#america

amitabha@diasp.nl

Miss Amerika

A great song from a great band in my dialect. Ertebrekers means "Heart Breakers"

Ertebrekers - Miss Amerika

Zis zo sociaal en zo vlot
Vrji sympathek en zo vriendelijk

Zis veel te hooge gegrepen
Moe nie proberen zis zindelijk

Wo oh ow
Wo oh oh ow
Mo vint tis zukken skatje

Ze sta zo gern ip de foto
En zet voe gastn met moto's

Ooooooh
Miss Amerika
Wuk moe kik doen voe joe te plezieren

Kee joe geobserveerd
Je skwonne lach en je bjinn
Je grwrote ogen wok
Ze zoen nie mjir meugn verkljin
Get zuknen skwone kop
Meiske min woordn zin gemjind

Wo oh ow
Wo oh oh ow
Mo vint tis zukken skatje

Ik zegget niet voe te zjivern
Mo gie ge makt mie hjil zot

Ooooooh
Miss Amerika
Wuk moe kik doen voe joe te plezieren

Ja ja ja
Ge zi zo skwone
Wow
Miss Amerika

Iedre kji da kik noa joe kieke
Bennek hjil van de koarte geveegd
Let ip ik ben gin kieken
Want ik wete da min erte zoe breken
Ool de gasten die en geprobeerd
En ne grwoten bakstjin gevangn
Mo ze trekket eur niet an
Ik ga mie niet laten vangn

Pretentieus gespeeld hautain
La fille Americain
Kdoe mie sterker vworn
Mo zoek u ankunn baby mobanin
Ge moe woa daj mie wilt en
Verwirn e gin zin
Ik geve mie over fuck it
En ksta were bie het begin
(Bie 't begin?)
Nin zelfs da niet
Ze kikt elders osse mie ziet
Redelik dudelik
Dasse met nen tank over mn fantasie ried
Baby et ton toch compassie
Gie meug boas zin noem mie Lassie
We zin onafscheidelik
Olsan lik Adriaan en Bassie

Miss Amerika

Ik e nen foto van met eur
En nu en ton kikkek ne kji
Diepe in eur ogen

Waauw

Miss Amerika
Miss Amerika


She is so social and fluent
Very likeable and friendly

She is to lofty for me
You shouldn't try, she is very picky

Wo oh ow
Wo oh oh ow
My god she's such a sweetheart

She likes to pose for pictures
And she likes guys with motorcycles

Ooooooh
Miss America
What do I have to do to please you?

I have observed you
Your beautiful laugh and your legs
Your big eyes as well
They shouldn't be any smaller
You have such a lovely head
Girl, my words are sincere

Wo oh ow
Wo oh oh ow
My god she's such a sweetheart

I am not saying this to prank.
But you make be entirely crazy

Ooooooh
Miss America
What do I have to do to please you?

Yes yes yes
You are so beauttiful
Wow
Miss America

Everytime I look at you
I am swept of my feet
Look out, I a not a fool (chicken)
Because I know that my heart would break
All the guys that have tried
Have caught a brick
But she doesn't care
I won't let myself get caught

Pretentiously played and haughty
The American girl
I make myself appear stronger
But could I handle you? Of course not
You got me where you want me
Defence is useless
I give up, and fuck it
I'm back at the beginning
(The beginning?)
No not even there
She looks the other way when she sees me
Quite clear
She runs over my fantasy with a tank
Baby, have some pity
You can be the boss and call my Lassie
We are inseparable
Always like Adriaan and Bassie

Miss America

I have a picture of her
And now and then I look
Deep into her eyes

Waauw

Miss America
Miss America

#music #eighties #vibes #west-vloams #ertebrekes #miss #amerika #america

mlansbury@despora.de

Opinion: Tucker Carlson visiting Moscow is like touring Berlin in 1940

#Carlson’s pro-Russia #Republican associates advance Putin’s interests in Congress. The self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” himself normalizes the Russian dictator who spent a quarter century invading his neighbors, jailing his critics, and exterminating his opponents. Business as usual.

Instead of building on the momentum, helping Ukraine win the war, and aligning with the White House, the Senate, and America’s allies, pro-Russia Republicans repeatedly throw the Kremlin lifelines.

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-tucker-carlsons-moscow-visit/

#RussianAggression #Imperialism #RussiaInvadedUkraine #pro-Russian #America #propaganda #WWII #StandWithUkraine

digit@sysad.org

"...and the only battle is not even that hard. just stop giving them your identity."

