HERE
ARE TODAY'S links to what seem the most reliably informative (and
therefore presumably useful) Internet reports on the rapidly spreading
Coronavirus epidemic:
How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone
Potentially lifesaving information.
Potentially lifesaving information.
Schools scramble to feed students after coronavirus closures
Given the uniquely relentless savagery of the U.S. brand of Neoliberalism and its longstanding boiled-frog campaigns of ecogenocide, who can doubt the vast majority of these "scrambles" will (deliberately) fail, especially in schools with substantial populations or color?
Given the uniquely relentless savagery of the U.S. brand of Neoliberalism and its longstanding boiled-frog campaigns of ecogenocide, who can doubt the vast majority of these "scrambles" will (deliberately) fail, especially in schools with substantial populations or color?
How slave pens and concentration camps become extermination facilities and death camps.
One
of the innumerable ways Neoliberalism is Murder...especially in a
nation so barbaric it still insists on healthcare as a privilege or
wealth rather than the human right it is in all the civilized world.
Another
"as intended"? (See below. Also -- though the treachery of the
Democratic (sic) Party has already guaranteed Sen. Sanders' defeat --
our Masters nevertheless delight in kicking him while he is down merely
because he dares attempt to make socialism and social democracy
respectable.)
AP's laudable and ongoing war against the Big Lies...and against the lesser lies too.
The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear
Is this perhaps the real purpose of the outbreak? Kudos to AP staffer Zeina Karan and her editors for having the courage to write and disseminate this report. (Retained from yesterday for context. See also "COVID-19: Further Evidence," itself retained, below).
Is this perhaps the real purpose of the outbreak? Kudos to AP staffer Zeina Karan and her editors for having the courage to write and disseminate this report. (Retained from yesterday for context. See also "COVID-19: Further Evidence," itself retained, below).
Coronavirus COVID-19: "Made in China" or "Made in America"?
Most vital question of the entire crisis, the answer to which could reshape U.S. history in much the same manner the history of Germany was reshaped by its invasion of the Soviet Union. See also "Further Evidence," below.
Most vital question of the entire crisis, the answer to which could reshape U.S. history in much the same manner the history of Germany was reshaped by its invasion of the Soviet Union. See also "Further Evidence," below.
'Where
was your patient zero?’ Chinese official speculates U.S. may have
infected Wuhan at army games & calls to ‘come clean’
With the U.S. history of ever-more-brazenly following the example of Nazi Germany, who can believably refute the Chinese claim?
With the U.S. history of ever-more-brazenly following the example of Nazi Germany, who can believably refute the Chinese claim?
COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US
From yesterday for additional context.
From yesterday for additional context.
US to China: drop dead, we get our jobs back. China’s richest man to US: here, have 1 million masks & Covid-19 test kits
Whaddya bet the Trump/Pence Regime rejects the Chinese plutocrat's donation?
Whaddya bet the Trump/Pence Regime rejects the Chinese plutocrat's donation?
COVID-19: The Challenges Facing Concerted Coronavirus Action
Say again: as goes Germany, so goes the entire Neoliberal world – save in the U.S., where 57 years of our species’ most fanatical Neoliberal malevolence could easily climax in the modern re-intensification of the never-ending post-Roman Dark Age.
Say again: as goes Germany, so goes the entire Neoliberal world – save in the U.S., where 57 years of our species’ most fanatical Neoliberal malevolence could easily climax in the modern re-intensification of the never-ending post-Roman Dark Age.
US CDC Director Robert Redfield Admitted that Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Miscategorized as Flu
Neoliberal murderousness or Neoliberal neglect? (As if the latter is not the manifestation of the former.)
Neoliberal murderousness or Neoliberal neglect? (As if the latter is not the manifestation of the former.)
Creationist: Churches Should Hoard Toilet Paper, Preach to Those Who Want It
Typical: the submission-for-soup approach of the Bowery bible-bashers applied to the expanding realm of virus victims.
Typical: the submission-for-soup approach of the Bowery bible-bashers applied to the expanding realm of virus victims.
Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post
As usual; Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine it is, albeit produced for a Ruling Class audience and therefore with notably less censorship -- save of course when the Amazon's Bezos dictates otherwise.
As usual; Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine it is, albeit produced for a Ruling Class audience and therefore with notably less censorship -- save of course when the Amazon's Bezos dictates otherwise.
Also relevant:
2-Year-old Taken From Parents Who Use Medical Marijuana, Murdered in Foster Care
Kidnapping and murder as perpetrated by the government we are commanded to trust.
Mother sues hospital over drug test that led to abuse probe
From AP: How a false positive and welfare-bureaucrat malevolence might have doomed three children to the deadly horrors of foster care.
From AP: How a false positive and welfare-bureaucrat malevolence might have doomed three children to the deadly horrors of foster care.
Strange but True: Komodo Dragons Show that "Virgin Births" Are Possible
Wanna bet the conspiracy cultists will soon be claiming Mary was a lizard-person?
Wanna bet the conspiracy cultists will soon be claiming Mary was a lizard-person?
Majority of dogs suffer from anxiety, study finds
No surprise here, especially given superior canine sensitivity and the overall state of the world.
No surprise here, especially given superior canine sensitivity and the overall state of the world.
Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression
Truth from a website noted for its unflinching truthfulness.
Truth from a website noted for its unflinching truthfulness.
Ongoing agitation for World War III
Would a Draft Matter? The Nature of the Military That Fights America's Forever Wars
Note my own comment: an obvious truth relentlessly suppressed (as is the equally obvious related truth of how the Vietnamese -- not the U.S. anti-war movement -- won the Vietnam War).
Note my own comment: an obvious truth relentlessly suppressed (as is the equally obvious related truth of how the Vietnamese -- not the U.S. anti-war movement -- won the Vietnam War).
When Optimism Becomes Toxic Positivity
Which Chris Hedges said far more eloquently in his most universally suppressed essay, here.
Which Chris Hedges said far more eloquently in his most universally suppressed essay, here.
(As always, headlines are reproduced in their original up-style and down-style formats.)
*****
SOMETHING
TO CONSIDER: If we understood the true brevity of individual
consciousness -- that like everything else in the cosmos it has its own
expiration date -- perhaps we would not so eagerly squander our lives in
ecogenocidal folly. (From my journal, early this morning.)
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