The Oligarchs + the Media There and Here

RUSSIA:

·      Media owned by State or Billionaire Businessmen.

·      Characterized by government  & self-censorship.

·      All media, TV, Print, Internet requires state licensing.

“most publishers shy away from politically charged topics in order not to endanger their business.”

·      The Constitution guarantees judicial branch is independent of the legislative and executive branches.

·      Russian Supreme Court Justices nominated by  President Putin.

·      Confirmed by Upper House of Parliament.

The Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech                                                                     USA:

The USA Constitution guarantees freedom of speech    

                                 See Above      

 

                              THE NEWS

·      L.A. Times refuses to endorse  Presidential candidate.                  

·       Washington Post does the same.   

·      Both editorial boards planned to endorse Harris.

·      Owners, Soon-Shiong and Bezos made decisions.

Worried about what might happen to them if Trump wins and carries out his plans of retribution. 

·      Bezos is third richest man in the universe.

·      Elon Musk,X/Twitter, is the richest.

·      All three have VERY substantial business                interests with US government & regulators. 

 

         THIS IS HOW FASCISM WORKS                                                                                                                                                        

vPreemptive self-censorship        

vIntertwined financial interests      

v  Secret clandestine communications  

vDehumanising the OTHER

vMobilising the Mob

v  Threatening the opposition                                                                                                                                      

 

                                TRUMP,CHINA and the BIBLE

Donald Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles Were Made in China .   

A country that Trumpfski has frequently accused of engaging in unfair trade practices.                                                                                                              And stealing American jobs .                                                                                He proposes a 60% tariff on Chinese goods.                                                      Religious artifacts and books are to be exempt.                                                                                        

By  end of April 120,000  copies  imported .                                              Printed in Hangzhou  & shipped secretly to USA.                                            At a cost of less than $3 per book.                                                                 These shipments should fetch around $7 million in sales.                                  Profit of about $6 ½  million.

  Sales price on Trumpfski web site $59.99 $60.                                                  Copies  signed by Trump $199.99. .                                                                    By  both Trump and Jesus TBD 

                                                                                                                                              

 

A copy of the St. James Bible costs $6 at Walmart                                   Amazon $10 $10                                                                                                Free in most Hotel bedside tables                                                                       Unsigned by Gideon                                                                                                                               None of these however include a copy of the US Constitution                    Nor the pledge of Allegiance & Declaration of Independance                     Let alone an upmarket brown leatherette/vinyl cover

   On EBAY                                                                                                             President Trump AUTOGRAPH BIBLE, God Bless The USA             Bible, Only 1,000 Copies MAGA                                                                 Only 1,000 Signed Copies Printed - VERY LimitedEdition  $2,000.00 or Best Offer     

  Value of a copy signed by both TRUMP &  JESUS is unfathomable .            But Trump campaign says THE GREAT leader has donated such a copy to      the Guggenheim in New York  City.

Rumors that  Profits from the sales will be donated to the Donald  J. Trump Missionary Bund serving  Haiti, El Salvador and “shithole countries “ in Africa ,have not yet been confirmed.

 

The Trump bibles are arguably blasphemous.                                                 This Apparently does not bother White Evangelical Pastors.                               Nor their flocks .           

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-god-bless-the-usa-bibles-printed-in-china/

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4924319-trump-god-bless-the-usabibles-printed-in-china-records-show/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-god-bless-the-usa-bibleswere-made-in-china?source=email&via=desktop

 

 OF ALL THE THINGS I MIGHT HAVE BLOGGED ABOUT RECENTLY

     THE POLLS;THE LIES;THE CORRUPTION;MAGA MISHIGAS                          THE DESPAIR OF SANE AMERICANS

      What has become an irresistible  item  above all others  💁  ?                      

IN RECENT DAYS IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THAT:

·       Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 test machines in 2020.
·       At moment when tests were out of reach for most Americans.
·       Trump denies claim.
·       Kremlin confirms its truth.

·       Had 7  private Putin phone calls since leaving the White House                                              

 SINCE HARRIS BECAME NOMINEE:

·       His rhetoric has become darker  & more desperate

·       Harris is not just "incompetent;" she is "mentally impaired,”

·       Has described Harris as "stupid" and "dumb as a rock."

·       Tim Walz is not just "weird" but a "total moron," and "sick."

·        His rally speeches are increasingly incoherent.

·        Unhinged    and

·        very, veeery long.

·       Rivalling Fidel, Kim Il and even Putin himself.      

