Joe Manchin Is A Mass Murderer. Here's Why.

 Global Warming.

These two words are the proof. Here's what I mean.

The "Build Back Better" bill that the Democratic Party hierarchy, including virtually all its Congressional members and the president and vice president of the U.S. have been struggling to pass for months against the unyielding opposition of Manchin, contains the first concrete steps for the U.S. to actually do something about the global warming that is being caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels. By in effect vetoing this proposed set of legislation before it even could come up for a vote in the Senate, Manchin is dooming everyone on earth to catastrophic climate change. More powerful and frequent destructive storms is a minor effect compared to the droughts that will eventually result in famines that will kill millions of people.

Without the U.S., the second leading cause of the problem after China, setting an example and taking on its responsibilities, it cannot persuade other nations to do likewise, and many will not.

After jerking around his party leadership, including the president of the U.S., Joe Biden, for months, in a long stalling process mislabeled "negotiations," during which time unilateral concession after unilateral concession was made to Manchin, whittling down what was originally a $6 trillion bill to $1.7 trillion spread out over 10 years, Manchin slapped Biden and the rest of the Democrats in the face by appearing without prior warning to them on the reactionary agit-propaganda "news" channel of Rupert Murdoch, Fox "News," on its Sunday political propaganda show on December 19th, to announce that he would not support the bill. (Of course it was obvious all along that he wouldn't. His long political tease finally ended. And yet the other Democrats, after a few hours of anger the next day, the Democrats were back to "negotiating" and saying they hadn't given up, that progress would be made- all the same delusional verbiate they'd been spewing for months.)

On Murdoch TV, Manchin rehashed a bunch of his well-rehearsed "concerns" and "reasons" for stonewalling the bill. (By the way, going on Fox is another indication of Manchin's reactionary nature. He could have gotten himself booked on any of the Sunday morning political propaganda shows that serve as platforms for D.C, insiders to bloviate on: on CBS, NBC, or ABC.) One of his main talking points was that he couldn't convince "the people" of West Virginia, his state, to support the bill because he couldn't "explain" it to them.

And let's be fair to Manchin: it is so very hard to explain global warming. You have to explain that burning oil and coal and natural gas releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Then you have to tell them that CO2 stays in the atmosphere and traps more heat from the sun. That heat warms up the air and water. That warming changes weather patterns, creating fiercer storms. Furthermore, it creates droughts that last for years, as happened in California. That leads to crop failures. And ice in Greenland, the north pole, and Antarctica is melting as a result, causing sea levels to rise which will eventually put coastlines and cities under water.

That is so abstruse and complex to explain! No WONDER it is apparently beyond the ken of the people of West Virginia to grasp! Why, they're just a bunch of simple country folk who only have their own common sense to rely on for understanding the world.

Thus does Manchin insult the intelligence of "his" constituents as well as the rest of us.

Joe Manchin is a smarmy, dishonest, manipulative piece of excrement. He is a humanoid, not a human.

 Joe Manchin is quite literally a mass murderer. That is not hyperbole. It is literal truth.

The fact that one person, and not even the president, but just one of 100 U.S. senators, has the power to do that much damage to the world and to all of humanity, is one more indication of just how pathological, twisted, and even diabolical the U.S. power structure is. [1]

One more fact that "the" media never mentions. That $1.7 trillion spread over 10 years averages $170 billion per year. Congress just voted an annual budget for the Pentagon of $770 billion, an increase of the year before, like every year. Next year it will grow larger still. It passed with barely any notice in "the" media, and no political sturm und drang. Unlike with that bill, nobody you hear in the establishment propaganda system ever screeches that the Pentagon budget is "inflationary" or complains "how is it going to be paid for?" or insists it be "revenue neutral" and "not add to the deficit." Thus are the priorities of the corporate imperialist state thrown into sharp relief once again. The people must serve the empire. Their needs are unimportant.

"SCREW YOU, HUMAN RACE!"

1] In case you don't already know, here is the weird political arrangement that makes Manchin powerful enough to overrule the President of the United States. The Senate, as per the U.S. Constitution, has two Senators from each of the 50 states that now exist. Thus 100 Senators. Currently there are 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans in the Senate. Tie votes are broken by the vice president of the U.S. The vice president of course is currently the Democrat Kamala Harris.

But two of those nominal Democratic Senators are functionally Republican Trojan Horses inside the Democratic Senate caucus: Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who is bought by the pharmaceutical industry, and the notorious Joe Manchin.

And this body of corrupt millionaire jackals and drooling reactionaries like John Kennedy, the redbaiting Senator from Louisiana, and Ron Johnson, who defends the January 6th insurrectionists who attacked and occupied the Capitol as peaceful patriots, styles itself as "the world's greatest debating body." Unreal egomania there! (Johnson is the GOP Senator from Wisconsin, the state that gave us Senator Joe McCarthy. Kenosha, Wisconsin, is the Town From Hell that aided and abetted the murderous junior stormtrooper Kyle Rittenhouse.)

The U.S. Senate has long been an ultra-reactionary body. Part of that is their "seniority" system. So Southern racist segregationists and Senators from reactionary farm states would get repeatedly reelected and assume control of committees. Here one example of the numerous horrible consequences of this state of affairs. For decades. while thousands of African-Americans were tortured, murdered, and mutilated by mobs of white racist terrorists, these Senators blocks every attempt to pass a Federal anti-lynching law.

By the way, here's another way the U.S. Senate is truly awful. California has about 40 million people. They have 2 U.S. Senators. The approximately 20 least populous states also have about 40 million people. THOSE 40 million, most of them in small reactionary states like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, the two Dakotas, etc., have FORTY Senators. "World's Greatest Democracy" my ass! The U.S. in this as in many other ways is profoundly ANTI-democratic!

But the populace is expected to worship this power structure and venerate its creators, the "Founding Fathers," as superhuman demigods. Even though they were elitists, many of whom "owned" human slaves as chattel, including the two main men, Washington and Jefferson, who owned hundreds of slaves. Washington was the richest man in America, by the way, a huge land speculator whose motive for rebelling against the British crown was his lust for more land. Which incidentally necessitated expulsion and genocide against the people who were already living there and whose ancestors arrived, according to the latest archeological and paleoarcheological evidence, around 30,000 or more years ago.

Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams Already Showing Off His Authoritarian Bent

  Eric Adams, who isn't actually the mayor until January 1st, 2022, is already barking at city lawmakers like a tinhorn dictator. 

Mayor-To-Be Adams announced a cancellation of the putative policy of his predecessor and current mayor, Bill "Big Talk" de Blasio to eliminate solitary confinement on the huge city jail complex on Rikers Island, itself just part of the vast city jail gulag spread over all fie boroughs and including a floating jail barge in one of the city's rivers. (A policy only partially implemented.)

In response, 29 members of the City Council, the elected 51-member legislative body of NYC, wrote a civil letter objecting to this, which they also released to the media.

In reaction to this, Adams burst forth in a public verbal tongue lashing of the letter writers, calling them "disruptive," asserting they had NO RIGHT to weigh in on the issue of solitary since none of them were police, as he had been, and vowing to ignore them. He was especially missed that they had released their letter to the media. In the letter, they cited expert and official opinion as to how solitary confinement can constitute torture.

Thus did Adams, a man with a very inflated sense of self-regard, deemed the council members who objected to his diktat as worthless people to be ignored.

