In capitalism, you can sell the pyrotecHnics all over the place, but no way, Jose, you can’t shoot them off in the city or county, but . . .

Yep, that old Un-United Snakes of Amerikkka, that old time K12 empty headed religion, that old empty point of view from white males, yep, the generations of folk who don’t give a shit about the consequences:

“2 Men Laughed After Throwing Fireworks That Sparked Oregon Fire: Report” / July 8, 2021

Tristan Forrest (right) and Tyler Weeks (left) were arrested for allegedly throwing fireworks that caused a fire on Highway 34 in Oregon on July 4, 2021.

Two men are accused of tossing a firework from a car that ignited a brush fire on Highway 34 in Oregon, according to KATU.

A witness claimed the pair allegedly laughed after the act and drove off, according to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. The report added that the witness saw “a blue sedan occupied by two males. The witness saw a firework thrown from the vehicle causing a fire.”

The incident reportedly happened the afternoon of July 4, and the Alsea Fire Department and the Oregon Department of Forestry responded to the blaze. The fire consumed 0.64 acres on both sides of the road, reporters learned.

That was two years ago, but today, after heading to Yachats to see local art and have beer and watch the waves peak out at 20 MPH, I encountered the road — Highway 101 — was closed, cuz, again, two males, were shooting fireworks in broad daylight, caught some beacher grass on fire, couldn’t put it out, and then vamoosed.

That is the nutshell. Poor white deplorable (Hillary) trash, or those super-predators (Trump, Biden, Clinton, et al) creating chaos in the county.

But in the scheme of things, well, we know who the motherfuckers are:

The Biden administration has agreed to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium shells to equip M1A1 Abrams tanks that the U.S. is sending there. Britain has already delivered tanks to Ukraine equipped with depleted-uranium shells. (source)

Then, read this fucking article, on Medium. Talk about predators and deplorables. It is a whitewash, man. DU munitions, developed in the 1970s, are not nuclear weapons and do not produce a nuclear explosion. But soldiers or civilians can be exposed to the uranium, either in combat or afterward. Health physicist Kathryn Higley explains what depleted uranium is and what’s known about potential health and environmental risks.

So think about: white guys tossing fireworks out the window, or today, messing with them in tall dry grass on the beach, now, really, are they the deplorables?

The mother-fuckers are there, in thes sick propaganda articles, and the Anglo-American Empire, there you go, real DNA brush fire starters:

Today the MoD cites research from the Royal Society, the UK’s leading national scientific academy, as proof that the health and environmental impact of depleted uranium in Ukraine “is likely to be low.” Yet as Declassified UK has pointed out, not only has the Royal Society not published anything on the topic since 2002, charging that it’s not “an active area of policy research,” but it actually rebuked the Pentagon when it tried to pull this same trick during the Iraq War in 2003. At the time, the Royal Society, described by the Guardian as “incensed,” told the paper that troops and civilians were at short- and long-term danger from the substance, especially children.

That cutoff date for the Royal Society’s research is significant, since the US coalition forces’ liberal use of depleted uranium in Iraq, in an estimated more than three hundred thousand rounds, was followed by an explosion in cancers and birth defects in the country, particularly in Fallujah. One study of more than seven hundred households in the city likened it to the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing — worse, even, since Fallujah saw a markedly bigger increase in leukemia than was documented after the atomic bombing. One of its authors called it “the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied.”

These two human stains, these alimentary canal freaks, they must DIE: Rishi Sunak gave President Zelensky 14 tanks, which have now arrived in Ukraine. (Photo: Simon Walker / Downing Street)

Brush fires on the beach, or forever DNA mutations, who are the motherfuckers?

• Sole body cited by UK military to defend Ukraine receiving depleted uranium weapons has not published new research on the subject for over 20 years
• Italy’s defence ministry has compensated soldiers who developed cancer after exposure to depleted uranium on service in the Balkans
• After the invasion of Iraq, the UK military accepted it had a ‘moral obligation’ to help clear depleted uranium debris from the rounds it had fired (source)

Ahh, the dplorables:

“We collected hair samples, deciduous (baby) teeth, and bone marrow from subjects living in proximity to the base,” said Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the study’s lead researchers. “In all three tissues we see the same trend: higher levels of thorium.” Savabieasfahani, who has authored studies on the radioactive footprint of the U.S. military presence in Iraq for years, says that the new findings contribute to a growing body of evidence about the serious long-term health impact of U.S. military operations on Iraqi civilians. “The closer that you live to a U.S. military base in Iraq,” she said, “the higher the thorium in your body and the more likely you are to suffer serious congenital deformities and birth defects.” (source)

[Photo: A selection of images from a study by a team of independent medical researchers show deformities suffered by young children living near an active U.S. military base in Iraq. Images: Study titled “Living near an active U.S. military base in Iraq is associated with significantly higher hair thorium and increased likelihood of congenital anomalies in infants and children,” 2019.]

Ahh, those brush fires, compared to the biggest threat to world peace, Zelensky and his Jerusalem 2.0 project. He is the green screen motherfucker who needs, again, to be turned into glass: from the CIA News Network,

CNN — 

At least 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed fighting in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Ukrainian leader said the private military company had suffered “enormous losses,” particularly in eastern Ukraine where its “most powerful group” was fighting.

But we got brush fires near Waldport, and so, call the Marines.

As yet another example of deplorables, those marketers, those Edward Bernays Mad Men and Mad Women, this is happening daily with ZioAzovNazi Lensky and his lie machine.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.

[Photo: Edward Bernays applied the principles of propaganda to marketing.]

ZioAzovLensky must be advising this country:

Philippine tourism officials were left red-faced after the creators of a video promoting the archipelago nation as a holiday destination said on Sunday they had used stock shots from other countries.

Advertising agency DDB Philippines apologised for the “highly inappropriate” images, which included rice terraces in Indonesia and sand dunes in Brazil.

The agency was behind the video for the government’s US$900,000 (S$1.2 million) “Love the Philippines” tourism campaign launched on June 27.

So, if you are not totally confused, then, here here, ahh, from my buddy, Farmer Joe from Merced:

Paul

When you call for “Off With Their Heads,” It must include the top thirty percent of the upper class and the Ivy League institutions that come up with this kind of evil  thinking to keep everyone at each others throats by diverting attention away from the fact that these very same elites are the ones creating the problems. 

I don’t know if that fucking slimeball Jamie O’Neil at The Smirking Chimp is in the upper thirty percent of the middle class, if not an exception should be made for his head to roll with the rest of these assholes. This Corrupt Roberts Court: Who’s to Blame? | The Smirking Chimp

I’m struggling to keep up with your substacks, (man you crank out an incredible amount of content), but I agree with your take on things. 

The western mind is a vast desolate, empty void filled with meaningless trivia and propaganda that is incapable of seeing what foot kicked them in the head. Most of the so called (Educated) people I know are the most indoctrinated and incapable of critical thought. It’s like their educations removed their ability to think and reason. 

Joe 

He’s so on target, man, and so I lofted a grenade his way, in my retort:

Ahh, Joe, I ALWAYS defy “We are the 99 Percent” shit. I did at Occupy Seattle, and I do now. Statistically, we are the 80 Percent, that is, we have 8 percent of “wealth,” man, so the dream hoarders, the two-income LGBTQA+ loving professional managerial class whores, all of them in the 20 percent are the enemy. And, well, there are just so many natural born racists and hates, and the DNA of the average person in the USA is damaged, way long ago, and not just GMOS, but from the Faterland — the Anglo-Franco-Saxon illegals who jumped ship and fucked up Turtle Island.

I have a fucking lot of knowledge and street in me, brother, but the Empire and the Red and Blue Alimentary Canals have religated me to not just the fringes, but the fringe of the fringes.

So, tap tap tap on this fucking CIA tracking laptop is my only option, since I am jobless forever, and alas, Dissident Voice is passing on most of my stuff (they do not like my tone, my attack mode, my ad hominem, my loose and free and fucking profanity-strewn shit) so I have a freaking Substack with a few readers.

Town square, dude on the milk carton, dude barking about, yes, we do need fucking tinfoil hats with 5 and 6 and soon-to-be 10 G coming to a playground near you.

EDUCATED?  Shit, I have been in those halls, and fought daily with dweebs, man, and the most judgmental and shallow and Little Eichmann-like brownnoses in brown shirts covered in rainbows. O’Neil? Fuck, Joe, I am a commie, so, guys like him need the Che treatment, man, and if he is 10, 20 percent, or 30%, hell, bye bye Louisville slugger time. In absolute terms affluence is a relatively widespread phenomenon in the United States, with over 30% of households having an income exceeding $100,000 per year and over 30% of households having a net worth exceeding $250,000, as of 2019.

You know, propaganda and brainwashing and perception management and algorithm curating and mass formation/psychosis, and the entire shit-show which is Black Friday every Friday thinking, we are populated by monsters, even below that Top 30 Percent line. Fucking monsters, and while Cartels recruit poor punk 10 year olds off the streets, man, this country recruits them in kingergarten, from cradle to grave. Absolute sickness that anyone would approve even NOW, more war junk to Ukraine, and approve of saber rattling ith China, but, alas, 81% of Blue feces supports (arming and killing) Ukrainians while 51 % of Red feces support that hell-hole.

Thanks for reading my shit, though. It comes out of me like good commie vomitis, my daily purging of the insults to my mind every fucking nanosecond. 

YEP!

“In the New Gilded Age, the elite has no butter to give the masses. It has only austerity, repression, surveillance, and going along with that, a morality police staffed by its professional managerial elite.” 

Here, from the post Joe cites:

The crusaders of woke Empire are off to subjugate two frontiers- the ‘problematic’ working masses who are outside the Eastern establishment/Silicon Valley bubbles within the United States, and the even more problematic unwoke billions in Eurasia and Latin America who insist on holding values not compatible with 21st century cosmopolitan liberalism.
 
It is notable that in nearly every country where the American Empire is trying to destroy a socialist, nationalist or anti-imperialist project- whether in Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Belarus, Russia, China, or Iran- the allies of neoliberal imperialism come from the cosmopolitan urban centers where Westernized upper middle classes reside, while the backbone of anti-imperialist resistance comes from the soil of the countryside- the global deplorables.
 
In old fashioned colonialism, doctrines of the biological superiority of the white race served an important ideological role. Yet capitalism and imperialism has mutated ideologically, like a virus. It is high time to recognize that ‘anti racism’ and advocacy of racial/gender equality can be just as much of an effective reigning ideology for the Empire as its opposite. It is time to acknowledge that language so long cherished by the left is now a cudgel against working people at home and abroad. Evil has often come disguised as good. (source)

Wildfires and firecrackers my ass!

— Wildfires, man, that racist Alimentary Canal, Biden and the Democrats, as wide and stinky as the alminentary canal of the Republicans:

And here, Toothless in Wisconsin Kelly K: Responding to my last or next to last Substack. Note: I am not cleaning up his colorful and real response.

So you talk to the sky and the seals? Toothless talks to walls, and mice, and an old wiener dog. Seems like a distinction without a difference.

I used to talk to the sky, but she died anyway. I kept talking to the sky, but nothing came of it.

I see things the way “Chuck” said. In the twenty+ years that I’ve been in River Falls, it has transformed from a small town in Wisconsin into a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Lincoln County, Wisconsin has sold off a ton of land to private dvelopers/investors/ landowners, so where I, and my elder family members used to walk around with rifles, is all posted No Trespassing!!!! I wonder how “Chuck” would have responded if he was out with me the other night?

It’s far from the first time, but I got to listen to townsfolk piss and moan about all of the rabbits, and squirrels, and birds, and bees and wasps (the flying kind). And, all of the goose shit around. And, the woman who’s so much happier where she’s living now. No mess from trees to clean up.

You know, I have advocated reading Bowden, with more enthusiasm than any other author I have read. That’s saying a mouthful. I did rave about Vidal for quite some time, but not like I did Chuck. I could not find one taker, in all of the circles that I traveled in. Maybe if I had said that he sucked, I would have had better results????

Bowden, Vidal, Bukowski? I only got a taste of Bukowski, until he ran off with Sanford (the dehoarders we hired to help Toothless get a handle on his hoarding mess). Or vice versa.

Maybe as a reformed drunk, I have a penchant for reading authors who like the sauce. Do you have any alcohol issues, buddy????

So things were jumpin’ last Friday night. My arrival at the restaurant, attached to the Raddison, brought the headcount up to three. The staff outnumbered us by at least three to one. The Friday night, all you can eat, fish fry was really very good. So was the Long Island iced tea. At least I think it was. (my first time)

More on that later.

I was directed outside to the bench of shame next to the garbage cans, where I discovered a group of white clad people who looked like they worked at the Mexican restaurant next door, except for one guy who was white underneath his pearl colored costume.

Two of these things are not like the others, although I said one, because I was not dressed for the occasion. I decided to risk it, even though the smoke from Canada made our addiction redundant.

Turns out that they were the band, playing on the patio, not a wedding party. The only friendly, mannered people I met all evening. I retrieved my crap from the restaurant, and fanned my ass for the patio.

Lousy crowd. When I first got comfortable, there was only one asshole clapping. I may have shamed a few more into putting their hands together. The band wasn’t great, but nobody else was entertaining at all.

Just before I departed, I bumped into one of pastor Frank’s sober flock. When she learned that I have known pastor Frank for, shit, twenty years, she bought me a tea, and staggered out the door. She loves pastor Frank, but agrees that the AA is a cult.

So, it’s off to Emma’s (dive bar, whatever that means?), and I encounter the only fellow admirer of the gewish way that I have met here, before I even breach the door. I ordered a tea, and after I tasted it, I suggested that the barkeep should talk to our mutual acquaintance, Mike, about his tea recipe.

Holy fuck!!!! Bad idea!!!! This son of a bitch went ballistic, and the son of a bitch would not back off his pissed off attitude. So I set out, mindful of Canada, and explored the state of (Jew) gew-earth with my comrade.

Some moved a little further away, and couple stepped forward. We were told that they could hear us down the street. Good. Sounds better than a pack of Harleys, or rice grinders.

You catch he’ll for loud voices, or loud music, but unmufflered internal combustion noise is great?? He’s anticipating a nuclear “exchange” in the coming month(s), so he drinks a lot.

But, people were more interested in the exploits of Joe Montana, when he was in River Falls with the Chiefs. Some were interested in prison stories. Talking old, rare, now valuable, guitars that have come and gone, was another favorite.

But, we managed to keep asking questions about the Rothschilds. I got one more tea, from Emma this time (she’s both friendly and attractive), and a PBR with cozi for a good hearted simpleton.

I did run into Javi and Ariel, from the former AM support group. I haven’t had a reply from them all year, so I was quite aloof. I think they thought that I was mark (a). I started her off with a G&L Jazz Bass, and Acoustic amp. His piano is still in the finger killer trailer.

No more lessons from here.

I like to people watch, but the gift of gab gets in my way. Besides, way too many folks have their faces literally glued to their screens. So I piloted my EVELO tricycle back to the wiener dog, to give him some fish, and get some lickin’.

So, this morning I decided to take in some Chuck Todd/Turd/whatever, and learn about solutions to the fentanyl crisis. Fuckers are still pushing cops and soldiers as a solution to this addiction crisis. Clean needles will only make it worse, they tell me.

Then there was a cop in a press conference talking about a hostage situation, but he just had to give us his views of the scheduling of drugs. And, then the fuckers are telling me about the inside knowledge of President Biden regarding addiction. I’m pretty sure that they were talking about poor Hunter. Guess Joe’s got inside information about being a complete piece of shit, too.

What’s that they say about apples and trees?

I take this shit kinda personally. My grandkid, Ivy, overdosed on heroin recently. I don’t know if she’s alive, or dead, or in the gutter. She’s an impoverished, teenage child, not a forty something narcissist millionaire. I’m talkin’ about the whole lot of em’ not just Hunter.

I’ve fucked with alcohol addiction since I was fifteen years old. Being behind bars didn’t fix shit. Devoted researchers, and clinicians did. In book and audio form, of all things. All the steps, and all the jail, was one huge fail.

I’ve had the opportunity now to read you, and listen to you riff, and interview, listen to you talk, and watch you interact with others. You are a trip. A great buzz, not the kind that causes one to stare into the sun, or try flying from the rooftop.

I remember lefty talk radio from back in my days in Madison. Music I can find anytime. That talking was manna. You’re a great writer in a nation of watchers, and listeners. Maybe if you would have found the right location, you’d be an on air celebrity now. I know that you’ve got the chops.

When you think about it, would you do it all over, with your focus on the microphone instead? I’d be happiest with whichever option brought you to my attention the soonest.

Give my warmest regards, and well wishes, to your friend from Canada. It’s easy to have “friends” when you’re docile, and play the part of a doormat, whether it be recreational, or employment based.

I know that Marybelle made Cliff yearn for solitude, but solitude creates its own yearnings. I think that the trick is to be someone that you like personally. It won’t guarantee meaningful relationships, but I think it ups your odds considerably.

I think that it’s worked for me a couple of times.

Well, time to make the dog’s dinner. Rotisserie ribs on the grill. Then we’re gonna have some lemonade, and a roundtable discussion with the mice, about events in Ukraine. We’re all straight, so we didn’t see any point in discussing the implications of the supreme court’s ruling for the LGBTQ++ABC community.

They got Friday night fish fry out there where you’re at? If not, I hope you can make it back here for some. My treat.

This is the trick now — listen to your elders, like Toothless, and learn from him about the entire shit show of Arkansas of the North, beginning May 2: “Something More than the Cheese: first of three parts . . . what’s love got nothing to do with it in Wisconsin”

Fucking firestarters, true deplorables:

[Gen. David Petraeus with Kimberly Kagan, founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War. (Photo credit: ISW’s 2011 Annual Report)

Bats to the head, man-oh!

Then, the primer on Capitalism, for your Fireworks Fourth Enjoyment. The foundation to all our problems, Chlamydia Capitalism:

Prof. Prabhat Patnaik on what is new about the current state of capitalism

And capitalism needs dead Ukrainians and Russians:

Lack of space to bury fallen soldiers has apparently been an issue for Ukraine for some time already. Multiple videos circulating online show rows of fresh graves emerging at the burial sites all across the country.

In some locations, authorities have to exhume old graves to make room for the newly deceased, the New York Times reported last month. For instance, a groundskeeper at one of the cemeteries told the newspaper that the management of the site had decided to exhume unmarked graves from World War I, as it ran out of space.

Yep, deplorables:

Yep, the news is big-time, but those bottle rockets and grass fires — call the National Guard. No American from either Alimentary Canal Party reads.

So much for the average fire cracker Yankee Doodle Confederate Dandy to read.

Celebrate, Celebrate, with rockets and bombs bursting in air!

[Photo: Marian Allen stands with her godson Jalen Lindsey in front of the historical marker commemorating lynching victim John Hartfield. Allen is holding a photo of Hartfield.]

Why You Should Read “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” to Your Kids

BY Kerry McDonald

In what is considered one of the greatest abolitionist speeches, Frederick Douglass presented “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York on July 5, 1852.

As families and friends gather together throughout the US this week to celebrate liberty, we rightfully give a nod to Thomas Jefferson who authored the Declaration of Independence. Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, it proclaimed our independence from British rule, acknowledged that the thirteen colonies were sovereign, and provided an important catalyst toward creating the United States of America as the Revolutionary War raged on.

Freedom and Human Rights

Jefferson’s words offered a promise of freedom and individual human rights that was exceptional for the era and that continues to be a cherished ideal. We are right to share these words with our children and to celebrate them ourselves each year:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence created a vision for a free and flourishing society that continues to inspire. It was a document that reflected how things could be and not how they were, for slavery was widespread throughout the American colonies at the time of its writing and would remain so for nearly a century more. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were rights reserved for some early Americans but not all.

Slavery’s History in America

This darker side of America’s Founding is something we must also share with our children. Fortunately, the powerful words of Frederick Douglass, the famous orator, abolitionist, and author who escaped from slavery in 1838, provides an opportunity. In what is considered one of the greatest abolitionist speeches, Douglass presented “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York, while American slavery was still ubiquitous. He asked:

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Despite this deserved excoriation, Douglass reminded listeners that American exceptionalism could be what ultimately led to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. He held up the US Constitution as a “GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT,” and indicated that slavery, in addition to being immoral, was also unconstitutional:

Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it.

Freedom For All

Douglass concluded his speech on an optimistic note, suggesting that technological progress and innovation, science and reason, free trade and association, and open global markets create new pathways for freedom to spread:

I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done.

Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe.

It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated. Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic, are distinctly heard on the other. The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved.

As we celebrate the Fourth of July holiday and share the Declaration of Independence with our children, let’s remember to also share Douglass’s speech as a reminder that championing freedom for all may have imperfectly begun in 1776 but must always be ongoing. We can communicate reality blended with hope and inspire our children to embrace liberty as a life philosophy.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816: “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Our children are the ones who will create those better dreams.

all pretentions aside, yep, I was just there, on the edge, an almost almost-made-it-going-concern, and here I am, age 26 to 66, like some weedy and trash strewn lot ready for, paving over

“The changes I’ve seen in my lifetime should normally take a couple generations. Where I used to go out hunting with my .22 now is endless miles of subdivision.”

— Charles Bowden

Me, ironweed:

Okay, okay, a bit dramatic, but, still, these are some fucked up times, sisters and brothers, man-oh.

