The Guaraní believe that the world wants to be different, that it wants to be born again, and so the world entreats the First Father to unleash the blue tiger that sleeps beneath his hammock.

Karl Polanyi in “The Great Transformation” writes that once a society surrenders to the dictates of the market, once its mafia economy becomes a mafia state, once it succumbs to what he calls “the ravages of this satanic mill,” it inevitably leads to “the demolition of society.”

Hedges: “The mafia state cannot be reformed. We must organize to break our chains, one-by-one, to use the power of the strike to cripple the state machinery. We must embrace a radical militancy, one that offers a new vision and a new social structure. We must hold fast to moral imperatives. We must forgive mortgage and student debt, institute universal health care and break up monopolies. We must raise the minimum wage and end the squandering of resources and funds to sustain the empire and the war industry. We must establish a nationwide jobs program to rebuild the country’s collapsing infrastructure. We must nationalize the banks, pharmaceutical corporations, military contractors and transportation and embrace environmentally sustainable energy sources.”

None of this will happen until we resist.

Galeano: “Fine words and pretty ceremonies are about to descend upon us: The five-hundredth anniversary of the so-called Discovery is approaching. I think Alejo Carpentier was right when he called this the greatest event in the history of humankind. But it seems strikingly clear to me that America wasn’t discovered in 1492, just as Spain was not discovered when the Roman legions invaded it in 218 B.C. And it also seems clear as can be that it’s high time America discovered itself. And when I say America, I’m talking first and foremost about the America that’s been despoiled of everything, even its name, in the five-centuries-long process that put it at the service of foreign progress: our Latin America.”

The Blue Tiger and the Promised Land

Eduardo Galeano

November 8, 2012

This necessary discovery, a revelation of the face hidden behind the masks, rests on the redemption of some of our most ancient traditions. It’s out of hope, not nostalgia that we must recover a community-based mode of production and way of life, founded not on greed, but on solidarity, age-old freedoms, and identity between human beings and nature. I believe there is no better way to honor the Indians, the first Americans, who from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego have kept their identity and message alive through successive campaigns of extermination. Today they still hold out vital keys to memory and prophecy for all of America, not just our Latin America: Simultaneously, they bear witness to the past and cast the light of fresh fires on the path ahead. If the values they embody were of only archaeological interest, the Indians would no longer be objects of bloody repression, nor would the powerful be so anxious to separate them from the class struggle and from the people’s liberation movements.

Halfway through the last century, an Indian chief named Seattle warned officials of the United States government:

“After several days, the dying man does not smell the stench of his own body. If you continue polluting your bed, one night you will die suffocated by your own wastes.”

Chief Seattle also said, “Whatever happens to the earth, happens to the sons of the earth.”

And I have just heard this same phrase, exactly the same, from the lips of one of the Maya-Quiché Indians in a documentary filmed recently in the mountains of Ixcán, Guatemala. This is how the Mayas explain why their people are hunted down by the army: “They kill us because we work together, eat together, live together, dream together.”

What dark threat emanates from the Indians of the Americas, what threat treacherously lives on despite the centuries of crime and scorn? What ghosts are the executioners exorcising? What fears?

To justify usurping the lands of the Sioux Indians at the end of the last century, the United States Congress declared that “community property is dangerous to the development of the free enterprise system.” And in March 1979, a law was promulgated in Chile requiring the Mapuche Indians to divide up their lands and turn themselves into small landowners with no links among them; the dictator Pinochet explained that the communities were incompatible with the nation’s economic progress. The U.S. Congress was right. So was General Pinochet. From capitalism’s point of view, communal cultures that do not separate human beings from one another or from nature are enemy cultures. But the capitalist point of view is not the only one.

The official story of the conquest of America has been told from the perspective of mercantile capitalism in expansion. It takes Europe as its center and Christianity as its only truth. This is essentially the same official story, after all, that is told of the “reconquest” of Spain by Christians against “Moorish” invaders, a way of disqualifying Spaniards of Muslim culture who had been living in the peninsula for seven centuries when they were expelled. The expulsion of these supposed “Moors,” who had nothing Moorish about them, along with Spaniards of Jewish faith, signaled the triumph of intolerance and sealed the ruinous history of the very Spain that discovered and conquered America. A few years before friar Diego de Landa cast the books of the Mayas into the flames in Yucatán, Archbishop Cisneros had burned the Islamic books in Granada, in a great bonfire of purification that blazed for several days.

The official story repeats the ideological alibis of the usurpers of America, but in spite of itself it also reveals the reality that it contradicts. That reality, burned, banned, and falsified, emerges in the shock and horror, the outrage, and also the awe of the chroniclers of the Indies when they came face to face with those beings that Europe, the Europe of the Inquisition, was in the process of “discovering.”

The Church acknowledged in 1537 that the Indians were persons, endowed with soul and reason, but it blessed the crime and pillage: The Indians were persons, but persons possessed by the devil and therefore without any rights. The conquistadors acted in the name of God, to root out idolatry, and the Indians gave continuous proof of their irremediable perdition and irrefutable causes for condemnation. The Indians did not know private property. They did not use gold or silver as money, but to adorn their bodies or pay homage to their gods. Those false gods were on the side of sin. The Indians went around naked: The spectacle of nudity, warned Archbishop Pedro Cortés Larraz, causes “much injury to the brain.” Indissoluble marriage bonds did not exist anywhere in America, and virginity had no value. On the Caribbean coasts and in other areas, homosexuality was unrestrained, and this offended God as much as or more than the cannibalism of the Amazon jungle. The Indians had the unwholesome habit of bathing every day and, to cap it all, they believed in dreams. Thus the Jesuits were able to confirm the influence of Satan on the Canadian Indians: Indians so diabolical they had interpreters for the symbolic language of dreams, because they believed that the soul speaks while the body sleeps and that dreams express unfulfilled desires. The Iroquois, Guaraní, and other American Indians elected their chiefs in open meetings, where women took part as men’s equals, and removed them from office if they became overbearing. No doubt possessed by the devil, Chief Nicaragua asked who had elected the king of Spain.

The purifying mission of Civilization no longer masks the plunder of gold or silver: Under the banner of Progress, onward march the legions of modern pirates, without hooked hands, eye patches or wooden legs, the multinationals that swoop down on the uranium, petroleum, nickel, manganese, tungsten. The Indians suffer, as before, the curse of the wealth of the lands they inhabit. They were driven toward arid soil; technology has discovered, beneath those soils, fertile subsoils.

“The conquest isn’t over,” gaily proclaimed the advertisements published in Europe 11 years ago, offering Bolivia to foreigners. The military dictatorship held out to the highest bidder the richest land in the country, while treating the Indians the same as in the 16th century. In the first phase of the conquest, Indians were compelled to describe themselves in public documents,

“I, wretched Indian . . . ” Now the Indians only have the right to exist as servile labor or tourist attractions.

“Land is not sold. Land is our mother. You don’t sell your mother. Why don’t they offer $100 million to the Pope for the Vatican?” a Sioux chief asked recently in the United States.

A century earlier, the Seventh Cavalry had ravaged the Black Hills, sacred territory to the Sioux, because they held gold. Now multinational corporations mine its uranium, although the Sioux refuse to sell. The uranium is poisoning the rivers.

A few years ago, the Colombian government told the Indians of the Cauca valley, “The subsoil does not belong to you but to the Colombian nation,” and immediately turned it over to the Celanese Corporation. After a time, part of the Cauca had been turned into a lunar landscape. A thousand hectares of Indian land were made barren. In the Ecuadoran Amazon, oil is dislodging the Auca Indians. A helicopter flies over the jungle, with a loudspeaker announcing in the Auca language, “It’s time to leave now.” And the Indians obey the will of God.

From Geneva, in 1979, the United Nations Human Rights Commission warned: “Unless the Brazilian government alters its plans, we can expect that the largest of the surviving tribes will cease to exist in twenty years.”

The Commission was referring to the Yanomami, in whose Amazonian lands tin and rare minerals had been discovered. For the same reason, the Nambiquara Indians now number fewer than 200, and they were 15,000 at the beginning of the century. Indians die like flies when they come in contact with unknown bacteria brought by the invaders, as in the days of Cortés and Pizarro—a process now speeded up by Dow Chemical’s defoliants, sprayed from the air. When the commission launched its pathetic warning from Geneva, FUNAI, the official body for the protection of Brazil’s Indians, was run by 16 colonels and employed 14 anthropologists. There has been no change in the government’s plans since then.

Throughout America, from north to south, the dominant culture acknowledges Indians as objects of study but denies them as subjects of history: The Indians have folklore, not culture; they practice superstitions, not religions; they speak dialects, not languages; they make handicrafts, not art.

Perhaps the approaching celebration of the 500th anniversary could help turn things around, so topsy-turvy are they now. Not to confirm the world, adding to the self-importance, the self-glorification of the masters of power, but to denounce and change it. For that we shall have to celebrate the vanquished, not the victors. The vanquished and those who identified with them, like Bernardino de Sahagún, and those who lived for them, like Bartolomé de las Casas, Vasco de Quiroga, and Antonio Vieira, and those who died for them, like Gonzalo Guerrero, the first conquered conqueror, who ended his days fighting at the side of the Indians, his chosen brothers, in Yucatán.

And perhaps in this way we could get a bit closer to the day of justice that the Guaraní, pursuers of Paradise, have always been awaiting. The Guaraní believe that the world wants to be different, that it wants to be born again, and so the world entreats the First Father to unleash the blue tiger that sleeps beneath his hammock. The Guaraní believe that someday that righteous tiger will shatter this world so that another world, with neither evil nor death, guilt nor prohibitions, can be born from its ashes. The Guaraní believe, and I do too, that life truly deserves that festival.

—Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan author and journalist. His most recent book is Los hijos de los días (Siglo XXI Editores, 2012). This is an excerpt of an article that was originally printed in the February 1991 NACLA Report on the Americas

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Ruthless and rudderless, the American is an evil creature in his or her or their formulation as millionaire or billionaire or the Eichmann’s or the wannabe Musks. Dirty and evil, that’s the fucking ticket.

Happy Valetine’s Day, Mother Fuckers.

And this under the eye of a fucking racist cunt from South Africa, white apartheid loving shit?

According to reports, these positions were deemed “not in the public interest” by DOI—an assertion that fundamentally ignores the role these professionals play in protecting and restoring our nation’s wildlife and wild places.

This sweeping, mass firing comes at a time when the Refuge System is already struggling with a decimated workforce. Today’s cuts will further cripple the agency’s ability to protect and manage America’s 573 national wildlife refuges, which span 95 million acres of land, 750 million acres of marine habitat, and supports countless species, many of which are keystone species, pollinators, and others vital to agriculture and the health of ecosystems.

“Losing this many dedicated employees all at once is an especially devastating blow to conservation efforts nationwide and an intentional dismantling of science,” said Desirée Sorenson-Groves, President & CEO of the National Wildlife Refuge Association. “The National Wildlife Refuge System was already underfunded and understaffed. The people being fired today are the backbone of wildlife protection in this country. Without them, habitats will degrade, endangered species will go unmonitored, trails will remain unmaintained, and visitors will lose access to environmental education and recreation opportunities. This is a crisis. These terminations will have long-lasting consequences for the protection of wildlife and habitat, as well as for the communities that depend on refuges for recreation, tourism, and economic benefits.”

