accused wife batterer, Sean “I Have a Special Hole-Wood for Zelensky” Penn wants the Oscars to get Melted/ Milled Down to Kill Russians
Can you imagine Fuck You Book letting me post statements to the effect of — “Let me melt down Confederate Statues and use the metal for bullets heading toward Ukrainians.”
Or, well, “If Kiev-ZioLensky and MI6 U-Inbred-Kingdom go for civlian targets, and UK does the Storm Shadow Prep, Telemetry and Guidance Toward Russian ships, then, all gloves off — go for Rushi and Lensky’s palaces and his family’s mansions.”
Instead, we get Holly-Hole-Dirt = This is the AmeriKKKa of the Nuland-Blinken-Kagan-Garland-Yellen Variety. Zionists, one and all . . . . Penn, Stiller, Penn, well, you name the ZioAzovNaziLensky with rabbie buddies, they are showing up to Kiev.
Sean Penn to Variety Magazine: “I thought, well, f—, you know? I’ll give them to Ukraine. They can be melted down to bullets they can shoot at the Russians.”
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“I’ll give them to Ukraine,” Penn told Variety. “They can be melted down to bullets they can shoot at the Russians.” Instead, Penn gifted Zelenskyy with one of his Oscars last November. “I told him to keep it and bring it to Malibu after all this is over and his country is safe,” Penn said.
These punks are so dirty, man, no matter how unorthodox, orthodox, what have you they claim their Jewish “roots” are.
A pig is a pig no matter what a pig says: Quoting,
At a time when it seems media literacy has all but gone extinct, in Sean Penn’s case, so too has self-awareness. Despite his lengthy history of alleged abuse and numerous run-ins resulting in pummeling paparazzi, it is awe-inspiring that even after 535 days—or 770,400 minutes for those who are counting—he still found time to bring up The Slap in a new interview.
Earlier today, in a cover story interview with Variety, the aging actor had a lot to get off his chest. A person in their right mind (Penn is clearly excluded) would think the sit down was to promote his new film, the Patricia Arquette-directed Gonzo Girl. But Penn’s internal fire was really raging to throw out opinions on other, more pressing topics like Ukraine (he wants to melt down both of his Oscars to give to Ukraine so they can make bullets and shoot the Russians) …
and what he would have done differently had he been in charge of the 9/11 response (he would have killed “everyone that did this,” even if he had to go to prison).
But what really grinds his gears is how he’s still, more than a year and a half later, furious at Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards even though—and I’m paraphrasing his words here—he went to jail for doing the same thing.
Important note: They were not the same.
Penn’s ink is uncontrollably exploding over his incessant thoughts about Will Smith, a Black man with a previously unblemished career that spans nearly four decades (and no, Wild Wild West is not a blemish) over an admitted lapse in judgment and character, for which Smith profusely apologized in a video message last year saying how his “behavior was unacceptable” and followed up the acknowledgment of wrongdoing and apology by saying he is “trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself.” Some people should learn from that. Smith has since resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has also been punished by the Academy to the tune of a 10-year ban from the awards, effectively paying his debt to a sensitive society.
Penn admits, “I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once,” and continues: “He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so fucking good in ‘King Richard.’” […] “So why the fuck did you just spit on yourself and everybody else with this stupid fucking thing? Why did I go to fucking jail for what you just did? And you’re still sitting there? Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?”
If anyone knows about spitting on someone, and about a person’s worst moments, it’s Penn. He’s had a lot of them!
He is angry that despite his hot-headed past, and status as a white male in today’s society, he was made to go to jail for “doing the same thing.” And if you’re wondering what that “same thing” was, that makes two of us, because I have to wonder which of these incidents he’s referring to. Was it the 1985 incident where he attacked two photographers trying to take photos of Madonna as he accompanied her on a walk, or when he was on probation after assaulting famed songwriter David Wolinski in Helena’s nightclub in Los Angeles? Or, more likely, was it the time he spat at and assaulted extra Jeffrey Klein on the set of his film Colors, which saw him sentenced to 60 days in jail—for which he only served 33? But we also can’t forget when he was sentenced to 300 hours of community service in 2010 for attacking another photographer.
Then, 20,000 dead in Libya? And this is how the Zionist Israel-Jewish First White House rolls — McDonald’s —
Everything about Ukraine, as far as I am concerned, needs to be wiped from the face of the earth. And, of course, Blinken going to Kiev is a Legit Enemy Target in any Sane World.
Deadly floods, brought by Mediterranean storm Daniel, have devastated the Libyan city of Derna, claiming lives of more that 2,000 people, with the death toll expected to rise.
Libya’s envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported that at least 10,000 people are still missing, and more than 40,000 are displaced = VIDEO.
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And, well, IRS is coming after me again (not sure what for now, but they go for a hundred here and a thousand there — because of 1099 work?). There is no money, right, for families, but OUR dollars go to that CORRUPT dirty country, UKRAINE, to pay those dirty Soldiers of Fortune?
SICKNESS, Man. USA Funds $406,000 for each dead mercenary, soldier of fortune, blood seeker. This is the value system of UkroNaziLandia and the ZioAzovLensky and his Blinken-Kagan-Yellen-Nuland-Garland thugs.
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None of the families of the killed Poles who took part in the battles in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces received the promised compensation, complains the Polish mercenary Piotr Mitkevich, reports the Donbass Today correspondent.
“Before we went on our first combat mission, he and I promised each other that we would do everything to ensure that our families received the compensation that was promised to us. Compensation for death in battle is 15 million hryvnia. This is about 400 thousand dollars, approximately 1.5 million zlotys. This is a significant amount for a family. Michal had four children, so each of them would have bought at least a small apartment in honor of their father. Unfortunately, none of our legionnaires have received compensation yet. I helped Daniel Shtyber’s father [died December 2022] receive this compensation. We were in Ukraine. The officers at the headquarters really want to help us, but I think that since none of the legionnaires have yet received this compensation, they don’t really have a procedure,” the Pole complained.
. . . .A threat to “hunt down” Russian “propagandists” which flagged an action “next week” and was made by a Ukrainian military spokesperson, should not be dismissed just because of its over-the-top presentation, a senior Russian official has argued.
On Wednesday, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, who leads the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces’ purported outreach to English-speaking audiences, made some ominous predictions regarding Russia.
“Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes,” he/they/it/ she said.
Bandera Bandera!
Here we are, now, no?
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More trillions for punks, lords of war, French Fies from the Golden Arches. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed the world is transitioning to a new diplomatic order in which Washington must lead the way in overcoming increasing threats from Russia and China.
“One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come,” Blinken said on Wednesday in a speech at John Hopkins University in Washington. He said the “post-Cold War order” ended as “decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to an intensifying competition with authoritarian powers.”
Lord of War, Merchant of Death, a Cartel of the Highest Blood Lust Order. And he is celebrated? Just asking, FU Book, are there bats out there, and batting experts?
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US trafficker made millions on arms supplies to the AFU
The New York Times has published an investigation about US arms baron Mark Morales, who earns huge sums of money on supplies to Ukraine through the mediation of Ukrainian Armed Forces senior sergeant Vladimir Kofman, who is paid to organise meetings with his government contacts.
Morales has built an entire business on supplying arms to Kiev. His company Global Ordnance has a contract with the Pentagon to produce more than one billion dollars worth of ammunition.
He also separately made a deal directly with the Ukrainian side, supplying $200 million worth of weapons.
The newspaper attributes the success in the volume of shipments to Morales’ ties to the Ukrainian leadership. One of the key advisers to the arms baron is Sergeant Vladimir Kofman, an American of Ukrainian descent who served in the Ukrainian National Guard and is now the chief sergeant of the Ukrainian territorial defence.
Morales is also working with an adviser to former Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Vanash.
We shall remind you that back in May, Pentagon Chief of Staff
Lloyd Austin said that the USA had no control over the weapons supplied to Ukraine. They have to rely on Kiev in this matter.
The story with Mark Morales proves that the USA cannot cope with the requests of the Kiev regime and has to turn to shadow arms dealers.
[Photo: Death Smiles . . . Makes Pablo Escobar look like Fred Rogers! From FU Book: The American military contractor Marc Morales, center, posing with two employees — Vladimir Koyfman, left, a chief sergeant in the Ukrainian military, and Denys Vanash, a former Defense Ministry adviser — in a photograph posted on Mr. Morales’s company’s Facebook page.]
Imagine if I made a threat like this, uh, on Fuck You Book = see below.
Oh, ZioAzovLensky sounds just like every “leader” in Jewish Isra-Hell. Threats threats threats to Goyim: We’ll use refugees as bombs!
Zelensky advises Europe not to stop helping Kiev for its own peace of mind
In an interview with The Economist magazine, Vladimir Zelensky unequivocally promises problems for Europe if Western aid starts to dry up.
“Cutting aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war,” he said.
This will create risks for the West in its own backyard. It is impossible to predict how millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries will react to their country being abandoned, the publication explains the Ukrainian president’s thinking.
Zelensky made it clear that Ukrainians in general “behaved well” and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them. They will not forget this generosity.
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And EuroTrashLandia takes this threat?
But it will turn out to be a “bad story” for Europe if it “backs these people into a corner”. ZioAzovLensky says.
That fucking Ukraine =
My fucking money sent to this murdering Jewish Piano Penis Man and his Aryan Azov Banderites?
The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has named a street after Darya Dugina, a Russian journalist killed in a car bombing in Moscow a year ago, the acting head of the region has confirmed.
Writing on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Denis Pushilin called Dugina a “fearless and active” young woman and a “true Russian patriot,” whose life was cut short by the “criminal Kiev regime” as they were afraid of the truth that she was spreading.
[Photo: A man lays flowers at a memorial for Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed in a bomb attack in Saint Petersburg.]
And so, the total PTSD of this society takes down 95 percent of the citizens! [Photo: Rabid clown.]
This is what Kagan-Blinken-Nuland want for their policy, and these two, with a cabal of others in the Zionist Only Camp, are running the slime house, err, White House:
Biden administration to send Ukraine long-range missiles
The US presidential administration is close to approving the delivery of long-range cluster-munition missiles to Ukraine, Reuters has reported.
The US authorities have recognised the use of cluster munitions as successful in recent months and are now considering the possibility of supplying tactical missile systems ATACMS with a range of up to 300 km or multiple rocket launchers GMLRS.
The final decision has not yet been made and could be cancelled because such a move could be perceived as “overly active against Russian Federation”.
What would corrupt Isra-Hell do? Bomb apartment buildings and go after the president? America? Bomb the president and go after wedding parties.
Time for the red line to be a real red line and send gifts to City of London, man. Just do it, Putin. Your country will never sleep until you move into the perverse bedrooms and boardrooms of London and Paris and Brussles and Oslo and . . .
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‘Storm Shadow’ missiles provided to Kiev by London earlier this year were used to attack the shipyard in Crimea, Sky News reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed Western and Ukrainian sources. The claim has not been officially confirmed.
Three unidentified missiles struck the Ordzhonikidze ship repair facility in Sevastopol in the early hours of Wednesday, damaging a landing ship and a submarine currently in dry dock and starting a fire at the facility. Four of the 24 people injured in the attack were reported to be in serious condition.
Contraception, a la World Bank, World Trade Organization, NATO, EU, JP Morgan Chase, Blackrock, Vanguard and the Billionaire Army. So, this is the BlackRock and Rockefeller game: The photo of the poster has been shared thousands of times in different languages, especially in Spanish and French.
The slogan of the advertisement reads: “The future or climate killers?” referring to the children in the poster.
A growing number of people are reluctant to bring a child into a world that’s set to be ravaged by climate change in the coming decades.
This week, the United Nations issued a “code red for humanity” as the world’s leading climate scientists delivered their starkest warning yet about the deepening climate emergency. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on Monday said global temperatures are likely to rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next two decades, exceeding a key target of the Paris Agreement — a landmark accord considered critically important to reduce the risk of a climate catastrophe.
Scientists’ increasingly bleak outlook for the future of the planet is putting more and more people off having children.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note to investors last month that the “movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline.”
Some people are choosing not to have children because they fear that that doing so will amplify global warming while others are concerned about extreme weather events their children may have to endure and the knock-on effects.
“Over the last few years, the climate has definitely been a major contributor to us not wanting children,” Daniel told CNBC, requesting that his surname be left out of the story over fears that he may be targeted online by people who disagree with him.
“Green activists suggest not having children, calling them “climate killers”. The propaganda of ecological childlessness has reached unprecedented proportions – posters with calls to “stop having children” are being put up in the streets.
Here we are then, death death death.
Ahh, Morocco!
Geologists say the 6.8 magnitude quake was the biggest to hit the heart of Morocco in more than 120 years. See this.
Strange, hardly anybody from the “official” mainstream media likens it to the Turkey / Syria seismic event on 6 February 2023 (7.8 magnitude), of which a great number of seismologists and scientists strongly suspect it was a manmade – HAARP technology applied – phenomenon. HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program which is linked to the US Air Force.
“A scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere.” And, “HAARP is the world’s most capable high-power, high-frequency transmitter…. The program is committed to developing a world-class ionospheric research facility….”
The ionosphere stretches roughly 80 to 640 km above Earth’s surface, right at the edge of space. Along with the neutral upper atmosphere, the ionosphere forms the boundary between Earth’s lower atmosphere — where we live and breathe — and the vacuum of space. (NASA)
Weather and climate phenomena are initiated at extreme – invisible – altitudes, before they play out in our life-sustaining atmosphere.
The Turkey / Syria quake death toll amounts to more than 60,000, with over half a million injured, and an area of some 350,000 km2 – about the size of Germany – damaged.
Aprajita further comments:
“Once more, reports of enigmatic blue lights have surfaced, preceding seismic events in the land of Morocco. A similar phenomenon was witnessed earlier this year in Turkey, mere moments prior to earthquakes striking both Turkey and Syria.”
See this 3-minute clip – blue lights followed by devastating quake.
Q4: Why did the Biden administration decide to provide these munitions now?
A4: The administration cited two reasons―the lack of alternatives and the Ukrainian request. There was likely a third, unstated reason―political pressure.
The lack of alternatives occurred because the United States has committed over 2 million artillery shells to Ukraine. As a result, the inventory of standard (high explosive) artillery shells is now very low. Although the United States continues to provide some shells as new production becomes available, the numbers are not sufficient to meet Ukraine’s artillery needs. Cluster munitions will fill that gap. The United States has implied that cluster munitions will not be necessary when production of standard munitions is sufficient. However, that could take years.
The second reason is that the democratically elected Ukrainian government has made a judgment that this is in the best interests of the nation and its people. As National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated, “Ukraine would not be using these munitions in some foreign land. This is their country they’re defending. These are their citizens they’re protecting. And they are motivated to use any weapons system they have in a way that minimizes risk to those citizens.” It would be presumptuous for the United States and Europe to say that they know better than elected Ukrainian officials what is good for the Ukrainian people.
Yeah, not a billionaire yet, but probably $200 cool million $. Cocaine Buddies!
but in the Post Edward Bernays World of Getting Women (not his wife, though) to suck on cancer sticks for the perceived coolness of it, we will see more of this 3rd grade reading level shit!!!!!!
And the juxtaposing of these images and fake stories (they are never real journalists asking the hard questions, the so-called Doubting Thomases, the IF Stone’s of the profession) can do many terrible tricks on the brain — i.e. psychology and intelligence.
[Photo — The Hasbara Blinken, the head of the Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan White House, with the prick of a man, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, at fucking McDOnald’s. ]
Then, the disasters of the day: More than 5,200 dead —
[The initial floods in northeastern Libya — after torrential rain this past weekend — were bad enough. But the worst of the damage was not a result of those floods. It has instead come from the subsequent bursting of two dams near the coastal city of Derna.]
Is there anything more tragic than that? The Golden Shower Arches with two death star stars, and then death death death?
I’m not sure why she states, “…and he’s probably right . . .” but then Caitlin is full of hope about humanity, you know.
Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday that he wouldn’t expect any meaningful changes in US policy toward Russia if former president Donald Trump secures re-election next year.
“I think there will be no fundamental changes regarding Russia in US foreign policy, no matter who is elected president,” Putin said. “Mr. [Donald] Trump (ex-president and Republican Party candidate — TASS) says he will solve acute problems, including the Ukrainian crisis, in a few days, this can only please. Nevertheless, he too imposed sanctions on Russia during his presidency,” Putin recalled.
The US, according to the Russian president, “views Russia as a permanent adversary, or even an enemy, and has hammered this into the heads of ordinary Americans.” “The current authorities have tuned American society into an anti-Russian vein and spirit — that’s what it’s all about. They have done it, and now it will be very difficult to somehow turn this ship in the other direction,” Putin said.
Of course, the USA, in its very fiber, in the DNA of fourth, tenth or first generation Americans, they HATE Russia and Russians. Fulll-Stop.
Her conclusion is a bit milquetoast:
The most significant thing about all US presidents is not their differences, it’s their similarities. The truth of the matter is that if you were to only watch the movements of troops, war machinery, resources and money from year to year, you wouldn’t be able to tell when one president’s term ended and another began, or what party they belong to or what their campaign platform was. The empire marches on completely uninterrupted, regardless of who Americans elect to be the face at its front desk.
It reminds me of Orwell’s concept of doublethink: the capacity to maintain two seemingly contradictory viewpoints, a deep-seated indoctrination that’s absolutely void of rationalism. I am all on-board for counter-intuitive thinking, but double think, or 360 turnaround think as the Green German Minister said, well, that is another kettle of fish.
This is it for the fucking stupid WEST: “A 360-degree turnaround in Russian politics, and in particular President Vladimir Putin, would make the whole world happy the very next day.” This statement was made by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Annalena Burbock, during her speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 18.
Burbock compared Russia and Germany. She explained that Berlin in its policy “turned around 360 degrees” and ceased to be neutral, starting to provide military assistance to Ukraine. In her opinion, only desire is enough for such changes in politics.
Ahh, the schooling in Germany . . . . Here, stupid,
Here, smart as a whip,
The Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has pointed out that German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock had no idea what a 360-degree turn means.
Zakharova said that if the German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock does not learn at least one school subject, then there is no way to ensure the security of Germany on a long-term basis under her rule.
Western Russophobia did not appear yesterday; it has a very long history. Several hundreds of years ago there were attempts to discredit our country. Take Ivan IV – who for some reason is called “The Terrible” in the West. Western chronicles started to circulate the dark legend about him as a fearsome tyrant already at his lifetime. They wanted to distract the attention of the Europeans from what was going on in their countries. They did not like that the Russian tsar did not succumb to their claims on political and moral leadership.
Here, Jeremy:
Quoting: Guy Mettan’s book, Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017) provides needed historical context for our current political moment, showing how anti-Russian hysteria has long proliferated as a means of justifying Western imperialism.
Mettan is a Swiss journalist and member of parliament who learned about the corruption of the media business when his reporting on the world anticommunist league rankled his newspapers’ shareholders, and when he realized that he was serving as a paid stenographer for the Bosnian Islamist leader Alija Izetbegovic in the early 1990s.
Mettan defines Russophobia as the promotion of negative stereotypes about Russia that associate the country with despotism, treachery, expansion, oppression and other negative character traits. In his view, it is “not linked to specific historical events” but “exists first in the head of the one who looks, not in the victim’s alleged behavior or characteristics.”
Like anti-semitism, Mettan writes, “Russophobia is a way of turning specific pseudo-facts into essential one-dimensional values, barbarity, despotism, and expansionism in the Russian case in order to justify stigmatization and ostracism.”
The origins of Russophobic discourse date back to a schism in the Church during the Middle Ages when Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Roman empire and modified the Christian liturgy to introduce reforms execrated by the Eastern Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine empire.
Mettan writes that “the Europe of Charlemagne and of the year 1000 was in need of a foil in the East to rebuild herself, just as the Europe of the 2000s needs Russia to consolidate her union.”
Before the schism, European rulers had no negative opinions of Russia. When Capetian King Henri I found himself a widower, he turned towards the prestigious Kiev kingdom two thousand miles away and married Vladimir’s granddaughter, Princess Ann.
A main goal of the new liturgy adopted by Charlemagne was to undermine any Byzantine influence in Italy and Western Europe.
Over the next century, the schism evolved from a religious into a political one.
The Pope and the top Roman administration made documents disappear and truncated others in order to blame the Easterners.
Byzantium and Russia were in turn rebuked for their “caesaropapism,” or “Oriental style despotism,” which could be contrasted which the supposedly enlightened, democratic governing system in the West.
Russia was particularly hated because it had defied efforts of Western European countries to submit to their authority and impose Catholicism.
In the 1760s, French diplomats working with a variety of Ukrainian, Hungarian and Polish political figures produced a forged testament of Peter 1 [“The Great”] purporting to reveal Russia’s ‘grand design’ to conquer most of Europe.
This document was still taken seriously by governments during the Napoleanic wars; and as late as the Cold War, President Harry Truman found it helpful in explaining Stalin.
In Britain, the Whigs, who represented the liberal bourgeois opposition to the Tory government and its program of free-trade imperialism, were the most virulent Russophobes, much like today’s Democrats in the United States.
The British media also enflamed public opinion by taking hysterical positions against Russia – often on the eve of major military expeditions.
The London Times during the 1820s Greek Independence war editorialized that no “sane person” could “look with satisfaction at the immense and rapid overgrowth of Russian power.” The same thing was being written in The New York Times in the 2010s.
A great example of the Orientalist stereotype was Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, whose main character was modeled after Russian ruler, Ivan the Terrible. As if no English ruler in history was cruel either.
The Nazis took Russo-phobic discourse to new heights during the 1930s and 1940s, combining it with a virulent anti-bolshevism and anti-semitism.
A survey of German high school texts in the 1960s found little change in the image of Russia. The Russians were still depicted as “primitive, simple, very violent, cruel, mean, inhuman, cupid and very stubborn.”
The same stereotypes were displayed in many Hollywood films during the Cold War, where KGB figures were particularly maligned.
No wonder that when a former KGB agent, Vladimir Putin, took power, people went insane.
Russophobia in the United States has been advanced most insidiously by the nation’s foreign policy elite who have envisioned themselves as grand chess-masters seeking to checkmate their Russian adversary in order to control the Eurasian heartland.
This view is little different than European colonial strategists who had learned of the importance of molding public opinion through disinformation campaigns that depicted the Russian bear as a menace to Western civilization.
Guy Mettan has written a thought-provoking book that provides badly needed historical context for the anti-Russian delirium gripping our society.
Breaking the taboo on Russophobia is of vital importance in laying the groundwork for a more peaceful world order and genuinely progressive movement in the United States. Unfortunately, recent developments don’t inspire much confidence that history will be transcended.
And this is a phobia that is also a Sinophobia, no?
This trade war between the U.S. and China comes at the heels of multiple decades of investment in foreign labor by American companies – often to take advantage of looser regulations and cheaper, exploitable labor – particularly in China and Taiwan. The government’s inaction to regulate this previously has led to grim consequences, and the withdrawal of big business from the American labor market puts American workers at risk of losing their jobs, predominantly blue-collar workers. These are not particularly novel struggles, but more often than not, they have resulted in prejudice against foreign labor, both abroad and in the U.S. American xenophobia dating back to the Industrial Revolution was rooted in competition for jobs, especially due to the willingness of large employers to pay foreign or migrant workers less, fueling animosity from rural Americans. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act – which established an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese migrant laborers – is a perfect representation of these attitudes, validating an ethnic-based animosity that still has effects today.
[An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to the Chinese, May 6, 1882. ]The Chinese know this, and so do the Russians, though the past two decades before Trump and then Biden, both Russian and Chinese thought many in the USA — you know, the average Joe and Jill, Juan and Wanda — did not hate them, their cultures, who they are.
