81 Percent of Gaza is Under Jewish Occupation Force
Look and Listen to the Jews in Occupation and Genocide Uniforms:
This is it for South African leader?
Not this loud fucking Woody Allen throated Jew, but listen to Sam: An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Inbred UnUnited QueenDumb’s Piers Morgan?
Piers Morgan, after becoming a caricature chasing genocide victims down to ask them if they condemn Hamas, tweets that Israel has gone too far. This is faked controversy and faked division in the most united and monstrous ruling class.
Decades ago, during one of Argentina’s economic crises, the people marched shouting the slogan, “que se vayan todos” – all of them must go. It should be common sense that there should not be any mass murderer or defender of mass murder in power anywhere.
It’s scary to take on people who are proudly displaying that they have no limits to their depravity. It’s natural to hope for cracks between them that might make the task easier. But the cracks are fake. And there’s no escaping the starting point: all the genociders must go.
And I go to the 60 Plus Center, have my radio show, do my Op-Eds in the local rag, do the memoir writing and fiction writing class as instructor, even horse therapy shit, helping old peole de-clutter and weeding, but the reality is WE ARE the GENOCIDE!
“If nothing happens, in a month, there will be no more Palestinians left in Gaza. – Laith Marouf”
The true death toll isn’t the carefully curated official count stuck at 45,000 for more than a year, but probably exceeds half a million Palestinians—a number hinted at when Trump casually mentioned there were “one eight, one nine million left in Gaza.”
“Yessah Massah, take my money ‘bowss’….” — MBS cozying up to the world’s most depraved genocidal maniac slaughtering his Arab kin.
The Cunt-Tree-Tis-Of-Thee: White Man’s House and White Man’s Congress.
Fucking dumb house negroes! President Donald Trump honored the 2025 NCAA basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House on Wednesday, proclaiming that “lesser teams would have crumbled” during its nail-biting title game victory.
“It was looking bad,” Trump said, noting that Houston led by as many as 12 points in a game Florida rallied to win 65-63 in San Antonio in April. ”Did you think you were going to win?”
More from the Semen Drip of the Marcos Line:
And the Hitler with Liposuction, Scalp Reduction and Wig is on his Tank:
A Black Female With the Only Gonades?
Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
The prosecution of McIver is a rare federal criminal case against a sitting member of Congress for allegations other than fraud or corruption. The case instantly taps into a much broader and more consequential power struggle between a Trump administration engaged in a sweeping overhaul of immigration policy and a Democratic party scrambling for ways to respond.
A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Bull Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission.
All fucking show and no tell!
Hero!
Fuck AMERIKKKANs and Klanadians and EuroTrashLandians and InBred UnUnited Queen-Dumbers.
Shoot them all, the white klan:
Ivana’s detailed description of Donald’s rape was given during her deposition as part of the Trump’s 1990’s divorce case. In a 1993 book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, the former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a very violent, criminal scene of domestic violence.
According to Ivana’s sworn statements, her plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who had performed Donald’s waist and chin liposuction procedures, also performed his scalp reduction surgery. Hurt wrote in the Lost Tycoon that the recovery was painful and Donald suffered “nagging headaches caused by the shrinking of the scalp, and the pain of the initial incision.”
[Client list — Elizabeth Taylor Joan Rivers Ivana Trump Michael Jackson Janet Jackson Sylvester Stallone Pamela Anderson Tony Curtis Phyllis Diller Angie Everhart Zsa Zsa Gabor David Gest La Toya Jackson]
In pain, and not satisfy with the immediate coloration associated with the process, on an irate phone call, Donald told the Dr. Hoefflin, “I’m going to kill you!” He then threatened to sue the doctor, not pay for the procedure and work to destroy his practice. (Vintage Donald Trump)
Donald then unleashes his anger on Ivana for recommending the doctor. The relevant excerpt of Lost Tycoon follows:
Suddenly, according to Ivana, The Donald storms into the room. He is looking very angry, and he is cursing out loud. “Your fucking doctor has ruined me!” he screams. The Donald flings Ivana down onto the bed. Then he pins back her arms and grabs her by the hair. The part of her head he is grabbing corresponds to the spot on his head where the scalp reduction operation has been done. The Donald starts ripping out Ivana’s hair by the handful, as if he is trying to make her feel the same kind of pain that he is feeling. Ivana starts crying and screaming. The entire bed is being covered with strands of her golden locks. But The Donald is not finished. He rips off her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what The Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, “He raped me.” When The Donald finally pulls out, Ivana jumps up from the bed. Then she runs upstairs to her mother’s room. She locks the door and stays there crying for the rest of the night. The next morning Ivana musters up the courage to return to the master bedroom. The Donald is there waiting for her. He leaves no doubt that he knows exactly what he did to her the night before. As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: “Does it hurt?
start with the national/international celebratory stuff, then go for the anti-Capitalist jugular
Thousand-word Opinion Editorials are a fine thing to pen, and you can cover a lot of ground in this amount of verbiage. Normally, local rags limit letters to the editor to 300 words, and alas, in this sound bite sort of scrolling-on-the-screen culture, going over a 500-words limit is the kiss of death — you lose your reader.
But there is a method and mad dash of hope in this formula of once-a-month tributes to hard work, that is, highlighting the hard work of “heroes” in this hard land of penury and disaster and predatory (retaliatory) capitalism.
Today’s piece in my local rag (5/21) is emblematic of my own proof that we can fight the surge of shallow thinking and even shallower writing.
Here, just heading home from assisting at the 60+ Center (senior adult center), I caught this show, on the radio station where I broadcast my own Wednesday show, Finding Fringe. 6 PM, PST, streaming live on kyaq.org.
East Orosi hasn’t had safe drinking water in over 20 years. The water is full of nitrates, runoff from industrial agriculture, which is harmful to human health. The community has taken action to find a solution, from lobbying at the state capital to working with neighboring towns.
And they may finally have one. New California laws, passed in the last five years, have opened up funding to build water infrastructure in small towns like East Orosi. But even as laws and funding develop, implementation has been challenging.
We visit East Orosi and talk to Berta Diaz Ochoa about what it’s like living without clean drinking water and the solutions on the horizon in part one of a two part series. — Listen.
So, imagine, a sound bite around the issues of field workers pulling up crops that are destroying healthy water systems, forcing them to have to drink that toxic water or paying for bottled water to survive. Is water a human right? In California is it.
So, take ANY community, not just the fenceline ones, the communities that are in the sights of the perveyors of criminal capitalism because they are poor and probably BIPOC, and then find how infrastructure and services and even bloody retail enterprises like pharmacies or grocery stores are being gutted by Capitalism, pre-Trump/post-Trump.
You have any axes to grind? You live in a flyover state or rural community?
Efforts to write it off as “disappearing” are complicated by the 60 million Americans who call a rural community home.
We must recognize that innovation, diversity of ideas and people, and new concepts don’t need to be imported to rural communities – they’re already there. Rural entrepreneurs and community leaders have always, by necessity, been innovative.
Rural communities have faced some harsh realities in the last generation: they’ve seen manufacturing move overseas, farming monopolized by big outfits with only 5% of rural residents working in agriculture, generational migration to bigger cities, school consolidation, and the absence of basic community resources such as health care and broadband, and, more recently, threats to the lifeline that is the U.S. Postal Service. This, and the pandemic.
Every brightly lit corporate store on the edge of town is a monument to a system that does not build community or advance a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem.
While noting the decades of gerrymandering to enhance the power of rural officials, New York magazine author Ed Kilgore concludes, “Underlying it all are real differences in outlook between different parts of the country, made more important by the distinct institutional features of a constitutional system designed to protect the interests of small, largely nonmetropolitan states.”
Sorry, Ed; the values of citizens of rural areas have as much to do with school violence and immigration resistance as do video games. In fact, Kilgore undermines his own argument by citing Ronald Brownstein’s analysis in the Atlantic of the red-blue divide. Alas, the same Ronald Brownstein reported on CNN just one week later that a prosperity gap was the source of the split between Democrats and Republicans. “Observers in both parties agree that the sense of economic displacement in recent years has intensified the long-standing movement toward the GOP among small-town and rural communities initially rooted in unease over cultural and demographic change.” It’s fair to observe that gun-loving nativists did not create the dismal economic prospects that drove them to vote for candidate Trump.
It is true that after years of civic disengagement, rural voters turned out in record numbers to elect the only coastal elitist who showed up in their communities and asked for their votes. So, Trump won and Clinton lost. Beyond that, any generalization about the impact of rural citizens on national politics is just horsepucky. Rural citizens didn’t create the electoral system that permits unlimited campaign donations to state officials who draw Congressional districts to favor entrenched wealth. In fact, rural citizens are the victims of gerrymandering as much as any disenfranchised cohort that ends up in a noncompetitive legislative district.
Alas, here’s the Google Gulag AI response to “all the problems in rural America”:
Rural communities face numerous interconnected challenges that can be described as “broken systems” due to a combination of historical disinvestment, geographic isolation, and economic shifts.
Here’s a breakdown of some key broken systems in rural communities: 1. Healthcare:
Limited Access: Rural areas often have a shortage of healthcare providers, specialists, and hospitals, forcing residents to travel long distances for care.
Hospital Closures: Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate due to financial difficulties and staffing shortages, further limiting access to care.
Lack of Services: Rural areas may lack crucial services like mental health care, substance abuse treatment, and specialized medical care.
2. Economic Systems:
Job Losses: Rural communities have experienced significant job losses due to the decline of manufacturing and agriculture, leading to higher unemployment and poverty rates.
Limited Opportunities: A lack of diverse industries and businesses can limit economic opportunities for residents, particularly young people. Brain Drain: Young, educated individuals often leave rural areas for better opportunities in urban centers, further weakening the local economy.
3. Infrastructure:
Poor Broadband Access: Many rural areas lack access to reliable, high-speed internet, hindering economic development, education, and access to telehealth.
Inadequate Transportation: Limited public transportation options can isolate residents and make it difficult to access jobs, healthcare, and other essential services.
Aging Infrastructure: Rural areas may have aging infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and water systems, which require significant investment to repair and upgrade.
4. Education:
School Consolidation: Rural schools have been consolidated, leading to longer commutes for students and the loss of local schools as community anchors.
Funding Challenges: Rural schools often face funding challenges, which can impact the quality of education and available resources.
Teacher Shortages: Rural schools may have difficulty attracting and retaining qualified teachers, impacting student outcomes.
5. Social Systems:
Social Isolation: Geographic isolation and limited social opportunities can contribute to social isolation and mental health challenges for residents.
Lack of Community Resources: Rural areas may lack access to essential community resources such as libraries, childcare facilities, and recreational opportunities.
It’s important to note: These “broken systems” are interconnected and often exacerbate each other. The challenges faced by rural communities vary depending on location, demographics, and economic conditions. Addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach involving government, businesses, non-profit organizations, and community members.
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Identify, Diversify, and Harmonize How We Think this May
By Paul Haeder/Lincoln County (Oregon) Leader
One may wonder how the heck did we get all these national and international days of celebration. It is a feature of Homo sapiens to celebrate accomplishments and honor causes and individuals who make the world, well, theoretically a better place.
May is no exception, and of course, the International Workers’ Day is May 1. In this time of rampant hatred of so many professions by Trump and Company, it goes without saying that his shallow but deeply narcissistic persona just will never grasp the value of the worker.
His entire raison d’être is about tearing down and imploding institutions and attacking individuals for which he deems “the enemy.”
The billionaire classless cabal sees workers as the enemy. And the goals of the International Workingmen’s Association in 1864 were clear: Shorter work hours; safer work environment; fair wages; elimination of child labor; the ability for the state to regulate labor conditions.
Ironically, I was in Ashland on International Firefighters Day, talking to two captains in the city’s two fire stations. I was told that a few years ago firefighters responded to 1,600 calls annually. Last year, Ashland’s stations went out over six thousand times.
