the philosopher Lucretius in ancient Rome

“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the 

wise, 

tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look down upon others and see them wandering everywhere

in their random search for the way of life, competing for intellectual eminence, disputing about rank,

and striving night and day with prodigious effort to scale the summit of wealth and to secure power.

O minds of mortals, blighted by your blindness! Amid what deep darkness and daunting dangers 

life’s little day is passed! To think that you should fail to see that nature importantly demands only 

that the body may be rid of pain, and that the mind, divorced from fear....

But is the ultimate REALITY only MATTER IN MOTION ?

I expect the millennials to become more CLASS CONSCIOUS

I expect the millennials to become more class conscious and oppose themselves not just to Donald Trump's reactionary policies but to BIPARTISAN attacks on the American working class and BIPARTISAN preparations for World War III.

 The leadership of the Democratic Party can only mislead the millennials into the dead ends of Establishment USA- which supported Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary.

 Do these millennials think that the mainstream news media in the USA is a force for TRUTH in the world ?

 Can we make the planet safe from ravages of global capitalism but still support our capitalist way of life ?

PRIVATE PROPERTY right causes the homeless problem

I commend former Providence mayor Joe Paolino for showing some practical compassion on housing the homeless people at the old St. Joseph Hospital building. But does Mr. Property realize how much PRIVATE PROPERTY right causes the homeless problem ?

To be sure, Governor " Wall St. Gina " is clueless about helping the poor and the working class in Rhode Island. No help for the many victims of the state's dysfunctional new computer system ? Lay off more social workers ? That will help the homeless !

Paolino Properties to rescue the Kennedy Plaza homeless ?

Brown University-a bastion of ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM

Brown University -the Friedman Connection- has become a bastion of illiberal liberalism. But this " liberalism " in any case is completely disconnected to any real concern for working class women or working class black Americans or Latino Americans as a CLASS. " Diversity " worship is obtuse to old fashioned snobbery.

Is there a different minimum wage in America for women or blacks or Latino immigrant groups ? Does Friedman think that working class women care about glass ceilings in corporate America or identify with female CEOs - who are not less oppressive to their workers than male CEOs ?

What can be more nasty -or unnatural- than getting men and women to hate, fear, and suspect the opposite sex ?

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  Glenn Valentine • a day ago

  [ " Ron Ruggieri you are spot-on. Hilary Levey [ Friedman ] made a fool of herself on WPRO and Gene Valicenti's analysis was excellent as well. Her entire motivation is political and the men women and children she rallied last night were pawn in her astroturfing effort. ]Shameless."
  

Only Socialism can save civilization - even CIVILITY- now

"Jennings, like Sanders, thinks the party needs to focus on working-class issues above all else." Yes, that is very true, but it does not change in the least the CLASS loyalty of the leadership of the Democratic Party.

They are ALL pro-capitalist and even " democratic socialism " is anathema to them.The American working class needs its own INDEPENDENT mass party- patterned after the British Labor Party -but pristine in its working class perspective.

Socialism -not capitalism - will save civilization-and even old fashioned " middle class " civility and manners- so absent now from Hillary Democrat " identity politics ".

Trust the New McCarthyism ?

The mainstream news media in America lost all credibility with its one sided support for " Corrupt Hillary ". Now it is responsible for the most pernicious fake news: that Russia's Vladimir Putin -somehow- sabotaged " democracy " in America.

 

 No, those working class " deplorables " in the Rust Belt states - feeling betrayed by the Clintons- legitimized the presidency of the right wing nationalist Donald Trump - who at least SEES these " forgotten Americans ". 

Trust the New McCarthyism ?

Note to newsman Gene Valicenti on " feminist " Hilary Levey Friedman

Protest in East Greenwich over sexist joke of town council member

I recommend Rhode Island newsman Gene Valicenti's comments on radio this morning ( WPRO ) on Hilary Levey Friedman. I do think that " identity politics " is sicker and more vicious than ever. Not for nothing it was a factor in the election of the right wing demagogue Donald Trump as president of the United States.

