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it’s a daily broken record, and for Americans, for Westerners, they are not real Doubting Thomases . . . .

In 1962, the Kefauver Harris Amendment or ‘Drug Efficacy Amendment‘ to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was passed. This means that the Food and Drug Administration still employs a precautionary approach, requiring new drugs to be tested before they are put on the market. Also the burden of proof for actually being effective, as well as only presenting acceptable risks remains on the industry, not the agency or consumer groups.

Thalidomide tragedy: the story and lessons … – Chiralpedia

The daily global look at young and not-so-old getting thrown into ERs and Critical Care Units, put on life support, well, it just takes a brain — and collectively a thousand brains, a million — to doubt ANYTHING the scientists and technologists have to say about ANYTHING. It is a global death spiral, the Operation Warp Speed, the number and variety of injured, near dying and dead victims of the Pfizer and Moderna BIOWEAPONS.

Here, before we go further abbut the VAXX, let’s do a Round-Up round-up! [Note; Dysbiosis is not a tough word to understand]:

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease involving several protein mutations in glycine-rich regions with limited treatment options. 90-95% of all cases are non-familial with epidemiological studies showing a significant increased risk in glyphosate-exposed workers. In this paper, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, plays a role in ALS, mainly through mistakenly substituting for glycine during protein synthesis, disruption of mineral homeostasis as well as setting up a state of dysbiosis.

It is all about the gut, PEOPLE. The GUT. IBS, foggy brain, learning challenges, neurological issues, sleep, obesity, diabetes, come on . . . . MICROBIOME and MITOCHONDIA . . . .

Dysbiosis refers to the imbalance of microbial species due to a reduction in microbial diversity within certain bodily microbiomes. Beneficial bacteria are usually minimized, whereas other harmful bacteria increase in number.

Microbiome is the community of microorganisms (such as fungi, bacteria and viruses) that exists in a particular environment. In humans, the term is often used to describe the microorganisms that live in or on a particular part of the body, such as the skin or gastrointestinal tract.

Mitochondria are membrane-bound cell organelles (mitochondrion, singular) that generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell’s biochemical reactions. Chemical energy produced by the mitochondria is stored in a small molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Mitochondria contain their own small chromosomes. Generally, mitochondria, and therefore mitochondrial DNA, are inherited only from the mother.

 mitochondria

I have spent so so much time reading about and looking at the mRNA, the spike proteins, and alas, we in the looking and observing and reading and critically thinking league KNOW that the mainstream science is corrupted, broken, and in the back pocket of the billionaires. Thanks to Due Diligience, Sasha:

Kevin McKernan’s analysis and sequencing the DNA from Pfizer and Moderna vials has revealed “contamination” (IMO intentional) of vials with very large quantities of DNA plasmids, a circular DNA code that encodes the desired RNA molecule. The DNA plasmids are used to grow DNA in vats of e.coli cells, because these bacterial cells pick up the plasmids and replicate rapidly. The DNA is then harvested by killing e.coli with antibiotics, “cutting” plasmids into strands, and purifying DNA. For this reason plasmids also contain genes for antibiotic resistance so that the DNA matrix survives the antibiotic wash. When DNA manufacturing was done on nano- or microgram scale this wasn’t a huge concern, but when DNA is manufactured in kilograms – let’s not be surprised that various raging infections resistant to antibiotics are on the rise, and migrating through the ecosystem, into water, soil, animals, etc. That horror aside, after the DNA purification step the e.coli and any remaining plasmids are supposed to be removed from the product. After the mRNA is produced by a chemical reaction from the DNA matrix, again, it must be purified and any untranslated residual DNA removed. Clearly, this does not happen in covid injections manufacturing.

Besides being extremely problematic due to large quantities of DNA found in the vials, the most alarming finding was the SV40 promoter in the DNA plasmid sequence. This part was not disclosed by Pfizer to the regulators. Therefore, they encoded a “stealth gene” in the sequence! This falls squarely into Air Force’s (JASON group) definition of a biological weapon: BW’s.

A recent study by Italian researchers have demonstrated beyond any doubt that approximately 50% of vaccinated individuals produce spike protein continuously when measured at 6 months after the last injection.

Igor Chudov wrote a very good explainer on this. The Italian team also states that this is likely because of
1) some human cells get transfected and the modified RNA is reverse transcribed into genomes of those cells or
2) microbial cells in the blood pick up the foreign material (it can be RNA or plasmids or both) and also become spike spewing factories. Or both things happen in various places in the body. This does not happen in unvaccinated people whether or not they are positive for covid by PCR, so that’s definitely not whatever is called “covid infection”.

Here we go, more reading, and this relates to my wife’s friend, 53 (actually, her son, 33), letting us know that the son — once very healthy in Tulsa — is on life support as of last night, after stroking out, last night ( to use the non-medical term 0, with a clot from his heart to his brain. Ventilator and still in a coma.

This is so common, so tragic, so wrong, that most of the shrinking violets can’t believe THIS, and attribute “it” (the information) as beyond their pay grade and thinking level. THIS is why we are cooked as a society — people have dragged common sense into manure piles of media shit heaps.

Igor’s Newsletter

Half of Vaccinated People Never Stop Producing Spike Protein, Study Found

Remember how we were told that “the vaccine stays in the arm” and that “harmless spike protein is only produced for a couple of days.” They said they were sure of that, despite no data to confirm their statements. Well, sadly, it turns out that they lied to us…

It is what it is.

And a friend of mine, with a history of “getting” Covid/SARS-CoV2/Corona four times, tells me she’s had four shots, wants the next one, and the doctors say my friend must not eat non-organic veggies and fruits, no gluten/sugar (non-inflammatory ingredients). And told that all respiratory ailments she’s going to get before she hits the grave are/ or will be tied to SARS-CoV2. And, thusly, keep on getting the booster booster booster. Follow the CDC and the docs and pharma’s.

It is it is the spike protein taking out young athletes, or healthy pilots, and others, on stages, at rock shows, in classical concerts, for sure . . . .

“Spike Protein in the Blood of the COVID-19 Vaccinated.” New Study: Do 50% of Pfizer and Moderna Vaxxed Produce Spike Protein Forever? By Dr. William Makis, September 03, 2023

Potentially 50% of COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated people have spike protein in the blood at least 6 months after vaccination or longer, maybe indefinitely! Potentially 60% of Long COVID-19 patients have spike protein in the blood at least 12 months after infection, or longer, maybe indefinitely!

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And the new call out for the three-in-one vax is very active — flu, covid, RSV. THIS is madness, and for some wilting violet, some person replicated in the tens of millions will not doubt the Pharma Army and the Science Propagandists. To their grave(s).

CDC propaganda: Many adults ages 60 and up will be eligible for three vaccines this fall — a COVID booster the flu shot, and the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine — so the big question is, can they get them all at once?

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And so these wilting violets believe in the masks . . . so many masks now on Labor Day.

CNN confronts Fauci — Tom Woods

Just the other day Anthony Fauci was subjected to a pretty convincing takedown of the usefulness of masks — on of all places CNN.

Host Michael Smerconish may be right of center, but all the same this is not where Fauci expected to be confronted.

With masking making a modest return and rumors of more to come, the subject came up between the two men. Here’s how it went:

Smerconish: The data concludes that they didn’t work in the first go round. Respond to that on masks.

Fauci: Yeah, well, that’s not so. I mean, when you’re talking about at the population level, then the data are less strong than knowing that if you look on the situation as an individual protecting themselves or protecting them from spreading it, there’s no doubt that masks work. Different studies give different percentages of advantage of wearing it. But there’s no doubt that the weight of the studies, and there have been many studies, indicate the benefit of wearing masks.

Smerconish: I’m going to refer to one of them. You’ve heard about it before. I heard about it from a number of radio callers.

Bret Stephens at the Times talked about Cochrane. Put that on the screen.


[This is now Bret Stephens, writing in the Times.]

The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness — including Covid-19 — was published last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is the lead author, were unambiguous.

“There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told journalist Maryanne Demasi. “Full stop.”

But wait, hold on. What about the N95 masks as opposed to the lower quality surgical or cloth masks?

“Makes no difference — none of it,” he said.

What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?

“They were convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”

[Now back to Smerconish.] How do we get beyond that finding of that particular review?

Fauci: Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong. But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there are many studies that show that there is an advantage. When you look at the broad population level, like the Cochrane study, the data are less firm with regard to the effect on the overall pandemic. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about an individual’s effect on their own safety. That’s a bit different than the broad population level.


Fauci’s answer is embarrassing nonsense.

He cannot deny that the Cochrane study has completely blown up the claim that masks accomplish anything, so he’s now reduced to saying that while they may not be so effective on the population level, they are still effective on an individual level.

This is not sustainable. The study showed masks have no effect. Zero. If they have no effect, then they likewise have no effect “on an individual level,” whatever that is supposed to mean.

I had wondered how Fauci would respond to that Cochrane study. Now we know. He thinks masks work on an individual level, but that when you add up all these good effects it has for individuals, it doesn’t accumulate to much for the population as a whole. Try to make sense of that!

Noble lies are a public health hazard | The Week

It’s not just opioids, man:

How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans

Billions of taxpayer dollars go into the creation and marketing16 of new drugs. The Los Angeles Times reports that, “Since the 1930s, the National Institutes of Health has invested close to $90017 billion in the basic and applied research that formed both the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.” Despite taxpayers’ crucial investment, U.S. consumers are increasingly paying more for their prescription drugs.

A 2018 study18 on the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) financial contributions to new drug approvals found that the agency “contributed to published research associated with every one of the 210 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from 2010–2016.” More than $100 billion in NIH funding went toward research that contributed directly or indirectly to the 210 drugs approved during that six-year period. The NIH Research Project Grant (R01)19—which supports health-related research—was by far the most common kind of grant used to fund the science that supported the new drugs. In all, NIH gave out nearly 118,00020 R01 grants related to those drugs from 2010 to 2016.

Those fucking vax and drug makers:

Biggest ever pharma lawsuits by settlement amount:

10. Amgen – $762m

9. Bayer and Johnson & Johnson – $775m

8. TAP Pharmaceutical – $875m

7. Merck – $950m

6. Eli Lilly and Company – $1.4bn

5. Abbott Laboratories – $1.5bn

4. Johnson & Johnson – $2.2bn

3. Pfizer – $2.3bn

2. Takeda Pharmaceutical – $2.4bn

1. GlaxoSmithKline – $3bn

PWL’s prescription warning labels? Perceptions of prescription warning labels within an underserved population. Gotcha: “Poor health literacy, described as a struggle with understanding and acting on health information, has become a major cause of medication errors and a patient safety concern.1 According to the Institute of Medicine, over ninety million Americans struggle with low health literacy2, including the understanding and utilization of information found on prescription warning labels.3,4 This number is likely to continue to rise as we see a growing number of Americans taking prescription medications.1 With over three billion prescriptions filled by adults annually5 and a healthcare emphasis on outpatient care versus inpatient care, it is very important for patients to understand how to properly and safely use their medication.1,6 “

Black Box Warnings:

Suicidality Black Box Warning

“Our study adds to evidence of other studies showing that black box warnings do not work well as risk communication tools,” Dr. Anita Wagner said in a Medscape interview. “In fact, perhaps in response to limited adherence to black box warnings, the FDA and manufacturers increasingly implement strengthened risk management programs for certain drugs.”

Wagner suggested the FDA take a more aggressive approach such as the warning and reporting process implemented for users of Accutane.

The drug carries a black box for severe birth defects, but wholesalers, pharmacies, doctors and patients have responsibilities for ensuring women who take the drug are not pregnant or plan to be pregnant. Under the mandatory iPLEDGE program, pharmacists must have a current negative pregnancy result on file from women in order to dispense the drug.

Dirty dirty lying protection racket, this building populated with those killers — Trust the Science and Distrust Your Own Instincts:

FDA Maryland campus

Read this fourth grade reading level bullshit: Drug Side Effects Explained

Again, it is always ALWAYS protecting the profits of the FDA’s grantees — Big Ugly Killer Pharma.

FUCKING trust the mRNA? No adverse effects? No deaths? No spiked protein issues?

Here, JUST one drug, man: Drug Side Effects Information on Over 5000 Medications

Adderall Side Effects [A whopping 41.4 million Adderall prescriptions were dispensed in the U.S. in 2021, up more than 10% from 2020]

Pill AD 30 is Adderall 30 mg

Generic name: amphetamine / dextroamphetamine

Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Sep 27, 2022.

Note: This document contains side effect information about amphetamine / dextroamphetamine. Some dosage forms listed on this page may not apply to the brand name Adderall. [Applies to amphetamine / dextroamphetamineoral capsule extended release, oral tablet.]

Warning:

Oral route (Tablet)

Amphetamines have a high potential for abuse and administration for prolonged periods of time may lead to drug dependence. Misuse of amphetamines may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse reactions.

Oral route (Capsule, Extended Release)

CNS stimulants, including dextroamphetamine/amphetamine extended-release capsules, other amphetamine-containing products, and methylphenidate, have a high potential for abuse and dependence. Assess the risk of abuse prior to prescribing and monitor for signs of abuse and dependence while on therapy.

Serious side effects of Adderall —

Along with its needed effects, amphetamine / dextroamphetamine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.

Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur while taking amphetamine / dextroamphetamine:

More common:

  • Bladder pain
  • bloody or cloudy urine
  • difficult, burning, or painful urination
  • fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
  • frequent urge to urinate
  • lower back or side pain

Less common:

Incidence not known:

  • Blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin
  • chest pain or discomfort
  • confusion
  • dark urine
  • difficulty breathing
  • difficulty with speaking
  • difficulty with swallowing
  • dizziness
  • double vision
  • faintness
  • inability to move the arms, legs, or facial muscles
  • inability to speak
  • itching, skin rash
  • large, hive-like swelling on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or genitals
  • loss of bladder control
  • muscle cramps or stiffness
  • muscle spasm or jerking of the arms and legs
  • pain or discomfort in the arms, jaw, back, or neck
  • red skin lesions, often with a purple center
  • red, irritated eyes
  • seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there
  • seizures
  • slow speech
  • sores, ulcers, or white spots in the mouth or on the lips
  • sudden loss of consciousness
  • swelling of the feet or lower legs
  • tightness in the chest
  • uncontrolled repeated movements (tics)
  • uncontrolled vocal outbursts
  • unusual tiredness or weakness

Other side effects of Adderall:

Some side effects of amphetamine / dextroamphetamine may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects.

Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:

More common:

Incidence not known:

  • Constipation
  • decreased interest in sexual intercourse
  • false or unusual sense of well-being
  • inability to have or keep an erection
  • loss in sexual ability, desire, drive, or performance
  • twitching, twisting, uncontrolled repetitive movements of the tongue, lips, face, arms, or legs

For Healthcare Professionals

Applies to amphetamine / dextroamphetamine: oral capsule extended release, oral tablet.

Metabolic:

Very common (10% or more): Appetite loss (up to 36%), weight loss (up to 10%)

Frequency not reportedAnorexia[Ref]

Gastrointestinal:

Very common (10% or more): Dry mouth (up to 35%), abdominal pain (up to 14%)

Common (1% to 10%): Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dyspepsia

Frequency not reported: Unpleasant taste, constipation, other GI disturbances[Ref]

Cardiovascular:

Very common (10% or more): Transient blood pressure elevations (up to 35%)

Common (1% to 10%): Tachycardia, palpitation

Frequency not reportedCardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, Raynaud’s phenomenon[Ref]

Psychiatric:

Very common (10% or more): Insomnia (up to 27%), nervousness (up to 13%)

Common (1% to 10%): Emotional lability, agitation, anxiety

Frequency not reported: Psychotic episodes, irritability, euphoria, dysphoria, restlessness, depression, aggression, anger, logorrhea, dermatillomania[Ref]

Nervous system:

Very common (10% or more): Headache (up to 26%)

Common (1% to 10%): Somnolence, dizziness, twitching, speech disorder (e.g., stuttering, excessive speech)

Frequency not reported: Overstimulation, paresthesia/formication, dyskinesia, tremor, exacerbation of motor/phonic tics and Tourette’s syndrome[Ref]

Dermatologic:

Common (1% to 10%): Photosensitivity reaction, sweating

Frequency not reportedUrticaria, rash, alopecia, serious skin rashes (e.g., Stevens-Johnson Syndrometoxic epidermal necrolysis)[Ref]

Endocrine:

Common (1% to 10%): Decreased libido, dysmenorrhea, impotence

Frequency not reported: Frequent or prolonged erections[Ref]

Genitourinary:

Common (1% to 10%): Urinary tract infection[Ref]

Other:

Common (1% to 10%): Fever, infection, accidental injury, asthenia/fatigue, tooth disorder (e.g., teeth clenching, tooth infection)

Frequency not reported: Sudden death, bruxism[Ref]

Respiratory:

Common (1% to 10%): Dyspnea[Ref]

Hypersensitivity:

Frequency not reported: Hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., angioedemaanaphylaxis)[Ref]

Ocular:

Frequency not reported: Blurred vision, mydriasis[Ref]

Musculoskeletal:

Postmarketing reports: Rhabdomyolysis[Ref]

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Yep, Adderral, and this one, too, emblematic of the death and injury of Big Pharma:

Dr Frances Kelsey: thalidomide and the precautionary principle

Photos: History of Thalidomide | CNN
Thalidomide 4-fluoride (Cereblon ligand 4) | Ligands for E3 Ligase |  MedChemExpress

The case of thalidomide shows how vital it is not to ignore early warning signals or be hurried into premature approvals of innovations, with serious and often irreversible consequences at a later date.

… in all circles, the die has been cast with this capitalist-vicious scientism pushing anything that comes out of the brain as all systems go . . . Intended Consequences Always ‘Unintended’!

I was going to rail and rail on this new fascism — AI-AR-MR-VR — the emphasis being artificial/virtual/augmented and now mixed reality.

Out of effing Cornell, these are the times, the genuine wasteful and wasted times — never solving food, air, water, housing, education, community, shared existences, crime, aging, growing up. The concept of skewed or uneven “power” seems to be the point — ‘Smart’ glasses skew power balance with non-wearers, say researchers by Patricia Waldron , Cornell University

smart glasses

This is the mixed up shit of the Oppenheimers or Sam Altmans or Dells or . . . .The point of the glasses is $, and the point of fancy universitie$ like Cornell is $, and so we get vapid, surface-level shit giving us nothing in this fake article/blurb/PR spin. Never people railing against the products, what the ethics entail, or covering the absolute inhumanity of these toy$, and what the fuck, man, scans, body scans, mixed reality — putting porn star boobs and dicks on the unsuspecting passerby with these smart glasses? Putting the observed people’s eyes and faces into the Web, so you can look for homes, bank accounts, credit ratings, weak points, etc.?

The fact that ANYONE would allow these toy$ to be produced, that a world of free market$, freedom to exploit, freedom to dehumanize, freedom to $ocial engineer future generations, somehow the reality is clearer every nano-second — Savages or Socialists. And that is socialism in an anarachist sort of way, not some top down motherfucking way, not the same say CAPITALISM is, top down — More Money, More Might, More Military, More Murderous Thinking, MAKE RIGHT.

They fucking call them “fun filters” and that in itself is a fun thing, reducing anxiety of the weater? Powerlessness, disadvantaged, loss of control for those of us observed by these pricks with smart goggles? Sounds like fucking TSA on steroids, or what fucking banks do to us when we walk in, all those fucking CCTV cameras everywhere, drones over your backyard picnic, palm scans for submarine sandwiches? Lattes?

Then, these paragraphs mention participatory design process? What about participants including those who question the validity of the glasses, of the AR-VR-MR-AI?

According to the wearers, the fun filters reduced their anxiety and put them at ease during the exercise. The non-wearers, however, reported feeling disempowered because they didn’t know what was happening on the other side of the lenses. They were also upset that the filters robbed them of control over their own appearance. The possibility that the wearer could be secretly recording them without consent—especially when they didn’t know what they looked like—also put the non-wearers at a disadvantage.

The non-wearers weren’t completely powerless, however. A few demanded to know what the wearer was seeing, and moved their faces or bodies to evade the filters—giving them some control in negotiating their presence in the invisible mixed-reality world. “I think that’s the biggest takeaway I have from this study: I’m more powerful than I thought I was,” Fu said.

Another issue is that, like many AR glasses, Spectacles have darkened lenses so the wearer can see the projected virtual images. This lack of transparency also degraded the quality of the social interaction, the researchers reported.

“There is no direct eye contact, which makes people very confused, because they don’t know where the person is looking,” Fu said. “That makes their experiences of this conversation less pleasant, because the glasses blocked out all these nonverbal interactions.”

To create more positive experiences for people on both sides of the lenses, the study participants proposed that smart glasses designers add a projection display and a recording indicator light, so people nearby will know what the wearer is seeing and recording.

Fu also suggests designers test out their glasses in a social environment and hold a participatory design process like the one in their study. Additionally, they should consider these video interactions as a data source, she said.

That way, non-wearers can have a voice in the creation of the impending mixed-reality world.

