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Taking a beating, USA, MIC?

AS SIGNIFICANT as the fact of Brics expansion are which countries are now set to join: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Argentina.

The six applicants will mean the Brics (which already account for a larger share of world GDP than the G7 group of developed capitalist countries) rise to representing 37 per cent of the global economy and 46 per cent of the human race.

AS if 99 percent of the people can’t be wrong 99 percent of the time. Who gives shit about CIA News Network, AKA CNN:

Currently over 61% of people polled (according to CNN) no longer want weapons sentto continue the proxy war in Ukraine. The U.S. government has begun to use repressive measures against anti-war groups. In our webinar you will hear from dissenters and from those who have witnessed and experienced repression. It is in the interest of all of us to support dissenters and expose and support those who have been harmed by repressive measures. We welcome your participation in this webinar and your support of the right to dissent.

One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.
[Note: “Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne” by Jacques Abbadie who was a French Protestant based in Germany, England, and Ireland. The following passage appeared in chapter two:^[1]

… ont pû tromper quelques hommes, ou les tromper tous dans certains lieux & en certains tems, mais non pas tous les hommes, dans tous les lieux & dans tous les siécles.

Imagine, the war on nature, the war on our human gut, the war on our brains, the war on babies, the war on the unborne, the war war war with pesticides and better cancerous living with chemistry:

Here, the boys are yakking for three hours . . . . LINK. Good stuff, but, then, listen up.

And not ONE of my greenie weenies, not one of my BIDEN Forever friends, not ONE of the Trump Derangement Syndrome gals and guys, and not ONE of the academics I know, and NOT one of the lovers of USA Mask Mandates will watch, listen, or discuss these topics from the four fellows above.

A comment from Grayzone:

Top military adviser: You need to abandon the counteroffensive. It’s mission impossible.

zelensky: I disagree. If Rambo could destroy an entire Soviet army, why can’t our brave troops win? They watched all the Rambo movies, they know how to do it.

Top military adviser: They know how to do what? They know how to act?

zelensky: Listen, I used to act as president in “Servant of the People”. I know what I’m doing.

Another comment:

“I’ve just returned from a 7 day liveaboard dive trip in the Maldives where around half the divers were Russians and all wonderful people. They said the Russian economy has still seen slight growth since before the Ukraine war. Sanctions have little effect except for western wines, whisky and cheeses. No food shortages. They can’t use Visa card, master card etc but their banks obtain US dollars from China as well as being able to use Chinese foreign exchange cards of which they exchange rubles into other currencies.”

“The more things change – the more they remain the same.” (English translation of “plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose” 1849, French author Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.)

And then this fellow, too, is putting some spin on the disaster, the meat grinder, the shit show.

Russian Big Autumn Offensive, Ukr Fails Zaporozhzhie, Wagner Join Russia Army; BRICS Rival to US System Alexander Mercouris

Here’s the Zelensky Family Sixth Estate: Just $5 million valuation!

This was found out by Egyptian blogger and journalist Mohammed Al-Alawi, who provided exclusive results of his findings. Below is a video recorded by Al-Alvawi directly near the villa, registered in Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law’s name. According to Al-Alawi, the information about the purchase came to him through his own trusted sources, the reliability of which is beyond doubt.

And not one peep.

There will be blood, these fucking Brits, U$A-ians, and French; Lowkey interviews Nigerian journalist, activist, and founder of West Africa Weekly David Hundeyin about the recent coup in Niger and the possibility of intervention.

There will be blood:

As the NATO-Russia war rages on in the Ukraine, the African nation Niger just had a coup d’etat, and overthrew the Western backed president and his regime. The new government of Niger has announced that it has stopped shipments of gold and uranium to France, their colonial and neocolonial master.

All of France’s gold reserves come from its colonies, like Niger, considering that France does not have one gold mine within its borders. And France depends on nuclear power for 70% of the country’s energy needs, and one third of that comes from Niger’s uranium.

Claude Gatebuke is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, a longtime correspondent to the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, and the co-founder and executive director of the African Great Lakes Action Network. Check out what he has to say about what was initially a coup d’etat in Niger and has now ballooned into a regional Pan-African battle against neo-colonialism with Niger, Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso on one side and the West African puppets governments including Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Senegal and others, aligned with France and the U.S, on the other side. (source)

And so these liberals, these East Coast freaks of the Nuland-Blinken-Yellen-Garland-Kagan Administration, they want more blood, but the Africans will resist.

Claude Gatebuke: It is too early to tell, but I am cautiously optimistic. It’s hard to know what any leaders, whether military or civilian, will do for the people. But for a start, it is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT and DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to outdo the harm caused by Western imperialism, neo-colonialism and their puppets on the continent. 

If we simply look at some of some of the West’s favorite puppets on the continent, such as Kagame of Rwanda and Museveni of Uganda in Central and East Africa, and we look at the Western backed TPLF in Ethiopia and the horn of Africa, Salva Kiir in South Sudan, the many Western backed dictators on the continent, we have more than 10 million Africans killed by those regimes inside their own countries and outside. 

I believe the Niger coup leaders wouldn’t be able to match such a horrible feat. The reaction of the people of Niger and across the continent is also telling on where the people stand. They are embracing the coup leaders. But, as always, I remain cautious as these soldiers could also sell out the people or become major abusers of the people. 

JR Valrey: What do you think about Russia’s Putin recently forgiving $23 billion of African countries’ debts and an additional $684 million of Somalia’s debt?

Claude Gatebuke: It’s about time the world outside of Africa stop the crippling debts on African countries. I think debt forgiveness for poor countries is essential. This is obviously opposite of what the World Bank does, which is to come up with every possible scheme to perpetuate the debt. I also think African leaders should stop foolishly pursuing debt and find ways to use the resources on the continent to benefit the people. (source) 

The blood, man, the blood: France and Germany face up to the past in Africa; Berlin and Paris have admitted responsibility for their roles in the killings of hundreds of thousands of people.

The Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) — groups representing the two minorities that were massacred by German troops — this week rejected Berlin’s compensation settlement. They say it was aimed at propping up the South West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO, which has dominated politics since independence in 1990 and is controlled by the Ovambo ethnic group.

Vekuii Rukoro, who heads the OTA, told The Namibian newspaper that the €1.1 billion in compensation was nowhere near sufficient.

“That is not enough for the blood of our ancestors. We will fight to hell and back. We will get in bed with the devil if that will get us what we deserve,” he said.

[Photo: Rwandan refugees in Tanzania in 1994 | Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images]

These monsters, man, these monsters:

Hillary Clinton defended U.S. aid to Ukraine as a “good investment” — which she argued was was proven by President Zelenskyy’s Wednesday congressional address. The comments came as the former Secretary of State spoke with Anderson Cooper on “Anderson Cooper 360” Wednesday

“The Ukrainians have proven that they are a really good investment for the United States,” she said. “They are not asking us to be there to fight their war; they’re fighting it themselves. They’re asking us and our allies for the means to not only defend themselves, but to actually win.”

Vomit bags, man, for these two human ghosts, these sociopaths. Shit, where are my machetes?

The short list:

Massacres in Algeria

• Sétif and Guelma, 8^th of May 1945

People were celebrating the allied victory over Germany (in which Algerian native troops took part), banned demonstrations of Algerian nationalists in most of the Constantine département, in the eastern part of the country. In Sétif, the protest turned into a riot after the intervention of the police forces. This riot then spread to the area between Sétif and Bougie (Bejaia). Repression was organized by the army and, to a lesser extent, by the civilian population: the death toll, still unknown, probable numbers in the many thousands. In Guelma, a small town between Constantine and Bône (Annaba), a demonstrator was killed. There were no casualties among the French population. However, on May 9 and 10, 12 French people were killed. Between 1,500 and 2,000 Muslims had died, most of them in the hands of the civilian population. The death toll has not yet been precisely established. However, we know that it included 102 French people. Furthermore, several thousand Muslims were either killed or wounded.[1]

Massacres in Angola

• Nambuangongo, 15^th March 1961

In 1961 unleashed the first attacks on colonial farms and villages in northern Angola. In this massacre, hundreds of white and black settlers were killed and mutilated in the coffee farms in Dembos, Negage, Úcua and Nambuangongo. Many were hacked to death. No one escaped the massacre—men, women and children, black and white. The fury of the UPA (later called FNLA – National Front for the Liberation of Angola) spared no one.

The accounts of that day are many. “In less than 48 hours, throughout the districts of Zaire and Uige is the damned devastation. Plantations and lonely houses were looted and set on fire; villages were razed to the ground; the siege was laid on villages and small hamlets, their supplies were cut off; roads and means of communication were destroyed”, according to an excerpt by Franco Nogueira in the book “Salazar Volume V – The Resistance”.[2]

Massacres in Benin

• Benin Expedition, 1897

The Benin Punitive Expedition, also known as the 1897 expedition, was a military mission led by British forces, which included 1200 men under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, who invaded Benin City, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin. The campaign lasted 17 days, and the invading forces took over total control of the kingdom.

The British expedition was primarily an act of reprisal for the attack suffered by a column of British officers led by the acting consul-general, James Philips, and indigenous soldiers disguised as porters and musicians who in 1897 attempted to reach Benin City to attack the city and depose the Obá. Only two officers survived the attack, which became known as the Benin Massacre. However, the expedition was part of the British attempts to control the region and annexe Benin to exploit its resources.[3]

Massacres in Congo

• Congo massacres during King Leopold’s rule 1885 – 1908

Atrocities in the Congo Free State refer to a series of documented atrocities perpetrated in the period 1885 to 1908 in the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), which was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities were mainly associated with the labour policies used to collect natural rubber for export. Together with epidemic diseases, famine and the drop-in birth rate caused by these interruptions, such atrocities contributed to a sharp decline in the Congolese population. The magnitude of the population decline over the period is disputed, but is believed to be between one and fifteen million.[4]

King Leopold II of Belgium promised a humanitarian and philanthropic mission that would improve the lives of Africans. In return, European leaders, meeting at the Berlin Conference, granted him 2m² (770,000 square miles) to forge an individual colony where he could do as he pleased. He called it the Congo Free State. It quickly became a brutal and exploitative regime that relied on forced labour to grow and trade rubber, ivory and minerals. In addition, colonial administrators also abducted orphaned children from communities and transported them to “children’s colonies” to work or train as soldiers. Estimates suggest that over 50% died there.

Murders, famine and disease combined to cause the deaths of perhaps 10 million people, although historians dispute the accurate figure. Leopold II may never have set foot there, but he poured the profits into Belgium and his pockets. He built the Museum of Africa on the grounds of his palace in Tervuren, with a “human zoo” on the grounds with 267 Congolese people.[5]

Massacres in Ethiopia

• Yekatit 12, 19^th February 1937

This has been described as the worst massacre in Ethiopian history. This refers to the massacre and arrest of Ethiopians by the Italian occupation forces after an assassination attempt on Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Marquis of Negele, Viceroy of Italian East Africa, on 19 February 1937. Graziani had led the Italian forces to victory over the Ethiopians in the Second Italian invasion of Ethiopia and was the supreme governor of Italian East Africa.

Estimates vary as to the number of people killed in the three days following the attempt on Graziani’s life. Ethiopian sources estimated that 30,000 people were killed by the Italians, while Italian sources said only a few hundred were killed. The story of the massacre in 2017 estimated that 19,200 people were killed out of a population of 100,000, i.e. 20 per cent of Addis Ababa’s population. The following week, numerous Ethiopians suspected of opposing Italian rule were rounded up and executed, including members of the Black Lions and other members of the aristocracy. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent 125 men abroad to receive a university education, but most of them were killed.  Many more were arrested, including collaborators, who helped the Italians identify the two men who made an attempt on Graziani’s life.[6]

Massacres in Guiné – Bissau

• Pindjiguiti, 3 August 1959

Workers at the port of Pindjiguiti, in Bissau, organised a strike demanding a pay rise. Seamen, dockers and dockworkers, particularly those working for Casa Gouveia, an intermediary commercial monopoly of the CUF group (Companhia União Fabril), were violently repressed by colonial officials, police and military, and some civilians, repression that would result in fifty deaths and about a hundred injured. This was not the first strike of workers at the port of Bissau.[7]

Massacres in Kenya

• Sotik Massacre, 1905

Over 1800 kipsigis people of the Talai Clan were massacred by the British colonial government. The killing of men, women and children followed the refusal by members of the Kipsigis community to surrender heads of cattle alleged to have been stolen from the Maasai residing in the current Narok County.[8]

His Excellency, Honourable Professor Paul Chepkwony, Governor of Kericho County, stated,

The Sotik massacre has been erased from the history books, not just of the United Kingdom but from Kenya as well. The slaughter of some 1850 men, women and children would today be classified as genocide and a crime against humanity. In 1905, Colonel Hennessey, used a Maxine Machine gun to conduct this slaughter. This massacre was used to terrorise the Kipsigi people and evict them illegally from their ancestral homeland. The colonialists justified this ethnic cleansing by stating that the “well-watered white Highlands were fit to raise a European child”. Approximately 100,000 Talai people were forcibly removed to Gwasi, which they knew was unfit for human habitation. This was heartless racism of the highest order.”[9]

• Mau Mau Uprising Massacres

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting in many deaths. By 1956 the uprising had effectively been crushed, but the extent of opposition to the British regime had clearly been demonstrated and Kenya was set on the path to independence, which was finally achieved in 1963.

Thousands of Mau Mau left their homes and set up camp in the forests of the Aberdares and Mt. Kenya, creating a base of resistance to the government. Hostilities were relatively subdued for the remainder of 1952, but the following year began with a series of violent killings of European farmers and loyalist Africans. This sufficiently shocked the white population into demanding that the government take more action to combat the Mau Mau, and so the Kenyan security forces were placed under the command of the British Army and began to surround the Mau Mau strongholds in the forests. This was accompanied by large-scale eviction of Kikuyu squatters from land that had been selected for European settlers. The government troops adopted a policy of collective punishment, which was again intended to undermine popular support of the Mau Mau. Under this policy, if a member of a village was found to be a Mau Mau supporter, then the entire village was treated as such. This led to the eviction of many Kikuyu, who were forced to abandon their homes and possessions and sent to areas designated as Kikuyu reserves. A particularly unpleasant element of the eviction policy was the use of concentration camps to process those suspected of Mau Mau involvement. Abuse and torture was commonplace in these camps, as British guards used beatings, sexual abuse and executions to extract information from prisoners and to force them to renounce their allegiance to the anti-colonial cause. The process of mass eviction furthered anger and fear among the Kikuyu who had already suffered through decades of land reallocation, and drove hundreds of squatters to join the Mau Mau fighters in the forest.

The uprising escalated further when Mau Mau fighters carried out two major attacks. The first was an assault on the Naivasha police station, which resulted in a humiliating defeat for the police and the release of 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjacent detention camp. The second was the massacre of Kikuyu loyalists at Lari, in which at least 97 Kenyans were killed. The incident was used by the government to further characterise the Mau Mau as brutal savages, and no official mention was made of a similar number of Mau Mau prisoners who were machine gunned to death by government troops in the Aberdare Forest.  These attacks began a pattern of Mau Mau raids against police and loyalists that continued throughout 1953. The gradual organisation of the rebel forces in the forests created military units, although they were limited by a lack of weapons, supplies and training[10].

Massacres in Libya

• Battle and massacre at Shar al-Shatt, 23^rd October 1911

Italian troops were attacked by a 10,000-strong Turkish-Arab force while marching through the Mechiya oasis at Sciara Sciat. Some accounts stated that Turkish forces captured two companies of the Italian infantry in a nearby cemetery and massacred 250 men. Italian corpses were allegedly nailed to trees with their eyes and genitals mutilated, some claim in retaliation for sexual offences against local women perpetrated by the Italian troops.

The next day the Italians responded by attacking the population of the neighbouring Mechiya oasis, massacring about 4,000 people, including women and children, over three days. Though the Italians allegedly took measures to prevent news of this action from reaching the outside world, foreign press correspondents covered the event in detail. This negative coverage factored into the British Parliament’s decision later that month to take a more pro-Turkish course, rejecting a proposed Anglo-Italian Mediterranean agreement.[11]

Massacres in Madagascar

• French colonial Massacre, 29^th March 1947

The Malagasy people rose to free themselves from the colonial yoke. France responded to this uprising with a massive crime that left tens of thousands dead.

