Global
A photo popped up on the internet last week which was a bit surprising even for those of us who have been overly obsessed with the seemingly aimless and highly dangerous comedy routine that describes itself as the United States of America’s Foreign Policy. The US has confronted no real security threats since the Cold War ended but has done so many things that were against its own interests that it now finds itself seconds away from nuclear immolation as registered on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock.
The easiest thing we can do is to give up. I know for many of you, what we face now seems insurmountable. So I want to share with you something GOOD that happened this week, before I get to the Bad and the Ugly.
THE GOOD
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black Woman elected to the United States Congress, representing Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, New York. I’m sure she felt like giving up many times, too. But in 1972, she did just the opposite — she ran for President of the United States of America, the first Black Woman Presidential candidate for a major political party in this nation’s deeply racist and sexist history.
We begin with a riveting, totally unique analysis of the questions surrounding the legitimacy of the 2024 election.
Thus GREEP Zoom #201 opens with renowned computer expert STEPHEN SPOONAMORE, whose deep dives into election protection date back to 1999...and whose questions about the 2024 election have stirred huge controversy nationwide, for very good reason, as we’ll hear.
Digital image activist JOHN BRAKEY, the godfather of digital ballot imaging, reports from Arizona.
Audit Master RAY LUTZ enhances the dialogue with far-reaching technical analysis of the need for hand counting.
JOHN BONIFAZ & SUSAN GREENHAIGH add to the deep investigation of whether this election might have been stolen.
PATRICIAN GRACIAN promises to contact CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) about potential legal avenues regarding election integrity concerns.
Master Engineer STEVE CARUSO will post the AI transcript of meeting on http://grassrootsep.org website.
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical accountability of the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The above assertion is critical, both for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine and achieving Palestinian freedom. This is why.
In all past wars and adjoining war crimes, Israel managed to push the reset button in its relationship with occupied Palestinians.
War, war and more war.
It’s only possible for one reason: the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. My inner scream at this false reality we feed ourselves — via the media, via mainstream politics — keeps getting louder and louder. Is there a way to get things to change?
To put it another way: Is there a way to transcend the abstract view of Planet Earth in which global politics operates? We have religion. We have values: Be kind, be loving, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” — but they don’t seem to manifest collectively. At the collective, that is to say, the political, level, only so much kindness can be tolerated. In terms of security, kindness is weakness.