Just what was so outrageous about this joke ? Do we want a politically correct - but humorless - community ?

May I suggest - as a democratic socialist - that the real joke here is bourgeois marriage.

The Brown University connection

Dying with dignity in American hospitals ?

Don't trust FOR PROFIT hospitals -or any hospital that subordinates itself to medicine as BUSINESS in capitalist America- to show routine humanity in caring for those " expected to survive " patients - never mind the near death patients.

 Many hospitals - understaffed and demoralized by budget limitations - are clueless even about common courtesy.

My father passed away at Roger Williams Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island at age 76 in 1999. He did not die alone. Loving family members were present. But they report that they-not the hospital staff - had to protect Pop's dignity in his last hours.

 Could a dying patient at least have the bed curtains drawn and be spared the last word in capitalist vulgarity : the dumb TV commercials ?

The cancer treatment centers of local hospitals seem clueless about recognizing and respecting the humanity of high anxiety, depressed, and generally miserable patients. How about a smile and a kind word ? How about some COMMUNICATION ?

Discover existential EMPTINESS here

Actress Madonna can learn from her " Evita " role

Were the more " nasty women " inspired by the Madonna speech which exuded liberal " love and kindness " ? [ While taking part in a protest march in Washington DC on Saturday, the
singer said she had thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House "]

That is definitely NOT the way to nip American fascism in the bud. At least " Evita " appealed to the Argentine working class. Juan Peron to the trade unions. The real Evita was a serious candidate for Catholic sainthood. Even " prostitutes " can attain political clarity.

Individual acts of " terrorism " are self-defeating. MASS ACTION is the path to popular democracy.


 " [   Although they are still controversial figures, Juan and Evita Perón are nonetheless considered icons by the Peronists. The Peróns' followers praised their efforts to eliminate poverty and to dignify labour, while their detractors considered them demagogues and dictators. The Peróns gave their name to the political movement known as Peronism, which in present-day Argentina is represented mainly by the Justicialist Party." ] "

The real Evita touched the working class people

You fight fascism with militant class consciousness - not " identity politics "

Democratic socialists have a deeper understanding of incipient fascism than the neo-liberals. You begin to fight fascism by raising CLASS consciousness not by pandering to race, gender, and sexual orientation.

The whole purpose of " identity politics " is to dull working class consciousness. In just a few months the Hillary Democrats have evolved into a neo-con war party. You cannot fight fascism with an alliance of " liberals " - loyal to the capitalist way of life. History teaches that a bourgeois political party is quite helpless against a determined fascist movement.

The neo-liberals completely ignore the decay of " democracy " and growth of militarism -and the growth of the Orwellian Surveillance State- under President Barack Obama- his a presidency of endless war.

Do you think Establishment USA - the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, Wall ST. , the mainstream news media- all united in their support for Hawk Hillary - are a force to fight fascism ? On the contrary, a fascist movement will begin with these charming souls. Donald Trump just makes them nervous--- too friendly with Vladimir Putin ?
                       *******

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  Pablo John C Carleton • 3 months ago

  "  [The owners of the Political Wh#re Class have been attacking the American Public School system for good reason. Bush II had "No Child Left Behind". Obama has "Race to the Top". Both couldn't be more misnamed if one tried. The US Ruling/Owner class has always wanted an education system that produces obedient, unthinking, workers, NOT people who can think critically. Lenin, Trotsky and the others had it damn near spot on about Capitalism......] "
  

Our military industrial complex is not all about love and tolerance

As a democratic socialist I paid close attention to the presidential campaigns of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

 Both politicians ignored the proverbial elephant in the room: Pentagon preparation for World War III.

 Our military industrial complex is not all about love and tolerance , the feminist agenda for " room at the top " or the gay agenda for diversity worship.

The oh-so-tolerant and politically correct Hillary Democrats have evolved into a neo-con war party burning all bridges to the rest of us working class " deplorables ". 

