it’s an upsidedown world, all this retailopethicus disease, while the “third” world is decimated by capitalism, thugs, despots, banks, and sanctions . . . forget about the virial and TNT bombs!
I’ll do a little soft landing for you all with this National Day of Mourning or Sorrow or Genocide. Pretty tough for the 20,000 already splattered by Israel.
Thanksgiving is a lie. Let’s celebrate the food instead. #7 Indigenous Foods Day, and a Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (Substack = Valerie Vande Panne)
The Thanksgiving myth is bullshit. World class bullshit, as George Carlin might say. But still total bullshit.
… with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged…
As relevant today as it was then.
For many, the fourth Thursday of November is
“a celebration of a litany of injustices — genocide, oppression, erasure, ecocide, cultural appropriation, colonization, imperialism, capitalism, institutional racism, and more,” as friend and White Mountain Apache chef Nephi Craig writes.
Craig proposes an alternative: Indigenous Foods Day, as most of the traditional Thanksgiving meal food is Indigenous.
And, it is delicious: Turkey, pumpkin, cranberries, squash, corn — they’re all native to North America.
Celebrate the Indigenous foods where you are at.
Think micro-regionally: What food is native to where you live? What has been growing where you live since before Europeans stepped off the boat? Chili peppers, tomato, chocolate, potato and so much more are native to North America.
Since I started celebrating Indigenous Foods Day, I’ve had many amazing and surprising meals, including feasts of lobster in Boston, grouper in St. Augustine, venison in Detroit, and perhaps the best fish of my life in Cameroon (you can eat Indigenous, native, micro-regionally, and hyper-local just about any where on Earth). All these feasts were accompanied by amazing dishes of local, native seeds, nuts, fruits, and veggies—and drinks and desserts, some sweetened with maple syrup, or apples or citrus.
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War Criminal Pardoning Liberty and Bell? FUCK.
Fucking Freaks.
From War Criminals to ‘that’ Holly-Dirt, those people who own or run Holly-Dirt give us third grade reading level bullshit daily, nanosecond by nanosecond:
But it gets worse: College. Higher Education. Instead of the hell we have created in Palestine discussed, or even a boycott of “thanks no thanks giving,” we being Americans, we being academics, we being taxpayers, we fucking live the lie DAILY.
WE ARE FUCKING CHILDREN. RUN BY fucking THIRD-GRADE LEVEL fucking nannies. This is higher education? FUCK!
They’ve stayed in five-star hotels. They’ve had paparazzi training. They’ve walked a red carpet and met the president of the United States himself.
Now, they will be making their way by car to the college towns in their home states, where they’ll live out their golden years. When they finally arrive at their destination, they do so in style: in crates large enough to fit a Great Dane and embossed with the presidential seal. Waiting for them are the scientists who have been dying to meet them.
They are the presidentially pardoned turkeys. Having been saved from the dinner table, they will now be able to pursue a life at college.
Where Do Turkeys Go After Pardons? College. By Claire Wallace
Waiting for them in Minnesota are faculty and graduate students eager to look after Liberty and Bell in their new home: a large enclosure with its own day-night cycle, temperature set at 70 to 72 degrees, and access to food and water (they like their water cold, according to Luna Akhtar, a microbiologist who will in be charge of their care).
All of this preparation, of course, may need to be altered. Each turkey has its own personality, Akhtar says, and will let you know if it’s uncomfortable. Turkeys tend to like fresh food, but when it comes to their wood-shaving bedding, they prefer a bit of age, because the older it gets, the softer it feels.
Peanut Butter and Jelly, the pardoned turkeys from 2021 who now live at Purdue University, also have their own preferences and personalities.
“Peanut Butter definitely wears the pants,” Gregory Fraley, an associate professor in the department of animal sciences, says. “He’s a little bossier. Jelly just kind of hangs out.”
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While GAZA starves! Oh, the Jewish-First/Israel-First New York Times has a feature on hot shots. Of course, no anti-capitalist cited saying that, well, maybe more than $16 an hour should be the norm for, well, wildland fire fighters?
Nah, not when we have to hear about the syphilis of a Sam Altman going over to Microsoft.
