It has been a good week for leading COVID-19 vaccine makers, Pfizer PFE / BioNTech BNTX and Moderna MRNA, with a string of positive news.
The European Medicines Agency’s (“EMA”) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) has granted a positive opinion for a 30-µg booster dose of Pfizer’s/BioNTech’s Omicron BA.1 bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. CHMP recommended conditional marketing authorization of the booster dose for individuals 12 years and older. It also gave a positive opinion recommending authorization for the use of Moderna’s Omicron-targeting bivalent booster in the European Union.
Now they’re trying to tell you that the Covid-19 vaccines lose effectiveness over time and that you need repeat booster shots.
But they are lying yet again. The Covid-19 vaccines do not lose effectiveness. Instead, we are witnessing the degradation of the immune system of most people who have had more than one dose of the Covid-19 injection. In other words, the Covid-19 injections cause a new form of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. and we can prove it… (source)
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Then, of course, deploying common viral sense is thrown out the window. And they are all lining up for that big surge this fall and winter for these next and next genetically engineered variants from the DARPA weapon. With those next and next generation mRNA chemical hackers to create more sickness. Think HIV and then, AIDS, but with a different Fauci smile pasted on that pig with lipstick. And it is a very fine DARPA-Big Pharma-Great Reset Weapon. You think that there will be face to face education in five years? You think your Zoom stocks will flounder in the next five years? You think drone food deliveries are just for the very very rich? Ahh, the wonderful world of gain of function, gaming the world.
But if you just pile on the data, does anyone listen?
And I wonder how those high high energy bills and the cold cold room temperatures and the stress stress of the DNA mutated Inbred UK leaders putting on society with their constant UkroNaziLandia love will play out in terms of people’s, well, overall health?
Ahh, more news too true and fit to print:
The problem with the study is that after 48 hours they stopped observing the accumulation. So how does anybody know if that accumulation reverses? How do they know it doesn’t go on for months or even years? Until they can prove otherwise they are only guessing.
If the mRNA that has been injected into the body constantly invades cells and instructs them to create millions of spike proteins over a long period of time then this is one more constant thing that the immune system has to do. But then they tell you to get a booster jab, and then a fourth dose. Now the body is constantly creating millions more spike proteins and working the immune system even harder.
Whilst the body is busy battling millions of spike proteins, it’s unable to fight off other opportunist infections or cancer cells. This is similar to what occurs with HIV. HIV infects and destroys immune system cells, making it hard to fight off other diseases.
When HIV has severely weakened the immune system it can lead to Acquired Immunedeficiency Syndrome. But it isn’t the HIV virus that kills people infected with it, it is the opportunistic infections and cancers that the immune system can no longer fight off.
So this theory would make perfect sense as to why official Government data shows the triple vaccinated are more likely to be infected with Covid-19 and transmit Covid-19 than the unvaccinated.
It would make perfect sense as to why the fully vaccinated are more likely to be hospitalised and die of Covid-19 than the unvaccinated.
This is it for the world, as the leader (sic) of the free world (not), United $nake$ of AmeriKKKa throws trillions at NaziLandiaUkrainia, and we have the two really dispicable (both in terms of what’s on their surfaces and within their mouths and body cavities) running for Prez. Over a 160 years combined filth.
These stumbling fools are nothing compared to Big Pharma. Read Whintey Webb’s piece on DARPA and Welcome Trust,
A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction — by Whitney Webb
“The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it.”
And these Frankensteins are lining up pruning sheers for babies, to get AI and other tools in the babies’ brains to hack their moods, to carve out a better transhuman baby. And the beat goes on. You’d think this would be amazing news, for real journalists, but not in the legacy media since their million dollar homes and townhouses are paid for by Gates and Big Pharma and Big Data.
Transhumanist Toddlers?
The second program to be pursued by Wellcome Leap is called “The First 1000 Days: Promoting Healthy Brain Networks,” which is abbreviated as 1KD by the organization. It is arguably the most unsettling program because it seeks to use young children, specifically infants from three months to three-year-old toddlers, as its test subjects. The program is being overseen by Holly Baines, who previously served as strategy development lead for the Wellcome Trust before joining Wellcome Leap as the 1KD program leader.
1KD is focused on developing “objective, scalable ways to assess a child’s cognitive health” by monitoring the brain development and function of infants and toddlers, allowing practitioners to “risk-stratify children” and “predict responses to interventions” in developing brains.
The program description document notes that, up to this point in history, “our primary window into the developing brain has been neuroimaging techniques and animal models, which can help identify quantitative biomarkers of [neural] network health and characterise network differences underlying behaviours.” It then states that advances in technology “are opening additional possibilities in young infants.”
The program description goes on to say that artificial neural networks, a form of AI, “have demonstrated the viability of modelling network pruning process and the acquisition of complex behaviours in much the same way as a developing brain,” while improvements in machine learning, another subset of AI, can now be used to extract “meaningful signals” from the brains of infants and young children. These algorithms can then be used to develop “interventions” for young children deemed by other algorithms to be in danger of having underdeveloped brain function. (Source & Source)
And, that is the deal, right, somehow the Jan. 6 event, selfies and all, and mostly middle class whites “storming the Capitol” could only happen in some Banana Republic or Third World backwater?
It’s this obsession with 1, 2, 3, and the terms were coined in the 1950s during the start of the Cold War. So, third world would be those countries with abject poverty, no governance, no health care, no infrastructure. You know, the salt of the earth. The oppressed. Those countries that did not decide to fail or succeed.
And it’s not like the “First World” is the best world in every way. It has pockets of deep urban and rural poverty, says Paul Farmer, co-founder of the nonprofit Partners in Health and a professor at Harvard Medical School. “That’s the ‘Fourth World,’ ” Farmer says, referring to parts of the United States and other wealthy nations where health and economic problems loom large.
That is the reality — Fourth World, or the underdeveloping West. See Manfred Max-Neef here on underdeveloping USA:
And then, in addition, you know, bring consumption closer to production. I live in the south of Chile, in the deep south. And that area is a fantastic area, you know, in milk products and what have you. Top. Technologically, like the maximum, you know? I was, a few months ago, in a hotel, and there in the south, for breakfast, and there are these little butter things, you know? I get one, and it’s butter from New Zealand. I mean, if that isn’t crazy, you know? And why? Because economists don’t know how to calculate really costs, you know? To bring butter from 20,000 kilometers to a place where you make the best butter, under the argument that it was cheaper, is a colossal stupidity, because they don’t take into consideration what is the impact of 20,000 kilometers of transport? What is the impact on the environment of that transportation, you know, and all those things? And in addition, I mean, it’s cheaper because it’s subsidized. So it’s clearly a case in which the prices never tell the truth. It’s all tricks, you know? And those tricks do colossal harms. And if you bring consumption closer to production, you will eat better, you will have better food, you know, and everything. You will know where it comes from. You may even know the person who produces it. You humanize this thing, you know? But the way the economists practice today is totally dehumanized. (Max-Neef)
99 percent of human qualities and abilities are simply redundant for the performance of most modern jobs
The Chilean economist is talking about the embedded energy, the cost of that butter from New Zealand puttering its way all the way to Chile. Energy expended to produce that butter. You know, green grass, ferilizers, all the internal combustion engines, the metals milled and mined, all of that, plus the animals, the dairies, and the vast problems with confined animal operations, and then, zoonotic diseases, all the drugs needed (sic) to keep those cows producing, and then the hormones to produce 10-20-30 Percent more milk? Well, then the way of life those dairymen and dairywomen have, and then, well, just what is that cost? But then to have taxpayers subsidize the entire systems that would produce, package, transport the butter to Chile? What cost is that? Who makes the money — how many middle men are there? This is what modern capitalism, unfettered, driven by hydrocarbons, driven by the people’s caches, from their futures.
This is a discussion that is dead in the water. No more deep critiques of this corporate fascism, this corporate upside down world of ineffeciency and hubris and endless waste of resources and energy. With all of that container ship insanity, well, here we are — oceans and oceans worth of crisscrossing goods, back and forth, raw logs from Oregon to Korea, and then back as cardboard products, and then, well, you get the picture. This is what unfettered capitalism and monopolyism is all about.
Oh, yes, Korea has the biggest one: Today’s largest container ship can carry about 24,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit). The carrying capacity of today’s largest container vessels is equivalent to no less than a 44-mile long freight train.
The amount of fuel, depending on speed, can be up to 63,000 gallons a day. That’s 20 days at sea: 1.2 million gallons? Many cargo ships still use “bunker fuel”—the sludgy dregs of the petroleum refining process. The noxious blend is dirt-cheap, making it possible to charge next to nothing to ship goods internationally. All of which means our unbridled consumerism hitches a ride on some of the dirtiest vehicles on earth. And these ships idle waiting to be unloaded, or loaded.
And, 90 percent of the stuff we buy came to us via container ship.
Oh, those externatlities.
Then, those clean energy things, Turbines:
From the 1,000 pounds (1 ton) of rare earth minerals required to manufacture a single wind turbine to the massive mineral demands of the data center industry currently flourishing across the remnants of Paleogene-era volcanic plains stretching from Scotland to southwest Greenland known as the North Atlantic Igneous Province, dependence on the extraction of non-renewable resources represents the first fault line in the prevailing narratives surrounding our “clean” digital future.
Clever marketing terms like “cloud computing” and the ubiquitous “world wide web” have fostered the mistaken perception of the Internet as some kind of ethereal, immaterial entity floating above us rather than a physical reality with very definite and destructive relationships to geography and land use. This fantasy helps to diffuse the potential for social unrest and solidarity with any resistance movements transnational companies might encounter along the way, making recent events in Greenland all the more important. (Raul Diego)
Oh, that clever brainwashing and Stockholm Syndrome and fear pornography. Double-speak and image creation and massaging and pseudo events and co-opting ideas, spinning the old into something a far cry from the new, that is the criminal enterprise of marketing, propagandists, liars, the elite, mass communication, the art of un-Journalism.
We have no agency as teachers to bring these issues of planned and perceived obsolescence into the critical thinking arena as Marxists and deep ecosocialists because going against marketing and buy-buy-buy mentality and the consumption-consumer model is, well, communism: the state or some entity telling us what to do, think, eat, drink, read, watch, use, build, grow, mine, mold, mill. You get the picture. We have the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the oligarchs and the Bill Gates and the WEF and Davos people all geared up for the universal basic poverty income, the idea of “You will own nothing and be happy,” all of the social impact, the transhumanism, all of those plans to put us into a digital gulag for control, for holding our feet to the fire, for the benefit of these fascists who put on a green cap and jet set all the way to their Epstein-like islands. The world is upside down, as I stated. Having global groups work to save the manatee, to stop coral bleaching, to maintain forests, to work on marine harvests, to help the poor, the farmers, to provide shelter and education, to work on moving people away from rising sea levels and 120 degree F summers, 70 days straight. Water, food, air, soil, safety — what a terrible thing to do on a bio-regional and cross national level. This is what the right wing has done, and the fake left wing has moved center right, and so, we have not real honest debate.
Until we have this useful idiot, smart as hell in terms of articulation and sick transhumanist glee, historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class.
But he calls us the useless generation. As we can see in California, where teachers have to get into a room-letting deal just to live, or where school districts have to building apartment complexes to house teachers, we will be quickly shifting education to a superstar master course sort of scenario — MOOC, massively open on-line courses. Imagine that, those beautiful lazy hazy days sipping Arizona Tea and chewing on Snicker’s bars while attending your graduate class via the internet, the web, the Zoom Doom. This is something I was warning about in 1983, and or course, the sheeple scoffed or laughed it off.
