…curated by death star algorithms, based on what “I” open up daily, or at least take a gander at the headline . . . .
But then, I let it loose with a comment on Cindy Sheehan’s blog, and this is the precipitating force of my own Substack “whatever-you-call-it.”
Read it: In early 2006, I was invited to join the World Social Forum in Caracas.
There, I had some wonderful experiences and it was the first time I met the heroic Hugo Chavez. President Chavez was a notorious orator who could intelligently expound on many subjects, for hours, but he was never, ever boring.
Chavez had a weekly show called Alo Presidente which lasted for hours some weeks. At the end of the Social Forum, Chavez invited me to be on his show. The problem was that it was very close in timing to my departing flight. So, to solve this problem, my sister Dede and I were transported from the show to the airport in the presidential helicopter (first and last time I’ve ever been on a helicopter, but it was very big and super-cool).
Anyway, I recount this experience because Mademoiselle Danielle Mitterand ,the widow of the long-deceased former president of France, with whom, Butcher Biden apparently chatted in 2021, was also on the helicopoter and she was a very gracious lady. It’s my “one-degree” of separation story for the morning.
Mitterand/Macron; Germany/France? You Say “Potato,” Butcher Biden Says “Banana”
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My reaction/comments:
Cindy says most of us get the names of our cousins or siblings or children mixed up. Hmm, I beg to differ.
President Joe Biden appeared to confuse French President Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996, during a campaign speech on Sunday.
The mix-up occurred during a campaign event in Las Vegas, where Mr Biden told an anecdote about a meeting with G7 leaders back in June 2021.
The 81-year-old president recounted how he told the meeting in Cornwall that “America is back”, which prompted a response from “Mitterrand from Germany”, before correcting it to “from France”.
“Mitterrand from Germany — I mean, from France — looked at me and said, ‘You know, what … why … how long you back for?” Mr Biden said.
He added that the conversation then turned to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, with then-chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, comparing it to the hypothetical storming of Parliament in Britain.
Of course, he should be drawn and quartered. Sorry! This is proof of not just cognitive failures, but wickedness, fucking godammned bullshit level hate and satanic shit from his masters in the Wailing Wall White House.
Mr Biden was speaking to reporters on the south lawn of the White House before heading to Chicago when he was asked whether he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin had been weakened by the Wagner Group’s mutiny.
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had briefly led a rebellion marching towards Moscow.
Mr Biden responded by saying that Mr Putin was “clearly losing the war in Iraq”.
“It’s hard to tell, but [Putin’s] clearly losing the war in Iraq, losing the war at home. And he has become a bit of a pariah around the world,” he said.
The eyes and mouth and squints of an accused rapist:
Here, my comments to Cindy’s cool memory lane piece:
“””” Very cool memory lane stuff.
As far as forgetting names of kiddos, your own, or mixing them up? Or Trump and Nancy? Or Biden and Macron?
Yikes. We have no standards for electing these pieces of shit. You do remember stories/articles on the number of diplomats and ambassadors who not only did not speak the language of those respective countries they were assigned to, but couldn’t find them on a map.
Ahh, the lowered bar. Look, there are demands of the mind that should be standard operating procedure with these positions — in fact, there should not be a President or Prime Minister or fucking head of state.
You know that, Cindy. We need collectives, not this top down queendom shit. And so you put all the weight (sic) of the world on one man or woman, what do you expect? Prime time fuckery.
But a sharp mind is a very terrible thing to lose. And, yep, if you can’t pass the BP and pulse Ox and stress test to make it on a million jobs, then, well, I guess these pukes we call POTUS need to have a decent battery of tests and town halls and other challenges to see just what’s under the hood.
I’m not Jesus like Eric Adams* who declared he’s Jesus Christ (whatever the fuck that is, means, Jesus Fucking Christ, these people need bats to the head, or a convolescent home, young, middle aged or old, it don’t matter).
I have a bad reputation of having a “really good memory.” Sure, turned 67 yesterday, and sure, I write across the spectrum, and I have advanced “who fucking cares” degrees. Yep, tinker here, and tinker there. Systems thinker in terms of how the world goes round, and what’s east-west-north-south-up-down-inside.
A mind that is willing to be interested in a thousands things to some moderately advanced level is a mind that should be on that “collective team.”
But instread, we are a nation of posers, thespian, actors — B actors — who get director’s nods and all sorts of “potty training in communications appearences and posturing.”
So, really, if one is in the real newspaperman/woman pit, where reporters (yes, I am one of those) are not afraid to prod and ask asymetrical questions, not afraid of the poodles nipping at their feet when asking these vaunted what-have-yous questions of merit and substance), then you think quickly, but alas, these people are LIARS, SHOWMEN, SNAKE OIL SALESMEN, and SOCIOPATHS.
Try arguing or pressing for truth from someone with co-occurring mental disorders. And so that’s what we have in there, and they also forget names, forget humanity, and most of the pukes in office are fucking Go Navy or Go Army sweatshirt-wearing brokeback boys and girls, daft in the head, no matter how many finishing schools they attended.
AmeriKKKa is a tough fucking place to get real people with real holistic thinking who are immune to the fuckery of Holly-Dirt, sports, crocodile tears for the boys in uniform.