       

    CLAIMING:

•       Very fate of the United States is at stake in this election.
•               Israel will "cease to exist" if Harris becomes president.    
•              World War III is right around the corner.      
•                Migrants could “walk into your kitchen" and "cut your throat".
•               Migrants are murderers with "bad genes".         
•                Haitian migrants  have eaten neighbors’ pets.                                   

HE HAS PROMISSED:

•                 Be dictator “for a day"                                                             
•              Begin the largest deportation operation in American history.   

•            Support  and defend Christian Nationalism
•            Settle Russo/Ukraine war in a day - sell out Ukraine to pal Putin      
•           “I will prevent World War III.”                                                    
•           “I will restore peace through strength                           
•            Encouraged Netanyahu to “finish the job in Gaza—quickly"                                                                                                                        DECLARED:
•                           Police should engage in "one really violent day" against alleged               lawbreakers
•                          "One rough hour," Trump said in Erie, Pennsylvania
•                           "And I mean really rough.
•                            The word will get out and it will end immediatel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Cut taxes for EVERYBODY starting with ELON 

                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Kamarade Kamela,a Failedled Coup,a Debate ,a Succesful Coup,another Debate and Cats & Dogs Chowder

 

                                        I know ,I  know: "where's your blog?"

                   Of the very few blogs posted since Biden beat Dopy Donald ,                                                                   the one I cherished was posted [and then reposted a couple of times]                                                         on  October 3rd 20222!!    

                        https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2022/10/biden-october-surprise-press-release.html

                It took two years to happen🙈

                  But in Nancy We Trust.

                 She engineered the neccessary

To recap :   

                           November 3rd 2020 Trumpfski loses Presidential Election

•                       Which takes place in the middle of a pandemic--how much we forget.
•                       January   6th   2021  Trumfski instigates an attempted coup.
•                       Coup fails but there were at least 6 associated deaths and multiple injuries.
•                       Almost 4 years later Trumpfski has still not been tried .
•                        President Biden has a remarkably succesful first 3 years .                                                                               
•                        Despite a hostile  Publican House and a Senate split 51/49  and                                                                  then only after the 2022 mid terms🙉.
•                    By election year 2024,Trumpfski has emerged as the Fuehrer of the Publicans  . 
•                     Despite having been convicted of 34 felonies and lost several multi million dollar                          civil law suits.   
•                    His bluster and the threats from his bully boys and bigotted base totaly cowed                                "normal" Publican polityicians.

                                   And Biden has tied down the Democratic nomination.                                                                                 

•                      By mid year it has become clear that Biden's age is showing and he has                                           fallen behind his nasty,dangerous ansd crazy opponent.  
•                      Both will be 80 by the end of their term!!

                     Putin  is still in Ukraine,Hamas  & Hezbolah armed by Iran,Israel in Gaza.                                              Genocide and starvation in Sudan not registering on the sole of humanity.                                                   A peaceful world order a broken dream.                                                                                                        But 43% of US citizens apparently believe that reelecting Loonie Toons is a good idea.

           Cyclops despairs of the US electorate[partial explaination of no blog posts]                                                as do all its allies in NATO and Asia.     

•               AND THEN June 27th 2024 .The first debate.  
•              Biden's team judge that a debate between the candidates will turn the polls aound. 
•              The Rest is History. 
•             Despite a disastrous appearance by Joe Biden he looks immovable as the Democratic                     candidate.  
•              Democratic supporters[in both meanings of the word] are in despair and/or panic.                                                                 Cyclops is no exception👳.

                The polls worsen,the money flow slows to a trickle,volunteers aint volunteering👺                                 

                BUT in democracies hour of need IN NANCY WE CAN TRUST.                                          She quietly arranges a peaceful,bloodless coup.

                 Her's is the final appeal to Biden to stand down and save the country,nay the world, from a                        narcissistic lunatic fascist . 

                    HE  understands and makes history.Endorses Kamala ,pre empting feared Democratic                              Party chaos.

                 Kamela Who?? Asks the mightily well informed US electorate.

•                   June 27th the first debate ; September 10th the second. 
•                  81 days and just two days ago.      
•                   Cyclops had not dared to post ablog ahead of the debate.

                  The real Trumpfski and Kamela showed up .Hallelujah !!

                                      Our world has changed.

