Delusional “Men” presuming to lead nations present the fatal flaw of force

For every occasion, in every situation, in crisis or calm, when force is the worst possible choice

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he world suffers dire consequences when the deliberately delusional are loosed on the world

USA armed to the teeth, Leveraged to the hilt

• Debt deep, tall and rising

• Home-front industries long sold off, farmed out, off-shored
• Workers robbed of permanent, dependable employment positions

• All society suffers widening income disparity (99 to 1) pushing workers to fight over scraps, alms tossed out by the high and mighty.

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o Falls Empire –West

So rises PRC East to west

A squandering, careless, self-destructive Young nation Retreats 

An Ancient and wise nation Advances

A news peg amidst surround-sound news of global disease(s) in a world where major powers have persisted in endless wars at some level or dimension for (though they persist in calling our time   “peacetime”) for more than 70 years, or three-quarters of a century, or over a century counting the first World War (though the 2nd WW through Korea and Vietnam and all the wars executed, conflicts provoked, hostilities perpetrated across Western and Eastern Asia, South America and Africa) — all of these having dire consequences for every element and entity in nature.

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eg March 17, 2020:

The “Keiser Report” ponders the “standing” of the United States of America today — years after another ideology driven, income-boosting Plan — as “China” (not the USA)

…comes “to the rescue of Italy, France and Spain (the West)

“…with medical supplies airlifted in to help them through the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.…”

Foreign Assistance Plan USA (73 years ago)

Far from “Christian” “charity,” the U.S. “Foreign Assistance Act” was designed to profit from misery, prop up the U.S. export market, force foreign nations to buy goods exclusively from USA; and to weaken Communist structures and systems

The plan was introduced as “S. 2202” in the Senate of the United States

It passed 71-19 in the Senate (March 13, 1948) and 333-78 in the U.S. House of Representatives (March 31, 1948)

Passing out of conference committee April 1, 2, 3, respectively, it was agreed to by the House and Senate, and signed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s (April 3, 1948).

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astern counterpart to the U.S. Marshall Plan:

The 1947 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ “Molotov Plan” (originally the “Brother Plan” later named for Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov)

Its stated purpose: to aid in rebuilding countries “politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union (Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany); “a system of bilateral trade agreements … creating an economic alliance of socialist countries” enabled to “reorganize their trade to the Soviet Union” and cease reliance on U.S. aid.

The U. S. Marshall Plan (named for U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, and officially “an Act to promote world peace and the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through economic, financial, and other measures necessary to the maintenance of conditions abroad in which free institutions may survive consistent with the maintenance of the strength and stability of the United States” (emphasis added)) consisted of grants and loans (not gifts) to certain European countries (Austria,  Belgium and  Luxembourg, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy and  Trieste, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, excluding the USSR and Spain) “devastated by World War II.”

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he U.S. Plan began with exports of “staples such as food and fuel”, developed into building “reconstruction” sales, and accelerated into (war makers) Western European military constructions hostile to Eastern-Europe / USSR /Eastern Asia.

The United States’ involvement in another war, the North-South Korean War (1950-1953), brought an end to the (1948-1951) project called the Marshall Plan.

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rom the 1950s on,  “Marshall Plan” (or similar successor) funds also went to the CIA (inaccurately named Central Intelligence Agency), its “secret operations” and its fronts channeling disinformation and propaganda abroad:

“The Congress for Cultural Freedom” (CCF), an anti-communist advocacy group (1950-1979), deployed in thirty-five countries, channeling through “labor unions, newspapers, student groups, artists and intellectuals” to counter “anti-American counterparts subsidized by the Communists.”

“The Office of Policy Coordination,” a 1948 covert independent operations creation of the CIA, that later merged with the Office of Special Operations (OSO) to form the Directorate of Plans (DDP), with increased Truman-U.S. Korean war-era psyops warfare (1950 -) stretching to include funding for George Orwell’s prejudicial (anti-Soviet, Hollywood adapted) yarn “Animal Farm.”

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hat happens to a nation when its people repeatedly choose leaders who present a demonstrably unalterable predilection for blind force, repeated over decades into centuries — even when it is clear to the whole world that force is the worst possible response, the wrong response? Force cannot and will not save them or theirs?

Sources

RT “Looking Very 1929” (E1515) March 17, 2020: discussion of “…how the ongoing stock market crash and subsequent historic rallies strongly echo the 1929 crash:

• Will a Great Depression follow? What about after the crash?

