Daniel Imperato – Official Website
Daniel Imperato For President 2024
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post Media Propaganda: Is the BBC Responsible for mRNA Vaccine-related Deaths? appeared first on Global Research.
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post The CO2 Hoax, ChatGPT, and God appeared first on Global Research.
A worker leaves the Belvidere Assembly Plant, idled indefinitely as of February 28. Stellantis was the largest employer in Belvidere, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
On March 1, Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) “idled” the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois — putting 1,350 people out of work indefinitely, with the threat hanging over them that the plant might stay closed forever.
Is Stellantis hurting for money? Absolutely not. In fact, the corporation has recently had some of its best years on record. This is a clear attempt to use the plant as a cudgel, as the Big Three automakers head into negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW) this fall.
It’s a signal that, despite record profits, the companies will remain true to their same old playbook — holding people’s livelihoods over their heads and holding communities at ransom.
An auto plant closure can destroy the community surrounding it. Every job inside the plant supports seven jobs outside — at the suppliers that produce seats, plastic, headliners, glass, and so on. Then there’s the supply chain to get those products into the plant — all those jobs leave as well.
Mom-and-pop shops have fewer customers, doctors have fewer patients, after-school programs have fewer kids, and charities have less money.
There’s also a cost to families. When workers leave the area to keep their jobs, kids grow up seeing one parent only on the weekends, if they’re lucky. Parents and grandparents go through major health events without family support. In some extremely tragic cases, workers end up taking their own lives.
I recently called my mom and asked her to sum up her experience as a General Motors worker in Janesville, Wisconsin, when the company closed the plant in 2009 during the Great Recession.
“Devastation,” she said. Then there was a pause. “It wasn’t just GM, it was all the subsystems that fed into GM. They all left too. It destroyed the community. It was bad enough to be in a recession, but then to have the plant close?”
There were a few seconds of silence on the phone. “It was just . . . devastating,” she said again.
I asked a union brother of mine who was also from Janesville, Matt Gregerson, the same question.
“There’s a feeling of loss that still haunts me,” Gregerson told me, “and a guilt for having left my wife and children to transfer. I had to choose between supporting my family monetarily or being there physically.”
During the Great Recession, the UAW gave massive concessions to GM and Chrysler (now Stellantis); the concessions were then adopted at Ford too.
Numerous auto plants were closed. Current workers gave up benefits like a cost-of-living allowance and vacation time. Workers hired after the recession made half the pay, got reduced benefits, and didn’t even have a pension or health care in retirement.
While we gave massive concessions and plant after plant closed down, the Big Three CEOs flew to Washington, DC, in their private luxury jets to ask for bailout money.
Workers were told that these cuts would be temporary and that we had to do our part to help save the companies. Either we gave the government what it was demanding in order for the Big Three to receive the bailout loans, or GM and Chrysler would go under. That was the reality at the time.
And we did — we gave up a lot. But the cuts and plant closings were never temporary. Fifteen years later, the workers who gave up so much to help the Big Three still haven’t been made whole.
Since then, the Detroit automakers have been making billions of dollars almost every year. Collectively, over the past decade, they’ve amassed $160 billion in profit; GM alone has made $63 billion.
So there was no justification when GM announced in 2018 (the year before contract negotiations) that the company was closing three assembly plants and two other facilities across Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio, eliminating an estimated fourteen thousand jobs.
For its part, Stellantis brought in net profits of $18 billion in 2022, one year after the company was formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot. The pay package for CEO Carlos Tavares last year totaled $24.8 million.
Yet even during the best of times, this company is laying off workers and “idling” a plant — harming the very people who helped it make such record profits.
The UAW just wrapped up a historic election where members got to vote directly for their top leaders for the first time in the union’s history. The rank and file voted for change and a more militant stance with their employers. With seven seats contested, reform-minded candidates won every single one.
