“It is outrageous to think that humans have quantified all of the impacts their actions cause to the marine environment.”

Paulo Kirk

Sep 15, 2026

• A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
• Second Law: A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
• Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. [1]

Sep 10, 2026 — Half right. So, AI could be used for good by a workers-led society, with socialism at its core? There you have it. More efficient monocropping, more efficient timber farms, more efficient AC, more efficient work, more efficient hell on Earth. How does AI work? What are those data centers all about? Five hundred in China, 3,000 in the USA, and then bleeding out into the hinterland.

What’s the compelling Oppen-Monster-Heimer math problem? What’s the Manhattan Einstein Project problem to solve?

AI could kill every human on Earth by the end of the decade. If it sounds like a sci-fi headline, that’s the point, says Dr. Thejas Wesley, postdoctoral associate at MIT. He joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to unpack why Anthropic researchers Evan Hubinger, Samuel Marks, and Jacob Coxon – who resigned this week to go public – are sounding the alarm now, as competition from Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3 heats up and Anthropic heads into its IPO.

Wesley argues the “rogue AI agents” framing coming out of both Anthropic and OpenAI (last week from CEO Sam Altman himself) is less a scientific warning than a coordinated business strategy, recasting corporate recklessness and unregulated competition as an alien invasion, rather than what it actually is: a series of choices made by executives chasing profits. He points to OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident earlier this summer: rather than nascent digital consciousness breaking free, this was OpenAI shipping software without basic safety guardrails, following the same corporate cost-cutting logic behind disasters like the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment or the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.

As polling shows 71% of Americans oppose new data centers, and 68% support stricter AI regulation, Wesley outlines Bernie Sanders’s proposed sovereign wealth fund plan and ban on AI superintelligence, versus Elon Musk’s counter: letting a small “cabal of technofascists” govern AI development themselves. Wesley says the real fix isn’t billionaires regulating themselves; it’s public, democratic control over a technology with very real life-or-death consequences for humanity.

The U.S. Navy does not have a single, permanent global cap on the number of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and sea turtles it is permitted to “take”.

What if you were told the US Navy is legally permitted to harass, injure or kill nearly 12 million whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and seals across the North Pacific Ocean over a five-year period?

It is true, and over one-quarter of every tax dollar you pay is helping to fund it.

A multistate, international citizen watchdog group called the West Coast Action Alliance (WCAA), tabulated numbers that came straight from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing EIS (environmental impact statement) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Letters of Authorization for incidental “takes” of marine mammals issued by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service.

“It is outrageous to think that humans have quantified all of the impacts their actions cause to the marine environment.”

A “take” is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death. Many wildlife conservationists see even “takes” that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming, or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.

Karen Sullivan, a spokesperson for the WCAA, is a former endangered species biologist and assistant regional director at the US Fish and Wildlife Service; she is now retired.

“The numbers are staggering,” she told Truthout, speaking about the number of marine mammals the Navy is permitted to take. “When you realize the same individual animals can be harassed over and over again as they migrate to different areas, there is no mitigation that can make up for these losses except limiting the use of sonar and explosives where these animals are trying to live.”

October 2015 EIS shows increases in the following activities (this is not a complete list):

– A 778 percent increase in number of torpedoes

– A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary)

– A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft

– A 1,150 percent increase in drone surface vehicles

– A 1,450 percent increase in expendable devices

– A 72 percent increase in electronic warfare operations

– A 50 percent increase in explosive ordnance disposal in Crescent Harbor and Hood Canal

– A 244 percent increase in air combat maneuvers (dogfighting)

– A 400 percent increase in helicopter tracking exercises

– A 3,500 percent increase in number of sonobuoys

– From none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters

The Growler fighter aircraft used in the Navy’s electromagnetic warfare training are the loudest aircraft ever built. It is worth noting that the noise threshold for hearing damage in humans is 85 decibels. Similar to the Richter scale used for measuring earthquakes, sound measurements are not linear. For every increase of 10 decibels, the intensity of the noise increases tenfold.

“The Navy’s massive levels of testing and training for war are helping to make our oceans barren.”

Your friendly neighborhood JEW:

Oracle posted record revenue during its latest quarter, but that hasn’t stopped the company from chopping more employees.

Reports began appearing on social media early Monday that staff were having trouble accessing corporate systems such as email and Slack, which essentially served as a sign that they had lost their jobs.

According to a number of now-ex Oracle employees posting in a LinkedIn thread, layoff emails weren’t sent to personal email addresses, leaving a good number of people unsure what was happening outside of calls to supervisors, prior heads-up that they were on the chopping block, and the like.

It seems some employees did manage to access their accounts and view the layoff email, as a copy was shared with Business Insider, which published it in its coverage of this latest round of job cuts.

“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” the email read. “As a result, today is your last working day.”

US aims to issue deep-sea mining permits within months, Interior Secretary Burgum says

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks during the ceremonial reopening of Freedom Plaza to mark “the revitalization of one of the nation’s most prominent civic gathering spaces” with new statues, including controversial founding father Caesar Rodney, who was a slave owner, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 30, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

Law of the Sea, the Abyssal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence

Rapacious Capitalism

by Paul Haeder / November 18th, 2025

Almost a year ago, when the good old quaint days were still prevailing!??

How will it impact the already diminished populations of phytoplankton which provide up to 70% of the oxygen in the atmosphere? How will it impact the already diminished populations of krill, the foundation of the food pyramid in the sea? How will deep-sea mining influence the climate, the movement of currents, and the migration and viability of sea life? The industry has not answered these questions because there is no answer that they will acknowledge—because such answers will expose them as harbingers of global destruction.

Accused? The evidence has been there since 9148:

Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank

All Jews are suspect; most Jews are criminals, many are murderers.

That fucking PUTIN:

Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina Trump, acknowledged Monday that a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin paid for their lavish Caribbean island post-wedding celebration in May.

ProPublica reported that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding-related expenses for the newlyweds and dozens of guests for festivities on a private island in the Bahamas that started a day after the ceremony. The festivities included a fireworks show, which ProPublica reported Kremlev also paid for.

Oh, those fucking InBred UnUnited Queen-dumb cunts:

The big picture

The enormous scale of Britain’s centuries-long trafficking of enslaved African people, supported by parliament and the monarchy, has been laid bare by new research.

The Register of British Slave Traders, the product of a three-year project by a team of specialist historians, documents the investors in Britain’s near 250-year transatlantic slave trade from the first traffickers in the 1560s to abolition in 1807.

The register provides biographical detail for as many of 10,500 investors as possible from historical records, building the most comprehensive single picture so far of those who perpetrated the enslavement of African people.

Britain’s trafficking operations, including royal companies led by kings and, later, a rush of entrepreneurs in Bristol, Liverpool and other port cities, violently transported more than 3 million enslaved African men, women and children to colonial plantations in the Americas and Caribbean.

The Guardian is reporting on significant findings of the project, led by Prof William Pettigrew of King’s College London, and the vast human damage it documents: the relentless involvement of the British monarchy, parliament and financial and business elites; the role of the church in legitimising it; and how the investors’ wealth was woven deep into the country’s fabric and used to fund hospitals, schools, welfare organisations, the arts, science and culture.

Key elements include:

• A series of British kings and queens were leaders and investors in the trafficking of enslaved African people;
• More than 100 MPs were investors in slave-trading companies, including scores in the Tory and Whig parties – the forerunners of today’s Conservatives and Liberal Democrats;
• Dozens of directors and original financiers of the Bank of England were investors in the slave trade;
• More than 1,000 women invested in slave-trading companies;
• Forty-five Church of England clergymen were investors in the slave-trading Royal African Company.

Here’s your Gay Ghoul of the Year: The Treasury Department on Monday identified Russia’s second-largest financial institution, VTB Bank, as a key financial node for Iran’s Islamic Republic and put further sanctions on the bank.

How’s that working out for you egalitarians?

