Daily Archives: August 6, 2017


Ray McGovern Explains How The DNC Hack Was Used To Cover-Up The Election Stolen From Bernie Sanders

YouTube has the video Ray McGovern Explains How The DNC Hack Was Used To Cover-Up The Election Stolen From Bernie Sanders.


I will agree with most of this analysis. I am well acquainted with Ray McGovern’s history of analyzing these issues.

However, just to add a little balance, I will say that the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity‘s claim that it was not physically possible for the data to be copied over the internet does not stand up to my analysis. See my blog post Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence.

However, there are other analyses of the data that tend to corroborate what Ray McGovern is saying. See my blog post Election Hack Report FAQ: What You Need to Know.


There’s a Pernicious Economic Theory Creeping into the Heart of the Democratic Party

Alternet has the article There’s a Pernicious Economic Theory Creeping into the Heart of the Democratic Party.

Much of the Democratic Party’s rhetoric has been ‘Uberized’ by a creeping free-market ideology that treats workers as lone competitors in a survival-of-the-toughest economy.

The time has come to reject this language as well as the thinking behind it. The notion that people must compete with each for low-paying jobs undermines worker solidarity and weakens our sense of national community.
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Rather than asking workers to “compete” with each other, the new leaders of the American left should ask them to collaborate – in labor negotiations, in new forms of public service, in acts of selfless devotion to one another and the nation as a whole.

This article is close to the right idea, but there is a little something in the tone that doesn’t seem quite right to me.

I think what troubles me is that it is too nationalistic. People all over the world deserve a fair share the fruits of their efforts. There is no natural law that says that people in the USA deserve a higher standard of living in perpetuity. If we realize that the world ought to be organized so that it tends to give every one a fair chance, then I think we will be closer to the way things ought to be.

When the article talks about collaboration, it feels a little closer to the tone I would like to see than when it is talking against competition. Although, “selfless devotion to one another and the nation as a whole” goes a little too far for my liking.