The artist lives down the road, and her roof is seen better days. She’s on social security, sells some of her paintings once and a while, and she wants to live out the life in the 60 year old home.

Leaks and mold.

There are no options for her.

Labor is out of the roof (pun intended) and the materials for that tear out and re-roofing are out the roof.

We live in a place and time — USA — where you can sell that house in Caliifornia for a cool million or two, and then dump half of it in a home here on the Oregon Coast, and then, sort of coast with the 1 million in the investment portfolio (Big Pharma, Big Defense, Big Banking, Big Dirty Rotten Stocks).

But Maggie is not in that same boat.

Millions in the USA are not in that sell high and buy high, but less high, boat.

Easy for people to say, “Well, prices are what they are, so you should just bite the bullet and buy a new roof.”

Aint’s going to happen. Without a cool $15,000 or more to lay out, Maggie is up shit creeki.

No Mormon Tabernacle coming to the rescue.

No Biden or Harris or Yellen or SCOTUS or anyone coming to the rescue. Too many Maggie’s out there in Netflix Solitary Confinement land.

Empathy goes only so far. A GoFundMe page for an injured pig dog on some canine unit somewhere? Tens of thousands.

Now this is fucked up —

Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self- …

Mar 3, 2022 — Brandon Sanderson set out to raise $1 million on Kickstarter in 30 days to fund four new books. He blew past it in about 35 minutes.

This is the predatory, casino, win-the-latto capitalism, man. And, talent doesn’t always rule, and, well, Americanos like to spend their money where it does not count.

Most Americans report having some disposable income left over every month, but not much: 50% say that amount is $250 or less.

On average, Americans spend 58% of their income on necessities, including rent and food, while reserving 20% for flexible spending on items like clothing and electronics. Among those that invest and save, 10% of their monthly income goes to savings, while 5% is dedicated to investing.

Your money — where does it all go?

Depends on how much there is. For those making $16,000 a year, more than half of it goes to housing and utilities. But those making $160,000 a year still have almost two thirds of their disposable income left over after those monthly bills. (Source)

Then you get this silly stuff,

This is not helping the Maggie’s of the world. Mutual Aid? Easy-to-access home repair programs? A caring society? Money well spent by Uncle Sam? So, while all the recriminations take place saying Maggie did not save well, that she got the wrong degree, that her dream of being an artist was absurd, that life is about struggle, so be happy with a leaky root. What about all those bad decisions? Didn’t marry well? All those great friends, why are they not coming to the rescue?

I’ve written articles for my magazine gig on aging in place, on how poverty takes out people big time — life, heart, hearth, you name it. I have hard copies of those pieces, and they do exist on the digital magazine format, but still hard to find. Here, just a few that were collected without the great graphics and artwork and photography: About Paul Haeder. He’s a freelance writer who worked in Spokane as a community college instructor and journalist for more than 12 years.

I really got not much for each story, but some of them won regional journalism prizes. And, so my bad choices, man? Ageing in place? I can still swing a hammer and cut a board and dig fence posts, etc. How long will the L-4 last, the knees hold up?

This is the dog-eat-dog society USA has always been, and that legacy is razing the original tribes’ land and peace and way of life and culture. The legacy of Mainfest Destiny, Go West Young Man, Oh Pioneers, Winner Takes All.

Oh, the pleas of the poor, the just-about-to-lose-it-all.

Then those already on the streets, living in the wet woods, in culverts, squatting.

Behind the faces of Lincoln County’s homeless

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By: Paul Haeder – Updated: 2 years ago

Posted Feb 18, 2020

  

(Editor’s note: This is part one of a two part series on Lincoln County’s homeless population)

 LINCOLN COUNTY — The tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to homelessness is what the average person sees on Newport’s streets — mostly men, some women, seeking a public or private building’s overhang to get out of the rain.

Many on the streets are disheveled, struggling with mental health issues and addiction. Others are not so easily identified as homeless people.

Creating a permanent warming shelter is one stop-gap measure the Newport Working Group on Homelessness has been grappling with for more than a year.

On Feb. 5, more than 20 people filled the cramped space in the Avery Building, where Department of Human Services offices are co-located with other agencies, to move this group into achievable goals.

Outside the DHS office, fighting against the gale force rain, many of these house-less people were on the covered concrete pad that leads up to the offices housing SNAP and TANF DHS workers.

They were seeking a dry space and companionship.

I asked one fellow — he said he goes by Fred, age 47 — what he wants immediately as a homeless citizen.

“Look, I see families out there with kids in tents. That’s just not right. I am OK living in the woods, but even a dude like me wants something, some place, to get out or the rain and cold. Even some simple open carport like structure, man. Nothing fancy. They should be all over the place.”

We talked about portable toilets, even cold-water taps and sanitary soaps.

“Look, with this virus over in China, coming here … you think the powers to be would think about sanitation,” he said. “I guess the solution is to let us die off in the woods … or ship us off to come sort of camp.”

Task force with teeth?

Inside the Avery Building, a city council woman, the Lincoln County Sheriff, a plethora of social services leaders, private citizens and others coalesced to try to come up with a plan and priorities. The agenda to create safe transitional housing, welcoming and effective car camping regulations, policies for tent camping areas and siting a warming shelter is daunting. Also on the agenda was the big slice of the pie — addressing health and health-related issues.

Community Service Officer Jovita Ballentine, with the Newport Police Department, and Lincoln County Sheriff Curtis Landers were among the group wondering how all this money spent on services for these so-called “frequent users” of the ER really helps people with mental health issues who spend their days hanging out at such places as the Newport Rec Center.

For Landers, mental illness and addiction are the root causes of the homeless that police agencies run into on a daily basis.

For Samaritan House director Lola Jones, helping homeless get out of the elements and into programs to assist them into permanent housing are part of a bigger picture. She reiterated that the task force is not a panacea for all the underlying issues why people end up homeless.

Amanda Cherryholmes, Lincoln City manager for Communities Helping Addicts Negotiate Change Effectively (C.H.A.N.C.E.), was quick to push back on the myth that more homeless services in an area will bring more homeless into the community. Cherryholmes cited counterarguments to that belief. She also pointed out that car camping allowances and even some concerted effort to have designated spaces with portable toilets and storage facilities don’t address the fact “most people can’t afford to keep their car running when temperatures hit the low 30s or below.”

Also at the meeting was a board member of Grace Wins Haven. Betty Kamikawa, board president, made the point that many in Newport and Lincoln County say, “Hotels are struggling because of Airbnbs. The vacation rentals have caused so many people to become homeless.”

I met people at Grace Wins after the task force adjourned. For Kamikawa and the Haven director, Traci Flowers, the crisis of unhoused individuals in Lincoln County is growing out of proportion to the solutions.

Shelter us from the storm

“We need more shelters first,” Flowers said. “Too many people think the homeless are one type of individual. They are not.” That belief creates huge conflicts within social services agencies, nonprofits, religious organizations and for the homeless themselves.

Cherryholmes wants a more robust assessment of people coming into shelters and transitional housing. “We need to figure out what services the individual needs. Each one has different needs,” she said.

She militated against the idea just any individual should end up in a warming shelter or in car camping arrangements. “There are two distinct groups — families and young people needing shelter, and then single men.” She pointed out that having a sexual offender among a group of homeless in a communal setting is not a good idea. There are some brighter horizons in the mix. Some churches are stepping up to the plate.

Tiny homes, relaxing zoning

Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Kelsey Ingalls, on her Feb. 2 church blog, discussed one small effort to avail the housing shortage: six cottages on church property.

“We formed the exploration team that is undertaking a feasibility study to form a partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County and other local service agencies to help meet the housing needs of homeless, single-parentfamilies,” wrote Ingalls. “The exploration team is looking into the idea of building six, two-bedroom/one-bath cottages on the southeast corner of the church campus. We are proposing a circular village layout with front porches and a central common area. Supportive services would be provided by our local service agency partners.”

Before the task force convened, Blair Bobier, regional director of Legal Aid Services, sent out an email framing the impetus behind the Newport Working Group on Homeless.

“There are many service providers who agree that some form of a ‘coalition’ model is an important next step towards addressing homelessness in our community,” said Bobier. “In other places, one form of this model included a regular meeting of elected officials and law enforcement, along with service providers, to ensure that there was sufficient coordination among involved parties. As has been pointed out, here in Newport, the Lincoln County Affordable Housing Partners is a great example of service providers coming together on a regular basis — along with developers, government officials and members of the faith community — to exchange information and work towards common goals.”

With this large brain trust in one room, and the compassion and passionate solutions-driven people commenting on what needs to be prioritized, it’s clear Newport and Lincoln County at large have many hurdles to overcome as homelessness, and housing precarious situations are growing.

Relaxing zoning laws and rolling up sleeves will help develop coordinated efforts to get people out of the cold, screen people through various social services resources and begin to help coastal communities look at the long-range health of affordable housing in this coastal area.

“Over the two years operating, Grace Wins has had over 2,000 clients coming through. Some stay a while. The fact is by this September there will be no winter shelter, as the commons will be torn down. Nothing for the homeless and the farmers market,” Kamikawa said.

Since Housing and Urban Development no longer funds states for shelters, the onus is on states, counties and municipalities to grapple with the steadily growing problem.

(Part two in this series will appear in a future edition of the News-Times)

Behind the faces of Lincoln County’s homeless: Part II

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By: Paul Haeder – Updated: 2 years ago

Posted Feb 25, 2020

  

(Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Lincoln County’s homeless population)

What’s inside (their character) when people find themselves outside?

I run these information sessions for a social capital pilot project here in Lincoln County. I had an op-ed on the program in the News-Times last year (“It Takes a Mini-Village,” Sept. 10, 2019).

For all my work attempting to get people — households, individuals on their own, etc. — to sign up for a stipend of $800, I am finding a large case of paranoia, reluctance to share and an atomized population.

A rural county like Lincoln has the appeal of being out in nature or on your own acre, but in reality, everything a city needs, a rural county needs.

The automatization of society is probably the most difficult challenge to educators, social service workers, even employers. It creates fear, isolation and self-effacement.

“To be uprooted means to have no place in the world recognized and guaranteed by others; to be superfluous means not to belong to the world at all.” said Hannah Arendt, political scientist and philosopher (1906-1975).

Isolated individuals do not make up a healthy democratic society. Part of the reason any city the size of Newport is grappling with more direct services for homeless people is to stem that survival-of-the-fittest mentality in order to help people form some sort of communal bonds and deep connections to their communities.

Part of the Task Force on Homelessness is to grapple with what many might see as low-hanging fruit — getting a warming shelter up and running in Newport so there is a permanent place to not only help the homeless during the cold, but also a place where more resources and possible case management might occur.

Unfortunately, many people see the homeless as completely dysfunctional and/or hooked on substances creating a person unable to function as a contributing member of society.

I’ve had many conversations with many people in Lincoln County who are precarious — some living in fifth wheels and their cars. Others are doubling and tripling up housing situations not conducive to raising school-aged children.

In addition, I talk to people in my own community, Waldport, who are both visible to the community and talkative about their homeless situations. There are Terry, Brooks and John (a pseudonym), who I end up conversing with about their own state of homelessness.

All three men are on the streets, but the three of them present themselves as very different humans in their houseless circumstances.

John has lived on the streets for seven years. He tells me he wanted to be a novelist when young. He is outside the Waldport library drinking coffee from the patron appreciation cookies and coffee event the library is hosting.

“Look, most of the services come with a big bunch of terrible things,” he said. “The warming shelter has some bad people there. It’s not a place for families. And women! They have it worse as homeless.”

He’s thoughtful, careful and willing to talk. In some ways, John is jaded by his experiences on the street.

Terry is from Oklahoma, and he jokes about “having a few daily” just to stay warm. He looks and presents himself differently than John. I talk to Terry outside the post office, where he is there looking for some changes.

“I have family down in Oklahoma,” he said. “I choose to be out here, don’t get me wrong.”

Terry is funny, mercurial and presents himself as eccentric, but he has grimy clothes and the stench of alcohol on his breath.

All three men tell me they’d be open to a longer conversation, more in depth, and they even say they’d have a few things to tell any task force or politician around homelessness.

John and Brooks reiterate they are known in the community and assisted with food and a few odd jobs. One businesswoman tells me she gets a “How are you today, miss?” from Brooks regularly. People in Waldport tolerate the three in their community, on the surface.

Many I meet attribute homelessness to laziness, boozing and just downright mental illness. But a true picture of individuals facing homelessness is so much more complicated than that simplistic connotation.

What comes first, homelessness or mental illness? This question pervades conversations in many iterations, but in the end, falling on hard times — loss of a job, physical illness, divorce, eviction, bankruptcy and/or a combination of these — can put a so-called contributing member of society, the workforce, into a quick spiral of unpaid bills, shredded safety nets, a loss of family or social capital.

Mental illness is a result of many varying factors, but ending up in your car with a dog and spouse and a child can be a tsunami of fear, self-loathing, impenetrable lack of confidence and anger. If you have a chronic illness that demands medical attention, the crisis is compounded exponentially.

Running a permanent shelter costs money

Without financial support and volunteers, a shelter is a pipe dream.