Tough to get someone who doesn’t cream his or her pants when they hear the pledge or hum the National Anthem.
America has ALWAYS been (not Turtle Island, mind you) a place of smoke and suicide and enslavement and dispossession and despoilment and that odd combo of “we are the smartest people in the world” mixed in with “we are the richest and most powerful nation in the world.”
Imagine a sic-leader admitting that there are a hundred other values in cultures and societies that have zero to do with greed, BlackRocking the world into submission, with MIC or FIRE or what have you.
Leaver Cultures. Not some funny happiness index or genuine progress index, but really genuine progress measures based on, hmm, drum roll: Wikipedia, that is, not great for articulation:
The GPI is used in ecological economics, “green” economics, sustainability and more inclusive types of economics. It factors in environmental and carbon footprints that businesses produce or eliminate, including in the forms of resource depletion, pollution and long-term environmental damage. GDP is increased twice when pollution is created, since it increases once upon creation (as a side-effect of some valuable process) and again when the pollution is cleaned up; in contrast, GPI counts the initial pollution as a loss rather than a gain, generally equal to the amount it will cost to clean up later plus the cost of any negative impact the pollution will have in the meantime. While quantifying costs and benefits of these environmental and social externalities is a difficult task, “Earthster-type databases could bring more precision and currency to GPI’s metrics.” It has been noted that such data may also be embraced by those who attempt to “internalize externalities” by making companies pay the costs of the pollution they create (rather than having the government or society at large bear those costs) “by taxing their goods proportionally to their negative ecological and social impacts” !
Leavers usually only ask to be left alone, for Takers to leave them as they found them and for them to be able to live their lives in Leaver fashion. Takers, by nature or choice, can’t seem to stop taking.
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Of course, GPI has been hijacked by the jack-offs like Gore, Naomi Klein, McKibben, Greta, Kerry, Davos, WEF.
But it’s the ONLY way to be a truly centered and repectful and turn back into real societies within societies. Globally concerned, aware, caring and acting locally and regionally. Note:
Measured Economic Welfare (MEW) and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW). In 1972, American economists William Nordhaus and Nobel Prize winner James Tobin developed the Measured Economic Welfare (MEW) in an attempt to answer if growth was obsolete. Ecological economist Herman Daly (currently at the University of Maryland, College Park) and theologian John Cobb picked up their work nearly two decades later as they investigated how to develop a macro measure of welfare by creating the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW).
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But we measure it, can you believe it, Cindy, blatantly, by the number of stocks sold and lifted up into trading nirvana by the dirtiest of all capitalist industries — war material, war things, all connected to war. And war is a multiple trillion dollar thing yearly. Every fucking button for a uniform, every fucking diode for a walkie-talkie, every optic for a drone, every theoretical physics this or biological that, everything tied to engines of killing, surveillance, monitoring, sanctioning, pontificating, propagandizing, bending toward war — physical, economic, philosophical — is what will kill you.
There has been not one fucking leader in this country that has embraced the forward thinking of working their asses off for PEACE and for PEOPLE and for CULTURE and for ECOLOGY and for BASIC NEEDS and for DEEPER NEEDS of humanity, air, water, sea, reef, wetlands, town, city, county, state, bio-region, etc.
The fuckers of the earth imagine a world gone, blown up, heated up, flooded before a world without CAPITALISM even enters their name-forgetting mother-fucking heads.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/area-of-terror-plans-for-splitting
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Shit, I guess what I just wrote is my intro to the next insane Substack I’ll scribe today.
Thanks a lot, Cindy, another fine mess you’ve gotten me into! “””
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** Adams: Of course, Fox NeoNazi News has a very racist spin on the story.
“We are moving the needle forward,” Adams said. “Is there more to do? You’re darn right there is, but this committed team is getting it done.”
He then pointed to five of his deputy mayors who are all women and people of color.
“Stand up, stand up, they need to see you,” Adams said as he called them out one by one.
“Have you ever seen this much chocolate lead in the city of New York?” Adams said to an applauding crowd.
His deputy mayors are Sheena Wright, Anne Williams-Isom, Meera Joshi, Ana Almanzar and Maria Torres-Springer.
“And then go down the line, look who’s here. This is representative of the city. That’s why people are hating on me. You’re trying to figure out, why the hating on me?”
According to the 2020 census, the city’s population is made up of 30.9% Whites (non-Hispanic), 28.7% Hispanic or Latino, 20.2% Black or African American (non-Hispanic), 15.6% Asian and 0.2% Native American (non-Hispanic).
Matthew. Now, the fake Jesus in the fake Bible, sure, that would be a cool socialist-communist in our midst: But didn’t Fake Jesus say in the Fake bible to not make churches?
“How many of you go to church?” Adams asked the attendees.
“This is a Matthew 21 and 12 moment. Jesus walked in the temple, he saw them doing wrong in the temple. He did what?” Adams asked.
“I went to city hall to turn the table over.”
In Matthew 21:12, Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers.
Adams then mentioned more of his diverse administration.
“First woman police commissioner of color. First Spanish-speaking police commissioner. First Spanish-speaking correction commissioner. Go through the line of what we’re doing in two years.”