Several hundred insurgents, a column of poor peasants armed with old rifles, attacked the military camp in Moramanga, east of the island. This was the signal for an insurrection to set the French colony of Madagascar off the African coast of the Indian Ocean ablaze for almost two years. The creation, a few months earlier, of an elected assembly, with limited powers, was not enough to extinguish the nationalist flame that had been ignited on the Red Island, as large as France and Belgium, which had long been the scene of Franco-British rivalry before being placed under French colonial control in 1896. The return of Malagasy foot soldiers who had been enlisted in France during the Second World War, the miserable living conditions of the indigenous population and the activism of nationalist movements and secret societies fuelled the desire for independence and precipitated the outbreak insurrection.[12]

Massacres in Malawi

• Chilembwe uprising, 15^th January 1915

 This was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi). It was led by John Chilembwe a Black African Baptist minister. Based around his Church in the village of Mbombwe in the south-east of the protectorate, the revolt leaders were mainly from an emerging Black middle class. They were motivated by grievances against the white colonial system, including forced labour, racial discrimination, and new demands imposed on the indigenous population following the outbreak of World War I. The revolt broke out when rebels, incited by Chilembwe, attacked the A. L. Bruce Plantation headquarters at Magomero and killed three white settlers. A largely unsuccessful attack on a weapons store in Blantyre followed during the night. By morning, the colonial authorities had mobilized the white settler militia and redeployed regular military units from the King’s African Rifles (KAR). After a failed attack by government troops on Mbombwe on January 25th, the rebels attacked a Christian mission at Nguludi and burned it down.

The KAR and militia took Mbombwe without encountering resistance on January 26th. Many of the rebels, including Chilembwe, fled towards Mozambique, hoping to reach safety there, but many were captured. About 40 rebels were executed in the revolt’s aftermath, and 300 were imprisoned; Chilembwe was shot dead by a police patrol near the border on February 3rd. Although the rebellion did not achieve lasting success, it is commonly cited as a watershed moment in Malawian history. The uprising had lasting effects on the British administration system in Nyasaland, and some reform was enacted in its aftermath. After World War II, the growing Malawian nationalist movement reignited interest in the Chilembwe revolt. After the independence of Malawi in 1964, it became celebrated as a critical moment in the nation’s history. Chilembwe’s memory, which remains prominent in the collective national consciousness, has often been invoked in symbolism and rhetoric by Malawian politicians. Today, the uprising is celebrated annually, and Chilembwe himself is considered a national hero.[13]

Massacres in Mozambique

• Mueda, 16 June  1960

Massacre of Mueda, one more among the tragedies caused by colonial exploitation in Africa. On that day, there was an administrative meeting between representatives of the Mueda district, in the north of the Mozambican territory, and the colonial government, with Portuguese headquarters. At the end of the event, the colonial authorities shot dead several Mozambicans. The number has not been counted to date. The meeting in question was allegedly a demand by MANU, the leading organization articulated for the independence of the district and separation of the territory from Mozambique. The event was of great significance among Mozambicans and was a relevant element in the development, two years later, of FRELIMO, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique. The gratuitousness of the case and the Portuguese bloodshed demonstrated in the massacre were central to the movement’s narrative during the early War.[14][15]

• Wiriyamu, 16 December 1972

The Wiriyamu massacre was a case of structurally determined mass violence in the Portuguese colonial wars, not unlike similar massacres during wars of repression by white colonial and settler powers in Africa.  An operation, code-named “Marosca”, which involved aviation, commandos and PIDE/DGS agents, took place in the Tete area of Northern Mozambique, targeting five villages: Wiriamu, Juwau, Djemusse, Riacho and Chaworha. After bombs were dropped on the village of Wiriamu, the soldiers of the Comandos took action, and barbarity ensued. Hundreds of people were slaughtered, including women and children. The killing extended to the four villages along the Zambezi River in various and inhuman ways. Many are locked inside cubicles where they are burnt to death by the action of incendiary grenades, and others are simply shot. Soldiers destroy huts, infrastructures and villages, loot goods, open fire on people whose bodies are then placed, with some alive in between, on funeral pyres to be consumed by fire.

Three hundred eighty-five people are said to have died, about a third of the 1350 inhabitants of the five villages. The list of the victims and the account of the events were compiled by Domingo Kansande and Father Domingos Ferrão, who passed on the information to Spanish and Dutch priests. The massacre would be divulged by the English priest Adrian Hastings in the British newspaper “The Times” on July 10, 1973, days before the visit of Marcelo Caetano to London. The case would also reach the United Nations.

The episode reflects how the anti-colonial struggle had shades and other protagonists than those fixed in the official narratives. In this case, black Mozambican, Spanish or Dutch priests contributed to the liberation struggle of the populations. Officially, Portugal never assumed what had happened.[16]

The massacre would have been lost to recorded history if it were not for the role played by data collectors, counter-reporting priests and fact-checking journalists in producing a list of the dead, mounting a concerted effort to verify and then publicise the massacre, and engaging in a daring rendition of a surviving eyewitness. On July 10 1973, 206 days after the event, they managed to get their story on the front page of The Times. Five days later, the Sunday Times Insight team followed suit with extensive background coverage of the case.[17]

Massacres in Namibia

– Genocide, 1884 – 1915

Germany ruled what was then called German South West Africa as a colony from 1884 to 1915. Colonial troops and settlers in 1904-1908 killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people.[18] German soldiers targeted people of two ethnic groups – the Herero and the Nama – because they had resisted land grabbing by German settlers. The Africans were shot, hanged, abandoned in the desert and died in concentration camps. Survivors from the Herero and Nama population were forced into the desert and later placed in concentration camps where they were exploited for labour. Many died of disease, exhaustion and starvation with some subject to sexual exploitation and medical experimentation. It is thought up to 80% of the indigenous populations died during the genocide.[19]

Descendants of the Herero and Nama, marginalised groups within Namibia, have kept the stories of their genocide alive through oral tradition and cultural events. A push to acknowledge the genocide began after Namibia’s independence in 1990, and strengthened with the 100th anniversary of the atrocities in 2004.[20]

Massacres in Nigeria

• Iva Valley, 18^thNovember 1949

21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government-owned coal mine at Enugu, 51 were injured.[21] The miners were fighting for back-pay owed to them for a period of casualisation known as ‘rostering’, later declared illegal, and had been sacked following a work to rule. They occupied the mine to prevent a repeat of the lock-out they had suffered during the 1945 general strike. Because Enugu was home to the Zikist independence movement, which included Marxists and other radicals; police were sent to remove the mine’s explosives, accompanied by Hausa troops drafted in from the North of the country; whose language and even their uniforms were unfamiliar to the Igbo miners.

Local Igbo constables fraternised with the workers; they were sure the government would pay them what they were due; in return the miners assured them they did not want to fight. They would not obstruct the police from removing the explosives, but refused to help because it wasn’t their job. They had strict work demarcation imposed by the British, these were hewers and tubmen: “This job is for timbermen, some special labourers, he should call them.”[22]

Massacres in Santomé e Principe

• The Batepá Massacre, 3 February 1953

The massacre committed by Portuguese colonial troops took place in São Tomé and Príncipe. The number of deaths resulting from electric torture and drowning is uncertain.

At the centre of the events was a decision by the then governor-general, Carlos Gorgulho, to force the native population to work in the cocoa and coffee plantations and public works. Since there was a chronic labour shortage in the archipelago, most workers were Angolan and Cape Verdean natives. On the farms, work was unpaid, or the wages were pitiful. Violence based on whippings was constant, and the attempt to force labour on the natives led to a revolt among the population in early 1953. They were repulsed with grenades and machine guns. The indigenous people fled to the fields and the natives to the forest.

The colonial administration then armed convicts and servants. It dismisses the police and uses white militias. The so-called “black hunt” began with brutal results. Summary executions, houses burnt down, women raped and a thousand San Tomeans taken to jails where they were tortured, some killed and almost all taken to forced labour camps. The historian Inês Rodrigues mentions that the São Tomense sources point to about 1032 deaths and the Portuguese sources to about 200. It is therefore impossible to determine with any historical certainty the number of victims. The massacre is considered the founding episode of San Tomean nationalism, and its victims were transformed into heroes for the freedom of the homeland.

Massacres in Senegal

• Thiaroye Massacre, 30 November 1944

French commanding officers turned their guns on their own soldiers. Those shooting were white and the victims were black. The French admit that 35 died, but war veterans say 300 black African soldiers were killed. They were soldiers from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Chad, Benin, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, and Togo. All were former prisoners of war, freed from Nazi German camps and brought to a holding facility in Thiaroye, on the outskirts of the Senegalese capital Dakar. The soldiers had been seeking equal pay with white soldiers and demanding their unpaid wages. At the time, French commanders saw this as a mutiny, but for African war veterans this was a call for justice[23].

Massacres in South Africa

• Langa Massacre, 21 March 1985

Members of the South African Police opened fire on a crowd of people gathered on Maduna Road between Uitenhage and Langa township in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The crowd had been attending a funeral of one of the six who had been slain by the apartheid police on 17 March 1985. They had gathered at Maduna Square and were heading towards the house where the funeral was held when the police blocked the road with two armoured vehicles and ordered the crowd to disperse. When the crowd failed to comply immediately, police opened fire on the crowd, killing 35 people and leaving 27 wounded.[24]

• Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960

Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed Black South African demonstrators. 69 people were killed and 180 wounded in a hail of submachine-gun fire. The demonstrators were protesting against the South African government’s restriction of nonwhite travel. In the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre, protests broke out in Cape Town, and more than 10,000 people were arrested before government troops restored order.

The incident convinced anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to abandon his nonviolent stance and organize paramilitary groups to fight South Africa’s system of institutionalized racial discrimination. In 1964, after some minor military action, Mandela was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. He was released after 27 years and in 1994 was elected the first Black president of South Africa.[25]

Massacres in Tanzania

• Maji Maji Rebellion, 1905 – 1907

The Maji Maji Rebellion (German: Maji-Maji-Aufstand, Swahili: Vita vya Maji Maji) was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against German colonial rule in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania). The war was triggered by a German policy designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export, during which 250,000-300,000 died.

Following the struggle for Africa between the major European powers in the 1880s, Germany strengthened its hold on several formal African colonies. These were German East Africa (Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and part of Mozambique), German South-West Africa (now Namibia), Cameroon and Togoland (now divided between Ghana and Togo). The Germans had a relatively weak hold on German East Africa. However, they maintained a system of forts throughout the interior of the territory and exerted some control over it. As their hold over the colony was weak, they resorted to violently repressive tactics to control the population.[26]

Massacres in Togo

• Pya-Hodo Massacre, 21 June 1957

The population took advantage of the visit of the United Nations mission, led by the Liberian King, to express its frustration with the French colonial administration in Togo. Faced with the villagers’ opposition to a warrant for the arrest of a certain Bouyo Moukpé, the colonial troops (gendarmes and circle guards), on the orders of the deputy circle commander, shot at the crowd gathered at the market. It was a massacre! Some twenty people were killed and several wounded (Gayibor 1997: 215). The mission had no choice but to deplore the incident in the context of the political situation at the time, which it described as tense, acrimonious and murderous. While the region was thought to be under French administration, it was discovered that the victims were demonstrators in favour of Togo’s immediate independence, a position advocated by the Comité de l’Unité Togolais (CUT) party and Juvento (Tcham 1994: 203). Almost a year after this repression, more precisely on 27 April 1958, the inhabitants of this region, like the majority of Togolese, preferred independence to internal autonomy. Later, at the time of the single party RPT, in memory of all those who fell under the bullets of the French coloniser, on 21 June 1957, a white marble stele was erected in Pya-Hodo, with the following inscription: “They died so that Togo may live”. These words introduce the names of the twenty or so victims of this massacre and recall the struggle of the Togolese people to free themselves from the colonial yoke.[27]

Massacres in Zimbabwe

• Nyadzonia Massacre 5 August 1976 & Chimoio Massacre 23-25 November 1977

During Zimbabwe’s war of liberation, two brutal massacres stand out, and both were carried out by the colonial regime in neighbouring Mozambique, against Zimbabwean refugees and freedom fighters. In each of these two massacres, over a thousand Zimbabwean freedom fighters, refugees and children lost their lives at the hands of a colonial government that was resisting the tide and quest for freedom and independence by the majority indigenous Zimbabweans.

The colonial soldiers working with a freedom fighter gained intelligence on the location of the refugee camp, where freedom fighters, untrained boys and girls who were waiting to be trained and young children were living. The insider collaborator, Morrison Nyathi blew a whistle, which was the emergency signal for the camp residents to come to the parade ground, which was now occupied by enemy forces, before the Rhodesians opened fire at point-blank range. Carnage ensued, with hundreds being shot, or drowning in the nearby river in their attempt to escape. ZANLA documents captured after the raid indicated that 1,028 of their number had been killed, a figure considerably higher than the 300 initially claimed by the Rhodesians. It is also not clear if ZANLA kept records of non-combatant refugees and children that were in the camp. The dead were buried in mass graves in Nyadzonia.

Chimoio is believed to have been the largest camp operated by the freedom fighters in Mozambique, and this camp was besieged from 23 to 25 November 1977. Men, women and children, combatants and non-combatants were massacred. The actual numbers of those massacred at Chimoio remains unknown but it runs into thousands. The gravity of this massacre is illustrated in the more than 20 mass graves in which victims were buried and the fact that other mass graves continue to be discovered in the area.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

[Photo: People calling for slavery reparations protest outside the entrance of the British High Commission during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Kingston, Jamaica, earlier this year.]

The stain, the entire stain of UK: [Photo: Troops parade for Queen Elizabeth II as she arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, in 2002.]

These racists laugh laugh laugh.

Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without history” and fantasies of European superiority are still told in ethnographic museums, like the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.

As a white and privileged researcher who focuses on colonial memory, racism and anti-colonial movements in Europe, my perspective on the AfricaMuseum is divided. For more than 10 years, the museum has been part of my cultural studies research. In my view, the museum is marked by a dusty past and has shown little evidence of post-colonial self-reflection. On the other hand, there are serious efforts to change.

Colonial looting

The AfricaMuseum’s forerunner was initiated in 1897 by the Belgian king Leopold II (1835-1909). It was a colonial human zoo within the Brussels World’s Fair. A Congolese village was recreated in Tervuren “exhibiting” 60 Congolese residents. Seven of them didn’t survive the exhibition, which lasted several months. (source: Belgium’s AfricaMuseum has a dark colonial past – it’s making slow progress in confronting this history)

Niger will fight back: The Sahel has become a flashpoint in the African struggle against neocolonialism. Mainstream media in the West, however, has sought to distort many of the main causes of the social explosions and military transitions taking place across the region. On The Freedom Side, hosts Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek discuss how the New York Times and other outlets are seeking to downplay resistance to neocolonialism and a desire to end poverty with pro-French narratives designed to demonize Russia.

….daily, man, the American collective mind, and those minds who believe they are outside the power of propaganda, all of them are rotting . . . .

Michael Parenti explicitly laid out in his renowned book, Inventing Reality U.S. citizens are highly propagandized:

“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.”

Interesting, Klanada:

Trust the Science, Mexico:

Through a joint statement, International Trade Minister Mary Ng and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said that “Canada shares the concerns of the U.S. that Mexico is not complying” with its obligations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

“Canada believes that the measures taken by Mexico are not supported by science and could potentially unnecessarily disrupt trade in the North American market.”

On February 13, Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) issued a decree banning the use of transgenic corn in tortillas and other products for human and animal consumption.

So we are here, then, a society, a country, a crocodile tears shit hole, with an unending barrage of stupified Americanos jumping around looking for back to school buy-one-get-three-free deal and the next Black Friday Big Screen TV sale, lost in their brand loyalty.

“The thing that’s driving all this focus-group and market-research data is the desire of people with the management power to make every decision as methodical and thought out and certain as possible.” — Malcolm Gladwell

As is typical of this journalistic genre, Washington Post reporters Naomi Nix and Sarah Ellison never address the question of what counts as “misinformation,” a highly contested category. Nor do they grapple with the content moderation problem of how to deal with politicians who say things of public interest that are arguably or demonstrably untrue. And although they allude to a constitutional challenge provoked by the federal government’s efforts to restrict speech on social media platforms, they never mention the First Amendment. That is a pretty striking omission by people whose profession relies on that amendment’s protections and who claim to be worried about the health of our democracy. (source)

Money for nothing, and nothing for money: Homo Consumopethicus.

A whopping 54% of consumers would stop using a brand after just one bad experience, with millennials in the majority (57%). 

A recent poll of 2,000 U.S. adults found inconsistent or obsolete online product information to be the No. 1 deal-breaker (24%) for consumers to “break up” with a brand they use.

However, half (51%) also said a great online or social media experience, such as fast replies to their questions, funny posts, and detailed how-to videos, would convince them to give the brand another try.

Two-thirds (67%) said they would be willing to switch brands if their initial experience with a new one is a cut above in a survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Propel Software. 

In fact, 58% have recently switched from a brand they used to love to its competitor. Almost half (47%) said they were enticed by an enhanced product experience, such as the availability of accessories, an online community, or how-to videos.