Reports indicate that in order to hire new employees, the agency will be required to eliminate four current positions for every one new hire—a policy that will only worsen the Refuge System’s staffing crisis.

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Where are the Yemen Heroes? Bomb the fuck out of these super yachts.

The shipyard that built the support ships for Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will now be outfitting the world’s largest superyacht. Owned by an oil billionaire, the REV Ocean will have eight laboratories, three swimming pools, and a submarine hangar

It’s unclear what that might be, but the US has a long history of political and military intervention in Panama, including an invasion nearly 40 years ago that culminated in a dictator being driven out of an embassy with deafening rock music. Operation Just Cause, a 1989 military intervention, saw 26,000 American troops pour into the country.

• Trump has said he wants to again put the Panama Canal under US control, causing a stir.
• The US has a history of intervention in Panama. In 1989, the military invaded it.
• The successful invasion signaled to neighboring countries that the US disregarded state sovereignty.

And the fucking world burns, floods kill, animals immolate, coral reefs crumble, plastics and nanoparticles into the brains of our babies, and alas, this is where the Mafia State goes:

The shipyard that built the support ships for Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will now be outfitting the world’s largest superyacht. Owned by an oil billionaire, the REV Ocean will have eight laboratories, three swimming pools, and a submarine hangar

If you’re wondering why the billionaire owner of Aker, a shipping and offshore drilling conglomerate is doing so much for the oceans, the answer lies in his roots. The 66-year-old tycoon, worth $4.4 billion, got his start selling fish off a boat in Seattle before returning to Norway, where he built a fleet and earned a reputation as a ruthless corporate raider.

Perhaps in an effort to redefine that image, and give back to the nature that shaped his success, he commissioned a ship that will accommodate up to 60 scientists and 30 crew members during research expeditions.

We are shifting the spotlight to Damen Yachting today, not only because most billionaires like to own at least one Damen yacht in their fleet, either as their superyacht or a support vessel, but also because the shipyard continues to push the boundaries of maritime innovation. From Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ $75 million Abeona to Mark Zuckerberg’s $30 million Wingman, and even Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov’s $100 million La Datcha, Damen Yachts has delivered some maritime marvels. Now, they are busy outfitting not a support vessel but the world’s longest yacht, REV Ocean, spanning 638 feet, currently undergoing outfitting at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen.

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Chris! Billionaires, man, War is a Racket, Monopolies, Trusts, the entire shithole of capitalism from the beginning:

Hedges: Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can disembowel the machinery of government. You can turn us and the natural world into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. You can commit crimes with impunity. You can make a mockery of democratic norms and social responsibility. Perfidy is very profitable at first. In the long term it is collective suicide.

America is a full blown kleptocracy. The demolition of the social and political structure, begun long before Trump, makes a few very, very rich and immiserates everyone else. Mafia capitalism always leads to a mafia state. The two ruling parties gave us the first. Now we get the second. It is not only our wealth that is being taken from us, but our liberty.

Since the election of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, currently worth $394 billion, saw his wealth increase by $170 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, worth $254 billion, saw his net worth increase by nearly $41 billion.

Tidy sums for kneeling before Moloch.

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Then this fucking billionaire surveillance felon: The Google cofounder has already donated more than $1.5 billion to Parkinson’s research. Now, as he takes on autism, he’s also investing in venture funds and startups working to develop therapies and treatments, Everything they touch is dirty.

Hmm, Parkinson’s and Atrazine and a thousand other chemicals? Autism and, well, you figure that one out — shots, more shots, hormone disrupters, more and more.

And here we are, the God Fucking Silicon Valley bloodlust cocksuckers:

The state of Ohio is spending $70 million to build a taxiway at Rickenbacker International Airport and make other improvements to support a new weapons factory in Pickaway County.

The money is in addition to other state incentives for the California company Anduril, which announced in January that it plans to spend $900 million on a 5-million-square-foot complex to build drones, missiles and other high-tech weapons south of the airport. Dubbed Arsenal-1, the complex is expected to employ 4,008 workers by 2035, at an average annual salary of $132,000.

The state money, from the All Ohio Future Fund, will be distributed through the Pickaway County Port Authority. The authority will spend the money on improving utility and roads at the 600-acre site, off Airbase Road. Much of the money will also be spent on a taxiway to the runway for Anduril’s buildings directly on airport grounds.

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All for the fucking perverted “religion”: Palestinian prisoners show signs of torture, medical neglect; Israel attacks bulldozer crew retrieving bodies in Gaza; bakeries reopen; West Bank violence; Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire

Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.

A sliver of human brain in a small vial starts to melt as lye is added to it. Over the next few days, the caustic chemical will break down the neurons and blood vessels within, leaving behind a grisly slurry containing thousands of tiny plastic particles.

Toxicologist Matthew Campen has been using this method to isolate and track the microplastics — and their smaller counterparts, nanoplastics — found in human kidneys, livers and especially brains. Campen, who is at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.

Microplastics have been found just about everywhere that scientists have looked: on remote islands, in fresh snow in Antarctica, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, in food, in water and in the air that we breathe. And scientists such as Campen are finding them spread throughout the human body.

Landmark study links microplastics to serious health problems

Detection is only the first step, however. Determining precisely what these plastics are doing inside people and whether they’re harmful has been much harder. That’s because there’s no one ‘microplastic’. They come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and chemical compositions, each of which could affect cells and tissues differently.

This is where Campen’s beige sludge comes into play. Despite microplastics’ ubiquity, it’s difficult to determine which microplastics people are exposed to, how they’re exposed and which particles make their way into the nooks and crannies of the body. The samples that Campen collects from cadavers can, in turn, be used to test how living tissues respond to the kinds of plastic that people carry around with them.

“Morbidly speaking, the best source I can think of to get good, relevant microplastics is to take an entire human brain and digest it,” says Campen.

The world is hungry for data — German consumers rated microplastics in food as their top environmental-health concern in 2023, for example. And negotiations on a global treaty that could cap plastics production are under way. Findings have trickled out slowly, hampered by insufficient analytical methods, contamination risks and a lack of collaboration between scientists in different fields. “There’s no cookbook at this point. There’s no manual of standard operating procedures,” says Kathleen Egan, a cancer researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. “We’re having to make them up as we go, and it’s a process.”

But there are signs that scientists are ironing out these kinks, and that the field is maturing. Campen is one of a cadre of researchers developing unconventional methods and forming teams of interdisciplinary scientists. They are caught in a race against time. Plastics production, which began less than a century ago, reaches an all-time high each year, and the material takes hundreds, if not thousands, of years to degrade, which will create trillions of microplastics in the process.

“There are microplastics everywhere,” says Bart Koelmans, an environmental chemist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. “We cannot run away from them.”

Mafia Bosses of Plastic

William Young

Founded Plastipak, a plastic container maker, with his father in 1967

Sold a majority stake in Plastipak to Beatrice Foods, but the family bought it back in 1982

Sold a minority stake to Goldman Sachs three decades later

The Chao siblings

Albert, James, and Dorothy Chao Jenkins own stakes in Westlake Corporation, a producer of low-density polyethylene

Low-density polyethylene is used for food packaging and other forms of plastic

Other billionaires

Walter Wang is a Taiwanese immigrant who became a multibillionaire by supplying America with plastic pipes

Ahh, Billionaires:

Mafia Bar Mitzvah Style:

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Dumb mother fucking Southerners.

Here we are in the fucking Mormon Cunt-Tree:

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🚨 Our fossil fuel wealth tracking campaign has recorded a £3bn wealth boost for Trump’s inner circle of billionaires in just ONE DAY following the inauguration. 🚨

“In just one day after Trump’s inauguration, CARP says 15 billionaires saw their combined wealth increase $3.31 billion, from $317.86 billion to $321.17 billion. And since the new year began, these individuals have made $17 billion, according to a CARP analysis using Bloomberg Data.”

Link to the piece here: https://lnkd.in/dQZa2QDq

Thanks to Rebecca Schneid, and great work from Chuck Collins, Sarah Cohen, Gracie Bennett. Kibbo Kift Agency.

n 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a law banning political contributions from corporations, a measure that was widely popular at that time – and perhaps would be again today. In 1935, public utility companies were prohibited from making political contributions, clamping down corporate influence in elections even further. But over time, these policies were softened and ultimately reversed, culminating in the 2010 Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that opened the floodgates to unlimited spending by corporations seeking to assert political influence.

Monsters, one and all:

Largest Plastic Manufacturing Companies in the World

15. Toray Industries, Inc. (OTC:TRYIY)

Market Cap as of January 12: $9.10 Billion

Toray Industries, Inc. (OTC:TRYIY) produces and sells fibers, textiles, performance chemicals, carbon fiber composite materials, environmental and engineering products, and life science products worldwide. The company offers yarns, fabrics, non-woven fabrics, resins, molded products, foam products, films, processed film products, synthetic fibers, chemicals, electronic materials, graphic materials, carbon fibers, molded products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, engineering services, condominiums, industrial equipment, IT-related equipment, membranes, housing materials, and building materials. Toray Industries, Inc. (OTC:TRYIY) was founded in 1926 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company employs over 48,000 individuals and is worth $9.10 billion, as of January 12.

Some of the biggest companies that have brought, and are expected to further bring, business to the global plastics industry include Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), and The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO).

14. Evonik Industries AG (OTC:EVKIY)

Market Cap as of January 12: $10.10 Billion

Evonik Industries AG (OTC:EVKIY) is a German company that specializes in chemical production. The company provides various additives, surfactants, smart materials, performance materials and infrastructure services. The company’s products are used in many sectors, such as automotive, construction, and consumer goods. Evonik Industries AG (OTC:EVKIY) has operations in several regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North and South America. Evonik Industries AG (OTC:EVKIY) was founded in 1873 and employs roughly 34,000 individuals. As of January 12, Evonik Industries AG (OTC:EVKIY) is worth $10.10 billion and is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world, by market cap.

13. Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN)

Market Cap as of January 12: $10.97 Billion

Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) is a specialty materials company in the US and overseas. The company operates through four segments: Additives & Functional Products, Advanced Materials, Chemical Intermediates, and Fibers. The company’s Additives & Functional Products segment provides hydrocarbon and rosin resins, organic acid solutions, amine-based building blocks, soil fumigants, fungicides, plant regulators, specialty and commodity solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers. Its Advanced Materials segment offers copolyesters, biopolymers, cellulose esters, PVB sheets, and window and protective films. The company’s Chemical Intermediates segment provides methylamines, higher amines, solvents, Olefin derivatives, and plasticizers. Finally, Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) supplies cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, flake, acetic acid, and anhydride for filtration and yarns, as well as nonwoven media, papers, and cellulose fibers, through its Fibers segment. Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) was founded in 1920 and is based in Tennessee. As of January 12, the company is worth $10.97 billion.

12. Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE)

Market Cap as of January 12: $12.91 Billion

Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) is a technology and specialty materials company that produces and sells engineered polymers in the U.S. and internationally. The company has three divisions: Engineered Materials, Acetate Tow, and Acetyl Chain. The Engineered Materials division produces specialty polymers for auto, medical, industrial, and consumer electronics, as well as sweeteners and food protection ingredients. The Acetate Tow division produces acetate tows and flakes for filter products, and the Acetyl Chain division manufactures acetyl products and solvents used for colorants, paints, adhesives, coatings, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, and chemicals. Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) also produces vinyl acetate-based emulsions and ethylene vinyl acetate resins and compounds, as well as ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. The company was founded in 1918 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world and is valued at $12.91 billion, as of January 12.

11. Formosa Plastics Corporation (TPE:1301)

Market Cap as of January 12: $18.39 Billion

Formosa Plastics Corporation (TPE: 1301) is a Taiwan-based chemical and plastics company founded in 1954. The company is one of the largest petrochemical companies in Taiwan and also one of the largest producers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in the world. Formosa Plastics Corporation (TPE:1301) produces a wide range of products, including Chlor-Alkali, Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Suspension PVC, Specialty PVC, and other plastic compounds.

Formosa Plastics Corporation (TPE:1301) is an important player in the global plastics market and is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world. As of January 12, the company is worth $18.39 billion on the open market.

10. INEOS Group Limited

Annual Revenue (2021): $20.38 Billion

INEOS Group Limited is a multinational chemical company based in the United Kingdom. It is among the world’s largest private chemical companies by revenue, with an annual revenue of over $20 billion, as of 2021. The company produces products ranging from basic chemicals, such as chlorine and ethylene, to advanced materials and specialty chemicals, such as polyethylene, styrenics, and performance chemicals. The company also produces chemicals for the automotive, construction, electronics, and medical industries.

INEOS Group Limited is a global leader in the plastic manufacturing industry, with a presence in more than 25 countries. The company produces and sells a variety of plastic products, including polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and PVC, among others. INEOS’ portfolio of products is used for a variety of applications, including packaging, construction, automotive, and consumer goods. The company has a strong presence in the global plastic manufacturing industry, and is among the top producers of polyethylene and polypropylene.

9. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE:LYB)

Market Cap as of January 12: $30.2 Billion

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE:LYB) is a chemical company based in Houston, Texas, that operates in the U.S., Germany, Mexico, Italy, Poland, France, Japan, China, and the Netherlands. The company operates 6 business segments: Olefins/Polyolefins-Americas, Olefins/Polyolefins-Europe/Asia/International, Intermediates/Derivatives, Advanced Polymer Solutions, Refining, and Technology. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE:LYB) produces olefins, co-products, polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, oxyfuels, intermediates, compounds/solutions, catalysts, and also refines crude oil into gasoline and distillates. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE:LYB) was founded in 2009 and has grown to become one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world with a market cap of $30 billion, as of January 12.

8. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (NYSE:DD)

Market Cap as of January 12: $37.21 Billion

DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (NYSE:DD) is based in Wilmington, Delaware and produces tech-based materials and solutions in the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The company has three segments: Electronics & Industrial, Mobility & Materials, and Water & Protection. The Electronics & Industrial sells materials for semiconductor and circuit fabrication, PCBs, LEDs, metal finishing, displays, and specialty silicones. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (NYSE:DD) provides engineering resins, silicone, films, and pastes for transportation, electronics, industrial, and consumer end-markets through its Mobility & Materials segment. The Water & Protection supplies products and systems for worker safety, water purification, energy, medical packaging, and building materials. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (NYSE:DD) is worth $37.21 billion, as of January 12, and is among the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.

7. Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW)

Annual Revenue 2021: $40.51 Billion

Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW) is a materials science solutions provider in the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It has three segments: Packaging & Specialty Plastics, Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure, and Performance Materials & Coatings. The company offers ethylene, propylene and aromatics products; polyethylene, polyolefin elastomers, ethylene vinyl acetate, and ethylene propylene diene monomer rubbers through its Packaging & Specialty Plastics segment. The company’s Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure segment provides ethylene oxides, propylene oxides, propylene glycol and polyether polyols, aromatic isocyanates and polyurethane systems, coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, and composites. Additionally, Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW) provides architectural paints & coatings, industrial coatings, performance silicones & specialty materials, and silicone feedstocks & intermediates through its Performance Materials & Coatings segment.

Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW) was founded in 2018 and is based in Midland, Michigan. The company has quickly grown to become one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world and is valued at $40.5 billion, as of January 12.

The plastic manufacturing industry has high exposure to a diverse range of lucrative end-markets that are led by giant companies like Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), and The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO).

6. BASF SE (OTC:BASFY)

Market Cap as of January 12: $51.69 Billion

BASF SE (OTC:BASFY) is a global chemical company with six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions. The company provides petrochemicals & intermediates, advanced materials & their precursors, ingredients & additives for industrial applications, chemical solutions & automotive OEM, nutrition & care ingredients, crop protection products & seeds, and battery materials solutions. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, BASF SE (OTC:BASFY) is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world. As of January 12, the company is worth over $51 billion on the open market.

5. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (TADAWUL:2010)

Market Cap as of January 12: $74.67 Billion

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (TADAWUL:2010), or more commonly known as SABIC, is one of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies and a global leader in the chemical industry. The company is publicly listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and has operations in over 50 countries. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (TADAWUL:2010) produces a wide range of petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, methanol, ethylene glycol, and polyethylene, as well as fertilizers, metals and industrial chemicals. The company also has interests in manufacturing, engineering and technology-based businesses.

As of January 12, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (TADAWUL:2010) is worth SAR 282 billion, or $74.67 billion, and is placed high among the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.

4. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SHA:600028)

Market Cap as of January 12: $75.87 Billion

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SHA:600028), also known as Sinopec, is one of the world’s leading integrated oil and gas companies. It is also a major player in the global plastics manufacturing industry. The company operates through five segments: Exploration and Production, Refining, Marketing and Distribution, Chemicals and Corporate and Others. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SHA:600028) has a comprehensive portfolio of petrochemical products, including plastic resins, polyethylene, polypropylene, and other plastics. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SHA:600028) is a major player in the global plastic manufacturing industry and is well-positioned to capitalize on growth opportunities in the sector. Its strong brand recognition and extensive distribution networks help it compete effectively against other leading players in the industry. The company is also well-positioned to benefit from the growing demand for plastic products in the future.

As of January 12, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SHA:600028) is worth over $75 billion and is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.

3. TotalEnergies SE (NYSE:TTE)

Market Cap as of January 12: $157.10 Billion

TotalEnergies SE (NYSE:TTE) is a French multinational energy company, involved in the production and distribution of oil, natural gas and petrochemicals. The company is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world and its operations span across the entire plastics value chain, from feedstock and resin production to compounding, processing and recycling. The company operates a range of plants and facilities around the world, in over 130 countries, producing a variety of plastic products for a range of industries. As of January 12, TotalEnergies SE (NYSE:TTE) is worth $157.10 billion.

2. LG Chem, Ltd. (KRX:051910)

Market Cap as of January 12: $204.5 Billion

LG Chem, Ltd. (KRX:051910) is one of the largest chemical companies in the world, with operations in 15 countries. The company is a leading producer of petrochemicals, plastics, and specialty chemicals, with a large presence in the automotive, electronics, and energy industries. It also produces advanced materials, including Li-ion batteries, OLED displays, and fuel cells. As of January 12, LG Chem, Ltd. (KRX:051910) is worth KRW 46.96 trillion, or $204.5 billion, and is one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.

1. Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)

Market Cap as of January 12: $458.77 Billion

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) explores, extracts, and sells crude oil and natural gas globally. The oil and gas giant also manufactures, trades, transports, and sells petroleum products, petrochemicals, and other special items across the globe. Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is a major player in the plastic manufacturing industry. The company produces petrochemicals, such as olefins, polyolefins, aromatics, and other petrochemicals that are the building blocks of a wide array of plastic products.

Basically, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) manufactures and provides the necessary components for an expansive range of plastic products, such as packaging materials, plastic containers, car bumpers, artificial rubber, and many more. As of January 12, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is worth $458.7 billion on the open market and is the largest plastic manufacturing company in the world.

under his dirty perverse psychopathic eye — Trump and his Terror Campaign Against Sense, Common Sense, Social Fabric, Safety Nets, Humanity! Trumpers for More Mercury in Your Mother’s Milk!

So, I wrote a couple of pieces which included the Nazi Ideology of Hillsdale “college” and so I get emails now in the Google Gulag Box from this fucked up place, Hillsdale.

This Belgian: The Dude with the Mass Formation Thing During Covid-SARS-CoV19 Planned Pandemic Ain’t Seeing MF applied to the Sick State (sic) of the Jew State of Isra-Hell

More fucking retardation in AmeriKKKa. See Hillsdale survey below.

Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not. —Robert F. Kennedy

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. —Justice Harry Blackmun

That is where this book comes in. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have written a primer for nonlawyers that makes the now sprawling literature of critical race theory easily accessible to the beginner. From the earliest social and intellectual origins of the movement to its key themes and debates to its methods to its future, Delgado and Stefancic offer a lively, lucid guide to critical race theory and a starting place for further reading and thinking. With the help of this book, even students who find their official course reading lists as barren as I did in 1983 will find their way into a rich and important intellectual debate.

Critical race theory not only dares to treat race as central to the law and policy of the United States, it dares to look beyond the popular belief that getting rid of racism means simply getting rid of ignorance, or encouraging everyone to “get along.” To read this primer is to be sobered by the recognition that racism is part of the structure of legal institutions, but also to be invigorated by the creativity, power, wit, and humanity of the voices speaking about ways to change that structure. As race relations continue to shape our lives in the new century—setting the stage for new tragedies and new hopes—critical race theory has become an indispensable tool for making sense of it all. — Preface to the Book.

Dear Fellow American,

I’m glad you opened my email today! I have something urgent to ask you that will shape the future of our families, communities, and country.

Will you take our National Opinion Survey on Critical Race Theory (CRT)?

Your participation will help us understand and address many Americans’ concerns about CRT’s influence on our society.

This survey will only take just a few minutes.

But in those few minutes, you’ll help us gather important insights to defend America’s founding principles of liberty…

…and ensure a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

You can share your thoughts on CRT in the National Opinion Survey on Critical Race Theory Survey here:

https://info.hillsdale.edu/crt-survey/

Sharing your opinion is an important way you’ll combat the spread of CRT in our schools and workplaces. Together, we can preserve the constitutional and free-enterprise principles that made our nation so great and so free.

Thanks in advance! I look forward to seeing your response.

Bill Gray, ‘01
Vice President
Institutional Advancement
Hillsdale College

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Take a break from the fucked up insanity of the White Western Ghoulish Race:

At the age of at least 74, Wisdom the albatross is showing that for many, motherhood simply never ends.

Three things to know:

1. The Laysan albatross was first banded (or marked) in Hawaii in 1956. Meaning, she could be even older than the current estimate of 74.
2. She’s been at motherhood for quite some time; Wisdom has likely produced 50 to 60 eggs, and brought as many as 30 chicks to the fledgling state, NPR’s Bill Chappell reported.
3. But it still feels like a marvel to watch her keep at it; after laying her latest egg in December, she was captured returning to her nest last week on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to tend to her young chick.

