The Never-Ending Self-Isolation, Flippant Science and We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges (masks)
this is the land of milk (triple boiled nothingness) and honey (as watered down as anything) so we are looking at collective neutering of a nation . . . line up for Barbie and Oppenheimer!
Movie time, entertaining ourselves into oblivion: On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, Bockscar dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. Estimates of deaths from the two bombings vary widely, from a contemporary figure of around 110,000 to a later estimate of closer to 210,000.
So, I am out and about, in the town of Yachats, south of my abode, and here we have more pathetic insanity — not just the mask in 2023, July, but the child’s game of Sasquatch. This is what is meant by adulthood — stinking child’s crazy ape out in the Oregon woods!
So you can imagine talking to anyone about anything which is important to the rest of the world — drought, fires, food shortages, war, nuclear escalation, the USA’s hatred of Chinese, the hatred of other cultures by Americanos, the ticking off of counries now by the Blinken-Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan administration’s use of atomoic sniper sights. This is the new normal — Zionists and Israel-Firsters running amok, no, those folk in the super super minority at the helm of the world’s destruction.
Apparently in response to the bombing of the previous week, on July 24, a military training facility of the SNA was attacked by a suicide bomber resulting significant casualties and physical damage. This continuing conflict in Somalia can be traced back to the persistent interference in the internal affairs of the country by successive administrations in Washington and their allies.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, redeployed hundreds of Pentagon troops from AFRICOM to Somalia during the early phase of his tenure in office. This policy decision was carried out after his predecessor, President Donald Trump, had withdrawn soldiers from Somalia prior to his leaving office in early 2021. (source)
Again, a world run by FIRE — finance-insurance-real estate — is a world in triple stress, with a thousand other stressors tied to the money changers holding a knife over our heads in so many different arenas.
Chickens? The heat? The eggs? Again, war mongers want more dead, and if they die without food elsewhere, then less useless eaters.
It is barbarism or socialism, that is, nationalizing the industries and transportation and, well, just pick your poison. This article was a year ago: “As rail strike looms, US industry braces for impact”
“A rail strike is still going to be tremendously devastating to our agricultural system,” said Linville. “We’re finishing up harvest of 2022, so now, all of a sudden we need to move these grains South. We need to move them internationally. Without rail we can’t do that.”
Chemical manufacturers and refineries will be some of the first businesses affected, because railroads will stop shipping hazardous chemicals about a week before the strike deadline to ensure that no tank cars filled with dangerous liquids wind up stranded.
Jeff Sloan with the American Chemistry Council trade group said chemical plants could be close to shutting down by the time a rail strike actually begins because of that.
It would take about a week for customers to notice shortages of things like cereal, peanut butter and beer at the grocery store, said Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain for the Consumer Brands Association. About 30% of all packaged food in the U.S. is moved by rail, he said. That percentage is much higher for denser, heavier items like cans of soup.
Any disruption in rail service could threaten the health of chickens and pigs, which depend on trains to deliver their feed, and contribute to higher meat prices.
“Our members rely on about 27 million bushels of corn and 11 million bushels of soybean meal every week to feed their chickens. Much of that is moved by rail,” said Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, a trade group for the industry raising chickens for meat.
Jess Dankert, the vice president for supply chain at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said retailers’ inventory is largely in place for the holidays. But the industry is developing contingency plans.“We do n’t see, you know, canceling Christmas and that kind of narrative,” Dankert said. “But I think we will see the generalized disruption of really anything that moves by rail.” David Garfield, a managing director with the consulting firm AlixPartners, said a rail strike could still impact holiday items shipped to stores later in December, and would definitely hamper stocking of next season’s goods. Retailers are also concerned about online orders. Shippers like FedEx and UPS use rail cars that hold roughly 2,000 packages in each car.
Drivers are already paying record prices and often waiting months for new vehicles because of the production problems in the auto industry related to the shortage of computer chips in recent years. That would only get worse if there is a rail strike, because roughly 75% of all new vehicles begin their journey from factories to dealerships on the railroad. Trains deliver some 2,000 carloads a day filled with vehicles.
Now, now, the derailments, the heat, the exploitation of workers, the profits profits profits, and we are here, trillions for the war machine. Trillions! And our rail system and highway 18-wheeler clogged highway system?
And how many times will you see this headline repeated and repeated? “Florida ocean temps surge to 100 degrees as mass coral bleaching event is found in some reefs.”
Or how about this Zelensky-free headline, how many times a day? “US faces hottest week of summer as more than 250M sizzle from above-average temperatures.” Most of the country will experience the hottest week of the summer as the dangerously hot temperatures baking parts of the South and West for weeks begin to expand to the East Coast, with more than 250 million people from coast-to-coast seeing above-average heat.
This shit hole Chlamydia Capitalist society, the predation front and center, the parasites, puffing up proudly, this is it, man, so much for unity, for the people, planning, and real administrators and people on the job.
