addicted to oil, war, shame, fear, bravado, violence, hate, chaos, isolation, bombs bursting in air!!!!!!!!!
Here, over at Caitlin’s sub-stack-show: How The Hell Did We Get Here?
My cry from the hell-hole that is USA:
Billions of people (several) just want clean air, clean water, clean soil, food, good roofs over their heads, culture, family, and in most cases, ‘it takes a village to raise a family” ethos.
Now, the Oppen-Monster-Heimers of the world, the dirty war lords and the takers, well, they are small in number but they have advanced banks, land, real estate, and armies to protect their perversions.
Read Ishmael:
Culture is a mother everywhere and at every time, because culture is inherently a nurturer—the nurturer of human societies and lifestyles. Among Leaver peoples, Mother Culture explains and preserves a lifestyle that is healthy and self-sustaining. Among Taker peoples she explains and preserves a lifestyle that has proven to be unhealthy and self-destructive.
If culture is a mother among the Alawa of Australia and the Bushmen of Africa and the Kayapo of Brazil, then why wouldn’t she be a mother among the Takers? (To confirm the notion that “culture is a mother everywhere,” check foreign language dictionaries for the word CULTURE. In languages that recognize “masculine” and “feminine” nouns—French, Italian, Latin, and so on—the noun CULTURE is invariably feminine.)
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More, from Ishmael: “My son sent me a book called Ishmael, written by philosopher Daniel Quinn. He said, “This book changed the way I think about life.” A profound statement like that cannot be ignored so I read this book.
The premise of the book is that there are two kinds of people in the world: Takers and Leavers. Leavers represent man before the agricultural revolution, for the most part, although there are still some Leavers in the world today. Takers represent those who change the earth for their purposes. Most of our culture is now Takers — which defines most of us by default because our culture is embedded in the way we approach life. And we are embedded in that culture and have, most likely, never thought of a different way.
Takers generally take what they want or need regardless of the consequences to the earth or even other people groups. Takers take more than what they need, kill animals or even humans who get in their way or encroach upon what they want for themselves. Takers disrupt the natural order of things — damming up rivers, cutting through forests, and flooding valleys to create what they want.
I’m sure it’s not hard to identify who the Takers and Leavers have been throughout modern history. I’m sure you can call to mind recent examples.
Leavers usually only ask to be left alone, for Takers to leave them as they found them and for them to be able to live their lives in Leaver fashion. Takers, by nature or choice, can’t seem to stop taking.”
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Now? We are sheeple. Badges and proof of humanity and life put into our culture by the rotten takers, the software application and AI-MR-VR-AR body snatchers. Small in number, but we are all now on the fucking net, with these dumb phones, and applications for every goddamned waking and sleeping head twitch, blink, step, defecation, thought, movement, bite, yawn, REM, hope, dream, fear.
Keep up the great thought experiments, Caitlin. It staves off insanity.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/we-do-need-those-stinking-badges
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I appreciate Jeano’s comment regarding my comments, for sure:
Nicely done. These are wonderfully subversive thoughts. One I’ll add is that Winona La duke says that her people have a concept that would help the US agent better. The concept is Enough. I have enough, I am enough, you are enough, there is enough.
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I just can’t let the “enough” statement stand. Of course, I practice that every day, for more than 30 years. I was a stereo and camera and fish tank and scuba buff, but I dumped that addiction for new and bigger stuff a long time ago.
Coke? Yep, that is the fun little doozy that keeps the brain wanting more. But the cocaine of the baby crib is even worse — fetal to craddle to K12 to college to death?
Ahh, the old cooked up syrup, that High Fructose Corn Syrup, and all those additives, those artificial flavors, all those conctions of salt-sugar-fat-spice to keep the brain wanting more and more.
The concept of fast food and TV dinners and boxed items in the grocery store is to keep them coming back. You can’t blame the one year old wanting Lucky Charms and a big gulp Pepsi and a Happy Meal.
So, when you think you have had enought, the old serotonin reuptake is all messed up and tells the gut and the gut tells the brain — MORE MORE MORE.
