Monday, February 27, 2023
Patriotic Americans : JOIN THE GREAT CRUSADE ! ( for nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia )
Has belligerent ZIONIST Jew war monger , Ukrainian president V. Zelensky endeared himself to working class CHRISTIANS in the United States of any race or ethnic group ? The mainstream news media -led by Chuck Todd and the New York Times ( no surprise here ) fawn on this very puffed up NATO " hero " to whom " Sleepy Joe " Biden has given the keys to the US Treasury .
Capitalism and its American Empire in decay just need a sinister foreign enemy : Russia will do ; China will do ; Iran will do ; North Korea will do; In fact , even Venezuela will do ! Mighty Empire USA daily threatens one or another fugitive states from the " FREE WORLD ". Their " authoritarian " leaders do not measure up to the high moral standards of " OUR democracy " , that is , our plutocracy , our CIA , DEEP STATE , Homeland Security , Pentagon War Crimes Machine.
Patriotic Americans : JOIN THE GREAT CRUSADE ! ( for nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ) .
Just who- besides dear wife - is encouraging this man to run for re-election as the oldest president of the United States ?
The WOKE WAR MONGER Democratic Party will never again appeal to ordinary working class Americans. They will hang on to neurotic ZIONIST Jews and petty bourgeois , social climbing Blacks . A Crime Wave of support for corrupt , senile, creepy , " Sleepy Joe " Biden , Conqueror of Afghanistan , and wannabe great war time leader of nuclear World War III against POST -COMUNIST Russia .
Just who -besides dear wife - is encouraging this man run for re-election as the oldest president of the United States ?
Time for " OUR democracy " to UNFRIEND Apartheid Israel !
Consider this opinion on APARTHEID Israel from popular science author Isaac Asimov :
[ “I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. " ]
Time for " OUR democracy " to UNFRIEND Apartheid Israel !
Is it even conceivable that ordinary CHRISTIAN working class Americans are behind the ORWELLIAN WOKE " Cancel Culture " ?
Is it even conceivable that ordinary working class Americans of any race or ethnic group are behind this Orwellian WOKE campaign against what constitutes " Thought Crime " in " OUR democracy " ? The driving force of " Cancel Culture ) ?
It does certainly seem that the social force behind the NEW CENSORSHIP and the " Cancel Culture " are secular , openly anti-Christian , ZIONIST Jews acting in collusion with elite Ivy League Colleges ( now offering the " New Science " where male = female and 2+2=5 and WHITE RACISM is the original sin of the white race ).
They are prominent in the Joe Biden administration and most prominent in the WOKE " progressive " Democratic Party which for years now has shown contempt for the FREE SPEECH ,FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. The oh so " ANTI-HATE " liberal Democrats have promoted the HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism since their catastrophic 2016 presidential campaign.
Neither working class America or Middle America is inclined to re-elect corrupt , senile , routinely obnoxious with the press, more and more creepy " Sleepy Joe Biden " - the Conqueror of Afghanistan and wannabe next great war time president- savior of " OUR democracy " and the dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine. A future militarist vision of America at War : nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia and unlimited " Yellow Peril " war with " communist ( ? ) China over THEIR Taiwan .
Saturday, February 25, 2023
The pillars of dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine are invariably militant ZIONIST Jews
No surprise that the Republican Party is divided over the Ukraine war . There is no reason for working class CHRISTIAN America to give it a dry bone of support. The pillars of dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine are invariably militant ZIONIST Jews. Many are attached to the " progressive " WOKE Joe Biden administration. Many are in leadership positions in the WOKE Democratic Party.
But what is so WOKE about nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? What is so WOKE about " OUR democracy " supporting APARTHEID Israel ?
Less and less working class support for " Sleepy Joe " Biden and his insanely WOKE Democratic Party
We can hardly cope with environmental catastrophe ( like in East Palestine ,Ohio now ) . The American imperialist militarists have convinced successive presidents that nuclear war is winnable ? What official INSANITY !
Send BILLIONS of DOLLARS to the afflicted people of Ohio - not to puffed up NATO " hero " war monger , president of the Ukraine V. Zelensky now given the keys to the US Treasury . Here Trump's cry of " AMERICA FIRST " makes some sense to this longtime independent democratic socialist.
Less and less working class support for " Sleepy Joe " Biden and his insanely WOKE Democratic Party .
The militarists have convinced successive American presidents that nuclear war is winnable
There is simply no compelling reason why CHRISTIAN America should support the NATO " hero " war monger , president of Ukraine , V. Zelensky . " Our democracy " is not less false than the rule of any government on the planet deemed " autocratic " . Risk nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia over a very dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine ? Uncle Sam does not give any " democratic " leader billions of dollars for WAR so that his country can remain proudly " sovereign " . Yet puffed up war monger Zelensky has the keys to the US Treasury !
We can hardly cope with environmental catastrophe ( like in Ohio now ) . The American imperialist militarists have convinced successive presidents that nuclear war is winnable ? What official INSANITY !
Can we not have a national referendum on World War III ? Asking too much of " OUR democracy "
There is a recognized RIGHT TO BE HOMELESS but no recognized RIGHT TO A HOME
Sad that all this capitalist society has to offer the chronic homeless is the false assurance of " shelter " instead of a HOME . It it easy for a democratic socialist to understand this strange impasse on removing defiant homeless individuals from squalid highway underpasses. The idea of BOURGEOIS law is that you have a recognized RIGHT TO BE HOMELESS ( your person and papers and such " private property " that you possess have certain legal protection) . But NOT above your right to be homeless is any right to a HOME !
As long as landlord -capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHT is sacrosanct there will be no solution to the HOMELESS IN AMERICA crisis.
To be sure the Infernal Car is our corpse hungry Moloch ! And the only God we deserve ?
Years ago in Golden Age, post-war 50s ( when I was growing up in Washington Park, Providence ) I might have thought that cold blooded hit and run accidents were a rare insult to ordinary human kindness. But not so today in 21st century. Just a thought : could the daily contempt and neglect of homeless people in this MAKE-A-BUCK capitalist society signal to already " alienated " individuals that human life is CHEAP and that LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE is the way to go ?
To be sure, the Infernal Car is our corpse hungry Moloch ! The only God we deserve ?
All WILSONIAN blather once again lying the way to another world war !
Just a footnote on our own " ARROGANCE OF POWER " . Abstract : [ " Thirty-eight-year-old Abraham Lincoln had only been in Washington for three weeks. Nevertheless he felt impelled to speak out. The United States had been waging war against the Republic of Mexico for a year and a half. The president had defended this war in his annual message of December 7, with which he greeted the newly seated Thirtieth Congress. President James Knox Polk blamed the war on Mexico, and claimed that the United States should permanently seize vast areas of northern Mexico in compensation for the wrongs that country had inflicted. " ]
So you see with just ONE historical footnote that American Imperialism was always about defending and proclaiming SOVEREIGN countries around the world . So was its dearest ally Great Britain : " The sun never sets on the British Empire ". So was France, Spain, Italy , Belgium , Portugal , Germany , Holland !
