hate and racism and lack of self-critical pause, that’s Jewish State of Jewish Israel — and when you shekel them from your little safe New York Condo or LA Mansion, you are a party to it all!
Hanan Ashwari is one of the most recognisable faces associated with the Palestinian cause. The official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, she served as a minister in the Palestinian Authority as a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee. Here, we discuss genocide, the West’s complicity, the historical context which must be remembered – and what happens next.
But then, we have bigger fish to fry?
Blackrock? Jewish Owned, Jewish Controlled, and Deeply Tied to WAR. Land theft. Resource stealing. Moving people off their land. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, overseeing $9.1 trillion. The New York firm is run by Fink, the only CEO BlackRock has had since he and seven partners, including president Rob Kapito, founded it in 1988.
Insider built an org chart showing the most senior executives under BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
BlackRock has been priming the next generation of management and making changes at the top.
This shows where executives said to be in the running to succeed Fink sit within the company.
They all should be shot. You know that, dear readers, even those pacifists (sic), think outside your fear porn world!
Another one who needs quick slicing of the neck arteries?
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on New Year’s Day for complications from an elective medical procedure, the Pentagon said Friday.
The Pentagon announced the hospitalization four days after Austin was initially admitted. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, made no mention of the hospitalization at a news briefing Thursday.
And so these polluted murderers in the Military-Isra-Hell-Jewish-Only front, making us “citizens” of sacrifice zones deluxe, they have their fucking fingers in everything via hedge funds and Wall Street. Oklahoma? “How Deregulation Is Helping Turn Eastern Oklahoma into a Factory Farm Sacrifice Zone — Fetid air, polluted water, heavy truck traffic: Since the state loosened regulations a decade ago, a rush of industrial chicken farms is transforming life for rural residents.”
But things go better with Coke?
If only the world was my magic wand globe — Zelensky and his Vogue Prostitute Wife’s new haven?
Shelves once stocked with PepsiCo drinks will be now accompanied by a note that reads: “We are no longer selling this brand due to unacceptable price increases.”
How’s that AmeriKKKa, fucking Biden-Harris? Trump-Clowns? Johnson, the pioneering Black nurse, state lawmaker, and U.S. representative from Dallas, died Sunday at 89.
After undergoing back surgery in September, Johnson was recovering at the Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, according to a statement from the Johnson family’s lawyer, Les Weisbrod.
On Sept. 21, when Johnson’s son went to visit his mother at the hospital, he found her “lying in her own feces and urine,” according to the statement. Johnson’s son said his mother had been “pushing the call button for a prolonged amount of time begging for help” with no response, according to the family.
And yet, and yet, these syphilis sycophants, these fucking STD billionaires, again, all need BATS to the heads. Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism: Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, Bill Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire M.I.T. faculty.
A face that needs to be face down in her own vomit. Meth, anyone?
These Fucking Jews? Oxman: Israeli designer and professor!
Which Fucking Jews can you find and still not be called antisemitic? Protesters led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton picketed Bill Ackman’s Manhattan offices Thursday, condemning the billionaire investor’s campaign to oust Harvard University president Claudine Gay and his denouncement of the school’s diversity efforts.
Sharpton, 69, said in an interview that Gay’s resignation after weeks of intense criticism is a sign of the broader dangers facing diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the US. Her resignation is “a blow to the DEI movement that all of us in the civil rights community have been fighting for,” he said, adding that he sees the fight as “bigger than just her.”
Don’t mess with These Particular Fucking Jews?
Can you imagine if I erected several containers around my property to keep out the lookieloos?
UC Berkeley is trying to build a new $312 million housing complex on the iconic People’s Park.
But activists have delayed its plans for months, camping out on the site and tearing down a fence.
On Thursday, the university resorted to a wall of shipping containers to keep protestors out.
This much fucking money for what? A vacant mall in West Los Angeles will have a new life in academia after it was acquired by UCLA.
The renowned university has purchased the Westside Pavilion on Pico Boulevard with plans to transform the massive property into a state-of-the-art research campus.
The 700,000-square-foot property is located about two miles from the school’s Westwood campus and was purchased for $700 million, most of which was made possible through a $500 million investment from the state.
“We will remake the empty former mall into a state-of-the-art hub of research and innovation that will bring scholars from different higher education institutions, corporate partners, government agencies and startups together to explore new areas of inquiry and achieve breakthroughs that will serve our global society,” Block said in a news release.
The driver radioed in that he felt he didn’t have a choice in taking the woman and that the guard had “forced” the woman onto the bus, according to TriMet dispatch audio.
Ahh, we all will soon be Gazans and Ukrainians? Ambulance shortage, dying health-murder care system, but money for the (those) fucking Billionaire Jews and Goyim?
In the fucking richest motherfucking country in the world? Australia also a homeless person haven? The United States is now the world’s LNG exporter, after overtaking Australia and Qatar, according to new data compiled and shared by Bloomberg on Tuesday.
The United States exported 91.2 million metric tons of LNG last year, after the country’s primary export facility, Freeport LNG, resumed operations after an eight-month hiatus following a fire in June 2022. Meanwhile, EU countries were looking to reduce their reliance on Russian gas and compensate for Russia’s curtailment of pipeline gas into Europe.
Australia was the second-leading LNG exporter in 2023, while Qatar, the leading LNG exporter in 2022, reduced its exports by 1.9% in 2023, came in third.
Fucking upside down world, no?
Healthcare bankruptcies have soared in 2023 as heightened interest rates, federal regulatory changes, labor shortages and fears of an economic recession squeezed a sector once known as inflation resilient
Under the deal, the clinic network, founded 76 years ago, would become an arm of Optum Health, the burgeoning United Health division that is rapidly buying up medical practices nationwide.
Oh well, the world is down is up, dirty is clean, villans are heroes? Israel ‘WORSE Than Apartheid’: South African Jewish Former ANC Politician Andrew Feinstein?
It’s rare that I end an interview on the brink of tears, but this was such a powerful interview with former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. He tells me his family history of surviving the Holocaust – unlike so many of his relatives – and how this informed his struggle against Apartheid.
But he tells me why Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is worse than Apartheid, why the anti-apartheid movement is an example to now follow, the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices, South Africa’s case against Israel alleging genocide – and why history shows we have a responsibility to speak out.
so many people want to write their autobiography, their memoirs, but it does take stick-to-it-ness, enlightement, engagement and a purpose for the actual written form . . . . but keep it up!
The entire process of revealing one’s past is an explosion of lamentations, regret, revelation, and reckoning. For the reader, hope is vulcanized in the act of captivating, creation, contemplation and allowing for a bit of the wild side.
Every so often, I tackle eight- or 12-week writing workshops around the genre of memoir. In February, Iwill be hosting this Oregon Coast Community College community ed course titled, “Putting Your WritingPuzzle Together.”
In essence, we are talking about any type of literary writing, but we do find emphasizing one’s memoir as the crux of why people wrangle gumption and stick-to-it attitudes in their attempts at carving out some portion of life that springs from a well of transition, into life lessons, all seeped in surviving life’s school of hard knocks.
This past Fall, students tackled some unbelievable significant emotional and life changing events to process through the memoir writing class we held at Waldport’s OCCC campus.
We’re talking about deep plumbing of family and life circumstances. Imagine, one fellow Zoomed from Wisconsin, and his life story was like a snow plow pushing iced-over snow banks all over the state. He was a young paperboy when he was sexually assaulted by a older man on his route. He was quintessential Wisconsin youth growing up in a town of drinking, bar hoping, beer worshipping, and churches – 55 bars to 42 churches. Booze is king in Wisconsin, and this fellow fought that demon.
Then, for ten years he was shuttled around jails and prisons throughout Wisconsin. The students reveled in his memoir essays dripping with an authentic voice of someone in prison. We had a woman dealing with her unwanted pregnancy being covered up when she was fifteen. In fact, her child was taken by her own mother. Here’s the premise in a nutshell: “Teenage mother gives birth to child in England and then returns to Southern California to call the boy ‘brother.’” Now in her 70’s, hers is a tale of reckoning, recall and family secrets coming out like poison flowing from pours in a sweat lodge.
Decades of drinking and struggling with depression and bi-polar syndrome were another writer’s subject matter. This septuagenarian is dealing with the good life on the Oregon Coast but only after decades of faking it in sales, drinking hard and flogging himself into fugues of almost daily perseverating suicide. This fellow is a poet to boot, so his memoir is quasi-experimental with his poems and others interspersed with his autobiographical stories.
Then we have a mother and daughter who left another state so her daughter could finish her transition. Now high school student, she was born a gendered male, but she had complicated and myriad psychological and hormonal drives to be a girl.
The autobiographical journey is the mother’s journey, with her daughter weighing in: A mother’s story of picking up and leaving other children and her husband behind. Much of this transition had to be secretive, including her own workplace not knowing the circumstance from going from the southwest to Oregon for the transition. The wild side is a state of grace and exploding one’s own myth making, in these workshops. People expose much of their own underbellies, and writer about their deepest fears and sometimes redemptions.
In a time of overblown celebrity – from actors, performers, athletes and rich folk – we need to valorize the people, we the people, the staff of life, regular Joe Blow and Jane Somebody. We need to flip the script, so to speak, and honor those of us who have journeyed paths less traveled.
That sometimes quiet life is undergirded with fantastic accomplishments. If I could bend Oprah’s or Mackenzie Scott Tuttle’s (Bezos’ ex) ear, I’d propose a deeply enriching Netflix series about people in regular circumstances who have survived untold crazy stuff life dishes out. I’d interview them, and then I and other memoir guides would workshop with them to crack open these stories.
Who’d read these incredible tales as paperbacks – sort of a 21st Century “Great Expectations,” without the big bucks and glory? I’ve talked to hundreds of people over the years as a journalist, college writing instructor, and social worker, and hands down, there are 1,001 stories to be told.
As Charles Dickens writes, “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
Ahh, and even our own Henry Thoreau stated it plainly: “Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
Paul K. Haeder is a novelist, journalist, educator and author of “Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam,” Cirque Press.
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Newspapers are dying dying gone. And Substack and podcasts just will NOT cut it for a community to come together to put feet of the officials and “the man” and businesses and “the government” under a fire.
Emblematic and sad: I ended up with two undergraduate degrees, in 1979, and that journalism one was already leaking big fucking time. Daily newspapers dying, so big, or mid sized cities leaking competitive am and pm rags — and so here we are now, monopolies, bitches and bastards censoring the news since they (billionaires and others with moolah) buy up truth.
PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its money was embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, like many others nationwide, is struggling with growing gaps in local news coverage.
About a week before Christmas, the Eugene Weekly found inaccuracies in its bookkeeping, editor Camilla Mortensen said. It discovered that a former employee who was “heavily involved” with the paper’s finances had used its bank account to pay themselves $90,000 since at least 2022, she said.
The paper also became aware of at least $100,000 in unpaid bills – including to the paper’s printer – stretching back several months, she said.
Additionally, multiple employees, including Mortensen, realized that money from their paychecks that was supposed to be going into retirement accounts was never deposited.
When the paper realized it couldn’t make the next payroll, it was forced to lay off all of its 10 staff members and stop its print edition, Mortensen said. The alternative weekly, founded in 1982, printed 30,000 copies each week to distribute for free in Eugene, the third-largest city in the state and home to the University of Oregon.
“To lay off a whole family’s income three days before Christmas is the absolute worst,” Mortensen said, expressing her sense of devastation. “It was not on my radar that anything like this could have happened or was happening.”
The suspected employee had worked for the paper for about four years and has since been fired, Mortensen said.
The Eugene police department’s financial crimes unit is investigating, and the paper’s owners have hired forensic accountants to piece together what happened, she said.
Brent Walth, a journalism professor at the University of Oregon, said he was concerned about the loss of a paper that has had “an outsized impact in filling the widening gaps in news coverage” in Eugene. He described the paper as an independent watchdog and a compassionate voice for the community, citing its obituaries of homeless people as an example of how the paper has helped put a human face on some of the city’s biggest issues.
He also noted how the paper has made “an enormous difference” for journalism students seeking internships or launching their career. He said there were feature and investigative stories that “the community would not have had if not for the weekly’s commitment to make sure that journalism students have a place to publish in a professional outlet.”
A tidal wave of closures of local news outlets across the country in recent decades has left many Americans without access to vital information about their local governments and communities and has contributed to increasing polarization, said Tim Gleason, the former dean of the University of Oregon’s journalism school.
“The loss of local news across the country is profound,” he said. “Instead of having the healthy kind of community connections that local journalism helps create, we’re losing that and becoming communities of strangers. And the result of that is that we fall into these partisan camps.”
An average of 2.5 newspapers closed per week in the U.S. in 2023, according to researchers at Northwestern University. More than 200 counties have no local news outlet at all, they found, and more than half of all U.S. counties have either no local news source or only one remaining outlet, typically a weekly newspaper. (source = Embezzlement of Oregon weekly newspaper’s money forces it to lay off entire staff and halt print — AP [and AP is a shadow of itself!!] )
Yah, I am training to be a school bus driver. I’ve written about it in previous pieces, and that’s First Student, a foreign outfit in 49 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and it’s an equity firm out of Belgium. Bidding on school district transportation contracts far and wide, and alas, this Belgium company is getting paid by guess who?
USA and Canadian taxpayers footing the bill and reaping the poor services. This is what they call the public-private arrangement, again, what is a low level form of socialized payola for private companies while the taxpayer is screwed. As if the public and our governments and our states and our national funding can’t take care of OUR own children’s food, education, and transportation needs: we have to go to a private equity fund to handle schools shuttling. How long will I last is a crap shoot, since this is it for Lincoln County — no luck getting past interviews for county, city and state jobs as a case manager or services coordinator, even though there is that great 10 million shortfall of men dropping out of the workforce.
Oh, shit, I’m almost 66, with too many college degrees and a resume way too long to get very far.
Ahh, I’m also a social worker, educator, writer, journalist and even someone in urban and regional planning, but I can’t get past the interview stage. Missing men, well, there are many reasons for this new phenomenon. In the uncritical thinking USA, we will not get much deep analyses, though, just plain black and white rationales.
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The gender gap in college enrollment has been growing for decades and has broad implications for colleges and beyond: a loss of enrollment revenue, less viewpoint diversity on campus, and fewer men in jobs that require some college education. Some academics want to make clear that just because women outnumber men in college it doesn’t mean that gender-equity issues no longer remain.
This collection of Chronicle articles features news stories, analysis, advice, and opinion essays, including several articles that sounded a warning years ago. It also looks at how some colleges are trying to draw more men of all backgrounds — and help them succeed once they get there.
Section 1: Why Don’t Men Go to College?
Section 2: How Can Colleges Draw More Men?
Section 3: Deconstructing the Gender Gap
Don’t get me started on the nanny state, the reverse sexism, the anti-feminism bullshit female empowerment. Don’t get me started on the battle of the sexes, and don’t get me started on the sheeple aspect of education, social work, and nonprofit work. Don’t get me started, man.
I can go down a thousand rabbit holes or warrens, but the thing is I come back out, revitalized, smarter, and, sure more pissed off. This is the state of the world, under capitalism. A Belgium company in the USA and Canada is monopolizing on school transportation. No union shop, $19 an hour here in Lincoln county where home prices and gasoline and food are outrageous and where other districts might pay more per hour.
Again, it’s a bunch of older folk, mostly women, driving buses at age 67, 71, 78. What the hell is that about?
I have also been a substitute teacher in this district, and I’ve written about that too: “Take Down this Blog, or Else! No job interview, no job offer, targeting by city, county, state honchos, watched by the pigs, shadowed by all the sub humans.” Of course, I was and still am mad as hell at my banishment teaching, and can’t accept it, or take it. Even writing this will get me scrutinized by those overlords of the HR subhuman species who spend countless millions of dollars a year on software applications that do snazzy background checks, credit checks, employment checks, reference checks, drug checks, and of course, in my case, Google Scans/Checks, looking for any anti-this or anti-that diatribes or even plain old inverted triangle journalism.
Let’s scoot over to the issue of the failing male, the males in the womb, those just out of the womb, and then the developing baby, child, kid, teen and we end up with 355 million Americanos and a shit load of chronic illnesses for EVERYONE, including the poor child, babes in the woods. The top ten:
What are the 7 main types of learning disabilities? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that developmental disabilities occur among all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups. Children from ages 3 through 17 frequently have one or more developmental disabilities, such as:
ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Cerebral Palsy
Hearing Loss
Intellectual Disability
Learning Disability
Vision Impairment
Developmental Delays
In particular, psychology professionals should study these seven learning disabilities:
Auditory processing disorder. …
Language processing disorder. …
Nonverbal learning disabilities. …
Visual perceptual/visual motor deficit.
Types of Learning Disabilities
Dyscalculia A specific learning disability that affects a person’s ability to understand numbers and learn math facts.
Dysgraphia A specific learning disability that affects a person’s handwriting ability and fine motor skills.
Dyslexia A specific learning disability that affects reading and related language-based processing skills.
Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities Has trouble interpreting nonverbal cues like facial expressions or body language and may have poor coordination.
ADHD A disorder that includes difficulty staying focused and paying attention, controlling behavior and hyperactivity.
Dyspraxia A disorder which causes problems with movement and coordination, language and speech.
So here we are at, now, in a society with so many epigentic, developmental, gestational, chromosomal and neuro disabilities. So many youth are faced with a lifetime of struggle, even before crawling, and then in pre-K and then K12, and then as adults. If this were a socially just society, there would be trillions spent on finding out the causes and effects and then the effects as new causes for new effects on the individual gestating, and what it is that makes this such a prevalent issue in our Western Society. Schools are warehouses, for sure, and the school to prison pipeline is not some goof-ball concept. We’d be looking hard at the chemicals, the stressors, the mother and father and their own stressors. All the toxins in air, water, food, drugs, including EMFs, and just the lack of nutrition, the fatty liver disease in 1/3 of folk, and the failing sperm counts in men since 1950, and, well, the discussion of who is that village that takes to raise a child.
Everything in capitalism is ANTI-health, ANTI-human, ANTI-Learning, ANTI-community engagement. More and more children, and yes, mostly boys, are monitored in the classroom, those prisons, and the effect or affect is that there is little significant learning and developing going on inside the school and their brains. They are a nerved up/out or nervous wreck, and they are watched and graded and sent home with behavior reports.
Now is the time to pity the child. Our children, and of course, all those children hit with the wagers of war, the wagers of sanctions, the wagers of economic and health and food sanctions. Depleted uranium or lead in the pipes. All of those realities also tie into the flagging mental health, the growing pressures put upon mother, father, child, grandparents, the lot of them in education, et al.
This is the sickness of America:
In solidarity with Cuba, leaders and activists of all Left and democratic parties of India welcomed Aleida Guevara in Surjeet Bhavan.
To a packed hall, Aleida said that it is one thing to talk about an economic blockade and quite another to live under that blockade.
She narrated how no country was ready to even give easily available medicine for a five-year-old child only because of the fear of America. In spite of not being a milk producing country, Cuba supplies one litre milk daily for all children and the aged, by importing it from New Zealand which is expensive because of the high transportation costs.
They were forced to buy milk from far away New Zealand, as their northern neighbour, US is not ready to trade with Cuba. The sixty years of illegal and inhumane US blockade has taught Cuba to spread humanism through sending doctors to wherever they were in need. Cuba is just 90 kilometres away from the mighty imperialist super power US. Even then it can’t be defeated since it believes in the scientific principle of people’s unity and those who are united can never be defeated. “El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido” (The people united, shall always be victorious). She said Cuba took arms for peace and defending their motherland. She asserted that Cuba believes in standing up for equality against any kind of barbarism in the world. Thanking the people of India for always standing with Cuba, she said that the people of Cuba will always treasure this solidarity and value it immensely. (source)
Milk, man, and the United Snakes of America is so so powerful, going after children far and wide. You know, Cuba never attacked the USA, never went to war, and alas, this is the power of the dirty capitalists, war mongers and some sick psychopaths. Medicines, medical equipment, air conditioners, food, and energy. This is the way of the rat, the USA RATON.
The entire psychiatry and psychology and sociology of oppression is what runs modern Western society. There are no right ways now to raise children, to support families, and to build community. It’s all about the private sector sucking up as much as the public sector can regurgitate to this thieves. While the children suffer, and while the entire shooting match is toast as we in a culture of pollution and gestational crimes and constant bombardment of children with poisons — from those in the plastics, chicken nuggets, lawn sprays, all the off gassing, all those artificial flavors — find it harder and harder to survive all the death traps that we know this society is unleashing at an earlier and earlier age.
We are in an age of behavior adjustment, brainwashing, mind control, sinister Stockholm Syndrome, general anxiety disorders created by social media and generalized hatefulness from the legislators and two-bit politicians. Checked out or challenged just looking at a book, we are in the new normal of trillion$ for the pigs of war, for SWAT teams, for the opposition to beat us down, to implode the family, to eradicate the human and humane family. These kiddos come onto the bus with behavior plans, with their little classroom check slips for the parents to mull over at home.
Mr. Hill stops reading aloud to his 4th grade students and turns to Anisa. “Anisa, you’re off task. Change your clip. I asked you once and you are still digging in your desk. Walk over and change it now.”
Anisa stands and walks across the classroom. Several of her peers make condescending comments under their breath. Anisa moves her clip from green to yellow and returns to her desk and puts her head down. Her nonverbal behaviors indicate that she’s angry, hurt, and frustrated.
A few minutes later, Josh raises his hand. Mr. Hill calls on him and Josh responds, “Anisa is off task again.”
Mr. Hill looks at Anisa and says, “Again? Please change your clip to red. One more problem and it will be another call home. You have to learn to pay attention.” (Source: Tear Down Your Behavior Chart! Lee Ann Jung Dominique Smith)
Freire gives the term “freedom” a specific meaning: it is the freedom to critically question and change the world. In other words, a person is free when they are able to understand and change their own conditions.
For Freire, education and oppression are connected, since education can be used either as a tool for oppression or as a method of liberation from oppression. Freire distinguishes between a pedagogy (a way of practicing education) that serves oppressors, and one that helps oppressed people understand and change their society. According to Freire, “freedom” (the freedom to critically question and change the world) requires people to gain a new understanding of how reality works. Changing the dominant understanding of history is a key part of this process. Freire sees education as useful not just for individual growth, but also for achieving social change. To expand on this point, he discusses social change as a necessary tool to achieve freedom and overthrow oppression. Within Freire’s framework, systems of oppression try to prevent radical social change so that they do not lose power. Throughout Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire draws heavily on the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels—especially the concept of dialectics. A “dialectical” way of thinking starts with a “thesis” (an initial idea or proposition) and an “antithesis” (an idea that opposes or contradicts the thesis), and the interaction of these two ideas creates a “synthesis,” or a new idea that reconciles the conflict between the two original ideas. (some clipped notes)
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Feeling the burn yet, the absolute oppression instilled in the greatest country and system the world has ever seen?
Get a little primer on exactly what capitalism and inflation and the systems of Milton Friedman are all about here:
So when you say that inflation is only a monetary phenomenon, what Milton Friedman is saying is, “Don’t look at the power structure. Don’t look at how markets are structured. Don’t look at monopolies. Don’t look at how the wealthy corporations are inflating [prices]. Look at something that we can blame on labor.”
The inflation that Milton Friedman talks about — and you just mentioned my old boss’s boss Paul Volcker — is wages. So when the Federal Reserve talks about inflation, they say, “It’s really wages rising.” Well, we know that wages have not risen anywhere near as fast as the cost of living, so that can’t be the reason — that wages are rising.
But if you can claim that inflation is only caused by labor making too much money and hurting other workers as consumers, then you have the Federal Reserve able to come in and say, “We’ve got to have a depression. We’ve got to have unemployment. We’re going to raise interest rates because we want more unemployment to increase the reserve army of the unemployed so that wage earners will be so desperate for a job that they’ll work for less. And if only they worked for less, then prices will come down, if somehow the companies are going to lower their prices because they can pay their labor less.”
The pretense is that it’s all labor’s fault.
We are all on this behavior and consequence chart. We, that is, the 80 Percenters who have 8 percent of wealth in the USA, compared to the Point Zero Zero One Percent, the One Percent and 19 Percent holding 92 percent of the money-power-possession chart. We mustn’t act up, mustn’t question the boss, mustn’t wonder why the oppressors are our neighbors, the ones our taxpaying work funds, or why so many Americanos believe this is it for Nirvana — the USA, greatest invention in human kind since the wheel.
Oh, those progressives are capitalists to their bones:
Liz Warren shifted from supporting Medicare for All to advocating a two-phased approach intended to build support for a single-payer model (in which the federal government would provide health insurance for every person in the U.S.), by first creating a federally based plan to compete with private insurers and expanding access to Medicare.Elizabeth Warren Says She’s ‘a Capitalist To My Bones’ And Positions Herself as FDR’s Heir
And that is THAT capitalism —
“Inflammation is the body’s appropriate response to damage, or the threat of damage,” says Rupa Marya, a physician and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition. “We’re learning that the social structures around us, the environmental, political structures around us, are tuning the immune system to sound out the full range of inflammation.” Raj Patel adds that “capitalism primes bodies … for sickness.” (“Inflamed”: Dr. Rupa Marya & Raj Patel on Deep Medicine & How Capitalism Primes Us for Sickness)
Imagine that, all those children, and I am not talking about those with allergies, with multiple chronic illnesses, including diabetes and asthma, caught in this vice which is CAPITALISM.