So, how do we look at the energy embedded in Zoom, or the ramifications of Zoom versus in-person, and the value of urban and suburban space with bricks and mortar schools, colleges? And, why haven’t the college reinvented themselves to bring more people to campus, to expand horizons, to have temporary housing there for those struggling to find housing. Pallet Shelters, or thereby like them?
Affordable, quick-build ‘tiny homes’ can serve as a key stepping stone to a permanent housing situation for people experiencing homelessness.
There are 20 Pallet shelters at Safe Stay Community. The village replaced an encampment located in the same area. Outsiders Inn, an organization dedicated to lifting people out of homelessness through advocacy, support, and resources, is the service provider. All of their staff have lived experience.
There is so much work to do here, in USA, elsewhere. Bottled water to Jackson, Mississippi because pump motors are fried?
Now now, what did Bumbling Biden say last night in his unstately state of the union? Trump This, and Trump That? It is a sickness in this duopoly: Republicans love Trump and Democrats hate Trump, but the duoploy does nothing for the people. Nothing. 70 billion dollars worth of war weapons and some cold cash for the most corrupt and ruthless country in Europe, Ukraine, as the strategy of the Neo Nazis and the Legacy Nazis under the leadership (sic) of a Jewish Comic and his Jewish-Israeli Ooligarchs is to bomb Europe’s largest nuclear power station?
The Ukrainian military publicly admitted striking the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in an official General Staff briefing on Friday. Previously, Kiev had claimed that Russian forces used the plant as a military base; now it says all troops have relocated due to the visit by IAEA inspectors.
And so, the decay is here, and so many people I interact with see the USA and Europe turning into Third World outfits. Again, that’s just more soft-shoe mumbo-jumbo. Because, Canada, USA, UK and Israel, and other places in EuroLand, they are advancing this transhumanism agenda. China, too, wanting everything on a digital chip — eye scans, DNA markers, entire histories of us, as files. We are the new Homo Datapithecus.
The issue is now these rare earth minerals, and the Silicon Icarus piece listed above under Diego’s link is all about Greenland.
Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and Bill Gates are among the many investors in another mineral staking project using proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology to identify deposits of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum for electric batteries and other ‘clean energy’ products. The joint venture is located about 650 miles north of Narsaq and has been making headlines in recent weeks as hundreds of people, including geologists, geophysicists, cooks and pilots, descend on the southwestern coast of Greenland to scavenge for mineral samples.
Oh, Greenland: “Greenland’s entire population could fit inside Soldier Fieldin Chicago with room to spare. Almost 90% of its 56,000 residents are native Inuit, with the remainder mostly consisting of Danish transplants and other Nordic peoples. Denmark’s colonial tutelage has not disappeared entirely and despite the granting of home rule privileges, the European country still controls Greenland’s foreign policy and defense.”
[Mariane Paviasen, anti-uranium mining activist and MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit Party in Greenland]
And so it goes, now in this giant rock polishing machine, as we get tossed around and around until we either crack like a fissured agate, or get our hard truths polished down to a glimmering facade. Too old, too young, too woke, too rich, too poor, too sick, too healthy, too smart, too dumb, too west coast, too east coast, too flyover state, too coached, too raw, too refined, too bought, too sold, too colonized, too radical, too conservative, too capitalist, too communist, too this and too that.
So the conversations are almost always now in a cul-de-sac, with a million keyboard or Zoom warrior, pumping themselves up with endless streaming madness. We have so many off-limits talks, and in some sense, people want but don’t want the truth . . . or truths that at least fit their square pegs in a round hole world.
While all the bullshit green new fascism deal rules are unfolding, while a slice of humanity deems nitrogen fertilzer or burning hydrocarbons off limits, the reality is that we have to retrench, and work bio-globally to mitigate some very very harsh times a coming. Having forced eletric vehicles is not the step. Charging $1000 a month for heat and hot water in the winter is not the step. These steps are all for the rich, for their financial aggrandizement. For us, a new Grapes of Wrath, this new The Jungle, all these freaks in power circles, especially now in the Eurozone and UK. Unbelievable shallow and tone-deaf and history challenged fools.
Hothouse Earth (Icon Books, August 2022.) by Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London pulls no punches. Accordingly, “There is no chance of avoiding climate breakdown.” That statement prompts the idea that maybe climate breakdown is already here. It sure looks and feels that way.
Climate experts still blather on that we have time left, although not very much, to bring about meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It’s not going to happen without a global force from the grassroots up, not top down by Elon Musk and Bill Gates and the likes of the World Economic Forum or the Pro-Pro-War greens we are seeing coming out of German.
I know a lot of people working in climate science who say one thing in public but a very different thing in private. In confidence, they are all much more scared about the future we face, but they won’t admit that in public. I call this climate appeasement and I believe it only makes things worse. The world needs to know how bad things are going to get before we can hope to tackle the crisis. (“How Bad Can It Get?” by Robert Hunziker)
The great divide is widening, while these elites like Macron vacation on their champange cruises telling the world that there is now an end of abundance. Imagine that, EuroZone France, a Rothschild worker, Macron, blurting out to the lowly people, “let them eat cake but not take hot showers or take a Sunday spin in the Renault for a picnic. “
Condemning the Capitol Hill riot, President George W. Bush and Senator Marco Rubio likened it to political upheavals in “Banana Republics” and the “third world.” But Lucia Dammert, a Wilson Center Global Fellow and Professor at the University of Santiago of Chile objects to the comparison to the Global South — adding that the U.S. has played a key role in sparking the turbulence, especially in Latin America. (Source)
no mail, no medications . . . the empty brain of the Duopoly, Privatizers and the Hobbled Unions . . .
Postal union officials are sounding the alarm about the potentially damaging impacts of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s effort to consolidate post offices across the U.S. as part of his widely condemned 10-year plan to reshape the public mail agency.
GovernmentExecutivereported Friday that “more than 200 post offices and other U.S. Postal Service facilities are set to shed some of their operations as soon as this year as the mailing agency seeks to consolidate those functions at larger buildings, according to documents shared by management.”
“The changes will mean letter carriers no longer go to their local facility to pick up mail for their route, instead traveling farther distances after starting at a consolidated location. The impacted post offices will still conduct their retail operations, but many of the back-end functions will be stripped away and relocated,” the outlet noted. “The impactedsites are located in Georgia, New York, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Kentucky, Washington, North Carolina, Indiana, and Arkansas. The initial consolidations are expected to begin as soon as next month.”
Each day, as each sunrise lifts the wrinkles onto Capitalist lands and all the dead-weight created by capitalists, there are a million things WRONG. It is a world where people are stuck in their own Private Idaho, stuck in their Make Believe Land. The amount of distraction in the USA is amping up, since there are fewer haves, but still a growing bit of haves who control the destinies against the have’s not.
My trip to Vancouver-Portland shows me the amassing amount of toys, new cars, SUV’s, and RVs with new Jeep Cherokees in tow. And so, we would, judging the state of highways, and then the neighborhoods, to believe that the world is just fine and dandy. No problems.
Neighborhoods where cars and trucks and campers and motorcycles and ATVs and so so much junk in the front and back yards.
Yet this fellow, like others, are human stain, the enemy of the people:
In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.
Speaking more bluntly than he has previously, Powell pledged that the US central bank would sustain higher interest rates in the name of fighting inflation, with increased unemployment and economic “pain” to be expected as the consequences. The Fed is widely anticipated to again raise rates by 0.5 to 0.75 percentage points in September.
“Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth,” Powell said. “Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions. While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses.”
Behind the Fed chair’s grey-hued euphemisms stands a ruthless class policy. With “softening of labor market conditions,” Powell is describing a deliberate jobs bloodbath, in which higher rates will encourage mass layoffs and the inevitable calamity this entails for workers and their families. It will mean staggering rises in poverty, hunger, substance abuse, foreclosures, homelessness and suicides, under conditions of an already acute social crisis. (source)
And then, more of the same, a la France:
After a summer marked by drought, massive wildfires and the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a stark speech on Wednesday at the first cabinet meeting following the summer holiday break, warning of tough months ahead as the world faces a possible “end of abundance”.
“I believe that we are in the process of living through a tipping point or great upheaval. Firstly because we are living through… what could seem like the end of abundance,” said Macron, 44.
The speech appeared designed to prepare the country for what promises to be a difficult winter ahead, with energy prices rising sharply and many families struggling with inflation.
“The moment we are living … may seem to be structured by a series of crises, each more serious than the other,” Macron said, referring to the drought, fires and storms that have hit France during the summer as well as the Ukraine war and disruptions to global trade. (source)
Enemies:
And hands are going up, even with these two insightful bloggers: “What will an EU economic collapse look like?”
I was at a book pub in Portland, for a reading. I was asked by a 20-something gay guy (the place had four gay guys serving and cooking) for my vax pass. I had driven three and a half hours (four and a half with that sick Portland traffic on a Friday) to see my vax pass. In a small bookstore venue? I asked him why, and reminded him that after the reading, I was going to a venue to listen to amazing Jazz, Jz is Dead, in a place that will max out at 325 people in a small venue, with no vax fascist recommendations.
Again, my super communist and revolutionary roots get all tangled up when gay guys play this game: “Well, it’s just our policy. We want to keep everyone safe.”
I reminded him that the corrupt CDC has changed those policies, and I reminded him that I was coming from the coast, and I saw nothing on their web site requesting this. I reminded him that it is a question that hits me between the eyes the same way one I might ask him with the latest Fauci Madness: “Do you have your proof of no Monkey Virus? Did you get vaxxed?”
He was upset, and I told him that, a, I was a writer, b, a college teacher, and, c, social worker, so the question was part of a thought experiment.
Then, this reading which I came up to support, again, the editor who I like did it again: She read for the fourth time in four separate venues I was a part of a poem by some misinformed and racist woman who is Jewish (they tell us that) who happens to be part of some Jewish Museum up there, in Alaska. Zelensky are David against Orcs, err, Goliath, the Russians.
I had to leave for the music, soon after the editor read this person’s poem, and yes, the crowd in their Pelosi Putridity, loved it. I turned my back on her, and if I would have had time, I probably would have said something at the end, but I was off to see music:
Sure, at the venue, Mississippi Studios, there were maybe one out of 20 with face diapers on; most of them were twenty-and-thirty something.
Again, all is happy on the Western Culture front. The music and muscians were great, but there is still that religious stuff about how we need to count our lucky stars after all those pandemic losses — that is, those who got sick, died and the mandatory lockdowns and shuttering.
Black men on stage who will not criticize the Fauci, the Democrats, the entire folly and felonious aspect of what happened.
I was listening to Sorjourner truth radio, and Margaret was talking to an author talking about his new book on Malcolm and Martin, how they were becoming much more closer in their beliefs system. I’m having a difficult time finding that show, since it was probably thrown up on our local low power radio station from a few years or months ago as part of a fund drive. Pretty bad that the radio station doesn’t have the wherewithal to put in the specific show information, but the point is that listening to the male author and a female educator talk about Malcolm X and his Ballot or the Bullet speech is inspirational for me everytime.
“Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don’t hang you because you’re a Baptist; they hang you ‘cause you’re black.”
“Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom.”
“We need a self-help program, a do-it-yourself philosophy, a do-it-right-now philosophy, a it’s already-too-late philosophy. This is what you and I need to get with, and the only way we are going to solve our problem is with a self-help program. Before we can get a self-help program started we have to have a self-help philosophy.” — Malcolm X
Yeah, very odd times, for sure. Trump Derangement Syndrome with the liberals, and then with the conservatives, a stupidity about Trump and DeSantis, etc. One fellow I met wanted to challenge me, and he went on and on how his brother did 44 years at Boeing, how he just missed a reduction in forces 15 years in when tens of thousands got riffed, and again, he was telling me why do these kids and adults want their student loans rescinded.ontracts.
