Paul Haeder, Author

‘We cannot wait for another tragedy to make this clear. Law enforcement does not need weapons of war to do its job. Protesters should never have to fear a chemical attack for standing up for justice.’

… I was on the phone . . . with North Arkansas Kelly Kloss, AKA, Mister Fish from Wisconsin.

I remarked about the Bayside Cellars now in Yachats, moved from Waldport, and I did the story on the owner. She has my article on the front door.

Talking to Kelly about how Shauna is not being supported by the local Yachats Chamber of Commerce and the city council.

MY crime, according to two passersby, a seventy-something walking in tights, and her lesbian companion of 40-something? They LISTENED to my phone call as I walked by, and what did I say to cause the younger one, with two walking poles, to actually run away as if a wasp’s nest got her?

“Well, she’s struggling down here in Yachats. She lives in Waldport, and her concept is amazing, but for a LARGER city. And, she wrote on Facebook hows the Chamber members and city council and mayor have not come to greet her and do business.

Well, it’s a Jew mayor. And, in my experience, Jews don’t necessarily want to buy wine out, but have their own stash at home . . . “

Wow, they went scurrying away, and then pulled out iPhones, and one made a call, staring at me, the other pointing the fucking thing in my direction, a good three hundred yards away. Now now, the word “Jew” and then calling a Jewish guy “The Jew Mayor” got the Holocaust Harris blood in these two women boiling.

They actually stayed at a busy corner looking for me, and, hell, I expect there to be a Wanted Poster of me put up soon on the telephone poles.

Calling a JEW and JEW is just like yelling fire in a crowded movie theater.

Here from Bayside Cellars Facebook: Sept. 19:

Happy Friday! We hope you are coming out to Bayside Cellars tonight to enjoy our Friday Night Flights! The struggle is real lately. We dont want to advertise too much where it’s annoying and also not enough. This is an individually woman owned business by me, Shauna Flynn,

I am always grateful for every single person who comes into Bayside Cellars. Please don’t stop. For those who haven’t come in for awhile or not yet, we hope you consider doing so as things have slowed down.

The truth is.. Bills are much higher here in our new spot. Our insurance alone is close to $800 a month. Plus of course all the other hundreds of bills as a business! It all takes effect. My fear is setting in, business has slowed down and the pressure to do more / spend more presses in. But the truth is, i dont have more of me to give, more money to spend and the realization of if I can make this work sets in.

This is a beautiful location but it comes at a cost. We are not quite in the center of town, so we miss most tourists. While the Drift Inn has a forever line (and worth it i understand), we have no line ever and often no one inside.

We have asked for help from our local chamber without return, we havent seen some of our city officials come by even once through our doors so we question if we are even wanted here as a business? What can we do? I am sure there is a million things we may be told we are doing wrong but im trying everything that i can and it’s taking a toll on me personally. I dont have any life outside of Bayside Cellars and the barely scraping by is scary. I’m scared.

We know many of you have come and supported us and we thank you! We hope you continue to do so and remember us when you decide of going out to eat or drink. Our average meal is priced on our menu is $12. Our average drink cost is $6.

We don’t want to have to raise our costs or think about if it’s worth it to keep our doors open. But this is hard. I can understand why so many businesses are contemplating selling or closing their doors right now. It’s happening everywhere.

For right now, we thank you for your support. We hope to keep seeing you. We hope you keep spreading the word for us friends and share our posts and dont mind seeing them when we do . . . if everyone considered buying a bottle of wine or beer at Bayside Cellars once a month, we would be so successful – it all helps a long way.

The Mayor Berdie is, well, you guessed it, on the LEFT.

Yachats’ mayor-elect Craig Berdie — the fourth in past eight years — says the city “needs to get going”

Remarkable where Jews turn up, and now, the largest country in the world ever under the YOKE of a JEW: Estimates Mexico’s mid-2025 population at 131,946,900.

Estimates Mexico’s mid-2025 population at 131,946,900. From a Redditt forum:

• It’s worth noting that Vincente Fox called her “Jewish and Foreign at the same time”, implying that she’s not trustworthy as he posted a picture of her a rosary and huipil at one event (not multiple Catholic symbols as you accuse her of). The Mexican right wing attacks her for being Jewish and a Bulgarian immigrant, not because she’s not Jewish enough as anglophones seem to think. And as for the Mexican Jews who allegedly don’t like her, they tend to be Conservative.

I remember when English-speaking Jews attacked her on not being publicly Jewish enough as she won, they pointed out to how she was thanking Jesus after winning, but missing the fact that she was thanking her husband whose name is Jesus.

I find it disingenuous to attack her for not being religiously observant, we are a people and a culture as much as we are a religion, and there are many secular and atheist Jews who do not deserve to lose their status within the Jewish community over not believing in god nor being observant.