Bye bye good stories like this one since the Fascist Elon-Trump with the glassy eyes of the Demon-crats looking on is evicerating real earth and biological sciences.

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Numbers to remember — 48 million and $600 Billion

AmeriKKKa, the Final Roadshow: Janice Will was diagnosed in 2012 with Parkinson’s, a condition that causes parts of the brain to deteriorate, causing tremors and balance problems.

“When she broke her femur and it was close to the artery…it could have been lights out,” Brandon Will, Janice’s son, said about his mother.

Brandon, who lives with his mother near Chicago, Illinois, soon realized his mom needed 24/7 access to care.

Brandon, 42, reminds his mom that she is not weighing him down, telling her, “Parkinson’s is the burden. It’s one we share.”

“I think people get to these points where there is an illness or something that comes earlier than you’d expect. You realize how many systems aren’t in place,” Brandon told ABC News.

Janice and Brandon’s story mirrors the struggles many Americans are forced to reckon with when a loved one falls ill.

In the U.S., 48 million people have taken on the role of becoming a caregiver to a family member — with little to no financial help, according to Susan Reinhard, formerly the senior vice president of AARP’s Public Policy Institute and chief strategist for the organization.

“There are 48 million family caregivers who are unpaid. And if you did have to pay them, it would be $600 billion. I keep emphasizing the billion dollars because it’s quite amazing. It’s more than all out-of-pocket spending in the United States on health care,” Reinhard told ABC News.

Remember you fucking Christian and non-Christian Fucks:

My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’

Fred Trump III, from his Time magazine article:

After I left the office, I was standing with the others near the side entrance to the West Wing when Donald’s assistant caught up with me. “Your uncle would like to see you,” she said.

Azar was still in the Oval Office when I walked back in. “Hey, pal,” Donald said. “How’s everything going?”

“Good,” I said. “I appreciate your meeting with us.”

“Sure, happy to do it.”

He sounded interested and even concerned. I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong.

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

Oh, that cocksucker Trump and his Minyan and his fucking Jew Lovers and Gazan Killers, they want more BLOOD.

It is a black and latino and BIPOC attack by the Racist and Rapist in Chief, Trump.

The termination notice came just before Valentine’s Day, and Elena Moseyko’s heart was shattered as she broke down crying in front of her two young children.

She has bills to pay – a mortgage, preschool tuition, a car payment – and a scared family.

“I feel so angry now at the administration because I traumatized my kids,” she said. “I wish I would’ve never joined the federal government.”

Moseyko joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last year as a data scientist. She’d been “happily employed” in the private sector for a consulting firm but thought a government job seemed more stable.

Great heroes, federal worker, most of them, but . . . but . . . we need to reverse jujistu the fucking felons with our own program to take out motorcades, cabinet members’ jets, finding their backyard and poolside parties:

By Kit Klarenberg – February 15, 2025

Newly-leaked documents reveal a crew of military academics pitching the US National Security Council a series of extreme strategies for Ukraine, from IED’s inspired by Iraqi insurgents to sabotaging Russia’s infrastructure to propaganda “from ISIS’ playbook.”

Conceived under the auspices of the UK’s University of St. Andrews, the plans were outsourced through third parties to ensure “plausible deniability.”

Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the US “helping Ukraine resist,” to “prolong” the proxy war “by virtually any means”.

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A break from the pathological insanity of USA and UK and EUroTrashLandia:

Parenting a flock of Northern Bald Ibises is a demanding job. For the past six months, biologists Barbara Steininger and Helena Wehner have spent every day hand-feeding and raising dozens of these endangered chicks. They couldn’t pass their fostering duties off on anyone else during that time—the juvenile birds needed to imprint on them and them alone.

Steininger and Wehner then took to the skies to guide their young charges on the birds’ first migration. In mid-August they climbed onboard a microlight aircraft in Rosegg, Austria, to start their approximately 2,800-kilometer journey, which ended on October 3 at a wintering site in Andalusia, Spain. There the two foster parents said their final goodbye to the birds that they helped raise.

“At the end, you have to release them in the wintering site and accept that they are now independent and don’t need you anymore,” says Johannes Fritz, who leads the team reintroducing Northern Bald Ibises to the wild in Europe and has been piloting the microlight aircraft on these guided migrations since 2004.

Conservation under the Rapist in Chief Trump’s Watch? LET THEM ALL DIE. Trump hates women, smart women, scientists, et al.

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And here, the Mengele and Oppen-Monster-Heimers of the WORLD:

Eutelsat is taking another step away from consumer broadband as Starlink’s sprawling low Earth orbit (LEO) network continues to erode demand for geostationary services.

The French operator said Feb. 14 it is repurposing Konnect VHTS, the 500-gigabit-per-second satellite launched to geostationary orbit (GEO) in 2022 for consumer broadband over Europe and Africa, to serve higher-paying mobility customers in other markets.

Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke said Konnect VHTS is currently providing connectivity to major customers in Spain, Switzerland and France, adding that only Italian telco TIM has opted not to proceed with migrating to the satellite.

“However, we will probably not sell all of the capacity,” she added, so “we are developing terminals for also mobility use,” such as connectivity on boats and planes.

Berneke pointed to mounting consumer broadband competition from Starlink, which can provide lower-latency services with LEO satellites orbiting much closer to Earth than GEO.

While SpaceX’s Starlink initially focused on the consumer broadband market, she noted that the U.S.-based company has been steadily expanding into enterprise and government services in recent years.

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Bad Science at its Genetic Fucking Frankenstein Level. Mercury, uh?

[A Japanese court on Wednesday (2023)ordered the central government, the Kumamoto prefecture and a chemical company to recognize more than 120 plaintiffs as patients of the decades-old Minamata mercury poisoning and pay compensation they have been denied because they developed symptoms after moving away from the region.

The Osaka District Court recognized all 128 plaintiffs as Minamata disease victims and ordered the government, Kumamoto and Chisso Corp., which is held responsible for the pollution, to pay 2.75 million yen ($18,400) each, according to officials and media reports.

The plaintiffs, in their 50s and 80s, were living in Kumamoto and nearby Kagoshima at the time of the mercury poisoning and later moved to Osaka and elsewhere in western Japan. They filed a lawsuit in 2014, saying they were unfairly excluded from a 2009 compensation. They had demanded 4.5 million yen ($30,170) each, according to their lawyers.

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The research team from Macquarie University’s Applied BioSciences, CSIRO, Macquarie Medical School, and the ARC Center of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, has successfully genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish to transform methylmercury into a far less harmful gas that disperses in air.

“It still seems like magic to me that we can use synthetic biology to convert the most environmentally harmful form of mercury and evaporate it out of an animal,” says synthetic biologist Dr. Kate Tepper from Macquarie University, lead author on the paper.

Methylmercury causes environmental harm due to its high bioavailability and poor excretion: it can easily cross the digestive tract, the blood-brain barrier, and the placenta and becomes increasingly concentrated as it moves up through food webs to levels that can cause harm to neural and reproductive health.

The team modified the DNA of fruit flies and zebrafish by inserting variants of genes from bacteria to make two enzymes that together can convert methylmercury to elemental mercury, which evaporates from the animals as a gas.

Fucking stop INDUSTRIES. Study of the global supply, production, trade and use of mercury compounds

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New Illegal Material Not Allowed in K12, and a college coming to your town near you: Hillsdale curriculum now ready for deploying across the U$A.

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes. This transformation laid the foundation for biological systems, culminating in the formation of DNA, RNA, proteins, and cellular membranes. A key factor in this process was environmental energy, which drove the formation of increasingly complex biopolymers.

Recent studies highlight the importance of wet-dry cycles—periodic shifts in water availability—suggesting that these fluctuations played a crucial role in shaping early chemistry.

Through a process of dehydration and rehydration, simple molecules formed larger, more complex structures. During dry phases, molecules linked together into longer chains, and in wet phases, these chains partially broke down. This cycle enabled chemical selection, allowing only the most stable and functional molecules to persist.

Soon to be BANNED:

Versus the REAL DEAL:

How Israel is weaponising everyday tech into terror devices . . . And why you will never be safe again. by Palestine Will Be Free

Oh, those fucking Substacker Cock Blockers. Who woulda thunk?

Oh well: Ralph Nader today? Maybe blocked tomorrow?

My comments, but also sent to Emanuel:

Cognitive dissonance. The murdering maiming jailing poisoning starving state of Jews did the killing of their own people Oct 7. Larry Wilkerson should know that by looking at the straffed and immolated cars at the military rave.

Then. This idea that Rapist in Chief Trump’s Minyan and Goyim support democracy?

Look at these monsters, Larry: Rapist Pete? What a guy

Trump’s connection to all of these monsters, pray tell? Emanuel, come on. Andrew Mellon onward. Oil, media, megalomania, anti-democracy, anti-people. All of them, and so, NSA and CIA and deep state and the deeper data state?

Liars, cheats, outright grifters, and not a word coming from their mouths can be trusted: 2025? https://theintercept.com/2024/07/17/project-2025-advisory-board/https://theintercept.com/2024/07/17/project-2025-advisory-board/

But it’s data, and 4IR, and, well, again, Greater Israel now is Great Wailing Wall White House. Larry Ellison and Larry Fink?

I know you are leaning toward Jewish being separate from Zionism, Ralph, but the old saying, even from the mouths of Jews — “Never trust a Jew” is really the coming of the MOABs and nukes.

Out of the list below, 3 Jews. And the value system of a Mellon, or Mellons, well, this is Project of New American Jewish Century gone wild.

I’ll update you on more:

Thiel

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

Feinberg

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/stephen-feinberg/

Adelson

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/luka-doncic-miriam-adelson-dallas-mavericks

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostage-advocate-and-gop-mega-donor-miriam-adelson-reportedly-met-with-trump-witkoff-this-week/

Stephen Miller

https://www.them.us/story/stephen-miller-donald-trump-deputy-chief-of-staff-policy

Jean Guerrero

Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda―An Examination of Radicalization and Right-Wing Extremism

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/how-stephen-miller-manipulates-donald-trump-to-further-his-immigration-obsession

Mellon

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Timothy Mellon, grandson to Gulf Oil founder Andrew Mellon and heir to his fortune, gave $50 million to Donald Trump, who inherited $413 million from his father.

Alex Glass, Managing Director of Communications at Climate Power, released the following statement. “Trust fund baby Donald Trump and his new best friend Tim Mellon have something in common besides getting rich without doing any work: Trump, like Mellon, is completely dependent on fossil fuel billionaires for his continuing “success.” That’s why Donald Trump has been promising Big Oil CEOs to extend tax cuts for the ultrawealthy while asking them for $1 billion on campaign contributions – tax cuts that would let Andrew Mellon hold onto his unearned oil fortune, which Trump surely relates to.”

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/heir-to-andrew-mellons-fortune-spends-over-165-million-to-support-trumps-reelection/

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Nader Radio:

The Pentagon is now led by one of the least-qualified persons ever to be Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. He was exposed by the Democrats and the media when he was going through the congressional-confirmation process as ignorant, belligerent, vengeful, a woman-abuser denounced by his own mother, and a financial mismanager of the two groups that he directed. He’s now Secretary of Defense.

