Night of the Living Dead

 While Facebook has lost face (so to speak) in recent years, because Z. widely sold personal information and profited, many still use the website as a go to social media hub.  Tik Tok is not a viable substitute, because like most things (now including Facebook), it is a platform for propaganda.  With the emergency (emergence "C") of Artificial Intelligence, and it is an emergency, AI is being used as a more convenient platform that the Steve Jobs' created "Renderman."  Once you needed a tower of computer processing, a film studio, and talented cinematographers to create realistic computer-generated images.  AI, like all things smart phone, is the easy consumer-oriented product marketed to the gullible buyer.  More alarmingly instead of coercing you to buy products, it is influencing your thoughts and opinions.  Almost everything media-related is doing the same.  There is little honesty left.  Once we had a print media that was bound by some degree of honesty and fairness.  Because Congress largely has become corrupt, any regulation or oversight of misinformation is scant.  This is what has allowed the Trump machine to operate.  In previous decades in America the FCC would not allow this display of criminal behavior.  We only can wonder who is attacking America and why?  Because the assault is coming from within, and half of the nation still may reelect the traitor emeritus, true Americans must be cognizant that our own nation all ready is under siege.  While vestiges of the radical right always existed, they came to fruition with the Trump Presidency.  Trump's machine single handedly fueled civil insurrection in America.  They want us to fight each other.  Why am I seeing disturbing AI generated "reels" in my Facebook feed?  I just tell myself that is Renderman in the hands of malcontent foreigners.  Reasons abound why other nations and cultures dislike America.  Once the torch of freedom for many with passage across the Atlantic Ocean, America has become the butt of modern society.  School shootings.  Church shootings.  Mass shootings.  We have proven America no longer is capable of virtue.  Instead we enjoy lynching Negroes as a method of self entertainment and stoking of our own fragile egos.  Since Covid, the majority of American induced disciplines that have made our country great dramatically have declined.  Most of the disparate components of American culture have been hobbled in one way or another.  Namely film, television, and music are on the chopping block, and it is easy to visualize a post communist regime salivating at the loss of these integral educational processes.  The Nazi party did the same thing.  The expression of personal and national ideals through art is quintessential, but the smart phone, streaming services, and immediate gratification from the internet through an iPhone have undermined the American artistic process.  The techniques of television, film, and music largely have been lost with sound being the most notable.  What we see, hear, and feel each day is a shadow of our American post.  We are tasked with self-gratification with the aid of an iPhone.  The large scale process of the creation of art through these mediums, which bolsters the economy, has been sacrificed.  Why pay talent?  You pay talent, because most don't have it.  You pay technicians and artists, because they offer more than a layperson.  Consequently we are left surveilling the common man's everyday struggle for survival.  That has become our daily example, and it is dejecting.  The challenge of living in a vacuum is upon us, and it is not wise to lose sight of one's neighbors.  The standard at which America is operating never has been lower, and almost all steadfast American postulates are being smeared with misinformation.  How can Donald Trump make America great again, when he has waged a campaign savagely against us?  It could not be clearer.  To reelect Donald Trump President is ascribing to the same campaign used in other communist soon-to-become Fascist countries.  "I tell you this, but I lie."  Don't believe him.  If never before Americans had to exercise critical thinking and decision making, this is the time.  You are your own best friend, and it is pretty unAmerican.  Trump's supporters are supporting themselves.  We better start doing the same. 

