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Monday, February 1, 2021

Stolen Elections and the ensuing Disaster Capitalism and Global Communist Reset *Part Two

 

 

“The greatest legacy of the Trump presidency: The unpredictable, uncontrollable, irreverent, loved and hated outsider, Donald J. Trump has shown everyone that the democracy that was once the envy of the world has degenerated into a very subtle but vicious form of fascism; a fascism that now poses the greatest threat of all time to the individual freedom that democracy was created to protect. It is a sad and ominous day for America and, regrettably, the world.” ~ Mark Allen in The Unz Review.

Well here we are, after a fake election, we had a fake attack on the capitol, which allowed the Deep State to bring National Guard troops into the capital to guard a walled fortress built to protect members of congress from the people.  The fake inauguration of the fake president with the most diverse cabinet of war-mongering, war criminals and money launderers ever assembled was surrounded by armed and ready to kill National Guardsmen, who themselves had to be vetted to ensure loyalty to our new king.

As President Donald Trump declared to the American people, “they are not coming after me, they are coming after you.”  How right he was.  From Real Clear Politics: 

Excerpt: 

Tucker Carlson: Democrats Sending Clear Message With Troops Swarming DC, "We Control The Pentagon" 

TUCKER CARLSON: Our capital city is currently under military occupation. By Inauguration Day, there are expected to be more than 26,000 armed federal troops in Washington. No living American has seen a moment like the one we're watching now.

For comparison, Lyndon Johnson sent a total of 13,600 federal troops and D.C. Army National Guardsmen to quell the race riots in Washington that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Those riots injured hundreds of people and killed at least 13. In 1864, as the Civil War raged on the other side of the Potomac and Americans died every day in large numbers on the battlefield, there were fewer federal troops protecting Washington, D.C., than there are right now.

But according to our leaders, the so-called "insurrection" of Jan. 6 was much worse than any of that. So in response, they have assembled the largest military presence in Washington in all of American history during peacetime. It's truly a national force, with Guardsmen from every state in the Union as well as Puerto Rico. The question is, why?

For decades, Washington, D.C., had the highest per-capita law enforcement presence in the country and one of the highest in the world. There was no need to fly in troops from Alaska to keep the city safe. But keeping the city safe is hardly the point of this exercise. The murder rate in the District of Columbia has risen with terrifying speed over the last six months. Men, women and children have been shot to death in the streets, but no one in charge seems to care about that or even notice. So no matter what they are telling you, THOSE 26,000 FEDERAL TROOPS ARE NOT THERE FOR YOUR SAFETY.

Instead, unmistakably, the Democratic Party is using those troops to send the rest of us a message about power: "We're in charge now. We run this nation, from Honolulu to our colony in the Caribbean and everywhere in between, very much including where you and your family live. Do not question us men with guns. We control the Pentagon." And indeed, they do.

Republicans have spent years ignoring the leftward drift of our officer corps, but we can't ignore it now. The mask is off our military leadership. The very same generals who howled at the idea of deploying American troops to stop an invasion of our southern border sent tens of thousands of soldiers with rifles to Washington purely as a show of force on behalf of the political party they support. Once they did that, they allowed Democratic politicians to degrade and politicize the military itself.

Democrats in Congress demanded that the troops sent to Washington this week submit to a political purity test -- "ideological vetting, as they put it -- to make certain that every soldier professed loyalty to the new regime. Not loyalty to our country, not loyalty to our Constitution, but loyalty to the aims of a specific political party. Nothing like that has ever happened in America and just a few months ago, it would have been unimaginable. Suddenly it's compulsory.

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has even gone so far as to say that every White man in this country is a potential murderer, that every White man in America should be under suspicion -- purely on the basis of being White and male -- of planning a presidential assassination…

Most Americans are decent people who don't blame entire groups for the crimes of a few. Bigotry is immoral and so is collective punishment. There is nothing more un-American than that. But collective punishment is now the official policy of the federal government, and it's enforced by the Pentagon.

In the meantime, you've got to wonder what the Guardsmen themselves think of all of this. Serving in the National Guard is not easy work. Guardsmen aren't paid much. Some, you've got to imagine, are doing it for love of country. Now, they've been deployed to their country's own capital city and they've been given orders to shoot their fellow Americans if necessary. That's a lot to ask.