Adams, an arrogant man with a grotesquely swollen ego, is a former NYPD police captain, a high rank. (NYPD is the gang sign for the New York City police department.) Adams ran on a "law and order" platform (i.e. promises of increased repression) during his campaign. (His Republican opponent, the egotistical career vigilante and reactionary radio "personality" Curtis Sliwa, did the same- some choice for voters! Appropriately, Sliwa whole-heartedly congratulated Adams on his election victory and eagerly pledged support to him.) Among other things, Adams specifically promised to reinstitute so-called "anti-crime" units, notorious plainclothes police cells that committed sufficient atrocities, including the murder of a harmless, unarmed immigrant, Amadou Diallo, who was slaughtered in a hail of 41 bullets by four of these hunters of human prey while standing on his own doorstep, which resulted in the abolishment of these units (though not of plainclothes police work per se). 

The fact that Adams couldn't restrain himself from contemptuously degrading the city council before he is even mayor is an ominous portent for the future.

"NOBODY can criticize ME!"

A note on solitary confinement in the U.S.: the UN deems imprisoning a person in solitary for more than 15 days to be torture. In the U.S., it is routine to subject people to such imprisonment- including people who haven't been convicted of crimes but are awaiting trial in jail, such as at Rikers- for months, years, even decades. Political prisoners such as members of the Black Panther Party have been imprisoned for up to 40 years in solitary, as happened in Louisiana. And of course the U.S. imprisons more people as a proportion of its population than any nation on earth. (Only China, with four times the population, imprisons more, counting the million Uyghurs China has locked up in slave labor-brainwashing prison camps.) With 4.5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's incarcerated people.  Medical care in U.S. prisons is abysmal, beating and murders by guards are rampant, the food is unhealthy. Communications between lawyers and inmates are routinely and illegally surveilled. 

The United States is a savagely repressive nation. In the greatest feat of propaganda gaslighting in history, the U.S. has brainwashed literally billions of people around the world into believing the U.S. is a "free" country, indeed the "freest" country ever, a beacon of human rights. 

Nothing, nothing, could be further from the truth.

The tragic fact is that from its (waning) position of world domination, unparalleled in world history, the U.S. COULD HAVE BEEN a force for good, for the advancement of democracy, human rights, and freedom, like it only PRETENDS to be.

Talk about a squandered opportunity in the history of homo sapiens.

Eric Adams trying out for the part of African-American strongman.

Bill de Blasio's Excellent PR Adventure

 Bill de Blasio's two terms as Mayor of New York City have shown a certain consistency. A very fast-talking con man (he can talk his way around even the most pointed question that nails him dead to rights- for examples, listen to his weekly appearances on a certain radio program [1]), de Blasio's modus operandi is to gaslight people with grandiose "liberal" rhetoric while instituting reactionary policies behind people's backs. In this, he is in the mold of the Democratic Party's poohbah's, Obama and The Two Clintons. Indeed, de Blasio comes from the Clinton's machine, having managed Hillary Clinton's first campaign for U.S. Senate from New York State. If anything, Bill de Blasio is Bill Clinton on steroids, a guy who talks faster and is more disingenuous. An expert sophist, de Blasio manages to rationalize away any damning evidence against him.

Another consistency: he mostly did the opposite of what he promised to do as a candidate (and what he continually claims to be doing). His positive accomplishments are mainly one: pre-K school for children. Give him credit for that, and that's pretty much it. Otherwise it's betrayals and attacks on people's well-being.

Perhaps his most egregious crime has been his full-throated defense of police brutality. The city police (NYPD) brutally assaulted for months on end the protesters who took to the streets in the wake of the graphic murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis, Minnesota police. De Blasio consistently vilified the victims of NYPD violence.

Now what is this Excellent Public Relations Adventure of which I spoke in the title? First this introduction to the theme.

One de Blasio scam was baiting people to get COVID vaccines by offering a $100 "incentive." Only they don't pay up. To illustrate the point, I could relate one person's attempt to get paid, an exercise in utter futility, but that story is too lengthy for this essay. Just briefly, the contractor that is supposed to pay, an outfit called "akimbo," doesn't mail the debit cards, doesn't respond to emails, and is unreachable by phone. City employees for their part put people on a runaround treadmill and tell the victims to inform "akimbo." To add injury to injury, "akimbo" makes extra money selling the emails of the vaccinated to spammers. Immediately after getting vaccinated, the vaccine-related spam starts arriving- the $100 debit card never does.

I have a suspicion that de Blasio never had any intention of paying people. At the least, he doesn't care.  He just wants to be able to boast about how he got people to submit to vaccination. 

Now, de Blasio's Excellent PR Adventure: He pulled a similar stunt to the "vaccine incentive" trick  the first week of December, when he announced- informing nobody in advance, and  consulting with no one, according to the New York Times- that henceforth businesses would be required to insist that their employees be vaccinated.  And that everyone, even children as young as five, would have to be vaccinated if they wanted to eat in a restaurant or enter any other public place. All 184,000 New York City businesses were now under Mayoral orders to REQUIRE all their employees to be vaccinated for the new coronavirus, and to screen all people entering their premises for COVID vaccination status. No exceptions, and no option to be tested for infection in lieu of vaccination.

The fact that there was no plan for any of this, and that he never even discussed it with city officials before announcing it, gives the game away. It's not real, but typical de Blasio smoke and mirrors.

Self-styled caudillo de Blasio's edict nominally takes effect December 27. De Blasio will stop being mayor on January 1st, 5 whole days later. His successor has been coy on whether he will enforce the decree of his predecessor. Even though there is no mechanism to enforce this imperial ukase, media in New York City has given a platform to the frenzied overreactions of a few selected  individuals from "the business community." Thus adding to the illusion that de Blasio actually DID something, as opposed to ANNOUNCING something. ANNOUNCING things that never actually happen has been a hallmark of de Blasio's mayoralty. He's very big on making Grand Announcements, such as there will be "zero traffic fatalities" in New York City, and how he'll build- indeed IS building, "affordable housing," a phrase he must have uttered hundreds of times. 

De Blasio has reaped national media attention for several days running so far for his latest stunt. He even got some international media coverage, for example by the BBC, the main global propaganda arm of the British government. That is the payoff.

But what is the point? Is de Blasio merely a political exhibitionist? Does he have an insatiable need for attention because of a swollen ego? Actually he's running for Governor of New York State (state capital is the city of Albany, a nothingburg far to the north). He's been term-limited out of the Mayoralty of New York City because of a law passed by the city's voters in a referendum, a law that a previous Mayor, Michael Bloomberg Billionaire, ignored and illegally ran for a third term, which he won. His opposition includes the current Governor, Kathy Hochul, who inherited the seat after Governor Andrew "The Molester" Cuomo was forced out and his mousy lieutenant governor, Ms. Hochul, was automatically elevated to the top job. Also vying to grab the top political rung in the state was state attorney general Letitia James, until she announced on December 9th she was quitting. On the same day, Hochul publicly endorsed James' reelection for state AG, indicating prearrangement between the two. Long Island Congressman Tom Suozzi is also running. (Another announced candidate for Governor in the 2022 election is Jumaane Williams, who was just elected last month as New York City Public Advocate. Ambitious, no?) These are all Democrats competing in the upcoming June Democratic Primary. [2]

Cuomo was finally exposed as a compulsive molester, and for his role in causing the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents and covering it up. Those things, along with the media finally reporting what they knew for years, that Cuomo is a rage-filled, abusive bully, finally pried his fingers from the levers of power.