Trump calls Nvidia CEO to talk AI — and gets put on speakerphone during industry summit

“Data centers are great, and they make people wealthy,” the president told CEO Jensen Huang, whose company makes AI chips and hardware.

All Lawyered up? Jewed Up?

Mahmoud Khalil announced on Monday that he’s sued Columbia University, accusing the New York City school he attended of a years-long history of anti-Palestinian discrimination, indifference to harassment, and retaliation.

Khalil, a US green card holder of Palestinian descent, was a graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) when he was arrested at his university apartment by federal immigration agents in March 2025, the first of a number of foreign nationals that the Trump administration has detained and sought to deport over their pro-Palestinian advocacy.

In a 60-page complaint filed in the southern district of New York, Khalil and members of the SIPA’s Palestine Working Group have now accused the university, its board, and the dean of the school, Keren Yarhi-Milo, of “deliberate indifference” and failure to respond to “severe, persistent, and coordinated harassment” directed towards him and other students who had been outspoken about Palestinian rights.

Ahh, schucks, mom, can’t I have those Twinkies?

A new Consumer Reports investigation found potentially harmful contaminants in some popular children’s snacks.

Earlier this summer, Consumer Reports testing found high levels of additives and contaminants in popular processed snack foods.

Now, CR’s food safety scientists have taken a closer look specifically at snacks marketed to or commonly eaten by children.

Consumer Reports tested 21 packaged kids’ snacks and found that 14 had concerning levels of at least one chemical contaminant, including acrylamide or phthalates.

Acrylamide is a chemical that can form naturally in some foods during high-temperature cooking and processing.

Certain health organizations consider it a probable human carcinogen based on animal studies.

Consumer Reports found concerning levels of acrylamide in several types of snacks, including granola bars, chips, pretzels, and even graham crackers.

CR also tested for phthalates, chemicals that can migrate into food from packaging and other materials during manufacturing and processing.

High exposure to certain phthalates has been linked to potential long-term health risks, including interference with the body’s natural hormones, and children’s developing bodies may be especially vulnerable.

Here, the big contamination source: BlackRock Raises EM Equities Back to Overweight on AI, Earnings

OUR JEW!

Major carriers like Liberty Mutual, CSAA (AAA), and others have dropped thousands of policies after reviewing proprietary aerial photography. Across California. Insurance companies—rather than a single “insurance board”—are increasingly using aerial surveillance (via planes, satellites, and drones) to drop homeowners over yard debris, clutter, and even gardens.

Joe, from Merced, California, said his homeowners insurance policy was dropped because of photos from drones, or his wood pile for heating his house, a few trucks that are rusting a bit, and then, get this, for a home garden that might contain Romaine lettuce.

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Is a home a man’s or woman’s castle, no?

“Salesforce is committed to Israel. We leave politics out of the company”

Meir Amiel, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of C360 Applications at Salesforce, was called back to the company following the generative AI revolution. He believes Israel can be a technological leader in this field. According to him, the development center in Israel is strategic for Salesforce and will continue to grow.

Growing up in Or Yehuda, Meir Amiel could not have imagined that one day, Salesforce’s founder and CEO, Marc Benioff, would call him to return to the company to prepare it for the AI revolution. Amiel joined Salesforce in 2010, when it was relatively small, with only 2,000-3,000 employees. Since then, the company has grown to nearly 80,000 employees worldwide, including 750 at the development center in Israel, which Amiel helped establish.

A month ago, Salesforce reported an 11% increase in revenue in the first quarter, with a net profit of $1.53 billion, though these results missed analysts’ forecasts.

Tech billionaire Marc Benioff used to give millions to politicians. Then he bought Time magazine.

Benioff is swearing off future political donations, in stark contrast to the rest of Silicon Valley.

InBreds:

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is considering providing Saudi Arabia with military support against the Houthis, Bloomberg reported on Monday, following recent regional escalation by the terrorist group.

According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia asked Britain for aid in both repelling the Houthis from the Bab al-Mandab Strait and helping defend against strikes on its oil infrastructure.

Burnham has agreed to send British military advisors to assist Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reported, but had not yet committed to sending any additional aid.

RIGHT. Controlling AI and all that Recursive Self-Improvement Asimov and Sagan SHIT:

US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

+—-+

injection of foreign protein into tissue produces inflammatory injury, and the body responds . . . the Jewish State of Rape, Banking, AI, War, Murder, Maiming, Starvation!

Paulo Kirk

Sep 14, 2026

Oh, the pathogens, man, CBS, a la Jews — Ellison and Weiss, what a cocktail and cocksuckers.

Air Force — the Bomber Mercenaries.

CBS’s new 60 Minutes programme attempts to present an Air Force officer’s escape from Iran as if it were some sort of proud American epic — the type of story intended to provoke flag-waving and the “look how brave we are” sort of reaction. However, the entire account is full of selective storytelling, in the manner of pretending that U.S. wars are clean, noble, and heroic. While it focuses on one wounded officer who managed to evade capture, it omits the fact that American bombs killed 168 children on the very first day of the campaign; that is the part which CBS never brings to the forefront because it spoils the myth.

The interview has the feel of a victory lap about it; it is reverent, nearly worshipful — typical of the style used by 60 Minutes, with soft lighting, dramatic music, and questions crafted to make the viewer feel patriotic. It refers to courage, sacrifice, and danger, and speaks of him crawling, hiding, and surviving. It also mentions how proud the Air Force is and states that this is what American service entails.

The thing that is not mentioned is the effect of American bombs.

Exactly one year ago, Mehdi was joined on ‘We’re Not Kidding’ by actor Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Incredible Hulk in Marvel’s ‘Avengers’ movies. So it feels fitting that today’s guest is none other than Emmy award-winning actor Tatiana Maslany, who plays She-Hulk in the Marvel TV series of the same name. Like Mark, Tatiana has been an outspoken advocate for Palestine over the past few years and continues to use her platform to bring attention to Israel’s genocide.

“It was very rare in 2024 to see celebrities speaking out publicly on Palestine. What made you want to do that?” Mehdi asks.

“I’m part of a system. I have to speak on it,” Tatiana says. “How do we watch this happening without feeling the deep grief and rage that we are complicit in it?”

FUCKING HOLLY-Dirt and thespians.

This fellow, man oh man, how many vaxxes has he complied with?

The latest controversy Patel finds himself embroiled in is a microcosm of the misplaced priorities the FBI has operated with due to his leadership. Records revealed by independent national security journalist Seth Hettena as part of the FBI’s review of the investigative holdings related to Jeffrey Epstein show Patel ordering the FBI to go after a popular X poster for trolling him on the social media platform. The X account that drew the FBI director’s ire, Ifindretards, posted a tweet in February during the height of the fallout from the Trump administration’s Epstein Files cover-up, mocking Patel by sardonically quipping that his “retard rating just went to all time highs.”

injection of foreign protein into tissue produces inflammatory injury, and the body responds.

This essay operates in two registers. When examining the peer-reviewed literature of experimental immunology, and when reporting what regulators and researchers have written down, I use their vocabulary: adjuvant, immune response, allergic, autoimmune, sensitization, antibody, IgE. That is how the papers describe what the papers describe. In my own analytical voice, I use the terrain framework: injection of foreign protein into tissue produces inflammatory injury, and the body responds. The establishment’s own words demolish the establishment’s own claims. The terrain voice states what is actually occurring.

The evidentiary spine of this essay is a compilation of five Wistar-rat studies assembled by James Lyons-Weiler at Popular Rationalism in July 2026. Lyons-Weiler and I operate from very different paradigms. He accepts the germ theory framework within which most of his critique is delivered. My rejection of the substance he critiques runs deeper and reaches the framework itself. His compilation nonetheless stands as one of the clearest recent statements of what the peer-reviewed record actually shows, and this essay would be poorer without it.

I do not address the retracted papers of Shaw and Tomljenovic, the contested aluminum-in-brain-tissue findings, the ASIA syndrome as a diagnostic entity, or the systemic clinical claims associated with macrophagic myofasciitis. Those are separate conversations. This essay stays on the peer-reviewed, non-retracted, structurally sound evidence.

