The ruling class, like ruling classes throughout history, seek to keep the poor and oppressed uneducated for a reason . . .
My in box sent to me by ME on the quickening, the absurdity of the Internet, curated aggregators, what is on the minds of the controllers.
It’s a seesaw, yoyo mentality, a concerted eOneffort to never bring any real solutions for the global crises, mostly solvable, to light. One step forward, forty=four back.
And the images, man — Hanoi? Biden in fucking Vietnam? Bombarding us nanosecond by nanosecond. This dirty country, and this dirty man, Hunter Spawn, in Communist Vietnam? Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong, front right, and US President Joe Biden, front left, attend a military welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Sept.10, 2023. Biden is on an official two-day visit in Vietnam
And exactly how many people of the Americano variety died in Cuba? I mean, Viernam? And what we are doing to that country — Cuba, 80 miles south — through unethical, demonic sanctions, that’s sanity? We are an insane society, so forget SARS-CoV2 planned pandemic. Imagine if you had a brain that still worked and carried with it all the infamy this disgusting birthplace of you and ratchetd up monthly why the USA is a dead society, unworthy of any of its supposed gains and babbles from hell?
But then, that SARS-Bio=Weapon, it is in the news too: The heat is on again, and so this news person, makes a declaration!
A news flash? Late to the party? Another person jinxed by her opinion?
Megyn Kelly, a veteran journalist and podcaster, said Wednesday that she deeply regrets getting the COVID-19 vaccine because she believes she may have suffered a vaccine injury. Ms. Kelly said that she regrets getting vaccinated and then boosted, saying she doesn’t think it was necessary—and that a doctor told her that an autoimmune condition she developed after getting the shot may be related to the vaccine. “I regret getting the vaccine even though I’m a 52-year-old woman because I don’t think I needed it,” Ms. Kelly said during a Sept. 6 episode of her podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “I think I would have been fine. I had got COVID many times, and it was well past when the vaccine was doing what it was supposed to be doing,” she added.
“For the first time, I tested positive for an autoimmune issue at my annual physical. And I went to the best rheumatologist in New York, and I asked her, do you think this could have to do with the fact that I got the damn booster and then got COVID within three weeks? And she said yes. Yes. I wasn’t the only one she’d seen that with,” Ms. Kelly said.
Her current vaccine regret stands in contrast to remarks she made in April 2021, when she said she had “zero qualms” about getting the shot.
And yet, those mRNA stories, all over the place, even from Jews and Israeli Jews, pales in comparison to the Jewish Zionist Apartheid Pogrom State:
This week, we had a great piece on that subject: Mitchell Plitnick’s essay on Israel’s demand that the world recognize its right to exist as a Jewish state. Truman opposed that definition. And refused to recognize it. He said that religion caused worse arguments than money.
But now even progressive Democrats insist on Israel’s existence as a “Jewish state,” a religious constitution that we would all find objectionable in the U.S., no matter what religion was on top.
Our obligation as Americans is pretty clear. End American support for a state constituted on Jewish supremacy. Show what a Jewish state meant for young Milad Munther AlRaee.
Distrustful of authority, a Holocaust survivor became a fierce critic of medical establishment.
So, there it is, open for shopping, open for business, bring on the tourists.
On Thursday, Green told a meeting of the state Council on Revenues that he expected authorities to reopen most of West Maui to travelers in October, with the exception of the fire-damaged neighborhoods. The area, which includes beach resorts in Kaanapali, north of historic Lahaina, has 11,000 hotel rooms. That’s half Maui’s total.
In the emergency proclamation signed Friday, the governor said the previous guidance that strongly discouraged nonessential travel to West Maui will be discontinued Oct. 8.
A few hundred or thousand there, another ten thousand here. It is a sickness. Maui’s Inferno – Organized Human Evil: We Used to Know How to Do “Rescue!” Peter and Ginger Breggin
Maui burned one month ago as of this writing. The poignant news story in USA Today about the catastrophe in Hawaii is
“’Don’t forget about us’: Maui victims struggle one month after deadly fires.”
No mention of the children. No photographs of frightened and grieving parents and grandparents holding up signs showing photographs of their laughing, sun-kissed children — toddlers and school-age children in paradise settings with the vast blue ocean as a backdrop.
More than 2,100 killed by earthquake near Marrakech, Morocco, as of now, today.
There were 50,783 deaths, 297 missing and 107,204 injured across 11 of the 17 affected provinces of Turkey. At least 15.73 million people and 4 million buildings were affected. About 345,000 apartments were destroyed.
It’s adding up, no?
A dozen here and there in Donbass, daily, and you get to 14,000-plus, and a few hundred here and there daily on the Proxy War NATO/USA war to the last Ukrainian:
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 340 troops in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions over the past 24 hours, with the Russian army repelling eight attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“During the fighting [in the Donetsk direction], the enemy lost up to 260 troops, two armored combat vehicles and five vehicles,” the ministry said.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian armed forces lost about 80 troops, two armed vehicles and two pickups, the ministry stated.
