Neoliberalism Kills the Planet to Kill the 99 Percent: SitRep #3

(With socioeconomic and environmental Apocalypse undeniably upon us, there is only one possible reason the One Percenters and their minions sabotage our every effort to cope with the crisis: they are exploiting it to maximize their wealth and power. Already they've reshaped human society to perpetuate their omnipotence, with serfdom and slavery for the few who survive their Final Solutions.  Such is shock-doctrine Neoliberalism – the ideology designed to serve  them even better in a post-apocalyptic future. To view their plans for the 99 Percent, visit a camp of homeless people -- and honor the dwellers therein as involuntary prophets of our probable  fate -- if indeed there is any human future at all. )  

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A Sampling of Indications,  21-25 March 2019:

More glimpses at the infinity of evidence the One Percent is weaponizing the climate crisis, a notion hitherto so taboo only one other English-language writer has dared even suggest it.

The Future of Climate Authoritarianism Is Now Bad head: the report describes how ruinously the apocalypse has already permanently changed our world.

Farmers In Midwest Face Decades Of Recovery As Flooding Strips Away Crucial Soil

 

Major Oil & Gas Companies Spent $1 Billion Since 2015 Blocking Climate Action

 

Foreign-Owned Corporations Funnel Millions Into US Elections

 

The DCCC Sure as Hell Isn't Going to Let Another AOC Win

They already know most 99 Percenters are too ignorant -- or too cowardly -- to organize our  own party.

French Army Receives Authorization to Shoot “Yellow Vest” Protesters

Exactly as in Karl Marx's time, this is how the Ruling Class responds to Working Class grievance.

Dirty Water 20 Times Deadlier Than Bullets to Children in Conflict Zones

Badly written head edited to eliminate misplaced modifier while preserving its message.

White Nationalism’s Most Powerful Accelerant

How Electronic Media serves the One Percent by fulfilling the evil implicit in the computer's origin. See also here and  here  for why cell phones -- so perfect for metastasizing hate -- can never foment genuine revolution.

Why Far-Right Attackers Aren't Charged as Domestic Terrorists

Obviously because they're among the One Percenters'  favorite enforcers.

The Washington Post's Disgraceful Coverage of Medicare-for-All

One of the innumerable examples of why anyone who believes Medicare for All can ever be achieved by anything short of  revolution is a deluded ignoramus still imprisoned by the Big Lie of "American Democracy," our species' ultimate  (and most likely terminal) act of self-deception. 

 

16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It

Seasonal Complaint: 'Missionaries Are on Our Reservation!'

As always, the post-Theodosian Christians serve their One Percent masters and fulfill their Abrahamic legacy by waging permanent, often genocidal war on Earth-centered wisdom.

 

Appeals Court Hears Texas Case Challenging Indian Child Welfare Act

Possible good news the ChristoNazis' Robber Court will undoubtedly turn to bad news, another lesson in the necessity of revolution.

US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

In Gaza as in the United States.

 

Why Is Breast Cancer More Lethal For Black Women?

There's no better place to hide biological warfare than within an epidemic.

The FBI Is the Enemy of the Left

Pivotal truth the Democratic (sic) Party would have us forget.

America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways

  

Rep. Steve King Belittles Hurricane Katrina Victims for Needing Help

 

The Coddling of the American Mind

How Moron Nation serves our masters by diving ever deeper into maximum ignorance.

How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

Why the environmental and economic crises will never be solved by anything short of global revolution. See also here, how the One Percenters and their vassals intend to survive in their accustomed luxury even as they murder us by genocidal impoverishment. Again the prophetic relevance of homeless camps and why instead of demonizing homeless people, we should honor them as involuntary prophets.

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Random Notes on This the Darkest Epoch in Our Species' History

Social Media Is Not the Panacea It Seems: a Brief Analysis

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Neoliberal Shock Doctrine Is Genocidal Ecocide (SitRep #2)

There Is Only One Possible Explanation for the Denial, Dithering and maliciously scripted paralysis by which our Capitalist masters are relentlessly sabotaging every effort to counter the economic and environmental Apocalypse now so obviously upon us.