Aging in place and lack of family and support precipitates many of the EMT calls. And a fire engine they are waiting for is still four years out, to the tune of $2 million once it’s completely outfitted.
If you watch the milquetoast mainstream media, you will have recalled the Accused Sexual Predator Trump made a mockery of National Teacher Day by laughing at all the cuts to the hundreds of educational initiatives smart and reasoned individuals over decades had initiated for the betterment of society through the intellectual progress of our youth.
Another group of workers in the bulls eye of Musk, Thiel, Stephen Miller and Vance/Trump is nursing professionals. We see the almost total breakdown of nursing and doctoring in Lincoln County because of the hard reality of a for-profit health care system putting profits over patients. Add to that the lack of affordable housing, and rural counties throughout the land are suffering massive nursing and doctor shortages.
Which then brings us to National Day of Reason, where groups of people see the value in enlightened thinking. You know, valuing the separation of church and state, which for all intents and purposes under this fascist regime has been imploded into a crusade against reasoned thinkers who do not see prayer or faith as central to their lives.
Humanists and Secularists created this National Day in response to the national day of prayer.
Celebrations have taken the form of blood drives, secular events and activities, and in some cases, protests against the National Day of Prayer. Imagine Trump and Company having the wherewithal to wrap their heads around this celebration – the Secular Week of Action when people volunteer to make the world a better place.
Two not necessarily different international recognition days in May include World Day for Cultural Diversity and International Day for Biological Diversity. Did you get the memo yet that Trump-Vance are on the attack against affirmative action and ecological health.
In fact, on the biodiversity front, Trump and Company have “redefined” harm as it is applied to the Endangered Species Act. This pinhead thinking is just the tip of the iceberg of clownish but dangerous moves.
Defenders of Wildlife explains:
“Trump administration is hell-bent on destroying the ESA to further line the pockets of industry. The vast majority of imperiled wildlife listed as endangered or threatened under the ESA are there because of loss of habitat. This latest salvo to redefine ‘harm’ to eliminate protection for wildlife from habitat destruction, if successful, will further imperil threatened and endangered species. We will fight this action and continue to protect the wildlife and wild places we hold dear as a nation.”
Are you seeing the pattern carried out by billionaires such as Miriam Adelson, Larry Fink and Larry Ellison? Given the fact half of American cities are under air advisories, we have International Asthma Day to lend pause to how destructive these executive actions have been and will continue to be decades from now.
‘Harm’ is what unchecked air pollution in many forms continues to do to young and old. Harmful air advisories come in daily, and the fear is that Trump will just ban the notifications as a way to say, “See, I have cleaned up the air since there are no more warnings.”
Maybe we can pray the polluted air away.
The backers of Trump’s ideal America will see our “secular humanist” society based on science and reason destroyed. The Ten Commandments will form the basis of the legal system.
Finally, we have World Press Freedom Day. If you have any deep regard for the so-called Fourth Estate, then shivers should be running up your spine under this anti-journalist regime.
Mickey Huff of Project Censored states press freedom succinctly:
“We have to remember that it’s the independent media that is often the grassroots voice of the people. It is often the independent press that is operating on ethical standards and principles, and it is the independent press that is reporting in the public interest, not the corporate media.”
Diversify your news media diets. Find independent outlets, and for journalists, we need to reform the media and create better avenues for news reporting, including better accuracy and what we call “solutions journalism,” which creates truly constructive dialogue in our communities.
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Footnote: And not one mention of the genocide in Gaza, the trillions stolen from Arab nations’ populations, the trillions stolen from citizens of Canada, EU, USA, for the starvation and immolation and rape of a people.
There are no other topics to write about with the same amount of importance that Palestine conveys, from every aspect of War Terror of the Capitalists of both Jewish and Goyim descent.
The Cunts of Cunt-Tree-Tis-of-Me: These whites, man, total fucking FLEAS.
AI on Crack:
More than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package that would hamstring the regulation of artificial intelligence systems.
Tucked into President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” agenda bill is a rule that, if passed, would prohibit states from enforcing “any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems” for 10 years.
“As part of the project, IAF helicopters will be equipped with innovative technologies designed to ensure maximum protection in complex combat scenarios, including systems for identifying, disrupting, and neutralizing threats and systems for deflecting guided missiles,” the Israeli Ministry of Defense noted.
No plans for mitigating the reality.
Southern California is bracing for a surge of summerlike heat this week, with inland temperatures expected to climb into the 90s and potentially hit triple digits in parts of the San Fernando Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
“This will be a noticeable warm-up, especially Tuesday through Thursday,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “Highs between 90 and 100 degrees will be common away from the coast, with a few places possibly reaching record territory
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings
The government is widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a painful housing crunch.
Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky and Nathan and Elizabeth Blecharczyk, Jews, so expect lawyers and judges and payola.
A neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain, that was among the locations chosen for the construction of more social housing.Credit…Mariano Herrera for The New York Times
The Spanish government on Monday ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
The government said the listings were in violation of rules because they either lacked licenses, had fake license numbers or failed to reveal whether the property was run by a corporation or an individual.
Airbnb said in a statement that it would continue to appeal all decisions linked to the case. A spokesman said the company would keep the listings up until the appeal made its way through the courts.
Un-Safe at any speed? SHIT.
The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to new research.
A group of international scientists set out to establish what a “safe limit” of warming would be for the survival of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. They pored over studies that took data from satellites, climate models and evidence from the past, from things like ice cores, deep-sea sediments and even octopus DNA.
What they found painteda dire picture.
Pablum, man, an Ivy (Poison) League cunt school:
Wimps: The fucking president and a fucking actor, both liars. Approximately 6,000 graduate and undergraduate students arrived at Franklin Field around 10:15 a.m. after taking part in a procession from Penn Park. The ceremony featured remarks from Penn President Larry Jameson and this year’s Commencement speaker, 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks, an award-winning actress, producer, and film director.
Oh, those Jewish Writers.
Oh, those helpers. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes revealed a slew of indictments connected to fraudulent operations at sober living homes.
Yesterday’s announcement highlighted a total of 22 fresh indictments brought by the State Grand Jury, accusing individuals and businesses of serious crimes, including money laundering and conspiracy.
…and so the Top Priest Meets with VD Vance, Syphilis Rubio and then there is the Piano Man and His Penis Zelensky getting lubed by Hillbilly Eulogist
This is the world of the western fucking psychotic, and there are no fucking leaders who would dare say —
“What the fuck are we doing? For the Bankers, again, Gen. Smedley Butler, War is the Racket, gave you nothing? Burning Chinese alive, once again? Murdering babies and familes, once again, America? What fucking sort of human stain is this fucking American, Democrat or Republican, both the stains of the earth? This is unacceptable, and every fucking idiot in uniform, stand the fuck down. You fucked up drone operators and frucked up Top Gun cunts, you all need to be put to sleep while out driving your Corvetes and drinking mojitos. What sort of country is this, this Genocidal Country, now preparing to invade and bomb and brutalize Chinese? Stand down you fucking cunts, you Trump Goy and Jews, and all you inbred Christian sluts and pricks, all of you, stand down. You are okay with bleeding babies? Popping pregnant women’s bellies with missile fragments? You okay with the depleted uranium and the white clouds of phosphorus? This is it for our fucking Country?”
[The Dumb Goy Cleric and his Fascination with Penises — Zelensky signed into law a bill banning religious groups with ties to Russia Saturday, Ukraine’s Independence Day. The bill’s main target is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which has historically been linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate.]
At Mass during his inauguration Sunday, Leo called for peace in three war-torn regions: Gaza, where “the surviving children, families, older people are reduced to hunger”; Myanmar, where unrest has “cut short innocent young lives”; and Ukraine, which “awaits negotiations for a fair and lasting peace.”
Pope Francis condemns Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church
‘Churches are not to be touched!’ Pope Francis said after Ukraine approved a law banning churches tied to Russia.
Oh, the UnUnited Snake$ of AmeriKKKa produces the worst kind of humanity, yet another example in the Gutless Pope of Chicago. ANother fellow shit face Chicagoan? Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family who first lived in Chicago.
Did you watch, Ukraine Under Fire? “It is very informative … it ties CIA to Ukraine / Maidan protests .. basically a play book to how these things played out similarly in other countries too. 2014 was the start of all of this.”
Oh, that fucking Jewish Peace Maker.
According to this Nouvel Observateur (1998) interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 entry of Soviet troops.
To label this as The Soviet Afghan War is a misnomer. Confirmed by Brzezinski, It is best described as the “U.S.-Al Qaeda War against Afghanistan”. The US started this war against The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, with a view to destroying a secular nation state committed to women’s rights and universal public education.
The planning of this war involving the recruitment of so-called. “freedom fighters” (good guy mercenaries) was marked by the active recruitment of Al Qaeda (The Base), namely terrorists acting covertly on behalf of the United States. This included Osama Bin Laden who had been recruited by the CIA.
The first war in 1979-1980 was described as a “Covert Action Support to the Afghan Resistance “ (NSDD 166, see Declassified below) which consisted in funding and supporting the recruitment of Al Qaeda “freedom fighters”.
22 years later a Second War entitled US-NATO War against Afghanistan was undertaken:
On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda, under the leadership of Osama bin Laden allegedly attacked the WTC and the Pentagon with endorsement of Afghanistan
It was “a pretty good idea”, says Hillary, and it remains a good idea today.
In the course of the last 45 years since the since the onslaught of the so-called Soviet-Afghan War, the US has not ceased to support and finance Al Qaeda as a means to destabilizing and impoverishing sovereign countries.
“Let’s remember here… the people we are fighting today we funded them twenty years ago… and we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union.
“They invaded Afghanistan… and we did not want to see them control Central Asia and we went to work… and it was President Reagan in partnership with Congress led by Democrats who said you know what it sounds like a pretty good idea… let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these mujahideen.
“And great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahabi brand of Islam so that we can go beat the Soviet Union.
“And guess what … they (Soviets) retreated … they lost billions of dollars and it led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“So there is a very strong argument which is… it wasn’t a bad investment in terms of Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will harvest.
“So we then left Pakistan … We said okay fine you deal with the Stingers that we left all over your country… you deal with the mines that are along the border and… by the way we don’t want to have anything to do with you… in fact we’re sanctioning you… So we stopped dealing with the Pakistani military and with ISI and we now are making up for a lot of lost time.” (HILLARY CLINTON)
President Ronald Reagan issued (and signed) the National Security Decision Directive 166 (NSDD 166), which de facto authorized“stepped-up covert military aid to the Mujahideen” as well as CIA support to religious indoctrination.
Oh, that fucking Pope and his Penis ENvy Turds:
In order to conquer and seize Gaza, “We need to do it in a way” where the world “won’t stop us,” Netanyahu says.
What? “The horrors of Israel’s genocide oblige nonconformist Jews to honestly examine widely-held Jewish beliefs. There is no escaping that calling.”
Zionism and the disgraceful, despicable, barbaric, and stupid behavior of the Jewish collective in the last 18 months have erected immense walls between Jews and humanity. We have to dig underneath them.
The Zionist movement, from its very inception in the 1880s, was built on the logic of settler-colonial elimination, aimed at displacing, fragmenting, and erasing Palestine’s Indigenous people. From the earliest waves of Zionist immigration, Palestinian communities faced land theft, forced removals, militarized repression, and exclusion from economic and political life. By the time Israel was officially established in 1948, the genocidal framework was already well in motion, with decades of systematic violence preceding formal statehood. Zionist leaders and military strategists had long envisioned a Palestine without Palestinians, and the Nakba was simply one of the most intense and visible phases of that ongoing process.
