Doorways: Nine Takes on How 'They' Killed the Back-to-the-Land Movement (a Memoire)

 Because this is far too complicated for anybody but a full-fledged Nurd to post here -- it contains six photographs, each captioned,  and thus would take me literally hours to wrestle it into the Blogger format -- I am merely posting a link: 

https://tinyurl.com/53zzz2nr

I sincerely hope this will suffice, as I think it perhaps the most important text-and-picture essay I have yet  written in my 14 years as a blogger. 

Apologies and thanks,

Loren Bliss 

 

NOTE: I  finally figured out how to post the entire piece on 24 August. Meanwhile, many thanks for your readership.

--Loren Bliss  

Republican Legalization of Christonazi/Neoconfederate Bigotry Is a New Dred Scott Decision -- an Irrefutable Declaration of Secession with Ecogenocidal Intent 01 August 2023 (Even so, let us preface our reading by contemplating the blessings given us by our Mother Earth, whom survival commands us to defend; thus may Her radiance empower us to forever dispel the patriarchal darkness.)

 

Photograph by KD ©2023: from a work-in-progress, an unabashedly worshipful embrace of our environment.

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THROUGH NO FAULT  of our own, most of us in the 99.9 Percent are unaware that white supremacists have  been attacking our constitution's 14th Amendment -- which overturned the Dred Scott Decision by granting U.S. citizenship to African Americans and anyone else "born or naturalized" in the USian states or territories -- since its ratification in 1868.  Nor are we to blame for not immediately recognizing the impending reversal of the 14th Amendment implicit in the undoubtedly permanent cancellation of our constitutional right to abortion by the literally limitless Christonazi vindictiveness enabled by the Supreme Court's lifetime appointments .  

We are deliberately imprisoned in  ignorance of such matters by a regimen of national censorship   -- about which more below -- that is so effective it is veritably invisible. Operating primarily in K-12 education, it long predates the malignant, publicly declared war against learning legitimized by the Hitler-disciple Donald Trump and metastasized throughout USia by the fanatically hateful rabble who believe him to have been "anointed by god" to  rule the USian Empire and conquer the world as their new führer.

Meanwhile Trump's "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party is working overtime -- this with the ever-more-brazen assistance of its "Democratic" (sic) Party Fifth Column and a bipartisan, persons-of-color cabal of Clarence-Thomas emulators -- to enable the nation's white-supremacist electorate to restore the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision to the viciously exclusionary, implicitly genocidal definition of "we the people" intended by Chief Justice Roger Taney, his six concurring justices and all their pro-slavery supporters in 1857.

Quoth Taney, in what is formally known as Dred Scott v. Sandford: "The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen?"

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"The words ‘people of the United States’ and ‘citizens’ are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the Government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the ‘sovereign people,’ and every citizen is one of this people, and a constituent member of this sovereignty. The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them…" (emphasis added).

In other words, Taney and his six adherent justices ruled that if it's not expressly stated in the Constitution, it is neither defensible -- or even legislatively obtainable -- as a constitutionally protected right. Which is precisely the so-called "originalism"  the Christonazified court weaponized  to revoke Roe v. Wade and -- often in a less obvious manner -- routinely employs in its relentless restoration of other white-supremacist, misogynistic, theocratic, homophobic, transphobic and aristocratic tyrannies we the gullible people of the 99.9 Percent foolishly imagined had been banished forever.   

It is therefore of utmost importance to note the not-in-the-constition parallels to the 19th Century exclusionary racist bigotry that spawned the Dred Scott decision are being imposed not only openly via the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization cancellation of a half-century of abortion rights,  but less obviously in both the Biden v. Nebraska prohibition of relief for student-loan debtors and in the potential imposition of nationwide racial segregation implicitly permitted by the awkwardly named, intentionally homophobic 303 Creative LLC et al v. Elenis et al decision.  (For revelation of the ruling-class financial hypocrisy revealed by the anti-student ruling and additional analysis of the total repeal of civil-rights legislation permitted by Creative v. Elenis, go here.)     

Here too are six more examples of the ongoing, already ruinously successful Christionazi campaign to nullify the 14th Amendment, again making the Dred Scott ruling the (permanent) de facto determination of who is -- and who is not -- (theoretically) entitled to the rights and privileges of USian citizenship:

• School Board in Missouri Revokes Its Anti-Racism Policy. The significance of this brazenly anti-Black decision is underscored by the Associated Press report: "The Francis Howell district is among Missouri’s largest, with 17,000 students, about 87% of whom are white...The vote...came during an often-contentious meeting...Racial issues remain especially sensitive in the St. Louis region, nine years after a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown during a street confrontation."
• Black Alabama Voters Prep for Another Fight after Christonazis Flout SCOTUS Ruling. See also Black Lawmakers Say Alabama GOP’s Proposed New Congressional Map Insults the Supreme Court.  AP quotes Rep. Prince Chestnut, a Democrat from Selma, as saying. “We’re  fighting the same battles that they were fighting 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 40 years ago, right here today,” Chestnut said. “Once again the (Republican) super majority decided that the voting rights of Black people are nothing that this state is bound to respect." In other words, Roger Taney lives.
• Did Trump Let 500,000 USians Die of Covid to Cut Them from the Voter Rolls? Thom Hartmann thinks so: "The most unreported story of the pandemic, the one that seems destined to be overlooked as histories are being written, is what Trump did when he learned the Covid coronavirus was largely killing Black and Hispanic people and mostly sparing whites. The moment he came to that realization, he completely altered the US response to the pandemic, leading to the unnecessary death of 300,000 to 500,000 Americans. Deaths that he and his advisors apparently believed (correctly) would be, outside of nursing home residents, disproportionately Black and Hispanic people. (Emphasis as in original.)
• An Overview of the Taney-Inspired White Supremacist Campaign to Purge Blacks from the Voter Rolls.  "Greg Palast estimates there were at least 4 million fully legal and appropriately registered voters purged just in 2022, although the history Pew documented from 2016-1018 suggests the number may have been over ten million. And (Republican-controlled) states are, as you read these words, vigorously purging voters from the rolls, predominantly in (Democrat-controlled) cities and among Black populations, which vote more than 80 percent Democratic."
• Jihadist-Dominated Hamtramck City Council Ousts Oust Two LGBTQ-Defenders from Its Human Rights Commission. (No, unfortunately this is not a scare-story. It's an AP report that perilously downplays the fact Muslim fanatics are every bit as hatefully dangerous as their Christonazi counterparts -- and that, in Creative v. Elenis,  the Christonazi cabal that rules SCOTUS for a lifetime allows jihadists the same rights of hateful exclusion it allows Christians, again targeting any minority not specifically protected by the USian constitution.)
• These Christian Nationalists Want to Stone Adulterers to Death. Think it can't happen here in USia? Please reconsider; that sort of self-inflicted delusion is  identical to the suicidal denial by which modern-minded Afghans  hoped for tolerance from the conquering Taliban. But now they know better; see for example,  Taliban Bans Beauty Salons in Afghanistan. In truth there are no limits to the sadism legitimized  by Abrahamic religion, the most vindictive forms of which are theocracies based on fundamentalist interpretations of Jewish, Christian or Muslim theology. Never forget: the selfsame hatred of women and sexual minorities that rules USian Christonazism  and Jihadist Islam also rules the most extreme forms of orthodox Judaism, which is a major (albeit mostly unreported) fear fueling the widespread Israeli opposition to  Netanayu's efforts to impose de facto theocracy.   
  