I was just hitting the beach here in Waldport, talking to the sky and seals, and then Toothless in Wisconsin on the mobile phone. He promises me a wrap up of his rare time out from his current shut-in experience he is travailing under, missing a deceased wife, nursing a cut-off finger, talking to the walls, the mice and the Weiner dog, Elldee, as well as still waiting for a probabtion officer, and still on paper after three years of good times and good behavior. That was last night, so stay tuned.

On the walk, I stopped by our Little Free Library, and picked up two books, including Jim Harrison’s The English Major. Then the juices started flowing. Volcanic, because before Toothless in Wisconsin, I had a talk with my Canadian friend fighting for a divorse and prosecution of her battering husband. Her eyes have finally opened, so the world is now back on track — she knows she has to fight for EVERYTHING, and that includes her self-determination and friendships that might be not worth the grief.

Here, a look at the book: on The English Major, a novel by Jim Harrison reviewed by Ron Slate

In a New York Times interview last year, Jim Harrison told Charles McGrath that he wrote The English Major at top speed – even though he rationed himself to one page per day. “My mind can’t stop running fictively,” he said, a comment not just about his continuous productivity. Prizing authenticity and the instinctive life, Harrison seems to have slammed all the distracting doors in the corridor between his psyche and his writing. His sentences are spoken, their pauses not governed by commas as much as by the using-up of breath. Since Harrison, now 70, is still a loyal American Spirit smoker, those breaths measure out a pared-down, unwasteful speech in which the materials of the novelist’s life – aging, affinity for the animal and the land, food and sex, living with loss – can’t stop running towards their renewed appearance in language and story.

The narrator of The English Major, Harrison’s fifteenth book of fiction, is a 60-year old Michigan cherry farmer named Cliff who has been abandoned by his wife Vivian at a high school reunion. Cliff had taught English and history at that school before taking over his father-in-law’s farm (“This man was a big strong asshole and had gone to glory from a heart attack trying to carry a hundred pounds of perch fillets and ice from a cabin to the pickup”). Vivian went into real estate – and with their separation, arranged to have the farm auctioned off. Cliff’s pending homelessness doesn’t seem to bother him until the death of his dog: “I took to drink which had never been a big item in my life … quitting two weeks ago after I thought I ran over our dog Lola.” But 14-year old Lola has died anyway “with a half-chewed gopher in her mouth.”

It’s as if this story is being told to Lola’s abiding ghost, riding shotgun in his 13-year old Ford Taurus since Cliff has decided to tour the USA with his meager payout from the farm sale. He’ll not only travel, but execute a project: renaming the states and the state birds. Lola has been the most companionable and reliable female presence in his life, and memories of her flare up throughout the novel. This makes the reader (the listener) an equivalent of the dog — slow to criticize, empathetic, familiar with basic instincts, and unfussy about language. Cliff is comfortable with us — and that makes for flattery. We’re taken in. The English Major is a road novel, and each chapter (titled by the state visited) is told perhaps at some moment of rest at the end of the day or while Cliff is driving the backroads or highways from upper Michigan, through the upper Midwest to Montana, Idaho, Oregon, California, the southwest, and ultimately back to Michigan.

Cliff’s speech is occasioned by the sudden dismantling of his way of life. In Wisconsin he takes pictures of cows and remarks on the pastureland. But in Minnesota he meets up with Marybelle, a 43-year old former student with bipolar streakiness. The first sentence of “South Dakota” reads, “As we crossed the state line of south Dakota below Fort Yates Marybelle joked that I sounded like I had been in long-term parking for twenty-five years” – meaning he sounded worn, his mind slowed. But what the reader hears from Cliff is something closer to Marybelle’s own talkativeness – aimed at Cliff and her cell phone:

“These empty western areas are bad for cell phone reception so I said I’d try to park on a hill, and if that didn’t work when we reached a good-sized town I’d park and go into a diner for coffee and a piece of pie and she could chatter to her heart’s delight.
‘I don’t chatter,’ she said. ‘I exchange survival information with friends.”
‘‘What are you surviving?’ I stupidly asked.
‘‘Life itself. Marriage. Children. My stunted growth as a human.’
‘You seem real lively to me,’ I offered.
‘You’re seeing the best side. You draw out my best side. You were my favorite teacher. You mentored me.’”

Much like Harrison, Cliff moves easily from the raunchy to the literary. “Marybelle had also made the slightest apology for her concern about our age differences and said, ‘There are miracle drugs that can keep a man active until he’s a hundred.’ While looking at the Pacific I laughed imagining myself a wizened flying squirrel hurling myself on unsuspecting women while aiming my boner before I leapt.” Three pages later, he’s talking about Dostoevsky and Jack London.

Harrison said that Cliff represents “all those preposterous people who major in English in college.” Cliff’s state-bird-naming project may be preposterous in one sense, but in another it stands for an idiosyncratic truth in the man. Cliff isn’t drawn as preposterous, just at a loss (but not for words). About his marriage he reflects, “Maybe we were just another couple who faded late in the game. I didn’t offer her a lot in my back-to-nature binge after I quit teaching. We English majors of a serious bent are susceptible to high ideals we paste on our lives like decals.” Nevertheless, the narration is salted with oddball references (thus sounding astute) to Joyce, Emerson, Nabakov, Thoreau, Wolfe and Woolf, Dickens, Shakespeare, de Toqueville, Byron, Whitman, Eiseley, Spenser, Hemingway, Genet, Ionesco, Dickinson, Henry Miller, Millay, Frost, Sandburg, Benet, EA Robinson, Hart Crane and Wordsworth. In a Salon interview, Harrison said, “Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are.” In this novel, he seems to have hit on a workable mix.

Cliff knows that desire dies quickly and routine takes its place. His road trip becomes a routine of desire. Marybelle is a sexual windfall – but the flux of her emotions and conversation soon has Cliff yearning for solitude. His gay son Robert, a site scout for Hollywood films, lives in San Francisco, the halfway mark of the novel. Here the Marybelle episode subsides and is replaced by adventures at a snake farm in the southwest (where Harrison spends his winters). There Cliff meets up with his friend AD (alcoholic doctor) who tells him, “You’re trying to start a new life at age sixty, which is also impossible. You can only try variations on your common theme.” In the end, the trip is an abbreviated circle – but Harrison spares us from a too-comfortable resolution (perhaps just barely).

Lust, fishing, diners, waitresses, animals, memory of youth and marriage, birds, rivers, backroads, burgers, drinking – these are Cliff’s materials. Harrison’s timing is perfect, the plot often very comical, and the pace constant. Cliff’s doubts are poignant and round him out (while suggesting a thought that perhaps has flickered across Harrison’s mind from time to time). Cliff has a habit of wandering out into the landscape and encountering harsh weather or circumstances. Harrison juggles a sincere appreciation for Emersonian self-reliance and nature with opposing worries. Cliff says, “I couldn’t get rid of the idea that nature had had too much effect on my abilities to pan out in the world. I was an old baloney bull who favored the far corner of the pasture where it merged into the forty-acre woodlot. A baloney bull is one that has out-aged its effectiveness. You cart it into the slaughterhouse where it’s turned into low-rent cold cuts.

Harrison told Charles McGrath, “One’s work is a building and everything else in the literary life is just scaffolding. The building either stands or not. The literary world, whether New York or Paris or London, is chock full of esteemed nullities.” It’s not the nullity (of which there’s a lot in his novels) but the pretension of esteem that turns off Harrison. The English Major only confirms my esteem for his novels – and the leveling experience, the sensation of cutting through thought-clutter that comes from hearing Harrison’s language and guides the reader to an appreciation that Harrison would seem to consider more proper.

[Published by Grove Press on October 7, 2008, 272 pages., $24.00 hardcover]

So, Harrison was in Arizona and Montana, and then my Toothless in Wisconsin’s love of Chuck Bowden just pops out. Harrison and Bowden, pals. Yep, Arizona, Patagonia, Tucson, all of it, I know it, like the liver spots on the back of my hand: me in my vibrant reckless (controlled, really, so don’t tell anyone) youth in those hills, running with my two German shepherds while the mountain lions were lurking about. Javelina and plethora of deer and so many other animals, man, this little bit of paradise, 1970-ish. Rattlesnakes and shards from Indian pottery and skies, man, and floods and endless sun.

Hit hour 4:30:00 for old man Jim Harrison talking about Charles: C-Span!

Here, that interview of Harrison, on the talk above:

Authors Chuck Bowden and Jim Harrison were a lot more than close friends. They walked, drank, smoked, hiked, and endlessly talked politics, writing and nature together. Beyond that, Bowden spent the last six summers of his life resting, writing, birdwatching and cogitating on Harrison’s spread along Sonoita Creek outside the town of Patagonia while Harrison and his wife fled to Montana to escape the heat.

Harrison, now 77, is scheduled to talk about Bowden’s literary legacy at a March 15 panel discussion at the Tucson Festival of Books. Like Bowden, Harrison is intensely prolific, having written more than 30 books, mostly poetry collections and novels, including his just-released “The Big Seven.” Both men’s work have been compared to Hemingway’s. Both have, or in Bowden’s case had, a taste for wine, cigarettes and the outdoors. Both possess an innate tendency to speak their minds with no compromise.

An Outside Magazine writer described Harrison back in 2011 as “seeming less like a man to me than a force of nature with a Pancho Villa mustache.” Here, the forceful Harrison remembers a friend of 20 years.

Q. How did you meet him?

A. I met him at Doug Peacock’s house (Peacock, the real-life role model for George Hayduke’s character in Edward Abbey’s “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” is an author and naturalist). It was well before we moved to Patagonia from Michigan. Peacock lived on the west side of town, off Ina Road. I was friends for years with Peacock, who showed up at my house in Michigan once and we just hit it off. When I got out here we started doing a lot of camping together. (Peacock now lives only four months of the year in the Tucson area and the rest of the time in Montana.)

Abbey was there, and he and Chuck argued at each other all the time, usually about matters most people don’t care about. My first impression of Chuck was that he was very, sort of abrasive, but I found that to not really be true. That was just his manner, as you know.

Q. What do you mean?

A. All of us disagree with everyone, which I enjoy. So much of our culture, when people don’t ever disagree, sometimes we’re so boring. Chuck would really let go.

Later, after I moved out here, I’d go over to his house where he and Mary Martha (Mary Martha Miles, Bowden’s partner for more than a decade in the 1990s and 2000s) lived. We would have a drink, eat lunch and walk with the dog. We became good friends pretty, pretty fast. We had so many of the same interests — literature to the desert to having a drink now and then.

Q. What was it you liked about him?

A. His way above-board curiosity, his intense curiosity, his willingness to talk about what everybody apparently thinks is too raw or difficult to talk much about. I mean the border and so on. I don’t see anything wrong with an open border myself. In general, Mexicans have been a tremendous boon for America.

Q. How would you rank him in the pantheon of writers, Southwestern and otherwise?

A. He ranks way up there. I was disappointed that in his death, he got all this talk that really should have come to him when he was alive. Quite often that happens — sometimes the only way to make an extra buck is to die. There’s a sad, abrupt popularity in dying.

Q. Your view of his writing.

A. I thought he wrote beautifully and vividly. You were always sort of spellbound when you read anything of Chuck’s. At least I was and I’m spoiled. He had a curious interest in poetry. I’m a poet, too, and for some reason he started reading poetry and he was pretty interested in the subject — suddenly one day he started asking me why I bother writing poetry …

He certainly had this all abiding interest in everything, which you don’t find to be true of people or writers in general. They are often bored at everything but themselves.

Q. Do you have a favorite book of his?

A. Not specifically. I just concentrate on all the border stuff. I don’t know that he was very optimistic along those ways (about the border). How can people comprehend 5,000 murders in one year in a not very big city (Juarez, the subject of much of Bowden’s early Mexico reportage)? We lost so many people. The cartels were offering jobs with benefits, which is ironic.

Q. So he was pessimistic about the border.

A. I think he was pessimistic about everything. I would say that the healthiest people I know are hopeless about everything. He was certainly full of subdued rancor about everything. We used to have a talk about the point of how do you spend billions on Afghanistan, and not a lot on Mexico?

Q. How did he come to spend summers at your place?

A. He liked it down here. We were gone in the summer and we don’t rent it. He would come here and go to Nogales and buy 10,000 tripe and feed the ravens. Then he put a dozen hummingbird feeders out here and had 1,000 hummingbirds.

It’s sort of a unique property — a number of acres on the creek, which flows the year around and draws a lot of wildlife, including mountain lions. They killed a big deer in front of us last year. There are grasslands, woods, the creek and a lot of willows and cottonwoods. A riparian thicket.

Q. He always had a thing for birds and there are a lot of birds down there.

A. This area is such a good flyway for every species. There’s an awful lot of warblers — he saw six in one willow bush once. My mother was such a good birdwatcher. She was here and saw 119 species in one weekend from the patio.

Q. Did you two talk much about the environment (Bowden’s most-reported-on topic until he started on the border and Mexico)?

A. We talked constantly about the environment. We were both habitual walkers. The dog required me to take a habitual walk every morning. Interesting, Chuck was sort of a modern Thoreau. He’d say, ‘Please, don’t bullshit me’ right from the start. You would wonder if anyone could have a lower view of politics than Chuck.

When he and I were down here at the same time, we’d walk on my property. My property — I’m encircled by the Circle Z Ranch property. I have a deeded right to walk all the Circle Z land. That whole stretch of woods from there down to the conservancy property (the Nature Conservancy’s Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve) is luscious. We would walk an hour or so, then go have a drink. Something about walking frees your mind.

Q. What do you hope that people who come to your panel will take away from it?

A. I don’t know if I’d expect people to get anything, except a curiosity about Chuck and his work.

ReporterTony Davis

It is a discordance I bring up Chuck and Jim, because I was just hitting the beach to clear the mind from the mindlessness, and to fragment a new blog based on some conversations I’ve had lately.

What is the meaning, then, of all these great pretenders pretending to be the social workers and non-profit gurus to end all gurus? I have a friend whose friend is in a Muslim country, and her job is got something to do or some such thing about housing. The French are there, and the country is in religious holiday spirit, so the office is closed, but the French and the diplomats get carte blanche diplomatic immunity, and with that come cases of the finest wine and booze. Partying all night long, into the morning. Booze, cigarettes, blue jeans and revealing blouses for women, behind those walls.

These non-profit expoiters are just that — lost, exploitation experts, post-post colonial brainwashed fools.

Simone de Beauvoir once said: “It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting.”

Prospero, you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (Lied about the world, lied about me) That you have ended by imposing on me An image of myself. Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior, That s the way you have forced me to see myself I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie! But now I know you, you old cancer, And I know myself as well. ~ Caliban, in Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House — Audre Lorde

“The reality is philanthropy is a system that allows rich people to maintain control of their wealth,” explains Dean Spade, activist and founder of Sylvia Rivera Law Project. “Instead of having it be taxed, they can put it into a foundation, which is still a bank account that they get to control what happens to.”

One way the heads of these foundations maintain this control is by choosing which political and economic projects they put their money toward. Foundation staff determine the criteria for which organizations receive their funding, allowing them to pick the causes that become better resourced. However, for the most part, foundations are not representative of the communities most impacted by inequity. A 2014 study found that white people comprise 91% of foundation executive directors, 83% of foundation executive staff, and 68% of program officers. This lack of diversity shows in how foundations give their money — the same study found that only 7% of foundation grant giving went toward nonprofits that explicitly serve people of color.

Again, from beach to busted friend on the phone, Toothless in Wisconsin, and here we are, in the same dead end cancel-deplatforming-censoring-evil place, 2023, where the attention spans are the dirty tricks of the sociologists, marketers, entertainment complex, education complex, psychologists and the overlords of capital infecting all over out lives.

It just comes down to so many different languages and frames, man. The obvious is why would Pakistan need or want a white woman with six languages on her forked tongue and a Canadian background to swoop in and “solve” anything?

Incite, a network of radical anti-state violence activists, convened a conference to detail this relationship in 2004, titled, ​“The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.” Incite had been grant-funded by the Ford Foundation— funding Incite lost because of its support for Palestine.

As outlined at the conference, nonprofits that depend on corporate and foundation funding do so often to the detriment of their missions. Time and energy is spent laundering the reputation of corporate funders, for example, rather than on their stated purpose. Or, rather than building mass movements, talented organizers get funneled into staff and admin jobs just to keep the charity running. In other words, as was said at the conference, the nonprofit-industrial complex model encourages ​“social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures rather than to challenge them.”

James Petras makes the same arguments against this new colonialism in his 1994 essay “NGOs: In the Service of lmperialism.” Petras notes that despite claiming to be nongovernmental organizations, they actually support government interests. NGOs, he writes,

“receive funds from overseas governments, work as private sub-contractors of local governments and/or are subsidized by corporate funded private foundations with close working relations with the state …. Their programs are not accountable to local people, but to overseas donors who “review” and “oversee” the performance of the NGOs according to their criteria and interests. The NGO officials are self-appointed and one of their key tasks is designing proposals that will secure funding. In many cases this requires that NGO leaders find out the issues the Western funding elites fund, and shape proposals accordingly.”

“Progressive NGOs use peasants and the poor for their research projects, they benefit from the publication-nothing comes back to the movements not even copies of the studies done in their names! Moreover, peasant leaders ask why the NGOs never risk their neck after their educational seminars? Why do they not study the rich and powerful-why us? … The NGOs should stop being NGOs and convert themselves into members of socio-political movements …. The fundamental question is whether a new generation of organic intellectuals can emerge from the burgeoning radical social movements which can avoid the NGO temptation and become integral members of the next revolutionary wave.”

So, my friend’s friend is a lost child, and being Western, Canadian, and surely quasi-feminist, she seems incapable of working with labor, and she’s at a loss for words about Pakistan and the issue of hiring on female staff.

Jesus Fucking Christ, get to work, woman. Listen and learn, and reach out: “Professor one of the 100 most influential Pakistani Women.”

Warwick University law professor Shaheen Ali has been named one of the 100 most influential Pakistani women in a list titled ‘Women Power 100’.

The list is intended to recognise the achievements of Pakistani women that, over the course of the last 60 years, “broke records, broke ground, blazed trails… in a male-dominated world”.

Other notable figures included in the list are Fatima Bhutto, the famous writer, poet and activist, and Baroness Warsi, who sits in the House of Lords.

Prof. Ali has been recognised for her work in the field of human rights.

Get to work and stay away from the booze, girl:

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – A group of educators from Pakistan came to Tuscaloosa for a cultural exchange. They’re here to learn how women are succeeding in the field of higher education. The University of Alabama and University of Utah partnered with more than a dozen universities in Pakistan. Part of the partnership involves developing women leaders.

WBRC caught up with the group when it visited Stillman College. It’s made up of 25 women from Pakistan who are faculty, department chairs or deans at the colleges they represent. While here, they learned about Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Women who are leading at Stillman and Alabama offered suggestions that could help their Pakistani counterparts better address disparities in higher education that have held women back and make schools more inclusive.

Stillman’s President, Dr. Cynthia Warrick, is the first female president in that school’s history.

“They also wanted to learn about my leadership path as a female leader in higher education. Understanding what kind of barriers or challenges did I have to overcome to get where I am today,” explained Dr. Cynthia Warrick.

The group learned the importance of mentorship and setting up systems able to support women as they advance in higher education in Pakistan.

“The encouragement from the faculty members, especially the female faculty members from the very beginning, to involve them in the leadership positions so that they are prepared for the higher leadership positions in academia.” Professor Asma Hyer said.

Susan Carvalho, UA’s Dean of Graduate School, said they’re happy to exchange ideas and history of how women have overcome challenges, especially in areas that have been majority male over the years. They’ll take what they learned during this visit back home to Pakistan later today.

Goddamn, get to work: Shit, there’s even an email, man!

Perceptions of women academics regarding work–life balance: A Pakistan case Sadaf Naz, sadafhu@yahoo.com; Shawana Fazal; and Muhammad Ilyas Khan

Abstract

Work–life balance in the context of this paper means keeping a balance between home and workplace responsibilities and roles. In more traditional societies, such as in Pakistan, working women often find it difficult to keep a balance between their responsibilities in the workplace and their home responsibilities. This paper is based on findings from a qualitative research study that explored the perceptions of working women regarding their home–work responsibilities and how these impact their lives. Data were collected from 10 female academics working in a university in the north of Pakistan, using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings reveal that most women academics find it challenging to keep a balance between their home and workplace responsibilities. Participants faced a range of problems both at home and in the workplace that impacted their life in both places. These problems included lack of support and facilities at home and in the workplace. These problems, however, did not seem to deter them from carrying on with their work–home responsibilities. Some of the strategies the participants adopted to keep this balance included separating and scheduling home–work time, securing support of the family and utilising time in the workplace more productively. The downside of this, however, seemed to be that these women academics found little time for themselves as leisure time or time entirely devoted to their own mental and physical wellbeing. The research has important implications for working women, their employers, families and policy makers in Pakistan and other societies with similar contexts.

In any case, all of this is just a minor bump in my road, wherein I know I have lost all my callings, lost all my agency to be of service to people, including highfalutin women like the one in question.

Work hard, man, and realize this is it, the one life in balance, and nothing else, and if booze and beauty and big time networking are the goals in Pakistan, then you are the enemy, the problem, no solution or even a needle nudge in the right social justice direction. The opposite, that is.

Get to fucking work, you non profit industrial complex Eichmman.

