Capitalist Carnivorousness Countered by Corvid Consolations

IS INVASION AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO NEXT ON THE USIAN IMPERIAL AGENDA? The extreme and continuing militarization of the Mexican border  has only one rational explanation: that in its relentless, ever-more-Hitleresque quest to rule the world, and in the equally relentless quest of its Biblical Capitalist overlords for additional slaves and extractive profiteering, the Imperial United States intends to invade and conquer Mexico and undoubtedly the rest of Latin America as well. No doubt too this murderous, ultimately genocidal intent is intensified by white Capitalist fears the Zapatistas might win the Mexican presidency. 

TODAY'S CRISIS-TORN VENEZUELA IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF USIAN IMPERIALISM, both in terms of what the Empire is doing to the Venezuelan Working Class and in the USian Pseudo-Left's arrogant, anti-intellectual, incipiently racist disdain for the Venezuelan people. Meanwhile, encouraged by USian advisers, Venezuelan plutocrats continue scheming to re-subjugate the nation's peasants and proletarians.

EXPOSING THE USIAN PSEUDO-LEFT FOR ITS TREACHERY AND DECEPTION: Three informative reports here, here and here.

MEANWHILE, HILLARY THE HATEFUL escalates her campaign of vengeance against Bernie Sanders even as...

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18 Subversive Stories Sandwiched between 2 Rebellious Rants, Each Sentence Cobbled Together in Horrifically Harried Haste

EXPLANATORY RANT (AKA PREFATORY WHINING): because I am more jammed up than ever – not only the time normally consumed by the monthly newsletter I edit and produce as an unpaid volunteer for the low-income senior housing complex in which I live, but as never before has happened during the newsletter's production week, the time stolen by the excruciatingly painful labor of preparing for the federally mandated quarterly premises inspection by which our overlords ensure we impoverished tenants are spit-in-our-faces reminded of our place as subhuman, god-cursed garbage near the very bottom of Biblical Capitalism's malicious caste system – the text accompanying the following links will be unusually abbreviated, for which I apologize in advance.

My alternative is to post no Dispatches at all until Sunday, a surrender to circumstance I am not willing to make, never mind the necessarily thorough pre-inspection housecleaning damns me give it approximately 18 of the hours I would normally devote to volunteer journalism. Thus instead of sitting comfortably at my desk reading and thinking and writing as I would be doing either in relaxed mode for the newsletter or at peak intensity for Dispatches, I am forced by the looming inspection to suffer the truly agonizing bending and twisting the cleaning chores inflict on my officially disabled 77-year-old flesh, my disability the legacy of long-ago back, shoulder and knee injuries that were formerly dormant but which about a decade ago became hopelessly arthritis-inflamed and will therefore remain inescapably painful until my sufferings are at last relieved by the total anesthesia that is the one great blessing of death. Plus there's the oppressive sense of exhaustion that is the consequence of both the intensified pain and the breathlessness – the chief symptom of my slowly but steadily worsening congestive heart failure – that like some monstrous leaden straitjacket crushes my chest whenever I engage in unaccustomed exertion, as is required by scrubbing a dirty linoleum floor or cleaning rugs the thickly woven material of which makes vacuuming nearly as difficult as mowing tall grass with a very dull version of an old-fashioned hand-powered mower.

As they really do say in the theater whether on Broadway or off – this from the actresses I dated during my Manhattan prime – “the show must go on.” Hence, without further ado, here's the news:

CAPITALIST POLITICIANS AGAIN SHOW THEIR PLUTOCRATIC HATEFULNESS, this time by reducing the minimum wage and imposing statewide legislation that prohibits minimum wage hikes by any of the given states' cities or counties. An additional report is here.

NAOMI KLEIN'S AWAKENING, LIKE THAT OF THE USIAN LEFT IN GENERAL, amounts to re-inventing the wheel that was first invented by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nevertheless it makes for encouraging reading.

THEOCRAT PENCE MEETS WITH FELLOW MISOGYNISTS BUT refuses to disclose what was discussed or which JesuNazis participated in the discussions.