The union has vowed to fight to restart production at Belvidere. “This economic dislocation is a choice made by Stellantis to reap even higher profits,” said UAW vice president and Stellantis department director Rich Boyer, who was elected on the Members United slate last year. “We will highlight their corporate greed to workers, community, taxpayers, and consumers.”
At the recent UAW Special Bargaining Convention, the union’s International Executive Board appeared to be in total unison, calling on autoworkers to unite against our true enemies: “multibillion-dollar corporations and employers that refuse to give our members their fair share.”
Every leader got up and gave a rousing speech on unity and militancy ahead of negotiations. But after decades of concessions and losing, talk is cheap. Results must be delivered.
The entire membership of our union must be mobilized, united, and prepared for the fight that is coming our way.
An Israeli Arab convert to Judaism was physically and verbally attacked this week by pro-Palestinians in London’s Hyde Park after waving an Israeli flag.
Timor-David Aklin, who was born a Muslim in the central coastal city of Jaffa, traveled to London ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day with the aim of making pro-Israel videos for his YouTube channel. He visited Speakers’ Corner, London’s landmark soapbox, to fight “stereotypes against the Jewish religion and antisemitism,” he said.
While there, Aklin, who is visibly Orthodox with a yarmulke on his head, was confronted by a group of British Muslim youth, at least one of whom also spoke Arabic, who began an argument with him that turned violent.
The pro-Palestinians had come to the area after attending an Al-Quds day rally in the vicinity. London’s Al Quds day rally attracted as many as 7,000 marchers this year with the aim of “protesting the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine,” according to the website of its organizers.
Aklin was instructed to “fold up and hide” his Israeli flag by the group, with one member threatening, “I used to be a gang member, we don’t want a terrorist flag here.”
“You’re a Zionist terrorist,” another tells Aklin, who filmed the exchange.
A third posits that “Israel has no right to exist” and that “there will never be peace in the middle east as long as the state of Israel exists.”
At one point, members of the group grabbed his flag and started making off with it, before Aklin pursued them. They then kicked and destroyed Aklin’s camera and one of the youths punched him on the side of his head.
“I was devastated – more mentally than physically,” he told World Israel News. “This is not what I came here for, I came here for dialogue.”
“I did not go in there believing these Arabs are completely bad. I remained respectful during the entire time even when they had attacked me, spat on me and my flag, punched me in the midst of the chaos all in an attempt to intimidate me and scare me away,” he said.
Orthodox Jewish pro-Israel activist, Timor-David Aklin, was born an Arab Muslim in Jaffa, Israel (pic: courtesy)
Despite being a staunch critic of Islam and Arab culture in general, Aklin says he believes in diplomacy and “creating understanding and unity through meaningful dialogue.”
“I would never express them to an Arab person in an uncivil manner. That’s because the person is already suffering from the impact of Arab imperialism, that is, Islam. It’s crucial to be gradual when introducing light into darkness,” he said.
Below is a clip of Aklin accused of being a liar about his origins as a Muslim.
The post EXCLUSIVE WATCH – ‘Zionist terrorist:’ Arab Muslim who converted to Judaism attacked in London after waving Israeli flag appeared first on World Israel News.
Art from one of Donald Trump’s new NFT trading cards. (Truth Social)
Having reportedly made six-figure profits on the first offering last year, Donald Trump has just released a new round of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). On an aesthetic level, the images are strangely fascinating in their gaudiness. In one, the former president is shown as George Washington crossing the Delaware. In another, he is clad in leather and hoisting an electric guitar. In a third, he is wearing camo while brandishing a crossbow and binoculars in front of a blurrily rendered forest.
Like the earlier Trump-themed NFTs, the latest batch is audaciously artificial in appearance, assembled from bland stock images and channeling a kitsch iconography of Americana, money, and machismo. Their constituent parts, recycled again and again across dozens of different NFTs, have all the elegance of Windows 98–era clip art, and some (like this one showing Trump standing in space wearing sunglasses with a basketball in hand) don’t even thematically make sense.
Trump has released the latest round of Trump NFTs, including: Trump crossing the Delaware, bow-hunter Trump, rock ‘n’ roll Trump.
