Tom Engelhardt : A vote for the apocalypse // Robert Roy Britt: Anti-Science Attitudes are Killing Americans
It was August 2017 and Donald Trump had not yet warmed up to Kim Jong-un, North Korea's portly dictator. In fact, in typical Trumpian fashion, he was pissed at the Korean leader and, no less typically, he lashed out verbally, threatening that country with a literal hell on Earth. As he put it, "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." And then, just to make his point more personally, he complained about Kim himself, "He has been very threatening beyond a normal state."
Only a year and a half later, our asteroidal president would, of course, say of that same man, "We fell in love."
Still, that threat by an American leader to — it was obvious — launch a nuclear
strike for the first time since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nearly obliterated
in August 1945 was memorable. The phrase would, in fact, become the title of a
2018 bestselling book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," by
journalist Michael Wolff. Two years later, amid so many other threatening
phrases from this president, "fire and fury" has, however, been left
in history's dustbin, largely forgotten by the world.
"This is not an act of God": Too bad, since it seems so much more relevant now that California, Oregon, and Washington, not to speak of a Southwest already officially in a "megadrought," have experienced the sort of apocalyptic fire and fury (and heat and smoke) that has turned daytime skies an eerie nighttime orange (or yellow or even purple, claims a friend of mine living in the San Francisco Bay Area). We're talking about a fire and fury that's forced cars to put on their headlights at noon; destroyed towns (leaving only armed right-wing militants behind amid the flames to await imagined Antifa looters); burned millions of acres of land, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans under evacuation orders; turned startling numbers of citizens into refugees under pandemic conditions; and crept toward suburbsand cities, imperiling the world as we've known it….
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/a-vote-for-the-apocalypse/
a study of more than 38 million articles about the pandemic between January 1 and May 26 shows
that Trump was "likely the largest driver of… Covid-19
misinformation." The Cornell University study found that 37.9% of
misinformation mentioned Trump..
Anti-Science Attitudes are Killing Americans
Were it at all funny, America would be the laughingstock of
the world for its anemic response to the deadliest
pandemic in 101 years. Instead, political leaders and scientists around the
world must be just shaking their heads in dismay and disbelief at the
anti-science attitude of the White House, its abdication of responsibility in
the face of a national crisis, and the unwillingness even of many state
governors to put a lid on the surge of new Covid-19 cases and the inevitable
rise in deaths to follow.
Health experts here in American are certainly fed up. “Trump has gone from ‘hoax’ in February to ‘it’s dying out’ in June,” saysAndy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “It was malpractice to leave us unprepared once. It is almost a war crime to do it twice.”...
https://medium.com/luminate/anti-science-attitudes-are-killing-americans-c6b09b0fe2e9
I Am a Mad Scientist. By Kate Marvel
George Lakey on Capitalism, public health and the Nordic model
10 Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats (1977)
After the Truth Shower - Webinar on the Pandemic. April 26 2020
JOSH DZIEZA - Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth
We'll find a treatment for coronavirus – but drug companies will decide
who gets it
'We did it to ourselves': scientist says intrusion into nature led to pandemic
The champions of
capitalism are refusing to admit their ideology has failed
America has no real
public health system – coronavirus has a clear run
The US is losing
its superpower status and it might not recover / Trump’s Slow-Motion 9/11
Delilah Friedler: Capitalism Is America’s Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear
