In a 1989 volume of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to “universities and the military,” MIT Physics professor Vera Kistiakowsky, one of the country’s outstanding scientists of the 20^th century, wrote that…

“Pentagon funding of university research has no benefits. Preferential funding of weapons has had its economic consequences, witnessed by our deteriorating civilian industrial infrastructure, our negative balance of trade, and our mounting deficit. We have not invested in civilian research at a level adequate to these pressing problems, and will continue to suffer the consequences until we do.”

Ahh, daily, every nanosecond if I let it to infect me that much, daily, the world is nothing but chaos, terror, perversion, devolution, priorities gone to hell in a handbasket.

You know, the continuing military mauling machine, while there are so many real problemos en el mundo.

Seriously: “Fungi that cause serious lung infections are now found throughout the U.S”

The reality is things are not going down with a spoonful of High Fructose Corn Syrup. As we have seen the mindless media and the destracting pols and the absolutely perverse corporations play their fiddles while WE burn, there are cascading issues too big for a midget brain USA to tackle:

In 1955, cases of the lung infection coccidioidomycosis, caused by Coccidioides fungi, occurred mainly in the Southwest.

From 2007 through 2016, 35 states reported cases above a certain threshold, Medicare records indicate.

Valley Fever, man, and as a teenager in Arizona, the history of that state was one where sanatoriums were set up for lung diseases, including TB. But, alas, all the imported flowering plants, and all the scrapping of the desert, and we had an epidemic of massive allergies and Valley Fever. Many a friend’s dog succumbed to the fungis. Now, as we have more and more chronic illnesses, more and more youth with co-morbities, and now with mRNA and BioCovi19Etc. taking out more immune systems and more respitory and cardiac systems, the collusion of the madness of reckless growth and wreckless everything is taking root in we the people!

Histoplasmosis cases, then vs. now: Medicare records from 2007 through 2016 show that the fungi have spread, causing infection rates above a certain threshold in 47 states and Washington, D.C.

Then, whew, we are at the point of mRNA vaxxes for the humble bee: What could go wrong?

The vaccine is not genetically modified and can be used in organic agriculture, Dalan Animal Health said.

The USDA issues conditional licenses for products that “meet an emergency situation, limited market, local situation, or special circumstance” and are pure, safe and have a “have a reasonable expectation of efficacy,” according to a memo by the agency.

Pollinators are responsible for one of every three bites of food we take, according to the agency, but their numbers have been declining for many years.

Ahh, the right to a fair Zoom Trial? What could go wrong there? “The Relentless Mental Toll of Public Defense“

Chronic under-resourcing compounds that toll: For every five defendants facing criminal charges in the United States, about four will be unable to pay for a private attorney. They will instead rely on public defenders or court-appointed lawyers. There are far from enough public defenders, however, to meet the need. In Oregon, the shortage of available public defenders is so acute that, as of October 2022, around 1,300 people facing criminal charges were denied attorneys. Many public defenders’ offices do not have the resources they need to effectively represent their clients.

What, now, 92 percent, or more, people accused of crimes, many of which they did not commit, do the plea bargain. I am seeing this up close and personal now with a domestic violence case I am assisting in. And, many of my veterans and homeless folk took plea agreements that royally screwed them. When I was an English teacher at a federal pen, many of my students were in prison on trumped up charges, set up, really, and they too took pleas for seven years versus going to trial and facing 20 years for, again, marijuana importation charges. Set up by informers, and just they right conditions, i.e. with a firearm in the plumbing van, and just the right amount, say, 300 pounds of mota, and, bam, seven year itch.

I was a writer, teacher, activist and inside man, sort of, and in El Paso, I even brought bags of cocaine on the golf course where a circuit and federal judge gobbled the stuff up on the back nine, downing the Jack I also brought them, and that was a Saturday on the links, but these two fellows Monday through Friday, were sort of the hang man judges, throwing the proverbial book at gang bangers and others with drug importation charges. You know, 20 times more time for crack-freebase as opposed to the powder.

The blasphemy is continual. even if you go for the real journalism, so-called alternative sources.

Every dollar, every missile, every tank, every drone, all of it, donated to the shyster ZioAzovNaziLensky is not just a blight or a crime, but overall it has to be collectively traumatizing to a good chunk of people who have not yet been brainwashined.

Only small hardy bands by comparison have taken to the streets to protest record military budgets—approaching $1 trillion under Joe Biden—or the illegal bombing of Syria, expansion of U.S. troops in Africa, provision of $20 billion in U.S. military aid to Ukraine, and military provocations directed against China.

Joan Roelofs’^[1] new book The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2022), starts with an important question: “Why is there so much acceptance and so little protest against our government’s illegal and immoral wars and other military operations?”

Her answer is simple and convincing: Money.

While successful propaganda, fear and distraction are important, the military-industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned about in his Farewell Address in 1961 has penetrated so deeply into American life that much of the American public has essentially bought into acquiescence.

Now, I can get some free Southwest Airlines air sickness bags, so-called vomit lunch bags, for the photo below. Trigger warning/warming:

Ribbon cutting for the new BAE Systems plant in Manchester, New Hampshire, in May 2022. Gov. Chris Sununu and U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen are among those pictured in the photo. [Source: nhbr.com]

Source: “The Trillion Dollar Silencer” by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Blasphemy after blasphemy: Germany: Investors buy up farmland- Intervene with the law: Brandenburg’s Agriculture Minister Axel Vogel (Greens) wants to use a new law in 2023 to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.

“The areas are sold to the farms under their butts,” said Vogel of the German Press Agency in Potsdam. “Land has become an object of speculation.”

The, Greens, man, the backers of mor weapons and more death for Every Ukrainian Dead for the Nato Cause.

Germany’s Green Party conference held last weekend was a repulsive spectacle. The 817 delegates gathered in Bonn outdid one another with demands for an escalation of the war in Ukraine.

It is hard to say which aspect of the gathering was more repugnant: the delegates’ rejection of the party’s earlier lip service to peace, disarmament, environmental protection and the phase-out of nuclear power, the cynicism with which they justified their new political line or the Greens’ disdain for and ignorance of the concerns and needs of the broad mass of the population.

Up is down, war is peace, greens are militarists.

Then, another, yet another water story, whether it’s microchip companies draining New Mexico’s aquifers, or bottling companies killing Mexican farmers’ lives, or all those cloud servers getting that hydo power for a song, here, another weird issue.

“Why are Saudi farmers pumping Arizona groundwater? A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of ‘Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona.’” (High Country News)

In August, an Arizona attorney general candidate called for an investigation into a 2015 sweetheart deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department, which had allowed Fondomonte to lease desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value and pump groundwater from Phoenix’s water reserves. Geographer Natalie Koch, a professor at Syracuse University who grew up in Arizona and studies the Arabian Peninsula, began researching the deal in 2018.In doing so, she discovered that the arrangement was not an anomaly, but rather part of a long history of collaboration between Arizona and the Arabian Peninsula. HCN spoke with Koch about her book Arid Empire, out this January from Verso Books, which delves into the conjoined history of the two desert landscapes.

High Country News: You open the book by talking about a double exposure: a slide with an image of a camel and a Coke advertisement layered on top of each other. Why did that strike you as symbolic of the relationship between Arizona and the Arabian Peninsula?

Natalie Koch: A double exposure — two images mapped onto one another — is understood as an error in developing a photo. But to me, the double-exposure image was something that helped to see the past and the present together. 

When I started this project, I thought it was going to be about the (contemporary) Saudi-owned farm in Arizona. But I kept finding that there was a circular nature to the stories I was uncovering. I would start with a contemporary question, like the Saudi farm deal, and then immediately get looped back to its deeper history. So the double exposure is a way of thinking about that past and the present together — to be able to focus on both simultaneously.

And, the war criminals unite as Bolton is Bucking to be 2024’s Buckaroo for Prez: “Republican super-hawk to run for US president; Former Trump national security advisor John Bolton plans to challenge him for the GOP nomination“

Man, Ukraine.

Ivan Katchanovski, Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist who teaches at the University of Ottawa, is exposing US media lies about the Ukraine proxy war. And, like many Useful Idiot guests, no one will report on his story. This week, Katchanovski shares his research on the Maidan Massacre, a mass killing of Ukrainians protesting the Yanukovich government in February 2014. The US and opposition leaders blamed Yanukovich, triggered a coup and the ensuing civil war that radically escalated with Russia’s invasion eight years later. But when Professor Katchanovski dug into video, witness testimony, and other evidence which reveals who really committed the massacre — including footage that CNN tried to bury — he was ignored by mainstream media for attempted disruption of the approved narrative. But now he’s joining the Useful Idiots to tell us what really happened: the massacre, he argues, was carried out by pro-Maidan snipers.

I’ll leave here with the fungi, pollinators, water and land thieves, the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Stars, and, of course, Bernie and the War Mongers and then darn, a real Ukrainian, in Canada, talking about what no Yankee or Confederate will every want to know.

Oh, the fun of these major Mafia Corporations, and the fun of the paid-off media, and the fun of the Polluted Press, and the fun of the Colonized Public, and the Fun of Billionaires like Gates who have invested billions into genetically modified germs and seeds and Round-Up Ready Death.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease involving several protein mutations in glycine-rich regions with limited treatment options. 90-95% of all cases are non-familial with epidemiological studies showing a significant increased risk in glyphosate-exposed workers. In this paper, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, plays a role in ALS, mainly through mistakenly substituting for glycine during protein synthesis, disruption of mineral homeostasis as well as setting up a state of dysbiosis. Mouse models of ALS reveal a pre-symptomatic profile of gut dysbiosis. This dysbiotic state initiate a cascade of events initially impairing metabolism in the gut, and, ultimately, through a series of intermediate stages, leading to motor neuron axonal damage seen in ALS. Lipopolysaccharide, a toxic by-product of dysbiosis which contributes to the pathology, is shown to be statistically higher in ALS patients. In this paper we paint a compelling view of how glyphosate exerts its deleterious effects, including mitochondrial stress and oxidative damage through glycine substitution. Furthermore, its mineral chelation properties disrupt manganese, copper and zinc balance, and it induces glutamate toxicity in the synapse, which results in a die-back phenomenon in axons of motor neurons supplying the damaged skeletal muscles.

It’s the gut, baby, the entire shooting match is tied to the biome of the stomach, intestines, a la hormones, that endrocrine system, but, heck, why not pour more Velveta on those Doritos and wash it down with that Pepsi while having that Blue Tooth inserted with all those 4, 5, 6 G EMF’s moving around the world? New cancers in the salivary glands? Right, the world does get better with super living with chemistry and forever chemicals.

