I just finished the Chris Hedges piece on Daniel Hale, the brave young man held in containment, a federal prison with limited communication, and zero treatment for his PTSD.

“When the Just Go to Prison”

Hale, a 34-year-old former Air Force signals intelligence analyst, is serving a 45 month prison sentence, following his conviction under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified documents about the U.S. military’s drone assassination program and its high civilian death toll. The documents are believed to be the source material for “The Drone Papers” published by The Intercept, on October 15, 2015. 

These documents revealed that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations drone airstrikes killed more than 200 people — of which only 35 were the intended targets. According to the documents, over one five-month period of the operation, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. The civilian dead, usually innocent bystanders, were routinely classified as “enemies killed in action.”

Here you go, the interview Hedges did of Hale’s lawyer:

And, my comments this morning, August 1, since I like to flare up the Scheer Post middlings:

Ahh, the heroes in America are many times locked up, locked down, locked in, locked backwards. As we can see, Hale was in it for the money, as he was another one of those millions of aimless youth, American youth, but also modern youth, culled by the monsters of capitalism and consumerism and pay pay pay for any sort of forward “success.”

Judges! What human stain. I doubt many readers of Scheer Post have dealt with them, but I have, as a case manager for homeless folk, with outstanding tickets and fines, warrants for their arrests for not paying fines (tickets) tied to loitering or trespassing, etc. Then those monster judges in rape trials. Or, just the dude with Tim DeChristopher, who protested BLM land lease sales by holding up Bidder 70 sign during a bidding event. The judge said, “If you would have been contrite and admitted the error of your ways, I would have given you six weeks, time served.” Instead, two years in federal prison. This is the thuggery of American injustice. Imagine that, homeless people in jail for unpaid bills.

Debtors prison on steroids.

Ahh, old people who poured fake blood on missiles, hell, throw the book at them. Put them in prison so they can die.

Here, female radicals — you want to see injustice from long ago up to now?

Women Politicals

Imprisoning Women Politicals

And so it comes down for Hale and millions like him that Faustian bargain. Do things for the shekel, and in this predatory dog-eat-dog,, king-of-the-hill society, oh, you’ll do almost anything to survive and thrive.

I taught at several colleges, English, writing, rhetoric, where drone programs are hailed as the next great thing. Young women and men taking those classes. All the bells and whistles and toys. This is the sickness of modern society. Drone in Israel, drones in Turkey, drones in Yemen, drones in USA, drones in Canada, drones in Ukraine, drones in Russia.

I know it is tangential, but look at Biden then, ’93, and now. Mister Expand the Death Penalty 57 different new ways. Listen to his thuggery, his inarticulate way, that old Ivy League stupidity, and another loser killer with a worthless law degree. He relishes putting predators in prison.

These are the monsters, those who need sterilization, who need to go the way of the Dodo.

The USA is no different than Midnight Express . . . Black Site USA! Despicabable as the general population does selfie’s overlooking a cliff where fellow AmeriKKKans slide off in a storm.

You know, Hale, the drone kid, the one who blew the whistle on the murdering of civilians by the USA, under the auspices of the great male-female-LGBT soldiering on for criminal capitalism. He was featured prominently in the award-winning documentary National Bird, a film about whistleblowers in the US drone program.

I reference Tim DeChristopher, Bidder 70.

“Have you ever read Franz Kafka’s The Trial?”

That is the first thing that Patrick Shea, a member of jailed climate activist Tim DeChristopher’s legal defense team, says to me when I call him this morning to ask him about reports that DeChristopher has been pulled out of his minimum security camp at Herlong federal prison in California and thrown into isolated confinement in an 8 x 10-foot cell. His latest crime?  Sending an email to a colleague with a “threat” to give back a $25,000 donation to his legal defense fund because DeChristopher, one of the most principled people I have ever encountered, discovered that his donor was exporting U.S. manufacturing jobs. (source)

Amazing people, these young men, for sure. But, the reality is young men have not only slipped through the cracks, but the cracks — decent real hands on education, community engagement mentoring, outside land love, male and female rendezvous bonding, hiking, growing, playing schools, ending the violent images, the crap on TV, the smart deadly phone crap, the hard porn, the war porn, intergenerational learning, mentoring, engaged within community boards, planning, politics — were created by accident and intentionally through the United States of Lies, Propaganda, War, Terror.

I saw beginning before my college teaching in 1983 how men in school, many of them, just did not get along. Not all of them, but since 1983, there have been studies on the great American Male Quit. There are recruitment tricks and white papers and studies on getting men back into school, back into liberal arts, back into engaged learning within multidisciplinary and multigenerational and both sexes learning.

This is not male bonding:

Tyler Durden On Adverstising: “Advertising Has Us Chasing Cars And Clothes, Working Jobs We Hate So We Can Buy Shit We Don’t Need.”

Here other quotes from Chuck Palenick’s book:

“You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

So, from the neoliberal, pro-Democratic Party, Chronical of Higher Education, several latest articles ringing the emergency bell on the men failing in college:

“No, the Boys Are Not Doing Just Fine: Men trail women from grade school through college. That’s a real problem.”

Quoting:

Gender gaps in higher education do not appear out of nowhere. To a large extent they reflect the disparities in the K-12 education system. Girls outperform boys at every stage, and in almost every subject. According to my analysis, two-thirds of the students graduating high school with a GPA in the top 10 percent of the distribution are female. The ratio is reversed at the bottom. (Source)

“The Problem Nobody’s Talking About: Men have trailed women in degree completion for decades. Why aren’t colleges doing anything?”

For decades now, men have trailed women in college completion. Barely 40 percent of men earn a bachelor’s degree in four years, compared with just over half of women, federal data show. Even fewer Black and Hispanic men graduate on time — 21 percent and 32 percent, respectively.

But the pandemic, which has led to a disproportionate enrollment decline among male students, is expected to deepen the divide. Nationwide, male enrollment has fallen 8.6 percent over the past two years, while female enrollment has dropped by 6.5 percent, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. There were nearly three million more women enrolled in college this spring than men. (source)

Here, one of the images in this story: Oscar Joya, here at the ice-cream shop where he’s worked since 2018, has dropped out of the U. of Washington twice.

It is complicated, and of course, toxic masculinity is real and overblown at the same time, and we know the toxic Hillary Clinton laughing at a world leader being murdered with a knife poked up his rectum. Gaddhfi. And the four dress-earing women running the top military offensive weapons companies. You get the picture, that there are so many mean, wrong, dangerous women.

My own work in education as an educator, then in sustainability circles and then in social work has seen me come face to face with damaged women, damaged straight and bi-sexual and queer women who had come after me for being male. Being too, well, my voice, too deep. Absurdity and dangerous until we have crises in education and social work and nursing and foster care and day care. No men, or few. And then the men are resentful, zip up their lips when microaggressions and macro-aggressions rule the day.

I never zip my mouth, and when someone declares, “this is a safe place,” I sort of believe them. I have been fired for advocating adults with developmental disabilities, foster youth in programs supporting them from 16 to 21, and alas, from other gigs. My work in education as been part-time, precarious, and so when no classes are given to me the proceeding semester or quarter, I have been fired.

“Your voice is too male . . . you have a real male worldview . . . your experiences seem to be almost macho . . . you have no idea how women respond to a male colleague . . . . “

So, we have men and women, boys and girls, who never see male workers in social work, medicine, education. My K12 sub jobs included youth telling me that I was the first “boy teacher we have had . . . . Can you be our teacher?”

Now, there are ways to nuance the information here from the above article:

“Men arrive with the attitude that college is about partying, competitive heterosexual sex, not preparing for academics, and breaking the rules,” he said.

Colleges also come in for their share of the blame, with critics accusing them of creating environments that are hostile to young men. They argue that a focus on gender equity and sexual-assault prevention has led to the censoring of speech deemed “politically incorrect,” and to the treatment of young men as predators.

“I feel that college is not geared toward us,” said Thomas Efrem, a junior at the University of Washington who is part of the Brotherhood Initiative. “There’s a lot of rhetoric against the patriarchy — I get it, but it feels like people point the finger at us.”

Efrem said that when he tries to challenge the conventional wisdom around issues related to gender equality, offering research to support his points, professors and students shut him down.

“There’s a lot of narrative pushing, and I don’t like that,” he said.

Colleges have also come under fire for offering programs and seminars — some student-driven — aimed at freeing young men from the pressures and constraints of traditional masculinity, often referred to as “toxic masculinity.” To college’s conservative critics, such training amounts to emasculation, an attempt to “reprogram” college-aged men to behave more like college-aged women.

But the idea is to not throw out of hand these comments. These are perceptions, feelings, and these men’s points of view. As educators, we should embrace a lot of things, many of which run counter to our own thinking, philosophy, lives, and backgrounds.

Below is my piece for September’s Newport News Times tied to those goofy “the month of [blank] is national [blank] commemoration month.”

It dips into that arena of Intergenerational love and thinking and duty. I also talk about men, too. Working these small-town newspaper essays demands I balance and know my audience. There will not be another Paul Haeder reading my stuff, so I have to pull back on the radicalness that we all should have been embracing from cradle to cradle. Truly. I can’t really expose the double- and triple-standards of the people I have worked with, locally, where I was fired and where I had to quit because of unprofessional, mean-as-cuss, limited-thinking females. I’ve written about those experiences all over the place, including here, Dissident Voice, LA Progressive and even Hormones Matter: Check out the three-part series on my case management hell and Planned Parenthood-Seattle here.

Or my work with the Starvation Army here. Poverty Pimping; & Alcohol, Atheism, Anarchy.

For now, a peak into small-town Newport/Lincoln County/Waldport/Yachats/Lincoln City:

National Intergenerational Month — Talking about Trees

September’s here, the month that brings in Fall. Looking at the national holiday list for September, I notice over 30 “themes” celebrated or commemorated. Here are just a few:

• National Hispanic Heritage
• Childhood Obesity
• Childhood  Cancer
• Self-Improvement
• Honey
• Potato
•  Pain Awareness
• Intergenerational
• Prostate

Diving into that intergenerational theme, I realize I’ve been intently interfacing with people decades younger than I am. In Waldport, Portland, Spokane, Seattle, and Alaska, I have talked with people thirty and forty years my junior.

I have deep conversations with some of the houseless rough sleepers in Waldport: guys that are in their thirties who have taken to life outside the “norms” of job, home, roots. Much of what I have discovered is trauma piled onto each individual since childhood.  I hearken to Dr. Gabor Mate:

“From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.” (documentary, “The Wisdom of Trauma”).

I’ve met one young guy at a Newport pharmacy who had dreams of being a marine biologist but whose poor health limited that aspiration.

I’ve got a book out, “Coastal People inside a Deep Dive,” featuring amazing Lincoln County folk from my column at Oregon Coast Today. Many of those I featured were both old and young, and every age in between.