“We have to have financial support,” said Samaritan House director Lola Jones at a recent meeting of the Task Force on Homelessness.

Cynthia Jacobi, Newport City Council member, said recently she is hopeful that HB–4001 will spur serious discourse on what to do about the homeless population in relationship to cities having the tools to allow for shelters. House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland), has introduced a $120 million proposal to allow cities to more easily site homeless shelters. Kotek also wants a statewide emergency declaration on the homeless problem.

Jacobi, too, sees the need for immediate mitigation and a shelter for this emergency-sized problem here in Newport.

Kelsey Ingalls, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Newport, on her blog tells her congregation a chilling fact most social services agencies in Lincoln County also shudder to contemplate — there’s a 17 percent homeless rate in our local schools. How a community frames the idea that nearly one of every five students doesn’t have stable housing while the county is home to many second-home residents will be important.

Several compelling stories about people who are homeless and dying due to exposure to the elements were discussed at the meeting: according to Betty Kamikawa, an 87-year-old Lincoln County resident was found dead in her car. She had been in an apartment living with her disabled son. Electrical wires were eaten through by rats. She had no electricity. She was evicted. She had a stroke while living in her car with her son.

Putting a face on, and a story behind each homeless person might get the average person to think about how he or she can support a shelter and permanent housing solution as well as volunteering some hours each month to stem the tide of tragedies like this one.

Grilling Newport City Councilor

I decided to ask a Newport City Councilor, Cynthia Jacobi, some questions on homelessness and next steps.

Paul Haeder: What role do you see citizens joining the Homeless Task Force?

Cynthia Jacobi: I’m the city liaison to the Homeless Work Group/coalition.

PH: What role do you see citizens joining the Homeless Task Force?

CJ: I see the role of citizens in the new homeless coalition work group (as yet without an official name or title) as coming forth with the best ideas tailored for our community. Social services, government entities, law-enforcement, interfaith community and concerned citizens can all have a voice in shaping these policies.

PH: Why are you involved?

CJ: I have always felt a strong sense of social justice. I see families with more than one parent working who still cannot afford safe and decent shelter. Sometimes the cost of an illness, a car repair or other unexpected costs forces the choice between buying groceries or paying rent or utility bills. Children in unstable situations are especially vulnerable. As a wealthy society, in good conscience we cannot say there is no room at the inn. We have the means to house all of our population.  With strong leadership and compassion, I know we can do this.

PH: Will the task force cover larger issues?

CJ: There are so many overlapping issues: the new Oregon State House Bill 4001, which may be a game changer in zoning, and funding. All coastal communities have been addressing the short-term rentals impact on housing inventory for working folks. It is a valid suggestion to have a study on the actual impact economically and socially of STRs. For example, does the room tax cover expenses of police and fire departments, wear on roads, etc.?  Who would finance this study? The City of Newport has been instrumental in building Surfview, the 110-apartment complex for lower-income citizens. This will open by summer. This was accomplished with a complex partnership of public and private funds, and the leadership in local city and county government. Need to do more of this.

PH: What role do you see mental health services playing in this move to have both temporary homeless facilities (a night facility) and also a warming shelter?

CJ: My understanding is that the county mental health providers have formed outreach teams that will go directly to unsheltered people, assess their needs and provide services and contacts for assistance.

PH: Car camping at churches and nonprofits and governmental parking areas with some sort of case management and oversight seems like a good first step in getting the housing insecure into a system of evaluation and moving ahead with housing options. Is this the biggest and easiest priority now?

CJ: I think the quickest way to make an impact is to allow safe, supervised car camping in Newport.  Newport Planning Commission is in the process of examining our ordinances to allow car camping in certain defined areas. Along with oversight, outreach teams and case management, this is the easiest first step to create safe shelter areas. Women, children and seniors living in their cars are especially vulnerable. At the very least, they need a safe place to stay at night. We can do this. I heard anecdotally that much of the seasonal help lives in their cars and rents small storage lockers for belongings.

PH: Do you know anyone personally or within a family circle who have been or are housing insecure, or homeless?

CJ: Personally, I have a few family members who have experienced bad luck, poor choices and mental illness causing them to live in unstable conditions. My husband, Gary, and I have volunteered at the overnight shelter.  We have met people displaced from their previous long-term housing, people who can’t afford rent, people who are disabled. A common problem is affordability when working folks have to pay the first month, the last month, a damage deposit and utility hook ups. Before any of this can happen, there is background check costing $50 per adult for each application, even to be placed on a waiting list. While realizing that landlords must be protected, this situation seems unfair. How many working families can afford $2,500 and more up front?

PH: What role do businesses and the chambers have in helping get some sort of affordable housing for the very people who clean the fish, serve the food, chop the veggies, clean the hotels, etc.? Can we get a roundtable together, where we bring a large brain trust together to attack the housing insecurity and the street homeless issues as a multi-pronged problem to solve?

CJ: As far as the responsibilities of businesses and chambers of commerce, some businesses have stepped up to help their workers. In particular, one of the fish plants has purchased motels and converted them to longer-term living quarters. In the last few years, Newport has lost three large economy motels: one deteriorated and was bulldozed, one burned and the fish plant bought another one. These motels were often used as emergency shelters with vouchers by government agencies.

Paul Haeder works in Lincoln County for an anti-poverty nonprofit, Family Independence Initiative, through State of Oregon County DHS funding. His new short story collection, “Wide Open Eyes — Surfacing from Vietnam” was just published by Cirque Press. He’s worked as a case manager for veterans, foster youth and others facing homelessness, substance abuse and employment hurdles. 

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Here, the housing crisis, a la harvard study:

Even as the US economy continues to recover, the inequalities amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic remain front and center. Households that weathered the crisis without financial distress are snapping up the limited supply of homes forsale, pushing up prices and further excluding less affluent buyers from homeownership. At the same time, millions of ehind on their housing payments and on the brink of eviction or foreclosure. A disproportionately large share of these at-risk households are renters with low incomes and people of color. While policymakers have taken bold steps to prop up consumers and the economy, additional government support will be necessary to ensure that all households benefit from the expanding economy. (State of the Nation’s Housing 2021)

Bruce Willis or Batman ain’t coming to the rescue. Predatory Capitalism. The inane in high office. The incompetent in high office. The lobbies overseeing the inompetents and inane in high office. These national and regional and local crises just continue piling up unti we have mental fatigue . . . Stockholm Syndrome. In the USA, there will be no uprising, no national sit-ins, strikes, used tires lit on the main highways.

So the Maggie’s of the world are in the tens of millions. How many out of 355 million are two paychecks away from disaster? How many in the USA do not have $500 for an emergency? What is that credit card debt?

Old Irish song,

Maggie

I wandered today to the hills Maggie
to watch the scene below
the creek and the creaking old mill Maggie
as we used to long long ago

the green grove is gone from the hills Maggie
where first the daisies sprung
the creaking old mill is still Maggie
since you and I were young

2
they say that I’m feeble with age Maggie
My step are much slower than then
my face is a well written page Maggie
and time all alone was the pen

They say we have outlived our time Maggie
as dated as the songs that we’ve sung
but to me you’re as fair as you were Maggie
when you and I were young

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Or Rod Stweart,

Maggie May Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Wake up, Maggie
I think I got somethin’ to say to you
It’s late September
And I really should be back at school

[Chorus 1]
I know I keep you amused
But I feel I’m being used
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried anymore
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that’s what really hurts

[Verse 2]
The morning sun, when it’s in your face
Really shows your age
But that don’t worry me none
In my eyes, you’re everything

[Chorus 2]
I laughed at all of your jokes
My love you didn’t need to coax
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried anymore
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that’s a pain I can do without

[Verse 3]
All I needed was a friend
To lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover, and mother, what a lover
You wore me out

[Chorus 3]
All you did was wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried anymore
You led me away from home
‘Cause you didn’t want to be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn’t leave you if I tried

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]
I suppose I could collect my books
And get on back to school
Or steal my daddy’s cue
And make a living out of playing pool

[Chorus 4]
Or find myself a rock and roll band
That needs a helping hand
Oh, Maggie, I wished I’d never seen your face
You made a first-class fool out of me
But I’m as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart, but I love you anyway

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Outro]
Maggie, I wished I’d never seen your face
I’ll get on back home one of these days
Ooh, ooh, ooh

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Or, Dylan:

Little Maggie

1. Oh, where is little Maggie

Over yonder she stands,

Rifle on her shoulder,

Six-shooter in her hand.

2. How can I ever stand it,

Just to see them two blue eyes,

Shinin’ like some diamonds,

Like some diamonds in the sky.

3. Rather be in some lonely hollow

Where the sun don’t ever shine,

Than to see you be another man’s darling,

And to know that you’ll never be mine.

4. Well, it’s march me away to the station

With my suitcase in my hand,

Yes, march me away to the station,

I’m off to some far-distant land.

5. Sometimes I have a nickel,

And sometimes I have a dime,

Sometimes I have ten dollars,

Just to pay for little Maggie’s wine.

6. Pretty flowers are made for blooming,

Pretty stars are made to shine,

Pretty girls are made for boy’s love,

Little Maggie was made for mine.

7. Well, yonder stands little Maggie

With a dram glass in her hand,

She’s a drinkin’ down her troubles

Over courtin’ some other man.

As a communist, I have deep understanding of the hate toward communists throughout history, and why countries in Africa and elsewhere are, were, and will lean toward socialism: kicking out the prostitutes, pimps and purveyors of chaos and terror. Bankers and Bombs. Viruses and Lockdowns. Neoliberal or Neocon. The purveryors of pain are at the top.

And, well, in the middle. So, I quit a job Nov. 3 when my supervisor hung up on me. I was stationed 80 miles from where she was headquartered, where the HR was headquartered and where the Executive Director was headquartered.

This woman was a complete disaster as a human and professional (sic). She had already had issues with the fellow I replaced, who stormed out, quit. Her forked tongue and broken personality, well, she was the nonprofit’s two year wonder, her son worked for the nonprofit, and she had control of the small satellite office in my county.

My job was to take over case management for adults with developmental disabilities. That system is county run, with state DHS funding. It is a broke system, understaffed, and staffed with broken humans. So, one month on this job I was subjected to this supervisor’s personl life, her homophobia even though her Air Force son was marrying a man. She called herself a beaner, as she has some Latina in her bloodline. She asked me if I drove like an old man. On and on, and so, when I heard her voice, heard her warn me she was hanging up on me, and the fact that she would not listen to my concerns about a client who complained about shorted checks for a jaintorial job we were not managing for him, I knew it was time to go.

Oregon’s judges:

So, this is my thinking — it was a just cause quit, to use the parlance of the dirty Unemployment Insurance/Employment Department lingo.

A job at $20 an hour, benefits like health insurance and PTO, and, I was expecting to be there for two years, three? But, for my physical health and mental health, bye-bye toxic and unprofessional people and organization. I was thinking this would be a legit quit making me eligible for some pittance of unemployment, as in $180 a week. Covid benefits had ended last November. Quitting or termination from a job after only one month looks bad to the future employers. Age 65, now, and alas, in a rural county, and here we are, I am dead in the water.

Then, the application for Unemployment Insurance. Hoops to jump through (easy), and then applying for jobs as part of the deal. Then, the hell of Idiots Rule, the Bureaucrats. The adjudicator was unprofessional, taking my statements in his home (Zoom Doom), I heard him drawing on cig after cig, and he had to tell me he was gay, a real liberal (he thought I was a liberal — fucking comedy hour: Read, Communist!). It was bizarre. So Oregon-Portland bizarre

The bastards got my story, and this dude had to get my statements and three phone calls. He went off topic beyond stupidity, but he found against me: not eligible for UI, unemployment insurance. Then, I had to file an appeal.

That was more hell, and three hours with a judge (sic) and the HR director came on the line. Five days later, the judge, again, found against me.

Then, an appeal of the appeal through the Employment Appeals Board. That entailed sending in any additional information, to both the Board and the former employer.

Forty days later, again, two out of three judges (the 3rd one was not present to hear my appeal) found against me. They predicate that I had opportunities to deal with the issues I was dealing with through, yep, the HR, which was, again, part of the clique. The Executive Director was already on his way out, heading for another nonprofit ED position in the same place, Coos Bay.

Now, there is an appeal of the appeal through the state Appelate Court, but that entails a $391 filing fee. Yep, money to keep these blue state bureaucrats paid.

Irony after irony is that I have been employed to help homeless or developmental disabled to navigate systems of rents, medical needs, employment, and getting through the paperwork hell. I have helped some with their unemployment claims, and to get the Veterans Administration to find they have service – connected disabilities so they might get a few hundred bucks a monthy from Uncle Sam.

These are the systems of oppression and penury. This is the system that will never be discussed with gusto. This is the system of holding people down and keeping worthless humans in jobs that are the opposite of humane and human.

Now now, this is not a spilled milk screed, hyperbolic and completely insignificant just because the world is falling apart, Ukrainians are being blowing apart by ZioLensky, and wildfires are rampant, toxicity out the roof, housing homocidal, billionaires drunk on power. This is foundational, readers of DV. Yep, amazing writers here talking about Boris Johnson, lots about Roe v Wade, lots on “the economies” and tons on Ukraine and the EU and UK and global “situations.” Climate change, climate fatigue, climate chaos in a climate of fear and Stockholm Syndrome.