             The latest polls : Sept. 11-12  Ipsos Reuters                                                                Harris 47%    Trump 42%     Harris +5%

• So far so good.  BUT these numbers reflect that Over 50% of US citizens polled support Trump or CAN'T DECIDE 
• As another indicator Trump's media stock symbol [DJT]  closed today at  $16.08 down from $79.38 on March 1st .
• EIGHTY per cent drop. Trump is blocked from selling his 60+% of the company until September 19th/
• A penny anyone                         

                             { ED: GET to the important stuff CYCLOPS!!}   

                                                                    OK

  The most riveting issue coming out this battle between Kamerade Kamela and Dictator Dopey Donald ??

         "Haitians are eating your pets.No really. I saw a woman on TV ,she knew"                                                                                                                                           Donald J Trump[Stable Genius]

        A kind Btitish friend had lunch in Florida today and has sent me the Mar A Lago lunch menu 

       Now Cyclops has a small problem with Trumpfski criticising the consumption of pets.                              No one is claiming that these unidentified Haitians were eating their own pets.                                          That would be totally inappropriate.

            But since Palolithic times Hunter Gatherers have consumed pets belonging to the other. Cyclops  parents and grandparents-even unto the 20th generation-as you may remember,come from  Der Heim.In fact my paternal  grandmother's family was from a Steitle in Poland called Chmielnik. 

While I would have known her as Bubba Rosenberg,she was in fact a Kukielka  .

          [ED; Is there a point to this? Or  have you been on the My Heritage internet site again?]

                                                           GUILTY                                                                                                                But there is a point.

              The Kukielkas,and no doubt the Rosenbergs too ,were poor peasants and peddlars.                                  They rarely could afford a chicken for the sabbath meal.Like most of their kind, the main dish                 on Shabbat was a peasant dish made mostly of root vegetables & any fatty cheap cuts of beef                  they could buy.-CHOLANT*.

  

    My grandmother [Bubba]passed on the family Cholent recipe. Known  in Yiddish as the                                                                     "Kukielka Yenems Libling Cholent"   translates as  "                                                                                       Kukielka's other peoples pets cholent

  It could be that the "meat" was of questionablre provenance.                                                                      It had to be Kosher meat so  dogs,cats,hamsters and pigs coukd not be used.                                              These pets were therefore safe from marauding Bubbas.                                                                               Not so pet goats, ducks ,geese or budgerigars .                                                                                             Goldfish and Ornamental Carp were perhaps especially vulnerable.                                                            Pet sharks or whales were also safe-i.e. not Kosher .

 Cyclops cannot speak for the Shteles of the Pale.                                                                                          But in London there were never sufficient KOSHER pets to ever make Kukielka Cholent.   Or could it be that  my father's version of the family Cholent was another Bubbamaister.**    Not unlike that of the Haitians of Springfield ,Ohio.

*[Cholent is an East European  Jewish dry stew; created because Jewish law does not permit cooking on Shabbat.Therefore Jews create meat,root vegetables and bean stews in heavy pots in a low-heat oven overnight. The oven is turned on before the sabbath and left on a low light  for 12 hours plus.That way, no need to kindle a fire or light a stove during the hours of Shabbat.The ancient sages ruled that meant the women were not "cooking" on the sabbath.On such sophistry are great relifions built.Ask the Jesuits]                                                                                                                                  **  Bubbamaister yiddish for "old wives tale"

          

                       

 july21st

JOE GIVES USA  ITS BEST CHANCE TO DEFEAT TRUMPFSKI

                 “Biden steps aside …endorses Harris”             www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/21/election-2024-biden-trump-campaign-updates/

JOE: You have proved AGAIN that you are a PATRIOT and a MENSCH

Apparently the Publicans do not see your sacrifice in quite the same way:

SPEAKER JOHNSON :👅

        DEFENDS T RIGHTS OF  DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS.

       “Republicans could file challenges if Biden replaced…

         “Every state has its own system,” he said of election laws.

  Johnson said there might be grounds for a challenge,given that             Biden was the overwhelming winner of the party’s primaries.

“I think they would run into some legal impediments in at                                   least a few  of these jurisdictions,”                                                                          “We’ll see how it plays out.”

  CYCLOPS applauds statesman rush to protect“Ordinary Democrats”                                                                   

TRUMPFSKI: 😡

              " Worst President, by far, in the History of our Nation."

                "Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President,                                         and is certainly not fit to serve - And never was!"

             "We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we                                     will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. "                                                                                                                                                                                "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

                             GRACIOUS as ALWAYS

 "RIGHT NOW,he just quit the race in COMPLETE DISGRACE!"

          CYCLOPS says :Careful what you wish for Donald☝

If Biden resigns next week  to focus on Gaza Peace you will be running against a Black American Woman  President in the midst of her Honeymoon Period .    

