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TIDBITS-DEC. 4-READER COMMENTS: NO WAR ON VENEZUELA; HEGSETH MURDER
IN THE CARIBBEAN; MASS DEPORTATION IS NOT DEPORTATION; EVERYONE IS
TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABILITY; PEACE IN UKRAINE & PEACE IN EUROPE; NEW
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_ Reader Comments: No War on Venezuela; Hegseth Murder in the
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About Affordability; Peace in Ukraine & Europe; Palestinians Offer a
Much Clearer Path; New Unreleased song by John Lennon _

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* NO WAR ON VENEZUELA, MONEY FOR PEOPLE'S NEEDS, NOT THE WAR MACHINE
 --  POSTER
* DO AS THEY ARE TOLD  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: OPINION: EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABILITY — AND
MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE  (JESSICA BENJAMIN)
* THE MASS DEPORTATION IS NOT DEPORTATION AT ALL  --  MEME
* SNOW DAY  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: AMBER CZECH WAS MURDERED AT WORK. TRADESWOMEN SAY IT COULD
HAVE HAPPENED TO ANY OF THEM.  (JOHN CAMPO)
* DRUG BOAT  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: PALESTINIANS OFFER A MUCH CLEARER PATH TO PEACE  (BILL
ROGERS)
* RE: PEACE IN UKRAINE – PEACE IN EUROPE  (JOHN GILBERT)
* RE: TO WIN RADICAL SUCCESS, MAMDANI UNDERSTANDS, IS TO KNOW WHEN
AND WHERE TO COMPROMISE  (SONIA COBBINS)
* CON JOB PRESIDENT  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY
JONES.RESOURCES:
* WATCHING RAINBOWS  --  UNRELEASED SONG BY JOHN LENNON  (MR.
FISH).ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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DO AS THEY ARE TOLD  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD 

Dr. James MacLeodDecember 4, 2025MacLeodCartoons
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RE: OPINION: EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABILITY — AND MAKING
THE SAME MISTAKE 

Discussion of outlawing stock buybacks that were once illegal would be
a crucial way to address the wage issue.

Given the corruption of our lawmakers this has a very long shot of
being realized but like Medicare for All it is a crucial demand to
raise and tie to the problem of depressed wages.

Jessica Benjamin

 

THE MASS DEPORTATION IS NOT DEPORTATION AT ALL  --  MEME 

 

 

SNOW DAY  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ 

 

Students attending school in the winter, mostly in the Midwest or the
East Coast, get a Snow Day if a heavy snowstorm blankets their town
then school will be canceled and kids can play all day. In Los
Angeles, students have been not going to school out of fear of being
terrorized and kidnapped by our own government. You can keep ICE
Day. 

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Lalo AlcarazDecember 3, 2025CALÓ NEWS
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RE: AMBER CZECH WAS MURDERED AT WORK. TRADESWOMEN SAY IT COULD HAVE
HAPPENED TO ANY OF THEM.

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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This is horrible;  I was a shop steward for 35 years in the
carpenters union local 157 NYC.

We take a harassment class and get certified among a dozen other
certifications.  

None of this only happens on non union jobs.

No woman is harassed on any of my jobs let alone killed?

Harassment of women is on the rise and maybe it is because a rapist is
in the White House?  

You can’t just look the other way, if you do you are an enabler.

There are so many things the public see and turns a blind eye
to!!!Humans are tribal and we have good tribes and bad it is your
choice.  

You can’t stand and listen to the president call a woman reporter
“Piggie’ and not call him out on the spot.

Stupid and arrogant not very good qualities in the most powerful job
in the world.

My union is the only place where women get paid the same pay as the
men.

Speak up not after the fact.  

Manipulation is rampant.

