answering Mister Fish (AKA Toothless in Wisconsin) and his retort to my July Fourth screed

RE: Comments!

Well well, this is Yankee Doodle Dandy,

Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

The “macaroni” in question does not, however, refer to the food, but rather to a fashion trend that began in the 1760s among aristocratic British men.

On returning from a Grand Tour (a then-standard trip across Continental Europe intended to deepen cultural knowledge), these young men brought to England a stylish sense of fashion consisting of large wigs and slim clothing as well as a penchant for the then-little-known Italian dish for which they were named. In England at large, the word “macaroni” took on a larger significance. To be “macaroni” was to be sophisticated, upper class, and worldly.

Now, if I had been a substitute teacher in some summer school, maybe the teachers would have been assigning all sorts of childish stuff, like on that National Day of Mourning (Thaksgiving) and the turkey and the white-washed faces of “pilgrims” not killing the Natives, such as the fife players and drummers marching into battle to be well meat grinder fodder.

Wimps:

Disgusting, our Anglo American roots:

It just never ends, this sickenss:

Fucking lies, and here, truth:

Fifes provided a melodic complement to the drums that provided cadence and conveyed signals to armies in the American Revolution. Like drummers, fifers were not always boys; some men spent their entire military careers playing the fife, showing the importance to the army of that skill.

Fifers were not as numerous as drummers in most armies. This means that there were fewer fifers to desert, and therefore fewer advertisements for fifers who deserted. Here are a few ads that give a sense of the diverse ages and backgrounds of fifers who served in the American Revolution.

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Wilmington, New Castle County, July 11, 1775.

Run away, last evening, from the subscriber, an English servant man, named John Alderton, a Barber by trade, about 22 or 23 years of age, about 5 feet high, broad face, middling long chin, thick set, round shouldered, brown short hair, loves strong liquor, very talkative when drunk, pretends to play on the fife or beat a drum, shaves and dresses hair well, and is very cunning; he arrived at Annapolis in September last, and lived some time near that place; had on, when he went away, a jacket of such stuff as the Negroes generally wear in Maryland, an old wool hat, tow shirt, drilling or Russia sheeting drawers, white thread ribbed stockings, new strong shoes, with black buckles, and a cloth under jacket; he is remarkable for size and appearance, and it is believed that he will endeavour to pass for a free man, and offer himself to some of the militia companies for a fifer or drummer. Any person apprehending the said servant, so that his master may get him again, shall have a reward of Six Dollars, if out of this county, and if within this county Five Shillings over and above what the law allows, paid by William Brobson, Barber. [Pennsylvania Gazette, July 19, 1775]

Twenty Dollars Reward

Deserted from the New Galley, at West River, in Anne-Arundel County, on the 27th of January ult. a certain Henry Peggs, and Englishman, about 5 feet 8 inches and 3 quarters high. Had on a brown coat, black spotted velvet jacket, leather breeches, thread stockings, country made shoes, and a castor hat. He can play on the fife and drum, and has a counterfeit discharge from the galley at West River. Whoever takes up said deserter, and brings him to said galley, shall receive the above reward, from John David, Captain.

N.B. Recruiting officers are hereby forewarned from enlisting the aforesaid deserter. [Maryland Journal, February 4, 1777]

Deserted from Capt. Abraham Livingston’s Company, Col. James Livingston’s Regiment ‑ John Richards, about 5 Feet 4 Inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, tied in a club, dark eyes; had on a blue coat, faced with red, the button‑hole edged with silver, a Mason by trade, and born in Boston ‑ Also, John Davis, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, sandy complexion, short light hair, pock‑marked, limps in his gait; had on a light brown coat, with white facings, a Native of Europe. ‑ They enlisted themselves as Drum and Fife Majors, in the Regiment late of General Patterson’s, Capt. Smith’s Company, and are supposed to be gone to Newburg.

Also, deserted from Capt. Timothy Hughes’s Company, Colonel Livingston’s Regiment ‑ Joseph Clark, about 5 Feet 2 Inches, 28 years of age, fair complexion, red curled hair, square built; had on a lightish ‑ coloured coat, a Native of Ireland. ‑ Also Nathaniel Brown, about 5 Feet 7 Inches, about 17 years old, fair complexion, light hair, a likely lad, had on a red British Soldier’s Coat, born in Connecticut. ‑ Twenty Dollars Reward will be given for each of the above Deserters, on their being sent to their Regiment, now lying at Albany, and reasonable Charges paid. Abr. Livingston, Captain [Independent Chronicle and The Universal Advertiser, February 13, 1777]

Memorandum

Kenneth McLean a Fifer belonging to the Marines serving on Board the Janus a Young lad about 4 Feet 5 Inches who deserted the night of the 19th Instant was seen in Town dress’d in Regimentals, the party who have Inlisted him, are ordered to give him up immediately. [General Orders, New York, October 21, 1781, Orderly Book July 23, 1780 – November 8, 1781, Sir Henry Clinton Papers, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, MI]

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Shifting to the dirty British, WWI:

The teenage soldiers of World War One/ 11 November 2014

As many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in the British Army during World War One. Fergal Keane remembers the sacrifice they made.

War confers many things on boys who pick up a weapon to fight. They learn the true meaning of fear. They test their own capacity for courage and the limits of human endurance, physical and mental.

Some find that killing comes easily to them, too easily. And others recoil from acts of blood.

But what unites all teenage warriors is the speed with which they are hurled into a place of maiming and death.

Describing the training of a boy soldier in World War One, Wilfred Owen, wrote in Arms and the Boy:

Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade

How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;

Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash;

And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.

Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads

Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads.

Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,

Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.

From Homer’s Iliad to the present day the stories of boy soldiers evoke a particular sadness, resonant as they are of the destruction of youth and possibility.

But at the outbreak of the Great War there was nothing to suggest that the tens of thousands of boy volunteers were about to join a long, doomed procession.

Nearly 250,000 teenagers would join the call to fight. The motives varied and often overlapped – many were gripped by patriotic fervour, sought escape from grim conditions at home or wanted adventure.

After being wounded on the battlefield it took Cyril Jose two days to crawl back to the British lines

Technically the boys had to be 19 to fight but the law did not prevent 14-year-olds and upwards from joining in droves. They responded to the Army’s desperate need for troops and recruiting sergeants were often less than scrupulous.

“It was obvious they weren’t 19,” says historian Richard Van Emden, “but you’d have a queue of men going down the road, you’re getting a bounty for every one who joins up, are you really going to argue the toss with a young lad who’s enthusiastic, who’s keen as mustard to go, who looks maybe pretty fit, pretty well. Let’s take him.”

Fifteen-year-old Cyril Jose was a tin-miner’s son from Cornwall. With the region suffering from heavy unemployment, the boy with a strong sense of adventure joined up. From his training camp he wrote an excited letter to his sister:

“Dearest Ivy, stand back. I’ve got my own rifle and bayonet. The bayonet’s about 2ft long from hilt to end of point. Must feel a bit rummy to run into one of them in a charge. Not ‘arf. Goodbye and God bless you, from your fit brother, Cyril.”

Cyril survived the war but the bloodshed he witnessed in France turned him into a vehement opponent of militarism for the rest of his life. In one letter home he poured scorn on the British commander, Field Marshal Earl Haig.

“What brains Earl Douglas must have. Made me laugh when I read his dispatch. ‘I attacked.’ Old women in England picturing Sir Doug in front of the British waves brandishing his sword at Johnny in the trenches… attack Johnny from 100 miles back. I’ll get a job like that in the next war.”

Why did so many teenagers make it to the battlefield?

Recruitment officers were paid two shillings and sixpence for each new army recruit, and would often ignore any concerns they had about age.

Many people at the start of the 20th Century didn’t have birth certificates, so it was easy to lie about how old you were.

The minimum height requirement was 5ft 3in (1.60m), with a minimum chest size of 34in (0.86m). If you met these criteria you were likely to be recruited.

Some young boys were scared of being called a coward and could not resist the pressure from society.

How did Britain let 250,000 under-age soldiers fight in WW1?

The patriotic imperative at the outbreak of war was not confined to British-born boys. For the children of migrants, rallying to the flag was proof of loyalty to their new country.

Aby Bevistein was born in Russian-occupied Poland in 1898 and came to London when he was three. In September 1914 Aby volunteered, changing his surname to the English “Harris”. Aby Bevistein’s parents were heartbroken when he joined the army. Soon after his arrival in France Aby discovered the wretched nature of trench warfare. He wrote home:

“Dear mother, I’ve been in the trenches four times and come out safe. We’re down the trenches for six days and then we get relieved for six days’ rest. Dear mother, I do not like the trenches. We’re going in again this week.”

For Aby, and many like him, the trenches meant cold and mud, wet clothes and rats, the smell of death and the sight of mutilated flesh, long monotonous hours interrupted by terror.

On 29 December 1915 Aby was caught in a German mine explosion – the enemy had tunnelled under the trench where he was stationed. He was wounded and suffered what was then simply called “shock”. In today’s military lexicon it would be described as “combat stress” or “post traumatic stress disorder”.

By early spring Aby was back on the front. On 12 Feb 1916 the Germans again attacked his position, this time with grenades.

Suffering from shock, Aby wandered back and forth along the British lines. He was eventually arrested and charged with desertion. His last letter home is that of a boy who seems determined to underplay his situation, not to put stress on his mother at home.

“Dear mother, I’m in the trenches and I was ill so I went out, and they took me to the prison and I’m in a bit of trouble now.”

The following month Aby then aged 17, became one of the 306 British soldiers executed during the Great War.

Those who survived the trenches and came home brought memories that retained the power to haunt until the end of their lives. St John Battersby was 16 when he was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Like all of the teenaged officers, Lieutenant St John Battersby had responsibilities far beyond his years, as his son, Anthony, recalls:

St John Battersby was first stationed near Serre in the Somme region

“There’s my dad, 16-years-old, really in the war. He is responsible for 30-odd men and his decisions may result in them dying or not dying. This was it.”

Three months after he was wounded, St John Battersby was back in France leading men in battle again. He could have opted to stay at home – by now the government was taking all those under 19 years of age out of the front lines. But a shortage of experienced officers meant they were allowing boys like St John Battersby to stay on if they wished.

A sense of duty compelled St John to return. Soon after coming back he was blown up by a German shell and lost his left leg. Determined to continue helping the war effort, he asked for, and was given, an administrative job in Britain.

But years later, after a fruitful life serving as a country vicar, the memories of war returned. His son Anthony remembered his father’s last hours.

“In the hour or two before he died, he was on the Western Front, yelling, ‘the Bosch are coming. We’re going over the top now’. Right down deep on the ground floor of his memory was the Western Front.”

The man facing death was once again the boy who had cheated it so many times.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29934965

Patotism?

Throughout history and in many cultures, children have been extensively involved in military campaigns.

The earliest mentions of minors being involved in wars come from antiquity. It was customary for youths in the Mediterranean basin to serve as aides, charioteers and armor bearers to adult warriors. Examples of this practice can be found in the Bible, such as David’s service to King Saul, in Hittite and ancient Egyptian art, and in ancient Greek mythology (such as the story of Hercules and Hylas), philosophy and literature.[citation needed] In a practice dating back to antiquity, children were routinely taken on a campaign, together with the rest of a military man’s family, as part of the baggage.

The Roman Empire made use of youths in war, though it was understood that it was unwise and cruel to use children in war, and Plutarch implies that regulations required youths to be at least sixteen years of age.[citation needed] Despite this, several Roman legionaries were known to have enlisted children aged 14 in the Imperial Roman army, such as Quintus Postunius Solus who completed 21 years of service in Legio XX Valeria Victrix, and Caecilius Donatus who served 26 years in the Legio XX and died shortly before his honorable discharge.

In medieval Europe young boys from about twelve years of age were used as military aides (“squires”), though in theory, their role in actual combat was limited. The so-called Children’s Crusade in 1212 recruited thousands of children as untrained soldiers under the assumption that divine power would enable them to conquer the enemy, although none of the children entered combat. According to the legend, they were instead sold into slavery. While most scholars no longer believe that the Children’s Crusade consisted solely, or even mostly, of children, it nonetheless exemplifies an era in which entire families took part in a war effort.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy:

On December 29, 1890, hundreds of U.S. troops surrounded a Lakota camp and opened fire, killing more than 300 Lakota women, men, and children in a violent massacre.

In December 1890, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull—who led his people during years of resistance to U.S. government policies—was killed by Indian Agency Police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation as authorities attempted to arrest him for his involvement in the Ghost Dance movement.

In the late 19th century, the U.S. Government began forcefully relocating Native Americans onto reservations, where they were dependent on the government for food and clothing. In response, some Native American people embraced a religion called Ghost Dance, which promoted the belief that Native Americans would become bulletproof and return to their freedom following a great apocalypse. The Ghost Dance performance and religion frightened the U.S. federal government and sensationalist newspapers across the country stoked fears about an uprising by Native Americans.

Shortly after Sitting Bull’s killing, the Sioux surrendered and were marched to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On the morning of December 29, 1890, 500 troops of the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment surrounded a group of Lakota Sioux where they had made camp at Wounded Knee Creek. The troops entered the camp to disarm the Lakota. During a brief scuffle between a soldier and a Lakota man who refused to surrender his weapon, the rifle fired, alarming the rest of the troops. The troops began firing on the Lakota, many of whom tried to recapture weapons or flee the assault. The attack lasted for more than an hour and left more than 300 Lakota dead; over half of those killed were women, children, and elderly tribal members, and most of the dead were unarmed.

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Yep, I’ve been to Vietnam and in Mexican cities, and fireworks are amazing, loud, forever rattling sometimes for hours late at night.

Many historians believe that fireworks originally were developed in the second century B.C. in ancient Liuyang, China. It is believed that the first natural “firecrackers” were bamboo stalks that when thrown in a fire, would explode with a bang because of the overheating of the hollow air pockets in the bamboo. The Chinese believed these natural “firecrackers” would ward off evil spirits.

Sometime during the period 600-900 AD, legend has it that a Chinese alchemist mixed potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal to produce a black, flaky powder – the first “gunpowder”. This powder was poured into hollowed out bamboo sticks (and later stiff paper tubes) forming the first man made fireworks.

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Ah, a Chinese Tradition, this Fourth of July, as this shit-hole country wants war war war with China. It is all a lost culture, a lazy culture, immediate gratification, smoke screens, with all the smoke from fireworks. What are those crocodile tears at football games, wrestling matches, everywhere we go, for what?

Boys and girls, destroyed by war, and future boys and girls, damaged by war, and this USA is itching for a New Jerusalem in UkroNaziLandia. There will be tears this July 4th, since this country is sliding sliding sliding down down down. All for naught. Or for something, but not Jefferson.

Well, he’s wrong about Native Cultures, but those are his times, his hubris:

“Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st. condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has it’s evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.”

— Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787

Oh, Tommy:

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Combat Duty with Homeless Veterans, Senior NCOs and a Variety of Military

Note: This short piece ended up in the now once-a-week newspaper in the county in which I live, work and recreate. It’s just my effort to keep attempting to move the generalized political and empathetic needle over to the truly progressive side of things. It’s not an effort to get the general population here to dance around a bonfire and burn all those broken treaties, promises, histories and contracts that have for me defined this country: United States of Amnesia.

“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale,” Gore Vidal lamented and an enormous part of his prodigious energy was spent railing against the hucksters, liars, cheats and thieves he saw assiduously dismantling all that was good in America, and replacing it with a system so corrupt it rivalled Rome at the moment of its precipitous decline. (“Lest we forget: Gore Vidal and the United States of Amnesia“)

This current epoch for me — and for so many socialists of the Michael Parenti variety — is a time of multiple implosions on so many fronts I at least had some sense I could be at least a minuscule positive part of to keep pushing the needle toward compassion, social justice and cultural sanity: education, journalism and environmental action.

The rapidity of decline in critical thinking in K12 and higher education is like a pathogen of immense proportions and replication. The unimaginable acceptance of AI-VR-AR and the digital panopticon has almost flummoxed me; right now, Chat GPT is an acceptable tool being utilized in higher education. And, the power of propaganda and the full-throttle PsyOps which had unfolded decades ago (centuries ago considering the power of the media control by oligarch starting in the ‘old’ Gilded Age) has unleashed a breed of humanity that has taken D.H. Lawrence’s comment to the tenth power:

In 1923, the British novelist D. H. Lawrence offered a grim assessment of America and Americans: “All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

So I say on this July Fourth, let it rip. The decline of the empire of chaos, the empire of lies, the empire of predation, all managed by the parasites of capitalism, is like witnessing a fire in a crowded theater, with all the doors bolted shut, but still, we are able to hit up the Coke machine and grab all the free popcorn you want for the last hurrah of our lives, as the Marvel Comic movie plays on through the increasing smoky air.

In the 16th century, the Florentine philosopher and statesman Francesco Guicciardini warned that the process of imperial decline takes far longer than is often imagined.

“If you see a city beginning to decline, a government changing, a new empire expanding, or any such phenomenon — and these things are sometimes quite clearly visible to us — be careful not to misjudge the time they will take. To be mistaken in these matters can be very harmful to you,” he warned. “Be very careful, for it is a step on which people often stumble.” (Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian’s Craft, Mark Phillips, page 144)

Fourth of July Not Hallowed Ground for Me

Newport News Times

This July 4 seems for me like a hollow time, or shallow, but certainly not hallowed ground.

All my work with military as a college teacher in various locales — El Paso, White Sands, Fort Huachuca, Biggs Fields, Sergeant’s Major Academy, Fairchild Air Force Base, McChord, and other places — was more or less appreciated by some pretty conservative students, albeit just a small swath really thought I was unpatriotic and un-American.

I was teaching them composition and literature and film classes. I designed special ones, too, including film and literature of the Vietnam War. Most of these young soldiers had no idea about the USA’s history of overthrowing governments, and of helping overthrow by proxy democratically elected governments not to USA’s liking. Nor did many 20-year veterans have this knowledge.

The value of my life is that my old man — in the Air Force and Army for 32 years — valued discussion. He was a CW5 at his separation from service. As a family, we were in many places because of his regular military status — Azores, Scotland, Maryland, Paris, Munich, Arizona, Washington, and I hitched some time in Saudi Arabia as an adult.

Shot in Korea and in Vietnam, my old man saw the value of higher education. He’d help me pay for books, tuition and field trips while in college, and he was proud that I was a graduate of the University of Arizona with two majors.

He was proud I was a graduate degree holder in El Paso, a college teacher, a journalist for both newspapers and even was interested in my protesting U.S. military incursions into Iraq, Kuwait and Panama.

My patriotism is steeped in open discussion, critical debate, fluid research and never accepting what authorities have been saying (lying) to us for several centuries.

So, my students, both civilian and military, were given a true liberal arts education, with ethics, history, political science, and rhetoric, as in utilizing the skills of true debate (not the dog and pony fourth grade display of those old TV presidential “debates”), as under girder.

