SECTION THREE THE FINAL SLAUGHTER

 SECTION THREE

 THE FINAL SLAUGHTER

-3-1-    The Earth Movement

-3-2-  GHOST NETS

-3-3- PROUD TO BE PROGRESSIVE

-3-4-  WILLING DUPES

-3-5-   DO AS YE WILL    

-3-6-  FETID CESSPOOL

-3-7- BOREAL GATHERING

-3-8- I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

-3-9-  PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE

-3-10-  WHO ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE?

-3-11-   THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC

-3-12- BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY

-3-13-  TAROT FOR NEWBS

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-3-1--

THE EARTH MOVEMENT   OR

 THE FINAL SLAUGHTER 

      “Authority is derived from the free consent of the people”

Environmental wacko was the term used by Rush Limbaugh for nature lovers. He used to say that the only good tree is a dead tree, and you are a whack-O if you believe otherwise. Furniture, decking, house frames, and sports equipment are all good utilizations, but to the neo-cons, trees are a product exclusively. Many of us, however, feel that ...

trees need to be forests and not just baseball bats. 

           This planet will be spinning for a long time and ecosystems will need to have healthier forests than the ones that Capitalism has left us.   

D  ` I was dismayed as I searched many Pagan paths looking for the green ethics, SAVING SEEDS AND PLANTING TREES,  and such. On a forum I would post about an environmental issue, forests or something, and there would be dead air on Pagan websites. Then someone asks a question about healing light and pink candles, and then, BOOM! THE PHONES LIGHT UP!            

            I was kind of new to the internet and wanted to discuss forest issues, but Pagans didn’t seem interested. Now that seemed very odd to me since they are supposed to be “green” and, love nature and all that. Though I did find some environmental Pagan compadres, mostly with solitaries and witches, but it’s mostly about sending love and light. Love has yet to plant a tree. People do that. 
                Then I came across an article by Dr. Susan Greenwood in the book, Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future, and her view had me nodding in total agreement.

       ”Paganism is a philosophy that would join ancient and modern values in a religious way of life that would allow a regaining of kinship with nature. A religion that venerated nature would consider the protection of the earth and the restoring of nature as paramount. You would think. “
               Dr. Greenwood continued, " I thought Pagans would automatically be interested in the natural world, however there was more emphasis on ritual and a psycho-spiritual internal nature as a personal experience, rather than a connection to, or even an interest in the environment.

       Margot Adler in the 80’s, wrote that there was a split between Pagans with ecological principles who called for a change of lifestyle, and those with a religious vision that change would evolve by itself.”  

               Margot Adler, though deceased, is still a Facebook friend of mine and had communicated with me about this before her untimely death.  She also gave me some suggestions for other publications to read. 

         Her book ‘Bringing down the Moon” is the most highly recommended by me, for anyone who is re-connecting with the earth.  A great starting point, Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler has the science and the myth and she covers so much ground (pun intended). The facts and the mystery. A wonderful read.
                The conservation of the land and protection of our resources is the master key to long-term prosperity. This is the battle between the ecological values of the land versus the real estate values of the land. 

          A free national bus service would get many people where they need to go instead of everyone trapped by the Petroleum Plot where everyone has a car and car insurance and repair and registration and resale value to worry about.

         We need a real prosperity based on creating abundance and not a house of cards “on paper” prosperity, that continues to degrade all natural ecosystems. Resource extraction will be our undoing with all the shiny new bright green toys the left are proposing. Then there's Wall Street. where the rich man is the one who knows his corn and soybean futures, not the farmer. Capitalism creating prosperity is a myth. Unless you're a hedge fund manager.

            The press co-opted the word “green” as an umbrella for all environmentalists back in the early nineties in order to dilute the radical nature of the emerging Deep Green Schism. On one side are the city slicker liberals and on the other are the earth loving, left-and sometimes right-leaning anarchists.  

               Unfortunately, the radicals in the late 80’s could not rise above petty disagreements and internecine infighting to make the Green Party a viable Third Party as the nineties emerged. The time has passed for the Green Party; they should have recruited Bernie Sanders a long time ago. Bernie has held elected office in the Congress and Senate for more years than all the Green party candidates put together.

       Tainted with the limousine liberal marxists, the Green Party needs to come out more Independent.  Call it the Green Independent Party. Win one for the GIP. Two thirds of the population would consider themselves independent or green. It's the nature lovers whose voices have been silenced by the weak stream media and the reporting on the shenanigans in Washington DC. the last ten years. 

 The smartest thing to do in 2026 is to start some sort of Independent third party that I have named the #IndependentMajorityParty or IMP for short.  As in troublemaker. Actually, I'm going to suggest Independents and Progressives do a makeover of the Green Party.

       There are thousands of political offices infested with GOP vermin and end of the worlders, and we need to build foundations for a large third party and get them and most of the aforementioned tapeworms out of power. Democrats have become a writhing pile of attorneys who see the poor as helpless and needing management.  They need to go also.       

Independents see how a small business oriented localized economy could return. In it's final form, America will pioneer the Market Socialism concept. 

 Progressives and Independents can easily take over the Green Party which is already on the ballot in what? 47 states?  Most people that look into the Green Party accept their platform, but seem reluctant to back most candidates. You don't put the effort into a presidential race, but congressional races.  There is a structure in place with the Green Party, but I'll tell you what. I have been registered with the Green Party since 1994 and as a Green and I think it's a great idea for Greens, Progressives and Independents to work together against fascism.

 Independents have nowhere to tie their horse you know? And we're the majority! You can't just toss the rope like they do in the movies. 

              In the 70’s and early 80’s, being green meant more than recycling newspaper. A deep green knows the source of pollution in our products.  A hardcore green doesn’t want ANY of the old large trees to be cut. Less than 5% of the ancient tree forests remain ffs. By my definition, clearcutting is when you chop down more than four trees an acre. 

        My particular view is that all clear-cutting can be banned, and our paper and wood product needs can be satisfied with selective logging, the growing of high cellulose perennials or annuals such as hemp and of course paper and wood recycling. This is why I suggest we tariff plastic, not countries. You ABSOLUTELY have to preserve every last old tree and we secretly would love to ban clear-cutting world-wide. Raising the cost of plastic with a tariff would  would finally give wood and paper recycling a real chance. 

     Let’s face it, recycling has yet to achieve its real potential because we are not trying hard enough. The demand for plastic is ceaseless as a cheap alternative for everything. Tariff plastic which is holding back all the other technologies that would emerge and not be responsible for ecocide and plastic in mother milk.

 

                    There’s woodlot management to boost rural incomes where landowners sell selectively cut trees with no real net loss of canopy. This can be part of a simple form of sustainability that enables forested lot owners to make money and be part of the overall return to a small economy. There is less biotic diversity in the deep shaded areas so woodlot management can be a real win-win.

                I would love to see the return of local lumber yards for one thing. Local jobs, local lumber, custom cutting and jobs in furniture making again. We gave up craftsmanship for cheap throwaway garbage made my robots in China. 
               Yes, it’s true, by banning clear cutting (world wide), there would be inflation for wood products at first until prices “float up” to where they should be. So craftspeople can get a good price for their product. Then prices stabilize as thousands of small markets open up with woodlot management. Fortifying supply and avoiding shortages. Trickle down just isn’t happening, and resource extraction directly robs generations yet unborn. 

        We see it ;  the American workerr sees it. We saw the lumber yards close and the Granges go empty.  We know we are losing a lot of what America was with everything being tech and modern. It doesn't feel modern, it feels clunky and puerile. Like dealing with a fifth grader with psychopathic tendencies. Neighborhoods with small grocery stores nearby. Somehow massive warehouses and 3000 miles of shipping was what we wanted. I don't think so.

            Today the old school green mocks the label on the plastic soda bottle that says, “environmentally friendly.” There’s a certain understanding that all plastic is an abomination. The Pacific Garbage Patch is what we were trying to avoid.  Micro-plastics in mothers milk is the result.

        The production of plastic has created billions of tons of toxic waste, and no one can seem to stop it or slow down the demand for petroleum-based products. The Pacific Island garbage patch is the "we told you so" by environmentalists.

                Dioxins and other poisons are working their way down through fissures and macropores underground, and this dangerous mixture of chemicals is worming its way to our underground water supply. Humankind has been irresponsible by allowing this. By not even caring.

            Earth killers will keep killing and it will take some work to stop them. Then, how many decades will people spend trying to ameliorate the damage? Will the destroyers be held responsible?
              Being green meant more than planting a tree back then. It meant being prepared for the battle with the elitist industrial tyrants who are bent on wasting our earth. 

        Thirty years later we are stunned at the apathy.

        You seemed stunned in recent years when you realized that they(billionaires and the criminally insane power mongers) don’t care, and they don’t, and they don’t think you care enough to stop them. Woke used to mean awareness of the destruction of the earths systems, not the virtue signaling nonsense of today.

        I ask when is" Ecosystem Pride " Month?
                  There are “experts” that claim we are hardly using the earth at all, and this planet could hold 15 to 20 billion people. Yikes! Probably the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. Not a shred of land ethics there!

        Most people don’t seem to have the foresight to see that our ecosystem resource base could be destroyed if we stay on this path of uncontrolled births and corporate resource extraction insanity. 

        People want to colonize Mars but look what we are doing to near space. Hundreds of thousands of objects (space junk) travelling at 11,000 miles an hour encircle our earth. 30,000 more satellites are being planned to be sent up. I don't remember voting for this. Science is leaving it up to you Zoomers to clean up the mess before it comes crashing down onto peoples homes.

         Let's see if we agree here on step one to support the earth movement. "Have two and you're through." Don't be responsible for more than two births. Maybe you can afford to raise ten children, but will the earth be able to feed the 400 descendants ten generations later? Not a fan of Elon Musk.
              How about a voluntary population cap and I propose we make 9 billion the cap and give ourselves till 2050 to accomplish this with a permanent leveling off of the world’s population at that point. With 7.2 billion now (wait what? 7.6 billion now!! Dude. Update. We hit 8 billion last week shit... we have to put the brakes on soon.  

        Every country would be encouraged to comply but not forced because we want to avoid any sort of international world order.  Limit the population of every country to 10% more growth before leveling off. The United States with 340 million people would cap its sustainable permanent population at 375 million. Seems like a reasonable goal, doesn’t it? Show them we don't need laws to do the right thing. We're going for less government religion and religious control.

       Nevertheless, I’ve been accused of eugenics simply for suggesting a population cap. A raw cultural taboo nerve I hit there.  Ow!

             I’m here to help you undo the brainwashing that has occurred. You can tell when you have hit a nerve by the severity of the reaction. I noticed this with Marija Gimbutas and her archaeological theories. Gimbuta’s theories and discoveries upset the house of cards that is the conventional wisdom of Archaeology, and I also got some ridicule for extolling her forward thinking which stated goddess-oriented societies were much more peaceful. 

        She pointed out that pottery from Goddess oriented cultures never depicted weapons or war, unlike Greece and Rome later, that did.  Can we make a sustainable planet in perpetuity? I firmly believe there can be prosperity and sustainability. We have to work with our ecosystems and economically align ourselves as bioregions. More markets, fewer borders and #nomorewar. 

        For instance, Florida could replace citrus with cattle because grass grows here naturally, all year long, whereas western ranchers graze cattle where there is less than 15 inches of rain a year and it's freezing fucking cold for those cows.  They are creating a desert the same way the Sahara was created by goats and other domesticated grazers back when people were too ignorant to know better. 

    My trip across the country in 2021 was dismaying as it seemed everything had been fenced off for cattle. Places I could pull over and walk into the desert previously, were now fenced.

             Sustainability needs to be our reality someday, but it will take some work. Already bad money is deriding the concept of sustainability with the weakstream media..

          A population cap is critical as a first step that we can carry into the future. When is our sun going to burn up and become a red giant? Five million years? Five Billion years? Believing in the End Times is insanity. The reality is that we have been gluttonously foolhardy, shortsighted, plundering, rapacious idiots the last 200 years and put everyones survival in peril. 

         For 500 years, Christianity has been telling everyone the white man’s burden was to subdue the earth and tame the savages. Steal their goldI got your systemic coercion right here bruh. 
                 How many natural brooks and streams have become culverts and ditches during the expansion of suburbs in America? ALOT! Boomers saw forest disappear and come back as houses. Are we going to continue to be the head-nodding milieu, sycophants to developers and resource exploiters? Will we do anything for jobs in this broken economic system? The nexus of the crisis is upon us and requires us to rewire Americas broken brain

             Sometimes I like to see humans as a catastrophic earth cycle, like a Yellowstone super volcano going off, resulting in a 90% loss of species. Is it really the Anthropocene? Humans have challenged the Mother, and the Mother has to ask herself how much discipline to apply. 

        Is Gaia always angry like the Old Testament God?  That grumpy touchhole, exploding in fury and basting us with his special angry sauce before He burns us in Hell for eternity? Is Gaia wise but sees us as no better than wildebeests and mountain goats? She might think nothing of wiping us out in another one of her mass extinctions.

        Science says that humans are initiating the sixth extinction all on our own. The final slaughter ...  the Anthropocene.
            Being green in the early 90's meant rejecting the chemical dependency of the food produced on factory farms while promoting, purchasing and producing organic food. Luckily this market has completely emerged from demand. The Ag corporations thought we accepted the fungicides and weed killers and pesticides that get on our food. Millennials demand helped mainstream organic products.

         A 10% increase in sales yearly of organic products proves it.   Veganism is also trending with people rejecting the slaughter of millions of animals daily on our planet. The massive slaughter of animals. 170 million chickens a week are killed around the world? Did I read that right?
                As green awareness mainstreamed in the 90’s, everyone planted a tree. Maybe stopped using plastic bags at the supermarket, not to mention using less water when you brushed your teeth. You walk more and drive less and get the cigars with the wood tips instead of the plastic ones.
                 These are all needed efforts, but we can bust a gut recycling and save energy, but it’s the production of many of our products where waste and pollution is the biggest problem.  Well over 70% of it is from large corporations, not the general population. One factory puts more toxins in the air and in watersheds than a whole town of people could produce in a whole year.  The demand for plastics is projected to grow 30% in the next five years.   We can't seem to stop poisoning ourselves.         

          My friend ’John Doe’ told me about a Ford plant he worked at for 30 years, and he enumerated to me about the various toxic wastes they dumped right into the nearby Hudson River, with a wheelbarrow off a cliff!  Ill-gotten gains may be an overused term, but it needs to be said concerning these polluting profiteers.             

    Can we have sustainable prosperity? It’s the logical path with brand new opportunities, inventions, and peaceful living awaiting. If we don’t do it we will be reminded that Nature has no mercy.
                                                    

 

                Our goal should be to prevent doomsday, not stall it, or as Blink-182 puts it, "let this train wreck burn more slowly." The Coming Credit Collapse will clear the path for the final industrial and military destruction of what's left, that's any good. This is what I mean when I say the Final Slaughter.                 

         Corporate bankruptcies and resource depletion will be our grandchildren’s birthright, instead of happiness. Do you want those unborn to be a pool of workers to pay off bank, insurance, automaker and city government bankruptcies?                 Workers of the 21st century will be a herd of toilers for the business giants, industrial tyrants and government pensioners, particularly military pensions in this CURRENT socialist military sphere many depend on.  The weapon manufacturers nanny state.

            Also very importantly, the military needs to show how they are going to pay all these pensions of people not even 50 years old.  Mutilated veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars should receive health care forever. We could afford it if we pull our military back from the furthest one third of the world and stop using our healthiest citizens to fight someone else's battles.
               Courage and foresight will be needed in the transition, and citizens will be called to make their voices heard. We can't hope the other guy does something because we need to be the other guy this time. We need the 60 million who didn’t vote to get off their ass as a start. Then we need working class candidates to win and change election day to the weekend.

        Open minded, thinking, independent people without agendas are not participating because of the paltry choice of candidates.  Barely any citizen legislators as suggested by Thomas Jefferson. I dare say the lunch lady or the shipping and receiving dude or the manager at Taco Bell would vote better than what we got now. It's all about the vote and these people would vote for the working people unlike currently, where our lawyer infested justice system favors corporate interests. Most government business is influence peddling nonsense.
             Predatory Capitalism and Big Business will falter and collapse; swallowed whole by the debts of banks, insurance companies, and governments. Unfortunately, in that scenario, tyranny would fill the social vacuum, with Techno Goons imposing martial law, as World War 3 breaks out. 

        We had a tyrant in the White House, an apprentice at life, who hates kids and animals. Now he's back. Sheeeeesh. We trust these people not to start a nuclear war? Putin Kim wong tooth. Sheeeesh.   China has become 1984 with their good citizen points.  We have some work to do.   All of us.   

                                         

                Indoctrinated lackeys continue feeding off the military matrix of benefits and will decry the reduction of military bases. Except for the homeless vets of course. There shouldn’t be homeless people period.
                  Market Socialism is a place where all goods are sold for what they are worth and all resources are self-sustaining with wages fair, and worksites safe.  This would be at every jobsite in this world, flat earth or otherwise, it's about the workers.  

            One very important aspect of Democratic Socialism is water usage. Are landfills around the world lined to protect the groundwater as they mostly are in the United States? How badly are European, Asian and African aquifers faring? People in the future will learn toxins recognize no borders.
                  Will Americans continue to use billions of tons of dangerous chemicals that run off into our waterways? Half the fish in the world may have mercury in them, how did we get to this state, aside from the people's waterways being used as a sewage dump by long bankrupt corporations? 

           

 

              How can the people feed themselves in the future when corporate interests drain the oceans and consequently the rivers, of fish? Industrial Farms are out there, literally, killing the soil. We have since learned about the Soviet bankrupting of the soil and their horrible stewardship of the land during the tenure of the Communists. The toxic waste estimates cannot be known with all the hidden toxic sites in the US and Russia. Possibly a three trillion dollar cleanup. America not cleaning up after themselves. Sneaky Russia is probably far worse. 

             The Predatory Capitalists won the Great Economic War of the 20th Century between Capitalism and Communism, but I see a small business-based Market Socialism being the primary economic order by the end of this century.
                 Predatory Capitalism will falter and will be swallowed whole by the future debts of banks, insurance companies, loss pension funds and the spiraling National Debt, while stocks and investments will end up circling the drain.                                              Unfortunately, in that scenario, tyranny would fill the social vacuum. Techno-goons imposing martial law as World War Three 3 breaks out. A virulent,  pernicious and avaricious evil strain of greed has subsumed capitalism. Communism is a chalkboard utopia that could only lead to authoritarian cronyism. 
                 The degradation of the earth continues at an alarming pace. Nature’s dirge will become more apparent in time. Cyclical disasters in nature will happen and I expect more are to come since pollution affects the atmosphere more than we want to admit, and taking natural gas and oil out of the deeper depths of the earth may have affected the tectonic plates and underground water quality.

                             Minerva going over stuff with Ben franklin          

                    The credit collapse will clear the path for the final industrial and military destruction of what’s left….that’s any good. Resource bankruptcy will be our grandchildren’s birthright. THEY WILL MERELY BE A POOL OF WORKERS TO PAY OFF BANK, INSURANCE, AIRLINE, INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENT PENSIONS. 

                As the dominoes of the world economy crash against each other, the damage will be unstoppable and enduring.
                  How come the concentration of wealth is the highest ever? One percent of the population has 35% of its wealth and the only other era where it was that lopsided was during the Pro-business 20’s just before the devastating stock market crash in 1929.  

            Now, 200 years into the Industrial Illusion of Prosperity, our economy is destined to shit the bed. On the news, we will watch as plants animals and indigenous cultures become imperiled, then extinct. Steep price hikes or shortages? The vicissitudes of all industrial and agricultural markets will get worse and the corporate stranglehold on most supplies will become more apparent. 

             We see the beginnings of this with the empty store shelves. Why I am getting involved in the food distribution process? Moving surplus between bioregions is going to be a job. Between the Community Exchanges people need to create. People to people. farm to table. farm to food truck.
                  The low price of gas up to 1973 was due to the deliberate manipulation of the energy markets to gain monopolistic control of food and transportation. All competing forms of energy were overwhelmed and eliminated.  Automobiles are nothing more than toxic waste when they are junked: batteries exploding, mercury and cesium dripping.             

            Microscopic and carcinogenic dioxin is created when chemicals meet in the corporate toilet bowl otherwise known as our underground water.

             Not to sound contradictory but I can also see where our American freedom can also include sections of interstate highway where 90 MPH sections for EV'sare opened, and new roads are built exclusively for trucks. Rural hubs where people can gather and where jobs will be made. I mean, an American autobahn would be interesting and vitally necessary in the vast open Interstate highways of the west. Vegas to Denver. 90 miles an hour limit.  

            And consequently, we need reductions down to 30 MPH in many residential areas as alternative forms of transportation take to the roads. And sidewalks.  I saw what looked like a bicycle going 20 MPH on the sidewalk. Kinda reckless so we need to watch out for them. Probably many electric vehicles among the ones I see. To allow more of us more access of our streets since we all pay for it in our taxes. 
                Making it easier somehow for a more diversified transportation system, that would include bicycles, mopeds, electric cars, and hybrid buses for public transportation, as a necessity. The roads are for all of us to use but the automobile has a monopoly.  What's been calculated lately is that if everyone in the world lived like the average American, we would need 5 planets worth of resources. Buying shit isn't helping the economy anymore.

        Try to be a pedestrian these days! It seems unbelievable that practically any moron can drive 8,000 pounds of automobile 50 miles per hour about two feet away from where you are walking or where your child is bicycling. Just something wrong here.  America seems unconcerned about the general welfare that was promised in our Constitution.
                   
            The predatory capitalist system went through its first death throes with investment companies in 2009. This gets my goat because what do companies like AIG produce? Toothbrushes? Bicycles? Furniture? Lettuce? ...nothing, only more paper income for those that already have enough.            

      Yet they needed to be bailed out or "the entire economy could collapse?" The parasite economy, not the working class economy. We will be shocked and grossed as Big Business begins the final bamboozling; and the good people of America won't be able to stop it.

        The last senile phase of the Industrial Revolution (1830-2030) will leave a legacy of misery, despair and environmental devastation, and debts too immense for one generation to dig out of.
              Given the morals of Big Business, do you think your pension funds are safe? Your life insurance policy? Your "insured" savings? Even the money in your wallet is no longer backed by silver and gold reserves as it had once been. The capitalism of credit. In Debt, We Trust.
               We can create unencumbered markets where the government only regulates product safety.  The proposed Farmers-Truckers Union bypasses the white-collar parasites who are looking for their percentage of the deal with stores and shipping. We can rid ourselves of these leagues of leeches that get between production and purchasing. The white-collar parasite economy versus the farmer/trucker actual economy. This is why voting in real workers to congress needs to happen. 

     The Community Product and Service Exchange wants to join the movement toward more farmers markets. For many centuries we utilized common market areas. People could set up at local markets for free. A shared area was a common principle. Today in 2026, everyone has to pay $2000 a month just to rent a place.              Market Socialism will create more common areas so people can set up for free. There will be lots of jobs in a small business economy. Local jobs without a long commute.  Nearly all the services needed can be local.

 
               There is a simple solution to keeping the economy robust as it gears down from its bloated military budget, and that is to reduce our sphere of influence. My foreign policy idea is to respectfully withdraw from any country that does not border the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. How simple is that?  While at the same time we have to decentralize Russia and Chinas and thwart their expansionism. 

        Look at all the troublesome countries we are avoiding with this reduced sphere...Iran, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, India, Bangladesh, eastern Africa and all the rest of the countries that are the furthest away from us.   Over 5000 miles in most cases. Oil and Gas companies need war and your healthy young adult children.  

              We could cut troop strength down to 500,000. More warriors, less shoe salespersons (no offense Angus) and pencil pushers. More protected military vehicles and less retirees, and consequently an end to the cost of disability payments. I can't imagine that when my children are 60 they will be paying disability for those injured in the Bush Wars when they were children.

         This is what the Boomers will be known for---bankrupting the future. Highways, bridges, hospitals, wetlands, inner cities, all needed people to repair and maintain. They went to Iraq instead to get their legs blown off. The boomers who owned stocks to “save for their future”, did nothing as the reputation of sterling American service went to hell, as employees were laid off to please stockholders and then allowing war without end. America went from the customer is always right to let's make things as difficult as possible to find service.