And this is the world you and I never will be a part of — focus groups, participatory design gatherings, charrettes. Never. And take a look at this fellow, the megalomania, the celebrity cultism, the waste of human time:

Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft” received a 10-minute standing ovation after its premiere at Venice Film Festival, despite a flurry of walkouts.

Though some audience members left as soon as the 80-minute experimental action film finished (and at least 25 departed before that), Korine’s hardcore fans stuck around for a rousing 10-minute ovation at the midnight screening. As Korine greeted the crowd and did a happy dance, chants of “Harmony! Harmony! Harmony!” rang out. Each time the applause started to die down, Korine waved his hands in the air like a conductor, and the cheers started up again.

Smug mother fucker:

Harmony Korine, "Aggro Dr1ft"

It’s a snap shot of a fool playing movie makers, but then the same mug could be someone designing a 15-minute city or country, or some UkroNazi Zionist planning the next wave of children-killing drone attacks on Donbas.

Strippers twerking, demon-like crime lords chanting “dance bitch” and Travis Scott’s major-role debut are just a taste of what “Aggro Dr1ft” had to offer — which was not everyone’s cup of tea. In fact, the premiere was not the first time “Aggro Dr1ft” prompted walkouts. At a press screening on Friday night, at least 20 people left during the film.

Quaint — WikiCIApedia:

Korine was born to a Jewish family in Bolinas, California, the son of Eve and Sol Korine.[6] His father was an Iranian Jewish immigrant.[7] His father was a tapdancer and produced documentaries for PBS in the 1970s about an “array of colorful Southern characters”; he would take Korine to carnivals and circuses[8] and taught him how to use a Bolex camera.[9] As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films for Korine and took him to see Werner Herzog‘s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) in the theater. Korine reminisced that “I knew there was a poetry in cinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful.”[10][11]

Korine spent his early childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area living with his family on a commune.[12][13] In the early 1980s, they relocated to Nashville, Tennessee,[13] where he attended Hillsboro High School before moving to New York City to live with his grandmother.[14] As a teenager, Korine spent his summers in San Francisco, “skateboarding, living on rooftops, running away from my parents, getting in fights. You know, girls. At that point I was just getting into movies, but the idea of making films happened later in high school.”[15] He began frequenting revival theaters, watching films by John CassavetesWerner HerzogJean-Luc GodardRobert AltmanRainer Werner Fassbinder and Alan Clarke. In an interview with Bruce LaBruce, Korine briefly mentioned that he studied Business Administration in college. Other sources[16] state that he studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for one semester before dropping out to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder.

Moving on: Just one download of stories on a Sunday defines the criminal times we live in.

Guts, lungs, sea expansion, wasted trillions on more air jets,

HUMANITY — Proving that change is possible if the will to create it is present, Chinese megacities like Beijing that were once famous for their apocalyptic grey skies are enjoying the lowest levels of air pollution they’ve experienced in the 21st century.

Falling 42% from an average high in 2013 when Chinese air pollution was higher than 50 particles per cubic centimeters of city air, the change has increased the lifespan of Chinese urbanites by 2.2 years.

The news comes from a report published by the University of Chicago called the Air Quality Life Index which listed some of the actions taken by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution, described by the CCP as a “war on pollution.”

This has included reducing the presence of heavy industry like steel production in city centers, as well as restricting coal power plants from being built inside cities while shuttering those that were already there.

Some cities like Beijing have reduced the number of cars allowed on the roads during peak hours, similar to London’s congestion charge. Lastly, China’s mass urban tree-planting campaigns have been well documented.

While the life expectancy has risen on average 2.2 years, some cities have seen far more drastic increases. Citizens living under the new “Beijing Blue,” are predicted to live 4 additional years, while those 11 million in the north-central city of Baoding are predicted to gain 6.

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Israel officially asks US to send over 25 more F-35 fighter jets

The Defense Ministry has submitted an official letter of request to the US military’s F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office, to advance Israel’s procurement of a third F-35I squadron.

The additional 25 aircraft, to be delivered in batches of three beginning in 2027, would bring the Israeli Air Force’s F-35I fleet to 75.

The deal is estimated at $3 billion, financed by US military aid to Israel.

We talked about SAD, GAD, general anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder. We have these monsters, these Israeli’s, these techno-fa$cist$, these multi-millionaires and hucksters and those oh-so-tragically-hip freaks bombarding the world with more and more ennui: Welcome In – by Mr. Fish!

“If trauma entails a disconnection from the self, then it makes sense to say that we are being collectively flooded with influences that both exploit and reinforce trauma,” Dr. Maté writes. “Work pressures, multitasking, social media, news updates, multiplicities of entertainment sources — these all induce us to become lost in thoughts, frantic activities, gadgets, meaningless conversations. We are caught up in pursuits of all kinds that draw us on, not because they are necessary or inspiring or uplifting, or because they enrich or add meaning to our lives, but simply because they obliterate the present.”

Chris Hedges gets it right, and in every sense, collectively, the real people of the world — those not of the sociopathic variety — are trapped and retrapped, in a self-imposed and outside-imposed feedback loop: Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny/ American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism

He repeats this theme in much of his work looking at capitalism, Americanism, inverted totalitarianism. Trauma creates the counterfeit:

Trauma numbs our capacity to feel. It fractures our self. It disconnects us from our bodies. It keeps us in a state of hyperarousal. It makes us confuse our desires, often artificially implanted by the consumer society, with our needs. Traumatized people view the world around them as hostile and dangerous. They lack a positive image of themselves and lose the capacity to trust. Many replace intimacy and love with sexual sadism, which is how we became a pornified culture. Trauma creates what the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls a “counterfeit” world defined by phantom enemies, lies and dark conspiracies. It negates a sense of purpose and a life of meaning.

Alas, 90 percent of the people can be right, up against the Ten Percent, those in the Point Zero Zero Point One Percent, the One Percent and the Nine Percent, who control 90 percent of the money, power, land, narrative, politics, etc. And, 90 percent of the people can be wrong 100 percent of the time when considering many individual myths and sacred cows. No need for me to fill in those mythologies and sacred lies, sacred mistruths, all the miseducation, misdirection, and half-truths.

“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane,” Eric Fromm writes in The Sane Society.

The news feeds, the bombardment of stories here and there and everywhere, in our own curated news aggregators, in our own self-styled daily reads and views of articles and podcasts, this is the overload, the mental cuts, death by one hundre thousand bytes, death by sucking on the firehose of senseless information, and then of course, the unending barrage of science and technology and the political.

It is the collective Stockholm Syndrome, Collective New Generated Impotance, the Endless Choices of Afluenza Putting Societies in Neutral.

Hedges cites Dr. Bessel van der Kolk:

“… trauma is when we are not seen and known . . . .Our culture teaches us to focus on our personal uniqueness, but at a deeper level we barely exist as individual organisms”

Imagine, more Yankees moving to Europe (what the fuck does that mean, since Europe is gutted thanks to the USA and EU Proxy War Against Russia), and those Californians who moved to Austin now think the place is too laid back and shallow in terms of Silicon Valley socipathy. And then all the silica allowed in foods, for decades, “which were thought to be inert and are widely used in food and cosmetics – can facilitate oxidation of cell-protecting antioxidant thiol molecules by converting them to disulfides.”

Western society, where I used to work, Portland, and for the same outfit quoted, CCC:

Measure 110 was crafted to help people with substance abuse disorders get treatment instead of time in custody. This idea is central to the work of Central City Concern, a Portland nonprofit that offers residential substance abuse treatment to people experiencing homelessness. But Central City Concern CEO Andrew Mendenhall also believes that it may be time for Portland to restore some penalties for public drug use.

“We feel that the balance between public safety and individual accountability has been out of balance,” Mendenhall told OPB in June. “And we know the goal here is to bring the community back into better balance.”

Mendenhall said he would support a ban if it came with clear court diversion options for people arrested, like the ability to lessen charges if someone agrees to participate in a treatment program.

Ahh, so where are those options? Israel? Ukraine? Four trillion a year for MIC?

“We know treatment programs work,” he said. “But the problem is supply and demand… We know there are not enough treatment options available today.

A world without ice is definitely one big GAD problem:

Ice sheets act like a blanket, sitting over the warm earth and trapping heat on the bottom, away from Antarctica’s cold atmosphere—and this means that the warmest place in the Antarctic ice sheet is at the bottom of a sheet, not on the surface. As an ice sheet thins, the warmer underground water can exfiltrate more readily, and this heat gradient can accelerate the melting that an ice sheet experiences.

“When the atmosphere warms up, it takes tens of thousands of years for that signal to diffuse through an ice sheet of the size of the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet,” Robel explains. “But this process of exfiltration is a response to the already-ongoing thinning of the ice sheet, and it’s an immediate response right now.”

Broad implications

Beyond sea level rise, this additional exfiltration and melt has other implications. Some of the places of richest marine productivity in the world occur off the coast of Antarctica, and being able to better predict exfiltration and melt could help marine biologists better understand where marine productivity is occurring, and how it might change in the future.

So the world for the rich is going to be faster, as the ice melts, the suicides spike, food is contaminated, and other such stories listed above:

The plane is designed to fly at Mach 2.2 — 2.2 times the speed of sound, or around 1,700 mph (2,700 kph). The first flight will occur over the Mojave desert in the same patch of airspace where, in October 1947, Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier  in the Bell X-1 experimental aircraft.

Yes, it is either / or, but capitalism and Holly-Dirt and Propaganda and social engineering and sociopathy rule the majority. Either barbarism or collective action/socialism/the rights of humanity and ecosystems over PROFITS.

Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit, thrives on the fostering of chronic psychological and physical disorders. The diseases and pathologies of despair — alienation, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, morbid obesity, mass shootings (now almost two per day on average), domestic and sexual violence, drug overdoses (over 100,000 per year) and suicide (49,000 deaths in 2022) — are the consequences of a deeply traumatized society. 

The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt — are celebrated. The virtues of empathy, compassion and self-sacrifice, are belittled, neglected and crushed. The professions that sustain community, such as teaching, manual labor, the arts, journalism and nursing, are underpaid and overworked. The professions that exploit, such as those in high finance, Big Pharma, Big Oil and information technology, are lavished with prestige, money and power. (Chris Hedges).

… if they build it, cook it, engineer it, genetically alter it, crack it, polymerize it, breed it, retail it, wholesale it, repo it, THEY WILL COME! massacre in Deir Yassin is fake news!

Alice Walker

And, I just don’t think the Russians get the West (and that includes NZ, AU and Israel), or get the entire project of Empire Entwined in Debt Entwined in Transhumanism Entwined in the UnHoly Grail of profits over life.

This earmark surfaced in reporting this week in the New York Times, focusing particularly on the XQ-58A Valkyrie, an AI-enabled drone made by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions. Other companies in the race include General Atomics, maker of such large attack drones as the Predator and the Reaper; and Boeing Australia, maker of the MQ-28 Ghost Bat. (IEEE Spectrum covered that project back in 2020, when it was called the Airpower Teaming System.)

So these multimillionaires, these billionaires, they get the Goyim with these fucking Norse comic book myths:

Valkyrie is a figure in Norse mythology depicted as a warrior woman on horseback, a wolf or boar, and armed with a spear, who decides the fate of warriors in battle and carries the dead to Odin’s ValhallaValkyrie means “chooser of the slain”, and those chosen will fight beside Odin at Ragnarök.

Valhalla is Odin’s Hall of Heroes where the spirits of fallen warriors battle each other all day, return to life and health at evening, and spend the night drinking. It was one of five possible afterlife destinations in Norse belief, the others being:

  • Fólkvangr
  • Hel
  • The Realm of Ran
  • The Burial Mound

The goddess Freyja presided over Fólkvangr and chose half the dead on the battlefield for her realm; Valkyries chose the other half for Odin. The realm of Hel, presided over by the jötunn Hel, was primarily for those who died of old age or sickness (though there are notable exceptions) while the Realm of Ran was for those who drowned, especially at sea. The Burial Mound was one’s grave or tomb, which was considered the final home of the dead, no matter how they died, at different times in Scandinavian history.

Three fighter jets fly in the air. The one in the foreground does not have a cockpit like the other two, and is labelled XQ-58A.
Valkyrie Riding to Battle

See the resemblance? XQ-58A Valkyrie and Freya?

And what do those drones do? Who do they immolate? Right!

In a speech, Obama announced that action would be taken only against people who posed a “continuing, imminent threat to the American people,” and who could not be captured. A strike would only occur with “near certainty” that no civilians would be killed or injured.

Even with the new guidelines, legal observers, particularly human rights lawyers, have disputed the Obama administration’s position that the U.S., in strict legal terms, is in an armed conflict with al Qaeda in Yemen or Somalia — and therefore dispute what standards should apply to strikes. Others question the extent to which the hundreds of people killed in drone strikes in those countries meet the supposedly strict criteria.

Ahh, then that EU, that warring EU, that nuclear-armed EU, that dirty collecgtion of vassal states — EuroTrashLandians of the U$A — they declare with every breath they take, ‘there will be blood’ — sanctions, theft of treasuries, bombing, blockades, bio-bombs, etc.

European Union countries are preparing to push for a global deal on phasing out fossil fuels at the United Nations COP28 climate summit which begins in November, a draft of the EU’s negotiating position showed.

Diplomats from the bloc’s 27 member states are drafting their position for the summit in Dubai, where nearly 200 countries will try to strengthen efforts to rein in climate change.

“The shift towards a climate neutral economy will require the global phase-out of [unabated] fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption already in the near term,” a draft of the EU’s negotiating stance, seen by Reuters, said.

Imagine that. And, so, all those African Nations, all those other nations, now finding vast reserves of gas and oil, well, belly up, brothers and sisters, belly up to the poor man’s bar while the Golden Billion push you deeper into abject poverty and disease.

This is it for us communists and anarchists and revolutionaries — we are cooked, and we will be lucky to get a few hundred acres of land with a water source with a few animals and gardens sustaining a few families on it/the commune, BUT still, we will be under the gun of counties, states and cities, under the edicts of the fire districts, police agencies, FDA and other agencies, telling us how much WE pay for our INDPENDENCE.

All our tax money put to great use by the blood merchants, the warriors.

The U.S. commander in the Indo-Pacific is interested in more widely experimenting with and deploying directed-energy weapons designed to zap electronics or incinerate incoming threats.

Navy Adm. John Aquilino, who leads the China-focused Indo-Pacific Command, on Aug. 28 said he is “certainly looking for asymmetric advantages” and that industry should “bring it.”

Zombies:

[Photo: Navy Adm. John Aquilino, left, looks at videos of Chinese structures aboard a U.S. P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane on March 20, 2022.]

Ahh, all those gardens and those people in RVs living on your land, beware: the taxman and code enforcer and deputies will be out to your property full SWAT and full Military Equipped soon:

The NYPD’s announcement to deploy drones as uninvited guests at private backyard gatherings this weekend continues to ignite a heated debate over personal freedom and privacy, a treacherous line that government authorities seem keen to cross as much as possible.

Responding to complaints about large gatherings over the upcoming Labor Day celebrations, Assistant NYPD Commissioner Kaz Daughtry stated drones will come into play if “a large crowd, a large party in a backyard” gets reported.

Related: “Smart city” dystopia

This shocking move showcases a worrying amount of overreach from the authorities, prompting criticism from privacy advocates and citizens who know the value of freedoms.

Indeed, it does feel as though we are living a dystopian Sci-Fi narrative with these police surveillance revelations. Is Mayor Eric Adams endorsing an eerie future where our every movement is monitored from the sky?

Related: NYC Mayor Eric Adams: “Big Brother is protecting you”

Alarmingly, the NYPD seems to be coy about disclosing their drone policies. A request for comment from Mayor Adams only received links to laid-back guidelines for private drone operations in the city. Is this preparation for when these silent observers become more commonplace in the urban skies?

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And my blog this PM started off, in my head, with the lies and sweeping under the rug and agnotology truth by the history liars. And by me pointing these out (see below), I am an Anti-JEW? Come on:

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ADL Calls on Biden and Harris To Create Directive To Tackle Online “Hate” Through Public-Private Partnership

A high-profile meeting was convened at the White House this week with civil rights leaders and members of the King family.

The Anti-Defamation League, supported by well-known civil rights advocates, urged President Biden and VP Harris to create a robust plan targeting online hate, antisemitism, and extremism.

The phrase “lethal threat of hate-motivated violence” was highlighted as a crisis needing immediate attention. While the issue of violent hate crimes cannot be minimized, the rush to enact potentially restrictive measures regarding online speech opens a Pandora’s Box of censorship and surveillance that could, paradoxically, undermine the very freedoms civil rights leaders have fought to establish.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt drew a connection between the recent racist shooting in Jacksonville and the landmark civil rights March on Washington, pointing out society’s enduring vulnerabilities. While few question the gravity of violence, the implication that widespread societal censorship and government oversight could serve as viable solutions invites concerns over constitutional rights, something groups such as the ADL appear to ignore when constantly pushing for online censorship.

Among the alarming suggestions was the appointment of a high-ranking “czar” focused solely on combating domestic extremism and hatred.

This hints at a centralized power structure that might marginalize dissenting views under the umbrella term of “extremism,” a term which history shows can be distressingly malleable in the hands of those in power.

Similarly, the recommendation for a Presidential Study Directive to assess current mechanisms for countering online hate raises critical questions. The notion that public and private entities could collaborate to scrutinize and regulate online behavior smacks of an Orwellian future where Big Brother monitors thoughts and expression.

The call to revive “United We Stand” summits and implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) measures within federal agencies, further signals the government’s intent to institutionalize its vision of social harmony, perhaps at the cost of free dialogue and individual liberties.

In attendance were leaders from various civil rights organizations, including the National Urban League, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and UnidosUS. While their presence ostensibly ensured a comprehensive discussion, one must question whether the gathering fully considered the potential downsides of broad administrative action, including the chilling effects on free speech and expression.

And so, it is the next I Am a Poor Misunderstood Oppenheimer flick, Golda, my god.

Golda | Starring Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, and Camille Cottin

The mixed legacy of Golda Meir, Israel’s first female PM — Meir’s tenure was marked by racist comments about Palestinians and contentious events on her watch.

Israeli left-wing activists wear T-shirts with pictures of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, right, and fourth Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as they participate in a rally against West Bank Jewish settlements, in Jerusalem on May 15, 2010 [Sebastian Scheiner/AP]

[Photo: sraeli left-wing activists wear T-shirts with pictures of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, right, and fourth Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as they participate in a rally against West Bank Jewish settlements, in Jerusalem on May 15, 2010]

Born into poverty in what is today Ukraine, in 1898, she emigrated to the US as a child with her family and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she completed her education and eventually became a teacher.

In 1921, after marrying, she and her husband immigrated to Palestine, then under British mandate. From then on, her political trajectory took flight and by 1948, when the state of Israel was established after the British mandate expired, she had already cemented her place in Israeli history.

Prior to her assuming the most powerful job, Meir, a socialist Zionist, cut her teeth as a cabinet minister, not least as minister for labour and then as foreign minister.

In the former role, and as Jewish immigrants flocked to settle in the new nation-state as Palestinians were forced from their homes, she oversaw the construction of housing and a new welfare system.

Meir, right, is escorted by Israeli Major General in the Reserves Ariel Sharon, left, while visiting the Sinai Peninsula, then occupied by Israel, October 29, 1973 [File: Yehuda Tzion/Government Press Office/Handout/Reuters]

So, Golda or Bibi?

Testimonies From the Censored Deir Yassin Massacre: ‘They Piled Bodies and Burned Them’

A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact.

This is agnotology, and erasure:

Further along in the letter, he describes in detail his part in the massacre that took place there. “This was the first time in my life that at my hands and before my eyes Arabs fell. In the village I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun,” he wrote, describing how he carried out the execution of the girls with a submachine gun.

Along with that, he tells about looting in the village with his buddies after it was occupied. “We confiscated a lot of money and silver and gold jewelry fell into our hands,” he wrote. He concludes the letter with the words: “This was a really tremendous operation and it is with reason that the left is vilifying us again.

Legacy, historical blood line, propaganda. This is them: [Photo: ‘They ran like cats,’ related the commander of the operation, Yehoshua Zettler, the Jerusalem commander of Lehi, as he described the Arabs fleeing from their homes in Deir Yassin]

'They ran like cats,' related the commander of the operation, Yehoshua Zettler, the Jerusalem commander of Lehi, as he described the Arabs fleeing from their homes in Deir Yassin.

“I saw a fair number of corpses,” he added. “I don’t remember encountering the corpse of a fighting man. Not at all. I remember mostly women and old men.” Tsaban testified that he saw inhabitants shot in the back and dismissed the claims of some of participants in the action that the locals had been hit in exchanges of fire. “An old man and a woman, sitting in the corner of a room with their faces to the wall, and they are shot in the back,” he recalled. “That cannot have been in the heat of battle. No way.” (source)

NOW? Drones, baby, AI Chat GPT, remote controlled F-16’s, robot guns.

The Deir Yassin massacre was the first of a number of incidents in which Jewish fighters were involved in killing civilians in the War of Independence and after it was over. Another infamous incident was the one at Kafr Qasem in 1956, on the day the fighting in the Sinai Campaign began. Forty-eight Israeli Arab citizens were killed by Border Police gunfire. As in the case of Deir Yassin, the state is still censoring the archival materials from Kafr Qasem.

