SECTION ONE
UNITED SCAPES
COMPENDIUM
2026 💚💞❤
We are going to set the precedents of Earth stewardship for the Millennium ahead. I am trying to give a voice to the earth and the two billion hungry, unhoused people on her. Exposing the systems of coercion and destruction that have been placed on all of us, so that you, who has a voice, can speak up for the interdependent web of life.
Warning
I am responsible for what I have written, not for what you think I wrote, or meant. Simply stated, the opinions expressed herein, may at times resemble facts, therefore… always double and triple check before you let any information from "Compendium" loose on the internet. I use a little wordplay and sneak in cultural references and therefore, don't want to be misunderstood with millions of undisciplined minds on the loose.
. This is not a guide for idiots.
Regarding all media, be skeptical of everything and only repost what you are certain of in this age of emerging AI. Also feel free to feed your AI buddy with Compendium. I add confounding quirks of language and odd perspectives to perplex any grokbot. I abuse the grammar rules with unruly participles.
I've created a series of interlocking systems for a simplification of this excessively technical new world. Simple connections like we used to have.
The ultimate sad reality on earth is that there are billions of people living in misery on what was once a bountiful, clean planet. It’s as simple as that. Slip shod stewardship so far.
We've failed to manage it up to this point, and we'll see how this first brush with extinction will end. Or not. Once it was ours and it will be ours forevermore if the working people wake up.
Capitalism And Communism are two Euro-centric economic systems that have failed the world. We will do better.
Market Socialism is a much better global economic concept that is about small business unhindered and unhinged and big business regulated and investigated.
It's about opening thousands of free market spaces that small business can use, throughout the country. Meanwhile, big business is heavily regulated and its wealth investigated. Market .Socialism, keep your ear to the ground, it's coming
Let me guide you through the seemingly intractable dilemmas of our modern era and offer solutions, so be willing to contemplate new perspectives because.
voters/citizens/workers
need to lead now, and follow no longer.
"she is awake"
SECTION ONE
UNITED SCAPES
THE SOCIOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE THAT IS AMERICA
-1-1- THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION war and peace; supply and demand
-1-2- THE WAY OF THE BIRDS
-1-3- SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS
-1-4- CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
-1-5- SON OF POPULUXE
-1-6- 42 COMMANDMENTS
-1-7- PARTY LIKE IT'S 1699
-1-8- IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE THE CONSTITUTION
-1-9- THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
-1-10- A NEW SQUARE DEAL who were the Progressives and why do Liberals claim credit for the reforms that upgraded America?
-1-11- LIBERTARIANS a simple mans version of complicated ideocracy
-1-12- WHO ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE?
-1-13- MARKET SOCIALISM the inevitable market system
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THE DAWN OF
CIVILIZATION
"Try as they might to make the mass murder acceptable and patriotic, deep in our collective American hearts, we know war is wrong."
Nationally, Americans demand recreation areas, protected forests, estuaries and parks of all sorts; and walking trails locally. They appreciate being supplied with good facilities during their travelling adventures in this wonderfully expansive system of national and state parks in the United States. This is logical for a country that includes "The pursuit of happiness" in the preamble to its Constitution, essentially its mission statement. Then why does 800 billion dollars go to The Pentagon every year, and only 3 billion goes to the national park service? Who's running the show here?
Hard working vacationing Americans or paranoid foreign policy manipulators?
Apparently, making a fleet of eighty-MILLION-dollar fighter jets was much more important than anything nature had to offer. This is what the government is telling us with this lopsided budget. Why should taxes go to a park ranger explaining the difference between red squirrels and brown squirrels during a guided tour? How is THAT a priority?
What about the supply and demand in our economy that the Republicans are always whining and braying about? Our National Parks have a dearth of facilities and maintenance is spotty, but crowds continue to grow. There is a big demand for recreation from the people of America and enthralled visitors and vacationers from around the world, --- the supply part of supply and demand, you know. Any GOP jawin' this? No way.
Park expansion, safety of campers and visitors, and the preservation of ecological diversity has been subverted by corporations that profit from war and mining, and by the army of corporate lobbyists in Washington. THE PEOPLE WANT PARKS NOT WAR. People tired of money going to Israel too.
2022 update. The current administration has created a fund for the National Parks but still won’t reduce the military. What are politicians scared of?