Daily, we are oppressed, and as the digital oppressors get more powerful, everything about us will be transhumanist, and we will be abiding by retinal scans, saliva analyses, galvanic skin response tests, and then the body will be the internet of physiology, the absolute bot world of nano things controlling the entire human experience, and that’s not just heart rate and BP, but thoughts.
Below, I find these on the bus floors much of the time. The children leave them in their desks at school. They are on the playgrounds with orange peels wrapped inside. Oh, the behaviorists. The mind benders. The psyops, the dead-end Americans, paying for the tools of Nazi War, and now, how many teachers are talking about the Doomsday Clock to their high schoolers, just to broach the issue?
Hell, people do not talk about Ukraine and the pimping of weapons of child-killing in public or at the workplace. These bosses, like the Belgium First Student honchos, send memos out on what can and cannot be said during election A or election B at the workplace.
And we wonder why so many neuro-normal (sic) people are checked out. Trauma: The Science of Stuck – Britt Frank, baby, trauma!
This is Startup to Storefront, and on today’s episode, we are unpacking the science of how to get unstuck. It’s no coincidence that that’s also the title of the book written by our guest today: author, psychotherapist, and trauma specialist, Britt Frank. Britt knows a thing or two about getting unstuck, as she has battled everything from meth addiction to sexual abuse. She emerged from that trauma with a new outlook on life, a Master of Social Work degree, and a desire to help others overcome their own hurdles. These hurdles vary from individual to individual, but when it comes to entrepreneurship, it’s not uncommon for someone to put up a mental blockade that prevents them from moving forward. Getting over this mental blockade that inhibits you from progressing forward is what we are dissecting today.
In today’s episode we discuss:
– Why you don’t need every friend to be a best friend
– How Covid didn’t create a mental health crisis, it just exposed the one we already had
– The power behind changing your why’s to whats. So roll up your sleeves and let’s start the process of getting unstuck.
The Science of Stuck – Britt Frank,
Ahh, my friend in Wisconsin, Mister Fish or Toothless in North Arkansas, well, he sent me this. God we hate judges (sic) and DA’s and PB’s and lawyers of any kind. We will all be on Zoom or in cages facing the criminal injustice system.
and the so-called woke artists will be used as pawns . . . so more live shit in a rural county I have to forego!!
I was interested in some jazz, some live music, and then this — that terrorist group hosting it, running it, taking over the Black History Month about it.
Imagine, the fucking concert, spoken word even, I am sure, will be a tribute to the great genocidal Isra-Hell, and yet another black face performance will be plied for that purpose. See our Lincoln County Feb. event below.
First, thouse What is the message to non-Jewish leaders in the region?
B’nai B’rith’s CEO Dan Mariaschin: Especially to the democracies: let them all know that this is the time to support the only democracy in the Middle East because if you don’t defend the way of life of a democratic country, all the other democratic countries are in danger of the same thing happening to them. If Hamas had been victorious in what they did, believe me they are still for Europe and they are still against the Arab monarchies in the region, because they would continue until they form their caliphate. So it’s important for everyone to support what Israel is doing now.
A high-profile European Union official says she is “deeply honored” to receive an award from a group that supports Israel’s illegalsettlements in the occupied West Bank and war crimes in Gaza.
Katharina von Schnurbein is receiving the “Human Rights Prize” from the European branch of B’nai B’rith, an international Jewish communal organization.
B’nai B’rith denies that there is an Israeli military occupation in the West Bank in the first place.
Its leaders haverepeatedlyissuedstatementsdenouncing anyone who uses the word occupation to accurately describe the legal and brutal physical reality of Israel’s decades-long military rule over millions of Palestinians who are denied their most fundamental rights.
And when Israel was slaughtering 11 children per day in the occupied Gaza Strip during the summer of 2014, B’nai B’rith Europe sent a “solidarity mission” to support the soldiers who were doing the killing.
In short, B’nai B’rith is a pro-occupation, pro-apartheid, anti-Palestinian organization that forcefully rejects even the EU’s most minimal and ineffective efforts to oppose Israel’s settlements on occupied Palestinian land. (Source)
If premeditated murderers like Henry Kissinger (Viet Nam), Shimon Peres (The Butcher of Qana), Barack Obama (multiple, multiple unjust and unnecessary wars, and grovelling to the Israel Lobby), anyone could win a, Piece (no misspelling) Prize, than why shouldn’t Katharina Von Schnurbein? In fact, in an age where being a mass murderer, promoting virulent hate, advancing Islamophobia, encouraging needless, senseless, wars, seeing white, and only white, Jews as defining “real” Jewishness, like B’nai B’rith, ADL, AIPAC, ZOA, Hillel, et al anyone could receive an Ignominious Piece of a Prize. Big deal!
from Oregon Coast Today: Acclaimed as “bold, stylistically diverse, rhythmically rich,” “My Words Are My Sword” is a groundbreaking musical drama for actor and orchestra that fuses jazz, hip-hop and classical music.
The Siletz Bay Music Festival will present the piece on Friday, Feb. 9, in a celebration of Black History Month with two performances at the B’nai B’rith Camp near Lincoln City.
The evening’s event will also serve to honor the life and work of the late Yaacov “Yaki” Bergman, who provided the festival with guidance and inspiration as its longtime artistic director prior to his untimely death in 2023. A reception will follow the concert.
A celebration of Black music, culture and history, the piece was written by poet and actor Darius Wallace in collaboration with Portland-based, Brazilian-born pianist and composer Jasnam Daya Singh and with Bergman, who first presented the work in 2022 with performances by the Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Walla Walla Symphony, both of which he served as conductor.
Many of the Portland Chamber Orchestra’s members will travel to the coast for the presentation in Lincoln City. A full orchestra will perform the piece, conducted by Raúl Gómez-Rojas, music director of Portland’s Metropolitan Youth Symphony. Gómez-Rojas has won accolades for his guest performances with the Oregon Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and Oregon Ballet Theatre, among others.
“This is one of the freshest, most unvarnished and relevant new works we could share with our audience in times of so much division and hunger for hope and reconciliation,” said Bergman at the time of the work’s premiere. “The work explores the magical word ‘if’ and how true liberation grows from an understanding of the manifestation of self within body, mind, soul and spirit, specifically toward a people but universally towards all. The term ‘Blackness’ is redefined through story, monologue, characterization, poetry and song as it addresses current issues with the buried history of Black bravery and excellence.”
Currently based in Memphis, Wallace is a founding company member of that city’s Tennessee Shakespeare Festival and has performed extensively around the country in schools, universities, theaters and libraries in a one-man show as Frederick Douglass. In writing “My Words Are My Sword,” Wallace has “incorporated text from the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., poetry by Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, the writings of Malcolm X and a reenactment of Douglass’ childhood history.
Composer Singh is a Latin Grammy-nominated concert and jazz pianist whose performances in many countries have earned worldwide acclaim for their innovative style and virtuosity. His music draws from a broad range of influences, including the samba music of his native Brazil, straight-ahead jazz and the European classical tradition.
The Siletz Bay Music Festival was founded to bring multi-genre world-class music performed by outstanding musicians to the area, reaching across race, culture, age, social and economic barriers and providing extraordinary musical experiences.
On Friday, Feb. 9, the 1:30 pm concert will be presented free for area students in grades 7 through 12. The evening performance will begin at 7 pm, with tickets priced at $40 and $15 for students. B’nai B’rith Camp is located at 3509 NE East Devils Lake Road, just outside Lincoln City. For more information and tickets, go to http://www.siletzbaymusic.org
Blackness and Jews?
Under international law, Israel cannot forcibly send migrants back to a country where their life or liberty may be at risk.
Ahead of an official visit to Cyprus, Netanyahu said the ministerial team was seeking to deport 1,000 supporters of the Eritrean government who were involved in Saturday’s violence.
“They have no claim to refugee status. They support this regime,” Netanyahu said. “If they support the regime so much, they would do well to return to their country of origin.”
About 25,000 African migrants live in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who say they fled conflict or repression. Israel recognizes very few as asylum seekers, seeing them overwhelmingly as economic migrants, and says it has no legal obligation to keep them.
Continued, defending Defamation: Checkpoint Full Film- By Yoav Shamir
I dispute David Hirsh’s criticism of my film about antisemitism. Far from ‘easy targets’, it is a difficult debate Israel must have
In David Hirsh’s critique of my film Defamation, he accused me of finding “easy targets” as subjects for my film. I can only assume that “targets” is common terminology for him; quite simply, all the subjects in my film (including him) are people who willingly chose to participate.
Let me start with the first person he chose to label “an easy target”: my beloved 94-year-old grandmother. My grandmother lost her husband, my biological grandfather, in the 1948 war of independence, in which he served as an officer with the forces defending Jerusalem; she was left with two young children, my mother and her brother (he is the Israeli ambassador in Germany). She then married the man I knew as a grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor who became a freedom fighter in the Ezel – the underground movement that operated alongside the Haganah and Lechi.
My grandmother loved the film and was proud to take part. Hirsh sees her as an “easy target”, and although I personally completely disagree with what she stated on camera, her perspective represents the very early Zionists thinkers such as Nordau, who wrote Degeneration, and Herzel, “the visionary of the [Jewish] state”. This small and marginal group (representing less than 3% of the entire Jewish population at the time) were young, secular, socialist Jews who wanted to create a “muscle” Jew; a Jew who would be different from all of what they resented in their parents’ generation. My grandmother is a genuine representative of this school of thought. She opens the film, not only because she is a great character who expresses what many people of her generation and, in fact, many Israelis feel toward tdiaspora Jews, but she is a reminder of the vicious cycle that Zionism became caught in – the state that was supposed to be a cure for what antisemitism started, as both Foxman and Finkelstein are actually saying, has ended up generating antisemitism.
The next “easy target” is the ADL. I don’t see how an organisation operating on $70,000,000 a year can be considered an easy target. Abe Foxman, whom I actually like and have a great sympathy for, is one of the most influential figures in the Jewish world of diplomacy, who meets with world leaders, heads of states and foreign ministers. When I approached the ADL, I came with the intention of learning, and after spending many hours with Foxman and key members of the ADL, I believe that they are doing what they are doing because of their true concern for Israel, and a real wish to help the Jewish state. Unfortunately, even though I can understand their drive, I totally disagree with it.
A scene that I witnessed, at the end of their Auschwitz visit, is a sort of game in which each of the ADL members has to name five non-Jewish friends who would hide him if someone came knocking at their door – with reference to the Nazis passing from house to house looking for Jews. As the game continued and none of them could think of five gentiles who would protect them, they then go down to three, then one … and sadly, they cannot think of a one righteous soul who would come to their aid. The lesson is, as Foxman’s book is appropriately titled, “never again”. I am happy to say that, at least in in my Tel Aviv social circle, this is not a very popular game; in fact, I was quite shocked to have witnessed it in Auschwitz. But it was a great insight into that mindset.
In their blind support of Israel, which is the supposed means for fulfilling this “never again” dictum, they are contributing to a place that is driving itself towards the edge of a cliff. Thanks to US support, the drive is a very smooth, air-conditioned and fast. But, nevertheless, it is headed towards a cliff.
I can only encourage every Jew living in the western world, when next visiting Israel, to detour from the 433 Highway into the capital and accompany an Arab Israeli in his search for an apartment in one of the Jewish cities (such as Tel Aviv, Holon and Petach Tikva) and to take a short trip into Nablus or Ramallah. If they have any sense of human dignity, it will change the way they look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But I am sure that most of the educated, liberal and mostly very pleasant people I met in my travels with the ADL are blinded by a false image of Israel. An image that blinds them as they travel from Ben Gurion airport to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, to the many empty holiday apartments they keep in Jerusalem, which they occupy maybe one week a year; on the 443 Highway, which is prohibited for the Palestinians to travel, although it passes right through the middle of their land. No “easy targets” here, but simply a group of very influential group of people who will go to great lengths defending and securing their “insurance policy” – Israel.
David Hirsh also referred to the interviews with the group of black residents whom I met in Crown Heights, where both blacks and Jews live, although in fairly segregated circumstances. In this scene, a local Jewish reporter claims that if a (black) robber wanted to rob someone, he would choose a Jewish person, because “a Jewish person would be an easier target”. The black residents replied that “actually, if they got caught robbing a Jewish guy, the judges would sentence them to more [prison] time because they would classify it as a hate crime”. They went on, expressing many stereotypes about Jews, ending up with a sad reference to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Is this antisemitism? Of course it is. The question is, what would be the best way to deal with it? A wise local rabbi acknowledged the problem but blames the ADL for inflaming situations like these, because, as he says, “Foxman needs a job.”
Finally, we come to the group of “15-year-old Israeli students on their trip to Poland”, as Hirsh says (in fact, the students were between 17 and 18 years old during the filming, and as you are reading these lines many of them have enlisted in the Israeli army). When the film came out in Israel, I invited the whole class and their parents to the premiere at Doc Aviv documentary film festival. These intelligent young high school students responded very openly and honestly to the film. Adi, the young woman who is one of the main protagonists in the class, told me that it gave her a lot to think about and thanked me for making the film. Their teacher, Assaf, responded in a similar way.
I don’t blame these kids for acting the way they did. Most of them were flying out of Israel for the first time, and being brought up thinking that everybody hates them, find themselves in a cycle that is very hard to break.
I could go on further to address the rest of these “easy targets” Hirsh accuses me of taking advantage, such as Norman Finkelstein, a bestselling author and academic; Dina Porat, head of the center for research on antisemitism at Tel Aviv university; or Charles Jakob, who is very active online, but I think the point is clear: these are people who are passionate about their views and are very happy to share them with me. I am a filmmaker who simply gave them the floor.
Hirsh wonders why is my narration in English? This is a version narrated for an English-speaking audience, and obviously my narration is in Hebrew for the version shown in Israel. In Germany, it will probably be dubbed into German; in France, into French, and so on. There is no hidden agenda about the intended audience, simply basic requirements set by different broadcasters.
Hirsh concludes his article by regretting that he was not invited to speak at this year’s conference about how to combat antisemitism convened by the Israeli foreign office, which he attributes as probably caused by his appearance the film. But I can inform him that, at this year’s conference, Abe Foxman stated that the situation of antisemitism is the worst since the second world war, just as he had said last year and just as he will probably say next year, too.
At the conference I filmed, Hirsh regrets he came out as a hero – his interpretation, of course, as I never declared him one. But in that year, he was the only one speaker who said anything disputing the general consensus and for that, I thought he deserved credit.
It is true there are many Israelis who oppose the occupation and other violations of human rights; but unfortunately, there are not enough. The current Israeli government is the most nationalist, rightwing government in the history of the state of Israel. Those few who oppose and fight against racism, and violations of human rights, risking their freedom – last week, the head of the Israeli human rights association was arrested for demonstrating against the taking over of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem – those I consider heroes. In fact, my new film is about these unsung heroes.
Defamation is the personal quest of an Israeli Jew trying to understand certain aspects of his society and raising issues that I, living in Israel, don’t think are discussed enough. I am very happy to read all the comments and debates the film has started in the UK: starting a discussion around this subject is something I was waiting for and the many responses here just prove that it is a discussion many are interested in. As for David Hirsh, I warmly invite him, next time he is in Israel, to join me for a tour of the occupied territories.
“A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”
Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” (sources)
My customers have become my family over the years. Same with my co-workers. I’ve seen their families grow up and create new families, their kids go off to college and get good jobs. I’m so afraid for my friends, my coworkers and my customers, because if this merger goes through, it will be devastating for both workers and customers, but Kroger and Albertsons executives just don’t care.”
—Judy Wood, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324 member and cake decorator at Albertsons, Southern California
Countries Are Building Economic Empires by Controlling the World’s Water Supply
After the announcement, a coalition of more than 100 organizations, representing workers, farmers, ranchers and independent businesses, launched a campaign to stop the merger. The coalition members have also raised questions about the proposed C&S divestitures. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) also publicly opposes the transaction. On November 14th at 2:00 PM ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project and a coalition of UFCW locals for a discussion of why the Federal Trade Commission must learn from past mistakes and block this harmful merger. The discussion will feature remarks from workers, independent grocers, farmers, and consumers that the proposed merger would directly impact.
Cancer (a really really big one!):
Echoing world leaders and their outlook towards the shift in technology, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that data is the real wealth.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, PM Modi said,
“Today, data is a real wealth and it is being said that whoever acquires and controls the data will have hegemony in the future. The global flow of data is creating big opportunities as well as challenges.”
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Fucking “feelings”? The techies and their Eichmann’s and their Mengeles and their Rothschild and Goldmans and Sachs should be eliminated by any means necessary.
Oh, that’s how we get the fucking Substacks and Podcasts and Fuck You and the Horse You Rode into Town on Book (FB; Meta; Jew-CIA Jive) to really affect and effect change? NOPE.
By any means necessary, kill the enemy:
1. 5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity, see this.
The 5G danger can’t be overstated.
5G (5th Generation) is now being actively rolled out in many cities around the world. Simultaneously, as awareness over its horrific health and privacy impacts is rising, many places are issuing moratoriums on it or banning it, such as the entire nation of Belgium, the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) and San Francisco (USA). Radiofrequency radiation (RF or RFR) and electromagnetic fields (EMF) are being increasingly recognized as new types of pollution – environmental pollution. Here are 13 reasons exposing the 5G danger, which could turn into an unmitigated health and privacy catastrophe if enough people don’t rise up to stop it.By Makia Freeman
Oh, that’s right, diverless vehicles, drone deliveries for Big Mac’s and all those drones PIGS and SWATS and ARMIES are using to watch, follow and kill us?
Depopulation: The New York Times Predicts Massive Population Reduction, see this. “Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.”
Is it all true? It remains to be verified. Omission?
At no time does the article mention the eugenist nature of deliberate population reduction, in connection with the covid plandemic, the coerced and by many accounts poisonous – vaccination campaign, with a non-vaccine, but instead a novel, totally untested mRNA-type “gene therapy” which the US CDC has allowed to be applied as an “emergency measure” in these dire circumstances of a pandemic, that actually lacks all characteristics of a pandemic, but has to be pumped up to make it appear as a pandemic – with literally almost all deaths appearing from whatever causes – even car accidents – can be – and “must” be categorized as covid deaths. By Peter Koenig
“As the world watches in horror Israel’s military assault on the people of Gaza, people are left to wonder why world leaders are not doing more to censure Israel and are allowing Israel to get away with mass killing.
Jeff Halper, an American-Israeli anthropologist who has written numerous books on Israeli history, has a clear answer.
He says that leaders of countries around the world are feeling more insecure as wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny capitalist elite and popular disaffection and the threat of rebellion grows.
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Israel is revered precisely for its mastery of population-control techniques against the Palestinians, which many leaders want to emulate against dissident or minority groups within their own borders.
Part of Israel’s ace in the hole, according to Halper, is its development of a formidable weapons industry that allows it to supply high-tech weapons to countries around the world for the purpose of population control.
Israel is at the cutting edge in the development of surveillance satellites, weaponized and surveillance drones, Artificial Intelligence (AI) target identification systems, spyware gadgets and crowd control and cyberwarfare technologies, which it sells around the world.” — By Jeremy Kuzmarov
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“THE PLAN shows the official agenda of the World Health Organization to have ten years of ongoing pandemics, from 2020 to 2030.
This is revealed by a WHO virologist, Marion Koopmans. You will also see shocking evidence that the first pandemic was planned and abundantly announced right before it happened. Make sure to watch, and share this everywhere. More information, and to see all the documents in THE PLAN, go to: LINK.
Those who control the sucker borne every minute, controls the world.
Transhumanism is an international movement that states that adding technological implants and inserting DNA will improve the human being. However, the transhumanists hide two subjects: the use of technological implants as a weapon against the citizen and the method they are developing their dangerous projects with, which is suspected to be illicit human experiments in the world. Technological implants like brain nanobots might cause losing mind control and thus, the carriers can be controlled by others and lose their autonomy, they can be spied permanently with the cerebral internet and can lose their privacy their memory can be deleted and can loose their identity. Thus, the humans who carry technological implants can be permanently spied on, mentally controlled and they lose their identity, becoming a human slave at the service of the transnational companies and the economic powers. An objective analysis reveals that transhumanism is only an intellectual swindle that leads to digital fascism, a society where a millionaire elite will govern citizens with technological implants, who will be digital slaves at the service of an oligarchy.
….ahh, science, that science, whose very existence is almost like Mozart’s existence based on monied interested, lords, earls, barons, baronnesses, kings and queens and viscount & ladies in waiting
The earth and animal and ecosystems “sciences” are absolutely going into the crapper.
When Species Names Are Offensive, Should They Be Changed? — Amid a wider social justice reckoning, some scientists are calling for scrapping species names that honor people considered objectionable, including dictators and enslavers, or use offensive words. Others question whether such a monumental effort is worthwhile or even possible.
Taylor Swift, Prince Charles, Donald Trump. Here, my quick quip:
Funny stuff, your “comment policy” — Comments are reviewed to ensure they are on topic, do not contain profanity, and are not abusive.
Ahh, the little things in “the sciences” while STEM is an avalanche of Oppenheimers who assist in creating all those industries and technologies and engineering feats that allow for a world of war, for the Military Industrial Complex at least in this country to realize the riches of the world, 2023 as a banner year; 2024 a triple banner year.
Where oh where are the earth scientists, the biologists, the others, at least speaking out about dual use of the goods and services the US taxpayer foots the bill for?
So, no, I’m not off topic or abusive or profane. Get articles going on how the Faustian Bargains and Little Eichmann Syndrome inherent in the so-called “sciences,” i.e. Dual Use S.T.E.M., truly drills down in the brains of brainiacs.
You know, ethics v. careerism, Precautionary Principle, First Do No Harm, deep analysis of embodied energy v. just what is “green” washing or “green” fascism? Money v. science.
Think of the United States of Amnesia, err America. It’s named after who? A map maker under the control of racist, violent Iberian Peninsula? Are we going to change that name, like so many African nations changed their names as a way to symbolically wash away the empire breeders who controlled that continent, from Belgium to Germany to Netherlands to Spain to France to Italy to UK?
Nah.
Oh, the chickens have always come back to roost, no, with the white man’s burdens, so this sort of story on species renaming is just that — another writer finding something to write about. But reality is, that every grant, every college or university, every think tank, every NGO and non-profit that makes money off of, shoot, war, war making, even the cool optics and drone machines of war, well well, how do we square that in the sciences?
I doubt this comment will be posted on Yale E 360.
Censorship and just plain pre-publication disapproval, don’t you know.
Cheers,
Here, amazing, this fucking Ukrainian telling (cited in the Yale Enviornment 360 article) the world that renaming would be bad, this from a Nazi Country that has destroyed literary and artistic and historical monuments, and jailing those for fucking speaking Russian:
Various groups of researchers have proposed ways to remedy this situation. Some are modest tweaks to the codes governing how scientists apply names to creatures. Others are sweeping; one recent proposal would require scientists to rename, by one estimate, more than 200,000 species named after people. And as with efforts to tear down statues, replace ill-considered sports team names, and otherwise root out societal racism and sexism, these proposals have met with fierce resistance. Some scientists protest on philosophical grounds, arguing that it is better to leave the mistakes of the past in place so that modern and future people might learn from them. Others point to the proposals’ practical implications, noting that in an era of rapid climate change, habitat destruction, and globalization, taxonomy — the science of categorizing, discovering, and describing the world’s living things — has increasingly become a race against time.
Diverting resources towards wholesale renaming of already-named species would be “just a catastrophe,” says Sergei Mosyakin, a botanist and director of the M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany in Kyiv, Ukraine. “It would be a problem for everything.”
[Photo: The plant genus Hibbertia is named for British slave owner George Hibbert, who was a leading opponent of abolition. ]
Some skeptics questioned whether the proposed nomenclatural changes would even achieve their stated goals of making biological taxonomy more accessible, equitable, and inoffensive. Rohan Pethiyagoda, a Sri Lankan taxonomist specializing in amphibians and freshwater fish, said the various proposals — most of them offered by white, English-speaking people of European heritage — were merely a way to signal their virtue. In practice, he said, any widespread renaming of organisms would place further burdens on already strained and underfunded taxonomists working in poor yet biodiverse nations of the global tropics, which scientists believe to hold millions of undescribed species, many of them threatened by rapid climate change and habitat destruction.
“We now have to take our attention away from describing species, conserving species and landscapes and ecosystems, and start looking at the origins of words,” Pethiyagoda says. “This is really ludicrous.”
Military science serves to identify the strategic, political, economic, psychological, social, operational, technological, and tactical elements necessary to sustain relative advantage of military force; and to increase the likelihood and favorable outcomes of victory in peace or during a war.
Money for bullets, guns, lasers, missiles, bioweapons, hearts and minds, spying on US/THEM. The term “defence” is Edward Bernays/George Orwellian bullshit. Read — OFFENSIVE and MURDEROUS and ANTI-HUMAN weapons.
US Army source — In February, South Korea opened a centre at its premier research facility, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, in collaboration with the country’s leading arms manufacturer, Hanwha Systems. Media reports said that the centre, known as the Research Centre for the Convergence of National Defence and Artificial Intelligence, would develop technologies that could be useful for more-advanced weapons, such as missiles that use artificial intelligence (AI) to control their speed and altitude and detect enemy radar in real time.
There was an immediate backlash. Almost 60 AI and robotics researchers from around the world signed an open letter opposing KAIST’s participation in an autonomous-weapons race. They threatened to cut all ties with KAIST. But this episode had a happy ending: KAIST’s president vowed that the centre wouldn’t develop lethal weapons. The boycott was abandoned. This week, the letter’s author accepted an invitation to visit KAIST.