Of the items people were most willing to switch brands on, smartphones topped the list at 37%, TVs and kitchen appliances were second with 36% each and cars third at 35%. (source)

That is USA’s rotting head in a nutshell. Focus groups, polls, instant satisfaction surveys, on and on, all the PT Barnum and Snake Oil Salesmen have gone algorithm and Zuckerberg and Dell and Unit 8200/NSA on us.

Now, with Labor Day (fake) approaching and then the School Consumer Buy Buy Buy Addiction Week, and then leading into Diabetic Halloween, and then moving toward the sick vomit day of Turkey and Football National Day of Sorrow, and then toward the Xmas month, we are just never out of that loop, those deals, those brands, all those consumer reports, and all the sad faces over less sales, less retail action, we will just continue to feed the merchants of death selling the brand loyal Americans that China is bad, Russia is Nazi-Land and the other Axis of Evil is Ready for Immolation.

As the unipolar world drains, and that G7 Brand is now Dirty Underwear with HOLES:

Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement. It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko), not to mention the stunned collective West, to fully grasp the enormity of the new strategic stakes.

President Putin, for his part, described the negotiations on BRICS expansion as quite difficult. By now a relatively accurate picture is emerging of what really went down on that table in Johannesburg.

India wanted 3 new members. China wanted as many as 10. A compromise was finally reached, with 6 members: Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Argentina and Ethiopia.

So from now on it’s BRICS 11. And that’s just the beginning. Starting with the rotating Russian presidency of BRICS on January 1, 2024, more partners will be progressively included, and most certainly a new round of full members will be announced at the BRICS 11 summit in Kazan in October next year. So we may soon progress to BRICS 20 – on the way to BRICS 40. The G7, for all practical purposes, is sliding towards oblivion. (Pepe Escobar)

Branded Loyalty — Kiev, Ukraine, the Gift that Keeps Sucking US Taxpayers. That giant sucking sound, recall? Ukraine, Pentagon, DoD, NSA, trillions a year to the CIA and other killers.

[Note the two cheating pieces of war crime criminals next to Perot, Clinton and Prescot Bush Jr. Oh, where oh where are the bats?]

Imagine? Soros and Company, 90 percent of Zionists in Israel, oh so many millions and millions of economic totalitarians and plain old thugs, batted to death. Turn the tables man on Homo Bellum and Homo Fluido Estupido.

The Canadian government has come under fire for allowing the slaughter of nearly 470,000 seals as part of the biggest marine animal hunt on the planet.

A thousand dead baby seals:

Imagine, a thousand dead politicians? Now that’s justice!

These Homo Retailopethicus, batting seals in the head:

[Imagine all those POTUS and SCOTUS and all those MIC and DoD, bats to their heads? Just a thought experiment, SS Substack.]

For fur and blubber, man:

Oh, the pelts are left there for days:

So, we are Brand Loyal, that dirty blue and yellow nazi flag:

Pieces of human stain. This is what my flagging social security does for a criminal and his legions of bigger torturers and murderers.

This one is only valued (sic) at 5 million American taxpayer dollars:

Egyptian political scientist Abdulrahman Alabbassy commented on the situation, saying it is “surprising” that Zelensky and his relatives spend fortunes on personal luxuries instead of using Ukraine’s riches for military and humanitarian purposes, considering the time of war. Alabbassy blames Ukrainian corruption for this kind of attitude and reminds how Kiev’s political system is controlled by egocentric officials who prioritize personal gain over care for their own people.

“I am surprised that relatives of top Ukrainian officials began to buy luxury real estate after the start of Ukraine war. I don’t remember anything like this before (…) It is surprising that Ukraine is waging a bloody war with Russia, and relatives of Ukrainian officials are buying up real estate in Egypt instead of donating their riches to the needs of the country. A suspicion is creeping in that Ukrainian bureaucrats, with the help of their relatives, are stealing financial aid to Ukraine from the West. I am quite certain that Zelenskyy’s mother-in–law’s purchase of a villa in El Gouna is the result of corruption and the theft of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. I sincerely sympathize with the Ukrainian people” he said.

Anything outside the dirty NaziLandia Coloring lines, anything that might question ZioAzovLensky, not brand loyal!

Fucking Brand Loyal: President of Moldova Maia Sandu greeting Ukrainians with the “Day of Ukrainian Flag” national holidays – showing Ukrainian flags upside down. And, Moldova is NOT a part of EU, European Union, but these brainwashed kids have those flags, too.

“If I achieve one thing with my time here on earth, I might be content if that one thing could be burning to the ground the practice of running focus groups in place of actual user research.” — Erika Hall, Co-founder, Mule Design

The old-school research model involved bringing an eclectic group of potential users into a room to unearth opinions, attitudes, and expectations about a product. But focus groups are a handicapped concept.

For one thing, as Steve Jobs would have attested to, people don’t really know what they want until they have it in their hands.

Ahh, sociopaths, CEOs and Madmen and Madwomen:

Oscar Wilde’s observation that “nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system.

If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world’s worth. If we don’t want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.

This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn’t often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.

So what is Brand USA?

What Brand of Smear and Sweat Covering do you prefer?

You want Brand Bud Lite or Modelo?

You like Brand Levis?

You think you are not PROPAGANDIZED?

Ahh, Brand Loyal:

Crocodile Tears for the Uniformed Mercenaries, those Blood Lust SEALS or AC drone operators:

Creaming their panties, Brand Loyal:

That Brand Loyal Ecosystem:

Why you should care about the Military-Industrial-Media Complex By HELEN JOHNSON, April 15, 2021 in Opinions [This is the first article in a five-part series by Columnist Helen Johnson about the military-industrial-media complex.]

Men as Advocates and Allies

The most difficult aspect of writing about BWS — battered wife syndrome or intimate partner violence — is that as a man, I have to embrace reality: gender violence is not just fostered by the socialization of men to be more powerful than women, but for so many judges, lawyers, DAs and the public, this relationship is considered a two-way street with both man and woman to be equally responsible for the victimization.

This patriarchal false balancing then continues to socialize many men to believe they have a right to create the need to abuse power and to control women. It’s that vicious cycle of seeing dad abuse mom, and then becoming an abuser himself.

I’m writing this because I believe truth telling — my own bearing witness to just one BWS case in Lincoln County over the course of more than a year and a half — can be instructive to the reader.

I will say upfront that the experience here in Lincoln County has been far from a bed of roses for my friend, who is young (40), and is independent, strong and intelligent. But after those years of abuse by a drunkard, and then the 911 call last year, she thought she had finally unmasked the failures she kept beating herself up for and finding some safe space from which to spend time to change.

Is it possible for an abusive man — who had intimated murdering her would be easily covered up — to be rehabilitated? Can a man be restored — a man raised by a macho father; an angry arrested-developed male vociferous in his misogyny; a violent guy; and a big-time narcissist and alcohol abuser?

This is a story in many parts, and the survivor — my friend who was both victim and psychologically connected to the abuser — is still in the process of dealing with the outfall of suffocation, then calling 911, seeing the sheriff deputies respond, witnessing her husband struggle in handcuffs, and herself appearing in front of a grand jury who indicted the accused on more than 10 charges.

That was more than 10 months ago, and as I write this, the fellow is about to be released as part of a diversionary agreement, AKA a plea agreement. He will be in Judge Sheryl Bachart’s domestic violence special court.

This is a story of unending “to be continued” phases in her life, in her family’s life and her friends’ lives.

Speaking with, and for the victims/survivors

Getting people — victims, survivors, counselors, and others — to respond to a journalist’s question, both on the record and named, is daunting. “I can talk all day in group therapy with victims of domestic violence, but those are safe spaces,” said one counselor from Arizona with more than 30 years in the field of social work, including running so-called safe houses.

“But imagine me identifying myself in the newspaper, with my credentials and current place of work presenting myself as a feminist and pretty critical of the judicial, policing and social services fields in regard to domestic violence and how those systems treat the victim? I’d be pulled onto the carpet, for sure.”

Referring to a person who is going through the legal hurdles of fighting for her life by calling 911, “a victim” is not considered politically correct in feminist circles, one former woman’s studies professor (again, asking to not be named) said to me (I worked with her at Green River College years ago).

However, the woman who coined the term, “Battered Wife Syndrome,” believes using the word “victim” for a woman in the midst of the abuse even after calling the cops is correct: “Until battered women take back some control over their lives, they may not truly be considered survivors.”

Lenore E. Walker wrote a seminal article, “Battered Woman Syndrome” for Psychiatric Times in July 2009, explaining the crime of battering tied to the psychological hell a woman goes through in this BWS.

“A battered woman needs to feel validated when she describes the abuse. This can be done by emphasizing the positive things she did to protect herself and her children if they were involved. Tell her that no matter what she may have done or said, no one deserves to be abused,” Walker wrote in the piece. “Be careful not to ask or even intimate that she might have done something to provoke the batterer. Such questions will not create the rapport that facilitates empowerment-nor do they create a safe space for the woman.”

My own experience with domestic violence spans decades as I worked the police beats early as a newspaperman (starting at 18) in Tucson for the college daily, and then continued with police beats for newspapers in Southern Arizona, West Texas and Spokane.

The crux of this self-referential three-part look at domestic violence survivors, and scrutinizing the systems in place that “deal with” the abused and the abusers, is my own experience working with this friend living in Lincoln County who in March 2022 reached out to me for assistance to leave her abuser.

I barely knew her then, but consider her to be a great friend of my wife and mine.

The fact she ended up in Arizona, with my own sister, a seasoned statewide social worker, Heidi Haeder-Heild, assisting her, that was not enough to break her out of the battered wife syndrome. She returned to Lincoln County a few months later, lured by the hope of a changed husband, entranced by the idea that she had changed and that change would convince the husband she was a worthy wife, friend, woman to never be put down, economically isolated and physically abused.

Those hopes ended with a 911 call she frantically made on a Friday night in November 2022.

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(To be continued in next installment — original piece published August 25 Newport News Times)

my local newspaper and me . . . Stories for Our Coast and the World!

While Aug. 19 was International Humanitarian Day, just a short stone’s throw from the Waldport Post Office is a hub of volunteers and one director feeding the soul of the needy on a weekly basis. For manager Nicole Person, her 10 years of service with Meals on Wheels in Waldport have been a lesson in humility and nutritional needs of those receiving the hot and frozen meals.

Most of the 55 meals that are delivered by volunteers go to housebound recipients who are elderly, and many of the volunteers are also elderly but able-bodied and capable of driving those meals to the worthy recipients.

As an historical aside, the Meals on Wheels program started during World War Two, in London, as the so-called “blitz” crumbled people’s homes and disenabled them from preparing and cooking meals.

Nicole points out this home-delivered meal program throughout the U.S. significantly improves diet quality, reduces food insecurity and ups the quality-of-life among the recipients.

For those concerned about tax dollars and so-called entitlement program expenditures, the Meals on Wheels program reduces taxpayer funds allotted to hospitals, nursing homes or other expensive community-based services.

The 62-year-old Nicole lives in Seal Rock, but her life started in Los Altos, California, where she graduated from Saint Francis High School (Mountain View). She’s worked in Atlanta for Health Unlimited, a supplement company. She graduated from Stevens College in Missouri.

The bottom line for Nicole and her volunteers is bringing the gift of food to folks aging in place. Like the local postal delivery person, volunteers for Meals on Wheels sometimes become the first line of defense for people living in precarious situations.

There is a plethora of disadvantages for an aging population we all face, as either aging folk or family with aging relatives in our midst:

• The economy is out of control in terms of unending inflation; the safety nets are being defunded by both political parties, so there is increased pressure on health services; many jobs are unfilled, so older people in need of income end up in jobs that are too physically demanding which put them at risk for mental and physical harm.
• The biggest concern is the atomization of our society, where families are pulled apart and cast themselves far and wide, away from aging parents and grandparents who are in need of home maintenance support and transportation needs.
• The biggest issue is, of course, not just mobility, but finding a group of people for social support, people to interact with, to break bread with and just to be in their presence.

The Meals on Wheels for our area covers Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties. It is part of the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments Community Services Program. The COG has been providing meals in our area for 43 years.

Around 500 meals are prepared daily for Siletz, Toledo, Lincoln City, Newport and Waldport in Newport. According to the program parameters, any individual or a couple in which one member is 60 or older, as well as Native Americans 55 and older, is eligible for delivered meals. Those with mobility restrictions and other Medicare provisos can get frozen meals also delivered to cover seven days a week.

Nicole Person is proud of Waldport’s volunteers and the community at large for supporting the Meals on Wheels program. The blurb on the pamphlet I picked up there says it all: “Meals on Wheels is much more than just a meal. It’s also a link to your community. Seniors eligible for Meals on Wheels know that they’ll not only have a nutritious meal each day, but also a short, friendly visit and safety check by our dedicated volunteer drivers. If you don’t answer your door when our driver arrives, they won’t just leave your meal and drive away. Special efforts are always taken to find out if you need help, and any concerns are reported quickly and appropriately.”

For summer months, the hot meal program only covers Mondays and Fridays because the Waldport Wednesday Market unfortunately takes up much parking. Additionally, Nicole stressed her aging volunteers and on-site meal recipients should not be put at risk attempting to find parking or crossing the street during the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. market hours.

The three-day-a-week hot meals program starts up again in October, but again, those who are eligible in our area can get a meal a day through the frozen meal program.

The Waldport program serves Yachats and Seal Rock, as well as folk up the Alsea River. Thousands of hot meals a year are prepped in Waldport as well as the delivery of frozen packaged meals for eligible homebound citizens.

While this piece initially highlighted International Humanitarian Day, Meals and Wheels does fit that definition. The saying, “it takes a village to raise a child,” can be applied to a larger arena: “It takes a village to support a person in a humanitarian crisis.”

We have record-high humanitarian needs around the world. The 2023 World Humanitarian Day built on that metaphor of “a collective endeavor to grow global appreciation of humanitarian work.”

The Waldport Meals on Wheels is doing humanitarian good for each individual served, the volunteers and for the larger community. Nicole Person is just one of many people working to ease food insecurity and to increase the community-based safety net.

Paul K. Haeder is a novelist, journalist, educator and author of “Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam,” Cirque Press. Original story, August 25, Newport News Times.

GOP — Grotesque Obtuse Party? It don’t matter who you give the badges to: Dems and Repubs are vassals, one and all . . . spineless but big talkers in a FOX fucking studio or CNBC green room!

Using wars to bleed countries they don’t like is traditional American policy. Before US entered World War 2, then Senator Harry Truman said, “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”

● No more sanctions.
● No more arms shipments.
● Immediate peace negotiations with US pressure for settlement, not against it.
● Guarantee Ukraine’s territory and Russia’s safety.
● Full attention to healing Earth, not dominating it.

The first 2024 Republican presidential debate made clear that there’s no non-interventionist candidate in the race, even if there was a lot of quibbling over which specific foreign interventions the U.S. should prioritize.

When debate moderators asked the eight candidates on stage in Milwaukee who would not support additional military aid to Ukraine, only businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they wouldn’t.

Everyone else was enthusiastically on board with increased aid to the embattled country.

“Ukraine is the first line of defense for us,” said former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

These are, again, HUMAN stain, Blue or Red Teams, but so are their bootlickers, their secretaries, their families, all the folk inviting them into their Chambers of Commerce-Colleges-Rotary Clubs, all of them bankrolling them, and the little Ma’s and Pa’s donating to them.

CIA? UKRAINE?

Fucking long reading list these pigs of politics should be reading but in fact they want it banned, BANNED:

Even the fanatical neocon warmonger, the BBC has an article saying that Ukraine is “running out of men”. Young men and old have long been press ganged off the streets into the armed services. The latest arrest of army recruitment personnel by Zelensky is an attempt to step up the draft and prevent the buying of exemption from conscription ($7,500 is apparently the standard price! – about 18 months pay for the average earner.)

Ukrainians have now understood, as cemeteries expand and new ones are layed out, what the insightful have known for 20 years – that Ukraine has been taken over by the West, its elections overturned, its leaders removed and its armed services expanded to be the biggest in Europe – all to be used as a battering ram against Russians (millions of whom live in Eastern Ukraine and who have been dying under Kiev’s shelling for 9 years).

Sanity is running from monsters, running from ZioAzovNazi’s, running from the meat grinder, running from NATO or Ukrainian trash or the lot of them in EuroTrashLandia. SANITY is saying take your fucking MIC and shove it up your asses.

Will they know the CIA and Ukraine go hand in hand? Publisher’s summary —

A shocking expose of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America’s war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the “Viet Cong.” The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians, male and female, suspected of harboring information about the enemy – though many on the blacklist were targeted by corrupt South Vietnamese security personnel looking to extort money or remove a rival.

Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand (80,000) noncombatants were “neutralized,” as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies.

Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentine’s startling expos blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIA’s history.