De Blasio is deeply unpopular in New York City, with 8 million people has almost half the state's population. Outside of the City, the state is quite reactionary, so de Blasio will have to jettison his fake-liberal outer garb. His opponents will try to keep him from getting away with it. But de Blasio is probably thinking back to how he won the city mayoralty. Low in the polls, he ran in a crowded field, which enabled him to emerge on top.

And de Blasio has "raised his profile" with his latest high-handed "mandate."

If de Blasio were somehow to climb up the next rung of the political ladder, he only good thing would be Andrew Cuomo damaging his teeth by gnashing them. Cuomo as Governor had a hobby of making de Blasio's life miserable. It appeared he did it just for sport, as a cat tortures a captive mouse. What poetic justice that would be for the venal, execrable Cuomo!

My latest scam is working like a charm! Albany Governor's Mansion, Here I Come!

  

1]  For years, de Blasio has been hosted every Friday for an hour on "The Brian Lehrer Show" on "public" radio station WNYC, in New York City. WNYC.org. Brian Lehrer, a classic dweeb, always lets the Flim-Flam Man get away with his evasions. Callers who call in to complain about being screwed by the de Blasio regime would be parried with some Clintonian-like "I feel your pain" verbal jujitsu. No matter what he did, nothing could ever be de Blasio's fault.

 

De Blasio is more slippery than a greased eel and can seemingly fast-talk his way out of anything. While Trump could shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and not lose any support, as he boasted, de Blasio could do it and talk his way out of it with a gusher of verbiage.

2] Letitia James gave as a reason to remaining in theattorney general spot ongoing important cases. These cases are a civil suit against the crook Donald Trump, who inflates the value of his assets to get bank loans, and deflates them on his tax returns. She is also working to strip the National Rifle Association of its registration as a charity in New York State, stemming from the major corruption by its top officials who have used millions of NRA funds for personal expenditures. The NRA tried to evade liability by filing a frivolous bankruptcy claim, which the courts rejected.
 

China Confirms Yet Again Their Lab Leaked the Coronavirus- Their Guilty Behavior Keeps Making It Obvious

 The Chinese rulers are now blocking a renewed attempt by international health investigators to trace the origin of the coronavirus that causes COVD-19. They are rudely rebuffing them and adding the absurd demand that other countries be investigated as the possible source of the virus! Trying to shift blame to other countries in the face of the obvious fact that the disease started in China.

The behavior of the Chinese rulers reeks of guilt. 

If the Chinese were actually half as sure as they pretend to be that the virus didn't leak from their lab, the innocently-named Wuhan Institute of Virology, they would WELCOME and indeed INVITE an international investigation of the lab. Instead they have made sure to prevent that, and going much farther, have attacked anyone suggesting even the possibility of a lab leak!

Last November the Chinese government imposed 200% tariffs on Australian wine imports, which before that amounted to a billion dollars a year in sales for Australia. This was done to punish Australia for suggesting an investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus outbreak.

China has a history of leaking viruses from their labs. On four known occasions coronaviruses leaked from a Beijing lab. And who knows how many other times that they kept secret, and how many other microbes escapes from their labs.

I proved on April 12, by examining the evidence of the behavior of Chinese officialdom, that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The proof is the heavy-handed cover-up, which included threatening doctors with prison, denying access to investigators, including from the World Health Organization, putting out disinformation, and repeatedly attacking anyone and any government that so much as suggests investigating the origin of the virus- behavior which continues to this day.

For the proof of Chinese government guilt, see my previous essays, "Strong Evidence The Novel Coronavirus Originated In A Chinese Lab. Here's The Evidence," April 12th, and "I Already Proved On April 12 That The New Coronavirus Escaped From A Chinese Lab. Now the U.S. Establishment Is Beginning to Catch Up With Me," May 18.

And watch my video on how China actually controls U.S. scientists! "HOW CHINA STRONGARMS U.S. SCIENTISTS TO KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT THE WUHAN LAB LEAK," on my youtube channel, where you will find many important videos about the world you are living in,

                                Xi Jinping, Dictator of China. Not the most trustworthy guy in the world.

The 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre Wasn't A "Race Riot," It Was A Pogrom

  U.S. propaganda media are referring to the utter destruction of the entire African-American community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921 as a "race riot." This is deceptive.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst of mob violence. A pogrom is an organized, pre-planned attack on a minority community that is already oppressed. 

Pogrom's are organized by government authorities, who employ mobs along with police and in the case of Tsarist Russia, soldiers, to carry out a mass terrorist attack on a besieged community.

What happened in Tulsa in 1921 was organized by the local power structure. The town newspaper incited the attack. The local government, including the police, aided and abetted it. (No one can deny they did zero to stop it.) The assault lasted two days and a night, May 31 and June 1. 35 square city blocks were destroyed. (The Washington Post says 45.) Where was the Governor? Where was the President? Where were the state police, the National Guard, the U.S. Army? 

 The white racists of Tulsa looted the homes and businesses of the African-American citizens before razing the entire neighborhood of Greenwood. An estimated 300 African-Americans were murdered. A plane was used in an aerial bombardment of the area. In the aftermath, no criminal charges were ever brought for the thousands of felonies, including murders, that were committed. That fact alone proves official approval. No compensation has ever been paid.

Now, thanks to various social activists and writers and a handful of historians making noise about this buried crimes for a number of years, the U.S. power establishment has jumped to the head of the march. The propaganda system is suddenly reporting something it kept hidden for years Even the president of the U.S. has gotten into the act, declaring one of the two dates of the pogrom a "day of remembrance,." Wringing its hands, the power establishment feigns sympathy, distancing itself from a crime it managed to keep "secret" for a hundred years. Now "the" media is acting like it didn't hide the fact of the pogrom for a century. The establishment's propaganda system has assiduously avoided mentioning that this major historical event is kept secret from students, who are never told of it, nor is it mentioned in their textbooks. The propagandists also conveniently neglect to mention that not a dime of compensation has ever been paid for the wanton looting and destruction. Nor is any mention made of making actual amends for the crime- which is why we are on safe ground saying that the sympathy is feigned. [1]

By waiting a century to even admit the existence of this event, the system has outlasted all but three of the victims - only one, who was 7 years old at the time, with any useful memory of the event- of the largest incident of violent racial oppression in U.S. history. (At least, the largest we know about. Who knows what else has been hidden all these years?)

Oppression is the key word here. The "madness" had a logic. It was not merely an emotional explosion of hate that made no sense. The black community of Greenwood was prosperous. It's residents were independent and successful. It's very existence constituted a threat to the white supremacist social order in two ways. First, the visible economic success of the blacks put the lie to the foundational myth of white supremacy, that "whites" are inherently superior to "blacks," who are an innately inferior species of being. Second, throughout U.S. history, including to the present day, white prosperity depends in part on the ability to economically exploit blacks, starting with the hyper-exploitation of slavery. The ability to exploit by keeping people in menial jobs at low pay and no benefits requires that the victims have no other options, and are not independent. Thus Greenwood NEEDED to be destroyed as an economic imperative. [2]

Again, the establishment power structure is on the job, making sure people don't understand this by not mentioning any of it.

