Saturday, November 7, 2020

Faith in the People - Now We REQUIRE Sound Governance

 

I realize that Trump's brand of jingoistic and nationalistic right-wing populism appeals to many who have experienced the indignities and resentiment deriving from a neoliberal global order that has rejected them. To them I ask: where are you now? 

And I am not talking to all of you financially secure Republicans who reap structural advantages from a predatory state.

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It is not that I am a fervent Democrat. I follow other lefts who critique this party for ignoring the plight of the growing ranks of dispossessed because of their elite alliances.

But this vote wasn't about Democrats or Republicans. 

This vote was about whether any semblance of law and justice would continue to exist in the US.

A Democratic victory doesn't necessarily advance these causes as desired, but it certainly curtails the ongoing debacle in governance.

Moreover, Biden will not subscribe to Trump's plan to allow coronavirus to circulate unimpeded until our health care system and other other critical infrastructures collapse from the pressures.

Thank goodness for this sense among "the people" that failed governance has prevailed for too long.

We are facing an escalating threat and need sound governance.

SARS-CoV-2 has mutated in mink farms and has now produced a mutation that evades the body's antibody defense system. This mutation has been found in 12 people who worked at the farms. Hopefully it has not spread far. This is not the first time antibody resistant mutations have been documented, just the worst.

The good news is that a nasal spray developed by researchers at Columbia university might work to block the virus replication in the nasal passage and thereby stop the disease. I hope clinical trials begin soon as these seems to be a logical and productive approach.

We need a competent federal government to help manage this ongoing disaster. but I also share the concerns expressed by so many that "help" could become a new form of medical tyranny so the plan for tackling this crisis must include many stakeholders and must be the least restrictive possible.

Most critically, people who are economically displaced by this ongoing crisis must be offered a safety net that protects them and their family from further shocks.

People cannot be subject to lockdowns without economic and social support regardless of the emergency.


4 comments:

  1. Nuclear waste in landfills. Nuclear waste imported from Japan and Estonia unregulated, to go close to bears ears, by the grand canyon. trump and Netanyahu talking about more war on Iran. Most all nuclear arms treaties abrogated. Most industrial regs gutted. Most all wolves
    and bears to be slaughtered.
    More plutonium pit factories.

    murderers , domestic terrorist thugs
    Like the bugaloo boi at nukepuke.net

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    Thousands murdered by the american Gestapo american police police since 1996

    hundreds murdered in mass shootings by white supremacists since premo the lying clown took office.

    The two young men murdered in kenosha
    By the 17 yo killer recruited by Alex Jones and the buger boys
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    hundreds of thousands of bombs dropped and drone strikes by continuing imperial menace of. Make america great again. Nuclear disasters ignored. His buddy in the lnp about to release millions of gallons of rad water into the Pacific. Untended, unreinforced reactors in the usa ready to blow. Tens of thousands of wildfires across the usa. Multiple hurricane continue past what was supposed to be the end of the hurricane season.NUCLEAR BOMB THE HURRICANES HE SAID. Apporaching three hundred thousand dead from covid. demented old nazis, urging assassination of Dr Fauci and his family. 11 million infected. Now worst than ever. Trillions for nuke bombs and weapons nothing for the victims. Most of The secret service infected by covid. The cia engineered Qanon. The murder cult sprints on.

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  2. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/01/court-orders-veterans-affairs-department-to-replace-flawed-science-used-to-deny-benefits-to-vets-poisoned-in-1966-plutonium-disaster/

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  3. There will be another nuke reactor catastrophe soon.

    pronuclear Boobs and conmen wont be able to hide it. No legs to stand on. Like the nenazi thugs and militias, that have destroyed the ukrainian economy and erased important nuke safe guards.

    Hazzardous neonazi- thugs, roam the countryside terrorizing residents. Another nuke accident there soon. It is like libya and iraq. Both libyaand iraq have degenetaed into civil breakdown. The disintegration, instigated by george w bush a trump like demon and, obama a gw buah cone in sheeps clothing. Liberia was a warlord destroyed country. A warlord fomented civil war and destroyed all the electric grids and clean water systems in Liberia . it was done to force 75 percent of the people to live, in dark depravity closer to coastal areas.

    The stakes are much higher here. Huge shoddy nuke reactors and masses of nuke waste, ready to explode. The dumn deth cult bunnies,all wanna follow the chaotic depravity of the retarded orange haired, bambalino Among the protesters were Oath Keepers– right wing extremist Trump supporter police. It is not unreasonable to assume that there were Oath Keepers among the Capitol police on Duty. John Dean offered one explanation.

    CNN puts the words “Massive Breach of U.S. Capitol Raises Questions About Security Failures” on their chiron as Terrance Gainer,the former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, argued that it was not fair to compare the treatment of the White Supremacists who stormed the Capitol. But I don’t buy it. The response was massively different to BLM. And I don’t buy the assumption of CNN, that these were security failures. The barriers were moved out of the way. There weren’t nearly as many police ready to deal with the threat and, given the information John Dean provides, we must suspect that this was an intentional act by some of the police, allowing the protesters into the capitol building. There is even a photo showing a Capitol Police officer taking selfies with the rioters.

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  4. DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO USE FEMA FOR ANOTHER COUP
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    President Donald J. Trump Approves District of Columbia Emergency Declaration

    Issued on: January 11, 2021

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    Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal assistance to supplement the District’s response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the 59th Presidential Inauguration from January 11 to January 24, 2021.

    The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the District of Columbia.

    Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 100 percent Federal funding.

    Pete Gaynor, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Thomas J. Fargione as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION MEDIA SHOULD CONTACT THE FEMA NEWS DESK AT (202) 646-3272 OR FEMA-NEWS-DESK@FEMA.DHS.GOV.

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