TRUMP'S CIVIL RIGHTS HONCHO BUILT HIS CAREER ON MISOGYNY AND HATRED OF LGBTQ PEOPLE, a no-surprise appointment by the ever-more-brazenly theocratic regime that has already resurrected the traditionally Christian claims of divine-right sadism and hatefulness.

IN YET ANOTHER ATROCITY OF THE JESUNAZI WAR AGAINST WOMEN, the USian Supreme Court has revived a Wisconsin law that effectively criminalizes pregnancy...

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First Lots of Bad News, but Then – As If to Bolster the Opiate of Hope – a Little Good News (Though Only from Two Locales)

REVOLUTION OF 1776 SPAWNED BY SLAVE-OWNERS' FEARS OF ABOLITION: New scholarship confirms beyond argument something my Marxian father taught me 67 years ago – that the hidden motive  behind the so-called “American revolution” was the preservation of slavery. In other words, what the “patriots” intended was nothing more than the 18th Century equivalent of a Nazi coup – an intent repeatedly underscored by its subsequent history,  for which see also here, here, here,  and here. (Disclosure: my paternal ancestors include Margaret Blisse and Mary Blisse, mother and daughter who were independent women farmers in Connecticut during the mid 1640s and were imprisoned on charges of witchcraft but somehow managed to beat the rap. By the time of the revolution, the family had moved to Boston, where they were lawyers and merchants, one a graduate of Harvard, another of Yale. All were Loyalists; thus their lands were confiscated, and they were driven – at bayonet-point and with only such possessions as they could carry on their backs – into permanent exile. The men then served as officers in the British Army, while their wives and children fled to Canada. My immediate paternal ancestors did not return to the United States until the early 1900s.)

CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (I): The real significance of Trumpcare is it formalizes the final destruction of the social contract, thereby completing the descent into officially sanctioned Ayn Rand moral imbecility the Capitalists have sought long before the matriarch of monetary murderousness exhaled her first malignant breath.


CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (II): A true-to-life portrait of plutocracy shows us Trump is the Capitalist rule rather than the exception and likewise proves both his morally imbecilic twinship with the Clintons and the ideological twinhood of the Democratic (sic) and Republican parties.


CAPITALIST GOVERNANCE AS GENOCIDE (III): The defining clash of our time is the fight between the plutocrats who believe healthcare should forever remain a privilege of wealth versus those of us who believe healthcare is a human right that should...

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Trumpcare Confirms We Are a Conquered People, Reduced to Serfs and Slaves, but Will It Ignite Long-Overdue Revolution?

DESPITE DELAYS, TRUMPCARE WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BECOME LAW, with its tyrannies compelled and excused by white USians' religiously fostered genocidal hatreds of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asiatics, First Nations peoples, `LGBTQ folks and anti-patriarchal women of all races. Meanwhile the total corruption of the Democratic (sic) Party  ensures the USian policy of healthcare as a privilege of wealth will endure as long as the Empire itself endures. Thus USian single-payer universal healthcare is effectively doomed for all eternity, never mind the magnitude of the public's desperate yearning for such healthcare-as-a-human-right protection is again confirmed, this time  accidentally by a Republican survey. 

FORMER REAGAN OFFICIAL NOW CALLS FOR (SOCIALIST) REVOLUTION: the headline on Paul Craig Roberts' newest essay tells most of the story, “Once Only Blacks Were Enslaved, Now We All Are,” and his concluding quote tells the rest of it: “Chris Hedges says that your only alternatives are to overthrow the criminal class in Washington or to accept your slavery.” Roberts' publisher Global Research also offers five other provocative essays  on the always-relevant topic of USian imperialist savagery.

  

MAINSTREAM MEDIA ACTS TO SUPPRESS REVOLUTIONARY ANGER: As I have noted way too many times to count, so-called “Mainstream Media” is owned by members of the same class of plutocratic tyrants – i.e., the One Percenters – who own or control USian government at all levels whether federal, state or local. This means...