Oklahoma is a major oil producing state. It is also one of the most reactionary states in the U.S. If the "whites" there think it's "unfair' that they "should have to pay for something they didn't do," (I guess it's fairer to rob and murder black people and not compensate them) then let them levy a special tax on the oil industry there and pay the descendants decent money. Throughout U.S. history every effort has been made to keep "blacks" impoverished, to impede their economic advancement in every way possible. Not just he obvious ways like job discrimination, which can be blamed on individual bigotry, hiding the role of institutional racism (which the Republicans deny exist!, including, most disgustingly, the black opportunist Tim Scott, GOP Senator from South Carolina) ) [3]

The failure to face reality honestly in the case of the 1921 Tulsa pogrom has a parallel in the failure to face reality in the January 6 coup attempt earlier this year. The attempt by Donald J. Trump to remain in office by a blatant seizure of power is being called a "riot," or sometimes an "insurrection," when was plainly on its face a failed coup. The whole point of storming the Capitol was to stop the certification of Biden as the winner of the November 2020 presidential election. This was explicit. Trump himself personally instigated the mob invasion of the Capitol just minutes before the mob swarmed the building. Trump even named specific individuals as targets, including his own vice president, Michael Pence. Yet Democrats and media figures say there is a need to investigate "to find out what happened." You really don't now what happened? That is a radical denial of reality.

An unhealthy person is one who cannot face reality. Likewise an unhealthy country is also.

Greenwood neighborhood set ablaze, May 31, 1921.

The organized mob did its work well.

Black Wall Street Gallery, New York City. At least they didn't burn it down. One or a few creeps acting under cover of darkness lacked the nerve to do that.

1]  However some of our "sick white brothers" as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. referred to them in a speech shortly before they murdered him, aren't even feigning sympathy. On the contrary, they are taking the occasion to forcibly assert white supremacy. The "Black Wall Street Gallery" in the neighborhood of Soho in Manhattan was defaced on the "day of remembrance," its sign obliterated with WHITE paint, the message being "We Erase You!" The obliterated neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa was referred to at the time as "the black Wall Street." No doubt that was yet another provocation which the white supremacists of the era found intolerably insulting to their unwarranted sense of superiority. In fact, like Nazis, they are inferior to normal human beings.

2]  Entire books and studies have been written about the systematic economic repression of African-Americans post slavery. Starting with the failure to make good on the promise of "40 acres and a mule" to give freed slaves an economic stake, instead consigning them to the neo-slavery of forced prison labor and peonage of sharecropping, on through the insistence of Southern Democrats in Congress that New Deal programs like the minimum wage and Social Security be designed to exclude farm laborers and house maids- i.e. blacks- to the racist covenants in home deeds barring sales to blacks, to discriminatory Federal housing policies, redlining by banks, the refusal of the Agriculture Department to provide black farmers with access to aid programs they were entitled to, virtually wiping out American black farmers as a class, to the organized assault on black homeowners by mortgage fraudsters- the list is practically endless, and entire books have been written about each specific example. But one must step back from scrutinizing individual trees to perceive the forest of racist oppression as a whole. American white racists even went so far as to deliberately build highways through black inner city neighborhoods, using "urban renewal" as an excuse to wipe them out and scatter their inhabitants to the winds. Probably the worst of these culprits was Robert Moses, an unelected infrastructure "czar" whom the venal politicians of New York State empowered to rampage through poor neighborhoods in this fashion, not only destroying communities, tearing to shreds the social fabric of the people living there, but bringing in more polluting motor vehicles to cause disease and death. Moses was such an awful racist that he ordered bridge overpasses on the highway leading to Jones Beach to be made too low for buses to pass below them. He wanted to make sure that poor black and Hispanic families without cars couldn't go to the each. This humanoid piece of excrement was so evil he went out of his way to prevent children who were the wrong "color" from enjoying the seashore and the ocean. How loathsome can you get? And how despicable is a political system that empowers such as this creature? Robert Caro wrote a detailed book on Moses' numerous crimes against humanity, although the book is flawed by a lack of appropriate moral outrage. Caro was fascinated by the nature of power, and how Moses managed to acquire it.

Lest you think such gratuitously racist attitudes such as Moses' are a thing of the past, it wasn't long ago when shrewish rightwing propagandist Megyn Kelly shouted at her TV audience that "SANTA CLAUS IS WHITE!," just to try and make "black" children feel inferior and left out. Santa Claus of course is an IMAGINARY BEING and thus CAN BE ANY "COLOR" ANYONE WANTS HIM TO BE, you loathsome racist bitch!

3]  No surprise, after I wrote this [but before posting, as I was still editing], the Republican mayor of Tulsa said it wouldn't be "fair" to make "taxpayers" (presumably only "whites" pay taxes in Oklahoma!) pay for something "criminals" did long ago. Sooo predictable! In fact, I predicted it!

I Already Proved On April 12 That The New Coronavirus Escaped From A Chinese Lab. Now the U.S. Establishment Is Beginning to Catch Up With Me

 Six weeks ago I posted an essay that proved that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease originated as a leak from a Chinese research laboratory. [Link below- Footnote 1.] 

First of all, let me say that proof is a bit like beauty, in that it's in the eye of the beholder. Proof is, quite simply, that which convinces someone that something is true. We can see a cop murdering a person on video, yet to cop-lovers and other cops, the video proves no such thing. In mathematics there are agreed rules for proof. No other area has such precise rules, not even the sciences, where there is some subjectivity and interpretation. And in every other area, there are no real rules, because people ignore the basic rules of logic when it suits them, and deny or ignore facts they don't like.

Nevertheless, I made a cogent case, based mainly on the behaviour of Chinese state authorites and those under their control, that this disease-causing virus originated as a leak from the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology lab in Wuhan, China. You need to read my original essay. To briefly summarize some of the main points:

- When Chinese doctors first spotted signs of the disease, the police threatened them with prison for "spreading rumors," which stopped an incipient medical response.

-The Chinese regime reacts violently to any calls for investigating the origin of the disease. When the Australian government called for an investigation, the Chinese immediately applied punitive tariffs on Australian imports to China.

-The Chinese regime stonewalled the World Health Organization for months on doing an investigation. When they finally allowed a WHO team into Wuhan, it was closely chaperoned and not permitted to actually investigate. Instead they were spoonfed a Chinese "investigation" which dismissed the possibility of a lab leak out of hand and instead suggested frozen food as a disease vector, an absurdity in this case.

Read the essay for more. [1]

Since I last wrote on this, more damning evidence has emerged. Three workers from the notorious Wuhan lab were hospitalized in November 2019, with symptoms of COVID-19, before the first acknowledged cases in China. (The Wall Street Journal reported this, and it was picked up by other media outlets.) And every time the Chinese react with extreme defensiveness and screech outraged rhetoric at suggestions that further (that is, actual and not performative) investigation is called for, that constitutes more evidence that they feel a strong need to hide something. That something is obviously the lab leak.

Furthermore, contrary to the false and pacifying claims by U.S. government bureaucrat Dr. Anthony Fauci and by other Americans with ties to the Wuhan lab, that lab is NOT a highly secure facility. Fauci and others have emitted a smokescreen of reassuring, anodyne, misleading statements all along on that score. The Wuhan lab doesn't operate at top level biosecurity. Leaks are common at such labs. In fact, there are at least 6 prior known escapes of coronaviruses from research labs. Four of these occurred in Beijing, China's capital, and one each in Singapore and Taiwan. [2]

We are also seeing nails put in the coffin of the alibi that the outbreak originated in the "live animal" market in Wuhan. Hundreds of samples were taken from the market. The number of positive coronavirus results? Zero. And the "live animals" sold at the market were reptiles only, which cannot be infected with this virus. Only dead mammal meat was sold there, which cannot infect humans.  [3]

Much of the resistance to accepting the apparent fact of the true origin of the virus stems from the fact that the hated Donald Trump said it. Since the Democrats and the vast constellation of media assets allied with them in an anti-Trump front felt duty-bound to oppose most anything Trump uttered, this inclined them ti dismiss the idea of a Chinese lab leak as a baseless smear. 