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The first poly-sexual, triple ethnic, wheelchair bound, burn victim, survivor of rape, male identifying female at birth head of the Department of Defense. Now that’s fucking progress.
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My dumb phone feed:
- Owen Jones =Biden Insults Voters over Gaza
- Electronic Intifada = The Skill of Palestinian resitance soldier
- Katie Halper = Norman Finkelstein calls Houthis “The Hero of Heroes”
- Katie Halper = Dana Bush pushes Jake Sullivan to kill more people
- Double Down News = Exposed: Israel’s Mass Civilian Killing
- T-Mobile = Boeing Plane was missing key bolts before door blowout, FAA says
- Daily Beast = Ye and Kim Kardashian’s 10 year old daughter takes center stage in “Talking”
- InNews = Sunak refuses to apoloze for trans joke as Brianna’s mother visits Parliament
- InNews = Why Liz Truss thinks she can save the Tories
- InNews = ‘We fell castrated’ the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics
- InNews = Pensioner will need 8,000 more pounds than last year to have a modest retirement
- InNews = King Charles’ cancer diagnosis prompts reaction from around the world
- InNews = UK should be ‘embarassed’ at state of Royal Navy, says ex-defense chief
- NPR = 5 MLK speeches you should know: Spoiler: “I have a dream’ isn’t on the list
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I get a lot of Forbes, Jerusalem Post, Business Insider, Fortune, Defense News, harvard Crimson, Yahoo Finance, Esquire, ABC News, Inc. Magazine, CNBC, BBC, South China Morning Post, Axios, Oregon Live, CNN, Reuters, the Times of Israel, Newsweek, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal shit because I open up their dirty disgusting articles, flip the script, and of course, 180 degrees opposite of their propaganda, actually, their hate-war mongering-dumb downing- perverse “stories” from their fucking absolutely non-journalist journalists.
This is the background noise and rubbish and brain-washing, brain-hacking, brain-neutering shit that the average Demon-Crat and fucked-up MAGA reads, and then the mugshot Wailing White House Wall fuckers in DC, the so-called Beltway, and then the echo chambers of the anal cavities from Legacy Main Scum Presstitution Media/Press.
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Fuck — one fetus and kiddo at a time: This is systems and holistic thinking combine. One Round-up Reeady parade of hell, then applied to the thousands more parades of hell outside the chem industries.
Going back to Cindy’s == Sometimes when we get older we forget innocently == premise. Hey, I love Cindy’s presence on Planet Earth, don’t get me wrong.
However however however, this fucking country, from Poison Ivy League down to K12 Podunk’s-ville, it is all about TRANSACTIONAL relationsips — what can I put on the resume to make me stand out against the other thousand schmuks? How can I flip homes from those fucking fellow Americans who got under water on their fucking loan/mortgage? How can I make a million dollars providing absolutely nothing to the betterment of community, family, man, woman, reef, forest, moutain stream, lake, ocean, wetland, transportation corridor, et al?
So, systems thinking in a nutshell.
The baseline is at first do no harm. The baseline is, Precautionary Principle to the Max. The baseline is people and communities and states rights over the railroading fucking rights of chemical companies, food companies, herbicide companies, drug companies, pesticide companies, oil companies, energy companies, medical companies, manufacturing companies, tree cutting companies, smokestack companies, agricultural companies, milling companies, smelting, plasticizing, road building, retail companies, the entire spectrum of ‘biz’ enterrpises.
Ahh, the right to site/sit anywhere. The right to have a community accept/not accept a company or industry or service provider to come in and do business. Imagine that, every process, from financing to extracting to transporting to building/manufcturing to selling, all part of a CHARTER to work in ANY fucking COMMUNITY of any size.
Our citizen rights to stop bad actors, bad polluters, bad boys and girls in finance and FIRE and all the other hyphenated fucks in the M.I.C. et al !!!
Ahh, the systems approach, the ugly realities of externalities, life cycle analses, cradle to cradle demands. Ahh, that SOCIALISM, as in socially responsible and socially committed and society-based business.
Is there something wrong here with Bayer, Union Carbide, the lot of them producing just ONE fucking product with hundreds of cancer-causing compounds?
If we can’t get “leaders” able to remember studies like this one, to articulate some fucking college-reading-grade-level acknowledgement and understanding of these “things,” then I guess it’s A-okay that fucking genocidiers like Biden and Blinken and Yellen and Wailing Wall White House Guests have to fucking remember who they met on the world stage, which epoch we’re/they’re living in, just basic shit.
From the Adademic paper:
I am a New Zealand production animal veterinarian who is applying 50 years of practice experience, a fish vet degree from Scotland, and a mid life MBA to my active participation in freshwater advocacy. Glyphosate first came to my attention while searching for explanations why the once outstanding internationally recognized native and recreational fisheries of the Rakaia River showed a marked and as yet irreversible decline.
Ramped up water extraction for irrigation altered the “equilibrium” of the transport of an estimated 2.4 million tons of gravels eroded into this catchment from the Southern Alps.
