Paul Haeder, Author

what was it, the Fugutive Slave Act? Papers. Free or not Free . . . We are Palestinians

Think underground railroad and Harriet Tubman?

Harriet My Woman Tubman:

Ahh. Palestine is Canada is Australia is USA. 

We in Yankee Doodle Dandy America loved our Palestinian slaves. Fucking congress passed the fugitive slave act in 1850. Israel did the same in 1948.

South Africa is British India is is is. Australia and Klanada, is EuroTrashLandia is the Inbred British Un-United Kingdom.

Dirty white race …. EuroTrash and Klanada and Inbred UK, all the same genocde black plague. Monsters you gotta fight with mines and Molotovs and minds

The demand from the South for more effective legislation resulted in enactment of a second Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Under this law fugitives could not testify on their own behalf, nor were they permitted a trial by jury. Heavy penalties were imposed upon federal marshals who refused to enforce the law or from whom a fugitive escaped; penalties were also imposed on individuals who helped slaves to escape. Finally, under the 1850 act, special commissioners were to have concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. courts in enforcing the law. The severity of the 1850 measure led to abuses and defeated its purpose. The number of abolitionists increased, the operations of the Underground Railroad became more efficient, and new personal-liberty laws were enacted in many Northern states. These state laws were among the grievances officially referred to by South Carolina in December 1860 as justification for its secession from the Union. Attempts to carry into effect the law of 1850 aroused much bitterness and probably had as much to do with inciting sectional hostility as did the controversy over slavery in the territories.

You think the fucking AmeriKKKans have a leg to stand on while putting on parades and massive demonstrations to stop another 20,000 KIA-ed in Palestine?

The Jews in Israel have learned the lessons from so many places — British India, British China, Germany, the Boars of South Africa, Rhodesia, AmeriKKKa and the reservations, the internment camps, the Nazi’s concentration camps . . . .

From 1778 to 1871, the United States signed some 368 treaties with various Indigenous people across the North American continent. Palestine:

Treaty With the Delawares/Treaty of Fort Pitt – 1778

But mutual suspicion continued, especially after Pennsylvania militiamen killed nearly 100 Lenape (most of them women and children) at the village of Gnadenhutten in March 1782, mistakenly believing they were responsible for attacks against white settlers. After the American victory, more and more white settlers moved onto Lenape territory, until the Treaty of Greeneville in 1795 forced them and other Ohio Country Native Americans to surrender most of their lands.

Treaty of Hopewell – 1785-86 

Despite this sentiment, white settlers were already moving onto the lands designated for the Cherokee, leading to more conflict and the Treaty of Holston (1791), in which the Cherokee forfeited still more land.

Treaty of Canandaigua/Pickering Treaty/Calico Treaty – 1794

Over the years, as the Six Nations’ territory was further reduced, the Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora and some Oneida remained in New York on reservations, while the Mohawk and Cayuga left for Canada and the Oneida settled in Wisconsin and Ontario.

Treaty of Greeneville – 1795

But the treaty provided only short term resolution, as continued U.S. expansion quickly nullified its effect. By 1808, Shawnee war chief Tecumseh had organized a Native confederacy to mount armed resistance to continued U.S. seizure of Native American lands.

Treaty of Fort Wayne – 1809

In 1811, Harrison led an attack on a Native American camp on the Tippecanoe River, beginning a new U.S.-Native conflict that would last through the War of 1812. After Tecumseh’s death in battle in 1813, his confederacy dissolved, along with his dream of Native American independence.

Andrew Jackson & Indian Removal Act – 1830

Though removal was supposed to be voluntary, in practice Jackson used threats of withheld payments and legal and military action to conclude nearly 70 removal treaties over the course of his presidency, opening up some 25 million acres of land in the South to white settlement, and slavery.

Treaty of New Echota – 1835

The majority of Cherokee opposed the treaty, but Congress ratified it anyway, and in 1838 the federal government sent 7,000 U.S. soldiers to enforce the removal of the Cherokees. An estimated 10 to 25 percent of Cherokee would die during the 1,200-mile trek to Oklahoma, later known as the “Trail of Tears.”

Fort Laramie Treaty – 1868

Native resistance to the treaty’s violation culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, after which government troops flooded the region. By that time, Congress had ended the nearly 100-year-old practice of making treaties with individual Native American tribes, declaring in 1871 that “henceforth, no Indian nation or tribe…shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty.”

In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that the Black Hills were illegally confiscated, and awarded the Sioux more than $100 million in reparations. Sioux leaders rejected the payment, saying the land had never been for sale. Controversy continues over the sacred land—as well as other broken treaties. (source)

PALESTINE:

PALESTINE:

Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 per cent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.

The Jews of Israel have studied their progenitors:

[Palestine]

Palestine:

Fucking Palestine EVERYWHERE!

How a Public Media Campaign Led to Japanese Incarceration during WWII; Images by photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams document this shameful moment in America’s history.

Fuck we need a million Che’s and Harriet Tubmans, and a few thousand Nat Turners.

On November 11, 1831, after a rushed trial and conviction, an enslaved Black man named Nat Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, after being convicted of leading a revolt against his enslavers. On August 21, 1831, Mr. Turner led a group of Black people in a revolt against slavery.

[Fucking right!! Hezbollah hails Hamas for ‘heroic operation’]

[New Israeli massacres in Gaza, hundreds killed in Jabalia, Shujaiya Saturday 2-December-2023]

We all are Palestinians.

The Bracero Program: When the U.S. Looked to Mexico for Labor

The FUCKING Racists in USA — The Wall:

People and ecosystems:

This system has drawn comparisons to laws in apartheid South Africa designed by whites to control the movement of blacks and mixed-race people and to keep them in inferior positions.

It has always been a racist dirty Israel, Jewish-Zionism, don’t matter. They learned their German Lessons Well:

Freedom of movement for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, especially over the past 25 years, has been heavily restricted between these territories, where separation is “the rule and access is the rare exception”, Miriam Marmur, international communications coordinator for the Gisha human rights organisation, said.

It is illegal for a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank to travel to Gaza and Jerusalem unless they have a special travel permit from Israel. Likewise, Palestinians in Gaza are forbidden from going to Jerusalem and the West Bank unless the Israeli military issues them a permit.

“Israeli law had different military orders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” Tahseen Elayyan, head of monitoring and documentation for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, said. “Each territory was administered by a different Israeli military commander. The point of that was to maintain the division between the two territories, to make them easier to control.”

don’t fool yourself — Genocide is A-Okay, man, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, all points north and south, east and west . . .

The title of Jorge Borges’s second poetry collection, Moon Across the Way (1925), captures how Buenos Aires was expanding westward, away from the River Plate estuary. If you walked to the edge of the built-up area you would, eventually, come to a street that looked over the pampas. In his next collection, San Martín Copybook (1929), his beautiful and oft-quoted poem “The Mythical Foundation of Buenos Aires” ends:

A cigar store perfumed the desert like a rose.
The afternoon had established its yesterdays,
and men took on together an illusory past.
Only one thing was missing – the street had no other side.
Hard to believe Buenos Aires had any beginning;
it feels as eternal as air and water.

Like many city dwellers, Borges laments the passing of what once was:

“Our image of the city is always slightly out of date. Cafes have degenerated into bar-rooms; old arched entranceways with their grilled inner gates, once giving us a glimpse of patios and of overhanging grapevines, are now dingy corridors… that lead abruptly to an elevator.”

DOES IT FUCKING MATTER now that this fucking creep Milei is in?

Renowned Argentine sociologist and anti-imperialist critic Atilio Boron joins The Grayzone to discuss the victory of former tantric sex coach and emotionally unhinged liberatarian economic fundamentalist Javier Milei as the country’s president.

Boron explains why the desperate popular sectors of Argentina fell for Milei’s shtick, and forecasts a violent rebellion of the president-elect’s economic austerity plans come to pass.

So we get more perversions, and the perverted shit faces, here and there and in Argentina, get what they scoop from the bottom of the offal barrel:

Dirty War, infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 citizens were killed; many of them were “disappeared”—seized by the authorities and never heard from again.

Nazis?

After Germany was defeated in World War II, and the magnitude of Nazi war atrocities became apparent to the world, many in the party’s elite—especially those who masterminded the Holocaust death camps—knew they needed to disappear. With help from friendly governments, and even the Catholic Church, thousands of SS members changed their identities, quietly escaped to South America and slid into new lives. Some evaded capture; others were tracked down and brought to justice.

Due to the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who lived in the country, Argentina maintained close ties with Germany and remained neutral for much of World War II. In the years after the end of the war, Argentine President Juan Perón secretly ordered diplomats and intelligence officers to establish escape routes, so-called “ratlines,” through ports in Spain and Italy to smuggle thousands of former SS officers and Nazi party members out of Europe.

Rat fucking Lines. Oh, those Spanairds.

Argentina was originally settled by many different tribes of people. The first major empire arrived when Inca Empire invaded in 1480. Some of present day Argentina became part of the Incan Empire and some resisted. In 1516, the Spanish arrived in the person of explorer and navigator Juan Diaz de Solias.

In 2015, with the death of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Latin America lost one of its finest literary voices and one of the staunchest critics of the exploitations of its people and resources for over five hundred years. During a life spent largely in exile, fleeing military regimes in both Uruguay and Argentina, Galeano wrote books that earned his reputation as an outstanding author of the “Boom” generation and a prominent opponent of capitalist and colonial policies. His most famous work, Open Veins of Latin America (1971), traces the story of colonization from the arrival of Europeans in the “New World” to the brink of the Uruguayan military coup whose leaders banned the book in 1973.

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Argentina identifies 131st baby kidnapped during dictatorship

A right-wing dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 systematically stole children from dissident parents.

Former TV pundit Javier Milei – nicknamed “the crazy” or “the madman” by his followers – has stunned political experts by becoming the new president of Argentina.

The 53-year-old right-wing populist – also known as a fan of Al Capone – won 56% of the vote to complete a journey which started in 2020 when he entered politics and promised to “blow up” the system.

Fuck Argentina, and bye bye. It’s always been a fucked up colonial nation. Fucked up everything, since the dirty stain of Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the lot of them came in are stole, raped, pillaged.

So now these fucking journalists are calling EVERYONE in Argentina ‘Unstable?”

Juan Gonzalez, a journalist and author of a biography on the new leader, admitted: “He is an unstable leader for an unstable country.”

Prostitutes and pimps and just fucking Break Back Mountain shits.

Yeah, they are ALL criminals, and we talk about them as they are real Homo Sapiens. They are mutants, from the top, Bezos, through to the Fucker-bergs and the Soros Clan, all the way through the Jewish Line of Billionaires, through to the Non-Jewish Line of Motherfucking Rich and their anal cleft lickers.

Fucking Britannia!

