enter the wall, Pink Floyd, eat your heart out cuz ‘that wall’ attracks all the Benjamins
Now that Talmudic ‘wall.’
Two terrorists and their David.
Oh, darn, when you peel the onion skins back, you get the DNA of Judea-Christian-Abrahamics “religion.”
Any red or blue manure producer (Pence 2.0) hits that wall, not Roger’s Wall, but that one:
Oh, that LDS parasite:
Oh, that birther:
Oh, that POW and the other Joe:
Oh, that wench of a wicked Biden:
Accused rapist, Biden, still looking for the wall:
So, peeling back those old good books . . .
The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as non-human animals, and specifically dehumanizes gentiles as not being descendants of Adam. We will now list some of the Talmud passages which relate to this topic:
“The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts.” — Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b
“The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog. Yes, the scripture teaches to honor the the dog more than the non-Jew.” — Ereget Raschi Erod. 22 30
“Even though God created the non-Jew they are still animals in human form. It is not becoming for a Jew to be served by an animal. Therfore he will be served by animals in human form.” — Midrasch Talpioth, p. 255, Warsaw 1855
“A pregnant non-Jew is no better than a pregnant animal.” — Coschen hamischpat 405
“The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs.” — Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b
“Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew like a monkey to a human.” — Schene luchoth haberith, p. 250 b
“If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog.” — Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b
“If a Jew has a non-Jewish servant or maid who dies, one should not express sympathy to the Jew. You should tell the Jew: “God will replace ‘your loss’, just as if one of his oxen or asses had died”.” — Jore dea 377, 1
“Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals.” Talmud Sanhedrin 74b
“It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile.” — Sepher ikkarim III c 25
“It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah.” — Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5
“A heretic Gentile you may kill outright with your own hands.” — Talmud, Abodah Zara, 4b
“Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God.” — Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772
Darn, not your good Jewish Doctor:
I’m probably one of the few Christian members of the Congress who can say the motzi. (Laughter.) I’ve attended more Jewish dinners than some of you have. (Applause.) I’ve raised more money from AIPAC than some of you have. (Applause.) I have spent more money raising money for the Federation than some of you have. (Laughter.) You think I’m kidding, don’t you. I’m not.
I got in trouble some years ago and Carl may remember. About 18, 20 years ago, I was speaking to the Zionist Organization of Baltimore. And I said, I am a Zionist, for I learned you do not have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. The fact of the matter is that the man who raised me was absolutely committed to the notion that it should never happen again, the man who could not understand why there could even be a debate about the establishment of the state of Israel. That man was my dad.
So it was no surprise to my friends when I was elected to the Senate in a state less than 1 percent of the Jewish — less than 1 percent of the population is Jewish, that I got so deeply involved early on in the Senate with the business of Israel. I was elected when I was 29 years old. And I continued my education, because I had the opportunity to get there and be educated by men like Hubert Humphrey, like Abe Ribicoff, like Jack Javits — people who were my mentors as a young kid in the United States Senate. Joe Biden, RIP
In Detroit, Vice President Biden speaks at the Yeshiva Beth Yehuda Anniversary Dinner and emphasizes the “unshakeable” bond between the United States and Israel.
On November 13th, 2011, Vice President Biden delivered a speech to over 2,000 rabbis, educators and Jewish community and business leaders in Detroit. The remarks, included below, were made at the anniversary dinner of Yeshiva Beth Yehuda, the oldest and largest Jewish schools system in Michigan.
And, speaking of pride: Joe Biden kvelled about his Jewish son-in-law at a political event in Ohio in 2016, saying:
“I’m the only Irish Catholic you know who had his dream met because his daughter married a Jewish surgeon.”
[Photo: File: US vice president Joe Biden, second left, walks with his wife, Jill, second right, their daughter Ashley, left, and their son-in-law Howard Krein during their visit to the National Orchid Garden in Singapore, July 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Lau Fook Kong, The Straits Times)]
all of it, run through a thespian’s tool box of lies, deception, tone, rhetoric, fancy dancing with purple prose and method acting, all of it, now in the employ of the masters of Oligarchy!
Whew, we have to see those two monsters, a la thespians? L to R: Tom Conti is Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer’. Two Catholics messing with stupdity, but it’s on the big screen, so it must be so so important.
Ya getting enough of the fucking lies of Oppenheimer and the fall over themselves rich sons of bitches telling us oh how good it is? That turncoat, Stone, man, shut the fuck up. It’s just a thespian cesspool, a movie, money, man, money for nothing:
JFK filmmaker Oliver Stone posted a series of tweets Tuesday praising Christopher Nolan’s latest film Oppenheimer during which he revealed he once turned down a project based around J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life because he couldn’t crack the narrative.
“Saturday, I sat through 3 hours of Oppenheimer, gripped by Chris Nolan’s narrative. His screenplay is layered & fascinating. Familiar with the book by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin, I once turned the project down because I couldn’t find my way to its essence. Nolan has found it,” Stone tweeted.
That fucking Stone, who goes on and on about how JFK woulda, coulda, must’ve pulled US out of its many killing fields in Indochina. BULL shit!
“for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of South Viet-Nam, but Southeast Asia. So we are going to stay there.” (source)
Oliver Stone in JFK had excerpts of Kennedy’s September 2 TV interview with Walter Cronkite. But the film did not include this:
“But these people who say we ought to withdraw from Vietnam are wholly wrong because if we withdrew from Vietnam the Communists would control Vietnam, pretty soon Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, all of Southeast Asia… So I think we should stay… I don’t agree with those who say we should withdraw. That would be a great mistake. That would be a great mistake.… We are in a desperate struggle against the Communist system…. It doesn’t do us any good to say, ‘Well, why don’t we all just go home and leave the world to those who are our enemies’… We are going to meet our responsibility.”
“What I am concerned about is that Americans will get impatient with the government in Saigon, that we should withdraw. That only makes it easy for the Communists. I think we should stay…we should not withdraw.”
While millions die, thousands are bombed, and the war war of depleted uranium, cluster bombs, and just big ass TNT human imploders, and these movies do what?
“Barbenheimer” double features were only the beginning. Disappointed by sold-out shows, hundreds of thousands of Barbie fans turned to Robert Oppenheimer for comfort. The result: an extra $5 million at the “Oppenheimer” box office.
According to film-data research company The Quorum, 6 percent of the people who saw “Oppenheimer” in the U.S. this past weekend did so because tickets to “Barbie” were sold out. “Oppenheimer” drew $83 million domestically, so $4.98 million is attributed to “Barbie” leftovers. (“Oppenheimer” made $93.7 million at the foreign box office.)
Fuck Einstein, too:
An Oppenheimer fact-check reveals that German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein signed a letter dubbed the Einstein-Szilard letter on August 2, 1939. Authored by physicist Leo Szilard, the letter was sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, recommending that he provide funding for research into the potential for using nuclear fission as a weapon. The letter warned that Nazi Germany may be carrying out similar research into the development of nuclear weapons.
Seventeenth-century poet John Donne was one of Oppenheimer’s favorite writers and an inspiration during his work with the Manhattan Project.
In 1962, Manhattan Project leader Gen. Leslie Groves wrote to Oppenheimer to ask about the origins of the name Trinity. According to a copy of the letter that is a part of the collections of the Lab’s National Security Research Center, Oppenheimer said, “Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind. There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love.” Oppenheimer then quoted the sonnet “Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness” about a man unafraid to die because he believed in resurrection.
Oppenheimer continued, “That still does not make a Trinity, but in another, better known devotional poem Donne opens, ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God.’ Beyond this, I have no clues whatever.”
“Batter my heart” expresses the paradox that by being chained to God, the narrator can be set free. A great force could enthrall the narrator to do greater good. Richard Rhodes, who wrote the book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” proposed that “the bomb for [physicist Niels] Bohr and Oppenheimer was a weapon of death that might also end war and redeem mankind.”
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Mad men, killers, and they did it, didn’t they?
It’s just stupid junk TV:
Experts say that the issue of representation is more nuanced. They emphasized that while no one film has the responsibility to illustrate Japanese victims’ perspective, “Oppenheimer” does little to challenge the long history of glorifying the work of white men, and risks perpetuating the persistent, often reductive, portrayals of Japanese victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“I don’t think we should depend on Hollywood to tell our stories with the nuance and the depth and the care that they really deserve,” Nina Wallace, media and outreach manager at Densho, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the stories of those of Japanese descent. “But it is true that these institutions that are in positions of power, positions of influence, put more value on stories of men like Oppenheimer, like Truman, than it does on the Asian and indigenous communities that suffered because of decisions that those men made.”
Oppenheimer’s work led to the deaths of more than 200,000 people by some estimates, as well as a generation of “hibakusha,” or survivors of the blast — many of whom continue to contend with the impacts of the bomb to this day. And the movie has largely been billed as a contemplation over the moral dilemmas facing the scientists.
However, Nolan doesn’t show the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the devastating aftermath in the cities. While there’s a scene that depicts American leaders discussing where to drop the bomb — with then-Secretary of State Henry Stimson depicted as arguing against Kyoto because of his honeymoon there — victims of the blasts never appear on screen. In another scene, Oppenheimer gives a speech and, while looking into the crowd, visualizes some of the predominantly white audience as the victims of his bomb. (NBC, some source)
Lies lies from the director of fucking Batman.
Greg Mitchell, a journalist and author who has written extensively on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, notes, Oppenheimerleaves out key historical facts that raise questions about the necessity of deploying the atomic bomb to end the war—and the necessity of dropping the second one on Nagasaki. “Many historians today believe that if Truman had waited just three days after Hiroshima for the Soviets to enter the war as the US insisted,” he points out, “the Japanese would likely have surrendered in about the same time frame.” Mitchell also observes that there is no mention in the film that 85 percent of the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilians.
The bloody Soviet Union defeated the Japanese:
To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. It was the greatest defeat in Japanese military history, yet few outside the circles of Japanese and Soviet history are even aware that it occurred. It ensured the end of World War II as much as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did, yet it is often ignored in Western studies of the war.
More than one million Japanese soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed or captured in a month’s bitter fighting in a far-off land that even today remains somewhat mysterious.
The seeds of the annihilation of four Japanese armies, each equal to an American field army, were planted in 1931. Japanese militarists saw the civil war in China between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Tse-tung’s Communists as an opportunity for a place at the imperialist table and a slice of the Chinese pie, and thus decided to invade China, Manchuria, and Korea.
The Soviets’ Manchurian Campaign, August Storm, destroyed the last vestige of Japanese military power outside Japan, and put the final nail in the coffin of those Japanese militarists who, even after suffering two atomic attacks, intended to continue the war to the death.
Only the most fanatical Japanese still wanted to continue what had become a war of annihilation. These few were either killed by the rational Japanese leaders or conveniently committed suicide. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria—which led to Japan’s greatest defeat—had helped to end the Pacific War. (source)
These overpaid freaks will be putting the finishing touches on the NaziLandia of UkroNaziLandia, and the great swaths of untruths papering over the Penis Piano Man, ZioAzovLensky.
Holly-Dirt has already thrown in with that Nazi, man, that Nazi, man.
Soviet Union, and the bomb was dropped, or both were dropped on civilian Japan, to scare the Soviets. This is the sickness of Einstein and Oppenheimer and that DIaspora and the other White Lords of Science and Military Madness.
In an attempt to halt the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, Japanese infantrymen board a train bound for the front. Most would not return home alive.
Riding in U.S. Lend-Lease amphibious DUWKs, Red Army troops advance to the U.S.S.R.- Manchuria border during Operation August Storm.