The moral imbeciles of the totalitarian cabal we know as the One Percent are after all the de facto emperors of the world.  Their shock-doctrine strategy and tactics are obvious both in their obscenely profitable exploitation of the climate crisis and their sadistic intensification of Neoliberal socioeconomic and political savagery. That is why their relentless combination of environmental obstructionism and genocide by austerity¹ declares their true intent despite the effluent of euphemisms, lies and disinformation by which they try to conceal it.²

Already they are building personal strongholds and raising private armies to assure their post-apocalyptic dominance. Clearly they believe the brutality enabled by their wealth and technological superiority nullifies our vastly greater numbers. Their dictates prove they intend to exterminate nearly all the 99 Percent and enslave the few of us who survive. Such is their serial-killer scheme to elevate themselves and their descendants to what they imagine will be eternal omnipotence in a post-apocalyptic neo-feudal world.

 

Will these corporate Ted Bundys triumph? They are infinitely more powerful -- and infinitely more evil in the damage they inflict³ -- than any despots who have preceded them on our species' paths of infamy. They have  convinced themselves they can manipulate environmental and economic disaster into weapons to assure their own exclusive preservation. As I said in my situation report of 17 March 2019,  to view our future as it is being dictated by the One Percenters, we need only visit the nearest encampment of homeless people. 

But our masters' misogynistic contempt for Nature blinds them to the fact she alone is the  ultimate decider.  Therein lies our sole advantage. Yet even now -- while there may yet be time to save ourselves by compliance with environmental necessity -- too many of us seem eerily unable to grasp that our only alternatives are survival through internationally cooperative socialism or extinction by continuing surrender to the Capitalist status quo. 

What follows are additional examples of the most terrifying crisis in our species' entire 250,000-year history. These are underscored by yet more proof of the One Percent's definitively  response -- a revelation so taboo only one other English-language writer dares even suggest it. I update it here -- hopefully with maximum provocation -- as often as new disclosures and developments require.

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¹One of many examples of austerity as genocide. Others are here, here, here and  here.
²An especially useful guide to seeing through the euphemisms by which our masters try to hide their murderous intent.
³Pope Francis' denunciation of capitalism as "dung of the Devil, relevant too as compelling evidence of the apocalyptic and probably terminal schism dividing Christendom into two increasingly hostile camps, oft-violent Prosperity Gospel Nazis versus typically pacifist Liberation Theology humanitarians, the latter -- like Pope Francis himself -- also struggling to transcend the patriarchal misogyny and hatefulness at the core of Abrahamic doctrine whether Judaic, Christian or Islamic.

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A Presumably Relevant Sampling of Reports, 18-20 March 2019:

Historic Flooding across US Midwest Leaves Thousands Homeless, Four Dead

 

Why Students Of Color Are Stepping Up To Lead Climate Strikes I have often scorned Yes magazine as a potpourri of irrational if not clinically deluded optimism.  But "Students of Color"  is damn fine reporting. 

The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal

 

Christian Charity Gave Over $50 Million to Hate Groups, Report RevealsHow the ChristoNazis expand the theocratic tyranny implicit in "one nation under God."

 

Black Sites for Kids: Rights Advocates Outraged Over Child Immigrants Being Held at 'Off-the-Books' Detention Facilities

Oil Spill Still Leaking Into the Gulf of Mexico 15 Years Later

Record High US Temperatures Outpace Record Lows Two to One, Study Finds

Reports Underscore How Close India and Pakistan Came to All-Out War in Late February

 

What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling

Socialism Curiously Trumps Fascism in U.S. Political Threat Reporting

Warnings of New Zealand Neo-Nazi Attack Were Ignored

 

US Decision to Deny Visas to ICC Officials Is an Authoritarian Act

US Supreme Court Rules Government Can Indefinitely Detain Immigrants Years after Release  from Criminal Custody

Establishment Democrats Are Undermining Medicare for All

Some Democrats Are Ready to Water Down Their Own Net Neutrality Bill

 

Meet the Press Chuck Todd and the Boeing Blackout    Garbled head as in original: what Todd and his owners hope will never dissuade us from flying the friendly skies of Capitalism. See also this.