The American people and visitors from around the world are out there trying to have a grand vacation visiting the great places of America. What they find are stinky bathrooms, traffic jams, and tour guides swamped with crowds. 2025 update. Profiteers looking to seek and destroy our wild lands but earth warriors gathering together for the battles of 2026.
Not only are you creating recreation for today when land is purchased and preserved, but wild space for ever and ever so the interdependent web of life can thrive alongside a booming economy. The recreation angle creates jobs. The military is a money pit for taxpayers but a honey pot for paranoid anti-communists. Pondering all this, how does upgraded 150-million-dollar F-35's ever make sense? Time to investigate all military contractors.
It makes sense, mon aci, because many have gotten fat off the government in the last sixty years, and now they slap "my guns my god and my money…you keep the change", bumper stickers on their cars. These people are not fully comprehending the markets and products that created their prosperity. Markets as diverse as Dairy and Nuclear Energy. The capitalists slipped America a roofie, 70 years ago, and have not stopped ravaging her.
Making weapons and selling them has proven to be profitable. Creating wars to destroy them, so they can make more , was an economic boon for Boomers. Boomers sitting pretty in their gated communities after using Millennials as cannon fodder to boost their war stocks since 2001.
Making weapons is a dirty income and many of todays tea beggars and Q=nons profited, along with the dinner party liberal douchebags who looked the other way as their shares of blood and oil cocktails grew in value as two wars dragged on.
Now that they’ve got their pensions and social security, the senior teahadists and city slicker liberals are quickly closing the barn door so no one else can share this government subsidized wealth, which they stole directly from our natural resources in many cases.
One generation destroyed more forests than any other generation, EVER, and profited wonderfully from the drastic reduction of prices with the ravaging of these resources, particularly our forests and wild lands. The Endangered species ACT was an attempt to stop this profit taking. The cost of paper products was artificially cheap as a result of the insane clear cutting that occurred.
Dear reader, if you invest, then divest of your poison stocks. It is time to think about all life on this earth that will be here the next million years. Invest Green best you can. Invest clean.
As Derrick Jensen says, not the “bright green” the techies want, but the deep green of true earth stewardship.
Divesting is going to prove to be a much better tactic for reform, than let's say blocking traffic. The Klondike Capitalism of the Green Movement needs to be regulated as little as possible. Home grown in every way. Boycotting Israel is just the beginning.
We agree with Conservatives on this one. Raw milk producers want regulations eased but Big Dairy is firmly in the driver's seat confounding left and right equally. People who got them there are of no particular political party. Once people in the red states realize they’ve been railroaded by the big corporations, some heads are going to roll and a long battle lay ahead in many different places. The sterile poison seed of corporate farmers gets a pass, while small organic farmers have many regulatory hurdles to leap and certifications to achieve, in order to participate in the market.
In Florida fresh eggs have to be sold with the warning sign "Not for human consumption". It took some nasty ass Republican state legislator to come up with that law. #taxchurchesnotfarms
War is good for the economy; it creates JOBS.
We were told our entire childhood. "World War 2 lifted us out of the depression", is another myth promulgated in our history books. The truth was that the explosion of innovations during and after WW2, were actually possible because of all the scientific innovations that had already been made in the 1930's. Innovations in radio, refrigeration, electricity, and many other areas of research that directly involved in improving our daily lives.
Invention and innovation and knowledge had rapidly expanded in the Thirties, and a real prosperity was emerging and lively cultures were booming again. Then WW2 disrupted and destroyed everything.
Good times with positive momentum were on the way, as the world retooled itself after the Great Depression. Instead, we are told the Big War created prosperity, when all it really did was create devastation and misery. It stopped the artistic explosion that was happening in many countries such as Poland and stopped seminal inventions dead in their tracks in order to supply the war machine. It became all about war. People accept war as a human condition and “there’s nothing we can do.”
Reducing our 800 billion dollar a year Pentagon budget would "make us weak" and "could wreck the economy" we are told in 2025, even still. America spends as much as the next ten countries combined on the military; how stupid do they think we are? There are stats that prove a dollar would go ten times further if it were to stay in the states and used in, let’s say, an infrastructure program. What would we prefer?
One soldier in Afghanistan or 10 Road Rangers helping people stranded on the highways right here in the UNITED States? THAT'S THE ISSUE.