One good fucking thing from that shit hole:

Fucking creeps. Che museum? Right!!!!

Little fucking cabana?

His fucking motorcycle? That’s it, cry for me fucking Argentina?

Instead, we have this human stain now running the shit show that is Argentina!

I expect this mural to be covered up soon: Buenos Aires.

Instead, just more STD’s spreading his evil disease:

Javier Milei:

Look at those fucking retarded fucking people. Look at their vacant eyes. Their fucking chubby fucking cheeks. Goddamn, freaks one and all.

Just another fucking Spanish Colony, Argentina. Macho.

The jury did not believe Monzon’s story that it was all an accident. The country he had once made so proud was not supportive. In 1989, Monzon was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He never did get to serve out his full term, being killed in an automobile accident in 1995, while out on furlough for the weekend.

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Back to Gaza!

These dirty little fucking rat nations: Cyprus.

Since independence, the British bases have been used not only to surveil other parts of the region, but to supply weaponry, military assets, fuel and personnel to almost every major conflict without giving notice to Cypriot officials. It’s reported the US were using the bases to deploy troops into Iraq and later Syria which signifies a direct violation of the Treaty of Guarantee.

The RAF also used Akrotiri for surveillance and aerial refuelling missions in the bombing campaign against Libya in 2011. During Saudi Arabia’s brutal bombardment of Yemen, BAE Systems cargo flights refuelled at the base every week while carrying essential spare parts for the Saudi air force.

Most recently, Declassified UK and Haaretz reported that America is moving weapons into Israel via the British bases in Akrotiri, with 50% of US flights leaving the area said to be carrying arms. This would again implicate Britain in offering the territory to the Americans without consulting the Republic of Cyprus, and thwart the notion of true postcolonial independence. (Source)

You feel good about Gaza and Palestina from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free?

An aerial view of Ayios Nikolaos Station, a British base on Cyprus which hosts a huge US spy facility. (Google Earth)

Leaked top secret documents reveal spying assets on British Cyprus are integrated with “military planning and operations”—and intelligence is likely being passed to Israel to help it bomb Gaza, further implicating Britain in war crimes.

• American spies class their bases on British Cyprus as “important assets”
• US has four spy sites on Cyprus, which are believed to form part of its “far-reaching” intelligence relationship with Israel
• Israel “enjoys the benefits of expanded geographic access” to US spy sites, top secret document notes
• GCHQ, NSA and CIA all refuse to comment to Declassified

The Zionist movement from its inception has used deception, violence, ethnic cleansing and discrimination to solidify its apartheid state. The genocide in Gaza is another chapter in this 100-year war.

Alas, this is the reality of the fucking mentality of AmeriKKKans. From my fucking Oregon once-a-week rag:

Letter to the Fucking Editor in the Rag where I publish!

“I felt compelled to respond to a letter titled “Gaza: cease-fire now!” dated Friday, Nov. 3. The author surely does not understand the history of the Holy Land, its occupants and troubles. To do so, one must educate themselves going back thousands of years — not just to 1948, the year of the United Nations mandated the formation of Israel after the Nazi holocaust (and plight of the Jewish people throughout time).

I ask you, who were the Jebusites? Have you heard of Exodus? When did Rome destroy Jerusalem and its Jewish temple? What year did the Muslims destroy and capture the city? The Christian crusaders? The Ottoman Turks?

On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, killing at least 1,200 Jewish children, women and men, hacking their heads off, burning them alive, etc. Also, several hundred women and children and some men were kidnapped. Did anyone hear the intercepted phone call of the young Palestinian man bragging to his parents that he killed 12 Jews, for which his parents then praised him?

Yet, the author of the strange letter referenced above believes Israel should not respond militarily because “the number of Jews killed yearly by Hamas rockets is less than those killed by snake bites.” Wow!

Let’s not forget who the main culprit is — Iran, who has vowed repeatedly to wipe Israel off the map. It is Iran who sponsors and funds Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.

The Obama, and now the Biden administration has practically begged the mullahs to negotiate in good faith, while at the same time continuing to build their nuclear program, attack, maim and kill U.S. troops, and now attack Israel, funded by the billions handed over to them from Obama/Biden negotiations. Remember Obama’s red line warning to Assad? He bombed and gassed thousands of innocent women and children in his own country.

Criminally insane terrorists and dictators understand only one thing, overwhelming military force. A few well-placed cruise missiles into Assad’s residences would have worked. No? A full-scale aerial attack on all his residences and military sites would have. Same for Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.

No need to destroy water, sewage, or electrical plants. No nation building or trillions in U.S. dollars wasted. And make it clear to the people of Iran and Palestine who want to want peace and freedom — the United States of America loves and supports you!

Finally, it is time for a state of Palestine to be created right on the border of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Period.”

Douglas Babcock lives in Lincoln County. (source)

Look at this fucking newspaper, this fucking retarded fuck, this fuck face calling for bombing Assad? Fucking fairy tale mother fucking Christian Zionist stupid fucks, all of them, that Bible? That bullshit Bible? Right.

Sick country, man.

Houthis

LINK.

The Chris Hedges Report with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi on Zionism’s 100-year war against Palestinians.

The Zionist movement from its inception has used deception, violence, ethnic cleansing and discrimination to solidify its apartheid state. The genocide in Gaza is another chapter in this 100-year war.

The conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, which has reached a terrifying crescendo with the savage obliteration of Gaza, is the outcome of a 100-year-old colonial occupation by Jewish Zionists in Israel backed by major imperial powers, starting with the British and a century later with the United States. This century-long assault by Israel has one objective – to force an indigenous people from their land.

The historian Rashid Khalid breaks what he calls “the hundred years of war on Palestine” into six periods. The first is the British support for Jewish Zionists during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 and 1939. The second declaration of war is the 1947-1948 Nakbeh, or catastrophe, that saw Zionist militias ethnically cleanse 750,000 Palestinians from historic Palestine and carry out a series of massacres. The third is 1967 war when Israel seized the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and expelled another 250,000 Palestinians.

The fourth declaration of war on Palestine was Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut, followed by the departure of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters to Tunisia and the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The fourth war against the Palestinians began with the first intifada, or uprising in 1987, continued with the second intifada and is taking place with the Israeli brutal assault on Gaza.

The backdrop to this century of war by Israel on the Palestinians is the failure by Arab leaders to offer meaningful support to the Palestinians, in fact these leaders often colluded with Israel to weaken the Palestinian resistance movement. Joining me in the studio to discuss Israel’s settler colonial project, how it is being played out in Gaza and its consequences, is Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonization and Resistance, 1917-2017.”

CHE?

Really, we have to spend hours on Argentina now?

And here another question and a reflection arises, will Milei have the support of the youth and the middle classes in the face of the resistance of the unions and social movements? Argentina was the first progressive government of the 21st century to be won at the polls by the right (Macri, 2015), and it becomes the first progressive government to be won at the polls by the ultra-right (Milei, 2023). Previously, the right wrested power from the left through coups d’état (Honduras 2009, Bolivia 2019) or parliamentary (Paraguay 2012 or Brazil 2016), but Argentina is a pioneer in the electoral advance of the right and the ultra-right. Just as Chile was the laboratory of neoliberalism in the 20th century with the coup against Allende and the Chicago Boys, its neighboring country is a laboratory in the 21st century for the advance of the fascist ultra-right, disguised with a disruptive discourse that attracts young people and the middle classes, a discourse that is based on the mistakes of a government that did not even become the least bit progressive. (source)

The HERD?

The UK’s worst living war criminal, Sir Anthony Blair wrote:

“There is no one like Henry Kissinger. From the first time I met him as a new Labour Party Opposition Leader in 1994, struggling to form views on foreign policy, to the last occasion when I visited him in New York and, later, when he spoke at my Institute’s annual gathering, I was in awe of him.”

Fucking Argentina can’t even get their islands back:

On January 3, 1833, the Malvinas Islands were illegally occupied by British forces who expelled the Argentine population and authorities established there legitimately, to replace them with British subjects. The illegitimate occupation of the Malvinas Islands was immediately protested by the Argentine authorities at that time and was never consented to by any Argentine government. Throughout the 188 years of usurpation, Argentina uninterruptedly maintained the firm claim for the exercise of sovereignty over the islands. 

Back to Palestine: Fucking heroes. Banned.

Yemen’s Houthis say they fired ballistic missiles towards Israel

Israeli authorities say missile intercepted near Eilat after Houthi leader earlier promised to continue attacks.

Give these heroes guns, missiles, drones, plans, more.

did you get that . . . these fucking people are the enemy . . . not my 99 percent? It’s US, 80 percent, against them, the 20 Percenters . . .

The data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that in 2021 annual wages for the top 1% reached $819,324, which was up 9.4% compared to 2020. How much do you need to earn to be in the top 0.1%? A hefty $3,312,693, which is 18.5% more than that group earned a year before. Wages for the bottom 90% dropped by 0.2% over the same period, with an average income of $36,571.

Historically, the rich have become richer faster than the rest of the population. EPI research has found that from 1979 to 2021, the top 1% saw their wages grow by 206.3% and the top 0.1% by more than twice as much⁠—465.1%. Wages for the bottom 90% only grew 28.7% in the same time period.

Now, these are not just dream hoarders. They are nightmare creators, generators, fomenters, givers.

Think of a two-parent family with a Five Percenter and Ten Percenter laughing all the way to the investment firm. Sure, $400,000 in wages a YEAR.

That doesn’t include all the investments and the piles of silver and gold and the land and and and . . . and and and . . . .

Sink these fucking yachts. Yemen? Calling Yemen. Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds

According to the 2023 Forbes annual wealthiest list, the number of billionaires in the world is 2,640. This is a decrease from 2,668 in 2022. The U.S. has more billionaires than any other country: 735. China, including Hong Kong and Macao, is close behind with 562,

Published: 7 Nov 2022 – Short URL

Studies show the world’s wealthiest individuals’ investments account for up to 70 per cent of their emissions. Oxfam used public data to calculate the investment emissions of billionaires with a stake of more than 10 per cent in a corporation, by allocating them a share of the reported emissions of the corporates in which they are invested in proportion to their stake.

The study also found billionaires had an average of 14 per cent of their investments in polluting industries such as non-renewable energy and materials like cement. This is twice the average for investments in the Standard and Poor 500. Only one billionaire in the sample had investments in a renewable energy company.

The choice of investments billionaires make is shaping the future of our economy, for example, by backing high carbon infrastructure – locking in high emissions for decades to come. The study found that if the billionaires in the sample moved their investments to a fund with stronger environmental and social standards, it could reduce the intensity of their emissions by up to four times.

Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the tech billionaires Bill Gates, Larry Page and Michael Dell, the inventor and social media company owner Elon Musk and the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim.

