04/18/16

Weekly Featured Profile – Brad Sigal

Brad Sigal

Brad Sigal is a rank-and-file union activist and writes forFightBack! Newspaper on labor issues and is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! inMinnesota.

Sigal was a CUNY student activist from 1996-2000. He was a member of Student Liberation Action Movement, editor of the CCNY Messenger newspaper and a member of the CCNY Graduate Student Council. He was also a member of the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation, which later dissolved in Freedom Road.

A group of us in Love @ Rage were transformed by our work in the CUNY movement. Out of our experiences we gained an appreciation for Mao’s writings on the mass line, and for some of the foundations of Marxism like dialectical and historical materialism, that helped us make sense of what we were experiencing and give us practical guidance in building the mass movement.

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04/18/16

2012 FLASHBACK: Trump slams Santorum ‘these lost delegates show that he is badly organized and not a good manager’

By: Renee Nal | New Zeal

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laughs as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum jokes about not being photographed in front of a Trump podium sign at a event in support of veterans at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

“He @RickSantorum lost his 06 Senate race by 18 points. He is also disqualified for 18 Ohio delegates. Coincidence? And these lost delegates show that he is badly organized and not a good manager.” Donald Trump, March 2012

Kyle Cheney of Politico found some tweets from Donald Trump from 2012, where he slammed then-presidential candidate Rick Santorum for not understanding delegate rules.

Here is the list:

Despite complaints today, @realDonaldTrump seemed to have a nuanced understanding of the delegate process in 2012. pic.twitter.com/rrLebt4DRg

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 11, 2016

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04/18/16

Pope’s Marxist Bias in U.S. Campaign Signals New Global Order

By: Cliff Kincaid | Accuracy in Media

The liberal media are so in love with Pope Francis that they can’t report the hard truth about his blatant interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and what it represents.

Not only was socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) invited to a conferenceof the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) on Catholic social teaching and the world situation, he also met personally with Pope Francis.

A secular Jewish atheist, Sanders is not even a member of the Catholic Church. “I am not actively involved with organized religion,” Sanders has said. His brother Larry says, “He is quite substantially not religious.”

Instead, he is a socialist with strong ties, if not membership in, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the same group that backed Barack Obama’s run for president in 2008 and is the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.

His involvement in the Vatican conference demonstrates how Pope Francis is moving the Roman Catholic Church into the global socialist camp.

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04/18/16

Photograph their families! Trump ally Gary Forbes plans to brutalize delegates, GOP leadership

By: Renee Nal | New Zeal

Forbes warns delegates to vote for Trump or “expect an extremely vicious response…”

“We want each at-risk delegate, while in Cleveland, to receive urgent phone calls from their families and neighbors, that there is a massive demonstration happening in their front yard, with protesters waving signs that are warning that they not betray us. Keep the demonstrations peaceful, as long as that delegate does not switch his/her vote.” – Gary Forbes

It is time for Trump supporters to loudly denounce some of the very questionable behavior of Gary Forbes of “The Forbes Group,” who has been making some bizarre and frightening comments on his websites concerning GOP leaders and delegates across America who he feels are betraying Donald Trump.

Gary Forbes’ connection, if any, to Donald Trump is unclear. However, Forbes has appeared to make it his business to stump for Trump with memes, lots and lots of memes, that go out all over social media from his website or Twitter account, often using the very active hashtag #dtmag.

Many of these memes are blatant lies or just excruciatingly strange.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton: Tear Down That Library

By: Cliff Kincaid | Accuracy in Media

During Thursday night’s Democratic debate, the two candidates tried to outdo each other in terms of being soft on crime and advocating the release of criminals. It was an illustration of how Democratic Party policies have gone from pro-police to anti-police, and even pro-criminal.

If this is the current trend in the Democratic Party, the Clintons will have to hire some illegal aliens to remodel the “Making Communities Safer” section of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. I toured the place last Thursday and noticed that the library highlights the tough-on-crime policies of the Clinton administration, including the building of prisons.

I took pictures of the exhibit, as anybody from the media can do, and it proclaims, “For eight years, the Clinton Administration pursued the two objectives of tougher punishment and smarter prevention—combining stiff penalties and more police with innovative programs for youth and commonsense gun laws.”

One part of the exhibit highlights how “prison construction” accelerated under President Clinton.

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04/18/16

The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results – 04/18/16

The Watcher’s Council

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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