Ahh, the failings of capitalism, the failings of the bread and circus, the days of Roman collesium crap.

The stories just keep returning, and it is more than some bizarre Matrix groundhog day. In the news, today:

An autopsy of former NFL player Phillip Adams has revealed Adams had “unusually severe” brain disease in his frontal lobe at the time he fatally shot six people and took his own life in April. Adams had stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which has been linked to head trauma and concussions — often inflicted while playing football. The range of symptoms include violent mood swings and memory loss. Researchers also found that Adams’s pathology was similar to that of Aaron Hernandez, a former NFL player who died by suicide in 2017 while in prison on murder chargers. Phillips had repeatedly sought help from the NFL.

Here, my hat in the proverbial ring, when LA Progressive used to publish me regularly, but no more, since I have been continuing the research on Pfizer/CDC/Moderna/DARPA/Virus Paranoia/PCR/SARS-CoV2/lockdowns/passports/mandates/more.

Haiti and the NFL — Toussaint Tyler and Battling TBI

Slave Rebellion of 1793: Legacy to be Revived from the Graveyard of True Revolutionary Zeal

In exile at St. Helena, when asked about his dishonorable treatment of Toussaint, Napoleon merely remarked, “What could the death of one wretched Negro mean to me?”

The Black Napoleon, or that’s what former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture was called. Get this, historians – the leader of the only successful slave revolt in modern history in effect defeated the genocidal white trash that is part of France’s legacy.  Haiti – that French colony, and he was the son of Gaou Guinon, an African prince captured by slavers. Sent to that white French genocidal colony of Saint Dominique.

Toussaint, born May 20, 1743, under the Code Noir, that black code that legalized all the harsh punishment (treatment) of slaves. Property. L’Ouverture was allowed unlimited access to a library of the manager of the Breda plantation. His godfather was a priest, Simon Baptiste, a kind fellow who taught the young Toussaint to read and write.

I’ll come back to L’Ouverture in a minute, first moving to a new friend, Toussaint Tyler, named after L’Ouverture. Mr. Tyler and I met recently, coming into the office at my day job as social worker for homeless folk, stuck in a system of addiction, criminal charges, mental health challenges. Portland, Oregon, and Mr. Tyler and I are quickly brothers in arms, looking at our six decades on Planet Earth as one of struggle, triumph, exasperation, recrimination, rejoicing, repulsion, anger, happiness, and revolt. I am more settled into my anti-Capitalist fervor than is this man of god, myself having declared anarchism and socialism and communism as the only way out of this warring white Capitalism that has decimated tribes and cultures and entire races of people. Early in my scattered life.

My friendships with men like Toussaint Tyler, Sr., are based on deeply held respect for the individual coursing through capitalism’s hall of horrors.

Mr. Tyler, homeless, in a shelter, introduces me to his older brother who had just gotten out of prison, 25 years straight time. His brother is the gifted and focused one in the family. Mr. TNT Tyler says his brother, who was just released from McNeil Island Corrections Center in Pierce County, Washington, is the smartest and ablest fellow around, who entered into a life of crime ripping off rich folk and faced the music here in Oregon with some hard-hard time in prison in Washington. Where his brother learned the law, learned his own new mission in life, and who is now more than just an inspiration for Toussaint.

Toussaint Tyler, once the leading rusher as fullback for the University of Washington Huskies. He was born in Barstow, California. His nickname was TNT Tyler, called one of the greatest fullbacks in Husky history. Punishing running style and bone-crushing blocking. We are talking about a 58-year-old man who has seen the gridiron since age nine, a man today who is forgetful and now homeless, who has been couch surfing for years, who once had glory and wives, and who is now awaiting a brain scan, ordered by the National Football League.

TNT and I talk about the Will Smith movie, “Concussion,” a flick Tyler saw when it came out two years ago. “Man, I just started crying when I saw my life in many ways depicted on the screen.” This is the rotten NFL, the elite owners, the chosen few paper jockeys and lawyers and MBAs, who watch mostly people of color slam bodies and craniums into each other for a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry akin to Roman times gladiator exploitation.

Enslavement. Boys hitting each other in Barstow or Compton or Baltimore or Toledo.

He was riding a wave of limelight as a former player in the NFL, including the Saints and Minnesota Vikings . . . decades of Traumatic Brain Injury depression and outbursts of angry physicality.

The NFL, a non-profit shit-storm of Predatory Capitalists using the dumb-downing of America to fill stadiums, land TV/Cable contracts and sell the junk of faux celebrity. Tyler had his own trading card with the New Orleans Saints. Tyler traveled the country and the world as a football hero. Over six feet two inches, 240 pounds, a hard-hitting man who has admitted to more than a dozen concussions.

He’s been in and out of recovery – pain pills, cocaine, opioids, and booze. He was riding a wave of limelight as a former player in the NFL, including the Saints and Minnesota Vikings . . . decades of Traumatic Brain Injury depression and outbursts of angry, physicality.

I run my life around narratives, around the people who have intersected with me as dive master, photographer, journalist, teacher, social worker, traveler, and activist.

His story now, after my sixty years on planet earth, hits me hard – heavy on a personal level, both positive and negative. Exploitation of the black man by the elite, by the worthless white men in suits and ties, those golf-loving whites, the money men, the tribe of shekel collectors, the very tribe of men who that mythical Jesus Christ went to town on upsetting the money changers’ money tables.

Harvard, Yale, law schools of the elite, MBAs from large Division One schools, running poor whites and blacks and Latinos into the ground, to the grave, through the psych wards, under the belly of the beast of drug addiction, homelessness, and the halls of criminal injustice.

Tyler tells me about his father, an amazingly talented man, self-taught, who was a lightweight boxer, who had seven kids. Mother who worked for the government. Their United States of Israel roots not from California but from Arkansas and Baton Rouge. Tyler traces his African roots to Sierra Leone.

“I never understood why I was crying all the time, and depressed.” He has had a knee replacement. Tyler shows me both wrists – big surgical scars from massive fractures from defenders slamming helmets and face-guards into his body. “I am beat-up, for sure. I forget things. The NFL knew in 1954 that head trauma from pounding gridiron players hitting each other caused permanent brain damage – shrinking, permanent atrophying of parts of the brain, a sloshing of parts of the brain.”

This is the American way – full-throttle exploitation, on the field, in the workplace, in neighborhoods. The elite, polluting cities, our air, the water, our children’s minds, the dreams of adults, and the hopes of the aged.

We are one giant Trumplandia Casino Capitalism Continuing Criminal Enterprise. Signing our death warrants. Tyler, lasting four years in the NFL, and ending up as a juvenile detention officer for King County (Seattle), working with 12 to 17 year olds locked up in a county lock-down facility.

He was in his addiction then, as a county official, and he worked hard on gang-prevention and working with troubled youth in King County, Washington.

Tyler today continues to talk about living a lie most of his life – chasing women and fame, drugs and money. “I didn’t need football to make it in life,” he says. He is so sure that youth should not be playing football until their brains are fully developed. Tyler tells me that he was at Roosevelt High School in Portland recently, and saw a little kid, an eight-year-old, laying on the ground, crying about his head hurting after taking a hit on the football field.

“I’m glad my sons didn’t play football. If I could do life all over again, I would have never played football, gone into basketball.”

One son, Toussaint Tyler Jr., played college basketball for Central Washington University. A story was written up about the sixth man for the men’s basketball team, Mr. Tyler’s son. Tattoos all over his body – rib-cage, wrist, knee, shoulder. Each inscription plays a significant reminder to TNT’s son about where he comes from, where he is going and where he doesn’t want to go:

• Me Against the World
• Respect Few, Feat None
• Family Forever
• Brotherhood
• Only God Can Judge Me
• Tha Truth
• All Eyez on Me

Toussaint Tyler Sr. is talking about the class action lawsuit against the NFL, a party of over 22,000 claiming NFL negligence, asking for money to cover years of drug abuse, psychiatric breaks, incarceration, broken marriages, failed relationships, split-up families, and internal anger-confusion-dementia.

