Ifeel the earth move under my feet on a sun day

I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
tumbling down, tumbling down...

Suitable lyrics for these times even if the words are taken  out of the context of a love ballad by Carole King. That’s how upside down the world has become

I read the other day that 6,000,000 people are dying annually from a curable disease. Is there a plague upon us? Is the medical system in full alert trying to develop a cure before the disease spreads like HIV and takes us down? Are the governments of the world intervening to prevent this human disaster? Is anything being done to alert people of the danger?

Those would be some of the steps taken by the World Health Organization and any group that had skin in the game. But nothing is being done to burn the tobacco fields, imprison anyone who grows, produces of profits from tobacco. Plants are not shuttered. Corporations are not delisted.

Our solution: Reduce medicare benefits. That will certainly reduce the cost of medical care, won’t it?

I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
tumbling down, tumbling down...

We are on a collision course with North Korea that might lead to a war that will embroil the whole world. For what? Because the South Koreans lobbed a couple of artillery rounds in the direction of the North to prove their willingness to fight over some disputed territory? And the North returned the fire to prove they won’t be intimidated. And the U.S. is sending over an aircraft carrier to show support for South Korea’s provocation, as a minimum, and its stupidity as a maximum. An Armageddon precipitated over nothing for nothing by a bunch of hawks intent on demonstrating they can because they think they can.

And the world is at at risk for such arrogance.

I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
tumbling down, tumbling down...

Senator Kyl is demonstrating that one Senator can prevent the passage of one of the lynchpins for reducing the threat of nuclear materials getting further disseminated and of getting nuclear weapons further reduced. Senator Kyl is increasing the risk of nuclear destabilization—because it is his prerogative regardless of the risk to any of us anywhere. In the meantime the government ratchets up equipment and security personnel and invasions on privacy to the benefit of equipment manufacturers. The last count I saw, half a dozen planes have been brought down around the world since Kitty Hawk. Not many more buildings have been destroyed by some dissident over some grievance or other. Nothing compared to the destruction wreaked upon humanity by the franchised governments of the world who have proven to be more dangerous to mankind than any terrorists anyplace anytime.  Check the U.S government response to the Wikileaks releases. Is the U.S. government trying to protect the people allegedly threatened by the leaks? Or is it scrambling to protect its own security system, damn the people who are sacrificed? They are collateral damage, along with the rest of the war dead, to protect the National Security State. Grievances have existed since mankind began to recognize that the playing field was not level and no draconian regime has ever, will ever make us all safe from every threat. But there is profit in supporting that false public belief.

I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
tumbling down, tumbling down...

American corporations are rumored to be sitting on trillions of dollars while they increase productivity and profit by laying off workers. The government dithers with giving them tax breaks to increase their cash position. In the meantime the remaining workers do not have enough money to buy all they are producing, Jobs go abroad to a cheaper labor force with fewer or no health, insurance, unemployment, retirement or other benefits. There are fewer workers here and less money to buy what they make. Before long the corporations will own everything and reclaim the jobs farmed out to their now indentured workers. Cycle complete. The experiment in self government undone.

I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold all over

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
tumbling down, tumbling down...

JM