I said, firstly, the loan game is a criminal operation, and that when I went to school, I barely paid anything at the community college, and then at state universities for one undergraduate and two graduate degrees. I reminded him that his vaunted brother was working for US, getting paid by US taxpayer, and that Boeing is one corrupt company, in existence ONLY because of government contracts. And his brother was flown all over the place to work on US military AWACS, and at times, he would not work for weeks, but would be get paid to mess with ping pong and surfing on the internet and hanging out.
I reminded him that while I am a communist, just because I despise Biden and Obama and Clinton, the same despisng is an equal opportunity player against Bush, Nixon, Reagan, Trump.
They are criminals and against the people, so any shit coming out of a DeSantis is still shit, racist and fucked up in terms of the right to teach about slavery and the right to have Pride Parades and the right to HOUSING.
This fucker is as bad as the Pelosi fucker:
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 7, to give businesses, employees, children and families tools to stand up against discrimination and woke indoctrination. The bill includes provisions to prevent discriminatory instruction in the workplace and in public schools and defines individual freedoms based on the fundamental truth that all individuals are equal before the law and have inalienable rights. This legislation is the first of its kind in the nation to take on both corporate wokeness and Critical Race Theory in schools in one act. Read more here.
“No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”
“By signing this legislation, which is the first in the nation to end corporate wokeness and Critical Race Theory in our schools, we are prioritizing education not indoctrination,” said Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez. “We will always fight to protect our children and parents from this Marxist-inspired curriculum.” (source)
In case you haven’t been there lately We have, and the season is back I mean, it was, it was holiday weather for a minute Or when I was just on vacation I’ll tell you a story
There used to be an agreement between the seasons I mean, after a while they decided to sit down and work it out And they agreed that they were gonna just come and stay About three months each And then they would go to wherever seasons go When they’re not where you are And this would be a cycle and it would go on all the time
And then one year in America, one of the seasons got mad And decided it was going to stay Decided that the way things were done there made it feel at home He would not, he wouldn’t go when he was supposed to I mean it wasn’t the people The people runnin’ this stuff, you know what I’m sayin’
It was something, there was some kind of vibe there Made it feel like it weren’t leaving, it was just not, just not gonna go It wasn’t in terms of the temperature, it was in terms of the philosophy The politics, the psychology, the way things were going in other directions And so for a long time, where we come from there’s no spring And no summer and no fall
We have been taken over by the season of ice Very few people recognise it for what it is Although they feel uncomfortable Very few people recognise the fact that somehow the seasons don’t change I mean, you can acclimate it, you can politically acclimate it You can philosophically acclimate it
You start to, you start to relate everything to the season of ice And so your dreams become frozen, and your ideas become frozen Your promises become frozen in this Frozen days, and frozen nights Frozen aspirations and frozen inspiration
There’s something wrong, I mean, there’s something wrong I mean, there’s something wrong, I mean There’s something wrong, I mean We’d like to talk to you about a season that is taking over America The season is winter This song is called, “Winter in America”
From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures Circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Hey, they’ve been looking for the rain
Just like the cities staggered on the coastline Livin’ in a nation that just can’t much more Like the forest they buried beneath the highway Never had a chance to grow Well, they never had a chance to grow
And now it’s winter Come on, sing if you know the words Seemed like winter in America A time when all of the healers done been killed Or been betrayed, say People know that something’s wrong Everybody oughta know winter Seemed like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting Because, well nobody knows what to save Brother, save your soul Lord knows it’s winter in America
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper With free society Well, they struggled but they died in vain And now democracy is ragtime on the corners On the cord, hoping it’d rain Yes, he’s been a-hopin’ for some rain But it just don’t look like rain
And I see the robins, yeah, perched in barren tree tops Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor And like the peace sign that filtered in our dreams That never had a chance to grow Yeah, they never had a chance to grow Somebody want to go tell them it’s winter
It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, people who have done been killed Or been betrayed, say But the people know there’s something wrong Hey, it’s winter It seems like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting ‘Cause, well nobody knows what to save Aw, sister save your babies Yes, winter in America
I said hey, hey, hey It’s winter It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, brothers who have done been killed And put them in jail, say People know there’s something wrong Something wrong with winter
It feels like winter in America The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Well nobody knows what to save Yes and the truth is There’s nobody fighting, nobody fighting Nobody knows, nobody knows what to do, what to do The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Nobody knows what to save
and he gets air-time and a bully pulpit to yammer on and on . . .
And he has a new book, and he is on the talk circuit.
Jared Kushner received online ridicule for suggesting he could “live forever” thanks to exercise and advances in science, in what has since been labelled by an aide as being “tongue-in-cheek”.
Speaking on the YouTube channel LivesSigning on Thursday, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former adviser told listeners that he was keeping fit because his generation could be the first to escape death.
“I think there’s a good probability that my generation is — hopefully with the advances in science — either will be the first generation to live forever or the last generation that’s going to die,” the 41-year-old said. “So we need to keep ourselves in pretty good shape.”
Jew’s r Us
And, so, from afar, we watch and observe the Jewish Comic Killer and the attacks on Europse’s largest nuclear power facility and the hit lists and the sanctioned murders, but the reality is that a Kushner is another Made Mossad boy. Did the Jewish oligarchy kill the young lady?
Ukraine (SBU) – itself a mere tool of the CIA/MI6 combo that de facto rules Kiev.
The Azov operative is just a patsy. The FSB will never reveal in public the intel it has amassed on those that issued the orders, and how they will be dealt with.
One Ilya Ponomaryov, an anti-Kremlin minor character granted Ukrainian citizenship, boasted he was in contact with the outfit that prepared the hit on the Dugin family. No one took him seriously.
What is manifestly serious, however, is how oligarchy-connected organized crime factions in Russia would have a motive to eliminate Alexander Dugin, the Christian Orthodox nationalist philosopher who, according to them, may have influenced the Kremlin’s pivot to Asia (he didn’t).
These organized crime factions blamed Dugin for a concerted Kremlin offensive against the disproportional power of Jewish oligarchs in Russia. So these actors would have both the motive and the local know-how to mount such a coup.
If that’s the case, it potentially spells out a Mossad-linked operation – especially given the serious schism in Moscow’s recent relations with Tel Aviv. What’s certain is that the FSB will keep their cards very close to their chest – and retribution will be swift, precise and invisible. (Pepe Escobar, The Cradle)
And those elephants in the big room, no? Who owns the world? Hmm, Blackrock? Who started the war in Ukraine? Hmm, Kagan, Nuland, Blinken and their Goyim?
Who likes to murder people?
CIA, MI6, Mossad?
Douglas Valentine says that “Zelensky doesn’t go to the bathroom without asking permission from his CIA case officer.” (Covert Action Magazine)
This is what true leftists are up against. And, my Jewish “friends” and such, what a crime around how they have completely wrapped themselves around the merry-go-round of Mossad and CIA and Israeli and Israel-First media. They will not admit the crimes of the Jewish People. I see my circle has gotten smaller and smaller, almost a microdot. Nary a word against the Democrats, as if the rotten Republicans are somehow the only sypllitic monsters in the room. Amazing how colonized are the minds of people I used to have conversations with.
No criticism of Pelosi, Biden, the lot of them.
I have written about the Ukrainian hit list known as Mirotvorets, or “Peacekeeper,” twice before. The first time was in this article about internet censorship, and the second time was when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, Faina Savenkova, was added to the list for publicly speaking out against Kiev’s bloody war on Russian-speaking civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine, a region known as the Donbass.
This is the face of these crumbling democrats: “Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal heads the House Progressive Caucus, but that doesn’t mean she’s done much of anything to further actual progressive policy objectives. In fact, she spent much of a recent television interview heaping praise on President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin after the two finally agreed on passage of a bill with all but the most meager of progressive priorities removed in place of giveaways to the oil and gas industry.”
They are all the same, the Democrats in their skinny jeans fascism, and the red-neck Republicans, all ready for their forms of fascism. Dirty fingers of fascists shoving their digits into a woman’s body cavity as a show of their power to spash their Scatlet Letter onto my sisters’, aunts’, mothers’, daughters’ vagina and uteruses.
So, here we are with DC forcing students – Afrikan Americans — to be jabbed. Then, the other Democratic Party fascist (they are all the same, these women who are like school district Nazi’s and then these mayors like provosts and vice principals) demanding that New Yorkers get locked up if they test positive for a disease:
Last month, civil rights attorneys in New York State successfully overturned illegal health regulations enacted by Governor Kathy Hochul.
These regulations required anyone suspected of having a communicable disease to be detained by authorities or law enforcement and forced to quarantine.
Despite COVID-19 being behind us, the state is now appealing the decision, signaling that even with the pandemic being over, authorities are not prepared to give up their absolute power.
Naturally, this outrageous decision drew a lot of criticism, inspiring protesters to rally outside New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ office in objection. (source)
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The District of Columbia does not appear to have a contingency plan for unvaccinated students, who are banned from attending schools in person this fall after the first twenty days, according to comments made by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Thursday.
During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.
Over 40% of blacks ages 12-17 are not vaccinated, according to city data.
So, DC can’t get the National Guard to help with the immigrants the redneck Republican fascists in Texas and Florida are bussing to DC, but they back east are getting their pronound laws:
More than 65 percent of women in the Empire State and across the country are realtors, according to statewide and nationwide data, but one might probably not know that because of outdated pronouns that often refer to people in the industry as real estate salesmen.
The average realtor is a college-educated white woman in her mid-50s, who made a median gross income in the $71,000 to 85,000 range and had more than 16 years of experience in the industry, according to data from the New York State Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.
To reflect that, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that would update New York law, which will refer to people in the industry with gender-neutral pronouns such as real estate salespeople or a salesperson.
Here, the piece of human stain, in the white category, white shit-faced Republican male — THIS is America, pronouns and censorship:
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, seen attending a conference in Texas in early August, signed HB 1775 into law last year. (Photo: Pacific Press via Getty Images)
“For the second year in a row, students at Norman High will be without a certified English teacher for a substantial amount of time,” she told the local outlet.
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HB 1775, which Stitt signed into law in May 2021, limits how schools are able to discuss race and gender in classrooms. Critics say the legislation aims to ban conversations about critical race theory, which examines the systemic nature of racism in society.
And, that combative energy. I have been told I bring too much male energy and voice to a conference, conversation, group, even in supposedly safe spaces, bosses and human stain females have chastised my maleness.
Here you go, more rotten Americans: i don’t know who these overpaid idiots are (Wilde and Puch and Pine, but alas, this is it for America, blue underwear wearing demon-crats.
Olivia Wilde’s second feature film, the psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, has one of the most impressive casts of 2022, including proven A-listers (Florence Pugh, Chris Pine), a music superstar in his first lead role (Harry Styles), and a supporting cast filled out by great comic performers (Nick Kroll, Kate Berlant) and acclaimed dramatic actors (Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne). But you won’t be seeing one of her original picks for the cast, Shia LaBeouf: Shortly after production began on the twisty, 1950s-set drama, she fired him and replaced him with Styles. And she’s finally explaining why.
LaBeouf and Pugh were set to play a married couple that unravels after he takes a new job with a mysterious, sinister employer, but his confrontational style proved too much. In a Variety profile, Wilde said, “I say this as someone who is such an admirer of his work. His process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions. He has a process that, in some ways, seems to require a combative energy, and I don’t personally believe that is conducive to the best performances. I believe that creating a safe, trusting environment is the best way to get people to do their best work. Ultimately, my responsibility is to the production and to the cast to protect them. That was my job.”