UK, now?

Airbase project could pave way for UK to host US nuclear weapons

‘Potential surety mission’ at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk thought to refer to return of nuclear weapons after 15 years

It comes days after a US Air Force report showed that RAF Larkenheath in Suffolk (pictured) could be used for Americans to host nuclear weapons in the UK again

Golda, oh Golda?

Israel Is Sending Robots With Machine Guns to the Gaza Border — The “world’s largest open-air prison” gets a new set of guards. The Gaza border barrier is supported by many Israelis because it has reduced to almost nil the ability of Hamas and other militant groups to carry out ambushes, kidnappings and suicide bombings in Israel. The Israeli border barrier features miles of sensor-infused “smart” fencing guarded by ground troops and armored vehicles, surveilled by orbiting drones, and monitored by SentryTech towers armed with remote-control .50 caliber machine guns capable of shredding light vehicles. The barriers extend underground too, blocking some but not all tunnels into Egypt and Israel used by Palestinian smugglers and attackers respectively.

During the 1948 War, from the 29th of November 1947 to the spring of 1949,
Nathan Alterman continued to publish Ha-tur Ha-shvi’ee (The Seventh Column),
his journalistic poetry column in the newspaper Davar that had been pub-
lished regularly since 1943. During those years, Alterman gained his status as the
national poet of the Yeshuv (the Jewish population in Palestine). By that point,
he had already published three acclaimed books: Kochavim Ba-Huts (1938),
Simhat ’Aniyim (1941), and Shirei Makot Mitsrayim (1944) which, together with
Ha-tur Ha-shvi’ee (1948), the book in which he included a selection of The Sev-
enth Column’s poems, had turned him into the leading and most central voice of
the contemporary Hebrew poetry. The journalistic poetry that constitutes The
Seventh Column closely followed the life and events of the Yeshuv in Palestine
and developed a hegemonic position towards them, specifically from the point
of view of Mapai—the party which dominated the Yeshuv’s establishments
and the Zionist Organization.

His hegemonic position can best be understood in Anotonio Gramsci’s use of the term, who described hegemony as a dominant discourse which creates and becomes a product of balanced consensus between dominator and dominated, ruler and ruled:


The dominant group is coordinated concretely with the general interests
of the subordinate groups, and the life of the State is conceived of as a
continuous process of formation and superseding of unstable equilibria
(on the juridical plane) between the interests of the fundamental group
and those of the subordinate groups—equilibria in which the interests of
the dominant group prevail, but only up to a certain point.

— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from Prison Notebooks

In November 1948, with the War of Independence (sic) still raging, the poet Natan Alterman published a poem called “For This, Al Zot.” The poem makes reference to an incident in which Israeli soldiers committed act of violence. Given the timing, it might have been the killing of non-combatants including Arab men, women and children in the city of Lod or what was described as a “slaughter” in another Arab village.

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, busy at the time with the conduct of the war, was so moved by the poem that he asked Alterman to reprint one hundred thousand copies to distribute to every soldier in Israel. So what’s in the poem? Here it is:

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Across the vanquished city in a jeep he did speed – A lad bold and armed, a young lion of a lad! And an old man and a woman on that very street Cowered against a wall, in fear of him clad. Said the lad smiling, milk teeth shining: “I’ll try the machine gun”… and put it into play! To hide his face in his hands the old man barely had time When his blood on the wall was sprayed. …

We shall sing, then, about “delicate incidents” Whose name, don’t you know, is murder. Sing of conversations with sympathetic listeners, Of snickers of forgiveness that are slurred. …

For those in combat gear, and we who impinge, Whether by action or agreement subliminal, Are thrust, muttering “necessity” and “revenge,” Into the realm of the war criminal.
(translation by Ralph Mandel)

NOT EXACTLY an anti-war poem, and what Israel-Zionist did was more than war — genocide. genocide. genocide.

Here you go:

To Study The Talmud ©2017 by Alice Walker

The first time I was accused

Of appearing to be anti-Semitic

The shock did not wear off
For days.
The man who charged me
Was a friend.
A Jewish Soul
Who I thought understood
Or could learn to understand
Almost anything.

He could not understand
However
Why I thought Israel should give back
The land it took
From a poorly defended
People in a war that lasted
Six days. I cringed
About our small house
In Mississippi (where black people
Often assumed he was a racist)
Deeply offended by his attempt
To insult my character
And spoke to him
Earnestly of “dignity” “justice”
“honor” and “peace.”

Sometimes, later in life,
You do laugh at yourself.
You understand, finally,
That you’ve understood
Nothing. Nothing at all.
That in this case, for instance,
That of the famed Six Day War,
It was all a show,
A true “Theatre” war;
The battlefield a stage,
Though bombs and bullets were real.
Only the people who lost the battle
Got a close-up
Of the set.
And the set-up.

Later I would march
Or be arrested
Protesting this war and that
And marvel how it never mattered.
On days we marched in our tens of thousands
The people we hoped to influence
Were taking a holiday. Bush was
good at this. He let the media
Spread the word he was chillin’ on his
12,000 or is it 20,000
Acre ranch.
Bill and Barack made themselves
Scarce.

When I was in Palestine
As an elder
Doing my job
Of keeping tabs
On Earth’s children
I remembered my concern
And how my friend
Had brushed it off.

“Israel needs that land to protect itself.”
He said. As though this should be
Self- evident. It wasn’t then;
It isn’t now.

The land taken
Has never been returned.
In fact, more stolen land
Has followed the first assaults
And thefts.
Palestinian children, after years
Of throwing stones
At grown up assassins
In helmets and armored tanks
Are killing themselves
These days
To save their murderers
The trouble.

Unlike most Americans
I have witnessed Palestine
Under Israeli rule. It is demonic
To the core. But where to look
For the inspiration
For so much evil? Where
To find the teachings that influence
And sanction such limitless cruel behavior?

Where to find that part
Of the puzzle that is missing?
We’ve intuited there must be one.
And we were right.

*

We must go back
As grown ups, now,
Not as the gullible children we once were,
And study our programming,
From the beginning.
All of it: The Christian, the Jewish,
The Muslim; even the Buddhist. All of it, without exception,
At the root.

For the study of Israel, of Gaza, of Palestine,
Of the bombed out cities of the Middle East,
Of the creeping Palestination
Of our police, streets, and prisons
In America,
Of war in general,
It is our duty, I believe, to study The Talmud.
It is within this book that,
I believe, we will find answers
To some of the questions
That most perplex us.

Where to start?

You will find some information,
Slanted, unfortunately,
By Googling. For a more in depth study
I recommend starting with YouTube. Simply follow the trail of “The
Talmud” as its poison belatedly winds its way
Into our collective consciousness.

Some of what you find will sound
Too crazy to be true. Unfortunately those bits are likely
To be true. Some of the more evasive studies
Will exhibit unbelievable attempts
At sugar coating extremely disagreeable pills.
But hang in there, checking
And double checking, listening to everybody,
Even the teachers with the twisted pasts
That scare you the most,
And the taped rants of outraged citizens that sound
Like madcap characters on Car Talk
Except they are not laughing
But are righteously outraged.

Study hard, with an open
If deeply offended mind,
Until you can sift the false
From the true.

Is Jesus boiling eternally in hot excrement,
For his “crime” of throwing the bankers
Out of the Temple? For loving, standing with,
And defending
The poor? Was his mother, Mary,
A whore?

Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews, and not only
That, but to enjoy it?
Are three year old (and a day) girls eligible for marriage and intercourse?
Are young boys fair game for rape?
Must even the best of the Goyim (us, again) be killed?
Pause a moment and think what this could mean
Or already has meant
In our own lifetime.

You may find that as the cattle
We have begun to feel we are
We have an ancient history of oppression
Of which most of us have not been even vaguely
Aware. You will find that we, Goyim, sub-humans, animals
-The Palestinians of Gaza
The most obvious representatives of us
At the present time – are a cruel example of what may be done
With impunity, and without conscience,
By a Chosen people,
To the vast majority of the people
On the planet
Who were not Chosen.
Not chosen to receive the same dubious
“Blessing” of
Supremacy over the Earth,
Humans, and Beasts of this realm. As is
Stated plainly in the first chapter
Of the Bible we all read.
The Unchosen who, until now,
Were too scared of being
Called names
To demand to know why.

It is a “Blessing” Jesus did not want.
One that, risking crucifixion, he refused.
One reason he is loved
By those who recognize a good
And righteous person
When they encounter one.
Seen in this light he wasn’t even
A spiritual progressive, but a committed
Revolutionary: a Che Guevara
Of the ancient past.

A past as scary, if not scarier, than
Our own time: A past that,
Unfortunately, is not even past (quoting
Faulkner).

We discover this
To our enlightened grief
As we study
The Talmud,
Our own ignorance,
And the devastating impact of both
On our abandoned world.

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See: The General’s Son: Journey of An Israeli In Palestine, by Miko Peled, introduction by Alice Walker. Peled interview!

it is, really, clear, what one poison, glyphosate, does to all those sons, daughters, flowers and insects, but with SAD, not to be confused w/ Seasonal Affective Disorder, we are at the ghouls’ whims

Yes, Round-up is a killer, but the academics, the government agencies, the Big Ag and Big Chemical mafia and the marketers and the co-opted ones, NPR, PBS, CBS, Fox, et al, they will continue with — follow OUR science, bought and paid for by US!

Here you go, from the psych journals I end up reading to see wha the enemy is saying. More more more mumble jumbo: People with social anxiety are at increased risk of alcohol use disorder, according to new research published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The findings provide evidence that this connection remains distinctive to social anxiety and does not hold true for other manifestations of anxiety disorders.

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Crazy, no, how normal these stories are and there is no chanting and burning of tired on all the roads in Capitalist GloboCopLandia: Talk about unethical — Intelligence unit of Iran’s defense ministry says Islamic Republic thwarted ‘one of the largest sabotage plots targeting Iran’s missile, aviation and airspace military industry’

The cell had sought “to sell the equipped parts to turn the produced rockets into an explosive tool to hit industrial lines and employees working in that field,” the statement claimed.

It added that “despite the very complicated plot designed by the Zionist enemy, this action of the enemy was under intelligence and operational monitoring from the very beginning and was completely neutralized after detaining its agents.”

An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile displaying "Down with Israel" in Hebrew at a defense exhibition in Isfahan, February 8, 2023.

More GSAD, a la Global anxiety with Soros: Synopsis, The 93-year-old Hungary-born Soros is dubbed as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’ on September 16, 1992, also referred to as ‘Black Wednesday’, forcing the UK Government to withdraw Sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism

Anxiety, for sure, these Billionaires:

George Soros.

Yet he will be forever known as the financier who broke the Bank of England by leading the speculative attack on the pound more than 30 years ago.

And with good reason. Black Wednesday, as it became known, was a seminal moment. It was the classic demonstration of the power of financial markets. What’s more, it led to a rethink of the UK’s entire economic strategy and the establishment of the inflation-targeting regime still in place today.

A long-exposure image of an AI-trained autonomous UZH drone (the blue streak) that completed a lap half a second ahead of the best time of a human pilot.

Talk about reaching for that bottle of rum:

On Wednesday, a team of researchers from the University of Zürich and Intel announced that they have developed an autonomous drone system named Swift that can beat human champions in first-person view (FPV) drone racing. While AI has previously bested humans in games like chess, Go, and even StarCraft, this may be the first time an AI system has outperformed human pilots in a physical sport.

FPV drone racing is a sport where competitors attempt to pilot high-speed drones through an obstacle course as fast as possible. Pilots control the drones remotely while wearing a headset that provides a video feed from an onboard camera, giving them a first-person view from the drone’s perspective.

IT IS ALL FOR MILITARY USE, and these gamers are gaming your and I and the fucking High School RObotics Olympics proponents. THINK F-16s without UkroNazi pilots, but with AI Fly Boys.

Where have all those anti-authority folk gone? Why so many good Germans now flooding the world, even India, even America?

Where have all the anarchists gone, those who know that false flags, controlled opposition, and cooption of ideas bastardize all movements? Totalitarianism, fascism, globalists, resetters, transhumanists, AI freaks? No push back?

WS: What evidence may there be in your mind that certain protest groups like Antifa, BLM and Extinction Rebellion are state operations and in a sense ‘storm troopers for the establishment’?

Paul Cudenec: The evidence is not in my mind, but very real! I have researched and written a number of articles exposing their connections to what I have taken to calling the criminocracy – the self-concealing web of foundations, charities, investment funds and national and international institutions that controls much of our social structure. Although activists in these groups are no doubt genuinely motivated by the advertised principles, these movements are definitely being manipulated for an overall agenda tied closely to transhumanism, impact capitalism and digital public-private global totalitarianism. Not only do these controlled groups replace genuine movements and steer activists into directions favoured by the system, but they are also used to attack genuine dissidents, in a false-flag fashion, deploying the self-righteous fury of woke ideology to impose conformity to corporate-friendly attitudes.

Lyrics — Where Have All the Flowers

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone?
The girls have picked them every one.
Oh, When will you ever learn?
Oh, When will you ever learn?

Young girls
They’ve taken husbands every one.

Young men
They’re all in uniform.

Soldiers
They’ve gone to graveyards every one.

Graveyards
They’re covered with flowers every one.

Flowers
Young girls have picked them every one.

“I still call myself a failed communist,” says Pete Seeger, preparing the club’s stage for a late afternoon sing-song. And it’s true that his most famous compositions, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (adapted from an old Russian song about Cossacks going off to war) and Turn, Turn, Turn (a big hit for the Byrds) don’t sound as revolutionary as they did.

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Seeger’s banjo once sported the message: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender” (an echo of the message on Woody Guthrie’s guitar: “This machine kills fascists”). The anti-fascist, union anthems he sang with Guthrie and later with his own band, the Weavers, placed him at the forefront of the action. He was targeted as a communist sympathiser in the 1950s (he was called before the McCarthy hearings after being warned that If I Had a Hammer would go down badly with the authorities, found guilty of contempt of Congress and sentenced to a year in prison). During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, he led a crowd, with Martin Luther King, in a rendition of We Shall Overcome.

Guthrie, Seeger says, taught him how to busk. “He’d say put the banjo on your back, go into a bar and buy a nickel beer and sip it as slow as you can. Sooner or later, someone will say, ‘Kid, can you play that thing?’ Don’t be too eager, just say, ‘Maybe, a little.’ Keep on sipping beer. Sooner or later, someone will say, ‘Kid, I’ve got a quarter for you if you pick us a tune.’ Then you play your best song.” With that advice, Seeger supported himself on his travels.

Busking?

Those lock-downs, and those lock-step so-called anarchists, following the authorities — social distancing, and how many rock and roll capitalists went full throttle Fauci and Pfizer? And this is the anti-anarchist way — following the planned pandemic mandates:

This wide-ranging interview was conducted with Paul Cudenec of Winter Oak by two anarchist pro-freedom campaigners, MA and WS, from Brighton, England. Illustration by Ken Avidor.

WS: Please could you introduce yourself and say how you came to be a writer and create the website Winter Oak?

Paul Cudenec: I am a former professional journalist, who slogged away for 25 years on a local newspaper in Sussex, and have also been an active anarchist since the mid 1990s. Ten years ago I took voluntary redundancy to concentrate on my own writing, then moved to rural France. I initially created Winter Oak as a vehicle for publishing my books but over the years the site has increasingly become the focus of my writing activity, in particular my exposures of the global power nexus, which were lent new urgency by the Covid moment.

WS: How would you define ‘anarchism’? Is it left wing or right wing or beyond both paradigms?

MA: How difficult was it for unvaccinated people in France during the vaccine mandates? How much non-compliance generally do you think there was in France to lockdowns and getting the jab?

PC: Well, we could still go into shops, apart from certain huge hypermarkets that I don’t frequent anyway. But you couldn’t drink a coffee in a café.

I once stopped off in driving snow in the mountains, waited at the bar to be served, unmasked, for ten minutes in a café full of people, only to be told that without the vaccine passport I could only buy a take-away. So I had to down my espresso outside in the snowstorm!

A couple of decent restaurants agreed to feed me and a friend, as we travelled across France in the summer of 2021, if we didn’t stay too long, while stressing that they could go to prison for doing so! Generally levels of compliance were depressing, but I think that maybe non-compliance was largely hidden from view. People did keep holding family gatherings and so on. I have also heard about fake vaccine records. One encouraging lockdown phenomenon was flash mobs, where people popped up all over the place, outside government buildings and in railway stations, dancing to a beautiful and defiant song by HK et Les Saltimbanks. There were no major pro-freedom protests here until vaccine passports were introduced and then it really took off, to my delight!

Conformity:

Again, it all comes down to insects, fungi, soil. Open Letter: Where have all our insects and birds gone

This is my response [ Rosemary Mason] to an anonymous letter from Public Health England (Enquiries@PHE). The un-named individual was replying on behalf of the four Chief Medical Officers and two ‘top doctors’ from Public Health England.

Cornfields, however, are not like national parks or virgin forests. Corn farmers champion corn. Anything that might eat corn, hurt corn, bother corn, is killed. Their corn is bred/genetically engineered/Franken-Cropped to fight pests. The ground is sprayed. The stalks are sprayed again. And sprayed again, too. So, like David, Craig wondered, “What will I find?”

Corn field

Corn field

The answer amazed me. He found almost nothing. “I listened and heard nothing, no bird, no click of insect.”

There were no bees. The air, the ground, seemed vacant. He found one ant “so small you couldn’t pin it to a specimen board.” A little later, crawling to a different row, he found one mushroom, “the size of an apple seed.” (A relative of the one pictured below.) Then, later, a cobweb spider eating a crane fly (only one). A single red mite “the size of a dust mote hurrying across the barren earth,” some grasshoppers, and that’s it. Though he crawled and crawled, he found nothing else.

“It felt like another planet entirely,” he said, a world denuded.

100 years ago, these same fields, these prairies, were home to 300 species of plants, 60 mammals, 300 birds, hundreds and hundreds of insects. This soil was the richest, the loamiest in the state. And now, in these patches, there is almost literally nothing but one kind of living thing. We’ve erased everything else.

Along the stout limb of a strangler fig a hundred feet up in the canopy of the Monteverde cloud forest in Costa Rica, a luxuriant garden grows. To survey this tropical richness, Liittschwager sampled day and night, and the team recorded 24 plant species and more than 500 insects representing 100 species within the cube's green borders.

Here’s a cube placed 100 feet off the ground, in the upper branches of a Strangler fig tree in Costa Rica. We’re up in the air here, looking down into a valley. What’s up? More than 150 different plants and animals live in or passed through that one square foot of tree: birds, beetles, flies, moths, bugs, bugs, then more bugs…

Part of the contents of One Cubic Foot, more than 150 different kinds of plants and animals were found in the Monteverde cube over 100 feet up in the canopy of a Strangler Fig Tree, Location: Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, Costa Rica.
Sifting through samples within the cube, photographer David Littschwager counted 90 separate species, including 25 types of plants just on the soil surface, along with some 200 seeds representing at least five of those species.

That cube was put there by David Liittschwager, a portrait photographer, who spent a few years traveling the world, dropping one-cubic-foot metal frames into gardens, streams, parks, forests, oceans, and then photographing whatever, or whoever came through. Beetles, crickets, fish, spiders, worms, birds — anything big enough to be seen by the naked eye he tried to capture and photograph. Here’s what he found after 24 hours in his Cape Town cube:

These 113 creatures observed, and then photographed, include over 100 species of plants and animals that use one cubic foot of this highly diverse shrub land over the course of a normal day in Mountain Fynbos, Table Mountain, South Africa.

David Liittschwager’s book, called A World In One Cubic Foot is a photographic collection of all the plants and animals that turned up in his various cubes, as you see in my post. But the book takes you to many more places, coral reefs, streams, rivers, backyards. Craig Childs’ account of his long weekend in the cornfield comes from his book, Apocalyptic Planet; Field Guide to the Everending EarthCraig writes like a dream; he uses the cornfield as a metaphor for what a mass extinction might be like, where the Earth becomes “lots of one thing and not much of any other.”

A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity, Liittschwager, Wilson, DiPiero
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Until you carnivores want that boar meat, well done and spicy . . . but, oh, but . . . .

A wild boar runs among trees and branches in the Bavarian wildlife park of Mehlmeisel, Germany
  • A high percentage of Germany’s wild boars are radioactive while other animals in the region are not.
  • Scientists have a surprising theory about what makes them so radioactive.
  • A new study found that fallout from nuclear weapons and Chernobyl make a potent combination.

YIKES: ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80 million a month—and its sales could be edging high enough to plug its $540 million loss from last year.

If these do not throw you into that boozing SAD, then I have no idea what the fuck rattles your world.

Sam Altman, US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023.

Soros, Altman, Thiel, come on, boozers, send me your list of mother fuckers who are the Apocalypse: Think of all the burderns colonials and neocolonials have foisted onto the WORLD!