Japanese soldiers man a machine-gun outpost along the shores of the Amur River in Manchuria, August 9, 1945, the day the Soviet invasion began.
A huge motorized Soviet convoy advances across the Grand Khingan Mountain Range in south central Manchuria.
Red Army troops follow in the wake of an armored vehicle towing an artillery piece up a steep incline.
A Japanese horse-mounted unit on maneuvers along the banks of the Amur River shortly before the Soviets declared war on Japan, August 8, 1945.
After the Soviets launched an amphibious invasion of Japanese-occupied Korea on August 14, the Red Army stopped at the 38th Parallel at the proposal of the United States, thus establishing the later border between North and South Korea.
The spoils of war: Soviet troops remove industrial equipment from a Manchurian factory.
Japanese troops lay down their arms after surrendering to the Red Army in Harbin, Manchuria, August 20, 1945.
Was I born in a normal time? Is war time our normal time? It is. I was.
But to be born at a time and place when your country’s leaders were denouncing their German and Japanese enemies as savage war criminals while execrably emulating them and then outdoing them is something else again. With Operation Paperclip following World War II, the United States government secretly brought 1,600 or more Nazi war criminals into the U.S. to run our government’s military, intelligence, space, chemical, and biological warfare programs. We became Nazis. Lewis Mumford put it this way in The Pentagon of Power:
By the curious dialectic of history, Hitler’s enlargement and the refurbishment of the Nazi megamachine gave rise to the conditions for creating those counter-instruments that would conquer it and temporarily wreck it. In short, in the very act of dying the Nazis transmitted their disease to their American opponents; not only the methods of compulsive organization or physical destruction, but the moral corruption that made it feasible to employ those methods without stirring opposition.
There are always excuses for such moral corruption. When during WW II the U.S. firebombed almost all Japanese cities, Dresden and Cologne in Germany, and then dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in gratuitously savage attacks, these were justified and even celebrated as necessary to defeat evil enemies. Just as Nazi war criminals were welcomed into the U.S. government under the aegis of Allen Dulles who became the longest running CIA director and the key to JFK’s assassination and coverup, the diabolic war crimes of the U.S. were swept away as acts of a moral nation fighting a good war. What has followed are decades of U.S. war crimes from Korea through Vietnam and Iraq, etc. A very long list.
The English dramatist Harold Pinter, in his Nobel Address, put it bluntly:
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
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.
Consulting the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, I find that there are some 70,000 “professional actors” in the U.S. (compared to, for instance, 3000 sociologists). Quite obviously, the requisite job skills require playing different roles, displaying (false) emotions, and “sincerely” persuading us to buy sundry products, “lifestyles” — and candidates. With their omnipresence in all performing media, actors have by now become absurdly over-valued as role-models in everyday life. Writing back in the 1940s, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had already critiqued the rise of a new American character-type: the “marketing personality” — whose looks, smiles and jokes would be “selling points,” not only in politics, but infiltrating all aspects of social engagement. In short, not the real person and his values (if any), but a simulacrum or image fashioned to display pleasing, if insincere, demeanor, attitudes and opinions. (A Nation of Thespians)
Although Boyer argues for a more complex and nuanced view of the censor’s role and intellect, he offers a harsh viewpoint that encapsulates a number of discussions on censor:
“Censorship is a crude business: punitive, petty, anti-humanitarian, and far beneath the work of the truly gifted and intelligent”.
Read a doctoral dissertation: ROUSSEAU AND THE PROBLEM OF CENSORSHIP: FREEDOM, VIRTUE, AND THE EDUCATION OF THE CITIZEN; Elliot Thomas Montagano
With full-fledged summer coming on strong, we say goodbye to July. We can be hopeful families will bond in these troubling times, as school is out, vacation time’s high on the to-do list and outdoor rec becomes priority one.
July was marked by celebratory milestones — Disability Pride Month, Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Plastic Free July, Malala Day, International Self-Care Day, World Heart Day, International Tiger Day. Add UV Safety Awareness Month and Shark Week (July 23 – 30).
Some of these observations are close to me. Tigers? I was in Vietnam in the 1990s working on biodiversity studies with several groups, one of which was tracking the rare and endangered Indochinese tiger. Living in rough conditions in my one man tent, I was always aware of the possibility of a tiger coming into our camp and having me or another member of our team as a midnight snack.
I’ve also been in the social services arena, working as a case manager for homeless veterans, just-released prisoners, foster youth, and others. Overworked and over-booked, our cadre has been fighting for more responsive and trauma informed supervisors and leadership to cut our workloads and incorporate true self care measures to keep our fellow professionals from burning out.
I’ve worked with many minorities over the years, as an educator and social worker. I’ve been trained by the best of them — African-Americans, Latinos, many from several African nations and friends from Iran and Palestine — who taught me mental health challenges are as or more severe for minorities for a plethora of reasons. Mental health outcomes are tied to racism, poverty, and general perception of mental health as a problem in those communities.
All of these are prudent ways to learn about amazing people doing the hard work of embracing social justice and positive outcomes for their respective communities. Disability Pride Month for those living with any number of disabilities also intersects with my life as an educator and case manager for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Many I worked with were struggling with gender and sexual identities, and many felt as if their disability status caused other to not take their mental hygiene seriously.
Shifting from the social justice element to these awareness milestones, let’s move to no plastics July. For so many years, I’ve studied sustainability and written about the complicated issues of pollution, both the large aspect of the Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch, to the reality of micro plastics not only in fish and cetacean flesh, but in our human metabolism. Plastic is in everything, and those polyester clothes, it’s the miniscule fibers which get sucked into our lungs. Eventually we end up with that six grader weird research project “why’s there plastic in our feces?”
As a member of planning teams, and my own work as a sustainability coordinator for a college in Spokane, I have much awareness of climate change and the reasons for the 1987 Montreal Protocol on the ozone. This is a global agreement to protect the Earth’s ozone layer, an accord designed to phase out a host of chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs).
In 1987, we were addressing a continent-sized hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. We’ve seen amazing progress (shrinking of the hole) in those 36 years.
We all know about sun block creams, SPF 30 lotions that reduce sunburning. The sun emits radiation in the form of ultraviolet light, which is classified into three types: U.V.A., U.V.B., and U.V.C. The ozone layer protects the Earth’s stratosphere and blocks the most damaging U.V.C. light, but U.V.B. and U.V.A. light pass through it. U.V.C. radiation can come from artificial sources such as sunlamps or tanning beds.
The U.V. Index. describes the level of solar U.V. radiation hitting the Earth’s surface. The higher the index value, the greater potential for damage to the skin and eyes.
Now, shifting from potential skin cancer damage to Shark Week, I will attempt some finesse. First, I spent much time admittedly without sunscreen lotions diving in the Sea of Cortez at a young age. One of the prime attractions for me were sharks. I’ve spent considerable time with blue sharks off of Baja and much time with hammerheads as well, scuba diving off Guaymas.
Shark Week is of course a commercial gimmick propped up by the Discovery Channel. Debuting in 1988, it’s now TV’s longest-running programming event. No, sharks aren’t mad revenge-filled characters from a movie (think 1975’s Jaws). In fact, the author of the book “Jaws,” Peter Benchley regretted the complete paranoia and revengeful panic his story created. I’ve been to Costa Rica where shark-finning (killing these species for shark fin soup and other human uses) was rampant. In 1977, when I was 20, I encountered so many species of sharks in Mexican waters; off Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica I was in shark heaven. Now, over three-quarters of shark and ray species are classified as ‘near threatened’ or worse, with the number of endangered species growing each year. Sometimes I need to give myself some self-care time to grasp how quickly the shark world — and oceans in general — has changed.
Ahh, I was writing about what Facebook and Homeland Security and Mossad and Unit 8200 and Thiel and Zuckerberg are doing, and I juxtaposed the idea of putting these fascists’ names in Wikipedia to see their backgrounds, their allegiances, their families, their monied interests, schooling, etc.
You know, things like this:
The faces of Ebony and Ivory, misleadership class and the Zionist First brownshirt.
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“Who determines what’s inaccurate? Who determines what’s false? Do you understand the problem here?” posed Johnson. Such was the gravity felt by Johnson on the issue, that he saw the need of reminding Mayorkas about the fundamental significance of the First Amendment to United States democracy — an implication, perhaps, that these basic rights should be maintained regardless of the changing digital landscape.
In response to Johnson’s fiery line of questioning, Mayorkas adamantly defended his agency’s actions, stating, “What we do is, we disclose the tactics that adverse nation-states are utilizing to weaponize misinformation.”
His claim, however, directly contradicted factual evidence outlined in the Missouri v. Biden case by Attorneys General Andrew Bailey of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana which found that government agencies continually caused the censorship of US citizens.
[Note: Understand the enemy’s family line, via WikiCIApedia: His father, Charles R. “Nicky” Mayorkas, was born in Cuba. He was a Cuban Jew of Sephardi (from the former Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey and Greece) and Ashkenazi (from Poland) background. He owned and operated a steel wool factory on the outskirts of Havana. Nicky Mayorkas studied economics at Dartmouth College.
His mother, Anita (Gabor), was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s before leaving to the United States after the Cuban Revolution.]
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And this:
Ahh, *uck-You-Berg, up his dirty meglomaniacal tricks. These Zionists are something else. Ya think I will stay on this bloody platform with the eye, voice, and feces scans *uck-err-berg has planned?
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Social media behemoth Meta has disclosed intentions to patent a system that leverages voiceprints for user identification. Critics will likely raise eyebrows at this step, which they argue gives Meta unprecedented access to a deeply personal aspect of users’ identities: their voices. Meta Files Patent To Scan Users’ Voices To Make a “Voiceprint”
Facebook is evil, and alas, breath, butt, urine, fingerprint, eyeball, face, voice, feces, hair scan, this is how brownshirts and goosestepping billionaires and millionaires work. Is the world better off without them having never ever been born? Bats to the head? Sharpened pitchforks and boiling tar and poisoned tipped quills?
Then, of course, another worthless poisonous snake on planet earth:
A group of nearly 70 rights organizations from around the world have penned a letter to EU Internal Commissioner Thierry Breton, concerned that the EU’s new legislation might lead to internet shutdowns.
In the letter, they are urging Breton to clarify his recent statements and reassure the public that the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) will not be turned into a tool to coerce online platforms into deleting “hateful content,” under threat of blocking them as punishment.
If the DSA is designed to, as the signatories put it, arbitrarily block major social networks which the EU finds are not immediately complying with “hate speech” takedown rules – then they view that as a violation of human rights protections found in international law.
Breton’s comments which upset the EFF, Access Now, ARTICLE 19, and over 60 other groups, were made in the context of recent mass civil unrest in France (the EU commissioner is a French politician). And one of the “solutions” to the social crisis the country was experiencing, Breton suggested, was to use the DSA to limit access to social sites.
These are human stain, Mister Macron Rothschild and his techy boy. But on Substack, the winners there have locked me out of my account for this piece, more or less, and that is the way of fascism. I included the letter below, and noted that we need to stop being milquetoast fools, and respectful of these Zionist misanthropes.
Then I went after the Zionists and Israelis Who Hate Humanity!
And, it is Jews’ god-given right to controlling global security:
If you frequently follow Israeli tech news, you have come to notice a pattern: Many of the startup nations’ CTOs, CEOs, and other founders and c-level executives started their tech careers in the IDF’s intelligence unit 8200. Though Unit 8200 is dubbed “ the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world”, there are plenty, and we mean plenty, of other units that the startup nation stars served in. We sat down with a few to learn more about their IDF journey, and how, though not in 8200, it had a pivotal impact on their careers as tech entrepreneurs. (source)
So, saying that it would be best if these nerds, these Eichmann’s, these Oppenheimers had never graced the face of the earth is VERY Boten at Substack, and FU Book.