Feb 12, 2018: On Sunday, in Lahore, Pakistan, the world-renowned Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir died suddenly at the age of 66. For decades, Jahangir has been a leading advocate for women, minorities and democracy in Pakistan. In 1983, she was imprisoned for her work with the Movement to Restore Democracy during the military rule of General Zia ul-Haq. Later, in 2007, she was put under house arrest for helping lead a lawyers’ protest movement that helped oust military leader Pervez Musharraf. As one of Pakistan’s most powerful lawyers, she founded the country’s first legal aid center in 1986, served as the first female president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and was the U.N. special rapporteur for human rights, extrajudicial killings and religious freedoms. Democracy Now! interviewed Asma Jahangir in 2007 and 2016. Click here to watch Asma Jahangir’s full speech when she accepted the Right Livelihood Award in 2014. For more on her extraordinary life, we speak with her close personal friend, Tufts University professor Ayesha Jalal.

Oh well, back to Harrison and Chuck. Just another tangent, man, on a Saturday, on the Central Coast of Oregon, sunny, hard winds, cool and warm at the same time, and cleanest air in the world right now!

Hell, read my shit!

A Poet, the Pacific Flyway, and a Sonora Flashflood!

Wrestling the Blind, Chasing Apache Horses, and Unpacking the Vietnam War!

Overshoot: Literature and Art Deployed for Systems Change.

The Eye of the Wolf — Measuring Myself through Death.

A Sturdy Tree Brings Forth the Light of Creation (Art).

Johnny Boy (JT) and Black Kettle.

My sentiments exactly, Tucson!

“It’s impossible to live in this town without a sense of guilt, without a sense that you’re failing; that you’re going to have to answer to someone someday. That nobody will ever accept your explanation of why you let this obliteration of such a beautiful place occur. You’re like a beaten person half the time and an enraged warrior the rest of the time. My glass is always half full; I may not like to drink but at least it’s half full.”

Charles Bowden Collection

A conversation with Chuck Bowden from 2002: The late writer discusses the ‘cannibalism of society’ and other ills.

High Country News AUDIO Sept. 8, 2014

…and tell those kiddos who consume so many toxins, body-wise, brain-wise, about why revolution and rebellion were and are part and parcel our right to get rid of thieves, rapists, murderers!

Yep, chided and put into military detention for not chanting a jody in 1975, man-oh. Here it is, fuck. I refused, and they treated me like a refusnik:

Shell the town and kill the people

Drop the napalm in the square

Do it on a Sunday morning

While they’re on their way to prayer

Aim your missiles at the schoolhouse

See the teacher ring the bell

See the children’s smiling faces

As their schoolhouse burns to hell

Throw some candy to the children

Wait till they all gather round

Then you take your M-16 now

And mow the little fuckers down

I was yelled at, put on KP duty, told to do 100 push-ups and stand at attention for two hours. Fuck them and the horses they rode into town on.

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Told the Sarge I was a socialist (I was fibbing, because I was a full communist), and he looked at my Che t-shirt when we were off duty, and called me to attention and said I was unpatriotic.

He knew shit about Castro and Che. Fucking dumb then, dumber now.

“You supporting those fucking commies?”

“Hey, if you let me talk, I’ll explain.”

“Fucking pinkos.”

“Sarge?”

“Ain’t got time to listen.”

“I’ll talk to myself then while I walk with you to the mess hall: Get this, so, Cuba is run by prostitute-running, rum-running, casino-owning Mafia, man, and that dictator — you know, Sarge, no elections there, and, you bet, most of the women and young girls were expected to clean shit and bend over for the Mafia. Even fucking Lensky, that dude, since you are so interested in the Jewish persuasion.”

“Yeah, get on with your liberal shit.”

“Well, these Jewish gangsters and the others ripped off mom and pop, stole land, made the men work the fields. Stole stole stole, and the booze and pot and other drugs were foot loose on the island.

“Imagine, a bunch of Italian punks coming to your Ohio town, sarge, and taking the corn, cows, beer and your kids. Imagine that, all the farmers in Ohio farmless and working for a bunch of Mafia. Imagine that, Sarge. Poor farmers, and then the schools get run down, the hospitals are only for the rich, and poverty is the name of the game. Imagine that, and then you getting hitched up in the Army, and, bam, you are working for mob bosses and their generals to move moonshine and hashish through Ohio and Appalachia. Imagine your parents’ farm taken away, and your mother separated from your dad — he moved to Florida to work the sugar cane fields, and your mother pressed into sewing uniforms for the Mob Army. Imagine that for decades, Sarge, and then, imagine that guy, this Che Guevera, and imagine Fidel Castro, and imagine men and women, boys and girls and old men and women wanting this mafia outta here. Imagine that, Sarge. Coming in and kicking the shit out of the mob and the mobsters paid for dictator. Imagine that, with old rifles and rusty machine guns, and bam, you get the mother fuckers out of the country. Now those are real patriots, real freedom fighters. Yeah, Che, yeah, Fidel.”

“When Castro came to power,” says Wayne Smith, the former chief of the U.S. interests section in Havana, “the image of Havana was as the center of graft, corruption, vice and the Mafia. All the money in the country was siphoned off by Havana.” After he took control, Castro announced that resources would be shifted to benefit those who had produced the wealth. Since that time, says Smith, “Havana has become quite run-down.” Since 1959, the Castro government has concentrated its efforts on building rural schools and clinics.

For decades, the revolutionary government shunned tourism, Smith says. “To them, tourism was identified with the past, the Mafia, with Americans coming down and pissing on the statues of their heroes.” Although Cuba’s economic difficulties have again opened the country to foreign tourists, gambling and casinos remain illegal. Says Smith, “They’re very careful not to let the Mafia back in.” (source)

Simple shit:

It was December 31, 1958. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista raised a New Year’s Eve toast to his cabinet members and senior military officers and wished them hasta la vista. After seven years of building Havana’s tourism industry by inviting gangsters such as Meyer Lansky to construct casinos, helping to fund their enterprises and taking a large chunk of the proceeds for himself, Batista knew his presidency was over. His plundering had weakened Cuba’s treasury and demoralized the army. He filled three cargo planes with all he could carry and was on his way to the Dominican Republic before the sun came up on 1959.

Nine days later, Fidel Castro’s guerrillas took the capital and installed what would become the longest-lasting communist government in the Western Hemisphere. But while Castro could close the casinos, arrest the gangsters and deport or imprison Batista’s henchmen, he could not bury the skyscrapers that had drained the wealth of the island. Castro inherited from Batista a Havana of overt poverty and ostentatious wealth, where the haves of the world’s richest nations had come to exploit the have-nots; where statues of Lenin and Marx would be dwarfed by glass and stone monuments to the Mob; where the nation’s architectural landmarks would be a constant reminder of the days when criminals were in charge and the Mafia roamed free.

But until that last day of 1958, the only revolution that mattered to Mafia financier Lansky involved a roulette wheel. During the Batista years, Cuba was a place where a crooked man could make an honest living. After a half century on the wrong side of the law in the United States, the celebrated gangster was legit. America’s high rollers and celebrities were living large in the casino of Lansky’s luxury hotel, the Riviera, and the drinks were on the house.

Here, more jodies for the marching crap:

We shoot the sick, the young, the lame, We do our best to maim, Because the kills all count the same, Napalm sticks to kids.

Flying low across the trees, Pilots doing what they please, Dropping frags on refugees, Napalm sticks to kids.

Gooks in the open, making hay, But I can hear the gunships say, “There’ll be no Chieu Hoi today, ” Napalm sticks to kids.

See those farmers over there, Watch me get them with a pair, Blood and guts just everywhere, Napalm sticks to kids. I’ve only seen it happen twice, But both times it was mighty nice, Shooting peasants planting rice, Napalm sticks to kids. Napalm, son, is lots of fun, Dropped in a bomb or shot from a gun, It gets the gooks when on the run, Napalm sticks to kids. Drop some napalm on a farm, It won’t do them any harm, Just burn off their legs and arms, Napalm sticks to kids. CIA with guns for hire, Montagnards around a fire, Napalm makes the fire go higher, Napalm sticks to kids. I’ve been told it’s not so neat, To catch gooks burning in the street, But burning flesh, it smells to sweet, Napalm sticks to kids. Children sucking on a mother’s tit, Wounded gooks down in a pit, Dow Chemical doesn’t give a shit, Napalm sticks to kids. Bombadiers don’t care a bit, Just as long as the pieces fit, When you stuff the bodies in a pit, Napalm sticks to kids.

Eighteen kids in a No Fire Zone, Rooks under arms and going home, Last in line goes home alone, Napalm sticks to kids.

Chuck in a sampan, sitting in the stern, They don’t think their boats will burn, Those damn gooks will never learn, Napalm sticks to kids.

Cobras flying in the sun, Killing gooks is lots of fun, Get one pregnant and it’s two for one, Napalm sticks to kids.

Shoot civilians where they sit, Take some pictures as you split, All your life you’ll remember it, Napalm sticks to kids.

NVA are all hard core, Flechettes never are a bore, Throw those PSYOPS out the door, Napalm sticks to kids.

Gather kids as you fly over town, By throwing candy on the ground, Then grease ’em when they gather ’round, Napalm sticks to kids.

You thinking the boys in fatigues are the good guys? Norman Rockwell portraits?

Liar liar, dirty Tokyo Firebomber! “Bomb them back to the Stone Age,” cited as appearing in LeMay’s 1965 autobiography, Mission with LeMay. Other times the attribution is to his 1968 book, America is in Danger. And by 1968, the phrase was well-known enough among the political and military chattering classes that LeMay actually denied having said it, or denied having believed in sending an entire group of people back to pre-history.

In October 1968, he told the Washington Post, “I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides.” LeMay then elaborated on this, saying that he thought the best strategy would be to annihilate North Vietnamese infrastructure, but not to do the same with the North Vietnamese population. And he blamed his ghost writer for misunderstanding the subtleties of what he was saying, and putting the emphasis on bombing the North Vietnamese people.

Fucking monsters, then and now, and off with their fucking heads.

An estimated 3 million Japanese died during the war in both Japan and he war zones of Asia, including upwards of 800,000 civilians. And while the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific moments at war’s end, much of the devastation in Japan was due to continuous air raids by American bombers. After the American Navy’s victories over Japan’s Imperial Navy in the Mariana and Palau Islands, the American military built airfields on Saipan and Tinian. These islands were some 2,400 kilometers away from Japan, close enough for B-29 bombers to make routine sorties over Japan and return without refueling.

And from November, 1944, the bombing raids over Japan was relentless. And the destruction immense.

• 66: major cities heavily bombed
• 40: percentage of all urban areas in Japan destroyed by bombing
• 100,000: civilian deaths in Tokyo alone

America’s longstanding policy of daylight precision bombing—designed to minimize civilian casualties—had failed. LeMay determined that to successfully attack the enemy’s home islands required a radical rethinking of American strategy, one so unorthodox, perilous, and morally fraught that he refused to tell his superiors. He would go it alone. LeMay planned to change more than just his tactics, but also his type of target. Gone was the pinpoint focus on the enemy’s industry. Instead, he planned to unleash his bombers armed with napalm incendiaries on downtown Tokyo’s crowded neighborhoods. One of the world’s most congested cities, the capital counted more than 100,000 men, women, and children per square mile, an area LeMay hoped to incinerate by dawn. This was no ordinary mission—and LeMay knew it. This was murder. 

“If we lose,” the general confided in an aide, “we’ll be tried as war criminals.” 

The mission that March night would prove the single-most destructive raid of World War II—and a significant moral turning point for the United States, where doctrine had long forbidden the intentional killing of civilians.

These are the monsters, man: [Photo, Third party presidential candidate George Wallace (left) and his running mate, LeMay, wave to a crowd during a 1968 rally in Newark, N.J. (Bettmann/Getty Images)]

So this is what we are waving red white and blue for July 4, 2023? Firecrackers, beer and burgers? Fucking lame sheeple. But monsters, too, if they even think for a moment USA is god-given, exceptionalist, a white shining city on the hill.

[Photo: The homeless is now the “unhoused” because, I’m guessing, the old word conjures up images of destitution and squalor, of young people driven insane after weeks or even years on the streets, of old people freezing on sidewalks. Being new, unhoused hasn’t had time to be muddied or piss splattered, but this delusion can only last a second or two. Meaning the same, it’s just as wretched as “homeless.” (Photo: [Philadelphia, 7/21/11)]

So, all those jodies are just deep inside the DNA of military and non-military men, women, LGBTQA+. This is the century of complete neglet, so, burn and flood and starve and repo and poison and steal and rape and murder us all back to the stone age? This is surprising, TEX-ASS=HOLE?

A utility lineman from West Virginia working to restore power in Texas has died.

KLTV reports that the 35-year-old lineman, whose name was not immediately released, was working with Appalachian Power to restore electricity to the Marshall area after last week’s storms.

According to Harrison County Justice of the Peace John Oswalt, the worker’s death has been attributed to heat-related causes.

Oswalt said the man had been working with his crew in the heat on Monday and told the group that he wasn’t feeling well once they returned to their motel.

Austin and Dallas require rest breaks and water for construction workers to protect them against heat illness. The “Death Star” bill will repeal those protections on September 1 because, according to the bill’s sponsors, Texas businesses are unable to deal with a “hodgepodge” of different requirements in different cities.

And this is coming to a neighborhood close to you, the death star bill, mother fuckers.

Inagine, a Freedman, in the US Chamber of Commerce, attacking OSHA? [Marc Freedman is vice president of employment policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is responsible for developing and advocating the Chamber’s response to OSHA matters, the Employee Free Choice Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and mandated leave issues, and other labor and workplace issues.]

What is it about these thieves, and these rabbi-induced Freedman fellows? Off with his head, the guv’s head, and the lot of them, now! Worker Dies of Heat Stroke 6 Days After Texas Governor Signs Bill Repealing Heat Protections: Freedom from regulation is more important than human life.

And so he paints an amazingly clear and short pot shot at the lies of Ukraine, lies of Zelensky, lies of Biden, the graft, grift and the gaming that is the MIC and the rest of the fuckers’ scams, a deadly scam. ‘Why Are We Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?’ Max Blumenthal Addresses the UN Security Council.

Read the transcript or watch and listen. Here we are, off with ALL their heads:

This is what parasitic, merchants of death capitalism looks like! Did I vote for a billion bucks for Lloyd Austin’s Raytheon?

Sickness untreated becomes collective sickness, right here and now in U$A!

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The Pentagon awarded a $624 million contract to Raytheon last summer, ordering 1,700 Stingers for delivery by 2026. However, Wes Kremer, the president of Raytheon’s missile division, told Defense One in an interview published on Wednesday.Kremer told Defense One that it will take 30 months before the first missiles start rolling off the production line, as the company’s current employees don’t know how to make them.

“We were bringing back retired employees that are in their 70s … to teach our new employees how to actually build a Stinger,” he said. “We’re pulling test equipment out of warehouses and blowing the spider webs off of them.”

Hayes warned last year that many of the electronic components used in the Stinger are now obsolete. Kremer said that the company is “redesigning circuit cards [and] redesigning some of the componentry” to get around this problem, adding that this process “just takes a long time.”

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If you don’t hate Jerusalem 2.0, UkroNaziLandia, by now, then you should hitch up and leave U$A now and learn how to be a burger in the meat grinder!

Compare the virus and bioweapons motherfuckers in the west, the Tokyo fire bombers, the nuclear weapons utilizers in Japan, all that napalm, all the depleted uranium, with this call to action:

On You Tube, four years ago: 241,333 views/ Sep 21, 2018

The US Embassy to Tbilisi is involved in the trafficking of frozen human blood and pathogens as diplomatic cargo for a secret military program. Internal documents, leaked to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva by Georgian insiders, implicate US scientists in the transportation of and experimenting on pathogens under diplomatic cover. According to these documents, Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and have been given diplomatic immunity to research deadly diseases and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. The military facility is just one of the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world. This investigative documentary was originally broadcast by Al Mayadeen TV.

Yeah, Fourth of Fucking Felons July:

But in 2010, the CIA declassified hundreds of communications intelligence, or COMINT, daily reports from the Korean War. U.S. historians have mostly ignored this release. Over the past few years, I have undertaken an examination of these documents and found more than two dozen that were pertinent to the biological warfare charges. As I demonstrated in a September 2020 essay on the topic at Medium.com, these documents vividly portray the reactions and responses of North Korean and Chinese military units responding to biological weapons attack.

Do we need to say more about why the kiddos need to know how and why and who and what and where and when to initiate ‘off with their heads’?

“Bacteria bombs,” poisoned water, planes dropping contaminated flies, fleas and other insects, two nations grappling to understand and adapt to an attack by an unseen enemy, in the context of an epic war with the United States and allied countries that would kill millions… this is the hitherto untold story of what germ warfare looked like to those who were attacked, from documents kept secret for over 60 years!

Tell the kiddos!

Happy Independence Day:

The other historical incident of relevance predates the Korean War. The appropriate starting point for this history is the December 1949 Soviet war crimes trial of doctors, researchers and military personnel associated with Japan’s biological warfare program. The results of the trial, including lengthy portions of the transcripts, were published in English[8], although it appears, according to one scholar, “few people in the West, including journalists and professional historians, paid any serious attention to the trial and its published proceedings until the 1980s.”[9]

The trial established that Japan’s Unit 731 and other assorted bacteriological units, experimented upon plants and animals for the purpose of biological warfare, in addition to engaging in criminal human experimentation, including vivisection. At least 3,000 prisoners died in this fashion. Many thousands more died in BW campaigns waged by Japan’s Kwantung Army in China during World War II.

The United States made an agreement with the leadership of Unit 731 not to prosecute their personnel at war crimes trials, and the U.S. thereby would receive the technical reports and testimony from personnel of the results of Japan’s BW campaigns. U.S. scientists from Ft. Detrick interviewed Unit 731 leader Shiro Ishii and others, and the information was closely held in “intelligence channels.”[10]

Sound just like Isra-Hell?

And it’s Nuland and Kagan and Fink’s BlackRockUkrainLandia: bioweapons, GMOs, Round-up, organ theft, torture chambers, so so much more, those Nazis in disguise:

[Photo: Four-chambered leaflet bomb used to distribute infected insects dropped on villages in Liaotung Province, NE China (Manchuria), as reproduced in ISC report]

So, cook that fucking spare rib, and slather ketchup on the hot dog, and enjoy those bombs bursting in air, and wet bulb temperatures killing granny, papa, kiddos.

[Photo: Image of plague infected vole from ISC report, PDF pg. 286 at link]

You need smoking guns?

On February 22, another Communist bombshell revelation took place when the Chinese government released transcripts of “depositions” by “two field-grade American Marine officers attesting to their direction of various phases of the [BW] campaign.” The officers were Col. Frank Schwable and Major Roy Bley, both of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Schwable, as Chief of Staff of the First Marine Air Wing, was the highest-ranking prisoner of war to confess in detail about the U.S. biological warfare campaign in North Korea and China during the Korean War. He described in three “confessions” or depositions how that campaign evolved, what the men undertaking it felt about the campaign, the “effectiveness” of the use of bioweapons, and the security surrounding the covert use of bacteriological weapons. It was a stunning blow.[88]

Happy George Washington Day:

Tell the kiddos the truth, man-oh. Think Event 201, DARPA circa 1970, anthrax, Lyme disease, think hard, brothers and sisters about HIV and Fauci and Salk, and think hard about the Mengele in every scientists about to be released like the plague infected fleas, man-oh.

Teach the kiddos how to hold a bat, how to take a swing in the dark, and teach them about wearing hoodies and tinfoil around the phones, and how to hack facial recognition tools and how to swing a machete and how to get a gallon of gasoline and how to make a lasting half dozen Molotov cocktails, man-oh. Off with their heads, for fucking A sure . . . and then the pacifists want us all locked up, who might foment THOUGHT experiments, because that’s what these screeds are, from me (look me up, I am a fiction writer).

All the world’s a stage, and so are blogs, man-oh. You never know which persona is being adopted, and Thespian is as Thespian is, that is me, man-oh.

But imagine if the kiddos know how to cook up botulism, or how to set a five gallon container with timer for just the right time, the right people, but again, THOUGHT experiment.

You know that, right? Fiction, mother fuckers, fiction.

Machetes:

Get them young? Best use for a Bud Light bottle since (thought experiment) using one bottle for an Epstein or Alan Morton Dershowitz or William Jefferson or Prince Andrew or Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Sean Penn, or you name the rapist, accused or not, and think hard about that BOTTLE and the thought experiment, man-oh.

Knives? Kick ass Chechens. Check this one outm Eastern Promises.

[Photo: Armed Chechen special forces soldiers attend a celebration dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of the First President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Akhmad Kadyrov, the Chechen president who was assassinated in a 2004 bomb blast, in Grozny, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Musa Sadulayev/AP Photo)]

Or, for in-fighting, and to take on bats, knives and machetes and hammers: The 4 Best Tactical Pistols

If you’re pressed on time, here’s a quick list of the best tactical pistols:

1. Colt 1911: Best 9mm Tactical Pistol
2. Glock 19: Best Service Pistol
3. FN 5.7: Best Lightweight Pistol
4. Sig Sauer M17: Best Combat Pistol

All thought experiments (above) from a Che Lover, a communist, atheist, social justice warrior, and a leaver, man-oh. I am one with Ishmael!

Takers are “civilized man.” Leavers are the hunter gatherer cultures that we consider “primitives.” Early in human history, before man learned (sic) to farm, all people were Leavers. Today, Leavers are almost extinct and our overpopulated planet is swarming with Takers. But how and where did the change begin? It all started in the Fertile Crescent.