      The Boomers ignored the abysmal minimum wage too many of us had to work for.  The blinders were on during the corporatization of EVERYTHING! They told themselves that unions had outlived their usefulness, but who else was going to look out for the workers? Certainly not the white-collar Boomer parasites saving for retirement. Funny on many levels, the Boomers I see don't even remember how to ride a bicycle. 

          Now the Boomers think we need a 716 Billion dollar military? What? 750 now? Wait, 813? R U Kidding me? We are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military: we cannot interfere in other countries politics any longer. That is the American Doctrine of Peace. Withdraw from the furthest one third of the world and start having effective peace talks to solve all these conflicts and look into wtf the CIA is doing.

         It’s different now, it’s up to the Millennials, and Generation X to fix the mess created in the last 200 years of the Industrial Revolution because the Boomers emulated the WW2/Depression generation in its greed. 

                   Planting for wildlife, creating a sustainable resource base, making corporations pay for pollution instead of the taxpayers. All this could have been done.

        A movement for change, a movement away from democrat-republicanism and Islamo-Chritianityism and a movement that respects all life on the planet-The Earth Movement. It would change everything.

                      Billions of tires are piling up, breeding mosquitoes but nothing on the news. Keep us busy withthe shenanigans in DC. Hundreds of oil spills and poorly capped wells in the Gulf of Mexico but the #lamestreammedia never covers it. In other environmental news, has acid rain suddenly gone away? Not a problem no more? Because of the environmental alarmist backlash, nothing is taken seriously anymore.  

                     I speculated that there would be some sort of terrorism that would involve international shipping. As it turned out, the terrorists went after symbolic targets and not economic ones in 2001. There are so many other ways terrorism can manifest itself.  I’m trying to say there are so many vulnerabilities for all Americans with our present predatory capitalism system, that price spikes and shortages will be the norm.  Because it has to collapse. It must die.  As I like to point out, will Wall Street be here in 10,000 years? Fish filled oceans and fertile fields will need to be here 10,000 years from now, so I ask everyone, what are you thinking? Low prices mean death to the future.
                       Tankers bombed, production facilities sabotaged. “Emergency” drilling begins in the arctic. “We need the energy for the war effort! “will be the excuse to ravage the North Pole. The frozen poles where toxic debris from scientists litter is being revealed as snow melts.  It’s a fragile ecosystem up there, not easily repaired. 

    What if there’s a revolution in Saudi Arabia or something and they won’t be there to pump extra oil? What if there are new Arab governments that seek to preserve their major resource and not give it away like they had been doing with the international oil companies?
                      Yet independent transportation is an aspect of our freedom. As I said we have a one-sided transportation system where buses, bicycles, and pedestrians are not in the club. The Perpetrators of the Petroleum Plot have created a system where 70 MPH death wagons kill over 40,000 people a year and injure millions. 

          It’s not drunk drivers that are completely to blame. The blame goes to a system where 3-ton behemoths rule the roads. Why not a 550-pound vehicle to carry that same person? Wouldn’t it use less fuel? Wouldn’t we all be safer? Why are 1,000 bicyclists killed each year? It’s those damn death wagons. Driving a bicycle is simply too dangerous with these cars driven by the barely witted, careless, half-awake, and stressed  American worker.

  B      DUST BOWL OR MARKET CRASH?

                      The year is 2036 and the big news is that the government is trying to round up all the escaped zombie clones and chimeras. An early May hurricane caught coastal residents off guard and thousands are dead and major bridges have fallen. A two inch rise in the ocean turned out to be more problematic than realized. Not to scientists of course.

            2033 Should we call it World War 3 or are they still five different wars? Recessions, depressions, bank failures, wide scale insurance fraud uncovered, pension funds going belly up. The white-collar crooks fleeing to hidden enclaves. Viewers are shocked as they witness the final collapsing and implosion of the Industrial Revolution. Terrorists are jamming satellites disrupting important transmissions.
                    Now we are left with radioactive material that needs to be stored and a trillion-dollar cleanup of toxic sites. Panic is mounting as social security funds are propping up collapsing banks and pension funds. The Pandora’s Box of genetics has been opened as various creatures have been loosed on the world by renegade labs. Some believe we won’t even make it to 2039 but they've been saying that for years.
                     Steep price hikes or shortages? The petroleum markets exhibit the vicissitudes of all markets of the future. The dirt-cheap price of gas until 1973 was due to the deliberate manipulation of the energy markets by the oil barons. All competing forms of energy were overwhelmed, underbid and eliminated from the market so this one product could rule them all :   GASOLINE. 

    One example of this is how General Motors bought up trolley lines back in the 40's and 50's, only to close them down and tear up the tracks so they would never be used again. My little hometown had electric trolleys but they were paved over. Bought to be buried.
                         I'm reminded of the Petroleum Plot the other morning when I went jogging. There was no air movement and it was humid. A neighbor started their car and drove by, the exhaust cloud clung to the ground longer than usual, and the stinking smell of exhaust was disgustingly distinct as it hugged the ground. Multiply this by millions of cars for the past 60 years. Even if cars aren't contributing to global warming, they are still polluting. We allow toxic filth because we just don’t quite care enough.
                          Oil companies want to drill for oil in a wildlife refuge to satisfy those who want it all and want it now. Drill Drill Drill. To many people, this Republican Party mantra of 2012 was quite chilling but the GOP is coddling .
                         Why are roads so crumpled, bumpy and worn? 40,000-pound trucks, that’s why. They make the profits and you maintain the roads and truckers pay many extra fees. I'll tell you what, I drove across a tall bridge over the Indian River on my bicycle and it was a little scary, but became eye opening when the trucks rolled over the bridge. The whole bridge shook and when another one came along, I got off the bike and walked to be safe. 

             No lie, but Interstate shipping has shortened the life span of many roads, taxpayers pay for the repairs and corporations make the profits while you are told that Big Business means low prices.  When the Interstate Highways system was planned and built, it was never imagined that trucks would get so large. If you drive the Interstates, you know how reckless truckers are with their tailgating and flashing lights at people who are going the speed limit. 
                   Recessions, depressions, bank failures, insurance fraud, price gouging, overcharging--and soon life insurance companies will be going under if just one of many geological mega disasters that cyclically occur, comes around. Maybe not a nuclear winter but some other disaster that will shock people into submission. No phones for years is hard to imagine for instance. “I knew there was something wrong."
                     Given the morals of big business: do you think all your policies and pension funds and IRA’s and 401 K’s are all safe? I mean seriously, all this invisible prosperity is built upon our trust of bankers. Bankers not backed by the FDIC. Bankers who are worried that if the minimum wage goes up, it will cause inflation. When wages go up, the stocks will go down. Never mind that it could make a lot of lives easier. That’s no longer important with the entrenched parasitical class driving the big boat.
                         No change is forthwith. Why can’t there be good incomes for skills and trades? You know, the people who actually do the work. Mom and Pop stores should be able to thrive again, they were driven out of the market by scoundrels and big business hucksters and service became less important than “price per unit”. Balls to the wall materialism till this gig shits the bed if we don’t put on the brakes.  And whoever does put on the brakes, will be demonized for bringing the game to an end. But it has to end.
                          Agriculturally damaged farmlands in the Midwest could not survive an extended cyclical drought and the infamous Dust Bowl was made. How was the Sahara created you asked? A medium size desert was there. (Like we have out west) but North African tribes farmed and dammed the few rivers of Northern Africa thousands of years ago, and they dried up during a long-term cyclical drought. 

             Diversion of water, too much cattle and goat grazing and then more soil erosion as the trees in that formerly semi-arid area were cut down for firewood or fences. No conservation advice in the bible. Like today where cattle are fenced in and hikers are fenced out. Todays ignorance is not without precedence. We have cattle grazing the semi-arid lands of the West and that’s absurd.
                       The last 100 years have seen our taxes go to damming of rivers for cheap electricity and to pay for western farmers to water their crops by building giant irrigation facilities, while putting the small family farm in the MidwestTje Illusion of prosperity. and east out to wither and die. There is a bigger cost to pay for this prosperity. 

                  Two billion will be spent to repair some of the Everglades. Why did we almost destroy the “River of Grass?” For developers to pile up some soil and build homes for that burgeoning pest-the humans? For certain farmers to make profits? Are you seeing a pattern here? We get taxed to set up an enterprise, while corporations get “relocation incentives,” from cities and counties.
                    Then there’s the Western American farmers who actually suck the Colorado River dry. They have to do something to compete with foreign slave labor so they get cheap water. Therefore, we have giant rice farms in California. The Grape and Apricot growers got the government to build canals for irrigation. How are they going to compete with South American farmers and their wanton use of chemicals? Give them free water! This whole “cheap food” policy uses up many resources and pays its workers poorly, while encouraging excessive population growth and spurious business development.
                        Free people in the world need to help the exploited 20 cents an hour worker. Maybe unions aren’t right for some of us, but they would certainly help the Third World pull those people up by the bootstraps. The unionization of Starbucks, Amazon and the others is the most encouraging sign I've seen in many years. Things are not going well for most of the world’s workers. There are too many of them, too many young people without jobs.   More hungry people than there ever has been.

 

                                                         

 
                The basic premise I was presenting is that the United States should only ally ourselves with countries that share the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Most of the wars are over in that nasty one third of the world, furthest away from us.  A part of the world that hasn't stopped fighting for 6,000 years. Let’s leave these people be and quietly withdraw from there.  (buh bye) Some may want to include countries on the Mediterranean; it’s all up for discussion. Pull out a world map and you’ll see what I mean. 

        I    was thinking we withdraw our interests from Italy to Thailand.  There are so many trouble spots we can extract ourselves from in this area where it really isn't our business. We need to “pull in the horns” as they used to say. Shrink our commitments. Just be allies with Nato and anyone on the shore of the Atlantic or Pcific Ocean. We can keep most of our trade er too. Unfortunately, Neo-Liberalism wants to manage the world. For our own good, you see. For the good of all. We need an earth movement to counter this fake hope and reliance on high tech. And don't fall for any of that hat "Great Reset" stuff. And don't start your sentences with And.

       Community solar energy projects is scary to the global elite. If they can keep oil cheap they can keep hoarding money and utilizing poer Cap the world population at 9 billion. Ban all clear cutting except for invasive trees.  Conservation of energy, not increased production of not so green technologies. Most of all we are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military. Too many lifers out there just milking their jobs to get to twenty years and retirement. It is conceivable some day that someone who retired from the military at 48 collects a pension till they are 98. Collect a pension for 50 years, because, why? Did we win a war and I missed it?

             We need to evolve also. We sell weapons to 100 countries, what’s that all about? Do weapons boost the economy? Would taxing their illegitimate accumulated wealth be better spent on hospitals, bridges, restoring wetlands, dental care, blighted inner cities rejuvenated, building or adapting roads to accommodate the slower 25 MPH traffic I was talking about?  Day care for all children and adults with Alzheimer's?
                I’m trying to raise the alarm about another issue. By 2030 and beyond, a growing share of the military budget will be used for retirement and health issues of veterans. Exposed to toxic chemicals and extremely loud noises the soldier is expected to suffer as needed. Corporations throwing Americans into war zones for what reason?    The elites hatred of Communists and Muslims.

         First, you have to phase out the 20-year military retirement pension. Stretch it out to thirty and pay current soldiers more and reduce our forces 25% as a benefit to staying closer to home. This idea is more in line with some generals who think we need less of an army on the ground and naval and air supremacy instead. But do we need to upgrade every jet for the cost of 150 million per? 

             Get it? We can help allies closer to home because we can get there a lot faster. Do this first and we can begin to create safe, worldwide markets for Market Socialism. An infrastructure for the world. 
               Planting as if nature mattered, create a sustainable resource base, a movement for change and real progress and getting a grip on the 21st century. Capitalism bankrupt…...dictatorships barbaric…Communism passé…like it or not this is the era when new governing principles will be created.

“Authority is derived from the free consent of the people”

💚💞❤  -3-2-   GHOST NETS    

   “Yar”, jettisoned Rush. “Throw me them pataters, ya piece a crap.”

      Hannity threw the platter of potatoes at Rush, then grabbed the jar of caramel syrup and began chugging it down, squeezing the sauce down his throat in loud gulps. He threw the empty plastic container in the fireplace.  “Run…. toxic fire. Ha ha ha ha.” He said as the plastic melted and the fumes filled the room. Bill O’reilly hopped from one leg to another, “pinhead pinhead.”

        Rachel Maddow was invited to the party for balance, but Anne Coulters plan was to KNOCK her off balance by hitting her behind the knees with a baseball bat. When she was on the ground grabbing her knee in pain, Anne squatted down and started farting on her head and everyone had a good laugh. Funny and entertaining for some, but are these appropriate dinner manners for a dinner party?

           I’d say it’s not, but this is how The Republicans treat the environment.

         Tuna is probably the most popular fish to buy and everyone had to experience Tuna sandwiches as children because of the cheap cost. But how did tuna stay so cheap all those years? Even last year I got 2 cans for a dollar, like it was 1980 or something. Though it was a bit dodgy looking and I couldn't eat it.

         Tuna is great for people with the protein and fat ratio and anyone on a budget, but for these last 50 years, there were mile long nets catching this tuna. And dolphins and seabirds and turtles also got caught in the nets as do billions of fish that get tossed overboard, half dead, and this is so completely wrong that the word by-catch doesn’t do it justice. Death catch works better.

         There are now too many compromised ecosystems on the planet and many people around the world are unable to catch the fish their ancestors were used to harvesting with their traditional hunting. Corporate factory fishing has starved billions of people. It’s as if we still don’t see how the world works. Some might think this high-tech robot filled life is where we're headed, but I know many do not like what they see.

        Thank the goddess the kids understand and every generation will be more inclined to a gentle stewardship of the earth, but will it be too late? The biggest nets were banned eventually but those poor practices persists and fishing stocks are severely depleted and we suffer today trying to restore fish populations while the ones who got rich from it are sitting pretty in their big homes and social standing. Or China who can't seem to keep it in their pants as they empty the Pacific Ocean of fish and still dump flotsam and jetsam directly into bodies of water. 40% of the Pacific Garbage Patch I'm told.

          Pretend you’re a sailor out there in the middle of the ocean and imagine how tangled up a ten-mile net can get.  Sometimes the sailors have to cut away parts of these monster nets to get everything back on board. So there are these 1000 foot pieces of nets floating around the ocean entrapping plastic garbage and killing sea life.  These floating webs of death are called GHOST NETS.

         Greenpeace made a great effort to get dolphin free tuna on the market. Sustainable products can be obtained; otherwise you are encouraging the wrong markets to flourish if you don’t know what you are buying. Wild-caught labeling seems like another sustainable concept to pay attention to. Environmental groups try to raise awareness by tracing back how your food was produced. Now, as the Anthropocene approaches, Republicans are decrying the Green Cult once again.  

      Resisting the Green Dragon is a DVD that describes how environmentalists are taking over the world. Narcissistic patterns continue to emerge. Somehow making a friendly planet that sustains everyone for a million years is not part of God's plan. Armageddon in Iran? Please stop the insanity.

          Environmentalists realize we may need this world for a million years and we should be the people that put sustainability on the right track. When the ocean is healthy and full of fish, everyone can have fish. No more fishing licenses. All line caught is legal. The corporate depleting of fish in the ocean has led to hundreds of thousands of bankrupt small fleets and has impoverished millions of people who live near the ocean and millions of people getting licenses.

         To me it’s discouraging that people diligently recycle while reckless corporations can leave 600 linear miles of fishing nets floating around the ocean. That’s a low estimate. A lot of illegitimate wealth was obtained from the insane extractive insanity that has occurred in forest oceans and wetlands. Clear cutting, overgrazing; overplanted soil and piss poor methods of farming encouraged by the chemical companies. Mineral robbing is rampant and on and on but units sold is all that counts, the gross domestic product reigns supreme.  And ... we know it's a mess.

        I discuss American excesses, but here is a case where Japanese people need their comeuppance along with all the other multinational corpsters. Japan is a tiny island, smaller than Michigan, and there’s 120 million people there.  California New York Florida Texas and Michigan combined.

       Since WW2 they have needed a lot of wood since they have no forests to destroy, and so they bought giant tracts of land where timber was clear-cut, and the local indigenous people had their livelihoods go up in smoke as trees were clear cut.

       Japanese catch a lot of fish too, oh and they experiment on a lot of whales which we know about. Does their Pagan religion Shintoism encourage them to use up the land because their deity said it was all right? No, I think it’s because they learned American style greed. We taught them predatory capitalism.

        Here’s your American guy out fishing with his family and he keeps telling them that plastic comes from the earth as he throws tangled line into the water. Why should he care or recycle when the big guys do what they do? (Note: see the lesson here? With corporations as our high profile examples of behavior, many people emulate these approved behaviors.)  

        Why should he care about a tangled line? “What, maybe one fish will get tangled in it and in five years the line will be deep in the mud. Besides, plastic comes from the earth anyways,” he says remembering something from Fox news.

         “Yeh in a hundred years,” his boy states.  “There’s styrenes and PCB’s and other chemicals created in laboratories that the earth will have to assimilate,” retorted his daughter.

       “All right” he says reaching into the water to retrieve the twisted ball.  He did more research and found out that many towns were installing fishing line recycling tubes, and he went to his city council, and the parks director got them approved for all the fishing lakes in town.

        This is green ethics, this is cultural reform.  With the way things are now we are farting on Mother Nature’s head when she’s down.  Digging out diamonds and metals, scooping the ocean clean of fish and reckless clear cuts of ancient forests. I mean does no one else see humans as rampaging idiots?

     Recycling is going to be able to take care of 50% of our paper needs if we can manage things right. That means banning clear cutting as a start. We share our destiny with forests and we also need our watersheds and oceans clean and healthy and that requires huge tracts of wild forests. Remember those that die in battle qualify for Valhalla. 

         Do you own property to sell the resource that’s on it? How can everyone do this and think anything will be left to the future? Yes, it means inflation when clear cutting is banned; we are living in a subsidized nanny state of materialism. Logging roads are built by the federal government because we need cheap paper. Then loggers cry about lost jobs when people try to save endangered species. The paper companies don’t care about jobs or the lives that are sustained by them, they go looking for the cheapest deal. Predatory Capitalism assumes that 80% of the population will suffer from shortages in the future and well, that’s too bad. They really see us as cannon fodder and consumers.

        Limit clear-cutting to 4 trees per acre as a worldwide custom; a limit at last to curtail rapacious profiteering so we’uns can begin growing back ancient forests.

        The price of timber will go up, raising prices at first, then suddenly wood and paper recycling begins to pay off as a sustainable price level has been achieved. The wood for your project is suddenly cheaper than having to go down to Walmart twenty miles away. Sustainability eventually leads to a stabilization of prices. Meanwhile, many small companies will be getting a start with paper production from recycled materials and many individual families or villages will be making money from a woodlot management program will also benefit. Not to mention the hemp revolution that is gathering strength. We can ban clear cutting NOW!

         With a clear-cutting ban in place, wood from construction dumpsters will finally be recycled and instead of large amounts of heavy cardboard getting thrown away, it will start fetching a decent price. More jobs,  Lumber has always been too cheap, and a price spike is inevitable with timber being cut at the unsustainable rate that has been in place the last 100 years. But it may go up from $7 a foot to $12 a foot but at that point a stable system of paper and wood recycling will be set up. Lumber yards selling planks from local trees will be a thing again.

       Small business, and family companies making money off trees on their properties will be part of our future. People at recycling centers turning trash into recyclables will have jobs. Pickers of many stripes recycling. Even designated drop off sites where pickers can glean. We seriously need to make alot less trash and we need to make cardboard recycling a thing with all this shipping going on now.

People growing hemp on small farms will hire people. Small paper companies starting up. Small business is the answer. 3-D technology will be putting many large companies out of business anyhow. 

        The high carbon footprint of White-collar wealth is an invisible economy sustained with imaginary money and it allows them to ACQUIRE, ILLEGITIMITLY, the land and water resources of the world. 

          We need to teach our children the value of the land and not land values as it’s stated in The Sand County Almanac, AND, we are going after the overly large property owners.

-3-3-     Proud to be Progressive   💚💞❤

             Where do progressives get their name from?  Progressive has come to mean many things, but the reformers from the Progressive movement of 1890 to 1915 brought the world into our modern era.  Work site safety, decent wages and a more reasonable number of hours worked was the focus.  
           The immigrant wave of Europe (1870-1890), had provided corporate factory owners with cheap labor in those industrializing decades. The Progressives created child labor laws and improved school systems because the children who were working in Christian (read that Protestant) owned factories, began going to school during the Progressive Era, and the second American Revolution began. Many more people began reading books other than the Bible, and thusly the Dark Ages ended once and for all.  Improvements in  Interior lighting led to a book boom.

                    Protestant factory owners hated the laws passed in favor of workers, following union strikes. The man who could break the back of these unions would be a great hero someday.

        (fix this for gods sake) Progressives encouraged invention and innovation and science, while bible thumpers kept insisting that indoctrinating people with Adam and Eve as truth to be studied in school.
              There was a resurgence of classical music--- boy scouts and girl scouts were founded; and there were many forward thinking reformers during the Progressive Era. It was a great cultural era in the improvement of human societies.

 The Progressive Era grew a healthy canopy of honesty over the moral high ground hypocrisy of the Victorian Age.   Today, Republicans are the heirs to the moral high ground hypocrites of that age. Nefarious characters such as Newt Gingrich (divorcing wife while she was in the hospital) and Mark Sanford (Hiking the Appalachian trail-the new part that goes to Argentina) and Strom Thurmond ( encouraging segregation, but having a black child nonetheless); are prominent examples within a long list of others.

         The meat packing industry was shamed in 1906 with a famous book that revealed horrid conditions and the disgusting nature of the Meat Industry.  Standards of cleanliness were enforced in many industries after that. This was the Progressive Era, not the Liberal Era. Note that Liberals are fond of taking Progressive accomplishments as their own.
            Left to their own devices, big business will pay as little as possible for safe working conditions and not give a whit about the sustainability of raw material, and make safety a priority, only when forced by legislation. This is repeating itself today. 

     Are you seeing the pattern of greed and hypocrisy and the traitorous lies? Hypocritical grandstanding idiots like glennbeck, will diss and discuss Progressivism like it was some horrible movement that has hampered mankind ever since its beginning. I'm offering another view of what Progressivism is.

           Progressives are under attack, prompted by the apologists of greed and authoritarian excess with the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Progressive to many means commie socialist Marxist moochers.  Republicans muddy the waters so no one can see how shallow they are.

            Theodore Roosevelt was perhaps the most prominent progressive and spent a career busting up the Rockefellers and other corporate monopolies that paid little wages, but accumulated wealth beyond any before them. T.R. started the National estuary program at Pelican Island here in Sebastian, Florida. The slaughter of birds for the Victorian Age fashion of the day-hats with feathers- was a disgusting and violent disgrace in Americans bloody grasp for profits.

             The passenger pigeon went extinct because they were shot out of the sky after the civil war, as neo-pioneers shot for fun instead of food.  Indoctrinating youth towards loving war, and killing animals made them violent adults, in many cases.

Canada wins the gold

                  Progressives halted the killing of buffalo, and we only have buffaloes today because the last 1,000 were able to expand their numbers. How many millions of Buffalo were killed by lunatic gun enthusiasts? They were out to starve the Native Americans. Pretty weird in retrospect.

Progressives want to end the blood sports encouraged by the warrior elite, shooting everything in sight these last 200 years. Progressivism is about sustainability, peace and personal liberty.

             Womens right to vote in 1920 rode one of the last waves of progressive era reforms. WE THE PEOPLE was important to Progressives then, and they proved their commitment by their actions. The Progressive Era was not a violent revolution, but the most thorough evisceration of corruption and cruelty in modern times. 