Because . . . Come on, best if the world never had a Hitler or millions of Nazi’s, or Zelensky, or . . . .
In biblical times, communities appointed watchmen to guard the city against impending danger, whether it was thieves trying to make off with a town’s food supply or invading armies seeking to overthrow a kingdom.
God has assigned a similar Israeli group today to safeguard the global community against terrorism.
Staffed by young cyber experts, Unit 8200 is the largest arm of Israel’s military. According to the British think tank, Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, “Unit 8200 is probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stands on a par with the NSA in everything except scale.”
Israel founded Unit 8200 way back in 1952 using primitive surplus American military equipment. The unit today plays a crucial role in thwarting terrorist activities. Among their stealth roles is tracking ISIS fighters who, once forced from the battlefield, burrowed into countries around the world.
In an interview with Ynet, Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said, “We pass on information to countries when we know something is in the works.” Hence the elite group is now credited with spoiling sophisticated plots, including . . .
This is disgusting, racist, and part and parcel the Zionist First, Israel First, Jewish First mentality. And to attack it means, well, my Substack is GONE.
GONE:
You can see it today, read stuff, but I am locked out of publishing. Terminal Velocity.
Because, again, bat to the head, and all off them need bats to the head. Note that I am not going to hit them with my bat, nor am I calling anyone to go out there and attempt to break their security teams with a bat in order to bat their heads, but Substack is the way of the DoDo.
Of course, the world would have been better without these fascists. Bats to their heads, all of them, and their families. That’s just satire, man, polemics, bullshit grandstanding, and nothing more.
Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C., to a Jewish family,[10][11] the daughter of Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three children.[2][12] Her father is an ophthalmologist, and her mother was a college teacher of French language.[10]
These are tyrants and ctriminals, but again, propaganda in their favor makes that statement so far out of the fringe, that saying it or printing it means zero to them. Should they go the way of the DoDo? YES. But this is a Zero Call to Action.
All Billionaires are Criminals, and that includes the Happy Faces.
And, this is what gets me banned, man:
What the hell do pitchforks do? Machetes? Boiling tar? Come on, Nick, Billionaire states the obvious:
Is this illegal, then, juxtaposing Mossad and Unit 8200 and Dell and the Cloud Servers, with this?
There you have it. This isn’t exactly what I wrote in my Substack, and that Fascist organization, without notice, stopped me from accessing my posts, even cutting and pasting my drafts.
Yes, dear commissioner, please use lubrication when sodomizing free speech and free agency and free association and freedom of movement.
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it’s an end to shaking of the tree trauma for one woman: a testament to survival and fortifying the backbone after five years of intimate partner violence, BWS by any other name — battered wives!
It’s one ugly dysfunctional arena, the criminal injustice system. Broad sweeping stupidty, and the over-incarceration of non-violent offenders, and then, the revolving door of other offenders, in and out, in and out, a tidal wave of for-profit criminal injustice that pays pays pays all the Eichmann’s in the system . . . and all the drug abuse and the boozing fools, DUI’s, and one stumble after another, many of whom just pay a defense scum attorney for a get out of jail card.
Entire legions of cops, flak-jacketed and AR-15 killers, ready to get the Black jaywalkers, and then, we have the 70 percent of domestic violence cases plead down, or just dropped.
I’ve been writing about one person in particular (read this goddmaned free Substack while it lasts — scroll on back to older pieces), who had her day in court, so to speak, July 27. A victim’s impact statement where the victim’s abuser blankly stared into space, and where his own sociopathic mother from Colorado crossed her legs and pumped back and forth, staring at all the women filing in to support the victim, checking them out as if she was a lesbian . . . not even looking at the harm her precious abuser son had done to her daughter-in-law, not thinking about the woman on the witness stand making her last statement, her only one, before the fucker plead to the two lesser of 12 charges. My amiga was magnificent. More on this case later!
A system that displayed one DA with a voice and image like some captured bank teller, and then the victim’s advocate who looked like a toadie caught in that slowly warming water.
The statement she read got the judge to take a look, reverse the immediate release plans, and insist the fucker spend the full 364 days in jail for the one charge. She also stated that upon release, the abuser would have to have a Scram bracelet, to continuously watch him for drinking, and then an ankle GPS bracelet. These were not in the guy’s future, until the victim’s statement, until the judge heard things about the fucker that could not have been brought up in a trial if it had ensued. You know, past domestic abuse, etc., not relevant in the case of him attempting to murder her.
Telling for her, the judge, was that the guy before her was like a sick unremorseful zombie. He wanted to play the probabtion system, play the judicial system, and alas, the judge was not playing HIS fucking game.
Get the power of this wife, this soon to be divorced wife, who went through hell less than a year ago, last November. Read her words, and be proud we still have people who can face their accuser and fly like an eagle:
Abuser: I see clearly now. I see how you gained control over the years and how you targeted me from day one. By shining so bright – me the independent, multi-lingual, smart business owner — I had what you never had. You saw in me a powerful but vulnerable well intentioned human being, and you took advantage of it as all abusers do. You never treated me as your equal. I was the perfect victim for you.
I didn’t know back then, but I know now that I married a predator. It was truly scary for me when I talked with your ex fiancé, T- – – and realized how your abusive behaviors only escalated with the years. Her life was shattered, and her current life, married with children, still reflects fear for you, of you. The fact that you never did the work on yourself to heal your own traumas or anger management, that is forefront, but for a victim of more than four years of abuse, I find it difficult to empathize with you. You have continued with your hate, your misogyny and your control; you have only gotten worse. You abused T- – – too and probably every woman that ever crossed your path. You’re a serial abuser.
The control you gained on me over the years was very insidious. The cycle of abuse was vicious. From complete isolation & neglect, to long periods of raging and alcohol abuse, to rejection and abandonment, among others, you wore me down and turned me into a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. You belittled me and threatened me every chance you had. You made a point to make my life miserable. You pushed me away and reeled me back in whenever you were pleased with fake apologies, crocodile tears and empty promises to change and be better. I believe you are not redeemable.
You wanted a submissive wife at home to cook, to clean and to fall under your terrible will. You wanted a punching bag for your emotions, and I was it. That facilitated you to show your best behaviors and charming self to other people. It’s not classic Jekyll & Hide behavior, but it sure was close. Nobody really knew what was really happening behind closed doors. A living hell, that’s what it was all along, all day, every day with you. I was constantly walking on eggshells, sleeping on the couch with my purse hidden under my legs and the dog on a leash, always on a fight or flight mode.
I would clean vomit and piss all over the bathroom every other day. You would hide the car keys so I couldn’t go anywhere. You would lock me outside of the house. You would threaten to hurt the dog if I would to go anywhere. You would manipulate me and force me into your deviant sexual fantasies so you would have to seek sex from other women. You would attack my integrity and make fun of my origins, my family, my friends, my accent, my height, my weight. There was always something wrong with me, any ideas I would have or everything I would do. I was criticized, blamed, and brought down every day. You gas lit me constantly, trying to convince me that what I saw I didn’t see, what I heard I didn’t hear, what I felt I didn’t feel.
That was an ongoing narcissistic plan to convince me that my reality was completely false, and that’s a serious abuse tactic & psychological torture method I have learned now while going to counseling. You were grooming me into losing every little bit of self confidence I had so you could abuse me more intensely and keep me isolated. The way you treated me all along is a statement of who you are as a human being. Nine months in a county jail with no counseling, no group work, no substance abuse programs just makes you more of a danger to society. But not to me.
For the longest time, I tried to understand your relationship with your mother, and I finally got it: You both are the same person; you both are despicable human beings. You can’t stand each other, yet you use each other to get your evil ways. I don’t think you were born an abuser, but that you became one. Forged by another one, your father and your rotten mother’s response to a husband’s abuse. The abused that becomes an abuser is classic, but it doesn’t make me feel vindicated. Everything you guys plotted against me over the years and especially since you got incarcerated were really enlightening to me. She enables you all the way and you don’t know any better than being an abuser & addict.
I have now unraveled all of your lies, including the cheating and the nasty campaign against me you ran amongst friends and family. Rarely mentioning that we were married, keeping me hidden so you could abuse me better, you have lied throughout this relationship — to me and to others. You also were targeting vulnerable and low self esteem women by luring them into your hotel rooms. I’m truly disgusted. By now, your life has no more secrets for me. Maybe you can find some relief in that.
I wanted to be loved. I wanted to help. I wanted to make you happy. I wanted us to be team #1. Sure, I have cried, screamed and ran away my fair share as I was reacting to this ongoing nightmare. But unlike you, I never intended to hurt, control and manipulate. I helped you through every struggle you had. I was your cheerleader. I followed, encouraged and helped you in all your projects, as crazy as they were. I was by your side every time you experienced alcohol withdrawals, when you were sick or injured. And so on. I had good intentions; I wanted a lifetime marriage & partner.
But you wouldn’t appreciate anything I would do for you. I did a lot for you, for us. I was a good, loving & faithful wife. I am the one that helped you keeping your head above the water. Without me, you would have sunken a long time ago. Remember the person you first met in Guatemala? An independent & strong woman loved and respected by everyone? Well, by the time you got incarcerated, I was barely a shadow of that person, of myself. I had checked out emotionally. I couldn’t bear any of the abuse anymore. I was at my lowest point and this is exactly where you wanted me to be so you could control, lie, manipulate, cheat and abuse me even more. You thought you had me good; I know you never thought I would call the police on you! You’ve mistaken my kindness for weakness.
I jeopardized my life to flee from you and the abuse on many occasions by flying away, driving away, leaving numerous different jobs, turning down opportunities, sleeping in the car, streets, motels, crashing at friends’ homes. They say that it takes on average 7 times for a victim to flee her abuser for good. That’s about what it took me to stand for myself and call the police. And yes, I did come back to you plenty of times. I genuinely wanted things to work for us and help you. I loved you very much. But I know now that I never had a real chance to make this marriage work. For you, it wasn’t about love, respect and devotion. It was all about control, manipulation & abuse.
You never loved me. I am no longer ashamed I have been shackled by you because I understand the dynamics of battered wife syndrome. I am no longer a victim. You used everything I ever shared with you, with honesty and vulnerability, to manipulate me and keep me around. I was so scared of what would happen if I didn’t obey you. You would threaten me into withdrawing yourself from the green card application so I would be deported. You would hide my passport while you were gone on your trips so I wouldn’t escape. You would make me spend every bit of money I would make so you could control me financially. I could go on forever.
Nothing will ever excuse nor explain what happened on the night of November 11th when for the first time in my life I dialed 911. Who the fuck do you think you are to feel that’s it’s okay to assault me and contemplate killing me? You really scared me. As you grabbed me by the throat, locked my arms behind my back, stuffed my face into the couch, and forced a pillow over my head and tried to suffocate me, I thought for sure I would die.
You tried to kill me, Abuser!
You must have thought that I had to pay for every woman in your life that let you down and disappointed you. Or maybe you sought some kind of vengeance against women, me, with your dad’s murder (by his second wife) anniversary coming up. It took me some time to realize it, but I surely was in great danger! There is nothing I could have done for you to justify assaulting me. No trauma or addiction of yours can explain or diminish your actions. I thought about that night many times; there was no happy ending possible. I would have ended up dead one day soon anyways. You were getting more out of control and more aggressive by the day. And remember when you gave me a concussion in Arizona after hitting me on the head? Remember me begging for my life as you were choking me on the bed? Those burdens are now all on you. I am washing my hands of it. I refuse to let any of the abuse you put me through define me anymore.