In footage from one rally, Sarandon tells the crowd:
“People are questioning, people are standing up, people are educating themselves, people are stepping away from brainwashing that started when they were kids.”
She encouraged attendees to
“be strong, be patient, be clear and stand with anybody who has the courage to speak out” and thanked “the Jewish community who’s come out to have our backs”.
Susan Sarandon losing her agent for posting some comments about a ceasefire. That’s the news to print?
Base pay for entry-level federal firefighters is $16 an hour — far less than the amount earned by California state fighters, who battle many of the same blazes.
“They are the premier firefighting force in the U.S.,” said Evan Pierce, who helped write a University of Washington report on firefighter salaries. “But they are working longer and in more dangerous conditions — for less pay.”
Many firefighters are pulled from the ranks of our private prison system, and they get less than $16 an hour. Think $3 an hour.
Ahh, while the USA gets stuffed and starved: We shall see boats straffed and sunk by Israel.
Remember the U.S.S. Liberty, not the turkey?
Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.
In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”
Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.
Men said they needed to earn $381,000 annually, while women said $183,000 would make them happy.
A 2023 study coauthored by another Nobel Prize recipient Daniel Kahneman found that happiness can improve with higher earnings of up to $500,000 a year, supporting the millennial survey respondents’ predictions.
“In the simplest terms, this suggests that for most people larger incomes are associated with greater happiness,” Matthew Killingsworth, a senior fellow at Penn’s Wharton School and coauthor of the study, said.
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Believe me, there will be no revolution with these pukes manning the helm. Maybe they will be saying, “I’ll give you my last taxpayer dollar for public health, public education, public welfare, public safety when you pry it from my cold, dead LGBTQA+ Cis-gender hands.”
We are so fucked, no? Military is the way, so do not think you and I are not part of the entire Military Thievry Industrial Silicon Valley Et Al Complex:
In 2019, the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which generates $36 million in state and local taxes and represents a large portion of the local economy, said its top concerns include encroachment on groundwater, suggesting that shortages of its sole source of potable water could force it to shut down and move away.
“Without the base, there’s no Ridgecrest,” Lemieux said. “We have to have more water.”
Draining the aquifer would also sink Ridgecrest’s hopes of a bustling future of new homes, restaurants, and businesses for the 5,900 scientists, engineers and contractors employed at China Lake, which is undergoing about $4 billion worth of upgrades prompted by the 6.4. 5.4 and 7.1 magnitude quakes that rocked the area in 2019.
“I don’t see Ridgecrest turning into the next Las Vegas or Victorville, but it could benefit from some additional development,” said Carol Thomas-Keefer, general manager of the groundwater authority.
“More importantly,” she said, “the pipeline is a solution to a chronic problem: Wells are going dry because folks are tapping the aquifer’s supply of fresh water faster than it is being returned to the basin naturally by rain and snowmelt off the Eastern Sierra Nevada range.”
So, Gaza and Zero running hospitals. As Richard Medhurst rightly states: “The word ‘nazi’ should be now replaced with ‘israeli’ since the israelis are so much worse than the nazi’s. They at least attempted to cover it up, but the Israelis laugh and are in the open.’
Making a profit from Illness | THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS | John Pilger Health System Documentary!!
And we can send Whitey to the Moon, to Mars, even send Chinese and Japanese to the Moon, but we can’t do what? Fix a burst appendix, for “free”?
Lyrics — Whitey on the moon
A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey’s on the moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey’s on the moon) Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still. (while Whitey’s on the moon)
The man jus’ upped my rent las’ night. (’cause Whitey’s on the moon) No hot water, no toilets, no lights. (but Whitey’s on the moon)
I wonder why he’s uppi’ me? (’cause Whitey’s on the moon?) I was already payin’ ‘im fifty a week. (with Whitey on the moon) Taxes takin’ my whole damn check, Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin’ up, An’ as if all that shit wasn’t enough
A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face an’ arm began to swell. (but Whitey’s on the moon)
Was all that money I made las’ year (for Whitey on the moon?) How come there ain’t no money here? (Hm! Whitey’s on the moon) Y’know I jus’ ’bout had my fill (of Whitey on the moon) I think I’ll sen’ these doctor bills, Airmail special (to Whitey on the moon)
Or.