The above  reports show how the  Christonazis and their Neoconfederate allies are using Taney's not-specified-in-the-constitution argument not only to rob Blacks of citizenship, but to likewise subjugate other peoples of color, sexual minorities, religious minorities and eventually even women, no doubt ultimately  by revocation of these peoples' USian citizenship. Which would make them all stateless persons. And as Timothy Snyder, whom I am usually loathe to quote because he is so fanatically anti-socialist,  documents throughout Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning (Tim Duggan Books: 2015), the imposition of official statelessness -- which Hitler inflicted on so many Jews and Roma -- is invariably a primary precursor to genocide.

 

But we dare not take comfort in the fact official statelessness for minorities and women is an atrocity that at present remains beyond immediate reality; history repeatedly demonstrates USian genocide has never needed any justification beyond hatred itself,  a terrifying truth thoroughly documented both by James Q. Whitman (Hitler's American Model; Princeton University Press: 2017) and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; Beacon Press: 2014).

 

Furthermore, racist and/or religious genocide is already well underway against refugees from the USian Empire's relentless wars and global capitalism's ever-more-obviously deliberate engineering of terminal climate change. For now, the most brazen mass-murderer seems to be Greece, which of course has been a reliable USian-Empire puppet since a joint USian/British campaign of extermination slew most of its Marxians, socialists and intellectuals in the Greek Civil War c. 1946-49. (See also "From Greece to Ukraine: 75 Years of the Truman Doctrine.)

 

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But Why Are We So Oblivious to What Is Being Done to Us?

There are two reasons, and -- as I said above -- neither is our fault.

By far the most crippling reason for our national plague of passivity is the ruinous extent to which we are deliberately robbed of our species' history -- the basic knowledge of our own nation and of every other nation born of our Mother Earth, which is precisely the knowledge we need to make sense of the events that impact our lives.

The ignorance so inflicted is by far the worst in the world; no other people on this planet are as methodically deprived of the study of history. The deprivation begins in our primary and secondary schools, where most of us are taught to despise the study of history as nothing more than a repugnant, wearisome ordeal of learning to recite from memory otherwise meaningless lists of names, dates and places.

Nor is it an accident the most pridefully ignorant, aggressively anti-intellectual teachers -- that is, the athletic coaches -- are typically chosen to teach civics, history, sociology and government. Having history taught by such hopeless dullards hides the dynamic interplay of cause-and-effect and dramatic personal histories that underlie the epic story of our species' experience; it is the deliberate concealment of those fascinating elements --  the vivid interplay of peoples, ideologies and events that reveal history as equivalent to a never-ending epic film or novel -- that reduce its study into an odiously dreary chore. And it is that very odium by which the .01 Percent seek to guarantee we will never, for example, recognize their slow-motion resurrection of all the dreadfulness formerly legitimized by the Dred Scott decision.

Here then are a couple of examples of history as it should be studied:

The suppressed facts of the Scottsboro Boys atrocity: how the USian Communist Party's lawyers fought to free the boys, which explains the origin of the  fascist meme of civil rights as a "Communist plot."  Includes information on how the USSR ensured the success of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and aided African liberation movements in general.

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia: on the scary perniciousness of pro-Hitler, pro-Third-Reich propaganda amongst the nurdish elite. 

But as I indicated above, that is only half the story. The second reason most of us remain unaware of the widespread, de facto  resurrection of the U.S. Supreme Court's most notoriously racist edict is because the  six obscenely wealthy tyrants who own and control USia's so-called "mainstream media" -- in brain-policing truth the world's first privately owned, for-(maximum)-profit version of Josef Goebbel's infamous Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda -- have an obvious need to downplay the skyrocketing nazification of the failed and crumbling  federal union whether they themselves are nazis or not.

That's because at the epicenter of our national failure is the deliberate contraction of at least 27 of USia's 50 states into the internal socioeconomic conditions the ex-president, accused felon and Hitler-wannabe Trump says define a "shithole country." (Never mind Trump was using the term as a brazenly racist slur against Haiti, El Salvador and the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, while each of the USian shithole states are white-male-supremacist despotisms ruled by the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party.)

Unfortunately the USian/capitalist variant of Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda does an excellent job of minimizing the appalling truth that the most malignant sorts of USian misogyny, white-supremacist racism, religious bigotry and homophobia  -- extremes once pretty much limited to the 11 vindictively traitorous, defiantly theocratic states of the Old Confederacy -- have now metastasized into at least 16 more states. Apart from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, the entire Middle West is solidly Christonazi, and the four exceptions are in grave jeopardy. Michigan has already been targeted by at least one Christonazi plot to assassinate its governor. And despite Wisconsin's widely celebrated vote for a pro-choice state supreme court, I suspect its voters will soon be deluded into embracing the role of shithole state number 28. Support for female reproductive rights says nothing about support for broader 99.9 Percent rights, especially racial equality; let us not forget how in 1946 and 1952 landslide-majorities of Wisconsin voters elected the vindictively anti-socialist, anti-intellectual, pro-Nazi Joseph McCarthy to the U.S. Senate and in 2018 came within a mere 29,227 votes of re-electing Scott Walker, McCarthy's sadistically misogynistic, homophobic, anti-mass-transit, anti-union and anti-welfare-recipient political reincarnation, to a third term as governor -- this after also granting his gubernatorial gruesomeness  the unprecedented endorsement of a 53-percent recall-election victory in 2012. Note too the change-we-can-believe-in betrayal inflicted by Wisconsin's  victorious "Democratic" (sic) governor, who  just signed into law the largest funding boost for (implicitly white-supremacist) private schools in the state's history.

Looking a few years ahead -- and factoring in the Christonazis' terrifying, German-Nazi-schooled skill at subversion and conquest -- I cannot doubt they and their Neoconfederate allies will have conquered not only all the states of the Old Confederacy, Virginia included, but all the inland states as well; by then -- if our species has not yet exterminated itself by war and the ultimate misogyny of environmental ruin -- the United States will have completed its self-destruction and will no longer exist save perhaps in name only.  Moreover, the presence of a violently aggressive, avowedly ecogenocidal Christonazi realm in North America will probably have altered the world's politics beyond present-day recognition.     Only Hawaii, the three western coastal states and the 10 northeastern coastal states will remain as relatively free domains. And those will retain their independence only by the intervention of foreign powers. In Hawaii's case, that would probably be either Japan, China or possibly Korea; given the island's dominant ethnicities, I'd guess most likely Japan, though the defense of Hawaii against Christonazi invasion could indeed foster the first-ever genuinely willing Sino-Japanese-Korean alliance.  For the 13 remaining non-Christonazi states -- Washington, Oregon, California, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine -- the most likely protection would come from merger with Canada, which would no doubt find economic advantage both in the acquisition of additional seaports and natural resources, and which with its own huge natural-resource base and solidly stable parliamentary governance might by then have already emerged as the dominant power in the Americas.  

Alaska in this formulation is a wild card -- and in all probability would be the cause of at least one major war. That's because the Christonazi reich -- probably calling itself something like the "Confederate Christian States of America" --  would want to rape Alaska for its wealth of resources. But an already growing union of its First Nations and settler populations -- the latter far more anarchist than nazified -- would no doubt fight to the death to preserve their beloved Alaskan wilderness. Merger with Canada? Re-merger with Russia? Survival as an independent republic protected by mutual defense  treaties with Canada and the emergent Sino-Russian alliance? I'd suspect the third alternative as most likely, but your guess is probably as good as mine.

