I Cough; Therefore I Am (Yet Alive) in Burning-Planet Smoke

MAN-MADE CLIMATE-CHANGE RADICALLY INTENSIFIES FOREST FIRES. The vultures of environmental apocalypse come home to roost in the ironically named Evergreen State, where the USian version of bourgeois environmentalism – an atrocity-fostering ideology the murderous reality of which seems 100-percent paywall-censored save for exceptions granted to its advocates – has long fulfilled its goal of protecting the Capitalists and their continuing the rape of the environment. Now the ashes of our burning planet are falling like toxic snow on Tacoma and the Puget Sound region in general. The concentration of smoke that at 19:30 PDT on 6 September 2017 officially ranges from “unhealthy” to “very unhealthy” thus threatens Tacoma with what could be the worst air-pollution disaster in its “Tacoma Aroma” history. It is already hospitalizing some of my neighbors in the senior housing complex where I live. Yesterday the smoke reduced the sun to an ominous red ball. Today it obscured the sun completely. And – of course – both the Trump/Pence Environmental Protection Agency and Mainstream Media, in accordance with their anything-to-protect-Capitalism policies, are minimizing the danger.

EVEN WORSE THAN WE THINK: A FORMER OPTIMIST confirms the ultimate pessimism I expressed in “Death Squad Nation: How Trump/Pence Militarization of Cops Ends Forever Any Real Hope of “Liberty and Justice For All.”

TRUMP 'JUSTICE': FEDERAL COURT OKS BANNING BLACK, HISPANIC VOTERS: a notably white supremacist law, originally nullified because of its undeniably racist intent, is reinstated by two infamously fascist* judges. By eliminating African-American and Hispanic Democrats from the Texas voter rolls, the law – which may change the outcome of the 2018 election – exemplifies the sort of judicial malevolence we can expect from the Trump/Pence Regime as it eliminates the last remnants of USian democratic processes.________________

*From now on and whenever appropriate, Dispatches will refute the deception intended by the euphemism “conservative” and comparable terms (“moderate,” “libertarian,” “neo-liberal” etc.). I'll call a fascist a fascist and a Nazi a Nazi – the Nazis distinguished by their avowed bigotry. It is the least I can do to foster acknowledgment of the extent to which “our democracy” is a Big Lie and the U.S. is already a JesuNazi dictatorship.

HOW CAPITALIST ECO-HATRED WORSENS THE APOCALYPSE: an analysis of Hurricane Harvey that defies the Big Lies...

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Death Squad Nation: How Trump/Pence Militarization of Cops Ends Forever Any Real Hope of “Liberty and Justice For All”

(The research for the following investigative report required seven consecutive workdays, each day of at least 14 hours duration, instead of the three or four 10-hour workdays I originally estimated. The text is 1,013 words longer than the 2,500 words I initially envisioned. My apology for the resultant delay, unavoidable in the quest for accuracy and thoroughness. Normal Dispatches will resume Wednesday 13 September 2017.)

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MANY OF YOU will refuse to believe what I am about to reveal – that the Trump-Pence Regime's decree resuming the federal government's total militarization of local police departments marks the end – forever – of the United States as any sort of “sweet land of liberty” we might foolishly have hoped or imagined it would eventually become.

But that is why I have linked three additional reports on the executive order's magnitude and consequences. Their varied perspectives – here, here and here – provide details I think are vital if we are to begin building an accurate understanding of what the Trump-Pence Regime has done to us and our nation.

Few doubt the decree itself is ominous. But the context provided by its history proves it to be far worse that it seems. So viewed, it is the final culmination of a remarkably cunning stealth-campaign of deliberate subjugation – slow as the proverbial boiling of a frog yet relentless as any lynching.

As we shall see, the make-USia*-fascist campaign, of which the Trump/Pence Regime is the climax, began during the 1930s – its roots in Rome, Berlin and most of all Wall Street. But it did not acquire its irresistible terminal momentum until the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 22 November 1963.

Nevertheless what follows is not, I assure you, more conspiranoid whodunit dreck. The identity of individual perpetrators – or more aptly “perpetraitors” – has become irrelevant with the passage of time. My focus is instead on reassessment of events in light of their outcomes – in other words, the search for patterns of cause-and-effect that informs all legitimate historical analysis...

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