Again, too much information is a downer, and this post-doc level writing is for the birds, or nerds. That’s the sickness of our times — more and more speciliazation at the sub-atomic level, and more and more general malaise and muddled brains. Whew.

The question is too much for the corporations: “Does Glyphosate Acting as a Glycine Analogue Contribute To ALS?” Here, the kewords:  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Glyphosate; Glycine; Fructose; Superoxide dismutase; Mitochondria; Motor neurons; Stress granules; RNA binding proteins

Here, the subheadings: Glyphosate acting as a Glycine Analogue; Evidence of a Link between Pesticides and ALS; Metabolic Disturbances; Gut Dysbiosis; Sulfur Dysbiosis; Mineral Imbalances; Progressive Neuromuscular System Failure; Muscle Failure; Glutamate Excitotoxicity in Synapses; LPS, sALS and Protein Disruption; GGGGCC Repeat Expansion; Collagen in ALS; ALS as an Autoimmune Disease; A Role for Epigenetics.

Ahh, the metabolic disturbances caused by the toxins in the food system, in the frying pans, in the elements used in vaccines and experimental shots. All the Gut dysbiosis, and all the sugars, all the heavy metals, all the brain-guy disturbances, all the leaky gut sydrome sufferers, all the IBS and Khrone’s disease sufferers, all the fatty liver sufferers.

You would think this would be a global multiple headed Hydra of pandemics. From sperm, to egg, to fetus, to child, to teen, to adult, to old person, the amazing connection of those better living through chemistry profits, and our collective health. Nah, it pays to not know:

In the fall of 2014, as voters in Oregon and Washington were poised to vote on whether genetically engineered foods should be labeled, industry allies grew worried about Monsanto’s plan to feature scientists in ads for the anti-labeling campaign. “I’m a little skeptical that a letter with a lot of scientist signatures will be enough to counter the flood of fear mongering,” Val Giddings, the former vice president of the biotechnology trade association, wrote to Monsanto’s Lisa Drake.^[1] Giddings suggested the company instead consider creating “TV spots featuring attractive young women, preferably mommy farmers” to persuade voters to vote against labeling requirements. Drake shot down that idea: “Doesn’t poll as well as credible third party scientists,” she told Giddings. “I know [it is] hard to believe but I have seen the poll results myself … and that is why the campaigns work the way they do.”^[2]

Monsanto’s PR helpers strategize about how to defeat GMO labeling:

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Indeed, the “voices of authority” — especially academic experts — receive the highest marks on trust, according to global surveys.^[3] In this context, the growing private-sector influence over universities, and land grant institutions in particular, is concerning. From 1970 to 2014, public funding to land grant universities for agricultural research and development grew by just 20 percent, while private funding grew by 193 percent to $6.3 billion, according to an analysis from the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.^[4] Today, hundreds of millions of dollars flow from agribusiness, including pesticide companies, into land grant universities in the United States. This funding is used to sponsor buildings,^[5] endow professorships and pay for research, according to an analysis from the public interest group Food and Water Watch.^[6] “The influence this money purchases is enormous,” the Food and Water Watch analysis concluded. “Corporate money shifts the public research agenda toward the ambitions of the private sector, whose profit motivations are often at odds with the public good.”

It’s only 103 pages with 579 citations/footnotes. Come on, people, this is your baby’s future, your fetus’s future, your own future! Too much information is too much anxiety, so we are here, now, GAD, general anxiety disorder, and then, the merchants of propaganda, the Goebbels, Bernays, Mengele, the entire dirty culprits in the Faustian Bargain and the Eichmann Trap.

This is a powerful army of tanks — The report also exposes the dirty pesticide industry propaganda industry:

• Seven front groups named in Monsanto’s documents spent $76 million in a five-year period pushing corporate disinformation, including attacks on scientists.
• Six industry trade groups named in Monsanto’s documents spent more than $1.3 billion over the same five years, including for PR and lobbying to influence regulation over glyphosate. (source)

Do you kind reader need a recap on all the dirty souls in political office, then in the revolving door to the corporate boardrooms, and then into lobbying groups, and then into media, and then into academia, and even into the courts, including the highest corrupt courts of the land, SCOTUS? Come on, do your due deligence and see the who’s who of corporate crime in and out of public office.

Do you need English and Planning Majors like me to be the town crier? Come on, you smart Yankees and Confederates, do some justice to the k12 education you supposedly got (snicker). All you college grads, do some deep ethical thinking about the courses and matriculations you have taken and achieved (snicker snicker, follow the money).

Again, every single millionaire and billionaire is a public-private welfare queen of the highest order: Read, Public Research, Private Gain!

I’ve talked about literacy, about functional illiteracy, then of course, there are those who fail to read, and then the atrophied minds of those who fail to use even one percent of the brain matter. Consumo Pethicus Sapiens . . . .! The idiots in Congress, the Senate, the Revolving Uniparty Administrations! When you hate truth, when you hate “the government of, for, by the people,” we are here, in 2023!

Do you need charts and graphics to get it that the USA is run by a Corporate Fascist Monster?

You want just one school, on the agricultural Mafia Money Pipeline, in chart form?

You want to check out how many majors in the undergraduate realm get hush and PR and marketing money from the Fortune 5000? Imagine, University of Washington, where I did some union organizing (with many slammed doors in my face):

1. University of Washington

Location: Seattle, Wash.
30,672 undergraduates
Number of majors: 227

Most popular majors:

• – Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• – Psychology
• – Biology

Oh, dudes and dudettes, believe you me, here, a ranking of the top 20 colleges in USA with the most majors: Source! Just how man provosts and deans and institutional managers want students and faculty alike to shut their traps when researching anc criticizing this bribery racket, and it is a racket that also is funneled through these Fortune 5000 thieves’ non-profit, philanthropy, giving offshoots.

Then you have this scam, US News and WOrld Report’s Best Universities of 2022. Here, the graduate schools and their top majors: Marketing Junk!

Oh, those Ivory Towers:

Then, of course, those vaunted eight continuing criminal organizations, the League of Ivy:

So, what’s it take? A master’s degree in science communications? An engineering degree? A PhD with post-doc work? Ten professional journal publications? A hundred? Common sense? Understand the precautionary principle? Getting systems thinking under your belt by age 16, or 20? Do no harm, the oath for doctors, tatooed on your forearm if you are in the medical field? Repetition of the so-called scientific principles of ALWAYS questioning hypothesis? Or, what about just following the money and understanding what outside influences are in any profession?

And that paper you are going to read? Just realize that ALS is just ONE outfall of this dirty toxin, glyphosate, which is so close to the progenitor, Agent Orange:

A Real-life Toxic Avenger — She lost (sic) four children in a very suspicious fire on their property when she was delivering bread to a neighbor.

From her book, A Bitter Fog, what those sprays do to people:

Where the road skirted the riverbank, overhanging shore and water, they directed their hoses into the water, inadvertently spraying the four children fishing down below. The truck moved on, leaving the children gasping in a wet mist that clung to their skin and clothing. With smarting skin, tearing eyes, burning mouths, throats and noses, they stumbled home. By nightfall, all four were sick.

If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed whether by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.
— Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring

Or go here, DV again: “Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason” by Colin Todhunter, Check out other articles where Rosemary is quoted: HERE.

So, yep, what does it take for us ALL to get involved with what is vitally important – our own health, our children’s health, friends’ and family members’ health? Jan. 6 hearings? Pelosi bowing out? Zelensky and his Soft Shoe Show? What is it that will move the needle in this time of multiple plagues? Again, this is just ALS:

We have shown how a cascade beginning with gut dysbiosis, progressing to liver disease, muscle failure, and, finally, wide-spread damage to motor neurons in the spinal column, can lead to a diagnosis of ALS after several decades of chronic exposure to glyphosate. Other NDG diseases have considerable overlapwith ALS in terms of the characteristic feature of misfolded pro-teins accumulating in inclusion bodies in nervous tissues. We believe that glyphosate is a strong factor in the alarming rise inmultiple NDGs well beyond ALS. Especially given the insidious and destructive effects that glyphosate can be expected to induce through substitution for glycine during protein synthesis, regulatory agencies should seriously consider banning glyphosateusage to control weeds or for any other purpose.

Lois GIbbs and Love Canal. Karen Silkwood? Rache Carson? What’s it going to take? US. Marines? “Semper Fidelis or Das Kapital Uber Alles: From Eisenhower to Trump!” (DV)

Studies have shown that water contamination at Camp Lejeune has been linked to these injuries:

Bladder Cancer
Cardiac Birth Defects
Kidney Cancer
Kidney Disease
Leukemia
Liver Cancer
Multiple Myeloma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Parkinson’s Disease
Systemic Sclerosis/scleroderma

Additional injuries that may be linked to the water contamination are:

Breast Cancer
Esophageal Cancer
Hepatic Steatosis
Brain/CNS Cancers
Pancreatic Cancer
Prostate Cancer

Rectal Cancer
Female Infertility
Lung Cancer
Miscarriage
Aplastic Anemia and other Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Neurobehavioral Effects

Delusional thinking. Trapped knee jerking. Multi-Generational Trauma. Fear thy self and thy enemy.

If you attempt to get a bead on the “situation,” you know, THE Situation, it is almost impossible to be and live and survive in this society without many forms of media and collective consciouness pollution from flooding even a 9 to 5 and 8 to midnight, M-Sunday worker.

The air is a miasma, and the spirits are wondering hoping for some form of sanity in the living. No matter how you open up your phone, and it is always on, no, or how you navigate your working life, the dirty deeds of the marketers and madmen and the propagandists and behavioral mad scientists and poltical pirates come through.

No man or woman is an island, no matter how hard some of my email friends think they are that Island in the Slipstream. Living in Baja, setting up a simple palm frond hut and simple low water and low yeild garden, sure, it is an Island Unto Itself. But, in Baja, in Mexico, with so many injustices around and near and possibly just down the road?

There is a certain instaneous insanity that captures the world, even the ones in Nomad-Landia or Off-the Grid-Landia, because to be of this world, is to be of this world. Same old passport, USA, no matter where one might find his or her island of peace. More power to them.

Yet, some of us are navigating other rough seas, and sure, what a deal, getting out of Dodge City to end up in some red-tiled roof town in the grape vineyard hills of Portugal, with full WiFi, a heck of a Satuday market, and stroller dancers on Wednesdays and free museum entry on Mondays. The Church bells, the uniformed school children kicking footballs and drinking lemonade.

Right! Ready, Set, Go:

It’s that easy, no? Good health, at least a cool $500,000 in some investment portfolio, and, hmm, minimum, what $4000 a month, not counting many incidentals?