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From the Comment Threads of Other Websites

New York City Mayor Adams' tantrums demanding "respect" -- that is, his vindictively racist, misogynistic and implicitly anti-Jewish bullying of an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor -- are most clearly understood as an extension of his oft-repeated claims to divine-right rule.

Obviously too, as USia becomes ever more tyrannically theocratic -- as its politicians become ever more obviously puppets of the plutocracy and ever more sadistically vicious toward the 99.9 Percent -- the tyrants' claims of divine right will again become central to their rationalizations of unmitigated savagery, just as they were in ages past.

Which is the real horror manifest by Adams' vicious expressions of slave-master contempt toward a legitimate critic, that -- like the Trumpite normalization of unabashed bigotry -- it is a precedent-setting public assertion of the theocratic, prosperity-gospel self-righteousness that increasingly defines the entire USian ruling class, plutocrats and puppets alike.

(My apology for my tardy response; four times vaccinated, I am nevertheless home abed with a very stubborn case of Covid. and I am therefore reading the contents of my inbox far less frequently than normal.) 

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NOTE: I got sick on 22 June and posted the above comment on 6 July; as of 9 July, I finally tested negative, though even now -- 29 July -- I have no sense of taste or smell, am still so weak I cannot climb a single flight of stairs and am sleeping 12-14 hours per day.

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Our Ever-More-Feverish Mother Earth Sets New Global Temperature Record. Given that the Kubler-Ross stages of death and dying would seem to be as applicable to our species as to its individual members, I wonder how long it will take us to realize capitalism is a terminal disease --  a fatal illness so hopelessly metastasized  there is no longer any possible cure -- and that it has already doomed our species to extinction, likewise doomed every other evolutionarily advanced species and doomed our Mother Earth to reduction back to a bug planet.

Nor can I doubt that is precisely the realization already manifest collectively in the now-unprecedented international rush toward thermonuclear apocalypse and individually both in the skyrocketing incidence of mass murder and the infinitely increasing cases of often-suicidal depression amongst our species' youth.

Thus -- even to our children (who are far more perceptive than most adults dare acknowledge) -- it seems ever-more-obvious our only remaining, genuinely pivotal "what-shall-I-do-with-my-life" question is, "how shall I cope with my looming death." (Disclosure: I am 83 years old, and I suspect mine is the very last of our species' generations that will ever be allowed anything even approaching such longevity.)      

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On the (Lifetime) Christonazification of SCOTUS. Well said. Once again, Black Agenda Report proves itself by far the most relevant website of the US-based True Left, analytically the domestic equivalent of the Fourth International's World Socialist Web Site.

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Democrat Honchos Ignore Biden’s Unpopularity. Face it, Mr. Rall, and said with all due respect; this is not mere "pigheaded obliviousness." It is yet (another) undeniable proof of the "Democratic" (sic) Party's one true post-JFK function: serving as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party.

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Vote on House NDAA Proves Dems Lie about Support for Abortion. Writing as the news editor I once was (Morristown, N.J. Daily Record, 1968-69), it seems to me the real story here is the House vote's irrefutable proof the "Democratic" (sic) Party's claim to support abortion rights is but another example of "change we can believe in," the most malicious election-campaign Big Lie ever pimped to USian voters.

Three of the four Democrats who declared their hateful misogyny and homophobia by voting for the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate version of the National Defense Authorization Act -- Representatives Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), Jared Golden (ME) and Gabe Vasquez (NM) -- each claim via their websites to be staunch supporters of abortion rights.

Rep. Dan Davis (NC) seems to avoid any website reference to the abortion issue, though he implies support for women's reproductive rights by claiming to be "working hard to strengthen health...assistance for our service members, veterans and their families."

But their votes for the vindictively misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic Christonazi/Neoconfederate NDAA say these self-proclaimed "Democrats" are in truth no different in this regard from the so-called "Republicans" they claim to oppose.

Thus again we witness either the "Democratic" (sic) Party in its (only) genuine post-JFK function as the Christonazi/Neoconfederate Fifth Column, or a new, far-more-alarming development, the Democrats' radical escalation of their "change-we-can-believe-in" deceptions to actually cloaking Christonazis with "Democratic" disguises.

Whichever is true -- and it could be either alternative or both -- the votes of the four Christonazi/Neoconfederate collaborators once again demonstrate our desperate need for a militant socialist party to organize the 99.9 Percent and thus unify the entire USian working class in the global struggle for real democracy.

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RFK Jr.'s Racism and Antisemitism. I suspect what this junior Kennedy is doing is embracing Christonazism as the ultimate guarantee against being murdered as were his father and uncle.

The object lesson implicit in his wholesale embrace of tyranny is its backhanded revelation of the most probable reason underlying the nation's politicians' relentlessly bipartisan effort to make the USian Empire the de facto Fourth Reich: the plutocratic cabal that rules USia allows no alternative conduct.

Moreover -- as proven by the decade of political murders that followed the 1963 slayings of Medgar Evers and President Kennedy and the often-deceptive obedience of every successful politician since -- these tyrants obviously will never again tolerate even minimal deviance from their mandates.

Meanwhile -- if I may be permitted a terrible cliche -- I cannot doubt JFK and Robert Senior are rolling over in their graves at the submissive cowardice of their descendant.

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Images from Nazi Occupied Eastern Europe c.1941-1942. "Russia is to be reduced to the level of a nation of peasants, from which there is no return." This quote from an earlier  WSWS report, Part One of Comrade Clara Weiss's superb 2015 documentation of "The Nazi War of Annihilation against the Soviet Union" (linked in Footnote 1 of today's "Images from occupied Eastern Europe"), is no doubt also the Nazi-war-criminal-advised USian Empire's post-World-War-II policy toward all the nations it has destroyed or is destroying in its allegedly "lost" wars.

Indeed I cannot imagine a more devious way to permanently destroy a nation than by disguising its intentional destruction as a "lost" war -- precisely the sort of deception that results from combining the Original (N.S.D.A.P.) Nazi policy of global conquest (aka USia's "full-spectrum dominance") with Madison Avenue's bottomless USianazi skill at manufacturing ultimate Big Lies and pimping them to a citizenry deliberately bound in helplessly gullible ignorance.

In bitter truth, such is but another manifestation of the regimen of deception the "Democratic" (sic) Party immortalized as "change we can believe in."

Such too is capitalism itself -- ever-more-obviously our species' most relentlessly terminal illness -- in its fully metastasized ecogenocidal toxicity. Again -- in this tragically unrecognized merger of the Machiavellian cunning of Hitler's disciples of Aryan supremacy with the serial-killer moral imbecility manifest in the USian ruling-class shibboleth of divine-right "exceptionalism" -- we see why for the entire global working class it's literally socialism or death.

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On German Militarism: Given the psychological importance of symbolism, particularly in a military context, it is no doubt relevant to note the Bundeswehr has quietly brought back the traditional jackboot, and now does a momentary goose-step at directional changes in marches, for both of which see the  footage entitled "Yorck'scher March + Prussia's Glory 01/19/2023 Bellevue Palace" on YouTube.

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About the Political Issues in Trump’s Imminent Indictment: Given the "Democratic" (sic) Party's damnable (and utterly damning) record of functioning as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party, the urgent warning issued by Comrades Grey and Martin -- that "the working class cannot entrust the defeat of fascism and defense of democratic rights to the Democratic Party and the courts" -- can be minimized, belittled, ignored or dismissed only at the greatest peril to the USian working class.