But similar fault lines have been exposed elsewhere. Australian scientists continue to debate the government’s 2014 defence–science partnerships programme, which has so far enrolled researchers from 32 universities. And a 2016 decision by the European Commission to start funding defence research prompted 400 researchers to sign a petition attacking the move.
In Japan, universities are split over whether they should take funds from the defence ministry’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency. Last year, the advisory board to the nation’s cabinet — the Science Council of Japan — called for researchers to boycott the work, and for institutions to set up special committees to evaluate the ethics and propriety of military-related research projects. According to survey results released by the council earlier this month, 46 of the 135 universities polled have such a system in place. But 30 institutions have already allowed researchers to apply, and 41 have no intention of creating such a system. And according to the results of a poll at the Astronomical Society of Japan’s meeting last March, some young astronomers would accept such funding if it falls within Japan’s policy of maintaining self defence. However, other members of the society oppose it, and the society itself has not taken a position.
In the United States, university-based military research has long been a fixture, but the push in less-militarized countries points to rising geopolitical uncertainty and instability around the world. Trying to improve defence capabilities in such circumstances is understandable — the issue is where and how it should be done.
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), on behalf of the Army, is committed to growing the next generation of scientists and engineers to deliver the decisive overmatch the nation needs to win in a complex world. As a community, we must develop a national strategy to ensure America’s future security through a robust continuum of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. (source)
Pedophiles:
These colleges are just really sophisticated and pretty way beyond the old thuggery of Fort Benning School of the Assassins:
Military personnel develop valuable skills that can serve them well in a research lab, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a new funding opportunity intended to encourage them to pursue graduate studies. The program, announced in December, offers supplemental funding for principal investigators (PIs) holding active research grants from the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) to support a U.S. military veteran Ph.D. student for up to 3 years. (source)
Don’t believe it:
The CIA’s Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control =
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance =
Conservation biology is an applied science that focuses on protecting the Earth’s biodiversity and maintaining natural ecosystems. Scientists who work in this field, such as conservation ecologists, are dedicated to analyzing and reducing the human impact on every aspect of our environment. According to the Society for Conservation Biology, the preservation of biodiversity is dependent on three questions:
How is the diversity of life distributed around the planet?
What threats does this diversity face?
What can people do to reduce or eliminate these threats and, where possible, restore biological diversity and ecosystem health?
[Political polarization in the United States has repeatedly delayed the budget-approval process for US science agencies over the past few decades. Credit: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty]
Ahh, get rid of it all, those “humanities.”
Freak:
[Photo: West Virginia University President Gordon Gee shows off the book he co-authored, “Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good.” Gee argues that public universities have an obligation to train students for good careers and cannot offer instruction in every discipline (Elaine S. Povich/Stateline). ]
Humanities courses such as languages, history, arts and literature are particularly vulnerable nationwide. Schools are more inclined to emphasize business, science, math and technology studies, which could lead to more high-paying jobs.
Students also appear to be turning away from the humanities: Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics shows that the percentage of bachelor’s degrees conferred by four-year institutions in the humanities dropped from 16.8% of all degrees in the 2010-11 school year to 12.8% in 2020-2021. (source)
Duh: “They were calling us baby killers. They were throwing eggs and tomatoes.” he says.
My old college, where I got a graduate degree and where I taught and fought and attempted to be all that I want to be: UT-El Paso.
Air Force ROTC and UTEP Philosophy Lead a Military Ethics Workshop. The fucking school is led by an Air Force Baby Bomber: On Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, USAF Captain Christopher Kuennen and UTEP Philosophy Visiting Assistant Professor Glenn Trujillo led a military ethics workshop. The workshop began with reflections from UTEP President Heather Wilson, who reflected on her time in the Air Force and serving as the Secretary of the United States Air Force. The workshop then held lectures and discussions over issues in remote warfare, drone strikes, military leadership, and the use of artificial intelligence in war. Professors from UTEP and El Paso Community College facilitated discussions, and USAF officers shared their experiences serving in similar missions. (source)
Oh, the BIPOC and “female” recruiting is working in El Paso.
UT-Austin (above).
[The group here in the Borderland was chanting “Free Palestine” as they marched Downtown and then gathered at San Jacinto Plaza to hear speakers.]
Air Force Awards UTEP Grant to Safeguard Assets in Space
“The United States is dependent economically and militarily on space assets,” said Miguel Velez-Reyes, Ph.D., chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at El Paso. “For instance, orbiting satellites provide a multitude of services, which are critical for economic wealth, defense and security.”
Ground-based telescopes, however, cannot currently obtain clear images of space objects that are distant or small. Known as Unresolved Resident Space Objects (URSO), their characteristics, such as shape, dimensions, spin rate and material composition, cannot be easily extracted from telescope images.
Thanks to a new five-year, $5 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Space University Research Initiative (SURI), UTEP is leading a new research effort that hopes to bring these objects to light.
Velez-Reyes, the grant’s principal investigator, will spearhead a team that includes UTEP Associate Professor of Practice Hector Erives, Ph.D., and Research Assistant Professor Aryzbe Najera, Ph.D., as well as collaborators from outside the University.
We pay through the nose and all other orifices!
For decades, independent researchers have claimed that actual US military spending is about twice as much as officially recognized. In 2022, actual US military spending reached $1.537 trillion, doubling the publicly reported $877 billion. These data are reported from figures from the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
But they face a trap because they suffer from two important deficiencies. First, the figures provided by the OMB regarding “defense spending” are substantially lower than those provided in the United States National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), the most complete and definitive source on income and the country’s national spending to the point that it is the total basis of analysis of the American economy.
Second, as is well known, key areas of US military spending are included in other parts of federal spending and do not fall under the OMB’s “defense spending” category. To that amount we would have to add federal space expenses, and the real total of subsidies to foreign countries. Military health insurance (which consists of payments for medical services for dependents of military personnel on active duty at non-military installations) should also be considered.
According to a study for Monthly magazine Review by Gisela Cernadas, economist at the National University of La Plata in Argentina and John Bellamy Foster, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon in the United States, these figures should also include benefits, life insurance and other costs for veterans, military health insurance, military parts of space expenses, grants in aid to other governments and the proportion of net interest attributed to actual federal military expenditures. (source)
It’s more than double, you know that!
Where oh where are the taxonomists to help us with categorizing and classifying and defining GENOCIDE?
forget about a common language now with the merchants of death in U$A, Klanada, EuroTrashLandia, U-Inbred-Kingdom, Israel . . . . add NZ and AU to the batch!
Nemotode:
Just poking some fun into the Substack, “Plagiarist Harvard President Resigns. Her Scientific Wrongdoing Was Fine Until a Month Ago — Mixed Feelings about this Affair” By Igor Chudov
Then, the comments from some “person” — Peter Ruff: “Rubbish in, rubbish out – your words prove that, Paulo. When analysis is based on erroneous information/attitudinal origins, NOTHING will change that to TRUTH. Try again!”
…then,
“Oh, deary, deary me! Your powerful words have hurt me to the depths of my being!! I shall be forever changed and redirected to your path of enlightenment …………..? Do you actually read back the RUBBISH you blurp out in these ‘comments’ paulo? You are able, just as EVERYONE else, to add your 5c worth to anything you like. Unfortunately for you, 5c is a GROSS EXAGGERATION of the value of your ‘input’, and everybody else is able to tell you so, if they can be bothered to take/ waste such time!”
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God I hate that Un-United Inbred-Queendom talk — “rubbish” and “deary, deary me” lingo.
Justin: I hope your well, Paul. I have been working on a new website and wanted some of the pics you took. I did some deep searching into old emails to find you. its a long shot but worth it as i remember you took great pics. i really hope your well. it was a real joy meeting you. you were one of my all time favorites.
Paul: Hey, Justin. Long time now hear or see. I’m looking, man, stuff on an old camera and old computer. Trying to track down all those images from that gig I had as Oregon Coast Today columnist.
Your story, along with a few dozen others, is in this collection I did a while back:
You might get a kick out of it, or not.
I’ll keep you posted.
Justin: Trust me man, i know. please dont feel as if it is urgent or a big deal because its not. I just went to your area recently and my lady was saying lets go say hi to Paul. I didnt think it would be appropriate but did decide to find a way to get back in touch with you and wondered how you might be doing. then i thought to my self… he probably has some cool pics for my latest online projects and it shouldn’t hurt to ask.. we really liked working for you for a few days. you left a lasting impression. its not everyday i go through old emails to find a past client and check in. i hope your well.
The eighth largest saline lake in the world is a Utah icon. More than 10 million birds take sanctuary there every year.
And sometimes, the Great Salt Lake smells like rotten eggs.
That distinct tang is caused by hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas that can be harmful in high concentrations. When concentrations are excessive, it “could kill you or (H2S) can cause nausea and headaches, or more commonly, it’s just a nuisance,” said Wayne Wurtsbaugh, a retired science professor at Utah State University who studied the gas.
The Great Salt Lake isn’t the only saline lake that produces hydrogen sulfide, there’s also the decaying Salton Sea, California’s largest lake.
“It used to be that people say, ‘Oh, it smells like dead fish,’ but now there’s no more fish in the Salton Sea. So you can’t say it smells like fish, it smells like hydrogen sulfide,” said Ryan Sinclair, an environmental microbiologist at Loma Linda University.
WHO: Peter D. Ward (Earth and Space Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, WA)
WHAT: Under a Green Sky: Global Warming the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
WHEN: Published 2007
Peter Ward has an evocative style of writing that was able to transport me to the various digs and periods of ancient history that he studies, was one of the reasons I wanted to write about this book. Additionally, he paints a vivid picture of what our future could be like with catastrophic climate change.
Ward is an expert in mass extinctions. He has spent much of his career looking at Ammonite fossils to see where in the fossil record mass extinctions occurred and why. Through his studies, he’s discovered that many mass extinctions were greenhouse extinctions.
So what does greenhouse extinction look like? It looks like this:
The water’s purple because there is no longer any oxygen in the water in this lake near Kamloops BC. The bacteria in this lake ‘eat’ hydrogen sulphide, which smells like rotten eggs and allows the bacteria to take over when there is no oxygen in the water. No animals can live in this water – we need oxygen to survive.
Ward puts it best in this description of what the earth would have looked like at the end of the Triassic period—
‘No wind in the 120-degree morning heat, and no trees for shade. There is some vegetation, but it is low, stunted, parched. Of other life, there seems little. A scorpion, a spider, winged flies, and among the roots of the desert vegetation we see the burrows of some sort of small animals – the first mammals, perhaps. The largest creatures anywhere in the landscape are slim, bipedal dinosaurs, of a man’s height at most, but they are almost vanishingly rare, and scrawny, obviously starving. The land is a desert in its heat and aridity, but a duneless desert, for there is no wind to build the iconic structure of our Sarahas and Kalaharis. The land is hot barrenness.
Yet as sepulchral as the land is, it is the sea itself that is most frightening. Waves slowly lap on the quiet shore, slow-motion waves with the consistency of gelatine. Most of the shoreline is encrusted with rotting organic matter, silk-like swaths of bacterial slick now putrefying under the blazing sun, while in the nearby shallows mounds of similar mats can be seen growing up toward the sea’s surface; they are stromatolites. When animals finally appeared, the stromatolites largely disappeared, eaten out of existence by the new, multiplying, and mobile herbivores. But now these bacterial mats are back, outgrowing the few animal mouths that might still graze on them.
Finally we look out on the surface of the great sea itself, and as far as the eye can see there is a mirrored flatness, an ocean without whitecaps. Yet that is not the biggest surprise. From shore to the horizon, there is but an unending purple color – a vast, flat, oily purple, not looking at all like water, not looking anything of our world. No fish break its surface, no birds or any other kind of flying creatures dip down looking for food. The purple colour comes from vast concentrations of floating bacteria, for the oceans of Earth have all become covered with a hundred-foot-thick [30m] veneer of purple and green bacterial soup.
At last there is motion on the sea, yet it is not life, but anti-life. Not far from the fetid shore, a large bubble of gas belches from the viscous, oil slick-like surface, and then several more of varying sizes bubble up and noisily pop. The gas emanating from the bubbles is not air, or even methane, the gas that bubbles up from the bottom of swamps – it is hydrogen sulphide, produced by green sulphur bacteria growing amid their purple cousins. There is one final surprise. We look upward, to the sky. High, vastly high overhead there are thin clouds, clouds existing at an altitude far in excess of the highest clouds found on our Earth. They exist in a place that changes the very colour of the sky itself: We are under a pale green sky, and it has the smell of death and poison. We have gone to the Nevada of 200 million years ago only to arrive under the transparent atmospheric glass of a greenhouse extinction event, and it is poison, heat, and mass extinction that are found in this greenhouse.’
Read his stuff. Really. Climate change confusion, chaotic climate heating denial, all of that, way way off the fucking mark.
CATASTROPHISM
Starting in the 1700’s, scientists, especially geologists, described the world a gradual continuum, where “the present is the key to the past”. The opposite theory, called catastrophism, was left for fringe writers like Immanuel Velikovksy.
Peter’s newest book re-writes the history of life on Earth, not from the viewpoint of gradual evolution, but from the many catastrophes that have occurred on this planet. That’s not just the impact of asteroids hitting, but gigantic and long-lasting eruption of volcanoes, the almost frozen times known as “snowball Earth”, and of course the many periods of serious global heating.
This new book also originates from Ward’s important earlier book the “Medea Hypothesis”. That is an answer to James Lovelock’s and the Gaia hypothesis. Instead of life arranging the best circumstances for its continued survival, Ward finds in the geologic record that life forms have often been suicidal, destroying the conditions required for survival. Does that sound familiar?
The new book is: “A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth” by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink.
If life bumbles along through long periods between catastrophes, often of it’s own making, where do you think we are now? Are we on the edge of the next mass extinction, or could that be thousands of years from now?
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Before I paste an amazing poem by Pablo de Rokha, just one more example of the racism of Jews in Jewish State of Occupied Turtle Island and their brethren in Jewish State of Jewish Occupied Palestine. These fuckers are the enmy, but you already knew that.
[Photo: White Supremacist = Palantir CEO Alex Karp arrives as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer convenes a closed-door gathering of leading tech CEOs to discuss the priorities and risks surrounding artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated, in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023.]
Welfare mother fucking cheat: In a letter to shareholders in November, Palantir CEO Alex Karp lamented that the US firm was “one of a few companies in the world to stand up and announce our support for Israel, which remains steadfast.”
In early December, Karp publicly criticized corporate America for staying silent and not standing up for Israel in the aftermath of the October 7 atrocities.
Last year, Palantir secured multi-million dollar government contracts, including with the US Army to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning into battlefield applications and with the UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) to develop software for a patient data-sharing platform.
US data-analysis software giant Palantir Technologies announced on Tuesday that it will hold its first board meeting of the new year in Tel Aviv to show solidarity with Israel, as the country is nearly three months into a war with the Hamas terror group.
“We stand with Israel,” Palantir said in posts on X and LinkedIn. “The board of directors of Palantir will be gathering in Tel Aviv next week for its first meeting of the new year. Our work in the region has never been more vital. And it will continue.”
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Now, moving to real humanity . . . .
Yankeeland — Pablo de Rokha
EDISON
(the practical life)
The customary, the concrete, the brilliant vulgarity the methodical and mechanical reason, the reason, all the reason, the marvellous patience, Edison.
And the honest donkeys of wisdom, the human sciences.
Categorical, calm, admirable, infallible machine, Edison, Edison is “the reflective intellect” of the learned; and OK, and OK, and OK, what’s the use, what’s the use of thought, when it’s used? …
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Gesticulating over the oceanic sounds of his fabulous, fabulous, gloomy, democratic I, laughing at the blue paradox of success, dazed by facile and unanimous oratory, unanimous and facile from marvellous, epic, personified companies, and the imminent, financial megaphone of advertising, colossally crowned with his mathematic, philharmonic, topographic, economic, NORTH AMERICAN sorrows, listening, listening, as if at the edge of a river, to the oblique theme, sweetly oblique, babbling mutely, mutely, mutely, mutely, the assistant secretary to his enormous soul Mister Dollar, Yankeeland, Yankeeland, contradictory and innumerable uncle SAM, innumerable, innumerable, uncle SAM, uncle SAM sighs towards the Atlantic with the monumental panting of his large, cosmographic lungs and his dynamic attitude, dynamic and unmeasurable!..
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And deleterious, funerary, deleterious, findesiecular, clinical, pathological symptoms, the dark great-great-grandsons of the Mayflowerian philosophers — geometrical, frugal, priestly, metaphysical, systematic protestants — procreate and assimilate, assimilate and procreate, eat, drink, walk, think, speak, live, live mechanically, live at seventy thousand leagues a minute the novel brew of making, sense and end, reality of LIFE.
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Births bytelephone, deaths by telephone, weddings by telephone, the whole epic, everything by telephone, falling in love radio-telegraphically, live and die in aeroplane, one hundred, two hundred kms above the level of the old human values, the old human values, exist in machine, meet in machine, remember in machine, see in machine, in machine, the spectacular grey of angles, rectangular triangles or polygons, horizons that sum up the cosmic psychology according to Yankee students of mathematics, measuring the emotional, intellectual, sensational phenomena, adopting the decimal system as an initial unit, as an initial unit and the dollar as an end, getting married for sport, killing for sport, promoting girls’ divine bosoms and widows’ wombs, filming daily sadness converted to I, the man, I, the man, I, the man converted to wandering, ephemeral panoramas, ephemeral panoramas and blue themes … (Country of DIVORCES!..!..).
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Roosevelt
Bilious like an animal and big, big, bigger than man, the sum of beast and God in just one, just one cataclysm, the times, the peoples, the tombs; complete extension of material, he has one hundred volcanoes in his finite mouth and he talks, he talks like the earth would talk, if it were to speak: to earthquakes; he is the earth, the entire earth clotted with gloomy meat; moral philosophy comes to lick his tremendous hands when he tells it to: tsk!.. tsk!.. tsk!.. such that he’s the owner of honest and sincere dogs, sincere and honest … and Roosevelt’s global boot honours his bones — today, the maggots eat his tongue — .
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Woodrow Wilson
Situated in the stupendous, stupendous mercantile rostrum of Washington, prevailing over the vague hills of the Right of yesterday and its intercontinental platforms, looking towards no, no, no where, Woodrow Wilson reads the Bible to the moderns.
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And his sad lies sound like the anachronistic music of the suburbs, rustic, autumnal, dominical, and the rainy voice of the dead in the tragic tragedies of the era.
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Murmurs of crowds and laurels, laurels and crowds he overwhelms the fluttering happiness of the cordial, nuptial white doves; and the international nightingale keeps getting quieter, getting quieter, getting quieter little by little until it falls, falls definitively before the guffaw of the dark, red men who come from ancient graves, or the ha!.. ha!.. ha!.. of the tubby, sceptical, phlegmatic, idiotic bourgeoisie, or the ha!.. ha!.. ha!,, of the tubby, sceptical, phlegmatic, idiotic bourgeoisie.
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Your practical, economical and vile face, Yankeeland, is, is, is today’s black commercial poetry, today’s black commercial poetry and the horrible, hyperborean beauty of business for business’ sake; a great, spiritual zephyr crowns your skyscrapers, hazy stars sing in the nude above their meteorological surfaces, they sing in the nude winking those blue eyes, blue, blue, blue and the moon, the moon comes with the golden slipper of twilight, revealing its leg to the sun, revealing its leg to the sun, revealing its leg to the sun or the epigram, the pornographic-melancholic anecdote of the florid leagues of men on the couch of the eternal towers, eternal like the dreams of the tombs; Yankeeland, your great ways of being, Yankeeland, Yankeeland, they constitute, they constitute and they are an aesthetic interpretation of the world, for having come in projections, in volitions, in sensations beyond the immediate, the appearance of things and the human voice …
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Melodiously unfurling its tentacular antennae, Yankeeland smiles and hisses like a snake at the simple Americans of the South, its enormous, antediluvian eye hypnotises birds and animals, citizens and trees, nests, women, children, flowers and fruits and, like a gigantic reflector that catches all of the sun, all of the sun, it drowns in light, drowns in light, drowns in light, it sets fire to, it burns, the formless music of the rural landscape, so eminent, the dark flower of the city, situated between two great premises: 1 000 000 000 000 000 dollars and a canyon of 100 inches … however the little workers of Chile sharpening their scythes modestly grumble, “C’MON SIR” …
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It thunders and sings, sings and thunders down the paths of its well-rounded youth, like the shock of the ages through the colossal drum of the earth; there it’s all tremendous, there it’s all monumental, there it’s all transcendental, everything’s paradoxical, everything’s paradoxical there, everything’s hyperborean, absurd, disconcerting, macabre, bilious, outlandish; and above all, above all that, it fluctuates, the contaminated fog over the swamps, over the swamps, the mercantile romanticism of the sonorous Yankees, sonorous like empty tombs, sonorous like brilliant men, sonorous like the sun, like the spirit, the eternal, instantaneous voice of the bulging crowds, of the silent multitudes, automatic, oceanic, tragic …
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And those rough blonde men play golf, baseball, golf, tennis, or they smile, they smile dancing foxtrot, onestep, shimmy, twostep with their women of wood, of wood, of wood, beautiful, stupid, artificial, made up to the nines, flippant about society, mechanical señoritas, mechanical señoritas, electric, numeric, synthetic!.. and just like a woman who clumsily reveals her breasts in public, they play sport, they play sport in underpants above the dignity of the world, they play sport in underpants above the dignity of the world, and they box with the infinite.
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The grand country of the North declaims: action, emphatic, Dionysian, sullen action, and justifies itself by itself; work, work, work in vain, casually, casually, for sociology, opinions, ideas, opinions, man, God, history, science, philosophy, and doing for doing’s sake like it were the world’s purpose!..
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Chicago
The stupid, monotonous, rheumatic fumes, the horizontal, industrial fumes, the horizontal fumes that come from the factories, that walk over the rooves attaching themselves to malign beasts of the dusk, the chimneys, the unanimous chimneys smoke their enormous cigars interminably and Chicago thunders, thunders, thunders like one hundred trains left to tumble from the heights, from the heights of the mountains down into the modest, common valleys, down into the world, into human things; public plazas and women, idealistic trees, palaces, markets, asylums and inmates, sanatoriums and laws, blonde, blonde schoolgirls, businesses, the sun, the moon, the earth, the abstract heavens smell of swine, smell of swine, smell of swine, and Chicago, Chicago, the grand, painful, plutocratic, ironic, industrial city, grumbles the same thing as the plebeian swine: … , oink!.. oink!.. oink!..
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Thermometer, chronometer, barometer of the twentieth century, Yankeeland sums up the psychology, the trajectory, the form, the diagnosis of the actual instant of the epoch, TODAY’S sickness; and like this, like this, it sings on its skyscrapers, on its global airlines, on its ocean liners, in its palaces, in its underground, aerial, underground railways, on its travelling zeppelins, travelling, travelling like travelling swallows, on its trucks, on its tractors, in its cars, on its mountain statues, on its mountain statues the nocturnal, emphatic hymns, the square, practical, human feats, the TREMENDOUS moan in which each voice is an ocean, each voice, the epic about bells, bells and tombs, agonies getting darker, agonies about our DELUSIONS OF GRADEUR; and like this it cries with laughter on its financial, bankable lovers, in its blues, contradictory and useless bunches of gloomy voices, in its cubic, mercantile romanticisms, our yellow, sickly ideology of Autumn; and like this, like this, like this it howls, it howls in its complete, total illusion, black like a dead body, white like a boy, grey like memories, and colourless, colourless like the human character, our red apostrophes on materials, our red apostrophes on materials and the oblique cries of modern MAN …
Adding up the world, the whole world, Yankeeland, Yankeeland opens its IMMENSE mouth immensely full with dead birds!..
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Walt Whitman
Like a god who builds poems into mental slaps, Walt Whitman is seated, is seated in Yankeeland over the majesty of life with an understanding of the heart, the right leg in Beijing and the left in Berlin, the whole body over ALL of the world, playing poker with the dead over the blue carpet of the infinite, chatting with the stars and hearing, hearing, hearing the concave and transcendental noises of the era, the perpendicular YANKEE, the sad tones, sad like the new lawns of Manhattan, tender like little children, tender like little birds, tender like little animals, harmonising with dusk, dawn, dusk and the voice of rustic farms …
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Cosmic gestures converge on him like the soul of sounds toward a radio station or like maggots toward graves, full of music, everything full of music he smiles and the earth flourishes, he cries and it enters winter, he sings, he sings and so it’s as if birds, things and men, mountains, tombs, countrysides, cities, red cities, skies, oceans, wives, girlfriends and mothers, children, whores, criminals, statesmen, merchants, the good and the bad, orphanages, asylums or honest homes were singing the first song of the ages; he sings, Walt sings the good, he sings and obscure people tell themselves, THE WORLD is singing, the world; he sings and skeletons ask themselves, who? … and open the eternal door with their enormous fingers, full of the yellow of graves, full of the yellow of graves.
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The ants say to him, Cheers, Walt Whitman!.. the large, honest elephants, How are you, brother? … and the tortoises, the toads, the King of Spain, the beggars, the politicians, the cows, the President, the horses, the bishops, the bus drivers, the moon, the turds tell him, they tell him while slapping him on the back, Brother Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman you’re OUR brother, OUR brother Walt Whitman.
