American homeless encampments ARE refugee camps. Pretendting these Americans are not refugees separates domestic refugees from the gravy train and welcoming illegal migrants enjoy, including fine New York hotels. And it minimizes the nature and scale of the rot at the heart of the empire.
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Guest Post: Ask Comrade Meow
Q. A visibly feeble Jesse Jackson joins a march organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party [RCP] in Kenosha, with a banner proclaiming that Rittenhouse is guilty, and an activist loudly calling for a “Communist revolution.” This is astonishing. There appear to be thousands of these fanatic Communists in this demonstration. A. Take heart. The RCP […]
Continue readingHonolulu: Robots and the Homeless in the Pandemic
Honolulu has taken an unusual approach to homelessness in the pandemic. One solution, almost universally rejected, would be to find or create the jobs for the homeless s so they could find housing. Honolulu has a better idea. And it is very high tech. Honolulu was acquired a fleet of robot dogs that can detect […]
Continue readingSeattle Urban Model
At a recent small gathering to commemmorate the death of another homeless woman in the downtown, Starbucks was praised for donating a single, miserable container of hot coffee to the gathering. Very Seattle. Appearance and pretense over substance. Table: “Homeless Deaths Rise Once More In King County (including Seattle): 2012-2018”, in Seattle Times, January 9, […]
Continue readingSeattle Used to Be So Nice: A Letter To a Shocked Tourist
Truly, Seattle is a basket case. They have pushed it very far, sliding on a massive tax base they did nothing to cultivate. Once Seattle was a truly great place to live and that alone was the basis for “high tech” economic growth. (Amazon is, you realize, mainly just a low wage warehousing operation with […]
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