The Fertile Crescent is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt. …the Fertile Crescent is regarded as the birthplace of agriculture, urbanization, writing, trade, science, history and organized religion and was first populated c.10,000 BCE when agriculture and the domestication of animals began in the region. – Ancient History Encyclopedia

Ishmael points out that, when the Leaver way of life was the only way of life, there was balance in this world. People, animals, and the Earth that provided for them were in some sort of more sane harmony. Leavers took only what they needed. Without waste or damage or pollution. Without overpopulation. Without consequential extinction of species.

But then change happened: farming, which reduced the ability for leavers to wander and forced people to settle in one place. Farming also meant a need for cleared land for cultivation. As the ability to grow food led to a growing population, more and more farm land was required to feed those extra mouths–which meant displacing other peoples in order to obtain more land for more farming to feed more people. So began the Taker culture.

Ishmael’s argument is that Takers are destroying the planet. He argues that back when Leaver culture was prevalent, Mother Culture kept the planet systems in balance. The hunter/gatherer lifestyle involved killing only when hungry. You didn’t gather or kill more than you could consume. If there was drought, people would die. Just like the animals of the world.

But when the Takers settled down in one place, agriculture and the domestication of animals allowed populations to swell, but more importantly, to exploit, enslave, hoard and steal. Every year more and more land was set aside to grow crops for the rising population — rising profits — displacing nomadic peoples and destroying the habitats of animals. Mother nature lost control of the planet, and balance went with it. Now man controls — or at the very least interferes with — Mother Nature. And no one is making sure that man does a good job of it. Governments and religions are not set up to make sure that it is done right. Organizations pop up to try to raise awareness of our wrongdoing, and providing options to live more in sync with Mother Nature. But no one cares. Well, I should say that not enough people care. The “treehuggers” that talk about change are largely ignored and even ridiculed. Not because they are wrong, but because their message is complicated, and inconvenient, and people don’t want to hear it. People don’t want to change.

Well well = kiddos?

Teach the kiddos ALL of this shit and more:

Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization describes agriculture’s impact saying, “It is so intertwined with humanity that it is humanity in some way.”

The question is whether we are better off because we have bread. According to Manning, “All of agriculture depends on suppressing biodiversity and the consequences of that ripple through almost every single thing we do…If we look at environmental impact on all corners of the earth, including global warming by the way, it is a result of agriculture.”

Listen to him: CBC

Or better yet, scroll down and find my interview of Richard: Haeder Radio Podcasts.

answering Mister Fish (AKA Toothless in Wisconsin) and his retort to my July Fourth screed

RE: Comments!

Well well, this is Yankee Doodle Dandy,

Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

The “macaroni” in question does not, however, refer to the food, but rather to a fashion trend that began in the 1760s among aristocratic British men.

On returning from a Grand Tour (a then-standard trip across Continental Europe intended to deepen cultural knowledge), these young men brought to England a stylish sense of fashion consisting of large wigs and slim clothing as well as a penchant for the then-little-known Italian dish for which they were named. In England at large, the word “macaroni” took on a larger significance. To be “macaroni” was to be sophisticated, upper class, and worldly.

Now, if I had been a substitute teacher in some summer school, maybe the teachers would have been assigning all sorts of childish stuff, like on that National Day of Mourning (Thaksgiving) and the turkey and the white-washed faces of “pilgrims” not killing the Natives, such as the fife players and drummers marching into battle to be well meat grinder fodder.

Wimps:

Disgusting, our Anglo American roots:

It just never ends, this sickenss:

Fucking lies, and here, truth:

Fifes provided a melodic complement to the drums that provided cadence and conveyed signals to armies in the American Revolution. Like drummers, fifers were not always boys; some men spent their entire military careers playing the fife, showing the importance to the army of that skill.

Fifers were not as numerous as drummers in most armies. This means that there were fewer fifers to desert, and therefore fewer advertisements for fifers who deserted. Here are a few ads that give a sense of the diverse ages and backgrounds of fifers who served in the American Revolution.

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Wilmington, New Castle County, July 11, 1775.

Run away, last evening, from the subscriber, an English servant man, named John Alderton, a Barber by trade, about 22 or 23 years of age, about 5 feet high, broad face, middling long chin, thick set, round shouldered, brown short hair, loves strong liquor, very talkative when drunk, pretends to play on the fife or beat a drum, shaves and dresses hair well, and is very cunning; he arrived at Annapolis in September last, and lived some time near that place; had on, when he went away, a jacket of such stuff as the Negroes generally wear in Maryland, an old wool hat, tow shirt, drilling or Russia sheeting drawers, white thread ribbed stockings, new strong shoes, with black buckles, and a cloth under jacket; he is remarkable for size and appearance, and it is believed that he will endeavour to pass for a free man, and offer himself to some of the militia companies for a fifer or drummer. Any person apprehending the said servant, so that his master may get him again, shall have a reward of Six Dollars, if out of this county, and if within this county Five Shillings over and above what the law allows, paid by William Brobson, Barber. [Pennsylvania Gazette, July 19, 1775]

Twenty Dollars Reward

Deserted from the New Galley, at West River, in Anne-Arundel County, on the 27th of January ult. a certain Henry Peggs, and Englishman, about 5 feet 8 inches and 3 quarters high. Had on a brown coat, black spotted velvet jacket, leather breeches, thread stockings, country made shoes, and a castor hat. He can play on the fife and drum, and has a counterfeit discharge from the galley at West River. Whoever takes up said deserter, and brings him to said galley, shall receive the above reward, from John David, Captain.

N.B. Recruiting officers are hereby forewarned from enlisting the aforesaid deserter. [Maryland Journal, February 4, 1777]

Deserted from Capt. Abraham Livingston’s Company, Col. James Livingston’s Regiment ‑ John Richards, about 5 Feet 4 Inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, tied in a club, dark eyes; had on a blue coat, faced with red, the button‑hole edged with silver, a Mason by trade, and born in Boston ‑ Also, John Davis, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, sandy complexion, short light hair, pock‑marked, limps in his gait; had on a light brown coat, with white facings, a Native of Europe. ‑ They enlisted themselves as Drum and Fife Majors, in the Regiment late of General Patterson’s, Capt. Smith’s Company, and are supposed to be gone to Newburg.

Also, deserted from Capt. Timothy Hughes’s Company, Colonel Livingston’s Regiment ‑ Joseph Clark, about 5 Feet 2 Inches, 28 years of age, fair complexion, red curled hair, square built; had on a lightish ‑ coloured coat, a Native of Ireland. ‑ Also Nathaniel Brown, about 5 Feet 7 Inches, about 17 years old, fair complexion, light hair, a likely lad, had on a red British Soldier’s Coat, born in Connecticut. ‑ Twenty Dollars Reward will be given for each of the above Deserters, on their being sent to their Regiment, now lying at Albany, and reasonable Charges paid. Abr. Livingston, Captain [Independent Chronicle and The Universal Advertiser, February 13, 1777]

Memorandum

Kenneth McLean a Fifer belonging to the Marines serving on Board the Janus a Young lad about 4 Feet 5 Inches who deserted the night of the 19th Instant was seen in Town dress’d in Regimentals, the party who have Inlisted him, are ordered to give him up immediately. [General Orders, New York, October 21, 1781, Orderly Book July 23, 1780 – November 8, 1781, Sir Henry Clinton Papers, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, MI]

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Shifting to the dirty British, WWI:

The teenage soldiers of World War One/ 11 November 2014

As many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in the British Army during World War One. Fergal Keane remembers the sacrifice they made.

War confers many things on boys who pick up a weapon to fight. They learn the true meaning of fear. They test their own capacity for courage and the limits of human endurance, physical and mental.

Some find that killing comes easily to them, too easily. And others recoil from acts of blood.

But what unites all teenage warriors is the speed with which they are hurled into a place of maiming and death.

Describing the training of a boy soldier in World War One, Wilfred Owen, wrote in Arms and the Boy:

Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade

How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;

Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash;

And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.

Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads

Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads.

Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,

Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.

From Homer’s Iliad to the present day the stories of boy soldiers evoke a particular sadness, resonant as they are of the destruction of youth and possibility.

But at the outbreak of the Great War there was nothing to suggest that the tens of thousands of boy volunteers were about to join a long, doomed procession.

Nearly 250,000 teenagers would join the call to fight. The motives varied and often overlapped – many were gripped by patriotic fervour, sought escape from grim conditions at home or wanted adventure.

After being wounded on the battlefield it took Cyril Jose two days to crawl back to the British lines

Technically the boys had to be 19 to fight but the law did not prevent 14-year-olds and upwards from joining in droves. They responded to the Army’s desperate need for troops and recruiting sergeants were often less than scrupulous.

“It was obvious they weren’t 19,” says historian Richard Van Emden, “but you’d have a queue of men going down the road, you’re getting a bounty for every one who joins up, are you really going to argue the toss with a young lad who’s enthusiastic, who’s keen as mustard to go, who looks maybe pretty fit, pretty well. Let’s take him.”

Fifteen-year-old Cyril Jose was a tin-miner’s son from Cornwall. With the region suffering from heavy unemployment, the boy with a strong sense of adventure joined up. From his training camp he wrote an excited letter to his sister:

“Dearest Ivy, stand back. I’ve got my own rifle and bayonet. The bayonet’s about 2ft long from hilt to end of point. Must feel a bit rummy to run into one of them in a charge. Not ‘arf. Goodbye and God bless you, from your fit brother, Cyril.”

Cyril survived the war but the bloodshed he witnessed in France turned him into a vehement opponent of militarism for the rest of his life. In one letter home he poured scorn on the British commander, Field Marshal Earl Haig.

“What brains Earl Douglas must have. Made me laugh when I read his dispatch. ‘I attacked.’ Old women in England picturing Sir Doug in front of the British waves brandishing his sword at Johnny in the trenches… attack Johnny from 100 miles back. I’ll get a job like that in the next war.”

Why did so many teenagers make it to the battlefield?

Recruitment officers were paid two shillings and sixpence for each new army recruit, and would often ignore any concerns they had about age.

Many people at the start of the 20th Century didn’t have birth certificates, so it was easy to lie about how old you were.

The minimum height requirement was 5ft 3in (1.60m), with a minimum chest size of 34in (0.86m). If you met these criteria you were likely to be recruited.

Some young boys were scared of being called a coward and could not resist the pressure from society.

How did Britain let 250,000 under-age soldiers fight in WW1?

The patriotic imperative at the outbreak of war was not confined to British-born boys. For the children of migrants, rallying to the flag was proof of loyalty to their new country.

Aby Bevistein was born in Russian-occupied Poland in 1898 and came to London when he was three. In September 1914 Aby volunteered, changing his surname to the English “Harris”. Aby Bevistein’s parents were heartbroken when he joined the army. Soon after his arrival in France Aby discovered the wretched nature of trench warfare. He wrote home:

“Dear mother, I’ve been in the trenches four times and come out safe. We’re down the trenches for six days and then we get relieved for six days’ rest. Dear mother, I do not like the trenches. We’re going in again this week.”

For Aby, and many like him, the trenches meant cold and mud, wet clothes and rats, the smell of death and the sight of mutilated flesh, long monotonous hours interrupted by terror.

On 29 December 1915 Aby was caught in a German mine explosion – the enemy had tunnelled under the trench where he was stationed. He was wounded and suffered what was then simply called “shock”. In today’s military lexicon it would be described as “combat stress” or “post traumatic stress disorder”.

By early spring Aby was back on the front. On 12 Feb 1916 the Germans again attacked his position, this time with grenades.

Suffering from shock, Aby wandered back and forth along the British lines. He was eventually arrested and charged with desertion. His last letter home is that of a boy who seems determined to underplay his situation, not to put stress on his mother at home.

“Dear mother, I’m in the trenches and I was ill so I went out, and they took me to the prison and I’m in a bit of trouble now.”

The following month Aby then aged 17, became one of the 306 British soldiers executed during the Great War.

Those who survived the trenches and came home brought memories that retained the power to haunt until the end of their lives. St John Battersby was 16 when he was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Like all of the teenaged officers, Lieutenant St John Battersby had responsibilities far beyond his years, as his son, Anthony, recalls:

St John Battersby was first stationed near Serre in the Somme region

“There’s my dad, 16-years-old, really in the war. He is responsible for 30-odd men and his decisions may result in them dying or not dying. This was it.”

Three months after he was wounded, St John Battersby was back in France leading men in battle again. He could have opted to stay at home – by now the government was taking all those under 19 years of age out of the front lines. But a shortage of experienced officers meant they were allowing boys like St John Battersby to stay on if they wished.

A sense of duty compelled St John to return. Soon after coming back he was blown up by a German shell and lost his left leg. Determined to continue helping the war effort, he asked for, and was given, an administrative job in Britain.

But years later, after a fruitful life serving as a country vicar, the memories of war returned. His son Anthony remembered his father’s last hours.

“In the hour or two before he died, he was on the Western Front, yelling, ‘the Bosch are coming. We’re going over the top now’. Right down deep on the ground floor of his memory was the Western Front.”

The man facing death was once again the boy who had cheated it so many times.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29934965

Patotism?

Throughout history and in many cultures, children have been extensively involved in military campaigns.

The earliest mentions of minors being involved in wars come from antiquity. It was customary for youths in the Mediterranean basin to serve as aides, charioteers and armor bearers to adult warriors. Examples of this practice can be found in the Bible, such as David’s service to King Saul, in Hittite and ancient Egyptian art, and in ancient Greek mythology (such as the story of Hercules and Hylas), philosophy and literature.[citation needed] In a practice dating back to antiquity, children were routinely taken on a campaign, together with the rest of a military man’s family, as part of the baggage.

The Roman Empire made use of youths in war, though it was understood that it was unwise and cruel to use children in war, and Plutarch implies that regulations required youths to be at least sixteen years of age.[citation needed] Despite this, several Roman legionaries were known to have enlisted children aged 14 in the Imperial Roman army, such as Quintus Postunius Solus who completed 21 years of service in Legio XX Valeria Victrix, and Caecilius Donatus who served 26 years in the Legio XX and died shortly before his honorable discharge.

In medieval Europe young boys from about twelve years of age were used as military aides (“squires”), though in theory, their role in actual combat was limited. The so-called Children’s Crusade in 1212 recruited thousands of children as untrained soldiers under the assumption that divine power would enable them to conquer the enemy, although none of the children entered combat. According to the legend, they were instead sold into slavery. While most scholars no longer believe that the Children’s Crusade consisted solely, or even mostly, of children, it nonetheless exemplifies an era in which entire families took part in a war effort.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy:

On December 29, 1890, hundreds of U.S. troops surrounded a Lakota camp and opened fire, killing more than 300 Lakota women, men, and children in a violent massacre.

In December 1890, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull—who led his people during years of resistance to U.S. government policies—was killed by Indian Agency Police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation as authorities attempted to arrest him for his involvement in the Ghost Dance movement.

In the late 19th century, the U.S. Government began forcefully relocating Native Americans onto reservations, where they were dependent on the government for food and clothing. In response, some Native American people embraced a religion called Ghost Dance, which promoted the belief that Native Americans would become bulletproof and return to their freedom following a great apocalypse. The Ghost Dance performance and religion frightened the U.S. federal government and sensationalist newspapers across the country stoked fears about an uprising by Native Americans.

Shortly after Sitting Bull’s killing, the Sioux surrendered and were marched to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On the morning of December 29, 1890, 500 troops of the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment surrounded a group of Lakota Sioux where they had made camp at Wounded Knee Creek. The troops entered the camp to disarm the Lakota. During a brief scuffle between a soldier and a Lakota man who refused to surrender his weapon, the rifle fired, alarming the rest of the troops. The troops began firing on the Lakota, many of whom tried to recapture weapons or flee the assault. The attack lasted for more than an hour and left more than 300 Lakota dead; over half of those killed were women, children, and elderly tribal members, and most of the dead were unarmed.

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Yep, I’ve been to Vietnam and in Mexican cities, and fireworks are amazing, loud, forever rattling sometimes for hours late at night.

Many historians believe that fireworks originally were developed in the second century B.C. in ancient Liuyang, China. It is believed that the first natural “firecrackers” were bamboo stalks that when thrown in a fire, would explode with a bang because of the overheating of the hollow air pockets in the bamboo. The Chinese believed these natural “firecrackers” would ward off evil spirits.

Sometime during the period 600-900 AD, legend has it that a Chinese alchemist mixed potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal to produce a black, flaky powder – the first “gunpowder”. This powder was poured into hollowed out bamboo sticks (and later stiff paper tubes) forming the first man made fireworks.

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Ah, a Chinese Tradition, this Fourth of July, as this shit-hole country wants war war war with China. It is all a lost culture, a lazy culture, immediate gratification, smoke screens, with all the smoke from fireworks. What are those crocodile tears at football games, wrestling matches, everywhere we go, for what?

Boys and girls, destroyed by war, and future boys and girls, damaged by war, and this USA is itching for a New Jerusalem in UkroNaziLandia. There will be tears this July 4th, since this country is sliding sliding sliding down down down. All for naught. Or for something, but not Jefferson.

Well, he’s wrong about Native Cultures, but those are his times, his hubris:

“Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the 1st. condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has it’s evils too: the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.”

— Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787

Oh, Tommy:

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Combat Duty with Homeless Veterans, Senior NCOs and a Variety of Military

Note: This short piece ended up in the now once-a-week newspaper in the county in which I live, work and recreate. It’s just my effort to keep attempting to move the generalized political and empathetic needle over to the truly progressive side of things. It’s not an effort to get the general population here to dance around a bonfire and burn all those broken treaties, promises, histories and contracts that have for me defined this country: United States of Amnesia.

“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale,” Gore Vidal lamented and an enormous part of his prodigious energy was spent railing against the hucksters, liars, cheats and thieves he saw assiduously dismantling all that was good in America, and replacing it with a system so corrupt it rivalled Rome at the moment of its precipitous decline. (“Lest we forget: Gore Vidal and the United States of Amnesia“)

This current epoch for me — and for so many socialists of the Michael Parenti variety — is a time of multiple implosions on so many fronts I at least had some sense I could be at least a minuscule positive part of to keep pushing the needle toward compassion, social justice and cultural sanity: education, journalism and environmental action.

The rapidity of decline in critical thinking in K12 and higher education is like a pathogen of immense proportions and replication. The unimaginable acceptance of AI-VR-AR and the digital panopticon has almost flummoxed me; right now, Chat GPT is an acceptable tool being utilized in higher education. And, the power of propaganda and the full-throttle PsyOps which had unfolded decades ago (centuries ago considering the power of the media control by oligarch starting in the ‘old’ Gilded Age) has unleashed a breed of humanity that has taken D.H. Lawrence’s comment to the tenth power:

In 1923, the British novelist D. H. Lawrence offered a grim assessment of America and Americans: “All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

So I say on this July Fourth, let it rip. The decline of the empire of chaos, the empire of lies, the empire of predation, all managed by the parasites of capitalism, is like witnessing a fire in a crowded theater, with all the doors bolted shut, but still, we are able to hit up the Coke machine and grab all the free popcorn you want for the last hurrah of our lives, as the Marvel Comic movie plays on through the increasing smoky air.

In the 16th century, the Florentine philosopher and statesman Francesco Guicciardini warned that the process of imperial decline takes far longer than is often imagined.

“If you see a city beginning to decline, a government changing, a new empire expanding, or any such phenomenon — and these things are sometimes quite clearly visible to us — be careful not to misjudge the time they will take. To be mistaken in these matters can be very harmful to you,” he warned. “Be very careful, for it is a step on which people often stumble.” (Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian’s Craft, Mark Phillips, page 144)

Fourth of July Not Hallowed Ground for Me

Newport News Times

This July 4 seems for me like a hollow time, or shallow, but certainly not hallowed ground.

All my work with military as a college teacher in various locales — El Paso, White Sands, Fort Huachuca, Biggs Fields, Sergeant’s Major Academy, Fairchild Air Force Base, McChord, and other places — was more or less appreciated by some pretty conservative students, albeit just a small swath really thought I was unpatriotic and un-American.

I was teaching them composition and literature and film classes. I designed special ones, too, including film and literature of the Vietnam War. Most of these young soldiers had no idea about the USA’s history of overthrowing governments, and of helping overthrow by proxy democratically elected governments not to USA’s liking. Nor did many 20-year veterans have this knowledge.

The value of my life is that my old man — in the Air Force and Army for 32 years — valued discussion. He was a CW5 at his separation from service. As a family, we were in many places because of his regular military status — Azores, Scotland, Maryland, Paris, Munich, Arizona, Washington, and I hitched some time in Saudi Arabia as an adult.

Shot in Korea and in Vietnam, my old man saw the value of higher education. He’d help me pay for books, tuition and field trips while in college, and he was proud that I was a graduate of the University of Arizona with two majors.

He was proud I was a graduate degree holder in El Paso, a college teacher, a journalist for both newspapers and even was interested in my protesting U.S. military incursions into Iraq, Kuwait and Panama.

My patriotism is steeped in open discussion, critical debate, fluid research and never accepting what authorities have been saying (lying) to us for several centuries.

So, my students, both civilian and military, were given a true liberal arts education, with ethics, history, political science, and rhetoric, as in utilizing the skills of true debate (not the dog and pony fourth grade display of those old TV presidential “debates”), as under girder.

Politics and history were areas my students researched for their essays. We also looked at many of the great speeches by our country’s leading minds and voices. For example, Frederick Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

“To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” (Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852)

This opinion piece is being written in a time of what many of the clueless elites call an era of nuclear implosion for independent writers/authors and for workers in general, who will be out of work by the millions because of Artificial Intelligence. These “geniuses” love being “disrupters.”

I’m also writing this with background noise of our country, far and wide, killing debate, even in higher education: Stopping robust research into alternative (maybe more truthful) frames/narratives around corporatism, oligarchy, military, science, technology, and government.