• I don’t like how she goes out of her way to underscore how not religiously Jewish she is (even if she is Jewish given that her parents were). From an AP article:

“The 61-year-old candidate has approached the question with caution: While she is of Jewish ancestry, she is not religiously observant.

Her four grandparents were Jews who immigrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria. She was born in Mexico City and her parents did not raise her under any religion. According to her campaign team, Sheinbaum considers herself a woman of faith, but she is not religiously affiliated.”

“Although Sheinbaum has repeatedly said that she does not practice any religion, she proudly publicized a meeting she held in February with Pope Francis and has indeed worn Catholic symbols at her rallies”

To me, she comes off as enthusiastically non-practicing. I respect her as a human being, but do not consider her a representative of the community that she seems to reject. Unsurprisingly, she’s unpopular among Mexican Jews.

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the National Population Council (CONAPO), and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) registered 16,933,283 indigenous people in the country, representing 15.1% of all Mexicans (112,236,538). There is a sustained population growth due to higher rates of indigenous fertility, offset only in part by the higher general mortality rate.

Mexico is the country in the Americas with largest indigenous population and the greatest number of native languages spoken in its territory, that is 68 languages and 364 counted dialect variations. The 2020 Census, produced by INEGI, indicated that 6.1% of the national population aged three years and over was registered as speaking an Indigenous language, being some 7.36 million people. This proportion was 6.6% in the 2010 Census.

In addition, the 2020 Census noted that 11.8 million people live in Indigenous households in Mexico, 5.7 million of them men and 6.1 million women. In terms of native languages, Nahuatl continues to be the most widely spoken, with 22.5% of Indigenous language speakers, or 1.65 million people, followed by Mayan with 774,000 speakers (10.6%).1 Two percent (2.0%) of the national population also reported being of African descent, of whom 7.4% confirmed speaking an Indigenous language.

A Jew representing Catholics? According to the 2020 census, approximately 77.7% of Mexico’s population is Catholic, which equates to nearly 98 million people. While Mexico holds the world’s second-largest Catholic population, the number of Catholics has been declining, decreasing from 82.7% in 2010 to 77.7% in 2020.

Now Now Now, just got this email!

Paul,

When people protest injustice, they should not be met with chemical weapons. Yet across the country, law enforcement has turned tear gas against the very communities it is supposed to protect.

This weapon is not just another tool in an officer’s belt. It is banned under international treaties because of how dangerous it is. Tear gas burns the lungs, blinds the eyes, and suffocates the body. In too many cases, it has left permanent injuries and even death. The rest of the world has recognized the truth: this is chemical warfare.

But here in the United States, there is a loophole. Tear gas cannot be used in war, yet it is still used against civilians on our own streets. Peaceful protesters in Chicago, including Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, were gassed outside an ICE facility simply for speaking out against Trump’s immigration crackdown. His account was chilling: “It was impossible to breathe, and really, really scary.” That is what passes for law enforcement today.

Really? Tear gas?

U.S. police systems have origins in the slave patrols of the antebellum South, particularly in the South, where these early forms of policing were established by law to control enslaved populations, prevent uprisings, and recapture runaways through surveillance and excessive force. These patrols served as an institutional precursor to modern law enforcement by deputizing white citizens to enforce a racial hierarchy, a system of control that has demonstrably influenced later policing practices and continues to impact the relationship between police and Black communities today.

“I [patroller’s name], do swear, that I will as searcher for guns, swords, and other weapons among the slaves in my district, faithfully, and as privately as I can, discharge the trust reposed in me as the law directs, to the best of my power. So help me, God.” -Slave Patroller’s Oath, North Carolina, 1828.

In the woods outside Atlanta on the night of March 5, some demonstrators may have slipped into the fold of an ongoing, protest-themed music festival after returning from a march to the construction site of a planned $90 million militarized police training facility known as “Cop City,” where they allegedly set a bulldozer alight and vandalized construction equipment.

Cops allege the demonstrators flung bricks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at police. Given the emerging details of official misinformation and omission surrounding the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Esteban Paez “Tortuguita” Terán, there’s reason to be skeptical of police accounts.

Regardless of what happened at the construction site, the police response soon extended far beyond the cohort of demonstrators taking direct action. Cops flooded the fringes of the music festival after the construction site protest. As music festival attendees began to run, police threatened to shoot. They dropped tear gas canisters in a parking lot, and began detaining and IDing people at random. Attendees’ cellphone videos show the police giving chase, then tasing one music festival attendee, who collapses to the ground.

I was minding my own business near these rocks when the crazy ladies went ballistic on me. Just far enough out of speaking range to at least have a conversation about what hysteria they were working from.