Recycling roadside garbage. How many times did I stop on the beautiful Route 50 in Georgia to stretch and try to film capture some roadside scenery, and I'd look down the hill and it’s all washing machines and attic foam and clothes and cans of beer. What trash we are!
It's not entirely the fault of the people. Services aren't provided.
Conservatives cut all the wrong government funding. They really are just grown up selfish brats. No municipality can afford a trash service? Country people too isolated to get what everyone else gets.
America needs an upgrade, but it will take a reduction of the military budget. First. Then, it will take more than ten years to bleach the coral colony of corruption in the military supply chain.
Do you truly believe we're preserving American freedom by the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the CIA proxy wars in Central America? What about the 2 wars with Iraq, and the furthest away of all, the longest war in Afghanistan?
War may help the Gross National Product and is lucrative for people with stocks in weapon manufacturing and oil companies, but it doesn’t work in real life anymore, unless you are getting a pension from your Weapon maker job. It's not if your son or daughter were killed in action.
If your conscience doesn't propel you to divest and boycott companies that pollute our planet or create weapons of war, then wait till boycotts shut them down and your war stocks will lose their value anyways.
Try as they might to make mass murder acceptable and patriotic, deep in our collective American hearts we know it’s wrong. Buying into this and selling out to corporatism made many millionaires on both sides of the political system.
The Greatest Generations antiquated notions of how everyone has their place, was put to the test and failed in the 60's. The boomers saw this world filled with racism and sexism with our young hopeful eyes, and collectively our disgust level was so high, that things have changed in the last 50 years. The real war was at home as people fought for equality.
Thank you to all who have stood up for equality, you are the actual patriots. Why couldn’t a black dude or a woman be hired for any job? Why not pay the woman the same as a man? Whazzup with that? We didn’t get it.
Will there ever be a disgust level with war which will help us change? Not until societies embrace the feminine, it seems. Women are always trying to fit in, but most cultures do not mix the masculine and feminine very well. How can a smooth polarity of the masculine and feminine be achieved, as cultures constantly chafe with this exuberant, toxic masculinity? Incivility and brutality is the result of the warrior elite's dominance of most societies the last 2500 years.
This incivility and wildness is not the primitive paleo wildness we have forgotten, but the result of the authoritarian despots and fealty of the sycophant chumps that ring their bell.
This has led to a false patriotism, the War without end. Always enemies to kill, God bless you.
America is here as a place for you to breathe free, to be anything but ordinary if you choose, and to help hold the light of liberty for all who strive for freedom. I encourage all countries to create new covenants with their people to create equality and freedom.
For people that want to escape repression, we need to create safe havens. Not a New World Order, but decentralized spheres of influence with minimum standards for all to follow voluntarily.
We must upgrade our earth manners while creating permanent safety nets for all people. Your good efforts will be returned threefold as the momentum of all of us working toward a humane humanity, is finally with us. Billions of lives will be enhanced when we tax the accumulated wealth of the billionaires. Life has to be more than vanquishing enemies . Here's the 8 directions of Druddism
"1……Encode Liberty ….2……Embed equality…3…. invalidate injustice …..4… Ostracize criminality ….5….humble the mighty …6 …, vanquish cruelty ….7 …. cultivate opportunity …..8…. "Unity Without hierarchy"
in all the countries in the world.
Let’s give ourselves the chance for a new start, with the rejection of violence, and usher in, at long last, The Dawn of Civilization. All of us together in every country: Out of many, one; Unity without hierarchy. We are ready.
THIS is my suggestion for a 28th amendment to the United States Constitution.
Henry David Thoreau, "A free and enlightened State recognizes the individual as a higher and independent power, from which, all its own power and authority are derived." Citizens united against Citizens United.
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-1-2- THE WAY OF THE BIRDS
💚💞❤"We all learn to love all, eventually"
The Way of the Birds is a philosophical overview of spirituality with birds as the focal point. We all eventually learn to love all, and this is my end all, be all of spirituality. This suggests that after we die we raise up to higher realms of consciousness and we all unite in love. The nasty gits get vaporized, I reckon, and the rest of us grow with god, or whatever.