The regional council’s response was annual applications of non approved formulations of glyphosate plus surfactants at rates of up to 17 L/ ha across broad swaths of the river’s fairways. Through defoiliating the river bed fine sediment from soils comprised of flour like wind blown glacial dust seems the primary suspect smothering aquatic life, fish eggs and embryos in the lower reaches.
The second likely consequence is the damage to the soil ecology reducing the amount of terrestrial insects salmon smolt rely on as they pass from spawning water to the sea.
The local bee keeper the experienced losses due to American Foul Brood.
My reading has included two books by Carey Gillam, and Toxic Legacy by Stephanie Seneff along with numerous scientific publications.
Last year my hunting mate was diagnosed with NHL which his oncologist immediately put down to an occupational risk of being a farmer.
Sadly in a country dependent on exporting primary products, our officials and EPA continue to claim roundup is not a public health problem because of the entrenched political support for farmers.
I have downloaded many of Rosemary McCloud’s papers which give graphic accounts of harm to farm workers and their children in South America where GMO crops are predominant.
Keep up the good work as most of New Zealand’s science is agency captured through quite limited government funding and a requirement to recover costs from the private sector, simplifying the work of PR firms working for corporates in the agrichemicals industry. Presently the Canterbury Regional Council is applying to itself for 20 year consents to continue to use glyphosate, dicamba, and chlorpyrifos to the region’s waterways.
The predictable outcome will be approval by a couple of “independent commissioners”. Politics trumps science, more so when the science is captured.
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Just taking apart/embracing/studying/systems thinking applying Peter’s points would take an entire weekend seminar, or charrette jsut to scratch the surface. Imagine even one of the Presstitute’s or folks in high and low office putting in a weekend in one of these amazing engagement conferences-group think tank sessions. You think they’d change their positions on any number of thousands of topics coming across their desks and into their constituencies’ lives if they became systems thinkers?
Ahh, it does get fucking heated, for sure:
William Pilacinski/ 4 days ago
I have a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Medical School. There is a good reason why MDs will often also get a PhD if they wish to a significant amount of research during their career: MDs simply do not get the rigorous education in how to do science that PhDs do; and this shows in the AAP “study”.
Let’s first consider toxicity. Safety Data Sheets, a standard for toxicity assessments used world-wide shows that the caffeine in your coffee or tea is 13 times more toxic than glyphosate, noting also that caffeine is intentionally ingested while glyphosate ingestion is incidental and, therefore, at a much lower concentration than the caffeine in your coffee, tea or cola.
On to carcinogenicity: As a result of a determination by the IARC in 2015 that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic in humans”, the on-going US Ag Health Study, the largest, and most rigorous study of its kind, which in 2005 had determined that there was no significant incidence of cancer from the use of glyphosate, was updated and re-reviewed for data through 2012.
This was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Andreotti et al 2018 JNCI) and again determined that “glyphosate was not statistically significantly associated with cancer at any site.”
Additionally, it should be noted that glyphosate has been recently re-registered for use by both the US EPA and most recently also by the EU, both noting that the IARC is the only regulatory review group of significance that has suggested a cancer risk from glyphosate use vs multiple other regulatory agencies worldwide, including US EPA, Health Canada, EFSA, Frances’ ANSES, Germany’s BfR, Switzerland’s FSVO and Australia’s APVMA.
Oh these fucking North Arkansas prostitutes (Wisconsin, Minnesota) working to service those billion dollar corporations!
Back at ya:
Dru Reschke | Koonara Wines
2 days agoDidn’t want to mention you’re the Regulatory Affairs Manager at Monsanto? https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-pilacinski-75b21012/
Ahh, yes:
In response to William Pilacinski. I think you are looking at a very limited subset of the information available on the subject of glyphosate and cancer.
A much larger pool of data was reviewed using a risk analysis on pooled data from Norway, France, and the U.S. It was positive for a correlation between NHL and glyphosate. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz017
A recent meta-analysis gave the same conclusion looking at a large collection of recent research. A “Review of the evidence that glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin Lymphoma” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clml.2021.04.009
Numerous scientists have criticized the EPA and EFSA for their findings of non carcinogenicity.
They were criticized because 1. they gave more weight to non published or peer reviewed industry funded studies than to the peer reviewed scientific literature, 2. they gave more weight to studies looking at pure glyphosate rather than the formulations used by farmers, and 3. they did not look nearly as closely at the carcinogenicity resulting from higher exposures such as might happen to a pesticide applicator. Dr Benbrook https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-018-0184-7 AND the EPA has been ordered to re-review its most recent review by the U.S. court system and although the EU has not yet banned glyphosate, their recent approval states they need to stop drying crops before harvest with glyphosate based products.
In addition a number of their countries do not allow GMO crops. This means despite the stalemate in their regulatory system, they are allowing much less use than is allowed in the U.S.
And then, Jessica Barfield 2 hrs ago
Since you are there, Mr Pilacinski, from the coalface at Monsanto as it were, I would love to hear your opinion about some research which I believe was undertaken by Monsanto itself in 1989, I think. It is an experiment on Bluegill Sunfish. As glyphosate is an analogue of glycine, a very important amino acid in the body, it is possible that the analogue glyphosate can actually take the place of, or act as a ligand in place of glycine. As I understand it, this unpublished (why?) experiment was conducted to see if glyphosate was incorporated into the fish tissues. I believe the experiment rather shockingly showed that it did. If glyphosate has the ability to act in this way in the body, then such disruption could possibly lead to dysfunctions that could in the long term promote ill health, and maybe cancers. I genuinely and respectfully welcome the opportunity to put this to someone who is or was very directly ‘in the know’ about this.