Netanyahu claimed that international pressure, including from pro-Israel Republican senators and the White House, required the appearance of humanitarian intervention. “Our best friends in the world—senators I know as strong supporters of Israel—have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge,” he said.
“They come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine,’” Netanyahu added. To continue the war of annihilation, he asserted, “We need to do it in a way that they won’t stop us.”
The Jew Kissinger is still setting policy from his sewer, or grave:
Marco Rubio is one of just two people in US history who have simultaneously served as both secretary of state and national security advisor. The other was Henry Kissinger, a notorious war criminal.
Kissinger helped oversee the normalization of relations between the US and China. In 1971, he took a secret trip to Beijing, where he set the stage for the historic trip the following year by President Richard Nixon.
At that time, Washington saw an opportunity to take advantage of the Sino-Soviet split. It essentially allied with Beijing against Moscow.
Five decades later, the Trump administration has sought to invert this “triangular diplomacy”, hoping to “partner” with Moscow against Beijing.
Analysts have often referred to this strategy as a “reverse Kissinger”, but in reality Kissinger himself had advocated the idea from the very beginning.
In a meeting with Nixon in 1972, just a week before the US president visited China, Kissinger clearly stated that Washington was playing a cynical “balance of power game”. He argued that, in the future, the US would likely “wind up leaning towards the Russians against the Chinese”.
I think, in a historical period, they [the Chinese] are more formidable than the Russians. And I think in 20 years your successor, if he’s as wise as you, will wind up leaning towards the Russians against the Chinese. For the next 15 years we have to lean towards the Chinese against the Russians. We have to play this balance of power game totally unemotionally. Right now, we need the Chinese to correct the Russians and to discipline the Russians.
Back to the news headlines that make anyone end up with Chlamydia Capitalism Syndrome:
Jews:
Jewish Idea a la Goy:
Why Palmer Luckey thinks AI-powered, autonomous weapons are the future of warfare
By now, we’ve all heard about Elon Musk’s efforts to reshape the U.S. government.
But tonight, we’ll introduce you to another tech billionaire, one who’s set his sights on radically changing the way the Pentagon buys and uses weapons.
His name is Palmer Luckey and he’s the founder of Anduril, a California defense products company.
Luckey says for too long, the U.S. military has relied on overpriced and outdated technology. He argues a Tesla has better AI than any U.S. aircraft and a Roomba vacuum has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon’s weapons systems.
So Anduril is making a line of autonomous weapons that operate using artificial intelligence. No human required.
And SARS-CoV2 was a naturally occurring virus (haha… wink wink wink)
The team recommends that future studies build on the HARE5 findings by examining how this enhancer interacts with the roughly 3,000 other HARs in the human genome. After making progress in understanding one piece of the puzzle, the researchers see the next logical step as figuring out how all the components work together.
“There are many, many different mechanisms that are critical to making the human brain what it is,” said co-author Debra Silver.
Money money money for the people, for the medical care, for the housing, for food security, for clean air and water . . . hahaha … wink wink wink.
Qatar Becomes First International Customer of Raytheon’s FS-LIDS Counter-Drone System in $1B U.S. Defense Deal
That’s right, that fucking Pope. China Boy/Girl?
US prepares for long war with China that might hit its bases, homeland: Peter Apps
Peter Apps was a Future of War fellow at New America. He is a Reuters global affairs columnist. He reported from southern Africa then South Asia before stints in London and Washington D.C. covering emerging markets, global political risk, and defense issues. In 2006, he broke his neck in a minibus smash while covering the Sri Lanka civil war, leaving him largely paralyzed from the shoulders down. Of the more than 20 countries he has reported from, over half have been since the injury. Since 2016, he has been a member of the British Army Reserve and the UK Labour Party. He is also founder and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century, a largely volunteer run think tank examining major issues of the era. He tweets at
We are dedicated to renewing the promise of America by continuing the quest to realize our nation’s highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.
“What I do for the crown prince,” Trump said as he made eye contact with bin Salman. “The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an important, really, an important function nevertheless at the time, but now it’s their time to shine. It’s their time to shine.”
Factory of LIES:
Rubio said this week, however, that the al-Sharaa government had suggested they are committed to the principles outlined by the international community – inclusive government, peace with their neighbors including Israel, and driving out terrorists. He also said that Syria would make efforts to rid the country of chemical weapons with assistance from the US.
But Rubio also cautioned that driving towards a normalized relationship with the al-Sharaa government would not happen overnight.
“This is a new relationship. We’ve now known each other and known them for 24 hours,” Rubio told reporters. “Obviously, we want to see progress made, and we’ll take every step that they take, and it’ll be a long road, because it’s been a long time, so we recognize that, but this is a historic opportunity, and if it succeeds, we have a dramatic transformative effect on the region,” he said.
Earlier this month, US Air Force Brigadier General Doug Wickert summoned nearby civic leaders to Edwards Air Force Base in California to warn them that if China attacks Taiwan in the coming years, they should be prepared for their immediate region to suffer potentially massive disruption from the very start.
In a remarkable briefing shared by the base on social media and promoted in a press release, Wickert – one of America’s most experienced test pilots, now commanding the 412th Test Wing – outlined China’s rapid military growth and preparations to fight a major war.
Cutting-edge US aircraft manufactured in California’s nearby “Aerospace Valley”, particularly the B-21 “Raider” now replacing the 1990s B-2 stealth bomber, were key to keeping Beijing deterred, he said. However, if deterrence failed, that meant China would likely strike the US, including nearby Northrop Grumman factories where those planes were built.
“If this war happens, it’s going to happen here,” Wickert told them, suggesting attacks could include a cyber offensive that included long-term disruption to power supplies and other national infrastructure. “It’s going to come to us. That is why we are having this conversation… The more ready we are, the more likely to change Chairman Xi’s calculus.”
But first, Ralph Nader and his fucking love of Jews. This fucking IOF cocksucker should be locked up and serving Palestinians steak and egg the rest of his life, or just taken out back and shot. But old Ralph, here we go.
What the fuck? The initial meaning as a verb, 86-ed/eighty-sied was “to refuse to serve a customer,” and later took on the slightly extended meaning of “to get rid of; to throw out.” The word was especially used in reference to refusing further bar service to inebriates.
Then this fucking Sub-Jew-Stack! Comey’s “86 47” Post Gets Terrorwashed: When did everything become terrorism? Ken Klippenstein
“Hey @Comey we’re in the business of Counterterrorism,” he said on X. “You committed a crime by threatening President @realDonaldTrump’s life.”
Other top national security officials responded similarly, including:
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence: “It’s a veiled call to action to murder the sitting President of the United States … I’m very concerned for his life and James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and be put behind bars for this.”
Kash Patel, FBI Director: “We are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security: “Today, federal agents from @SecretService interviewed disgraced former FBI Director Comey regarding a social media post calling for the assassination of President Trump. I will continue to take all measures necessary to ensure the protection of @POTUS Trump. This is an ongoing investigation.”
Just when I thought this couldn’t get any dumber, anti-Trump commentator Brian Krassenstein texted me that his brother, Ed (also an anti-Trump commentator), had received a visit from the Secret Service for his mocking posts of the “86 47” number.
[Jews: The Krassensteins were born and raised in a Jewish household[4] in Somers Point, New Jersey. They graduated from Mainland Regional High School in 2000. According to Brian, they launched their first business at the age of 15, selling baseball cards on the internet, before moving onto running Internet forums in the early 2000s.[5][6] In college, they started a business running online communities addressing topics such as video games, automobiles, and investing.]
“The agent said that they were sent from Washington and basically couldn’t believe that he had to come,” Brian told me.
I couldn’t believe it, either. The Krassensteins, for those not familiar, are dad-joke-generators whose political material is offensive only in its cringeyness (a representative example: the anti-Trump book they co-authored, titled “How the People Trumped Ronald Plump”). Their getting a visit by the Secret Service seemed so beyond comprehension that I asked if they had any video evidence of the visit. Brian sent me a video showing a Secret Service agent flashing a badge in front of his brother’s house.
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Fucking dumb Jews, man: I have been 86-ed from a bar for playing pool too loudly, and even a fucking comedy club, again, 86-ed for laughing too lougly. I’ve been 86-ed out of city and county hearings, and alas, I have been 86-ed from many “jobs,” including substitute teaching.
Black kid pulled from Waldport High School, well, that too, 86-ed. Doing TIme.
Comey promptly removed the post, disavowing violence of any kind.
It is a queer country, and alas, anything coming from the Democrats’ and Repulicans’ mouths is pure Joe McCarthy and Scarlet Letter HandMaid stuff.
86-ed, Ken:
According to Merriam-Webster, the origin of the term 86 began as a slang term that meant something was sold out at soda bars in the 1930’s. This term was thought to have come from the rhyming slang term “nix”, which is to cancel something.
During the Prohibition Era, a speakeasy called Chumley’s bar was located at 86 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. Police showed up at the hidden bar to shut it down, and apparently told patrons to “86” (leave) the area by using the secret back door that led to 86th Bedford Street. Which was different from the main entrance that police would use on Barrow Street.
Other possible origins of where the term 86 comes from is also tied to bars and alcohol. Prior to the 1980s, whiskey was available as 100 of 86 proof. When patrons drank too much of the 100-proof whiskey, they would become belligerent, and the bartender would have to “86” them, meaning they would have to switch to 86-proof liquor or leave the bar if they were unruly.
When we have fucking big ass murder incorporated corporations getting away with mass murder:
Did the Trump and Jewish White Man’s House 86 the FEMA?
Or is Eighty-Six now only a JEWISH term for genocide?
Do we Eighty-Six this niggerized cunt? Is it throw the bums out, or is it a hit like Ralph Nader’s special Jewish guest, the Sniper.
Is this just plain Teorrism? Or should the entire FBI and the lot of them be 86-ed out of existence?
Rapist in Chief Trump’s AmeriKKKa: One killed after explosion near fertility clinic in Palm Springs
Oh the entire Jewish Race in israel and those in Diaspora who love that mothership, should they be 86-ed out?
What about ROund-Up Ready? Should all of them be 86-ed?
Round-Up Ready ALS. The makers and the PR firms and lawyers and the chemists, the lot of them put them in the dock and harvest what’s left of their humanity — corneas, liver, kidneys, skin.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease involving several protein mutations in glycine-rich regions with limited treatment options. 90-95% of all cases are non-familial with epidemiological studies showing a significant increased risk in glyphosate-exposed workers. In this paper, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, plays a role in ALS, mainly through mistakenly substituting for glycine during protein synthesis, disruption of mineral homeostasis as well as setting up a state of dysbiosis. Mouse models of ALS reveal a pre-symptomatic profile of gut dysbiosis. This dysbiotic state initiate a cascade of events initially impairing metabolism in the gut, and, ultimately, through a series of intermediate stages, leading to motor neuron axonal damage seen in ALS. Lipopolysaccharide, a toxic by-product of dysbiosis which contributes to the pathology, is shown to be statistically higher in ALS patients. In this paper we paint a compelling view of how glyphosate exerts its deleterious effects, including mitochondrial stress and oxidative damage through glycine substitution. Furthermore, its mineral chelation properties disrupt manganese, copper and zinc balance, and it induces glutamate toxicity in the synapse, which results in a die-back phenomenon in axons of motor neurons supplying the damaged skeletal muscles.
A whole lot of Deep Sixing that needs to be going on:
deep six(n.)
“place where something is discarded,” by 1921 (in phrase give (something) the deep six), originally in motorboating slang, perhaps from earlier underworld noun sense of “the grave” (1929), which is perhaps a reference to the usual grave depth of six feet. But the phrase (in common with mark twain) also figured in sailing jargon, of sounding, for a measure of six fathoms:
As the water deepened under her keel the boyish voice rang out from the chains: “By the mark five—and a quarter less six—by the deep six—and a half seven—by the deep eight—and a quarter eight.” [“Learning the Road to Sea,” in Outing magazine, February 1918]
In general use by 1940s. As a verb from 1953.