Now, on top of all of that, they've been told that if they were born a certain way, if they're White and male and therefore evil and dangerous, they themselves are under suspicion of being the enemy. They're potential killers, assassins, betrayers of a nation…

You'd also think officers at the Pentagon would be outraged by this, but as far as we know, not a single one has resigned in protest of conducting background checks on people because of their race or sex or their political views. We can't say we know entirely why, but some clearly agree with all of this, and they'd like to see it accelerate.

"I was Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo for over 2 years," a former Air Force colonel called Moe Davis announced on Twitter Monday, "and there's far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn's guilt than there was of guilt for 95+ percent [sic] of the detainees. IT'S TIME WE START A DOMESTIC WAR ON SEDITION BY AMERICAN TERRORISTS."

Once again: A career American military officer has called for "a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists". According to Col. Moe Davis, 25-year-old wheelchair-bound Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C. -- who was just elected by American voters to the United States Congress -- and the millions of Americans who agree with him and voted Republican in November, must be subdued by force.  

So, what’s going on?  Why is the Pentagon under Joe Biden calling for a war on American citizens who fail to toe the line?  This is all about control.  The entire Covid hoax was concocted to reset the American economy and to destroy the American spirit.  Catherine Austin Fitts explained it well. 

The invisible threat, known as Covid allowed the Deep State to pull off the most wide-reaching election theft in our history.  This election was the two parties giving a backhanded slap in the face to the voters to tell them, don’t even think about electing a nationalist or you will pay a price.  To ensure the message was as painful as possible, the House and the Senate refused to help the small businesses and ordinary citizens other than a totally inadequate one-time $1,200 check.  Nine months later they sent out $600 checks.  Trillions went out to banks and Wall Street.  This was a matter of control as Catherine Austin Fitts put it:

Excerpt:

“We have 100 small businesses on Main Street in a community.  You declare them non-essential shut them down suddenly Amazon and Walmart and the big box stores can come in and take away all the market share.   In the meantime the people on Main Street have to keep paying off their credit cards or their mortgage so they're in a debt entrapment and they're desperate to get cash flow to cover basically their debts and their day-to-day expenses.”

“In the meantime you have the Federal Reserve institute a form of quantitative easing where they're buying corporate bonds and the guys who are taking up the market share can basically finance at zero to one percent when everybody on Main Street is paying 16 to 17 percent on their credit cards without income.   So basically now you've got them over a barrel…

So this is an economic war.  Since April we've seen global billionnaires increase their net worth by 27%, now what that says is this has been very successful economic war…  What you've seen is they've been able to consolidate fantastic amounts of economic wealth not just by deleting the income of the middle class and consolidating it into their companies.

Yes, the Covid has been a godsend to the Totalitarian government in the U.S.  They had a total game plan that was upset by the Presidency of Donald Trump.  Therefore, his base (the middle class” had to be destroyed.  Now we are having a second fake impeachment.  It is really an impeachment of the “America First” ideology of the American people.  As I write this the Deep State continues to hold the American people as financial hostages while they conduct this lunatic impeachment scam.  Why?  From Catherine Austin Fitts:

“You know it's interesting, they could not have stopped a Trump landslide without Covid 19.  So one question I have is how much of the timing of the health care op is designed to make sure they don't get a populist president.   It's hard for me to think of Donald Trump as a populist because he's very much on board with the pro-centralization team but he's as Michael Moore has said he's the American people's way of saying fu to the to the leadership.

 

I think it was very important to them to get rid of Trump which they're trying to do.  The problem is they've used massive voter fraud to do it and they've used the fraud in a way that it's obvious.  That the fraud is off the charts, it's almost as though they they're turning to the population which they're trying to turn into a cult and saying you have to pretend this guy is the president even though you know he's not.   

 

SO YOU KNOW WE HAVE A FAKE VIRUS, A MAGIC VIRUS AND A FAKE PRESIDENT AND A MAGIC POLITICAL SYSTEM AND IT'S REALLY IS GETTING CULT-LIKE.  The only thing I can say is it's almost like a switch was flicked this year and we're in Bizarro world right? So we've been in Bizarro world from the minute they started to steal the money we moved into a bizarre world.

 

The only difference is now as they removed all the money the official reality moved away from reality even further and further.  You know that's part and parcel of the secrecy.  Many people thought they could stay in the middle of the road and now what's clear is you have to go with the cult or you have to go with truth and the middle of the road is going away.  So everybody has to choose which.