Every day I meet amazing young people in various stages of their wonderful evolutions. Many are living with complex PTSD. Others are working through financial strain. Each conversation with someone younger than I takes me to their spiritual home.

Listening is important in today’s age. Many old timers say in the old days we listened more, engaged more with people outside our socio-economic and cultural-ethnic backgrounds.

I’ve had deep conversations with Chuck Ellard who runs Newport’s Pacific Digital printing. I’ve written about him, and he is featured in the Coastal People book. He’s in his late thirties, just had a son, and moved from Logsden to Seal Rock. He sees himself as a vital member of the community, assisting individuals with their framing needs or getting printing huge jobs from the Lincoln County School District.

A young woman who is working in a five and dime tells me of her dreams of being a writer, and wants to major in literature at U of O. A single parent’s health issues forced her to help pay the bills, so she is in a holding pattern working 50 hours a week. She has a real grace in this derailed point in her life.

I’ve been spending a few hours with a “tree man,” an arborist. Tyler Muth is from Waldport, went to school here, and now this 29-year-old has his own tree service business. He is tall and lanky. Think of a bearded young Brad Pitt.

Muth likes climbing trees. He respects the tree and encourages people to keep healthy trees.

He uses ropes to climb and small chain saws and handsaws. He knows the species of trees, and he is studying for certification through the International Society of Arboriculture.

We talk about Tyler’s years trying to make it as a pro surfer. He likes hitting waves, and he’s surfed up and down the Pacific Coast. He first competed when he was 12.

His business, Dr. Hingewood, allows for some free surf time. He’s worked in construction, and he even did a stint for a mobile slaughter house killing and dressing cows.  He tired of that job, as he says it got to him: “I don’t like killing animals. I don’t own a gun. I even had a hard time last week killing a fish.”

He’s done some gnarly jobs, up in big timber, and those cuts are dangerous. He knows his back cuts (the third and final cut made on the opposite side of the notch).  His business’ name, Dr. Hingewood, ties into how the portion of a tree left uncut – the hinge — can control the direction of the fall.

We talk about family, and he isn’t married and says doesn’t want children. “My freedom and lifestyle would make it difficult to raise a child. I like my freedom to just pick up and go surfing.”

He’s a businessman with a contractor’s license, and he says he has challenges keeping guys on payroll since many just pick up and take off for other gigs, like building wind turbines or commercial fishing.

He is a self-described tree nerd. I’ve written many stories about arborists, urban forestry programs and the value of trees in places like Spokane and Seattle. Out here, Tyler works with mostly private customers, usually with nuisance trees.

We both look up at the aging cypress on the neighbor’s property overhanging my wife and my backyard. He sees the canopy, the architecture of the tree, the hidden deadwood and fossilized wood in the middle of the trunk.

That sky —  those crows, the giant unruly evergreen, blue herons squawking – gets Tyler and I talking. He’s an easy-going man with keen sense of follow- through. I listen; he listens. He tells me about the time a 14-foot great white shark “sort of just appeared” under him while he was surfing off the Oregon coast.

This is the kind of intergenerational discourse we all need. We talk about how men struggle to communicate and to know themselves.

Tyler goes about life with an even keel, he says, and while he isn’t blind to the world, he tells me that he is not so engaged in huge political debates.

“I keep busy. I love trees.” He relishes climbing, figuring out what to cut, and how to get that cut wood down without breaking a patio or his own neck. We both interject our “almost broke my neck” stories. This is intergenerational communication at its best, looking up at a 100-year-old busted up cypr

The End

Daniel Hale: “I am here to answer for my own crimes and not that of another person,” he said at his sentencing. “And it would appear that I am here today to answer for the crime of stealing papers, for which I expect to spend some portion of my life in prison. But what I am really here for is having stolen something that was never mine to take: precious human life. For which I was well-compensated and given a medal. I couldn’t keep living in a world in which people pretended things weren’t happening that were. My consequential decision to share classified information about the drone program with the public was a gesture not taken lightly, nor one I would have taken at all if I believed such a decision had the possibility of harming anyone but myself. I acted not for the sake of self-aggrandizement but that I might some day humbly ask forgiveness.” (source)

After his sentencing on Tuesday July 26, 2011, Tim Dechristopher gave a 35 minute statement to the judge. Grist has published the entire statement on their website, here is an excerpt:

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the presentence report, he explained that it was essentially his job to “get to know me.” He said he had to get to know who I really was and why I did what I did in order to decide what kind of sentence was appropriate. I was struck by the fact that he was the first person in this courthouse to call me by my first name, or even really look me in the eye. I appreciate this opportunity to speak openly to you for the first time. I’m not here asking for your mercy, but I am here asking that you know me.

Mr. Huber has leveled a lot of character attacks at me, many of which are contrary to Mr. Manross’s report. While reading Mr. Huber’s critiques of my character and my integrity, as well as his assumptions about my motivations, I was reminded that Mr. Huber and I have never had a conversation. Over the two and half years of this prosecution, he has never asked me any of the questions that he makes assumptions about in the government’s report. Apparently, Mr. Huber has never considered it his job to get to know me, and yet he is quite willing to disregard the opinions of the one person who does see that as his job.

There are alternating characterizations that Mr. Huber would like you to believe about me. In one paragraph, the government claims I “played out the parts of accuser, jury, and judge as he determined the fate of the oil and gas lease auction and its intended participants that day.” In the very next paragraph, they claim, “It was not the defendant’s crimes that effected such a change.” Mr. Huber would lead you to believe that I’m either a dangerous criminal who holds the oil and gas industry in the palm of my hand, or I’m just an incompetent child who didn’t affect the outcome of anything. As evidenced by the continued back and forth of contradictory arguments in the government’s memorandum, they’re not quite sure which of those extreme caricatures I am, but they are certain that I am nothing in between. Rather than the job of getting to know me, it seems Mr. Huber prefers the job of fitting me into whatever extreme characterization is most politically expedient at the moment.

In nearly every paragraph, the government’s memorandum uses the words lie, lied, lying, liar. It makes me want to thank whatever clerk edited out the words “pants on fire.” Their report doesn’t mention the fact that at the auction in question, the first person who asked me what I was doing there was Agent Dan Love. And I told him very clearly that I was there to stand in the way of an illegitimate auction that threatened my future. I proceeded to answer all of his questions openly and honestly, and have done so to this day when speaking about that auction in any forum, including this courtroom. The entire basis for the false statements charge that I was convicted of was the fact that I wrote my real name and address on a form that included the words “bona fide bidder.” When I sat there on the witness stand, Mr. Romney asked me if I ever had any intention of being a bona fide bidder. I responded by asking Mr. Romney to clarify what “bona fide bidder” meant in this context. Mr. Romney then withdrew the question and moved on to the next subject. On that right there is the entire basis for the government’s repeated attacks on my integrity. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, your honor.

Mr. Huber also makes grand assumptions about my level of respect for the rule of law. The government claims a long prison sentence is necessary to counteract the political statements I’ve made and promote a respect for the law. The only evidence provided for my lack of respect for the law is political statements that I’ve made in public forums. Again, the government doesn’t mention my actions in regard to the drastic restrictions that were put upon my defense in this courtroom. My political disagreements with the court about the proper role of a jury in the legal system are probably well known. I’ve given several public speeches and interviews about how the jury system was established and how it has evolved to its current state. Outside of this courtroom, I’ve made my views clear that I agree with the founding fathers that juries should be the conscience of the community and a defense against legislative tyranny. I even went so far as to organize a book study group that read about the history of jury nullification. Some of the participants in that book group later began passing out leaflets to the public about jury rights, as is their right. Mr. Huber was apparently so outraged by this that he made the slanderous accusations that I tried to taint the jury. He didn’t specify the extra number of months that I should spend in prison for the heinous activity of holding a book group at the Unitarian Church and quoting Thomas Jefferson in public, but he says you should have “little tolerance for this behavior.”

But here is the important point that Mr. Huber would rather ignore. Despite my strong disagreements with the court about the Constitutional basis for the limits on my defense, while I was in this courtroom I respected the authority of the court. Whether I agreed with them or not, I abided by the restrictions that you put on me and my legal team. I never attempted to “taint” the jury, as Mr. Huber claimed, by sharing any of the relevant facts about the auction in question that the court had decided were off limits. I didn’t burst out and tell the jury that I successfully raised the down payment and offered it to the BLM. I didn’t let the jury know that the auction was later reversed because it was illegitimate in the first place. To this day I still think I should have had the right to do so, but disagreement with the law should not be confused with disrespect for the law.

Scholar Tony Martin (RIP) Discussed Jewish Influence, and the Slave Trade, too

A number of Black people who have come under attack from the Jewish community have been charged with anti-semitism. This is not a new situation. Pan-Afrikan activists and historians have consistently come under attack for challenging the legitimacy of the State of Israel and highlighting the role of Jews in the Trans-Atlantic Enslavement of Afrikan People. Baba Tony Martin was one such Professor, who would incur the full wrath of the Jewish lobby in America when he dared to add the book, “The Secret Relationship Between Black and Jews” written by the research department of the Nation of Islam – to his History syllabus. Baba Martin documented the history of the attack in his book “The Jewish Onslaught” and then delivered many presentations on the subject. We share this in the hope that it might inform others on the history of this battle.

The long essay on Black-Jewish relations, primarily in the United States, by a professor of African American History who became embroiled in controversy over his classroom use of a book detailing the well- documented Jewish role in the Atlantic slave trade. “The Jewish Onslaught” discusses, among other things, the increasing attacks of Jewish organizations on Black leaders and scholars, the alleged halcyon period of a Black-Jewish alliance, the Jewish role in the slave trade and the Jewish attack on Afrocentrism.

Now, the precipitating event around this quick blog post is the email I got from a guy in Illinois who reads me and thought I might have some soft shoe magic in the realm of publishing, drama, literary arts, etc. Funny thing happened on the way toe the forum uh? So, this guy, a cement guy (mason) who lives on a farm and is around age 62 and he’s retired but became interested in 9/11 and building free-falls and that Infamous Building Number Seven and the building’s owner, Larry Sliverstein, who seems to have already had plans for the building to be brought down, which we call, demolished, for a new state of the sustainability art, safest building in the world, designed by Jewish architects and engineers in Israel. The plans were there well BEFORE the September event, 911. Then, bam, the building pancaked, with no hit by any airline. So, interesting, no? Oy vei!

My email pal, he wrote a play, about three brothers, working class, albeit, and Goyim, talking about the World Trade Center and the free fall love of those buildings pancaking into hell. And, the Silverstein case of Number Seven. This guy has been emailing me, and I’ve been responding, for months. I’ve talked with him via phone, too, and alas, he has a few people looking at the script, and he even enlisted Ed Asner’s interest, and Ed even recorded himself reading part of the intro. Ed was interested in the script, but alas, age and death took him out too soon to be a part of this mason’s deal to have a play produced. He’s also open to a movie. Good luck on that one, I keep reminding him, you know, who controls the media?

