… and you won’t hear a peep out of the Zionist-First, Jewish-Second, Chosen-Third People running the prostitution rings called Media, social media, cable, TV, newsprint, et al about the genocide
Ahh, we know what SHOULD happen to the pigs, and ACAB is triple-stressed in that hell, Isra-Hell:
“As a law-abiding country, we must not put up with the phenomenon of police brutality. In this case, the nature of the injuries raises a strong suspicion that they were racially motivated,” Wadim Shub, the victim’s lawyer, was quoted as saying by Israeli media.
Shub called the incident “a grave case of intentional violence and humiliation of a detainee by police.”
The Palestinian man, who has not been named publicly, was suspected of drug trafficking offenses, Ynet reported. Police authorities allege that he “violently” resisted arrest and that the officers responded with “reasonable force’ to subdue him.”
Sixteen officers took part in the arrest, but none had their body cameras on at the time as they reportedly blindfolded the man before brutally beating him and searing his face with the Jewish symbol.
On Thursday, he was brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing where the Star of David was still visible on his face. Judge Amir Shaked reportedly expressed his “horror” over the police’s conduct and directed the case to be brought before the Police Internal Investigations Department.
He ordered that the suspect’s remand be extended until 20 August.
Internal investigations by Israeli security forces often end with no charges or lenient sentences, and in many cases, witnesses are not even summoned for questioning.
Last month, an Israeli court acquitted a border police officer charged with reckless manslaughter after he killed Eyad al-Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man. The court ruled that the officer acted in “self-defense” when he shot the 32-year-old man in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City three years ago.
“This is literally what it looks like when the state runs on Jewish supremacy, cops knowing they will be celebrated and not held accountable torture prisoners by branding their faces with a star of David,” Yousef Munayyer, the former executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, said via a tweet.
Israel is currently holding more than 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners, according to figures published by the rights group Addameer. At least 1,200 are held without charge or trial in a widely criticized practice known as administrative detention.
[Photo: More of this needed? An impact crater can clearly be seen in the satellite imagery provided to the UN by Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon on 28 June 2017]
[Photo: Fucking crazy Americans and Zionists: The patch resembles a star Jewish people were forced to wear in Hitler’s Germany, but this patch was designed for gun owners who feel they are being persecuted, too.
The online description of the product reads, in part, “The similarities of the current attitude of the legislative environment and the systematic persecution that this star represents are uncanny. There’s no difference.”]
Byrd’s brutal murder drew a spotlight on the small town of Jasper and violent racism in the modern world. Evidence at trial showed police found most of the 49-year-old’s body on June 7, 1998, with three miles of blood, drag marks and body parts — including his head — on the road behind it. At the beginning of the gruesome trail, police found evidence of a fight, and Byrd’s hat and cigarette butts later tied to King, Berry and Brewer, according to court documents. The three men were arrested shortly afterward.
Although King didn’t give an official statement to police or testify at his trial, he wrote a letter to The Dallas Morning News while awaiting trial proclaiming his innocence, saying Berry knew Byrd from jail and stopped the truck to pick him up after seeing Byrd walking down the road. King told the Morning News that Berry then dropped him and Brewer off before leaving with Byrd alone.
But in a jail note written to Brewer, he said he didn’t think his clothes police took from their apartment had blood on them, but his sandals may have had a “dark brown substance” on them.
“Seriously, though, Bro, regardless of the outcome of this, we have made history and shall die proudly remembered if need be. … Much Aryan love, respect, and honor, my brother in arms,” King wrote, according to a court filing.
More lynchings and beatings and dragging deaths: “A man suffered a gruesome death Sunday when he was tied to the back of his own pick-up truck and dragged down a roadway, Texas cops say. After 60-year-old Roman Rodriguez was dragged behind the truck, the vehicle was set on fire, the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said. Officials were alerted to the truck fire around 10 p.m. Sunday and found Rodriguez’ dead body. That led the sheriff’s office to begin an investigation into who caused his death. By Monday afternoon, 37-year-old Robert Eugene Hoffpauir had been charged in the death of Rodriguez.”
[Photo: James Byrd Sr. and Stella arrange flowers around a new headstone commemorating their son, James Byrd Jr., Feb. 1, 1999, in Jasper, Texas.]
Israel Hell:
On February 28, Israeli soldiers shot Amina Qdeih, a 58-year-old woman with an intellectual disability, who got lost while walking home from a wedding party. Her relatives heard shooting near the perimeter fence late at night, but because of fears of attack by Israeli drones overhead, they did not find her body until 6 a.m. the next morning. A hospital report said she had a gunshot wound to her abdomen and died of blood loss.
On February 13, Israeli forces fatally shot 35-year-old Ibrahim Mansour in the head while he and others collected rubble for building material several hundred meters from the perimeter fence. A witness told Human Rights Watch that an Israeli military vehicle fired teargas at four apparently unarmed men, who then fled. When Mansour and others who had taken cover resumed working, Israeli forces fired at them with live ammunition, killing Mansour and wounding another worker as they tried to run away.
Israeli forces shot and killed Bilal Oweidah, 19, on January 24, near the perimeter fence when he was taking photographs of deer while on an outing with friends. On January 2, Israeli forces shot and killed Adnan Abu Khater, 16, while he was picnicking about 600 meters from the fence with a group of high school friends to celebrate finishing their exams. Witnesses in both cases told Human Rights Watch that all the men and students were unarmed.
In other cases, Israeli forces shot and wounded Palestinian civilians taking part in protests inside Gaza against Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to farmland near the perimeter, and journalists covering the protests. On February 25, Israeli forces wounded Nasser Rahman, a 24-year-old journalist covering a demonstration, hitting him in the kneecap. On January 17, Israeli forces shot and wounded two Palestinian men attempting to plant olive trees, and a journalist, during a protest near the fence. The three men told Human Rights Watch that some young people at the demonstration threw stones toward Israeli forces but that they were not near the stone throwers at the time. (source)
Israeli snipers who participated in the internationally-condemned crackdown on Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip have boasted of their actions in interviews with Haaretz.
“I kept the casing of every round I fired,” said one former sniper from the Golani infantry brigade. “I have them in my room. So I don’t have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits.”
Asked how this compared to others from his battalion, Eden (not his real name) replied: “From the point of view of hits, I have the most. In my battalion they would say: ‘Look, here comes the killer’.”
“You have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven-eight knees in one day. Within a few hours, I almost broke his record.”
According to Haaretz, of dozens of snipers approached by the newspaper, six – all of them now discharged from the military – agreed to be interviewed.
Eden boasted of breaking the “knee record” during the demonstration on 14 May 2018.
“On that day, our pair had the largest number of hits, 42 in all. My locator wasn’t supposed to shoot, but I gave him a break, because we were getting close to the end of our stint, and he didn’t have knees,” he toldHaaretz.
While butterfly bullets come in different forms and calibers, the most damaging are live ammunition or rounds with metal casings designed to expand and fan out upon impact, causing maximum injury to flesh and bone. Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the former head of Doctors Without Borders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described seeing injuries among Gaza protesters “where the bullet has literally destroyed tissue after having pulverized the bone.”
In August 2018, at least four Palestinian journalists were injured by gunfire and shrapnel, including from live “butterfly” rounds covering protests in Gaza, as CPJ documented at the time, citing news reports. During the same series of protests, photojournalist Yaser Murtaja with the Gaza-based Ain Media agency and journalist Ahmad Abu Hussein who was reporting for Voice of the People radio, were shot by Israeli forces in separate incidents and both died from their wounds, as CPJdocumented. In both cases, the journalists were clearly identified as members of the press. It’s unclear what kind of munition the IDF used in those two shootings.
Fourth Reich, man, USA, and Ukraine, Nazis, listen to my friend, the Texas Commie, and he is an Orthodox, not my calling, but my brother:
Russell “Texas” Bentley, a courageous freedom fighter from Donbass, was recently featured as a guest on the Russian Baza Talk Show. During the talk show, Bentley discussed a range of topics related to the political conflict between Russia and Ukraine as well as the ongoing struggle to liberate Donbass from the oppressive Kiev junta. Bentley discussed the agenda of the Western elites and their de-population agenda through the promotion of the LGBT movement, bio weapons development, and “childfree lifestyle” propaganda.
He also shared his views on why Orthodoxy is the real Christianity and why Western Christianity, with its latte-sipping, pew-sitting, rock concert church services, is false. In addition, Bentley discussed Kiev’s oppression of Orthodox Christians, the advantages of the free market vs communism vs a mixed economy, the motivations of the Kiev junta regime, censorship in the West, what’s behind the wave of russophobia, the future of Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation, why life will be better for Ukrainians because of it, what self-determination means, and some of the heavy battles he was involved in. He also shared an update on the progress of the Special Military Operation. Overall, the interview provided an enlightening dialogue between Bentley and the show hosts, as well as a unique insight into the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The show gave viewers a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the region and the importance of autonomy for Donbass. Bentley’s courage and dedication to the cause of freedom for Donbass was an inspiration to the viewers, who were able to gain a deeper understanding of the situation through his thoughts and experiences.
[Photo: A police officer allegedly used his shoe to brand a Star of David. (photo credit: MAARIV)]
The presiding judge, Amir Shaked, reportedly expressed his “horror” over the incident, the Times of Israel reported, and directed the case to the police’s internal investigations department.
shooting horses in front of kindergarten boys and girls is more humane than letting one dude in Denmark spray the poisons onto the land
Something like a community bill of rights, where there are rights of the community over the rights of Georgia Pacific, Union Carbide, Koch Brothers, you name it. You want to do business here or live here, then prove you are not a taker, but a leaver.
Many Seal Rock residents are frustrated as they attempt to stop a property owner from spraying pesticides by helicopter in the South Beaver Creek area. Oregon Department of Forestry issued a permit to operate machinery, allowing landowner Sorn Nymark to use a helicopter to apply pesticides in an area near Graves Creek, east of the community of Seal Rock.
According to the ODF application, the project area is within 100 to 300 feet of several “site conditions,” including a stream, a seep or spring, a Bald Eagle, home or other dwelling and a domestic water supply. The application states that spraying may only occur in the 90-day window between Sept. 2 and Nov. 30.
And so the children we are, all of us are corralled into the “we have private property and corporate laws and the rule of law and the acts of legislation and the whims of the courts and the wants of the judges” that will rule over you. “So be good children and listen up.”
“I’m just one commissioner, (but) the other commissioners know that I’m present at this meeting,” he said “We wanted to understand everything that’s going on. Now with that being said, remember Measure 21-177 voters banned aerial spraying, but the state circuit court decided that was preempted by state law. So my sense is that for those that are thinking of using the ordinance mechanism at the county level for local control, I would be concerned that if we go down that pathway again that the courts have already said you don’t have control over this issue. We don’t we don’t have that local authority.” Miller said a top-down approach may work better. He asked what levers could be pulled at the county health authority.
Miller said he was amazed at the amount of community action and participation corralled in just a week, as it showed a unified concern.
“This is just my personal opinion: people are more being aware of the dangers of herbicides; that’s just where I stand on it,” he said. “It’s something that concerns me very much about the health of our communities, our watersheds, so I’m listening.”
Top-down approach and awareness of the dangers of poisons, or herbicides, as the limimp commissioner spiels.
Lining the pockets of someone living in Denmark, and so the ecology and the people are harmed, and there’s nothing the inept governor can do, and 1,500 signatures protesting this spraying mean shit.
“These chemicals are highly flammable,” the author of the petition, Lara Lwin Treadway, said. “It’s like spraying lighter fluid all over the forest. There are huge piles up there that have not been cleared and the local residents are terrified.” She said winds threaten to push through the area into Seal Rock and add several risks.
Treadway said Nymark does not live in the U.S., but in Denmark, and is coordinating the proposed project from there, which could not be confirmed.
“This is absolutely insane to line the pockets of one individual living in Denmark … a country where these very chemicals are banned,” she said.
Ahh, legal but not safe — welcome to the world of zero precautionary principle: local resident speaks,
Gyphosate (an organophosphate pesticide) is a component of the chemical cocktail scheduled to be aerially sprayed over 473 acres on Beaver Creek land in the near future. Consider the following:
• The human residents of Seal Rock (population 1,156) and South Beach (population 2,045) receive 100 percent of their water supply from Beaver Creek.
• Aerially sprayed herbicides/pesticides have been proven to drift as far as 10 miles.
Besides Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, exposure to Roundup (glyphosate) can also cause the following cancers:
• Large B Cell Lymphoma
• Follicular Lymphoma
• Mantle Cell Lymphoma
• Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma
• Mycosis Fungoides Lymphoma
• Burkitt Lymphoma
• 70 + Other Lymphoma subtypes
This herbicide/pesticide compound may be legal but it’s not safe! Why does a profit-driven businessman who does not live in the U.S. have more right to poison the Beaver Creek land/water than the people who live there to not be poisoned?
Barbara Davis
Old friend from Spokane: CELDF’s Executive Director Kai Huschke will be on “Corporations and Democracy”, a program of public radio station KZYX. He will be discussing the growing attacks on the citizen initiatives process, the expanse of corporate power in our everyday lives, and CELDF’s upcoming California talks – American Delusion. Catch the interview live at 7pm PDT on KZYX.
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Here, two years ago — It’s all groundhog day, brothers and sisters!
As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. — Rachel Carson
by Paul Haeder / May 11th, 2021
Caveats
Note to readers: This is an analysis and personal inculcation of my own narrative tied to one specific topic — Lincoln County’s aerial spray (toxics, weedicides/herbicides) ban which was overturned and is now being presented to a judge for revalidation. Too many times people come to me thinking I am a news writer, or mainstream journalist. I was one of those, years ago, for years, and I am not that person now. “I don’t need no stinking Press badge, cabrón.” I can lead the reader down some curvy and out of the way places in my style of writing. Call it rant, diatribe, polemical, what have you . . . or just bad prose. It doesn’t matter to me anymore because I am not following the Associated Press rule book/style guide. I am no longer subscribing to the small-town newspaper tenets, or all those other big-town so-called “journalism 101 keeping it objective” crap. Unfortunately, I have to keep reminding readers of this fact.
And, I have been engaged in so many local battles, either in them as a member of this or that group or committee, or as a writer, or as a faculty member with students from various colleges in tow. In reality, under capitalism, as each nanosecond ticks off, things are really getting ugly. Predictable, sure, for anyone who has drilled superficially or deeply into this perverse system of profits over all other things. Still, though, I am beyond journalism 101, which in some sense really never existed in a real world . . . or, for most cases, newspaper journalism was always about “fabricated balance,” and showing two sides (how absurd is that, two sides!) to an issue. AND, my experience is the more intelligent and deeply holistic and systems thinking voices are never heard . . . or allowed into the journalism story.
I’ve written extensively about this, and while some call me Gonzo 3.0, nevertheless, I have to caveat my work regularly such as I have now. Be forewarned — this is not Journalism 101, which for all intents and purposes has failed, failed, failed. There is no so-called liberal media! It’s conservative, neoliberal, neocon, commercial, tied to empire and the bs of exceptionalism.
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Waldport — I was driving back from Portland, hitting the scenic route, Highway 34, the so-called Alsea Highway. Two lane winding road. Farms and a river and homes on the slow-running river and no real towns except for Alsea. My wife was driving, fast, and I was a passenger looking hard at the surroundings.
On a sunny day, with this spring verdant overlay, a nice drive. It’s a green drive, with lots of leafing trees and conifers in the low-slung Coast Range. Of course, everything in the driver’s viewshed has been messed with more than a 100 years ago onward into this decade. Third growth tree plantations, clear-cuts, huge swaths of rye grass fields. A lot of dilapidated homes, cabins on the river and newer McMansions out there, with two RVs and four car garages and brand new out buildings.
Lots of clear-cuts, up to the road in some places. On one level, everything seems green and natural, but most of what a driver gets to see are second and third growth tree stands, AKA fiber/lumber plantations. There is a uniformity in the trees that are 50 years old. All the same size. All bunched up together.
No old growth in these here parts. When on runs into a really old Doug fir, people take selfies with it, sing to it, do prayers:
I know a few people who live out here, people who came to the area in the 1960s and ’70s. They are old now. On property that seems way out in the forest to some folk, but all are connected with paved roads, cement bridges spanning creeks, and with electricity and Wi-Fi. It’s an idyllic life in some regards, but for years (before this state’s draconian lockdowns) Highway 34 has been used as a byway for RV, pull trailers, Subaru’s with surfboards strapped to their roofs.
The destination is the coast. Small towns like Newport or Yachats. Plenty of beach. Tons of Air B&B’s and hotels.
The area indeed is an odd mix of retirees, out of towners, tourists, lumber and fish folk, people connected to the Oregon State Aquarium and the Hatfield Marines Sciences Center associated with Oregon State University. Like a lot of things and towns in North America, these places are worn out, rinky-dink, prime examples of those who have and the haves not.
It’s conservative with many centrist democrats tied to the hospital, Hatfield, many of the retired, and most from the community college. The rest of the population (to generalize) is stuck in a time warp, always impressing upon me about the good old days.
Those were the days when timber was king, and when there were beach house rentals, not this huge influx of STR’s (short term rentals) run by Portland-based Airbnb outfits like Vacasa.
Boom or bust, quasi back to the land, McDonald’s and Taco Bell drive-throughs, a Walmart, and a coast that depends big time on those crazy, congesting, demanding, beach swarming tourists.
Food, surprisingly, is not king here, as there are fewer and fewer unique mom and pop type eateries. Either a few high end resort restaurants, or small Mexican restaurants.
The drive from Corvallis down Highway 34 toward the coast is easy when the traffic is light. Otherwise, cussing galore as people from Portland and Corvallis, Salem and Eugene flood over to the cooler Pacific.
One small business, Deb’s Café, would have been on our list for a bite to eat, but the huge “Timber Unity” sign out front is a turn-off. I don’t want to have to pay for food from a mom and pop that visually supports anything as part of their advertising scheme: not Raytheon, Dow, Democrats, Republicans, the country Turkey or the Armenian people. To blatantly put up that Timber Unity logo sign is a sign of some sort of hard right, mean politics within, redneck politics worn on Deb’s sleeves (if there is a Deb there to begin with). Timber Unity signs are plastered all over homes and large yards and businesses in this neck of the woods. Unity my ass:
While the group has been hailed by state and national Republicans, and includes at least one former Oregon GOP lawmaker among its leaders, its participants have had no qualms associating with violent extremists and far-right groups. Several senior members have been photographed alongside members of neofascist or militia groups, and when pressed, its leadership has failed to disavow such ties. Its rallies have prominently featured messages backing QAnon, the sprawling internet conspiracy theory that posits a cabal of liberal elites are running a pedophile ring, and that has spurred real-world violence.
“While Timber Unity has sought to downplay these links, an investigation of its social media channels has found extensive ties between its leaders and Far Right figures, as well as the use of racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and violent rhetoric by its supporters,” explained Spencer Sunshine, a sociologist who researches right-wing extremists, in a report he compiled for Oregon environmental groups. “The organization already has a history of and association with groups who have either made violent political threats or have supported violent actions.” — “The Oregon GOP’s Favorite Anti-Environment Group Is Awash in Racism and Violent Threats”
Left-wing/Right-wing — The American Bird
Right-wing groups. The Trump years. That’s all I have to go by since I’ve been here short-term — December 2018. Pro-cops/pigs, pro-military grunt, pro-timber, pro-all-red-white-blue.
Coming from Portland, supporting more than just a few days of protesting cops and such in downtown PDX, I know small towns from way back. Small towns supporting Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Towns supporting Reagan. I’m old enough to know those Nixon years, and those small towns. From city council members, to police chiefs, and librarians, small towns and the conservative bent.
It was always more than support — called a traitor, threatened with violence, and handcuffed by pigs for non-violent protesting. Pre-Trump. Oh, Occupy Seattle, those Obama years. I’ve always been a traitor when speaking with Republicans, and I am now speaking with Democrats.
Yet here I am, in a poor rural country, with a mix of interesting people, divergent, many hopeless, a few lucky ones with retirement and health, hopeful. But hopeful in primarily a kind of transcendental mediation way. As a parenthetical, the idea impressed upon me is there are many people living in this area with college degrees and even graduate degrees since we are relatively close to Eugene and Corvallis, where the state land grant colleges are located. Retired professionals. And artists. This for many people infers a level of enlightenment and sophistication and wokeness not normally seen in other rural environs.
That’s debatable for me, since I subscribe to Chris Hedges “death of the liberal class”.
In a traditional democracy, the liberal class functions as a safety valve. It makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. It offers hope for change and proposes gradual steps toward greater equality. It endows the state and the mechanisms of power with virtue.
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
? Chris Hedges, The Death of the Liberal Class
I easily segue from one massive war crime after massive war crime — the American War Against Vietnam — to a small rural county in Oregon, and for the reader, this may seem disjointed. So goes the world of corporate wrongs, along with their various hitmen and hitwomen serving as financial thieves and legal Mafia. Because with lawyers, any company can literally get away with murder. And in the process, the murderer (collective, corporate, governmental) can blame the victims.
We are fighting that “timber unity” and the unchecked growth model, the clear-cut model of business, the boom or bust economics of real estate and out-of-state money dragging down the local economies. We are fighting chemical sprays.
The idea of blaming the victims isn’t new. If the economy goes bust, then blame the tree huggers and spotted owl kooks. Blame anyone or any group that is concerned about public health, safety and well-being. The judicial system is out of sync with the people, but in many ways, in sync wonderfully with the destroyers, the extractors, the people with paid-for experts and those with PhDs and MDs and what have you who will be the voice for corporations, giving both barrels for anyone who might question the bottom line — profits at any cost.
Here’s a living example of this legal system in the employ of the corporation. Chevron, no less:
Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. The company sued him in New York, and now he’s under house arrest. — Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
Defoliant/Dioxin/Disease
Again, shifting to Lincoln County, Oregon, we are tied to the big case in France — for sure, again, one single woman up against lawyers, their assistants, and the thugs and chemists for Dow. We are talking massive poisoning, massive murdering, war profiteering, empires of subjugation, the entire shooting match in Indochina. Death and history, and empire and corporations. The War Machine which is in a sense the machine that drives a lot of things in the USA, including lobbying (sic) groups like Timber Unity:
ÉVRY, France — Almost six decades after the U.S. military began dropping a toxic herbicide known as Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, a French courtroom in a Parisian suburb has become the unlikely setting for a faceoff between a woman who says she was a victim and some of the world’s largest chemical and pharmaceutical corporations that supplied the substance.
The landmark case has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old, against 14 companies. A ruling is expected on Monday.
If the court in Évry sides with the companies, including American multinational Dow, it would crush hopes for what activists have seen as a “historic trial” and a unique chance for accountability. But if the court rules in Tran’s favor, she would be the first Vietnamese civilian to win such a case. — Source
PARIS — A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit brought by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold toxic herbicide Agent Orange, used by American troops during the war in Vietnam.
The landmark case, filed in 2014, has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who says she was a victim of Agent Orange, against 14 firms, including U.S. multinational companies Dow Chemical and Monsanto, now owned by German giant Bayer.
This is the murderous gift that keeps on giving, and leave it to the French, a French court, to throw out this righteous case. Oh the French in Haiti, in Viet Nam. The irony of it is Tran’s children and grandchildren have been diseased because of the exposure to Agent Orange. One child died because of the dioxin disease(s). How many millions of Vietnamese were exposed to this sprayed on poison? Deaths? Disabilities? Chronic illnesses?
The other irony is that US veterans have successfully sued those chemical monsters and have gotten service connected disabilities from this massive poisoning, again, it is we the taxpayer, paying for those “injuries.” The chemical Eichmanns are equal to the military Eichmanns. Bomb them back to the Stone age, uh?
Thibault Camus / AP file
Leave it to the Associated Press to call her “communist” when she was exposed to the gas:
The former journalist has described in a book how she breathed some Agent Orange in 1966, when she was a member of the Vietnamese Communists, or Viet Cong, that fought against South Vietnam and the United States.
“Because of that, I lost one child due to heart defects. I have two other daughters who were born with malformations. And my grandchildren, too,” she told The Associated Press.