In 2012, a group led by Xiao Qi at the Third Xiangya Hospital in China published a paper in the journal Urology. The title reads: “Prostate extract with aluminum hydroxide injection as a novel animal model for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.”¹

The method is documented in full. The researchers took extract from prostate tissue. They combined it with aluminum hydroxide. They injected the mixture into Wistar rats. The rats developed chronic prostatitis. The response was dose-dependent and injection-number-dependent. The paper reports a reliable protocol for producing the disease in a laboratory.

A 2023 review in Frontiers in Immunology places the Qi protocol in a broader subfield called experimental autoimmune prostatitis, in which “specific antigens trigger autoimmunity” and “immune-boosting adjuvants” are used to increase the model’s success rate.² The review names aluminum hydroxide among those adjuvants.

The same aluminum hydroxide is inside Infanrix, Pediarix, Engerix-B pediatric hepatitis B, PedvaxHIB, Havrix hepatitis A, and dozens of other vaccines. It is injected into infants on the day of birth, at two months, at four months, at six months, at twelve months, at fifteen months, at eighteen months, at four years. It is the same substance, in the same concentration range, delivered by the same route into the same species: mammal.

The essay in front of you asks a simple question. If a peer-reviewed immunology paper describes aluminum hydroxide as the substance that manufactures a disease in a mammal, and a pediatrician injects that same substance into another mammal on a published schedule, what is being done to that second mammal?

Due Diligence and Art

Evolution of propaganda: MAHA wants more countermeasures, HHS send cash to Pentagon for bioweapons, while AI psyop is exploding…

In this 40 min video, Debbie Lerman and I are discussing the evolving propaganda narratives. Specifically, MAHA puppets are carrying water for the bio-chemical weapons Pandemic Preparedness cartel. Many of these accounts are desperately trying to convince you of the looming threat of “engineered pathogens” escaping from labs. This requires “mandatory countermeasure…

In this 40 min video Debbie Lerman and I are discussing the evolving propaganda narratives. Specifically, MAHA puppets are carrying water for the bio-chemical weapons Pandemic Preparedness cartel. Many of these accounts are desperately trying to convince you of the looming threat of “engineered pathogens” escaping from labs. This requires “mandatory countermeasures”, including new government agencies, and money! They are begging Bobby to make covid crimes permanent and well funded.

We discussed this MAHA pearl (a year old, but very relevant right now).

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke Thursday about leaving the Democratic Party as he addressed the GOP midterm convention in Dallas.

“During COVID, I watched the Democratic Party turned against every one of its essential values, its principles and all of the policies that defined my party,” he said.

Thanks, Winter Oak, for this: A real Human Being.

A poet of the rooted resistance

John Trudell (1946–2015) was a poet of the resistance against spirit-denying and culture-destroying industrial imperialism.

Machine money progress
Is the cause of our common abuse [1]

His initial focus was on defending the rights and autonomies of Native American peoples who had been so brutally crushed by the invading and occupying empire.

Indians are Jesus
Hanging from the cross
Hanging from the cross
In the name of their savior
Forcing on us
The trinity of the chain
Guilt sin and blame [2]

He wondered: “How did my land become somebody else’s country?” [3] and how other Americans could expect Indians to share in the national grief over 9/11.

Now you want us
To cry your tears for you
Already we’ve bled for you
Already been dead to you
Now you want us
To cry your tears for you

Chapters of a democracy story
Descendants of genocide
Twelve score and more years ago
We went from being the majority
To being the smallest minority
Now you want us
To cry your tears for you [4]

The modern tyranny demands that we forget who we are and where we came from so that we can be turned into disempowered, malleable and exploitable human resources for its global mega-racket. [5]

But Trudell, like so many of us, felt the soul of his ancestors stirring inside him and guiding his thoughts and actions.

In the 2005 documentary film Trudell, he explains: “I felt as if somebody knocked me unconscious when I entered the world. It’s been a lifetime trying to come to.

“I used to get this idea that I was in the wrong time in the wrong place. I thought that I came here a hundred years too late. The hundred years too late was because I used to see this camp on the plain amongst the trees by a river. It was a tribal camp and I felt I was part of it. It’s like these thoughts were memories. Every part was familiar and I was a part of the whole thing”. [6]

Too confused to care
Is no way to live
Young ones listen
Remember who you are
Remember where you are
Remember why you are [7]

In 1969, his sense of indigenous roots and connections was galvanized by the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island.

He was the spokesman for this 19-month long action, which brought the plight of Native Americans into mainstream American consciousness, and he went on to be national chairman of the American Indian Movement (AIM) from 1973 to 1979. [8]

All of this drew the attention of the corporate empire’s enforcement squads and between 1969 and 1979 the FBI amassed a 17,000-page dossier on him, one of the longest in the agency’s history. [9]

An internal FBI memo stated: “He is extremely eloquent… therefore extremely dangerous”. Trudell commented: “All I did was talk and they cracked down hard just for that”. [10]

“The majority of the American citizens agreed with us… The way the government operates, any time any group of people start to get popular support, this becomes a threat to the government. AIM got labelled by this Eastland Subcommittee on Unamerican Affairs as a terrorist organization.

“Between ’73 and ’75, the government with the FBI, they were literally waging a Contra war against now all the AIM people and the traditionalists”. [11]

On February 11, 1979 Trudell burned an American flag during a demonstration in front of the FBI HQ in Washington, DC, explaining: “In the military, they said if the flag has been desecrated, the only way to properly dispose of it is to burn it”. [12]

Some 12 hours later, a fire “of suspicious origin” burned down Trudell’s home on a reservation in Nevada, killing his pregnant wife, Tina, their three children and Tina’s mother.

Unsurprisingly, the FBI declined to investigate, and the blaze was officially ruled an “accident”. But Trudell insisted: “It was murder; they were murdered as an act of war”. [13]

Devastated by the tragedy, Trudell withdrew from the world for a time and found something within him, from beyond him.

“Putting my love into the ground like this, putting my love in boxes, putting them into the ground and covering them up reconnected me to the earth”. [14]

It was during this period of grief and rebirth that he discovered his poetic gift.

Sometimes me and my mind
Don’t get along very well and
Sometimes I need someone to talk to
And someone to cling to
A little bit of forever for a little while
Doing the rest of the life I can’t hide
I fell through some of the wounds
And pulled the scars inside [15]

In his poems, later spoken to musical accompaniment as songs, his personal sadness merges with his sadness at the Indian peoples’ condition and indeed a sadness at the endless assault on the living being waged by the global industrial empire.

Industrial slave
Capitalist and Communist
Imperialist
Smiling with false faces
Beckoning us
With their lies about progress
Wanting us to enjoy
The rape of earth
And our minds

Industrial slave
Fork-tongued
Legalistic contract chains
Turning our visions
To technologic nightmares
National security warmakers
Desecrating the natural world
And gods still trying to get over
What you done to his boy

Industrial slave
Material bound
Law and order
Religious salvation
Industrially alone

Industrial slave [16]

Trudell pointed out: “The governments that are created are created to serve the needs of this industrial ruling class”. [17]

Building to the new world order
We’re expected to carry the stone
Emperors and the feeding class
Human being, being used up fast

Hidden in the beauties of Babylon
A civilized behavorial notoriety
The more evil the empire
The more paranoid the society [18]

He argued: “There is no clear thought being exercised right now in the American public. They are allowing the insanity of the leaders to make decisions that really are not in the best interest of the public, they’re not in the best interest of the children of the public, they’re not in the best interest of the grandchildren of the public. They’re not in the best interest of the earth, they’re not in the best interest of anyone”. [19]

Waking up in industrial society
Surrounded by angry days
Going through motions of not being
Wanting the best but not expecting it [20]

Bitter fruit emerges where bitter seed is sown
Economic chains all dressed out as reward [21]

Trudell did not shrink from addressing the depth and scale of the threat posed by industrial imperialists who pillage nature to feed their infernal machineries of greed.

