It was revealed this week that in 2020 and 2021 the Pentagon ran an anti-vax disinformation campaign to undermine Asia’s efforts to vaccinate its population with China’s covid vaccine.
So much about this post had me nodding in agreement, but as a long COVID patient and advocate, especially this: “Many examples on this site of covid cautious people or people with long covid in support of the genocide of Palestinians because they refuse to understand the abandonment of covid protections as a product of the ideologies they support in other violent contexts.”
So fucking true. And so sad. People need to wake the fuck up.
I believe the non-Jewish Palestinians should get the state they were promised by the British and French for their support against the Ottomans in WW1 (the Jewish Palestinians, plus some Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel, did get such a state following WW2).
That said, Palestinians, like Israelis, and like the rest of us, are humans too. They have monsters as well who want to continue this war until the Israelis are genocided.
Civil wars suck for everyone, and that's what this is.
Linda Tirado, ex-journalist and photographer, was blinded by the Minneapolis police in 2020. She writes about it here-https://newrepublic.com/article/158001/police-blinded-one-eye-can-still-see-countrys-fire
The update about her health this week, is that she is in hospice, dying from the brain damage caused by the “less lethal bullet” that was shot at her in May 2020, when she was doing her job. She has not been able to work since she was shot. Here is information about her health and how you can help.
Our country does not value anyone. Certainly not anyone with a disability that prohibits them from working. I find it ironic, that we practice eugenics on people with disabilities or even simply kidney disease,but we celebrate people who are able to retire, and voluntarily stop being productive.
We despise people who involuntarily don’t work, and we admire people who voluntarily don’t work. As someone who is involuntarily not working, married to someone who is voluntarily not working, I am treated very differently than my spouse, including by my spouse.
1)I found a group raising $$ for a Covid conscious conference- https://gofund.me/5d2a419d - they raise the same points.
2)Minnesota has confirmed cases of bird flu in dairy cows. Having worked for the Mn department of health- I have no faith that the usda, mdh, etc, agencies’ requirements to stop the spread are being followed
On August 14, 2003 I was stranded at JFK Airport in New York City due to a blackout. A couple who lived near by the airport offered to put me up in exchange for driving them over to both their parents homes as their car did not have enough fuel. Everything was shut down.
Over a candlelit dinner of tinned sardines and saltines, we talked of the state of the world. My hosts felt that we were good people led by bad leaders. I disagreed. We agreed to disagree. In light of the latest news of our malevolent government's actions I wonder how that couple feels now?
We are a sick society that has lost harmony with the nature that sustains our life. It will take multitudes to engage in civil disobedience to start the healing from the ravages of our corporate capitalism.
The government has always been malevolent. Ask any descendent of kidnapped and enslaved people. Ask any Native American. In 2020, the fed sent the Navajo nation body bags instead of ppe. Native Americans don’t have running water or electricity. In 2020, they had the highest death rate from covid19, of any ethnicity. Pregnant women died. Children died. That is malevolent, and we allowed it. We are not good people. Most of us are narcissist wrapped in our own bubbles, myself included.
It's telling that when Trump implemented his illegal border plan he was rightfully called a racist. Biden implemented THE EXACT SAME policy, crickets from the Dems. Guess it's only racist if the Republicans are doing it. Biden is also building Trump's stupid wall, an unprecedented environmental disaster, yet I keep hearing how great he is on the environment🙄 There is no difference between Biden and Trump. They all work for the same wealthy, white men. The Revolutionary War was fought to KEEP SLAVERY in this country. The Civil War wasn't fought to free the slaves. The enslavers were never told they couldn't continue to enslave people, just that they couldn't expand the practice west. The North wasn't the good guys, there are none. Lincoln might have freed the enslaved people but he was still a white supremacist as he didn't see them as equals. The US has always been an authoritarian country. It matters not who wins the upcoming election because we'll still in peril😔
Prior to sarscov2 killing millions and millions of people, I thought that the billionaires who run the planet valued us for our labor. I now realize that they don’t value us at all. It makes sense when you see how many workers are killed while working on the Arabian peninsula. The billionaires know that we will always make more workers for them to kill.
However, in many parts of the world we have severe labor shortage and do not allow immigration. For some reason, the billionaires running the USA, Japan, South Korea, etc., won’t allow immigration. South Korea’s solution is to support women so that they will have more babies. That is never going to happen.
Maybe that is why states are banning abortions, so that we keep supplying the billionaires with workers that they can exploit and kill with impunity.
Minnesota has been at full employment for the last 8 yrs, at least. Americans are not immigrating to Minnesota. The birth rate is not increasing, and is lower than the rest of the country. We will take immigrants, but we need the feds to give the immigrants visas to work, and then permanent residency, which the Feds won’t do. South Africa has 50% unemployment for young people- can you imagine if we could bring them to the USA? To Minnesota that has full employment for 8+ years. But the usa is racist. The only people who want to immigrate here are people of color. And that is where I will end this comment. (Yes, I am a Black woman)
First problem, WE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO THEIR LABOR. Second, they are HUMAN BEINGS. The capitalist system is just a pyramid scheme. It's brutal, cruel, oppressive, and destructive. But you're correct, the billionaires view us as roaches meant to be exploited. You need to stop thinking like them about immigrants.
30 percent of whitey is stupid and identifying the wrong enemy. That’s what January 6 was about. It hasn’t been about Democrats versus Republicans for a long time, it’s been about class warfare. When it comes to oligarchs, we’re ALL the same color.
