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GOP's Paul Gosar implicated in plot to disrupt Biden's Arizona win using Proud Boys: leaked messages Messages leaked to the Washington Post implicate Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) in a plot to create a so-called "Brooks Brothers Riot" in his home state to block President Joe Biden's victory. Woodrow Johnston, the vice president of political consultancy McShane LLC, told an undercover liberal activist posing as a Trump supporter that Gosar wanted to use the far-right Proud Boys gang to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election in Arizona. GOP's Paul Gosar implicated in plot to disrupt Biden's Arizona win using Proud Boys: leaked messages - Alternet.org

This is literally true. The literacy rate and average education levels have been falling for some 20 years, and this is the result.

A significant drop, thank God.

The Catholic church has participated in several genocides and has never expressed regret or responsibility. I think they just assume that the organization will outlast any criticisms. This has worked very well so far. This is by no means meant to discount what has apparently happened in BC and other Canadian places, but the Catholic church has always considered people expendable utilities for the wealth of the Church. You may wish to look up the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, the "butterbox babies" in Quebec and its complicity in the mezzo-American wars, not to mention its shielding of Nazi fugitives in 1945-46. The list is long and appalling.

There is a subtext to all this: the MAGA/QAnon/GOPers are saying and demonstrating that they will refuse to acknowledge any president who is not of their choosing. Moreover, they intend to oppose any and all legislative and executive actions initiated by a Democratic regime and reserve the right to use all means to this end- including violence and insurrection. The goal is to overthrow any government they do not like, and voter suppression as well as gerrymandering are all part of their options.

Trump tells followers he 'expects to be reinstated' in August as MAGA extremists call for Myanmar-style coup Four months into Joe Biden's presidency and almost seven months after the 2020 presidential election, some far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump continue to believe that he will be returning to the White House sometime in 2021. According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump "has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August." And this comes at a time when Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, continues to draw criticism for suggesting that the United States should have a military coup along the lines of Myanmar. Trump tells followers he 'expects to be reinstated' in August as MAGA extremists call for Myanmar-style coup - Alternet.org MAGA heads go berserk over 'incompetent failure' Jenna Ellis after she correctly notes Trump can't be 'reinstated' Jenna Ellis, an attorney who fought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was blasted by conservatives over the Memorial Day holiday after she insisted that former President Donald Trump cannot be "reinstated." Ellis made the assertion on Twitter after attorney Sidney Powell told a group of people that Trump could "simply be reinstated." "The election was lawless, six states allowed their delegates to vote by false certifications, but the EC process happened," Ellis tweeted. "The Constitution has only one process for removal of a sitting president: impeachment and conviction." "No, President Trump is not going to be 'reinstated,'" she added. "Her [sic] and Rudy failed to take action to prevent the steal in 2019. She was always basking in the limelight and money, while being an incompetent failure. Now she is in her cat box pushing kitty litter over her," one person wrote. "She can shove that statement up her ass," another comment said. MAGA heads go berserk over 'incompetent failure' Jenna Ellis after she correctly notes Trump can't be 'reinstated' - Alternet.org

Mike Flynn:" I did not call for a coup despite what that video shows". Fired former Trump National Security Advisor and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn is now denying he ever called for a violent Myanmar military-style coup in the U.S., despite numerous reports and video that appear to show or say he did. Flynn reportedly told a QAnon audience in Dallas Sunday night that a deadly Myanmar-style coup "should happen here" in the United States, according to CNN, which carefully said he "appeared to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States on Sunday." The Daily Beast reports Flynn "told a QAnon conference this weekend that he supports a violent military coup in the U.S." Newsweek reports Flynn "said that a Myanmar-like military coup "should happen" in the U.S." An attendee, according to video, had asked Flynn, "I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can't happen here?" "No reason. I mean, it should happen here," Flynn said, as Go Local Prov and others reported. Mike Flynn: I did not call for a coup despite what that video shows - Alternet.org

One of the immediate things that the City of Winnipeg can do is rename Bishop Grandin Boulevard.

The 2024 elections will show conclusively which direction America is going in. By that time, the voting suppression will either be firmly established and a GOP fascist president will be in power, or the measures that the GOP is trying to install will be overturned. If the Democrats keep the White House and the Congress and/or the Senate, I cannot see any outcome except a form of civil war. The only caveat is if the Democrats and Biden pursue prosecution of each and every person in the Trump regime who violated the trust placed in them and the law.

