Hi Dissent in Bloom. Your work and your insights are really helpful and deep. Now a small quibble: your writing is usually also really good. But there are numerous mixups and eliminations of words that make sentences work, in this particular article. Might you have opted to depend on AI for this one? NOT A GOOD IDEA. Please keep on informing us deeply, about the most crucial things.
Thank you so much for this! It’s horrific what’s happening with the machine of war in this country all for the wealth of the 1% and the destruction of children who just want to dream.
Incredible work, Dissent. Thank you for this very detailed, very important essay. I will have to reread it to absorb the full impact of all the work you put into it.
Thank you also for highlighting the travesty of the strike on the Minab elementary school, which has gotten so little attention in our media. I was also moved by that event to write a song about it that names some of the children and imagines what they might have become if we had not snuffed out their lives. You might want to give it a listen -- https://citizen99.substack.com/p/children-of-the-sacred-tree-a-song?r=2sauq
Excellent reporting on this ongoing battle over where our tax dollars are going and why (a large portion of our taxes, anyway).
Would have loved to have been in the room when this was being discussed..."National Military Establishment (NME) decides to change name to the Department of Defense—because they realized NME sounds like en-em-y".
This country is a foul and evil place. People who say they would die for this country crack me up. I wouldn’t walk across the street for this shithole. Trump is the leader this country deserves.
It used to be that there would be articles like this in the NYT and the Washington Post.
Not necessarily as well done but they would inform the public. Not anymore.
The whole corporate structure is defined by layers of laws and court decisions intended to protect these companies from liability of any kind. Slowly,over the last two centuries,the public corporations have acquired the rights intended for individual citizens.
These fictional constructs exist in contradiction to the Neo-liberal free market long trumpeted by conservatives.
And yet those who speak out against this fleecing of America are called Communists or Fascists by the ruling class. They speak of progressive government as if some boogeyman is coming to steal your children and yet, they are those who are trying to make us aware of the injustice in our political system.
Thank you. It is interesting to me how much overlap there is between the DOD/wars/space programs and healthcare systems. Obviously monitoring and imaging. And more. The machine feeds a lot of mouths.
"No taxation without representation" is what I learned in school. But I know I am naive. p.s. I am completely ready for the next American Revolution. I am 100% broken inside never to recover living in this godforsaken place with no means to get in anywhere else. I curse each and every one of these people from their heads to their toes for the war profiteering. Since the Iranian schoolgirls I don’t feel like living anymore. But I will because I want to fight back with all of my might. The next government we elect had better call for an end to this military contracting with our money along with 100% accountability for all war criminals and 100% accountability for all of our other criminals in positions of power in government. I can hear the war planes go over. I live west of Tinker AFB and they are so loud it will shock you. I have seen many kinds in the sky. You can tell immediately that these are not commercial planes. Two fighter jets went over the other day and just the noise scared me to death. I cannot imagine as you have described what it means to hear them when you are the actual target. Your genius is nonpareil, Madam Bloom. Tell it all, please, and thank you, Sister.
If only companies, corporations, organizations, groups, lobbyists, etc. were not allowed to donate money to politicians or legislative issues. No PACs, only individual donations with a strict limit. Large corporations use our taxpayer dollars as their ATM. We get to pay their expenses, they keep the profits. Corporate owned countries do nothing to help non-millionaires. If only we could change this cozy bribery enrichment.
If only the bought & paid for SCOTUS had not equated these same companies with human beings and handed them the egregious Citizens United decision. Ah, the slippery slope of corruption and money strategically paid.
Yes, exactly. Citizens United broke the dam holding back corporations turning our government into their personal piggy bank. So many issues to confront when this lawless regime and the corporate handlers' grip is pried loose from ruling our country.
Hi Dissent in Bloom. Your work and your insights are really helpful and deep. Now a small quibble: your writing is usually also really good. But there are numerous mixups and eliminations of words that make sentences work, in this particular article. Might you have opted to depend on AI for this one? NOT A GOOD IDEA. Please keep on informing us deeply, about the most crucial things.
Thank you so much for this! It’s horrific what’s happening with the machine of war in this country all for the wealth of the 1% and the destruction of children who just want to dream.
Incredible work, Dissent. Thank you for this very detailed, very important essay. I will have to reread it to absorb the full impact of all the work you put into it.
Thank you also for highlighting the travesty of the strike on the Minab elementary school, which has gotten so little attention in our media. I was also moved by that event to write a song about it that names some of the children and imagines what they might have become if we had not snuffed out their lives. You might want to give it a listen -- https://citizen99.substack.com/p/children-of-the-sacred-tree-a-song?r=2sauq
Excellent reporting on this ongoing battle over where our tax dollars are going and why (a large portion of our taxes, anyway).
Would have loved to have been in the room when this was being discussed..."National Military Establishment (NME) decides to change name to the Department of Defense—because they realized NME sounds like en-em-y".
Murder Incorporated. Smh
This country is a foul and evil place. People who say they would die for this country crack me up. I wouldn’t walk across the street for this shithole. Trump is the leader this country deserves.
These evil corps have gotten away with murder so far. Time to stop them and their immoral ways. They're disgusting.
“They have all the money but WE have all the people" Bernie Sanders
It used to be that there would be articles like this in the NYT and the Washington Post.
Not necessarily as well done but they would inform the public. Not anymore.
The whole corporate structure is defined by layers of laws and court decisions intended to protect these companies from liability of any kind. Slowly,over the last two centuries,the public corporations have acquired the rights intended for individual citizens.
These fictional constructs exist in contradiction to the Neo-liberal free market long trumpeted by conservatives.
And yet those who speak out against this fleecing of America are called Communists or Fascists by the ruling class. They speak of progressive government as if some boogeyman is coming to steal your children and yet, they are those who are trying to make us aware of the injustice in our political system.
Thank you. It is interesting to me how much overlap there is between the DOD/wars/space programs and healthcare systems. Obviously monitoring and imaging. And more. The machine feeds a lot of mouths.
"No taxation without representation" is what I learned in school. But I know I am naive. p.s. I am completely ready for the next American Revolution. I am 100% broken inside never to recover living in this godforsaken place with no means to get in anywhere else. I curse each and every one of these people from their heads to their toes for the war profiteering. Since the Iranian schoolgirls I don’t feel like living anymore. But I will because I want to fight back with all of my might. The next government we elect had better call for an end to this military contracting with our money along with 100% accountability for all war criminals and 100% accountability for all of our other criminals in positions of power in government. I can hear the war planes go over. I live west of Tinker AFB and they are so loud it will shock you. I have seen many kinds in the sky. You can tell immediately that these are not commercial planes. Two fighter jets went over the other day and just the noise scared me to death. I cannot imagine as you have described what it means to hear them when you are the actual target. Your genius is nonpareil, Madam Bloom. Tell it all, please, and thank you, Sister.
If only companies, corporations, organizations, groups, lobbyists, etc. were not allowed to donate money to politicians or legislative issues. No PACs, only individual donations with a strict limit. Large corporations use our taxpayer dollars as their ATM. We get to pay their expenses, they keep the profits. Corporate owned countries do nothing to help non-millionaires. If only we could change this cozy bribery enrichment.
If only the bought & paid for SCOTUS had not equated these same companies with human beings and handed them the egregious Citizens United decision. Ah, the slippery slope of corruption and money strategically paid.
Yes, exactly. Citizens United broke the dam holding back corporations turning our government into their personal piggy bank. So many issues to confront when this lawless regime and the corporate handlers' grip is pried loose from ruling our country.
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Thank you! 🤙