Ralph Nader

What I’d like to see Hegseth do is try his best to get Trump to help him refuse that money (the $150 billion that Congressional Republicans have proposed adding to the military budget). Gordon Adams—a man for whom I have a lot of respect, who was an OMB-type for a long, long time and knows more about the defense budget than probably anyone alive—said the truth the other day when he said: when Defense gets tons of money, it’s polluted, weakened, and turns into a place that can’t do its job. When it has periods of scarcity—and the better the scarcity, the deeper the scarcity, the better the Defense Department—it turns out to operate pretty well. So I think that’s stupid. I think it’s the Congress doing it because the Congress has become a wholly paid subsidiary of the military-industrial complex.

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Good one from Whitney, Mike: V.P. Vance Rejects ‘Safe’ A.I. at Paris Summit

Mike Whitney

When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting-edge technology, oftentimes, I think our response is to be too self-conscious, too risk averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly caused us to do precisely the opposite. Our administration, the Trump administration, believes that AI will have countless revolutionary applications… And to restrict its development now would not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.

this administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide, and we are the partner of choice for others, foreign countries, and certainly businesses as they expand their own use of AI. Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it’s taking off, and we’ll make every effort to encourage pro-growth AI policies. And I like to see that deregulatory flavor, making its way into a lot of the conversations this conference. Number three, we feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship. …

The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way. The US possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications…. And to safeguard America’s advantage, the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built in the US with American designed and manufactured chips. (America must dominate AI because AI provides the means for domination.)

America wants to partner with all of you, and we want to embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit of openness and collaboration. But to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that foster the creation of AI technology rather than strangle it. And we need our European friends in particular to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation. (Note—Ignore the risks, damn the torpedoes)…

with the President’s recent executive order on AI, we’re developing an AI action plan that avoids an overly precautionary regulatory regime while ensuring that all Americans benefit from the technology and its transformative potential…..

Concerns About International Regulations

The US innovators of all sizes already know what it’s like to deal with onerous international rules…..

Ladies and gentlemen…. The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety….

Now at this moment, we face the extraordinary prospect of a new industrial revolution, one on par with the invention of the steam engine or Bessemer steel, but it will never come to pass if overregulation deters innovators from taking the risks necessary to advance the ball… TRANSCRIPT: VP JD Vance’s Speech at Paris AI Summit 2025, Singju Post

Vance’s entire presentation was little more than an anti-regulation harangue designed to belittle anyone who failed to ascribe to his “Damn the torpedoes, all ahead full” philosophy. What the speech shows is that the Trump team believes that anyone who expresses the slightest support for modest oversight (of this potentially lethal technology) is a namby-pamby trying to block the path to the future. But what is so surprising about Vance’s analysis is that it appears to be the polar opposite of Musk’s. Musk has not expressed any such opposition to regulation or oversight; quite the contrary. As we’ve already shown, Musk feels quite strongly that we must reach international consensus on how AI should be regulated to ensure things don’t get out of hand. Mike Whitney

Back to the diritiest of the dirty — Jew. Oh those fucking Jews:

Some absolutely remarkable things have happened lately — since September 17 of last year, to be exact. That was when Israel carried out a barbaric terror campaign in Lebanon as it weaponised communication devices — pagers and walkie-talkies — to kill dozens and maim hundreds of Hezbollah officials and ordinary citizens with no ties to the Lebanese resistance.

It’s an act so depraved that even the former CIA chief Leon Panetta called it terrorism in no uncertain terms, “I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism.”

Yet, instead of feeling any sense of guilt or moral quandary about it, the Israelis — and their supporters — have since gone on to gloat about that unhinged act of terror at every opportunity possible. “Where’s your beeper/pager?” or some variant of this line has become a something of a favourite of pro-genocide Zionists in encounters online and offline.

Betar, a rabidly Zionist organisation with a sordid past of terrorism in Palestine openly tweeted to a pro-Palestine activist a death threat in the following words,

“1800 dollars to anyone who hands that jihadi a beeper.”

One terrorism sympathiser told a journalist,

“I hope your beeper doesn’t go off”, on live TV. A minister in the Netanyahu government tweeted a similar threat to the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation: “Watch your pager.”

Deborah Lipstadt, who was Biden’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, rhetorically asked an interviewer,

“You want a beeper?”

while answering his question about Israel not being weaker in the aftermath of October 7. She was roundly applauded and cheered for her supposedly funny/clever remark at the pro-Israel event.

Bahraini and Emirati officials with Trump and Netanyahu at the signing of the Abraham Accords.

[So you are selling me Pegasus, right? Right?]

For the Indian government, which is the top buyer of Israeli weapons, Pegasus came in handy towards the fulfilment of its long-cherished dream and electoral promise.

It also helped Israel change India’s position in its favour at the UN. The aforementioned New York Times article states, “[I]n June 2019, India voted in support of Israel at the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council to deny observer status to a Palestinian human rights organization, a first for the nation.”

India had a long history of taking pro-Palestine positions at the UN, but the Narendra Modi-led right-wing Indian government is fast becoming a trusted Israel ally at international forums — helped undoubtedly by the weaponisation of a powerful spyware tool, as seen in the case of Gogoi.

In his book The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics, Israeli-British musician and writer Gilad Atzmon tells the story of Victor Ostrovsky, a deserter former Mossad agent who grew a conscience later in his life and divulged sordid details of Israel’s espionage operations, much to the chagrin of Israeli society.

Ostrovsky made some startling revelations in a book, in particular about the existence of “sayanim” which means assistants or helpers (singular: sayan). The sayanim, who must be 100 percent Jewish, are Israel’s assets in foreign countries who can be mobilised in an instant into doing things for the benefit of Israel.

Atzmon quotes the following passage from Ostrovsky’s 1990 book By Way of Deception about the way the sayanim work to advance Israeli interests from their native countries:

The next day Ran S. delivered a lecture on the savanim, a unique and important part of the Mossad’s operation. Sayanim (assistants) – must be 100 percent Jewish. They live abroad, and though they are not Israeli citizens, many are reached through their relatives in Israel. An Israeli with a relative in England, for example, might be asked to write a letter telling the person bearing the letter that he represents an organization whose main goal is to help save Jewish people in the Diaspora. Could the British relative help in any way? … There are thousands of sayanim around the world. In London alone, there are about 2,000 who are active, and another 5,000 on the list. They fulfill many different roles. A car sayan, for example, running a rental agency, could help the Mossad rent a car without having to complete the usual documentation. An apartment sayan would find accommodation without raising suspicions, a bank sayan could get you money if you needed it in the middle of the night, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police, and so on. The idea is to have a pool of people available when needed who can provide services but will keep quiet about them out of loyalty to the cause. They are paid only costs.

To prove that Ostrovsky wasn’t making things up, Atzmon writes that “the Israeli government used every possible means to stop the publication of his books.” Further, Atzmon shares the following conversation between two Israeli journalists to cement Ostrovsky’s account of Mossad’s clandestine network as truthful:

In a radio interview Joseph Lapid, at the time a senior Israeli columnist, opened his heart and told the world what he thought of Ostrovsky: ‘Ostrovsky is the most treacherous Jew in modern Jewish history. And he has no right to live, except if he’s prepared to return to Israel and stand trial.’

Valerie Pringle, the journalist on the other side of the line, asked Lapid: ‘Do you feel it’s a responsible statement to say what you’ve said?Lapid: ‘Oh yes, I fully believe in that. And unfortunately the Mossad cannot do it because we cannot endanger our relations with Canada. But I hope there will be a decent Jew in Canada who does it for us.

Pringle: ‘You hope this. You could live with his blood on your hands?’

Lapid: ‘Oh no. It’s to…only it will not be his blood on my hands. It will be justice to a man who does the most horrible thing that any Jew can think of, and that is that he’s selling out the Jewish state and the Jewish people for money to our enemies. There is absolutely nothing worse that a human being, if he can be called a human being, can do’.

Lapid, later a member of Sharon’s cabinet, makes it very clear: to be a Jew is a deep commitment that goes far beyond any legal or moral order.

Instead of ostracisation as would happen in any civilised society after such egregious call for murder, Lapid would go on to serve as Israeli Minister of Law in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet.

these Blumenthals and the Rest of the Ritter-Loving Substackers are zero real people cuz they don’t know real people

These are your people, Aaron-Max-Katie et al who just love the smell of napalm Tulsi’s Hair Shampoo in the Morning! These are the boys with toys, fuckers. And there will be blood!

Newport, Oregon, 2/14/2025!

Then the fucking unnews on UnBing: This fucking Jewish Hell Hole butt grabber ain’t no left leaner!

Look at this fucking 10 year old shot — a fucking Jew in the Mode of ZioAzovNaziLensky:

Rahm Emanuel Is a Union-buster. So Why Are Chicago Unions Backing Him?

Most of the city’s labor movement is laying low or supporting the mayor in the upcoming election, despite his well-known anti-worker policies.

When Rahm Emanuel strode into office as mayor of Chicago in 2011, one of his first targets was the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). He sought and obtained state legislation limiting the right of Chicago teachers to strike. But he lost doubly in the fall of 2012: The CTU successfully mobilized its members to go on strike, then won both a good contract and the battle for public support. Yet Emanuel still closed 49 public schools and expanded charter schools the following spring. Meanwhile, other public employee unions moved into the mayor’s crosshairs as he drastically cut and privatized city jobs and services, often with help from a Democratic governor and state legislature.

This is trash, on all side of the fucking aisle: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said treatment for addiction and substance abuse would be a priority if he is confirmed.

“I was a heroin addict for 14 years. I’ve been 42 years in recovery,” said Kennedy, noting he goes to 12-step meetings daily. Kennedy said he would support improving education on the issue for medical school students. “Primary care physicians should understand addiction care,” he said.

Kennedy’s wet dream:

Everything about Trump is Mired in His Racism, His Nazism, His Jewish Genuflection, His Criminality, His Rape Crimes, His Ignorance, His Grifting, His Stupidity, His UnManly Faux Manly Shit, His Daft Ideas, His Shallowness, His Triple Hatred of Blacks and Muslims.

The only fabric of America this cocksucker Rapist Trump stands for is his zipper politics, his fucking senile blathering, and this cunt of a South African Racist.

Come on fucking nerds, bring these fuckers’ planes down with electronic warfare, even if you are in your fucking mother’s basement with the 4-d chess games and, Dark Souls, Nioh, Lies of P, Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Battletoads, Geometry Dash, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, A Difficult Game About Climbing, Real-time strategy, Survival, Rhythm, Bullet hell, Roguelike, Precision platformer, Soulslike.

Modi the Monster and his fucking teet-tit licking!

Another Trump Supporter. Memphis man sentenced to life for murdering wife on honeymoon.

And who said EuroTrashLandia doesn’t know how to be buggered without the Vaseline?

Little Dick Mother Fucking Queer as a Boy Scout Troop Master.

Now now, here is another Queer as a Steer with Udders, Scott RItter:

President Trump says he wants to work with China and Russia on the issue of “slowing down, stopping and reducing nuclear weapons.” Trump went on to declare that “there’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons…We already have so many you can destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over.” He also said he would urge Russia and China to join him in cutting their respective military budgets by half.