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Some immediately useful references -- books by writers to whom I am forever grateful -- include: Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism; Metropolitan Books: 2007); Chris Hedges (American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America; Free Press: 2006);  Kevin Phillips (American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century; Viking: 2006); Jeff Sharlet (The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power; Harper: 2008). Relevant texts of resistance to which I am also indebted -- each a vital step toward revolution -- include The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor; Harper San Francisco: 1987) and Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (John Bellamy Foster; Monthly Review Press: 2000). 

Yes, dear readers, this is the new format gradually taking shape.

Parting thought: Some of us must surely  recognize the Shock-Doctrine dynamics evident in the U.S. epidemic of mass murder. The epidemic requires no conspiratorial momentum beyond the deadly toxin of Neoliberalism itself; it is the entirely predictable (and therefore presumably Shock-Doctrine-deliberate) product of the rat-maze-tested rage and alienation spawned by a society that defines humans as nothing more than animations of wealth or poverty.  And now -- just as we the people face an intensifying outburst of hate crime that looks as if it might never stop expanding --  the Shock Doctrine dictates  the deceptively titled and now-probably unstoppable forcible civilian disarmament movement,  thus to manipulate our fear, horror and ignorance into the frightened throw-down-your-weapons-and-run helplessness that facilitates and embraces our overlords' Shock-Doctrine plans to imprison us forever in mandatory pacifism and zero-tolerance compulsory victimhood.    

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Ecocidal Genocide and Enslavement of All Surviving Workers: That's the Shock-Doctrine "Final Solution" Ever More Evident in the Neoliberals' Stubborn Refusal to Fight Climate Change

Imagine a Concentration-Camp Planet Ruled by a Hillary or a Trump. Unthinkable, Yes?  But What Other Future Could They Be Planning?  

 

WHEN WE ANALYZE the indications  as investigative reporters and intelligence analysts are taught to do, there is only one possible  explanation for the denial, dithering and maliciously scripted paralysis by which our overlords sabotage every effort to counter the already-apocalyptic and soon-to-be-terminal climate crisis.¹

 

No matter how I evaluate the evidence, I find it impossible to escape the conclusion our Capitalist masters long ago decided their "Final Solution" to all the world's problems is to allow the looming disasters to exterminate as many of us as possible. And then impose a zero-tolerance global tyranny more savage than anything our species has ever known, condemning the few Working Class survivors and their descendants to inescapable slavery.  

Thanks to Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism; Metropolitan Books: 2007), the Neoliberal methodology is obvious. Thanks to Chris Hedges (American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America; Free Press: 2006); to Kevin Phillips (American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century; Viking: 2006); and most of all to Jeff Sharlet (The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power; Harper: 2008); we already know our oppressors' capabilities and intentions. 

We therefore also know our masters are methodically weaponizing the murderously self-righteous patriarchal misogyny, the hateful Christian white-supremacy and the sadistic theocratic malevolence of their increasingly fanatical supporters into a new, terrifyingly global Sturmabteilung to serve as  guards,  torturers and executioners.  

        

A few of us even recognize the Shock-Doctrine dynamics evident in the epidemic of mass murder² that fuels the now-probably unstoppable Forcible Civilian Disarmament Movement, which is manipulating our fear, horror and ignorance into the frightened helplessness of mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood. 

Given how the ChristoNazis and their fascist collaborators are already embraced as allies by the cops and by the imperial war machine,  it is obvious these new Storm Troopers will remain armed -- legally or otherwise -- even after the last firearm has been confiscated from the last non-fascist U.S. household. 

Meanwhile the entire murder-minded rabble is officially encouraged to  prey upon us at will. 

 

But -- until now -- only one other journalist, the admirably courageous Sarah Kendzior, has dared publicly suggest the Occam's-Razor-obvious answer of why our rulers are behaving as they do. Clearly they intend to profit both from the apocalyptic disasters and from the Shock-Doctrine opportunities for genocidal reconstruction of human society -- think  Puerto Rico and New Orleans -- such  events provide. 

Our masters have been quietly smuggling their traveling holocaust of horrors home, one private jetload at a time, since 22 November 1963.³  But now the triumph of the genuinely Nazified Donald Trump and his burn-all-witches running-mate Michael Pence has blown the...