Yep, war war war is planned planned planned to a tee: “Drug giant Pfizer is informing hospitals that dozens of its products could face “continued or new supply disruptions in the near-term” after an EF-3 tornado last week severely damaged its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The pharmaceutical company sent a letter to customers on Friday, advising hospitals on more than 30 products with less than three months of inventory in the company’s distribution chain, including certain dosages of epinephrine for allergic reactions, fentanyl for severe pain and the pain blocker lidocaine.” (source)
Survival of the most felonious capitalist, the dirt and human stain who get their R & R, R & D, and their people (us, public K12 and colleges) making the products, and we just let them have unfettered masochism on we the people.
We have given over our lives to billionaires and despicable profiteers, and their Eichmann’s, big and small, male or female.
And yet more dysfunction, man, UPS, striking for what is just humane treatment, and again, you name the US Washington DC department, and you find the biggest pigs of capital, NOT doing the job of the people but doing the bidding for the rich, and corporations.
UPS and International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a deal Tuesday, a crucial step toward averting a nationwide strike slated for Aug. 1, in a victory for organized labor and part-time workers struggling with inflation.
The tentative five-year agreement with the Teamsters, a union that represents 340,000 workers, includes immediate raises for all UPS employees, as well as the elimination of a lower-paid class of delivery driver and installation of air conditioning units in new delivery vans for the first time.
The Teamsters said that under the tentative agreement, all UPS union employees will receive a $2.75 an hour raise this year, and a $7.50 an hour pay increase over the next five years.
Fighting for air conditioning?
And yet, we have criminals, laughing, man, laughing, and they are there, from Trump to Biden administration, same guy, same criminality: “Louis DeJoy’s Latest Scandal: A Fleet of Gas-Guzzling Mail Trucks: Democrats are calling for the postmaster general to resign over his “antediluvian” choice.”
So DeJoy—who oversaw the removal of 671 mail sorting machines ahead of the 2020 election; implemented operational changes that dramatically slowed down mail service; and reportedly reimbursed employees for donations to GOP campaigns—oversaw an $11.3 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense for 165,000 trucks for the agency. Ninety percent of those would be gas-powered.
The documents were obtained by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) through a Freedom of Information Act request that was ultimately fulfilled by court order.
DeJoy, a Trump donor who took over the Postal Service in May 2020, began the formal recusal process for 12 of the companies and his business XPO Logistics in July and JPMorgan Chase in August. Amid ethical concerns and criticism, DeJoy fully divesting himself of them under public pressure only in August 2020 — months after he took the top job.
“There was a period of time where the head of the Postal Service was making decisions when there could have been a conflict, and he could have been thinking about his own financial interest, rather than the interest of the Postal Service and the country,” said Noah Bookbinder, the president of CREW. “That’s significant.” (source)
It’s just too much information for the average American, too negative, or like some of my even older friends — you can’t fight city hall, you can’t fight the US government, you can’t fight the big corporation with their stable of highly paid layers. So why not go out for a ball game or movie?
“Twin Cities theaters see big boost from "Barbenheimer" blitz” — Ahh, everything is A-Okay in the world now.
The release of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" have shattered expectations at the box office this opening weekend.
"I heard the movie was a lot about like womanhood and really strong femininity, so I'm super excited to see it," said one movie-goer at Mann Theatres in Edina Sunday.
If you aren’t schizoprenic now, then, you are one of them, full stop, just not as rich and ugly as they are. Making money on the dirty Oppenheimer, and now people want to go to the Trinity site? (source)
The Oppenheimer effect is coming for New Mexico, along with an expected increase in tourism for some of the sites at the center of the latest summer blockbuster. The US Army is putting out a new warning about the Trinity Site, saying they’re bracing for some of the biggest crowds ever.
“I’m excited to see all the people, and we do get some characters, people who are enthusiasts,” said Public Affairs Specialist Cammy Montoya.
Oppenheimer told President Harry S. Truman, “Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands.” The tide of public opinion was also beginning to turn. Three weeks after “Atomic Power” was released, John Hersey’s searing, book-length article “Hiroshima” appeared in the New Yorker, awakening many Americans for the first time to the horrors of the bomb.
Monsters, man, and Americans are lined up for the fucked up flick and the nuclear sites all over AmeriKKKa, as nuclear tourism.
Look behind those cold, dead eyes. Monster.
Yep — Smithsonian, another middling rag:
Oppenheimer’s lab was only one part of the Manhattan Project. Built on the site of a former boys’ school, Los Alamos was one of three “secret cities” seized and transformed by the U.S. government in late 1942 and early 1943. The other two—Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington—accounted for the vast majority of the manpower, expense and industrial scale of the project, which employed an estimated half a million people between 1942 and 1945. At Oak Ridge, uranium was refined at the largest factory in the world, newly built for that purpose. In Hanford, an area half the size of Rhode Island was cleared of residents, their houses bulldozed to make way for reactors to produce plutonium. “I told you it couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory,” Bohr said to Teller in 1944. “You have done just that.”
“Hiroshima” by John Hersey August 23, 1946
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins
If only Oppenheimer and another 100,000,000 other scientists and techno-fascists had never graced the face of the earth!
Death = funded.
Life = Derailed.
Line up, sheeple, and get your orgasm from a tub of popcorn, a gallon of HFCS pop, and $15 a pop for a ticket in a traditional theater, not an IMAX. Fucking stuffing one’s face while watching the doctor of death, Oppenheimer:
Fuck!