According to some probably low ball estimates, U.S. warplanes dropped 19 million gallons of Agent Orange — it was dubbed that because it was stored in drums with orange bands. I’ve seen a few old empties in Vietnam. Between the early 1960s and early 1970s, this ecocide was deployed to defoliate jungles and destroy Viet Cong crops. Murder babies, you know, with calorie constriction. Like the American colony did to Native Americans.
Millions of Vietnamese were sprayed.
At least 3,851 of the 5,958 known fixed-wing missions had targeted flight paths directly over South Vietnamese hamlets. We calculated that at least 2.1 million but perhaps as many as 4.8 million people in 3,181 hamlets were sprayed. Population estimates for an additional 1,430 sprayed hamlets are unavailable. Few systematic data exist on population exposures through residual contamination of soils or consumption of herbicidal chemicals taken up in the food chain, although “hot spots” are known. Source.
It’s clear how the laws are written to protect the poisoners, the murderers. William Bourdon, one of her lawyers, stated on Twitter that the court was “applying an obsolete definition of the immunity of jurisdiction principle which contradicted modern principles of international and national law.”
Even this lawyer was shocked the French court had backed the companies’ defense spiel that stated they were acting on “orders” when responding to U.S. government requisitions for the poison. Again, rule of law for the corporations, and these groups of company lawyers cited contractual law and purchase agreements not tying them to the claims. No damages to the Vietnamese people!
Dow Chemical and Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) were the two largest producers of Agent Orange for the U.S. military and were named in the suit, along with 18 other companies to include Diamond Shamrock, Uniroyal, Thompson Chemicals, Hercules, Ansul Co., Riverdale Chemical Co., Uniroyal, Occidental Petroleum Co., N.A. Phillips, and Hooker Chemical Co.
The military — the USA, in fact, all the Big Little Man Eichmann’s and taxpayers and those in the media, in universities, etc. — is a party to millions of individual war crimes, but this was a crime against people, against their food supply. The spraying occurred right after I was born in 1957, in the early 1960s, as the US Defense Advanced Project Research Agency (DARPA), a US Department of Defense agency, was heavily involved in bioweapons and surveillance and other nefarious illegal weapons, including toxins and all sorts of diseases, like the one we think came from an innocent tick, but, in fact, Lyme’s disease is from Plum Island, US military biowarfare lab.
These new offensive technologies are part of the USA’s legacy of crimes against humanity — experimenting various combinations and concentrations of chemical herbicides for use in the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was created when developers combined two of the most potent herbicides, 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) and 2,4- Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).
DARPA mixed up many combinations of herbicides to destroy Vietnam, including Agent Purple, Agent Pink, Agent Green, Agent White, Agent Blue, and Agent Orange, all named for the band of colored tape on their containers. Four years after my birth (’57), in 1961, the US began spraying those herbicides on Vietnam’s crops and jungles, part of a lovely mission titled Operation Ranch Hand.
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Small Town, Big Politics
So back in my neck of the woods, Waldport, Oregon in Lincoln County, I have a jarring perspective because this small town is isolated, and alas, yes, it is backwards, and the retrograde thinkers are in the hundreds and hundreds. Yet, there are slivers of hope, where smart people for many reasons, ended up here, and in the country at large. Some of those smart people are fed-up with the lies, the birth defects, the diseases, the entire flimflam game that is capitalism — whether it is health insurance scams, lemon automobiles or poisons peddled as “green chemistry for better farming/living/family rearing.”
I’ve been lucky enough to feature two of the people fighting the aerial spray ban reversal — Maria Kraus and Carol Van Strum:
Both pieces ended up in Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary, The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote:
Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons dropped throughout all of Southeast Asia and Laos.
“We had the information coming from Dow that there were real problems for people associated with this chemical. It was all locked up for 35 years.”
Playing down all the negative effects of this chemical was part of the Dow plan. Dioxin was the byproduct in the brew. Dow told the US government they were having difficulty producing the volume of the chemical the US wanted. The government told them to not worry about safety standards and quality control, and that a fast production process which produced more of the dioxin would not matter, since the crops and forest were being sprayed, and if people got in contact with it, the idea coming from both industrialists at Dow and those in government and the military was, “Hey, so what, this is a war . . . these are the effing Vietnamese.”
However, a former military man like Clary never saw it that way. He reiterated that 20 million gallons of it was dumped on Southeast Asia. The Ranch Hand program stopped in 1971, but then the chemicals were enlisted by the US on forest land – clear cuts that were sprayed to denude the razed land of any opportunistic weeds and shrubs. The money has to be made, and the stockpiled product has to go! Sell it to the state forestry department and timber outfits.
Both Carol and Maria, along with others, are working to convince a judge to stop aerial spraying of herbicides by timber companies on private land they own, huge portions of the state, in fact, abutting communities, river and creek systems, property owners’ homes, etc. This coming June 1, a group of local activists — citizens, home owners, those with a few acres of “property” — face down the judge in the case that ended a two year temporary stay on aerial spraying of chemicals so closely linked to the Agent Orange formula, that herbicide which is a brother of another mother (Agent Orange).
The people who wrote an ordinance banning the aerial spraying of pesticides in western Oregon last year [2017] aren’t professional environmental advocates. Their group, Lincoln County Community Rights, has no letterhead, business cards, or paid staff. Its handful of core members includes the owner of a small business that installs solar panels, a semi-retired Spanish translator, an organic farmer who raises llamas, and a self-described caretaker and Navajo-trained weaver.
And yet this decidedly homespun group of part-time, volunteer, novice activists managed a rare feat: They didn’t just stop the spraying of pesticides that had been released from airplanes and helicopters in this rural county for decades. They also scared the hell out of the companies that make them, according to internal documents from CropLife America, the national pesticide trade group. Although some of the world’s biggest companies poured money into a stealth campaign to stop the ordinance, and even though the Lincoln activists had no experience running political campaigns, the locals still won. — Source
Raining Weedicides
This above was also written by Lerner of The Intercept. The article’s headline — “How a Ragtag Group of Oregon Locals Took on the Biggest Chemical Companies in the World . . . and Won” — speaks to a common “liberal” form of journalism which seems to harken all these amazing hopeful signs of American democracy (sic) at work, with all the elements of (almost) patronizing the “locals” who in the headline writer’s eyes, are a “ragtag” bunch. It’s always nice to have a Karen Silkwood (Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma, which made plutonium pellets) or Lois Gibbs (she discovered that her 5-year-old son’s elementary school in Niagara Falls, New York, was built on a toxic waste dump; Love Canal) highlighted in these stories.
For the Intercept, having these activists in Lincoln County working to stop aerial spraying is a David vs Goliath environmental script ready for Netflix prominence. The group, Lincoln County Community Rights (I’ll get to Spokane in a sec), worked hard to get the gumption and impetus going for this to end up on the ballot. But in USA, you can vote for no added two or three mile runway for an airport, but that goes out the window for the greater good — they call it the greater good for the community or public, but it is all about greater good of the pocket book. This is typical in societies, all part of the rapaciousness of industrialized and now digitized societies. “You hate noisy new airport runways? Get some earplugs.”
I’m just reading how Zoom-Google Hangouts will be the way of the future for doctors visits (and school, college, work, court, and more). Imagine, articles just before the planned-demic (SARS-CoV2) on how poorly western medicine is doing with diagnostics, with integrated medicine, with hands on medicine, without a compassionate treat-the-whole-person modality. It’s just more of the more bad. These court cases are on Zoom, and now evictions across the country are Zoomed, but with no time for individuals making a statement to the judge, to the court. Many eviction hearings are lumped together on Zoom. Dozens at a time, which is against certain inalienable rights in the constitution.
Give the bastards an inch, and they will take a mile.
Laws against protesting. Real murderous laws allowing drivers to run down and murder protestors.
I remember the anti-Monsanto protest in Portland. At the Lloyd Center. We did make it to the roads, and while much of the protest was “permitted” in the sense the organizers got all the paperwork done for an announced, planned peaceful event, there was no telling how many people would break off.
Impede traffic at the giant mall? Shoot, how many states are passing “run over them if you feel triggered, in danger.” Passing those right to run over pedestrians, AKA terrorists, ordinances is big on Republican governors’ list of important things to do. Stand your ground is now “pedal to the metal” laws — get the riffraff out of the way.
Protesting the pesticides in a small town like Toledo, OR, might be an invitation to the Timber Unity folk and the people coming out of the woodwork who love their open carry permits, love taunting peaceful protestors. And the local pigs, well, they are in the same camp — any protestation against “industry” or the capitalist way, well, that is clear and present danger to the public, the community, to their own fascist leanings.
When I was there with my 16-year-old daughter, I did look for exit paths in case the pissed off automobile drivers behind us decided to go “postal.”
Just having a bumper sticker in many parts of Oregon declaring anti-spraying could get you good, let alone a bumper sticker against Timber Unity (there are none). Having a bumper sticker calling Monsanto a poisoner, that too, a rock through the windshield. I have had rocks thrown two car windows, two trucks “keyed,” and a motorcycle kicked over for some sort of advocacy bumper sticker I plastered on.
Bans by any other Name — Attacking the Corporations’ Bottom Line
Beyond Pesticides is an advocacy group looking at the devastating effects of pesticides on community health — the avian, aquatic, terrestrial and human communities. As an organization, they function as a great clearing house of information on the various poisons used in industrial capitalism’s gift to the world: factory farming. The Lincoln County aerial spray ban may have passed in May 2017 with 64 yeah votes over the nay ones, of the total 14,000 votes cast, but it was one of more than 200 local measures that do some form of “restricting” of pesticides (weedicides, fungicides, fumigants, herbicides, rodenticides, and the like). Many communities have passed protective measures that surpass basic limits set by the feds, the EPA. Some have banned glyphosate (Roundup). The first community ban or restriction was passed in 1970 in Maine.
Nationwide, 71 communities from across the political spectrum have passed either rights-of-nature or community-rights statutes, said Craig Kauffman, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, whose research focuses on legal and political arguments for the rights of nature.
Part of the motivation behind the campaign is to put ecosystems on an equal footing with corporations, which already have personhood rights under federal law. “Where we often see these campaigns is in rural communities that don’t want outside corporations coming in and destroying the ecosystems and watersheds,” Kauffman told me. With the twin pressures of climate change and biodiversity loss mounting, people are looking for new ways to fight back on the local level, he said.
— Carl Segerstrom, “Can a campaign for nature and community rights stop aerial spraying in Oregon?”
So, this upcoming June 1, the case will be made to reverse this judge’s action, which she declared in September of 2019: Judge Sheryl Bachart ruled that the county ordinance was pre-empted by an Oregon law that allows, with basic state-approved restrictions, aerial spraying of pesticides on forests and prohibits local governments from making any ordinance, rule or regulation governing pesticide sale or use. “Where local enactments are found incompatible with state law in an area of substantive policy and explicit preemption, state law will displace the local law,” she wrote.
Lincoln County, Oregon, voters approved the “Freedom from Aerial Sprayed Pesticides” ordinance. That was May 2017. It was a first-in-the-state law recognizing residents’ rights to clean air, water, and soil, their right to local community self-governance, and the Rights of Nature to exist, flourish, and evolve.
Soon after, the timber industry lawyered up — sued the county to overturn the ordinance, stating this Oregon county (or any county) had no right or authority to pass it (this sort of community rights legal codes) in the first place, and that this ordinance/law “adversely affected” them. This is a tactic used in Capitalism, whichever form you want to qualify your pro/quasi-pro capitalism with: predatory, usury, parasitic, disaster, casino, zombie — which has put a stranglehold on communities who vote to not allow some industry into town. Suing for imagined future losses (out of thin air profits), these Mafia corporations wrote the playbook on predatory capitalism. They time and time again, bring in an army of legal vultures to do battle with cash-strapped counties and municipalities threatening them with years of expensive litigation if a city or county prohibits their siting and industrial processes in that locality.
You don’t need to go back too far in history to see how industry works —
Hmm, many in my league just wrote about the 107th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, simply, a mass killing by a militia, anti-striker thugs during this period called the Colorado Coalfield War. This is the score — soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and then private guards/mercenaries in the employ of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked peaceful Occupiers: a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families. That was April 20, 1914, in Ludlow, and while 21 people, including miners’ wives and children, were murdered, the infamous John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a part-owner of CF&I, got away with it, with just a “talking to” during a US congressional hearing.
They Have the Big Ticket Lawyers
The right to your own labor, to strike, to refuse an illegal or dangerous order. The right to tell your supervisor things are smelly in Denmark. The right to expose malfeasance and shoddy manufacturing and death-creating products. The right to question the killer ingredients in chicken McNuggets?
It’s shoot to kill now, if as a citizen, you want to photograph clearcutting plots, animal factory farms, fracking facilities, even fields of GMO Franken-Corn.
When a community declares it is against war, against nukes, anything, the long arm of government and corporations comes in upper-cutting hard. Worse, though, is the longer arm of the mob, the herd, the bandwagoneers. Propaganda is a valuable tool of fascists and Madison Avenue, of governments and of right-wing movements. And let it be clear there is no real left left when that person announces his or her Democratic Party allegiances. Shifting the center to the right has been witnessed by yours truly my entire lifetime as a journalist — it is embarrassing how so-called weekly alternative newspapers are as right-wing as Mitt Romney. Let alone the massive experiment on the populous for this continual shifting baseline disorder. One day a few months ago, Big Pharma was despised in poll after poll. Now, Big Pharma wins the Nobel Prize collectively. Imagine the billions Pitzer has paid out in lawsuits, single ones and class action. Imagine that, and now imagine the profit hoarders, the mercenary capitalists, making billions on this jab-jab-jab jabberwocky.
Imagine the thugs the thugs hire to do their bidding, their dirty work. Imagine the Sisyphus of it all now, now that not just companies like Comcast, but their competitors, too, and entire countries, use app’s to send in faked and false comments to politicians. Imagine that, Sisyphus. The new normal is citizens scrounge up people to push a bill like the aerial spray moratorium, and then, imagine, those great software engineers and former military agents setting up companies that set loose false statements, push propaganda to a new level.
This article is being algorithm spun and any and all parties mentioned herein will be putting me on another watch list, or black list, but since I am just Don Quixote, I’m small potatoes, maybe even insane in their eyes.
I know I am on some FBI lists since some of the groups I was associated with have been surveilled by the Felonious Bureau of Inhumanity.
Try the Google search tool on “Dow” or “Agent Orange” or on “Timber Unity.” You’ll get more and more accolades, fewer and fewer critical hits. The rich have their Google tools and worldwide web cast far and wide.
It’s like this: You can lose your job as a pig/cop for calling an African American the racist term, n—–, but you keep your job if you put a bullet to the back of the head of that came black man while in uniform.
How does this all relate?
Community Standards?
Again, communities taking control of their boundaries, their health, safety and welfare? Communities defunding the police. Communities putting the brakes on growth, on building and construction trades, on projects that impede healthy traffic loads. Communities demanding smoke stacks not release toxic chemicals. Imagine that, in Newport, where the largest users of our freshwater system — a brewery and the shrimp industry. You think there is pushback on those two outfits?
Who will sit on the water board? Who will be at the table when more scrutiny hits the beer and shrimp industry?
Then the Chamber of Commerce, and then the Rotarians, and then all manner of people saying, “We need jobs, we need infrastructure, we need corporation x and company y in town. Putting all these limits on their growth, on their profits, on their business model, is antithetical to capitalism. They know best. They hire the best engineers, the best economists, the best communicators, the best scientists. You do-gooders know nothing about running a business, keeping the lights on, building employment bases, providing a culture to a community. You are against all growth.”
Growth is that timber industry buying up more and more parcels of land, and, in fact, insurance companies and other investment portfolio “holders” own (sic) this land. In fact, you can own your 100 acres, but if you got snookered thirty years ago by needing some shekels to keep going, you ended up working with shifty insurance and timber companies to “grant them the right to come in and sustainably log said designated acreage in 30 or 40 years . . . here’s how much big money we will give you up front to keep those beautiful trees growing big and healthy and keeping that air clean and all those streamlets pure.”
This is reality, man. People in their 60s or 70s who came out here in the 1970s, now have seen their property cut down vis-à-vis those three- to five-decades old contracts.
Now there are some things in the world we can’t change — gravity, entropy, the speed of light, the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and wellbeing. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere, for example.
–– Canadian scientist and TV series producer David Suzuki in his acceptance speech for Right Livelihood Award
The model of forestry is to use it all as a commodity, to manage it (control and destroy it), to turn real ecologies into tree plantations. Some people call these places out here, deserts:
It’s a no-brainer trees also provide shade for maintaining water temperature. To carry the analogy to the end point, we see fallen leaves, limbs and branches support food webs by providing food and habitat for insects that are food for fish, Hayduk states. Clean, cool water with more food equals bigger fish.
Nuances like growing alders on the flood plain or marsh plain encourages other species of trees to grow on the decaying fallen alder.
Looking at the ecosystem from a centuries-versus-a-few-decades perspective is important in understanding what Evan and others of his ilk are attempting. “Big conifers that fall help with grade control. Water tables rise. Conifers in the riparian areas can grow from 100 to 200 years before they fall into the creek.”
This concept of a “messy” stream refugia as being the most healthful for all species is anathema to the way most humans have thought about rivers. Scientists like Hayduk know fish get through any of the hurdles a natural stream environment presents them — even with huge logs and entire trees with root balls integrated into the water flow.
Laws only on Hold
The Lincoln County law held for over two years, preventing aerial application of pesticides. This got under the skin of the coalition of people and businesses in that so-called Timber Unity outfit.
The rule of law, of course, supports every aspect of predatory and disaster capitalism.
That judge in September of 2019 wrote: “Oregon does not recognize an independent right of local community self-government that is fundamental, inherent, inalienable, and constitutional.”
This is a battle line fought in many communities.
“Though this decision will be appealed on the grounds of denying the exercise of the right of local self-government, it also serves as positive energy to move the amendment forward so ultimately people, not corporations, decide the fate of their communities,” said Nancy Ward, coordinator for the Oregon Community Rights Network.
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) assisted Lincoln County Community Rights in drafting the law and representing them as an intervenor in the case. CELDF also sought to represent the Siletz River watershed’s interests in the case. The judge denied intervention.
Appeals were filed by Lincoln County Community Rights and the Siletz River watershed. They have their proverbial day in court June 1, 2021. This is from their May 8 press release:
Lincoln County Community Rights, the non-profit organization that placed Measure 21-177 on the ballot, filed an appeal against invalidation of the measure. The Siletz River Ecosystem also appealed the trial court decision to deny it intervention in the case. Oral arguments will be heard virtually Tuesday, June 1, 2021 in the morning session.
Speaking on behalf of the Siletz River Ecosystem, Carol Van Strum notes that ”securing rights of the river to exist, thrive and be protected from poisoning by aerial spraying is part of a global movement of tribal and other entities to grant natural systems standing to defend themselves in our courts.”
What is at stake is whether state government exists to protect people’s rights to save themselves and their environment from poisoning, or to protect industry’s right to poison people and their world for profit.
There have been more than the immediate effects on residents exposed to these chemicals: severe headaches, rashes, respiratory problems, and nosebleeds. Pets, livestock and wild animals exposed to spraying have died. Doctors and other medical professionals have been stating for years that long-term exposure to chemicals like glyphosate, 2,4-D and atrazine (just a few of the major ones used by the logging industry) can injure the liver and kidneys. The number of stillborn and miscarriages and babies with intellectual, learning and developmental disabilities is high in areas where these chemicals are sprayed.
Yet, the reality is Capitalism is all about “might makes right,” and as is true of any of the x, y, z you-name-it industries, in Oregon, the logging and chemical industries hold the Damocles sword (in the form of political influence) over the heads of all Oregonians. As is true every time, when these x, y, z you-name-it industries’ actions put people at risk, and ecosystems, one might believe there is a moral imperative for legislative and regulatory bodies to have a legal righteous imperative to intervene. The very idea of keeping industry spraying and industry land holdings secret should strike anyone believing in a democracy as both wrong and harmful to the public’s interest. Oregonians should have a right to determine which chemicals are verboten, but also, there has to be a set systems of do no harm, at any cost to the capitalist interests.
Solutions like having no-spray buffers from chemical drift speak to the inability of Oregon and other governments to hold them accountable. The Community Rights organization is in this to make sure state agencies work to protect our health by protecting wildlife, water, and not just private property.
Shielding politically influential industries from accountability is the name of the game, but community bill of rights movements have been proposed (and defeated in court, and the ballot box) to do exactly that — penetrate the obfuscation in order to hold them accountable and to derive their own agency to decide what a community deems safe.
The fact is we have let capitalism frame all debates, so, if there are movements to, say, stop animal cruelty in the agricultural arena, those movements should be part of the public interest, backed by government scientists and planners in concert with real science.
We can read a headline in the pro-farmer-rancher, Capital Press, “Anti-animal ag initiative raises alarm among Oregon farm groups … protections for livestock producers under the state’s animal cruelty laws,” but that entity, so-called journalism, will never access or refer to studies going back 20 years on the enormous amounts of cruelty the factory farming does to animals.
Here is an amazing source: Beyond the Law: Agribusiness and the Systemic Abuse of Animals Raised for Food or Food Production . Animals raised for food or food production in the United States are, in large part, excluded from legal protection against cruelty. For Oregon, that’s Initiative Petition 13, which all the farmers and ranchers and producers call anti-ag, and backed by animal rights extremists. Never will this source be cited by a Capital Press or what-have-you.
The Right for Future Magic Profits — Sue the Town
The same sort of mumbo-jumbo is leveled at people like Maria and Carol and the entire movement to put a stop to poisons in the air, water, soil. The fact a community group has to set forth an initiative process to get a spray ban even on the ballot box, up against the compliant media, the huge coffers of money to spend on propaganda by the timber and chemical industries, is not democracy at work.
For me, the history (my personal one) of a community bill of rights comes from a body of work tied to a community’s right to set the standards for human and ecological health, as well as the standards for labor and health and welfare. My own background includes 10 solid years in Spokane, and I was part of the push for the Envision Spokane, Community Bill of Rights, which bestowed legal rights on the Spokane River, granted residents the right to block development in their neighborhoods and given employees workplace protections. The kicker was to restrict any corporation’s “rights” that might be conflicting with the measure — conflicting with the community’s guidelines and values.
It took a coalition of business groups and governmental entities to sue, and the Washington Supreme Court “gave a victory to local business groups after unanimously ruling that Envision Spokane’s sweeping Community Bill of Rights ballot measure was outside of the initiative process and should not go before voters.”
Note the verbiage in the quotation marks. Very telling how business groups (backed by big bucks, and out-of-state bucks) is stated as a “coalition”, as opposed to being correctly labeled as a lobbying entity, special interest group, an anti-voter league. The media and press are spokespersons for the business community. Rocking the boat (taking a stand, or looking at community and nature bills of rights with a deeper analysis) is not part of the DNA of most co-opted media/Press entities.
At least High Country News gave LCCR a better shot at their story than other sources:
Anti-spray activists are appealing — and going after the pre-emption law itself. They say that the state and federal government shouldn’t be able to prevent locals from seeking greater protections for community and environmental health. It’s a new twist on long-running efforts by rural Westerners to gain more power. Traditionally, rural counties in Oregon and across the West have sought to undo state and federal environmental protections and open up land for logging and other industries. Now, Lincoln County residents want the power to create additional environmental protections, which they believe are necessary to end corporate political dominance and protect their health.
Murder, Broken Bodies, Poisons — A Tale of Too Many Counties
Just read some of the stuff here on the chemical industry, the state regulators, and more. Carol Van Strum, in her book, A Bitter Fog, and also when one talks with her, demonstrates the sacrifice of her activism — she lost four children in a fire at their cabin/house during the heated battle she was having with the chemical companies and forest service. She stated to me that the fire chief felt the fire was suspicious. Carol is clear that something wasn’t right that evening when she went to a neighbor’s with freshly baked bread and returned to her four children’s lifeless bodies from the fire.