Okay back to earth and gravity. I was looking into school bus driving. Actually, just van driving, as in special needs. Oh, that old time monopoly religion, and that old time making money off of the taxpayer, and that old time transnational fun.

With more than a century of experience in providing safe and reliable transportation to students across the U.S. and Canada, we at First Student understand the priorities of today’s K-12 community. We can help you build a transportation solution tailored to your community’s needs.

Think Brussels:

EQT Infrastructure completes acquisition of First Student and First Transit, the market leading providers of essential North American transportation services.

Oh, so, who is selling the taxpayer down the proverbial river without a paddle? And, these companies, like First Student, has 55,000 mostly part-time drivers and others, and that is just one aspect of our so-called public schools. That’s right, the janitorial services and food services, run by another privatizing baron, Sodexo:

Founded in Marseille, France, in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 56 countries, Sodexo serves 100 million consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site Food and Facilities Management Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services. 

Yikes, they used to be a big private prison builder:

Sodexo does not contract with any prison entities, detention centers, or correctional facilities, public or private, in the United States. Sodexo does not operate any prisons or detention centers in any of the countries with the largest number of prisons¹. We provide food for staff and prisoners, maintenance and, in some cases, prisoner skills training, education and programs in 84 prisons in mainland Europe and Chile. Sodexo also fully manages five prisons – all in the United Kingdom. 

Ahh, the Old SodexoMarriot scam: Sodexho Marriott and the For-Profit Prison Industry

An article in The Independent reported that inmate Natasha Chin was found unresponsive in her cell in 2016 at the Sodexo-operated prison HMP Bronzefield; her death was attributed to “medical neglect” on the coroner’s report.

In 2021, at HMP Peterborough, female prisoners reported having inadequate access to menstrual care products and other sanitary items. In 2017, four HMP Peterborough inmates were unlawfully strip-searched.

Companies, such as Marriott International, and private individuals’ lawsuits against Sodexo allege discriminatory lawsuits and mistreatment of employees. Since 2000, Good Jobs First, a subsidy and work violation tracker, reported over $103 million has been paid in penalties by Sodexo. (source)

Oh, I had talks with food services and the administrations in two colleges, asking why local amazing caterers in Spokane could not get on our community college campuses. I talked with caterers who certainly could fulfill a healthy and creative food and beverage contract with the schools.

It’s all about economies of scale, underselling, and giving away (sic) funds at the end of the year for student and faculty groups. Bribery.

Back to the First Student. I had to get fingerprinted, and then I took the commercial learner permit test, at $60 (I took two of the four tests over). Then, well, I was supposed to get some medical check. In the end, the $13.50 an hour for the training period that will eventually get to $19.00 an hour to have all those K12 students on the bus, pick up and drop off, that’s it for this multibillionaire dollar monopoly.

The local Air B & B is paying $21 an hour for that service.

In the end, everything about capitalism, whether it is transnational, monopoloy, casino, parasitic, what have you, is absolutely against the worker, collective bargaining, health and safety, getting ahead, a great work environment, etc. We have no single payer affordable health care-dental case-mental health care. We have outrageous de-regulated air travel. We have no train travel of note. We have not local public busses or micro-vans running 24/7. And, mom and pops can’t deliver kids to and from school because of the super high insurance rates, the litigation threats and expensive fuel costs. Again, the money is made having money, economies of scale, lobbies and lobbyists, politicians in the pocket, publicly traded status, and graft and grifting galore.

We have turned our own citizens against our own services — bridges, roads, biologists, justice departments, criminal investigators, FCC, SEC, you name it, we have become a nation that hates anything that might be government in favor of “the companies and corporations, they want to do good, because they have kids and families too, so why would they pollute them or endanger them . . . ?” mentality — and we are not at the point where a few vaunted ones and some middle class ones, just want to get hell out of the USA because it is too: broaden your horizons; moving abroad is a wonderful challenge; cheaper than you’d expect; new kinds of food; better education prospects; the main reason that people move abroad is employment; learn a new tongue;  let go of the stress and let your new environs take over; build your confidence; lose your attachment to things.

Where are Americans emigrating to and why?

• 40% opt for the Western hemisphere — Canada, Central and South America.
• 26% move to Europe.
• 14% head to East Asia and the Pacific — think Australia and New Zealand as well as China and Japan.
• 14% head to the Middle East.
• 3% travel to Central or South Asia.
• 3% choose Africa.

In 2015, the most popular countries for expats of all nations to move to are:

1. Ecuador
2. Mexico
3. Malta
4. Singapore
5. Luxembourg
6. New Zealand
7. Thailand
8. Panama
9. Canada
10. Australia

I’ll take Andre Vltchek’s piece, Stop Millions Of Western Immigrants!

Tens of millions of European and North American immigrants, legal and illegal, have been flooding both the cities and countryside in Asia, Latin America, and even Africa.

Western migrantsare charging like bulls and the ground is shaking under their feet; they are fleeing Europe and North America in hordes. Deep down they cannot stand their own lifestyle, their own societies, but you would hardly hear them pronounce it. They are too proud and too arrogant! But, after recognizinginnumerable areas of the world as suitable for their personal needs – as safe, attractive and cheap – they simply pack and go!

We are told that some few hundred thousand African and Asian exiles are now causing a great “refugee crises” all over Europe! Governments and media are spreading panic, borders are being re-erected and armed forces areinterrupting the free movement of people. But the number of foreigners illegally entering Europe is incomparably smaller than the number of Western migrants that are inundating, often illegally, virtually all corners of the world.

No “secret paradise” can be hidden any longer and no country can maintain itsreasonable price structure. Potential European,North American and Australianimmigrants are determined to enrich themselves by any means, atthe expense of local populations.They are constantly searching for bargains: monitoring prices everywhere, ready to move at the spur of the moment, as long as the place offers some great bargains, has lax immigration laws, and a weak legal framework.

Everything pure and untapped gets corrupted. With lightning speed, Western immigrantsare snatching reasonably priced real estate and land. Then, they impose their lifestyle on all those “newly conquered territories”. As a result, entire cultures are collapsing or changing beyond recognition.

So, here we are, the transnational, economies of scale, end of mom and pop, big fish eats little fish mentality of Amazon Publishing, Starbuck Coffee, and on and on and on. Pick an industry or service industry, and you can see what monopoly looks like and how each year the shifting baseline moves closer and closer to us being those useless eaters and workers and breathers. Until, taking care of precious children, youth, before and after school, we get paid as bus drivers less than, well, not to knock it, but toilet and laundry cleaners.

Do your own research — top mining companies, top offensive weapons companies, top lumber companies, top grocery chains, top insurance, top medical services, etc., etc.

And we aren’t just consumers and marks and interest rates and fines and penalties and fees and closing costs and overdrafts and tickets and maintence fees and tolls and VATs to them. Each way, each step in this Western Culture, each transaction, each nanosecond that might give “them” a chance at marking us for rip-off, i.e. profits.

And we come down to this — public schools, taxpayers, footing the bill for major investment companies. This is the way of Capitalism. You get $19 an hour driving a bus with school children, but $21 an hour cleaning up after a bunch of beer-drinking, dog-peeing, messy and dirty Air B & B customers.

So much can be written about Germany rearming, hosting the nukes. All of those EuroTrashLandians flipping the switch, and we know they are more than just closet fascists. Amazing, now, the schizophrenia of military bases on Japan soil, and then the PFAS’s, poisoning the people, and then Japan getting that Imperial war saber rattling.

Targeting China

Japan’s military expansion fits in with Washington’s aggression aimed at China, the DPRK and Russia. U.S. strategists’ goal is to use the U.S. alliance with Japan, South Korea and Australia, just as it uses the U.S.-led NATO alliance in Europe.

The doubling of NATO’s membership and NATO’s targeting of Russia have led to war in Ukraine, when the U.S. government imposed thousands of new sanctions against Russia, and the U.S. has ruptured the European Union’s mutually beneficial trade with Russia. 

“Japan rearms under Washington’s pressure − a wake-up call to the antiwar movement“

INDEX TO SELECTED IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY WAR CRIMES

The Rape of Nanking (1937), also known as the Nanjing Massacre

The Bangka Island Massacre (1942): Slaughter of Australian Army Nurses

The Bataan Death March (1942)

The Sandakan Death March (1945)

Murder and cannibalism on the Kokoda Track (1942)

Conscripting women for sexual slavery in Japanese Army brothels (1937-1945)

Mutilation and murder of Dutch civilians in Borneo

Murder and cannibalism – captured American pilots

INDEX TO SELECTED IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY WAR CRIMES

Murder of American pilots and aircrew at Midway (1942)

The bombing of the hospital ship Manunda (1942)

The sinking of the hospital ship Centaur (1943)

Extermination of survivors of merchant vessels sunk by the Japanese (1943-45)

The U.S. Military is Poisoning Okinawa

But then, there is Hawaii:

In February, residents of Kailua Bay, north of Honolulu, were advised to avoid the namesake waters after a leak from a US Marine Corps wastewater treatment facility released water contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria into the bay. In March, the Defense Department announced that it would permanently close and defuel the Red Hill facility. (source)

The source above is Grist, and not my favorite greenie weenie place, and look at their Ukraine coverage: Grist, Ukraine.

As Gabor Mate states, there is a myth of normal, but in fact, the elites, the psychologists, the mainstream media, the economists, the Administrations in DC or in your local community college, the sellers, the marketers, the creatives, the lot of them, their normal is? Read and weap:

2022’s Danger Signs

From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness

by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / December 28th, 2022

“The danger signs were everywhere in 2022.

With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government agents, we were reminded that in the eyes of the government and its corporate accomplices, “we the people” possess no rights except for that which the Deep State grants on an as-needed basis.”

The shifting baseline disorder, coupled with mass hysteria, mass brainwashing, mass propaganda, mass marketing, mass anxiety, the lobotomizing media, the miseducation in k12 and higher education, the end of knowing history, the drone deliveries, the self-driving cars and trucks, the airports filled with lost people, lost luggage, the entire blizzard of broken and more broken infrastructure, yet, a creep like Grist and 350 (dot) or Bill McKibben vaunting Biden for pushing climate killing, people killing, land polluting, city destroying weapons for the Nazi Regime which is Ukraine.

The end of history, and the geeks talking out the sides of their mouths. Actors telling us who to vote for, what to think about the globe, what to do with the shrinking middle and lower economic classes for the sake of their lifestyles, the billionaires and the Ukro ZioAzovNaziLensky.

Read the Whitheads’ headings for that end of 2022 danger signs piece:

Totalitarian paranoia spiked. 

The state of our nation suffered. 

Thought crimes became a target for punishment.

Speech was muzzled. 

Kill switches aimed to turn off more than just your car.