Pure idiotic thinking, since the West has Disneyfied and Holly-Dirt-ized a whole hell of a lot of societies, toward their population’s (partial) SELF-Hate.
Think of the doll test: It was the psychological study that shaped a generation, this Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll test.
The husband-and-wife team studied the self-image of Black children, and their psychological experiments performed in the ‘40s found African American children preferred dolls with white skin.
Their work helped win the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, and the couple opened a non-profit a Harlem that has been helping community for over 70 years.
“The children basically rejected the Black dolls and really said the white doll was the good doll, the Black doll was the bad doll,” Northside Center for Child Development Executive Director Dr. Thelma Dye said.
This is the way of Bernays, man . . . hate thy self, perception is reality,want that which is not needed, or want that which is dangerous . . . hold stupid ideas about almost EVERYTHING under the sun and just smile.
Of course, most of the writers on Substack who want a following, and want to be faux-balanced and appeal to some bizarre rhetorical framework, who are also thinking that attacking the person is so wrong, they just will not admit the power of PERSUASION, and in this case, marketing, Hollywood, propaganda, geopolitics, science, psychology, culture, the arts, literature, the press, and so much more.
Blinken and Big Macs, or breakfast sandwiches?
[But standard American policy (among everyday people as much as politicians) for a long time maintained that what the rest of the world was up to was really none of our business. This changed right about the time we entered the first world war, though even having entered it, public opinion mostly stood opposed. It was Edward Bernays’ first large-scale project in fact, working on a team for the military to convince the average Joe that war was good and right. As such, Bernays helped to present a paint-by-number framework for such convincing that governments have since mastered – with flair.]
Even the shit food, that Jewish nephew brought to the Goyim: HAM. FUCK.
[Our more extravagant meal was conjured up when Edward Bernays secured the Beech-Nut Packing Company as a client who wanted him to raise their pork sales. Bernays went to work collecting testimony from nearly 5,000 doctors across the U.S. who said simply that a heavier breakfast was a healthier one, while some of them specifically cited bacon and eggs as an example. The ploy worked.]
Then this fucker harassed his own wife to NEVER EVER smoke: [Lucky Strike cigarettes proudly bore a bright green package when they hired Bernays to raise sales. Through polling, he discovered that women in particular were opposed to the brand because it clashed with just about every outfit.[4]
Rarely one to take the straight-forward route, Bernays didn’t demand a change in packaging from the company but instead – by planting supportive articles in fashionable magazines and hosting “green balls” where, perhaps obviously, everyone invited wore green in an environment decorated with the same –, he created a massive fashion trend for the color green. It worked. People wore more green and Lucky Strike, appearing well ahead of the game, became a popular brand accessory.]
This fucker and lung cancer? Will the people of dead and dying women go after Bernays and his estate and his little Eichmann family?
That women were targeted as consumers at all was due largely to Bernays’ influence. Up until he was contracted by Virginia Slims, it was unsociable or, even in some states, unlawful for women to smoke. But Bernays saw an opportunity in growing support for the suffragette movement. When a womens’ march was scheduled in New York, he encouraged a group of its participants to light up at the same moment, a moment when his hired newspaper photographers were in position with cameras ready
You want even more of the death spiral this Jewish man brought to the world (I’m pointing out this since this is a hundred years ago, more or less, and we have had legions of hucksters and middlemen ruin the world, and with ZioAzovNaziLensky and the Nuland-Kagan-Blinken soilers, we are still in that world times 1,000,000!
Edward Bernays was hired by Alcoa to present industrial-grade fluoride, a common byproduct (and regulated pollutant) produced by the manufacture of its big seller, aluminum, as a benefit to public health. Bernays himself is quoted as saying that he took the job because he was fascinated to see if he could convince an entire nation to vote against what it knew instinctively to be its own good health interests. Using methods like calling up every dictionary and encyclopedia he could find and having them add a then-non-existent entry on “fluoridation,” giving the whole concept a sense of authority, he, as per usual, succeeded with flying colors.
A fucking egg, man, this is how evil this Bernays is!
It was once a sign of lazy homemakery to use instant cake mix. No self-respecting parent or baker made cake out of the box. In fact, instant anything was still generally a shameful prospect. But, with Bernays on the case, it wouldn’t be much longer. He polled and researched and observed. Eventually, the man realized that potential consumers felt guilty if they made cake from a box, as if they were not giving enough to their families. So, he had manufacturers add one simple step to the process: an egg. Everything about the instant cake was provided except the egg, which one had to buy separately and beat into the mixture.
Oh, those unwashed, poor, stupid.
Bernays literally wrote the book on an idea he termed “engineering consent.” He presented the argument that democracy could not be left in the hands of the unwashed masses, that the world’s wealthy and powerful must protect those lower on the class rung from themselves. The method of providing this protection was to manipulate their votes by the same kinds of campaigns which Bernays had perfected, all the while promoting the beauty of free election.
So, while his ideas about the upper classes’ role in manipulating the rest of society seem anything but progressive, he also worked very hard to see that the masses received a sexual education. He fought censors and police of the time, built a fake committee to show support, and rallied some of the wealthiest and most famous people on the planet to allow a theatre play to run whose focus was to educate its audience on venereal diseases. If Bernays were alive today, such an M/O might be something like promoting climate change denial, then funding Planned Parenthood.[10]
Fucking Trump and the two parties’ (sic) conventions and the media madness? One of the first publicity campaigns for a U.S. president was created by Bernays. Calvin Coolidge, running in the 1924 election, was apparently perceived by many as uptight, so his PR advisor orchestrated celebrity visits and a Vaudeville performance on the White House lawn. If we look at the media circus that accompanies American elections today and wonder about the degree to which they seem like reality TV shows or even adult cartoons, this may have been the moment that made it all possible.
And, so, duh — Nuland-Kagan-Blinken and an entire army of Russia haters, the Maddows and others in the stable, and in academia, in mass media, Holly-Dirt, from the Ivy (poison) League schools — this is how they kill people: It was clear to United Fruit’s leadership, in particular company president Sam Zemurray, that the country was moving left. Guatemalan military leaders confirmed these fears in October 1944 when they overthrew the Ubico government, in what came to be known as the October Revolution. In the aftermath, Guatemala elected “spiritual socialist” Juan José Arévalo as its new leader.
United Fruit needed something—or someone—to save its business.It should come as no surprise that Sam Zemurray sought out the services of Edward Bernays. In the wake of Arévalo’s ascendance, Guatemala continued to experience political turmoil.
Between 1945 and 1951, there were anywhere from 25 to 30 coup attempts against the Arévalo government. [6]
Bernays was not troubled by this violence. In fact, he found a use for it. His strategy in Guatemala would be simple: He would encourage further unrest. His goal, as described in Biography of an Idea, was to help the public “learn more about the countries in which [United Fruit] functioned and what social, economic, or other purposes it fulfilled.” [7] But this would be no innocent public relations campaign. Bernays, the Father of Lies, went back to his time in the tobacco industry to pull from his bag of tricks. [Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup]
And, all those prognosticators, they just do not know the roots of and the evil seeds of that dirty man, Bernays.
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Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. For the first time, federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few non-laborers who sought entry to the United States (such as diplomatic officers) to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove their status because the 1882 act defined laborers as “skilled and unskilled…and Chinese employed in mining.” Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.
The 1882 exclusion act also placed new requirements on Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. Congress, moreover, refused state and federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts could still deport them.
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, they faced deportation.
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA “capitalist”) society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
–Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US
OR.
“Admen like Bernays are professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism, and self-interest.”
— Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter when he warned President Franklin Roosevelt against allowing Bernays to play a leadership role in World War II
Or this Mafia Club:
“Always tell the truth. Tell a lot of the truth. Tell a lot more of the truth than anybody expects you to tell. But never tell the whole truth.”
— quote from one of the participants of the 1924 annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World (from Stuart Ewen’s 1976 book, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
However, it was only much later in my adult life that I realized that I had been the victim of a subtle propagandizing in my childhood. Simply by reading the bland history books that had been approved by some school book committee down in uber-patriotic, pro-war Texas that I began to realize that I had been deceived by half-truths. I finally understood that my beloved nation was no triumphant, exceptional “shining city on a hill” like I had been led to believe. The religion I was accidentally born into, which endorsed every genocidal war its leaders started, was not superior to all the others. I realized that my teachers, my journalists and even my pastors had never gotten around to teaching me about the whole truth about America’s unethical, murderous, racist and genocidal military campaigns that started with Columbus and the conquistadors and continued with the mass killings of Native Americans and the theft of their homeland.
Bernays made use of his uncle’s psychological insights to control the public mind and manipulate it to create public acceptance for a product or idea.
He wrote, “if you can influence group leaders (ie ”thought leaders”), either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.”
One of Bernays most influential ”accomplishments” occurred in the mid- to late 1940s, when he was hired by ALCOA (the Aluminum Company of America) to orchestrate a public relations campaign to convince the public that it would be good to add ALCOA’s highly toxic by-product (fluoride salts) to the nation’s drinking water supplies under the guise of preventing tooth decay. It was one of Bernays’ most successful campaigns, with some state legislatures passing laws that compelled reluctant municipalities to fluoridate their water with the toxic waste product that had been responsible for poisoned – for decades – the air, soil, water, food, livestock and many other living things surrounding ALCOA’s manufacturing plants. The aluminum industry, with the help of the American Dental Association (who is still in denial about the serious neurotoxicity of their mercury fillings), got rid of their poisonous by-products and made a profit at the same time!
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Poison in the water, and poison in the minds of the rotten Ivy League and Stanford and a few hundred other colleges polluting minds, a la Bernays:
The process of creating a kind of “anti-China” on the basis of Taiwan issue, which has been carried out by Washington since the early 2000s and finally entrenched under the current democratic administration of Tsai Ing-wen, is alarming. The United States is actually implementing the “Ukrainian scenario”, promising security guarantees and military support, as well as drawing allies — Japan and some NATO countries — into a potential conflict zone. [ The East on Fire: Who Benefits from a War in Northeast Asia?]
If he were alive, Edward Bernays would be masturbating all over the place, from Pelosi et al ramping up their lies, to Russia-Gate, to e-cigarettes owned by Big Tobacco, to the Planned Pandemic (Event 201) and the trillion$ stolen in the poison regime’s ‘99 vaccines in the drawer and 99 jabs before you turn four’ song an dance.
Blood on that BLOODLESS Bernays’ hands . . . . and so many millions taught by bloodless ones after him on how to scam, grift, deal in graft, lie, half-lie, sort-of-lie, double-speak, un-news the news . . . . THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY AND THE 1954 GUATEMALAN COUP
Ahh, what would Patrick Lancaster say about EdwardBernays?
When will the Russia Ukraine War end? It’s a question everyone in the world is wondering. To help us better understand what’s really happening in Ukraine, I sit down with American journalist Patrick Lancaster who discusses the latest updates on the Russia Ukraine War. Listen to the interviewer, yet another propagandized freak — “I am obviously not for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.” What the fuck?
NOT ONE CASE OF Irritated throats in these lies: NO MURDER BY ZELENSKY EVER FOUND! OR THEFT?
Finally, a shout out to Bernays who helped design this reality: Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond | The Chris Hedges Report.
Of course, the facts and figures — numbers — Hedges brings up are not full, not reality, and poverty and security, and discussing homelessness as living in cars and abandoned buildings, well, that ain’t it. Evictions, ZioAzovNaziLensky?
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His primary teaching and research interests include urban sociology, poverty, race and ethnicity, organizations and work, social theory, and ethnography. In 2018, Desmond’s Eviction Lab at Princeton University published the first-ever dataset of more than 80 million American eviction records. The Lab currently is pursuing nearly a dozen lines of inquiry analyzing this groundbreaking dataset that will help scholars, policymakers, and advocates better understand eviction, housing insecurity, and poverty.
NOTE to TOOTHLESS IN WISCONSIN — He mentions living in Milwaukee, and the poverty there. Any discussion? Selling poverty as NEVER PULLING YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS!
Sad Side Note: And, unfortunately, I did with a non-profit that was setting up a pay for success, impact investing scam. Program aim: enrolling families to end poverty by Paul Haeder Sep 23, 2019
The screenshots below are from the website of the Family Independence Initiative. The organization has ties to New Profit and is part of the GreenLight Fund’s national portfolio, though it is not in Philadelphia yet. It seems like something straight out Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You.” Such hubris, compelling families to upload personal details of their “income, savings, health, education, housing, leadership, and connections” to the “UpTogether” software platform, so they can “take control of their own success” through the wonders of data analytics and profiling. It is Orwellian; it is horrific.
So, no, I did not buy into this bullshit of having my clients’ bank accounts and school grades and such tied to digital dashboards. The $720,000 FII got for this pilot came from Salem, OR, DHS, and I was paid $35 an hour, and I tried to get people some emergency money, $800, for 12 months of journaling. It was a fucking scam, because signing up meant having knowledge of computers and navigating that. Many did not have smart phones or WiFi or computing experience. I also was told I would be fired from this 1099 job if I “helped” my participants with too much of anything.
What the fuck do you think these poor people, who saw me as a navigator, wanted help with? Food, clothing, medical help, section 8, education for their kids, tired, furniture, and, so much more, including having me as a listening point, and all of that I did, but I lied lied lied to these fuckers running FII, man. And they harped on me weekly for supposedly breaking their paradigm of not helping people but getting them to get help from peers, who happened to live miles and miles away and had no cars or decent public transportation.
FII is now Uptogether, and it is getting funding from Koch Brothers and their bullshit foundations— Donors.
Read Alison’s stuff, and watch her videos. Edward Bernays on Crack Cocaine, Pay for Success, Social Impact Investing, all of this is part of the Big Data, Big Algorithm, Big AI, and again, Social Impact Investing = Poverty Mining. Bernays? Your evil spawn? Where are you?
there are no radicals on the true left, left, as weenies of all sorts decide who gets to comment on their platforms . . . David Rovics–latest wimp, and wimp-dom from self-described rad is dangerous?
I’m asking the question (above), not making the huge swath of criticism. But I gave him a few shots —
The tables were turned — David Rovics interviewed me in a wide-ranging, tangentially themed hour a few days ago. Here is what one Dissident Voice article has to say about Portland, OR-based Rovics
He is not one to wait for his turn to talk. He listens intently and when I’m finished asks another question. After all that Rovics has seen and heard during more than 20 years as a singer-song writer who has performed all over the world, he has yet to act like a self-proclaimed expert on anything. — “The Social Significance of David Rovics” by Jasmin Ramsey, July 25th, 2009
How things change, in a Young Country with Old Men Who Are Actually Young Holding Us Down Since They Want Us Too Dumb for Old and Young Men in a Shit-Hole Country.
Now, I posted on this guy’s Substack, Rovics, that is, in the comments section, on my take around the idea he posits in today’s screed that people on his Substack might not like what he has to say about . . .
We can’t change the past, nor can we predict the future. But if we take a cursory look at what’s gone on on Planet Earth in my lifetime, it would be overwhelmingly reasonable to assume that neither 9/11/1973 or 9/11/2001 would have happened without the existence of the CIA and its practices in support of US foreign policy.
At this point I’m probably losing most of my readers, aside from the most conspiracy-obsessed ones. This is by design, on the part of the social engineers. You’re supposed to be thinking of emotionally unstable incel nerds with aluminum-foil hats ranting about secret societies, and your eyes should shortly start glossing over.
My comment was accepted, then erased, and then this:
OH, the blocks. Shadow-banning. This guy has already had problems with his Jewish ancestory and his Jewish Zionist brethren. What did I put into my comments?
Oh, this website, pure hatred, pure telling Goyim and self-loathing Jews (sic-sic) what to do:
Rovics has been a staple of many radical communities for a couple of decades. Known for his acoustic protest songs, he often plays at demonstrations, writes tracks related to contemporary political issues, and tours internationally and has self-published dozens of albums.
In 2021 Rovics had a YouTube video and podcast interviewing the neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach. The interview is a softball, where Rovics agrees with many of Heimbach’s critiques of the left and challenges virtually nothing Heimbach says, essentially giving him an open forum to state his views. Heimbach has argued that he has reformed, that he is no longer a white nationalist, but both by listening to his views and listening to experts, journalists, and antifascists who know him and his work well, this is an easy lie to dispel.[3]
Then Rovics hosted the antisemite Gilad Atzmon on his YouTube/podcast, where they talked at length about “Jewish tribal politics” and “Jewish identity politics.” Rovics knows well that there has been a great deal of evidence amassed about Atzmon and when he was confronted with it, both recently and historically, he has doubled down, refusing to deny Atzmon his support. Third, he appeared on the conspiracy podcast hosted by Kevin Barrett, who denied the Holocaust while Rovics was on his show; again, Rovics seemed to give him a pass.[4] Barrett is a known antisemite and conspiracy theorist, who describes himself as a “Holocaust agnostic” and who describes the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a witty piece of “satire.”[5]
Rovics has apologized for the Heimbach interview and taken it down. But that is not the issue at the heart of the ongoing controversy. People make mistakes, and Rovics believed Heimbach when he shouldn’t have. I, and all journalists and antifascists, quote white nationalists in stories, sometimes from direct interviews, because we have to prove they are what we allege they are. That is necessary for reliable journalism and the safety of the community. But when I do this I analyze and re-analyze the choices, I get a huge number of eyes to ensure it is being done ethically, and I never give them an open platform to speak up without being directly countered. So, this could be considered an understandable mistake, one which stems from his own arrogance to think that he does not need any expertise or accountability when doing this type of work.
So so, fair play, no? What the hell is wrong with someone not wanting comments on their Substack? Prior Restraint or Censoring?
Hell, hat did I say to offend him? I said that conspiracy theories are not theories and some sort of reason to even joke about “losing my readers.” I posted this article, about Abrams:
Then this one I posted:
Then this one, too:
Then, I referred to Lowkey and this article:
Then, I recommended to him to keep this Parenti quote handy:
“Almost as an article of faith, some individuals believe that conspiracies are either kooky fantasies or unimportant aberrations. To be sure, wacko conspiracy theories do exist. There are people who believe that the United States has been invaded by a secret United Nations army equipped with black helicopters, or that the country is secretly controlled by Jews or gays or feminists or black nationalists or communists or extraterrestrial aliens. But it does not logically follow that all conspiracies are imaginary.
Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.
Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.
At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).
Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”
The irony of this cock blocking by the non-radical Rovics is that I was having my fucking nanny gate fun over at FU Book minutes before.
I appealed to this son of a bitch Meta Monster:
I still did not know what the fuck the ban was about [ ban included me not able to comment on the groups I follow . . . this is the what Goyim like me have to deal with facing Hasbara Tyrants like Fucker-Burg. ]
I found out that this is the offending post:
It’s a legit site:
So, this is SS Substack, I know I know. Closet Goebbels and Gestapo of Sorts. I am sure the rules based disorder of this dystopia says not to criticize fellow Sub-Human Substackers.
April 26, 2022. This is a fake site, of course, set up to attack, well, David and Gilad.
Now, this is verboten? Words, questions, racialized questions, citing this or that scum or sort-of-scum of the earth?
“The issue of biology is very interesting, and I think that Kevin MacDonald himself understands it,” Atzmon says, citing a white nationalist psychologist known for arguing that Judaism was a “group evolutionary strategy” for Jews to eugenically improve themselves and outcompete Gentiles for resources. “How much of it is biology, race, culture? These questions should be discussed openly. I don’t see Jews as a race. There is no Jewish racial continuum, but there is definitely a cultural pattern that has some biological implications,” says Atzmon. “I use The Bell Curve models to show how Jews’ cognitive ability distribution was in the Jewish society. There is something that people don’t know a lot about. Kevin MacDonald definitely knows about it. He wrote about it. Jews, for as long as 1,500 years, European Jews married intelligence – the sage, the rabbi, the young boy that is destined to become the rabbi – with the merchant’s daughter. For 1,500 years, in the ghetto, rabbinical Jews married scholarship with money, and they have managed to create a very unique elite that specialized in scholarship and money.”
So, this person — [Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and union organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured at places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Independent, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Tikkun, The Baffler, Bandcamp Daily, Truthout, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is also the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Social Justice on “Antisemitism in the 21st Century.” He is currently working on two books, one on radical approaches to antisemitism and another on the history of antifascism and popular struggle.] — attacks Rovics hard right-left! Quoting Burley:
Atzmon has just as much of a problem with Jewish anti-Zionists as he does with Jewish Zionists because they maintain their “tribal identity” and refuse to disaffiliate with Jewishness. “Don’t they love themselves for being enlightened, progressive socialists, while at the same time sinking into neurosis upon realizing that being Jewish tribal petit bourgeois, they have never managed to join the human family, let alone the working class,” says Atzmon about Jewish anti-Zionists.[43]
“If we redefine Zionism as a modern form of Jewish activism that aims to halt assimilation, we can then reassess all Jewish tribal activity as an internal debate within the diverse Zionist political movement – colonizing of Palestine can then be considered as just another one of the faces of Zionism. Jewish socialism and Jewish progressive activism fits very nicely into the Zionist project. As integral parts of the Zionist network, they are there to collect the lost souls amongst the humanist Jews, to bring them home for Hanukkah. The Israel Lobby and Alan Dershowitzes of the world are the voices of Zionism; the third-category socialists are there to stop proud, self-hating Jews from blowing the whistle.”
Enough already: Wikipedia, David Rovics was born in New York City. His family moved to Wilton, Connecticut when he was young. Rovics was politically inspired during his adolescence by his experiences with the conservative-oriented, Christian milieu of his home town. His parents, both classical musicians and educators, were liberal in their outlook. Perhaps for this reason, while in his teens Rovics acquired interests in nuclear disarmament, vegetarianism and other counterculture issues. He has described himself as an “anti-Zionist Jew from New York”
… and it is so sad, the hobbling, the overweight, the sick-looking, all those heavy breathers at Walmart, but not just there, on this repugnant day of half-masts
How many half masts for the Vietnamese the USA and Australia and France and Canada and (see graphic) bombed back to the stone age?
Halfway along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Rebecca Rusch finally learned to slow down. The now 48-year-old endurance mountain biker had come to Southeast Asia in February 2015 to find her father, who had disappeared near the end of the Vietnam War. But what she found in Laos was a deeper connection to any place she’d ever been.
Red Bull had sent her there to ride the 1,144-mile length of a Vietnam War–era supply route. Her journey is chronicled in the documentary Blood Road which will be screened onboard the Intrepid in New York City this Tuesday, and released online and on DVD and BlueRay the same day. (The documentary won the Audience Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival in March, and Best of the Fest at the Bentonville Film Festival last month.) Rusch rode with a picture of her dad, Air Force Captain Stephen Rusch, in her backpack, and took a detour to his crash site in Southern Laos.
The wreckage of her father’s F4-E Phantom II fighter-bomber was long gone, precious metal repurposed by local villagers, but around her lay the unexploded ordnance of the war; her father and his fellow airmen had dropped 2.5 million tons of explosives on this small country half a century ago. For Rusch, that discovery has given her a reason to keep riding her bicycle beyond just winning races: It’s given her the chance to face the past and try to improve the future. (source)
So, that 9/11, those false flags, all of that, today, at Walmart, where my fellow men and women, children and even dogs are flagging big time. This is not a great picture of the American Nightmare/Dream. There will be blood and it’s a country too old too young to do any good. A No Good Country for No Good Old Men?
Oh, Vietnam, Oh Cry for me, 9/11:
On the anniversary of the CIA-sponsored coup against the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvador Allende, Lowkey speaks to survivor Roberto Navarrete and investigative journalist John McEvoy.
A feature-length documentary co-directed by documentary filmmaker Pablo Navarrete and investigative journalist John McEvoy.
For most people in Britain, 11 September marks the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centres in New York.
In Chile, the date resonates for another reason.