It starts locally, at the city and county level, at the state level. We (citizens) are here for a broken system of planned dysfunction, planned obsolesence, planned homocide to sputter ahead, to keep the bad people in jobs and the rest of us at their whim(s).

Oregon’s lovely housing opportunities:

Oregon’s growing business:

Here, one title by yours truly: “One Degree of Separation: There Will be Parasitic Capitalism’s Blood“

But specifically here one about this shit-hole nonprofit and my right to quit and the rationale for it: “Quitting is a Mental Health Decision”

So, more shouts into the wilderness, flailing against the windmills of the Byzantine world of state policies, and rationalizations spewed toward the middle managers, the professional office class, the cogs in the systems of pain and begging and aburdity.

Oregon’s seasonal recreation and employment — smoke jumpers:

My letter to the two hearing board people: Nothing fancy, nothing a laywer would write. But life sucks, no, when you don’t have the shekels to pay for criminal lawyers?

Oregon:

To an uncaring two-person appeals board – Hettle and Steger-Bentz: 

I wholeheartedly see this decision as both incompetence and lack of empathy. Citing that I as the employee had recourse to not quit a highly toxic work environment shows the lack of creed you have. You are not in the know about non-profits, about the developmental disabilities case management realm. You have no idea how toxic those small nonprofits can get. The new case manager, as I was, had no connection to the actual main office and all of those inner workings of their clique. I had no recourse to thrive or do well at this job after I was hung up on by the supervisor. I had already for a month dealt with her unprofessional commentary and her racist remarks. That was the culture there, and citing some sort of recourse I might have had with the HR head is inane. 

This is not a state or county agency with a more developed culture of workplace stability and professionalism.

You have no street creed or ground truthing when it comes to workplace cultures.

This outfit, Bay Area Enterprises, is shoddy, highly unprofessional, and alas, the rationale given in your wrong-headed decision is faulty: I did not have just cause to quit. Absurd. I needed to get out of a toxic and uncompromising situation. You are fools to think there was another option. You are overpaid State bureaucrats with little sense of the real workplaces workers in Oregon have to submit to. Do you realize that this small company, new to me, is all about insider cliques? That my immediate supervisor and the HR head work in the same office, 80 miles from where I was assigned? That the executive director left the company a week after my complaints, so he was already on the outs. That the executive director and the immediate supervisor I was worked in the same office and were in constant discussion back and forth about employee x and employee y? That there are prejudicial allegiances made under those circumstances?

I was hung up on by my supervisor. She was in the office where the HR director and the ED work. My immediate motion for self-preservation was to resign. Indeed, your bureaucratic mentality is what I teach my students in colleges (and some in K12 as a substitute) to not only watch out for, but to rail against, and challenge. In this case, I went through the Oregon state hoops designed to assist companies to get out of paying some of the unemployment insurance. The system is rigged in favor of the employer.

You are at fault for this decision, for not taking into account a deeper sense of the workplace, that workplace I was in. In no away was I going to put myself through mental and emotional hell by putting up with the situation I have already laid out. You can sit back and lord over workers, making the same tired decision that occurred first by the Unemployment adjudicator, then by the appeals hearing judge. Here we are, now, a faceless board of three with one absent making the same wrong decision.

Now, for me to take this to the next level of appeal would require more state rip-off fees — $391 to file. This is why the average person has no faith in the State of Oregon’s so-called agencies for the people. You are dead wrong in denying me unemployment,  and your titles, whatever they might be in this sense, are not worth the paper I am printing this letter on.

Shame on you, and, well, this is another teachable and journalistic moment for me but it doesn’t compensate for the time and effort I put in filing unemployment weekly, and looking for work in this  county where I live. I will rail against this system, your decision and the process that was so protracted. You will  not feel shame because I suspect you are wired to not have empathy when it comes to these cases that indeed are just cause for quitting. Nuance is not something you three probably have as human characteristics.

And so I have to pay for that lack of humanity.

Disrespectfully, Paul Haeder

Yeah yeah, we still have abortions for those who can afford them. And, we know the rich hate hate us, and are willing to get every last dollar, inch of property, parcel of land from us.

And we have been brainwashed to accept that abuse in this Collective Cycle of Abused Citizen Syndrome. We take and take, because we are habituated to the abuse (economic, spiritual, cultural, and violent) by the lords of the manor, with their Bobbies and SWAT Team heroes and heroines. We have allowed Pigs of Finance, Pigs of Culture, Pigs of the Industrial Corporate Welfare Complex to make the news, to ride to glory, and to live out their lives with no uncomfortable public moments.

No pies in their faces, no shoes thrown at them, no raspberry syrup (fake blood) tossed on them.

It is a society of backboneless folk, mouse pad warriors, amazing trolls and backyard boosters. The debate with the deadly billionaire class and their foot soldiers in the CEO class, the Media, in Congress, the Senate, in Administration X, Y, and Z, all the bosses and low level little big man syndrome sufferers, all the cops, all the personal security, all of those gavel weilding freaks in courtrooms or boardrooms or city/county council chambers, we have given up.

So, the idea that the world will end — no more coral reefs, no more whales, no more jungles, no more forests, no more clean rivers, rising tides — is acceptable outcomes in a world where the end of the world is constant captivation and potential, but ending CAPITALISM? Most people see that as impossible. No in my lifetime, not in the lifetimes of Seven Generations out!

Yet this photo below says it all, really about the death spiral of the elite, the coopting of Black Nations, the sickness of a Clinton, Gates, Blair and Bono at the World Economic Forum, which is a eugenics pogrom for the 80 percent. WEF and “you will not own anything and you will be happy” sickos. This is where mass sterilization should start — with them, their their progeny, with their bootlickers, with their CPAs and CEOs and bankers and lawyers.

Yet, we have the freaky Thursday news about the king of the welfare programs, Musk. This is the carnival creatures show as Musk celebrates, or no comments, the news that he has another set of offspring from some sychphant employee: “Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Business Insider reported on Wednesday.”

Then, the progeny just keep multiplying as Musk, 51, is known to have had eight children with two other women. With his first wife, Justine Wilson, he had a son, Nevada, who died at 10 weeks; 18-year-old twins Xavier and Griffin; and 16-year-old triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai. With Claire Boucher (Grimes), he has 2-year-old son X and 6-month-old daughter Y. In May, Musk posted a tweet saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years” and pinned it to the top of his Twitter account.

Here, from Mickey Z:

A 2017 Gallup poll found that out of the world’s roughly one billion full-time workers, only 15 percent of people felt “engaged at work.” Eighty-fuckin-five percent of humans are unhappy, unchallenged, and unfulfilled in their jobs. How can this not shape who you are and how you live?

You spend at least five days a week for decades doing something that doesn’t light you up, you probably become the kind of person who lines up for experimental injections without asking what’s in them.

Fuck work. The parasites in charge are (literally) selling you a lie and the price is your autonomy, your soul, your life. We’ve now reached the point where at least 4 in 10 humans would rather die than quit their job. And next, they’re coming for your pensions, your cash, your privacy, and more. (Americans would rather die than retire)

Breaking free of this sickness is where we should be at. And while Mickey Z questions his own days protesting, the Occupy Movement, his own participation, we have to break into the minds of the youth, and we have to bombard these lords, these Captains of Industrial Complexes, with our hate for-of-because of them.

Fucking break free:

And, here, from redneck, fascist Yahoo Financial News, on that felon, that carnival freak, Gates:

Bill Gates made his fortune in tech, but he’s now betting big on something completely different: farmland.

Last week, Gates secured the legal approval for purchasing 2,100 acres of farmland from northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms.

Of course, this isn’t first time Gates has invested in the asset class. Having amassed nearly 270,000 acres of farmland across dozens of states, Gates is already the largest private owner of farmland in America.

Let’s take a closer look at the approval.

Betting (on) the farm

Gates’ purchase of farmland in North Dakota initially raised concerns because of a Depression-era law that prohibits corporations and limited liability companies from owning farmland in the region.

North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring previously told KFYR-TV — a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota — that many people weren’t thrilled about the news.

“I’ve gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it’s not even from that neighborhood. Those people are upset, but there are others that are just livid about this,” Geohring said.

However, the anti-corporate farming law does allow individual trusts to own farmland if it is leased to farmers — and that’s what Gates’ firm plans to do.

On Wednesday, North Dakota’s Attorney General issued a letter saying that the purchase complied with the law.

A recession-resistant asset

You don’t need an MBA to see the appeal of farmland.

Markets can go up or down, but no matter what happens, people still need to eat.

That makes farmland intrinsically valuable.

So, what did War Criminal Kissinger say, related to land and food? The control and management of global food supplies has been a corporate and political priority for decades, with US-based conglomerates leading the charge. As elite establishment political figure Henry Kissinger remarked in 1970,

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

Recent research places multinational corporations behind the push toward controlling global food supplies.

So sterilization is a very valid option to control these people and their offspring, these Transhumanism carnival freaks, these biopsy fake meat Frankensteins, these Monsanto and GMO-loving Doctor Jekyll’s. Squatting, and rolling strikes, and do-what-we-can-when-the-pigs-show-up-to-evict-and-foreclose actions. We are at that point where mind control has permeated this culture, and not just Ditto Heads, Q-Anon, but the Biden Boat, all of the people supporting even one out of thousands of political aspirants for any elected office, representing any of the two whoring parties. Mind control, until up is down, the rich are saviors, owning nothing is fabulous, experimental vaxxes or pills or frying pan coating or nanoparticles or PFAS’s or any of the thousands of chemicals colliding into each other for a slurry of synergistic hell are A-Okay, since the masters and their lab coats say all is well in Poison-Landia.

And, now, the pig of a human, Jeffrey Sachs, is telling the world that just maybe, just possibly, the SARS-CoV2 “thing” might have originated in a US lab!

An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.

Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form of free market engineering called “shock therapy,” Sachs now positions himself as a voice of progressivism, condemning the “1 per cent” and promoting his solution to extreme poverty through the Millennium Villages Project.

Appearances can be deceiving. Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid is the story of an evangelical development expert who poses as saviour of the Third World while opening vulnerable nations to economic exploitation. Based on documentary research and on-the-ground investigation, Jeffrey Sachs exposes Mr. Aid as no more than a new, more human face of Dr. Shock.

And so now this master of disguise, Sachs, is coming out of more closets. Labelled a famous US economist, Sachs, supposedly led a two-year probe into the pandemic’s origins, said he was “pretty convinced’ the virus was the result of ‘US lab biotechnology.’ But there’s enough evidence that it should be looked into and it’s not being investigated — not in the US, not anywhere. I think for real reasons, they [US officials] don’t want to look under the rug too much.” (source)

Well, the writer over at Harvard to the Big House covers this in March 2020: “No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito” – What The Expanse tells us about the COVID-19 pandemic and serial passage gain-of-function research.

You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when no one wants you to answer it.

From the father and son team, Dan and Karl Sirotkin: ” Might SARS-CoV-2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage throughan Animal Host or Cell Culture?A potential explanation for much of the novel coronavirus’ distinctive genome'” (source)

And then those glassy eyes begin to milk over getting into the weeds of biolabs, bioweapons, leaks, mistakes, intentional Covid-19 Version 999:

Despite claims from prominent scientists that SARS-CoV-2 indubitablyemerged naturally, the etiology of this novel coronavirus remains a pressingand open question: Without knowing the true nature of a disease, it isimpossible for clinicians to appropriately shape their care, for policy-makers tocorrectly gauge the nature and extent of the threat, and for the public toappropriately modify their behavior. Unless the intermediate host necessaryfor completing a natural zoonotic jump is identified, the dual-usegain-of-function research practice of viral serial passage should be considereda viable route by which the novel coronavirus arose. The practice of serialpassage mimics a natural zoonotic jump, and offers explanations forSARS-CoV-2’s distinctive spike-protein region and its unexpectedly highaffinity for angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE2), as well as the notablepolybasic furin cleavage site within it. Additional molecular clues raise furtherquestions, all of which warrant full investigation into the novel coronavirus’sorigins and a re-examination of the risks and rewards of dual-usegain-of-function research.

Then, again, who is involved in this? The Bidens, with Hunter as the King of Cocaine and Prostitution in Ukraine, and those three dozen biolabs? Man oh man, the questions the mainstream press not wanting to pose the question, and then when posed, well, those who do not want to answer the question. July, and in Oregon, the spikes are hitting 14 counties, and the masks are back on, and, hmmm, no questions about a flu or cold virus active in the summer? In Arizona?

Freaky Thursday! Mass sterilization, please!

  

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic, because we don’t want them around us and we don’t want to throw them out.”

John Steinbeck, The WInter of Our Discontent

Some of the people I intersect with believe that hitting the brick wall at 50 mph (Hillary, Kamala, Dem-Blue) is much better than hitting it at 85 mph (DiSantis, Trump 2024, Mike Pence).