Politics and history were areas my students researched for their essays. We also looked at many of the great speeches by our country’s leading minds and voices. For example, Frederick Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

“To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” (Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852)

This opinion piece is being written in a time of what many of the clueless elites call an era of nuclear implosion for independent writers/authors and for workers in general, who will be out of work by the millions because of Artificial Intelligence. These “geniuses” love being “disrupters.”

I’m also writing this with background noise of our country, far and wide, killing debate, even in higher education: Stopping robust research into alternative (maybe more truthful) frames/narratives around corporatism, oligarchy, military, science, technology, and government.

I am no longer in higher education because Lincoln County is not hiring folk with my college experience. I know from so many other friends around the country and in other countries, however, how challenging it is to teach in a hyper-hostile landscape, from students now called customers, and then to all the administrative and so-called support positions blocking real teaching.

Here’s what I brought up in my classes: I was in Vietnam in the 1990s, and I spent time with people who were bombed by guys like John McCain. I was in the jail cell he was held in just to “see, feel, imagine.” I saw photos of dead children at an orphanage his Navy cadre bombed.

McCain flew 23 missions in Operation Rolling Thunder, ordered by Lyndon B. Johnson whose General Curtis LeMay vowed to bomb Vietnam “back into the Stone Age.” A German journalist who met McCain when he was a POW described how on Oct. 14, 1967, one of the bombing runs over Hanoi killed 76 people, destroying a whole neighborhood. Unfortunately, McCain received a commendation medal for bombing the Haiphong shipyard on Oct. 18. Then, one week later, McCain’s A4E Skyhawk was shot down on a bombing run against a civilian light-bulb factory in Hanoi.

For this July 4, I will be thinking of those on the USS Liberty: On June 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel.

Many of my military students did not know of this war crime: 34 killed in action and 173 were wounded. Researching the cover-up and lack of action taken by USA against Israel, my students critiqued different perspectives on our/their relationship to Israel.

What does the Fourth of July mean to me? Critiquing America’s history does not make you un-American, unpatriotic, communist, socialist or Marxist. It makes you empathetic, open-minded, curious, and imaginative enough to say: enough is enough.

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Further reading to bring you up to speed would take pages and pages, scrolling down, here, and years to catch up. But, here, for July Fourth, a few, and then, since USA is ready for war with China, an internet accessed article:

1. In Killing Hope ( Zed Books, 2014), William Blum aims to provide a comprehensive account of America’s covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and – in this updated edition – beyond.
2.  William Keylor’s A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945.
3. Robert Litwak’s Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11. The USA’s decades long warfare against China by Robert S. Rodvik

Strange times indeed on this July Fourth:

At the end of WWII writes William Blum, “The ink on the Japanese surrender treaty was hardly dry when the United States began to use the Japanese soldiers still in China alongside American troops in a joint effort against the Chinese communists.” (The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books Ltd. (London and New Jersey) 1986, p.15.)

In their book George Bush:The Unauthorized Biography, Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin write the following:

In October 1942…Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.’s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland “Bunny” Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush. 

Tarpley and Chaitkin add the following:

President Bush’s family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany…By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking Corp. were legally front men for the Nazis, the government avoided the more important historical issue: In what way were Hitler’s Nazis themselves hired, armed and instructed by the New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager? (NATO’s Nazi Beginnings: How the West implemented Hitler’s goals by Robert S. Rodvik)

Enjoy some free reading on a beach with a mojito or mescal:

Here, the PDF —Blackshirts & Reds

…thinking about Hillary laughing at al-Qaddafi being tortured and sodomized with a sharps sword, and she laughs, and of course, the thought experiment is, darn, if only Chelsea suffered the same!

The word has ALWAYS been that neocons are mostly former Jewish fake liberals, Trotsky lovers.

Today, Blinken and Nuland and Yellen and Garland and Kagan Familia, et al, are on board for a Project of a New Jesusalem, and that place is BlackRock’s (Jewish Fink) new old new world of discovery.

Two presumed progenitors of neoconservatism. Strauss, according to Jeet Heer, emerges from a close reading as a

…disguised Machiavelli, a cynical teacher who encouraged his followers to believe that their intellectual superiority entitles them to rule over the bulk of humanity by means of duplicity.

Similarly, Pfaff:

An elite recognizes the truth . . . and keeps it to itself. This gives it insight and implicitly power that others do not possess. This obviously is an important element in Strauss’s appeal to American conservatives. . . . His real appeal to the neoconservatives, in my view, is that his elitism presents a principled rationalization for policy expediency, and for “necessary lies” told to those whom the truth would demoralize.

Here he is, the Israel-First Blinken, just a few day ago: “Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the Ukraine Conference Session 1”.

Endless support, endless taxpayher money, time, devotion to the dirty Zelensky and his dirty tricks regime.

You think this sounds like Israel 2.0? Yep.

We’re going to invest over $520 million to help Ukraine overhaul its energy grid, more than half of which, as you’ve heard, has been destroyed by Russia – and in so doing make it cleaner, make it more resilient, make it more integrated with Europe. And we’ll support Ukraine’s energy market reforms to combat monopolies and to spur more private investment, which will enable Ukraine one day to become a major energy exporter.

This support will complement the work that’s already being done by the G7+ Coordination Group which we launched last October and have co-led ever since, first with Germany, now with Japan. That group has grown to include 18 countries and several multilateral institutions. Together we’ve allocated billions of dollars to help repair and rebuild Ukraine’s energy sector. We’ve sent more than 5 million power generators to Ukraine – transformers, cables, pipes, circuit breakers, other pieces of energy equipment.

The United States will also provide $657 million to help modernize Ukraine’s border crossings, its rail lines, its ports, other critical infrastructure that connect the country with Europe, allowing it to exchange more goods by more pathways more and more efficiently. We’ll direct an additional $100 million toward digitizing Ukraine’s customs and other systems to boost speed and to cut corruption. And we’ll commit $35 million to help Ukrainian businesses and entrepreneurs through financing and insurance that reduces risks for investors in Ukraine.

While those racist Jews and Goyim in USA and Klanada and Israel, here we are, the black nation, African, worthy of eugenics, death by starvation: So, the same logic = stopping all support to UkroNaziLandia because it’s the dirtiest of all countries for corruption, and then all the weapons stolen and gone missing?

White boy’s country (sic), UkroNaziLandia, versus an African country!

Food shortages in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have resulted in the deaths of at least 700 people, according to the Tigray Disaster Risk Management Commission. The US and UN recently cut off food aid to one-sixth of the country’s population due to allegations of massive aid theft.

In March, the West suspended food aid to the region after discovering cases of wheat for the needy being stolen. The suspension was extended to the rest of Ethiopia in early June and affected 20 million people in need, with US officials saying they found large amounts of food aid for sale in local markets.

They, the dirty corporations, under the thumb of BlackRock, will come and get you for your opinion:

Dirty dirty corporations, man, totalitarians. Victor Day? Defeating Italy, Japan, Germany, the Nazi’s and fascists, 27 million Russians died over that bankers’ war?

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The wife of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, So-yeon Schroeder-Kim, has been fired from her position at NRW, a business development agency, after visiting the Russian Embassy in Berlin to celebrate Victory Day.

“Ms. Schroeder-Kim has been released with immediate effect, and the employment relationship will now be terminated by NRW.GlobalBusiness without notice,” a spokeswoman for NRW told German media on Tuesday.

The company explained that it had on several occasions explicitly told Schroeder-Kim, who worked there as a representative for South Korea, that she should “not speak out in public on politically sensitive topics,” particularly with regard to Russia and the situation in Ukraine.

Seems like the Jewish plan, to seek reparations from Nazi Germany? Yes, no more dreams of the Third Reich? With friends like these, who needs enemies!

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Foreign companies held back on investments in Germany last year while billions flowed out of the country, the German Economic Institute (IW) reported on Wednesday.

According to IW calculations, around €125 billion ($132 billion) more direct investment flowed out of the EU’s largest economy in 2022 than was invested in the country from abroad, representing “the highest net outflows ever recorded in Germany.”

Ahh, those European values, no, peaceful demonstration protesting cop killing of youth, and then the pigs incite, man, and the result? Anger, brothers and sisters. Yeah, EuroTrashLandia and the Anglo Americans throwing rocks inside their own house of cards and glass houses. Values driven EU.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday evening that 2,000 officers and gendarmes were put on alert in the greater Paris area, 800 more than the night before, according to French media. Police also received an emergency authorization to use surveillance drones in Nanterre.

All over Anglo Saxon Americana, the dirt rises to the top of the manure sludge pond:

They sending those UkroNazzii’s back?

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A scheme by the UK government to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, the British Court of Appeal found on Thursday.

The decision overturned a previous ruling by the High Court that the Central African nation could be considered a “safe third country” for refugees. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Sunak’s Conservative government signed a deal with Kigali last year to deport thousands of migrants who arrive in the UK illegally, to Rwanda, more than 4,000 miles away.

Then, more creepiness with the Penis Piano Player, ZioAzovLensky, and his fucking handlers:

Bizarro, 6.0! Man, it just gets weirder with Penis Piano Man’s Cocaine Cowboy Days! Greta, help, we need help with our eroding beaches!

Can’t we get the Penis Piano Man ZioAzovLensky to come help us THird Worlders here in USA with our infrastructure problems? Man, he banned the church, banned Russian books and names, banned competing political parties, banned elections, banned money, he must have a plan to BAN ocean expansion, sea level rise. Help, Penis Piano Man!

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This week at Yale Environment 360, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gil Gaul reports from the Outer Banks of North Carolina on how rising seas and severe erosion are raising questions about the future of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, one of the jewels of the U.S. national park system. The Seashore has already lost hundreds of feet of coastline, and encroaching waters now threaten to engulf its iconic beaches and wash away homes and the lone highway running along the shore. Waters on Cape Hatteras have risen by about one foot over the last century, and they are projected to lift by around another foot in the next three decades. “Will we still be here in 30, 40, or 50 years?” asks the Seashore’s superintendent. “All I know is it will different.

Yep, Toothless in Wisconsin, River Falls, yet another doctor’s appointment missed because, drum roll, the county disability and aging services in vapid, and their transportation contract dead on arrival. He’s missed many doctor appointments because of the failings of Biden and Trump and Obama and Bush and Clinton and Reagan’s AmeriKKKa.

Ahh, she laughs, this human stain, and they all laugh, really, as they parade the dirty Nazi Boy, Zelensky, from one photo shoot to the next, with his personal trainer in the lurch and his one hundred replica fake military green t-shirts and baggy pants at the ready. Jet setting while Toothless in Wisconsin or Toothless in Arizona dries up, withers away, you Useless Breathers, Useless Eaters, Useless Public Services Users, you Useless Defecators, Useless Urinators.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week’s African Union summit was another step toward that objective.

Gaddafi has been pushing for an African unity government for years, saying it is the only way Africa can develop without Western interference, but many African states say the idea is impractical and would encroach on their sovereignty.

Like previous African summits, this week’s gathering in the Ugandan capital Kampala discussed steps toward creating an African government, but the issue was overshadowed by chaos in Somalia and an international arrest warrant for Sudan’s president.

“I am satisfied that Africa is going along its historic and right road,” Gaddafi told a small group of reporters in Kampala at the end of the summit. “One day it will become similar to the United States of America.”

“We are approaching the formation of the African Authority, and each time we solve African problems and also move in the direction of peace and unity. We deal with problems step by step. We are continuing to do that,” Gaddafi said.

Gaddafi held the African Union’s rotating chairmanship last year, and he used it to push for the organization’s small executive body to be granted enhanced powers and remodeled as the African Authority.

Asked about that proposal on Tuesday, Gaddafi said: “Studies are still continuing and it is not finished yet. Experts and the people responsible are still studying the documents. They might be completed at the next summit or after.”

Imagine, no, if only, Toothless in Arizona had a home, a car, a electricity bill paid off, and dentures, and, well, health care, water, and safe rents, food, and you get the piciture.

Ahh, the shit hole USA, so, how’s that elderly coverage going? All those 600,000 who just lost Medicaid? Oh, the irony, the irony.

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan.

Hobbs made the announcement from the offices of a central Phoenix nonprofit that focuses on helping LGBTQ youth.

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Under the executive actions, state agencies will be prohibited from using funds to promote or facilitate so-called conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.

Also, state employee health insurance plans can no longer list gender-affirming surgery as ineligible for coverage. A ban on such coverage was enacted in 2017.

Ahh, the shit hole USA, so, how’s that elderly insurance and social work coverage going? All those 600,000 who just lost Medicaid? Oh, the irony, the irony.

Undocumented workers, fires all over the place, water issues, heat, too many influx job seekers, and on and on, and this is it for the big executive order? No strong mental health care legislation, and those drug and booze addictions. Right, AZ, my old home state.

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Cringe? No, insanity, disgusting freaks of humanity:

This is it for the sack of cow pies that is this country, since before JFK was insurrectioned out of existence. Remember that coup?

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President Biden accidentally referred to Putin’s war in “Iraq” when answering questions from the press, a year after former president George W Bush made the same gaffe. Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.

Asked on Wednesday whether the short-lived Prigozhin rebellion was a sign that Putin was weakening, Biden replied, “It’s hard to tell really. But he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq.”

And some of those fuckers on the left are telling me that if I vote for Cornel West for president, then it’s a vote for Trump. We know that the word retarded is not used generally, although in state education departments, they still refer to students with IQ’s below 69, mentally retarded.

That’s right — all our votes are blue ribbon votes, so always vote for the war monger in chief, or else!

Biden, meanwhile, also has high hopes for the war effort, giving a statement to reporters that “Putin is losing in Iraq.” Everyone felt too embarrassed to correct him.

And while our confused warmonger-in-chief is busy fighting to the last Ukrainian, his cronies at Pod Save America are hard at work campaigning for their boss: “Chastising works!” they laugh, planning out how to best vote-shame Americans into voting for Biden.

“If you live in a swing state,” host Jon Favreau lectures (and I’m now really wishing I hadn’t already used dripping for Blumenthal’s words), “And you vote for Cornel West, you’re helping Trump become president. That’s it. And you could say ‘Oh it’s Joe Biden’s fault he did this or that,’ no no no. It’s your decision. If you want to help Donald Trump become president, then you should vote for Cornel West.”

Then, in my email box, something I signed up for to just see the flagging journalists, fascists one and all, at this “conference:

Note, I have attempted to engage with these journalists about the lies of this shit, but now Roth is the insider, the god, again, Jewish-Israeli Goddamned Motherfucker:

FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info, including journalists

The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, leaks reveal. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté.

If granted, the users on the list would not only have been banned from Twitter but had their phone number, date of birth, and email address disclosed to both the FBI and SBU.

In response, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-Head of Trust and Safety, informed Special Agent Kobzanets and his FBI colleagues that Twitter would “review the reported accounts under our Rules.” But he warned that the list included “a few accounts of American and Canadian journalists (e.g. Aaron Mate).” Therefore, Roth said, Twitter’s review would “focus first and foremost on identifying any potential inauthenticity.”

Roth then suggested that he would be open to suspending authentic accounts if it could be proven that they have a hidden tie to a foreign government. Journalists “who cover the conflict with a pro-Russian stance are unlikely to be found in violation of our rules absent other context that might establish some kind of covert/deceptive association between them and a government,” Roth wrote. “Any additional information or context in those areas is of course welcome and appreciated.”

Another blog:

We’ve continued the research and present the evidence of another, very powerful foreign spy within Twitter who has eluded attention.

But did you know that Yoel Roth is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel? That Roth’s mother is a racist against Palestinians? That Roth opposes the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement?

Curiously Roth, who was until recently the chief censor at Twitter, seems to have stopped mentioning his Israeliness some time around 2012.

Odd timing, that. We do know there were other foreign spies at Twitter — from India, from Saudi Arabia, and from China. But Israel? Aren’t they America’s Great Ally TM?

Well, not exactly. It’s complicated and you’re not really allowed to talk about that or they’ll get really mad at you and life will get really difficult.

Despite Roth having grown up in Boca Raton, Florida (lol) and attending Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, there’s ample evidence for his Israeli citizenship and pro-Israel activism on Twitter — where else? This past hasn’t been brought up by Bari Weiss, who along with her family, has its own ties to Israeli intelligence.

There are even rumors that Roth did his compulsory military service in Israel. There are an estimated 1000+ Americans serving in the Israeli military and a rumored 1000+ more in the intelligence community. I’ve run into these Americans over the years. One even went to a New England boarding school I attended. Sometimes they’ve even freaked me out by posing as federal law enforcement, an increasingly common tactic. Still other times they’ve approached me in airport security, or going for walks, or even in the supermarket.

So did Yoel do his military service in Israel?

For what it’s worth I find this hard to believe. More likely, an exception was made for Roth given his growing position and clout within America’s tech community. Roth isn’t alone. See generally Alan MacLeod’s “Revealed: The Former Israeli spies working in top jobs at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.”

Another Israeli-American — Dan Gross — once told me that there was an informal deal that many of the American-born Israelis or Israeli-born Americans had with the State of Israel. Make Israel look good, especially in an area of core interests, and you don’t have to don the uniform — at least officially. Gross seemed to think this was a fair trade.

Gross had more than done his service for Israel. His company, Cue, backed as it was by Chinese-Sequoia, was sold to Apple. “Besides, I helped sell Waze to Google,” Gross bragged.

Still, there’s an implicit threat here. What if you don’t make Israel look good? Could you be called up for military service? Can you — gasp! — serve your Israeli military service within the U.S.?

Read the piece at Mint Press News!

Get the picture, yet? Conflict of Interest, Competing Interests, Playing Both Sides of the Spy Game, and man oh man, Israel. Israel. Ukraine. Ukraine. Blackrock/Israel/Ukraine, where there are no elections, no opposition parties, no Orthodox Church and no Traditional Christmas, but Cannabis and Sex Change Operations and Organ Theft are legal.

The enemy is “us” (Israel First, Zionist First, Judaism First) and we are dead.

[Photo: An award handed out to the IDF’s Unit 8200 for clandestine operations, June 24, 2020. Photo | IDF]

Until we all become, or should become, that radical, that toothless in Notre Dame:

[Photo: Anthony Quinn plays Quasimodo in the 1956 film version of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.]

[Photo: American actor Lon Chaney Sr on the set of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Wallace Worsley. Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images]

From the name of the Sunday that follows Easter, called Quasimodo Sunday, which gets its name from the opening words of the Latin chant quasi modo (geniti infantes…) meaning “like the way (that newborn infants do…)”. It was used by Victor Hugo for his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Quasimodo is a hunchbacked bellringer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He was named thus by Archdeacon Frollo because he was abandoned as a baby at the cathedral on Quasimodo Sunday, though Hugo states that Frollo may have been inspired by the alternate meaning for quasi “almost”, referring to the almost-complete appearance of the foundling.