From my piece on Carol: This is an idyllic life until the four children are sprayed. Then the court battles, the scientific investigations (and backtracking and cover-ups) of the real effects of these herbicides. We are talking about neighbors throughout the area, up to a mile away from each other, collectively having multiple miscarriages, children born with genetic defects, adults suffering cancers and other ailments.
The dedication in her non-fiction book is emblematic of the struggle Carol has undergone: “For my children, Daphne, Alexey, Jarvis and Benjamin Van Strum.”
I asked her what gives her hope. “The death of our children left me with what they loved — this farm, this dirt, these trees, this river, these birds, fish, newts, deer, and fishers — to protect and hold dear. These became my anchor to windward, keeping me from just drifting away with every wind that blows.”
Even that tragic story isn’t simple — there is evidence the four children, old enough to babysit each other, perished in a house while Carol was next door at a neighbor’s house. The fire marshal indicated it was suspicious, potentially the result of arson. Carol has her suspects.
This article was to be a precursor to the Lincoln Community Rights court case this June 1. However, for me, this is more than that, much deeper to, as we are all running into the gauntlet of US “rule of law.” The game is rigged, and you can ask anyone, not just public citizen Ralph Nader.
Describing the United States as an “advanced Third World country,” longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. “It is not too extreme to call our system of government now ‘American Fascism.’ It’s the control of government by big business, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined in 1938 as fascism,” Nader says.
Interviews
I end this long article with my interview of Maria Kraus and Debra Fant, two of the Lincoln County Community Rights activists:
Paul Haeder: What personal stake do you have in this fight to ban aerial spraying?
Maria Kraus: Personal stake? Every person aware of what is going on with our ecosystems, how they are unraveling due to ravenous extraction from them and toxic spraying on them to increase profits derived from extraction, has a stake in the effort to save the planet from becoming uninhabitable. This is a fight that is everyone’s fight, in which the personal examples of deadly illnesses, malformations, pain, hunger, and misery, together with the sight of degraded ecosystems, streams drying up, vanishing wildlife species are what should make this a universal fight.
Debra Fant: As a person who lives in coastal forest and appreciates clean cold water to drink for myself, my family, my community, I am highly motivated to end use of toxic chemical combinations from industrial tree farms in our watersheds.
PH: Fiftieth Anniversary of Silent Spring. Ironically with your case being heard next month. Any comments about this fact with reference to that below, here –
MK: Rachel Carson’s voice was the first to sound out publicly about the danger of using chemicals, DDT in her experience, not only to people, but to the environment. She held that chemicals should be studied for their effects on living organisms, soil, water, and air before being released into the environment.0
In other words, she insisted on the Precautionary Principle, according to which, chemical substances are not considered safe for use until proven to be so. However, industry, which dominates government here and in many other countries, believes that “business is business”, and that the profit motive has priority in all business decisions. Accordingly, the world has been freely experimenting with thousands of chemicals regardless of their possible effects on all forms of life and on the environment. The din of profit-making silenced Rachel Carson’s voice. Not only did use of chemicals proliferate during the many decades since Silent Spring was published, but chemicals used for war, such as Agent Orange in Vietnam, which were banned while the war was still going on due to the harm they caused to people exposed to it, started being used as herbicides in the US afterwards. There was a massive surplus of them and that could not be wasted. A market had to be found for them. Meantime, production of some chemicals has been banned only to make room for reformulations of their ingredients in new chemical products launched by the thousands into the market, with only a fraction going through testing. The EPA, created under the Nixon administration, has functioned, in Nixon’s own words, as a “buffer between industry and the public”, to make people believe they are being protected rather than to actually protect them.
Industry tests its own products, and regulations are written to stop only the most extreme and obvious harms, ensuring that they remain effective for the purposes that industry produces them, and, with that, harmful to every living organism that comes into contact with them. The evolution of chemical use is glaring proof that government, in the US especially, is of, by, and for profit-driven industry, not for the health, safety, and welfare of the people and the places where they live.
DF: Biocides – “any substance that can kill living organisms,” came out of chemical warfare after WWI and became chemical warfare in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The US Congress stopped the military use of Agent Orange four years before the war ended because of the harms to people, land, water, wildlife, and food crops. Why then was it sprayed on timber lands of our county and elsewhere in Oregon? It not only killed plant material but created deformed farm animals, aborted elk and deer fetus’ with defects, and babies born without brains. These experiments on living people and communities confirmed toxicity of forever chemicals that do not degrade or disappear The US Government agencies and industry collaborated for profits, corruption rampant in safety testing protocols, and so called scientific results suppressed or simply changed to support the lies that these chemicals are “safe” when label instructions are followed. Rachel Carson warned us and spoke clearly the dangers yet industry and regulatory agencies were motivated by greed, dazzled by man-made innovations without the wisdom to question destructive practices. If this is an intelligence test, I fear the human family is flunking.
PH: So Carson took up her cudgels. Her book is not a mathematical theorem. It is a carefully researched, precisely reasoned, and elegantly written argument for what she passionately believed to be the public good. It is a product of her social conscience, but not the diatribe that her critics complained about. She did not call for a ban on all pesticides, but mostly for the long-lasting chlorinated hydrocarbons such as DDT whose movement through the environment cannot be contained and whose residues, being fat soluble, are stored in animal tissues and recycled through food chains.
“It is not my contention that chemical insecticides should never be used,” she wrote. “I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potential for harm… I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effects on soil, water, wildlife, or man himself.” See Yale e360 source.
PH: Science should be “science” always in quotation marks since many in the “scientific” community (sic) adhere to a belief that chemicals have been tested extensively, and that there are no scientific connections to harms done on animals and humans at the level of dilution, say, an aerial application of said herbicides are used. Comment on this.
MK: The question is what “tested extensively” means. When does “extensively” become enough? Many of the chemicals used, in the concentrations they are used, don’t show their effects until many years after exposure, and some only in future generations.
Industry, of course, will not wait that long before launching chemicals into the market.
Once that happens, and time passes, it is hard to trace harmful effects to the chemical that caused them. In the race to justify its profitable products, the chemical industry is eager to find reasons to market them, not to refrain from doing so. Having the freedom granted to it by government, it conducts its own testing, and conveniently does so in search for the answers it needs to launch its products. The EPA accepts those results. What industry does to get chemical products approved for marketing has little to do with science, and much more with fooling the public to accept what they say. How much or for how long were flame retardants tested, or formaldehyde, before they were released for their various commercial applications?
We all know that growing food with poisons is madness, and that growing it on poisoned soil is madness too. We also know that forests have grown for millions of years without poisons, and that a mature or old-growth forest is healthier than a planted industrial one.
DF: The people of Oregon who sued the Forest Service to stop their spraying of Agent Orange in the 1970’s won their case and caused 1/2 of AO, 2,4,5, T to be de-registered. They also won a case proving that a contracted firm named IBT that EPA hired to do live animal studies of toxic chemicals used fraudulent practices and did not follow scientifically sound protocols to determine safety for the chemicals. Evidence of collusion between EPA and industry changing study results showed up in their own documents and communications which are part of the digitized “Poison Papers” online. That’s not scientific research, that is corruption.
PH: Yes, the rights of nature, yes, that’s where I come from, a deep green ecology. But for you both, how to frame that concept of a river having rights or land having rights to the average mis-educated and mis-directed citizen you might run into at a grocery store or public meeting?
MK: The argument we frequently use is that corporations are considered to be persons and have rights, and yet corporations are just a bunch of documents authorizing certain activities. Supposedly they speak through money.
Fundamental to the idea of Nature having rights is the fact that we are part of Nature and that all life is interconnected and depends on that interconnection. If we hurt one creature in the web of life, we hurt all the others that depend on it one way or another. We know that the absence or presence of wolves in an area can change the landscape of that area. If the wolves are no longer there, species that wolves predate on will multiply and eat vegetation that was abundant before. That vegetation will fail to provide nourishment, or shade, or shelter, to another species, which will not survive in that area, and so on. If starfish die, like they have in certain areas of the West Coast, sea urchins multiply exceedingly and eat all the sea grass, which is one of the main carbon sinks in the ocean. Westward winds over the Sahara Desert blow across the Atlantic Ocean and fertilize the Amazon Forest.
We all depend on Nature, and our need to protect it from human greed, crucial to its survival and that of all life, is best translated into recognition of Nature’s right to exist, flourish, and renew itself, a right which needs to be protected by laws, as perhaps the fastest way to get people to understand that transgressions against Nature have to stop. As we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness just because we exist, a right that is not up for discussion (although it has and continues to be violated), the right of Nature to be itself is not up for discussion. We have treated Nature as property. That has gotten us into the predicament we are in now, being as we are in danger of losing it as a source of life. This is still a concept that is difficult for people to grasp, but more and more people are coming to terms with it.
DF: Legal rights and the ability for a harmed river or a blasted mountain to be represented in a court of law are only needed where human beings have no limit to their willingness to harm balanced ecosystems whether for extracting fossil fuels, metals, board feet of lumber, or clean drinking water. When humans lose the ability to value clean air or fertile soil in a non-monetary way, there is no end to extraction no matter the cost to wildlife, oceans, humans, and nature’s resilience. Legal rights may be the only way of keeping intact what is needed for life on this planet!
People who relate to the Earth as our Mother, a forest as our grandparents, a river as our sister are not likely to defile or poison those ones who are family. When we all live with that value, knowing when what we have is “enough” and caring for clean water more than we care about money, we won’t need legal rights for nature to exist, thrive, and persist.
PH: Construction and finance rule the world, and here in Oregon, and in the world, there is a reported lumber shortage, and now a doubling of the prices of lumber. All sorts of reasons tied to lockdowns, SARS-CoV2 and more. Anticipate the push back from the timber industry which will cite that jobs are at stake and their own scientific studies showing aerial spraying is safer and more efficient and more expeditious than crews going out on the land hand spraying.
MK: We have had that kind of pushback from the timber industry all along, going on four years now. What has changed is the number of lawsuits filed for illness caused by the use of certain herbicides (mainly glyphosate) against the chemical industry, which have resulted in billions in fines for Bayer/Monsanto. In addition, many scientific publications and presentations by environmentally aware economists, foresters, and others (see Ernie Niemi, John Talberth, Chuck Willer) have raised awareness of the harm done to the soil by aerial pesticide spraying (and other forms of spraying), such as the death of micro-organisms; acceleration of global warming and climate change provoked by clear-cutting, drying up of streams in industrial forests, which carry only 50% of the water carried by streams running through mature and old growth forests, dying of fish and other water life due to increased temperature of the water in industrial forests, decreased capacity of industrial forests to store carbon because trees are not allowed to grow to a size that permits more storage, being cut down at 30-35 years of age instead of 80-100, and chemicals reaching streams and rivers due to drift or percolation in the soil. The discussion is evolving from aerial pesticide spraying to use of any herbicides and pesticides as more and more information on their harm comes to light.
The timber industry will continue to use its old arguments unless and until the law changes, and, together with that, also building materials. Our argument centers around preemption laws, which forbid local communities from protecting their health, safety and well-being, together with that of Nature, on which all life, including ours, depends, from the ravages of the timber and chemical industry through local democracy (people’s initiatives) such as our Measure 21-177. It focuses on the fundamental duty of government to protect the people from harm, and its use of preemption laws to instead protect the right of industry to profit from activities that constantly threaten and undermine the people’s and Nature’s wellbeing. Such laws turn the people in whom constitutionally all power is inherent to the guinea pigs of industry, making them the constant subject of chemical experimentation which they quietly oversee, like silent gigantic parasites sucking on the people’s and Nature’s lives while government looks on.
DF: Toxic chemicals are not required for re-growth of trees in this temperate rain forest. it is a fallacy made up by industry who wanted a market for their chemicals just as they made up those stories for food production.
Industry has been cutting at unsustainable levels for decades and finding loopholes in the law to clear cut far more than is wise. It’s time to keep standing natural forests who work daily to absorb C02 and release oxygen, hold moisture and fertility in the soil, protect the effectiveness of watersheds’ abilities to provide clean drinking water, provide habitat and food for wildlife, cold water for fish survival. It’s time to transition to growing hemp and bamboo that are fast growing fiber crops that can be processed locally for new building materials like “hemp-crete” and provide jobs for our people.
PH: This is coming down to a legal issue, where the concepts of precautionary principles and do no harm and holding polluters and chemical companies accountable to carry out all necessary objective studies of all their chemicals before being allowed to get approval for use might be powerful to me, a deep green ecosocialist, but we live in a country where herd immunity toward understanding/respecting/caring about the whole of nature and immunity to arguments about long-term health and safety concerns are the ruling orders of the day. We are expected to believe mainstream scientists about things like vaccine safety or the approval of what, now, (scientists) have given the green light to a million tons of radioactive water being dumped from Fukushima, so why not agree with the scientists who are in the employ of DOW, Monsanto and OSU forestry program?
MK: Our fight is to change how the government works and, ultimately, to bring down capitalism and its perverted and suicidal values. Can we win? Do we have enough time left to win, as the abolitionists and suffragists did? Probably not. We can either submit to the status quo or die fighting. Everyone has that choice.
DF: Because it’s BULL SHIT!
PH: What lessons learned for both of you as you go into this hearing, going on four years since you all activated?
MK: Everything I have written here I have learned through working on the aerial spray ban, from working with a group of people who are committed to putting their efforts into improving the world we live in, to seeing the importance of working for others, of contributing to one’s community. From the harms being inflicted on our environment to how government really works, especially here, but also in varying degrees in many other countries; from working as a team, to admiring the dedication of others and the varying forms in which it is expressed, and also appreciating the different talents that people doing the work bring to it. One of the main lessons has been to arrive at an understanding of how capitalism works, how disastrous its emphasis on profit is for the planet.
DF: I’ve learned that you can learn how to do almost anything that is unfamiliar or unknown, that commitment and truth telling are powerful and attractive forces to draw people together, that person power of volunteers can take on powerful corporate interests and make local law to protect safety and well-being, and it’s not all about the MONEY! Industry’s own public opinion polls late in the campaign showed that a majority of voters in this county did NOT want aerial spraying of pesticides and that included families who were a part of timber industry services. Would have loved to watch the Timber guys when they learned that poll results!
Two plus years without aerial spraying of toxins was a huge relief to all of us who live downstream. Listening to a spraying helicopter within a mile of my home after that was traumatic and made me cry for the streams getting poisoned, any life forms remaining on the steep slopes, for the ignorance of those who believe the spin and lies told about toxic chemicals being “safe.”
PH: In your own words, respond to: “Our argument is that the local government exists to protect public health and safety and should be immune from pre-emption laws that prevent them from doing so,” said Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin. “State preemption is a weapon of corporate special interests, which can more easily control state legislatures rather than deal with counties and local governments that are closer to the people.”
MK: I believe that preemption can be used for different purposes, and can be necessary (such as preemption of racism, violence, slavery, etc.) It is being used to protect corporate interests at the expense of public health and safety. That is the use we object to. Local governments should be able to enact more stringent laws than the state to protect the people’s and Nature’s health, safety and wellbeing (ceiling preemption, which prohibits more stringent protections of safety and health than the state has imposed, is what we are fighting). In that sense local governments should be able to complement the state government, because they are closer to the people. Preemption interferes with that closeness.
DF: Amen. Who cares more for finding solutions to local problems than the people who live there? Who will value and care for the land on which we live, work, play any more than we will?
End Note — Calling an Eichmann a Little Eichmann
Ward Churchill was vilified, dragged through the racist media mud, and afforded no due process and no 1st Amendment rights. Every time I open up the laptop and put fingers to illuminated keyboard, I feel the wrath of the overlords and Mafia thugs at the back of my neck. An Eichmann or a Little Eichmann are men and women who keep the trains running, the chemical spigots open, the bad science running, and the ruling class stashing their profits into every imaginable unethical and illegal tax shelter and “it takes money to make more money” scheme imaginable.
I see Little and Big Eichmanns in the vast military industrial complex, and the chemical-mining-extraction complex. This “complex” we call MIC is vastly more than just military industrial complex because our wars, our saber rattling, our sanctions, our dirty dealing, or incursions into other cultures on many levels is the Complex that props up and promulgates the wars: wars against nature, wars against people, wars against cultures, wars against diversity, wars against thought. There are millions of Eichmanns in the drug, medical, prison, education, law, finance, banking, real estate, AI complex. Herbicides is one small part of the Eichmann Show. But again, the vastness of the crime — from scientists, salespersons, governments, agencies, universities, state bureaucracies, media, press — is illustrative of capitalism on steroids: profits at any cost; secrecy; off-loading the harms to the people; welfare for the rich/corporations; unfair economies of scale; monopolies; a cabal of lawyers/judges/politicians working for them and against the people. Eichmanns big and small.
It is obvious that the University (U of Colorado) would never have begun its investigation of Ward Churchill were it not for his “little Eichmanns” comment, which he made as a citizen, not as a scholar or as a representative of the University. It is also obvious that dismissing Churchill from his position as a professor at the University violated his First Amendment rights. Most U.S. citizens will agree that what keeps America vital are the freedoms enjoyed by its citizens, foremost of which is speech. Without free speech, the U.S. is just another totalitarian state. This is why citizens must jealously guard the rights of their fellow citizens to express opinions, even opinions with which they disagree or that anger them. If Churchill is not allowed to speak freely, none of us are.
It was Churchill’s essay of September 12, 2001, that drew attention to him — an essay that called victims of the attack on the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns.” For four years the essay, titled “Some People Push Back,” went unnoticed, but in 2005 it caught the attention of faculty and administrators at Hamilton College in New York, and from there it went viral, becoming the topic of nonstop media commentary that lasted for months. Source
I supported Ward when he came to Eastern Washington University in Cheney (Spokane), and I supported him before that, and afterward. How many times have I used the Little Eichmanns rejoinder, uh? Death to me a thousand times over! That was 16 years ago when the radical violent Zionists and Israel Firsters went after him. Now? It’s as if all those chickens have come back in droves to roost, and they are taking a huge salmonella shit on us all. If you think you are radical and voted for Harris-Biden, you are in that muck, shit. The liberal project, the neoliberal bent, the neocon drive, the emptiness of cancel culture, all of that, it’s come to haunt the liberals. For socialist communists like myself, those chickens are just another version of “Whitey On the Moon“.
“Some People Push Back” On the Justice of Roosting Chickens By Ward Churchill
When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite charitably, all things considered – replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming home to roost.”
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens – along with some half-million dead Iraqi children – came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.
the white wash has always been “on,” but the NeoCons and NeoLiberals and the NeoRepubes and the NeoDemons, they’ll call a hitman a minute man, and Little David Churchill Zelensky Paul Revere
“there’s always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher classes”
Imagine that, under Khan, his neutrality in the proxy war against Russia, Ukraine, err, is repositioned as a new concept by the hasbara queens and kings — AGGRESSIVE Neutrality.
Aggressive Peace Studies. Oh that MLK, that aggressor!
Racism can well be, that corrosive evil that will bring down the curtain on western civilization. Arnold Toynbee has said that some twenty-six civilization have risen upon the face of the Earth, almost all of them have descended into the junk heap of destruction. The decline and fall of these civilizations, according to Toynbee, was not caused by external invasion but by internal decay. They failed to respond creatively to the challenges impingent upon them.
If America does not respond creatively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say, that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.
The second aspect of our afflicted society is extreme materialism. An Asian writer has portrayed our dilemma in candid terms, he says, “you call your thousand material devices labor saving machinery, yet you are forever busy. With the multiplying of your machinery, you grow increasingly fatigued, anxious, nervous, dissatisfied. Whatever you have you want more and wherever you are you want to go somewhere else. Your devices are neither time saving nor soul saving machinery. They are so many sharp spurs which urge you on to invent more machinery and to do more business”.
This tells us something about our civilization that cannot be caste aside as a prejudiced charge by an eastern thinker who is jealous of Western prosperity. We cannot escape the indictment. This does not mean that we must turn back the clock of scientific progress. No one can overlook the wonders that science has wrought for our lives. The automobile will not abdicate in favor of the horse and buggy or the train in favor of the stagecoach or the tractor in favor of the handplow or the scientific method in favor of ignorance and superstition.
But our moral lag must be redeemed; when scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. When we foolishly maximize the minimum and minimize the maximum we sign the warrant for our own day of doom. It is this moral lag in our thing-oriented society that blinds us to the human reality around us and encourages us in the greed and exploitation which creates the sector of poverty in the midst of wealth.
Again we have diluted ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that Capitalism was build on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad. If Negroes and poor whites do not participate in the free flow of wealth within our economy, they will forever be poor, giving their energies, their talents and their limited funds to the consumer market but reaping few benefits and services in return.
The way to end poverty is to end the exploitation of the poor, ensure them a fair share of the government services and the nation’s resources. I proposed recently that a national agency be established to provide employment for everyone needing it. Nothing is more socially inexcusable than unemployment in this age. In the 30s, when the nation was bankrupt it instituted such an agency, the WPA, in the present conditions of a nation glutted with resources, it is barbarous to condemn people desiring work to soul sapping inactivity and poverty. I am convinced that even this one, massive act of concern will do more than all the state police and armies of the nation to quell riots and still hatreds.
The tragedy is our materialistic culture does not possess the statesmanship necessary to do it. Victor Hugo could have been thinking of 20th Century America when he wrote, “there’s always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher classes”.
The time has come for America to face the inevitable choice between materialism and humanism. We must devote at least as much to our children’s education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels. We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.
We must further recognize that the ghetto is a domestic colony. Black people must develop programs that will aid in the transfer of power and wealth into the hands of residents of the ghetto so that they may in reality control their own destinies. This is the meaning of New Politics. People of will in the larger community, must support the black man in this effort.
The final phase of our national sickness is the disease of militarism. Nothing more clearly demonstrates our nation’s abuse of military power than our tragic adventure in Vietnam. This war has played havoc with the destiny of the entire world. It has torn up the Geneva Agreement, it has seriously impaired the United Nations, it has exacerbated the hatred between continents and worse still between races. It has frustrated our development at home, telling our own underprivileged citizens that we place insatiable military demands above their critical needs. It has greatly contributed to the forces of reaction in America and strengthened the military industrial complex. And it has practically destroyed Vietnam and left thousands of American and Vietnamese youth maimed and mutilated and exposed the whole world to the risk of nuclear warfare. Above all, the War in Vietnam, has revealed what Senator Fulbright calls, “our nation’s arrogance of power”.
We are arrogant in professing to be concerned about the freedom of foreign nations while not setting our own house in order. Many of our Senators and Congressmen vote joyously to appropriate billions of dollars for the War in Vietnam and many of these same Senators and Congressmen vote loudly against a Fair Housing Bill to make it possible for a Negro veteran of Vietnam to purchase a decent home. We arm Negro soldiers to kill on foreign battlefields but offer little protection for their relatives from beatings and killings in our own South. We are willing to make a Negro 100% of a citizen in Warfare but reduce him to 50% of a citizen on American soil.
No war in our nation’s history has ever been so violative of our conscience, our national interest and so destructive of our moral standing before the world. No enemy has ever been able to cause such damage to us as we inflict upon ourselves. (source)
A leaked document reports that State Department official Donald Lu issued blatant threats to Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States that ….
“it will be tough going ahead” for Pakistan if Khan wasn’t ousted but “all will be forgiven” if he was, saying the US and its European allies didn’t like the prime minister’s “aggressively neutral position” on the Ukraine war.
This is it for the Blinken-Kagans-Nuland-Yellen-Garland. They are monsters of a very third degree kind:
Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, hails from a family of immigrants, refugees and a Holocaust survivor. During a November 24 press conference in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden introduced his nominee by explaining that Blinken’s family taught him the unique promise of America.
In his nomination acceptance speech, Blinken emphasized how he was inspired by the example of his family, including his grandfather, Maurice Blinken, an “early backer of Israel,” according to the New York Times. His father, Donald Blinken, served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and his father’s second wife, Vera, fled communist Hungary as a young girl.