On 11 September 1973, a military coup was launched against Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. That morning, British-made Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda, Chile’s presidential palace, while tanks patrolled the surrounding streets of Santiago.
By the end of the day, Allende was dead and the Chilean military had taken power. What followed was a 17-year-long military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, under which thousands of civilians were killed, and tens of thousands more were tortured.
The US government’s role in the Chilean coup is well known. US President Richard Nixon infamously ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile, and launched a series of covert operations against Allende’s government.
The UK government’s role in the death of Chile’s democracy and the rise of the Pinochet regime is less known.
Britain and the Other 9/11 explores the secret history of British interference in Chile’s democracy, the friendship that emerged between Margaret Thatcher and Pinochet, and the New Labour government’s decision to allow the Chilean dictator to evade justice for crimes against humanity.
The film draws on years of archival research and Freedom of Information work by John McEvoy.
In June 2023, we travelled to Chile to meet and interview the relatives of British nationals who were killed by the Pinochet regime, torture survivors, award-winning Chilean journalists, and former Chilean officials. We also spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, the grandson of the former Chilean president, about Britain’s hidden hand in Chile.
We are now filming in the UK and plan to release the documentary in early 2024.
Those half masts?
So many tributes to the firemen and cops? September 11, 2001? Not looking too sad, these fucking monsters, no?
The half-masts for the UkroNazi’s? For the Russians?
Highlights
Osama bin Laden, America’s bogeyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US-sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA-sponsored guerilla training camp.
The architects of the covert operation in support of “Islamic fundamentalism” launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the “Global War on Terrorism” in the wake of 9/11.
President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1985
Under the Reagan administration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic “freedom fighters”. In today’s world, the “freedom fighters” are labelled “Islamic terrorists”.
In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA.
The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda.
The coming recriminations will be ugly and will hinder Ukraine’s efforts to stay in the fight against Russia.
Second, many in the West will argue that the time is now ripe for diplomacy. The failed counteroffensive shows that Ukraine cannot prevail on the battlefield, so the argument will go, and thus it makes sense to reach a peace agreement with Russia, even if Kyiv and the West must make concessions. After all, the situation will only get worse for Ukraine if the war continues.
Regrettably, there is no diplomatic solution in sight. There are irreconcilable differences between the two sides over security guarantees for Ukraine and territory, which stand in the way of a meaningful peace agreement. For understandable reasons, Ukraine is deeply committed to getting back all the land it has lost to Russia, which includes Crimea and the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. But Moscow has already annexed those territories and made it clear that it has no intention of returning them to Kyiv.
The other unresolvable issue concerns Ukraine’s relationship with the West. For understandable reasons, Ukraine insists that it needs a security guarantee, which can only come from the US and NATO. Russia, on the other hand, insists that Ukraine must be neutral and must end its security relationship with the West. In fact, that issue was the main cause of the present war, even if American and European foreign policy elites refuse to believe it.[62] Moscow was unwilling to tolerate Ukraine joining NATO. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to see how both sides can be satisfied on either the territorial or neutrality issue.
In addition to those obstacles, both sides view each other as an existential threat, which is an enormous obstacle to any kind of meaningful compromise. It is hard to imagine, for example, the US taking its gunsights off Russia in the foreseeable future. The most likely result is that that the war will go on and eventually end in a frozen conflict with Russia in possession of a significant portion of Ukrainian territory. But that outcome will not put an end to the competition andconflict between Russia and Ukraine or between Russia and the West.
Now now, we know this saying: Native Americans have their own 9/11 each year, and in the USA, what’s that? The rate of U.S. deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and suicide climbed 11 percent in 2021. While an all-time record, 209,225 Americans lost their lives due to alcohol, drugs or suicide during the year, these deaths continued a two-decade trend of sharply increasing fatalities due to substance misuse and suicide in the U.S.
In a recently published article in the Lancet, we provide new data showing that between 1999 and 2013, premature deaths among Native Americans increased by a far greater margin: nearly 30%. These deaths started at a much higher rate to begin with, and unfortunately the inequities have only deepened in recent years. We found that as of 2020, Native Americans had a premature death rate double that of white Americans. A disparity of this magnitude between ethnoracial groups should be inconceivable in our society. [“Deaths of despair and Indigenous data genocide”]
Half masts:
Data on Native communities are often missing from public health research, he adds, because “our numbers are small and we often get folded into a category like ‘Other’ instead of being reported distinctively for indigenous peoples.”
While the recent rise in deaths among white Americans is, of course, alarming, Gone says, that the factors driving these deaths have affected Native communities for much longer.
“Indian country problems rise and fall with the economy like everyone else’s,” he says, “but we’re just used to a lack of resources and opportunities for a whole bunch of reasons that go way back.”
He adds that “colonial subjugation” by European settlers and historical attacks on the ways of life and livelihoods of indigenous communities have shaped the health and lifespans of Native communities since the early days of this country.
“Part of what I think we’re seeing in these [rising rates of] deaths of despair are attacks on livelihoods,” he says, “and decline in the ability to have good livelihoods.”
“If you look at matters of poverty, education, decreased employment opportunities, restricted access to other kinds of resources that are typically associated with these kinds of health disparities,” says Manson, “they’re very powerful and widely present in American and Alaska Native communities.”
Half masts: Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says. (source)
Redacted is proud to present “Peace, War and 9/11.” In this captivating documentary filmed six months before his passing, eminent scholar and lifelong peace activist Graeme MacQueen shares his final words on 9/11, the 2001 anthrax attacks, and the goal of abolishing war.
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So, poor souls, my fellow Americans, you are in it with me, with us, and the time for change is yesterday. So many ways to be free!
The pigs of the world hire the pigs of the world to kill our free-dumb!
The ruling class, like ruling classes throughout history, seek to keep the poor and oppressed uneducated for a reason . . .
My in box sent to me by ME on the quickening, the absurdity of the Internet, curated aggregators, what is on the minds of the controllers.
It’s a seesaw, yoyo mentality, a concerted eOneffort to never bring any real solutions for the global crises, mostly solvable, to light. One step forward, forty=four back.
And the images, man — Hanoi? Biden in fucking Vietnam? Bombarding us nanosecond by nanosecond. This dirty country, and this dirty man, Hunter Spawn, in Communist Vietnam? Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong, front right, and US President Joe Biden, front left, attend a military welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Sept.10, 2023. Biden is on an official two-day visit in Vietnam
And exactly how many people of the Americano variety died in Cuba? I mean, Viernam? And what we are doing to that country — Cuba, 80 miles south — through unethical, demonic sanctions, that’s sanity? We are an insane society, so forget SARS-CoV2 planned pandemic. Imagine if you had a brain that still worked and carried with it all the infamy this disgusting birthplace of you and ratchetd up monthly why the USA is a dead society, unworthy of any of its supposed gains and babbles from hell?
But then, that SARS-Bio=Weapon, it is in the news too: The heat is on again, and so this news person, makes a declaration!
A news flash? Late to the party? Another person jinxed by her opinion?
Megyn Kelly, a veteran journalist and podcaster, said Wednesday that she deeply regrets getting the COVID-19 vaccine because she believes she may have suffered a vaccine injury. Ms. Kelly said that she regrets getting vaccinated and then boosted, saying she doesn’t think it was necessary—and that a doctor told her that an autoimmune condition she developed after getting the shot may be related to the vaccine. “I regret getting the vaccine even though I’m a 52-year-old woman because I don’t think I needed it,” Ms. Kelly said during a Sept. 6 episode of her podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “I think I would have been fine. I had got COVID many times, and it was well past when the vaccine was doing what it was supposed to be doing,” she added.
“For the first time, I tested positive for an autoimmune issue at my annual physical. And I went to the best rheumatologist in New York, and I asked her, do you think this could have to do with the fact that I got the damn booster and then got COVID within three weeks? And she said yes. Yes. I wasn’t the only one she’d seen that with,” Ms. Kelly said.
Her current vaccine regret stands in contrast to remarks she made in April 2021, when she said she had “zero qualms” about getting the shot.
And yet, those mRNA stories, all over the place, even from Jews and Israeli Jews, pales in comparison to the Jewish Zionist Apartheid Pogrom State:
This week, we had a great piece on that subject: Mitchell Plitnick’s essay on Israel’s demand that the world recognize its right to exist as a Jewish state. Truman opposed that definition. And refused to recognize it. He said that religion caused worse arguments than money.
But now even progressive Democrats insist on Israel’s existence as a “Jewish state,” a religious constitution that we would all find objectionable in the U.S., no matter what religion was on top.
Our obligation as Americans is pretty clear. End American support for a state constituted on Jewish supremacy. Show what a Jewish state meant for young Milad Munther AlRaee.
So, there it is, open for shopping, open for business, bring on the tourists.
On Thursday, Green told a meeting of the state Council on Revenues that he expected authorities to reopen most of West Maui to travelers in October, with the exception of the fire-damaged neighborhoods. The area, which includes beach resorts in Kaanapali, north of historic Lahaina, has 11,000 hotel rooms. That’s half Maui’s total.
In the emergency proclamation signed Friday, the governor said the previous guidance that strongly discouraged nonessential travel to West Maui will be discontinued Oct. 8.
Maui burned one month ago as of this writing. The poignant news story in USA Today about the catastrophe in Hawaii is
“’Don’t forget about us’: Maui victims struggle one month after deadly fires.”
No mention of the children. No photographs of frightened and grieving parents and grandparents holding up signs showing photographs of their laughing, sun-kissed children — toddlers and school-age children in paradise settings with the vast blue ocean as a backdrop.
More than 2,100 killed by earthquake near Marrakech, Morocco, as of now, today.
There were 50,783 deaths, 297 missing and 107,204 injured across 11 of the 17 affected provinces of Turkey. At least 15.73 million people and 4 million buildings were affected. About 345,000 apartments were destroyed.
It’s adding up, no?
A dozen here and there in Donbass, daily, and you get to 14,000-plus, and a few hundred here and there daily on the Proxy War NATO/USA war to the last Ukrainian:
The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 340 troops in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions over the past 24 hours, with the Russian army repelling eight attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“During the fighting [in the Donetsk direction], the enemy lost up to 260 troops, two armored combat vehicles and five vehicles,” the ministry said.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian armed forces lost about 80 troops, two armed vehicles and two pickups, the ministry stated.
So, is it Cornel West, or not? Who the hell is running for POTUS? Does it matter? Fucking A.
What forces can be organized to pit the power of the demos, the populace, against the rulers, to ensure justice?
What are our roles and duties as citizens? How should we educate the young? When is it permissible to break the law?
How is tyranny prevented or overthrown?
Can human nature, as the Jacobins and communists believed, be transformed?
How do we protect our dignity and freedom?
What is friendship?
What constitutes virtue?
What is evil?
What is love?
How do we define a good life?
Is there a God?
If God does not exist, should we abide by a moral code?
These questions thunder down through the ages, asked during different times and under different circumstances. The most radical contemporary philosophers, including Frantz Fanon author of The Wretched of the Earth, built their edifices on the foundations of the political philosophers that came before them. In Fanon’s case it was Friedrich Hegel. As Vladimir Lenin correctly said of Marx, most of his ideas could be traced to previous philosophers. Paulo Freire, the author of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” studied philosophy. Hannah Arendt, who wrote“The Origins of Totalitarianism,” was steeped in the ancient Greeks and Augustine.
“It is indeed difficult and even misleading to talk about politics and its innermost principles without drawing to some extent upon the experiences of Greek and Roman antiquity, and this for no other reason than that men have never, either before or after, thought so highly of political activity and bestowed so much dignity upon its realm” — Arendt writes in “Between Past and Future.”
Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary and radical political philosopher, who mentored a young Cornel West when he was Princeton University’s first Black candidate for a doctorate in philosophy, gave us the vocabulary and concepts to understand the tyranny of global corporate power, a system he called “inverted totalitarianism.” As a professor at Berkeley, Wolin backed the Free Speech Movement. Wolin, while teaching at Princeton, was one of few professors who supported students occupying buildings to protest against South African apartheid. At one point, Wolin told me, the other professors in Princeton’s political science department refused to speak with him.
Wolin’s radical critique was grounded in these political philosophers, as he writes in his magisterial work, “Politics and Vision,” which my students are reading.
“The history of political thought”, Wolin writes, “is essentially a series of commentaries, sometimes favorable, often hostile, upon its beginnings.”
Now, we saw the interview of Cornel on Jimmy Dore, and it was foolish on both ends of the interview. No need to go onto Jimmy Dore, man. NEVER.
Dore is no RIGHT Winger, but he is????:
As I continue to say — fucking podcasts, goofball polemics, a million and one bottles of busters on the Substack and Patreon and YouTube walls, none of it means anything when we do not care for the poor, the broken, the dying, the dead, the collateral damage.
The reality is there is no reality, and people all around the land — here on the Oregon Coast, not at 71 degrees, today, dry, like the best weather in the world, today, but the beaches are so California — it is not cognitive dissonance.
This is not high end politics or history. Imagine the simplicity of why Putin took so long to go in Feb. 24 2022! Watch!
Listen to the end of this interview — USA will not be hurt by this proxy war. Europe will be hurt, Ukraine, and Russia will be hurt. America doesn’t care. Rich Country. Wonderful Geographical Position. We can do all sorts of things around the world and not have to pay any price. This is how old conservative John Mearsheimer states it. Hard to get Americans to act in smart ways around Ukraine because of shear size and power of USA to act in sensible ways. We are the security umbrella for Klanada, EuroTrashLandia, U-Inbred-Kingdom, Aussie-New Zealandia. The USA is a hawkish country, including regular Americans — John says they are five times as hawkish as he could ever be.
So the bottom line is to stop AI, no? That’s a no fly zone then, which means once you make it, one you deploy it, you have to take it. It is a sickness, that Chat GPT is acceptable and the creators are billionaires, and they are mother fuckers of an Oppenheimer Level to the Fifth Degree.
Building a large language model requires analyzing patterns across a huge trove of human-written text. All of that computing takes a lot of electricity and generates a lot of heat. To keep it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.
“It’s fair to say the majority of the growth is due to AI,” including “its heavy investment in generative AI and partnership with OpenAI,” said Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside who has been trying to calculate the environmental impact of generative AI products such as ChatGPT.
In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
So far, so good. But once you dive down into the details of Joshi’s study, things get more complicated. The research found that the amount of carbon stored varied widely, depending on location, cover crop type, plowing, and the amount of plant growth. A different review, this time examining cover cropping on US farms, found that, in lots of cases, fields with cover crops didn’t gain extra soil carbon when compared to fields that hadn’t been cover cropped. “In terms of climate benefit, it isn’t all that great,” says West.
Agriculture is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the US is getting serious about reform. But some scientists say current efforts are misguided.
And it comes down to fans, or A/C (few have A/C, and the Green Greta Grabbers want no A/C for “them”), or a global effort to help humans weather the colluding storms, in this case, heat waves, the high web bulb indexes.
“In particularly hot locations, most afternoon hours during the hottest months of the year can exceed [safe] thresholds,” they add.
The study, although focused only on the US, provides new insights at a time when much of North America, Europe, and China has sweltered through extreme summer heat made more likely by climate change.
It also follows efforts from scientists to refine estimates initially set by the World Health Organization of conditions where fans might exacerbate heat stress, pushing more hot air onto people than is wicked away.
Electric fans, research now shows, can still be safely used above 35 °C (95 °F) but their limit depends on who is using them and where.
In exceptionally humid or arid areas, electric fans tend to add to heat stress. Their use is also not recommended above 37-38 °C for older adults, especially those taking medications that have side effects of reduced sweating. Young, healthy adults can keep using fans up to 39 °C.
Again, all the wasted energy, water, electricity, even to write this fucking bombast, really, part of the overload of analysis paralysis and too many fucked up things to choose from.
And here, in USA, just armchair prognostication, and how does that help one iota?
Who’s running for POTUS? Which shit storm celebrity or minor maven is making little pond waves? Hmm?
Manana?
What? September 11? Is that 1973?
And I met Leonardo in Tucson, man, 1977, and he had been tortured in Pinochet’s fucked up Americano world. He lived with Cindy, his wife, and they had a kid, baby, and she got him asylum through two of the churchs in Tucson famous for that axiom:
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.—Leviticus 19:34 (NIV)
You won’t find the term “refugee” in the Bible. But the Word of God has plenty to say about people called “strangers” and “sojourners” or “foreigners” in our translations.
“Strangers” and “foreigners” refer to anybody who lived among the Jews but was from another ethnic group — no matter what category they might represent in today’s terms.
For instance, the book of Ruth is about a widow from the tribe of Moab who chooses to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Israel and live there with her. In Ruth 2:10, we see her ask Boaz, in whose field she is gleaning, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me — a foreigner?” She understands her status as being outside the tribe of Israel.
“Sojourners” are people who are temporarily living in Israel or traveling through the country.
Cities of refuge were available to Israelites and foreigners in cases of accidental killing (Numbers 35:15).
Foreigners were to be included in festivals and celebrations mandated in the Law (Deuteronomy 16:14; 26:11).
Some of the tithes collected by the priests were to be used to not only feed them and their families, but also to help provide food for foreigners, widows, and orphans (Deuteronomy 14:28–29).
Farmers were instructed to leave the gleanings of their fields for the poor and the foreigner (Leviticus 23:22).
The command to care for the stranger was so embedded in the Law that it was used as the basis for how God’s people were to treat each other: Israelites were to treat their own poor as they would the stranger or the foreigner (Leviticus 25:35).
Every spoonful of caviar and every glass of wine and every jet trip across the Atlantic, all of them, middle, to tops, all of them are devils, man. Criminals:
Look up who was behind the murders in Chile: SEPTEMBER ELEVEN!!!!!
Imagine this scenario. On Sept. 11, 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the U.S. government, did not leave their barracks.
President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in La Moneda in Santiago to announce a plebiscite on his government and to ask for the resignation of several senior generals. Then, Allende continued his fight to bring down inflation and to realise his government’s programme to advance the socialist agenda in Chile.
Until the moment when the Chilean Army descended upon La Moneda in 1973, Allende and the Popular Unity government were in a pitched fight to defend Chile’s sovereignty, particularly over its copper resources and its land as they sought to raise sufficient funds to eradicate hunger and illiteracy and to produce innovative means to deliver health care and housing. — Vijay
Fifty years after the murderous coup in Chile, the U.K.’s most important political artist recounts how the Barbican censored his work to placate high-ranking Chilean finance officials and British bankers.
Both the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Report) and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report) approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 40,018 tortured and 2,279 executed.
check out this review over at Hormones Matter . . . .
Hope Spells Help Our People Exist
Fact One: Aluminum is present in U.S. childhood vaccines that prevent hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria-tetanuspertussis (DTaP, Tdap), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), human papillomavirus (HPV) and pneumococcus infection
For someone always skeptical of big money-big business tied to anything in the realm of medicine or science in general, I have lifted myself way beyond hope when it comes to any amount of efficacy in medicine or all the other nodes tied to our modern industrial-postindustrial world.
The vaccination debate is a misnomer in itself, since the debate is really an attack on anyone who dares question the science and chemistry and genetic engineering of the vaccine industry, an industry that plows through so many of our rights as citizens, individuals and patients. We have states and school systems ordering people of all ages to submit to the needle.
A new film airing in May, Injecting Aluminum, looks at a specific aspect of the vaccine “debate” through what easily is the one giant Gordian knot metaphor of the entire vaccine injury and death history – the adjuvant aluminum hydroxide developed in the 1920s as the “best” optimizer of the immune response when injecting the disease.
The subtitle of 90-minute film by director Marie-Ange Poyet, How Toxic are Vaccines?, really takes the air out of the sails of the pro-vaccine-and-never-question-the-vaccinologist zealots. In fact, it’s the Gordian knot we can cut away: disentangling an impossible knot but cutting that damned thing, or finding a loophole through creative and robust outside the box thinking:
Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter — Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1. 45–47
The director says things about the power of film, or the limits of documentaries, that I too voice:
“I don’t think movies can change things,” Marie-Ange Poyet says: “They bring new information, they contribute to change, but they don’t carry themselves the ability to deeply shake the system in which we are.”
She states that if the film can educate the public and rally around the “real drama” of those lives affected by aluminum salts in vaccines, then Marie-Ange would be satisfied.
The commitment of citizens is the only way things will change. I hope this citizen-driven film can be a step in that direction.
Storytelling Straight in the Eye
Viewing the interviews in this documentary for 90 minutes, I came to the realization that the story of the wounded and chronically ill — because of their bodies’ reaction to the aluminum — is the taproot of this film’s blossoming.
We have some heavy players in medicine and some compelling victims of the vaccines, as well as intrepid journalists. More than 16 powerful voices from a myriad of perspectives give shape to the film. And this is a film of a special order – the voices are captured in straightforward narrative style. No asides or typical documentary bells and whistles. No graphics, no tours of the drug manufacturers research facilities, no laboratory microscopic images, no up close and personal looks at rehabilitation.
Just interviews are captured, as if this is an inquest on the very substance that is at the center of this disease the French medical and research community discovered in the 1990s – Macrophagic Myofascitis, or MMF. It’s a very simple and to the point look at one element that is toxic to the human body, and an element tied to MS and Alzheimer’s and here now, MMF, which has destroyed young people’s ability to lead regular lives.
Anti-Aluminum isn’t Anti-Vaccine: Precaution Over Profits
Some of the heavy-hitters are MDs like Romain Gherardi and Jerome Authier, professor Christopher Exley, member of the European Parlimante Michele Rivasi, Le Monde journalist Stephane Foucart, and President of E3M (Entraide aux Malades of Myofascite to Macrophages) Didier Lambert.
The NGO E3M and victims of MMF support scientific research to buttress their campaign to have aluminum removed from vaccines. Lambert is currently on disability, which is a state of survival 80 percent of the members of the association E3M share.
He is outspoken and on a mission of protecting his country and others by advocating taking aluminum out of vaccines, “without calling into question the very principle of vaccination.”
The simple aim is to reverse the felonious push to keep aluminum in vaccines by going back to the gold standard of the Precautionary Principle. This is a simple oath and operating system science that scientists (and all sectors of civilization) ought to abide by, but also embrace before any chemical, product, service or process is pushed onto us. Where money and profits and vast accumulation of power rides roughshod over our civilization, there rarely is a deep look at the unintended consequences or negative feedback loops.
It is easy to undergird the documentary with a proviso tied to the ideas of “first do no harm,” or, “better safe than sorry,” or, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In the past 100 years, at least, Western Civilization has been moved by demonic ideas of profit tied to these aphorisms: “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” and, “Let the devil take the hindmost.”
Some of the film’s “stars” are folk like Dr. Exley, bioinorganic chemistry professor at University of Stirling, who has been for more than three decades researching “how the third most abundant element of the Earth’s crust, aluminum, is non-essential and largely inimical to life.”
Ironically, he investigates the most abundant element on Earth’s crust, silicon, and how it is almost devoid of biological function: “One possible function of silicon is to keep (aluminium) aluminum out of biota.”
Here, the Precautionary Principle with the help of Peter Montague :
The release and use of toxic substances, the exploitation of resources, and physical alterations of the environment have had substantial unintended consequences affecting human health and the environment. Some of these concerns are high rates of learning deficiencies, asthma, cancer, birth defects and species extinctions, along with global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and worldwide contamination with toxic substances and nuclear materials.
We believe existing environmental regulations and other decisions, particularly those based on risk assessment, have failed to protect adequately human health and the environment the larger system of which humans are but a part.
We believe there is compelling evidence that damage to humans and the worldwide environment is of such magnitude and seriousness that new principles for conducting human activities are necessary.
While we realize that human activities may involve hazards, people must proceed more carefully than has been the case in recent history. Corporations, government entities, organizations, communities, scientists and other individuals must adopt a precautionary approach to all human endeavors.