                                    WATCH THIS SPACE

 

 

 

 

CLARENCE CROW

 It has been six months since my last post.

• I then informed my faithful readers of Joe Biden's pending announcement that he would not run for a second term 
• Because no eighty year old should .
• It seems Joe is still teasing us and that formal announcement is still pending.
• Nevertheless watch this space;
• Even if he first announces he will run,
• He will be just testing the convulsion/despair reflex quotient amongst his supporters.

                  So what brings CYCLOPS back to THE WORD?

• Is it  Predictions and exaltations on the DOMINION/FOX "NEWS"   law suit? 
• Will it cost Rupert [92]  $1 billion/2/3 or 4 billion?
• Alas not enough to bankrupt the Murdoch Empire [ net worth  $22 billion] .
• Still "where there is death there is hope"

Nope not that

The TENNESSEE THREE  ? 

• They have proved they can look after themselves --and 
• the  Tennessee Republican State Establishment 's  self parody  is beyond CYCLOPS ability to compete .

So not that.

Multiple TRUMP LAWSUITS? 

• Watching various Attorneys' General  and
•  the Justice Department playing the Judicial two step -
• -after you no after you--has ben galling.
• Then the first case is the politically least important !! 
•  Even if it has triggered Trumpfski into his mad clown victim routine. 

As CyCLOPS has implored for YEARS "Follow the Money"  --or the INSURRECTION 

We can all understand that.

• And I repeat   WHAT TAKES SO LONG---
• as the saying goes JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED  
• goes for we the citizens as well as the indicted.
• BUT  the wheels do seem to grinding and CYCLOPS believes all the cases will be brought:
•  Insurrection;importuning an election official;fraud ;classified files etc

May I just live long enough to see thier outcome before Trumpfski is re elected

So not TRUMPFSKI-- despite my prediction that Ivanka will be indicted and convicted and go bankrupt to avoid the fine.

Well will it be the ongoing Abortion Farrago unleashed by the Supremes?

•  God bless them. 
• Without this we would have a Publican Senate and
•  a clear  workable Publican majority in the House.
• Nor would we have the idiocy--both social and political-
• of multiple local Publican legislatures driving the abortion wedge deeper and deeper into their own prospects.
• Without the over turning of Roe being settled
• They would not have had time to focus on banning/burning books etc.

Their self immolation is a wondrous gift to behold and 

 their self delusional incompetence  makes DEMOCRATS look savvy.

                                        Maybe there is a god---nah

No not the Supremes and Roe--but we are getting warmer;much warmer

  Today my joy was unleashed ,my cup runneth over,my meanness rewarded   BY ???

                THE CLARENCE CROW REVELATIONS

It seems the humble "my own bootstraps" " affirmative action is an insult"  etc etc  Justice Clarence Thomas is in the pocket of  HARLAN CROW

Who he ?   

•                Texas Billionaire son of Trammel .
•                Financier of  Multiple Right Wing organizations and 
•                Lunatic conspiracy theorists
•               He is a founding committee member of the  Club for Growth, and 
•               Has served  On the board of the American Enterprise Institute since 1996. 
•               He has donated over $5 million to Republican campaigns and                                            conservative groups.  
•               Almost as much as those other Texan billionaires --the KOCH brothers.                     
•               Most pertinently he gave  $1/2 million  to Ginnie Thomas to push conspiracy                    theories ,
•              Deny election results and
•              NOT to speak of any of this to her husband 
•               In case such issues got to the Supreme Court

       Crow is a member of the all-male Bohemian Club where he has hosted                     Justice Clarence Thomas 

     According to Politico he provided $500,000 to Liberty Central, founded by   Virginia Thomas

  Crow has declined to comment on whether he was the anonymous donor in   question, telling The New York Times, 

                            "I don't disclose what I'm not required to disclose."

                             

   Most currently pertinent and of lascivious interest to the medya:

•     ProPublica reported that Crow has given several gifts to Associate Supreme Court          Justice Clarence Thomas,
•     including a $19,000 Bible belonged to Frederick Douglass
•    He procured Thomas a portrait of the justice and his wife, the painter, Sharif Tarabay.
•   Tax filings show that Crow's foundation  gave $105,000 to the Yale Law School, 
•   Thomas' alma mater, for the "Justice Thomas Portrait Fund".  

•  Justice Thomas has accepted numerous week-long luxury trips,
•  Including island-hopping on Crow's super yacht, 
•   International and domestic private jet travel, and 
•   Private resort stays.