Imagine a world where this harbor seal is replaced with all the Semen Drips in the Trump White Man’s House and the two manure parties.
Just today on the wrack line, near where I live. A communist can ONLY dream that he’d be seeing milions of rotten capitalists bloated and picked over by eagles, crows, gulls and buzzards.
his 79th birtday should be one of drones and Molotovs and RPG’s burtsing in his fucking ear!
“Arab villages are still being burned in the Gaza District…bewildered, homeless refugees are congesting the area from Gaza to Khan Yunis to Rafah with despair on their faces as they watch the smoke from their burning villages mounting into the desert sky.”
This quote isn’t from the latest UN report documenting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
It’s from a December 1948 American Red Cross report describing Israel’s Nakba, or “catastrophe” in English, when the Israeli military drove the vast majority of Palestinians from their homes in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing.
The entire Thieving Murding Raping Poisoning Starving State (sic) of Israel (sic) needs to vanish before our EYES.
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The Israeli military is changing its story on the 2022 killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – again.
This time, it’s in response to our new investigative documentary, ‘Who Killed Shireen?’ which revealed for the first time the name of the Israeli soldier who fired the fatal shots.
It is hard to keep the ever-shifting stories straight.
What we do know from eyewitnesses, survivors, and journalists at the scene is that on May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier shot Abu Akleh in the back of the head while she was trying to cover an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. She was wearing a blue bulletproof vest that was clearly marked “PRESS.”
The Jewish State of Murdering Mauling Maiming Starving Poisoning Thieving “Israel,” steeped in the religious extremism that is Judaism.
Israel has launched the “initial stages” of what it calls “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” a new offensive explicitly aiming to expand control over Gaza. There’s nothing subtle about it. They’ve dropped leaflets depicting “a Biblical scene of the sea parting and engulfing destroyed buildings in the Strip, with a Star of David insignia” and the words “righteous conquest.” This isn’t policy veiled in diplomatic language – it’s genocide broadcast in real time.
Jews: “God Almighty said: So We inspired Moses, Strike the sea with your staff, and it parted, and each part was like a mighty mountain” [Surah Shuara 63]
THese fucking JEWS:
Whores. Fucking Whore Mayors.
Just over a year ago, then-mayoral candidate Keith Wilson held a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside a former church in Southeast Portland that had been converted into a day center for homeless residents. The center, run by small nonprofit PDX Saints Love, was pitched by Wilson as a “critical bridge” between homelessness and permanent housing, offering employment assistance, showers, warm meals, connections to health programs, housing referrals, and community events.
For candidate Wilson, PDX Saints Love was a model for how he hoped to address the city’s homelessness crisis if elected.
Now, four months into Wilson’s mayoral term, the day center — which an estimated 1,800 people currently rely on — is set to close. Kristle Delihanty, director of PDX Saints Love, said without city funding she has no other choice.
“Our work was leveraged as part of [Wilson’s] campaign platform, and our budget was solicited under the assumption that this work would continue,” wrote Delihanty in a May 14 letter to the Portland City Council and Wilson expressing her frustration.
Jews or their fucking followers, Christian Cunts: State Superintendent Ryan Walters says Oklahoma public school classrooms will receive Bibles this fall, even though lawmakers declined to fund the initiative in the proposed 2026 state budget.
Walters originally requested approximately $3 million to provide Bibles for schools, but the legislature did not allocate the funds. Despite that, he says the plan is moving forward.
“We’ve already been exhausting multiple avenues to do that,” Walters said. “We’re going to make sure that Oklahoma children understand the role the Bible played in American history, and that will happen this fall.”
Jews: Destroyers of the Earth. ‘Elderly child’: Trauma of Israeli bombing turns Gaza girl’s hair grey
A panic attack during a strike left Lana al-Sharif visibly ageing, with a condition that has no treatment in the war-battered Palestinian enclave.
Did I say Jews? Altman? [Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, into a Jewish family and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother is a dermatologist, and his father was a real estate broker. Altman is the eldest of four siblings.]
While OpenAI’s first Stargate campus in the U.S. — already under development in Abilene, Texas — is expected to reach 1.2 gigawatts, this Middle Eastern counterpart would more than quadruple that capacity.
The project is emerging amid broader AI ties between the U.S. and UAE that have been years in the making, and have made some lawmakers nervous.
OpenAI’s relationship with the UAE dates back to a 2023 partnership with G42 aimed at driving AI adoption in the Middle East. During a talk earlier that same year in Abu Dhabi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised the UAE, saying it “has been talking about AI since before it was cool.”
Lexi Alexander: When you know about Palestine, or you are Palestinian, you are very sensitive to something like the scene with the four boys. People do not know Arabs as anything other than oil sheiks who have harems, or as terrorists, or in the rare “woke” cases, people who get to help the CIA. That’s why, in the real world, it’s so easy to kill four boys from the same family playing soccer or a young nurse who’s helping someone [during the Great March of Return protests in Gaza]. This is how entertainment shapes our minds. That scene where Wonder Woman saves the boys—I can’t guarantee that nobody made the connection. But my guess is Gal Gadot probably wouldn’t purposefully say, “Let’s start some shit.” I don’t think [writer and director] Patty Jenkins knows about these boys at all. To me, that’s more offensive, the fact that nobody knows what happens in Palestine.
They didn’t sit in a room together and say, “How can we upset Palestinians the most?” On the contrary, the conversation is often more like, “How can we write something that [for example] Black people really like?” and then it goes in the complete opposite direction. Take Green Book [the 2018 film about a Black musician’s white chauffeur]. Many of my Hollywood friends said, “Look, this is going to be a great movie that everybody will like.” Immediately, the trailer comes out and I see all of Black Twitter explode [the film generated controversy over its historical inaccuracy and white savior narrative]. But a lot of powerful people in Hollywood think they are very woke.
When you only have those people in charge of telling stories, they just keep nurturing this racism and these misunderstandings. They think: If we have this Black man chauffeured around, that’ll win us an Oscar. And then they do win an Oscar, while all of Black America is upset. That’s Hollywood.
There was a time when certain production companies made movies that specifically dehumanized Arabs in order to justify invasions in the Arab world. If you don’t make them human, then who cares? But I don’t think that’s what happened with Wonder Woman. I think they probably thought they’d be getting great press: “Look how nice and friendly she is to Arabs.”
Jews like Adoph Hitler Bibi and ZioAzovNazi Lensky get the trillions while the airways burn?
Where’s rapist in chief Trump and his gutted FEMA? Paper towells, anyone?
At least 21 killed, dozens injured as suspected tornadoes hit Missouri and Kentucky
Roofs peeled off of buildings and trees and utility lines were toppled. The fire chief says at least 20 square blocks of St. Louis were damaged.
Air Traffic Controllers? Pope Leo XIV takes helm of Catholic Church amid a priest shortage in the U.S.
On Judge Not Wanting to Face God’s Judgement: Judge rules against decision not to protect Joshua tree (too bad they named it after that dirty bible — The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In Numbers 13:1 and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes. According to biblical chronology, Joshua lived some time in the Bronze Age. According to Joshua 24:29 Joshua died at the age of 110)
U.S. District Judge Wesley L. Hsu ruled Monday that the USFWS decision to not provide ESA protections for the Joshua tree is illegal and sidesteps climate science.
The Cahuilla people called it “humwichawa” or “hunuvat chiy’a”. The Southern Paiute called it “sovarampi,” and the Western Shoshone called it “umpu”
Cunt Mormons: In the mid-19th century, Mormon settlers gave the tree its common name, believing its outstretched branches resembled the biblical Joshua guiding them westward. However, historical records offer little evidence for this tale. Some theories suggest that pioneers saw the tree as a symbol of Joshua’s military leadership, its sharp leaves evoking the image of an armed force.
Moses, Samson, Gideon, Joshua, Hannible? A crucial system of ocean currents is slowing. It’s already supercharging sea level rise in the US.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as the AMOC, works like a vast conveyor belt, transporting heat, salt and freshwater through the ocean and influencing climate, weather and sea levels around the planet.
Coastal flooding is caused by a cluster of factors, chief among them climate change-driven sea level rise, but the AMOC also plays a critical role in the Northeast, according to the study published Friday in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Scientists used data from tide gauges — instruments which monitor sea level change — combined with complex ocean models to calculate how the AMOC has affected flooding in the region over the past decades.
They found between 2005 and 2022, up to 50% of flooding events along the northeastern coast were driven by a weaker AMOC. Drilling down, that means AMOC-driven sea level rise contributed to up to eight flood days a year over this period.
DOGE — department of oppression greed excrement!
The inspector general for the National Labor Relations Board is investigating the ad hoc Department of Government Efficiency’s interaction with the NLRB following NPR’s exclusive reporting about sensitive data leaving the agency.
The investigation was first reported by FedScoop, which filed records requests for information related to allegations made by IT staffer Daniel Berulis in an official whistleblower disclosure last month.
FedScoop reported Thursday that the outlet’s requests were denied “based on an exemption that allows agencies to withhold records that are ‘included in an open investigatory file where disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with law enforcement proceedings.'”
The OIG’s inquiry comes after the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wrote to the acting Inspector General at the Department of Labor Luiz Santos and Ruth Blevins, inspector general at the NLRB, expressing concern that DOGE “may be engaged in technological malfeasance and illegal activity.”
Semen Drip South African Racist Cunt:
Finally, those natural borner or naturally committed KILLERS, uniformed disservices:
The tanks are a key part of a parade that will honor the Army’s 250th birthday and fall on President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. Since it was announced, the parade has grown in scope and participation, and one of the highlights will be columns of tanks rolling in formation along Constitution Avenue. Each Abrams tank can weigh 60 tons or more and carry a crew of four.
The ingredients for any community should start with the basics: active and informed citizens. Participants in a community’s past (context, knowledge), present (all those factors tied to the weakest and most vulnerable, are they included?) and future (getting to a place where climate chaos, predatory capitalism, neofascism doesn’t completely pull all the loose strings of a threadbare set of safety nets). There are plethora of planning books on the smalltown.
Then what about a sustainable city? Unfortunately, when planners and politicians talk about making cities more sustainable, they are thinking of large urban centers like Portland or Seattle. Oh, the buzz phrases: walkable neighborhoods, traditional architecture, and diverse land uses. It’s neighborhoods that sort of look like small towns. The fix is in for those large cities as planners and developers are B.S.-ing introducing a “small-town feel” into large cities and suburbs. This will never ever create a sense of community, nor will it reduce the use of automobiles.
From the promo stuff on the book, The New American Small Town: “So, what of small towns themselves? We don’t talk about these places as much. They are often assumed to be utopias of the past or crumbling ghost towns of the present day rather than places with potential for sustainable living. This book critically examines narratives of American small towns, contrasting them with lived experiences in these places, and considers both the myth and reality in the context of current urban challenges. Interweaving stories from and about U.S. small towns, the book offers lessons in sustainable urbanism that can be applied both in the towns themselves and to the larger cities and suburbs where most Americans now live.”
Like I stated above, there are dozens of books for planning students and developers and chambers of commerce and policy wonks on how to jigger things for smalltowns.
“The book offers hope-filled portraits of small towns as livable, sustainable, and diverse places and serves as an important corrective to the media narrative of alienated, left-behind rural voters.”
—Mark Bjelland, author of Good Places for All
Thinking of community from that large urban space, Jane Jacobs approached cities as living beings and ecosystems. She suggested that over time, buildings, streets and neighborhoods function as dynamic organisms, changing in response to how people interact with them. She explained how each element of a city – sidewalks, parks, neighborhoods, government, economy – functions together synergistically, in the same manner as the natural ecosystem. This understanding helps us discern how cities work, how they break down, and how they could be better structured.