And anyone who opens the pages of Notre-Dame de Paris will discover or rediscover that Hugo rang his own enormous bell. The hunchbacked carillonneur clambers breathlessly up the bell tower of the biggest and most magnificent bell of all, “Marie.” His assistants are on a lower floor, and, at his orders, they set the bell to teetering by hanging from the cables:

The bell’s frenzy got hold of him; his look became extraordinary; he waited for the big bell to come by like a spider waiting for a fly, and brusquely he threw himself on it with abandon. Suspended above the abyss and launched into the fearsome oscillation of the bell, he seized the bronze monster by its little ears, squeezed it between his two knees, spurred it on with his heels and redoubled the fury of its peal with the entire weight and shock of his body. The tower was quaking, himself shouting and gnashing his teeth, his red hair bristling, his chest making the noise of a blacksmith’s bellows, his eye flashing fire, the monstrous bell whinnying, panting, beneath him; and now it was no longer the great bell of Notre-Dame and Quasimodo, it was a dream, a whirlwind, a tempest; vertigo on horseback above the noise …

Fucking-A, Toothless in Oregon, or Broken Down in LA, or Weathered in Wyomin, or Collapsed Veins in Vermont, the message is clear to the Yoel Roths and Blinkens and Finks of the world: They have no hearts.

What is Victor Hugo’s message in The Hunchback of Notre Dame? People are primarily judged on their appearances, rather than their internal characters, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo argues, however, that appearances can be deceiving, and that judging people based on how they look can often cause people to be treated unfairly and even ostracized by society.

Simplistic, but true.

These millionaires and billionaires and their henchmen and henchwomen, they are experts at weathering us all, experts at turning us into variations on a Victor Hugo theme, that Hunchback of Hollywood Blvd.

The term “weathering” was coined in 1992Trusted Source by Dr. Arline Geronimus, at the time a researcher in the Department of Public Health Policy and Administration at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Currently, Dr. Geronimus is a professor in the Health Behavior and Health Education department of the same university.

While studying trends in women’s fertility, Dr. Geronimus had observed that African American women do not have the same “prime” childbearing years as their white counterparts.

Namely, an average white woman is considered to have the most fertility and the lowest risk of unhealthy pregnancy and neonatal mortality when she is between 20 and early 30 years old, notes Dr. Geronimus in her paperTrusted Source.

However, for African American women, this peak of fertility and point of lowest risk was in their teens. In other words, Black women in the United States were more likely to have a healthy pregnancy in their late teens than in their mid-twenties.

Dr. Geronimus then first advanced the “weathering hypothesis” as a potential explanation for these maternal and infant health disparities.

In her groundbreaking paper, she defines the weathering hypothesis as the idea “that the health of African American women may begin to deteriorate in early adulthood as a physical consequence of cumulative socioeconomic disadvantage.”

Referring to the activist Erica Garner, who died of complications from a heart attack at the age of 27, Dr. Geronimus said that the feelings of stress leading to such an early death are like playing a game of Jenga.

Paraphrasing the activist’s sister, she said: “They pull out one piece at a time, at a time, and another piece and another piece, until you sort of collapse. […] I thought that Jenga metaphor was very apt because you start losing pieces of your health and well-being, but you still try to go on as long as you can.”

The human damage and hurt caused by this phenomenon is incommensurable. However, a social scientist’s job is to try to measure the immeasurable. So how did Dr. Geronimus and her colleagues scientifically test and quantify the weathering hypothesis? And what have the data shown so far?

Missed doctor’s appointments, missed meals, estrangement, shut-in syndrome, toothless or dermatitis or hearing voices or talking shit to the dark angel on the shoulder, all the stuff that makes us human in this giant prison of Chlamydia Capitalism, it turns and turns inside us until we are a fish out of water, gaping stomach spit out of our mouths from rapid decompression in this depressing shit hole of great pretenders, the Greta’s and Soros’ and Holly-Dirt’s and the other cretins and levelers, just sucking the air out of sanity and collective attack on the murderers and thieves coming for the babes in the night.

You feel the effect yet of lost hours, lost days, waiting for a bus, or a lift, or a helping hand, even a meal on wheels? That stomach sticking out is due to barotrauma. Barotrauma happens in fishes when they’re reeled up super fast from depths anywhere from 50-60ft and below. I was jigging for cod in British Columbia as a kid, sometimes with 200 feet of line out, and, bam, my catch: the gasses inside of the fish expanded its insides. Eyes too were bulged out.

Just like you and me!

If you take notice, if you are the victim of sanity in an insane world, and if you resort to that Hunchback on the belltower throwing down stones and flaming bottles, then you are SANE. The only reaction to the bureaucrats’ and overlords’ and professional managerial class’ pure hatred of us — poor, misbegotten, flagging, on the edge, throwing everything we can get our hands at them!

Then, in 2023, the pigs working the various routines — Bannon, Biden, Trump, DeSantis, Pence, all of them, from Cruz to Sarah Palin — we are more weathered now because their daily 15 minutes of hate at us all, the 80 percent; and yes, blacks hit the hight mark, and alas, now, the poor white trash, a guy like me, over-educated, over-anxious about the power of authority, over-exploited as a part-time faculty, as a social services case manager, and alas, try being communist and atheist and truly not a participant in the great ugly white hope dopey shit of my own Irish-German-Scottish roots, and my own particular sort of weathering, man, daily, since all those brothers and sisters of my mind and heart are dying dying dying.

“What I’ve seen over the years of my research and lifetime is that the stressors that impact people of color are chronic and repeated through their whole life course and in fact may even be at their height in the young adult-through-middle-adult ages rather than in early life. And that increases a general health vulnerability — which is what weathering is.” (Dr. Arline Geronimus; source: ‘Weathering’: What are the health effects of stress and discrimination?)

Fight flight freeze comply control convulse contort destroy deny denigrate fool foul fomate hinder hold punch kick curl up.

Then, there’s help, protext, express, give, leave, build, create, celebrate, cooperate, free, imancipate, congratulate.

“Everything in physiology follows the rule that too much can be as bad as too little. There are optimal points of allostatic balance. For example, while a moderate amount of exercise generally increases bone mass, thirty-year-old athletes who run 40 to 50 miles a week can wind up with decalcified bones, decreased bone mass, increased risk of stress fractures and scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine)—their skeletons look like those of seventy-year-olds. To put exercise in perspective, imagine this: sit with a group of hunter-gatherers from the African grasslands and explain to them that in our world we have so much food and so much free time that some of us run 26 miles in a day, simply for the sheer pleasure of it. They are likely to say, “Are you crazy? That’s stressful.” Throughout hominid history, if you’re running 26 miles in a day, you’re either very intent on eating someone or someone’s very intent on eating you.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

typical quote: “The situation has become so bad that residents are being forced to drink salty tap water and workers are drilling wells in the center of the capital to reach the water … “

So, 81 percent of DimWit Democrats and 53 percent of Battered Republicans today support more illegal weapons and murder systems sent to Ukraine, and this is what the face of the ugly American is, so never just blame the government and call the people “cool” but the government isn’t. America isn’t cool, just ugly.

Is it a matter of bombardment on media, limited scope of thinking, the poor colleges and universities, the childish K12 system, the Marvel Comics and Holly-Dirt indoctrination, the mush mush media madness, the consumer culture culling humanity, a culture or society with no culture looking for pimps and johns and hookers, the DNA of this unexceptional exceptional Empire?

So-so much depends on the pseudo event, the rubber necking populus, the NASCAR summers and the Fuckerberg and Musty Musk MMA bullshit, and then, the hate hate hate for China, and of course, the Bear, Russia, and then, losing (Ukraine) is winning.

Insurrections here, and there, but oh, CIA, Deep State, the Wall Street global chaos, going on 80 years. A good one here:

The United States is an empire, even if its citizens don’t all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week’s edition of “MintCast.” Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations it uses – especially the CIA and NATO – in order to enforce its control over the planet.

He notes that as Europe and Asia were destroying themselves in conflict, the U.S. gave the powerful business think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the task of planning America’s entry into World War II.

The idea was to:

Enter the war, win it, and establish dominion over global capitalism. They are going to essentially take control of Western imperialism. It’s not stated that way, but that’s what ends up being the consensus of people at the top of the U.S. And that consensus of the U.S. as the global hegemon of capitalism worldwide is the story of our time.” (Aaron Good)

No matter how much you try to lead an 81 Percent/53 Percent Democratic- Backing/Republican-Backing plurality to knowledge, the end result is cognitive dissonance and outright stupidity.

No matter what, the game is over, since we have pushed so far the trillion$ for war and the trillions of human life attention seconds devoted to the absolute nothing burgers of the billionaires and millionares. Water, man, water, but the horse just watches:

And so we see Ukraine legalizing hate, Nazism, cannibis, transgender realignment at age 8, ending Christmas, killing the Church, and turning itself into a digital (fully) country. But we have real problems in the world, so where do these shekels come from, even little joints like Uruguay?

The situation is shocking for residents of one of South America’s wealthiest countries and one which has a special relationship with water.

Uruguay says it was the first country in the world to enshrine access to water as a fundamental right in a 2004 constitutional amendment. The amendment, which gained support from across the political spectrum, was approved by more than 60% of voters in a referendum.

Water shortages have mobilized people in the country in a way that’s new, Santos said. The capital has seen numerous street protests.

“There is a key thing that Uruguayans really feel and that’s a connection with water,” said Santos. “The anger that people are showing right now demonstrates that. It’s not about rejecting this government, but rather claiming a basic right.” (Putting salt in tap water and drilling wells in parks: one country’s desperate quest to avoid running dry)

This is happening EVERYWHERE, on EVERY level of our humanity’s safety, life blood, health, and future!

Fucking ZioAzovNaziLensky, puttng the fear of Hasbara into Uruguayans? “The government of Volodymyr Zelenski warned that representatives of eight countries, including Uruguay, “are participating in a collective crime” by their observation of the referendum being held in occupied regions of eastern and southern Ukraine regarding its annexation by Russia.”

And so, Capitalism is a virus, and Klanada, our friends in the north, going for another jugular:

[Photo: U.S. H1-B Visa Holders Targeted By Canada’s New Immigration Program]

It is a fact that H1B visa workers from countries such as India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines face legitimate concerns about their long-term status and stability in the United States. For example, America offers no automatic path to permanent residence for H1-B workers, their work visas are only temporary, H1-B spouses and children cannot work without authorizations, and there is a low numerical limit of H1-B visas available per year despite a high demand – such American H1-B program shortcomings prompt H1-B visa holders sometimes to explore other options.

Canada’s government, led by Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, recently recognized the potential of attracting these talented individuals. The Canadian program recently announced not only aims to fill Canada’s immediate skill shortages but also focuses on attracting these talented individuals to foster the growth of tomorrow’s jobs.

Shit, more generational wars. Think about those old people, parents and grandparents, and what a dissociative identity disorder country, man, so much for FAMILY and solidarity.

• Baby boomers will save the US economy by spending down their $75 trillion nest egg.
• This spending could help prevent a recession at a time when savings from the pandemic are depleted.
• “What these seniors don’t pass on to their heirs, they’ll be spending in their golden years.”
• The market veteran Ed Yardeni (freak) says fears of an imminent recession are overblown because millions of baby boomers will soon retire and begin spending down their massive $75 trillion nest egg.

Yeah, a country never coming together, and here we are, generations separated, no wisdom, dog-eat-dog, estrangement writ large.

Until we have, err, more money we need BACK from the Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy ZioAzovLensky: And Texas along with FLorida and Arizona have the fastest growing population influxes. Imagine the lack of solidatiry there!

Texas’s nighttime temperatures are a symptom of a new, more dangerous kind of heat wave

[Photo: A brutal heat wave is expanding across Texas and the South this week, impacting millions of Americans with triple-digit temperatures and extreme humidity that is cranking up the heat index, making it feel hotter than 110 degrees in some of the region’s most populous cities.]

And, alas, this is retarded, man, so sixth grade level, I am thinking zombies live in the sciences, media, everywhere. Imagine this dipshit common sense being CNN news making copy? Fuck, we are fucked! Not even mentioned, the wet bulb (dangerous) temperatures/humidity!

[Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project the first 35°C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some coastal subtropical locations have already reported a TW of 35°C and that extreme humid heat overall has more than doubled in frequency since 1979. Recent exceedances of 35°C in global maximum sea surface temperature provide further support for the validity of these dangerously high TW values. We find the most extreme humid heat is highly localized in both space and time and is correspondingly substantially underestimated in reanalysis products. Our findings thus underscore the serious challenge posed by humid heat that is more intense than previously reported and increasingly severe.]

Hotter nights are a consequence of the climate crisis, scientists have warned. On average, nights are warming faster than days in most of the US, according to the 2018 National Climate Assessment.

“We think it’s because as the days grow warmer, there is more moisture in the air that traps the heat,” Lisa Patel, the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, told CNN. “During the day, that moisture reflects the heat, but at night, it traps the heat in.”

Increasing nighttime heat is even more common in cities because of the urban heat island effect, in which metro areas are significantly hotter than their surroundings.

Dallas, for example, is set to go six consecutive days without seeing temperatures drop below 80 degrees Fahrenheit overnight — a June record for the city.

Areas with a lot of asphalt, concrete, buildings and freeways absorb more of the sun’s heat than areas with parks, rivers and tree-lined streets. At night, when temperatures are supposed to cool down, the retained heat is released back into the air, said Kristie Ebi, a climate and health expert at the University of Washington.

Areas with a lot of green space – with grass and trees that reflect sunlight and create shade – are cooler on summer’s hottest days.

And here, the destruction of human kind, one man at a time, on Chris Hedges:

“The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Reuters correspondent Dean Yates on war reporting, battling the lies of the U.S. military and the severe trauma that saw him hospitalized in a psychiatric ward.” Link.

The humanity this fellow (Dean Yates) has shown, the PTSD, the recovery, and it is insightful, as he was in charge of the two Reuters journalists killed by USA:

And so Julian is about to perish, murdered, imprisoned. This dead man on the left is holding court with the Penis Piano Player. An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine

It all boils down to these people being so corrupt, so perverse, that the average Joe and Juanita can’t get their honest arms around liars and cheats.

Plaskett, in recent years, has become a familiar voice on MSNBC, known for her bombastic partisan rhetoric and demands for ethics probes into her political opponents. Earlier this year, she sent a letter, first reported on this Substack, threatening to imprison journalist Matt Taibbi over a baseless charge of perjury. (House Democrat Worked for Epstein’s Tax and Political Fixer: Court filings reveal that the Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., misled the public about her deep ties to the powerful pedophile.)

Disgusting, while we burn:

Mr. Fish just won another award, for this one, and it says it all: ‘Witnessing a weekly cache of Mr. Fish’s work left all of us at ScheerPost unsurprised the moment we heard his name called yet again as the winner for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 65th annual Southern California Journalism awards gala on Sunday. His prize-winning drawing “Portion Control” illustrated Chris Hedges’ column “The Age of Self-Delusion” last May. ScheerPost had finalists in nine categories and won three top awards. The judging was done by members of press clubs from around the country.’

While the world burns! The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

This is it for the stupid big Apple. We are doomed, man, doomed, if this is the top thinkers’ shit hole response to pizza:

It was drafted to comply with Local 38 of 2015 approved by former Mayor Bill de Blasio — who was widely mocked after he was pictured eating a slice with a fork and knife — and the City Council, to reduce emissions.

The DEP estimates under 100 restaurants total would be impacted.

But  some of New York’s oldest and iconic pizza joints — that pride themselves on having their pies baked in coal-and-wood-fired ovens — are facing the heat over the new strict emissions mandate.

The city Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice particulate emissions by up to 75%.

The rule targets coal-and-wood-fired ovens installed before May 2016 and restaurateurs said it would cost at least $20,000 to install air filtration systems to dramatically curb smoky emissions.

Mayor Eric Adams and DEP officials emphasized the proposed new rule — first reported on Sunday by The Post — is open for public comment and not final.

From FOX News, and Watters is right:

WATTERS: So the vegan mayor thinks that cooking a pizza for two minutes in a coal oven is going to destroy the planet. Wrong. Coal- and wood-burning ovens make up less than a percent of residential and commercial greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the bad gases come from factories and forest fires — yeah, I’m looking at you, Canada. 

I’ve got an idea. How about instead of going after mom-and-pop pizza places, you go after Trudeau, who just dropped a smoke bomb on us, and Adams just rolled over and took it. 

Klanada and this human stain:

It is the beginning of the end, and the fascists are Nazi-like, and they are the Tweet -censoring, Teacher-firing, Book-burning, Journalism-choreographed Democrats.

and no matter how stealth they are, the Gulag Digital Titans will control everything, from thinking, dreaming, seeing, hearing, hoping and even our suidical thoughts: Curse Upon them ALL!

“I remember [Rosa Parks], the woman that said, ‘I’m tired of sitting at the end of the bus.’ I remember those little things. Jimmy Marks, the crazy Gypsy,” he told Jasmine Dellal, who made the PBS documentary.

“I’m tired of hiding out. I’m tired of moving on. My home was built in Spokane, Wash., and I wasn’t about to put it on roller skates and roll it down the highway,” Mr. Marks said. (source)

Now now, you think Event 201 was it, the precursor to the compliant and the snitch society a la the dirtiest and most corrupt of the lot, Big Pharma, shooting the airways and billboards and workplaces and schools with the “you better follow the lab coats and so-called experts and follow the science to a T … or else . . . .!!”

Shots, Fourth of July, JFK assassination, inflation is only what the government says (4.5% — haha). We must murder Russians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Iranians, Chinese, North Koreans, and any number of Africans in African, you take the pick of which Afrikan nation you want to murder.

Lockdowns and Stockholm Syndrome a la Collective Psychopath, and the Zeitgeist is in the hands of the elite, the few, the hardened, the impressive, the Chosen People.

Imagine the treaties broken for First Nations, and imagine the middle passage for slaves, and imagine the coups and wars and all the icing on that USA, United in Terror-Lies-Chaos We Stand, dirty polluted poisonous cake.

And then, this is acceptable, no, racist, dirty liar, punk, a Guantanamo Torturer, a piece of shit in the same vein as Biden-Obama-Trump-Clinton-Bush-Biden?

He needs to be batted down, literarlly, bat to the skull, because this thinking is what makes America Gutless and Murderous, Again and Again. Fuck this guy up, and a few other millions in his league:

More bottom of the barrel shit-stormers in the U$A. Mr. Guantamano Bay Torturer Boy, amazing how dead these people are, from Republicans to Democrats.

Ron DeSantis’ Border Plan: Invade Mexico, Shoot Drug Smugglers, End Birthright Citizenship: The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.

Yet, in the end, it’s the neighbors, man, the small town brains, some are young, but mostly old, some shut ins, self-imposed, hoarders, stuck with five cats, living in some fantasy world that NEVER existed, as if there were the good old says.

Imagine that, the power of calling the code inspectors on you for extra long grass, weeds on the sidewalks, an extra car on the street, a trailer with an occupant behind your on fence, anything, these are the Little Germans, and that is Anglo Saxon, man, to the core . . . the rotten ones who were the breeders of these folk, 21st Century from Puritan Prides and those Pilgrims and those Oh Pioneers . . . the first undocumented aliens, hoards of them from France, UK, Ireland, and then on and on, until they come to the land of milked minions and honey traps and all that cozy lawyering up and litigious legions of rotten humans who know not a thing about mutual aid.