I am no longer in higher education because Lincoln County is not hiring folk with my college experience. I know from so many other friends around the country and in other countries, however, how challenging it is to teach in a hyper-hostile landscape, from students now called customers, and then to all the administrative and so-called support positions blocking real teaching.

Here’s what I brought up in my classes: I was in Vietnam in the 1990s, and I spent time with people who were bombed by guys like John McCain. I was in the jail cell he was held in just to “see, feel, imagine.” I saw photos of dead children at an orphanage his Navy cadre bombed.

McCain flew 23 missions in Operation Rolling Thunder, ordered by Lyndon B. Johnson whose General Curtis LeMay vowed to bomb Vietnam “back into the Stone Age.” A German journalist who met McCain when he was a POW described how on Oct. 14, 1967, one of the bombing runs over Hanoi killed 76 people, destroying a whole neighborhood. Unfortunately, McCain received a commendation medal for bombing the Haiphong shipyard on Oct. 18. Then, one week later, McCain’s A4E Skyhawk was shot down on a bombing run against a civilian light-bulb factory in Hanoi.

For this July 4, I will be thinking of those on the USS Liberty: On June 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel.

Many of my military students did not know of this war crime: 34 killed in action and 173 were wounded. Researching the cover-up and lack of action taken by USA against Israel, my students critiqued different perspectives on our/their relationship to Israel.

What does the Fourth of July mean to me? Critiquing America’s history does not make you un-American, unpatriotic, communist, socialist or Marxist. It makes you empathetic, open-minded, curious, and imaginative enough to say: enough is enough.

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Further reading to bring you up to speed would take pages and pages, scrolling down, here, and years to catch up. But, here, for July Fourth, a few, and then, since USA is ready for war with China, an internet accessed article:

1. In Killing Hope ( Zed Books, 2014), William Blum aims to provide a comprehensive account of America’s covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and – in this updated edition – beyond.
2.  William Keylor’s A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945.
3. Robert Litwak’s Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11. The USA’s decades long warfare against China by Robert S. Rodvik

Strange times indeed on this July Fourth:

At the end of WWII writes William Blum, “The ink on the Japanese surrender treaty was hardly dry when the United States began to use the Japanese soldiers still in China alongside American troops in a joint effort against the Chinese communists.” (The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books Ltd. (London and New Jersey) 1986, p.15.)

In their book George Bush:The Unauthorized Biography, Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin write the following:

In October 1942…Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.’s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland “Bunny” Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush. 

Tarpley and Chaitkin add the following:

President Bush’s family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany…By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking Corp. were legally front men for the Nazis, the government avoided the more important historical issue: In what way were Hitler’s Nazis themselves hired, armed and instructed by the New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager? (NATO’s Nazi Beginnings: How the West implemented Hitler’s goals by Robert S. Rodvik)

Enjoy some free reading on a beach with a mojito or mescal:

Here, the PDF —Blackshirts & Reds

…thinking about Hillary laughing at al-Qaddafi being tortured and sodomized with a sharps sword, and she laughs, and of course, the thought experiment is, darn, if only Chelsea suffered the same!

The word has ALWAYS been that neocons are mostly former Jewish fake liberals, Trotsky lovers.

Today, Blinken and Nuland and Yellen and Garland and Kagan Familia, et al, are on board for a Project of a New Jesusalem, and that place is BlackRock’s (Jewish Fink) new old new world of discovery.

Two presumed progenitors of neoconservatism. Strauss, according to Jeet Heer, emerges from a close reading as a

…disguised Machiavelli, a cynical teacher who encouraged his followers to believe that their intellectual superiority entitles them to rule over the bulk of humanity by means of duplicity.

Similarly, Pfaff:

An elite recognizes the truth . . . and keeps it to itself. This gives it insight and implicitly power that others do not possess. This obviously is an important element in Strauss’s appeal to American conservatives. . . . His real appeal to the neoconservatives, in my view, is that his elitism presents a principled rationalization for policy expediency, and for “necessary lies” told to those whom the truth would demoralize.

Here he is, the Israel-First Blinken, just a few day ago: “Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the Ukraine Conference Session 1”.

Endless support, endless taxpayher money, time, devotion to the dirty Zelensky and his dirty tricks regime.

You think this sounds like Israel 2.0? Yep.

We’re going to invest over $520 million to help Ukraine overhaul its energy grid, more than half of which, as you’ve heard, has been destroyed by Russia – and in so doing make it cleaner, make it more resilient, make it more integrated with Europe. And we’ll support Ukraine’s energy market reforms to combat monopolies and to spur more private investment, which will enable Ukraine one day to become a major energy exporter.

This support will complement the work that’s already being done by the G7+ Coordination Group which we launched last October and have co-led ever since, first with Germany, now with Japan. That group has grown to include 18 countries and several multilateral institutions. Together we’ve allocated billions of dollars to help repair and rebuild Ukraine’s energy sector. We’ve sent more than 5 million power generators to Ukraine – transformers, cables, pipes, circuit breakers, other pieces of energy equipment.

The United States will also provide $657 million to help modernize Ukraine’s border crossings, its rail lines, its ports, other critical infrastructure that connect the country with Europe, allowing it to exchange more goods by more pathways more and more efficiently. We’ll direct an additional $100 million toward digitizing Ukraine’s customs and other systems to boost speed and to cut corruption. And we’ll commit $35 million to help Ukrainian businesses and entrepreneurs through financing and insurance that reduces risks for investors in Ukraine.

While those racist Jews and Goyim in USA and Klanada and Israel, here we are, the black nation, African, worthy of eugenics, death by starvation: So, the same logic = stopping all support to UkroNaziLandia because it’s the dirtiest of all countries for corruption, and then all the weapons stolen and gone missing?

White boy’s country (sic), UkroNaziLandia, versus an African country!

Food shortages in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have resulted in the deaths of at least 700 people, according to the Tigray Disaster Risk Management Commission. The US and UN recently cut off food aid to one-sixth of the country’s population due to allegations of massive aid theft.

In March, the West suspended food aid to the region after discovering cases of wheat for the needy being stolen. The suspension was extended to the rest of Ethiopia in early June and affected 20 million people in need, with US officials saying they found large amounts of food aid for sale in local markets.

They, the dirty corporations, under the thumb of BlackRock, will come and get you for your opinion:

Dirty dirty corporations, man, totalitarians. Victor Day? Defeating Italy, Japan, Germany, the Nazi’s and fascists, 27 million Russians died over that bankers’ war?

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The wife of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, So-yeon Schroeder-Kim, has been fired from her position at NRW, a business development agency, after visiting the Russian Embassy in Berlin to celebrate Victory Day.

“Ms. Schroeder-Kim has been released with immediate effect, and the employment relationship will now be terminated by NRW.GlobalBusiness without notice,” a spokeswoman for NRW told German media on Tuesday.

The company explained that it had on several occasions explicitly told Schroeder-Kim, who worked there as a representative for South Korea, that she should “not speak out in public on politically sensitive topics,” particularly with regard to Russia and the situation in Ukraine.

Seems like the Jewish plan, to seek reparations from Nazi Germany? Yes, no more dreams of the Third Reich? With friends like these, who needs enemies!

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Foreign companies held back on investments in Germany last year while billions flowed out of the country, the German Economic Institute (IW) reported on Wednesday.

According to IW calculations, around €125 billion ($132 billion) more direct investment flowed out of the EU’s largest economy in 2022 than was invested in the country from abroad, representing “the highest net outflows ever recorded in Germany.”

Ahh, those European values, no, peaceful demonstration protesting cop killing of youth, and then the pigs incite, man, and the result? Anger, brothers and sisters. Yeah, EuroTrashLandia and the Anglo Americans throwing rocks inside their own house of cards and glass houses. Values driven EU.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday evening that 2,000 officers and gendarmes were put on alert in the greater Paris area, 800 more than the night before, according to French media. Police also received an emergency authorization to use surveillance drones in Nanterre.

All over Anglo Saxon Americana, the dirt rises to the top of the manure sludge pond:

They sending those UkroNazzii’s back?

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A scheme by the UK government to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, the British Court of Appeal found on Thursday.

The decision overturned a previous ruling by the High Court that the Central African nation could be considered a “safe third country” for refugees. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Sunak’s Conservative government signed a deal with Kigali last year to deport thousands of migrants who arrive in the UK illegally, to Rwanda, more than 4,000 miles away.

Then, more creepiness with the Penis Piano Player, ZioAzovLensky, and his fucking handlers:

Bizarro, 6.0! Man, it just gets weirder with Penis Piano Man’s Cocaine Cowboy Days! Greta, help, we need help with our eroding beaches!

Can’t we get the Penis Piano Man ZioAzovLensky to come help us THird Worlders here in USA with our infrastructure problems? Man, he banned the church, banned Russian books and names, banned competing political parties, banned elections, banned money, he must have a plan to BAN ocean expansion, sea level rise. Help, Penis Piano Man!

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This week at Yale Environment 360, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gil Gaul reports from the Outer Banks of North Carolina on how rising seas and severe erosion are raising questions about the future of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, one of the jewels of the U.S. national park system. The Seashore has already lost hundreds of feet of coastline, and encroaching waters now threaten to engulf its iconic beaches and wash away homes and the lone highway running along the shore. Waters on Cape Hatteras have risen by about one foot over the last century, and they are projected to lift by around another foot in the next three decades. “Will we still be here in 30, 40, or 50 years?” asks the Seashore’s superintendent. “All I know is it will different.

Yep, Toothless in Wisconsin, River Falls, yet another doctor’s appointment missed because, drum roll, the county disability and aging services in vapid, and their transportation contract dead on arrival. He’s missed many doctor appointments because of the failings of Biden and Trump and Obama and Bush and Clinton and Reagan’s AmeriKKKa.

Ahh, she laughs, this human stain, and they all laugh, really, as they parade the dirty Nazi Boy, Zelensky, from one photo shoot to the next, with his personal trainer in the lurch and his one hundred replica fake military green t-shirts and baggy pants at the ready. Jet setting while Toothless in Wisconsin or Toothless in Arizona dries up, withers away, you Useless Breathers, Useless Eaters, Useless Public Services Users, you Useless Defecators, Useless Urinators.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week’s African Union summit was another step toward that objective.

Gaddafi has been pushing for an African unity government for years, saying it is the only way Africa can develop without Western interference, but many African states say the idea is impractical and would encroach on their sovereignty.

Like previous African summits, this week’s gathering in the Ugandan capital Kampala discussed steps toward creating an African government, but the issue was overshadowed by chaos in Somalia and an international arrest warrant for Sudan’s president.

“I am satisfied that Africa is going along its historic and right road,” Gaddafi told a small group of reporters in Kampala at the end of the summit. “One day it will become similar to the United States of America.”

“We are approaching the formation of the African Authority, and each time we solve African problems and also move in the direction of peace and unity. We deal with problems step by step. We are continuing to do that,” Gaddafi said.

Gaddafi held the African Union’s rotating chairmanship last year, and he used it to push for the organization’s small executive body to be granted enhanced powers and remodeled as the African Authority.

Asked about that proposal on Tuesday, Gaddafi said: “Studies are still continuing and it is not finished yet. Experts and the people responsible are still studying the documents. They might be completed at the next summit or after.”

Imagine, no, if only, Toothless in Arizona had a home, a car, a electricity bill paid off, and dentures, and, well, health care, water, and safe rents, food, and you get the piciture.

Ahh, the shit hole USA, so, how’s that elderly coverage going? All those 600,000 who just lost Medicaid? Oh, the irony, the irony.

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan.

Hobbs made the announcement from the offices of a central Phoenix nonprofit that focuses on helping LGBTQ youth.

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Under the executive actions, state agencies will be prohibited from using funds to promote or facilitate so-called conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.

Also, state employee health insurance plans can no longer list gender-affirming surgery as ineligible for coverage. A ban on such coverage was enacted in 2017.

Ahh, the shit hole USA, so, how’s that elderly insurance and social work coverage going? All those 600,000 who just lost Medicaid? Oh, the irony, the irony.

Undocumented workers, fires all over the place, water issues, heat, too many influx job seekers, and on and on, and this is it for the big executive order? No strong mental health care legislation, and those drug and booze addictions. Right, AZ, my old home state.

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Cringe? No, insanity, disgusting freaks of humanity:

This is it for the sack of cow pies that is this country, since before JFK was insurrectioned out of existence. Remember that coup?

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President Biden accidentally referred to Putin’s war in “Iraq” when answering questions from the press, a year after former president George W Bush made the same gaffe. Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.

Asked on Wednesday whether the short-lived Prigozhin rebellion was a sign that Putin was weakening, Biden replied, “It’s hard to tell really. But he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq.”

And some of those fuckers on the left are telling me that if I vote for Cornel West for president, then it’s a vote for Trump. We know that the word retarded is not used generally, although in state education departments, they still refer to students with IQ’s below 69, mentally retarded.

That’s right — all our votes are blue ribbon votes, so always vote for the war monger in chief, or else!

Biden, meanwhile, also has high hopes for the war effort, giving a statement to reporters that “Putin is losing in Iraq.” Everyone felt too embarrassed to correct him.

And while our confused warmonger-in-chief is busy fighting to the last Ukrainian, his cronies at Pod Save America are hard at work campaigning for their boss: “Chastising works!” they laugh, planning out how to best vote-shame Americans into voting for Biden.

“If you live in a swing state,” host Jon Favreau lectures (and I’m now really wishing I hadn’t already used dripping for Blumenthal’s words), “And you vote for Cornel West, you’re helping Trump become president. That’s it. And you could say ‘Oh it’s Joe Biden’s fault he did this or that,’ no no no. It’s your decision. If you want to help Donald Trump become president, then you should vote for Cornel West.”

Then, in my email box, something I signed up for to just see the flagging journalists, fascists one and all, at this “conference:

Note, I have attempted to engage with these journalists about the lies of this shit, but now Roth is the insider, the god, again, Jewish-Israeli Goddamned Motherfucker:

FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info, including journalists

The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, leaks reveal. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté.

If granted, the users on the list would not only have been banned from Twitter but had their phone number, date of birth, and email address disclosed to both the FBI and SBU.

In response, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-Head of Trust and Safety, informed Special Agent Kobzanets and his FBI colleagues that Twitter would “review the reported accounts under our Rules.” But he warned that the list included “a few accounts of American and Canadian journalists (e.g. Aaron Mate).” Therefore, Roth said, Twitter’s review would “focus first and foremost on identifying any potential inauthenticity.”

Roth then suggested that he would be open to suspending authentic accounts if it could be proven that they have a hidden tie to a foreign government. Journalists “who cover the conflict with a pro-Russian stance are unlikely to be found in violation of our rules absent other context that might establish some kind of covert/deceptive association between them and a government,” Roth wrote. “Any additional information or context in those areas is of course welcome and appreciated.”

Another blog:

We’ve continued the research and present the evidence of another, very powerful foreign spy within Twitter who has eluded attention.

But did you know that Yoel Roth is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel? That Roth’s mother is a racist against Palestinians? That Roth opposes the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement?

Curiously Roth, who was until recently the chief censor at Twitter, seems to have stopped mentioning his Israeliness some time around 2012.

Odd timing, that. We do know there were other foreign spies at Twitter — from India, from Saudi Arabia, and from China. But Israel? Aren’t they America’s Great Ally TM?

Well, not exactly. It’s complicated and you’re not really allowed to talk about that or they’ll get really mad at you and life will get really difficult.

Despite Roth having grown up in Boca Raton, Florida (lol) and attending Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, there’s ample evidence for his Israeli citizenship and pro-Israel activism on Twitter — where else? This past hasn’t been brought up by Bari Weiss, who along with her family, has its own ties to Israeli intelligence.

There are even rumors that Roth did his compulsory military service in Israel. There are an estimated 1000+ Americans serving in the Israeli military and a rumored 1000+ more in the intelligence community. I’ve run into these Americans over the years. One even went to a New England boarding school I attended. Sometimes they’ve even freaked me out by posing as federal law enforcement, an increasingly common tactic. Still other times they’ve approached me in airport security, or going for walks, or even in the supermarket.

So did Yoel do his military service in Israel?

For what it’s worth I find this hard to believe. More likely, an exception was made for Roth given his growing position and clout within America’s tech community. Roth isn’t alone. See generally Alan MacLeod’s “Revealed: The Former Israeli spies working in top jobs at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.”

Another Israeli-American — Dan Gross — once told me that there was an informal deal that many of the American-born Israelis or Israeli-born Americans had with the State of Israel. Make Israel look good, especially in an area of core interests, and you don’t have to don the uniform — at least officially. Gross seemed to think this was a fair trade.

Gross had more than done his service for Israel. His company, Cue, backed as it was by Chinese-Sequoia, was sold to Apple. “Besides, I helped sell Waze to Google,” Gross bragged.

Still, there’s an implicit threat here. What if you don’t make Israel look good? Could you be called up for military service? Can you — gasp! — serve your Israeli military service within the U.S.?

Read the piece at Mint Press News!

Get the picture, yet? Conflict of Interest, Competing Interests, Playing Both Sides of the Spy Game, and man oh man, Israel. Israel. Ukraine. Ukraine. Blackrock/Israel/Ukraine, where there are no elections, no opposition parties, no Orthodox Church and no Traditional Christmas, but Cannabis and Sex Change Operations and Organ Theft are legal.

The enemy is “us” (Israel First, Zionist First, Judaism First) and we are dead.

[Photo: An award handed out to the IDF’s Unit 8200 for clandestine operations, June 24, 2020. Photo | IDF]

Until we all become, or should become, that radical, that toothless in Notre Dame:

[Photo: Anthony Quinn plays Quasimodo in the 1956 film version of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.]

[Photo: American actor Lon Chaney Sr on the set of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Wallace Worsley. Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images]

From the name of the Sunday that follows Easter, called Quasimodo Sunday, which gets its name from the opening words of the Latin chant quasi modo (geniti infantes…) meaning “like the way (that newborn infants do…)”. It was used by Victor Hugo for his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), in which Quasimodo is a hunchbacked bellringer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He was named thus by Archdeacon Frollo because he was abandoned as a baby at the cathedral on Quasimodo Sunday, though Hugo states that Frollo may have been inspired by the alternate meaning for quasi “almost”, referring to the almost-complete appearance of the foundling.

And anyone who opens the pages of Notre-Dame de Paris will discover or rediscover that Hugo rang his own enormous bell. The hunchbacked carillonneur clambers breathlessly up the bell tower of the biggest and most magnificent bell of all, “Marie.” His assistants are on a lower floor, and, at his orders, they set the bell to teetering by hanging from the cables:

The bell’s frenzy got hold of him; his look became extraordinary; he waited for the big bell to come by like a spider waiting for a fly, and brusquely he threw himself on it with abandon. Suspended above the abyss and launched into the fearsome oscillation of the bell, he seized the bronze monster by its little ears, squeezed it between his two knees, spurred it on with his heels and redoubled the fury of its peal with the entire weight and shock of his body. The tower was quaking, himself shouting and gnashing his teeth, his red hair bristling, his chest making the noise of a blacksmith’s bellows, his eye flashing fire, the monstrous bell whinnying, panting, beneath him; and now it was no longer the great bell of Notre-Dame and Quasimodo, it was a dream, a whirlwind, a tempest; vertigo on horseback above the noise …

Fucking-A, Toothless in Oregon, or Broken Down in LA, or Weathered in Wyomin, or Collapsed Veins in Vermont, the message is clear to the Yoel Roths and Blinkens and Finks of the world: They have no hearts.

What is Victor Hugo’s message in The Hunchback of Notre Dame? People are primarily judged on their appearances, rather than their internal characters, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo argues, however, that appearances can be deceiving, and that judging people based on how they look can often cause people to be treated unfairly and even ostracized by society.

Simplistic, but true.

These millionaires and billionaires and their henchmen and henchwomen, they are experts at weathering us all, experts at turning us into variations on a Victor Hugo theme, that Hunchback of Hollywood Blvd.

The term “weathering” was coined in 1992Trusted Source by Dr. Arline Geronimus, at the time a researcher in the Department of Public Health Policy and Administration at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Currently, Dr. Geronimus is a professor in the Health Behavior and Health Education department of the same university.

While studying trends in women’s fertility, Dr. Geronimus had observed that African American women do not have the same “prime” childbearing years as their white counterparts.

Namely, an average white woman is considered to have the most fertility and the lowest risk of unhealthy pregnancy and neonatal mortality when she is between 20 and early 30 years old, notes Dr. Geronimus in her paperTrusted Source.

However, for African American women, this peak of fertility and point of lowest risk was in their teens. In other words, Black women in the United States were more likely to have a healthy pregnancy in their late teens than in their mid-twenties.

Dr. Geronimus then first advanced the “weathering hypothesis” as a potential explanation for these maternal and infant health disparities.

In her groundbreaking paper, she defines the weathering hypothesis as the idea “that the health of African American women may begin to deteriorate in early adulthood as a physical consequence of cumulative socioeconomic disadvantage.”

Referring to the activist Erica Garner, who died of complications from a heart attack at the age of 27, Dr. Geronimus said that the feelings of stress leading to such an early death are like playing a game of Jenga.

Paraphrasing the activist’s sister, she said: “They pull out one piece at a time, at a time, and another piece and another piece, until you sort of collapse. […] I thought that Jenga metaphor was very apt because you start losing pieces of your health and well-being, but you still try to go on as long as you can.”

The human damage and hurt caused by this phenomenon is incommensurable. However, a social scientist’s job is to try to measure the immeasurable. So how did Dr. Geronimus and her colleagues scientifically test and quantify the weathering hypothesis? And what have the data shown so far?