Indeed I suspect the Democrats will grant Trump and the cabal of upper- echelon Trumpites who are the present-day  führers of the so-called "Republican" party the long-perfected de facto acquittal of clandestinely fumbling the prosecutions of the Christonazi leadership even as they continue to make examples of its rear-rank followers.

Thus will the Democrats continue their efforts to maintain the "strong Republican Party" as a vital puppet-partner in the USian ruling-class scheme for "full-spectrum dominance" (i.e., relentless global conquest) and continued subjugation of the 99.9 Percent in the prison of gullibility, deception and induced ignorance typified by the slogan "change we can believe in."

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Agent Zelensky. Thank you for this. Given the USian Empire's political history -- specifically its adoption during and after WWII of thousands of upper-echelon Nazi war criminals as advisors and comrades-at-arms,  (also given the now-mostly suppressed histories of fanatically pro-Nazi elements in both the hereditary British aristocracy and the USian financial aristocracy) – note how a Jewish head of state facilitates "plausible denial" of Ukrainian nazification (spook terminology intentional).    

It also helps conceal the purposeful weaponization of the Ukraine as the newest spearhead in an effectively  endless Occidental war to conquer "lebensraum" in Russia. Originally rationalized by the Great Schism of 1054 CE (the final, irremediable split between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches),  it began in earnest with a declared Crusade, the invasions of Russia by the Teutonic Knights in 1240 CE and 1242 CE, each of which were defeated by the Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. By Hitler's time this had become both a crusade against socialism and a campaign of anti-Slavic genocide much like the genocidal wars against the First Nations of the Americas: exterminating the people to finalize the theft of their land.  

Today it is (still) a genocidal war for land and resources, but thanks to the near-complete global metastasis of the capitalist ethos of moral imbecility and the near-total subjugation of the 99.9 Percent, the ruling class no longer feels any need to justify such conquest much beyond declarations of want.       

LB/26-31 July 2023

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We of the Ever-More-Destitute 99.9% Are Ever-More-Obviously Ruled by History's Greediest, Most Cunning Tyrants, which Ever-More-Undeniably Defines the Imperial US as Our Planet's Ultimate 'Shithole Country'

 (But let us first contemplate the Mother our survival commands us to defend; may Her radiance empower us to forever dispel the patriarchal darkness.)  

 

Photograph by KD ©2023: from a work-in-progress, an unabashedly worshipful embrace of our Mother Earth.

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I CANNOT REMEMBER, in all the decades I've followed such matters, a more relentlessly disturbing -- and not infrequently terrifying -- outpouring of news reports, whether from within the USian imperial homeland and its European colonies or from an oft-provoked Russian Federation that appears increasingly on the brink of precisely the sort of internal chaos that could make a world-ending, human-species-exterminating thermonuclear apocalypse unavoidable.

Meanwhile political conditions here in the Disunited States have deteriorated to such a depth of vindictively inflicted hopelessness that Hitler Wannabe Donald Trump's infamous characterization of non-white nations as "shithole countries" unquestionably now applies at least as accurately to the alleged "land of the free," wherein working-class existence is ever-more-obviously defined by a methodically engineered and maliciously imposed regime of  steadily intensifying socioeconomic and political oppression. Thus our tragically afflicted nation becomes a toxic variant of  the "rough beast, its hour come round at last" foretold by William Butler Yeats in "The Second Coming," revealing itself to be a relentlessly sadistic remake of Caligula’s Rome, Marie Antoinette’s France and Nicholas II’s Russia in which bottomless moral imbecility and irremediable corruption grant an infinitely evil aristocracy the absolute freedom to do whatever it goddamn well pleases to any and all of the rest of us.

Here – each of these reports chosen specifically for the fact it has seemingly managed to escape the ever-more-oppressive USian censorship apparatus – are 13 examples of the atrocities we now accept as the defining aspects of our daily routine, the most recent afflictions in an ever-metastasizing plague of horrors that in a just and mindful world would have long ago provoked revolution:

• Skyrocketing State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism. Biden the Beguiler and a growing cabal of state attorneys general are radically escalating the Trumpite/Christonazi war against Marxians, other genuine socialists, environmentalists, anarchists, feminists and activists of the Black Lives Matter, pro-choice, LGBTQ and Antifa communities. See also my comment-thread remarks, below.

• Nazis dominate US law enforcement, secret-police and intelligence agencies. Yup; eactly as in Weimar Germany before the Original Nazis were given free reign.

• Does the lifetime-appointed cabal of Christonazi fanatics who tyrannize us via the Supreme Court mean white-supremacist Christians can again refuse to serve people of color? Sure looks that way.

• Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief. See also my comment-thread remarks, below.

• US Supreme Court majority abolishes racial preferences in university admission. What better way to re-whiten the USian imperial ruling class?

• The privatization of public education in the US is accelerating backed by billionaires including Betsy DeVos . From the ruling-class perspective, the great advantage of private schools is their absolute freedom from constitutional interference, specifically the fact they can teach anything they choose and exclude whomever they wish.

• Justice Department report fails to substantiate the suicide narrative of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody. In other words, nothing in our maximally mobsterized milieu challenges the overwhelming probability he was clipped to keep him from publicly naming his perverted peers.

• Bathyscaphe billionaires get massive global rescue effort; refugees left to drown. Conditioned to self-obsessed vacuousness, our species’ aristocrat-worshiping Moronic Multitude emulates the moral imbeciles they adore.

• Witnesses say Greek navy sank refugee ship. Plausibly undeniable given the Greek government’s already proven history of anti-refugee genocide.

• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis campaigns on “shoot on sight” anti-immigrant policy. When in USia, do with guns as the Greeks do with naval vessels.

• Trump (Finally) Labeled the Nazi He Is. At last, a truth-telling for which I have long argued.

• Details on the Russian coup attempt we won’t find in mainstream media. A vital analysis if we’re to understand the apocalyptic hazard.  

• The French working class battles murderous police and ever-more-relentless state tyranny. France, a presumptive USian Empire puppet. boils over in furious rebellion: includes details we’re denied by imperial censors.

Though the case is admittedly mostly circumstantial, it cannot be said too often that 90 years of evidence proves far beyond judicially required certainty our plight dates from the 1933 Bankers' Plot, the collaborative effort in which the Wall Street aristocrats conspired with Hitler and Mussolini to nazify the nation into what their genetic and/or ideological descendants have made it today, the de facto Fourth Reich, the ultimate model of patriarchy as a theocratically brain-policed slave state, the global arsenal for terminal apocalypse and the ecogenocidally misogynistic reduction of our Mother Earth back to a bug planet.

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From the Comment Threads of Other Websites:

As cited above, on Skyrocketing State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism.

Thank you, Mr. Gould-Wartofsky and LA Progressive, for this superbly analytical report. Meanwhile those who claim there is anything genuinely "leftist" about the present-day "Democratic" (sic) Party -- which in post-JFK operational truth has repeatedly proven itself to be nothing more than the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party -- are either tragically ignorant of genuinely leftist ideologies or are obediently parroting a Trumpite Big Lie.

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As cited above, on Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief.

Predictably, Biden the Beguiler's intentionally fraudulent pledge of student-loan debt relief has proven itself yet another classic example of "change we can believe in" -- the most malevolent Big Lie ever fed the terrifyingly gullible USian electorate.