Currency went digital.

The government spoke in a language of violence. 

Cancel culture became more intolerant. 

Homes were invaded. 

Political theater kept the public distracted. .

Bodily integrity was undermined. 

The government’s fiscal insanity reached new heights. 

Surveillance got creepier. 

 Precrime became more fact than fiction. 

The government waged psychological warfare on the nation. 

Gun confiscation laws put a target on the back of every American.

The burden of proof was reversed. 

The Supreme Court turned America into a Constitution-free zone. 

The FBI went rogue.

The government waged war on political freedom. 

The military industrial complex waged more wars. 

The Deep State went global. 

Authoritarian madness escalated. 

AGAIN, cognitive dissonance:

“One thing that has always baffled me is why do Jews drive BMW’s, or Mercedes Benz, or Volkswagen? It would seem to me that a priority would be placed on boycotting companies that employed Jewish slave labor in WWII. Thousands suffered and died at these plants, yet well-to-do Jews think nothing of driving these automobiles in their quest to achieve a social status. It appears the Holocaust has lost it’s place in the pecking order on what is considered important to the Jewish community.”

Ahh, then those Japanese goods, uh? And those Israeli goods, no? Spain and their dirty hands. France and Italy and Britain in India? Ahh, what did Madame Butterfly say?

As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East — he’s already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. …Basically, ‘Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.’ The West thinks of itself as masculine — big guns, big industry, big money — so the East is feminine — weak, delicate, poor…but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom — the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated — because a woman can’t think for herself. …You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men. ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

Go to Larry Johnson, 2 hours in, about his Jewish friends in La-La-Land.

GABOR MATÉ: There are many conditions in a society that are completely unnatural and unhealthy. But we mistake normal for healthy and natural. The way we live, the way we raise kids, the way we deliver babies, the way we go to work—we all assume them to be normal, and therefore natural and healthy. But it’s a bit like studying zebras in a zoo. You can study zebras in a zoo and learn things about them. But you’re not learning about them the way they naturally are in a context that is naturally healthy for them. It is the same with human beings. To assume that this society, because it’s the norm, is therefore natural and healthy, is a really false and dangerous assumption. That’s the one sense in which I am talking about the myth of normal.

The other is that we have this idea that those who are sick are abnormal, and the rest of us are normal. Whereas I think there’s a real spectrum of well-being and ill-being that runs through society. There are no clear lines between normal and abnormal.

And then the third sense in which I mean it is that the people who are ill—mentally ill or physically ill—they’re not abnormal. These are normal responses to abnormal circumstances.

And yet, once back from the hike, the low tides churning up as the tide shifts toward the rising tide, the news is never ending. The insanity of the West, the insanity of the lies, more lies and black magic lies of the US media, as well as the zombies walking the streets and even hitting the king tide Devil’s Churn, hoping 2023 will be brought in with booze, football, firecrackers. That the world will be a better world.

I challenge the reader to tell me — my 18th birthday, 1975, being the starting point — when a new year from 1975 to 2022 was a better year. Be careful to look at history, the world’s history, all the completely rotten politicians, the rotting policies, the complete slide of the American worker, and the incredible lightness of better dying with chemistry?

After adjusting for inflation, however, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today.

Those king tides are a time to reflect upon what the average ocean level will be in 10, 20 or 30 years for now. Call it ocean expansion or ocean rise, but it is happening, even as we watch the celebrity worthless ones gain more and more money and media power; as the space race continues at break-neck speed for no results, i.e. better crops, better cities, better health care, better durable goods, better politics, better education, better mind care, better food and farming, better resilience, better global cooperation to increase the quality of life for all, as well as keeping ecosystems hardy, strong and vibrant.

Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2°C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the world’s coastline and affecting millions in the process.

That finding comes from a new paper published on Thursday in Science that shows how high sea levels rose the last time carbon dioxide levels were this high.

Nations with the Most Population on Affected Land
COUNTRY	POPULATION AFFECTED	% OF NATIONAL POPULATION
1.  China 2.  Vietnam 3.  India 4.  Indonesia 5.  Bangladesh 6.  Japan 7.  U.S. 8.  Egypt 9.  Brazil 10.  Netherlands 11.  Philippines 12.  Thailand 13.  Myanmar 14.  Nigeria 15.  United Kingdom 16.  Mexico 17.  Italy 18.  Germany 19.  Malaysia 20.  France	85,000,000 32,000,000 28,000,000 23,000,000 22,000,000 21,000,000 17,000,000 12,000,000 11,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000   9,000,000   7,000,000   5,000,000   5,000,000   4,000,000   4,000,000   3,000,000   3,000,000   3,000,000	6% 36% 2% 10% 14% 16% 5% 15% 6% 62% 10% 13% 13% 3% 8% 3% 6% 4% 10% 4%

Cities with the Most Population on Affected Land
CITY	POPULATION AFFECTED
1.  New York City 2.  Virginia Beach 3.  Miami 4.  New Orleans 5.  Jacksonville 6.  Sacramento 7.  Norfolk 8.  Stockton, CA 9.  Hialeah, FL 10.  Boston	1,870,000   407,000   399,000   343,000   290,000   286,000   242,000   241,000   225,000   220,

Yet, oh yet, the news in a slice of today’s minute covers the most obscene stories:

Why restaurant chains are investing in robots and what it means for workers

2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold

James Cameron Cut Out 10 Minutes of ‘Avatar 2’ Gun Violence Because It Made His Stomach Sick: ‘I Don’t Want to Fetishize Guns’ Anymore

CEOs from Elon Musk to Jamie Dimon fought to bring workers back to the office in 2022. Here’s who won—and who lost—the great return-to-office war

It is insanity what captures the “news” aggregators, the mainstream un-News, and what propaganda is fed 24/7/nanosecond daily: Lies, complete reversal of the truth, sick stories, propaganda, up is down, lies are truth.

Ukraine is losing. Amazing how weird the stories get about Putin, the people of Russia. Very very weird. Cold, death, blizzards, etc. Consuming any of this stuff will turn a steel stomach into a hissing haggis.

Get on with arming yourself against this perversion. Truth:

Russia Now Says Ukraine Losing 2 Battalions per Day in Donbass, 2nd Ukrainian Drone Attack on Engels

Let the Patriot Games Begin: by Pepe Escobar

Will Ukraine ever have enough Fire Power? Col Doug Macgregor

Battlefield Bakhmut: Why Russia & Ukraine are Fighting Over this City

Russian-Chinese Ties vs. US Aggression w/ Carl Zha & Mark Sleboda

LIVE: Ukraine’s LAST STAND w/ Scott Ritter and Dan Kovalik!

MEP Clare Daly DESTROYS the EU for Disastrous War in Ukraine

Screw it. Back to the King TIdes. Nature. Eighty mile an hour winds, and blood gulls and crows managing to fly.

Amazing nature, and the amazing stupidity of Apes with Nuke Missiles:

for a daughter who put down that dying dog Marley

you were carried home
baby’s room already sniffed by two
dogs named Mako, Orca
ironical since mother, son
were German Shepherds

You went to the river
with them, that band
which snakes along
artificial border
Rio Grande, Rio Bravo

dogs swimming at the edge,
reeds on one side, Mexicans on the other
all of us mojados checking each other
father speaking Spanish,
you blonde daughter
and hellacious “police dogs”

you were in diapers
mother breast-feeding
camping in Apache land
when four freaks
four-wheelers
drunk and methed out
coming through campground

Mako and Orca barked
wanted to come with me
as I followed white crazies
past midnight

those dogs spent hours
with you, in El Paso, in campgrounds
then we moved to another border
near Canada, Spokane, woods
snow, the clean river

they’d dive for stones
man, another crazy
dog story after dog story
you had them, and then
they were put down, hips shot through

then there was Spokane-born
Rio, named Tank by the breeder
then Katie came, amazing two
Shepherds from El Paso
underground, hard
basalt as a forever
bed, then Rio, down for the count
so Katie, mixed breed, held her own

old lady as a youngster
always a smile, Katie, always
ready to tag out
other dogs, then the Otis Man
who grabbed entire trees
loved water, trees
hit once by porcupine

Otis, Katie, those other dogs
long gone, until the Marley
came to you, tender hearted
a soul from an abused
home, he was loyal to
both you and mother
and skittish but
your friend, another smiling
mixed-breed, tail wagging
ears up, down
not digging guys so much

he is another tail tale
holds the quantum power
of animals alive and gone
particles at the subatomic
level his float, inside air near
you, in your own blood

that boy will be always
gravitation pull
now you have years
under your belt sweet daughter
stories hold the tears at bay
smile at all the seasons
you and Marley walked together
the ice, how the sky in Spokane
has four seasons, listen and taste the air
next week, in a year
the air and forests will
forever hold Marley’s bark

+–+

Note: I wrote a piece in my column over at the Pacific Northwest Weekly Inlander about our dog Rio, and holding him while he died. He wasn’t that old, and a twisted stomach was the cause of death.

I can’t find the piece, as those days in the early 2000’s are somewhere in the digital gulag, though there are articles and columns here: Paul Haeder, Inlander . It was actually a great piece, not mired in my sustainability days over in Spokane with all my work on Earth Day, teach-ins, and my radio show, the college teaching at two community colleges and Gonzaga, and my other graduate degree work at EWU in urban and regional planning.

Rio was amazing, a black Shepherd, and we picked him up from some family north of Spokane, and we were on our way to camp up north, near the Canadian border. He was black, big, radar giant ears, and he was car sick for a good six months. He was fearless, went after black bears, and swam in rapids to pick up balls I had that sank.

Even a few camping trips with him are the elements of molecules in my own cortex. The entire personality and his wiley ways and how he worked with people, children, babies, all of that, again, a master of a friend.

So many shepherds . . .

Too all dog lovers . . .

Second Note: Here, a couple, former “junkies in Seattle,” caring for those street cats: “Two souls, nine lives“!

[Seattle residents Joe and Nellie Salinas take care of more than 70 ‘street cats’ by setting up feed stations through the area. (Paul K. Haeder / Down to Earth NW Correspondent)]

Animal love in all the right places!

Headline news, no: “AOC Casts House Democrats’ Sole Vote Against Omnibus Spending Bill: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez cited “the dramatic increase in DHS and ICE spending” as the reason behind her vote.”

