https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/eastman-memo/

 Response

Beedlebrox • an hour ago • edited

The "Rule of Law" was thrown out the window in 2008 with "Too big to fail, too big to jail" where the principles behind blowing up the United States Economy and damn near destroying the world economy with toxic CDO's and CDS; no one of any significance went to jail. No indictments, no grand jury's, superficial legislative inquiries. SEC, IRS, FDIC, long neutered; Treasury expressing interests other than the public's by (self professed) Ann Rand acolytes. Quietly the judicial "Statue of limitations" has been run-out so the perpetrators walk, not only did not get banned from having anything to do with finance, they got bonuses, promotions, and government appointments. The "System" Works! Whose system?

The Banks own everything: Bernie Madoff turned himself in, he wasn't "caught" (something about Russian oligarch money?) Enron was a buy the day it folded. The stock market is manipulated by short sellers, and high speed computer micro trading. Economic fairy tales of "Free Markets" for fantastic fantasy "free trade" in the Neo-liberal financial world. To hell with Adam Smith! Lets modernize the worlds factories and then offshore US manufacturing (at taxpayer expense.)

FDR should have packed the supreme court, had the conspirators publicly tried and their assets seized and forfeited in the take over attempt by economic royalists exposed by Smedley Butler. We won the battles of WW2 but evidently lost the war against fascism. When Eisenhower downplayed the Oil oligarchs he forgot that as well as being small in number they were also thin skinned, vengeful, and incredibly wealthy; they immediately hooked up with the congressional-media-industrial military / prison complex. So here we are.

Its not only democracy that is under threat: it is the worlds financial system that is imperiled by "Black box" financial instruments, "offshoring" wealth, and generally the financial shenanigans that only the extremely wealthy and trans national corporations can get away with. Running America like a business! Into the Ground! This is Mammon worship: "by their fruits you shall know them".

Masks and mask mandates

 IMHO: The framing employed in ‘government overreach anti-mask’ divisive politics is disingenuous, dangerous and counterproductive. No one is taking away your ‘freedoms’ (however that word is being defined by the particular rabble rouser or agitated citizen). 

 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, ⁴ and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

Put the blame where it actually belongs: The Virus, Covid19, and it’s variant mutations have achieved global pandemic status due to carelessness, hubris, incompetence, ignorance, arrogance, greed, mammon worship, and just plain stupidity. Covid19 has forced change in our personal public behaviors and interactions; here AND worldwide along with an ever increasing death toll.

If you are infected your cells are enslaved by the virus! Sickened or symptom free, you are spreading it around by the act of breathing, speaking, singing, yelling or any other form of opening your mouth and expelling air – it’s part of the virus life cycle and amounts to a unwitting random area wide physical assault or worse, deliberate reckless endangerment and wanton disregard. 

Pathogens do not care about your race, sex, color, creed, beliefs, politics, or what you think. Disease thrives and multiplies in poverty, depravity, and ignorance. “We” are virus food and the RNA target for cellular enslavement transforming us into reproduction factories replicating covid (or notavirus, or rotovirus, or Influenza, or God-Only-Knows) to infect anyone else unfortunate enough to cross our path.  Virus is evolutionary, the Original Gangster posing the question: is this really alive or just a complex replicating organic molecule?, Virus do what virus gonna do. It is up to human beings to accommodate the Virus; an invisible predator whose sole purpose is to use you as virus kibble, home, and nursery.

It doesn't matter if you like it or not: distancing, controlling physical contact, personal airspace, and administrating vaccinations is the currant physical reality. There's only so many tricks in our pathogens threat response kit - we're not to isolation compounds and colonies - yet.

That is who, what, where, when, why and how societies governing structures are being forced to curtail your ability to be exploited by a virus allowing it to spread unchecked throughout the population. A mask is not a burka, it’s not a costume, not a disguise or a symbol. Mask's are not perfect, certainly not infallible but they are the only inexpensive preventative measure proven by centuries of actual use by professionals and refined by peer reviewed science, scalable to be distributed and used by the majority of the population.