From the YouTube crap above, a commentator, Winston Smith:

Lucky Larry!! Not only did he not attend his daily Windows on The World breakfast on 9/11 but his son and daughter, who also worked in the towers, did not show up that day. That’s what I call foreknowledge, I mean luck.

Who could look at the facts of the 911/anthrax attacks and not realize they were domestic crimes carried out by the same individuals? No one who’s objective and has taken even a cursory look at the facts could come to that conclusion.

56:03 (No mention of why his children didnt go to work that morning). In fact, Building 7 The Solomon Brothers Building was 350 feet away from the North Tower and had damage to its southeast corner and scattered fires that burned most of the day. Fire of course cannot bring down a Type 1 building. No steel-framed skyscraper has ever or can possibly come down in the manner of a controlled demolition, (of WTC76) without it having been one. Period.

Building 7 had 58 perimeter and 40,000 tons of steel in its structural support system. Had even one of those perimeter columns been left intact we would have seen an asymmetrical collapse.

It is beyond ludicrous and a spit in the face of every victim and every broken heart that has resulted from these unprecedented acts of treason, for this criminal to make such claims, knowing full well that it, like the Twin Towers, was destroyed through controlled demolition. You will not hear him address the molten steel and iron (See FEMA BPAT App. C which documents molten structural steel), the evidence of thermite (RJ Lee, USGS and Harrit et. al. 2009), the 100 day fires, the insanely excessive temperatures recorded from these underground fires, the 1,120 missing bodies, the pulverized concrete, the 1,200′ radial debris fields the towers left, the complete dismantling of their superstructures and all the rest of the thoroughly documented facts that prove the demolition of those buildings.

Now, there is so much to cover with the September 11, 2001 conspiracy. So so much, and I was and still am helping this fan of mine with the play understand the power of the media, press, dramatic arts, film, etc. Again, listen to Tony Martin above to understand the pervasive censorship. Read Gilad or others,

It takes a lot of backgrounding to help this bricklayer understand what he is up against in his attempt to unmask the Jewish or Israel involvement in 9/11:

Given that Gilad Atzmon and Shlomo Sand are both former Jews who have provided criticism of Jewish identity politics, it may be illuminating to understand why the organized, kosherized, Palestinian “solidarity community” embraces Sand while rejecting and disavowing Atzmon.

Atzmon’s initial reaction to his own “disavowal” was characteristically humorous, with him stating that he has only ever operated as an individual, and cannot be kicked out of any groups because he never belonged to any to begin with.

At any rate, it is well-known and easily observable that the Zionist-controlled solidarity discourse, whose primary mouth-piece is “Electronic Intifada”‘s Ali Abuminah, is deeply compromised and functions as a gatekeeper establishment, i.e. it seeks to censor “politically incorrect” ideas, while simultaneously providing weak, ineffectual criticism which ignores all of the key issues which would actually end the occupation of Palestine. Atzmon, a very successful jazz artist in his own right, as well as is the saxophonist on the latest Pink Floyd album, has remarked that “Electronic Intifada has reduced Palestinian resistance to an electronic board.”

In general, the Solidarity movement bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the Jewish left (which operates hand-in-hand with the jewish right), manifesting in a relentless need to convince their faithful but somnambulant following that Zionism has nothing to do with ‘Jews’ and Jewish culture, that these are two completely separate, non-intersecting spheres. The result of this programming is an ideological collective of curiously vociferous people whose top priority, above and beyond Palestinian liberation, is to never offend the Jews. These people can be seen on social media, energetically laying out their talking points to convey the image that “Zionism is the only problem,” Jews and Jewishness are positive and peaceful concepts, and are adamant that Jews and Jewish culture are outside the parameters of what can be considered socially acceptable criticism. They try to set us up to fail to address the real problem, which is Jewish exclusivity and Jewish ethno-centrism, something that has been endemic and definitive of Jewish culture for thousands of years before Zionism was even invented. (source)

The reality is a cover-up, and multiple cover-ups, well, the big lie and the cancerous lie are better lies to propagate:

For years now, I’ve known there was something wrong when my well-meaning anti-Zionist Jewish friends found it necessary to join Jewish anti-Zionist groups opposing Israel. In the US, Jewish Voice for Peace, in Canada, Not in Our Name; in Britain, Jews Against Zionism — every country has its group, usually more than one. “I am a Jewish witness against Israel,” I would be told. Sounds good, even brave. Sand’s latest deconstruction of Jewishness and Israel, How I Stopped Being a Jew (2014), makes it clear why my suspicions were well founded.

Barely 100 pages, it is a page-turner, a precis of his earlier more scholarly works, arguing that the romantic, heroic age of Jewish nationalism, as embodied in the creation of a Jewish state, is coming to an end. Israel will not disappear, but it is an anachronism, an embarrassment in the postmodern age. A reminder of the horrors of Nazism, but not as the Zionist crafters of the “holocaust industry”, or “holocaust religion”, would have it. The Zionist project is exposed by Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Gilad Atzmon, Israel Shamir and many more Jewish critics as reenacting the same policies of yesteryear. A flawed answer that is doomed, “an insidious form of racism“.

For the Israeli Sand, the Jewish “national” identity is a fraud (an Israeli identity is fine); the only viable Jewish identity is a religious one, and as a nonbeliever, he logically concludes,  “Cogito, ergo non sum.”

Gilad Atzmon takes Sand’s logic further. He tore up his Israeli passport, becoming an ex-Israeli as well as an ex-Jew.

What’s so wrong with a secular, ethnic Jewish identity? Well, it can be based on only one of two things: persecution (being “forced” into being a Jew whether one likes it or not, as in the Nazi’s racial laws) or being “born” into the Jewish people. The former is no longer an issue and the latter is full of holes, and based on a dangerous myth. (source)

Read the scholar, Kees Van der Pijl, or look him up on the Internet for videos. Most have been censored, and his work on video is not in English:

Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of Studies of the US Army War College and emeritus research chair at that institution, concludes, 9/11 was a Mossad  orchestrated operation. However,

Mossad  did not do it alone.  They needed local help within America  (and perhaps elsewhere) and they had it, principally from some alumni of PNAC (misnamed Project for a New American Century) and their affiliates within and outside of the US government who in the 9/11 attacks got the”catalytic event”  they needed and craved to take the US to war on Israel’s behalf. (source)

Back to Tony Martin: Martin made a startling assertion concerning slave ownership by Jews: “Using the research of Jewish historians, the book suggests that based on the 1830 census, Jews actually had a higher per capita slave ownership than for the white population as a whole.” The Secret Relationship does in fact approach making that suggestion, and since the claim would appear to be a pivotal one, it is worth examining. (source)

Those dancing Jews: Source, the Grayzone!

Covert Action Magazine looks closer at 9/11:

Everything, we are told, changed in September of 2001.  It has been twenty years since the terror spectacle of 9/11. On this grim anniversary, we offer some big picture analysis—a series of articles reflecting on the extent to which everything did and did not change as a result of 9/11. Begun months ago, and building on years of scholarship by the authors, the occasion is all the more salient given some strange synchronicity. Specifically, we have just witnessed the fall of the U.S. puppet regime in Kabul. And in the wake of this spectacle, the Biden administration announced plans to declassify information pertaining to the FBI’s investigation into the Saudi role in the attacks.

These events highlight the fact that despite all the investigations and research around the events of September 11, 2001, much remains obscured. As such, this series presents a deeper exploration into the tragic events and catastrophic consequences of 9/11.  In this first installment, we examine how the U.S. for decades has utilized Islamic terrorists as assets for its own ends.  In Part 2, we look at how CIA figures actively prevented other government agencies from exposing the al Qaeda presence in the U.S. prior to the attacks. In the third and final article, we explore the deep political and historical implications of the U.S. government’s “emergency” powers in order to offer some conclusions about 9/11. (source)

I don’t have the patience to rewrite a lot of things from these articles on Acae demica, and turn them into quotations here from this piece, so find it yourself:

Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11, or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex by Kees Van der Pijl

Van der Pijl also talks about the Covid Planned Pandemic here:

Pandemic of Angst: Elite strategies to control the masses as democracy is dismantled, Kees van der Pijl – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

Here we go, RIMA – Relações Internacionais e Marxismo – “The politics of fear: 9/11, MH17, Covid19”

Here, since Google CIA YouTube takes it all down (Video unavailable: Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSEgmDl5eo = RIMA Relações Internacionais e Marxismo

Again, Tony Martin’s book, The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront

When money, power and influence are used to revise history by erasing ugly truths, the world needs courageous and informed truth-tellers like professor Tony Martin to correct the record, by every means necessary, even if it endangers his life, career and reputation. This was an eye-opener for me, regarding the ruthless, high-stakes world of political lobbying. (source)

So my mason in Illinois who is Catholic and believes all beings can find redemption, is a knee-jerk fearful of criticizing too many actions by and connectivity with a Zionist and Jewish mindset kinda guy. Here, a tribute to Tony Martin, PhD.

As an intellectual member of the Unity Nation scholar-warrior coterie, Martin along with Steve Cokely, Khallid Abdul Muhammad and Leonard Jeffries Jr. documented the Black Holocaust at Howard University on April 19, 1994. For their research and scholarship regarding the methodical plunder, displacement, enslavement and unlawful premeditated massacre of Africans along with the systematic impact of such atrocities, the Unity Nation coterie faced an economic, political and cultural onslaught by those who advanced a Eurocentric historiography of the world. Therefore, Martin was considered to be a polemical scholar due to his relentless and warranted intellectual dissension against belligerent academic and societal forces. His intellectual dissension against belligerent forces came full circle during the 1990s as he became the target of several libel suits and vituperative attacks. As a consequence and riposte to deliberate provocations, Martin published “The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches From the Wellesley Battlefront,” which some considered the best polemic by any human being since the 1829 publication of David Walker’s classic “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.”

Jeffries, the last living member of the Unity Nation coterie, said, “Dr. Martin is truly a great scholar and extraordinarily spirited human being who left an enduring intellectual legacy because he had a sacred mission to the production of knowledge and maintenance of Pan-African values, interests and principles.”

Martin’s scholarship Garvey, the Caribbean and Pan-Africanism is commendable and must be advanced by the next generation of Black scholars. May the ancestors be with him when we look for him and the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey in the whirlwind. (“Look for me in the whirlwind: Controversial Caribbean scholar Tony Martin dies” by Amsterdam News, January 24, 2013)

Keeping it simple for Building Seven:

A bit more around the 9/11 deal:

“Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain.” ― Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Sure, Gabor has a way with trauma, and his own life as a Jew in Hungary, young, and his mother giving him to a neighbor for a few weeks to protect the young Gabor from the Nazis, that is what Gabor sees as both early childhood trauma and epigentic trauma.