Second Warning I am responsible for what I have written, not for what you think I wrote, or meant. Simply stated, the opinions expressed herein, may at times resemble facts, so therefore… always double and triple check before you let incorrect facts loose on the internet. If you DO quote from this book, you will find my most implausible and unbelievable facts are actually the ones that are the most fully researched, and 100% true. It is wise to be skeptical with our viral information overload and millions of undisciplined minds on the loose.
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In his book, Sand County Almanac, author Aldo Leopold wrote, "Amid the endless mediocrity of the commonplace, a crane marsh holds a paleontological patent of nobility, won from the march of eons.”
We love the birds and plant our gardens in consideration of them and my effort is to show you that the way to plug back into nature, is by way of the birds. Even if you have planted just one Mulberry Tree, our world ecosystem becomes a better place. Mulberry is a recommended tree to distract birds away from your favored fruit trees. Even better, plant an Elderberry.
Plant for you and plant for wildlife.
The BIRDS symbolize the spiritual wings we grow after we die when we return to our innocent, spiritual counterpoint, our actual immortal selves. Unless you're an atheist who doesn't believe in an afterlife. Atheists think they are like that moth that got caught on the windshield wiper. But it doesn't matter to the earth what you believe. Plant some Elderberry Mulberry and Blueberry bushes to share with the wildlife.
This is what you are here for. Not to be sacrificing every hour of the day and working every minute keeping the devil at bay with busyness and business. Be a brick in the wall. Working to exhaustion so the kids can afford to go to college so they can also get on the hamster wheel of capitalism. Taking pride in never resting or at least cultivating that image. Hedging their bets, they still have the carpe diem refrigerator magnet.
The material existence is made to be enjoyed, and to deny yourself the many simple joys during this one lifetime, is to do the worst type of damage to your spirit.
If we could stop to recalibrate our resources everyone would be housed and fed and the Arctic would become a world park, not a corporate piggy playground of resource extraction.
I want to help those who have been buried alive by dogma. Help them see a world of endless diversity, with all its flavors and colors and scents and experiences, and the possibilities of many emotional interactions with our earth mates. And our beautiful earth. If we could stop to recalibrate our resources everyone would be housed and fed.
Once you get past the straight jacket of religion, then you can go anywhere.The main emphasis of the book, COMPENDIUM, is to explain that this is the time when we stand up for the earth and all its cultures before Toxic Terrorism makes her uninhabitable.
Today there are Dead Zones, from the Gulf of Mexico to the gated community retention ponds that are constantly sprayed for weeds and bugs and no native plants are allowed to return.
Pollinators and migrating songbirds are on the ropes. Shorelines have been devastated by oil spills and rising oceans, while underground water storage is imperiled by fracking and saline intrusion.
There is a simplistic answer for life and the reason we are here. We are here to create abundance for all and sustainability for the planet. Create life and to become Love. "The secret to life lay within a single seed" It grows into a mighty Oak or a sturdy Cherry tree.
To deny any life of its food and home and freedom is to invalidate your existence in the Universe.
And any creature capable of love is capable of living on as a spirit is part of my particular belief. Many will fall by the wayside; the remainder of us will all come together in loving harmony to become part of God or The Force or whatever it is that people believe. God/dess has no gender because it no longer matters what sex we are after this life. No pistil or stamen but there is a story saved for another day.
The gods and goddesses were born into this Universe, yet, have no ideas of their own origins. Or how the Universe began. It’s always been here and I made up a religion just to show how easy it is to make one up. That's like section 7 or something
This book also contains the core of some environmental initiatives and perspectives I hope to interest you in. I worked as an advisor on a Tree Board as the town park system (1989-1991-2001to 2004), was being set up and also spent 250+ hours with the Master Gardener Volunteers , and I realized that most people don't want to trample over the environment. Whatever their political views are. Most T****ers are animal lovers and environmentalists believe it or not.
After WW2, suburban yards were a war zone as commercials convinced us that we wanted bug-free plants and a perfect lawn. The Final Slaughter of Nature and human rights, of family, and community began.
Then there is Green resistance. The Greenhammer.
The canary in a coal mine is migrating north with climate change. Pope Francis made it easier for a billion Catholics around the world to feel comfortable about embracing environmentalism; caring about the Creator AND the Creation he stated early in his Papacy, which was in direct contrast to Americas Mega Church Prosperity Bible.
In millenniums past, there has been climate change and glaciers ground their way southwards for thousands of years. When the ice age was over, plants and animals migrated back northwards in unprecedented abundance.