Germanics, too, and they peer through barely-parted curtains and snoop, and now with this dirty Fucker-Berg CIA shit, the social networks, they can spew and spew and post photos of the clothes on the line, the loose dogs, all those cats jumping fences, and tell on us, turn us in, get the fine fuckers out, even the deputy sheriffs, since this is what the dirty first illegal aliens are about — smash and grab and mow down and steal and exploit the original peoples, and then the Mexicans, and so, we have a land of narcs, busy bodies, dirty Gestapo of the midget kind.

So much for mutual aid and helping your neighbor, no? Hypocrites, Kapos, camp guards, internment camp middlings, HR folk with a hard on for power, the cops, pigs, DAs, the planners, the councils, the fucking lobbies, the lot of them, going after us daily, just us, trying to do the right thing, like, allowing a family of in-laws to live in the garage, or, putting some chickens and beehives out back. These people, these land stealers, these AmeriKKKans, are the hard, cold killers DH Lawrence is quoted as saying.

Hypocrites to, to the MAX: Oh, the irony, oh the irony: EV cars left and right, Elon Mutt Musk, telling the world, we (USA — he’s fucking a white shit boy from South Africa) can “coup anyone,” moving the language into his own lexicon, coup, not a verb, but the fucking welfare cheat makes it so.

Lawyers for environmentalists and tribes urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a judge’s decision to allow construction to begin on a huge lithium mine in Nevada earlier this year before the plans were in full compliance with federal law. (source)

How’s that working out, Greta and Bill McKibben and the rest of the flunkies? By when, 2035, California will be on litium coup batteries?

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano discuss.

July 28, 2020 by Vijay Prashad,Alejandro Bejarano

Over his 14 years in office, Morales fought to use the wealth of Bolivia for the Bolivian people, who saw—after centuries of oppression—remarkable advances in their basic needs. Literacy rates rose and hunger rates dropped. The use of Bolivia’s wealth to advance the interests of the people rather than North American multinational corporations was an abomination to the US embassy in La Paz, which had egged on the worst elements of the military and the far right to overthrow the government. This is just what happened in November 2019.

Musk’s admission, however intemperate, is at least honest. His company Tesla has long wanted access at a low price to the large lithium deposits in Bolivia; lithium is a key ingredient for batteries. Earlier this year, Musk and his company revealed that they wanted to build a Tesla factory in Brazil, which would be supplied by lithium from Bolivia; when we wrote about that we called our report “Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium.” Everything we wrote there is condensed in his new tweet: the arrogance toward the political life of other countries, and the greed toward resources that people like Musk think are their entitlement.

Musk went on to delete his tweet. He then said, “we get our lithium from Australia”; this will not settle the issue, since eyebrows are being raised in Australia regarding the environmental damage from lithium mining.

These people, again, need heads batted in?

Evo Morales read Musk’s tweet about the coup in Bolivia and responded: “Elon Musk, the owner of the largest electric car company, says about the coup in Bolivia: ‘We will coup whoever we want.’ Another proof that the coup was about Bolivian lithium; at the cost of two massacres. We will always defend our resources!”

The reference to the massacres is important. In November, from Mexico City, Morales watched as the government of Áñez let loose the dogs of war against the people of Bolivia from Cochabamba to El Alto. “They are killing my brothers and sisters,” Morales said at a press conference. “This is the kind of thing the old military dictatorships used to do.” It is the toxic character of the government of Áñez, backed fully by the US government and Elon Musk.

Until we have had how many foreclosures and evictions, carried out by the Sheriff of Nottingham?

Question: What is a sheriff’s sale at foreclosure in Pennsylvania? More important, do I have to leave my house after the sheriff’s sale?

Answer: You never thought that it would come to this, but you have now received notices from your mortgage company, a complaint in mortgage foreclosure and notice of a sheriff’s sale. Despite your best efforts to pay your mortgage on time, you have been unable to do so. Perhaps it has been loss of a spouse, a recent divorce, or a substantial period of unemployment, but you have been unable to meet your mortgage obligations. You need help.

Notice requirements

Before a residential mortgage can be foreclosed in Pennsylvania, the lender must give a 30-day notice of intention to foreclose, also known as an Act 6 notice, giving the borrower an opportunity to cure, and prohibiting the lender from collecting attorney fees incurred during the notice period.

As of Oct. 2, 2012, Act 91 notices are required. In these notices, lenders are required to attach a list of counseling agencies for the applicable county where the property is located. Failure to do so, or attaching additional counties, render the notice void.

An Act 6 notice is not required if an Act 91 notice is being sent. Notices must be sent to the mortgagor(s) at the property and, if different, at their mailing address.

Preventing sheriff’s sale

Carefully review the notice materials, which provide important information about organizations that can assist you. The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, for one, may lend you money so that you can become current on you mortgage over time. In effect, the finance agency becomes an additional mortgagee on your real estate, and you will have to pay back the loan. However, it will stop the sheriff sale and allow you to catch up the arrearages on your first mortgage and save your home.

Additionally, since the arrearages will be paid over time, you can concentrate on making current payments on your mortgage when they are due. If that fails, it is critical to seek legal help.

Another way to stop the sheriff sale is to file bankruptcy. Bankruptcy filings are complicated, and there are certain limitations on the ability of some people to file. You need to consult with an attorney to discuss your particular issues. (source)

Imagine this dirty country of money changers and home wreckers, getting behind sheriff’s sales. WOW, fascistm and inverted totalitarianism in a nutshell, or posted notice:

These thugs in finance and real estate and banking and finance, and the lot of them in Bush and Obama Administrations, Chlamydia spreaders, Chlamydia Capitalists, and we are just another Milgram shock therapy and fucking wavey graphic VICTIM:

Thugs: Nottingham’s first appointed sheriff was recorded in 1449.  Probably due to the recognised division of the city into two parts two sheriffs were appointed – William Sadler and Thomas Lyng and this tradition was upheld until the major changes in local government in 1835.    

The sheriff’s role at that time was to be responsible for prisoners appearing in court, collecting rents and taxes and generally enforcing the King’s law and order and keeping the peace.  

​Nomination for the Office of Sheriff was not always welcome as the Office incurred considerable costs that the Sheriff was expected to pay out of his personal finances.  One such cost was to provide the City Council with an annual traditional dinner.  Many cases have been cited where the nominee chose to pay the fine for not taking up the Office as the cheaper option.  Those who accepted the Office retained the right to wear their official crimson gowns beyond their shrieval year and were said to belong to livery or clothing burgesses.   

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This is the dirty AmeriKKKa, narcs and pigs and foreclorue agents, Repo Men and Repo Women.

In the 10 states and 34 cities we track, landlords have filed for:

• 2,362,118evictions since mid-March 2020
• 12,273evictions in the last week

We have been tracking weekly eviction filings since March 2020 to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policies. In the sections below you can see a summary of the states and cities we track, view detailed reports, and learn more about the Eviction Tracking System.

This is the country of putting people out on the streets, beginning with the ancients, the progenitors, the Anglo Saxons (Britain, et), the roots of the evil DNA infecting the land since 1492.

This is it for the narcs, the Milgram mother fuckers, and, well, any number of realities that the USA is truly made up of little Eichmann’s, Good Germans, Mean Jews, Corrupt Catholics, Insane Military Men and Woman, grifters left and right, up and down.

Oh, the sexy bullshit of Holly-Dirt:

So, anyone fucking with my own mutal aid and mutal needs, may they be cursed, man:

Bring on the Romonis, and I talked with this family years ago when I first ended up in Spokane:

In the summer of 1986, 18 police officers conducted an unwarranted search on the homes of two Romani-American families who the police suspected were in possession of some stolen property. The search yielded over 1.6 million dollars in cash and $160,000 in jewelry on the premises. The Marks Family, unofficial leaders of the Romani community at the time, did the only rational thing they could think of. Led by Grover Marks, the late patriarch of the clan, they cursed Spokane and then sued the city for forty million dollars for the unlawful raid of their homes, eventually settling at 1.43 million dollars at the end of the successful court case.

Can we hire on these people to curse all cities, buildings of the code enforcers, all neighbors of the Good German Variety, all politicians who fuck us over, can we , can we?

When asked if he would ever remove the curse, Marks claimed to be planning a ceremony for the purpose, which he described as “a double chicken ceremony – one extra crispy and one regular”.

At the funeral of his father, gypsy leader Grover Marks, in 1997, Jimmy Marks halted the funeral procession in front of city hall, opened the door of the hearse, and invited his father’s ghost to haunt the building for all eternity.

And so they are there, lurking behind curtains, looking through camera lenses, flying their peeping Tom drones, fingering neighbors for hedges too high, fences too long, way too many stuffed sofas on the porch, too loud of music, too many tomato plants, and on and on, these mother fuckers.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HeDgkTirkYY?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Yeah, man, this is the way of the bankers, digital demons, the war lords, the Finks and the Felons.

Biggest con man around:

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who faced intense backlash for championing ESG (environmental, social, and governance), says he’s ‘ashamed’ the topic has become politicized

The billionaire CEO of the world’s largest asset manager said ESG has become politically “weaponized.” Imagine that, billionaire never ashamed of the ill gotten trillions, the unethical control of so much, nah, again, the way of the Dodo or bat to the side of the head, or Jimmy Marks’ ghost, where are?

I’ve been to this house several TIMES.

once a shit show, always a shit show, U$A . . . except now, we almost all (more or less) have to eat their shit — the shit from abusers, i.e. corporate heads, politicians, the Brown Shirts Everywhere

The best stupid but dangerous Chlamydia Capitalism Delaware Can Buy.

Elder Abuse 101. Whew.

WTF, Biden? “And, I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.” True confessions of a doddering psychopath.

The Look on Modi’s Face is Priceless!

So it goes without saying, if we criticize this fellow, or any of them, including Modi, then, well, there you have it — violence perpetrated against the state or the corporate state:

Again, Biden is the smear, but his cabal of rabbi-induced freaks and monsters are the big boys in this shit show. Yes, I happen to know which folk in Biden’s Circle are Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Mormons, Jews, etc. The minority of all minorities, Judaism, is running the show, as that old guy said, a very very good show/shoe indeed.

In the most recent old days, this sort of crime would be out there, parsed and looked into and denounced, but in today’s Penis Piano Man, ZioAzovNaziLensky, running the really big shoe, anything is acceptable in the west. Fuck!

Amid numerous disturbing reports about possible false flag operations involving nuclear devices and weapons, the Kiev regime seems to be escalating its actions in this regard. According to various local sources, the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), located in the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in the Nikolayev region (oblast), has been effectively taken over by the Neo-Nazi junta forces. Although troops have been stationed in and around the NPP since the start of the special military operation (SMO), in recent weeks this has escalated. Apparently, mysterious “guards” have appeared at the NPP and have even restricted access to the reactor facilities, including to the staff responsible for the critically important maintenance of the reactor and the NPP’s key systems and subsystems.

Worse yet, the “guards” are offering no explanation for their behavior, nor does anyone else, be it the military or civilian authorities. In essence, nobody really knows for sure, but many people are skeptical (to say the least). The “guards” have even placed what can only be described as ammunition crates inside the NPP. (source)

Again, human stain, one and all, Ukraine, and the handlers, UK-EU-USA-Klanada.

There really is insanity in UK and USA, and the Biden and Jewish Cabal, what a messed up team of nobodies becoming somebodies.

This is what this fucked up country is about, this human stain, Blinken: A very pussified man (sic) with an entire DoD and Administration to manipulate. This is the state of affairs in diplomacy in the USA, fucking punk name calling:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stood by President Biden’s off-the-cuff jab calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator.

“The president speaks clearly, he speaks candidly. I’ve worked with him for more than 20 years and he speaks for all of us,” Blinken told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Biden roiled Beijing last week — roughly two days after Blinken’s state visit — by dubbing Xi a dictator during remarks Tuesday at a campaign fundraiser in California.

“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript.

“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators.”

Do you not hate him yet? Shame on you if not. Grow a set of balls or ovaries. The real man is on the right, and a trans-human half-man is on the left. Sick boy, USA. American Jews can be very very racist!

Ugly reality of the Beltway Bandits and the East Coast Criminals and the Poison Ivy League Schools (indoctrinaton camps) producing this smear. Whereas:

Even as the war in Ukraine rages, the US has increased its aggression towards China including increasing its military presence around China, provocations over Taiwan, heightened propaganda on XINJIANG and claims of a Chinese spy base in Cuba.

Recently two US antiwar activists have returned from a trip to China.  Hear from these antiwar activists and from others presently in China about the real situation in the country.

So goes the criminals, getting faculty jobs. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of the federal COVID-19 response under the Trump and Biden administrations, will be joining the faculty of Georgetown University on July 1.

“Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership, and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time,” said Georgetown President John DeGioia.

Oh, those lockstep professors:

Some 80 percent faculty members with Ph.D.s in the U.S. trained at just 20 percent of universities. So found the team behind a new study on faculty hiring and retention patterns at Ph.D.-granting institutions. These researchers warn that academe “is characterized by universally extreme inequality in faculty production.”

Researchers also found that the five most common doctoral training universities—the Universities of Michigan; Wisconsin at Madison; and California, Berkeley; plus Harvard and Stanford Universities—account for one in eight U.S.-trained faculty members.

One paper in Nature: Human Behavior (which shares two co-authors with the new study on hiring) found that 22 percent of tenure-track faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.

“Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible disproportionately to the socioeconomically privileged, which is likely to deeply shape their scholarship and their reproduction,” that paper said.

Other research suggests that economics Ph.D.s, in particular, are increasingly likely to have at least one parent with a graduate degree.

This is why PhD’s have ZERO to say about us, the 80 Percent, the people, those they scoff at, those pieces of human nepotism, lock-step trained scum! (source)

Until I end up tuned into NPR (yuk) driving to get a trailer for my poor as dirt mother-in-law whose poor as dirt husband just died of brain cancer and so we, my spouse and I, are throwing in where others haven’t.

In May, legislators in Connecticut passed a resolution to exonerate people accused of being witches in the seventeenth century. The resolution passed nearly 376 years to the day that Alice “Alsa” Young was put to death in the state. She was the first to be executed for alleged witchcraft in colonial America, decades before the more well-known Salem witch trials began in Massachusetts in 1692.

Dozens of people were killed, mostly women, over accused witchcraft in the U.S. in the 1600s and early 1700s. It’s estimated that nearly 50,000 people were killed in Europe based purely on superstition. (source)

This is what is on the radio, June 26, while the world is on the brink, man, in so many ways. And what are the modern witch trials? Those of us questioning all of them! Assange and reporters in Mexico and land defenders and whistle blowers and . . . .

We then transitioned to, this, on NPR, man oh man!

New numbers reveal the scope of the harm done by the U.S. military against gay and lesbian service members. 

Reporting from CBS News reveals a picture that devastated the lives of more than 29,000 veterans – all denied honorable discharges because of their sexuality.That’s a much higher number than first thought. 

The fight to undo the harm caused by the policy is ongoing. We talk about the latest.

Do you see what’s wrong with this picture? Well well, the military DOES all the harm, from the lowly corporal cook to the captain of the SEAL Team, all of them are mercenaries, and the harm the USA has and is doing globally, well well, shit dog, the don’t ask, don’t tell is part and parcel of all the places we have bombed, coup-ed, sanctioned! Gay or straight, the same criminal!

In fact, according to historians Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock, the United States has been “militarily involved” with every country on the globe but three: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein. (source)

Man oh man, NPR working the old LGBTQTA++ circuit: And those poor abused gays and lesbians, man oh man, pure patriots, loving the death and bombs and coups and sanctions that killed, well, other LGBTQAT++ and the children, man, the children.

Since the 1800s, the United States has invaded countries across Latin America and the Caribbean in an effort to protect both economic and political interests.

This violent, aggressive policy has led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths and decades-long dictatorships.

In commemoration of the U.S. invasion of Haiti, teleSUR remembers the bloody history of U.S. invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

So, then, we transition into drug abuse, and it is higher than what this report states:

The number of people suffering from drug use disorders has skyrocketed to 39.5 million globally, a surge of 45 percent over the decade.

On Monday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report warning of a sharp rise in the number of drug users globally and ever-expanding illicit drug markets fueled by the easily accessible synthetic drugs.

RELATED: 

Fiji: Illicit Drugs, Major Challenge for National Security

The UNODC annual report shows that 13.2 million people worldwide injected drugs in 2021, 18 percent higher than its previous estimate, and over 296 million people worldwide used drugs in 2021, an increase of 23 percent over the previous decade.

The number of people suffering from drug use disorders has skyrocketed to 39.5 million globally, a surge of 45 percent over the decade. (source)

Shit, and the drug called “booze”? Globally, 107 million people are estimated to have an alcohol use disorder. (source) The global volume in the alcoholic drinks market was forecast to continuously increase between 2023 and 2027 by in total 24.3 billion litres (+8.62 percent). The volume is estimated to amount to 306,440 million litres in 2027.

Yeah, in the good old day, those good old days, these would be the stories of the day.

• who’s in prisons and why and who profits?
• the top 100 chemicals in food that hurt the fetus and the baby and the brain
• top ten reasons schools are underfunded, underperforming, under attack
• why and how did Fink get 8 trillion $$ in controlling assets in his BlackRock, and why that’s bad for the globe and how we might strip him down and disband it
• why economics is not a science and why they, the economists, are criminals in high places and how to get rid of them
• why most things need to be nationalized, and why capitalism is not a free market, but a free-for-all against we the people
• ecosystems collapses, wetlands destruction, grasslands removal, toxins in rivers, failing aquifers, deforestation, desertification, tidelands pollution, and species extinction — the who, what, when, where, why and how
• why don’t white collar criminals go to jail, and how can we go after them, the biggest thieves on planet earth
• artificial intelligence, data tracking, human hacking, the entire fleet of digitalization of everything are BAD for humanity, and why and how can we put a stop to it
• why can’t we have great public transportation, single payer socialized healthcare, a stop to the war profiteers, and an alternative to the current paradimgs of casino-predatory-parasetic capitalism
• why can’t 6 to 16 year olds have a large say in their futures, in legislation, in how laws are passed, and how communities are developed, and how can that be implemented
• why does there have to be conflict with China, and who is stoking the flames, and why…

Get them all to know their history:

[Photo: In 1917, the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George ordered troops from British Egypt to invade Palestine, expressing his wish to General Allenby that Jerusalem be taken by Christmas. Obligingly, on December 11th 1917, Allenby walked into Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate and declared martial law over the city.]

Read her stuff:

And his stuff, “The Origins of America’s Secret Police: Ancient Roots of Occult Societies & Intelligence Operations”

And, so, here, this is what NPR and PBS and CBS and the lot of them need to cover, 24/7. We need to defeat the shock troops of the Fortune 5000 companies, and defeat their colonels and generals and field marshalls and corporate dictators. A wonderful piece.

“Food Is Not a Commodity, It’s a Human Right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part I)”

An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market. Pueblo a Pueblo is a grassroots plan for organizing the production, distribution, and consumption of food that connects agricultural producers with urban dwellers. In so doing, the project breaks with the despotic dictates of the capitalist market. In the first of this three-part piece in the Communal Resistance Series, Pueblo a Pueblo’s spokespeople talk about their organization’s history and its objectives.

Teach this to all K12 and college teachers. And college kids.

LIFE. Caring. Community. Food. Love. Healing. Knowledge. Togetherness. The Good Old New Days. Health. Children. The Wise. Sharing. Hope. Resistance.

vs.

The Ghost Thinkers, the Transhumanists, the pathetic data brownshirts, the dirty levelers of humankind, the soil haters, the earth despisers, the water polluters, the hateful ones shooting off into space, wanting to terraform, the geo-engineers, the DNA tinkers, the money changers, the war machine operators, the robotics pimps, the whores of capitalism.

… and the motherfucking MSM, the Marketeers, Mad Men in Media, pushing more of the Inverted Totalitarianism to the point of Westerners at their Point of No Return e

Yet, oh, yet, we are refugees in our own land. The death ships, all through the Mediterranean, the thousands dying in the ocean and in deserts, yet, oh, yet we have to hear the thugs of NPR and PBS and the rest tell us about some pukes trapped in a submarine looking for luster and photo shoots of the Titanic.

Billionaire James Cameron, stage left. Look at this piece of shit, this Chlamydia Capitalist, and this is it for the billionaire classless:

All five people who were abroad the Titan – Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet – were killed in the implosion, officials said Thursday.

Cameron said he hopes the tragedy doesn’t discourage tourists from exploring the ocean.

“I’m not worried about exploration, because explorers will go,” Cameron said. “I’m worried that it has a negative impact on, let’s say, citizen explorers, tourists. … These are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places – and I don’t want to discourage that.”

“Serious fucking money,” and who pays the bill for he rescue attempt? Fuck Cameron and the rip-off horse he rode into town on.

Tens of millions of U$ taxpayer money for these freaks bolted inside a shit-hole submersible.

As Haiti explodes brought to them by U$A, Klanada, le Fucked up French.

Toothless in Wisconsin, reacting to the mother fuckers of the world, the so-called free to fuck you in the ass market: Hundred-Year-Old Industry Plans To Leave Midwest Home

“Master Lock is profitable, but is ready to abandon the community for the profits of a wealthy few.”

Those low down, no good, motherfuckers. Those stealing, stain, stab you in the back, cocksuckers. Those lying, leave you in the lurch, love em and leave em, loathsome, losers,  May be on to something.

Maybe it’s high time, hit the road, fan your ass, look for greener pastures. Maybe everybody needs to get a god damned passport, and git gone. The wheels are coming off. The roof is caving in. The foundation was always no good, and is rotten, and crumbling.

And there’s little rats running around all over the place. Ya kill em, one by one, but they just keep on coming.

It might be time to go.

Yeah, take a look at the former Milwaukee, under socialist management , and compare it to subsequent years of capitalist governance. There’s your perfect example of a place where socialism was successful, for practically everyone, while capitalist is shown to be good, only for the one… .

It’s a violent, impoverished, shit hole, county. It’s an example of an apartheid state. Wisconsin, North Arkansas. Look at the demographics of Wisconsin. Milwaukee in particular. Black folk are kept isolated, for the most part, in their specific zones, whether it’s Milwaukee, Madison, or the Green Bay Area.

The Milwaukee apartheid includes such cities as Racine, and Waukesha-(the place made Rittenhouse famous). Here are the places that you will find almost all of the drug sales, prostitution, and nightly shootings. It is also convenient to have Chicago nearby, to supply the area with additional bodies to violate. The home of the Walker/Foxcon con job.

I don’t care what the milquetoast liberals from Madison say, the racial tensions here are so ingrained in the population, that the air is unsafe to breathe. The prejudice is so thick that you can see the haze, so thick, that you can cut it with a knife.

The place I have lived all my life. You can see it in our faces. Smiles are few and far between, and generally alcohol, or substance induced. And, we both know how that generally turns out. This is KKK landia. Not so much KJK landia. You asked why this place is so hard/mean.

Maybe living in an apartheid state makes people ugly. All the people. Haters and victimizers as well. Makes alot of sense to me. The word ‘nigger’ is almost as common as the word ‘beer,’ up here.

It’s the term de jour, mostly in select company, but will be directed at blacks directly, if the proportion of white bodies is correct. Mexicans used to be better tolerated, until somebody came up with the idea of job theft.

The Hmong people who relocated here have always been insulted. And, don’t even get me started on the drunken, walleye stealin’, casino redskins. The Indians got to have a few casinos, to make up for the whites stealing, well, every god-damned thing.

So what happens? The whites, illegally, put slot machines in their white taverns, and the cops, and judges, refuse to enforce the laws, prohibiting such activities.

You want to meet these folks? A lot of them will be at this Country Fest 2023, that I’ve got tickets for. You won’t find Gil Scott-Heron playing there. But, whitey will definitely be howling at the moon, at Country Fest.

Social lubricant, as far as the eye can see. No trans Bud Light for these Hillbillies. I heard recently that Modelo is currently the most popular brand in America. What the fuck? [Sent from my iPhone]

The mother fuckers, from Yale to Stanford to UW to the entire suite of fucking training centers for the fuckers who put us through ringers every nanosecond; if you don’t have a bone in your brain, then, come with me and wish upon a star and hope that they, millionaires and billionaires, and their progeny and the rest end up six feet under, or in the Mariana Trench.

They have turned the world into refugees, and they laugh, as Fuckerberg and Elon-gated Ego Musk do some fucking grappling faggotry?

[Verse 1]
We got somethin’, we both know it
We don’t talk too much about it
Ain’t no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it

[Pre-Chorus]
Listen, it don’t really matter to me, baby
You believe what you want to believe

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

[Verse 2]
Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon

[Pre-Chorus]
Honey, it don’t make no difference to me, baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No baby, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

[Bridge]
Baby, we ain’t the first
I’m sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it’s one of those things
You got to feel to be true

[Verse 3]
Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away, and held for ransom

[Pre-Chorus]
Honey, it don’t really matter to me, baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
You don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

And we have to hear from that piece of human Chlamydia Capitalist, James fucking Cameron.

[A migrant being rescued in the Mediterranean by a volunteer of the humanitarian organisation OPEN ARMS. Since 2014, according to the UN, at least 15,000 refugees have lost their lives in their bid to cross to Europe in rickety boats. [Photo: OPEN ARMS]]

If they don’t give a shit about us, or the bridges collapsing and the reservoirs dropping and the lead in the water, why the fuck would they care about refugees? Sacked, dumped, fired, terminated.

Nazis one and all: Bild, the German tabloid owned and operated by major European publishing house Axel Springer, is expected to replace over a hundred human editorial jobs with artificial intelligence, a leaked email first obtained by the German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) has revealed.

Here we go, two fucked up Zionists, Lex and Mark, and then the fucking Elon, and how many Ukrainians (Goyim) perish because of another set of Zionists — Blinken, Yellen, Garland, Nuland, Kagan and thousands in his administration, amd Biden the Zionist Who Finally Got a Jewish Doctor Son-in Law). Read this pathetic racist shit:

I have big fan of Vice President Joe Biden since I volunteered and donated to his ill-fated 1980 Presidential campaign. So you can imagine my happiness when I found out that his daughter, Ashley, was engaged to my doctor, Dr. Howard Krein.

Dr. Krein is a very nice, thorough doctor. He is part of a big ear, nose and throat practice. My only complaint is that he kept me waiting over an hour and did not offer any apology when he did finally see me.

Think about these white pieces of SHIT Zionists and their rabbi-loving minds. Death in the world, and they play boy-boy hugging hard cum lately!

And, can you imagine if I took the odometer and turned it back and sold my car to a private buyer or car dealer? In Oregon?

Ahh, that is private enterprise — fuck them anyway you can, including the horse they rode into town on, in this case, the truck!

On Friday, Automotive News reports that FedEx and Holman Automotive have been accused of rolling back the odometers of old delivery trucks in a new lawsuit.

Companies like FedEx ordinarily get rid of their delivery trucks when they hit their operational limit, usually around 350,000 miles, but, in the suit, plaintiffs say a scheme involving old trucks started over a decade ago, when FedEx decided to stop scrapping the trucks and sent them to auto auctions instead.

Shit, more Greta and Bill Mckibben pornography, and both the motherfuckers (father fucker, too) want more more more depleted uranium for the Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy ZioAzovNaziLensky:

Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected

Shit, we have more important things to concern ourselves with, no? Fuckerberg and Friedmaniac playing bi-sexuals on the mat.

Banks and biology, interesting shit:

Previous studies have suggested significant costs from going past tipping points in large ecosystems will kick in from the second half of this century onwards. But our findings suggest these costs could occur much sooner.

We found the speed at which stress is applied is vital to understanding system collapse, which is probably relevant to non-ecological systems too. Indeed, the increased speed of both news coverage and mobile banking processes has recently been invoked as raising the risk of bank collapse. As the journalist Gillian Tett has observed:

“The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank provided one horrifying lesson in how tech innovation can unexpectedly change finance (in this case by intensifying digital herding). Recent flash crashes offer another. However, these are probably a small foretaste of the future of viral feedback loops.”

But there the comparison between ecological and economic systems runs out. Banks can be saved as long as governments provide sufficient financial capital in bailouts. In contrast, no government can provide the immediate natural capital needed to restore a collapsed ecosystem.

There is no way to restore collapsed ecosystems within any reasonable timeframe. There are no ecological bailouts. In the financial vernacular, we will just have to take the hit.

Water water, anyone? Can you lead a horse to water and have him drink too?

So, the population is shifting to the hot zones of the world, into the wet bulb mother fucking death zones — thanks to corporations heading from WA state to Florida, Texas and Arizona? Freaky Economics, and fuck you and the horse you rode into town on. Use fucking less water, poor slobs, but bring in more and more population and water consumers. SCHIZOPHRENIA a la Chlamydia Capitalism.

One year later, Mead’s elevation is inching back up. A combination of historic winter snowpack and new federal agreements to pay cities, farmers and tribes to conserve water are expected to raise Mead to a high point of 1,070 feet in February 2024, according to the most recent federal data. That elevation will likely change as more conservation agreements are signed.

Paying people to save precious water was an essential component to the recent deal struck between lower basin states Arizona, California, and Nevada to collectively conserve 3 million acre-feet over the next three years, experts say.

But as maps and charts show, the extra water will be a drop in the bucket for a reservoir that has dramatically declined in the past two decades.

Mead’s projected high elevation of 1,070 next year “is a lot better than 1,045,” Porter said. “It sounds like a nice elevation, but we know how fast it can go down.”

The conservation agreements will certainly contribute to Lake Mead’s modest rise in the coming months. But state officials and experts told CNN the largest effect on the reservoir by far will be the deluge of winter snow melting into the Colorado River headwaters.

Again, there are NO national conversations, no POTUS Fucks talking about the real stuff, including heat and water shortages and a list of ten thousand other important national and regional and state-by-state and county issues. Biden and the Bitches in his Office and the Butt Fuckers in the Republican party, man oh man. War war war, critical race theory, transgenderism, no more liberal educators in k12 and higher ed. They are, IMHO, the stuff of sending them all to the bottom of the sea. Titanic, sirs and madames, Davey Jones’ locker.

“Corporations are Moving out of Washington at Higher Rate Than any Other State” There you go, solidarity, the United (fuck that bullshit) $nakes of Amnesia. Imagine that, no national plan, not a fucking thing in dog-eat-dog fucking Chlamydia Capitalism AmeriKKK-uhh.

Approximately 9% of America’s corporations moved headquarters since the beginning of 2022, the highest rate since 2017, with most corporations moving to Florida, Texas, and Arizona. 

The states that corporations were most likely to abandon were Washington, New York, and California. 

Ah, photo below, of another weak democrat, that lock-down mother fucking guv: [Photo: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.]

Fuck, move to Russia, man, and you get bonuses for fucking and fornicating and having kids. This is the upside down world of the days of the living dead:

Lying flatism is a trending philosophy that has emerged in China and is practiced by young adults who choose to live a minimalist lifestyle and reject the pressures of society. Lying flatists refuse to participate in consumerist lifestyles, such as pursuing high-paying jobs, purchasing material possessions, getting married, or having children. They believe that personal efforts are no longer effective in improving their lives due to structural and societal factors.

Researchers became interested in studying lying flatism and its relationship with attitudes toward singlehood because singlehood has become a favorable lifestyle choice worldwide, particularly among young adults. The increasing number of singles in countries like the United States, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and China suggests a shift in perspectives and lifestyles. The researchers wanted to explore whether individuals who have positive feelings toward lying flatism also have positive attitudes toward singlehood.

Of course, some truth and relevance behind some of this, but if these fucks in America, in their lying flatism bullshit, still push bombs for the Piano Penis Playing Criminal, ZioAzovNaziLensky, then may they go the way of th dodo or personally fucked and the horse they rode into town double fucked!

Yikes. Another fucking limp-wristed photo: Who made that coffee: grew it, picked it? And the Ikea in the background, who made that, and his cotton T-shirt, who the fuck grew that, harvested it and loomed it? And those spectacles? Who slaved over them to provide him with his 20/20 bullshit vision? Lots of sweat shop sweat in those cushions and sofa, and that skateboard, the metal and wood and stain and wheels? Fucking yeah, lazy sons of bitches with the fucking Tracking Fit Bit Watch.

It is a fucking upside down world, and the news, well, that fucking dude, Wagner “Sort of CEO” Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin [centre] poses with two Wagner Group fighters, Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 25, 2023.

In an address to the nation at 10.00 am Moscow time on Saturday,  President Vladimir Putin strongly condemned the developments describing it as “an armed mutiny” and calling for the “consolidation of all forces.” Putin drew a parallel with the insurrection in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in February 1917 that led to the Bolshevik Revolution and a protracted civil war with large-scale western military intervention, including the United States, “while all sorts of political adventurers and foreign forces profited from the situation by tearing the country apart to divide it.”

He promised, “Decisive actions will also be taken to stabilise the situation in Rostov-on-Don (700 kms south of Moscow where Prigozhin is located with Wagner fighters.) It remains difficult, the work of civil and military authorities is actually blocked.”

Putin vowed that those “who organised and prepared a military mutiny, who took up arms against his comrades – betrayed Russia,” will be punished. Significantly, Putin never once mentioned Prigozhin’s name.

This face-off has been in the making for several months and is traceable to tensions in the working relations between the Wagner forces and the Russian ministry of defence, Prigozhin’s personal antipathy towards Defence Minister Shoigu and the Russian top brass, his bloated ego and over

Now now, imagine how many sad fucks in the military, low and upper ranks, might want to take to task that Raytheon motherfucker, calling his calls on Ukraine fucked up and dangerous and motivated by PROFITS? Hmm, how about a few hundred or thousand of Erik Prince’s soldiers of blood lust fortune taking on Biden?

Legally, nominees must have been out of uniform for seven years to serve as the secretary of defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee in a voice vote passed Austin’s nomination.

[Photo: Criminal.]

Fuck him and the horses he rode into town on:

Austin, who would be the first Black person to lead the Pentagon, has not yet been retired from the military for seven years, and would therefore require a waiver from Congress to serve Biden’s Cabinet.

Lawmakers most recently granted a waiver in 2017 to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s first Defense secretary, and they have expressed reluctance to approving another exception for Biden.

Before Mattis, the last retired general to be granted a congressional waiver to become Defense secretary was George Marshall, who served under former President Harry Truman.

The United States has a long history of civilian control of its armed forces, and Biden’s reliance on the counsel of former military officials has already provoked some unease among foreign policy and national security experts.

A dimwit dem said what?

Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement in response to her vote on the Congressional waiver to permit the confirmation of retired General Lloyd J. Austin to serve as Secretary of Defense. While Senator Cortez Masto believes General Austin is qualified for the position, she voted against the waiver due to concerns about the erosion of civilian control over the U.S. military. Under current law, military officers cannot serve as Secretary of Defense until seven years after they have retired from active duty unless they are granted a waiver by Congress. Austin retired from the U.S. Army on May 1, 2016.

“General Austin has served our country for over 40 years, and his impressive credentials make him incredibly qualified for the position of Secretary of Defense. Yet I cannot support continuing to erode civilian control over our military, which is a foundational principle of our democracy. In 2017, I voted in favor of a waiver for General Mattis because he presented one of the few options to reign in the most dangerous impulses of President Trump. The same is not true of our current moment. The events of January 6^th show us how vital it is to preserve the strength of our democratic institutions. We cannot pick and choose which ones we want to protect when it’s convenient. So I voted today to protect the norms that ensure civilian control over our military, which is so essential to the life of our democracy.”

Again, these are monsters, and what would Russia do, what would Putin do?

Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin raising a series of questions for the Department of Defense (DoD) regarding press reports that former Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt used his positions on defense advisory boards to further his own financial interests. Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) the Secretary of Defense is responsible for ensuring that defense advisory board members adhere to ethics standards, including following ethics laws that prohibit participating personally and substantially in matters relating to individuals’ financial interests.

“Mr. Schmidt’s investment activities, and the lack of public disclosure, create the appearance that these boards are yet another tool for influence-peddling and profiteering at DoD, raising concerns about the ethics of their members and the utility of their recommendations,” wrote Senator Warren.

Reports have revealed several instances where companies Mr. Schmidt has invested in received multimillion-dollar Department of Defense contracts and may have created a direct financial conflict of interest with his roles as chair of the Defense Innovation Board and of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). 

Ahh, so that Wagner dude, another millionare, like Lloyd: Source.

Yeah, in my revolutionary world, Lloyd and the Wagner Boss, up against that firing squad wall. But not allowed here at Substack or Word Press, just hypothesizing.

Here, remarkable piece: Life in Donbass: How locals feel today, over nine years since their region broke away from Ukrainian control: Residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic give their perspectives on the hostilities that have been raging since 2014, and how they feel about Russia and Ukraine.

[A view of Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Those who believe that the Ukraine conflict started on February 24, 2022 are deeply mistaken – a point that residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) are eager to point out to anyone who visits their region.

The lives of locals were divided into “before” and “after” back in 2014, when the vast majority refused to accept the outcome of the Western-backed “Maidan” coup. Beyond Donetsk, the same mood prevails in Volnovakha, Mariupol, and other cities that were formerly under the control of Kiev.

[A neighborhood near Azovstal in Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

RT correspondent Angelina Latypova talked with local residents to find out what life has been like in the DPR over the years, what they felt at the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, how they survived the most severe battles, and why many decided not to leave their homes despite the danger.

Staying to help

Tanya was 20 years old when her city was first attacked. Forced to abandon her university studies in Slavyansk (the city was one of the focal points of the 2014 “Russian Spring” uprising but is still controlled by Kiev), she went to the battlefield to help the local militia. 

After serving in the army, she became a medical worker and stitched up wounded soldiers. Eventually, Tanya became a volunteer. She now helps victims of the hostilities, finds new owners for homeless pets, and delivers humanitarian aid. She also shoots video reports.