The documentary focusing on the Canadian is good. Alas, he is also part of a group attempting to heal, but for a fee. All sorts of access to Gabor, extended conversations, and ways to work with trauma.

Here’s a list on the resources link/drop down: The Wisdom of Trauma.

• Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress (by KPJR Films)
• ACE Study (by Academy on Violence and Abuse)
• Breakthrough: The Trauma Chaser
• Cormac Russell on Asset Based Community Development (Podcast)
• CRACKED UP
• Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia | We Are Witnesses
• Gabor Mate & Adyashanti: Emotional and Spiritual Maturity
• Hannah Beach, trauma work with students using movement and stories, Each of Us Has a Story
• Higher Practice (Podcast)
• How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime (TED talk with Nadine Burke Harris)
• Is Your Story Making You Sick?
• Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects
• Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story
• PBS Newshour: Childhood Trauma
• Professor Julianne Holt Lunstad on the the amazing impact of social relationships on health and longevity (Podcast)
• Professor Steve Cole on human social genomics amongst many others with fantastic insight into the power of community (Podcast)
• Reasons I Drink (Alanis Morrissette)
• Reclaiming Our Students, 12-session online educational series for educators
• Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
• Step Inside the Circle
• Surgical Empathy
• Tashi and The Monk (Film)
• This Might Hurt (Film)
• Trauma and The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective

There are other ways to also see how the world works, how people in both the West and the Global South are dealing with microaggression and macroaggression after aggression. Of course, patriarchy, capitalism and many variations on that theme are killing the human soul, the human body, from pre-birth to seven generations out. Trauma is also the synergy of chemical x mixed with chemials a,b,c on. Imagine that, a world where we barely talk about Rachel Carson, why the eagle egg thins out and why the sperm counts drop, but then, we are in a world of constant organic chemistry alchemy. The countless science going into products to make them sleeker, thinner, cooler, softer, harder, bigger, smaller, less flammable, more flammable, more slippery, less stinky, more glowing, better looking, easier to digest, more aromatic, less shiny.

That is the Faustian Bargain we all have engaged in, for our new species, Homo Consumopithecus, Erectus Plasticus. That bargain also involved a world of more complicated diodes and self-replicating genetically engineered stuff, a world where computing and virtual reality and augmented reality and artifiial intelligence and machine learning, all of that, we have accepted in our toys and in our mundane jobs, but then we shudder to think of the truly monsterous matrix and biopiracy we have allowed the data hogs and the surveillence soldiers to deploy to control our lives.

So, yes, adverse childhood experiences make sense, and it is a scale, a way to look at children who are struggling in school, and sometimes as a predictor of what might befall a student who has seen daddy put in jail, mommy hooked on booze, seen the repo man come into the home, found the beat up Ford Taurus hooked up to a tow truck for lack of payment. You know, just in a home with chaos, violence between parents, and then add up homelessness, and their own abuse, i.e. physical and sexual.

The devil, though is in the details of what ACEs really mean to the titans of finance, to the masters of social impact investing, on the Fourth Industrial Revolutionaires:

“Factors associated with adverse childhood experiences in Scottish children: a prospective cohort study” (source)

Pay for success or social impact partnership: Return on investment for social impact, as in the cost of special education, or what is the cost of depression. All that money attached to issues, but they want to tie in money and making money on those profiles — pre-crime — to preemptively fix you when you ARE not broken! Investing on disaster (disaster capitalism) or investing on your childhood or household or prison sentence. Scary stuff.

Beware of Kaiser Permanente and Silicon Valley and Futures Markets and Hedge Funds and Human Capital Markets. Making money on trauma? Prenatal shit, too.

These are nefarious human beings. These are the Inquisition’s offspring, in skinny jeans and fancy pant suits. The human capital market is contradictory in terms of health and mental care. Making money, man.

Here, Alison:

What concerns me about ACEs is the “scoring.”

Why should a standardized rubric developed under the auspices of one of the largest managed healthcare systems, Kaiser Permanente, label clients and structure the way a doctor, therapist, social worker, or educator can care for them? How did this tool come to have such a far reach, and whose interests will it ultimately serve?

Is a reliance on “scores” an intentionally-constructed framework that allows providers to limit their scope to “fixing” individuals and families rather than advancing a more radical approach whereby systemic causes of community trauma, trauma rooted in our country’s deep racist history, can be acknowledged, holistically assessed, and begin to be ameliorated?

And finally, will this “scoring” system be used to transform the treatment of childhood trauma into a machine for “pay for success” data speculation?

I believe it will.

A September-October, 2017 article for Academic Pediatrics, “Financing Mechanisms for Reducing Adversity and Enhancing Resilience Through Primary Prevention,” shows why ACE interventions will be an extremely attractive investment option for predatory social entrepreneurs. The authors note interventions that “prevent or mitigate the effects of ACEs can have impact across multiple sectors including: behavioral health, general health, child welfare, and “future criminal justice.” Every sector represents potential profit for investors. It appears there’s a lot of money in trauma remediation.

The paper references work done by the Washington State Institute on Public Policy (WSIPP) in which sophisticated cost/benefit models were created that estimate future cost savings across sectors so that the savings can be used to repay investors. WSIPP is one of eight data labs, operating under the purview of the NYU Gov Lab. Among the policy recommendations presented in this paper were: 1) setting “a conceptual framework to understand and account for outcomes across a broad range of public and private investment” 2) “validating metrics to estimate society costs and benefits” 3) adopting integrated budgets that combine health and social welfare finance and 4) disseminating information about innovative policies and finance mechanisms like “pay for success.”

The bottom line is that investors see children who have been harmed as potential sources of vast quantities of “impact” data, since the damage inflicted upon them extends across so many domains. The fact that the harm is so pervasive is, sickeningly, what makes so profitable. Interoperable databases are key to the program. All the data must be pooled in data lakes to claim the future cost offsets that enable the profit taking. WSIPP and its counterparts have been key collaborators in developing a national data architecture upon which impact investment markets will be built. More details in my post “Interoperable Data To Fuel Human Capital Hedge Funds.” (Adverse Childhood Experience Scores: Part of the “Pay for Success” Plan?)

More on this later. But for now, it comes back to ground truthing. The father-in-law tipped over at home, had a headache, slurred speech, so 911 was called, EMT’s came out, and the idea was maybe a stroke.

He already has ambulatory issues with a genetic issue with his feet and legs (he’s 79, was a truck driver, and he is in his Seventh Day Adventist world) and he has a hip replacement that went south, both because of that traumatic sawing of bone event, and I suppose because he didn’t “do” the hard end rehab program.

He is also a veteran, so he loves the VA since just four years ago, at my urging and assistance, got on that welfare-socialist gravy train. Good resources for equipment, rehab, and a listening nurse or PA.

That was a month ago, and they found the 2-inch mass in his frontal right lob, and he went under the knive a week ago, and the gliobpastoma was the result. Stuck in a Kaiser hospital, and alas, he “tested” positive for the Bioweapon Covid19, so did his wife and his visiting son (from Amerian Somoa) and grandson (from Texas).

Stuck in a hospital, and no visitors, and there you have it. Now, he has been shifted to a rehab place, and he again, tested positive for Bioweapon Covid19, and so, two days there, no visitors because he is in a “Covid19 wing of the national for-profit rehabilitation unit (Regency).

My wife and I live three hours from Portland area, and we wanted to visit her mother and this husband, but the lockdown is in effect (he’s been jabbed four times, his wife three but Jonesing for the 4th one).

My fear is the reality of 2020 and 2021. The horror stories of families separated from loved ones who ended up dying alone in a hospital. This is the madness of these mandates and these rotten dictatorial systems. ALL of it.

The trauma (mental) of this fellow in a rehab clinic, locked down, and he has opted for chemo therapy and radio therapy. The predicted lifespan for this 79 year old, according to surgeon and cancer specialists and his primacy care doctor is a year.

One year lifespan. Do not return to sender. Do not expect a refund. And, the radiation, and the poison pill or IV, those treatments (they will have to be at the VA, so transportation is an issue, as in $), what will those medical interventions do to his mind, his mental capacity, his neuro net? What about the gut and the pain and confusion and amazing body-complete aches and heaves?

Yeah, we all say we would not do this, go through this hell, for another 12 months? Or, really, the diagnosis is one year without the poisons? I am not sure they have had that conversation, since I am not a lynchpin in their lives.

Of course, the father-in-law is looking toward getting back to his small apartment and his fragile wife helping with the catheter and comode and transfering from hair to toilet to shower to bed.

It aint going to happen. He thinks he’ll be back on his scooter and tooling around Costco, etc. He believes he’ll be back dragging his legs and feet using a walker, to the curb, to the family handicap van, etc.

This is trauma, for me and for my wife and for his wife and for the grandson who had never met the granddady for his 24 years of life until the cancer diagnosis and his father footing the bill to have him come out to Sandy, OR. The son, 53, did not spend much time with this father, who is now ailing and has an expiration date, AKA medical diagnosis.

I get why people who read my stuff all over the internet, including Dissident Voice, might not get into the nitty-gritty of personal lives, my own vagaries of living, or the ground truthing I attempt to do while still tying into that with my belief that we as a nation and globe we have to throw off the chains and do some hard hard work about getting back to our tribal selves, the neo-tribal selves. Oh, yes, eco-socialism, retrenchment, global thinking, global cooperation, true human to human work. Away from the elites, the rich (there shall be no billioniaires or multimillionaires).

It’s getting complicated, though, not going along with the so-called progressives who want mandates, forced vaccinations, and of course, these impact bonds, these systems of holding poor people and struggling people accountable vis-a-vis the investors and the social impact pogroms. On Dissdient Voice, we have those who think carbon dioxide as we spew has no effect on climate, and then we have others talking about the climate emergency.

We have so many emergencies, and these medical issues will be hitting more and more people, not just indirectly with the aging Baby Boomers, but witht the anxiety, self-harm, the childhood trauma leading to destructive behavior, addiction, obesity, workaholic behavior. The constant stream of negative news, the war drums, the incompetent Western governments, the Nazis and right wing conservative anti-human, anti-ecology movement, the openly dumb censoring and cognitive dissonance of the fake progressives wanting control, mandates, and pusing techno fascism of the Google Types.

We will not see the revolution televised:

Poverty, sickness, community decay, environmental disaster will not be solved by the billionaires, the investors, the bloody idiots investing in “the developing child.”

And, more people moving to Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona will not solve a bloody thing: Imagine that, one generation’s damming of the river, flooding the desert for unchecked growth is another generation’s major major problem. Water, baby, water, and Lake Mead! The largest reservoir in the United States, is a critical source of water for 25 million people across seven states as well as some of the country’s largest agricultural valleys.