All WILSONIAN blather once again lying the way to another world war - perhaps nuclear World War III . Join the Great Crusade ?
Friday, February 24, 2023
Fwd: My democratic socialist thoughts on this Black History month
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 11:11
Subject: My democratic socialist thoughts on this Black History month
To: Letters, NYT <letters@nytimes.com>
One way to honor Black History is to reflect on the late speeches of Malcolm X before he was assassinated ( with FBI collusion ? ) in 1965 . Malcolm X made a connection between RACISM and American capitalism, between RACISM and American imperialism. My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker " . Early in his ministry Dr. Martin Luther King, in a letter to his wife , said that he was leaning toward some form of Christian socialism. But there is no Christian socialist agenda in today 's WOKE Democratic Party. Both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were cynical of the " liberal " Democratic Party. And in the glorious past of the ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENT so were militant unionized workers. In fact, the mighty Teamsters triumphed in their CLASS war led by the famous Trotskyist Farrell Dobbs . My democratic socialist thoughts on this Black History Month .
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston , Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )
My democratic socialist thoughts on this Black History Month
One way to honor Black History is to reflect on the late speeches of Malcolm X before he was assassinated ( with FBI collusion ? ) in 1965 . Malcolm X made a connection between RACISM and American capitalism, between RACISM and American imperialism. My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker " .
Early in his ministry Dr. Martin Luther King, in a letter to his wife , said that he was leaning toward some form of Christian socialism.
But there is no Christian socialist agenda in today 's WOKE Democratic Party. Both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were cynical of the " liberal " Democratic Party. And in the glorious past of the ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENT so were militant unionized workers. In fact, the mighty Teamsters triumphed in their CLASS war led by the famous Trotskyist Farrell Dobbs .
My democratic socialist thoughts on this Black History Month .
Uncle Sam does not give a country like the Ukraine billions of WAR DOLLARS so it can remain proudly sovereign
How many Christian working class Americans -now in a state of PERMANENT DISTRESS - are cheer leading for nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? How many applaud sending billions of dollars -annually now - to the puffed up , NATO " hero " president of the Ukraine , warmonger V. Zelensky now with the keys to the US Treasury ?
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I can see the appeal of Republican Donald Trump's " AMERICA FIRST " chants. Certainly the catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio is more heartfelt tragedy among working class Americans than the plight of the dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine . Uncle Sam ( And Uncle Joe Biden " ) does not give a country like the Ukraine billions of dollars of American tax payer money so it can remain proudly " sovereign ". Ask the people of Central America , of South America. And our great NATO ally Britain is all about protecting the " sovereign " countries of the British Empire for centuries now. Not so long ago NATO ally Belgium showed devotion to the SOVEREIGN NATION principle in the then " Belgian Congo ". And NATO ally France fought for the SOVEREIGN NATION principle in Vietnam , heroically at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu . NATO ally Italy in Ethiopia ! NATO ally Germany always a friend of SOVEREIGN Europe !
Way back in 1848 future president Abraham Lincoln wanted to respect " sovereign " Mexico before we acquired Texas and California . And , of course , Spain itself was so solicitous of the SOVEREIGN Native Americans of Latin America.
Since when was the Ukraine ever " sovereign " ? Consult British history .
Start another " war to make the world safe for democracy " with stale Wilsonian blather ?
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Indian Republican multi-millionaire the ideal candidate for self-hating working class people ?
What is a longtime independent democratic socialist to think about this young Republican multi-millionaire who passionately believes that an economic system that works so well for the plutocratic rich is also just fine for the rest of us plebeians ? The ideal candidate for self-hating working class people ! Forget about Karl Marx . Read Ayn Rand and her classic " The Virtue of Selfishness ".
Karl Marx way back in 1848 brilliantly explained the secret of capitalist PROFIT in the exploitation of the labor power of the working class - which , of course, includes brain workers.
It would be self-destructive for organized labor in the United States to lobotomize itself on the true nature of the capitalist system.
In general , THE TWO PARTY system here invariably serves the plutocracy whether Democrats or Republicans prevail. A real delusion that the Democrats are " friends of labor " .
With so little PRIVATE PROPERTY to lose millions of working class families are beginning to smell SOCIALISM in the air. Whatever is falsely called " socialism " in capitalist America today most often at least represents incremental improvement in the standard of living of working class people - the vast majority of the nation. Note that even rather shabby Obamacare is denounced as " socialized medicine ". God forbid !
Right wing Talk Radio preaches -in the hypnotic early hours of the morning -that working people are essentially ON THE TAKE even when collecting SOCIAL SECURITY . In truth they are simply recovering a percentage of the social surplus value daily extracted from them in those years in work place.
How to FIX Social Security once and for all ? Rather than force workers to wait to the age of 70 ( who will hire workers over 65 ? ) why not try SOCIALIST REVOLUTION in the United States ? How shocking to the American plutocracy that their system is not forever !
Before junking the Social Security System we can first junk the military EXCESS of American Imperialism ? Must we spend a TRILLION DOLLARS in updates for nuclear weapons ? In fact , why not just JUNK THE MILITARY with its dinosaur generals and admirals and DR. STRANGELOVE officers ?
Fwd: Malcolm X " suggested that Jews were the chief exploiters of America's blacks " - biographer Bruce Perry
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[" He [ Malcolm ] suggested that Jews were the chief exploiters of America's blacks.... " He was unimpressed with the fact that many Jews were members of the NAACP ; he said it was comparable to Jesse James joining the trustees of a bank he intended to rob. The main reason Jews were in the forefront of the civil rights movement , he said, was that the more attention they focused upon ' the Negro question " the more hostility they could deflect from themselves .... On the other hand , there was justification for his criticism of Jews who fled to suburbia solely because blacks moved into their neighborhoods . "
' When there's something worth owning, the Jew's got it ', he asserted. At times he was defensive about accusations that he was anti-Jewish. ' I know I'll hear ANTI-SEMITIC from every direction, he lamented after one Jewish diatribe. ' Oh, yes. But truth is truth " . ]
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
A regular RIPTA rider should be able to go anywhere in virtual CITY STATE Rhode Island
The small practically CITY STATE of Rhode Island should make it unnecessary for anybody to absolutely need a privately owned car. A regular RIPTA rider should be able to go any place , to any town, to , to any beach , to any college campus , to any restaurant , bar room , or public library in Rhode Island.
The late leftist writer Gore Vidal would see President Joe Biden as the ideal last president of the American Empire
Corrupt , creepy , senile , " Sleepy Joe " Biden, Conqueror of Afghanistan, promises eternal loyalty to not so " sovereign " Ukraine led by NATO " hero " war monger V. Zelensky now with the keys to the US Treasury.