He judged that “they’re industrially insane – no sensitivities to life or what anything is about” [22] as they carried out their grim

Sacrifice ritual for the
Prophet technology [23]

He said: “I think we really need to put serious thought into understanding that we’re dealing with a disease. You know, it’s like there’s this predator energy on this planet and this predator energy feeds upon the essence of the spirit, feeds upon the essence of the human being, the spirit…

“They have to mine our minds… The mining of the essence, the mining of the spirit, mining our minds, the pollution from that is all of the neurotic, distorted, insecure behaviour patterns that we develop. That’s pollution.

“Because in order for this predatory system, this disease, to work, we must not be able to use our minds in a clear, coherent manner. Because if we use our minds in a clear coherent manner, we will not accept the unacceptable…

“The great lie is that it is civilization. It’s not civilized. It has been literally the most bloodthirsty, brutalizing, system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That’s the great lie… or if it does represent civilization and that’s truly what civilization is, then the great lie is that civilization is good for us”. [24]

The sheer mendacity of the system was a constant theme for Trudell and he stressed how those he termed “corporate terrorists” [25] were always

Lying to enslave with an illusion
About freedom [26]

We know the predator
We see them feed on us
We are aware
To starve the beast
Is our destiny

The times they were kind
They were polite
But never honest [27]

Everyone pretending to live
Calling exploitation progress
Calling submission freedom
Calling madness profit
Calling earth a plan et
Plaguing her with civilization [28]

Damnation or salvation
Among the
Terrorisms of freedom
A civilizing process
Where the rule of law
Is the law of rule
The law is a lie the law is a lie [29]

In the homeland security
Pretending corporate corruption
Isn’t economic terrorism
Money talks while the government listens
Compiling files on ones who think different
Conditioning an acceptance of debt
And not to expect the truth
So get used to hearing the lie [30]

The relationship between people and land is central to Trudell’s understanding, as it is to that of the organic radical tradition as a whole.

He told a protest rally in 1979: “We understand that the issue is the land, the issue is the earth. We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system until the people control the land and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and intention of humanity”. [31]

And he later remarked: “Lying dormant in us we have a genetic memory and in that genetic memory there’s knowledge, there’s knowledge in that genetic memory, all right, that goes back to the ancient, to the beginning for us… every human being lived within a tribe, every human being recognized this reality that the earth was the mother and the sky was the father”. [32]

It was from this deep and mystical connection to both land and ancestors, the thing I call withness, [33] that Trudell sourced his strength and inspiration.

We are all children of earth
The earth is our mother [34]

Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
One Earth one Mother
One does not sell the Earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our Mother
How do we sell the stars
How do we sell the air [35]

See the woman beauty
Lightning streaking dark summer nights
Forest of pines mating with new winter snow [36]

Life is a form of the energy of being
All forms of the earth have being
Our power in being is in spirit energy essence
We manifest our power through our human [37]

Join the time of tomorrow and the past
Be like us serve the creation we will endure
Listen as the trees sing their songs
Listen listen [38]

This belonging and connection allow us to mount a life-rooted [39] resistance against the death-cult empire.

Our attitudes are climbing
We don’t have time for more mind-wasting lies
Whatever it is you’re doing we’re not going to buy it
It’s time to say something not a time to be quiet [40]

I was listening
To the voices of life
Chanting in unison
Carry on the struggle
The generations
Surge together
In resistance
To meet
The reality of power

Mother Earth
Embraces her children
In natural beauty
To last beyond
Oppressors brutality
As the butterfly floats into life
We are the spirit of natural life
Which is forever

The power of understanding
Real connections to spirit
Is meaning our resistance
Our struggle
Is not sacrifice lost
It is
Natural energy properly used [41]

The generations
Remembering the past
To rebuild the future
For weeping is
Another way of laughing
And resisting and
Outlasting the enemy [42]

Continue to struggle. Resist…
The people, the rain, the earth, the wind, struggle together for a common liberty [43]

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A Handmaid’s Tale — Rape of the Fucking MIND.

Paulo Kirk

Sep 12, 2026

And I am running into the breeders, the HR freaks, almost all women, fucking up city departments, companies, hospitals. Hiring managers here and there, the breeders, the fucking nanny blade runners and certainly Good Germans.

Don’t you get it yet? No? Western Culture, that Anglo-Saxon-Franco-Iberian-Nordic-Slavic culture, is dead in the water. Peter Principled to the high heavens. The managerial class, the professional screening-out fuckers, and boy do these breeders like their AI, their apps that can screen for them any fucker like me who might have some minor journalistic or Substack and WWW presence, where the word “Jew” is counted and then put through their AI (now) sieve to, well, eliminate me from employment.

This is them, the raped breeders, at the Trump Rapist and Pedophile Convention, loving his fucking 80-year-old feces-filled Made in Israel Depends. Right in their fucking Mary Kay made-up faces.

The nanny HR state loves this: Recent investigative reports have highlighted a significant trend involving former Israeli intelligence operatives holding prominent roles within major global technology firms. While this is often discussed in the context of corporate connections rather than traditional, covert espionage “infiltration” by Mossad, the scale of former intelligence personnel moving into Big Tech has raised substantial national security and privacy concerns. [1, 2]

Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.

Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security.

More from Daniel Boguslaw

A piece of Anthropic’s surveillance architecture was revealed in a podcast interview from last year between Anthropic Global Security Operations Center Manager Keon Ellison, Security Operations Manager Zach Melvin, and James Neufeld, CEO of Samdesk, a company Anthropic contracts with for risk detection.

In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advance notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings; they would have run right into the heart of the disruption.”

Ellison said that Anthropic used this data to devise an alternate route for the executive and funnel them to a service entrance at the hotel. “What could have been a high-stress situation,” he said, “was really mitigated through early detection through Samdesk and giving us that information.”

Anthropic has begun making routine reports to police departments across the country for threats, and told The Wall Street Journal in July, “We track concerning behavior over time through a person-of-interest process, allowing us to catch escalation patterns early.” According to the Journal, “several individuals involved in incidents reported to police were already being tracked by Anthropic security.”

Last month, The San Francisco Standard reported that Anthropic had reported a man to San Francisco police for telling Claude that he had bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and had CEO Dario Amodei “in his sights.” When The Standard contacted the man in question, he told the newspaper he was “just fucking around.”

In late July, the U.S. cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks (PANW) announced that it had acquired the Israeli identity management and information security firm CyberArk, paying a staggering $25 billion dollars worth of cash and stock to purchase the firm. In addition to potentially injecting billions of dollars into the Israeli economy, Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition of CyberArk further strengthens the relationship between Silicon Valley and Israel’s security-intelligence apparatus.

Palo Alto is one of the world’s largest cybersecurity firms, and provides infrastructure protection, firewalls, and cloud security services to tens of thousands of companies internationally. Udi Mokady, CyberArk’s founder and executive chairman, is an alum of Unit 8200, the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate’s elite signals intelligence division. So are the four co-founders of Wiz: the Israeli cloud computing firm recently bought by Google for $32 billion. So, too, is Palo Alto’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer Nir Zuk.

Palo Alto has expanded through a spree of high-profile acquisitions over the past decade, paying sometimes up to billions of dollars for startups aimed at expanding its cybersecurity offerings. Nearly half of these have involved companies with origins in Israeli intelligence, raising concerns about access to the vast amounts of data around the world that the company is charged with protecting. Palo Alto Networks did not respond to Drop Site’s request for comment.

So, I was minding my own business yesterday, and lo and behold, I got a call while I was painting the house. From some behavioral health care director. For a job I applied for months ago.

A residential treatment facility for substance use disorder

Who this serves

Adults 18+ with substance use disorder from across Oregon, with priority to residents of Lincoln County. We expect to serve 200 residential patients and 600 outpatients each year. As a nonprofit health care provider, Samaritan Pacific Health Services doesn’t turn anyone away for inability to pay or insurance type.

