HERE
ARE TODAY'S links to what seem the most likely-to-be-censored (and
therefore usefully informative) Internet reports on the rapidly
spreading Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic:
Most vital reports of the day:
How the system -- murderously starved by Neoliberal malevolence -- will decide who lives and who dies.
Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Craigslist cited for pandemic price gouging
No surprise here. Under the deadly moral imbecility of Capitalism and its fascist-offspring Neoliberalism, what else might we expect?
No surprise here. Under the deadly moral imbecility of Capitalism and its fascist-offspring Neoliberalism, what else might we expect?
The former Goldman Sachs operations chief makes no secret of the fact he speaks for all our Masters.
Thanks to R.D. for sending me this link
.
Once again our Mother Earth warns us it's either socialism or extinction.
Undoubtedly true. But note also how the vast number of undocumented cases lowers the COVID-19 death rate
.
Are Hospitals Near Me Ready For Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios.
Thanks to "Projects propublica.org," today's most informative combination of data and maps.
Thanks to "Projects propublica.org," today's most informative combination of data and maps.
Included
here because it is the most Working-Family-focused analysis of the
bail-out measure to-date: it tells us who gets pampered (our Neoliberal
masters, of course), and who among us -- we the (real) people -- get the
crumbs from their banquet table. (I'll post more such details as they
become available.)
Hastening to their imaginary "rapture," self-obsessed ChristoNazis maliciously vector the pandemic.
Canada urges US not to put troops at border during pandemic
Apparently the Regime regards the Canadians as another potential enemy, no doubt because they are more civilized -- hence more inclined toward socialism -- than the Moronic Majority.
Apparently the Regime regards the Canadians as another potential enemy, no doubt because they are more civilized -- hence more inclined toward socialism -- than the Moronic Majority.
Begging the White House Nazi to help those of us he despises.
Which is, I submit, precisely our Masters' ecogenocidal intent.
Ethanol plants seek rule changes to resupply hand sanitizerIn time of crisis, bureaucratic inertia is often the deadliest killer of all.
Capitalism in action (I).
Capitalism in action (II).
Self-explanatory. Also utterly predictable.
LA sheriff clashes with county lawyer over closing gun shops
In the bigger cities, the cops speak for our Masters in demanding all Working Families be reduced to mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood.
In the bigger cities, the cops speak for our Masters in demanding all Working Families be reduced to mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood.
A new beat for police across US: Enforcing social distance
Watch the arrests of people of color skyrocket to hitherto-unknown heights.
Watch the arrests of people of color skyrocket to hitherto-unknown heights.
What's in store: Groceries installing barriers amid outbreak
Self-explanatory.
Self-explanatory.
Q&A: How can the huge congressional aid package help you?
Self-explanatory -- and excellent work by AP.
Self-explanatory -- and excellent work by AP.
OHSU = Oregon Health and Science University
Latest chapter in the war against Big Lie governance.
Self-explanatory.
Venezuela announces 6-month rent suspension, guarantees workers’ wages, bans lay-offs
A genuinely good deed of precisely the sort our Neoliberal Masters will not tolerate -- as in fact we are quickly learning.
A genuinely good deed of precisely the sort our Neoliberal Masters will not tolerate -- as in fact we are quickly learning.
Washington brings NARCO-TERRORISM charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
And of course under Capitalism -- particularly in the USian Neoliberal (Nazi) Empire -- no good deed ever goes unpunished.
And of course under Capitalism -- particularly in the USian Neoliberal (Nazi) Empire -- no good deed ever goes unpunished.
Disgusting
but self-explanatory -- and surely no surprise, as our species'
richest-male-ever long ago proved himself also the most morally
imbecilic.
New Jersey Governor Closes All Firearm Shops, Says They are “Non-Essential”
Forcible disarmament, mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood by decree -- a Ruling Class atrocity we are bound to see repeated many times in far too many jurisdictions.
Forcible disarmament, mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood by decree -- a Ruling Class atrocity we are bound to see repeated many times in far too many jurisdictions.
Update on NJ Lawsuit
How the Second Amendment Foundation (of which I am an annual member) works to help keep us alive amidst the deadly chaos inflicted on us by our Masters.
How the Second Amendment Foundation (of which I am an annual member) works to help keep us alive amidst the deadly chaos inflicted on us by our Masters.
Democrats Blocked Trump From Handing Himself a Chunk of the $500 Billion Coronavirus Bailout
For the first time since 1977 -- that's when Jimmy the Jesus-Jumper gleefully signed the viciously misogynistic Hyde Amendment into law and began the sneaky process of imposing both ChristoNazi theocracy and Neoliberalism -- the Democratic (sic) Party has actually made a tiny but nevertheless real gesture toward protecting U.S. Working Families.
For the first time since 1977 -- that's when Jimmy the Jesus-Jumper gleefully signed the viciously misogynistic Hyde Amendment into law and began the sneaky process of imposing both ChristoNazi theocracy and Neoliberalism -- the Democratic (sic) Party has actually made a tiny but nevertheless real gesture toward protecting U.S. Working Families.
Indian Country's COVID-19 syllabus
News you will get nowhere else save here -- and at its Indian Country source.
News you will get nowhere else save here -- and at its Indian Country source.
EU Betrays Serbia AGAIN, Withholds Medical Equipment, Russia and China Step In
Though I loathe the linked source for its vicious antisemitism -- it is attempting to resurrect in Putin's Russia the traditionally murderous European hatred of Jews -- it nevertheless sometimes publishes vital stories. And what is more vital than the self-destruction of the European Union -- particularly with the self-destruction of the U.S. federal union already under way?
Though I loathe the linked source for its vicious antisemitism -- it is attempting to resurrect in Putin's Russia the traditionally murderous European hatred of Jews -- it nevertheless sometimes publishes vital stories. And what is more vital than the self-destruction of the European Union -- particularly with the self-destruction of the U.S. federal union already under way?
Also relevant:
Mother and daughter portrayed in quarantine: excellent AP feature story.
PG&E to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for Camp Fire deaths
No doubt Trump will either pardon the perpetrators or order his Robbers' Court "judges" to over-rule the plea.
No doubt Trump will either pardon the perpetrators or order his Robbers' Court "judges" to over-rule the plea.
A worthwhile read -- despite passages at which I bristle.
Why Do People Want So Badly to Believe This Story Is True?
The same imagination that gives us Santa Claus provides escape for adults too.
The same imagination that gives us Santa Claus provides escape for adults too.
Held over:
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 our Masters' 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 searches and seizures and arrests." Note 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 our Masters' 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.
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 searches and seizures and arrests." Note 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 our Masters' 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.)
*****
A
READER WITH whom I occasionally converse by long-distance telephone
asked at the beginning of these Updates how I decide which links to
publish. Hence the following:
I
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.)
But as my colleagues moved 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 versus 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, our Masters’ 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 am to see it disseminated via the Daily
Wipe and Audiovisual Zombification Monopoly (DWAAZM), by whatever local
names we might know it, 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: does it include indications from which we might evolve
estimates of our situations accurate enough to facilitate proper
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 eight or nine
hours each day.
Also, I've been asked what prompts my sudden penchant for rather harshly criticizing The Washington Post.
Note how quickly Bezos or one of his zero-tolerance vassals 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.
(To read more of 11 years of Dispatches and view some of my better photographs, go here.)
(To read more of 11 years of Dispatches and view some of my better photographs, go here.)
May all of you stay healthy and remain alive.
LB/26 March 2020 22:49PDT
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