She was looking at big urban places, like her home, New York:
“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.” (source)
In my small town, population 2,300, we look toward the sea and the forest as reminders of how vital ecosystems are. The county becomes a network of towns along the coast and inland — Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport, Seal Rock, Waldport, Yahcats.
We drive a lot, and the traffic during tourist summer season balloons. The town of Lincoln City is around 10,000, but on some weekends, it swells to 50,000. All that infrastructure, all that water, all those restaurants and beaches, well, think of five times the impact, or more, since locals do not all swarm to the beaches or the restaurants all in one fell swoop.
We are living on unceded land, and in many cases, sacred burial land: Indigenous Communities in Oregon.
The links below are the websites of Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribal communities:
The story of a community is all wrapped up in its context, history, and in this age of a memory hole crazy presidency — with white supremacists like Jewish Stephen Miller running the Trump team’s Gestapo and Big Brother training camp — we will see history literally erased.
Communities that are small are more vulnerable than those large urban areas Jacobs wrote about, and studied.
From my urban and regional-planning graduate-student days (looking at concepts of small is better and scaling down) there are so many quotable axioms tied to communities that are considered small. Here are some notes from one of my planning classes looking at regional smalltown planning:
“A small town is where everyone knows everyone, and everyone has a secret.”
“In the quiet of the village, the soul finds its reflection.”
“A village is a symphony of nature and humanity.”
“Simplicity and serenity find their home in village life.”
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
“If it is to be successful it must be folk-planning. This means that its task is … to find the right places for each sort of people; places where they will really flourish.”
For me, big ideas and a global perspective capture where I live. There is a deep economic tie to tourism and Air B & B sort of lifestyle out here. Fishing as an industry is big. Logging and a pulp mill in the town of Toledo are still big economic drivers. A big brewery, Rogue, gobbles up precious freshwater, as does the pink fish industry of Pacific Seafoods.
We have the NOAA station and the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Sciences Center, as well as the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Many highly educated (college) retirees end up here since many worked for those two large entities listed above. I’ve written about “this place” for Dissident Voice, capturing my old gig as a columnist for Oregon Coast Today. I write for the local rag, called the Newport News Times, with a name change of Lincoln County Leader.
Here’s an interesting one, while I was training to be a bus driver, but alas, that fell through because of bad HR, MAGA co-workers, and a multinational company, First Student, ruling over the local school system’s transportation:
Here’s a weird idea of mine, a letter to Jeff Bezos’ ex, billionaire MacKenzie Scott Tuttle. “Another 400 Acres Up for Sale!”
The big idea around homelessness. That was more than three years ago, and today, those first 100-plus days in this DOGE — Department of Oppression Greed Excrement — nightmare, and the signs of fascism, “at the foothills of fascism” as professor Gerald Horne calls it, I see the major trauma cracks in this smalltown existence.
Daily, the Meals on Wheels delivery route I volunteer for shows America in a microcosm — old people, alone aging in place, many in homes or apartments that are long in the tooth, with major repair issues facing them. The TV “news” is usually blaring in the background. And the people energy is thankfulness and fear.
Just a few minutes with each free meals recepient will help them feel somehow connected to the outside world, a world not wrapped up in medical visits and isolation. The Meals on Wheels programs get state and federal grants. The MOW programs are on the DOGE chopping block, part of the billionaires’ scheme to hobble the weak, vulnerable, the 80 Percenters.
Just put in your Google-Gulag search, “Paul Haeder Newport News Times,” and you’ll find the thousand word Op-Eds that are still getting published in the local rag, though after a few looks at the stories, the PayWall comes into play. Some of those pieces have been republished in Dissident Voice.
You can search Dissident Voice for those, or Muck Rack.
“Community” includes all those puzzle pieces, from education, health care, environment, economics, people, transportation, etc. From an urban planning point of view, the boiler plate definition of planning encompasses a broad range of fields and specializations focused on shaping the built environment and improving the quality of life in urban and regional areas. This interdisciplinary field taps into various disciplines, including geography, economics, sociology, and public policy.
And I did the “sustainability” thing, even going to Vancouver for the University of British Columbia’s summer sustability program.
Fourteen years ago, and boy have I changed on that green is the new black and new green deal mentality:
Journalism seems to be one avenue into a MURP degree, as I ended up in the Eastern Washington University program in 2001, just new to the Pacific northwest coming from El Paso. The program included tribal planning, looking at scenic by-ways, neighborhood planning, even planning principles around farmer’s markets and sustainable businesses.
I was teaching English at community colleges and Gonzaga when the advisors at EWU said I should get into that master’s program, emphasizing that many journalists have entered into the field of planning.
One dude, James Howard Kunstler, I brought to Spokane, putting him through a whirlwind set of speaking engagements. Here, myew of him on my radio show, Tipping Points: James Howard Kunstler calls suburban sprawl “the greatest misallocation of resources the world has ever known.” His arguments bring a new lens to urban development, drawing clear connections between physical spaces and cultural vitality. Books like The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere made him famous.
In Spokane, I created local and regional news interest, with a column in the monthly magazine, Spokane Living — Metro Talk. Dozens of columns: “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is just one example of that journalism. Music Therapy? Check that out: “Music to the Ears.” And then a column in the weekly, Pacific Northwest Inlander (“War and Peace In Vietnam“), and had a column in the Spokesman Review, tied to Down to Earth (“You Never Know a Place is Unique Until the Story Gets Told“), and then a radio show, Tipping Points.
The guests on that show were varied in background, political leanings and creative impetus. See those shows here at Paul Haeder (dot) com.
Now? At age 68? I teach a memoir writing class for the community college, and even that gig is all messed up with MAGA, or the fear of MAGA, as I was warned this spring quarter that a student who received an email from me along with the other enrolled students complained that she thought the class was misrepresented in the Oregon Coast Community College catalogue. The class is about writing, including memoir writing, fiction, poetry, long and short form creative non-fiction, editorial writing, and flash fiction and flash essays.
My email to the class, all blind copied, included articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education and articles in literary magazine around the cuts to humanities, including the cuts to journalism, writing programs, etc. This person wanted her money back and she wrote to a vice president who, like most in educatoin, are spineless creatures.
Can you issue a full refund for my registration to the “Writing As Gift Class” in Waldport which starts this afternoon? This class is not as described in the Catch the Wave catalgue. I write about nature and short stories of personal experiences. This class appears to be biased towards politics. Can you also let the instructor know to delete my email and contact information permanently? I do not give the instructor permission to forward my contact information or use it for any other purposes.
Well well, you have read plenty of my work at Dissident Voice around the decay-rot-putridity in higher education, part-time faculty organizing, and the rise of the administrative class in education.
I deploy D.H. Lawrence in setting the stage for this brutish culture, America:
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life until they can control it.
— D. H. Lawrence (Studies in Classic American Literature. Ed. Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey & John Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.)
So, here is part of that smalltown community college sort of fearful letter from the spineless administrator, the same sort of spinelessness I received decades ago from the University of Texas, or Gonzaga University or Clark College or Greenriver College:
I’m going to ask that you not bulk email the students henceforth. Our team will send emails on your behalf about any announcements – assignments, presentations, date/time changes, etc. Just send those to us and we’ll distribute. (Of course, any student who wishes to hear from you directly can tell you so and provide their preferred email address; we have no interest in interfering with that.)
Time is short, but we’re forced to consider canceling the class this morning for two reasons: First, in your email, you introduce an experience far from what we advertised in our catalog. Second, in my estimation it doesn’t conform to our Academic Freedom policy. Based on your email, the class certainly does not appear to be an examination of issues, but presents a singular political agenda. (Note that I’m setting aside here the fact that you and I may share many viewpoints raised in your email to students; this isn’t about my personal beliefs and concerns.) If you wanted to present a workshop focused on your personal opinions, and your past writings, about the current or former administrations or other political issues, one alternative would have been to rent a room from the College or a Library and delivered the event without being tethered by the College’s commitment to freedom of expression of all viewpoints. That may be an option to consider in the future.
Ahh, my class will/is explore/exploring writing in a time of “community and societal and family estrangement” which is the blurb at the top of the description printed in the Oregon Coast Community College catalogue. Utilizing fiction and non-fiction.
Writing As A Gift
…to yourself, and to the world
We’ll tackle fiction and non-fiction. We’ll explore writing in a time of community and societal and family estrangement. Personal essay or hard hitting poetry. Writing is an act of internal dialogue ex-pressed to an audience. We will start off with class input on where individuals are in this process. Beginner fiction writer or aficionado of creative non-fiction? We’ll discover through writing who we are as a creative community. Paul Haeder’s been in this game of teaching and publishing and editing writing for five decades.
And so it goes, so it goes. You know that being a dissident, or a voice of dissidence, well, it has always been a Joe McCarthy moment for those of us in academic-journalism who would date challenge people to think.
And the language of the administrator or provost or gatekeeper will always sound like a two-bit lawyer’s verbiage:
01/21/2015: Institutions of higher education exist for the common good, and the unfettered search for truth and its free exploration is critical to the common good. The college seeks to educate its students in the democratic tradition, to foster recognition of individual freedoms and social responsibility, and to inspire meaningful awareness of and respect for a collaborative learning environment. Freedom of expression will be guaranteed to instructors to create a classroom atmosphere that allows students to raise questions and consider all sides of issues. OCCC instructors are responsible for exercising judgment in selecting topics of educational value for discussion and learning consistent with course requirements, goals, and desired outcomes. (Emphasis added, DP)
Not sure how my email exploring higher education’s fear of losing all of the humanities, losing all the Diversity Equity Inclusion courses, and gutting liberal arts in general, how all of that is “not allowing” students to raise questions and consider all sides of issues.
Small towns or big towns, pick your institution and Kafkaesque poison.
But part of my role in community consciousness raising is primarily community journalism, also known as solutions journalism, so in this most recent iteration of Haeder, I have a fairly new show, one hour a week, dealing with public affairs, but truly an interview show, a deep dive with a guest or guests, and alas, all shows, all topics, all of it derives from my own deep well of experience, exploration, education and emancipation — the Four E’s, man, of life!
Some upcoming shows, Wednesday, on the air, 6 to 7 PM, Finding Fringe: Voice from the Edge, KYAQ.org (streaming live) and 91.7 FM, Lincoln County.
I’m shifting some of the program dates around since we have current news around the mayor of a small town, Waldport, being arrested and removed from her position as elected mayor. That’s May 14.
You have to listen to her. May 14. 6 pm. again, stream the show, kyaq.org
Then, have you ever heard of the Amanda Trail in Yachats?
Do you know what it is like to be incarcerated and then put on 6 years house arrest? Part I & II.
Rick Bartow, the famous artist, will be a living reflection at the Yakona Nature Preserve.
The Rights of Nature and the Community Bill of Rights? Kai of CELDF will tell us all about that.
Siletz is the Home of the Elakha Alliance, a non-profit to work with stakeholders of every sort to reintroduce sea otters to Oregon’s coast.
So you leave prison and you have a farm to work on to heal, to reorient oneself, to let the soil salve the PTSD. Freedom Farms.
May 14 — Heide Lambert, Waldport Mayor controversy
May 21 — Amanda Trail, Joanne Kittel
May 28 — Prisons, Incarceration, Probation — Kelly Kloss
June 4 — Prisons, Incarceration, Alcoholism — Kelly Kloss
June 11 — Three women from Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center — Anna, Rena, JoAnn
June 18 — CELDF, Rights of Nature & Community Rights — Kai Huschke
June 25 — Chanel Hason, Elakha Alliance, sea otters
July 2– Freedom Farms — Sean O Ceallaigh
Past shows are on the website, but only in limited form. Go to archives, and then put in Finding Fringe.
Try listening to a smalltown radio station, tuning into a smalltown resident’s take on what it TAKES to be a citizen of the world in a small town, this one called Waldport.
