SitRep #5: Life and Death Under Neo-Confederate Barbarism
08 April 2019
(Note: The socioeconomic and environmental Apocalypse is undeniably upon us. But the lies, deceptions and betrayals promulgated by the One Percenters and their minions no longer hide how -- in accordance with their shock-doctrine -- they are using the Apocalypse to impose the ultimate regime-change: the reordering of human society into Neoliberal utopia: Ayn Rand opulence for our masters, serfdom and slavery for the few selectively bred 99 Percenters they allow to survive. The following merely adds to the preponderance of evidence.)
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Please Read These Next 3 Reports (Even If You Read Nothing Else Herein)
My recommendations as the past week's most vital reports, chosen for how the events and trends define our overlords' intentions and therefore shape our world, the U.S. Empire and the probable doom both of our species and our planet.
America the Barbaric
The gleeful USian embrace of barbarism is no accident. It is instead an unprecedented national orgy of prideful self-fulfillment, its present horrors mind-boggling, its potential horrors far in excess of those inflicted on our species by Germany c. 1933-1945.
How the South Won the Civil War
To understand this is to understand how and why the U.S. Empire is not just "America the Barbaric" but also the de facto Fourth Reich.
The Death Penalty is Getting Crueler
See also: Supreme Court's Death Penalty Ruling Leaves Legal Experts Aghast plus earlier stories, US Supreme Court ruling guts ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” and Supreme Court Delays Buddhist’s Execution, but Not Muslim’s, Over Faith Adviser As the ChristoNazi ideology of the Robbers' Court becomes ever-more obvious, so does its ever-more-slippery slope toward theocratic fulfillment of the Bible's innumerable examples of religiously motivated rape and divinely mandated genocide and mass murder including that children be stoned to death for disobeying their parents.
Ecocide: the Relentless ChristoNazi/Capitalist Assault on Our Environment
Obviously our Capitalist overlords know Mother Nature always bats last. Just as obviously, that's why they're obstructing any effective action against Climate Change. They're depending instead on their wealth and mastery of technology to enable them to establish their Neoliberal (Neo-Confederate) dream-world even as the deteriorating environment kills off as many as 7.2 billion women, children and men -- 95 percent of the 99 Percent.
CO2 Levels Are Now at a 3 Million-Year High
The Privatization of Wildlife: How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone Bison
Paradise Lost: Reflections on the Camp Fire
Logging Is the Leading Driver of Carbon Emissions From US Forests
Free Market Solutions to Climate Change Aren't 'Realistic'
The Madness Driving Climate Catastrophe
Chernobyl's Disastrous Cover-Up Is a Warning for the Next Nuclear Age
Critics of the Green New Deal Are in the Pocket of Big Oil
Why Recycling Is a ‘Pseudo-Solution’ to Reducing Plastic Waste
RSN: Three Mile Island's Murderous Legacy Still Threatens Us All
Mozambique Floods Cover More Ground Than NYC, Chicago, D.C. & Boston
In Middle East and North Africa, Environmentalism Is Espionage
Imperial Warmongering for God, Profit and Sadistic Pleasure
In Vietnam, the Empire's methodology of global conquest was aptly summarized by the infantry officer who tried to mansplain the necessity of destroying Bên Tre to save it for Capitalism and Christianity. Now -- having extermimnated whole nations to grant them such salvation -- the Empire is destroying the entire planet to save it for Jesus and his Wall Street puppetmasters.
UNICEF: A Child Dies Violently in Honduras Every Day
The CIA: Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Trump Administration Revokes ICC Prosecutor's Visa Over War Crimes Probe'
Venezuela Won't Become 2nd Syria': Lavrov Sure S. America Won't Back Military Invasion v. Maduro
To Ramp Up Fear Of Russia In Africa, NYT Downplays Massive US Military Presence On Continent
Why There'll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller
Miscellaneous Atrocities and Outrages
Random examples of the sneering sadism, brazen moral imbecility and police-state omnipotence by which our overlords amass unfathomably pornographic profits as they methodically reduce us to corporate serfdom and penal slavery.
Why aren’t Boeing executives being prosecuted for the 737 Max 8 crashes?
