The Common Ills: 2021-02-14

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Oh Bette

In the hospital since Sunday evening but one of the nurses just mentioned Bette Midler is yet again Tweeting to revel in others misfortune. Texas is apparently suffering bad weather conditions and some are freezing with no electricity. So Bette decides to turn it into a referendum on Ted Cruz. That's as disgusting as what homophobic Fred Phelps would do. And it doesn't count as joke. She is and always will be a hateful bitch. There's a reason she has no friends in the industry and a reason costars never want to work with her again. When people are suffering, you don't pile on. Love to anyone suffering. I'm told four states are suffering. Anyone bothered by my calling Bette a bitch should grasp I've been calling her trash since 2005 -- see a roundtable at THIRD -- and be warned that as soon as I'm out of the hospital, the first entry here will be entitled Dumb Bitches about a bad book and the idiots who praised it.

Sunday, February 14, 2021

#HLM #HardLensMedia The Impeachment Trial is over, now what?

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OTT Content to be regulated and other top headlines | Weekly feminist news wrap

Here’s your wrap of news for the week gone by: The centre's controversial citizenship law will start rolling once the COVID-19 vaccination is over, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, in an assurance to a community of Hindu immigrants in West Bengal ahead of elections. The CAA, which came into effect last January, had triggered widespread protests as many feared that coupled with the planned nationwide National Register of Citizens or NRC, it would result in lakhs of Muslims losing their citizenship. The Nirbhaya Fund, announced eight years ago to reduce violence against women, goes “underused” and underfunded, and is “predominantly slotted for services that don’t directly help the women”, a new report by NGO Oxfam India said. The new Oxfam report, published in February 2021, highlighted that since inception in 2013, the fund has received several annual additions, but it remains underfunded and underutilised. Activist Rona Wilson, accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, moved a petition in Bombay High Court Wednesday seeking quashing of the FIR and chargesheet filed against him, citing in support the report of a US-based digital consultant that says “incriminating evidence” found by investigators in his laptop were “planted”. Wilson’s petition referred to a report by Arsenal Consulting which concluded that his computer was “infected with a malware”, allegedly planted through an email in June 2016. Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra’s remarks over allegations of sexual harassment against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, are at the center of the storm. Without naming the former CJI, Moitra said: “The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred. It stopped being sacred the day a sitting chief justice of this country was accused of sexual harassment, presided over his own trial, cleared himself” Mahua Moitra faces a privilege motion over her remarks in parliament and sources say the ruling BJP decided to proceed with the motion after Mahua Moitra shared video clips on Wednesday of her controversial remarks in the Lok Sabha. Unregulated OTT content may soon become a thing of the past. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government will soon issue guidelines for the regulation of OTT platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content and added that a lot of suggestions and complaints on this have been received. Objectional content on OTT platforms includes sexual discrimination and abusive language, he said adding that the government should, without delay, implement the Internet regulations. ------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Feminism In India: Website: https://www.feminisminindia.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feminisminindia Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/feminisminindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feminismini... Telegram: https://t.me/feminisminindia Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cjuLbv

Why America Throws the Poor in Prison

America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in declining cities, and how politicians and capitalists – instead of helping those people, and building a better and more just economy – built a prison system larger than any other in the history of the world to warehouse them. Chase Madar, professor of law at NYU Gallatin, explains. Sources: https://rb.gy/ngorgz Join us, and make our work possible: https://www.patreon.com/gravelinstitute Institute Merch: https://gravelinstitute.org/merch Twitter: https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GravelInsti... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GravelInstitute 0:00 Mass Incarceration in America 1:39 The Crisis of the '60s and '70s 2:49 How America Built Mass Incarceration 5:07 What About When Crime Fell? 7:24 Credits

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DR. CORNEL WEST LIVE with Left Lens on Celebrating the Black Radical Tradition

The United States celebrates Black History Month every February but does so with little regard to the Black Radical Tradition for social justice and liberation. Dr. Cornel West joins co-hosts Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong to discuss key aspects of the Black Radical Tradition and their relevance to the current situation confronting Black Americans and the rest of humanity both in the U.S. and around the world. Dr. Cornel West is a public intellectual and professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He is author of more than twenty books including the acclaimed works "Race Matters" and Democracy Matters. Dr. West co-hosts the Tight Rope Podcast with Tricia Rose. Support The Left Lens by: Donating to https://blackagendareport.com/donate AND/OR supporting the hosts at their Patreon pages: https://www.patreon.com/dannyhaiphong https://www.patreon.com/margaretkimbe

Media Screwups w/ Katie Halper: Current Affairs Editor FIRED By Guardian For Satirical Israel Joke

Host of The Katie Halper Show podcast, Katie Halper, discusses the firing of journalist Nathan Robinson from The Guardian over a controversial tweet. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on social media: Website: Hill.TV Facebook: facebook.com/HillTVLive/ Instagram: @HillTVLive Twitter: @HillTVLive Follow Saagar Enjeti & Krystal Ball on social media: Twitter: @esaagar and @krystalball Instagram: @esaagar and @krystalmball

Biden's Doublespeak About Ending Yemen War

Abby Martin explains what President Biden really means by the duplicitous language in his major Feb. 4 foreign policy speech on ending the Yemen war. Get EXCLUSIVE Empire Files content, and keep us independent and ad-free, at https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles FOLLOW // https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles // https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin LIKE // https://www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles MERCH // https://empirefiles.store

#HLM #HardLensMedia TV Pundit Says You Don't Need a Stimulus

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Covid Lockdowns | Full Measure

We begin with the latest research on lockdowns. Early in the coronavirus pandemic, panic sent the U.S. and other societies into a restrictive lockdown mode. But not every country took the same approach. And now armed with hard data, scientists are addressing the question: what worked and what didn’t? Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He spoke out against lockdowns from the start and is one of the researchers in a recent study that found they didn’t help. --------- Full Measure is a weekly Sunday news program focusing on investigative, original and accountability reporting. The host is Sharyl Attkisson, five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. She is backed by a team of award winning journalists. Each week, we have a cover story that explores untouchable topics in a fearless way including: immigration, terrorism, government waste, national security and whistleblower reports on government and corporate abuse and misdeeds. Full Measure is broadcast to 43 million households in 79 markets on 162 Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, MyTV, Univision and Telemundo affiliates. It also streams live Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. ET. Read more about us at: http://fullmeasure.news/about Find out where to watch us at: http://fullmeasure.news/about Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FullMeasureNews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FullMeasureNews

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Search for Life | Full Measure

This month NASA’s Perseverance Rover lands on Mars to search for life on the Red Planet. But Lisa Fletcher reports: the search out there has a connection to research for unknown life forms in the deepest and darkest places on planet Earth. --------- Full Measure is a weekly Sunday news program focusing on investigative, original and accountability reporting. The host is Sharyl Attkisson, five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. She is backed by a team of award winning journalists. Each week, we have a cover story that explores untouchable topics in a fearless way including: immigration, terrorism, government waste, national security and whistleblower reports on government and corporate abuse and misdeeds. Full Measure is broadcast to 43 million households in 79 markets on 162 Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, MyTV, Univision and Telemundo affiliates. It also streams live Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. ET. Read more about us at: http://fullmeasure.news/about Find out where to watch us at: http://fullmeasure.news/about Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FullMeasureNews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FullMeasureNews

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