They are promoting an ugly New McCarthyism -spreading the lie that far away- in- Russia Vladimir Putin sabotaged the presidential election that Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary was destined to win.

[ Apart from typical upper class male sexism for his generation when did Donald Trump ever declare war on women's rights or on the Civil Rights Act of 1965 ?]

The Pentagon of Love & Tolerance

" Do you live near the Kremlin ? " - a whiff of the New McCarthyism

• This is the BIG LIE of the mainstream news media-which puffed up Hawk Hillary and is now trying to puff up " Hillary flunkey " Senator Elizabeth Warren: that Russia's Vladimir Putin sabotaged Hillary Clinton's " inevitable " ( she was the favorite of Establishment USA ) election victory.
  
   The ALL AMERICAN working class rejected Wall St. Hillary in those Rust Belt states.
  
  CLASS WAR not race war is coming to America. It will be as peaceful as the ruling class itself.
  

Where is the EVIDENCE of a KKK soul in President Donald Trump ?

It would be delusional to think that such massive protests are all about melodramatic anxiety over " identity politics " issues. The mainstream news media in its enthusiasm for Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary- over- vilified the right wing nationalist Donald Trump.

Nothing in Trump's background suggested unusual sexism for an upper class male of his generation. Nor is there any evidence of a KKK racist mentality.

But in linking Donald Trump to Kremlin intrigue the corrupt Democratic Party -led by " Corrupt Hillary " - is creating an ugly pro-war New McCarthyism in America.

The Hillary Democrats burned all bridges to the " angry American working class "- of all races and ethnic groups.Those " deplorables " in the still depressed Rust Belt states legitimized the election of Donald Trump - who at least spoke about " forgotten Americans " in his Inaugural speech.

 [TRUMP: 'I am a victim of one of the greatest political smear campaigns ...

www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-victim-political-smear-campaig...

Oct 14, 2016 - Donald Trump claimed he was "a victim of one of the great political smear ... Times stakeholder, for allegedly conspiring against his campaign.]

Anti-Trump women on the march... but FOR what ?

In general, the democratic Left loves MASS ACTION. But these demonstrations lack political clarity and therefore play into the hands of Establishment USA - which pre-selected Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary as " the first woman president of the United States "..

Hard to believe that all this fervor goes into self-defeating support for the status quo in America : bipartisan attacks on the working class as a CLASS and blind support for militarism and hostility to nuclear powers Russia and China.

[ In 1917 the Russian Revolution inspired a wave of militant feminism. ]


 "Media reporting of the demonstrations presented the protests as centered around the demand for reproductive rights, as well as various identity politics issues. Commentators were forced to admit, however, that a large portion of participants in the demonstrations were motivated by much broader issues, including opposition to Trump’s program of aggressive militarism, domestic repression, and pro-business policies. "  ( WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE report )

Stalinism and war checked progress for women in Russia

Shooting victim at Washington University

   

 " Gunman on loose after protest shooting at University of Washington, victim critical "

There is a working class LEFT that despises vicious " identity politics ", illiberal liberalism, and sanctimonious attacks -especially on college campuses- of " free speech " tradition.

 The mainstream news media - overwhelmingly favoring Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary- has promoted an ugly Neo-McCarthyism hysteria in this country. They want to blame far away- in- Russia Vladimir Putin for Hillary Clinton's shocking - and ignominious- defeat.

 She was defeated by all those working class " deplorables " in those still depressed Rust Belt states who felt  betrayed by the neo-liberal Clintons.

Suspect at large in Washington University political violence 

The " America First " President is sworn in... a divided ruling class

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        Presidential Inauguration

        Live on YouTube
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            The words of Thomas Gray : 
        
           " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
        
            And  all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
         
            Awaits the   inevitable hour : - The paths of glory lead but 
        
            to the grave "
        
        

        • Never quite recognized in the mainstream news media is a working class Left rejecting " identity politics " and the tactics of illiberal liberalism- true enough: that brown shirt contempt for one fine American tradition : freedom of speech and freedom of thought.
          