The late leftist writer Gore Vidal would see President Biden as the ideal last president of the American Empire.
How many HIGH ON THE MISERY INDEX working class Americans are enthusiastic about saving " sovereign " Ukraine and nuclear World War III with POST-COMUNIST RUSSIA ? Have the first poll in the traumatized state of Ohio .
A rather bleak scene at St. Ann's Catholic Cemetery last Sunday
A rather bleak scene of St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston , Rhode Island last Sunday . I went looking for the long lost gravesite of my grandmother Andreana Ruggieri 's brother , Carmine Napoletano . Way back in September 1963 the news reported that the Italian immigrant Carmine drowned himself off Narragansett Pier , despondent over a failed pizzeria there and failing health at the age of 63. Recall that MEDICARE did not pass until 1965 , a year of LBJ'S " Great Society ". I found Carmine 's grave site at Section 30 , number 366 . Buried with him is his wife " Lina " .
Sometimes " AMERICA FIRST ! " makes sense
Do working class victims in Ohio of this environmental catastrophe go to sleep at night praying for a " sovereign " Ukraine and encourage their own children to join the US military and go with American flags flying to fight side by side with the puffed up NATO " hero " , war monger Ukrainian president V Zelensky ?
How popular is the corrupt , senile , more and more creepy , Conqueror of Afghanistan , " Sleepy Joe " Biden in Ohio ? How popular will the WOKE Democrats be come Election Day 2024 ?
Even as a long time independent democratic socialist I think " AMERICA FIRST ! " sometimes makes sense !
Motor Mouth lawyer David Cicilline to leave Congress
Being an oh-so -WOKE " progressive " Democratic is hardly incompatible with being an ethically challenged Rhode Island politician. Congressman David Cicilline was in the vanguard of the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism promotion of the last seven years. He would have us believe that the root of all evil in " OUR democracy " is Donald Trump and his Republican followers . These Rhode Island Democrats just own " OUR democracy ".
And no surprise that he frequently advertised ( virtue signaling for main stream news media ) his devotion to " our special relationship with Israel " [ Zionist APARTHEID Israel ] .
As a matter of public record David Cicilline as mayor of Providence left this city a corrupt and rotting mess.
I must admit that Cicilline is a skilled - if motor mouthed - lawyer. In denouncing Trump he reminded me of a famous oration by the great Cicero in ancient Rome : " How long will you test our patience , Catiline ? " Et tu, Donald Trump !
In a way the rogue in all of us is inclined to wink at people who are just good at what they do -even Rhode Island politicians.
Corrupt , senile Joe Biden promises eternal loyalty to war monger Ukrainian president V. Zelensky
Corrupt , senile , more and more creepy , " Sleepy Joe " Biden , the Conqueror of Afghanistan , promises eternal loyalty and endless US Treasury funding for the puffed up NATO " hero" , war mongering president for life of " sovereign " Ukraine V. Zelensky - an inspiration for belligerent ZIONIST Jews in the USA and in APARTHEID Israel.
But what do ordinary working class Americans think ?
HATE is forever in capitalist HELL USA ! It cannot rise above everyday EXPLOITATION and OPPRESSION
The WOKE Democrat opposition to having armed police officers at CCRI and RIC is based on the BIG LIE that American cops have a racist anti-Black, White Supremacist agenda . This is racial politics at its most pernicious.
Democratic socialists do not over-vilify American police officers on the job on or off college campuses.
We just point out that in CAPITALIST USA the cops -above all - protect the economic basis of the capitalist system - the PRIVATE PROPERTY of the rich. Organized workers on strike often see the true face of " Officer Friendly ".
Without doing a thing for poor and working class Black people in the USA , the WOKE " progressive " Democrats simply pander to petty bourgeois , social climbing Blacks , and the morally challenged Hollywood crowd , They cling to IDENTITY POLITICS with crackpot fanaticism. Which creates race division and race hatred .
As for the evil of HATE and hate crimes, this can never be preached away by the unctuous political sermons of Democratic Party hacks . HATE is forever in capitalist HELL . It cannot rise above everyday EXPLOITATION and OPPRESSION . As Malcolm X said : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ! "
Democratic socialism cannot offer utopia to this sad planet . But it can offer an enlightened , rational , humane and just WORLD government. In the USA we can begin with an American Labor Party - like the British Labor Party but less compromised and a lot bolder.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
My thoughts back then on the Station Fire
My thoughts back then on the tragic Station Fire:
Being a fan of horror fiction, I was reminded of the ghastly
prom night apocalypse scene in " Carrie " , the Stephen King movie,
when I watched the on the scene news coverage of the West Warwick
nightclub holocaust. My nephew, Ricky, lives right across from the
" The Station " . After making a few anxious calls, I learned that
none of my extended family - the younger ones are most likely to
frequent seedy or classy nightclubs - were unlucky enough to be
there. To die a horrible death because you just love a decadent
heavy metal band. Likely last thoughts of a victim in the burning,
screaming , stinking darkness : visions of Hell , last agonies fading
to black nothingness or eternal peace..... Father ! Mother ! Oh God,
oh God ! .... I was living.... now I am dead !
But " Carrie " was about revenge. And every good horror
story has something to say about GOOD and EVIL.
We look for villains here in " The Station " . But even
the owner wipes bitter tears. Governor Carcieri got it right : the
fire that has taken nearly 100 lives was a TRAGEDY that should not
have happened. Our litigious society has forgotten the very meaning
of TRAGEDY. It prefers to obsess foolishly on CRIME and PUNISHMENT.
No laws or punishment will cure the human race of pure
stupidity. And numerous bad judgments culminate in an out of control
event - like an earthquake or volcano.
No moralizing judge will ever be able to put the Absurd
on trial. Forget about those ridiculous grief counselors. Just BE
THERE for people who grieve.
West Warwick is an old mill town, still haunted by
the ghosts of the New England Industrial Revolution. Now and then
a friend of mine - often in late October - visit one of our favorite
West Warwick pubs : " Ronnie's Last Chance Saloon " .
Until the fire at " The Station " the only hot topic in
blue collar West Warwick was whether or not to build a casino.
A new casino should greet its visitors with a statue
of the Greek goddess - Chance . A real bitch !
at 10:12 PM
Tensions with nuclear power China. Tensions with nuclear power Russia over " crimes against humanity " in " sovereign " Ukraine. The UNFREE world just does not live up to the high moral standards of our CIA , DEEP STATE , Pentagon War Crimes Machine. Our American plutocracy is so exquisitely moral in contrast to the Russian Oligarchy or the Chinese " communists " ?
In fact ," OUR democracy " is virtually flawless ! Inspired by stale Wilsonian blather we are once again ready to " make the world safe for democracy " . Join the Great Crusade ?