Ugly human female and too male male:
AmeriKKKa, and endless pile of shit faced humanity on all sides of the putrid political manure pile:
Administrators at a Nebraska school shuttered the school’s award-winning student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues, leading press freedom advocates to call the move an act of censorship.
Former Viking Saga newspaper staff members Marcus Pennell, left, and Emma Smith, right, display a pride flag outside of Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb., July 20, 2022. Administrators of a Nebraska public school have shuttered the school’s award-winning student newspaper, just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues. (McKenna Lamoree/The Independent via AP) — source!
While we live in a putrid country run by putrid Red and Blue stains, and rents are going going going up up up.
“When we got a new lease increase, we really wanted to talk to the landlord and discuss an option of can we negotiate a little bit or is there any wiggle room,” she says. “And they just wrote back within 15 minutes saying no, that they already gave us a preferred rate of that $700 increase. So they were not willing to budge on negotiations at all.”
The two thought about signing a lease elsewhere, but Cleary lost her job so they decided to move into an Airbnb until she finds employment. (source)
Check out the map after SCOTUS did their dirty digit duty: Map
“After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State”examines laws, constitutions, and court decisions on abortion—and assigns each state, territory, and the District of Columbia to one of five categories: Expanded Access, Protected, Not Protected, Hostile, and Illegal. Click through this tool to learn about all the bans and restrictions currently on the books in each state. This tool is updated in real time.
Oh, that California crap governor, how his multiple millions keep him going:
Once again, farm workers are marching the 335 miles from Delano to Sacramento in triple-digit heat, this time hoping to get California Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would make it easier for migrant workers to vote to unionize. That they even have to make this pilgrimage, in 2022 and in a Democratic stronghold, for rights that other workers have had for years, is not just wrong but embarrassing. Yet last year, Newsom vetoed a similar bill on account of its “various inconsistencies.”
In one of the spiciest columns I’ve ever read anywhere, The Bee’s Marcos Bretón responded by noting the internal consistency of the governor’s position: “The governor is, after all, the owner of a boutique winery. He is also the owner of a restaurant group, and in California, these industries are built on the backs of Mexican workers who are cheap, reliable, efficient and powerless. Newsom is rich; they are just Mexicans. The governor acted accordingly.” Newsom, whose almost 500 appointments as governor have left Latinos seriously underrepresented, hasn’t said what he’ll do this year.
But meanwhile, he still hasn’t given 89-year-old Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with César Chávez, the meeting she’s asked for. Sure, because what has the civil rights icon done in her nearly 90 years to rate that courtesy?
Ahh, California, that STATE:
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) argued in a Twitter post this week that such labels as “the homeless” and “homeless people” need to be replaced by more “inclusive” terms, including “people living outside” and “people who are unhoused.” The idea is to get rid of the “negative stigma” around homelessness and “emphasize personhood over housing status,” the authority said.
“Our unhoused neighbors are human, and the language we use should reflect that,” the LAHSA added. “Let’s abandon outdated, othering and dehumanizing terminology and instead adopt people-centered language.”
This is why America has always been a crumbling universe of major stupid:
The LAHSA oversees more than $800 million annually in local, state and federal government funding for homelessness programs. Heidi Marston, who resigned as the authority’s director earlier this year, lamented that even as an average of 205 homeless people in Los Angeles County were finding housing each day, 225 were losing their dwellings. “Homelessness is a crisis we made,” she said. “We can unmake it if we only have the will.”
And, this says it all, man, says it all!
If you can believe it, ex-President George W. Bush has announced that he will be teaching a “MasterClass” in leadership that you and anyone else willing to pony up the money can take to learn what Bush has to say on the topic. Whether students will learn the ins and outs of committing war crimes, ignoring the suffering of hurricane victims and overseeing a torture program that continues to this day remains unclear. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the curious choice of a colossal fuckup like George W. Bush to teach a class in leadership
A high school English teacher in Oklahoma has resigned from her position after school officials placed her on administrative leave for sharing with her students a way to access books that the state banned educators from including in their lesson plans.
Summer Boismier, who has taught in the state for the past nine years, began this year at Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, by greeting her students with a unique display — bookshelves covered in red construction paper that read, “books the state doesn’t want you to read.”
The display was meant to respond to legislation, signed into law last year by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, that restricts a number of classroom materials, including books that reference “discriminatory principles.” Books that address inequalities and discuss issues relating to systemic racism and LGBTQ topics are the ones that are primarily targeted by the law. (source)
I do ground-truthing from a very folksy and small-townish perspective. I have found myself “stuck” here on the Central Oregon Coast, really, where my own destiny seems etched in the crumbling sandstone holding up the tourist-laden Highway 101.
I’ve exhausted the labor market here, since the school district has banned me as a substitute teacher for, well, subbing and answering high school students’ questions about my work with homeless, with just released incarcerated, and those with substance abuse issues. Of Mice and Men, as well as Animal Farm, I was filling in for the teacher.
I was frog-marched out of the classroom halfway through third period. Banned for life, and, of course, this county has a major deficit in both full-time teachers and subs.
This is just one peek into a broken national system of idiocy. We’ll have the Pride Parade for the first time in Newport down here, September 16-18, but we have complete soiled minds in the school system. They aren’t teaching them to think, but then, we have this uncanny ability to truly ruin future generations with the fear porn of Pfizer and Fauci, all those mandates, the six-foot lines taped all over the schools, outside, masks for track and fiel events.
Children’s brains in adult heads. The school system is a reflection of the chronically ill teaching and administrative establishment. The virtue signaling rules, and no amount of smart critical thinking works with these youth anymore . . . . Except for those who drop out.
It is a hook and release and recapture and never let go again for each next cohort, next generation.
Other aspects of this county include so much cowardice and dysfunction. I can only imagine what is and is not off limits in the classroom now.
Alas, don’t just blame Texas, as this mentality is the stuff of Americans:
‘I am not upset. I’m enraged’: Administration asked school librarian to take down banned books display after one parent complained. ‘I serve over 700 students, not one student alone.’ (Source)
I am stuck (proverbially) in this most gorgeous of places. Stuck in that sort of Walden Pond perspective, albeit, more along the Dollar General Store sensibility.
I do have lofty philosophical ambitions:
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, August 9, 1954
What I am finding is that I have dislocated myself from my earlier roots of working with my sleeves rolled up as a teacher. So much has passed under the bridge since 1983. Forty years is a drop in the geological bucket, I know, but from a 25-year-old’s perspective, up until now, with all that has broken down the collective human spirit largely on the back of capitalism, the writing was on the wall even then when I had so much hope for some enlightenment and change within the ranks of teaching in El Paso.
Being around youth, around first generation high school graduates, around young people who came from humble beginnings, I found at least some pride in working with them.
The disease of the Aministration Class, or the Provost Clan, all the waste that is a university — football field resurfacing and brand new library buildings and a top-down loading up of worthless institutional advancement creeps — it wasn’t enough then to infect me to throw in the towel.
Forty years later, well, so much in this country is broken, and so much about higher education is plain wrong. It’s all on this trajectory of truly a reset of values, or at least, in the USA, very few values for the majority of the people, now have been stripped. This concept of digitization of everything is easily digested by youth.
Where do they get these all-comers? That’s 87,000 more IRS armed agents. This is the Democrats, man:
An IRS job form seeking ‘Criminal Investigation Special Agents’ was briefly taken offline and edited on Wednesday after its language stoked outrage on social media, according to Fox News and other outlets. Though a previous version of the page (archived August 10) noted that “major duties” of the job would include carrying a firearm and being “willing to use deadly force, if necessary,” the listing visible on Thursday evening no longer contains that requirement.
Journalist Ford Fischer was among the first to note the mention of ‘deadly force’ in a series of tweets on Wednesday. Less than 24 hours later the agency had taken down the notice, removed the offending bullet-point and reuploaded it. (Source)
The US society is so geared to complete rip-off of the 80 percent, those of us not in the point zero-zero percent, One Percent or captured inside the 19 percenters who are the true enemies of the people. The Eichmann’s. The hatchet men and women. The Dream Hoarders.
This at the Aspen Institute, that “institute”: The Aspen Institute is largely funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, by seminar fees, and by individual donations.
Trees and a High School Drop Out Making His Way in LaLa Land
September’s here, the month that brings in Fall. Looking at the national holiday list for September (celebratory themes), I notice over 30 “themes” celebrated or commemorated. Here are just a few:
National Hispanic Heritage
Childhood Obesity
Childhood Cancer
Self-Improvement
Honey
Potato
Pain Awareness
Intergenerational
Prostate
Diving into that intergenerational theme, I realize I’ve been intently interfacing with people decades younger than I am. In Waldport, Portland, Spokane, Seattle, and Alaska, I have talked with people thirty and forty years my junior.
I have deep conversations with some of the houseless rough sleepers in Waldport: guys that are in their thirties who have taken to life outside the “norms” of job, home, roots. Much of what I have discovered is trauma piled onto each individual since childhood. I hearken to Dr. Gabor Mate:
“From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.” (documentary, “The Wisdom of Trauma”).
I’ve met one young guy at a Newport pharmacy who had dreams of being a marine biologist but whose poor health limited that aspiration.
I’ve got a book out, “Coastal People inside a Deep Dive,” featuring amazing Lincoln County folk from my column at Oregon Coast Today. Many of those I featured were both old and young, and every age in between.
Every day I meet amazing young people in various stages of their wonderful evolutions. Many are living with complex PTSD. Others are working through financial strain. Each conversation with someone younger than I takes me to their spiritual home.
Listening is important in today’s age. Many old timers say in the old days we listened more, engaged more with people outside our socio-economic and cultural-ethnic backgrounds.
I’ve had deep conversations with Chuck Ellard who runs Newport’s Pacific Digital printing (“Finding a path“). I’ve written about him, and he is featured in the Coastal People book. He’s in his late thirties, just had a son, and moved from Logsden to Seal Rock. He sees himself as a vital member of the community, assisting individuals with their framing needs or getting huge printing jobs from the Lincoln County School District.
A young woman who is working in a five and dime tells me of her dreams of being a writer, and wants to major in literature at U of O. A single parent’s health issues forced her to help pay the bills, so she is in a holding pattern working 50 hours a week. She has a real grace in this derailed point in her life.
I’ve been spending a few hours with a “tree man,” an arborist. Tyler Muth is from Waldport, went to school here, and now this 29-year-old has his own tree service business. He is tall and lanky. Think of a bearded young Brad Pitt.
Muth likes climbing trees. He respects the tree and encourages people to keep healthy trees.
He uses ropes to climb and small chain saws and handsaws. He knows the species of trees, and he is studying for certification through the International Society of Arboriculture.
We talk about Tyler’s years trying to make it as a pro surfer. He likes hitting waves, and he’s surfed up and down the Pacific Coast. He first competed when he was 12.
His business, Dr. Hingewood, allows for some free surf time. He’s worked in construction, and he even did a stint for a mobile slaughter house killing and dressing cows. He tired of that job, as he says it got to him: “I don’t like killing animals. I don’t own a gun. I even had a hard time last week killing a fish.”
He’s done some gnarly jobs, up in big timber, and those cuts are dangerous. He knows his back cuts (the third and final cut made on the opposite side of the notch). His business’ name, Dr. Hingewood, ties into how the portion of a tree left uncut – the hinge — can control the direction of the fall.