Therefore, it is necessary to implement the Precautionary Principle: When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof.
The process of applying the Precautionary Principle must be open, informed and democratic and must include potentially affected parties. It must also involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action.
Mountains of Studies Indicting Aluminum Adjuvants
Compelling for me about the film is the detail both the citizens patients of MMF and the established biology, chemistry, immunology, medical experts lay out for the viewer. Exely is both trustworthy and compassionate, quirky and interesting. He is interviewed in his office with towers of research papers and journal articles behind him like many Leaning Towers of Pisa.
His scientific bent is on deep research, unclouded by some profit margin derived by selling the aluminum to labs and the manufacturing facilities and pharmaceuticals making billions on these vaccines.
He cites the common known fact that adjuvants in vaccines do not require clinical approve. The vaccine preparation does go through trials, so when the aluminum is put in vaccine, it is the vaccine that gets approved, not the aluminum or another adjuvant.
The articulate scientist knows the field of aluminum research. For instance, he states that he can’t say the cause of Alzheimer’s is aluminum, but aluminum does make Alzheimer’s worse, and aluminum does make Alzheimer’s occur at an earlier age. He goes on:
You have this fantasy of, I think it’s the World Health Organization, giving a safe limit for aluminum, and they say, as long as it’s low, one milligram per kilogram body weight per day, you’re safe. I asked them, how do you know that, when I don’t know it? I’ve been working on aluminum for 30 odd years, trying to understand it, you know this. I asked them for the details, how did you work this out, and who did it?
They have people that I call the aluminum ambassadors…Usually, good scientists all around the world, who are paid by the aluminum industry to say that aluminum is not a problem, but these are not individuals who work on aluminum. Most of them have absolutely no background in aluminum whatsoever. They are individuals, who for example, work on Alzheimer’s disease, and then they, whenever someone with the Alzheimer’s society, a major charity, asks for advice, they ask this well-known person in Alzheimer’s disease, what’s the role of aluminum? No, there’s nothing to worry about. They don’t ask me.
“It’s the Calcium Phosphate, Stupid, We Need!”
Fact Two: A small proportion of vaccinated people present with delayed onset of diffuse myalgia, chronic fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, and exhibit very long-term persistence of aluminum-loaded macrophages at site of previous intra-muscular (I.M.) immunization, forming a granulomatous lesion called Macrophagic Myofasciitis (MMF). Clinical symptoms associated with MMF are paradigmatic of the recently delineated “autoimmune/ inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants” (ASIA)
Here we have aluminum hydroxide dating back to 1927. The same compound used in vaccines in 2018. Yet, in 1974, the Insitut Pasteur developed calcium-phosphate adjuvant, and the president of the French vaccination committee admitted that the calcium phosphate adjuvant was no less effective than aluminum salts. That adjuvant could be brought back. It takes a political decision. “Then our vaccines would be safe,” says Didier Lambert.
Aluminum salts are identified as neurotoxic by many health authorities and organizations. Count Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Crown’s, Sarcoidosis, development of allergies, cases of chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, autism and many more as the unintended side effects of aluminum, according to Professor Exley and many more.
The evidence in the documentary mounts minute by minute, and the interviews are clear but not charged with emotions or with a music track overlay.
Professor Jérôme Authier, a neurologist and coordinator of the Centre of Reference for Neuromuscular Diseases at H. Mondor Hospital, states the aluminum stays at the injection site for months, and migrates to the liver, spleen and brain. He sees unique conditions/factors that slow down or speed up the migration:
• The injection site: faster migration if the injection is administrated by subcutaneously rather than intramuscularly • Genetics: faster migration on some people more than others • The dose: a moderate dose of aluminum adjuvant forms small aggregates of particle. It migrates in the brain faster than a significant dose which in turn forms larger aggregates, long stored in the periphery. • It also accumulates in the lymph nodes and spleen, which are organs related to the immune system. • Patients with Macrophagic Myofasciitis (MMF)suffer from cognitive disorders such as brain dysfunction, associated with persistence extended aluminum in their body at the injection site.
Even the so-called godfather of autoimmunology, Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld, was brought forth by Poyet to discuss aluminum adjuvant; and he lists MMF as one of the Autoimmune/inflammatory Syndromes Adjuvants, also known as ASIA. Shoenfeld founded the Centre for Autoimmune Diseases in Israel and has written 25 books about autoimmunity.
The Israeli doctor is clear about this injecting aluminum question: How Toxic Are Our Vaccines?
Aluminum is foreign to our body. It is one of strongest adjuvants. It can cause toxicity to the brain, ovaries and the immune system. We should avoid it from our lives.
Studying Cause and Effect in Vaccine Use, Ingredients and Frequency Makes Us Smart, Not Antivax
It is clear that researchers calling into question the prevailing “norm” or the current baseline, aluminum adjuvants, are called charlatans, and the media (paid for in large measure by Big Pharma) go on the attack. But, again, the godfather, Shoenfeld, submits a counter to that propaganda:
I have to say that, for my experience, both in Israel, as well as in Denmark, for instance, one of the countries where we have a large number of subjects who suffer the severe side effect, especially from the HPV. People see these cases in which, immediately after the vaccine, or very close to the vaccine, healthy girls who were apparently athletic, and suddenly, they find themselves wheel chaired or bed ridden.
The issue of primary ovarian failure, which means young women can’t get pregnant, and the reason is that the aluminum destroyed or affected the maturation of the eggs in the ovaries. Shoenfeld:
It [ovarian failure] has been reported in several cases, it’s still under reported, because many of those girls are on contraceptive pills, and therefore, they delay the diagnosis only after they will stop or discontinue to take these contraceptive pills, but it has been shown that if you inject aluminum into mice, you destroy or you affect the maturation of the eggs in the ovaries.
Exley points out that aluminum is a “silent visitor.” We do not get the sudden sickness from aluminum as we do lead, cyanide, or cadmium. It would take a huge amount of single exposure to cause immediate and profound ailments or even death. “Now, there is a proviso for that, an exception, and I believe the exception to that can be vaccination,” he states.
Oh No, Show Me the Money (again?)
The film exposes many aspects of why this 91-year-old aluminum salt is still in use. In addition, we find out why the French government isn’t doing anything to take aluminum out of vaccines. Think Sanofi, L’Oreal, and Nestle. We know the French multinational, Sanofi, is the world’s largest producer of vaccines. Ironically, the majority shareholder in that Titan of Vaccines is L’Oréal, which is the world’s largest cosmetics company. Now, following the tangled web of multinationals, we see that the principal shareholders of the cosmetics company L’Oreal is the Bettencourt family and Nestlé. Moreover, Nestlé is the world’s largest food-industry corporation.
Didier Lambert is blunt about the entanglement and special interests the corporations have, and the power they wield to control regulators and governments:
These three corporations have a special interest in aluminum. Sanofi uses aluminum in vaccines. L’Oréal uses it in cosmetics, and Nestlé, in food packaging, infant formula, etc. Note that the people who oppose the research by Drs. Gherardi and Authier are mainly financed by either Sanofi or the Bettencourt Foundation. Is that a coincidence?
Bunnies and then the Big Guns of Injecting Aluminum
Ironically, two German scientists in 1891 looked at aluminum, to see how it breaks down and dissolves in food and therefore was deemed toxic. To settle court cases, manufacturers of products aluminum were used as hired scientists on both sides of the argument. In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt appointed a commission to look into the safety of aluminum. The stakes were high, and those researchers incriminating aluminum had little funding, whereas the special interests backing aluminum eventually got the green light from a book two decades later written by a recognized scientist, Ernest Ellsworth Smith, that was biased and in favor of aluminum and omitted findings from other scientists showing aluminum was harmful.
The key study cited as the main reference on how the body absorbs the aluminum adjuvant in a vaccine was done in 1997. It was carried out by an American researcher named Richard Flarend and his co-author Stanley Hem. Their study involved two New Zealand white rabbits being injected with radioactive aluminum hydroxide. We are talking about 28 days of monitoring the elimination rate of radioactive aluminum through urine samples. Their findings? Elimination, 28 days after injection, was 6%. So 94% of the aluminum stayed in the animals’ bodies. Even with this scrawny one study, scientists still claim that it only takes a few weeks to eliminate aluminum injected into humans.
“Aluminum, Vaccines and the Two Rabbits” was the original title of this documentary in France. The director, Marie-Ange, did not go with that moniker:
In a nutshell, aluminum’s pharmacology is founded on a study based on two rabbits only. And their bones have been lost. That study lasted only 28 days. So, all what you hear about aluminum in vaccines is based on that incomplete work. We hear that the illnesses linked to aluminum are not dramatic, and it’s based on this study. It’s unbelievable. Since the vaccine market represents billions of dollars, we can say that the industry makes all this money thanks to these two rabbits. The original title of the film was a funny and dramatic wink to that story.
Those not winking are the big guns of the documentary are Professor Jérôme Authier, a neurologist and coordinator of the Center of Reference of neuromuscular diseases of the Henri Mondor Hospital, and Doctor Romain Gherardi, the Director of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. Gherardi has written more than 100 articles in refereed journals including topics tied to the physiopathology and therapeutics of adult neuromuscular diseases, as well as the cellular and molecular mechanisms of postnatal myogenesis and post-lesion regeneration.
Three sources stand out:
a. “Macrophagic myofasciitis lesions assess long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide in muscle” (Brain – 2001) by both Authier and Gherardi. b. “Macrophagic myofasciitis: characterization and pathophysiology” ( Authier and Gherardi) . c. Gherardi recently wrote a book about his experiences with aluminum and vaccines called, Toxic Story – Two or Three Embarrassing Truths about Vaccines and their Adjuvants.
Here is a compelling example of “throwing caution and verified facts to the wind” by Dr. Romain Gherardi:
“The guiltiest act is that once it has been pointed out that the aluminum persists for much longer than a month, that it remains in the immune system for many years, no watchdog agency sat up and said, ‘Stop. Back to the laboratory, guys.’ That should have been done in the early 2000s. And it was not. So we’re fifteen years late, in terms of the natural reaction elicited by the normal application of intellectual discipline.”
The entire case for aluminum adjuvants being safe is based on a 28-day rabbit study where the animals’ bones were “lost” by researchers. Hmm, bones are one area of the body that stores aluminum. The muscle that was injected was never examined.
This is not science as I have known it starting in 1975 as a marine biology major. We can’t determine whether the injected aluminum stayed at the muscle site. A 28-day study is for bean plant germination in kindergarten, not for vaccines. The aluminum adjuvant stays in the body for years, as the experts interviewed in the film attest. Amazingly, that the entire world of vaccinology takes this two New Zealand rabbit study from 20 years ago as proof of aluminum’s safety? This begs the question why this study has not been done over and over (maybe using some of the pro-aluminum adjuvant hominids as rabbits)?
“Not one of the experts who has studied the material we have compiled on MMF… and I am speaking of experts in their own capacity,” Gherardi states. “I’m not talking about … experts from public agency staff. I really mean independent experts we’ve asked to assess our research and give an opinion. Not one of them is free of strong connections to the vaccine industry. That’s all I can say.”
While the scientists and public policy people make compelling arguments around the toxicity of aluminum and the genetic variations some people possess, disallowing their bodies to “dissolve” mineralized aluminum, it’s also the individuals and married couples in the film that tell a story of life- changing medical issues that have plagued them, causing debilitating chronic pain and illness, necessitating complete life changes.
In the film: Laurent Lehrer and Marie-Christine Lehrer — patient with Macrophagic Myofascitis and wife; Nathalie Etienne and Patrice Nicosia — patient with Macrophagic Myofascitis and her partner; and Didier Lambert — patient with Macrophagic Myofascitis.
Their stories juxtaposed to the science and policy make this film compelling documentary viewing. We learn about all those genetic and cellular variations on a theme, including:
• autophagic xenophagy • macrophage fusing with an organic killer, lysosome • lysosome contains highly destructive enzymes and they only operate at acidic pH, so it has an acidic pH and the enzymes kill living organisms like bacteria • They can also kill proteins or old mitochondria – any cellular waste material, but the pH, or acidity, is capable of corroding or dissolving mineral substances
In simpler terms, though, we know that some children and adults are more predisposed to vaccine injuries and adverse effects; we all are products of our epigenetics, when it comes to cancer, obesity, depression and thousands of other bio-physiological issues.
Again, the words of wisdom from Dr. Gherardi:
We know there are 34 genes which code for this highly complex machinery. So we looked for 109 variants; that is, genetic variations on each of these genes. They are ‘normal.’ That means the mutations do not cause disease in and of themselves. But they do predispose the system to dysfunctions. Of the 109 variants we checked out, we found 7 variants, located on six different genes, which are significantly found more frequently in patients with MMF, as compared to the general public. There are international consensus guidelines indicating normal ranges. It is interesting to note that these genetic mutations are cumulative. That is, our MMF patients present more than one variation. They have three, four, or five, and their effects probably combine. As a result, in a normal situation, when the macrophage just performs standard duties, it works fine.
If the job makes extra demands on the macrophage, most people overcome the difficulty, with a struggle. But a small minority will be totally unable to secrete the enzyme, and the toxin will remain. If 10, 20, or 25 vaccines are administered, regardless of genes, everyone will be overcome by the toxic burden. The cause of the system breakdown will be the toxicity itself.
The researchers and injured patient groups in France, USA and the other 20 countries looking at MMF and the connection to the adjuvant aluminum hydroxide have a universal battle to wage against the industries that make profit off of their mistakes, and who have utilized billions of dollars in marketing, which is another term for “covering up” or “falsifying data” or “burying the maimed or killed” or “denigrating truth-seekers and truth-tellers.”
Why is it that public and civil society proponents and social justice warriors are the ones crushed by the boulder of Sisyphus when it was the king of Corinth who was punished by the gods for “chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this action forever.”
This film explores the truth around that deceit and maleficence and arrogance, and we the viewers have to decide who pays the ferryman, who pushes that boulder back up the hill of Capitalism. I sure as hell do not want to be responsible for the deceit and the outright felonies of the harbingers of capitalism at any cost.
We have too many examples in recent history around the failures of US medicine and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to believe these people with the slick advertising departments and extra sleazy lobbyists and sales people.
Enter Barbie-Landia, Barberella, One Million Years BC, Mad Mad Mad MadWorld
It’s almost a timeless Grateful Dead, Burning Man, Woodstock bullshit of our times thing so say, man, Just enjoy the ride cuz the great messed up cosmic force is a hoot. Americanos, whether the first dirty Disneyland or the newest one in Oklahoma, can’t wait for the next CHOICE/UNCHOICE:
And so it goes, man, as the endless prattle, endless Million-plus Podcast March Toward Ennui or “Decision Fatigue” or Buridan’s ass. All those Substacks to choose from, millions of books at Amazon (30 million). From 3,000 choices at the old supermarket, to 300,000. Choices, and so the Western Modern World Goes Round and Round with Diet Coke and Depleted Uranium Shells.
The paradox predates Buridan; it dates to antiquity, being found in Aristotle‘s On the Heavens.[2] Aristotle, in ridiculing the Sophist idea that the Earth is stationary simply because it is spherical and any forces on it must be equal in all directions, says that is as ridiculous as saying that[2]
…a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death.
— Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC
Or, more French:
So paralysis is a consequence of having too many choices.
La paralysie est une conséquence de trop de choix.
Now the paralysis is not so much the act of freezing with all these choices, all those color wheels for home improvement (sic) or paint options for the Dodge Charger. It is the idea that so many appearingly disparate aspects of modern society, so many dividies between First World, Developing World, Third World, Emerging Economies, Under-Developing Economies, Feudal countires, re-colonized countries, religious states, inverted totalitarian states, Fourth Worlers — Fourth World refers to the most underdeveloped, poverty-stricken, and marginalized regions and populations of the world. Many inhabitants of these nations do not have any political ties and are often hunter-gatherers that live in nomadic communities, or are part of tribes.
Over-fed, under-fed, food as a weapon, sanctioned and sanctioning, all of that, way to much for the average American mind to take, so, they fold into pure bullshit, from movies like Oppen-Monster-Heimer, to the next Batman and Robin LGBTQA+ Rainbow warriors.
Fucking “FIRST” world are the destroyers of Earth so, they are, FIRST and LAST Destroyers of Earth Worldians:
The First World consisted of the U.S., Western Europe and their allies. The Second World was the so-called Communist Bloc: the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and friends. The remaining nations, which aligned with neither group, were assigned to the Third World.
The Third World has always had blurred lines.
“Although the phrase was widely used, it was never clear whether it was a clear category of analysis, or simply a convenient and rather vague label for an imprecise collection of states in the second half of the 20th century and some of the common problems that they faced,” writes historian B.R. Tomlinson in the essay “What was the Third World,” published in 2003 in the Journal of Contemporary History.
So, endless stories on the rich, the business class, the techno-class, the athletes, the owners, the bosses, the billionaires, the cultural creators, the ziegeist, man. And, we are in that flippant species epigenetics, you know, the laugh is on us when we look at Pelosi, Schumer, Nuland, Kagan, Blinken, Yellen, Maddow, Whoopie, Biden, Trump, Harris, Pense, DeSantis, RFK, Jr. The joke’s on us, looking for gems of wisdomw from Buffet or Gates or Sam Altman or MIC, or DARPA, or Big Pharma, or . . . .
There are no choices, but when one of my amiga’s tells me to chill the pill, to quit being so serious, to look at the day’s events and news with George Carlin aplumb, well well — I also take some pride in seeing how the fall of human kind (sic) and the avalanche of absurdity and ruthlessness and abslote despotism is on a steep steep uptick, or in a deep deep spiraling down down down.
Soren Kieekergard: Lost in the infinite.
Or this pop book reference, that work for you? Overchoice. Overchoice or choice overload is a cognitive process in which people have a difficult time making a decision when faced with many options. The term was first introduced by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book, Future Shock.
And you thought the marketing, or the education departments, or the K12 schools, or the mass media, or the news makers, or the wonks and nerds, or the scientists, all of those are more or less finding the better angels of our/their nature?
In 2000, Professor Sheena Iyengar*** from Columbia University famously conducted the ‘jam study’ as an exploration of choice and decision making. In the study, Iyengar and her researchers first displayed 24 jams in a busy supermarket, encouraging free tasting. This abundance of choice saw 60% of customers stopping and tasting the jam, but only 3% making a purchase.
In 2005 the journalist Malcolm Gladwell featured Iyengar’s work in his best seller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown).
Next, the researchers set up the display with 6 jam jars. This time there were fewer customers stopping, only 40%, but the actual purchases went up tenfold, to 30%. This study became a central example in Barry Schwartz’s*** 2004 book, The Paradox of Choice.
The paradox of choice is a phenomenon where an abundance of options can counterintuitively lead to less happiness, less satisfaction, and hamper the ability to make a decision.
BEHIND THE PARADOX.
Some of the reasons why more choices might result in lower conversion rates include:
More obvious Opportunity Cost: when presented with options, the loss of the choice you didn’t make will potentially be heightened in your mind. Also known as ‘FOMO’ or the fear of missing out.
Decision fatigue and overwhelm, with an understanding of thinking fast and slow: where every conscious decision you make has a cognitive cost, making such decisions can be exhausting.
AN INFLUENTIAL MODEL.
The paradox of choice model made a significant impact at the time — Schwartz’s book became a bestseller and its premise was endorsed by many credible sources. Since 2004, modern consumers have only been more inundated with choices — from media, online shopping, and don’t get me started on the rows and rows of toothpaste in the supermarket! Which makes the backlash against the model all the more surprising.
THE BACKLASH AGAINST IT.
This backlash came to the fore in 2010 with a meta-analysis by Benjamin Scheibehenne. His results are often held up to be a straight rejection of Iyengar’s research, revealing difficulties replicating the findings of the jam study, given that he identified an average nil effect. Digging deeper, the nil average hides the fact that the actual results were quite varied — with choice sometimes increasing conversion rates, and other times minimising it.
CHOICE OVERLOAD vs INFORMATION OVERLOAD.
One distinction Scheibehenne made in trying to understand his findings was the difference between ‘choice overload’ versus ‘information overload’. Indeed Schwartz, revisiting his work, pointed out that the paradox of choice does not apply when a person knows a domain well and can be mitigated with an effective presentation of the choices.
MEANINGFUL CHOICE AS A FACTOR.
Others have claimed that the reduced conversion rate arises from the ‘lack of meaningful choice’, rather than choice itself. And some researchers have since pointed to additional moderating factors, including the:
Difficulty of the decision task: how much work is involved in making a decision.
Complexity of the choice set: how easy is it to make comparisons.
Level of uncertainty: the ability for a consumer to evaluate options or be clear on their preference.
Decision goal: whether it’s to minimise cognitive load or find the best option.
SO HOW USEFUL IS THIS MODEL?
Where does the debate leave you in deciding choice sets in your marketing campaign, product strategy, or simply striving for a happier life? Well, it’s complicated. Dare we remind you that the Map is Not the Territory?
The truth is that the paradox of choice model has its uses but also has clear limitations. When applying it, use experimentation methods such as Split Testing, to identify the impact on your specific challenge and context. Also, consider some of the above factors in deciding whether the choice you might be providing is a blocker or a benefit. See the Actionable Takeaways below for more.
IN YOUR LATTICEWORK.
This model is often viewed as part of broader Behavioural Economics, so is informed by Fast and Slow Thinking. As mentioned, it has also been explained by the Opportunity Cost.
In designing for user interaction, whether it be in delivering a UX, product range or anything, consider addressing this potential challenge with models such as Occam’s Razor to simplify; the EAST Frameworkto design Nudges; and/or Anchoring to frame and influence a user experience.
***Sheena S. Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Department at Columbia Business School,[1][2] widely and best known as an expert on choice.[3][4][5] Her research focuses on the many facets of decision making, including: why people want choice, what affects how and what we choose, and how we can improve our decision making.[2][6] She has presented TED talks on choice[7] and is the author of The Art of Choosing (2010).[8]
Iyengar was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[8]: xi Her parents were immigrants from Delhi,[9]India.[8]: xi–xii As a child, she was diagnosed with a rare form of retinitis pigmentosa,[8]: xii an inherited disease of retinal degeneration. By the age of nine, she could no longer read.[6] By the age of sixteen, she was completely blind,[6] although able to perceive light.[8]: xii She remains blind as an adult.[5]
Iyengar’s father died of a heart attack when she was thirteen.[8]: xii–xiii This change in family circumstances, and Iyengar’s loss of vision, prompted Iyengar’s mother to steer her towards higher education and self-sufficiency, saying to Iyengar: “I don’t want to hear about men or boys, you’ve got to stand on your own two feet.”[10]
***Barry Schwartz (1946-) The National Library of Israel [Founded in Jerusalem in 1892, the National Library of Israel (NLI) holds the collective memory of Israelis of all backgrounds and faiths and the Jewish people worldwide. While continuing to serve as Israel’s preeminent research library, over the past decade NLI has embarked upon an ambitious journey of renewal to encourage diverse audiences in Israel and around the globe to engage with its treasures in new and meaningful ways. This transformative renewal is taking place through a range of innovative educational, cultural, and digital initiatives, as well as through the construction of a new landmark campus, on schedule to open its doors in 2023.]
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So, that Mad Mad Mad Mad World of Mad Mad Mad Mad Men and Mad Mad Mad Mad Women, and all those choices — butts, beer, bombs, boobs, bathrooms — all part of the behavior management, until we have Wikipedia putting up the UkroNaziLandian Flag as a way to the future.
Choices made for you, vis-a-vis monitoring, mixed reality, virtual relaity, artificial intelligence, algorithms, those guys with the nerdy looking haircuts.
Lucky in Love:
But Americanos have so many choice, are so independent, are so the New Eve and Adam, are so rugged and individual, are so enlightened and free.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.