Missed doctor’s appointments, missed meals, estrangement, shut-in syndrome, toothless or dermatitis or hearing voices or talking shit to the dark angel on the shoulder, all the stuff that makes us human in this giant prison of Chlamydia Capitalism, it turns and turns inside us until we are a fish out of water, gaping stomach spit out of our mouths from rapid decompression in this depressing shit hole of great pretenders, the Greta’s and Soros’ and Holly-Dirt’s and the other cretins and levelers, just sucking the air out of sanity and collective attack on the murderers and thieves coming for the babes in the night.

You feel the effect yet of lost hours, lost days, waiting for a bus, or a lift, or a helping hand, even a meal on wheels? That stomach sticking out is due to barotrauma. Barotrauma happens in fishes when they’re reeled up super fast from depths anywhere from 50-60ft and below. I was jigging for cod in British Columbia as a kid, sometimes with 200 feet of line out, and, bam, my catch: the gasses inside of the fish expanded its insides. Eyes too were bulged out.

Just like you and me!

If you take notice, if you are the victim of sanity in an insane world, and if you resort to that Hunchback on the belltower throwing down stones and flaming bottles, then you are SANE. The only reaction to the bureaucrats’ and overlords’ and professional managerial class’ pure hatred of us — poor, misbegotten, flagging, on the edge, throwing everything we can get our hands at them!

Then, in 2023, the pigs working the various routines — Bannon, Biden, Trump, DeSantis, Pence, all of them, from Cruz to Sarah Palin — we are more weathered now because their daily 15 minutes of hate at us all, the 80 percent; and yes, blacks hit the hight mark, and alas, now, the poor white trash, a guy like me, over-educated, over-anxious about the power of authority, over-exploited as a part-time faculty, as a social services case manager, and alas, try being communist and atheist and truly not a participant in the great ugly white hope dopey shit of my own Irish-German-Scottish roots, and my own particular sort of weathering, man, daily, since all those brothers and sisters of my mind and heart are dying dying dying.

“What I’ve seen over the years of my research and lifetime is that the stressors that impact people of color are chronic and repeated through their whole life course and in fact may even be at their height in the young adult-through-middle-adult ages rather than in early life. And that increases a general health vulnerability — which is what weathering is.” (Dr. Arline Geronimus; source: ‘Weathering’: What are the health effects of stress and discrimination?)

Fight flight freeze comply control convulse contort destroy deny denigrate fool foul fomate hinder hold punch kick curl up.

Then, there’s help, protext, express, give, leave, build, create, celebrate, cooperate, free, imancipate, congratulate.

“Everything in physiology follows the rule that too much can be as bad as too little. There are optimal points of allostatic balance. For example, while a moderate amount of exercise generally increases bone mass, thirty-year-old athletes who run 40 to 50 miles a week can wind up with decalcified bones, decreased bone mass, increased risk of stress fractures and scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine)—their skeletons look like those of seventy-year-olds. To put exercise in perspective, imagine this: sit with a group of hunter-gatherers from the African grasslands and explain to them that in our world we have so much food and so much free time that some of us run 26 miles in a day, simply for the sheer pleasure of it. They are likely to say, “Are you crazy? That’s stressful.” Throughout hominid history, if you’re running 26 miles in a day, you’re either very intent on eating someone or someone’s very intent on eating you.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

typical quote: “The situation has become so bad that residents are being forced to drink salty tap water and workers are drilling wells in the center of the capital to reach the water … “

So, 81 percent of DimWit Democrats and 53 percent of Battered Republicans today support more illegal weapons and murder systems sent to Ukraine, and this is what the face of the ugly American is, so never just blame the government and call the people “cool” but the government isn’t. America isn’t cool, just ugly.

Is it a matter of bombardment on media, limited scope of thinking, the poor colleges and universities, the childish K12 system, the Marvel Comics and Holly-Dirt indoctrination, the mush mush media madness, the consumer culture culling humanity, a culture or society with no culture looking for pimps and johns and hookers, the DNA of this unexceptional exceptional Empire?

So-so much depends on the pseudo event, the rubber necking populus, the NASCAR summers and the Fuckerberg and Musty Musk MMA bullshit, and then, the hate hate hate for China, and of course, the Bear, Russia, and then, losing (Ukraine) is winning.

Insurrections here, and there, but oh, CIA, Deep State, the Wall Street global chaos, going on 80 years. A good one here:

The United States is an empire, even if its citizens don’t all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week’s edition of “MintCast.” Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations it uses – especially the CIA and NATO – in order to enforce its control over the planet.

He notes that as Europe and Asia were destroying themselves in conflict, the U.S. gave the powerful business think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the task of planning America’s entry into World War II.

The idea was to:

Enter the war, win it, and establish dominion over global capitalism. They are going to essentially take control of Western imperialism. It’s not stated that way, but that’s what ends up being the consensus of people at the top of the U.S. And that consensus of the U.S. as the global hegemon of capitalism worldwide is the story of our time.” (Aaron Good)

No matter how much you try to lead an 81 Percent/53 Percent Democratic- Backing/Republican-Backing plurality to knowledge, the end result is cognitive dissonance and outright stupidity.

No matter what, the game is over, since we have pushed so far the trillion$ for war and the trillions of human life attention seconds devoted to the absolute nothing burgers of the billionaires and millionares. Water, man, water, but the horse just watches:

And so we see Ukraine legalizing hate, Nazism, cannibis, transgender realignment at age 8, ending Christmas, killing the Church, and turning itself into a digital (fully) country. But we have real problems in the world, so where do these shekels come from, even little joints like Uruguay?

The situation is shocking for residents of one of South America’s wealthiest countries and one which has a special relationship with water.

Uruguay says it was the first country in the world to enshrine access to water as a fundamental right in a 2004 constitutional amendment. The amendment, which gained support from across the political spectrum, was approved by more than 60% of voters in a referendum.

Water shortages have mobilized people in the country in a way that’s new, Santos said. The capital has seen numerous street protests.

“There is a key thing that Uruguayans really feel and that’s a connection with water,” said Santos. “The anger that people are showing right now demonstrates that. It’s not about rejecting this government, but rather claiming a basic right.” (Putting salt in tap water and drilling wells in parks: one country’s desperate quest to avoid running dry)

This is happening EVERYWHERE, on EVERY level of our humanity’s safety, life blood, health, and future!

Fucking ZioAzovNaziLensky, puttng the fear of Hasbara into Uruguayans? “The government of Volodymyr Zelenski warned that representatives of eight countries, including Uruguay, “are participating in a collective crime” by their observation of the referendum being held in occupied regions of eastern and southern Ukraine regarding its annexation by Russia.”

And so, Capitalism is a virus, and Klanada, our friends in the north, going for another jugular:

[Photo: U.S. H1-B Visa Holders Targeted By Canada’s New Immigration Program]

It is a fact that H1B visa workers from countries such as India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines face legitimate concerns about their long-term status and stability in the United States. For example, America offers no automatic path to permanent residence for H1-B workers, their work visas are only temporary, H1-B spouses and children cannot work without authorizations, and there is a low numerical limit of H1-B visas available per year despite a high demand – such American H1-B program shortcomings prompt H1-B visa holders sometimes to explore other options.

Canada’s government, led by Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, recently recognized the potential of attracting these talented individuals. The Canadian program recently announced not only aims to fill Canada’s immediate skill shortages but also focuses on attracting these talented individuals to foster the growth of tomorrow’s jobs.

Shit, more generational wars. Think about those old people, parents and grandparents, and what a dissociative identity disorder country, man, so much for FAMILY and solidarity.

• Baby boomers will save the US economy by spending down their $75 trillion nest egg.
• This spending could help prevent a recession at a time when savings from the pandemic are depleted.
• “What these seniors don’t pass on to their heirs, they’ll be spending in their golden years.”
• The market veteran Ed Yardeni (freak) says fears of an imminent recession are overblown because millions of baby boomers will soon retire and begin spending down their massive $75 trillion nest egg.

Yeah, a country never coming together, and here we are, generations separated, no wisdom, dog-eat-dog, estrangement writ large.

Until we have, err, more money we need BACK from the Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy ZioAzovLensky: And Texas along with FLorida and Arizona have the fastest growing population influxes. Imagine the lack of solidatiry there!

Texas’s nighttime temperatures are a symptom of a new, more dangerous kind of heat wave

[Photo: A brutal heat wave is expanding across Texas and the South this week, impacting millions of Americans with triple-digit temperatures and extreme humidity that is cranking up the heat index, making it feel hotter than 110 degrees in some of the region’s most populous cities.]

And, alas, this is retarded, man, so sixth grade level, I am thinking zombies live in the sciences, media, everywhere. Imagine this dipshit common sense being CNN news making copy? Fuck, we are fucked! Not even mentioned, the wet bulb (dangerous) temperatures/humidity!

[Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project the first 35°C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some coastal subtropical locations have already reported a TW of 35°C and that extreme humid heat overall has more than doubled in frequency since 1979. Recent exceedances of 35°C in global maximum sea surface temperature provide further support for the validity of these dangerously high TW values. We find the most extreme humid heat is highly localized in both space and time and is correspondingly substantially underestimated in reanalysis products. Our findings thus underscore the serious challenge posed by humid heat that is more intense than previously reported and increasingly severe.]

Hotter nights are a consequence of the climate crisis, scientists have warned. On average, nights are warming faster than days in most of the US, according to the 2018 National Climate Assessment.

“We think it’s because as the days grow warmer, there is more moisture in the air that traps the heat,” Lisa Patel, the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, told CNN. “During the day, that moisture reflects the heat, but at night, it traps the heat in.”

Increasing nighttime heat is even more common in cities because of the urban heat island effect, in which metro areas are significantly hotter than their surroundings.

Dallas, for example, is set to go six consecutive days without seeing temperatures drop below 80 degrees Fahrenheit overnight — a June record for the city.

Areas with a lot of asphalt, concrete, buildings and freeways absorb more of the sun’s heat than areas with parks, rivers and tree-lined streets. At night, when temperatures are supposed to cool down, the retained heat is released back into the air, said Kristie Ebi, a climate and health expert at the University of Washington.

Areas with a lot of green space – with grass and trees that reflect sunlight and create shade – are cooler on summer’s hottest days.

And here, the destruction of human kind, one man at a time, on Chris Hedges:

“The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Reuters correspondent Dean Yates on war reporting, battling the lies of the U.S. military and the severe trauma that saw him hospitalized in a psychiatric ward.” Link.

The humanity this fellow (Dean Yates) has shown, the PTSD, the recovery, and it is insightful, as he was in charge of the two Reuters journalists killed by USA:

And so Julian is about to perish, murdered, imprisoned. This dead man on the left is holding court with the Penis Piano Player. An Independent Audit of US Funding for Ukraine

It all boils down to these people being so corrupt, so perverse, that the average Joe and Juanita can’t get their honest arms around liars and cheats.

Plaskett, in recent years, has become a familiar voice on MSNBC, known for her bombastic partisan rhetoric and demands for ethics probes into her political opponents. Earlier this year, she sent a letter, first reported on this Substack, threatening to imprison journalist Matt Taibbi over a baseless charge of perjury. (House Democrat Worked for Epstein’s Tax and Political Fixer: Court filings reveal that the Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., misled the public about her deep ties to the powerful pedophile.)

Disgusting, while we burn:

Mr. Fish just won another award, for this one, and it says it all: ‘Witnessing a weekly cache of Mr. Fish’s work left all of us at ScheerPost unsurprised the moment we heard his name called yet again as the winner for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 65th annual Southern California Journalism awards gala on Sunday. His prize-winning drawing “Portion Control” illustrated Chris Hedges’ column “The Age of Self-Delusion” last May. ScheerPost had finalists in nine categories and won three top awards. The judging was done by members of press clubs from around the country.’

While the world burns! The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

This is it for the stupid big Apple. We are doomed, man, doomed, if this is the top thinkers’ shit hole response to pizza:

It was drafted to comply with Local 38 of 2015 approved by former Mayor Bill de Blasio — who was widely mocked after he was pictured eating a slice with a fork and knife — and the City Council, to reduce emissions.

The DEP estimates under 100 restaurants total would be impacted.

But  some of New York’s oldest and iconic pizza joints — that pride themselves on having their pies baked in coal-and-wood-fired ovens — are facing the heat over the new strict emissions mandate.

The city Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice particulate emissions by up to 75%.

The rule targets coal-and-wood-fired ovens installed before May 2016 and restaurateurs said it would cost at least $20,000 to install air filtration systems to dramatically curb smoky emissions.

Mayor Eric Adams and DEP officials emphasized the proposed new rule — first reported on Sunday by The Post — is open for public comment and not final.

From FOX News, and Watters is right:

WATTERS: So the vegan mayor thinks that cooking a pizza for two minutes in a coal oven is going to destroy the planet. Wrong. Coal- and wood-burning ovens make up less than a percent of residential and commercial greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the bad gases come from factories and forest fires — yeah, I’m looking at you, Canada. 

I’ve got an idea. How about instead of going after mom-and-pop pizza places, you go after Trudeau, who just dropped a smoke bomb on us, and Adams just rolled over and took it. 

Klanada and this human stain:

It is the beginning of the end, and the fascists are Nazi-like, and they are the Tweet -censoring, Teacher-firing, Book-burning, Journalism-choreographed Democrats.

and no matter how stealth they are, the Gulag Digital Titans will control everything, from thinking, dreaming, seeing, hearing, hoping and even our suidical thoughts: Curse Upon them ALL!

“I remember [Rosa Parks], the woman that said, ‘I’m tired of sitting at the end of the bus.’ I remember those little things. Jimmy Marks, the crazy Gypsy,” he told Jasmine Dellal, who made the PBS documentary.

“I’m tired of hiding out. I’m tired of moving on. My home was built in Spokane, Wash., and I wasn’t about to put it on roller skates and roll it down the highway,” Mr. Marks said. (source)

Now now, you think Event 201 was it, the precursor to the compliant and the snitch society a la the dirtiest and most corrupt of the lot, Big Pharma, shooting the airways and billboards and workplaces and schools with the “you better follow the lab coats and so-called experts and follow the science to a T … or else . . . .!!”

Shots, Fourth of July, JFK assassination, inflation is only what the government says (4.5% — haha). We must murder Russians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Iranians, Chinese, North Koreans, and any number of Africans in African, you take the pick of which Afrikan nation you want to murder.

Lockdowns and Stockholm Syndrome a la Collective Psychopath, and the Zeitgeist is in the hands of the elite, the few, the hardened, the impressive, the Chosen People.

Imagine the treaties broken for First Nations, and imagine the middle passage for slaves, and imagine the coups and wars and all the icing on that USA, United in Terror-Lies-Chaos We Stand, dirty polluted poisonous cake.

And then, this is acceptable, no, racist, dirty liar, punk, a Guantanamo Torturer, a piece of shit in the same vein as Biden-Obama-Trump-Clinton-Bush-Biden?

He needs to be batted down, literarlly, bat to the skull, because this thinking is what makes America Gutless and Murderous, Again and Again. Fuck this guy up, and a few other millions in his league:

More bottom of the barrel shit-stormers in the U$A. Mr. Guantamano Bay Torturer Boy, amazing how dead these people are, from Republicans to Democrats.

Ron DeSantis’ Border Plan: Invade Mexico, Shoot Drug Smugglers, End Birthright Citizenship: The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.

Yet, in the end, it’s the neighbors, man, the small town brains, some are young, but mostly old, some shut ins, self-imposed, hoarders, stuck with five cats, living in some fantasy world that NEVER existed, as if there were the good old says.

Imagine that, the power of calling the code inspectors on you for extra long grass, weeds on the sidewalks, an extra car on the street, a trailer with an occupant behind your on fence, anything, these are the Little Germans, and that is Anglo Saxon, man, to the core . . . the rotten ones who were the breeders of these folk, 21st Century from Puritan Prides and those Pilgrims and those Oh Pioneers . . . the first undocumented aliens, hoards of them from France, UK, Ireland, and then on and on, until they come to the land of milked minions and honey traps and all that cozy lawyering up and litigious legions of rotten humans who know not a thing about mutual aid.

Germanics, too, and they peer through barely-parted curtains and snoop, and now with this dirty Fucker-Berg CIA shit, the social networks, they can spew and spew and post photos of the clothes on the line, the loose dogs, all those cats jumping fences, and tell on us, turn us in, get the fine fuckers out, even the deputy sheriffs, since this is what the dirty first illegal aliens are about — smash and grab and mow down and steal and exploit the original peoples, and then the Mexicans, and so, we have a land of narcs, busy bodies, dirty Gestapo of the midget kind.

So much for mutual aid and helping your neighbor, no? Hypocrites, Kapos, camp guards, internment camp middlings, HR folk with a hard on for power, the cops, pigs, DAs, the planners, the councils, the fucking lobbies, the lot of them, going after us daily, just us, trying to do the right thing, like, allowing a family of in-laws to live in the garage, or, putting some chickens and beehives out back. These people, these land stealers, these AmeriKKKans, are the hard, cold killers DH Lawrence is quoted as saying.

Hypocrites to, to the MAX: Oh, the irony, oh the irony: EV cars left and right, Elon Mutt Musk, telling the world, we (USA — he’s fucking a white shit boy from South Africa) can “coup anyone,” moving the language into his own lexicon, coup, not a verb, but the fucking welfare cheat makes it so.

Lawyers for environmentalists and tribes urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a judge’s decision to allow construction to begin on a huge lithium mine in Nevada earlier this year before the plans were in full compliance with federal law. (source)

How’s that working out, Greta and Bill McKibben and the rest of the flunkies? By when, 2035, California will be on litium coup batteries?

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano discuss.

July 28, 2020 by Vijay Prashad,Alejandro Bejarano

Over his 14 years in office, Morales fought to use the wealth of Bolivia for the Bolivian people, who saw—after centuries of oppression—remarkable advances in their basic needs. Literacy rates rose and hunger rates dropped. The use of Bolivia’s wealth to advance the interests of the people rather than North American multinational corporations was an abomination to the US embassy in La Paz, which had egged on the worst elements of the military and the far right to overthrow the government. This is just what happened in November 2019.

Musk’s admission, however intemperate, is at least honest. His company Tesla has long wanted access at a low price to the large lithium deposits in Bolivia; lithium is a key ingredient for batteries. Earlier this year, Musk and his company revealed that they wanted to build a Tesla factory in Brazil, which would be supplied by lithium from Bolivia; when we wrote about that we called our report “Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium.” Everything we wrote there is condensed in his new tweet: the arrogance toward the political life of other countries, and the greed toward resources that people like Musk think are their entitlement.

Musk went on to delete his tweet. He then said, “we get our lithium from Australia”; this will not settle the issue, since eyebrows are being raised in Australia regarding the environmental damage from lithium mining.

These people, again, need heads batted in?

Evo Morales read Musk’s tweet about the coup in Bolivia and responded: “Elon Musk, the owner of the largest electric car company, says about the coup in Bolivia: ‘We will coup whoever we want.’ Another proof that the coup was about Bolivian lithium; at the cost of two massacres. We will always defend our resources!”

The reference to the massacres is important. In November, from Mexico City, Morales watched as the government of Áñez let loose the dogs of war against the people of Bolivia from Cochabamba to El Alto. “They are killing my brothers and sisters,” Morales said at a press conference. “This is the kind of thing the old military dictatorships used to do.” It is the toxic character of the government of Áñez, backed fully by the US government and Elon Musk.

Until we have had how many foreclosures and evictions, carried out by the Sheriff of Nottingham?

Question: What is a sheriff’s sale at foreclosure in Pennsylvania? More important, do I have to leave my house after the sheriff’s sale?

Answer: You never thought that it would come to this, but you have now received notices from your mortgage company, a complaint in mortgage foreclosure and notice of a sheriff’s sale. Despite your best efforts to pay your mortgage on time, you have been unable to do so. Perhaps it has been loss of a spouse, a recent divorce, or a substantial period of unemployment, but you have been unable to meet your mortgage obligations. You need help.

Notice requirements

Before a residential mortgage can be foreclosed in Pennsylvania, the lender must give a 30-day notice of intention to foreclose, also known as an Act 6 notice, giving the borrower an opportunity to cure, and prohibiting the lender from collecting attorney fees incurred during the notice period.

As of Oct. 2, 2012, Act 91 notices are required. In these notices, lenders are required to attach a list of counseling agencies for the applicable county where the property is located. Failure to do so, or attaching additional counties, render the notice void.

An Act 6 notice is not required if an Act 91 notice is being sent. Notices must be sent to the mortgagor(s) at the property and, if different, at their mailing address.

Preventing sheriff’s sale

Carefully review the notice materials, which provide important information about organizations that can assist you. The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, for one, may lend you money so that you can become current on you mortgage over time. In effect, the finance agency becomes an additional mortgagee on your real estate, and you will have to pay back the loan. However, it will stop the sheriff sale and allow you to catch up the arrearages on your first mortgage and save your home.

Additionally, since the arrearages will be paid over time, you can concentrate on making current payments on your mortgage when they are due. If that fails, it is critical to seek legal help.

