https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vgPe_xBbAo&ab_channel=RobertReich
Saturday, October 3, 2020
The "Debate" Between Trump and Biden Was a Joke | Debate Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3YTUWkg3c&ab_channel=TheHumanistReport
Matt Taibbi: Drinking, Debating, and Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhLFtpmW4ro&ab_channel=TheZeroHourwithRJEskow
How to fix the debates
Advice from my barber, Priya Parker
Anand Giridharadas
Oct 2
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How to fix the debates
Advice from my barber, Priya Parker
Anand Giridharadas
Oct 2
Not believing in a disease turns out not to inoculate you against it. So here we are. Happy Friday!
I have nothing of my own for you today. But I wanted to share, without her knowing I am going to, an excellent newsletter post from Priya Parker, who, in addition to being my quarantine barber, is my wife. I tax-deduct her fees.
For those of you who don’t know her, Priya is a master of facilitation and conflict resolution and the author of a book called “The Art of Gathering,” and so when Tuesday night’s debate happened, SHE HAD THOUGHTS. Now, given the coronapatient-in-chief, who knows if there will be more debates? But if there are, this year or in the future, they will need to be remade. Priya has a plan for that.
When I read through her newsletter this morning, I thought you might enjoy it. So below is an excerpt, and subscribe to her newsletter for more gathering wisdom.
How to moderate a sh$!tshow.
By Priya Parker
On Tuesday night, the country watched on in horror as the President of the United States lied, interrupted, abused, and disrupted his way through the first of three planned Presidential Debates. As the Twittersphere blew up, a comment by @WilliamCharnock about President Trump caught my eye: “He executed the rehearsed strategy from the first minute. Upend and discredit the process. Refusing to play by the rules allows him to define the new rules he intends to play by.”
Chris Wallace, as the sole moderator of the first presidential debate, in not standing up to Donald Trump, in not pausing the proceedings entirely, in chuckling along with the President, in saying things like “Mr. President, you’re going to be very happy because we’re now going to talk about law and order” and “but why should I be different than the two of you?”, abdicated his role as the enforcer-in-chief. Wallace failed both the people and the process.
A moderator is not first-and-foremost a peace-maker, a moderator is a justice-enforcer. And when a participant with power in a gathering wants to hijack the gathering, the “moderator as peacemaker” mindset benefits the powerful. And that is because a desire for “peace” (read: keeping things steady) typically benefits the status quo, and the status quo usually benefits the powerful. Trump benefited from Wallace’s attempts to make peace (read: be civil and “appropriate”). By not pausing and interrupting the situation altogether, Wallace inadvertently became an accomplice to allowing for a different set of rules.
So first, how could Chris Wallace have used his power as a moderator differently?
I mean, who among us has never lost control of a room? Not me, certainly. Which is why it’s even more important for us to practice specific ways of navigating chaos and abuse within a gathering. (And in this case, the stakes couldn’t be higher.)
Wallace’s big mistake was thinking that he needed to interrupt the men when, in fact, he needed to interrupt the gathering. Here are some ways to do that:
To read those six ways and the rest of the post, click here.
Trump, Melania test positive for coronavirus
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from a virus that has now killed more than 200,000 people nationwide. Trump announced late Thursday that he and first lady Melania Trump were beginning a “quarantine process” after Hicks came down with the virus, though it wasn’t clear what that entailed. It can take days for an infection to be detectable by a test.
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.washingtontimes.com
Cuba Solidarity Campaign launches petition to award Cuba's doctors the Nobel Peace Prize
BEN CHACKO
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-solidarity-campaign-launches-petition-award-cubas-doctors-nobel-peace-prize
A PETITION calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Cuban medical workers combating coronavirus around the world has been launched by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC).
Initiated at an online meeting last night, the petition had attracted nearly 3,000 signatures as the Morning Star went to press.
“Thousands of Cuban doctors, nurses and technicians have responded to overseas requests for help by volunteering as part of the island’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade,” it declares.
“From Jamaica to Italy and Angola to Indonesia, more than 3,700 Cuban medics have supported health workers in 39 countries in their fight against Covid-19.”
The meeting heard Unite general secretary Len McCluskey discuss trade unionism and international solidarity with Miami Five hero Rene Gonzalez.
Mr McCluskey said he was proud of the work Unite had done to “break the silence” around the unjust imprisonment of the Five, who were jailed in the US for their work monitoring anti-Cuba terrorist groups in Florida.
He slammed the impact of the illegal US blockade on Cuba and the audacity of the US claiming Cuba was part of an “axis of evil,” saying: “The only axis of evil runs between the White House and Capitol Hill!”
Mr Gonzalez recalled the importance of receiving letters of solidarity from around the world while in prison and savaged the economic war by “the biggest power of the world against our tiny country.”
Cuban ambassador to Britain Barbara Montavo Alvarez thanked CSC for “having raised the blockade at the highest levels of government through your work with the trade unions” and Cuban trade union federation CTC general secretary Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento spoke of the links it had forged between British and Cuban unions.
The petition can be signed at https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/nobel-peace-prize/
Friday, October 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders Reacts to Trump Biden Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO1o66Ti2bA&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=JimmyKimmelLive
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