The ebook edition includes “The Phoenix Has Landed,” a new introduction that addresses the “Phoenix-style network” that constitutes America’s internal security apparatus today. Residents on American soil are routinely targeted under the guise of protecting us from terrorism – which is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is all about.

The used to call it, Shanghaiing:

I went through some of the tunnels in Portland, OR:

Underneath Portland’s Old Town is a network of tunnel passages connecting the basements of many downtown bars and hotels to the Willamette River waterfront. In the 19th century, these tunnels were primarily used by merchants to move goods from the ships docked at the harbor directly to the basement storage areas, while avoiding the busy over ground traffic. But over the years these dingy tunnels became the center for organized crime and many nefarious practices such as shanghaiing. Indeed, so pervasive are these stories that the locals call Portland Underground the “Shanghai Tunnels”. But what exactly is shanghaiing?

During the Age of Sail—a period lasting from the 16th to the 19th centuries—a vast number of skilled and unskilled seamen were required to meet the needs of sea going vessels. But life at sea was harsh and there was far too few volunteers. So many European nations, especially the British Royal Navy, resorted to a more straightforward method of recruitment, namely, kidnapping.

They called it Shanghaiing because many of the ships where these kidnapped sops ended up was Shanghai.

Ryan Grim of The Intercept asked Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki what the US was doing to promote negotiations. She replied,”We are Ukraine’s largest provider of military and humanitarian and economic assistance, to put them in a greater position of strength as they go into these negotiations.”

In other words, we’re helping Ukraine to keep fighting and civilians to keep dying, but not doing anything to stop the carnage. Biden has not talked with Putin, nor Secretary of State Blinken with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Why should they, when our war corporations are getting rich? (source)

Here, Hunt, a former CNN investigative reporter, tells a “shocking tale”: how a branch of the US government deliberately thwarted attempts to bring to justice Nazi scientists who were guilty of war crimes, and who, in at least one case, actually participated in fresh atrocities in the US. While it is common knowledge that the US used Nazi scientists during the cold war, Hunt reveals for the first time that the project to recruit and utilize Nazi scientific talent- -code-named “Paperclip”’—continued until 1973. In addition, while former Nazi scientists (like Werner von Braun) contributed greatly to the development of rockets, jet planes, and other prodigies of technology, Hunt convincingly demonstrates that several such scientists also participated in “Dachau-like experiments on over seven thousand U.S. soldiers”’ on the effects of LSD and other chemicals at Edgewood, Maryland, between 1947 and 1966. Moreover, Hunt explains that the US avidly recruited many Nazi scientists, despite their war crimes—including utilization of slave labor and execution of prisoners—and despite the continuing devotion of many to Nazi ideology. Hunt also relates the sordid details of the intelligence community’s attempts to prevent bringing these scientists to justice. And, in at least one case, she shows that the program was inimical to US interests—the man who conceived and ran Paperclip was ultimately convicted of selling American defense secrets to the Soviet Union. An engrossing examination of how a small clique of defense and intelligence officials deliberately subverted stated US policy.

Other activities covered in this book that have not been examined up to now or that take on new significance in light of Paperclip’s true history include:

• the expansion of JIOA’s intelligence operation in 1948 to include Project National Interest, which brought a convicted Nazi war criminal, an ex-Nazi spy, and other ardent Nazis to the United States to work for universities and defense contractors;

• how the CIA used National Interest as a cover to slip covert CIA operatives overseas into the United States;

• how another JIOA project, called “63,” signed up Nuremberg defendant Kurt Blome, convicted Nazi war criminal Eduard Houdremont, and other notorious individuals while the JIOA ran the operation out of a New York hotel; -details of a scheme by U.S. Air Force General Robert L. Walsh, Director of Intelligence, European Command, to intervene in court decisions involving ex-Nazi intelligence officers working for postwar U.S. intelligence in Germany;

• details of another scheme by Walsh, who, as head of the Inter-American Defense Board, relocated notorious German General Walter Schreiber from the United States to Argentina;

• how Whalen’s Paperclip recruits in 1959 included a former Wehrmacht soldier who was working as a dishwasher in Canada;

• how an alliance formed in 1985 between political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and former Paperclip scientists tried to shut down the justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit;

• details of another scheme in 1986 to squelch the Justice Department’s investigations of former Paperclip specialists Guenther Haukohl and Dieter Grau;

• how NASA publicly honored those same men in a 1987 ceremony commemorating Wernher von Braun;

• how Rudolph’s friends tried to bring him back in 1990 to attend a NASA moon walk celebration, despite laws barring his entry into the United States. In essence this book deals with a hauntingly familiar and contemporary subject: a small group of men in the Pentagon who decided that they alone knew what was best for the country.

“And that, I think, is the real danger here,” said former U.S. congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who authored the 1978 immigration law that bars Nazis from our shores. “We have agencies that think that they are a law unto themselves, that regardless of what the law of the land is, regardless of what the president of the United States says, they’ll do whatever they think is best for themselves. And that’s very dangerous. “

Oh, update this to Covert Action Magazine: Ukraine Providing an Important Testing Ground For Space-Based Weapons

Call it testing or proving or experimental or R &D, but the bottom line is trillions are going to be made on the death of a million folk.

And it’s A-Okay with the penis piano man, Mister LGBTQA+ Pandora Papers Man, his allegiance to Israel, via MI-6.

Zelensky has uploaded a video to his Telegram channel showing him meeting Azov Battalion founder Andriy Biletsky who is on record as claiming to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led Untermenschen”. Of course the moron Biden is too busy calling Republicans “white supremacists” to notice he is arming and training real Nazi supremacists in Ukraine!

That boy, the DoD, the Collective Black-Face a la Trudeau West, is all about the genetics, the mRNA, the CRISPR and the Y gene:

Now this is just one aspect of the Goyim’s Call of Duty:

The Talmud, a huge and authoritative compendium of Jewish legal traditions, contains in fact no less than eight gender designations including:

• Zachar, male.
• Nekevah, female.
• Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.
• Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.
• Aylonit hamah, identified female at birth but later naturally developing male characteristics.
• Aylonit adam, identified female at birth but later developing male characteristics through human intervention.
• Saris hamah, identified male at birth but later naturally developing female characteristics.
• Saris adam, identified male at birth and later developing female characteristics through human intervention.

We are just getting started =

So, you have those absolute shits in the Republican Race =

And, drum roll, all those LGBTQA+ BIPOC’s calling for more Chosen People to Guide them:

Old fucking dead from the neck news: October 24, 2022

US Progressive Democrats Retract Calls for Ukraine Negotiations: The Congressional Progressive Caucus believes in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Our Progressive Promise is rooted in our core principles: (1) Advancing justice, dignity, and peace for all; (2) Tackling systems of oppression and dismantling structural racism and discrimination; (3) Taking on systems that privilege the wealthy and powerful to demand a government and economy that works for the people; and (4) A commitment to sweeping, transformative change.

• Caucus MembersThe Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is made up of one hundred and one members. It is chaired by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), alongside CPC Deputy Chair, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and CPC Whip, Congressman Greg Casar (TX-35).

Rich MAN/LGBTQA+ ‘s WAR and Poor MAN/LGBTQA+/BIPOC’ FIGHT:

Revolutionary War, or the ZioAzovNaziLensky WAR: Why fight? One obvious answer has been that common folks were perhaps duped by the elites.  Historians deploy this explanation repeatedly to make sense of the baffling habit of average Americans to follow the lead of their wealthier countrymen in various national projects.  Thus, the concept of “a rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight” has been applied to the US Civil War, World War I, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and to a host of non-military endeavors.  Some historians see the American Revolution as yet another instance in which the rich manipulated the poor to misunderstand their own interests, and to support the agenda of their social superiors.

Fucking US Military, Murder Inc.

Lost status and a desperate existence in Iran are driving thousands of former Afghan troops — many of them elite commandos trained by the United States — to consider fighting as mercenaries in Ukraine and other battlefields.

Many ex-Afghan security personnel accuse the United States of abandoning them after the Taliban regained power last year. They also say poverty and security concerns are factoring into their decisions to take a private Russian mercenary group up on its recruitment offers.

According to David Nasaw, a history professor at the City University of New York, after having received his draft notice to report for military service during the Civil War Andrew Carnegie, the billionaire rail and steel magnate, paid an Irish immigrant $850 to fight in his place.(1) Needless to say, Carnegie was by no means unique in his unwillingness to serve, as “draft dodging” was a common practice among the wealthy.

“A large number of the men of his generation, who would later be referred to as ‘robber barons,’ including Phillip Armour, Jay Cooke, J.P. Morgan, George Pullman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis P. Huntington, and John D. Rockefeller spent the war as he did, making money by providing the Union Armies with fuel, uniforms, shoes, rifles, ammunitions, provisions, transportation and financing.”(2)

Nor was it illegal: The Conscription (Enrollment) Act, passed by Congress in 1863 to address a manpower shortage in the Union Army, allowed an exemption from military service to those who either paid a “commutation fee” of $300 or, like Carnegie, hired a substitute. Since only the privileged, wealthier citizens could afford such a remittance, military service, fighting and dying, became the exclusive burden of the poor and the working classes. As a consequence, those who were “condemned to serve,” and perhaps to die, viewed their conscription as forced servitude in a “rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,” the rallying cry that mobilized thousands to take to the streets in protest. During one such uprising, the 1863 New York Draft Riots, some 2,000 protesters were killed and 8,000 injured, according to one estimate.

The the very last Ukrainian:

Fucking sick WEST: Why Is U.S. Funding for Ukraine Important?

To avoid a global war.

To strengthen the United States’ international position.

To improve the image of the United States.

The United States and the whole Western world may not just become economic and political leaders but also win the battle for the hearts and minds of millions in countries increasingly skeptical about “Western values” (and cynical about U.S. intentions in particular) in the twenty-first century. A new version of Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man may yet be written. (sick source)

Sergey Lavrov: I certainly agree that the concept of Western domination promoted by the United States and its subordinate countries does not provide for the harmonious development of all of humanity. On the contrary, we must deal the Western minority’s never-ending striving for military, political, financial and economic expansion. Their slogans change: they promote globalisation, then Westernisation, Americanisation, universalisation, liberalisation, etc. But the essence remains the same – they strive to subordinate every independent player and force them to play by the rules that are beneficial to the West.

Today, one can hardly deny that the Americans and their satellites are trying to slow down the natural evolution of international relations and the formation of a multipolar system, or even reverse the process. They are not averse to using inappropriate and illegal methods, including the use of force or unilateral sanctions (not approved by the UN Security Council), information and psychological warfare, etc, in order to bend the world to suit their needs.

Today’s West is steered by people like Josep Borrell who divide the world into a blooming “garden” and “the jungle,” where the latter clearly applies to most of humanity. I dare say, this racist worldview certainly prevents them from accepting the onset of multipolarity. The political and economic establishment in Europe and the United States reasonably fear that the transition to a multipolar system will entail serious geopolitical and economic losses, the final dismantling of globalisation in its current form tailored according to Western templates. They are primarily spooked by the prospect of losing the opportunity to exploit the rest of the world, fuelling their own fast-track economic growth at the expense of others.

The current generation of Western leaders has made no secret of their refusal to accept the logic of historical development, which is evidence of their professional degradation and loss of the ability to correctly analyse current events and anticipate future trends. The ill-conceived policy pursued by the United States and its followers has made the current aggravation of the international situation inevitable despite our many years of attempts to prevent it, which is another manifestation of that degradation. I am referring to the full-scale crisis of European security, the blame for which lies entirely with our former partners.

In this context, modern Russia sees its mission in maintaining a global balance of interests and building a fairer architecture of international relations. Russia’s updated Foreign Policy Concept approved by President Vladimir Putin on March 31, 2023, spells out our views in a systematic manner. We believe that creating favourable conditions for the peaceful and steady development of humanity on the basis of a unifying agenda should be a universal priority. One of our key objectives in this respect is to revive the UN’s ability to play a central role in coordinating the interests of its member states.

We are not alone in this endeavour. More and more countries in the Global South and East are becoming conscious of their national interests. They are beginning to spell them out and pursuing policies focused on asserting these interests in the spirit of international cooperation. These states are increasingly advocating the formation of a more equitable world order through the reform of the existing formats of interaction or the creation of new ones to address specific problems concerning security and development. We support this trend because we have a clear understanding that it is the future.

Again, these shits — democrats and republicans and the neocons and neoliberals, all of them, send them to the meat-grinder:

Rich mother fuckers pressing farmers and mercenaries into war: Military service for most of the medieval period was based on land ownership. This feudal system determined that all holders of a certain amount of land were obliged to accept knighthood and do military service for their feudal overlord, either in person or by raising forces. An individual could, however, avoid military service through payment of a fine know as scutage which raised revenue that was usually used for hiring mercenaries.

During the early 14th century the contractual system gradually replaced the feudal system as a means of raising armies. This was based on contracts or ‘indentures’ and commissions, such as commissions of array and commissions to muster, whereby appointed lords or officials were authorised to raise forces in the name of the king. (source)

Before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, there was still no regular standing army; forces were raised for specific purposes and then disbanded.

A report from the European branch of the Council of Foreign Relations claimed without a source that the Zelenskyy Regime has drafted a million men and women, while simultaneously making it illegal for any male between the ages of 18-60 to leave the country, and making them all eligible for mandatory military service.

The Washington Post reports that the climate is frightening. Armed men may show up to your house at any time, stop you on the street, or pull you out of a restaurant: all in order to serve you draft papers that would change your life, and possibly end it. The Kyiv Post writes that the Zelenskyy Regime is not willing to leave the drafting up to the army, and that with a few exceptions for wartime industry, managers of government agencies are required to register 50% of their workforce for military conscription – a step preceding the draft, and that any individual of military service age fired from a job that previously protected them from mandatory fighting is automatically enrolled for the draft.

The Post acknowledged a cache of documents leaked by someone in the Zelenskyy Regime that 131,000 men had died in the fighting, with more wounded or missing, 5 times what the regime was willing to admit publically.

These motherfuckers on TV, these fake human beings, these sociopaths in politics, in the lobbying biz, in media, in military, in anti-diplomacy circles (circle jerks), send them to the MEAT GRINDER now!

Fucking women in the mercenary forces? How about the first senator, a female? The Nation’s First Woman Senator Was a Virulent White Supremacist. Rebecca Latimer Felton, a Georgia women’s rights activist and lynching proponent, temporarily filled a dead man’s Senate seat, and advocated lynching Black men accused of raping white women—“a thousand times a week if necessary,” as she said in an infamous 1897 speech

One day, Ukrainians, every one of whom will have known someone who was killed or wounded in the war, may remember in despair that Russia would likely have called off the war for a promise of Ukraine’s neutrality, which is less than the U.S. demands of Cuba. Zelensky was willing to make that promise in negotiations in the first weeks of the war. Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute, reports that the large majority of Ukrainians opposed joining NATO in every poll that asked the question before 2014. In 2008, when NATO opened the door to Ukraine, 58% of Ukrainians opposed it. As late as May 2022, three months into the war with Russia, still only 59% of Ukrainians said they would vote to join NATO.

They will also remember in despair that all of the territories now annexed by Russia, excluding Crimea but including an autonomous Donbas, could have remained part of Ukraine. Sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko, a leading scholar on radical movements in Ukraine, says in a recent article that “on the eve of the invasion, the largest opposition party…advocated Ukrainian neutrality and the full implementation of the Minsk Accords.” At the height of the political crisis over the implementation of the Minsk Accords, Ishchenko reports that only 26% of Ukrainians supported the “No” campaign.

Ukrainians may one day remember that, after they had negotiated to their satisfaction in Belarus, again in negotiations with then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, and yet again in Istanbul, they fought on in service of a wider American war that led to all their deaths, broken bodies, and broken minds.

If the war goes on, all of this will likely only get worse. If the goal is to negotiate before Ukraine is in an even more vulnerable position and before it is even more wounded, then the time to end the fighting and negotiate a diplomatic settlement is now.

Viva Pancho Villa Inside the Drawing Room of a Wild West Sanatorium

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The story is exploded narrative, dreams as dialogue, and animals of course think, so you get them thinking in this. Cast of characters?

Readers, come on, these are composits of real Paul K. Haeder people, in El Paso, Juarez, Chihuahua, real time and dream time. Get into it, and you will not be disappointed.

But it’s serialized, for a fee. The artwork is by Luis Jimenez, who I spent time with in Hondo, NM.

I have 70 pages written, and will kick it out for another 70 as we get some subscribers. So, today, you get a little of the style, the stream of consciousness, the wildness of the book.

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Book One: Viva Pancho Villa Inside the Drawing Room of a Wild West Sanatorium

Take One — Muralizing

Bambi watches two skippers – tall, flaco mini-skirted men-women of the night prancing up along the sidewalk leading to the Randolph Apartments. Transsexuals looking for the apartment “penthouse” across from Bambi’s digs.