But the real problem is going to be the relationship between the BRICS and the West. How can they create a new international order that we’ve been discussing while they have to pay all of the neocolonial burden of their foreign dollar debt and the foreign ownership of their oil and mining rights and public utilities?

How can they enforce climate cleanup costs on foreign oil and mining pollution? The current international law says that the companies have a right to sue any government for a new tax on multinational firms or new regulations.

And so it means the government has to pay all of the cleanup costs, all of the external diseconomies. And essentially, they’re put into an even worse locked-in position today than they were in the colonial period.

So how can they defend themselves from this kind of US-sponsored order and the regime change for countries that try to create an alternative to it? All that’s going to have to wait for the future BRICS meetings.

And we really can’t even begin to discuss that now. We’ve discussed what we thought in earlier episodes of this.

RADHIKA DESAI: Absolutely, Michael. I mean, the kinds of problems you’re talking about, I mean, the BRICS agenda is really a very, very big and tall one. So all we can expect at the moment is that the BRICS have only made a beginning, but a beginning they definitely have made.

Like you say, you’re talking about the international monetary system and the financial arrangements. And the fact of the matter is that, again, the Western press was sort of brimming with stories about how difficult, if not impossible, it would be for the BRICS to do anything that would dent the position of the dollar.

Enjoy:

IS CHINA A FRIEND OR ENEMY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER? [TISH TALKS WITH MATT EHRET] WATCH

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Is China a Friend or Enemy of the New World Order?

In this episode of Tish Talk with host Patricia Conlin (PPC candidate, author and host), I was asked to deal with a long list of popular anti-China narratives that have been deployed to psychologically manipulate frightened westerners from both liberal and conservative sides of the spectrum to 1) ignore the causal role of Anglo-Venetian intelligence behind the controlled disintegration of western civilization while 2) re-directing hate and fear energy towards a new Chinese boogeyman.

The topics we unpack in this extended interview include:
• A 3000 year overview of China and the roots of the Belt and Road: Has it ever acted like an empire?
• The American connection to China’s revolution and President Sun Yat-sen
• Economic collapse in China with stock market and Evergrande bankruptcy where will it lead
• Is Xi Jinping a good guy or a bad guy? (and is it true that China kicked out Soros, saved the world from the green climate nazis, Shut down woke agenda and reformed banking?)
• How to understand the CPC and fifth column deep state inside of China
• Did China create/deploy covid onto the world via the Wuhan lab or is something being left out of this conversation?
• What is behind the “China wants to Invade Taiwan” narrative?
• What’s the deal with the massive surveillance state/social credit system in China?
• Are the “Two Michaels” Canadian heroes or Soros-connected creeps?
• Is Huawei a Chinese spy machine infiltrating our free and democrating west?
• Uyghur genocide and retraining camps: Fact or Fiction?
• Tibetan independence crushing: Fact or Fiction?
• Organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners: Fact or Fiction?
• Hong Kong democracy and Taiwan democracy fighters: Defenders of freedom or useful idiots used to advance color revolution?
• Chinese police stations and Chinese election interference: Fact or Fiction?
• Is it true that Christian culture and Chinese culture are incompatible as asserted by Samuel Huntington and Steve Bannon OR are common moral principles found in both systems?

All of these questions and more will be addressed in the following show.

….one paycheck away from endless fines, tickets, penalties, fees, add-ons, processing costs, interest rates, etc. ….

Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Another translation: Authority gone to one’s head is the greatest enemy of truth. (Collected Papers, Volume 1, 1987 — Einstein

I’d rather drink muddy water

Sleep out in a hollow log

Than be in California

Treated like a dirty dog.

This is what the migrants sang in the 1930s, when the Golden State was anything but welcoming to the “tired and poor” masses heading this way from Dust Bowl-ravaged states.

For a few months in 1936, the Los Angeles Police Department launched a foreign excursion of sorts — a “Bum Blockade” on the state’s borders. The LAPD deployed 136 officers to 16 major points of entry on the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon lines, with orders to turn back migrants with “no visible means of support.”

The man responsible, Police Chief James Edgar “Two-Gun” Davis, was a former cotton-picker from Texas who came to California in 1911, dirt poor and uneducated. Davis, whose moniker referred to his extraordinary marksmanship with a pistol, liked to say that constitutional rights were of “no benefit to anybody but crooks and criminals.” (source)

The Bum Blockade – Stopping the Invasion of Depression Refugees – Legends  of America

Job OFFERINGS coming through my email and feeds! What JOY. At home in the underwear, or . . . Wyoming, man, Matthew Shepard land.

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  • 401k with employer match

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It's the Economy, Stupid: Introduction - Montgomery Perspective
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It's the economy, stupid..." - Ritter, Mike, 1965-2014 | Ohio State  University - Cartoon Library & Museum
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It’s the Economy, Stupid! Imagine that, work from home, or leave your state for Wyoming and drive sand, man, the Sand Man, and get a bed and TV and food. Talking about see the world, join the navy!

Shantytowns filled with Dust Bowl refugees sprouted in such areas as the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Canyon and Terminal Island — many of them dubbed Hooverville because residents blamed then-President Herbert Hoover for their plight.

Hooverville Life

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Versus:

Lives (and loves) of India's wealthiest - BBC Worklife
Which city is the Philippines' richest?
The Richest Neighborhoods In Southern California In 2021
This is Seattle's most expensive residential home listing

Ellen Osterbauer of Downey was only 3 in 1931 when her family lived for five months in a Hooverville near Firestone Boulevard and Alameda Street. The five-acre site had neither toilets nor electricity, but was one of Los Angeles’ largest homeless camps, with 700 residents.

“We were the only ones who lived in a wooden house that my father built out of used doors,” she said. “Everyone else lived in cardboard and tar-paper houses, old trucks, buses and tents.”

Their dwelling was called “the hospital,” not because they treated the ill but because one of the doors bore that word.

“For years we were so embarrassed [about living in the camp that] we never talked about it outside the family,” Osterbauer recalled in a recent interview.

They Called It: The Bum Blockade.

And the billionaires and their militarized pigs and the bankers and the Eichmann Species, they want blood from an onion:

Reminder: The storms are like those which hit Texas in the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, like this one in Stratford in April 1935

As Einstein wrote in a condolence letter toward the end of his life,

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”

This economy, man, it is on a quick sucking sound down the drain. HOUSING. And the cost of living, from gasoline to milk, eggs to cabbage, electric bills to cell phone costs, and on and on, go ahead, do it yourself, the price check at Home Depot or Shermin Williams or Safeway or Big Five, go ahead, order a transformer for a city block, go ahead, hire on a plumber or roofer.

Prices have DOUBLED, man, TRIPLED, and as more people are forced out of work, since they can’t be living in the towns and cities where the work’s hard to find, then, we are here where towns and cities are offering $15,000 relocation checks for simple mid-level city jobs, or nursing jobs, or MD jobs.

The migration is one that starts in the wormy head, the brain drained of so much since the world is so battered by the mean as cuss wimpy, suited, silly-hair-do neo-liberals, and neo-cons and the others on those two margins, which is the middle ground of established usury capitalism.

PayDay Capitalism:

Neon signs illuminate a payday loan business in Phoenix on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, one of 650 operating in the state with some open 24-hours a day. A growing backlash against payday lending practices have prompted legislatures around the country to crack down on the businesses. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Payday loan companies market themselves to the working poor as a quick source of money in desperate situations. They then trap people in a cycle of indebtedness that compounds at breakneck speed. This kind of parasitic, predatory pursuit of profit is something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Payday loans are a multi-billion dollar industry in the west. They are immoral and completely unnecessary. There are far better ways to provide banking services to the low income community.

Charles Dickens’s Mr. Micawber popularised two ideas. The first is sound: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.” The other, ever the enemy of the first, is: “Something will turn up”.

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It’s an echo chamber — one paycheck missed away from homelessness,

financial survey encouraging Americans to save more money was released in 2019 and exposed that 59% of Americans are currently at risk of homelessness. In fact, they are all just one paycheck away from experiencing homelessness firsthand. The COVID-19 pandemic did a great deal to expose poverty in the United States and create it. In 2020, national poverty climbed at never-before-seen rates, thrusting nearly 8 million new Americans into impoverished despair throughout one solitary summer.

Fucking pallet shacks?

Pallet Home

PRISON:

“Every time I see “cage-free eggs” or free-range chickens,” I’m reminded of my homeless friend who said society cares more about how chickens raised for food are treated than they care how homeless people are treated.”

~Commentary from Invisible People’s Facebook page regarding a “housing solution” where two people share a tiny box

This is not a new or novel concept. In Hong Kong, similar dwelling spaces are aptly titled “coffin homes.” Here in the US, the verbiage is different; the end result is the same.

Some say these manufactured tiny shacks are being called homes in order to sway public opinion in favor of their construction. If that is the case, the misleading moniker is working.

According to an LA City Council campaign made possible by supporters of Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, “…voters have approved funding for facilities like this”. Voters also appear to be the key financial contributors for on-site services housed within these prison-like properties.

COFFINS:

“My health is going quickly, my mental health has worsened, & my hope of ever having a home is just hanging by a thin thread ?For me to be put into one of these would be humiliating, degrading, unsafe, and well… I would just not accept”.

Misinformed readers could wrongly perceive the quote above as a form of shelter resistance. But in reality, this human being is simply voicing a natural desire to be treated with respect and housed in a safe place. Since the dictionary definition of house lacks much-needed clarity, below are a few characteristics I believe we all can agree should be present in any humble abode. (source59% of Americans are Just One Paycheck Away from Homelessness)

FUCKING Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates, all the other fuckers in SEATTLE

FUCKING SEATTLE: Lux has been homeless since she was 16. Growing up, her mother was critically ill, so Lux lived with her stepdad. He would kick her out randomly when he was drinking. “I wouldn’t know where to go,” she said. “Eventually, it got to the point where I didn’t want to go back.” Lux is now 19. She has lived in her RV for three years and has been forced to move about 20 times.

Seattle’s controversial RV homeless sweeps have been a source of contention among advocates, residents, and city officials alike. By forcibly removing vehicle residents from their makeshift mobile homes, these sweeps not only displace vulnerable individuals but also often leave them with no alternative shelter. This policy, aimed at addressing the visible impact of homelessness in the city, has been criticized for exacerbating the issue by further marginalizing those who already face significant challenges.

From that FUCKING Fortune Magazine.

57% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense, says new report. A look at why Americans are saving less and how you can boost your emergency fund

Photo illustration of a red emergency siren on top of a fanned out pile of money and credit cards.

… and these greenies, these green pornographers, aka, black and blue and green all over washers, they are the enemy

There are not three ways to look at this digusting mess: Where’s the beef, the pork, the poultry?

Economies of scale, profits over health, insane Concentrated and Confined Animal Feeding Operations, and alas, the world does go better with Coke and Cattle and Fast Food and Instant Potatoes and Eggs/Bacon/Bread.

All those green weenies telling the rest of the world what must be, what can be, and how to reset the globe so the beautiful people — the woke, the LGBTQA+, the Biden-Harris-Zionist-First folk running the world into the ground — I have lost as any sort of compatriot and empathetic soul.

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Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest meat and poultry producers, dumps more toxic pollution into the nation’s waters than any other agribusiness, and produces the most animal manure of five major companies assessed nationwide, a new report said today.

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Look, I was talking to some folk in Waldport about the aerial spraying of clear cuts. Near their homes, their water, their backyards. Yep, it is a big deal for them, but the bottom line is that they just DO NOT GET IT.

They’re wearing sweat shop Polyester clothes, driving Japanese or German death cars, and their entire lives are wrapped around home remodeling projects, golf and of course, finding the best things at the farmer’s market.

“I can’t believe the judge would have stopped the people’s iniative, the bann on aerial pesticide spraying.”

Well well well — capitalism and so-called free markets and business must go on and all those rights of the profiteers, those are enshrined in the rule of disorder, or as they say, rule of law:

YOU CAN PASS initiatives to stop bulldozing of your parks, stop a porn shop from coming to town, stop the Georgia Pacific warehouse from siting in town, stop a bunch of box stores from hitting the outskirts of town, but in the end, the lawyers, brothers and sisters, the judges (bought and sold by the corporations and the shitty law schools and this “contractual bullshit” legal masturbation), and the big ass CEOs and their shareholders and the pimped out politicians and the mafia lobbying outfits, they will tell you what can and can not be done in town.

A judge in Lincoln County has overturned a ban on aerial pesticide spraying.

In 2017, voters in Lincoln County narrowly approved an initiative to ban the spraying of pesticides from the air. Now, more than two years after a lawsuit was filed by opponents, Circuit Court Judge Sheryl Bachart in Newport has ruled that state law pre-empts local efforts to regulate pesticides.

Oregon’s Pesticide Control Act, wrote Bachart, “expressly and conslusively displaces any local ordinance regarding pesticide use. The intention of the legislature is apparent and unambiguous.”

Most of the law was in effect while Bachart considered the arguments in the case. The ruling is “heartbreaking,” said Rio Davidson, a member of Lincoln County Community Rights, the grassroots group that wrote the initiative.

Davison said while the ban was in effect, most companies converted to ground-based pesticide application. But he said now, he expects “the larger corporations are going to go back to aerial spraying.”

Davidson says his group plans to appeal the ruling.

The group that formed to oppose the initiative issued a statement calling the ruling “good news.”

“Pesticide use by Lincoln County’s farmers, foresters, fishermen, vegetation managers and pest control professionals is already carefully regulated by the Oregon Department of Agriculture and supporting agencies – as it should be,” wote Alan Fujishin, director of the “Coalition to Defeat Measure 21-177.”  (source)

Every fucking stick in your clothes and layer of paint on your Subaru and every pimento in your olive and every bead of glue on your kid’s Transformer, all of those every little bits of every little thing you ingest or purchase, there is blood to pay.

Fucking allergies, gut issues, learning issues, asthma, IQ, this and than, all part of the consumer and fucking profiteering society, so, in one sense, sure the green weenies are on some right track, but they are fascists, Western Fascists, and they rah-rah the Nazis here and there and everywhere.

A mother sits outside of her apartment door as her two young sons play, one on a tricycle and the other with a toy car. The mother’s young daughter walks away past a rake leaning against the building. A sign in the dirt reads, “Do not play in the dirt or around the mulch. —EPA.”

Water and clear cut sprays?

A worker is below street level replacing a lead water pipe. Dirt surrounds the top of the hole and new piping is coiled on the street.

[PhotoLeaders of Benton Harbor, Michigan, announced in November 2021 that the city is accepting bids from contractors for an ambitious project to replace all lead water pipes no later than 2023. Credit: Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via Associated Press]

You want to throw your fucking waste away, your fucking so-called recyclables away?

Young men on a large dumpsite shifting waste with an instrument as a fire burns the trash.

[Photo: An e-waste dumpsite in the Agbogbloshie slum of Accra, Ghana, was a former wetland in the 1960s and the home of refugees who fled the conflict in northern Ghana during the 1980s.Credit:Cristina Aldehuela/AFP via Getty Images]

You like those cool additives for the old Chevy or all those colors for that interior paint job and all those laminated products for the floor? Fuck, the price to pay is cancer, respriatory ailments, diabetes, and so so much more:

[Photo: Cancer Alley stretches 85 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes.Credit:Giles Clarke/Getty Images]

A house sits in the forefront of an electrical tower and a chemical plant.

That’s over 200 refineries and other industries that bring all those cool things to you at your local Home Depot. FENCELINE COMMUNITIES!

One by one nearly all of Brunetta Sims’ neighbors have disappeared. Some have died of cancer or other mysterious illnesses. Others packed up and moved when the air got too thick or too nasty for their little ones to handle. Many more relocated after being bought out by the bigwigs over at the oil plant next door.

“They’re all gone now. Nobody here but me,” Sims said from her kitchen table in Standard Heights, an African American neighborhood along the fence line of Exxon Mobil’s colossal Baton Rouge plant and refinery, the 11th largest oil complex in the world.

So we are not ALL in this together, and the law is not about ethics, justice, humanity, humane treatment of people and places and environment. The system is about revolging doors, agency capture, and the dirty millions who are running the scam, and then their Eichmann’s and Good Little Germans, too.

So all that fucking bacon, all those people who say they know where they get their pig meat, locally, but they have zero shit for brains, since the USA is about fast food and food tastes, and the poor — 80 percenters — can’t afford farmer’s market produce prices, can’t go driving in the country looking for sustainable pork and free range fucking fryers and eggs.

These people are lost souls, and they get one deal going in their neighborhood, their backyards and their ‘hoods getting sprayed, when these UN-united SNAKES of AmeriKKKa is still, home of the unbrave rattling off their shit: “it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I have to invest in whatever makes me happy, and . . . “my neighborhood first, my home is my castle, my family is Numero uno so fuck off, poor ass people who don’t have the bucks or the family numbers to survive.”

This is a fucking Democrat and Republican and FUCK you UKRAINE and EU tragedy:

“Like Raindrops but Yellow”
The old custom of sitting outside on summer evenings fell out of favor long ago, residents said, thanks to nighttime chemical releases — sometimes so thick they’d fall as a golden mist.
“It’d look like raindrops but yellow,” Grace said. “We’d have to hose our yards clean.”
In the lawns, people would often find dead birds. (source)

Again, people’s initiatives get voted down by the robes, the long arm of the fucking Capitalist LAW:

Cancer Alley - Geosphere Packaging, Geosphere LLC ©2020

This is all normalized, so when you are on the Pacific, and the green green trees are in your neighborhood, and when you believe the world is right because you think that’s the way it is everywhere, or you just do not care, the reality is so fucking real:

Study Finds Poor Households in India Bear Brunt of Pollution Effects

This is a fucking crime against nature and humanity:

Photo of urban smog in India

A fucking crime: [Photo: A commuter waits for transport on a road enveloped by smog early morning in New Delhi, India, Jan. 1, 2019. | A commuter waits for transport on a road enveloped by smog early morning in New Delhi, India, Jan. 1, 2019. | Manish Swarup/AP]

While fucking INDIA is on the fucking MOON?

[Photo: Children ride swings in a playground engulfed by smog in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Image: K.M. Chaudary/AP]

Crimes against humanity — plastic, chemicals, the entire fucking capitalist system, the entire Retail Pithecus/Consumo Sapiens Mess.

[Photo: A man takes photos of piles of garbage washed on shore at the Zouq Mosbeh costal town, Lebanon, Jan. 22, 2018. Environmentalists say a winter storm has pushed a wave of trash onto the Lebanese shore, stirring outrage over a waste management crisis that has choked the country since 2015. Image: Hussein Malla/AP]

The mad men and mad women and mad “them” of the west will kill us all with their war drums:

And we have not stopped these fuckers:

George Soros is the most dangerous man in America — here’s why

Simple but easy:

And so, no bill of community rights, and no voting on where our money goes: A Strong U.S. Military: The 1 Thing Democrats and Republicans Agree On

Dirty Dutch — and that country, those farmers, no problems, so they are back feeding the fucking military industrial murder complex:

The Netherlands is switching to the F-35 Lightning II and has agreed to give Ukraine almost all of its fourth-generation F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters. Ukraine will be able to receive almost all US F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets that are in service with the Royal Netherlands Air Force, Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren has said. This was announced by Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren.

Here’s What We Know

This is a story about how US fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters are helping Ukraine get older Western aircraft. The Netherlands is switching to the F-35, and as such is willing to give Ukraine almost all of its F-16 Fighting Falcon.

The Netherlands is switching to the F-35 Lightning II and has agreed to give Ukraine almost all of its fourth-generation F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters

And so, those anti-spray fucks, well, they are fucks because they love the red white and blue. Look at this piece of human stain: He needs to be shot. THousands of them need to be shot. Maybe hundreds of thousands of them!

“So let me get into a couple of programs now, because the development and the initiation of the programs I’ll talk about… First, we talk about a Joint Fires Network. So when I articulate ‘blind, see and kill,’ the Joint Fires Network is the mechanism by which we would integrate, synchronize, and utilize to deliver effects anywhere in the battlespace, and bring to PACOM [INDOPACOM] — that’s over half the globe. Whether they be fires, effects or logistics requirements, and synchronize those actions across the board. And those are applicable to be supported and delivered to our allies and partners as well.”

“Second, is a mission partner environment. Think of that as the transport mechanism to deliver and synchronize, integrate and operate with our allies and partners. Think of a ‘single pane of glass’ with the ability for login attributes, classification, and FTO requirements to be able to communicate with my partners anytime, anyplace, anyday.”

“Third is referred to as the Pacific Multi-Domain Training And Experimentation Capability (PMTEC)… So think about linking ranges from the west coast of the United States, to Alaska, to Australia, to Guam, and to further forward in Japan, and anywhere in the theater. So, if you think about the ability to train together, over the broad space needed, and utilize that range as an experimentation capability with our allies and partners, now you get right after what the deputy was talking about, on how you practice, rehearse, experiment, and ultimately deliver capability.”

Did I vote for this shit hole? I’ve always hated this country, but now? Age 66? Lots of it man, lots of it. Blind, See, Kill: The Grand Networking Plan To Take On China: A massive network is being constructed to give everyone from soldiers to allied countries a “single pane of glass” view of the battlefield.