[Tanya is a volunteer in Donetsk and other reclaimed territories ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

After the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, Tanya helped evacuate people from the sites of severe battles, including Volnovakha and Mariupol.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) threw all the civilians out. In Volnovakha, there was only one building on the block with a basement that was big enough. They came and kicked all the civilians out, and went into hiding there. And then, when they retreated to Mariupol, they used a tank and leveled the entrance to the building. During negotiations, they said that all the people had been evacuated,” Tanya said.

[Cars burnt in a Ukrainian strike on central Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Tanya explains that she was almost killed – on her birthday – when a missile flew into a yard in the city center. There were also explosions near her home, in a part of the city with no military facilities.

Locals say that civilian infrastructure is most often attacked by the AFU, and that targets have included the Transfiguration Cathedral and the local market. They say the church gets shelled during services on holy days, and the market is regularly attacked on weekends. The AFU reportedly strikes on days when these places are full of people.

[A view of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the local market ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“Even the children here know where the missiles are flying from and why. I have a six-year-old niece. She sits in a taxi and says, ‘My God, what a nightmare. They are attacking us, aren’t they?’. I say, ‘Yes… And who is attacking us?’ She says, ‘Ukraine.’ She knows how to hide and where the attack is coming from. She knows that if the bombardment has started, she needs to grab her cat and her favorite coloring books, and go sit on a chair in the corridor. This is not normal.”

[Memorial “To your liberators, Donbass” ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to survive

Lyudmila is a retiree who gives me a tour of the Kuibyshev district – one of the most heavily shelled areas of Donetsk.

Lyudmila has five grandchildren. After the start of hostilities in Donbass, two of her granddaughters moved to Yalta in Crimea, where they now live. Three others remained in Donetsk. Lyudmila says that over the past nine years, whenever the city comes under attack, her whole family has to hide in a narrow corridor, pressing close to each other. In the area where she lives, there are constant strikes. After our meeting, Lyudmila nearly got hit by a shell that exploded 500 meters away from her. In complete darkness, she ran home as fast as she could. 

[Lyudmila stands in front of a burnt-down grocery store where her family used to shop ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila hasn’t left because her husband is sick with cancer. Her sons also stayed. They said, “As long as the war continues, we’ll be here. We can’t quit our jobs, so we are forced to live under explosions.”

“Those who stayed won’t go anywhere now. They are glad that things have finally started changing. And now, there is hope. In the past eight years, we nearly lost all hope. We felt depressed and hopeless.” 

[Russian flags in the center of Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila is originally from Maryinka, and her relatives still live there. The city is currently the scene of fierce battles, and it is no longer possible to evacuate them. In March and April last year, they were forced to hide in the basement from shelling, and were starving. Lyudmila says an 80-year-old relative stopped walking and went blind.

She also has relatives in Odessa, Ivano-Frankovsk, and Kurakhov (Donetsk Republic). However, communication is dangerous since Ukrainian officials allegedly arrest people who get calls from Russia. Lyudmila’s son-in-law was detained, for this reason, but fled across the border. 

[A view of the Kalinin mine ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

During our walk around the city, Lyudmila frequently pointed to locations which have been hit by Ukrainian strikes. Near the opera house, a missile killed a girl with her grandmother. At the bank, another hit elderly people who were standing in line. At the local market, civilians out food shopping were killed. Missiles have struck  schools and kindergartens. 

“Every place around here has been hit. We used to think these were accidental, scattered attacks: I mean on schools, kindergartens, apartment buildings. Now we know that it’s targeted. If today there are two shellings of the same school porch, tomorrow it will happen again.”

[A savings bank in central Donetsk. On this spot, 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a Tochka-U missile strike. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Ukrainian attacks surged just before the Russian offensive in February 2022.

“We thought there’s an offensive coming from the Ukrainian side because in February, the shelling was so severe. We were already used to it and did not think much. But that’s when our two republics [DPR and LPR] were hit by around 150-200 [strikes] per day. Or per week. But in February, when the evacuation was announced, we got up to 1,000 strikes.”

[Donetsk blacksmith Viktor Mikhalev makes sculptures from shell fragments. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila says that for eight years, the Ukrainian side announced ceasefires that were given “characteristic” names – like the “Easter truce” or “school truce” in honor of the start of school on September 1. But the same party that proposed them immediately violated these agreements.

Recounting the events of 2014, Lyudmila remembers how the residents of Donetsk went to Lenin Square carrying Russian flags, and called for their region to become part of Russia.

“In 2014, there were large rallies here. Everyone shouted that they sided with Russia, only with Russia. We did not agree with the coup that happened in Kiev. It was immediately clear that our paths had separated. Then we held a referendum. Everyone hoped that it would be like in Crimea. In Crimea, it all complied with international law. But in our case, there were no [legal] grounds. And it was too early to get involved in a big war. And now, here is the big war. Unfortunately, we got the big war.”

[Lenin square, where rallies were held in 2014 ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to remember

Svetlana and her daughter Vera drove us from the checkpoint to Donetsk. Seeing that we are journalists from Russia, they gladly agreed to talk to us and invited us over to their house.

The family lives in Volnovakha, a city that was under siege for two weeks. When the evacuation was announced, the Voitenko family decided to stay. Having elderly parents and many pets, it wasn’t easy for them to leave.

[Svetlana and her daughter, Vera ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

On the morning of February 24, Svetlana heard a powerful explosion that made her jump up in bed. “Verochka, the war has started,” she said, running to wake her daughter up.

In addition to several cats and dogs, the family also has lizards, parrots, and roosters. None of the animals were injured during the attacks. However, after the shelling, their dog started having convulsions, which continued for several more months after the Ukrainian forces left.

[To provide food for their own pets, the Voitenko family opened the first pet store in Volnovakha after Ukrainian forces left. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

For two weeks, the family hid in a small corridor together with the animals. When things quietened down, they looked out to see who was shooting. From the window of the house, they could see Ukrainian tanks driving along the streets and firing at residential areas. The family cooked food on a wood stove, each time fearing that their house would be discovered and attacked.

“Two or three times a day, the AFU would engage in a ‘tank biathlon’ – they fired at houses, residential buildings, people. We were afraid to kindle a fire in the stove, because the smoke [coming out of the chimney] would make us an easy target. When my husband got the fire burning, I would shout, ‘Put it out, they’re going to attack us now!’”

[The destroyed market in Volnovakha ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Locals attempt to explain the logic of the Ukrainians. Apparently, those who stayed in Volnovakha after the start of hostilities were considered “separatists,” which is what Kiev’s forces called anyone who didn’t move to their side of the frontlines.

The family says the city has been subjected to “Ukrainization” for many years, and the Ukrainian authorities tried to instill hatred towards Russia. Vera remembers how in 2014, at the very start of the events that lead to the coup in Kiev and the war in Donbass, schoolchildren shouted slogans like “Muscovites to the gallows!” and “Whoever doesn’t jump is a Muscovite!”. In class, teachers talked about Russia’s supposed shelling of Ukrainian cities.

“In the middle of our lesson, Grad rocket launchers started firing from the fields. The teacher said, ‘Look, Russia is attacking.’. Even then, I was wondering – what is Russia doing in a Ukrainian city? How can it shoot here? How? But many believed.”

[A new hospital in Volnovakha. Since Ukrainian forces were ousted, construction has been in full swing, with schools, apartment blocks and medical facilities being rebuilt. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Because of this, some of the family’s friends who stayed on territory controlled by Kiev did not believe that the AFU had attacked civilians in Volnovakha.

“The worst is when the people who were here all the time but then left, say that it was Russia. Though some people changed their minds when they came here.”

[A central street in Donetsk. The inscription on the billboard says “Russia! This is our victory! This is our country!” ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to live

In Mariupol, just like in Severodonetsk, Volnovakha, and other cities, the AFU set up firing points in apartment buildings while the residents of those homes hid from shelling in the basements.

“I evacuated one couple – the windows of their apartment were all broken and a firing point was set up there. The AFU went down into the basement and said, ‘Give us the keys. If you don’t give us the keys, we’ll blow up the door.’ And they blew up the door,” says Tanya, the volunteer from Donetsk.

[The ruins of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis, a Mariupol resident who survived the siege of the city, says his family got lucky: they locked the entrance to their apartment building, which helped them survive. However, the Ukrainian army still tried to force their way in with gunfire.

[A view of the Holy Intercession Church ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“Azov started attacking us on March 1. I lost my sister. We buried almost 90 people in the yard. When I went to get water and descended down to the sea, Azov snipers fired at us. They specifically attacked us so we wouldn’t get the water. We were stuck here for three weeks without water and bread. We were so happy when it started raining. I carried rainwater to the old women in the basement,” recalls one of the local construction workers I talked to on the street.

[Views of Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

The Azov Battalion is one of Ukraine’s infamous neo-Nazi units. Back in 2014, when Mariupol residents protested against the policies of Kiev’s new authorities, Azov fighters shot anyone who got in their way. Denis still remembers those events with a shudder.

“In 2014 it felt terrifying. But then apathy set in. Because we understood that with a policy like that, Ukraine had no future.”

[In Mariupol, shells are often seen scattered on the ground. City beaches still haven’t been completely cleared of mines. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis says that in the following years, the city was actively “Ukrainized.” He doesn’t divide his life into “before” and “after” February 24, 2022, because the war has been going on since 2014. Donetsk, where civilians have been dying for nine years, is located only 100 km from Mariupol.

“Zelensky was elected as the ‘president of peace’,” says Denis. “But instead of stopping the war, he threw the residents of Mariupol and other cities right into the warzone in order to show the world how the Russian army supposedly ‘operates’ here.”

[Freedom Square in Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“On the other side of the city, they call the AFU ‘zakhisniki’ – ‘defenders’. But that’s not how you defend cities. The DPR and Russia did not aim to destroy cities – that is evident both in Melitopol and Berdyansk. No one destroyed buildings and killed people there. The AFU said right away, ‘We are not defending you, we are defending the territory.’ Knowing that they can’t retain control over Mariupol, they tried to completely destroy it. That’s why they hid in residential buildings and set up mortars on roofs,” Denis says.

[The Azovstal Stadium ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis remembers the arrival of the DPR troops on March 18 as “the most heartfelt meeting”.

“They rejoiced and we rejoiced. We all hugged. We felt scared, and they felt scared. They probably did not expect anything like this.”

[A view of Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

[A ruined residential building ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

[A crater left by a shell strike in the city center ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

By Angelina Latypova, a Russian independent journalist

liars, cheats, thieves, propagandists, con men/ con women/ con ‘them,’ war profiteers, blood merchants, your daughter’s fetus snatcher, bye bye, human and animal rapists

The homo bellum, the homo consumopethicus, the homo syhpillis, will do anything for a buck:

Twelve horses died in the span of six weeks at Churchilul Downs, prompting the famed Louisville track to suspend racing operations and move the remainder of its Spring Meet to Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky.

When the move was announced June 2, per a recommendation from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen said it will give the track time to conduct “a top-to-bottom review of all of the details and circumstances so that we can further strengthen our surface, safety and integrity protocols.”

Horses, man, and what a shame of humanity in this animal abuse. But imagine Integrity and Safety Authorities for, hmm, bridges, jets, cars, highways, homes, chemicals, toxins, air quality, water quality, death jabs, medical care, education, endless dirty weapons to the *elensky, and, well, you name some aspect of YOUR community that needs some fixing, ramping up, and retrofitting, and I’ll give you that agency, those authorities, to run the scoundrels out of town, strip them bare of all assets, and bring sanity to THE people.

Ahh, the thugs, the Mafia lovers, the racist union pukes, those run by pigs of capital, many with the Jewish persuasion as the overriding system of suppression.

Biden, well, he should go the way of the glue factory. So many, millions in the Beltway and K-Street, the lot of them in the hundreds of alphabet agencies, become glue:

The AFL-CIO just made an important announcement about the US Presidential election, which has deeply angered and surprised many of its 12.4 million members. The union federation announced that it was making its earliest Presidential endorsement in history, without any democratic discussion or process in its ranks, for strikebreaker Joe Biden.

For millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, this “historic” endorsement is a rotten sellout, in the wake of Biden’s many vicious attacks on the working class, including the blocking of the railroad workers’ strike.

I’m thinking sanctions. Those Albright, et al, death-rattling sanctions. You know about them: Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, shit, so many places.

Food production, marketing, and prices are some of the issues that most concern Cubans and is what most directly impacts our quality of life. Although this is a strategic and priority sector for Cuba, it is directly connected to the current economic situation of the country, aggravated by the impact of the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade.

Other reasons also prevent the country from achieving self-sufficiency in products. The prices’ rise in the international market in recent years and the war in Europe have also had a heavy impact.

On the international market, the cost of a ton of chicken – one of the most consumed meats in the country – is now 1,300 dollars, almost twice the price it it was one year ago. And this is just one example of what we are up against, according to the Minister of Food Industry, Manuel Santiago Sobrino Martinez.

“The energy crisis has also affected the food industry’s productivity,” the minister explained this Tuesday during an appearance on the television program Mesa Rendonda.

“In addition, we have not escaped the impact of climate change. In the first months of the year, the drought decreased milk production by about 38 million liters. We are not saying the low milk production is only because of the drought. We know there are many things we need to improve. But, the drought has also affected aquaculture production due to the decrease in the level of an important group of reservoirs,” the minister explained.

However. This reality would be more bearable without the crushing presence of the blockade, which forces Cuba to acquire food at exorbitant prices in geographically distant markets. The economic losses are estimated in the millions. (source)

It is the dirtiest country of all time, the Un-United $nakes of Amnesia-Chaos-Predation-Murder-Terror-Israel/First.

I see the sanctions we envelope young and future generations with as the calling card of capitalism, and alas, that calling card is here, at home. You think YOU and I are not being hit with sanctions?

The fucking human stain running the show, the millions in their coffers, those east coast pieces of shit, the Ivy Poison League mother fuckers, the entire Holly-Dirt Shit Storm Worthless Beings, and the Fin-Tech, the Gulags of Digitalization, all the Big and Little Man Pharma Nazis, all of the JPB Morgan Chase/BlackRock/BlackFink/ BlackStone, name the piece of human stain, and they are part of the SANCTIONS.

Case in point: I’m trying to get a 30 amp line for a travel trailer for my poor mother in law. Poor, who just lost her old man, who was POOR. The entire shit show sucks, because I can and know how to run a line from the electrical box, to an outlet for the camper. But, oh, but, the County gets involved. Bonded electrician.

I talked to the older guy doing the estimation. Ruined his knees as a timber guy, and then went into the electrical program, worked for decades, and now, he goes out and does the estimates, his two artificial knees not allowing for bending and kneel, he does the site surveys.

This is the crime of a daily example. Criminals, the lot of them, with this fucked up planned pandemic, the fear porn, the lockdowns, the bullshit supply chain assaults. So, he has a job with his outfit, a commercial one, and it got delayed a year. A $42,000 bid for all the gear, a year ago, now, though, that same gear is hitting $58,000, and whereas three years ago, the stuff would be delivered in 90 days, now, 90 weeks! Inflation is what? Those dirty thieves of the Yellen kind say 4.8 percent. Fucking hell. Think 100 percent for some things, 33 percent for other things, and the DELAYS in supply!

This is how the billionaires, the Eichmann’s, the knife men and knife women in the death by 10,000 economic cuts special forces kill us all off.

LIES:

And this is from an industry lobby, not exactly left of left, socialist:

After 36 countries, including EU members, the U.S. and Canada, closed their airspace to Russian aircraft, Russia retaliated with the same restrictions. As a result, goods transported by air freight from China to Europe or the Eastern U.S. may need to be rerouted or use slower or more expensive modes of transportation. The China-Europe rail freight route that goes through Russia, which was experiencing a boom in 2021 because of congestion in major ports, now faces mounting cancellations from European clients.

The war has also had a devastating impact on global trade movements, with hundreds of tankers and bulk carriers stranded at ports as a result of sanctions imposed on Russian-connected ships. It has also resulted in severe travel and transport restrictions imposed on Russia and Belarus in an unprecedentedly rapid and broad manner that has been coordinated among multiple nations.

In addition, the disruption of the route from China to Europe and the U.S. could do severe damage to China’s “Belt and Roads” initiative. That’s the ambitious trillion-dollar project aimed at reshaping global trade and affirming the dominance of a China-centric global supply chain, especially in Europe and Asia. Because both Russia and Ukraine are critical links in the initiative, it will almost certainly need to scale back in size and scope. (Source)

This is the sanctions shit on us, the 80 percent — housing is fucking sick, apartments are fucking sick, the entire shit show of AmeriKKKa is shit — all those planners making the world fit for cars, versus busses and trollies, and now, what the fuck, 15-minute Gulag Smart Cities? They call us conspiracy nuts if we question!

How much do I pay for this Jewish Project, this Israel-Hell 3.0? US taxpayers spend $61,000 A MINUTE on propping up Ukraine PROXY WAR

Yet, we pay for this Smart Fucking Nazi 15-Minute City:

Ukraine’s dystopian digital snitching app premiers in DC/ Dystopia, Overlords, Full Spectrum Control, Fully Totally Aware, the Pigs of Zelensky, Mossad Drenched, and here we are, man, DYSTOPIA and the people bend over FORWARD for these human stains.

Supply chain my ass. These rich, super rich, sort of rich pukes, our fellow countrymen/woman, are the enemy, and they are wanting us to be their Soylent Green, so fair play: turn them into GLUE.

This should be enough for the pitchforks to be sharpened, not just some ProPUblica series that goes, gulp, NOWHERE!

Look, my world is not about Gaia now, but about getting rid of the Gaia killers, these fuckers who need more than pitchforks: If this doesn’t piss you off, then you are the same glue between the ears of Biden:

The Biotech Edge: How Executives and Well-Connected Investors Make Exquisitely Timed Trades in Health Care Stocks by Ellis Simani and Robert Faturechi

America’s largest arms companies are increasingly finding lucrative new ways of profiting from the prison industrial complex; in many cases, weapons of war are directly manufactured using coerced prison labor. A new MintPress News study of the 100 largest private Defense Department contractors found that 37% of them were also profiting from incarcerated Americans, either in prisons and jails, or in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) camps. This proportion rose to 16 of the top 25 largest arms manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman. The complete list of top corporations profiting from mass incarceration, displayed in order of value of Department of Defense contracts received, is as follows:

• Lockheed Martin
• Raytheon
• General Dynamics
• Northrop Grumman
• BAE Systems
• L3Harris Technologies
• General Electric
• Health Net Federal Services
• Atlantic Diving Supply
• Leidos Holdings, Inc.
• McKesson Corp.
• Booz Allen Hamilton Holding

• AmerisourceBergen Corp.
• Leonardo S.p.A.
• Textron Inc.
• AECOM
• CACI International
• Jacobs Engineering Group
• Honeywell International
• The Walsh Group Ltd.
• Hensel Phelps Construction Co
• Express Scripts Inc.
• FedEx
• Verizon

• Carahsoft Technology
• Cardinal Health Inc.
• International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
• Harris Global Communications Inc.
• AT&T
• Microsoft
• Serco Group
• Cisco Systems
• Gilbane Inc.
• CDW Corp.
• GlaxoSmithKline plc
• Centene
• Deloitte

The list (which can be viewed and downloaded here) was created by compiling data from government website USASpending.Gov. The list of the 100 largest private military contractors over the last completed fiscal year was then compared to a database of prison industry private-sector players curated by prison abolition group Worth Rises.