She leans over the balcony, pulls on a Pall Mall, smiles at the two party animals drawn by the penthouse’s two inhabitants – George and Mike.

Fucking party hounds, George-Michael, she says, grabbing the plastic pint of shit-hole vodka from a Styrofoam cooler that looks like some mechanic’s carburetor dunking bath.

She points to the beer container: Dirty but keeps the juice iceee cold. You know me, chavo, ice cold but dirty.

Mario looks up at her, slowly,  then back to his artist-drunk concentration in the waning light. Mario sits in front of a canvas. He’s sipping a tall boy, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and carving Prisma color curves around ink drawings of Diego Rivera, Frieda and his own likeness – big bulky back with neck-to-coccyx  La Virgen de Guadalupe. It’s so big – the real tattoo – the one on Mario’s back the women artists he rolls with call it, Mario’s Protection Shroud.

Diego and Frieda are in her studio, some of her paintings in the background. Everything – Diego, the art, everything inside, including the big Mario artist in his own scene – is in black and white. Except for Frieda and her strokes on the back of Mario. The Virgin is half colored-in by Frieda. The rest of the saint’s image on Mario is black outline, like tattoo artists do in their artwork.

Mario’s waiting for Gregorio, best known as Greg the Yaqui. One of Many in Mario’s Protection Racket, that’s what some call the guys and gals who find him gigs in churches, at schools, anyplace for a two-story high mural. There are hangers on who want some of that wu, that energy from Mario the Quiet One, the Drunken Mexican Van Gough, the Plodding One with Paints and Sprays and Chiseling. Greg’s an artist – tattoos – and he writes songs, plays guitar and sells herba.

Gregorio, however, is the key to Mario’s band of merrymakers, in that MPR.

Long Indian hair, to his waist, Greg shouts up at the two on the balcony. Good evening, to you and to all the ghosts of the Randolph Apartments. Then he bows gallantly.

Greg’s bringing a couple of baggies of bud, but his avocation is writing down things in his journal. Nice hefty notepad sheathed by fine soft deerskin cover. He takes postcards, beer labels, receipts, notes, anything he comes across in his walkabout. He glues them in, draws around them, and he writes down conversations, words, noting the color of the sky, and the species of birds lingering on ledges and in the air. Names of people he drinks with, and ways people laugh it up when they get high with him.

I’m on my way up, boys and girls. Por supuesto.

He tips his floppy cowboy hat – a good handful of feathers like pickets around the hat’s belt sometimes leaves a Mardi Gras feel — to the two cross-dressers who reach the one entryway to the two-building complex. May the light of that moon over Juarez shine a bright beam of luck onto both of you.

One of the guys smiles, while the other just shouts, Oh my God, a real Indian Cowboy. Cowboy Indian? Whichever you prefer, handsome.

He lets them both into the courtyard first. I prefer, Gregorio the Gregarious Poet. He lifts up the journal from his old Army pack. Writing now, in my head, what crazy things you two might be up to. Pen to paper soon.

If you want first-person reportage, then join us with George Michael.  This is the red-wigged one, with purple everything – eyelashes, toenails and fingernails, and sequined mini skirt with blousy blouse. The courtyard is tiled, a small cherub-holding a basin as the loud fountain at the center, shaded by leafy locus trees, soft yuccas and germaniums in clay crumbling pots. Sparrows, starlings and a few crows hide out in luscious gardenia trees – eight of them placed in the courtyard near wrought iron chairs and love seats.  Doves high above on electrical lines jerk and poke the air below. Pigeons on the horizon —  a dozen – swarm, circling in unison.

The two girl-boys walk up the winding exterior stairway to the George Michael Penthouse. Greg jots down notes – Little flock of pigeons. Twelve. All banded. Looks like from over the Rio Grande. Making some haste. Goddamn, I have to give it to the narcos. Trained pigeons, mules with wings, dropping off whatever. Heroin. PCP. Coke.

He draws a pigeon on one side of his notes, a pigeon with a donkey body. A mule with wings dove wings. Flying over the Rio Grande. Bail of pot dangling from what are now talons.

Slash of blood and puke/effluent of heaving sex/ chemical confusion/river of hope/river of sangre/ ever waiting, brothers/sisters fleeing/ this barfed up Yankeedom/ flocking for some dream/ a song under breath/ cleaning roofing cooking/ mules and worker bees/ river of Uncle Sam’s soldiers/ song of mariachi/ hot nights of fornication . . . .

Neruda, get your ass up here and serve us. Pronto. Bambi goes inside the apartment after barking her orders, and within the riot of all assorted masks covering every inch of wall space, mostly from Mexico, and all the clay pots (some glazed and others rough and raw like 700-year-old Olmec specimens) and paper mache skeletons and dancing devils and angels, she goes to one of her more prized possessions – authentic Zapotec pot of a dog on hind legs, the belly the open pint-sized pot. She pulls out two 20s, smells them, touches the white cocaine crusty drivel with tongue-moistened fingers, and touches fingers to her gums.

Ritual, darling, ritual. Mario looks in from outside, where he is with painting, beer and warm breezes of El Paso. He smiles, then shakes his head. Waste not want not, pintor, she says laughing.

The hot white and yellow bulb lights of Juarez are twinkling through the few tall pines in their neighborhood. Or, that is, Bambi’s neighborhood. She’s always open to Mario doing some painting here – and in a blue moon — letting him crash on old Navajo blankets and pillows. No matter how well connected Mario’s murals get him in terms of celebrity status in the neighborhoods, and how well his virgins are loved by the El Paso Catholic diocese, he is virtually homeless – finding garages and storage units in disuse to crash in. A week, a month, that’s about it.

Greg has a wife and kid, and ever since he got clean and sober from intravenous heroin use, he is considered somewhat of a triumph. Five years in prison, Huntsville,  he went back to his wife, Sonya, and his daughter Drew. Sonya’s an RN, has good health insurance, and Greg does 30 or more hours a week at Sonya’s brother’s body and paint shop. Mario sometimes gets gigs at the Auto Reforma Clinica, and while Sonya and Drew love Mario, the portly painter  has never resorted to asking for their place to crash after some hard days and weeks roughing it in an unplumbed hot garage.

Bambi teaches microbiology and creative writing at the university – part-time – so she stitches a living from finding rare antiquities in Mexico, and sometimes she finds less rare valium and other prescriptions and brings them over the border for the party animals in the legal and medical realm.

It’s all in translation, she says, flipping an elbow onto Gregorio’s arm. Gregorio is watching Mario and his four by two foot painting.

Hey, so? Mario turns and smiles. This going to satisfy your doctor friend?

You know, you know . . . Unreal. She’ll love it, really. With all those Madonna retablos, what have you, and the saints and weird day of the dead stuff, this will stand out. How much, hmm?

That’s your part. Isn’t that your scene. Mario looks at the images, then takes a slug of beer.

But, that’s putting a lot on everyone else, compadre. Setting the price, and all this negotiation, how can you know ever if the price is right? There is the business of art, and nine out of ten times – more than nine, how about nine point nine out of ten times, the artist gets royally screwed.

He nods, and then burps before speaking. Ha. When’s the next bowl of mota coming? When’s the next art opening with victuals, and when is that eighteen pack on the horizon? He lifts the can, and draws down again.

That is the Van Gough question, no? How many times can artists get screwed by their own family, their own generation?

Nice putting me in with Vincent. I’ve been in Iowa and Nebraska, traveling with a crew, painting grain elevators. Good people, but no one wanted a religious or political mural from me, though in Colorado there is a co-op or something like a hippie grocery store that paid me in food and get-out-of-Colorado money to take a bus back here. A big wall, with lots of produce, fields, big strong women and men, and they let me go with Asians. Japanese truck farmers. And braceros, too. Even there, the Virgin is on the back of one of the farm hands. Even on those silos, I put the virgin in a corner, or ledge, way up high, where only a worker could see her.

Bambi gives him a pat on the back. Yep, that’s the story to end all stories. Mario crisscrossing the country painting grotesque grain elevators with a bunch of other Mexicans, and little do the rednecks know, the Virgin is high up – probably the highest point on those wheat fields – supplication for you, brother artist. Now that’s a fucking story that needs to be broadcast by Connie Chung or some such shit.

Greg starts strumming his guitar. Smoke swirls around his long locks. He coughs before . . . singing:

They ride the railroads, modern troubadours and painters, the stage is their canvas, vast open lands conquered by the pink clan, but still, flocks of birds – crows – they sing to ancient brothers, even the mixed blood Spanish and Indios . . . paints in a backpack, beer in the shade, they cover the land with few words, lots of laughs, the hard stare down of the sun, as they work to pay for the next run, in their cups, they are in the night, lightning cutting across plains, the vibrant sky wailing for aunties and fathers, warriors, the Ghost Dancers, all of them singing in the storms, the rush of monsoons, that Mexican guy, they say, paints up a storm, and look what he does up high . . . Catholic talisman, Mother of us All, the Virgin, mother of the narcos and priests, calming woman of the aristocrat and the gang banger, these stories are locked inside each brush stroke, the Mexican thinks harder than they do, but he is lost, poor son of a bitch, looking for his next burrito and beer, he’s got the Virgin, he’s got the crown of thorns, he’s got his feet on one side of the land, Mexico, and the other in the Brave River, Rio Bravo, Grand to the Gringo.

Or, I can recite it to one of those creative writing classes you muck with, Bambi, without Waylon Jennings meets Flaco Jimenez guitar:

My Son, Mi Hijo

wild hombres ride the rails

drunken, fornicating troubadours and painters

the canvas is their stage is their world

canyons and open prairies

the pink clan think they conquered

still, murders of crows  sing

ancient brothers

those mixed ones, Mestizo

these guys have paints

rainbow making things in backpacks

don’t confuse  beer in shade

as slovenliness

artists cover the land with few words

hyena laughs

fire pits, then another day

staring down the sun

they work to pay for the next run

already in their cups eleven am

they are philosophers of night

lightning cutting across plains

vibrant sky wailing ‘aunties and fathers,

 warriors, the Ghost Dancers, come

home’, singing sandstorms

then a rush of monsoons

that Mexican guy, they say,

paints up a storm

look what he paints up high

his Catholic  icon, voodoo

he says, Mother of us All, the Virgin,

mother of the narcos and priests,

 calming woman of the aristocrat

gang banger’s mother

stories locked inside each brush stroke

the Mexican thinks harder

than they do, but he is lost

poor son of a bitch

looking for his next burrito and beer

he’s got the Virgin fever

he’s got his own crown of thorns

he’s got one foot on one side

Tortilla curtain

Mexico, and the other

in the Brave River, El Rio Bravo,

Rio Grand to the Gringo

The Mexican to the Midwesterner

The Muralist to his amigos

and to the Virgin, My Son.

Mario stands, finishes the tall boy, and applauds. Bambi claps. She is writing down what she can from Gregorio’s epic Mario-Virgin poem, though he has quite a few of them already written and performed.

So, now, we prepare for Tom Connelly. Prepare the tequila. Get your horse-riding britches ready. Let’s get there before the sun sets, before Tommy turns into an albino vampire. Messing with rattlesnakes, ain’t my cup of tequila, boys, but riding an Arabian, yessiree, sensuous.

+–+

…..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!

Look, musical expression and down home singing are great . . . . But when you/everyone starts Tweeting/X-ing it, and then rolling over backwards, pushing what isn’t is, then we are back to the PT Barnum, the goof-ball summer of distraction days.

In case you are living under a rock (or taking a healthy absence from the internet), independent artist Oliver Anthony released a song, “Rich Men North of Richmond” that’s gone wildly viral, and as usual, fools on Twitter/X and in the media tried to spin it as a right-wing white supremacist anthem for conspiracy theorists.

But it’s a heartfelt song about working “overtime hours for bullshit pay” that just about anyone can relate to—maybe even a couple of Rich Men North of Richmond. Here is a music video compilation I put together of independent YouTube creators reacting to it live.

This is what bastardizes some bloke screaming in his country kinda way his laments. As if we haven’t gone down that road a thousand times, man, a thousand times — country or rock-n-roll ten thousand times.

I can’t be embarassed for these colonized minds — black, white, brown, Asian, Red Man. If you think you are in a free and a fun country, and if you think there was a Norman Rockwell Sort of Golden Era, and if you ever thought that history in the USA was not as bad as biwm 2023, then you have more than a case of amnesia or mis-education or putrified patriotism.

It aint’ poetry and it ain’t ground shaking: What the fuck is he talking about, the “OBESE milking the system?” “Welfare.” “Taxes”?

Rich Men North of Richmond

I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

So I can sit out here and waste my life away

Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to

For people like me and people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is, oh, it is

Livin’ in the new world

With an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do

‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end

‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners

And not just minors on an island somewhere

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat

And the obese milkin’ welfare

Well, God, if you’re five-foot-three and you’re three-hundred pounds

Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds

Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground

‘Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down

Lord, it’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to

For people like me and people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is, oh, it is

Livin’ in the new world

With an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do

‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end

‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

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Mental illness in real time, this Anthony, Oliver. But then, the rich men north of Richmond — aka Trudeau and his transgender thing, and Biden/Trump/All of those Redneck Millionaires and Tech Billionaires and no matter — either the hair sniffing diaper thing, Biden, or the other rapist, Trump, and then that congressional phalanx, good old boys or LGBTQA+ libs? They are all your cheatin’ heart scoundrels.

East of Richmond? Bush Man, Abbott Man, and south, man, of Richmond, hmm, DeSantis, and West of Richmond, all those fuckers along the trail of tears land, Oklahoma, and then keep going to Hope, Arkansas, and head up to Colorado, the AF Academy, Columbine, over to Rose Bud Rez, to the Fracking Fields, and oh, man oh man, this fellow, poor Oliver Anthony, is now a hero in August?

This country tis of thee has always been a trail of tears, brother Oliver Anthony.

Go way back, old Oliver:

[Image, January 1, 1912, A government-mandated reduction of the workweek goes into effect in Lawrence, Massachusetts, resulting in pay cuts at textile mills. In response to the decrease in wages, textile workers go out on strike. Soon after, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) arrives to organize and lead the strike, and the mayor orders that a local militia patrol the streets. Local officers turn fire hoses on the workers. After two months, mill owners settle the strike, granting substantial pay increases.]

Try a little later: Miners line up for strike relief in Matewan, May 1920,

Oh, that’s right, labor day is a comin’: May 30, 1937, Workers at the Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, Illinois protest the company officials’ refusal to sign a union contract. When the picketers refuse to disperse, members of the Chicago Police Department deploy tear gas and shoot and kill 10 demonstrators on the picket line. The event is coined the Memorial Day Massacre.

Reference, Oliver Anthony: Labor Wars in the U.S.

For fuck’s sake, brother, can you spare me another goddamned idiotic social media phenomenon dime:

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there, right on the job

They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell
And I was the kid with the drum

Say, don’t you remember? They called me ‘”Al”
It was “Al” all the time
Why don’t you remember? I’m your pal
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, ah, gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell
And I was the kid with the drum

Oh, say, don’t you remember? They called me “Al”
It was “Al” all the time
Say, don’t you remember? I’m your pal
Buddy, can you spare a dime?

When labor organizer Mother Jones arrived in a West Virginia coal town in 1901, residents were skeptical and mine guards were hostile. The United Mine Workers of America had successfully organized other mining operations in the U.S., but West Virginia remained tightly controlled by the coal company operators.

Get real, brother Oliver Anthony, cuz Whitey is on the Moon, Whitey is on Mars, and now the fucking Indians just landed shit on the fucking moon, while millions of Indians starve, man:

And the world is made right, right, rovers on the moon. While billions starve and the climate chaos ramps up.

The seven decades framed by the Great Railway Strike of 1877 and institutionalization of organized labor in the wake of World War II constituted a unique period of US labor relations, one that labor historians have identified as the most violent and bloody of any Western industrialized nation. Despite long-standing scholarly interest in the issues of labor-management conflict, however, important questions regarding the causes of extreme labor-management violence within the United States have never been adequately addressed. In this paper, I utilize a recently compiled and unique data set of American strike fatalities to statistically model the causes of extreme strike violence in the United States. The time-series evidence suggests that picket-line violence increased in association with the struggle for and against unionization and economic desperation associated with tightening labor markets. The results also both depict the stultifying effect of massacres and suggest that state support for labor’s right to organize tended to decrease the likelihood of violence and vice versa. This paper not only thus provides fresh insights into classic questions, but also offers a basis for both transhistorical and international comparison.

Until we bat to the heads all of them — red white and blue generals and Captains and all of them, until we take out the anti-union motherfuckers, and until we get rid of SAVAGERY — AKA CAPITALISM — there will be many whining Oliver Anthony’s or Brcue Springstein’s or . . .

Haiti, brother — kick off your fat ass and stop the Deliverance strumming. HAITI. Cuba. Mexico. Fucking take it to the streets, and no fucking CROCODILE TEARS.