I’ve written about this, many times. AMR.
“With incidence of anti-microbial resistance on the rise, the threat posed by superbugs to human health is increasing,” co-author Tina Joshi, an associate professor in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Plymouth, said in a statement. “But far from demonstrating that our clinical environments are clean and safe for staff and patients, this study highlights the ability of C. diff spores to tolerate disinfection at in-use and recommended active chlorine concentrations.”
In their study, Joshi and colleagues exposed dormant spores of C. difficile to three clinically in-use concentrations of sodium hypochlorite (bleach). The spores were then put on surgical scrubs and patient gowns and examined under a scanning electron microscope to establish if they had undergone any changes after the bleach treatment. And what they found was shocking.
The spores were completely unaffected. Indeed, the high concentration bleach used in hospitals was no more effective at damaging the spores than plain water. (This is big stuff, antimicrobial resistence: The Looming Superbug Crisis—And How to Beat It)
Gaza? Sudan? Hmm.
All those dollars and human lifetimes expended for financial weapons and cutlural weapons and weapons of mass and medium destruction.
Good money spent well!
For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an ‘enemy’ population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control, using the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world.
The Palestine Laboratory shows in depth and for the first time how Israel has become a leader in developing spying technology and defence hardware that fuels some of the globe’s most brutal conflicts — from the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos’s and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, and the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas, to the drones being used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.
In a global investigation that uncovers secret documents, based on revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting, Antony Loewenstein shows how, as ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate tools for despots and democracies.
One question a lot of people are asking is: “When will it get too hot for normal daily activity as we know it, even for young, healthy adults?”
The answer goes beyond the temperature you see on the thermometer. It’s also about humidity. Ourresearch is designed to come up with the combination of the two, measured as “wet-bulb temperature.” Together, heat and humidity put people at greatly increased risk, and the combination gets dangerous at lower levels than scientists previously believed.
It is inconceivable that Counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton directed the whole operation. But if he was not following orders from Richard Helms — and there is not a single piece of evidence that Helms knew of the assassination —, under whose direction or influence was he operating? That is an easy one: besides Counterintelligence, Angleton headed the “Israeli Desk”, and he had more intimate contacts with the hierarchy of the Mossad than with his own. He loved Israelis as much as he hated Communists — apparently believing that one man could not be both. Meir Amit, head of Mossad from 1963 to 1968, called him “the biggest Zionist” in Washington, while Robert Amory, head of the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, called him a “co-opted Israeli agent.”
While Counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton was disgraced in the U.S. after his forced resignation, he was honored in Israel. After his death in 1987, according to the Washington Post, five former heads of Mossad and Shin Bet and three former Israeli military intelligence chiefs were present “to pay final tribute to a beloved member of their covert fraternity.” Among the services he rendered Israel, “Angleton reportedly aided Israel in obtaining technical nuclear data.”
Never has the Anglo-American political class been so out of touch with millions of ordinary people as they give carte blanche support to Israel’s mass atrocities
This is “just California.
“Were colonial invasions encounters, whether those of yesterday or those of today? Shouldn’t they be called rapes or violations instead?”
The first Indigenous People’s Day was proclaimed on October 12, 1992, the quincentennial of the infamous voyage of Christopher Columbus to this hemisphere. At the 1990 Continental Gathering of Indigenous Peoples in Quito, Ecuador participants from 120 different nations collaborated to write:
“The Indians of America have never abandoned our constant struggle against the conditions of oppression, discrimination and exploitation which were imposed upon us as a result of the European invasion of our ancestral territories.”
The Italian explorer, Columbus, sailing under the flag of Spain, is credited with the “discovery of a New World,” although his expedition had sought a passage to Asia, a very old part of the world. As the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano points out in this powerful essay from the The Progressive in October 2007, our hemisphere is still dealing with the curse of Columbus.:
“Were colonial invasions encounters, whether those of yesterday or those of today? Shouldn’t they be called rapes or violations instead?”
The Curse of Columbus
Did Christopher Columbus discover America in 1492? Or was it the Vikings before him? And before the Vikings, what about the people who lived there? Didn’t they exist?