 

So when the riots began and the leadership took the position that you couldn't go to church because of the danger of the magic virus but you could go to the riots and protest.  My team and I at Solari started to look at the riots and first we made a database called Coven-19 Riots.   The first thing we did is, we looked at the state and we looked at the cities and whether the governor was Democrat or Republican and then what the Covid cases and deaths were.

 

Then we said okay we're going to check a box called riots where riots have been so we

started to look at the patterns of the riots vis-a-vis the political machine control and the Covid magic virus op.  I noticed there was something wrong when I was looking at the data.  I'm a very intuitive person and I could feel there's something there so I said to the wonderful teammate who was building this, I said, do me a favor.  I want you to put a box called the Federal Reserve and I want you to check the box.

 

There are 12 banks one headquarters and then the branches for a total of 37 locations.  I want you to check the box wherever in any city where we have a branch or a bank or the headquarters.  I want a check and what we discovered is 34 of the 37 bank locations have riots. 

 

I said. well wait a minute that's a pattern there's something here let's drill down so we started with Minneapolis and we said let's take the data of all the buildings that were harmed or burnt or businesses and we'll map it you know we'll do a grid software and we'll map where these businesses were and how close they were to the Federal Reserve Bank.  And so the first one we did, there's a there's a street going across Minneapolis called Lake and we mapped them and one of the things we did when we mapped them was we drew pictures of where the Opportunity Zones were. 

 

Do you know what an Opportunity Zone is?  An Opportunity Zone is a tax shelter mechanism created in 2018 to help the tech billionaires as they sold their stock avoid Capital Gains.  So if you're Jeff Bezos who sold 10 billion dollars of stock this year if you were to roll over your proceeds into Opportunity Zone investments and handle it in a certain way you could avoid all Capital Gains tax. 

 

So this is fantastically profitable.  Now if you look at the riots, when I first saw how all the buildings and businesses destroyed along Lake Street were right at the bottom of the Opportunity Zone I started to laugh.  I said, you know I was Assistant Secretary of Housing that's not a riot pattern that's a real estate acquisition planSo what are you seeing is a cheapening of the prices in the city.

 

So I have a thriving series of small businesses, a lot owned by African American and Hispanics along a particular boulevard in the Opportunity Zone.  If first I declare the business is non-essential and shut them down right, the magic virus.  So first I declare them non-essential so now they're in real trouble right because they can't do their business.  Then I have riots and burn and damage them right?  If I was really clever I’d have pulled their insurance right before I did it. I don't know what the case was but we'll see, so now their business is shut down they're now hung on their debt right?

 

Whether it’s their mortgage or their credit card debt but even worse now their building has been damaged and of course insurance doesn't cover all the repairs and fixing right so needless to say it's going to be a lot easier and cheaper for me to go in and buy up all those buildings right?  Voila. It’s called Disaster Capitalism.


So we then mapped what we did in Minneapolis in Kenosha then Portland and now we're doing a place in Ohio and the patterns we're seeing, if you look at the clusters of where the damage is those are in my opinion real estate acquisition plans completely.  Especially when they come on top of declaring all those small businesses nonessential and shutting them down.

 

For example if you look at San Francisco, 49 of the businesses in San Francisco are expected to be out of business by the end of the year.  Do you know how much real estate you're going to be able to pick up cheap on this? 

 

It's going to be phenomenal.  Now when you realize that if they sell their tech stocks high they can pick it up really cheap.  What's important to understand is, this makes the economics of building the smart grid out in the Fed cities really cheap.  Remember, I said 34 of 37 cities have a Fed bank or branch so this makes building out the smart grid around the Fed banks much cheaper which I'm assuming you want to do if you're going to come out with a crypto system…

 

In fact I was at the Aspen Institute in 2017 and I was having a discussion with a Venture Capitalist, you know sort of billionaire type and he looked at me with these amazingly dead eyes and he said “look honey you know I can take every company completely automate it with software and robotics and fire all the humans.  We don't need them anymore.  I've never talked to anybody who didn't understand the riot part because that's a very typical old game especially in poor neighborhoods. 

 Yes indeed.  The riots were actually land acquisitions through Disaster Capitalism.  The ingenuity of the American people never ceases to surprise me.  With Wall Street, the Federal Reserve Bank, Media, Academia, and Congress all working against them, the people were able to beat them at their own game.   From MattAgorist 

Excerpt:

Memelords Just Figured Out How to Take Back the Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns 

Make no mistake, the government’s reaction to COVID-19 — shutting down business, forcing people to state (sic) home, all the while granting monopolies to massive chains like Amazon, Walmart, etc. — has decimated the middle class and pushed the already-struggling poor that much deeper into despair. But you won’t see the owners of those monopolies complaining as they have seen their wealth soar to unprecedented highs.

