The power to make decisions in society must remain primarily in the hands of a democratically elected government. In private hands, there is only one concern, and that is the bottom line. We have too much ‘bottom line’ directed policy as it is. “There’s a striking difference between physicists and
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Dead Wild Roses: Megan Murphy on the Gaslighting of America – Rachel Levine
Meghan Murphy doesn’t hold anything back as she decries the tomfoolery of the gender-magic on display from the US federal government. “Yesterday, we witnessed a historic moment: US assistant health secretary Rachel Levine was sworn in as the first ever female four-star admiral of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky – On The US and Global Stability
Noam Chomsky is 92 years old, yet his grasp of world and US politics remains a force to be reckoned with. “The U.S. always portrays itself as the greatest force on the planet for peace, justice, human rights, racial equality, etc. Polls tell us that most other nations
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What if America Pivoted to America? – William Astore
William Astore, former American Military, dares the public and the American industry of defense to think outside the box. He reimagines the role of the US military as primarily for the defense of the American republic. It is a bold and necessary move as the role of ‘policeman of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Toxic Individualism Destroying Rural Healthcare in US
This is an example of what happens when a society loses its base set of common values. Healthcare professionals are leaving or being chased out of small rural communities because they are espousing the evidenced based protocols (wearing a mask) that are based on the best available medical knowledge during
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Remembrance Day – What was done for Peace
Music for a thoughtful day. Da pacem Domine Da pacem Domine is the incipit of two different Latin texts, a hymn and an introit. Both have been the base for compositions to be used in church liturgy, beginning with chant. Paraphrased versions of the hymn were created by Martin
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stop the Count – Profoundly Anti-Democratic
I’m wondering now. Will evidence of the “stop the count” protests be enough to cut through the partisan miasma in the United States? Given that the Presidency of Mr.Trump was filled with episodes of ‘surely this (malfeasance ‘x’) will be enough to get him impeached/sacked/thrown in prison – with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Spanish Flu Pandemic – The Wiki History of how Pandemics Work.
I am hoping we do not have to learn about how bad the second wave is before it is too late. History (Straight from Wikipedia) Timeline First wave of early 1918 The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918, with the recording of the case of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The United States is Fundamentally Unjust – Paul Street.
The massive disparity between the social classes in the US make it difficult to find the equality as set down by their law, in their society. “1. The United States, by the way, is fundamentally unjust. Even before the Trump Virus sparked a depression and corporate bailout that deepened inequality
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Art of Civilized Torture – The Legacy of Dan Mitrione
This is where ‘patriots’ and others accuse me of hating the West and America. Good. Our inflated sense of being the ‘good guys’ and on the right side of history shields us from the monstrous atrocities that have been and are being committed in our name. The very truth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Will America Ever be Great Again? – Justin Webb
The upcoming election in the US, at least from a Canadian perspective, a bit lost in the deluge of media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. The American Left business party has a chance to regain the White House, but Webb asks the question in his essay on Unherd, “What
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Karen Greenberg on Covid-19 and the Trump Administration
Very happy to be in Canada for this particular emergency. The US administration was all over the map has the pandemic started and is paying the price now for having a doofus as head of state. Long-Simmering Realities In many ways, the current crisis has, of course, just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Joe Biden’s Predatory Sexual History
Another American Presidential candidate that predates on women. Never fear though, it matters not to most in the US whether predatory males are in power or not. “But it was something she had forgotten — or at least, put out of her mind for years, LaCasse said. After the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Inequality Poisons the Roots of Democracy – Paul Street
We need to flatten the wealth curve for our society to continue to move forward and prosper. The out of balance economic shakedown that has been the status quo for so long needs to change. Paul Street writing for Counterpunch lays out the grim details: “+ 23. Capitalist Inequality
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Happens When Your Leader is Incompetent..
I wish people would vote on a rational rather than dogmatic basis. This kind of wonderland level of stupid could have been avoided.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky – Partial Analysis of the World Situation
This excerpt from an interview with Marc Steiner from Real News – Noam Chomsky: Well, I’m old enough to remember, as a child, listening to Hitler’s speeches over the radio at the Nuremberg rallies. I couldn’t understand the words when I was six years old, but I could easily
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Change and the Pandemic Factor
Micheal Klare examines the effect of the changing environment on potential pandemic breeding grounds. His essay is about not strictly about the current pandemic, but rather humanity’s affect on the limited resources and carrying capacity of our world. “Climate Change and Pandemics Back in 2014, the IPCC did not identify
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky on Bernie and Biden
I’m disappointed that Bernie Sanders did not get the Democratic nomination. I suspect the only way he will ever get into the race proper is if he runs as an independent. The structural opposition within the Democratic party is just too strong to overcome currently. I hope that Chomsky’s observations
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It;s Time To Reimagine America – 7 Points – William Astore
It’s Time to Reimagine America “Here’s the one thing about major disruptions to normalcy: they can create opportunities for dramatic change. (Disaster capitalists know this, too, unfortunately.) President Franklin Roosevelt recognized this in the 1930s and orchestrated his New Deal to revive the economy and put Americans like my dad
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Joe Biden – Political Seppuku
Paul Edwards has a entertaining style of apocalyptic prose. He writes this screedy piece in Counterpunch, but you can feel his frustration directed toward a political system engineered to maintain the plutocratic status-quo. “Well, partly, yes. Hillary, for what she’s worth, swore nobody liked him or wanted to
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