The person you assaulted that night exists no more. I am in process of regaining all the self confidence you took away from me, taking back control over my life and healing from all the trauma you caused me. Make no mistake — you can’t fool me anymore. Although you’ve shaken me to my core, you didn’t succeed in killing me; I am now growing stronger than ever. That’s my biggest victory. I am finally seeing you for the monster that you are. I am standing up for myself.
Unlike you, I never sought vengeance. By now, I only want you to take accountability and be held legally responsible for what you did to me. I am finding myself much more peaceful knowing exactly who and what I was dealing with. I know you know exactly what you did to me that night and how much you’ve abused me over the years, and it’s going to haunt and torture your consciousness forever, no matter how drunk you get. YOU will have to live with those thoughts after this day. The truth is that you are a danger to society. You have put me through some much abuse and you endangered me and my dog, Randy, so many times. You are an abuser in the most classic sense; you drive intoxicated; you are a predator; you are a misogynist, a narcissist, a sociopath, racist and a total fraud.
What you have put me through, I don’t wish it on anybody. You are an imminent danger to women and young girls. You have lucked out and received a plea agreement, and I know you think you have won, that you will get something over on the probation officials, that you can scam the system, and that you will drink again and even attempt to contact me. You should have received prison time.
I truly hope you will heal from your own childhood trauma, through anger management and addiction treatment, and that you will at some point be the better human being I always thought you could be, but I strongly doubt any of these transformation will occur. You will hurt again and fuck it up again like you always. How was your time in jail? Just over 8 months, right? How miserable were you? That’s nothing compared to what you have put me through and what I have endured because of you. I was in a prison all day, everyday living in serious fear for my life.
You pled for an easier final punishment because you got scared like a little boy. You shit your pants. I was always the bigger person, not you. You can’t even face your own truth and admit your terrible behaviors and mistakes. It hurts too much to face the reality of your life full of regrets, doesn’t it?
Throughout these months, I never contacted you, didn’t contact your family nor your friends. I am commanding you to never get in contact with me, nor stalk me in any way, shape or form. Not me, my family, or my friends. Don’t even try because I won’t hesitate to defend myself this time around. After everything you put me through, I would hope you would understand and leave me alone forever. I have given enough of my soul to the dark-dark motives in your dark heart and twisted mind.
Never again.
I’ll end this statement by saying this: For me, you are a spineless worthless piece of shit and there is no redemption for someone like you. Most importantly, you have now become a total stranger to me.
Signed: Your Soon to be Ex-Wife, Janet (pseudonym)
The judge knows this fact below, so does the DA, as well as the Victim Advocate, and the Defense Attorney, as well, but this rule of law is a sick game, a fake actor’s game, where the rhetorical skills of these DAs and defense attorneys are a joke. The entire system plays the game of, “Well, one year, sure, we can understand that sort of battered wife synrome, but three, five, ten years? Why didn’t you just pack up and leave?” Fuck them.
Women may be afraid of strangers, but it’s a husband, a lover, a boyfriend, or someone they know who is most likely to hurt them. According to a U.S. Justice Department study, two-thirds of violent attacks against women are committed by someone the woman knows. In the United States, one of the most dangerous places for a woman is her own home. Approximately 1,500 women are killed each year by husbands or boyfriends. About 2 million men per year beat their partners.
Why don’t men leave relationships that are supposedly so unsatisfactory to them? If we listen to men who abuse their wives, what we hear is how terribly inadequate these women are for the men. At the same time, we know that abusive men are tremendously dependent on their partners. Fear of rejection, emotional withdrawal, and/or abandonment are major factors that actually cause these men to be violent. Men who batter women are often psychologically incapable of leaving the relationship.
What is the cycle of abuse? A cycle of abuse occurs in some families. The family’s life becomes a cycle of violence. Life begins to revolve around anticipating violence; coping with actual acts of violence; or recovering from the violence. Ironically, a family can become tremendously close in the recovery phase. The man who was terrifying and intimidating turns into a remorseful, needy, and dependent man. The woman who was battered then will feel sorry for the man and recommit to him in a fantasized hope that the abuse won’t happen again. But the cycle of abuse will begin again, often becoming worse. The cycle of abuse can only be broken with awareness and professional help. (source)
Just watching these actors (bad ones) in this drama makes a grown man sick, and the bat to the head seems like the only way to take out rabid goddamned dogs like abusers and their parents and others who cover for them.
The system is so fucked up. In my county, they, the HR departments, that is, are looking for not one, not two, but three lawyers for the DA’s office. The sheriff’s department is looking not for one, not for two, but for three deputies to cover the rural county.
Plenty of angry men, beaten down men, men with no brains, men with no self-control, men who eat this shit up, this misogyny, all of that, including the pricks in the batter’s boxes — ugly rapist Trump and rapist Biden. From the top, down to the Arkansas of the north, Wisconsin.
Endless rotten men in powerful positions — clergy, rabbis, educators, cops, CEOs, managers, military merchants of death, bankers, Holly-Dirt, and the list goes on and on. This system of buttoned up pricks make the Cartels look like amatuers.
It’s global, man:
Homicide represents the most extreme form of violence against women, a lethal act on a continuum of gender-based discrimination and abuse. As this research shows, gender-related killings of women and girls remain a grave problem across regions, in countries rich and poor. While the vast majority of homicide victims are men, killed by strangers, women are far more likely to die at the hands of someone they know. Women killed by intimate partners or family members account for 58 per cent of all female homicide victims reported globally last year, and little progress has been made in preventing such murders. Targeted responses are clearly needed. This booklet – part of the forthcoming Global Study on Homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – is being released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2018 to raise awareness, increase understanding and inform action. It is also a call for Governments to help us shed further light on these challenges by collecting the needed data and reporting on all forms of gender-based violence. UNODC remains committed to supporting Member States to strengthen evidence-based policies and criminal justice responses that can prevent and end violence against women and gender-related killings. (source)
Yet, the female Judge, the female DA, the female public defender, the female mother of the perpetrator, the female victim advocate, all of them, seem clueless and spineless in one fell swoop of dishonesty and stupidity.
I’ve been around those blocks a few times, and in prisons, with tons of men in college classes, in the military, on the road, as a journalist around cops, sure, in Macho countries, all over the place, and as a case manager for men just out of the pen for crimes of many dimensions. The shit-storm that is patriarchy and chauvanism kills kills kills. From the cradle to the grave.
Maya Angelou:
‘Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women’.
More more more, later, on my amiga’s story. But here, more information!
The average person on the street thinks an emotional abuse victim is a pushover. Spineless. Weak. Coward. Can’t stand up for herself. Doesn’t “handle” her man the right way. Has little self-esteem. The average religious person, if they believe the victim IS a victim in the first place (which they usually don’t), believes if the victim married a guy with problems, she needs to hunker down and sleep in the bed she made for herself. How bad can it be? But here’s the truth: the emotional abuse target can be anyone. She can be a business owner. An attorney. A professor. A doctor. An author. A homemaker. A company president. A police officer. And contrary to the opinions of those who don’t understand how abuse works, she isn’t targeted because she can’t stand up for herself and has low self-esteem. She is targeted because of her strengths. In this video you’ll learn ten of the abuse target’s strengths and why her abuser selects her specifically because of those very strengths.
It begs the question: “When did we get off that plantation, that Military-Financial-Education-Retail Complex?
Ahh, the reality of Capitalism, and then, checked-out consumers and just brain dead movie goers (something about sold out venues for the dirty Oppenheimer and the Nazi Barbie?)
Black Agenda Report: Siddarth Kara does a remarkable job of documenting those conditions suffered by the people at the bottom of a capitalist food chain. He’s not the first to do it, of course. Global WItness, local Congolese NGOs, and Africa Watch have all documented these conditions, not only in the artisanal mining sector, but also in the industrial mining sector. You have almost equally horrific conditions in the industrial mining sector.
Time and time again, these people on that continent are not dirty UkroNazis, all those lilly white ones who left the “country” with billions, and just living off the dole in EuroZombieLandia and U-Inbred-Kingdom.
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Again, just shuffling through the real news aggregator, International 360, and you get real stories about African HEROES.
You won’t hear toughies like George “I Want To Kill Wagner” Clooney talking about these heroes:
Josina Machel says the continent’s people don’t need to take up arms to get rid of neocolonialism, but rather must unite
Josina Ziyaya Machel, the daughter of the first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Moises Machel, is part of the delegation from her country in St. Petersburg for the Russia-Africa Summit. She spoke to RT about the need for Africa’s youth to carry on her late father’s legacy of fighting for the continent’s liberation.
In response to a question about why foreign military forces are stationed in independent African states, claiming to be fighting terrorism, Machel stated that it is a modern form of colonialism.
“It’s the lithium; it’s the oil; it’s the gas,” she said, adding that colonists are on the continent to continue grabbing the continent’s resources. (source)
You won’t see Kamala “I Married a Jewish Millionaire” Harris talking about this hero:
The continent must be more introspective to agree on how to move forward, says the daughter of anti-apartheid activists Oliver and Adelaide Tambo
The African continent must realize that what happens within it is more important than what happens outside of it, South African diplomat Nomatemba Tambo told RT in an exclusive interview.
Speaking with RT’s Moussa Ibrahim ahead of the upcoming Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Tambo – who is the daughter of renowned anti-apartheid activists Oliver and Adelaide Tambo – insisted that while it’s good for the African continent to cooperate with other countries, it is also necessary to recognize that each African state has its own unique challenges and realities.
“We need to be more introspective,” Tambo said. “It’s wonderful to have relationships with other countries, but we need to say ‘African solutions for African problems’, not ‘Western solutions for African problems’.” (source)
None of the other dirty three dozen in the Israel First battalion of Nuland-Kagan-Blinken-Garland-Yellen-Biden shit hole will talk about this hero:
Africa must come together as a continent and stop relying on foreign countries for its development, insists writer Madaraka Nyerere – the son of independent Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere.
Speaking to RT ahead of the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, Nyerere said he believed it was unfortunate that some African countries were “distracted by the supposed assistance” that was meant to come from other nations, as well as the IMF and World Bank.
“I have the opinion that if a country has a leading position economically, it will rarely give up that position willingly,” Nyerere said, adding that it is “unrealistic” to expect others to voluntarily yield their hold on the global economy.
The only “realistic” way for the African continent to develop, according to Nyerere, is for it to unite and use its resources for the benefit of the African people, without becoming an agent for foreign powers that only wish to exploit the continent for its resources. (source)
You will not hear a peep from a Mauling Maddow of Vapid Vanderbilt Anderson about these real heroes, including:
Amilcar Cabral remains an immortal embodiment of “revolutionary democracy”.
“We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of Party life … hide nothing from the masses … tell no lies … claim no easy victories.”
The path to liberation for African countries after the attainment of independence has become a remote possibility; a universal dream dreadfully fizzling out, and often patched up weakly by a vacuous rhetoric of popular African nationalism. It is not a far-fetched assertion—rather, it is the concrete material reality—to say that in Africa we do not have post-colonial nation states but neo-colonial ones.
This is the sobering reality: In most instances, African political parties, whether ruling or opposition, have incredibly failed the masses and are relentlessly plunging their countries and the continent at large into the dark, horrendous abyss of perennial poverty and regression.