Adm. John C. Aquilino, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has a very ambitious plan to connect all his forces and allies via a 'single pane of glass' interface. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Anthony J. Rivera)

So anti-spray people, it’s a no go for you, for us, because we are a nation of polluters, a nation of viruses, and these fucking people need to be eliminated.

China Navy

And so, the fall is upon us . . . Oil Is Going To $300 A Barrel. And all engines full steam ahead. Fuck!

Oil pump on a sunset background. World Oil Industry

And in the end, we are stuck with human manure as leaders (sic)

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday said she warned Chinese leaders that U.S. businesses might stop investing in their country without prompt action to address complaints about worsening conditions due to raids on firms, unexplained fines and unpredictable official behavior.

Raimondo’s comments add to pressure on Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government, which is trying to revive investor interest and reverse an economic slump. Business groups say confidence among foreign companies is at an all-time low. Official figures show foreign investment plunged in the latest quarter.

This face is the face of a fascist, a god-fearing (sic) Capitalist FASCIST.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo speaks during the press conference at the Boeing Shanghai Aviation Service Co., Ltd, in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)

Until we are here, the fake ADHD, and those with so many brain problems, tied to, drum roll, all those chemicals, man:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first generic versions of Vyvanse, a drug used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a decision that comes amid a nationwide shortage of ADHD treatment drugs.

The newly approved medication can treat both ADHD in patients six years and older and binge-eating disorder in adults, the FDA said in an announcement.

The approval comes amid the nationwide shortage of Adderall, a drug commonly prescribed to treat ADHD. The FDA first announced the shortage in October, citing an insufficient supply to meet the growing demand for the drug. Millions of children diagnosed with ADHD are returning to classrooms as the school year kicks off, highlighting the demand for medication that can help them stay focused.

Unexpected demand spikes, manufacturing problems and limited ingredient supplies have all contributed to the shortage. A CDC analysis earlier this year found prescriptions to treat ADHD surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, as access to drugs expanded with telehealth opportunities.

You know why AI is on crack cocaine, and the world is shifting to the metaverse and satellites and AI ruled battlefields.

We got it going now, big bad fucking dirty Homo Consumpethicus.

Agriculture is the probable cause for making more than 145,000 miles of rivers and streams across the country too polluted for swimming, fishing, drinking, or maintaining healthy wildlife, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
 
Based on available livestock production data, today’s report calculates that Tyson’s supply chain alone generates more than 55 million tons of manure per year — manure that too often ends up untreated, ultimately fouling rivers, streams, and drinking water.
 
One example cited in the report: When chicken manure contaminated two sources of drinking water for Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tyson and other poultry processors agreed to pay the city $7.5 million.
 
Gabby Cammarata, a Salisbury, Maryland resident who joined Environment America on a call with reporters to discuss the study, is worried a proposed Tyson facility near her home could cause similar problems for her community’s drinking water supply.
 

The 3.1 million chicken factory farm “would be placed right on top of the underground aquifer which supplies all of the drinking water to the city of Salisbury and the town of Delmar,” Cammarata said. “There’s a real risk that manure could enter into our water table and ultimately our aquifer. Like most rural communities, our drinking water treatment system isn’t up to the task of dealing with all that pollution.”
 
From slaughtering plants run by the company or its subsidiaries, Tyson discharged over 20 million pounds of toxic pollutants to the nation’s waters in 2014 — more by volume than even Exxon Mobil or Dupont — according to data the company reported to the federal Toxics Release Inventory. Most of the company’s toxic discharges are nitrates, which are linked to blue baby syndrome and some forms of cancer.

And it all comes down to SHIT.

Humans can be exposed to pathogens from poorly managed animal feces, particularly in communities where animals live in close proximity to humans. This systematic review of peer-reviewed and gray literature examines the human health impacts of exposure to poorly managed animal feces transmitted via water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related pathways in low- and middle-income countries, where household livestock, small-scale animal operations, and free-roaming animals are common. We identify routes of contamination by animal feces, control measures to reduce human exposure, and propose research priorities for further inquiry. Exposure to animal feces has been associated with diarrhea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, trachoma, environmental enteric dysfunction, and growth faltering. Few studies have evaluated control measures, but interventions include reducing cohabitation with animals, provision of animal feces scoops, controlling animal movement, creating safe child spaces, improving veterinary care, and hygiene promotion. Future research should evaluate: behaviors related to points of contact with animal feces; animal fecal contamination of food; cultural behaviors of animal fecal management; acute and chronic health risks associated with exposure to animal feces; and factors influencing concentrations and shedding rates of pathogens originating from animal feces.

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Dog faeces and urine are being deposited in nature reserves in such quantities that it is likely to be damaging wildlife, according to a new study.

Ahh, those AMR’s — antimicrobial resistence problems:

As Taro Gomi’s famous children’s book says, “All living things eat, so everyone poops.” Indeed, 7.6 billion humans and their domesticated animals are estimated to produce at least 4 trillion kilograms of poop each year—enough to fill approximately 1.6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. The massive amount of human and animal excrement that we and our domesticated animals produce is changing the ecosystem of our planet in dangerous ways.

All this poop has to go somewhere, and much of it gets spread on agricultural fields as fertilizer. Soils need the microbes and nutrients in manure to be healthy, but we’re not managing manure properly, and the mismanagement is causing serious environmental and health problems. Current methods for managing and using agricultural manure—domesticated animals account for about 85 percent of the feces produced in a year—spread antimicrobial resistance genes, contaminate crops and waterways with microbes, and produce potent greenhouse gas emissions such as methane and nitrous oxide.

A heard of cows walks in the country.

War man war: Why the Pentagon Is the World’s Biggest Single Greenhouse Gas Emitter

Neta C. Crawford, a political scientist at Oxford University, aims to fix that in her new book, The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of US Military Emissions. Although the Pentagon has been at the forefront of climate change research since the mid-20th century, Crawford writes, the US Department of Defense is also the single largest institutional fossil fuel user in the world. Since 2001, the military has been responsible for 77 to 80 percent of federal energy consumption

The DOD maintains more than 560,000 buildings on about 500 bases around the world, making up a large portion of its emissions. And like a goliath multinational corporation, it relies on an extensive network of fossil-fueled ships, trucks, planes, and other vehicles to support its operations—from dropping bombs to delivering humanitarian aid—all of which makes the military a key contributor to climate change. And although recent research has demonstrated that the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, it still tends to be overlooked in climate change studies. 

Crawford’s book tries to fill this gap in the research, chronicling how the US military got caught in a long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency.

Yeah, judge, stop the spray MY ASS!

r/HistoryofIdeas - Matthew Ehret's thought-provoking claims regarding Malthusians and the Science of Limits

Read the INTERVIEW:

Matthew Ehret is a Canadian geopolitical analyst, freelance journalist and co-founder of the Risingtide Foundation, whose website offers to readers many insights into these issues as well. An article by Ehret particularly intrigued me, dealing with the thorny issue of energy and in particular research on nuclear fusion. What follows is an interview with him, made with the idea of ​​going beyond the veil of official propaganda and probing the future that awaits us all with more realistic and disenchanted eyes.

What is the Green New Deal? In your opinion, is there a secret part of it, hidden from the general public?

ME: The Green New Deal is a perversion of the New Deal deployed by Franklin Roosevelt in the USA at the height of the Great Depression. While the original New Deal was based on a multipronged array of major policies that ranged from breaking up criminal banking houses, reigning in speculation, regulation, imposing protectionism to cultivate local production, blocking international central banking schemes for world government, and unleashing long term credit for large scale infrastructure, the Green New Deal is designed to achieve the opposing effect. Cooked up in the bowels of the City of London during the 2008-09 period, the Green New Deal is based upon a global overhaul of the world financial system which has again hit a systemic breakdown crisis, similar to that of the 1929 Great Depression. The difference being that the current reset is premised on using the tools of sovereign nations only as appendages of private global authorities to reduce the activity of human activity on the earth under the name of “green infrastructure”, “conservation” and “sustainability”.

Where the original New Deal increased the powers of industrial production of nation states and thus the power to support more people at higher standards of living, the Green New Deal demands that “green energy” replace bad (aka: ecologically unfriendly) forms of energy like hydropower, hydrocarbons, and nuclear with the effect of reducing the power availability and capacity to sustain our current population levels.

Why do you use the term “neo-Malthusians”? Who are these people?

ME: During the early 1960s, an anti-industrial growth movement began moving from the fringes into the mainstream consciousness premised around the conviction that humanity was intrinsically the enemy to nature. Utilizing linear computer models to input several variables like land availability, pollution, population growth, resource availability etc., future scenarios were charted by pure linear extrapolation that obviously calculated Armageddon-esque collapse points decades in the future… unless vast behavior modification and culling of the herd were not begun immediately. While the data and computing were more complex, the axioms and assumptions were identical to those utilized by British East India Company economist Thomas Malthus published 210 years ago in his Essays on Population (1799) which presumed the world would hit its maximum carrying capacity by the early 20th century. However, the problem with mathematicians who try to see the future from the filter of linear extrapolations like Malthus or his modern followers try to do, is that it is incompetent. Simply put, quantity cannot measure quality, and in their charts, there is no place for qualitative upshifts in new discoveries and the non-linear forms of scientific and technological progress that is the fruit of all true scientific (and even artistic) discovery. This is why this new movement became known as “neo Malthusians”.

Said like this, it sounds a bit like the Spectre of depopulation….

ME: That is exactly what this is.

The model proposed by Malthus is very simple and linear: wouldn’t it be appropriate to finally use a more sophisticated model to describe the trend of a population?

ME: Yes, absolutely. Throughout the past centuries there have been many prominent thinkers who have observed the correlation between:

  1. population growth rates and
  2. applied scientific progress.

Scientific progress itself takes on a two-fold character of pure and applied, meaning that when a new discovery is made into the hitherto unknown laws shaping physical space time, it doesn’t immediately affect the entire population levels. Something else must also occur for that to happen because each new discovery still has to be:

  1. communicated to others, and thus
  2. recognized and absorbed as new knowledge (which rarely happens without an immense amount of resistance).

Once this communication of new ideas begins to take hold, new powers of invention and experimentation begin to be expressed with the effect that new and better forms of technologies can be brought online improving the human condition and productive powers of labor. Think of what happens when the discovery of electricity is applied to human voluntary behavior in terms of the power of communication which condense time and space between people, and also the powers of industrial activity powered by electricity vs older forms of animal or human labor.

The effect of improving our economic performance in this manner results in an increased potential carrying capacity of our species as a whole. That is to say, we can sustain more people at higher standards of living. In final examination we find that humanity’s very relationship with the universe is tuned in this manner as new resources are brought online that were formerly not resources in earlier states of ignorance and we are liberated by the former boundary conditions pressing upon our population potential. This relationship between the mind of individual original thinkers and human population growth is something that Malthus despised since it upset his mathematical formulas which are very much premised upon an obsessive sense of control of what already exists and not creation of that which exists not. 

You will find a current of thinkers in world history stand in direct opposition to Malthusians (and yes there were Malthusians before Malthus) and some of the most exceptional among them in my mind are:

  • Gottfried Leibniz,
  • Benjamin Franklin,
  • Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton,
  • economist Matthew Carey,
  • his son Henry (advisor to Lincoln),
  • economist Friedrich List,
  • Russian Academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky.

In our modern contemporary age I would encourage people to study the works of the late American economist Lyndon LaRouche who took this science of anti-Malthusian population growth to extremely refined levels of analysis.

How does scientific research on quantum computers and artificial intelligence fits into a neo-Malthusian paradigm?

ME: Although Malthusians despise the creation of new discoveries and their application in ways that benefit humanity, they are more than willing to steal new discoveries and use them for their own benefit in ways that bring humanity into greater states of enslavement. Artificial intelligence as we see it sold today is premised on a major fallacy which is the belief that the powers of machine learning are analogous to human mental activity with the exception that machines can calculate faster, apply deductive and inductive logic to process information quicker and thus will render the slower processing machines called human minds redundant and obsolete in time. This line of thinking does not recognize the fact that thinking machines themselves are limited to what is put into their programs by a creative human being governed not by formulas but by intentions, ideas, identities etc. which are inexpressible by a computer or logical positivist. As an example, a machine can improve its performance in playing chess or any other process that obeys a certain fixed array of “rules”, but it cannot create a qualitatively new game, nor can it break the underlying rules that are built into their programming and which are blocking new knowledge from being discovered.

That said, while both “AI”, automation, machine learning, and quantum computing could and should be used by humanity to benefit our species, the oligarchical system that operates on Malthusian assumptions wills that these only be used by the master class to keep the human herd controlled and systems of production, consumption and distribution of goods limited according to certain formulas of “optimum carrying capacities”.

Nuclear fusion, hot and cold: two parallel sabotages?

ME: Absolutely. Fusion funding was massively slashed in the USA by the late 1960s as the Malthusians increasingly took control of US energy policy. Trilateral Commission member James Schlesinger (energy czar of the USA) played a vicious role in this. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s a fear of nuclear power in general was cultivated by Three Mile Island (which we are increasingly seeing was the effect of sabotage) and also the events of Chernobyl which was a highly overrated crisis which resulted in very few deaths and radiation levels far below what we find naturally occurring on many beaches in Brazil. The psychological impact was to cause fear of atomic power to really take over the zeitgeist as we gave our consent to the criminal sabotage of new lines of scientific and technological progress, with many of the most promising lines of research on stellarators, laser fusion and plasma research destroyed on the one hand and increasingly the majority of our “fusion science” resources were absorbed into gigantic projects like France’s ITER tokamak that is based on extremely limited designs without much hope for achieving commercial viability for many generations. Many promising “outside the box” fusion projects which break from the standard model assumptions of the atom (many of which are keeping us locked into senseless modes of research bearing no new discoveries) have been funded by the US military and the industrial complex associated with it and when these projects begin to bear fruit we find funding cut, the leading scientists and engineers iced out of operations or muzzled and prevented from publishing their research publicly. One most tragic case study of this occurring is Dr. Robert Bussard’s Polywell technology. It appears that at least among the west, under current conditions the safest approaches to carrying non-standard theory fusion research forward with the least amount of sabotage is found in the private sector with a great example being Eric Lerner’s fusion LLP founded in 2008, with only six employees and a hairstring budget of several million dollars/year but with experimental results that are near miraculous for sustained extremely hot plasmas.

Is it possible to abandon fossil fuels without incurring the deliberate murder of a part of the human race?

ME: No. The current productive powers of labor needed to sustain our eight billion lives on earth would be immensely sabotaged by removing fossil fuels from our energy basket, in favor of “green” sustainable energies that generate unreliable low-grade electricity incapable of supporting modern industrial activity. As an example, why “renewable energies” are not actually even renewable, you cannot even make windmills using windmill energy. The types of energy intensive mining activities needed to build solar panels cannot themselves be maintained by solar power activity. The truth is that at least for the coming decades, if we are serious about eliminating poverty, then humanity must increase and not decrease use of “fossil fuels”- especially as far as Africa is concerned which must have the right to use the abundant resources under its soil as a driver for industrial growth.

What do you think of Covid? Now there is a lot of talk about the Omicron variant…

ME: Based on everything I’ve seen since day one, the current pandemic is the effect of a highly centralized system of data set controls, mass behavioral modification and health care protocol controls which have no bearing on reality. Data sets are manipulated to project false numbers of Covid cases, and Covid fatalities with a complicit corporate media invoking states of psychological panic in the population in order to shut down thinking, and deflect attention away from the real causes of the systemic breakdown of the financial system which began to fall apart long before COVID was created as a boogeyman.

Russia, China and other countries do not seem to be following a depopulation script… Are Western elites simply committing suicide?

ME: This is a perfect case of ivory tower thinking breaking down when pressed up against actual human thinking. The western liberal “rules-based order”, governed by technocrats is still following the same old uncreative script that has been animating the post-WWII period. There once were creative grand strategists that laid out the terms of this post-1945 Great Game in the form of Bertrand Russell, HG Welles, Sir Julian Huxley et al. But those actual creative misanthropic game masters have long since died, and the 2nd, 3rd and even 4th generation technocratic managers now manning the helm of the western unipolar ship have themselves been processed through the anti-creative systems of education and culture which were constructed to smother the creativity in their victims while maintaining a caste system of hierarchical controls. 

The new Schwabian technocrats entirely lack any signs of actual creative powers and are just obsessed with the script they have been obedient to for decades. Russia and China have both had their own recent battles with this sort of technocratic infiltration with Soros’ agent Zhao Ziyang nearly running a coup in 1989 in China before being purged, and we all know the devastation done to Russia during the 1990s. But now both great nations have shown an incredible power of creative flexibility and are fortunately under the influence of intelligentsias that appear to have a very good grasp of the agencies obsessed with bringing about a post-nation, anti-population, one world government. Both nations have created the foundation for a new multipolar system of win-win cooperation founded upon constant rates of scientific and technological progress which is exactly what is needed to flank the closed system thinking of the oligarchy.

yeah yeah, all those movies, man, Grisham and Spielberg, all those small fry, man, offenders, accused, and innocent and over-charged and over-prosecuted, for naught!

Prior to our founding in 1992, there was a widespread belief that the criminal legal system was “infallible,” and with it, a lack of understanding surrounding wrongful conviction. Through our work over the years, we identified several basic patterns and common reasons for wrongful conviction.

AND my toothless in Wisconsin is a totally ripped off, by $100,000, for his defense.

He’s 65, his wife died a year ago, Turbo Cancer, thanks to mRNA booster (probably); he’s estranged from his family; he has a almost dead useless finger from an accident months ago; and he is now into more than three years of supervision, i.e., house arrest, more or less, for a shit show that occured years ago.

He was not correctly defended, and with two fucking fights, he’s $100,000 in the hole, and his legal eagle — who I sent a certified letter to in order to have this fellow contacted — my Toothless Buddy in Wisconsin, my friend, need to have his supervision ended. He wants out of Red Neck Wisconsin, and he wants the freedom to travel.

Here, before I sent my scripted letter, Wisconsin’s retort to me:

Not to be nit-picky, but you may want to examine the final paragraph, and see if you might want to insert a word or two, to better clarify what you are saying. N*****will, in all likelihood, reneg on his empty promise to advocate for me in this matter. Or, hit me with more exorbitant legal fees.

Which I won’t give to him, or his associate, my former appellate attorney, S. M******. Mr. M did not become a member of Mr. N’s firm, until after the state Supreme Court had its way with me. Mr. N was given $35,000 up front, in this matter, and according to my recollection, the agreement that we entered into stated that this amount covered all legal fees for this entire case.

There were other fees for an expert witness, who neither was called upon to testify, nor prepared, or provided a written report based upon our one time encounter.
Attorney M got the lion’s share of the loot during the appeals process.
All totaled, between the two of them, in excess of $100,000.

If I’m gonna pay anyone, it’ll be the person who is willing to go after the whole lot of them, DAs, judges, cops, criminal defensive, and very offensive as well. The state Supreme Court, that took my case, milked me for over $60,000, and then refused to rule, should be in the stocks, with me holdin’ the bullwhip.

I’m grateful to you for speaking up for me, and a whole lot more. You’re the only one. 
M and L were the only ones to attend my trial, that I could consider not hostile.  But, when the state assassinated my character for two straight days, and Mr. N failed to offer any defense, any mitigation, any rebuttal,  I lost my kids.

Fifty-four twenty minute telephone calls, not played in their entirety, as I demanded.
No, selectively edited portions of selected telephone calls, designed to paint me as an assassin, a spousal abuser, and a loathsome figure. The fierce beating that I took, just prior to these telephone calls was ruled inadmissible, and irrelevant.

+—+

Since word selection matters, I thought that I should do one obvious revision.
Replace the word trial, with the words public shaming, and damming, and you’ll have a better feel for the flow of the proceedings.

After repeatedly scrawling large post it notes, during police and “investigator” testimony, and pointing out erroneous testimony, testi-lying, even going so far as to draw layouts of areas being falsely testified/lied about, the defense attorney scolded his client/employer in open court, basically telling me to shut my hole, and let the lies flow.

Take my public flogging, and I’ll walk out of there not guilty.

Instead, the judge, who ruled on this 17 felony count case in the time it took me to eat a county jail tray (hour fifteen at most), unloaded upon me as the most disgusting human being he’d seen in a long time, if ever.

And, then he brought me back to jail from prison again (oh that’s such a fun ride, and visit), to lambast me once again, before handing down maximum time, all to be run consecutive.

(There were several victim impact statements from terrified police officers, who were having panic, and terrors, because of the evil man, who’s been behind bars for two and a half years now.  Those must have been some killer phone calls. I’ve never heard them, other than when I made them. Memory ain’t that good, especially with a freshly kicked in face.

Alternatively, I was not permitted to make a victim impact statement at the sentencing of the Partee fellow, who rearranged my skull.)

If we hadn’t been able to put together the hundred grand, I’d have never met you.  There’s something to be grateful for. But, why, when I write this, do I feel sick, and feel like I’m going to cry?

My kids, sitting in that courtroom, hearing bad lies about their dad.  Hearing those tapes.  Raving lunatic most of the time.  That’s what a beat down, and solitary confinement, and nothing but a phone will do.

