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We are joined in GREE-GREE session #139 by the great former Gov. of Alabama DON SIEGELMAN.

Gov. Siegelman was the very popular Alabama Chief Executive until Nixon/Bush dirty trickster Karl Rove had him thrown in prison.

Siegelman’s extreme integrity and reputation for competence made him a threat to Rove’s future manipulations

So Rove had a crooked legal system take Don out.

Gov. Siegelman is now an extremely powerful and articulate opponent of the death penalty.  Do not miss his explanation of how and why.

In this hour HEDY TRIPP shows us critical voting statistics, and Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY updates us on key voting rights fights that he has immensely impacted.

 

Remarks by China's United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of their consistency with international law.

 Compared to the United States’ position, which perceives the UN, and particularly the Security Council, as a battleground to defend Israeli interests, the Chinese political discourse reflects a legal stance based on a deep understanding of the realities on the ground.

“One nation, under God . . .”

Interesting addition to the Pledge, considering, you know, the separation of church and state. I actually remember it — it was 1954. I was in third grade, and had been reciting the Pledge with my classmates every morning for several years by then. I thought it was kind of cool, getting to say “God” without swearing.

“The push to add ‘under God’ to the pledge,” according to the History Channel, “gained momentum during the second Red Scare, a period when U.S. politicians were keen to assert the moral superiority of U.S. capitalism over Soviet communism, which many conservatives regarded as ‘godless.’”

BAN RAK THAI, Thailand -- Rotting weapons, faded battlefield photos, and rough-sketched jungle maps from defeated, anti-communist, U.S.-equipped Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) guerrillas are cherished in this northern border village.

The KMT and China stopped killing each other decades ago.

Today, the KMT's descendants graciously serve China's fun-seeking tourists, sheltering them in cozy, Chinese-themed hotels and quenching them with locally grown, fermented oolong tea.

KMT families are thankful their victorious former foe is boosting their local economy.

The traumatic reversals in fortune on both sides display the way China's monetized soft power is influencing in this Southeast Asian country.

"Some Chinese come here and see these things, and say they are sorry for the way the KMT were treated so hard, years ago," said Wang Ja Da, gesturing inside his thatch-roofed restaurant at shelves displaying his family's rusty, decrepit machine gun alongside metal helmets, canteens, ammunition cartridge boxes, and other KMT equipment.

The dusty display is dotted with photos of armed, uniformed KMT who did not survive.

We have it on the very best but very secret source that Trump has clandestine plans to return the Statue of Liberty to the French as soon as he returns to the White House. Amongst his followers, Trump has been heard to say the statue no longer reflects our pure white values.  Some also say he’s been secretly heard to confide to his Maga Mites: “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses from shithole countries like Hell we would.  Thanks but no thanks."

Truth be told, Trump clearly refutes the claim that the U.S. should be the champion of the poor and the dispossessed, a nation that draws its strength from its pluralism. The true gospel according to Trump: America’s greatness is the result of its white and Christian origins. Institutions stand diluted by a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed,”. His government is dedicated to permanently halting the unalloyed welcome to all peoples.