Dictatorial Decisions

 In the home stretch of the American Presidential election it becomes simple.  It is a matter of WHO votes.  Necessarily it is not for whom you vote.  The outcome of the election is determined by WHO votes.  If on the first day of early voting Trump supporters fervently swamp polling places and cast their votes, it is likely Trump will have an advantage.  If instead it was a racially diverse congregation of indigent, poor, or unemployed voters, but they made their ways to the polls and voted for Kamala Harris, she would have an advantage.  In North Carolina the General Assembly has exploited race and economic  status to manipulate the vote for the Republican Party and thus Donald Trump.  They gerrymandered voting districts in many ways making it more difficult for Democrats to vote.  Just voting, just making an effort to get to the polls and cast your vote is paramount.  It is one group against the other, and the more empowered constituency who dominates the voting process will win.  You have to fight, but unfortunately those who may vote for Kamala Harris could be the minority.  She is a black woman, and that is an unprecedented occurrence in American politics.  We have had strong, rich, talented women in power, but her name was Oprah Winfrey.  I do not feel there is anyone more capable of becoming the President of the United States considering the available field of candidates.  The bipolar metaphor of Harris versus Trump is stark and should be frightening.  Trump's last few weeks on the campaign trail have become nothing more than pep rally's, but these rallies serve a specific purpose.  They are motivating to vote.  It is momentum.  They are pep rallies, nothing more.  Surprisingly Trump has turned 180 degrees and is groveling below his chosen social status.  He has been told if he wants to win, he must appeal to the American people.  They have resorted to traditional stump methodology, and it is Grass Roots.  The problem is, it all is a lie like the rest of his campaign and policies.  It is for show, and he and his minions are hypocrites trying to collect votes.  It is pure manipulation, and tired people are likely to bite on his hook.  I think the American people know who should be the next President, but it comes down to voting.  You have to go out of your house, get to the polls, and cast your vote.  The most people that do this elect the next President.  Fortunately we have time left and an authentic voting day.  There is still time.  An aggressive team who swarms the field before play with enthusiasm won't necessarily win the game.  When you have the world's richest man pulling the strings, it becomes television.  This is with which the Trump Dynasty is familiar.  Real American life escapes them, but every American should know the results of having Trump reelected are brutal and consequential for the middle and lower classes.  All ready they took away a woman's right to have an abortion, if she doesn't want the child.  They made that decision for you.  These dictatorial decisions will continue and work against us if Trump wins. 

Donny and Elon

Harmful propaganda seems to arrive in waves, and it is no different with the Washington Post.  It has been weeks since the Ukrainian war has been in the news being usurped necessarily by Israel's escalated attacks on Hamas.  An expanding war in the Middle East including Lebanon and eventually Iran politically is important to the Presidential election in America.  There have been other diversions.  Two hurricanes effecting battleground states has put Putin on the sideline.  The front page of the Post is a potpourri of news mixed with pro Trump propaganda.  The Trump fodder seems to be purchased with little regard for truth.  It has an agenda, and it is meant to scare the American people.  Perhaps by publicizing Trump's radical future agenda the newsroom thinks it will discourage his being reelected.  It does not play out that way.  When a reader seeks a current synopsis of the daily news, Donald Trump's fascist agenda is not appropriate.  It would be better not to publicize it, because it is doing harm as unneeded and unwanted intimidation.  I can thing of nothing less appropriate to offer the American people than a deluded man's dream.  His entire campaign should be nipped in the bud.  The Associated Press or more broadly "the media" are attempting to be solvent publishing whatever may be commoditized.  It is incumbent for a news organization to remain neutral, but that has become impossible.  The four years of a Trump presidency largely dismantled honest governance.  Everyone is on the take.  Because Trump's organization bribed electors in 2016 and 2020, they will do the same in 2024.  There is coverage of the election process and its agencies, but in swing states where the General Assembly does not accept the popular vote, scrutiny sorely is needed.  This is where the shenanigans will happen.  This is how Trump won in 2016.  It could happen again, if the Electoral College is not held responsible for honesty.  Most are corrupt.  With sixty percent of the American electorate desiring a revision of the Constitution to require state legislators to take the popular vote, the war is between them and the people.  This has not changed.  Ideally a Presidential election might change his, but if the model of North Carolina sets the precedent, the bulk of the power in America lies in the state houses.  This is how Trump is planning to win, a tried and true scheme only that was thwarted by changes in voting as a result of the Covid outbreak.  Sixty-five percent of Americans now vote early or by mail.  I am not convinced that Joe Biden won legally in 2020, but it was the correct outcome of the election.  Unseen forces usually make the right decision, but will that happen in 2024?  If so, the news coverage of the three weeks prior to the election are just raking in dollars with paid propaganda.  Maybe they are going into the hole, but billionaire enablers like Elon Musk have it to spare.  They are investing in themselves, not the American people.  The best thing for this country in any scenario is to eliminate Donald Trump.  For America to return to any greatness, which is a functioning and fruitful economy based upon the middle class, the influence of the ultra rich must be dissolved.  They must pay their own fair share of taxes, workers must be paid a living wage, and the oppressive communist construct of slave like work empowering the rich must be quelled.  All men are created equal until the rich deal their hand.  It has become more and more difficult to circumvent the constraints and power of the wealthy and revive a free American market.  That is because it has become all about big money from corporate monopolies.  They are not interested in enabling the common man.  They want to kill us.  