Here are the 10 states with the fastest growth rates:

1. Utah (1.53%)
2. Idaho (1.45%)
3. Texas (1.35%)
4. North Dakota (1.35%)
5. Nevada (1.28%)
6. Colorado (1.27%)
7. Washington (1.26%)
8. Florida (1.25%)
9. Arizona (1.05%)
10. South Carolina (0.95%)

And, the Gates Formula for land grabbing. These are real struggles: “This website contains news about the global rush to buy or lease farmlands by agribusiness, governments and financial investors — and people’s resistance against it. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring, researching or organising around the issue, particularly activists, non-government organisations and journalists. It was initially set up by GRAIN, to share evidence of the new global farmland grab documented in Seized: The 2008 land grab for food and financial security.”

It call comes down to family, no, the battered family, the epigenetic trauma, the cities and towns flagging, the infrastructure crumbling, the fires and droughts, the heat waves, the inflation, and of course, broke medicine, and the for-profit model of everything. And the question: Who will undergo the chemo and radiation and bed-riddennes and non-ambulatory life stuck in a hospital bed and rehab or hospice for that one year lifespan?

The costs, man, mental, familial, the community impact. And, just the bills, man, the hospital bills.

How much?

How much money does a brain tumor surgery cost? For patients not covered by health insurance, the typical cost of brain tumor treatment can range from less than $50,000 for a small benign tumor in an accessible location that can be treated with surgery alone up to $700,000 or more for a malignant tumor that must be treated with some combination of surgery, radiation ….The median total direct cost of patient care was $91,000, with radiotherapy and imaging costs being the most expensive (approximately $14,000 each). The majority of direct costs were incurred in the first four months of treatment with a plateau in costs beyond 1 year, reflecting the poor survival of this disease.

Oh, so much in the news, in the stupendous news of the UK and EU and USA and Klanada and Ukraine. So much news about Japan wanting nukes, wanting the rising sun again. So so much about how dead the lands are becoming. First it was those cold winters and sanctioning Russian gas, but now, temperatures in Lisbon and Madrid, hitting 116 F!

The chaos is the message, and the messangers are the most corrupt, the most incapable of seeing systems of oppression — capitalism — running a scheme to drain every cent from the 90 percent of the world, and from 80 percent of the Western world.

But it comes down to krill, first, yet another canary in the mineshaft: “Climate Scientists Stunned to Find Atlantic Plankton 90% Gone; Marine Life, our Oxygen Imperiled!”

Yeah, air, that thing we need to live. Water, sun, air, food. Not on the Billionaires’ agendas. And now that the Amazon rainforest is coming close to being a carbon emitter, versus a carbon sink, and now that sea grasses are being mowed down by pollution, heating waters, acidification, well, air and ocean bounties, going, going, gone …on the capitalism at any cost cutting block.

Yet, oh, yet, we will debate the cocaine consumption of Zelensky versus Hunter Biden’s prostitution and crack habits; we’ll look at the decaying brain of Biden and the amped up super-predator brain of another aging fool, Trump. We will see the inept EU, Nato, UK, Canada, USA, all those at the top (sic), go on and on about nothing. Even the perverted George Soros, he gets quoted these days along with war criminal deluxe, Kissinger:

“We have a fund in Ukraine, and it turned out to be one of the best. I also want to mention that there is one person who has been very deeply involved in Ukraine and that is Biden.” (Source)

So, which image is more important to the world? Krill, or the felons pictured in all the news, including that one above ?

Many leftists will deny the climate crisis. Amazing fools, and tools, really. No, there will be no shift from hydrocarbons to solar and wind. That is a fact. Yes, the sea rise will affecting billions as ports will be inundated. Ports. Think about everything that comes and goes in capitalism and commerce — ports, cities, people.

Those temperatures in Spain and Portugal? In Seattle a few years ago, thousands died, and that was a 20 day stretch of heating. Air conditioning, man. Electricity, where’s that in Trump-Bidenstan? So, the fears of a cold German winter are not there yet since the heat and death waves are coming NOW. Take a look at ZioLensky’s world below.

Yeah, it is fear factor Number 999. Monkeypox and Ninja Covid and Nukes to Ukraine, and war with China, and Israel looking for a new Davidstan (think Ukraine). Yes, heat wave 2022, an echo of heat wave 2015.

The heat and wet bulb temperatures in the Middle East, India, Austin? Oh, those 142 degree ground temperatures. Normal, or easily weathered. Green weenies and Coal-mouthed Capitalists and Mike Pence Armaggedon Freaks, it’s all the same to them: the world as a chessboard, the world as a game of thrones, the world as shark tank and dog-eat-dog.

This is the holy map of the next Armaggedon fear pron:

But again, it’s the bees, man, or the krill. How many bees have you seen in California, in Oregon, in Washington? Come on, is this the Insect Apocalypse? I have tomato and pepper plants that are not getting pollinated. This is it for the world of despotic Goldman Sachs and Black Rock and Black Stone perversions.

“There are lots of tiny little things in this world that hold aloft everything that we value,” said Oliver Milman, an environmental author of a new book called The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World.

A world without insects is a world we don’t want to live in, Milman told Vox. Yet we don’t seem to pay these critters much attention — even as many of them slip toward extinction. Science is increasingly showing that insects, on the whole, are declining quickly, he said. Some populations have fallen by more than 70 percent in just a few decades. (source)

So, again, the value of nothing, that value of missiles destroyed in their canisters. The value of Ukraine armed forces and Nazi forces bombing schools, maternity wards, city blocks, markets, homes. The value of bumbling Biden and Killer King.

These are horror show images above. Absolutely, horrific images of dudes who need extinction NOW.

And the guy with 20 books, and yet no one listens. In fact, his most recent book was written by himself, in English, and only published in Germany, translated into that language. He teaches at University of Washington-Seattle, so a 100 students at a time is not a game changer!!

Oh, darn, now almost everything Ward broaches in this interview is spot on, or at least in need of huge global discussion and mitigation now. I do not agree with his assessment of SARS-CoV2 masks, and the interviewer is of course another lite-lite liberal college teacher who yuks it up about, nonchalantly, getting more of the fringes on the left and right out of the WWW, that science needs to be science, and get all the hot spot algorithms, while the rest of us get deplatformed or junked into cyber jail. The book in question is titled, The Flooded Earth. Imagine, US book publishers saying, “It won’t sell.”

Here, the show notes with subtopics and running times:

00:45 – Peter Ward website and books
03:00 – We need a little bit of CO2, but it’s easy to have too much CO2
04:20 – Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-written with Dan Brownlee)
04:40 – Excessive heat and mortality
05:12 – Volcanic activity responsible for past CO2 spikes
05:40 – Previous mass extinctions
05:57 – Non-animal mass extinctions
07:18 – Uneven atmospheric heating
08:00 – Ocean currents and how they work
08:51 – Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
09:12 – Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
10:25 – Fossil fuel availability
10:50 – Under a Green Sky
11:50 – The Gulf Stream
13:22 – What lives at the bottom of the ocean?
15:13 – Shallow ocean grasses and climate
19:11 – Oxygen in the ocean has dropped 2%
20:20 – North pacific ocean increasing acidity
20:48 – Billions of sea creatures died during summer ‘21 heat wave
23:11 – 30% of houses in Seattle have air conditioning
23:50 – Positive feedback loop
25:00 – We are highly attuned to smell hydrogen sulfide
25:45 – 400 ppm of hydrogen sulfide will kill a human
28:25 – Fred Hutchinson Institute
28:50 – Warm blooded animals are more sensitive to H2S than cold blooded
29:45 – Atlantic meridional overturning circulation has slow 15-20% in the last 30-40 years
31:56 – We’ve lost 15% of the Amazon, if we lose 20% it will tip into a carbon source
34:10 – In the last 20,000 years sea level rise has gone up 450 ft
34:30 – How many of the world’s ports are built 3ft above sea level
34:52 – Wet bulb temperature + *Factual Correction – Higher wet bulb temperatures do not prevent sweating, it makes sweating less effective
36:15 – What temperature can mammals still reproduce at
40:10 – Eric Steig
41:48 – Social media algorithms encourage polarization and extremes
44:25 – 40% of students at the University of Minnesota are using some mental health aid
45:39 – A switch to renewables completely will not fix all of our issues
45:45 – The energy Americans use outside of the body is 100x the amount they eat
46:08 – 20% of Americans lost everything during COVID
48:13 – The Flooded Earth
48:41 – Northern Europe most at risk for sea level rise
49:46 – Rice is the number one food source for the largest portion of people
49:53 – Bangladesh rice crop destruction via salinization
53:31 – Sam Wasser
55:58 – Giant clams are replacing ivory
57:23 – We’ve lost 50% of animals since the late 1960s
57:55 – 5,500 mammal species and 10 million other species we share the earth with
59:07 – Save the Nautilus
1:01:25 – 25 million dollars worth of clams being shipped to China
1:01:49 – Giant clams are extinct in many places
1:03:23 – We’ve underpaid for the main income to our economies
1:03:30 – We can shift away from GDP as measure for success
1:04:49 – Male libido and the exotic trade market
1:06:25 – Pangolin scales second most trafficked item
1:12:10 – Human biases and drives
1:12:31 – We are energy blind
1:13:00 – Emergence
1:13:40 – Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of the ivory trade

Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This–not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves–will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won’t simply redraw our coastlines–agriculture, electrical and fiber optic systems, and shipping will be changed forever. As icebound regions melt, new sources of oil, gas, minerals, and arable land will be revealed, as will fierce geopolitical battles over who owns the rights to them. — Peter Ward!

Yet, trillion$ for War. Trillions for Surveillence. Trillions about to be pick-pocketed from humanity from the likes of the techno wizards and the WEF, Davos men and women, Klaus $chwab and Gate$ and Company. Truly, look at the stuff over at Silicon Icarus and Wrench in the Gears. The tsunami is flooded earth and super-heated cities. But in the meantime,

The following will make most vomit. Young World Leader. Nazism. Orwellian.

My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.

Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.

All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently.

This blog was written ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils. Ida Auken is a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization of the World Economic Forum

Now, I ran into this sort of colonized and corrupted thinking as a college teacher. Even as a sustainability coordinator, who was always against the grain of so called green building this and New Urbanism that. Smart Growth and Tiny Homes. These people have not just drunk the Kool-Aid; they mix up their own conctions of this shit. These people are drones, broken, bought and sold, and the WEF is their colonizer. So is 350.org, and Greta and Naomi Klein and the others in green pornagraphy hunger games.

No compare the insipid quote above by this co-ed with this guy’s words and his article:

LONDON — According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, an economy is “the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made and used.” For the last few centuries, this system has been dominated by the paradigm of capitalism, in which the private owners of capital, and not the state, control the trade of goods and services.