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And, forget about the carbon spewing shit. These billionaires are responsible for WARS, for hostile takeovers, for labor wars, for millions losing jobs, for their Santa’s workshops from Hell, the pain of the shit they produce, and forget about the addiction to the junk they make that is far from durable. Planned obsolescence. Planned throw-away. How many fucking Smart Phones will a child go through in a lifetime? Computer?

SICK.

And this Zuckerberg and his companies and all those 10 Percenters, those wannabe Five Percenters, they are pedophiles, child abusers: Yemen, calling, YEMEN.

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, knowingly allows millions of children under age 13 to use Instagram, but “zealously” hides that fact from the public, according to a newly unredacted legal complaint filed against the company and reported by The New York Times.

Although Meta received more than 1 million reports of underage users, it disabled only “a fraction” of the accounts and instead “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information — including locations and email addresses — without parental consent, the unredacted document alleges.

The company also purposefully uses its technology “to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens” and publicly misrepresents its platforms as safe for youth, while concealing its own internal research showing that users experienced harms on its platforms at high rates.

These practices violated the federal children’s privacy law and California’s false advertising and unfair competition laws, according to the complaint.

“Within the company, Meta’s actual knowledge that millions of Instagram users are under the age of 13 is an open secret that is routinely documented, rigorously analyzed and confirmed,” the complaint noted.

Fucking nightmares, man.

Think about us, the 80 Percent. All those amazing people, smarter than those fucking billionaires and millionaires and their foot soldiers of Eichmann’s. Think of our dreams, and the thing is, they — the rich and their Gestapo — have created many of our fucking nightmares — nickle and dimed, drugs, booze, cigarettes, food that could take the paint off of a battle ship. PayDay loans, fines, fees, taxes, triple taxes, tickets, tolls, repos, foreclosures, forced arbitration.

Dreams deferred? Nightmares cooked up in their fucking snake oil factories, in their psychology vats of tricks, their smoke and mirrors, their house of cards, their predation and casino capitalism, their penury, their fucking economic and forced military drafts.

Think of the psychological hell they create with their fucking Willie Loman shit, their death of a DIY Gig Worker, Zoom Slave, remote fucking prole.

Look, I just finished a $22 an hour shift working with a client. You know, developmental disabled. Food stamp receipient. Some call us direct support professionals, or he calls me his care giver.

Well, that’s fucking $22 an hour for being, well, can you imagine all that we have to know, do, react to, not react to, develop, as in his activities of daily living, and all those things that make him special, which we have to watch for or develop or de-develop.

He wants me to help him get out to socialize and meet people, including those of the opposite sex. He volunteers everywhere. Everyone knows him.

And, that part of the job is okay, but even in two years of not doing case management daily, and such, well, “things” have gotten worse in terms of how non-profits are now just suckers for computer applications — HR, I-9, background checks, training modules, Pay Check platforms, payroll, and, the time clock. It — the fucking clock you have to sign in on on your fucking phone — fucking knows where you are. You have to have a fucking smart phone to work, download all these fucking apps, and when you clock in, the app hijacks your phone and locates you. As you do your work with the client.

Did you sign in there, at the person’s domicile, or did you fucking cheat and get an extra 15 minutes by clocking in at home with that last cup of coffee? We are useless eaters, breeders, thinkers and cheaters.

Yeah, so, these outfits are also mostly run by women, and unfortunately, women are leaders in this shit storm of tracking, watching, snooping, triple-checking, forced fucked up trainings, all of this new new abnormal.

Here or anywhere:

Human stain: US military contractor Pablo Breuer (left), UK defense researcher Sara-Jayne “SJ” Terp (center), and Chris Krebs, former director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS-CISA)….

‘If We Get Away With It, It’s Legal’: Documents Reveal New Details on U.S. Government’s ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’

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Shifting to a sort of Aryan Master Race Kind of Thing:

Israel’s Posthumous Sperm Retrieval Program: Genetic Supremacy Is A Whole Other Ballgam

Speaking of fucking freaks: Israel’s posthumous sperm retrieval program (PSMR) showcases a merging of advanced medical technology with ethnocentric societal considerations. Aimed at “preserving the genetic legacy” of deceased citizens, the program reflects the country’s self perceived exceptionalism and contentious ethical standards.Israel’s recent modifications to simplify the program’s administrative protocol, especially in the backdrop of it’s continued genocidal assault on Palestinians, provides insight into the country’s priorities and policy direction.

What is the PMSR ?

Post-mortem sperm retrieval (PMSR) is a medical procedure used to extract sperm from a deceased male. This procedure is typically considered when a surviving spouse or partner wishes to conceive a child using the deceased’s genetic material. The process usually needs to be carried out within a certain time frame after death, often within 24 to 48 hours, to increase the likelihood of viable sperm.

Method of Retrieval: There are several methods for retrieving sperm post-mortem, including:

• Testicular Sperm Extraction (TESE): A biopsy of testicular tissue is taken, often through a small incision in the testes.
• Epididymal Aspiration: Sperm is extracted directly from the epididymis, a duct behind the testis where sperm matures and is stored.
•  Rectal probe electroejaculation: Rarely used in post-mortem cases, this method involves electrically stimulating the prostate gland to induce ejaculation.
• Analysis and Storage sperm bank israel The retrieved sperm is analyzed for viability and, if suitable, is frozen and stored in a sperm bank for future use in assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF).
• Use in Assisted Reproduction: The stored sperm can later be used to impregnate the surviving spouse, partner, or surrogate typically through IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Supremacy. And, while these freaks are supremacists, Goyim Bad, Jew Good, some of the same thinking goes into watching us, putting these fucking digital chains on us, all these fucking expensive software platforms, apps, as these middle men and middle women control every aspect of a business — from when the toilet paper runs out, to the amount of coffee delivered weekly, to tracking the speed of your servers, putting a Chromebook in the hands of your wait staff, counting each step the bus-boy takes each shift, tracking how much sweat is expelled, and analyzing the sweat to make sure the employee isn’t stealing cups of coffee. All of these biometrics, all the telemetry, all those fucking freaks, in Wadi Valley (Tel Aviv) and Silicon Valley (Little Tel Aviv) and Hollywoord (Second Tel Aviv) and in the Mossad and Unit 8200, tracking us, cataloguing us, and alas, all those drops of urine and hard dumps of fecal matter, all those traces of blood in the fecal matter, all of this, free data for the Massive AI and so the fascists can learn all the tricks of the fucked up human, us poor ass Goyim, dumb and dirty and dingbats and the dregs.

Great AI Replacement Theory.

Talk about dumb Goyim and Conniving Jews: Blackstone head Steve Schwarzman plans to spend billions buying up dorms, warehouses, and data centers across Europe: ‘We have enormous capital and can buy the types of real estate that we like’

Then,

Fucking this shit, Schwarzman, he’s selling his fucking cum to the world, no? And . . . another chosen person, here, telling the poor fucking Goyim what’s what!

Guardrails AI companies add to their products to prevent them from causing harm “aren’t enough” to control AI capabilities that could endanger humanity within five to ten years, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Axios’ Mike Allen on Tuesday.

The big picture: Interviewed at Axios’ AI+ Summit in Washington, D.C., Schmidt compared the development of AI to the introduction of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War.

• “After Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it took 18 years to get to a treaty over test bans and things like that. We don’t have that kind of time today,” Schmidt said.
• The danger, he said, arrives at “the point at which the computer can start to make its own decisions to do things” — when, say, such a system discovers access to weapons, and we can’t be certain the system will tell us the truth.
• Two years ago, that moment was expected to be 20 years off. Today, Schmidt said, some experts think it’s only two to four years away.

More Jewish overlords looking at for Goyim:

Palantir (PLTR) has been one of the most requested companies by our community. They reportedly helped find Osama bin Laden. Given the secretive nature of the business, it’s particularly apt for a newsletter called How They Make Money to take a closer look. So here we go!

The company was co-founded by Peter Thiel, a prominent figure in Silicon Valley, co-founder of PayPal, Founders Fund, and early investor in Facebook. Thiel’s influence is noticeable in the company’s unconventional approach to technology and business. He named it after the indestructible crystal ball from The Lord of the Rings.

Jew, Silicon Valley,, Military Industrial Complex Peter Thief, Homosexual. Here you have it:

In May, FORBES broke the news that Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s infamous sex-tape lawsuit against the now-bankrupt Gawker. You might be wondering: so what? Why should I care? Critics have argued that Thiel’s money gives other billionaires a blueprint for how to silence media outlets they dislike. Thiel’s approach has also added a new twist to what’s known as “alternate litigation financing,” which, until now was strictly a business opportunity. No longer.

Yeah, the Jewish people and their sperm?

Journalists are trained to look for stories behind the stories. The reporters investigating the Hulk Hogan sex tape and the sale of the Las Vegas Journal-Review, however, found something unprecedented: billionaires covertly using their fortunes to silence the media. Nobody Speak explores what Peter Thiel’s financial support of the lawsuit against Gawker and Sheldon Adelson’s shadowy purchase of Nevada’s largest newspaper mean for future of journalism, the First Amendment, and the power of the ultra wealthy.

Shfting to more Jewish Racism:

The face of Anti-Semites in Europe, those European Jews and Goyim.

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The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious belief, such as an Islamic head scarf, in the latest decision on an issue that has divided Europe for years.

The case came to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) after an employee of the eastern Belgian municipality of Ans was told she could not wear an Islamic head scarf at work.

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Santa’s Jewish Workshop back at it!

A plan to teach a “viewpoint-neutral” history of the Middle East at University of California campuses has roused controversy, judging by a letter sent Tuesday to UC President Michael Drake from 150 professors who object to his effort to navigate the raw tensions between Palestinian and Israeli sympathizers up and down the state.

Amid persistent campus conflicts between the groups following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and Israel’s huge military retaliation in Gaza, Drake announced a series of measures on Nov. 15 intended to tamp down anger and improve relations between the groups.

Included in the measures, UC expects to spend $2 million to develop education programs at each campus that include a “viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East.” The idea, Drake told the UC regents, was to “improve the public discourse” and create a “better understanding of antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Fucking children, again, Goyim, mostly, run like kindergarteners.

Not our fucking homes, no, don’t call our homes that, Blacksosnte, but do call it “real estate” — FIRE motherfuckers: Finance Insurance Real Estate BlackRock, Blackstone, Vanguard, the lot of the motherfuckers!

Climate change’s impact on real estate: AI founder breaks down how ‘many places are doomed’ but others will be ‘the most valuable asset class in the world’

Parag Khanna wants to help people “future-proof” their real estate. The author of more than 20 books has long been known for his analysis and macroeconomic forecasts, and his new firm, the AI-powered analytics platform Climate Alpha, seeks to harness data to track trends in migration, climate change, and finance to know which locations will provide both resilience and profit when the world changes. He argues that the Black Swan is not the right way to think of climate risk, but rather the Green Swans are flocking, and headed straight for millions of miles of real estate.