These white so-called leaders, elites going to their elite children’s Christenings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, going to their dear children’s graduations from elite universities, law schools and business colleges, they are demons, felonious, as criminal as criminality can come, laughing all the way to the bank, living it up in their five homes each, jet-setting the globe with the blood and brains of the real workers, the real heroes, wiped all over their zero escape clause contracts. All those One percenters and their Little Eichmann agents and riffraff controlling the lives of the sacrificial lambs.

Sure, we can Google (another massively screwed up project of control run by another set of war-loving elites) Toussaint Tyler and see he was the only one in pro-Football to knock out Lawrence Taylor. Sure, Toussaint is gunning for getting onto various boards – Urban League, YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, etc. – and wanting to help turn lives around. Sure, Toussaint wants the homeless in Portland – some really raw characters that make Charles Dickens’ novels seem like Mister Rogers Neighborhoods – to be helped. Toussaint Tyler asks me to stay with the non-profit I was working at. Wants me to meet bigwigs and help sell programs to the elite in Portland (Intel, Nike, adidas, et al).

I want to throw in with Toussaint Tyler, Sr. – I want to hit up these metrosexuals, these gentrifying elites, these bourgeoisie, these Bill Gates and Paul Allens and Phil Knights types to get down to real business, to getting their bullshit philanthropic ideals into real gear. We need to help the homeless and the drug addicted get on their feet with REAL programs, with solid recovery, where they can get SPECIAL treatment, in a time of Neoliberalism and Trumplandia. We are running non-profits with genuflecting and begging, hoping for social workers to get to work with shitty pay and tons of on-the-job trauma. My non-profit gets grants, and we are hobbled by the constraints of the millionaire class, and the state and county and city agencies.

Being homeless usually means trauma in each and everyone’s lives – beaten down in families, drugs, sexually abused, the physically kicked down, psychic knockdowns, punished into the criminal justice system, hobbled by the debt levelers, controlled by the broken education system, held down by the business community, the exploitation class, and held back by bureaucracies of evil.

College bowls for Toussaint – Rose Bowl and Sun Bowl champion; in another Rose Bowl, Hula Bowl, Japan Bowl, San Diego Hall of Fame. Second-team Pac 10 running back for two years. Honored as a Huskie Legend, NFL Alumni.

“None of it matters. I am in a new life, starting new.” He ended up dead on arrival, in Pullman, Washington, three years ago, 60 pills swallowed in a suicide cocktail. He had done a lot of crack to make those head blows and shitty life decisions and all those mammas to his six kids sort of go away, or at least level out the pain of all those valleys and rock bottoms which are the geography of his spiritual and psychological life.

Ahh, Haiti, and the despicable French, then, now, forever – defeated by a slave, who read voraciously, especially Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one member of early moderate revolutionaries who considered seriously the question of slavery. As is the case of most French thinkers, these moderate revolutionaries were not willing to end slavery.

Applying the “Rights of Man” to all Frenchmen, including free blacks and mulattoes (those of mixed race), the so-called revolutionaries gave into the plantation owners in the colonies who were furious and fought the measure. In 1791 the measure was retracted.

This betrayal triggered slave revolts in Saint Dominique (soon called Haiti), and Toussaint quickly became leader of the slave rebellion. L’Ouverture (the one who finds an opening) was added to his name, as he led a rag-tag army. For anyone listening to the unheralded voices of the people’s history, he or she can take his hat off and honor Toussaint who successfully fought the French, whose numbers were also decimated by a yellow fever outbreak.

He fought seven battles in seven days and defeated the French. As is the true DNA of the white race, the French wanted business as usual, desiring Haiti to go back to slavery and colonial rule. In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte wanted Haiti out of his hair, agreed to its independence and Toussaint agreed to retire from public office. Eventually Napoleon, as is so true of many of the French’s DNA code, invited Toussaint to a meeting under the promise of his protection. The French Army arrested Toussaint, put him on a ship headed for France, and Napoleon ordered D’Ouverture to suffer in a mountain dungeon where he was starved to death with all number of depravations put upon the Haitian hero.

Getting Haiti off his back, Napoleon gave up Haiti to independence and sold the French territory in North America (the Louisiana Purchase) to the United States.

Toussaint Tyler, Sr., named after the great Haitian hero, sits with me in my office, and we go over his plans to get his driver’s license back, plans to get him a job at $11 an hour, and plans to come back to life as a community organizer. He’s forgetful, having left his satchel on the Portland light rail (MAX) with his photo IDs and social security card inside.

He tears up when telling me about his granddaughter, Serayah McNeill, who plays Tiana on the hip-hop TV series, “The Empire.” Daughter of his eldest son, Serayah is a talented musician, athlete, and can do anything, Toussaint tells me. Her very presence on TV, her thriving life, her existence is a testament to her succeeding and a reminder to her grandfather that he once was in her life as a child and now he’s been MIA for years. “She reminds me of how I screwed up so many people’s lives.”

This is the story in America, one I touch daily, with men mostly, and the years taken away by drugs, by incarceration, racism, shitty employment, all told, millions of lives destroyed by the white man’s bad seed, fall from his and her own grace. The decades and centuries of structural and mitochondrial determinants in the success and failures of an entire group of people who made this country, built the fucking White House, put the land to work, harvested and swaddled the white woman’s children, what a travesty.

Repeated daily from sea to shining sea, exploitation after exploitation. And the NFL, microcosm of the chosen ones’ destruction of almost anything good, tribal, hating all people’s who live lives far from the money printing presses, the coin of the realm – slavery for enriching the few, the fattening up of these voracious people eaters, these lovers of anything close or aberrant to what the entire Trump legacy represents: the people who run the rackets of college sports and professional gladiatorial athletics, or replace sports with big pharma, big business, big military-surveillance-punishment complex, big ag, big food, big medicine, big media, big education. These people are the ones that deserve a million slave rebellions run by the likes of Toussaint D’Ouverture.

The rabid dog, ahh, the beheading is necessary for the safety of the village. Yet, it’s all flipped backwards – the elite, the weakest, the minority of all minorities, the Chosen One Percent living out their blasphemy until old age, while the good and best the world can offer, murdered, slowly, quickly, at the moment of birth. America – the racket, the thug nature of this warring nation, the disharmony of the children sucked into diabetes and mental stasis created by the chosen few’s tools of control: food, consumer popular culture, Hollywood, media, digital dumb-downing.

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Here, from the movie, Concussion, the doctor, Bennet Omalu, asking why the world doesn’t want to know about his research into football head injuries and players’ deaths, suicides, incapacitating pain, drug addiction, incarceration, murders:

Dr. Bennet Omalu: What do they want?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: The NFL wants you to say you made it all up.

Dr. Bennet Omalu: I made it up?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: They’re accusing you of fraud.

Dr. Ron Hamilton: If you retract, you’ll be fine. This all goes away.

Dr. Bennet Omalu: Why? Why are they all doing this?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: They’re terrified of you. Bennet Omalu is going to war with a corporation that has 20 million people on a weekly basis craving their product the same way they crave food. The NFL owns a day of the week, the same day the Church used to own. Now it’s theirs. They’re very big.

Note: A forensic pathologist, Omalu conducted the autopsy of Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, which led to his discovery of a new disease that he named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. He is currently the chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County, Calif. and a professor in the UC Davis Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

These one percenters and their 19 percenter Little Eichmanns holding up their universal Capitalist scam, they are perpetuating the chronic traumatic encephalopathy onto all aspects of society with each experiment deemed necessary to create legions upon legions of marks, the exploited, the punished, the destitute, the near homeless, all of us shoved into their consumer prisons for the pleasure of their sin upon humanity. Greed, prostitution, elimination.

“At eight years of age, I knew I was going to be in the NFL. I was the fourth all-time leading rusher for UW. But my life is more than that, I know now. I’ve lived a life for and about Toussaint Tyler. It’s been a selfish life. I want to work to help this community, these people on the streets outside. Man, all messed up on meth, dirty, on the streets, sleeping in alleyways. We have to find a way to help them.”

