Monday, August 21, 2023

The Geneva Convention of Warfare

I never had heard Ron DeSantis orate, so I went to Youtube to listen to a recent interview.  If you were a voter and went to the polls, upon what do you base your decision?  Is it having seen a name on signs often enough?  The most diligent campaign wins?  Is it that the name on the ballot seems familiar to you?  I would assert most Americans frequenting a voting precinct have no clue about whom they are going to vote.  Considering these factors it comes down to Red versus Blue, and in more traditional terms Republican versus Democrat.  The definitions of our traditional political parties have become skewed.  Once it was conservative versus liberal, and that is an economic description.  Conservatives, or the Republican Party, like to save money.  They don't favor large social programs that benefit immigrants, the poor, or the elderly.  They like legislation and policy that favors themselves.  That is Reaganomics.  Reaganomics reduced the federal tax rate on the wealthy from 70% to 28%, but its "trickle down" effect failed to flow.  The rich kept their profit and and did not create new jobs for the middle class.  This disparity between the rich and poor grew, and poverty increased.  The corporate tax was reduced from 48% to 34% (not unlike Trump's tax cut which cut it further to 25%), and many industries were deregulated including bus service, long distance telephone, cable TV, and ocean shipping.  Reaganomics waived price control over domestic gas and oil thinking the market would regulate prices fairly.  Strategic defense spending including nuclear power were made priorities.  In a nutshell the goals of the GOP have not changed, and it has proven disastrous.  The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, violence has escalated because of financial inequality, and corporate America continues to pollute the lives of everyday working Americans.  Deregulation, defense spending, and prioritizing private interests have eroded democracy to the breaking point.  What does this really mean?  It means these large interests, corporations which control manufacturing and supply, and the defense industry, which feigns protecting Americans when now it is harming us, have become oligarchical.  Deregulation and lack of oversight has made them so rich and powerful, average Americans are being oppressed.  It's called Communism.  Once these institutions worked for Americans.  Now they are working against us.  Camp Lejeune.  For the sake of national defense and the Marine Corp, safety protocols were overlooked at the base.  Television ads say the ground water was contaminated, but this occurred because strong solvents used to clean heavy equipment was not disposed of properly.  They had a specific railroad siding where they hosed down locomotives and let the byproducts run into the ground.  Years later people became ill, and some have died from the ensuing cancer.  It is not unlike DuPont's release of Gen X or PFAS into Americas watershed.  Oligarchical families and their corporations are not capable of regulating themselves in the free market system.  The most recent chapter of this scenario is the opioid crisis, where the Sackler family through their company, Perdue Pharma, incentivized the over-prescribing of its drug, Oxycontin.  Hundreds of thousands of American have died from the resulting overdoses.  What can you say when large wealthy families in America kill other Americans for their own gain?  Perhaps it is worse than slavery, because at least the slaves were kept alive.  Robber Barons?  Am I "woke?"  "Am I Blue?"  Yes.  Three major factions of American infrastructure seemingly have become weaponized and are being used to oppress the vote, and it's not Blue.  Rail is the major culprit, and these corporate monopolies (including Warren Buffet's BNSF)) began oppressing the American population with the advent of AC Traction in the early 1990's.  Ask Kurt Cobain about the fire in his belly, and while it was caused by Ritalin, the initial symptoms Ritalin was trying to treat for Attention Deficit Disorder are caused by AC Traction.  The Union Pacific was the first railroad to purchase these heavy haul locomotives to bring timber down out of the Rocky Mountains.  Not until this time was low frequency alternating current radiatied into the atmosphere at the behest of slow moving diesel/electric locomotives manufactured by General Electric and General Motors.  GM's Electromotive division was sold off, and Wabtech has taken the reins.  Their "Locotrol" has created three mile long, remote-controlled, freight trains with no operators on the subsequent locomotives in the middle and at the rear of the train.  The windows have been blacked out, so you can't see there is no one inside the conductor's cab.  With the recent Norfolk/Southern train debacle in East Palestine, Ohio, and the implementation of a "controlled explosion" releasing toxic chemicals, deregulation and the elimination of personnel and jobs isn't prudent.  An ambulant three mile mile long toxic chemical dump deserves more scrutiny from regulatory agencies, local law enforcement, and the American people.  It is in our backyards they travel.  With America's rail infrastructure embedded in our communities both suburban and rural on the earth, add to this overuse of our skies by commercial and military aeronautics and you have a formula for disaster.  It is called Global Warming.  The change to GPS in 2011 by the Federal Aviation Administration was a diversion allowing commercial and private carriers to fly wherever they want with little to no scrutiny.  It is "American Made" in a nutshell, and it continues.  Fentanyl does not magically appear in a drug traffickers warehouse, and the easiest way to transport it is in one of those "blocked" Piper PA-28 aircraft manufactured in Archer, Texas crisscrossing the country.  These could be regular training missions by the Civilian Air Patrol or the United States Airforce, but when a C130J Hercules takes off from Pope Field, flies to Wilmington at 2500 feet, drops to 1500 feet, and turns around and comes back, it makes you wonder what they are doing?  All of this was over swamp land.  What was that footlocker that got kicked out of the door on the outskirts of Wilmington?  The defense industry has become too powerful in America and with little transparency.  Living so close to Fort Liberty, the largest military installation in America, it is not difficult to experience the negative effects of attack aircraft without actual firing.  The electronic targeting and surveillance systems on these aircraft are dangerous in themselves.  One does not have to see an Apache helicopter with one's eyes.  Other human senses can discern these tank buster marvels easily, the most prevalent being a strong and consistent infrasound wave often that just "stands."  If still we were concerned about Attention Deficit Disorder (which we should be), the proliferation of aberrant EMF energy should be alarming.  If something were to hinder our thinking and disturb our emotions, it would be the duality of a hot, magnetic, vibrating and electrical wave pulsing through environment.  They cause cancer, and America knows this, but we make more money treating cancer than curing it.  Low flying aircraft, with their spewing carbon emissions, consuming our air and replacing it with noxious gases, are second only to heart disease for mortality in humans.  We have lost sight of this.  We don't  need to drop a bomb or fire a round to cause harm, and thus this electro-magnetic radiation has been adopted as a non-lethal weapon.  The mere presence of threatening aircraft is all that is necessary, but it is not just the appearance.  The Active Denial System.  The Geneva Convention is turning over in her grave.