John Campo

 

DRUG BOAT  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON 

_Given that Trump is now pardoning drug traffickers—and we’ve
watched him hand out clemency and favors to people who bought into his
latest crypto grift—it’s becoming pretty clear that these
so-called traffickers have one guaranteed way to avoid being targeted:
buy what Trump is selling._

Nick AndersonDecember 1, 2025Pen Strokes
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RE: PALESTINIANS OFFER A MUCH CLEARER PATH TO PEACE 

"International law also requires adhering to the International Court
of Justice advisory opinion in July 2024, which ruled that the entire
occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal and must end. That
would mean insisting that Israel withdraw from sovereign Palestinian
territory, as the international force moves in for the transition to
Palestinian governance. An international force, from the Palestinian
perspective, is welcome under those terms – a whole chapter in the
Palestinian Armistice plan is devoted to the issue."

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RE: PEACE IN UKRAINE – PEACE IN EUROPE 

The Party of the European Left has condemned Russia’s military
aggression against Ukraine as a violation of international law and
denial of Ukraine’s sovereignty. However the EL has not aligned
itself with NATO whose objective has been to end the war through
military means. The ongoing war in Ukraine has claimed hundreds of
thousands of lives, destroyed hundreds of towns and villages, and
forced millions of people to flee. The danger of escalation into a
general war between Russia and NATO persists and continues to grow.
The EL stresses once more that all political and diplomatic
initiatives aimed at achieving a ceasefire, bringing the war to a
lasting and durable end, and preventing any further escalation must be
taken, strengthened, and implemented immediately. Our solidarity can
only be with the victims—the soldiers, civilians, refugees, and
conscientious objectors on both sides—and not with the imperialist
interests that fuel the conflict.

John GilbertPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TO WIN RADICAL SUCCESS, MAMDANI UNDERSTANDS, IS TO KNOW WHEN AND
WHERE TO COMPROMISE 

I would call it building a coalition around central shared goals.  In
the past it has too often been a move to the so-called center, which
has been to capitulate to corporate Dems and to soft-pedal imperialist
atrocities, abandoning the interest of working people in the process.
 If the goals remain true to achieving affordability and dignity for
ordinary working people of all races and religions, then let's give it
a try. There are lots of good people out there.  We may have
differences about exactly how to achieve our goals, but so many have
ideas and experience that can help build a brand new plan, an
effective plan that has never existed before.

Sonia CobbinsPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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CON JOB PRESIDENT  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES 

 

Are you going to believe your lying wallet or your lying president?

_When Donald Trump became president in 2016, he was fortunate that he
was inheriting President Barack Obama's economy. It was such a strong
economy he inherited that it took him almost 4 years to fuck it up.
Although throughout those four years, Trump took credit for the
economy that the Black man created for him. What was really messed up
is that in 2024, voters forgot who created that economy, and they
restored Donald Trump back into the presidency, believing he had
something to do with it. Not only did voters forget that Donald Trump
had nothing to do with creating a great economy, but they also forgot
that he ruined President Obama's great economy and left office in 2020
with the biggest. loss of jobs since Hoover._

_In 2020, Trump ran against Biden's economy, which most people felt
was not strong enough. Since Trump has returned to office, the economy
has gotten worse. While he claims Biden's inflation at the time he
came into office was bad, that has gotten worse, too since he's been
in charge. Voters are starting to figure out that Trump has no idea
how to build an economy. What might be freaking Trump out is that he
might be realizing it, too._

_Donald Trump knows how to rage-tweet while sitting on the toilet at 3
AM. Managing the largest economy in the world, not so much._

_A recent Fox News poll found that 76% of voters view the economy
negatively. Another poll by the Economist and YouGov finds that 58%
disapprove of the job Trump is doing. Trump's polls on the economy are
worse than Biden's were._

_Even Trump must realize that since he is lifting all tariffs on
commodities like coffee, meat, and other foods. I guess we are
supposed to forget his belief that tariffs don't raise prices, which
is hard to argue while tariffs are raising prices. TACO indeed._

_But Trump is becoming frustrated with the public for not appreciating
the job he sucks at. During a cabinet meeting yesterday, Trump
declared that affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody.”
I'm sure it means something to all those congressional Republicans
retiring before the midterms._