If all those phone conversations were played, a different picture would have been painted.

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This is the USA, the rule of disorder, the so-called unruley rule of law.

These fucking lawyers have offices in little and big towns, have huge outdoor billboards with their capped teeth glimmering and they are so-called “high members of the community,” but in the end, they are shameless and shifty and dangerous.

Here, the Innocence Project:

Many of our clients were represented by lawyers who provided an inadequate defense. 

In some of the worst wrongful conviction cases overturned by DNA testing, defense attorneys were found sleeping in the courtroom during the trial, absent at hearings, or later disbarred for a pattern of misconduct. 

More broadly, however, lawyers who represent poor people often lack the resources necessary to investigate and defend against the evidence marshaled by robust police departments, prosecutor offices, and crime labs. Without investigators, experts, training, and compensation, defense counsel cannot meaningfully challenge the government’s case and the odds of a wrongful conviction increases. A 2022 report by the American Bar Association found that funding for public defenders — who are often the first line of defense for innocent people charged with crimes — would have to increase threefold in order to meet the standard of effective counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.

At the Innocence Project, we recognize that appropriate funding for indigent defense is a necessary component of the effort to end wrongful conviction. We advocate for funding increases for innocence programs and forensic science research, we collaborate with local counsel and partner organizations to ensure that the people that we represent receive the best possible legal representation and the necessary resources to reverse a wrongful conviction. We also help cover costs associated with testing and investigation which we know to be out of range of many clients and defense teams.

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Judges Reject Appeal in ‘Sleeping Attorney’ Case; Los Angeles Times/ Oct 28, 2000 — During Burdine’s trial, his court-appointed lawyer, Joe Frank Cannon, frequently fell asleep, according to jurors and the court clerk.

The problem is the Supreme Court has created a very, very high bar for proving that your lawyer was ineffective. The test comes from a rather well-known 1984 case called Strickland v. Washington, which set up a two-part standard. First, as a defendant who lost a trial, you have to prove on appeal that your trial lawyer was defective, was deficient: they failed to investigate the case, they didn’t put on an alibi witness, they didn’t cross-examine their opponents, things like that. And then second, you have to show that the deficiency somehow contributed to the bad verdict, to the conviction. In other words, it’s not enough to show that your lawyer messed up. You have to show that that error was somehow outcome-determinative.

[…]

I saw one study that found that 97% of the time when a defendant raises one of these ineffectiveness issues on appeal, they lose. And cases where lawyers were drunk or under the influence of drugs have been upheld, or at least not considered ineffective performance of counsel. One despicable case from Texas, I think, is really illustrative: A man is charged with murder and he’s facing the death penalty. He’s too poor to pay for a lawyer, so he’s assigned one by the court. That lawyer falls asleep intermittently throughout the trial. The defendant goes to the judge to alert the judge about this, and here’s the judge’s response: the Constitution says you’re entitled to an attorney. It says nothing about that attorney being awake. [Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed]

So all these fucking John Grisham flicks, all the bullshit Holly-Dirt shows, none will show the cases — small-time — related to those like my friend’s.

Source!

'The Life of Emile Zola' (1937)
'JFK' (1991)
'Flash of Genius' (2008)
'Bridge of Spies' (2015)
'Inherit the Wind' (1960)
'The Trial of the Chicago 7' (2020)
'Young Mr. Lincoln' (1939)
'Amistad' (1997)
'Big Eyes' (2014)
'Tucker: The Man and His Dream' (1988)
20 movies based on real-life legal battles and court cases
'Judgment at Nuremberg' (1961)
'Paths of Glory' (1957)
'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' (2005)
'Erin Brockovich' (2000)
'The Social Network' (2010)
'A Man for All Seasons' (1966)
'The People vs. Larry Flynt' (1996)
'Argentina, 1985' (2022)

Mix and match: ‘Bridge of Spies’ (2015) [Gary Powers]; ‘Flash of Genius’ (2008) [Ford Motor Company indshield wipers]; Inherit the Wind’ (1960); ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (2020); ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’ (1996); ‘Young Mr. Lincoln’ (1939); ‘Amistad’ (1997); ‘Big Eyes’ (2014) [Margaret Keane]; ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dream’ (1988); ‘JFK’ (1991); ‘Argentina, 1985’ (2022) ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ (1961); ‘The Life of Emile Zola’ (1937); ‘The Life of Emile Zola’ (1937); ‘A Man for All Seasons’ (1966)!

More. These Are The Best Lawyer Movies of All Time

[Acclaimed filmmaker Sidney Lumet directed this classic film that follows twelve jurors attempting to reach the verdict in a murder trial. The film is a showcase of talent in all the attributes of filmmaking. The acting, direction, and cinematography are all top-notch in this riveting drama. For a movie to engage the audience from beginning to end, while taking place in a single room, is no easy feat. 12 Angry Men was nominated for three Oscars and takes the #5 spot in IMDB’s top 250 movies of all time.]

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So now my friend is looking for civil rights attorneys, to get a rehearing of the case, and to go after this fucking laywer who I sent a certified letter to in order to get him to be a fucking HUMAN.

Wisconsin — Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have the only two law schools in the state. In fact, 35 percent of state’s lawyers come from Wisconsin, while another 35 percent graduated from Marquette. Though the number of options for law school in Wisconsin is limited, the quality is not.

law school building sign outside of the law school
Marquette University Law School | Higher Education | Land Development|  raSmith

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More on his story, but now my pissed off news headlines:

  1. Elon Musk’s 77-Year-Old Dad Says He’s Asked To Donate His Sperm: ‘Why Go To Elon When They Can Go To The Actual Person Who Created Elon?’

These fucking Yahoo “news” feeds and these fucking sociopaths: And how many fucking sheeple will look for these two fellows’ chism?

  1. Top CEOs call on Biden administration to address migrant influx in New York

Again, the sick sychophants, the sociopaths in the multi-millionaire and billionaire creepy category get to tell the US Taxpayer how to spend money? FUCK.

More than 120 executives — including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink — signed a letter to Biden and Congressional leaders that characterized the New York business community as “deeply concerned” over the “humanitarian crisis.”

The business leaders backed a request made by Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday calling on Biden to provide funds for the migrants’ healthcare, transportation, education and housing costs as well as expedited work authorizations.

Government support for migrants will cost $12 billion over the next three years, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has also called for federal aid, said earlier this month.

  1. Another rotten female in the Biden Administration facilitating the war, man, the hate of Chinese, CHINA. May she wither and die of any disease.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, left, is greeted by Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she rebuffed an appeal Tuesday by Chinese leaders to reduce U.S. export controls on technology with possible military uses but the two governments agreed to have experts meet to discuss disputes over protecting trade secrets.

  1. Increasing Evidence That The US Air Force’s Nuclear Mission May Be Returning To UK Soil

New U.S. Air Force budgetary documents strongly imply that the United States Air Force is in the process of re-establishing its nuclear weapons mission on UK soil.

The Air Force’s FY 2024 budgetary justification package, dated March 2023, notes the planned construction of a “surety dormitory” at RAF Lakenheath, approximately 100 kilometers northeast of London. The “surety dormitory” was also briefly mentioned in the Department of Defense’s testimony to Congress in March 2023, but with no accompanying explanation. “Surety” is a term commonly used within the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to refer to the capability to keep nuclear weapons safe, secure, and under positive control.

Now, on the scheme of things, my toothless friend has a huge battle, and the above sickness of the City of London, the Anglo-Cecil Rhodes-Oxford-Incest Pile on in the USA just proves how dead the putrified Americanos are, and EuroTrashLandia, UK and Klanadians as their anal cavities. Nukes in UK.

I am looking into the legal challenges Toothless in WIsconsin faces, and it is a battle tens of thousands face, for sure, in this putrified country. Juxtapose World Hell with Local Hell, and you arrive at the same chaos, lies, scams, bullshit flim-flam, smoke and mirrors and snake oil 5.0.

University of Chicago political science professor John Mearsheimer has claimed that US policies are creating greater “interdependence” between Russia and China.

“The United States should be fostering good relations with the Russians and pivoting full force to East Asia because China’s a peer competitor . . .,” he said in an April interview. “Is it doing that? No, it’s actually pushing the Russians into the arms of the Chinese, and it’s pinned down in Eastern Europe.”

My friend will prevail, unlike the UkroNaziLandians:

The more soldiers are killed before the (temporary) end of the war, the more is destroyed before, the more profitable becomes the “reconstruction” of Ukraine announced by the USA.

The largest capital organizer of U.S.-led capitalism, BlackRock, leading investor in the defense, agribusiness and fracking industries, was appointed official coordinator of Ukraine’s “reconstruction” in late 2022.

BlackRock, in the U.S. government since Obama and again with President Biden, is both a party to capital and war. BlackRock CEO Lawrence Fink enthused that Ukraine can become “a beacon of hope for the power of capitalism.”

The capitalist beacon already includes up to $400,000 for the 70,000 Ukrainian servicemen and servicewomen killed – counting the corruption shares for the commanders, who are high earners anyway.

Send Toothless in Northern Arkansas your best wishes, cuz it’s one injustice at a time, brothers and sisters!

FUCK Wisconsin:

An Endless Cycle: Inequities of Wisconsin prison system push advocates to fight for reform: Formerly incarcerated individuals, criminal justice experts propose changes to Wisconsin’s correctional system to reduce recidivism, reform carceral process

Wisconsin has 2nd highest percentage of prisoners locked up for crimes committed as youth — More than 7% of Wisconsinites in adult prisons are there for crimes they committed when they were 17 or younger, more than double the percentage nationwide, the nonprofit organization Human Rights for Kids found in a May report.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
-Nelson Mandela

”’ and there are so many ways to couch this shit with the downfall of the empire(s) . . . . U$A is the Empire of Lies, Terror, Propaganda, Disease and Death!”’

Ahh, the Fall of the Fall of the Counter Offensive of Kiev and Kooks Ville begins with lube and anal sex instruction:

Zoey with her wife Kelly
Jamie Wallis
UK trans MP proposes sending Ukraine condoms, lubricant

Britain’s only openly transgender member of Parliament, Jamie Wallis, has proposed a delivery of condoms, lubricants and other “hygiene” products to Ukrainian LGBT soldiers and said President Vladimir Zelensky should welcome it personally.

Wallis made the suggestion in a Zoom call with what he believed was Garry Kasparov, a former chess grandmaster and now an outspoken Russian dissident. In reality, he was speaking with the notorious Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who posted a 16-minute cut of the conversation online on Monday.

Game is on, as hospitals are putting up the mandatory lung infection mask mandates, and then the forced jabs, man, a whole new round of JABS. From a dementia patient.

Biden to ask US Congress to fund new Covid vaccine

US President Joe Biden has announced that he plans to request additional funding from Congress to develop a new Covid-19 vaccine, adding that it is likely everybody will be encouraged to take the new shot.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, the president was asked if the White House was planning a response to a reported uptick in Covid cases. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had previously announced a 21.6% increase in Covid-related hospitalizations and a 21.4% increase in Covid-related deaths in recent weeks. The numbers are, however, still far below the levels seen during the pandemic.

Biden responded by stating that he has already signed off on a proposal to have Congress fund a new vaccine “that is needed, that’s necessary, that works.”

“It will likely be recommended everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not,” he added.

In the playbook, the concept of “recommend/recommended” get it is a mandate, and it’s 100 percent bioweapon coverage. One hundred percent, as in EVERYONE.

This is the reality:

Here, Naomi Wolf: I interviewed fetal-maternal medicine specialist Dr James Thorp recently; he has been one of the very few medical providers for pregnant women and babies, to have raised the alarm about massive damage to women and babies via the mRNA injection. The interview, in a transcript below that I have edited for clarity, is one of the most important exchanges of our time.

In this interview, Dr Thorp describes how he was unceremoniously if not injuriously fired by his health system employer – though he was among the most published of his colleagues. He described the results of a FOIA launched by his wife, attorney Maggie Thorp, and himself, that revealed $13 billion in funding to “influencers” to promote the mRNA injections, including surfacing a contract with a for-profit OB/GYN NGO that oversees tens of thousands of obstetricians and gynecologists on two continents. The contract that the Thorps’ FOIA disclosed, provides for the return of the money if medical organizations do not adhere to the “safe and effective” for pregnant women and new moms script presented to them by HHS. Dt Thorp independently confirms the WarRoom/DailyClout’s findings now from three other independent sources: that placentas, fetuses and newborns are being damaged by the mRNA injection. All four sources confirm the same kinds of damage: fibrins, blood clots, “small for dates” restricted growth and weight of the placentas, and calcifications. Meaning that babies of vaccinated moms in utero may not be getting enough food, and they may lack the room to grow normally.

Dr Thorp ends with the damning but unforgettable conclusion that every OB/GYN should have known in advance that this injection would cause massive damage to women and babies, because inflammation has been known to OB/GYNs for decades to be catastrophic to pregnancy.

RE: The Covenant of Death: “Pfizer knew that they were killing babies in utero…”

This is the reality:

And this is Kentucky, Anthony Oliver country, now:

May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Informed NJ Nurses @InformedNJNurse 23h Kentucky closing schools due to Covid, flu, and strep. Here we go. Kentucky school district cancels classes less than two weeks into year due to Covid, flu and strep outbreaks Attendance in the Lee County School District'

So, the reality is people in the U$A, they are amping up for more and more hell to pay with the housing kill off:

So, billionaires are running the world into the hell of their dreams:

How the Billionaires become Billionaires

Contrary to the propaganda pushed by the business press, between 67% and 72% percent of corporations had zero tax liabilities after credits and exemptions … while their workers and employees paid between 25 – 30% in taxes. The rate for the minority of corporations, which paid any tax, was 14%.

According to the US Internal Revenue Service, billionaire tax evasion amounts to $458 billion dollars in lost public revenues every year – almost a trillion dollars every two years by this conservative estimate.

The largest US corporations sheltered over $2.5 trillion dollars in overseas tax havens where they paid no taxes or single digit tax rates.

Meanwhile US corporations in crisis received over $14.4 trillion dollars (Bloomberg claimed 12.8 trillion) in public bailout money, split between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, mostly from US tax payers, who are overwhelmingly workers, employees and pensioners.

The recipient bankers invested their interest-free or low interest US bailout funds and earned billions in profits, most resulting from mortgage foreclosures of working class households.

Through favorable legal rulings and illegal foreclosures, the bankers evicted 9.3 million families. Over 20 million individuals lost their properties, often due to illegal or fraudulent debts.

A small number of the financial swindlers, including executives from Wall Street’s leading banks (Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan etc), paid fines – but no one went to prison for the gargantuan fraud that drove millions of Americans into misery.

There are other swindler bankers, like the current Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin, who enriched themselves by illegally foreclosing on thousands of homeowners in California. Some were tried; all were exonerated, thanks to the influence of Democratic political leaders during the Obama years.

Silicon Valley and its innovative billionaires have found novel way to avoid taxes using overseas tax havens and domestic tax write-offs. They increase their wealth and corporate profits by paying their local manual and service workers poverty level wages. Silicon Valley executives ‘earn’ a thousand times more than their production workers..

Class inequalities are further reinforced by ethnic divisions. White, Chinese and Indian multi-millionaires exploit Afro-American, Latin American, Vietnamese and Filipino workers.

Billionaires in the commercial conglomerates, like Walmart, exploit workers by paying poverty wages and providing few, if any, benefits. Walmart earns $16 billion dollar a year in profits by paying its workers between $10 and $13 an hour and relying on state and federal assistance to provide services to the families of its impoverished workers through Medicaid and food stamps. Amazon plutocrat Jeff Bezos exploits workers by paying $12.50 an hour while he has accumulated over $80 billion dollars in profits. UPS CEO David Albany takes $11 million a year by exploiting workers at $11 an hour. Federal Express CEO, Fred Smith gets $16 million and pays workers $11 an hour.

Inequality is not a result of ‘technology’ and ‘education’- contemporary euphemisms for the ruling class cult of superiority – as liberals and conservative economists and journalists like to claim. Inequalities are a result of low wages, based on big profits, financial swindles, multi-trillion dollar public handouts and multi-billion-dollar tax evasion. The ruling class has mastered the ‘technology’ of exploiting the state, through its pillage of the treasury, and the working class. Capitalist exploitation of low paid production workers provides additional billions for the ‘philanthropic’ billionaire family foundations to polish their public image – using another tax avoidance gimmick – self-glorifying ‘donations’.

Workers pay disproportional taxes for education, health, social and public services and subsidies for billionaires.

Billionaires in the arms industry and security/mercenary conglomerates receive over $700 billion dollars from the federal budget, while over 100 million US workers lack adequate health care and their children are warehoused in deteriorating schools.

Workers and Bosses: Mortality Rates

Billionaires and multi-millionaires and their families enjoy longer and healthier lives than their workers. They have no need for health insurance policies or public hospitals. CEO’s live on average ten years longer than a worker and enjoy twenty years more of healthy and pain-free lives.

Private, exclusive clinics and top medical care include the most advanced treatment and safe and proven medication which allow billionaires and their family members to live longer and healthier lives. The quality of their medical care and the qualifications of their medical providers present a stark contrast to the health care apartheid that characterizes the rest of the United States.

Workers are treated and mistreated by the health system: They have inadequate and often incompetent medical treatment, cursory examinations by inexperienced medical assistants and end up victims of the widespread over-prescription of highly addictive narcotics and other medications. Over-prescription of narcotics by incompetent ‘providers’ has significantly contributed to the rise in premature deaths among workers, spiraling cases of opiate overdose, disability due to addiction and descent into poverty and homelessness. These irresponsible practices have made additional billions of dollars in profits for the insurance corporate elite, who can cut their pensions and health care liabilities as injured, disabled and addicted workers drop out of the system or die.

The shortened life expectancy for workers and their family members is celebrated on Wall Street and in the financial press. Over 560,000 workers were killed by opioids between 1999-2015 contributing to the decline in life expectancy for working age wage and salary earners and reduced pension liabilities for Wall Street and the Social Security Administration.

Inequalities are cumulative, inter-generational and multi-sectorial.

Billionaire families, their children and grandchildren, inherit and invest billions. They have privileged access to the most prestigious schools and medical facilities, and conveniently fall in love to equally privileged, well-connected mates to join their fortunes and form even greater financial empires. Their wealth buys favorable, even fawning, mass media coverage and the services of the most influential lawyers and accountants to cover their swindles and tax evasion.

Billionaires hire innovators and sweat shop MBA managers to devise more ways to slash wages, increase productivity and ensure that inequalities widen even further. Billionaires do not have to be the brightest or most innovative people: Such individuals can simply be bought or imported on the ‘free market’ and discarded at will.

Billionaires have bought out or formed joint ventures with each other, creating interlocking directorates. Banks, IT, factories, warehouses, food and appliance, pharmaceuticals and hospitals are linked directly to political elites who slither through doors of rotating appointments within the IMF, the World Bank, Treasury, Wall Street banks and prestigious law firms.

Consequences of Inequalities

First and foremost, billionaires and their political, legal and corporate associates dominate the political parties. They designate the leaders and key appointees, thus ensuring that budgets and policies will increase their profits, erode social benefits for the masses and weaken the political power of popular organizations.

Secondly, the burden of the economic crisis is shifted on to the workers who are fired and later re-hired as part-time, contingent labor. Public bailouts, provided by the taxpayer, are channeled to the billionaires under the doctrine that Wall Street banks are too big to fail and workers are too weak to defend their wages, jobs and living standards.

Billionaires buy political elites, who appoint the World Bank and IMF officials tasked with instituting policies to freeze or reduce wages, slash corporate and public health care obligations and increase profits by privatizing public enterprises and facilitating corporate relocation to low wage, low tax countries.

As a result, wage and salary workers are less organized and less influential; they work longer and for less pay, suffer greater workplace insecurity and injuries – physical and mental – fall into decline and disability, drop out of the system, die earlier and poorer, and, in the process, provide unimaginable profits for the billionaire class. Even their addiction and deaths provide opportunities for huge profit – as the Sackler Family, manufacturers of Oxycontin, can attest.

The billionaires and their political acolytes argue that deeper regressive taxation would increase investments and jobs. The data speaks otherwise. The bulk of repatriated profits are directed to buy back stock to increase dividends for investors; they are not invested in the productive economy. Lower taxes and greater profits for conglomerates means more buy-outs and greater outflows to low wage countries. In real terms taxes are already less than half the headline rate and are a major factor heightening the concentration of income and power – both cause and effect.

Corporate elites, the billionaires in the Silicon Valley-Wall Street global complex are relatively satisfied that their cherished inequalities are guaranteed and expanding under the Demo-Republican Presidents- as the ‘good times’ roll on.

Away from the ‘billionaire elite’, the ‘outsiders’ – domestic capitalists – clamor for greater public investment in infrastructure to expand the domestic economy, lower taxes to increase profits, and state subsidies to increase the training of the labor force while reducing funds for health care and public education. They are oblivious to the contradiction.

In other words, the capitalist class as a whole, globalist and domestic alike, pursues the same regressive policies, promoting inequalities while struggling over shares of the profits.

