Have UK Jews forgotten who was blamed in the centuries before invention of “European Bureaucrats"?

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Tuesday December 10, 2019 · 5:30 PM PST

2019/12/10 · 17:30

During this countdown to the December 12 general election in the United Kingdom, as a Jewish American, I hope that British Jews cut through the MSM fog to remember that:

· The surest way, to increase Jew-blaming on the Right, would be for Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit to traumatize the UK economy while simultaneously removing “European Bureaucrats” from their decades-long place atop the list of scapegoats. Have British Jews forgotten who was blamed in the centuries before invention of “European Bureaucrats”?

· The surest way, to increase Jew-blaming on the Left (not to mention further dividing the Jewish Community), would be for Corbyn to lose this election after the UK Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary denunciation.

Moreover, in the department of simultaneous walking and chewing gum:

· Britain without a fast and hard Brexit will be better for British Jews, and a Corbyn-led government appears to be the only achievable path for achieving this.

· For voters who would like a strong non-Corbyn and non-Johnson coalition to unify, the fastest path to this is a Corbyn-government that will be preoccupied with Brexit renegotiation and re-referendum.

· For voters who believe that Corbyn is too weak to stand up to anti-Semitism, then it should follow that Corbyn is also be too weak to implement any of his policies against the resistance of both:

· a hundred of his own party’s Members of Parliament, and

· British Military, Intelligence and Finance institutions.

Add-on, link to some opinions, overlapping with mine, posted by a Jewish anthropologist in a self-tweeted video:

this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people pic.twitter.com/yXgKrRBKvT
— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) December 3, 2019

CA AD-15 Runoff pits Jovanka Beckles (Conqueror of local bully Chevron) vs. Big Bucks of Buffy Wicks

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Monday June 18, 2018 · 8:53 AM PDT

2018/06/18 · 08:53

Blue Dog Buffy Wicks preparing for runoff

Enjoy and share music video: "Blue Dog in the Buff"

In California's 15th Assembly District (Berkeley-Oakland-Richmond-Etc.) general election ‘runoff’ in November, the corporate-free Chevron-conquering Jovanka Beckles will face Buffy Wicks, who is a first time candidate, long-time professional fundraiser, and establishment insider.

Defeating Buffy is important for all voters who value local autonomy, or who support the anti-corruption platform and grassroots spirit of Bernie Sanders.

Buffy's candidacy (far from her hometown where she could have deployed her money against a Republican, and could have weakened Republicans’ ability to veto Democratic legislation) shows that the establishment has a higher priority:

sending a message to Progressives that its money, and a blank slate candidate endorsed by big names, can beat Progressives and other local champions anywhere.

Defeating Buffy would:

send a message back, to Big Donors and their Blue Dog poodles, that their time is over.

For details on the players see pre-primary article posted here: https://goo.gl/7V53QK

Music Video: Failing Ever Higher

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Monday May 14, 2018 · 9:27 AM PDT

2018/05/14 · 09:27

Here’s another way of thinking about Buffy Wicks’ Big Donor-financed invasion of the California Assembly District centered in the ‘People’s Republic of Berkeley’:

YouTube Video

CA AD15 Buffy Money-Bombs Berkeley

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Monday May 14, 2018 · 8:39 AM PDT

2018/05/14 · 08:39

Flush With Cash: Will Buffy the BernieSlayer Win in Pro-Sanders District?

New Anti-Berner Model Test in California’s 15^th Assembly District Election

“Establishment Donors’ Counter-Attack into Heartland of Grassroots Progressivism … local California race could create a new template – very good or very bad – for elections nationwide”

FL-23 "I don't get protested--you better back-off": DWS to anti-TPP union leader (formerly a friend)

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Monday August 22, 2016 · 5:29 AM PDT

2016/08/22 · 05:29

There’s no music in this kind of statement:

"I don't get protested--you better back-off"

Must-view video below of TYT interview with anti-TPP Florida union leader Fred Frost, including his sorrowful recounting of the above arrogant and threatening statement by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who

“used to know where she came from”

before DWS

“got corrupted”.