We talk about family, and he isn’t married and says doesn’t want children. “My freedom and lifestyle would make it difficult to raise a child. I like my freedom to just pick up and go surfing.”
He’s a businessman with a contractor’s license, and he says he has challenges keeping guys on payroll since many just pick up and take off for other gigs, like building wind turbines or commercial fishing.
He is a self-described tree nerd. I’ve written many stories about arborists, urban forestry programs and the value of trees in places like Spokane and Seattle. Out here, Tyler works with mostly private customers, usually with nuisance trees.
We both look up at the aging cypress on the neighbor’s property overhanging my wife and my backyard. He sees the canopy, the architecture of the tree, the hidden deadwood and fossilized wood in the middle of the trunk.
That sky — those crows, the giant unruly evergreen, blue herons squawking – gets Tyler and I talking. He’s an easy-going man with keen sense of follow- through. I listen; he listens. He tells me about the time a 14-foot great white shark “sort of just appeared” under him while he was surfing off the Oregon coast.
This is the kind of intergenerational discourse we all need. We talk about how men struggle to communicate and to know themselves.
Tyler goes about life with an even keel, he says, and while he isn’t blind to the world, he tells me that he is not so engaged in huge political debates.
“I keep busy. I love trees.” He relishes climbing, figuring out what to cut, and how to get that cut wood down without breaking a patio or his own neck.
We both interject our “almost broke my neck” stories. This is intergenerational communication at its best, looking up at a 100-year-old busted up cypress.
“poor people should be sterilized to reduce the country’s welfare bill”
The governing regime in Kyiv pushed through the bill, citing a familiar theme: “Russian aggression.” But the bill was originally registered in April 2021, nearly one year prior to Russia’s military intervention.
Formally, the bill was submitted on behalf of the head of the parliamentary committee on social policy, Galina Tretyakova, and a number of other deputies from the ruling Servant of the People party. Ukrainian trade unions had demanded Tretyakova’s resignation following a sickening speech in which she said that poor people should be sterilized to reduce the country’s welfare bill. (source)
Consciously or unconsciously, [the American people] have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy…The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. — William Blum
This witch above is not so unlike the witches and warlocks of the Planned Pandemic Kind, oh, that bioweaponry fun, all those toxins captured in all those billions of doses of Covid Vax. These people want depopulation, and they want decoupling from sanity. Imagine that, this Greta World of a World Without Hydrocarbons, Plastics, Fuel, Rayon, you name it. This world doesn’t exist, and alas, now, a criminal Nazi regime like Ukraine gets the entire world back into coal and dirty fuel a la LNG. The mindlessness of the American public never astounds me, for sure. I can see where the washing of the brains begins, and boy oh boy, the soft shoe media, the Chosen People Running News (sic) and Infotainment, all of that has occurred on “their” watch, sure adds to the mind scraping . . . scrapping.
Think of all the Russia-hating Jewish reporters and pundits with the New York Times. On TV. Think of that creep of a slug, Rachel Maddow, and her little LGBTQ chorus of lies dripping from her mouth. All interestingly tied to her family’s upbringing.
Pro-Ukrainian activists in Leipzig, Germany disrupted the showing of a film about the 2014 Maidan coup, police said on Friday. A group showed up at Thursday evening’s screening of ‘Ukraine on Fire,’ a 2016 documentary produced by Oliver Stone, and got into an altercation with the organizers.
The documentary screening was part of the globaLE film festival, which runs from July 27 to November 1. The open-air festival shows works critical of globalization. ‘Ukraine on Fire,’ produced by Stone and directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Igor Lopatonok, takes a critical view of the 2014 Kiev protests that resulted in a violent overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine.
I have no idea what actual feces is truly delivered on a 24/7 basis on the mainstem of the corporate media since I have opted out for years. The few blips and seconds of Mainstream Trash I see throughout the week, reposted or illustrative of their demented stenographers, show me how degrading these people are. This sort of stuff below can be replicated a thousand times.
The disturbing footage of mainstream media talking heads repeating the exact same scripted lines suggests the public are being force-fed government propaganda about the FBI raid. Which raises the question, what do they have to hide and why are they so determined to make everybody see the event in the same way? This is mind-control in action. There is a reason they are called programs and programming. And it’s not the first time the media has been caught parroting from the same propaganda script. In 1949 a CIA director called Frank Wisner was given a task to create an organization responsible for the manipulation of media and direct action in the United States and other countries around the world. This operation would be known as Mockingbird. The justification for Operation Mockingbird was to fight against Communism. But as often happens with government programs, the stated objective and the reality of what the program is used for do not always align. (source)
To say the least, I have come to despise this country. Yeah, Contras, Dirty War in El Salvador, yep, 60,000 at least murdered in Guatemala. Yes yes yes, Vietnam, and, hell, so many murders by USA Murder Incorporated. Just following William Blum over the decades, enough for any sane American to despise this country:
But now, 2022, with this total hatred of Russians? Imagine the lies of that propaganda boy, Zelensky, and the endless fabrications and endless skits to turn the stupid Goy against the Slavs, against Russians.
I have nothing in common with people my age, with people coming out of English Departments, coming out of this exceptionalist shit-hole. I am more than embarassed for them, but the danger now is more than just canceling and deplatforming. This society is full of stupid: Trump Love and Biden Love. The two-party system is so openly corrupt, yet, these pissing contests between Red and Blue.
Here, Ritter explains how surprised the Russians were surprised at how much hatred the Ukrainians have toward Russians. Leave it to the USA to back Nazis and this creep of a subhuman, ZioLensky.
Just listen to them talk about how decrepit the Europeans and the Americans are . . .
Forget about the fact these Pharma Felons have a long rap sheet going way back on the injuries and deaths created by their so-called approved products. They can’t even get vials of their bioweapon off the assembly line without metal bits in millions of batches.
That’s Pfizer and the billionaire CEO, the Greek Jewish, boosted up twice after mRNA double jab, who is now hot with SARS-CoV2, and he is happy to have the oral drug his company produced. What to believe?
Plaxlovid.
Pfizer and vaccine maker Moderna, which also makes a two-shot mRNA vaccine, are updating their drug formulas to provide protection against newer versions of the virus as part of a fall booster campaign.
Paxlovid, a pill that is available by prescription after infection, helps patients avoid serious illness when it is administered shortly after the onset of symptoms.
I got the SARS-CoV2 a week ago, maybe from Trader Joe’s up in Corvallis. Nah, a summer flu? Nah, not acting like a natural pathogen in me. I have had malaria, dengue fever, a truck load of gut diseases, and slew of bug and jellyfish stings and bites. This bug does things that are not natural. Tied to HIV? Some saw it has a venom like hit to the body.
I have heard person after person — young athletic people — tell me about being double vaxxed and getting SARS-CoV2 for nine days or two weeks, with pneumonia. And then, getting hit twice or three times with the bioweapon. I am talking about a surfer who is also an arborist — thin, super fit, and active.
And, we are not to talk about these stories, not put them out there on Facebook or Twitter, not supposed to talk about the patterns, anecdotal evidence which IS valid. RJK Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense now has been deplatformed from Facebook and Twitter, so we know more and more information gathering by us, the people, will be scrubbed.
Kennedy’s Facebook page, with more than 300,000 followers, was still active at the time of publication. The company spokesperson said there were no plans to take down that page “at this time.”
In a statement Thursday, provided by Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit group that he chairs, Kennedy pushed back at the assertion that his posts were false and accused Facebook of “censorship.”
Lois Gibbs of Love Canal fame would have been deplatformed in today’s messed up censorous world:
Love Canal is an aborted canal project branching off of the Niagara River about four miles south of Niagara Falls. It is also the name of a fifteen-acre, working-class neighborhood of around 800 single-family homes built directly adjacent to the canal. From 1942 to 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company, with government sanction, began using the partially dug canal as a chemical waste dump. At the end of this period, the contents of the canal consisted of around 21,000 tons of toxic chemicals, including at least twelve that are known carcinogens (halogenated organics, chlorobenzenes, and dioxin among them). Hooker capped the 16-acre hazardous waste landfill in clay and sold the land to the Niagara Falls School Board, attempting to absolve itself of any future liability by including a warning in the property deed.
Public awareness of the disaster unfolded in the late 1970s when investigative newspaper coverage and grassroots door-to-door health surveys began to reveal a series of inexplicable illnesses—epilepsy, asthma, migraines, and nephrosis—and abnormally high rates of birth defects and miscarriages in the Love Canal neighborhood. As it turns out, consecutive wet winters in the late 1970s raised the water table and caused the chemicals to leach (via underground swales and a sewer system that drained into nearby creeks) into the basements and yards of neighborhood residents, as well as into the playground of the elementary school built directly over the canal. After a series of frustrating encounters with apathetic NYS officials, who were slow to act but quick to dismiss the activists (most of whom were working-class women who lived in the neighborhood) as a collection of hysterical housewives, President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978 and had the federal government relocate 239 families. This left 700 families who federal officials viewed as being at insufficient risk to warrant relocation, even though tests conducted by the NYS Department of Health revealed that toxic substances were leaching into their homes. After another hard battle, activists forced Carter to declare a second state of emergency in 1981, during which the remaining families were relocated. The total cost for relocation of all the families was $17 million. (source)
Then, how can any group of activists like RFK Jr.’s CHD coalesce in this messed up Google-Facebook-Twitter-Instagram world. What a bioweapon, no? SARS-CoV2!
Ukraine & The Specter of Bioterror with Robbie Martin And Gumby
Michael Carroll’s “Lab 257” also documents a Nazi connection to the original establishment of a U.S. laboratory on Plum Island. According to the book, Erich Traub, a scientist who worked for the Third Reich doing biological warfare, was the force behind its founding.
During World War II, “as lab chief of Insel Riemsa secret Nazi biological warfare laboratory on a crescent-shaped island in the Baltic SeaTraub worked for Adolph Hitler’s second-in-charge, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, on live germ trials,” states “Lab 257.
The mission was to develop biological warfare to be directed against animals in the Soviet Union. This included infecting cattle and reindeer with foot-and-mouth disease.
“Ironically, Traub spent the prewar period of his scientific career on a fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, perfecting his skills in viruses and bacteria under the tutelage of American experts before returning to Nazi Germany on the eve of war,” says “Lab 257.” While in the U.S. in the 1930s, too, relates the book, Traub was a member of the Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund which was involved in pro-Nazi rallies held weekly in Yaphank on Long Island.
With the end of the war, Traub came back to the United States under Project Paperclip, a U.S. program under which Nazi scientists, such as Wernher von Braun, were brought to America.
“Traub’s detailed explanation of the secret operation on Insel Riems” given to officials at Fort Detrick in Maryland, the Army’s biological warfare headquarters, and to the CIA, “laid the groundwater for Fort Detrick’s offshore germ warfare animal disease lab on Plum Island,” says “Lab 257.” “Traub was a founding father.” And Plum Island’s purpose, says the book, became what Insel Riems had been: to develop biological warfare to be directed against animals in the Soviet Unionnow that the Cold War and conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had begun.
The Long Island daily newspaper Newsday earlier documented this biological warfare mission of Plum Island. In a lead story on November 21, 1993, Newsday investigative reporter John McDonald wrote: “A 1950s military plan to cripple the Soviet economy by killing horses, cattle and swine called for making biological warfare weapons out of exotic animal diseases at a Plum Island laboratory, now-declassified Army records reveal.” A facsimile of one of the records, dated 1951, covered the front page of that issue of Newsday. (source)
Oh, the nefarious work of former Nazi’s, and Lyme DIsease now! Pfizer working on that vaccine.
And we trust this multibillionaire, Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla: Pfizer has been a “habitual offender,” persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results. Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards.