The Minnesota prostitute for scientism and snark is bringing in caffeine from coffee as worse than Round-Up’s Agent Orange precursors?
Source: For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar incidences of mysterious kidney diseases have emerged in tropical farming communities around the world.
A massive field study of the wells supplying drinking water to the Sri Lankan communities, conducted by researchers at Duke University, has identified a possible culprit — glyphosate, the active compound in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world.
The results of the study were published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters on September 13, 2023.
Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide used to control weeds and other pests. Because it is supposed to break down in the environment within a few days to weeks, its use is relatively under-regulated by most public health agencies. But when glyphosate encounters certain trace metal ions that make water hard — like magnesium and calcium — glyphosate-metal ion complexes can form. Those complexes can persist up to seven years in water and 22 years in soil.
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Here, my response:
Oh, I am writing about this dialogue as I write this comment. I’m not some triple PhD/MD, but, oh, but . . . some of us can put two and two together, read post-doc crap journal articles, utilize our systems thinking and not have to cite the number of degrees (college) we have.
I am never amazed at the prostitution “scientists” put themselves through, and then some dude from North Arkansas (Minnesota) lecturing people citing his effing PhD?
Yeah, all those countries, all those other scientists, all those on-the-ground studies, all those doctors talking amongst themselves about the number of still bornes, premature babies and babies coming out with ID/DD/PD and physical conditions certainly not attrivuted to the number of oatmeal bars the hippie parents are eating. DIRECTLY linked, as in Oregon, here, to aerial spraying of glyphsate on clear cuts.
Oh those stories =
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/herbicides
More, here!
Source: For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar incidences of mysterious kidney diseases have emerged in tropical farming communities around the world.
A massive field study of the wells supplying drinking water to the Sri Lankan communities, conducted by researchers at Duke University, has identified a possible culprit — glyphosate, the active compound in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world.
The results of the study were published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters on September 13, 2023.
Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide used to control weeds and other pests. Because it is supposed to break down in the environment within a few days to weeks, its use is relatively under-regulated by most public health agencies. But when glyphosate encounters certain trace metal ions that make water hard — like magnesium and calcium — glyphosate-metal ion complexes can form. Those complexes can persist up to seven years in water and 22 years in soil.
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Yeah, well, if I took down a couple of political signs (Joe Blow Job for Congress) and burned down a couple of outside ad billboards hawking strip clubs and threw lighter fluid on two brand new Hummers for sale at the local car dealer (and lit them). If I dumped fake blood on my local mayor’s office, or if I flipped off the local Sasquatch Sheriff, or if I jumped up during a press conference and threw a shoe at Biden, man oh man, I’d land up either in jail/prison or dead.
But, oh, but, if I fucked up on upgrading brakes and then causing not just a derailment but toxic cloud, well, no jail time.
Afterward, the parish hands out “nonperishable foodstuffs, diapers” and even gift cards, thanks to the “generosity of so many people,” said Johnson.
“We just financed a blanket gift card that goes to every home in the area code … a $10 gift card that’s accepted at about 50 different businesses in East Palestine,” he said. “We were fortunate enough … that we could finance that and provide for the entire community.”
Related: East Palestine church hosts chemical exposure study in wake of train disaster
He noted that “the one big commodity right now that people are still desiring is water,” adding that he knows of “at least one family” in the parish whose well was “contaminated.”
Yet the family has chosen to stay in the town, and “they’re still very much coming to church and involved in the community — not just with Our Lady of Lourdes, but also with East Palestine.”
“From what I can tell, the people that belong to (this parish) are in for the long haul,” said Johnson.
Vinyl chloride is one of around 10,000 chemicals that have been used in plastics, according to one estimate. Over 2,400 of those chemicals are of concern to scientists, meaning they’re either toxic or persist in the environment and organisms. According to the National Cancer Institute, vinyl chloride is associated with lymphoma, leukemia, and cancers of the brain and lungs. One study found that workers exposed to PVC dust had significantly higher risk of cancer.
The chemical at the center of the Ohio derailment is actually one of the longer-studied carcinogens in an occupational setting, with data going back to the 1970s, according to John Bucher, former associate director of the National Toxicology Program.
“There were studies in some of the vinyl chloride production plants and PVC production areas where people were showing up with cancers, primarily in blood vessels in the liver,” says Bucher.
Right, this is what the Wailing Wall White House DOESN’T give a fucking damn about:
No photo op with Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy ZioAzovLensky:
Systems thinking, Cindy? Do you think any of the fucks in Holly-Dirt or K-Street or DoD or Wailing Wall of White House Thieves know a fuck about this systems thinking problem?
Good reporting here: These Images Tell the Stories of Families Reeling From the East Palestine Fiasco
“We’re not gonna be one of the people that stay.”
