Jacob Blake 8-30-2020

 

30, August 2020                     Jacob Blake

 Several videos showed how Kenosha police approach black and white People. The first cellphone images showed officers shooting a black man, Jacob Blake, beside his car while his 3 young children watched in horror, screaming uncontrollably. The second video clip captures a 17 year old gunman identified as Kyle Rittenhouse, interacting with police officers, getting a high five  and accepting water from them after killing two protestors, - brandishing a semiautomatic rifle, illegal at his age in the state.

Another video showed Kenosha police offering militia members’ water earlier in the night and expressing their support for them.

A distraught Blake Sr. choking with rage said his son was shackled to his hospital bed despite being partially paralyzed after the shooting. Many of his organs suffered severe damage.

“The videos capture and illustrate the existence of two justice systems in the United States, divided along racial lines”, sa.id Benjamin Crump, lawyer for the Blake family.

Two situations, one followed de-escalation guidelines, the other rapid escalation resulting in an appalling tragedy.

Rittenhouse was not apprehended but allowed to return home. He was granted a delay on his extradition to Wisconsin until next month.

In an effort to reform the Kenosha police, the ACLU has demanded the resignation of top cops for racism and a brutal response to Jacob Blake protests. This latest shooting has stained the reputation of America as a law abiding country.

A damning video of Kenosha County Sheriff has surfaced from a 2018 news conference, when he described black people accused of shoplifting and crashing a stolen car as “garbage people that fill our communities that are a cancer to our society”.

It is not surprising that a police chief with such visceral hatred of black people would infect the police force under his watch.

It is time this sheriff who does not possess a modicum of decency and his racist underlings be fired and charged with gross misconduct.

Unless the Department of Justice and FBI investigate the Blake shooting and the long history of systemic racism the shooting of Blake will go unpunished. The local DA has been accused of decades of prosecutorial misconduct allowing guilty cops a free pass which has been described a “precinct shuffle”.

Please send donations to the ACLU requesting the money be used in their lawsuit against the Kenosha police, department.

 

Trump tweets, market falls 8-27-2021

 27, August 2019                     Trump tweets, market falls

It is becoming increasingly apparent to many Americans that Donald Trump is becoming more and more delusional. His bizarre tweets have little to do with market stability and everything to do with trying to project a “tough guy” persona. The wild gyrations of the market are a direct reflection of his trade wars with China which show no signs of abating. President Xi Jinping is unlikely to back down and appear weak to his domestic audience especially given the increasing turmoil in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Trump has flip/flopped repeatedly unable to cobble together a coherent policy. In a rare of truth he admitted having second thoughts about his trade policy but then abruptly changed his mind promising more punishing tariffs.

Meanwhile Democrats have seized the opportunity and hammered his trade policy which is rooted in pure vindictiveness and anger.

At the G7 meeting world leaders, with the exception of Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, shunned Trump uncomfortable with his unpredictable behavior.

His relationship to world leaders follows a familiar pattern. Great admiration (Kim Jon Un of North Korea, President Macron of France, Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, Teresa May of Britain, . .)   quickly followed by harsh criticism.

Apocalyptic with China’s response to his tariff wars, he ordered all U.S. companies to leave China citing an obscure law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.

The law’s original intent was to isolate companies engaged in criminal activities not break economic ties with a major trading partner over a tariff dispute.  Recently, the thin skinned Trump has ordered his staff to “dig dirt” and shame reporters critical of his policies, hallmark of an autocratic ruler.

Medical professionals are expressing major concerns over Trump’s declining mental state summarized in the New York Times best seller, by Dr. Brady Lee “The dangerous case of Donald Trump.”

Hiroshima 8-11-2020

 11, August 2020                          Hiroshima

 Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima causing shock waves, radiation and heat rays resulting in the agonizing death of some 140,000 people, Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 74,000 people. Multiple generation birth defects followed. Secret records have shown how the U.S. gov’t and Hollywood secretly colluded to produce a sanitized version to justify the atomic bombings.

Chief scientist, of the bomb Robert Oppenheimer, describes his dark role - “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Authors and journalists Greg Mitchell and Robert Lifton (’Atomic Cover-up and Hiroshima in America’), challenge the official narrative and argue the atomic bombing was totally unnecessary. What is conveniently omitted from the official American justification is Russia’s declaration of war on Japan on August 9^th leaving no option but Japan’s imminent unconditional surrender. Following the bombings, the Truman government aided by a compliant media, went into feverish damage control to mitigate the aftermath of the bombings. All film footage and other evidence was immediately confiscated.

 Hollywood eagerly jumped into the act releasing a propaganda movie to allay public misgivings about the enormous civilian population that died.

Reports have since emerged that the  U.S. government secretly filmed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not just from the sky, but the devastation on the ground, brought the film back to the bomb making scientists at Los Alamos,  who were unable to comprehend their science would be used to commit such appalling atrocities on a civilian population. The films would be highly classified for decades. Appalled on what they had seen, several scientists produced a counter narrative documentary in the MGM movie,” The Beginning of the End”. Leading scientists who turned against the bomb were surveilled, followed, and their phones tapped, by the FBI.

The film ‘Atomic Cover-up’, explores how both the Japanese footage and the American footage was suppressed for decades, because it just showed the catastrophic impact on the civilian population. Have we learned anything from our past mistakes? Sadly, no!

YouGov and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists found that more than a third of Americans would support a nuclear strike on North Korea, if North Korea tested a long-range missile capable of reaching the U.S. We still maintain a ‘first strike policy’ and given the temper tantrums of the stable genius President this could mean the death of millions of civilians.