The Ring Of Fire features this RT Broadcast – Papantonio: Podesta and the DNC Gaggle of Idiots Will Never Learn.

Mike Papantonio, host of America’s Lawyer on RT, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss voting rights and voter suppression in the United States today, and how it contrasts to what the corporate media is trying to push.

I’d like to take this opportunity to explain my observation of why so much of this stuff comes from RT. I used to watch many of these hosts and visitors, Thom Hartman, Mike Papantonio, Lee Camp, and many others on various other outlets. All these other outlets have been squeezed out, probably by the corporate media, so that the only outlet open to these voices is RT.

I don’t watch RT because I blindly want to believe everything that comes from RT. I don’t believe that for an instant. I listen to what I hear and form a judgment as to whether or not it makes sense given what else I know. When I judge a source as making sense (most likely telling a story that is more close to the truth), then I decide to listen. Of course, I sometimes listen to sources that I know darn well are not telling the truth, just to see what false threat is the topic of the day. Comparing the two sides of a story also helps sort out what is believable and what is not. What is actually true is something we may never know.

Truth-Out, that purveyor of fake fake news (meaning actual news), has the wonderful article “Saviors” Believe That They Are Better Than the People They Are “Saving”

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, like many charitable funds set up through corporate profits, consists of money “twice-stolen,” according to author Jordan Flaherty. Pictured here is Bill Gates. (Photo: Gabriella Demczuk / The New York Times)

As commendable as charity from billionaires might be, I often wonder if people they are “helping” might have been better off if the helpers hadn’t sucked their billions out of the economy first before returning some of it to the less fortunate.

With the recent announcement that Elizabeth Warren will run for re-election as Senator from Massachusetts (see my post Warren to Run for Re-election, Will Continue to Sell Out Progressives), it has suddenly become crystal clear what Bernie Sanders needs to do.

Sanders needs to join the national Green Party to help us defeat Elizabeth Warren’s run for re-election. Joshua Ford will run for Senator on the Green-Rainbow ticket in Massachusetts against Elizabeth Warren on the Democratic ticket. Since name recognition is the name of the game, Bernie Sanders could give a huge boost to Joshua Ford by Bernie becoming a member of the Green Party and endorsing Joshua Ford for Senator.

I know that as a man of principle, Bernie had to support Hillary Clinton for President after he lost the Democratic nomination. It was what he had promised to do from early on in his run against her. There is no hope of Bernie Sanders getting the Democratic Party to listen to him. After what he tried to do for the party despite what they did to him, they are already fighting his message again.

The Green Party has struggled for recognition, and he could have made a great impact on that issue had he switched parties after he lost the nomination. The Green Party was begging him to do it, but his principles, as mentioned above, stood in the way. He has now kept the promise he made, and is free now to make the switch and lead the country forward.

The Democratic Party did not believe Bernie Sanders would be a threat, but they were rudely awakened. They played every trick in the book, and they managed to quell him this time. They didn’t believe those of us who said we would never vote for Hillary, but now I think if we make a similar threat with Elizabeth Warren, a few might believe it is not an idlle threat this time. If Bernie switched parties and helped defeat Elizabeth Warren, there would be no denying the message.

That would be a message sent that would either wake up the Democratic Party or finally destroy it, and let a new party rise to take its place. This is Bernie’s last chance, but it is a great one, if he has the courage to take up the challenge.