WOKE
UP THIS morning sick as the proverbial dog: fever of 102F, entire body
an uncooperative mass of aches, brain too fuzzy to focus on anything
but the most mundane tasks, no other symptoms yet. Hence, with my
apologies, this collection of my earlier posts on the comment threads
of other sites:
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“Pentagon & NSA Officials: Assassinate Edward Snowden”
David Sirota of PandoDaily exposes the murderousness at the core of the
USian Empire. I link Sirota's courageous work to a report on the extent
to which the empire is ruled by white racism and argue its combination of racism and murder proves it's the de facto
Fourth Reich. As Sirota's disclosures imply, “the only relevant
question now is when will the government – which is disguising its
broader genocidal intentions as cutbacks in Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment compensation – begin openly
murdering not just dissidents but all of us it and its One Percent
masters want dead.”
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“Why is Washington paying Catholic hospitals to take away healthcare?”Monica Harrington of Catholic Watch
reports on how the eternally misogynistic Catholic Church is using
taxpayer dollars to buy up Washington state's healthcare system and
prohibit end-of-life, contraception and maternity care. The usual cadre
of Christian zealots denounce her reporting as “hatred,” but I – late to
the fair – post a bibliography of texts and links that support her
work by documenting even more of the hideous truth about the USian
Empire's rush toward theocracy.
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“Westlake businesses hold the city's bike plan hostage”
Eric Scigliano exposes another example of the Ayn Rand selfishness and
political cowardice that lurks beneath the Big Lie of “progressive”
Seattle. I point out the associated thread is a perfect example of the
reactionary, malevolently auto-centric hatefulness that -- in Seattle as
in Tacoma -- invariably rises to the surface of Pugetopolis political
cesspool to obstruct any and all improvements in public transport.
*****
“Steubenville Rapist Released After 10 Months, While Activist Who Exposed Him Faces 10 Year Sentence” Jodie Gummow of AlterNet
updates the atrocity story. I point out it is the One Party of Two
Names -- the fact the president and all the other Democrats and
Republicans are, in reality, members of a single party representing only
the One Percent -- that makes our nation the fascist despotism it is.
The FBI – part of the massive secret police apparatus that protects the
Ruling Class and sustains its fascist tyranny – is merely following
orders.
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Divide between Governor, Republicans Paralyzes Washington State. This was not the title of John Stang's informative report on state government, but it should have been. As I said last year, the Republican coup in the Senate
kills any remaining hope of humanitarian policy-making in Washington
state. It also – cunningly (and exactly as intended) – gives the
Democrats the ability to muddy the political waters by spouting
humanitarian rhetoric. The Ruling Class allows it because there's not
the slightest chance any of it will ever be enacted. Moreover, the
Democrats' Big Lie re-emergence as a (bogus) party of the people serves
the Ruling Class by weakening the voter-appeal of genuine humanitarians
-- that is, Kshama Sawant and other socialists. Thus, by discrediting
government, the One Percent prevails.
LB/19 January 2014
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