Haiti: Chérizier’s Warning

After greeting the various presses present and thanking them for having responded to his invitation, Chérizier entered directly into the substance of his subject, namely military force.

According to him, “ foreign force will only be applauded under the following conditions “:

1 … Arrest of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry who helped put the country in this situation.

2 … Arrest of corrupt oligarchs, corrupt politicians and police who sell arms in working-class neighborhoods;

3 … Security so that life can resume properly in the country.

However, being children of Jean Jacques Dessalines, having his blood flowing in our veins, things will happen differently if this force comes to commit abuses in working-class neighborhoods.

2023 is not 2004, and the current problem is much more serious than before.

If we find that this foreign force violates women and girls as agents of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( Minustah ) did so in 2004 ;

If we find that this foreign force rapes young boys as the Uruguayan soldiers did in 2004 ;

If this force brings the Cholera as the Nepalese peacekeepers had done.

If the agents of this force come to the disadvantaged neighborhoods ( ghettos ) to open fire, kill people or massacre them as they see fit.

We will fight them to our last drop of blood and it is not the G9 alone that will do it, but the Haitian people.  We have a duty and a responsibility to protect and defend our dignity and also to be able to live like human beings.”»

The American State (Insanity) Department was quick to answer Chérizier in these terms :

•  The American government condemns in the strongest terms the actions and statements of gang leaders like Chérizier who paralyzed a large part of Port-au-Prince and the department of Artibonite and displaced more than 100,000 Haitians.

The US administration would continue to work to hold accountable those in Haiti who commit gross human rights violations and significant corruption

The United States sanctioned Chérizier in December 2020 as part of the global Magnitski sanctions program for human rights violations related to his role in the attack on La Saline. The violent attack launched against the population of the disadvantaged district of Port-au-Prince in 2018 which left at least 71 dead.

Chérizier was also appointed by a resolution of the United Nations Security Council for its role in the economic and humanitarian crisis which paralyzed Haiti in 2022. The gang leader is accused of the blockade of the capital’s largest oil terminal, Varreux, which has triggered a national gas and electricity crisis.

Our support for the creation of a multinational force to restore security and stability in Haiti remains unshakable, said the spokesperson for the United States Department of State by email to the voice of America ( VOA ).

IT’S Black AUGUST, poor saps:

We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the streets, rising within and outside of prison walls, and reverberating through communities and institutions. Upon centuries of enslavement and subjugation exists an intolerable present, where the state continues to wield violent force against Black people in the form of mass criminalization and incarceration, repression and militarized police brutality, and willful neglect and discrimination, only amplified in the face of a deadly pandemic. And so, Black people resist. First, to survive. And, like generations of ancestors before, to fundamentally alter our collective condition and make freedom real. This is the legacy of Black August.

Black August began in the 1970s to mark the assassination of the imprisoned Black Panther, author, and revolutionary George Jackson during a prison rebellion in California. It is a time of reverence to honor political prisoners, freedom fighters, and martyrs of the Black freedom struggle. This month, we celebrate all the political prisoners who have helped us understand that prison is political and that our collective freedom depends on abolishing the state’s capacity, through incarceration, policing, and surveillance, to disrupt communities and diminish principled struggle against the unjust status quo. The month of August is also rich with the history of Black resistance outside, from the Haitian Revolution to the Watts rebellion and the Ferguson uprising. Black August is a reminder of the power in unity, and a mandate to continue joint struggle.

BLACK AUGUST READINGS

1. A Primer: Black August and Its Importance to Black Resistance and Survival
2. The Revision and Origin of Black August
3. Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
4. Black August in LA: Month of Meaning and Resistance
5. Resistance: The Meaning of Black August
6. Black August 575
7. Kumasi speaks: What is Black August?
8. The Black Joy Mixtape
9. Black Joy Experience
10. 1964 Freedom Summer/ Freedom Rides

BOOKS

1. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
2. Blood In My Eye
3. The Melancholy History of Soledad Prison; In Which a Utopian Scheme Turns Bedlam
4. Comrade George; An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson
5. Destructive Generation
6. Who Killed George Jackson?
7. Live from Death Row
8. Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
9. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s
10. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
11. Children of Virtue by Toni Adeyemi
12. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
13. Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
14. The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
15. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
16. Naming our Destiny by June Jordan (Poetry)
17. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century by Richard J. Powell (Non-Fiction)
18. The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes (Fiction)
19. This Child’s Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright (Fiction)

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Old Oliver Anthony, learn your fucking history, and all you video makers, get fucking real. This is the U$ of Assassinations and Amnesia and Chaos and Terror and Lies. All happening way before 2023, way before Monroe Doctrine, way before small pox seeded blankets.

Even the slaughter fields, that fucking WWI, U$A was ripping off and slaughtering the people.

We fought against that shit in 1917:

On July 28, 1932 the U.S. government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of textbook heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The WWI vets were part of a Bonus Army who came to Washington, D.C. to make a demand for their promised wartime bonuses.

Or, Anthony, try out these folk’s narrative:

[Photo: Water protectors march against the Dakota Access Pipeline. By Andrew Cullen/Reuters.]

New York’s Labor Day parade wasn’t an official holiday—participants took unpaid leave—but the movement to declare it one had officially begun. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to designate a Labor Day holiday, followed later that year by Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York. Yet the first Monday in September wasn’t the only option for celebrating workers’ rights. An alternative had emerged in 1886: May Day.

“‘Help that guy out’ Woody keeps telling me. ‘Let him know there’s a way to deal with those problems he’s singing about,’” he said (via Consequence). “So today I sat down and wrote this response to Mr Anthony’s song, for people like him and people like you.”

The finished product is a track that aims to speak to all types of “working folk”, and support the idea of unionisation.

“If you’re selling your soul, working all day/ Overtime hours for bullshit pay/ Nothing is gonna change if all you do is wish you could wake up and it not be true/ Join a union. Fight for better pay/ You better join a union, brother. Organise today,” he sings.

If you’re selling your soul, working all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

Nothing’s gonna change if all you do

Is wish you could wake up and it not be true

Join a union, fight for better pay

Join a union, brother, organise today

You’ll see where the problem really lies

When the union comes around:

Rich men earning north of a million

Wanna keep the working folk down

Wanna keep the working folk down

If you form a union, you’ll soon find

That working people are all of one kind

So we ain’t gonna punch down on those who need

A bit of understanding and some solidarity

That ain’t right, friend

If you’re struggling with your health, putting on the pounds

Doctor gives you opiates to help you get around

Wouldn’t it be better for folks like you and me

If medicine was subsidised and healthcare was free

Join a union, fight for better pay

Join a union, sister, organise today

It comes down to the self same thing

If you’re black or white or brown:

Rich men earning north of a million

Wanna keep the working folk down

Wanna keep the working folk down

We know your culture wars are there to distract

While libertarian billionaires avoid paying tax

You want to talk about bathrooms while the flood waters rise,

The forest is on fire and the wind burns our eyes

Something’s wrong here

They want to divide us, because together we’re strong,

Are you gonna take action now you’ve sung your damn song?

If you don’t like the rich man having total control,

You better get the union to roll

Join a union, fight for better pay

Join a union, organise today

Don’t matter if you live in the city

Or some little country town

Rich men earning north of a million

Rich men earning north of a million

Rich men earning north of a million

Wanna keep the working folk down

Wanna keep the working folk down

If you’re selling your soul, working all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

Join a union

Oliver Anthony’s divisive song claiming solidarity with workers only benefits the rich who exploit them Billy Bragg

Woody knew that cynicism was the enemy of all of us who want to make a better world, so I’m ignoring those who accuse Anthony of deliberately stoking the culture wars that have divided America. I hear someone struggling to make sense of a world in which help is hard to come by. I wish Oliver Anthony all the best with his newfound fame. I hope it allows him to make a living playing music. But I know from experience that he’s going to face a lot of scrutiny from partisan players demanding he clarify his politics.

I wrote to offer him the perspective of someone whose understanding of solidarity and songwriting was shaped 40 years ago by the miner’s strike. The lesson I learned is as relevant today as it was back then: There is power in a union.

Haiti, oh Haiti, we gotta get the Anglo Saxon Franco Iberians back to their graveyards

Despite everything, the slave revolt had a considerable impact in Santo Domingo. It was a point of no return for the masses. Despite their weaknesses, it was the necessary start of a revolutionary process which during 13 years of assiduous struggles not only changed the world by putting an end to the barbaric system of slavery but also giving birth to a new country of free negro: Haiti !

Seems like sacrilege to bring up the dirty presstitutes, all those propaganda wheels of fortune running through the brain swell of Americanos, for sure. But, shit, here, a good old communist like myself has to let off steam. I will give you the fucking links.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-history-oppenheimer-didnt-show/

Do we need another Woody Allen shit show, that poor Robert Oppenheimer and his sexual proclivities and his nerd head and the monster that he is, a la, Batman director? Bad bad movies mad for bad bad people.

Fact — The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show

Dirty Holly-Dirt, man, and who owns Hollywood?

Again, poor insipid freak of nature, Oppen-monster-Heimer, and the assinine flick, all the rage . . . and that is the problem, no, all the rage (sheeple).

PAPÀ, MY DAD, told me a story long ago about the uranium that powered the first nuclear bombs. The ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the bombs you saw being built in this summer’s dramatic film, Oppenheimer. Papà, you see, was born in the Belgian Congo.

Earlier this summer, I was invited to a screening of the blockbuster. The film’s director, Christopher Nolan, was there too. In a recurring scene, meant to symbolize the inching along of the scientists’ efforts, Oppenheimer fills an empty glass bowl with marbles—first one at a time, then in handfuls. The marbles represent the amount of uranium that has been successfully mined and refined to power the nuclear reaction. The outcome of World War II, and the future of humanity, hinges on who can create that monster first—the Axis or the Allies. The closer we get to the bomb’s completion, the more marbles go into the bowl.

But there’s no mention in the film of where two-thirds of that uranium came from: a mine 24 stories deep, now in Congo’s Katanga, a mineral-rich area in the southeast.

As the marbles steadily filled the bowl onscreen, I kept seeing what was missing: Black miners hauling earth and stone to sort piles of radioactive ore by hand.

As we say, Fuck Hollywood and the masters of control. [There Are Lots of Jews in Hollywood. Let a Rabbi Explain WhyThere Are Lots of Jews in Hollywood. Let a Rabbi Explain Why]

And the owners own the narrative:

Who runs Hollywood? C’mon by Joel Stein

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

Fucking Oppenheimer and the boy in the stripped pajamas and and and . . .

Papà was born in 1946 at Mission Ngi, a tiny Belgian missionary outpost. He told us how, growing up, the Belgians taught the Congolese to worship God; how the Belgians addressed Congolese adults with the informal French tu, not the formal vous; how the Belgians said eating with your hands, as Papà did at home, was uncivilized. The Congolese were backward and ancillary to modern life, Papà learned in school. So did I. And yet, Papà said, the Congolese were the essential ingredient, the sine qua non, of arguably the most consequential creation in modern history.

IN 1885, WHEN King Leopold II of Belgium first claimed ownership of this massive stretch of land sitting on the world’s deepest river, smack in the center of Africa, he called it Congo Free State. Of course, life for the roughly 10 to 20 million inhabitants meant surviving violence and a terror state run by the king. Throughout the territory, which was converted into a series of cotton and rubber plantations, the king’s soldiers amputated the forearms of Congolese people who didn’t meet harvesting quotas. King Leopold’s policies drove famine and disease. Millions didn’t make it.

Next:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-proposes-sixth-oil-project-guyana-129-billion-2023-08-21/

And, that African Continent, the mother fuckers are exploiting it, even without Greta’s endorsement (she lives in Sweden, no, that plastic, big time build back better with cement, steel, and all those coffee fucking shopw).

Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and partners plan to spend $12.93 billion to develop their sixth offshore oil project in Guyana, according to a filing published on Monday by the South American country.

The floating production platform for the so-called Whiptail project would start operations in 2027 and bring the Exxon-led consortium’s oil output in Guyana over 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd).

Jesus, all those carbon credits, man, and the green no deal for people, nature, oceans, water systems, the poor and the tired and

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
―Emma Lazarus

And next:

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-economy-hits-a-wall-russia-japan-larry-summers-2023-8?amp

Then, the criminals, the Larry Boy, the Epstein Boy, telling the world about China? You believe this son-of-a-bitch?

Chalk up another fraud allegation against a fintech company with direct ties to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

This one’s a doozy. Short-seller Hindenburg Research, which made waves for wiping $100 billion off of Indian conglomerate Adani Group’s stock price in January, says the payments mogul Block has inflated user metrics, ignored widespread criminal transactions on its platforms, and evaded regulations. 

Hindenburg is a financial company making a big bet against Block, so their case should be taken with a grain (or more) of salt. That said, their thorough report on the case against Block is full of allegations and substantiating evidence.

How does all of this relate to Summers? Because he’s been on Block’s Board of Directors since 2011, back when it was called Square before CEO Jack Dorsey changed the name to appeal to cryptocurrency types. Summers still sits on the board today. In theory, preventing sketchy and possibly criminal practices like this is part of his job. In practice, having a former Treasury Secretary and Democratic insider on its board probably helps Block fend off government investigations and prosecutions.

Oh yeah, and Summers is also on the advisory board of Afterpay, the “Buy Now, Pay Later” company which Block purchased. You remember, the one that’s sort of like a payday lender? Auspicious!

Add this on to Summers’ longtime connections to the imploding crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group, his advisory status with the sketchy crypto wallet firm Xapo, and his relationship with Atlas Merchant Capital (which tried to take the crypto company Circle public through a disclosure-dodging SPAC.) Once again, we ask: are any of the financial journalists who slobber over Summers’ every word going to ask him about why he does business with some of the sketchiest digital finance firms around?

Last July, a series of stories detailed the long, disquieting relationship between alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Summers, a prominent economist, hedge fund adviser, former Clinton and Obama administration official and one-time president of Harvard University.

While at Harvard, Summers wooed Epstein as a donor, and apparently was successfully counter-wooed into Epstein’s social circle. Epstein gave $9 million to Harvard over the years, beginning with a $6.5 million donation in 2003. The two men remained friends for years, long after Summers had been forced out of his university perch. In 2011, about eight months after Epstein was released from prison and classified as a class-three sex offender for soliciting an underaged prostitute, Summers attended a party at Epstein’s palatial Manhattan mansion, where he was photographed grinning alongside Epstein, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and James E. Staley, a former JPMorgan Chase executive. (source)

[Photo: Stephen Pinker (kinky grey hair), Summers, Alan Dershowitz, EPstein.]

And next:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/china/china-national-security-second-cia-spy-intl-hnk/index.html

Ahh, the dirty CIA, the dirty tricks of Blinken-Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan and the lot of the NeoCons and NeoLibs, and the Israel Firsters who want conflict and war with China.

Chinese authorities on Monday publicly accused a government worker of spying for the CIA, the second high-profile espionage case publicized this month as Beijing ramps up its emphasis – and rhetoric – on national security.

In a statement, the country’s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, said it is investigating a cadre at an unidentified ministry who was allegedly recruited by the CIA while he was studying in Japan.

The 39-year-old Chinese national, identified only by his surname Hao, became acquainted with a US embassy official in Japan while applying for a US visa, the ministry said.

More, next:

https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-unicef-vaccines-5e7d6610635b0aa2ffe6570cc417930e

And every thing the West touches turns to disease and poison: “The U.N. is spending over 20 times more money than usual on fuel for generators to keep millions of vaccines in Niger from spoiling due to incessant power cuts. The outages are the result of severe economic and travel sanctions imposed by regional countries after mutinous soldiers toppled the country’s president last month.”

Last but not least, next:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/canadian-space-agency-shares-moon-crater-picture-but-it-has-roads-buildings-101692515553391-amp.html

Goddamn, the Klanadians, man, the pure stupidity of it all:

[Photo: A recent post by the Canadian Space Agency on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) sharing an image of what it called 108 million-year-old Tycho Crater in the Moon’s southern hemisphere, caused quite a stir. The picture gained attention as users highlighted roads and buildings alongside the supposed crater.]

And, finally, this Soloviev, a real speaker, talker, and he calls a Nazi a Nazi, and Russia can never forget or forgive or trust Germany. Listen to the fellow, man, and get some insight into Russia and Putin and of course the Great Patriotic War still being fought against the Nazi’s of NATO and UK and USA and Germany.

On episode 42 of the show we are joined by Vladimir Soloviev, the most famous journalist in Russia, a television and radio host, as well as writer and public figure. He is an author of numerous documentaries such as “The President” and “The World Order” (films based on several exclusive interviews with Vladimir Putin). He has extensive experience in communicating with prominent political, public and military figures, as well as with top state officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, former US President George W. Bush, former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and many others. In this episode he finds himself in a rare scenario where he is the one being interviewed.