Ahh, and I got this piece of Orwellian bullshit from some trading company: “5 Differences Between Rich And Poor Mindset”. This is it for “those” fucking MBA, econ 101, pieces of marketing and math shits: Rich is good, a force for all good, a force for helping the community, a force that is not out there to turn a buck on every fucking thing, sure, the force be with you from cradle to grave, and we shall own everything and you shall be in debt for seven generations, or more!

1. The Rich Mindset Is Proactive, Not Reactive.

2. The Rich Mindset Is A Growth Mindset, Not A Fixed Mindset.

3. The Rich Mindset Looks For Opportunity, Not Safety.

4. The Rich Mindset Is Positive, Not Negative.

5. The Rich Mindset Loves Capitalism.

Rich vs Wealthy: What Are The Key Differences?

Capitalism, to a rich mindset, represents freedom, opportunities, and the potential for prosperity. They see it as a tool that can be used for wealth creation rather than a system to be feared or resented.

6. The Rich Mindset Wants To Employ People, Not Work For A Paycheck.

7. The Rich Mindset Is More Focused On Creating Products Than Consuming Them.

8. The Rich Mindset Seeks To Build Businesses, Not Work For Them.

9. The Rich Mindset Thinks About Net Worth, Not What They Can Borrow To Acquire Consumer Debt.

10. The Rich Mindset Thinks In Terms Of Cash-Flowing Assets, Not Debt Payments.

11. The Rich Mindset Wants To Overcome Circumstances, Not Be A Victim Of Them.

12. The Rich Mindset Loves To Build, While The Poor Mindset Loves To Consume.

13. The Rich Mindset Is Obsessed With Learning; The Poor Mindset Is Obsessed With Entertainment.

14. The Rich Mindset Accumulates Assets, While The Poor Mindset Accumulates Debt.

15. The Rich Mindset Has Goals, While The Poor Mindset Has Wishes.

Of course, each of the 15 is up is down illogic, but these are the Chlamydia Capitalists, the parasites, and they have all sorts of fun ways to say rich man, poor man, good man, bad man. Here, their fucked up graphic:

Rich man & dumb man: US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event in California.

Notice this company in the list above making money on imprisonment telling us how companies can get workers healthier so they can work LONGER for the man:

The report from researchers for Deloitte released on Tuesday found that all Americans could live to almost 90 years old with as much as 95 percent of their lives in good health while spending less than they currently do on health care. 

Improvements in health care could also extend the average amount of time that people live in good health by almost 20 years, according to the report. 

“Leaning on the impact that the health and productivity of the workforce can have on an organization’s success, employers are uniquely positioned to take the lead on influencing health improvements more broadly,” the report states. 

The researchers said the average lifespan in the U.S. dropped last year to its lowest level since 1996 while health care spending is outpacing the growth rate of gross domestic product. Deloitte also calculated that Americans are on average only living 65.9 years in good health, equal to 85 percent of the average life span. 

The report states that employers have the tools they need to start making changes now. 

It said employers should put their employees in a position to make better health choices, like maintaining a healthy diet, making more social connections, exercising, managing stress, cutting down on smoking. They can do this through wearable and digital tools and coaching. 

Story at a glance

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• A new report from Deloitte found employers could contribute to extending the public’s lifespan by more than a decade.

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• Researchers said employers already have some tools they need to help and should make investments in resources for people to live healthier lives.

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• Other stakeholders like the health care industry and individuals also need to play their parts to help the report’s vision be realized.

See these fuckers want us to live longer so THEY can exploit us and make more money off us. Fuck our grandchildren, and fuck mutual aid and fuck volunteerism and fuck working with nature, people, the entire suite that makes a community. This fucking shit, man, on the digital dashboard, pay for success and impact investing, and tracking, and if we fall below some Gestapo Level of Acceptable Lifesyle and Life Purusit and Life Thinking, them, shit, the storm troopers come and get us in the night while we munch on Cheetos and slam Bud Lites.

Note: A la CIA WikiPedia, “Touche Tohmatsu Limited (/dəˈlɔɪt ˈtuːʃ toʊˈmɑːtsuː/), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a British multinational professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of professionals in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms along with EY, KPMG and PwC.

The firm was founded by William Welch Deloitte in London in 1845 and expanded into the United States in 1890. It merged with Haskins & Sells to form Deloitte Haskins & Sells in 1972 and with Touche Ross in the US to form Deloitte & Touche in 1989. In 1993, the international firm was renamed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, later abbreviated to Deloitte. In 2002, Arthur Andersen’s practice in the UK as well as several of that firm’s practices in Europe and North and South America agreed to merge with Deloitte. Subsequent acquisitions have included Monitor Group, a large strategy consulting business, in January 2013. The international firm is a UK private company, limited by guarantee, supported by a network of independent legal entities.

Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and legal services with approximately 415,000 professionals globally. In FY 2021, the network earned revenues of US$50.2 billion in aggregate. The firm has sponsored a number of activities and events including the 2012 Summer Olympics.”

Human stain, the lot of them. Maybe too many bones and fingernails to make that much glue, so possibly all those bones and marrow, maybe help set cement, a new green cement for the world?

And this hair up my ass came from watching (cocaine for the fucking brain) two flicks — Ides of March, and the Program:

Of course, the shit show that is Thespian Lies, Lies, Lies, Fake Laughs, Fake Orgasms, Fake Governors, Fake Presidents, Hell, Why Not The Rock for President, as the Arnold the Nazi got that fucking Ray-gun California SMILE.

Thespians are lying sons of bitches. [Photo: Thespis of Icaria: The Ancient Greek That Invented Acting in the Western World. Credit: @PhilippeBohstrom / Twitter]

Yet, not everyone liked his performance. One such person was Solon, an Ancient Greek Athenian poet, lawmaker, and statesman. He is known in history as a reformer who attempted to save Athens from moral, political, and economic deterioration. His attempt at reform was, nevertheless, short-lived, though he is still considered the engineer of democracy in the archaic city.

Solon apparently wanted to know if Thespis “was not ashamed to tell so many lies before such a number of people,” as words would become the foremost critical review of theater.

Thespis supposedly replied that there was no harm by doing so in a play. At this point, Solon is said to have violently banged his walking stick while warning the tragedian that “if we honor and commend such play as this, we shall find it some day in our business.”

And we have fucking journalists (sic) acting in the Ides of March, and we have this story of Lance Armstrong “doping” to win seven Tour de France bike races, and we are left with the reality of the fucking acting which is the politician’s inner core — lying sons of bitches. George “Creepy” Clooney plays a governor running for president, and he has a handler or two, on the campaign. Pure fucking Greek tragendy as the guv knocks up a 20-year-old intern who gets an abortion with the help of the guv’s point man, but she commits suicide. Stars: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling.

It’s just another slice of the American mind, the lying and fucking around, the cheating, and the fucked up presidential run-up — major spinning, media manipulation, selling out, all of it, as Gosling plays the front man who has some dirt ont he governor as a way to get back into the campaign.

The idea is, who the fuck is the president, and how many fucking murders and rapes and rip-off schemes and adulturous shit have they done. Epstein ANYONE?

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

— D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

— W.E.B. DuBois

It’s liberty or death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. …. I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.

— Malcom X

Then, Lance, the athlete who gets into doping on the Tour, and it’s a doctor who uses a few tricks to get more red blood cells and more oxygen into the system so these fucks can climb climb climb the Alps.

Again, it’s all a show, all acting, and the race is managed by millionaires and corporations, and so this guy, Armstrong, decides to give it hell. Imagine the shit the body takes with one, five, a dozen or 30 concussions of boxing or footballing. All that’s legal, no, even though many of the athletes end up, well, let’s say, touched by an angel and devil.

Who gives a fuck that these skinny guys do this shit to their bodies: He ain’t no hero, but he ain’t no criminal. Stripped of his seven titles, and Nike, that pussy outfit, ripped down his image at the Oregon “campus” as soon as the news broke that Lance used some juice to help his body juice up the aAlps. The Sweat Shop Nike, that fucking company, right, that dirty slave shop company. Right, lecturing Lance.

According to multiple reports, Lance Armstrong will admit to doping during his cycling career in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, airing on Thursday night. 

Winfrey also confirmed as much recently, meaning it’s likely just a waiting game at this point. We wait to find out how Armstrong will confess, how he will defend his choices and what is going to come of it.

Immediate reaction upon the news being broken this week was a storm of hate, shock and disappointment across the internet. And I’m here to tell you that as deceptive, dishonest and disgusting as Armstrong might be in the public eye now, that it’s okay to still consider him a hero. (source)

It is ALL a circus, to DISTRACT, and to take away the SOUL, someway. I’m the fucker who has to polemicize this shit, and it comes off me like clean water off a duck’s back, but still, the Planned Pandemic, Supply Chains, the Dirty No It Is NOT a Proxy War But a War of USA against Russians, all of this lunacy, while the Summer hits, the shifting sun and earth, and we are just fucking tools and toddlers, not evolved beyond a lizard brain, and we war, want, waste, wreck, whack, winnow, wait. Waiting for Godot!

The dirty motherfuckers are sanctioning your futures, your children’s happiness, your family’s safety, your friends’ health, your co-workers’ solidatiry, your own sanity, and we somehow are captured by the Thespians, the Marketers, the Professional Liars, the Spin Doctors, the Behaviorists, Cops, Repo Men. You salivating yet?

Fucking A, man, Mengele and Goebbels and Bernays were amatuers.

Finally, my friend from Canada, fighting her abusive husband, soon to be ex, who is in county lock-up for attempted murder, working hard, two jobs, one at a local beer and food joint, another with a national Air B & B shit joint. The bar tending is supposed to give her 5 percent of sales, and the Air B & B gives $20,25 an hour in my town, and $24.00 an hour 13 miles away in Newport. Same county. Fucking creeps, fucking Portland based creeps, cheats. Now, I wonder, if she took cleaning supplies, toilet paper, hell, why not a sofa from one of the homes, I bet she’d be in lock-up in 24 hours. And the bar, the local joint, hmm, shorting her pay, and they thinks it’s no big deal, so, hmm, how about everynight she gets to cop a couple of bottles of Jack or Petron.

Right, these mother fuckers would call the pigs and get her charged with grand theft alcohol.

This is what the controllers want — cheats, shorting checks, fucking with pay, just like the mother fucking big boys. Every drip, this piece of stain, Starbucks Hummus Howard, he wants every quarter penny profit possible. Again, glue for Schultz, or just plain old fertilizer? Just asking, not demanding, just a thought rhetorical experiment!

sort of the armchair bizarre world of rah-rah, rallying for your chosen criminal

Yep, Williamson, West, Kennedy, Pence, DeSantis, and the Biden Crime Family! Shit, worthless useless/useful idiots:

Emanuel Pastreich summarizes 11 Chapters on taking down the billionaires.

He’s a real deal, born the same month JFK was assassinated by CIA:

Emanuel Pastreich: I see the struggle against the billionaire class as the equivalent of war.

That is why I invoke the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu whose writings I know since my field is Asian studies. I studied classical Chinese, so books like “The Art of War” are very familiar to me. “The Art of War” stresses understanding who your enemy is, what their nature is, what their desires are, and what they’re striving for. At the same time, it demands that you understand yourself, know your own weaknesses, your own misperceptions, your own indulgences.

The implication is that if you can grasp both, who your enemy is, who the person you’re struggling with is, and who you are, then you are on the road to success. But if you don’t get the second part, if you don’t understand who you are, or if you don’t understand who you’re dealing with, then the situation is quite dangerous.

The billionaires have spent, billions of dollars over a long period of time, on research from back in the 1960s on how to make people stupid, over time, using TV, movies, pornography and games. They conducted a lot of research on mass manipulation, as I mentioned regarding the work of DARPA on this subject. Basically, the effort has been quite successful.

It is true that many people look up to the billionaires. Elon Musk or Bill Gates are glorified because they promote themselves, spreading myths about their start as entrepreneurs creating their business in their basement, or in their garage. Supposedly, thanks to their genius and the American way they became billionaires. And so could you if you were only a bit smarter.

This narrative is a clear fraud. These billionaires rise to wealth was fixed. It wasn’t about technology; it was about access finance.

There was some brilliance in people like Mark Zuckerberg. The way in which he played various investors against each other to keep Facebook under his control was smart. But that was not his brilliance in technology or his vision for humanity-just his greed and cunning. Anyone could have built the Facebook if they had access to 50 billion dollars in loans that they did not have to pay back anytime soon. The key was the use of global finance and the leveraging of the use of supercomputers to manipulate people.

These days, money is calculated by supercomputers. Most of those supercomputers handling digital currency are not accessible to third parties. The parasite class can get billions, or trillions, of dollars by just cooking it up, using derivatives and other financial mythical beasts that live in super computers.

Supercomputers are also used to track us, anticipate our actions and manipulate, “nudge” us into making decisions that are not in our interests.

This part of the conspiracy is left out of most alternative media.

Using super computers, multinational corporations get access to extremely detailed descriptions of all of us that allow them to track us as individuals, as groups, or as communities all over the whole world: hundreds of millions of people in real time.

They use this information to anticipate what we will do. And they float all sorts of false news, concepts, ideas, and initiatives—the test runs you get in the Washington Post that is owned by Jeff Bezos—in order to test us, manipulate us, shock us, and to lull us into a state of passivity and mental disorientation that allows, assures, that no effective resistance will be organized. This mass manipulation via profiles of just about everyone and customized information fed to individuals and populations undermines the whole sense of governance.

The bottom line for us is not uncovering the latest fraud. It must be forming meaningful, organized, long-term, planned resistance that will take them down step by step by step.

Again, we need Parenti!

Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World by Michael Parenti (2007)

[Image by Judite B]

by Michael Parenti

There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. What do we make of this?

Over the last half century, U.S. industries and banks (and other western corporations) have invested heavily in those poorer regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America known as the “Third World.” The transnationals are attracted by the rich natural resources, the high return that comes from low-paid labor, and the nearly complete absence of taxes, environmental regulations, worker benefits, and occupational safety costs.

The U.S. government has subsidized this flight of capital by granting corporations tax concessions on their overseas investments, and even paying some of their relocation expenses—much to the outrage of labor unions here at home who see their jobs evaporating.

The transnationals push out local businesses in the Third World and preempt their markets. American agribusiness cartels, heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, dump surplus products in other countries at below cost and undersell local farmers. As Christopher Cook describes it in his Diet for a Dead Planet, they expropriate the best land in these countries for cash-crop exports, usually monoculture crops requiring large amounts of pesticides, leaving less and less acreage for the hundreds of varieties of organically grown foods that feed the local populations.

By displacing local populations from their lands and robbing them of their self-sufficiency, corporations create overcrowded labor markets of desperate people who are forced into shanty towns to toil for poverty wages (when they can get work), often in violation of the countries’ own minimum wage laws.

In Haiti, for instance, workers are paid 11 cents an hour by corporate giants such as Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny. The United States is one of the few countries that has refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor. This position stems from the child labor practices of U.S. corporations throughout the Third World and within the United States itself, where children as young as 12 suffer high rates of injuries and fatalities, and are often paid less than the minimum wage.

The savings that big business reaps from cheap labor abroad are not passed on in lower prices to their customers elsewhere. Corporations do not outsource to far-off regions so that U.S. consumers can save money. They outsource in order to increase their margin of profit. In 1990, shoes made by Indonesian children working twelve-hour days for 13 cents an hour, cost only $2.60 but still sold for $100 or more in the United States.

U.S. foreign aid usually works hand in hand with transnational investment. It subsidizes construction of the infrastructure needed by corporations in the Third World: ports, highways, and refineries.

The aid given to Third World governments comes with strings attached. It often must be spent on U.S. products, and the recipient nation is required to give investment preferences to U.S. companies, shifting consumption away from home produced commodities and foods in favor of imported ones, creating more dependency, hunger, and debt.

A good chunk of the aid money never sees the light of day, going directly into the personal coffers of sticky-fingered officials in the recipient countries.

Aid (of a sort) also comes from other sources. In 1944, the United Nations created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Voting power in both organizations is determined by a country’s financial contribution. As the largest “donor,” the United States has a dominant voice, followed by Germany, Japan, France, and Great Britain. The IMF operates in secrecy with a select group of bankers and finance ministry staffs drawn mostly from the rich nations.

The World Bank and IMF are supposed to assist nations in their development. What actually happens is another story. A poor country borrows from the World Bank to build up some aspect of its economy. Should it be unable to pay back the heavy interest because of declining export sales or some other reason, it must borrow again, this time from the IMF.

But the IMF imposes a “structural adjustment program” (SAP), requiring debtor countries to grant tax breaks to the transnational corporations, reduce wages, and make no attempt to protect local enterprises from foreign imports and foreign takeovers. The debtor nations are pressured to privatize their economies, selling at scandalously low prices their state-owned mines, railroads, and utilities to private corporations.

They are forced to open their forests to clear-cutting and their lands to strip mining, without regard to the ecological damage done. The debtor nations also must cut back on subsidies for health, education, transportation and food, spending less on their people in order to have more money to meet debt payments. Required to grow cash crops for export earnings, they become even less able to feed their own populations.

So it is that throughout the Third World, real wages have declined, and national debts have soared to the point where debt payments absorb almost all of the poorer countries’ export earnings—which creates further impoverishment as it leaves the debtor country even less able to provide the things its population needs.

Here then we have explained a “mystery.” It is, of course, no mystery at all if you don’t adhere to trickle-down mystification. Why has poverty deepened while foreign aid and loans and investments have grown? Answer: Loans, investments, and most forms of aid are designed not to fight poverty but to augment the wealth of transnational investors at the expense of local populations.

There is no trickle down, only a siphoning up from the toiling many to the moneyed few.

In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments “do not work”; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect?

No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?

The purpose behind their investments, loans, and aid programs is not to uplift the masses in other countries. That is certainly not the business they are in. The purpose is to serve the interests of global capital accumulation, to take over the lands and local economies of Third World peoples, monopolize their markets, depress their wages, indenture their labor with enormous debts, privatize their public service sector, and prevent these nations from emerging as trade competitors by not allowing them a normal development.

In these respects, investments, foreign loans, and structural adjustments work very well indeed.

The real mystery is: why do some people find such an analysis to be so improbable, a “conspiratorial” imagining? Why are they skeptical that U.S. rulers knowingly and deliberately pursue such ruthless policies (suppress wages, rollback environmental protections, eliminate the public sector, cut human services) in the Third World? These rulers are pursuing much the same policies right here in our own country!

Isn’t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world—and want to own it all—are “incompetent” or “misguided” or “failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies”? You are not being very smart when you think your enemies are not as smart as you. They know where their interests lie, and so should we.

Michael Parenti’s most recent books are The Culture Struggle (2006), Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (2007), God and His Demons (2010), Democracy for the Few (9th ed. 2011), and The Face of Imperialism (2011). For further information about his work, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.

