I’m here for a friend’s medical procedure, but it’s been years since I was in this shit hole
Naval Special Warfare Leadership Education and Development Command, or NLEAD, is located at Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado (NAB), part of Naval Base Coronado, California.
There’s really two different reasons why we’re beginning to work in the communities with community-based organizations, and one is, of course, to spread a general awareness about Navy SEALs to young men that are coming up. But, more importantly, we’ve had a number of Navy SEALs from the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area in particular and we wanted to find a way where we could kind of reinvest in those neighborhoods that we’ve come from and we knew that, by teaching these young men mental toughness and physical fitness, that we would be able to help them reach their full potential.
MARTIN: I have to assume that recruiting is part of it, or at least getting a look at potential recruits. Is that a part of it?
WILLIAMS: Well, we don’t really recruit. That’s the thing. The Navy has recruiters. We don’t. We spread the message about Navy SEALs. Being a Navy SEAL is something you have to self-select and if someone else convinces you that this is what you need to do, you’re going to get to a point in Navy SEAL training where you’re going to quit because it wasn’t your idea. (source)
All that anchors away shit in the water around here, complete welfare cheating system, San Diego.
Gallagher “did … with premeditation, murder a wounded male person” under his care by “stabbing him in the neck and body with a knife” while battling ISIS in Mosul in May 2017, according to the charge sheet dated Friday.
Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, public affairs officer with the Naval Special Warfare Command, said the Navy is taking the allegations seriously.
“We train and operate in dynamic, complex and ambiguous environments and our operators are empowered and trusted to independently make difficult decisions during missions,” Lawrence said in a statement. “They have consistently proven that their empowerment and trust is warranted. Allegations that indicate otherwise are, and will continue to be, investigated by the appropriate military and law enforcement authorities.”
He is also charged with shooting at a male and female noncombatant near Mosul in June and July of 2017, respectively. (source)
Makes me want to puke: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar of Lubbock, Texas, died in Mali on June 4, 2017. His death is being investigated as a homicide. 2 Navy SEALs, 2 Marines charged with murder in death of Green Beret: Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar was strangled to death in Mali.
SEAL Team leaders investigated for alleged sexual misconduct. SEAL Team leaders in Africa sent home while under investigation.
But I am in Tijuana, where the friend of mine is getting a surgery her own insurance coverage will not cover — “You may have heard the term “bariatric,” but what does it really mean?
Well, if you do a quick Google search, you will find that bariatric means “relating to or specializing in the treatment of obesity.” When you hear the term “bariatric” being used in a medical setting, it is referring to the treatment, prevention, and causes of obesity.
Obesity is a serious health condition classified by excess body fat that can greatly affect your health. It is linked to a long list of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, osteoporosis, and stroke.”
And, Tijuana is a bedroom community for San Diego, and the folks here speak English and cater to Americans from California, Texas, Colorado and then Canadians, too.
Flying into this place, I see the cancer spreading into the hills. San Diego and Tijuana:
San Diego County’s population increased 8 out of the 11 years between year 2010 and year 2021. Its largest annual population increase was 1.2% between 2011 and 2012. The county’s largest decline was between 2019 and 2020 when the population dropped 1%. Between 2010 and 2021, the county grew by an average of 0.5% per year.
Ahh, in 1900? 17,700 residents in 1900.
For Tijuana?
Ahh, unity, USA, that old Chlamydia Capitalism:
“State Farm will no longer provide home insurance to new California customers because of wildfire risks and an increase in construction costs, the company said Friday.
On Saturday, the insurance company stopped accepting applications for business and personal lines and casualty insurance in California, the company said in a news release.
State Farm said it made this decision because of “historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure and a challenging reinsurance market.”
The largest fire in California last year, the Mosquito Fire, covered over 100 square miles and put over 9,200 structures at risk. The fire destroyed more than 70 structures.”
Ahh, so the guys I’m talking with say the Tijuana cartels — two of them — are into legit businesses, and have worked out with the government to do their business but to not engage in street wars. Hmm.
Tijuana residents take part in a peaceful rally outside a military base during a visit by Mexico’s president.
Fucking good neighbors, USA:
The sun sets in Tijuana, Baja California, on the border with San Diego. (sources)
That’s the tortilla curtain — people work in San Diego, get three or more times the wages, but come home to Tijuana for a home four times less, or maybe one-fifth the cost.
Cry for me Chlamydia Capitalism.
We need revolution:
The structural inequality within our economy is so pronounced, and so deeply built into the system, that when you enter the workforce in today’s United States, you’re in all likelihood not going to be doing anything that truly helps the economy. That builds wealth for your community, and makes your living standards able to go up in the long term. You’re going to be working in a service-based economy that, beyond its chain restaurants and retail stores, has occupations which even more clearly represent “bullshit jobs.” Work that you’re able to recognize as absurd and pointless because you know that no matter how much you sacrifice for it, you’re not fulfilling a productive role. The vast majority of U.S. workers aren’t making goods, or building infrastructure, or doing anything else that betters society in the macro sense. They’re only acting as middlemen for corporations that no longer see the prosperity of imperialism’s center as in their best interests.