Finally, the Jew York Times sucking Jewish Zionist Fascist dick, this time Henry’s:

Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped U.S. Cold War History, Has Died at 100

Jew York Times: “The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. Mr. Kissinger’s complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China, Russia and the Middle East.”

Fucking complicated, a new word for war criminal!

Kissinger helped to prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin. 

There were “few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger,” said veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.

A 2023 investigation by The Intercept found that Kissinger — perhaps the most powerful national security adviser in American history and the chief architect of U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia from 1969 to 1975 — was responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses.

[Photo: In a photo taken in 2010, Phok Horm, 84, reflects on the attacks she survived in the village of Doun Rath. Tam Turse ]

Fuck, I’m out of here, with no Gaza to rail on. It just gets worse, this Zionist Jewish project. Fucking Zionist Jewish Pedophiles!

Israeli troops detained a 12-year-old Palestinian child after storming his family home in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. 

The boy, Karim Ghawanmeh, vomited out of fear when he realised the army wanted to arrest him, his brother Othman told Middle East Eye.

Othman said Israeli forces blew open the family’s old house in the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, at dawn. 

The family had recently moved out of the house, so the soldiers phoned Karim’s father when they didn’t find anyone there. 

An officer told him that he had to immediately hand over his son to the army. (source)

goddamn, 2023 is dead from the neck up, and the Year of the Wooden Dragon, 2024, bodes really well for the Infantilized Monsters of Five Eyes and Israel!

And so the fucking beat goes on. Mainstream Media, and then left stream/urination media and then the fucking Substack Celebrity Mother Fuckers Bring this Puke up, yet another Puke, Billionaire Musk. Forget about the fucking Trump Fucks. They all are evil. Vermont Bernie or Speaker Johnson.

Full Metal Jacket! Where’s Sean Penn? George CLooney? That witch who played Wonder Woman? Flak jackets for all the fucking TOOLS of HASBARA.

There are NO journalists left in the main, even on the fringes, because they just can’t fucking untape their fucking mouths when reporting on the Dirtiest Country Per Capita in the Fucking World — Israel. Colonizers, those Jews in Israel, and all those backing Zionists. Nazi’s. A million times worse.

They commit genocide and STILL while doing it make the world think the fucking Israelis are the victim.

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HoHoHo. So, if we criticize Israel and Zionists, or put in, those Jewish and Christian Zionists are evil or fascists, we, that is, especially we communists, are jailed.

Fucking Britain:

Craig Murray:

At Saturday’s great march in support of Palestine in London, police arrested members of the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist (CPGBML) for having a pamphlet on sale on their stall.

The “illegal” pamphlet is entitled Zionism: A Racist, Anti-Semitic and Reactionary Tool of Imperialism.

Just what is illegal about it, I do not know. The authorship is ascribed to the CPGBML. I have looked through it and it is scrupulous in distinguishing between zionism and judaism. Criticism of Israel and of the zionist movement is not anti-semitic.

I suspect what may have upset the authorities are the passages on collaboration between some leaders of the zionist movement and the Nazis.

This is a difficult subject. My own view, which I have discussed both in several articles on this blog and in person with many friends who take a different view, (including Tony Greenstein who has written an entire book on the subject), is that it serves no useful purpose to keep bringing this up. Aberrations of history at a time of great world convulsion, including the events leading up to the Holocaust and that genocide itself, throw up many horrors it is often not helpful to try to tie in to contemporary events.

I see this in Scotland. It appears true that unfortunately a few Scottish nationalists momentarily considered Nazi Germany a possible ally against a common enemy in London. But efforts are made constantly on social media to use that as a meme to portray modern Scottish nationalists as Nazis, which is utter nonsense. Furthermore bringing the Nazis into political debate, especially in anything relating to the Holocaust, immediately causes all kinds of nutters to come out of the woodwork.

Truth is important and true history should always be acknowledged and faced. But I believe my fellow supporters of Palestine do not help today’s debate or the Palestinian cause by dredging up 90-year-old marginal stories.

This particular truth certainly has a place in the history books, but most of the attempts to insert it into current debate are not, in my view, justified.

That, however, is a very different view to saying that books addressing the subject should be banned and people arrested for possessing them. This is a simply appalling attack on freedom of speech. I condemn it unreservedly.

It is also not in the least plain to me where the offence lies.

Look at this. Really. Look deep at the underpinning of this clip. I have been in the fucking military, as a communist, and alas, this fucking clip is beyond so many levels of what the fuck is wrong with IDF, with Klanada, U$A, Israel. It is everything wrong with America, and alas, it’s fucking funny coming from Kubrick, and, all of it is upside down in a world of War is Peace, Zionists with Israeli Passports and Go to Synagogue Regularly Are Not Jews.

Fucking Hero. I went in as a private, with two years of college under my belt, but alas, it doesn’t work working with the evil, man, all UNIFORMED fucking services are EVIL.

Fucking HERO. No steer or queer here! (queer for me being not homosexual, but: queer, (old-fashioned) strange or unusual; synonum, ‘odd,’

His face was a queer pink colour.

She had a queer feeling that she was being watched.

I was beginning to feel very queer.

It all sounds a bit queer to me.

“I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”

Prior to being accepted to West Point, Rapone enlisted in the Army after high school and served in Afghanistan. It was during his deployments there, he says, that he began to doubt his earlier assumptions about the roll the U.S. military was actually playing in the world.

“We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth,” Rapone told AP. “We have one of the most technologically advanced militaries of all time and all we were doing is brutalizing and invading and terrorizing a population that had nothing to do with what the United States claimed was a threat.”

He explains he was further influenced by Marxist writings and reading more about other combat veterans who later spoke out about the evils of war and the influence of capitalism in generating them.

Now out of the military, Rapone did not seem upset and suggested gratitude for the support he’s received since speaking out about his beliefs.

“I knew there could be repercussions,” said Rapone, who AP reports is scheduled to speak at a socialism conference in Chicago next month. “Of course my military career is dead in the water. On the other hand, many people reached out and showed me support. There are a lot of veterans both active duty and not that feel like I do.”

Listen to/Watch Richard’s latest, above, linked. Absorb it, man. Real fucking logic, man, he deploys. He uses facts and passion to uncut the fucking Israeli LIES.

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Here, Valerie’s Substack: I have some questions

How do you explain the feeling of genocide? Or the feeling of the fear of genocide? 

Upgrade to paid

How do you explain the feeling of oppression, to one who has never been oppressed?

How do you explain occupation, to one who has never been occupied? 

How do you briefly and comprehensively explain the U.S. government’s history of creating and financing enemies, and working with them? 

How do you explain that killing tens of thousands of civilians, dozens of journalists and hundreds of health care and aid workers is a war crime, no matter the rationale, or who is doing the killing? 

And how do you explain, or justify, mass death? Genocide, or ecocide?

Yep:

U.S. Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst

By Richard Medhurst

I’ve had enough.

I’ve had enough of Israel killing 15,000 Palestinians and calling that “self-defense”

I’ve had enough of the media calling Israeli hostages “hostages”, but Palestinians hostages “prisoners”

You’re upset about 200 Israeli hostages, but oh,

You didn’t know there are 10,000 Palestinian hostages?
Please, enough.

I’ve had enough of Israel throwing Palestinians in prison without charge, without trial,
Without even telling them the reason why

I’ve had enough of Israel bringing up the Holocaust, as it carries out a Holocaust against Palestinians. What happened to “never again”? Or is it “never enough”?

I’ve had enough of Palestinians being punished for European crimes
And Europeans giving away land that ain’t theirs to divide

I’ve had enough of seeing children’s bodies blown to bits
And parents crying their eyes out: “where are my kids?”

Half of Gaza’s population are children
So if you’ve bombed half the buildings

Who were you hitting?
Thousands are still under the rubble, all of them missing
Enough of this shit, enough of this killing

I’ve had enough of spoiled Israeli settlers complaining from their cushy hotels
While Palestinians sleep in the rain, with no clothes, no food, and no beds

And Israelis have the nerve to pretend that they are oppressed?
Shut your god damn mouth.

Do you know, I have lost count how many times Israel have bombed the same refugee camp, or the same hospital?

Do you need to bomb a UN school a 100 times before you’ve had enough?

Israelis driving Palestinians from their homes,

Another Nakba in plain sight
Taking more land, taking more lives
Seems it’s never enough.

I’ve had enough of Israelis always playing the victim
Even as they victimize Palestinians, and commit genocide against ‘em
It’s tiring, exhausting, ugh, such a bore
And no one is falling for that crap anymore

Israel claims to be “the Jewish state”, but it’s in a state of genocidal mania and doesn’t speak for Jews—

So many Jews around the world hate zionism, they’ve had enough of this too

I’ve had enough of Israel claiming that “Arabs hate Jews”
This ain’t about religion, they’re lying to you!
It’s about Europeans stealing Palestinian homes
And if Israelis were Buddhists, Arabs would fight them too

I’ve had enough of talk show hosts acting like Middle East experts
Piers Morgan thinks history began on October 7
So the only trick he knows, is bark “yes, Israel”, then roll
And hounds his guests with
”DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS??”
No. We condemn Israel and your rubbish program. I’ve had enough

I’ve had enough of Americans claiming Hamas are terrorists, when Uncle Sam is the biggest terrorist on earth

They wanna lecture people about human rights and international law?
But when it comes to Israel they don’t give a fuck anymore?

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Lebanon— those weren’t enough?

How many people have to die before you wake up?

Israel is carrying out a genocide in broad daylight
Suffocating the dreams of Gaza’s children at night
When will the world put an end to their plight?
Jesus Christ,
Haven’t they suffered enough?

15,000 people killed, wasn’t enough?
Dozens of doctors and nurses, wasn’t enough?
Israel killing journalists across the Levant

So many in Gaza went to bed and never woke up
What’s your excuse; when are you gonna wake up?
You need to find your humanity: enough is enough

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Fucking WATCH!

we went from Giant Pacific Garbage Patch (gyre) to microplastics in your feces to nano plastics in your brain

You would think — All Hands on Deck? Nah, because evil is pernicious and it is the act of NOT doing as well as DOING.

A team led by researchers from Duke University in the US looked at the relationship between nanoplastics broken down from polystyrene and the protein alpha-synuclein.

A buildup of aberrant forms of this protein has previously been observed in the brains of people with Parkinson’s.

“Parkinson’s disease has been called the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world,” says neurobiologist and senior author Andrew West from Duke University.

“While microplastic and nanoplastic contaminants are being closely evaluated for their potential impact in cancer and autoimmune diseases,” says West, “the striking nature of the interactions we could observe in our models suggest a need for evaluating increasing nanoplastic contaminants on Parkinson’s disease and dementia risk and progression.” (source)

Why do you care about the serfs?