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He wasn’t ever born; Walt Whitman was never born; one hundred million epochs add up to the age of the giant and uncreated, uncreated globe, created by us Walt Whitman of Manhattan, Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman of Manhattan; and his grand figure dissolves, unpicks itself, loses itself in THE FIGURE of the earth enlarging the earth of the earth.
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Blood Jehovahs, pallid emperors, two ROTTEN tyrants rule Yankeeland: money and movies … is it possible? … yes, it’s possible, it’s possible … ha! ha! ha!.. ha! ha! ha!
All Yankee philosophy is yawning naked is yawning in the idiotic theatres of the cinema; Yankeeland is an enormous cinema spectacular: all Yankee sociology is yawning naked is yawning between debit and credit, credit and debit, debit and credit from subterranean banks; Yankeeland, Yankeeland could be a huge box of wealth in which bark the blacks, the blondes and Protestantism … — … all Yankee philosophy is yawning naked is yawning in the idiotic theatres of the cinema!.. —
— Yankeeland: you’re imbecilic, you’re conceptual, vulgar, and being, being stingy, being fat, being priestly, you’re, oh!, you’re the divine flower of genius, you, superfluous and bureaucratic dough today you’re, today you’re the earth’s exemplary blue!.. is it possible?.. is it possible?
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Like a large blonde cow, like a large blonde cow, Yankeeland’s fixated on chewing over, chewing over, chewing over the future of beasts and defecating paradoxes; the cowboys bellow their green sonnets to force, cornered like buffaloes, like buffaloes with prehistoric speech, they bellow, bellow like carriages drawn by rhinoceroses, the poems of the freest man, the freest, freest, tree brother, water brother, fire brother, fire brother; ocean liners, trains, trams, tired dreadnoughts, sailors, Orients, hydroplanes, monoplanes, biplanes, aeroplanes, blurry, macabre zeppelins, factories, tentacular power plants, red jails, mutes, woods, arsenals, asylums, the asylums!, clinics, warehouses, hospitals, courts, hotels, churches, restaurants, brothels, banks, shops, stock exchanges, clubs, bars, cameras, taverns, dens, public offices, racetracks, cemeteries, the cemeteries, THE CEMETERIES, the cinematographers they howl, the giant, melancholy, black cranes howls, and the common, cosmopolitan, metropolitan traffic howls, rotary and sad, sad and rotary, they howl, they howl the heavens howl, Yankee land and sea, completely Yankee, completely Yankee, Yankee, the heavens howl in English, earth and sea howl in English, the heavens, the earth and the sea howl in English; the prostitutes cry and the modern actress sings, the midwives cry, the minions cry, the schoolgirls cry and the multimillionaire thief sings, the newspaper vendors, the workers, the carpenters, the shoemakers, the bakers cry, the blue, infinitesimal bricklayer early in the morning cries, and the aristocratic pimp sings in his underpants above series of intimate things, the poor husbands and wives cry, the maids, the poor decent folk! and the banker, the politician, the playboy, the loan shark, the promoter, the filmmaker SINGS, SINGS, the beggars cry, the poets, the deformed cry, cry like germs or like the deceased who illuminate the past with the nocturnal light of memories, and the joyous, sonorous bourgeoisie sing, sing, sing, sonorous and joyous like an animal, luxury chirps, misery cries, the child plays, the elderly meditate, the sick and the wise meditate, charlatans and journalists denounce, the merchants and opportunists give speeches, the mechanical singer of the future insults the graves, the mechanical singer! the children laugh, the girlfriends laugh and the flower smiles, and a song of stables and farms, of sowing, of fields, of crops, a song, a song of vegetables and wheat fields, of toils and westerlies, a song smelling of flowering vineyards, of ripe fruits arrives daily, from the agrarian estates and the sanctity of wheat and bread, and the dignity of wine and salt, honest water and milk, and the black MAJESTY of coal, souvenir of the countryside and skeleton of the world, skeleton of the world and sadness …
Yankeeland drops the ash, the ash, the honourable ash of its capitalist cigarette on LIFE’S wrinkled face, and smiling, smiling at the sun it says to it, Lord, show me the path!.. show me the path!.. and the SUN, the SUN, the SUN agrees …
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Land of blue, tragic, mechanic, geometric men, poets of the positive, the practical, the practical, Yankeeland keeps improvising, improvising, improvising and inventing, creating THE WORLD in each moment, creating THE WORLD, and writing the grey SONG of the silences with ingenuous type, dizzying, dizzying and with ONE HUNDRED copies SIMULTANEOUSLY; there all’s possible: improvise millions and poems, improvise cities and people, improvise adored presidents, improvise complete democracies, improvise new sensations from nothing and outlandish truths that sum up today’s lies colossally, improvise heroes, wise and saintly heroes, warriors, artists, thieves, governments, merchants, boxers, sad songs or millionaires, improvise musical, resonant, admirable palaces of one, two hundred and three hundred floors, study the sun and the stars or cosmic gravitation, with fruits, fruits, roots, roots, roots, flowers and leaves like songs or better, mountains, with vegetation, with vegetation, with vegetation from noble, agrarian estates, improvise squadrons that stain the oceans with oil, gin, discipline and English tobacco, dollars and pipes and dollars, improvise anonymous societies capable of making, capable of making a belt of gold around the moon and silver slippers for each star, each star from whichever ocean, improvise eternal things, light, the past, the present, the future God and the tombs … land of blue men, land of blue men, land of telephonic men, land of telegraphic men, land of telemetric men, land of gramophonic men, land of taximetric men, land of CINEMATOGRAPHIC men, land of CINEMATOGRAPHIC men, land of automobile men, land of men becoming electricity and spirits becoming gasoline, sexes becoming coal, wombs becoming coal, tongues becoming coal, brains becoming coal and funereal souls BECOMING gas, land of blue men, land of blue men, land of blue men with the chemical, cynical blue of the laboratories, Yankeeland!.. Yankeeland!
Its heart cries sad, awful mists, sad awful mists, and in the public squares of its worldly gestures the multimillionaires keep smoking, keep smoking, keep smoking anachronistically fat pipes fat and romantic; they shout and proclaim, proclaim and shout and shout grotesque warnings …
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MOUNTAINS, MOUNTAINS, MOUNTAINS of fifty, sixty, seventy floors above the height of old architectures, that is, houses, Yankee houses in Yankeeland, ocean liners — coffins, coffins for errant worlds, mathematical or red, black or melancholy; fortunes whose simple units, whose simple units keep multiplying, multiplying, multiplying into absurdity like drops of water in winter, like drops of water in winter, the romantic deciduous Autumn leaves, the juicy Pacific fruits in summer, the guffaws of spring, the eternal rain of human pain, the eternal rain of human pain, the eternal rain of human pain, the eternal rain of human pain, the BLACK sands BLACK from the grave, or the square root of the planet, or the square root of the planet; tractors, cars, trucks, tractors, cars, trucks full of landscapes, multitudes, throngs, conversations or events; aeroplanes that have laid only one egg, only one egg — the sun — in the sky’s nest, the sun, the sun in the sky’s nest; trains, trains, trains in which it is as if the houses, the city and the country were walking; factories that have telephones to infinity and whose managers speak one thousand, ten thousand languages; periodic periodicals that seem like republics; universities, libraries with BUS, tram and car services crossing, crossing the marvellous church; cities like continents, villages like territories and rural farms, farms the same as establishments for agricultural education in Plato’s Republic; clinics like enormous cradles, enormous blue cradles and hospitals full of gardens; beauty parlours where streams gurgle, gurgle with delight, rivers, rivers, rivers of flourishing intimacy, and where, where the girls ARE dolls: the small, small, small feet, the small, rosy breasts, the medal of sex like a flower, open; hotels and grocery stores, grocery stores and hotels that give the ambiguous sensation, the ambiguous sensation of sailing, sailing, always sailing; film-makers with capacity for 100 000 tonnes of stupidity and 300 000 of mothers in law; morgues, morgues, slaughterhouses, houses of slaughter, in which they carve up herds and herds of exemplary humans each day, etc., etc. — vile pharmacopoeia — … divorced and black, black, black and divorced; gastronomic, saucy, philharmonic, photographic, philatelic, athletic, sporty, cinematographic, literary, linguistic, psychological, philosophical, pathological, commercial, social, legal, emotional CHAMPIONS, champions of love, agronomics, theosophy, alcoholism, criminology, etc., gubernatorial, funereal, automobile champions, etc., etc., etc., … cemetery of champions, nursery of champions, it’s all there in Yankeeland.
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John Rockefeller
( … once there was an ass, once there was an ass that spoke and smiled, smiled and spoke just like man; watching it, the elderly, sanctimonious ladies would say, Ass plus ass!.. and walk on.
But one fine day it died … so the elderly, sanctimonious ladies came to chew on its excrement because the excrement was of pure gold … ).
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Pierpont Morgan
P.M. looks like a sinister safe urinating in PUBLIC VIEW; he lost his head, lost his head in the maternal urn and he has four feet, LIKE cows, four feet, four feet and 1 000 000 000 dollars.
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Andrew Carnegie
Well-bound books are excellent ornaments, excellent ornaments, excellent ornaments and, furthermore, you can read them; reading is good, reading is good, reading is good — not too much — reading is good; I have money, a lot of money, “Will I buy meringues? No, so … etc.” “Will I buy pine nuts? No, so … etc.”, “I’ll buy books, books, books, books; WELL-BOUND are excellent, excellent ornaments!..”
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Charles Chaplin
The boys and girls applaud the simple, elemental and macabre attitude, sad and broken, sad and broken of a happy man, happy, happy as a tomb; and Chaplin howls about nothing, beneath the FLOWERING peach of puerile smiles, just like a cadaver, just like a cadaver crowned with carnations; bunches of fruit, crowned with pain, ulcers and maggots, and crying with all THE INTESTINES.
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Pearl White
A little bag, a little bag of artificial sweets is Pearl White; or better yet, an enormous, horny rose OPEN in a blue jewellery store …
Pearl White, Pearl White, silly little animal, sweet, fat, A kid of fifteen nude, nude between the sheets while it’s raining, getting dark!..
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William James
Philosophical wisdom, judgement, erudition, erudition, equanimity, virility, dignity and a beastly, volcanic heart like an adolescent ideal; here’s William James.
New trees, new birds and another one hundred theological virtues crown the poet of practical psychology, W.J., and it’s as if THE PALE NEW YORKERS remain watching, watching, watching, motionless, watching century to century, the sad, agrarian party, sad about the West, its elemental stars and the moon …
MULTIPLYING HIMSELF in ideas William James smiles at William James.
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Jack Dempsey
Animal, animal¸ too much animal, the colossal Jack Dempsey the colossus held up by diplomatic tape, with Yankeeland on his back, dead paradoxes spilling from his physical and cynical attitude, cynical and physical … — … punches, punches of iron, of rock, of bronze, solid, joyous, solid, sonorous, sonorous, punches that seem to collide with the negative charge of the opponent, collide, collide and fall filled with large stains, large stains of molten metal, or like statues, or like dynamos, or like motors, eternal and beautiful, bitter and vast, punches like universes, punches like cemeteries!..
As if they were thrown from the faces of volcanoes, mountains, boulders, all the pain of humanity, the icy muscles thunder over the punches of innumerable rivals; he’d say, All the faded leaves, all the faded leaves from the infinite fall onto the dark, silent mobs …
And the fighting machine smiles, like destiny when it erases a man, like destiny when it erases a man; happy EARTHQUAKE and blue CATACLYSM, Dempsey seems like life itself: he’s like this because he’s like this; and when one hundred million, one hundred million MEN applaud him beneath the stars, above the ways of the world, he smiles and smiles with the simple peace of the ruminant — at robust females, robust from their humble towns, at good vegetables, at wine, at water, at the first fruits, at the worldly tombs, at joyous meats joyous from the modest ox.
Dempsey is, perhaps, the most beastly brute of the century; what would they do, what would they do, oh!, what would they do, the beautiful doves in his strong hands?!.. die, die like the dew on the red petals of the trains; however … Jack Dempsey has the fatal beauty of the world’s rarest freaks, the world’s rarest freaks and madness …
Before the beautiful Carpentier the brute perspires, like two blind buffaloes fighting furiously with the lily of the hills …
(Carpentier!.. Carpentier!.. the DEEP voice howls, the DEEP voice howls, howls: Carpentier!.. Carpentier!.. an old shriek, dead, without head, nor face, nor sex, nor stomach, nor hands, nor legs, only with feet, only with feet, but only with feet!..!..)
They scream and shout and thrash about they scream and shout, burning, burning, multitudes of crazed multitudes …
Jack Dempsey, tall and broad, like a bull, tall and broad and INGENUOUS, like roses, innocently powerful, playing with THE BOYS AND GIRLS their children’s games, simple, simple like water and the birds of the sky, comrade of anarchists, aristocrats, the positivist bourgeoisie, dogs, cows, asses and ordinary men, Jack Dempsey, Jack Dempsey is the first light of the universe to know, BEFORE KNOWING, the initial, primordial gesture of life in prehistoric times …
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Coney Island
Circus moons and comedic oceans, theatrical suns and solemn lands, heavens and men as a joke men and heavens, absurd reality, human reality, indignant reality, artificial and intellectual reality, humorous reality, Dionysian reality: yellow asses with dead leaves and cypresses with four legs, graves crowned with black eyes and women full of death, yellow asses with dead leaves and cypresses with four legs, skeletons that say dad, mum and make stew, and menstruating roses and girlfriends with heart, boys and girls, boys and girls, boys and girls naked, naked playing macabre love games, the elderly with lollipops, slippers, underpants or rubber bibs with ducklings, with rubber ducklings…
And everything there is happy, not like in the history of life, happy, happy with the blue happiness of the first men!..
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New York
… noise, noise and pale men, (… noise!..), homes and homes and homes and homes with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc., etc., apartments, public, public and public, pain, public, public and public, petrol in things, petrol in souls, petrol in beasts, petrol and gold, gold and petrol, petrol in things, petrol in souls, petrol in beasts, petrol; it’s like this, New York, the bad, bureaucratic MACHINE; and a run of the mill, ordinary sky of the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh order, above the vast, incomplete, dead poem, dead and incomplete and the blue vanity of North American buildings …
New York, New York is like a HUGE advertisement HUGE, PHENOMENAL, UNIVERSAL, TRANSCENDENTAL stuck on the COSMOPOLITAN arse of the earth … New York!..!.. (— if you lit a match, just a match, that great commercial city would burn like a dried leaf, like a dried leaf, like a dried leaf, illuminating, by itself, the four points, the four cardinal points!..)
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The Yankee God
Blonde and serious, clean-shaven, he says, Yes, oh yes!, yes to the cynical typists who dig like GRAVES into his TRANSCENDENTAL plans …
He’s seated in his BLUE study, work blue … blue!
– How much does it come to, in DOLLARS, for the sun, moon and stars? … just think, just think of that dark, fabulous, unlimited market of the infinite, just think of the jingling in his pockets, coins pissed out of old, dead stars … (and he smiles!) …
— Sir, do you want OCEAN LINERS, MUMMIES, FOETUSES, men, MUMMIES, FOETUSES, men, dynamos, trains, tractors, trucks, motors, whores, maggots, automobiles, iodine, professors, Holstein or Durham cows, knowledge of hypodermic injections, honour, pure art, art bottled by us with Muslim bottles, presidents especially, especially, especially for SOUTH AMERICA, or whatever other machine, animal, product or thing? …
Write to: USA Company, USA, requesting catalogues, REQUESTING CATALOGUES, REQUESTING CATALOGUES.
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Yankeeland the cosmic, the cosmic Yankeeland plays golf; it plays golf, plays golf with the finest ball on EARTH …
(… from the West comes the smell of agronomical essences along the roads …)
The country of slanting eyes insinuates THE PALE ROSE of a smile above the twilight of its ATTITUDE of a silly old man wise about the ways of the world; Spain, Italy, England, France, Norway, Australia, Australia, Russia, India and China slap the back of the merry American Adonis whispering to him a joke about OLD AND SKINNY neighbours, Chile gulps an enormous drink to the health of the gringo, Peru sobs while kissing his arse …
… AND THE OLD HOMES of my soul WATCH, weeping loudly, the fall of the sun — over the East! — the fall of the sun, weeping loudly!.. … …
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Pablo de Rokha (1894–1968), born as Pablo Díaz Loyola, was one of the most important Chilean poets of the twentieth century. Despite his profound influence upon subsequent generations of Latin American poets, he failed to achieve the international fame of his contemporary, Pablo Neruda, with whom he quarrelled fiercely. In 1965, he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, deemed by many at the time to be long overdue. He committed suicide at the age of seventy-three.
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Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned
“A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis
“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust.
Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”
Vivas To Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913
Vivas to those who have fail’d! And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea! And to those themselves who sank in the sea! And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known! —Walt Whitman
I. The Red Flag
The newspapers said the strikers would hoist
the red flag of anarchy over the silk mills
of Paterson. At the strike meeting, a dyers’ helper
from Naples rose as if from the steam of his labor,
lifted up his hand and said here is the red flag:
brightly stained with dye for the silk of bow ties
and scarves, the skin and fingernails boiled away
for six dollars a week in the dye house.
He sat down without another word, sank back
into the fumes, name and face rubbed off
by oblivion’s thumb like a Roman coin
from the earth of his birthplace dug up
after a thousand years, as the strikers
shouted the only praise he would ever hear.
II. The River Floods the Avenue
He was the other Valentino, not the romantic sheik
and bullfighter of silent movie palaces who died too young,
but the Valentino standing on his stoop to watch detectives
hired by the company bully strikebreakers onto a trolley
and a chorus of strikers bellowing the banned word scab.
He was not a striker or a scab, but the bullet fired to scatter
the crowd pulled the cork in the wine barrel of Valentino’s back.
His body, pale as the wings of a moth, lay beside his big-bellied wife.
Two white-veiled horses pulled the carriage to the cemetery.
Twenty thousand strikers walked behind the hearse, flooding
the avenue like the river that lit up the mills, surging around
the tombstones. Blood for blood, cried Tresca: at this signal,
thousands of hands dropped red carnations and ribbons
into the grave, till the coffin evaporated in a red sea.
III. The Insects in the Soup
Reed was a Harvard man. He wrote for the New York magazines.
Big Bill, the organizer, fixed his good eye on Reed and told him
of the strike. He stood on a tenement porch across from the mill
to escape the rain and listen to the weavers. The bluecoats
told him to move on. The Harvard man asked for a name to go
with the number on the badge, and the cops tried to unscrew
his arms from their sockets. When the judge asked his business,
Reed said: Poet. The judge said: Twenty days in the county jail.
Reed was a Harvard man. He taught the strikers Harvard songs,
the tunes to sing with rebel words at the gates of the mill. The strikers
taught him how to spot the insects in the soup, speaking in tongues
the gospel of One Big Union and the eight-hour day, cramming the jail
till the weary jailers had to unlock the doors. Reed would write:
There’s war in Paterson. After it was over, he rode with Pancho Villa.
IV. The Little Agitator
The cops on horseback charged into the picket line.
The weavers raised their hands across their faces,
hands that knew the loom as their fathers’ hands
knew the loom, and the billy clubs broke their fingers.
Hannah was seventeen, the captain of the picket line,
the Joan of Arc of the Silk Strike. The prosecutor called her
a little agitator. Shame, said the judge; if she picketed again,
he would ship her to the State Home for Girls in Trenton.
Hannah left the courthouse to picket the mill. She chased
a strikebreaker down the street, yelling in Yidish the word
for shame. Back in court, she hissed at the judge’s sentence
of another striker. Hannah got twenty days in jail for hissing.
She sang all the way to jail. After the strike came the blacklist,
the counter at her husband’s candy store, the words for shame.
V. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Strikers without shoes lose strikes. Twenty years after the weavers
and dyers’ helpers returned hollow-eyed to the loom and the steam,
Mazziotti led the other silk mill workers marching down the avenue
in Paterson, singing the old union songs for five cents more an hour.
Once again the nightsticks cracked cheekbones like teacups.
Mazziotti pressed both hands to his head, squeezing red ribbons
from his scalp. There would be no buffalo nickel for an hour’s work
at the mill, for the silk of bow ties and scarves. Skull remembered wood.
The brain thrown against the wall of the skull remembered too:
the Sons of Italy, the Workmen’s Circle, Local 152, Industrial
Workers of the World, one-eyed Big Bill and Flynn the Rebel Girl
speaking in tongues to thousands the prophecy of an eight-hour day.
Mazziotti’s son would become a doctor, his daughter a poet.
Vivas to those who have failed: for they become the river.
Homo Consumo-pethicus and Sapiens Bellum want their pudding and their meat too!
Building in a largely Mexican arena, man oh man, what the city and county officials won’t do for more shitty tax revenues, at the expense of____________________ (fill in the blanks).
The 3.8-million square foot, 105-foot high, five-story white and blue Amazon distribution center in Woodburn, billed as the biggest building in Oregon, appeared finished for much of 2023. Yet the gigantic parking lot surrounding it has been mostly empty as the company syncs up robotic operations before opening.
A spokesperson for Amazon declined to say when the distribution center is expected to open. In September 2022, Amazon halted plans to build a 517,000 square foot warehouse in Canby. That came after the company closed or stopped construction on 42 warehouses and delayed construction on another 21 locations.
Taxes, man, and “if you build it, they will swarm, come, pollute, clog, enjoy strip malls and fast-food and endless Friday night cruising. “We’re hoping $8 million to $10 million as assessed value for the building. That’s what we don’t know. We’re starting to put that together for this next year (2024), and we’ll probably have some preliminary figures. We’re anticipating a big chunk.”
In predatory, casino, inverted totalitarian capitalism, the mother fucking billionaires and their lobby lackeys and their prostitutes in media/press and political will bend over and spread those cheeks wide for Bezos, et al.
Federal Aviation Administration began authorizing some drone operators to fly their aircraft “beyond the visual line of sight” (BVLOS).
That key breakthrough has opened the door for companies like Zipline, Wing and Amazon to begin more widespread drone deliveries this year.
Amazon, whose executive chairman Jeff Bezos first floated the idea of drone delivery back in 2013, is ramping up toward a goal of 500 million drone deliveries a year by the end of the decade.
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Junk and now prescriptions and almost everything delivered by Amazon (dot) thievery: Oh, those bottlenecks in Panama.
With water levels languishing at six feet (1.8 meters) below normal, the Panama canal authority capped the number of vessels that can cross. The limits imposed late last year were the strictest since 1989, when the conduit was shut as the US invaded Panama to extract its de facto ruler, Manuel Noriega. Some shippers are paying millions of dollars to jump the growing queue, while others are taking longer, costlier routes around Africa or South America.
The constraints have since eased slightly due to a rainier-than-expected November, but at 24 ships a day, the maximum is still well below the pre-drought daily capacity of about 38. As the dry season takes hold, the bottleneck is poised to worsen again.
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And Forbes Fucking Magazine is giving tips on how to increase the number of baby and mother and father killers for UkroNaziLandia. These shipments of death will not have to go through the Panama canal or on Jeff Lizard Bezos’ drones:
Forbes: It is no secret the artillery fight for Ukraine has devolved into a battle for mass. The West, hoping to pump at least 200,000 155mm rounds a month into the Ukraine fight, is reaching into old stockpiles and even exploring the idea of refurbishing expired shells. These are all viable stopgaps, but, as the West’s ammunition production infrastructure struggles to scale up in 2024, the artisanal, hand-crafted aspects of post-Cold War artillery manufacturing merits some tough scrutiny.
Production is key.
America is set to produce at least 100,000 155mm shells a month by 2025, leaving Europe with the task to boost domestic production of 155mm shells by 150% over the course of 2024.
Ahh, the Military Industrial Offensive Weapons Sicario Complex is well represented in DC with those mostly white pigs in tip top shape gouging millions upon millions from US taxpaers, while . . . .
When talking about health disparities in the District, the narrative is usually the same: African American residents in Wards 7 and 8 are either at risk or are greatly impacted by illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, kidney disease and cases of sexually transmitted diseases. These disparities are so well-known, they aren’t even newsworthy any more; it’s almost as if we can no longer see them.
A report by Georgetown University on health disparities in the District found that African American residents are being left behind. For instance, African American residents are six times more likely than white residents to die from diabetes-related complications, and twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease. Despite DC’s rapid economic growth and increasing prosperity, “health outcomes and quality of life indicators for African American residents do not reflect trends of the general population,” the report finds.
But all’s well for the albino Caucasian Creep(s): Bryan Johnson swipes back at Elon Musk’s criticism of his $2 million-a-year youth-chasing regime: ‘He will fire you and leave you to die’ …Johnson is trying to reverse his age, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t sold on his methods. Biohacker Johnson is taking criticism of his $2 million-a-year age-reversing regime on the chin—even if it comes from X owner Elon Musk.
[Send these pieces of shit to ukraine or isra-HELL:
Ahh, all’s really fucked up down under, with our Anglo-Penal Colony Brothers and Sisters —
“Prescribing antipsychotics for mental health diagnoses to children/ adolescents attending Australian general practices was more frequent in 2017 than in 2011 and most commonly associated with depression/anxiety diagnoses. In both years, most prescribing was off‐label. The majority of patients were co‐prescribed other classes of psychotropics along with antipsychotics.”
Oh, Western Warring, Exploitative, Chaos, Terror, Amnesic, Lying CULTURE!