So continues the dilemma of the One Percent, the Churches, the Poverty Pimps, all those non-profits run for the pleasure of a few at the top. So goes the journey of Toussaint Tyler, invoking just a little bit of his Haitian namesake’s rebellion.

Each day it becomes clearer to me that those in state capitols and on K-street, Wall Street, in the corridors of power, peopling the think tanks and commissions and secretive world of the bankers and bankrollers of pain, shame, war, they are the giant tapeworm eating at the soul of humanity. Clearer and clearer that the exiled, the broken, the incarcerated and just let out, the Toussaints and a million others, they have the power of lucidity, the power of perspective, and the power of seeing outside the miasma of this country’s madness.

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful world if the magic wand pushed a giant interstellar vacuum onto the earth that sucked up all the detritus on this planet – those buttoned up thieves lusting for their gigantic thefts, uniformed for war, all those coders and money changers, the renter class, the bankers, the technologist, the entire army of takers.

Toussaint and I hug, as I say good-bye on my last day at one non-profit as I move to another. Life is slipstream, the sum total of serendipity, these chance encounters, as my brain folds more of what I know is social justice and revolutionary focus. He and I come from two different worlds, and belief systems, yet, well, what more can a brotherhood bring than the joy of understanding those who are different but cut from the same mold of wanting justice and seeking enlightenment.

Paul Haeder

Robert Stern, director of clinical research at Boston University’s CTE Center and one of the paper’s authors, said upon releasing the study, “Although I wish I could say it’s a game-changer right now, it’s a game-changer for the future. We’re really not at the point of being able to diagnose CTE during life yet. We’re getting much closer, and this new paper is an important step forward.” (Source)

Reset #8

sun-drenched heron
the cold stare of seals
crows wrestling crabs
eagles shaking icicles
agates crystalline
jasper like eyes of squid
endless beach jumping
skies magnificent kite world
driftwood perfect cairns

kids trapped up the hill
death glow of fluorescent
throbbing Chrome books
Gestapo-eyed principals
checking six-foot lines
hunting down polyethylene
masks mid-mouth
janitors like Hannibal
disinfectants their pistols

a few dogs
middle-aged couples
the lone crabber dug in
no skiffs or outboards
smoking up air, just opening sky
winds like puffs of angel
breath, clouds painting
lizards and horses
sand unexplored
I am espying opulence
pebbles and antelope skin
shells, wrack lines
like tree rings
sea grass uprooted
bulbous kelp like
whips of chariots
tide slack, river pure
diving loons, cormorants
occasional sea dollar whole
water of saline, of wetlands
mixing sky waves crashing
tumbling surf, foam pure
racing slick along receding
water scrolled sands

so much lost
children trapped
inside attics of algorithms
so many old timers
telling me they are
skeptics, no way Jose
children on the beach
no chance of school
letting the turnkeys
unlock warehouses
no way children
can run ocean sands
no way all those
puttering teachers
would want liability
no more unloading
moldy children
into nature
no confidence
child will stay child

they watch TikTok
hold audience with
YouTube, dream of
Marvel magic, now
the glory is digital
ginned-up fear
forever chemicals
touched daily
masks and sprays
boosters mandated
the children of
a lesser god
children sacrificed
for billions
field trips ancient memory

no children running
gauntlets of driftwood
no gigantic sand castles
no embers, no marshmallows
no more séances with
curling salmon steaks
nothing to learn
inside screeds from
silicon diode capacitor
clouds emasculating
nature, draining female
bodies in tides
amazing seeds washed ashore
phallic barnacles
retreat inside womb
too too too much
for our child

no field trips barefoot
not a chance now
lined up for hypodermic
madness as adults
24/7 tickertape
wave after wave of flu
influenza viral vapidity
prepping for shooter
on campus lockdown

end of childhood
end of nature
end of crossroads
end of gathering
end of mud throwing
end of hand clasping
end of pyramid making
schools are jails
childhood locked out
the lockdown almost
complete no field
trips, nothing to touch
or shout about
childhood reset
turned to metallic
drones cradle to grave
now cradle to coffin
by the time
they mask up
for kindergarten

Ha. The revolution will not be surveyed. Yeah, I’m 64, and, teacher par excellence, journalist (real, newspaper, small and mid-sized town), social worker for foster youth, developmental disabled, homeless substance addicted, even homeless veterans . . . Yah. Surveys man, and Commondreams, man.

By any means necessary, bog us down, hit us with another survey, another, and let’s chew through our masks, popcorn, and watch Dark Waters and The Mauritarian and cry, keeping that six-foot distance, for sure.

Passports passed around. Survey poll focus group.

Yippee for Goebbels, err, Bernays, err, Friedman, oh those Mad Men, now the Pew Peeps.

The revolution will not be Whitey on the Moon, Whitey on Mars, Whitey at COP 29.

You want that Gore Vidal, United States of Amnesia?

How about Agnotology.

The Revoution will be surveyed, Pre-crime, prequel, sequel.

The crimes will be GIS mapped, the venn diagrams, oh, those surveys, executive summaries.

Poll Toll Fine Code Enforce Levy Tax Triple Penalize Regressive Taxation Eviction Penalties Surcharges Add-ons Price of Inflation Two-for-One Limited to One.

Oh, Survey Rachel Carson. How’s that DDT Survey coming?

Forever chemicals. Militarized Industrial Ag. All those blood lagoons of Pig Body Parts.

Survey again, those fence lines.

White Paper, executive summaries.

Shoot, one out of 10 think or do they just believe or is it a nightmare?

Ask just the right set of questions, and, shoot, the Revolution will Be Televised. Netflix Mini-Series. Amazon Prime Hulu Showtime. Bring it all on, and we then, can cogitate, ruminate, resonate.

The Survey will not be Revolutionized.

Whitey is at the bottom of the sea. Whitey is on his submarine. Whitey is in the lab. Whitey is DARPA mad.

Thanks for the Survey.*

Shit dog, my reaction to yet another meaningless piece of survey data, executive summary. My response above.

Does it all seem silly now that the world has accepted filthy rich with their filthy followers and their own filthy rich Eichmann impersonators with their own filthy private armies of lawyers (Mafioso), accountants (thieves), PR masters (Goebbels and Bernays all in one finely appointed suit or skirt), politicians (pimps and whores all in one) as well as the Science-Tech-Engineering Complex propping up their worthless anti-human projects?

I have railed against this higher ed system since I was in it as an undergraduate at University of Arizona. Journalism minor, but I worked for the college daily rag, which was not tied to the J program. Let’s see — wasted money on telescopes; proposed telescopes on sacred Mount Graham — Dzil Nchaa Si An!

Let’s see — U of Arizona vet school carrying out in the basement ballistic “tests” (inhumane experiments) on dogs, many of which were stolen from backyards in Tucson, by a professor of vet science. Let’s see — the head football coach gaming the system and using unused plane vouchers to cash in and spread around his felony-friendly football team. Let’s see — waste, landscaping that would make Trump LLC proud, overbloated budgets for the law school and Biz school, while adjuncts taught the majority of undergraduate classes.

Well, I have written about my next iterations fighting college deans, chairs, provosts, VPs, Presidents, Boards of Regents. The entire mess that is higher education is the entire mess that is predatory, disaster, penury, zombie, parasetic capitalism. The folks for the most part want to play nice in the playground. These stories below were percolating in 1975 when I first went to school.

They have continued throughout my part-time, precarious freeway flying faculty work, from Texas, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, DC and beyond. The factories of compliance are humming now with the sound of Zoom calls and on-line un-education programs. Streaming students and zooming profs. As if we didn’t see this coming in 1975 or 1985 or 1995 or 2005. Did we need the Event 21 (they call it 201) to anticipate the charge toward dehumanizing the globe, or the western globe?

Now, Dec. 14, 2021, and the project on mRNA and DNA hacking is in the sixth wave (sic) full swing.

The above documentary helps explain that.