This is the most important statement made by an American president in decades, because from this can come a movement to save the world from the threat of nuclear annihilation. But such a dramatic departure from past practice threatens the Military Industrial Congressional Complex (MICC), that massive monolithic edifice to greed and war which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned his fellow Americans about in his farewell address delivered in January 1961. — Ritter!

Former United Nations weapons inspector convicted in an online sex sting has been sentenced to up to 5 1/2 years behind bars.

Scott Ritter, 50, of Delmar, N.Y., exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl, then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam.

He testified in his own defense that he believed the person he met in a Yahoo chat room in 2009 was an adult acting out her own fantasy.

But a northeastern Pennsylvania jury convicted Ritter in April. On Wednesday, a Monroe County judge sentenced him to 18 months to 66 months in state prison.

Ritter was taken into custody immediately.

Ritter was one of the U.N.’s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.

Ritter had asked for a new trial Wednesday, basing his request on an appeals court ruling in New York that records from two previous incidents in that state in 2001 should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial. Defense attorney Gary Kohlman argued the New York ruling entitled Ritter to a new trial because prosecutors based much of their strategy on the argument that Ritter had a history of illicit online sex.

“It became, as I feared, the tail that was wagging the dog at trial,” Kohlman said in court.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski argued the New York ruling had no bearing on Ritter’s conviction and sentence in Pennsylvania.

THese fucking Marines!

Monroe County Judge Jennifer Sibum rejected the defense request for a new trial, saying Kohlman could bring up the New York case on appeal, and ordered Ritter’s sentencing hearing to begin.

Paula Brust, a member of the Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, testified for the prosecution that based on Ritter’s history, he is at risk to offend again.

“He is not able to manage his offending in the community despite sex offender treatment,” she said.

Kohlman indicated he plans to call his own expert who will testify that Ritter is doing well in treatment and presents a low risk of re-offending.

Ritter was one of the U.N.’s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He resigned after accusing the United States and the U.N. of failing to get tough with Saddam Hussein. Later, he said Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, and he became a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion.

In 2001, Ritter twice arranged to meet people who claimed online to be underage girls but who turned out to be undercover police in Colonie, N.Y. The charges were eventually dismissed and the case was sealed, but Pennsylvania prosecutors obtained the records and used them to try to show Ritter has a predilection for underage girls.

Ritter told jurors he knew he was chatting with undercover police and set up the meetings so he would be arrested. Kohlman has said Ritter used sexually explicit chats on the Internet as a way to handle his depression over being called unpatriotic for his criticism of American policy on Iraq

Finally, what it all comes down to is this: Was Ollie North following orders or anticipating them? Is he the good guy or the bad guy or the fall guy? Everyone who has ever known him has an answer. Here are a few.

— William Corson: ”If the President says, `Write me a speech that says that green cheese and the moon are the same thing,` what are you going to do? Say it`s Velveeta?”

— Lt. Col. Holly: ”You can`t run with the ball till the ball`s been thrown to you.”

— An Annapolis graduate: ”What a lot of us are asking ourselves is,

`Did the Naval Academy teach more loyalty than what (Watergate figure) John Dean learned at his school?”

— Randall Herrod, the Marine for whom North traveled to Da Nang to testify: ”I believe in Ollie and if he did it, he did it in the best interest of the country. That`s the kind of man he is, real patriotic.”

— Denzil Garrison, one of Herrod`s attorneys: ”I still think he`ll be commandant of the Marine Corps someday.”

— President Reagan: ”He is a national hero.”

Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North, who was dismissed from his National Security Council staff job last week but later praised by President Reagan as a ”national hero,” had a relatively orthodox, modestly successful career as a Marine Corps officer.

Those who knew him well at the Naval Academy and in the Marines Corps said they found such harsh recent descriptions as a ”bull elephant gone amok,” and ”loose cannon” hard to reconcile with the professional, diligent performance they saw during the colonel’s 13 years of active duty.

During the Vietnam War, then Second Lieutenant North was once swept from the deck of a tank by its revolving turret. But, according to a battle citation, he grabbed a grenade launcher, climbed back onto the tank and led an attack that killed seven North Vietnamese soldiers. On another occasion during his 11-month tour he led three assaults on an enemy position until it finally fell.

He was decorated for such actions, but not highly decorated. He was regularly promoted, but not rapidly promoted. He took a serious, studious interest in such subjects as revolutionary warfare and military history, but one friend remarked that ”anyone who tells you Ollie North is a military intellectual is crazy.” No Critics to Be Found

Perhaps, too, the questions have been slow to arise because so many high-ranking Reagan administration officials respected North, admired him, and cooperated with him. But if North is in fact the unbalanced figure he appears to be, the implications of his role in the Reagan administration become not merely unsettling but alarming.

He’s got a fucking Meta Fuck You Page page!

Another fucking cunt:

QUEER boys of the USMC!

Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan’s former national security adviser and a key figure in the Administration’s Iran arms sale operation, took an overdose of 25 to 30 Valium tablets Monday morning in what police said was a suicide attempt.

The overdose occurred about three hours before McFarlane was to testify before the Tower Commission investigating the operation of the National Security Council staff in light of the arms sale scandal.

Rushed to Hospital

McFarlane, 49, was rushed by ambulance to Bethesda Naval Medical Center, minutes from his home in suburban Bethesda, Md., just after 7 a.m., according to Detective Lauren Acquaviva of the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department.

More fucking Jews who need machetes!

Scooping out the minds of youth, one million at a time!

President Donald Trump has publicly stated, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” and “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. . . . I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.” Trump has also averred, “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” Obviously, these statements are contradictory, for if Trump is truly oblivious to the machinations of Project 2025, then how can he honestly disavow its policies, especially if he didn’t actually read the official “Playbook,” Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025?

While contemplating the answer to this question, consider that Project 2025 contributor Russell Vought was recorded with a hidden camera which caught him saying that Trump’s public distancing from Project 2025 is merely a feint intended to deflect and placate his opponents in media and politics. Meanwhile, at least 29 Project 2025 contributors, including Project 2025 Director Paul Dans, have served under Trump in official positions across various levels during his first presidential administration.

Moving forward into Trump’s second term, many of his picks for high-level officials in his executive branch are Project 2025 contributors. These include Cabinet appointments, such as John Ratcliffe, who is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Russell Vought, who is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Other appointments include Tom Homan, who is Trump’s Border Czar, and Brendan Carr, who is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Altogether, this constellation of Project 2025 contributors orbiting Trump indicates that his administration will be adopting at least some of the Project 2025 directives, such as the mass deportation operation already being carried out by Homan.

“TrumpED 2025: School Choice Corporatization, Social Impact Finance, and the Dismantling of the Department of Education

In alignment with Project 2025, Trump pledges to eliminate the Dpt. of Ed and replace it with “school choice.” Rather than end federal control of education, Project 2025 education policy threatens to expand both government and corporate control of schooling in order to streamline ed-technocracy for the 4IR.” by John Klyczek

It is worth noting here that K12 Inc. was also bankrolled by billionaire technocrat Larry Ellison, whom Trump recently tapped to deploy Oracle, a CIA-linked artificial intelligence corporation that collaborates with the WEF, for the Stargate AI infrastructure project. It is also worth noting that Trump’s “shadow president,” Peter Thiel, was a private consultant to Secretary DeVos and a speechwriter for Secretary Bennett.

AmeriKKKa, the 11,000 pound road show !

UnUnited $nakes of Fucking Israel:

US President Donald Trump has reportedly greenlit the transfer of 11-ton bombs, dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB), to the Israeli regime, a decision his predecessors avoided.

Trump’s West Asia envoy, Steve Witkoff, unveiled the historic agreement to deliver the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, as the bomb is officially named, to Tel Aviv, according to German media.

Israel has coveted non-nuclear mega-bombs since the early 2000s, yet successive US presidents, including George Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, had been reluctant to greenlight it.

Even Trump himself had declined to authorize such transfers during his first term.

The unprecedented delivery of the MOAB signals a new era of deepening American-Israeli military collaboration, one that analysts warn could dangerously heighten regional tensions.

Adding to the geopolitical tremors, Trump last month lifted a Biden-imposed hold on 2,000-pound bomb shipments to the Israeli regime, resuming their flow with a decisive stroke.

Biden’s administration had halted these bomb transfers in May in a bid to deter Israel from launching a full-scale assault on Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. However, despite this symbolic move, Washington continued to funnel billions of dollars worth of other lethal weaponry to Tel Aviv.

In other words, Ellison’s vision of the future is complete control over everyone’s data in the hands of governments and a select number of super-rich companies capable of building and running this infrastructure for them.

Ellison also told Blair about Oracle’s AI-powered biometric ID that’s currently used only to log into the company’s system:

“The computer recognizes you. It recognizes your voice. It might ask you to put your index finger on the return key. And we know, we’re absolutely certain it’s you. There’s no reason to enter a password.”

Back to the cocksucker RFK, Jr:

War Porn, Blue Bloods, and Fathers (and sons)

by Paul Haeder / November 9th, 2022

This is a rite of passage that needs to go the way of the Dodo.

Mercenaries, and now, we have a blue blood son, grandson to Robert Kennedy, heading out to Ukraine with some sad sack ideas about what he in the name of Hell is going to do in that country?

Yep, RFK Jr., let out the news recently, on Megyn Kelly. The newspapers picked it up:

“He felt that he shouldn’t be arguing about it unless he was willing to have skin in the game and take his own risk,” Kennedy said on “The Megyn Kelly Show” of his son’s decision to go to the war-torn country.

Kennedy said his son signed up for the Foreign Legion at the Ukrainian Embassy and was a drone pilot before he was promoted to a “machine gunner.”

“He didn’t have any military experience and kind of talked his way into the unit,” he added. “He’s been in firefights, mainly nighttime, and a lot of artillery fights with the Russians.”

“He had a job for a law firm, a really good law firm in Los Angeles, and I was looking forward to him living with me for the summer,” he said of his son’s initial plans.

When probing him further about Conor Kennedy’s plans, his son said, “I’m not going. I want to talk to you. I don’t want you to ask me what I’m doing.”

“I was like, ‘Um…,’” he explained. “And he said, ‘I will explain it to you at some point, but I do not want you to ask me now, and if you could just respect that it would mean a lot to me.’ So I did.”

We can discuss what the role of parenting has to do with bringing up children who might find it necessary to shoot at people to get skin in the game. Now, Conor is 28, that is, 28 years old, not months, yet as a teacher of many souls over four decades, I can say he is most certainly arrested developed (so many American men are), and this whole idea of having skin in the game is beyond insane. Kind reader, what were you doing at age 28? Wanting skin in the game? Which game? Hmm, I went to Central America before age 28, and I was working with refugees in Arizona in my 19 to 21 years of age time frame. I was involved in journalism, too, young, at 17, and then reporting on some things like El Salvadorans perishing in the desert near where I was headquartered, and some on the drug tunnels down also near Bisbee. Also, reporting on the military putting up aerostat balloons along the border to try and capture undocumented workers. I even did a story on some of those Posse Comitatus folk, the border patriots (sic) who went out there armed and lock ‘n’ loaded.

