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HERE WE ARE AGAIN: today's links1 to reports that, beyond the sturm und drang
of Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine (MMPM) headlines, seem to me the
most usefully informative Internet stories about the ever-more-deadly
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Most
of these selections are scoops and/or analyses by my alternative-press
colleagues; they are thus certain to be censored by MMPM outlets.
The
remainder are MMPM sidebars chosen for their vital details, many of
which the MMPM advertisers don't want published and against which they have designed virtually omnipotent technologies of oppression; suppression of these types of stories -- whether by censorship or by space and time limitations -- is probable.
Headlines without my comments are those I assume to be self-explanatory.
Scroll
down -- it'll take only minutes at most -- read whatever is relevant
to you and yours, share it if appropriate and skip the rest:
Informative reports we might not find elsewhere:
General news:
Trump regime’s threat to suspend Constitution draws flakA
vital story you probably won't read anywhere else save in its original
source simply because so few outlets -- even in the alternative press --
will dare publish such a potentially pivotal warning.
US Is Losing World Superpower Status Over Failures On COVID-19 As
indeed it should; it may also be on the brink of dividing itself into
at least three separate republics: West Coast; Northeast Coast; the vast
interior lands and deep south of a new, ever-dangerous Confederacy, its
murderous white racism and ChristoNazi fanaticism grown to omnipotence
by silicon-valley technology.
Puerto Rico confronts COVID-19 alongside natural disasters and predatory debtEcogenocide in brazenly murderous action.
Key Medical Supplies Were Shipped From US Manufacturers to Foreign Buyers, Records ShowAs always under Neoliberalism, it's profits over people -- especially when profiteering is murder.
Trump's Fuel Efficiency Reduction Is the Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
An ultimate example of how the PPs (predatory plutocrats) and their political puppets hide their ecogenocidal Neoliberal atrocities behind the fog of war -- in this case pandemic pandemonium.
An ultimate example of how the PPs (predatory plutocrats) and their political puppets hide their ecogenocidal Neoliberal atrocities behind the fog of war -- in this case pandemic pandemonium.
U.S. Communists demand Trump use Defense Production Act, say coronavirus exposes capitalism’s failings
Utterly predictable failings at that -- and all clearly demonstrated by the Regime's vindictive encouragement of crisis-profiteering and all the other such atrocities noted above.
Utterly predictable failings at that -- and all clearly demonstrated by the Regime's vindictive encouragement of crisis-profiteering and all the other such atrocities noted above.
Reliable anthologies of pandemic reports (scroll for whatever is relevant):
Virus Outbreak
Updated daily by the Associated Press.
Updated daily by the Associated Press.
Black Agenda Report
Updated daily. In my opinion, the best, most informative, most relevant political website on the U.S. Internet.
Updated daily. In my opinion, the best, most informative, most relevant political website on the U.S. Internet.
RT - Breaking news, shows, podcasts
Democratic (sic) Party Big Lies and Republican censorship not withstanding, this site provides what is often the most truthful reporting available to us in the United States.
Democratic (sic) Party Big Lies and Republican censorship not withstanding, this site provides what is often the most truthful reporting available to us in the United States.
TASS Russian News Agency
Just as Propagandamaster Bezos' WaPo gives us the Predatory Plutocrats' perspective, so does this site -- formerly Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телегра́фное аге́нтство Сове́тского Сою́за, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) -- give us, in English, the often-radically different Russian government's perspective. (It's history, dating from 1904, makes interesting reading for mediaphyles.)
Just as Propagandamaster Bezos' WaPo gives us the Predatory Plutocrats' perspective, so does this site -- formerly Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телегра́фное аге́нтство Сове́тского Сою́за, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) -- give us, in English, the often-radically different Russian government's perspective. (It's history, dating from 1904, makes interesting reading for mediaphyles.)
Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post
Probably not "fake news" and updated often -- but listed last because Propagandamaster Bezos's corporate crown jewel is nevertheless best known for its censorship2 and warmongering lies.
Probably not "fake news" and updated often -- but listed last because Propagandamaster Bezos's corporate crown jewel is nevertheless best known for its censorship2 and warmongering lies.