The suicide of Italian immigrant great uncle Carmine Napoletano - An American Tragedy
Scene of my great Uncle Carmine Napoletano's suicide in September 1963 -Narragansett Pier Beach :
[ Steve Ruggieri wrote: Excellent find Ron! So he killed himself on Michael’s birthday. As I recall, he left a simple handwritten note in his car that read (in Italian) “Absolutely no flowers!” I just have a gut feeling that there was more to this than depression! Nevertheless, it would make an impactful beginning to a story on an immigrant Italian turned bitter American capitalist… I can imagine some young Irish cop …. through the chilly early morning fog, discovering an abandoned car parked at the wharf in Narragansett, then discovering that note and having to call into the dispatcher for a translation. Then the dredging up of the seaweed covered bloated fish-eaten corpse , weighed down with chipped statues of the blessed virgin … All because somebody stole his coveted pepper biscuit recipe? Talk soon! Steve On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 .
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Dishonest talk about " anti-Semitism " as if it were a fixed evil in human history
I don't think honest journalists should write about " anti-Semitism " out of the context of the last seven decades ( of Zionist APARTHEID Israel ) as if it were some fixed evil in human history. Is the mainstream news media in the United States even capable of talking soberly about modern Israel ? Today there are different roots of " anti-Semitism " .
American imperialism has no new found credibility in accusing other super powers of " crimes against humanity "
Unless the conscience of the world has been lobotomized by American Imperialism , with its ever-ready Pentagon War Crimes Machine , the United States has no new found credibility when accusing other super-powers of " crimes against humanity ". I recall British philosopher Bertrand Russell's " International War Crimes Committee " during the Vietnam War era.
A " SOVEREIGN " Ukraine is just stale Wilsonian blather . Once again " make the world safe for democracy " ? Have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " under the inspired leadership of corrupt , senile, " Conqueror of Afghanistan " , " Sleepy Joe " Biden ?
FINALLY Senate President Dominick Ruggerio is fed up with RIPTA CEO Avedisian
It took a while but FINALLY Senate President Dominick Ruggierio has lost patience with top RIPTA management led by CEO Avedisian. As a regular RIPTA rider I see laziness and neglect and INCOMPETENCE every day I ride a RIPTA bus. The view from Kennedy Plaza is especially damning .
The fish rots from the head down !
Mystery of relative's death by suicide in 1963 . Italian immigrant Carmine Napoletano , owner of a once successful Narragansett Pier pizzeria , was Grandmother Ruggieri's brother
Steve Ruggieri wrote:
Excellent find Ron! So he killed himself on Michael’s birthday. As I recall, he left a simple handwritten note in his car that read (in Italian) “Absolutely no flowers!”
I just have a gut feeling that there was more to this than depression! Nevertheless, it would make an impactful beginning to a story on an immigrant Italian turned bitter American capitalist… I can imagine some young Irish cop …. through the chilly early morning fog, discovering an abandoned car parked at the wharf in Narragansett, then discovering that note and having to call into the dispatcher for a translation.
Then the dredging up of the seaweed covered bloated fish-eaten corpse , weighed down with chipped statues of the blessed virgin …
All because somebody stole his coveted pepper biscuit recipe?
Talk soon!
Steve
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 4:11 PM Ron Ruggieri wrote:
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Friday, February 17, 2023
Dark Clouds Over The Head of Those Of Us Over Age 75 ?
This is much ado about nothing . Once there were popular advice columnists in every major American newspaper who would warn their readers of AGE milestones in LIFE. But it is highly SEXIST just to say -with no context - when women are in their prime . And if you are not a major league baseball player or professional football player or a heavy weight boxer , how relevant is being over 40 for males ?
Other careers are more subtle on age . I recall popular science writer Isaac Asimov writing that if a scientist has not made his mark by age 35 , he probably never will. I can't say when Asimov peaked as a writer. He was just as lucid at age 70 ( he died a little later ) as he was at age 35.
But it is only a SCIENTIFIC attitude to respect the warnings of statistics. The Bible got human longevity right many centuries ago( three score and ten ) .
As a 75 year old longtime independent socialist I certainly understand the younger -more vital - generations - that are growing impatient with ossified but still powerful politicians that cling to power . in 1960 42 year old presidential candidate John F. Kennedy was a breath of fresh air. Not only was he good looking ; he even read and wrote books.
Old China had great respect for old people. I learned this in Lin Yutang's book titled " The Importance of Living ".
Sad to say there are ominous signs of growing contempt for the aged in " OUR democracy ". On the radio a while back I heard a macabre suggestion about what to do with people over age 75. Even retired Catholic cardinals and bishops ? We might need their prayers.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
China is now a great country with a great people . Why can't we " just get along " ?
Since when does American Imperialism show any respect for " sovereign " nations around the world not in conformity with its ARROGANCE OF POWER agenda ?
How are the Chinese leaders on a lower moral plane than our CIA, FBI , DEEP STATE , Pentagon War Crimes Machine ?
Are the American People consulted about reckless attempts to start nuclear World War III ? It is " OUR democracy " that is planning another stupid endless war with appeals to stale Wilsonian blather . Once again " make the world safe for democracy " ?
China is now a great country with a great people. Why can't we " just get along " ?
An idea for the soon to be unemployed Hasbro workers
The cold reality for ALL working class people under capitalism is that you are employed only so long as the Corporate America owners can profit from your employment . When you are able to collect unemployment you are obliged to look for work but no capitalist is obliged to hire you. In " good times " the corporation encourages their more naive employees to think that " WE " are just one big happy corporate FAMILY .
Of course , organized workers on strike soon have a very different view of the benevolent corporation.
As a long time independent democratic socialist I see the capitalist SYSTEM as inherently irrational and unjust - without feeling any malevolence toward the capitalist owners as individuals. Or see any need for anarchic violence . But an American Labor Party might help .
For more than fifty years now I have never changed my mind that " KARL MARX WAS RIGHT " . So were Lenin and Trotsky .
No way could the working class majority of the Ukraine have approved of the war monger ZIONIST Zelensky as their president for life
On the most stupid and ignorant or war mongering vicious of the population of Poland and the population of the Ukraine will find comfort in the words of the Chief of American Imperialism , corrupt , senile , " Sleepy Joe " Biden . As long as he does what he told by sinister DEEP STATE Biden will remain in office presiding over " OUR democracy ". Without a script the man is a drooling incompetent .
No way could the working class majority of the Ukraine have approved of the war monger ZIONIST Zelensky as their president for life !
No way can the working class majority in the USA applaud nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia .
The FOR PROFIT capitalist system is becoming utterly reckless and contemptuous of human life
The FOR PROFIT capitalist system in the " OUR democracy " is becoming utterly reckless and contemptuous of human life. With all this internal horror the mainstream news media wants to get working class Americans all toxic patriotism excited over a dubiously " sovereign " Ukraine. Sooner or later the common people of the United States will realize how long they have been betrayed by this " FRIEND OF LABOR " Democratic Party and by the Corporate America sponsored TWO PARTY SYSTEM .