$99 each. pic.twitter.com/cCrgi55VfD
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) April 18, 2023
Aesthetically, the collection reflects a low-rent version of the burlesque pastiche that has become the house style of Trump-era conservatism. This peculiar genre of reactionary art fuses the idioms of a lachrymose American nationalism with the cheap superficiality of a late-night infomercial or motivational seminar. Best represented by the work of painter Jon McNaughton, it has yielded images that are both insipid in form and grandiose in ambition. In Trump’s NFTs, the style has evolved into what might as well be the punch line of a cruel joke originated by Andy Warhol: a kind of algorithmically generated, dadaist folk art that almost transcends value judgments like ugliness, truth, and beauty.
For the low, low price of about a hundred dollars, you can now buy an ersatz likeness of America’s forty-fifth president that cannot physically exist outside the digital ether. Even for Trump, a man whose entire life has consisted of a series of bullshit scams, it takes astonishing chutzpah to affix a price tag to something so obviously useless — especially in 2023, after the NFT bubble has already burst.
The paintings of Jon McNaughton, like Teach a Man to Fish, have yielded a style both insipid in form and grandiose in ambition. (McNaughton Fine Art)
Both Trump’s embrace of the medium and his timing, however, make the whole thing a perfect marriage. Much like Trump’s career, the crypto-NFT boom was a giant confidence trick that rode a wave of bloated perceptions and showbiz hype before leaving a trail of human misery in its wake. Speculative virtual commodities are the proverbial ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls stage of American capitalism, an effort at predatory rent seeking with zero pretense to social or use value. The legitimacy they briefly enjoyed was mostly owed to liberal celebrities paid truckloads of money to hawk Bored Ape gifs on social media and late-night TV. Thin as this was, it succeeded in lending the crypto-NFT racket a momentary sheen of chic and glitz.
The 2007 launch party of Trump Steaks, another Trump grift, in 2007. (Stephen Lovekin / WireImage for Hill & Knowlton via Getty Images)
It follows that someone like Trump would get in on the action only after this initial buzz had dissipated. Throughout his career, Trump has taken the structuring myths of American capitalism — national exceptionalism, free enterprise, the white patriarch, the self-made billionaire — and performed them as a baroque and vulgar pantomime shorn of subtext. He is a man more famous for playing a real estate tycoon than being one; a politician who projects the basest cruelties of the conservative psyche without any of the traditional appeals to unity, civility, or moral integrity. If NFTs are capitalism stripped to its barest transactional elements in a gilded era of monetized selfhood, artificial intelligence, and the blockchain, Trump represents the distillation of culture and politics into an ethos of shameless grift and boundless commodification.
Through his rhetoric and speech patterns, we have come to know what this sounds like. In his NFTs, and the broader aesthetic sensibility they reflect, we are offered the howlingly bleak portrait of what it looks like.
Not incidentally, the most authentic moments in Trump’s 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal can be found in his lavish and sometimes even tender descriptions of surfaces. For Trump, then and now, life is fundamentally about perception and appearance rather than depth or substance. As a businessman, and then as a politician, he has thus innovated into existence a whole new language of exaggeration and hyperbole. “The point is that we got a lot of attention,” he writes in Art of the Deal of a never-fulfilled promise to build the world’s tallest building that could also double as an operating principle for American politics and culture today, “and that alone creates value.”
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post Sikh Diaspora-Revival of the Khalistan Independence Movement appeared first on Global Research.
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post Anti-Meat Propaganda Roundup: Drinking Milk Is ‘Unsettling’ and Racist appeared first on Global Research.
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post “The Future of Health Summit”: Blowing Up the World for Big Pharma appeared first on Global Research.
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post Young Chefs Are Dying Suddenly and Unexpectedly. 28 Sudden Deaths, COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates? appeared first on Global Research.
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.
Click the share button above to email/forward this article …
The post U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM): Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an Instrument of Modern Warfare appeared first on Global Research.