On the pandemic's most obviously dire consequences:
By The Time We Notice We're Hungry, It May Be Too LateWith
the lockdowns and border-closures, who will be available to harvest the
nation's fields? (Wanna bet the Regime first enslaves all prisoners,
then via an emergency draft enslaves all able-bodied unemployed persons
to do the back-breaking work hitherto done by now-prohibited migrant
workers?) (What makes this such a good bet is just such massive
enslavement was the crisis-solution mandated by Trumpian hero Adolf
Hitler.)
Boeing to offer staff voluntary layoffs, early retirement
This as the flying-coffin manufacturer's predatory-plutocrat executives sneeringly pocket the $10 billion tax break given them by Washington state's Neoliberal (DemoPublican) politicians.
This as the flying-coffin manufacturer's predatory-plutocrat executives sneeringly pocket the $10 billion tax break given them by Washington state's Neoliberal (DemoPublican) politicians.
Indications of the pandemic's true magnitude:
Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler Sold $18 Million More in Stocks Before the Coronavirus Crash Than Previously Reported
More evidence this deadly, global-economy-destroying pandemic is an intentional, pre-planned assault on the world's population. If Loffler then reinvested all or most of his obscene wealth in gold and other precious metals, the evidence could be conclusive.
More evidence this deadly, global-economy-destroying pandemic is an intentional, pre-planned assault on the world's population. If Loffler then reinvested all or most of his obscene wealth in gold and other precious metals, the evidence could be conclusive.
Washington state stay-at-home order extended through May 4 This
as state unemployment claims skyrocket 3,513 percent -- NOT a typo.
Again more evidence, this time of the ever-more-obviously apocalyptic
magnitude of the crisis. (Also posted under "Specifically for Washington
state readers," below.)
Navy dismisses aircraft carrier captain who spoke out about coronavirus response
From WaPo; probably true.
Vindictive virus-vectors (includes countermeasures):From WaPo; probably true.
Even in Stay-at-Home Order, Florida’s GOP Gov. Says Churches Can Still MeetAbrahamic religion as a death cult (II)
Israel Confiscates Tents Designated For Clinic In The West Bank
Bad head: should read, "Israel Destroys West-Bank Clinic, Robs Virus-Stricken Muslims of Access to Care." Nevertheless, Abrahamic religion as a death cult (III). In other words, how Zionism mimics Nazism. (Or as I first dared verbalize during my teens: history makes it obvious anytime two or more self-proclaimed "master races" try to rule the same nation, genocidal war is inevitable.)
Bad head: should read, "Israel Destroys West-Bank Clinic, Robs Virus-Stricken Muslims of Access to Care." Nevertheless, Abrahamic religion as a death cult (III). In other words, how Zionism mimics Nazism. (Or as I first dared verbalize during my teens: history makes it obvious anytime two or more self-proclaimed "master races" try to rule the same nation, genocidal war is inevitable.)
India Confronts Its First Coronavirus 'Super-Spreader' - a Muslim Missionary Group With More Than 400 Members Infected
Abrahamic religion as a death cult (IV).
Censorship and disinformation (includes countermeasures):Abrahamic religion as a death cult (IV).
Twitter forces Laura Ingraham to delete a wholly truthful post about hydroxychloroquineProven
true, its fascist sources not withstanding. Most importantly, a vital
example of how Twitter serves the PPs -- plutocratic predators -- much
as as Josef Goebbels' infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment
and Propaganda served Hitler and paralyzed collective and individual
German consciousness.
FOCUS: For Top Democrats, Joe Biden Is No Al Franken
Bad head: should read "Democratic (sic) Policy Laid Bare: Protect Fascists No Matter What, Ruin Progressives By Any Means Possible." (Pro'bly way too long, though at least it tells the story.)
Bad head: should read "Democratic (sic) Policy Laid Bare: Protect Fascists No Matter What, Ruin Progressives By Any Means Possible." (Pro'bly way too long, though at least it tells the story.)
How Seattle Times' Aviation Reporter, Dominic Gates, Contributed to the 737 Max Catastrophe
Exactly like Goebbels and his infamous ministry, its for-profit MMPM twin poisons us with a constant diet of lies, disinformation and suppressed stories. Thus we -- the Working Families whose labor and taxes maintain this nation that ever-more-murderously oppresses us -- must always ask what vital truths the MMPM is hiding in its ultimately murderous zeal to protect its advertisers and investors and their fanatical determination to preserve Neoliberal (fascist/ChristoNazi) governance no matter the cost in human death and suffering.
