Much Longer Delay Due to Agonizing Groin Sprain: Must Be My Week in the Abrahamic God's Cosmic Torture Chamber

I DON'T KNOW how soon I will be posting here again as I am temporarily disabled by a groin sprain, the diverse agonies of which include moments of the most intense pain I have ever experienced --  my "ever" including a simultaneously impacted and abscessed wisdom tooth the sudden onset of which, on Labor Day Sunday of 1969,  was so devastating I passed out in the emergency room of New York City's Beth Israel Hospital.

But the only metaphor I can conjure up that even approaches accurate description of the peak magnitude of this 2018 pain is the ultimately inconceivable agony of some sadist digging with the point of a rusty 12-penny nail in the naked nerve tissue at the core of an untreated cavity in an abscessed and impacted tooth -- and then multiply the hurt times itself to maybe the 20th power. 

Fortunately, unlike the constant and seemingly relentless agony inflicted by the 1969 wisdom tooth emergency until it was blessedly relieved by BI-provided codeine, the most intense moments of today's groin-sprain pain  afflict me only when I sit on or try to rise from the way-too-low toilet-seats Puyallup's mercilessly profiteering Independent Living Incorporated imposed on Washington State's nonprofit Senior Housing Assistance Group when the appropriately acronymed ILI -- revealingly pronounced "eye lie" as if to tauntingly admit Capitalism's ultimate truth -- "renovated" these apartments. 

That project began in 2014,  continued through last year and included wrenching disruptions of our lives by temporary evictions which -- as if we had any doubts -- showed us the utter contempt with which the capitalists view lower-income elders. Though the evictions were of only one to three days' duration, they mandated exactly the same preparations as a permanent change of address. Nor were we reimbursed for our momentary homelessness.  

Moreover the renovation work the evictions were to enable was delayed without explanation at least three times. Hence because of the repeated packing and unpacking so necessitated, the evictions were at least thrice as disruptive as a permanent move --  often even more so for any number of reasons including the discomfort ILI's hurry-up-and-wait demands knowingly inflicted on physically disabled tenants. Such is the morally imbecilic savagery of USian Biblical Capitalism. 
 
As to my present-day circumstances, their negative aspects are but additional reminders of the same Christian Capitalist moral imbecility.  Capitalist governance -- its tax revenues and managerial skills exclusively dedicated to expanding Capitalism and boosting its obscene profiteering -- is utterly indifferent to the misery so inflicted. 

Indeed  I survive only because of the blessed volunteer helpfulness of my Communist Labor Party comrades, two additional local friends and three fellow SHAG tenants, to all of whom my deepest gratitude and most profound thanks. Unless my heart quits unexpectedly from the literally breath-stealing stress of fighting the groin-sprain pain, I will most likely outlive the hardships inflicted by our nation's implicitly genocidal limits on medical and dental care, which means I will return to posting Dispatches as soon as possible. Meanwhile my most profuse apologies for the interruption of these news briefings, analyses and commentaries. Updates will follow as events unfold.

LB/9 January 2018

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Dispatches Late Due to Illness; Should Be Up by Friday 5/1

Had a severe flare-up of the weeping leg ulcers that are one of the more grotesque side-affects of Congestive Heart Failure, and after nearly eight hours at Kaiser-Permanente's superb Tacoma Urgent Care facility (formerly Group Health's), have discovered I will be mostly homebound for the next several weeks, which should at least enable me to get Dispatches back on schedule. (Goddess willing and the creek don't rise.) 
LB/4 January 2018

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As Capitalism Becomes Ever More Undeniably Evil, Will the USian PseudoLeft Evolve True Revolutionary Consciousness?

Admitting How Fiercely We Hate Our Oppressors Is Neither Ideology nor Ideological Discipline, but It Is the First Step toward Liberation

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MACHINE, owned as it is by the same moral imbeciles who own the USian Empire's economic and political systems and all their global subsidiaries, long ago became the for-profit version of Josef Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

Exemplifying how Capitalism's momentum invariably thrusts it toward fascism, Mainstream Media was headed in that direction even under the independent ownership that characterized most USian newspapers and broadcast outlets during the years of my later teens and earlier manhood, 1956 through about 1980 or thereabouts. 

While the only meaningful difference between local Capitalists and their global counterparts has never been more than the geographical limits of their greed, the socioeconomic interactions characteristic of local ownership exercised enough moral restraint on publishers that in most instances, mass media did not metastasize into its present-day malignancy until the news monopolies took over. 

Microcosms of empires and imperial tyranny, the monopolies quickly ended any pretense of accountability to local audiences or even to local elites. Soon afterward the monopolists' suppressed or co-opted the various unions and other organizations that had previously guaranteed print, radio and television journalists a modicum of editorial independence.