YouTube Video

Frost met DWS’s now-famous challenger Tim Canova through anti-TPP advocacy that transitioned into seeking a primary challenger in response to DWS’s betrayal of labor in voting for the TPP fast-track (which set up the end game of bribing and bullying passage through this year’s lame-duck and unaccountable Congressional session).

Canova became that candidate, and is now described by Frost as

“not just a protest vote … a once in a lifetime candidate.”

I found this interview through this DownWithTyranny article on the August 30 Florida primary.

FL-23 "Secret Agent DeM" music video unmasks DWS & Agents of Affluenza for challenger Tim Canova

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Sunday August 21, 2016 · 6:46 PM PDT

2016/08/21 · 18:46

Please enjoy and share this new “Secret Agent DeM” music video, by Blue America:

YouTube Video

This video musically highlights some of the many misdeeds and misjudgments of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and connects their dots to DWS’s exposure as an “Agent of Affluenza”.

DWS faces on August 30 (and early voting Aug 20-27) the first-ever primary challenge to her re-election, by an expert on the TPP, NAFTA and bank regulation, Professor of Law Tim Canova (www.timcanova.com). South Florida has number of Progressive candidates confronting resistance from a Democratic party establishment that has joined with DWS to allow this Presidentially purple state to be dominated by Republicans. A number of those candidates are grouped for one-stop contributions (divided however desired) on this ActBlue page assembled by Blue America PAC.

“Secret Agent DeM” is Blue America’s third music video on the Canova primary challenge to DWS. The previous one focused on Debbie’s “Skating From Debating”, here:

YouTube Video

The first of this music video series focused on Debbie’s childish dancing of the “Numbers Rahm-ba”:

YouTube Video

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Sunday August 14, 2016 · 6:36 AM PDT

2016/08/14 · 06:36

Buried ledes:

1. Tim did well, and showed real passion on Israel’s security, which Debbie clearly thought would be a vulnerability.

2. Debbie worked hard to run out clock (talking over moderator and Tim) and refused Tim’s proposal to accept more debate invitations from a black and a latino group.

3. Tim omitted to mention the TPP, or its impending lame-duck passage, enabled by Debbie’s prior vote for filibuster-free simple majority fast-track.

The TPP was certainly not omitted from these two music videos supporting Tim and putting Debbie’s foibles to music, lyrics and pictures:

YouTube Video

5/35 days left: DWS-critics can influence Dem Party (FL Aug 30 Primary voter reg'n thru Aug 1)

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Tuesday July 26, 2016 · 4:02 AM PDT

2016/07/26 · 04:02

August 1 Voter Reg’n deadline for August 30 FL primaries (and Nov 8 general election follow-up) can give Southern Florida a huge role in influencing a victorious Democratic Party.

FL-23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, her patrons and their ideology will be dealt a big blow if Debbie loses her primary to knowledgeable 1st-time candidate and (anti) TPP expert
Tim Canova: timcanova.com. Enjoy and share the following music video, of a Debbie-lookalike singing about how Debbie's devotion to money has affected key policies, and how this will bring her downfall.

YouTube Video

FL-Sen: Control of the Democratic Caucus in Senate by Schumer, Reid and their big donors will be greatly weakened if the FL-Sen primary is lost by their donor-created recently-Republican rich-kid Erin Patrick Murphy, to the gutsy Progressive warrior
Alan Grayson: senatorwithguts.com.
Enjoy and share the following music video, which humorously highlights Murphy's (short and sudden) conversion from Romney supporter to vacuous Conservadem, and compares them with some accomplishments of Grayson.

YouTube Video

In the November general election:

Every newly Democratic-registered and turned-out voter in these races is an additional vote to keep Florida's electoral college electors in the Democratic column.

Other South Florida races could flip that region into a major base of Progressive influence over national policy:

FL- 25: (Blue-trending): Debbie-protected & DCCC-ignored (Republican) Batista-loyalist Mario Diaz-Bahlert is being challenged by physician & educator (“Cuban version of Mother Theresa with a good left hook”) Alina Valdes: alinavaldesforcongress.com.

