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- COVID-19 deaths break US record as virus spreads through every state
- State orders Tacoma apartment complex to stop eviction notices
- Amazon Fires Employees Who Spoke Out About Coronavirus and Climate Change
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Reliable anthologies of pandemic reports (scroll each site for whatever "un-curated" news you deem relevant):
Virus Outbreak
Updated constantly by the Associated Press.
Updated constantly by the Associated Press.
Black Agenda Report
Updated regularly. In my opinion, the best, most informative, most relevant political website on the U.S. Internet.
Updated regularly. In my opinion, the best, most informative, most relevant political website on the U.S. Internet.
RT - Breaking news, shows, podcasts
Democratic (sic) Party Big Lies and Republican censorship not withstanding, this site provides what is often the most truthful reporting available to us in the United States. Updated often.
Democratic (sic) Party Big Lies and Republican censorship not withstanding, this site provides what is often the most truthful reporting available to us in the United States. Updated often.
TASS Russian News Agency
Just as Propagandamaster Bezos' WaPo gives us the Predatory Plutocrats' perspective, so does this site -- formerly Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телегра́фное аге́нтство Сове́тского Сою́за, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) -- give us, in English, the often-radically different Russian government's perspective. (It's history, dating from 1904, makes interesting reading for mediaphyles.) Updated often.
Just as Propagandamaster Bezos' WaPo gives us the Predatory Plutocrats' perspective, so does this site -- formerly Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телегра́фное аге́нтство Сове́тского Сою́за, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) -- give us, in English, the often-radically different Russian government's perspective. (It's history, dating from 1904, makes interesting reading for mediaphyles.) Updated often.
Xinhua
Ditto for the news agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua's reports are regularly updated and its history is here.
Ditto for the news agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua's reports are regularly updated and its history is here.
Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post Probably
useful material that's listed last because -- as applies to anything
originating from Propagandamaster Bezos's domain -- we should never
forget how he protects himself and his fellow predatory plutocrats with
vindictive self-censorship1 and warmongering lies.
Additional indications of the pandemic's true magnitude and consequences:
Total System Failure Will Give Rise To New EconomyWishful thinking that's nonetheless relevant.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemic, adding $24 billion to his fortuneThis
as Social Security recipients are seemingly not getting any of the
bail-out money that our lying Masters -- sorry for the redundancy --
promised us by yesterday and will apparently not arrive today either.
(DISCLOSURE: there's no direct-deposit bailout for me, nor is there for
any direct-deposit Social Security recipient I know. Is the bailout yet
another Big Lie? Given the federal government's 57-year penchant for
lying to everybody but its Wall-Street/bankster owners, who can say? As
for me, I'm assuming the censored truth is there will be no "bailout"
money for me or anyone else on a Social Security pension -- though it
would surely have helped with the runaway inflation history suggests
will soon finish the destruction of Capitalist society begun by
COVID-19.) Stay posted; if the money ever shows up I'll surely let you
know. Meanwhile welcome to the murderously sadistic Empire our
cousins-of-color and impoverished white kinfolk have known all their
wretched lifetimes.
Trump Treasury tells banks they can seize your $1,200 checkThe Neoliberals giveth then promptly steal it away.
Murals transform boarded-up storefronts amid stay-home orderHeld
over because of its indication the Neoliberal economy's
austerity-inflicted COVID-19 collapse will last a helluva lot longer
than our Masters are telling us.
Other pandemic-related indications and/or questions:
The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back
COVID-19 is now acknowledged as having flung human society into "the steepest freefall ever." (Held over for relevance.)
COVID-19 is now acknowledged as having flung human society into "the steepest freefall ever." (Held over for relevance.)
The impact of the pandemic on childcare in the US: A social catastrophe affecting generations
Held over for relevance.
Held over for relevance.
Especially for Washingtonians:
Thousands join virtual education camp run by Gig Harbor moms during pandemic
Held over for obvious reasons.
Held over for obvious reasons.
