US bet on sprawl and lost

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— Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) June 28, 2020

How US plan for massive spending before election will cause more unrest

Join the fight against racism

For millennia, racism has been a strategy to keep people divided in the face of oppression. Today bankers and other financial crooks have used their corporate-controlled media to keep it alive and strong.

The key to their propaganda is to make people think that too many other people are racist or apathetic, and the task of winning them is too exhausting.

The recent rebellion in the US has exposed this lie. Most people are not racist. Most people see how it hurts everyone. Most people are sick of it. Most people want unity against oppression.

We must keep this going until this strategy of division is no longer usable.

Don't be naive about provocateurs

The purpose of provocateurs is to turn protest into riot. Then the corporate media can frighten people from joining the protest, and government can use violence.

How to spot:

• First, be careful, they are usually uncover police
• Dressed in black with strong boots, and good face covering
• Taunting police from the front, throwing things from the back
• No one seems to know who they are and they don't socialize
• When in isolated area, they commit vandalism/graffiti
• They are the ones to break the window and start looting, then leave quickly

If you can gather some people and catch one. Pull off their mask and take photos.

The narrative of the media and right-wing is that these provocateurs are just out-of-control left. Don't assume that to be true! Watch their behavior. Catch them.

Trump represents the actual ruling class

Trump is not an anomaly. The US rulers are out of options. Except for military, they have no more ways to rule.

They have:

• created trillions of dollars out of nothing -- made the problem worse
• trotted out liberals like Biden -- further enraging people
• tried undercover provocateur attacks to scare people -- exposed on social media
• brought military force against peaceful protest -- exposing their "democratic" facade
• tried to squeeze more money and power out of their control of SWIFT and CHIPS money transfer
• started trade wars to squeeze allies and rivals

The US sprawl system is decaying. Many trillions of dollars are needed just to keep it running. There is no money to fix it. The only course is to abolish consumer-product based economy (especially cars) and focus on basics.

MMT -- helicopter money, and why it won't work

It’s too late for America to recover. It left it too long. It was arrogant and conceited, paying for things it didn’t need, like wars and mega-mansions, but not those it did. So it didn’t invest when it should have, but now the bill is due, but nobody can pay it. What do you call a society like that? Bankrupt. Just like most Americans are, only they don’t know it. What do you call a whole society of people, after all, who die in debt?America’s broke, my friends.

https://eand.co/im-not-that-i-m-negative-america-really-is-screwed-13b47653e4ed

This article sums up the dilemma of the US, but then goes on to recommend helicopter money. It leaves out what all the economic and political "experts" leave out: sprawl.

Dropping cash on top of a failed consumer-product based system just adds fuel to the fire. The system won't change, it will still be based on individual purchases, and there will be even less money for public goods. The article does a good job of distinguishing between these.

The US needs to unwind sprawl. Make cities car-free, make education and healthcare free. Guarantee housing.

As empire collapses US working class fights back - @paydayreport

Strikes and labor organizing are on the rise as essential workers grapple with safety concerns while on the job. Meatpacking plants, city sanitation and healthcare are some of the industries where workers are striking or organizing.

https://www.wunc.org/post/labor-organizing-pandemic-asheville-nurses-await-consequential-union-decision

for more see paydayreport.com   @paydayreport

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Anti-China campaign will backfire

In the US, both political parties are ramping up anti-China feeling.

There are several problems with this plan:

• To strike back, China need only announce intent to sell US government bonds.
• Racism tends to kill its host. East Asians in the US will become estranged.
• The US has very a serious problem -- a crumbling infrastructure.

The last point is the most important, and the least discussed. There is plenty of chatter in the US political about everything except the second law of thermodynamics. To put it simply, things decay.

Engineers calculate that the US needs $3T just to make infrastructure safe. But, on top of that, sprawl infrastructure needs constant energy input.

It will take the US many years to unwind sprawl. In that time it should not be provoking other countries.

What is coming for the US -- Virus is just getting started

US bankers have already looted the cash-register. By direct FedReserve gifts of printed money to banks and by gifts of borrowed money through the federal government.

There is little left to steal, but the virus is just getting started. People are scared to work, and unable or unwilling to spend money. Long slow stagflation with much suffering is here.

There will intense campaigns to increase all possible divisions among the people and between the people and foreign countries. Racism will be the major weapon, but other divisions such gender and age will also be used.

People need to become politically active. Join or form local groups. These groups can push government to provide free services or provide them itself. Get away from sprawl and individualism and move to urban communal sharing. Think about how to deal with armed right-wing gangs.

Suburbs should become farms again. Cities should be car-free.