Patti Smith Lauds Dylan; JesuNazis Target Disabled People

MOST OF MY efforts this week are focused on completing a 2500-word analysis of a Trump/Pence decision that necessitated far more research than I initially estimated and will probably be posted later today or sometime early Friday.

Hence the brevity of today's Dispatches, with my heartfelt thanks to TigerLille for sending me the URLs of Patti Smith's profoundly evocative Bob Dylan story and the report on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' suspension of Trump's malicious ouster of transexuals from the imperial war machine.

THOUGH I DESPISE DISASTER PORN, THIS HURRICANE HARVEY REPORT contains valuable information about the impact of climate change...

(To read the rest, go here or here.) 

How Capitalism Maliciously Strangles Human Potential

FORMER TRUMP HONCHO SAYS IMPEACHMENT WILL TRIGGER CIVIL WAR. Roger Stone, a top Republican adviser to the Trump/Pence campaign, threatens any member of Congress who might vote for impeachment, warning they "would be endangering their own life." 

(Note: I selected this as the lead item in today's Dispatches because Stone's comments exemplify – more convincingly than anything I have hitherto heard or seen – the extent to which the Trump/Pence Regime lays bare the true horror of what the United States has become since the coup of 22 November 1963. To envision what Stone predicts, imagine the battles of 1861-1865 fought with modern military technology – nuclear weapons included. And don't for a minute imagine anything could stop the Trump/Pence reincarnation of the Confederacy from seizing U.S. aircraft, ships and weapons, exactly as the original Confederacy seized all the U.S. military bases and supply depots in the states that seceded. See for example here [scroll down to “Prelude”]. See also the far more detailed [albeit pro-Confederate] account of the Confederacy's economy here.  )

WHY “THE GLORY OF WAR” NEEDS TO BE STRIPPED OF ITS “L”: an anti-JesuNazi Southerner, the descendant of a Confederate soldier, reflects on reality then and now. 

NAFTA STATUS REPORT TRACES IMPORTANT HISTORY OF USIAN CAPITALISM, including how the One Percenters' “forty-year war on workers” reveals the profit motive of which Nazism is invariably the ultimate expression.

USIAN CAPITALISM'S TRUE MALEVOLENCE PROVEN BY MINIMUM-WAGE CUTS inflicted by state governments' preemptions of wage-setting authority. An unusually uncensored revelation of Capitalist maliciousness. Another is here. (Given the givens, especially the underlying moral imbecility, I cannot but wonder: how much more will the Trump-Pence Regime cut our already Obama-shrunken food stamp, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security stipends?)

JESUNAZI TRANSPHOBIC HATEFULNESS IS NOW OFFICIAL USIAN POLICY. But this Mainstream Media report merely confirms what most of us already know while suppressing the real story: who amongst us – impoverished people, old people, disabled people, gay people, lesbian people, bisexual people, non-white people, non-male people – will be next? Who is next in line to suffer the Trump/Pence Regime's precursor to the total nullification of one's citizenship?

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