What is disconcerting to note about African countries in the contemporary context of globalized capitalism and its hegemonic dominance is that there is scant regard among the political, economic, and religious elites about the welfare of the immense majority of poor Africans. (source)
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So Russia is hosting African leaders, and China is developing mutual relationships in Africa, but the USA is a terrorist, full of terrorist financial, military, economic, media, education, propaganda CAMPS.
China, man, learn about CHINA, please.
This Wednesday, July 19th at 7pm, Li Kangzheng delivered a presentation on China’s untold history which is guaranteed to blow your mind and expand your understanding on the dynamics of our past and present world. I asked Li to make a short description of his lecture which follows: “This coming lecture will explore the British Empire’s scheme to tax every Chinese import and export for a century and the Chinese “precursor to the League of Nations”. We will also deal with the topic of Hong Kong in revolt featuring a true student massacre which accompanied an incredibly self-destructive educational revolution… but not the ones you think.” This is part 1 of 2 Support the RTF in the following ways: 1) Make a donation to the Rising Tide Foundation
You have the absolute dead from the neck up worker drones in DC, in the administration, and their fools in congress and the senate, and the DoD, all fucking maniacs.
I just heard from a cousin visiting me and my wife. She was in Costa Rica, and her one sentence take on Nicaragua was from some tour guide. And, alas, that is just it — “Doesn’t Nicaragua have those two leaders, that husband and wife president and vice president, kooky leaders?”
It would take, well, hours and hours, to explain what propaganda is, even from the lips of a Nicaraguan in Costa Rica making bank by puffing up tourists. Here, I told her about this one I attended the exact day before:
Nicaragua Webinar of July 23, “Why Is Nicaragua Important in Today’s World?” As you’ll recall, the invited speakers for this event were Agustin (Gus) Guerrero, Arturo Nacher, Camila Escalante, Erika Takeo, Danny O’Brien, Larry Fisk, Mairead Skehan Gillis, and Susan Lagos.
All the speakers were members of delegations visiting Nicaragua for the 44th anniversary of the Revolution. They offered firsthand observations of:
~ The July 19 festivities
~ Tours of hospitals & clinics
~ Visits to renewable energy & agroecology projects
~ Interchanges with Afro-descendant and indigenous communities
~ Meetings with government officials
~ Meetings with labor unions
Here is the link to the full webinar recording: Simple, boring, real, informative, and clarifying. Check out Camila Escalante, Kawsachun News!
Again, just stuck in our bubble after bubble, reading and listening to the Mainstream and Sort of Left Stream News, and everything in between, well well, up is DOWN, and war is PEACE, and the world goes better with Coke and Phillip Morris.
But again, the USA world is set to flame up, but not until we ponder the bullshit UFO stories, and a not-whistlerblower saying UFOs have been captured for years and years, and, the fires, man, the fires. “The dangers of wildfires in Greece are far from over and could disrupt travel for a while to come.
More than 20,000 people, many of them tourists, have been evacuated from Rhodes alone, and the U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Greece and Greek authorities warn the risk of wildfire remains “very high” for the rest of the country.
“We are going through perhaps the toughest days of the summer with the temperatures showing a further increase,” Hellenic Fire Service Fire Col. Ioannis Artopios said in a statement Tuesday. “We all remain in a state of high alert.”
Hopeful travelers may be considering adding travel insurance to upcoming trips to the islands, but it may be too late.”
Fuck, we are doomed: Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing: Former military officials made a series of mystifying claims about unidentified aerial phenomena, under oath, during Wednesday’s congressional hearing.
Asked by Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., to substantiate the crashed UAPs claim, the former intelligence official said he could not divulge specific details, once again claiming the information was too sensitive to share with the public.
He did, however, describe the nature of what he saw: “I have to be very careful here … [but] what I personally witnessed, myself and my wife, was very disturbing.”
A Pentagon spokesperson told NBC News that Grusch’s claims are false.
you can spend a week, on 1 topic . . . one aspect of modernization, of the technolo-fascism, from physics, chemistry, engineering, computing, AI, food item x or toxin y, and you will cry, and…!
.… And expect to find the devil’s workshop, man, and for that one week research project looking at one single modernization item that is already implemented, there will be literally billions of working parts. Parts that will and have already trapped us in their machines!
And the cogs in the machinary are you and are me. Beautiful people out shopping, or the four-person family in line at In and Out Burger. Every chip of paint, smear of cement, diode in the LED lights, every drip of beef fat, every slice of tomato, every aspect of that burger at the In and Out Burger is weaponized, man, all contingent on money and making it big time, at any cost, all externalities intended and unintended, vis-a-vis by deploying false need, want, desire, and acceptable levels of possible negative side effects into the collective masses. That psychology has popped up since 1900, big time. Imagine, millions going to their deaths, marching to their deaths, all those war makers backed by population haters backed by bankers and industrialists, using Bernays and the Mad Men and Women, to sell death — trench death. Marching off to kill the Hun or Jap or Guido or Rag Head or . . . .
And so, turn of the 20th Century, hundreds of millions marching to their deaths, lives in vitro — beyond WWI and WWII — full of the PTSD in mother’s and father’s DNA, RNA, mitochrondia. All the epigenics passing on trauma and hysteria and physical and mental malady. Generational and intergenerational trauma on crack cocaine.
Again, take one bad thing from the supposedly good things produced by the money changers, and you will just get to the tip tip of the polluted iceberg.
We do it with plastic, or with anything, the light bulb. See the embedded energy, the chain of ingredients and parts needed to get us that plastic bag or beam of ligh. Follow the trail, man, the mining, the energy put in to dig, haul, crush, mill, cook, form, build, move again, package, move again and again until we are there at Target or Walmart filling our plastic bag with deals on light bulbs. Follow the trail!
So, imagine, microwaves, brothers and sisters, the 1 G all the way up to the 6 G, and we are now in a complete DNA- and mind-morphing Dystopia that would make a real socially and politically smart Phillip K. Dick turn in his grave.
Watch it, above, and see the endless bullshit of these lawmakers, and the hearings, the heads of AT &T or Sprint or Comcast, it’s all smoke and mirrors, laughs, stupidity, and acceptable levels of possible harm — hahah. Again, the shifting baseline is a dream/nightmare syndrome, and when you give Johnny and Jane the Chromebook, then all those screens growing bigger and bigger; then that smart phone (a new one every year) to stay occupied/connected/propagandized; and then get the Zoom Doom rooms for all human transactions; and now faster and faster downloads of dumber and dumber shit, and so when this is all in place, we will not have any worthy or potent cadres of warrior fighting against their own “base of reference, base of operation, the SOP of their times.” Shifting Baseline Disease!
Any pushback on the poisonous technologies, on the medical Mengeles, on all the engineers and nerds pushing robotics and AI-VR-VR, then we are called anti-progress and Luddites? It happens to me many times a fucking DAY.
Look at these idiotic theaters of the absurd. Hearings, political jerk-off sessions, ignorant rulers. We are populated by many smart people, however, who are like dogs with a bone, looking at many of the cogs in the machine, and as seen above, those looking “just at” the 4G and 5G industries, and so thank goodness for them, but they’re up against the Money and Monsters. Titlting at windmills?
In 2013, delivery drivers at three hospitals came up with an unexpected way to prevent robots from taking their jobs. They beat the robots with baseball bats and stabbed them in their “faces.” Some robots got off easy; they were merely abducted and shut away in basements.
Two hundred years earlier, British weavers had used similar tactics during the Industrial Revolution when textile mill owners started replacing them with new machines. They destroyed looms, shearing frames, and gig mills.
These weavers were the original Luddites, and both of these events are examples of Luddism.
Here, Hedges:
Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out. The Squad and the Progressive Caucus have no more intention of fighting for universal health care, workers’ rights or defying the war machine than the Freedom Caucusfights for freedom. These political hacks are modern versions of Sinclair Lewis’s slick con artist Elmer Gantry, cynically betraying a gullible public to amass personal power and wealth. This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G. Wells wrote, of “a great material civilization, halted, paralyzed.” It happened in Ancient Rome. It happened in Weimar Germany. It is happening here.
Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret. Corporations have seized the levers of power, including the media. Growing obscenely rich, the ruling oligarchs have deformed national institutions, including state and federal legislatures and the courts, to serve their insatiable greed. They know what they are doing. They understand the depths of their own corruption. They know they are hated. They are prepared for that too. They have militarized police forces and have built a vast archipelago of prisons to keep the unemployed and underemployed in bondage. All the while, they pay little to no income tax and exploit sweatshop labor overseas. They lavishly bankroll the political clowns who speak in the vulgar and crude idiom of an enraged public or in the dulcet tones used to mollify the liberal class. (source)
So, pick your poison, pick your daily bombardment of not just 4 G and 5 G, but the viruses called “news,” the splintered and choregraphed media, the algorithms of hate, stupidity, dumbdowning, valorizing all the WRONG people and things and projects and dreams. Endless articulate and long form bullshit from the big rags, the New Yorker or Atlantic or name the rag, and you get a swath of elites, the chosen people, for sure, most of them, reporting on (sic) and writing about journalistically (sic) the topics of our time which are sealed and approved by the thugs who own that media.
Go back to the ‘70’s and examine an important policy document. Just as “The Limits to Growth” * is, this document is one of the cornerstones of the situation we have arrived at 50 years after it was put in place:
NSSM 200, also dubbed ‘The Kissinger Report’, is a piece of historical intrigue that could give any best-selling thriller a run for its money. It’s December 10, 1974. Picture the smoke-filled rooms, the dim lighting, and the unmistakable hum of whispered politics in the corridors of power.
This report played a significant role in shaping the US policy. In particular, the memorandum emphasized strengthening the programs of the USIA (United States Information Agency) as well as foreign aid from the United States to set the narrative on population matters, essentially giving it a front-row seat to what the elites and the national security apparatus were focused on achieving. It also lays the foundation from which to understand the current genocidal vaccination campaigns, ‘climate change’ hysteria and concerted efforts of government-private cartels targeting pregnant women, children and the elderly for extermination.
This document was initially classified. It was not until December 31, 1980, that this document saw the light of day, automatically downgraded at two-year intervals. Its declassification was under the provisions of E.O. 12356, as released on 7/3/89 by the National Security Council.
The document contains very little analytical evidence of causal relationship between population trends and economic development being claimed therein – only high level summary data and a lot of assertions. It’s almost like it was written to justify the eugenics measures with “expert” pronouncements to give an excuse to the apparatus of moral cowards who would mindlessly execute these programs “for the greater good of the humanity”. (source)
This then is the BIG picture. Imagine the entire suite of technologies looking at depoulation — food, ag, medicine, education, community, urban/rural space, transportation, media, press, sociology, psychology, chemistry, mining, and so on — and pick one conduit to this, the 5 G lie, and see all the health risks just from that, let alone the depopulation and neuturing of humanity. Internet of Bodies!
Here, another rot-gut Oppenheimer-like fool, using mice, a box, and his eugenics mentality? John B. Calhoun!
Not much bandwidth left to study all these intersecting things? How about simplicity: Fires in Greece? Death from lack of socialism and community and national unity and priorities and deployment of human and holistic systems of assistance?
And so we have too much input, too many things — individual tidbits — daily and each minute, to tackle what’s behind the bigger monsters’s eugenics ethos, the ones cranking up those cogs in the machine: More Warmongers Elevated In The Biden Administration
And these thousands and upons thousands kissing their asses — all of them in the Blinken-Yellen-Kagan-Nuland-Yellen-Powers-Garland Zionist First Biden-as-Bumbler Administriaon are the cogs, and of course, trillions spent on depopulation, whether it is now in Ukraine, which is a proving grounds for these beautiful people and their gloriously smart techno fascists — that four person family whose daddy works for Boeing and whose mother works for JP Morgan Chase — or those working on more and more ways to censor truth and discord, they are the monsters’ scales.
US officials have spent nearly a week touting a new $400 million weapons package for Kiev to assist in NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia, with the weapons, taken directly from the Pentagon’s own stocks, including NASAMS, Stinger and Patriot air defense missiles, Stryker armored vehicles, TOW and Javelin anti-tank missiles, howitzer ammo, HIMARS rockets and 28 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
On Monday, anonymous officials revealed to media that the arms package will also include Black Hornet Nanos, a pricy, sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicle about the size of a small bird.
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Black Hornet drones had an estimated price tag of about $195,000. That figure is based on a 2013 contract by the UK’s Defense Ministry on the purchase of 160 Black Hornet sets (320 micro copters total) for the equivalent of $31 million. For 195k, you get a remote control, handheld touch screen, rechargeable battery pack, and a two-in-a-set pack of mini drones stored in a special portable, wearable bump resistant container. . . developed by Norwegian nano drone helicopter startup Prox Dynamics in the early 2010s, and are now manufactured by FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems. (source)
Ahh, and this is Holly-Dirt working in the employ of all the masters of the master race, as well as the educators (miseducators) and their endless patriotic lies pushed in k12 and worse, atYale and Georgetown and Harvard and Stanford, these stains.
Five G signals covering the planet? Now that’s pretty darn good overlord and big brother fucking the globe!
Here, bite this, and of course, you can’t fix capitalism, only immolate it:
The current state of capitalism is falling short because it:
Proposes little or no solution to persistent poverty
Generates a growing level of incomeinequality
Fails to pay a living wage to billions of workers
Not enough human jobs in the face of growing automation
Doesn’t charge businesses with the full social costs of their activities
Exploits the environment and natural resources in the absence of regulation
Creates business cycles and economic instability
Emphasizes individualism and self-interest at the expense of community and the commons
Encourages high consumer debt and leads to a growing financially-driven rather than producer-driven economy
Lets politicians and business interests collaborate to subvert the economic interests of the majority of citizens
Favors short-run profit planning over long-run investment planning
Should have regulations regarding product quality, safety, truth in advertising, and anti-competitive behavior
Anything about a genuine progress index, systems founded on asking WHY, a world of lifecycle analysis, a world against throwaway anything, do no harm?
*Limits to Growth, good, bad and ugly, and misused:
Lead author, Donella Meadows, passed away from cerebral meningitis in 2001, but spoke with Alice Friedemann at Energy Skeptic that year. “We were at MIT,” she said, “we had been trained in science. The way we thought about the future was utterly logical: if you tell people there’s a disaster ahead, they will change course. If you give them a choice between a good future and a bad one, they will pick the good. They might even be grateful. Naive, weren’t we?”
I understand much about the work in the limits to growth, and in many aspects, Meadows got it right, but in the hands of WEF, Kissinger, Davos, all those titans of eugenics, all those war mongers, all those capitalists, it has become a bludgeon!
Before she died, Donella Meadows worked with Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows to complete Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update, (Chelsea Green). In a Summary of the 30-year research, she wrote:
“In 1998, more than 45 percent of the globe’s people had to live on incomes averaging $2 a day or less. Meanwhile, the richest one-fifth of the world’s population has 85 percent of the global GNP. And the gap between rich and poor is widening. … Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900 … 75 percent of the world’s oceanic fisheries were fished at or beyond capacity .. 38 percent, or nearly 1.4 billion acres, of currently used agricultural land has been degraded … and nothing that has happened in the last 30 years has invalidated the book’s warnings. These are symptoms of a world in overshoot, where we are drawing on the world’s resources faster than they can be restored, and we are releasing wastes and pollutants faster than the Earth can absorb them.”
Dennis Meadows recently told Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute,
“Whatever we recommended then certainly is not relevant now. In 1972, the impact of humanity on the globe was probably below sustainable … the goal then was to slow things down before we hit the limit.
The Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was perhaps the first to note the universal trend that growth is slow but ruin is rapid. I call this tendency the “Seneca Effect.”
this is the land of milk (triple boiled nothingness) and honey (as watered down as anything) so we are looking at collective neutering of a nation . . . line up for Barbie and Oppenheimer!
Movie time, entertaining ourselves into oblivion: On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, Bockscardropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. Estimates of deaths from the two bombingsvary widely, from a contemporary figure of around 110,000 to a later estimate of closer to 210,000.
So, I am out and about, in the town of Yachats, south of my abode, and here we have more pathetic insanity — not just the mask in 2023, July, but the child’s game of Sasquatch. This is what is meant by adulthood — stinking child’s crazy ape out in the Oregon woods!
So you can imagine talking to anyone about anything which is important to the rest of the world — drought, fires, food shortages, war, nuclear escalation, the USA’s hatred of Chinese, the hatred of other cultures by Americanos, the ticking off of counries now by the Blinken-Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan administration’s use of atomoic sniper sights. This is the new normal — Zionists and Israel-Firsters running amok, no, those folk in the super super minority at the helm of the world’s destruction.
Apparently in response to the bombing of the previous week, on July 24, a military training facility of the SNA was attacked by a suicide bomber resulting significant casualties and physical damage. This continuing conflict in Somalia can be traced back to the persistent interference in the internal affairs of the country by successive administrations in Washington and their allies.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, redeployed hundreds of Pentagon troops from AFRICOM to Somalia during the early phase of his tenure in office. This policy decision was carried out after his predecessor, President Donald Trump, had withdrawn soldiers from Somalia prior to his leaving office in early 2021. (source)
Again, a world run by FIRE — finance-insurance-real estate — is a world in triple stress, with a thousand other stressors tied to the money changers holding a knife over our heads in so many different arenas.
Chickens? The heat? The eggs? Again, war mongers want more dead, and if they die without food elsewhere, then less useless eaters.
It is barbarism or socialism, that is, nationalizing the industries and transportation and, well, just pick your poison. This article was a year ago: “As rail strike looms, US industry braces for impact”
“A rail strike is still going to be tremendously devastating to our agricultural system,” said Linville. “We’re finishing up harvest of 2022, so now, all of a sudden we need to move these grains South. We need to move them internationally. Without rail we can’t do that.”
Chemical manufacturers and refineries will be some of the first businesses affected, because railroads will stop shipping hazardous chemicals about a week before the strike deadline to ensure that no tank cars filled with dangerous liquids wind up stranded.Jeff Sloan with the American Chemistry Council trade group said chemical plants could be close to shutting down by the time a rail strike actually begins because of that.
It would take about a week for customers to notice shortages of things like cereal, peanut butter and beer at the grocery store, said Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain for the Consumer Brands Association. About 30% of all packaged food in the U.S. is moved by rail, he said. That percentage is much higher for denser, heavier items like cans of soup.
Any disruption in rail service could threaten the health of chickens and pigs, which depend on trains to deliver their feed, and contribute to higher meat prices.“Our members rely on about 27 million bushels of corn and 11 million bushels of soybean meal every week to feed their chickens. Much of that is moved by rail,” said Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, a trade group for the industry raising chickens for meat.
Jess Dankert, the vice president for supply chain at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said retailers’ inventory is largely in place for the holidays. But the industry is developing contingency plans.“We do n’t see, you know, canceling Christmas and that kind of narrative,” Dankert said. “But I think we will see the generalized disruption of really anything that moves by rail.” David Garfield, a managing director with the consulting firm AlixPartners, said a rail strike could still impact holiday items shipped to stores later in December, and would definitely hamper stocking of next season’s goods. Retailers are also concerned about online orders. Shippers like FedEx and UPS use rail cars that hold roughly 2,000 packages in each car.
Drivers are already paying record prices and often waiting months for new vehicles because of the production problems in the auto industry related to the shortage of computer chips in recent years. That would only get worse if there is a rail strike, because roughly 75% of all new vehicles begin their journey from factories to dealerships on the railroad. Trains deliver some 2,000 carloads a day filled with vehicles.
Now, now, the derailments, the heat, the exploitation of workers, the profits profits profits, and we are here, trillions for the war machine. Trillions! And our rail system and highway 18-wheeler clogged highway system?
Or how about this Zelensky-free headline, how many times a day? “US faces hottest week of summer as more than 250M sizzle from above-average temperatures.” Most of the country will experience the hottest week of the summer as the dangerously hot temperatures baking parts of the South and West for weeks begin to expand to the East Coast, with more than 250 million people from coast-to-coast seeing above-average heat.
This shit hole Chlamydia Capitalist society, the predation front and center, the parasites, puffing up proudly, this is it, man, so much for unity, for the people, planning, and real administrators and people on the job.
Yep, war war war is planned planned planned to a tee: “Drug giant Pfizer is informing hospitals that dozens of its products could face “continued or new supply disruptions in the near-term” after an EF-3 tornado last week severely damaged its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The pharmaceutical company sent a letter to customers on Friday, advising hospitals on more than 30 products with less than three months of inventory in the company’s distribution chain, including certain dosages of epinephrine for allergic reactions, fentanyl for severe pain and the pain blocker lidocaine.” (source)
Survival of the most felonious capitalist, the dirt and human stain who get their R & R, R & D, and their people (us, public K12 and colleges) making the products, and we just let them have unfettered masochism on we the people.
We have given over our lives to billionaires and despicable profiteers, and their Eichmann’s, big and small, male or female.
And yet more dysfunction, man, UPS, striking for what is just humane treatment, and again, you name the US Washington DC department, and you find the biggest pigs of capital, NOT doing the job of the people but doing the bidding for the rich, and corporations.
UPS and International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a deal Tuesday, a crucial step toward averting a nationwide strike slated for Aug. 1, in a victory for organized labor and part-time workers struggling with inflation.
The tentative five-year agreement with the Teamsters, a union that represents 340,000 workers, includes immediate raises for all UPS employees, as well as the elimination of a lower-paid class of delivery driver and installation of air conditioning units in new delivery vans for the first time.
The Teamsters said that under the tentative agreement, all UPS union employees will receive a $2.75 an hour raise this year, and a $7.50 an hour pay increase over the next five years.
So DeJoy—who oversaw the removal of 671 mail sorting machines ahead of the 2020 election; implemented operational changes that dramatically slowed down mail service; and reportedly reimbursed employees for donations to GOP campaigns—oversaw an $11.3 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense for 165,000 trucks for the agency. Ninety percent of those would be gas-powered.
DeJoy, a Trump donor who took over the Postal Service in May 2020, began the formal recusal process for 12 of the companies and his business XPO Logistics in July and JPMorgan Chase in August. Amid ethical concerns and criticism, DeJoy fully divesting himself of them under public pressure only in August 2020 — months after he took the top job.
“There was a period of time where the head of the Postal Service was making decisions when there could have been a conflict, and he could have been thinking about his own financial interest, rather than the interest of the Postal Service and the country,” said Noah Bookbinder, the president of CREW. “That’s significant.” (source)
It’s just too much information for the average American, too negative, or like some of my even older friends — you can’t fight city hall, you can’t fight the US government, you can’t fight the big corporation with their stable of highly paid layers. So why not go out for a ball game or movie?
“Twin Cities theaters see big boost from “Barbenheimer” blitz” — Ahh, everything is A-Okay in the world now.
The release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have shattered expectations at the box office this opening weekend.