Bird populations are critical if we have to adjust to climate change , because it was the birds that primarily carried the seeds of many plants to new locations during other periods of global warming. Remember they survived, and the dinosaurs didn’t.
Small songbirds carrying endemic and rare seeds to new locations are crucial in saving plant species and we need special care to save the rare songbirds. Evolutionary changes take thousands and millions of years, and we are forcing natures hand, to do something extreme with so many immanent extinctions. Every nut and bolt must be preserved so we know what we have, as Aldo Leopold explains throughout his book, Sand County Almanac.
Also, every 120,000 years or so, there is a natural spike in the temperature, and this appears to be occurring at this time since the last one was like, 117,000 years ago. Go ahead and Google global temperatures the last 500,000 years. Four times, every 120,000 years or so the red line goes up 7 or 8 degrees. So what I'm saying is that is we are exacerbating a natural cyclical cycle of heat that would result in extinctions anyways. All of Earths living systems are compromised, battered and beleaguered and we need preservation, not development.
Then again, a serious volcano could erupt creating a nuclear winter and the Earth will cool off that way. Pest insects will adjust faster to changing conditions and hopefully birds will be able to keep insect populations from becoming overwhelming. It’s the fragile songbirds that get into those micro niches where the rare things are. Every nut and bolt, beak and claw. Bird populations need to increase instead of decrease. They are the nexus of the crisis.
SAVE SEEDS AND PLANT TREES, was something I had printed on a hat in the 80's when I lived in Connecticut, and I talked about ecosystems with whoever would listen. Not many would, but it was a way to find my tribe.
We can't prove any beliefs till we are dead, you knuckleheads, but our ecosystems are quite real. #plantingnotprayers
We have the seeds of a New Enlightenment in our hands, but nothing will grow if we don't sow. Life seeks life but at our center we are only heart and spirit. "they tried to bury us but then realized we were seeds. "
Speaking of seeds, there were once over 250 varieties of apples in North America during the days of Johnny Appleseed, but many have since gone extinct with the reckless development trampling over our genetic diversity. In our puny human life, we can't see the adaptions that plants and animals have made over many generations, and the importance of saving seeds is lost on most people.
Saving our marshes for the Cranes is also our responsibility. For people to live, we can't fill in any more marshes. It was for jobs we were told but how long can the extractive insanity continue?
To take a rare seed to its fruiting stage is a great gift for all, and we know many medicines are derived from the folk medicine and their food comes from a vast adaptive indigenous ethnobotany. The pedantic, authoritarian struggle for control of the world’s food supplies benefits so few, while far too many are displaced from sacred, traditional lands. I propose we build an infrastructure so every farmer in the world can get to market. And the rich are going to pay for it.
The next step is how to spread abundance to all. Should it be Capitalism with its waste and competition? Should it be communism with the government coming to our apple orchards to count and confiscate our products for the good of all? It's neither, and we need to discuss how we can open markets for real and re-invent the family farm for all the people in the world. Green Resistance insists that profiteering from earth destruction must end, and all food production must be sustainable and productive. The small farmer needs a break and you start with the family farm. ##taxchurchesnotfarmers
The Greenhammer at the Grange, not the home on the range.
We create abundance from virtually nothing with the simple seed, the elephant in the room of sustainability. It is so critically important for the future to have as large a seed base as possible. In as many places as possible. I admire people like Jere Gettle who bought the 200-year-old nursery in my old hometown. He is an avid seed saver and his Baker Seeds from the western USA has incredible heirloom varieties and the company is strongly against GMO seeds.
Saving and buying seeds was a fave hobby in the 80's. I happened to glom on to Seed Savers Exchange way back in 1977 and bought every seed book they had. They had 250 varieties of Apples with descriptions back then. Now they have 900 varieties. They made fascinating reading. The history of rare American fruits. They have firmly developed a system of sharing seeds while stemming the flow of extinctions in the plant world. The only American company at the initial opening of the Seed Vault in Norway.
To clear cut a forest for profit is to deny life to others and perpetuates the slaughter of nature’s beasts. Statistics show a rapid increase of the human population in the last 100 years, and dramatic decreases of bird, animal and fish populations and forest cover these last 60 years. You don't need a graph to tell you where this is going, and I lay this at the feet of the Boomers.