I have a CPA in Tucson, from my mom’s days, and she wondered what my gmail signature block image was about:
I was asked to send her sources, since she is stuck in Mainstream Stenographer Media, and I asked her if she has Ukraine roots, and she said her husband’s family did. Both are Jewish. I find that Jews have an inate hatred of Russia, USSR, Russians, etc.
I am not sure how much bandwidth she has for this stuff, but I warned her that if she really went through some of these sources, she will come out the other end depressed, ashamed, maybe. But who knows. I have daily people with TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they have no grounding on anything that ties both the country’s manure pile parties into war, finance, lies, scams, hatred of the people. Here, a bunch of other sources from the CPA,
This article is the fourth in a series of articles I have written covering the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. While this civil war in Ukraine actually began 8 years ago in 2014, the Western media narrative has portrayed this conflict as an unprovoked invasion by Russia that began on February 24, 2022. The 8 year civil war in the Donbass Region is a direct result of the US backed coup and color revolution known as the Maidan Revolution, that ousted the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installed an ultra-nationalist, anti-Russian, Nazi government.
The coup government was rejected by the majority ethnic Russian population in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, who had supported Yanukovych. The result was protests throughout eastern Ukraine and Odessa in the south. The Russian speaking population understood that they would experience harsh persecution under the new, anti-Russian government. On May 2, 2014 in Odessa, protesters took refuge in the Odessa Trade Union Hall trying to escape the attacks of Neo-Nazi vigilantes, who then set the building on fire. Forty-eight protesters were either burned alive or died jumping out of the building. No one was ever prosecuted for the Odessa Massacre.
Crimea voted to secede and was annexed into Russia. Donetsk and Lugansk became breakaway provinces thus leaving Ukraine, but were soon invaded by Ukrainian Nazis who refused to give up the region. Western media rarely acknowledged the huge civilian death toll in eastern Ukraine.
Minsk 1 (September 5, 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 12, 2015) Peace Agreements contained a ceasefire and were ratified by the United Nations with Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France as signers. The agreement called for the breakaway provinces to be reabsorbed into Ukraine, but receive regional autonomy which essentially meant the right to use the Russian language. The 2014 coup government outlawed the use of the Russian language in media and schools. For the agreement to be finalized it required that the leaders of the Ukrainian government had to negotiate the terms with the leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk. Negotiations never happened, nor was the ceasefire even honored by Nazi paramilitaries. On February 13, 2015, Minsk 2 was immediately rejected by the Right Sector leader, Dimitri Yarosh, who vowed to keep fighting. The rocket shellings of the Donbass by Nazis continued for almost 8 years resulting in 14,000 mostly civilian deaths.
The United States had endorsed the Minsk Agreements and Obama was reluctant to supply Ukraine with weapons. This changed under Trump who was convinced to sell arms to Ukraine to prove he wasn’t Putin’s puppet. Zelensky was elected in 2019 by 73% of Ukrainians because he ran as the peace candidate, stating that he would implement Minsk 2. US media hardly acknowledged this fact, and focused on Trump’s phone call to Zelensky regarding investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma, after he temporarily withheld a weapons shipment to Ukraine. Zelensky received death threats, over his goal to implement the Minsk agreement, in an interview with the Right Sector (a Nazi Party) leader, Dimitri Yarosh, who said “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk – if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War.” Zelensky was powerless to achieve the goal of peace without strong backing from the United States, which instead was more interested in arming and training a proxy force to fight Russia.
The Biden Administration took things to new level in 2021 by sending more weapons and giving special forces training to Ukrainian Nazi paramilitaries. In April 2021, Zelensky said he was not going to honor the Minsk 2 Agreement and was planning to retake the breakaway regions and Crimea by force. The US created this war by preparing Ukrainian forces for the invasion.
OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) reports show ceasefire violations, the majority by Ukrainian forces, increased from 57 on February 14, 2022 to 1,927 on February 21, 2022. It was an invasion by Ukraine on Donetsk and Lugansk that caused Russia to intervene on February 24, 2022. Putin described it as a “peacekeeping mission.” Certainly the people and soldiers of the DPR and LPR were glad the Russians finally intervened. Over 150,000 Ukrainian troops were lined up west of the line of contact, about to fight 31,000 mostly volunteer soldiers of the DPR and LPR. It would have been a genocide had Russia not intervened. Russia had multiple reasons to finally intervene, including protecting Crimea and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, which would have led to nuclear missile bases on its borders.
As we know, this is not the story we’ve been told in the Western Press. We have been told that Vladimir Putin is a madman, who may want to conquer Europe if he succeeds in Ukraine. There has been little or no historical context given to the conflict, including Ukraine’s Nazi past going back to the 1930s with Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who was the head of the OUN-B (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – Section B) and is now considered a national hero in Ukraine. The US government calls Ukraine a democracy, but nothing could be further from the truth with opposition media banned and socialist political parties outlawed. Ukraine is a US vassal state and a NATO proxy force. Its people are cannon fodder for the US to fight a war against Russia. The goal is to weaken Russia or preferably cause regime change in Moscow, so the US can wage war against China, the main threat to US Hegemony.
US and UK corporate media outlets have been the cheerleaders for US-NATO wars throughout their history. That said, the war in Ukraine marks a blatant increase in war propaganda filled with major distortions and outright lies. Those journalists and commentators that question or expose the lies of the pro-Ukraine, anti-Russian narrative are called Russian assets or Putin apologists, while some get banned from YouTube, Twitter or Twitch. The amount of censorship around this conflict is unprecedented.
Since 2016, the New York TImes, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC have bombarded the American public with articles about alleged Russian election interference, Russian hacking, Russia paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers and more. All of these stories have a common theme: Blame Russia without any real evidence, then either ignore or slander those critics and analysts who successfully debunk their Russiagate propaganda. No one in the US media establishment is even held accountable for being wrong and spreading misinformation. For example: Rather than for Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, etc. to admit that they got it wrong on the Trump-Russia collusion after the exhaustive two year Mueller Investigation found none, they instead double down and move on to the next “blame Russia” story. The war in Ukraine takes the propaganda of CIA and State Department talking points heralded by the New York Times to a new level of disinformation.
The goal of Western media has been to manufacture consent for the US proxy war by depicting Ukraine as a victim of Russian aggression that desperately needs our weapons to defend itself. While there is much outrage in America toward Putin and some people are flying yellow and blue Ukrainian flags to support Ukraine, the war has not united the American public behind a common enemy. The traditional media gatekeepers can no longer control the flow of information and many people have turned them off in favor of alternative, independent media outlets.
The Western media narrative has been to highlight any small victory by Ukrainian Armed Forces, accuse Russia of war crimes in Bucha while proof exists that it was a false flag caused by Ukraine, present the Russian special military operation as sloppy and having suffered heavy troop losses (over 25,000) when the real number is probably much lower. The fact is that Russia did not declare war on Ukraine and Russian troops were sent to demilitarize and De-Nazify Ukraine, with orders to avoid harming civilians and civilian infrastructure. This strategy has been far different from the “Shock and Awe” strategy of US-NATO invasions that move at greater speed with much more “collateral damage.” Western media places all the blame on Russian troops for the carnage, but interviews of civilians by independent journalists tells a much different story with Ukrainian forces being consistently blamed for destroying homes and buildings, murdering civilians or using them as human shields.
Did Russia underestimate how fiercely the Ukrainians would fight? Perhaps so. Did they make mistakes and lose soldiers and generals? Absolutely. Are they losing on the battlefield? Absolutely not and this is becoming more apparent to Western media that hasn’t wanted to outright admit it. It has downplayed the fact that Russia has taken much territory including Mariupol, Kherson and now 95% of Lugansk has been liberated from Ukrainian control. Western media outlets, such as Bloomberg News, are finally acknowledging the Russian victories in this region of the Donbass and that Ukrainian troops are now at risk of encirclement by Russian forces.
While Western media loved highlighting the sinking of the Moldova, Russia’s flagship, it doesn’t want to mention that Ukraine lost 5 helicopters and a ship trying to rescue their soldiers inside the Azovstal Steel Plant. US media has ignored the destruction of Ukrainian weapons depots by Russia. Kiev was winning the information war, but losing on the battlefield. Now that is beginning to change as Ukraine’s losses are too overwhelming to be ignored, even by the anti-Russian Western press.
Perhaps the most outrageous Western media lie is that Putin’s goal of DeNazification distorts history when in fact Ukraine has a huge Nazi problem that is well documented, including numerous Neo-Nazi battalions, such as Azov, Trident, Centuria, RIght Sector and Adair. The western media reports that the infamous Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has reformed and now only 10% to 20% of its recruits are Nazis. The flag of the Azov Battalion contains two Nazi symbols – the Black Sun with a Wolfsangel in front of it. An Azov spokesman even claims their Nazi symbols have a different meaning in their country. The latest news is that the Azov Battalion just changed its insignia, on their flag and arm patches, to the golden trident symbol that is Ukraine’s national emblem. Ukraine had a Nazi image problem that has been partially removed by having a Jewish puppet president. The fact that the media can spread disinformation like this should invoke public anger, but there will be no bad ratings coming from Newsguard or consequences for spreading disinformation from the DHS Disinformation Governance Board since these media outlets are faithful stenographers for the state.
What is worthy of praise is the pushback by independent journalists and media outlets against the lies reported daily in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the BBC, NPR, etc. The well researched information coming from independent media and journalists, such as The Grayzone, Consortium News, The World Socialist Website, The Dive with Jackson Hinkle, Scott Ritter, Regis Tremblay shines a bright light on what the establishment media is distorting and ignoring. War reporters, Patrick Lancaster (USA), Eva K. Bartlett (Canada), Alejandro Kirk (HispanTV – Latin America) have exposed the Western media lies that Russia is responsible for the carnage and that civilians support Ukraine’s military. All Ukrainian civilians interviewed blame Ukraine for the deaths, injuries and destruction. Russians often bring in food and humanitarian aid.
Boldly speaking the truth and exposing lies comes at a cost. Jackson Hinkle had his YouTube channel demonetized and is permanently banned from Twitch for spreading what the platform defines as ” Russian disinformation.” Scott Ritter had his Twitter account permanently suspended for exposing the flaws of Ukraine’s accusations that Russian troops were responsible for war crimes in Bucha. Censoring adversarial media is becoming prevalent, but there are too many voices including peace organizations like the United Anti-War Coalition and the US Peace Council to silence the truth.
The Grayzone, whose detailed thorough reporting and video interviews are unsurpassed, have been attacked by Newsguard (a national security state aligned organization giving grades for accurate reporting) and Nina Jankowincz, who was chosen to head the DHS Disinformation Governance Board which is the equivalent of the “Ministry Of Truth” in George Orwell’s novel 1984.
Nina Jankowincz resigned before the DGB was functioning, claiming that she received death threats along with a disinformation smear campaign against the DGB. For now, the DGB has been paused by DHS but it plans to have former DHS director, Michael Chertoff run the board. Chertoff is infamous for enabling federal surveillance, unlawful detention and torture. Chertoff profited from airport x-ray full-body scanners through his consulting firm, the Chertoff Group, that represents OSI Systems, one of two companies licensed to sell the scanners to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Controlling the narrative in Ukraine is just one issue amongst many, where conflicting information exposes government propaganda, thus disrupting a carefully planned narrative.