As the rest of the country struggles to pay their mortgages, has their businesses shut down, and descends into poverty, COVID-19 for the super rich has been a record-setting windfall. Four of the most controversial billionaires on the planet, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page have seen their wealth increase by hundreds of billions in just the last 10 months.

While these big movers receive constant coverage in the media, another group of billionaires on Wall Street were making insane profits off of the government-mandated shutdowns too. To be clear, making profit is a fantastic thing. Free trade among individuals is grand and creating excess wealth while doing so is a marvel of capitalism. BUT HEDGE FUNDS DON’T EXACTLY PLAY IN A “FREE” MARKET. THEY EXIST IN A HIGHLY CONTROLLED MARKET WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO RIG THE GAME AND TAKE IN BILLIONS BASED ON ECONOMIC SUFFERING.

The nefarious companies have a monopoly within the mainstream media and are able to go on TV or push an article out online and quite literally manipulate the market in their favor. During the pandemic, many of these hedge funds were going on TV and putting out information that caused some of the struggling companies’ stock prices to plummet. This is done on purpose so the hedge funds can them buy back the stock at a lower price through a process known as short selling.

In simple terms, short selling entails taking a bearish position in the market, hoping to profit from a security whose price loses value. BUT THESE HEDGE FUNDS DON’T JUST “HOPE” THAT THESE STOCKS LOSE VALUE, THEY USE THEIR PRESENCE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THEIR GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS TO ENSURE IT.

On top of the thousands of non-publicly traded companies that went out of business during the lockdowns, the pandemic also hurt large companies like Gamestop and AMC and their stock prices fell as a result. But many of these hedge fund “experts” would drive the price down even further by going on TV and telling people to short it, thereby ensuring billions in profit from selling their positions for insane profits.

This was the rigged game that has paid for private jets of slimeballs on Wall Street, whose job description entails betting (in a casino they own) that businesses will fail, and then ensuring their failure. Ah, but thanks to the free exchange of ideas on the Internet, the jig is up and THE WORLD IS LEARNING ABOUT THE SHAM THAT IS THE RIGGED SYSTEM OF HEDGE FUNDS AND THEIR INSIDIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA.

The Federal Reserve Bank is the source of all evil.  Members of the House and Senate do not serve the people, they serve only their Wall Street and Fed masters, and they are handsomely rewarded for their services.  From Alan Macleod at Mint Press:

 

Excerpt:

 

 

Outrage as Panicked Authorities Clamp Down on Robinhood Financial Uprising

 

Within hours of a move which saw Small Street making money to the detriment of Wall Street, authorities rushed in to shut the system down, with free marketeers in the financial world suddenly demanding overnight.

 

There was widespread outrage as panicked authorities introduced a host of emergency measures to stop the continued financial rebellion started by Redditors on the Wall Street Bets subreddit. “Capitalism has no problem when the working class plays. But has an issue when the working class starts winning. The system is rigged,” wrote congressman Jamal Bowman. “Wall Street manipulates the market and rips off the public year in and year out, nobody bats an eyelash.   The public manipulates the market and scores a little victory over Wall Street, there’s a freakout among the oligarchs nationwide. Tells you everything, really,” added Lebanese political analyst Sarah Abdallah.

 

Earlier, stock trading app Robinhood had not only announced it was blocking users from buying shares of GameStop, AMC, and other well-performing companies BUT ALSO BEGAN FORCING USERS TO SELL THEIR SHARES EN MASSE, WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.   Messaging platform Discord shut down its Wall Street Bets community, CITING A VIOLATION OF “HATE SPEECH” LAWS. Meanwhile, Google wiped nearly 100,000 negative reviews of Robinhood left in their app store, restoring its good reputation.


“Just to recap: They locked everything down, bankrupted a video game store, forced everyone to stay home, and bailed out only the rich. Then the rich tried to make more money off the bankrupt video game store, but broke people stuck at home tried to stop them, so they shut them down,” wrote entrepreneur Dan Price…

 

The events began when users of the financial subreddit r/wallstreetbets noticed that a number of hedge funds were short-selling the stock of video game store GameStop. Short selling is where an investor borrows shares and immediately sells them in the expectation that the price will go down in the future, enabling them to buy them and give them back at a lower price and pocket the difference. IT IS A COMMON TACTIC ON WALL STREET AND CAN BE USED AS A TACTIC TO DRIVE DOWN COMPANIES’ VALUES.