The pivotal, ultimately damning fact in this ongoing charade -- in which the "Democratic" (sic) Party desperately seeks to maintain its ever-more-transparent disguise as something other than the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party's Fifth Column -- is there is no possible way even the most delusional of the Beguiler's advisors could have imagined the Christonazi cabal that now tyrannizes the nation via the Supreme Court would let any student-debt-relief plan stand. 

Precisely as Comrade Grey points out, the Beguiler ensured  the Christonazis had -- and have -- "the best conditions for them to block the program," which they will obviously continue to exploit to maximum ruling class advantage.

At least as important as the financial considerations cited by Sebouh80 is the political fact any truly effective debt relief would be tantamount to manumission from the lifetime wage slavery that effectively prohibits any and all meaningful anti-capitalist resistance by the debtors. It does so by the constant threat of retaliatory job loss underscored by the fact student loans cannot be discharged via bankruptcy.

This method of prohibiting any such activism, which dates to the Johnson and Nixon regimes' efforts to suppress opposition to the Southeast Asian War, is in fact the original, underlying purpose of runaway higher education costs.

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Wisconsin’s “Democratic” (sic) Governor Signed Largest Private School Voucher Boost in 30 Years

This is merely additional (irrefutable) proof the post-JFK "Democratic" (sic) Party is nothing more than the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party.

(Don't forget it was Wisconsin also spawned Sen. Joseph McCarthy, purgemaster of the c. '50s-'60s persecution not only of Communists but -- in truth -- anyone whose politics were to the left of fascism, all intellectuals especially included.)

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“Twitter Files” Journalist Matt Taibbi Claims IRS and FBI Retaliation

How many times must it be said? The USian "mainstream media" propaganda machine -- social media included -- is the world's first privately owned, for-maximum-profit version of Josef Goebbels' Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

And exactly like the Third Reich's Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP), its present-day descendant in the Nazi-war-criminal abetted de facto Fourth Reich is ultimately under the command-and-control of the respective nation's secret police, in each instance weaponized to serve the infinite evil of the ruling tyrants.

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Of Course Greta Met with Zelinsky

I wonder if Ms. Thunberg realizes the tragic extent to which she has been co-opted by the USian imperial brain-police apparatus -- or if she does not, how she will respond when she awakens to the bitter truth of our now-eternal powerlessness. (Because I have enormous respect for her passion, I see her as an innocent in the same way we of the old '60s Counterculture were innocents, smug [and therefore utterly vulnerable] in the foolish belief our righteousness protected us from contamination by the Infinite Evil that has threatened the world since the advent of patriarchy and which -- with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- achieved the terminally misogynistic ecogenocidal omnipotence over our Mother Earth and all her children that was always the patriarchs' ultimately apocalyptic purpose.)

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5 Elements of Fascism and Their Exact Expression in Trump, the White Christian Nationalist Movement He Leads and the “Republican” (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party He Rules

With respect to Mr. Reich -- he is definitely cognizant of the threat implicit in today's "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party -- I believe he errs in labeling its ecogenocidal toxicity "fascism." Instead -- especially given the admiration today's so-called "Republicans" express for Hitler -- it is clearly an USian variety of nazism (lower-case "n") -- particularly given its notion of Western-European ancestry/non-Jewish whites as the planet's master-race. There is also the fact it has been credibly reported Trump's favorite book is Mein Kampf -- reports surely confirmed by how the strategies and tactics employed not only by Trump but also by his rivals within the party's dominant like-minded faction are obviously so derived. In this context, it seems to me a grave downplaying of the threat to call our adversaries and their lethal intent as anything other than nazis and nazification.

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Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): Chronicler of American carnage

I knew McCarthy in East Tennessee at the University of Tennessee c. 1959 and c. 1962-1964 while he was living in the Sevier County back country and writing The Orchard Keeper.

Though nominally he denounced any and all intellectually focused  conversation as mere "holding forth," in what I recall as our one genuinely "serious" chat, he repeatedly and emphatically cited Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as the most important (and most infinitely damning) text  our species would ever publish. When I replied that Carson's disclosures might be for what was then called the conservation movement what Uncle Tom's Cabin had been to abolitionism,  he  said that could never happen because our species was too pridefully ignorant and too sociopathically self-obsessed.

Point being, if we are to understand his extreme negativity -- which most assuredly is not to justify it -- I believe we have to look at Carson's influence (which has since morphed into the ruling-class-environmentalists' academic  demand for exterminating 90 percent of the working class population), and the fact that concurrent with the publication of Silent Spring, the Tennessee Valley Authority, his father's pride and joy (and my own father's favorite, sometimes tears-in-his-eyes example of beneficent socialism), TVA was already under relentlessly savage attack from the Neoconfederate and proto-Christonazi right. Meanwhile the "Democratic" (sic) Party's alleged efforts to defend and preserve TVA -- especially after the coup of 22 November 1963 -- were ever-more-obviously nothing but charades.

Utterly deprived of humanitarian resources by Nazi-war-criminal-abetted capitalist   censorship, terrorism and weaponization of religion, McCarthy's work thus exemplifies the only aesthetic tolerable to the USian ruling class. 

Afterthoughts: (1)-I should have added that McCarthy’s apocalyptic negativity – albeit far more lyrically expressed than the prideful ignorance and methodically shrunken vocabulary of the Moronic Majority nominally permit– is precisely the helplessly subjugated, ever-more-forcibly conditioned hopelessness by which our self-anointed divine-right masters seek to guarantee no one will ever again dare rise up to challenge their ecogenocidal patriarchal omnipotence; (2)-While the bourgeois environmentalists demand for extermination of 90 percent of the global working class has since been trivialized as a right-wing conspiracy theory, it is in fact anything but. See for example the full text of one of Eric Pianka's speeches and the accompanying commentary as cited by Wikipedia, here. There is also the fact a few of the wealthier students at Huxley College, Western Washington State University's  environmental-science school, were already openly advocating such a final solution c. 1982-83, when I was living in Bellingham. (3)-I err in attributing the call for genocidal reduction of the 99.9 Percent exclusively to the influence of Silent Spring; Carson’s work is actually one of two such goads. The other is The Population Bomb, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, which was published in 1968. A third factor is of course the sneering, Marie-Antoinette-caliber contempt with which the USian aristocracy – the academic elite most assuredly included – regards the 99.9 Percent, particularly our sisters and brothers who lack college degrees and/or work in fields wherein higher education is not required.

LB/30 June-2 July 2023

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The Bipartisan Campaign to Make America Hate Again -- But First Some Unfinished Business...

 

Here's the photo I tried to run on 31 May but couldn't due to what blog-server Typepad  apologetically says was a software breakdown: from the 1967 Memorial Day Police Riot in Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park. (Photo by Loren Bliss © 1967, 2011, 2022, 2023; thanks to Publisher Scott Orr, this work was resurrected last year by an NYC art journal, BSceneZine, Volume 1, issue 9.)

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TO UNDERSTAND HOW “Make America Great Again” is in horrible truth a euphemism for “Make America Hate Again,” it is necessary we recognize why the New Deal was so thoroughly despised by the USian¹ ruling class and why its few enduring vestiges remain under such relentless attack today.