Joshua Coleman’s a psychologist and author of the book “Rules Of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties And How To Heal The Conflict.” Joshua, thanks for being here.
MA: Is estrangement becoming more common than it used to be?
COLEMAN: I think it’s becoming more common, and troublingly, I think it’s becoming more acceptable and accepted. I think there’s a kind of a social contagion that happens through Instagram and TikTok and Reddit where cutting out your toxic family member is becoming sort of an act of personal expression and identity, rather than what it often is, which is an expression more of avoidance. I’m not saying that there aren’t places where, of course, there are. There are abusive, problematic parents or family members who, no matter how well you communicate with them, they’re not going to change, and they can continue to be abusive and hurtful and destructive in one form or another.
But I and my colleagues are working with parents and families where that is not the case, where these are parents who would do anything, who are willing to do their own therapy, go to family therapy, take responsibility, and they’re being told, no, my therapist says you’re a narcissist or you’re a gaslighter. And it’s a huge problem in our society. We have a culture that’s very rich in the language of separation and individuation and labeling and diagnosis but a completely impoverished culture around ideas of connectedness and interdependency and mutual reliance. (source)
This is just a five-minute look at the fucking news feeds I get daily, by the nanosecond. Putting them all together as systems thinking fool that I am, is so-so easy. Yeah, I could so entire articles looking at EACH one of these — you know, getting into persuasive writing, the cause and effects and effects and causes; looking at processes and the variation on a theme and the history and the lack of deep thinking, which is tied to the algorithms and AI and mass murdereing (as in critical thinking killing) media.
Then contrast serious problems and what should be solutions-based critical thinking with this “oh shit, the dirty devil lawyers are lining up” stories:
They were too late for New Year Happy Hour.
Ecstatic passengers on a “time machine” flight were left fuming after an airline mishap resulted in them missing out on the chance to celebrate the New Year — twice. Tweets detailing the missed NYE two-fer are going viral as time travel hopefuls voiced their chagrin.
The 3,000-mile flight United Airlines flight was scheduled to depart Guam at 7:35 a.m. on January 1, 2024, and land in Honolulu, Hawaii at 6:50 p.m. on December 31, 2023, due to the 20-hour time difference between the two locations, Kennedy News reported.
This meant that passengers would effectively get to travel back to the past and ring in the New Year twice.
“You only live once, but you can celebrate New Year’s Eve twice!” exclaimed United Airlines in an X post announcing the potential Happy Two Year.
Mush for brains, man: PTSD, Trauma, all those diabetes-inducing chocolates sold without the cute fucking carving? Call out the ambulance chasers. Ruddy G, you around still?
NEW YORK — Cynthia Kelly thought she was buying Halloween-themed Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins with a “cute” carving of a pumpkin’s mouth and eyes, as pictured on the product’s packaging.
But when she opened it, she was horrified to find that there was no pumpkin carving at all. It was just a regular-looking piece of chocolate.
Now, Kelly has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Hershey, the maker of Reese’s, alleging the company falsely represented several of its holiday-themed products on packaging: Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins, White Pumpkins, Pieces Pumpkins, Peanut Butter Ghost, White Ghost and others.
Kelly “would not have purchased the Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins product if she knew that it did not have the detailed carvings of the mouth and/or eyes as pictured on the product label,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, seeks class-action status on behalf of “numerous consumers [who] have been tricked and misled by the pictures on the Products’ packaging.”
Hershey declined comment to CNN on the suit.
Hershey joins a growing list of food brands sued for false advertising, including Taco Bell, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Burger King and Arby’s. These companies use ads that don’t match up with their actual food, the suits allege.
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I am sure AI-Big Data collectors will find more and more false advertising situations that will keep the shisters in business suing left and right, up and down. But the sun never sets, as SF is the sun by which all other surveillence capitalists revolve:
Here, piece of shit Richard Florida, yammering again: Urban studies professor Richard Florida and three city-focused consultants wrote that San Francisco is a hub of a “Meta City,” which they define as a web of cities that share talent pools and industries. By framing it that way, Florida told SFGATE on Friday, they argue out-migration and remote work aren’t necessarily bad for the Bay Area, but could serve to expand its “digital hinterlands.”
“In the technology world, San Francisco remains the center. It remains the sun on which the planets orbit,” Florida said. Those “planets,” the authors wrote, include Austin, Seattle and Portland, as well as larger talent hubs like New York and Los Angeles.
Read this Poison Ivy School Report here. Note these racists left out Tel Aviv, man.
Ahh, protecting the Jews EVERYWHERE, Harvard!
Source: How does Israel, a small country with roughly 8 million people, produce more tech startups and receive more venture capital per capita than any nation in the world? Why does a country with few natural resources have more companies listed on the NASDAQ than Europe, Japan, Korea, India and China combined?
To understand Israel’s innovation success, look no further than the Israeli Defense Forces and the country’s mandatory policy of service for young adults. For me and thousands of Israeli entrepreneurs like me, our startup journey began in the technology units of the Israeli Defense Forces. One unit in particular has become a prolific technology incubator, particularly in the field of cybersecurity: IDF Unit 8200.
The 8200 is a special unit, and in many ways, it’s run like a high-tech startup. It begins with finding the best talent. IDF scouts comb the nation’s high schools to identify high-potential candidates at an early age. They target students with superior analytical capabilities, who can make quick decisions and work well in a team environment. Only the best and brightest are routed to this elite cybersecurity group.
Instead of relying on outside research and development, the 8200’s technologists work directly with their “customers” (the intelligence officers). All of the unit’s technology systems, from analytics to data mining, intercept, and intelligence management, are designed and built in-house. Technologists sit side by side with their users on a daily basis to ensure that their “products” meet the intelligence officers’ specific requirements.
The result is that 8200 alumni have developed critical startup skills and experience even before they start their first company. That’s why it’s not a surprise that technology companies, such as CheckPoint, Imperva, Nice, Gilat, Waze, Trusteer, and Wix all have their roots in this IDF unit. (Israel’s thriving mobility-tech sector has created an innovation nation)
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Finally, if you thought mRNA JewJabs for SARS-CoV2 were bad. Here comes the vaxxes, man, for EVERYTHING thing. Soylent Green is Turbo Cancer Juice!
A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses to Alzheimer’s Again And Again
“After reading [this] study, we realized that for years scientists had been searching – one-by-one – for links between an individual neurodegenerative disorder and a specific virus,” said senior author Michael Nalls, a neurogeneticist at the National Institute on Aging in the US.
Around 80 percent of the viruses implicated in brain diseases were considered ‘neurotrophic’, which means they could cross the blood-brain barrier.
“Strikingly, vaccines are currently available for some of these viruses, including influenza, shingles (varicella-zoster), and pneumonia,” the researchers wrote.
“Although vaccines do not prevent all cases of illness, they are known to dramatically reduce hospitalization rates. This evidence suggests that vaccination may mitigate some risk of developing neurodegenerative disease.”
Lies, really, siloed science. But for a purpose: AI, AR, CRISPR bio-DNA hack-jabs, and more and more billions to the Mengele Club.
However,
“Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a leading cause of mortality in the developed world with 70% risk attributable to genetics. The remaining 30% of AD risk is hypothesized to include environmental factors and human lifestyle patterns. Environmental factors possibly include inorganic and organic hazards, exposure to toxic metals (aluminium, copper), pesticides (organochlorine and organophosphateinsecticides), industrial chemicals (flame retardants) and air pollutants (particulate matter). Long term exposures to these environmental contaminants together with bioaccumulation over an individual’s life-time are speculated to induce neuroinflammation and neuropathology paving the way for developing AD.
Epidemiologic associations between environmental contaminant exposures and AD are still limited. However, many in vitro and animal studies have identified toxic effects of environmental contaminants at the cellular level, revealing alterations of pathways and metabolisms associated with AD that warrant further investigations. This review provides an overview of in vitro, animal and epidemiological studies on the etiology of AD, highlighting available data supportive of the long hypothesized link between toxic environmental exposures and development of AD pathology.”
Nah, it can’t be all those chemicals and toxins and substances in the average modern body — hundreds that were never in human or animal phisiology before the industrial revolution.
Particle pollution produced by tire wear is found to be 1,850 times higher than emissions from the tailpipes of modern cars, according to the latest testing. In testing more than 250 different types of tires, usually made from synthetic rubber, a material that is derived from crude oil, it found that particles from tire wear contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens. They then go straight into soil and water, polluting the sources. Car exhaust emissions, on the other hand, remain in the air for a period of time and affect air quality.
Heavier battery cars are causing greater wear and more tire particle pollution than from car exhausts, suggesting the urgent need for stronger regulation.
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Oh, Tesla, et al: In recent years, marine, freshwater and terrestrial pollution with microplastics has been discussed extensively, whereas atmospheric microplastic transport has been largely overlooked. Here, we present global simulations of atmospheric transport of microplastic particles produced by road traffic (TWPs – tire wear particles and BWPs – brake wear particles), a major source that can be quantified relatively well. We find a high transport efficiencies of these particles to remote regions. About 34% of the emitted coarse TWPs and 30% of the emitted coarse BWPs (100 kt yr−1 and 40 kt yr−1 respectively) were deposited in the World Ocean. These amounts are of similar magnitude as the total estimated direct and riverine transport of TWPs and fibres to the ocean (64 kt yr−1). We suggest that the Arctic may be a particularly sensitive receptor region, where the light-absorbing properties of TWPs and BWPs may also cause accelerated warming and melting of the cryosphere. (source)
Tires are more complex than they look. The vulcanized rubber compound that makes up the outermost layer, the tread, often contains sulfur, zinc, carbon black, bisphenol A (BPA), and other chemicals. A lot of that gets swept off the roads by rain, along with motor oil, bits of pavement, and other litter.
A three-year study by the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) found that stormwater carries roughly 7 trillion microplastic pieces into the bay annually – more than 300 times the discharge from the area’s wastewater treatment plant. Nearly half of those appear to be tire fragments. (source)
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Rampant, uncontrolled, unregulated, totalitarian, predatory, casino, usury, violent, profits-at-any-price, zero-precautionary principle CAPITALISM = fuck, well, we are FUCKED.
Tires, man, and I studied them 15 years ago, but today, shifting baseline disease gives us these crappy stories and reports, many of them AI generated, now, that have the toothless wonders of a PR release.
Socialism or, think of another slogan beginning with “b”.
Here, 1969 pamphlet — imagine, more than half a century ago, and some point spot on.
SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM
1. Class Society Today
I. THE NATURE OF CLASS SOCIETY.
1. Capitalism remains a class society despite the great changes it has undergone in the course of the last century. The same struggle between the classes dominates social life. The same alternatives confront the working class: to submit to ever-increasing exploitation, alienation and enslavement — or to eliminate the exploiting classes, to destroy their social system, and to establish working class power. Only then will it be possible to reorganize society on a new basis and to give a new purpose to human life.
2. The relations of production remain the basis of the class structure of any society. In all countries of the world these relations are capitalist relations because they are based on wage labour. The wage-earners, both as individuals and as a social group, are expropriated from the means of labour, from the products of labour, and from the control of their own activity. They are concentrated in enterprises of various sizes where they are subjected to the ruthless will of capital, personified in the bureaucratic managerial apparatus.
3. Society remains basically divided into two classes. One class disposes of the means of production (either in law or in fact — either individually or collectively). It manages both production and society in its own interests. It determines the distribution, of the total social product and enforces it through its control of the State machine. The other class consists of wage earners whose means of life is the sale of their labour power, and who in the course of work merely execute orders imposed from above.
4. To an increasing degree every sphere of productive life has been ‘proletarianised’. Capitalism has invaded all sectors of the economy. Even in the offices the dominant social form has become the enterprise based on wage labour and organised on an industrial pattern.
Within industry there has been an increase of ‘non-productive’ personnel, who in their turn are becoming ‘proletarianized’. Office staff, other ‘white collar’ worker’s in industry or commerce, and certain categories of Government employees, are henceforth just as much proletarians as are manual workers. They too are wage slaves. They too are submitted to a ruthless division of labour and perform mere tasks of execution, carefully measured and controlled from above. Because of the numerical increase of jobs of this type, they too are deprived of any real prospect of a change in their conditions of life.
Despite the illusions some may retain concerning the ‘status’ they once enjoyed, these strata belong to the proletariat. This is shown quite clearly by the methods of organization and struggle they are increasingly compelled to resort to, in the defence of their most elementary interests.
II. THE WORKING CLASS.
5. The evolution of capitalism has not altered the essential features of working class status in modern society.
In the field of production the extraordinary increase in technical knowledge and the increased productivity of machines have resulted in an increased subjugation of the worker to capital. The utterly absurd nature of work under capitalism is being shown up more and more.
The struggle at the point of production dominates the whole organization of work. It even affects the evolution of technology. Because of working class resistance to the bureaucratic organization of work the capitalists have to impose an over increasing control in the factory, over every aspect of working class activity, whether individual or collective. This takes the form of an increasing division of labour, of time and motion study, and of a perpetual tendency to speed-up.
6. The division of tasks in modern industry is carried out to an absurd degree. The purpose is to convert the yield of the individual worker into something increasingly easy to measure, and therefore to control. The purpose is also to assist the imposition upon workers of methods of production against which they constantly rebel. The tempo of living labour is increasingly subordinated to that of the machine.
The situation is only very superficially different in the automated sectors of production. Here the sustained nervous tension, the loneliness and the monotony of supervisory functions create the same sense of destruction of the worker as a human being. The same process takes place in office work and in other sectors of the economy.
Capitalist production is characterised by the total alienation of labour. The worker is reduced to the role of a simple ‘executant’ of infinitely divided tasks. He is robbed of the control of his own activities.
These have been rigidly drawn up, defined and organized in the offices. He is converted into a mere instrument in the hands of those who manage production, into a mere appendage of the machine.
7. Despite a slowly increasing level of consumption the status of the workers as workers has not fundamentally altered. The working class remains exploited. It remains robbed of roughly half the product of its labour which goes to the parasitic consumption of the exploiting class, to the expenditure of the exploiters’ State, and into investments over which the workers have no control. The nature and objective of these investments are determined by the class nature of society, by the interests of its ruling class. A given pattern of investment serves to reinforce and reproduce a given type of social structure.
8. The fate of the workers in political and social life has not changed either. The workers remain a subordinated class. The whole orientation of modern society (of its economy, of its State, of its housing, of its education, of the objects it will consume and of the news it will get, of the questions of war and peace themselves) remains decided by a self-perpetuating minority. The mass of the population have no power whatsoever over this minority, be the society ‘democratic’ or ‘totalitarian’.
III. CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM.
9. The transformations undergone by capitalism during the last century show themselves primarily in the increasing concentration of both capital and managerial functions.
In the countries of ‘private capitalism’ this concentration has taken certain well-known forms (monopolies, giant enterprises, trusts and holding companies, the creation of ‘satellite’ companies around the big enterprises, cartels, agreements, professional associations of capitalists, etc.). But it also shows itself more specifically by the new role played by the State.
The State has become the main economic factor in contemporary society. The modern capitalist state absorbs about 25 per cent. of the total social product, handles (directly or indirectly) about 50 per cent. of this product, owns a substantial proportion of the total capital (often concentrated in key sectors such as coal and railways) and finally acts as a central agency for the regulation of the economy as a whole, in the interests of the capitalist class.
10. The concentration of capital and the increasing intervention of the capitalist state have resulted in certain changes in the capitalist economy itself. Some old problems have been solved, many new ones created. The failure to recognize these changes accounts for the sterility of much that passes as ‘marxist analysis’ today.
The ruling classes have succeeded in controlling the level of economic activity and in preventing major crises or depressions. This is a result both of the changing structure of the economy and of the conscious intervention of the State to stabilise economic activity and to guarantee its expansion. Unemployment has enormously diminished. The increase of wages is both more rapid, and especially more regular, than previously. This is a result both of working class struggle and of a new policy on the part of the employers, aimed at buying discipline at the point of production in exchange for certain wage concessions. Wage increases now approximately follow increases in the productivity of labour. This means that the proportion of the total social product going to workers and to capitalists remains approximately constant.
An increase in mass consumption has become indispensable to the smooth functioning of the modern capitalist economy. It has in fact become an irreversible aspect of it. The old ‘image’ of capitalism as characterised by economic slumps, increasing unemployment, and stagnation — if not lowering of living standards, must be discarded. The reality of contemporary capitalism is the expansion of both production and consumption, interrupted by minor fluctuations. This expansion is obtained at the cost of an ever increasing exploitation and alienation of the producers in the course of their labour.
IV. CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE RULING CLASS
11. The concentration of capital through these various mechanisms has resulted in certain changes in the classical social structure. These relate to the social composition of the ruling class and to the moans whereby individuals may accede to this class.
As the ‘rationalization’ and organisation from outside of all human activities becomes the dominant feature of capitalist society, bureaucratisation spreads to all spheres of social life. In the process, inherited, individual wealth becomes relatively less important as a moans of access to the commanding positions of the economy and of the State.
12. The ‘traditional’ ruling class (based on heavy industry, manufacture, shipping, banking, insurance, etc.) is being forced to share, on an increasing scale, the functions of administration and management (both of the economy and of society at large) with a growing bureaucratic stratum.
This stratum is becoming an integral part of modern capitalist societies, indispensable to their ‘efficient’ functioning, and reflecting deep and irreversible changes in the structure of their economies.
13. The bureaucracy has some of its roots in production. The concentration of capital and the ‘rationalization’ of production from outside create the necessity for a bureaucratic apparatus in the factory. The function of this apparatus is to ‘manage’ the labour process and the labour force and to coordinate the relations of the enterprise with the rest of the economy.
The bureaucracy also finds roots in the increasing number of individuals involved in the higher reaches of state activity (nationalised industries, government economic agencies, etc.). This is a result of the profound changes that have taken place in the economic role of the state.
The bureaucracy finally finds its roots in the political and trade union organisations of the working class itself. To straight-jacket the workers, to integrate them more and more into the existing social order, requires a specific apparatus. This apparatus participates to an increasing degree in the day-to-day management of capitalist society, of which it is an integral part.
The bureaucracy is not a homogeneous social formation. It has developed to varying degrees in various countries. Its economic basis is the final stage in the concentration of capital, namely the tendency of monopoly capitalism to fuse completely with the state. In the countries of classical capitalism the managerial bureaucracy is not based on any fundamentally new mode of production or new pattern of circulation of commodities. It is based on changes in the economic basis of capitalism itself.
14. The growth of the bureaucracy has profoundly altered the internal structure of the ruling class. New elements have had to be incorporated and the diffusion of privileges extended. New hierarchical relationships emerge.
The process has been a very uneven one, the resistance of the old ruling classes to fusion with the new strata varying considerably from place to place. It has varied according to the economic problems confronting the capitalists, according to the pressures of the working class for more radical solutions and according to the degree of historical insight which the rulers have achieved.
V. THE PERSISTING CONTRADICTIONS IN CAPITALISM.
15. These modifications of capitalism have done nothing to lessen the contradictions of the system which lie in the field of production and of work. These are the contradictions contained in the alienation of the worker.
Capitalism attempts by all possible means to transform the workers into mere executors of tasks decided by others, into mere cogs of its industrial machine. But if it succeeded in this attempt, capitalism would cease to function. Capitalism constantly attempts to exclude the workers from the management of their own activities — but is at the same time constantly obliged to seek their participation.
This contradiction dominates every capitalist enterprise. It provides the framework within which the class struggle is constantly regenerated, whatever the level of wages.
16. Attempts by the capitalists to solve this contradiction by the ‘rationalization’ of their enterprises, by Taylorism, by work study methods, by the use of industrial sociologists and psychologists, by talk of the ‘importance of human relations’ have all miserably failed. They have done nothing to lessen the intensity of the class struggle which today opposes workers and management, in every country in the world, in disputes concerning conditions and tempo of work and the control of human activity in the process of production.
17. Under a different form, the same contradiction is also to be found in every aspect of collective life. For instance political life is organized in such a manner as to exclude the vast majority of the population from any effective management of their own affairs. The corollary is indifference and apathy. These in turn make it difficult for capitalist political institutions even to function according to the requirements of the capitalist class itself. A minimum of genuine participation is required to prevent these organizations being shown up for the complete sham that they are.
18. The development and bureaucratisation of capitalism have not lessened its irrationality and its fundamental anarchy. Both at the level of the factory and at the level of society as a whole, the bureaucratic capitalist management is a mixture of despotism and confusion which produces a fantastic human and material wastage”
The ruling classes and their bureaucratic apparatus constitute a small minority of society. They are separated both from the immense majority of mankind and from social reality itself. Because of this they are incapable of effectively managing even their own system, in their own interests. They are even less capable of solving the immense problems confronting humanity today.
Because of this, and despite the elimination of economic crises of classical type, capitalism cannot and will never be able to avoid crises of another kind: moments when the irrationality of the whole system explodes in one way or another, bringing with it periodic breakdowns of the ‘normal’ functioning of society.
19. The crisis of all capitalist institutions is deeper than ever. Day after day capitalism demonstrates its incapacity to solve the problem of relations between men in the process of production. It also demonstrates its inability to solve any of the other major problems of social life in the 20th century.
Its political institutions are an object of contempt for the general population, which is increasingly losing interest in ‘traditional’ politics. There is a general decay of all its values: moral, political, social and cultural. The crisis in the traditional conception of the family and the increasingly bureaucratic, artificial and absurd nature of ‘education’ in modern society have provoked, in all industrial countries, an immense revolt of youth. Youth today tries to live its life both outside and against established society. This has immense revolutionary implications.
20. The only objective which the ruling class is still capable of proposing to humanity is the carrot of ‘a rising standard of living’. All that they mean by this is an increase in the consumption of material goods. But this increase is constantly outpaced by the increase in ‘needs’ which capitalist society automatically generates or quite artificially creates. The struggle for status and the acquisition of wealth is far more intense in an advanced industrial community than in a primitive African village.
The slow but regular increase in living standards, which is a feature of contemporary capitalism, is counteracted by the increasing fatigue and alienation at work. It does not lessen the smouldering dissatisfaction of millions of individuals with their conditions of life, nor does it lessen the underlying social tensions. We have only to look for confirmation of this assertion, at the sustained nature of the class struggle in precisely those countries where working class wages are highest.
2. The Socialist Programme
25. ALL historical experience has shown that no reforms can alter the fate of the worker in capitalist society or solve the crisis confronting society. The programme of yesterday’s reformists has been realised today in a whole series of countries. In the process it has proved its own futility !
Historical experience has also shown that no stratum, category, or organisation can achieve socialism ‘on behalf of’ the proletariat and in its place. Socialism will only be built through the radical destruction of the present social system. To the extent that present society is more and more dominated by the bureaucracy this means that socialism will only be built through the destruction of all bureaucracies (including those presenting themselves as the ‘leadership of the proletariat’).
This means that socialism will only be achieved through the autonomous and self-conscious activity of the working masses. ‘The emancipation of the working class is the task of the working class itself.
26. Socialism does not only mean the abolition of private capitalism. It means the abolition of all dominating and privileged strata in society.
It therefore implies the abolition of any social group claiming to manage production or the State ‘on behalf of the proletariat’.
27. The socialist revolution must proclaim and realise the expropriation of the capitalists and the suppression of the bureaucracy in the workshops, in the state, and in society at large. It must give the management of production in the factories to the workers (manual workers, employees and technicians) who operate them.
The organs of this management will be assemblies of workers, shop assemblies, departmental assemblies, factory assemblies and factory councils composed of elected representatives, revocable at all times.
Production will be planned according to human needs. A variety of alternative plans will be drawn up, electronic equipment being used to an increasing degree to work out the inter-related needs of various sectors of the economy. This is the purely technical aspect of planning. The implications of the various plans (in relation to such basic human questions as hours of work, level of consumption, level of investment) will then be presented to the people. A meaningful and genuine choice will become possible. This is the political aspect of planning.
All revenue derived from the exploitation of labour will be abolished. There will be equality of wages and pensions until it proves feasible to abolish money.
28. The State is the pivot of all systems of exploitation and oppression in contemporary society. The socialist revolution will have to destroy the state as an instrument of coercion, independent and separate from the bulk of the population.
The administration of production and the forms of social organisation will be radically different from the present one. The new institutions will be managed by those who work in them. The standing army and the police force will be abolished. The ‘armed people’ themselves will defend the revolutionary power, against attempts at counter-revolution. The main threats to the new society will come not only from the deposed ruling class. It will also come from bureaucratic tendencies within the working class itself, particularly those advocating the delegation of industrial management or political power to ‘specialised’ minorities,
The functions of government will be in the hands of assemblies of elected and permanently revocable representatives of the factory committees and of other sections of the working population.
29. The socialist revolution will give a new purpose to man’s life. The elimination of bureaucratic anarchy and waste, combined with the changed attitude of workers towards the productive machine over which they have real mastery, will permit society to develop production and consumption to unsuspected degrees. But this development will not be the fundamental preoccupation of the socialist revolution.
From the very onset the revolution will have consciously to turn towards the transformation of man. It will devote great efforts to changing the very nature of work (from subjection to the machine, which it is today, into an endeavour where creative faculties will be allowed to flourish to the full). It will have to create a universal education of a totally new kind. It will have to abolish the barriers between education and work, between intellectual and manual training, between the school and real life. It will have to abolish the division between town and country and seek to create integrated human communities.