I remind them that our medical system is so broken, and even now with an ambulance driver shortage, hitting the wall at 85 is instant death, and at 50 mph is a protracted ugly, private insurance hell, medical malpractice torture chamber, continual vegetative state horror. And, alas, no ambulances, man:

Here, Bonnie Scotland: “What is being done to ease the ambulance ‘crisis’? How bad is the problem? On Thursday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the ambulance service was already “operating at its highest level of escalation”.” Emergency call handlers in Scotland have been receiving about 10,000 calls a month more this summer than they were last year. Crews are not getting to all of those additional patients because there are simply not enough ambulances on the road. Then, “Shanghai steps up efforts to address ambulance shortage. Then, USA: Ambulance shortage in St. Louis City causing concern for EMS workers: ‘It’s like life or death'” ; “N.Y. County to supplement ambulance service — To make up for area agencies’ staffing shortfalls, Niagara County employees will respond to calls in two ambulances during the day and one at night.”

It is a failed state, one of those country’s where there are individual states with individual cities where the riches are concentrated, and then these no-man lands where workers service the rich, the powerful. Then, a middle class that is frightened like shaved cats. Then, so many many broken people from broken homes, with unbelievable violence and trauma and just plain meanness by parents who not only should have been sterilized, but shot for the crimes and the inhumanity purpetrated against children.

Then, how do those household of children in the millions relate to the world as teenagers, adults?

I was just talking with a 53 year old, self-described surfer from California, but who has been in Reno for 20 plus years. he told to homes, got his half a million in cash, and is looking to buy a 1928 broken down home here in the town I live in.

Really broken down. The previous owner was there, for a few years after coming here to take care of an ailing mother. He sold it for $150,000 (it is really, swaying and crocked with sagging window frames, and a floor that is sloping halfway inside from ground sinking, and thise fellow says that hell of a jerk of a buyer is selling it for $280,000.

That is America, the house flipping disgusting place of trauma after trauma. No socialism, and get rich schemes that would make Trump look like a door to door candy saleman.

This is it, though: so many Americans work 9 to five to srew their fellow citizen, to get one or many things up on them, working for companies that make money on fines, fees, add-ons, gimmicks, taxation, tolls, service fees, etc. They work to sell products that are faulty or dangerous, they work to hawk lies and toxic things. They work for a fee or salary, and they are whores for the Fortune 5000, or they are hiking prices, and, while they do that 9 to 5, after work they go into their solitary confinement, with big backyards, big screen TVs, BBQ patios, pools, ATVs and motorcycles, motorhomes. They want nothing to do with community.

This fellow has worked all his life, said he never finished school, self-described as ADHD, problems reading, but he did construction and demolition, and he has a 26 year old daughter in Reno. He said he understands my gig — social work with homeless, substance abusers, ex-felons, adults with developmental disabilities. He said his best workers were folk with ID or DD.

He’s rough in his demeanor, and he can carry on a conversation, but he still can’t get that being born from a bad seed, being brought up in hell, victims, not natural born killers, but killers, druggies, and disfunctional. He sort of tried to tell me about homelessness, but then he backed down.

He is another one, probably pretty good, who doesn’t believe the Ukraine Lie Narrative, but still, he is of another mindset, interestingly American: surfer, pulling his trailer with old Jeep, living in a fifth wheel, wanting an old house not to tear down and rejigger the land for two or three condo type things, but to live in an old house because he likes old things.

So many men in situations of men aging, locked in some timeframe of the past. Locked in belief systems that were wrong to begin with and still carried over now, while they are in a country that is really the same shit-hole in the 1950s or 1990s. Except, there are so many more in the USA, at 360,000,00.

Things do not go better with Coke. Plastics in your feces is just one harbinger of decay. The housing crisis is another harbinger of bad times, discontent. The systems of oppression, the privatization of everything and then the externalities of the corporations laying more and more of the burden of pollution, defaults, prisons, educational decay, the dysfunction of communities that have been gutted and stripped by Mitt Romney types or the Goldman Sachs to the 100th power onto us.

This is a society that will collapse, will never nationalize pride, planning, health care, insurance, housing, food, energy, because the propaganda of Madison Avenue has psychologically neutered and evicerated common sense and systems thinking.

Let it be known how insipid and inane Europe has become. Absolute stupidity. The leaders there have friendly exotic accents, but they are as dumb as Biden and Trump and the entire litany of folk going into politics. They are hateful, greedy, ready to fleece. The lies about Ukraine, in 2022, is a harbinger to come. They want war, chaos, lies and perversions to be the systems that hold people down.

Men, out here, on their own, or hobbled by women — so many men are children, treated as such by their wives or still alive mothers. These men are two and four faced, and they are inherently broken, left as mental and spiritual roadkill. The cynicism is a cancer eating at their organs and their brains.

So many are there lording over those who are more broken and left as road kill, left to subsist. We got so many broken men in high places. Imagine, Biden wanting a son-of-a-bitch anti-Social Security, pro-privitization felon to be the next guy running Social Security. Running it into the arms of the bankers and financiers, and into the ground.

Each day I run into more discontented men, but many have no way out of their hate, their retrograde thinking, their uncreative step forward, their back-peddling to a time that never really existed.

Except, with 150 million in the USA when I was born in 1957, and then now 350 million, you can see that the country has not improved in those 65 years: better DMV, better education, better electrical grid, better food systems, better health care, better citizens, better arts, better readers, better communities. In fact, those 65 years, with that population growth, and the disease of consumerism and affluence and wasted excess. Now, we have more on thin ice, many more precarious, and many are over-schools, over-credentialed, and that in itself has created a more compliant society.

More discontent, but no guts or glory. No massive protests in the streets. Blockades. No solidarity. Exactly what the handlers and minders want — atomization of society. A world of discontent but not tools for insurrection, revolution, no rolling strikes.

Go along to get along. Better to have the lesser of two evils. Rather hit the wall at 50 mph than 80 mph.

Men drinking more, believing in all sorts of bizarre conspiracies, devils advocating everything, denigrating anyone with a mind, or anyone who has seven counter-intuitive ideas on one issue churning in the old noggin.

Duck and cover. Everyone man/woman has his/her/their castle. Every opinion is a-okay.

Weathering:

A new report, entitled “Top Ten Toxic Threats,” co-authored by the Blacksmith Institute and the Green Cross, shines a light on the world’s most polluted places and the extent to which those living in them are affected

Again, so many American men who have no sense of the world, how systems of pollution and starvation and death are tied to this lust for Capitalism to reign supreme over everything.

Where oh where are the critical thinkers around this fellow’s hatred of Putin, Russians, et al?

The culmination of Noam Chomsky’s arrogance and condescension came in 2003, on a C-SPAN interview:

The collapse of the Soviet Union is a small victory for socialism in my opinion. 

At odds with reality, Chomsky almost 20 yeaers ago, dovetails to his lack of reality around Nazi Ukraine and a Special Military Operation to de-Nato-fy, de-militarize, de-Nazify Ukraine. Imagine the tragedy witnessed in former Soviet states and the suffering inflicted since by triumphalist neoliberalism:

Then, after 1990, a bad health situation got worse. As the society collapsed so did life expectancy. In the 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were somewhere between 3 million and 7 million excess deaths. (The Lancet)

The Global Research and Dissident Voice piece, “Is Noam Chomsky a Qualified Military Analyst?” by Kim Petersen attempts to understand Chomsky’s recent comments about how Russia is a Paper Tiger, how President Putin is Dumb and Dumber, and he even calls for bleeding Russia more and more by, well, you know, supporting the Army Merchants, the Offensive Weapons Oligarchs, the Weapons of Death Boys and Girls.

See his most recent photo, since the one used in the Global Research is decades old. I was informed of this piece by a friend, who stated:

Chomsky sets his inner Zionist free.

Of course, I had to state: “Sets his inner Zionist free? He is arrogant, overcited, and what a piece of shivering woke man, under lockdown, in Tucson of all places, where he stated on and on to Amy “Soros” Goodman’s show, Democracy Now, how he was locking himself down. In hot Tucson? Yammering, yammering and yammering. A hundred books? The more the messier. So many of his books are repetitions of collections of his essays of Op-Eds. 

And so why does Global Research use a forty year old photo of the guy? Look at him, under lockdown. He went nowhere in Tucson for almost two years. Held himself hostage because of the planned demic:

Here he is, quoted, with just more of the same old, but not really, because Russia is now having to be bled bled bled: “Virtually everything that Israel is doing, meaning the United States and Israel are doing, is illegal, in fact, a war crime. And many of them they defined as ‘grave breaches,’ that is, serious war crimes. This means that the United States and Israeli leadership should be brought to trial.”

However, if you dig deep you’ll find some folk labeling him as a CIA asset, as many have uncovered. However, here he is in 1995.

A look at Chomsky’s support for the appointment of John Deutch as head of the CIA in 1995.

In December 1995, The New York Times reported that Noam Chomsky approved of the appointment of his fellow MIT academic, John Deutch, as head of the CIA. (Until then Deutch had been No.2 at the Pentagon.) According to the report, Chomsky said,

‘[Deutch] has more honesty and integrity than anyone I’ve ever met in academic life, or any other life. If somebody’s got to be running the CIA, I’m glad it’s him.’

This not so surprisingly favorable attitude to Deutch was confirmed in an interview that appeared in the book Class Warfare in 1996. When asked about Deutch, Chomsky said:

‘We were actually friends and got along fine, although we disagreed on about as many things as two human beings can disagree about. I liked him. We got along very well together. He’s very honest, very direct. You know where you stand with him. We talked to each other. When we had disagreements, they were open, sharp, clear, honestly dealt with. I found it fine. I had no problem with him. I was one of the very few people on the faculty, I’m told, who was supporting his candidacy for the President of MIT.’ (source)

Not the first time Noam has approved of US and CIA. But, this is MIT, where his reputation was supposdly anti-militaristy. But when it comes to John Deutch, well, is this Noam’s lesser evilism for a guy with a long-standing role as a Pentagon adviser.

Deutch headed two Pentagon panels on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Along with Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld, he was also an influential advisor on President Reagan’s Scowcroft commission, which recommended the deployment of the MX missile in 1983.[3] Then, when the Cold War came to an end, he became very concerned that the US military was turning away from nuclear weaponry by, for instance, removing tactical nuclear weapons from ships and submarines.

MIT’s student activists called him the ‘War Provost’. One said Deutch’s activities had ‘really changed the atmosphere at MIT’ and complained that Deutch’s involvement made the university ‘more militaristic’. These activists evidently feared that if Deutch did become MIT President, as apparently Chomsky wanted, then the university would become even more deeply involved in military research of the most barbaric kind. (source)

Articles from MIT’s official newspaper, The Tech:

‘Examining John Deutch’s Pentagon connections’, The Tech, 27 May 1988 (Vol.108 Issue 26)
– Here it is reported that Deutch had encouraged MIT to apply for ‘army contracts for mycotoxin research’. Deutch’s enthusiasm for biological warfare research led another MIT Professor, Vera Kistiakowsky, to complain that ‘he has no business being in the education business.’

‘Twenty years later, MIT still doing military research projects’, The Tech, 24 February 1989, (Vol.109 Issue 6)
– In which Daniel Glenn says that ‘MIT is currently engaged in several hundred research projects for the Department of Defense. The following are examples of unclassified on-campus research: … “hardening of integrated circuits to withstand nuclear attack’’… “target identification using infrared radar” … “optical signal processing for’ missile guidance” … “arctic military facilities”… “application of composite materials for Army helicopter blades’’ … ‘’SDI space-based radar”.’

‘MIT research heavily dependent on defense department funding’, The Tech, 28 February 1989 (Vol.109 Issue7)
– Here Daniel Glenn reports that 80% of MIT’s research funding came from the Pentagon.

‘Teach-in focuses on research and activism’, The Tech, 7 March 1989 (Vol.109 Issue 9 p2, 16)
– In this article, one MIT nuclear engineering student says that Deutch had helped ‘MIT secure $2.3 million dollars in defense department funding for chemical and biological weapons research.’

A fuel-air bomb.

Articles from MIT’s activist paper, The Thistle:

‘Who is John Deutch’, The Thistle, (Vol.9 Issue7)
– In this article, a reference is made to Deutch’s innovative work on ‘fuel-air bombs, one of the most devastating non-nuclear weapons in existence’. The article also points out that as well as being a ‘a long-term advocate of US nuclear weapons build-up, [Deutch] is also a strong supporter of biological weapons, and of using chemical and biological weapons together in order to increase their killing efficiency.’

‘An open letter to [MIT] President Vest’, The Thistle, (Vol.9 Issue7)
– In this article, MIT’s Alternative News Collective writes that ‘Deutch not only supported research into chemical/biological weapons, … he pressured junior faculty into performing this research on campus.’ On the issue of the CIA, the Collective said, ‘How should MIT treat an Institute Professor who has just been chosen to lead a terrorist group? It is time that MIT fired John Deutch.’

‘Institute Professor John Deutch heads CIA: What next?’, The Thistle, (Vol.9 Issue7)
– This article asks, ‘What is the nature of MIT? Is it a “neutral” educational institution, or is it just another piece of the Pentagon-CIA-Weapons Manufacturers establishment, that has had – and continues to have – a negative impact on most of the world?’