Exactly like Goebbels and his infamous ministry, its for-profit MMPM twin poisons us with a constant diet of lies, disinformation and suppressed stories. Thus we -- the Working Families whose labor and taxes maintain this nation that ever-more-murderously oppresses us -- must always ask what vital truths the MMPM is hiding in its ultimately murderous zeal to protect its advertisers and investors and their fanatical determination to preserve Neoliberal (fascist/ChristoNazi) governance no matter the cost in human death and suffering.
America’s local newspapers confront an apocalypse
How publishers and broadcasters are (further) destroying local media by inflicting massive layoffs. But what CJR dares not remind us is how local newspapers are already woefully understaffed as a result of the savage profiteering that replaced at least five of every seven newspaper workers with computers, killed the news-staff unions by mobilizing females against males and burdened all reporters with a staggering increase in rote-memory, computer-mandated clerical tedium. (Note my own indescribably frustrating daily struggle with computer-necessitated drudgery, complicated rote-memory chores that can take as much as twice the four or five hours of research and writing necessary to produce this daily report.) Thus most local-paper editorial employees are already grotesquely overworked and under-paid. Worse, they are denied the freedom -- whether by the added hours of computer-mandated tedium or their bosses' zero-tolerance restrictions on what's allowed into print -- to properly cover this increasingly apocalyptic pandemic. Combine that with the near-total conquest of the United States by the Ayn Rand version of Nazism -- her horribly written but ever-popular Atlas Shrugged (always an indicative Moron Nation best-seller) is in fact nothing more than the fictionalization (and popularization) of the morally imbecilic principles advocated by Hitler in his even more horribly written Mein Kampf -- and the likelihood of finding even the most minimal of humanitarian instincts amongst today's MMPM propagandists is only slightly better than that of the proverbial snowball in hell.
How publishers and broadcasters are (further) destroying local media by inflicting massive layoffs. But what CJR dares not remind us is how local newspapers are already woefully understaffed as a result of the savage profiteering that replaced at least five of every seven newspaper workers with computers, killed the news-staff unions by mobilizing females against males and burdened all reporters with a staggering increase in rote-memory, computer-mandated clerical tedium. (Note my own indescribably frustrating daily struggle with computer-necessitated drudgery, complicated rote-memory chores that can take as much as twice the four or five hours of research and writing necessary to produce this daily report.) Thus most local-paper editorial employees are already grotesquely overworked and under-paid. Worse, they are denied the freedom -- whether by the added hours of computer-mandated tedium or their bosses' zero-tolerance restrictions on what's allowed into print -- to properly cover this increasingly apocalyptic pandemic. Combine that with the near-total conquest of the United States by the Ayn Rand version of Nazism -- her horribly written but ever-popular Atlas Shrugged (always an indicative Moron Nation best-seller) is in fact nothing more than the fictionalization (and popularization) of the morally imbecilic principles advocated by Hitler in his even more horribly written Mein Kampf -- and the likelihood of finding even the most minimal of humanitarian instincts amongst today's MMPM propagandists is only slightly better than that of the proverbial snowball in hell.
The Coronavirus Will Hurt The News Industry More Than The 2008 Financial Collapse Did
More on how Neoliberal greed continues the Predatory Plutocrats' efforts to cripple Working Families with ever-more-inescapable Ayn Randified (thus Nazified) bigotry and ignorance.
More on how Neoliberal greed continues the Predatory Plutocrats' efforts to cripple Working Families with ever-more-inescapable Ayn Randified (thus Nazified) bigotry and ignorance.
Forcible disarmament (includes countermeasures):
Trump Designates Firearm Industry as "Essential" Business
Bad head: should read, "How, Why Trump Decreed Guns and Ammo Vital."
Specifically for Washington state readers:Bad head: should read, "How, Why Trump Decreed Guns and Ammo Vital."
Pierce Transit Radically Slashes Service Effective April 6The
worst major-seaport transit system in the nation shrinks its service to
Sunday-schedule near-nothingness. (But at least it's free.)