Our mainstream news media nowadays can be counted on to never tell us TRUTH or THE FACTS about any significant event.
Our American ruling class has even corrupted SCIENCE . Their bought and sold public Voice of Science has about as much credibility as a 1990s Kevin Trudeau late night TV infomercial . Is Kevin still in jail ?
Some 70 percent of the country that thinks we are going in the wrong direction is going to re-elect corrupt , senile " Sleepy Joe " Biden ?
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
" The death of a beautiful woman is , unquestionably , the most poetical topic in the world " - Edgar Allan Poe
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
But what would the poet Poe say about the death of that same woman in very old age ?
In freezing cold weather the desperate homeless person can end up anywhere - even in an outside portable toilet !
In freezing cold weather the desperate homeless ( ? ) person can end up anywhere ! Check out newspaper archives. You can read articles on official pious commitments to homeless people , five , ten, 20 year ago . At the beginning of the Reagan era in the early 1980s when we were told that it was " Morning in America ". How odd that even the mainstream news media won't recall what it wrote in the not so long ago PAST about the " Homeless in America " problem. As if it all went down some Orwellian " memory hole " .
The homeless problem will never be solved without stepping on the toes of the OWNING class in " OUR democracy "
This video FIVE YEARS AGO ! Have ANY homeless people in Rhode Island been relieved of the miserable state of homelessness because of Congressman Langevin 's " Remarks on Helping Rhode Island's Homeless Individuals " ? Today in mid February 2023 the homeless problem is mentioned every day on local talk radio. But no " progressive " Democrat sees it as fundamentally a problem of the irrational and unjust capitalist system . The " progressive " party hired bureaucrats foolishly imagine that it is all just an administrative problem. Just get a competent administrator to be Rhode Island Housing CZAR ? The goal is to ameliorate the problem within the socio-economic framework of capitalism. And hopefully make the homeless people LESS VISIBLE . Of course the DEAD homeless do not present a visibility scandal .
As a long time independent democratic socialist I would not even talk about the homeless problem with no reference to sacrosanct landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY . The ROOT of the evil !
Who really thinks the homeless problem in Rhode Island or in any other state of the United States can be solved without stepping on the toes of the OWNING class, the ruling class in " OUR democracy " ?
Won't newspapers like The Providence Journal even recall what still relevant articles were published on the homeless crisis five, ten, 20 years ago ? Or even way back in the 1980s at the beginning of the Reagan presidency when we heard that it is " morning in America " ?
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
What " reparations " can possibly elevate black people ABOVE the rest of the working class ?
It is just plain dumb to talk about reparations for black slavery without reference to capitalist WAGE SLAVERY which has been the fate of the American working class - of all races and ethnic groups - since the beginning of the New England Industrial Revolution.
Several centuries now of the capitalist exploitation and oppression of the AMERICAN working class can not be compensated with fatuous BONUS checks. Only a democratic socialist government can redistribute the nation's wealth and organize a PLANNED ECONOMY that will abolish not only hateful exploitation but will begin to eliminate all forms of racism, sexism, and ignorant bigotry.
The idea that HATE can be abolished in capitalist HELL is completely ridiculous.
What " reparations " can possibly elevate black people ABOVE the rest of the working class ?
Fwd: American Socialist Workers Party condemns fascist style " Jew hatred " . But what is really happening within the American ruling class ?
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 12:35
Subject: American Socialist Workers Party condemns fascist style " Jew hatred " . But what is really happening within the American ruling class ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 12:35
Subject: American Socialist Workers Party condemns fascist style " Jew hatred " . But what is really happening within the American ruling class ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
["Jew-hatred cannot be fought by joining Washington's drive to refurbish the reputation of the FBI — its political police — or by strengthening hate crime laws that assault constitutional freedoms that workers need," Sherman told the Militant. "Whoever the target is today, it is working people who will be targeted tomorrow.
"The SWP points to the only road to eradicating Jew-hatred once and for all — organizing to overturn the system that gives rise to it," Sherman said, "and replacing capitalist rule with a workers and farmers government." ]
I can agree here with the above statement but I fear that the present SWP also equates ANTI-ZIONISM with ANTI-SEMITISM. Where is the evidence that rabid ANTI-SEMITISM is actually being implemented by the capitalist ruling class ( not a few of whom are militant ZIONIST Jews entrenched in the WOKE , " progressive " Democratic Party ) ? How could the mainstream news media possibly be involved in promoting anti-Semitism ?
I can see how a very divided and desperate American ruling class could turn against upper class Jews making THEM the main scapegoats of the crisis of decaying capitalism. But this is hardly on the horizon in a country that pretentiously outlaws HATE !
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston, Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )
Monday, February 13, 2023
Very soon " OUR democracy " will just UNFRIEND Zionist APARTHEID Israel
Very soon " OUR democracy " will just UNFRIEND Zionist APARTHHEID Israel !
Apart from the farce of " democratic " Israel a cabal of belligerent ZIONIST Jews with the inspired leadership of NATO " hero " war monger V. Zelensky want to plunge the FREE WORLD into nuclear World War III with POST-COMMUNIST Russia.
Fwd: Valiant American pilots shoot down defenseless " enemy " ( ? ) BALLOONS ?
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 11:39
Subject: Valiant American pilots shoot down defenseless " enemy " ( ? ) BALLOONS ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 11:39
Subject: Valiant American pilots shoot down defenseless " enemy " ( ? ) BALLOONS ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
May these valiant American pilots spend their whole military career shooting down those formidable " enemy " balloons !
Brave , courageous American fighter pilots shoot down defenseless " enemy " ( ? ) balloons ? Actually in real combat these war " heroes " mostly attack targets-human or inhuman - with little or no risk to their safety . THEIR war crimes are dismissed by our mainstream news media as unfortunate " collateral damage ". May these valiant souls spend their whole military career in ferocious engagements with formidable BALLOONS ! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE !
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston, Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )
May these valiant American pilots spend their whole military career shooting down those formidable " enemy " balloons !
Brave , courageous American fighter pilots shoot down defenseless " enemy " ( ? ) balloons ? Actually in real combat these war " heroes " mostly attack targets-human or inhuman - with little or no risk to their safety . THEIR war crimes are dismissed by our mainstream news media as unfortunate " collateral damage ".
May these valiant souls spend their whole military career in ferocious engagements with formidable BALLOONS ! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE !
Fwd: Not enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women for the Pentagon War Crimes Machine ?
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 10:58
Subject: Not enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women for the Pentagon War Crimes Machine ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 10:58
Subject: Not enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women for the Pentagon War Crimes Machine ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
Not enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women in " OUR democracy " to SERVE in the military ?