It’s nice to have personal trainers and life coaches and yogis and Baja retreats and all sorts of Gabor Mate wisdom, but capitalism is inflammatory, is designed before the Satanic Edward Bernays to bring in a sucker born every nano-second.
Not the kiddos fault. Not the fetuses fault.
Enough is enough will not cut it, so sorry to say. You want the baby and body snatchers and gene hackers and mind melders out of the picture? You think Johnny and Jane and Juan and Maria can just say — “No more” — when they are 18 months, 2 years, 10 years?
They — the dirty lizard overlords — have cooked it all up. Figured out what the eye time and scrolling habits of Homo Consumopethicus are when marketing the filth and lobotomizing junk of dumb phones, Chromebooks, Netflix, and on and on.
Enough means excising the cancers. Chemo-therapy. Physical scalpelling out. Irradiating.
Every rotten billionaire, their family, their friends, their accountants, their lawyers, their legions of tens of millions of Eichmann’s, well, you think telling them “enough enough enough” will cut it?
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Winona LaDuke, yes, I spent time with her. I get that, for sure, in Spokane, her father, Sun Bear, all of that.
March 04, 2007 — “Grain of Truth”
You probably remember Winona LaDuke as the two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate, running with Ralph Nader in 2000 and 2004. You probably didn’t know that she’s an enrolled member of the Anishinaabeg Tribe from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, where she’s locked in another tough battle — this time against huge multinational corporations that want to change her tribe’s traditional way of life.
At three engagements in Spokane last week, and in some private interviews, LaDuke talked about the need to defend native peoples’ rights to the Earth. And this epic debate can fit into a single grain of wild rice — the Manoominike-Giizis strain, or the “wild rice moon” grown by her people for many generations.
This small grain of plant life serves as a microcosm of the entire sustainability challenge we all face: making sure future generations — all peoples and all species — will have a planet worth living on with ecosystems and resources to achieve spiritual and material prosperity.
LaDuke has proven to be so much more than a media darling — she’s a spiritual guide for her tribe and for the thousands she’s come across along her journey. Mixing humor with a shaman’s intensity, LaDuke has written books like All Our Relations and Recovering the Sacred.
LaDuke sees the Minnesota reservations’ practice of harvesting wild rice as vital:
“The wild rice harvest of the Anishinaabeg not only feeds the body, it feeds the soul, continuing a tradition which is generations old for these people of the lakes and rivers of the north.”
It struck me last week while spending time with LaDuke that her tribe’s battle to keep their wild rice wild, free from genetic manipulation, is a much more far-reaching illustration of what sustainability activists consider the struggle of our times: How to create an America that respects the land.
Many of us think along systemic lines, attempting to understand the steps the globe probably has to take to solve the collapsing systems, both environmental and societal. Yet we need reminding that this struggle to work with a burgeoning global human population — 9 billion by 2050 at the current 1.2 percent growth rate — needs nudging from storytellers like LaDuke.
Her struggle — our struggle — is tied to the biodiversity of wild rice, a sacred food. There are more than 60,000 acres of natural wild rice growing throughout the lakes and rivers of her tribal lands. But there are troubling parallels drawn to what’s happened to the sacred corn of Mesoamerica at the hands of the agri-business multinationals, where corn has been patented, controlled and even turned into what some call Frankenfood.
Domestication and genetic modification of wild rice threatens the genetic integrity of this plant. For more than 30 years, plant breeders have developed wild rice for commercial paddies. So today, most of the wild rice on the market comes from these paddies, almost 70 percent of it from California. “Millions of pounds of California wild rice comes into [Minnesota] to be processed,” says LaDuke, “some of that rice, if genetically engineered, would irreversibly contaminate our manoomin.”
LaDuke’s tenacity in understanding the sacred and reclaiming the wholeness of her people’s food is a valuable lesson for our times. She’s up against the juggernaut of Monsanto and Dupont, the largest seed companies in the world. Monsanto has spent $8 billion in the last few years buying up United States seed companies, while Dupont purchased Pioneer, the second largest seed company in the world.
