Right now I want to bring your attention to an article by Kai Heron and Jodi Dean in "e-flux," Revolution or Ruin, because it illustrates an important dilemma in today's politics which I've been discussing elsewhere on the Internet.
Here's Jimmy Dore echoing the same sentiment, kind of.
We are in an economic recovery. Did you know that?
According to the Department of Labor, and all of the news outlets, the unemployment rate is falling.
Factoid Spinning By Instant Experts
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The word, factoid, was coined by Norman Mailer in 1973. According to Wiki, its meaning has evolved over the decades and two distinct definitions have appeared in the dictionary:
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Definition of factoid
1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
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Pipers
Both at home and abroad the US war machine continues its march toward empire collapse. Militarized police employ the same tactics that they use in foreign conflicts against our citizens...Snatching protesters off the streets into unmarked vehicles...Beating and shooting those who will not submit to their aggression...using federal troops to target cities run by political opponents. Meanwhile we are ratcheting up tensions with China as they are building alliances, roads, railways, solar infrastructure, and trade with others. Mike, the pompous one, has been in Europe threatening sanctions to those who are aiding in the pipeline construction and want to buy oil from Russia (and enlisting more aggression against China). We continue to stir the pot in Latin America. Our incompetence is on display with the handling of COVID in the US...managing the pandemic to maximize profit. The US has one major goal...to further enrich the elite...the people be damned.
The empire has come home (5 min)
I've got little to say this week.
Something I'm listening to:
The white Queen infamously told Alice "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."
So here's a Jam from yestidday.
‘US Postal Service takes major step toward privatization’, Shuvu Batta, 22 July 2020, wsws.org
“Management at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken a big step toward privatization with the July 10 release of an internal memo stating that mail deliveries would be delayed due to cost cutting and a subsequent directive prohibiting overtime and promising “more to come.”
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