The soon to awaken ANTI-WAR movement in the United States will consider this VERY GOOD NEWS that the Pentagon War Crimes Machine cannot find enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women in " OUR democracy " ready to SERVE the military industrial complex of American imperialism. To SERVE in more endless stupid wars in the Middle East at the bidding of APARTHEID Israel . To serve in nuclear World War III against China, Russia, Iran, North Korea- truly " a war to end all wars " according to stale Wilsonian blather. THANK YOU for NOT serving ! And one way to halt MEGA-INFLATION is to junk the military .
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston, Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )
Not enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women in " OUR democracy " to SERVE in the military ?
The soon to awaken ANTI-WAR movement in the United States will consider this VERY GOOD NEWS that the Pentagon War Crimes Machine cannot find enough morally and mentally unchallenged young men and women in " OUR democracy " ready to SERVE the military industrial complex of American imperialism. To SERVE in more endless stupid wars in the Middle East at the bidding of APARTHEID Israel . To serve in nuclear World War III against China, Russia, Iran, North Korea- truly " a war to end all wars " according to stale Wilsonian blather.
THANK YOU for NOT serving ! And one way to halt MEGA-INFLATION is to junk the military .
" Amnesty condemns US example on human rights "
Amnesty condemns US example on human rights | World newshttps://www.theguardian.com › world › may › usa.hum...
May 25, 2005 — The US abdicated its responsibility to set a global example in upholding human rights in 2004 and, with the UK, led a "dangerous new agenda" ...
The American prison system is rightfully called the American Gulag
Not for nothing the American prison system is notorious even in what is left of the " FREE WORLD ". It has been rightfully called " The American Gulag ". The United Nations has brought attention to this abomination. JUSTICE in " OUR democracy " depends mostly on socio-economic status. The Russian revolutionary icon Vladimir Lenin explained the true nature of the CAPITALIST state in his classic work " State and Revolution( circa 1917 ) . " Officer Friendly " propaganda cannot hide the truth. Black Lives Matter groups already understand this. The poor and oppressed - indeed the vast working class - of the United States are hardly well served by the corrupt TWO PARTY SYSTEM . Certainly not by the " progressive " , " liberal " , now obnoxiously WOKE Democratic Party.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Any real " mental health expert " must also be an astute critic of American capitalist society
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I cannot accept the credentials of ANY " mental health expert " who is also not an astute and informed critic of our highly irrational CAPITALIST society. Decades ago socialist humanist psychiatrist Dr. Erich Fromm got it right in his book aptly titled " The Sane Society ".
Has the profession of psychiatry in the United States lobotomized itself on the SOCIAL dimensions of mental illness ?
FINALLY a breakthrough with the rather challenged Rhode Island MEDICAID bureaucracy !
UPDATE : FINALLY GOOD NEWS : my brother Steve was able to break through yesterday the rather challenged Rhode Island MEDICAID bureaucracy . We were able to have a phone interview with a very alert . competent , and NICE MEDICAID official. THANK YOU ! Having had emergency surgery at Rhode Island Hospital on November 11, 2022 , I am presently overwhelmed with hospital , lab, and office visit bills. Of course , these very professional and competent people deserve to get paid with little delay .
Fwd: Former Providence mayor Joe Paolino to rescue vandalized Christopher Columbus statue
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 09:57
Subject: Former Providence mayor Joe Paolino to rescue vandalized Christopher Columbus statue
To: <ReportIt@wpri.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 09:57
Subject: Former Providence mayor Joe Paolino to rescue vandalized Christopher Columbus statue
To: <ReportIt@wpri.com>
I commend former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino for his heartfelt respect for the Italo-American tradition in Rhode Island and in the United States. This WOKE nihilistic war on historic statues and monuments is the very opposite of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.
ALL historic statues should be SAFE in the state founded by Roger Williams.
My grandparents Ruggieri also came from some obscure small town in Southern Italy at the beginning of the 20th century . They lived for some 50 years at 62 Gesler St on Federal Hiil, Providence, Rhode Island. My older brother and I were baptized at Holy Ghost Church.
True , most of those Italo-American Federal Hill families migrated to Johnston , RI . My brother Steve and his family now live there.
The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus was a major turning point in world history. Columbus - good , bad , or both - was a brilliant and courageous navigator. Like other ethnic groups Italo-Americans respect and admire people who are good at what they do ( " This is the profession we have chosen " ) .
In still mostly Catholic Italy today nobody is vandalizing statues of Julius Caesar or even Nero !
But there are numerous reports of Catholic Churches being vandalized by WOKE maniacs today in the year 2023. This is as much a disgrace as Jewish synagogues and cemeteries being terrorized and vandalized.
Before HATE can be preached away, UNDERSTANDING must come first .
Former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino to rescue vandalized Christopher Columbus statue
I commend former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino for his heartfelt respect for the Italo-American tradition in Rhode Island and in the United States. This WOKE nihilistic war on historic statues and monuments is the very opposite of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.
ALL historic statues should be SAFE in the state founded by Roger Williams.
My grandparents Ruggieri also came from some obscure small town in Southern Italy at the beginning of the 20th century . They lived for some 50 years at 62 Gesler St on Federal Hiil, Providence, Rhode Island. My older brother and I were baptized at Holy Ghost Church.
True , most of those Italo-American Federal Hill families migrated to Johnston , RI . My brother Steve and his family now live there.
The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus was a major turning point in world history. Columbus - good , bad , or both - was a brilliant and courageous navigator. Like other ethnic groups Italo-Americans respect and admire people who are good at what they do ( " This is the profession we have chosen " ) .
In still mostly Catholic Italy today nobody is vandalizing statues of Julius Caesar or even Nero !
But there are numerous reports of Catholic Churches being vandalized by WOKE maniacs today in the year 2023. This is as much a disgrace as Jewish synagogues and cemeteries being terrorized and vandalized.
Before HATE can be preached away UNDERSTANDING must come first .
Thursday, February 9, 2023
We are just beginning to understand CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
I learn on my favorite " TRUE CRIME /NETWORK Channel 12-3 locally ) that serial killers start out this way. We are only beginning to understand CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Just this morning I was horrified by the description of the killing of a pig in the Thomas Hardy classic " Jude the Obscure ". Sensitive, scholarly Jude begins to wonder if he himself is UNFIT for Life .
How is a swan crying or a pig screaming in terror any different from the HUMAN emotion ?
Fwd: The new secular ZIONIST Jew " science " at Harvard Medical School ?
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 12:22
Subject: The new secular ZIONIST Jew " science " at Harvard Medical School ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 12:22
Subject: The new secular ZIONIST Jew " science " at Harvard Medical School ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
The pillars of WOKE " science " and ideology are secular , openly Anti-Christian, ZIONIST Jews. How can this fact be hidden ? And they in an unholy alliance with obnoxious , generic NEW ATHEISTS
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston, Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )
" Essays of Gore Vidal " Clearly Gore Vidal endeared himself to our and especially to HIS ruling capitalist class
For some reason this rather big book was ON SALE at the Providence Public Library for one dollar. Was the person who selected it for the book sale politically illiterate ?