We were all like; yeah, equal rights, no war, healthy food, save the whale. So, riddle me this … statistics reveal that between 1970 and 2020, ONE HALF of the wild animals populations have disappeared. On your watch, yo. Unchecked development and habitat loss has put ecosystems and watersheds in peril around the world as Boomers were too busy trying to become a millionaire.
I challenge all to take this journey into the future. This is not a guide for dummies or idiots, and I would love to have COMPENDIUM as an alternative to the dogma of religion, and the conventional wisdom of science. Let's go mano y mano with those trying to make you think what they want you to think. Compendium just wants you to think.
I am trying to plant seeds in your mind so you will create something for the future. This near future with AI coming in like a wrecking ball or a meteor with the anticipation of it hitting the earth. Complaints to understand and solutions to ponder. A study guide to create consensus that leads to action.
To the Atheist, I believe your denial of an afterlife is as invalid as a religious Zealots claim to an afterlife and their special little heaven. They are both wrong. An afterlife for those who don't follow bible or torah or koran rules of subservience and false promises sounds more likely.
The Way of the Birds; the tiny seed rectally jettisoned to land somewhere to begin life anew: this is the simple secret of life. Look no further. Nurture a seed within yourself then and grow where you are planted. Faith is a form of madness where people transfer their authority and responsibility to priests and preachers, pastors, mullahs and rabbis. Believe in life itself, instead.
Clergy sells faith like a car salesman sells cars. "Let me talk to my manager and see if we can lower the price." This was basically what selling indulgences was a long time ago with the false promise of salvation. For a price you could get your time in purgatory reduced. This got Martin Luther so upset he started Protestantism. The preacher as middleman between us and god and you have to wonder, how do they know? Oh, and don't ask the Preacher about Lemon Laws with his promises of Heaven and Salvation.
The Way of the Birds Is that which we cannot know, and it is for those that know we can't know.
Here are some quotes from The Way of the Birds for discussion.
"This is what you are here for. Not to be sacrificing and working every minute and keeping the devil at bay with busyness and business. Working to exhaustion so the kids can go to college, so they too, can get on the hamster wheel of capitalism.
"There is a simplistic answer for life and the reason we are here. We are here to create abundance for all and sustainability for the planet. Create life and to become Love. The secret to life lay within a single seed as It grows into a mighty Oak or a sturdy Cherry tree,
"Bird populations are critical if we have to adjust to climate change because it was the birds that primarily carried the seeds to new locations during all other periods of global warming. To deny any life of its food and home and freedom is to invalidate your existence in the Universe."
"Remember they survived, and the dinosaurs didn’t."
"The next step is how to spread abundance to all. Should it be Capitalism with its waste and competition? Should it be communism with the government coming to our apple orchards to count and confiscate our products for the good of all? It's neither, and we need to discuss how we can open markets for real and re-invent the family farm for all the people in the world."
💚💞❤-1-3-SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS
Here is an inside out look at the question I found posted on a forum in our local newspaper.
THE WRITER ASKED?
"How many people understand socialism and understand it's destruction of America".
You know, that bit that we are all going to hell in a handbasket. I remember the American Legion passing out leaflets at the Midnight Movies about hippies being the end of the world fifty years ago.
Tongue in cheek, this was my response to the dangers of socialism. “It hasn't destroyed us yet. I invested in GM in the 50's and taxpayers cleaned up the toxic waste from production facilities. That was sweet. Then I got a job at Dow Chemical where I made a pretty good buck from the government designing methods to deploy napalm in Vietnam. Then I invested in a high profit company that obtained numerous government contracts and when we got caught pouring Iridium down a well, we got fined peanuts. As this nuclear waste found its way into the water supply we all laughed and clipped fat cigars at the country club.
But then I realized I didn't have quite enough money, so I got together with an old friend in the late 70’S, and we took great delight in bulldozing forests to make suburbs. When the sissy state I lived in started cleaning up the rivers, and made my friends update their smokestacks with those damn clean air laws, I moved to Florida. There I got involved heavily in sugar production, making gargantuan profits in the 80's as Americans seriously began to overeat, and sugar was a tremendous growth industry.
We emptied the Lake Okeechobee watershed and farmed the rich mud. By farming I mean applying lots of chemicals and using lots of machines and paying human workers a pittance. Taxpayers are now paying for a 2 billion dollar cleanup of the Everglades because of our farms and I still have 5 homes. Losers.