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Truly Our Last Chance to Prove Ourselves Worthy of Survival

Climate Change Reveals the Patriarchal Gods as the Deadliest of Demons; the 1% Perpetuates the Crisis to Impose Shock-Doctrine Tyranny; Our Mother Earth Issues Her Ultimate Challenge

Apocalyptic Wonderland: late February in Tacoma. Photograph and posterization by Loren Bliss © 2019.

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TO (MOMENTARILY) DUCK the shrapnel already ensuing from the issues implicit in the above typography, I feel obligated as a writer and editor to explain (or perhaps confess) that this is the first time I have ever written the headline before I knew exactly what the story might say. Magic? No, nothing so exotic; merely an exceptionally telling encounter with journalistic intuition -- precisely the kind of power-to-envision-outcomes that in darker times was damned as witchcraft and all-too-often got you burned at the stake. 

Apropos which, the story I seined up after I wrote the head is now no doubt predictable: the ecocidal misogyny at the doctrinal core of Abrahamic religion and thus manifest in all societies so influenced or founded; how its adherents' belief in "End-Times" salvation obstructs even minimal environmental protections; how reading Chris Hedges' American Fascists (Free Press: 2006) and Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy (Viking: 2006) and most of all Jeff Sharlet's The Family (Harper: 2008), which by its subtitle tells the sordid understory of our national paralysis today: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  

But presumably we -- the collective we of readership -- already know all that; and in any case,  does  repetitive disclosure of the same painful truth not eventually become a form of bludgeoning?  

As for the unapologetic paganism my headline acknowledges, those metaphors for our cosmos and our solar system and our planet and our place upon it and within its weft and weave are derived from visions at least as old as our species itself, so I most certainly cannot be blamed for citing their 200-thousand-year integrity. 

Though I would most assuredly be derelict in duty were I not to point out how the breathtaking magnitude of  such a vast expanse of time becomes mother macrocosm to microcosms of human consciousness and thence to visual representation. Picture a tranquil sea invaded by a contagion of predators;  picture a Mother Earth that even during her periodic storms and quakes and eruptions was embraced as the proper head of the household suddenly and now terminally invaded by a relentlessly militant hate-the-planet cult. 

An alien species?

(Now that I am old and no longer have a career to protect I can ask such forbidden questions aloud.) 

A mutation?

Might then the introduction of patriarchy -- which is prerequisite to Earth-hating -- be an earlier, much more ambitious application of the same tactic employed in gifting First Nations peoples with smallpox-infested blankets? Or invading their lands with missionaries bearing bibles and touting paths to salvation by self-destruction? 

Preparing to transfer all I had written in response to letters of the Roman alphabet behaving as if they were runes, I began one last quick entirely routine pre-posting perusal of favored websites. That's  how I came  upon "Diane Feinstein Says No to the Green New Deal" -- an infinitely damning report that epitomizes our circumstances as well as any of the 61 bookmarks from which I chose the eight definitive reports linked below. 

Thus in response I posted the following:

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Censorship by Facebook Forces Yet Another Format Change

PERVERSELY CURIOUS AS to how long Facebook's overtly Neoliberal, incipiently ChristoNazi censors might allow it to remain up, I posted the following to the Tacoma Communist Labor Party's FB site a few minutes ago:

THE END: Facebook's censors locked me out of this page for the past five days, thereby destroying the day-to-day connection and relationship between FB and my blog, Dispatches from Dystopia. Obviously I can no longer trust FB to carry any genuinely relevant news; the first report it suppressed last Wednesday (30 January 2019) was "If the Supreme Court Doesn't Stay a Louisiana Law Next Week, Roe v. Way Will Be All but Dead," and though FB censors finally allowed the story to appear a few moments ago, its old-news tardiness has reduced it to nothing more than a historical footnote. Because this is not the first time my reportorial efforts have been undone by FB censorship -- see today's Dispatches for details -- I will no longer attempt to post  on any FB site and am re-formatting Dispatches accordingly. My apology to those who may thusly be inconvenienced. 