So, the news about how rotten and rotting higher education is and has become and will continue to become seems quaint, in the western mind which has been hacked by the rot that is America Exceptionalism, now plumbed for continual propaganda and war drumming, whether it is Bush 1 or Clinton 1 & 2, or Obama, Bush 2, Tump LLC, or Biden BBB.

The children might never ask why if their brains are completely colonized. Why?

Note this Swiss fellow, not someone the prostituting media will have on — His credentials: I studied medicine at the University of Zurich, obtained a doctorate in immunology and virology, specialized in internal medicine and cardiology and have 33 years of experience in diagnosis and therapy of acute respiratory infections, in hospitals, in intensive care units and, for 23 years, in my medical practice.

On March 16th, the Swiss Federal Council declares the ‘exceptional situation’, the highest danger level of the epidemic law, based on exactly zero scientific evidence.

The mass media, including the Swiss public service broadcaster SRG, take on the third part in this conglomerate of mutually escalating ignorance, arrogance, incompetence and organised irresponsibility. Brainless and heartless themselves, they hammer into our heads around the clock:

There is a pandemic of a highly contagious and even epidemiologically relevant asymptomatically transmissible corona killer virus. Every seemingly hale and hearty fellow human being can be your angel of death!

Unlike in 2009, the mass media consistently censor, discredit and defame questioning doctors and scientists, including luminaries such as John Ioannidis, Professor of medicine, epidemiology and public health at Stanford University School of Medicine, oneof the world’s most renowned and most cited scientists, specialised in science fraud, Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, and Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg. At Easter 2020, after having been libelled, including an alleged threat to politicians and to my family, by a private person well known to me, myself, was brutally arrested by an anti-terrorist squad in my practice and, after it immediately turned out that I had not threatened anyone, merely the world view of insane people, I was shipped off to a closed psychiatric ward for six days becauseof ‘self-endangerment while in COVID insanity’.

The governments of almost all countries seem to have forgotten their epidemic plans, which wisely spare the individuals, the society and the economy. In blind obedience to the WHO and to lobbyists, called experts, they are enacting self-destructive non-pharmacological interventions, including lockdowns never considered before, following the authoritarian Chinese role model. They are doing this almost globally, in lockstep.

Without consulting the population, they procure billions of doses of emergency mRNA and DNA injections, which are even temporarily approved by Swissmedic. This technology is being widely used on humans for the first time. Almost worldwide, the constitution, the rule of law, human rights, civil liberties, ethics, science and common sense are being sacrificed in favour of a quasi-global authoritarian regime under the control of the WHO.

I have lost a load of people in my circle, and the culling continues, as the Americans and others I have in my dying “tribe” do not follow the science. They are the Zombie force of unenlightenment. And like the proverbial deer caught in headlights, the Western Minions (the USA Mind particularly, which is the British Mind, encompassing the Canadian Mind, also covering the Australian Mind and New Zealand Mind and many in the EU Mindset) are on a bender of authority, finding a new cold-hot war, and living with their leaders who are essentially rapists — raping the land, raping the family, raping the economies, raping the cultures, raping education, raping free though, raping raping raping.

How is it these Woke Women are Covering Up the Rapists?

Oh, the United Snakes of Rapists! Cecil Rhodes would be PROUD!

In the debut episode of Tara Reade’s RT podcast ‘The Politics of Survival’, Columbia professor and trauma expert Anthony Zenkus explains why he finds the host’s accusation against “predatory” Joe Biden credible.

“He can’t stop,” Zenkus told Reade in their discussion about the US president, titled ‘The Politics of Trauma’. “I think these behaviors are predatory.” 

The alleged “behaviors” Zenkus refers to have been highlighted heavily by both himself and ‘Politics of Survival’ host Reade, who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 while she was working for him. Seven other women have also publicly accused Biden of sexual assault and harassment. The president has denied the allegations against him. (Source)

But Carroll’s lawyers say Trump’s response went beyond any job obligation.

“A White House job is not a promise of an unlimited prerogative to brutalize someone who was a victim of a prior attack,” attorney Joshua Matz told the court.

Carroll, a former longtime Elle magazine advice columnist, sued Trump in 2019, saying he slandered her in denying her allegation that he raped her in a New York City department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Trump said she was “totally lying” and was “not my type,” among other remarks. He said they’d never met, dismissing a 1987 photo of the two and their then-spouses as a momentary encounter at a social event.

In the final months of the Republican’s presidency, the Justice Department sought to replace him as defendant in Carroll’s case. The department has maintained its position during Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration.

Justice Department lawyer Mark Freeman told the appeals court Friday he wasn’t out to “defend or justify” Trump’s comments, calling them “crude and offensive.”

“I’m here because any president facing a public accusation of this kind, with the media very interested, would feel obliged to answer questions from the public, answer questions from the media,” Freeman said.

After the hearing, Carroll called on the appeals court to reject what she called a “dangerous strategy” from the government and Trump.

“In no world was Donald Trump upholding the office of the presidency when he claimed I was ‘not his type’ and called me a liar,” she said in a statement. “His comments were personal attacks meant to punish me for daring to speak the truth.”

Here you go, the reason for tripping along in this blog — The Chronicle of Higher Education, THE REVIEW

Coaches and Presidents Are Robbing Us Blind

By Paul F. Campos

Ballooning athletics and administrator salaries are symptoms of the same disease.

Colleges Are Paying Big Bucks for Coaches. Here’s What Else They Could’ve Spent the Money On.

By Nell Gluckman

The going rate for a top-flight football coach is now around $10 million a year. Contemplating what else campuses could spend that money on can be distressing.

These Are America’s Highest-Paid College Presidents

By Dan Bauman, Julia Piper, and Brian O’Leary

The Chronicle’s database includes the latest salary information, plus years of data, on more than 1,700 chief executives at more than 600 private colleges and nearly 290 public universities and systems.

My most recent piece, just below this — EVEN A CHILD ASKS IN GIBBERISH “WHY . . . WHY . . . WHY?” Why not listen to, follow, study and apply what Rachel Carson was telling us? (see below)!

It is a microcosm, each story on how corrupt and corrupting and culpible Capitalism is, was and will be until we dismantle it!

Sackler Anyone? Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Yet another slight to humanity: lawyers, judges, and the felon corporations, including Oxi Pharma! No recovery for the victims of the Sacklers, et al.

At the end of this, [the Sackler family] will be richer than they are today and have paid the settlement back. That is insanity. This bankruptcy–it wasn’t a bankruptcy, it was a heist. It was a scam. It was a money grab.

Ryan Hampton, author of Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis

This is beyond the imagination of writers of fiction about corporate fugitives from justice… And listeners should know that individuals can’t get away with this, with bankruptcy. There now is a double standard: the privileges, immunities, escapes from justice under corporate bankruptcy laws are far, far more enabling then any debtor who tries to start a clean slate and declares bankruptcy for a few thousand dollars of debt. This is a double standard that someday should be challenged under the equal protection laws of the US Constitution.
Ralph Nader

[The Sacklers] are now moving to eliminate the last remaining social sanction for their crimes, which is stigma. And it shows you the power that these corporations have: they escaped from regulation. They escaped essentially from criminal prosecution. None of these people are going to jail. They escaped from the state attorney generals. And now they want to escape from stigma, and just come back and start their mode of operating and getting more profits.
Ralph Nader

A democracy (sic) run-ruled-legislated by the criminals —

Executives in multiple industries have long been kept up at night by knowledge of the looming power of the Responsible Corporate Officer, or RCO doctrine, also known as the Park doctrine, a legal liability standard used largely to prosecute executives at companies responsible for affecting public health and safety. Under the Park doctrine, federal prosecutors could target senior executives and board members of opioid pharmaceutical companies for their role in the sprawling epidemic if violations of criminal law were proved true, regardless of whether they could prove knowledge or motivation.

Purdue helped to quietly finance an effort to unravel that doctrine, according to people with knowledge of the company’s activity.

How many why’s do not get answered? A million? A billion? A trillion?