Oh, wouldn’t be a fine thing in the neighborhood, if this AOC, went rogue, Independent Party, on her hands and knees, and abplogizing:

• I should have never supported any 350 (dot) org or Al Gore or Hollywood “new green deal” because it’s all smoke and mirrors and carbon credits and more millionaires and billionaires making hay on the big green lie
• I should have called out the accused rapist Biden as “not in my name, not in my party,” early on and just weathered whatever storm would follow
• I should have never supported one dime for Israel or the Hebrewization of Politics-Business-Media-Finance-Banking
• I should have called out Pelosi for what she is — stock investor (sic) in war, chemicals, energy, and of course, recepient of inside trader dealing for her hubby
• I should have brought Cynthia McKinney and Jill Stein into my fold
• Oh, cry for me Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran: should have showed guts and not supported regime change
• Should have called a Jewish Conspiracy Spade a Spade with the Maidan, with Nato, with EuroTrashLandia’s sickness and hate against Russia
• Should have stood against corruption and thieving and murder and cancelling parties that Ukraine is all about

RE: Green as the New Black, Resistance is imperative | A panel discussion on dismantling the “New Normal” nightmare

Cory Morningstar has very meticulously, and very brilliantly, analyzed the deep connections that Greta has to the many power-structures, all of which seek to change the world. This excellent research should be widely read.

But why Greta? Why her photo? The clue lies in what she really advocates – the Fourth Industrial Revolution, aka, the New Green Deal. This is, very simply, transhumanism, which is the creation of a bio-digital world, where technology merges with humanity.

The oft-heard mantra of the environmentalists, “Change Everything,” means changing what it means to be human, what it means to work, what it means to be free, what it means to live a happy life. In short, it is Neo-Eugenics – or, the improvement of humanity by way of technology. This gives a whole new meaning to Greta’s iconic phrase, “I want you to panic.”

But why Greta? Because she belongs, as it were, to global warming “royalty,” being directly related to that very Swedish scientist who, a little over a century ago, invented, and then popularized, the concepts of both global warming and man-made climate change. His name was Svante August Arrhenius (1859–1927), and his mother was a Thunberg.

Biden and Rape:

A NEW PIECE of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade’s claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. Joe Biden. Biden, through a spokesperson, has denied the allegations. Reade has claimed to various media outlets, including The Intercept, that she told her mother, a close friend, and her brother about both the harassment and, to varying degrees of detail, the assault at the time. Her brother, Collin Moulton, and her friend, who has asked to remain anonymous, both confirmed that they heard about the allegations from Reade at the time. Reade’s mother died in 2016, but both her brother and friend also confirmed Reade had told her mother, and that her mother, a longtime feminist and activist, urged her to go to the police.

Hebrews and Nazi’s = “Medvedev: Israel arms shipments to Ukraine will destroy relationship with Russia — ‘If they are supplied with weapons, then it is time for Israel to declare Bandera and Shukhevych their heroes.'”

Listen to Matt on how all of this is an Anglo Saxon conspiracy . . .

Pelosi = “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accrued millions from husband’s trades: report”

McKinney =

In April, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., got in a whole heap of trouble after she called for a thorough investigation of what George W. Bush knew before September 11 about the potential for the sort of terrorist attacks that would shake the nation and the world on that fateful day. McKinney is one of the most outspoken members of the current Congress and her statements were typically blunt. “We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th,” she told a radio interviewer.

“What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered? . . . What do they have to hide?” McKinney’s call for a real investigation of what Bush knew — along with her parallel suggestion that it was necessary to conduct a review of possible war profiteering by members of the Bush administration and corporations with close ties to the president — drew a firestorm from pundits and partisans. By John Nichols

Jill Stein =

Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua =

U.S. President Joe Biden’s top Latin America advisor has admitted U.S. sanctions against Russia over Ukraine intentionally seek to hurt Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

The United States imposed a series of harsh sanctions on Russia following Moscow’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on February 21, and its subsequent military intervention in Ukraine on February 24.

Juan S. González, Biden’s special assistant for Latin America and the U.S. National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, made it clear that these coercive measures against Russia are also aimed at damaging the economies of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba have socialist governments that Washington has long tried to overthrow. All three currently suffer under unilateral U.S. sanctions, which are illegal according to international law. (Ben Norton)

Nuland and Kagan and Blinken and . . .

Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her, because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for deputy secretary of state for political affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics and dreams of continued NATO expansion, an arms race on steroids and further encirclement of Russia. 

Nor do they know that from 2003 to 2005, during the hostile U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Nuland was a foreign policy advisor to Dick Cheney, the Darth Vader of the Bush administration.

You can bet, however, that the people of Ukraine have heard of neocon Nuland. Many have even heard the leaked four-minute audio of her saying “Fuck the EU” during a February 2014 phone call with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. 

During the infamous call on which Nuland and Pyatt appeared to be plotting to replace or undermine elected Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, Nuland expressed her not-so-diplomatic disgust with the European Union for favoring former heavyweight boxer and austerity champ Vitali Klitschko to take over as prime minister, instead of the U.S. first choice, Artseniy Yatsenyuk, who indeed took power after Yanukovych was ousted about three weeks later. (source)

Hebrewization of AmeriKKKA?

Although many of you have heard about its Trotskyite origins, the neoconservative movement as we know it today dates mainly from the 1960s. It was in that decade that you see the startling rise of Holocaust consciousness beginning with the Eichmann trial and the Oscar-winning movie Judgment at Nuremberg, both of which had a major impact not only on the Jewish community but on the general public here as well. These events were followed by the rise of the New Left, the Counter-Culture, and the anti-war and Black Power movements, as well as the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. All of these left a number of mainly—but by no means exclusively—Jewish public intellectuals and liberals feeling, in the words of Irving Kristol, “mugged by reality” in a way that launched them on a rightward trajectory.

That trajectory gained momentum in the early 1970s, when the anti-war candidate, George McGovern, won the Democratic nomination for president, and when Israel seemed to teeter briefly on the edge of defeat in the early stages of the 1973 war, which itself was immediately followed by the Arab oil embargo. Two years later, the UN General Assembly passed the “Zionism is Racism” resolution, and U.S. power globally seemed in retreat after the collapse of its clients in Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. These all created a context in which neo-conservatism gained serious political traction.

At this point, it may be useful to address an important ethno-religious issue. Neoconservatism has largely been a Jewish movement. By no means, however, are all neoconservatives Jewish. The late Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett, former CIA chief James Woolsey, and Catholic theologians Michael Novak and George Weigel are just a few examples of non-Jews who have played major roles in the movement.

That said, it’s true that most neoconservatives are Jewish and, increasingly, Republican.

Ukraine and murder incorporated? “Ukrainian Regime Led by Media Darling Volodymyr Zelensky Kidnaps Student Dissidents, Bans Opposition Parties, Shuts Down Independent Media, Commits Egregious War Crimes and Imposes Regressive Labor Laws”

Oh, well, AOC is not made of that fiber, and she is not anything special, and she is a product of celebrity cultism, backroom dealing, and, well, who the hell would okay a Netflix documentary (sic) on her so so short life?

And what does the DSA have to show for a half century of working within the Democratic Party? The party has abandoned any pretense to social reform, it has waged permanent war and overseen a massive growth in social inequality. The “realignment” strategy paved the way for the Democratic Party’s rapid movement ever further to the right. It succeeded in facilitating the Democrats’ adoption of identity politics, based on doling out privileged positions to corrupt representatives of various racial groups, and a more open acceptance of human rights imperialism.

Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA are carrying forward their pro-imperialist, anti-communist traditions into the 21st century. Their main role, as expressed in the interview, is to serve as gatekeepers of the bourgeois political left, channeling social opposition into the Democratic Party and placing its left opponents beyond the pale. Those who fight to mobilize the working class (“class essentialism”) for a break with the Democratic Party are “cynical bad faith actors” who want to “destroy.” (source = “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party”)

Oh well, just a thought experiment for my blog, really, just 15 minutes of ruminating. Now get back to your day!

You and I, dear reader, if you are of the composition of say Rosa Parks, or Rachel Carson, MLK, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis (or, fill in the social justice champion of your choice), did not sign up for this, or approve of it, or okayed it in our name:

Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell “cooling credits” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads. 

Several researchers MIT Technology Review spoke with condemned the effort to commercialize geoengineering at this early stage. Some potential investors and customers who have reviewed the company’s proposals say that it’s not a serious scientific effort or a credible business but more of an attention grab designed to stir up controversy in the field. (A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate)

There are so many words and concepts that can be leveled against these people, and there a literally millions of millionaires and billionaires and the legions of BlackRock/Forbes/City of London/JP Morgan Chase/Blackstone economic hitmen and hitwomen on board with pummeling planet earth, planet people, planet biodiversity with their venereal disease of the spirit. Economicus-Sapiens.

Many of my colleagues and I believe that our global civilization is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, one that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse… Our global situation is incredibly challenging today because of the adoption of the western economic model (e.g., materialism, consumerism, and throw-away mentality) throughout much of the developed and developing economies of the world. (Kitty Hawk Apollo 14 lunar captain, Edgar Mitchell — inspired by Robert Hunziker’s Dissident Voice piece, “Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s “State of the Planet” Message Revisited”)

Robert cites a bunch of UFO activity in 2022: LiveScience article — “US Military Reports ‘several hundred’ UFO Sightings in 2022, Pentagon Officials Claim” — “UFO reports from U.S. military personnel are flooding the government’s new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The U.S government’s brand-new UFO-tracking office has been open for half a year, but business is already booming.”

Imagine, the idea of all of us being connected through quantum mechanics, consciousness, those waves and particles that we in our ignorance call instinct and ESP. You do not have to go onto the Internet too long to find dogs, with cameras and mics in the house, tracking their activity when the “masters” are on their was, or about to get on their way, miles from home, at random times, before getting inside the car and putting pedal to the metal.

Dr. Mitchell founded Noetics Foundation to investigate consciousness, ongoing for 38 years, eventually coming up with a quantum hologram. “The universe is self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial and error interactive learning participatory informationally nonlocally interconnected evolving quantum system. . . .

“Energy, we know is the foundation of all matter; information is the foundation of knowing. Both were present at the moment of creation, whether in a big bang, or in a continuous process of creation in galaxies. It is likely that just as energy produced the physical structure that we recognize as waves and particles, in our macro-world, the seeds of consciousness were also present to produce awareness and intentionality.” Ibid, p. 196. (Source: Edgar D. Mitchells’ Consciousness Presentation, University of Advancing Technologies induction into the Leonardo DaVinci Society for The Society of Thinking, 2011; from the Hunziker piece)

This is the time of the prince of peace — “Jesus Christ is called the Prince of Peace because He restores every broken relationship, provides a well-ordered and balanced life, and offers the assurance of eternal life.”

Think about the “economy,” the driving force of Civilization after we pummeled our hunter and gatherer lives, after mother culture was fenced off for wheat and meat.

“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world.”