Washington state stay-at-home order extended through May 4
Though it's not in the report, an absolutely reliable insider source tells me the state's National Guard is being activated primarily to make deliveries of vital supplies to elderly and disabled people -- especially those who are homebound by co-morbidities, whether by doctor's orders (as I am) or by health-preserving choice. Indeed -- though I most assuredly continue to oppose Gov. Jay Inslee's retention of too many Neoliberal tyrannies (not the least the nation's most viciously regressive tax structure) -- he is also becoming a national role-model for his laudable responses to the crisis. See also my explanatory comment under "Indications," above.
Though it's not in the report, an absolutely reliable insider source tells me the state's National Guard is being activated primarily to make deliveries of vital supplies to elderly and disabled people -- especially those who are homebound by co-morbidities, whether by doctor's orders (as I am) or by health-preserving choice. Indeed -- though I most assuredly continue to oppose Gov. Jay Inslee's retention of too many Neoliberal tyrannies (not the least the nation's most viciously regressive tax structure) -- he is also becoming a national role-model for his laudable responses to the crisis. See also my explanatory comment under "Indications," above.
Tacoma Mayor on Governor's April 2 Press Briefing
Despite Neoliberal rule, a statement of empathy and sympathy we probably won't find in the MMPM's daily effluent,
Despite Neoliberal rule, a statement of empathy and sympathy we probably won't find in the MMPM's daily effluent,
Also relevant:
Constitutional Problems Trouble Calls for Rent Cancellations and Mortgage Payment MoratoriumsBad head: should read "Plutocratic Squabbles Obstruct Rent and Mortgage Relief."
The working class, socialism and the fight against the pandemic
David North's (overthrow-Capitalism) variant on "What Is to Be Done."
David North's (overthrow-Capitalism) variant on "What Is to Be Done."
The CARES Act Provides Economic Stimulus and Health Care ChangesBad
head: analysis by the Medicare Rights people, its main point the
legislation's inclusion of a few long-sought Medicare improvements.
How to Prepare for the Trump Recession
Robert Reich's (preserve-Capitalism) variant on "What Is to Be Done."
Robert Reich's (preserve-Capitalism) variant on "What Is to Be Done."
My Take On Covid-19 “Conspiracy Theories”Views of an anti-Trumpian conservative whom I've never known to author a false report.
Avenger Planet: Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature's Response to Human Transgression?
Excellent question -- though as a (solitary-practice) Gaian Pagan, I would cite the scientific hypothesis that bears the Earth Goddess' name and answer "almost certainly yes." (One of the innumerable reasons the ChristoNazis so despise us is the majority of our beliefs are based on science -- the ultimate terminator of all patriarchal religion.)
Excellent question -- though as a (solitary-practice) Gaian Pagan, I would cite the scientific hypothesis that bears the Earth Goddess' name and answer "almost certainly yes." (One of the innumerable reasons the ChristoNazis so despise us is the majority of our beliefs are based on science -- the ultimate terminator of all patriarchal religion.)
National Geographic Escape: Extraordinary People, Places and Discoveries in a Time of TurmoilA no-doubt-welcome break from the tsunami of virus news.
Important stuff to bear in mind:(Archived
material that helps us understand what the PPs -- plutocratic predators
-- are doing to us now and what they might do to us in the future.)
Goldman Sachs warns that curing patients may not be 'sustainable'
Outright acknowledgment from the deadliest Neoliberal predators that curing disease with a single treatment is bad for profits. A report from 2018 that explains what's being done to us today, hence given knife-edged relevance by the pandemic
Outright acknowledgment from the deadliest Neoliberal predators that curing disease with a single treatment is bad for profits. A report from 2018 that explains what's being done to us today, hence given knife-edged relevance by the pandemic
Average U.S. Citizens Have “Little Or No” Influence On Government Policy
Another "old" report given new relevance by what's being done to us today.
Another "old" report given new relevance by what's being done to us today.
The Truth About the United States' "Continuity of Government" Plans & The Coronavirus Perfect StormScroll
down to the 12th graf to learn how at least eight million U.S. citizens
are on the PPs' enemies lists and will be disappeared.
Military, Trump administration ready plans for domestic crackdown as virus spreads across US
From the report: "'a senior military planner working on coronavirus but not authorized to speak on sensitive planning matters [...] says that deployment of federal troops in support roles is being prepared,' including to conduct traffic stops, home searchesand seizures and arrests." Scroll to Footnote3 to learn what atrocities could thus be inflicted on us.