Of course, the standard bearer for this rotten and rotting capitalism is a deep question: “Why have you allowed this system to not only take root, but to have metastasized in our cultures, to the point that everyone without money and power are vlunerable to the leeches, the pathogens, the murderers, the thieves, the poison spreaders?”

The answers are deep and tied to systems of oppression and supression. But, not so complicated as to the basic response — All of this is done, all those why’s, all those doubts and questions, come down to rapaciouis subhumans looking for money-profits-spoils by any means necessary.

And, alas, I run into more and more 60-plus somethings who have found some spiritual-Christian-Christ loving way to “deal with all the bad bad bad.” To deal with the fact all of the systems set up that they benefited from, even those on social security only, are rotten, and so they find the Jesus message, even the simple one of love your neighbor, your family, your children. They see Christ as a rabblerouser, and one who was outside the lines, outside of the laws of pharaohs and money changers, et al.

That’s fine, in one sense, to retreat to the “we are only answerable to god” default, but the reality is we are here, those of us atheist or pantheist, to do good, and if we are so outside the lines of belief systems which look only to the powerful, all-knowing, single God, ONLY, or ultimately, then there must be a plan from that same diety, and we are here as living proof that there are other ways of seeing and living and learning about what it is to be Homo Sapiens. We aethists are the creator’s creation!

Ahh, what would a “messiah” do and how would that person be treated in 2020?

The why’s and the what’s and who’s and the how’s and when’s and the where’s are captured in so many books and research projects. Here, Ralph writes about this, over at Dissident Voice –

Critical Exposés Everywhere as the Corporate State Worsens He talks about how decayed or decaying the US democracy is. It is a time now for the almost-90-year-old Nader to delve deep into what should be done, now that all the books and exposes have been done, and all those videos and documentaries. The revolution will not be litigated or legislated or likened through books and documentaries!

Despite the many books on corporate crooks, there have been no corporate crime law reforms, no additional prosecutions of these CEOs, not even comprehensive congressional or state legislative hearings. The corporate crooks at the top of giant companies still get away with profiting from their corporate crime wave. None of the top Wells Fargo executives or Opioid’s promoters or the sellers of dangerous products and chemicals are facing prosecution. You have to steal a loaf of bread or get caught with a miniscule amount of heroin or cocaine to be incarcerated.

The massive fatality toll annually (about 400,000) from preventable problems in hospitals and clinics gets exposed yet nobody stirs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state departments of health, or the state legislatures. That’s almost 8000 Americans losing their lives a week!

Profiteering, corruption, and fraud in the health industry are documented by many specialists, including Dr. John Geyman’s many books, but the exposés do not result in any calls for law and order by the politicians or even hearings in Congress.

Access to justice by victims faces increasingly closed courtroom doors and limits on tort laws for wrongful injury.

Meanwhile, the institutions we are expected to rely on to make a difference, with too few exceptions, are asleep at the wheel. These include the legal, medical, and accounting professions, the law enforcement agencies (there is no corporate crime index in the U.S. Justice Department), the toady legislatures, the corporate-owned media, the timid, often compromised labor unions, college campuses, and the silent corporatized organized religious institutions.

Our democracy is in serious decay. 

Those children will ask why, and they will want to see what cause and effects are, and how the cause and effect shifts to the effect now promulgating effects, therein turning from effect to new cause.

Here, books, and how many why’s are answered in these? When the mother of all why’s is, “Why do you allow public, environmental, cultural, ancestral, human, natural, city, town, community life to be eviscerated?” Why, as in the why of capitalism? “Why does it exist?” For unchecked and unimaginable wealth and accumulation of it in fewer and fewer hands? The children will ask why.

“Take a look at 65 recent searing books about corporate violence and malfeasance, crushing influence over our electoral and political systems, and expanding immunities from law enforcement and public accountability.”

1. Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement by John Coffee
2. Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation by Elizabeth Burch
3. Why Not Jail?: Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction by Rena Steinzor
4. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
5. Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm by Michael J. Saks and Stephan Landsman
6. Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?… by Guillaume Coudray
7. The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption… by Carey Gillam
8. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David Courtwright
9. Frankie: How One Woman Prevented a Pharmaceutical Disaster by James Essinger and Sandra Koutzenko
10. Killer Airbags by Jerry Cox
11. Making the World Safe for Coke by Susan Greenhalgh
12. Big Dirty Money by Jennifer Taub
13. Business and Human Rights by Ellen Hertz
14. Industrial-Strength Denial by Barbara Freese
15. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker
16. Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations by Brandon L. Garrett
17. Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America’s Corporate Age by Samuel W. Buell
18. Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care by John Geyman
19. Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen
20. Global Banks on Trial by Pierre-Hugues Verdier
21. Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception by David Michaels
22. Murder, Inc.: How Unregulated Industry Kills or Injures Thousands of Americans Every Year…And What You Can Do About It by Gerald Goldhaber
23. Paradise Lost at Sea: Rethinking Cruise Vacations by Ross A. Klein
24. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
25. Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in An Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
26. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
27. GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods by Sheldon Krimsky and Marion Nestle
28. GM: Paint it Red: Inside General Motors’ Culture of Failure by Nicholas Kachman
29. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by Jesse Eisinger
30. Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy by Richard Cordray
31. First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat by Christopher Shaw
32. Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom
33. Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn
34. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
35. Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar
36. Public Citizens by Paul Sabin
37. The United States of War by David Vine
38. The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions by Chuck Collins
39. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis
40. The Case Against George W. Bush by Steven C. Markoff
41. Tax the Rich: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Erica Payne and Morris Pearl
42. Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet by Dr. Michael Jacobson
43. Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy by Daniel G. Newman
44. Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits by James D. Zirin
45. Stealing Our Democracy by Don Siegelman
46. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
47. All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Monique El-Faizy and Barry Levine
48. Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic by Christopher Shaw
49. Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink by Seth M. Siegel
50. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy by Mike German
51. United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America… by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon
52. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
53. The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
54. Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Dr. Gregory Jaczko
55. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
56. America, Democracy & You: Where Have All the Citizens Gone? by Ronald R. Fraser
57. Unsettled (on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family) by Ryan Hampton
58. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
59. China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
60. Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World by Nomi Prins
61. Attention All Passengers: The Airlines’ Dangerous Descent and What You Can Do To Reclaim Our Skies by William McGee
62. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam
63. The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop It by Steven Clifford
64. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer
65. The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, …. and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald

That’s the why, and children want it answered — “Why not listen to Rachel Carson? Why was Rachel looking into pesticides? Why are the chemical companies so mean and criminal like? Why haven’t we as a nation taken control of everything coming out of industry?” Oh the why’s equate the kids to being commies:

Opponents of Silent Spring attacked Rachel Carson personally. They accused her of being radical, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. In 1962, at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, criticism of the United States struck many as unpatriotic or sympathetic with communism. Former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson wrote privately to former President Dwight Eisenhower that Carson was “probably a communist” (Lear 1997, 429). Velsicol’s threatening letter to Houghton Mifflin argued that if the public demanded elimination of pesticides, “our supply of food will be reduced to East-curtain parity [i.e., as inefficient as the Communist nations east of the ‘Iron Curtain’]” (Smith 2001, 736).

[The great editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun-Times illustrates the gender dimension of the controversy over Carson and Silent Spring. In this 27 October 1963 cartoon he pairs her with Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death, a scathing indictment of the funeral home industry. Men from both industries have been flattened under the platens of the women’s typewriters. Illustration by Bill Mauldin.]

If not an outright Communist, surely Carson was linked to “food faddists” or, as William Darby of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine characterized them, “the organic gardeners, the anti-fluoride leaguers, the worshippers of ‘natural foods,’ and those who cling to the philosophy of a vital principle, and pseudo-scientists and faddists” (Smith 738). Another decade or two would pass before most Americans considered organic gardening or natural foods as fit for anyone but cranks and misfits.