“This concentration of control over world seed stocks is alarming to farmers on a worldwide scale, especially considering that the closer seeds seem to be held, the fewer there are.”
LaDuke puts all of our struggles into a feedback loop, connecting wild rice in Minnesota to sustainability in Spokane with the goal of creating a more independent, safe and stable food supply. “However you cut the statistics,” LaDuke says, “from the villages of India to the villages of northern Minnesota, there is a marked loss in worldwide biodiversity, and a closer hold on who controls the remaining seeds of the world.”
This issue of control took me back 32 years, to the time I was a newspaper reporter in the middle of a struggle for the soul of a mountain.
Environmentalists were trying to stop my school, the University of Arizona, from building roads and locating a large mirror telescope on Mount Graham, a 10,000-foot sky island sticking out of the Sonora Desert. Mount Graham was named after a white man who rode through the area many years ago, a Colonel James Graham, but for generations the San Carlos Apaches had referred to the entire range as “Pinaleno,” meaning “many deer.” It’s the holiest place for the Apaches, who acquire the power to become medicine men and women through singing and collecting herbs and water on that mountain.
Despite the importance and traditional use of the place, roads were cut and the telescope went up. LaDuke and I talked about that struggle, and she shared many similar struggles currently unfolding in Indian Country and elsewhere.
LaDuke’s power is in her ability to unearth the history of Native people’s struggles — and how that history is relevant today. There has been a lost connection between how the land should be used and how it actually is used — from wild rice in Minnesota to telescopes in Arizona. Reconnecting with the land is another step in the process, as her book puts it, of reclaiming the sacred.
by Paul Haeder who is the sustainability liaison at Spokane Falls Community College, where he also teaches English. His KYRS radio show, Tipping Points: Voices on the Edge, covers sustainability issues.
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Find my interview of her, here: Radio shows turned into podcasts. Google search: Paul Haeder and Winona LaDuke under images. You’ll see some of the stuff from my radio show.
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And here we are, 2023, Planet of the Apes with Nukes and Satellites and Viruses.
Queer as lactating teets on a bull:
Zionist, Jewish, Israel-Forever APES:
NeoNazi ZioAzovLenksy’s bombing of churches:
Jewish Apes Bomb Churches:
EthnoSupremacy Jewish Style:
Ideology and hubris, not very distant cousins to one another, have been evident features of U.S. foreign policy for may years. This year put us on notice that they now rule without challenge. A frightened elite lacking in all vision can neither find its way out of the messes it has made nor retreat to allow voices to those with dynamic perspectives nor restore the moral superiority it has squandered—such as this last may have been.
And as it is abroad, so it is at home. As I have heard over various dinner tables lately, the 2024 elections are very likely to prove a pandemonium. Can they be otherwise, given the rule of law may have so little to do with how they are conducted?
“What I keep coming back to is the thought that none of us was raised or prepared to live in an Insane World,” a reader wrote recently in a comment thread.
How very true this seems at the end of 2023. But we alive now are not the first to live in a condition of insanity. And others — sometimes, once in a while — have found their way beyond it. — Patrick Lawrence
Addicted to WAR, man, it’s all in the processed food and 500 chemicals now flowing through Johnny and Jane’s bloodstream! (source). Think Cairo or Cleveland!
We’ve known this shit for a decade or more, yet, oh yet the politicians (prostitutes) and the pimps (lobbyists) pedal the crack cocaine of the billionaire class (sic): Diets high in high fructose corn syrup may indirectly contribute to opioid dependence, according to research presented this week at Neuroscience 2017, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Previous research has shown that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) impacts the brain in a way similar to addictive drugs. It triggers a response in the brain’s reward system circuitry that leads to continued cravings, in much the same way as a narcotic. These similarities have led researchers to wonder whether diets high in HFCS may play a role in opioid dependence.
You know junk food doesn’t make you feel your best, but why is it so hard to quit?