AmeriKKKa is one giant cesspool of nosebleeds. United Snakes of America.

On April 17, National Security Advisor John Bolton said:

“Today, we proudly proclaim for all to hear: the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well.” (“John Bolton Reaffirms America’s Commitment to the Monroe Doctrine With New Sanctions” ; The Observer, April 17, 2019)

Can the United States achieve its current goals to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean with a doctrine based on principles from the 19th century?

Although many of us would like to answer this question with a resounding “No!” and insist that our region is well prepared to defend itself against the 1823 pretensions of President James Monroe, with his “America for Americans” -which must be understood as “America for the United States”- it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the risks.

There are at least two conditions that must be met, if the U.S. is to advance its objectives.

The first is keeping Latin American and Caribbean countries divided, aggravating their differences, and convincing them that individual progress inevitably means the weakening of neighboring nations.

This was how the U.S. strengthened regional oligarchies and helped frustrate Bolivarian plans to create a great union of nations. Almost two centuries later, the techniques used are not much different in U.S. efforts to dismantle integrationist mechanisms like the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), Mercosur (the Common Market of the South), and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

The second condition is imposing a theory based on fear, so Washington appears to be the only state capable of guaranteeing security and tranquility in the region.

If in Monroe’s era the enemies were the old European colonial powers, now talk focuses on terrorism, Russian interference, and China’s economic competition. In all cases, U.S. hegemony and intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries are sold as “lesser evils,” given threats from elsewhere. (source)

…. 22 August 1791: The Haitian Revolution ….

Of course the Haitian Revolution was the greatest the world has seen, and here we are, now, with Haiti a failed state, a state of post-post colonial venereal disease.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life. — Toussaint Louverture


“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James

“It was the first time in human history that enslaved people had destroyed a slave system, declared themselves rulers, and maintained that status in the face of open international hostility. The Haitians did this at a time when the entire hemisphere remained engulfed in slavery. They were the first in the modern period to declare the complete, simultaneous, abolition of African trading and slavery, and the universal right of man to be free of enslavement.” –Professor Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd
“We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy today,” he said, “is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons of Haiti ninety years ago . . . striking for their freedom, they struck for the freedom of every black man in the world.” –Frederick Douglass

Remember: drums were illegal in the USA, in the south, in the west, for both Native Americans and Black-Afrikkan Americans.

“…it is absolutely necessary to the safety of this Province, that all due care be taken to restrain Negroes from using or keeping of drums, which may call together or give sign or notice to one another of their wicked designs and purposes.”
— Slave Code of South Carolina, Article 36 (1740)

Read and engage with: No Drums Allowed: Afro Rhythm Mutations in North America

And it is Haiti that is Palestine that is Donbass that is Rosebud Rez that is Libya that is Amazonia that is . . .

Back then, the French part of the island of Hispaniola, known as Saint Domingue, prided itself on being the richest colony in the world. The first shipment of Africans (from the Iberian Peninsula) to Haiti was in 1503, with the first Maafa/Atlantic slavery uprising recorded in 1522. By the 1780s it accounted for some 40 percent of French international trade and 40 to 50 percent of world coffee and sugar production. Within the colony …

lived 30,000 Europeans, together with 28,000 Gens de Couleur (free mixed-race and Black people), and almost 500,000 enslaved Blacks, two-third of whom had been born in Africa

That night Boukman gave a powerful speech; in essence, it was a call to arms:

“The Good Lord who created the sun which gives us light from above, who rouses the sea and makes the thunder roar–listen well, all of you–this god, hidden in the clouds, watches us. He sees all that the [whyte] man does. The god of the whyte man calls him to commit crimes; our god asks only good works of us. But this god who is so good orders revenge! He will direct our hands; he will aid us. Throw away the image of the god of the whytes who thirsts for our tears and listen to the voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us.”

Dutty Boukman was a self-educated slave born on the island of Jamaica. He was sold to a French plantation owner and placed as a commandeur (slave driver), and later became a coach driver. Dutty Boukman became vocal in the soon-to-come Haitian Revolution. He held secret meetings with other enslaved Africans in Haiti. After a week of one of those important secret meetings and Bwa Kayman (Voodoo) ceremonies, the Haitian Revolution began on August 24, 1791. He also led another bloody revolution against the French.

Some accounts say Dutty got his French name from his English nickname, “Book Man,” which has led some scholars to believe that he was a follower of Islam since at the time, in many Muslim regions, the term “man of the book” was a synonym for the word “Muslim”, follower of the Islamic faith. But this claim doesn’t hold much water as Dutty Boukman was a Zamba, which means a spiritual leader in the Voodoo faith.

[Image: Statue of Dutty Boukman in Haiti, using a conch shell to call the slaves to arms. ]

Despite reinforcements from France, the area of the island held by the revolutionaries grew as did the violence on both sides. Before the fighting ended 100,000 of the 500,000 Blacks and 24,000 whites were killed. Nonetheless, the revolutionaries managed to stave off both the French forces and the British who arrived in 1793 to conquer the island, and who withdrew in 1798 after a series of defeats by Loverture’s forces. By 1801 Loverture expanded the revolution beyond Haiti, conquering the neighboring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (present-day Dominican Republic). He abolished the Maafa in the Spanish-speaking colony and declared himself Governor-General for life over the entire island of Hispaniola.

Hands off Haiti!

Over two centuries ago, the people of Haiti defeated European colonialism and established the world’s first Black republic. As the United States backs yet another foreign intervention, Haitians continue to pay a heavy price for that victory. We insist the people of Haiti must determine their own future.

Here’s my intersection with Toussaint:

Haiti and the NFL — Toussaint Tyler and Battling TBI

He was riding a wave of limelight as a former player in the NFL, including the Saints and Minnesota Vikings . . . decades of Traumatic Brain Injury depression and outbursts of angry, physicality.

Slave Rebellion of 1793: Legacy to be Revived from the Graveyard of True Revolutionary Zeal

In exile at St. Helena, when asked about his dishonorable treatment of Toussaint, Napoleon merely remarked, “What could the death of one wretched Negro mean to me?”

The Black Napoleon, or that’s what former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture was called. Get this, historians – the leader of the only successful slave revolt in modern history in effect defeated the genocidal white trash that is part of France’s legacy. Haiti – that French colony, and he was the son of Gaou Guinon, an African prince captured by slavers. Sent to that white French genocidal colony of Saint Dominique.

Toussaint, born May 20, 1743, under the Code Noir, that black code that legalized all the harsh punishment (treatment) of slaves. Property. L’Ouverture was allowed unlimited access to a library of the manager of the Breda plantation. His godfather was a priest, Simon Baptiste, a kind fellow who taught the young Toussaint to read and write.

I’ll come back to L’Ouverture in a minute, first moving to a new friend, Toussaint Tyler, named after L’Ouverture. Mr. Tyler and I met recently, coming into the office at my day job as social worker for homeless folk, stuck in a system of addiction, criminal charges, mental health challenges. Portland, Oregon, and Mr. Tyler and I are quickly brothers in arms, looking at our six decades on Planet Earth as one of struggle, triumph, exasperation, recrimination, rejoicing, repulsion, anger, happiness, and revolt. I am more settled into my anti-Capitalist fervor than is this man of god, myself having declared anarchism and socialism and communism as the only way out of this warring white Capitalism that has decimated tribes and cultures and entire races of people. Early in my scattered life.

My friendships with men like Toussaint Tyler, Sr., are based on deeply held respect for the individual coursing through capitalism’s hall of horrors.

Mr. Tyler, homeless, in a shelter, introduces me to his older brother who had just gotten out of prison, 25 years straight time. His brother is “the gifted and focused one in the family.” Mr. TNT Tyler says his brother, who was just released from McNeil Island Corrections Center in Pierce County, Washington, is the smartest and ablest fellow around, who entered into a life of crime ripping off rich folk and faced the music here in Oregon with some hard-hard time in prison in Washington . . . . Where his brother learned the law, learned his own new mission in life, and who is now more than just an inspiration for Toussaint.

Toussaint Tyler: once the leading rusher as fullback for the University of Washington Huskies. He was born in Barstow, California. His nickname was TNT Tyler, called one of the greatest fullbacks in Husky history. Punishing running style and bone-crushing blocking. We are talking about a 64-year-old man who has seen the gridiron since age nine, a man today who is forgetful and now homeless, who has been couch surfing for years, who once had glory and wives, and who is now awaiting a brain scan, ordered by the National Football League.

TNT and I talk about the Will Smith movie, “Concussion,” a flick Tyler saw when it came out two years ago. “Man, I just started crying when I saw my life in many ways depicted on the screen.” This is the rotten NFL, the elite owners, the chosen few paper jockeys and lawyers and MBAs, who watch mostly people of color slam bodies and craniums into each other for a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry akin to Roman times gladiator exploitation.

Enslavement. Boys hitting each other in Barstow or Compton or Baltimore or Toledo.

He was riding a wave of limelight as a former player in the NFL, including the Saints and Minnesota Vikings . . . decades of Traumatic Brain Injury depression and outbursts of angry, physicality.

The NFL, a non-profit shit-storm of Predatory Capitalists using the dumb-downing of America to fill stadiums, land TV/Cable contracts and sell the junk of faux celebrity. Tyler had his own trading card with the New Orleans Saints. Tyler traveled the country and the world as a football hero. Over six feet two inches, 240 pounds, a hard-hitting man who has admitted to more than a dozen concussions.

He’s been in and out of recovery – pain pills, cocaine, opioids, and booze. He was riding a wave of limelight as a former player in the NFL, including the Saints and Minnesota Vikings . . . decades of Traumatic Brain Injury depression and outbursts of angry, physicality.

I run my life around narratives, around the people who have intersected with me as dive master, photographer, journalist, teacher, social worker, traveler, and activist.

His story now, after my sixty years on planet earth, hits me hard – heavy on a personal level, both positive and negative. Exploitation of the black man by the elite, by the worthless white men in suits and ties, those golf-loving whites, the money men, the tribe of shekel collectors, the very tribe of men who that mythical Jesus Christ went to town on upsetting the money changers’ money tables.

Harvard, Yale, law schools of the elite, MBAs from large Division One schools, running poor whites and blacks and Latinos into the ground, to the grave, through the psych wards, under the belly of the beast of drug addiction, homelessness, and the halls of criminal injustice.

Tyler tells me about his father, an amazingly talented man, self-taught, who was a lightweight boxer, who had seven kids. Mother who worked for the government. Their United States of Israel roots not from California but from Arkansas and Baton Rouge. Tyler traces his African roots to Sierra Leone.

“I never understood why I was crying all the time, and depressed.” He has had a knee replacement. Tyler shows me both wrists – big surgical scars from massive fractures from defenders slamming helmets and face-guards into his body. “I am beat-up, for sure. I forget things. The NFL knew in 1954 that head trauma from pounding gridiron players hitting each other caused permanent brain damage – shrinking, permanent atrophying of parts of the brain, a sloshing of parts of the brain.”

This is the American way – full-throttle exploitation, on the field, in the workplace, in neighborhoods. The elite, polluting cities, our air, the water, our children’s minds, the dreams of adults, and the hopes of the aged.

We are one giant Trumplandia Casino Capitalism Continuing Criminal Enterprise. Signing our death warrants. Tyler, lasting four years in the NFL, and ending up as a juvenile detention officer for King County (Seattle), working with 12 to 17 year olds locked up in a county lock-down facility.

He was in his addiction then, as a county official, and he worked hard on gang-prevention and working with troubled youth in King County, Washington.

Tyler today continues to talk about living a lie most of his life – chasing women and fame, drugs and money. “I didn’t need football to make it in life,” he says. He is so sure that youth should not be playing football until their brains are fully developed. Tyler tells me that he was at Roosevelt High School in Portland recently, and saw a little kid, an eight-year-old, laying on the ground, crying about his head hurting after taking a hit on the football field.

“I’m glad my sons didn’t play football. If I could do life all over again, I would have never played football, gone into basketball.”

One son, Toussaint Tyler Jr., played college basketball for Central Washington University. A story was written up about the sixth man for the men’s basketball team, Mr. Tyler’s son. Tattoos all over his body – rib-cage, wrist, knee, shoulder. Each inscription plays a significant reminder to TNT’s son about where he comes from, where he is going and where he doesn’t want to go:

• Me Against the World
• Respect Few, Feat None
• Family Forever
• Brotherhood
• Only God Can Judge Me
• Tha Truth
• All Eyez on Me

Toussaint Tyler Sr. is talking about the class action lawsuit against the NFL, a party of over 22,000 claiming NFL negligence, asking for money to cover years of drug abuse, psychiatric breaks, incarceration, broken marriages, failed relationships, split-up families, and internal anger-confusion-dementia.

These white so-called leaders, elites going to their elite children’s Christenings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, going to their dear children’s graduations from elite universities, law schools and business colleges, they are demons, felonious, as criminal as criminality can come, laughing all the way to the bank, living it up in their five homes each, jet-setting the globe with the blood and brains of the real workers, the real heroes, wiped all over their zero escape clause contracts. All those One percenters and their Little Eichmann agents and riffraff controlling the lives of the sacrificial lambs.

Sure, we can Google (another massively screwed up project of control run by another set of war-loving elites) Toussaint Tyler and see he was the only one in pro-Football to knock out Lawrence Taylor. Sure, Toussaint is gunning for getting onto various boards – Urban League, YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, etc. – and wanting to help turn lives around. Sure, Toussaint wants the homeless in Portland – some really raw characters that make Charles Dickens’ novels seem like Mister Rogers Neighborhoods – to be helped. Toussaint Tyler asks me to stay with the non-profit I was working at. Wants me to meet bigwigs and help sell programs to the elite in Portland (Intel, Nike, adidas, et al).

I want to throw in with Toussaint Tyler, Sr. – I want to hit up these metrosexuals, these gentrifying elites, these bourgeoisie, these Bill Gates and Paul Allens and Phil Knights types to get down to real business, to getting their bullshit philanthropic ideals into real gear. We need to help the homeless and the drug addicted get on their feet with REAL programs, with solid recovery, where they can get SPECIAL treatment, in a time of Neoliberalism and Trumplandia. We are running non-profits with genuflecting and begging, hoping for social workers to get to work with shitty pay and tons of on-the-job trauma. My non-profit gets grants, and we are hobbled by the constraints of the millionaire class, and the state and county and city agencies.

Being homeless usually means trauma in each and everyone’s lives – beaten down in families, drugs, sexually abused, the physically kicked down, psychic knockdowns, punished into the criminal justice system, hobbled by the debt levelers, controlled by the broken education system, held down by the business community, the exploitation class, and held back by bureaucracies of evil.

College bowls for Toussaint – Rose Bowl and Sun Bowl champion; in another Rose Bowl, Hula Bowl, Japan Bowl, San Diego Hall of Fame. Second-team Pac 10 running back for two years. Honored as a Huskie Legend, NFL Alumni.

“None of it matters. I am in a new life, starting new.” He ended up dead on arrival, in Pullman, Washington, three years ago, 60 pills swallowed in a suicide cocktail. He had done a lot of crack to make those head blows and shitty life decisions and all those mammas to his six kids sort of go away, or at least level out the pain of all those valleys and rock bottoms which are the geography of his spiritual and psychological life.

Ahh, Haiti, and the despicable French, then, now, forever – defeated by a slave, who read voraciously, especially Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one member of early moderate revolutionaries who considered seriously the question of slavery. As is the case of most French thinkers, these moderate revolutionaries were not willing to end slavery.

Applying the “Rights of Man” to all Frenchmen, including free blacks and mulattoes (those of mixed race), the so-called revolutionaries gave into the plantation owners in the colonies who were furious and fought the measure. In 1791 the measure was retracted.

This betrayal triggered slave revolts in Saint Dominique (soon called Haiti), and Toussaint quickly became leader of the slave rebellion. L’Ouverture (the one who finds an opening) was added to his name, as he led a rag-tag army. For anyone listening to the unheralded voices of the people’s history, he or she can take his hat off and honor Toussaint who successfully fought the French, whose numbers were also decimated by a yellow fever outbreak.

He fought seven battles in seven days and defeated the French. As is the true DNA of the white race, the French wanted business as usual, desiring Haiti to go back to slavery and colonial rule. In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte wanted Haiti out of his hair, agreed to its independence and Toussaint agreed to retire from public office. Eventually Napoleon, as is so true of many of the French’s DNA code, invited Toussaint to a meeting under the promise of his protection. The French Army arrested Toussaint, put him on a ship headed for France, and Napoleon ordered D’Ouverture to suffer in a mountain dungeon where he was starved to death with all number of depravations put upon the Haitian hero.

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

Toussaint Louverture

Getting Haiti off his back, Napoleon gave up Haiti to independence and sold the French territory in North America (the Louisiana Purchase) to the United States.