So, is it Cornel West, or not? Who the hell is running for POTUS? Does it matter? Fucking A.
The Enlightenment – by Mr. Fish
Chris Hedges hits it out of the ball park again:
What forces can be organized to pit the power of the demos, the populace, against the rulers, to ensure justice?
What are our roles and duties as citizens? How should we educate the young? When is it permissible to break the law?
How is tyranny prevented or overthrown?
Can human nature, as the Jacobins and communists believed, be transformed?
How do we protect our dignity and freedom?
What is friendship?
What constitutes virtue?
What is evil?
What is love?
How do we define a good life?
Is there a God?
If God does not exist, should we abide by a moral code?
These questions thunder down through the ages, asked during different times and under different circumstances. The most radical contemporary philosophers, including Frantz Fanon author of The Wretched of the Earth, built their edifices on the foundations of the political philosophers that came before them. In Fanon’s case it was Friedrich Hegel. As Vladimir Lenin correctly said of Marx, most of his ideas could be traced to previous philosophers. Paulo Freire, the author of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” studied philosophy. Hannah Arendt, who wrote“The Origins of Totalitarianism,” was steeped in the ancient Greeks and Augustine.
“It is indeed difficult and even misleading to talk about politics and its innermost principles without drawing to some extent upon the experiences of Greek and Roman antiquity, and this for no other reason than that men have never, either before or after, thought so highly of political activity and bestowed so much dignity upon its realm” —
Arendt writes in “Between Past and Future.”
Cornel West, one of our most important contemporary moral philosophers, who once admonished me for not having read the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, is as conversant on Søren Kierkegaard, who he taught at Harvard, and Immanuel Kant as he is on W.E.B. DuBois, Fanon, Malcolm X and bell hooks.
Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary and radical political philosopher, who mentored a young Cornel West when he was Princeton University’s first Black candidate for a doctorate in philosophy, gave us the vocabulary and concepts to understand the tyranny of global corporate power, a system he called “inverted totalitarianism.” As a professor at Berkeley, Wolin backed the Free Speech Movement. Wolin, while teaching at Princeton, was one of few professors who supported students occupying buildings to protest against South African apartheid. At one point, Wolin told me, the other professors in Princeton’s political science department refused to speak with him.
Wolin’s radical critique was grounded in these political philosophers, as he writes in his magisterial work, “Politics and Vision,” which my students are reading.
“The history of political thought”, Wolin writes, “is essentially a series of commentaries, sometimes favorable, often hostile, upon its beginnings.”
Now, we saw the interview of Cornel on Jimmy Dore, and it was foolish on both ends of the interview. No need to go onto Jimmy Dore, man. NEVER.
Dore is no RIGHT Winger, but he is????:
As I continue to say — fucking podcasts, goofball polemics, a million and one bottles of busters on the Substack and Patreon and YouTube walls, none of it means anything when we do not care for the poor, the broken, the dying, the dead, the collateral damage.
The reality is there is no reality, and people all around the land — here on the Oregon Coast, not at 71 degrees, today, dry, like the best weather in the world, today, but the beaches are so California — it is not cognitive dissonance.
This is not high end politics or history. Imagine the simplicity of why Putin took so long to go in Feb. 24 2022! Watch!
Listen to the end of this interview — USA will not be hurt by this proxy war. Europe will be hurt, Ukraine, and Russia will be hurt. America doesn’t care. Rich Country. Wonderful Geographical Position. We can do all sorts of things around the world and not have to pay any price. This is how old conservative John Mearsheimer states it. Hard to get Americans to act in smart ways around Ukraine because of shear size and power of USA to act in sensible ways. We are the security umbrella for Klanada, EuroTrashLandia, U-Inbred-Kingdom, Aussie-New Zealandia. The USA is a hawkish country, including regular Americans — John says they are five times as hawkish as he could ever be.
So here we are, arguing about the essays in college 2023: OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work — No detectors “reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content.”
So the bottom line is to stop AI, no? That’s a no fly zone then, which means once you make it, one you deploy it, you have to take it. It is a sickness, that Chat GPT is acceptable and the creators are billionaires, and they are mother fuckers of an Oppenheimer Level to the Fifth Degree.
But then, Holly-Dirt, man, and billionaire French Timber Guy, controlling the dirt bags, more news: Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, and Steven Spielberg’s agents have a new boss as French billionaire buys Hollywood talent powerhouse CAA
And it is water, no? ‘Without water, we have nothing’: Native, Indigenous communities return to North Portland for water ceremony
Water, uh? Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water.
Yep.
Building a large language model requires analyzing patterns across a huge trove of human-written text. All of that computing takes a lot of electricity and generates a lot of heat. To keep it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.
“It’s fair to say the majority of the growth is due to AI,” including “its heavy investment in generative AI and partnership with OpenAI,” said Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside who has been trying to calculate the environmental impact of generative AI products such as ChatGPT.