   The Supreme Court has no ethics code--no that is not CYCLOPS editorializing-- The Roberts Supreme Court has had no ethics code.

          

   Under  new rules that went into effect 30 days ago: [coincidence Justice Roberts??]

• Justices must disclose many forms of gifts they receive; 
• BUT exceptions exist if a gift of food, lodging, or entertainment 
• is deemed  "personal in nature" and 
• the hospitality has been directly offered by an individual 
• who has a personal relationship to the government official in question. 

Clarence and Harlan insist that they are "close personal friends" and Clarence has implied that he "was advised"--by whom?--that 

this luxury travel on a super yacht through the Indonesian archipelago need not be declared .

•   There is NO EVIDENCE that Harlan had befriended Clarence  BEFORE he became a SUPREME.
•   Nor have they claimed such an ancient affinity.
•   Cyclops might guess that  Harlan did not mix in Clarence's exalted milieu.

• Legal experts cited by ProPublica say that Thomas did not disclose the gifts, 
• Violating a financial disclosure law and ethical norms for judges. 

According to Crow, he has "never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue"

^{Well thats alright then}    

                   ^{But today --OH BE STILL MY HEART--   PRO PUBLICA   reported  that}  

•  Crow had quietly paid Thomas for property occupied by Thomas's mother's home
• Unreported :despite law requiring disclosure of property sales by public officials.
• These transactions MUST be reported on all public officials annual financial disclosures
•  A rule apparently even for the SUPREMES.
•  This 2014 sale was NOT listed on Clarence's  annual forms
•  Despite the property being listed in earlier years 

 As the propublica article in the url below makes clear:

•  CLARENCE must have forgotten this rule and 
• the continuing subsidies from Crow companies to his dear old mum
• She appaarently has continued to live in the  house rent free since the sale
• Major renovations and repairs have been  paid for by Crow companies.

Lest  even my most loyal readers think Cyclops cruel,mean and parsimonious.

• We have no objections to this arrangement and 
• Believe it would be malicious and unkind to have evicted Mrs.Thomas.
• We just believe the arrangements should be declared and
•  Potential conflicts noted when issues of interest to Harlan reached the Supreme Court.

• Just as we believe overturning ROE was malicious and unkind ---- 
• the campaign for its repeal was funded ,inter alia , by one Harlan Crow.

Crow said he bought the property with the intent of later turning the home into a public museum dedicated to Thomas.

Allegations have risen across the medya that 

• Crow has been "subsidizing the lifestyle of Thomas and his wife"         
•  ^{As Thomas continued to support conservative causes on the Supreme Court.}       

                         ^{Please, please read the propublica piece below}

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

  But ,I hear you say, 

"We know you despise Clarence and Ginnie,but why such animus to Harmless Harlan.

A presumably unassuming and misunderstood Texas Billionaire  philanthropist "

Ah well, these Texas Billionaires come larger than life not like your garden variety billionaire

Now CYCLOPS knows that it is an axiom of US political debate that one should NEVER mention Hitler or the Nazis as you will be deemed to be desperate and must be losing the argument.

However ,It seems Harlan has a passionate, intellectual soft spot for---you guessed it --- Hitler Memorabilia

Crow's Dallas residence is home to an extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia,

•  Including two paintings by Adolf Hitler and 
• A signed copy of Mein Kampf.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/

   

                                                        

                                             Nazi  Memorabelia Displayed in Crow's Home

A visitor to Crow's home is quoted in the Washingtonian  piece above :

“I still can’t get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia,” says one person who attended an event at Crow’s home a few years ago and asked to remain anonymous. “It would have been helpful to have someone explain the significance of all the items. Without that context, you sort of just gasp when you walk into the room.” One memorable aspect was the paintings: “something done by George W. Bush next to a Norman Rockwell next to one by Hitler.”

 Well far be it from me to draw spurious connections between:

•  A shy collector of historic memorabilia who happens to own
•  Two of Hitlers original paintings
•  A signed copy of mein kampf. 
• Apparently one of only three in existance.
• Is a  major funder  of far right organizations and conspiracy theorists
•  Is presumably an admirer of fellow industrialist Henry Ford ad
• Believes Trump should be President.

 

  Such innuendo does NOT confirm that Crow is a  Racist ,a White Supremacists  or a bigot

•   The man is ,after all, a personal friend of only the second Black Man to have   been  elevated to the Supreme Court.
•  Cyclops has no doubt that some of his best friends are Jewish

  It is odd though that he apparently never invited Ruth Bader Ginsberg to join him and his mates at the Bohemian Club.