But not every single thing Trump says is false, as mindless Democrats and their media allies believe. I despise Trump as much as anyone, but that hasn't caused me to lose my ability to evaluate reality objectively. Trump indeed tells thousands of lies, and some number of falsehoods which he believes (telling which bits of his nonsense he actually believes is not always easy). But even Trump occasionally makes true statements. To think otherwise is irrational.

The dam of denial started to break earlier this year, when U.S. government career medical bureaucrat, former Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said in March that  he believes “the most likely etiology of this pathology in Wuhan was from a laboratory." The pressure increased earlier this month when 18 prominent virologists managed to get Science magazine to publish their letter saying the possibility of a leak from the Wuhan lab deserved study.  (Science, the premiere U.S. science journal, is the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.) Exercising scientific caution, they won't say it happened until they see biological evidence. The rest of us are free to consider ALL the evidence in drawing a conclusion. As I have shown, the behavior of the Chinese "authorities" is pretty definitive in this regard.

U.S. president Biden just ordered the U.S. "intelligence community" to investigate the source of the outbreak. If the secret police had read my mid-April expose, they'd have a leg up. [4]

The government buraucrat Saint Anthony Fauci (at least that's how much of the media treats him and a large swath of the population regards him- as a saint), supple public relations man/propagandist that he is, has smoothly slinked away from his prior position that the virus DEFINITELY did NOT leak from the Wuhan lab. What he's been saying NOW is for example this stuff: "Because we don't know 100% what the origin is, it's imperative that we look and we do an investigation:" "I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus;” “That possibility [a lab accident in Wuhan] certainly exists, and I am totally in favor of a full investigation of whether that could have happened;” and "no one knows not even I 100% what the origin is including me. That's why we favor further investigation." Not even the Great Fauci knows for sure!

Fauci is a political cat who always lands on his feet. 

Fauci is an extremely successful bureaucrat, having held the same high level position as director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly 40 years. Fauci is the guy who early in the pandemic told people masks were no good and you shouldn't wear them. Asked to explain this later, when he took the diametrically opposite tack, he said "we" were worried about mask shortages for medical personnel. In other words, he'll be dishonest in order to manipulate the public. We are people to be acted upon by this character.

So we should discount what Fauci has to say about this. The only interest in his pronouncements will be watching how he smoothly inches his way over to the most politic position of the moment for him. If and when the U.S. establishment consensus is that yes indeed, the virus was a lab leak, he'll be telling us that he never ruled that out as a possibility (which will be a lie). He's an expert at parsing words so he never admits error or is caught in a blame-worthy position.  He is first and foremost a government bureaucrat, all of whose public pronouncements are designed to manipulate the public, to cause a political or social effect. [5]

But Fauci's newfound openness to at least investigating the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan has inadvertently provided more confirmation that that's exactly what happened. Chinese state media are now calling Fauci "morally degenerate." (No gratitude for the year Fauci spent deflecting suspicion away from them!) 

If the lab was blameless, the Chinese would WELCOME an investigation to exonerate the lab and themselves! Instead they go ballistic at the mere suggestion of looking into the matter.. You know what that proves?

Guilty as charged.

A year ago, Fauci got the usual glorifying treatment in this National Geographic puff piece from May 4, 2020. Notice the straw man argument headline: "No scientific evidence the coronavirus was MADE in a Chinese lab." The issue isn't whether it was man-made. The issue is a leak of the virus into the environment. "Proving" the virus was not artificially engineered was speciously used to assert the disease outbreak did not come from the lab. Which of course is sophistry. What research labs study is organisms from nature.

Fauci Knows Best! Just Put Your Faith In Him.

  

1]  "Strong Evidence The Novel Coronavirus Originated In A Chinese Lab. Here's The Evidence," April 12, 2021.

2] These lab leaks occurred starting in 2004. It was the coronavirus species that caused SARS. The coronavirus causing COVID-19 is the third coronavirus that has caused an outbreak of human disease. In 2002 a coronavirus caused the disease SARS. In 2011 another such virus caused MERS. Many times more cases of illness, and of death, have been caused by COVID-19 than by either of those two earlier coronavirus-caused diseases.

3]  "How It Started, How It's Going," On The Media, May 21, 2021, a program of WNYC radio in New York City aired nationally by NPR, the U.S.-government-created and partially funded radio network.

4]  Actually I am constantly monitored by the secret police. But the units of the massive U.S. police state assigned to torment domestic dissidents are the most secretive and highly compartmentalized part of the repressive apparatus. So it is unlikely they would communicate with those assigned to the task of investigating the Wuhan outbreak. Plus their hatred of me would disincline them from seeing any value in my insights.

5]  On May 27 Saint Anthony was awarded with a "Webbie," one of those self-aggrandizing "honors" that the professional mass manipulation establishment hands out to its members. Career corporate propagandist Katie Courie presented the "award." Fauci spoke thus at the ceremony: "Always speak truth to power." Thus the spectacle of a career government bureaucrat osing as a brave dissident! Hey asshole, if you meant it, you'd call on Biden to stop persecuting Julian Assange and issuea presidential pardon to protect him! What an obnoxious phony!

Strong Evidence The Novel Coronavirus Originated In A Chinese Lab. Here's The Evidence

  Think back to what happened when the new coronavirus disease (now dubbed COVID-19) was first noticed by doctors in Wuhan, China. This is never mentioned anymore, but it should be, because it is highly significant.

A few doctors noticed new, unusual illnesses in patients and began communicating about it to each other. The police hauled them in and threatened them with prison for "spreading rumors," telling them in no uncertain terms to SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Why would a government feel threatened by doctors alerting each other to cases of a new illness?

The "explanation" that the U.S. media peddled at the time, apparently taking their lead from Chinese propaganda, was that the Wuhan bosses feared looking bad to their superiors in Beijing. That "explanation" makes zero sense, if you spend about 10 seconds thinking about it.

The local goons constituting "authority" in Wuhan were afraid of making a bad impression on their superiors if they acted quickly to deal with a disease outbreak.

Whereas they would look GOOD if they forced the doctors to keep quiet, not alert the medical community, take NO steps to deal with the disease, and allow it to spread. Right. Got it.

That is some of the purest BULLSHIT there is.

The behavior of the Wuhan "authorities" (political power bosses) ONLY makes sense if they were COVERING UP A STATE CRIME. Their behavior is how rulers behave when they are hiding criminality, malfeasance, or culpability by the state. We've seen the pattern hundreds of times all over the world, including often in the U.S., where whistleblowers are routinely raided by the FBI, indicted, and imprisoned.

This is prima facie evidence that the state was guilty of causing the outbreak.

More evidence: Chinese stonewalling on allowing outside investigations. In fact, after Australia called for such an investigation, the Chinese regime punished Australia by imposing stiff import tariffs on important Australian products. The regime reacts with fury if anyone even MENTIONS doing a real investigation.

 Sounds like someone has something to hide, now doesn't it?

That something was an experiment with a virus that went badly awry. It could have been a non-military experiment, or part of bioweaponry research.

U.S. medical bureaucrat Anthony Fauci has put up a smokescreen of reassuring rhetoric to absolve the Chinese of this possibility. This is the same guy who early on in the pandemic told Americans not to wear face masks. This was terrible MEDICAL advice, and he KNEW it at the time. 