Another way to stop the sheriff sale is to file bankruptcy. Bankruptcy filings are complicated, and there are certain limitations on the ability of some people to file. You need to consult with an attorney to discuss your particular issues. (source)

Imagine this dirty country of money changers and home wreckers, getting behind sheriff’s sales. WOW, fascistm and inverted totalitarianism in a nutshell, or posted notice:

These thugs in finance and real estate and banking and finance, and the lot of them in Bush and Obama Administrations, Chlamydia spreaders, Chlamydia Capitalists, and we are just another Milgram shock therapy and fucking wavey graphic VICTIM:

Thugs: Nottingham’s first appointed sheriff was recorded in 1449.  Probably due to the recognised division of the city into two parts two sheriffs were appointed – William Sadler and Thomas Lyng and this tradition was upheld until the major changes in local government in 1835.    

The sheriff’s role at that time was to be responsible for prisoners appearing in court, collecting rents and taxes and generally enforcing the King’s law and order and keeping the peace.  

​Nomination for the Office of Sheriff was not always welcome as the Office incurred considerable costs that the Sheriff was expected to pay out of his personal finances.  One such cost was to provide the City Council with an annual traditional dinner.  Many cases have been cited where the nominee chose to pay the fine for not taking up the Office as the cheaper option.  Those who accepted the Office retained the right to wear their official crimson gowns beyond their shrieval year and were said to belong to livery or clothing burgesses.   

+—+

This is the dirty AmeriKKKa, narcs and pigs and foreclorue agents, Repo Men and Repo Women.

In the 10 states and 34 cities we track, landlords have filed for:

• 2,362,118evictions since mid-March 2020
• 12,273evictions in the last week

We have been tracking weekly eviction filings since March 2020 to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policies. In the sections below you can see a summary of the states and cities we track, view detailed reports, and learn more about the Eviction Tracking System.

This is the country of putting people out on the streets, beginning with the ancients, the progenitors, the Anglo Saxons (Britain, et), the roots of the evil DNA infecting the land since 1492.

This is it for the narcs, the Milgram mother fuckers, and, well, any number of realities that the USA is truly made up of little Eichmann’s, Good Germans, Mean Jews, Corrupt Catholics, Insane Military Men and Woman, grifters left and right, up and down.

Oh, the sexy bullshit of Holly-Dirt:

So, anyone fucking with my own mutal aid and mutal needs, may they be cursed, man:

Bring on the Romonis, and I talked with this family years ago when I first ended up in Spokane:

In the summer of 1986, 18 police officers conducted an unwarranted search on the homes of two Romani-American families who the police suspected were in possession of some stolen property. The search yielded over 1.6 million dollars in cash and $160,000 in jewelry on the premises. The Marks Family, unofficial leaders of the Romani community at the time, did the only rational thing they could think of. Led by Grover Marks, the late patriarch of the clan, they cursed Spokane and then sued the city for forty million dollars for the unlawful raid of their homes, eventually settling at 1.43 million dollars at the end of the successful court case.

Can we hire on these people to curse all cities, buildings of the code enforcers, all neighbors of the Good German Variety, all politicians who fuck us over, can we , can we?

When asked if he would ever remove the curse, Marks claimed to be planning a ceremony for the purpose, which he described as “a double chicken ceremony – one extra crispy and one regular”.

At the funeral of his father, gypsy leader Grover Marks, in 1997, Jimmy Marks halted the funeral procession in front of city hall, opened the door of the hearse, and invited his father’s ghost to haunt the building for all eternity.

And so they are there, lurking behind curtains, looking through camera lenses, flying their peeping Tom drones, fingering neighbors for hedges too high, fences too long, way too many stuffed sofas on the porch, too loud of music, too many tomato plants, and on and on, these mother fuckers.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HeDgkTirkYY?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Yeah, man, this is the way of the bankers, digital demons, the war lords, the Finks and the Felons.

Biggest con man around:

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who faced intense backlash for championing ESG (environmental, social, and governance), says he’s ‘ashamed’ the topic has become politicized

The billionaire CEO of the world’s largest asset manager said ESG has become politically “weaponized.” Imagine that, billionaire never ashamed of the ill gotten trillions, the unethical control of so much, nah, again, the way of the Dodo or bat to the side of the head, or Jimmy Marks’ ghost, where are?

I’ve been to this house several TIMES.

once a shit show, always a shit show, U$A . . . except now, we almost all (more or less) have to eat their shit — the shit from abusers, i.e. corporate heads, politicians, the Brown Shirts Everywhere

The best stupid but dangerous Chlamydia Capitalism Delaware Can Buy.

Elder Abuse 101. Whew.

WTF, Biden? “And, I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.” True confessions of a doddering psychopath.

The Look on Modi’s Face is Priceless!

So it goes without saying, if we criticize this fellow, or any of them, including Modi, then, well, there you have it — violence perpetrated against the state or the corporate state:

Again, Biden is the smear, but his cabal of rabbi-induced freaks and monsters are the big boys in this shit show. Yes, I happen to know which folk in Biden’s Circle are Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Mormons, Jews, etc. The minority of all minorities, Judaism, is running the show, as that old guy said, a very very good show/shoe indeed.

In the most recent old days, this sort of crime would be out there, parsed and looked into and denounced, but in today’s Penis Piano Man, ZioAzovNaziLensky, running the really big shoe, anything is acceptable in the west. Fuck!

Amid numerous disturbing reports about possible false flag operations involving nuclear devices and weapons, the Kiev regime seems to be escalating its actions in this regard. According to various local sources, the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), located in the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in the Nikolayev region (oblast), has been effectively taken over by the Neo-Nazi junta forces. Although troops have been stationed in and around the NPP since the start of the special military operation (SMO), in recent weeks this has escalated. Apparently, mysterious “guards” have appeared at the NPP and have even restricted access to the reactor facilities, including to the staff responsible for the critically important maintenance of the reactor and the NPP’s key systems and subsystems.

Worse yet, the “guards” are offering no explanation for their behavior, nor does anyone else, be it the military or civilian authorities. In essence, nobody really knows for sure, but many people are skeptical (to say the least). The “guards” have even placed what can only be described as ammunition crates inside the NPP. (source)

Again, human stain, one and all, Ukraine, and the handlers, UK-EU-USA-Klanada.

There really is insanity in UK and USA, and the Biden and Jewish Cabal, what a messed up team of nobodies becoming somebodies.

This is what this fucked up country is about, this human stain, Blinken: A very pussified man (sic) with an entire DoD and Administration to manipulate. This is the state of affairs in diplomacy in the USA, fucking punk name calling:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stood by President Biden’s off-the-cuff jab calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator.

“The president speaks clearly, he speaks candidly. I’ve worked with him for more than 20 years and he speaks for all of us,” Blinken told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Biden roiled Beijing last week — roughly two days after Blinken’s state visit — by dubbing Xi a dictator during remarks Tuesday at a campaign fundraiser in California.

“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript.

“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators.”

Do you not hate him yet? Shame on you if not. Grow a set of balls or ovaries. The real man is on the right, and a trans-human half-man is on the left. Sick boy, USA. American Jews can be very very racist!

Ugly reality of the Beltway Bandits and the East Coast Criminals and the Poison Ivy League Schools (indoctrinaton camps) producing this smear. Whereas:

Even as the war in Ukraine rages, the US has increased its aggression towards China including increasing its military presence around China, provocations over Taiwan, heightened propaganda on XINJIANG and claims of a Chinese spy base in Cuba.

Recently two US antiwar activists have returned from a trip to China.  Hear from these antiwar activists and from others presently in China about the real situation in the country.

So goes the criminals, getting faculty jobs. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of the federal COVID-19 response under the Trump and Biden administrations, will be joining the faculty of Georgetown University on July 1.

“Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership, and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time,” said Georgetown President John DeGioia.

Oh, those lockstep professors:

Some 80 percent faculty members with Ph.D.s in the U.S. trained at just 20 percent of universities. So found the team behind a new study on faculty hiring and retention patterns at Ph.D.-granting institutions. These researchers warn that academe “is characterized by universally extreme inequality in faculty production.”

Researchers also found that the five most common doctoral training universities—the Universities of Michigan; Wisconsin at Madison; and California, Berkeley; plus Harvard and Stanford Universities—account for one in eight U.S.-trained faculty members.

One paper in Nature: Human Behavior (which shares two co-authors with the new study on hiring) found that 22 percent of tenure-track faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.

“Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible disproportionately to the socioeconomically privileged, which is likely to deeply shape their scholarship and their reproduction,” that paper said.

Other research suggests that economics Ph.D.s, in particular, are increasingly likely to have at least one parent with a graduate degree.

This is why PhD’s have ZERO to say about us, the 80 Percent, the people, those they scoff at, those pieces of human nepotism, lock-step trained scum! (source)

Until I end up tuned into NPR (yuk) driving to get a trailer for my poor as dirt mother-in-law whose poor as dirt husband just died of brain cancer and so we, my spouse and I, are throwing in where others haven’t.

In May, legislators in Connecticut passed a resolution to exonerate people accused of being witches in the seventeenth century. The resolution passed nearly 376 years to the day that Alice “Alsa” Young was put to death in the state. She was the first to be executed for alleged witchcraft in colonial America, decades before the more well-known Salem witch trials began in Massachusetts in 1692.

Dozens of people were killed, mostly women, over accused witchcraft in the U.S. in the 1600s and early 1700s. It’s estimated that nearly 50,000 people were killed in Europe based purely on superstition. (source)

This is what is on the radio, June 26, while the world is on the brink, man, in so many ways. And what are the modern witch trials? Those of us questioning all of them! Assange and reporters in Mexico and land defenders and whistle blowers and . . . .

We then transitioned to, this, on NPR, man oh man!

New numbers reveal the scope of the harm done by the U.S. military against gay and lesbian service members. 

Reporting from CBS News reveals a picture that devastated the lives of more than 29,000 veterans – all denied honorable discharges because of their sexuality.That’s a much higher number than first thought. 

The fight to undo the harm caused by the policy is ongoing. We talk about the latest.

Do you see what’s wrong with this picture? Well well, the military DOES all the harm, from the lowly corporal cook to the captain of the SEAL Team, all of them are mercenaries, and the harm the USA has and is doing globally, well well, shit dog, the don’t ask, don’t tell is part and parcel of all the places we have bombed, coup-ed, sanctioned! Gay or straight, the same criminal!

In fact, according to historians Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock, the United States has been “militarily involved” with every country on the globe but three: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein. (source)

Man oh man, NPR working the old LGBTQTA++ circuit: And those poor abused gays and lesbians, man oh man, pure patriots, loving the death and bombs and coups and sanctions that killed, well, other LGBTQAT++ and the children, man, the children.

Since the 1800s, the United States has invaded countries across Latin America and the Caribbean in an effort to protect both economic and political interests.

This violent, aggressive policy has led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths and decades-long dictatorships.

In commemoration of the U.S. invasion of Haiti, teleSUR remembers the bloody history of U.S. invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

So, then, we transition into drug abuse, and it is higher than what this report states:

The number of people suffering from drug use disorders has skyrocketed to 39.5 million globally, a surge of 45 percent over the decade.

On Monday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report warning of a sharp rise in the number of drug users globally and ever-expanding illicit drug markets fueled by the easily accessible synthetic drugs.

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Fiji: Illicit Drugs, Major Challenge for National Security

The UNODC annual report shows that 13.2 million people worldwide injected drugs in 2021, 18 percent higher than its previous estimate, and over 296 million people worldwide used drugs in 2021, an increase of 23 percent over the previous decade.

The number of people suffering from drug use disorders has skyrocketed to 39.5 million globally, a surge of 45 percent over the decade. (source)

Shit, and the drug called “booze”? Globally, 107 million people are estimated to have an alcohol use disorder. (source) The global volume in the alcoholic drinks market was forecast to continuously increase between 2023 and 2027 by in total 24.3 billion litres (+8.62 percent). The volume is estimated to amount to 306,440 million litres in 2027.

Yeah, in the good old day, those good old days, these would be the stories of the day.

• who’s in prisons and why and who profits?
• the top 100 chemicals in food that hurt the fetus and the baby and the brain
• top ten reasons schools are underfunded, underperforming, under attack
• why and how did Fink get 8 trillion $$ in controlling assets in his BlackRock, and why that’s bad for the globe and how we might strip him down and disband it
• why economics is not a science and why they, the economists, are criminals in high places and how to get rid of them
• why most things need to be nationalized, and why capitalism is not a free market, but a free-for-all against we the people
• ecosystems collapses, wetlands destruction, grasslands removal, toxins in rivers, failing aquifers, deforestation, desertification, tidelands pollution, and species extinction — the who, what, when, where, why and how
• why don’t white collar criminals go to jail, and how can we go after them, the biggest thieves on planet earth
• artificial intelligence, data tracking, human hacking, the entire fleet of digitalization of everything are BAD for humanity, and why and how can we put a stop to it
• why can’t we have great public transportation, single payer socialized healthcare, a stop to the war profiteers, and an alternative to the current paradimgs of casino-predatory-parasetic capitalism
• why can’t 6 to 16 year olds have a large say in their futures, in legislation, in how laws are passed, and how communities are developed, and how can that be implemented
• why does there have to be conflict with China, and who is stoking the flames, and why…

Get them all to know their history:

[Photo: In 1917, the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George ordered troops from British Egypt to invade Palestine, expressing his wish to General Allenby that Jerusalem be taken by Christmas. Obligingly, on December 11th 1917, Allenby walked into Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate and declared martial law over the city.]

Read her stuff:

And his stuff, “The Origins of America’s Secret Police: Ancient Roots of Occult Societies & Intelligence Operations”

And, so, here, this is what NPR and PBS and CBS and the lot of them need to cover, 24/7. We need to defeat the shock troops of the Fortune 5000 companies, and defeat their colonels and generals and field marshalls and corporate dictators. A wonderful piece.

“Food Is Not a Commodity, It’s a Human Right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part I)”

An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market. Pueblo a Pueblo is a grassroots plan for organizing the production, distribution, and consumption of food that connects agricultural producers with urban dwellers. In so doing, the project breaks with the despotic dictates of the capitalist market. In the first of this three-part piece in the Communal Resistance Series, Pueblo a Pueblo’s spokespeople talk about their organization’s history and its objectives.

Teach this to all K12 and college teachers. And college kids.

LIFE. Caring. Community. Food. Love. Healing. Knowledge. Togetherness. The Good Old New Days. Health. Children. The Wise. Sharing. Hope. Resistance.

vs.

The Ghost Thinkers, the Transhumanists, the pathetic data brownshirts, the dirty levelers of humankind, the soil haters, the earth despisers, the water polluters, the hateful ones shooting off into space, wanting to terraform, the geo-engineers, the DNA tinkers, the money changers, the war machine operators, the robotics pimps, the whores of capitalism.

… and the motherfucking MSM, the Marketeers, Mad Men in Media, pushing more of the Inverted Totalitarianism to the point of Westerners at their Point of No Return e

Yet, oh, yet, we are refugees in our own land. The death ships, all through the Mediterranean, the thousands dying in the ocean and in deserts, yet, oh, yet we have to hear the thugs of NPR and PBS and the rest tell us about some pukes trapped in a submarine looking for luster and photo shoots of the Titanic.

Billionaire James Cameron, stage left. Look at this piece of shit, this Chlamydia Capitalist, and this is it for the billionaire classless:

All five people who were abroad the Titan – Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet – were killed in the implosion, officials said Thursday.

Cameron said he hopes the tragedy doesn’t discourage tourists from exploring the ocean.

“I’m not worried about exploration, because explorers will go,” Cameron said. “I’m worried that it has a negative impact on, let’s say, citizen explorers, tourists. … These are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places – and I don’t want to discourage that.”

“Serious fucking money,” and who pays the bill for he rescue attempt? Fuck Cameron and the rip-off horse he rode into town on.

Tens of millions of U$ taxpayer money for these freaks bolted inside a shit-hole submersible.

As Haiti explodes brought to them by U$A, Klanada, le Fucked up French.

Toothless in Wisconsin, reacting to the mother fuckers of the world, the so-called free to fuck you in the ass market: Hundred-Year-Old Industry Plans To Leave Midwest Home

“Master Lock is profitable, but is ready to abandon the community for the profits of a wealthy few.”

Those low down, no good, motherfuckers. Those stealing, stain, stab you in the back, cocksuckers. Those lying, leave you in the lurch, love em and leave em, loathsome, losers,  May be on to something.

Maybe it’s high time, hit the road, fan your ass, look for greener pastures. Maybe everybody needs to get a god damned passport, and git gone. The wheels are coming off. The roof is caving in. The foundation was always no good, and is rotten, and crumbling.

And there’s little rats running around all over the place. Ya kill em, one by one, but they just keep on coming.

It might be time to go.

Yeah, take a look at the former Milwaukee, under socialist management , and compare it to subsequent years of capitalist governance. There’s your perfect example of a place where socialism was successful, for practically everyone, while capitalist is shown to be good, only for the one… .

It’s a violent, impoverished, shit hole, county. It’s an example of an apartheid state. Wisconsin, North Arkansas. Look at the demographics of Wisconsin. Milwaukee in particular. Black folk are kept isolated, for the most part, in their specific zones, whether it’s Milwaukee, Madison, or the Green Bay Area.

The Milwaukee apartheid includes such cities as Racine, and Waukesha-(the place made Rittenhouse famous). Here are the places that you will find almost all of the drug sales, prostitution, and nightly shootings. It is also convenient to have Chicago nearby, to supply the area with additional bodies to violate. The home of the Walker/Foxcon con job.

I don’t care what the milquetoast liberals from Madison say, the racial tensions here are so ingrained in the population, that the air is unsafe to breathe. The prejudice is so thick that you can see the haze, so thick, that you can cut it with a knife.

The place I have lived all my life. You can see it in our faces. Smiles are few and far between, and generally alcohol, or substance induced. And, we both know how that generally turns out. This is KKK landia. Not so much KJK landia. You asked why this place is so hard/mean.

Maybe living in an apartheid state makes people ugly. All the people. Haters and victimizers as well. Makes alot of sense to me. The word ‘nigger’ is almost as common as the word ‘beer,’ up here.

It’s the term de jour, mostly in select company, but will be directed at blacks directly, if the proportion of white bodies is correct. Mexicans used to be better tolerated, until somebody came up with the idea of job theft.

The Hmong people who relocated here have always been insulted. And, don’t even get me started on the drunken, walleye stealin’, casino redskins. The Indians got to have a few casinos, to make up for the whites stealing, well, every god-damned thing.

So what happens? The whites, illegally, put slot machines in their white taverns, and the cops, and judges, refuse to enforce the laws, prohibiting such activities.

You want to meet these folks? A lot of them will be at this Country Fest 2023, that I’ve got tickets for. You won’t find Gil Scott-Heron playing there. But, whitey will definitely be howling at the moon, at Country Fest.

Social lubricant, as far as the eye can see. No trans Bud Light for these Hillbillies. I heard recently that Modelo is currently the most popular brand in America. What the fuck? [Sent from my iPhone]

The mother fuckers, from Yale to Stanford to UW to the entire suite of fucking training centers for the fuckers who put us through ringers every nanosecond; if you don’t have a bone in your brain, then, come with me and wish upon a star and hope that they, millionaires and billionaires, and their progeny and the rest end up six feet under, or in the Mariana Trench.

They have turned the world into refugees, and they laugh, as Fuckerberg and Elon-gated Ego Musk do some fucking grappling faggotry?

[Verse 1]
We got somethin’, we both know it
We don’t talk too much about it
Ain’t no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it

[Pre-Chorus]
Listen, it don’t really matter to me, baby
You believe what you want to believe

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

[Verse 2]
Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon

[Pre-Chorus]
Honey, it don’t make no difference to me, baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No baby, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

[Bridge]
Baby, we ain’t the first
I’m sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it’s one of those things
You got to feel to be true

[Verse 3]
Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away, and held for ransom

[Pre-Chorus]
Honey, it don’t really matter to me, baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free

[Chorus]
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No, you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
You don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

And we have to hear from that piece of human Chlamydia Capitalist, James fucking Cameron.

[A migrant being rescued in the Mediterranean by a volunteer of the humanitarian organisation OPEN ARMS. Since 2014, according to the UN, at least 15,000 refugees have lost their lives in their bid to cross to Europe in rickety boats. [Photo: OPEN ARMS]]

If they don’t give a shit about us, or the bridges collapsing and the reservoirs dropping and the lead in the water, why the fuck would they care about refugees? Sacked, dumped, fired, terminated.

Nazis one and all: Bild, the German tabloid owned and operated by major European publishing house Axel Springer, is expected to replace over a hundred human editorial jobs with artificial intelligence, a leaked email first obtained by the German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) has revealed.

Here we go, two fucked up Zionists, Lex and Mark, and then the fucking Elon, and how many Ukrainians (Goyim) perish because of another set of Zionists — Blinken, Yellen, Garland, Nuland, Kagan and thousands in his administration, amd Biden the Zionist Who Finally Got a Jewish Doctor Son-in Law). Read this pathetic racist shit:

I have big fan of Vice President Joe Biden since I volunteered and donated to his ill-fated 1980 Presidential campaign. So you can imagine my happiness when I found out that his daughter, Ashley, was engaged to my doctor, Dr. Howard Krein.

Dr. Krein is a very nice, thorough doctor. He is part of a big ear, nose and throat practice. My only complaint is that he kept me waiting over an hour and did not offer any apology when he did finally see me.

Think about these white pieces of SHIT Zionists and their rabbi-loving minds. Death in the world, and they play boy-boy hugging hard cum lately!

And, can you imagine if I took the odometer and turned it back and sold my car to a private buyer or car dealer? In Oregon?

Ahh, that is private enterprise — fuck them anyway you can, including the horse they rode into town on, in this case, the truck!

On Friday, Automotive News reports that FedEx and Holman Automotive have been accused of rolling back the odometers of old delivery trucks in a new lawsuit.