An MX missile.

Extract from a letter to Chris Knight by Daniel Glenn, a former MIT student activist and author of some of the above articles:

I was not aware of Chomsky’s support of John Deutch and do find it surprising.

As part of my activism at MIT, I was part of a protest at my 1989 graduation ceremony in which we protested the hypocrisy of the administration and faculty for wearing black arm bands in support of the student movement at Tiananmen Square. The administration had banned the distribution of the student newspapers for the first time in MIT’s history, because we were publishing information about the interlocking directorships of John Deutch and other MIT administration officials and its connection to their support of military expenditures.

We smuggled copies of The Thistle into the graduation ceremony under our robes that detailed those connections. And four students, including myself, unfurled banners on the stage and shook John Deutch’s hand with a banner in the other that read: ‘MIT War Research Kills’. The banners were in the style of the Tiananmen Square student banners. … We did feel vindicated in our concerns about the direct line from MIT’s research funding and faculty connection’s to the military when John Deutch was appointed as Deputy Secretary of Defense and then CIA Director.

… I did take Noam Chomsky’s course on activism and society, and we did engage with him on a number of occasions about our political efforts with the university, and his presence at the university is one of the reasons I was willing to go to MIT. I thought that if he could be there, then I could learn from that institution in spite of its deeply troubling connections to the technology of warfare. I was surprised to learn that he was limited by the politics of academia to teaching within his primary subject area of linguistics, in spite of being such an esteemed intellectual in political science. The course we took from him was not an official course in the university.

I am a great admirer of Noam Chomsky, and would not want to disparage him in any way. I do find this particular issue interesting and somewhat troubling, but I do imagine that he had to make compromises of many kinds over his decades as a resident radical in an institution so entrenched in the military-industrial complex; and he its most profound and substantive critic.

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For more on anti-militarist activism at MIT and Chomsky’s lack of support for this activism see:

‘Noam Chomsky, war research and student protests at MIT, 1967-1972’

and

‘Chomsky at MIT: Between the war scientists and the anti-war students’, by Chris Knight

Oh, the endless stream of Noam Chomsky boosters, and is he a hypcrite?

There’s a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and discussion of the so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception. Can anybody understand that? No, they can’t understand it.

—Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror, 2003

Here, a decent look at Chomsky and his anti-communisim, his anti-Russia roots, but first his Syria perspective : “Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I“
March 4, 2019. By writer, Roderic Day.

Noam Chomsky recently took to the pages of The Intercept to give his blessing to the US military’s occupation of Syria, solidifying his support for the Pentagon after years of having done so in slightly more anguished terms. As far as the occupation, the only concession to what might once have been considered “Leftist” values is the MIT professor’s acknowledgement that the US is motivated
by “power considerations” rather than “humanitarian objectives.” Today, the brief nod to realpolitik is what’s supposed to pass for a progressive anti-war stance.

The Intercept is really a natural fit for Chomsky to deliver this message. The nonagenarian professor has limited years left on earth, and when he passes, Glenn Greenwald and Pierre Omidyar’s website will probably become the new face of the permissible Left. That Chomsky lends his radical imprimatur to a US military occupation in its pages is a testament to what kind of a “Left” Chomsky has helped to create and is bequeathing to Greenwald and Omidyar.

Chomsky begins his career with US military funding in the mid-1950s:

I would like to express my gratitude to the Society of Fellows for having provided me with the freedom to carry on this research.

This work was supported in part by the U.S.A. Army (Signal Corps), the Air Force (Office of Scientific Research, Air Research and Development Command), and the Navy (Office of Naval Research); and in part by the National Science Foundation and the Eastman Kodak Corporation. 

His free speech absolutionism gets us his defense of murderous US officials:

Nothing should be done to impede people from teaching and doing their research even if at that very moment it was being used to massacre and destroy. … [A]s a spokesman for the Rosa Luxemburg collective, I went to see the President of MIT in 1969 to inform him that we intended to protest publicly if there turned out to be any truth to the rumours then circulating that Walt Rostow (who we regarded as a war criminal) being denied a position at MIT on political grounds. (source: “On Chomsky”)

And so it goes, Tarzie’s 2015 appraisal will appear definitive:

The high perch from which Chomsky tells us how free we are was likely only vacant because state agents murdered all consequential Black leaders and squashed every other left-wing movement. In the ensuing years, white guys writing books supplanted visionaries with megaphones while the prison population grew. (source)

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

July 7, 2020 letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org

Chomsky lent his name to what was roundly jeered as a right-wing hit-job. And there it remains, in the illustrious company of Bari Weiss, Yascha Mounk, David Brooks, Anne Applebaum, J.K. Rowling, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, David Frum, Malcolm Gladwell, Matt Yglesias, and Fareed Zakaria!

However, read this letter whih “reads as a caustic reaction to a diversifying industry — one that’s starting to challenge institutional norms that have protected bigotry.”

Here, read a response to this absurd letter, for which Chomsky is a signatory:

“A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate”

It is impossible to see how these signatories are contributing to “the most vital causes of our time” during this moment of widespread reckoning with oppressive social systems. Their letter seeks to uphold a “stifling atmosphere” and prioritizes signal-blasting their discomfort in the face of valid criticism. The intellectual freedom of cis white intellectuals has never been under threat en masse, especially when compared to how writers from marginalized groups have been treated for generations. In fact, they have never faced serious consequences — only momentary discomfort. 

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

— Hunter S. Thompson, “September,” p. 413  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

Imagine, just how programmed are we, and this is it for an excuse?

So, the electricity will be shaky here, there, and everywhere. The excuse is of course, supply chain. Port clogs. Container ships chaos. They will not admit to the real reason for economic and spiritual collapse:  CAPITALISM and PRICE gouging. Oh, Putin did it all!!

Mass shootings, Roe v. Wade down the drain, empty shelves at hardware and food stores. It’s all Putin’s fault, inlcuding the price thieving for these electrical transformers, right? The $6 a gallon for gas in USA and $10 a gallon in Denmark, Putin’s fault. Mindless media midgets, and here we are: Western culture trapped in their own lies, their own self-fulfilling nightmares. Or continuous requiems for our dreams!

The lies and the shallow inquiries and the lack of curiosity, right up there with “everyone in USA is a used car salesman.”

Journalism has always been dead in the mainstream:

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Which is more or less true. For the most part, they are dirty little animals with huge brains and no pulse.

–Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine

But back to other lies, and other lackeys lacking an inquiring mind. Local news from the local rag I publish my columns in. Referencing the local Public Utilities District here in Lincoln County:

Like utilities nationwide, Central Lincoln is being greatly challenged by supply chain delays, material shortages and massive cost increases for materials delivered. Demand for electrical supplies is robust, while transportation bottlenecks and raw material constraints are causing us significant concern over our ability to meet construction timelines. As we address these issues, Central Lincoln will strive to maintain supply levels to meet customer needs, while still maintaining emergency inventories.

We’ve all seen supply chain issues impact many aspects of life today. In some cases, lead times for Central Lincoln have increased six fold in the last two years when we’ve placed orders for materials. For example, new residential transformers typically took four months for delivery prior to the pandemic, and now they take between one year to 20 months to arrive. Costs for materials are also soaring — transformers that were $2,500 two years ago are now $15,000 each, and the cost is continuing to increase. This is not an exaggeration. (source)

Read that again: $2,500 for necessary transformers two years ago now SIX times more, at $15,000?

This is what defines USA, Biden, Trump, McConnell, Pelosi, Carson or Maddow, the entire shit show that is the American stupidity show. And how unprepared are we? This is the colonized mind, and this is the state of the American culture, as well as UK’s and Canada’s and EU’s. If all of this were true, and if we were guided (sic) by sane and humane folks, there’d be massive movements and masterful national plans to nationalize industries and rejigger the entire mess of capitalism for a world, a nation, that works for the people.

Now, shifting over to Scott Ritter, military lover, but still, smart.  He’s not on mainstream TV, in mainstream news. Again, the plastic hair and the Botox lips and the grappling girdles on these airhead TV presenters match their plastic brains. Here (below), he talks about how stupid Americans are (about world issues), and that includes what Yanquis do not know or want to know about the Nazi Ukrainians and this special military operation that Russia FINALLY had to unleash on that disgusting Ukraine and that perverted Zelensky and his crew.

But before Scott, a little black robe insanity. Here we are now, with that un-Supreme Court, doing their shit show decision to get into the uterus of the female persuasion. Eichmanns, one and all.

Imagine that? Supreme (not) Court now determining the legality of obesity, the calories, the sorts of foods, the environmental effects on the male perusasion. Will the male be held criminally libel for what they ingest and what they do to their bodies, their sperm, the RNA?

Let’s be consistent here, pereverts?

There is substantial evidence that paternal obesity is associated not only with an increased incidence of infertility, but also with an increased risk of metabolic disturbance in adult offspring. Apparently, several mechanisms may contribute to the sperm quality alterations associated with paternal obesity, such as physiological/hormonal alterations, oxidative stress, and epigenetic alterations. Along these lines, modifications of hormonal profiles namely reduced androgen levels and elevated estrogen levels, were found associated with lower sperm concentration and seminal volume. Additionally, oxidative stress in testis may induce an increase of the percentage of sperm with DNA fragmentation. The latter, relate to other peculiarities such as alteration of the embryonic development, increased risk of miscarriage, and development of chronic morbidity in the offspring, including childhood cancers. (source)

Preparing for American Roe v. Wade protests in DC. Imagine that, Plywood USA. DC Police Gauntlets. AmeriKKKa.

This all connects, really, these issues of local electrical power outages, and war. War against Russia, and, well, local costs soaring: War against the people. Supply chain excuses. Oh, where oh where are those Republican pukes and Democratic pukes serving us, the people. Electrical outages? Check that one for massive deaths and injuries in simple households and the elected ones have no answers, no empathy, no action? Capitalism.

Ritter talks about Nato using nuclear weapons, talks about the stupidity of Americans, and actors and the cultural cancelling.

Here you go, Gonzalo Lira: Israel Provokes Russia

Because I’ve lost access to all my accounts and channels to the SBU (Ukraine’s secret police), I don’t have any way to promote my content—so please be so kind as to share this video with anyone whom you think might learn something. GL

He talks about how most Jews, not just Zionists and those in Occupied Palestine, seemingly hate Russians. It’s racism, of course, to hate an entire people: Russians. And, will this YouTube be taken down? For the opinion of seeminly most Jews hating Russians, or, for, another reason?

So, on Scheer Post, we get all sorts of mixed bag aggregated articles on Russia and Ukraine. Many are like this: “China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia v. the West: Is Putin the Face of the Future or the Final Gasp of the Past?”

John Feffer wrote it, and he is bought and sold — co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a fellow at the Open Society Foundations and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA is all for billions in weapons to Ukraine, and billions for the Ukraine government (mafia) to run the show. The original article came from Tom Dispatch. Feffer is self-described Jewish gay.

Look up George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. Look up DSA’s stance on pouring weapons and death into Ukraine. This is how these pencil necks see their world:

In its attempt to swallow Ukraine whole, Russia has so far managed to bite off only the eastern Donbas region and a portion of its southern coast. The rest of the country remains independent, with its capital Kyiv intact.

No one knows how this meal will end. Ukraine is eager to force Russia to disgorge what it’s already devoured, while the still-peckish invader clearly has no interest in leaving the table.

Here some comments at Scheer Post, pushing back on Feffer, and I won ‘t republish mine:

Robert Sinuhe:

This is what happens when you are seriously ignorant of facts. He seems to know what Mr. Putin is thinking which should prompt Mr. Putin to ask this fellow what he’s thinking. Complete nonsense!

Roger Hoffmann:

What a disappointing read from Scheerpost. As others have already noted the repeated falsehoods (Russiagate) and baseless claims (Russia wants to swallow Ukraine) and others, I won’t waste the time addressing them either.

I will only say that it is apparent that this writer, in stating a narrative that overlaps much with that of Washington and its mouthpieces, seems oblivious to (or else, dishonestly chooses to ignore) much of the actual history of this conflict- the context in which it emerged, the pleas and warnings not only by Russia but of many seasoned U.S. officers from military, Intel and Diplomatic corps alike, and that of Russia-expert western scholars; and the actions of the U.S. since 2014 at least.

My advice to the writer: please don’t write about things that you know so little about, especially if you want to persuade those who’ve taken the time to become informed.

Terrence Bennett:

Tom Dispatch is a now sadly Pro Nazi source for regressives.
I urge Robert Scheer to monitor and reject many former progressives who now appear on organs like the late great Tom Dispatch

So, taking it in the rear? The back alley abortions. The behind the box store automobile trunk deals for prescription drugs and diapers. The people have a choice in what money goes here and there, don’t they? No massive strike, rolling strikes, rebellion?

Rents? Is that on the Republicans’ and Democrats’ agenda?

Gerardo Vidal, who has lived in the same apartment in Queens, New York, with his family for 9 years, recently received a $900-a-month rent increase this year.