One hundred and fifty million wage and salaried taxpayers are excluded from the political and social decisions that directly affect their income, employment, rates of taxation, and political representation.

They understand, or at least experience, how the class system works. Most workers know about the injustice of the fake ‘free trade’ agreements and regressive tax regime, which weighs heavy on the majority of wage and salary earners.

However, worker hostility and despair is directed against ‘immigrants’ and against the ‘liberals’ who have backed the import of cheap skilled and semi-skilled labor under the guise of ‘freedom’. This ‘politically correct’ image of imported labor covers up a policy, which has served to lower wages, benefits and living standards for American workers, whether they are in technology, construction or production. Rich conservatives, on the other hand, oppose immigration under the guise of ‘law and order’ and to lower social expenditures – despite that fact that they all use imported nannies, tutors, nurses, doctors and gardeners to service their families. Their servants can always be deported when convenient.

The pro and anti-immigrant issue avoids the root cause for the economic exploitation and social degradation of the working class – the billionaire owners operating in alliance with the political elite.

In order to reverse the regressive tax practices and tax evasion, the low wage cycle and the spiraling death rates resulting from narcotics and other preventable causes, which profit insurance companies and pharmaceutical billionaires, class alliances need to be forged linking workers, consumers, pensioners, students, the disabled, the foreclosed homeowners, evicted tenants, debtors, the under-employed and immigrants as a unified political force.

Sooner said than done, but never tried! Everything and everyone is at stake: life, health and happiness.

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Covid-19 vaccines have created at least nine new billionaires after shares in companies producing the shots soared.

Topping the list of new billionaires are Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of BioNTech (BNTX), which has produced a vaccine with Pfizer (PFE). Both CEOs are now worth around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the People’s Vaccine Alliance, a campaign group that includes Oxfam, UNAIDS, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International.

Senior executives from China’s CanSino Biologics and early investors in Moderna have also become billionaires on paper as shares skyrocketed, partly in expectation of profits earned from Covid vaccines, which also bode well for the companies’ future prospects. The analysis was compiled using data from the Forbes Rich List.

Moderna’s share price has gained more than 700% since February 2020, while BioNTech has surged 600%. CanSino Biologics’ stock is up about 440% over the same period. The company’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use in China in February.

Activists said the wealth generation highlighted the stark inequality that has resulted from the pandemic. The nine new billionaires are worth a combined $19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate some 780 million people in low-income countries, campaigners said.

“These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines,” Anne Marriott, Oxfam’s health policy manager, said in a statement. “These vaccines were funded by public money and should be first and foremost a global public good, not a private profit opportunity,” she added.

Reading Caitlin’s latest, Only Idiots Believe The US Is Protecting Australia From China, bring up so much about the syphilitic nature of penal colonies, Anglo Saxon illegal aliens, and death cults.

As much as it pains me to admit it, The Economist is absolutely correct. The Australian government has been showing every indication that it is fully willing to charge into a hot war with its top trading partner to please its masters in Washington, both before and after the US puppet regime in Canberra changed hands last year. 

This sycophantic war-readiness was humorously mocked on Chinese state media back in 2021 by Impact Asia Capital co-founder Charles Liu, who said he didn’t think the US will actually fight a war with China over Taiwan, but the Australians might be stupid enough to fight it for them.

“US is not going to fight over Taiwan,” Liu said. “It’s not going to conduct a war over Taiwan. They may try to get Japanese to do it, but Japanese won’t be so stupid to do it. The only stupid ones who might get involved are the Australians, sorry.”

He had nothing to be sorry about; he was right. Australians are being very, very stupid, and not just our government. A recent Lowy Institute poll found that eight in ten Australians believe the nation’s alliance with the United States is important for Australia’s security, despite three-quarters also saying they believe the alliance makes Australia more likely to be drawn into a war in Asia. 

If this isn’t the complete insanity of the White Race, the Conquering/Conquered/About-to-be-Conquered White Anglo-Saxony-Franco-Germanic-UK-Euro MESS that has polluted the world.

Here we are, in my state, and it is one river basin after another, illustrating the death spiral of the goddamned Indian Killing History of this fucked up country, until we are here: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is indicating it will shut off water to irrigators earlier than expected in order to meet obligations for endangered fish, including suckers in Upper Klamath Lake and coho salmon in the lower Klamath River

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And here it is:

US defense contractors are expected to be the biggest beneficiaries.

Washington is sending 6,500 Javelin anti-tank missile systems, which are made by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. The cost of each missile is about $78,000 (£66,000) and the reusable launcher is another $100,000 (£85,000). Ukraine will receive more of the systems from France and Estonia, with another 200 coming from the UK.

The US is also donating counter-artillery radar systems made by the same companies, along with American defence giant Northrop Grumman.

A Stinger missile being launched during a training exercise
Image:A Stinger missile being launched during a training exercise. Pic: AP

Another boon for Raytheon will come from the US decision to send 1,400 Stinger anti-aircraft missile launchers. The company has already been awarded a $625m (£494m) contract to replenish the stocks. Germany is giving Ukraine 500 of the systems and more are coming from Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.

More good news for Lockheed Martin came from the US plan to give Ukraine four M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). The company also produces the long-range M270 rocket launchers being sent by the UK.

Another key item is the Switchblade aerial system made by the AeroVironment, known colloquially as a “kamikaze drone”. The US has pledged 700 of them.

Ukraine is receiving 50bn rounds of ammunition from the US, which is likely to benefit Olin, the US army’s largest small-arms ammunitions supplier.

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Germany has announced the purchase of 35 F-35A fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin. Pic: AP

Germany has announced the purchase of 35 F-35A fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin. Pic: AP

Here it is, the EKG of Merchants of DEATH:

Condoms:

US President Joe Biden has so often reiterated a narrative that positions ‘democracy vs autocracy’ as the defining struggle of our time that many have identified this framing as core to the ‘Biden doctrine’. However, a string of observers have voiced concern about what they perceive as a disconnect between the foreign policy rhetoric of the Biden administration and its foreign policy practice.

US President Joe Biden greets elected officials on 31 May 2023, at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. Photo credit: Whitehouse/Flickr.

Much of the criticism has come from the Global South. For instance, in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Matias Spektor, Professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, writes that …

‘the developing world … sees hypocrisy in Washington’s framing of its competition with Beijing and Moscow as a battle between democracy and autocracy,’ particularly as ‘the United States continues to selectively back authoritarian governments’.

He claims that many in the South …

‘view the West’s pro-democracy rhetoric as motivated by self-interest rather than a genuine commitment to liberal values.’

Similarly, Nirupama Rao, a former foreign secretary of India, argues that while …

‘the West … claims that its foreign policy is guided by human rights and democracy,’ it ‘routinely cut[s] deals with violent autocracies.’

Fucking CONDOMS for Biden-Blinken-Yellen-Powell-Nuland-Garland-Kagan!

Time is up, Ukro Nazi Landians:

Colonel Dmitry Bakaev, the deputy head of the special communications department of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), has apparently killed himself at his workplace in Kiev.

The news was first reported on Monday by Ukrainian media outlet Strana.ua, which cited sources within the security agency.

“The incident happened on August 25. Dmitry Bakaev … was found in his office with a gunshot wound to the head. The SBU officer shot himself with a Makarov pistol; it was his service weapon,” the source stated.

[A senior officer with Ukraine’s SBU has been found dead, reportedly accusing his superiors of “mistreatment” in a suicide note]

Trillion$, brothers and sister, Trillion$, sucked from US coffers, from the fire departments and real face to face schools; sucked from Social Security Real COLAs (30%); sucked from the housing market

This will be banned, vilified, sanctioned, or just ignored, but I guarantee, anyone in my fucking inner or outter or unknown circles, will hate me. Both (photographerd in the $64 million dollar circus ride) need to die . . . along with . . . . See photo below:

If men within themselves would be governed by reason, and not generally give up their understanding to a double tyranny, of custom from without, and blind affections within; they would discern better what it is to favour and uphold the tyrant of a nation. But being slaves within doors, no wonder that they strive so much to have the public state conformably governed to the inward vicious rule, by which they govern themselves. For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants. — John Milton

Well, then there’s Gene Sharp, no? At 84, American political scientist Gene Sharp has seen his lifelong work on nonviolent resistance echo around the world.

At 84, American political scientist Gene Sharp has seen his lifelong work on nonviolent resistance echo around the world.

Sharp, a theorist and author of groundbreaking works on the dynamics of nonviolent conflict, has been called the “dictator slayer,” the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” and the Clausewitz of unarmed revolution. His circumstances are humble: he runs his research outfit, known as the Albert Einstein Institution, out of the ground floor of his row house in East Boston, and the organization has just one other staffer. For the most part, Sharp has labored for decades in quiet obscurity—well respected within a small field of study but virtually unknown outside of it.

At the same time, Sharp’s work has had an unusually broad impact. His pamphlet From Dictatorship to Democracy, a ninety-three-page distillation of his core insights and a handbook for overthrowing autocrats, has been translated into more than thirty languages. The slim volume has a habit of turning up in hot spots of global resistance. Originally written in 1993 to help dissidents in Burma use nonviolent action against the ruling junta, the book made it into the library of Serbian students seeking to overthrow the regime of Slobodan Milošević, circulated among activists during successful uprisings in Georgia and the Ukraine, and was downloaded in Arabic amid mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt.

Now, here it is, man — smiles, the sickenss of a coke addict, these two milky white skinned fools, and there they are, playing cocks in cockpits. The F-16 is a multi-role fighter built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a F-16 in Denmark on August 20, 2023.

[Photo: Vomit bag included, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen in a F-16 jet in Denmark on August 20.]

The F-16 was built under an unusual agreement creating a consortium between the United States and four NATO countries: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway. These countries jointly produced with the United States an initial 348 F-16s for their air forces. Final airframe assembly lines were located in Belgium and the Netherlands. The consortium’s F-16s are assembled from components manufactured in all five countries. Belgium also provides final assembly of the F100 engine used in the European F-16s. Recently, Portugal joined the consortium. The long-term benefits of this program will be technology transfer among the nations producing the F-16, and a common-use aircraft for NATO nations. This program increases the supply and availability of repair parts in Europe and improves the F-16’s combat readiness.

U.S. Air Force F-16 multirole fighters were deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm, where more sorties were flown than with any other aircraft. These fighters were used to attack airfields, military production facilities, Scud missiles sites and a variety of other targets.

During Operation Allied Force, U.S. Air Force F-16 multirole fighters flew a variety of missions to include suppression of enemy air defense, offensive counter air, defensive counter air, close air support and forward air controller missions. Mission results were outstanding as these fighters destroyed radar sites, vehicles, tanks, MiGs and buildings.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the F-16 has been a major component of the combat forces committed to the war on terrorism flying thousands of sorties in support of operations Noble Eagle (Homeland Defense), Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Iraqi Freedom

General characteristics
Primary function: multirole fighter
Contractor: Lockheed Martin Corp.
Power plant: F-16C/D: one Pratt and Whitney F100-PW-200/220/229 or General Electric F110-GE-100/129
Thrust: F-16C/D, 27,000 pounds
Wingspan: 32 feet, 8 inches (9.8 meters)
Length: 49 feet, 5 inches (14.8 meters)
Height: 16 feet (4.8 meters)
Weight: 19,700 pounds without fuel (8,936 kilograms)  
Maximum takeoff weight: 37,500 pounds (16,875 kilograms)  
Fuel capacity: 7,000 pounds internal (3,175 kilograms); typical capacity, 12,000 pounds with two external tanks (5443 kilograms)
Payload: two 2,000-pound bombs, two AIM-9, two AIM-120 and two 2400-pound external fuel tanks
Speed: 1,500 mph (Mach 2 at altitude)
Range: more than 2,002 miles ferry range (1,740 nautical miles)
Ceiling: above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers)
Armament: one M-61A1 20mm multibarrel cannon with 500 rounds; external stations can carry up to six air-to-air missiles, conventional air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and electronic countermeasure pods
Crew: F-16C, one; F-16D, one or two
Unit cost: F-16A/B , $14.6 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars); F-16C/D,$18.8 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)  
Initial operating capability: F-16A, January 1979; F-16C/D Block 25-32, 1981;  F-16C/D Block 40-42, 1989; and F-16C/D Block 50-52, 1994
Inventory: total force, F-16C/D, 1017

(Current as of September 2021)

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft

Fucking smiles, that piece of human stain, ZioAzovLensky. The jet, which costs about $63 million, can hit speeds of up to 1,500 mph.

Ahh, those pieces of human stain (media, academics, politicians, citizens) that would never ever tell this piece of shit ZioLensky to shut the fuck up and stop smiling while his Goyim are being amputated, at best, crippled at worse, and blown to pieces, ALL BECAUSE UK and USA did not want security guarantees for Russia AND FOR Ukraine.

And we don’t have problems, uh, U$A? That’s 84 percent of a people wiped out. Now that’s genocide, holocaust, apartheid. Viral Capitalism.

Fires raging in Maui in July, 2023.

In the first hundred years of contact with the Western world, beginning with the British in the late 18th century, the population of Hawaiʻi was brutalized by disease, violence, and environmental degradation caused by the exploitation of the islands’ natural resources. Missionaries came from New England to attempt to convert the native population to Christianity, suppress traditional cultural practices, open religious schools, and assert political sway in the Western-influenced government. By 1840, Census records estimate that at least 84 percent of the native population was wiped out or left the islands.

And the same project is there for Israel 2.0, this freak of a man, ZioAzovLensky, and his Zionist puppet masters:

May be an image of 1 person, the Oval Office and text that says 'ANUARY 24, 2020: JERUSALEM IN 40 MORE YEARS, THAT GRANDSON BECAME PRESIDENT, AND He IS STANDING E BEFORE YOU MR. PRIME MINISTER. YOUR NATIONALITY, YOUR RELIGION, YOUR AGE, YOUR SEX, YOUR BIRTH HAVE NO MEANING WHEN THERE'S THE KIND WORD AND HEART THAT MOVES YOU IN AGAINST THE YOUT EVIL YOU STAND AGAINST.'

In 1893, the “Hawaiian League,” a secret society of white businessmen assisted by the U.S. Navy, overthrew and jailed Queen Liliuokalani, the head of the sovereign Hawaiian government, and the U.S. officially annexed the islands as a colony in 1898.

As the military base and industries grew, so did settler-colonialism; eventually so many U.S. citizens were living on the islands (approximately 90 percent of their residents) that the territory was granted statehood in 1959. For Native Hawaiians, this statehood has never been welcome; it represented the corporate interests and settler-colonial stronghold in their rapidly changing home.

These corporate interests also produced Hawaiʻi’s water crisis, which set the stage for the tragedy in Lahaina. Before western intervention, Native Hawaiians sustained extensive regenerative agriculture and aquaculture systems that nourished its population and maintained the natural environment.

According to Uahikea Maile, who is Kanaka Maoli from Maunawili, Oʻahu, and an assistant professor of Indigenous politics in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, “pre-colonial Lahaina was a wetland ecosystem abundant with life … But … in the late 19th and early 20th centuries white-owned sugar plantations on Maui started to illegally divert water to their crops, drying up the wetlands. … These plantations also introduced non-native plant species for animal grazing that have helped fuel the Maui fires.” (source)

As part of its response to the Maui wildfires, Biden promised a one-time payment of $700 per household to applicants who were displaced from their homes, an amount far from adequate to meet the needs of residents in the wake of the disaster. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has sent nearlythree hundred billion dollars (that we sort of know about) to engage in a proxy war in Ukraine.

Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska covers the digital edition of US VOGUE

Zelenskyy Says Post-war Ukraine Will Emulate Israel, Won’t Be ‘Liberal, European’
Soldiers in ‘cinemas, supermarkets, and people with weapons’ is Ukraine’s future, Zelenskyy tells reporters, as the country’s leaders begin to imagine what a precariously post-war Ukraine might look like

Zelenskyy says wants Ukraine to become a ‘big Israel’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants his country to become a “‘big Israel’ with its own face” after the Russian invasion ends, stressing that security would likely be the main issue in Ukraine during the post-war period.

In comments to local media posted on the president’s official website on Tuesday, Zelenskyy stressed that his vision for Ukraine’s post-conflict future included having armed forces in “all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas, there will be people with weapons”.

In Israel, images of armed civilians, settlers and soldiers are commonplace, and the government invokes security frequently.

Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, has on several occasions stressed the importance of maintaining close ties with Israel, which he hailed as a model for Ukraine.

“I am sure that our security issue will be number one in the next 10 years,” Zelenskyy said, dismissing the idea that post-war Ukraine would emulate a liberal European democracy such as Switzerland as a model. He said that the Ukrainian people “will be our great army”.

Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine would not be “absolutely liberal, European”; that it would have to undertake a different modus operandi.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky won his country's version of Dancing  with The Stars | Marca

And you don’t hate this fucking country?

People want American actor Jeremy Renner to play Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky if a movie about Russia’s invasion is ever made.

IF YOU DON’T HATE AMERICA NOW, then go the way of the DoDo. This is one sick sick crummy viral civilization: “Renner could easily pass as Zelensky in a movie about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but some people are forgetting that Zelensky was an actor prior to being elected president of Ukraine.

So if anything, they could hire Zelensky to play himself.

But Renner does have the acting experience to play in a war film. The actor previously stared in The Hurt Locker, Mission Impossible, Avengers, and more.

Renner is currently starring in the new Marvel Universe show, Hawkeye, which ironically Gwyneth Platrow said she had no idea existed. But only time will tell if a movie is made about the invasion and if Renner gets to star in it.”

The Anglo Saxon hold on this fucking country, listen up, listen up: LIES.

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And Zelensky is a NAZI.

Russell Bentley, a volunteer fighter and blogger from the US in Donetsk People's Republic - Sputnik International, 1920, 01.04.2022

The Western mainstream press’ narrative that the Russian forces have become bogged down or that the Ukrainian military are defeating them has nothing to do with reality, according to the American war correspondent. The Russians are going slowly is because the Ukrainian military and their Nazi battalions are using civilians as human shields, thus forcing Russians to go basically door to door, he explains.

“They used human shields. That’s not just a tactic, it is one of their strategies,” Bentley says. “They’re hiding behind their own civilians in fact, and it’s truly cowardly, it’s truly treacherous, it’s truly dastardly.”

Russell Bentley, a volunteer fighter and blogger from the US in Donetsk People's Republic - Sputnik International, 1920, 31.03.2022

Those who still believe that there are no Nazis in Ukraine should wake up, according to the veteran: “Their Nazi battalions are genuine Nazis, they have swastika tattoos, they say ‘Heil Hitler’ and ‘Slava Bandera’, who was a German Nazi collaborator, a real terrible war criminal.”

The DPR and LPR advance backed by the Russian forces is going slowly, but it’s going according to plan, notes “Texas”. He believes that within two weeks Mariupol – the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion’s stronghold – will fall. “Then it will be the main fortified positions on the Donetsk front, which is Mariinka and Avdeyevka,” he says, adding that once those fall, “it’s going to be the domino effect.”

‘Nazism is Disease’: Texan Came to Donbass to Protect People & Tell the Truth About 8-Year Long War

Russell Bentley, a volunteer fighter and blogger from the US in Donetsk People's Republic - Sputnik International, 1920, 31.03.2022

“I mean, this marks the beginning of the end of the war, and it’s been a long war for everybody here,” the war correspondent notes. “You know, eight years is twice as long as the Second World War, and it’s been horrific, the whole time here.”

Bentley speaks about the Donbass people with warmth and tenderness. According to him, they are “the salt of the Earth, but they’re also the cream of humanity.”

“They’re extremely cultured,” he says. “They’re the most open, generous and kind people I’ve ever known. And I’ve travelled a lot throughout the world.”

However, at the same time, they are some of the most steadfast and brave people in the world, stresses the war correspondent. They step outside every day knowing that it might be the last time they kiss their wife goodbye, because the Ukrainian Army is very close and can bomb the Donetsk civilians with mortars and artillery, any time it wants, “Texas” notes.

… the absurdity of it all just screams at you if you are sane, and then you grab a glass of red wine, but wait, wine before suicide?

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Can we can the stupid flash in the pan, the Anthony Oliver’s straight eye for the queer guy bullshit prognostication, critque, yammering? Liberals are pieces of Holly-Dirt-loving soulless money lovers, and conservatives are pieces of evangelical Zion loving soulless money lovers.

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Jesus Christ depicted at a Catholic Church.

NO more NO more:

God, this woman just should stay away from flyover America. Stick to geopolitics. I am ebarrassed for her: [Diana Johnstone was press secretary of the Green Group in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1996. In her latest book, Circle in the Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher (Clarity Press, 2020), she recounts key episodes in the transformation of the German Green Party from a peace to a war party. Her other books include Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions (Pluto/Monthly Review) and in co-authorship with her father, Paul H. Johnstone, From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning (Clarity Press).]

Planned obsolescence has been the dominant policy of the Western elite toward the working class since the neoliberal power seizure of the 1980s, a message that comes through in a new song suddenly sweeping the world. 

The song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is a personal lament, a cry of pain and despair over the state of the “new world”.