Sign on: Thank a nurse for their service | National Nurses UnitedHeld over for obvious reasons.
Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, TrumpIs
the President a Deep-State confidential informant? If so, are his
ecogenocidal policies then an accurate reflection of our real Masters'
true intent? Held over for its weekend-reading potential. With thanks to
Sioux Rose for the link -- and my apology for neglecting to credit her
when I first posted this yesterday.
The Normal Economy Is Never Coming BackCOVID-19 is now acknowledged as having flung human society into "the steepest freefall ever." Held over.
Decades of Science Denial Related to Climate Change Has Led to Denial of the Coronavirus PandemicHeld over for its curative dosage of bitter truth.
A Family’s Fetid Week With CoronavirusHeld
over because it is the most outspoken, most emotionally honest, most
implicitly life-supportive and by far the best reporting I have read in many
years. Indeed, Reyhan Harmanci is a writer whose talent I'd have
recognized with a full-time general-assignment staff-job (way, way) back
when "editor" was the key part of my job-title. (For more of her work,
click on her "Family's Fetid Week" byline.)
Important stuff to bear in mind:(All
of which helps us understand more about what the PluPreds are doing to
us now and what they might intend to do to us in the future.)
Sometime soon I'll wrestle my self-contempt down to the point of being able to confess how I twice had the story of one of these deadly atrocities but was too inept a salesman -- undoubtedly the most devastating insult with which one USian professional might belittle another -- to convince my editors to run it. Held over because it tells us precisely what our Masters think of us and what sort of a rat-lab nation we are thus cursed to inhabit.
‘Collateral Murder’ and the My Lai MassacreVital to understanding why the U.S. government's response to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic is genocidal rather than protective.
Goldman Sachs warns that curing patients may not be 'sustainable'
Outright acknowledgment from the deadliest Neoliberal predators that curing disease is bad for profits.
Outright acknowledgment from the deadliest Neoliberal predators that curing disease is bad for profits.
Average U.S. Citizens Have “Little Or No” Influence On Government Policy
Another "old" report given new relevance by what's being done to us today.
Another "old" report given new relevance by what's being done to us today.
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 the PPs' 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." Scroll to Footnote2 to learn what atrocities could thus be inflicted on 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." Scroll to Footnote2 to learn what atrocities could thus be inflicted on us.
Avenger Planet: Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature's Response to Human Transgression?
Excellent question -- though as a (solitary-practice) Gaian Pagan, I would cite the scientific hypothesis that bears the Earth Goddess' name and answer "almost certainly yes." (One of the innumerable reasons the ChristoNazis so despise us is the majority of our beliefs are based on science -- the ultimate terminator of all patriarchal religion.)
Excellent question -- though as a (solitary-practice) Gaian Pagan, I would cite the scientific hypothesis that bears the Earth Goddess' name and answer "almost certainly yes." (One of the innumerable reasons the ChristoNazis so despise us is the majority of our beliefs are based on science -- the ultimate terminator of all patriarchal religion.)
How to Make a DIY Mask From a T-Shirt or BandannaNew; hopefully useful; have not tried it myself.
CARES Act Pandemic Unemployment Assistance for FreelancersUseful, potentially lifesaving economic information.
(Disclosure: I am a longtime National Writers Union member and
co-chaired one of their local writers' workshops c. 2009-2011.)
Handling mail amid coronavirus: Low risk but wash your handsMy
practice is to assume everything from outside is potentially
contaminated, hence I wash my hands thoroughly after handling any
incoming packages and sanitize any surface upon which they might have
rested or been unwrapped.
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1As to what prompts my sudden skepticism of virus coverage by The Washington Post, note how quickly Bezos or one of his zero-tolerance subordinates 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.
2Be aware 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 the PPs' 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.)
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STAY
HEALTHY. REMEMBER in such times as these, with our Masters targeting
the entire 99 Percent for genocidal reduction, survival is not only
revolutionary defiance but the first step toward the socialist
revolution that is now our species' sole path to survival.
LB/16 April 2020 04:39 PDT
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