• What will happen to the standing of the US when it is China coming to the rescue of Italy, France and Spain, with medical supplies airlifted in to help them through the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic?”

Also in this episode: an interview with “John Rubino of ‘DollarCollapse.com’ about the crisis in the stock markets and what amazing things the central banks might ultimately invent to try to stop that which they have created.” …[I]s the end game a fiat collapse?”

RT’s Keiser Report https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/483230-vaccine-covid-19-pandemic/

• Fiat Money…? “A currency without intrinsic value that has been established as money, often by government regulation

• Money without “use value” its “value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Policy_Coordination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

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Pressing Pandemic, Past Foreboding

From Carl Sagan to Radical Women

 

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isease of Capitalists  

At least since December of last year governments around the world, some better than others, have been preparing for the novel coronavirus;

while in the United States

“the for-profit medical industry has been practically ensuring that more people catch the virus and more die from it.”

“As with other disasters and emergencies,” capitalists capitalize on misery, thus worsening the worst.

“… Like other epidemics before it, coronavirus is a threat compounded by capitalist greed and callousness. ”

“Capitalists will always trade tomorrow’s welfare for today’s dollar — evidenced by “global warming” and “nuclear proliferation”— “if we let them.”

“Now is the time to mobilize unions and community organizations and small businesses to insist on immediate and effective action to protect public health.”

Sagan’s 1995

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oreboding

Highlighted in Bay Area United against War Newsletter

“I have a foreboding (a generation forward) of an America—

• when the United States is a service and information economy;

• when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries;

• when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;

• when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;

• when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

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umbing down of America is most evident in

• the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media,

• the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less [nanoseconds],

• lowest common denominator programming,

• credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially

— a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astro-biologist, author, creator of popular science, communicator of science in astronomy and other natural sciences — Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)

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rgued a “now-accepted hypothesis — high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to … the greenhouse effect”

Opposed U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s “multibillion-dollar project to develop a comprehensive defense against nuclear missile attack (the “Strategic Defense Initiative” or “Star Wars” program, March 1983) on the grounds that such a construction

“…would seriously destabilize the USA/USSR ‘nuclear balance’” and prevent “progress toward nuclear disarmament”

“…could easily” and far less expensively be defeated “through decoys and other means”

…Failed to meet required level of perfection

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agan on science and spirituality:

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. “When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life — then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.”

Sources

Bay Area United Against War Newsletter reposted from Radical Women “Coronavirus, Epidemics and Capitalism: The Bugs Are in the System” [“Radical Women supports and recommends this thoughtful analysis of the novel coronavirus by our sister organization, the Freedom Socialist Party. The statement raises excellent demands to protect workers, women, the poor, and people of color being scapegoated for the crisis.”] March 2020 https://www.bauaw.org/2020/

March 2020 Highlighted in Bay Area United against War Newsletter

https://www.bauaw.org/2020/

Wikipedia

Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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We didn’t get here Overnight

Today has historic causation

LONG YEARS of U.S. officials’ piling up debt, dissembling, disestablishing public service, borrowing and printing greenbacks, bribing peoples and nations, diverting the public treasury to aggression on at least four continents (Africa, Asia, Europe and South America) and to makers of war material (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and ilk)
 

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ONG YEARS of public officials’ shadowy partnering and rabid partisanship foreclosing any chance of cooperative work on behalf of the United States and its people (and more generally on behalf of world health)

LONG YEARS of public officials’ failure to diligently and continuously assess public health and welfare problems and potential problems, and plan ahead in and for a changing world

U.S. leadership (men and women of all kind, kin and affiliation) — instead of seeing, attending to and solving problems and resolving issues — have created and exacerbated global and national problems …
 

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hat we are seeing today is cause and consequence of actions, decisions, priorities taken by a long-entrenched cabal, a criminal plutocracy, a kleptocracy, a presumed aristocracy or elite — in a sense, a disease loosed on the world — who have historically served themselves, pandered to narrow interests, and year in and  year out sent the nation reeling from Crisis to Crisis — as they gave a surround-sound 24/7 made-for-bad-television / theater / film performance of

• Distraction

• Divide

• Blame

By whatever name

• Remain Tyrannically The Same.

States Scrambling Amidst Crisis
 

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alifornia

Who: People facing eviction

• What (at issue): Daily operations of eviction courts in urban counties creating “the kinds of mass gatherings that can spread contagious diseases”

• When: Wednesday March 12, 2020 “in a hallway with nearly 100 tenants and landlords during the court’s conference day”

• Where: Alameda County State Superior (Eviction) Court: a mandated mass court room gathering of renters and landlords trying “to settle eviction lawsuits instead of taking them trial.”
  