Activism AND action to bring about change. This can happen in every country that has corrupt business and politics. It appears that after 100 years the oligarchy is poised for a poisoning of the earth and an enslavement of peoples minds.
            Anti progressivism and half truths will not stop the real American patriots from prevailing. Jingoists waving the flag and Dominionists thumping that bible are still shocking to us, but the new progressive era will marginalize these people --so much -- and reveal them to be the moral high ground hypocrites that they are.     
          Freedom and Compassion got married and their firstborn was named Liberty.  The good people of America need to stop hoping the other guy does something and support reforms and change.  You are the other guy now, so take another look at The Progressive Era. It was about small business, farmers and various tradespeople having a bigger say in what went on in this country.  

         Pre-Progressive Populists were agrarian utopians, and they tried to create an equitable bi-metallic economic system.  Gold and Silver, with silver being the working mans coin. Populists hated the bankers as modern Progressives do today.  
           Progressives of 1890-1915, were middle class businesspeople, writers and reformers and those who were being marginalized by wealthy industrialist oligarchs in many small towns across the country.

         Wall Street has always tried to control Main Street, and the Reagan Era of Greed has accomplished what oligarchs in the 19th century only dreamed about. The hero had arrived to kill the unions and workers representation. The black hole of oligarchy had swallowed the mom-and-pop system of family farms and small markets, and now seeks a future of profit and control. These are freaks of human nature we are fighting, super villains if you will.

     Modern Progressives will work towards the liberty and compassion, justice and freedom that every human on earth should expect. Progressives are not GO USA but GO WORLD!  

                                  

       The Republicans inability to balance a federal budget since Eisenhower is not mentioned enough. Republicans are good at breaking things and bloating budgets but have not balanced the federal budget within the lifetime of many alive today.  Now in 2026 we see they are completely unable to administer good organizations. 

       The Illusion of Prosperity will be the cause of many higher prices in the future. The blame will go to Progressives who are trying to correct these obvious flaws in our markets. Savor these low inflation rates because our reality, in the future, will be shortages and price spikes.  

   To state that there has been low inflation is a joke. House insurance is up 30% in Florida. Medical procedures go up 20% a year and costs of many items increase dramatically while the government tells us there is low inflation.  
       The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is our guide to inflation and it is simply no longer accurate.  Neither is the GDP that was created shortly after the Great Depression. Nobody can tell me there is low inflation. Veterinarian services are up 20%, car repair is rapidly getting more expensive. Plumber’s rates have increased 50% in the last 5 years. 

     Some of it is caused by the over reach and over regulation of the government increasing costs everywhere and Progressives, unlike Liberals and Greens, have that smaller government mentality. Regulate only where it's needed. Today, Government passes out favors to those who can manipulate the system. Increase revenue by closing tax loopholes that corporations use.

     Briefly, regarding the word Progressive, Republicans are trying to associate what was once a good word, into something that means hippies, blue collar dinosaurs, unions, conservation, and all those other code words and dog whistles that tell the Rush Republicans that progressive means anti-profit, anti-private property. NO! 

Blue collar Progressives take their cue from the Progressive era, duh. 1890 to 1915.  The Progressives set out to reform the obscene profits and inhumane working condition of the Robber Barons and Industrial Tyrants.  

            Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle”, in 1906 was very popular and boosted the importance of muckrakers who were finding avaricious and hexcretous wealth in the lives of the greedy and gluttonous. The grandiose and grotesquely rich  who saw nothing wrong with rat meat in the commoners sausage, or who were responsible for making my grandmother, and millions of others, work 12 hours without a break, when she was 12 years old.  They tried, and the result was 12 year old girls peeing their bloomers. Or people adjusted as they always do and didn't drink anything all day to please their bosses by not using the bathroom and then suffering from problems related to dehydration. This is why I often say that most wealth is illegitimate.

            Child labor laws were passed, and small business was going strong and the Federal Tax System had yet to arrive during the Progressive Era. Good hearted people fought back with results. It began in 1890 with the big Carpenters strike. It ended in 1920 as women were finally allowed to vote and then Prohibition and the Roaring 20's emerged.  

The federal tax system got its foot in the door and is now the elephant in the room controlling our economy with its endless loopholes for corrupt business. The White Collar criminal class has taken over and Progressives intend to get our economy back.

        

         Thomas Jefferson promoted the idea of the citizen legislator, where a broad spectrum of workers and crafts are represented in the federal government; Carpenter, blacksmith, nurse, teacher, fireman, lunch lady. The idea was to always have a representative sample of the population, not what we have today; where 45% of Congress are lawyers, an army of law making psychopaths with more personality than brains. Professional liars in lockstep with their oligarchs agenda.

          Richard Hofstadter was a Pulitzer Prize winning author back in the fifties and I find his more traditional conservative viewpoint, open minded and somewhat radical in retrospect. Hofstadter had this to say, “frequent and sensational rises in land values bred a boom psychology in the American farmer, 1800 to 1899. This caused him to rely for his margin of profit more on the process of appreciation than on the sale of crops. 

          It took a strong person to resist the temptation to ride skywards on lands that could easily triple or quadruple their value in one decade and double again the next. “He continues, “It seemed ultraconservative to improve existing possessions if one could put savings or borrowings into new land. What developed, along with the relentless march of commercial agriculture, was an agricultural society where real attachment was not to land but to land values.” 
             Murica. Not to mention the deforestation and prairie destruction involved with the farming of America. Old school conservative Hofstadter would be puzzled today by corporate apologists and moral high ground hypocrites like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly calling themselves conservative.    

                                                                    

             They will have retrospect in the future I’m sure. Their intellectuals will discuss the myopic wisdom of 20^th century economists, who were unable to see the rapacious plundering of the earth that would have a negative impact on future prosperity and resource sustainability.  Environmentalists are despised by right wingers, but the Greens are trying to save some nice pieces of Earth for all future generations. 

                Humans are the large square peg pounding our way into the small round hole in the fabric of living creatures.   Becoming more sensitive, individually, yet still quite hostile, to all the planets REMAINING lives BY FEELING THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO TO CHANGE THINGS, even enthusiastically supporting a system that looks the other way to the homeless and hungry workers of the world: the people making the goods that give us an Illusion of Prosperity.

         I'm proud to stand with Progressives because the First Progressive Era brought Americans into a modern age of invention, convenience, recreation and freedom of assembly (unions). People like glennbeck  think the mass of people should be working 16 hours a day at 5 dollars an hour. The Progressive idea of Liberty is something completely different.

💚💞❤ -3-4-   WILLING DUPES

               People are simply not understanding how dwindling resources and skyrocketing populations is a recipe for disaster. Meanwhile, phony conservatives are decrying the preserved National Parks, Monuments and Estuaries saying they should be sold to ‘balance the budget’. This preservation of National Park Land for all Americans for all time, has stymied the potential profits they could make from oil, gas and mineral extraction. We balance the budget by getting audits of military expenditures. Cutting their big budgets will be like shooting fish on in a barrel.

       

           Cattle and mining interests lease government land but act like they own it. Mining interests have sold chunks of earth from National Park land during their industries avaricious mining, while others have made a lot of money during the weapon production for our military. All dirty money to me. Illegitimate wealth. Maybe coal needs to be rationed like we need it for a few thousand years. War makers test nuke weapons underground shaking Mother Earth to see if their product works, and this is just wrong to an earth lover. To some of us the atrocities done to the earth needs to be addressed,

            Nuclear Power companies and weapon labs have made money supplying the largest military on the earth these last 70 years, many times more than what is given to people with welfare, food stamps and Medicare.                                                               

                My main point is the wealth amassed by IVEGOTMINE America has blood and pollution on its conniving hands and the greatest generation were willing dupes when the corporate stranglehold of our economy took place. They were paid off with investments that paid back ten times as much. 

        A 10,000 dollar house built in 1950 with wood stripped from southern forests by carpet bagging developers, would be sold for 100,000 in 1985. It takes money to make money and many make money by killing trees. Then they all got bigger homes through the 80’s that they resold in the 2000’s for 5 times as much.  Land values were important they taught their children, not the value of the land. 

  

              With housing, It has always been a race to beat the developers, and I saw it in Tucson in the late 70‘s and early eighties. Then I witnessed Hartford's real estate boom in the 80’s and now here in this little town of Sebastian Florida, whose population was 5,000 people when I got here in ‘89 and has tripled since.  Stunning growth that couldn’t possibly be good for any ecosystem and has resulted in very high unemployment as workers flooded this boom town and never left. Thank god for the environmentalists who managed to preserve some large tracts of land nearby. 

            Private property rights as per the Constitution, are for individuals and theoretically their self-sustaining farmsteads. In 1776 America, 90 percent of the population lived on a farm. After 1840, the Industrial Machine began pumping out jobs to displaced members of family farms in the big cities. Family farms became production farms and machines replaced people. In the late 1800’s  numerous waves of immigrants entering the United States went to work in factories or digging ditches providing great wealth to a few unworthy greedmeisters.  “Get a good education son, you don’t want to dig ditches like the Italians when you grow up.” The memory of that era still rang out as I was growing up.                           

              The very worst unsustainable resource of all is nuclear energy. Maybe in 50 years there will be advances and the problem of storing radioactive waste for 10,000 years will be solved. Yucca Flats remains in limbo and hundreds of sites have leaking barrels of radioactivity and they are anxious to inject this poison into our mother, the earth, but final approval is pending. Polluters are waiting for Yucca Flats to open up so 158 radioactive waste sites can ship out this material and store it underground at Yucca Flats. If Yucca Flats is approved, all that waste will be barreling down the interstate highway with you as it heads for New Mexico for ‘storage.’ No nukes on my planet please.  This is what I think about when someone says we need nuclear power.     

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     It’s up to us now to take this damaged resource base and build a structure for sustainability. The so-called ‘greatest generation’ used up 7 generations worth of resources in one and are loath to give up the illegitimate wealth as they ‘played the game of life’ and made out swell with their investments. They turned a blind eye to how much of the United States and the earth was being destroyed as they proclaimed capitalism lifts people out of poverty.

         Remember when we were young and we watched fields and forests recklessly cut down to make room for more people? Taxes were then used to try and save forest and riparian areas before it was all gone. A town shouldn’t even be allowed to incorporate without setting aside significant common areas for all the residents to use in perpetuity. 

        Imagine the taxes used to clean up rivers that were used by high profit corporations as their own personal sewers. The fishkills, the no swimming signs, do I even have to discuss this ...  we know how much pollution has been generated by amoral companies.  Guess who profited? They are now stapling tea bags to their hats and putting mean spirited bumper stickers on their car. “My guns, my bible and my money, YOU keep the “change.”"

 

ROUSSEAU    “since no man has any natural authority over his fellows and since force alone bestows no right, all legitimate authority among men must be based on covenants.”

💚💞❤   -3-5- 💚💞❤ 

DO AS YE WILL  

I’m not going to complain without offering solutions of course. Taxing Gasoline at their source of production (the refineries) and taxing plastic at the site of their production will become a good income stream. Eventually, till we can complete the grid that will allow Americans to be free of government,  
 we can power and feed and rule without the monopolistic corporations and the coral colony of government.  George Washington said the government "should be like fire. A useful employee, but a terrible boss."

The people can use the government to create the structure that will make us less dependent on the government.  We don’t need more tolls and fees, what we need are pipeline taxes.  Duh, tax the rich, they wonder why we’re not!

The Wiccan code states, ‘DO AS YE WILL AND HARM NONE’, and I would like to introduce this angle to help advance our thinking. In the marketplace, it doesn't matter what religion we are, but how you interact with other people. What we buy is ALSO becoming more important, and I’d like to show you how. Given the choice of a 20 dollar shirt from a company in Bangladesh that pays its workers five dollars a day, or a 30 dollar shirt from Sweden, which should we choose?

Take the example of Lucy in Bangladesh, taken out of school at the age of 9 to work in a sweatshop. Now at 19, her hands are so sore and worn out, she doesn’t know how she keeps going. Every waking minute is torture and she is unable to see the gift that life is. Like many working poor, she is vulnerable to Christianity and Islams message; that it is okay to live with coercive authority, because there will be rewards in heaven.  Could there be world wide misplaced trust with the heaven bound clergy and their invisible product?                                                    

Back to that shirt: why would you want to pay ten dollars more to the Swedish manufacturer that treats its workers humanely with good pay and vacations?  They have to compete with Bangladeshi sweat shop workers who are the modern day slaves? Why change now?  It was Boomer parents and grandparents purchases in the 60’s and 70’s that precipitated the exodus of clothing manufacturers from the United States.  A low  price means low wages somewhere.

 Buy the cheaper shirt and laugh, it’s not my problem, but then it’s YOU that is helping to expand the sweatshop system that will eventually engulf every worker and perpetuate a growing workplace tyranny as Oligarchs return us to neo-feudalism.

                People tell me these lowest paid workers of the world need jobs too. The hidden truth is that there will be inflation, if all workers made a decent wage. But EVERYONE needs a proper wage.  By remaining silent, you allow that encroaching neo-feudalism while keeping prices low. Your grandchildren will look at you one day, all misty eyed and weary from another 14 hour day at the microchip factory and ask,” Why did your generation just lay down and die, Grandma? How were you so brainwashed, that you couldn’t stand up to coercive authority, and prevent the emergence of corporate theocratic fascism. What shortsighted idiots!. Smart slaves is all we are. Toilers for the rich." "                                                                                                                                  

            To  everyone else who wants a peaceful world, I’m asking you to look a little deeper: do ye harm none when you buy that cheaper shirt or any of the other products created in unsafe conditions or where slave wages exist?  Like it or not we are all loosely connected in the global marketplace. We need to see the billions that slave for our low prices today. Low prices means someone is getting low wages, and is not fairly represented at the jobsite.

              There has never been this many hungry people in the world. There have never been this many homeless people. Don't all lives count?  Shouldn't every country have a volunteer population cap? Billions are suffering as the human population skyrockets out of control; women thrown into factories, men working in a near death state in mines. The most physically fit work 16 hours a day and the misfits are homeless.  This is the Low Prices mentality. The war like mentality of world leaders has the youngest and healthiest to die.

 Lucy Thu in Bangladesh is so tired and disgusted that when shop mate Rosuh Rivutah loudly proclaims that they should start a union, her hopes rise briefly as she dreams of joy and happiness. If she could earn more, SHE DREAMED, she could buy a refrigerator and TV for the family, and some rugs and maybe someday have children that wouldn’t starve to death. The next morning Rosuh is found dead with the implied warning that if you fight the power, you will die. Lucy’s despair deepens; it seems like the End of All Hope. UNION IS THE WORD THEY DARE NOT SPEAK.

The fact is that if there was a worldwide minimum wage of a dollar an hour, a pair of sneakers, for instance, would only increase from 70 to 75 dollars. Even though the workers wage has quadrupled, the price only goes up 7% because most of the cost of the product goes to corpulent executives and shareholders sickening greed. Then there are the transportation costs and various forms of white-collar crime that is derived from all this money sloshing around.  We can build an infrastructure for all the small farmers of the world with the money we could find in tax shelters of the wealthy. 

We have more products than we can manage, and we can create dignity, comfort and happiness in the lives of the two billion working poor in the next 20 years, or choose to continue to kowtow to the monied interests. Boycotts work. Nestle and Monsanto for a start. It’s a sick, evil greed that has made the lives of billions, a hell on earth, but the concern of right wing wackos and moral high ground hypocrites is gay rights and other contrived moral issues. Being alive isn't enough; you need to be awake also, and you need to push forward or clear a path for others wherever you find yourself. 

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In the much delayed, total infrastructure rebuilding program, there will be lots of work for engineers and designers, and good paying jobs for boots on the ground.  A real infrastructure for ALL OF US to have access to, AND a unifying coast to coast effort to show everyone in the world how it’s done.  Deconstruct this 700(800?) BILLION dollar military that has brought peace to no one and power overwhelming for the Nazis running the United States.

There is plenty of money once people wake up to the illusion of prosperity that is capitalism. Why isn’t there emergency housing for natural disasters and tornado shelters in every vulnerable town? Where are the evacuation facilities for seniors and people with special needs during weather disasters? What about the many terrified people trying to survive an approaching hurricane?

We should create a country that cares for every one with a real infrastructure, with humungous rest areas on the highways for vacationers and people living out of their vehicles. Call it the INFRASTRUCTURE COMMONS, with lots of public land for recreation and small business commerce.  ANDWE'REGOINGTOMAKETHERICHPAYFORIT.   

Taxing and demonetizing the corporate structure of Google Amazon & Facebook and some others to allow the people to gain control of our people generated content. The whole Facebook jail thing is ridiculous, and we will find something else.

       Clearly, large corporations were the only ones considered during the planning of our interstates, and we can fix that. Oil and Gas subsidies have to end so the alternatives can come online. Biodiesel is great for recycling restaurant oil and creating less toxic fumes and could compete with petroleum.  Though Chicago will end up smelling like French Fries.

 

💚💞❤   -3-6-  Fetid Cesspool 

 

        

         The spirit of 1776 has been crushed and replaced with the culture of the warrior elite. The War Culture, the tree cutting and ecosystem destroying culture that has been on a rampage against nature these last 150 years. 

      The profits of previous decades have given us this weapon saturated world we have today, and nuke waste is still waiting for its 10,000 year storage bins. There will need to be a multi-billion, if not trillion, dollar effort to decommission the nuclear power plants that created temporary, cheap electricity.  

         U.S. Veterans feel they are patriots because they risked their lives in Europe and Asia and wherever else. I hate to say it but, George Washington might not agree with the patriotism angle. Bomb bomb bombing Iraq isn‘t the same kind of effort he made at Valley Forge. 2026 Iran. What would George Washington say?

        I am referring to George Washington and his famous quote about "avoiding foreign entanglements," when he became President. Remember, the Constitution says the military would "provide for the common defense." And thats it!. How did we get this 800 billion dollar, death-star, war machine?  

 

       I'm not against the military, except when they are not "providing for the common defense." Which is like, always. In 2004, the Louisiana National Guard was fighting in Iraq and were unable to help during the after math of Hurricane Katrina as one example. 

        A simple solution is to cut the military 5% a year. It's like a 400 pound person who is told to lose 5% of their weight per year. 20 pounds the first year.  19 pounds the second year. 

                YOU CAN DO IT!

                

       President Washington would also discover that the “unprecedented” post war prosperity of the fifties and sixties was fueled by rapacious plundering, such as the many forests that were clear cut to ignite the suburban housing boom and "White Flight."  

          The government subsidized nuclear power industry, and other weapon manufacturing jobs, gave people great pay back in those "greatest generation" days, but now we have a trillion dollar toxic cleanup from these factories and murder workshops that no one wants to talk about. Cheap energy wasn't the goal, plutonium was for bomb making was the plan.

           Just something to think about as you work for minimum wage at McDonalds or WalMart as your conservative Uncle touts his "values system". Then you start realizing the Muslims aren't the problem.

        Tons of dangerous chemicals at military sites and biohazards  at weapons of mass destruction assembly sites need to be taken care of. The Greatest Generation got cheap electricity in the 50’s, 60’s & 70's, but left the problem of storing nuclear waste to generations unborn. That is a values system? Judeo Christian ethics?

The Greatest Generation allowed this with their inaction

         

      A rising tide of enlightenment will eventually drown the meanness, prejudice, bigotry and hate of this grossly misnamed greatest generation. They will disappear into the fetid cesspool of ignorance they created. The Corporate Authoritarian Despots (c.a.d.'s), that they bow down to, will no longer control our economy, once Progressives and Independents get motivated.   But mark my words, one day it will be realized the greatest generation was actually the worst generation. Generation X all blaming Boomers 'n shit. lol.

 

        This older generation had been brainwashed to worship all coercive authority. Give it all to win the war. Boomers grew up and worked ceaselessly to keep their heads above water or they were deeply into the greed machine. Their lucrative stock investments in polluting corporations keep them docile. 

        The youth are looking ahead, but don’t understand some of the old American traditions. Around the world, millions of us are transcending generation, race, gender, and class barriers; and are unafraid to discuss the taboos. We are uniting without a coercive hierarchy. Heads and hearts together.

 

The clotted nothingness of todays liberalism and the venomous spewing of conservatives actually represent small slices of the American Pie; and unfortunately, the only two that have a voice in the mainstream media. Like Lewis Black says, "The Democratic Party is the party of no ideas, and the Republican Party is the party of bad ideas."

 

          Let’s give ourselves the chance for a new start, with the rejection of violence and discrimination, and the ushering in of The Dawn of Civilization.

 What about the independent viewpoint? The independents have no steadfast, limiting ideology. We develop our own viewpoints and philosophies. We are tired of coercive governments and corrupt corporations. We are in the Tea Party and we are in Occupy Wall Street.

        We believe Churches serve quasi-governmental functions, as do the Cub Scouts, the Rotary, Homeowners associations and Garden Clubs. Government should be our solid edge and border maintaining our Constitution, and all these civic groups are a high thread count in the fabric of freedom. 

 

A storm is brewing

 

Josiah Quincy in 1773. 'I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon. The thunder rolls and the lightning plays, and to that God who rides the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country." 

 

        What God is this then that he called upon? Thor, Perun, Boreas or others?  As Quincy warmed up the crowd,  local businessmen were  walking over to the wharfs to destroy the 300 chests of tea sitting on British ships in the harbor.

         The real Tea Party was about small business striking a blow against Britains corporate control of the colonies commerce. Small business entrepreneurs and their apprentices, along with member of Boston's north and south side gangs were the instigators in the acquisition of liberty. They were the motivating force of the Revolutionary War, not southern slave owners.

            

Poor people I have known are hard workers-THEY lie.

 

        
         Jesus never said anything like, “thy life sucks and then thouest dies”. The bible writers censored many of Jesus’ actual sermons while Christians, Caliphates and the Romans burned down the Library of Alexandria which contained hundreds of thousands of scrolls that were the single copies of writings; traditions, philosophies and myths of the ancient days. 
       There is a reason the bible became a popular book. All the other ones were destroyed! Even in 1913, Hopi children were kidnapped and taken far away to be taught the bible, to separate them from the Old Ways. Why, in 2013, are witches being killed in Africa, and now India recently? Exodus 22:18? Since 395 AD.1631 years down the bloody path of xian (and xslam)genocide.

         It all derives from the pulpits of hate, the uninspired clergy referred to in the 1730',s  during the bogus "Great Awakening." I research so you don't have to. I research to prove davidbarton and glennbeck wrong.

 

 

        

 

The American Revolution truly started with the 'despicable rabble' of Boston Towne; the rock throwing, stamp collector confronting, effigy hangin, bar room debating, restive roughnecks. (See Liberty Tree on this blog)

Small business owners along with their young apprentices were stout  hearted, Independent thinking individuals took the actions needed to ignite the public at large. This country was created by people who finally outsmarted the christians politically. 
        Remember it was only 50 years previous to our revolution that it finally became illegal to kill Witches and Quakers, and enlightenment thinking was spreading fast and true freedoms were within reach, and by 1776, most thinking people were no longer swayed by the religious bugaboo that kept people frozen in fear of an angry god.

 

        Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and her story is at the heart of the Eluesian mysteries. As Masons, our founding fathers had secret ceremonies invoking the oracle at Delphi. Delphi was a place where the intellectually nimble debated, and its well was considered the navel of the world. The umbilical cord of liberty. The Axis Mundi. Genius loci.
         The Founding Revolutionaries of the United States created Washington D.C. much like a giant mason lodge, and the Capitol building like a Goddess temple. Please note the picture below is Ben Franklin with Demeter or Minerva- Greek and Roman names for the goddess of the harvest. Above Ben and Minerva is the apotheosis of George Washington, surrounded by 13 goddesses and muses. Keep in mind that this is in an important building in D.C. seen by millions. Jesus and Paul Revere? Get it? 

Our founding revolutionaries outsmarted the devious clergy. First and foremost, we are not a christian country. We are thinkers, inventors artists and workers.

Apotheosis of George Washington(upper right corner)

What of the people most known for their stone work; the architects of Chartres Cathedral and most other ancient structures made of stone? The Free men masons became the freemasons. Ritual was added as time went by and tweaked by the idle rich with nothing better to do. That’s my Cliff Notes version of the Masons.  I am not a Mason nor do I wish to join. But mason bashing by xians needs to be stopped. It just shows your full of shit.

 

         Critics of our founding revolutionaries say they were an elite ruling class. I tell these people that the evolution of personal liberty ‘had to begin somewhere and it had to begin somehow’.  How could justice and equality suddenly arrive full blown out of nowhere? Give these dudes some credit. It would be like complaining that Alexander Graham Bell should have invented a message machine too.   They created a covenant that, when followed should lessen civil strife and create the blessing of liberty for everyone.
     