“I heard the movie was a lot about like womanhood and really strong femininity, so I’m super excited to see it,” said one movie-goer at Mann Theatres in Edina Sunday.
If you aren’t schizoprenic now, then, you are one of them, full stop, just not as rich and ugly as they are. Making money on the dirty Oppenheimer, and now people want to go to the Trinity site? (source)
The Oppenheimer effect is coming for New Mexico, along with an expected increase in tourism for some of the sites at the center of the latest summer blockbuster. The US Army is putting out a new warning about the Trinity Site, saying they’re bracing for some of the biggest crowds ever.
“I’m excited to see all the people, and we do get some characters, people who are enthusiasts,” said Public Affairs Specialist Cammy Montoya.
Oppenheimer told President Harry S. Truman, “Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands.” The tide of public opinion was also beginning to turn. Three weeks after “Atomic Power” was released, John Hersey’s searing, book-length article “Hiroshima” appeared in the New Yorker, awakening many Americans for the first time to the horrors of the bomb.
Monsters, man, and Americans are lined up for the fucked up flick and the nuclear sites all over AmeriKKKa, as nuclear tourism.
Oppenheimer’s lab was only one part of the Manhattan Project. Built on the site of a former boys’ school, Los Alamos was one of three “secret cities” seized and transformed by the U.S. government in late 1942 and early 1943. The other two—Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington—accounted for the vast majority of the manpower, expense and industrial scale of the project, which employed an estimated half a million people between 1942 and 1945. At Oak Ridge, uranium was refined at the largest factory in the world, newly built for that purpose. In Hanford, an area half the size of Rhode Island was cleared of residents, their houses bulldozed to make way for reactors to produce plutonium. “I told you it couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory,” Bohr said to Teller in 1944. “You have done just that.”
If only Oppenheimer and another 100,000,000 other scientists and techno-fascists had never graced the face of the earth!
Death = funded.
Life = Derailed.
Line up, sheeple, and get your orgasm from a tub of popcorn, a gallon of HFCS pop, and $15 a pop for a ticket in a traditional theater, not an IMAX. Fucking stuffing one’s face while watching the doctor of death, Oppenheimer:
perversion, celebrity viruses, pigs will be pigs, just another day in the dirty world of money, murder, racism, you name it . . . kill the speech and bring out the clowns (MSM)
First, this is it in a nutshell — EV, solar panels, satellites, AI-VR-AR, the cloud, batteries, and the disposable electronics and cell phone dirty world of profit over people, gouging over the environment. Watch these heroes in Eduador.
And you need to make the connection to all those wonder weapons you democrats and republicans prostrate yourselve over in whatever hell-fire you want to unleash on China, Russia, Iran, Yemen, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela. The entire Klanadian lie, the mining companies, thugs and sicarios, and these people, these indigenous people are the true people.
Then, back to slave patrols:
Moments later, an officer with the Circleville Police Department unleashed a police dog on Rose even though a state trooper told the local officer not to release the dog.
“Do not release the dog – with his hands up,” the trooper can be heard shouting on the video.
The video shows the dog running towards Rose, now on his knees, and video appears to show the canine biting and pulling the driver. Rose screams loudly and can be heard saying, “please get it off.”
So this mercenary U$A, run by Israel-Firsters, Zionists Second Blinken-Yellen-Garland-Nuland-Kagan administration holding the pants up for Biden, we have the tough midwesterners, running around yelling, “The Sky is Falling . . . puma and el tigre on the loose.” Queer and daft, while these sheeple support trillions more for UkroNaziLandia.
A sheriff’s office in South Dakota is urging residents to keep an eye out for mountain lions after one was seen lurking near a golf course
Fucking headline news?
This is the rules based disorder, U$A, again, loving the people like we are shits, while throwing billions at the NaziLandians in Ukraine, elsewhere:
Stephanie Pullman died on a sweltering Arizona day after her electricity was cut off because of a $51 debt.
Five years later, the 72-year-old’s story remains at the heart of efforts to prevent others in Arizona from having their power cut off, leaving them without life-saving air conditioning in temperatures that have topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) on every day this month.
“Stephanie Pullman was the face of the fight that helped put the disconnect rules in place for the big, regulated utilities in Arizona,” said Stacey Champion, an advocate who pushed for new regulations. “But we need more.”
Arizona Public Service, known as APS, disconnected Pullman’s power in September 2018 at a time when outside temperatures in her retirement community west of Phoenix reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.6 Celsius). Just days before, a $125 payment was made toward Pullman’s past-due bill of $176.
Speaking of another Republican virus, Texass’s head honcho virus, here we go:
A week after construction workers in Austin, Texas, learned they were about to lose their right to rest breaks, the city reached a record-high heat index of 118 degrees. From July 9 to 19, the state capital saw an unprecedented, 11-day streak of temperatures reaching 105 degrees or more.
The Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service has responded to 410 heat-related incidents just since June 1, according to a spokesperson, Capt. Christa Stedman. Among them: A middle-aged man, working outdoors, who called for help after experiencing signs of heat exhaustion.
“It progressed so quickly into heat stroke that, between the time he called 911 and the time that the paramedics arrived on scene, he was fully unconscious and his core temperature was over 106,” Stedman said.
Construction worker Mario Ontiveros risks the same outcome. Because he works in Dallas, a local ordinance gives him the right to at least a 10-minute rest break every four hours. But this is the last summer he’ll get to claim it.
On June 13, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB 2127 — the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act — which bars cities and counties from passing regulations that are stricter than state ones. It also overturns local rules such as ordinances in Austin and Dallas that mandate rest breaks for construction workers. The law takes effect Sept. 1. (source)
And you say what about a bat to the head of Abbott?
Again, ZioAzovNaziLensky gets 50,000 generators and billions to pay public works workers and others, and in the U$A? Yep.
Ahh, Isra-Hell, at it again and again.
The Israeli parliament has passed the first bill of the Netanyahu government’s controversial judicial overhaul plan in a vote that was boycotted by the opposition and took place amid mass anti-government protests.
Why it matters: The plan, which will weaken the Supreme Court and other democratic institutions, has faced opposition from some of Israel’s closest allies, including the Biden administration, and it has already destabilized the country’s economy and military.
Yeah, big stuff, in the little land of Google: A federal jury has ordered Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to pay $338.7M after saying the company violated patents from Touchstream Technologies tied to streaming videos from one screen to another.
EVERYTHING about big tech is a continuing criminal enterprise, rip-offs and dirty surveillence tricks.
While billions in the world “make” $4 a day. Nothing like Bread and Circuses:
Saudi Arabian soccer club Al-Hilal made a world-record $332 million bid to Paris Saint-German to acquire French forward Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe, 24, started his senior career at Monaco. He joined PSG at first on loan in 2017 and signed a permanent deal with the French Ligue 1 club in 2018. Mbappe told PSG last year that he would not extend his contract past the 2024 season.
And, the lawfare thugs are at it again — you name the country, Brazil or Pakistan: the people’s choice, in the docks again.
Pakistan’s election commission has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Geo news reported on Monday, the latest in a series of legal hurdles facing the cricketer-turned-politician.
Khan was arrested in May by Pakistani authorities in connection with a corruption case, which sparked deadly unrest across the country. He was released on bail within days.
And we the people — the poor exploited and shat upon people, we shall die. No country for old and young men or women:
At least 17 people were found dead after a boat capsized in Senegal’s capital, local officials said Monday.
The bodies were discovered by the navy early in the morning and are believed to be migrants because of the type of boat they were in, said Ndeye Top Gueye, the deputy mayor of the Ouakam neighborhood of Dakar where the bodies were found.
“Because of the size and shape, we know that it’s a pirogue (a long wooden boat),” she said.
While this is the first time bodies have washed up in the neighborhood, migrant deaths at sea are becoming more common in Senegal, she said.
“It’s not the first time, it’s the umpteenth time. The government needs to take countermeasures.”
Caveat — This is just a five minute look at the so-called “headline news,” that is, these breaking stories. As far as we can see, this world is going bye-bye. It is all about who can and can’t make critiques on the current state of the world, of the rich’s control, of the lies about who is or isn’t a war monger, all of that, from bottom up, top down;
Today, this freedom is being eroded with respect to several foreign policy issues.
One is Israel. Journalists and politicians think twice before criticizing it. They fear to be accused of antisemitism. In the early 1970s, Abba Eban, the eloquent South Africa-born Israeli foreign minister, developed a strategy to stifle criticism of his country by accusing critics of antisemitism. This strategy has since triumphed: today, qualifying Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians as apartheid, or even peaceful boycott of Israeli products in the supermarket, are officially banned as antisemitic in many Western countries. This makes Israel exceptional and shields it from rational debate.
Another even more important issue that has disappeared from rational public debate is Western policy towards Russia. This issue is more important not only because Russia is bigger, but because it involves a potential nuclear annihilation of life on Earth.
Well before February 2022, most NATO countries (as well as Ukraine before them) curtailed access to Russian media, something that never happened in the West during the Cold War. Just as Soviet authorities justified jamming of Western radio broadcasts as a measure against “imperialist subversion”, a panoply of NATO and national agencies now protect citizens in Europe and North America from “Russian disinformation”. (source)
Start readying your Southwest Airlines puke bag. Again, bats or machetes or Molotov cocktails.
… I don’t even get to first base now, anymore, man, applying for jobs I am most certainly qualified to do, and here I am, in this rural shit hole county, going on five years, so I have roots
Here, the Lincoln County (most the Lincoln Damaged Women County) jobs page, all jobs are listed as “continuous.”
Jobs, some of which I applied for, with immediate rejection.
Now now, I have run some programs, worked here, and of course, every single job I as with highly damaged and sometime demented supervisors.
It’s a fucking landmine now out there in employment land, a booby trapped field of damaged, warped, back-stabbing human stain in charge of hiring, screening, flipping through their computer screens.
Now, I figured this outfit — Family Independence Initiative, now Uptogether (funded by Koch and Google) was going to turn into a scam, but not early on when I as hired as an independent contractor for two Oregon Counties.
Note: Social (Orwellian, usury, profit driven) Impact Investing, a la Family Independence Initiative, Uptogether: These are the Eichmanns for the profiteers. Non-profit Industrial Complex militarizes pain and poverty:
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
— aphorism
There is dumb-downing, cancel culture (I’ve been cancelled since beginning in 1972 in high school, way before the trendy terminology), forced consent, manufactured bifurcation, false balance, triangulation, perception as reality, equivocation, a host of propaganda techniques unleashed by Edward Bernays and Goebbels, and the ugly quartet of Infantilization-McDonaldization–Walmartization-Disneyfication:
George Ritzer introduced the concept of McDonaldization with his 1993 book, The McDonaldization of Society. Since that time the concept has become central within the field of sociology and especially within the sociology of globalization.
According to Ritzer, the McDonaldization of society is a phenomenon that occurs when society, its institutions, and its organizations are adapted to have the same characteristics that are found in fast-food chains. These include efficiency, calculability, predictability and standardization, and control.