The slave trade and plantation economy of the early colonial period in America were among the original manifestations of this economic paradigm, as the European propertied classes asserted their newfound power over dwindling tributary systems and the interim feudal arrangements were replaced with John Locke’s quasi-religious notions of private property, which would come to conquer Western economic theory for the next three hundred years.

Today, that paradigm has exhausted the moral justifications its proponents have relied upon to maintain its supremacy and the naked truth of capitalism’s rapaciousness is laid bare, once again, as wealth inequality skyrockets while millions sink into poverty and resource wars continue to ravage entire nations across the world.

Having squeezed every last drop of “value” from the earth, and with no more land to settle or markets to discover, capital’s approaching apotheosis finds it looking for a lifeline by creating a virtual copy of itself, where intellectual property supplants physical property and human biological and behavioral processes are recast as a grotesque form of human labor.

Efforts are now underway to “translate” the real world into a digital counterfeit that can provide financial markets with the figures and statistics it needs to execute the contracts of the incipient human capital markets – an insidious new form of capital assembled from our genetic code and other kinds of data that will form the basis of a financialized wonderland, enforced by blockchain technology and constantly monitored and updated through the burgeoning biosecurity state.

Led by the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations, the so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which they can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients. (Raul Diego)

And, heck, all the flooded landscape, the desertification, the deforestation, all the cold homes in German with stacks of firewood, man. And, where is that global coordination, that working together, that look at shared resources and the vast kingdom of animals that we all should be blessed with and bless?

Here’s a thought experiment, about that pencil, you know the Number 2 lead pencil (not lead). It is written from a libertarian and let the human race just be super creative (sic) in inventing x, y and z tool, technology, any bit of fun. But read into the ingredients of that pencil. That is embedded energy. The writer doesn’t do that, look at embedded energy, but it is an interesting way to see where that simple tool comes from, resource-wise and human activity wise:

“I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read”

Does anyone wish to challenge my earlier assertion that no single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me?

Actually, millions of human beings have had a hand in my creation, no one of whom even knows more than a very few of the others. Now, you may say that I go too far in relating the picker of a coffee berry in far off Brazil and food growers elsewhere to my creation; that this is an extreme position. I shall stand by my claim. There isn’t a single person in all these millions, including the president of the pencil company, who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how. From the standpoint of know-how the only difference between the miner of graphite in Ceylon and the logger in Oregon is in the type of know-how. Neither the miner nor the logger can be dispensed with, any more than can the chemist at the factory or the worker in the oil field—paraffin being a by-product of petroleum.

Here is an astounding fact: Neither the worker in the oil field nor the chemist nor the digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or makes the ships or trains or trucks nor the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my bit of metal nor the president of the company performs his singular task because he wants me. Each one wants me less, perhaps, than does a child in the first grade. Indeed, there are some among this vast multitude who never saw a pencil nor would they know how to use one. Their motivation is other than me. Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. I may or may not be among these items.

Fascinating, really, in a hyper libertarian way, coming from the voice of that pencil. It starts with that tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. But as you read, he’s talking about all the mined and milled steel for the saws and the ships and all the oil pumped and refined to move the material. What the lacquer is made of and the graphite is really the “lead,” and the eraser, shoot not rubber. He looks at the pencil mill built with concrete and steel and wood. All the electricty used. But he also looks at all of this in an amazed way, in awe of the processes, all the disconnected workers, mining, milling, cooking, drilling, cutting, moving the various things to bring this pencil to fruition.

And that is the entire supply chain thing, all the goods and services that go back and forth across oceans. Sure, China and Russia are going to rule the iceless Arctic with their already developed ice cutters and infrastructure. That new sea route will cut down on container ship miles by 5,000 miles at trip! Read Pepe Escobar and others looking at that northern world next step in the melting ice.

Here, Matthew Ehret:

‘This conjunction of Russia and China’s northern policies around the Polar Silk Road should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the close strategic friendship between both countries since the 2015 announcement of an alliance between the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union and Belt and Road Initiative. This northern extension of the Maritime Silk Road represents a powerful force to transform the last unexplored frontier on the Earth, converting the Arctic from a geopolitical zone of conflict towards a new paradigm of mutual cooperation and development.

Putin gave a speech at a recent BRI forum stating’:

“the Great Eurasian Partnership and Belt and Road concepts are both rooted in the principles and values that everyone understands: the natural aspiration of nations to live in peace and harmony, benefit from free access to the latest scientific achievements and innovative development, while preserving their culture and unique spiritual identity. In other words, we are united by our strategic, long-term interests.”

‘Weeks before this speech Russia unveiled a bold plan for Arctic development during the conference Arctic: Territory of Dialogue which has since grown in leaps and bounds. This bold plan ties to the “Great Eurasian Partnership”, not only extending roads, rail and new cities into the Far East, but also extending science and civilization into a terrain long thought totally inhospitable. One of the keystone projects driving this program involves the completion of the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) launched as an Indian-Iranian-Russian program in 2002 and which has been given new life in the last several years.’

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More here with Escobar and Danny Haihong,

Well, here, a silly fast-paced look at plankton:

Go back to Peter Ward, and the play notes I listed and boldfaced. He is a great educator, and most of his books are easily read by anyone, except politicians and billionaires. He talks about the beautiful green, wet and dark Puget Sound. How the great trees went all the way to the sea. Big conifers. The first and easiest to cut down, transform into timber, and ship north or south or west or east. And that cutting down of those vital forests gave rise to broad-leafed plants to fill the so-called niche. Decidious, maple and red alder varieties. Broad-leafed, dumping tanin-laced and acidic decaying leaves into the Puget Sounds edges. They lose their leafs in the fall, and those leafs end up in the coastal waters, and lo and behold, high acidity, which has messed with the ecosystems, including sea grasses, vital to carbon sequestration, but more importantly, the hiding and growing places for juvenile marine species. No more sea grasses, no more big fish and invertebrates.

Again, this is not hypersonic missile science or the science of information wars and satellite hacking in UkoNaziLand. Simple biology and water chemistry, most of which is not understood by so many hundreds of millions in the greatest country on earth. Take a look at what I bold faced from the Peter Ward interview. Nothing to shake a stick about. Nothing on the Israel-UK-USA-Ukraine-Nato-EU agenda.

Nero fiddling and financing the ZioLensky while the cities burn. While the lights go out on Broadway. Reset my ass.

It’s truly amazing that the capitalists see the end of the world — human species, I suppose — way before they can imagine the end of capitalism. You know, that perfect system of slavery then, slavery now, and even more draconian slavery for the future. That sort is not based on whips, 15 hours a day toiling, not run by the masters of the Anglo Saxon variety raping and starving. The new-new slavery is capitalism on a digital bender. Food, water, activities, housing (not a house, but housing in the very generic term such as tents or mini-sheds), where one can live, jobs, the like. All will be dictated, and you and I will own nothing!

If the mRNA vax dance has its way, more and more dead bodies, warped minds, sterilized wombs, dropping sperm counts, and zygotes from hell might end humanity, and, well, capitalism will live on in the metaverse, in the global computer. That old eugenics drama — corona bioweapons — but masked up with the Fauci’s and the Gates and those presidents and dictators following the jab jab lies will do it by death through 2 billion jabs.

It’s amazing the lies fed us, and amazing how incredibly stupid we are as a collective. As if this SARS-CoV2 wasn’t/isn’t a fix, isn’t a messed with and serialized and gain of function facilitated “virus.” As if all those true ways to stop viral loads building up in the mucous cavities, in the lungs, in the cells are suddenly treated like snake oil. Imagine that, all the naturopathy and preventative potients, all thrown out the window. How can you get your pudding if you don’t eat your media meat (propaganda)?

Daily, it is me meeting people who have zero idea about world history or about the USA, and I am not just talking about Ukraine and that part of the neighborhood. We are talking about our own neck of the woods, lands stolen by the white man, man. So much mind bleaching occurs in k12. And in higher education!

Native Land.

I hear people talking to me about the visitors here, the vacationers, who just have that entitled disease of myopia. “Yeah, I talk to my customers that not all is rosy here on the coast, that there are homeless people big time. They say, ‘What homeless people? I don’t see any.’ They say that while looking out the window at the bay where several men are hanging out smoking and just chilling. Homeless men. These tourists are looking right through them.”

That’s the issue, no, seeing right through or just not noticing what’s around us. Out of sight, well, this time, In Plain Sight, Out of Mind. What did the original people of Mexico see when those ships entered the tidal shore? Nothing? Because ships were not of their culture, their natural order of things.

Then, another friend in Vancouver, WA, with his Handy Man service, and business is booming, as in mold and mildew mitigation and tear outs, he’s struggling to pay the taxman, to get all his bills and receipts in order. He’ll never have good credit score (sic) to buy a home. You know, AmeriKKKa, giving missiles and bombs and guns to Ukraine with, well, you get it, no real accounting, receipts, etc. All those things on the dark web, black market, gone. So, my friend will have taxes to pay, and fines, double taxes, penalties, late fees to pay, and weathering admonishments, threats. He finds it difficult to get young men and women to sign on for $20 an hour for all the work he undertakes. So he resorts to hiring, well, some of those very same people mentioned above: the homeless.

Many are carless because of the fact they have had their driver’s licenses revoked for unpaid bills — child support, ourt fines, etc. There are almost 10 million in the USA with driver’s license revocation because of unpaid fines, or unpaid child support. Not because of driving under the influence of whatever.

Debt-related driving restrictions make everyday life impossible. Currently, more than half of U.S. states still suspend, revoke or refuse to renew driver’s licenses for unpaid traffic, toll, misdemeanor and felony fines and fees. The result: millions of people are struggling to survive with debt-related driving restrictions.

License suspensions are the primary way debt-related driving restrictions occur in the United States. However, many states restrict registrations, or other administrative automobile requirements, as a counterproductive means of coercing debt payments for unpaid parking, tolls and other court fines and fees. (Source)

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As I repeat incessently — this is just one of a million things about capitalism that demonstrates the system is not for or about The People, We the People. This is just one of a million absurdities in our system. And there is always a gravy train for endless systems of oppression and bureaucracies and middle men and women. The entire systems of pain and double-pain in the USA is about debt, managing people’s pain, laying on shame and setting forth endless struggle to make it (pay for) in capitalism. So it makes sense in a sadistic way to take away the only viable thing — a car — for these people to get to work to pay these fines or child support.

We know the fines are highway robbery, from the point of origin, to the add-ons and the endless late fees and penalties and handling fees.

Best to listen to Michael Parenti to understand this ugly ugly system, that for many, will never die. Imagine, capitalism will never die! Over the human species dead body.