Nick Rockefeller

Nick Rockefeller is a member of the Rockefeller dynasty and thus also a current member of America’s power elite that speaks and acts in unison.

His question was in response to the late Hollywood director and activist Aaron Russo saying in rejection of Rockefeller’s invitation to join the Council of Foreign Relations

that he “had no interest in enslaving people.”

That Jewish Evil: Henry.

The immigration of Jews from the Soviet

Union is not an objective of American

Foreign policy, and if they put Jews

into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,

it is not an American concern.

—Henry Kissinger

The following is not the IDF quoted, a la Isra-Hell, but just plain old Hank K., yet again:

a massive bombing campaign [involving]

anything that flies or anything that moves.

—Henry Kissinger

And so, what is evil, then? Making money off of blood?

“You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” — Malcolm X

Bloodsucker Capitalism: How Big Companies Extract Wealth From Everyone Else

But the majority of its revenue, just over $1.8 billion, comes from what its financial statements refer to as “Biomedical services.”

“The American Red Cross essentially collects blood from donors and then as part of the way it raises revenue to recover costs, then sells that blood to about 2,500 hospitals and medical facilities across the country,” said Laurie Styron, CEO and executive director of CharityWatch.

When CNBC inquired about the pricing of these products, the American Red Cross responded that “prices for a unit of red blood cells is proprietary information. The pricing is determined by purchase volumes by blood type, service levels, and delivery requirements as well as other agreed upon terms with a hospital.”

Until, we have those blood suckers for UkroNaziLandia and Isra-Hell, US, USA taxpayer, until we just have our veins splayed open for these, well, [in reality] — Jews in Israel, Jews in the White House, Billionaire Jews, and, well, Zelensky and his Jewish Cabal.

Zelensky’s Hidden Luxuries: Proxies, Yachts, and the $75M Scandal Rocking Ukraine

In the heart of Eastern Europe, where the tumult of war clashes with the allure of Western support, a seismic scandal unfolds, casting a long shadow over Ukraine’s leadership. President Volodymyr Zelensky, once seen as a beacon of hope against corruption, is now ensnared in a scandal involving the alleged purchase of two luxury yachts, “Lucky Me” and “My Legacy,” worth a combined $75 million. This lavish expenditure, facilitated in the opulent settings of Abu Dhabi and Antibes, starkly contrasts with Ukraine’s dire war reality and raises damning questions about the integrity and criminal liability of its leadership amidst heavy reliance on Western aid.

Zelenskyy‘s proxies Boris and Serhiy Shefir bought yachts, the total cost of which is estimated at $75 million. Three Jews in a Pod.

These fucking war criminals have their fucking boats, yachts, but then, that three- year cruise, all those ticket holders? Out of Luck, Suckers!

Life at Sea Cruises’ first three-year sailing was announced in March and promised passengers willing to fork out at least $29,999 per year — a one-of-a-kind voyage organized by parent company, Turkey-based Miray Cruises, that would cover 130,000 miles, 375 ports, and 135 countries.

One woman, Kimberly Arizzi, sold her apartment, furniture, clothes, and TV to pay for her retirement cruise, Business Insider reported.

Passengers for the three-year voyage were informed Nov. 17 that the cruise was canceled. It was set to leave from Amsterdam on Nov. 30, according to CNN.

The company said it would issue refunds, but in monthly installments beginning in mid-December and lasting until late February. 

Some passengers said they didn’t have a home to return to, since they were expecting to be on the cruise for three years.

“There’s a whole lot of people right now with nowhere to go, and some need their refund to even plan a place to go – it’s not good right now,” one passenger told CNN.

While fucking Gaza burns!

Then you have this piece of shit Zionist Christian fucking psychopath, hot on Trump’s anal cleft:

US speaker Mike Johnson said he is “confident and optimistic” that Congress can push through supplemental funding for Israel and Ukraine — but he did not commit to tying the two together, saying Ukraine funding must be accompanied by border policy changes.

“Listen, Israel is a top priority for the United States, and supporting our ally there is critical. It’s one of the first things we did. … It’s been sitting on this in the Senate and on Chuck Schumer’s desk. And so we are encouraging him to get that done,…

…Ukraine is another priority. Of course, we can’t allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe. And we understand the necessity of assisting there. What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine — which most members of Congress believe is important — we have to also work on changing our own border policy,…”

Until we have in every fucking state of this shit hole Predatory-Vampire-Usury-War Mongering-Casino Capitalist Nation, more pain, more degredation: we are on the run from the IRS, from state revenuers, from fucking employment offices, etc. For-By-With-Because of the People? Never.

Thousands of Oregon residents asked to pay back unemployment benefits from COVID-19 pandemic

Rowan Hayes, a 25-year-old Clackamas resident and former swim instructor, found herself in need of support when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down pools and paused lessons. Between April 2020 and March 2021, she applied for and received various forms of unemployment to help make ends meet.

It’s a decision she has come to regret.

Hayes, like thousands of other Oregonians, must now pay back thousands of dollars the department later determined that it overpaid her. In Hayes’ case, she could be paying them back for nearly 50 years.

And she isn’t alone. As her case makes its way through an appeals process, other residents have issued their own challenges to the state’s rules for handling unemployment overpayments. One group sued the Oregon Employment Department and its director last year, contending the agency’s processes deny residents their constitutional rights to due process.

And then, how many times do I have to hear that by calling a Zionist with Israeli citizenship Jewish as antisemitic bigotry? So, there are no Jews in Israel, and Israel isn’t called the Jewish State of Israel, so, only non-Jewish Zionists there? Or are Zionists not praciticing Jews. Zionists do not have rabbis. They don’t go to the Wailing Wall? Then, Israel isn’t Jewish and only Christians are Zionists?

But then, France bans positive and peaceful marches supporting children in Palestine.

And, now, you can’t be anti-Zionist or anti-Israel, but you can be anti-American and anti-French. Hmm.

Again, a little bit of fun here with two dudes and a dude and a woman talking about capitalism.

Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. Dr. Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. Our conversation examines the false dichotomy of capitalism v. socialism and considers the true dichotomy, which is industrial capitalism v. finance capitalism. Hudson and Keen argue that the transition to finance capitalism, where unearned income is considered economic growth, has truly sown the seeds to ruin the world.

You’d Think the Smart Ones Would Really Want to Work on Parkinson’s, Dementia . . .

Jew to the right, who is a Zionist, and the guy in the middle — Joe “I Finally Got My Jewish Doctor Son-in-law: Biden. The Zionist.

U.S. president’s devotion to Israel is rooted in a childhood that saw the birth of the Jewish state and in a political career that parallels repeated threats to destroy it.

“He’s using all the knowledge of the people and the issues that he’s gathered over the last 50 years to handle what’s going on right now,” said Ted Kaufman, a longtime friend and adviser.

Biden’s support for Israel has remained solid over the years even as some corners of his Democratic Party have urged a more critical approach toward the country and its decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory, which is widely viewed as illegal by the international community.

“He’s a politician of a generation that probably doesn’t exist anymore,” said Aaron David Miller, who has advised both Democratic and Republican administrations on the Middle East.

At the dinner table, then-senator Biden recalled during a 1999 hearing on antisemitism in Russia, his father would often talk about “how the world stood silently by in the 1930s in the face of Hitler.” Biden added that he is “a Zionist in my heart.”

Fuck you, you Palestine-Hating, Child-Murdering Super Predator, Misters Zionist Biden and Zionist Blinken. Think hard about how the heroes of the world, RUSSIA, defeated the Nazi’s.

Why Hitler failed to defeat Russia

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Beginning in June 1941, this blitzkrieg attack on Russia and its leader Joseph Stalin would ultimately decide the Second World War. Despite early success against an unprepared Soviet army, the invasion began to slow down and eventually ground to a halt in December just 20km short of Moscow. At that moment the Russians struck back with a surprise winter counter-attack, bringing the offensive to an end.

Psychopaths, Biden-Bibi-Adolph.

During his visit to Israel’s war cabinet last week, President Joe Biden made it clear, once again, where he stands in that country’s war with Hamas.

“I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist,” Biden said.

Liz Warren said, ‘she is a capitalist through her bones. I’m not.’ — Bernie Sanders

Democratic House members introduced a ceasefire resolution on October 16, but on the Senate side, there have been no calls for ending the war.

Earlier this month, almost 300 former staffers who worked on Sanders’s presidential campaigns signed a letter calling on him to introduce a similar resolution.

“President [Joe] Biden clearly values your counsel, as is shown by the ways you’ve managed to shape the outcomes of his presidency,” the letter, first reported by The Intercept, said. “We urge you to make it clear what is at stake in this crisis politically, morally, and strategically.”

Sanders called for a “humanitarian pause” to the fighting last week, but only after Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a similar demand.

The senator voiced his strongest criticism of the Israeli offensive on Monday, but he stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.

“The US provides $3.8 billion a year to Israel,” Sanders wrote in a social media post.

“The Biden administration and Congress must make it clear.

Israel has the right to defend itself and destroy Hamas terrorism, but it does not have the right to use US dollars to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.”

Bernie is a Jew and a Zionist and is a capitalist but “not all the way through my bones…halfway.”

Dear Senator Sanders,

We, the undersigned, worked for you in your 2016 and 2020 campaigns because we share your principles that all human lives are precious, and that all people deserve dignity, peace, and justice. We saw in your candidacy a chance to make life better for oppressed people in the United States, and all across the world. Working on your campaign was a seminal moment in all of our lives, and has profoundly impacted our politics and our sense of what is possible. In that spirit of deep admiration, we write today to ask you, as one of the strongest advocates for peace and justice in Congress, to once again stand for what is right and speak the truth when so many others will not.

Throughout your career, you have spoken with moral clarity on the issues in Israel and Palestine. We saw you bring the truth of the Palestinian reality under military occupation to the forefront in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, and in doing so, change public attitudes on these issues across the country. It is largely because of your advocacy that Democratic voter sympathies made a major historical shift this past year toward Palestinian rights. Today, we’re asking you to use your power, the respect you have across the United States and globe, to clearly and boldly stand up against war, against occupation and for the dignity of human life.

While your statements thus far have called for “the bombs and missiles from both sides” to end, we urge you to stand with those in the U.S. House of Representatives who have introduced a formal resolution calling for a ceasefire in the region. We know the violence did not begin on October 7, but that day, Hamas’ brutal attack killed more than 1,400 Israeli civilians, including children in their homes and young people attending a music festival.