         Thomas Jefferson,  Benjamin Franklin,  Thomas Paine, AND Sam Adams along with many other progressive independent thinkers, were the primary progenitors of American independence.  On the night of Paul Reveres ride, he emerged from a Masonic hall to get on his horse to warn his neighbors, or was it a Masonic meeting in a tavern? In Paris, Benjamin Franklin talked to Thomas Paine, convincing him to come back to the colonies in 1774 while gathered in a Masonic Hall.

         And yes, I see quotes about how George Washington called upon God in some of his famous statements implying the Christian God. I’m here to tell you my friend, that George was inaugurated with his Mason apron on, okay?  He was paying lip service to the pesky clergy of his day with gratuitous quotes about god.
        Most Masons basically believe in a God, a great architect of the Universe. Primarily, they believe in the duality of male and female in their higher degrees and understand a lot of Egyptian mysticism. Isis and Minerva and Liberty (Libertas) and muses such as Clio are among their inspirations

George Washingtons beliefs had far more in common with the Native Pagan Indians than they did with some Puritan or Calvinist tightass ideal. If our 1776 ancestors talked about god, they were mostly paying lip service to the pontificating buzz killers. Remember that with the endless right wing memes about patriotism and god.

In 2026 it is not your imagination that dogmatic authoritarian despots have embedded themselves in the American government as they prepare their treacherous coup and continue to divide the nation. Stay alert Patriots.

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-3-7-   BOREAL 

 

GATHERING

    The Final Slaughter of nature will begin in the melting sea ice in the arctic region. Outside the Arctic in lower latitudes, a Boreal Forest encircles the globe from Canada to Greenland to northern Europe, Russia and Siberia.  Corporations have been permitted to steal Diamonds and oil and virgin timber and other resources in an extracting frenzy all around the globe and now want to look for these resources in the frozen north, and this is where environmentalism will take its last stand.

 

      The biggest shipping shortcut in 100 years will be developed when the Northwest Passage is open 7 or 8 months a year because of melting and shrinking ice instead of the four months that ice breakers have now. This will introduce a lot of supertanker traffic in the fragile arctic area where the degradation of anything is much slower because things don’t break down as readily when they are frozen all the time. The plastic cup that breaks down in 100 years here in Florida’s soil will take 500 years or longer in the frozen north. Remember the Iceman that was found in a mountain pass?

New ports will begin to grow in relation to various paths of the Northwest Passage, mostly in the indigenous Nunavat Province. I am going to suggest that environmentally minded people of the world need to

 grab a green opportunity. Secret Antifa Plan

   Detoxify the earth. The Earth Movement.  Village Autonomy.  The first day of summer showed a lot of promise for the future as people gathered on the road to Lake Matagami in Quebec. Only 2.5 inches of rain per month in this area during July and August, with temperatures between 50 and 75.  Sunrise at 4 50 and sunset after 10 at night, it was an ideal summer getaway and the crowds were gathering. Boreal Gathering 2 had exploded far beyond the original gathering in 2026.  

The summer of 2007 was the first time this northern shipping route was traversed without the help of ice clearing ships, and it will get easier every year and we need to create an earth protector presence to counter the profit gobbling greedmeisters.                          

With all this in mind, it occurs to me that there should be some place where all of us regular folks can stand up for each other, and a place where outrageous corporate evil can be thwarted. Where small business unites worldwide. A  place I want to call the NOMOREWAR Conference Center. We can build our port at the far southern end of the James Bay. There is a St James Bay Road that goes from the last populated area that is between Amos, Canada and Lake Matagami; and that road goes near St James Bay.

  Look at the Hudson Bay in Canada on a map. The far southern end of Hudson Bay is named St. James Bay and is visible but not labeled on some maps. We can change the name of St. James Bay to Godfred Bay. Godfred was a warrior, a king of Denmark, who built sea walls defending his country against Charlemagne's Christians. I know you were taught Charlemagne was a good guy, but he wasn't if your peaceful community was in his way or targeted for conquering. Sometimes the conquered people didn't want to be conquered.

The icecap is getting smaller and since the ice is derived mostly from snow and rain and not so much from the salty ocean, this melting freshwater will change the salinity anywhere nearby.  A rising ocean would also crack and loosen all these different ice sheets exacerbating the problem even more. Imagine a one foot ocean rise flooding up and over all the ice sheets?  It has also been mentioned that the lessened weight on the tectonic plates from melting glaciers will facilitate the plates movement and subsequently there will be earthquakes. It could be a bumpy ride.                               

 My idea is to pay for this peace conference complex with money made from a giant desalination complex near the outlet of the Nottoway River that flows into Godfred Bay.  Pure iceberg water can be separated from the melting iceberg and sold as gourmet drinking water while the unmelted chunks can be made into Iceberg ice cubes. Call it Carbon Sink Springs Water and sell it in biodegradable corn based containers. These containers are so biodegradable that they can be tossed outside your car window; just like the Greatest Generation  did back in the 50's.

The throwing of greatest generation garbage outside the car window ended up being the catalyst for the littering laws in the 60's, but these modern containers will cause no harm. Desalination should be easier in this location with a higher percentage of freshwater flowing out of the Nottoway River that empties into Godfred Bay.  The Desalination plant can be near where Nottoway River empties into Godfred Bay (formerly St. James Bay). The Desalination plant can be expansive, but carefully planned will create no real footprint in the overall pristine nature of the Boreal Forest. Less salinity at the mouth of the Nottoway River.  The building can be made from local trees that are cut down. This can be a port where green technology rules and fossil fuels can be eliminated. Fossil fuels banned above the Arctic Circle.

 We need a rich consortium of people to build the facility, and their investment will be returned. Dividends will be perpetual and ever giving to employees and the town that is created and the commerce that takes root there.  The St James Bay Road can be changed to the Godfred Parkway and it would be a 5 hour ride to Lake Matagami area if the road is improved. Here the NOMOREWAR Conference Center can be built.  As the sponsors of this facility, Pagan Reformists can show the world we can all live peacefully, enjoy our crafts and traditions and holidays and turn this religious and corporate hell of modern society into something worthwhile.   THE BOREAL GATHERING.  Stake our claim. Autonomous communities.

There are way too many unhappy souls in the world and the human population is out of control. There are obvious obstacles in the way of the planets overall quality of life but when will everyone’s vision become action?  Can you imagine a world where someone starts a war with a belligerent neighbor and the both of them get interrupted and dragged by the collar to the peace table? I’m suggesting a kind of Bounty Hunter for people perpetuating crimes against humanity and nature; and also a hunter gatherer tribe of modern 21^st century people that know no country.

First off they can hunt the excessive deer population in the States and Canada, and send the venison north to foragers in Canada. I call them the Druddité Rangers.  A volunteer group that will thwart the efforts of the polluters and parasitical pirates of Industrial Xapitalism. Need a private Navy like The Cajun Navy to monitor and report corporate malfeasance.

 These Druddité Rangers can work with the Canadian snowmobile squad, American  Navy seals, The Norsemen Brigade, the Artic Mounties, The Polena Rangers, Coast Guard and Greenpeace to bring law to the extractive insanity that is going to happen. For instance, you may have heard about a Soviet sub going under the arctic ice to plant a flag to claim ownership so they can get resources like natural gas to sell. Assholes. They are lining up like jackals during a lions kill.  Meanwhile Russia spills 20,000 tons of diesel fuel in 2020.

    I think that once a building is built for meetings, the first issue that can be addressed concerns Quebec and its quest for independence. Why can’t Quebec be its own country? Sure, I joke like the Canadians do, that Canada is almost the biggest country in the world, as long as Quebec doesn’t secede. Well, why can’t they? The less centralization the better, there will be freedom for cultural groups to have rights as entities, not someones satellite. Go over the Quebec issue first since the NOMOREWAR conference center will be based in Quebec Province.

 Conference 2 can begin with the Basques separatists of Spain suing for the rights to their own country and representatives are forced to come from Spains government to have explain themselves or have the bad publicity go unanswered. Conference 3 can be about the Zapatistas in Mexico and what they are seeking. Number 4 can be about Tibet. Agenda items 5-10 to be announced later as its understood that this is not the UN but the people united privately. With General Assembly voting. Perpetrators of war crimes, or companies harassing those starting unions or involved with genocidal ethnic cleansing will be spotlighted in this situation. The Global Court of Public Opinion.  The little people need protection as we finally realize we need to fight back in this class war. We need some bad ass enforcers.   

If polluters and piratical profiteers win, say goodbye to our Mother Nature. If a technological theocratic Fascist group takes over the world say goodbye to Liberty.  Get your low carbon footprint ready to try new strategies. It will never be 2026 again.                                      

The Boreal Forest encircles the globe and has been called the world largest biome. Over on the Russian side of the world is a mirror image of the Canadian and Alaskan Boreal forests. Will corporations be allowed to pillage the resources?  We all own this, who sold to all the big corporations and countries like Russia. Forest clear-cutting is going on right now. Did the people vote for that? 

Recycling should be providing more of our paper products than they do now. But we continue to allow these large corporations to cut down virgin forests for toilet paper and that keeps recycling from being viable.                                                                                              

Corporations are unchallenged in their plundering of the world, and religion is too weak kneed to deal with their greedy machinations. Let’s have wars about our belief in the afterlife, (Jihad and The Crusades), and ignore the sustainability of nature. This makes sense (not).  Polar ice is melting as scientists have noted, and sailing will start becoming more common up in the artic as I said. This will be big news because ships find the Panama Canal difficult and going around the bottom of South America is very time and fuel consuming. With gas prices having risen so much, the pipeline pirates want to drill again; but why we don’t we save petroleum resources for other generations in the future? The United States really needs to lead by example, and we need to do it soon.

There is no sane policy in place and the world can support 15 or 20 billion people say prominent people apparently unaware of the chaos and starvation that would result. They must assume genetics will create 25 -foot chickens and 7 ton cows to produce all the meat needed.

As populations level off, a rising tide of prosperity will lift all boats. Rule number 1 is, a world population cap at 9 billion. Birth control has to be part of everything a society deals with. Have two and you’re through could be rule #2.                                                                                                                                           

 

        Our world societies can evolve to where motivation to be good is derived from common sense, knowledge and wisdom, not religious bugaboo. We have grown past the point where the threat of an eternity in hell getting poked by demon pitchforks and an eternal immolation in the Lake of Fire seems less and less believable. It's time to cast out these phonies and Moral High Ground Hypocrites and create our own rockin’ world without government and religion.                                                                                 

        Repressed Victorian Era Moral High Ground Hypocrisy led to sexual suppression and as the pendulum swung the other way to find a balance, it swung out too far and is still swinging out. The Druddité religion encourages the use of birth control to achieve zero population growth, so a tradition would be to not be responsible for the birth of more than two people. Of course, there are so many different kinds of blended families and people taking care of others children but a good credo can be “Have two and you’re through”, in other words, to be genetically responsible for no more than two new lives in this world. Any more than that will be considered greedy and déclassé. People with ten children that suffer from malaria or are bothered by flies in their mouths; and countries that are so overpopulated you have no room to bury your dead need to be slapped upside the head and given birth control. Looking at You Big Religion.                  

                 Another problem is what I call the Babe Culture. The wrong kinds of women are treasured; the healers, the gentle women that can bring peace to a situation, should be most revered in a violent world.  Instead, we have this lurid culture where women sell products with seduction. This babe culture is part of this Era of The Loudmouth Huckster. The pendulum of crass has arced out far enough, and a little pagan soup is needed for the empty soul and peaceful enlightened market socialism will be about producing, selling or buying products from each other without an excess of ads and corporate control.  Our field of vision is filled with more and more advertising and Youtube is filled with 5 second ads. Shopping cart ads is an example of the ubiquity of what it is becoming.

There is a difference with the sexes and males need to get out and be exuberant. Get out and be nearly primitive, everyone knows the story how on a clock of time we would be hunter gatherers till 11:54 and “civilized” the last six minutes. It’s still in our genes. 

 This is the Anglican Church flag of Canada but how about our own Druddité flag something like this; green and black with maple leaves and stars. Keeping the Boreal Forests intact around the world will be environmentalisms last stand, and the Boreal Gathering will bring attention to what is going on up there.  I also imagine a Boreal Gathering in Russia also where people from that side of the world will gather.                                     

Eventually what I envision are the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ceding land to make a neutral site for a world headquarters for Peace conferences; from Lake Matagami in Quebec to Lake Lawagamau in Ontario. Cede the land over to an autonomous colllective.

\The rainiest months in my targeted area are June and September. I would like to start an annual progressive gathering there for six weeks in July and August. Craft fairs, drum circles, swap meets educational settings and classes; Camping, celebrating and ceremony, all on the road from the town of Amos to Lake Matagami. There would be campsites available and if it becomes popular the road is about 100 miles long and conceivably there is plenty of camping potential. Have people discreetly buy some property up there for a summer escape from rising temperatures in the south, maybe develop some sort of eco tourist business. Languedoc is about 20 miles the other way down the road from Amos. I have to guess that local residents will appreciate tourists spending money.

 To review my suggestions, I think a highway should be built from the Lake Matagami area to the St. James Bay (soon to be renamed Godfred Bay), A highway that has smooth dirt and 40 MPH areas where animal migration will not be effected along with a superhighway in sections with 80 MPH limits that is fenced in to keep animals out with many elevated areas so wildlife can flourish and migrate.

. But the highway can go undergro        und with shrubs on top like plants on top of buildings to feed the birds on their northern migrations. The Godfred Bay Parkway could have solar refilling stations. Keep in mind this cold frozen region is warming up and in ten years the growth of port cities in Hudson Bay will begin in earnest. It’s going to happen anyways, grab control of this idea and make a green highway and initiate some environmental safeguards for all the animals. Trucks over a certain weight can be required to use Bio-diesel which will also be available.                                                                                

            The NOMOREWAR Conference Center will be located along this road and also the Boreal Forest Pagan Preserve; a kind of a mitigation to all the pagans throughout history that have lost their land to religious warriors. Saudi Arabia, The Vatican, and others can contribute. The idea is this; in 2023 we gather on the road to Lake Matagami in Canada and make a Freedom Pilgrimage; the first of its kind.

 For some reason I have zeroed in on this area. As I tried to get a feel for the area I discovered the town Of Languedoc; of course this is also the name of a region in Southern France I refer to numerous times in History of the Pagans. The place famous for the Cathars, the Templars and Mary Magdalene and it was here the Troubadour movement emerged from. The Occitan language once connected the cultures of eastern Spain, southern France and western Italy: Occitan is the Druddités second (and secret) language.                                                               

                 Hudson Bay is going to become important. The Northwest Passage in the artic circle is melting to where it may become a viable transportation route for shipping and ports will develop. Global warming is happening faster as you get closer to the artic. I can see a northerly migration of people and animals and plants.  The American Catholic Church can also be given a piece of land: I describe them elsewhere and their feelings about married clergy and child abuse. Pagans and Catholics, bitter enemies for centuries will show the world how to peacefully co-operate and would also invite Jewish people to have an alternative Homeland there.                                

                   Beautiful grounds, walking paths, monuments, shrines and churches and temples that emphasizes the beauty of the Boreal Forest. There will be one main building where world disputes will be discussed. A conference center like the Lied Center at the Arbor Day Foundations headquarters which is designed for energy conservation and ecosystem integration. Call it the NOMOREWAR Conference Center. Compare the carbon footprint of this compared to let’s say, the diamond mine that will open and have a pit nearly a thousand feet deep, using unimaginable amounts of water  to separate the diamonds from dunghills. Water used to extract diamonds will be returned to local lakes and streams polluted and possibly toxic.                                                                               

Tourists can plan vacations there; hiking, fishing, getting together with like-minded individuals. How about a stop from Ozzfest one summer? 2025?  One advantage of this area is that the sun rises at 5:15 and sets at 9:15. Enough light to see from 4am to 10pm Go further north and the days are even longer. Average temperatures in my proposed Boreal Headquarters is 72 and 52 during July and August, a welcome relief in the middle of the summer from our pre-heating planet. Six weeks of abundant sunshine and cool temperatures in July and August. A safe place from ravaging 200 MPH hurricanes that develop in 90 degree ocean waters.

                                                                                                     

        The 21st century should be about “LAWAGAMAU” which is picking out the hi-tech we want to keep and knowing what we need to discard. Nanotechnology is poised to create potential for unbelievable disruption of Natural Law. Why should a couple of profit heavy corporations decide? This is time when the humans really need to stand up for their planet and their dignity. Let’s keep IPods and digital cameras and discard cloning and plant genetics. This is an example of what I mean. It’s probably already too late to put the genetic manipulation genie back in the bottle, but other horrors can be prevented. Cloning just sounds wrong on so many different levels even the popular squirrel cloning.    

 

    

        A yearly pagan pilgrimage, call it the Boreal Gathering.  The Boreal Forests around the world are the largest “carbon sink” we have. I got this feeling that extractive profiteers are going to do as much damage as they can before the public notices, and what corporations have learned in the Reagan Gingrich Bush Tea Party Era, is that  you can do nearly anything and the American public has no real protest that amounts to  anything anymore.    

 

  -3-8-💚💞❤

 I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

          The pain of being burned to death never ends in hell, you get that, right? Our Patriot Revolutionaries are being punished in HELL for mocking god in the case of Thomas Paine; considered an atheist, who described Christianity as “a history of wickedness”. Jefferson is certainly in Hell being torn apart by iron maidens and poked by a million demon pitchforks for talking about his pagan “god of nature” in the constitution. Not one word from the Bible in all the founding documents… god was pissed. Our Constitution is about liberty, not dogma, and that's why there's no mention of the Bible.

           In an essay from Time Magazine, Barbara Ehrenreich explains the reason for the separation of Church and State.

 "The government that the Founders designed could levy taxes and raise an army, but it could not do these or any other things in the name of a higher power. By stripping government of supernatural authority, the Founding revolutionaries created a zone of freedom around each individual human conscience. They demystified government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension, protest and change” 

          Glenn Beck and an ‘expert’ was on a special show about the bible and the constitution, trying to prove that the colonies in 1776 were enthusiastic about their religion and this notion is misleading--false witness even, to conclude the bible is the source of the American Constitution. 

        Men have always been men, and I can’t imagine many of them willingly going to church, arm in arm with these clean fingernailed con-men preachers. Therefore, Religion held an iron grip wherever they could, even requiring mandatory attendance in the early days of the colonies. 😁 But let’s face it, these were tough pioneers who weren’t big on kissing up to these pesky preachers. This country was built with an ax and not a Bible and many were loath to give their hard earned income to the machinations of clergy.                           
    This is why fear has worked so well for over 1600 years; this was how to break the resolve of the peasant. If you saw your church father stringing up Quakers in 1650, you sure as hell wouldn’t be the one that was going to test him. 

    By the 1720's, when hanging Quakers and witches became illegal, these lily livered preachers stridently scared people with Hellfire and doom to hold onto their fraudulent authority. Were most people cowering wimps who had to pray as much as possible to keep demons away? I don't think so. 

               Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called, 'America at 1750', and in it he quotes someone who wrote about those days,

 "Hector St. John de Crevecour, after observing sects in the middle American colonies, and the feeble religious instruction of the children, thought this a world of waning zeal,” 

de Crevecour writing, 

"religious indifference is imperceptibly disseminated from one end of the continent to the other…persecution, religious pride, the love of contradiction, are the food of what the world commonly calls religion. These motives have ceased here.’”                                

          The Germans and Scots were hard working farmers who pushed the boundaries of the colonies hard westward and they were reluctant to give their hard-earned profits to some lazy ass preacher who was only out to scare their children. This is how they talked; it wasn’t Little House on the Prairie. Real men love Jesus sure, but Jesus only puts food on the table in their imagination.

          Let me go get my bible and randomly pick something, it must be time to bring out the good book again, maybe a commentary or analysis relevant to this discussion. That's the fun of the Bible; close your eyes and point to a random verse, kind of like astrology, and make the quote something to live by. Like Tarot and the 10th card of a Celtic Cross spread, the summation of all the cards or an end result, does it please the goddess? Well here goes, Proverbs 5:9-11, “Give your honor to others and your years to the merciless. Let strangers take the fill of your strength and your labors go to the house of an alien; and at the end of your life you groan when your flesh and body are consumed and you say ‘how I hated discipline.”        

  What this verse says to me is that if you put your hopes in the unknown(faith), you will regret it.

But verse 6 continues with the solution to our woes, stating how the meek will someday overcome the evil lying Republicans and the era of greed, 1981 to 2021. Verse 6:12-15 states, "A wicked man goes about with crooked speech (Pete Kegsbreath), winks with his eyes, (KKKaroline) scrapes with his feet(Huckabee) points with his finger (Hawley Gaetz Cruz & the others) and with perverted heart devises evil, (Pee Wee German), continually sowing discord: (Bannon):therefore, calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.”

        Don’t worry all you cowering, fearful children, there is no hell. These people are hallucinating demons, and they really can't be taken seriously. The Demons are here. Creating wars.

gOd told me to tell you to pursue happiness, and not to fear an eternity of torture. The afterlife that Christians try to scare everyone with, would seem to portray god as a mass murdering evil god. A notorious galactic despot with rage issues who is not happy that your life sucks beyond your wildest dreams. A train wreck of a diety who hates the poor countries and regions of the world, but also promises you an eternity of Halloween the 13th type of scary hellish torture after you die! ?….and your pledging allegiance to HIM?      

This is the god that the Tea baggers want running this country? This is the god they want in our schools? This train wreck of a deity who tortures people in Hell? This is the god that gives us our validation says glennbeck!!  A leap of faith, or reason?

 

Glenn Beck is sadly rewriting history, brainwashing the population and people are bobbing their heads thinking he is such a history expert, but compared to Hofstadter, he’s not much more than a rhetorictisian and …well…a rodeo clown. I intend to fight this misology, zealotry and bigotry with another way to look at our history to give people a more fair and balanced outlook. I’m here for ya baby!            

I research so you don’t have to.     

It’s very frustrating to Christians that they can’t kill those who disagree with them anymore, and now they despair that there are so many books there never will be enough time to burn them all. So they have now embedded themselves in the political system, and they want a return of child labor and hey slavery wasn't that bad. Worth another try.

Logic should tell you to deprogram yourself. Reject these religious notions that the afterlife is one horror after another if you don't believe what the clergy may say. Like when the car salesman says “we checked it out top to bottom, she’s in great shape.”

I don't think life is not some made up game with a puzzling rule book (bible). For instance, people are gambling with their eternal salvation when they don’t go to church. “Missing church is a mortal sin,” my mother would say. “Your soul becomes all black and you don’t get to go to heaven.” The truth is that The Great Architect created souls so s/he could share the joy of being alive.  Sharing joy and creating life, that's more like it, that's a God I can party with. There is no hell and to believe this old testament fairy tale is nonsense.

Think about this my friend, if that pastor, preacher or priest had no audience, he’d have to get a job, right? Bearing false witness to beat the band, it’s his or her job to keep you coming back to give to the building fund. Religion is an easy product to produce -rhetoric and brimstone; “Showtime,” says the evangelist as she straightens out her wig, “time to be authentic”.       

        People who say this is a Christian nation are bearing false witness; most Christians therefore break the 9^th commandment. Spreading lies, half-truths, and defying the spirit of the 9^th commandment while they passed out NObama stickers at Bob Evans.

     Then there's the fear of Islam, but the Moslems who opened an office. The people going to the ground zero mosque are Dervishes I found out recently. The Dervishes are the most opened minded and reasonable sect of Islam, the ones who could have a dialog with terrorists. Living in America, Christian preachers are no longer able to gather up a mob to carry torches and pitchforks to terrify a social adversary, such as these Moslems.                                            

The difference is that today the pitchforks are psychological, and the scars are on the inside. They can’t even become KKK because the Klan is held in very low regard, unlike 100 years ago. There are chritians targeting people for harassment as we speak, or typing to somebody encouraging them to keep buying as many bullets as they can, because fighting for gods honor is going to take a lot of ammunition. Kookbag politicians are still promoting this notion in 2026.  When the Christians come for your guns after they take control, will you object? With god on their side? I’m sayin’ we may need a militia to protect ourselves.