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Today's Dispatches Each Reveal Aspects of Theocratic Malice

Every outrage and atrocity inflicted on us by the Trump/Pence Regime is an expression of Biblical Capitalist Christianity's theocratic malignancy.

THE LATEST ON THE EVER-ESCALATING WAR AGAINST FEMALE SEXUALITY: How the attack on the Affordable Care Act (i.e. “Obamacare”) is largely motivated by the regime's intent to deny Working Class women any and all means of birth control.

END OF CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION ALREADY SPARKING THEOCRATIC ACTION: The Roberts Court – aka the Robber Court or SCROTUS (Supreme Capitalist Regulators of the United States [the judges who have us all by the crotch]) – has already ordered the supreme courts of Colorado and New Mexico to reconsider decisions  prohibiting taxation in support of religious schools. (Not to brag, but this is precisely the sort of outrage I predicted.)

DENVER COPS BUST ANTI-TRUMPCARE DISABILITY ACTIVISTS: The Hill reports 10 protesters were arrested after they staged a two-day sit-in at Republican Senator Cory Gardner's office. (The connection between Christian theocracy and the murdrous USian insistence healthcare is a privilege of wealth rather than a human right – an ugly truth routinely suppressed by mainstream media  – is explained here  by intelligently secular reportage and confirmed here  by the theocrats themselves.)

TEXAS SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN ANTI-LGBTQ SUIT: These so-called “justices” essentially argue homophobic bigotry is a right of statehood (yes, just as slavery was a right of antebellum statehood). Black-robed tyrants all, they claim, “despite the (U.S.) Supreme Court’s decision that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry...a state may be permitted to give same-sex couples a piece of paper declaring them married while denying them the actual legal benefits of marriage.”

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AS “THE SIMPLE JOY OF MCDONALDS”:  A growing number of complaints suggest the burger barony is increasingly less than diligent in its enforcement of a theoretically zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment, as exemplified...

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"Our Democracy": Viciously Misogynistic Christian Theocracy, Jury-Approved Genocide by Cops, Total Surveillance Just as Reichsführer-SS Heydrich Proposed and Obama Made Real

THIS POST IS TARDY FOR TWO REASONS. One, on Tuesday I joyfully seized a depressingly rare opportunity for an afternoon of outdoor recreation which so painfully inflamed my arthritis I spent most of Wednesday in bed (though if I have another such opportunity, I will seize it with equal joyfulness, the afflictions of old age be damned). Two, looking at the defining characteristics of USian (i.e. Biblical Capitalist, i.e. JesuNazi, i.e. murderously white Christian) governance, I was paralyzed with several hours of indecision. I couldn't decide which is worse: the ever more brazen imposition of theocracy; the ever increasing (and ever more obviously genocidal) murders of minority people, especially African-Americans, by federally militarized police; or the newest disclosure of Obama's fuck-us-all vindictiveness, in this instance his malicious evasion of the Constitution to impose total-surveillance precisely as conceived by Adolph Hitler and his henchmen and now applauded by the white Christian theocrats as a means of enforcing their unspeakable malevolence. But since it's this “secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power”  that knowingly enables these and all other USian atrocities, that's where we'll start today's Dispatches.

SCOTUS OPENS DOOR FOR FORCIBLE TAXATION TO FUND THEOCRACY. The Capitalist-mandated imposition of USian theocracy went public in 1954 with the still-controversial and often vindictively enforced addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance – the capital “G” making it undeniably obvious the deity so referenced is the Divine Sadist worshiped by white-supremacist Christians. And now the theocracy campaign has been handed its greatest and most decisive leap forward by the USian Supreme Court in a pivotal 7-2 decision that potentially makes every USian taxpayer a slave of national Christendom. Or as Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, the court has ruled, “for the first time...the Constitution requires the government to provide public funds directly to a church.” In other words, the Roberts Court has reduced the Establishment Clause  to another of the innumerable Big Lies implicit in the biggest Big Lie of all time, “our democracy.”  Meanwhile, JesuNazi Justice Neil Gorsuch took advantage of another Supreme Court decision to declare total and unending war on LGBTQ people.

