WHO EXACTLY IS TALKING NOW?

          Were an alien to land on this planet now, he would shortly flee back home with a warning to his superiors: Do not go there. Their Lord is angry and the people are disturbed. It is a most dangerous place to be; to go is out of the question.
       Can you actually wonder why this scenario might have taken place? A landing on the West Coast in any of the three states there - California Oregon, and Washington - would present a hellfire of raging, wild, out of control fires that seem to have originated from the fires of Hell. They burn up people, animals, houses and towns alike, no differential in sight. No fire is even a tiny bit under control and one wonders how much longer these heroic firefighters can last, for even heroes are human, even heroes lose the fight with physical limitations. The smoke has even reached the East Coast - go to Virginia to see it yourself.
     The locusts are eating the crops of an already endangered area of East Africa, worsening the hunger crisis there, while drought and flooding are ruining the crops all over the globe. The pandemic, despite all the so called advances of civilization, is killing the people of this globe, this orb in space, and makes no distinction among people, for all are liable and susceptible. Stars, athletes, essential workers, kids, and average adults - all fall prey to this, with no end in sight. One trial has now been stopped as there was a critical side effect revealed. Haste makes waste, anyone? A vaccine before Election Day? You would have to be nuts to take it. Beware: Danger Ahead on that choice. Politics does not good medicine and vaccines make!!
     The rules of society have broken down. There is no more talk, for no one is willing to listen, all too busy shooting their mouths off to stop and listen, to stop and think. It does not matter which country one picks - stick a pin in an atlas and there ya' go! Riots, incited violence, arms in the streets, civilians whaling away at each other, countrymen dividing into angry tribes. Need an example of this? Go stream all the episodes of The 100, especially the first seasons and see what happens when people go berserk, forget their shared humanity and go off the charts in their behavior.
     America, the land of the free and the brave, well, it does not exist any longer. The freedom is hinged to one's politics, particularly if one respects the need for society to help the needy, to seek to improve life for all, to seek equity, medical care, decency and humanity. Brave indeed are those who stand out there and protest.
     And the law is no help here as it has been perverted by the powers that be. Government departments turn corroded to their very foundations, and the President here and elsewhere use them as personal adjuncts of their own. Illegal appointments, greed and corruption, and sleaze rules the day. Even the illegitimate President dares to say this once again: "Fifty-two days from now we're going to win Nevada, and we're going to win four more years in the White House," Trump said to the mostly maskless crowd. "And then after that, we'll negotiate, right? Because we're probably—based on the way we were treated—we are probably entitled to another four after that." 
     One can watch a video to check it out. Frightened yet? You should be, for this is the signaled end of American democracy, of America, of The United States of America, as we know it, or rather, knew it. The man and his cohorts are serious, so wake up, Now!

        So where do we go now? I am afraid there is no more room for us to maneuver, for doom is apparently upon us. Today's title asks who exactly is talking now. Who is the one, who are the ones, speaking for and to humanity? Check the Bible, in the portion of Noah's story. Check Romans I, as it is retold. The land has filled with greed, with robbery, with bad behavior of all types. People are caring nothing for others, out only for themselves. And the Lord grew angry.
      And the Lord is angry right now. His angels are pushing Him once again to do something, to start anew, for His Creations have wasted this opportunity. Worse, they have smeared it with shame. Hence, my friends, locusts, plague, drought, floods and seven things, five named, out there in the Atlantic even as on the other side of the globe, Japan was inundated as well as Korea. No one is immune; we are all on the same small globe hurtling through space, no escape, no differential.
     Worst of all, we are emulating the worst of human behavior. We are slaughtering the weaker, starving those already starving, allowing those ill to die, alone and in pain, hopeless and helpless. We throw almost 9,000 children over the border, alone, no parents, no relatives, right into the maelstrom of the plague in Mexico, medical and social. We are sterilizing Mexican women and other illegal immigrants, no permission asked, no information given out. Echoes of the Holocaust. Echoes of the awful genetic superiority theory. What are we doing? What have we done? And what will we continue to do - until the end?
    People, who is talking now, who is speaking through our mouths? Look around, take account. The Lord is Angry. Real Angry! We need to shut our mouths, stop what we are doing and heed these warnings. Yes, we have ruined the environment all by ourselves. We have caused climate change even as people still deny, even as we have had the hottest summer ever, even as it snowed in Denver in between 90 degree days. We are lost and need some signposts to find our way back. Is it too late? Has G-d taken us at our words, as our behavior indicates, that we could care about what we have done to His earth? Only G-d knows, folk, and we can only but surmise and read the events and their message to us. I could care less by what name you call G-d. Just listen up and get better. Now!!