     There are dangerous people with too many guns in my estimation, but I optimistically predict that a general rising tide of enlightenment will drown the meanness, prejudice and hate of the mislabeled greatest generation. Spinning their wheels in the fetid mud of the bigoted and hateful authoritarian despots they bow down to. 

       But it will be a photo finish and I truly fear Christian violence. Part of Christianity is evil, as it has been from the day the Old Testament was written, till the time of Plato. Then it became embedded in political structures till Jesus came along. Remember the traditional clergy that was harassing him? Pharisees or something.  They became the separatist Paulines. They maneuvered their way eventually to many positions at the Council of Nicea that established Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire.  Then corrupted the Koran in various ways.  An intelligent, evil, otherworldly presence wrote the Bible.  Change my mind.

You’ve been so very much lied to and so have your ancestors throughout history. The people that wrote down the history were the only ones that knew how to write and as people began to learn to read they were only allowed to read the Bible. Histories of all the conquered peoples were burned and destroyed. You need to fully understand that there is a point of light leading away from the darkness. The light of the Statue of Liberty. The lamp of Libertas.        

Like Orwell’s 1984, history was changed as it suited the monarchies and their protestant and catholic lackeys. Censorship? Well, the Spaniards destroyed 496 of the 500 Mayan codices. Big brother has been here all along. 

  There is no hell and to Satan I say “In your eye with a custard pie, Lucifer.” Satan is a lie and there is no hell my friends, Kiss my ass Satan. We cannot base public policy on Satan and the machinations of evil. There is enough evil right here on this sphere of reality.                                                                                                                           

       Fux News from time time to time will say  that there is some ‘Great Awakening’ going on and I’m going to quote conservative historian Richard Hofstadter from his book, ‘America in 1750 about the original Great Awakening to start educating you about it.

          Richard Hofstadter, “With the end of religious wars and extreme persecution, along with the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism and a more affluent and luxurious life, some of the terror had been taken out of existence. In America, it had not been long since (slaveholder and witch executioner Cotton) Mather had seen the Protestant Vanguard as leading a direct assault on Satan’s wilderness bastion. 

        The cooling of religion could be felt, and men, even clergymen, leaned unmistakably to Enlightenment heresies. A society that was beginning to produce deistical leaders would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including freedom of thought.”  

              Freedom of thought is One of those pagan virtues that was enshrined in our constitution. Our founding revolutionaries were conservative but didn’t allow religious bugaboo to cloud the clarity of THEIR thoughts.

            This is what right wing Christian conservatives aren’t getting, the founding revolutionaries were masons, and the rigors of intellectual curiosity allowed them to perceive that there was a reason there were so many goddesses in Greek mythology.  Believing in the Bible was a straight jacket for those of nimble intellect.

          Here is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times hope that a smallpox or diphtheria epidemic or perhaps an earthquake would prod the people into a revival.”

         Americans continue to become more logical and educated, but still we have to live with this Christian fantasy of a great battle between good and evil. 2026. Jesus Christ what a trainwreck of a government. It's like March 12 and it's all so ridiculous.

 

Soon, they said. We can’t know when, but soon, I was told by one of my girlfriends. back in the seventies. The other religions are not talking about war, but Dharma, Harmony, Community, and maybe we need to give them a listen.                  Get lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots,---Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United States.

 

-3-9-   💚💞❤

PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE

a)   The Great Elm

b)   Riotous Revolutionaries

c)   A storm was brewing along with the beer

d)   Disperse ye Rebels

 E   Liberty in Ascendance of Religion

 F   Libertas Holds the Lamp

 

                    a)  The Great Elm                                              

                  After another strong squall had blown in from the east, on that stormy day September 21^st 1938, and my dad bent down and grabbed the cap that had blown off his head. He said he tucked it under his arm like a football and ran the rest of the way home with his seven-year-old sister in tow. Although far out to sea when he went to school, the undetected and untracked hurricane had picked up speed, slamming into the Connecticut coast around 3 o’clock with 115 MPH winds.

The winds were still blowing over 90 MPH as the dangerous quadrant of the storm went through Hartford, where my dad lived; his mom, sister and he looking out the window as trees flapped like the neighbor’s laundry on the clothes line. My grandmother barely had time to bring hers in. My dad and his sister had walked home from school in 70 MPH gusts around 3:30.

The Long Island Express it was called, and this unseen hurricane was the strongest storm to hit New England in recent memory.  Just south of Hartford in Wethersfield, where my mother lived, the Great Elm, pictured below, held onto most of its large branches but was heavily damaged.

The Latin designation of the American Elm is Ulmus americana. With its downward growing roots and immense shady canopy, it had become Americas' street tree. A disease introduced around 1930 called “Dutch Elm Disease” ravaged these trees the next 25 years, and many boomers and their parents remember when they were torn down and replaced. Main streets across America were once lined with this stately, tenacious shade maker.   Then IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES, they were gone.  

              By 1966, the tree was merely a plaque on my paper route, a victim of Dutch Elm Disease and suffering from the stress, and slow recovery, of the ‘38 Hurricane.

            The Great Wethersfield Elm it was called and was cited as the largest Elm east of the Rockies.  Further down the road is Ye Ancient Graveyard and also the house George Washington stayed in as he planned the Battle of Yorktown. An old sidewalk that I would ride my bicycle on had 5’x 5’ stones, all wavy and crooked from tree roots, as I threw newspapers to customers.  Almost half of my customers near the Wethersfield Green lived in houses built before 1850.

                    To help you understand this story, use July 4th 1776 as your baseline reference. A high recognition date, it was the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, but how did the United States get to that point in 1776? From the Village Improvement Association of Wethersfield Connecticut; comes this quote about the Town Green on Broad Street in Wethersfield. 

                  “The Stamp Act of 1765 threatened Connecticut's tradition of self-government. Connecticut's participation in the War of Independence began right here in the shadow of Broad Street's Great Elm, where   500 mounted and armed, Sons of Liberty, surrounded Stamp Master Jared Ingersoll.  According to contemporary sources, Ingersoll then took refuge in a nearby tavern, presumably the Chester Tavern, at 138 Broad Street. With the crowd clamoring outside, he decided his job as tax agent was not worth dying for, and he resigned.”

          “On August 14, 1765, a group of men calling themselves the Sons of Liberty gathered together in Boston under a large Elm tree near Hanover Square to protest the hated Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty concluded their protest by lynching two tax collectors in effigy from the tree.

“Ten years later, as they retreated from Boston Towne, British soldiers defiantly cut the Boston Liberty Tree down in an act of spite, knowing what it represented to the colonists, and used the tree for firewood. This act further enraged the colonists. As resistance to the British grew, flags bearing a representation of the Liberty Tree were flown to symbolize the unwavering spirit of liberty.”   This has beena quotefrom the Village Improvement Association of Wethersfield Connecticut.

 In this chapter, I will give you a history of the origin of our American freedoms unlike any you have ever heard, and my New Enlanders version of the struggle to unite the 13 colonies that saw themselves more like 13 separate countries.

The Republic of Vermont, did declare themselves a separate country in 1777, but eventually joined the United States in 1791, sewing the 14th star on the flag after 14 years as the Republic of Vermont.

I must also make a basic outline for those who would like to know more, but who are still confused or uncertain about American Revolutionary History. Shout out to those who don't think they should care about what happened during the Revolutionary War.  It relates directly to our freedoms today. Misrepresentations of the founding revolutionaries purpose abound, so ood luck.

You need to care because an authoritarian, neo-fascist entity, that wraps itself in the flag while misleading the people of the cross, have now accomplished a stealth coup. You, at least, as a citizen and patriot, a voter and a worker, need to arm yourself with a contrasting viewpoint and here it is.  

At least learn some basics about the Constitution and how the ideas from 1765 onwards, formed its inspirations.  Easily refutable lies are thrown around the media by ne’er do wells like Newt Gingrich and other white male supremacists, mis interpreting the American Constitution in their own bizarre way.

 I research so you don't have to, and I have found more raw facts than the engineered Conventional Wisdom would have you believe. Britain began to harness the colonies resources, while slowly raising taxes on colonists through the 1750’s.  In subsequent years lower middle class and the poor, the homeless or the nearly homeless, as Paul Revere was, were all stout hearted, independent people who lit the pilot light of Liberty that winter of The Stamp Act in 1765. They'd finally had enough.

Some say the founding Revolutionaries were Liberal some say Conservative, it's too long ago really, and the meanings have changed. Regardless, the Colonists found the bravery to defend the principles of freedom, liberty and libertarianism, against the growing coercion of British Rule. Inspiration for the Bill of Rights came from confrontations with British authority the next 10 years after 1765, most particularly in Boston, Massachusetts where the live, beating heart of the United States form of Democracy was born.

                The 'troops in the house,' 3rd amendment seems odd, but not when looked at from the colonist's viewpoint, as the Redcoats bullied their way into people homes and lives during the occupation. “We must lodge here tonight and you are obligated to share your provisions with us.” A most basic freedom, it was logical that no one should have authority to force you to lodge them, especially in the case of the Redcoat soldiers who were becoming an occupation army. 

         Less known about the 3rd amendment is that it is about a basic right to keep all forms of government intrusion out of our homes.  That would include NSA spying on our phone conversations one would assume, and any other heavy-handed tactics in the future. Mrs. Noseypants across the street with the camera system set up for her by her CIA son. Keeps her safe but she films much of the neighborhood without permission.

       This is the story of the real Tea Party and the events that led up to the revolution of 1776, and the crucial role the Liberty Tree played in nearly every large town within 150 miles of Boston. 

 The American Elm as democracy; love it while it’s here.

b) Riotous Revolutionaries

It was the roughnecks, the visionaries, the apprentice helpers, and the hard drinking lower middle class that became heroes in the initial fight for American Liberty, not the Glenn Becks of the day with their chalkboards and half-truths. And not your preachers neither, with their clean fingernails and collection baskets. In fact, in my research, I find few references concerning patriot preachers during the Revolutionary Struggle; in fact, they seem conspicuously absent for a so-called christian country.

             The tea dumping, mock lynching, stone throwing, rioting revolutionaries of 1765 to 1775 did not allow religious bugaboo to cloud the clarity of their vision.  In fact, religion had cooled to the point of being inconsequential, in many towns. This is where Republican Revisionist Rightest Rogue historians are completely wrong when they perpetuate the lie that this is a Christian country.  Like Big Brother in the book 1984, they rewrite as much of history that they can distort, and enough people buy the deceptions. 

I am going to quote what should be a significant book on American History, by an author who needs to be better known.  I find clarity in his writing on all topics that rings true to the facts and in my opinion, he tells an authentic story.  The book is called "Riotous Revolutionaries." His name is Robert Ellis Cahill and he has written a series of books about New England and particularly Salem, Massachusetts. He was a long-time sheriff in Salem, and he finally beat the so-called witches curse in the 1970's. The alleged curse that began during the witch hysteria of 1692. Sheriffs in the town of Salem always had bad luck for like 250 years. 

He has a personal view of the people and events that led up to the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Declaration of Independence.  Robert Ellis Cahill gives a well-researched, eminently accredited background to show you the real people who started the American Revolution. FARMERS TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST THE EMPIRE is what the newspaper headlines would say.

 Republican revisionists continue to sell you a distorted view of the REAL patriots. It wasn’t the Robert Bennett’s or the Rush Limbaugh's or Bill o’Reillys, or anncoulters and glennbecks who instigated the Revolutionary War, and this is a fundamental truth I wish to convey with this article. Republican Teabag Entertainers would have been the pompous apologists of the British in 1765, mocking the rebels and their pipe dream of personal Liberty. These Republican pundits would praise the righteous rule of the King. If the King was a dick like them. And helped them get rich. I intend to repair some of the damage done by these Repulsicans who would be quite uncomfortable being in the presence of our actual founding revolutionaries. The actual greatest generation.

 Here is the history of the real patriots.

Mr. Cahill from Riotous Revolutionaries, chapter one- paragraph one,

“George Robert Twelvetrees Hewes was born August 25, 1742. He was named after his father George, who was a tanner, a glue maker, chandler, soap boiler and jack-of-all-trades in Boston Towne. He was given the second name Robert for his uncle who was a blacksmith in Boston. Father George didn’t like the name ‘Twelvetrees’, and since mothers didn’t go to christenings, he asked the minister of the church to shorten baby Georges middle name to “twelves”.

            “The Hewes family of fourteen was poor and lived in near squalor on Water Street near the docks of North Boston. The kids growing up in the area, Ben Franklin in the 1730's and Paul Revere in the 1750's, were among them,  and they were tough and water wise, fondly referred to as “water rats” and "wharf rats". 

As a youth, George Robert Twelves Hewes not only had to live down his name, with taunts from his peers and fights on the piers, but his size as well. His father, who died when George was ten, stood 4 feet 6 inches tall, and his mother was no taller, George growing to 4 foot 4 inches by age 17 and never gaining another inch.” Danny DeVito could play George Hewes.

                We can begin to see how this pre-revolutionary society was an economy filled with artisans and tradespeople, glue makers of all things, and jack-of-all-trades type people. Apprentices, dairy farmers, loggers, blacksmiths, carpenters and on and on, nearly everyone had a craft. It was Market Socialism, I'm telling you. Paul Revere eventually became a respected silversmith, but had his ups and downs at the beginning; and I am trying to imagine the bespeckled elder, Ben Franklin, as a youthful gang member in the 1730's. 

       “We in New England know nothing of poverty and want; we have no idea of the thing" wrote Joseph Trumbull of Connecticut in 1764. "The price of labor is high and with this advantage we are able to take up a tract of land wherever we are able to settle it. This great ease of gaining a farm renders the lower class of people very industrious: which, with the high price of labor, banishes everything that has the least appearance of begging which we see so common in England." 

     Arthur Young, the agricultural writer who saw much of the Scottish Irish migration, once remarked on its quality. ‘They who emigrate are, from the nature of circumstances, the most active, hardy, daring, bold and resolute spirits, and probably the most mischievous also. The most visionary, the most impatient and restive under authority, the most easily alienated, the most desperate and cranky, were the most ready to leave the old lands, giving at least the initial population of the American Colonies a strong bias towards a dislike of authority.”

Pioneers were exploring the Great American wilderness and families followed behind them during the pre-Revolutionary period.  Conniving clergy followed THEM, looking for the free ride.  

There were many prosperous, self-sufficient farms, but there were hard times in the cities by 1765, and a general unease regarding the Crowns authority throughout the Colonies. Industriousness was rewarded as noted, but the growing prosperity of the newly rich in the cities, was where the British Corporate Empire could interfere best. If your business became too successful, the Brits started making problems for you.  British corporations didn't like competition.

 

c)    A  Storm was brewing along with the Beer

Back to Robert Ellis Cahill writing about America in 1765, “All of America, but especially New England was in a depression. All of the imposed taxes, most believed, were the cause of the depression. Britain's Parliament caused food and clothes prices to go up. Seamen and dockworkers, some 12,000 people, were unemployed--- for them and the merchants; the new Stamp Act was the last straw."     

                “ The Stamp Act in the American colonies required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards, to carry a tax stamp. The Act applied to papers, newspapers, advertisements, and other publications and legal documents, such as marriage certificates, and it was viewed by the colonists as a means of censorship.  They called it a "knowledge tax," on the rights of the colonists to write and read freely, hence, and importantly, this became the inspiration of our eventual first amendment.”

                    Robert Ellis Cahill continues describing the era of unrest and rebellion. “The Suffolk County Sheriff and the ten constables of Boston were frightened, for they knew they couldn't control the thousands of 'bully boys' of Boston, who every year on November 5th would parade the street carrying clubs and effigies of the Pope and the Devil.  This annual celebration of marching, singing and public drinking would inevitably turn nasty when darkness set in. Guy Fawkes Day was much like Halloween is celebrated today, with children in masks and coal blackened faces, going door to door costumed carrying Jack O' Lanterns and trick or treating"

                       "Following Boston’s example, almost every village and town in New England eventually had a Liberty Tree, and if there was not an appropriate large tree near the center of town, the people erected Liberty Poles. 

When November 1st 1765 rolled around, dockworkers refused to load or unload cargos, shops were closed, church bells rang, and every flag and ship-ensign was flown at half-mast. In Boston, the blood red stamps were delivered to Castle Island, but Governor Barnard didn't dare have his customs men bring them into port. Hmmm. A General Strike helped initiate the revolution. As it did for Lech Walesa and Poland.

In other towns, if the stamps could be confiscated by the Liberty Boys, they were, and burnt in great bonfires.”

 “In retaliation the government closed all the courts, for the law was that no legal business could be transacted without the stamp. Barnard wrote to his friends in Parliament: "I am at the mercy of the mob. The power and authority of the government is really at an end."  There were no business transactions and little activity that terribly cold winter of 1765-66. Paul Revere, for one, was so deep in debt he almost had to spend the winter in jail.”

               Freedom of Assembly is discussed in the first amendment to the Constitution and its spirit is derived from the tradition of meeting at a tree in the center of town.

Many people are discussing the amendments to the Constitution these days, but what is the constitution about anyways? How did we get from 1766 to 1776? There is a Preamble to the Constitution but Republican knuckleheads don't think much of it. "It's not binding," they say, or "Not really part of the Constitution." It goes like this.

 "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the General Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, we do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America." Sounds like a mission statement to me.  

            Time waits for no man, and regarding 1766, Cahill writes, “The British Parliament had no option but to repeal the Act. And March 19th was to be the day of celebration, yet many Tories and government officials still feared retaliation from the bully boys, and although a couple of effigies of customs officials were hung on the Liberty Tree, and a few house windows were broken, it was a day and night of all out gaiety.

Drummers and fluters marched through town and wine flowed like water, houses were lit up with candles and people danced in the streets. The Liberty Tree was decorated with lanterns, 'till its boughs could hold no more' and the Liberty Boys sponsored a fireworks display on the common.  Open houses and banquets, and John Hancock had a Madeira wine party, 'where barrels rolled onto the common for all to partake.'

Paul Revere tacked a copper plaque he made to the trunk of the Liberty Tree, it read, "To every lover of liberty-August 14, 1765" being the date 'Olivers house was ransacked.'  And my dads birthday in 1928.

It seems as I read various, authentic accounts of history, religious fervor had greatly cooled since the bogus Great Awakening of the 1730's. The Great Awakening was a "spiritual revival", and the decade when preachers were out of the tent and off the chain, desperate to grow their congregations and keep their easy jobs amidst a steady decline of interest from the public. Preachin' Gods word was a craft, and one of the few that didn't need tools or made you dirty. 

 During these many riotous celebrations, remember it was liberty that was the moral vanguard of the Revolution, not the lame-o  Ten Commandments. Freedom of thought and choice and association and assembly were newly burgeoning traditions anathema to organized religion. It was a blue-collar revolt, a Freeman peasant revolt, that occurred from 1765 to 1775 and that should be the model for us today in 2026. America with god as the invisible leader?

I DONT THINK SO.

   As stated in the Fundamental Orders of 1639 established by the Connecticut Colony, "authority is derived from the free consent of the people." Though crude, with a pandering to the white male god, the Fundamental Orders was a first step away from monarchal, maniacal and parasitical patriarchy. I mean, there was slavery till 1865 and women couldn't vote till 1920 and really, most advancements in the pursuit of Liberty have occurred in the last 60 years. The pursuit of Liberty had to begin somehow, and the Fundamental Orders relit the pilot light of Liberty after the marginalization of the Magna Charta from previous years.

Those patriots did not achieve this revolution coming home from church. They were law breaking, window smashing, effigy hanging, cannon hauling, tavern singing patriots, whose hearts burned with a passion for freedom.

            D    “ Disperse ye rebels!!"

                     1767 came along and so did the Townsend Acts. Google this if you like, it’s about a tactic the British thought they could use to stop American smuggling. 

        John Hancock's boat, The Liberty' was seized, but the cargo of Madeira wine had been delivered, which caused a great celebration. The British ship of evil opposed to the cause of Freedom and our pursuit of good wine, was called ‘The Romney'.

’ EDITORS NOTE: See how I used the Fox News style of putting 'evil ship Romney' into your brain without you knowing it? Look again. Nit Romney was on a Mormon mission during the Vietnam War. Remember that when you see him speaking in front of a 50-foot flag and talking about his corporate patriotism.

 More from Robert Cahill, this time concerning Samuel Adams--'brewer and patriot',  “Sam Adams activated his bully boys again, North and South Boston gangs united as the Sons of Liberty. They paraded up and down in front of Governor Barnards house, shouting, whistling and drumming, 'making a great noise and hallooing' wrote Barnard. He complained to the king to send troops to, 'control the mobs that rule this towne.' The Governor now recognized who the ringleader was, and he publicly called Sam Adams, 'Chief of this tribe of Mohawks.' Sam took the intended slur with a chuckle, and later would spoof the governor's comment by having his men disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians at the Tea Party.'"

            "'He is a grand incendiary," cried Lieutenant governor Hutchison, "a master of puppets.” To further resist the Townsend Acts, Sam Adams and Joe Warren asked all New Englanders to refuse the importation and consumption of any goods from England that were taxed, and encouraged their manufacture here in America."

            "One Boston merchant and shop owner, Theophilus Lilly, refused to follow the dictates of his fellow merchants by not only shipping in taxable items from England, but selling them in his downtown shop. One morning Lilly discovered a large canvas head, stuffed with straw, sitting on a pole in front of his shop, and the face was a likeness of him. There was a large finger and a cartoon of a man’s rear end painted on his front door, and a group of boys, wharf rats, gathered outside his shop to taunt him. A neighbor, Ebenezer Richardson, known for his Tory tendencies, taunted the crowd and attempted to get a teamster to run over the boys. The boys started throwing 'filth and stones' at him until he retreated into the house."

            "Richardson grabbed his musket and fired out a second story window, wounding a teenager named Christopher Gore, and killing a twelve year old German boy, Chris Snider. A musket ball was removed from the wounded boy’s leg and Chris Snider was set in a coffin under the Liberty Tree-- and carved into the coffin were the words, 'innocence itself is not safe.' A funeral procession led by his family was followed by 34 carts, chariots and coaches and 1,500 marchers, including 500 schoolchildren. Christopher Gore later became governor of Massachusetts."

              So there is the real gritty history of how we started. Our current government is extremely over-tweaked as special interests, good and bad, have created a Tower of Babel of authoritarian excess and government overreach that our founding revolutionaries would find cringe-worthy. The Founding Revolutionaries would bring out the 9th amendment to the Constitution they created, and dispose of excessive laws in a timely manner

.               Luckily, the actual greatest generation of 1776 was a rowdy contingent of free people. You can bet women were involved but white historians are too hung up on battles and wars, then what people did during the wars.  Women have been whitewashed from historical accounts, and you know damn well they were up to their   hoopskirts in the Hoopla.  These ‘little general, white historians' again. “Bring me another crumpet, if you please". The manipulation of markets by big business would also make Theodore Roosevelt and all the other Progressives wince. Our lack of courage and temerity would make George Washington face palm himself and say "WTF! Why did I even bother? How did they make it 250 years?"

                 On we go towards 1776. In 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred and here is another quote from 'Riotous Revolutionaries.  “As they entered King Street, a thirteen-year-old boy stumbled towards them crying. He was Piemont, the barber’s apprentice. He blubbered to the crowd that the British sentry in his box outside the customs house, ‘cuffed me on the head with the butt of his musket, and I thought I was killed.’ As some stopped to examine the bump on the boys head, the others moved on past the State House and to the tiny sentry box nearby, located outside the custom house.

Private Hugh Montgomery stood in the box stomping his feet and blowing on his hands to fight the coldness in them, but he grabbed his musket and held it at the ready when he saw the angry mob approach. Leading the mob was a husky mulatto, a half black, half-Indian named Crispus Attucks. He carried a club and waved it in front of Montgomery's face. "If you molest me, I will fire.' Montgomery shouted at Attucks, aiming his musket at him. 'I'll blow your bloody brains out,' he screamed at Attucks, who was taunting him with his club. 