Pastreich gets it, and there is no way in hell he’ll get a dime’s of poublicity from the Occupied Media, from the Muscle Men and Women Controlling the Narrative. This is a grand conspiracy, a grand beck door program, an amazing project that has infected all aspects of the “system” — education, media, publishing, entertainment, retail, consumerism, all of it, infecting the mind:

Emanuel Pastreich: “We face a systematic effort, based upon research conducted back in the fifties, manipulate people by inducing narcissistic, self-centered behavior.

If you notice that youth are more self-centered today than was the case before, that is because they have been brainwashed by the corporate culture around them—it is not a natural change.

That is how we’re controlled. Milton Mayer’s book “They Thought they were Free” describes how under the Third Reich in Germany citizens were convinced that they were entirely free through advanced psychological manipulation in media and entertainment, in music and art. The advances in technology make the assault even more dangerous today. We are not free at all. We are deeply manipulated people.”

Of course, vital reading gone gone gone. There is no education, really.

“IF VOTING MADE ANY DIFFERENCE, THEY WOULDN’T LET US DO IT.”

Charles Umney, in his Class Matters (2018), calls it “an old anarchist slogan, frequently found as lamp-post graffiti in university cities.” Umney’s claim is corroborated by several sources. Journalists Harry Goldman, Matt Ridley, and Patrick Traub all reported seeing the slogan tagged on bridges, buildings, and other graffiti sites in Boston, Indianapolis, New York, and Washington D.C. from 1988 and 1992.

The slogan seems likely to have originated in 1960s activism. Two stories in the Reno Gazette-Journal, separated by a decade, report that it was a “typical motto” of the broadcaster and gonzo journalist, Travus T. Hipp. The revised edition of And I Quote (2003) attributes it to Bob Avakian. And in a 2008 interview with The Nation, Father Daniel Berrigan gives the sources as his brother, Father Phillip Berrigan.

And, so, this country now is empty of soul, empty of brain, empty of spirit, empty of mutual aid, and is based on transactional bullshit.

Here, five hours = Digital Empire and the War on Humanity and Natural Life

All these bright people seeing through the gauze of gullible Capitalists, stricken with Consumer and Retail and Stockhold Syndrome Chlamydia.

If you think THIS doesn’t involve you, this Digital Fascism, well well:

Celo’s Alliance for Prosperity, includes over a hundred different organizations ranging from payment providers, lenders, international aid, data mining, venture capital and other large associations, including Blockchain Alliance for Social Impact, Mercy Corp, OxFam Mexico, HopeforHaiti, a16z, Coinbase Ventures, and Deutsche Telekom.

Digital microwork, often AI-focused, falls under the trend of “Global Business Process Outsourcing” (BPO), a practice that entails corporations splitting up and outsouring work needed to train AI/ML as microtasks that people complete on smartphones. A service provider turns the tasks into microtasks and provides the platform people use to do the work. Right now, the majority of the work involves data annotation, which basically means categorizing data for use in AI/ML algorithms. 

Digital microtasks follow the same exact pattern as remote work robotics, where someone across the world remotely controls robots to complete basic tasks. The ability to draw from people pushed into poverty keeps costs down.  (Silicon Icarus)

Here, Australian (sic) Caitlin Johnstone:

Here are 15 such questions:

1. Why does nothing change no matter who we vote for? 

2. Why does US foreign policy always continue along the same trajectory regardless of the president’s party or platform? 

3. What keeps our voting population split right down the middle into two political factions of equal size, with neither side ever gaining enough of a majority to democratically change society in any meaningful way? 

4. Why does the stalemate described in #3 always seem to benefit the rich, the powerful, and the war-horny? 

5. Why is it that the most consequential US government policies like plutocratic influence, privatization, globalization, ecocidal capitalism and nuclear brinkmanship are never on the ballot? Why do these things keep happening, against our interests, without our ever voting for them or electing anyone who campaigned on the pledge to enact them? 

6. If our federal government’s behavior never changes no matter who we elect, could it be that there are other bodies involved in government policy-setting whom we did not elect, and who remain in positions of influence regardless of the comings and goings of our official elected government? 

7. If the above is the case, then who is it? Who’s really calling the shots in this country? 

8. Could it be that everything we’ve been told about our country, our government, our political processes and our world is untrue? 

9. If so, what are the implications of the fact that our schools and our media have been feeding us lies since we were small? 

10. What forces would be responsible for keeping all these lies flowing throughout our society? What might keep an ostensibly free press spinning more or less the same lies throughout the western world day after day, year after year, generation after generation? 

11. Is it possible that our entire electoral system is a sham designed to give the public the illusion of control so that they’ll let oligarchs and empire managers run the country undisturbed? 

12. If the electoral system is a sham, then how do we enact the changes we so desperately need? 

13. Is it possible that there are other ways to effect change in the United States which don’t involve casting a pretend vote in a fake election? 

14. Could it be that those other means of forcing change are precisely what the charade of casting pretend votes in fake elections is meant to divert us from? 

15. Should we perhaps spend less energy bickering about who should get sworn into the White House a year and a half from now, and more energy examining other possible avenues toward advancing meaningful change?

Yet, oh yet, this is it for this Continuing Criminal Enterprise. Mugshots of just a handful of the millions of criminals!

From the redneck New York Post, not my commie newspaper, but here:

To express disappointment in the results of the Hunter Biden probe is to admit you ever believed it was an actual and honest investigation. 

Shame on you, sucker.

Santa Claus is more real than the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department under Joe Biden. Friend and family discounts have never been so obvious — and odious.

For the other side of the coin, see the FBI’s tracking of parents who dared to criticize progressive school boards, and agents who were willing to carry out an armed visit to the home of an anti-abortion protester. Traditional Catholics also were singled out for undercover surveillance.

So, that Bumbling Biden, the liar, the plagiarist, the accused rapist, the criminal of UkrainLandia, he just can shut his Ugly American Trap:

“Biden’s big mouth is a loose cannon,” said Wu Xinbo, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, adding that the remarks may not undo what Blinken had achieved on his China visit.

Other analysts also played down the likely damage to the U.S.-China relationship.

“I bet Washington wants to let this quietly go away,” said Yun Sun, head of the China program at the Stimson Center.

“And the Chinese will not want to blow this out of proportion, ruining the prospect of a process leading to Xi’s bilateral summit with Biden in November.”

Biden has often defined the current state of global politics as a battle between democracy and autocracy, and said democratically-led countries should establish economic ties to balance autocratic-led countries, aiming at Russia and China.

Here, a hero in the world:

Attending a fundraiser in California, Biden said Xi was very embarrassed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was blown off course over U.S. airspace early this year, and suggested Xi’s embarrassment was compounded by his grip on power. Blinken had said on Monday the chapter should be closed.

“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said.

“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn’t know what happened. That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course,” Biden said.

Biden, the rapist?

This is the face of America, really:

Dmitry Peskov told reporters there was a contradiction between Biden’s comment and the efforts of his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to lower tensions with Beijing at a meeting with Xi earlier this week.

“These are very contradictory manifestations of U.S. foreign policy, which speak of a large element of unpredictability,” Peskov told reporters.

He said Biden’s comment was an “incomprehensible” follow-up to what he described as “various conciliatory statements” during Blinken’s visit.

“However, that’s their business,” Peskov said. “We have our own bad relations with the United States of America and our very good relations with the People’s Republic of China.”

Ahh, just watch this Zoom Webinar soon, as it just ended, 11:42 PST, 6/21. It will be up. On YouCIAtube.

United National Antiwar Coalition

… who somehow don’t realize that they/we are useless eaters-breathers-crappers-thinkers-workers to these Titans of Terror . . .

AI and the destruction of thought: How GPT AI impoverishes discourse and culture. We can go on and on about that, about the systems set in place before Event 201 and Dark Winter, before the Nazi Klaus and WEF and his Jewish and Non-Jewish Nazis have put into place a complete panopticon.

Planned Pandemic Responses — Think about how much is changing since Dec. 2019 —

So yesterday’s blog post discussed briefly how pissed off I am that Cornel is so so “Putin is a Gangster” freak out minister. And, of course, he was harping that in 2008, Tweeting (see below) his love of Reagan, the Communism Fighter. Ray-Gun, man, brother Ronnie as West might blather (no more brothers and sisters should be on the top ten things to STOP using as a POTUS candidate) A kind reader of yesterday’s polemic is reminding the world and Cornel West, that Reagan is the thug Here, just a little wrap up of that criminal. You Might as Well Know Who the Enemy is & Who’s Extracting Every Last Drop of Humanity from You

Third World Traveler.

“[Ronald] Reagan … was most definitely a global empire builder, a servant of the corporatocracy. At the time of his election, I found it fitting that he was a Hollywood actor, a man who had followed orders passed down from moguls, who knew how to take direction. That would be his signature. He would cater to the men who shuttled back and forth from corporate CEO offices to bank boards and into the halls of government. He would serve the men who appeared to serve him but who in fact ran the government – men like Vice President George H. W. Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Richard Cheney, Richard Helms, and Robert McNamara. He would advocate what those men wanted: an America that controlled the world and all its resources, a world that answered to the commands of that America, a U.S. military that would enforce the rules as they were written by America, and an international trade and banking system that supported America as CEO of the global empire.”

— John Perkins

Are Social Justice Politics Serious, or Not? [will there ever be a time where we’re allowed to treat a large, immensely influential school of politics as a legitimate target of interest and criticism?]

These Fascists in Scotland, so-called anarchist Yiddish fools, need to go the way of the Dodo.

Members of the co-operatively-run Pink Peacock in Glasgow – which describes itself as a “queer, Yiddish, anarchist café” – filmed themselves burning Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

In the video, a worker at the café is shown putting the book on a disposable barbeque then setting it alight.

The staff member is heard saying “God also hates Terfs” as the book catches alight. A Terf refers to a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

Rowling has found herself at the centre of a vicious culture war because of her gender-critical feminist beliefs, leading to accusations she is transphobic, something she has repeatedly and strongly denied.

https://www.thenational.scot/…/23516111.pink…/…

Oh those Trumps and Clintons and Bushes and Obamas and Bidens.

True Crime and the Biden Crime Family: Hunter Plea Deal Reveals Deeper Culpability CINDY SHEEHAN

Obama Proposes “Digital Fingerprints” On Content To Combat “Misinformation”

Former President Barack Obama has floated the idea of implementing “digital fingerprints” to help the public differentiate between genuine and deceptive content online. It’s the same idea that tech giants such as Microsoft and Adobe are lobbying for. In fact, Microsoft’s President believes it should be illegal to remove such digital fingerprints.

Apparently, Covid discussions are still a thing worth cracking down on. That’s at least according to The Biden administration, which is injecting $500,000 into Texas Woman’s University as part of a grant program aimed at curbing COVID-19 “misinformation” and “disinformation” allegedly aimed at Hispanics, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The grant aims “to expand research on mitigating the effect of misinformation and disinformation” regarding “COVID-19 prevention and treatment initiatives among Hispanics.”

Philanthropy allows the rich to influence Europe’s policy .

Jun 9, 2023 — Extremely wealthy European and American families power the lobbying activities of civil society organisations (NGOs) in Brussels.

One in five children in Pakistan is suffering from wasting, says UNOCHA report

10.5 million people in 43 vulnerable districts of the country are facing acute food insecurity. Within this population, around 2.1 million individuals are in the emergency phase, while 8.4 million are in the crisis phase. And so, nuclear weapons, arms to Ukraine, amazing how fucked up these people are with Capitalism as their Virus.

June 19, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch

Dirty dirty Klanada.

The campaign to ‘blame China’ for the debt crisis reflects Washington’s broader demonization of China as well as worry about declining IMF/Paris Club influence. While the weakening of IMF/Paris Club power is welcome, there are legitimate concerns about the impact of a growing international debt crisis.

A recent Tricontinental article on Zambian debt highlighted the dearth of discussion about the country’s difficulty in generating the funds to pay its debt. Part of the reason is that the IMF, Ottawa and Canadian mining companies took advantage of a previous debt crisis in the copper-rich nation to strip Zambia of its lucrative assets.

Forget about a normal discussion with anyone in Klanada, U$A, EU, UK, Isra-Hell about what the fuck was happening in Donbass since 2014, before. [Photo: Shoe and toys of a girl at the cite where she lost her life due to artillery shelling by Ukraine into neighborhoods, onto schools, theaters, shopping districts, churches, etc.]

“Normal” Life Under Artillery Shells: “We Will Never Abandon Our Land”/ Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 20, 2023 / United World International

“We will never abandon our land”

If I had to summarize Donetsk in one word, I would choose the word “resilience”. Despite nine years of war and the constant risk of being hit by artillery shells or missiles, the people of Donetsk refuse to leave the city. When I asked them, “Why don’t you go to Russia? It’s safer there”, they responded, “We were born and raised here. We will never abandon our land. We will die if necessary.” If I had heard such a thing before coming to Donetsk, I would have probably dismissed it as mere propaganda.

Walking in Donetsk, you can hear the sounds of artillery fire. Especially around the train station, which is just a few kilometers away from the front, you feel like in the midst of the war.

And West calls Biden and Trump, My Brothers Joe and Donald. He is out to lunch, and again, the POTUS run-up is the prostitution system on steroids, with them all crawling on hands and knees, dialing for dollars, pleasing the mass murdering media, and juggling “values” and “ethics” until you end up with this shit, that that was 2008?

Do we hold one person to some perfection standard? Come on, West might bring some energy to the Poor People’s Campaign running as POTUS, but he is now on the Green Team, and Howie Hawkins (that Green, again, Brother Howie to West) has been on the Russia-Gate and Hate Everything Putin and Almost Everything Russian since day one.

Brother him, brother them, brother LGBTQA++. What a president he will make, chidding every country in the world that doesn’t put up the Rainbow banner. Coming from USA, from the world’s terrorist organization? Come on, and then attacking communism because West seems to think he is a Blues Man for Jesus White Boy Christ?

He’s a PROFESSOR, man, and no matter how many prison workshops he’s run, still, a PROFESSOR.

Oh no, not the Hasbara Folk running media, none of the Jewish Firsters in DC, under Nuland’s watch, oh, what an evil web they weave, those ZioAzovNazziiLandians:

A whistleblower from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which has itself a shady reputation mainly for its biased reporting, always in favor of the western wannabe empire and its vassals, has revealed the discovery of Ukrainian Nazi Groups harvesting children’s organs in underground laboratories. These labs were exposed after the buildings were destroyed in the war.

The 11-minute video of The People’s Voice is so brutal and cruel it is difficult to watch and listen to. Find it. Banned on FU Book, et al.

Video: Ukraine Is Harvesting Children’s Organs in Adrenochrome Labs

Oh man, those brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Poor poor Ukraine.

Here, a shift: Mike Fish, yesterday, comments:

Mike Fish/ 13 hr ago

Where the fuck to start, amigo? How about with….why? Why is that 75 year old woman manning a convenience store, in the first place? Intellectual enrichment?

Spiritual and emotional development? Or, trying to keep a roof over her head, and maybe afford some of those nice things she sees on the tv? I have no reason to doubt that circle k would also terminate her employment, if she failed to intervene to prevent shoplifting.

And, then there’s the legal/liar/loser stain, that tries to make a buck off this act of theft. I don’t imagine that there will be a massive boycott of circle k, the way there was with bud light.

Priorities baby. Welcome to the shining city on the hill. A thousand points of something.

Cornel gushing over Raygun? Just like Obama!!! Cornel needs to drop out of the race. He’s clearly got a mushy brain like Biden. Putin/Russia hate must be highly contagious. If Putin is a gangster, what is Ronny boy? The world’s gone nuts.

I guess it’s a good thing that I lost all my tools. If I’d go to jail for working on my own car, or the neighbor’s for that matter, I’d get really, really, pissed off. They’ll have the dogs sniff your vehicle for signs of wrenches, or screwdrivers. This police state is after complete domination of every aspect of life.

It seems like so very few see it, or are even willing to entertain the idea. So, the machine is winning. I don’t always see it.

I confess that I had the first two gewjabs. I was under extreme duress at the time. And, I was mentally conditioned towards believing that the injections would save me from imminent death. Kinds that previous generations of family had succumbed to. So, some of my mental conditioning was self inflicted.

It’s also about something Caitlin wrote. Some of us, me included, just can’t begin to fathom how a person’s mind could operate in such a depraved fashion. Unfathomable is the word. And, probably, mostly, because, we are not educated with truth as Americans, from childhood to the grave.

Quite the contrary. A lifetime of lies. And, all of the time required trying to ascertain what’s real. Who’s got time for that, and time to stop shoplifting? But, what’s the point?

I was reading some comments earlier that praised Clarence Thomas as one of the greats in the Supreme Court. Present, and historically. The same place where I read that Sy Hersh is a lifelong fraud. How does one even reach such a confused, and I worry, unbalanced and potentially dangerous sort?

And, West is going to reach out to brother Trump’s flock, and what, preach the good news, that they have a friend in brother west? I don’t want to be friends these assholes. If you think that the bad orange guy is a great man, stay away from me, Please!

I hear enough stupid shit in a day the way it is, without seeking out some more. What is it with these black guys, and this Raygun crush anyway??? So yeah, as usual, still no reason to waste your time, and gas, and put miles on your old Chrysler, to go visit a polling place.

I did like the rent’s too damn high, guy. And, maybe gewjabs hurt people I really care about. Maybe even end up hurting me. We’ll have to wait and see.

And, I imagine it won’t be long before everything that I read, or watch on a screen, will be prescreened, for allowed content. Good thing I lost all my books. Those will be as criminal as wrenches, and screwdrivers, before you know it.

I remember your friends Robert, and Toothless, encouraging you to employ more dark humor. I not really laughing much lately there buddy. I don’t think that’s a good thing. For me anyway.

Where’s Bill Hicks, when we need him? You know it’s funny how this works.

They can prevent you from repairing your car, but they can’t prevent people from spraying your friend with agent orange, in Oregon. I’m not any good at this damn dark humor stuff, am I? You give it a try, will ya?

I’ll try again. These gews trying to kill us has been going on way before the gewjabs. I remember when I was a kid, they’d get me to take the big pharma crap by telling me that it would go down with spoonful of god damn sugar. That takes fucking cutzpah.

Smile Haeder.

Brother West, Brother Fish, he’s heading to Crimea for some votes and cash? Is he going to say, God Save My Sister the Queen? Intent to Strike Crimea with British Storm Shadows and US HIMARS, Russian Precision Strikes, Kiev Regime Offensive Falters, and more

The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda

How many brothers and sisters and theys and thems and he-she’s and s/he’s and ze’s and zer’s are out there for Brother West to shake hands with? He has many censors and flipping fascists in pink and orange and green and blue and purple hair to meet, but in the end, it is ban ban, burn burn, like those Yiddish Fascists in Glasgow referenced above:

Shit, so those “Useful Idiots,” Katie Halper and Aaron Mate, are messing with this shit? Of course, I am not a paid subscriber, thusly, no pay, no play, no comments allowed. Sounds just like . . . . I’ll let you fill in what it is just like!