You’ll get the picture that Waldport or Vancouver, BC, or El Paso or Mexico City, we all face the same problems that the rich and the militarists and the oligarchs force us to fight.
Tune in, KYAQ.org, streaming worldwide, Wednesdays, 6 PM, PST.
Ho and Vietnam were brothers and sisters to the Palestinians!
Johnny Boy (JT) and Black Kettle
by Paul Haeder / July 31st, 2020
JT loves drawing sandhill cranes. Extruded from memory, JT sits on the sagging bumper of the Ford RV as he pushes capillaries of charcoal into the sky he delivers on the sketch pad paper.
Unending fire sky, he tells himself. He wants to imagine the sky this way, Turneresque, electric, something like all those village buildings he left behind in Huehuetenango what seems like a life time ago.
He steadies his hand and fingers, pushing and pulling, like an archaeologist digging through strata for evidence of life. He has no need to jump up and start over with colored pencils, Prismacolor pens, or sloppy acrylics.
The celestial rainbow of cirrus is a constant wash in his blinking moments, in between drawing birds of El Bosque and remembering war. The elegance of this bird — Antigone canadensis — JT knows is lost in his sketching, but each time a Rocky Mountain sandhill crane lifts, bouncing on air, dipping back into the water, JT understands the limits of art. It’s easy to fold back, fifty years.
A half century passes, from a youthful JT, soon a Government Issue grunt, then lifted out of Indochina with near-spiritual mortal wounds, into London to visit an aunt in Surrey. Then off to France. It’s a dream and nightmare, December 1968. A 23-year-old’s dream to see Paris.
Walking for hours in Saigon, JT finds himself in the cubby of a wood carver, Viet Nguon. In an instant of hormonic synchronicity, the Las Cruces boy is being told about Southwestern Native American masks by a bamboo-thin man in black silk ensemble. This master of wood has long graying hair cuffed into a foot-long viper down his back. He doesn’t display a traditional Fu Manchu beard of aging guys. Rather, this man’s sideburns are something out of Dickens – Vietnamese lambchops. Curly hair like the dogs sold in markets for stir-fry.
Viet’s store is on a side street near An Dong market, and the alley-sized foot-and-bike path is devoted to shops where wood carvings and wood artisan wares are manufactured and sold.
The artist Viet has three hundred masks in his cramped shop. JT is all eyes, and for the New Mexico kid, each crazed mask seems like magic.
The Vietnamese artist speaks English. “You like? Many hundreds more I sell to many kinds of people. Where you from soldier?”
JT wants the real blood of these people – words, emotions, gestures, laughing and chatter from these Homo Sapiens he was told was “always the enemy . . . left or right, north or south, boy or girl, they are your enemy, Thomlinson. “
The lucidity of his nights sweating is always about the sound of war. The screams and moans of machine-gunned farmers, VC, somewhere in the elephant and canary grass. The rice paddies at night. Groans. The odor of flesh, burning shit, tires, and napalm and diesel. It was his companion now, extracted from the field, ready to ship out and be done with the war with Vietnam. I’ll never done with Vietnam, he told himself. Even now all the way to the middle of New Mexico Chihuahua desert.
“You come from where?”
JT stumbles in his response: “First Division, but ready for home. Attached at Tan Son Nhut,” JT says as he straightens his back, in deference to the elder. The man is in his sixties, JT estimates, but that’s not always easy to gauge for so many Vietnamese – older guys sometimes look younger. Maybe he is eighty. Hard to tell.
“I see, I see. Bro’, Big Red One. It says Thomlison. Family name? My name Viet Nguon. Call me Viet. I ask where you family come from, no care about patch on arm?”
JT’s surprised – then, looks down at his fatigues, the name patch. JT touches the BRO shield and number 1 on his arm. He still never got used to the fact he had been drafted 18 months earlier, and his whole life was green, black boots, humping a rucksack, laying mines, carrying an M-16.
“Uh, New Mexico. Las Cruces. United States.” JT still can’t recall the last time he spoke to a civilian Vietnamese. Sure, the yelling and cursing his unit dramatized out of fear, that wasn’t the same. JT, remembers words, grunted words, gaseous words, lifting from the dark green of Vietnam, scattered dying enemies. Children screaming. Babies heaving. Groans. Water buffalo slogging. Civets. Roosters. Chinese music on transistor radios. Cicadas.
“You have people with beautiful masks. Fantastic features. What you call serpents. Those people in your homeland, named Hopi, Navajo. Great masks. Here, look, one I do like they say, kachina – like a bird. What, you call raven?”
Viet gives JT the water melon sized mask. Amazing details of the bird’s beak and nostrum, the eyes, blue-black, the wood almost alive with feature cuts.
“I go to your country with books, no? Inside words on page. Masks, a magic of people. You put on. Put on. Here, mirror.”
JT reluctantly takes the mask, which is light, and he touches the fine carved spaces. Black feathers are slicked back, like a mane flowing to a person’s neck. The corvid’s eyes have two perfectly drilled openings so the mask wearer can see.
“It’s okay, sir.” JT says trying to hand back the mask.
“No, good stuff, Thomlinson. Magic. You put on. You can be new Thomlinson. No more corporal, no more jungle, no more boom and fire . . . but bird man. Try on. Magic!”
Viet puts a calming but firm hand on JT’s shoulder. Surprisingly to JT, Viet is tall for a Vietnamese, almost 5’ 11”, two inches shorter than JT.
JT knows the signs of panic, claustrophobia, are telltale – sweaty upper lip, flushed neck, slurred words. He’s feeling the acrid instant coffee hit his windpipe.
“It okay, Thomlinson. Bird goes on this way,” Viet says, helping lift the mask into place. “You know, black plague? Your ancestors had bird masks. Put sage and perfumes in long beaks. Chase away bubonic plague. You know this history?”
JT imagines all these bird men, fat, big Frenchmen and others walking around with prods to keep away the plague victims. “Un, no, not that. But I remember my mother taking me and my sister to Santa Fe. I remember the dances. Lots of costumes. Masks. Just like this one. And others, sir.” JT presses the concave of the mask into his head as Viet secures the headgear with a beautiful silk purple ribbon.
“Raven. Powerful. Not what plague doctors have in seventeen century. This powerful . . . they call crow talisman.”
JT is guided by the artist Viet to the mirror near Viet’s assembling table where he carves and designs masks.
“Maybe Thomlinson clan knows raven good animal, help people. Make world for them. Raven trick too. Steal shiny objects. Raven is child, cause loud trouble for others. But wise. See, Thomlinson, see magic of mask?”
JT looks at the image in the mirror – tall, thin GI, wrinkled uniform, with this magnificent piece of art, carved and adorned with black and purple feathers. He sees that boy, in El Bosque del Apache. Mother taking the children to the wildlife refuge to watch sandhill cranes and snow geese winter over in the desiccated land around Socorro.
JT knows the transformation from soldier into this Vietnamese man’s magic bird will be his talisman. Memory molded into whatever is left of his feelings about killing Vietnamese. The goo of death and stench of heaving Americans in a foreign land disappear for a moment, maybe forever in this crystalized moment.
“You see, you feel. New you. Raven, crow. We have in Vietnam, same clown birds. They come with death. Silly creatures. Smart. Last ones standing after Big Red One bro’s come in with mortars and fire tongue.”
JT stares for what seems like ten minutes. Viet vanishes. The mind, JT thinks, plays tricks. He squeezes his eyes shut behind the mask, and he sees himself flying. Black bird at El Bosque. Jumping around all the other birds. Trickster. Pest.
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You know son, either way you look at it, we are fucked, says JT’s mother, looking like cracked pasta months from her death from breast cancer.
Vagabond lives I gave you and your sister. I am okay with you leaving, hiding in Canada. Mexico. Or you go over there in the bloody morass and come back hardened, but with a chance at something new.
Their mother was an ornithologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. JT and his sis’ Roberta always got the Rachel Carson and Jane Goodall of things.
Look for the birds when you can, Johnny Boy. If you go overseas, look for birds and listen to the people who know their birds. If you go, dear, you will have bird stories only I can dream of . . . . El Bosque is fantastic but not like all those old-world jungle species. It’s going to be heaven.
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When JT takes off the large, bigger than human life-sized mask, he feels tears running down to his open collar and pure white cotton undershirt. Viet is there instantly, with a wooden carving of the same sort of bird. It fits in the palm of his hand. He hands it to JT.
“You take. You hold this when you got back. New Mexico. Big land of colors I see in movies, no? You go see birds for new light. Vietnam. One day, Thomlinson clan and Viet clan come together. You go to Paris, like I study art. Ho Chi study art in Paris. Go to big museum of African work. Trocadero. Ethnology. Go see masks.”
JT never paid Viet because Viet never took the corporal’s money.
Six months later, JT is in Paris, bumming around, absorbed in the street art. Bumming hashish. And he finds the Trocadero had been demolished in 1935.
But he does find those masks and other ethnographic materials Viet Nhung talked about. At the Musée de l’Homme, housed in the Palais de Chaillot.
JT carries the rucksack and the journals his mother would have wanted to see if she had survived another wintering of the sandhill cranes. The entire list of sightings of birds throughout his humping through lowlands and jungle and alpine forests would have put her on Ornithological Cloud Nine.
Not just an artist’s obsession, but an offering for a mother’s memory. More than 880 birds in Vietnam, and Corporal Thomlinson comes back to El Bosque with more than 340 captured in notes and sketchings.
A bird professor at University of New Mexico was blown away by the lonely corporal’s bird list and his descriptions and drawings. “You’ve got to get a doctorate in birds, man. This is crazy impressive.”
He follows in his mother’s footsteps – this time state game and fish. Entire weeks in wilderness. Entire lifetimes to find the birdman’s magic.
It is birds that saved me, man. So many of my buddies from Vietnam, gone. Three sheets to the wind. Hunkered down in some flop. Lots of heroin. I did nothing more than listen to Viet and push something like magic into my being. I never got to be the fucking artist of my dreams, of that magic, but, still, the art of this, out here, now, in the boonies, with birds. The other wildlife. Some marbles still in my head pushing 74 years old. You can’t call this a blessing, but man, I have had my mother next to me every single day. She was right . . . . I would come back, transformed. I know this is a so-called sacred moment, and I am grateful, but what saved me was not a higher authority or power, but the true magic of masks and birds. – He wrote this during one of his AA meetings, that famous 20-year coin award.
JT still has the Picasso quote taped up to the tiny wall of the RV where the small bed is slung over the cab of the vehicle. Something profound enough for a drifting American ex-Vietnam soldier to have written down in his journal next to the birds of Paris he spent time cataloguing and drawing.
He found the quote somewhere on the Paris streets. Someone he shared wine with. A Frenchman who recognized in the young JT a transcendence from tool of war to a drifter in time and space . . . to magic seeker.
“You want to be an artist?” this fellow asks. “You enjoy Picasso? Oui, when Pablo was young, no pennies in his pocket, in Paris, he kept his eyes open for African masks at the Trocadero Museum. It was not an impressive musee. But the young Picasso, he fell for the magic – the charm — of Africa. Here, his actual words from a book. I give you them now, Johnny Boy:
A smell of mold and neglect caught me by the throat. I was so depressed that I would have chosen to leave immediately,’ Picasso said. ‘But I forced myself to stay, to examine these masks, all these objects that people had created with a sacred, magical purpose, to serve as intermediaries between them and the unknown, hostile forces surrounding them, attempting in that way to overcome their fears by giving them color and form. And then I understood what painting really meant. It’s not an esthetic process. It’s a form of magic that interposes itself between us and the hostile universe, a means of seizing power by imposing a form on our terror as well as on our desires. The day I understood that, I had found my path.
