Tag: Rachel Maddow

Peter Thiel October 11, 1967

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

The most useful information I’ve found so far concerning newbie politician and VP pick of GOP nominee Trump, JD Vance, is the following segment by Rachel Maddow exposing the real reason why Vance was VP pick:

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Actually, this post is intended to display a noon natal horoscope for Peter Thiel, born in Germany on October 11, 1967, grew up in

Old Trump Discovers He’s Not a King!

No Thumb on the Scale But Ketchup On the Wall
by Jude Cowell
In the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Marchan this week, Mr. Trump is finding it quite impossible to put his thumb on the Scales of Justice as he has always managed to do. Glowering, frowning, staring pointedly, and napping certainly haven’t worked for his nibs. No jury member was seated yesterday but about 50 of them were excused.
A

The Untold Story Of The 1381 Peasants Revolt | Peasants Revolt | Timeline

Back during the feudal era, in May 1381 English peasants became fed up and thus established the tradition of revolt against their oppressors. The Peasants Revolt of 1381 is aka,
Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, and millions of people engaged from all over England to march upon London. Time Team’s Tony Robinson recounts the story:

In case the Timeline (Time Team) video is removed, here’s a link.
As for

Rachel Maddow’s Deja News podcast

A 7 South Eclipse Repeats October 14, 2023 @21Lib07
by Jude Cowell
By now you’ve heard that yesterday the intrepid Rachel Maddow and her longtime producer Isaac-Davy Aronson debuted a new podcast Deja News which asks, "Has anything like this ever happened before?" Deja News Episode 1: Riot at the Gates (Again)
Now if you’ve ever read many posts here on SO’W you know that Rachel’s new podcast is

Maddow: Trump’s anti-Semitic speakers welcomed to pro-Hitler Event May 12, 2023

Pro-Hitler forces in the US are continuing their "Reawaken America Tour" including a pro-Hitler event to be held this weekend at Trump’s National Doral golf resort May 12 and 13, 2023. The event sports quite a line-up of Nazi supporters including Eric, and I suppose, Donald Trump. In fact, many of the maga crazies will participate.
So for pro-democracy voters who may not be certain who to avoid

Lessons From A World War II Scandal That Put The Justice Department To The Test – clip

Last evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spotlighted the compelling connection between the DOJ’s 1940s prosecution of the era’s Nazis in America and the difficulties now faced by AG Merrick Garland’s DOJ and his appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation along similar lines today, lines that one again include US congress members.
In the following segement, Rachel interviews one of the

Alarm Bells Ring: Ultra-Right Threats to Democracy 2022: Vote Blue!

Ultra-Right Saboteurs Spotlighted by Rachel Maddow
Now that Episode 3 of Rachel Maddow’s Ultra podcast is available, I recommend it most highly. If only voters who don’t know or care about the Nazi threat we now again face in America would listen and take its lessons to heart.
Or perhaps before the November 8th Midterms with its Taurus Lunar Eclipse, Republican leaning voters will run across the

Maddow podcast Ultra Features Nazis in America 1940

Monday October 10, 2022
America Locked Again in a Battle of Wills with Nazism
by Jude Cowell
Although the catastrophe’s Wikipedia page labels it as the Lovettsville Air Disaster, many folks know the event as the Trip 19 Plane Crash in which 25 passengers lost their lives during a lightening storm near Short Hill Mountain, Lovettsville, Virginia on August 31, 1940. Among the crash victims were

US Mars Rx: Energy Turned Inward

by Jude Cowell
"An army turned inward can quickly become an instrument of tyranny."
So stated Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice. One of her primary concerns: the Insurrection Act of 1807 and its easily abused presidential powers intended to quell protests, riots, assaults, and upheavals against the government or, to quash, harm, and discourage a dissenting population. So in