So much about this post had me nodding in agreement, but as a long COVID patient and advocate, especially this: “Many examples on this site of covid cautious people or people with long covid in support of the genocide of Palestinians because they refuse to understand the abandonment of covid protections as a product of the ideologies they support in other violent contexts.”
So fucking true. And so sad. People need to wake the fuck up.
I believe the non-Jewish Palestinians should get the state they were promised by the British and French for their support against the Ottomans in WW1 (the Jewish Palestinians, plus some Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel, did get such a state following WW2).
That said, Palestinians, like Israelis, and like the rest of us, are humans too. They have monsters as well who want to continue this war until the Israelis are genocided.
Civil wars suck for everyone, and that's what this is.
Linda Tirado, ex-journalist and photographer, was blinded by the Minneapolis police in 2020. She writes about it here-https://newrepublic.com/article/158001/police-blinded-one-eye-can-still-see-countrys-fire
The update about her health this week, is that she is in hospice, dying from the brain damage caused by the “less lethal bullet” that was shot at her in May 2020, when she was doing her job. She has not been able to work since she was shot. Here is information about her health and how you can help.
https://lindatirado.substack.com/p/story-thirty-nine
Our country does not value anyone. Certainly not anyone with a disability that prohibits them from working. I find it ironic, that we practice eugenics on people with disabilities or even simply kidney disease,but we celebrate people who are able to retire, and voluntarily stop being productive.
We despise people who involuntarily don’t work, and we admire people who voluntarily don’t work. As someone who is involuntarily not working, married to someone who is voluntarily not working, I am treated very differently than my spouse, including by my spouse.
2 things-
1)I found a group raising $$ for a Covid conscious conference- https://gofund.me/5d2a419d - they raise the same points.
2)Minnesota has confirmed cases of bird flu in dairy cows. Having worked for the Mn department of health- I have no faith that the usda, mdh, etc, agencies’ requirements to stop the spread are being followed
It's getting really scary 🫂
On August 14, 2003 I was stranded at JFK Airport in New York City due to a blackout. A couple who lived near by the airport offered to put me up in exchange for driving them over to both their parents homes as their car did not have enough fuel. Everything was shut down.
Over a candlelit dinner of tinned sardines and saltines, we talked of the state of the world. My hosts felt that we were good people led by bad leaders. I disagreed. We agreed to disagree. In light of the latest news of our malevolent government's actions I wonder how that couple feels now?
We are a sick society that has lost harmony with the nature that sustains our life. It will take multitudes to engage in civil disobedience to start the healing from the ravages of our corporate capitalism.
The government has always been malevolent. Ask any descendent of kidnapped and enslaved people. Ask any Native American. In 2020, the fed sent the Navajo nation body bags instead of ppe. Native Americans don’t have running water or electricity. In 2020, they had the highest death rate from covid19, of any ethnicity. Pregnant women died. Children died. That is malevolent, and we allowed it. We are not good people. Most of us are narcissist wrapped in our own bubbles, myself included.
It's telling that when Trump implemented his illegal border plan he was rightfully called a racist. Biden implemented THE EXACT SAME policy, crickets from the Dems. Guess it's only racist if the Republicans are doing it. Biden is also building Trump's stupid wall, an unprecedented environmental disaster, yet I keep hearing how great he is on the environment🙄 There is no difference between Biden and Trump. They all work for the same wealthy, white men. The Revolutionary War was fought to KEEP SLAVERY in this country. The Civil War wasn't fought to free the slaves. The enslavers were never told they couldn't continue to enslave people, just that they couldn't expand the practice west. The North wasn't the good guys, there are none. Lincoln might have freed the enslaved people but he was still a white supremacist as he didn't see them as equals. The US has always been an authoritarian country. It matters not who wins the upcoming election because we'll still in peril😔
Prior to sarscov2 killing millions and millions of people, I thought that the billionaires who run the planet valued us for our labor. I now realize that they don’t value us at all. It makes sense when you see how many workers are killed while working on the Arabian peninsula. The billionaires know that we will always make more workers for them to kill.
However, in many parts of the world we have severe labor shortage and do not allow immigration. For some reason, the billionaires running the USA, Japan, South Korea, etc., won’t allow immigration. South Korea’s solution is to support women so that they will have more babies. That is never going to happen.
Maybe that is why states are banning abortions, so that we keep supplying the billionaires with workers that they can exploit and kill with impunity.
Minnesota has been at full employment for the last 8 yrs, at least. Americans are not immigrating to Minnesota. The birth rate is not increasing, and is lower than the rest of the country. We will take immigrants, but we need the feds to give the immigrants visas to work, and then permanent residency, which the Feds won’t do. South Africa has 50% unemployment for young people- can you imagine if we could bring them to the USA? To Minnesota that has full employment for 8+ years. But the usa is racist. The only people who want to immigrate here are people of color. And that is where I will end this comment. (Yes, I am a Black woman)
First problem, WE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO THEIR LABOR. Second, they are HUMAN BEINGS. The capitalist system is just a pyramid scheme. It's brutal, cruel, oppressive, and destructive. But you're correct, the billionaires view us as roaches meant to be exploited. You need to stop thinking like them about immigrants.
Agreed. Thank you.
People need to wake up, but they won't.
30 percent of whitey is stupid and identifying the wrong enemy. That’s what January 6 was about. It hasn’t been about Democrats versus Republicans for a long time, it’s been about class warfare. When it comes to oligarchs, we’re ALL the same color.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/will-the-revolution-be-televised
Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigos de la humanidad ---
Song of Sandinista Unity