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After you get back, make sure to check out the incredible news summary at the bottom of this Newsletter on everything you may have missed in the past week!
After you get back, make sure to check out the incredible news summary at the bottom of this Newsletter on everything you may have missed in the past week!
NPD (NO NOT THAT POLICE)
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
A
Daily Kos article this past Thursday tells us why Donald Trump can’t
function. Although she’s not a mental health professional, Karen Wehrstein’s
screed attracted over 500 comments last I looked.
Ms. Wehrstein opines the person named Donald Trump suffers
from Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
She gives us a run down of all the nine signs and symptoms listed in the Bible
of Mental Illness, the so-called DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders)
Just for the sake of this little experiment, I list them
here:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in
fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy.1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. Believes he, she or it is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Shows a sense of entitlement
6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his her or its own ends
7. Lacks empathy
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him, her or it.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes
Over 500 comments keep pointing the finger at the poor
person named Donald Trump, and miss the bigger picture altogether.
So here’s a little exercise: According to the UN, the world
includes 193 countries.
What country exhibits all of the above 9 symptoms. Any idea?
Could it be the problem is larger than someone named Donald
Trump? Amendment 25 section 4 notwithstanding, if it’s hard to impeach a poor
person named Donald Trump who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, think how
hard it must be to impeach a nation.
TO DO’S:
1. Coalition building: the great majority of the hundreds of thousands who marched on Women’s Day and the hundreds of thousands all over the country flocking to the airports yesterday and today are folks who’ve never sampled the joy of the streets before. We need to organize across ideology, and across identity politics to find our commonalities, and never put anyone down because of opinions they hold contrary to ours. We are all in this together.
2. Organizing: A terrific example of internet organizing tool. Also see J Street’s 1.28.17 message
3. Reading between the lines: We need to learn to “read” MSM (Main Suppression Media) between the lines.
Some reliable alternative newsfeeds to depend on:
Global Research,
Alternet,
Popular Resistance
Common Dreams
Information Clearing House
Citizens for a Legitimate Government
Truthout
Brasscheck TV
4. Tweeting Made Easy: we need to learn the power of the tweet and why. When the marines invade other countries, their first act is to take down communications and the media. The new FCC appointee could kill net neutrality within weeks. Each e-mail you send will cost. We have no time to lose.
Today, we face an unprecedented crisis of our national democracy. How we act in the next weeks, and how long before forces will be arrayed against us gives us a running start. We either let those in power dismantle the country or stand together in the thousand year war against humanity and the earth.
Social media and in particular Twitter helped initiate the velvet glove revolt in the Middle East. Twitter and people’s smart phones made the difference, because of their ability to go “viral.”
Twitter is currently the only “one to many” communications option available to us that can quickly scale up, especially when combined with resources like the J Street global Airport Immigration’s protests.
For the older generation reading this, it will be absolutely critical that we become familiar with how to use Twitter, whose computer learning curve is the easiest to master.
If you haven’t learned how to use Twitter, go here for the basics.
This Week in the
News:
Introductions
Raping Mother Earth - Energy & Environment
Human Rights
• Trump Reinstates Global Gag Rule, Barring Funds for
Abortion Education & Services | Democracy Now!
• Will Trump's Claims of Election Fraud Pave the Way for an
Assault on Voting Rights? | Democracy Now!
Ideological Warfare - Far Right Agenda
The Message? Censorship - Fear & Loathing - The Media
• Reports on climate change have disappeared from the State
Department website - The Washington Post
Global Meltdown - International Perspectives
• Inside Trump’s shadow national security council - The
Washington Post
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agree: Let’s revive the
nuclear arms race - The Washington Post