"You do and you'll swing for it" shouted the local bookseller Henry Knox, who later became a general in Washington’s army, and the lead teamster who directed the hauling of cannons over the Berkshires to Boston Harbor."

"Snowballs packed with ice, stones and oyster shells started flying through the air and landed on the scarlet coats and pointed hats of summoned soldiers."  Rope maker Sam Gray, without a weapon or even a snowball, was shot dead along with Crispus Attucks and others in what became known as The Boston Massacre. 

Today, traitorous Republican governors want state militias to be directly accountable to them, so they could shoot protestors if any of that Occupy stuff happens again.  The GOP suggests a return to child labor giving these children a newly lowered minimum wage of $5.25 for their efforts in 2018, and also to bring back child sweatshops again, among other outrageous notions.  

         The oligarchy is forming to fight the public at large, and goons are being paid off, brainwashed and armed, infiltrating the military and our police departments and interfering with peaceful forums on the internet.  I’m telling you, the corporations have started the war against us decades ago and we haven’t started to fight back yet. Unfortunately, we may have already lost since banks actually own most of the cars and houses and practically everything else in the United States and Canada. Those who have too much, need most of us to have nothing. We give till we give out.

Escalating minimum wages around the world is going to create an economic boom. End War, tax all accumulated wealth and get homes and food for all and building infrastructure around the world. The complete sequestering and elimination of nuclear weapons.

                 Continuing with the comparison with the First American Revolution, we continue to see the diverse nature of the people. From Riotous Revolutionaries, “Doctor Young, who John Adams said, ‘talked too much,’ was an atheist and Doc Warrens professional rival. He, however, was a talented writer and wrote an effective treatise in which he comically reported among other things that ‘tea causes cancer.’ Appealing to all members of the household to boycott goods, posters in 1773 were plastered everywhere warning British ships had brought the dreaded tea and, ""the worst plague, the detested tea shipped to this port is now arrived in the harbor. The hour of destruction is now at hand."

                    “Josiah Quincy entertained a crowd with a patriotic speech. 'I see the clouds, which now rise thick and fast, upon our horizon. The thunder rolls and the lightning plays, and to that God who rides the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country."  What God is this then that he called upon? Thor, Perun, Boreas or others?  Seriously! Can you hear me Asatruar? This is "not a Christian nation, but a nation of diversity," as President Obama noted early in his presidency assuring the world the Crusades were over. As Josiah Quincy gave this rousing speech, the local business people had dressed up as Mohawks and were headed for the 300 chests of tea sitting in Boston Harbor. The real Tea Party had begun.

Always remember that members of religious congregations were less than 20% of the population at the time, directly preceding the revolution. For more on the period between 1767 and 1774, feel free to research and come to your own conclusions. These are opinions but if you check my information, you will find them factually accurate. Christians lie about history because they think the end justifies the means and they mean to take over the world

Also, research the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 to give more depth to that era. The British were routed from Boston Harbor with the cannons absconded by the Green Mountain Boys at Ticonderoga.

                  After Colonel Leslies retreat at Salem, Gage had received a letter from the Kings ministers, ordering him 'TO TEST THE PEOPLE TO SEE IF THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT'…….If there is going to be a war," Wrote Lord Dartmouth, "let it be brought on immediately before the Colonials can develop an army."

            "Major Pitcairn, who had been itching for a fight with the rebels for a long time, was chosen by Colonel Smith to lead six companies of Redcoats ahead of the column to secure Concords two bridges, north and south, leading in and out of that town.  It was Dawn as he rode, and his men marched, onto Lexington Green. "We saw a militia company assembled and other spectators milling about," the Major later reported, "and I ordered them to lay down their arms and disperse." 

Captain Parker, leader of the Minutemen, had called his men out of Buckman Tavern and onto the Green, because the tavern had gotten too crowded.  Said Parker, "… not to meddle or mix with the regular troops." Captain Parker told his men, some 77 in number and outnumbered ten to one, "don't fire unless fired on, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

 Author   Robert Ellis Cahill continues with a letter from a Patriot to his legislator, "An army is needed, to defend our wives and children. We beg and entreat you to save our country from absolute slavery," The Massachusetts Provincial Congress called 8,000 men, over and above the militia, to serve seven months. Some 2,000 Connecticut men under the fearless, roly-poly tavern keeper, 59 year old Israel Putnam, rolled into Cambridge with four cannons, and Nat Greene arrived with two cannons and 1,500 Rhode Islanders.”

            “Even Benedict Arnold came up from Connecticut and convinced Warren that with 400 men he could get needed cannons and ammunition from the British held, Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain.  Warren agreed to give it a try, but Arnold had to do his own recruiting outside Cambridge. On May 15th, Arnold, with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, took the fort without a casualty on either side. 300 pound Henry Knox was sent to upstate New York with a group of teamsters, given the almost impossible mission to bring the 58 captured cannons and mortars back from their fort back to Cambridge."

            “British General William Howe attacked the hill and 600 redcoats were repulsed by, 'old fowling pieces' as Gage called them. 'None of the Americans had bayonets, nothing but fists, clubbed muskets and rocks, but they fought on, more like devils than men.' Salem Prince, a freed slave, with his last round of ammunition shot Major Pitcairn in the chest and killed him. General Gage was so surprised at the outcome that he was heard to say, 'these rebels are not the despicable rabble too many of us have supposed them to be.”

             "With all this heavy intrigue going on in the Cambridge camp, Henry Knox was dragging 58 cannons and mortars, some of them weighing 5,000 pounds apiece, 300 miles from upstate New York and over the snowy Berkshire Mountains, using 80 yoke of oxen. He arrived in the Cambridge camp in late February, 1776. By March 2nd, the cannons began blasting the 78 British warships that were anchored in Boston Harbor. General Gage sent 3,000 Redcoats to attack the heights but a wild storm prevented them from even landing. “  Divine intervention the one time the Colonists needed it! 

Let me reiterate, order this marvelous book for your collection, “Riotous Revolutionaries” by Cahill. It's small and probably less than ten bucks. The most personal and realistic view of the American Revolutionary War. My fourth favorite book behind Leopold, Thoreau and Hofstadter.

Colonial Privateers were capturing British food cargo vessels and the Redcoats were dispirited despite their large numbers. Who would fight against another's freedom after all, especially when you were tired and hungry?  Meanwhile the hero of Cahills book, 4 foot 4, George Hewes, had escaped his captors in the bay near Boston and informed George Washington of the demoralized British troops. By March 20th, General Howe was three days out of Boston as Americans to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, "marched triumphantly into Boston after British Redcoats 'quitted the town' and sailed for Halifax. 

Before leaving, British soldiers cut down the Liberty Tree and George Hewes was pleased to hear that when the Liberty Tree fell, a limb of it landed on a British soldier, crushing him to death." The 'despicable rabble' had finally stood up.    “On August 13, 1835, over 60 years after Boston's 'evacuation day', a small article appeared in a Boston newspaper. It read, 'A ninety six year old man, said to be the last surviving member of the Boston Tea Party, visited Boston this week.  His name is George Robert Twelves Hewes."

You see, the Revolution was by the blue-collar types; the apprentices of yore, the tavern keepers, the post riders, among many others, and us.  Don’t believe Republican Revisionist lies anymore about christians fighting for the Constitution. BS.  Veterans of the Revolutionary War, starting in 1775, would be sneering at most of the Tea Party, whom they would consider toady chumps for the Greedy Rich. Today they’d whack these cold-hearted war loving GOP chicken hawks on the side of the head with the smooth end of their muskets.

  We are the despicable rabble and if more refined and graceful people join us, this is fine; but it has to start somewhere, somehow--let it be here and let it be now. Let it begin with the despicable rabble, the independent majority, and if they mean to have us fight a war; let it finish here. I am trying to put a little wind under your wings as the sons and daughters of American Liberty and what we consider that we’ll do next.

              Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine (partial quote)

 In a chariot of light from the regions of day, The Goddess of Liberty came;

Ten thousand celestials directed the way,

And thither conducted the dame, This fair budding branch, from the garden above,

Where millions with millions agree; She bro't in her hand, as a pledge of her love,

The plant she called Liberty Tree.

From the east to the west, blow the trumpet to arms,

Thro' the land let the sound of it flee, Let the far and the near,  – all unite with a cheer,

In defense of our Liberty Tree.

 

                  LIBERTAS    HOLDS     THE LAMP 

(my only poem)

When the greedy can mock the compassionate, when the slovenly moral can hurt the innocent,

 When the ones you love destroy your dreams, it becomes time to concede the hint.

Whether reform becomes  revolution with   the  separation of church and hate, Calls  to us to secure  our means,

And cling to freedom to bring change to the state.

Falsely accused the righteous will plead, The veiled will scream and clamor for justice,

The gift of life falls from our grip, Game over friends, it’s the end of bliss. Poetry is power, the Egyptian understands,

and the camel concedes the passage is small. The gods cry and the goddesses cringe, Now hoping we will stand tall.

Pele erupts to bury the deceit and People look up to see the flames. Even the blind will see the light and History cannot record all our names.

Thank you muse and inspire me now To reach the souls who have gone dead and cold.    The evil conspire to deceive the lame

But clarity of vision is ours to hold.

We stand together to exorcise and train While Libertas holds the lamp aloft to see.

Temerity we seek with hope to claim A life worth living for all to be. The other side embraces and awaits our return,             

and with shield and sword, we discard our name. Swirling the whirlwind we ride tonight, V for victory and PEACE for all to claim

  Robert Graves said, "The function of poetry is invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and chaos that her presence excites." Something I must note that this entire poem came pouring out of me one day at the Laura Riding Jackson House. An obscure cultural reference: she was a muse to Robert Graves, he of “The White Goddess”. I acknowledge her inspiration and powerful presence

 

 

 -3-10-  MYSTORY OF METAL   

From thee the river flows💚💞❤

What hath Ozzy wrought? 

Heavy Metal, like the ice breaker continues tearing across the ice, opening paths to new innovations; always pushing hard, sometimes over the edge and never standing still for too long. Pop music remains content to use traditional and popular structures, dwelling on the ubiquitous love song and derivative riffs stolen from rock and roll. Mainstream rock music cops metal riffs and the crushing beats from previous years metal, and this keeps rock and roll alive.

            We are the metalloids, magnetized by the metal.   I wanted to point out we are all going to have our favorites and my metal may be a little PG for most metal snobs who love brutal 24/7.  How can you have a Top 100 with all brutal compositions that most people can barely understand?  I am not going to consider Cannibal Corpse or Rotting Christ as worthy of my Top 100. Just gross, that’s why. I aspire to nuanced metal song construction and won’t tolerate violent lyrics. Except like, Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil album.

            Going back in time and sifting through my memories of heavy guitar rock, I remember holding my breath the first time I heard "Cry for a Shadow" by the Beatles. There was such a perfect guitar sound. This was what I was looking for, listening for, that is. 

      In 1964, the Beatles entire catalog was being played on the radio and the Instrumental “Cry for a Shadow” broke out of the Pop Music formula as a Beatles instrumental. It was the sound my core was looking for and was all about the guitar.  The song managed to make the top forty briefly and I would listen to the radio every hour I could, in order to hear it again. Then it dropped out of the survey like a courtesy flush, and I couldn't believe it.  

         Listening to it these days, it seems like a prototype Blue Oyster Cult song. It was the first song with elements of metal.  Convince me I’m wrong.

            The Kinks were proto-metal as far as I am concerned and these days, so do many music experts. It was in the guitar, the sonic siren leading to a lifetime of metal addiction. Fifth chords to the center of the earth.   The Avant Garde scene was noodling around the boundaries of what was possible thereby opening the door to psychedelic rock. Pop songs such as Hot Smoke and Sassafras and Journey to the Center of the Mind condensed the power of proto metal into a 3 minute pop song.    

   Garage Rock has always been the birthing ground for metal, poor-ass motherfuckers out to create a noise louder and ruder than there’s ever been before.  The garage is our cave, I guess, it could be seen that way in retrospect. The 4 dudes of Black Sabbath emerged from their caves on the gritty end of industrial Birmingham England and woke the world up with a new genre. They must top my list of top 100 METAL MASTERPIZZAS and so I asked myself a very important Black Sabbath fan question, and that is what was their best tune, ever? 

"Warning" from the first album is my #1, the Rosetta Stone of how metal was created, illustrating the link that separated rock and roll from the blues to create the dark sound we were craving.

 #2 favorite song of all time is "Cities on Flame" by Blue oyster Cult.  In 1971, East Coast Garage rock met English Heavy Metal in Blue Oyster Cults first album. Cities on Flame was a wakeup call to Americans to have a counter revolution as another British Invasion began, led by Black Sabbath.

I went to very few concerts as a youth but managed to see Blue Oyster Cult early in their career when they were still billed as ‘formerly known as the "Soft White Underbelly" ; because the New Jersey band had regularly toured Connecticut in previous years. 

Alice Cooper, MC5, Blue Cheer, the Stooges, were some of the notable American bands that were active when Sabbath came on the scene, and there was a genre busting fray in the early seventies. Cream Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix certainly have metal songs, but Sabbath took a machete to find new lands.  Grand Funk Railroad’s “I don’t have to sing the blues no more” was rock in its hard rock way, but its misogynistic lyrics make the song impossible to update. That's an issue we need to deal with. 

   When I first started this Mystory of Metal chapter, it was 2003 and Napster was great fun at the time.  I finally found every song I had ever wanted to hear, and We engaged in (file sharing) finding one interesting song after another. From “London Bridge” for my 7 year old, to “London Calling for me." As a sidenote Ipaid for more music during the Napster period that I had in the previous ten years. Support your keepers and support the system that allows file sharing. I don’t even know if people do that anymore. They stream now and music is getting steamed, homogenized and packaged.

My boys didn’t listen to the cornball nonsense they make kids listen to, the oldest gravitating to various hardcores and the youngest discovering Rage Against The Machine and others in 2004 when he was 8.  Eight year olds don't get depressed. You can be Emo when you're older, you're only young and innocent once. He learned the difference between Iron Fist and Iron Maiden. Then Guitar Hero came out in November 2005(7?) featuring all the great metal works of the past. Probably the best game ever invented.

These eight year olds grow up and become dudes and get obsessed with one interest or another. I let my boys flow where they wanted though made it known my disgust for some bands such as (I can't say. Misogyny and Violence suck out loud. Get over it fellas. Skate boards, slot car racing, lifting weights and I guess playing games keeps it going for the younger folks. 

 In olden days, 14-year-olds got married and became apprentices for 7 years as was the habit back then, and it seemed a grim time. No IPod to cut the boredom as you worked long hours. 

As it says in “Working in a Coal Mine”,  “when night time comes I’m too tired for having fun.” Then dudes are told in their 20’s, 'A happy wife is a happy life!' and as young adults they think "Oh my fucking God, it's over."  

            Metal is the acid in the face of bullshit.

            I find the dead (all dead all dead Queen) thank you little buddy. Find your power and use it.

             We are irresistibly drawn to Metal by some primitive gene that is deeply embedded in our behavior. The link between our head and our heart. Drawn together by chanting and insistent drumming throughout the centuries, human expression is now drawn together by the guitar. Nazis switched the something or other to 440 after it had been inexact previously but primarily 432.  Now after 45 years of metal, the guitar reigns as the greatest INSTRUMENT of all time and Metal is the greatest art form of all time. Or maybe it's just the creative part of Rock and Roll. It's worth discussing thMZe future of 432 and the metal revolution that will sweep the world in the near future. Metal tuning to 432 would  good trouble to the music scene.

       The older ones of us remember the British Invasion. Ears were opened to the hard guitar of The Kinks and the Sonic explosions of The Who and the psychedelic birth of hard rock in 1966.  One truth most will agree to is that the album Black Sabbath 1 is the birth of actual metal in 1970. 

        Though I may discuss "The Dude Culture" and 'dudes will be dudes', I am of the opinion that the more women that become dudes, the better we all will be. We ALL need to work together. 

          Some dude hears a womans voice singing and go, "that's not metal" making that wing of the Heavy Metal Movement as misogynist as any Republican Country Club. I hope by now, with Arch Enemy and Battle Beast and Jinger and many other combos led by women, that these snobs can get over themselves. That same dude hears an organ and says, “that’s not metal”, so I want you to know metal is what you make it. For many of us Deep Purple is metal. FFS

Dudes gather in their caves(garages) and light our amps on fire creating warmth and making sense of an obviously fucked up world. 

A world where the future was to be a faceless fiduciary or a toiling miner and it didn’t look good either way. Dudes grow and learn and are an active thread in the fabric of our culture. Actually it’s our culture, the dude culture.  

 An ancient and insistent beat, there has been a return to chanting and drumming and grooving as we tune into the hum of the earth.  I've got my eye out for the next big phase of metal and looking for bigger outfits with more percussion and chanting and singing. The Solfeggio Frequencies is something to look into. Punk energy and Metal chops continue to propel rock and roll into the future.  Rockabilly is the beating heart of rock and roll and prepared to meld with metal.

 Pure Shamanic Frame Drum Trance • Deep Earth Pulse (48–56 BPM) • Ancient Healing Ritual

 California garage rock was reaching an apex of innovation and was spinning off sub genres and gave us glimpses of genres to come in the early and mid-60’s for those infected with the hard guitar bug. You can still hear the influences of California garage rock today. 

The Monterrey Jazz Festival of 1967 was an explosion of inventive music from many categories. It created the cauldron of creativity from 1967-1973 for American Music. This era also signaled an American dominance of the charts by people who had been enthralled with the British Invasion 64-66. East Coast garage rock was never derivative of West Coast and tended towards punk and a stripped-down version of Rock such as The Ramones..

            In tiny little England, they tended not to have garages and garage bands, but they did have sheds, old metal buildings and The Yardbirds. The second wave of the British Invasion began in ‘67. Rock and Roll dropped its Blues base and evolved the next three years into Heavy Metal, Black Sabbaths first album marked where a sturdy new leader branch began to grow on the Rock and Roll Tree of Life. 

        The song "Warning" on Black Sabbath 1 showed all the ingredients Tony Iommi used to forge this new weapon against Conformity.  Please go and give a listen to my #1 song on my Top 100 Metal Masterpizzas on YouTube.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-T_6IdXFuw&list=PLB17282A8A544C863&index=10

            Controversies. Progressive Rock is not metal.  To other snobs, a keyboard also disqualifies the metal designation.  Good musicianship is discounted as self indulgent excess.  Drummers can make a band metal with Carl Palmer(ELP) and Bill Bruford(Yes) and Billy Cobham(Mahavishnu) John Bonham (Zeppelin) all influenced by jazz but created metals big beat bass drum sound.

           

 

            Unlike the former #1 instrument, the piano, guitars have more harmonics and scales and you can beeeend the notes.  Metal is always artistically inspired, unlike pop music which is profit inspired. Pop Music is weighed down with a preponderance of love songs which gets quite tiring quickly for a dude looking for raw energy. How many times can you fall in love and have your heart broken?  Pop music sucks.

We are the Metalloids, magnetized by the Metal and the searing melodic screaming guitar is our siren call and we sail into the Unknown. Joints, beers, torn clothing and the Blue Jeans Army emerged in the seventies and the concert hardcore was born.

Iron Butterfly had emerged in '68 and it was like, "dude, listen to this."   Seemingly stripped of the Blues, it was in the Psychedelic Metal category, as was Hendrix. Blues is the reason Led Zeppelin is not considered the first metal band. Metal is stripped of the Blues, despite Blues being located in our metal genome. Garage Rock continued to churn out innovation, and sub genres littered the sonic sphere. East Coast Garage rock was never as big as west coast but was never derivative.  The English hardly had room for garages and soon a third British invasion began.

The etymology of Dude goes back to the Wild West and also became ghetto slang for friend, compadre, buddy or brother. mocking the “King of the Dudes”. When the brothers adopted 'brother' and dropped dude, honky dudes began using the word.  We called each other dude and we refined hanging out into an art form. "Dude, you suck". "You suck."  "No way, you suck" "and you suck until infinity" which trumped all other sucks. Today, Bubba is buddy-a brother and it's been shortened to Buh.

 And so it began in the primitive years and our habits became embedded in the culture.  Phrases becoming much more complex in the eighties till the phrase "that doesn't suck" became the definitive phrase of something that is " cool " or "neat".

Most hardcore dudes abandoned the word dude in 1974 when the words "let's get it on dudes" appeared in the Grand Funk Railroad Song 'We're an American band’ on Pop radio.  The eye roll heard around the world. We simply called each other asshole after that.  The word dude disappeared, buried by disco, one might suspect. At the end of the Vietnam War we didn't need jingoistic patriotic crap.  We wanted to tear down this predatory capitalist military christian complex. It is such a phony morality, but most Americans love to perch on their pretentious branch and decry our morality with their moral high ground hypocrisy.

The dude language continued to evolve as fuckwad and jackbag and other creative terms were used in our friendly interactions.  Touch’hole is a western New England colloquialism, and it is a contraction of touchy asshole. Not long after, we grew up and kept jobs and left our words behind and became responsible members of society.  Usually.

I liked Jazz and Classical and still do, but once favorite songs became classic rock and were played too much, they lost their authenticity. I never really considered myself a hippie and I identified more with the dude culture created by the sons of the working poor. and I was influenced by the Beatniks of the 50's and the Be Boppers of the 40's. My dad seemed to be on the edge of the Be Bop with a strong interest in Hard Bop and I viewed this radical jazz through his eyes.  In retrospect it turned out to be melodic and thoughtful stuff.

Dad didn't like the Beatniks though.  I remember our trip to Quebec in 1966 when I saw a herd of Beatniks walking across a town square. "Who are those people?" I asked before I knew their anti-social activity and protests were the fore runners of the protest folk movement.

There were Beatnik remnants which people had forgotten about.  Hippies were soon to become the scapegoat for an alleged decaying society after the Beatniks were gone. Black people were finally getting to vote. and it was a primitive time. The Beatniks were thinkers and philosophers from 1955 to 1965 that lived outside of proper society in an integrated world that they'd usher in the dawn of civilization.

This is why I considered myself a Blue Collar Progressive and unable to be categorized otherwise.  Pagan Anarchist Beatnik Hillbilly is my final form, and writing this book is one of the most important things I can do at this point. I don't want to die with my book in me, so thanks if you have gotten this far. We weren't the dumb ass dudes of let's say, the Midwest or we weren’t eastern CITY dudes who didn't really get it.  East coast suburbia invented the dude culture which went through Americana and came out in the Valley Girls of California.

               Progressive dudes have intellectual obsessions, mine was and is still is that corporations are taking over the world. Monsanto is practically its own country and certainly more powerful than many small counties.  Chevron has its own system of justice as it can't seem to get out of the way of itself in South America. Walmart heirs make more than a million of their employees combined. It happened on our watch dude!

              Libertarian Anarchists, we thought the Vietnam War was the greatest lunacy of all time. We collectively decided war was over, because that is what we wanted. Who could have known warmeisters Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and Wolfowitz and other chicken hawks who never served, would direct American foreign policy and give us two wars at once in the 2000's. We could have been restructuring this country instead of destroying others. Much of metal is anti-war.

Dudes were more of a powder keg demographic coming down the pipe, but the killings at Kent State chilled the hippies fervor and that apathy reached down into us younger dudes. Reagans go go jingo go America attitude was a bitch slap to Green Anarchists in the 80's that many of us became. All protest groups were investigated and infiltrated by the FBI in the late sixties and seventies and ethnic cleansing of the Black Panthers and AIM, The American Indian Movement was a brutal revival of a  police state.

The police state headed by J Edgar Hoover, the notorious cross-dressing hypocrite. These leaders didn't follow the Constitution, but their own authoritarian right wing fascist leanings.

Not hippies, not beatniks, dudes are something else entirely and we persist in every generation now.  It was 1971 and an element of synergy was bubbling around the genre defining Black Sabbath album.  Metals Golden Age began as an explosion of music the world had never experienced. As disco would influence rock years later, metal would rock from 1971 to 1973 and Pop music really began to suck. Then it all went bad.

With todays corporate control of the world, boys grow up to be dudes and we are all subjected to the numbing sameness and boring minutae of what educators think we need.  Education must still be in infancy because it is virtually useless and can be taught in 2 years when the child is ready, not programmed into children before they are ready. Not dragged out for 10 years forcing children to learn things before they are really ready.  I remember being in school and thinking what a load of crap most of it was.