PHOTOS AND STORY BY LAUREN PETRACCA
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And so it goes this rotten land of rotten agencies captured by the murderers of the world. Imagine that. I know for a fucking fact that cartel members and others in the business of smuggling that there are plent of LAWS and Stingers in Mexico, BEFORE Maidan and SMO Russia-Ukraine.
Are readers just daft? Of course I have seen them, and tried some interesting sniper rifles out and plent of M-16s and tossed several varieties of grenades — in West Texas and in Chihuahua.
Drug drop houses in El Paso? Entire 3,000 square foot homes with floor to ceiling little blocks of cocaine stacked?
Are readers daft? Did I have to turn these people in? Did I show up out of the blue? Did I have some odd connection to some of the dealers and smugglers?
FUCK. And this is a limited look: LINK.
Is the so called drug war, the Cartels, the importation of meth, coke, fent just some loose Demand-Supply thing? No connection to DEA, the feds in Mexico and the CIA and other nefarious groups controlling the “system?”
What the fuck? Do you hear of small planes or helicopter or even jets being downed by stingers in Mexico? Are the cartels more diplomatic and measured than USA State of Hell Department? You know, jets and planes could be shot down, but, hey, cartels work with politicians, lawyers, big business owners, the generals!
Do you not think that some rogue pissed off jefe might just say, “Chinga. Vamos a destruir la policia o el mayor or el president or el general?”
This is a bullshit AP story. Fools. Of course, cartels have Stingers!
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While the Mexican army and marines still have superior firepower, the drug cartels’ weaponry often now outclasses other branches of Mexican law enforcement.
Mexico has long had a problem with semi-automatic rifles that are permitted for civilian use in the United States being smuggled into Mexico, where only low-caliber firearms are permitted and strictly regulated. Mexico has launched legal actions against U.S. arms manufacturers and gun shops, arguing that they contribute to violence.
On Monday, an appeals court in Boston, Massachusetts handed Mexico a victory in one of those actions, reviving a $10 billion lawsuit against seven U.S. gun manufacturers and one distributor. Mexico argued the companies knew weapons were being sold to traffickers who smuggled them into Mexico and decided to cash in on that market.
In 2022, a U.S. federal judge dismissed Mexico’s claims based on the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by a 2005 U.S. law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCAA. The law shields gun manufacturers from damages “resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse” of a firearm.
Mexico appealed that ruling, and on Monday the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals revived the lawsuit, saying the PLCAA did not apply to the claims the guns caused deaths, damages and injuries in Mexico. The appeals court returned the case to the lower court, to consider the facts in the case.
The Mexican government estimates 70% of the weapons trafficked into Mexico come from the U.S., according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Also Monday, describing talks last week with U.S. officials, Bárcena said the United States is planning to announce sanctions against airlines and transportation companies that move migrants to South and Central America and through Mexico to the U.S. border.
“The United States said it was going to impose sanctions on South American and Central American companies that are transporting migrants irregularly, and they want us to do the same,” Bárcena said. “The (Mexican) Interior Department is going to call on the bus and airline companies, but we don’t want them (the United States) to act unilaterally.”
DEA Lies: Guilty Pleas For Two Mexican Nationals In Conspiracy To Acquire “Stinger” Missile And Other Military-Grade Weapons
A Third Defendant Found Guilty at Trial of Possessing Over 10 Pounds of Meth
Oh SHIT: A Mexican news outlet reported that a member of a local organized crime group was pictured with a U.S.-made Javelin anti-tank guided missile that had been trafficked from Ukraine to cartels.
Vietnam:
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Oh yeah.
Tip of the iceberg. Do not Believe the AP anymore.
Racine was just the tip of the iceberg. The city was a key part of a CJNG firearms network that bought hundreds of guns from more than a dozen U.S. states, specializing in semi-automatic .50 caliber rifles and FN SCAR assault rifles designed for U.S. special forces, internal ATF reports obtained by Reuters allege.
ATF dubbed the Wisconsin case “Grin and Barrett,” after Barrett, a Tennessee-based weapons maker whose powerful .50 caliber firearms were among those trafficked by the network. Now a unit of Australia’s NIOA Group, Barrett did not respond to detailed requests for comment for this report.
ATF spokesperson Kristina Mastropasqua declined to comment on what she described as an open case. Mastropasqua said preventing cross-border firearms trafficking was an ATF priority and new powers had led to 250 people being charged since last year.
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The cartel is not showing the big guns, mothers and fathers:
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) pose for a photo at an undisclosed location in Michoacan state Mexico. One of the men bears the insignia of the Delta hit squad that reports to cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera and that U.S. federal investigators say received a gun that came from the Racine gun store. REUTERS/Stringe
Again, please, systems thinking, folks. Use more than 7 percent of the intellectual capacity/part of your brains. Turn off the porn-loving, popcorn-gobbling, digital pixel- addicting parts of that fucking LIZARD part of the brain.
Fucking North Arkansas, Mister Fish. Awaiting some radio contact from you:
Oh, this is just the fucking tip of the spear. Like I said, I was handling Stingers and boxes of grenades and of course RPGs from not just USA.
You don’t think this is all part of the conspiracy to keep Mexico in chaos (USA is Empire of Chaos) and to keep the rich rich (USA Empire of Thievery) and to destroy land, state, family, community (USA, Empire of Terror)?