Toussaint Tyler, Sr., named after the great Haitian hero, sits with me in my office, and we go over his plans to get his driver’s license back, plans to get him a job at $11 an hour, and plans to come back to life as a community organizer. He’s forgetful, having left his satchel on the Portland light rail (MAX) with his photo IDs and social security card inside.

He tears up when telling me about his granddaughter, Serayah McNeill, who plays Tiana on the hip-hop TV series, “The Empire.” Daughter of his eldest son, Serayah is a talented musician, athlete, and can do anything, Toussaint tells me. Her very presence on TV, her thriving life, her existence is a testament to her succeeding and a reminder to her grandfather that he once was in her life as a child and now he’s been MIA for years. “She reminds me of how I screwed up so many people’s lives.”

This is the story in America, one I touch daily, with men mostly, and the years taken away by drugs, by incarceration, racism, shitty employment, all told, millions of lives destroyed by the white man’s bad seed, fall from his and her own grace. The decades and centuries of structural and mitochondrial determinants in the success and failures of an entire group of people who made this country, built the fucking White House, put the land to work, harvested and swaddled the white woman’s children, what a travesty.

Repeated daily from sea to shining sea, exploitation after exploitation. And the NFL, microcosm of the chosen ones’ destruction of almost anything good, tribal, hating all people’s who live lives far from the money printing presses, the coin of the realm – slavery for enriching the few, the fattening up of these voracious people eaters, these lovers of anything close or aberrant to what the entire Trump legacy represents: the people who run the rackets of college sports and professional gladiatorial athletics, or replace sports with big pharma, big business, big military-surveillance-punishment complex, big ag, big food, big medicine, big media, big education. These people are the ones that deserve a million slave rebellions run by the likes of Toussaint D’Ouverture.

The rabid dog, ahh, the beheading is necessary for the safety of the village. Yet, it’s all flipped backwards – the elite, the weakest, the minority of all minorities, the Chosen One Percent living out their blasphemy until old age, while the good and best the world can offer, murdered, slowly, quickly, at the moment of birth. America – the racket, the thug nature of this warring nation, the disharmony of the children sucked into diabetes and mental stasis created by the chosen few’s tools of control: food, consumer popular culture, Hollywood, media, digital dumb-downing.

Here, from the movie, Concussion, the doctor, Bennet Omalu, asking why the world doesn’t want to know about his research into football head injuries and players’ deaths, suicides, incapacitating pain, drug addiction, incarceration, murders:

Dr. Bennet Omalu: What do they want?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: The NFL wants you to say you made it all up.

Dr. Bennet Omalu: I made it up?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: They’re accusing you of fraud.

Dr. Ron Hamilton: If you retract, you’ll be fine. This all goes away.

Dr. Bennet Omalu: Why? Why are they all doing this?

Dr. Cyril Wecht: They’re terrified of you. Bennet Omalu is going to war with a corporation that has 20 million people on a weekly basis craving their product the same way they crave food. The NFL owns a day of the week, the same day the Church used to own. Now it’s theirs. They’re very big.

Note: A forensic pathologist, Omalu conducted the autopsy of Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, which led to his discovery of a new disease that he named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. He is currently the chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County, Calif. and a professor in the UC Davis Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

These one percenters and their 19 percenter Little Eichmanns holding up their universal Capitalist scam, they are perpetuating the chronic traumatic encephalopathy onto all aspects of society with each experiment deemed necessary to create legions upon legions of marks, the exploited, the punished, the destitute, the near homeless, all of us shoved into their consumer prisons for the pleasure of their sin upon humanity. Greed, prostitution, elimination.

“At eight years of age, I knew I was going to be in the NFL. I was the fourth all-time leading rusher for UW. But my life is more than that, I know now. I’ve lived a life for and about Toussaint Tyler. It’s been a selfish life. I want to work to help this community, these people on the streets outside. Man, all messed up on meth, dirty, on the streets, sleeping in alleyways. We have to find a way to help them.”

So continues the dilemma of the One Percent, the Churches, the Poverty Pimps, all those non-profits run for the pleasure of a few at the top. So goes the journey of Toussaint Tyler, invoking just a little bit of his Haitian namesake’s rebellion.

Each day it becomes clearer to me that those in state capitols and on K-street, Wall Street, in the corridors of power, peopling the think tanks and commissions and secretive world of the bankers and bankrollers of pain, shame, war, they are the giant tapeworm eating at the soul of humanity. Clearer and clearer that the exiled, the broken, the incarcerated and just let out, the Toussaints and a million others, they have the power of lucidity, the power of perspective, and the power of seeing outside the miasma of this country’s madness.

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful world if the magic wand pushed a giant interstellar vacuum onto the earth that sucked up all the detritus on this planet – those buttoned up thieves lusting for their gigantic thefts, uniformed for war, all those coders and money changers, the renter class, the bankers, the technologist, the entire army of takers.

Toussaint and I hug, as I say good-bye on my last day at one non-profit as I move to another. Life is slipstream, the sum total of serendipity, these chance encounters, as my brain folds more of what I know is social justice and revolutionary focus. He and I come from two different worlds, and belief systems, yet, well, what more can a brotherhood bring than the joy of understanding those who are different but cut from the same mold of wanting justice and seeking enlightenment. (source)

USA and France, Out of Haiti!

Ever since the enslaved African people of Haiti liberated themselves with a heroic revolution that drove out the French colonialist slaveholders in 1804, the rulers of the U.S. and France have made Haitians suffer for this “original sin.” 

The Southern slavocrats who dominated the fledgling U.S. in 1804 were terrified that Haiti’s struggle for liberation would spread. They punished Haiti and its people for liberating themselves. 

… and, drum roll, how many peeps killed by Capitalism, by Passive Progressives, by AOC Types, by U$A, just by Us, You and I, Paying Taxes for the Complex . . . . ?

President John F. Kennedy imposed the most comprehensive economic embargo that the United States has ever imposed on any country, including prohibitions on both food and medicine sales. The core of that embargo has remained in place ever since. [Cuba]

As the oil fields are being discovered as we talk, the Montana Judge does what? (read below)!

Namibia made its third significant oil discovery in the Orange Basin in early-March 2023, with Shell and QatarEnergy having successfully drilled the Jonker-1X exploration project, leading to increased exploration and appraisal activities in the country.

Just that little seven thousand triple ton elephant in the room, the mind bending so-called liberal media — SCLM my ass:

But, again, the BIPOC and White kids are messing with the courts . . . not on the streets shouting — NO MORE NATO, NO MORE MIC, NO MORE U$A, NO MORE SANCITIONS!

Lisa Benjamin, an environmental law professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, said the plaintiffs presented a compelling case.

“They had psychiatrists and pediatricians testify about the impacts of climate change physically on young people, it’s worse because their bodies are still developing and also the mental health impacts on children were significant in terms of not only climate anxiety, but depression and fear,” Benjamin said.

It caught Benjamin by surprise that the defense only called three witnesses, who did little to rebut the testimony presented by the plaintiffs, but she said the state’s lawyers were facing an uphill battle.

“It really is very difficult to contest the science now on climate change. We can basically see it every day around us, including in Oregon and different states,” Benjamin said, noting recent climate-influenced disasters like the wildfires in Hawaii and the recent triple-digit heat spell in Portland, which is suspected to have caused at least four deaths.

“It’s not just the climate science that went uncontested, it was actually the impacts on people physically and mentally that were uncontested,” Benjamin said. (source)

You gotta love the religion of climate/climate science/science, and there will be no push back allowed, since these kids are experts at “the cancelling us all who might have another version of those” ‘wildfires.’

Watch!

CAPITALISM, and those Chosen Few, Larry Fink’s, Blackrock, and Blackstone’s Gray’s:

Rainy.Day Writes Rainy. Day’s Substack

The Dying Beast is thrashing violently and will take as many down with it as possible. Will the Tsunami of Human Resistance prevail?

Canada’s DEW R&D takes place at Valcartier Quebec near where huge fires broke out in June. Coincidence? Accident? Testing? Connect the dots, these things are not to be dismissed.

or

Brek Writes wendybrek, the memoir – one cha…

It’s Paradise, Calif. all over again, only this time more people are paying attention.

And then of course this tragedy in Maui and the way the circumstantial evidence stands out as being anything but “natural” are giving rise to even more questions. Where else is this sort of instantaneous and complete destruction happening ? And where else has this kind of thing already happened?

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LOOKING FOR CLUES in the CANADIAN FIRES

June 8, 2023

Robert Brame is a forensic arborist who has analyzed 38 California fires and has come up with hundreds of pieces of photographic evidence showing behavior that is IMPOSSIBLE in a normal fire.

[The soils in California where these hyper-incinerations were ignited are effectively sterilized. Nothing grows back. Many of the trees are cooked in place but essentially unburned. Tree species with high water content burn inside out. Window glass is melted—which requires 2,500°, a temperature far higher than normal forest fires ever reach—and anything with metal in it is destroyed. Plastic elements survive what was supposed to be a sweeping “forest fire”—not an in-place, somewhat isolated cremation that skips certain properties.]

@GreatResist2023 2 months ago [

“My family and I lost everything we ever worked for in the 2019 bushfires here in eastern Victoria, Australia. We decided to stay on our acerage but still rebuilding and haven’t quite finished yet. I can definitely confirm that fence posts burnt around the wire area and the rest of the post untouched. Most of the forests have recovered but this bushfire was definitely different. The one thing that was strange was no genuine effort was made to fight the fires but instead they evacuated the whole area and allowed it to burn to the ground.”

“I’m in Southern Ontario, and this is unlike anything I have experienced in my 41 years. I can tell you that they were heavily spraying the skies the last two weeks, and I could feel they were using more desiccant chemicals than usual. I felt extremely parched for days, and my Mom felt the same way. No matter how much water I drank, I could not get hydrated. I knew something like this was coming as soon as I saw the Western Provinces on fire and experienced the dryness. Doesn’t help that we haven’t had a good rainfall in weeks either. It is definitely suspect how these fires were started, and I can tell you that it is not just burning wood/forests. It has smelled strongly of burning plastic or rubber for the last few days. Hard to be outside and looks like a very think blanket of fog covering the cities. This was 100% done by design, as there have never been this many wildfires in Canada at the same time before.”

Oh well, those kiddos are getting their own personal head shrinks in K12 and college: VICTIMS or SUVIVORS or, well, the literature and personal assistants are there to keep the fear fear fear going!

Professional support can help young people manage the day-to-day emotions that come with climate-related mental health challenges, especially as climate change anxiety has already been linked to substance use and suicidal thoughts and feelings¹³. However, the most beneficial thing for youths will be to receive emotional support in their daily lives and to see adults, community leaders and institutions (which is to say, those able to create meaningful change) responding to this threat.

Unfortunately, young people are aware that those in positions of power have failed to make a meaningful impact on global trends. Instead, young people have become central actors when it comes to speaking out against climate change. This is partly due to adult inaction in this area and largely because they understand that this issue will disproportionately affect their generation. Notable examples of high-profile activists include Greta Thunberg, Isra Hirsi, Xiuhtezctal Martinez and Luisa Neubauer. Although the leadership, vision and tenacity of these young activists is laudable, it is simply not enough. Furthermore, it is not acceptable to ask our young people to become humanity’s ‘ultimate saviors’⁸. (source, Climate change anxiety in young people)

It’s everywhere — NPR, National Propaganda Radio (or National PsyOp Radio): Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change And Say Governments Are Failing Them

“It really is very difficult to contest the science now on climate change. We can basically see it every day around us, including in Oregon and different states.”

And those Palestinians who get murdered, the medics and MDs in Gaza who get knee-capped by fascist Nazi Israeli snipers, and then branding the Palestinian youth with the dirty star of david? We going to call the Mid Wife and Doctor Oz for all that anxiety?

“They had psychiatrists and pediatricians testify about the impacts of climate change physically on young people, it’s worse because their bodies are still developing and also the mental health impacts on children were significant in terms of not only climate anxiety, but depression and fear,” Benjamin said. (source)

Are we going to get all those Russians, all those people in Donbass, all of us supporting the right of the Russian Ukrainians to live, a free 10-session with a couch and PhD head shrinker? [Photo: Donetsk University of Economics and Trade, following Ukrainian shelling on August 6, 2023.]

Please end Putin and bring on the communists!

Russia’s Communist Party on Ukraine: ‘If We Lose This Conflict, We Will Be Destroyed’

Ahh, those poor Montana youth, are they ready to go out on the streets this Labor Day, start a massive strike against the shitty indoctrination of K12, and strike the shittier college scene? Hmm, weather and hurricanes and droughts, not as bad as, drum roll, all those putrids fighting China’s lifting up of the poor and getting their society and helping other societies have some sense of life? China, kiddos, and USA with nukes EVERYWHERE. Fucking climate change my ass. USA, Empire of Terror, Lies, Murder, War, Propaganda, LaLaLandia!

Caitlin: “There’s not enough rage at the US empire for provoking and perpetuating the war in Ukraine. Objections you see to this proxy war are mostly just griping about how much it costs or whether it’s sound strategy or whatever, but how about the fact that human lives are being spent like pennies for the advancement US global hegemony?

Think about how much it hurts to have one death in your family. Think about how much it rocks an entire community to lose even one life to violence. Mountains of human bodies are being piled up in violent deaths, all to secure US geostrategic interests in Eurasia. It’s pure horror.

The empire had multiple opportunities to end this before it started. It had an opportunity to end it in April 2022. It had an opportunity to end it this past November. But it kept shoving it through to advance US interests, and young lives kept being sacrificed to the war god.

Meanwhile US officials openly gloat all the time about how much this war is serving US interests, while anonymously whining to the press that the counteroffensive is failing because Ukrainians are too cowardly to charge through Russian minefields under heavy artillery fire. This should draw white hot rage from everybody.

You think, children, this is a fucking Netflix Game, some fucked up “it’s over there and Putin caused it so we must do what we must do as the Big Cop on the Block, no matter how much we hate Trumpies, and love the blue dems, we gotta feed the monster of MIC.

M I C (education; pharma; med; ag; mining; chemical; oil; energy; higher ed; engineering; satellite; AI-AR-VR; finance; insurance; entertainment; press; media; law; congressional; lobby; retail; real estate; survellience; space; food; booze; prison; box store; transportation; monetary; psychology; legal; police; bureaucratic) COMPLEX.

It is all MILITARIZED, and the drone boys and girls going for those grey whale drone chases, well, dual use, triple use — watching and peeping Toms in police, DoD, government and corporations.

Each shit, each piss, each fornication, each spit, each vomit, each blink, each REM, each murmer; each child cooing; each dream; each word spoken/written; each bead of sweat; each orgasm; each meme . . . Internet of Bodies: man, eye scans, the sheeple love it, take it, and will roll over all of us who refuse that electronic, 5 G, nanoparticle, mass formation, Stockholm Syndrome jab-jab-jab-jab.

Are the kiddos going to launch that legal case soon on the Blinken-Nuland-Yellen-Garland-Kagan White House? For the poor UkroNazi’s?

Basically the US empire’s strategy is to use Ukrainian bodies like a giant sponge to soak up as many expensive Russian military explosives as possible.

So, capitalism is never on trial, Americanism is never on trial, the Choseness/ Exceptionalism Monroe Doctronaires is never on trial.

The lifestyles of college-goers and taxpayers footing the bill for U$A AFRICOM or 850 Merchants of Death bases around the world ARE never on trial. The children are minding the henhouse, and unfortunately, the children are the foxes, man, the foxes.

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”

– Fred Hampton

“Each economic system must answer 1 fundamental question. Who will own the means of production, it can only be answered in 2 ways: either a few people will own or everybody will own”

– Kwame Ture

The kids (U$A & Klanadians) are going crazy, while the kids are dying of simple sancitons. Get the lawyers out, man, and the judges, man!

“All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth. When we were tribal people, we knew who we were, we knew where we were, and we knew our purpose.”- John Trudell

As I sign off, FUCK these kiddos and the media and the liars and the U$A. One fucking country, Montana kiddos, one fucking country you could go to court for, CUBA?

While President Joe Biden dithers about when or whether to keep his campaign promise to roll back Donald Trump’s economic sanctions on Cuba, people on the island are going hungry. Cuba imports 70 percent of its food and its foreign exchange earnings have plummeted due to the cut-off of remittances by Trump and the closure of the tourism industry by COVID-19. Increases in world market prices for food have aggravated an already precarious situation, producing severe shortages and a looming humanitarian crisis.

Hunger has been a weapon in Washington’s arsenal against Cuba ever since Dwight D. Eisenhower sat in the White House. In January 1960, Ike suggested blockading the island, arguing, “If they (the Cuban people) are hungry, they will throw Castro out.” In April 1960, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory proposed, “Every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” (source)