“The gazelle and the lion are enemies only in the minds of the Takers. The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn’t massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one, not to satisfy its hatred of gazelles but to satisfy its hunger, and once it has made its kill the gazelles are perfectly content to go on grazing with the lion right in their midst.” (Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael.”)

Ahh, the collective consciousness of humanity, with that belief in our interconnectedness, oh where oh where is that in this world of planned pandemics, bioweapons from hell, or ferrets a la bat cornonavirus manipulation? All those bioweapons labs in Ukraine, run by the DOD/CIA, and alas, that precautionary principle and do no harm ethos?

In a world of PayDay loans (as in loan sharking) and one where a fine of $1000 for front yard grass too long, or homes and land forefeitured for back taxes unpaid, for all the uglinesss of millions spent on ZioAzovNaziLensky to get into jets for shopping sprees or photo ops with the Demons of Peace, the US Senate and US Congress and US Administration and the MIC, we are at a point where most people give up, tell me there’s nothing they can do about another trillion dollars for war, or nothing they can do about the homelessness issue, or climate disturbance, etc.

Hands in the air all the way to the Post-Christmas bargain basement sales.

I am hearing from so many people who are damaged, full of the trauma of capitalism, of daily living in a world of dog-eat-dog, where the concept of taking a village to raise a child and taking a village to protect the infirm, old and sick is laughed at. We can get a crypto coin guy a bail hearing for $250 million, and we can see the obscenities of the Wolves of Wall Street dictating who and when and how we, the 80 Percent, pay pay pay for their dirty deals, and we can get Sunday Un-News shows yammering on and on on why there is a food crisis, why there is an energy crisis, and on and on, but what do we really need to solve the problems.

Steady State Economics, as the Apollo 14 pilot might have advocated:

A steady state economy features relatively stable size. It is ideally established at a size that leaves room for nature and provides high levels of human wellbeing. The term typically refers to a national economy, but it can also be applied to the economy of a city, region, or the entire planet. The size of an economy is generally determined by multiplying population by the amount that each person consumes. This quantity in a steady state economy neither grows nor contracts from year to year. Herman Daly, the dean of ecological economics, defines a steady state economy as… “an economy with constant stocks of people and artifacts, maintained at some desired, sufficient levels by low rates of maintenance throughput, that is, by the lowest feasible flows of matter and energy from the first stage of production to the last stage of consumption.” (Source)

This is not the wet dream of Kissinger or the World Economic Forum or the Billionaire Gates Class . . . not of eugenics, not of one world government, one NeoLiberal Dictator determining who gets what, where we live, how much space is too much space, etc. It is the classic, connectivity, the interconnectedness of us, the universe, the mountains, forests, plains, wetlands, coral reefs, and on and on. Again, the Apollo pilot:

Mitchell listed critical planetary boundaries under siege: (1) rapid population growth beyond sustainability: 1 billion in 1804, 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1960, 8 billion in 2022; (2) degradation of life-sourcing ecosystems; (3) excessive resource depletion such as shrinking forests; (4) eroding soils; (5) failing freshwater resources; (6) more frequent crop-withering heat waves; (7) collapsing fisheries; (8) expanding desertification; (9) frequency of extraordinary powerful storms; (10) shrinking natural resources; (11) melting glaciers.

Again, thinking and acting globally, but also being and believing as a nationstate, and binding cultures and languages as closely to what a people’s worth is. Out with the dirty and old, but in with the retrofitted, the classic and the things that make sense for clean air, clean water, clean soil, peace and as disease free as possible.

But letting science run amok, well, that is the current state, and the economists and propagandists and marketers are believing in their own religious capacity to pull the wool over the collective eyes of us, the 80 Percent.

“The current state of science is not good enough … to either reject, or to accept, let alone implement” solar geoengineering, wrote Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative, in an email. The initiative is calling for oversight of geoengineering and other climate-altering technologies, whether by governments, international accords or scientific bodies. “To go ahead with implementation at this stage is a very bad idea,” he added, comparing it to Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s decision to use CRISPR to edit the DNA of embryos while the scientific community was still debating the safety and ethics of such a step.  

Shuchi Talati, a scholar in residence at American University who is forming a nonprofit focused on governance and justice in solar geoengineering, says Make Sunset’s actions could set back the scientific field, reducing funding, dampening government support for trusted research, and accelerating calls to restrict studies.

These are very fragile times, and if indeed there is more UFO “activity” for 2022, I wonder what those star people are seeing in us? All those radio and television signals out in space of Hitler, of the killing fields of World War I and II, and Vietnam, and the genocides throughout just the last 122 years. And now, all that negative energy coming from the Nulands, Kagans, Blinkens, Zelenky’s, this Herbewization of war-economics-poverty, and then all those useless generals and CIA, both the political parties, goy or Jew, it doesn’t matter.

This nuclear posturing by Biden, and now talk of winning and controlling a controlled strategic nuclear strike into Russia, we can you imagine the universe feeling the pain of Homo Bellum (war) never learning, always destroying, until we have every fetus incubating inside human or mammal or other species with dozens of forever chemicals, PCBs, hormone disrupters, neuro-destroying toxins.

Shall I repeat how destructive this species is, without the Prince of Peace or MLK or the lot of them being listened to and shepherding us into a state of collective whole consciousness. “Neurotoxicity occurs when the exposure to natural or manmade toxic substances (neurotoxicants) alters the normal activity of the nervous system. This can eventually disrupt or even kill neurons, key cells that transmit and process signals in the brain and other parts of the nervous system.”

Go to my blog, and look for Charles Miller and the Law of Time Interview.

Here is another hyper-fear but creative look at how to get out of this mess: (Elizabeth G. Boulton, PhD)

I’ll take all this with a grain of lithium salt, as we know the greenies like 350.org and Bill McKibben as all for Biden-Blinken-KIagan-Nuland warmongering. Read Matthew Ehret:

Prince Charles has just given the world 18 months to save the world. Over the past years, the prince and his father (among other inbred aristocrats of Europe) have taken an incredible interest in the safety of the earth from the pollution emitting machines who greedily consume and reproduce without any consideration for Mother Gaia. In recent months this green transformation of the globe has taken the form of the “Green New Deal” promoted in the U.S. by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders. A children’s campaign endorsed by pope Francis and led by Greta Thunberg has spread across Europe and America while a Billionaires Club under the guidance of Al Gore, and George Soros is funding a Sunrise Movement to fight global warming.

Is this passion to save the planet from humanity genuine? Do these oligarchs and billionaires really care so much that their support for a Green New Deal is as benevolent as the media portrays… or is something darker at play? To answer these questions, we will have to first quickly review what the Green New Deal IS, then where it came from and then finally what its architects have stated they wish to accomplish with its implementation. (source)

Again, science, with no limits, with no deep holism, without any regard for consequences is devilish. But expecting Indians and nations in Africa to stay in the mud, in huts, with no technology that the West has, is the ultimate of racism.

Writing his 1982 “There are no Limits to Growth” as an early publication of the Club of Life, LaRouche wrote:

“It is not the growth of industry which destroys the world’s forests. In most cases, the cause is a lack of industrial output, a lack of good industrial management of the ecosphere. Over the past fifteen years, the greatest single cause for destruction of the world’s “ecology” has been the toleration of the policies demanded by the so called “ecologists,” the so-called “neo-Malthusians” of the Club of Rome, of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), of the World Wildlife Fund, the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, the ‘Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Sierra Club, and so forth and so on. We are not putting enough industrially-produced energy, in the form of water management, chemicals, and so forth, into the farming of the Earth’s biosphere. At the same time, we are using biomass for fuel and other “traditional” uses, in cases we should be using nuclear-generated energy supplies, and using modern, industrially produced materials in place of timber for housing and so forth.”

Case closed now. There is no balance, no alternative view, not robust critical thinking, no deep teach-in’s, no debates, no smart people with different perspectives in the same room. We are held captive by the monsters, and you know who they are: So, climate change, and no new deal for nature, and really this lock up of the world for the West is the same chavanism of the West and Russia. There is no Plan E for a planet run by Hollywood, Banks, Military, Media, Billionaires, Rotten Digital Gulags.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
― W.E.B. DuBois

Well, it’s not over until the fat lady sings! And, in dead-end USA, where we bomb, sanction, pollute, dictate, kidnap, bulldoze over, imprison, we can’t use that saying anymore.

It ain’t over until the calorically challenged female/LGBTQ+ non-binary person sings?

“It ain’t over till (or until) the fat lady sings” is a colloquialism which is often used as a proverb. It means that one should not presume to know the outcome of an event which is still in progress. More specifically, the phrase is used when a situation is (or appears to be) nearing its conclusion. It cautions against assuming that the current state of an event is irreversible and clearly determines how or when the event will end. The phrase is most commonly used in association with organized competitions, particularly sports.

The point is we see this concept time and time again, as we now are just getting done with the debriefing ZioAzovNaziLensky from his bizarre and pathetic trip to the people’s chamber, i.e. the Lobby Lounge, that is, both houses of congress?

Embarrasing is not the word.

A bloody laugh fest, while this dirty little man hangs with the dirty old man, and he is greeted as some sort of lord, knight, king?

The US and Wester Press (sic) pump up this criminal (on the left) while they forget to parse what is happening to the other criminal (on the right). So, this fool on the left looks like a strip club little man bouncer, and can you imagine those rednecks and woke-necks allowing someone in that people’s house without coat, tie and skirt and dress? But this dirty little man gets in like Flint.

All working together to make Orwell seem like a wet dream: “VP Kamala Harris says she would “require” social media to work with The White House to protect “democracy””

Criminals, one and all. This is the Nuland, Hillary, Albright fabric of the new, old dead in the head Amerikkkan female?

Again, smiles, all fun, while the Donbass gets plastered with USA-French missiles, and of course, death, maiming, PTSD for children. Hitting hospitals, schools, apartment buildings. These people, every one of them in that ugly Lobby Lounge, are criminals, and they need the Marie Antoinnete treatment:

This freak of a Jewish Something gets his fourth passport — and the flag, man. Imagine that, this thief, this Pandora Papers thief.

While his, “wife,” shops while she doesn’t drop: Sick. That perversion Pelosi handed the ZioAzovNaziLensky an American flag, one that is folded for those who died in wars i.e. USA uniformed soldiers.

“Ukraine Dictator’s Wife Caught Dropping 40,000 Euros on Christmas Presents in Paris”

This is so so warped. The so called people’s chamber sullied by the thief and murderer, ZioAzovNaziLensky, and those warped republicans and super-warped democrats applauded while pushing out crocodile tears.

Yeah, the devil wear prada. The ZioAzovNaziLensky’s have villa in Monaco, a mansion in Miami, and millions stashed around the globe in those shadow banks, those Panama-Monaco-Delaware-Swis accounts.