“It means having to uproot my entire family, given the fact we’re still having a difficult time earning money due to the pandemic and loss of jobs,” said Vidal. “It’s unfair that we are being basically forced out of places we lived in for nine years and that landlords can get away with this.” (source)

We’ll finish with Richard Wolff, on Capitalism and US Empire now that USA-Klanada-EU-UK are dumping their weapons on the world, and after Wolff, then a Brit who has been in Donbass reporting on the ground:

“The Economic, Political and Social Crisis of the United States.” One hour!

Here you go, the Nazi Zelensky using USA-French-German-Nato weapons to, well, bomb neighborhoods, bomb apartment blocks, bomb universities, bomb bomb bomb, and there are NO military targets in these volleys.

Graham Phillips: “20+ Minutes in Donetsk Under Shelling Just Now – Uncensored, Love Donbass, do what you can to help Donbass.”

Reality therapy. So, those transformers cost so much, uh? How many transformers in Donbass have been imploded by the USA-UK-France-Germany? Keep reading:

“National Security State Censoring of Anti-Imperialist Voices… the Latest Phase of its Long-Term Strategy to Divide and Control the Left” on Dissident Voice, by Stansfield Smith 

These secret US government and CIA operations have been detailed in The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers, The Cultural Cold War, and AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?

In 1977 Carl Bernstein revealed CIA interconnections with the big business media. More than 400 journalists collaborated with the CIA, with the consent of their media bosses. Working in a propaganda alliance with the CIA included: CBS, ABC, NBC, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, United Press International, Miami Herald, Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald Tribune. The New York Times still sends stories to US government for pre-publication approval, while CNN and others now employ national security state figures as “analysts.”

Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat operate similarly, participating in covert British government funded disinformation programs to “weaken” Russia. This involves collaboration with the Counter Disinformation & Media Development section of the British Foreign Office.

The CIA pays journalists in Germany, France, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to plant fake news. Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest German newspapers, showed how the CIA controls German media in Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. Ulfkotte said the CIA had him plant fake stories in his paper, such as Libyan President Gaddafi building poison gas factories in 2011.

The CIA was closely involved with the long defunct National Students Association and with the trade union leadership. The AFL-CIO’s American Institute of Free Labor Development, received funding from USAID, the State Department, and NED to undermine militant union movements overseas and help foment murderous coups, as against President Allende of Chile (1973) and Brazil (1964), as well as defended the rule of their masters at home. This continues with the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, which receives $30 million a year from NED.

The CIA created publishing houses, such as Praeger Press, and used other companies such as John Wiley Publishing Company, Scribner’s, Ballantine Books, and Putnam to publish its books. It set up several political and literary journals such as Partisan Review. This CIA publishing amounted to over one thousand books, mostly geared to a liberal-left audience, seeking to bolster a third camp left, and undermine solidarity with the once powerful world communist movement.

Ahh, those transformers:

No national movement to, well, nationalize the construction and deployment and installation of these valuable electrical units? Summer, heat, fridges, AC, fans, oxygen machines, well, you get how valuable electricity is and how dangerous disruption of it kill.

No Marshall Plan for that? For clinics in all neighborhoods? Social workers and counselors for millions of students? Aging in place adults in the tens of millions, who helps them? All those with Complex PTSD?

Again, one little Oregon County, and, shit-show number 9,999,999, coming to a city-town-county-place near-by.

Foot note: So, I went up to pick up some vital medications at the Walgreens in Newport. Lo and behold, that electrical outage a few days ago friend the Walgreens’ computer — here, in Newport, and then, in Lincoln City. So, people lined up, freaked out since some of their meds are, well, life saving. That’s it for America, and it will only get worse as I wait in a line of 20 at the small USPS office in Waldport, where signs say, “Don’t leave junk mail here since we do not have a janitor . . .  We are short staffed so we have to cut Saturday pick up window services . . . Please be patient as we are understaffed.”

USPS, and Trump and Biden. Whew! Ben Franklin is turning in his grave. The light is out on his kite. Remember, USPS is a public service, and it is one foot in the grave:

What this report finds: The United States Postal Service is a beloved American institution that provides an essential public service to communities and good middle class jobs for workers. It is a model of efficiency and responsive to changing customer needs. But the conflicting demands made upon it by Congress and regulators put it in a precarious financial position even before the pandemic. Anti-government ideologues and special interests have long sought to privatize, shrink, or hobble the Postal Service. The Trump administration revived these efforts, spurred by the president’s opposition to mail voting and his animus toward Amazon, a major customer.

What needs to be done: The Biden administration and Congress must act to undo the damage and allow the Postal Service to adapt to meet unmet needs, including the revival of postal banking. (source)

the shifting baseline syndrome requires today’s people disavowing things written 10 years ago, even five years ago, but those books, articles, whitepapers and radio broadcasts are actually ahead of their time . . .

And what is that expiration date for good, sound, righteous news and writing and broadcasting?

I see more and more young people, and older ones, relying on up-to-the-minute news and up-to-the-minute authors to set the stage of their own personal collapse.

Analysis paralysis, climate change fatigue, and, alas, the insanity of echo chambers and the constrant high pitched whine of the mainstream news, the mainstream thinkers and all the handlers of us, including the gatekeepers, those are today’s diseases, much more than mental malaise.

This is the groundhog day show, when people today think they are in the know because of some piece of ProPublica investigative news or news feature, because of another hundredth documentary consumed in a year, and all the noise coming from these script readers and yellers and scammers we call the mainstream media.

For instance, how do we feed out kids, get our roads fixed, live healthy, and pull down the system, end the system, with stories like this?

Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System

Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.

by Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Doris Burke

Thre is no difference between Tucker or Rachel. They are in it for the money, the accumulation of power, and the attention. Narcissim, and neglecting context and history and mutliple points of view, definitely defining characteristics of this day and age.

And so many wagons are circling, so many lobbies running the America citizen into the ground. So much is broken and wrong about the way the USA operates, that we are at the point of living in a world of thirty five adult, full-grown clowns coming out of the VW Bug or compact car.

I have these conversations daily about how much the average person has abandoned sanity or any faith or confidence in systems meant for The People, meant as entitlements for WE The People. That the pigs of commerce are gouging Americans on every leve, that the housing crisis is more crises, that all those bombs and bullets and balistics are shipping to the Zionist Zelensky, that all of that is happening, but, oh, my, what to do about it?

We have insane people in positions of power, positions of middling influence, and then, of course, policy makers are in the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires, and then, we are at a point where, say, the community where I reside, Waldport and Newport, the dam holding our water source is crumbling and any action on it has to wait until the lottery numbers come in. Casino capitalism. Money for infrastructure gained through gaming the system, through gambling addiction.

Newport City Council approved $600,000 from federal relief funds for design tasks to replace the Big Creek dams, keeping the project moving while the city awaits state lottery bond funds and hopes for a much larger contribution from the federal government.

Last year, the Oregon Legislature approved a budget with $14 million appropriated for design and replacement of the earthen Big Creek dams, which are vulnerable to failure from relatively minor seismic event and showing signs of internal seepage. Those funds would bring the city through the design process and might contribute some to initial construction. (Source)

The incredible darkness of their lies, all of them, until here we are, stuck in a loop with Pig Trump and Pig Biden and all the Pigs of Politics.

How much money is funneled into the so-called Pentagon?

Really, how dependent is this country, USA, on the military machines? Military is everything — logistics, air, water, land, space, burgers & buttons, and trillions of dollars spent to prop up the welfare queens and kings of profiteering. War mercenaries, and profit players.

And what is this new green economy? What is this divestment from hydrocarbons? Americans and many in the Woke UK and EU, they live in a make-believe world, fully Disneyfied. Absolutely stupid greenies concering how things are made — think steel and aluminum and concrete and, well, embedded energy and life-cycles of products all embedded in oil!

Oh the headlines:

Tryzub: The National Revolution Fantasized by Ukranian Nationalists

‘Ukraine Fatigue’ Intensifies as Sanctions Boomerang Ravages Western Economies

Western Media and Politicians Prefer to Ignore the Truth about Civilians Killed in Donetsk Shelling

Southern Ukraine is the Priority in NATO’s Planning

Most African Countries Support Russia

The Ukraine Crisis Will Be the END of NATO

“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.” — Malcolm X

So here we are: young people have no idea how the old days were the days of now, where solutions to the many problems were in the hands of communities, with farming, arts, communitarian spirit, sharing economy, mutual aid, rebuffing all those powers, all those instruments of suppression and oppresion. The good old days were never put into play to the point of mass movements to oust the purveyors of pain, from militaries, to the government, to the corporation.

The good old ways, that is, those that embodied a spirit of honor and sharing, what the the Iroquois Great Law of Peace was about: a constitution that established a democracy between five Iroquois-speaking tribes—the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk. This group of five nations, called the Iroquois Confederacy, was established around 1450.

Making decisions now that will affect seven generations out originated with the Iroquois – Great Law of the Iroquois – which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (about 525 years into the future, which is counted by multiplying the 75 years of an average human lifespan by 7) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit those unborn generations.

In 1744, the Onondaga leader Canassatego gave a speech urging the contentious 13 colonies to unite, as the Iroquois had at the signing of the Treaty of Lancaster. This cultural exchange inspired the English colonist Benjamin Franklin to print Canassatego’s speech.

“We heartily recommend Union and a good Agreement between you our Brethren,” Canassatego had said. “Never disagree, but preserve a strict Friendship for one another, and thereby you, as well as we, will become the stronger. Our wise Forefathers established Union and Amity between the Five Nations; this has made us formidable; this has given us great Weight and Authority with our neighboring Nations. We are a powerful Confederacy; and, by your observing the same Methods our wise Forefathers have taken, you will acquire fresh Strength and Power; therefore whatever befalls you, never fall out one with another.”

He used a metaphor that many arrows cannot be broken as easily as one. This inspired the bundle of 13 arrows held by an eagle in the Great Seal of the United States. (source)

Their constitution, recorded and kept alive on a two row wampum belt, held many concepts familiar to United States citizens today.

Iroquois Confederacy and the Great Law of Peace	United States Constitution
Restricts members from holding more than one office in the Confederacy.	Article I, Section 6, Clause 2, also known as the Ineligibility Clause or the Emoluments Clause bars members of serving members of Congress from holding offices established by the federal government, while also baring members of the executive branch or judicial branch from serving in the U.S. House or Senate.
Outlines processes to remove leaders within the Confederacy	Article II, Section 4 reads “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and the conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Designates two branches of legislature with procedures for passing laws	Article I, Section 1, or the Vesting Clauses, read “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” It goes on to outline their legislative powers.
Delineates who has the power to declare war	Article I, Section 8, Clause 11, also known as the War Powers Clause, gives Congress the power, “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;”
Creates a balance of power between the Iroquois Confederacy and individual tribes	The differing duties assigned to the three branches of the U.S. Government: Legislative (Congress), Executive (President), and Judicial (Supreme Court) act to balance and separate power in government.

Oh, those old ways, no? Ignored: Native American democratic principles focus on the creation of strong kinship bonds that promote leadership in which honor is not earned by material gain but by service to others. Read again — honor not earned by material gain but service to others.

Imagine that tattoo on the foreheads of these evil politicians.

Check out my old stuff, long form interviews, over the radio. Here, on my Word Press site:

Yes, old stuff I uploaded, and, who the hell listens to old radio shows in this day and age? Who would care about my own education during these 56 minute episodes? People like authors, scientists, food experts, activists, etc.?

Check it out — Tipping Points: Voices from the Edge, Spokane, low power community radio ! Here, my preamble. Note that I am not a greenie weenie, and I have always doubted the sustainability arena, the New Urbanism crap, all of that, really, since all of what I have learned in courses and certifications and degrees is that CAPITALISM is the bulldozer and the media manipulator of any possible bottom up way to solve myriad of problems, not just tied to resource piracy, biopiray, land grabs, resource thefts, pollution-pollution-pollution, toxicity-toxicity-toxicity.

Podcast list — Paul’s radio show from the mid-2000s. Ironically, poets, thinkers, scientists, community engagement experts, and book authors talked to me with an open mind. I engaged in exchanges of ideas. I was not a stenographer, and yes, I do jump in and have my own spin or take on things. I, of course, have changed my way toward enlightenment compared to the period of 2001 – 2011 I was in Spokane, writing, creating columns, teaching, and involved in activism. I am more grounded in my socialism and my communism. Working anywhere in the USA, Amerikkka, means covering up or masking one’s true self. Capitalism is a form of totalitarianism, and fascism in its own way. I have witnessed colonization of formerly independent thinkers, then a hive mentality take over and then just Plain Jane Stockholm Syndrome seeping into the collective, at large, especially within Democratic Party supporters. Academics. Woke folk. Et al. Enjoy these people, these historic and cutting edge long-form radio conversations!

