Miriam,
I listened to all the same news. Very disheartening. Especially
disturbing is the muzzle put on the Media. As the mass media is
consolidated and programs and news move further to the Right, the next
attack will be to finish off NPR and all Public Broadcasting. Then
take control of the Internet, regulating it to reflect commercial
radio and TV. Then it will be a simple matter to send out the
Military Police to haul in those who dare stand their ground.
We still have heavy smoke from the fires in British Columbia, and the
temperature is just now touching 88 degrees near Quilcene, with
humidity that, just guessing, must be about 80 percent. Cathy is ill,
probably due to the smoke, but also after dashing around helping her
mother yesterday, while her mother(the Saint) bitched about everything
and everybody. I have concluded that the worst thing about getting
old is that we are still the one inside this old, wasted body. I
swear in all that is Sacred that I will live my last years in a joyful
state. Living with some dour old grump would be a fate worst than
Hell. In fact, that's what it would be.
We met with a client yesterday who was a spitting image of my
mother-in-law. Nothing is good. No one cares if she lives or dies.
She can't find any decent help. People steal from her and take
advantage of...this blew my mind...take advantage of her Good Nature.
I almost told her that they got it all. But seriously, what a grim
way to wind up. Especially since most of us have had some good times.
My dad was my shining example of a man facing his death. His mind was
clear to his last breath, and he and I sat for hours revisiting the
good times we'd had as a family. Sure, there had certainly been some
bad times, too. But we shared the sweet memories. And my dad died
being loved and missed...and above all, remembered. That is a message
I can't get through to my mother-in-law.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/9/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today, I've listened to the Intercepted podcast and to Democracy Now. Among
other things, I learned from Alan Niern that we are experiencing a rightist
revolution. He listed the many things that the current administration and
the radical Republicans have done since January, many of which cannot be
reversed. I heard, several times, Trumps threat to North Korea of a US
pre-emptive Nuclear war. I was reminded that the Blackwater employees who
murdered all those Iraqi citizens, had their sentences reversed, and how
Eric Prince is suggesting that his new mercenaries take over the running of
Afghanistan so that the US can take control of all those minerals that have
been discovered there. I learned about an effective organization, backed by
the Koch Brothers, and other powerful business interests in the US, that
has
been organizing right wing think tanks and political organizations
throughout Latin America in order to organize the population to support
fright wing causes. They succeeded in unseating the leftist president of
Brazil and installing her corrupt, right wing successor. I listened while
powerful Democratic politicians assured their donors, donors like medical
insurance companies, that we will never have a single payer health system
in
the US. That reminds me, last night I read that Joshua Holand, a supposedly
left wing writer, has an article in The Nation, saying the same thing, and
explaining why single payer is no good. Did you know that the State
Department is pretty much dismantled? Did you hear about the scientist at
the EPA who was switched from his position to one in which his
responsibility is to keep track of money received from gas and oil
companies?
I'm absolutely exhausted and disheartened, as I knew I would be when I
listened to Alan Niern predict what would happen on Democracy Now on the
night of the election.
Miriam