THEOCRACY IS LIKE A VENOMOUS SERPENT: WE IGNORE IT AT OUR OWN PERIL Most USians – 63 percent –  are already at theocracy's gateway-belief in the Bible as the literally true (and therefore indisputable) word of their infamously sadistic god. They thus countenance – whether by their support or unconcern – the ever-escalating imposition of Christian tyranny. Yet too many of us who oppose it are effectively self-silenced, whether by...

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California Democrat Kills Single-Payer Healthcare, Proving Again the Big Lie of "Our Democracy" and the Folly of Trying to Halt USian Capitalism's Metamorphosis into JesuNazism

DEATH OF CALIFORNIA SINGLE PAYER BILL DEMONSTRATES THE UTTER FUTILITY OF ALL USIAN REFORM EFFORTS. By any manner of reckoning, it appeared for a time California would triumph  in its valiant effort to at long last topple the definitive and calculatedly genocidal USian principle of health care as a privilege of wealth. But thanks to the last minute betrayal by a Democratic (sic) legislator, that defiant attempt to proclaim health care a universal human right – never mind it was supported by 65 percent of California's citizenry  – was slain by a single despotic dagger of procedural sleight-of-hand. And despite the bold talk of single-payer's proponents, such reform – whether in California or anywhere else in the USian homeland – is undoubtedly dead forever.

THE OBVIOUS LESSON TAUGHT BY SINGLE-PAYER'S DEFEAT – the lesson emphatically denied and relentlessly suppressed by those who in their secret, pro-Capitalist terror of an activist public peddle hope as “the dope-iate of the masses”) –  has two parts. One is the irremediable perversion of the entire USian political system, such that all its so-called “representative” bodies – city councils, county councils, state assemblies and legislatures and of course Congress itself – now function only as weapons of oppression, imposing the ever-more-sadistic mandates of Capitalism as it metamorphoses into JesuNazism, the needs of the people be damned.  Because the One Percenters now literally own USian government at every level, so-called “representative” governance is no less a Big Lie than USian “democracy.” Just as the sole purpose of the government in Vichy France was to enforce the murderous will of the Nazis, the sole purpose of USian government today is to enforce the equally murderous will of our Capitalist overlords.   But that's only half the lesson we should learn from the death of single-payer. The second part, implicit in the zero-tolerance despotism revealed by the first part, is that all reform efforts are doomed. Like trying to detoxify a Portuguese Man-O'-War,  reform – dependent as it was on the now-forever-abolished fosterage provided by democratic process – is nothing more than a waste of time and energy. In other words, single-payer healthcare – or any other definitively humanitarian proposal anywhere in the the ever-more-brazenly white-supremacist JesuNazi United States – is undoubtedly dead until the Empire itself dies of its own malignancy, whether by thermonuclear apocalypse or environmental cataclysm.

(ASTUTE READERS WILL NOTE THE ABOVE TEXTS REGARD the House and Senate versions of Trumpcare as coequals in murderousness destined to be combined and thus become law. That is because the Democratic (sic) Party's history of betrayals tells us the Senate Democrats, who exactly like the Republicans are profitably obedient to their Capitalist masters, will not use the procedural power by which they might stop the DEATH Act – Denying Every American Tenable Healthcare – from enactment. And the Death Act it truly is, precisely as we are doomed to learn when it is imposed on us by the JesuNazi-weaponized mechanism of moral imbecility we know as the U.S. Government.)

JESUNAZIS RUNNING AMOK EVERYWHERE ELSE IN USIA TOO. Missouri's JesuNazis have passed a viciously misogynistic expression of Christian Love that – if you're an unmarried woman – encourages your boss to fire you for using birth control and urges your landlord to evict you for the same reason. The measure, which also targets women who have had abortions or who become pregnant out of wedlock, is certain to be signed into law. Meanwhile Vice President Mike Pence, the zero-tolerance theocrat who would replace Trump were the president to be impeached, bared his JesuNazi fangs...

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