Allegations that Carson was just a hysterical woman appeared both in the pages of chemical and agricultural trade journals as well as in the popular press. Women were imagined to be less rational, more emotional, and more sentimental than men, who could be relied upon to study the issues dispassionately and propose rational solutions. An agricultural expert told a reporter at the Ribicoff hearings, “You’re never going to satisfy organic farmers or emotional women in garden clubs” (Graham 1970, 88). In his letter to Eisenhower, Benson wondered why a “spinster was so worried about genetics” (Lear 1997, 429).

As Carson had no institutional affiliation, she was dismissed as an amateur who did not understand the subject like a professional scientist would, or who distorted or misread the science. To her critics, Carson’s frequent use of terms like “nature,” “natural,” and “balance of nature” identified her as a mere sentimental nature lover or a pantheist like Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau. Reviews in Time, U.S. News and World Report, and even Sports Illustrated took her to task. The reviewer in Time, for example, criticized her “emotion-fanning words” and characterized her argument as “unfair, one-sided, and hysterically overemphatic.” He traced her “emotional and inaccurate outburst” to her “mystical attachment to the balance of nature” (Brooks 1989, 297).

They are the reason, no, for hope, then? First time around, now, old people are sacrificing babies, unborn, youth for their existence?

As Kennedy (RFK, Jr.) writes in an ironically understated way, “The pervasive CIA involvement in the global vaccine putsch should give us pause.”  Yes, a long pause. He continues:

There is nothing in the CIA’s history, in its charter, in its composition, or in its institutional culture that betrays an interest in promoting either public health or democracy. The CIA’s historical preoccupations have been power and control. The CIA has been involved in at least seventy-two attempted and successful coup d’état between 1947 and 1989, involving about a third of the world’s governments. Many of these were functioning democracies. The CIA does not do public health. It does not do democracy. The CIA does coups d’état.

Why Mars?

The child asks why the caterpillar, why the coccoon, why the butterfly?

The child, if given a seat at the G-7 or IPCC or any other bored board, would ask, Why the CIA and Heating up Ionosphere?

Child of awe/ dirt to mouth/ fantasic jellies, seaward bound/ uncatchable shoals of sardines and starlings/ she looks at ground and blood

Child to menstruation/ child capturing pollen of a thousand Ponderosa/ running through moose territory/ asking why those VW Bug sized antlers?

Yet, we are nothing more than body with machine, to Gates and Google. We are the broken part of biology, ready for gene editing, gene driving, manipulation in vitro.

Child is the king and queen of the world, yet we have dethroned youth, thrown them into the winds of bio-accumulation, bio-feedback loops, bio-magnification.

The potato chip is crispier in the bath of chemicals old adults spray onto life.

Engineered potatoes with Satanic Seeds of Elite.

Child asks about why billions misspent when children annuallyt die of gut disease in the millions?

Child asks why burning chemicals delivered with cancer sticks are part of the game? Who makes money off of tobacco, off of the advertisements, off of the lobbies and off of the COPD, the cancers, the hospices?

There are no questions of WHY in the brains of stupid adults? They have no WHY we need the souls of the future for their eugenics and euthanasia plots?

Why no-stick frying pans end up frying endocrine systems?

They don’t ask WHY is there no precautionary principle applied? They ask not the why’s, just the HOW’s.

• How to make money from nothing?
• How to make work more efficient?
• How to hold nature at bay?
• How to improve nature with plastics, oil, metal, gene therapies, bio-clipping?
• How to amass knowledge at the click of a digital mouse?
• How to start plagues and end plagues?
• How to stop the youth always asking why?

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote the following from his prison cell before he was executed:

Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved — indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

They will ask why, they will want answers, if given the chance to be on boards, commissions, inside political parties, at CEO meetings, inside courts, on top of agencies, in state Capitals, at the Capitol, in Brussels, London, Tokyo, Moscow, anywhere the adults never ask why the world is dirty, dying, dungy, disenfranchising, profane, backwards, devolving, controlled by monsters, with us, so many of us, so many adults not of the One Percent or Point Zero-Zero One Percent Class, why have they not led the rebellion? Why have so many in the 10 Percent or 10 Percent TCollectively urned into Banality of Evil?

Are adults sheep?

Why the birth defects?

They will ask Why Aren’t we Taught about Real History So We Can Raise the Pitchforks and Stoke the Tar and Ready the Feathers.

The Child Asks: Why are these White Men Re-Making My World in Their Image, Bound to Their Sick Heads, Reflected in their Nightmares, within their Sick World of Control? Why are they at the top of the pyramid? Why haven’t they been dethroned? Why are they killing us? Why aren’t they gone?

Why, the child asks, is the Female Testicular, Death-Ray Women of the Nightmare? Testerone running through their wombs?

The Child asks, WHY, and they also want to know HOW, from mother figure to depleated uranium, Hellfire, cluster-napalm-phosphurus bombs?

Why are hospitals, schools, clinics, electrical power grids, growing fields, museums, newspaper, social security office bombed by these heathens? Wardem. Hewson, Novakovic, Caret, Thompson, Gordon. Why are they not names of infamy, terror, and the dirt of humanity, as the Nazis that birthed them?

The child asks why are these heroes thrown in jail, murdered on the streets?

Oh, why, the child asks, are we not told to research, review, celebrate, critically ask why for these heroes, too?

child of war child of peace child of buds child of chrysalis child of soil child of trees child of sky child of water child of sea child of coral child of everglades child of desert child of alpine forest child of manatee child of flamingos child of parrot fish child of deer child of wolf child of coyote child of the world child of the lower world child of the upper world child in the sky child in the womb child holding peace conferences child of music child of painting child of farming child of planting child of harvest child of moons child of stars child of telescopes child of healing child of song child of theater child of WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

Ask why no why’s in Industrial and Fourth Industrial Minds of the Madmen and Madwomen?

Every child asks questions. Questions on the why of things, the when, the who, the where and the how. 

Adults do not so often ask such questions. Especially not, when these are of utmost significance and urgency – such as in today’s comprehensive crisis pertaining to nature, society, civilization and life itself.

Why not?

One example of this lack of questioing can be seen in the movie ”Technocratic Dictatorship”. This too seems true when it comes to deep reflection and highly critical analysis, offering, one would hope, more than just scepticism on the current situation, but also outrage.

Those interviewed in this movie, myself among them, describe in various ways the dilemma of our times, which is the undisputable progressive destruction of the environment, nature and life on earth.

Primarily, the interviewees analyse modern natural sciences and technology as the main contributors to this destruction. The mechanistic world view of the modern era and its subsequent technology are seen as the major cause of this destruction, its technology being broadly conceptualized in terms of machine-technology.

They agree: contrary to all predictions and promises, so-called progress has not resulted in the improvement for humankind, for life itself, nature and the environment. Quite the contrary, it has instead led to a situation which threatens to become a technocratic dictatorship, as the movie’s title aptly indicates. (Source — Prof. Claudia von Werlhof)

Coleoptera (beetles) are the most diverse order in terms of the number of species not only among animals, but among all organisms on Earth. No other group of living beings can compete with them in terms of diversity and abundance of species.

child of bugs child of fish child of sponges child of birds child of canine child of feline child of beetles child of bats child of snakes child of apmhibians child of antelope child of elephant child of the world child to be left alone child away from social media child never forgotten in this world child of future child of our pasts child of love child of fear child of heroics child of dolphins child of whales child of crustaceans child of wood wide web child of field child of vallye child of mountain peaks child of volcanoes

Reset #7

dams bursting
old Woody Guthrie
singing away those rapids
CCC transcontinental by-ways

now the baby powder
more TP, every clogging
arterials, arteries
supply chain of the brain

Turkish coffee dervish
no more, homogenization
homo sapiens plasticized
ambulatory distinction

body works was a play
on us, each specimen
splayed, posed, future
homeostasis held frozen

they want ionosphere
stratosphere, reflective
mica, surfactants
albedo like confetti

simple fish & chips
wrapped in daily
grind, muscular stories
the homicides with bromides

Dickens and Melville
Garcia Marquez Lorca
Vonnegut and Voltaire
Sartre and Sontag

reminiscences no remedy
pre-crime on a dime
fluffery flooding social
network, metaverse

looping lights
onto algae
marine layer lit
with bioluminescence

we are the satellite, lost
in space, holding dear
demented ideals
we crave new

Yes, it’s difficult for people to think it’s dry in Oregon, along the coast, along the Central Coast range. But it is, and it’s wet in the winter, too. Breweries, shrimp industries, hotels, they use a lot of fresh water.