 

Collectively, Redditors decided to buy the stock en masse, causing its price to soar and for hedge funds, who were legally obliged to buy back the stock, to lose billions of dollars. As more people began noticing what was going on, the temptation to collectively punish some of the largest Wall Street firms became too much for many, and GameStop’s prices continued to soar, causing untold pain to many of America’s richest traders.

 

Media call for clamp down after “attempted coup”

 

Former SEC Commissioner Laura Unger appeared to advocate for an even more widespread clamp down on the uprising. “What is the right thing to do to control this or to stop this?  Not unlike what we saw on January 6th, if you don’t have the police in there at the right time, things go crazy,” she told CNBC, COMPARING BUYING STOCKS TO A POSSIBLE ATTEMPTED COUP.   CNN decried the “coup” and demanded that Wall Street be protected

 

Intimidating barriers have been placed around the Capitol, with its police chief calling for it to be permanently fenced off, in effect, for it to become a walled citadel. The nation’s capital is currently also under military occupation, with thousands of national guardsmen stationed there until at least the end of March. Both the financial rebellion and the Capitol storming suggest that 2021 will likely be as volatile a year for American society as 2020 was.

 

Many of the hasty measures taken against the traders have been justified on the grounds that they are keeping the public safe and to prevent the proliferation of false information. “We cannot control…the lightning fast spread of information and misinformation that takes place on social media,” said Vlad Tenev, cofounder of Robinhood.

 

Yet much of the misinformation is coming from establishment sources. Only last month Robinhood itself was hit with a $65 million fine for misleading its users as to the cost of trading stocks on its platform. IT IS NOW FACING A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT OVER ITS CONDUCT THIS WEEK…

 

Good for the Goose but not the Gander

 

While the story of organized individuals on Reddit banding together to game the system has made worldwide headlines, politicians doing the same thing for their own ends garnered less attention. Last year, just before the pandemic hit the United States, Senators of all persuasions began furiously dumping stock just before lockdown was announced. After being briefed on the ramifications of the new deadly disease, it appears the first thing they did was not ensuring their states were prepared, but placing calls to their brokers.

 

More recently, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI BOUGHT AT LEAST $500,000 WORTH OF TESLA SHARES JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED HIS NEW PLAN TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC VEHICLES. THE SHARES HAVE INCREASED IN VALUE BY OVER 40% SINCE PELOSI’S DECISION.

 

While insider trading is illegal, being party to important information that others do not have is perhaps the only sure fire way to make money on the stock market. As a result, for decades, politicians’ portfolios have far outperformed those of even the most storied speculators. Using the financial disclosures of politicians from between 1985 and 2001, Professor Alan Ziobrowski of Georgia State University found that members of the House earn “abnormal returns” on their stocks, outperforming the market by six percentage points.

 

Senators, in higher office than House members, performed even better, “showing some of the highest excess returns ever recorded over a long period of time, significantly outperforming even hedge fund managers,” in Ziobrowski’s study’s words. “It’s not rational to assume that they are just plain dumb-lucky,” he concluded. Between 1993 and 1998, senators’ stock portfolios beat the market by an average of 12% a year.

 

 

One key individual in deciding what, if anything, to do about the stock market today is new Treasury Secretary and former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. However, she herself is an actor in this, having received over $800,000 from Citadel Group, the hedge fund losing billions in the GameStop saga. Yellen was paid $810,000 between 2019 and 2020 for a handful of speaking fees. Despite this conflict of interest, she appears completely unwilling to recuse herself from advising the president on this issue…

 

Yellen appears to have the full backing of the White House. “Separate from the GameStop issue, the secretary of Treasury is one of the world renowned experts on markets, on the economy. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone she was paid to give her perspective and advice before she came into office,” said new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

 

Others remained unconvinced. “Literally the world’s dumbest fucking people — the absolute dumbest, can’t get dumber — are those who don’t just claim but really believe Wall Street firms pay powerful politicians gigantic sums for banal 45 minute speeches because they want their wisdom rather than their servitude,” replied journalist Glenn Greenwald.