Companies like FedEx ordinarily get rid of their delivery trucks when they hit their operational limit, usually around 350,000 miles, but, in the suit, plaintiffs say a scheme involving old trucks started over a decade ago, when FedEx decided to stop scrapping the trucks and sent them to auto auctions instead.

Shit, more Greta and Bill Mckibben pornography, and both the motherfuckers (father fucker, too) want more more more depleted uranium for the Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy ZioAzovNaziLensky:

Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected

Shit, we have more important things to concern ourselves with, no? Fuckerberg and Friedmaniac playing bi-sexuals on the mat.

Banks and biology, interesting shit:

Previous studies have suggested significant costs from going past tipping points in large ecosystems will kick in from the second half of this century onwards. But our findings suggest these costs could occur much sooner.

We found the speed at which stress is applied is vital to understanding system collapse, which is probably relevant to non-ecological systems too. Indeed, the increased speed of both news coverage and mobile banking processes has recently been invoked as raising the risk of bank collapse. As the journalist Gillian Tett has observed:

“The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank provided one horrifying lesson in how tech innovation can unexpectedly change finance (in this case by intensifying digital herding). Recent flash crashes offer another. However, these are probably a small foretaste of the future of viral feedback loops.”

But there the comparison between ecological and economic systems runs out. Banks can be saved as long as governments provide sufficient financial capital in bailouts. In contrast, no government can provide the immediate natural capital needed to restore a collapsed ecosystem.

There is no way to restore collapsed ecosystems within any reasonable timeframe. There are no ecological bailouts. In the financial vernacular, we will just have to take the hit.

Water water, anyone? Can you lead a horse to water and have him drink too?

So, the population is shifting to the hot zones of the world, into the wet bulb mother fucking death zones — thanks to corporations heading from WA state to Florida, Texas and Arizona? Freaky Economics, and fuck you and the horse you rode into town on. Use fucking less water, poor slobs, but bring in more and more population and water consumers. SCHIZOPHRENIA a la Chlamydia Capitalism.

One year later, Mead’s elevation is inching back up. A combination of historic winter snowpack and new federal agreements to pay cities, farmers and tribes to conserve water are expected to raise Mead to a high point of 1,070 feet in February 2024, according to the most recent federal data. That elevation will likely change as more conservation agreements are signed.

Paying people to save precious water was an essential component to the recent deal struck between lower basin states Arizona, California, and Nevada to collectively conserve 3 million acre-feet over the next three years, experts say.

But as maps and charts show, the extra water will be a drop in the bucket for a reservoir that has dramatically declined in the past two decades.

Mead’s projected high elevation of 1,070 next year “is a lot better than 1,045,” Porter said. “It sounds like a nice elevation, but we know how fast it can go down.”

The conservation agreements will certainly contribute to Lake Mead’s modest rise in the coming months. But state officials and experts told CNN the largest effect on the reservoir by far will be the deluge of winter snow melting into the Colorado River headwaters.

Again, there are NO national conversations, no POTUS Fucks talking about the real stuff, including heat and water shortages and a list of ten thousand other important national and regional and state-by-state and county issues. Biden and the Bitches in his Office and the Butt Fuckers in the Republican party, man oh man. War war war, critical race theory, transgenderism, no more liberal educators in k12 and higher ed. They are, IMHO, the stuff of sending them all to the bottom of the sea. Titanic, sirs and madames, Davey Jones’ locker.

“Corporations are Moving out of Washington at Higher Rate Than any Other State” There you go, solidarity, the United (fuck that bullshit) $nakes of Amnesia. Imagine that, no national plan, not a fucking thing in dog-eat-dog fucking Chlamydia Capitalism AmeriKKK-uhh.

Approximately 9% of America’s corporations moved headquarters since the beginning of 2022, the highest rate since 2017, with most corporations moving to Florida, Texas, and Arizona. 

The states that corporations were most likely to abandon were Washington, New York, and California. 

Ah, photo below, of another weak democrat, that lock-down mother fucking guv: [Photo: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.]

Fuck, move to Russia, man, and you get bonuses for fucking and fornicating and having kids. This is the upside down world of the days of the living dead:

Lying flatism is a trending philosophy that has emerged in China and is practiced by young adults who choose to live a minimalist lifestyle and reject the pressures of society. Lying flatists refuse to participate in consumerist lifestyles, such as pursuing high-paying jobs, purchasing material possessions, getting married, or having children. They believe that personal efforts are no longer effective in improving their lives due to structural and societal factors.

Researchers became interested in studying lying flatism and its relationship with attitudes toward singlehood because singlehood has become a favorable lifestyle choice worldwide, particularly among young adults. The increasing number of singles in countries like the United States, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and China suggests a shift in perspectives and lifestyles. The researchers wanted to explore whether individuals who have positive feelings toward lying flatism also have positive attitudes toward singlehood.

Of course, some truth and relevance behind some of this, but if these fucks in America, in their lying flatism bullshit, still push bombs for the Piano Penis Playing Criminal, ZioAzovNaziLensky, then may they go the way of th dodo or personally fucked and the horse they rode into town double fucked!

Yikes. Another fucking limp-wristed photo: Who made that coffee: grew it, picked it? And the Ikea in the background, who made that, and his cotton T-shirt, who the fuck grew that, harvested it and loomed it? And those spectacles? Who slaved over them to provide him with his 20/20 bullshit vision? Lots of sweat shop sweat in those cushions and sofa, and that skateboard, the metal and wood and stain and wheels? Fucking yeah, lazy sons of bitches with the fucking Tracking Fit Bit Watch.

It is a fucking upside down world, and the news, well, that fucking dude, Wagner “Sort of CEO” Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin [centre] poses with two Wagner Group fighters, Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 25, 2023.

In an address to the nation at 10.00 am Moscow time on Saturday,  President Vladimir Putin strongly condemned the developments describing it as “an armed mutiny” and calling for the “consolidation of all forces.” Putin drew a parallel with the insurrection in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in February 1917 that led to the Bolshevik Revolution and a protracted civil war with large-scale western military intervention, including the United States, “while all sorts of political adventurers and foreign forces profited from the situation by tearing the country apart to divide it.”

He promised, “Decisive actions will also be taken to stabilise the situation in Rostov-on-Don (700 kms south of Moscow where Prigozhin is located with Wagner fighters.) It remains difficult, the work of civil and military authorities is actually blocked.”

Putin vowed that those “who organised and prepared a military mutiny, who took up arms against his comrades – betrayed Russia,” will be punished. Significantly, Putin never once mentioned Prigozhin’s name.

This face-off has been in the making for several months and is traceable to tensions in the working relations between the Wagner forces and the Russian ministry of defence, Prigozhin’s personal antipathy towards Defence Minister Shoigu and the Russian top brass, his bloated ego and over

Now now, imagine how many sad fucks in the military, low and upper ranks, might want to take to task that Raytheon motherfucker, calling his calls on Ukraine fucked up and dangerous and motivated by PROFITS? Hmm, how about a few hundred or thousand of Erik Prince’s soldiers of blood lust fortune taking on Biden?

Legally, nominees must have been out of uniform for seven years to serve as the secretary of defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee in a voice vote passed Austin’s nomination.

[Photo: Criminal.]

Fuck him and the horses he rode into town on:

Austin, who would be the first Black person to lead the Pentagon, has not yet been retired from the military for seven years, and would therefore require a waiver from Congress to serve Biden’s Cabinet.

Lawmakers most recently granted a waiver in 2017 to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s first Defense secretary, and they have expressed reluctance to approving another exception for Biden.

Before Mattis, the last retired general to be granted a congressional waiver to become Defense secretary was George Marshall, who served under former President Harry Truman.

The United States has a long history of civilian control of its armed forces, and Biden’s reliance on the counsel of former military officials has already provoked some unease among foreign policy and national security experts.

A dimwit dem said what?

Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement in response to her vote on the Congressional waiver to permit the confirmation of retired General Lloyd J. Austin to serve as Secretary of Defense. While Senator Cortez Masto believes General Austin is qualified for the position, she voted against the waiver due to concerns about the erosion of civilian control over the U.S. military. Under current law, military officers cannot serve as Secretary of Defense until seven years after they have retired from active duty unless they are granted a waiver by Congress. Austin retired from the U.S. Army on May 1, 2016.

“General Austin has served our country for over 40 years, and his impressive credentials make him incredibly qualified for the position of Secretary of Defense. Yet I cannot support continuing to erode civilian control over our military, which is a foundational principle of our democracy. In 2017, I voted in favor of a waiver for General Mattis because he presented one of the few options to reign in the most dangerous impulses of President Trump. The same is not true of our current moment. The events of January 6^th show us how vital it is to preserve the strength of our democratic institutions. We cannot pick and choose which ones we want to protect when it’s convenient. So I voted today to protect the norms that ensure civilian control over our military, which is so essential to the life of our democracy.”

Again, these are monsters, and what would Russia do, what would Putin do?

Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin raising a series of questions for the Department of Defense (DoD) regarding press reports that former Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt used his positions on defense advisory boards to further his own financial interests. Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) the Secretary of Defense is responsible for ensuring that defense advisory board members adhere to ethics standards, including following ethics laws that prohibit participating personally and substantially in matters relating to individuals’ financial interests.

“Mr. Schmidt’s investment activities, and the lack of public disclosure, create the appearance that these boards are yet another tool for influence-peddling and profiteering at DoD, raising concerns about the ethics of their members and the utility of their recommendations,” wrote Senator Warren.

Reports have revealed several instances where companies Mr. Schmidt has invested in received multimillion-dollar Department of Defense contracts and may have created a direct financial conflict of interest with his roles as chair of the Defense Innovation Board and of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). 

Ahh, so that Wagner dude, another millionare, like Lloyd: Source.

Yeah, in my revolutionary world, Lloyd and the Wagner Boss, up against that firing squad wall. But not allowed here at Substack or Word Press, just hypothesizing.

Here, remarkable piece: Life in Donbass: How locals feel today, over nine years since their region broke away from Ukrainian control: Residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic give their perspectives on the hostilities that have been raging since 2014, and how they feel about Russia and Ukraine.

[A view of Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Those who believe that the Ukraine conflict started on February 24, 2022 are deeply mistaken – a point that residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) are eager to point out to anyone who visits their region.

The lives of locals were divided into “before” and “after” back in 2014, when the vast majority refused to accept the outcome of the Western-backed “Maidan” coup. Beyond Donetsk, the same mood prevails in Volnovakha, Mariupol, and other cities that were formerly under the control of Kiev.

[A neighborhood near Azovstal in Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

RT correspondent Angelina Latypova talked with local residents to find out what life has been like in the DPR over the years, what they felt at the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, how they survived the most severe battles, and why many decided not to leave their homes despite the danger.

Staying to help

Tanya was 20 years old when her city was first attacked. Forced to abandon her university studies in Slavyansk (the city was one of the focal points of the 2014 “Russian Spring” uprising but is still controlled by Kiev), she went to the battlefield to help the local militia. 

After serving in the army, she became a medical worker and stitched up wounded soldiers. Eventually, Tanya became a volunteer. She now helps victims of the hostilities, finds new owners for homeless pets, and delivers humanitarian aid. She also shoots video reports.

[Tanya is a volunteer in Donetsk and other reclaimed territories ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

After the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, Tanya helped evacuate people from the sites of severe battles, including Volnovakha and Mariupol.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) threw all the civilians out. In Volnovakha, there was only one building on the block with a basement that was big enough. They came and kicked all the civilians out, and went into hiding there. And then, when they retreated to Mariupol, they used a tank and leveled the entrance to the building. During negotiations, they said that all the people had been evacuated,” Tanya said.

[Cars burnt in a Ukrainian strike on central Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Tanya explains that she was almost killed – on her birthday – when a missile flew into a yard in the city center. There were also explosions near her home, in a part of the city with no military facilities.

Locals say that civilian infrastructure is most often attacked by the AFU, and that targets have included the Transfiguration Cathedral and the local market. They say the church gets shelled during services on holy days, and the market is regularly attacked on weekends. The AFU reportedly strikes on days when these places are full of people.

[A view of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the local market ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“Even the children here know where the missiles are flying from and why. I have a six-year-old niece. She sits in a taxi and says, ‘My God, what a nightmare. They are attacking us, aren’t they?’. I say, ‘Yes… And who is attacking us?’ She says, ‘Ukraine.’ She knows how to hide and where the attack is coming from. She knows that if the bombardment has started, she needs to grab her cat and her favorite coloring books, and go sit on a chair in the corridor. This is not normal.”

[Memorial “To your liberators, Donbass” ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to survive

Lyudmila is a retiree who gives me a tour of the Kuibyshev district – one of the most heavily shelled areas of Donetsk.

Lyudmila has five grandchildren. After the start of hostilities in Donbass, two of her granddaughters moved to Yalta in Crimea, where they now live. Three others remained in Donetsk. Lyudmila says that over the past nine years, whenever the city comes under attack, her whole family has to hide in a narrow corridor, pressing close to each other. In the area where she lives, there are constant strikes. After our meeting, Lyudmila nearly got hit by a shell that exploded 500 meters away from her. In complete darkness, she ran home as fast as she could. 

[Lyudmila stands in front of a burnt-down grocery store where her family used to shop ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila hasn’t left because her husband is sick with cancer. Her sons also stayed. They said, “As long as the war continues, we’ll be here. We can’t quit our jobs, so we are forced to live under explosions.”

“Those who stayed won’t go anywhere now. They are glad that things have finally started changing. And now, there is hope. In the past eight years, we nearly lost all hope. We felt depressed and hopeless.” 

[Russian flags in the center of Donetsk ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila is originally from Maryinka, and her relatives still live there. The city is currently the scene of fierce battles, and it is no longer possible to evacuate them. In March and April last year, they were forced to hide in the basement from shelling, and were starving. Lyudmila says an 80-year-old relative stopped walking and went blind.

She also has relatives in Odessa, Ivano-Frankovsk, and Kurakhov (Donetsk Republic). However, communication is dangerous since Ukrainian officials allegedly arrest people who get calls from Russia. Lyudmila’s son-in-law was detained, for this reason, but fled across the border. 

[A view of the Kalinin mine ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

During our walk around the city, Lyudmila frequently pointed to locations which have been hit by Ukrainian strikes. Near the opera house, a missile killed a girl with her grandmother. At the bank, another hit elderly people who were standing in line. At the local market, civilians out food shopping were killed. Missiles have struck  schools and kindergartens. 

“Every place around here has been hit. We used to think these were accidental, scattered attacks: I mean on schools, kindergartens, apartment buildings. Now we know that it’s targeted. If today there are two shellings of the same school porch, tomorrow it will happen again.”

[A savings bank in central Donetsk. On this spot, 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a Tochka-U missile strike. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Ukrainian attacks surged just before the Russian offensive in February 2022.

“We thought there’s an offensive coming from the Ukrainian side because in February, the shelling was so severe. We were already used to it and did not think much. But that’s when our two republics [DPR and LPR] were hit by around 150-200 [strikes] per day. Or per week. But in February, when the evacuation was announced, we got up to 1,000 strikes.”

[Donetsk blacksmith Viktor Mikhalev makes sculptures from shell fragments. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Lyudmila says that for eight years, the Ukrainian side announced ceasefires that were given “characteristic” names – like the “Easter truce” or “school truce” in honor of the start of school on September 1. But the same party that proposed them immediately violated these agreements.

Recounting the events of 2014, Lyudmila remembers how the residents of Donetsk went to Lenin Square carrying Russian flags, and called for their region to become part of Russia.

“In 2014, there were large rallies here. Everyone shouted that they sided with Russia, only with Russia. We did not agree with the coup that happened in Kiev. It was immediately clear that our paths had separated. Then we held a referendum. Everyone hoped that it would be like in Crimea. In Crimea, it all complied with international law. But in our case, there were no [legal] grounds. And it was too early to get involved in a big war. And now, here is the big war. Unfortunately, we got the big war.”

[Lenin square, where rallies were held in 2014 ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to remember

Svetlana and her daughter Vera drove us from the checkpoint to Donetsk. Seeing that we are journalists from Russia, they gladly agreed to talk to us and invited us over to their house.

The family lives in Volnovakha, a city that was under siege for two weeks. When the evacuation was announced, the Voitenko family decided to stay. Having elderly parents and many pets, it wasn’t easy for them to leave.

[Svetlana and her daughter, Vera ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

On the morning of February 24, Svetlana heard a powerful explosion that made her jump up in bed. “Verochka, the war has started,” she said, running to wake her daughter up.

In addition to several cats and dogs, the family also has lizards, parrots, and roosters. None of the animals were injured during the attacks. However, after the shelling, their dog started having convulsions, which continued for several more months after the Ukrainian forces left.

[To provide food for their own pets, the Voitenko family opened the first pet store in Volnovakha after Ukrainian forces left. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

For two weeks, the family hid in a small corridor together with the animals. When things quietened down, they looked out to see who was shooting. From the window of the house, they could see Ukrainian tanks driving along the streets and firing at residential areas. The family cooked food on a wood stove, each time fearing that their house would be discovered and attacked.

“Two or three times a day, the AFU would engage in a ‘tank biathlon’ – they fired at houses, residential buildings, people. We were afraid to kindle a fire in the stove, because the smoke [coming out of the chimney] would make us an easy target. When my husband got the fire burning, I would shout, ‘Put it out, they’re going to attack us now!’”

[The destroyed market in Volnovakha ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Locals attempt to explain the logic of the Ukrainians. Apparently, those who stayed in Volnovakha after the start of hostilities were considered “separatists,” which is what Kiev’s forces called anyone who didn’t move to their side of the frontlines.

The family says the city has been subjected to “Ukrainization” for many years, and the Ukrainian authorities tried to instill hatred towards Russia. Vera remembers how in 2014, at the very start of the events that lead to the coup in Kiev and the war in Donbass, schoolchildren shouted slogans like “Muscovites to the gallows!” and “Whoever doesn’t jump is a Muscovite!”. In class, teachers talked about Russia’s supposed shelling of Ukrainian cities.

“In the middle of our lesson, Grad rocket launchers started firing from the fields. The teacher said, ‘Look, Russia is attacking.’. Even then, I was wondering – what is Russia doing in a Ukrainian city? How can it shoot here? How? But many believed.”

[A new hospital in Volnovakha. Since Ukrainian forces were ousted, construction has been in full swing, with schools, apartment blocks and medical facilities being rebuilt. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Because of this, some of the family’s friends who stayed on territory controlled by Kiev did not believe that the AFU had attacked civilians in Volnovakha.

“The worst is when the people who were here all the time but then left, say that it was Russia. Though some people changed their minds when they came here.”

[A central street in Donetsk. The inscription on the billboard says “Russia! This is our victory! This is our country!” ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Staying to live

In Mariupol, just like in Severodonetsk, Volnovakha, and other cities, the AFU set up firing points in apartment buildings while the residents of those homes hid from shelling in the basements.

“I evacuated one couple – the windows of their apartment were all broken and a firing point was set up there. The AFU went down into the basement and said, ‘Give us the keys. If you don’t give us the keys, we’ll blow up the door.’ And they blew up the door,” says Tanya, the volunteer from Donetsk.

[The ruins of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis, a Mariupol resident who survived the siege of the city, says his family got lucky: they locked the entrance to their apartment building, which helped them survive. However, the Ukrainian army still tried to force their way in with gunfire.

[A view of the Holy Intercession Church ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“Azov started attacking us on March 1. I lost my sister. We buried almost 90 people in the yard. When I went to get water and descended down to the sea, Azov snipers fired at us. They specifically attacked us so we wouldn’t get the water. We were stuck here for three weeks without water and bread. We were so happy when it started raining. I carried rainwater to the old women in the basement,” recalls one of the local construction workers I talked to on the street.

[Views of Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

The Azov Battalion is one of Ukraine’s infamous neo-Nazi units. Back in 2014, when Mariupol residents protested against the policies of Kiev’s new authorities, Azov fighters shot anyone who got in their way. Denis still remembers those events with a shudder.

“In 2014 it felt terrifying. But then apathy set in. Because we understood that with a policy like that, Ukraine had no future.”

[In Mariupol, shells are often seen scattered on the ground. City beaches still haven’t been completely cleared of mines. ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis says that in the following years, the city was actively “Ukrainized.” He doesn’t divide his life into “before” and “after” February 24, 2022, because the war has been going on since 2014. Donetsk, where civilians have been dying for nine years, is located only 100 km from Mariupol.

“Zelensky was elected as the ‘president of peace’,” says Denis. “But instead of stopping the war, he threw the residents of Mariupol and other cities right into the warzone in order to show the world how the Russian army supposedly ‘operates’ here.”

[Freedom Square in Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

“On the other side of the city, they call the AFU ‘zakhisniki’ – ‘defenders’. But that’s not how you defend cities. The DPR and Russia did not aim to destroy cities – that is evident both in Melitopol and Berdyansk. No one destroyed buildings and killed people there. The AFU said right away, ‘We are not defending you, we are defending the territory.’ Knowing that they can’t retain control over Mariupol, they tried to completely destroy it. That’s why they hid in residential buildings and set up mortars on roofs,” Denis says.

[The Azovstal Stadium ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

Denis remembers the arrival of the DPR troops on March 18 as “the most heartfelt meeting”.

“They rejoiced and we rejoiced. We all hugged. We felt scared, and they felt scared. They probably did not expect anything like this.”

[A view of Mariupol ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

[A ruined residential building ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

[A crater left by a shell strike in the city center ©  By Angelina Latypova, special for RT]

By Angelina Latypova, a Russian independent journalist