In the past three years alone, Mexican authorities have seized 300 .50 calibers, a record, according to previously unpublished data collated by the Mexican attorney general’s office and seen by Reuters.
Once in Mexico, the gun’s black market value increases to between $30,000 and $50,000, according to Demlein and Sloan.
The great majority of illegal guns in Mexico come from the United States, Mexican and U.S. authorities say. A 2013 University of San Diego study estimated a quarter of a million guns illegally cross the border each year.
Mexico, a country of 127 million people, has tight gun laws – and just a single gun store, located on a military base. By contrast, the United States has nearly 78,000 gun dealers – more than the combined number of McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Wendy’s franchises, according to gun-control advocates Everytown for Gun Safety.
Tip of the Anti-drone Cage Iceberg: Cartel Narco Tank With Cope Cage Anti-Drone Armor Emerges: A drug cartel has adopted a major battlefield innovation in an attempt to help fend off growing drone attacks against its vehicles.
All these stories are based on “what they want us to know about the not all real power of USA and Mexican drug lords and the bosses in the world of CHAOS:
Leave the fucking world alone, Goy and Jew alike, in the business of creating and funding cartels, whether in Juarez or Jerusalem:
Ishmael’ by Daniel Quinn and the movement it inspired
This is a story about a blue crab killed for no good reason.
It is a story about birth and rebirth, law and life, nature and nurture, cooperation and connection, cultivation and civilization, production and destruction, seed and greed, Adam and Eve.
It is a story about “Ishmael.”
“Ishmael,” a 1992 Daniel Quinn novel, sounded an alarm on civilization’s war on Earth, embarked on 10,000 years ago at the beginning of the agricultural revolution. It illuminated the way in which that revolution continues with blindness and madness, killing or swallowing all life — plant, creature or human — that stands in the way of its appetite for expansion. It urged us to wake up.
I came upon the book almost 10 years ago during a time in which my heart — perhaps remembering a life-inspiring lesson from childhood — beat for books about the natural world, especially those that carried a historical, cultural or spiritual component. Thoreau’s “Walden” begot Derrick Jensen’s “A Language Older than Words,” which begot Riane Eisler’s “The Chalice & the Blade,” with some Barbara Kingsolver mixed in. The latter two books beautifully bemoaned loss — “Language” the loss of our connection to the stars and streams, “Chalice” the loss of our connection to the sacred feminine. Both books explored an insane world run by men.
“Ishmael” featured an inviting subtitle: “An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit.” It also carried on the cover this blurb by Jim Britell of Whole Earth Review: “From now on, I will divide the books I have read into two categories — the ones I read before Ishmael and those read after.”
I now divide the books I have read into two categories — the ones that slap me in the face and the ones that don’t. “Ishmael” slapped me in the face: Humanity isn’t destroying the earth. One culture that now rules the globe is destroying the earth. That is our culture, whose objective is to bulldoze everything in its way and to put everybody at the wheel. The objective is food production and growth, and the target is any forest and any life — plant, animal or human — that occupies it. This is true whether in Brazil, China, Russia or the United States. Our culture won’t stop until it devours everything, including itself.
My grandparents passed this culture to my parents, who passed it to me. I passed it to my kids, who no doubt will pass it to theirs. We do so unwittingly, much the way we commuters sleepwalk en masse from the train to our office buildings, unconscious but of our iPhones. As the book points out, we’re on a crash course.
I’ve been thinking about “Ishmael” lately because of a new book I just finished: “Life’s Operating Manual,” by Tom Shadyac, director of films such as “Bruce Almighty” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.” I read it because of the story of Shadyac, who sold his Hollywood mansion and moved into a mobile-home park. He writes in his book that he did that and gave away money because “it felt like the right thing to do.”
Shadyac’s book, broader in its cultural message and more spiritually focused than “Ishmael,” told me little new. But it did offer strong reminders on ideas that resonate with me, such as the value of true wealth over material wealth (“I do not wish to redistribute wealth; I wish to redefine it,” Shadyac writes); the problem of a cultural mentality that inspires competition and profit over cooperation and people; and the importance of our culture to recognize and embrace our connection to all things — each other and nature.
The book also pays tribute to “Ishmael” and to Quinn, its author. Shadyac writes: “Ishmael” grabbed “me by my throat in a literary vise grip. Quinn’s chokehold is rooted in a simple idea: that our culture has seduced us, hypnotized us really, into wholeheartedly embracing a way of life that may have little to do with reality.”
Shadyac’s book prompted me to read “Ishmael” again and to write about it.
Early in the book, a man, the narrator, answers a newspaper ad that says:
“TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.”
The narrator meets the teacher — Ishmael, a thousand-pound gorilla who communicates telepathically. Using the Socratic method, Ishmael implores the narrator to think for himself on “how things came to be this way” and to come to the understanding that our culture has been enacting a story from the book of Genesis: that Man is here to conquer the earth.
Ishmael separates humans into two groups — “Leavers” and “Takers.” “Leavers” formed cultures that thrived for thousands of years before the agricultural revolution — hunters and gatherers, herders, indigenous societies. Those cultures lived lightly and took only what they needed. “Takers” are us — the people who killed or annexed those cultures and continue to do so; logging and farming in the Amazon threatens some of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth.