They may or may not frequent Shauna’s place, and I will go back to visit, to catch up, though I am not into wine bars, the people that frequent them, and the fucking silly banter, man.

A lot of people honk in support and others, in pick-up trucks, yell, “Fuck you, you scum.”

In Newport:

Oh, now, the fascists are those Jews: Israeli forces killed at least 98 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 6 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,566 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).

Among the dead was journalist Mohammed al-Dayah, the 252nd Palestinian journalist to be killed since the beginning of the war. Al-Dayah worked with the Palestinian Information Center, the office said.

Stuff not talked about in a wine and munchy and beer bar:

I’m inappropriate everywhere:

No sipping wine and talking about this fucking tragedy:

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a dangerous policy of extortion by Israeli forces against families in the Gaza Strip, presenting them with a catastrophic, no-win choice: either collaborate with the Israeli army and its militias, or face mass killing, starvation and forcible displacement.

What began as individual extortion has escalated into a systematic, collective practice aimed at dismantling Palestinian social fabric by forcing people to betray their communities and subordinating survivors to survival conditions that destroy communal identity and resilience.

Our field team recorded an unprecedented intensification of Israel’s coercive tactics. The pressure has shifted from targeting individuals to organized collective extortion that places entire families before a horrific equation: join militias created by Israel or face persecution, mass killing, starvation and forced expulsion — a coordinated attempt to eliminate Palestinian society or reduce it to submission under occupation control.

Oh, fucking irrelevant Russia: RUSSIA’S TOP DIPLOMAT LIKENS GAZA PLAN TO “RESERVATION”: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday that reported plans for “collective management” of the Gaza Strip resemble the formation of a “reservation,” comparing the rumors to a colonial arrangement. He pointed to speculation about a 21-point plan, noting that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was cited in media reports as a potential “Governor-General of Gaza.”

“Somewhere—I’m looking for the word now, but we’re in America—a reservation. According to rumors appearing in the media, someone wants to give reservations a respectable form, just as there are reservations here,” Lavrov added, cited by the Russian state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

Cherokee History Native Culture · — My Facebook is flooded with black lives matter, cops lives matter, Hillary Clinton or trump. Do you see this image right here? This is in Pineridge and South Dakota on a “Indian Reservation” where they fight daily to stay alive, food, shelter, clean water and suicide is a daily battle for my native brothers and sisters. But all you will see in today’s media and have seen for the past 100’s of years is what the media wants you to perceive as important! You have been lied to since the first grade history class where you learned Columbus discovered America and pilgrims ate a thanksgiving dinner with “Indians”. My brothers and sisters are swept under the rug, history tucked away so you believe what you’re taught to believe and only see what television and the media show you is important. Well, here is another REAL issue I will never tuck away and I will never be silent about. You want to scream and protest and blog and post about who’s lives you think is important? My #nativelives are important too.

They have 5 demands:

1. Recognition to Land, Territories and Resources
2. Consent
3. Zero Violence
4. Direct Funding
5. Ancestral Knowledge

5 Demands Explained

Recognition to Land, Territories and Resources

Communities need ownership over their ancestral land to protect forests. With no formal land security traditional communities often face serious conflict when trying to evict illegal loggers, poachers and land grabbers.

There is now clear and undeniable evidence that where indigenous people have strong rights, there are standing forests.

Only 0.6% of forest was lost inside Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2012, compared with 7.0% of forest outside such lands.[1]

Consent

When decisions are made about their forests and ancestral lands communities have the right to free, prior, and informed consent. They should also be allowed to say no when governments and corporations threaten their livelihoods.

Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the forest, but they are under siege from a great and growing hunger for new sources of food, fuel, mineral wealth and water.

Zero Violence

The battle to keep forests often leads to serious and sometimes fatal conflicts. Communities should be supported in their work and community leaders should not be criminalized for defending their land and our forests.

There were 46 indigenous people known to be killed in 2014 for taking a stand against environmental destruction. It is likely that the death toll is higher as murders often occur in remote villages or deep in jungles, where they are unreported.[2]

Funding

Investment and direct access to finance for communities is vital to ensure good education, healthcare and rural development. If communities are to look after our forests then we should compensate them.

Investing in indigenous peoples not only conserves forests, it encourages sustainable development.

Ancestral Knowledge

Appealing for the valuation and incorporation of ancestral knowledge on the policies to prevent and face climate change.

…given the scale and scope of the threats that they face with regard to climate change – including specific threats to their livelihoods, cultures and ways of life – their situation is different from that of other groups and from that of the poor. On the other hand, indigenous peoples, with their traditional knowledge and occupations, have a unique role to play in climate action, cutting across both climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, and also just transition policies.

Indigenous peoples and climate change – International Labour Office – 2017

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