But the reality is clear — America is so dysfunctional, that those trillions thrown at billionaires and military et al, well, not for the people, by the people, because of the people. Remember, this story about Newport, around 10,000 folk, with a swelling of 20,000 or more during any fun given weekend of summer beach fun, is your story in San Francisco or Boise or Hope, Arkansas. The very debilitating aspect of predatory capitalism is tremendous —

The earthen dam is failing, and will fail with some earthquakes that will hit our coast. This is the reality anywhere in the USA — wildfires, tornadoes, dust storms, droughts, blizzards, deluges, heat waves. We have money for trillionaires, for the mercenaries of Military-Pharma-Chem-Mining-Ag-Oil-Energy-Media-Education-Medical-Legal-Prison-Education-AI-Surveillance-Mining-Finance-Banking Complex, but not for a few million dollars water tank, or a $20 or $80 million dam for Newport, and those other places around the place that call this place home.

We are a third world, banana republic —

On a recent visit to the upper dam, Newport city manager Spencer Nebel pointed to a large pipe sticking out of the facility. He explained how crews just fixed one leak there and said it will need more work next year.

“(I) hate to make this kind of investment here for a facility that we’re planning to replace,” he said. “But it is a legitimate safety concern. And the security of the system is critical for the community and for the folks that live downstream.”

Now the city plans to build another, concrete dam halfway between the two older ones.

“So if we can build a higher dam and build a bigger basin, that’s going to reduce our reliance on the Siletz River, which is a really important environmental consideration here,” Nebel said. “And we’ve been working closely with the Siletz Tribe.”

Historically, Pacific Northwest tribes have often not been supportive of government-built dams, because of their propensity to block fish runs. But Robert Kentta with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians said pumping water out of the Siletz River every summer is really bad for salmon, lampreys, crayfish and river mussels.

“We had the lowest flows that I can remember and I’ve lived here for nearly 60 years,” Kentta said. “It was scary low and scary warm. It was like bathwater, and we’re just not used to those kinds of temperatures in our river.”

Kentta said a new, larger dam and reservoir on Big Creek would mean more water could stay in the Siletz River and more fish would likely survive. (Source)

In this broken land, where the coroporations have huge lobbying outfits, huge industry coalitions, have huge organized protection rackets, we the people are up shit creek since living in the USA is all about paying for it, paying for water, air, all of it, through regressive and quadruple taxation. Through taxes, fines, code violations, penalties, late fees, fees, tolls, surcharges, add-ons, restrictions, eminent domain, externalities, we are left to the devices of elected officials and state agencies and this hyper-competition looking for grants, lobbying bucks, pork barrel.

Oh, those hog blood-shit-guts-urine lagoons —

Oh, those feedlots —

Oh, those thousand-plus chemicals —

Oh, those oil companies —

Oh, those tornados —

Oh, those wildfires —

Oh, that Guantanamo —

Oh, America, the Banana Republic: Nearly 40% of Americans Live in Constant Risk of Catastrophic Explosion or Poison Gas Exposure – People of Color, the Poor, Schools, and Medical Facilities at Even Greater Risk

So we are here, with the most broken society ever, as we have smug lockdown forced vaccine (sic) pro-incarceration people advocating all manner of illegal, unconstitutional and inhumane measures, and yet, and yet — never holding the billionaires who are war-pandemic-planned-demic profiteers accountable. It is ugly, that Biden thing, all his Neoliberal War Hawk Handlers, all the same old same old. Embarassing to see the Republicans in their racist zeal hold onto their KKK robes, and singing Dixie in their million-dollar bathrooms.

Here’s that coronavirus map, well, the one that should be part and parcel in this bullshit manic narrative —

Those drug overdoses, man —

It’s the war profiteering, man, and the trillions shipped to war lords, mining lords, Zionist lords, ag lords, chemical lords, all those lords of punishment-theft-disease-pollution-societal collapses.

Poem #6

mothers lactating forever
chems, everlasting everywhere
plague upon all our houses
Homo plastico sapiens
better living through
chemistry, lands
fumigated, fungicides
poured near purring
gatos kids playing
scratch’n’ sniff
phone app magnificent

blue dots floating
in air, magnificent
world, power washed
with Capitalism’s corrosives

children scurried away from
caterpillars, told to stay away
from mice, every corner
a spiked protein pathogen
chubby cheeks pinched
in supplication of jabs
arms exposed for boosters
into space, the GE-sphere

promises of receding hair
snipped out in vitro, stories
of new noses like those
Anglo angels of film-lore
clipped in, spliced
blue eyes and six-foot-one
frames, legs for volleyball
tournaments in Gobi desert
double helix freedom

the miracle of genes manipulated
men drought resistant
ovulation, menstruation
turned on/off with 6G
swish of EMFs

entire worlds escaping screens
booted into dreams
nightmares for the non-
squeamish, deep dives
Mariana Trench dark
fighting three-headed
20-foot squid
anything spliced in
you wait and see
wishes are your
design

money buys 300-foot
3D-printed yacht
money gets the sculpted
yeoman’s mate
all the pulverized
growth hormones
mushroom spores
virgin Chinese cum-
soaked goose eggs
money gets it
Hollywood flaunts it
ghetto boys, girls
swaging it

gold-plated smiles
17-bullet clips
diamond encrusted
anything in the reset
anything desired
money has it
trickle down into bombast
music will swill it
books will pronounce it
memes on TikTok will
drill it

resetting in a time
of Cholera-Covid-Corona-Chlamydia-Cancer
fear is the commodity
data is the game
every shirking scream
skittish sweating singing
slinking minute captured

the wrist device, reset its
steps-turned-to BP
new devices to monitor
mothers catching
postpartum blues
with handmaids at
the robotic ready
scooping up
CRISPR child

the new Adam
the emerging Eve
an apple a day
keeping the Mac
blue screen low
lo down
this new reset
Hallelujah

I am on a webinar with the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is about Gen Z, and higher ed, and what they want, need, deserve. And, well, no Gen Z people on the call.

This guy talking, a VP at Purdue, worked in Big Pharma for 10 years and he is proud of that. And he says, the price of student data is the price of a pizza. These are smoke and mirrors folk. Scary:

“But why has the mainstream Left ended up supporting practically all Covid measures? How did such a simplistic view of the relationship between health and the economy emerge, one which makes a mockery of decades of (Left-leaning) social science research showing just how closely wealth and health outcomes are connected? Why did the Left ignore the massive increase in inequalities, the attack on the poor, on poor countries, on women and children, the cruel treatment of the elderly, and the huge increase in wealth for the richest individuals and corporations resulting from these policies?”
Toby Green & Thomas Fazi (The Left’s Covid Failure)

And, another facet, the brown shirt syndrome, Vaccine Youth Brown Shirts — Pathetic:

About one-third of Millennials and Gen Zers have cut ties with friends, family members or acquaintances who will not get the COVID-19 vaccine.

This is according to a survey from Axios and The Harris Poll. They surveyed 1,334 U.S. adults in August 2021 and categorized them by generation.

The survey results show:

• 33% of Millennials say they have cuts ties with somebody in their life over not getting vaccinated against COVID-19
• 30% of Gen Zers, 9% of Gen Xers and 7% of Baby Boomers say the same

“It’s the new cultural dividing line,” John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll, told Axios. “Three in 10 Gen Zers, and even more millennials, have ghosted friends who would not get vaccinated.”

Out of those four generations, Millennials are most likely to have young children who are not eligible for the vaccine — it’s not available to anyone under 12 years old. This could be a contributing factor to the generation’s concern for the virus as they worry about their unvaccinated children.