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

 Fayetteville, North Carolina is a metaphor for hypocrisy.  It is one of many examples of a red state run awry.  PBS finally has returned to her old prowess airing relevant social and political documentaries and local music.  Covid sucked the wind out of everything, and PBS was no different.  Even without it far right extreme republicans like Donald Trump prefer a cultural and intellectual void.  It is far easier for old money to maintain its status quo when people are ignorant.  Why is Fayetteville such a metaphor for hypocrisy?  Considering American freedom and democracy, rule by the people for the people, there are few examples of Fayetteville sheltering her citizens from environmental harm.  There is an unfinished fire house on Bragg Boulevard.  There is an unfinished tennis complex on Filter Plant Drive.  Whence did this come?  Roads are crumbling and rough, and travel is difficult.  Where is all of that Biden infrastructure money?  I will be brazen and risking the usual reciprocation from the parties I offend, people should know who are the plantation owners and who are the slaves.  Because the state of the planet Earth has become so volatile, the environment in which we attempt to live is paramount in our everyday lives.  How can a community provide their own clean air and water?  They can't, and in Fayetteville it is more difficult than most places.  Who are the culprits that forsake average Fayetteville residents and make their own corporate profit paramount?  If corporate, industrial, or military activity didn't effect the Fayetteville citizenry it would be different.  It does.  It does in a powerful way, which also makes Fayettevillians the most depressed people in the nation.  Yes, Fayetteville, North Carolina.  Why is this?  Why must we be depressed?  We are depressed because of the continued polluting of our small city.  Throughout my childhood, although Fayetteville always has been plagued with humidity coming up the Cape Fear River basin from the Atlantic Ocean, we never had a big problem with air quality.  That has changed, and it has changed on multiple fronts.  Johnny Carson would agree that the local population did not grieve too much when Piedmont Airlines disappeared.  Often he joked they would just fly low over the city and open the cabin door for you to jump out.  The resurrection of Piedmont with a hub in Charlotte providing direct to Fayetteville routes may be beneficial to some.  Who needs to get to Charlotte at six o'clock a.m. on weekday?  Piedmont's new activity is problematic for Fayetteville residents, because they no longer adhere to the traditional flight patterns established when Ed Grannis was living.  (Grannis Field is named after him)  In their haste to get early risers to Charlotte by six o'clock a.m., Piedmont Embraer 145 aircraft strafe downtown Fayetteville and historical neighborhoods with black soot.  No longer do they climb to a safe distance before making their turn.  They take off north from the Fayetteville Regional Airport and immediately turn left and fly directly over the tree line evidently giving their passengers a show of the Fayetteville freak show.  Because the homelessness problem has not been solved, most of the people that inhabit downtown are poor and/or indigent.  Yes, there are legitimate businesses here too, but the people on the street largely have become indigent.  What's the difference if you burn their oxygen and replace it with deadly cancer-causing carbon emissions?  Why is Piedmont doing this?  The answer is it is easier and cheaper for those buying tickets on a Piedmont flight.  Likewise almost all commercial aircraft have high powered phased array radars in their nose radomes.  Their priority, Piedmont and other carriers, is to provide fast, error free, streaming internet to their passengers in flight.  This necessitates the usage of extremely high powered microwave transmitters that must be turned off before landing on the tarmac.  When these jets fly over our neighborhood at inconvenient times, their electromagnetic refuse is palpable.  It took me several years to figure out whence this radiation was coming.  If black soot and harmful carbon emissions aren't enough, now we have heat-producing, magnetized, vibrating electricity beaming into our homes.  It is so rife most of the time, that my vintage musical gear struggles to operate.  A standing wave from multiple radar isn't not a good match for any kind of electronic equipment.  Piedmont prioritizes their own business over that of the citizens they fly over.  The law provides not safety buffer for this airborne activity.  All of Washington's governmental regulatory agencies are a shell of what they once were.  This was a direct result of the Trump presidency.  Screw the common man.  We will do what we want.  Likewise a local short line railroad has continued to expand it freight activity in the heart of Fayetteville's business district on Skibo Road.  