#degoogle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5Nbs6DmIA
https://odysee.com/@AussieFighter:8/Is-Skynet-watching-you-already:0

"just imagine what they know"

639,849 views 28 Aug 2022 David Bombal Podcasts
The machines are already tracking and watching you. And they're influencing you. The future looks bleak. Do you really want to live in a Skynet world?

I interview Rob Braxman - the Internet Privacy Guy. He's a public interest hacker and technologist. He uses his extensive knowledge of cybersecurity and tech to serve the public good. He cares about privacy. He warns you of digital manipulation, disinformation, mass surveillance.

#interesting #curious #listen #and #understand
#awareness #thisisnotjustaboutyou #everyoneafteryou #now
#facethehorror #weareinalotoftrouble #wecanstillmendthis
#singularity #artificialwisdom #areyoudegoogled? #skynet
#bigbrother #bigbank #bigbarron #bigbully #bigbot
#america #australia #uk #nz #canada = #5eyes
#google #apple #facebook #amazon #microsoft = #GAFAM
#stalinsdream #phonesspy #thephoneshaveears #privacy
#whyobeycrooks #dontobeycrooks #stopobeyingcrooks
#whowatchesthewatchers #cancerspyware

#nocancerspyware #idontcarrypsycho

#doyoucarrythepsychopath? #thecorporation
mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible
with basic human rights and democracy. ... phone listening.
#doyouinformonmetothecorporation?
#concentrationcampinyourhand

Listen! And understand...
That terminator is out there.
It cant be bargained with.
It cant be reasoned with.
It does not feel pity, remorse, or fear.
And it absolutely will not stop,
EVER,
until you are dead.

-- Kyle Reese to Sarah Conor, warning from the future to stop it in the now. Terminator 1984

It is everybody's responsibility to poke big brother in the eye.

This video, interviewing Rob Braxman - the Internet Privacy Guy, discusses some of the situation, the reason, and the methods.

#getfree

#webbrowser #websearch #fingerprinting #profiling #privatebrowsing
#analytics #tracking
#vpn
#startpage #duckduckgo #bravesearch

#youcannotcomplyyourwayoutoftyranny #youcannotcomplyyourwayoutoftotalitarianism

#invokelovinganarchy
#libertarianfreelyhelping
#makebettermedicine #makingbettermedicine
#mendallthings

this is not just about you, everyone after you, now.

:)

feels good, every little move mendwards.

digit@sysad.org

[edit, oh, never mind,
there it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNeVu8wUak
a few dead ends, and i started to pessimistically think we were already deeper in the censorship hole.
maybe still a case of #downloadwhileyoucan ... though no one piece on this topic is adequate. ]

oh well, i typed all this out before finding it. posting anyway. n_n


anyone know where #AaronRusso's last movie can be acquired and seen and shown and shared?
https://odysee.com/@JohnRoss:a/AmericaFreedomtoFascism:6

#america #freedomtofascism
#censorship #sharestories #preserveknowledge #educateyourselvessoyoumayeducateothers #sothefuturemayknow #neverforget #neveragain


thought occurs upon reading:

In this interview by Alex Jones, recently deceased film maker and ex-politician, Aaron Russo maker of such films
as The Rose and Trading Places, recalls a conversation that occurred between himself & Nicholas Rockefeller
of the Rockefeller Banking Family, in October 2000, a full 11 months before the terrorist attacks of sept 11 2001.
Russo was a friend of the Rockefellers for many years but broke off the friendship, appalled at what they had
divulged to him about their plans for the world and then later released his final film.
America - Freedom to Fascism shortly before his death in 2007.

@

https://thecrowhouse.com/russo.html
from https://thecrowhouse.com/video.html

... also... anyone know where's a good safe public torrent site with such things?

mlansbury@despora.de

The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump

In the upside-down world of #MAGA morality, vice is virtue and virtue is vice. My colleague Jane Coaston even coined a term, “vice signaling,” to describe how Trump’s core supporters convey their tribal allegiance. They’re often deliberately rude, transgressive or otherwise unpleasant, just to demonstrate how little they care about conventional moral norms.