What

Establish a 16‑bed Samaritan Treatment & Recovery Services facility in Lincoln County to provide residential treatment and intensive outpatient programs, including group and individual therapy, medication-assisted treatment and peer-delivered services. The Pacific Communities Health District purchased a facility and funds are being raised to build an addition for a commercial kitchen, meeting spaces and offices as well as to remodel the existing living space. Nonprofit Samaritan Pacific Health Services is committed to operating the facility.

Where

In Newport, within a short driving distance of Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital.

When

Completion of the facility is expected in the spring of 2025 based on available funding for construction. Residential services will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days per week. Outpatient services are offered Monday through Friday, including evening sessions.

Why

• Residents in need: Data gathered by our Regional Mental Health/Substance Use Coalition shows that between March and August 2021, 12,225 Lincoln County residents were screened for substance use disorder, with 1,297 individuals screening positive for drugs, including alcohol, and 886 people were diagnosed with substance use disorder.
• No residential treatment in Lincoln County: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Oregon ranks second in the country for substance use disorder, with 18.2% of the population addicted to drugs or alcohol. Yet, Oregon ranks 50th in the nation for access to treatment programs. Inpatient treatment is a critical first step in the recovery process for many individuals, but there are currently no inpatient services in Lincoln County, and limited outpatient services.
• Death and overdoses rising: The state’s Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Sean Hurst, recently testified to the Oregon Legislature that between, 2019 and 2020 alcohol-related deaths in Oregon increased 73% and drug overdoses were up 39%.
• Economic imperative: According to surgeongeneral.gov, addressing “substance misuse and substance use disorders effectively for all Americans aligns with a strong economic imperative. Substance misuse is estimated to cost society $442 billion each year in health care costs, lost productivity, and criminal justice costs.”

So, the fellow liked my interview over the phone, liked my experience with adults and giving out medications and my own overnight stay experience with an adult home in Portland for folks with developmental disabilities. Imagine that: taking care of the needs of five men overnight, and then hitting the books in the day, working as a part-time fucking faculty member in the Portland-Vancouver area.

He asked if a face-to-face meeting was cool with the recovery team at the facility. I told him to schedule it.

Months ago I applied for the position. Hmm, $27 to $40 an hour, four days a week, yes, at night.

And then, thirty minutes later, I check my fucking black mirror phone, and I get this shit.

Dear Paul,

We appreciate the time and effort you have dedicated to our application process. We have thoroughly reviewed a significant number of applications for the Recovery Support Specialist I position (see below). After careful consideration, we have determined that you will not be advancing to the next stage of the hiring process, as we are pursuing a candidate who more closely meets our needs.

• Position: Recovery Support Specialist I
• Department: PCH Treatment&Reco-Residential
• Requisition: 77001
• Schedule: 1.0 (80 hrs/pp)
• Shift: Night

We hope you will consider applying for future opportunities with us. As a best practice, we recommend reviewing and updating your application and resume to include your most recent work history. For additional resources, please visit our Career page to login to your individual profile, find answers to frequently asked questions, and view Tips for Success.

Again, thank you for expressing interest in Samaritan Health Services.

Sincerely,
Samaritan Talent Acquisition

Do you get it YET? Fucking breeders, fucking nanny state, fucking mostly women determining outcomes, and alas, they are raped, their fucking minds, dudes. And I tried tracking down this fellow, with no luck, as I talked to someone at the facility and basically told her that this is a mental rape, calling me, telling me I am in the running, setting up a face-to-face, and then the AI or HR breeders sent me that above. You know, addiction which is an area I have been trained in, with the huge caveat of TRAUMA-informed care and harm reduction, but alas, the cunts of capitalism put me through a 1.5-hour ringer.

The Rape of the Mind Quotes

“he who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“advertising symbolizes the art of making people dissatisfied with what they have.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Where thinking is isolated without free exchange with other minds and can no longer expand, delusion may follow. Whenever ideas are compartmentalized, behind and between curtains, the process of continual alert confrontation of facts and reality is hampered. The system freezes, becomes rigid, and dies of delusion.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“The fear of freedom is the fear of assuming responsibility.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“What counts in any man is the consistency and integrity of his behavior, and his courage in taking a stand, not his conformity to official dogma.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“There is another important weapon the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into submission. This is the weapon of psychological shock. Hitler kept his enemies in a state of constant confusion and diplomatic upheaval. They never knew what this unpredictable madman was going to do next. Hitler was never logical, because he knew that that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him with another.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Delusions, carefully implanted, are difficult to correct.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Radio and television tend to take away active affectionate relationships between men and to destroy the capacity for personal thought, evaluation, and reflection. They catch the mind directly, giving people no time for calm, dialectical conversation with their own minds, with their friends, or with their books.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Americans felt afraid after 9/11 because the attacks suddenly destroyed the long-held belief that the U.S. mainland was completely safe from major foreign disasters.

Loss of Invulnerability

• Felt safe: Before 2001, most people in the U.S. thought major wars and violent attacks only happened in other parts of the world.
• Sudden shock: Hijacked planes hitting iconic U.S. buildings proved that everyday places could become front lines.
• Deep anxiety: Citizens lost their sense of personal and national security, as The Guardian notes about how the event unraveled the nation’s collective comfort.

Constant Reminders and Changes

• New rules: Airports added strict security checks, and the government passed laws like the Patriot Act to increase domestic surveillance.
• Media updates: Continuous news coverage kept the threat of future violence fresh in people’s minds.
• Daily caution: Many citizens grew more suspicious, careful, and distrustful of public spaces and strangers.

Shift in Modern Fears

• Changing threats: Over the years, general anxiety shifted from foreign terrorists to a mix of random violence and domestic extremism, according to a Reuters poll.
• Lasting impact: The psychological shift turned a secure nation into one that remains permanently alert to unseen dangers.

I was watching the fucked up bad acting (all Holly-Dirt is bad acting) Nuremberg. Just fucked up dude: Russell Gladiator Crowe, and then the tall fuck playing the prosecutor, and then the Queen movie guy playing the major, a psychiatrist.

On New Year’s Day 1958, 45-year-old Douglas Kelley burned himself while cooking for a Rose Bowl party, stormed into the bathroom, and grabbed a potassium cyanide capsule. He swallowed the poison in front of his wife and three children, and he didn’t even leave a note behind to tell them why. Kelley’s family believes that he was haunted by his past: He’d served as the chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison in 1945, where he’d interviewed nearly two dozen Nazi leaders about their crimes during the Holocaust. Kelley had formed a particularly close relationship with Hermann Göring, which is documented in the 2025 film “Nuremberg.” However, the movie doesn’t even begin to cover some of the more extraordinary parts of Kelley’s story — such as Göring asking Kelley to adopt his daughter. Göring died behind bars in 1946 after poisoning himself with potassium cyanide, just like Kelley did 12 years later.

Key Findings at Nuremberg

• Dr. Douglas Kelley evaluated 22 top Nazi prisoners, including Hermann Göring, during the 1945 trials.
• Normal Minds: He discovered that the defendants were not clinically insane or a special biological breed of evil.
• Common Traits: Most prisoners possessed average or high intelligence, deep narcissism, and intense ambition.
• Moral Void: They simply lacked empathy and a moral compass, functioning like ruthless opportunists rather than madmen.

The Warning for America

• Fascism Can Spread: Kelley realized that under the right conditions, ordinary people anywhere are capable of committing terrible acts.
• Political Danger: He cautioned that American politicians could exploit public fears, target minority groups, and divide citizens for power.
• Need for Vigilance: He urged the public to protect democracy by thinking critically and rejecting leaders who weaponize hate.

Direct evidence of genocidal intent

Empty heading

Many of the unlawful acts documented by Amnesty International were preceded by officials urging their implementation. The organization reviewed 102 statements issued by the Israeli government, military officials and others between October 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024. Many dehumanized Palestinians and called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them.