But instead of seeking long-term peace and prioritizing the release of 200 Israelis held hostage by Hamas, the right-wing Netanyahu government is choosing to respond by indiscriminately bombing Gaza and cutting off access to food, water, and electricity. Gaza, home to 2 million people, most of whom are children, has been under siege for nearly two decades. In the weeks since October 7, Israel has launched airstrikes day and night, killing more than 5,000 civilians in Gaza. The Israeli military has wiped out entire families and killed thousands of people with hopes and dreams, children with their entire lives ahead of them, mothers, fathers, siblings, and grandparents who longed for freedom. Over 1 million people have been displaced in the already densely-populated Gaza Strip. Israeli officials, who use genocidal language calling Palestinians “human animals” and an Israeli President who suggested all the people of Gaza are guilty for the October 7 attack, are committing war crimes in broad daylight, including depriving Palestinians in Gaza of clean water, fuel, and food, as well as targeting air strikes on hospitals, schools, churches and UN shelters.

There is no justification for Israel’s actions over the past weeks. And recent news that Israel has escalated the conflict even further by arming settlers and launching an air strike on the West Bank for the first time since 2006, is a horrifying step towards a future in which the United States could get dragged into another protracted regional war in the Middle East.

Your voice is needed now more than ever, because cooler heads must prevail and prevent further suffering and bloodshed. The Biden administration has provided unflinching funding to these actions as the world looks on. The only way to stop this unbridled murder is for people of conscience to intervene — the warfare must end, and all Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and all Palestinian prisoners unjustly held in Israeli prisons must be released.

President Biden clearly values your counsel, as is shown by the ways you’ve managed to shape the outcomes of his presidency. We urge you to make it clear what is at stake in this crisis politically, morally, and strategically. Many of us, your former staff, are Muslim and/or Arab, and were inspired to support your campaign because of your calls to end the ‘Forever Wars’ waged against people who look like us and worship like us. We felt proud to serve a candidate who acknowledged the plight and humanity of Palestinians and who spoke out against the Israeli occupation. Many of us, your former staff, share your Jewish heritage. Like your family, many of our families had entire sections erased from existence by Nazi barbarism in the Holocaust. It is our duty to stand up and say that our pain and sorrow at the losses on October 7 will not be weaponized to justify the ethnic cleansing or genocide of Palestinian civilians.

We are seeing a revitalization of the anti-war and pro-peace movement across the country, a movement you have led for decades. People of all races, faiths, backgrounds coming together for a political revolution in our foreign policy. You are the strongest voice in the US Senate on progressive foreign policy. We need you to stand up forcefully, as you always have, against war and bombs, and for peace, freedom, and justice.

We ask you to:

• Introduce a Senate companion to the Bush-Tlaib “Ceasefire Now” resolution;
• Support an end to US military funding for war crimes against the Palestinian people, the expansion of settlements, and the occupation of Palestinian lands; and
• Support an end to the blockade of Gaza

Thank you, Senator. You taught us to always speak the truth, and to be on the right side of history, even when it is lonely and especially when it is difficult. That’s why we write to you today, fighting for those we do not know, as well as those we love who are literally trapped in the crosshairs. If not now, when? If not you and us, then who? We believe in you. We have your back.

Sincerely, …List of Names!

+—+

Zionism!

We welcome the friendship of Christian Zionists. —Theodore Herzl, 1897

Fucking Jewish-CIA Wikipedia! “As an organized nationalist movement, Zionism is generally considered to have been founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897. However, the history of Zionism began earlier and is intertwined with Jewish history and Judaism. The organizations of Hovevei Zion (lit. ’Lovers of Zion‘), held as the forerunners of modern Zionist ideals, were responsible for the creation of 20 Jewish towns in Palestine between 1870 and 1897.^[1]

At the core of the Zionist ideology was the traditional aspiration for a Jewish national home through the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine, to be facilitated by the Jewish diaspora (see aliyah). Herzl sought an independent Jewish state (usually defined as a secular state with a Jewish-majority population, in contrast to a theocratic Halakhic state), as expressed in his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat. Though he did not live to witness it, his vision was fulfilled with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.

Zionist values serve as the ideological foundation of Israel.

The dream of Jews, Zionists, taking away homes and the land and lives of Palestinians.

And eliminating Arabs slowly or quickly, it doesn’t matter to the Jews in Israel and all Zionist Jews and Zionist non-Jews like Biden supporting Israel.

Yeah, that Jewish State: Electronic Intifada.

Biden’s political mindset was set in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and even before his 1973 meeting with then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. He’s not proving capable of changing long-held beliefs and assimilating information well-known by younger voters about Israel’s policies of dispossession, occupation and apartheid.

Israeli government officials, including the prime minister, very much want to get back to the business of bombing Gaza and shooting Palestinian civilians.

If Israel’s war effort starts back up, the blame will fully rest on Israel and the US and their determination to wipe out not just Hamas but Gaza and Palestinians.

The Washington Post noted that

“US officials are now using the pause to urge Israel to make its expected military operation in the south of Gaza, where nearly 2 million Palestinians are concentrated, more targeted and less deadly, according to two senior administration officials.”

Israel has killed at least 5,500 children since 7 October. Omar AshtawyAPAimages

Book review of Gary Brumback, Life’s Triangles and America’s Power Elites (2019)

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

—Auguries of Innocence, by William Blake

There is an American Native game, counting coup, which is both rarefied and possibly the answer to the male testosterone/female co-opting of testosterone that has given rise to Civilizational humanity since the so-called fertile crescent gestated the evil arts of subjugating man, woman, child and ecosystems to a small cabal of landowners (sic) who got humanity to work for food.

I always go to Daniel Quinn and other neotribalists to look at the long-range, way back, to give some justification to a tribal and hunter-gatherer past that for many of us is locked in our genes, accessible to fewer and fewer people daily as the world becomes a landmine of DNA-warping, cell-depleting, culture-sapping madness orchestrated by white men (mostly).

In our cultural mythology we see ourselves as having left tribalism behind the way modern medicine left the leech and the bleeding bowl behind, and we did so decisively and irrevocably. This is why it’s so difficult for us to acknowledge that tribalism is not only the preeminently human social organization, it’s also the only unequivocally successful social organization in human history. Thus, when even so wise and thoughtful a statesman as Mikhail Gorbachev calls for “a new beginning” and “a new civilization,” he doesn’t doubt for a single moment that the pattern for it lies in the social organization that has introduced humanity to oppression, injustice, poverty, chronic famine, incessant violence, genocide, global warfare, crime, corruption, and wholesale environmental destruction. To consult, in our time of deepest crisis, with the unqualified success that humanity enjoyed here for more than three million years is quite simply and utterly unthinkable.

— Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Adventure 

What’s lovely about my own intersection with Gary Brumback – the author of the book this review-dash-screed is enveloping: Life’s Triangles and America’s Power Elites: Can the Living Field be Leveled?  — is that Gary reached out to me and solicited my comments and possible endorsement of this book (he’s a regular contributor to Dissident Voice), through the auspices of one of modern civilization’s double-edged swords – the world wide internet.

I think it’s both unreal and uniquely human to reach out across the digital universe, and when someone who is connected to me through my words, and finds some linkage, then I believe that’s sign enough to make some connection deeper, or revealing.

It’s gutsy for this 84-year-old former organizational psychologist to have reached out to me (I’m not now your typical thinker and writer), and the proof is in the pudding when it comes to his writing and then how the diner/reader of those ideas, through the grist of his words and grammar (courses) gets the true taste (or terroir) of the author’s (chef’s) orchestration of ideas and composition.

As many readers of my work know, I am captivated by holism and systems thinking, and many times I am looking at life – universalities — through my own optics. I understand the drive to want to understand how tidal wetlands work and how elephant seals can go down 7,770 feet for up to two hours without succumbing to the bends or nitrogen narcosis.

But inherent in that learning and yearning, I understand the power of attracting forces, both physics and metaphysics, and the value in coincidences, both mathematical and magical, and more and more, daily, I am grasping the reasoning for my own living and thinking and breathing. Here I am on the Oregon Coast (central) just having done my first day’s class to be a certified marine mammal (and to help tourists/visitors understand the other zoological and ecological concerns) naturalist. I was about to fiddle with my short story collection which is coming out in several months from Cirque Press, and I was also prepped to blog from my post here in Otis, Oregon.

Instead, I answered the email call from Gary to take a look at his book and write up something. What interests me most about fellows like Brumback is his tenacity to not only understand the world around him using a variety of tools from his 84 years on the planet, but also his desire to be one among us as writers – anti-authoritarian thinkers who deeply question the role of this country in the upsetting of people and cultures throughout the globe.

“Call of Duty” is what I see my role now turning 62 next week. I have engendered good will and hard learning in thousands of students, at public gatherings where I “ran the show” (a hat off to Ed Sullivan) and in my writing, big and small. I’ve written three-parts to my hell-hole experience working with homeless veterans at the Starvation Army in Oregon. But in reality, the linchpin for me is my call of duty, call and answer, to carry forth in any way possible, the message of revolt. Speaking of revolt, I remember hanging out with Robert Bly on two occasions – one time in El Paso as we made it over to Juarez for tequila, and another time 23 years later in Spokane with bourbon and quietude. I wrote a promo article for his appearance in Spokane as part of Get Lit!. His poem, “Call and Answer,” is powerful, even at 17 years old.

I bring this up as a tangent to describe some of what I interpret as the core value in Gary’s new book:

Call and Answer

Tell me why it is we don’t lift our voices these days
And cry over what is happening. Have you noticed
The plans are made for Iraq and the ice cap is melting?

I say to myself: “Go on, cry. What’s the sense
Of being an adult and having no voice? Cry out!
See who will answer! This is Call and Answer!”

We will have to call especially loud to reach
Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding
In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

Have we agreed to so many wars that we can’t
Escape from silence? If we don’t lift our voices, we allow
Others (who are ourselves) to rob the house.

How come we’ve listened to the great criers—Neruda,
Akhmatova, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass—and now
We’re silent as sparrows in the little bushes?

Some masters say our life lasts only seven days.
Where are we in the week? Is it Thursday yet?
Hurry, cry now! Soon Sunday night will come.

It is the Saturday of my life, most likely, as I just spent sometime at Cascadia Head, where the Salmon River and the Pacific Ocean battle it out during the various tides ebbing and flowing. Alone, with harbor seals popping their heads up, and their partner, a river otter, watching me look at two bald eagles looking for seal placenta to gobble up.

Here, visiting Canadian photographer Isabelle Hayeur who is on a residency at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, is shooting the Oregon Coast. The Canadian is here on the Pacific Coast of Oregon for first time, and her residency continues her exploration of water and land, people and ecosystems — to show the changes to the ecosystems caused by humans. Here, that Cascadia Head shot and the Salmon hitting the Pacific near Lincoln City, Oregon.