Blinken also shared his family connection to the Shoah: his late stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was the only one of 900 children in Bialystok, Poland to survive the Holocaust after four years in concentration camps. During a death march in the woods of Bavaria, Pisar came upon an African-American soldier, Blinken said. And to the soldier, Pisar uttered the only three words in English he knew, a phrase his mother had taught him: “God Bless America.” (Biden’s Jewish A-Team)
And it’s somehow now antisemetic to point this out, err, this is the Zionists pointing it out:
Immediately after US President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Israel started “scrutinising” his ministers and political envoys. It began by categorising each as close or hostile to the Zionist entity, expressing concerns over the Jewish members of the US administration, given their opposing stances to the Israeli right-wing camp.
It became clear from the first days of Biden’s term that his administration would include more Jews in key positions than ever before. But this time, among them will be reformists and conservatives, unlike the Jews of the Donald Trump administration who belonged to religious movements.
A number of influential Jewish personalities of the Biden administration are in the spotlight, such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Finance Minister Janet Yellen, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. This raised many concerns in Israel about the advantages of increasing the number of Jews in major positions within the new US administration.
This is, according to the Edward Bernays propaganda and news-speak and double-speak mad men and mad women, aggressively rhetorically pointedly critiquing Israel, or what have you.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. — Bernays
Thanks to Sasha Latypova for this tip of the iceberg:
Here is an interesting article about a rather old concept of the Entrainment Technology, Subliminal Programming & Financial Manipulation, an interview with Adam Trombley by Catherine Austin Fitts at Solari Report:
Entrainment technology basically is the technology that exploits a neurological function called frequency following response. [It] was discovered in the earlier part of the 20th century and in terms of this type of entrainment was a matter of when the brain hears a repetitive pattern. It can be a repetitive pattern of words, it can be a repetitive cadence of rhythm, or in modern times it can be a repetitive acoustic sound coming across the loud speaker. It can be in a certain wave form, a certain frequency, the brain will follow that sound. […] the brain will fall into rhythm with that sound.
Because what the German scientist community had discovered was, if you played alpha waves to patients who were having problems with their nervous system or psychosis or whatever, or even if they were just anxious, if you played alpha waves to these people they would became calm.
Note that this is evidence of alpha waves having a stabilizing effect on a mentally ill or unstable subject, not the entire population. The precondition here is that the subject has a mental illness as a starting point.
It would adjust their body chemistry in proportion to that. They would feel relaxed, and open and therefore more suggestible, which is a part of that, what happens.
In the 1920s, Joseph Goebbels became an avid admirer of Bernays and his writings – despite the fact that Bernays was a Jew. When Goebbels became the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich, he sought to exploit Bernays’ ideas to the fullest extent possible. For example, he created a “Fuhrer cult” around Adolph Hitler.
Bernays learned that the Nazis were using his work in 1933, from a foreign correspondent for Hearst newspapers. He later recounted in his 1965 autobiography:
They were using my books as the basis for a destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me, but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misused for antisocial ones.
Entrainment technology basically is the technology that exploits a neurological function called frequency following response. And, frequency following response was discovered in the earlier part of the 20th century and in terms of this type of entrainment was a matter of when the brain hears a repetitive pattern. It can be a repetitive pattern of words, it can be a repetitive cadence of rhythm, or in modern times it can be a repetitive acoustic sound coming across the loud speaker. It can be in a certain wave form, a certain frequency, the brain will follow that sound. The brain will follow that sound whether it’s monaural or binaural or surround sound; the brain will fall into rhythm with that sound.
That’s what frequency following response is about. It’s kind of a natural tendency that our brains have, a proclivity our brains have. And basically, in the early 1930s when the Nazi government was taking power in Germany, basically they created a big stadium in Nuremberg, Albert Speer was the architect, and it was very intentionally acoustically designed to augment and enhance alpha entrainment. This is one of the most important first examples of mass mind control. Because what the German scientist community had discovered was, if you played alpha waves to patients who were having problems with their nervous system or psychosis or whatever, or even if they were just anxious, if you played alpha waves to these people they would became calm. Their brains would fall into a rhythm with the alpha waves. It would adjust their body chemistry in proportion to that. They would feel relaxed, and open and therefore more suggestible, which is a part of that, what happens. And so, they were able to get thousands of soldiers to line up in neat little rows and listen to Adolph Hitler blabber for hours and listen to all these other speakers go on and on as they stood there in the heat with perfect attention, because they were completely entrained. It was a remarkable demonstration of the power of this technology on a mass scale but it was very, very primitive compared to what we’re seeing today.
You get the picture, those little germs, Germans, all there with the Hasbara Crew:
I ran into some of my colleagues at a conference and we started talking about entrainment. This was a long time ago, and two of them said we’ve been studying this and the Republican Party is using entrainment in a lot of their political commercials, and it’s being used to great effect. I was very interested in that and I asked if there is anything else? This is before I knew hardly anything about it. They said, this is happening. They are stimulating pleasure feelings relative to their candidate, and revulsion feelings relative to the opposition. They were concerned because they said as it becomes more and more sophisticated this is going to be a devastatingly powerful tool. There are people who have been watching this and they are a very tight knit group of people and they are disbursed throughout the scientific community. There are a lot of academic institutions doing this, but it isn’t their primary job.
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Remember all the times you felt totally enervated from being in an urban environment, and you’ve gone off to hike somewhere in the forest, and half an hour after you stop hiking, all of a sudden you feel like you’re alive, because we resonate on the molecular level with every living thing. We are literally like living tuning forks. We walk through a forest and the vibratory context of those trees, which are living crystal structures resonating in space, those interact with us in a way that can go a long way towards erasing the negative effects. We really all need to breathe living air as much as possible. We need to drink living water as much as possible. These things are essential. We do green drinks in a 3 horse power blender out of the whole fruit and the whole vegetable so that we get all of the fiber and not just the juice. It’s amazing how healing this kind of thing is. Diet, water, what you drink, what you don’t drink, what you smoke, what you don’t smoke, etc. I recommend nobody smokes anything, but what do I know. (source)
Big stadiums, Big Screen TVs, Big Fall Events, Big Concerts, Big Time Hyper Fear on the Black Mirror Small Screens, it is all there, brothers and sisters — GAD, general anxiety disorger, and Stockholm Syndrome on a Collective GLobal Scale. You see these Zionists now ALL the time, on TV, owners of football teams, in schools, in political office, in the CDC, NIH, DoD, everywhere, so, ahh, the brainwashing is spot on . . . Caitlin Johnstone is too kind calling this monster “(Rename) The Secretary Of State The Secretary Of Hypocrisy.”
Obviously if you’ve got officials from the world’s most powerful, violent and destructive government telling your country “it will be tough going ahead” if its prime minister is not removed from power but “all will be forgiven” if he is, that’s brazen interference in the democratic processes of that nation. Yet here is the head of the State Department babbling about the wonderful “free and fair elections” in Pakistan.
Earlier this month the State Department put out another doozy on Twitter (or whatever we’re calling it now), quoting Blinken saying “Governments that violate human rights are almost always the same ones that flout other key parts of that order — such as invading, coercing, and threatening other countries, or breaking trade rules.”
All of which the US government of course does regularly.
He’s a killer, man, and the pseudo events, the pseudo thinkers, the pseudo spokespersons, the pseudo politicians, the pseudo Homo Sapiens, they are all Natural Borne Killers!
A golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גּוֹלֶם, romanized: gōlem) is an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is entirely created from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th-century rabbi of Prague. According to Moment magazine, “the golem is a highly mutable metaphor with seemingly limitless symbolism. It can be a victim or villain, man or woman—or sometimes both. Over the centuries, it has been used to connote war, community, isolation, hope, and despair.”
parenting seems to be the failure of democracy and patriarchy and history . . . living, breathing history
I like to parlay my own walkabout, my journeys, all the mish-mash of living in an unthinking and unthinkable thinking world with combining my own tricks of following others’ narratives while hooking something into that universality I hope (sic) to flow with into my life. Galvanizing!
It’s a complicated story. I just met her a few days ago, the childhood friend of my wife. California, Cal-Arts, my wife’s refuge from a redneck and mean-as-cuss father, the Seventh Day Adventists, and alas, here she is, intersecting with me.
She is a Black American, but her Blackness is also Native American, and the island of Nevis, where great-greats were slaves, working the fields — sugar cane plantations.
Her Father is from Austrian Jewish roots, and a mother with those Nevis roots, a deeply overcoat of many peoples and races plowing into each other historically and creatively. From this, she has turned her life into a living canvas — graphic artist, musician, Chinese medicine practitioner, dramatist, and more.
She is proud and a lesbian but a bisexual, too. The mother — the amazing cook, the herbalist, the artist (my wife was captured by that household of “liberal” happenings, the art, her friend’s father who did metal work, her brother, a musician, andthat mother another free-flowing and beepop graphic artist).
We were at it in the backyard, in Waldport, as in at the talking circle. On land which is part of the Alsi, Alsea, and that is Pacific Salish, Siletz, and the word, the tribe’s, means peaceful place. Our home that we bought used, is part of a sacred burial field, and so we sage/smudge it from time to time.
But this woman — I’ll call her Discordia (not her name, but a pun on the new fake Corona SARS variant of disinterest) — she was showing us some of her brother’s music, and then her mother, their mother, a few months before she passed with cancer at age 72, was talking about her life, probed by daughter and others in the room to give perspective on what life is, and how she is a woman — I keep her alive now, present tense — who let life unfold, let life happen, let her life syncopate or not, with the great schema of her journey, with others who ended up on her pathway, her children, and her Jewish Austrian-Ashkenazi husband.
This was both a beautiful moment — she tearing up, my wife loving that voice, and the reality that her father was not a good man when his wife passed — and hard, cold as ice.
This Black woman is learning Hebrew, and she knows that absurdity of orthodoxy, kosher-ism, but she is a leaver, someone who is a sponge for culture, arts, and life along the slip-stream. She is open. She is traumatized. She is an immunde system storm after storm. But her laught is deep and her smile and tears are real.
[Ashkenazi refers to diaspora Jews who established communities along the Rhine in western Germany and northern France during the Middle Ages.]
Look, there are personal things in her story, and Discordia is wanting to write it down, memoir-style, and she has a story — or many. Her island family bought Hamilton’s house, and lived in it, but a family member went for the historic society, the museum nuts, and sold the place for $2000 a year — a piece of land and place of history worth way more than half a million dollars. Again, legacy wealth emptied from the hands of the African American.
Slaves, and boiling caldrons of sap and goo for the sugar addiction and rum: Ruins of the Hamilton Estate on Nevis.
That perigrine followed the sky above the backyard toward the bay, the Alsea River meeting the Pacific, looking for voles and fish and who the hell knows what else. Toward the bridge.
My wife’s friend’s tears, and us all listening this mother speak with her son’s free form jazzy electronic music in the background.
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The Curée (from A Quartet For the Falcon) by Caitriona O’Reilly
The father and daughter, the old man at 80 years this year, with a new wife less than two years after his Black wife died. He rejected Discordia. Now, her name is something else, but we joked about the CDC, the NIH, the whole planned pandemic, the boosters and the pandemic of the jabbed and boosted. They call the new fake variant, Eris, or Roman, DIscordia. She is a California alternative medicine practitioner, and she’s had to mask up and put on a bullshit “I’ve got the jab” face.
She’s lost friends, even a shaman friend, and yoga friends, all those alternatives, you know, fascists in hot yoga pants, who believe in the dictum, “no jab, persona non grata.”
I’m going to use the perigrine as her new talisman, and she is too. The table was surrounded by my wife, her mother, our friend from Canada going through Domestic Violence-Attempted Murder case of her husband her, of all places, and yours truly.
The wild bird entered our space as Discordia’s mother, captured on YouTube, sang electra, Electra.
I’ll write more about her, and I’ll delve into her history, the Father’s family’s history. But the short version is the father married a woman who ended up taking over, and the two biological offspring he fathered — Discordia and her brother — who consider themselves Black, and non-Jewish in the matriarchal way, but with the big DNA mix of so many.
And, Discordia told us that her Jewish grandmother lived only a mile or several blocks away, but Discordia and her brother didn’t see her until she was 20.
Grandmother resented her Jewish-Austrian son for marrying that, shvartze!
Shmuel Charney went by the pseudonym ניגער, a word now commonly transliterated as “Niger,” but one that historically functioned as the American Yiddish transliteration of the racial slur, “nigger.”
The Jewish community has a word that conjures the same emotions for blacks: shvartze.
Having grown up in a mixed religious home with exposure to some Yiddish speaking Jews, I did hear shvartze growing up. But that isn’t to say the word isn’t still in use, and isn’t hurtful to many. I spoke with a few friends, Jewish and not, who shared their experiences with the word:
“When [my grandmother was in a nursing home at the end of her life, she’d say, ‘everyone who works here is a shvartze, they’ll steal from you.’ ”
“Schvartze is proxy for nigger… anyone who says otherwise is delusional, lying or incredibly naïve,” an Orthodox friend told me. “If it means black then why does no one ever refer to schvartzer shoes when talking about black shoes, why does the black hat community, which sometimes refers to itself as the black community, never call itself the schvartzer community — because the use of the word within the frum community is only as a substitute for nigger.” (source)
Imagine that, uh? Granny? And, so, there will be blood, but no blood ties to the father’s economic and monetary line. She tells us she has a big student debt for Chinese medicine school (over $230,000) and that her father reneged on buying her a small place, and that he has not really helped her financially.
We love Alice, for sure:
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.
I will talk to Discordia about Alice, a hero of mine: Her poem begins with the shock of being called an anti-Semite for daring to suggest universal human dignity belongs to Palestinians, too. It goes on to examine Israel’s unfathomably cruel and unrelentingly violent treatment of indigenous Palestinians. From there, Walker searches the Talmud for answers. Then she calls out passages that uphold Jewish supremacy and anti-Gentile (goyim) values.
According to Rabbi Rosen, the passages are real. All monotheistic religious texts span the full spectrum of ideas, from the noblest to the vilest. The Bible and Quran have their own versions of misogynistic, homophobic, and shockingly violent passages, which are frequently called out, and in the case of the Quran, used to frame the destruction of defenceless societies.
To Study The Talmud by Alice Walker
The first time I was accused
Of appearing to be anti-Semitic
The shock did not wear off For days. The man who charged me Was a friend. A Jewish Soul Who I thought understood Or could learn to understand Almost anything.
He could not understand However Why I thought Israel should give back The land it took From a poorly defended People in a war that lasted Six days. I cringed About our small house In Mississippi (where black people Often assumed he was a racist) Deeply offended by his attempt To insult my character And spoke to him Earnestly of “dignity” “justice” “honor” and “peace.”
Sometimes, later in life, You do laugh at yourself. You understand, finally, That you’ve understood Nothing. Nothing at all. That in this case, for instance, That of the famed Six Day War, It was all a show, A true “Theatre” war; The battlefield a stage, Though bombs and bullets were real. Only the people who lost the battle Got a close-up Of the set. And the set-up.
Later I would march Or be arrested Protesting this war and that And marvel how it never mattered. On days we marched in our tens of thousands The people we hoped to influence Were taking a holiday. Bush was good at this. He let the media Spread the word he was chillin’ on his 12,000 or is it 20,000 Acre ranch. Bill and Barack made themselves Scarce.
When I was in Palestine As an elder Doing my job Of keeping tabs On Earth’s children I remembered my concern And how my friend Had brushed it off.
“Israel needs that land to protect itself.” He said. As though this should be Self- evident. It wasn’t then; It isn’t now.
The land taken Has never been returned. In fact, more stolen land Has followed the first assaults And thefts. Palestinian children, after years Of throwing stones At grown up assassins In helmets and armored tanks Are killing themselves These days To save their murderers The trouble.
Unlike most Americans I have witnessed Palestine Under Israeli rule. It is demonic To the core. But where to look For the inspiration For so much evil? Where To find the teachings that influence And sanction such limitless cruel behavior?
Where to find that part Of the puzzle that is missing? We’ve intuited there must be one. And we were right.
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We must go back As grown ups, now, Not as the gullible children we once were, And study our programming, From the beginning. All of it: The Christian, the Jewish, The Muslim; even the Buddhist. All of it, without exception, At the root.
For the study of Israel, of Gaza, of Palestine, Of the bombed out cities of the Middle East, Of the creeping Palestination Of our police, streets, and prisons In America, Of war in general, It is our duty, I believe, to study The Talmud. It is within this book that, I believe, we will find answers To some of the questions That most perplex us.
Where to start?
You will find some information, Slanted, unfortunately, By Googling. For a more in depth study I recommend starting with YouTube. Simply follow the trail of “The Talmud” as its poison belatedly winds its way Into our collective consciousness.
Some of what you find will sound Too crazy to be true. Unfortunately those bits are likely To be true. Some of the more evasive studies Will exhibit unbelievable attempts At sugar coating extremely disagreeable pills. But hang in there, checking And double checking, listening to everybody, Even the teachers with the twisted pasts That scare you the most, And the taped rants of outraged citizens that sound Like madcap characters on Car Talk Except they are not laughing But are righteously outraged.
Study hard, with an open If deeply offended mind, Until you can sift the false From the true.
Is Jesus boiling eternally in hot excrement, For his “crime” of throwing the bankers Out of the Temple? For loving, standing with, And defending The poor? Was his mother, Mary, A whore?
Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews, and not only That, but to enjoy it? Are three year old (and a day) girls eligible for marriage and intercourse? Are young boys fair game for rape? Must even the best of the Goyim (us, again) be killed? Pause a moment and think what this could mean Or already has meant In our own lifetime.
You may find that as the cattle We have begun to feel we are We have an ancient history of oppression Of which most of us have not been even vaguely Aware. You will find that we, Goyim, sub-humans, animals -The Palestinians of Gaza The most obvious representatives of us At the present time – are a cruel example of what may be done With impunity, and without conscience, By a Chosen people, To the vast majority of the people On the planet Who were not Chosen. Not chosen to receive the same dubious “Blessing” of Supremacy over the Earth, Humans, and Beasts of this realm. As is Stated plainly in the first chapter Of the Bible we all read. The Unchosen who, until now, Were too scared of being Called names To demand to know why.
It is a “Blessing” Jesus did not want. One that, risking crucifixion, he refused. One reason he is loved By those who recognize a good And righteous person When they encounter one. Seen in this light he wasn’t even A spiritual progressive, but a committed Revolutionary: a Che Guevara Of the ancient past.
A past as scary, if not scarier, than Our own time: A past that, Unfortunately, is not even past (quoting Faulkner).
We discover this To our enlightened grief As we study The Talmud, Our own ignorance, And the devastating impact of both On our abandoned world.
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See: The General’s Son: Journey of An Israeli In Palestine, by Miko Peled, introduction by Alice Walker
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Discordia and I will talk more, and I know her story, and I know her father’s story, not that hers and his are cut-outs but they are archetypical, for sure, and their relationship, and with the mother, a black woman, attracted to and marrying this Jew, all of that is intimate and personal, and I can only surmise, but there is more to her story — Discordia’s.
We’ll talk about the sinning father (you do not tell a daughter to get out of my life, I am not loving, and I don’t want to see you — which he did at the mother’s funeral) and the sins of the father passed on. This woman’s father is being schooled by harsh rabbinical teachings and he’s following some harsh laws of the Talmud.
And, in “Isra-Hell, it is the youth who are fascists, right-wing, hateful, and though the father is 80, he is also part of that conservative Jewish tradition:
Recent polling backs that surprising observation: A joint poll published by the Israel Democracy Institute last month found that 73 percent of Jewish Israelis between ages 18 and 24 identify as right-wing, compared with only 46 percent of Jewish Israelis over 65. Young Jewish Israelis are showing up to rallies and polling stations for the extremist politicians whose November electoral victory ushered in Israel’s farthest right-wing government ever.
Odeliya Matter, a 29-year-old educator from Beersheba and left-wing activist, says that among her high school-aged students, “the political differences I notice in my students versus in my generation just 10 years ago is stark.”
Pollsters, activists, and politicians struggle to pin down exactly why Israeli youth are so out of step with often left-leaning young people in developed countries around the world. But experts say changing demographics, concerns about peace and security, the success of right-wing parties and politicians in pushing an ethnonationalist narrative through the media, and historical events and policy choices that have further isolated Palestinians all play a part. (source)
“This generation grew up in what most would consider the safest times [for Israelis], they grew up in the post-Intifada years, and yet they grew up the most isolated from their Palestinian neighbors,” said Alon Yakter, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University who studies voting patterns. “There’s so many ways that can impact a young person’s perspective on politics.”
Some version of a child-eating and/or cannibalistic curse was a standard part of ancient Near Eastern vassal treaties, which may have influenced the passages in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. For example, the late seventh-century B.C.E. Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon includes this curse on any Assyrian vassal who violates the treaty through disloyalty to Esarhaddon’s son Ashurbanipal:
Mother shall [bar the door to] her daughter, May you eat in your hunger the flesh of your children, May, through want and famine, one man eat the other’s flesh (lines 450-452).
Avon Avot: The dictum of ancestral guilt (or, in Hebrew, avon avot, literally “sins of the parents”), appears twice in Exodus: once as part of the Decalogue in chapter 20, and once as part of the list of divine attributes in chapter 34. While Bible scholars have debated the chronological ordering of these chapters (i.e., whether Exodus 20 predated or postdated Exodus 34),14 they agree that one of these authors appropriated the dictum from one context to meet the needs of its new context. This was no small feat, since the literary settings of these two Exodus passages emphasize opposite dimensions of divine justice. On the one hand, the context of Exodus 20 is divine harshness: God employs avon avot as a motivating and even threatening device to ensure Israelite compliance with the prohibition against idolatry:
You shall not bow down to them [idols] or serve them [idols]. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of the parents [פוקℸ עון אבות] upon the children upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who hate Me [לשנאי], but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Exod. 20:5, 6)15
This passage illustrates the consequences of sinning. Not only will sinners suffer for their transgressions, but their progeny will as well. On the other hand, Exodus 34 cites the principle of transgenerational punishment in the context of accentuating divine leniency, not divine harshness:
The LORD passed before him [Moses] and proclaimed: “The LORD! the LORD! a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness, extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He does not remit all punishment, but visits the iniquity of parents upon children and children’s children, upon the third and fourth generations.” (Exod. 34:6, 7) (source)
“Nevis was at one time the head of what we call the Royal African Company in the West Indian islands, and Nevis was the base,” Manners says.
“All of the slaves to be sold in the islands landed in Nevis, just up the street there. The planters came from Antigua and St. Kitts and other places to buy their slaves here.”
That main slave market, in fact, was practically next door to where Hamilton grew up.
“He would have seen [slave auctions] because he was born in 1757, and that was in the middle of slavery period. At that time, Nevis had a population around that time around 10,000 people, predominantly Africans.”
This is her family’s house, until the mid-1980s. Hamilton House! Discordia and I have more talks in the coming two days.
And so it goes — wheat, King Wheat, and screw the tribes, those tribes!
Breaching the four lower Snake River dams would put thousands of Pacific Northwest farmers at risk, a new report from the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association states.
About 7,644 farms in the affected area generate approximately $2 billion in annual sales.
Small to medium-sized farms would be most at risk, according to agricultural stakeholders.
So, those Snake River dams damned the wild salmon, killed the genetic line, and alas, we are in this constant strain, this constant Oh Pioneers and Oh Those Farmers Oh Those Monroe Doctrine buds, those Oh Isn’t Economy of Scale Predatory Capitialism fine adherents, to Oh the Victors Write the History Books and Law So Get Over It Injuns kinda folk point in time where the ethics, which were already threadbare early in AmeriKKKa’s history, are melting away.