But Fauci wasn't acting as a physician when he discouraged Americans from wearing face masks to protect themselves, even though he pretended he was. He was acting as a government medical bureaucrat. It later emerged that his motive was to prevent a run on masks that might lead to shortages of masks for medical personnel. Fauci and the bureaucracy decided that the public needed to be tricked in order to place a higher priority on medical staff. Later, when confronted with the contradiction between this early "medical advice" and the subsequent incessant exhortations to mask up, Fauci spoke as if it was other people who said don't wear masks.

This wasn't the only dishonesty by Fauci. As problems have emerged with the Johnson & Johnson and Astra-Zeneca vaccines, including fatal blood clots in young women from the latter vaccine, Fauci has papered over the facts with assertions that the vaccines are safe and people should take them. The entire U.S. propaganda system has toed this line. (Johnson & Johnson gave thousands of people cancer by selling talcum powder contaminated with asbestos, doing this for years in utter contempt of its customers. Not exactly a trustworthy company. If you want to trust their vaccine data, go ahead, you trusting soul you.)

Meanwhile the Chinese rulers stubbornly stick to their coverup. After months of stalling and stonewalling, the Chinese regime finally allowed a team of "investigators" from the World Health Organization (a UN agency virtually under Chinese control since Trump pulled the U.S. out of it, one of the numerous destructive acts this pathological liar and narcissist committed in four years as president of the U.S., culminating in his failed coup attempt of January 6, 2021). This UN team was held on a short leash by the Chinese, controlling all their movements, and spoon fed them data. The W.H.O. dupes did no real investigating. They went to the market that we are supposed to believe the outbreak originated from, and talked to people there. What possible use this could be, a year later, is unexplained. W.H.O. then told the world that the virus probably didn't originate in a Chinese laboratory.

But there IS another plausible explanation for the behavior of the Wuhan apparatchiks over a year ago. Maybe they were afraid of presenting rising disease statistics to their superiors in the tyrannical hierarchy. Maybe they feared being condemned for poor performance over something beyond their control. Maybe they thought they could hide a budding epidemic if they just didn't report it.

 Now, I don't know, perhaps the party apparatchiks running Wuhan were really that stupid. It's possible. People operating within a rigid totalitarian system are often forced to behave in irrational ways  that are incredibly dumb. So it can't be ruled out entirely.

I just got some insight into how crazy-making the Chinese totalitarian system is, and how the apparatchiks and enforcers within that system have virtually no room for independent judgment and action from an article in The New Yorker magazine detailing the experience of a Kazakh woman, loyal to China, who was sucked into the "reeducation" system in China for no reason at all. It provides a very detailed look at the remorseless system of Chinese oppression of human beings from the inside, and how irrational that system can be.  [1]

China is run by a one-party dictatorship that imprisons lawyers who represent citizens who sue officials who rob them, that disappears workers who complain about conditions of work into a vast gulag of brainwashing prisons. Anyone who dares speak out is guilty of the "crime" of "picking quarrels and causing trouble." This is not a trustworthy state. [2]

In any event, the dictatorship is still working assiduously to keep their coronavirus dirt hidden under the rug of propaganda and lies. And now the Chinese regime is making hay by spreading its vaccine around the world, scoring Goodwill points. Only thing is, it's a crappy vaccine. Latest statistics from Brazil, for example, show it having an efficacy rate of 50.4%, just barely acceptable.

But not to worry. Chinese officials and their propagandists and stooges will lie about that, and the Good Dr. Fauci will manage to put a positive spin on that too. He just LOVES the vaccines, ALL of them!

P.S. I myself have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

TWO MEN YOU SHOULD NOT TRUST:

Xi Jinping, Dictator of China: "I applaud myself for excellent job of manipulating and fooling you!"

Dr. Anthony Fauci: "You should understand that we lie to you for your own good."

1] "Surviving The Crackdown In Xinjiang ," The New Yorker, April 5, 2021.

2]  See for instance, "China Detains Delivery Worker Who Tried To Improve Working Conditions," NPR radio network, April 12, 2021, among countless examples of ubiquitous oppression in China. Actually "the authorities" didn't "detain" him, they disappeared him into their vast prison gulag. His crime was the all-purpose "spreading rumors and making trouble." That's a beef good for a five year prison stretch.

Joe Manchin Singlehandedly Robs Unemployed Americans of BILLIONS of Dollars

 Rightwing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin just cheated hard working laid-off Americans, many with families to support, out of billions of dollars of enhanced unemployment benefits.
A traitor to his own party, Manchin sabotaged Biden's COVID relief bill, dubbed "The American Rescue Plan." The House of Representatives previously passed the bill in its prior form. Now the House is having the Manchin-vandalized version shoved down its throat. 

What a venal character.

Bad enough that MOST unemployed people are NOT getting ANY benefits. On top of that, most states provide extremely skimpy benefits to workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. (Workers who quit or are fired "for cause" are not entitled to a red cent in state support. This forces workers to put up with horrible jobs, including health-destroying ones. Nor are workers labeled "independent contractors," including under the "digital economy" label "gig workers," eligible. Those who are legally eligible are forced to leap over a variety of hurdles designed to prevent them from receiving benefits. And as if THAT weren't enough to cheat workers, hundreds of thousands are falsely accused of fraud by their state's government agencies. See the reference at the bottom.) Biden's Covid Relief Bill would have added $400 to the state unemployment insurance payments, through the end of September 2021.

"Centrist" Joe Manchin found this unacceptable and insisted on $300 only, PLUS ending the top-off September 7. (The Power Establishment's propaganda system insists on calling Manchin a "centrist" habitually attaches the adjective "moderate" to his name. What's he in the "center" of? Hard line reaction on one side and conservative status quo "liberals" on the other? And if he's "moderate," that makes anyone to his left immoderate, extreme. Detect any anti-progressive media bias there?)

$300 is only HALF the additional $600 per week the unemployed got from the Federal government LAST year under TRUMP!

Rather than the other 49 Democratic Senators blasting Manchin and insisting he support the party and his own party's president, Manchin got his way. Probably because they didn't really object.

This extortion was only possible because the Senate is divided, 50 Republicans who virtually always constitute a solid reactionary bloc, and 49 Democrats plus the Independent Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, who lines up with the Democrats most of the time.

So in order for the bill to pass, Manchin's vote was needed. Thus this creepy extortionist robbed around 10 million Americans of billions of dollars. Just do the math. $100 stolen off every check to 10 million people is a billion bucks. That's on every single payment, so the theft adds up to tens of billions, including the bulk of September where the robbery is $400 per check. (A 50-50 tie vote would be broken by the vice president, Kamala Harris.) (As of this writing, the U.S. Department of Labor on its website puts the number of people receiving unemployment compensation at 10.1 million people. Most of whom in turn support family members. So probably around 30 million people are partially or wholly dependent on these payments.)

Manchin benefits personally from his mass theft from millions of people. Manchin, like every U.S. Senator, represents the business interests of state. U.S. business benefits from keeping workers insecure and without recourse to significant state aid. It forces them to accept whatever wages and working conditions are dished out to them. This is called 'labor discipline" in capitalist economic terminology. And with only an insignificant fraction of the non-governmental labor force represented by unions (like 8%), workers have little leverage and scant bargaining power with companies and their bosses. The virtual destruction of organized labor in the U.S. was a project of the ruling elite spanning decades that has been hugely successful. Even assassinations were used in this magnificent achievement. 

