L’etat c’est moi. The
famous quote came, not from the U.S. Department of Justice this week, but from a man who hefted roughly 80 pounds of
clothing on his back, not the light weight Armani, and red power tie, signature
costume of the current white uber alles regime. Lace-makers sweated over their bobbins
most of their life-time just to fabricate the ruffled jabots, and pleated cuffs;
silk weavers sent the heavy knickers and waistcoats to the embroiderers for
countless hours of invisible stitching before they could be seen as fit to
wear. But now, although it’s quick and dirty, tyranny reigns just as strong,
but a lot more gracelessly than it did in the days of Louis XIV.
Take Russiagate as a benchmark. From the start, nothing
seemed simple or clear cut to this writer. Rather Russiagate seemed a labyrinth
peopled by white men in suits, a scene I found unconvincing and less than
appealing. It didn’t smell right. There
was too much hue and cry, too much media hype.
Too much distraction.
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| Fatso |
But while the American public left, center and right, got sidelined
by the Mueller Report, by the endless speculation, by the fear it might get shut
down one way or another, by Rachel Maddow’s trumpeting, making a case for it
loud and clear, by the appointment of Wm. Barr, who, it turns out, is a friend
of Mueller’s, no one paid attention to the bloated fist of Uncle Fatso and his
gang dipping into the till, diverting funds for wars in space, requisitioning
funds for “useable” nukes, moving funds away from entitlements to build a
mediaeval wall, to fund the Pentagon with 61% of the budget, and rob veterans
benefits to put brown children in cages.
Democrats were all too happy to lick their political defeat
like dander off a cat’s back, rather their blame their own corruption for the
outcome. If anyone benefitted from a
Russian connection, it was Hilary Clinton, who, despite the Clinton Foundation’s
disgraceful corruption, still remains a darling to the necrophiliac female voters
(all except the Haitians) who can’t see beyond identity politics.
Sore losers were only too happy to overlook Mueller’s dark history: G-man in chief for twelve years under Bush and
Obama.
But although the prevailing feeling is that the
investigation has been a failure, quite the contrary, in my view it has been a
huge success in stalling any action to get at the real corruption that curdles
Washington these days, both Democrat and Republican, guaranteeing continued
chaos, and terrorizing of the American people, and preparing the future in such
a way that electoral politics will no longer be relevant by 2020.
The so-called election of 2020 will bring us the mixture as before at best, if it brings us ANY mixture at all: the Democratic carrot,
the Republican stick. The system will never allow anyone of integrity to hold
office. And caught between the gears of two-party government, the population
already under unbearable pressure, will be ground to a pulp.
And the fate of life on the planet hangs in the balance.
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Yellow Vests hold protests
across France despite bans.
Protests across Europe
highlight rifts over copyright bill.
Venezuelan government bans
Guaido from office for 15 years.
Arrest of Guaido’s chief of
staff, Roberto Marrero tied to terrorism plans involving 19 teams of assassins.
Week of rebellion called for
April 17 in N.Y.C.
Economics doom coal plants as
solar and wind are now cheaper.
Russian troops in Venezuela
complicate U.S. “regime change” plans, delivering red line warning to #45
regime.
In a still honorable country,
Argentina, over a million march in honor of victims of U.S.-backed military
dictatorship. When will we turn out in the millions here?
Progressives launch citizen takeover
of the EU to defeat far-right and establishment.
EU lawmakers back ban on
single-use plastics, set standard for world.
LA county bans roundup.
Vietnam bans import of
glyphosate herbicides after U.S. cancer trial verdict.
OxyContin maker, Purdue Parma
to pay $270 million in legal settlement.
Monsanto found liable for
man’s cancer, ordered to pay $80 million in damages.
Standing Rock medic bus now
traveling decolonized pharmacy.
Student reporters in W.
Virginia find Atlantic Coast Pipeline offers only two dozen permanent jobs.
Flight attendant with DACA
status released after 6 weeks in immigrant detention.
Unsealed documents shed light
on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning.
Minnesota Amazon indentured
servants walk off job after speed-up is announced.
Thousands of Uber drivers
strike In LA.
10-campus wide strikes
characterized by solidarity between research, technical, health, and service
workers.
Not piracy, but ‘matter of
survival”: Refugees take control of ship headed back to ‘hell’ in Libya.
AOC, happy to engage workers
and community on Green New Deal, accepts GOP invite to Kentucky coal mine.
Judge blocks drilling on
300,000 acres of Wyoming public land, citing climate change in the decision.
#45 administration effort to
open arctic to oil and gas drilling ruled illegal in ‘huge victory for our
oceans.’
Scotland to ban all petrol
and diesel vehicles.
California rewarded with butterfly
boom after 7 years of drought.
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