“Well, fish buyers who had pretended to have good relations with such fisheries as the Tulalips and the Lummis . . . , they said. . . , ‘We aren’t going to sell your fishermen gasoline anymore from our docks. We aren’t going to supply ice for the fish that you take into the hulls of your boats.’ And so there was all these things and the state of Washington stood behind them on that, saying, ‘Well, the Boldt Decision isn’t really in effect until the Supreme Court upholds it.'” Hank Adams ( Assiniboine-Sioux of Fort Peck Tribes ), NMAI Interview, July 2016
And, of course, these are not biodynamic farmers, you know, farmers growing food for USA, but these a grain gulags, wheat and oats and soya and all those cereals and grains that make not our world go around, but make the Monsantos and Cargills and ADM’s and . . . [Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestle, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Pepsico, General Mills inc, Kellogg’s, and Mars] and all those Mafia’s [ 4 U.S. companies alone–Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, and DaAgro Sciences–control 80% of the corn market, 70% of the soybean market, and more than 50% of global seed supply.]
Here, 18 years ago, fools:
Flat-Earther Bush’s Style for Wild Salmon (Part III of III) — II & I Saving Salmon, Saving Grace — Busting Dams by Paul Haeder www.dissidentvoice.org August 31, 2005
“[T]hese Falls, which have fallen further, which sit dry and quiet as a graveyard now? These Falls are that place where ghosts of salmon jump, where ghosts of women mourn their children who will never find their way back home…”
— Sherman Alexie, from “The Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump”
One of the greatest contrasts for area residents is how the river Spokane is so powerfully sculpted by nature yet so disembodied from its recent past. The Children of the Sun tribe less than 70 years ago made great snatches of Chinook and Coho near where the Maple Street Bridge funnels SUVs and trucks in an endless stream of belching metal.
Sherman Alexie, best known for Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and a member of the Spokane tribe, does more than lament the loss of the salmon runs. He is confrontational and “in the face” of corporate and political forces that deem salmon as “a fish of diminishing value.”
For Alexie and Spokane tribal elder Pauline Flett, and for groups like Salmon for All and Save Our Wild Salmon, it’s a no-brainer to bring back the clear waters and an abundance of native fish to a river like the Spokane and a river system like the Columbia/Snake.
For some Northwest salmon people, such as Grey Owl, a Southern Cheyenne artist and cultural guide living on the Nez Perce reservation, river and subsequent fish contamination means early, hard deaths.
“Even supposing that we exclude some nefarious government plot to study them,” Grey Owl said, “it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that the government was not as careful in the ‘60s about what Hanford released, including radioactive water used to cool the reaction, into the Columbia. Just in our small little Native community here, all salmon people, there is a high incidence of cancers, tumors, and unexplained cysts.”
For salmon and salmon people — including various Inland West and Pacific Coast tribes and non-tribal commercial and recreational fishermen — they recognize three pivotal river systems that incubate and release salmon into the Pacific for the world to enjoy. The Sacramento, Yukon and Columbia/Snake systems are the genetic conveyor belts of wild salmon. For many, these river systems must be unleashed, free of mining and agricultural bleed-offs, and set in riparian and forest cover where clear-cutting is a long-vanished 1900s technology.
More than 45 local, regional and state organizations make up a coalition supporting breaching four dams on the lower Snake River: Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite.
‘A world where the salmon cannot live may be a world in which man cannot live either.” Anthony Netboy, The Salmon: Their Fight for Survival
Groups like Friends of the Earth, Trout Unlimited, Northwest Sportfishing Industries Association, American Rivers, NW Energy Coalition, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Washington Trollers Association make up a cadre of lobbying, informational and advocacy groups poised to support bringing down the four dams.
Save Our Wild Salmon (SOS), as part of the coalition’s main group pushing dam removal, focuses specifically on restoring salmon in the Snake River. Kell McAboy, three years in the trenches as Eastern Washington organizer for SOS in Spokane, has been a vocal public protector of the Snake River and its salmon.
“When thinking about removing the four dams in the lower Snake River, not only is it the best bet for the salmon, it’s the best bet for people. There are more than 200 dams in the Columbia Basin, making it the most constipated watershed on earth.”
The main issues McAboy and others in the coalition see as their stumbling blocks are transportation, farmers and the mythology of having an inland seaport at Lewiston, 900 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean.
“The issue comes down to transportation,” McAboy says. She noted that rail and eighteen-wheeler transportation links can be revitalized in order to move the wheat and other goods the current barges on the dammed Snake provide.
As part of her duties with SOS, McAboy has organized tours of the Snake River, the four dams and free-flowing rivers like the Clearwater and Salmon. Her organization and the coalition at large are connected to a non-profit group, LightHawk, which has planes and pilots at the ready to take people into the air so they might see the environmental impact of dammed rivers from aloft.
“From the air, the people get a unique perspective of how a free-flowing river and the impounded river look like,” McAboy said.
It’s clear when one starts looking at this “to breach or not to breach” debate that there is a definite dichotomy between east and west Washington. Most people for breaching have zip codes set west of the Cascades, while those opposed are from the Inland Northwest.
One strategy Jill Wasberg from SOS in Seattle sees as a way to put flesh and bone on those everyday people who have lost livelihoods and cultural connections because of the death of the natural, large salmon runs, is to foster a sense of story — a narrative lynchpin so the pro-dam breaching stakeholders in this “Save Our Dams” versus “Save Our Salmon” gain voice.
She and others in SOS — with offices in Portland, Seattle, Washington D.C. and Spokane — are interviewing people for a video and publication venture called “The Stories Project.” Wasberg hopes to capture the history, cultural identity and economic value.
Bill Kelley, professor in Eastern Washington University’s Urban and Regional Planning Program, promotes an on-going dialogue “about what constitutes community.” Kelley stresses that a definition of ecology — including river and salmon recovery — should include a “place for humans [and] their needs and desires in balance with ecological capacities.”
“I worry that when our passionate advocacy is too shrill and when our science and comprehensive planning, with all of its complexity, can’t be illustrated in simple and compelling and human terms,” Kelley said, “that we turn off our citizens when we most need to be turning them on.”
As EWU professor, Kelley coordinates undergraduate and graduate students in projects with various communities and constituencies to help them decide how their rural and undeveloped land and their urban space can give them a sense of stewardship and self-determination.
More than 85 rapids and falls will reappear on the Snake River if the dams are removed, McAboy notes. This will result in thrusting volumes of water and no more fattened impounded pools where salmon face nigh nitrogen loads, bacteria and viruses, longer journeys back to the Pacific estuaries, and unnaturally warm waters. Cold, fast-flowing water will push salmon smolt out to sea as nature designed.
Many biologists see breaching and habitat recovery as the only credible salvation to regenerating wild salmon stocks to numbers where sustainability occurs. If breaching is finally approved as the best, most prudent and eventually the most economically sane solution, the four main barriers will be gone, allowing 140 miles of the main stem of the Snake to open up.
This in turn will free hundreds of miles of tributaries in Eastern Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming for salmon to return full of sperm and roe to breed hundreds of millions of fry that will live and die, leaving millions to transmogrify into river-loving fry and estuary-seeking smolt. Most salmon return to and live in oceans, either close to shore or thousands of miles out to sea, for two to seven years before the evolutionary switch clicks on to return to their gravel beds.
Dave Johnson is a passionate fisheries scientist with the Nez Perce tribe who works to refine and harmonize a dozen tribal hatcheries as a way of supplementing the wild salmon that have been cut off since the Snake River dams came on line in the 1960s and ‘70s. For Johnson, his tribe and others have “a right to fish in all those streams.”
There seems to be a card up the sleeve of various Northwest tribes, including the Nez Perce. “The Nez Perce are not just some historical artifact,” said David Cummings, Nez Perce legal counsel. Cummings notes that the courts system is just one of several tools; yet treaties signed 1855 and 1856 with tribes of the Washington Coast, Puget Sound and Columbia River stated that while tribes ceded most of their land (1.34 million acres compared to the current 750,000 for just the Nez Perce tribe, as an example), those treaties gave exclusive rights to fish within their reservations and rights to fish at “all usual and accustomed places . . . in common with citizens.”
For Cummings, the 1974 “Boldt Decision” reaffirming tribal rights to 50 percent of the harvestable fish “destined for tribal usual and accustomed fishing grounds” is sort of a cultural and environmental ace in the hole.
Cummings notes that the treaty carries with it a right to restoration of wildlife, including the riverine ecosystem and water quality.
There is a genetic, dietary, and cultural connection to salmon and sustainable harvests. Johnson is one of more than 200 scientists who advocate breaching the four lower Snake dams.
Pacific Northwest salmon for a million years have struggled to recreate their genes by leaving salt water to go upstream. By the millions, wild Coho, Chinook, sockeye, pink, chum, King and others had returned in their respective fall, summer and spring runs. The wild salmon of the Columbia drove their fasting bodies through scablands, falls, and heat to return to their birthing riffles more than 900 miles inland from the Pacific to Eastern Washington and Oregon and deep into Idaho and Wyoming.
That was before the eight federal dams that are the gauntlet stopping the Inland West’s salmon from spawning.
The parallel struggle of overcoming obstacles — now dams — that anadromous fish and the tribes of the Northwest share is telling.
For 10,000 years, Indian tribes rendezvoused at the lower Columbia River’s Celilo Falls. Traders from as far away as Central America gathered with thousands of others from dozens of tribes.
Fast-forward a few thousand years to the Lewis and Clark Expedition as Clark comments on the hundreds of thousands of salmon they came across: “The multitude of this fish. The water is so clear that they can readily be seen at a depth of 115 or 120 feet. But at this season they float in such quantities down the stream the Indians have only to collect, split and dry them on the scaffolds.”
The Dalles dam in 1956 impounded the river, mucked up the cascades and free-flowing nature of things, and inundated the sacred Celilo Falls.
The four lower Columbia dams have been technologically manipulated to allow for safer passage of salmon running to the spawning beds and to allow the smolts to be flushed more safely to sea. The process for the lower Snake River dams, however, is more daunting and less technologically successful.
Most of this country’s 75,000 dams were pounded, cemented and erected into the paths of ancient free-flowing rivers before humans, especially at the political level, saw the big picture of negative biological, cultural and economic impacts of this river-jamming technology, notes Lizzie Grossman, author of the book, Watershed: The Undamming of America.
Grossman read from her just published book at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane on July 29, emphasizing how “in the past ten years people all over the country have been looking at waterways — how their local creek or river was ignored and abused.” There is a strong sense of wanting the rivers back, including breaching dams.
“America has spent most of its first two centuries turning its rivers into highways, ditches and power plants,” Grossman states. “Now, slowly, we are relearning what a river is and how to live with one. . . . Reconsidering the use of our rivers means examining our priorities as a nation. It forces us to rethink our patterns of consumption and growth and may well be the key to reclaiming a vital part of America’s future.”
“A dam can disrupt a river’s entire ecosystem, affecting everything from headwaters to delta,” Grossman puts into her book’s Forward. “So removing a dam, large or small, is not an easy process. . . . Dam removal alters the visual contours of a community. It is a very public enterprise and is almost always controversial, involving political decisions and civic debate.”
A hodgepodge of liberal environmental and politically conservative groups is pushing to gain political support for the Salmon Planning Act, which states that dam breaching is an option if all other routes to wild salmon species and habitat recovery fail to generate sustainable, healthy levels.
The executive director of Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, Liz Hamilton, sees dam breaching from a died-in-the-wool capitalist point of view. Her own Republican Party roots and her membership’s conservative bent belie a dynamic most people do not associate with endangered species causes.
“Our industry lost 10,000 jobs in the northwest,” she noted as a consequence of the construction of the eight dams. “Fear mongers have led this issue: ‘If we don’t breach, every single salmon will die.’ On the other side, we’ve heard, ‘If we do breach, we will lose our jobs and way of life.’”
Hamilton sees her group and the coalition’s biggest challenge to convince people of the economic and cultural benefits of breaching dams as psychological. “People fear change. People have to see a future. If they don’t see themselves in it, your average citizen will not respond.”
Hamilton knows salmon restoration is costly. But she sees the Snake River system as a thousand miles of nearly pristine spawning habitat. Hamilton and her coalition lobby people to see a future many resist: removal of the four Snake River dams. “Without the dams we can still transport wheat. We can still generate electricity. We can still irrigate crops. The pressures that people put on the land will still be there when the dams are removed. . . . The cheapest thing to do is unblock a blocked culvert.”
The General Accounting Office reported that more than $3.3 billion in taxpayers’ money was spent by more than a dozen agencies the past 20 years to try and mitigate declines in Columbia River basin salmon runs. On top of that, tens-of-millions have also been spent by state and local governments.
This waste of money has paid for ill-conceived measures and technologies to try and help the fish survive the dams — 34 years of barging fish around dams. Snake River sockeye, Chinook salmon and steelhead were granted “protection” in 1991, ’92, and ’97 respectively through the Endangered Species Act.
Hatcheries have produced more than 90 percent of 2001 salmon and steelhead. Hatchery salmon are not the goal for the diverse environmental and scientific communities because of various issues, including disease, weak genetic lines, and stifling of biodiversity in its natural state. If wild salmon are not rejuvenated, many predict that by 2017 several indigenous populations will become extinct.
Additionally, RAND, a conservative “think tank,” completed a report in September 2002 that posits dam removal on the lower Snake will not bring with it economic turmoil. In fact, the RAND report shows how 10,000 long-term jobs might very well be created and centered right in the economically hard-hit communities that make up the Inland Empire.
Remove dams and help create livable wage jobs and revive a weak Inland Empire economy while preserving sustainable and abundant salmon? The answer seems obvious to most, but for those who resist, there is the 1855 treaty and Boldt decision which cost U.S. taxpayers upwards of $10 to $60 billion paid to the tribes for destroying their salmon and habitat.
“The salmon are our relatives,” Grey Owl said. “The salmon are of this land just as we are. We both share a connection to this land that is hardwired into our DNA. They teach us many spiritual lessons such as the circle of life, giving of yourself to help others, and that our life’s purpose should be to help someone else live.”
Paul K. Haeder teaches college at Spokane Falls Community College and other places. He is a former daily newspaper journalist in Arizona and Texas, whose independent work has appeared in many publications. As a book reviewer for the El Paso Times, many of his reviews appeared in other Gannett newspapers.
“He [Judge Boldt] was threatened, he was harassed, but his case went all the way to the Supreme Court and was upheld. And what Judge Boldt did and what the Supreme Court did was not give rights in those cases, they affirmed them. In other words, they said these rights are there.” Elizabeth Furse, former U.S. Representative from Oregon, NMAI Interview, August 2017.
Flat-Earther Bush’s Style for Wild Salmon (Part II of III) History of Salmon as Microcosm: Humans’ Out-of-Whack Carrying Capacity, and Failure to Grasp Earth’s Biological Web
As climate cooled 40 to 20 million years ago, streams and rivers decreased in nutrient productivity, and so the sciences says that freshwater fish went anadromous and developed a sea-going life cycle as oceans became rich sources of food.
In this part of the America, the salmon’s evolution linked and adapted to the changes in topography. For millions of years salmon have been here in abundance. In the past 100 years, human evolution in the Pacific Northwest has brought some species of salmon to extinction and has impoverished the continued existence of a sustainable salmon ecosystem.
Salmon have been part of the lifeblood of peoples from Finland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, to Japan and British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Salmon sustain the life of a forest, and this species is the link in the natural gear work and framework of an ecosystem that has grown because of the returning spawning salmon.
From the nitrogen in grizzlies’ bones and hair, to the nitrogen in valley-bottom forests, and nutrients fed to gargantuan trees growing along salmon rivers, the salmon has delivered the lifeblood to the forest.
Of course, this is all ancient history. Wild salmon are threatened, and the techno-fixes devised by one of the most creative creatures on earth will be the salmon’s demise.
A twist to the plight of the salmon is now easily accessible to readers. In Seattle recently, David R. Montgomery, geomorphology professor at University of Washington, cast two intertwining threads of history, Europe’s and New England’s, to show how both salmon histories have been repeating themselves in Washington, Oregon and northern California for more than a hundred years. His quick-paced and humorous style helped to compress his book, King of Fish: The Thousand-year Run of Salmon (Westview Press, 2003), which is part science, part history and part folklore concerning salmon and this species’ struggles and the repeated failings of human action and inaction to “save” it.
“In coming to understand the forces shaping the rivers and mountains of the Pacific Northwest, I learned to see how the evolution and near extinction of salmon is a story of changing landscapes,” he stated.
Montgomery was one of many presenters at a conference on sustainability titled, “Building Community, Healing the Planet,” a two-day affair set squarely in the bedrock of conglomerated fields that see connections and links between human society, the environment, economics, and global ethical alliances as vastly more important in solving such problems as global warming, pollution, habitat degradation, human population explosion, inequitable economies, and over-consumption than the current Western paradigm of exponential growth in markets and technologies as solutions to growing global problems.
Montgomery, however, focused on a single topic, deadeye targeting fish and the interrelationship of three distinct human histories.
The cry of “Salmon in Danger!” is now resounding throughout the length and breadth of the land. A few years, a little more overpopulation, a few more tons of factory poisons, a few fresh poaching devices . . . and the salmon will be gone – he will be extinct.
— Charles Dickens, July 20, 1861
Interestingly, Montgomery draws from the genetic slough in a literary riptide where inventive and clearly literate writers swim: David Quammen, Barry Lopez, Richard Bass, Annie Dillard, Jim Lichatowich and David James Duncan and others have set themselves squarely inside the biotic world, allowing the rich poetry of imagery and laments drive what they write.
Montgomery’s written words dip into that same current, and his book is clearly a story of his own wonderment of geological chronology set against historical time. He gives us an overlay of the practices of migration and settling and harvesting and industrializing as well as meshing the original “old” salmon’s 40 to 20 million year evolutionary period to produce a parental species 6 million years ago that is the forebear of all modern salmon species.
Wild salmon advocates know the heuristic of the “four H’s” and each one’s relationship to the decline of salmon: Harvest (over-fishing); Habitat (mining, logging, agriculture and human land development); Hydro-dams; and Hatcheries (add to that farms/aquaculture).
Montgomery chisels a fifth H — the history of human intersection with the salmon’s evolutionary history. It’s an old story of human culture — that malleable and far-spreading diverse set of laws and actions that are passed onto other generations — T-boning right smack into the biological harmony of salmon’s persistency in nature, a consistently challenging realm of the king of fish.
His book covers the similar human patterns of change to river systems in Great Britain 300 years ago and in 19th Century New England, to those now occurring in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific salmon (five main species) evolved under the shattered light and verdant shadows of old growth forests. They weathered and adapted to thrive under the stressors of floods, volcanic eruptions, and other major natural disturbances over millions of years. The biological trajectories of Atlantic salmon and Pacific salmon, however, have been shaped by very different conditions of topography.
Yet the Atlantic and Pacific salmon share the same fates. Of the tens of millions of Atlantic salmon returning yearly to pre-settled New England, only 1,000 wild Atlantic salmon return to this region’s rivers and streams.
Today, 90 percent of wild Pacific salmon fish runs are gone:
Pacific NW Salmon Region Current % of Wild Fish in Runs Compared to 1820
Alaska 106% British Columbia less than 3% Puget Sound 8% Washington less than 2% Columbia River less than 2% Oregon 7% California 5%
“I keep forgetting that the Seattle I know is brand-new, a recent addition to the landscape. Though the transformation from impenetrable forest to modern city happened in a geological instant, the dramatic changes that accumulate from daily experiences seem imperceptibly slow by human standards,” Montgomery writes. As the geologist, he seeks that long-view of the angle of repose, searching for timeline after timeline perspective for some sort of context to explain how salmon have become so imperiled.
Yet, the short view helps Montgomery appreciate human impact: “The primeval forest that blanketed Seattle for 98 percent of the last five thousand years disappeared in a little over a century.”
Early on Montgomery posits a question a reader might ask: A lot of books have been written about salmon. Why write another one?
“The fate of salmon is closely tied to changes on the land. The fall of the Pacific salmon is the direct result of both over-fishing and other actions that subsequently reshaped the landscape. The story is not simple. But the basic connections are clear.”
Throughout the book the reader explores with Montgomery the history of the “three full-scale” experiments on the salmon’s adaptability to this altered and obliterated landscape, the cause of which is human land use and unchecked development. “The strikingly similar history of salmon across these regions carries clear implications for modern salmon recovery efforts.”
Today, the blame game seems to be the biggest issue head-lined in the media concerning this story of the obscene decline of wild salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest: Some attribute the decline of salmon on Native American fishing. “The timber industry caused it,” yells the fisherman. The land developers blame the commercial fisherman. Salmon-eating sea lions and birds get scathed by some. “Everybody except dry-land farmers blames the dams.”
Without a doubt, after decades of research and field studies, and after thousands of papers and reports have been written, a general agreement within “scientific circles” makes it clear what the primary factors (those four H’s) are in the salmon’s decline.
“[A]ctions to stem known causes remain either mired in institutional, corporate, and societal denial, dissipated by spin-doctoring, or thwarted by political agendas and bureaucratic inertia.”
But it’s the history that truly makes Montgomery’s book compelling. The first H, harvest, was addressed in 1030 A.D., for example, when Scottish King Malcolm II closed the season for taking “old salmon” (spawners) at the mouth of any river on their way up to spawn.
Regarding habitat, Richard the Lion-hearted of England in the 12th century declared that rivers should be kept free of obstruction “so that a well-fed three-year-old pig could stand sideways in the stream without touching either side” (known as the King’s gap to allow adult salmon to reach spawning grounds).
Concerning hydropower, Robert the Bruce (1318) invoked a fine and sentence of forty days in prison for anyone setting up “fixtures that would prevent the progress of salmon up and down Scottish rivers.”
Montgomery isn’t writing this book to show a one-dimensional salmon advocacy or preach dam-breeching on the Columbia and Snake rivers. He sees salmon as a natural bank account, and an indicator of the entire human and natural systems’ conjoined health.
A sustainable management plan for salmon recovery means restoring habitats, writing off other habitats that are too heavily populated and developed, rehabilitating the wild salmon populations by stopping fishing for a while, restoring floodplains, and hiring and empowering riverkeepers, he professes.
“We have to plan for a hundred years, adapt how we live on and across the land to better conform to how the landscape works, and then enforce the plan and learn from history,” he told the audience.
At the close of his book, Montgomery asks whether the salmon story will end with the right Sixth H: “Will it be hubris or humility?”
Paul K. Haeder teaches college at Spokane Falls Community College and other places. He is a former daily newspaper journalist in Arizona and Texas, whose independent work has appeared in many publications. As a book reviewer for the El Paso Times, many of his reviews appeared in other Gannett newspapers.
To writers at the moment I would say, yes, it’s a struggle to keep our frail art form together, but hey, it’s a damned interesting time! Humanity is in the midst of a massive transition, so human communication is undergoing a transition. A tough-minded response to your question might be something like Robinson Jeffers’ line:
“There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and that life’s end is death.”
All human endeavor — including even our literature — is transitory. I’ve spent my life immersed in the myths, scriptures and bardic songs of the world — the best records of the best things human beings have said, sung and done for thousands of years. A little familiarity with this body of knowledge takes a lot of the stress out of living in a time of transition. The decline of literacy causes a lot of hand-wringing. But literacy is itself a recent human development — and a lamented development by the bards and singers of the oral cultures that preceded our literate one.
To learn to live with the earth on the earth’s own terms is more important to me than literacy. I lived on the Oregon Coast at a time when the most ancient Sitka spruce groves in the world were being converted daily into the L.A. Sunday Times. There was, in my view, nothing in the Times’ stories of that era that compared in beauty or import to the trees that were slaughtered to create the newspapers. The news those trees were emitting was something invisible, called oxygen. The news those trees published constantly was keeping the planet alive. We killed them in the name of literacy. — David James Duncan
The process of turning up earth and shaking off soil from the roots of a bulb is as old as human time. From Arctic regions to the American Southwest, from the foothills in Bhutan, to the outback in Australia, from the Amazon Basin to the Sahara, wherever humans journeyed and settled, digging into earth for the tuber, bulb, root, sustenance of Mother Earth has always brought with it the ritual of sharing with family and tribal relationships.
For the Nez Perce and other First Nations tribes throughout this area — Umatilla, Yakama, Colville, Salish, Kalapuya, Couer d’Alene — their particular digging grounds are sacred places where the camas, an onion-like bulb from the species Camassia quamash, grows in abundance and is harvested in July and August.