 

The GameStop rebellion and the panicked response appears to be convincing many that capitalism is a system where society is controlled for the benefit of those with capital. While the 2008 financial crash sank the world’s economy, regulation was few and far between, and, in some cases, took years to be implemented. Yet within hours of a move which saw Small Street making money to the detriment of Wall Street, authorities rushed in to shut the system down, with free marketeers in the financial world suddenly demanding overnight and government reform. “When hedge fund billionaires move markets, they get huge bonuses. When ordinary Americans move markets, they get shut down by Wall Street. The system is rigged,” said former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. 

Yes the people are pisses off.  That anger is manifesting itself all across America, if any one believes that the establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans give a shit about America and Americans they are brain dead.  Now the establishment lackeys are desperate to impeach ex-President Donald Trump so that he can never challenge them at the ballot box again.  This will not end well.  Recently Congressman Matt Gates R-Florida took the fight directly to the people of Wyoming where Satan’s spawn Lynn Cheney is promoting the impeachment of Donald Trump.



 As Mark Allen reported in The Unz Review: 

“The greatest legacy of the Trump presidency: The unpredictable, uncontrollable, irreverent, loved and hated outsider, Donald J. Trump has shown everyone that the democracy that was once the envy of the world has degenerated into a very subtle but vicious form of fascism; a fascism that now poses the greatest threat of all time to the individual freedom that democracy was created to protect. It is a sad and ominous day for America and, regrettably, the world. 

Yes, indeed Mr. Allen.  But one of the other greatest legacies of Trump was that he taught the American people to fight back.  The working men and women on Main Street are starting to do just that.  God Speed.




Sunday, September 3, 2017

Labor Day for Hurricane Harvey: Disaster Capitalism vs. Working Class rescue



Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.   Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alas it is hurricane and disaster season again which means there will be horrendous suffering for people and tremendous profits for Disaster Capitalists, both brought on by a bought-and-paid for congress who cares nothing about America’s people.  Disaster Capitalists are lining up at the trough for Hurricane Harvey just like they did during Katrina, Rita, Deep Water Horizon and Sandy.  What is different now?  Well the election of Donald J. Trump as president by the working people. 


Trump was elected by the working people, for the working people.  While the usual suspects convene meetings and argue about financing and whether or not the government should help, how much should they help and who pays, the working people descended on Houston to save their brothers and sisters.   Using their own equipment at their own expense to save the people of Houston these everyday heroes put FEMA and the non-profits (?) to shame.  From World Socialist Website:

Excerpt:

The working class responds to Hurricane Harvey

The flooding, however, has produced an overwhelming response from workers in Texas and throughout the region, who have rushed to volunteer for rescue operations, using their own equipment and receiving nothing in return.

The New York Times, which generally refers to the working class only to disparage it, wrote on Wednesday that “the response to one of the worst disasters in decades has been, in many ways, improvised.” The article continued: “Recreational vehicles—airboats, Jet Skis, motorized fishing boats—have rushed to the aid of people trapped in their homes, steered by welders, roofers, mechanics and fishermen wearing shorts, headlamps and ponchos. The working class, in large part, is being saved by the working class…”

As always, it is the working class and poor, of all races and ethnicities, that are the hardest hit. It is they who are either without insurance or face insurance companies that refuse to cover damages. It is they who will see the media and ruling class politicians depart as the flood waters recede and the major industries resume operations…

At the same time, the response of workers to the hurricane expresses a basic class consciousness and solidarity that the ruling class works so hard to undermine. Contrary to the claims—promoted in particular by the Democratic Party—that American society is riven by racial hatred, the emergency operations have involved white, black and Hispanic workers on both sides—in the boats and in the stranded houses…

If workers had been involved in decisions over how to allocate resources, the level of preparation for the hurricane itself would have been far more advanced. Trillions of dollars would be allocated not to bailing out Wall Street and financing the American military machine, but to building social infrastructure. The flooding, after all, was neither unforeseeable nor unforeseen—it was just not planned for.

The case for socialism—and inextricably bound up with this, economic planning—is made not by utopian dreams, but by the concrete demands of social development

In every aspect of social life, the working class must take matters into its own hands, through the organization of workers’ committees in factories, workplaces and neighborhoods to assume control over the production and distribution of resources. These organizations must begin with the needs of the working class and be democratically controlled by the working class.

They must take ever greater responsibility for unifying workers and organizing their common struggles against the capitalist class and its political representatives.  The establishment of genuine democratic control over production and economic organization is the necessary basis for the development of a rational plan to replace the anarchy of the market and ensure that all decisions are based on social need.

Yeah no kidding, “If workers had been involved in decisions over how to allocate resources, the level of preparation for the hurricane itself would have been far more advanced and trillions of dollars would be allocated not to bailing out Wall Street and financing the American military machine, but to building social infrastructure.”  The last thing the Disaster Capitalists care about when making decisions is “social need.”

First of all, Houston was a disaster waiting to happen.  Many attempts, one most recently by Rep. Al Green of Texas, to appropriate funds to mitigate the flooding danger in Houston have been met with deaf ears while the Pentagon is engorged with unaccountable trillions of tax dollars.  Disaster Capitalists are firmly in control of congress.  From LaRouchepac:

Excerpt:

No More Houstons: Lyndon LaRouche Says What Must Happen “Right Now”

The catastrophe in Texas is a man-made disaster accomplished by the criminal negligence of this nation’s elected officials, who have continued to support Wall Street’s speculative economy and imperial ambitions while arguing that the nation cannot afford to rebuild and replace its ancient and broken-down economic infrastructure.

For the third time since 2005, major American cities have been flooded and their people devastated, because the plans for new infrastructure to protect the people, requiring tens of billions in investments, have been ignored and turned down. Hurricane Harvey now looms as the worst national disaster in our nation’s history and it is a disaster which did not have to happen.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and wreaked $130 billion in economic losses. Only then, slowly, new flood-control and seagate infrastructure was built—at last—for New Orleans, at a fraction of the human and monetary costs of the damage inflicted by the storm. How many unnecessary deaths and suffering could this project have averted?

Four years later, the American Society of Civil Engineers met in Manhattan to discuss several storm surge barrier options for the New York City region. The estimate for the largest of these was $9 billion. The government decided to do nothing. Then, in 2012 Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people and caused $65 billion in economic losses.

New York area residents now are going through a "Summer of Hell" as the 100-year-old regional transportation system, flooded and damaged five years ago, also was not repaired or replaced at the necessary pace…  Plans for a new system for the Houston area had been drafted, but their $25 billion cost was deemed "too high" a price tag  for our Wall Street–dominated agencies and elected officials. Now, hundreds of billions of dollars, and priceless human lives, are lost…

Wall Street, which has been bailed out repeatedly to the tune of trillions of dollars, with nothing but increased impoverishment of the American people to  show for it, must no longer be allowed to dictate the economic policy of the United States of America.

If there is one thing that the working people know for sure it is that our so called “elected” official don’t give a rip about us.  They are too busy trying to please their Wall Street overlords, whose indifference and neglect cause these disasters to start with and then profit off of misery.  And what do every day Americans have to show for our trillion dollar bail out of congress’ financial backers?  The “increased impoverishment of the American people to that is what the politicians have to offer.

The Deep State’s stoking of racial tension that we’ve seen since Charlottesville is all but forgotten as the White Nationalists and the Antifa show the world they are Americans first.  From Truth-Out:

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Antifa and Leftists Organize Mutual Aid and Rescue Networks in Houston

"It's been a hell of a few days," says Andrew Cobb, whose house in Houston's Fifth Ward was spared the brunt of Hurricane Harvey's flood waters. His decentralized, grassroots relief effort called the "West Street Response Team" started with a simple scouting mission to a nearby flood plain across Highway 59 on Sunday.

After he and his roommates arrived at the location, they began coordinating with neighbors from the area on social media to find specific addresses of people needing rescue. They paddled more than two miles out in an inflatable kayak to make their first rescue of a mother and son, who they brought back to their own home to shelter for a few days.

"We posted about that and there was just a huge response, with some videos from that. And so, people were like, 'What can we do? What's up?' And I was like, 'We need boats. We need trucks. We need to get out there, and ... people just responded in a big way…"

Cobb is just one of many Texans braving Houston's rapids from sun-up to sun-down to organize decentralized rescues in the early days of Hurricane Harvey's devastation… His work providing homeless people with food via Food Not Bombs has amplified his disgust for the journalists and city officials ridiculing Houstonians for providing for themselves during a time of crisis.

"Calling it 'looting' is just such an absurdity when you have no food in the neighborhood. So, people were getting what they need, but we were hearing that supplies were limited, and the closest real grocery store was Fiesta, and there was a four-hour line to get in," Cobb says. "It's a food desert in normal times, and right now it's even more so."

According to Scott Crow, anarchist, author and cofounder of the decentralized Common Ground Collective that provided relief and aid to those most in need almost exactly 12 years ago during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, grassroots distribution centers and clinics for Harvey victims are already cropping up.

Moreover, he says, a lot of people in antifascist networks have acted as first responders, including activists with groups focusing on rural areas like the anarchist-inspired Red Neck Revolt, who are working to build distribution centers in Houston's Third and Fifth Ward

Organizers with Austin Common Ground Relief, who helped build the original Common Ground Collective in New Orleans, went into Houston with boats this week to bring in gasoline, water, food and other supplies, and are currently coordinating more volunteers each day…  "Disasters show us the failures of government and large entities like the Red Cross every time. ... It creates a crisis, and what you see is, the government cannot fill the void."

In Houston, that void is not just being filled by radicals like Cobb, but hundreds of everyday Houstonians conducting search-and-rescue missions using personal boats and kayaks…  One of those anarchist groups is Houston's Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), whose members have been acting as first responders, and working to share resources and information.

ABC has also been leading a "call-in" drive to prisons and jails on behalf of prisoners and families affected by Harvey, including those from county jails that have not been evacuated… Still Cobb says he's been amazed to witness the compassion and strength of his neighbors and of average Houstonians amid the ongoing crisis.

Really??  What do we need our government of Wall Street toadies for?  Why pay taxes if the money is spent on wars of aggression and plunder leaving nothing for the American people.  It’s time to stop all the wars of aggression and begin to heal America.  It’s time to “Make America Great Again” and build up our infrastructure.  But already the Disaster Capitalists on Wall Street are devising a way to force the working people to pay for damages and leave Wall Street vultures unscathed.  From World Socialist Website:

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Who will pay for the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey?

It is the poor and working class who will be the hardest hit. More than 80 percent of homeowners in the region most severely impacted by the hurricane do not have flood insurance, meaning they will be left to rebuild with inadequate loans from various federal agencies, if they are able to get even these…

The American ruling class, riven by deep internal divisions over foreign policy, confronts an economic system built on massive speculative bubbles and an increasingly angry and hostile working class.

Over the past week, the American media and political establishment have organized their forces to perform a well-choreographed political theater, combining hypocritical and insincere commentary on the “tragedy” of Hurricane Harvey, with the deliberate avoidance of any discussion on who is responsible and what must be done. The aim is to somehow prevent workers from drawing the necessary conclusion: that the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey is a crime of capitalism, for which the American ruling class is to blame…

No plan was in place for an orderly evacuation of the region in the event of a disaster, even though the region is prone to hurricanes.

Adequate preparation would require a level of planning and foresight of which the ruling elite is incapable. For the past forty years, under both Democrats and Republicans, it has engaged in a single-minded policy of upward wealth redistribution, corporate deregulation, and financial speculation…

Even before the waters have receded, the main concern of the political representatives of the ruling elite is to make sure that those responsible for the catastrophe will not have to pay for it…

One way or another, the ruling class will force workers to foot the bill…  The working class must advance its own program….  A multitrillion-dollar public works program must be initiated to rebuild the city and develop public infrastructure throughout the country.

To fund and implement such a program requires a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the corporate and financial elite.

The vast wealth created by the working class must be taken out of the hands of a privileged few and used to meet social need. The giant corporations and banks, which control the entire political system and dictate policy, must be transformed into public utilities, democratically controlled by the working class.

“The vast wealth created by the working class must be taken out of the hands of a privileged few and used to meet social need.”  Can anyone argue with that?  The billionaires of today did not make their wealth from building factories, from investing in risky ventures that create jobs, nor have they made their money from taking risks with their own money.  They made their wealth from theft, sometimes bankrupting entire nations.  They have no skin in the game, the game is rigged in their favor by the politicians they created. 

This Labor Day as the workers save Houston from the gross incompetence, graft and corruption of the Disaster Capitalists who are responsible for the unbelievable destruction of America, we have a chance for rebirth.  It is time for the working people of America to take back their country.  It is time to reclaim our wealth that has been stolen from us after the 2000 Banking/Military coup in America.  It’s time for the American worker to shed the Working Man’s Blues and unite against this Fascist imperial war mongering government that has enslaved us.



By Patricia Baeten