Agreed, and its worse than that. Many of our pharmaceuticals are manufactured in China with little or no independent oversight. I see that as a time bomb waiting to go off.

There will be many Canadians who will choose to bury their heads in the sand rather than acknowledge what has happened and is still happening, at least to a degree. As a child, I intervened when the town bully was beating a Metis boy, who I saw as a friend. I got beaten as well, but my friend Rennie got away as far as I know. My parents in Portage La Prairie were friends and neighbours with a Canadian-Japanese man (Mr. Uhori) who had a strawberry farm. He spoke of his family being uprooted and moved into the BC interior from the Surrey area. The provincial government confiscated the properties of all the displaced Nisei and auctioned them off- most wound up owned by BC cabinet ministers. There were court cases to regain the lost properties but most Nisei just gave up and moved elsewhere. My extended family includes Metis, Asian and Caribbean people. I have a grandson who is part Asian, and looks Asian. He will be going to school this fall and I fear what he will be met with.

My wife and I have made it clear that we will accept only the Pfizer second dose.

When Springsteen took the money and allowed his music to be bastardized, he became a willing accomplice.

Once you understand the enormity of twisted belief that drove 3 medical doctors to give poisoned Koolaid to people, including their own spouses and children, it is not that hard to see how Q-anon lives and thrives.

Sometimes it seems here is so much abuse of our fellow humans in Canada and elsewhere that one might be tempted to write off the human race as being so horrifyingly hostile and indifferent that God might be better off to hit the reset button. There are reasons for hope, though. The first step in change is "awareness", which is not always comfortable or even kind. You cannot heal what you will not feel, and we need to go through this in order to get to the next stages. This, and other such here in Canada have been swept under the rug too often and for too long. The point of pain is to draw attention that something is injured and needs attention. Our church has sponsored Yazidi families for some years and it is gratifying to see how grateful they are and how well they are doing here in Winnipeg. A small act of kindness but a step towards redemption.

Americans demand court-martial for Flynn after call for military coup: 'Honor veterans — arrest this traitor' Lt. Gen Michael Flynn proclaimed that he thinks there should be a military coup to replace President Joe Biden with Donald Trump in the White House. It's something that sent many to demand he be court-martialed, the legal process of prosecution in the U.S. Military. It isn't unheard of, Jan. 2020, the Navy Appeals Court decided that "a Navy retiree was properly court-martialed and convicted for a crime committed after he had left active duty," reported the Military Times. Even the Federalist Society noted that the Uniform Code of Military Justice allowed for some retirees to be court-martialed though they are rare. But in the civil case Larrabee v. Braithwaite there is a question before the DC Circuit about whether a military member can be court-martialed for a civil crime. For advocating the overthrow of the government, it's a different issue entirely. Americans demand court-martial for Flynn after call for military coup: 'Honor veterans — arrest this traitor' - Alternet.org

If you can get in to see one, osteopaths have the skills of both chiropractic and physiotherapists plus other abilities.

So long as the lawyers get paid, they are happy.

Not all good news- Bennett is apparently even more hard-right than Bibi.

Manichin is stupid but smart and amoral enough to sell himself to the highest bidder.

The future of democracy in the US depends on whether the Democrats and any Republicans who still have a conscience are willing to literally fight for it. If the Democrats adopt Bernie Sanders' position that the plutocrats and culpable Republicans must be confronted and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, then they have a chance. If they wimp out and seek "bipartisan" support to ensure the reign of democracy and the law, they are merely delaying the ascendancy of Trump-branded fascism and the probable return of Trump or someone like him to the White House. The next version of Trump and his cronies will be way more corrupt and violent.

There is a report today that an even more lethal variant has been identified in Viet Nam. Just what we need.

I suspect we are seeing the birth of "Christian" fascism as a major political movement.

Damn. At least no new COVID deaths. So far as charges for violating the health orders, had the police descended en masse onto that gathering at the Forks or the Spring church, kettled up the participants, and documented and charged every one, followed by stiff fines and the jailing of the leaders, all while the Media recorded, I can guarantee there would not be another repetition. There would have been an outcry, but lives would have been saved.