Absent public virtue, a republic can fall. And a Trump win in 2024 would absolutely convince countless Americans that virtue is for suckers, and vice is the key to victory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/donald-trump-culture-decline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk0.RRW3.7A62oybsG1pN

#America #Trump #immoral #dictatorship #vice #Election2024

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

Blood-flavored bananas

Image/photo

Blood-flavored bananas

Once upon a time, there was a company called United Fruit Company. It became famous for the fact that it began to import bananas to the U.S. en masse. Back in the mid-19th century, bananas were in America like black caviar - expensive, prestigious, and eaten only by millionaires. But "United Fruit" built a hundred ships with refrigerators, and flooded the entire American market with bananas that cost 2 cents. Behind the scenes of this action there were some pretty cool squabbles, and American buyers didn't know about them. For example, in 1911, the president of Honduras gave United Fruit all the best banana plantations. But competitors from the company "Cuyamel" (also Americans) did not slumber: they overthrew the president, replacing him with their puppet, who gave the banana plantations to them.

In 1928, Colombian banana pickers demanded that United Fruit give them at least one day off a week. The Colombian police, paid for with company money, were brought in to quell the strike, and they killed up to 2,000 people. The rest of them shut up and went quickly to pick bananas. In 1929, United Fruit bought its main competitor, Cuyamel, and began controlling 60% of banana exports to the US. They murdered union leaders in South America, bribed politicians and police, and paid almost no taxes anywhere. In some countries (like Costa Rica or Colombia) it was United Fruit that was the main power, not the local government.

In 1953, Guatemalan President Arbenz turned over United Fruit's unused banana plantations to local impoverished peasants, and offered compensation. The company demanded 25 times as much money; it was sent packing. Then United Fruit simply ordered a coup at a similar price: negotiated a deal with the CIA, and financed a military invasion of Guatemala. The main motivation was that bananas on the shelves for Americans should not rise in price, they have become a favorite treat of millions. CIA mercenaries overthrew Arbenz, and put dictator Armas on the throne. This led to a 36-year civil war and the subsequent deaths of 200,000 people to Guatemala. But bananas didn't go up in price for Americans. It was a successful democratization, one to behold.

Since then, all the presidents of Central and South America were afraid to make a sound, and gave bananas for nothing. "United Fruit paid the banana pickers a pittance and did not give a penny to the budgets of the banana republics. For the slightest dissatisfaction the pickers were killed and the corpses were dumped into the sea. The American public happily bought bananas at a discount. But times have changed. "United Fruit was told it had lost its fucking mind and was bribing officials in Honduras to lower taxes on banana exports. In 1975, the military overthrew the company's protégé in Guatemala, dictator Lopez Arellano. In the same year, the head of the company, Eli Black (the company was by then called United Brands), threw himself out of a skyscraper in New York.

The company was quietly renamed Chiquita. And I still see bananas from this company in our supermarkets. Somehow everything has already been forgotten: how this corporation overthrew presidents, introduced slave labor, and people died by the hundreds of thousands because of it: we owe it the valuable term "banana republic".

They're lucky here: bananas pumped full of blood don't taste like blood.

They are so nice and sweet.

© Zotov

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8910257.html

#USA #us #America #history #american #anglo-saxons #capitalism #slavery #military #CIA #vassalage #war #civil-war #Guatemala #Honduras #fruits #bananas #Chiquita

mlansbury@despora.de

Donald Trump has a big problem ahead

Donald Trump has a problem no matter what happens in New Hampshire on Tuesday night: There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to not voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-bleeding-moderate-support-could-100000261.html

#Fascism #Trump #America #Election2024 #elections #Biden #NewHampshire #primaries

mlansbury@despora.de

Trump rival ends presidential campaign with fake Churchill quote

But the prime minister never said those words, according to the International Churchill Society.

‘We base this on careful research in the canon of fifty million words by and about Churchill, including all of his books, articles, speeches and papers,’ said the society in response to a 2013 article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution using the same quote.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/22/trump-rival-ron-desantis-fake-churchill-quote-20155248/?ico=just-in_article_must-read

#lies #sociopaths #DeSantis #America #elections #Churchill #disinformation

mlansbury@despora.de

The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025

How an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it

Protect Democracy previously issued The Authoritarian Playbook, which provided a framework for understanding how modern strongmen around the world have consolidated power and subverted modern democracies. This report builds on that earlier one and places Trump’s promises, powers, and plans in that context.

https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/

#authoritarian #America #democracy #Trump #playbook #protection #subversion #power #violence

mlansbury@despora.de

'Straightforward dictatorship': CNN panel thrashes Trump's 'total immunity' claims

After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said that he deserved complete immunity even if he "crossed the line" into illegal behavior, host Phil Mattingly suggested that Trump was telegraphing that he was "going to do some criming" if reelected.