Of these, Amnesty International identified 22 statements made by senior officials in charge of managing the offensive that appeared to call for or justify genocidal acts, providing direct evidence of genocidal intent. This language was frequently replicated, including by Israeli soldiers on the ground, as evidenced by audiovisual content verified by Amnesty International. This evidence shows soldiers making calls to “erase” Gaza or to make it uninhabitable and celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mosques, schools and universities.

Kelly sort of missed the memo on the Jews murdering British and Palestinian civilians in Palestine way before the Nakba.

At the heart of Kelley’s warning is the banality of authoritarianism. Nazism did not begin with gas chambers; it began with grievance, fear, economic instability and the promise of national renewal. It was normalised step by step, through propaganda, scapegoating and the steady erosion of democratic norms. Kelley observed how easily people rationalised cruelty when it was framed as duty, patriotism or obedience to authority.

Crucially, Kelley rejected the comforting myth that “it couldn’t happen here”. He argued that this belief is itself a form of denial that leaves societies dangerously unprepared. When people assume that fascism belongs only to another time or another nation, they fail to recognise its early warning signs in their own political culture: the dehumanisation of minorities, contempt for the rule of law, attacks on the press, and the glorification of strongman leadership.

AND THAT EVIL in small doses is the NANNY state, and their AI fucking orgasms, finding every fucking shred of evidence that I have ever written stating that Jews and Israel are a continuing crime scene.

Judaism, Zionism and Conflation-grasping the Kosher Trinity…

Jewish Anti Zionists (AKA AZZ) are occasionally irritated by the ‘conflation’ of ‘Zionism and Judaism’ but the terms are inherently related.

Conflation is usually understood as the merging of two or more distinct sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one. Does this concept apply to Zionism and Judaism? Are Zionism and Judaism distinct terms? Are Jews and Zionism categorically different from each other?

For example, can Americanism and exceptionalism be conflated? Can round and circular be conflated? The distinction between terms that are related can be confusing. But the relationship between Jews and Zionism is clear. This is also true of the relationship among Zionism, Jews and Judaism. These terms are intrinsically related politically, culturally, religiously and at times they form a metaphysical continuum.

Apartheid is a racist system of exploitation. The Jewish state doesn’t want to exploit the Palestinians; it wants them gone. It was born as an ethnic cleanser and it quickly transitioned into a genocidal monster echoing some of its most insanely brutal Biblical verses.

Nanny Blue States

Fascist Christian Red States.

And a rape culture:

Phone records provide ‘irrefutable proof’ of sexual assault allegations against Trump, lawyer says

The Butterfly Effect? A Cornell University study showed that monarch larvae fed milkweed leaves heavily dusted with pollen from Bt corn suffered higher mortality, ate less, and grew slower.

Paulo Kirk

Sep 07, 2026

Bt-modified corn produces pollen containing crystalline endotoxin from the bacterium genes. When this corn pollen is dispersed by the wind, it lands on other plants, including milkweed, the exclusive food of monarch caterpillars and commonly found around cornfields.

Says John E. Losey, Cornell assistant professor of entomology and the primary investigator on the study: “We need to look at the big picture here. Pollen from Bt-corn could represent a serious risk to populations of monarchs and other butterflies, but we can’t predict how serious the risk is until we have a lot more data. And we can’t forget that Bt-corn and other transgenic crops have a huge potential for reducing pesticide use and increasing yields. This study is just the first step, we need to do more research and then objectively weigh the risks versus the benefits of this new technology.”

Everywhere I go in America, I hear this:

“Oh, I can’t eat that; I have Crohn’s disease, or Cushing’s, or Hashimoto’s, or IBS or leaky gut syndrome or diabetes or celiac’s or allergies to soy, corn, eggs, fish, nuts, milk, melons, blueberries, vegetables of all kinds, and cold air.”

The butterflies overwinter in Mexico and by the spring begin migrating north. The first generation of the year crosses into Texas, other Gulf Coast states and Florida, seeking milkweed on which to lay their eggs and feed. By late May or early June, the second generation of adults has emerged and heads north to areas including the Midwest Corn Belt. Monarch caterpillars are feeding on milkweed during the period when corn is shedding pollen, Losey says. Thus “they may be in the right place at the right time to be exposed to Bt-corn pollen.”

Chronic disease touches nearly every American household — across every age, community, and corner of the country.

The numbers are striking:

▪️ 76% of U.S. adults have one or more chronic diseases
▪️ 51% have two or more chronic diseases
▪️ 194 million Americans are living with at least one chronic condition

Poison by any other name is still POISON.

Despite headwinds like the war in Europe, high inflation, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US chemical industry made it out of 2022 in relatively good shape. That is one interpretation of the results of C&EN’s new survey of the top 50 US chemical producers, which is based on these firms’ financial results for 2022.

These 50 chemical makers posted combined sales of $376.7 billion, an 11.4% increase from a year ago and a new record for the annual survey. Only six firms posted a sales decline.

But for the 43 firms that disclose profit figures, combined chemical operating profits fell 4.8%, to $55.2 billion. Sixteen firms posted an earnings decline. One company, Trinseo, posted a loss.

Many of those that reported reduced profits—Dow, ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell Industries, and Westlake—are large petrochemical makers. The petrochemical industry built a lot of capacity in recent years, and the sector is in a cyclical downturn. In addition, energy prices rose sharply in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine. Oil prices spiked by 33% in the first half before settling down.

In contrast, fertilizer makers had a tremendous year. Sales at Mosaic, which makes phosphate fertilizers, rose 54.8%, lifting the firm to number 4 in the US top 50. Sales at the nitrogen fertilizer maker CF Industries skyrocketed 71.1%, propelling it to number 8.

But even those gains are modest compared with the jump at Albemarle, a major supplier of lithium for electric car batteries. Its sales more than doubled, launching it from 24 in last year’s ranking to 15 this year.

Spending on the future was mixed at chemical firms. The 42 companies that disclose capital spending figures reported a combined rise of 22.2%, to $20.1 billion. Some 26 firms report R&D spending. Their combined total was $3.2 billion, a 1.0% decline.

Many firms departed this year’s US top 50. Kraton was acquired in March 2022 by South Korea’s DL Chemical for $2.5 billion. The polymer and pine chemical firm was number 34 in last year’s survey. The electronic materials maker CMC Materials, number 42 last year, was acquired in July 2022 by Entegris—ranked 41 this year—for $5.7 billion.

In April 2022, the industrial conglomerate Prince International, backed by the private equity firm American Securities, bought Ferro, number 43 in last year’s ranking, for $2.1 billion. Prince and Ferro then merged with Chromaflo Technologies to form Vibrantz Technologies. As a private company, Vibrantz does not publicly report financial results.

Minerals Technologies and Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last year’s numbers 49 and 50, respectively, didn’t have enough revenues to make the cut this year.

Debuting in the ranking at a hefty number 26 is Ascend Performance Materials. The nylon 6,6 business, once part of Solutia, is owned by the private equity firm SK Capital and is now disclosing its annual sales.

Other newcomers are firms riding a wave of high commodity prices. LSB Industries and CVR Partners, numbers 45 and 46, respectively, are both nitrogen fertilizer producers. Livent, the lithium business that spun out of FMC in 2019, nearly doubled sales in a single year and comes in at number 48. Sisecam Resources, wrapping up the list at number 50, makes soda ash.

The C&EN ranking includes only companies that publicly report sales from chemicals. Some large companies would likely make the list if they disclosed these figures. For example, Invista, a polymer and fiber business owned by the privately held Koch Industries, would easily be on the list, possibly near the top. SI Group and TPC Group, two other private firms, would also probably make the survey. In addition, some diversified public firms don’t break out chemical sales—for example, Procter & Gamble with its oleochemical business.

By highlighting some of the worst offenders on the market, EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Chemicals shows you which chemicals in food to avoid:

Potassium bromate

Potassium bromate is a possible human carcinogen added to flour used in packaged baked goods.

Propylparaben

Propylparaben is a preservative used in pastries and some tortillas. It causes developmental and reproductive harm.