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We’re still better off than the workers in the neo-colonies, yet that’s not any comfort to us, nor should it be. Because not only is a global economy set up to hyper-exploit most of the population ethically appalling, it’s a situation that’s designed to ultimately doom the workers in both the peripheries and the core. The destruction of our living standards has been instrumental to the intensification of neo-colonial exploitation, as well as the other way around. When the U.S. was deindustrialized, the corporations became able to ship more jobs into the poor countries, which they claimed would be mutually beneficial but in reality has destroyed both the American and Mexican economies. As Washington’s wars have expanded, the campaigns to bomb, drone strike, and occupy the formerly colonized world have been made possible by the dismantling of our social welfare system. Greater unemployment and austerity in the core have been necessary for greater militarist violence and wage slavery in the peripheries.
Ahh, these words are now on the watch list, the green-yellow-red warning list, secret lists of writers and journalists and academics, espousing narratives other than support Chlamydia Capitalism and Isra-Hell Firsters sadism.
These capitalists want to divide and disease and conquor. Bad water, leaky sewage, shit jobs, zero safety nets, dog-eat-dog, and here we are, in Tijuana, for a surgery not covered in the USA in this case, a surgery five to eight times more cosly in the good old grand old flutter diaper bag, USA.
No Insruance, No Medical Care, 600,000 losing Medicaid coverage, and the avalanche continues, while the dirty Little David Winson Churchill Cocaine Cowboy Comic Steals Steals Steals.
Tijuana sewage has overwhelmed an international wastewater treatment plant in San Diego, causing 30 million gallons a day of partially treated sewage to flow into the Pacific Ocean
Reports of sewage leaking over the border into the San Diego region stretch back at least to the 1930s. Significant improvements were made in the 1990s, but Tijuana’s wastewater facilities haven’t kept pace with its population growth. Many poorer communities remain unconnected to the city’s sewer system.
Significant upgrades to wastewater facilities in Mexico are expected to kick off this year. More than $470 million has been slated for such work under a deal struck last year between Mexico and the United States. (sources)
And then Beggin-ensky is getting all our money. A good one here, from a commentator: William PY Liew
That comedian is just playing the part of a president without the intelligence and competencies to be a real president and a wise & capable leader to a country that desperately need one now. That comedian is nothing more than a Joker shamelessly begging from just about every nation in the world to send him money and weapons to get more of the people who trusted him get killed every day. It’s the Ukrainian people who have themselves to blame for choosing such an incompetent and ineffective person to be their president & leader in the first place!
If Ukraine is winning the war, why is Zelensky constantly begging for aid?
Why does Ukraine keep begging for help? Why can’t they defend themselves?
While we have this bullshit climate wrong headedness:
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors said it will divest from any company that engages in the exploration, production, drilling or refining of coal, petroleum or natural gas… i.e. fossil fuels. (Union-Tribune)
TIME did this really great dive into the politics behind a San Diego proposal to charge people for every mile they drive, why it backfired and what it means for the rest of the free world.
Chula Vista declared its city is in a climate emergency, joining over 2,000 cities that have already done so. (Union-Tribune)
Scientists in San Diego have linked one of the biggest dam collapses in California history to climate change. (KPBS)
Here’s all the woe one fence along a coastal bluff in Del Mar can bring. (Union-Tribune)
Why the Natural Resources Defense Council stands apart from its environmental peers on the debate over rooftop solar in California. (Inside Climate News)
This spot in Carlsbad fertilizes the eggs of White Sea Bass which are then taken to Catalina Island to grow up in ocean corrals. (CBS 8)
A utility line near Old Town caught fire last week, putting a stop to nearby trolley service, closing freeway ramps in the area and knocking out power for hundreds nearby. (Times of San Diego)
California can again set its own tailpipe emissions standards for cars, a policy once blocked by former President Donald Trump’s administration and now reversed by President Joe Biden. (AP)
Medical care, man, medical care:
For 70 years, most Americans have supported single-payer government-run health insurance?
Americans are more politically polarized than they were a generation ago.
Yet consumer activist and four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader argues in his new book that there is “an emerging left-right alliance” in the country that could “dismantle the corporate state.”
Interviewed about the book on May 7, 2014, Nader told Wisconsin Public Radio host Joy Cardin that majorities of liberals and conservatives agree on a number of issues, such as raising the minimum wage.
Then he made an attention-getting claim about the enduring popularity of “single-payer” — a health insurance system in which everyone is covered by the government and the government pays all the bills.
Ahh, fuck the Americans, no? MIC, Jamie Dimon, Bloomberg, all those fuckers, man.
A 1982 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, citing polls, argued that most Americans believed there was a “need for national health insurance and that it would require larger government intervention.”
A 2003 article in the American Journal of Public Health said public opinion generally ran in favor of health care reform.
And a 2009 article by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a widely recognized authority on health care, said polls as far back as the 1930s show Americans have generally supported “the goals of guaranteed access to health care and health insurance for all, as well as a government role in health financing.”
Paul Haeder, Author 