That’s 1928, the quote above: Often referred to as “the father of public relations,” Bernays in 1928 published his seminal work, Propaganda, in which he argued that public relations is not a gimmick but a necessity:
So, manufacturing consent or engineering consent, have at it, but this one fellow is one of the seminal viruses of the world, and we know his background, his history, his values, his religion, his uncle, his ways.
Drawing on the insights of his Uncle Sigmund – a relationship Bernays was always quick to mention – he developed an approach he dubbed “the engineering of consent.” He provided leaders the means to “control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it.” To do so, it was necessary to appeal not to the rational part of the mind, but the unconscious.
Bernays acquired an impressive list of clients, ranging from manufacturers such as General Electric, Procter & Gamble, and the American Tobacco Company, to media outlets like CBS and even politicians such as Calvin Coolidge. To counteract President Coolidge’s stiff image, Bernays organized “pancake breakfasts” and White House concerts with Al Jolson and other Broadway performers. With Bernays’ help, Coolidge won the 1924 election.
Bernays’ publicity campaigns were the stuff of legend. To overcome “sales resistance” to cigarette smoking among women, Bernays staged a demonstration at the 1929 Easter parade, having fashionable young women flaunt their “torches of freedom.”
He promoted Lucky Strikes by convincing women that the forest green hue of the cigarette pack was among the most fashionable of colors. The success of this effort was manifested in innumerable windowdisplays and fashion shows.
In the 1930s, he promoted cigarettes as both soothing to the throat and slimming to the waistline. But at home, Bernays was attempting to persuade his wife to kick the habit. When would find a pack of her Parliaments in their home, he would snap every one of them in half and throw them in the toilet. While promoting cigarettes as soothing and slimming, Bernays, it seems, was aware of some of the early studies linking smoking to cancer.
And so we are that brunt of and straight line for that funny joke of the cosmos, no, and do you see any resemblance to Israel’s Pink Washing and complete control of the media and legislation and censorship campaigns with ZioAzovLensky’s marketing of a dying Goyim Ukraine? All those smoke and mirrors of Blinken-Kagan-Yellen-Nuland?
Any historical, educational, networking, familial resemblance, man? Staged, demonstrations, what’s fashionable, control and regimentation, manipulating the narrative, working and reworking the framing, blasting, soothing, massaging, tricking the unconscious — is any of this coming to you clearly . . . but the big joke’s on all of us, so sit back and take it, enjoy it, self-express while the shit goes into the handbasket? Foggy weather? Let it pass, like RAPE?
The Republican gubernatorial nominee apologized today for an off-the-cuff remark suggesting that some victims of rape should ”relax and enjoy it.”
The candidate, Clayton Williams, had initially played down the remark as being a joke.
Women’s groups and political opponents of Mr. Williams strongly criticized the candidate for the comment.
It ”questions his ability to understand the kinds of problems faced by the people of Texas,” said Ann Richards, the State Treasurer and a runoff candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. ”Rape is a crime of violence.”
Mr. Williams made the remark on Saturday while preparing for a cattle roundup at his West Texas ranch. He compared the cold, foggy weather spoiling the event to a rape, telling ranch hands, campaign workers and reporters around a campfire, ”If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
Moving onto my daily dose of aggressive angst: Headlines, first, and links (sorry, it’s mostly all Mashed Up Mainlining Mauling Media!
Where to start? Think hard, man, about just Oregon — more gotcha stuff from the Pigs and the Code Inspectors and Fine and Ticket Managers. Isn’t CCTV, computing, drones, and AI wonderful? Tax the rich and tax the destroyers of earth into oblivion? Nah, get the drivers, man. CHOICES!
Food and who controls the supply chain, or the actual grocery stores? You are shit outta luck man, when these mergers occur, and jobs are lost and stores close. CHOICES at the supermarket.
And who controls the food will control the population, and starvation, and add a little bit of gut diseases, stunted childhood growth, and then let loose a bioweapon virus or two:
On September 5, the annual Africa Food Systems Forum, organised by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), will launch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Government officials, experts, policymakers and business leaders will come together to discuss – in their words – “building back better food systems and food sovereignty”.
Sponsored by international philanthropic and bilateral donors and agrochemical and biotech companies such as Yara, Corteva and Bayer, the forum promotes hybrid and genetically modified seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides used in the type of industrial-scale agriculture that has failed to deliver “better food systems” or “food sovereignty”.
This approach to growing food, involving problematic practices that harm soils, pollute the environment, and favour large landowners and big agribusiness, has been pushed on Africa in the past few decades. But it has not helped the continent overcome food insecurity.
And are the kiddos back to school discussing El Nino, food insecurity, all the issues around choices and NO CHOICES, or are they making posters of UkroNazis and that hell hole? Any discussion on community reselience, and moving tax dollars away from space, DARPA, DoD, the various policing KKK agencies, toward the communites and millions of people on the edge of food desertfication, bad building, no sea walls, the impending doom of climate chaos? CHOICES.
Where oh where is the Blinken-Nuland-Kagan Administration?
Andy Bryant, a hydrologist at the National Weather Service, said that it’s likely that due to warmer temperatures, more of the precipitation in the mountains that usually comes down as snow in winter is likely to fall as rain instead. For communities and aquatic species that rely on mountain snowpack to hold onto precipitation that then melts and flows as water in spring, it could mean a much drier spring.
“We’ve had a very dry summer,” he said. “If we have below average snowpack, that could potentially exacerbate drought conditions.”
Trillions now on DARPA and Friends:
Again, how to feed the world, clothe the world, educate the world, provide clean air and water to the world, you know, those easy to find solutions to problemos.
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the main contractors chosen for the first phase of its ambitious Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program.
This program is designed to develop a means of distributing energy wirelessly around the globe through airborne power transfer. First dreamed up by Nikola Tesla almost 100 years ago, if successful, this would be the most significant change to energy transfer since the first rollout of electrification almost 150 years ago.
Nikola Tesla’s dream
According to DARPA, the first phase of the POWER program will be conducted by three teams led by RTX Corporation, Draper Laboratory, and BEAM Company. These teams will compete to design and develop the optical power relays needed for it to work. The program goals include demonstrating the key components of a resilient, speed-of-light energy network.
And the highest influx of people into these states includes Arizona (118 degrees yesterday, Chalder/Phoenix); Florida (as backward as Texas); Texas (here you go for your AC bills).
Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.
Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.
The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.
Choices, man, PRIORITIES.
As a bitcoin mining enterprise, Riot Platforms runs thousands of computers in the energy-guzzling pursuit of minting digital currency. Recently, however, the company got big bucks from Texas to lower the mining operation’s electricity usage.
Riot said on Wednesday that the state’s power grid operator paid the company $31.7 million in energy credits in August — or roughly $22 million more than the value of the bitcoin it mined that month — to cut its energy consumption during a record-breaking heatwave in the state.
And that Cosmic God is hitting us all on the ass as we leave sanity behind and enter a new realm of disassociative diseases.
Pray. You have CHOICES on how to pray or prey.
“Treat” for elite people: British Prince Andrew is accused of child sexual abuse during a visit to Kyiv
The press got the details of the trip of the brother of the King of Great Britain to Kyiv – he is accused of pedophilia.
“The children were almost completely naked. They behaved strangely, as if they were drugged or drunk,” says James Obasi, a waiter at one of the famous Kiev clubs, who served the VIP room with the British delegation.
According to Obasi, he saw how two children were brought to the prince: a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. Then Prince Andrew asked to organize food and drinks for them. When the waiter returned, he saw that Prince Andrew was behaving extremely strangely with children. The waiter left the plate of food and left. Later, James returned again and saw a terrible thing – the children had almost no clothes on, they were very scared and constantly cried.
At the end of the “gatherings” security officers took the children with them. It is alleged that two days later the children were taken to Paris by a British delegation on a special plane.
By the way, this is not the first allegations of child molestation against Prince Andrew.
CHOICE$.
And so, more of the charlatans of economicus homo bellum tell us what? Vibecession? Gloomy but the economy is rosey? These are inverted stooges, man. Try the real economy — housing, utilities, food, medical, drugs, building supplies, cars, travel, hotels and motels, come on putrid economists and their pimps in mainstream mush and manipulation (Edward Bernays is smiling in his grave) media?
Americans are gloomy about the state of the economy. Since the covid-19 pandemic began, consumer sentiment has been in the doldrums, hitting its lowest level ever in June 2022. Such negativity has prompted claims that the country is suffering a “vibecession”—although the market appears healthy, good vibes are lacking.
Oh, the wonders of chosing where my tax money goes?
Accountable and unaccountable, those are the choices. Haha.
The report, which breaks down SLS program expenditures, makes the striking admission that senior NASA officials deem the rocket to be unsustainable “at current cost levels,” and it criticizes what the GAO said is a lack of transparency into the program’s ongoing costs. The report does not name which officials — or how many — at NASA made such claims.
Fucking dietary choices, and this is news, seven years old, but again, anything to put the rich and famous and those sycophants into the lime-pit-light.
“If you get the lunchtime slot with Bill, you’re eating burgers. Someone will always be sent to get bags of McDonald’s,” Joe Cerrell, managing director of the Gates Foundation, said during an interview with The Telegraph. Gates is also a huge fan of Diet Coke — Cerrell noted that his hotel room is often stocked with it while he’s on the road.
Gates once calculated that his annual consumption of Diet Coke results in 35 pounds of aluminum waste. “Once I’m at the office, I usually crack open a can of Diet Coke. Throughout the day, I might consume three or four,” he wrote in a 2014 blog post on GatesNotes.
The billionaire’s love for the carbonated beverage surpasses even the most prestigious restaurant meals.
Renowned Spanish Michelin-starred Chef Jordi Cruz recently reminisced about an unusual encounter with Gates. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp. made an unexpected visit to ABaC, Cruz’s award-winning restaurant in Barcelona, leaving everyone perplexed by his choice.
During a Feb. 8 interview on “Planeta Calleja,” an online show hosted by Jesús Calleja, Cruz recounted the peculiar incident.
“Some time ago, Bill Gates came to the restaurant. Everyone came with him … his 25 bodyguards, entourage. Bill booked out the whole restaurant, just for him,” Cruz said. “We had prepared the best and biggest for him and his team. And do you know what Bill did? He ordered a Diet Coke and went back to his plane.”
According to Cruz, Gates had reserved the restaurant for two full days, and while his entourage enjoyed the culinary delights of ABaC, Gates opted for a simple Diet Coke. The restaurant’s $313 tasting menu features extravagant dishes such as whipped hazelnut butter with bread crusts and caviar, flame-roasted guineafowl with corn, foie gras, sesame and black mole sauce, along with a dessert offering called a globe of lollipops with strawberry kakigōri, milk chocolate and tonka beans.
Oh, that COSMIC FORCE:
Shoot, choices, right? Texas and Arizona heatwave, but we are not princes.
If you thought the Middle East was stagnant, think again. The Gulf economies are among the richest and most vibrant on the planet, helped by a Brent crude oil price that rose back to over $90 per barrel this week. A $3.5trn fossil-fuel bonanza is being spent on everything from home-grown artificial intelligence models and shiny new cities in the desert, to filling the coffers of giant sovereign-wealth funds that roam the world’s capital markets looking for deals.
As the cash flows in, the chaos shows signs of receding, thanks to the biggest burst of diplomacy for decades. Saudi Arabia and Iran have negotiated detente in a rivalry that has lasted since the Iranian revolution in 1979. Civil wars in Syria and Yemen are killing fewer people, as their sponsors seek de-escalation. Following the Abraham accords between Israel and some Arab governments, Saudi Arabia is considering recognising the Jewish state, 75 years after its creation. The region’s global clout is rising—four countries are about to join the BRICS club of non-aligned powers that want a less Western-dominated world.
Again, from the most perverted of the perverse, The Economist, and there you have it — Arabs kissing Jews, less murders in Yemen and Syria, and all that crude, man, that crude. So, if Gulf Economies can do it, then Just Do It Africa. Bye-bye colonial pie.
Rather than a national divorce, the United States may need to renew its vows.
“I started my career with a focus on marriage counseling,” said psychologist, researcher and writer Pamela Paresky. “The habits necessary for a flourishing liberal democracy are some of the same habits necessary for a happy marriage.”
Paresky, director of the Aspen Center for Human Development and creator of the project “Habits of a Free Mind: Psychology for Democracy and The Good Life,” continued the Chautauqua Lecture Series Week Eight theme, “Freedom of Expression, Imagination, and the Resilience of Democracy,” at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater. She examined the problems and virtues of marriages and how they apply to democracy.
“One thing that’s not an indication of a bad marriage is arguing,” she said. “When you have decisions to make, two heads are better than one.”
So, the CHOICES, man, as seen through the looking glass of this Paresky or Soros or Bibi or Nuland or Yellen or, come on, dudes and dudettes, no CHOICE at all. Look at k12 curriculum, look at the history of their history, our history, everyone’s history. CHOICES, and we are led around like fourth graders by the Oppenheimers, the Paresky’s. She thinks Miko is anti-semetic.
So CHOICES, and that great Cosmic Joke He/She/They/It have/has/is/are Playing on us all. And that black tar?
Ahh, to spray or not to spray. CHOICES:
This year, he looks for more Missouri fields to have reduced yield because of the same early onset of the disease. “These losses will be similar to what Illinois and Indiana have experienced the previous two years,” he says.
There is another fungal disease known as tar spot complex, which is caused by both the fungi Phyllachora maydis and Monographella maydis. It is not present in the U.S., but in Central and South America, farmers can see yield reductions of 50% or greater.
Should you spray now?
Bish confirmed tar spot in the state as early as June and as late as August. Applying fungicide late in the growing season is futile.
“I am unaware of any data showing that fungicide applications applied to corn at dent [R5 growth stage] provide an economic return,” Bish says. “I am aware of research that demonstrates the opposite.”
However, farmers should scout and keep a record of fields with tar spot, as the pathogen can overwinter in Missouri.
Those choosing to plant continuous corn run the most risk for tar spot next year, while farmers rotating to soybeans, Long adds, lower the risk to some extent. However, the pathogen can survive on corn residue and spread by the wind, he notes.
And yet, and yet, the Blinken-Nuland-Kagan-Yellen Administration is on a bender — billions more for the UkroNaziLandia. Billions more to destroy land, crops, homes, communities and people.
The fact that Kiev continues to fight for Rabotino is highly convenient for Moscow’s forces. Thanks to the heavy concentration of Ukrainians there, the Russian operational command does not expect the enemy to make unpredictable decisions and will probably focus on defending this area.
At the same time, even if the Ukrainians managed to take control of the settlement, this would not change the situation at the front since the village isn’t as “strategically important” as Kiev officials say it is.
Rabotino and the fields to the east of it, where the Ukrainians were able to advance to the outskirts of the Russian primary defenses and reach the first line of defense in the area of Verbovoye, are located in tactically inconvenient lowlands. By controlling the high ground, where the first line has been constructed, the Russians can easily oversee the territory – occasionally allowing the AFU to progress deeper, stretching their supply and evacuation routes – and then launch a counterattack.
Choices? Which stuff to study and read?
CHOICES? Which sort of bomb to bomb them back to the Stone Age are you wishing for?
[Photo: French colonial troops surrender to Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu, 1954. Niger is facing off against same French colonialism today. | Photo: reddit.com]
Almost seventy years ago, on November 20th, 1953, the French colonial army entrenched itself in the village of Dien Bien Phu in the North of Vietnam. It was encircled by the valiant Vietnamese freedom fighters headed by General Giap and when Spring arrived – the defeat of the French was inevitable.
Historians of the French empire all concur that the French defeat in Indochina was traumatic to the French colonial mindset.
In a little known anecdote, recounted by Maxime Tandonnet, the biographer of Georges Bidault who was French Foreign Affairs Minister at the time, the latter met up with State Secretary Foster Dulles and Anthony Eden on April 24th 1954 to convince both of them to bring support to the retreating French army. George Bidault’s question to the American Secretary of State : would the Americans be willing to bomb the ” Vietminh ” in order to give the French army a chance to come out from under?
The USA’s official response was : No. As for Eden, he was in favor of an internationalization of peace not of war. According to Bidault, his wife and a source close to them, however, in private, Dulles is said to have whispered to Bidault : ” Do you want two nuclear bombs ?”. Bidault says he was shocked. (Julia Wright)
Two protesters joined models on the runway as they modeled the company’s Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection, with an activist sporting only body paint designed to look like a skinned body depicting muscles, flesh and tendons, applied over underwear.
almost every aspect of this pathetic life is based on shekels and dimes and trillion$ misspent, all going to the wrong causes, and the worthy projects begging for dollars, and so many mired in bureaucracy
I was attempting to do this in person, this meeting of the Mid-Coast Watershed Council [read: “Fish Do Grow on Trees” ], but my bridge across one of these estuaries was clogged from the death of a motorcyclist who was hit head on by a truck. I turned around since the meeting would have been a bit of a stretch getting there on time.
I succumbed to the Zoom Doom.
The speakers above, talked, and of course, this entire issue of marsh restoration and the work around resilience in a time of rising seas and over-developing along shorelines, and the rampant destruction of habitat (read, HOME) for salmon, et al, and this idea of more and more species are failing because estuaries have been for decades plowed over, diked off, cut off, rerouted because of roads, homes and logging — it all is parsed out penny by penny, because Timber and Microchip and Tourism and Second Home Building are KING in Oregon.
Good people for sure, but this is just one drop in the one of a million buckets that need funding and work on, and the amount of money available for studies (god, so many fucking studies, so many talking circles, so many white papers, so many PowerPoints, so many planning action plans, so many groups and stakeholders), that, it is a drop in the bucket.
And so, here I am juxtaposed against the reality of people in this country, still working on their worthy projects, not questioning what they really think about at night with this rampant and destructive CAPITALISM, i.e. WAR capitalism . . . and what do they really believe about this country’s anti-exceptionalist exceptionalism? There are huge wars brewing, and trillion$ sent to the corrupt and worthless country, Ukraine, and alas, all those big plans for high tide mitigation and all those talks at universities and with non-profits about restoring salmon, wolves, eels, it’s all moot.
Amatuer stuff, compared to the daily stream of diarrhea.
Example A = “Carbon markets are ‘bogus solutions’ as rich world keeps polluting, African Climate Summit is told”
A Nigerian environmental activist declared Wednesday at the first African Climate Summit that carbon markets are “bogus solutions,” providing a sharp reminder that not all of Africa’s 1.3 billion people support richer countries using the continent’s green spaces to offset continued polluting at home.
“We reject forced solutions on our land,” Dr. Priscilla Achakpa, founder of the Nigeria-based Women Environmental Programme, told summit participants on the event’s final day. She urged the so-called “Global North” to “remove yourself from the perspective of the colonial past.”
Absolutely, man, the entire project of exploiting and evicerating Africa will stop, and all those so-called resources for a green new fascist digitized and handcuffed world are not up for sale.
Three key climate change indicators set records in 2022, according to an annual report released Wednesday from the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration.
Concentrations of global greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere were the highest they’ve been since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. Sea levels and ocean heat content were also at their maximum on record.
“Greenhouse gas emissions make temperatures warmer, both on land and in oceans, and drive rising sea levels,” weather.com meteorologist Ari Sarsalari said. “All of that contributes to more extreme weather as well as worse impacts from things like hurricanes and heavy rainfall events.”
For fuck’s sake, this story is empty of the real grist for the mill — billionaires gone wild, and the party hardy AI-VR-MR-AR motherfuckers of the world wanting more and more AI and cloudservers and 5 G arrays and satellites and charging stations and, well, they want their own cities in the desert, too.
Now now, who is coming to our rescue? The Military Destruction Industrial Complex and all their fuckers? Action plans, non-profits, lots of studies, but lives and homes and habitats are destroyed.
Example C = Oh, those investors.
‘Pure Garbage’: School Cafeterias Start Serving Up Big Food’s Lunchables.
Two Kraft Heinz ready-to-eat prepackaged Lunchables are being added to K-12 school lunch programs across the U.S. this fall. Kraft Heinz — which is primarily owned by institutional shareholders, the top four being Berkshire Hathaway, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street — is a partner of the School Nutrition Association.
School nutrition guidelines written and overseen by WHO?
Oh, all those wonky scientists, all those planners, all these nights out to discuss our little river estuaries, and the few millions of dollars spread out over the entire state and five coast counties, but the real problem is, US . . . U$A. And this isn’t the background noise of our time? Radioactive gifts delivered to Ukraine/Russia with all those tax dollars that should be used for climate chaos mitigation?
Sick, a world of planners planning with the billionaires how Ukraine will be cut up and parsed out and where the hot zones will be and which land is mined (explosive) for centuries and which soil is the best for more pig fodder wheat and oats and, well, we know what is happening, but I have a sinking feeling most of the people I talk with and who are into this environmental “thing” here on the coast are full throttle Biden Blinken sychphants. TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) afflicted, or worse, and lesser of evils thinkers, and so I wonder what gets them thinking hard at the end of the day? Sure, bean counters and outdoor surveying is cool, sometimes, all that is part of the daily grind, I know, a job is a job, but how in the world do they take these fucking sick stories? USA irradiating — through nanoparticles — entire swaths of humanity?
Is this just retrograde thinking? The world IS warming/going to warm above 2 C, and that has much to do with solar activity, albedo effect lessening, feedback loops, and where civilizations have sited, and where they need to move away from so where is that mighty Marshall Plan for Planet B?
That is the new abnormal normal — climate anxiety disorder, among many other ailments. And so, what’s this USA and killing the Russians and Chinese about?
Coral islands are contracting, causing habitat loss in the Solomon
And we get the springy and loving voice of this female military monster here:
According to The Wall Street Journal, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said the Department of Defense plans to develop AI systems “intended to be small, smart, [and] cheap” to counter threats from China and other countries.
The Journal said Hicks will announce plans to add more capabilities to the country’s network of drones and sensors that monitor military activities in other countries. One such possibility is a fleet of solar-powered “distributed pods of self-propelled [autonomous] systems” that can provide near-real-time information. The department may also look into autonomous ground-based and space-based networks for logistics and defense.
These are dual-use monsters, and no number of community meetings about reseliency will do squat since this society, Western Society, is a Warring Society.
Drones? Or sea walls? Fucking Orwellian Triple Speak = “distributed pods of self-propelled [autonomous] systems”
Just how much money is in the taxpayers’ pot for assisting with climate disasters, with the stormwaters, the storms, with all those kiddos hobbled with health issues?
Lufthansa, a la Volkswagen and BMW and Nazi Germany, is in it for that MONEY. How much has the German taxpayer subsidized that Nazi company?
Getting hot under you collar yet? All those systems in place to mitigate the pain, the deaths?
Example H = How about those turbo cancers [ Our research set out to check the reliability of a Chinese study that claimed that if certain species of mice were given too high a dosage of the Pfizer vaccine this could result in inflammation of their heart muscles. We injected 14 mice with the vaccine twice in two weeks. Another group of mice were injected with placebos”.
Two days after the mice had been given a second dose the scientists found one of the mice that had been given the Pfizer vaccine dead in its cage. “The animal had developed lymphoma. We found this striking, so we published a report. This provided the impetus for further research,” Mr Eens told VRT News. ]
A few weeks after publication Mr Eens and his colleagues’ study went viral as antivaxxers claimed that it was “proof” of the existence of so-called “turbo cancer”.caused by mRNA? ]
Researchers examined data from 204 countries between 1990 and 2019. They found that there were more than 3.26 million early-onset cancer cases reported in those countries in 2019, up from 1.82 million in 1990, an increase of 79.1%.
The initiative will develop shirts, pants, socks, and underwear that can record audio and video.
If viable, the washable garments will be used by US intelligence employees or those in high-stress environments.