Official history relates that Vasco Núñez of Balboa was the first man who saw both oceans, standing on a peak in Panama. Were the inhabitants of that area blind?
Who gave maize and potatoes and tomatoes and chocolate and the rivers and mountains of America their names? Hernán Cortés? Francisco Pizarro? Were the people who were already living there mute?
We have been told, and still are, that it was the pilgrims of the Mayflower that populated America. Had it been empty before?
Because Columbus didn’t understand what the Indians were saying, he concluded that they didn’t know how to speak. Because they wore no clothes, were gentle, and gave away everything they had, he concluded they lacked the capacity for reason. And because he was certain of having discovered the Orient by the back door, he believed they were Indians from India.
Afterwards, during the second voyage, the admiral promulgated an act establishing that Cuba was part of Asia. The document of June 14, 1494, stated as evidence that the crew of the three ships recognized it as such. Whoever said otherwise was given thirty lashes, fined 10,000 maravedíes, and had his tongue cut out.
The notary, Hernán Pérez de Luna, attested, and the sailors who could write signed at the bottom.
The conquistadors demanded that America be something it wasn’t. And they treated the Americans as if they were what they imagined the pagans of the Orient to be.
Christopher Columbus said he saw on the shores of Cuba sirens with men’s faces and chicken feathers, and supposed that not far from there men and women had tails.
In Guyana, according to Sir Walter Raleigh, there were people with eyes in their shoulders and mouths in their chests.
In Venezuela, according to Pedro Simon, there were Indians with ears so long they dragged on the ground.
In the Amazon, according to Christopher of Acuña, the natives’ feet were shaped backwards, heels forward and toes behind, and according to Pedro Martín de Anglería, women mutilated one breast to be able to fire their arrows better.
Anglería, who wrote the first history of America, though he never set foot there, also affirmed that in the New World there were people with tails, and these tails were so long the natives could sit only in chairs with holes.
The Black Code prohibited the torture of slaves in the French colonies. But it wasn’t to torture them but to educate them that slaves’ masters whipped their backs and cut their tendons when they fled.
The Laws of the Indians, which protected those in the Spanish colonies, were quite moving. But the gallows and pillory set up in the center of every Main Square were even more affecting.
The reading of the Request for Obedience was very convincing. This occurred on the eve of the assault on each village. It explained to the Indians that God had come to the world and left St. Peter in his place, and that the successor of St. Peter was the Holy Father, and that the Holy Father has shown favor on the Queen of Castilla, who rules all this land. For this reason, they should go from here or pay tribute in gold, and if they don’t or if they stay, war would be declared on them, and they would be made slaves along with their wives and children. But the Request was read in the middle of the night from the mountain in Spanish and without an interpreter, in the presence of the notary but no Indians, as they were asleep, miles away, and hadn’t the faintest idea what was awaiting them.
Until not long ago, October 12 was Race Day.
But does such a thing even exist? What is race but a useful lie to exploit and exterminate one’s neighbor?
When the U.S. entered the Second World War, the American Red Cross decided that the blood of black people would not be accepted in its blood banks. Has anyone seen, by chance, black blood?
Afterward, Race Day became the Day of Encounter.
Were colonial invasions encounters, whether those of yesterday or those of today? Shouldn’t they be called rapes or violations instead?
Perhaps the most revealing episode in the history of the Americas occurred in 1563 in Chile. Indians besieged the fortress of Arauco, depriving the Spanish of food and water, yet Captain Bernal refused to surrender.
From the stockade he screamed out,
“There will be more and more of us!”
“With what women will you make them?” the Indian chief asked.
“With yours. We will make them bear children who will be your masters.”
The invaders called the original Americans idolaters because they believed that nature is sacred and that we are the brothers and sisters of all those with feet, paws, wings, or roots.
And they called them savages. But they were not wrong about this. The Indians were such savages that they ignored the fact that they had to obtain a visa, a certificate of good behavior, and a work permit from Columbus, Cabral, Cortés, Alvarado, Pizarro, and the pilgrims of the Mayflower.
Eduardo Galeano, was an Uruguayan writer and journalist. His books include The Open Veins of Latin
Paul Haeder, Author 