Ritzer’s theory of McDonaldization is an update on classical sociologist Max Weber’s theory of how scientific rationality produced bureaucracy, which became the central organizing force of modern societies through much of the twentieth century. According to Weber, the modern bureaucracy was defined by hierarchical roles, compartmentalized knowledge and roles, a perceived merit-based system of employment and advancement, and the legal-rationality authority of the rule of law. These characteristics could be observed (and still can be) throughout many aspects of societies around the world. — Source
Now, we know infantilization was once applied just to young people, teenagers and such, giving them the one-two punch of treating them as if they have the mental capacity of a four-year or six-year old (now, the nanny-state, and the SARS-CoV2 paranoia and ignorance, making youth think a virus leaps from the ground outside while running in track by themselves will give them the DARPA virus — even DARPA isn’t that good, hail to virologist bomb makers at Fort Detrick and Plum Island). Underestimating the potential of 16-year-olds to understand “our” adult world, or the complexities of society. You know, give a 16-year-old the right to vote since it is that group most affected by the bad bad brew of politics and electioneering that will effect them the most and longest. Nope. That concept of infant-making of the American mind, of course, has been scaled up to an entire society fed on pabulum, cultivated through mass media that are geared to childish concepts of consumerism, fear, patriotism, and celebrity culture and bowing to the rich and famous.
Patronizing might be just one aspect of infantilization, but believe you me, I have been in many arenas — social work, education (higher and K12), environmentalism, union organizing, politics, journalism, the arts (literary, photography), urban planning … and then in so many workplaces as an organizer and social services specialist. I’ve seen some dumbdowning and infatalizing and agnotology from supposed brightest and best coming out of elite Ivy Leadure schools. What has happened in the USA is one broad infantilization and massive Collective Stockholm Syndrome. It took 50 years, or 60.
Walmartization is pretty simple and deadly — Large chain stores moving (bulldozing) into a region (neighborhoods) which then not only devastate local businesses driving and then displacing those workers into low paying chain store jobs, but the money made by these national and multinational chains leaves the community. It could be a bank chain, or hardware chain. That Home Depot is moving profits to shareholders, to the huge monster at the head of the huge serpent that kills local enterprise, local community support. Community of place is replaced by the transnational community of purpose — that purpose being profits anyway possible, and cutting labor costs, benefits, health and safety. Hell, get those workers on state Obama Care, food stamps, and the leftover public assistance. If you work at Amazon, what’s so wrong with three workers living in a beat up RV? That Walmartization is about economies of scale, eating the soul of small manufacturers, small retail businesses, mom and pop’s, and, alas, the money leaves the community and goes to the highly paid family owners or company roughriders — the Cabal of millionaires, multimillionaires, hedge funds, and billionaires that are to put it kindly, bloodsuckers, and viruses.
Disneyfication is a sophisticated intended and unintended set of processes that basically strips a real place (built environment, nature, etc.) or thing of its original character. That is the strip-mall which has boom and busted, and the great 200 acre malls, or the same 7-11 in a million places, as well as those Starbucks shit stores placed everywhere including the bathrooms. It is both a sanitization of real life, of real character, of real communities. Again, anything negative — like telling the real history of this Indian-killing, slave-owning/killing, union-busting/killing, global terror cop propagating country (sic) — is removed, hidden, and then, here we are, with facts that are dumbed down with the psychological and marketing intention of rendering any negative, truthful, hurtful subject more pleasant and easily grasped. Replacing the real bar, the real bookstore, the real coffee shop, the real bodega, the real restaurant, the real park, the real playground, the real forest, the real wetlands, the real swamp, the real everglades, the real farm, with something either idealized … or giving something tourist-friendly veneer. There is a fake “Main Street, U.S.A.” everywhere, and then the ugly side of what makes Milquetoast (but globally deadly) United States of Amerigo Vespucci a dying, wasteful, broken, rotting country.
Now, below will be a short Opinion piece I penned quickly to help my county to realize we have yet another deficit — lack of a literacy initiative, literacy center, literacy professionals and volunteers to help people learn how to read, learn how to decipher children’s schools’ labyrinthine rules and guidelines. To participate in this 21st century, or the Century before this one and the one before that one: learning how to read, and to critically evaluate all the snake oil labels, all the scams, all the hidden fees-tolls-poles-fines-add-ons, to call spade a spade when PayDay comes to town, or when red-lining rules the roost, or when complete and total neighborhoods are fleeced financially, culturally and environmentally.
Literacy — And I have been at that game since, well, since my first year of college, University of Arizona. I’ve taught in prisons where lack of literacy is one big reason for many being locked away. I ran a communications program at a large military base (Fort Bliss, El Paso) where privates all the way to five or six striper NCOs had reading grade levels of 4 or 5 or 6. That’s fourth, fifth and sixth grade (if they were lucky).
I’ve written about this before — cartoon instructional manuals (usually with a buxom blonde white woman as the instructor in series after series cartoon strips) bending over to show how to arm a Stinger missile or how to use a Vulcan machine missile gun.
If reading isn’t important, than, I suppose every single law drawn up by ALEC and every single omnibus bill, every war lord’s thousand-page contract for this or that bound-to-be-triple-cost overrun killing systems, whether in the air, on the water, underwater, on land, in space, over the web, inside telephones and computers, or inside a bacteria or virus just is not that important.
To the point where 9 or 11 trillion dollars is missing from DoD, and how many trillions have been shelled out to war lords, bankers, virus mercenaries, poverty profiteers?
That I have to work on getting one person into a volunteer-run literacy program as if I am writing the new laws or formulating something unique is troubling (read my Op-Ed piece below).
Functional or complete illiteracy. Remember Jonathan Kozol:
Kozol believes that liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by “culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.”
Oh baby, did I have Kozol on speed dial in the college classes I taught —
Kozol, Jonathan. Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools. Houghton, 1967, revised edition, New American Library, 1985.
Kozol, Jonathan. On Being a Teacher. Continuum, 1981.
Kozol, Jonathan. Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope. Crown, 2000.
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. Crown, 1991.
Kozol, Jonathan. Shame of the Nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America. Crown, 2005.
This is what Studs Terkel said about Kozol’s Illiterate America — “Stunning… with passion and eloquence Kozol reveals a devastating truth… and offers a challenge and remedy.” Source
If it is any comfort to this man, he should know that he is not alone. Twenty-five million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a letter from their child’s teacher, or the front page of a daily paper. An additional 35 million read only at a level which is less than equal to the full survival needs of our society.
Together, these 60 million people represent more than one third of the entire adult population.
The largest numbers of illiterate adults are white, native-born Americans. In proportion to population, however, the figures are higher for blacks and Hispanics than for whites. Sixteen percent of white adults, 44 percent of blacks, and 56% of Hispanic citizens are functional or marginal illiterates. Figures for the younger generation of black adults are increasing. Forty-seven percent of all black seventeen-year-olds are functionally illiterate. That figure is expected to climb to 50 percent by 1990. — Kozol, Illiterate America
Now, that was from a book Kozol wrote 36 years ago. THIRTY-SIX. Those numbers above pale in comparison to this year’s averages. Since we have 335 million in this country, and alas, functional illiteracy is at an all-time high, a larger percentage of people are duped, fooled, cheated, imprisoned, bankrupted, scammed, and structurally murdered because they can’t read or can’t understand what they are reading. Make that 80 percent of people reading the car-seat instructions for their loved one’s safety, in fact, install the car seat INCORRECTLY after reading a 7th grade level set of simple instructions.
Image below: Jonathan Kozol a long time ago teaching reading
Advocates for children and civil rights who have not yet given up entirely on the struggle to break down the walls of racial isolation in our public schools may want to take a good hard look at Joe Biden’s shameful record on school segregation. Despite his recent effort to allay concerns about that record, it cannot be expunged or easily forgiven.
In an education-policy proposal released by his campaign on May 28, Biden briefly spoke of encouraging diversity by giving grants and guidance to districts that are willing to pursue it. But he said nothing to disown his long history as a fierce opponent of school busing and a scathing critic of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Milquetoast to all the idiots who fight me tooth and nail when I explicitly state I never have or never will vote for a democrat or republican for president. That a two-minute scribble exercise called voting does absolutely ZERO for me, and for the causes I fight for, including a literacy center in every rural, suburban, urban community.
Illiteracy is bad all around, but oh is it sweet to the bankers, real estate folk, the doctors, lawyers, accountants, IRS, military, marketers, flimflam folk that rule this country … as you will read in the short piece I did for the small twice a week rag, Newport News Times. But what makes this country a house of horrors and run by corporate and war lord whores, is how all of those elites and monsters conspire to make people dumb downed, and that is the McDonaldization-Walmartization-Infantalization-Disneyfication of everything.
I used to get my elbows up into many literacy projects as an English and writing faculty member at community colleges, universities, prison school programs and writing/journalism workshops for people who are exploited because of their status as low income or as former felons, and those homeless citizens as well as adults living with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Events like “Banned Books Month” (October) or National Poetry Month (April) I worked hard to promote/support. Big journalism organizations like Project Censored and groups like Reporters without Borders are still in my blood.
I am now working again in a small rural community dotted with small towns. I am not only supporting folks with job development and on-the-job training and coaching, but I am helping two Lincoln County citizens with reading literacy.
In my situation with Shangri-La, these two are adult men in their 30s who are seeking reading literacy programs.
It may come as a surprise to citizens, lawmakers and politicians alike, but Lincoln County does not have a literacy center. There is no one-stop place for people who need literacy tutoring, whether they are functionally illiterate in their English skills as a U.S.-born citizen, or those who are English as a second/third language learners.
I’m working with a Salem group, Mid-Valley Literacy Center (founded in 2009). Vivian Ang is my contact who is helping train Newport and Toledo-based citizens to help tutor my two clients. This is not an easy task, and Vivian, with more than 20 years of tutoring including at Chemeketa Community College, says it’s hit or miss.
“I do not have any experience with assisting an adult with a learning disability (developmental disability) to learn how to read,” she has repeated to me several times.
An adult who drives a car, works at a factory, runs a large piece of construction equipment, lives on his own and presents as a “regular sort of guy” can be in one of the most dire of circumstances — functional and complete illiteracy.
Wanting to learn how to read when you are in your 30s takes guts. There are stigmas for someone who can’t read an insurance form or simple job application.
The need is high in Lincoln County for adults like this client of mine — born in Newport and educated in Newport’s K-12 system, including special education classes — to learn how to read. But we have many from Mexico, Guatemala and other countries in our communities where learning how to read and speak English is more than just a step toward better pay.
Vivian tells me a story about an Oregon woman, from Mexico, illiterate in English, who had a sick daughter who needed medication to improve. The prescription stated, “Take this medication once a day.” In Spanish, once is the word for the number 11, so, tragically, the mother followed the prescription contextualized in her Spanish reading abilities. At 11 times a day, after a few days, the medication killed her two-year-old daughter.
Navigating housing, employment, the legal system, utility companies, landlords, cultural activities, and representative politics are basically off limits to a person who can’t read or write. The amount of exploitation, fines, fees, garnishments, late payments and other penalties is a regular occurrence for people who can’t read and write.
According to the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (founded 1991), low literacy in the USA costs us as a society $2.2 trillion a year. According to U.S. Department of Education, more than half of U.S. adults aged 16 to 74 years old (54 percent or 130 million people) lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
For my many clients across the board, lack of reading, low reading levels and functional illiteracy can be linked to poorer health, low levels of civic engagement and low earnings in the labor market. On average, more than 70 percent of people following the seventh grade reading level for instructions on how to install an infant car seat fail to follow the proper steps.
I am enlisting tutors for my two clients. I have a librarian and a library technician on board. Three retired women living in Toledo and Newport, too. One of my client’s workplaces is stepping up and paying the nonprofit Vivian runs for the materials and training. That general manager is also providing a private space with internet access to his worker (I’ll call him Samuel) who is illiterate.
He tells me, “I wish I had 22 Samuels working for me. He’s an incredible worker, reliable, goes the extra mile.” Source
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