I read most of these essays. Clearly this brilliant writer, Gore Vidal, endeared himself to our and especially to HIS ruling capitalist class . For working class people it is always instructive and enlightening to hear from a cynical , very observant, very astute INSIDER . You mean there is indeed a RULING CLASS in " OUR democracy " ? How shocking to innocent college students .
I guess being hopelessly ALIENATED helps radicalize you . Gore Vidal was openly gay.
[ Image: Re-re-reading Gore Vidal: A First Anniversary Requiem
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No mainstream news media sympathy for this mentally ill man, Michael Soares ?
Should not the LAW treat seriously mentally ill people equally ? Since when can FREE WILL and KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG function independently in a sick brain ?
[WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — The man accused of killing a jogger in Warwick City Park nearly a decade ago allegedly admitted to attacking the victim, though he claims he did so “to save himself.”
Michael Soares was arrested in February 2019 in connection with the death of 66-year-old John “Jack” Fay, whose body was found five years prior.
Soares, whose bench trial began Wednesday in Kent County Superior Court, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Psychiatrist Dr. Patricia Recupero testified that Soares is mentally unwell and only attacked Fay because he believed he was in danger.
“[He was] really led by thoughts that someone was going to kill him and that people could read his mind,” she explained. ]
There was no mainstream news media sympathy for this mentally ill man , Michael Soares .
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Homeless people " trespassing on private property " . God forbid !
Does " affordable " housing mean that no private landlords or private construction companies make a profit in this HELP THE HOMELESS project ? No way to help the homeless without making some capitalists richer ?
The real obstacle to helping homeless people is sacrosanct landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY right.
It will still take AUTHORITARIAN measures to get the homeless people safely off the street. A democratic socialist government would not respect anybody's really dubious " right " to be homeless . A democratic socialist government would not recognize the arrogant plutocrat right to own the Earth.
None of " progressive " -even brainy - Democrats see the homeless problem as inseparable from the very structure of the capitalist system - which makes nearly everything a commodity. The cops don't hesitate to warn homeless people that they are " trespassing on private property ". God forbid !
But can't RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID at least answer the phones ?
“As Rhode Island’s Medicaid Director, Kristin [ Kristin Pono Sousa ] brings expertise and a dedication to providing high quality services to this vulnerable population,” said Governor McKee. ]
But they can't even answer the phones ? Why understaffed ? Making the Rhode Island MEDICAID office INACCESSIBLE to eligible senior citizens is just a way of denying them their rights .
No surprise President Joe Biden describes himself as a " capitalist "
No surprise that President Joe Biden describes himself as a " capitalist " . As a corrupt Vice President his CAPITAL was his high office . Just see " BIG GUY " about this or that . And consider $$$ ! His pimping son Hunter -drug crazed - looks like a guy out of the Satan Files.
Why would anybody who sees himself as any kind of " socialist " wallow in the muck of the Democratic Party ?
Real socialists for years have been recommending an independent (of the capitalist ruling class ) American Labor Party.
And what can be more alien from working class souls than DNC based WOKE ideology ? People who really WORK for a living must recognize OBJECTIVE REALITY. Like 2+2 = 4 , A male is not a female . America's wars are not all about protecting " sovereign " nations. Democrats are not : friends of labor ".
The " progressive " Democrats pretend that they are the guardian angels of MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY
The " progressive " Democrats pretend that they are the guardian angels of MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY . But just how good is health care in the USA today for the vast majority of working class people and lower middle class people ? Every day we can read horror stories connected to our hospitals and nursing homes and greedy medical doctors and dentists.
The mostly FOR PROFIT health care system in the United States will never respect health care as a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT.
In " OUR democracy " why should any doctor or dentist have the right not to see MEDICARE and MEDICAID patients?
Also we live in the Golden Age of False Advertising. All those TV and radio ads for prescription medicine should be banned.
That annoying refrain : " SEE YOUR DOCTOR " - who is bought and sold by the pharmaceutical industry.
Clearly secular ZIONIST Jews are zealots at censoring public opinion in the United States . Note the scratch over in my post below:
The generic LEFT should not pretend that pro-ZIONIST Jews [and crypto-ZIONIST Jews - can be comrades of WORKING CLASS socialists . To the degree that any ethnic group is pro-capitalist,] pro imperialist , and pro-ZIONIST they have alienated themselves from the workers of the world. ]
ZIONISM is simply incompatible with socialist internationalism .
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Fwd: Cigarette Butt Bums at Cranston Housing Authority
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 12:11
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 12:11
Subject: Cigarette Butt Bums at Cranston Housing Authority
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Corrupt , senile, now just plain stupid , " Sleepy Joe " Biden is the ideal last president of the Imperial America capitalist empire
Corrupt , senile , now just plain stupid , " Sleepy Joe " Biden is the ideal last president of the Imperial America capitalist empire. The rotten TWO PARTY SYSTEM will not rescue " OUR democracy "- in reality THEIR democracy , that of the American plutocracy. They still want ordinary working class Americans to get all excited about sinister foreign enemies - China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela . How is our ruling class morally superior to their ruling classes ? Does the cheering stop for NATO " hero " war monger Ukrainian president V. Zelensky now with the keys to the US Treasury ?
But tonight " Sleepy Joe " Biden will assure the American people that " everything is for the best in the best of all possible nations " ! Even our Ivy League schools have banned TRUTH and outlawed OBJECTIVE REALTY .
68 year old woman doomed on Social Security Income ?
" What is it like to be a senior citizen in the US living on just social security? "
[I am 68 years old. I was married 25 years. We divorced when he met young and lushous. I had a college degree but stayed home to rear 4 kids. He wanted it that way not so much me. Social Security pays me $750 a month due to my short and unsuccessful work history. That is not enough to survive in the USA. Will I end up on the street? Not as long as I can go back to work but after that I will end up on the street as a very old woman in a very cold state. Apparently our government does not care what happens to home makers that are abandoned due to no fault of their own.
I will probably rob a store so I can be incarcerated in a nice warm cell.]
Monday, February 6, 2023
Rep . Matt Gaetz : " How much more for the Ukraine ? "
] "Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday accused President Biden and members of both parties of spending tens of billions of dollars in Ukraine to keep a war going that does not satisfy any U.S. national interest other than making U.S. weapons manufacturers happy.
'How much more for Ukraine? Is there any limit?' Gaetz, R-Fla., asked on the House floor. "Which billionth dollar really kicks in the door? Which redline we set will we not later cross?" ]
FUNNY no " progressive " Democrats " pushing for peace ". They continue to slobber over the NATO " hero " war monger V. Zelensky now with the keys to the US Treasury .