I was lucky enough to have been invited for a quick journey to traditional camas digging grounds last summer with Grey Owl and his wife, Martha Oatman, members of the Nez Perce Tribe. The husband and wife team instructed me on the ethno-botany of such important Nez Perce plants as bear grass, mountain tea (Labrador tea) and dog bane (Indian hemp), but more importantly they shared their tribe’s deep connection to earth skills like camas digging and its eventual cooking and storing, as well as where to find kaus-kaus (qaws qaws), a gnarly root that has such healing properties as lowering blood pressure and is used as an anti-bacterial medicine.
The gift that they afforded me, which will live in memory forever, is the deep-running narrative history of their people as they floated me back to a time of old ways, in valleys and forest 30 miles northeast from Kamiah, Idaho, following the cut banks of the Lolo Creek.
Troubled Girls Sweating
Before digging for camas and qaws-qaws, I had to journey back into my own heart by witnessing the modern world bisecting the old. I sped down from Spokane to a spot on the Clearwater River (the Nez Perce call it “little river” and name the Columbia “big river”), just west of Orofino, Idaho, anxious to meet Grey Owl, who was at a camp with fellow spiritual and Indian skills guide Grey Wolf. The two had finished a day-long series of education and healing workshops at the Clearwater River Company’s tepee rendezvous working with a group of 17- and 18-year-old girls from a youth redirection program called Spring Creek located near Thompson Falls, Mont.
The nine young women had just finished a purification in the sweat lodge, a physically healing and enlightening process most non-Indian folk never will partake in.
“I didn’t know whether I would do a sweat or not when I was hired to work with these girls,” Grey Owl told me. “It’s a matter of determining on the spot while I’m with them if certain people are going to take it seriously or not. I don’t hire out my sweat lodge, and it was a matter of gauging whether the group was right for it.
“These are white girls from ‘normal’ American middle-class families who have gotten into drugs, sex and boyfriends who have beaten them up … and in most cases whose parents have money and send them to these programs to fix them. I always say there are never bad kids, just bad parents.”
The girls had just helped build a campfire and were ready to have their cathartic and synergistic moment; Grey Owl led them through the talking circle with an eagle plume that was passed from person to person, while each feather-holder reclaimed something about herself.
The fire drew us into deep collective and individual reflection, at the very spot — probably — where, in 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their band learned from the Nez Perce how to carve out 45-foot canoes.
Each articulate young woman considered her past, her place on earth as a woman. They deeply thanked Grey Owl and Grey Wolf for their emotional and metaphysical guidance. Many broke down in tears for “the gift of knowing two men who really cared about our futures.”
Variations of the mantra, “I am pure, I am strong, I am beautiful, and I am a worthy, free, powerful woman,” ended each girl’s talking round, many of which centered on troubled pasts and new beginnings.
Then came the baptism through fire. The day before, their leaders asked each teenager to write one bad thing in her life or one negative character on a scrap of paper; the scraps then were hung on a tree. Now, each girl threw her paper into the fire, each paper holding inside a wish to change, a desire to forget.
Somewhere out in the firs and pines, a series of owl calls cut through as a moon rose above the Clearwater, in a place where the beaten-down white men of Jefferson’s dream of empire were fed steelhead and taught by the Nez Perce to build canoes to further their journey to the Pacific.
The tribe saved the Corps of Discovery, and now two modern Indians were helping guide those whom white society deems “juvenile deliquents” back to believing in their humanness and goodness.
These were my first hours before I would begin the passage back in time, back to the lore and nuances of the camas, the roots that gave sustenance to dozens of tribes — the very tubers that fed the men of Lewis and Clark.
Harvest of Bulbs
There are supposedly seven species of camas in this part of Nez Perce country, six of which are poisonous. The act of going to the grassy wetland fields when the camas plants are in bloom in May and June allows the women and girls (it was a woman’s duty in the old days to dig and prepare camas, but not so today) to pull out the bad species, including a white-flowering camas called “the death camas” because it will kill you soon after eating it, Martha Oatman told me.
The camas that the Nez Perce, Salish and other tribes use possesses a beautiful blue flower. The camas was once so prolific and abundant that in some places along the Flathead River, early white travelers mistook fields of its blue flowers for distant lakes.
For more than 10,000 years, the journey to camas fields has fulfilled many tribal nations’ connection to the earth. Archaelogists have found camas ovens that date back 4,100 years in what is now Oregon, and other such research has revealed evidence indicating that this variety of the lily plant has been part of the diet of the Native Americans in the Willamette Valley for 8,000 years.
Dried or canned camas — which first goes through a process of digging, peeling, cleaning, air-drying, and then roasting in a stone-lined pit, covered with wet bear grass, alder leaves and topped with a less intense driftwood-stoked fire for three days — is in high demand, but few contemporary members of the Nez Perce are willing to go through the physical labor of the camas way.
Only 100 families use the special spot, said Oatman, whose native name is Tse tal pah. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Looking Glass, the Nez Perce brave who was in charge of warriors and was killed by the U.S. Army at the Battle of Bear Paw in Montana in 1877.
Oatman’s Nez Perce name translates to”leader.” She was named after the 15-year-old girl who was the only Nez Perce willing to face a hail of Army bullets to retrieve the rifles that the tribe had voluntarily stacked under the Army’s flag of truce.
“She just kept going back and forth and bringing rifles so the Nez Perce could regroup and hold off the Army,” Grey Owl recounted. “Few escaped that massacre, but Tse tal pah made it to Canada and she had a son who had a son who had a daughter who gave birth to Tuk luk sema — which means ‘seldom hunts’ — and that is my wife’s father, who is a fisherman.”
[Henry Looking Glass]
A Sea of Blue Flowers
Seeking camas is part of a process of fusing oneself with Nez Perce memory and narrative design. But the nitty-gritty of camas harvesting is pretty interesting on its own terms. To get large camas bulbs, the soil has to be worked yearly; the digging clears away weeds, grass and the encrouching smaller bulbs, aerating the soil and resulting in a type of artificial selection and biological cooperation from human agricultural manipulation.
By the time I met Grey Owl and Oatman, they had dug up 30 gallons of bulbs, camping along the camas field on weekends in what turned out to be a very hot, dry August.
The holes that have been excavated must be filled back in “to heal the earth” and to ensure a new season of camas crops.
While camas isn’t supposed to be sold as a commercial commodity, a small portion of dried or jarred camas can fetch more than $30. In addition to the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Yakama tribal members travel to the very spot I was taken to because of the abundance and size of camas.
We carried with us modern-day versions (metal) of the ancient digging tool tuukes — a three-foot, curved spiky fire-hardened wooden tool with a T-shaped antler handle — and canvas bags, as our duty was to sit on earth, upturned 12-inch deep clumps of soil and sod, and break apart with fingers the clods where the camas bulbs — from almond-sized to chicken egg-sized — were nestled.
Signs of digging and filled-in trenches from harvest cycles weeks earlier could be seen, evidence that the “aunties” were doing the hard labor of love that has been passed down generation after generation for thousands of years. While I was there with my hosts, another husband-and-wife team set up an umbrella and went to unearthing their harvest of camas.
Even though camas harvesting goes back as a traditional, secretive gathering amongst many families, the tribe does revel in its tranformative nature. The annual Weippe Camas Festival (held each May near Kamiah, Idaho) commemorates the role of camas in Nez Perce culture and the arrival of Lewis and Clark.
“The Camas Prairie was named because the plant was so abundant,” says tribal member Gwen Carter, who spent her juvenile years harvesting the camas in a traditional digging area. “I know my grandmother and aunts went digging as children, and I learned from my mother.” Carter, like Oatman, Grey Owl and others, wants to keep the root as part of the Nez Perce diet and to preserve the last remaining digging grounds.
The men in Lewis and Clark’s expedition 200 years ago tasted the sweet fig-like potency of dried ground-up camas; in fact, Lewis recorded extreme stomach cramps running throughout the 28-man company, probably due to raw camas dining.
“Camas is a complex carbohydrate that needs special preparing and cooking to be digestable. Severe gas and stomach pain can result if not properly prepared,” Grey Owl said when I brought this up, chuckling.
Many like Grey Owl speak of how the traditional camas digging areas enticed the Nez Perce to travel outside their 1863 reservation bounds, largely contributing to the start of the 1877 war with the United States.
When I asked Oatman how long it took the pre-modern generations of aunties to cook the camas, she states — “from three hours to three days, depending on how close the soldiers were” to the camas grounds. She and her husband hope that a tribal program that reintroduces traditional ways and thinking young folk — Students for Success — will also incorporate camas harvesting into the curriculum so young people can learn the whole process as just one of many important cultural traditions.
Roots of Medicine & Digging bring with it a time for reflection. Deer bolt out of shadows. A bull moose scours cattails near a pond. The sky, pines and cedars blend into one space where brown hawks look for muskrat and camas rat (pocket gophers). Stories then are unearthed with each riptide of earth. Every gush of sweat mixing with the tiny camas bulbs that are put back into topsoil becomes a man’s future harvest of memory.
Dig and reflect. Dig and talk.
Oatman’s humor is wry and active. For example, I learned that the common powwow dance, “Duck and Dive,” was born out of the Battle of Big Hole, Mont., when the officers of the cavalry told the soldiers to “aim chest high at Nez Perce warriors.” My camas-digging education was peppered with tribal lore, wisdom, politics and generations of narrative threading.
As part of the agreement, Grey Owl offered to take me to another spot, in a wetter forest, into the shadows, where medicinal magic springs out of the tannin and humus of Idaho’s drippy forests.
Oatman and Grey Owl led me to a place where we searched and dug for the qaws qaws that has co-evolved with neck-tall ferns in swampy, dark forests. It’s a powerful medicine used in sweats and healing. It is potent and pungent, a celery-tasting, ginger-looking mass of flesh that can cure everything from stomach problems to low energy to a lowered libido. I’ve taken my own stash back to Spokane and let it slowly cure in my basement, drying.
This quick passage into Idaho and my immersion in traditional healing will last a lifetime. I’ll be looking for the camas blooms at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge each spring. I’ll search for the white starry blooms of the qaws qaws on my next summer hike in some western Idaho haunt.
To demonstrate the value of a food or medicinal source to a tribe, my guides told of how the Kamiah-area qaws qaws root was traded throughout Montana, Wyoming and even as far as the Dakotas hundreds of years ago, which is how the Nez Perce acquired the best Appaloosa horse stock. The Cherokee, Cheyenne, Lakota and other tribes would take a look at the Nez Perce’s big qaws qaws roots “and their eyes would pop out of their heads,” Oatman said as we wandered the forest.
Few people today look for qaws qaws or camas, she says, because it’s hard work and takes time to clean, dry and prepare.
Grey Owl beamed when he recalled the previous year’s digging of camas with a woman who was six-months pregnant, her spouse digging alongside. The pregnant woman’s goal was to dig enough camas to prepare as food for her infant during the upcoming winter.
Trials and Treaties & r & Once the reservation system was entrenched, tribes faced losing connections to ancient land and long-utilized food and medicinal preparations. Their resilience against the early U.S. government is profound, even ironic. Take Indian fry bread, for instance, which is a feature at fairs, carnivals — even at Pig Out in the Park. It was born out of the vindictive practice by white settlers and their government to force tribes to take stale, years-old, almost useless wheat that had to be pounded and ground up. Its only palatable use was for flat, deep-fried bread.
The 1855 treaty, which established the Nez Perce reservation, has been broken year after year — in fact, just recently in Kamiah, an elder and his son were arrested for “getting an elk out of season.”
Hiding stores of camas in caves and in pits has saved many a tribe. Lewis and Clark and their men were really badly off when they encountered the Nez Perce, who fed them “little river” salmon, gave them potions of qaws qaws and let them taste camas, all of which revitalized them to continue on their journey. Back then, the best young female camas digger could land the best choice of a husband.
The galvanizing force that came out of my short tutelage was to reinforce my support for sustainability and deep ecology philosophy and combine it with a simple but powerful guide voiced by the Nez Perce: “Take a little here, leave a lot there.”
“Camas, like the spring salmon runs, is all tied to a circle — a great circle that is a cycle within the culture. Everything is tied together. Please remember that when you write your story,” Grey Owl said with a goodbye hug.
The Kamiah valley is celebrated for its beautiful scenery. Named from the Kamiah Creek which enters into the Clearwater river in the eastern part of the reserve. Just where the creek enters into the river the valley is about two miles wide – mountain ranges on both sides of the river – not bare steep mountains such as you might imagine, but made up of buttes little hills each rising back off and higher than the other, until the fifth, sixth or Seventh, with its pretty fir trees, makes heaven seem but a step further up. Here and there a Canyon divides the mountain ranges, letting the snow water out in the Spring and each summer to make it annual trip down the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia to the Grand Pacific Ocean.
Now here in this beautiful valley down by the old ferry there is a mound so large it looks like a hill – it is surrounded by level ground. The Nez Perces call it the ‘heart’ and tell the story how it came to be there. After the world was made but not the people yet there lay a monster he was so large as to fill the great valley that mound makes just where the heart of it was. He did not need to search for food for he could draw in animals great and small for a distance of ten or fifteen miles and swallow them alive. Many a council was held (at a distance) to devise some means to destroy this enemy of all beast-kind for the valley was white with the bones of their friends. Only one among them all dared to approach the dreaded monster. This was the Coyote of little wolf for always when he drew near the creature shut his mouth saying “Go away, Go away”
One day after the Coyote had gathered some bits of pitch pine and flint, he stepped up quietly to the monster and hit the shut mouth so that if opened with a jerk. In a moment the little brave was in the great prison house and what a company he found there! Soon with his pitch and flint he kindled a fire, the smoke puffing out of mouth ears, and nose. The little commander ordered all yet alive to make their escape. white bear said he was not able to go but finally did make his exit through the ear-gate. At this time the Coyote was pawing away on the great heart with his flint, listening with delight to the sick groans of the dying monster.
When all was over and the captives at liberty there stood in the silence only the Coyote and his friend the fox. What should be done with this great body. They finally decided to cut it up in pieces and from the pieces people the world. So the Black Feet Indians were made from the feet – the Crows and Flat Heads from the head. The other tribes were made from the other parts and sent off to their own lands. The two friends were left alone. The fox looking up and down the river said Why no people are made for this lovely valley. And nothing left to make them now! True said the Coyote nothing but a few drops of the hearts best blood left on my hands. Bring me some water from the river. This was done, while the Coyote washed his hands he sprinkled the blood and water. And Lo the noble Nez Perce sprang up!
Monday Afternoon Catch-up on Human Stain — U$A, the Psychopathocracy
Yep, they are not your mother’s favorite boy next door:
VIVEK RAMASWAMY: We need a modern Monroe Doctrine in this country. The dirty little secret, Maria, is that much of our military defense spending in the last several decades has not actually gone to national defense. The reality is, if we do enter a serious conflict, and I worry that Joe Biden is sleepwalking us into potential nuclear conflict with Russia, and Russia and China being in a military alliance with one another that would mean both nations.
And, repeat — we have record heat, and now fires in Oregon, and it makes the fucked Messed up New Jerk Times, the heat wave and fires and fire potential, but we have no fire fighting equipment, and the expensive huge jet tanker? One fucking tanker, while we feed the leeches in UkroNaziLandia =
The United States government on Monday announced security assistance of USD 200 million for Ukraine which continues to defend its territory and protect its people.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a US State Department statement that the package, which is valued at USD 200 million, includes air defence munitions, artillery rounds, anti-armour capabilities, and additional mine-clearing equipment.
If you do not hate the UniParty, and do not hate the pigs in Blinken-Nuland Administration, and do not despise the pigs in league with the blood lust merchants of offensive wars, then you are lobotomized:
The largest of the planes are referred to as VLATS or Very Large Aircraft Tankers. Some of them are DC-10’s and others are 747’s which can carry up to 11,000 gallons of retardant. The cost for each drop is $65,000 plus about $22,000 an hour in flight time.
In order for the 747 SuperTanker to be ready for the 2021 wildfire season, it would have to undergo federal certification process by June. Instead, a new buyer could use the aircraft as a freight carrier, with its ability to hold 17,500 gallons.
The plane was a converted Boeing 747 that can dump almost 20,000 gallons of water or retardant in six seconds. Additionally, the SuperTanker also can refill in under 30 minutes. However, it comes at a hefty cost as much as $250,000 per day. The second largest capacity air tanker is Russian-made, under 12,000 gallons.
And so, the new SARS-CoV2 variant of faux interest but big marketing for more 6th and 7th booster billion$ made grips the nation, and then grabs the dirty presstitutes in MSM, mauling stream media, love the Fauci et al folk, oh, shit, these are the heavy times, and this 2024 is the most important time: As if you never heard that one before.
The 2024 presidential election will be THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME, because if Americans don’t make the correct choice between the two candidates something terrible might happen to their country. The US might even turn into an abusive totalitarian dystopia where everyone’s mind is controlled by propaganda engineered to shape them into unthinking gear-turners for a globe-spanning empire.
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People on one side of the partisan divide are being trained to fear a future fascist takeover.
People on the other side are being trained to fear a future communist takeover.
Both sides are being trained to overlook the oligarchic totalitarian takeover that has already occurred.
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Three things are certain when there’s a major international conflict:
1. The western empire will be involved, and on the wrong side.
2. The western media will insist the empire is on the right side.
These mosters — and I hate using animals to portray human stain — well, they will stop at nothing in their project to eliminate nations and eliminate Chinese, Cubans, Koreans, Venezuelans, Iranians, Russians, and, well, name that leftist people — Nicaraguans — and expect these USA monsters to come at the world like rabid skunks.
The narrative actors who have an interest in seeing U.S. imperialism triumph are, in the midst of Washington’s defeat by Russia, having to pretend like the dramas which the hegemon instigates all count as “wins.” They’ve already been doing this for a long time throughout the empire’s decline, at least since the Ukraine proxy conflict escalated in February of last year. Regardless of who’s truly winning on the geopolitical chessboard, their tactic has been to point to whatever instance of turmoil the hegemon has brought about, and conclude that the hegemon is prevailing in all respects. When the vast majority of the globe showed itself not to support Washington’s goals in Ukraine; and then responded to the conflict by speeding up their transition away from the dollar and their embrace of the BRI; imperialism’s narrative managers acted like NATO’s re-unification in itself meant U.S. hegemony had been strengthened. (source)
And so the military spending at the expense of health care, dams, water systems, food security, forests, firefighting, education, aging and disabilities services, and so so much more it never ever stops. These two thugs deserve the way of the BAT:
[Photo: U.S. and South Korean forces will hold the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise Aug. 21-31, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Col. Lee Sung-jun (L) and U.S. Forces Korea spokesman Col. Isaac Taylor (R) announced Monday. ]
To address the tripartite problem of racism, materialism and militarism, MLK called for “a radical revolution of values” and a need for people to be maladjusted to injustice. The revolution of values is centered on moving away from taking the safe road by not challenging the destructive status quo. MLK concluded the speech by centering the question on what to do based on whether “is it right” and not because politics or popular sentiments demands it.
“And on some positions, it is necessary for the moral individual to take a stand that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular; but he must do it because it is right.”
The time is right to ask the question whether the current wars ravaging the world, obscene militarism, racism and Islamophobia are reflective of the highest human values? If the answer is no, then why the silence! (source)
This is the billionaire Indian American presidential fuck-i-dent?
President Theodore Roosevelt developed the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny into his infamous Corollary:
in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Roosevelt’s foreign policy method was “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” His Corollary would lead the U.S. to break Panama from Colombia (1903), to the military occupations of Nicaragua (1912-1933), Haiti (1915-34), Dominican Republic (1916-1924), and to several more in Central America and the Caribbean. With the Cold War, the U.S.’s most important interventions were Guatemala (1954), Dominican Republic (1961), Cuba (Bay of Pigs 1961), Brazil (1964), Bolivia (1971), Chile (1973), Argentina (1976), Nicaragua (1979-1990), Grenada (1983), El Salvador and Guatemala (1980s) and Panama (1989). Literally hundreds of thousands of people were butchered by these U.S. Monroist incursions.
Monument to Carlota Lucumí, leader of the 1843 slave rebellion at the Triumvirato Sugar Mill in Matanzas.
Until the Cuban Revolution, Cuba was a de facto U.S. colony. Speaking to a U.S. Senate Committee in 1960, former U.S. ambassador to Cuba Earl E T Smith said:
Until Castro, the U.S. was so overwhelmingly influential in Cuba that the American ambassador was the second most important man, sometimes even more important than the Cuban president.
the legacy media have always been a legacy of lies, pulling the wool over our eyes, valorizing perversions, printing propaganda on crack, and helping the moles drill into the sheeple’s brains
Ukraine, as a nation, is an artificial construct. Anyone who looks at the cobbled-together nature of the Ukraine which emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union recognizes this. Western Ukraine (the birthplace of modern Ukrainian nationalism) and Eastern Ukraine (dominated by ethnic Russians whose loyalties and sympathies lie more in Moscow than Kiev) are inherently incompatible entities. The Kievan rump state that separates these two extremities serves more as a source of national dysfunction than national unity, a reality that is manifested in the level of corruption that permeates the body of this so-called Ukrainian “nation.”
Modern Ukraine is literally and figuratively the sick man of Europe, a nation whose industry and agriculture produces a national income which lines the pockets and fills the bank accounts of the corrupt oligarch class and their handpicked politicians that dominate the Ukraine, while leaving the Ukrainian people to flounder in a perpetual third-class status, all the while watching their national infrastructure crumble before their very eyes. — Scott Ritter, banned by the Big Brothers.
It’s not a surprise, not a surprise, that Gulag Google, “owner of” You-CIA-Tube, would be pulling the pants down and pulling the plug from voices from the jungle, or voice outside the matrix. Bye bye SCOTT RITTER.
Recall all the bans, all the firings, all the hate, all the thought police and news speak, around the Planned Pandemic, the Bioweapons, the mRNA magic weapon, which was developed, err, in the early 2000’s?
I’m seeing the thought police all masked up again, in the stores, at checkout stands, and the PSAs are billboarded and internetted pleading to get Johnny and Juanita boosted up . . . boosted up . . . boosted up? Read about the Chosen People and their mosquitoes below, but first let’s clean up the garden!
That New King Leopold smile, Borrell, a white ghost —
He pontificated that “Europe is a garden” but “most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden”.
The little garden, he educated them, cannot defend itself by building a wall. Why?
“Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden.”
So, what’s the solution? Then came the punch line:
“The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.” (source)
Again, they — perverts, sociopaths, Oppenheimers, Zuckerbergs, all of them with their test tubes and diodes and their AI and their labs and their pontifications and their professorships and their Larry Fink Schools of Thievery and their Epstein Island Hopper Funding and Investment Circles (think from Larry Summers to Noam Chomsky) — are on a mission, man, turning paradise into planet Mengeles, our little blue globe, the Island in the Sea of Space, Doctor Moreau’s and All of that Milgram Experimentation.
Read this 2021 article from that cutting edge (sic-sic) rag, Rolling Fucking Stoned:
[In fact, as far as variants go, Dr. Kirsten Lyke, professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and researcher at their Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, says that “we’ve been lucky” with the ones that have emerged and spread so far. That’s because while the new strains may be more transmissible than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, there are still enough similarities that if someone had an adequate immune response to the Covid-19 vaccine, it appears that they are also protected against the recent variants of concerns, like Alpha, Beta, and Delta.
Of course, that’s not to say that the current iterations of the Covid-19 vaccines will work against all of the future variants — which is one of the reasons we’re talking about booster shots.]
Ahh, here she is experimenting in Afrika: A Levine here and a Walensky there and a Cohen everywhere?
The CVD arm of the trial has vaccinated 20 subjects, half at one dose, half at another. The study will provide important results about the safety of the different doses and their ability to stimulate immune responses. Preliminary results could be available within four to eight weeks. The trial’s principal investigator is Kirsten Lyke, MD, associate professor at the School of Medicine and a faculty member at the CVD.