“Mother Culture teaches you that this is as it should be,” Ishmael tells the narrator. “Except for a few thousand savages scattered here and there, all the peoples of the earth are now enacting this story. This is the story man was born to enact [according to the mythology], and to depart from it is to resign from the human race itself. … There’s no way out of it except through death.”
Unlike “Leaver” societies, which sustained themselves and the natural world for thousands of years, our “Taker” society will run out of things to kill and will die. Quinn likens the agricultural revolution to humans’ first attempts at flight. Those attempts failed because we tried to mimic a bird. Only when we discovered the law of aerodynamics did we learn to fly.
Through “Ishmael,” Quinn argues that no law or theory underpins “Taker” culture — and that’s why it has been in free fall since its adoption.
Quinn emphasizes that the natural world, which includes “Leaver” cultures, sustains itself through what he calls the law of limited competition. Under this peace-keeping law, he says, you may not hunt down competitors or deny them food or access to it. You also may not commit genocide against your competition.
“And only once in all the history of this planet has any species tried to live in defiance of this law — and it wasn’t an entire species, it was only one people, those I’ve named the Takers,” Ishmael tells the narrator. “Ten thousand years ago, this one people said, ‘No more. Man was not meant to be bound by this law,’ and they began to live in a way that flouts the law at every point.”
People have asked me why I don’t just become a hunter-gatherer. I have no interest in becoming a hunter-gatherer — and I know my wife, who focuses on the good in our society, wouldn’t, either. I wouldn’t know what to do and especially where to go. My problem is less with civilization than the aggressiveness and mindlessness of this one. As Quinn points out in “Ishmael,” civilization isn’t against the law of limited competition; it’s subject to the law of limited competition.
While writing this essay, I took a break to go with my wife and son to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform at the Morton Arboretum. As I listened, I thought about all the beauty this culture has produced.
Yet I yearn to live in a civilization that blends less madness with its music. I yearn to live in a civilization that redefines not only wealth but profit. A new shopping center and fast-food restaurant turns up trees by the roots but lifts no spirit. A lawn built on chemical products kills the dandelion but misses the miracle. A daytime flight over Chicago anticipates the skyline but ignores the slaughter. I yearn to live in a civilization that aviates consciously.
I know of like minds who found inspiration in “Ishmael.”
“When I was a legal advocate for chemical victims, I was already well aware of the distorted values at work in our culture,” Earon Davis, a former Chicago resident who recently moved to Bloomington, Ind., wrote in an email. “‘Ishmael’ helped me to see that our entire society’s sustainability and adaptability were being jeopardized by corrupted group-think in our mainstream culture.”
Davis said he tried to establish a Chicago-based discussion group related to “Ishmael” but got limited participation. He continues to lead a Web-based discussion group, which sees little activity.
“I can see how most people who are initially drawn to ‘Ishmael’ need to back away from the message of Quinn in order to focus on earning a living, raising a family, and living a ‘normal’ life,” he wrote.
Barbara Ridd said she incorporates “Ishmael” into the curriculum of a course called Ecology of Personal Life at DePaul University’s School for New Learning. She said the book offends some students who feel it questions the Bible.
“I think that closes those people off to the greater message, that we have to take stock of ourselves,” she said. “I think that sometimes, when given such a blunt look at our existence as mankind, people don’t like that as well.”
Laura M. Hartman, assistant professor of religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, said she read “Ishmael” for two courses as an undergraduate at Indiana University. “The general concept of ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ still resonates with me,” she said. Yet she sees a weakness in the book: Instead of providing instructions on how to change the world, Quinn appeals for changed minds.
“The clock is ticking,” she said. “We don’t have time to make these inner transformations.”
This essay serves as an attempt to inspire transformations, anyway.
Now, about that blue crab.
I was about 9 years old. My father had long left us, and my mother had met the man who would raise me. We lived on a canal in Florida. He liked hunting and fishing, and he had a tremendous love and respect for nature. I liked baseball and football. I couldn’t bear the sight of a dead fish or animal — and I especially couldn’t kill one. So I rarely would go hunting or fishing with him.
But I desperately wanted to please him. One day, I lost my childhood senses and, for a moment, all that I loved. I spotted a blue crab in the canal in about two feet of water. I grabbed the gig that my stepfather kept by the canal. I thrust the gig into the water and speared the crab though her core. I raised the gig from the water, the crab moving its claws and legs as if searching for food or for any sense in this.
I ran joyfully to my stepfather, carrying the gig and the mortally wounded crab at the end of it as my trophy, and showed him what I’d just done for him. I told him I thought he’d want it for dinner. I expected a “that’s my boy” and a hug. I got a scolding. I got a demand that I eat what I’d just killed.
I got the lesson of my life — a lesson and law that I’ve carried with me, passed to my children and hope that they pass to theirs: You may not kill any member of the community of life for no good reason.
Pete Reinwald is the lead editor on the Tribune’s e-books project and an editor for Printers Row Journal.
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Enjoy.
Paul Haeder, Author 