Here: “If value is to be extracted from the labour of the many, to go into the pockets of the few, this system has to be maintained. The conditions of hegemony must constantly be refortified. And that’s something that no one IBM or General Motors could do for itself… to put it simply the function of the capitalist state is to sustain the capitalist order. And it must consciously be doing that.” Michael John Parenti is a political scientist who was raised by an Italian-American working class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. He received an M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Here, just the essence of it all, capitalism:

And then, my real profession, in the old days, was journalism. I’ve heard all of my life that journalists are not real, that all of it is yellow journalism, that even the earnest work of a young reporter in a small town is smeared with the Yellow in Yellow Journalism. Bullshit!

This is, of course, a lie, a broad brush stroke lie. Not that journalists are somehow immune from the reality of American Exceptionalism and the Lie after Lie of what this country is and was about. Yes, Mom, Flag and Apple Pie.

Yet, that is not so true, that regular ethical journalists want to lie or damage or invent fake news. When I was learning the craft of journalism, we had a code of ethics. We worked hard as college newspaper reporters and editors to get the news of the campus, publicizing some amazing students and programs and departments, and to get the bead on the city, in this case, Tucson. The neighborhood, the people, the police beat, all the unique things that newspapers can do to publicize the goings on. Yes, school boards and city councils and all the college, in this case, University of Arizona, things that make a university like this one a mini-town, we tried to cover fairly.

We were not after smear campaigns. We were not attempting to do hit pieces on people. We had a code of ethics. Really:

Preamble

Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. Ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair and thorough. An ethical journalist acts with integrity.

The Society declares these four principles as the foundation of ethical journalism and encourages their use in its practice by all people in all media.

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Seek Truth and
Report It

Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.

Journalists should:

• Take responsibility for the accuracy of their work. Verify information before releasing it. Use original sources whenever possible. 
  
• Remember that neither speed nor format excuses inaccuracy. 
  
• Provide context. Take special care not to misrepresent or oversimplify in promoting, previewing or summarizing a story. 
  
• Gather, update and correct information throughout the life of a news story. 
  
• Be cautious when making promises, but keep the promises they make. 
  
• Identify sources clearly. The public is entitled to as much information as possible to judge the reliability and motivations of sources. 
  
• Consider sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Reserve anonymity for sources who may face danger, retribution or other harm, and have information that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Explain why anonymity was granted. 
  
• Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criticism or allegations of wrongdoing. 
  
• Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public. 
  
• Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable. Give voice to the voiceless. 
  
• Support the open and civil exchange of views, even views they find repugnant. 
  
• Recognize a special obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government. Seek to ensure that the public’s business is conducted in the open, and that public records are open to all. 
  
• Provide access to source material when it is relevant and appropriate. 
  
• Boldly tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience. Seek sources whose voices we seldom hear. 
  
• Avoid stereotyping. Journalists should examine the ways their values and experiences may shape their reporting. 
  
• Label advocacy and commentary. 
  
• Never deliberately distort facts or context, including visual information. Clearly label illustrations and re-enactments. 
  
• Never plagiarize. Always attribute. 

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Minimize Harm

Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues and members of the public as human beings deserving of respect.

Journalists should:

• Balance the public’s need for information against potential harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance or undue intrusiveness. 
  
• Show compassion for those who may be affected by news coverage. Use heightened sensitivity when dealing with juveniles, victims of sex crimes, and sources or subjects who are inexperienced or unable to give consent. Consider cultural differences in approach and treatment. 
  
• Recognize that legal access to information differs from an ethical justification to publish or broadcast. 
  
• Realize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than public figures and others who seek power, influence or attention. Weigh the consequences of publishing or broadcasting personal information. 
  
• Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity, even if others do. 
  
• Balance a suspect’s right to a fair trial with the public’s right to know. Consider the implications of identifying criminal suspects before they face legal charges. 
  
• Consider the long-term implications of the extended reach and permanence of publication. Provide updated and more complete information as appropriate. 

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Act Independently

The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public.

Journalists should:

• Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Disclose unavoidable conflicts. 
  
• Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility. 
  
• Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; do not pay for access to news. Identify content provided by outside sources, whether paid or not. 
  
• Deny favored treatment to advertisers, donors or any other special interests, and resist internal and external pressure to influence coverage. 
  
• Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two. Prominently label sponsored content. 

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Be Accountable and Transparent

Ethical journalism means taking responsibility for one’s work and explaining one’s decisions to the public.

Journalists should:

• Explain ethical choices and processes to audiences. Encourage a civil dialogue with the public about journalistic practices, coverage and news content. 
  
• Respond quickly to questions about accuracy, clarity and fairness. 
  
• Acknowledge mistakes and correct them promptly and prominently. Explain corrections and clarifications carefully and clearly. 
  
• Expose unethical conduct in journalism, including within their organizations. 
  
• Abide by the same high standards they expect of others. 

“The SPJ Code of Ethics is a statement of abiding principles supported by explanations and position papers that address changing journalistic practices. It is not a set of rules, rather a guide that encourages all who engage in journalism to take responsibility for the information they provide, regardless of medium. The code should be read as a whole; individual principles should not be taken out of context. It is not, nor can it be under the First Amendment, legally enforceable.”

For an expanded explanation, please follow this link.

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Now, I know of so many other professions with codes of ethics, but so many have few ethics, or the profession is based on unethical foundations. Even as new reporters, we understood power, that is, the powers that are, and that powers that shouldn’t be. The headlines and stories about malfeasance or wrong doing, those could literally kill people. We knew the value of sources, and in our small town journalism work — we worked on a lab paper in Tombstone, Arizona, of all places — we had a duty to the people in that town. Did we want to break stories? Of course. Did we want to uncover wrong doing, or some sensational story? Yep. But our goal was simple news reporting and news writing. We had so many beats, and each beat had it’s own culture — arts, music, sports, entertainment, city, state, police, business, etc. But as students who were paid through student association money and who did not have direct oversight from the journalism department; we took our jobs seriously. We went to conferences, we did internships, we met with all sorts of people to understand the needs and wants of the small town, the big town, etc. We had advertising, and we were a big part of the community’s lifeblood: where communities get their news and information.

We could break a story about the football coach’s unethical practice of pocketing unused travel (airline) vouchers, and we could see how much cost overruns the new engineering building was entailing. Each one of those controversial pieces we spent hours and weeks attempting to get right and not do unnecessary harm. We would report on interesting members of the community, on people who had unusual stories. The newspaper was a source of cultural connection. We strived for accuracy.

We highlighted authors, authors, orators, movers and shakers, community enterprises, members of the community who were unique.

We covered crime and punishment, codes and planning, and took many beads on the life of people, organizations and the community.

Yet, even back in 1977, we knew how some newspapers were bending too close to the leanings and yearnings of big business, or at the owners’s whims. We were concerned about newpapers dying, concerned about editorial decisions that hurt our code of ethics listed above. We believed in newspaper ombudsmen, and we always wanted to learn what other newspapers and what other parts of the country were doing to enhance the community.

Indeed, that was the goal of newspapers, and while everything is bastardized in capitalism and media, and while we knew the CIA infilitrated newspapers decades earlier, and we know that now, newspapers are in most cases, skeletons, and many cities and towns have no newspapers, we still took our roles seriously. We knew that on-line / WWW publications would eat at the soul of newsprint dailies and weeklies. We knew that once lively newspapers or magazines would get bought up by large and mid-sized media groups. Then decimated and sold.

In the end, we still wanted to know. We wanted fairness and accuracy in journalism. We did want to do the stories that few were doing.

Just listen to these three folk. It shows you the robust work of thinkers. In my other professions –education, planning and social work — we do have that level of scrutiny, and self-examination. But here, the journalists look really hard at themselves. I do not find this hard look into my other professions as robust and penetrating.

Virtually nobody trusts what they read any more. The United States ranks dead last among 46 nations surveyed in confidence in the press. Only 29% of Americans say they broadly believe what they read, see or hear in mainstream media. And more than three quarters of the public think that big outlets knowingly publish fake news.

The term “fake news” first came into common usage around the contentious 2016 election, where both the Trump and Clinton campaigns attempted to weaponize the term against their opponents. Clinton claimed that Trump was being buoyed by false information put out by Eastern European bloggers and shared on sites like Facebook, while Trump shot back at her, claiming the likes of Clinton-supporting networks CNN and MSNBC were themselves fake news.

But joining MintPress Senior Staff Writer Alan MacLeod today are two guests who know that fake news and false information have a long history in America. Dr. Nolan Higdon is an author and university lecturer of history and media studies at California State University East Bay. Meanwhile, Mickey Huff is professor of social science, history and journalism at Diablo Valley College in California and the director of the critical media literacy organization Project Censored.

But, now, with the Brave New World of up being down, Nazi being Jewish President, Lies as Truth, I am both disgusted and not surprised at how terrible the propaganda is and how lock step those who follow the lies of society and government have infected so-called traditional journalism. Yes, still, in the local rags, we get news, we get entertainment, but when it comes to the stories of a lifetime — Weapons of No Mass Destruction, World Trade Center 9/11, War for Oil, Cocaine for Contras, all of it — newspapers fail. Local newspapers do not have the guts to question everything.

That failure in journalism is tied to consumerism, capitalism, collective delusion, Stockholm Syndrome Writ Large, Collective Trauma, Agnotology, and the Comic Book Ideology of the common people and the leaders in the USA/UK/Klanda/EU.

The first casualty of capitalism is truth. Capitalism of course relies on deception, thieving, extirpation, extinction, survival of the fittest, divide and conquor, racism, classism, poisoning mind/body/soul/soil. So we lead back to the above, to Michael Parenti. Listen to him.

The young people of the world are not all going to hell in a hand-basket. Really. Amazing journalists blazing trails. This is just one most recent example of attacking truth, the messenger:

“Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany speaks to Max Blumenthal about being prosecuted by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the breakaway Donetsk Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.”

So, on the homefront, United $nakes of AmeriKKKa, the deluge of news about Ninja omicron variations on a bio-weapons theme, about the droughts throughout the Northwest and Southwest hinterlands, and all the warm fuzzy stuff coming out of the Woke Zombistan of DC, academia, media, well, it’s a lot for the average AmeriKKKan, who is in self-imposed solitary confinement, or hunkered down with bills, repairs, no way out of the circling drain that is Continuing Criminal Capitalism.

I got this from my farmer friend, Joe:

Anyone wondering why Biden isn’t stopping the oil companies from price gouging while the one percent and stock market are making huge profits and the workers keep falling farther behind  need to realize that Biden and every president before him don’t work for their interests but for the one percent. The people at the top could give a rat’s ass about everyone else. Total revolution against these bastards, even if it is bloody, is going to be what it takes to rid ourselves of these criminals.

In response to this article:

“The cost of living is tearing us apart Inflation rate in US hits 9.1 percent”

“Inflation is hurting our bottom line all the time,” a worker at the Stellantis (Chrysler) Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Detroit said. “Food, gas and everything else is up. The oil companies are price-gouging, and I don’t understand why Biden isn’t stopping them. I guess it’s because government answers to big business, not us.”