Obviously FB's censors and their robotic slaves (whether human or electronic) have figured out "Loren Tacoma" is the Loren Bliss they permanently banished in 2010 for daring to suggest the so-called "Great Recession" was deliberately inflicted as a means of expediting Neoliberal/ChristoNazi destruction of governmental social services and indeed all other governmental services that do not serve our Capitalist overlords specifically as armies of conquest, death squads, domestic stormtroopers, secret police and any other tyranny or apocalypse-facilitating functions.  Not only was that 2010 post disappeared literally within minutes of its posting; FB also severed (and obstructed forever) the permalink between itself and my blog -- a definitively hostile act Typepad technical experts said they had never before encountered. Hence eight years later, when -- at the insistence of my CLP comrades -- I resumed my relationship with FB, it was of course not as Loren Bliss but as "Loren Tacoma." 
Vital reports from last week's alternative Internet news sources obstructed by this episode of FB censorship include the following: 

European Colonizers' Genocide of 56 Million Native Americans So Devastating "It Literally Cooled the Planet"

The United States Is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

The U.S. is a Political Prison, Kamala Harris is a Prison Guard

Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates' BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty

Trump Supports “Bible Literacy” Classes in Public Schools

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Deceit, Dystopian Depression, Deliverance by Discarded Dogs

Workers -- Not Politicians -- Saved Us from Shutdown/Lockout; Grief Intensifies Our Fight for Mother Earth; Dogs Gather Vital Eco-Data

TO START, FORGET all the politicians-as-saviors/"change-we-can-believe-in" bullshit the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine and at least one of its reformist counterparts is excreting about how the latest effort to drown the federal government in a bathtub was finally  ended by the alleged

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wisdom of the Founders' system of checks-and-balances as manifest in the allegedly merciful collaboration of Neoliberal and NeoNazi bureaucrats and elected officials to finally end the crisis. 

What actually happened was a bunch of rightfully pissed-off workers voiced an undeniably credible threat of shutting down the entire Empire in the one way that would be sure to inflict substantial losses on the pornographic profits of its morally imbecilic owners:

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Reinforced by Catholic Teens, ChristoNazis Turn Ecumenical

No Matter Who Rules -- Democratic (sic) Party or Republican Party -- Deadly White Supremacy Is U.S. Imperial Policy at Home and Abroad

ANOTHER EXTENDED WEEK of breaking news and time-consuming personal obligations again delays my work-in-progress on (the few) anti-Nazi Christians and once more makes for a somewhat abbreviated anthology of Dispatches: 

Viral footage of (white) teenagers mobbing a Native American man and his companions at Friday's Indigenous Peoples March is sparking outrage. In the video, the man—identified by Indian Country Today as Omaha elder Nathan Phillips—is seen singing and drumming with fellow marchers while encircled by chanting teens, many of whom are wearing President Trump's Make America Great Again apparel. One youth pointedly stands directly in front of Phillips, smirking.

The teens are thought to be students of Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School, which dispatched students to Washington D.C. for the anti-abortion March for Life, which was also held Friday.

See also: ...It’s the kid’s face. The face of self-satisfaction and certitude, of edginess expressed as cruelty.

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U.S. ChristoNazism Encouraging Ever-More-Violent White Racism

Due to its unusual growth spurt, this (bigotry) is now openly assailing  people of color,  physically and emotionally...

This unfounded hatred was once done secretly, now it is out in the open. The national government has become an obvious nesting site for this violent bigotry. Also, it is obvious to see that it has infiltrated all levels of local government, including courts, police, jail, and social services. These bigots are of European Caucasoid origin, educated, illiterate, elderly, young, rich and poor...

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The Psychological Underbelly of the ChristoNazi Malignancy

Everyday we look at unfolding news and events through the lens of politics. Suppose we tried to understand it all instead through the lens of psychology? Suppose we got beyond the zero-sum political construct, and into how we have been and are still being manipulated.

What if we realized that President Donald Trump is just a symptom of the deeper crumbling psychological infrastructure of our country? One that makes us so vulnerable to divisive political tactics? 

Our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast is psychologist and attorney Dr. Bryant Welch. In his book State of Confusion, he argues that these are questions not of politics, but about the health of the...

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