BHA

Butylated hydroxyanisole, better known as BHA, is a preservative used in cured meats and other foods. Multiple sources have identified it as a possible human carcinogen.

BHT

Butylated hydroxytoluene, also called BHT, is a preservative found in cereals and other foods. It’s a chemical cousin of BHA and is a possible human carcinogen.

Titanium dioxide

Titanium dioxide is a color additive used mostly in candy. It may damage DNA.

Seven artificial dyes

Synthetic food dye can be found in many types of food and beverages. It can affect development and cause behavioral difficulties in children. There are seven dyes that are especially concerning: Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3.

Aspartame

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that can affect the hormones that regulate metabolism and have a negative effect on weight control. It has also been linked to heart disease and increased risk of cancer.

ADA

Azodicarbonamide, or ADA, is used as a dough conditioner and strengthener, as well as a bleaching agent in breads and pastries. ADA has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. It may also cause liver and kidney injury and affect the blood and the nervous and respiratory systems.

Propyl gallate

Propyl gallate is a preservative used in vegetable oil, meat products and chewing gum, among other products. It may cause hormone disruption and has been linked to an increased risk of asthma, hyperactivity and even cancer.

Sodium benzoate

Sodium benzoate is a preservative used mostly in carbonated drinks, fruit juice, salad dressing and fermented foods. When combined with ascorbic acid, citric acid and vitamin C, it has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. The reaction between sodium benzoate and any of these three compounds forms benzene, a chemical associated with blood cancer.

Methylene chloride, trichloroethylene and ethylene dichloride

Methylene chloride, trichloroethylene and ethylene dichloride are solvents used in the production of decaffeinated coffee and tea and certain spices. These three chemicals are linked with an increased risk of cancer.

Sodium nitrite

Sodium nitrite is an additive used to preserve meat. When added to processed foods, nitrites are associated with an increased risk of cancer.

Tip of the fucking iceberg, but this Jew, man, Satan on Crack:

Yeah, butterflies:

Nine-year-old Wafaa Akila was killed with her father in Gaza City after leaving school to buy supplies for the new year.

Key Developments

• Wafaa Yousef Akila, nine, had just begun the new school year in Gaza after prolonged disruption caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
• After classes, she went with her father, Yousef, to buy notebooks, pens and other school supplies when an Israeli strike hit their car.
• Wafaa and her father were killed in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, while others were wounded in the attack.

A First Day of School

Wafaa Yousef Akila was nine years old when she began what should have been a new chapter in her childhood.

Like thousands of children across Gaza, she was returning to school after a prolonged interruption caused by Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip.

Her expectations were those of any child beginning a new academic year: notebooks, pens, a school bag and the chance to see classmates again.

On Sunday, Wafaa attended her first day of school. After classes, she left with her father, Yousef, to buy the school supplies she still needed for the days ahead. It was supposed to be an ordinary family errand marking the beginning of a school year.

Instead, it became their last journey together.

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Killed While Buying School Supplies

According to Palestinian sources cited by Al-Jazeera, an Israeli missile struck the car carrying Wafaa and her father in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City.

Both were killed in the attack, while others were wounded. The strike turned the objects associated with Wafaa’s return to school, notebooks, pens and supplies, into part of the scene of destruction.

Gaza Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Barsh drew attention to the circumstances of her killing, asking what threat a school bag, notebook or pen could represent.

Wafaa never returned for her second day of school.

A Story beyond One Child

Wafaa’s killing resonated widely because it reflected a much larger reality confronting Gaza’s children.

The new school year has begun amid widespread destruction, displacement and the deaths of thousands of children and family members throughout the Israeli war.

For many students, returning to classrooms has meant returning without parents, siblings or classmates who were killed during the genocide.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 174,000.

Thousands of children are among those killed, while much of Gaza’s educational infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged, leaving an entire generation of Palestinian children to pursue their education amid death, displacement and destruction.

(PC, AJA, Palestinian media)

Two Jews in a pod:

The Rape of the Mind is a 1956 book by Dutch-American psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo that examines how totalitarian regimes use brainwashing, coercion, and psychological torture to control human thought. Edward Bernays was an American pioneer in public relations and mass propaganda who applied psychology to shape public opinion and consumer behavior.

While Meerloo focused on the defensive analysis of authoritarian “menticide” (the killing of the spirit), both figures explored how mass psychology can be deployed to manipulate the human mind.

• Shared Territory: Both Meerloo and Bernays recognized that the conscious mind is vulnerable to hidden psychological triggers and mass suggestion.
• Opposing Lenses:
  • Bernays treated psychological manipulation as a practical craft to be utilized for commerce and political steering.
  • Meerloo viewed those very same techniques as a dangerous pathology—a form of spiritual violation that strips away human dignity and democratic freedom.

He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity

Viewers who elect to watch certain innocuous classic films on Disney’s streaming service, Disney Plus, will find themselves confronted by the following statement:

This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.

It’s a relief to know that the Disney corporation has such a powerful sense of moral responsibility. Absent this forewarning, defenseless children might find themselves exposed to subtle messages of oppression and hatred in films like Dumbo or Aladdin or Peter Pan. Or, at least, they might if Disney had not taken the additional precaution of removing these titles from children’s accounts altogether. Apparently, it is fine for minors to be exposed to quite frightening recent films like Raya the Last Dragon (2021), but a film like the original Aladdin (1992) is an altogether riskier proposition.

What makes these classic films so dangerous is sometimes difficult for even the alert and socially conscious adult to discern. Aladdin, online commentators have explained, features a villain whose nose is larger than that of the protagonist. In The Jungle Book (1967), the orangutan King Louie sings jazz and risks being perceived as a racist caricature (even though he was voiced by the Italian American musician, Louis Prima). Other films do include more obvious transgressions: the Native Americans in Peter Pan (1953) are a stock collection of prominent stereotypes, and the friendly crows in Dumbo (1941), one of whom is called Jim Crow, feature in scenes reminiscent of minstrel shows.

FAQ

Why do narcissists infantilize others?

Narcissists infantilize others to assert their dominance and maintain a sense of control, even if this control is imagined. Because narcissists are motivated to make themselves feel a sense of importance over others, infantilizing someone is an easy way to accomplish this.

Are Millennials infantilized?

Yes, any adult can be infantilized. Millennials represent roughly people born between 1981-1996, so they are old enough to be infantilized. Infantilizing young people often functions to devalue or undermine their knowledge and experience based on presumptions relating to age.

What does infantilization mean in sociology?

In sociology, infantilization refers to the practice of treating an adult like a child as it relates to the social structures between the actors. In other words, the sociological understanding of infantilization examines the existing power structures, sociocultural categories (e.g. race, age, status, etc.), and social norms of the system in which the infantilizing occurs.

It seems that throughout the stages of our lives, our perceived maturity level is a parabola.

At birth and infancy, we are at our lowest level of perceived maturity, slowly rising as we grow into adolescence and adulthood, and peaking when we reach what is deemed “middle-aged.” However, the curious part is where the dip occurs. Despite the steady rise seen for the first part of our lives, the fall seems to be abrupt and unexpected as we reach geriatric ages. As infants, we are, naturally, taken care of and spoken to in a tone and cadence that to any other age group would come across as patronizing. However, even though it seems like society would naturally view elderly people as the most mature group, it is often the opposite that happens: infantilization.

It seems that as an elderly person, you fall into one of two groups or typical tropes: infantilization or vilification. It has been repeatedly seen and reinforced in the media that almost all of these characters fall into one of the two. They are either deemed “cute” and in many ways treated similarly to how we treat babies, or they are seen as grouchy, rude, and made to be vilified by their age.

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What does insect collapse mean?

It’s hard to grasp the extent of insects’ impact on our daily lives, but loss of these species would be catastrophic for our planet.

They’re the most diverse form of life on Earth, making up 75% of all species and outnumbering humans 200 million to one. While there are only 5,416 mammal species, there are about 1 million insect species we know exist – and experts believe there are millions more yet to be discovered by humans.