He continued, “The stock market keeps going up, and the shareholders are making lots of profits. This is only widening the distance between us and the top 1 percent, who are making money hand over fist. A little more than 10 years ago, the government bailed out the banks. They did it again when the pandemic hit. Where did all that money go? It went for the big bonuses of the executives and shareholders. Biden is also finding billions for war. They could have bailed us out, but they didn’t.” (source)

Then, of course, my retort, and Joe has received many of my retorts, and read them before in published versions . . . and I’ve personally emailed him about my concept of who is damaging who in the United $nakes of AmeriKKKa.

Yeah, and I wish these guys would stop calling them the One Percent. It’s the 10 and 20 percenters. Plenty of them around here, in rural Oregon, with several million in the bank, cash and assets, and then three homes and an apartment triplex. Sitting on a home, say, a 1928 tear down, purchased for $150,000 in April 2022. Now, it is listed for $299,000. A sagging house on a double lot. In my neighborhood, not exactly the Ritz. Some construction guy, contractor, living in Alaska part of the year.

THESE motherfuckers can handle 9.1 percent inflation. They are our fucking neighbors, not Gates and Zuckerberg and Company. It’s the 20 Percenters, man. They are invested in Wall Street, have gobbled up land and housing, and they have cash and gold and guns. 

Now now, we know Biden and the Beltway Bimbos and the Oil Tycoons, and all the Hunter Biden types making (sic) $50,000 a month with coke-prostitutes-Ukrainian gas company criminality, all those people in high tech making a cool $250,000 a year two years out of college, and all the blue collar millionaires, the gougers, the war profiteers, all the happy Americans in the 19 Percent Club, they covet their dough. They are dream hoarders. They are wanting more and more and more of the 80 Percent who are hobbled-held hostage-hijacked by their data-driven, internet of bodies schemes.

You do want to go to the wild side, if you have weeks, to study what’s in store with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Sixth Domain, the new frontier: Cognitive Domain — A Sixth Domain of Operations. Read Alison’s work and Raul’s work here at Wrenchinthegears and Silicon Icarus!

Here, Alison from that article linked above:

The evolution of artificial agents requires ongoing data transfer from our human experience into the emerging World Sensorium (Global Brain). The desire is that this data be structured to maximize utility and potential for pattern recognition. That means humans, in addition to other beings and objects, need to be assigned unique identifiers, which is why there are so many options bubbling up: ID2020, health passports, digital driver’s licenses, blockchain education transcripts and medical records, crypto play to earn games, and programmable money for refugees. Eventually all those side chains will interlock into comprehensible digitally-twinned individuals and societies.

According to the IEEE authors, their intent is for affective computing to be deployed in such a way as to neither amplify or dampen human emotional experience. It’s strange to contemplate that these engineers really want us to accept and internalize interacting with machines as if they were peers is a sane way to live. Though, if the goal is to nudge us towards a post-human existence, digital mediation of all social and environmental transactions towards some optimization scheme would be in keeping with the de Chardin / Huxley / Vernadsky / Reiser imagined World Brain evolutionary imperative.

The goal of the ghouls is to get all of our money, our data, our capacity to make (sic) them nano-pennies with our every waking, sleeping, urinating, masticating, defecating, blinking, coughing, sniffling, sniffing, listening, touching, thinking, reading, watching, playing, fornicating, day dreaming, breathing, beating moment, and to get us (the next and the next generation — shifted baseline needs-wants-conceptualization) to desire this: Garden storage sheds for family living.

Or this luxury, moving up from the plywood shed for families, to 325 square feet of shit living:

How about a community of these boxes? That’s what World Economic Forum wants, as do George Soros, Bezos, Rockefellers, the entire Davos set, the Aspen Institute wonks, all the people in the IMF and World Bank. Boxed set lives!

My previous post was about Maggie the Artist, in her seventies, healthy but not perfect, wanting to age in place, in a beat-down, broke-back home; in a rural community where you are encouraged to take out $60 a month ambulance service insurance, where food and goods and services are out the roof (remember, that 20 Percent, those blue collar millionaires, and those who charge $1500 labor just for some carpentry . . . and that doesn’t include the materials).

Oh, that Nine-Point-One Percent inflation. We, the 80 Percenters, with no buying power, no power to scarf up a piece of land, or a home, or go into a fixer uppper at the minimum.

But, we are woke, man, woke.

Here’s a decent look at how maligned the USA and EU and Klanada and Australia are tied to LGBT work, tied to getting the world wrapped in a rainbox flag or gigantic scarf.

Oh, that dirty, thieving, Nazi-landia, Ukraine, with the penis piano playing Jewish President, and this is the state of their decline, and why Russia has to end this Nato-stan fucked up world. This is while the ZioLensky Band, including the LGBT Bandaristas, enjoy that bombing of Dombass, you know, homes and markets and schools. That is what Gay Pride is All About — intersectionality and murder!

A petition in Ukraine calling for same-sex marriage to be legalised has gained enough signatures for the president to consider the proposal. The petition has more than 28,000 signatures, meaning President Volodymyr Zelensky now has 10 days to respond. Homosexuality is not illegal in Ukraine, but same-sex marriages and civil partnerships are not recognised.

Christopher Mott of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy joins Max Blumenthal to discuss his provocative white paper on the Woke Imperium. According to Mott, “The rise of a ‘woke’ activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics—particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class—has provided the latest ideological justification for interventionism, and it has become readily adopted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment.”

Yes, wonky, and not exactly close to what we need as ground-truthing here in Oregon, in Lincoln County, and this Christopher Mott is in the Beltway Brigade, and he is not of the regular world, those of us working just to survive, since he has time to do months of research. He’s gay, and he is definitely way against the wave after wave of de-culturalization utilized by US state department.

Read it here! “Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism”

And, so, now that jobs are shit jobs, we have the soft-shoe Bernays and cognitive warfare wonks getting Johnny and Sally and Juan and Anita to join the Army, USA CIA:

“Raised by two loving and inspiring mothers, Emma excelled in school. But as a college student, she realized the challenge she truly sought required a surprising new direction. See how our Soldiers’ lives could inspire your own”!

But back to living in the USA.

This is the 1928 sagging home. Foundation is sunken. Roof is shot. Windows are askew. Mold. And, the guy who did live there was from California. he cam up a few years ago to help his aging mother who was left living in it. She died, and he ended up living there with a dog, putting his BMW in the garage, heading to California half the year. Finallly, he got that blue collar amigo in Alaska to purchase it. A cool $150,000. He told the seller he’d be tearing it down and putting up a triplex or quadplex.

Lies, and in three months after he purchased it, sat on it from his 5000 square foot home in Alaska, that $150,000 buying price tag went to $299,000. He’s selling it now for $299,000. While sitting on his 20 Perenter Ass. At that price, a Texan or Californian will swoop in, with $1.5 million to buy it, demolish it, and put up something, either an Air B & B type thing, a duplex, or . . . .

Vultures! And I do not intend to impune those amazing creatures!

This is the landscape, here, in the Gringo Land, with endless fake news, fake humanity, fake stories, fake thinking, fake economies. This is the Woke Society that is Asleep at the Wheel. This is the society that has the wait and see sofa loving collective fear factor. It’s Monkey Pox, Nija Corona, Universal Bi-Annual Boosters. No baby formula in the grocery store. That wait and see Stockholm Syndrome.

So, Max (go to 2:14 — hours — in the above Mott interview. Mocking the unbelievable CIA ad for Woke BIPOC non-CIS gender folk) has this interesting researcher on, and the conversation is worth it. Watch that mocking version of the CIA recruitment video here.

Here’s the CIA’s idiotic version: The mocking version, should be the real ad for what the CIA has done and will continue to do to the world with BIPOC and LGBTQA+ happiness.

And, alas, what’s this got to do with Maggie and that 1928 dilapidated home? The housing market? The housing shortage. Blackrock buying up all the foreclosed houses. Buying many houses. Controlling multi-family housing, i.e. apartments?

This is the shit-show of our times. Truly a shit-show! Where the real problems of the day are not resolved, where criminals run free, where the biggest criminal outfit, CIA, is now launching its recruitment 4.0!

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

Leaks and mold.

There are no options for her.

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

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

But Maggie is not in that same boat.

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

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

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

No Mormon Tabernacle coming to the rescue.

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

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

Now this is fucked up —

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

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

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

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

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

Your money — where does it all go?

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

Then you get this silly stuff,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behind the faces of Lincoln County’s homeless

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By: Paul Haeder – Updated: 2 years ago

Posted Feb 18, 2020

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

They were seeking a dry space and companionship.

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

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

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

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

Task force with teeth?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shelter us from the storm

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

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

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

Tiny homes, relaxing zoning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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By: Paul Haeder – Updated: 2 years ago

Posted Feb 25, 2020

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Running a permanent shelter costs money

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grilling Newport City Councilor

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

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

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

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

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

PH: Why are you involved?

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

PH: Will the task force cover larger issues?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Here, the housing crisis, a la harvard study:

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

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

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

Old Irish song,

Maggie

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

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

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

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

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Or Rod Stweart,

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Guitar Solo]

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

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

[Instrumental Interlude]

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

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Or, Dylan:

Little Maggie

1. Oh, where is little Maggie

Over yonder she stands,

Rifle on her shoulder,

Six-shooter in her hand.

2. How can I ever stand it,

Just to see them two blue eyes,

Shinin’ like some diamonds,

Like some diamonds in the sky.

3. Rather be in some lonely hollow

Where the sun don’t ever shine,

Than to see you be another man’s darling,

And to know that you’ll never be mine.

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

With my suitcase in my hand,

Yes, march me away to the station,

I’m off to some far-distant land.

5. Sometimes I have a nickel,

And sometimes I have a dime,

Sometimes I have ten dollars,

Just to pay for little Maggie’s wine.

6. Pretty flowers are made for blooming,

Pretty stars are made to shine,

Pretty girls are made for boy’s love,

Little Maggie was made for mine.

7. Well, yonder stands little Maggie

With a dram glass in her hand,

She’s a drinkin’ down her troubles

Over courtin’ some other man.

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

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

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

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

Oregon’s judges:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oregon’s lovely housing opportunities:

Oregon’s growing business:

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

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

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

Oregon’s seasonal recreation and employment — smoke jumpers:

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

Oregon:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disrespectfully, Paul Haeder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here, from Mickey Z:

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

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

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

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

Fucking break free:

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

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

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

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

Let’s take a closer look at the approval.

Betting (on) the farm

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

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

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

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

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

A recession-resistant asset

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

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

That makes farmland intrinsically valuable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Freaky Thursday! Mass sterilization, please!

  

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

John Steinbeck, The WInter of Our Discontent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weathering:

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

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