Sandhill crane. Omnivore. Average life span in the wild: 20 years. Body: 31.5 to 47.2 inches. Wingspan: 5 to 6 ft. Weight: 6.5 to 14 pounds. More than 500,000 sandhill cranes amass at Nebraska’s Platte River in spring.
Sand Hill Crane and Sand Creek Massacre. JT can’t shake the mnemonic. In November 1864, Colonel John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers massacre a peaceful village of Cheyenne camped near Sand Creek in Colorado Territory. Chivington the Methodist preacher placed himself in the center of the Indian wars as his opportunity to gain recognition to win a government office. Chivington burned villages and killed Cheyenne whenever and wherever he could.
JT was there, days after Calley and his men from Charlie Company 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment unleashed the My Lai Massacre. Three hundred or 507 dead?
This day, this war crime, a war crime that was exposed by soldiers and condemned by the U.S. government in 1864. Sand Creek Massacre unleashed decades of war on the Great Plains. Even locals are unaware of what had happened in their own backyard.
The hundreds of troops charged the Cheyenne village of around a thousand. A chief raised the Stars and Stripes above his lodge. And others in the village waved white flags.
In response, the troops opened fire with carbines and cannon, killing more than 150 Indians, most of them women, children and the elderly.
Before departing, the troops burned the village and mutilated the dead, carrying off body parts as trophies.
A 104 years later, these 1st Platoon members testified in court that the deaths of individual Vietnamese men, women and children took place inside M? Lai during the security sweep. Livestock was shot as well.
JT can’t forget the testimony of PFC Michael Bernhardt describing what he saw upon entering the sub-hamlet of Xom Lang:
I walked up and saw these guys doing strange things … Setting fire to the hootches and huts and waiting for people to come out and then shooting them … going into the hootches and shooting them up … gathering people in groups and shooting them … As I walked in you could see piles of people all through the village … all over. They were gathered up into large groups. I saw them shoot an M79 grenade launcher into a group of people who were still alive. But it was mostly done with a machine gun. They were shooting women and children just like anybody else. We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons. We had no casualties. It was just like any other Vietnamese village – old papa-sans, women and kids. As a matter of fact, I don’t remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or alive.
Band Number: 599-05468
JT goes to the small RV and pulls down one of his first big color sketches. He brought to life one of the old timers. One of those Rocky Mountain sandhill cranes with the band on his leg for more than 36 years.
It was JT’s last foray in the Wildlife Service. December 2006. In El Bosque.
The Sandhill crane started life on the Wyoming border, on the Thomas Fork of the Bear River.
Band Number: 599-05468. One of the oldest Rocky Mountain Sandhill Cranes. The bird was banded with its brood mate on June 29, 1973. The year his sister died in a car wreck. The year he began banding birds.
A two-chick brood is normal for Rocky Mountain Sandhills.
The magic of birds and what JT’s mom inculcated in him pushed him through Vietnam, through the dark nights of booze and massacres.
JT was there to sketch the animal when it was banded with its sister.
Then he was with it for last rites — Band 599-05468. For its 36 and a half years on the planet, the creature flew from Border, Wyoming — where he and his sister were banded at age 44 days — to the staging area for sandhill cranes the San Luis Valley of Colorado and then down the Rio Grande to Bosque del Apache. That’s a one-way trip of 700 miles.
If one were to assume this crane returned close to its nesting grounds each spring and back to Bosque del Apache each winter, the bird made the round trip 36 times, as well a final one-way trip where it was found. That is a total of 51,100 miles in a lifetime, or the equivalent of circling the earth more than twice.
JT thinks about the bird often, what the Fish and Wildlife guys call Band Number 599-05468.
The day he sketched the chick, JT knew a different name would stick for him. Not Band 599-05468. But an anthropomorphic one — Black Kettle.
Named after the Cheyenne Chief, Black Kettle, who survived the Sand Creek massacre. Black Kettle, the chief who had raised a U.S. flag in a futile gesture of fellowship, survived the massacre, carrying his badly wounded wife from the field and limping east across the wintry plains. He was a peacemaker, and in 1865 he signed a treaty, resettling his band on reservation land in Oklahoma.
Three years later, Black Kettle was killed there in 1868, in yet another massacre, this one led by Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Corporal Johnny Boy Thomlinson remembers. Each memory captured somewhere in his 74 years of sketches.
and so many freakish Jews are in on the scam, snake oil, Three Card Monty, the grift!
In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever [Sutskever was born into a Jewish family[14] in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (then Gorky, Soviet Union). At the age of 5, he made aliyah with his family and lived in Jerusalem,[15][16] until he was 16, when his family moved to Canada.[17] Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel from 2000 to 2002.[18] After moving to Canada, he attended the University of Toronto in Ontario.[18] ] , a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company. By all traditional metrics, Sutskever should have felt invincible: He was the brain behind the large language models that helped build ChatGPT, then the fastest-growing app in history; his company’s valuation had skyrocketed; and OpenAI was the unrivaled leader of the industry believed to power the future of Silicon Valley. But the chief scientist seemed to be at war with himself.
Sutskever had long believed that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, was inevitable—now, as things accelerated in the generative-AI industry, he believed AGI’s arrival was imminent, according to Geoff Hinton, an AI pioneer who was his Ph.D. adviser and mentor, and another person familiar with Sutskever’s thinking. (Many of the sources in this piece requested anonymity in order to speak freely about OpenAI without fear of reprisal.) To people around him, Sutskever seemed consumed by thoughts of this impending civilizational transformation. What would the world look like when a supreme AGI emerged and surpassed humanity? And what responsibility did OpenAI have to ensure an end state of extraordinary prosperity, not extraordinary suffering?
[Freak, they are ALL fucking freaks! Top Priority for Pope Leo: Warn the World of the A.I. Threat. No visit to Palestine, no discussion about Capitalism a bigger threat thatn any fucking AI. It’s the dumbdowning of the fucking plasticized world.]
And yet and yet, more Holly-Dirt, and we know who controls Holly-Dirt:
Oh, those tech fucking skinny jeans and many times LGBTQA fucks: Thai officials seize over 200 tons of electronic waste illegally imported from the US.
Some 62 million tons of electronic waste was generated in 2022 and that figure is on track to reach 82 million tons by 2030, the report said. It said only 22% of the waste was properly collected and recycled in 2022 and that quantity is expected to fall to 20% by the end of the decade due to higher consumption, limited repair options, shorter product life cycles, and inadequate management infrastructure.
Yikes — Dress Codes, making the baristas look like fucking Nazi cooks, and, well, striking over the aprons. We are in some fucked up plasticized cunt licking times.
More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas at 120 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday to protest the new dress code, according to Starbucks Workers United, a union representing the coffee giant’s U.S. workers.
Starbucks put new limits starting Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms.
Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling in its stores.
It is not the only boycott the company has faced. It has faced ongoing strikes, led by unionized workers, highlighting an urge for improved staffing, scheduling, and bargaining over contract negotiations. The workers demand better working conditions, especially on high-traffic days that they say test the limits of staff capacity and morale.
Racists, Fascists, The Repubic-Cans:
Fucking dirty dirty cunt-tree:
And so the racist Jewish Controlled USA, is hot on their trail: Student who earned Ph.D. while DHS tried to deport her over minor traffic violation is granted injunction
An Indian international student in South Dakota, whose sole infraction was a failure-to-yield traffic violation, had sued the Trump administration over her visa and status revocations.
Priya Saxena, who’s from India, received a doctorate in chemical and biological engineering and a master’s in chemical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology this past weekend. Just over a month ago, Saxena had been notified that her visa and status in the country had been revoked.
Saxena’s attorney, Jim Leach, told NBC News that her sole infraction was for a failure-to-yield to an emergency vehicle from four years ago, which he described as “the lowest possible traffic offense.”
Saxena, who sued the Trump administration, was granted a temporary restraining order until the end of this week, allowing her to collect her degrees. And on Thursday morning, she was granted a preliminary injunction that keeps the government from attempting to detain or deport her.
Can we deport the cocksuckers, the polluters, the officials, to Devil’s Island?
How to Know if Toxic Sewage Sludge Has Been Used in Your Community
Fertilizer containing potentially unsafe levels of “forever chemicals” has been used around the country.
Mar Fucking Toxic Lago:
The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem.
Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its own size record by millions of tons — and the growing season isn’t done yet.
Now stretching across some 5,500 miles of ocean, the annual bloom is more than just an eyesore: Sargassum hurts ecosystems and economies wherever its overgrown arms reach. And they are spreading into Florida’s waterways, coating marinas and beaches in the Miami area.
“Sargassum goes from being a very beneficial resource of the North Atlantic to becoming what we refer to as … a harmful algal bloom, when it comes ashore in excessive biomass,” said Brian LaPointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
“What we have seen since 2011 are excessive inundation events all around the Caribbean region, the Gulf, as well as the South Florida region,” explained LaPointe, who has studied the seaweed for decades.
Nothing EVER gets better, hence the generalized anxiety disorder of the Psychotic Whites and Western Culture:
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is exploring ways to placate two rival factions who have emerged as the biggest roadblocks in the House to a massive bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda: blue-state Republicans who want larger tax breaks for their constituents and conservatives who want Medicaid cuts to kick in sooner.
Johnson suggested to reporters Wednesday that provisions for a higher state and local tax (SALT) deduction and to enforce new Medicaid work requirements sooner could be incorporated into the final package as he stares down a self-imposed Memorial Day weekend deadline for passage.
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Oh those Jews, Katie and Aaron. That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into! ‘Did Trump Just BETRAY Israel? w/ Sana Saeed | Useful Idiots’
God, it’s hard to stomach these two, Aaron and Katie:
Genocide AI, Genocide Surveillance . . . Test on Palestine: Where’s China and Russia?
In this award-winning documentary, the first-time directors take a detailed look at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Narrated by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), Roadmap to Apartheid is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them.
While not perfect, the apartheid analogy is a useful framework by which to educate people on the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians. Our film delves into those issues, comparing the many similar laws and tools used by both Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. The audience will see what life is like for Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and inside Israel while gaining a deeper understanding of the conflict with the help of respected analysts on the subject. Combined with archival material and anecdotes from South Africans, the film forms a complete picture as to why the analogy is being used with increasing frequency and potency.
Screenings of this film have been made possible thanks to the National Film Board of Canada.
and so you say you are FOR voting, FOR non-violence, FOR democracy when the grift and graft and gunslinging are part and parcel, U$A U$A U$A
And once upon a time it was the hanging chads and those fucking voting machines. Now?
At the beginning of 2014, Trump was finally starting to seriously consider getting into the 2016 race. Around that time, CNBC was conducting an online poll to determine the 25 most influential business–people to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their network. Trump was one of the 200 businessmen listed as a candidate, alongside Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, Warren Buffet, and the like. Unsurprisingly to just about everyone familiar with the list of candidates, Trump was sitting at 187 out of 200 after the first voting returns came in.
Donny Boy was irate.
Trump brought the daily operations of the entire Trump Organization to a screeching halt in order to address the egregious iniquity of his placement in an online poll for an informal award that some media outlet had just made up. Since you could only vote in the poll once from any device, Trump ordered everyone in his Organization to stop whatever they were doing and vote for him on every device they owned. Anyone who had additional computers or tablets at home was sent home from work to vote for the boss. When this company-wide subterfuge failed to move the needle at a national level, Trump ordered Cohen to somehow “fix” the situation.
Cohen had a good friend, John Gauger, who was the Chief Information Officer at Liberty University. Cohen had ingratiated himself to the higher-ups at Liberty for “fixing” a situation for Jerry Fallwell, Jr – the president of Liberty – and his wife involving some nude photos and a pool boy in Miami (that story eventually ended up getting out, as you may recall, turning out to be much, much worse than what Cohen was aware of at the time. Turns out those “morally upstanding” Fallwells were secretly into some really kinky sh*t with the pool boy!)
