Earth should not be virtual The role of a journalist is to question kooky and misleading narratives that have been foisted upon society, to include myriad of topics tied to Mother Nature. I do not criticize the people personally, but there is something vitally wrong with this notice: “Central Oregon Coast’s Earth Day April 22, …
a quartet of food, plastic, weathering, air The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Definition: An ecological bridge between land and sea, wrack line. I’ve been looking at the unimagined biological and genetic …
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked by Paul Haeder / April 10th, 2021 Lies, Memory Hole, Circling the Managers’ Rotting Core Scenario: Interesting how in the first three minutes of …
by Paul Haeder / April 4th, 2021 “There you have it — At-will, AKA at the beckon call, beckon abuse, beckon exploitation, beckon denigration, beckon injurious behavior and workplace environment. These employers are thugs, and from the top down, with their lawyers and MBAs and institutional misleadership yahoos at the executive level, the worker is …
resistance is more than a PSA, and Whitey Is Still on the Moon! by Paul Haeder / March 28th, 2021 Zoom Lockup! There’s this Zoom thing coming round the corner, once again– Earth Day 2021. The people on the Pacific Coast, Oregon, Central Coast with no industries, winds whipping up air vortices, and air as …
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.” The organization of offices follows the principle of hierarchy … each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one. — Max Weber, Economy and Society This doesn’t infer that private companies, organizations, trade groups, …
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain by Paul Haeder / March 21st, 2021 There is dumb-downing, cancel culture (I’ve been cancelled since beginning in 1972 in high school, way before the trendy terminology), forced consent, manufactured bifurcation, false balance, triangulation, …
for Lisa MM, on her beginning of her half century, 2021 in one word of your birthmariposa, wings like ricepaper, colors of our sunor the second geneof your birth, papillon,psychedelic burstslike fungi sunsets I think of you inside that candlemixed scents of collisionswirled Aztec-Maya-Zapotecblood, corn, tortillas, cumin, strawcanella, beans of vanilla sweat blood tearswater turned skyward, …
Until the end of the world as we know it! by Paul Haeder / March 14th, 2021 The final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concludes that the project has been ‘the most successful anti-poverty movement in history’. Two key claims underpin this narrative: that global poverty has been cut in half, and global …
by Paul Haeder / March 7th, 2021 wy-kan-ush, salmon to Columbia basinpeople —pum – the creatorsees pum fragileso conjures up grand counciloffers salmon firstfood of godsthen water, home for King of Fish longhouses built for offeringsspring, chinook, sockeye, silverbodies of creationtribes sing sacred reverencesalmon: the returner, anadromousegg sac gestationin clear fresh watermigration to sea,return to home tributariescircle of …