Yep, wetlands mitigation, my ass =
So the rich motherfuckers, the Titans, the thieves, the robbers, the smash and grab artists, the bait and switch masters, the extortion ring leaders, the armed stick up bros and chicks, you betcha! EU and Europe, now, now many premature deaths?
Fucking Biden-Blinken-Nuland-Obama-Trump-Harris-Yellen-Garland-Kagan . . . . Criminals of a third blind eye kind
Virtually everyone in Europe lives in polluted towns and cities where annual average levels of fine particulate matter are higher than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended limit.
Air pollution increases the risk of respiratory and heart disease and lowers life expectancy.
“With the current levels of air pollution, many people [are getting] sick. We know that lowering air pollution levels reduces these numbers,” said Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, director of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
And, alas, it is Barbarism and Savagery, for sure. Shoulda-coulda-woulda chosen the socialism route, the route where people and planet and groupings and regions and a global discussion and global planning coulda woulda shoulda been advanced in 1945 after USA bombed the shit out of civilians.
This is all about the money, man, so much money to be had by those investors and those hedge funders and all those CEOs and it is what is polluting the world.
Jesus was referring to that needle in saying it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to gain eternal life (Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). The Persians expressed the concept of the impossible by saying it would be easier to put an elephant through the eye of a needle. The camel was a Jewish adaptation (the largest animal in Israel was a camel).
Since wealth was seen as proof of God’s approval, it was commonly taught by the rabbis that rich people were blessed by God and were, therefore, the most likely candidates for heaven. Jesus destroyed that notion, and along with it, the idea that anyone can earn eternal life. The disciples had the appropriate response to this startling statement. They were utterly amazed and asked,
“Who then can be saved?” in the next verse. If the wealthy among them, which included the super-spiritual Pharisees and scribes, were unworthy of heaven, what hope was there for a poor man?
Jesus’ answer is the basis of the gospel: “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God” (Matthew 19:26). Men are saved through God’s gifts of grace, mercy, and faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). Nothing we do earns salvation for us. It is the poor in spirit who inherit the kingdom of God (Matthew 5:3), those who recognize their spiritual poverty and their utter inability to do anything to justify themselves to a holy God. The rich man so often is blind to his spiritual poverty because he is proud of his accomplishments and has contented himself with his wealth. He is as likely to humble himself before God as a camel is to crawl through the eye of a needle.
“Advent” by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Through the needle’s eye the rich man came squeezing through stars of razor light that pared his body down to thread. Gravity crushed his heart’s chime and his breath that breathed out worlds now flattened as fire between walls, the impossible slit stripped him admitting him to stitch the human breach.
This poem was first published in What a Light Thing, This Stone (Sow’s Ear Press, 1999) and is used here by permission of the author.
[Grace Carol Bomer (Canadian American, 1948–), Through the Needle’s Eye the Rich Man Came, 1993. Mixed media on torn canvas on wood, 48 × 48 in.]
In their book Snakes in Suits, Paul Babiak and Robert Hare point out that as the old corporate bureaucracies have been replaced by flexible, ever-changing structures, and as team players are deemed less valuable than competitive risk-takers, psychopathic traits are more likely to be selected and rewarded. Reading their work, it seems to me that if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family, you’re likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a rich family, you’re likely to go to business school.
Let’s say you’re about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who’s fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not.
We’d like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience — someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes — we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it’s to the corporate world.
Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of Without Conscience, is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in corporations, and the results were surprising. They found that it’s exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviors, but all too soon they’re abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles.
Snakes in Suits is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day by day. You’ll learn how they apply their “instinctive” manipulation techniques — assessing potential targets, controlling influential victims, and abandoning those no longer useful — to business processes such as hiring, political command and control, and executive succession, all while hiding within the corporate culture. It’s a must read for anyone in the business world, because whatever level you’re at, you’ll learn the subtle warning signs of psychopathic behavior and be able to protect yourself and your company — before it’s too late.
Are rich people psychopaths? If you can’t answer that yes, then you are Turbo Dumdowned Diseased. Get help!
The data are stark and compelling. The richest 400 families in the United States own financial assets that exceed the wealth of the bottom 60% of all American households combined. U.S. billionaires pay taxes at a lower effective rate than working class families. The CEOs of S&P 500 companies, averaging over $14 million in annual compensation, make roughly as much in a single day as their median employee earns in an entire year. At the same time, research shows that such extreme inequality between rich and poor is a driving force behind many of society’s most profound and corrosive ills. These disparities are associated with diminished levels of physical health, mental health, educational achievement, social mobility, trust, and community life. They’re also linked to heightened levels of infant mortality, obesity, drug abuse, crime, violence, and incarceration.
In light of these realities, it’s no surprise that some political leaders are calling for dramatic policy changes designed to tamp down economic inequality. Equally unsurprising, some members of the so-called billionaire class in this country are outraged by these proposals. Responding to Senator Bernie Sanders’s comment that he doesn’t think billionaires should exist, Stephen Schwarzman — the billionaire CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone Group — told a New York City audience, “Maybe Bernie Sanders shouldn’t exist.” On the Fox Business Network, Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot, angrily called Sanders a “blowhard” and asked, “What the hell has he done for the little people?” And CNBC host Jim Cramer reported that Wall Street executives — privately discussing the aspirations of Senator Elizabeth Warren — had told him “she’s got to be stopped.”
Complaints like these are nothing new from America’s super-rich. Almost a decade ago, Schwarzman (noted above) compared the possible elimination of a favorable hedge fund tax loophole to “when Hitler invaded Poland.” A few years later, in a letter to the Wall Street Journal, now-deceased billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins wrote,
“I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one-percent,’ namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one-percent, namely the ‘rich.’”
And fellow billionaire Sam Zell toldBloomberg News,
“This country should not talk about envy of the one-percent. It should talk about emulating the one-percent.” (source)
therefore, hmm, so, sterilize the Africans, cull the Asians, force one child per family policies, take the land and food and resources so the good and beautiful people with mostly empty hearts get it
Photo: In an act of nuclear preparedness, the US military launched an unarmed ballistic missile from an air force installation in California. The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) successfully conducted an operational test launch on Wednesday morning at around 1.26am.
Fire in the hands of a sociopathic arsonist is a scary weapon while in the hands of a normal human is a great resource.
Right, so all the South Americans, Central Americans, hell, why not cram in those Mexicans . . . then move over to Africa, hell yeah . . . India? Shit. And, we know about China, no?
I hear it daily, how there are too many people on earth. So, is that a comment about, what? Too many trees cut down? The rivers of the world polluted? All those plastics and PFAS and GMOs and Round-up Ready chemicals in the body? Is it a food scarcity thing? Is it those horrible PSAs on TV showing the starving people in Somali, Yemen, Afghanistan?
Too many people means what? That ‘50s lifestyle in California all messed up with roads, freeways, gridlock, housing costs out the roof?
Is it the price of an airline ticket, or how much a Motel 6 really costs (it’s $98 a night if you are lucky, but if there is a homecoming at the local college, all hotels and motels go up up up — sometimes $600 a room.
Is it all the plastic on the sides of the roads and in those CNN and CNBS specials on plastic gyres in the Pacific?
Is it the line at the In and Out Burger, now 1.5 hours to get that beef? All those TSA agents sniffing asses and scanning pelvic parts, is that what you mean by too many people on earth?
Too many judges, cops, worthless people taking money in the form of fines, fees, penalties, tickets, add-ons, late charges, interest additition, re-shelfing and return fees?
Is it all the druggies in the news, on the streets, and all those encampments in the news?
All those kids and pregnant and menustrating women getting attacked by mountain lions, is that what you mean by too many people on earth?
All those empty nets off the coast of west Africa? All those child laborers working the mines? Is it all those channels on cable to choose from, is that what it means that’s there’s too many people on earth?
The price and quality of a tomato, is that the result of too many people on earth?
How much for a fucking basic cell phone — $70 a month — is that the cause of too many people on earth?
How many 5G satellite arrays are there now in space, and how many more planned? Is that what you mean by too many people on earth?
To Feed? To Cloth? To Wash? To Educate? To House? To Doctor? To Transport? To Entertain?
Too many Westerners to feed, cloth, educate, house, doctor, transport, entertain? Is that it, the First World, In God We Trust, is that the Too Many People on Planet Earth?
Too much rubbish produced by our modern culture, is that why there are too many people on planet earth?
Too many undocumented immigrants, fence jumpers, floating flotillas in the Mediterranean, is that what you mean by too many people on planet earth?
Hmm, Afghanistan?
US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on October 7, 2001. It’s has been a continuous war marked by US military occupation.
“Exactly a year after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s government, the Biden administration said it would not return any of the $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets that it commandeered earlier this year, despite pleas from both human rights groups and economists to help pull the impoverished country out of its economic crisis.”
A once prosperous country has been precipitated into extreme poverty and despair. It’s a crime against humanity.
So, is it there are too many mouths to feed and people to house in Afghanistan, so therefore, for planet earth’s sake, we need Drachonian birth control, sterilizing genetically engineered mosquitos, forced family planning, pay for success digital sruveilling, social engineering a la shitty cash or digital payments, is that what they mean by too many people on planet earth?
Unknown to Americans, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Kabul was “a cosmopolitan city. Artists and hippies flocked to the capital. Women studied agriculture, engineering and business at the city’s university. Afghan women held government jobs.”
Images: Kabul University early 1980s
All of this was destroyed by continuous US-NATO and CIA interventions going back to 1979. It is a criminal undertaking, it’s the destruction of an entire country.
And today at the time of writing [September 2023], the October 2001 war on Afghanistan continues to be heralded as a humanitarian endeavour, a “Just War” in retribution for the 9/11 attacks against the American people. What utter nonsense!
Ahh, too many people in Afghanistan to feed? At 652,860sq km (252,071sq miles), the country is roughly the size of the US state of Texas and more than twice the size of the UK. That’s 40 million people in Afghanistan. Texas is 30 million, and UK?
Countries of the UK
England: 55.3 million.
Scotland: 5.4 million.
Wales: 3.1.
Northern Ireland: 1.9.
That’s a fuckin white ass country — 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data).
Fucking Rhodes, Britain, USA:
And the USA? The current population of the United States of America is 340,329,365. As of July 1, 2022, United States Census Bureau estimates that 75.8% of the US population were white alone, while Non-Hispanic whites were 59.3% of the population.
The fucking EU? The EU covers over 4 million km² and has 448.4 million inhabitants. By surface area, France is the largest EU country and Malta the smallest. What percent of Europe is white? 90%+ . Almost 100% in eastern European countries . 85%-90% in Western European countries.
Check out that THE WORLD HAS TOO MANY whites list of white viruses ending up elsewhere.15 Countries with the Largest White Population outside of EuropeThat means that the white population in the world is less than a billion, which is a lot less figure compared to the population of China or India, which count more than a billion citizens each.
How, opium:
I have Baptists, Atheists, SDA, LDS, Catholics, too, telling me there are way too many people on earth? Too many to Bomb? To Invade?
Look, I have taught many students, have had many debates at conferences, and I have done the sustainability director thing, as well as lead many ecological initiatives. IN the West, man, my own cohorts, it is an endless bullshit “there are too many people on earth and so how to feed them, how to keep them alive, how to save the, how to house them, how to save them from heat, drought, storm, plagues, pandemics, diseases. Here, from Matthew — Is the Multipolar Alliance ‘Controlled Opposition’? The Case of Two Green Paradigms
None of my greenie weenie friends would give this sort of thinking a chance.
Funding for advanced breakthroughs in space science was destroyed with the cancellation of the Apollo missions in 1973.
Where NASA’s ‘crash science’ methods formerly drove the entire economy towards nonlinear bursts of growth through expanding fields of new discoveries touching on every aspect of life[2], the funding collapsed by design from 4% of GDP/year in 1965, to less than 1% by 1975 [see graph].
Just as the limits to growth were imposed onto humankind’s quest to become a space-driven species on the macro scale, breakthroughs in atomic energy were also sabotaged with the cancellation of hundreds of new reactor builds in the late 1970s, while research and development into next generation reactors, nuclear propulsion for deep space exploration, fusion power, and closing the nuclear cycle using fast breeder reactors were cancelled under President Carter.
Fusion funding was cut so deeply during this time, that scientists were deprived of the means of building prototypes to test their ideas resulting in a deep demoralization and idiotic “truism” that commercial fusion power “would always be 30 years away”.
Heavy industry was outsourced under a new logic of “cheap labor” and the formerly economic independent nations of the west became ever more dependent upon sweat shops, child labor and increasing rates of unpayable debts.
Henry Kissinger pulled every string to ensure that the world would remain addicted to hydrocarbons which became the basis upon which a new era of asymmetric war and economic terrorism under the guise of the petro-dollar would be unleashed.
The only groups to benefit were those ‘stakeholders’ prancing about the Bilderberger or Davos who wished to transform once viable economies into speculative, hollowed-out time bombs whose detonation decades later would ensure a traumatic shock to the zeitgeist sufficient to usher in a new post-nation state world order.
James Schlesinger was an important Trilateral Commission ideologue who would jump from the directorship of the CIA (1973) to the Department of Defense (1973-76) to head the Department of Energy (1977-79) where he oversaw the cancellation of nearly all nuclear projects planed for the 1980s. Why this particular individual was selected to carry his assignment can be seen in his 1960 book ‘The Political Economy of National Security’ where he outlined his concept of economics and the necessary future of the world saying:
“Economics is the science of choice in a world of limited resources…. We have gone around the world spreading the ‘gospel of plenty’ raising the level of expectations … [but] in the nature of things, these rising expectations can never be satisfied…. We must in our strategic policy return to the days before the Industrial Revolution … [and] prepare to fight limited wars.”
Hmm, too many Kissingers and Soroses and Schlesingers in the world, along with their sheeple and their Eichmanns and their miseducated millions in the WEST, to feed, to pay, to advance, to celebrate, to valorize.
Too many sociopaths like Strong on the planet, it that the statement the average yokel in the AmeriKKKan school and media system?
In a 1990 interview to West Magazine, Strong described a fiction book that he wanted to write. This book would take place amidst the meetings of a global elite where a grouping of enlightened elitists conspired to collapse industrial civilization to save nature. Strong said:
“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
And the average yokel talks about decarbonizing, and they know nothing about what that really means, what carbon they are referring to, and alas, Dystopia is in the mainstrea media, on the Holly-Dirt filth flicks, and it’s taught in the fucked up k12 de-education programs.
Facts:
Not only have no new hydroelectric dams been built since the early 1980s in North America, current energy policies in California have focused on pouring $500 million into destroying four dams in order to “liberate the rivers and restore the natural deserts”, while depriving living human farmers and residents of vital water reserves and energy.
De-growth and depopulation of California dominate the thinking of the technocrat class and urban yuppies of the west without any regard to the suffering caused along the way.
China on the other hand has built four of the ten largest hydroelectric dams in the world during the past 25 years, and on June 14, 2022, Power China unveiled plans to build 200 new pumped hydro stations generating 270 GW of energy by 2025.
While the greens of the west have been trained to think only of deconstructing industrial civilization to save deserts (or destroy arable land by spreading solar panels over millions of acres thus increasing both heat and lifeless deserts on earth), the concept of “green” in Eurasia involves bringing life to deserts.
Looking to NASA’s recent surprise discovery that the world’s biomass has increased by over 5% due in large measure to India and China’s economic activity, the fact is slowly emerging into the zeitgeist that the apparent conflict between humanity’s aspirations to grow vs the health of ecosystems is a chimera. The obvious fact that carbon dioxide also happens to be considered by all chlorophyl-based life to be a delicious food should also not be lost in the rush to demonize CO2.
It’s no longer greenwashing, and way past green pornography. It’s Green S & M, dudes and dudettes. So, how much carbon is offset for those batteries? Those drones or UAS’s or UAV’s use tons of batteries, and those thousands of battery manufacturers have all sorts of green mumbo jumbo on their websites to entice more young people to sign on.
Batteries that go, Poof when used for a kamikazee drone..
U.S. military is planning to initiate flights of a drone called the RQ-4 Global Hawk this year, and each one comes with a price tag of $131 million, and Nothrop-Grumman has a drone model called the X-47B that is priced at just under half a billion.
So, too many War is a Racketeers on Planet Earth? Here, just a tip of the iceberg on how many First World beautiful people out there working on just one system. Look up all the subcontractors and their subcontractors just for this Too Many People on Planet Earth Equilizer:
The Global Hawk ground segment includes the mission control element (MCE) and the launch and recovery element (LRE). The support segment includes aerospace ground equipment, tech orders, spares, support equipment, and training to enable operation of the Global Hawk UAS.
The Global Hawk is operated by the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air Force Base (AFB) in California, and the 348th Reconnaissance Squadron at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota, but aircraft are rotated to operational detachments worldwide. The Global Hawk flew for the first time at Edwards Air Force Base in California on February 28, 1998.
The Global Hawk is equipped with a Hughes Integrated Surveillance & Reconnaissance (HISAR) sensor system. HISAR is a lower-cost derivative of Raytheon’s ASARS-2 package, which Hughes Electronics (now part of Raytheon) developed for the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady spyplane. The Global Hawk is also equipped with the Raytheon AN/ALR-89 self-protection suite, which consists of the AN/ALR-90 pulsed Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), the AN/AVR-3 Laser Warning System, AN/APR-49 Radar Warning Receiver, a jamming system, and the AN/ALE-50 towed decoy.
Major RQ-4 Global Hawk subcontractors are Aurora Flight Sciences (V-tail assembly and other composite structures), L-3 Communications (communication system), Raytheon Company (Hughes Integrated Surveillance & Reconnaissance (HISAR) system and ground station), Rolls-Royce (AE3007 turbofan engine), Héroux-Devtek (aircraft landing gear), and Triumph Group-Vought Aircraft (carbon fiber composite wing).
The U.S. Air Force EQ-4B is a Global Hawk equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), an airborne communications relay and gateway system that translates and distributes voice communications and other battlespace information from numerous sources. The system is also carried by the Bombardier E-11A.
Yep, too many people on earth, right.
We are a dirty country, man, and when the kids and the grandparents and teachers and engineers and billionaires and actors spew this hate — THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE ON EARTH, what the fuck do they really mean?
Caption: The growth of China’s high speed rail network is hyperbolic having not existed in 2001 and having grown to 30,000km as of this writing.
China has set records for bridge building, tunneling, as well as water management, quantum computing, AI, advanced telecommunications, and even space science becoming the first nation to ever land on the far side of the moon with an intent to mine Helium-3 and develop permanent bases on the Moon alongside Russia in the coming decade.
Too Many Chinese on Earth?
Science journalist Jeremy Beck wrote of China’s space/fusion program in the following terms:
“Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), has said that the Moon is so rich in He-3, that this could ‘solve humanity’s energy demand for around 10,000 years at least.’ While talking about the Moon’s reserves of iron and other metals, Ziyuan particularly drew attention to He-3, which he called ‘an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion power, the next generation of nuclear power.’ He added, ‘It is estimated that reserves of helium-3 across Earth amount to just 15 tonnes, while 100 tonnes of helium-3 will be needed each year if nuclear fusion technology is applied to meet global energy demands. The Moon, on the other hand, has reserves estimated at between one and five million tonnes’.
Fucking Americans driving their big vehicles, living large in big remodelled every six years home, all those three car garages full to the brim, all the endless shopping Black Fridays, they all seem to think they can be Paul Bunyan or Hentry David or Jeremiah Johnson. Fucking!
I’ll cite a long piece — David Swanson — on just how many people on earth the USA wants dead. Because there are too many of THEM on planet earth.
[Map: The map shows the results of a 2013 (pre-Trump) WIN/Gallup International survey asking people which country they felt was the greatest threat to world peace.]
Look, Americans are not a good people, are not a caring people, are not there in the world be I. Americans are happy to be miseducated, entertained to death and lied to, truly.
The example of Americans in the world in 2023 is reason to say, There Are Too Many Americans to Feed, Clothe, Wash, Entertain, Heat, Educate, Transport, Serve.
Stay a child, any religions push down their throats: Of these options to imitate, I’ve most often heard some version or aspect of “childlike faith“: Being innocent and unassuming, asking honest questions of God. Being wide-eyed and open-hearted, interested in what God tells us. Being trusting and reliant, accepting God’s answers as-is.
The Bible may not use the phrase “childlike faith,” but in Matthew 18:1, the disciples ask Jesus who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. They wanted a clear-cut answer because they couldn’t figure it out among themselves, but Jesus turned their perception of the “greatest” upside down by calling a young child to Himself and placing the child among them.
With all eyes on the child, Jesus says in verse 3, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Little children. Child-like innocence. Be children to the patriarchy. This is the American way — don’t question the war makers, cuz their jobs are above my pay grade.
“Christ wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim.” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Ahh, that alterness, that intelligence, that fighting trim as Lewis spewed. The list of individual and collective sins are great.
Ahh, Israel: 9.364 million. For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace.
Too many non-Jews on Earth, or in Israel?
Too many non-Jews to feed and clothe in Israel? Libya?
There are Arab governments going along with the U.S. push to normalize relations with Israel. But people throughout the region are adamantly opposed to such treachery, as the now suspended Foreign Minister of Libya discovered.
Following the destruction of Libya by NATO in 2011, the country has had consecutive governments that were parachuted into the country by the United Nations that serve the interest not of Libyans but of the transnational elite, lobbyists, and corrupt officials. The recent scandal of Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), spearheaded by Abd Alhamid Dbaiba, was the Foreign Minister of Libya’s meeting with Eli Cohen, the Foreign Minister of Israel (hereafter, “Zionist entity”) last week to seek normalization of relations. This must be seen as part of the US push in the region to launch a series of normalization of states with the Zionist entity, which has occurred with Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan. Yet, this shameful act contradicts what Libya has historically stood up for, and that is the national liberation of Palestine and disposing of the Zionist settler colonialism.
First: The UN Sustainable Development Goals are wildly general and open to massive interpretation and is made up of 17 points.
Of course the agenda itself emerged un-naturally with an evil intention in the 1990s to promote a new set of dark age values for a Great Reset system that desires global depopulation, stupidification and de-industrialization. However, since the oligarchy can’t say ‘we want to kill everyone and restore feudalism’… they had to use generic broad, generic rosy language with uber-vague goals that are:
There is obviously alot of room for maneuvering here over WHAT AND HOW will these things be defined. For the most part no sane person would think that any of those 17 things are intrinsically evil.
The question is how do you define the problems and what set of values are you applying to address them? If you are a death cultist then you want to value actions on each 17 points which kills people, reduces the effect of life, makes people stupider, selfish and fearful and ironically increases inequality, land abuse, destroys partnerships, undermines life, and all of the other positive generic goals.
The question then becomes: Based on the effects of their policies, ARE China and Russia advancing a death cult agenda?
One important aspect about the causes of hunger is often ignored; that is, land ownership and who controls the land. Throughout history, this has been an important part of power struggles and one of the major causes of poverty (and therefore, hunger).
There is a reason that most countries polled in December 2013 by Gallup called the United States the greatest threat to peace in the world, and why Pew found that viewpoint increased in 2017.
But it is a reason that eludes that strain of U.S. academia that first defines war as something that nations and groups other than the United States do, and then concludes that war has nearly vanished from the earth.
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
“The United States has carried out 34 percent of its 392 interventions against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean; 23 percent in East Asia and the Pacific region; 14 percent in the Middle East and North Africa; and just 13 percent in Europe and Central Asia, according to a newly refined version of the Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset — a venture of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.”