In the Donbass Region, Ukrainian forces continue to shell civilian homes and cities without a military target in the area. 10,000 people in Mariupol celebrated Victory Day this year, a Russian celebration of its World War II victory against Nazi Germany. Mariupol residents have been unable to celebrate Victory Day since 2014, when the city became the home and base for terrorist operations of the Azov Battalion. On May 20, 2022, the city of Mariupol was finally liberated with the surrender of 2,439 Azov Battalion, Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries holed up in the Azovstal Steel Plant.
Noticing the manner in which the surrender was reported by most US media exposes its inability to do honest reporting by failing to call it a surrender, but referring to it as an evacuation of wounded fighters and troops who were out of food, ammo and in dire need of medical attention. CNN goes as far as calling it a successful combat mission because it prevented 20,000 Russian troops from leaving Mariupol and heading to other regions thus failing to capture Zaporizhzhia. Videos of the Azovstal surrender shows hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to Russian troops, who treat their captives humanely with respect, while patting them down for hidden weapons and checking their arms and chests for Nazi tattoes. These Ukrainian soldiers were finally ordered by the supreme command center in Kiev to surrender, but this was a very embarrassing fact for Ukraine and NATO countries to announce publicly. The United States government just approved another $40 billion military aid package for Ukraine as it continues to lose territory daily in the Donbass Region. More Ukrainian troops are surrendering, many of whom were drafted to fight in a war in the breakaway regions that are of little or no importance to them personally. The Russians have declared victory in Severodonetsk, which only took a few days. Ukrainian forces are quickly collapsing and about to lose the entire Donbass and have lost most of Kharkov.
Bloomberg Cites Russian Victories and New York Times Call for Negotiations
Bloomberg News is looking more like RT or Tass (Russian media) since it’s actually reporting on Russian victories and Ukraine’s defeat in the Donbass and Mariupol. Most Western media outlets are downplaying the facts that Ukraine is losing, but Bloomberg has broken ranks. On the second day of the four day surrender of Ukrainian forces in the Azovstal Steel Plant, Bloomberg reported Mariupol Latest: Russia Says Nearly 1,000 Ukraine Troops Surrender at Azovstal. While citing the Russian claim of a surrender, Bloomberg News is not willing to completely claim the defeat as fact, but it’s closer to the truth than what CNN or NPR have reported.
The May 27, 2022 Bloomberg article Russian Wins in Eastern Ukraine Spark Debate Over Course of War says “Russia’s capture of a series of towns including Popasna means its forces hold 95% of the Luhansk region that makes up the northern half of the Donbas area. On Friday, Ukraine’s military command said Russian troops were pushing on from Popasna toward the town of Bakhmut, 32 kilometers (20 miles) west, seeking to isolate Ukrainian forces in a pocket of government-held territory around Severodonetsk.” It goes on to mention that thousands of Ukrainian troops are at risk of encirclement by Russian forces. Ukraine is losing so badly it can no longer be denied. The article continues to say “A sense that the tide of the war could be turning in favor of the likely narrowed goals of President Vladimir Putin comes as some, including former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, call for Ukraine to consider trading territory for a cease-fire.”
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Henry Kissinger, who was Secretary of State under President Nixon, advised Ukraine to cede territory to make peace with Russia. The 98 year old Kissinger, who was responsible for crafting detente with the Soviet Union, said “negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.”
He stressed that failing to restart negotiations with Russia and continuing to alienate the Kremlin would have detrimental long-term consequences for the stability of Europe.
Kissinger was immediately blasted by President Zelensky, who said that Kissinger was living in 1938 and not 2022. Zelensky tried to compare making peace with Russia to making peace with Nazi Germany. Zelensky’s adviser Alexey Arestovich had harsh words, filled with obscenities, for Kissinger or any westerner urging Kiev to cede part of their country’s territory to Russia to make peace. “Go fuck yourselves with such proposals, you dumb fucks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you fucking crazy? Our children are dying, soldiers are stopping shells with their own bodies, and they are telling us how to sacrifice our territories. This will never happen.”
KIssinger has a dark war criminal past, but he understands the balance of world powers. He has now out-Lefted every Democrat in the US Congress, who recklessly voted to send another $40 billion of military aid to Ukraine and risk an escalation of this dangerous conflict. The tides have shifted and there is growing awareness that regardless of American and European weapon shipments, Ukraine is quickly losing the war. At what cost does victory against Russia come, especially considering the impacts sanctions are having on Europe and global food shortages?
On May 19, 2022, the New York TImes editorial board wrote an opinion piece titled The War In Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready that comes to the conclusion that negotiating a peace deal with Russia is in the best interest for Ukraine, even if it must give up some of its territory, and also for America, as a greater conflict has very dangerous potential. The editorial mentions that Avril Haines, director of national intelligence warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that the next few months of the war could be very volatile. According to Haines, the War may take “a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory,” with a greater possibility of Russia threatening to use nuclear weapons.
The editorial continues by stating “These are extraordinary costs and serious dangers, and yet there are many questions that President Biden has yet to answer for the American public with regard to the continued involvement of the United States in this conflict.” The New York TImes is guilty of promoting every US war, but also has a history of rejecting those conflicts once they are a lost cause. The editorial is not a retraction of the lies that the TImes has spread regarding the Ukraine war, but a realization that the United States, Ukraine and Europe may have bitten off far more than they can possibly chew and rather than choke to death, it’s better to stop now.
The TImes can be accused of wanting to have its cake and eat it too. It goes on to say “the United States must lead its NATO allies in demonstrating to Vladimir Putin that the Atlantic alliance is willing and able to resist his revanchist ambitions. That goal cannot shift, but in the end, it is still not in America’s best interest to plunge into an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require Ukraine to make some hard decisions. And the U.S. aims and strategy in this war have become harder to discern, as the parameters of the mission appear to have changed.” These sentences of editorial can also be viewed as an attempt to break it gently to their liberal readers (who have been brainwashed into flying yellow and blue flags and lusting for war against Putin) that it’s best to avoid nuclear annihilation.
Belligerent statements from President Biden that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree it can’t do the kinds of things it has done in invading Ukraine” are acknowledged by the editorial as “rousing proclamations of support, but they do not bring negotiations any closer.” Statements made by numerous US officials demonstrate that the US is at war with Russia. Changing course for the Biden Administration will be difficult, with so much money and weapons invested into the conflict. It is still easier to pull out now since US lives have not been lost and US troops are not involved.
The liberal New York TImes is a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party and clearly is afraid of how badly the Democratic Party will be taken to the woodshed in the November midterm elections. Biden’s poll numbers are as low as 36%. No Democrat voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine, but 57 House and 11 Senate Republicans did vote against it. The New York TImes acknowledges there is shrinking public support for the war, especially due to the impact sanctions are having on out of control inflation and global food shortages.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Ukraine will take back all the territory it has lost, but that seems very unlikely to happen. Zelensky is not in control. He answers to those ultra-nationalist that surround him and officials in the Biden Administration. New shipments of arms are proving not be enough for Ukraine to defeat Russia. There is shrinking enthusiasm among Ukrainian troops to die fighting for Ukraine to hold onto to a region where the people do not want to be part of Ukraine. Russia may be close to achieving its goals in Ukraine. Once there is a defeat of Ukrainian forces in the Donbass Region, will Ukraine begin to fall apart as a country? Will this lead to a gargantuan refugee crisis? The United States may have opened up Pandora’s Box and closing that box may prove to be extremely difficult. It is time for regime change in Washington, not Moscow.
Yet as US-led meddling in Ukraine has proven, the West is not capable of respecting international law or its own bilateral agreements with the rest of the world, making conflict all but inevitable. Russia for its part was fully prepared for the conflict that finally resulted after decades of abuse by the West, leaving a relatively unprepared West to suffer the consequences of its own belligerent actions. Only time will tell if China is likewise prepared and whether or not the West is as eager or able to weather yet another crisis of its own creation.
Daily, I hear the Democratic Party lover who is helping me do some house remodeling say (dozens of times a week): “Ah, Chinese made screws . . . worthless.”
He’ll say the same thing about a broken hammer staple, or some piece of aluminum or steel. As I have had to remind people everyday —
“That broken fan, that broken hair dryer, that broken printer, that broken plastic broom, that broken scrubber, that broken shoe, well, those are AMERICAN brands, and I guarantee, the Chinese are given the blueprint types, the schematics, given all the ingredients and parts accepted for this or that product that comes to the USA with ‘Made in China’ label.”
It’s Walmart or Maytag, or the box of drywall screws, all of those things, they are product-designed by the Americans, or whichever country sends their manufacturing over to China. Their product design and product production assemblyline parameters. What goes into that plastic toy made in China was already planned and propped up way before a sweat shop in China got the contract.
And those Home Depots and Lowes and Ace Hardware stores, making bank, triple and five times the price of those products over a triple profit margin? No advanced hatred of the titans of retail, all those billionaires and multi-millionaires just loving the gouging Americans during Planned Pandemic, Planned Zoomification of Everything, Planned Housing Crisis, Planned Medical Crash, Planned Infrastructure Failures, Planned More Taxation, Planned Pollution and Toxification of land/air/soil/water/bodies.
This is the broken product line of USA:
And he is Catholic like Pelosi, and a Jew-Zionist, too:
Then, this alimentary canal addition to the American Manure Pile Politics, “Trump told RNC donors that the US should put China’s flag on planes to bomb Russia”:
Alas, here, in the local rag where I publish, not an atypical illiterate diatribe, from a local resident. Notice all the points she makes, and then, one word, COMMUNISM, as her platform for stupidity:
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Dark day in American history
Communism is alive and well in the United States of America. Your constitutional rights are under attack. Your cities and streets are unsafe in the daytime, as well as the night. Portland. Seattle. San Francisco. Las Angeles.
Shopping mall shootings. Grocery store shootings. Drive-by shootings. Senior citizens physically attacked by marauding groups of teenagers. Shoplifting and smash-and-grab robberies occurring every day. Police defunded and not supported by the citizens they risk their lives to protect. Drag queens teaching children in public schools how to be a successful drag queen. Men (white) are the enemy. Women are no longer women. Parents deemed political extremists for expressing their views at school board meetings.
And the never-ending witch-hunt culminating in the raid on former President Donald Trump’s personal home over a handful of documents. Ms. Clinton deleted how many thousands of emails with no repercussions?
Illegal aliens are pouring over our southern borders, causing a devastating impact on the local citizens, criminal justice, health care and other related costs to the U.S. citizens. President Biden is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, hiring 87,000 new tax auditors and making the IRS the largest government department, bigger than the CIA and the FBI.
Why? It’s a simple question. Deep down inside, we all know what is happening. The bigger question is are you ready to stand up and be counted and defend our country? Well, are you?
This is the reality of anti-democracy Communist Paranoid Americanos. It is upside down thinking, war is peace ethos, and just so pumped from CNN or Fox or Q-Anon or, well, freaky. Hate Biden, love Trump. Then, commenting on the decay of America as if that is communist? It’s Capitalism, lady.
It is amazing that a woman living in a Rural Community where capitalism has cut, cleared and poisoned the forests; where the Highway 101 is crumbling because of lack of true socialism at a federal highway level; where the Capitalists get all the housing market hammered up with Air B & B and short term rentals; where there is a nurse and doctor shortage because the wages they want and the lifestyle they desire ain’t here, but she longs for the good old days of when Capitalism Ruled With A Kind Heart and Even Hand and Open Book!
We close down beaches here in Lincoln County because of sewage pipe overflows.
Traffic from hell as tens of thousands come here on weekends when the city temperature in Salem or Eugene or Portland hit 100.
Parts of Newport are decayed, but privately owned. Disgusting buildings right on Highway 101.
No homeless services. No animal adoption and care services.