FL- 27: (Blue-trending): Debbie-protected & DCCC-ignored (Republican) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is being challenged by locally raised and educated lawyer Adam Sackrin: www.adamsackrin.com.

Debbie does something right -- inspires music video Numbers Rahm-ba

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Sunday May 08, 2016 · 5:21 AM PDT

2016/05/08 · 05:21

Can all Kogs still agree that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been a disastrous DNC chair, and prior head of Red-to-Blue committee? She’s also been a bad vote in Congress but (not coincidentally) has built up a huge war-chest to to deter challengers in her very Blue district. How did she manage this this? It was child’s play — actually more like toddler play, which makes it very suitable that a favorite toddler’s song has been used to parody some of Debbie’s many failings.

YouTube Video

If you like the song, or dislike Debbie, or like fearless primary challengers like Professor Tim Canova, who is an expert on bank regulation and international trade deals — you know: governing (rather than selling votes and selling out voters), then please donate to him at this ActBlue link, and other candidates on this list maintained by Blue America.

Lesser-evilism’s cognitive dissonance ratchet

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Saturday April 30, 2016 · 4:38 AM PDT

2016/04/30 · 04:38

Everybody (who is willing to ask themselves the question) knows this answer:

Yes: People who build careers on attracting money from special interests will tend towards increasingly viewing that money as inevitable and those interests as legitimate.

People’s reluctance to ask and answer that question can result from this broader example of the same psychological syndrome:

People who support lesser-evil candidates will tend towards increasingly viewing those candidates as inevitable and those candidates’ policies as less evil (omitting the “–er”).

The above syndrome is from the 1st axiom of human psychology:

“People resist perceiving their actions & allies as evil”

The above examples are connected by a 2nd axiom of human psychology:

“Cognitive dissonance --> discomfort --> avoid dissonant information

An example of information-avoidance playing out before our eyes is:

Independents’ support for Bernie undermines electability convention wisdom
and thus constitutes ‘dissonant information’ and thus is filtered out by confirmation bias.

All the above constitute a self-reinforcing feedback loop. What makes this loop into a one-way ratchet is, more than information avoidance, and more than confirmation bias:

Dissonant discomfort avoidance through information interpretation.

The above analysis can be tested by predicting the following example:

“Hillary's loss [or near-loss] to Trump in general election resulted from insufficient clapping by Berniacs during nomination primaries”

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Monday April 25, 2016 · 3:08 AM PDT

2016/04/25 · 03:08

All Bernie-directed advice or criticism is useless unless it considers these things,

...which are known to every establishment insider:

1. Establishment top priority is: no Presidency for Bernie, or Elizabeth Warren or other bank-critic

2. Biden & Kerry are plans B & C in case Hillary becomes overly damaged goods (whether by Bernie, by Bill, by FBI, by Panama Papers or by a runaway Limousine.

3. After the November election, bi-partisan establishment top priorities will be:

(i) lame-duck passage of TPP against public opinion (of every major voter demographic), and

(ii) preventing any future repeat of Bernie’s (and Trump’s) 2016 campaign, through

as few policy tweaks as can be gotten away with,
more rhetorical disguises, and
many more protections of establishment power.

4. That prevention will ever-more reliable as

Bank bailouts, TBTJail & runway foaming turn into ancient history,
Economic & political inequality continue to deepen their mutual reinforcement, and the main employment growth increasingly comes in public and private military, prisons and surveillance.
Climate economic & political dominoes create tides of foreign refugees, from countries 100s of times as populous as Syria.
Domestic surveillance technology progress, and policy drift, leaves only a few fragile scruples
to limit the sharing --of each citizen’s every word and action--
between the surveillance establishment and the political establishment.

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Tuesday April 19, 2016 · 1:19 AM PDT

2016/04/19 · 01:19

Three questions for New Yorkers about who said the following:

“We are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity.”

Was it one or more of the following?

1. A marginal old socialist?

2. The winner of the New York Democratic Presidential primary?

3. The first Jewish President of the USA?

Bonus question:

Does the answer matter?

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“We are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity”