The Eastern European Jews did one of two things. Well first, when they got
here, they lived in the slums on the lower east side of New York City and
worked in factories, and they were active in forming the labor movement. Some
of them went into business. Others chose the professions like medicine or
teaching. All of the immigrants encouraged their children to get at least a
college education. None of them put complete trust in leaders because they knew
the history of Jews and anti-semitism. But a few who were in the labor
movement, did put their trust in the Communist Party. You've heard of Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg? They ended up being electrocuted because they remained loyal
to the party and they believed that giving information about US nuclear
research to Russia would promote cooperation between Russia and the US and
prevent war.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 2:42 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: COVID-19: US Military Pursues War Games Amid
Contagion
Miriam,
Our people came from different parts of the world, but they came here for the
same reasons. And to some extent it was a better life with more
opportunity...for some. But we've always been deceived.
Sometimes by ourselves, and other times by those who want to use us.
But we are always looking beyond ourselves, searching for that noble leader.
Or we buy into the self made man concept, and try pulling ourselves up by our
own boot straps. But success is always "out there".
When I find myself with my back to the wall, I have to admit that I doubt
Humans will ever develop a safe world for all. But I still feel that I must
fight where I can to make it a better world. And the fact that I do or do not,
should never be confused with my need to struggle.
Carl Jarvis, heading out to burn brush.
On 5/29/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suppose so. But didn't you believe what we were taught, just like I
did, that this country had democratic ideals and that we were making
slow but steady progress? We were all taught that and certainly, those
of us whose parents had come here from other countries in order to
have a better life, believed that, in fact, life was better here. If
one got an education and worked hard, one could improve one's lot in
life. That's what all the eastern european jews believed. And those are the
people from whom I come.
Miriam
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Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 1:59 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: COVID-19: US Military Pursues War Games
Amid Contagion
It appears to be a grim outlook. On the other hand, if we really peal
back the layers, we'll find that we are simply living the "same old same old".
Once we understand that life has always been a struggle for the
Masses, and we're always going to be fighting the good fight, then we
can simply get on with it.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/28/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
I was truly horrified when I read that article. It was such a
detailed description about all of our country's military domination of the
world.
All of this talk about the Chinese threat and the Russian threat! All
just excuses to continue on this road to hell!
Miriam
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Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:46 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: COVID-19: US Military Pursues War
Games Amid Contagion
Two thoughts.
First, Do we need any more proof that the Ruling Class views the
American People as a resource to be used to advance the well being of
the Ruling Class?
Secondly, is not this proof that the United States has undergone a
non violent Military Coup? Following the massive buildup during WW
II, the American Industrial Complex realized that massive fortunes
could be made through the continuation of sales of War Machinery, and
the eternal buildup of military bases and the supplies needed to
maintain them. Today we are so tied to our Military/Industrial
Masters that we could not reduce production without causing a major
depression. And it looks as though COVID-19 got there first.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/27/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
COVID-19: US Military Pursues War Games Amid Contagion May 26, 2020
A robust schedule of military maneuvers and exercises is either
underway or planned for Europe and the Pacific this year, with more
in store for 2021, Ann Wright reports.
Fleet of 15 partner nations, exercise Rim of the Pacific 2014. (DoD,
Shannon
Renfroe)
By Ann Wright
OpEdNews.com
During the pandemic the U.S. military is running the largest
maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific
(RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii Aug. 17-31, bringing 26
nations,
25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and
hundreds of aircraft.
Hawaii hasstringent measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, with
a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all persons arriving in the state;
returning residents as well as visitors. This quarantine is required
until at least June 30, 2020.
The U.S. Army is also pursuing a 6,000-person war game in Poland,
June 5-19, with a Polish airborne operation and a U.S.-Polish
division-size river crossing.
If these weren't too many military operations during an epidemic in
which personnel on 40 U.S. Navy ships have come down with the
hyper-contagious virus and during which military personnel and their
families have been told not to travel, plans are also underway for
a U.S. Army division-sized exercise in the Indo-Pacific region in
less than a year. Known as Defender 2021, the U.S. Army has
requested
$364 million to conduct the war exercises throughout Asian and
Pacific countries.
The pivot to the Pacific, begun under the Obama administration, and
maintained by the Trump administration, is reflected in a U.S.
National Defense Strategy (NDS) that sees the world as "a great
power competition rather than counterterrorism and has formulated
its strategy to confront China as a long-term, strategic competitor."
Earlier in May, the U.S. Navy sent at least seven submarines,
including all four Guam-based attack submarines, several
Hawaii-based ships and the San Diego-based USS Alexandria to the
western Pacific in what the Pacific Fleet Submarine Force announced
as simultaneous "contingency response operations"
for all of its forward-deployed subs. This was all in support of the
Pentagon's "free and open Indo-Pacific " policy - aimed at
countering China's expansionism in the South China Sea - and as a
show of force to counter ideas that the capabilities of U.S. Navy
forces have been reduced by Covid-19.
USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Apra Harbor following an extended
visit to Guam in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic. (U.S.
Marine Corps, Jordan E. Gilbert)
The U.S. military force structure in the Pacific will be changed to
meet the National Defense Strategy's perceived threat from China,
beginning with the U.S. Marine Corps creating new infantry
battalions that will be smaller to support naval expeditionary
warfare and designed to support a fighting concept known as
expeditionary advanced base operations.
U.S. Marine forces will be decentralized and distributed across the
Pacific on islands or floating barge bases. As the Marine Corps
eliminates much of its traditional equipment and units, the Marines
plan to invest in long-range precision fires, reconnaissance and
unmanned systems, doubling the number of unmanned squadrons.
To effect this change in strategy, Marine infantry battalions will
go down to 21 from 24; artillery batteries will go to five down from
two; amphibious vehicle companies will be reduced from six to four'
and F-35B and F-35C Lightning II fighter squadrons will have fewer
aircraft per unit, from 16 aircraft down to 10. The Marine Corps
will eliminate its law-enforcement battalions, its units that build
bridges and will reduce the service personnel by 12,000 in 10 years.
A Hawaii-based unit called a "Marine Littoral Regiment" is expected
to have
1,800 to 2,000 Marines taken from the three infantry battalions
based at Kaneohe Marine Base. Most of the companies and firing
batteries that will make up a littoral anti-air battalion will come
from units not currently stationed in Hawaii.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Okinawa, Japan, the
main Marine unit in the Pacific region, will be changed to have
three Marine littoral regiments that are trained and equipped to
operate within contested maritime areas. The region will also have
three Marine expeditionary units that are globally deployable. The
other two Marine expeditionary force units will provide forces to the III
MEF.
The U.S. military war games in Europe, "Defender Europe 2020," is
already underway with troops and equipment arriving at European ports.
It will cost about $340 million, which is roughly in line with what
the U.S. Army is requesting for fiscal year 2021, which begins Oct.
1, for the Pacific version of the Defender series of war maneuvers.
It will take place at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area in northwest
Poland.
More than 6,000 U.S. and Polish soldiers will participate the
exercise, named Allied Spirit. It was originally scheduled for May,
and is linked with Defender-Europe 2020, the Army's largest exercise
in Europe in decades.
Defender-Europe was largely canceled because of the pandemic.
U.S. Army Reserve soldiers check vehicles once they arrive to
Fallingbostel, outside of Bergen-Hohne, Germany, in preparation for
DEFENDER-Europe 20 on Feb. 8, 2020. (Dod, Joseph Bush)
U.S. Army Europe is planning additional exercises over the coming
months focusing on training objectives originally outlined for
Defender-Europe, including working with equipment from
pre-positioned stocks in Europe and conducting airborne operations
in the Balkans and Black Sea region.
In the current 2020 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, the Army will
conduct a smaller version of Defender Pacific while Defender Europe
will get more investment and focus. But then attention and dollars
will swing over to the Pacific in fiscal-year 2021. Defender Europe
will be scaled back next year.
The Army is requesting just $150 million to conduct the exercise in
Europe, according to the Army.
The U.S. military has 85,000 troops permanently stationed in the
Indo-Pacific region and is expanding its longstanding series of
exercises called Pacific Pathways by extending the time Army units
are in countries in Asia and the Pacific, including in the
Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. A division
headquarters and several brigades would have a South China Sea
scenario where they will be around the South China Sea and the East
China Sea over the course of a 30- to 45-day period.
In 2019, under the Pacific Pathways exercises, U.S. Army units were
in Thailand for three months and four months in the Philippines. The
U.S. Army is in discussions with the Indian government about
expanding military exercises from roughly just a few hundred
personnel up to
2,500 for a duration of up to six months - which "gives us a
presence in the region longer as well without being permanently there,"
according to the U.S. Army of the Pacific commanding general.
Breaking from the larger exercise, smaller U.S. Army units will
deploy to countries such as Palau and Fiji to participate in
exercises or other training events.
The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Alexandria (SSN 757)
transits Apra Harbor as part of regularly scheduled operations in
the Indo-Pacific on May 5, 2020. (U.S. Navy/ Randall W. Ramaswamy)
In May, 2020, the Australian government announced that a delayed
six-month rotation of 2,500 U.S. Marines to a military base in
Australia's northern city of Darwin will go ahead based on strict
adherence to Covid-19 measures including a 14-day quarantine. The
Marines had been scheduled to arrive in April but their arrival was
postponed in March because of the pandemic.
The remote Northern Territory, which had recorded just 30 Covid-19
cases, closed its borders to international and interstate visitors
in March, and any arrivals must now undergo mandatory quarantine for
14 days.
U.S.
Marine
deployments to Australia began in 2012 with 250 personnel and have
grown to 2,500.
The Joint U.S. Defense facility Pine Gap- the U.S. Department of
Defense, Five Eyes and CIA surveillance facility that pinpoints
airstrikes around the world and targets nuclear weapons, among other
military and intelligence tasks - was also adapting its policy and
procedures to comply with Australian government COVID restrictions.
As the U.S. military expands its presence in Asia and the Pacific,
one place it will NOT be returning to is Wuhan, China. In October
2019, the Pentagon sent 17 teams with more than 280 athletes and
other staff members to the Military World Games in Wuhan. Over 100
nations sent a total of 10,000 military personnel to the games in
Wuhan last October.
The presence of a large U.S. military contingent in Wuhan just
months before the outbreak of the Covid-19 in Wuhan in December
2019, fueled a theory by some Chinese officials that the U.S.
military was somehow involved in the outbreak, which now has been
used by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress and the
media that the Chinese deliberately used the virus to infect the
world and adding justification for the U.S. military build-up in the
Pacific region.