Nope, no blue blood in my line. Yep, plenty of military around me with an old man in cryptology in the Air Force and then Army. Germany, France, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Yes, and I am named after a grandfather who was a WWI pilot in the Germany navy-air force, flying triple-wing planes. He was in post-WWI Germany, seeing the wheelbarrows of Deutsche Marks for a loaf of bread. He also — before the German loss — in the Battle of Jutland, on a ship, the Rostock, that was hit and distressed with hundreds dead. He floated on the flotsam of war and watched the battle ensue and then the two sides with white flags came into the war theater to pick up the wounded and dead.

And, of course, I had Irish and Scottish and English and Canadian family in that war, but also in WWII. Uncle Ian was on a submarine for the British, and German family members on the Russian front, and alas, relatives who survived the bombing of Dresden.

Yeah, I heard stories about Paul Haeder’s exploits on a tall sail ship learning how to be a soldier, and listened intently his war experiences, and learned about his post-WWI life, and his life in Iowa and South Dakota (my grandfather ended up in Iowa and South Dakota as the last of seven brothers who hit Ellis Island before WWI). Paul found work as a former lieutenant impossible — coal mining and “working” the food trains with orders to shoot fellow Germans, per the Pinkerton outfit, if they rushed the trains for food, bread, foodstuffs. That wasn’t Paul Haeder’s ethos, so he never did the dirty deeds of shooting Germans hungrier than rabid dogs.

Now, of course, forgotten history of that putrid, Patton and MacArthur, and their dirty deeds killing their own veterans:

In 1932, 17,000 former soldiers marched on Washington, D.C. to demand wartime pay owed to them. The Great Depression ravaged the country, and a president took desperate measures to disperse the angry veterans.

Tanks rolled down the streets. Soldiers held people at bayonet-point. Veterans and their families took lungs full of tear gas. People died.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur — then the U.S. Army’s Chief of Staff — led the 12th Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment into the fray.

The cavalry regiment contained six Renault FT tanks commanded by Maj. George Patton. The Army troops, with bayonets affixed to their rifles, charged into the shanty town and launched tear gas into the crowds. (source)

Skin in the game? Hmm. So, growing up on air force bases, army posts and outside Paris, on SHAPE and NATO compounds, I was truly interested in the stories of men and women, and the accounts of dudes who were in Vietnam, or hanging onto my old man’s Korea stories and his recalling about what happened in Vietnam, though he was pretty much a zipped up mouth on those wars. He worked in NATO caves in France and Germany, as a signal corps warrant officer, and we all in the family had to have FBI-level background checks.

I wonder what a 13-year-old is doing learning about Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez, Che Guevara, and much much more? That was me. I learned about Ho Chi Minh from some of my older sister’s friends who had come back from Vietnam, mentally wounded, hooked on smack, some wounded physically, and most anti-American, anti-War.

No blue blood in my family.

Look, yes, I am trauma informed, and this image, or these two, are full of context and whatever this Conor believes in, in terms of killing humans, Russians, and some of them, if he was a drone operator, civilians, that would be an interesting discussion and debate.

So, listening to RFK, Junior, Conor’s dad, I stuck with him throughout the wide-ranging two-hour Megyn Kelly interview, which in my mind is less of a journalistic interview and more of the same old celebrity cultish thing a multimillionaire Kelly was doing (interviewing) with another multimillionaire, RFK, Jr.

I wrote this to a fellow writer I respect, and who publishes many amazing pieces. He’s a bit older than I am, I believe. Here:

Yeah, ECC, we have this fascination with blue blood, the Kennedys, Bush, those coming out of Ivy League schools, who are millionaires who hang with billionaires.

His son, well, has to be judged on what he was doing, and alas, Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in the world, in some sense. So, there are many issues tied to what the quality of his character is.

He’s a mercenary, and this is war porn. He wasn’t even in any military. He talked his way into the Mercenary Legions. Lied. Oh, he is an athlete, which is a big Kennedy thing.

The entire thing will give this kid a cleared pipeline to multi-millions, and his book will be coming out soon, Oprah-approved, soon.

The kid (man, age 28) wouldn’t even tell his parents where he was going, what he was up to. That is something deeply troubling to me because I have friends and a spouse who have been estranged by their children. There are Facebook groups with the title “Mothers of Estranged Children.” Many of these women were just hard working single mothers, and something snapped in the children. There are 70 year old women who have never met children’s children, and even great grandkids. This is pretty deeply ingrained in my own background in trauma informed case management with homeless civilians and veterans and those hooked on drugs and those just released from prison.

I’m 65, been to Central America as a journalist, covered the US-Mexico border, been with US military as a college instructor at the Sergeant Major Academy at Fort Bliss. My old man was in 32 years. Air Force and then Army. Clandestine stuff, crypto stuff. We ended up in the Azores and then Germany and France and UK. I got to see and hear a lot of stuff. I am, was early, anti-military on so many levels

Very young (13) I was already seeing the destruction of the world through the military state, through corporate malfeasance, through the professional managerial class, and the lawyer class. This kid (man) at this age, 28, is really going to be part of the problem for socialists and social-environmental-cultural warriors like myself, and anyone who might come up as decent, smart and thoughtful adults in our current generation. We have a lot of work to do, and putting one’s effort into machismo, into this trip into a corrupt place, thinking Putin is a Gangster, well, what sort of upbringing did he have?

FYI: In the Megyn interview RFK admits he got the mRNA, and so did his children, 7.

Whew. Amazing, no, ECC.

Trauma, man. So much trauma in the Kennedy family. Epigenetic, and who the hell knows what kind of trauma is in Conor’s immediate family. I am trauma informed, so I can’t judge too much on that level.

Then, Aaron and Gabor Mate, an older interview, on the trauma, the mental illnesses and pain that propelled people to believe in Russia Gate.

Thanks, ECC. A real interview with you one of these days?

Here’s the show’s low down blurb:

Megyn Kelly is joined by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., author of “A Letter to Liberals,” to discuss COVID pandemic orthodoxy, the need for discussion and debate, the elimination of freedoms due to the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci demanding blind faith in authority, the important issue of whether the COVID vaccines prevent transmission, myocarditis risk from COVID and from vaccines, rise in “unexplained” deaths in a post-COVID vaccine world, the truth about how many lives COVID vaccines saved and lost, the lack of important data needed to understand the rise in deaths post-COVID, what Fauci said about vaccines that could have an adverse effect before the COVID vaccines were available, the absurdity of the new booster which was only tested on eight mice and no humans, Pfizer’s involvement in the Trump administration, Alex Berenson and tech censorship, RFK’s disbanded “vaccine safety” commission, Scott Gottlieb and our supposed medical elite, American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations, problems with the VAERS system, personal backlash from family and friends, his views of Donald Trump then and now, Herschel Walker and our politics today, the war in Ukraine, American imperialism, RFK’s personal connection to the war as his son Conor was fighting in the country, and more.

Look, these issues need to be discussed. In the interview, there is discussion about Trump, about politicians’ public lives versus private lives, and how we weigh the bad people perpetrate in their families, in their own house and jobs, their personal personas, against the good their policy and governance might come off as part of their public life. My writer friend was upset that RFK, Jr. calls Putin a thug and gangster, while at the same time, RFK JR does speak out against the cancel left, against the war drumming and against the endless pit of money and arms for nothing to ZioLensky. Kennedy laments that there is $7 a gallon of gasoline in California, equating that to the war/Putin (?), but really, the USA is (has been for decades) in a major free-fall, and, people are struggling with double-triple-quadruple cost of living; i.e., food, coffee, drugs, and now Pfizer, who got the jab approved by CDC for children’s yearly vaccination, well, they also announced the company will be upping the price of the dirty jab, to $110 a shot, which is four times the current price.

I wonder what these lawyers working for these outfits have in terms of skin in the game? Will they head to Yemen to see what it’s like to have USA-UK supplied bombs to Saudi Arabia. Skin in the game in Haiti stealing that country’s resources and stealing the coffers? Which skin in the game will the American put forth who wants to know what it is to take on a stand on any issue psychologically and intellectually without having to put one’s ass in the game?

It is a blue in the face routine now attempting to talk about Nuland and Maidan, about the Donbass and the ethnic cleansing? All of the history of Putin wanting diplomacy, wanting to be part of the Eurozone, to be on good terms with Germany, and to advance nuclear weapon decommissioning.

The thuggery and gansterism RFK Jr. and Conor Kennedy espouse about Putin, that’s way off, sort of brainwashed opinion. Putin is a million times more informed and sensible than Biden or Blinken. They have skin in the game, a la Raytheon et al.

Here, trauma, and what exactly is-was-continues to go on in the minds of Russia Gate freaks:

GABOR MATÉ: What does it say about American society that so many people are actually enrolled in believing that this man could be any kind of a savior? What does that say about the divisions and the conflicts and the contradictions and the genuine problems in this culture? And how do we address those issues?

You can look at that. Or you can say there must be a devil somewhere behind all this, and that devil is a foreign power, and his name is Putin, and his country is Russia. Now you’ve got a simple explanation that doesn’t invite you or necessitate that you explore your own pain and your own fear and your own trauma.

So I really believe that really this Russia gate narrative was, on the part of a lot of people, a sign of genuine upset at something genuinely upsetting. But rather than dealing with the upset, it was an easier way to in a sense draw off the energy of it in to some kind of a believable and comforting narrative. It’s much more comforting to believe that some enemy is doing this to us than to look at what does it say about us as a society.

I mean there was a massive denial of the actual dynamics in American society that led to the election of this traumatized and traumatizing individual as President, number one.

AARON MATÉ: Because you think Donald Trump himself is traumatized?

GABOR MATÉ: Oh, Donald Trump is a clearest example of a traumatized politician one could ever see. He’s in denial of reality all the time. He is self aggrandizing. His fundamental self concept is that of a nobody. So he has to make himself huge and big all the time and keep proving to the world how powerful and smart, what kind of degrees he’s got and how smart he is. It’s a compensation for terrible self image. He can’t pay attention to anything, which means that his brain is too scattered because it was too painful for him to pay attention.

What does this all come down to? The childhood that we know that he had in the home of a dictatorial child disparaging father, and a very weak

AARON MATÉ: Fred Trump, his father.

GABOR MATÉ: Who demeaned his children mercilessly. One of Trump’s brothers drank himself to death. And Trump compensates for all that by trying to make himself as big and powerful and successful as possible. And, of course, he makes up for his anger towards his mother for not protecting him by attacking women and exploiting women and boasting about it publicly. I mean, it’s a clear trauma example. I’m not saying this to invite sympathy for Trump’s politics. I’m just describing that that’s who the man is. And the fact that such a traumatized individual can be elected to the position of what they call the most powerful person in the world speaks to a traumatized society.

And like individuals can be in denial, a society can be in denial. So this society is deeply in denial about its own trauma, and particularly in this case about the trauma of that election. So one way to deal with trauma is denial of it. The other way is to project onto other people things that you don’t like about yourself.

Now, it’s only a matter of historical fact. And no serious person, no serious student of history can possibly deny how the United States has interfered in the internal politics of just about every nation on earth.