Manchin doesn't benefit personally from his attack on the welfare of tens of million of people just because his donors are pleased, and the local media (the propaganda arms of the capitalist elite) will continue to promote him, he also benefits very directly as half owner of a local hotel, where the workers are paid $8.81 an hour. Remember what I just explained about "labor discipline." Indeed, reactionaries have been screeching that "too generous" benefits will "discourage people from working," i.e. from working for miserly pay and little or no benefits.
 
West Virginia, the state that miserly Manchin "represents," is a poor state. As we see, Manchin is directly attacking the economic welfare of many of "his own" constituents.

And yet they vote for this bastard.

What is the explanation for such masochism?

Rank stupidity, I suppose. And the effects of years of establishment media lies and brainwashing and gaslighting, in particular letting Manchin get away with posing as a local Everyman to his "fellow West Virginians."
 
Since I am not a leftist, I don't have the leftist bias of putting "the people" on a pedestal and making excuses for the masses. To leftists, the millions who vote for reactionaries and con men are being tricked somehow, and "we" just need to "educate" them to enlighten them.
Well lefties have been yakking away at people for centuries in the U.S., and it has mostly been futile. The truth is, people are fundamentally irrational, and that is why they are immune to persuasion with mere facts. As the fascist Ronald Reagan once notorious said, "facts are stupid things." The Higher Truth of ideology trumps facts.

The power establishment's national  propaganda system habitually designates Manchin as a "moderate." This is their deceptive lingo for rightwing but not fascist.

So meet the new boss of the U.S. Senate, same as the old boss. Before it was Mitch McConnell from the primitive state of Kentucky who ruled the Senate as Republican Majority Leader, or Fuhrer. Now it's Joe Manchin from the primitive backwater state of West Virginia, a state so mired in the past that people there refuse to let go of the coal industry- a criminal industry that has systematically destroyed the environment of the state

An acknowledgement of Manchin's grotesque power (but NOT a condemnation or criticism of it) came from long-time NPR figure Mara Liasson, who said "You're not gonna get rid of the filibuster or reform it without Joe Manchin on your side." [1]

I guess that means the Republicans will continue to have a veto over most legislation, since the "filibuster rule," an invention of racist Southern Senators in the 19th century intended to protect slavery- as if it needed more protecting- requires 60 votes out of 100 to do most ANYTHING in the U.S. Senate. (An exception was carved out for "budget reconciliation" bills, and the Democrats used that to push through the Manchin-crippled Covid Relief Bill.)

By the way, it was a BIG DEAL that took YEARS to "achieve" to change the filibuster rule from requiring 67 votes for "cloture." a fancy term for ending "debate," as if Senators actually debate.

"300 BUCKS A WEEK, AND NOT A PENNY MORE!" "Moderate" Manchin decides what you deserve.

 1] "Brian Lehrer Show," Radio station WNYC, New York City, March 8, 2021, wnyc.org. NPR is National Public Radio, a creation of the U.S. government funded by the government and by corporations and private foundations. It is disseminated through a nationwide network of "public" radio stations, and of course on its website, npr.org.

The best overview of the awful nature of unemployment insurance in most of the U.S. was done by a comedian- a British comedian at that. The U.S. has so many "news" organizations, but since virtually all of them are run to protect and promote bourgeois class interests, they strive to keep much of reality invisible. Thus people think what they personally experience is unique to them and are brainwashed to believe that their economic problems are entirely their own fault. Make sure you watch Unemployment Last Week Tonight with John Oliver- March 8, 2021.


For U.S. Department of Labor statistics, click here.

Evil Propagandist Dies, And Some U.S. Media Hails Him As A Great Man

 A "legend," an "icon," these are words being used on radio "news" stations and elsewhere to describe the noxious, destructive purveyor of ignorant lies Rush Limbaugh, whose cigar smoking caught up with him at the age of 70, dead after "a battle with" lung cancer. (Susan Sontag demolished the obnoxious propaganda habit of describing people with diseases as "battling" the disease in her book "Illness As Metaphor.") (Most people don't read much except junk, so they won't be informed of how evil Limbaugh was.)

Why hail such a malign creature? Treating hard rightwing propagandists and its purveyors as respectable and legitimate gives them credence. The establishment power structure's propaganda system does this to indoctrinate the populace in reactionary ideology and lies that benefits the class interests of the rich and their corporate vehicles. This why even though "liberals" and "the liberal media" were constant targets of Limbaugh's mendacious vituperation, he was never honestly reported or commented on by those elements of the power structure.

You must understand that Limbaugh was part of a much larger phenomenon. Rich oligarchs who control several thousand radio stations in the U.S. decided to flood the airwaves with reactionary agit-propaganda spewed by demagogues into the ears of millions of people. Limbaugh was the most prominent of these- but not even the worst. [For example, Michael Weiner, who goes by the apt pseudonym "Michael Savage," is even worse.] [1]

Instead of sane, rational commentary, people's minds are assailed by neo-fascist rabble-rousing demagogues that the monopoly owners of U.S. radio stations have decided are fit fare to indoctrinate the American public with ultra-reactionary attitudes and warped versions of reality.

Why was Limbaugh so execrable? To prove the point  would be like trying to succinctly explain what was so awful about Nixon. It takes at least a book to do the topic justice. And just citing a few examples looks like picking and choosing. But every day, for decades, Limbaugh spewed reactionary poison into the eardrums of idiots who lapped up his lies.

Like all privileged fascists, Limbaugh was an extreme hypocrite who was addicted to illegal drugs while frequently demanding that other people (especially blacks)  who used outlawed drugs be given draconian prison terms or even be executed. (Limbaugh himself escaped punishment for his own lawbreaking of course.)

Limbaugh was a sexist, racist dog who specialized in character assassination. Just one example: In 2019 he falsely asserted that TV commentator Krystal Ball posed nude for photos at age 14.

Limbaugh spewed thousands of malicious lies during his "career," and it would be impossible to list them all here. So these are but a few of them.

Limbaugh helped kill many people by pooh-poohing the seriousness of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which as of this writing has killed about half a million people in the U.S.

Limbaugh didn't just deny global warming, of course, he even denied the fact that CFC's destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere. Not even reactionary scientists deny this.

Limbaugh aided and abetted Trump's coup attempt by incessantly peddling the Big Lie that the Democrats "stole" the 2020 presidential election, a lie equivalent to the Nazi lie that Germany lost World War I because Jews stabbed Germany in the back. Equivalent in being a total fabrication and equivalent in being a malign political lie with terrible consequences.

It is a relief that Limbaugh in effect killed himself by his noxious habit of smoking cigars. He thought this anti-health practice was sticking it to the rest of us. Being anti-social is what reactionaries think is brave non-conformity. Being dead wrong is their idea of "independent thinking." 

Good riddance to a destructive creature.

Sucking on symbolic phalluses did the gay-hating Limbaugh in. Ironic, yes?

1] Mark Crispin Miller offers some revelations about "Savage." See "Mark Crispin Miller's Revelations About Gay Homophobic Crypto-Nazi 'Michael Savage.'"

Limbaugh spent 30 years excreting anti-human agit-propaganda into the airwaves. If you want to sicken yourself by investigating some of his revolting neo-fascist record, you can start with:

"Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70," HuffPost, 2/17/21; "The Life and Death of a Woman-Hater," New York Times, 2/20/21 [nice to see some establishment media do some truth-telling about Limbaugh]; and "RIP RUSH LIMBAUGH, WHO SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE ON THE GOVERNMENT DOLE," The Intercept, 2/19/21.