I know for sure as the colluding forces of capitalism – a real misanthropy of both the mind and body – eat at my exterior, the very simple act of movement — with my plodding bag of bones — if I am to survive in this sick world of capitulation of both parties working to mine the last corpuscles of the workers and working class — is sometimes herculean. It’s my Saturday, as Bly states, but I am not sure of this writer Gary’s place in time, if it’s Thursday for him, or Sunday.

I’m not saying this is the 84-year-old Brumback’s position, but I know his clarion calls are what Bly states clearly in these stanzas from this small poem –

We will have to call especially loud to reach
Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding
In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

Have we agreed to so many wars that we can’t
Escape from silence? If we don’t lift our voices, we allow
Others (who are ourselves) to rob the house.

Brumback is looking to reach those angels of our better selves, and he is wanting the cries of great writers and thinkers, alive and passed on, to push out the silence that is engulfing the entire body politic and public of this ripped-off-land-and-killing-natives country that has made more than a trillion pacts with the devil, a foundation that daily reverberates as the grand Faustian bargain of keeping silent for the few spoils of capitalism.

Americans are in their own tight spot now: keeping on the lights, fridge half full, Super Bowl projected on plasma TV, the latest model of Jeep in the driveway, work that eats at the soul and the body. The bargain, I believe, Brumback is not so quick to go quietly into the night, as this book uncovers the full weight of an old man’s lamentations and ruminations.

His book is compelling for those young minds that have been colonized and whose hearts and souls have been metastasized by consumer culture, the true bedrock of capitalism. Small intonations of the country’s history and this current manifestation of corruption are the drumbeats to his march forward in this quickly drawn book of very big historical ideas unleashed for the uninitiated mind.

Back to the that Native American counting coup allusion I begin with: It’s sort of what I see unfolding as my own literary device while reading Brumback’s book, Life’s Triangles and America’s Power Elites. “Coup” for the Lakota and others was counted to establish position in the tribal honor system. Status mattered, and competition to count the greatest coup was intense. Here’s the beauty of this bravery – getting close enough to touch an enemy with a coup stick without causing him harm.

The self-styled book is by former organizational psychologist Brumback, who counts his own coup many times in this book, as he wanders through the history of the United States, with both whimsy and with a Quaker’s eye toward justice. He uses a variety of wide angle and telephoto angles in order to look deeper at the simple equation of the rich — with military might behind them — controlling the destiny of the country – us, its inhabitants – and the insecurity of the planet, from all the other inhabitants of 192 countries plus the flora and fauna of the planet’s Gaia.

Here, for the Lakota, killing an enemy far away or at long range did not count as a coup. Moreover, winning by overwhelming numbers counted as a “non coup.” Bravery involving a solitary warrior in a headlong battle charge that was climaxed by touching, with no lethal tap of a stick, now that was a coup, as Indians harmlessly touched an enemy with wooden sticks for the purpose of counting coup.

In so many ways, Brumback’s book “touches”—counts coup — upon the enemies of humankind, with myriad of histories of this country since first contact with those Lakota, et al. The writer delves into the mess of the United Snakes of America utilizing quick riffs while cracking open these causal relationships of greed, power, hierarchy, elitism, pathology in this country’s early years and now advancing into today’s predatory capitalism and parasitic economics (or our Shock Doctrine derived from our Monroe Doctrine), Brumbuck is interested in.

He’s also demonstrating another sort of intellectual “counting coup” in a sense since Brumback touches the enemy with his own touchstones and short pithy points connecting to the current state of global affairs.

His goal, it seems, is to consolidate a lot of his writing over his 84 years on planet earth and to codify a body of work he’s studiously read and then to bring himself to some conclusion that there might be some hope for his children and grandchildren. His belief in organizational psychology as a determinant of how bloody sociopathic the not-so-modern corporation is and how that pathology has twisted and turned (morphed) into a gigantic toxic and self-replicating broken set of laws regulating the elite’s projects of domination and extermination is the umbrella covering his writing.

Oscar Wilde is right when defining a cynic in his work, Lady Windemere’s Fan, with Lord Darlington quip : “A person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

From Raj Patel’s first chapter, The Value of Nothing, Patel can help me understand Brumback’s criticism of capitalism and his somewhat of a defense of it in some idealized state that hasn’t yet existed:

From its inception, the free market has spawned discontent, but rare are the moments when that discontent coalesces across society, when a sufficiently large group of people can trace their unhappiness to free market politics, and demand change. The New Deal in the United States and the postwar European welfare states were partly a result of a consortium of social forces pushing for new limits to markets, and a renegotiation of the relationship between individuals and society. What’s new about this crisis is that it’s pervasively global, and comes at the last moment at which we might prevent a global climate catastrophe. But the breadth and depth of both these crises reflect how profoundly our society has been transfixed by free market culture. To understand how this will affect us in the twenty-first century, we need to understand how it began, and to ask why today’s markets look the way they do

Here, the book Gary sent me, in a nutshell, which Brumbuck puts in his own book’s preface:

Here’s a quick overview of this book. It’s a substantial distillation of and addition to my relevant books and articles on the subject.

The first chapter may seem very abstract and academic, but believe me, it is about very real matters, life itself. This chapter lays the groundwork for understanding why the power elite do what they do and what happens when they do it.

The second chapter explains the very nature of power and introduces my concept and illustration of the “power tower” with the elite at the top and the “les Misérables” at the very bottom with several levels in between.

Chapter Three probes what makes the power elite “tick” by looking inside their “black boxes.” When you read this chapter, you will understand that I don’t flippantly ascribe evil motives and evildoing to the power elite.

Chapter Four thoroughly describes and explains the power elite’s “badvantages,” my term for situations and circumstances that give advantage to bad behavior. For example, “our” government gives many handouts to its master, Corporate America.

Chapter Five describes the seemingly limitless bad behavior of the power elite and their functionaries of the corpocracy.

I want to warn you about Chapter Six. It is a true horror story of the consequences of the power elite’s evil doing. By the time you have finished reading this chapter you may be a bit depressed if you believe it is credible. As an antidote I’ll try to inject some homespun humor now and then, starting now. “There is no beating around the Bush, he is what he is.”

And finally, Chapter Seven asks whether the power tower with its power inequality can be changed to the power rectangle with its power equality; in other words, can the living field finally be levelled? This question explains the question mark at the end of the book’s subtitle. Putting there instead an exclamation mark would have been sheer balderdash.

What his book does is galvanize much of his reading – and respect for – other writers who have peered through the looking glass of the Military-Prison-Financial-Ag-Chemical-Education-Legal-Patent-Pharma-Med-IT-AI-Real Estate-Insurance-Education Complex to discover the truths many of us in the anti-authority/ anti-hierarchical/pro-humanity/ pro-universal rights of nature have discovered through our discourse, our deep and fledgling philosophies, and our own experiences in the insanity echo chamber that is modern and post-modern America.

He dedicates this book to Howard Zinn, and Brumback mentions that other books he himself has written could not have been envisioned or codified without the teachings and writings of Zinn:

I am also dedicating this book to the late Howard Zinn, the author of a book on American history that is a must read! I dedicated my previous book to him, which shows how indebted a follower I am. Like my previous book, I could not have written the one you have in your hands were it not for Mr. Zinn’s illuminating history book that tells the true history of America [A People’s History of the United States, 2005]. The power elite understandingly hate Mr. Zinn’s book. The former governor of my home state, for example, was gleeful upon hearing of Mr. Zinn’s death and promptly banned his book statewide from high school curricula. Is it any wonder that my high school history classes in the 1950’s remain the same today, “trivialized, militarized and numbing?”

What I love about this Will Rogersian approach to history Gary brings to this book is the power of his short, deliberate passages outlying the rules and madness that have been fomented in the name of a small elite in this country. He captivates himself in each section, as if new to the material himself, embarking on a self-styled journey to tell what he knows and what he’s read.

This book is a compilation, a Popular Mechanics and Farmer’s Almanac of Brumback’s autobiographical intersection at explaining how capitalism is a game of manipulated vestiges of a global usury past, where Fiefdoms and Kingdoms and unholy alliances of dictators and religions have splayed humankind. No matter where Gary treads, he comes up with the same underpinning for the book, and his other books and probably all his other writings, as well as his own conundrum now in advanced age:

I’ll finally end this long Preface with two questions and an advance notice about my choice of certain nouns and pronouns.

First question: do you think on the one hand that there is a tolerable difference between a handful of evil doers choosing villagers in a far-away land and then bombing them to smithereens in our names and on the other hand the many millions of us letting it happen?

Second question: do you think the surviving loved ones blame the few or us in general? You can tell my answer by my varying use in the text of nouns versus pronouns. For example, instead of writing “the military bombs innocent people,” I will occasionally write “we bomb innocent people” to emphasize that whatever is done by a certain few is being done in our names. Since you might find this practice irritating if I always do it, I will do it only occasionally.

Here in the preface, Brumback sets up the entire tome on a simple proposition – what is done and said by/in Las Vegas/USA stays in/with those living/working/dying in Las Vegas/USA.

The contradiction is blaring, though, as one of my friends, Andre Vltchek states in his humanitarian and global writing – that the rest of the world, that is, the world other than Western Civilization, i.e. Europe/EU, UK, USA, Canada – pays for its/our so-called “higher standard” of living, higher level of economic/environmental/health well-being, and its/our unlimited (seemingly) time to ponder its/our own rotten and degenerate selves.

Through the eyes of someone (Gary’s unblindered eyes, as he states it in his book) in this country, USA, who believes that capitalism somehow can be fixed or somehow is derived from a fair system of checks and balances (however, capitalism always relies on growth and continual growth, antithetical to anything we know about the limits of growth, the finite systems), I venture close to proposing to Gary another set of principles needed to live as Homo Sapiens in this world, tied to retrenchement and a form of ecosocialism, far from any new and improved or regurgitated capitalism: we are living in a closed system of planet earth, and the fragility of the commons (air, water, sea, land, food) now is even more pronounced with ecosystems collapsing (Sixth Mass extinctionon steroids) from over over-harvesting, over-polluting, over-rearranging/razing.

Ecosocialism is Utopian, but so are we as writers and thinkers:

Ecosocialism is a vision of a transformed society in harmony with nature, and the development of practices that can attain it. It is directed toward alternatives to all socially and ecologically destructive systems, such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia and the fossil-fuel based economy. It is based on a perspective that regards other species and natural ecosystems as valuable in themselves and as partners in a common destiny.

Ecosocialism shares with traditional socialism a passion for justice. It shares the conviction that capitalism has been a deadly detour for humanity. We understand capitalism to be a class society based on infinite expansion, through the exploitation of labor and the ransacking of nature.

Ecosocialists are also guided by the life-ways of indigenous peoples whose economies are embedded in a classless society in fundamental unity with nature. We draw upon the wisdom of the ages as well as the latest science, and will do what can be done to bring a new society, beyond capitalism, into existence.