 

During the same period, the monopolies' overwhelming financial power leveraged the collegiate journalism schools to impose the gate-guard functions that guarantee the press corps remains forever purged of any trace of revolutionary or even reformist consciousness. 

Hence by 1983...

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House Democrats Unconditionally Surrender to Trump, Join Republicans in No-Impeachment-Ever Pact, Defiantly Uniting Both Parties in Implicit Declaration of Neoliberal Dictatorship

Engineered by Trump/Pelosi Collaboration, the Deliberately Under-Reported Decision Kills Any Hope of Judicial or Legislative Relief from Capitalism's Murderous Greed and JesuNazism's Genocidal Malice

EVEN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA seems loathe to admit the pivotal significance of the Democratic (sic) Party's deliberately under-reported unconditional surrender to the Trump/Pence Regime at the start of the weekend on Friday 15 December. 

The brazen bipartisanship of the Democrats' no-impeachment-ever pact with the Republicans was certainly the most glaringly indicative, breathtakingly abject Congressional surrender in all the nearly 78 years of my lifetime. It was probably the most cravenly submissive act since Congress concluded in 1934 the Bankers' Plot conspirators were too rich to jail and thereby enabled the One Percent's subsequent and now utterly victorious 83-year campaign to convert the United States into the de facto Fourth Reich. 

In any case there is no question the Democrats' no-impeachment-because-Trump-is- our-man-too vote – and that is precisely its message – was maliciously scheduled to take maximum advantage of the fact at this time of year (and especially on Fridays), most USians are distracted from politics, whether by the anticipated lusts of weekend frolic, the sublimated lusts of holiday shopping or – most likely – by the wrenching realization this will this be their bleakest midwinter holiday season thus far, with the tombstone above the corpse of their personal American Dreams reminding each of them that every subsequent holiday will be progressively more wretched until they themselves are buried in the same graveyard as their aspirations.

So now it's “Happy Holidays 2017” as we anticipate being murdered by genocidal tax “reform.” Soon it will be “Happy New Year 2018,” when we will begin dying from the saber-cuts and axe-blows to the stipends and services that hitherto kept us alive.

While such seasonal preoccupations are surely one reason to blame for why so many USians were oblivious to the vote itself, the more telling reason is that...

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How Modern USia Became a Shithole of Serfdom and Slavery

The Sneeringly Genocidal Trump/Pence Agenda Celebrates the Final Victory of the One Percenters' 84-Year Effort to Perpetuate Capitalism by Imposing JesuNazism on a Politically Defenseless Moron Nation

MASTURBATED TO MINDLESSNESS by the maliciously deceptive Mainstream Media propaganda machine after being moronated to submissiveness in public schools deliberately rendered dysfunctional by the JesuNazis in service to their Capitalist oberführers, the vast majority of USians – intellectually paralyzed by the suppression of critical thinking skills  and induced ignorance – have repeatedly failed to recognize the ugly reality of our boiled-frog reduction to serfdom and slavery.

They foolishly try to convince themselves all is well. They cling to the Big Lie of “our democracy” and the even Bigger Lie the Trump/Pence Regime's apocalypse-mongering is nothing more than rhetoric, and by some trick of self-deception, when they go to bed at night they do not fall asleep wondering if they will never again awake – if before morning they will be reduced to naught but heart-wrenching shadows  or radioactive ash on an unspeakably poisoned wind. They cling pathetically to their own optimism, refusing to recognize their submissiveness as an ultimate and potentially suicidal form of folly.

Obviously, whether from ignorance or delusion or the momentary psychosis of denial, they reject the serial significance of what will someday – if our species somehow survives – be recognized as the five most pivotal events in the USian Empire's sordid political history. These are the Bankers' Plot (1933-1934); the post-plot merger of Capitalism and fanatical Christianity (1934-present*); the long decade of political murders  (1963 to 1974); the Reichstag Fire rerun of 9/11 (as I have been calling it at least since 2013);  and now finally the fulfillment of the Bankers' Plot goal of a permanently fascist United States  achieved for the One Percent by the 2016 election.

The sequence of historical events cited above proves the advent of the Trump/Pence Regime is the climax of a subversive process that unites at least three generations of Capitalism's most morally imbecilic plutocrats. These events are the exclamation points – the beware signs – in an infinitely damning progression that details the nation's passage from the New Deal's illusion of representative democracy to the JesuNazi truth of the Trump/Pence victory. But the Moronic Majority overlooks – or more likely is too cowardly to acknowledge – the climactic nature of the 2016 presidential election and how it ended forever any rational notion of the U.S. as a “sweet land of liberty.”