Had To Cry Today

 

 Today is January 18, a day the U.S. Federal government has designated an official holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., a man that government murdered on April 4th, 1968. [1]

Naturally, certain media outlets devoted some airtime or text space to content about King. Democracy Now! (democracynow.org, which is also aired on various radio stations) played parts of his speeches, including the last one, which he delivered in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before he was murdered there. He was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers, who were horribly abused and underpaid by the racist rulers of that city. The death of two of their brethren in a trash compactor was the last straw for these workers, prompting the strike. [2]

King's last speech foretold his own death.

The murder of King is tragic on a number of levels. On the deepest level, it is the triumph of evil over good. That is the hardest part to take.

It was a victory of racists over the oppressed "black" population of America. That gave heart to racists all over the world, ad pain and gloom to "blacks" worldwide.

It was a success for the U.S. power structure, whose members fervently hated King. King was the target of vicious attacks in leading U.S. media for his opposition to the Vietnam war, by the Washington Post in its editorial page a year earlier, and Life magazine, among many others.

It was a sweet victory for the FBI, especially the two leading culprits running that secret police agency, John Edgar Hoover and William Sullivan. Hoover branded King "the most dangerous negro in America." Sullivan at least met with poetic justice, shot dead in an apparent assassination. His killer was the son of a police official, and he claimed to be out hunting and thought Sullivan was a deer. (Sure.)

It was a victory for the CIA, which carried out the hit and arranged to frame the fall guy, a petty criminal and racist named James Earl Ray.

The "elimination" of King threw the civil rights movement into disarray, removed its most stirring orator nad leading figure, an irreplaceable person. It prompted riots in 100 cities, allowing the pwoer structure to kill more blacks (those inclined to rebellion). It helped elect the "law and order" candidate for president that November, RIchard Milhous Nixon, one of the most pathological figures in U.S. history. It helped deepen the racial divide. Divide and rule is a cardinal principle of the U.S. elite.  And tactially, it freed the way for the Johnson regime to crush the rally in Washington King had organized, which intended to stay in the capital city of the Empire until certain legislation was passed by Congress to economically aid the poor.

From the point of view of the ruling class, King was a menace. By coming out against the horrendous war on Vietnam, talking about the need to reform the capitalist system to resolve the race issue, and reaching out to aid workers, King could potentially raise people's consciousness by connecting the separate "issues" of war, racism, labor rights and the economic system and dcreate broad unity in segments of the populace. An intolerable menace.

And what of King's main nemesis, the creator of the secret police agency, the FBI? The bourgeois elite have mostly turned their backs on Hoover. Apparently his legacy of political repression is inconvenient for them- it clashes with their propaganda about loving "freedom and democracy" and the U.S. as "the land of the free."  But he is memorialized anyway. THe natioaal headquarters of the FBI, the main nest of this colony of fascist insects, is emblazoned with Hoover's name: "The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building." As a state within a state, the FBI is free to honor the discredited Hoover. Establishment emdia and politicians maintain a discreet silence about this outrage, and do not demand the building be renamed. You see, in the U.S., unlike in other police states, no one controls the FBI. The U.S. is the police state to beat all police states.

King was a saint. That is, a person who was willing to sacrifice his own life for the greater good of humanity. He opposed violence against the vicious repression and terrorism against black people. He in a very articulate and dignified way asked the system to change its ways. Its response was to murder him.

So I spent part of the day crying. Not for the death of a good man. Good people die all the time. I can handle that. In part what caused my tears was the power of King's own words. In part the poignancy that a rare person, an American saint, was eliminated by an evil power structure that has ruled America from the beginning without interrupttion. But the main cause of my tears was the FACT that evil won, as it often does on this planet. Evil is destructive of humanity. And on a deeper level,  Evil is anti-Life.

1] Reactionaries and racists on every level of American society opposed the creation of the holiday. The political utility of the holiday for the power structure is that it can coopt King's legacy, erase his opposition to the Vietnam war and his economic critique of U.S. capitalism, and transform a vital leader and potential source of contemporary inspiration to push for change, into a plaster saint.

2]  Democracy Now ! program, click here.   Memphis sanitation strike as per Wikipedia, click here.

Trump Orders His Stormtrooper Mob to Invade Capitol Building, Stopping Presidential Election Certification

  The fascist mob of "Proud Boys" and other terrorists and fanatics that Trump summoned to Washington and ordered to besiege the Capitol building have invaded Congress. The Capitol police are desperately trying to evacuate the Congresspeople. A fascist fanatic is at the Senate rostrum, screaming that Trump won the election.  The building went on lockdown but the fascist mob broke into the building, trapping the legislators and others. [1]

Tear gas has been released in the Capitol rotunda (as of this writing it wasn't reported by who), a terrorist discharged a fire extinguisher, and the stormtroopers are breaking down doors inside the Capitol building.

So Trump is now going to say that Biden isn't president because the Electoral College results haven't been certified. He already tweeted that his vice president, Michael Trump, is a coward for not refusing to do his duty and ritually certify the results. (Trump said Pence "lacked courage" to "save America.")

Imagine if a mob of leftists tried to storm the Capitol. They'd simply be gunned down. As it was, we saw during the months of protests following the police murder of George Floyd how "leftist" protesters are treated by police. With rampant brutality, including deliberate blindings and killings.

Police reinforcements attempting to reach the Capitol building were blocked by protesters who stood in front of their cars. Contrast that with police running over Black Lives Matter protesters. Indeed there have been over 100 vehicular attacks on BLM protesters by police and civilian fascists, with virtually no arrests, including in "liberal" New York City.

The bourgeois radio commentary so far is handwringing and bewildered. Unlike if a mob of progressives or blacks attacked their Capitol. Then the reaction would be enraged, violently vitriolic, and demanding repression. Recall that a number of bourgeois media and political figures called for the assassinations of both Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. So it doesn't take much for trigger establishment violence against those placed on "the left." The right is and has always been treated with kid gloves. That is why bourgeois systems of rule are always at risk of fascist takeover. They are soft on fascism. Indeed they frequently employ it, playing with political fire.

1] Details of the occupation of the Capitol by Trump's stormtroopers is from WBBR radio this afternoon, which is owned by Michael Bloomberg Billionaire.

Trump's Coupists Inside the Congress, Successfully Stopping

The Certification Of Electoral College Votes by the Legislature.

Biden Claims He's Against the Death Penalty. Here's His Chance To Prove It.

 There are currently 52 prisoners under Federal death sentences. As president, Biden has the power to commute those sentences to life in prison (or any lesser sentence, or even to issue pardons, which exonerates the person and erases the conviction). If he doesn't commute all those death sentences, he'll be proving once again he's a phony and a liar.

Biden may or may not be against the death penalty. But he certainly isn't against killing. He was the leading Democratic Party ally of Republican president Bush the Younger in beating the war drum for invading Iraq (although these days he lies about that well-documented fact). For eight years he was Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama's vice president. He promoted a strategy of assassination of Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm fine with ridding the world of Islamofascists, who are the worst totalitarian murders around. And the death penalty for serial murderers and mass murderers I think is just and proper and moral.  I do wonder why a person who is a war hawk is against the death penalty. It may be because his church, Roman Catholicism, is against it.

Anyway, if he doesn't commute those 52 Federal death sentences, we'll know he doesn't really mean it.

Dreaming of War.

 

 

Tough On "Crime!" (Meaning on minorities who commit 

street crimes and P.O.W.'s in the "War On Drugs.")