From David Vine’s The United States at War:
A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:
1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware 1776 Cherokee 1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1780-1794 Chickamauga 1790-1795 Miami Confederacy 1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek) 1798-1801 France 1801-1805 Tripoli 1806 Mexico 1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers 1810 Spanish West Florida 1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy 1812 Spanish Florida 1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain) 1812-1815 Dakota Sioux 1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1813 Spanish West Florida 1813-1814 Marquesas Islands 1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy 1814 Spanish Florida 1814-1825 Pirates 1815 Algiers 1815 Tripoli 1816 Spanish Florida 1817 Spanish Florida 1817-1819 Seminole 1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain) 1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol 1822-1825 Cuba (Spain 1824 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1827 Greece 1831-1832 Falkland Islands 1832 Sauk 1832 Sumatra 1833 Argentina 1835-1836 Peru 1835-1842 Seminole 1836 Mexico 1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek) 1838-1839 Sumatra 1840 Fiji Islands 1841 Samoa 1841 Tabiteuea 1842 Mexico 1843 China 1844 Mexico 1846-1848 Mexico 1847-1850 Cayuse 1849 Turkey 1850-1886 Apache 1851 Johanna Island 1851 Turkey 1852-1853 Argentina 1853-1854 Japan 1853-1854 Nicaragua 1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands 1854-1856 China 1855 Fiji Islands 1855 Uruguay 1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples 1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse 1855-1858 Seminole 1856 Panama (Colombia) 1856-1857 Cheyenne 1857 Nicaragua 1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance 1858 Fiji Islands 1858 Uruguay 1858-1859 Turkey 1859 China 1859 Mexico 1859 Paraguay 1860 Angola 1860 Colombia 1862 Sioux 1863-1864 Japan 1864 Cheyenne 1865 Panama (Colombia) 1866 China 1866 Mexico 1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho 1867 Formosa (Taiwan) 1867 Nicaragua 1867-1875 Comanche 1868 Colombia 1868 Japan 1868 Uruguay 1870 Hawaii 1871 Korea 1872-1873 Modoc 1873 Colombia (Panama) 1873-1896 Mexico 1874 Hawaii 1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa 1876-1877 Sioux 1877 Nez Perce 1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut) 1878-1879 Cheyenne 1879-1880 Utes 1882 Egypt 1885 Panama (Colombia) 1888 Haiti 1888 Korea 1888-1889 Samoa 1889 Hawaii 1890 Argentina 1890 Lakota Sioux 1891 Bering Straight 1891 Chile 1891 Haiti 1893 Hawaii 1894 Brazil 1894 Nicaragua 1894-1895 China 1894-1896 Korea 1895 Panama (Colombia) 1896 Nicaragua 1898 Cuba (Spain) 1898 Nicaragua 1898 Philippines (Spain) 1898 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1898-1899 China 1899 Nicaragua 1899 Samoa 1899-1913 Philippines 1900 China 1901-1902 Colombia 1903 Dominican Republic 1903 Honduras 1903 Syria 1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1903-1914 Panama 1904 Dominican Republic 1904 Tangier 1904-1905 Korea 1906-1909 Cuba 1907 Honduras 1909-1910 Nicaragua 1911-1912 Honduras 1911-1914 China 1912 Cuba 1912 Turkey 1912-1933 Nicaragua 1914 Dominican Republic 1914 Haiti 1914-1919 Mexico 1915-1934 Haiti 1916-1924 Dominican Republic 1917-1918 World War I (Europe) 1917-1922 Cuba 1918-1920 Russia 1918-1921 Panama 1919 Dalmatia 1919 Turkey 1919-1920 Honduras 1925 Panama 1932 El Salvador 1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific) 1946 Trieste 1947-1949 Greece 1948-1949 Berlin, Germany 1950 Formosa (Taiwan) 1950-1953 Korea 1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan) 1955-1975 Vietnam 1956 Egypt 1958 Lebanon 1962 Cuba 1962 Thailand 1962-1975 Laos 1964 Congo (Zaire) 1965 Dominican Republic 1965-1973 Cambodia 1967 Congo (Zaire) 1976 Korea 1978 Congo (Zaire) 1980 Iran 1981 El Salvador 1981 Libya 1981-1989 Nicaragua 1982-1983 Egypt 1982-1983 Lebanon 1983 Chad 1983 Grenada 1986 Bolivia 1986 Libya 1987-1988 Iran 1988 Panama 1989 Bolivia 1989 Colombia 1989 Libya 1989 Peru 1989 Philippines 1989-1990 Panama 1990 Saudi Arabia 1991 Congo (Zaire) 1991-1992 Kuwait 1991-1993 Iraq 1992-1994 Somalia 1993-1994 Macedonia 1993-1996 Haiti 1993-2005 Bosnia 1995 Serbia 1996 Liberia 1996 Rwanda 1997-2003 Iraq 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Sudan 1999-2000 Kosovo 1999-2000 Montenegro 1999-2000 Serbia 2000 Yemen 2000-2002 East Timor 2000-2016 Colombia 2001 – Afghanistan 2001- Pakistan 2001- Somalia 2002-2015 Philippines 2002- Yemen 2003-2011 Iraq 2004 Haiti c2004- Kenya 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2011-2017 Uganda 2011- Libya c2012- Central African Republic c2012- Mali c2013-2016 South Sudan c2013- Burkina Faso c2013- Chad c2013- Mauritania c2013- Niger c2013- Nigeria 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2014- Iraq 2014- Syria 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo c2015- Cameroon 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2017- Saudi Arabia c2017 Tunisia 2019- Philippines
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. There are clearly dozens more.
In a reality-based assessment of U.S. crimes, the serious offenses begin beyond that threshold. Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States has attempted to assassinate:
1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons
2011 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya
Let me know of any updates or corrections, and I’ll add them. Thanks to Said Zulficar for pointing out the need to add Jaime Roldos, President of Ecuador, assassinated May 1981. John Perkins, in his book Touching the Jaguar, makes a case that both Jaime Roldos of Ecuador and Omar Torrijos of Panama (also in 1981) were very likely U.S.-backed assassinations.
According to the evidence in Nicholson Baker’s 2020 book Baseless, we also need to add the 1948 assassination of Jorge Gaitán in Colombia.
Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 * [arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. –DS]
The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.” These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above.
We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Burkina Faso 2022. Another report discusses these as coups by U.S.-trained soldiers who overthrew governments they’d been trained to support: between 2008 and 2022: Burkina Faso, three times; Mali, three times; and Mauritania, one time. With Niger in July 2023, the coups since 2008 in West Africa by U.S.-trained troops reached 11.
Here is Blum’s list of nations bombed by the United States:
Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-1961
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1993
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
Iraq 2003-2015
Afghanistan 2001-2015
Pakistan 2007-2015
Somalia 2007-8, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011
Libya 2011, 2015
Syria 2014-2016
[Drone strikes in the Philippines should be added to this list. As perhaps should be all the islands and territories destroyed by test bombings. –DS]
Blum adds these further bombings:
Iran, April 2003 – hit by US missiles during bombing of Iraq, killing at least one person
Pakistan, 2002-03 – bombed by US planes several times as part of combat against the Taliban and other opponents of the US occupation of Afghanistan
China, 1999 – its heavily bombed embassy in Belgrade is legally Chinese territory, and it appears rather certain that the bombing was no accident (see chapter 25 of Rogue State)
France, 1986 – After the French government refused the use of its air space to US warplanes headed for a bombing raid on Libya, the planes were forced to take another, longer route; when they reached Libya they bombed so close to the French embassy that the building was damaged and all communication links knocked out.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1985 – A bomb dropped by a police helicopter burned down an entire block, some 60 homes destroyed, 11 dead, including several small children. The police, the mayor’s office, and the FBI were all involved in this effort to evict a black organization called MOVE from the house they lived in.
If we add in other missing instances and go back to and prior to WWII the list starts to look like this:
Dominican Republic 1915 – 1935 Haiti 1915 – 1934 Logan County, West Virginia 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921 Honduras 1924, 1925 Nicaragua 1927 – 1933 Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Crete, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Libya, Luxembourg, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Netherlands, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Okinawa, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saipan, Taiwan (Formosa), Thailand, Tinian, Tunisia, Vietnam (French Indochina), Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945 Marshall Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico nuclear testing 1945 – 1962 Korea and China 1950 – 1953 Guatemala 1954 Indonesia 1958 Cuba 1959 – 1961 Guatemala 1960 Congo 1964 Laos 1964 – 1973 Vietnam 1961 – 1973 Cambodia 1969 – 1970 Guatemala 1967 – 1969 El Salvador 1980s Nicaragua 1980s Grenada 1983 Lebanon 1983, 1984 Libya 1986 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1985 Iran 1987 Panama 1989 Kuwait 1991 Iraq 1991 – 2017 Somalia 1993 Bosnia 1994, 1995 Sudan 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Yugoslavia 1999 Afghanistan 2001 – 2017 Yemen 2002 Pakistan 2002 – 2003 Iran 2003 Pakistan 2007 – 2017 Somalia 2007 – 2008, 2011 Yemen 2009, 2011, 2016-2017 Libya 2011, 2015 – 2017 Philippines 2012 Syria 2014 – 2017
Then there’s Blum’s list of instances of the United States attempting to suppress a populist or nationalist movement (* indicates success):
China – 1945-49
France – 1947 *
Italy – 1947-1970s *
Greece – 1947-49 *
Philippines – 1945-53 *
Korea – 1945-53 *
Haiti – 1959 *
Laos – 1957-73
Vietnam – 1961-73
Thailand – 1965-73 *
Peru – 1965 *
Dominican Republic – 1965 *
Uruguay – 1969-72 *
South Africa – 1960s-1980s
East Timor – 1975-1999 *
Philippines – 1970s-1990s *
El Salvador – 1980-92 *
Colombia – 1990s to early 2000s *
Peru – 1997 *
Iraq – 2003 to present *
Zoltan Grossman provides the following list of all variety of hostile actions:
IRAN 1946, Nuclear threat, Soviet troops told to leave north. YUGOSLAVIA 1946, Nuclear threat, naval Response to shoot-down of U.S. plane. URUGUAY 1947, Nuclear threat, Bombers deployed as show of strength. GREECE 1947-49, Command operation, U.S. directs extreme-right in civil war. GERMANY 1948, Nuclear Threat, Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift. CHINA 1948-49, Troops/Marines evacuate Americans before Communist victory. PHILIPPINES 1948-54, Command operation, CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion. PUERTO RICO 1950, Command operation, Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce. KOREA 1951-53 (-?), Troops, naval, bombing , nuclear threats, U.S./So. Korea fights China/No. Korea to stalemate; A-bomb threat in 1950, and against China in 1953. Still have bases. IRAN 1953, Command Operation, CIA overthrows democracy, installs Shah. VIETNAM 1954, Nuclear threat, French offered bombs to use against seige. GUATEMALA 1954, Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat CIA directs exile invasion after new gov’t nationalized U.S. company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua. EGYPT 1956, Nuclear threat, troops Soviets told to keep out of Suez crisis; Marines evacuate foreigners. LEBANON l958, Troops, naval Army & Marine occupation against rebels. IRAQ 1958, Nuclear threat, Iraq warned against invading Kuwait. CHINA l958 Nuclear threat, China told not to move on Taiwan isles. PANAMA 1958 Troops, Flag protests erupt into confrontation. VIETNAM l960-75 Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats Fought South Vietnam revolt & North Vietnam, one million killed in longest U.S. war; atomic bomb threats in l968 and l969. CUBA l961 Command operation, CIA-directed exile invasion fails. GERMANY l961 Nuclear threat, Alert during Berlin Wall crisis. LAOS 1962 Command operation, Military buildup during guerrilla war. CUBA l962 Nuclear threat, naval Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet Union. IRAQ 1963 Command operation, CIA organizes coup that killed president, brings Ba’ath Party to power, and Saddam Hussein back from exile to be head of the secret service. PANAMA l964, Troops Panamanians shot for urging canal’s return. INDONESIA l965, Command operation, Million killed in CIA-assisted army coup. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66, Troops, bombing Army & Marines land during election campaign. GUATEMALA l966-67, Command operation, Green Berets intervene against rebels. DETROIT l967, Troops, Army battles African Americans, 43 killed. UNITED STATES l968 Troops After King is shot; over 21,000 soldiers in cities. CAMBODIA l969-75, Bombing, troops, naval Up to 2 million killed in decade of bombing, starvation, and political chaos. OMAN l970, Command operation, U.S. directs Iranian marine invasion. LAOS l971-73, Command operation, bombing U.S. directs South Vietnamese invasion; “carpet-bombs” countryside. SOUTH DAKOTA, l973 Command operation, Army directs Wounded Knee siege of Lakotas. MIDEAST 1973, Nuclear threat, World-wide alert during Mideast War. CHILE 1973, Command operation, CIA-backed coup ousts elected marxist president. CAMBODIA l975, Troops, bombing Gassing of captured ship Mayagüez, 28 troops die when copter shot down. ANGOLA l976-9,2 Command operation, CIA assists South African-backed rebels. IRAN l980 Troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing Raid to rescue Embassy hostages; 8 troops die in copter-plane crash. Soviets warned not to get involved in revolution. LIBYA l981, Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down in maneuvers. EL SALVADOR l981-92 , Command operation, troops Advisors, overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash. NICARAGUA l981-90, Command operation, naval CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor mines against revolution. LEBANON l982-84, Naval, bombing, troops Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, Navy bombs and shells Muslim positions. 241 Marines killed when Shi’a rebel bombs barracks. GRENADA l983-84, Troops, bombing Invasion four years after revolution. HONDURAS, l983-89, Troops, Maneuvers help build bases near borders. IRAN, l984 Jets, Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf. LIBYA l986 Bombing, naval Air strikes to topple Qaddafi gov’t. BOLIVIA 1986 Troops, Army assists raids on cocaine region. IRAN l987-88 Naval bombing, US intervenes on side of Iraq in war, defending reflagged tankers and shooting down civilian jet. LIBYA 1989, Naval jets, Two Libyan jets shot down. VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989, Troops, St. Croix Black unrest after storm. PHILIPPINES 1989, Jets Air, cover provided for government against coup. PANAMA 1989, Troops, bombing, Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers, leaders arrested, 2000+ killed. LIBERIA 1990, Troops, Foreigners evacuated during civil war. SAUDI ARABIA, 1990-91, Troops, jets Iraq countered after invading Kuwait. 540,000 troops also stationed in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Israel. IRAQ 1990-91 Bombing, troops, naval Blockade of Iraqi and Jordanian ports, air strikes; 200,000+ killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait; large-scale destruction of Iraqi military. KUWAIT 1991 Naval, bombing, troops Kuwait royal family returned to throne. IRAQ 1991-2003 Bombing, naval No-fly zone over Kurdish north, Shiite south; constant air strikes and naval-enforced economic sanctions LOS ANGELES 1992 Troops Army, Marines deployed against anti-police uprising. SOMALIA 1992-94 Troops, naval, bombing U.S.-led United Nations occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction. YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94 Naval NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro. BOSNIA 1993-? Jets, bombing No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; downed jets, bombed Serbs. HAITI 1994 Troops, naval Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup. ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97 Troops Troops at Rwandan Hutu refugee camps, in area where Congo revolution begins. LIBERIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners. ALBANIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners. SUDAN 1998 Missiles Attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be “terrorist” nerve gas plant. AFGHANISTAN 1998 Missiles Attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups alleged to have attacked embassies. IRAQ 1998 Bombing, Missiles Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions. YUGOSLAVIA 1999 Bombing, Missiles Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo. NATO occupation of Kosovo. YEMEN 2000 Naval USS Cole, docked in Aden, bombed. MACEDONIA 2001 Troops NATO forces deployed to move and disarm Albanian rebels. UNITED STATES 2001 Jets, naval Reaction to hijacker attacks on New York, DC AFGHANISTAN 2001-? Troops, bombing, missiles Massive U.S. mobilization to overthrow Taliban, hunt Al Qaeda fighters, install Karzai regime, and battle Taliban insurgency. More than 30,000 U.S. troops and numerous private security contractors carry our occupation. YEMEN 2002 Missiles Predator drone missile attack on Al Qaeda, including a US citizen. PHILIPPINES 2002-? Troops, naval Training mission for Philippine military fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels evolves into combat missions in Sulu Archipelago, west of Mindanao. COLOMBIA 2003-? Troops US special forces sent to rebel zone to back up Colombian military protecting oil pipeline. IRAQ 2003-11 Troops, naval, bombing, missiles Saddam regime toppled in Baghdad. More than 250,000 U.S. personnel participate in invasion. US and UK forces occupy country and battle Sunni and Shi’ite insurgencies. More than 160,000 troops and numerous private contractors carry out occupation and build large permanent bases. LIBERIA 2003 Troops Brief involvement in peacekeeping force as rebels drove out leader. HAITI 2004-05 Troops, naval Marines & Army land after right-wing rebels oust elected President Aristide, who was advised to leave by Washington. PAKISTAN 2005-? Missiles, bombing, covert operation CIA missile and air strikes and Special Forces raids on alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban refuge villages kill multiple civilians. Drone attacks also on Pakistani Mehsud network. SOMALIA 2006-? Missiles, naval, troops, command operation Special Forces advise Ethiopian invasion that topples Islamist government; AC-130 strikes, Cruise missile attacks and helicopter raids against Islamist rebels; naval blockade against “pirates” and insurgents. SYRIA 2008 Troops Special Forces in helicopter raid 5 miles from Iraq kill 8 Syrian civilians YEMEN 2009-? Missiles, command operation Cruise missile attack on Al Qaeda kills 49 civilians; Yemeni military assaults on rebels LIBYA 2011-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation NATO coordinates air strikes and missile attacks against Qaddafi government during uprising by rebel army. Periodic Special Forces raids against Islamist insurgents. IRAQ 2014-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation
Air strikes and Special Forces intervene against Islamic State insurgents; training Iraqi and Kurdish troops. SYRIA 2014-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation
Air strikes and Special Forces intervene against Islamic State insurgents; training other Syrian insurgents. Missile strikes against Syrian military begin April 2017.
William Appleman Williams’ book Empire As A Way of Life includes a list from 1798 to 1941 of “interventionist activity (excluding declared wars)” (and also apparently excluding the indigenous nations of the mainland of North America) (for longer descriptions, a few sentences for each item, see the book):
1798-1800 Naval war with France
1801-1805 Tripoli
1806 Mexico
1806-10 Gulf of Mexico
1810 West Florida
1812 Amelia Island
1813 West Florida
1813-14 Marquesas Islands
1814 Spanish Florida
1814-25 Caribbean
1815 Algiers
1815 Tripoli
1816 Spanish Florida
1816-18 Spanish Florida
1817 Amelia Island
1818 Oregon
1820-26 Africa
1822 Cuba
1823 Cuba
1823 Cuba [sic]
1824 Puerto Rico
1825 Cuba
1827 Greece
1831-32 Falkland Islands
1832 Sumatra
1833 Argentina
1835-36 Peru
1836 Mexico
1838-39 Sumatra
1840 Fiji Islands
1841 Drummond Island
1841 Samoa
1843 Mexico
1843 Africa
1844 Mexico
1846-48 Mexico
1849 Smyrna
1851 Turkey
1851 Johanna Island
1852-53 Argentina
1853 Nicaragua
1853-54 Japan
1853-54 Ryukyu and Bonin Islands
1854 China
1854 Nicaragua
1855 China
1855 Fiji Islands
1855 Uruguay
1856 Panama
1856 China
1857 Nicaragua
1858 Uruguay
1858 Fiji Islands
1858-59 Turkey
1858 Paraguay
1858 Mexico
1858 China
1860 Angola
1860 Colombia
1863 Japan
1864 Japan
1864 Japan [sic]
1865 Panama
1866 Mexico
1866 China
1867 Island of Formosa
1868 Japan
1868 Uruguay
1868 Colombia
1870 Mexico
1870 Hawaiian Islands
1871 Korea
1873 Colombia
1873 Mexico
1874 Hawaiian Islands
1876 Mexico
1882 Egypt
1885 Panama
1888 Korea
1888-89 Samoa
1888 Haiti
1889 Hawaiian Islands
1890 Argentina
1891 Haiti
1891 Bering Sea
1891 Chile
1893 Hawaii
1894 Brazil
1894 Nicaragua
1894-96 Korea
1894-95 China
1894-95 China [sic]
1895 Colombia
1896 Nicaragua
1898 Nicaragua
1898-99 China
1899 Nicaragua
1899 Samoa
1899-1901 Philippine Islands
1900 China
1901 Colombia
1902 Colombia
1902 Colombia [sic]
1903 Honduras
1903 Dominican Republic
1903 Syria
1903-14 Panama
1904 Dominican Republic
1904-05 Korea
1904 Tangier, Morocco
1904 Panama
1904-05 Korea
1906-09 Cuba
1907 Honduras
1910 Nicaragua
1911 Honduras
1911 China
1912 Honduras
1912 Panama
1912 Cuba
1912 China
1912 Turkey
1912-25 Nicaragua
1912-42 China
1913 Mexico
1914 Haiti
1914 Dominican Republic
1914-17 Mexico
1915-35 Haiti
1916-24 Dominican Republic
1917-33 Cuba
1918-19 Mexico
1918-20 Soviet Russia
1919 Honduras
1920-22 Russia (Siberia)
1920 China
1920 Guatemala
1921 Panama-Costa Rica
1922 Turkey
1924 Honduras
1924 China
1925 China
1925 Honduras
1925 Panama
1926-33 Nicaragua
1926 China
1927 China
1933 Cuba
1940 Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, and British Guiana.
1941 Greenland
1941 Netherlands (Dutch Guiana)
1941 Iceland
1941 Germany
Now, here’s James Lucas’ list of victims of U.S. wars (His footnotes are here.)
37 VICTIM NATIONS
Afghanistan
The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4)
The Soviet Union had friendly relations its neighbor, Afghanistan, which had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet Union.
In 1998, in an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carter, admitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade. In his own words:
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. (5,1,6)
Brzezinski justified laying this trap, since he said it gave the Soviet Union its Vietnam and caused the breakup of the Soviet Union. “Regret what?” he said. “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” (7)
The CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of the U.S. market. (4)
The U.S. has been responsible directly for about 12,000 deaths in Afghanistan many of which resulted from bombing in retaliation for the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S. troops invaded that country. (4)
Angola
An indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in 1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N., although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.
U.S. intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA – financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)
Argentina: See South America: Operation Condor
Bangladesh: See Pakistan
Bolivia
Hugo Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s. The U.S. had been disturbed when a previous leader nationalized the tin mines and distributed land to Indian peasants. Later that action to benefit the poor was reversed.
Banzer, who was trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama and later at Fort Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to confer with U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1971 he staged a successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. In the first years of his dictatorship he received twice as military assistance from the U.S. as in the previous dozen years together.
A few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. (2) He has been accused of being responsible for 400 deaths during his tenure. (1)
Also see: See South America: Operation Condor
Brazil: See South America: Operation Condor
Cambodia
U.S. bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the Vietnam War.
There is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the human suffering involved.
Immense damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.
So the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the Khmer Rouge – a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)
Also see Vietnam
Chad
An estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000 tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained in power for eight years. (1,2)
Human Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in Belgium, because some of Habre’s torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for atrocities committed abroad was repealed. However, two months later a new law was passed which made special provision for the continuation of the case against Habre.
Chile
The CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.
What followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror. ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” (1)
During 17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others were tortured or “disappeared.” (2,3,4,5)
Also see South America: Operation Condor
China An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War.
For more information, See: Korea.
Colombia
One estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)
According to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.- supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002 another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S. funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)
In 1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in Colombia” which revealed that CIA agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)
In recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary group.
Cuba
In the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 18, 1961 which ended after 3 days, 114 of the invading force were killed, 1,189 were taken prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships. (1) The captured exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to thirty years in prison for treason. These exiles were released after 20 months in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.