Really obscene what " RICH AS CROESUS " capitalist-landlords can do for these few hundred homeless people in Rhode Island
It it really is obscene what "RICH AS CROESUS " American capitalist-landlords can do for these few hundred homeless people in Rhode Island. Under bourgeois LAW you have a RIGHT to be homeless but do not have a RIGHT to a home.
None of the WOKE WARRIOR " progressive " Democrats connect the dismal failure to really help homeless people with the very nature of the capitalist system which makes nearly everything a commodity .
By what divine right does the plutocracy OWN the country ?
Voltaire on the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
[ " In his long poem “On the Lisbon disaster; or an Examination of the Axiom, "All is Well” (1755), Voltaire (1694-1778) laments the death of “a hundred thousand whom the earth devours” and reminds us how fragile human life is and how close we all are to death from “such cruelties of fate” .. " ]
Who among the WOKE WARRIOR Democrats speaks out for world peace ?
I like what I read on the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE just now :
[ "All of the media coverage has accepted the unsubstantiated claim that the airship was a secret Chinese “surveillance balloon” specifically targeting US military installations.
While the specific purpose of the balloon cannot be definitively stated, the notion that the Chinese government is seeking to secretly obtain vital information on US nuclear weapons by means of a gigantic and clearly visible object slowly passing through US airspace is, to put it mildly, ludicrous. " ]
Decaying American capitalism and its military industrial complex needs sinister foreign enemies. Who among WOKE WARRIOR Democrats speaks out for world peace , who roars an ANTI-WAR voice ? Not one !
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Quack American psychiatrists : If God and Christianity are dismissed with contempt there are still those pretty little pills !
Of course how does FREE WILL and KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG operate in an individual clearly " DISTURBED " of whatever CLASS background ? There was no sympathy expressed in the news media for a certain Warwick man - a CERTIFIED mental case - found GUILTY of a crazed murder .
Also , American psychiatry in the last decades has become completely FOR PROFIT corrupt . No longer believing in the human soul , the MAKE A BUCK charlatans mostly just prescribe DANGEROUS drugs . After a well publicized tragedy they assign unctuous charlatan grief counselors ( If God and Christianity are dismissed with contempt, there are still those pretty little pills ) .
Another crime against humanity : our good doctor psychiatrists presided over the DE-INSTITUTIONALIZATION of the mentally ill in the early 60s. Now just look all around you for the HOMELESS CATASTROPHE !
Has the American ruling class and its DEEP STATE consulted YOU on the wisdom of nuclear World War III ?
If the long dormant ANTI-WAR movement had any audible voice at all it would protest this silly example of foolish American militarism and what Senator J. William Fulbright described during the Vietnam War era as " The Arrogance of Power ".
In all probability it was an innocuous WEATHER Balloon. The CIA and DEEP STATE have nothing equivalent to it ? For more than 100 years American imperialism has been all about respecting SOVEREIGN nations ( especially in Central and South America ) ?
We have a belligerent ruling class in control of a decaying capitalist-empire system making reckless war threats with nuclear powers China and Russia . But THEIR enemies are not OUR enemies.
Clearly what passes for " OUR democracy " needs to be fixed - and quickly.
Have THEY consulted YOU on the wisdom of nuclear World War III ? Your voice will be heard only on " The Day After " ?
It is a BIG LIE that Ilhan Omar is ANTI-SEMITIC
It is a BIG LIE that Ilhan Omar is ANTI-SEMITIC . But she has antagonized the Biden administration and a Congress - both" progressive " and not " progressive " - but packed with zealots for APARTHEID Israel.
Naturally the mainstream news media in the United States continues to smother ANTI-ZIONIST public opinion and ANTI-WAR public opinion daily slobbering over the NATO " hero " war monger V Zelensky giving him the keys to the US Treasury. A decaying capitalist American imperialism needs " sinister " foreign enemies- Russia, China , Iran, Cuba , Venezuela - to distract the common people from their bitter social and economic miseries. The WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party in particular has promoted the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism for years now. Not one " progressive " Democrat was a clear ANTI-WAR voice in the 2022 midterm elections in the USA.
THEIR interests - the interests of the American plutocracy - are not " OUR " interests.
Even very many Jews in Israel are fed up ( in the streets demonstrating ) with RACIST prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu - even while the US Congress continues to slobber over him and " OUR SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP " with Zionist APARTHEID Israel.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
CEO of Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity , Mike Stenhouse excoriates Ron Ruggieri for his Ayn Rand criticism in PROJO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
January 6, 2015 | Providence Journal (RI)
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Taking arrows in defense of freedom
It is comical, yet sad, the depths to which the progressive left and other defenders of Rhode Island's failed status quo will sink in order to avoid honest debate about serious policy issues. When their arguments fail, they resort to attacking the messenger.
Case in point: The Dec. 30 letter by Ron Ruggieri, who calls the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity "sinister" because we dared encourage our supporters to see a movie in 2012, "Atlas Shrugged II."
Our center proudly adheres to our stated mission - to research and advocate for free-enterprise solutions that are in everyone's best interests. We debate ideas and, unlike our opponents, we do not engage in the politics of personal destruction. Mr. Ruggieri's absurd letter was not the first such mindless attack and it will not be the last. It is our center's role to take these arrows in defense of freedom.
As for "Atlas Shrugged," considered by many to be one of the great literary works of America's 20th century, it is a book every American should read so as to better appreciate the virtues of personal responsibility and the free-market system as opposed to the destructive nature of an overbearing, crony government such as we have in Rhode Island.
To our center's supporters, please know that we will not be deterred by such attacks. Oh, I also encourage you to go see "Atlas Shrugged III"!
Mike Stenhouse
Cranston
The writer is CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
I protest the removal of Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee
As a longtime independent democratic socialist myself I think these House " socialists " are an innocuous voice against American capitalism and Israeli ZIONISM in APARTHEID Israel . And against insane preparations for nuclear World War III with POST-COMUNIST Russia.
But Ilhan Omar does some good here in this House Foreign Affairs Committee. I protest her removal !
Fwd: Those messy cigarette butts
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 12:12
Subject: Those messy cigarette butts
To: <rcoupe@cranhousing.org>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 12:12
Subject: Those messy cigarette butts
To: <rcoupe@cranhousing.org>
Good afternoon, I just want to bring to your attention the rather unpleasant sight of accumulated cigarette butts on the Randall Manor , Cranston Housing Authority property. I am at Apartment B216 , 75 Mathewson St. As I leave the building in the morning I catch sight of hundreds of cigarette butts on the lawn opposite the doorway with its NO SMOKING sign. I am tempted to pick them up myself. But they are a so obvious offensive sight.
Perhaps the office can supply some big outside ashtrays ?
I have been a resident here since 2011 and rarely have anything to complain about . I am a non-smoker . Randal Manor is mostly a pleasant and safe place to live.
Thank you , resident Ron Ruggieri , ( phone 401-580-7432 )