The fact that Oliver Anthony’s powerful voice and frank lyrics immediately resonated with millions of listeners tells each of us something about the rest of us. On the simple but deep level of sensibility, millions of very different people found they shared something in common.

Exactly what this might be and where it might lead is a mystery, but there is potential political meaning in the subjective unity aroused by this song.

The song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is a personal lament, a cry of pain and despair over the state of the “new world”.

Read my take on Oliver: Black August, but the Freaks, those Wet Oreo Cookies, the Rest Crying Over Some shit SONG? …..goddamn, another flash in the pan, ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ while the USA bombs the world with sanctions, poisons, hate, terror, carriers, jets, endless bioweapons, but cry cry cry!

So Johnstone says it has been planned obsolescence since Reagan? Again, more of the empty headedness of a society — this culture, this warring nation, this Trail of Tears Nation, this Bombs Bursting in Air nation, this slave owning, and enslavement loving nation, well, it was (they being the billionaires and multi-millionaires, the TV Evangelicals, the Goldwaters and Dwights and FDR Internment Camp kinda people, it is a bloody nation way before Ray-GUN.

I am not pissing on her career, because she is good there, but she should have stayed out of the Anthony Oliver shit storm flash in the pan commentary. Here, the CIA checked Wikipedia entry says powerful things about her righteousness. Note the last comment, again, Chosen Hasbara boy Caplan putting in his two fucking cents.

Johnstone gained a BA in Russian Area Studies and a PhD in French Literature from the University of Minnesota.[1] She was active in the movement against the Vietnam War, organizing the first international contacts between American citizens and Vietnamese representatives. Most of Johnstone’s adult life has been spent in FranceGermany, and Italy.

Johnstone was European editor of the U.S. weekly In These Times from 1979 to 1990. She was press officer of the Green group in the European Parliament from 1990 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, she was associated editor of the Paris quarterly Dialogue concerned with Balkan geopolitics.[citation needed]

Fool’s Crusade[edit]

After the 2003 publication of her Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and Western Delusions, Johnstone became known for her claim in the book that there is “no evidence whatsoever” that the Srebrenica massacre of the Bosniaks was genocidal.[2] The historian Marko Attila Hoare called it “an extremely poor book, one that is little more than a polemic in defence of the Serb-nationalist record during the wars of the 1990s—and an ill-informed one at that”.[3]

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden,[3] prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone’s book—and her right to publish—that was signed by, among others, Noam ChomskyArundhati RoyTariq Ali and John Pilger. The signatories stated: “We regard Diana Johnstone’s Fools’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.”[4][5] Ed Vulliamy, who reported for The Guardian during the Bosnian War, called Johnstone’s book “poison” finding unbelievable the response of Chomsky and the others.[6] In March 2006, David Aaronovitch in The Times wrote: “In the sense that the world understood there to have been an act amounting to genocide at Srebrenica … Johnstone certainly, and Chomsky implicitly, had most certainly denied the massacre”. In the book “and elsewhere she had argued that the numbers of deaths had been exaggerated, that many supposed victims were in fact still alive somewhere, that Srebrenica had actually been an armed camp, that the Bosnians had deliberately let it be overrun hoping for a anti-Serb propaganda coup, that there had been some regrettable ‘revenge’ killings, as can happen in wartime”.[7]

In her own defence, Johnstone has said her critics “reduce [her] book, as they reduce the Balkan conflict itself, to a certain number of notorious atrocities, and stigmatise whatever deviates from their own dualistic interpretation”.[8]

Richard Caplan of Reading and Oxford University reviewed the work in International Affairs, where he described the work as “a revisionist and highly contentious account of western policy and the dissolution of Yugoslavia. … [It] is insightful but overzealous … well worth reading—but for the discriminating eye.”[9]

Oh well, the life and times of Anthony Oliver about to be directed by some schmuck.

And, shit, somewhere there will be more blood:

Kyle Rittenhouse has said he is being sued for “defending” his life as the estate of a man he killed brings a new lawsuit against him.

According to updates filed on litigation monitoring site pacermonitor.com, a complaint with jury demand has been filed against “all defendants” by the estate of Joseph Rosenbaum, who was killed during the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020.

It is suing Rittenhouse, along with Kenosha officials, local sheriff’s departments, the City of Kenosha, the City of West Allis, and several counties for “compensatory and punitive damages” in the “wrongful death” of Rosenbaum.

Rittenhouse, 20, hit international headlines after he travelled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, from his home in Antioch, Illinois, where he shot three men during the disturbances that were sparked by the shooting of Joseph Blake, a Black man, by police officers.

Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Rittenhouse testifies in his trial at the Kenosha County courthouse on November 10, 2021, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse has claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot three men.SEAN KRAJACIC-POOL/GETTY IMAGES

Two of the victims died after being shot with an assault rifle. In a high-profile trial, Rittenhouse was found not guilty for the murders of Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber after the jury ruled he had acted in self-defense. He was 17 at the time of the killings. The verdict was met with protests across the U.S.

Shifting to planned and coerced and mandatory extinction, Klanada: Let’s look at this racist, Justin, and his MAID = Medical assistance in dying. See how these Orwellian freaks play the words, the fun stuff. It is state sanctioned forced suicide, i.e. murder.

New photo of Justin Trudeau in blackface emerges as Canadians head to the  polls

Kathrin Mentler went to Vancouver General Hospital seeking psychiatric help in the midst of a mental health crisis.

Mentler says that she lives with chronic suicidal thoughts and sought out the hospital’s help to put herself in a position where it would be a lot harder for her to attempt an drug overdose or other self-harming behaviours.

“I didn’t want to get into a situation where I would think about taking an overdose of medication,” said Mentler.

“That day my goal was to keep myself safe. I was thinking of maybe trying to get myself admitted to hospital because I was in crisis.”

Mentler says that she arrived at Vancouver General’s Access and Assessment Centre and was told there weren’t any beds available for her, and that she should expect a long wait before she could see a psychiatrist.

At this point, Mentler says that she was asked if she had ever considered MAID (medical assistance in dying), with the clinician telling Mentler about the “relief” she felt after patients with mental illness had committed suicide through MAID.

Mentler says that the clinician suggesting MAID to her made her feel like her life was “worthless,” and that she was a problem that could be solved with MAID.

…Currently, it is illegal to deliver MAID to Canadians who are not suffering from a grievous and irremediable medical condition and whose only medical condition is mental illness.

However, cases like Mentler’s have become more of a common occurrence, with several stories of medical staff offering MAID to otherwise healthy Canadians.

…In 2021, a total of 10,064 Canadians died through MAID, representing 3.3% of all Canadian deaths that year. “

For Ms Heim-Myers, access to assisted death is about compassion and respecting people’s decisions.

“It’s about personal choice,” she said. “I’m not sure that the human condition means human suffering. I think we need to respect that.”

It’s a sentiment shared by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While defending the law at a press conference in 2022, he said Maid is a “deeply personal choice that individuals and families need to make.”

The choice to die: Canada’s euthanasia laws spark fierce debate about who gets to choose

Yep, so, I know dozens of fuckers here on the Oregon Coast who in a nutshell would have their own solution to homelessness, to vagrancy, to hobo-dom, to all those lost in capitalism and atomization and criminalization and usury and broke back mountain breaking bad-dome:

“I’ll donate the goddamned cinder blocks and chains. Just let me take them one by one, chain ‘em up to the blocks, and toss them overboard. Hell, good fodder for the crabs. Easy, cheap solution. Hell, I’ll even throw in for the gasoline for my 144 HP Evinrude.”

Yep, above, a note I found on the rock beach yesterday. Big time homes, hitting the million dollar mark, and those short term rentals at $300 a night plus $200 cleaning deposit, unrefundable. More nightly rate for parties over four people. You know the deal. Endless streams of RVs with $80K Jeeps in tow. We’re talking $400,000 units, and you know these fuckers have a home somewhere, maybe two, and they have endless dispoable income for $4.50 a gallon for gasoline.

The guy is in his forties, but looks 60, and I am not sure about the woman, but a younger woman I have talked to in the past. The place they have set up under the bridge is messy, full of thrift store giveaways, and it’s wet and cold, and tourists and their kiddos walk by as they look for sand bars to do some clamming.

He had a place in town, in an office, managing a thrift store, but that ended, and so this guy, who was getting his life together, he is down and out, methed and IPA and under a bridge, man, so fucking sad.

Yep, the Trudeau Method. Or the ZioAzovNaziLensky and Hillary and Blinken and Paski and Yellen and Larry Summer and Garland and Nuland and, well, you get the picure, their Method:

“It’s a very good deal tens of thousands of Ukrainians dead, and then, the amputations, man, another great deal. We just need more Lloyd Uncle Tom Raytheon Austins, man, and we need more Goyim for the Slaughter. A very good deal indeed . . . money money money for the military madensss offensive weapons and all that other peripheral junk that makes K-Street and Yale and the rest hum.”

Yeah, Rich Men and Women East and West and South of Richmond:

Scale of amputations in Ukraine reaches WWI level – WSJ

Due to the length of time required to register patients following an operation, the actual number may be higher. In fact, after being injured, some people don’t have their limbs amputated for weeks or months.

The outlet, citing estimates by the Houp Foundation charity, notes that 200,000 people were seriously injured during the war, while amputations are frequently necessary in about 10% of major injuries.

The Wall Street Journal also indicates that the prostheses are not cheap, with some prices reaching EUR 50,000. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities pay the wounded up to 20,000 euros. Civilians who are injured find it difficult to afford treatment.

The publication recalls that during World War I, 41,000 Britons and 67,000 Germans required amputations.

Prostheses of Ukrainian serviceman Dmytro

Then look at this fucking Hasbara Freak, Kristol: They’re Ready to Fight Again, on Artificial Legs The New York Times/ Jul 8, 2023 — LVIV, Ukraine — The Superhumans Center is full of war amputees learning to walk on artificial limbs or smoking cigarettes clutched in ….

And then, NPR/PBS, national propagandaradio/propaganda broadcasting system, and then two Jewish folk on the NPR fun: Stavnister and Schifrin.

Andrey Stavnitser, Co-Founder Superhumans Center:

So just for your understanding, we have approximately the size of Austria, land plot size of Austria is filled with mines right now in Ukraine. So even if the war stops today, it’s going to take many months, if not years to demine it. And we see civilians and military personnel stepping on those mines every day and about 30,000, more than 30,000 people are waiting for prosthetics right now, that means they have lost at least one limb. So the situation is getting really bad day after day.

Nick Schifrin:

And you mentioned it’s both civilians and soldiers for those soldiers. Are you seeing a dramatic increase because of the nature of how the Russian defenses have been built? And the fact that Ukrainian soldiers simply have to go through the minefield in order to get to the Russian forces that have occupied your land?

Here he is, Nick boy: A human stain — no, Syria did not use chemical weapons against its own people. He is what is wrong with Americanos — Clinton School, some NPR freak as hero, and the softball questions.

Tangets so now back on track of my other tangents: Now now, I went on some tangents, and Rich Men West of Richmond is all about the new/old Jerusalem.

Here it comes, Eris, Discordia, mask up, 8th booster and counting:

The latest iteration of Omicron, BA.2.86, is here, and we must be ready for its arrival. As of writing, the highly mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been officially sequenced nine times worldwide in five countries, including the United States. Nearly identical sequences spread so far from each other combined with minimal sequencing efforts three and half years into the pandemic suggests that BA.2.86 is far more prevalent than nine cases.

A common tactic by public health services for monitoring Covid-19 spread is wastewater analysis. Sampling wastewater allows for mass surveying a building, area, or city for variants, but may sacrifice the specificity of its origin.

Fisherman with rod, spinning reel on the river bank. Sunrise. Fishing for pike, perch, carp. Fog against the backdrop of lake. background Misty morning. wild nature. The concept of a rural getaway.

Good to know we have to follow (be chained to) THE SCIENCE. And this is NASA, taxpayer-funded welfare outfit? Did we vote for this?

NASA is developing a supersonic passenger aircraft that will reportedly have a top speed of Mach 4 (~3000mph), which will not make it twice as fast as the Concorde but also faster than the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane that was designed with a top speed of Mach 3.2 (around 2500mph). NASA claims that the proposed supersonic jet will cut down the travel time from New York to London to under one and a half hours. Typically, flights to New York take around eight to nine hours as the current crop of large passenger jets cruise at around 600mph. For comparison, the iconic Concorde that retired two decades ago could maintain Mach 2 (1,348 mph).

SICK.

And, it is a given, no, mask mandates, CRISPR, endless deaths on planet earth while endless trillions are dumped for fucking space: Mars Simulation Finds One Personality Type Should Probably Not Colonize The Red Planet [Mars Simulation Finds One Personality Type Should Probably Not Colonize The Red Planet….22 is the magic number.]

What they weren’t expecting was the death rate among neurotics.

“The primary observed emergent phenomenon occurs in the decline of the Martian population,” the team wrote. “While the members of the settlement have an equal probability of being affected by lack of settlement resources, habitat accidents, or earth shipping disasters, Martians with the ‘neurotic’ psychology die at a much higher rate than those of other psychologies.”

“Once their population reaches a low enough level, the settlement population stabilizes.”

The team notes that neurotic personalities suffered during life on the colony, and the colony improved when fewer people of that personality type were there.

“Martians with the neurotic psychology and a high coping capacity benefit the least from interaction with other Martians, and are penalized the most if they have a low coping capacity. Our results suggest that this effect is a driver of the Martian population decline, and once minimized or removed, can produce a stable settlement.”

A colony on Mars.

So here we are, just one of another MONSTER:

FILE - George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony, June 21, 2019, in Vienna, Austria. Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff on the continent, the foundations' leaders told staff in Berlin, according to an internal email and several current employees, who say the decision is painful and perplexing. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff on the continent, the foundations’ leaders told staff in Berlin, according to an internal email and several current employees, who say the decision is painful and perplexing.

The planned European cuts, as described in an internal email viewed by The Associated Press, would represent a historic break with the roots of billionaire philanthropist George Soros’ support for civil society through education, human rights work and policy research, which started in his native Hungary more than three decades ago.

The strategic change coincides with Alex Soros, George’s son, announcing a shift to a new operating model the board adopted at the end of June, its first major move since he took over as head of OSF’s board of directors in December. Grantees in Europe say OSF has not directly communicated the proposed strategy change to them, contributing to a sense of disbelief.

Again, the Star Chamber people want their own country!

california landscape with deer

So Mars, or California:

After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Its goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.

The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.

And, then, the dirty Democrats, man: Biden and Harris, run by Blinken-Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan and so many more in the Hasbara Crew!

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is increasingly being viewed as a nuisance to some of President Joe Biden’s political advisers, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Though Biden’s camp no longer sees the California governor as a wannabe challenger to the president — and some in the president’s orbit praise him for acting as a top campaign surrogate — Newsom’s plan to debate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on television carries more risk than potential reward, these people say. 

That’s caused consternation within Biden’s operation and among Vice President Kamala Harris’ allies.

More band members in the group Monsters Rock, these blood suckers: Coming to us from the blood sucker rag, Fortune magazine.

Peter Thiel launched a student newspaper 36 years ago. It has since become one of the surest paths to success in Silicon Valley: The conservative Stanford Review didn’t change many minds on campus. But its alums have transformed the tech ecosystem.

Pixelated image of Peter Thiel giving a thumbs up.

Of course, we get a creep like David Corn with David Brooks in his back pocket absolutely getting it wrong and wrong and wrong about why Thiel is bad: How Dangerous Is Peter Thiel? “In a recent speech, the tech billionaire gave us a frightening look at his worldview.” DAVID CORN

Mother Jones my ass, Corn Cob. Biden’s and Thiel’s and Soros’ and Bezos’ and Harris’ and Nuland’s and Kagan’s and Holly-Dirt’s and Presstitute’s and EU’s and UK’s and Ukraine’s and, well, their worldviews are as dangerous and in lock step in other ways as Thiel’s. Another article about Thiel.

[Peter Thiel]: There also should also be some room for trying to start new countries.

And that country would have a complete lack of accountability for the ultra-rich.

[Peter Thiel]: We want to get rid of government regulation of technology, to allow us to build nuclear power, go into space, have supersonic planes again, allow us to get rid of the FDA.

Peter Thiel doesn’t need to build an island to have his libertarian dreamland, he can build it right here in America, and he already is.

[Peter Thiel]: The problem of racism, sexism, other forms of oppression have been vastly exaggerated.

[Peter Thiel]: Our goal was nothing less than to replace the U.S. dollar by creating a new digital currency.

[Peter Thiel]: If you’re a startup, you want to get to monopoly. You’re starting a new company, you want to get to monopoly.

[Peter Thiel]: We need to take over the world, we can’t slow down now.

In a PayPal all-hands meeting in 2001, Thiel told the full staff “the ability to move money fluidly and the erosion of the nation-state are closely related” as they were building a system to move money fluidly. But just a few months later Thiel took the money and ran: PayPal went public with an IPO.

[Peter Thiel]: Just like there’s room for starting new companies because not all existing companies solve all the problems we need to solve, I think there should also be some room for trying to start new countries, new governments.

[Peter Thiel]: I have a single, idée fixe that I’m completely obsessed with on the business side, which is that if you’re starting a company — if you’re the founder, the entrepreneur starting a company — you always want to aim for monopoly. You always want to avoid competition, hence “competition for losers,” something I’ll be talking about today.

WE are so OBSESSED by the rich, the powerful, the unholy, the dirty, the world killers, and that is the SNL Sketch, man, the SNL world.

And so the criminals are left and right:

Larry Summers (left) and Olivier Blanchard (right)

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the entire U.S. banking system is just as insolvent as the banks that you’ve just mentioned.

What’s amazing is that all of this is treated as if somehow it was unforeseeable. And people are saying, like Queen Elizabeth said in 2008, did nobody see this?

Well, I’ve been writing about this, exactly how this would occur for the last 15 years, ever since I wrote Killing the Host.

And the reason the banks are insolvent now is because of President Obama’s program and his Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, who appointed the current Federal Reserve President, Powell.

When President Obama decided to bail out the banks, instead of writing down the bank loans to what would have been reasonable levels, instead of saving the junk mortgage victims from their houses, he decided to go along with his boss, Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and save Citibank and the other big banks that were the most troubled banks of all.

And they’re still the most troubled banks of all, except they have a government guarantee, just like Obama gave them, that no matter how much they lose, they will not lose the money. No matter how much the banks lose in negative net worth, the economy will lose, not the banks.

All of that became implicit when the Federal Reserve decided to help the banks that were insolvent in 2008 and 2009, to help them recover their net worth by quantitative easing.

That is creating $9 trillion worth of Federal Reserve balance sheet support of the banks to enable the banks to drive down interest rates to near zero, 0.1%, which is about what banks were paying their depositors.

The Hard Iron Financial Fist

Who’s going to turn off the lights? Shabbos goy!

The sad passing of Colin Powell has generated many loving accounts in Jewish media of his recollections serving as a “Shabbos goy” in his youth, when he assisted with tasks that were forbidden to observant Jews on the Sabbath. “Collie,” as his Jewish employer called the teenaged Powell, told Jewish audiences that in addition to serving as a “shlepper” in a Bronx infant-goods store owned by an Orthodox Jew, he collected a quarter each Friday night for turning off the lights at the synagogue.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division; Jerome Delay/AFP via Getty Images

Source? That Terrible Tablet:

I began by telling Marshall that I was an Orthodox Jew who observed the Sabbath. Since the holidays were approaching, I thought I had better mention those, too. So I continued, “In addition to Saturdays, I can’t work on the Jewish holidays, and they are coming soon. First there is the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, and then comes the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur.”

At this point, the judge interrupted. “Yes, and then there’s Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah.” I almost fell over. “That’s right,” I said, and added, “But how do you know that?”

“Easy,” Marshall replied, “I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore. In fact, I made some money by turning off lights in homes there on Friday nights.”

Fucking high school follies, and we, the poor ass Goyim, take it with a smile and a sip:

The fabled French wine industry is beset by a string of problems

[The French government announced Friday that 200 million euros ($216 million) would be set aside to fund the destruction of surplus wine production in a bid to support struggling producers and shore up prices.]

FUCK! Socialism (sic) for the rich?

Europe last suffered a so-called “wine lake” in the mid-2000s, which forced the European Union to reform its farm policy to reduce the massive overproduction of wine which was being stimulated by its own subsidies.

The 27-member bloc still spends 1.06 billion euros annually on the sector, according to EU figures.

As well as a long-term trend of consumers switching into beer and other alcohols, the industry was badly hit by the COVID-19 crisis which shut restaurants and bars worldwide, leading to a sharp fall in sales.

Outta here, man, these war criminals, there for Lorne Michael’s laughs galore: Star-spangled laughter: 17 presidential candidates who appeared on ‘SNL’

So the attention span is right there — celebrities and shit shows like SNL: BYEBYE, A Taxonomy of Problematic SNL Hosts

God I hate AmeriKKK so many times, and the eurotrash of our illegal alien origins!

Elon Musk is far from SNL's first controversial host pick, although many of the show's most regrettable hosts only became so in retrospect. (Photos: NBC)