          Trump's Inauguration Speech today was more interesting than alarming. When did Hillary Clinton ever acknowledge those invisible angry white working class people ? When did she ever speak about CLASS injustice ?
          
           Not for nothing all the crowd enthusiasm during the campaign was for the " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders or our right wing nationalist - " America First "- now President Donald Trump.
          
          A billionaire plutocrat at least SEES the " forgotten Americans ". But I voted for socialists.No more than Wall St. Hillary can Donald Trump " make America great again ".
          

                     

Illiberal Liberalism creates this ugly Neo McCarthyism

" I do think there are a lot of students who are going to be targeted
under a Trump presidency — for their sexuality, for their religion, for
their immigration status. And I think those are the people we need to be
worried about right now."

As a democratic socialist - an honest one - I had no trouble seeing how Republican Donald Trump was the over-demonized victim of Hillary- Democrat " identity politics " - notorious for its viciousness and intellectual dishonesty.

 Perhaps the real FEAR here is based on the paranoia of identity politics fanatics who fear the wrath of the many innocent victims of " political correctness " - individuals whose careers were ruined by " illiberal liberalism ".

An illiberalism so illiberal that post-election Democrats -with the help of the mainstream news media - have created an ugly Neo-McCarthyism in the USA - with far away in Russia Vladimir Putin being blamed for the defeat of Hawk Hillary, Wall St. Hillary, " Corrupt Hillary ".

Hillary Clinton was defeated in those still depressed Rust Belt states by all those working class " deplorables " she despised- people betrayed by the Clintons with their neo-liberal disdain for the values of the New Deal and the memory - true or idealized - of FDR.

Best comment on news media COMMENTS

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   " Cutting comments is an act of cowardice, and betrays the insecurity and inferiority the author and website feel.
  
     Wired has taken a half measures so far in collapsing its comments but they're just not confident enough to deal with the comments that disagree with their article, thus this trial balloon article softening the ground for what they really want to do which is to not have anyone talk back to them
  
  So= resolved; any website that turns off commenting is to be considered an infomercial shill, NOT a trusted source for news.
  
    The number of times I've learned more from the comments section than the article, well I can't even count them "
  
  Why COMMENTS are disappearing 

For Edward Snowden a Nobel Peace Prize ?

From the perspective of working class " democracy " Edward Snowden is a hero-more worthy of any Nobel Peace Prize than President Barack Obama.

 He could-with some irony- share that prestigious prize with Russia's Vladimir Putin who correctly perceived Hawk Hillary Clinton as the face of World War III.

The American working class has no " interest " in a belligerent foreign policy toward nuclear powers Russia and China, no interest in the New Colonialism in the Middle East.

 America is goaded on the road to war by too many unsavory -even less " democratic "- allies- like those representing Old Europe Imperialism.

 And in the Middle East did ordinary working class Americans ever decide that WE have " a special relationship " with Zionist Israel and barbaric Saudi Arabia ?

The Hillary Democrats are promoting a rotten New McCarthyism.They have burned all bridges to the American working class " deplorables "

 It was THEY - not Vladimir Putin- who just said NO to " Wall St. Hillary ", " Corrupt Hillary ".

In Chelsea Manning there was no " crime " to pardon

In Chelsea Manning there was no " crime " to pardon. The United States military has lost all moral authority to LEAD any " war on terrorism " anywhere on the planet.

 Not content with being the cause of the bloody chaos in the Middle East, the New American Colonialism has a belligerent attitude toward both nuclear powered Russia and China.

 The " democracy " that gave us Trump vs. Hillary -and the Surveillance State-has nothing " progressive " to offer this miserable world.

Thank God also for Edward Snowden and Wiki Leaks . He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize . Hawk Hillary was the face of World War III. Putin got that right.

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  Chelsea Manning
  to Be Released
  Early as Obama
  Commutes Sentence

  The New York Times