_Trump called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative” and
“con job” created by Democrats to dupe the public._

_He said, “They just say the word. It doesn’t mean anything to
anybody. They just say it — affordability. I inherited the worst
inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford
anything.”_

_Of course, Trump, along with voters, forgets that President Biden
inherited Trump's economy in 2020. The difference between Trump and
Biden inheriting bad economies is that Biden fixed the one he got._

_Republicans left bad economies for presidents Clinton, Obama, and
Biden. And those presidents fixed them. Republicans are great at
trashing economies, while Democrats are great at repairing them._

_Donald Trump was calling himself the “affordability president,”
but he's really only affordable for the people who bribe him, like
crypto moguls and Saudi royalty. Democrats are going to be running a
lot of commercials with Trump's affordability/con job comment._

_I just hope the economy isn't trashed beyond repair by the time a
Democrat is elected to repair the damage Trump has done to it._

Clay JonesDecember 3, 2025Claytoonz
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WATCHING RAINBOWS  --  UNRELEASED SONG BY JOHN LENNON 

Mr. FishMR. FISH’S CATCH OF THE DAYDecember 4, 2025The Independent
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Your MR. FISH’S CATCH OF THE DAY for Tuesday, December 4, 2025, is
an unreleased Beatles song that I’ve been listening to for 40 years.
It’s called _Watching Rainbows_ and was recorded in 1969 during the
_Let it Be _sessions as an improvised Lennon throwaway. Remarkably, it
was not included in Peter Jackson’s documentary miniseries, _Get
Back, _nor was it included on any of the _Anthology_ releases. Here
are the lyrics, most likely invented by Lennon on the spot:

STANDING IN THE GARDEN WAITING FOR THE SUN TO SHINEWITH MY UMBRELLA
WITH ITS HEAD I WISH IT WAS MINEEVERYBODY KNOWS… INSTEAD OF WATCHING
RAINBOWS I’M GONNA MAKE ME SOMEI SAID I’M WATCHING RAINBOWS I’M
GONNA MAKE ME SOMESTANDING IN THE GARDEN WAITING FOR THE ENGLISH SUN
TO COME AND MAKE ME BROWN SO I CAN BE SOMEONELOOKING AT THE BENCH OF
NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORSCRYING, I SAID C’MON, I SAID, SAVE
USEVERYBODY’S GOT TO HAVE SOMETHING HARD TO HOLDWELL, INSTEAD OF
WATCHING RAINBOWS UNDER THE SUNYOU GOTTA GET OUT SON AND MAKE YOU
ONEYOU GOTTA GET OUT SON AND MAKE YOUR OWNBECAUSE YOU’RE AIN’T
GONNA MAKE IT IF YOU DON’TSHOOT MESHOOT MEWHATEVER YOU DO YOU GOTTA
KILL SOMEBODY TO GET WHAT YOU WANNA GETYOU GOTTA SHOOT MEYOU GOTTA
SHOOT MEPLEASE SHOOT ME

Even before the _Now and Then_ single was released in 2023 and
announced as the “last Beatles song,” I thought _Rainbows_ should
be stitched together with McCartney’s _Pillow for Your Head_ and
Harrison’s _Mother Divine_, both incomplete compositions from the
same time period, and released as a B-side medley to a re-release of
the medley that closed out _Abby Road_. The connecting tissue for
_Divine Rainbow Pillow _could be composed by the two surviving members
of the band, of course. In other words, now that we’ve all heard
_Now and Then_ and had our hearts broken by its mediocre production
and flabby, uninspired demeanor, I can’t be alone in wishing there
was a better swan song for the group! (Additionally, I have no fewer
than 10 solo Lennon tracks that he recorded in the late 70s that all
would’ve been better to riff off of for a “last” Beatles
song—_anything _other than _Now and Then_, but I’ll save those for
a later post - ha!)

Here are the tracks. Dig it.

WATCHING RAINBOWS
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