Boeing CEO praised “streamlined” oversight of 737 plane that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia
The bizarre story of the L.A. dad who exposed the college admissions scandal
ICE Arrests More Than 280 in Texas in Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade
Chicago Suburban Cops Call for Kim Foxx's Resignation Over Jussie Smollett Case
Identity Rules: A Report from Reddening Chicago
WikiLeaks warns that Julian Assange faces imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy
The Border Patrol's Reckless Use of High Speed Chases Has Killed and Injured Hundreds Since 2015
US Senate fails to restore sweeping cuts to food assistance for Puerto Rico
New U.S. attorney on safe injection sites in Seattle: 'Don't go there'
Bad head: what the story says is the feds -- determined to exterminate junkies by any means other than overt (and therefore unfashionable) death-camp facilities -- will not allow safe, medically monitored self-injection sites in Seattle or anywhere else.
The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented A New Legal Term To Target Pipeline Protesters
GM Squeezed $118 Million From Its Workers, Then Shut Their Factory
Centrist Dems Are Trying to Block a Universal $15 Minimum Wage
The Democratic (sic) Party demonstrates its faithfulness to its Republican overlords.
Wendy’s Owner Gives Big to Trump While Refusing Farmworkers’ Demands
Kids in Cages: Donald Trump's Brilliant Re-Election Strategy. Will It Work?
Ever more unabashedly ChristoNazi, the Trump-Pence Regime has already assured its re-election merely by institutionalizing the bottomless hatred and bigotry that has always poisoned the hearts of the USian white-supremacist majority.
DOJ Report Finds Widespread Rape, Murder, and Torture in Alabama Prisons
University of Arizona Students to Face Criminal Charges for Protesting Campus CBP Event
Democrats Promised to Go After Trump's Taxes. Why Are They Dragging Their Feet?
Another definitive betrayal by the Democratic (sic) Party.
Collusion in Plain Sight
Uninformative head from Counterpunch; the report exposes how Mueller and the Democratic (sic) Party
methodically ignore the evidence of Trump's brazenly ongoing collusion with ChristoNazis, also with corporate criminals, banksters, mobsters.
A Neoliberal “Wall of Values”
Another uncommunicative head from Counterpunch. The nonsensically titled report reveals the strategy and tactics by which the Neoliberals are demonizing -- and thereby neutralizing -- the Left whether pseudo or real.
How Trump appointees helped the makers of BOB jogging strollers fight off a safety recall
Occasionally even the Josef-Goebbels-wannabees of the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine report unpleasant truths.What better way to boost their credibility? But never forget the propagandist's trick of sandwiching lies amidst undeniable truths.
Nancy Pelosi Believes in Nothing
As of 2015 -- the last year for which Open Secrets has made the data available -- Pelosi is the sixth wealthiest member of the House and the seventh wealthiest member of Congress. Thus like any other Capitalist, she will do whatever she deems necessary to preserve and enhance her own $101 million net worth.
Arizona Students' Free Speech Rights Challenged in Border Agent Visit Protest
Intelligence Report Appeared to Endorse View Leftwing Protesters Were 'Terrorists'
Sitting Pretty on a Sinking Ship: Neoliberal Feminism
How feminism is co-opted -- perverted, actually -- to serve our Capitalist masters.
That Kiss, and Other Daily Indignities
Why Don't Schools Teach Children Morality and Empathy?
Sometimes the Racist Malice Is Too Obvious to Hide
Whether in a nation founded to preserve slavery or a technology invented to facilitate maximum surveillance and genocide, the evil intent of its founders prevails until the nation and its technology are no more.
Standardized Testing is a Tool of White Supremacy
Former Louisiana Officer Wayne Welsh, Who Shared Racist Facebook Meme, is Now the Chief of Police
Report: IRS More Likely to Audit Those Living in Poor, Mostly Black Counties
NAACP Shows How Fossil Fuel Industry Manipulates Communities of Color
'Reasserting White Power': Behind the Psychosis That Gave Rise to Blackface
Media and Censorship
The growing realm of state secrets and the shrinking realm of what our masters allow us to know measures our descent from a charade of democratic process to the enthusiastic embrace of tyranny.
Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
YouTube has done too little, too late to fight misinformation
Media Blackout As Israel's Largest Banks Pay Over $1 Billion In Fines For US Tax Evasion Schemes
NewsGuild-CWA journalists ask tough questions on Equal Pay Day
Irritating Facts About Korea that Many in the West Would Rather Not Know
Economic Inequality Could Spell the End of American Democracy
A telling example of how allegedly "alternative" media -- in this instance Truthdig -- soft-pedals the present crisis, steadfastly denying the fact the pretense of U.S. "democracy" ended on 22 November 1963. Thus by pretending (the charade of) democracy continues, they avoid confronting the necessity of revolution -- that for us, we the people of the 99 Percent, it's either socialism or extinction.
An unprecedented leak from Saudi Arabia exposes torture of dissidents
Chicago Elects First Black Lesbian Mayor—But Not All Progressives See It As a Victory
The malevolent purposes of disinformation and co-optation -- the strategy and tactics at which the Democratic (sic) Party is the all-time master -- is always creation of the confusion and delusion that facilitates tyranny.
Healthcare
This is one of two lost causes the ultimate combined result of which will be nothing beyond another explosive increase in the fuck-it-why-bother-to-vote faction of the increasingly alienated citizenry. (The other lost cause is the quest for the restoration of net neutrality.) They are lost causes because neither universal healthcare nor net neutrality can ever be achieved in the United States by anything less than (hopefully nonviolent) revolution. Meanwhile...
Pelosi Accused of Deploying 'Most Dishonest Argument' Against Medicare for All
Behind Bars, Co-Pays Are a Barrier to Basic Health Care
Sparks of Anger, Murmurs of Rebellion
But absolutely nothing to indicate the emergence of effectively organized and disciplined resistance.
Union Locals Build Support for the Green New Deal’s “Just Transition”
Rep. Jared Huffman is (Officially) the Only Openly “Humanist” Member of Congress
Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize
(Standing Up) For Venezuela
Genuinely sophomoronic head rewritten to summarize the report's encouraging disclosures. But the question remains: will the U.S. succeed in its scheme to use Venezuela to provoke World War III?
Out Of Patience: NYC Nurses Take On Hospitals For Better Staffing
Haiti At The Crossroads
Another bad head. What the story says is Haitians are approaching revolution -- but no one can be sure what kind.
Wolf pack living west of Cascade Mountains for first time in decades
All Of This, We Have To Defend
Again another uncommunicative headline. What the story is about is how Mexicans are resisting Capitalism's misogynistic hatred of our Mother Earth and our natural environment.
Seattle's queer community finds refuge in nature
Tulsi Gabbard Is A Sheepdog, Greens Howie Hawkins Is 2020's Only Real Peace Candidate
Florida Sex Workers Demand Decriminalization After Massive Raids
Commonwealth v. Mohamed
An amazing story that, though true, could mislead us into thinking more than a tiny few USian ChristoNazis might be won over by reason.
75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; and All Cars Electric by 2032
It is with no small amount of ethnic pride I note the metaphorical chasm-spanning bridge suggested by two facts: firstly, how my Scots ancestors were amongst the last peoples in Europe to surrender their minds to the enemies of the Great Goddess; secondly, that it is the Scots who are amongst the first to begin officially re-embracing her environmental dictates.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Girls-Only School Dress Code as Unconstitutional
Belt and Road Initiative in Full Swing in Europe
Alas, making the U.S. Empire economically irrelevant -- precisely what China, Russia and the European Union are attempting in their own defense -- will neither save our environment nor protect us from a Capitalist cabal that lives and dies by the ChristoNazi slogan "Better Dead Than Red," the One Percenters' unequivocal pledge they will destroy the planet rather than surrender their unprecedented dominance.
Stuff to Think About
Essays I respectfully suggest you read and contemplate.
Freedom Rider: Remembering April 4th
If Only He Knew: First, Assume Women Aren’t People
Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy
Socialist Principles Have Always Been Part of Black American Tradition
LB/7 April 2019
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