From the report: "'a senior military planner working on coronavirus but not authorized to speak on sensitive planning matters [...] says that deployment of federal troops in support roles is being prepared,' including to conduct traffic stops, home searchesand seizures and arrests." Scroll to Footnote3 to learn what atrocities could thus be inflicted on us.
Handling mail amid coronavirus: Low risk but wash your handsMy
practice is to assume everything from outside is potentially
contaminated, hence I wash my hands thoroughly after handling any
incoming packages and sanitize any surface upon which they might have
rested or been unwrapped.
_________________1I
select these stories on the basis of my news judgment as it evolved
during my 64 years as a writer, photographer and editor, three decades
of which were in the working press. (Despite an on-and-off involvement
with the alternative press that began in 1963, all but about three of
those first 30 earning-years were primarily in the Mainstream Media
Propaganda Machine, at least half in decide-what's-news jobs ranging
from sports editor and associate editor to city editor, news-and-picture
editor and editor-in-chief. (Though as my colleagues moved stealthily
Rightward, so did I move ever-more-openly Leftward, until eventually I
was Left...outside.) Beyond that -- and in keeping with today's
(unequivocally apocalyptic) context -- it is a matter of relevance plus
probability of censorship. I ask myself three questions: firstly, is a
given story useful – a term in this context I use as synonymous with
relevant. If the answer is yes, I than ask, secondly, how likely is it
to be suppressed by the MMPM, the PPs’ first ever privately owned,
for-maximum-profit copy of Josef Goebbels’ infamous Reich Ministry of
Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. And here my rule is one of inverse
returns: the less
likely I think I am to see the story disseminated via the National Daily
Wipe and Audiovisual Psychodemonic Zombification Monopoly, (NDWAAZPM,
with apology to Henry Miller for the Psychodemonics), the more likely I
am to include it in these summaries. Reports that pass the first two
tests are each then subjected to the third and final test: do they
include indications from which we might evolve estimates of our
situations accurate enough to facilitate effective response? If the
answer here is also affirmative, the report in question will always be
included in the daily update. Meanwhile the first two criteria generate a
lengthy list of possibles I winnow down to probables and thence to
musts, a process that takes approximately seven or eight hours each day.
2As to what prompts my sudden skepticism of virus coverage by The Washington Post, note how quickly Bezos or one of his zero-tolerance subordinates imposed paywall censorship on this pivotally important 20 March story (scroll down to "U.S. intelligence reports"), which for only a very few short minutes appeared as part of WaPo's
non-paywalled daily virus report. Pretending to be real journalists
rather than the Regime's scribes -- a mental downgrading inflicted as
much by the clerical drudgery necessitated by computers as by the chief
Josef-Goebbels-wannabee Bezos himself -- is a form of moral imbecility I
cannot abide.
3Be aware that "home searches and seizures"
could include not only confiscation of all real or potential weapons
but -- given the ChristoNazi Regime's anti-marijuana fanaticism --
confiscation of, and arrest for possession of, all the (still federally
illegal) medical marijuana upon which such a huge number of
opiate-denied chronic-pain victims are now forced to depend. Too --
given the Regime's even more fanatical hatred of women and female
sexuality -- such raids might also be used to confiscate all
birth-control devices and criminalize all unwed women who possess them,
thereby fulfilling still more of the PPs' ChristoNazis objectives. Thus
-- by such mass arrests -- could the Regime give its plutocratic owners
the ultimate "gift" of permanently enslaving millions of U.S. citizens
for brutally hard, typically deadly labor, thereby granting our Masters'
wish of exterminating "surplus workers" while following the German
Nazis' model of amassing unlimited profits from mass murder.
(As always, headlines are reproduced in their original up-style and down-style formats.)
*****
Guess
I am doing better: the same four hours of wriging and research, but
only five (technology-stolen) hours of doing on the cursed computer what
would have taken me no more than ten minutes with a pencil and hot-type
technology.
Goddess
grant we all stay healthy and remain alive, which -- or so it seems --
is fast becoming what I know from experience survival in homelessness
or terminal poverty has always been: a courageous albeit often
involuntarily isolated act of revolutionary defiance.
LB/2 April 2020 23:54 PDT
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