  
  Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, the third largest in Alameda County and includes “the San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont Metropolitan Statistical Area” (U.S. Census); its economy in first half and second half of 20th century (until start of 1980s) “was dominated by the now-defunct food canning and salt production industries.”

Held Hostage

Bay Area Legal Aid Attorney Hilda Chan

“Sometimes my clients have to bring their kids to court.”

“Folks are in there with walkers and oxygen tanks.

We’re not given a choice but to show up to a dangerous crowded atmosphere.

It’s dangerous for the court staff and jurors as well.

“The court requires attendance.”

East Bay Community Law Center (nonprofit legal aid group, Oakland)

Housing Director Meghan Gordon

“We are already in a housing crisis. Now we have a housing crisis colliding with a public health crisis.”

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entucky

Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. signs order postponing civil proceedings and rescheduling of criminal proceedings.

New York

“The New York State court system has halted New York City housing court evictions for at least a week and has instructed those courts not to issue eviction notices when someone fails to appear for a hearing as part of new measures that escalate the system’s response to the coronavirus.”

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ew York City March 13, 2020

“Deputy Mayor Vicki Been announced that the New York City Housing Authority had ceased most evictions” and city officials are “‘in discussions with the court system about what we could do’ for tenants with private landlords.”

“Legal intern who worked in Manhattan Family Court was diagnosed with the coronavirus” (state officials); court officials are “reaching out to all lawyers who may have come in contact with the unidentified woman (Family Court Judge Karen Lupuloff to lawyers).

Housing Justice Leader

“People say, well, the best thing you can do is wash your hands. But we don’t have hot water in our public housing.” 

“If you’re immune-compromised” (and) “you’re living in unsafe housing …, it’s really hard for your body … to adequately fight disease.”

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ennsylvania March 12, 2020

“Tenants, landlords, and lawyers,” about a dozen people, in an eviction court on Chestnut Street wrangled “over whether people would keep their homes.

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isconsin

Part of the Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area, Dane County Small Claims Court cases have been suspended for a month.

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f researchers canvassed the 50 U.S. states (not to mention the colonies) — and some work has been done in this regard though ignored by public officials — they would uncover many layers of crises caused by chronic neglect.

U.S. officials have squandered public wealth and threatened societal health while distracting with nonsensical talk of “socialism” and “anti-socialism”, pro- and anti-“abortion” and the “unborn”, and nebulous and ever changing “enemies” while neglecting the pressing basics for all: clean air and water, indoor plumbing, housing, work, livable wages, and workable workplaces.

And, strangely enough, the body politic continues to return to office an ilk of morons who are clearly vested only in themselves and status quo.

Sources

Wikipedia

Hayward, California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward,_California

This Week’s News

The Appeal “To Stop the Spread of Coronavirus, California Officials and Attorneys Call for Eviction Bans: Experts say evictions cause a ‘downward spiral’ of health problems for renters, and that housing security is necessary to slow the spread of the pandemic” Darwin Bond Graham March 13, 2020 https://theappeal.org/to-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus-california-officials-and-attorneys-call-for-eviction-bans/

WFPL “It Was Business As Usual At Louisville’s Courthouse, But Not For Long” Jacob Ryan March 12, 2020 https://wfpl.org/kycir-cancellations-abound-but-its-business-as-usual-at-louisvilles-courthouse

Bloomberg Law “New York City Courts Delay Evictions Because of Outbreak” March 13, 2020, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/new-york-city-courts-delay-evictions-because-of-outbreak

The City “Courts Offer Chance to Delay Eviction and Other Cases Over Illness” Ese Olumhense and Rachel Holliday Smith, additional reporting Reuven Blau https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/new-chance-to-delay-eviction-other-court-cases-over-illness.html

Inquirer “Amid coronavirus fears, Philadelphia City Council considers pressuring for an end to evictions, foreclosures, utility shutoffs” Jason Laughlin March 12, 2020 https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-eviction-foreclosure-philadelphia-gym-council-resolution-20200312.html

Forward Lookout “Dane County Suspends Evictions (Cases) for a Month!” Brenda Konkel - March 12, 2020 https://www.forwardlookout.com/2020/03/dane-county-suspends-evictions-for-a-month/31125

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