“This gets into the wonderful world of the science of food,” Shayna Komar, a licensed and registered dietitian at Thomas F. Chapman Family Cancer Wellness at Piedmont, shares about the truth about processed food and why it’s so hard to stop with just one serving.
“Processed foods are mainly salt, sugar, fat and preservatives — all of which create a combination of different sensations in your mouth. Your brain is involved as well. Foods that rapidly vanish or ‘melt in your mouth’ signal to your brain that you’re not eating as much as you actually are. In other words, these foods literally tell your brain that you’re not full and you need more of the food. It sounds so good, but actually, you are not fueling your body, but burdening it to work very hard to metabolize junk food.”
It is also important to know that food companies invest a lot of time, money and resources into creating products that keep you coming back for more.
“Food companies will spend millions of dollars to discover the most satisfying level of crunch in potato chips and their scientists will test for the perfect amount of fizzle in a soda,” she says. “Don’t get caught in their traps.”
While we throw money at Fascist and Nazi regimes in Ukraine and Israel: The escalation of pediatric fatty liver cases has unfolded in tandem with the presence among the young of other conditions once viewed as almost exclusively adult diseases: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, even gallstones. The trends reflect an environment in which more Americans are facing early death.
And, money money money for murderers? We should daily chant — “Death to Austin. Death to Blinken. Death to Billionaires. Death to America. Death to Kings, Queens, Lords, Sirs, Viscounts, Princesses, Princes.
Kill kill kill on screen, while wearing Depends adult diapers to Shit Out the Fast-Food anc Chips While You Take Out ISIS —-
Video game addiction is closely related to internet addiction disorder (IAD), which was first investigated by the psychologist Dr. Kimberly S. Young, who published the original diagnostic criteria for this mental health condition in 1998. The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR in APA) has formally labeled internet gaming disorder as an addiction, and this finding has also been included in the latest addition of diseases reported on by the World Health Organization (International Classification of Diseases, ICD-11). There is widespread consensus from both researchers and clinicians that the problematic and compulsive overuse of the internet, digital media, and video games has been rising over the past two decades, and that the prevalence of this behavioral addiction is associated with a variety of emotional, physical, interpersonal, and professional problems.
Perhaps most significantly, the dopamine releases triggered by video game addiction have been shown to cause structural changes in the brain very similar to the changes experienced in people with alcohol or drug addictions. These changes lead to impairments in our decision-making, reasoning, reward expectation, executive function, cognitive function, emotional processing, and our working memory. A variety of studies have shown that access to television and video games decreases the amount of pain medication needed by hospital patients.
Air Force Pedeophiles! Contacting 15 year olds to peddle USA Murder Inc. Uniformed Disservices’ pornography!
Forget the Xbox. The U.S. Air Force wants kids to play a game to help it locate future airmen.
The strategy is “taking advantage of something that’s already been invented. It’s called the Internet, and it’s called big data,” said Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, head of Air Education and Training Command.
The service has been collecting data to develop an online game for high school kids. They would play anonymously, identified only by an IP address, Kwast said. The service would collect data without violating their privacy, he added.
“If they’re interested in flying and they see this game the Air Force has … if I find a 15-year-old kid that’s just brilliant, I’ll probably send a message to that IP address saying, ‘Go tell your mom and dad that you are special and that I will offer you a $100,000 signing bonus and I will send you to Harvard for four years for free,’ ” Kwast told reporters during a breakfast Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Watch this supreme documentary on supreme addiction — National Bird
The film follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: the secret U.S. drone war. At the center of the film are three U.S. military veterans. Plagued by guilt over participating in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries, they decide to speak out publicly, despite the possible consequences. Their stories take dramatic turns, leading one of the protagonists to Afghanistan where she learns about a horrendous incident. But her journey also gives hope for peace and redemption. National Bird gives rare insight into the U.S. drone program through the eyes of veterans and survivors, connecting their stories as never seen before in a documentary. Its images haunt the audience and bring a faraway issue close to home.
Paul Haeder, Author 