“This is a key step in the accelerated Ebola vaccine testing process,” says Levine. “Specifically, Dr. Lyke’s Baltimore trial of the NIH Ebola vaccine will provide critical early information about whether the vaccine is well tolerated by healthy adults in the U.S. and will assess the strength of the immune responses that they mount. This information will ultimately be relevant for future use of this vaccine in U.S. [and other industrialized country] adults such as health care workers and military personnel who may have to be deployed in areas where Ebola outbreaks are underway. The Baltimore trial will also allow a comparison of results with those being generated in West African health care workers from parallel trials being carried out by CVD-Mali.”
Fucking sick stuff:
The nameplate on her desk didn’t display a name. It read in gold letters, “Hard things are hard.” (source)
Iversen told viewers she doubted the researcher’s claims that the mosquitoes wouldn’t be used to vaccinate people against their consent.
A University of Washington team of researchers, led by Sean Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., conducted the study, which was published in the Science Translational Medicine journal.
The researchers genetically altered the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite, removing several genes to create a “minor version of malaria” incapable of causing sickness in humans. Mosquitoes were exposed to the parasite before as many as 200 were allowed to bite each participant, three to five times over a 30-day period — enough to create antibodies lasting up to six months.
Murphy and his co-authors said they used mosquitoes — rather than syringes — to save cost and that they were not planning to use the technology to mass vaccinate millions of people without their consent.
“Yeah, right,” Iversen responded, adding: “Bull. If anybody is going to call bull on this, it’s you and me because this is bull. They intend to use the science for something.” According to Iversen, the “big question” about the study is, “What are you going to do with this science, with this research?” “Essentially,” she said, “a government, I could imagine, would buy the batch of genetically modified mosquitoes and release it to its population.” She continued: “Then what happens to the mosquitoes? They get inside of crates. They get shipped around the world [and] they go with people places. … So now you’re going to vaccinate the entire world without the world’s consent by using this science.” “What is the purpose of this science if it’s not for that?” she added.
Iversen pointed out that Dr. Kirsten Lyke, a vaccine researcher and professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, commended using a genetically modified live parasite as “a total game changer” for vaccine development.
Lyke led the Phase 1 trials for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and also served as co-investigator for Moderna’s and Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine trials.
“So there you go,” Iversen said. “You’ve got COVID-19 researchers saying, ‘This is great.’”
Ahh, Prostitution as Presstitution. This is what got my juices going this morning. Gulag Google and You-CIA-Tube and CIA-Wikipedia!
These New/Jew York Times, man, from Rolling-Crumbling Stone, to NPR, PBS, all of them dirty perversions: Caitlin, and looking at McCarthism 4.0.
Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he’d sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are “tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States.”
Rubio listed nine organizations that he said should be investigated “for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.” Included in Senator Rubio’s blacklist of suspected Chinese foreign agents is the renowned peace activism group Code Pink, which has been drawing attention to the destructiveness of US warmongering, militarism and economic warfare for decades.
“According to the New York Times, many progressive organizations have received funding from Neville Roy Singham, a leftist U.S. citizen who lives in Shanghai and has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” Rubio writes. “Yet, none of the entities tied to Singham have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The U.S. must enforce its laws more fiercely in the face of foreign adversaries who abuse our open system to advance their malign interests.” (source)
We are doomed, either through the machinations of the mRNA mosquito hasbara folk, or the “think tanks”, we are doomed by these Chosen People.
Another managed and curated piece of Goyim shit —
Boost … boost … boost: For this reason, Lyke says that it’s important to conduct research on boosters now so that if the day comes when Covid vaccine boosters are needed, we’ll have the necessary evidence at hand.
“It remains to be seen if a new variant comes down the pike that completely manages to evade the [current] vaccines’ coverage,” Lyke notes. “That would be kind of a nightmare scenario, and we would have to really scramble, because everyone would have to be boosted.”
And, YouTube is Google is CIA is Nuland is Kagan is the Chosen People Curating the Poor Goyim. And you do not have to VALORIZE Ritter, but this is Farenheit 451, dudes, and the chosenness of the few, whether a mosquito swarms across the globe, or the Altmans of Chat GPT, these are perversions.
Fucking monsters:
She is, like the others, a dirty monster who needs to be batted away into oblivion! Here, another group of chosen people, along with Hillary, and before, those Anglo-Franco-Saxons-Iberians, may they rot not, their progeny.
The Sahel is a territorial band, with a length of 5,400 kilometers, that joins the Atlantic coast of Mauritania and Senegal with the Red Sea, on the shores of Sudan and Eritrea; in the middle, from east to west, are Ethiopia, Chad, Niger, northern Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso.
In its western segment, the international slave trade originated in the 16th century: the triangular trade – well described by the Trinidadian politician and historian Eric Williams – based on the export of quincallero products from Europe to the Sahel, where they were exchanged for African slaves to be transported to America, where they arrived to produce and extract the goods that were then traded in European markets.
The mercantile system, from which modern capitalism emerged, would not have existed without West Africans becoming the main human commodity in this triangulation.The Sahel was also the scene of trans-Saharan activity, connecting different routes to all African latitudes, which lasted longer than the triangular one.
After the Berlin Conference (1884-85), in which Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and Belgium arbitrarily divided and divided up the entire continent as colonies, with the exception of Ethiopia – formerly called Abyssinia – and Liberia, Africa’s role as a source of raw materials and slave labor in the international division of labor deepened, and with it the history of rebellions, revolutions, putschs, assassinations, secessions and liberation movements in response to, and in line with, the colonial barbarism experienced for centuries.
SIRTE, Libya — An analysis of video obtained by GlobalPost from a rebel fighter who recorded the moment when Col. Muammar Gaddafi was first captured confirms that another rebel fighter, whose identity is unknown, sodomized the former leader as he was being dragged from the drainpipe where he had taken cover.
A frame by frame analysis of this exclusive GlobalPost video clearly shows the rebel trying to insert some kind of stick or knife into Gaddafi’s rear end.
GlobalPost correspondent Tracey Shelton said there is some question as to whether the instrument was a knife from the end of a machine gun, which Libyans call a Bicketti, or some kind of stick.
This latest video discovery comes as international and human rights groups call for a formal investigation into how the former Libyan leader was killed. In video clips that have emerged of his capture, Gaddafi can be seen injured but alive. Later he is seen with what appears to be gunshot wounds to his head and chest. According to the Geneva Conventions, however, abuse of prisoners under any circumstance is not permissable.
And so, these demons, these Rubio’s and Trump’s and Clinton’s and Obama’s and Bush’s and Nixon’s and Reagan’s and Biden’s — HUMAN STAIN, and they are on a pillage, man, censorship, but worse — they are the new fucked up wine-sipping McCarthy’s.
[Photo: Joseph R. McCarthy’s flag draped casket being carried down the Senate steps following his funeral services on May 6, 1957, in the Senate Chamber.]
Shit, another Cohn hired on:
A dispute over his hiring of staff without consulting other committee members prompted the panel’s three Democrats to resign in mid-1953. Republican senators also stopped attending, in part because so many of the hearings were called on short notice or held away from the nation’s capital. As a result, McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn largely ran the show by themselves, relentlessly grilling and insulting witnesses. Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold described McCarthy’s role as “judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.”
In the spring of 1954, McCarthy picked a fight with the U.S. Army, charging lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army responded that the senator had sought preferential treatment for a recently drafted subcommittee aide. Amidst this controversy, McCarthy temporarily stepped down as chairman for the duration of the three-month nationally televised spectacle known to history as the Army-McCarthy hearings.
The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch’s attorneys had ties to a Communist organization. As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy’s career:
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Overnight, McCarthy’s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Fucking Nazi’s: [A crowd jams the sidewalks and street outside St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Appleton on May 7, 1957, where funeral services were being held for U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. This photo was published in the May 8, 1957, Milwaukee Journal.]
Piece of USA Piece of Stain: [Marine pallbearers carry the casket of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy under flags of veterans organizations as they neared the grave in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Appleton. Members of McCarthy’s immediate family followed. This photo was published in the May 8, 1957, Milwaukee Journal.]
And so, we have this piece of shit Bobby Kennedy, the dad:
Disciples came in flocks that sun-baked May afternoon in 1957, packing the pews at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and spilling onto the streets outside the Irish parish in Appleton, where Joseph Raymond McCarthy had been baptized and now, just 48 years later, he was being eulogized.
It was the last of three memorials to the fallen senator, and the first in the state that had elected him in landslides. Twenty-five thousand admirers from Green Bay, Neenah and his native Grand Chute had paid their respects at his open casket. Others were keeping vigil outside the church alongside honor guards of military police and Boy Scouts.
Flying in to join them were 19 senators, seven congressmen, and other luminaries, most of whom had supported Joe McCarthy in his relentless assault on communism. The dignitaries were whisked in a motorcade from the airport in Green Bay to the funeral in Appleton.
But one man faltered on the runway. Robert Francis Kennedy had worked as an aide to McCarthy for seven months before political and personal calculations made him step aside. Now he sat anxiously by himself on the military jet, reluctant to be seen with the conservative lawmakers and conflicted even about being in Wisconsin.
His own brother, Jack, had sternly warned him to stay away.
When the crowd was gone, Kennedy slipped down the exit ramp unnoticed. Nobody was waiting because no one knew he was coming. He rode into town not with the pack of senators and congressmen but in the front seat of a Cadillac convertible driven by reporter Edwin Bayley, who was covering McCarthy’s funeral for The Milwaukee Journal.
At the church, Bobby sat in the choir loft, distracted and alone, and at the graveside he stood apart from the rest of the officials from Washington. When the service was over, Kennedy asked Bayley and other journalists not to write about his being there. The reporters, already in the Kennedy thrall, did as he asked.
The relationship between Robert Kennedy and Joseph McCarthy is one of the most implausible in U.S. political history. In the lexicon of American politics, the Kennedy name is shorthand for left-leaning Democratic politics, and it is a tenet of Kennedy scholarship that the first and archetypal family liberal was Bobby.
The historical cliché, nourished by his family and friends, posits that Kennedy’s going to work for McCarthy was a footnote or an aberration when it was neither. The truth is that the early Bobby Kennedy embraced the overheated anticommunism of the 1950s and openly disdained liberals.
(Americans might have been misled about Bobby’s politics, but not the Soviets. “Kennedy is an ultra, an apostle of anti-Communism, who pursues the laurels of McCarthy and Dulles,” according to Za Rubezhom, a Soviet magazine covering political news.)
His job with the Republican senator from Wisconsin not only launched Bobby’s career but injected into his life passion and direction that had been glaringly absent. McCarthy’s zeal, extreme though it was, fired Kennedy’s ambition for years to come.
He quit McCarthy not because he rejected McCarthyism, but because his advancement was stymied by conflict with fellow staffers. While he did work for the senator for just seven and a half months in 1953, their ties went back a number of years, and they lasted until Bobby made his last visit to McCarthy shortly before the senator died.
His link to McCarthy became a crucible Kennedy couldn’t escape, serving for some as a testament to his loyalty and patriotism, for others as a measure of his youthful misdirection and overreaching.
Both were right.
Bobby was so enamored of the senator that he failed to see the fanaticism that, by the time he signed on, had already made McCarthy’s name a synonym for witch hunt and crowned “Low-Blow Joe” the most divisive man in America.
Nor did he ever fully sever those bonds or entirely break the bad habits he learned from the senator from Grand Chute.
Yet if Bobby was guilty of embracing or tolerating the Red Scare, so, too, was much of the nation in the 1950s. In the end, this McCarthy phase of his life would be a baseline from which to measure Bobby’s — and America’s — political transformation and growth.
Then, like father, like son:
Nazi’s……………………………………………………..
Those Nazi’s?
A man in make-up and pearls condemning transgender people may seem counterintuitive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactionary. The case of Ernst Röhm, the highest-ranking gay Nazi, presents an interesting study in the construction and containment of masculinity by the right.
[Nazis Kurt Daluege, Heinrich Himmler, Ernst Röhm in 1933]
As Eleanor Hancock explains, Röhm, his face scarred from war wounds, stressed a hyper-masculinity to counteract contemporary views of homosexuality as feminine. A First World War veteran, Rohm “attached paramount importance to the values of militarized masculinity.” This aligned with Nazi views of the homosocial Männerbund. Such all-male organizations of warrior-comrades were supposed to be united under the banner of discipline and order against the threatening “wave” of the bourgeoisie, women, Jews, socialists, Bolsheviks, all of whom represented weakness, chaos, and disorder—in short, the Weimar Republic. Röhm suggested that the line between homosocial and homosexual, however, was potentially fluid.
Recommended Resources: During the program, a number of resources were mentioned for further research. One of these was the book Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld. Another was the magazine The Third Sex which was printed in Weimar Germany from 1930-1932. We also recommend historian Jake Newsome’s series LGBTQ+ Stories from the Holocaust, where he shares the true stories of LGBTQ+ people in Nazi Germany.
Learn More About the LGBTQ+ Community in Pre-War Germany Before WWII, Berlin was a center of life for the LGBTQ+ community. Robert Beachy’s book Gay Berlin chronicles the milieu that gave rise to the international gay rights movement, with key strides made for scientific research, advocacy, and visibility. Learn more in this conversation between Beachy and Eric Marcus, creator of the podcast Making Gay History.
Oh, those Nazi’s
For me, the most significant, credible information on Hoover’s sexuality came with the discovery that Hoover for a while consulted Marshall de G Ruffin, a Washington psychiatrist who became president of the Washington Psychiatric Society.
De Ruffin’s widow Monteen recalled learning from her husband that his distinguished patient was “definitely troubled by homosexuality”. After several sessions, however, “Hoover got very paranoid about anyone finding out he was a homosexual, and got scared.”
As if to compensate, Hoover lashed out at and sought to expose other homosexuals. For years he had his agents infiltrate and monitor homosexual-rights groups, while he sounded off publicly about “sex deviates in government service”.
My conclusion after five years’ research was that while Hoover may have spent much of his life repressing his private urges while building an image of himself as the acme of sexual purity, he did sometimes lapse – risking catastrophe every time. Having studied the information I assembled, two noted specialists in psychiatry and psychology said they believed Hoover’s sexual torment was very pertinent to his use and abuse of power as America’s top law-enforcement officer.
Dr John Money, professor of medical psychology at Johns Hopkins University, thought Hoover “needed constantly to destroy other people in order to maintain himself. He managed to live with his conflict by making others pay the price.” Dr Harold Lief, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded that Hoover suffered from “a personality disorder, a narcissistic disorder with mixed obsessive features… paranoid elements, undue suspiciousness and some sadism. A combination of narcissism and paranoia produces what is known as an authoritarian personality. Hoover would have made a perfect high-level Nazi.” (source)
Although homosexual behavior outwardly appeared to be incompatible with Nazi ideology, core principles of the Nazi movement in fact aroused homoerotic tendencies. Ironically, many homosexual men were initially attracted to Nazism, which emphasized virility, strength, and comradeship to forge a strong national polity. The excessive masculinity of the Third Reich was based on the philosophical concept of the Mannerbünd, a male-dominated elite united by devotion to a shared goal. Under the Nazi regime, the patriarchal hierarchy established by the Mannerbünd was mirrored throughout German society – in the family, in the workplace, at school, and especially in the military. The Wehrmacht specifically recognized the insidious allure of male bonding, and adopted measures to punish incidents of sexual contact betweensoldiers. Official army directives emphasized that “the danger of homosexual activity is especially acute when healthy, youthful, and virile men live together in close physical and emotional comradeship, and have no opportunity to have sexual relations with women.” Isolated from women by the realities of war, young soldiers often vented their pent-up sexual energies on each other. As Geoffrey J. Giles notes, “Nonsexual snuggling seems to have been unexceptional” in the Schutzstaffel (SS), and most soldiers did not view further sexual exploration, such as groping or fondling, as “especially reprehensible or anything more than mildly indecent.” Even in situations in which heterosexual outlets for sexual desire were available, Nazi rhetoric exacerbated homosexual tendencies. Robert G. Waite notes that Nazi dogma, by “denigrating females, encouraged the maturing adolescent to focus on the beauty of male personality and body.” Misogyny thus reinforced homoeroticism in the Wehrmacht. While many German soldiers did not see their sexual predilections and political beliefs as fundamentally incongruous, the state was nevertheless incapable of accepting their abnormality.
Photo Essay: Fighting Pinkwashing in IsraelThe queer Israeli youth taking a stand against pinkwashing [ At Pride marches across the country, activists are drawing the ire of police and fellow protesters for decrying the hypocrisy of the government and military. ]
So so, and we have PINKWASHING to the MAX in Israel 3.0, Ukraine.
FUCK — This propaganda is so fucking bad, it stinks, but it is the pinkwash man, the pink wash for the the Price Sheeple! “Strategies to fight homophobia in post-Euromaidan Ukraine: constructing a good gay citizen and Ukrainian homonormative patriotism” by Maryna Shevtsova
This chapter argues that the current combination of flourishing nationalistic movements and growing militarization in the country has caused what is often mistakenly referred to as “Ukrainian homonationalism” and what I further label as “Ukrainian homonormative patriotism.” By homonormative patriotism I refer to discursive practices that are actively used by certain parts of the Ukrainian LGBT movement, which imply that, provided certain conditions are met, a gay or lesbian person can be integrated into the Ukrainian society. As this chapter further shows, these conditions indispensably include a Ukrainian patriotic component and one’s readiness to defend his or her (but mostly his) country. While this kind of tactic used by Ukrainian LGBT activists seems to bear fruit, this chapter problematizes its… (fucking crazy articles, and leave it to academia to want to bomb goyim back to the last straight Ukrainian)
And, alas, that’s what got Ritter banned: he called many in Ukraine, Nazi’s. Neo-Nazi’s. Bandera-loving fascists.
These will all be taken down by the Nazi’s, all videos owned by Gulag Google:
Oh those LGBTQA+ and cisgender Nazi’s in Ukraine.
Oh, Scott, soon to be taken out by those Rolling Stones.
Ukraine is, as we speak, normalizing the cultural genocide of all things Russian—the language, culture, religion, and history. Once you mainstream the elimination of a culture and ethnic identity, transitioning to the physical elimination of a people is no problem.
Elimination Russophobia.
It is real, operating on a continuous basis as the official policy of the Ukrainian government, and made possible by the pathological indifference or active participation of those Ukrainians who do not identify as western Ukrainian nationalists, who may not openly espouse the odious ideology of Stepan Bandera, but who nonetheless make the hijacking of Ukrainian nation by the Banderists possible.
Just like the “good Germans” did regarding Adolf Hitler and his Nazi ideology.
There are few “good Ukrainians.” The vast majority of Ukrainians are either direct participants in the unspeakable crimes committed in the cause of modern Stepan Bandera-driven Ukrainian nationalism, or they are facilitators who are pathologically indifferent to these crimes.
The participants need to suffer the fate of their predecessors who, after being tried for their crimes in Kiev during January 1946, were hung by the neck until dead in a mass execution before a massive crowd of their victims.
The facilitators should pay for their sins by providing the forced labor necessary to unearth the victims of the Ukrainian nationalists, and to repair the damage wrought on Ukraine because of a war brought to them not by Russia, but rather the Ukrainian nationalists and their western allies.
There was, at one time, a large number of “good Ukrainians.” These are the people of eastern Ukraine who stood up and forcefully defended themselves against the murderous onslaught of the Banderists and their cowardly Ukrainian facilitators.
These “good Ukrainians,” however, for the most part no longer exist.
Thanks to the annexation of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Lugansk, most have become Russian.
And if the war continues along its current trajectory, there may be a chance for the remaining “good Ukrainians”—those ethnic Russians who reside in the territories of Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkov, and Sumy—to become Russian as well.
This would be a salvation for them because there is nothing that connects them to the poisonous regime that governs in Kiev today, or the poisonous population of Ukraine.
I repeat my original statement—there is nothing nice about the people in Ukraine.
They are either staunch supporters of the odious ideology of Stepan Bandera, and as such deserving of whatever fate befalls them, or pathologically indifferent cowards who have facilitated the horrific crimes of the Banderists.
Most of the “good Ukrainians” have gone.
They are now Russian, and as such part of Mother Russia.
And justice will be theirs.
Little nazi’s, that rolling stone never collects, err, moss?
When I got to Rolling Stone, the party was over. I turned up just in time to see a cigarette floating in the last cocktail of the night. It was 1993, and I was in my mid-20s. I went on the road with the Rolling Stones, but they were cranky and old, bickering with reporters who called them the Strolling Bones. I hung out with Hunter S. Thompson in Woody Creek, Colorado, but he’d hurt his back and broken his leg and seemed ancient, drugged, and boozy, lost in a visionary delirium. Rolling Stone, co-founded by Jann Wenner in 1967, had chronicled Woodstock and Altamont and everything else, but now appeared to have just one story left to tell—its own.
Note: Wikipedia, [Wenner was born in New York City, the son of Sim and Edward Wenner. He grew up in a secular Jewish family.]
Well, Petty and Zimmerman.
Shit, Dylan, man, what a sell out, but then again — Chosenness gets you in the club.
I’ll take Gil ANY DAY of the week.
Like A Rolling Stone
Once upon a time you dressed so fine Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’ You thought they were all kidding you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hanging out Now you don’t talk so loud Now you don’t seem so proud About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel? To be without a home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you’ve gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely But you know you only used to get juiced in it Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street And now you’re gonna have to get used to it You say you never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realize He’s not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you You never understood that it ain’t no good You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat Ain’t it hard when you discovered that He really wasn’t where it’s at After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people They’re all drinking, thinking that they’ve got it made Exchanging all precious gifts But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him he calls you, you can’t refuse When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
… then there is the most important Jew in 2022 . . . and we can only hope for he and his Avatars and his Holograms and his Buddies in Holly-Dirt to just belly up with that new SAR-CoV2 Strain –
Before that little railing against the system, The Complex, how about a little free jazz? Omnicron or Forevercron?
Or . . .
EG.5 is a family of omicron variants (descended from XBB.1.9.2) that first appeared back in February 2023.
The World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a “variant under monitoring” on July 19 after a surge in COVID infections from early July. It has been increasingly reported across the globe, particularly in Asia.
On August 9 2023, it was upgraded to a “variant of interest”. This follows the rise of a particular variant, EG.5.1, known as Eris. But it has not been classified a “variant of concern”.
Now now, many call the mRNA and the other junk they stuff into those hypodermics junk junk gew jab trickery. But again, Goyim needs graphics and a little bit of mythology to keep those exposed arms coming: [Image, The Greek goddess Eris gave its name to the latest omicron variant.]
But then, nothing’s FOREVER . . . except the criminality of the criminals in suits, skirts, jeans, and skinny jeans.
Typical of my “in” box in my GulaG-mail: It used to be begging for $5 or $20 to feed the children and safe the whale, but nothing is forever. Inflation, man, inflation. Starting at $125.00! (the price of two four-ounce bags of civet shit coffee beans!)
Paul,
Wasteland. Wreckage. Apocalypse. The deadliest U.S. fire in years.
These are just some of the devastating phrases news outlets are using for the wildfires ravaging Hawaii as you read this.
The death toll stands at 36 but is expected to rise as firefighters battle the large and fast-moving blazes. Thousands of people have been displaced, with many scrambling to evacuate as their homes caught fire. They don’t know when they’ll be able to return to their lives or their loved ones, or what they’ll find when they do.
An Americares Emergency Response team is preparing to deploy to Hawaii. We’re actively communicating with our existing partners in Hawaii to understand their most pressing needs and have started receiving requests for medical supplies. We are ready to respond with medicine, relief supplies and emergency funding to help survivors access health services.
This will be forever, though — NEVER a National Firefighting brigades; never national mutual aid brigades; NEVER calling out the useless merchants of death (uniformed hired killers) to do something in our lives that actually helps. But ALWAYS the Film at 10 PM and really cool helicopter and drone shots of the fall-out of capitalism:
Ahh, the great great meatgrinder of the Gentiles in UkroNaziZioLandia, it just keeps on filling the graveyards. This is what the Five Eyes and the U-inbred-Kingdom and the Klanadians and EuroTrashLandians want, as they look to their master(s) for more and more dealy bombs, bullets and battle-ready drones and spyware. Just one place, and then the people, the Sahra Palestinians (might as well call them that): One country, Morocco — so just do a little GulaGoogling and look at all the loot and death spread throughout the world by U$A and Isra-Hell.
As Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the indigenous Sahrawis and their right to self-determination.
The area known as Western Sahara today, commonly referred to as ‘Africa’s last colony’ was occupied by Spain up until 1975. Despite the International Court of Justice declaring the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the kingdom of Morocco has engaged in settler colonialism ever since.
Israel’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory can be observed as an evolving Zionist strategy, driven by incentives for further regional extraction and control.
Israel and Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations in 1994 when Tel Aviv opened a liaison office in Rabat. The office closed after the Second Intifada in 2000, but informal relations never stopped. In 2021, the Israeli office in Rabat reopened as the Abraham Accords were signed. Economic and military cooperation between the two states seems to have heavily increase.
The Western Sahara Watch (WSRW) reported a shipment of phosphate rocks being exported from Western Sahara to Israel in March of 2022; a flagrant violation of international law.
In a 2002 opinion, the U.N. has deemed extraction of resources from “non-self governing territories” without the consent of the people of that territory as illegal. In three following rulings, the European Union Court of Justice has, in various forms, condemned trading in the region without the consent of the Sahrawi people.
Ahh, that Gew Jab goes a long way in other ways in the world, no? Fuck the UN, those Jew Jabbers say, uh, what those Hasbara Hussies say?
Shifting back to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex with plenty of Chosen People in executive positions: This is what I sent to two amigos, both into Social Insecurity Territory, you know, that safety net that was never a safety net always on the Reagan-Clinton-Biden-Obama-Trump cutting block:
Americares Emergency Programs Team: Thu, Aug 10, 4:05 PM Americares is preparing to deploy an emergency response team to Hawaii. Ahh, asking us for money? Fun stuff, Zelensky gets it all, while these folk want us to donate money?
Amazing, the year of Dangerously Unthinking….
Money money for war war ….
And per usual, pungent and precise retort from Tootless in Wisconsin:
I’m afraid that I won’t be able to contribute to your fund drive. Like I told the fucks, I mean folks, over at wounded, wasted, washed up warriors, I’m saving up for forty four caliber party favors for take your elected representatives to the cemetery day.
I do have some blue and yellow tarps that the locals could use to paraglide the fuck out of there. They’re similar to the ones that I gave to the homeless, wounded vets for blankets and temporary housing. I will require you to arrange for shipping these “freedom fighters flags, as I don’t trust those troublemakers that are in the employ of our wonderful transportation corporations.
Have you contacted the folks over at Azov? They may be more financially equipped to accommodate your requests. Additionally, they may have some cookies left over from the Maidan party, if nutrition for the refugees. I think that they participated in fire abatement on the mainland, during the last wildfire season in the U$A, so they’ve got some experience, and expertise in these matters.
I would definitely recommend against having the locals travel to the mainland, as they could be very easily mistaken for illegal aliens, and end up in Mexico. If that should transpire, they’re probably shit out of luck.
They kinda brought this on themselves. Complainin’ about contaminated water. Bet they’d like to have that water for fightin’ fires about now.
Sorry that I couldn’t be of more assistance. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Hope to see you at the celebration at the (memorial) park.
And so the non-profit greenie weenies, those civet coffee lovers, they are all the same:
Social Security, a jewel of the New Deal, has faced bi-partisan opposition since at least the Reagan Administration, when Democrats joined Republicans to raise the retirement age and increase payroll taxes enough to generate trillions in Trust Fund surpluses. Many Liberals have now joined conservatives again in pressing for Social Security “reform.” One example is a recent NY Times editorial: “Democrats must recognize that changes to Social Security and Medicare, the major drivers of expected federal spending growth, should be on the table. Anything less will prove fiscally unsustainable.” Social Security is completely funded by a dedicated tax, and Medicare partially so, unlike, say, the military.
Our chronic deficits and massive debt stem, not from Social Security, but primarily from two costly but damaging political choices: bloated spending to support a global military presence, and tax cuts for the privileged. The former is an attempt to maintain an obsolete, unipolar world, and the latter has generated a return of 1920’s inequality, giving a new set of billionaires power to shape domestic priorities through their funding for both political parties and through their private equity takeovers in education, healthcare, retail services and more. (August 3, 2023)
Fucking Anglo-Saxon-Franco-Apartheid “race.”
This is 2023: The Year of Dangerously Unthinking Thinking.
Part of that 2023: The Year of Dangerosuly Unthinking Thinking is not just that Jew in the Green Underwear sucking all the clean air out of the proverbial room, but all the graft, grift, and greed: CONTROLLED people, SHEEPLE, hell, even the CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. All part of the presstitution ring, MSM:
According to INCITE, “The non-profit industrial complex is a system of relationships between:
the State (or local and federal governments)
the owning classes
foundations
and non-profit/NGO social service & social justice organizations
that results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements. The state uses non-profits to:
Monitor and control social justice movements;
Divert public monies into private hands through foundations;
Manage and control dissent in order to make the world safe for capitalism;
Redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based organizing capable of actually transforming society;
Allow corporations to mask their exploitative and colonial work practices through “philanthropic” work;
Encourage social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures rather than to challenge them
What would Malcolm say about the Gew Jab and Jew-Jew-berwocky? (The red line in my mind means — eliminate the sucker and his regime!) Americares!
“But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t ‘t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.” ―Malcolm X
the summer’s about to really get hot, and Holly-Dirt and the Merchants of War are ready to pick up steam . . .
Ukraine has selected transgender journalist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo to run its military’s English-language propaganda operations, local outlet Strana reported on Tuesday.
Ashton-Cirillo, who was born a man and came out as transgender in 2019, hosts the state-sponsored news program ‘Russia Hates the Truth’ – an official project of the Ukrainian Defense Forces – the purpose of which is said to be “countering Russian propaganda, disinformation and lies.”
The transgender American war correspondent who was selected last month to run the Ukrainian military’s English-language propaganda operation has called off a boycott of CNN after apparently persuading the media outlet to cease referring to foreign fighters in the country as “mercenaries.”
“We are not content to just tell the story. To the best of our ability, we also help equip, aid, and train the world’s anticommunist freedom fighters,” Brown later wrote. “We make no apologies about this or for our virulent anti-tyrant, anti-communist editorial stance.”
CNN — CisCisternCIANumbSkullNetwork. This is it for the UkroNaziLandians and the CNN freaks. Anderon Vanderbilt Cooper is coming up the rear. Ouch!
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The transgender American war correspondent who was selected last month to run the Ukrainian military’s English-language propaganda operation has called off a boycott of CNN after apparently persuading the media outlet to cease referring to foreign fighters in the country as “mercenaries.”
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo ended the boycott campaign on Thursday afternoon, hours after it began, citing CNN’s “rapid response” to her public complaint earlier in the day. The network revised an article published last week that had included a reference to “Western mercenaries,” changing their description to “Western foreign fighters.”
[Photo: Gomer Pyle, USMC, 2023!]
That piece of human shit, Sarah Shit Face Ashton-Cirillo, yep, put her-him-them down like a rabid dog.
On March 3, 1988, a jury in U.S. District Court jury in Houston found the magazine acted with gross negligence in publishing a personal services ad through which Robert Black hired a mercenary to kill his wife for $10,000.
The ad was placed by two former Marines willing to accept ‘high-risk assignments.’ Through that ad, Black hired Vietnam veteran John Wayne Hearn, who gunned down Sandra Black as she carried groceries to her home in Bryan, Texas, in 1985.
Contract fucking killers, and CNN goes along with this? The Year of UnThinking Dangerously:
The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise was assassinated in his residence on July 7th, 2021. According to reports, the political murder was carried out by a group of Columbian and American mercenaries/hitmen. The motive behind the killing remains unclear.
So, the mis-pronoun game while the US LGBTQA+ Team Blue and Red, they just love the merchants of death:
The funding of state-of-the-art arms is mostly facilitated by Western nations. These are then circulated within the private market and sold to potential mercenaries and hitmen. Although the market for these killers may be concentrated in politically unstable countries, their growth is fuelled by foreign funding.
Over time, the concept of hitmen has evolved from private players to state-backed mercenary groups with no accountability. This sets a dangerous precedent that can undermine global peace and prosperity.
Throughout world history, as long as there has been conflict among people, there have been people willing to pay others to carry out violence. From assassins and mercenaries to bounty markers and paramilitary organizations, humans have found limitless ways to pay for their dirty work to be carried out by others. This process is one of the most common threads in human history and has been used by people in every position, of every origin, and in every location on the planet for thousands of years. The issue of pay for violence has entered the spotlight again in the modern age, as humanity moves closer together through information and technology proliferation. The world is growing smaller, and conduct unbecoming of a civilized society is finding fewer and fewer places to hide. This article examines, in part, the historical evolution of the roles of paid actors in the business of war and violence. A complete examination is not presented, as it would require detailing a complete history of humankind. The author instead focuses on the primary themes and points throughout history that explain the origin, necessity, and permanence of paid-for violence, framed by supporting historical and modern-day references to illustrate the concept of combatants for hire and their impact on human society.
[Image: A drawing depicting Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo]
We DEEPLY APOLOGIZE for any feeling hurt.
Goddamn, it’s so reassuring that our/my (sic) government is taking care of fires, drought, food insecurity, bad trains, planes and automobiles, bad education, all the frays in the social safety nets, man, and taking care of business here, not funding Neo Nazi’s abroad.
Whoops, it’s all about the Benjamins (is that a ‘he’ or ‘she’ or ‘they’? in the scheme of things?) and the pronouns.
Fools, one and all.
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The US Library of Congress, the largest library on earth, issued a public apology via Twitter (now rebranded as X) on Monday for using “incorrect pronouns” to describe a non-binary author hosting a book signing at the taxpayer-funded institution.
“We deeply apologize to Casey McQuiston for using incorrect pronouns for them in our last post,” the oldest federal cultural establishment in the US tweeted. The offending post was apparently deleted, as it did not appear in the library’s Twitter feed on Tuesday.
The Library of Congress hosted a book signing for McQuiston, who self-identifies as queer as well as non-binary, on Tuesday to celebrate the Amazon Prime adaptation of the author’s book “Red, White, and Royal Blue” and formally added the novel to its LGBTQ+ collection. The book tells the story of a feud between a British prince and the son of the US president that blossoms into a homosexual romance.
Fucking A — mercenaries are now called Mister Rogers Neighbor Helpers. ZioAzovLensky is called G-D’s gift to ALL Jews: (source)
Know your enemy, Facebook, Google, NYT. Heck, Zuckerberg, Jew York Times, Jewish Zoggle? All theater, all there to curate the poor dumb Goyim. This is a racist statement, and alas, just more bizarro from the Jerusalem Post. Russia-Ukraine War made President Volodymyr Zelensky a global icon. These sorts of humans are educating your kids, entertaining your moms, dressing your dads, and selling more and more USA self-destruction just with a twist of a t-shirt and comb of the hair:
There are not many political leaders who find themselves elevated to icon status, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky became one of them this year.
First he was regarded as a curiosity – if someone outside Ukraine thought about him at all – because of having played the president of Ukraine in a sitcom before playing the role in real life. But Russia’s invasion of his country in February thrust him into the spotlight and tested him in a way that few leaders in today’s world have been tested.
With an artist’s keen eye for the importance of optics, Zelensky began exclusively wearing olive green T-shirts. He embarked on a world tour via Zoom to admonish Western governments for insufficiently helping him beat back Russia, customizing the speech to fit each capital’s history and concerns.
Fucking freaks, Anglo Saxons and the Jewish Times, and EuroTrashLandia and especially Larry Fink and Geroge Soros’s UkroNaziLandia.
[Photo: Is it Memorex or is it Mammon? UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech in a 3D hologram projection, at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and start-ups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2022. (credit: BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS)
Shift from that shit, to, well, the news of the day:
Fuck, I was 15 in Tucson and Phoenix — never asked me which street or alley or building was the hottest. I was a bicyclist and worked on the road crews for the county highway gang. Fucking 2023, the year of unthinking dangerously.
Now you get to push a button on your screen. Now that will help the poor people dying!
[Photo: Amid a record heat wave in July, the Phoenix area saw surfaces such as roads and buildings stay hot long after sunset, as documented in NASA-NOAA satellite data that was used to produce this series of maps. Unable to cool fully overnight, the surfaces grew progressively hotter through the month. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
Norfolk, Va., is one of the cities most at risk from sea level rise. It’s now working on a floodwall project which critics worry won’t address key impacts of climate change or protect people equally.
Again, this is the Year of UnThinking. This is it for 2023. The reality of expansion, sea inundation, fuck, think about my 2001 master’s in urban planning with an emphasis on sustainability (not the Greta kind, the real kind). FUCK.
We are Homo EstupidoConsumoPeticusBellum. So, Germany is in the shitter, and Leopard tanks are in the shitter and the continuous bombs and depleted uranium frm EU-UK-USA-Isra-Hell, and this is the story today?
[Photo: Climate change is taking a heavy toll on the ancient trees of Sanssouci, the sumptuous summer palace built in the 18th century as the Prussian answer to Versailles. The grounds and manicured gardens in Potsdam are surrounded by a park filled with centuries-old trees.}
[Photo: Although 2023 has been less dry than previous years, rainfall has proved insufficient to counteract past drought damage and around half of the trees are showing signs of distress. Beyond the lack of moisture, voracious insects have been feasting on the trees.]
[Photo: It’s a vicious circle that Hannemann said impacts all tree species. Dead oaks or beech trees can then at best only serve as habitats for bats, insects or mushrooms.But if the trunks and branches are too rotten and pose a safety risk to park visitors, they must be felled.]
Then, what’s a nerd and AI freak to do? Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce.
But wait? That was Nov. 2022. Now? That Billionaire Criminal in the stupid clothes to the rescue? Dozens — Meta Picks Up Hiring, Offers Jobs To Some Of Thousands Of Laid-Off Employees: Report
No, really? Goddamned, golly. Really, the insurance companies would do that?
No, really? “U.S.-based insurers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel-related assets which in turn contribute to the risk of climate-related damage to the underwriting side of their businesses, a new report said on Tuesday.
A data sample comprising 77% of U.S. insurers showed they held fossil fuel-related assets worth $536 billion in 2019, and patterns are unlikely to have changed dramatically since then, according to sustainability consultancy ERM, investor advocacy group Ceres and carbon accounting firm Persefoni.”
We are a putrid society, old Klanada, EuroTrashLandia, U-Inbred-Kingdom, Isra-Hell, NZ and AU — poms and kiwis. Fucking Garsh, Sha-zam, Gall-lee!
Oh, those messes they — Oppenheimer, Soros, Vanderbilt, well, all those messes Fuckerberg.
… and these ugly mother fuckers, the HR, the paper-digital file pushers, all those nannies, all of them, LGBTQ, straight, all of them watching those shekels, are part of the Eichmann Problem
“We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity”. — From the Revolutionary Proclamation of the Junta Tuitiva, La Paz, July 16, 1809
Truth: The DHS, department of un-Humane Services — housing, SNAP, food stamps, WIC, developmental disabilities, aging, all of that — will go after you if you have a few more shekels of part-time employment coming in.
These are the Good Germans, the society of patriarchy, where now, up is down, women are men, and the worst miitarists are not men, but the CEOs of the Top Fiver Merchants of Death, the Nulands, the Thatchers, the Golda Meir’s, the Madeliene’s and you get the picture.
These people just don’t get the entanglement of how much war blood we have on our hands. EVERYTHING goes better with War in the USA. Colleges and universities? Come on, the R & D of dual use of, well, you name it — pharma, history, law, ag, med, retail, media, press, marketing, sciences all the way, energy, mining, you name it, the Americanos are war boys, war girls.
So, this interview is well ONE-Tenth of the reality. Think trillions a year spent on war — and economic sanctions are WORSE than war. They are war.
The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.
EVERYTHING, man, from coffee to coke, from palm oil to bananas. America is a sick nation, where people from around the world flock to become, well, sick people:
US intervention. In 1855, William Walker declared himself president of Nicaragua. Backed by a small army of European and US soldiers, he seized control of the Nicaraguan city of Grenada. Walker re-introduced slavery, arguing that it was introduced in the Americas “in a spirit of benevolence and philanthropy.” With the US Civil War on the horizon, he was also supported by southern US states. Within a couple years, Walker’s forces were defeated, and he was executed.
[Image: “La Pedrada” (The Stone), depicting the downfall of William Walker at San Jacinto. ]
Beginning in 1909, US Marines invaded and occupied Nicaragua. They dominated the country for the next three decades. The US occupation led to armed resistance organized by Augusto Cesar Sandino.
In 1934, the “National Guard” of Nicaragua (trained by US Marines) reneged on a peace agreement with Sandino and murdered him and his staff. The Somoza family dominated the country for the next forty-five years. They were notoriously corrupt and even robbed international donations following the devastating 1972 earthquake. Puerto Rican baseball great Roberto Clemente died while trying to bring relief aid to Nicaragua.
Just take this graphic for example:
Ya gotta love it — booze, bread, buttons, biologics, bugs, barrels, and bombs, and so look at how the world in the USA’s eyes is a battlefield.
Here, this human stain, Friedman, an Israel-First, and Jewish Always pig of presstitution.
‘The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas. The hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US army, air force, navy and Marine Corps.’ — THOMAS FRIEDMAN
Fuck these rabbi-influenced “boys” …. When you say “Chicago” almost anywhere in the world, it could bring to mind any number of associations: Michael Jordan, the Cubs, Al Capone, Willis Tower.
If you are in Chile, though, you will likely get a different knee-jerk reaction: Chicago? Sure, the Chicago Boys! The influence of a generation of economists trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger is so pervasive that not even Michael Jordan and the entire Bulls roster could eclipse them.
Under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorial regime in the 1970s and 80s, the Chicago Boys conducted the farthest-reaching economic revolution in the history of Chile. Their pro-business policies have had an overwhelming impact that can be seen today in nearly every area of social life: education, health care, the pension system, and more.
The Chicago Boys’ legacy is a controversial issue in Chile. On the one hand, Chile’s economic growth has been exceptional: its GDP leaped from $14 billion in 1977 to $247 billion in 2017. On the other hand, the country’s economic inequality is astonishing: 28.1 percent of the total income is concentrated among 1 percent of the population, making Chile one of the world’s most unequal nations.
While the Chicago Boys’ policies did open some economic areas to real competition, they also concentrated capital among a small group of well-connected magnates. Since their implementation, powerful corporate groups born under Pinochet’s regime have used these pro-market ideas to avoid competition.
Every child in a K12 classroom is subject to the lies of the Military Industrial Propaganda PSYOPs Complex, and there you have it — from cradle to grave to fetus.
And, it is dual use, man, dual use — one of my four alma maters, UT-El Paso, is valorrizing the Border Patrol, the US Army, the missile boys and girls, ICE, air-land-sea-space merchants of war. The presidents lick the boots of DoD and FBI and CIA and NSA and all of them, and this is the Hispanic school, the Hispanic town, with more than 83 percent in town representing mostly Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
Get them young, and get them diverse and get them LGBTQA+.
This is vapid — sick — feminism on nukes and war.
As of Jan. 1, the CEOs of four of the nation’s five biggest defense contractors — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the defense arm of Boeing — are now women. And across the negotiating table, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer and the chief overseer of the nation’s nuclear stockpile now join other women in some of the most influential national security posts, such as the nation’s top arms control negotiator and the secretary of the Air Force.
It’s a watershed for what has always been a male-dominated bastion, the culmination of decades of women entering science and engineering fields and knocking down barriers as government agencies and the private sector increasingly weigh merit over machismo. (source = Politico = Democratic party = valorizing war war war.)
Fuck them all — [President Donald Trump shakes hands with Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson as Chief Test Pilot Alan B. Norman watches during an event in July at the White House. Hewson is one of four women to serve atop four of the nation’s five largest defense contractors. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images]
And, so, all that policing, all those evictions, all those mental health assessments, all those foreclosures and sheriff departments repossessing, all the asset forfeitures, all of the entire country, from Pampers to Depends, it’s all smeared with war blood.
I have helped people keep money under the table. I have helped people keep a social security card going, one not of their own origin. Lots of people undocumented, yep, day labor and such. This country is MILITARIZED, so, that is WAR, my fine folk.
Cops coming in to take someone’s belongings in some shit hole apartment. “This House is in a Sheriff’s Auction” signs throughout the land. War, militarized thinking. As an aside, here I am, scheduled to teach a community education class I taught a year ago. Oregon Coast Community College. Except now, the fucking college, the Eichmann’s, the militarized fucking HR, is putting us, non-employees, through background checks, credit checks. THIS is war, fucking nanny state. At some point, I just might stop the entire fucking thing.
And when you talk to this mouse pushers, they think — “Well, if you have nothing to hide, I don’t see the big deal.”
Fucking bananas = WAR. This is one aspect of the War USA — fruit, sugar. Now, parlay every fucking product you have in your house, kitchen, garage, office, business, and think WAR.
1. That time in 1954 when the CIA helped the company overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala.
2. The United Fruit Company Massacre, when the Colombian military may have killed as many as 2,000 people.
3. UFC ships transported cocaine and spurred the drug cartels in Colombia.
4. Between 1997 and 2004 Chiquita Brands executives paid roughly $1.7 million to the United Self Defense Forces (or AUC) to protect a dangerous farming region in Colombia.
5. The UFC (and then Chiquita) used pesticides that harmed workers and the environment.
6. Many of the UFC’s bigwig lawyers had ties to the U.S. government.
7. The company used the Honduran military to evict people from their own land.
So, sorry, National Priorities Project, you missed the classes on embedded energy, embedded militarism, embedded, well, that fucking Friedman:
Now now, take that cell phone, that laptop, those cupboards full of canned foods, and that car, the TV, all of it, and then, deconstruct — Killer Copper? Killer Plastic? Killer Palm Oil? Killer Coltan? Killer Zinc?
Look at this, an old article, man, and WikiLeaks, and Assange? SHIT.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman puts it more colourfully: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas – and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.” [A Manifesto for the Fast World — NYT]
This is the “neocorporatism” that Assange and his WikiLeaks comrades have zeroed in on, although today, more than a decade after Friedman wrote the above words, Master Card is more relevant than McDonald’s.
The problem is that WikiLeaks alone cannot turn the tide in this conflict.
Assange might well be a “high tech terrorist,” as US Vice President Joseph Biden recently called him, given how much terror his actions have struck in the heart of the American political system.
But the US is ultimately only one of a group of powerful countries and corporations whose leaders all share a fundamental commitment to securing as much profit and power as possible for themselves, however much their methods and politics differ. (source = McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas…)
Document #35: “United Fruit Co.,” Pablo Neruda (1950)
When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waist of America.
It rebaptized these countries Banana Republics, and over the sleeping dead, over the unquiet heroes who won greatness, liberty, and banners, it established an opera buffa: it abolished free will, gave out imperial crowns, encouraged envy, attracted the dictatorship of flies: Trujillo flies, Tachos flies Carias flies, Martinez flies, Ubico flies, flies sticky with submissive blood and marmalade, drunken flies that buzz over the tombs of the people, circus flies, wise flies expert at tyranny.
With the bloodthirsty flies came the Fruit Company, amassed coffee and fruit in ships which put to sea like overloaded trays with the treasures from our sunken lands.
Meanwhile the Indians fall into the sugared depths of the harbors and are buried in the morning mists; a corpse rolls, a thing without name, a discarded number, a bunch of rotten fruit thrown on the garbage heap.
From “Canto General”
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Yeah, MILITARY COMPLEX. Look deep at your own hood, this country tis of thy, on fucked up militaristic virus, cutting open the bellies of all other nations, opening up the soil to get at the veins of riches. You on disability payments? Do not make a time over your allotted poverty level, or the Good Little Germans will be coming after you.
Paul Haeder, Author 