I can (sort of) understand how some ignoramus might ignore our Capitalist overlords' love affair with white-supremacist fascism despite the fact it has been evident since the 1930s. Though the stealth fascism of the pre-Bush-II past always victimized USian minorities, the white majority remained mostly immune to its brutality and was therefore mostly ignorant of its atrocities. Such trends and their associated atrocities are carefully excluded from the so-called “American narrative.” But the more overt fascism that characterized the Bush II and Obama presidencies and finally exploded into the stark, ever-intensifying JesuNazi horrors perpetrated by the Trump/Pence Regime now assaults the entire Working Class regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Yet the Moronic Majority still refuses to acknowledge  what has been done to us, much less react appropriately to the regime's ever-intensifying malevolence.

As Henry Giroux reports, the Trump/Pence victory “has accelerated a culture of cruelty, a machinery of terminal exclusion and social abandonment that wages a war on undocumented immigrants, poor minorities of color and young people.” In other words – words even the notably courageous and outspoken Giroux dare not say – we are now as conquered and subjugated as the people of France were beneath the jackboots of the German Nazis. This is not hyperbole; apart from...

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Apocalypse Is Inevitable; So Let's Fuck the Ecology for Profit

Given the Trump/Pence Regime's Fanatical Commitment to Fulfilling Biblical Prophecies of Human Extinction, Its Genocidal Social Policies and All-Out War on the Environment Make Terrifyingly Perfect Sense

OUR LIVES ARE NOW DARKENED by what I believe to be the most ominous conjunction of events ever to threaten our species.

Forget the looming environmental apocalypse or the Trump/Pence Regime's maliciously genocidal destruction of Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and any other such necessities for human survival in the Neoliberal slave-plantation of the United States; the terrifying truth is all humans whether at home or abroad may be too short-lived for any such policies to matter.

But that truth, horrible as it is, offers the only logical explanation of the regime's sneering brutality. Its perpetrators believe these are the End Times prophesied by the Bible, and that as their sadistic god's designated destroyers, they can savage us at will. What do humanitarianism or environmentalism or the popular will matter in a world they obviously intend to reduce to a bug planet?

Verily, it's as if the regime's secret slogan is “Loot and Rape and Kill Now Because Tomorrow We're All Dead.”

North Korea's launch of a missile that could target most of the USian imperial homeland including Washington D.C. and New York City interacts with the Trump/Pence Regime's nuke-the-world-to-bring-back-Jesus madness to escalate the probability of World War III to near 100-percent certainty. That's because – due to North Korea's geography –  (scroll down), Trump's threatened annihilation of the country by thermonuclear “fire and fury” would be as much an attack on China and Russia as on North Korea itself. See also “How the U.S. Bombed Russia in 1950.”

Meanwhile Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's decision to put Russian industry on a wartime footing – a decision obscured, ironically enough, by the USian Thanksgiving holiday and further suppressed by USian Mainstream Media censorship – proves the Russian government is now convinced World War III is inevitable.

The Trump/Pence entourage, contrary to its seductive pre-election Big Lies, and as unequivocally proven by its unprecedented increase in the imperial war machine budget, has obviously believed...

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Capitalism Has Reduced Thanksgiving* to a Day of Self-Deceit

With a Sneeringly Genocidal Federal Budget Threatening All of Us, 
We Should Be Rising Up in Fury, Not Bowing in Craven Submission
 

YES, BUDGETS ARE BORING, unless they contain – as the proposed 2018 federal budget surely does – death threats to entire groups of people. Even then they are a huge pain in the ass to properly cover because proper coverage requires hours (and often entire days) of wonkishly scrutinizing line-item minutiae.

Nevertheless, be not dismayed; I have chosen here the least-wonkish, most informatively readable reports on the proposed 2018 federal budget I could find. Why? Because for many of us, this budget will literally be a matter of life and death – more likely the latter.

Though it is absurd to imagine we can stop the intended killing by any means short of revolution, we may indeed reduce the death toll – perhaps even substantially – by vehement protest, which I most emphatically recommend. At the very least we will be forewarned of the budget's disastrous impact in time to construct whatever collective and individual preparations we might be able to organize to protect our communities, our families and ourselves.

In whatever form this budget is finally enacted, the Ayn Rand ethos of the Trump-Pence Regime guarantees it will be the most deliberately vicious budget of my lifetime – and possibly the most deliberately vicious budget in the entire post-slavery history of the United States. That's because the neoliberal malice of Congress long ago defined the federal budget as a weapon for inflicting slow-motion mass-murder on those of us condemned as “surplus population” – that is, those of us who are poor and/or old and/or disabled and/or chronically unemployed and therefore no longer exploitable for Capitalist profit.

Thus the budget proposal's weaponized finances remain...

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