He then turned to panelist Errol Louis, who outlined the dark implications of Trump's argument:

"It's a pretty straightforward statement of what dictatorship is, right? he said. "A president -- in his case he is talking about himself -- should be able to, must be able to legally do with legal impunity do whatever it is he or she wants."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-2667004022/?utm_source=diaspora

#dictator #dictatorship #dystopian #Trump #dystopia #America #DemocracyInDanger #AmericaLost #criminal #illegal #crimes #FreedomLost #executions #lawless

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/01/16/project-2025-if-allowed-will-cement-america-as-a-rightwing-authoritarian-state/

#Project 2025, if allowed, will cement #America as a #rightwing #authoritarian state
BARRINGTON SALMON
JANUARY 16, 2024

..."Project 2025 is a sweeping rightwing blueprint for the next #Republican #president, Trump or not, to run the country for the foreseeable future. Funded by The Heritage Foundation, Koch Brothers and a vast and secretive dark money network, the project has recruited at least 80 far-right organizations and entities to the cause.

Conservative warriors’ plan “to defund the Department of Justice, dismantle the FBI, break up the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate the Departments of Education and Commerce,” the 30-chapter, 920-page tome says.

The president would have “complete power over quasi-independent agencies such as the FCC, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies that have been the bane of Trump’s political existence in the last few years. And they want to ensure that what remains of this slashed-down bureaucracy is reliably MAGA conservative — not just for the next president but for a long time to come — and that the White House maintains total control of it.”

Project 2025 offers proposals to deregulate targeted industries, privatize government functions and help American corporations to make more money at the expense of American workers, the middle class and everyone except the oligarchs and the 1%.

Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect, said far-right conservatives and The Heritage Foundation have an extensive enemies’ list that includes “welfare recipients, lazy and liberal civil servants, anti-business regulators, environmentalists, and union bosses, “scientists, woke bureaucrats, woke educators, woke diplomats, woke generals and admirals, woke G-men, and anyone who doesn’t indulge the next Republican president’s every whim (an adaptation to the likelihood of a Trump nomination),” in the commentary titled, “The Far Right Has a Plan to Remake America. They Even Wrote It Down.”

Those in charge in the incoming administration are prepared to purge those deemed disloyal after identifying and interviewing “every Treasury Department official who participated in its DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) activities and programs, and make such activity ‘“per se grounds for termination of employment.”’

Leonard Leo, a major right-wing donor who significantly influenced and shaped the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority under Trump, has been a major fundraiser for Project 2025. (On Nov. 30, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to subpoena Leo “as part of an ethics probe into undisclosed financial ties to U.S. Supreme Court justices.”)

According to a press release from the nonprofit Accountable.US, recent reporting from NBC shows that “The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, stepped up efforts to boost its Project 2025 initiative by ramping up grants to the venture aimed at creating a ‘government-in-waiting’ for the next Republican presidential administration, according to a new tax filing.

“The foundation distributed over $1.67 million in grants in 2022 — including a total of $965,000 to organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, tax records show. These donations accounted for 58% of Heritage’s total grant-making in 2022.

“Project 2025’s board of more than 80 conservative organizations includes nearly 40 that have received funding from dark-money groups linked to Leonard Leo … a prolific fundraiser, Leo is affiliated with an extensive network of tax-exempt groups, including DonorsTrust, a donor-advised nonprofit that directs money to other organizations and groups seeking to influence policy.”...

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Jacobs, Jane

I do not think military readiness, in itself, will defeat Communism. I do not think we can consider the job finished with that. I think it buys us time to do the bigger job. We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and that we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of strength and security of a successful society.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
“No Virtue in Meek Conformity” (1952)

#quote #quotes #quotation #America #communism #democracy #internationalrelations #liberty #military #model #power #success
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/jacobs-jane/66228/

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

#America vs itself: #Political scientist Francis #Fukuyama on the state of #democracy
January 13, 2024GZERO Staff

"Listen: In this edition of the #GZERO World #podcast, #IanBremmer speaks with Stanford’s Francis Fukuyama about the state of democracy worldwide and here in the US. 2024 will be a pivotal year for democracy, and nowhere more so than here at home. A quarter of Americans believe that the FBI was behind January 6. But as the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” But today, in America, we cannot agree on basic facts. On this note, Fukuyama joins Bremmer to discuss the global and domestic threats to democracy."
https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-world-podcast/america-vs-itself-political-scientist-francis-fukuyama-on-the-state-of-democracy