So, yes, curtain call, we can only hope for these Republicans and Democrats to get down and dirty with their Bioweapon and that mRNA poison.

As the country — the 80 percent of the country — lives in fear, teetering on eviction-foreclosure. Teetering on health uncaring care bills from hell. This is the devaluing of the public, and here, another show with the Dirty ZioAzovNaziLensky getting his 4 hours of news (sic) cycle fame.

And, I have written about domestic abuse. About being trapped by your abuser. About the Stockholmd Syndrome aspect of this PTSD. Battered Wife Syndrone is not yet in the DSM-V as a stand-alone, but PTSD is the overarching diagnosis. “Black and Blue: The Many Ways of Domestic Violence World” November 28th, 2022

Each story I can cite from the ground, from us, the 80 Percent, can be a plethora of teachable moments about how Capitalism is so corrupting, and how the political class, the Harvard boys and girls, all the Holly-Dirt and Celebrity Crack Cocaine we are fed, all of that, it has created more than depression and fear. It is a sickenss at the epigentic level, as each year, our people have mutations in their DNA, from Womb to Tombstone.

Here, another one story with a thousand tendrils. DOmestic Violence, marriage, children, that Xmas season, subsidized aprtments, and then the rules rules rules will get this victim evicted? Oh, Charles Dickens, man, where are you now to write about this injustice?

“Beat up for months by her husband — and their maintenance man — Waldport apartment managers now threatening to evict the victim“

Here, quoting the victim:

After attending her husband’s arraignment last Thursday, Kim Segaline returned home to find a note on her door instructing her to call Jerry Mascolo, manager of subsidized properties for Coos Bay-based Grand Management Services.

“Failure to do so will result in an eviction,” said the typed note signed by Grand’s site manager Laura Tommila.

When she called, Segaline said, Mascolo told her that because she and her daughter lived in the apartment through Reimer’s job there, she would have to be out in five days. She could only stay if he was there.

And this is the blue state of Oregon, and then, of course, we are talking about a management service. Oh yeah, I’ve written about those criminals: “Once a US Soldier, Always Wounded, Always Losing! The American military is a mercenary army of the poor in the employ of the rich . . . .”

The complete blashpamey and inhumanity of this country, and yet, we can’t expect clean water, decent housing, safe food, real people’s health care, public transportation, safety nets for air travel, real control of FIRE — finance insurance real estate. This is the jungle, AmeriKKKa, and of course, Klanada and EuroTrashLandia and U-Inbred-Kingdom, more of the same dog-eat-dog treatment.

Lies, and the curtain call, we can only hope, is for those Five Eyes and Israel and EU-UK-USA!

Patrick Lancaster is an American video-journalist and U.S. Navy veteran fluent in Russian who has reported from the Donbass since 2014.

His latest video posted on March 10 shows how people living on the edge of Donetsk, one kilometer from the Ukrainian position in Peski, have been subjected to constant shelling by the Ukrainian military over the last eight years and have had to survive living underground in bomb shelters.

Last Thursday, Ukrainian army shells struck a children’s playground, a football field and state building near the post office—prompting residents to flee as it was “scary to stay here now.” Earlier a residential neighborhood had been struck by a grad missile, while other Ukrainian army attacks destroyed schools.

According to Danya, a young man Lancaster interviewed, the Ukrainian army did not have exact targets but “just shoots and don’t care where it lands.”

Another woman said that the targets that were hit “were not new targets. In 2014, they shelled here too. Exactly in this place. The same coordinates. Torturing us all these eight years.” (source)

Until we have The Duran, monetized by Alexander and Alex, from Cyprus and UK, interviewing Garland Nixon, man: “Garland Nixon: Where Did The $40 Billion In Ukraine Aid ACTUALLY Go?”

This is a sad sack country, stripped of agency, so dumb downed, so broken with chronic illnesses, broken to the point of distraction from history, truth, critical thinking, in order to go through the Black Mirros scrolling and scrolling into lobotomy hell.

Until children and women are evicted on rules, fines, codes, contracts, technicalities, laws, regulations, fine print, tickets, penalties, outside the box. Hell. Do you recognize any of your neighbors and members of the Chamber of Commerce or business community here?

How about a circle tree ring like image? See anyone you know or have read about?

It is always funny and sad reading reports from the Chronicle of Higher Education, and now, drum roll, a 26-page report:

A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection Professors are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future.

In 20 years of teaching at Doane University, Kate Marley has never seen anything like it. Twenty to 30 percent of her students do not show up for class or complete any of the assignments. The moment she begins to speak, she says, their brains seem to shut off. If she asks questions on what she’s been talking about, they don’t have any idea. On tests they struggle to recall basic information.

“Stunning” is the word she uses to describe the level of disengagement she and her colleagues have witnessed across the Nebraska campus. “I don’t seem to be capable of motivating them to read textbooks or complete assignments,” she says of that portion of her students. “They are kind kids. They are really nice to know and talk with. I enjoy them as people.” But, she says, “I can’t figure out how to help them learn.”

Marley, a biology professor, hesitates to talk to her students about the issue, for fear of making them self-conscious, but she has a pretty good idea of what is happening. In addition to two years of shifting among online, hybrid, and in-person classes, many students have suffered deaths in their families, financial insecurity, or other pandemic-related trauma. That adds up to a lot of stress and exhaustion. In a first-year seminar last fall, Marley says, she provided mental-health counseling referrals to seven out of her 17 students.

Oh, so much to unpack just in these paragraphs, let alone from the report. Hmm, so, since 1983 I have been teaching at colleges and universities, both community colleges and state universities, and even a private high end (sic) college. Seattle, Auburn, Spokane, El Paso, Las Cruces, and, other places, including Portland and Vancouver. I have also been a graduate student twice, with two hard-earned master’s degrees, while teaching at the same time.

Disengaged is another term for dead-end capitalism. Or, go follow the money. Or, the rich get richer and the poor get nothing. Amazing how quickly the baseline has shifted: When I was an underegraduate, I could fill up the car for $9 bucks, drive to Mexico, do a diving trip, get on a train and hit up Chihuahua and Copper Canyon and end up spending $50 with some good tequila and food thrown in. That was a trip that enabled culture, man, cross cultural learning, and using a language other than my primary one, and interacting with people, sea, land, and getting life to the fullest.

Not really possible today without a big wad of Benjamins, and, yes, there are no sleepy little calm fishing villages in Mexico or Central America anymore. It is a war zone for most traveling on the cheap.

This world, now especially, is part of the quickening, as youth are seeing the collapse of so much around them. Parents are on meds, and so much work is needed to patch up communities. Disengagement is also seeded throughout the public. Stay at home and slutp up terrible flicks on Netflix and see your life flittered away. The backyard is the playground. Go out to eat through the drive thru, or do take in. The fabric of a community has always been frayed. Columbine, you know, suburbs of ennui and sick video games.

The K12 schools are rotting to the core, and that includes so much politicalization, so much mediocracy, so much empty heads, rah-rah, political incorrectness, so much cancel, litigation, and the end of history, so to speak: right wing nuts are always right wing nuts, and the liberal class is ugly in shutting down debate, so ugly on the PC and cultural vapidity. It costs money to do basketball or baseball since summer leagues are what it’s all about. Sick capitalism.

Main Street is rolling up, thanks to on-line hell shopping, and meds are the way for 50 percent of the peeps, and, the oppressive politics of dementia at the top, war mongering in the middle, and even the metro sexuals and the middle of the road “liberals” have created splattered thinking. No one wants to be involved, and TikTok is Jerry Springer on steroids. Sick, painful, hurtful, prat fall, bridge jumper fun for all. That also has created a toxic background noise.

What to know, what to learn, how to move one step ahead? So, this is a racist country, but the new and next gilded age and classism are also on steroids.

It is one giant psychological experiment, swarm fear thinking, hive bandwagoning. Just one big event — Ukraine’s racism, attacks on civlians, the American Coup of Maidan, all of that, while this creep and smoke and mirrors criminal, Zelensky, gets more and more bucks, propaganda kudos and a complete psychological training on how to manipulate his own people, the gentiles, the Nazis — it is emblematic of the entire grift. And then what is happening in Europe, and in Canada, and in the USA, how this dialing for war lord bucks game never ends, nary a protest launched, and then the absolute corruption in that country, the new Jerusalem, and then the 24-hour news covering it, as in lies and bigger lies 24-7; and then China, and then COP26, and then the economy, stupid, and the celebrity venereal disease that is marketing and info-tainment and coverage of the most meaningless stuff. How can youth get a handle on anything, and so why is poetry important or learning what photosynthesis is? Where is the job and money in that?

How to bring a classroom into the community, and how to engage across all disciplines, and how to respect faculty, how to downgrade the institutional learning-management departments, and how to defund the Admin Class? Sports and campuses that are going hybrid? This must end before learning can begin.

Yep, being a true blue radical faculty is tough because careerism and the death of the true liberal class have created a campus and set of cohorts who are in many cases checked out and co-opted by capitalism.

As I’ve said many times — we need education that is cooperative teaching and mentoring across curriculums, and we need the business schools to go the way of the dodo, and why in hell are their ROTC programs in these schools, and what the hell are the drone degrees doing in schools? How much influence do those private and government grants have on the ethos and philosophy of a school?

K12? A complete overhaul, and then again, end Capitalism. You see, the people in a representative democracy need their own lobby, i.e. the poor people’s lobby, and the getting poorer lobby. End the tax abatements, the tax dodging, and alas, really, end shit jobs. Bring together the many generations, and of course, this is about dental-health-mental health-nutrition clinics in all neighborhoods, and then flip the curriculum and have those places as incubators of youth helping their communities. End this for-profit-everything/anything mentality.

Engaging youth in college? What the hell, man? So many chronic illneses, GAD (general anxiety disorder) and so much collective Stockholm Syndrome. The people in the Yale-Harvard-Elite Schools camp are running roughshod over us, the people, over the youth, with all of this techno hell, all of this tracking and Chromebook-soon-to-be-at-home-miseducation. Imagine a world without art classes, music, hiking, botany, learning city zoning by walking the hoods. Imagine a world that is 3D manipulated, thrown onto a digital dashboard, VR and AI and AR, where digital tokens are there for crumbs of incentives while the digital master metaverse mind and AI gatherers work out more ways to put youth into a digital gulag?

There should be a million boats, safari jeeps, teepees, tents, community school gardens, K12 and intergenerational stage plays, poetry slams, bio-blitzes, and so much more. We are atomized, and snookered by the pigs of Capital, all of them, telling us we need to work for them more, to devote 60 or 80 hours or a 100 hours a week to them. Musk, Bezos, Buffett, Walton, et al.