Yeah, that communism — flipping homes, and those coming from states like CA, with millions in the bank from an overvalued piece of shit home coming here to gobble up two or three homes for rental or STR purposes.
Yeah, saltwatere taffy and usless bad trinkets and coffee shops and worthless restaurants, but no dental services, and getting a contractor to repair a hole in the roof, think months and months waiting, at $175 an hour plus overpriced material-supplies.
Oh, this lady, a dime a dozen in the USA. But that’s the cornerstone of her conversation, her family’s, and the younger generation, where do they fit into her broken rhetoric?
It’s difficult, though, when I decry this country, decry the military complexes, decry the unfair taxation, decry the bureacrats, decry lots about a bad government, when I also want MORE government, that is, good governing, people directed oversight, more state biologists and more state and regional oversight and control of the profiteers coming in and gouging and stealing money in these private-public scams. More city, county and state workers for health, dental, hospice, day care, aging in place. MORE safety nets directed by the people using the public services, not more of Bezos and his grabbing up medical services or education services.
It’s just really bad, in America, just from that Diamond series:
That is at the core, from some lady in Lincoln County, or some dude named Jared Diamond, antiicommunist.
Here, Louis Proyect, looking at Jared Diamond’s work:
Diamond’s account of Haiti is lifted entirely from the work of development economist Mats Lundahl, who has a long record of defending free markets and liberalized trade. In some ways he can be described as a Swedish version of Jagdish Baghwati. In the 1980s he took the position that economic sanctions against South Africa would harm Blacks. He has also described the period of 1870 to 1914 as a kind of Golden Age for the world economy. In other words, he might be grouped with Niall Ferguson and other intellectuals nostalgic for the good old days of Imperialism.
It’s not everything is okay in Mister Rogers Neighborhood. So many problems in the United Snakes of Israel-Firsters. You name it, we have that issue or theme or topic or infrastructure, or ecosystem, economic system, all of it, it’s in the crapper.
Of course, there are big MoneyPox endemics and pandemics on the horizon, and in a culture of stupidity, in a culture of hubris and elites controlling all valves, all bridges, all resources, all means of production and means of survival, we are here, man:
“Vaccine Industry Insider Peter Hotez Helped Fund Wuhan Gain-of-Function Study” Dr. Peter Hotez, who received a $6.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a SARS vaccine that had the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,” denounced plans to conduct hearings next year into the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan lab in China.
This is the face of a know-it-all, elite, a person who looks down on EVERYONE except those in his tribe:
Hotez’s own 2012 to 2017 NIH grant for the development of a SARS vaccine had the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,” in addition to a possible zoonotic spillover of the virus.
The $6.1 million NIH grant also raises the possibility of “deliberate spreading of the virus by a bioterrorist attack.”
“SARS outbreaks remain a serious concern mainly due to possible zoonotic reintroduction of SARS-CoV into humans, accidental release from a laboratory, or deliberate spreading of the virus by a bioterrorist attack,” the grant’s description reads. (source)
Oh, and the monkey is now back on our back, and alas, the children are hit with mRNA jabs, a, b, c, d, infinity. Then, now, approved Monkey Pox jabs. Colleges are coming back in session forcing jabs on all students. This is the jabberwocky of dumb as rocks AmeriKKKans.
And that wasn’t a planned pandemic. Imagine, the futures, the future of the country in some people’s imagination, college-educated youth, are now demanding Zoom School in Diapers, PJs and Cheetos. “Online Education Is Booming, but Colleges Risk Lapses in Quality, Report Says”
In the article above, there is zero comments or citing of those who are absolutely against any on-line transformation of college and universities. This is it in these fake magazine and publication, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Still, Gravelle said, the college has clearly defined minimum expectations — a marriage of Quality Matters’ standards and the State University of New York’s Online Course Quality Review Rubric. She wants instructors to ask themselves:Is the posted content good content? (“If I see Wikipedia,” she said, “I’m going to start questioning things.”) Is each piece of content accessible to all students, including those who are blind, colorblind, or hearing-impaired? Is the instructor visible to students by posting announcements regularly and popping in on discussion boards? Do students have opportunities to interact with their classmates, such as in group projects?
With this consensus of turning students into screen watchers, into Zoom Doom participants (sic) we have given our souls to the coders, the technocrats, the digital gulags, the social impact monsters, the data collectors, the squeezers. It’s about putting people further and further away from land, from spittle and yelling and body language and on campus, in communities, in field work, with leaders and those who want to learn how to lead. We already had death of real education for decades, with teach to the test, with the colleges and universities bowing to Club Med silliness, to athletics, to the MBA Schools and Admin Class and the Deanlets and the Institutional Research flunkies.
So, now, just wiring up youth and the next generation to transhumanistic tools, with downloadable knowledge, and direct links to satellites in return. Data and data and data.
We have a nursing shortage, doctor shortage, care home shortage, affordable housing shortage, trauma informed worker shortage. We have excess of trauma induced Capitalism. We are predators. We are world chaos makers. We are the Empire of Lies and Chaos and Terror. Truly.
We are ready for nuclear war, and we can’t keep prices down in the food stores, with our workers’ gasoline, with our medicine and education and travel and leisure and with everything, for the sake of arming Ukraine Nazi’s and Picking Nuclear war with China. See Ritter below. (source)
Just a few big problems, and we’ll use California and Oregon as examples of just one major issue — water. And, water is life.
California’s governor wants the state to invest tens of billions of dollars in water recycling, storage and desalination to shore up its supply over the next two decades. Gov. Gavin Newsom was set to announce the plan Thursday at a desalination plant. The state predicts its water supply will decrease 10% by 2040 as the U.S. West gets hotter and drier. Interest in recycling treated wastewater for drinking is growing across the West. California is in the third year of a drought and the state’s 39 million people aren’t conserving as much water as Newsom wants.Read more
By MICHAEL KOHN Ask a few Oregonians if their state has enough water to meet its needs and you may get some varying answers. The differing views on the question may be tilted based on where people live, or even their gender.
Do you think you are born with a life purpose? If so, is there also a time frame in which you meant to fulfill it? Is the Voice that lives within us the only compass that guides us to its fulfillment?
From a very young age, Ania knows there is something that she wants to accomplish. Some sense of purpose or mission that urges her to move out of her home country, Poland. And so she set herself on a life-changing journey to find it.
Through living in Sweden and the United States, unsuccessful relationships with men, and working at the most glamorous boutiques of Chanel, Dior, Valentino, and Tom Ford, she keeps pushing on. As her restless search continues, she finds herself entering the world of personal growth, seeing Jesus in her first meditation with Jack Canfield, walking the fire with Tony Robbins, and talking to Abraham-Hicks from a hot seat.
One thing leads to another. But it is that trip to Normandy in France where she discovers what she was looking for 44 years…
Amazing what we are talking about and facing today with these incompetent Anglo Saxons in USA and Klanada, and the EuroTrash and the UK, Brits. Amazing what Australia and New Zealand do to add fuel to the flames, while all these locales are suffering from heat, energy shortages, inflation, lack of services, no ambulances to pick up heart attack victims, etc., etc.
This photo is, of coursem disgusting on so many levels:
Another disgusting image:
Then another 86 year old wanting to destroy his country, this billionaire Italiano:
And, I could conjure up thousands of disgusting images of undeserving classless celebrities, but this says it all, no, Ugle Gaga: Meat Dress? This is what Biden and Blinken want to be saved with nuclear attacks?
Not good, really, Biden:
Teacher shortage, Zoom Workplaces, Masking Up Outside, MoneyPox, more and more people wanting Ukraine to the Last Ukrainian. No water for Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico . . . .Lake Mead is at its lowest level in history and is at risk of becoming a “dead pool. Yet, here we are, with Blinken and Company, DoD, Republican saber rattlers and then the Democratic Party Rainbow Flaggers wanting war war wat. Whew.
We are hurting big time: And, Woke is Good, when it comes to Afrikans in America, Before 2014, the call to “stay woke” was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point — the notion that staying “woke” and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, “stay woke” suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context: keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics.(source)
The earliest known examples of wokeness as a concept revolve around the idea of Black consciousness “waking up” to a new reality or activist framework and dates back to the early 20th century. In 1923, a collection of aphorisms and ideas by the Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey included the summons “Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!” as a call to globalBlack citizens to become more socially and politically conscious. A few years later, the phrase “stay woke” turned up as part of a spoken afterword in the 1938 song “Scottsboro Boys,” a protest song by Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly. The song describes the 1931 saga of a group of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Arkansas, who were accused of raping two white women. (source)
Lead Belly uses “stay woke” in explicit association with Black Americans’ need to be aware of racially motivated threats and the potential dangers of white America. Lead Belly’s usage has largely stayed the common, consistent one ever since, including during one notable brush with the mainstream in 1962, via the New York Times.
“SO I ADVISE EVERYBODY, BE A LITTLE CAREFUL WHEN THEY GO ALONG THROUGH THERE — BEST STAY WOKE, KEEP THEIR EYES OPEN”
That year, a young Black novelist named William Melvin Kelley wrote a first-person piece for the Times called “If You’re Woke You Dig It; No mickey mouse can be expected to follow today’s Negro idiom without a hip assist.” In the piece, Kelley points out that the origins of the language of then-fashionable beatnik culture — words like “cool” and “dig” — lay not within white America but with Black Americans, predominantly among Black jazz musicians.
Read a decent article from Vox of all googy mainstream sources:
As always, the whites, the liberal lites, the pro-war whites, all those fakes, have co-opted wokeness. Shame on them, and now people make fun of “woke.”
Indeed, even in a piece largely focused on linguistics, Kelley directly connects “woke” Black culture back to an awareness of systematized white violence against Black people. Writing about the ephemeral nature of this shifting Black vernacular, he noted that many popular idioms among Black Americans have been loaded with coded precautions since the era of slavery — like the use of “ofay,” pig Latin for “foe,” to stand in for a white man. “[T]he language was used primarily for secrecy, exclusion, and protection,” Kelley wrote. “If your master did not know what you were talking about, he could not punish you, and you could maintain your ignorance and innocence.”
This linguistic subterfuge seems to be how “woke” — the concept and the word itself — flew under the mainstream cultural radar for what seems to have been decades. Not until the late aughts, with the rise of social media and a few prominent assists, did wokeness begin its steady, proper push into the broader American consciousness.
So, alas, this is not being woke is all about, for sure, but then, white America, Straight, Cis-Gender, LGBTQ, err, this, is not what woke means:
L—Lesbian
G—Gay, Genderfluid
B—Bisexual, Bigenger
T—Transgender, Two-Spirit, Trans Masculine(demiboy), Trans Feminine (demigirl)
Q—Queer, Genderqueer (Questioning goes into a different Q)
I—Intersex
A—Asexual (Ally goes into a different A)
D—Demisexual
P—Pansexual, Polysexual (attracted to multiple sexes/genders, but not necessarily all)
We are bombing Yemen and Libya and killing many in African countries, children in Venezuela, in Cuba, Donbass, the entire world. We are not woke, for sure, and we have murdered Afrikans here and abroad. We are not a woke country, and anyone other than informed Afrikan Americans using the term in an honorific or critical way is insane, racists, dumb as dirt.
Yet . . . I see woke hitting the negative comments big time. You know, Biden is Woke, Harris is Woke, the US DoD is Woke, Boeing is Woke, JP Morgan Chase is Woke. Yeah, we are the Pepsi Generation, only to the marketers, and so again, once again, the language co-opting folk and the police and the haters all in this the wrong way, which is what white “culture” here and everywhere does to a truly amazing concept of what it means to be, Longing to be Awake, Erykah Badu.
Paul Haeder, Author 