They have replaced rail suited to much heavier and more powerful locomotives, and they have purchased a rebuilt N&S GP-38 which exhibits the same characteristics as commercial jet radomes.  Most of the freight railroads have begun to tout Tier 4 EPA emission standards, but with no oversight they do what they want.  GE developed the GEVO line of reduced emission fright locomotives, but returned to using the 7FDL prime mover instead all but abandoning the cleaner burning GEVO.  This is because its power and might serve them better, and the railroads, like Piedmont, care not about the people living in the midst of their trackage.  These two industries, rail and the airlines, have free reign to do as the please with no regard to local people.  Users of small local airstrips tout the revenue earned by these entities, but in fact they serve the same minute few championed by Phil Berger, Tim Moore, and Donald Trump.  To find any example that the Aberdeen and Rockfish, Piedmont, DAK Americas, Chemours, or CSX help the local populace in any way would be impossible.  They don't.  Contrarily their activity creates severe and palatable obstacles to public health.  They are ignored because of red state politics.  North Carolina still is a hypocritical red state adhering to the same sentiments of Jim Crow.  They care not about the working slaves, and wages are about the same.  People no longer are even breaking even.  We are going into debt.  The fight to stay alive in Fayetteville in the line of fire of this corporate might is daunting, and many have lost the battle.  Federal and state regulatory agencies are the only salvation, and they are not being supported.  Instead the North Carolina republican super majority capable of overriding a governor's veto continues to champion itself and shit on the people.  What I have begun to love about Kamala Harris is she is tough.  We have reached a juncture in America where the meek must stand up for themselves.  The good, the honest, and the righteous are not guaranteed any influence in North Carolina at all.  It is a gerrymandered disgrace.  There are anodynes.  PBS continues to exhibit the cultural gems of a former North Carolina, but the reality is the Carolinas are nothing more than a military industrial complex.  An Apache helicopter firing range?  This is all politics.  Much of the military activity at the Charleston Naval Station was moved to Fort Liberty, because that is what the few wanted.  A general wanted to look out his window in the morning and see a sea of soldiers.  "Let's move it all to Fort Liberty and forsake its host city."  Fayetteville has become a sewer for the former Fort Bragg.  In real estate the effort to dislodge local residents, flip their homes, and sell them at a profit to young officers is rampant.  It is not just gentrification.  Some great strides have been made in Fayetteville in the housing market.  If crime ridden ghettos can be transformed into modern housing for working people, then it should advance.  The efforts in Haymount should be applauded.  Contrarily 1 Jura Drive, a new sub division under construction between Murray Hills and Vanstory Hills. completely decimated acres of trees needed for both oxygen and as a noise buffer for surrounding homes.  Likewise  new development on North Edgewater Drive in Vanstory did the same.  All of the decades old trees simply were wiped off the planet without a thought about conservation.  The corner of Glensford Ave. and Cliffdale once was a mighty pine forest providing a buffer for middle and upper class homes.  Now it is a field of weeds.  This raping and pillaging of Fayetteville's land should stop.  More is required of industrial, corporate, and military commerce.  The North Carolina legislature has become nothing more than an evil oasis for criminal activity.  Vape shops, sports betting, and the like are ruthlessly devouring the local population without oversight.  When a community does need ample and clean electricity, politics is allowing bit coin mining overtaxing America's power grid.  The malfeasance in Washington after the Trump Presidency is grievous.  They don't even try to cover it up anymore.  Those who will vote for Donald Trump have similar attitudes.  They merely take for themselves, because it has to go to somebody.  Why not me?  How cares if we break the law, destroy people, or harm the earth?  Even with the now common knowledge that Trump is evil, the meek must begin to stand up and fight for themselves.  Kamala Harris is an example of such a person.  She is a seasoned fighter for good.  She looks Donald Trump straight in the eye and says, "No!"  Sometimes we have to fight for good, and I mean fight tough.  Kamala is a hardliner, and it is appealing to know your stance and to defend it.  I can think of no other person more qualified to be elected the American President.