Note: Realize that the greenie weenies, the Green New Deal (not for nature and people) proponents, the end of fossil fuel folk, all those liberals in the liberal managerial class, please, realize, that I was up against them. For this radio station, this low power community radio station, I had back-stabbers and retrogrades. If you realize the value of this body of work, in a span of two years (and I did work for a living, since this was a gratis gig), then you might understand where I am now, listening to and observing the rot, smelling the putridity, and all the monetizing of some really bad show. Good ones, too, thank goodness, supported me, but I was already deeply victimized by cancel culture. Some of the worse are the compliant ones, the herd, those that call themselves green and organic. However, many of those types hated my show, hated my work, and, well, many loved the work, but those are not the pied piper types. It’s the haters who come out from their dirty sheets at night like an army of bed bugs.

Capitalism is the Monster/Ghost/Bioweapon in the Machine: Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, China, Russia!

Before the Nazi Showcase, let’s look at just ONE example of the decay of the USA, the Empire, the Savagery of Capitalism. Take one piece of news, and, well, in my book, run with it. Utilize it to demostate just how savage Capitalism is. We all have our daily deluge of stories pointing to Capitalism’s Structural Homocide.

Just the absurdity and contradictions in this headline should blow a few tens of millions of gaskets in citizens?

“Private Equity Gloats Over A Doctor Glut”

Health care vultures helped create an oversupply of ER physicians — now they want to use the surplus to cut wages and limit care.

And, so, with 90 million baby boomers aging and sagging , and then one out of three people in USA in general with chronic illnesses, and many with co-morbities, and the self-harm being done, the fatty liver disease running rampant, the mental issues increasing, all of that, and the car accidents, and more, the USA has these evil decaying financial felons and their prostitute politicians fucking up yet more safety nets. While the citizens buy the bullshit of 1/6 Insurrection, while USA pays the supremely rip-off and Nazi Ukraine, now at $1.5 billion a month to keep their fucking evil government running, USA burns, floods, crumbles and ends up in one giant pot hole..

“ER staffing firm American Physician Partners (APP). The company, which operates ERs in 155 hospitals, has been trying — and failing — for months to raise $580 million to pay off creditors, including Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who holds somewhere between $5 million and $25 million of the company’s debt.”

Oh, that Green should be shot. These companies and their soldiers of fortune, all of them should be taken out to the firing squad wall, and, well, shot: “Envision Healthcare, TeamHealth, SCP Partners, ApolloMD, and APP — are owned by private equity firms that have accumulated nine- or ten-figure sums of debt buying out smaller competitors. Making the interest payments required by that debt leaves no room for extravagances like higher doctor-patient ratios.”

And, HCA, and all of them in the boardroom, the investors, the higher ups and the middle managers, again, outside, in the woods, with the UkoNazis. easy as apple pie.

The most prominent driver of the ER doc glut, doctors say, is the hospital giant HCA Healthcare, which has emerged as the nation’s largest single sponsor of post-med school residency programs.

This is a recent development: Until 2015, HCA’s annual report contained a boilerplate sentence about how its hospitals “do not typically engage in extensive medical research and education programs.” Last year, the company issued a press release welcoming an incoming class of two thousand medical residents and boasting of being the “largest provider of graduate medical education” in the country.

Physicians with experience in various outposts of the hospital chain’s burgeoning educational empire say that HCA is exploiting residents at the expense of their educations and future patients. Doctors familiar with HCA residencies in Florida, for example, say the programs are often run by physicians with flimsy-to-nonexistent academic credentials, and many say they are mystified as to how the programs first gained accreditation.

Now, just ramp this up, and look at every stock holder, every boardroom, every Fortune 5000 company, all the them, sucking the blood of the citizens. The “services” throughout the land — hiring outfits, HR, payroll, research, staffing, etc., etc., all outsourcing outfits, third party rip-off units, and then all the rip-off Salesforce and Indeed “services” systems sucking nickels for each nanosecond of what they do — stripping away the cohesion of a company, or a business — and here we are: A Nation of OUTSOURCING and MIDDLE men/women. .

It’s the rent-a-cop on military bases formula. It is outsourcing and Zoom Sourcing and sucking a decent company’s resources dry. Vulture Capitalism, as in Bain, the Romney little extortion racket.

“These hospitals have so few nurses left that the residents are stuck doing all the IV bags, changing the sheets, while any patient with a moderately complex case is going elsewhere,” said one physician familiar with HCA residency programs, who asked to remain anonymous because they live in a state where the company has substantial market power.

And this is it for the political whores, the entire system that is the Savagery of Capitalism, this so-called representative democracy (not) whereby lobbies and lawyers and layer upon layer of rip-off scheme keep this sham going.

Nothing works. I filed a Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) complaint about the job I had two jobs ago: ageism, sexism, bizarre supervisor coming into my office and unloading, etc. etc. Telling me about her rapes. TWO years ago. That state-run outfit, all the investigators, the screeners, the judges, dead humanity, and still no word, no decision. And, an unemployment claim, 9 months ago, from the last shit-hole job I had, and that was denied, I appealed, and that judge found in favor of the shit-hole nonprofit, and one more appeal by me, and alas, have I heard word on that? On the BOLI? This is the system of middle managers and paper pushers/mouse clickers.

These are human scum too, these state agencies, here, in this fucked up Blue State Ore-GUN. Everything now is rigged against the 80 Percent, that is, those of us with no clout, no bank accounts ready for litigation, and alas, even smart ones like me, while we can navigate these systems of oppression, the end result is these state departments are full of evil, lazy, idiots. Made to fail. Made to fail us.

Donbass!

Here you go for masturbation of the Holly-dirt/USA kind. How many billions worldwide will this USA propaganda show make?

And yet, and yet. Donbass. Women and children and marketplaces and maternity wards BOMBED by the USA and France, vis-a-vis the weapons of the west. With the aid of Musk satellites. Bono from U2 will come to the rescue of Ukraine. Go to the Telgram channel and follow “Donbass Devushka” or “Russell Texas Bentley” or “Jim “Fergie” Chambers” or “Grahama Phillips” or “Brian Bertic’s Newsatlas” or “Ukrainian Policy Matters.”

Be a human, and stay off the putrid MSM, the legacy media. Having my angst with these scum in Oregon, with the IRS, with the pigs around me who have Trump Derangement Syndrome, who think Biden is Better than Rapist Trump, and then having people cancel me, or shut their fucking ears about crimes of USA, UK, ZioLensky Ukraine, yes, this is nothing compared to what Russell Texas Bentley has witnessed today and the past few days as the Ukraine Nazi Military sends rockets into schools.

One of the heaviest artillery attacks on the center of Donetsk city civilian areas by US/Ukrop nazis in the last 8 years of war, happened today, June 13th. 

At this point, it’s not even news. If you don’t know by now who’s the good guys and who are the mass murdering coward terrorist war criminals, I got nothing more to say to you. 

And if you DO know who is who and what is what, well, the time for talk is over. Our enemies are YOUR enemies too, and soon enough, and I mean REAL soon, they will be killing you and yours just like they are killing us. Your choice is clear – You can bend over and take it, or you can stand up and fight. It’s life or death, us or them, starting NOW. Get to work! DAVAI!

He’s 62, and we have corresponded.

So, Gringos, so Yankees, so Confederates, so Woke Wimps, so Educated (sic) Elites, so Rotten Politicians, so Old White Women, so Young Uneducated Students. Those are the ones killing kids because they put their fucking yellow and blue and rainbow face masks on in pathetic spineless ways.

Here, educate yourselves:

The town of Telmanovo was shelled by the Kiev junta’s punitive forces on June 4, 2015, from Granitnoye village, Volnovaha region, controlled by the junta’s forces. The shelling that abruptly started at around 19:45 took away the life of a 5-year old boy, Vanya Nesteruk, who was playing outside with his friends at that time. Three adults were injured. The shelling targeted the private households and the school stadium. More than 20 rockets have hit Telmanovo on that day. The United States-supported Kiev’s punitive forces continued the shelling on the following day as the “Essence of Time” war correspondent, call sign “Texas”, was interviewing the locals on camera.

• “Essence of Time – Donetsk People’s Republic” Television, issue 487 Link to original: https://youtu.be/_czsoyUriFE

• Humanitarian aid for Donbass (Rostov-on-Don): https://vk.com/svhelpdonbass

• Essence of Time movement website: http://eot.su

• Help for the South-East of Ukraine movement’s website: http://vognebroda.net

• Essence of time group in VK: http://vk.com/eotsu

• Anti-Misinformation – Civil Resistance: http://vk.com/vognebrodanet

The West, the EuroTrash, the UK Genetic Defects, the Australian Penal Colony Losers, the Klanadians, that is were we are at now, with their vast supply of propaganda, their thieving of countries’ assets in banks, their poisons, their bioweapons, their other conventional arms/bombs/bullets, they are the demons.

Tag into Brian’s YouTube site,

But better yet, you can’t get the Ukraine News because he has been deplatformed, or banned from You Tube on that accord.

Go to Andrei’s Patreon Channel:

Then, this guy, a global devil, hateful, rotten to the core:

In an attempt to arouse more sympathy from its Western partners, the Kiev regime is changing its rhetoric and even begining to recognize the real situation of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield.

On June 12, Vladimir Zelensky signed a law allowing the Ukrainian command to use territorial defense fighters to perform tasks in areas of military operations.

The Territorial Defense is a paramilitary structure created in the wake of Euromaidan. At the beginning of 2022, its brigades included about two million fighters.

The so-called Teroborona units consist of Maidan activists, nationalists and veterans of the war in Donbass. Basically, these are not professional military, but rather civilians who have not received the necessary training. They were mainly used as armed groups serving the interests of local business.

Previously, members of Teroborona were exempted from conscription in case of hostilities in Ukraine. However, after the start of Russia’s military operation, some of them had to take part in hostilities for which they were not ready either morally or technically.

Dozens of Ukrainian units complained about the huge losses and lack of weapons and training, pointing out that they were sent to the front lines illegally.

As a result, Zelensky’s decree legalized sending untrained members of Teroborona to the front as cannon fodder for the professional Russian army. Zelensky’s current decision confirms the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. (source)

News:

• As of June 13, the fierce battle for the city of Severodonetsk continues. The recent days were marked by several incidents which confirmed the deplorable situation for the Armed Forces Of Ukraine in the city. The AFU confirmed the loss of control over the center of Severodonetsk

• On June 13, Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said that the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of populated areas in the DPR had become more frequent, in connection with which he noted the need to increase the military contingent of the Russian Federation and the DPR. He claimed that “An understanding has been reached that all the necessary additional forces of the allied forces, primarily the Russian Federation, will be involved”. The head of the republic also noted that Ukrainian soldiers violate the rules of combat and use prohibited methods of warfare.

• One of the AFU attacks with CAESARs was recorded on June 12 in the center of Donetsk. The DPR representative in the JCCCP confirmed that the strikes were made by the French self-propelled howitzer CAESAR with a caliber of 155 mm. The attack was ordered by Ukrainian Colonel Roman Vladimirovich Kachur, commander of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of shelling in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk an elderly woman born in 1938 was injured.

The Fucking French:

This is how the Nazi’s of Ukraine, and the Jewish “head” of the snake deal with people of UKRAINE:

• Three people were killed as a result of the shelling. At least 18 more civilians were injured, including 2 children. Among those killed were a young woman and her 11-year-old son. During the artillery shelling, several retail outlets were destroyed, cars were damaged. Fire crews of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the scene.

This is pathetic, sad, end of brain power in the USA, where you, I, have to go to super alternative sites to find information about the Nazi’s of the Ukraine Run by a Jewish Comi of Ukraine who murder children! And then there is racist Israel, a friend of Zelensky;

Good one by Jonathan Cook, over at Mint Press: “FORGET LIBERATING UKRAINE – WE FIRST NEED TO LIBERATE OUR MINDS.”

Because we are as blind to our own tribalism as Meretz is to its racism towards Palestinians, we cannot understand why anyone else might fear us more than we fear them. Our “superior” civilization has cultivated in us a solipsism, a narcissism, that refuses to acknowledge our threatening presence in the world.

The Russians could never be responding to a threat – real or imagined – that we might pose by expanding our military presence right up to Russia’s borders.

The Russians could never see our NATO military alliance as primarily aggressive rather than defensive, as we claim, even though somewhere in a small, dark mental recess where things that make us uncomfortable are shoved we know that Western armies have launched a series of direct wars of aggression against countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, and via proxies in Syria, Yemen, Iran and Venezuela.

The Russians could never genuinely fear neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine – groups that until recently Western media worried were growing in power – even after those neo-Nazis were integrated into the Ukrainian military and led what amounts to a civil war against ethnic Russian communities in the country’s east.

In our view, when Putin spoke of the need to de-Nazify Ukraine, he was not amplifying Russians’ justifiable fears of Nazism on their doorstep, given their history, or the threat those groups genuinely pose to ethnic Russian communities nearby. No, he was simply proving that he and the likely majority of Russians who think like he does are insane.

More than that, his hyperbole gave us permission to bring our covert arming of these neo-Nazis groups out into the light. Now we embrace these neo-Nazis, as we do the rest of Ukraine, and send them advanced weaponry – many billions of dollars worth of advanced weaponry.

So, we go from ER doctors, and that one story, that one aspect of Zombie and Predatory and Casino Capitalism, to the Lies of Ukraine and UK and USA and EU!

I’ll be doing a feature on Texas Bentley. Long live the Texan, who is a communist like yours truly!

