Best news of the day (so far).

[kstewart33]

The Independent (UK):

Hundreds of advertisers are pulling away from ultra-conservative news website Breitbart, and campaigners are confident the backlash is snowballing.

According to a database from grassroots campaign group Sleeping Giants, a total of 818 companies have pledged to remove Breitbart from their media plan so far.

In the last few months, giant corporations such as Kelloggs, BMW, Visa, T-Mobile, Nordstrom and Lufthansa have all severed ties with the company.

And in the same week that President Donald Trump has threatened to pull funding from the University of California, Berkeley after it cancelled a speech by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, two universities in Canada have also signed up to the advertising ban.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breitbart-advertising-activists-campaign-petition-milo-yiannopoulos-a7559441.html

[bettyellen]

1. When I looked it was just the NRA Fox News and some logo T shirt shop

[IronLionZion]

10. Don't give them clicks

They need to go out of business

[central scrutinizer]

2. They'll get a taxpayer bailout

Too big to fail

[0rganism]

14. they're the new PBS

"alternative" PBS

[onlyadream]

3. Power of the people is the pocket book

Found this: https://grabyourwallet.org/
It lists who to boycott.
THIS is what will do wonders for our side.

[GliderGuider]

4. Breitbart has done its job.

It can go without endangering the enterprise.

The enterprise is self-propelled now.

[Useless in FL]

5. That is exactly what I was thinking. (n/t)

[GliderGuider]

6. Once you understand what this really is, you realize that

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Most of the stuff we ramble on about here - petitions, marches, calling your Congresscritter, what Kellyanne said today - are completely irrelevant, They make us feel good, give us a sense of solidarity, and help get us through the emotional storm somewhat more intact. But affect the outcome? Not a snowball's chance in hell.

If the wrecking crew in the WH can ignore Congress and Federal judges as they are doing, they won't even notice us.

This is a geopolitical game being played at the highest levels, and the stakes are the power structures of the world. Putin wants to completely realign the global balance of power, with Russia at the top, and the USA swept off the board. The whole Trump shitstorm is the visible part of WWIII. If we lose,the nation will go dark. And we have virtually zero influence on the outcome.

It's going to get more intense. We need to hang on tight and pay attention to what is important.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. Your statement rings of truth.

Is there anything we CAN do? Well, yes, actually---try to embody the best in ourselves and live it as best we can. As a way of life.

President Obama is one role model. There are many others. Wisdom and Compasion are what I'm trying for, as much as I can.

Whatever goes on at levels beyond my influence, at least I can try and try again to walk a worthy walk.

[FairWinds]

8. Our "understanding" is not enhanced by . .

anthropomorphisms such as "Russia wants."

Russia does not want anything. It is not alive, and has no desires.

That sort of thinking leads to the kind of over-simplification in your post.

Good essay here by Robert Parry questioning the liberal interventionism
at work with respect to Russia/Putin . . .

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/01/dangers-of-democratic-putin-bashing/

Disclaimer - I do not like Putin at all, but I also question the US role in
Central Europe.

[GliderGuider]

13. I fixed the anthropomorphism. Sorry my writing was sloppy.

Do you know about Aleksander Dugin's ingluence on Putin's geopolitical outlook? The role Vladislav Surkov played in Ukraine? There is a hungry bear on the move, and it wants to eat America's lunch.

[dmr]

15. Steve Bannon has been called a Duganist.

Am having a senior moment trying to remember the man's name who called Bannon that, and now the asshole has infiltated a role in our national secuity!

But he's on MSNBC often. A former intelligence officer, and wrote a book last summer on Russia and cyber security.

Shoot, it's gonna bother me until I can remember his name.

[GliderGuider]

17. I can't help I'm afraid - no TV for 15 years now.

But Bannon is most definitely a Duginist:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-dugin-trump-putin-turkey-20170203-story.html

Ah, you were probably referring to Malcolm Nance:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/01/30/steve-bannon-aligning-u-s-russia-preparation-holy-war-analyst-thinks/

And many more - just Google "Dugin Bannon"

[dmr]

19. Yes! Nance

How could I have forgotten his name!


Thanks for the links. Gonna check them out in a few minutes.

[triron]

18. Malcolm Nance?

[dmr]

20. Yes, Nance. Thank you.

[FairWinds]

21. No problem, I hope you think I was reasonably civil . .

apparently the Trump people are fans of Dugin too.

"America's lunch" is not in Central Europe. The US
needs to stop de-stabilizing the region.

I well recall NATO Chief Gen. John Galvin in 1992
calling for a de-militarized zone there. He was right.

I was once burned by going to Vietnam.

Never again.

Veterans For Peace

[ffr]

9. The red's main language: money

Threaten to take one dollar away and they'll jump through hoops to get you back.

[neverforget]

11. They'll find some sugar daddy billionaire to fund them if it

gets too bad.

[dmr]

16. They have one,and boy have they spent the money!

Read this, much of it you probably already know:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3021

[BigDemVoter]

12. THIS will be the way to beat these fucks.