On shifting responsibilities —

“Our administration has shifted responsibility onto faculty more and more. I am now expected to be an instructor, career counselor, mentalhealth adviser, and personal coach.” —Biology instructor at a California community college

“Who is caring for the faculty who are supposed to be doing all this extra stuff for students without extra (or even adequate) compensation?” —Literature professor at a public university in North Carolina

“I fear it will take some time to bring us all back mentally and emotionally to the campus life we experienced before the pandemic. Administrations can speed this up by devoting time and resources to support all of us. They can also be creative about incorporating what we’ve learned about learning and mental health in the pandemic into a “new normal” campuscommunity life. Are there campuswide actions that could be taken to support the grown-ups on campus in their efforts to reach and support students? It feels like so many things are siloed when it’s becoming apparent we’re dealing with a systemic concern that very likely would benefit from some systemic interventions that support everyone.” — Beth McMurtrie, senior writer at The Chronicle.

Disengaged means stripped of the ability to put sweat equity in your neighborhood, town, zip code, public spaces. In fact, public spaces are stripped away, public transportation is a living hell of a joke, and the silos in society — those who dictate to us — have become more drachonian with computing technololgy. The planned pandemic and shut downs and sickening measures to social distance, to pull the Covid19 lie wool over our eyes, were just trial balloons in the capturing of more people into this world of fear-anxiety-selfdoubt and bowing to the masters. We are in a constant airport line, shoes off, bodies scanned, eyes captured, treated like cattle, manure, and we have accepted this as the price of being Homo Retailpithecus, Homo Erectus Consumopithecus.

This is not a Larson haha:

We have broken pipes and leaky roofs and dams about to burst and rivers drying up and toxins by the dozens in fetuses and unimaginable brewing chronic illnesses because of food, air, water, drugs, vaccines, and more. Yet, we have that time to spend trillions on war, and then, the cultural wars, while people die or freeze and get amputations or, well, the anxiety is the gift that keeps on giving in Capitalism as Inflammatory Disease:

Sign up for this one coming Jan. 2023:

Join our SAND Community Conversation with guests Raj Patel & Dr. Rupa Marya as they illuminate the hidden connections between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. What is deep medicine?  How can re-establishing our relationships with the Earth and one another help us to heal? We will combine Patel’s latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization with stories of Marya’s work with patients living in marginalized communities to begin to grasp the deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies, but the world. (SAND — and, you can put 0[zero] into the $ for a ticket and still get the Zoom Link, if you are financially struggling!)

Like a said in a past piece, A Bird of a Feather — Unexpected Africa — there were 60 people at this amazing photo-slide show/talk, on a Thursday, 6:30 pm. and no one under age 55 showed up. Imagine that, a perfect opportunity to talk to an artist, photographer, bird guy who grew up in Oregon and became an illustrator. No kiddos, no college students.

There is a crisis in the home, inside the family, and throughout extended families which are spread like knapweed seeds all across the land. There is no cohesion and no multigenerational connectivity. Having kiddos play the K12 idiota game is yet another way to strip away any interest they might have or what might be developed to go outside the boxes we have set for them to, well, fail, or become great consumers.

Engaged means dynamic, loud, sometimes over the top faculty like me being supported to be that, and to do some PT Barnum teach-ins, and have people from outside the education system come on campus.

SFCC presents tree seminars

Spokane Falls Community College presents a demonstration by Northwest Plant Health Care, a local tree service, on growing healthy ponderosa pines at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the cluster of ponderosa pines, southeast of the athletic field, adjacent to parking lot 9P, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Drive.

Participants will learn how to remove dead limbs from their trees. Arborists use ropes and no spikes to scale the tree and the dead limbs are cut to the trunk of a limb or the tree itself.

The event is free, and refreshments will be served.

On Wednesday, a panel discussion on the significance of trees takes place at 11:30 a.m. in SFCC’s SUB Lounges A and B, Building 17.

The panel members include: Rich Baker, working arborist; Carrie Anderson, Urban Forestry Council; Jim Flott, private tree consultant and former Spokane City forester; and Joe Zubaly, owner of Northwest Plant Health Care Inc.

For more information, contact Paul Haeder, Paulha@spokanefalls.edu.

This series of food-related columns by Haeder continues with: Jobs Not Jails – Riverfront Farms is About Digging the Soil; Urban Gardens Make Community – Pat Munts, mini-farm advocate; Flat Out Community Partnership – Vinegar Flats and East-Perry Market Are Value Added; Unmasking the Food Sleuth – Melinda Hemmelgarn on Food Media and the Balance of Power

Grain of Truth

by Paul H. Haeder

You probably remember Winona LaDuke as the two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate, running with Ralph Nader in 2000 and 2004. You probably didn’t know that she’s an enrolled member of the Anishinaabeg Tribe from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, where she’s locked in another tough battle — this time against huge multinational corporations that want to change her tribe’s traditional way of life.

At three engagements in Spokane last week, and in some private interviews, LaDuke talked about the need to defend native peoples’ rights to the Earth. And this epic debate can fit into a single grain of wild rice — the Manoominike-Giizis strain, or the “wild rice moon” grown by her people for many generations.

This small grain of plant life serves as a microcosm of the entire sustainability challenge we all face: making sure future generations — all peoples and all species — will have a planet worth living on with ecosystems and resources to achieve spiritual and material prosperity.

LaDuke has proven to be so much more than a media darling — she’s a spiritual guide for her tribe and for the thousands she’s come across along her journey. Mixing humor with a shaman’s intensity, LaDuke has written books like All Our Relations and Recovering the Sacred.

LaDuke sees the Minnesota reservations’ practice of harvesting wild rice as vital: “The wild rice harvest of the Anishinaabeg not only feeds the body, it feeds the soul, continuing a tradition which is generations old for these people of the lakes and rivers of the north.”

It struck me last week while spending time with LaDuke that her tribe’s battle to keep their wild rice wild, free from genetic manipulation, is a much more far-reaching illustration of what sustainability activists consider the struggle of our times: How to create an America that respects the land.

Many of us think along systemic lines, attempting to understand the steps the globe probably has to take to solve the collapsing systems, both environmental and societal. Yet we need reminding that this struggle to work with a burgeoning global human population — 9 billion by 2050 at the current 1.2 percent growth rate — needs nudging from storytellers like LaDuke.

Her struggle — our struggle — is tied to the biodiversity of wild rice, a sacred food. There are more than 60,000 acres of natural wild rice growing throughout the lakes and rivers of her tribal lands. But there are troubling parallels drawn to what’s happened to the sacred corn of Mesoamerica at the hands of the agri-business multinationals, where corn has been patented, controlled and even turned into what some call Frankenfood.

Domestication and genetic modification of wild rice threatens the genetic integrity of this plant. For more than 30 years, plant breeders have developed wild rice for commercial paddies. So today, most of the wild rice on the market comes from these paddies, almost 70 percent of it from California. “Millions of pounds of California wild rice comes into [Minnesota] to be processed,” says LaDuke, “some of that rice, if genetically engineered, would irreversibly contaminate our manoomin.”

LaDuke’s tenacity in understanding the sacred and reclaiming the wholeness of her people’s food is a valuable lesson for our times. She’s up against the juggernaut of Monsanto and Dupont, the largest seed companies in the world. Monsanto has spent $8 billion in the last few years buying up United States seed companies, while Dupont purchased Pioneer, the second largest seed company in the world.

“This concentration of control over world seed stocks is alarming to farmers on a worldwide scale, especially considering that the closer seeds seem to be held, the fewer there are.”

LaDuke puts all of our struggles into a feedback loop, connecting wild rice in Minnesota to sustainability in Spokane with the goal of creating a more independent, safe and stable food supply. “However you cut the statistics,” LaDuke says, “from the villages of India to the villages of northern Minnesota, there is a marked loss in worldwide biodiversity, and a closer hold on who controls the remaining seeds of the world.”

This issue of control took me back 32 years, to the time I was a newspaper reporter in the middle of a struggle for the soul of a mountain.

Environmentalists were trying to stop my school, the University of Arizona, from building roads and locating a large mirror telescope on Mount Graham, a 10,000-foot sky island sticking out of the Sonora Desert. Mount Graham was named after a white man who rode through the area many years ago, a Colonel James Graham, but for generations the San Carlos Apaches had referred to the entire range as “Pinaleno,” meaning “many deer.” It’s the holiest place for the Apaches, who acquire the power to become medicine men and women through singing and collecting herbs and water on that mountain.

Despite the importance and traditional use of the place, roads were cut and the telescope went up. LaDuke and I talked about that struggle, and she shared many similar struggles currently unfolding in Indian Country and elsewhere.

LaDuke’s power is in her ability to unearth the history of Native people’s struggles — and how that history is relevant today. There has been a lost connection between how the land should be used and how it actually is used — from wild rice in Minnesota to telescopes in Arizona. Reconnecting with the land is another step in the process, as her book puts it, of reclaiming the sacred.

**Paul Haeder is the sustainability liaison at Spokane Falls Community College, where he also teaches English. His KYRS radio show, Tipping Points: Voices on the Edge, covers sustainability issues.

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Or, this one, “80-year activist continues to spread passion — Encourages young people to get more active“

For years I worked my ass off creating special events, and bringing people from outside whichever college I was working at to engage with ideas, with students and faculty. It was an uphill battle, and being in the English Departments at respective institutions, I was not dealing with people who had a full deck upstairs, if you know what I mean. I did radio weekly shows, interviewed so many people I helped to bring to town. I helped create a Vietnam 20 Years After the Fall event, with dozens of venues and speakers and events and films.

The entire mess of USA is bleeding into everything, really, until we are at 2022-2023 with a world about to implode here there everywhere, and our youth are bogged down with commercialism, dead end education, foggy brains, endless lies and Orwellian Big Brother moves, until we have generations in the main fagged and ready to throw in the proverbial towel.

That’s not to say those rich kids, those kids in bigger cities, with government or academic or big player parents guiding them into special trips, programs, coaching, are not getting to the top of the Predatory and Insane Capitalism that is always vaunted, no matter which criminal billionaire or multimillionaire is put ont he pedestal. Imagine all the Eichmann Faustian Bargains, and these valued children of the upper economic class, the rich, will then in turn be the master blasters of the majority of good, decent youth who must follow the Dystopian Blues.

Yeah, Master Blaster a la Road Warrior:

Almost everything I did above and beyond just teaching would be disallowed today, and much of what and how I taught would be trigger warning material, stopped, and then, here we are, 2023 on the solstice horizon. Hell, most k12 kiddos don’t even know what a solstice is. Sad, destructive, anti-human.