30. These objectives must not be relegated to an unforeseeable ‘communist’ future.. If they are, people will feel that things have not really changed in the areas that concern them most, The activity of the masses will wane. For the sake of ‘efficiency’, ‘specialists’ will step in and start taking the decisions themselves. They may do so at first with the best of revolutionary intentions, but the revolution will soon begin to degenerate.
The socialist revolution only stands a chance of being victorious (as a socialist revolution) if from the very first day it is capable of showing mankind a new way forward and a new pattern of life in all fields of human activity.
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3.Degeneration Of Working Class Organisations
31. In the countries of modern capitalism the class struggle shows contradictory aspects.
In production the struggle shows an intensity never witnessed hitherto. It takes place both in the field of purely economic demands but also, and on an increasing scale, on questions concerning conditions of work and life in the factory. The ‘wildcat’ strikes in the USA and the ‘unofficial’ strikes in Britain provide repeated examples of this tendency.
But outside the factory the class struggle does not manifest itself as it used to. Or it only manifests itself in an abortive way, deformed by the bureaucratic working class organisations. Occasionally these mobilize particular categories of workers and bring them out in ‘disciplined’ and bureaucratically managed strikes. Or else the ‘struggle’ finds expression in purely electoral support for the so-called workers’ parties,
In the field of politics the present period is characterised by an almost total absence of proletarian participation. This phenomenon (which has been called apathy or depolitisation) goes much deeper than any previous or temporary fluctuation in the level of working-class political activity.
32. In today’s society the proletariat does not appear to have objectives of its own. It does not mobilize itself — except in an electoral sense — to support the parties which claim to represent it. The active members of these parties are rarely workers.
Looked at from the outside the proletariat appears utterly dominated by its political and trade union machines. But this domination is an increasingly hollow one. It masks a total absence of working class participation. The support is purely passive.
The roots of this situation are to be found in two intimately interrelated processes; the evolution of modern capitalism and the bureaucratisation of working class organisations.
33. The degeneration of working class-organisations is not due to ‘bad leaders’ who ‘betray’. The problem has much deeper roots. It is due primarily to the pressures and influences of capitalist society on the proletarian movement. Originally created to overthrow bourgeois society, the political and trade union organisations of the working class have increasingly adopted the objectives, methods, philosophy and patterns of organisation of the very society they were striving to supersede. There has developed within their ranks an increasing division between leaders and led, order-givers and order-takers. This has culminated in the development of a working class bureaucracy which can be neither removed nor controlled. This bureaucracy pursues objectives of its own.
34. The traditional organisations come forward with claims to ‘lead’ the working class. In reality they see the class as a mass to be manoeuvred, according to the pre-conceived ideas of those who dominate the particular Party machine. They all see the objective of working class emancipation as an increased degree of working class participation in general ‘prosperity’.
The reformists claim that this can be achieved by a better organisation of traditional capitalism. The Stalinists and Trotskyists claim that what is needed is a change in the formal ownership of the means of production and planning from above. Their common philosophy boils down to an increase in production and consumption guaranteed by the rule of an elite of managers, seated at the summit of a new hierarchy based on ‘ability’, ‘experience’, ‘devotion to the cause’, etc… This objective is no different from the essential objectives of contemporary capitalism itself.
35. The degeneration is not due to the intrinsic evils of organisation (as some anarchists would claim). Nor is it due to the fact that reformists and Stalinists have ‘wrong ideas’ and provide ‘bad leadership’ (as sundry Trotskyists and Leninists still maintain). Still less is it due to the bad influence of particular individuals (Gaitskell, Stalin, etc…).
What it really reflects is the fact that even when struggling to overthrow the capitalist system the working class remains a partial prisoner of the system, and this in a much more subtle way than is usually understood. It remains a prisoner because it continues to conceive of its liberation as a task to be entrusted to the leaders of certain organisations to whom the class can confidently delegate its historical role.
36. The bureaucratised working class organisations, parties and unions, have long ceased to express the historical interests of the workers. The reformist bureaucracy aims at securing a place for itself in the management of the capitalist system as it is. The Stalinist bureaucracy aims at instituting in various countries a regime of the Russian type where it would itself become the dominant social group. In the meantime the Stalinist bureaucracy aims at using the working class in the West as pawns for the foreign policy of the Russian bloc.
37. Despite their periodic conflicts with the ruling class, both reformist and Stalinist parties and unions have as their ultimate objective the integration of the proletariat into class society. They are the vehicles through which capitalist ideas, attitudes and mentality seep into the proletariat. They seek to canalise and control all manifestations of working class revolt against the existing social order. They seek to limit the more extreme excesses of the system, the better to maintain exploitation within ‘tolerable’ limits. They give the workers the idea that they are genuinely represented and that they ‘participate’ in the management of society.
Finally, and above all, they repeatedly negotiate wage concessions in exchange for an increased subjugation of the working class in the process of production itself.
38. The political and trade union organisations of the working class are confronted with an insoluble dilemma. On the one hand they are institutions belonging to established society. On the other hand they aim at maintaining within their framework a class whose conditions of life and work drive it to destroy that very society.
The individual participation of revolutionaries in these organisations should be determined by prevailing conditions (degree of working class composition and participation, national traditions, nature of the organisations, etc.). But it is out of the question for revolutionaries to take over important posts in these parties or unions, or for the revolutionary organisations to set themselves the target of ‘reforming’ or ‘capturing’ them. Working class illusions about the possibility of ‘democratizing’ or changing these outfits must not be encouraged, and must in fact be exposed.
The organisations which the working class needs must base themselves on a totally different ideology and structure and use entirely different methods of struggle.
39. Apathy and depolitisation result from the bureaucratic degeneration. The working class organisations have become indistinguishable from bourgeois political institutions. They bemoan the lack of working class participation but each time the workers attempt massively to participate, they shout that the struggle is ‘unofficial’ or against the ‘best interests’ of the union or of the Party.
The bureaucratic organisations prevent the active intervention of workers. They prostitute the very idea of socialism which they see as a mere external modification of existing society, not requiring the active participation of the masses.
40. Apathy and depolitisation also result from the transformations undergone by capitalist society. Economic expansion, full employment, the gradual increase in wage rates, mean that for a whole period (which has not yet come to an end) the illusion of progress still affects the working class. A higher standard of living appears possible and becomes one of the main preoccupations. This attitude is deliberately and very skilfully fostered and manipulated by capitalism, for its own ends.
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4. The Way Forward
41. The working class is undergoing a profound experience of modern capitalist society. Possibilities are steadily increasing for workers to achieve the deepest possible insight into their real condition and to understand the real problems they will have to face in order to free themselves in production.
The steady increase of consumption of a capitalist type creates its own problems. Goods in increasing quantity are bought at the cost of increasing exhaustion at work (this often makes the enjoyment of the goods quite impossible!). ‘Needs’ appear to be never ending. The absurd rat-race after a ceaselessly increasing standard of living generates its own resistances. These help loosen the grip the ruling class exerts on this method of manipulating the masses.
Workers will increasingly see the key problem confronting them as that of their condition, as human beings, within production and at work. This problem is quite insoluble within capitalist society, whatever the level of wages . The problem confronting workers will become more and more explicitly that of transforming production itself: in other words that of workers’ management.
42. In parallel with this development is the growth of working class experience of its own bureaucratic organisations. This will help it understand that the only valid solution to its problems is through autonomous action, through taking its fate into its own hands.
43. There is factual evidence that the working class is going through precisely such an experience. Increasing numbers of strikes in Britain and in the USA relate to conditions in the factory. This problem is gradually becoming the central one confronting the working class. Even if only implicitly and to a small degree, it is the question of management of the enterprise and of production which is raised every time the workers challenge managerial rights.
The increasing number of ‘wildcat’ strikes in the USA and of ‘unofficial’ strikes in Britain show clearly that many sections of the working class are beginning to understand the real nature of the trade union bureaucracy .
The same problems, in all their breadth, were at the centre of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. During this great uprising the workers sought both to destroy the bureaucracy as such and to impose their own rule over production, through their workers’ councils, the organs of their own power.
44. To rise above its present situation the working class, must build, its revolutionary organisations. It is more than ever obvious that such organisations are needed to assist workers in the class struggle today. This was shown very clearly by the recent experience of the Belgian General Strike.
5. The Revolutionary Organisation
45. The formation of a new revolutionary organisation will be meaningless (and indeed impossible) unless it bases its ideas, its programme, its structure and its methods of action on the historical experience of the working class, particularly that of the last 40 years. This means it must draw the full lessons of the period of bureaucratisation and that it must break with all that is mere ritual or hangover from the past. Only in this way will it be able to provide answers to the real and often new problems which will be posed to the working class in the period to come.
46. Both the conception of the crisis of modern society and the critique of capitalism must be radically changed. The critique of production and work under capitalism must be at the centre of the preoccupations of the revolutionary organisation. We must give up the idea that capitalism creates rational factories and rational machines and that it organizes work ‘efficiently’ although somewhat brutally and for the wrong ends. Instead we must express what every worker in every country sees very clearly that work has become absurd, that it means the constant oppression and mutilation of workers and that the bureaucratic organisation of work means endless confusion and waste.
Material poverty must of course be exposed, where it exists. But the content of consumption under capitalism must also be exposed. It is not enough to criticize the smallness of the education budgets we must denounce the content of capitalist education. We must denounce the concept of the school as an activity apart from life and society. It is not enough to demand more subsidies for housing: we must denounce the idea of barrack-towns and the way of life they entail.
It is not enough to denounce the present government as representing the interests of a privileged class. We must also denounce the whole form and content of contemporary politics as a business for ‘specialists’, concerned merely with a small number of circumscribed questions. A revolutionary organisation must break with traditional politics. It must show that revolutionary politics are not confined to talk of wages, government and international affairs, but that they deal with everything that concerns man and his social life.
47. The confusion about the socialist programme created by the degenerated organisations (whether reformist, Stalinist or Trotskyist) must be radically exposed. The idea that socialism only means the nationalisation of the means of production and planning — and that its essential aim is an increase in production and consumption — must be pitilessly denounced. The identity of these views with the profound orientation of capitalism itself must constantly be shown.
Socialism is workers’ management of production and of society and the power of the workers’ councils. This must be boldly proclaimed and illustrated from historical experience. The essential content of socialism is the restitution to men of the domination over their own life, the transformation of labour from an absurd means of breadwinning into the free and creative action of individuals and groups, the constitution of integrated human communities and the union of the culture and the life of men.
This content of socialism should not be shamefully hidden as some kind of abstract speculation concerning an indeterminate future. It should be put forward as the only answer to the problems which torture and stifle society today. The socialist programme should be presented for what it is: a programme for the humanisation of labour and of society. Socialism is not a back-yard of leisure attached to the industrial prison. It is not transistors for the prisoners, It is the destruction of the industrial prison itself.
48. The traditional organisations base themselves on the idea that economic demands are the central problem for the workers and that capitalism is incapable of satisfying them. This idea must be repudiated, for it no longer accurately corresponds to reality.
The activity of the revolutionary organisation in the unions should not be based on out-bidding other tendencies on economic demands. These are often supported by the unions and are eventually realisable by the capitalist system without major difficulty.
The ability of the system to grant such wage increases is in fact the basis of the permanent reformism of the unions. Contemporary capitalism can only live by granting increases in wages and for that the bureaucratised and reformist unions are indispensable to it.
This does not mean that revolutionaries should quit the unions or cease to fight for economic demands. It means however that neither of these points has the central importance that was formerly given to it.
49. Exploitation in contemporary society takes on more and more the form of a hierarchical relationship. The ‘need’ for such a hierarchical organisation is defended by both the capitalists and by the workers’ organisations. It has in fact become the last ideological support for the whole system.
The revolutionary movement must organise a systematic struggle against the ideology of hierarchy in all its manifestations, including the hierarchy of salaries and jobs in the factory and in the workers’ own organisations .
50. In all struggles, the way in which the result is obtained is at least as important as what is obtained. Even from the point of view of efficiency, actions organised and led by the workers themselves are superior to actions decided and led bureaucratically. They alone create the conditions of progress, for they alone teach the workers to run their own affairs.
The first rule guiding the activity of the revolutionary movement should be that its interventions aim not at replacing but at developing the initiative and the autonomy of the workers.
51. Even when the struggles in production reach a great intensity it is difficult for workers to pass from their own experience to an understanding of the problems of society as a whole. In this field the revolutionary organisation has a most important task to fulfil.
This task must not be confused with sterile agitation or speculation concerning incidents in the political life of the capitalist or degenerated workers’ parties. It means showing that the system always functions against the workers and that they cannot solve their problems without abolishing both capitalism and bureaucracy and without completely reconstructing society. It means pointing out to workers that there is a profound and intimate analogy between their fate as producers and their fate as men in society. Neither the one nor the other can be modified without abolishing the division of society into a class which takes the decisions and a class which merely executes orders. Only through long and patient work in this direction will it be possible to pose anew — and in correct terms — the problem of mobilising the workers on general questions.
52. The revolt of youth in modern society and the break between the generations are without common measure with the previous conflicts of generations . Youth today no longer opposes adults with a view to taking their place in an established and accepted system. They refuse this system. They no longer recognize its values. Contemporary society is losing its hold on the generations it produces. The rupture is particularly brutal in politics.
The vast majority of politically active workers and supporters of traditional ‘left’ organisations, whatever their good faith and goodwill, cannot make their reconversion. They remain trapped in the ideology of a previous period. They repeat mechanically the lessons and phrases learnt long ago, phrases which are now empty of all revolutionary content. They remain attached to forms of action and organisation which have collapsed.
The traditional organisations of the left succeed less and less in recruiting the youth. In the eyes of young people nothing separates these organisations from the moth-eaten and rotten parties of privilege they meet on coming into the political world.
The revolutionary movement will be able to give a positive meaning to the immense revolt of contemporary youth and make of it the ferment of social revolution if it can express what youth is looking for and if it can show youth effective methods of struggle against the world it is rejecting.
53. Ideas must be changed on the relation between the proletariat and the revolutionary organisation. The organisation is not, and cannot be, the ‘leadership’ of the proletariat. It should be seen as an instrument of the proletarian struggle.
The role of the organisation is to help workers in struggle and to contribute towards clarifying and generalising their experiences. The organisation pursues these aims by the use of all methods consistent with its final objectives: the development by the proletariat of a lasting consciousness and ability to manage its own affairs.
54. The revolutionary organisation will not be able to fight the tendency towards bureaucracy (constantly engendered under capitalist conditions) unless it functions itself according to the principles of proletarian democracy and in a consciously anti-bureaucratic manner. This implies a total rejection of ‘democratic centralism’ and all other forms of organisation that encourage bureaucratisation.
Genuinely revolutionary organisation implies a) the widest autonomy of all the local groups, b) direct democracy rather than delegation of decision-taking to be applied wherever possible, and c) centralisation, where necessary, to be achieved through delegates elected and revocable at any time by their local groups.
More than constitutional guarantees are required however to defeat the tendency towards bureaucracy. This will only be overcome to the extent that a genuinely collective participation of all members can be achieved, both in relation to activities and in relation to the formulation of policy.
55. Revolutionary consciousness cannot be generated by propaganda alone. The revolutionary organisation must participate in the struggles of workers and other sections of the population, both assisting them and learning from them.
While unconditionally defending the struggles of workers for their immediate interests, the organisation should put forward suggestions for linking these immediate struggles with the historical objectives of the proletarian movement (demands against wage differentials, demands opposing the alienation of workers in production). The organisation should support all methods that make possible collective action and control by the workers of their own struggles (elected and revocable strike committees, mass meetings of workers before important decisions are taken, etc.). It should denounce bureaucratic forms of organisation and propagate the idea of more representative institutions (such, as the shop stewards’ movement). It should finally seek to achieve the widest possible solidarity with workers engaged in struggle, seek to disseminate accurate information about these struggles and point out the lessons to be drawn from them.
56. The revolutionary organisation should also seek to bring closer together the proletarian struggle and the struggle of other sections of the population, equally deprived of any effective say in the management of the affairs that concern them most. The anti-war movement is particularly important in this respect. Both provide radical challenges to established society. Both necessitate a type of action only possible outside of the traditional organisations. Both command the enthusiasm of youth. Both are capable of generating new forms of struggle and of organisation profoundly relevant to the socialist future.
Part of the propaganda and of the activities of the revolutionary organisation should be directed towards new layers of wage earners (white collar workers, office workers, students and intellectuals). The similarity between their objectives and those of the working class should repeatedly be pointed out, as should the only possible solution to both: the complete democratisation of society through the socialist revolution.
57. Revolutionary propaganda must go even further however. It must generalise the experiences of the working class in order to raise its struggle from the level of the factory to that of society as a whole. This implies a critique of capitalist society in all its aspects, along the general lines we have here outlined. It also means bringing back to the working class the real programme of socialism: collective management of a genuinely human society.
the quality of higher education is only as far as the billionaires will allow it.
Dialing for billionaires’ and non-profit philanthropy outfits’ dirty dirty money. This is the Ivy League, man: Harvard has borne the brunt of business executives’ and politicians’ outrage after the Cambridge, Mass.-based university’s initial statement on the ongoing conflict was criticized for not explicitly condemning Hamas. A later statement did explicitly condemn them.
The university has also been under fire after 30 campus organizations penned a statement on the ongoing conflict that blamed the conflict squarely on Israel. Those groups wrote that “the apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”
Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, called on the university to release the name of all members of the club so that he can blacklist them. Ackman and his wife, Karen Ackman, are both Harvard alumni; in 2014, the couple donated $26 million to support the university.
[Piece of shit telling us lemmings to jump off that cliff?]
Several other business executives, including Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman, agreed with Ackman in posts on X.com, formerly known as Twitter.
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Neman wrote in response to Ackman’s comments on X last week. (source)
Goddamn, the racists all over Substack, in legacy and other whacko media, are going after the Harvard Prez who resigned because of Biden-Level Plagiarism, or was it plain talk about White Supremacist Israel? This is it for the world, fucking insignificant school and overpaid board members, and the outstretched knuckle-dragging hands of the Admin Class, hoping for more of te Continuing Criminal Enterprise Sicarios’ moolah.
Ice Cube?
“No Vaseline,” a diss track off the 1991 album Death Certificate, the rapper took aim at Jerry Heller, N.W.A’s former manager, who is Jewish.
“Get rid of that Devil real simple / Put a bullet in his temple / ’Cause you can’t be the N*gga 4 Life crew / With a white Jew telling you what to do / Pulling woolds with your scams / Now I gotta play Silence of the Lambs,” he rhymed.
On “True to the Game,” he rapped, “‘Nigga go home’ spray-painted on your house / Trying to be white or a Jew / But ask yourself, who are they to be equal to? / Get the hell out / Stop being a Uncle Tom, you little sell-out.”
Cube and several other former members of N.W.A have long claimed that Heller (along with Eazy-E) stiffed them on their songwriting royalties and locked them into oppressive contracts via their Ruthless Records label.
Fucking entertainment. Thespians are infecting all aspects of this transactional Predatory Capitalism, from city counil chambers to used car sales to Harvard Boardrooms to the political class, just all over the fucking land. So all things non-Jew scrutinized hard by the Jews?
In late 6th century Athens (BCE), it was all the rage. Introduced by Thespis, “play-acting” quickly attained widespread popularity among Athenians who, like most people, were looking for diverting forms of entertainment to fill the evening hours. On one such evening the aged patriarch Solon, celebrated lawmaker and civic founder, was persuaded to attend a performance. His reaction?: indignation and an angry rebuke to Thespis, who blithely responded that such “play” was harmless, merely a novel pastime. “No!” Solon retorted angrily (here paraphrasing Plutarch’s account), “It is dangerous. Such a tolerance for pretense and deception will end up infecting all our commerce and civic life.” But Thespis merely shrugged — and, some 2500 years later, we now find ourselves enmeshed in a media-sphere of garrulous, deceitful “actors,” all clamoring for our attention as they exhibit their base arts of “persuasion.”
Aristotle, in his book on Rhetoric, had warned presciently that the “base” variety of rhetoric seeks to undermine our self-directed judgment in order to manipulate and control our decisions. Much later, in the mid-18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau followed Plutarch’s account of Solon by writing an angry polemic against the establishment of a theater in his beloved Geneva. (“Impression-Management” and the “False Self”)
Lupe Fiasco releases his sixth LP, Drogas Light, tomorrow, much attention will be paid to the subtext and themes of his rhymes by those looking for hints of anti-semitic rhetoric.
In mid-December, the rapper shared a single called “N.E.R.D.,” which lit up the music community for this particularly eyebrow-raising line: “Artists getting robbed for their publishing/By dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant.”
Fiasco hopped back on Twitter to specifically name the Jews in the music business he felt had defrauded him, including former Warner Music CEO Lyor Cohen and the company’s current CEO Craig Kallman.
“Lyon Cohen told me he may not honor the terms of an existing contract unless i signed a contract which changed the terms of the existing one,” he wrote. “Craig Kallman once negotiated a deal in secret which said I agreed to give away 85% of my pub rights to the song Airplanes to his producers.”
“[I]n Harlem…. our … landlords were Jews, and we hated them. We hated them because they were terrible landlords and did not take care of the buildings. The grocery store owner was a Jew… The butcher was a Jew and, yes, we certainly paid more for bad cuts of meat than other New York citizens, and we very often carried insults home along with our meats… and the pawnbroker was a Jew—perhaps we hated him most of all.” — James Baldwin
Stereotypes and racism were definitely prevalent amongst Jews in the entertainment business. “Jewish women vaudevillians at the turn of the century popularized what is now a little-discussed and misunderstood performance venue, known as ‘coon shouting,’ “ writes Pamela Brown Levitt.
“Trying to break into the entertainment business, [Tin Pan Alley entrepreneurs’] aesthetics were circumscribed in a vehemently antiblack and xenophobic milieu. By the mid-1880-s they had formed a tight-knit Tin Pan Alley industry that came to dominate vaudeville and early black musicals … Intended as comedy, coon song ranged from jocular and dismissive to cruel and sadistic … Coon song sheet music and illustrated covers proliferated defamatory images of blacks in barely coded slanderous lyrics. For example, the ‘N’ word and associated inferences were dispatched in words like ‘mammy,’ ‘honey boy,’ ‘pickinniny,’ ‘chocolate,’ ‘watermelon,’ ‘possum,’ and the most prevalent ‘coon.’ ”
Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday, following scrutiny of her academic record, including numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. Six additional examples of plagiarism were recently discovered by Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium.
These allegations are very serious and have led numerous commentators—including Harvard students—to conclude that she must be held accountable. Even The Harvard Crimson‘s editorial board, writing in support of Gay, nevertheless acknowledged that she had committed plagiarism and that the university’s investigation had been inadequate.
Harvard? Factory of hucksters, liars, grifters, war criminal wannabes, predatory CEOs, lawyers . . . . Capitalism is a lie factory. Poison Ivy League school? The military kill academies? How many liars end up teaching at Harvard, and how many LIARS are matriculated fuckers from that school?
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During Larry Summers’s Harvard presidency, the number of tenured jobs offered to women has fallen from 36% to 13%. Last year (2005), only four of 32 tenured job openings were offered to women.
The DoD riff-raff, the generals, all those Colonel Ollie North types, the endless millions of thieves, manslaughter experts, ambulance chasers, tort lawyers, lawfare criminals, schemers, three-card monty pros? Harvard and Ivy League and Top 100 universities across the land of 4,000 colleges and universities.
Here, the liars club — just scratching the surface! America is snake oil salesmen, house flipping, suckers born every nanosecond, and mass formation.
From CIA Network News, CNN:
Vice President Joe Biden, 1987:During the 1988 Presidential election, the then-presidential candidate was accused of mimicking a speech that British Labour Party Neil Kinnock delivered just four months prior.
Kinnock’s speech included the following lines:
Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?
While Biden said:
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?
White House Aide Timothy Goeglein, 2008:The senior White House official resigned after he admitted copying large sections of an essay he wrote for a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
German Defense Secretary Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, 2011: Guttenberg resigned amidst a scandal involving alleged plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation. Although he denied the accusations, the University of Bayreuth revoked his doctorate title. Guttenberg had been considered a rising star in Merkel’s government, but his political career expired with his diploma.
Hungarian President Pal Schmitt, 2012: Schmitt, a former Olympic fencing champion, wrote his dissertation in 1992 for the University of Physical Education, which is now part of Semmelweis University in Budapest.
In January 2012, the Hungarian HVG weekly reported that a large part of Schmitt’s dissertation was copied, and a university investigation confirmed that more than 200 pages of the 215-page document showed “partial similarity” to other works, or were direct translations.
Senator Rand Paul, 2013: Paul has been the subject of several plagiarism scandals – surrounding both his speeches and his book.
The first was highlighted when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pointed out that a speech he made in 2013 was lifted directly from the Wikipedia page of the film “Gattaca”. BuzzFeed also reported that he did the same in another speech, pick pocketing from “Stand and Deliver.”
They went on to report that Paul’s book “Government Bullies” was heavily plagiarized without attribution – highlighting passages stolen from Forbes, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.
German Education Minister Annette Schavan, 2013: The University of Dusseldorf stripped Schavan of her Ph.D. after a blogger caught the plagiarism and spent months vigilantly presenting the evidence to the public.
The blog “schavanplag” (for “Schavan” and “plagiarism”) compared passages of Schavan’s 1980 dissertation with sections of written works by other authors – in multiple instances they matched word for word, or nearly. The blog alleges Schavan did not properly source her work and claimed others’ work as her own.