There is lots of skin in the game for all of us surviving in various stages and steps trauma. How many countries has the USA bombed, sanctioned, proxied, and stolen from? That is another fun thing, right, visiting those countries and donating some mutual aid support — skin in the game — by planting trees, feeding children, digging water systems. But putting on combat gear and playing tin soldier with live rounds and drones, hmm, that is an interesting skin in the game.

Here, Jim Chambers, from the rich and famous Cox news-cable family, he too went to Ukraine, Donbass, as a reporter:

When I asked him about his perspectives on the conflict now, versus when he made the decision to come over, his repeated emphasis was that he had been “extremely uninformed” when he was still in Alabama and relying on the narrative being spun by Western media. “I can tell you that I was very surprised to see most women and children still at home and living normally in all the major Ukrainian cities I went to. And when I was detained here in Donetsk, it was the first time I had been able to speak to any Russians or Russian-speakers from Donbass. There’s a side of the story that we’re not getting in America.” He noted that even from his cell in Donetsk, he had been hearing constant explosions, every day, coming from Ukrainian shelling of the city, something he had never anticipated. “Nothing in the Western media shows you that this is a civil war, and one that’s been going on a long time.” He didn’t go as far as disavowing the Ukrainian state, or endorsing the Russian “special military operation,” but he repeatedly said to me, “If I had known the truth about what was going on over here, I would never have made the decision to come. I regret it.”

Feelings of sympathy for a man in a life-and-death predicament, who at face value seems to have been duped into his decision, above all else, are completely understandable. But some on the Donetsk side of the conflict aren’t shedding many tears for him, or for similar detainees. Russell “Texas” Bentley is a U.S.-born veteran of the DPR armed forces, having served from 2014 to 2017, and he is a resident of Donetsk. Bentley shared with me his thoughts on Drueke and those like him.

“Yeah, a lot of these punks were just too big for their britches, and that’s almost forgivable. But what they wanted to do was come here to kill, and if the shoe had been on the other foot, they wouldn’t have hesitated. I was behind Ukrop [Ukrainian] lines twice, and didn’t fire a shot either time. Every single battle I was ever in was defensive. We held a position, and the Ukrops came to attack us, and they’d have killed us all if they could have. So, it will be an educational experience for them, hopefully give them a bit of a head start in their next life.” (source — ‘I Regret’ Being a Mercenary in Ukraine: Conversation with U.S. POW Detained in Donbass)

“Here is Texas Russell Bentley: From Texas to Donbass: Meet the American fighting Ukrainian fascists”

I used to show lots of movie clips to my students in Texas, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon. Lots of controversial (sic) books, and tons of articles and professional journal studies. Controversial, in their face, and much of it was during Reagan’s illegal wars, Panama, Bush One and Kuwait and Iraq, Bush Two, Iraq, Clinton, even Obama. Many many complaints about exposing youth and older students to things that went boom in their heads. Everything was on-limits, no holds barred. We talked, debated and then I got students to research and think critically and with the right tools of rhetoric, a la centuries of clear thinking, proposing, comparing and contrasting, looking at causes and effects, all of the ways we classify, argue, persuade, define and connotate and how we engage in those techniques of propaganda, and how to get through with objectivity and then what powerful tools narrative writing can give us. Pat Tillman — Conor, ever see him?

Here, the full movie, free, on You Tube. The Pat Tillman Story.

Look, RFK Jr. did say that we are imperfect, that is, the human race. He was stating how Hershel Walker can be candidate X, antiabortion vis-à-vis policy, but in his own life, having been a part of abortions with his spouses and partners, that is just the contradictory way of politics. It all makes sense as a Catholic who believes in redemption. I am not going to knock that. Conor, becoming a high priced lawyer one day, well, maybe he will do great things for humankind.

Maybe doing the mercenary thing in Ukraine will give Conor better perspectives. Now, Russell Bentley, I have had email exchanges with him. Yes, he has hit some of the same places I have hit — El Paso, Tucson, etc. He went to Donbass, and he married a Ukrainian-Russian, and he lives in the Donbass and reports from the Donbass. Yes, he sent me his memoir:

Robert Kennedy said he is not doctrinaire or hard-headed, and that he learns and changes over time. He repeats how he was working as an environmental lawyer, and that he was part of Riverkeeper, for which there are over 350 rivers around the world with a keeper testing water, supporting the river life and acting as a pied piper for a healthy river. He was suing over poisons in the rivers, mercury. He stated that he was dogged by some women at one of his talks. One woman gave him a stack of briefs and reports on mercury preservatives in Vaccines and other issues tied to vaccine injuries. The vaccine fight he was not a part of for years, until persistent citizens and a medical doctor brought it to his attention. I understand that old saw, “No one is perfect . . . Homo Sapiens is a messy, troubled species.”

That’s a given And we all have skin in the game when it comes to peace, life, truth, and reconciling our own trauma with healing and loving thy neighbor. The whole Putin is a Gangster thing is interesting, for sure, and alas, Capitalists Are Gangsters, sure, I get to deploy that one all the time. Murder Incorporated, the Value of Nothing, the Sociopathic Rich, and so much more I can also utilize as descriptors of the USA, then and now. Did Conor take in that book, War is a Racket? Did he weigh Butler’s words with the reality of Russia wanting Minsk II to be abided by before signing up for weaponizing his idea of skin in the game? What was Nuland doing in Kiev? Biden and Hunter? Are we all going to default on redemption for any sin? That we are all imperfect souls? Did Conor have real deep talks with people outside the frame of Putin is a Gangster?

I recommend reading, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). The book, and now, a 2022 German movie of the book:

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

? Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Yes, banned.

Remarque’s novel saw censorship outside of Germany as well. In the United States, the English translation was banned in Boston on grounds of obscenity; and in Chicago, U.S. customs had seized any volumes which had not been expurgated. Austrian soldiers were forbidden to read the novel, Czech military libraries removed copies from their shelves, while Italy banned the novel entirely due to its anti-war, pacifist agenda. Despite its success, or perhaps because of it, Remarque had his German citizenship revoked and was forced into exile. Just before the onset of World War II in Europe, Remarque and his wife left Switzerland for the United States. They became official U.S. citizens in 1947. (source)

Now? The sides, that is, the many sides, to Ukraine and Nazis and Bandera and Zelensky and Coups and USA and CIA, and then, Putin and Russian demands for stopping the existential threat of NATO moving east with all their bombs bursting in air. John Pilger stated it correctly recently:

Much of this propaganda originates in the US, and is transmitted through proxies and ‘think-tanks’, such as the notorious Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the voice of the arms industry, and by zealous journalists such as Peter Hartcher of the Sydney Morning Herald, who labeled those spreading Chinese influence as ‘rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows’ and called for these ‘pests’ to be ‘eradicated’.

News about China in the West is almost entirely about the threat from Beijing. Airbrushed are the 400 American military bases that surround most of China, an armed necklace that reaches from Australia to the Pacific and south east Asia, Japan and Korea. The Japanese island of Okinawa and the Korean island of Jeju are loaded guns aimed point blank at the industrial heart of China. A Pentagon official described this as a ‘noose’.

Palestine has been misreported for as long as I can remember. To the BBC, there is the ‘conflict’ of ‘two narratives’. The longest, most brutal, lawless military occupation in modern times is unmentionable.

The stricken people of Yemen barely exist. They are media unpeople. While the Saudis rain down their American cluster bombs with British advisors working alongside the Saudi targeting officers, more than half a million children face starvation.

This brainwashing by omission has a long history. The slaughter of the First World War was suppressed by reporters who were knighted for their compliance and confessed in their memoirs. In 1917, the editor of the Manchester Guardian, C.P. Scott, confided to prime minister Lloyd George: ‘If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow, but they don’t know and can’t know.’ (‘Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works‘)

Then, on a sad and inspiring (for some) note tied to other types of humans who might be coming to Donbass to fight what they believe is the good fight.

That’s Alex Castillo, who was a fighter in Donbass since 2014. From Spain, but born in Columbia. It’s a tough comparison, right, Kennedy and Castillo. This man had skin in the game, family in the game, was there to defend the people of Donbass being murdered by Ukraine, vis-a-vis USA material and training and NATO beefing up.

He was a communist, too, which is contrary to the bleeding heart liberals who are wrapped in blue and yellow and demand more more more for Zelensky, who has rounded up communists. Russia, by the way, isn’t communist, since so many Americans I will send this article to might need some reminding.

Russell Bentley is in Donbass and was in the fighting groups with Castillo. Bentley is a communist, colorful, sometimes bombastic, but not afraid to call a spade a spade, and he has that robust energy still in his older age days (63) of someone critical of USA, of Ukraine and of Russia’s decision makers who Russell believes have really messed up the fight against the AFU and Azov folk in Donbass region.

But he has tributes for Castillo, just recently killed in fighting:

Alexis was a true Communist, and a real Internationalist. He often spoke of going to Syria or Venezuela or Cuba after our victory here in Donbass, to defend the people and the socialism there. He did not love war, not by any means, he hated it, as we all do here, as all decent people do, but he was good at the job, and the job needed to be done. As all combat veterans know, we are all born with only so much luck, and the more time you spend in the places where the bullets fly, the closer you get to the day your luck runs out. Alexis spent 8 years as a front line soldier, a sniper in a Spetsnaz unit, and he never, ever hesitated when it was his turn to go. And when his time came to meet death, two weeks after our good friend Elia was killed, Alexis met it like a hero, advancing on the enemy with a weapon in his hand. Alexis was truly a Che Guevara of the 21st century, and Alexis had said, as did Che, “I do not care if I fall, as long as another ear hears my battle cry, and another hand picks up my gun.” (“Adios, Alex Castillo: A Donbas hero falls on Oct. 28″).

Any sort of tribute to a fighter like Castillo in the circles I intersect with is verboten, literally. Cancelled, called a traitor, called a Putin lover, called a Trumpster, called any number of names that are completely antithetical to who and what I am. Or, you might end up in a Michigan Democratic rally, with Obama stumping, and god forbid you confront Obama about his administration’s work in Ukraine in 2014, and not only will you get the swarmy and bs Obama folksy retort — “We are all friends here . . . you’ll have time to speak” — but you will get those blue democrats, men, women, children, old and young, hating on Russia and just not ready for any pushback against their multimillionaire-soon-to-be-a-pro-basketball-team-owner Obama. Yelling, “Down with Russia . . . Putin is our enemy.” You know, no antiwar chants, or chants of peace talks, or chants against escalation, of nuclear saber rattling by Biden. Obama is truly a stump. These are his rallies in Michigan, and he was in Oregon, stumping for the democratic candidate for governor. What’s that got to do with ex-President’s multimillionaire package?

I know it’s “only” Jimmy Dore below covering that Michigan event, but heck, no pushback from mainstream media, so here, watch Democratic Party rally with Obama pushed through the Dore seive: “Peace Activists Heckle Obama Over Nuclear War”

All those dead Ukrainians, and Russians, and fighters like Castillo, and this is the end result for so many of them — what they leave behind:

?We are in some very sick and strange times —

Deep Critical Analysis Needed EVERY Veterans’ Day, USA’s National Holiday, November 11!

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Fucked up Catholic Heroin Addict and his Jewish Vaseline Queen: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the Israel parade in Manhattan

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