Anyway, Gauger had a side business called RedFinch Solutions, which provided SEO services and Internet reputation management. Within a day, he’d figured out a way to hack the algorithmic code CNBC’s website was using to run the poll. But since they couldn’t just hack in and give Trump a ton of votes from a single location, Gauger informed Cohen they’d need to purchase a boatload of IP addresses to rig the poll without detection. They weren’t all that expensive – 100,000 IP addresses for $7,500, which Trump immediately authorized.
Gauger bought them up and ran the hack, vaulting Trump up to 29th place with plenty of time still to go.
Once he realized he’d leapfrogged from 187 to 29, Trump authorized another $7,500 to buy another 100,000 IP addresses. He wanted to win the entire thing, but Cohen and Gauger managed to convince him that would look too suspicious – possibly inviting the type of forensic audit that would get them all found out – and to just accept making it into the top 10. Trump begrudgingly acquiesced, and ended up coming in 9th.
According to Cohen, Trump spent the next day making and taking phone calls from everyone he knew to discuss his “winning” the “ninth-most-important businessman of the past 25 years in a CNBC poll.” Although the Trump Organization was in the midst of working on a number of international real estate deals worth billions of dollars to the company, Trump just bailed on the business operations to boast to anyone who would listen about “winning” a poll in which he came in 9th, and only because he’d cheated to get there.
Four Dead in Ohio?
Alex Gibney
The scandal — or the crime, for which two people were convicted, Matt Borges and Larry Householder, plus others — went something like this: FirstEnergy dropped $60 million into a 501(c)(4), which was used at the direction of Larry Householder, first to get himself elected as speaker of the house, then to ram through a bill called HB6, which had been written by FirstEnergy to subsidize FirstEnergy to the tune of over $1 billion. Then some of that money was also used to muscle people who were trying to come up with a referendum to repeal HB6.
Part two of The Dark Money Game, Wealth of the Wicked, reveals the unscrupulous, behind-the-scenes ties between Citizens United and the crusade to overturn Roe v. Wade — including one zealot who flips sides, Robert Schenck. Tell us about all that and the role that Citizens United played in the defeat of reproductive rights.
Alex Gibney
It’s about what I’d call “an unholy alliance” between big business and evangelical Christians who are extremely antiabortion. The evangelical Christians had popular fervor, a very emotional issue, and some popular support. There was no popular support for what the big-business people wanted to do. But they had a lot of money.
Along comes into this unholy alliance a gentleman named Jim Bopp, an attorney, who was working very hard to try to overturn Roe v. Wade. He concluded that nothing was ever going to happen unless he could destroy the system of campaign finance restrictions that had been put in place by [Senators] John McCain and Russ Feingold. So he labored very hard through a number of decisions that led up to Citizens United, and he literally took it to the Supreme Court, where it was argued by somebody else.
Ultimately, Citizens United was decided, and henceforth there would be no limits on contributions to political campaigns by corporations and individuals. The only restriction was that money had to go into independent organizations like super PACs or 501(c)(4)s, and there was supposed to be no coordination with the candidate. Now we all know that’s a joke. Particularly we know it because of the events we show in Ohio Confidential.
Ed Rampell
Leonard Leo has been called one of the biggest kingmakers in American history. What do you think about Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society?
Alex Gibney
Leonard Leo is a very interesting figure. He was always a money-raiser. You can go back to his yearbook and see that, I believe, he was called the “moneybags [kid].” In any event, Leonard Leo turns out to be a master of raising money. He has two agendas: one is an extreme deregulatory agenda, which is the ideological agenda of the Federalist Society, even though it bills itself as a grand debating society. Actually it’s deeply conservative and interested in basically tearing down the regulatory state.
The other thing about Leonard Leo is he’s a deeply devout Catholic, but a deeply conservative Catholic. One of the things he does is to raise enormous amounts of money to promote the campaigns of justices who share both his deregulatory fervor and his religious inclinations, so that when they form a majority on the Supreme Court, and Roe v. Wade comes up for consideration, it’s overturned — you have the Dobbs decision. Leonard Leo plays a very powerful role as a dark-money aggregator, one who’s responsible for funding a lot of extremely right-wing causes and also trying to enforce his vision of Catholicism on the rest of the nation.
Ed Rampell
I believe Jane Mayer says in your films that Citizens United “basically legalized bribery by calling it free speech.” I think you, as the narrator of the films, also say that in any other democracy, this would be criminal.
Alex Gibney
When you give a candidate money, or effectively give a candidate money, and you ask for something in return, that’s corruption. That’s bribery. It’s simple; that’s quid pro quo. A long time ago, that was illegal. But over time the Supreme Court has eroded the statutes that were used to go after that kind of bribery. So much so that in a recent decision — involving the mayor of an Indiana town who gave a garbage truck contract to the Peterbilt [Motors] Company and was given a kickback — the Supreme Court said, “Well, because he got the kickback after the awarding of the contract, we can’t consider that to be a kickback at all; it’s a gratuity, therefore utterly legal.”
Ed Rampell
Are some of the Supreme Court justices themselves receiving forms of bribes?
Alex Gibney
In effect. We see that Supreme Court justices get trips, favors, sometimes RVs from people who have business before the court. There’s no doubt about that, and that’s been well documented.
After the totally-predictable blow-back, Trump announced that taxpayers would inot be footing the bill for his flying Taj Majal — it was actually a GIFT from the Qatari royal family!
Because they’re just really generous!
This didn’t actively improve the situation since forcing taxpayers to pay for your private jet doesn’t violate the Constitution…but accepting gifts from foreign states does:
The U.S. Constitution — Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 — prevents federal officials, those holding an office of “profit or trust,” from accepting gifts, emoluments (benefits), offices, or titles from foreign rulers or states.
This is known as the “Emoluments Clause.”
It doesn’t matter that the $400-million gift would make it the most extravagant, expensive gift in American history — the value isn’t the point — what matters is that, regardless of the cost, THIS ACT IS ILLEGAL.
Democratic politicians were quick to point out this painfully-obvious fact.
Trump responded with a tweet calling Dems “crooked losers” for rejecting a FREE GIFT…to the Department of Defense:
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA”
During Blondi Bondi’s Senate-confirmation hearing, she was asked if she had any potential conflicts of interest that could interfere with her ability to execute the duties of the Attorney General.
To her credit, she named two:
Her work for the America First Policy Institute (a nonprofit think tank founded in 2021 to promote Trump’s public policy agenda)
Her brother’s legal practice (Brad Bondi is currently vying to be head of the D.C. Bar Association)
To her supreme discredit, Bondi conveniently failed to mention three others:
She’s a lobbyist for The GEO Group — a private prison company accused of safety violations, providing inadequate health care, and poor management practices — whose largest source of revenue is ICE, who stands to rake in hundreds of millions off Trump’s new immigration policies.
As a partner at Ballard Partners — one of the top lobbying firms in the country — she’s lobbied on behalf of more than 30 different clients (including Amazon and Uber), many of whom are facing an assortment of federal lawsuits for a myriad of violations.
As a FARA-registered lobbyist (Foreign Agents Registration Act), Bondi earned $115k a month lobbying Congress on behalf of…Qatar.
Oopsie.
Cunts:
$750 million just so Trump could commute to his daily golf outings in Midas opulence.
More cunts: “But they/Amazon won’t be giving raises this year.”
And then there is this Orthedox Jew-Zionist-Israel-First cunt:
And those Jews too:
And yet, money for blowjobs at 35,000 feet and cocaine parties for ZioAzovNaziLensky and the unending trillions to the Jews in Jew Landia.
Banana Republic U$AU$A U$A . . . . Beginning Tuesday, the hottest conditions will be found in Texas, where temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher will be common for much of the state, the agency said.
Banana Republic all sizzling with graft and DOGE — Department of Graft and Ego.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) marked its 75th anniversary on Saturday after a significant announcement affecting its workforce. According to an internal memo obtained by 7News, the NSF is reducing its temporary workforce from 368 employees to approximately 70, demanding all full-time employees return to in-person work, and eliminating the Division of Equity for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
The memo indicated that some NSF positions will be reassigned within 30 days. The agency, which supports research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering, will spend the next month determining which 70 positions are deemed essential.
Mid-Air Collisions, a la Banana Republic:
The United States aviation industry continues to grapple with the worst air traffic controller shortage in nearly 30 years as a recent spate of incidents has thrust the high-stress profession into the spotlight.
Now a federal collegiate training program is aiming to fill vacancies at US air traffic control towers faster with fresh-out-of-college recruits. The FAA has partnered with five schools, including Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma, on these enhanced programs.
Two Tulsa Community College students, Tiana Murphy and Rebecca Nobles, are set to graduate from the FAA’s Enhanced Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative Program on Monday. It offers FAA Academy-equivalent air traffic control training, according to the FAA.
More Nazis in our midst: A group of 59 white South Africans has arrived in the US, where they are to be granted refugee status.
President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country’s Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of “racial discrimination”.
The South African government said the group were not suffering any such persecution that would merit refugee status.
The Trump administration has halted all other refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones. Human Rights Watch described the move as a cruel racial twist, saying that thousands of people – many black and Afghan refugees – had been denied refuge in the US.
This is how semi-democracy sort of is supposed to work:
We don’t dispute the urgent need to finish rebuilding PPS’ high schools and make repairs across the district’s aging elementary and middle schools. But the price tags for the high schools and the lack of a clear plan for tackling the backlog of seismic, HVAC and other fixes for schools gave us pause.
The board, we wrote, needed to earn Portlanders’ “yes” vote by providing more information on cost reductions to the high school designs, increased allocations to elementary and middle school repairs and its prioritization for fixes. Community members across the city similarly questioned the vagueness for such a large ask.
Credit the board for answering the call. Last week, the PPS directors unanimously adopted a comprehensive resolution that states their commitment to identifying and resolving seismic issues; directs the district to develop a researched plan for actions; commits to prioritizing seismic fixes and sets parameters for allocating funds among seismic and other critical infrastructural projects. The resolution, drafted by board members Herman Greene, Gary Hollands and Julia Brim-Edwards, also reserves $100 million for emergency needs and articulates the values that should guide the district and future boards.
Their actions in recognition of and response to the community’s concerns lead us to endorse a “yes” vote for Measure 26-259.
Jews: A surveillance tool exists that can extract your messages, activate your microphone, track your movements, and intercept encrypted conversations, all without your knowledge or interaction.
Sold under the banner of fighting crime and terrorism, this software has been used by governments not just against threats, but against journalists, dissidents, and human rights defenders.
Jews: Stephen “I Am the Only Jew with Real Nazi Credentials” Miller.
The historical record is damning. On the very day Europeans danced in the streets celebrating Nazi defeat, French colonial authorities were slaughtering up to 45,000 Algerians in Sétif, Guelma, and Kherrata. Their crime? Daring to believe that the “freedom” and “self-determination” so loudly proclaimed by Allied propaganda might apply to them too.
The Victims Liberated Europe From Its Colonial Auto-Immune Disease: The Ultimate Historical Irony
When France fell to Nazi Germany, tens of thousands of Algerians, Moroccans, Senegalese, and Vietnamese joined the fight to liberate France—not out of loyalty to their oppressors, but in desperate hope that defeating fascism abroad might finally break their own chains at home. The bitter irony cuts deep: the victims of Europe’s colonial fascism were sacrificing their lives to save Europe from the same colonialism that had simply turned inward and begun devouring Europe itself.
You read that right—Europe’s colonized subjects bled and died to rescue their tormentors from colonialism’s auto-immune disease, as the imperial violence cultivated across the Global South for centuries finally rebounded to consume its creators. The ultimate historical tragedy: the colonized dying to save the colonizers from themselves, only to be rewarded with massacres for daring to ask for the same freedom they had helped secure for Europe.
Paul Haeder, Author 