Senator John Walsh, 2014: The Montana Senator was thrown into a plagiarism scandal regarding his master’s thesis for the Army War College. Three quarters of the 20-page document, titled “The Case for Democracy as a Long-Term National Strategy” was found to be plagiarized, the New York Times first reported.
Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson, 2015: BuzzFeed News broke the story that Carson had lifted material from a number of books and online sources for his 2012 book “America the Beautiful.” They revealed that several sections of the book were copied from a variety of online articles, a CBS News article, and a website titled SocialismSucks.net.
“I attempted to appropriately cite and acknowledge all sources in America the Beautiful, but inadvertently missed some. I apologize, and I am working with my editors to rectify the situation,” Carson said in a statement his representative, Armstrong Williams, provided to CNN.
Harvard? Shit.
The theological rebellion of Anne Hutchinson and her fellow Antinomians compelled the 1637 General Court to finally fund the “Colledge” that they had founded on paper the previous year. The school was intended to protect orthodox Puritan theology by educating future ministers in “the New England way.”
However, it must be understood that while Harvard was established for a religious purpose, it was never a “seminary.” The motive of its founding was theological, but the education provided always included the classical liberal arts. While approximately 50% of early graduates did enter the ministry, the remainder were entering secular professions.
But at the same time, the religious education offered to all the students who studied in the “Colledge” would help to establish a religious uniformity in the Colony. This emphasis on conformity in religious education was designed to counter both the method and content of Mrs. Hutchinson, who had advocated that each individual had direct access to Divine inspiration.
“God is just as present in the secular as the religious realms of life,” wrote theologian Harvey Cox in his 1965 bestseller “The Secular City.”
“Turn on – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune in – be reborn,” was the motto of psychologist Timothy Leary who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Although Harvard fired him in 1963 for egging his students onto psychedelics, one guinea pig, Huston Smith, became a towering scholar of religion.
Back in kaleidoscopic Annenberg built in a cruciform structure, the latest addition is the marble bust of W. E. B. Du Bois commissioned in 1993 for the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1895. “I was in Harvard, not of it,” he wrote during the Jim Crow era of segregation. “I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations.”
“The only thing an Ivy League postgrad likes to talk about more than where he went to college is a fellow graduate who, after four years on campus, has turned out to be something of a monster.
To quote PhD economist Richard Wolff.
Karl Marx’s work is never taught. Hardly ever in any kind of systematic way, for an economist. Let me be very personal with you. I have an education here in the United States that makes me a bit of a poster boy for the elite system. I went to Harvard as an undergraduate. Then I went to Stanford University in California for my Master’s degree in Economics and I got my PhD in Economics at Yale University. This is sort of like having an education that is half Oxford, half Cambridge etc, etc. In all of those years, ten years, that I spent in the three arguably best universities in the United States, I was never required to read one word of Karl Marx’s analysis of how a capitalist system works. That’s not an achievement of our system. It’s a pathetic failure of our system.
Henry Heller takes readers from the ideological apparatus of the early Cold War, through the revolts of the 1960s and on to the contemporary malaise of postmodernism, neoliberalism and the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ of academic capitalism. He reveals how American educational institutions have been forced to decide between teaching students to question the dominant order and helping to perpetuate it. The Capitalist University presents a comprehensive overview of a topic which affects millions of students in America and increasingly, across the globe.
The deteriorating situation of the universities has its own internal logic as well. In response to the decline in funding, but also to the prevalence of neoliberal ideology, universities—or rather the presidents, administrators, and boards of trustees who control them—are increasingly moving away from their ostensible mission of serving the public good to that of becoming as far as possible like private enterprises. In doing so, most of the teachers in these universities are being reduced to the status of wage labor, and indeed precarious wage labor. The wages of the non-tenured faculty who now constitute the majority of teachers in higher education are low, they have no job security and receive few benefits. Although salaried and historically enjoying a certain autonomy, tenured faculty are losing the vestiges of their independence as well. Similarly, the influence of students in university affairs—a result of concessions made by administrators during the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s—has effectively been neutered. These changes reflect a decisive shift of power toward university managers whose numbers and remuneration have expanded prodigiously. The objective of these bureaucrats is to transform universities as much as possible to approximate private and profit-making corporations, regarded as models of efficient organization based on the discipline of the market. Indeed, scores of universities, Phoenix University for example, have been created explicitly as for-profit businesses and currently enroll millions of students.
Modern universities have always had a close relationship with private business, but whereas in the past faculty labor served capital by producing educated managers, highly skilled workers, and new knowledge as a largely free good, strenuous efforts are now underway to transform academic employment into directly productive, i.e., profitable, labor. The knowledge engendered by academic work is accordingly being privatized as a commodity through patenting, licensing, and copyrighting to the immediate benefit of universities and the private businesses to which universities are increasingly linked. Meanwhile, through the imposition of administrative standards laid down in accord with neoliberal principles, faculty are being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny through continuous quantified evaluation of teaching and research in which the ability to generate outside funding has become the ultimate measure of scholarly worth. At the same time, universities have become part of global ranking systems like the Shanghai Index or the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in which their standing in the hierarchy has become all important to their prestige and funding.
Confederacy Of Dunces — The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto: Teacher training in Prussia was founded on three premises, which the United States subsequently borrowed. The first of these is that the state is sovereign, the only true parent of children. Its corollary is that biological parents are the enemies of their offspring. When Germany’s Froebel invented Kindergarten, it was not a garden for children he had in mind but a garden of children, in which state-appointed teachers were the gardeners of the children. Kindergarten is meant to protect children from their own mothers.
The second premise of Prussian schooling is that intellectual training is not the purpose of state schooling — obedience and subordination are. In fact, intellectual training will invariably subvert obedience unless it is rigidly controlled and doled out as a reward for obedience. If the will could be broken all else would follow. Keep in mind that will-breaking was the central logic of child-rearing among our own Puritan colonists, and you will see the natural affinity that exists between Prussian seeds and Puritan soil — from which agriculture our compulsory schooling law springs. The best-known device to break the will of the young, practiced for centuries among English and German upper classes, was the separation of parent and child at an early age. Here now was an institution backed by the police power of the state to guarantee that separation. But it was not enough to compel obedience by intimidation. The child must be brought to love its synthetic parent. When George Orwell’s protagonist in 1984 realizes that he loves Big Brother after betraying his lover to the state, we have a dramatic embodiment of the sexual destination of Prussian-type schooling; it creates a willingness to sell out your own family, friends, culture, and religion for your new lover, the state. Twelve years of arbitrary punishment and reward in the confinement of a classroom is ample time to condition any child to believe that he who wields red-pen-power is the true parent, and they who control the buzzers must be gods.
The third premise of Prussian training is that the schoolroom and the workplace shall be dumbed down into simplified fragments that anyone, however dull, can memorize and operate. This solves the historical dilemma of leadership: a disobedient work force could be replaced quickly, without damage to production, if the workers required only habit, not mind, to function properly. This strategy paid off recently during the national strike of air-traffic controllers, when the entire force of these supposed “experts” was replaced overnight by management personnel and hastily trained fill-ins. There was no increase in accidents across the system! If anyone can do any particular job there’s no reason to pay them very much except to guarantee employee loyalty and dependency — a form of love which bad parents often extort from their young in the same way.
Harvard? The great theological scholar Dietrich Bonhoeffer raised this issue of the new dumbness in his brilliant analysis of Nazism, in which he sought to comprehend how the best-schooled nation in the world, Germany, could fall under its sway. He concluded that Nazism could be understood only as the psychological product of good schooling. The sheer weight of received ideas, pre-thought thoughts, was so overwhelming that individuals gave up trying to assess things for themselves. Why struggle to invent a map of the world or of the human conscience when schools and media offer thousands of ready-made maps, pre-thought thoughts?
As our most trusted universities continue to privatize large swaths of their academic programs, their fundamental nature will be changed in ways that are hard to reverse. The race for profits will grow more heated, and the social goal of higher education will seem even more like an abstraction. Even the partnerships that are undertaken with noble intentions never truly put the student first. (source)
In a competition to woo students, public universities are increasingly offering lavish amenities that have nothing to do with education.
The latest trend is lazy rivers, which have been installed at several big institutions, including the Universities of Alabama, Iowa and Missouri. Last year, Louisiana State University topped them all with a 536-foot-long “leisure” river in the shape of the letters “LSU,” part of an $85 million renovation and expansion of its gym. It was L.S.U. students who footed the bill.
At a time when college has never been more expensive, this is the last thing students should be paying for. According to the College Board, tuition and fees at public four-year institutions grew more than 60 percent over the past 10 years. State budgets for higher education have been slashed, and students have to make up the difference.
In the case of L.S.U., the lazy river was financed entirely by student fees, an addendum to their annual tuition. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, over the past five years, those fees increased by 60 percent, nearly triple the amount L.S.U. students paid in 2000.
Tuition and fee hikes at public universities don’t come out of nowhere. Each has to be approved by a school’s governing board, whose trustees are typically appointed by the governor. Ensuring affordable, quality education is an essential part of trustees’ responsibility, but unfortunately often not part of their practice.
Trustees of public universities are stewards of a public trust that rests nobly on the notion that an enlightened citizenry is vital to a democratic society. They have a fiduciary duty to represent the citizens and taxpayers who support public institutions of higher education, as well as the students who attend them. But even though the best interests of students and taxpayers revolve around college access, affordability and graduation outcomes, too often presidents and boards are more focused on the rankings, reputation and popularity of the institution itself.
At a time when college has never been more expensive, this is the last thing students should be paying for. According to the College Board, tuition and fees at public four-year institutions grew more than 60 percent over the past 10 years. State budgets for higher education have been slashed, and students have to make up the difference.
Old piece in Dissident Voice, which by the way doesn’t publish me anymore.
Oh, the elite, or the admin class, or the middling white managerial class, how they are confounding it all, and nary a real activist sees that we are cooked until we wipe them away from positions of power.
I appreciate all the work of environmentalists, for sure, and on this Memorial Day, how does that fit into the scheme of green things? How does it fit when we have liquid gas coming to Coos Bay, Oregon, or Vancouver, WA. How does it all mix when we all have given the valley of death and the valley of hope to the legal ones, the barristers, the second, third and first-tier lawyering class, these people like Obama, or worse, who have corralled people into a continual stream of consumption, endless growth, sprawl and debt.
Faculty Unionizing,
Students Screwed to a Higher Degree at the Tier One Colleges that Pay Presidents Mas y Mas/
Hunger Strikes, Hunger Games/
Five Easy Pieces of Advice from Leaders in Education Who Can’t and Will Never Teach!
See how that works. Simple microcosmic illustration, here, in small-time Vancouver, Clark College, yet, whew, look at it, this is emblematic of our times, the tyranny of the Admin Class, Dean-lets, the Boards of Education, Regents, whatever you want to call the most OUT OF TOUCH humans on earth – the antithesis of education, scholarship, rhetoric, critical thinking, education. These people are running faculty into their graves. Sending students packing into debt hell, into neutered hell, into the end times of thinking, or anything reliable now in the classroom.
Here, in Vancouver and environs, we have a state school, Clark Community College, though they cut the Community from the title, for obvious reasons of pure marketing crap, as if college means more to a human, to the paper the AA degree or now four-year degree is printed on?
Killing community from both the name of the college, and the point of the education. The point of communities – oh, farms, hospitals, schools, small businesses, culture, hell, even small churches. Recreation, hell, safety and I suppose what the entire game is supposed to be – survival, fairness, life, retraction against the tyrannical class.
I’ve been writing about precarious workers, faculty, the entire lie of working us, the majority, to the bone, firing us with a few flippant student evaluations, the rotten tenured class and department heads who have euthanized history, activism, dignity and the tools to fight the very villains who call themselves provosts and HR heads, and development directors, marketing mavens, gifts and giving creeps.
So, the debt is insurmountable, and the job market rigged by the Kochs, Bloombergs, Gates, HPs, the entire lot of them, those retailers, and the few corporations that are still in business in this country as makers or builders of things. This story is about the fugue leaders, as in the presidents of colleges that throw themselves the most money who are proud to say their colleges are the ones with the most student debt. What heroes, and they get money thrown at them, conferences tailored to their misanthropy, and they have hundreds under them, each, on their privatizing team, all those yes men, and mostly yes women, now. That price of feminism, more people of both genders who have sold us all out. They talk an alternative language, and they are a species of their own. Try it out sometime, attending a meeting they hold, or some mumbo-jumbo BS talk they have on “leadership” (sic-sic).
So, Clark College (minus-COMMUNITY), like the universities and and colleges around this country, and in other countries, hire on scabs, hire on us, the precarious, the part-time and the nontenured. They have been hiring us on in droves since the 1970s, and we are at a point where colleges are run by Wannabe One Percenters, these MBA and institutional leadership creeps, and the bulk of the faculty are in the cross hairs of American exceptionalism, the poverty strewn world of the elites and their little Eichmanns, keeping clocks running, [urchasing useless junk like software spewing retrograde crap in our schools, all for the love of keeping students at bay and holding their intellect like Playdough.
So, the colleges here and in all 50 states hire on people as temps, freeway fliers, and that commitment to them is as superficial as the commitment made by our politicians and our leaders. We teach when enrollments go up, and we are sacked a quarter or more later. So, Clark College, the big main campus, and entire multi-campus unit, is in a $3 million shortfall, is sacking part-timers, you know, last to hire first to fire mentality, by the leadership. This former military creep, head of the school, his big bucks and his minions following him, and the entire joke, since he is anti-intellectual, anti-learning, but a whore to the dollar.
Cutting teachers, cutting the good classes, like humanities, film studies, history, drama, lit., you name it, these ex-Colonels who we throw money at, they cut what disturbs them, and, alas, while these emails hit our Outlook boxes hourly, about “don’t count on summer jobs, don’t count on anything in the Fall, but stay tuned, and just hang on, and, well, we will be contacting you if anything changes,”we get emails about millions of dollars to buy land from some private guy who “donated” $3.1 million after he got in his pocked the money for the same land. You know, a fire sale, from $9.1 million for 60 acres down to $6 million in his pocket.
This is the deal: the school is in massive cutting, massive financial straits, but, heck, some benefactor from Holland, some immigrant as the college PR folk said, gave the school some money, or was it land, to build a satellite campus, a few miles north, in a rural scape.
Read closely, and see that economic unlimited growth mentioned, and economists, and county economic development folk. Read this, and weep, because these people are in business to make money, to sell land, to plow, bulldoze, build, outfit, landscape and service with TAX PAYER money. The end result, a bricks and mortar satellite facility with more precarious workers — faculty — and more numb-nuts ideas from the women and men of the Admin Managerial Deanlet CEO class.
Clark College Foundation has finalized the purchase of nearly 60 acres through a generous $3.1 million gift from the Boschma Family LLC. Additionally, the foundation will pay $6 million for the land. The acreage is located in Ridgefield on the east side of North 65 Avenue, north of Pioneer Street and northeast of the Interstate 5 and Pioneer Street interchange.
The leadership gift from the Boschma family was key in being able to move forward on this project. In making the more than $3.1 million gift, Hank and Bernice Boschma said they were excited to be a part of expanding educational opportunities for students in the region, including first generation and immigrant students.
You’ll be interested to know that the Boschma family’s introduction to Clark College was when Hank and Bernice took a citizenship course in preparation for the national exam after emigrating from Holland. One of their daughters also attended Clark.
The timing of this is good for the campus and good for the community we serve. In April, the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges prioritized building projects for the upcoming biennium. According to that prioritization, the North County Campus building will receive design funding in the 2017-2019 budget, and likely receive construction funding in the 2019-2021 budget.
The gift and acquisition represent a long-term visionary chapter for the growth anticipated at Clark College. The college’s 2007 Facilities Master Plan identified North County as a growth area based on projections from regional economists, and the most recent update of the Facilities Master Plan reinforced the need for a facility in this part of our service area.
Can you believe the audacity of these managerial class losers? Planning to build another campus while deciding to kill jobs and, get this, adding more fees on to the already struggling students – $2 per credit. Big plans, these ex-colonels and MBAs and Institutional Management PhDs have for us all. You know what I have written about if you have kept up with my gig here at DV – these simpletons, running the show, the rotten rats, who fee and levy and tax and fine and surtax and poll tax and user fee and gouge us — faculty, community members and especially the students – in an ever-living hell of death by a million pennies just to breathe AIR.
So, that little issue of climate change, sprawl, endless traffic, greenspaces gobbled up by the people that have to come, if they build the satellite campus, which they will, oh, heck, how do we then stop all the energy waste, energy flow, with that sort of mentality? Can you imagine what this says about the entire shooting match? About fighting for a world that HAS to plan for disasterous Climate Change? Do these rotten over-paid whores to capital CARE? What’s their 10- and 20-year plan? You know the answer — endless trips to Costco, retirement, golf, rollerblading, Winabego-ing into their hells. How does building another campus node do a thing to mitigate that issue of roads, single occupancy vehicle trips, the entire stupidity of campuses that are 50 to 60 percent under-utilzed? Then the matter of what great courses will be studied? What will this campus out in rural-scape be? Another degree in fabrication of robot parts? Boeing and General Dynamics designed curricula? How will they be taught? What sort of teachers will be the material deliverers? How much power will be taken away from faculty and moved to the Institutional Leadership liars and the admin class and their cronies and the business elite who are there with fat hands at the taxpayer funding trough?
Do you have the answer yet, or do you need to read some of my PAST pieces, all satire and sane in one fell swoop?
Fat-jowl presidents, one after another, in their CEO class of community killing warriors, heralding this accomplishment, a new campus soon, in the middle of fields of Johnson grass, strawberries, huge secluded and lock-gate homes, the castle is my home groupies, sort of interestingly evangelical types in the middle of cow fields and tree farms. You know, the society of whites who want nothing to do with riffraff, nothing to do with the masses. Two acres, private jungle gym, alpacas for pets, triple SUV garage, a kitchen big enough for ten Cambodian families to live in. I know these people, as I drive on my bicycle, as each month I find the side mirrors of their Lexus SUVs and BMWs get closer and closer to my elbows, back, rear tire.
So, I wonder, how serious we all are in this game of stripping us of our power as community builders, in this battle against the money changers, the privatizers, those people who are the cogs and gears in the systems of the Monsantos, General Dynanics, Bayers, University of Phoenixes, CocaColas, that great morass that is the MADAPE complex that at this point relies on compliants and takers and fearful ones, even those of us in the 80 percent class. MADAPE – MediaAcademicDefenseAgriculturePrisonEnergy COMPLEX.
These people, presidents, are not wholly respected behind their backs, but that is the crime is it not, this mealy-mouthed society of people afraid to take these people head on, and in mass. Collectively.
So, below, quit a list of items tied to adjunct faculty action, inaction, exploitation, movement, unionism, and our culture of voyerism looking at all of our plights with frog necks and bug-eyes.
5. Latest updates from Marty Hittelman, author of “ACCJC gone wild” (college accreditors)
We write in solidarity with homeless adjunct faculty member Mary-Faith Cerasoli, who is currently in the seventh day of a desperate and determined hunger strike.
Mary-Faith Cerasoli’s experience exemplifies the impact of a broken system of academic employment on more than one million adjunct faculty and their students. Mary-Faith speaks four languages, has a master’s degree from Middlebury College, and previously taught Advanced Placement languages in the New York City public schools. She has been an adjunct professor since 2011. She teaches five classes a semester; her annual income is $22,000 per year. She has also been homeless since 2011. Mary-Faith has a life-threatening thyroid disease; until this week, she was denied the Medicaid coverage that would have enabled her to get consistent, life-sustaining treatment.
Mary-Faith has tried everything one person can try to mitigate her plight. She has appealed to college administrators and the New York City Board of Education. She has contacted legislators and the governor, written letters and made phone calls, protested at the New York Department of Education in Albany, and exposed the circumstances of her life to public inspection-and the inspection of her students-through appeals to the media.
Mary-Faith has done everything professional middle-class people are taught to do to redress injustice. None of it has worked. She is now engaged in a hunger strike that dramatizes the absurdity and unfairness of her unconscionable marginalization.
We affirm the right of every individual, acting in accordance with the leadings of his or her own conscience, to engage in nonviolent protest like Mary-Faith’s. This broken system must be ended and replaced with one that is sustainable-and sustaining of both the new faculty majority and the students and parents who pay such a heavy price for higher education. To that end, our actions must be taken not only individually, but in large numbers and coordinated ways, and we commit ourselves-as individuals and in our organizations-to continue our work towards those outcomes.
Mary-Faith’s protest energizes us in our work for a sustainable system of academic employment. We hope that it also galvanizes others in the movement of adjunct faculty and their allies-in and out of unions-who are currently building movements and organizations of the more than one million adjunct faculty members in the United States.
A higher ground is within our reach; we have to unite and fight together to get there.
That’s the number of adjunct and part-time faculty who’ve formed unions under the SEIU/Adjunct Action umbrella, after two big wins this week for adjunct faculty at Northeastern University in Boston and Mills College in Oakland, CA who voted to form unions.
“Winning our union election shows what you can do when you work together and have the support of your local community,” said Anne Fleche, an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern who teaches film. “I’m so glad that our success today may help empower other workers, including adjunct faculty like ourselves, to change working and learning conditions in higher education.”
Northeastern adjuncts have formed the largest part-time faculty union in Boston, where approximately 2,000 adjunct faculty at Tufts University, Lesley University, and Northeastern are now united as part of the metro organizing strategy.
The victories yesterday are just the start of what will be an exciting summer for adjuncts. Part-time faculty at dozens of schools are working to unite with their colleagues in SEIU, and many are scheduled to vote soon or have filed for union elections, including adjuncts at the University of the District of Columbia, the San Francisco Art Institute in the Bay Area, Laguna College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Seattle University, Marist College in New York State and Hamline University and Macalester College in Minnesota.
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We’ll keep you apprised of news throughout the summer, from organizing updates to trainings and policy. Share your thoughts on Twitter and Facebook about these exciting developments using the hashtag #AdjunctAction.
Best, Malini Cadambi Daniel Director, Higher Education Campaign, Adjunct Action
14. Student debt and number of low wage faculty rising fastest at state universities with highest paid presidents [surprise]
The One Percent at State U
New report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents
Washington, D.C. — An Institute for Policy Studies report featured in the New York Times today finds student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.
‘The One Percent at State U’ examines the 25 state universities that paid out the most in executive compensation from 2005 to 2012.Executive pay at these schools reached an average of nearly $1 million by 2012 while student debt and low-wage faculty rose much faster than national averages.
“The high executive pay obviously isn’t the direct cause of higher student debt, or cuts in labor spending,” co-author Dr. Marjorie Wood told the New York Times. “But if you think about it in terms of the allocation of resources, it does seem to be the tip of a very large iceberg, with universities that have top-heavy executive spending also having more adjuncts, more tuition increases and more administrative spending.”
At the 25 state universities with the highest-paid presidents:
• average executive pay rose to nearly $1 million by 2012–increasing more than twice as fast as the national average at peer institutions. • student debt is rising faster than at state universities as a whole. • spending on administration outstripped scholarship spending by more than 2 to 1. • part-time adjunct increased more than twice as fast as the national average at all universities. • permanent faculty declined dramatically, making up less than half of all faculty by 2012.
The report ranks the worst offenders across all categories: excessive executive pay, rising student debt, inflated administrative expenditures, and increases in low-wage and temporary faculty labor. The top 5 worst offenders across the board were:
1. Ohio State University
2. Penn State
3. University of Minnesota
4. University of Michigan
5. University of Washington
Ahh, the Liars’ Club, USA Presstitutes, AKA MSM: Main Scum Media. Covering for Biden’s Genocide. This is the fucking shell of a “man.”
come on, 9/11 . . . USS Liberty . . . 1967 war . . . Israel leaders as terrorists earl early before Nakba . . . Unit 8200 . . . Google . . . Pegasus . . . the jabs . . . ?
Ahh, the Jews of the IDF and Mossad and Unit 8200 and their old DNA hugger, Edward Bernays, are at it again and again and again:
I mean, you can listen to a historian on the “history of” Israel: He can’t put his arms around 9/11, but worth a listen.
Dr. Hixson will provide an explanation of and historical analysis of the Israeli lobby in the US which he argues is the the largest, most well-funded and influential lobby acting on behalf of a foreign country in American history. His analysis stems from his work positing the connection of the two countries based on their characterization as “settler colonial nations”. This has created a special relationship between Israel and the US which has bolstered Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
But we have heard this a million times, and then, ANTI-SEMITISM is thrown around like candy at a pinata smash!
GWOT is a Jewish project.
Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden was identified as the architect of the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, without a shred of evidence.
On the following day, the “war on terrorism” was launched. The media disinformation campaign went into full gear.
From the outset, the objective was to use 9/11 as a pretext for launching the first phase of the Middle East-Central Asian War, which consisted in the bombing and occupation of Afghanistan. This was achieved by sustaining the myth that Muslim terrorists supported by the Afghan government had attacked America on September 11, 2001.
To this date, there is no evidence that Al Qaeda was behind these attacks. Afghanistan was identified as a “state sponsor of terror.” The 9/11 attacks were categorized as an act of war, an attack on America by a foreign power.
The right to self-defense was put forth. The US-NATO aggressor was portrayed as the victim.