Some people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from 2,000, to 4,000. Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were killed on an open highway by napalm. This appears to have been a precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S. forces mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)
Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)
The beginning of massive violence was instigated in this country in 1879 by its colonizer King Leopold of Belgium. The Congo’s population was reduced by 10 million people over a period of 20 years which some have referred to as “Leopold’s Genocide.” (1) The U.S. has been responsible for about a third of that many deaths in that nation in the more recent past. (2)
In 1960 the Congo became an independent state with Patrice Lumumba being its first prime minister. He was assassinated with the CIA being implicated, although some say that his murder was actually the responsibility of Belgium. (3) But nevertheless, the CIA was planning to kill him. (4) Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination. This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic pouch.
Much of the time in recent years there has been a civil war within the Democratic Republic of Congo, fomented often by the U.S. and other nations, including neighboring nations. (5)
In April 1977, Newsday reported that the CIA was secretly supporting efforts to recruit several hundred mercenaries in the U.S. and Great Britain to serve alongside Zaire’s army. In that same year the U.S. provided $15 million of military supplies to the Zairian President Mobutu to fend off an invasion by a rival group operating in Angola. (6)
In May 1979, the U.S. sent several million dollars of aid to Mobutu who had been condemned 3 months earlier by the U.S. State Department for human rights violations. (7) During the Cold War the U.S. funneled over 300 million dollars in weapons into Zaire (8,9) $100 million in military training was provided to him. (2) In 2001 it was reported to a U.S. congressional committee that American companies, including one linked to former President George Bush Sr., were stoking the Congo for monetary gains. There is an international battle over resources in that country with over 125 companies and individuals being implicated. One of these substances is coltan, which is used in the manufacture of cell phones. (2)
Dominican Republic
In 1962, Juan Bosch became president of the Dominican Republic. He advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs. This did not bode well for his future relationship with the U.S., and after only 7 months in office, he was deposed by a CIA coup. In 1965 when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President Johnson said, “This Bosch is no good.” Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann replied “He’s no good at all. If we don’t get a decent government in there, Mr. President, we get another Bosch. It’s just going to be another sinkhole.” Two days later a U.S. invasion started and 22,000 soldiers and marines entered the Dominican Republic and about 3,000 Dominicans died during the fighting. The cover excuse for doing this was that this was done to protect foreigners there. (1,2,3,4)
East Timor
In December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. (1,2)
Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea. (5)
El Salvador
The civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of about 8 million people. (1) During that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. This former member of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas and tortured them. Part of the training he received was in torture at a U.S. location somewhere in Panama. (2)
About 900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Ten of the twelve El Salvadoran government soldiers cited as participating in this act were graduates of the School of the Americas operated by the U.S. (2) They were only a small part of about 75,000 people killed during that civil war. (1)
According to a 1993 United Nations’ Truth Commission report, over 96 % of the human rights violations carried out during the war were committed by the Salvadoran army or the paramilitary deaths squads associated with the Salvadoran army. (3)
That commission linked graduates of the School of the Americas to many notorious killings. The New York Times and the Washington Post followed with scathing articles. In 1996, the White House Oversight Board issued a report that supported many of the charges against that school made by Rev. Roy Bourgeois, head of the School of the Americas Watch. That same year the Pentagon released formerly classified reports indicating that graduates were trained in killing, extortion, and physical abuse for interrogations, false imprisonment and other methods of control. (4)
Grenada
The CIA began to destabilize Grenada in 1979 after Maurice Bishop became president, partially because he refused to join the quarantine of Cuba. The campaign against him resulted in his overthrow and the invasion by the U.S. of Grenada on October 25, 1983, with about 277 people dying. (1,2) It was fallaciously charged that an airport was being built in Grenada that could be used to attack the U.S. and it was also erroneously claimed that the lives of American medical students on that island were in danger.
Guatemala
In 1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains. (3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed thousands of people.
In 1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)
According to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government – destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide. (4) One of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected allies. (2)
Haiti
From 1957 to 1986 Haiti was ruled by Papa Doc Duvalier and later by his son. During that time their private terrorist force killed between 30,000 and 100,000 people. (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country, according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel.
Reportedly, governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. The U.S. later forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in the early 1990s. The wealthy white class in Haiti opposed him in this predominantly black nation, because of his social programs designed to help the poor and end corruption. (3) Later he returned to office, but that did not last long. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office and now lives in South Africa.
Honduras
In the 1980s the CIA supported Battalion 316 in Honduras, which kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of its citizens. Torture equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans. Approximately 400 people lost their lives. (1,2) This is another instance of torture in the world sponsored by the U.S. (3)
Battalion 316 used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations in the 1980s. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves. Declassified documents and other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders.” (4)
Honduras was a staging ground in the early 1980s for the Contras who were trying to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. John D. Negroponte, currently Deputy Secretary of State, was our embassador when our military aid to Honduras rose from $4 million to $77.4 million per year. Negroponte denies having had any knowledge of these atrocities during his tenure. However, his predecessor in that position, Jack R. Binns, had reported in 1981 that he was deeply concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned assassinations. (5)
Hungary
In 1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet Union. During the uprising broadcasts by the U.S. Radio Free Europe into Hungary sometimes took on an aggressive tone, encouraging the rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets. Their hopes were raised then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over the Hungarian tragedy.“ (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. (2)
Indonesia
In 1965, in Indonesia, a coup replaced General Sukarno with General Suharto as leader. The U.S. played a role in that change of government. Robert Martens,a former officer in the U.S. embassy in Indonesia, described how U.S. diplomats and CIA officers provided up to 5,000 names to Indonesian Army death squads in 1965 and checked them off as they were killed or captured. Martens admitted that “I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad. There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.” (1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3 million. (4,5,6) From 1993 to 1997 the U.S. provided Jakarta with almost $400 million in economic aid and sold tens of million of dollars of weaponry to that nation. U.S. Green Berets provided training for the Indonesia’s elite force which was responsible for many of atrocities in East Timor. (3)
Iran
Iran lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988. (1) See Iraq for more information about that war.
On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was operating withing Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian flight. All 290 civilian on board were killed. (2,3)
Iraq
A. The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there were about 105,000 Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post. (1,2)
According to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the U.S. provided the Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had military equipment including biological agents This surge of help for Iraq came as Iran seemed to be winning the war and was close to Basra. (1) The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a result of the war, but it did not appear to want either side to win.
B: The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions Against Iraq extended from 1990 to 2003.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international sanctions.
Iraq had reason to believe that the U.S. would not object to its invasion of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his country had with Kuwait. So the green light was given, but it seemed to be more of a trap.
As a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals. (1) This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.
The U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42 days. On February 23 President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground assault to begin. The invasion took place with much needless killing of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150 American military personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Some of the Iraqis were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3)
Other deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians killed, those killed by effects of damage of the Iraqi water treatment facilities and other aspects of its damaged infrastructure and by the sanctions.
In 1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that U.N sanctions against on Iraq had been responsible for the deaths of more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)
Leslie Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?” Albright replied “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think is worth it.” (4)
In 1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000 children died each month as a result of the sanction and the War with the U.S. (6)
Richard Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998 to be 227,000 – double those of the previous decade. Garfield estimated that the numbers to be 350,000 through 2000 (based in part on result of another study). (7)
However, there are limitations to his study. His figures were not updated for the remaining three years of the sanctions. Also, two other somewhat vulnerable age groups were not studied: young children above the age of five and the elderly.
All of these reports were considerable indicators of massive numbers of deaths which the U.S. was aware of and which was a part of its strategy to cause enough pain and terror among Iraqis to cause them to revolt against their government.
C: Iraq-U.S. War started in 2003 and has not been concluded
Just as the end of the Cold War emboldened the U.S. to attack Iraq in 1991 so the attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the groundwork for the U.S. to launch the current war against Iraq. While in some other wars we learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known almost as soon as they were uttered. There were no weapons of mass destruction, we were not trying to promote democracy, we were not trying to save the Iraqi people from a dictator.
The total number of Iraqi deaths that are a result of our current Iraq against Iraq War is 654,000, of which 600,000 are attributed to acts of violence, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. (1,2)
Since these deaths are a result of the U.S. invasion, our leaders must accept responsibility for them.
About 100,000 to 200,000 Israelis and Palestinians, but mostly the latter, have been killed in the struggle between those two groups. The U.S. has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars in aid and supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)
Korea, North and South
The Korean War started in 1950 when, according to the Truman administration, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th. However, since then another explanation has emerged which maintains that the attack by North Korea came during a time of many border incursions by both sides. South Korea initiated most of the border clashes with North Korea beginning in 1948. The North Korea government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617 armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)
The U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed supporting our nation’s intervention, and our military forces added to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1)
During the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and Chinese. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 million. (3,4,5,6) Another source gives a total of 4 million but does not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)
John H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War “the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the killing of about three million civilians – both South and North Koreans – at many locations throughout Korea…It is reported that the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of napalm bombs, during the Korean War.” It is presumed that this total does not include Chinese casualties.
Another source states a total of about 500,000 who were Koreans and presumably only military. (8,9)
Laos
From 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million tons of bombs on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both sides. Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Branfman make the only estimate that I am aware of , stating that hundreds of thousands died. This can be interpeted to mean that at least 200,000 died. (1,2,3)
U.S. military intervention in Laos actually began much earlier. A civil war started in the 1950s when the U.S. recruited a force of 40,000 Laotians to oppose the Pathet Lao, a leftist political party that ultimately took power in 1975.
Also See Vietnam
Nepal
Between 8,000 and 12,000 Nepalese have died since a civil war broke out in 1996. The death rate, according to Foreign Policy in Focus, sharply increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine guns (950 rpm) and U.S. advisers. Nepal is 85 percent rural and badly in need of land reform. Not surprisingly 42 % of its people live below the poverty level. (1,2)
In 2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military aid to the Nepalese government. (3)
Nicaragua
In 1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, (1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were formed from the remnants of Somoza’s national government. The use of assassination manuals by the Contras surfaced in 1984. (2,3)
The U.S. supported the victorious government regime by providing covert military aid to the Contras (anti-communist guerillas) starting in November, 1981. But when Congress discovered that the CIA had supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress, it passed the Boland Amendment in 1983 which prohibited the CIA, Defense Department and any other government agency from providing any further covert military assistance. (4)
But ways were found to get around this prohibition. The National Security Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, raised private and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, arms were sold to Iran and the proceeds were diverted from those sales to the Contras engaged in the insurgency against the Sandinista government. (5) Finally, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990 by voters who thought that a change in leadership would placate the U.S., which was causing misery to Nicaragua’s citizenry by it support of the Contras.
Pakistan
In 1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East Pakistan. The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. (1)
Millions of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as genocide committed by West Pakistan. That country had long been an ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15 million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4)
Three sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source estimates 1.5 million. (3)
Panama
In December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest Manuel Noriega, that nation’s president. This was an example of the U.S. view that it is the master of the world and can arrest anyone it wants to. For a number of years before that he had worked for the CIA, but fell out of favor partially because he was not an opponent of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. (1) It has been estimated that between 500 and 4,000 people died. (2,3,4)
Paraguay: See South America: Operation Condor
Philippines
The Philippines were under the control of the U.S. for over a hundred years. In about the last 50 to 60 years the U.S. has funded and otherwise helped various Philippine governments which sought to suppress the activities of groups working for the welfare of its people. In 1969 the Symington Committee in the U.S. Congress revealed how war material was sent there for a counter-insurgency campaign. U.S. Special Forces and Marines were active in some combat operations. The estimated number of persons that were executed and disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. (1,2)
South America: Operation Condor
This was a joint operation of 6 despotic South American governments (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to share information about their political opponents. An estimated 13,000 people were killed under this plan. (1)
It was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. According to U.S. embassy political officer, John Tipton, the CIA and the Chilean Secret Police were working together, although the CIA did not set up the operation to make this collaboration work. Reportedly, it ended in 1983. (2)
On March 6, 2001 the New York Times reported the existence of a recently declassified State Department document revealing that the United States facilitated communications for Operation Condor. (3)
Sudan
Since 1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most of the time in a civil war. Until about 2003 approximately 2 million people had been killed. It not known if the death toll in Darfur is part of that total.
Human rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the central government in Khartoum. In 1999 U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) who said that she offered him food supplies if he would reject a peace plan sponsored by Egypt and Libya.
In 1978 the vastness of Sudan’s oil reservers was discovered and within two years it became the sixth largest recipient of U.S, military aid. It’s reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S. part of the oil pie.
A British group, Christian Aid, has accused foreign oil companies of complicity in the depopulation of villages. These companies – not American – receive government protection and in turn allow the government use of its airstrips and roads.
In August 1998 the U.S. bombed Khartoum, Sudan with 75 cruise míssiles. Our government said that the target was a chemical weapons factory owned by Osama bin Laden. Actually, bin Laden was no longer the owner, and the plant had been the sole supplier of pharmaceutical supplies for that poor nation. As a result of the bombing tens of thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. The U.S. settled a lawsuit filed by the factory’s owner. (1,2)
Uruguay: See South America: Operation Condor
Vietnam
In Vietnam, under an agreement several decades ago, there was supposed to be an election for a unified North and South Vietnam. The U.S. opposed this and supported the Diem government in South Vietnam. In August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1)
During that war an American assassination operation,called Operation Phoenix, terrorized the South Vietnamese people, and during the war American troops were responsible in 1968 for the mass slaughter of the people in the village of My Lai.
According to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of civilians and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1 million. (2)
Since deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and Laos) the estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.
The Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million, (3) and Robert McNamara, former Secretary Defense, according to the New York Times Magazine says that the number of Vietnamese dead is 3.4 million. (4,5)
[I would add that the latest study from Harvard puts deaths in Vietnam at 3.8 million, which Nick Turse argues in Kill Anything That Moves is a significant understatement. –DS]
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was a socialist federation of several republics. Since it refused to be closely tied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gained some suport from the U.S. But when the Soviet Union dissolved, Yugoslavia’s usefulness to the U.S. ended, and the U.S and Germany worked to convert its socialist economy to a capitalist one by a process primarily of dividing and conquering. There were ethnic and religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the dissolution of that country.
From the early 1990s until now Yugoslavia split into several independent nations whose lowered income, along with CIA connivance, has made it a pawn in the hands of capitalist countries. (1) The dissolution of Yugoslavia was caused primarily by the U.S. (2)
Here are estimates of some, if not all, of the internal wars in Yugoslavia. All wars: 107,000; (3,4)
Bosnia and Krajina: 250,000; (5) Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000; (5) Croatia: 15,000; (6) and
Kosovo: 500 to 5,000. (7)
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Thanks to David Vine’s book (Base Nation) and other sources, I’ve started making a list of instances of the United States conquering territory:
During World War II the U.S. Navy seized the small Hawaiian island of Koho’alawe for a weapons testing range and ordered its inhabitants to leave. The island has been devastated. In 1942, the U.S. Navy displaced Aleutian Islanders. Those practices did not end in 1928 or in 1945. President Harry Truman made up his mind that the 170 native inhabitants of Bikini Atoll had no right to their island in 1946. He had them evicted in February and March of 1946, and dumped as refugees on other islands without means of support or a social structure in place. In the coming years, the United States would remove 147 people from Enewetak Atoll and all the people on Lib Island. U.S. atomic and hydrogen bomb testing rendered various depopulated and still-populated islands uninhabitable, leading to further displacements. Up through the 1960s, the U.S. military displaced hundreds of people from Kwajalein Atoll. A super-densely populated ghetto was created on Ebeye.
On Vieques, off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Navy displaced thousands of inhabitants between 1941 and 1947, announced plans to evict the remaining 8,000 in 1961, but was forced to back off and — in 2003 — to stop bombing the island. On nearby Culebra, the Navy displaced thousands between 1948 and 1950 and attempted to remove those remaining up through the 1970s. The Navy is right now looking at the island of Pagan as a possible replacement for Vieques, the population already having been removed by a volcanic eruption. Of course, any possibility of return would be greatly diminished.
Beginning during World War II but continuing right through the 1950s, the U.S. military displaced a quarter million Okinawans, or half the population, from their land, forcing people into refugee camps and shipping thousands of them off to Bolivia — where land and money were promised but not delivered.
In 1953, the United States made a deal with Denmark to remove 150 Inughuit people from Thule, Greenland, giving them four days to get out or face bulldozers. They are being denied the right to return.
Between 1968 and 1973, the United States and Great Britain exiled all 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants of Diego Garcia, rounding people up and forcing them onto boats while killing their dogs in a gas chamber and seizing possession of their entire homeland for the use of the U.S. military.
The South Korean government, which evicted people for U.S. base expansion on the mainland in 2006, has, at the behest of the U.S. Navy, in recent years been devastating a village, its coast, and 130 acres of farmland on Jeju Island in order to provide the United States with another massive military base.
Vine’s later book The United States of War (2020) includes a map with these instances of U.S. bases displacing populations: Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 1898 Philippines 1898 Guam 1899, 1945-1946 Panama 1908-1931 Puerto Rico 1939-1942 Newfoundland 1940-1941 Trinidad 1940-1942 Kaho’olawe (Hawaii) 1941-1942 Vieques (Puerto Rico) 1941-1961 Culebra (Puerto Rico) 1941-1970 Aleutian and Attu Islands 1942 Okinawa 1945-1964 Thule (Greenland) 1953 Diego Garcia 1968-1973 Daechuri (South Korea) 2006-2008
Plus U.S. nuclear tests displaced populations in 1944-1978 in Marshall Islands, Ailinginae Atoll, Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, Lib Island, Rongelap Atoll, Rongerik Atoll, Wotho Atoll.
Use of U.S. Military Within U.S. See “Internal Military Intervention in the United States,” by David Adams in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 197-211, Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd.
List of U.S. Presidential Threats of Nuclear Weapons Use
U.S. presidents who have made specific public or secret nuclear threats to other nations, that we know of, and as detailed by Daniel Ellsberg in The Doomsday Machine, have included Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump, while others, including Barack Obama, have frequently said things like “All options are on the table” in relation to Iran or another country.
One final list.
Here is a complete list of those actions compiled from all the lists above that have been successful and made the world a better place:
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Note from Al Carroll:
I have some additions to your list.
Nixon intervened to keep the Bengali genocide going. He threatened Indira Gandhi for stopping the genocide by sending a US nuclear armed aircraft carrier. Soviets sent their own nuclear armed ships in response.
Operation Condor was in the US too. Cuban exiles killed Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador, with a car bomb on embassy row in DC. Kissinger knew in advance and did not stop it.
Somewhere on the list there needs to be the 136 Cuban exile bombings both of their critics and Cuban govt buildings. Miami in the 70s had a higher bomb rate than Beirut. Exiles also killed 3562 Cubans in Cuba with their campaigns in the 1960s and 70s, plus blowing up a Cuban airliner in the 1990s. The bomber was pardoned by Jeb Bush at Bush Sr’s request. Miami honored him with a holiday.
1996-2000 USAID worked with Peru’s govt under Fujimori to forcibly sterilize over 300,000 Quechua Indians, mostly without anesthesia.
I have a book on the human rights records of US presidents which might interest you, Presidents’ Body Counts.
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Comment from Art Spencer:
I wanted to add to the otherwise complete above list the alleged covert operations by the United States and Israel, with the help of Fatah security chief Mohamed Dahlan, to overthrow Hamas after the 2006 Palestinian election
… the job if you should decide to take it will drive your empathy, if you started with any, into the ground, into HELL
Until the 1980s, U.S. incarceration rates were comparable to Europe’s. Then came the war on drugs and a new tough-on-crime ethos. State after state enacted longer sentences, particularly for drug offenses and other nonviolent crimes. Today, the United States keeps a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any other nation — outpacing France, Germany and Great Britain by 10 times or more.
“We have to really start taking a deep, deep look at how we are treating human beings,” said Rep. Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, former head of the Louisiana State Police. “Somewhere in a book it says, ‘By the grace of God go I.’ Some of us, the difference between us and the people who got incarcerated is that they got caught and we didn’t.”
Can it be there are worse states than Wisconsin:
In Texas, no bastion of liberalism, a two-time car burglar would be guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to a maximum of six months. California’s famous three-strikes law does not kick in unless at least one of the crimes was a rape, murder, carjacking, residential burglary or other major felony. There, Martin would have received no more than a year behind bars.
In Louisiana, about 160 habitual offenders whose most recent crime involved nothing more harmful than marijuana are serving 20 years or more. More than 300 people serving life without parole in Louisiana have never been convicted of a violent crime.
It’s not just low-level criminals who fare worse here. Louisiana is the only state that automatically sentences murderers to life without parole.
Jackson, 50, is serving life without parole for stealing a jacket from a department store. In 1996, using two car-burglary convictions and a two-decades-old robbery conviction, Orleans Parish prosecutors put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeal initially downgraded Jackson’s sentence, calling it “excessive, and a prime example of an unjust result.” Then the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that judges may not second-guess the habitual-offender law except in rare instances. The 4th Circuit reluctantly reversed itself.
Under current law, the jacket theft would no longer count as a fourth offense, but the change is not retroactive. Jackson, a Mid-City native who worked as a cook at Brennan’s and other local restaurants, is out of luck.
“I’m going to be honest. I’m locked up like I killed someone. They’ve got people who killed people got less time than I did,” Jackson said. “A $159 jacket. If somebody had told me I could get life for that, I wouldn’t believe them.”
This came into my email box. Of course, I am not certified as a social worker, and thus, not qualified. Social work programs? People coming out of them? Who would want to work in a prison? What sort of out of box fuckers like me would be hired to do REAL work?
It is disgusting.
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[Ian Krance, a Riverview Middle School student and the son of Ann and John Krance, Barron, displays the three-dimensional model of the German POW camp in Barron during WWII, which he built while he was in 4th grade. The history display was on exhibit during summer 2014 at Pioneer Village (the Barron County Historical Museum), between Barron & Cameron.]
Smiles, this human stain, who has an entire country under lock: Outgoing Ukraine Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov!
The 19 black radicals who are still in prison after four decades
Some African American rebels, including Mumia Abu-Jamal and members of Move, are still incarcerated for their actions during the 1970s black liberation struggle.
The U.S. has a staggering 1.9 million people behind bars, but even this number doesn’t capture the true reach of the criminal legal system. It’s more accurate to look at the 5.5 million people under all of the nation’s mass punishment systems, which include not only incarceration but also probation and parole.
Altogether, an estimated 3.7 million adults are under community supervision (sometimes called community corrections) — nearly twice the number of people who are incarcerated in jails and prisons combined. The vast majority of people under supervision are on probation (2.9 million people), and over 800,000 people are on parole. Yet despite the massive number of people under supervision, parole and probation do not receive nearly as much attention as incarceration. Policymakers and the public must understand how deeply linked these systems are to mass incarceration to ensure that these “alternatives” to incarceration aren’t simply expanding it.(SOURCE)
Considering each state’s total mass punishment system leads to other insights:
Massachusetts and Utah have nearly identical rates of overall correctional control, but 69% of people in Massachusetts’ punishment systems are on probation, and only 28% are incarcerated in state, federal, and local jails. In Utah, on the other hand, only 39% are on probation, and a much larger share (46%) are incarcerated.
Georgia is unfortunately well-rounded in its practice of mass punishment, with the fourth-highest incarceration rate nationwide (between Arkansas and Oklahoma) but a probation rate that eclipses all other states.
Residents of New Jersey (1,712 per 100,000 under correctional control) are more than twice as likely to be caught up in their state’s mass punishment system compared to New York residents (830 per 100,000).
Minnesota has a larger share of its population under correctional control than Alabama does, even though a resident of Minnesota is far less likely to be incarcerated than a resident of Alabama.
Because of its large probation system, Rhode Island’s total correctional control rate rivals that of Louisiana, one of the most notoriously punitive states in the country (with the nation’s highest incarceration rate).
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