From the perspective of those who consider themselves our masters, the New Deal threatened the ethos of racial, ethnic, gender and class hatred they have imposed on the North American working class² since colonial times. Were the New Deal to fulfill its potential of universal socioeconomic security, it would end  the dog-eat-dog competition for survival that fuels identity politics. It would thereby deny the ruling class its most effective weapon for preserving and expanding its own dictatorial power. No longer could the aristocracy keep us powerless by imposing  austerity, limiting the availability of jobs, housing, food and healthcare,  and weaponizing the resultant hardships to ensure we remain divided against ourselves in life-or-death competition for survival.³    

In this context, let us not forget two pivotal facts: firstly, that the primary purpose of both the Italian Fascist Party and the German Nazi Party was to exterminate any and all forms of socialism – to destroy beyond any possibility of resurrection the one and only ethos in our species’ history that openly seeks global working-class solidarity by proclaiming it the only effective defense against the ecogenocidal consequences of capitalist moral imbecility; secondly, that the New Deal had the selfsame purpose of staving-off socialist revolution and preserving capitalism,  though it sought to do so not by the brute force of fascism or nazism, but by humanitarian concessions universal enough to ameliorate capitalism's infinite malevolence. Thus the New Deal began nullifying capitalism's  traditional, self-protective compulsions to intra-working-class racial, ethnic and gender conflicts. To eliminate the need for revolutionary transformation into Soviet-style proletarian dictatorship -- a need widely recognized in an era in which the Communist Party had grown to be the third largest political organization in USian history -- the New Deal offered working-class solidarity via unionism and pledged to control capitalist greed by a combination of collective bargaining and progressive legislation.

But the capitalist aristocracy clearly understood such concessions would radically reduce and perhaps permanently eliminate their ability to maintain maximum power, which they had repeatedly done by fostering enough hateful conflict amongst the races, ethnicities and genders within the working class to ensure we remain disunited -- and therefore hopelessly defenseless against whatever outrages or atrocities they might  choose to inflict. On the rare occasions the USian working class managed to transcend identity politics and unite in a common front, as at Blair Mountain and the battle that ensued, as we momentarily achieved on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the Countercultural '60s -- thus the post-Memorial-Day relevance of the above photograph and the report linked in its cutlines -- or as we briefly attempted via Occupy, we were soon subjugated by brute force. Though in Occupy -- where I revealed myself to be a near-lifelong Marxian and was welcomed as an elder activist -- we were also beset internally by the solidarity-smashing self-obsessed egotism in which so many younger USians have been relentlessly conditioned literally from birth.      

Like their penchant for violence, the aristocrats' identity-politics strategy is at least as old as Rome: divide et impera; divide and rule.

And the USian ruling class -- no doubt with the savvy assistance of some the Original (NSDAP) Nazi war criminals infiltrated into USian society by the government -- it has weaponized it as never before.

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A DAMNING PATTERN of historical facts, a vast, 90-year body of circumstantial evidence far stronger than what would be necessary to win convictions in any U.S. criminal court, tells us the present-day effort by the “Republican” (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party to transform the U.S. into a white-male-supremacist theocracy  -- this thoroughly enabled by the mainstream-media-obscured, post-JFK function of  the “Democratic” (sic) Party as the Republicans’ Fifth Column --  dates back to the failed Bankers’ Plot of 1933 and the federal government’s millionaire-mandated decision in 1934 to drop its congressional investigation of the plotters, thereby granting these ruling-class perpe-traitors de facto immunity.

Forced by the exposure and defeat of their plot to reckon with the fact the nation could not be nazified overnight, the fathers and grandfathers of today’s ruling class conceived a clandestine, far-more-diabolical strategy of three parts. First they began the slow-motion process of co-opting fundamentalist Christianity and turning it into a dependably obedient, ldeologically lockstep, politically formidable, less publicly violent variant of the Sturmabteilung. Next they cemented a permanent Nazi/Wall-Street alliance by enabling the International Business Machines corporation (IBM) to organize Hitler’s genocide program. Lastly – after the Red Army’s sweeping victory at Stalingrad made it obvious Germany would loose the war – they ordered their governmental lackeys to begin recruiting vast numbers of upper echelon Original (NSDAP) Nazi war criminals as U.S. government advisors and comrades-at arms.

With the murder of Medgar Evers as its prelude -- say his name --  then came, as predictably as night follows day, the kill-the-New-Deal-forever coup of 22 November 1963 – the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, its cover-up by the Warren Commission and all the horrors that relentlessly followed:

• The Vietnam War;
• The attack on the USS Liberty, which is now revealed (see below) as the false-flag opener in the Johnson Regime’s failed attempt to justify a thermonuclear Pearl Harbor against the Soviet Union;
• An entire decade of obviously political martyrdom: (say their names: Malcolm X, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Viola Liuzzo, Martin Luther King Jr., Sen. Robert Kennedy, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, William Knox Schroeder, Philip Lafayette Gibbs, James Earl Green, Karen Silkwood -- and remember there are no doubt many more such martyrs  unnamed and lost to history);
• The Nazi-war-criminal advised Central Intelligence Agency's concurrent, near-total suppression of the Counterculture;
• The subsequent imposition of the USian socioeconomic variant of nazism cleverly euphemized as "neoliberalism," perfected by the University of Chicago's economics department in the torture-lab of Pinochet's Chile,  vectored into USia by the Carter Regime,  brought to full malignancy by the so-called Reagan Revolution and further metastasized by`its Fifth Column of Democrat collaborators led by the Clintons and Obama (with Barack the Betrayer no doubt also chosen specifically to inflame the white electorate's always-simmering, post-Katrina-proven racism);
• The ongoing, ever-more-overt nazification of the nation and the simultaneous rise of Neoconfederate fanaticism  rendered unstoppable by Trump’s racist/misogynist victory over the (deliberately?) ill-advised Hillary Clinton in 2016;
• And finally the dark undertow of cumulative consequences turned fatal to the solidarity of the federal union  -- and probably deadly to any last lingering vestiges of USian democratic process --  by the combination of Biden's election, Trump's attempted putsch against him on 6 January 2021 and the ever-more-violent, ever-more-irreconcilable hostilities so aroused. 

Now we suffer a presidency so "change-we-can-believe-in" treacherous to progressives and nevertheless so infuriating to the Christonazis and Neoconfederates, its chronic unpopularity remains unprecedentedly constant at around 55 percent. And with the Beguiler's compulsory, no-choice-allowed reelection candidacy rammed down our proverbial throats by the political puppets of the ruling class, it is almost certain to hand these biological and/or ideological descendants of the Bankers' Plot perpe-traitors their  final, forever end-of-the-U.S.-as-we-knew-it triumph next year -- this as the mainstream media's propagandistic complicty approaches the level of an undisguised atrocity.

When we view all these bits of  circumstantial evidence as a totality, as a logical sequence of cause-and-effect, we have a story that  reads like a sequel to Mein Kampf -- or an indictment written from the Rise chapters of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Schirer's epic history of Nazi Germany.

Which brings us back to MAGA – “Make America Great Again” – as a diabolically clever euphemism for MAHA – Make America Hate Again: the only way our self-appointed masters can guarantee our far greater numbers remain irrelevant, especially now that our ever-more-desperate struggles to survive are increasingly targeted as acts of revolutionary defiance.

Here then are three recent betrayals in which the Democrats prove beyond any possibility of denial their ultimate function as the Christonazi/Neoconfederate Fifth Column:

Betrayal Number One: The Biden Regime’s Federal Bureau of Investigation -- part of the secret-police apparatus commanded by the Department of Homeland Security --  is now serving the Christonazis by denouncing abortion-rights activists as a new domestic terror threat and hunting them accordingly. This terrifying disclosure follows Intercept’s revelations of how Biden the Beguiler sicced the feds on pro-choice Jane’s Revenge – a story completely suppressed by the mainstream media propaganda apparatus in its function as the world’s first privately owned, for-profit version of Josef Goebbels’ Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda -- and a decision in 100-percent opposition  to Biden’s allegedly “evolved” pro-choice stance, but -- of course -- entirely in keeping with his anti-choice history as documented by The Guardian and by Rolling Stone.