On September 12, 2001, less than 24 hours after the attacks, NATO invoked for the first time in its history “Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – its collective defence clause” declaring the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon “to be an attack against all NATO members.” (I should mention, in relation to the Ukraine War, that there are indications that the invocation of Article 5 are currently being discussed by US/NATO behind closed doors.) [ “Osamagate” and America’s “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) ]
The statement of Professor Richard Falk, who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) formulated in the immediate wake of 9/11 — published four days after the commencement of the US-NATO bombing campaign– was intent upon providing legitimacy to America’s war on Afghanistan:
“I have never since my childhood supported a shooting war in which the United States was involved, although in retrospect I think the NATO war in Kosovo achieved beneficial results. The war in Afghanistan against apocalyptic terrorism qualifies in my understanding as the first truly just war since World War II.”
“The perpetrators of the September 11 attack cannot be reliably neutralized by nonviolent or diplomatic means; a response that includes military action is essential to diminish the threat of repetition, to inflict punishment and to restore a sense of security at home and abroad.
The extremist political vision held by Osama bin Laden, which can usefully be labeled “apocalyptic terrorism,” places this persisting threat well outside any framework of potential reconciliation or even negotiation for several reasons: Its genocidal intent is directed generically against Americans and Jews;
its proclaimed goal is waging an unconditional civilizational war–Islam against the West– without drawing any distinction between civilian and military targets; it has demonstrated a capacity and willingness to inflict massive and traumatizing damage on our country and a tactical ingenuity and ability to carry out its missions of destruction by reliance on the suicidal devotion of its adherents.” (Richard Falk, The Nation, Defining a Just War, October 11, 2001, 4 days after the invasion of Afghanistan).
Note the emphasis on: “genocidal intent against Americans and Jews” as part of an alleged “civilizational war of Islam against the West.”
September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington’s agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.
Among the growing number of Americans who disbelieve the official version of the 9/11 attacks, two basic theories are in competition: I called them “inside job” and “Mossad job”. The first one is the dominant thesis within the so-called 9/11 Truth movement, and blames the American government, or a faction within the American Deep State. The second one claims that the masterminds were members of a powerful Israeli network deeply infiltrated in all spheres of power within the US, including media, government, military and secret services.
This “Mossad job” thesis has been gaining ground since Alan Sabrosky, a professor at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Military Academy, published in July 2012 an article entitled “Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake”, where he voiced his conviction that September 11th was “a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation.”
We can notice from the outset that incriminating Israelis or Arabs are both “outside job” theories (in fact, they are mirror images of each other, which is understandable in light of what Gilad Atzmon explains about Jewish “projected guilt”).
Before even looking at the evidence, “outside job” sounds more credible that “inside job”. There is something monstrous in the idea that a government can deceive and terrorize its own citizens by killing thousands of them, just for starting a series of wars that are not even in the nation’s interest. By comparison, a foreign power attacking the U.S. under the false flag of a third power almost seems like fair play. Indeed suspicion of Israel’s role should be natural to anyone aware of the reputation of the Mossad as: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act,” in the words of a report of the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies quoted by the Washington Times, September 10th, 2001 — the day before the attacks.
This is an important point, because it raises the question of how and why the 9/11 Truth movement has been led to endorse massively the outrageous “inside job” thesis without even considering the more likely thesis of an attack by a foreign power acting under an Islamic false flag—and what foreign power but Israel would do that?
Of course, the two dissenting theses do not necessarily exclude each other; at least, no one incriminating Israel denies that corrupted elements from the American administration or deep state were involved. The “passionate attachment” between Israel and the U.S. has been going on for decades, and 9/11 is one of its monstruous offsprings.
I can think of no better symbol of that reality than the marriage of Ted and Barbara Olson. Ted Oslon, after having defended Bush in the disputed 2000 election, had been rewarded with the post of Solicitor General (he also defended Dick Cheney when he refused to submit to Congress Enron-related documents). Barbara was a famous CNN reporter, but before that, she was born Barbara Kay Bracher of Jewish parents, educated at Yeshiva University School of Law, and hired by the legal firm WilmerHale, of which Jamie Gorelick, a future member of the 9/11 Commission, was also a member, and whose clients include powerful Israeli firms like Amdocs, a digital communication company charged with spying for Israel in the United States. On September 11, 2001, Barbara Olson alledgedly was on flight AA77, from which she made two telephone calls to her husband. Her calls were reported on CNN in the afternoon, and contributed to crystallize some details of the official story, such as the “box cutters” used as only weapons by the hijackers. Repeatedly invited on television shows after 9/11, Ted Olson frequently contradicted himself when questioned about the calls from his wife. In a 2006 report, the FBI identified only one call from Barbara Olson, and it was an unconnected call lasting 0 seconds. Like all other reported phone calls from desperate passengers (including the famous “Hi, Mom. This is Mark Bingham”), Barbara’s call was simply impossible, because the technology required to make high-altitude phone calls was not developed until 2004.[3]
9/11 was made possible by an alliance between secret worshippers of Israel and corrupted American elements. The question is: who, of the two, were the masterminds of this incredibly daring and complex operation, and for what “higher purpose”?
Another question is: why do those who keep repeating as a mantra “9/11 was an inside job” ignore totally the compelling evidence pointing to Israel? In other words, to what extent do they constitute a “controlled opposition” intended to cover up for Israel? Asking this type of question does not mean suspecting anyone who defends an erroneous or incomplete theory of being a hypocrite. Most people defending one theory or the other do so sincerely, based on the information to which they have access. I have myself been a believer in the official theory for 7 years, and in the “inside job” theory for 2 years, before progressively moving on to the present argument from 2010. On the other hand, we can assume that those who lead the public into error on a long term are not just mistaken but lying. In any case, it is legitimate to investigate the background of opinion makers, and when they are caught lying or distorting the truth, we can speculate on their motivation. I will come back to this issue at the end of the article.
This four-part series on Israeli spying in the United States is pretty shocking. It originally aired on Fox News in December 2001. The videos remained on the Fox News web site for just a couple of days after the fourth installment before being taken down without comment — in other words, being censored. Fox News must have received a great deal of pressure from Israel and the US government to completely throw away the efforts of this investigation.
“Old news” at this point, perhaps, but history is written by those who control the flow of information.
Of note in this video (all four segments contained in one video):
1. A highly placed US investigator states, “evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.” This statement suggests that such evidence must exist, since there would be no need for classification if nothing had been found.
2. American terrorism investigators fear certain suspects in the September 11 attacks may have managed to stay ahead of them, by knowing who and when investigators are calling on the telephone; information provided by an Israeli-owned (and IDF funded) telephone company at which several of the arrested Israeli 9/11 suspects worked.
3. It is revealed that the wiretapping capability that is permanently built into your telephone is built, installed, and maintained by yet another Israeli owned company and that this equipment is suspected of having a “back door” which allows the Mossad to use the same equipment to wiretap any telephone in America by remote control.
4. The availability of information on police phone calls resulted in the collapse of an investigation of a drug and fraud crime ring with Israeli connections. Investigators traced the information, which included calls to police investigators’ beepers, to Amdocs.
On March 14th, 2002, an article in French newspaper Le Monde signed by Sylvain Cypel also referred to the report, shortly before the French magazine Intelligence Online made it fully accessible on the Internet.
It said that 140 Israeli spies, aged between 20 and 30, had been arrested since March 2001, while 60 more were arrested after September 11. Generally posing as art students, they visited at least “36 sensitive sites of the Department of Defense.” “A majority of those questioned have stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance units. Some have been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot mission unit.” Another, Peer Segalovitz, officer in the 605 Battalion of the Golan Heights, “acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars, and anything else that he needed to.”
After reaching this conclusion in JFK-9/11, I had the satisfaction of finding that Victor Thorn, in a book that had eluded me (Made in Israel: 9-11 and the Jewish Plot Against America, Sisyphus Press, 2011), had already expressed it in harsher terms: “In essence, the ‘9-11 truth movement’ was created prior to Sept. 11, 2001 as a means of suppressing news relating to Israeli complicity. By 2002–2003, ‘truthers’ began appearing at rallies holding placards that read ‘9-11 was an inside job.’ Initially, these signs provided hope for those who didn’t believe the government and mainstream media’s absurd cover stories. But then an awful realization emerged: The slogan ‘9-11 was an inside job’ was quite possibly the greatest example of Israeli propaganda ever devised. […] The mantra, ‘9-11 was an inside job’ is only partially true and is inherently damaging to the ‘truth movement’ because it shifts all attention away from Israel’s traitorous assault against America. […] Leaders of these fake 9-11 groups know the truth about Israel’s 9-11 barbarity. Their willingness to perpetuate or cover it up ultimately makes them as guilty and vile as those who launched the attacks. There are no degrees of separation in this matter. It’s a black-and-white issue. Tell the entire truth about Israel’s Murder, Inc. cabal, or sleep in the same infected bed as these murdering dogs lie in. […] Faux conspiratologists complain about the government and news sources not telling the truth, yet they’ve erected an utter blackout on data regarding Israel and 9-11.” (Guyenot)
Reverend Munther Isaac, Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem, who delivered a hugely powerful Christmas message about Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. We speak about Western complicity – including those who remain silent – and the refusal to describe Israel’s actions for what they are.
the obscene nature of the Western Perversion of New Year’s (sic) Based on Mutilating Mother Nature and the Moon
The Chinese tradition of a Spring Festival/New year goes back 3,500 years. The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the lunar calendar. The holiday falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice on December 21. Each year the New Year in China falls on a different date than on the Gregorian calendar. The dates usually range sometime between January 21 and February 20.
Why is it called the Spring Festival?
Even though it is winter, the Chinese New Year is popularly known as the Spring Festival in China. Because it starts from the Beginning of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coordination with the changes of Nature), it marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
The Spring Festival marks a new year on the lunar calendar and represents the desire for a new life.
Legend of the Origin of Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is steeped with stories and myths. One of the most popular legends is about the mythical beast Nian (Year). He ate livestock, crops, and even people on the eve of a new year.
To prevent Nian from attacking people and causing destruction, people put food at their doors for Nian.
It’s said that a wise old man figured out that Nian was scared of loud noises (firecrackers) and the color red. So, people put red lanterns and red scrolls on their windows and doors to stop Nian from coming inside. Crackling bamboo (later replaced by firecrackers) was lit to scare Nian away.
Many countries do not follow the Gregorian Calendar to celebrate New Year’s. That holiday is often based on lunar cycles and doesn’t necessarily fall on January 1. The Persian New Year in Iran, for instance, is determined by the Northern Hemisphere’s vernal equinox. Here’s a guide to New Years’ celebrations in 2016:
A moon calendar, or more commonly called a lunar calendar, is easy to define. It’s a calendar that follows the monthly cycles of the phases of the moon. It’s one of the oldest calendars in the world that creates lunar months, also known as synodic months. Don’t get caught up in the complicated terminology. A lunar month is simply one that occurs between two successive syzygies, such as new moons and full moons.
Although solar calendars, which are determined by the solar and have influenced the Gregorian Calendar, lunar calendars were essential. And, there can impact can still be felt today.
For example, each lunation is approximately 291⁄2 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds, or 29.530588 days). Because of this, it helped determine where each month alternates between 29 and 30 days. The word month is derived from the word moon.
Additionally, ancient civilizations used the phases of the moon to help identify the seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter). Since each season has three full moons, this guided them in knowing when to schedule vital activities like harvesting and hunting.
Today, the moon calendar is used for ritual purposes, as opposed to official business. Easter, Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, and the Chinese New Year are just a handful of holidays that rely on the lunar calendar.
Again, on average, there are 29.53 between each phase of the moon. How was this figure determined? Well, some incredibly smart folks figured out a long time ago that a new moon appears every 29.53 days. It should be noted. However, that does vary just slightly. Some months it’s 28 days while others can be 30.
The 13 Moon 28-day synchronometer is a harmonic timespace matrix. It takes the moon 28 days to orbit the Earth; it makes this orbit 13 times each year. The standard of measure is the 28-day cycle, called a moon, because it is the median between the 29.5-day synodic cycle of the moon (new moon to new moon) and the 27.1-day sidereal cycle of the moon. Hence, it is a measure of Earth’s solar orbit using the 28-day lunar standard. This creates a perfect orbital measure of 13 moons of 28 days, totaling 364 days, or 52 perfect weeks of 7 days each. Because the 365th day is no day of the moon or week at all, it is known as the “day out of time” – a day to celebrate peace through culture and time is art!
“The Thirteen Moon calendar is an evolutionary tool to assist humanity in the unprecedented act of uniting itself on one issue central to its complete well-being: time. The harmonic convergence of humanity on this one issue, combined with the inescapable order, perfection and simplicity of following the 13 Moon calendar will lift the species as a simultaneous whole into the galactic timing frequency of 13:20.”
In the 13 Moon calendar the names of the 13 moons correspond to the thirteen galactic tones of creation. Each of the 13 moons is saturated with meaning and altogether they form a whole vision sequence of cosmic order. Each year also serves as a planetary service wavespell. Before we introduce the names of the thirteen moons, please consider the meanings of the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar:
January is the God of the Doorway.
February is an obscure reference to a type of entrails used in a form of divination.
March is named after Mars, the God of War.
April and May are named after obscure floral goddesses of the springtime.
June is named after Juno, the wife of Jupiter.
July is named after Julius Caesar.
August is named after Augustus Caesar. August used to be the month called Sextile, which means 6, and Augustus Caesar figured that if Julius had a month named after him, then Augustus also wanted a month named after himself. So he changed Sextile to August and at that time it only had 30 days, February had 29, so he took the 29th day from February and added it to August so it would have 31 just like Julius did with July.
September means 7 (“sept”) but is the ninth month.
October means 8, but is the 10th month.
November, which means 9, is the 11th month.
December, the 12th month, means 10.
In the 13 Moon calendar, the meaning of each of the 13 moons corresponds to that particular number frequency having three key words. These numbers are known as the thirteen galactic tones of creation that together form the cosmology of movement. These 13 Moons can be put into the format of a wavespell:
Ahh, that Gregorian Calendar — calendar of usury, murder, exploitation, extraction, takings, imprisonment, suppression, hate, chaos, business, banking, war, transactions, legal shackles.
The Maya calendar is a system of three interlacing calendars and almanacs which was used by several cultures in Central America, most famously the Maya civilization.
The reason Zionists have the full support of European and US leaders is because the genocidal drive to ‘exterminate all the brutes’ is embedded deep in their psyches.
[The Secret to High-tech Success? This Elite Israeli Army Unit — The success of graduates of the IDF’s Intelligence Unit 8200 is staggering. Are they simply so talented or is it all connections? And why do most of them come from the center of the country?] Think of Microsoft, Google, and a thousand other places of the software application tyrants where Unit 8200 members go, just another form of Japan’s Unit 731,
This is the genocidal practice of settler-colonialism, dating back at least as far as Bartolome de las Casas in his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). In it, he documented for posterity the vicious brutality of the Spanish, butchering “savage Indians” in an orgy of violence. Israelis are doing the same to the Palestinians.
In North and South America, Australia, Asia and Africa, European settler-colonialists have left behind the evidence of their psychotic genocidal practices.
The European transatlantic slave trade may have halved the population of Africa, some historians believe. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many African colonies were all built on the systematic extermination, displacement and internment of the original inhabitants.
In the Israeli settler-colonialism now on violent display in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, European colonialism is living up to its murderous infamy and has returned to the global stage with a vengeance.
For decades, scholars of European colonialism have been working hard to document, archive and connect these episodes of the premeditated mass murder of native people around the globe.
But such painstaking scholarship has been unnecessary in Gaza and the West Bank. For there, the barbarity of the Israeli army and the settlers has been on full display on social media, and in the mainstream media in the global south, for anyone who cares to look for themselves.
Israel has put the entire history of Euro-American settler-colonialism and its genocidal instincts on full global display.
While the western media works tirelessly and shamelessly to whitewash Israel’s murderous activities – offering “alternative facts”, demonising Palestinians, valorising Israelis, and sanitising Zionism to assure the world that Israel is “the most moral army” the globe has ever seen – the world at large has been liberated from their pernicious journalism. (Israel’s war on Gaza encapsulates the entire history of European colonialism byHamid Dabashi )
Considering, then, most potent lord, the evils and harm, the perditions and ruin —the equals or likes of which, never were men imagined capable of doing — considering, as I say, those evils which as a man of fifty years’ and more experience, being in those lands present, I have seen committed upon those so many and such great kingdoms, or better said, that entire vast and new world of the Indies — lands conceded and given in trust by God and His Church to the king and queen of Castile, to rule and govern them, convert them to belief in Christ and the Holy Catholic Church, and give them to prosper temporally and spiritually—, this subject was not able to contain himself from supplicating with Your Majesty, most importunely, that Your Majesty not concede such licence nor allow those terrible things that the tyrants did invent, pursue, and have committed against those peaceable, humble, and meek Indian peoples, who offend no person. . . . (de las Casas)
Fuck the Gregorian Death Calendar:
“Zionism is an inheritor of all the worst tendencies of racialized systems of exclusion and ideologies of exclusion that exist and continue to exist in Europe,” Abdaljawad explains.
“And now not only is Zionism an inheritor of these ideologies, it’s also the place where new racialized systems of control, exclusion are created and then exported to the Empire.”
Abdaljawad further explains how European guilt over the Holocaust influences its contemporary support for Israeli crimes through an intricate politics of debt.
“The Germans, and perhaps the Europeans as a collective, are paying back the Jews for the crimes they committed against the Jews,” Abdaljawad says.
“Embedded within this notion of backing the state of Israel, and its existence and persistence in Palestine, and justifying even the existence of the German nation through it, is that through that we will actually pay our debt. And this is an unpayable debt.”
He also examines how the construction of the Holocaust as standing above all other crimes actually facilitates Western and especially German support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The “memory of the Holocaust has been created as something that is so unique, so singular, that nothing else can match it … ever again,” Abdaljawad argues. “In a way that also allows the crimes that are committed in Palestine to always be diluted,” with the perpetrators and their supporters using this singular construction of the Holocaust as a shield to absolve themselves.
Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University in Palestine. CROSSHAIRS, by Abdaljawad Omar.
The sniper is like a lone onlooker who inspects from the shadows. He enjoys the detachment from his subjects. Akin to a spectator witnessing a couple’s squabble, he briefly perceives them as mirror images of his own petty disputes with his lover. We are all distant observers at times, casually watching with delight a stranger in a café or noting a neighbor’s late arrival. The sniper’s first pleasure is the pleasure that distance allows.
Yet, the sniper’s kinship with his target ends where his livelier role begins. With chilling precision, he selects his mark, keenly attuned to the impending kill. In his imposition, he finds dark pleasure, as he stubbornly cosplays the Angel of Death. Despite his role within a rigid military hierarchy, he singularly claims credit for his actions, convinced of his unique artistry and the mastery of his craft. Like a poet who relishes in obscurity and seclusion, the sniper thrives on the stories of others, while remaining on the spectator-God bench. Returning to the sanctum of the barracks, the euphoria starts to erode, and perhaps only then does he contemplate the justification for his performance. Are his targets less than human or merely foes? Could they be mere skeletons lacking souls? Sometimes, the mere pleasure of a successful hit surpasses the need for queries or moral reckoning.
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Nearly a decade ago, a sniper’s bullet colonized my flesh, an intimate invasion where the cold metal kissed my ankle. There was a perverse fortune in locking eyes with my assailant, witnessing the elation in his act and his casual high-five to his fellow soldier boasting of a successful knockout—such a strange, dark mirror to the man’s face. His delight was a stark revelation, and my smile was almost a rejoinder to his elation, a reaction to the eeriness of my almost-killer. The bullet announced its approach buzzing in the air before bursting my skin, a sound that declared its intent with creepy precision. In that suspended moment, the rules of Israel’s open-fire regulation were crystalized to a singular point of focus: my lower body. During those years, Israel emphasized maiming rather than killing. Marked for the hit, I became a fatal note in a symphony of triviality, I was then the hunted “human animal” at the end of an unwavering grip of a youthful soldier, too generous for the rifle’s embrace. By some twist of mercy or oversight, I was spared the “upper hit.” Watch the full interview
Dirty man, dirty Zionist, dirty little murderer,ZioAzovNaziLensky!
Far right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich told Israel’s Army Radio on Saturday that there will be an exodus of Palestinians and instead Israelis “will live in the Gaza Strip”.
We will not allow a situation in which two million people live there. If there are 100,000 to 200,000 Arabs living in Gaza, the discussion about the day after will be completely different.
I’m for completely changing the reality in Gaza, having a conversation about settlements in the Gaza Strip… We’ll need to rule there for a long time… If we want to be there militarily, we need to be there in a civilian fashion.
Lackeys r’ Us — War Criminals on Parade, dirty pink pig faced Goyim:
Baby snatchers, baby killers, organ traffickers, sicarios, Jews:
The word “Sicario” finds its origins in Latin, particularly derived from the Latin term “Sicarius,” signifying “assassin” or “dagger-man.” In ancient Rome, the Sicarii, the plural form of Sicarius, were a faction of Jewish zealots and terrorists who operated during the 1st century AD. They were notorious for their secretive and violent methods, which involved employing concealed daggers, known as “sicae,” to eliminate Roman officials and collaborators.
Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament, was believed by some to be a sicarius.
The White Goyim and White Judaics — out of balance!
The Babylonians are believed to have been the first to notice that the transitions of the seasons were brought by cycles not only in the positions of the sun in the sky, but also the waxing and waning of the moon.
Kill the goddess.
The Hebrew Goddess Asherah
Long ago, in the ancient Near East, people once worshiped a goddess called Asherah. In Israel, the religion was very similar to that of nearby Canaan, and also to that of Egypt. The Israelites worshiped Elohim, his consort Asherah, as well as a pantheon, long before the name of Yahweh was revealed to Moses.
The Bible documents how Judaism railed against her and called her evil for centuries, attempting to eradicate the goddess religion and the portion of society that followed her. They went as far as to write into the Bible how the Hebrew God, Yahweh, killed his wife. After that, with the beginning of Christianity, they finally erased her.
If you look at the Christian Bible today, you will see places where the name Asherah has been re-translated as a “sacred grove of trees” instead of even using the name of the goddess. However, in the Jewish Bible, her name still appears.
The most gruesome and telling story, though, is in the book of Zechariah, and tells about how Yahweh killed his wife.
5 Then the angel who was talking with me came forward and said, “Look up and see what’s coming.”
6 “What is it?” I asked.
He replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain, and it’s filled with the sins of everyone throughout the land.”
7 Then the heavy lead cover was lifted off the basket, and there was a woman sitting inside it. 8 The angel said, “The woman’s name is Wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.
9 Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.
10 “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel.
11 He replied, “To the land of Babylonia, where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket there on its pedestal.”
(Zechariah 5:5–11)
Fucking Judaism and Christianity hate the woman:
The Goddess is also seen in the figure of Eve herself, the last figure in our trinity of tree-serpent-Goddess. In the Eden story she is given the epithet “the mother of all living,” an epithet like those given to various ancient near Eastern goddesses including Siduri, Ninti, and Mami in Mesopotamia and Asherah in Syria-Palestine. Eve’s actual name in Hebrew (ḥawwâ), besides meaning life (for which goddesses were traditionally responsible), is also likely wordplay on an old Canaanite word for serpent (ḥeva).
The name of the goddess Tannit (the Phoenician version of Asherah) means “serpent lady,” and she had the epithet “Lady Ḥawat” (meaning “Lady of Life”), which is derived from the same Canaanite word as Eve’s name (ḥawwâ). At the end of the story, Eve is punished by having to give birth in pain, whereas goddesses in the ancient Near East gave birth painlessly.
Further, in Genesis 4:1, Eve needs Yahweh’s help in order to become fertile and conceive, a reversal of the Goddess’ power and function. (Indeed, Eve is even created from Adam!) Adam’s only fault was “listening” to Eve in order to attain divine qualities. Here the Yahwist may be alluding to Goddess veneration, saying not to worship her. This seems to be one reason for the punishment consisting of woman’s subjugation to man in Genesis 3:16. (Source)
[Living in the 23rd century BC (approximately 2285 – 2250 BC), Enheduanna was the high priestess of the Temple of Sumer.] Enheduanna:
“is credited with creating the paradigms of poetry, psalms, and prayers used throughout the ancient world… Her compositions, though only rediscovered in modern times, remained models of petitionary prayer for even longer. Through the Babylonians, they influenced and inspired the prayers and psalms of the Hebrew Bible and the Homeric hymns of Greece. Through them, faint echoes of Enheduanna, the first named literary author in history, can even be heard in the hymnody of the early Christian church.”
The problem of evil is a touchstone of any religion. From our direct confrontation with evil results suffering, and thus endless questions about the meaning of life. That is why all religions have to give a proper answer regarding the origin, nature and end of evil.
There are three major religious alternatives in explaining evil, stated by the pantheistic, dualistic and monotheistic religions. Pantheistic religions regard evil as ultimately unreal. Human suffering is a product of spiritual ignorance gathered in previous lives and distributed in the present one according to the dictates of karma. In the dualistic religions, good and evil are two eternal and rival principles. Neither has created the other one and each acts according to its own nature. In the monotheistic religions, evil has a personal identity. Its source is a being that has fallen from an initial good status as a result of misusing freedom of will. Let us analyze these perspectives and see to what extent they are compatible with one another.
The Nobodies by Eduardo Galeano
Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and the nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them–will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.
The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, although they are.
Who don’t speak languages, but dialects.
Who don’t have religions, but superstitions.
Who don’t create art, but handicrafts.
Who don’t have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are worth less than the bullet that kills them.
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