We know it's all about conditioning minds, the liberal commie plot to make us knuckle under to the state, and dudes know this. Trained rats running to their next cage, I mean class, summoned by the bell. Making sure you become a kiss ass and toady for the monied elite who are treated with reverence. Conditioned to be callous of other people with the Never Ending Wars.

Dudes, then guys, then men. Many females have grown up in this mold and this makes them more well rounded, questioning anarchists.  Among the women I have gotten to know, there are no gender barriers. No men no women, it's just people from now on.. Women have the additional tool of empathy to understand the emotional roller coaster of youth and would make some righteous dudes.  Calling a girl or woman a dude, is a compliment of the highest order, and trust me you are welcome and we need you to drag the misogynists in metal and rockabilly into the 21st century. Enough already.

So how does one qualify for a dude card? First, you need a hangout and these days straight or not, stoned or straight, the Dude Enlightenment is open minded in a Buddhist Way.  Zone out and feel the groove. "Shut up dude and enjoy the music!"  It's really not about drugs and alcohol, and it shouldn't be. But it can also be a support group of party enablers, though really, most dudes like to hang out……some call it hang out and party. The partiers are the ones who end up as alcoholics. Hang out and grind up the Yak Horn with the dudes. 

The Love Generation of hippies found out that what they really loved, and that was money. There is security and happiness when you build your nest somewhere in the inner workings of the machine. But some of us ended up as misfits, going against the grain of our training and brainwashing and still walk outside of the civilized circle.

Vietnam was about manufacturing weapons and tanks and jet fighters and machines. Imagine the empty soul that sends someone's son to a war without end. The dark specter of Vietnam cast a shadowy pall over my life. In 68 I was 14 and suddenly with Tricky Dick Nixon as President, things suddenly were not going well.  "Why do good in school, just to get shot in Vietnam?" I questioned my parents who only said authority must be right.

   We are irresistibly drawn to by some primitive gene that is deeply embedded in our behavior. Drawn together by chanting and driving, insistent drumming, human expression is now drawn by guitar. Now after 50 years of metal, that guitar music reigns as the greatest art form of all time.

 

  

At first, I was going to call this the History of Heavy Metal but then I thought that would be a little presumptuous.  Like, I would know the definitive history of anything, it is all about choice.  I wanted to point out we are all going to have our favorites. My metal may be a little PG for most. Probably old school too.    The Solfeggio Frequencies. Try the Locrian scale.

Punk energy and Metal chops continue to propel rock and roll into the future, an enduring genre and perhaps the greatest art form ever created.

Heavy Metal, like the Icebreaker tearing across the ice, leading the pack with innovations. Just passin' by. Later.

      

  

 

💚💞❤  -3-11-

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Green and Black baby

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-3-11-   THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC

"Maybe Hecate wants you to plant willow trees instead of invoking her to help with your love life. Maybe Cerridwen would rather have you using your creative will to help craft a cap-and-trade program that makes sense in this polluted world. Sedena of the Inuit doesn't need prayers so much as she needs a solution to the invasion of her cold northern arctic by Bernie Madoffs with drilling equipment. Maybe Yemaya wants you to indulge your carnal side a little less and take care of your little creations better.

          Jurate wants you to be aware that humans have killed and fished with a profit seeking rapaciousness that will leave future generations scratching their heads at the depletion of fishing stocks and the lack of earth stewardship, and the illusion of prosperity created by predatory capitalism. Maybe Freya is unimpressed with your double axe zipper pulls and wants you to raise your level of awareness about eroding topsoil and to learn how to certify organic growing conditions to keep up with the demand for clean food. The dragon-tailed goddess Nu-Kua appreciates that you are beginning to understand about Feng shui and Dharma but would be happier if you understood more about the ecological devastation of war and the emotional toll on civilian populations."

We are at a crossroads here in the 21^st century with magic, environmentalism and the future of pagan religions.  Pagans are the throbbing heartbeat of the earth lovers, despite their small numbers.  I call it Dark Green Renaissance, with a nod to Derrick Jensen and the DGR, Deep Green Resistance. Deep ecology from the 80’s that asked important questions about capitalism and the earth.

Dark Green Renaissance is the more spiritual side of ending the damage to Earth. That’s her name. Earth.  The renaissance is living as if we were living in a world of expanded freedoms and individual Liberty. But also a planet of finite resources.  So it’s not about faith, really, it’s about the facts and the future.

 

       There are many pagan-curious looking into polytheism and more than a few of them come from the sphere of environmental stewardship. As nature lovers and other people investigate what Paganism might be, their first impression is generally that of the Wiccan religion and Greens wonder why Pagans seem more interested in candles than ecosystems. They aren't getting out to the forests. If they do, it’s usually about magical plants.                                                                                         

Pagan Traditionalists seem to prefer a kind of a country club with initiated membership where people need to be trained or initiated.  I don’t see why, and I ask, “Can I call myself a witch since I live so close to nature in my work and home life?” No, I was told, I have to be initiated. I need to listen to someone else’s ideas if I want to become an initiated Witch or Druid. Something didn't square up with that one. 

Truthfully, I don’t want anyone to interfere with the path I take, a path that I claim lays somewhere between the Green Man and Greenpeace. What I refer to as, Progressive Eclecticism.     

      I disagree with traditionalists and Reconstructionists, and I totally believe in the big tent concept for Pagans and the freewheeling eclecticism I enjoy. We need teachers and clergy and experienced Pagans to provide guidance, but it can‘t be like the Church with its cowering masses and their kowtowing to hierarchy. Behavior based on divine judgment. I don't know dude, sounds a bit futile to me.

Remember the sixth principle of witchcraft and that's, "We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honor those who teach, and those who share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have given of themselves in leadership."     

One of MY 23 gods discussed his "God of Nature” in the Declaration of Independence, but otherwise was curiously silent about exactly what he believed: because to Thomas Jefferson, it was essential that religion should have no participation in public policy in the new country being created.           

 Many of the pagan-curious just want to tend their garden in peace and in harmony with the ecosystems by planting as if nature mattered and are not looking for “enlightenment”.  For me, there is a fascination that a Lynx spider made a web while I was away, a feeling of joy when cardinals made a nest directly overhead. The delight in seeing one colorful pollinating insect after another as you stroll through the garden.  Living in a created moment.                                  

The Green Pagan-curious are not spiritual or religious, but they do feel something, and they are curious about it. The Mother, the earth spirit, lies somewhere between perception and reality and many people are looking for some sort of link between spirituality and stewardship of the Earth.            

So forget anything you have heard about Pagans and Witches and Druids and strap yourself in for a bracing dose of secret green cult knowledge.              

The Pagan-curious would like to consider becoming Pagan but are a little put off with costumes they see at gatherings or in the books. You know ... we are not about going to Renaissance Fairs and all that, we’re creating our own renaissance for the future. A Dark Green Renaissance. Where we are connected to the earth once again as we always had been.

Pagan books seem to be all about spells and newbies end up trying to figure out the right candle color to use in which situation, and I don’t think that’s what it should be about.

100 black candles have yet to plant a tree.

 I’m telling you right now that ecosystem stewardship should be the main emphasis for Pagans. People losing their religion because it is entirely bogus and I can understand smudging a place with sage and beseechnents to the four directions, but does it really matter what colors you use for your candles? Another Olympic long jump leap of faith here so I ended up calling myself a non-ceremonial Pagan.          

Most people are like what I was, a nature lover looking for something a little deeper.  Basically, living like a Pagan all along. We need myths, dreams, and inspiration, but logic needs to prevail. Where’s the folk religion for the majority of us? Where is the folk magic?

  Buddhists don’t consider themselves pagans, but they are, and Native Americans didn’t realize they were viewed as Pagans, and Pagans were bad. Bad bad bad. Over and over again from the pulpits of hate, and then the whisper campaigns among the good people of the town. "Them Injuns are no good".

 If you’re not christian, you must be of the devil. This is the basis for the faith-based genocide by Europeans of the Native Americans. They were viewed as Pagans, pure and simple; and yet today they don’t call themselves Pagan to honor their part in the history of Pagan civil rights. In the past I had been calling myself agnostic, when I wasn’t an atheist, and now I realize many “agnostics” are actually Pagans. 

 Let’s drop the snobby pretensions and accept that every phase of thought and gradation of belief we have across this American Prism of Freedom can be viewed as Progressive Eclecticism.  My people.   

Gnostic is not agnostic: Gnostics believe that the Old Testament god is an imposter, a poseur who took advantage of the Jews. For some reason the Christians have dragged this Old Testament god around and even Islam embraces Abraham from the Bible. It’s too useless and crazy to me and all these three major religions are from a very small part of the world.             These three powerful religions were all created in the same region but spread all over the world as adherents to nature religions had their heads put on spikes. Not spiritual so much as they are angry, middle east oriented, fire and brimstone religionists. Drive them all back to the "Holy Land". The whole lot of them.

                     They are people that hold grudges for thousands of years with their endless cycle of atrocities and reprisal known as the Holy Rampage of Conquest. What happened to ‘turn the other cheek?’. Gnostics believe in Jesus just fine, and believe salvation can be achieved without the intermediary, priest or preacher.

           Many Greens are highly tuned into nature’s rhythms and yet any yokel can be initiated into Wicca and would be considered a Pagan.  Imagine the Atheist Green who feels the energy of a forest and has planted many trees, compared to your weekend Wiccan who has gotten numerous certifications and can twirl an athame with the best of them, but can’t identify more than a couple kinds of plants. This is the dilemma I am presenting.                                

Back to our main topic, and that’s magic. First, forget card tricks and being sawn in half, we know that isn’t magic but snarky parlor tricks. As I’ll explain, the traditional meaning of magic is simply working with the forces of the earth and universe. I believe that earth lovers looking into Paganism are put off with the ceremonial excess they see and will often times turn away.                                                                                                                

I’m happy to walk outside to look at the full moon or praise the north wind or pray to the corn mother for a successful crop and feel no need to be initiated into any specific path. I made up my own religion as an example of how easy it is to be comfortable with the path you are creating for yourself. 

  It’s also time to discuss what aspects of magic are needed for the future. I’ll attempt to explain myths and why it is that New Agers are so into rocks…….huh?,,,,,,,oh..., stones; they’re not rocks I’m told. I call them rocks so bear with me.

 

Back in the seventies, the Book of The Month Club offered many occult books and I bought a batch of them. What I learned is this: don’t mess with these things unless you’re ready. Don’t summon what you can’t banish. Mysterious and unexplainable at the time, I let it go. 

Soon after that, my new girlfriend took me to Pentacostalist meetings and I looked askance at what I saw: definitely a WTF moment with the talking in tongues and rolling on the ground. One time I took a crack at speaking in tongues: but there was nothing at the other end. “The holy ghost is not here. Please leave a message.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 People talking in tongues seem flip and superficial, with them assuming they have found a connection to their deity. In fact, they may be responsible for negative emanations coming to our plane: demons if you will, and every day, new evil entities begin to possess some of these simple minds.  Let the Christians bear all the false witness they want about Pagans, but it is THEM that are possessed by negativity and demons it seems to me.

The topic of magic contains the greatest curiosity factor so let’s explore this together. You put power, energy, wishes, and most of all, compassion, into an object with positive results. Today, Pagans think they are Druids, Priests or Priestesses and my point is that in every culture, there was the shaman or priestly class, and then there were the rest of us,  who would prefer less ceremony. 

As we begin our journey into ritual and magic, I first have to question the books that explain about magic and its practitioners. Are they capturing what 90% of us did: the folk magic, not everyone can be a Priest, Druid or Pagan clergy?

The Wiccans have a strong form of rituality, and it works just right for them, but I feel that it is not for everybody.  To be a Pagan means you can do what you want, don’t let any book tell you there are absolutes. An elephant can be your god and you can collect elephant icons as a focus of your spirituality or whatever.

 Then you try to do some book learnin’ and looking on the internet to find out what Paganism is about. You read that there is something called an athame that all Pagans have. This is your ritual knife, and books and practitioners say it’s like a mechanic without a wrench, a dentist without a drill: you absolutely must have an athame. 

This is why I made up a practical religion whose credos include less athames and more trees, and only doing ceremony when inspired. Saving heirloom seeds among other earth stewardship issues, people are trying to save our enduring heritage of husbandry and yeoman ship. That’s what Paganism should be about.

           Don’t get me wrong about magic because I do believe there is magic and the more in tune with it I get, the more readily it happens. However, my approach is that you can’t summon or call upon magic any time you want. To all psychics, sensitives, empaths and others: some of us don’t have your superpowers and the phrase “getting in the zone” is the best some of us ordinary folk can manage.

 I would like to quote Scott Cunningham from his book ‘Earth Power’ as he explains his view of magic.  “Magic was the first religion and that if you lovingly utilize the forces of nature to cause beneficial change, you can also become one with them. These powers are personified as gods and goddesses. Attuning to them is a spiritual experience and is the basis of all true religion…Natural magic is direct and to the point. Despite what you may have heard, magic is nothing supernatural, unnatural or even alien. It is in our back yards, our homes, in the very essence of our beings. The forces of nature empower magic, not demons and imps, “Satan” or fallen angels. “
             Don’t quote me, but I think it was the Celtic tradition many hundreds of years ago that used severed heads to ‘see’ the future. If Celt Reconstructionists can choose what practices to take into their spiritual future, and what they leave behind, then why can’t I? In addition, for many hundreds of years Catholic priests were considered practitioners of magic. Pope Honorius even had a grimoire and here is a spell from it. It says, “to prevent a dog from biting and barking, say three times (looking at the dog), barbaric arch, the heart splits, the tail hangs, the key of St. Peter becomes your maw until tomorrow.” I’m trying to memorize this so I can try it out on some growling dog one day. The wielding of Christian magic by St. Patrick supposedly battled and defeated the Druids and their magic, and that was the real reason the pagans abandoned Ireland.   He drove the Druids out with Christian magic.

So what is out there in the spirit world anyways? Sunday morning, new articles used to come out on Witchvox and I found many of them interesting and well written and many writers are practical and sensible and not kooky at all. However, what about the people that see extraordinary visions such as those that have seen and encountered Odin and Hecate and Jesus, make me skeptical.

 If I saw a leprechaun, I don’t think I could ever be the same. PDLSS(post dramatic leprechaun sighting syndrome) would be my bane. If I saw one with a bowl of cereal, I would drive straight to the hospital for evaluation.                                                                                                                                                        

Am I not a good Pagan having thoughts like this? 

The visions and insights I do get are in my minds eye. They are defined, distinct images but not physical beings, merely intuitive feelings I visualize with the inner eye when I am in the zone. These types of comprehension are the rudiments of the folk magic. 

It’s not demons; it’s the power of the human mind unbound by superstitious bugaboo that has the real power in the Universe. I can't help but be optimistic that what we consider good and true is the more powerful force out there.

 I’m saying we all find our own way and a so-called “newbie” has life experiences to draw on right from the start for their pagan expression. A newbie could have superlative insights when a traditionalist may have lost their focus, spending an entire weekend “driving 300 miles in the Lincoln Escalade looking for coltsfoot root.” 

I would much rather take a walk around the nayba’hood and imagine the tree roots and shrub and flower roots all touching and entwining themselves for hundreds of miles and not be a slave to spells, ritual and ceremony. You love nature, call yourself a Pagan. Let those Reconstructionist doopahs call themselves neo-pagans if they want, no offense of course.                                                         

Pagan is as Pagan does. With Progressive Paganisms freewheeling eclecticism, we create our own path. Mine is a well-worn post road that can’t seem to stop ruminating about pre- 1800 America. How did enough of Paganism survive to 1776 to light the lamp of Liberty when our founding revolutionaries envisioned a country free from religious coercion.                                                                    

A Pagan sure: a progressive….proudly!  I love this country too and I do not appreciate any demeaning by tea baggers suggesting many people are not patriots, but commie socialists.  

 I insist that Lady Liberty inspired our Founding Revolutionaries and our freedoms are derived from the Pagan lifestyle.  Pagans  more easily embrace all the freedoms we enjoy in the United States unlike the patriarchal pustillades of the Abrahamic religions. The country created by Washington Jefferson Hamilton Madison and Adams and others are under attack by those who think god is arming them for battle to “take back” the United States.   There is no taking back that which never was.

 Today they say that the founding revolutionaries WERE not christians and they need to make this a christian country. Wrong. They created a country that was supposed to be free from religious and class strife. They created Liberty for the future. They wanted to leave the blood stained streets of Europe and the Middle East behind.

    A green living person will wonder why there is such a limited emphasis on ecosystem stewardship in Paganism. I found a lot about pagan dress up and ceremonies galore, instead of the green ethics that you might expect. Witchvox accepted this article a few years back and it was moving up the viewed charts and I got email from people enthusiastically agreeing with me.

             I believe that earth lovers looking into paganism are put off with the ceremonial excess they see and often times they will turn away. The gardener, earth activist, or tree planting green would be considered, “just a tree hugger, you’re not a ‘real’ pagan.” Says you; Pagan is as pagan does, earth lovers are real pagans, not neo-pagans. 

        So here I am, Martin Luther, creating a schism with pagans, but I’ll say it again--more trees and less candles, more organic vegetables and less skulls and demons. The near future will be less about ceremony and more about attaining full civil rights for Druids and Witches who cannot openly practice or talk about their religion in this sweet land of liberty.

            Reality based morality instead of religious bugaboo will be about restoring ecosystems worldwide after 200 years of profit taking by industrial capitalism. The future will be less about candle color and more about creating new forms of governance and embedding the economic model of market socialism. 

             Pagans will be there to replace war, violence and greed with passion and compassion, but there are bridges and rough terrain to cross, and it won’t be as easy as using your broomstick to get to the Emerald City. “Did you bring your broomstick?” Most people worship the golden calf and walk that yellow brick road of greed behind the façade of the flag and the cross. Freedom for them to be jingoistic SOB's.

 

             There is the classic pagan ceremony where a knife represents the male and a goblet of wine symbolizes the woman, and everyone takes it so seriously and here is where I part company with today’s pagans. Why do I need to do that? It’s just not right for me. It’s like kneeling and standing in church when I was a child; it seems kind of silly and uncomfortable. I kneel for no deity. 

            I’m a gardener and I have a few knives around, like 15, and they have many uses. Cut open our modern impenetrable packaging, slice fruit, cut string and tape, tighten glasses, open up bags of mulch, carve pinewood derby cars and on and on. Do I really need an athame, a double-sided knife, one sharp and the other dull? I do have a favorite knife that has a compass in the handle and it's nice for outdoor ceremonies and orienting to the four directions, but my favorite use for it is to cut seed potatoes which I do every fall. 

            I have hope that potatoes can be my sustainable crop and I call the knife my potato knife. Books and practitioners say a pagan without an athame is like a mechanic without a wrench, a dentist without a drill: you absolutely must have an athame. My favorite potato knife is going to be my athame if I really need one, so does anyone have a real problem with that? Let’s loosen up a bit here and start setting up posts to make the tent bigger. 

            It’s time to discuss what aspects of magic are needed for the future. Why is it that New Agers are so into rocks, huh? Oh, stones; they’re not rocks, I’m told by the shop owner. I call them rocks so bear with me. Rock magic seems interesting and I do have a stone shrine indoors with some small but very interesting unpolished rocks…I mean stones. 

A few years ago, I had a little rock altar and it fit on my dashboard. Suddenly, startling things, mostly good and some bad, happened for three weeks straight after I placed it there, and continued until I brought it back in the house. Stone Magic happens more readily than you might think. Rookie Me with my favorite rocks on the dashboard.

            I indulge in what I call Oxoheartsvoken, the as yet undiscovered folk religion of the Reindeer People, the cave painters; the Solutreans. Dexsiua was their diety. The magic of the people, for the people and by the people in accord with the presence of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. Venus is visible far more often than the moon and helped early navigators such as the Polynesians and the Phoenicians. By now, many know about the mysterious pentacle shape that Venus traces across our night sky every eight years. 

            Today, pagans think they are Druids, Priests or Priestesses and my point is that, in every culture there was the shaman or priestly class and the rest of us who would prefer less ceremony. As you begin a journey into ritual and magic, you first have to question the books that explain about magic and its practitioners. Are they capturing what 90% of us did: the folk magic? Not everyone can be a Priest, Druid or pagan clergy. 

            Experienced pagans might rail against someone like me who has unconventional ideas and refuses to wear the fairy king costumes. As I like to say, ‘Halloween is my new year, not what I do all year.’ Costumes don’t seem natural, and I know there are many people that agree with me on that one, maybe we really don’t need to wear robes. No offense of course.

            Pagan Traditionalists have created too big of a wall that conservationists and environmentalists try to look over but only end up shrugging their shoulders and walking away because all they see is ceremony that is about connecting with the divine. Getting your hands dirty as a gardener or speaking about land preservation at a town meeting in support of habitat restoration isn’t even on the radar of all those city slicker pagans. 

            Neophytes to pagan initiation may hear, “Your athame has to be blah blah blah” or some version of, “you’re just starting, you don’t know anything,” which is highly insulting. In my opinion, Paganism needs to be more about planting trees and less about spells and candles and I think there are many people who would agree, and many of us have a lot to bring to the table and this is why I’m promoting the big tent concept of progressive eclecticism. 

              There are those that say you have to be on one specific path or another and you’re not a real pagan if you mix and match your deities from different pagan religions. I’m a real pagan in my view, although serious pagans would disagree with my notion of Progressive Eclecticism and my iconoclastic pantheon of 9 goddesses and 23 gods from a variety of sources. 

            Wicca may be the face of paganism with its Lord and Lady Ceremony, but in time there will be ten times as many progressive eclectics as there are initiated wiccans, so the sooner you open that barn door and let us all in, the better.

            My vision is that we all find our own way as Pagans and a so-called “newbie” has life experiences to draw on for their pagan expression. In my religion, there are no newbies. A newbie could have superlative insights when a traditionalist may have lost their focus, spending an entire weekend “driving 300 miles in the Lincoln Escalade looking for coltsfoot root.” I would much rather take a walk around the ’hood and imagine the tree roots and shrub and flower roots all touching and entwining themselves for hundreds of miles underground as I take a walk, and not be a slave to spells, ritual and ceremony.

 You love nature, and then call yourself a pagan if you like. Let those Reconstructionists call themselves neo-pagans if they want. Don’t quote me, but I think it was the Celtic tradition many hundreds of years ago that used severed heads to ‘see’ the future. If Celt Reconstructionists can choose what practices to take into their spiritual future, then why can’t I? No offense of course.

            Native Americans didn’t realize that the basis for the faith-based genocide by Europeans was because they were viewed as pagans, pure and simple; and yet today they don’t call themselves pagan to honor their part in the history of pagan civil rights. The Great Spirit of the Indigenous People kept this hemisphere in balance, and they have respected the Mother for thousands of years here before it was the U.S.A. The Vikings created settlements on the mainland peacefully, but Christopher Columbus thought the Caribbean islands they landed on was the Garden Of Eden and it was his job to drive out the ‘savages’, or at least enslave them and take their gold.

Is there an ancient mother and are there goddesses? What have the Goddesses been telling us: maybe they want us that we must encode liberty, embed equality, ostracize criminality and vanquish cruelty 

Maybe Hecate wants you to plant willow trees instead of invoking her to help with your love life. Maybe Cerridwen would rather have you using your creative will to help craft a cap and trade program that makes sense in this polluted world. Sedena of the Inuit doesn't need prayers so much as she needs a solution to the invasion of her cold northern arctic by Bernie Madoffs with drilling equipment. Maybe Yemaya wants you to indulge your carnal side a little less and take care of your little creations better.

          Jurate wants you to be aware that humans have killed and fished with a profit seeking rapaciousness that will leave future generations scratching their heads at the depletion of fishing stocks and the lack of earth stewardship, and the illusion of prosperity created by predatory capitalism. Maybe Freya is unimpressed with your double axe zipper pulls and wants you to raise your level of awareness about eroding topsoil and to learn how to certify organic growing conditions to keep up with the demand for clean food. The dragon-tailed goddess Nu-Kua appreciates that you are beginning to understand about Feng shui and Dharma but would be happier if you understood more about the ecological devastation of war and the emotional toll on civilian populations.