Oh, higher education is conservative, as Noam Chomsky states (see below). The rapid growth of billionaires’ wealth and inequality across the nation grew particularly salient during the COVID-19 pandemic. As millions of Americans lost their jobs and struggled to have adequate food during the crisis, America’s 722 billionaires saw their profits soar by some $1.2 trillion from January 2020 through April of this year. It’s actually much much more as we end 2021. Are there pitchforks? Are there people crashing their gated parties? Christ no!

These people “running” the show are corrupted, Zoomers, and they talk about recruiting people off campus, out of state, out of country, to be faculty. Get rid of dirty on campus faculty, those of us who can get together and organize for democracy, for freedoms and those of us who can organize against the oligarch. Amazing, how atomized the world is, and these people are the enemy. Debt debt debt.

These people are bizarre. Talking about bringing pets to Zoom class lessons. Talking about dressing down for the screen as faculty to relate to the Z’s.. These people are Eichmann’s. John Steppling, here:

Throughout the pandemic and certainly forefronted in the propaganda of the ‘Great Reset’, is the idea of saving — rescuing or protecting. Save the planet, save your grandmother, save the future. Protect the planet, protect nature, protect grandma. There is a quality of messianism running through the marketing, and I sometimes wonder if its even intentional. For the climate marketing, it’s clear they have pushed something akin to an evangelical tone, in a mash up with New Age bromides and cliches. But even the pandemic has taken on a tone I last heard on charismatic christian preachers.

Now, I was struck how often when you read descriptions of the Nazis you hear the word technician. The emphasis is always on precision and a near Euclidean code of duty. Agamben’s observation that the pandemic is now a religion certainly seems correct. And the authoritarian subjects of the affluent white bourgeoisie, those of the new OCPD (Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder) variant of anal-sadism, are eager to join in this new crusade, a planetary exercise in white saviourism. And yet, millions of people around the world are protesting. My sense is these are mostly working class people, those hit hardest by this new religion. I think they fear for their children (shit, I fear for my children). And then Africa, a continent barley vaccinated at all, whose population has near unanimously rejected the entire narrative.

So the question is really in what way the engagement with screens, with social media, and with electronic media has contributed to the weakening of an already weak ego, a ‘small ego’, and in turn this weak ego has intensified this divorce from our bodies, and a reliance on an ever stricter super-ego. Or, perhaps more, that this screen habituation has reinforced a societal encouragement to think instrumentally, to mimic those symptoms found in OCDP, and perhaps that mimic of symptom becomes actual symptom. For what is illness, exactly, in a society so aggressively irrational and manipulative. What one has seen over twenty years is the the manufacturing of the anal character, and the simultaneous evisceration of any counter culture. (The Happiest Place on Earth)

These people are so-so happy about ordering groceries via apps, using apps to pay bills, it’s all app app app. The Great Reset is already in full-force. And these people are happy about it, and now, happy about AI, on weekends the youth can get FAQ’s answered, all those student experiences to $150K a year administrators have concocted. These people are empty. College admissions honcho, campus experience VP’s, retention experts, marketers, institutional research dudes, these folk, are vapid. I am writing this while listening to them, again, with no Gen Z on the line. No alternative view, and all of them are nodding nodding nodding in agreement.

Steppling cites James Baldwin, and it is really about the Black Person scarring the crap out of White People, and now replace, “Covid-19” with “Black people”:

“White people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people—a tremendous uneasiness…{ } They don’t know what the Black face hides. They’re sure it’s hiding something. What it’s hiding is American history.” —James Baldwin (Esquire interview, 1979)

Steppling does make a strong point about how a subculture is missing, and has been missing, for years. Decades. “Without a sub culture, informal meetings, collective creative projects, and gatherings, people can no longer discuss things. Social media is the anti-sub culture. It is not even a pretend replacement, but an antagonist.”

And I will almost end with Alison McDowell:

To my way of thinking, there are two types of people in the world. Those who believe natural things of earth, water, and sky have spirit and those who don’t. Those who embrace animism, and those who consider it silly, or perhaps even profane. Everything I’ve learned since the biosurveillance state has rolled out, especially with regards to bioengineering, particle physics and frequency, tells me we are living in a universe of sacred energetics where dynamic communication beyond anything that we can imagine is happening all the time. Onto that network, the authentic cosmic dance, molecular engineers desire to place a counterfeit web. It is our task, for those who take it up, to bear witness, to speak the truth, to put positive affirmations into the world, and to listen for the songs of life sung by the brooks, breezes, birds, and cicadas.

They never asked permission to use their thunderbolts on us.

We cannot give consent.

Our DNA is a fractal antenna signaling the universe.

Life isn’t a computation.

Life isn’t an electrical engineering schematic.

Life isn’t a data dashboard.

Pi used in equations is an inadequate substitute for that which eternally unfolds.

Nature is (mostly) curves. (h/t Sofia Smallstorm)

Chomsky, and this is in 1973:

One Man’s View

Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer

Business Today, May, 1973, pp. 13-15

QUESTION: By their very nature, it often seems that the faculty assume a liberal or radical or critical view of the society.

CHOMSKY: I don’t agree. I think the faculty is a very conservative group. That is, it is considered liberal within the spectrum of American opinion, but American opinion on the whole has shifted so far to the right as compared with, say, Western Europe, that by the general standards of the Western European democracies, the faculties in American universities are really quite conservative.

QUESTION: Then, do you think faculty are failing in a role that they might play of supplying a liberal thrust in society — one of positive criticism?

CHOMSKY: Well, I don’t care what kind of opinions people have. I think the university should tolerate a large diversity of opinion, which it does not. I think there is a severe failure — the failure is one of honesty, in my opinion. That is, I don’t believe that scholarship within the university attempts to come to grips with the real structure of the society. I think it is under such narrow ideological controls that it avoids any concern or investigation of central issues in our society. And this is not merely a matter of opinion; I think this is easily demonstrable.

QUESTION: Is it possible within the society as it is now constructed to let the faculty have a more free role?

CHOMSKY: I don’t think that anyone is stopping the faculty from doing it. Because of their profound conservatism, the faculty in the ideological subjects such as history, political science and so on, find ways to avoid studying basic issues about the nature and exercise of power in our society. Or if they do study them, they do it in a perverse and confusing fashion. In fact, the very nature of academic specialization contributes to that. For example, consider the study of political economy — there’s a specialization of fields which makes it very difficult to investigate the central topics in the structure of American society within some academic department.

I think the most striking example of this that I know of is the study of foreign policy. There was a recent survey that appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The author investigated two hundred major works in what he called the respectable literature on international affairs and foreign relations, and he discovered that more than 95% of them make no mention whatsoever of the relationship between corporations and foreign policy, and that less than 5% give the subject passing mention. Now of course it’s obvious to any 10th grader that that’s a central issue. And the fact that academic scholarship so systematically avoids what is a central issue is just a very dramatic indication of the ideological controls under which it operates.

QUESTION: From what I’ve read myself, that article itself seems pretty conservative in its considerations.

CHOMSKY: You see, what’s striking to me is two things. First of all, the fact that he was able to unearth it; namely, that within the mainstream, everybody avoids this topic like poison. And secondly, his own attitude toward that fact. That is, having noticed that there’s a mass of literature that avoids the central issue. I think there’s a periphery that touches the real issue. It never occurred to him that maybe its the periphery that’s the respectable literature, and the mass — that’s the literature of advocacy. He himself is so caught up in the ideological structure of the society that he can’t see what his own data suggests to him.

Chomsky states it here, again, the conservativism of universities, but his lockdown mentality, his bizarre belief in the science of technology and the science of the overlords and Pfizer and Big Pharma, and this absurd narrative of the left, the fascism of mandates, the hate of the unvaccinated (Chomsky stated that the unvaccinated should be locked up!), all of it, it is a sad commentary on this fellow who is, or has been for decades, shielded from many of the realities of us who do research and who open our eyes to the convergence of the entire game here, and he discounts the power of The Net to colonize people, and he discounts a lot, and Lowkey is not going to push back, that is for sure. However, have at it!