Insects not only pollinate many of the plants we eat, but they help decompose matter, control weeds, and provide food for other forms of life. Without insects, entire ecosystems would collapse. How would that affect us? Well, it would drastically alter our current food systems, for a start.

Is insect collapse really happening?

The findings of the research are shocking, and The Guardian has proclaimed that insects could “vanish within a century”.

However, others express skepticism that this simply isn’t possible because of insects’ sheer numbers and their diversity, which makes them more resilient to disasters that could wipe humans off the planet. In addition, much of the data from the study was drawn from North America and Europe, with limited data from insect populations around the rest of the world.

But experts such as Michelle Trautwein from the California Academy of Sciences say that while the data isn’t spotless, the warning is legitimate, and we should take this information as an opportunity to figure out how serious the threat of insect collapse really is.

The 9 species under most threat

1. Butterflies

Photo by Erin Wilson

Butterflies, like many of the insects on this list, are indicators of environmental health. If we lost them, we may lose a key marker of the state of our environment.

Urbanisation seems to be playing a big role in their decline, as scientists found that butterfly species in cities and towns were declining at a much higher rate than their countryside counterparts (at 69% to 45%) – air pollution, loss of green spaces, paving of gardens, neglecting of parks and loss of brownfield sites were all cited factors.

The Monarch butterfly in the US is particularly under threat – scientists believe this could be due to the herbicide Roundup, which kills Milkweed – the Monarch caterpillar’s only food source.

What can you do to help the butterflies?

• Be aware that most pesticides (even organic ones like insecticidal soap or neem oil) will still kill or harm butterflies – avoid using pesticides in your garden; if you must, be sure to shield flowers from the sprays (further reading: How to Garden Organically.)
• Try to buy organic produce (discover boxes from your local organic farmer here), and grow your own organic food as much as possible (This action can help every insect in this list).
• Plant a butterfly garden, using wildflowers and grasses that supply nectar from April to October, and leaving areas of tall grass in your garden; as the RSPB reminds, don’t forget about feeding caterpillars, too!

2. Moths

Photo by Tim Goedhart

Moths are important because they provide food for other insects, spiders, frogs, toads, lizards, shrews, hedgehogs, bats and birds – especially baby birds. Britain’s Blue Tit chicks are estimated to eat 35 billion of them a year.

If we lost moths, we’d lose pollinators for important plants and, like butterflies, essential clues to the state of our own environment. Moths also seem to be in danger from urbanisation and pesticides – they’re also particularly affected by artificial lighting, which can alter their reproductive and pollinating behavior. Climate change seems to be a more cited factor for the decline of moths than of butterflies

Some numbers show that the moth population has declined by nearly 50% in Scotland. In England, two-thirds of 340 moth species declined from 1968-2003.

What can you do to help the moths?

• Plant a moth garden, with plenty of wild spaces, weeds and plant debris. The RSPB recommends piling up any dead wood you have lying around to make a little moth heaven.
• Reduce your carbon footprint – think minimising traveling and using less energy (that artificial lighting!) (This action can help every insect in this list).
• Become a volunteer moth (or butterfly) recorder – anyone can take part, from complete beginners to veteran lepidopterists!

3. Bees

Photo by Matthew T Rader

Of all the species on this list, you’ve probably heard most about the worrying decline of bees.

Bees pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we consume; without bees, many plants would die, triggering further extinctions of dependent organisms. For us, it wouldn’t mean all-out famine; but it would radically alter existing food systems, with many fruits and vegetables unable to be grown at large scale (for example, blueberries and cherries rely on honeybees for 90% of their pollination).

Bees are disappearing as a result of colony collapse disorder – in which the majority of worker bees spontaneously abandon a hive, leaving behind their queen. Its cause is mysterious, but is suspected to be due to pesticide poisoning and habitat change.

One-third of the United Kingdom’s bee population has disappeared just in the last 10 years, and 24% of Europe’s bumblebees are under threat of extinction.

What can you do to help the bees?

• Plant bee-friendly flowers and herbs – just a few pots on the windowsill will do. And on hot days you can even leave out a little bit of water in a saucer for them!
• Make a hotel for solitary bees – this can be as simple as a cardboard tube.
• Join one of the many campaigns: Save Our Bees, The Bee Cause, Save the Bees Project, Save the Bees.
• Sign petitions to stop bee-killing pesticides from being used on our food: one started by Avaaz was signed by 5 million people, and pushed Europe to vote for a ban on the pesticides. Petitions can really work!

For more detailed information, check out: 8 Simple Things You Can Do To Help The Bees

4. Dragonflies

Photo by Florian van Duyn

According to the research, 15% of all dragonfly species may be threatened. Dragonflies eat mosquitoes, and can be top predators in fishless wetlands. In turn, they provide food for fish and other amphibians, birds, bats, and spiders.

How can you help the dragonflies?

• Drive at the speed limit! Dragonflies are often killed by cars, but conservational biologists from South Dakota found that dragonflies survived colliding with cars at speeds below 35mph!
• You can also make a dragonfly garden, by introducing any kind of water source to your garden, and ensuring there’s a diverse selection of native plants.

5. Leafhoppers

Photo by Bernard Dupont

Leafhoppers are part of a larger class of insects called Cicadellidae, and look amazingly similar to leaves. Leafhoppers feed on a wide variety of plants; because they’re one of the most common and abundant herbivorous insects, they’re an important food source for birds and lizards.

One study shows that the number of leafhoppers in Germany plunged by 66% in the 50 years up to 2010. Social acidification due to heavy fertiliser use is suspected to be the main factor in their declining numbers.

How can you help the leafhoppers?

• It’s the same story: buy and eat organic.

6. Ground Beetles

Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim

I don’t like beetles for a bunch of reasons (for starters, they’re just too freaking fast. Some can run 9 km/hour, making them one of the fastest land animals on earth in relation to their size). But ground beetles are far more important than my dislike for them!

They eat other bugs, including maggots, and will also eat the seeds of weeds, which helps to regulate weed population. Without ground beetles, we’d have more pests and weeds (which some people would then, in turn, attempt to kill with even more harmful chemicals). But in the UK alone, huge declines in ground beetles have been seen in three quarters of the 68 carabid species studied from 1994-2008.

How can you help the ground beetles?

• First, recognise them as a helpful aide and not a pest, and encourage others to do the same. They’re not harmful to people (despite their alarming speed…).
• Next, you can make safe places for beetles in your yard or garden by placing rocks; you can even create, “beetle banks”: raised beds of perennial grasses and flowers complete with rocks and plenty of places to hide.
• Whenever you spot a stag beetle, be sure to report a sighting to the People’s Trust for Endangered Species using this quick form!

7. Caddisflies

Photo by Bruce Marlin

Caddisflies resemble moths, and live near freshwater like lakes and rivers. They play an important role in aquatic ecosystems – fish and birds eat them, and their larvae even help control algae populations.

Caddisflies are very sensitive to water pollution, especially from human origin, according to the research. The removal of trees also threatens this species. 68% of caddisfly species are now considered to be threatened.

What can you do to help the caddisflies?

• Plant trees (caddisflies enjoy cool shade); if you don’t have space in your own garden, you can use a proxy like search engine Ecosia, which uses your searches to plant trees!
• To prevent freshwater pollution, recycle appropriately, and encourage your local authorities to properly manage storm runoff in your city.

8. Mayflies

Photo by Richard Bartz

Mayflies are one of the oldest-known winged insects in existence. They hatch in fresh water and only live for about 24 hours.

Mayflies are active in the warmer months and are found in almost all types of water. What’s the point of saving them if they only live for a day, you ask? Well, during their brief time on earth, they provide food for dragonflies and other insects and mammals, including flying squirrels and fish.

Acidification of water, through industrial chemicals for example, is killing mayflies. 37% of mayfly species are considered to be under threat.

What can you do to help the mayflies? See the above section on caddisflies.

Another tip: mayflies are known to swarm, but don’t be alarmed by them – they’re completely harmless!

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