                                                                                                                                       "This Satan Lucifer God Doomsday Hound Dude, was determined to take down all the peaceful pottery making goddess-oriented societies that were developing. He deceived Adam and Eve, confused Abraham, and found out that humans were defective enough to be willing to kill their own child, for a bullshit concept called faith. Well, faith has no legs. " 

 

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 -3-12-BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY

Author: Greenhammer 
Posted: January 1st. 2015 
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Pagans are purposeful and passionate with their motivations in life, and are also harmoniously allied with the true American ideals of freedom and liberty. Witches are heirs to the spirit of the American Constitution, so why are most of them trying to be invisible? 

Women and their stories are rarely in history books, yet they influenced everyone; big names and little ones throughout Revolutionary history. Mothers, daughters, sisters and revolutionaries, their impact is not fully understood during those years, 1765 to 1788. This is why I prefer to use the term Founding Revolutionaries instead of Founding Fathers. 

The spirit of the American Revolution is not about restrictions and punishment, but the pursuit of happiness, and for the most part people were obliging, gentle, kind and industrious. This country was built with an ax and not the Bible as some contend, and this negative and reactionary force  has been trying to hijack this country since the European invasion in 1620. The religious elites saw the Native Americans as Pagans and this is why they were massacred, plain and simple. 

Why call this story “Broomstick to the Emerald City”?

 I remember the good witch in the Wizard of Oz, Glinda, asking Dorothy if she brought her broomstick " because it was a long way to see the Wizard". It's never been an easy way for witches; even now in the 21st century there is still quite a long ride  in store to achieve full equality.

I don't have to be initiated or take courses with certifications to call myself a witch. See rule #8 from the 13 Principles of Witchcraft. "Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch-- but neither does heredity itself, or the collecting of titles, degrees, and initiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within him/herself that make life possible in order to live wisely and well, without harm to others, and in harmony with Nature." 

Sure, witches may be a little edgy and mysterious, but Paganism allows for a wider range of expression. An abundantly wide variety of people practice witchcraft in many forms, and it's a good thing. Reminiscent of the American Constitutions freedoms; we love our freedom of thought, expression, and association, with witches and pagans certainly engaging in "the pursuit of happiness." After all, this is the USA where personal expression should be at its zenith. 

It seems to me witches are still doing what they have always done. They are wise in the use of herbal remedies, and, unknown to most, they use intensity and inspiration to achieve ideals, and influence a positive outcome in their endeavors. 

Witches as a rule have great empathy.  

When I first started researching on the internet, witches were the most obliging and knowledgeable. Despite all the positives I have observed in witchcraft, they are still viewed as demonic which frustrates Witches, Wiccans and Pagans to no end. 

Hollywood doesn’t help with all that shootin' fire out they hands.

And I mean witches not Wiccans. Wiccans are a little doctrinaire and snobby like dinner party liberals.  Independents and Solitaries were the people I connected with.  SoI tried to start something called The Pagan Reform Temple to unify all the solitaries.
 Full tolerance is necessary, and acceptance is coming around the bend for witches.  People can't just turn the other cheek and shake it off any longer because they can't remain invisible forever. 1628 years is long enough and that calculation is derived from 395 AD when Paganism was banned in the Roman Empire. Straight out persecution since then. 

Thirty-five years previous to the ban, Julian the last Pagan Emperor came to power and told the population to worship with exuberance, Christians and Pagans alike. 

When all discrimination ends, and there is a massive Christian apology from the pulpits of hate and division, Pagans will finally exhale. 1600 years of persecution, murder and ostracization has to cease. Congregants are riled up from believing the demons that pastors and preachers talk about. If a person calls him/herself a witch, there is not a reason to be fearful if they are a neighbor or co-worker. 

Like pagans in general, witches are passionate and sensitive and in many cases, wise in the ways of the world. I wish I had more Pagan and Witch neighbors; it would be a friendlier neighborhood and world.

 Pagans have American Freedoms embedded in our genes, but we live amongst people who believe Halloween is "the devil’s birthday." 

Unfortunately, the promise of heaven espoused by Islamic and Christian clergy has no "lemon law". The perfect product: no returns no refunds, not even something you need to make. Eternal salvation sounds specious to the skeptical. 

Many obelisks erected by Masons around the world were purposefully set up with a pyramid shaped capstone. The sun first shone on America in the late 1800's at the top of the 555-foot Washington Monument. It was the tallest structure ever built.

 Bible thumpers know the Masons were very much behind the American Revolution, while pastors, preachers and priests were conspicuously absent. Inspired by various Goddesses such as Minerva and Libertas, Washington D.C. is set up like a Goddess Temple from long ago. 

Therefore, cast a skeptical eye when you see Youtube videos calling Masons evil. They were scholars and futurists. We are weary of 1600 years of christian whisper campaigns to destroy reputations and of the outright murder of heretics and non-believers. Let this holy war end.

Paganism is something people can’t quite comprehend, and when it comes to witches, most people have a really biased opinion and it’s based on brainwashing. Witches may cast spells, but they know the consequences of wishing harm to another person. Important also, the need to be careful, because you really can get what you wish for. Witches can be very ordinary and here is where the last hurdle to freedom lies. 

Witches are generally thoughtful, thinking and kind people. They're not shooting fireballs out of their hands. Pagans seek the true American ideals. We are actually strict constitutionalists, and we are enthusiastic purveyors of the ‘pursuit of happiness’, and laugh at the hackneyed harangues of hate. Losers want to be miserable all the time.

Then don’t forget Pagans are also, hands down, the best sociological entity to steward the environment, although it's true that many Pagans even don't have a clue about how ecosystems work or what earth stewardship would entail as I talk about in 

Remember pagans aren’t witches but witches are primarily Pagan. As an aside here, there is every range of belief with some witches even having Christian saints in their pantheon of gods and goddesses, and there are Pagans who have very high regard for the teaching of Jesus who basically preached the Universal aspect of Unitarian Universalists.

 So, toss all the pagan baggage aside and open your heart to the key to our peaceful future. Tolerance: then acceptance.

Witches may not be subject to being dragged down to the town square and burned anymore, or need to worry about being beheaded and having their skulls placed on spikes to scare other pagans into converting to the one true religion; but they can easily lose their jobs or leadership positions in volunteer organizations such as the Cub Scouts, should we be outed as Witches or Pagans. 

How Un-American can you be with this attitude and why are witches still subject to severe discrimination such as this? The Founding Revolutionaries invented something called Freedom of Expression, but many Pagans cannot have a booth at a fair without some kind of virulent discrimination or harassment. 

This is why so many pagans have to stay in the broom closet. Police authorities cast a wary eye on any pagan activity, even charitable volunteer work completely devoid of religion. Unbelievably, pagans are subject to unconstitutional harassment and when this issue concerning pagan civil rights becomes known, it will completely overshadow marriage equality in scope. Right wingers all brainwashed to believe "demons" inhabit Pagans. This really has to be the biggest mental illness of all time.  Time to do some adulting, yo. 

To praise the Goddess out loud is an act of bravery even in 21st century America. I know there are people that conclude I am nuts to even consider that the Supreme Being or beings are Female oriented, though it seems the general grunt is that god is neither male nor female. Patriarchy has been fighting for your mind for many centuries, yet the American Constitution is not based on the Bible or some warrior code. It couldn't be! 

Thomas Jefferson, for one, discussed what he called his “God of Nature”. One of his favorite sayings regarding religion is one of indifference: “Why should I care about my neighbors religions, ” he asks, “it neither picks my pocket….nor breaks my leg.” 

Come on, let's pull up our big American pants and look at the individual you meet as an individual… as a citizen, a voter, a fellow worker or a child. Jefferson was only too aware of the Church and its agenda for control. The Spanish Inquisition was still fresh in his 18th century mind and "Divine Authority" had become a joke to intelligent people during the Enlightened period.

As the boomer generation reached school age, many of us were puzzled and disgusted that a race of people had, till that present day, to use separate facilities and were treated as less than equal. It also seemed dumb and unnatural that females were somehow not equal to males. We didn't GET IT. The bigotry and sexism of the greatest generation was put to the test in the 60’s and failed as cultural norms. The Old Order was about to be stood on its head!

Jefferson was very determined not to let any religion become dominant in this country. Our revolutionary founders looked decades and centuries into the future, and they envisioned a nation of law, an experiment in freedom; and they developed the template for Liberty. People will be shocked to see the ignorant beliefs that the intolerant majority hold, if pagan civil rights become a national issue. (Like in 1919 when the Congress debated whether or not women should vote.) Its quite possible Paganism can be banned in the near future with the xian nationalists in the white house.

Paganism has inspired me to learn so much more about life and now everything I have experienced since the turn of the century has an odd synchronistic feel to it. I try to put a comic spin on issues, but I am really serious about the Goddess. Her name is Zemyna, the life of the living earth, the Mother Earth, Deity of the Romuvans, the moist mother earth of the Lithuanians, Estonians, Poles, Latvians and other Slavic peoples.

 

        I'd like to quote Phyllis Curott and her book, The Book of Shadows. She discusses the Masons. ” The Masons arose from a magical and intellectual lineage, and it was their revolutionary brotherhood that founded the United States. They believed in the brotherhood of man, the existence of a divinity, and the immortality of the soul. Many of the treasured secret rituals of the masons reflected those of the Goddesses at Ileuses and Delphi, and the most overt symbols decorate our flag, dollar bills, and seals of high office. 

      Often these days as right wing politicians and conservative Christians appropriate history for their own exclusionary political ends, they assert that we were founded as a Christian country. In fact we were founded by magicians as an astounding political experiment, reflecting their equally insurgent and ancient spirituality.”  

              Seriously, our revolutionary ancestors were magicians, Pagan wizards, and eclectics? The actual greatest generation (of 1776) may indeed have been. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine were gifted individuals who studied many esoteric philosophies and no true biography of them shows that any of them they were a Ned Flanders, foam at the mouth, fundamentalist type. Jefferson and Paul Revere were Unitarians who eventually shed their deities. It is reputed that Benjamin Franklin cavorted with witches and various Bohemians on his frequent trips to Paris. Yeehaw!

There are many Goddesses in many buildings as artwork or statues in Washington D.C., and like Lady Liberty, they have played prominent roles in our national inspiration. George Washington’s beliefs had more in common with Native Americans than some Calvinist ideals. Libertas is the statue of Liberty. To light the lamp leading to Liberty for all.

We can’t just get on our broomstick and fly to the Emerald City. It will be a long journey. Our broomstick may help with a few shortcuts, but the road is going to be long no matter what. Neither god nor goddess but super spectrals. We ride!

 

-3-13- TAROT FOR NEWBS

  August 26th. 2012 in Witchvox  💚💞❤  

A true total explanation of how to use the Tarot cards. I created a simple explanation and procedure, eschewing unnecessary stratagems that exclude the common person from using the Tarot. The Tarot is for everyone, I insist.
  
The origin of the Tarot goes back thousands of years, and tarot may have even had its origins in Egyptian history. Maybe, even the cave painters; the mammoth hunters, began drawing its earliest symbology with the 32 symbols paleontologists are finding in caves.

 I have found a way to help people, who are giving and getting tarot decks for our celebrations, to explain how to get started. Some people collect decks like coins and are only interested in the artistic creativity and symbolic values, but others yearn to use it. My purpose is to explain a way to help the curious learn to read tarot with a simple overview. Some of the stuffy traditionalists have way too many ‘shoulds’, so I am compelled to demonstrate a basic introduction so anyone can learn to do a Tarot reading. Move on to another chapter if Tarot isn't what you want to read about.

Like any of the mysterious arts, some practitioners try to foment exclusivity with it, by saying things like, “You know, not everybody should do it. I’m psychic and understand how to use it.   I’m fortunate to have a special gift,” they tell me. Well, don’t let anyone tell you that you can't use it because all you really need is an interest. I learned without knowing step 1 about it, not understanding what to do with my first deck, for decades. I always kept them near and it was the classic Waite deck. Completely incomprehensible to me.

During a pagan pilgrimage to Salem, Massachusetts, I was open to all things Pagan and Wiccan. Poking around one of the interesting shoppes, I saw a large variety of Tarot Decks, and the storeowners had sample packs to inspect. The Lord Of The Rings has always been a borderline obsession with me and I was really drawn to those 78 Lord Of The Ring Tarot Cards. I  looked at them eagerly. As I scanned the symbols and pictures, I was shaking my head, ‘Oh yeah, NOW I’m going to learn.’ 
           It was a crash course at first, and I feel I can do a fundamental reading if I have my best book with me, the book that came with the cards. Of course, I understand that to be good at it will take years, and I hope to develop a more intuitive skill, but my desire to learn is Important to me.
        Looking at them during my pilgrimage I was just as puzzled as ever. After getting back to Florida I even took the pack with me to work and took another look at the instruction book that went with it trying to figure it out. ‘I’ll read the books entire 260 pages cover to cover and somehow that will kick start the effort.’ There were a lot of pictures in a small book, so it wasn’t as daunting a task as you might think, and what I have discovered is a way for all of us to have access to this wisdom, knowledge and fun.

Part 1: The next day, as a way of starting, I took out the ten most interesting cards to me personally and looked up their meanings. If you’re new to the Tarot, you should try this yourself; go through your deck without any preconceived notions and pick out the ten cards that call out to you. I was a total Newb at this point but determined. The LOTR book discussed the three-card throw, the Gandalf spread and other ways of interpretation, but they didn’t feel right. 

The next day before going to work, I stopped off my favorite local nursery. I got what I needed and was leaving when some mysterious force pulled me into the statuary area. How about this here Celtic Cross piece? The Celtic cross is some pagan remnant of the Celts, right? Well, I stared at it and said ‘That’s what I want!’ Imagine Homer Simpson saying, “Mmmmmmmm… statuary.” The rest of the day it rode in the back of my work van. I still had the ten cards I thought were the most interesting and was planning on reviewing them again and picked three as my favorites, indicator cards after a fashion.

That evening my driven, focused, semi obsessive determination to figure this out and made me concentrate. I was ready to give up… but don’t you know the very best part was in the last couple of pages. Buddha Bing! There it was… the Celtic Cross spread! Thank the goddess. Celtic Cross Synchronicity! This is supposed to be the most common spread anyway, so I laid them out as directed. 

Tarot decks can be lame looking in my opinion, but this Lord of the Rings Deck is really well drawn and easy to relate to because only characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit are used. If you know the stories, then every card has some meaning for you. Find a deck you're comfortable with. People are all about gift decks being the most authentic, but maybe they don't get loners and our obsessions. We don't want gifts I'll figure it out myselfI imagine a Harry Potter deck would be fun for fans.

Part 2:     

Get out your cards. At this point, it’s time to figure out what to do with your deck. We all know how to shuffle cards, right? Tarot cards are a bit bigger than playing cards but it’s easy to adjust. New decks can be slippery at first, just work with it. {Update: Lord of the Rings Tarot author, Terry Donaldson, writes that oiling your cards is one of the first things you should do. Look into it if you like. No thanks, I thought.} 

Don’t damage them or bend them in half, it influences your outcome; even if you try to ignore that bent or marked card, your Zemyna (favorite goddess) , spirit guide or angel knows that you still see it in your subconscious. They figure out outcomes with every possible cut of the deck and try to get you to pull the potentially most accurate.

        Here’s my new easy to understand Tarot. Shuffle the deck five times and cut it four times, which makes nine passes with the cards. Very importantly, on the last cut, concentrate solely on the Question. If you are doing a reading for somebody else, then that person (asking the question) makes the last cut as he/she completely concentrates. The cards that are cut last are the ones you will be using, so (duh) , these are important so focus on. Shuffle and cut thoughtfully because this is an absolute.


                         THE SEQUENCE

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9 6 (1 and 2) 4 10 
5 
8

      Try a dry run. Shuffle the cards 5 times (elements) and cut them 4 times (directions) concentrating on the question throughout, especially on the last cut. 

1. How can I tell if I'm on the right path?
2. How can I achieve my next career or financial goal?
3. The first two cards are laid out as indicated above and my Lord Of The Rings Tarot book says card 3 goes above (a crowning) and this is where this reading diverges from other Celtic Cross readings: Other deck instructions say to start on the right, for no particular reason I can discern, and there are books that say card 3 starts on the bottom! 

My Lord of the Rings Tarot book by Terry Donaldson says the third card goes on top and Card #4 goes to the right; #5 goes at the bottom and #6 to the left. (See above) Card six concerns future influences and is where you’re really free to interpret future events and influences. By the sixth card you are digging into the interpretation from the ether. This is where you put your knowledge to work, because Tarot is not just for the esoterically gifted, I insist, but also a way for friends and family to communicate and influence the future in some way and to also share in some fun. Divination? Yes. Evil? No.

Hey! I just remembered what one of the other books said. The Celtic Cross reading has something to do with the Catholic ‘sign of the cross’, though it didn’t say how. The sign of the cross is a razzle-dazzle Catholics do with their hands before they pray or walk in a church. I was wondering what to do with the last 4 cards, so utilizing this idea, we go top, bottom, left and then right for a symbolic sign of the cross as you lay out the last four cards. (See diagram.) 

 Here’s a good time to mention that a Tarot deck would be a great Christmas, Samhain or Solstice gift and a good way to introduce your friends, relatives and co-workers to two aspects of Paganism, Tarot and our Holidays. Traditionalists say a tarot deck that was given to you should be the deck that you use. Run them off a copy of this article and fold it up in their present. Get them a deck they will be able to use and, happily, most decks have books to go along with them. If not, order Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis. There are so many interesting tarot decks, so find some books you feel comfortable with.

Part 3: When you read about Astrology and Tarot, just remember that, astrological aspects are an addition to a reading, and they are never required. Astrology and Tarot have crossed paths at different times in history but are exclusive of each other. For instance, where did the choice of 78 cards in a deck come from? The twelve houses of the zodiac say some. Add 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12=78.” 26x2 is 52 and 26x3 is 78. Related somehow.

Okay, if you still have your cards laid out then let’s start. Sometimes I have simple questions.

Today my question is: Should I put Tarot for Newbs in my book, History Of The Pagans, or make it something separate? Let’s find out. I shuffle five times to mince up any previous throw. Then I cut 4 times concentrating solely on the question throughout. The first card is the three of coins. My Lord of the Rings Deck shows Bilbo in his library. The first card indicates the present situation of the questioner. Recently, my life seems to be about learning new things and this card says to ‘extol in the learning of new things' to make life even more interesting. Learning a new craft such as tarot is an 'excellent use of time’ this card says.

The second card lays sideways across the first one and directly influences it. This card is the Ace of Swords and most prominently featured is Gwaihir the Eagle. Remember, in Lord Of The Rings, Gwaihir saved the day several times when least expected. A positive card, it says unprecedented opportunities are present. ‘By all means, include the tarot chapter’ is what I’m hearing so far. 

The third card concerns goals. It’s the six of Cups. Remember, card three goes above, a crowning achievement in your life. (See diagram) A playful card, the six of Cups shows Merry and Pippin smoking Saruman's ‘pipeweed’ while they laugh about the victory of the Ents and the fall of Orthanc. The card says ‘re-discover the child within’, a reminder to not be so serious and to have fun. Sometimes I do take things too seriously; I need to loosen up and have fun so I should make a tarot chapter fun and accessible. Our modern sensibilities demand excellence with playfulness and I need to remember this. 

The 4th card goes to the right of the center cards and the card will show some aspect of the distant past that links with this question. It’s a card from the 22 card major Arcana; the important cards, if you will. The Hermit is the card, that’s me -- not real keen on city life, even in my distant past, I had been wishing for a country paradise. 

Never planning on doing anything of significance in life, but secretly hoping I could, and History Of The Pagans is where all the different aspects of my life come together. I feel that writing History of the Pagans is what I was meant to do. It was copyrighted but no one seems interested in my writing content. Oh well.

Paganism will be one polarizing issue in the near future. Everything that has been under the media radar regarding paganism will charge the atmosphere. Maybe I can help by revealing some of the mystery while admitting that, even to a skeptic like me, magic is there when you use the Tarot. 

The 5th card is below the center. I deal a card that indicates that careful thinking, but decisive action is needed regarding recent past events Can I learn tile and stonemasonry and be a better father and husband and increase my business income? Can I learn Tarot and many other things that have fallen in my lap lately? Determination and focus may yet trump my chronic procrastination. 

Card 6 is about future influences and I draw The Hanged Man, which I don't ever remember getting before. This is not good because it means some delay is in store. Should I rename the book, Pagan History and Culture? History of the Conquered People? A stumbling block is “in the cards" says card 6. Hanged Man indicates some sort of delay and with some readings it concerns court cases plodding along and delaying action, but I don't think this is the case. When I type out the book I shouldn’t waste time. Things could get delayed and the card says to persist with my goals. 

{Update: Grandma went into Hospice and died shortly after I did this reading and it took a while to get up to speed with our lives that I can see now in retrospect. Grandma was an important aspect of the children’s lives and she was very helpful and kind and we honor her memory.} 

In the study of Tarot, you will read about cards ‘reversed’. I make sure they are all facing the same direction before I shuffle them. Those reversed cards add so much inexactness, bewilderment and negativity that I personally avoid them altogether. I recently discovered that reversed cards were introduced barely 100 years ago… specifically to discourage people like me who try to explain tarot for everyone’s use. (Some might say there is something to cards that are near each other or related to another but that is another layer of difficulty I need to comprehend, and this will lead to a deeper level of understanding.) 

 

 

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Card 7 is the questioners’ attitude. My book says three of Cups means rediscovering someone from the past. This has come up in my readings a lot. Someone I know from the past is going to have some sort of influence on a job or occupation, my book and my future? How does this relate to my current attitude? 

I used to think that my friends are more likely to enjoy things I write than people off the street. Buddha Bing! Now I’m suddenly inclined to think that I really need to rediscover maybe not a friend from the past, but the attitude I had in the past. 

Here is the magic of the tarot; follow what your heart is telling you and be open to what may be revealed. Loosen up on the direct ‘meanings’ of the cards, and don't don't get too specific with a  question while staying intellectually nimble with interpretation. As I was contemplating this card, I realized that it may not be an old friend from the past, but how I used to meet dozens of people in short periods of time during my young adulthood. I learned so much from the constant parade of unique people I encountered. Tarot is not Rubik’s Cube. 

Card 8 is about how other people affect the outcome, and environmental factors (like if a hurricane blows the house away and I have to move) . It’s the 4 of Cups and that says ‘new friendships will occur’. The last couple of years have been about full time family, and besides, you get older and you tend to want to stay home anyways. But I do need to send up the periscope to see beyond the current existence I had been leading and card 8 encourages me to get out and make new friends, friends who know what the Tarot is. 

Card 9 is about inner emotions, my hopes, fears and anxieties. I flip over a card; it’s The World. Everything I’ve done before is just practice. History of the Pagans and the Tarot chapter is to be my entry into The World. 

Finally the 10th card indicates the final outcome, the Net result and cumulative factors in answering the question. High Priestess comes up. This indicates balance with our goddess, everything lining up for a positive yin and yang result. Pagans will accuse me of occasional insensitivity and Christians will accuse me of… who knows... whatever they can think of, but the end result will be something that pleases the goddess. Tarot for pagans? The cards say ‘by all means!’ It will be part of the balanced picture in the book I’m writing. So there you have it, Tarot is for all of us.

I hope this has encouraged you to try a reading on your own. The readings I have done for myself so far seem freaky accurate, but more than that, I’m able to see problems and obstacles in a different light. The Tarot opens up the creative parts of our mind. The readings have given me more confidence in myself and provided me the occasional illumination to move forward with this new kind of life I’m creating. 

When I went and got my first professional reading, the results matched the ones I was coming in with; they really were. Tarot Card practitioners can interpret my results here and let me know if I’m close with my interpretation. 

I remember the Tarot reader explained to me ‘she had a gift’ and said I ‘had a guardian angel over my left shoulder’. Maybe us simple folk can’t really see angels, but we all have gifts, remember? Tarot is for me and Tarot is for you, too.

Footnotes: 
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TAROT; TERRY DONALDSON
TAROT PLAIN AND SIMPLE; ANTHONY LOUIS

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 THE FINAL SLAUGHTER

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