I go back to Andre Vltchek who looks at the polluting effects of capitalism on cultures wide and far, tied to the so-called artist :

You say “European cultural institutions”, and what should come immediately to mind are lavish concerts, avantgardeart exhibitions, high quality language courses and benevolent scholarships for talented cash-strapped local students.

It is all so noble, so civilized!

Or, is it really? Think twice!

I wrote my short novel, “Aurora”, after studying the activities of various Western ‘cultural institutions’, in virtually all the continents of the Planet. I encountered their heads; I interacted with the ‘beneficiaries’ of various funding schemes, and I managed to get ‘behind the scenes’.

What I discovered was shocking: these shiny ‘temples of culture’ in the middle of so many devastated and miserable cities worldwide (devastated by the Western imperialism and by its closest allies – the shameless local elites), are actually extremely closely linked to Western intelligence organizations. They are directly involved in the neo-colonialist project, which is implemented virtually on all continents of the world, by North America, Europe and Japan.

‘Culture’ is used to re-educate and to indoctrinate mainly the children of the local elites. Funding and grants are put to work where threats and killing were applied before. How does it work? It is actually all quite simple: rebellious, socially-oriented and anti-imperialist local artists and thinkers are now shamelessly bought and corrupted. Their egos are played on with great skill. Trips abroad for ‘young and talented artists’ are arranged, funding dispersed, scholarships offered.

Carrots are too tasty, most would say, ‘irresistible’. Seals of approval from the Empire are ready to stamp those blank pages of the lives of still young, unrecognized but angry and sharp young artists and intellectuals from those poor, colonized countries. It is so easy to betray! It is so easy to bend.

Please note I am not comparing Gary or his book to other writers or their books/writing, some of whom he cites liberally throughout this latest one. I believe in a new way of book analysis, or reviewing a book – by putting myself into the stream of consciousness that cascades for someone like myself who in the process of reading will take to heart how closely or far away that content resonates with my own life and my own writing. It is the power of a book like Gary’s to incite not only my own deep introspection about what it means to be an American, someone who has worked (albeit struggled by not getting bought and sold by corporate America, but still . . . sold down the river in the careers I’ve held), but also what it means to be counter to almost anything and everything this country produces as a national collective consciousness.

His thesis for the book is tied to his own backing of organizational psychology. He uses these equations to illustrate where he’s coming from:

Anyone’s Equation:
Person + Context = Person’s Behavior + Consequences

Any Organization’s Equation:
Organization + Context = Organization’s Behavior + Consequences

Any Nation’s Equation :
Nation + Context = Nation’s Behavior + Consequences

Of course, every person, every organization, every nation has their own equations, sort of like a unique DNA code. The specific details in any equation can change from day to day, except some of the details for chronic habits like that of America’s endless warring and spying change less.2 A nation, therefore, over the entire course of its history may have gone through zillions of its more significant equations with varying details in the input side.

Thus, what anyone, any organization or any nation do throughout their lives depends on themselves and their contexts. Behavior never happens without both and will never be fully explained without both.

Beyond his background in psychology, Brumback looks to his writing now as a way to express his historical knowledge of America’s bloody programs of subjugation and to militate his belief in non-violence as he was reared as a Quaker.

He sets up the book by talking about his background working with organizations, treating them sort of speak to heal themselves, which in the end he sees as impossible under the current structures of limited liability companies and the bigger transnational corporations that are rapacious in every way.

Brumback alludes to working a long time for industry, the US federal government and non-profit research business. The power of the company man, and his own background in academics (a rather conservative and lock-step group think cabal), he admits, muted his criticism of the Viet Nam War as he was then (1960-75) fearful of endangering his career and his family.

He talks of being a “recovering” academese reader, writer and talker, and his book is far from any sort of style found in the pedantic journals where members of the nefarious the American Psychology Association dump their stories on.

Brumback: This book is therefore as deliberate ‘street write’ as I can make it, a conversation, although one-way with you.

Interestingly, he gives us 12 Facts (as seen in a Jan. 23, 2019 Dissident Voice piece) that are not truths that have embedded into the American mindset, the American propaganda of historical warping, lying and outright censorship. There is a reason why this country goes into zombie or dervish mode when two multi-billion dollar organizations, Rams and Patriots, under the umbrella of a white patriarchy elitism called the NFL, watching entitled, redneck or mute millionaire players whose ultimate contribution to society is to sell cars, beer, Viagra and the lies of empire on their way to permanent Traumatic Brain Injury hell.

• False Fact: The American Revolution was fought to free the people from suppression by King George and his chartered corporations.
• False Fact: “We the people of the United States——-do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
• False Fact: We are the “United States of America.”
• False Fact: America is a democracy.
• False fact: America’s Civil War was fought to free the slaves.
• False fact: America’s wars have been unavoidable and just.
  False Fact: Whistleblowers are traitors.
• False Fact. Our nation’s military represents the best this country has to offer.
• False Fact. America’s war veterans are heroes.
• False Fact: To rationalize its own excesses, including its hand-outs from the government, corpocratic capitalists spout the theory of trickle-down economics as a rationalization for their own hefty welfare benefits, arguing that more money at the top will eventually trickle down to the bottom in the way of jobs.
• False Fact: The rich say the poor get what they deserve.
• False Fact. Public services need to be privatized because government is inefficient and costly.

In many ways, Brumback has both fun moments and sarcastic fluidity with these American exceptionalist delusions throughout his book, but he is serious about launching a straightforward attack on the elite’s continual degradation of the citizenry of this country: hollowing out our “symbolic democracy” through the systematic formula of penury, debt slavery, theft of the commons resources, the rapacious appetite to despoil ecosystems and communities, the socializing of the externalities of their dirty businesses and then in turn privatizing all the profits; and, finally, their basically illegal, unethical and unconstitutional ways of going about their wealth and political power accumulation.

What I like best about this book is the earnestness that Brumback brings to the page. He is there to guide the reader into the hall of mirrors and house of horrors that embody America. He is a troubadour for truth and unraveling the seemingly complexities of the elite’s rule over the majority, the 90 percent of us who are not any part of the Point Zero Zero One percent’s project of human annihilation.

In the end, Brumback hits back at the idea of nature versus nurture, at the very end of the book:

Recall in Chapter 3 that I included genetics as an input in the black box. Our genetic history simply can’t be denied. But when it comes to being bad or good morally speaking, what do we know about the role of genetics, and does it really matter?

Psychologist Stephen Mason concludes that “some people are, quite simply, born bad.”

Not so concludes psychologist Dacher Keltner. “He finds that positive emotions lie at the core of human nature.

Two diametrically opposed conclusions. My conclusion is that while babies are innocent at the instant of birth because they have not had time to behave badly, some will eventually do so habitually, and some won’t. What role nature plays in influencing their behavior is immaterial in my opinion. What matters from a practical standpoint is the question of how to deal with the resulting wrongdoing.

What’s your opinion?

While we can argue over epigentics and the complete failure of the human seed and human semen to produce unadulteratedly since the products of capitalism, i.e. toxins, from Teflon to aromatic particulates, from Atrazine to PCBs, from glyphosate to flame retardant, from mercury to cesium, have overtaken humanity and all zoological systems.

Is Donald Trump, the sociopath that he is, friend and abuser with Jeffrey Epstein and Roy Cohn, and that Donald whose father is in a Woody Guthrie song for the old man’s racism, well, is that president (sic-sic) who represents the ills of the father and the unfettered protection of his elite class and the muscle of his casino thugs, is Donald, with NPD (narcissistic personalty disorder), responsible for his hatred, racism, lies, and power hunger? Or is it his upbringing, or his mama’s womb months, or the people around him?

That’s the crux of the book, really: Brumback is asking the reader to judge for ourselves the depth of the conspiracy of the rich toward absolute control of the majority. Is there true evil in the world, or are all children borne of original sin?

Those toxins and carcinogenics and structural violence systems were created, marketed, sold, defended, patented by men/women, in corporations. The socipathic definition of a corporation is the same as the person, but can we give a free ride to the majority of people in the corporation who are just to recoin my favorite phrase, Little Eichmanns?

In any sense, the embodiment of the Hudson Bay Company is the message in the Heart of Darkness, which reflects the individual as sociopath and the LLC as sociopathic, as the amorality of corporations is obvious from a million cases we all can tap into from the written record. That these companies — polluters — have gained personhood is compelling, from the start of this country’s slide deeper and deeper into the morass of capitalism — set forth 133 years ago in 1886 in the Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, This obscure case set the precedent that corporations have some rights under the 14th Amendment and were given de-facto personhood.

So, then, we have given corporations even higher status in this personhood allusion/legal definition in the Citizens United Case . What sort of person is a corporation?

Are they philanthropic and kind to their neighbors or are they the kind of people who will slit your throat to take your wallet?

For most of us in the Brumback class, we see the very nature of the corporation as both amoral and sociopathic.

They exist to make money, regardless of the social consequences. And they have gotten legal protections from the consequences of their crimes — a true Mafioso or cartel paying off the politicians and the cops and judges to gain unimaginable wealth and power over us, the 90 percent.

A sociopath and a corporation have identical incentive structures and motivations:

• Both sociopaths and corporations exist for the sole purpose of self-centered goals—sociopaths want a variety of things (money, power, sex, etc.) while corporations are solely focused upon making money.
• Neither has an internal sense of morality and, barring intervention from a more powerful authority, both are willing to exploit others in service of their goal; just as how a sociopath may be willing to lie, cheat and steal their way through life, a corporation is willing to use child sweatshop labor to depress costs.
• Both sociopaths and corporations are constrained through risk/reward analysis—sociopaths weigh the value or pleasure of doing something immoral against the legal/social risks, while corporations weigh the profit of their actions against the cost of legal/social actions against their agenda.

In the end, we have to develop both sensitivities and thick skins in this gambit called This American Life. Brumback makes his claim to some of those contradictions and dichotomies in his book. He can be contacted by the reader here for more information on ordering the book. Gary Brumback.

I sign off with the words of Eduardo Galeano whose Memory of Firetrilogy sets deep in my soul. From an interview:

I want to be an honest man and a good writer, as James Baldwin was. I greatly admired him. He once told a story that I used in the third volume of Memory of Fire. He was very young, and he was walking down the street with a friend, a painter. They stop at a red light. “Look,” says the friend. Baldwin sees nothing, except a dirty pool of water. The friend insisted: “Look at it, really.” So Baldwin takes a good look and sees a spot of oil spreading in the puddle. In the spot of oil, he sees a rainbow, and the street moving, and people moving in the street; and he sees madmen and magicians and the whole world moving. The universe was there in that little pool. On that day, Baldwin said, he learned to see. For me, that’s an important lesson. I am always trying to look at the universe through the little puddles in the streets.