Nigeria, Oh, Nigeria, Cry for me, Nigeria!

So, good friend, Madu, who I met decades ago, at UT-El Paso. He was coming through buildings where part-time English faculty had offices. That big smile, that large voice, and an open hand. He was working the used/discount book gig: going to colleges to get books from faculty and bookstores that might have been extra copies from the respective publishers called review copies.

So, part-time faculty like myself, in the 1980s, would order tons of these reviewer’s copies of grammar, lit, and survey collections. Then fellows like Madu might come by with hard cold cash to buy them up.

The old days when students could find alternative prices (lower) than what college bookstores would charge. Madu has that service.

We talked, and his Nigerian love, his Nigerian spirit, the fact he was in Houston, with a wife and three children, all of that, made the chats open and real. I had just had a baby girl, so we talked about her.

Then politics, Africa, my own activism around Central America, the US-Mexico border, the environment, twin plants, militarization of campuses and the border, and my own work trying to unionize part-time exploited faculty.

Global politics. Nigeria, Africa, Diasporas, evil US-backed dictators, colonialism, post-colonialism, the trauma, the long-term biopiracy of Africa, the theft of resources, and alas, imagine, 30 years later, almost, and African countries are in the grips of AFRICOM, the US vassals, the exploiters, the mining, ag, and oil thieves. Until, 2022, many are becoming failed states, famines, the entire world of data mining, Zuckerberg encircling the continent with his Metaverse, and on and on. The story of United Fruit Company, Coca Cola, Monsanto, Big Pharma, Hearts and Minds USA special forces, and proxy wars and Nationa ENdowmenr for Democracy/CIA fomenting hell.

Oh, this devil USA:

Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the U.S. record in the region indicates more nefarious interests. “AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests” (source)

Go to MR Online, and then put in AFRICOM. Or, AFRICOM and Nigeria, or pick your country. Mark my words: Everything, I say EVERYTHING, tied to the USA and UK and EU when involving African nations now, well, pure evil:

This is recent, as in Oct. 2021:

Please join us for the launch of the international month of action by attending a webinar on October 1st, titled “AFRICOM at 13: Building the Popular Movement for Demilitarization and Anti-Imperialism in Africa.” Speakers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, and the African diaspora will discuss AFRICOM and what we can do to expel imperialist forces from the continent. Following the webinar, events will take place throughout October organized by various organizations on the African continent, in the U.S., and around the world to demand an end to the U.S. and western invasion and occupation of Africa.

BAP makes the following demands in the U.S. Out of Africa!: Shut Down AFRICOM campaign:

• The complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa,
• The demilitarization of the African continent,
• The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world, and
• That the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and conduct hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent, with the full participation of members of U.S. and African civil society.

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Written by Tunde Osazua, a member of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Africa Team and the coordinator of the U.S. Out of Africa Network.

So, I was on Madu’s radio show, and he has run for Senate in Nigeria, and he wants to run for president. However, as he clearly states: “You have to have millions of dollars and militias to buy the votes.”

This is his organization:

Here’s a statement from Madu:

Not rising up by Nigerians from within Nigeria and around the world beyond ethnic, regional, religious and partisan political boundaries to save Nigeria from the hands of her mostly visionless, ignorant, insensitive, inhumane, squandermanic and most painfully, corrupt and morally bankrupt drivers of government at all levels whose actions have significantly weakened her sovereignty and territorial integrity, and made her peoples so poor and vulnerable , is a sin against God and a grave infraction against humanity for which history and unborn generations of Nigerians will judge us all harshly if we fail today to act unconditionally to save the country from an imminent collapse.

….Smart Madu Ajaja

This is a serious and long-term project, the decolonizing of the world, including all those countries’ economies, the land, the people, the cultures and the individuals:

This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between trauma studies and postcolonial criticism, focusing on the ongoing project to create a decolonized trauma theory that attends to and accounts for the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. The issue builds on the insights of, inter alia, Stef Craps’s book, Postcolonial Witnessing, and responds to his challenge to interrogate and move beyond a Eurocentric trauma paradigm. Authors were invited to submit papers on the theorization and representation of any aspect of postcolonial, non-Western and/or minority cultural trauma with a focus predominately, but not exclusively, on literature. (Source= Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism … 200+ pages!)

I talked with Madu on his radio show, and below, the show. I do cover a lot of philosophical territory, and alas, this is about Madu and his love of his country and how quickly the country of his birth has spiraled into a country of selling people as slaves, kidnapping people for organs, murder, rape, theft.

So under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent. And that is the issue, too, that Madu is not happy with his country being exploited by anyone, including China. I explained to him that the USA has the military bases, the guns, and China has the contracts, the builders. In fact, Madu is spiritually exasperated at how his own countrymen turn against their own countrymen, and how there is a overlay of trauma and laziness and desperation and inflicted PTSD, including the post-colonial trauma referenced above.

USA is like a storm of ticks, locusts, mosquitos, viruses, as the syphilitic notions of Neocon and Neoliberal anti-diplomacy hits country after country like disease. A plague.

The greatest threat looming over our planet, the hegemonistic pretentions of the American Empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger, and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads.

–Hugo Chavez

The United States Military is arguably the largest force of ecological devastation the world has ever known.

–Xoài Pham

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, and fulfill it or betray it.

–Frantz Fanon (source)

William Blum wrote about the illegality of the USA’s direct and indirect bombing and invasions.

Here, a bit of an update:

The Death Toll of U.S. Imperialism Since World War 2

A critical disclaimer: Figures relating to the death toll of U.S. Imperialism are often grossly underestimated due to the U.S. government’s lack of transparency and often purposeful coverup and miscounts of death tolls. In some cases, this can lead to ranges of figures that include millions of human lives–as in the figure for Indonesia below with estimates of 500,000 to 3 million people. We have tried to provide the upward ranges in these cases since we suspect the upward ranges to be more accurate if not still significantly underestimated. These figures were obtained from multiple sources including but not limited to indigenous scholar Ward Churchill’s Pacifism as Pathology as well as Countercurrents’ article Deaths in Other Nations Since WWII Due to U.S. Interventions (please note that use of Countercurrents’ statistics isn’t an endorsement of the site’s politics).

• Afghanistan: at least 176,000 people
• Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000 people
• Bosnia and Krajina: 250,000 people
• Cambodia: 2-3 million people
• Chad: 40,000 people and as many as 200,000 tortured
• Chile: 10,000 people (the U.S. sponsored Pinochet coup in Chile)
• Colombia: 60,000 people
• Congo: 10 million people (Belgian imperialism supported by U.S. corporations and the U.S. sponsored assassination of Patrice Lumumba)
• Croatia: 15,000 people
• Cuba: 1,800 people
• Dominican Republic: at least 3,000 people
• East Timor: 200,000 people
• El Salvador: More than 75,000 people (U.S. support of the Salvadoran oligarchy and death squads)
• Greece: More than 50,000 people
• Grenada: 277 people
• Guatemala: 140,000 to 200,000 people killed or forcefully disappeared (U.S. support of the Guatemalan junta)
• Haiti: 100,000 people
• Honduras: hundreds of people (CIA supported Battalion kidnapped, tortured and killed at least 316 people)
• Indonesia: Estimates of 500,000 to 3 million people
• Iran: 262,000 people
• Iraq: 2.4 million people in Iraq war, 576, 000 Iraqi children by U.S. sanctions, and over 100,000 people in Gulf War
• Japan: 2.6-3.1 million people
• Korea: 5 million people
• Kosovo: 500 to 5,000
• Laos: 50,000 people
• Libya: at least 2500 people
• Nicaragua: at least 30,000 people (U.S. backed Contras’ destabilization of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua)
• Operation Condor: at least 10,000 people (By governments of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. U.S. govt/CIA coordinated training on torture, technical support, and supplied military aid to the Juntas)
• Pakistan: at least 1.5 million people
• Palestine: estimated more than 200,000 people killed by military but this does not include death from blockade/siege/settler violence
• Panama: between 500 and 4000 people
• Philippines: over 100,000 people executed or disappeared
• Puerto Rico: 4,645-8,000 people
• Somalia: at least 2,000 people
• Sudan: 2 million people
• Syria: at least 350,000 people
• Vietnam: 3 million people
• Yemen: over 377,000 people
• Yugoslavia: 107,000 people (Source: The Mapping Project is a multi-generational collective of activists and organizers in the Boston area who are deeply engaged in Palestine solidarity / BDS work. For over a year, we’ve been tracing Greater Boston’s networks of support for the colonization of Palestine–and how these networks participate in other forms of oppression, from policing to U.S. imperialism to medical apartheid and privatization.)

Madu and most activist Nigerians know these facts. Big global facts. The vices the United States of America has put the world in. The dirty Empire. The global cop. And, so, Nigerians in the USA number around two million, with a few hundred thousand in Houston. Now, of course, off camera, I repeated to Madu that most Americans, oh, 90 percent of the 355 million currently residing (most illegally) here do not care about Blacks, Africans, Chinese, and again one American is worth a million Nigerians. It is a juggling act, being part of the Diaspora, and Madu is a nurse, and he, like I said, ran for Senate, and lost, and he has been inspired by some youth, but again, youth are being colonized by the ticks of data. Read below the YouTube window.

So, Alison McDowell at Wrench in the Gears, and then Silicon Icarus and others are talking about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the next colonialization of Africa. Coltan and gold may be like gold to the Wall Streeters and Transnationalists, and water and food and good land may be like platinum to the same group of thieves, but data is worth its gigabytes/terabytes in emeralds. “French Imperialism vs. Crypto Colonialism: The Central African Republic Experiment” & “Blockchain Technology & Coercive Surveillance of the Global South” both by Sebs Solomon.

So, Madu, and great honorable youth in Nigeria who want to have a free, open, clean, sustainable, cultural-centric, food security, self-imposing, country of healthy bodies, minds and ecosystems, I am sorry to report the devils wear skinny jeans, and many come to the USA from India with work permits to work and live in Seattle/Redmond to work for Microsoft/Google/Facebook and all the other devils helping put these systems in place:

At the same time, SingularityNET partnered with UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education (IBE) to establish a new curriculum for children and teens, with an emphasis on emerging technology to prepare the youth for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. According to UNICEF:

There will never be enough money allocated in the budget, qualified teachers, or places in schools for the population we have; therefore, emerging technologies like Virtual Reality allow us to leapfrog these problems and offer the hope of more affordable, scalable and better quality education.

It is striking to read that UNICEF doesn’t believe there will ever be enough money to help all of the children in the world receive a traditional, classroom, education; therefore, it’s better to invest and scale Virtual Reality education — a rather pessimistic take from the “children’s fund” arm of the UN. UNICEF Innovation Fund, has virtual reality education programs in Chile, India, Nigeria, and Ghana. In Ghana, they noted there are “challenges to accessing the necessary teaching and learning resources for students to receive quality education; which is compounded by the lack of necessary and up-to-date education materials, huge class sizes and the lack of necessary infrastructural facilities.” (source)

How many more battlefields shall honorable people like Madu enter into with no money, no militias and the kings of capital weilding more powerful digital bombs than hydrogen bombs?

For a rabbit hole or warren, go to: Silicon Icarus and see Alison McDowell’s work on the following: Alison McDowell. Or over at her blog: Wrench in the Gears. She’s expending lifetime hours looking into this evil web of Davos, WEF, the billionaires’ club, the taking over of humanity through transhumanism, blockchain, Singularity, and all the other topics the mainstream and leftstream media and blogs just won’t tackle.

• Blockchain
• Gamification
• Genomics
• Impact Finance
• Smart Cities
• Biosecurity State

This is what the Fourth Industrialization devils want for all children on earth (minus their kids and their sychophants’ kids). Soylent Green be damned!

mother moves her body to feed the world

by Paul Haeder / May 8th, 2022

happy mother’s day, one and all madres-mamas

hands fold masa harina
dried husks, softened in pots
of water, sweat-love, pull-push
ancient cereal, stone over
stone, mother plants tomato
holds chili pods into sun
like Nudibranchia, colors of land
mountain jungle plain
mother holds caloric history
secretive recipes, honey
dabbed on tongue of child
eyes open as mother
mashes herbs, chocolaty foam

water-air-bowl-seed-bread-tamale
like birthing, she holds a child
nine months, inside, flowing
energy, womb and home
but children flail
gravity cleaves them
to earth, floor, ground
mother holds child up
until culture, patriarchy,
decides futures, have’s
and have’s not, child
taken like calf, lamb
husbandry for humanity

she questions why
how lifting heart
and fever of labor
turn into shadows
over and over
mother is there forever
not perfection, not
a Virgin Mary but
she’s embodied with wit, song
warmth, strong hands, holds
child, gives up
child, to broken world

a tear for daughter
chili del arbol
trees filled with
avocado, banana-large
blood red skins
seeds like volcanoes
mother soaks, pulls
heat away from pulp
chili fills, bright
orange-earth-wet clay
color of love
for family
ajo and onion
tamales steaming
children waiting
dogs and cats
leaping into air
mother holds food
and child, hums
words mother never learned
until she carried baby