Betrayal Number Two (quoted text from Common Dreams): “The details of a debt ceiling/spending deal between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy include a number of provisions that...fast-track new fossil fuel development, including swift actions to bolster approval of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act, and freezing of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency.” Obviously the Democrats' pledge to protect the life-sustaining remnants of our ever-more-toxified earthly enviroment is but another example of "change we can believe in," the most outrageous Big Lie ever fed the tragically gullible USian electorate.  

Betrayal Number Three (quoted text from Just Security): “For months, environmental and racial justice activists in Atlanta have challenged the destruction of a local forest for a police training facility. Following an extended draconian crackdown, the Atlanta Police Department on May 31 arrested three people who operated a bail fund providing legal support to demonstrators. This escalatory action directly targeted constitutional rights to free speech and legal representation, drawing widespread criticism from civil rights groups such as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which called the arrests a ‘discretionary misuse of law enforcement’ to intimidate activists.” To justify these unprecedented arrests, the Georgia authorities cited the characterization of the Atlanta activists as terrorists by the Biden Regime’s Department of Homeland Security, essentially already behaving as if it were the USian equivalent of the Third Reich’s Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA).  Wake up, people;  the de facto Fourth Reich is already upon us.

As Winston Churchill is credibly said to have privately commented on the eve of the Battle of Britain, "only a miracle can save us now." 

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Five More News Reports That Reflect How MAGA Means MAHA

Swatstika-brandishing Nazis, other DeSantis supporters rally outside Disney World in Orlando, Florida. An ever-more-common expression of genocidal hatred legitimized by Trump and his Christonazi/Neoconfederate Republicans. “As usual, the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has refused to denounce his Nazi supporters.”

Unknown sadists target children by pouring muriatic acid on playground slides; several kids suffer burns.This is another, especially wrenching manifestation of the hatred that increasingly typifies USia since the Trump candidacy legitimized its expression. (To put this atrocity in its proper perspective, note that thanks to MAHA, the definitively capitalist ethos of infinitely selfish moral imbecility now rules, its hateful ubiquity proven by the fact that as of 14 June, USia’s burgeoning legions of moral imbeciles have run amok with guns to confirm their ultimate suitability for jobs in maximum-profit upper-management by murdering 351 humans and wounding 1,032 more in 272 mass shootings already this year.)

Muslim-governed Michigan city bans LGBTQ Pride flags on all public property. Thanks to the lifetime Christonazification of the Supreme Court, USian religions can now be as openly hateful as they want. (Note Grover Norquist’s assertion fanatical Muslims and fanatical Christians share the same values and the implicit belief they should therefore unite to impose anti-Jewish theocracy on USia.)

Which already exists in misogynistic form as proven by the hateful Southern Baptist declaration women are biblically unfit to serve the church in any pastoral office. (NOTE: I had not heard of TrendyDigest before seeking a detailed report on this example of MAHA-in-action, but after nearly an hour of online research, its work and this Aljazeera dispatch were by far the best, most contextually detailed stories I could find. My special thanks to TD for a chronology that suggests the fanatically patriarchal Baptists regard the disempowerment of women as the final solution to the denomination’s innumerable sex-abuse scandals.)

Last but not least, and most assuredly echoing the Original (NSDAP) Nazi declaration of genocide against “life unfit for life,” we have the newest Chrisionazi/Neoconfederate declaration of potentially deadly hate against elderly and disabled people.

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And Five MAHA-Relevant Comment-Thread Posts from Other Websites

How LBJ Tried to Start World War III; Massive Cover-Up Continues After 55 Years. Evidence suggests the Israelis were ordered to attack the USS Liberty as part of a false-flag operation intended to justify a U.S. invasion of Egypt to oust Nasser, thereby provoking a Soviet response LBJ would use to justify a thermonuclear first strike aimed at destroying the Soviet Union and giving the USian Empire Hitler’s ultimate goal of dictatorship over all the world’s nations and peoples.

My comment: Actually I think future historians -- if indeed our species has a future (which I gravely doubt) -- will cite 22 November 1963 as the permanent end of the United States as a democratic republic, much as 30 January 1933 (the date of Hitler's appointment as chancellor by von Hindenburg) marks the end of the Weimar Republic. I also suspect LBJ's criminally treasonous conspiracies so ruthlessly compromised the "Democratic" (sic) Party, it can never again be anything other than the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party. As to how those crimes were facilitated, I suspect the true enablers were the legions of diabolically clever upper-echelon Original (NSDAP) Nazi war criminals the USian government and ruling class embraced as advisors and comrades-at-arms, though the plutocrats’ passion for nazifying the U.S. is readily traceable to the 1933 Bankers' Plot and the federal grant of de facto immunity to its perpe-traitors in 1934.

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"The use of domestic terrorism charges against the environmental and animal liberation movements set important precedents for the repression Atlanta’s ‘Stop Cop City’ movement faces today.”

My comment: Two points:

(1)--Anyone who (still) doubts 9/11 was the Reichstag Fire of the USian Empire and de facto Fourth Reich is either clinically deranged or hopelessly stupid.

(2)--Quoth Lev Bronstein, c. 1905: "In every gathering of three revolutionaries, there is at least one agent of the Okhrana."

Truly, nothing else need be said.

Later on the same thread, in supportive response to Nylene 13’s comments about the ruling class: Not just evil, but ecogenocidally Evil, planet-killing Evil, potentially solar-system and galaxy destroying Evil, bottomlessly Evil, infinitely Evil,  more Evil than any known language can possibly describe. But to our endless disadvantage, they are most assuredly not  stupid; instead, like their idols Hitler and Pinochet, they are malevolently cunning,   serial-killer malicious, vindictively sadistic moral imbeciles utterly without empathy or compassion, our dying world's true apex predators, omnipotent until they are brought down by some apocalypse,  whether self-inflicted or not, that will most likely be the end of our entire species. 

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"If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press. Where’s the outcry? Mainstream media have been strangely silent following the arrest of two reporters in North Carolina.”

My comment: USian so-called "mainstream media" is in fact the world's first privately owned, for-maximum-monopoly-profit version of Hitler's Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda), which was headed by Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels and overseen by the Sicherheitsdienst -- the state security service also known as the SD --  in much the same way the USian mainstream media apparatus is overseen by the CIA.

Given the federal government's wholesale embrace of German Nazi war criminals as advisors and comrades-at-arms -- a process that began in 1944 (soon after the Red Army's sweeping victory at Stalingrad made it clear Germany would lose the war) -- it is clearly no coincidence the USian Empire developed deep-state institutions so similar to those of Nazi Germany.

The persecution of the two Asheville journalists and the persecution of alternative media in general, the latter dating to the clandestine suppression of the Counterculture that began shortly after the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is thus among the more obvious consequences. 

Though that assassination and its subsequent decade of political murders was its enabling coup, the methodically relentless nazification of USia and its Empire actually dates to 1934, when the perpe-traitors of the pro-nazification Bankers' Plot -- the fathers and grandfathers of the plutocracy that now owns all USian politicians and controls them as puppets -- were granted federal immunity.