In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
So far, so good. But once you dive down into the details of Joshi’s study, things get more complicated. The research found that the amount of carbon stored varied widely, depending on location, cover crop type, plowing, and the amount of plant growth. A different review, this time examining cover cropping on US farms, found that, in lots of cases, fields with cover crops didn’t gain extra soil carbon when compared to fields that hadn’t been cover cropped. “In terms of climate benefit, it isn’t all that great,” says West.
A Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Farm Emissions Might Make Things Worse
Agriculture is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the US is getting serious about reform. But some scientists say current efforts are misguided.
And it comes down to fans, or A/C (few have A/C, and the Green Greta Grabbers want no A/C for “them”), or a global effort to help humans weather the colluding storms, in this case, heat waves, the high web bulb indexes.
“In particularly hot locations, most afternoon hours during the hottest months of the year can exceed [safe] thresholds,” they add.
The study, although focused only on the US, provides new insights at a time when much of North America, Europe, and China has sweltered through extreme summer heat made more likely by climate change.
It also follows efforts from scientists to refine estimates initially set by the World Health Organization of conditions where fans might exacerbate heat stress, pushing more hot air onto people than is wicked away.
Electric fans, research now shows, can still be safely used above 35 °C (95 °F) but their limit depends on who is using them and where.
In exceptionally humid or arid areas, electric fans tend to add to heat stress. Their use is also not recommended above 37-38 °C for older adults, especially those taking medications that have side effects of reduced sweating. Young, healthy adults can keep using fans up to 39 °C.
Again, all the wasted energy, water, electricity, even to write this fucking bombast, really, part of the overload of analysis paralysis and too many fucked up things to choose from.
And here, in USA, just armchair prognostication, and how does that help one iota?
Who’s running for POTUS? Which shit storm celebrity or minor maven is making little pond waves? Hmm?
Manana?
What? September 11? Is that 1973?
And I met Leonardo in Tucson, man, 1977, and he had been tortured in Pinochet’s fucked up Americano world. He lived with Cindy, his wife, and they had a kid, baby, and she got him asylum through two of the churchs in Tucson famous for that axiom:
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.—Leviticus 19:34 (NIV)
You won’t find the term “refugee” in the Bible. But the Word of God has plenty to say about people called “strangers” and “sojourners” or “foreigners” in our translations.
“Strangers” and “foreigners” refer to anybody who lived among the Jews but was from another ethnic group — no matter what category they might represent in today’s terms.
For instance, the book of Ruth is about a widow from the tribe of Moab who chooses to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Israel and live there with her. In Ruth 2:10, we see her ask Boaz, in whose field she is gleaning, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me — a foreigner?” She understands her status as being outside the tribe of Israel.
“Sojourners” are people who are temporarily living in Israel or traveling through the country.
- Cities of refuge were available to Israelites and foreigners in cases of accidental killing (Numbers 35:15).
- Foreigners were to be included in festivals and celebrations mandated in the Law (Deuteronomy 16:14; 26:11).
- Some of the tithes collected by the priests were to be used to not only feed them and their families, but also to help provide food for foreigners, widows, and orphans (Deuteronomy 14:28–29).
- Farmers were instructed to leave the gleanings of their fields for the poor and the foreigner (Leviticus 23:22).
- The command to care for the stranger was so embedded in the Law that it was used as the basis for how God’s people were to treat each other: Israelites were to treat their own poor as they would the stranger or the foreigner (Leviticus 25:35).
Rose and her children, refugees from South Sudan, enjoy their first real meal in weeks at the Goboro transit center in Uganda. This hot meal was provided by World Vision for Rose’s family and hundreds of others on their way to more permanent shelter. (©2018 World Vision/photo by Moses Mukitale)
Temporary shelters lining a park walkway in Turkey (Türkiye) accommodate people who were displaced by the earthquake near the Turkey-Syria border on February 6, 2023. World Vision staff in the area are working to reach those affected with water, sanitation, and hygiene support, educational and livelihoods programs, health and nutrition assistance, shelter and survival items, cash vouchers, and child protection services. (©2023 World Vision)
Every spoonful of caviar and every glass of wine and every jet trip across the Atlantic, all of them, middle, to tops, all of them are devils, man. Criminals:
Look up who was behind the murders in Chile: SEPTEMBER ELEVEN!!!!!
Imagine this scenario. On Sept. 11, 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the U.S. government, did not leave their barracks.
President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in La Moneda in Santiago to announce a plebiscite on his government and to ask for the resignation of several senior generals. Then, Allende continued his fight to bring down inflation and to realise his government’s programme to advance the socialist agenda in Chile.
Until the moment when the Chilean Army descended upon La Moneda in 1973, Allende and the Popular Unity government were in a pitched fight to defend Chile’s sovereignty, particularly over its copper resources and its land as they sought to raise sufficient funds to eradicate hunger and illiteracy and to produce innovative means to deliver health care and housing. — Vijay
Fifty years after the murderous coup in Chile, the U.K.’s most important political artist recounts how the Barbican censored his work to placate high-ranking Chilean finance officials and British bankers.
Both the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Report) and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report) approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 40,018 tortured and 2,279 executed.
Paul Haeder, Author 