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“The New York Times published...a column by Paul Krugman dismissing the role of Ukranian fascists in the mass murder of Jews and Soviet citizens during World War II and minimizing as mere ‘shadows’ their prominence in the present NATO proxy war against Russia. Krugman’s comment, ‘The Eyes of the World are Upon Ukraine,’ is a thoroughly dishonest and cynical apology for Ukrainian fascism, past and present.” 

My comment: Comrade Maclaman's welcome report on Paul Krugman's latest deceptions provides us with an exceptionally instructive example of how USia's so-called "mainstream media is in fact the world's first privately-owned, for-(maximum)-profit version of Hitler's Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP), the notorious Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by the equally notorious Josef Goebbels.

That its USian successor is a cluster of a half-dozen rigidly policed capitalist monopolies – The New York Times most assuredly included – enables it to march in purposefully fascistic lockstep even as it maintains a deceptive charade of superficial ideological differences.Thus in terms of their underlying messages of national exceptionalism and what amounts to divine-right global hegemony, there is ultimately no difference between The Times and Fox News.

And the apology for nazism that is the essence of the cited Krugman piece unquestionably makes that similarity undeniable. 

Not surprisingly given the legions of Original Nazi war criminals the USian government embraced as advisors and comrades-at-arms -- the "mainstream media" apparatus is closely monitored by the CIA, much as its Nazi forefather was monitored by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the state security agency of which the Gestapo was the most notorious part.

Also in Krugman's lies we again glimpse the far more devious USian variant of the blueprint for nazification provided by Hitler in Mein Kampf, a wretchedly written, unpleasantly tedious read which should nevertheless be studied closely by anyone who takes to heart Sun Tzu’s dictum of thoroughly knowing our enemy as the vital foundation of effective response.

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Why Did Trump Keep Classified Documents?

My comment: Given what we know of Trump's character and personality -- that is to say, his moral imbecility -- my guess is he was hoping to use classified, probably top-secret investigative material to blackmail his enemies, thereby turning them into his puppets. Nor would I put it past him to peddle military secrets for profit, as Mr. Vaill suggests.

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Plus One Comment Suppressed by The New York Times:

Is It Wrong to Bring a Child Into Our Warming World? (The magazine’s "Ethicist" columnist on personal responsibility and climate change.)

My (censored) comment: Seems to me in this instance the Ethicist misses the point. The ultimate question about bringing children into the world today is whether we have the right to create life we know will be subject to the unmitigated horrors -- ever-worsening environmental disaster and ever-more-tyrannical governance -- that now inescapably define our species' future. That's why every millennial I know -- and I know at least a dozen -- says they intend to remain childless. As one young woman memorably said in a group discussion about this very question: "I'm not an (expletive deleted) hereditary billionaire aristocrat -- and those are the only people left on this planet who can actually guarantee their children will not either die homeless or in some prison or concentration camp."

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And, in Closing, Three Random Glimpses of Reality:

FIRST THE TRULY BAD NEWS: as I have been hypothesizing at least since the beginning of the Ukraine War, Biden the Beguiler’s escalation of global thermonuclear terror to hitherto-unimaginable intensity is ultimately the declaration by his plutocratic puppet-masters they and their favored vassals now believe themselves sufficiently well-bunkered to survive whatever ecogenocidal horrors they choose to command their political puppets to inflict on us. And – yes – here thanks to The Guardian is irrefutable proof I read the evidence correctly.

THEN SOME (PARTIAL) GOOD NEWS: obviously – as indicated by other reports of a stunning, globally authenticated increase in wild-animal attacks – Nature has begun avenging herself against the perpetrators of what should properly be described as terminal climate change. (The good-news part is that here is still more solid proof of the Gaia Hypothesis – the scientific restatement of the core premise of the goddess-centered paganism that was our species’ first and longest-lasting religion – that our Mother Earth is alive, conscious and self-regulating.)

More darkly, Jackson Browne’s prophetic, wantonly disregarded warning of “the magnitude of her fury” is again confirmed.

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Though I'm Sorry I've Still No More Attempts at Writing Fiction

After emotionally, intellectually and journalistically coping with this week's news content, I'm admittedly tempted to dismiss my effort to write fiction as nothing more than psychological avoidance -- or at the very least, a wasteful distraction from tracking MAHA. But I'm nevertheless of two minds: one tells me fiction is by far the most effective way to disseminate a message -- witness George Orwell; the other tells me that if our species has a future at all, it will be in a world so constrained, fiction will be useless and therefore irrelevant. Obviously, what applies here is an ancient cliche: "time will tell."

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Three footnotes, with an apology Typepad's software won't allow them posted as such:

¹As a matter of linguistic principle I refuse to libel the non-U.S. residents of the two American continents by applying the name of their larger homeland to the most ecogenocidally malignant nation in human history. Hence I have derived "USia" and "USian" from "United States" and "U.S." It is  a usage I am gratefully delighted to note others are adopting as their own, for it also recognizes the fact any notion of  "united" states is proven an ever-more-colossal Big Lie by the ongoing self-division of USia's  peoples into two separate nations that have already become mutual enemies and will in all probability eventually go to war with one another.  One of these nations, which includes my home state of Washington, is a federation of approximately 14 mostly coastal states  in which human rights remain meaningful and the quest for improved social services including universal health care therefore remain viable causes. The other nation is a 36-state Christonazi/Neoconfederate dictatorship  hell-bent on imposing a zero-tolerance theocratic white-supremacist male tyranny openly modeled on Hitler's Third Reich.  (As always, language is a reflection of reality, and the reality expressed by the USian appropriation of the labels "America" and "American" is the intent of the USian ruling class -- the .01 Percenters -- to greedily expand their already inconceivably vast fortunes by conquering the entire two-continent landmass, subjugating and enslaving all its peoples and looting its natural resources until its environment is nothing more than a continent-sized version of the poisonous barren this obscene aristocracy is already making of the West Virginia coalfields and the Mississippi Delta region of the Gulf of Mexico.) 

²"Working class" as used herein is defined as any and all of us dependent upon regular paychecks for survival – that is, the entire 99.9 Percent of the population.     

³Beneath the media hype and Hollywood hullabaloo, the books and films of the Hunger Games anthology provide an excruciatingly accurate portrait of capitalism reductio ad absurdum; its great irony is the fact it is being peddled for maximum profit in a nation apparently already too dumbed-down to recognize the real-life USian counterparts of the fictional circumstances that legitimize its revolutionary message. As an unflinching caricature of present conditions, parts of it may well be the best such USian work ever. Despite some less-than-convincing performances in the films, its content is so apt, it leaves me questioning how it got past the normal mainstream-media censorship apparatus, which controls theater, film and book-publishing media as tightly as it controls print and broadcast news. I cannot but wonder -- especially given the USian Empire's adoption of so many Nazi war criminals who brought with them their party's  unprecedented skill at manipulating public opinion -- if the widespread dissemination  of the Hunger Games material might then be in part a ruling class attempt to measure the extent to which we are already so numbed by the horrors of neoliberal existence, we have become indifferent to atrocity and injustice and are thus psychologically too paralyzed to ever again effectively rise up against it. Nor can I doubt Madison Avenue's many disciples of Josef Goebbels and Edward Bernays would eagerly agree to such an experment. And I say this in the sure knowledge any such notion will be poo-pooed by the moronic minions who suicidally refuse to recognize the bottomless moral imbecility -- the infinitely ecogenocidal Evil -- by which our doomed species is now ruled. 

LB/16-18 June 2023

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