Now me and my fourth wife go out to Chez Gougeeng every night in our Rolls Royce and there's a rags to riches story for you. My newest wife grew up in Appalachia with coal dust in her fingernails and asbestos in her hair but joined the army. She got lucky because for 18 of her 20 years of service, all she did was sell boots and shoes at the commissary and now she has a lifetime pension and free medical care. She doesn't need it really because we are so rich, but it's nice to know it's there just in case those Democrats take from us rich entrepreneurs who have worked hard all our lives."
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CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTSWill conservatives and conservationists continue to battle about our future? Neo-Conservatives decry the "oppressive" Endangered Species Act. Saying it’s all a hoax. There’s no problem they say.On the other hand, Conservationists go too far with excessive regulation. Poor lawn mowing dudes, scraping by, can be fined $5,000 for spraying some weed killer. USDA goons look the other way with citrus growers, but not the poor people who can’t afford the fines imposed by lawyers. For example, I can’t prune mangroves the way I think that is best.Is there a middle ground where peace can be negotiated? America’s future strength will be in embracing our diversity of viewpoints.The squishy soft urban liberal needs to understand the goals of the self-sufficient rural person and both need to respect each other. “Ewww, you kill it…then eat it…Yuck!” Too many people squirm when it comes to eating wild meat, but find nothing unsavory about how pigs are raised for those babyback ribs they get at TGIFridays.Traditionally in this country, 25% of the population hunted for their meat. The Native Americans and their respectful pursuit of game for thousands of years and then the Yankee farmer and other European settlers found the necessity. Personally, I squirm when I am eating a life that was tamed and tortured such as chickens,. The Birds are my brothers. They need to be free.
To understand our meat factories and continue to eat the same amount of meat, is to endorse animal cruelty.
Jeremy Rifkin suggested in the 70’s that everyone should cut their meat consumption in half. If that simple rule were followed, the Amazon would not have been clear cut as it has been, jeopardizing the health of the worlds lungs.I would happily eat gator meat or venison if it was sustainably harvested by an unleashed small business effort. There is a new attitude that would have us creating self-sustaining resources with Market Socialism. Small business would run free while Big Business has rules and gets scrutinized. Being a corporation is a privilege not a right.People hunting for their own food should not be treated the same as someone who kills an unsustainable amount of food, (think tuna) (think rain forests cut down for hamburger), that weakens ecosystems for those who live there, and COULD hunt. Wildlife needs a lot of square miles. Gluttonous windfalls of these billion dollar “food” companies is the only concern of predatory Protestant capitalists, not ‘feeding the people’ as they claim. Now they claim to be feeding people with factory farms or now lab grown meat. A new horror unleashed on us with a happy face. Just stop eating so much goddam meat!Those exploiting resources need to know Americas future is tied to its land and water resources. Karl Rove and the phony conservatives were eager for an era of unregulated clear cutting of trees and pipes of toxic effluent leading directly into bodies of water. "Drill baby drill" is an insane grasping for fuel and untrammeled exploration of oil and natural gas fields. This is a sick evil greed we are responsible for. It is conservative to save enough for future use.
Maybe conservative conservationist sounds like a contradiction in terms, but I have a role model for the conservative conservationist. His name was Aldo Leopold. In his book, Sand County Almanac, author Leopold writes of his conversion from an exploiter into a respecter and steward of our wild lands.
“We reached the wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then and have known ever since that there was something new to me in those eyes; something known only to her and the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger itch; I thought that fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would be a hunter’s paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”
“Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of a newly wolf less mountain, and seen the south facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails. I have seen every bush and seedling browsed, first to anaenemic desuetude, and then to death. I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn. Such a mountain looks as if someone had given God pruning shears and forbid him all other exercise. I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of
it’s deer.”
A young hunter with trigger itch eventually becomes the most outspoken advocate of the real value of land up till that time. Leopold was somewhat famous from 1935 to 1955 and he was a thinking mans rustic. He inspired many in their pursuit of conservation ethics and conservatives were in on it at the beginning. Restoration of some of the prairies and preservation of good forests that remain has to be very important to all future prosperity. The integrity of the US as a beautiful country.
Let people hunt FFS, but that means ending development in undisturbed areas so populations can grow. Bear and Deer and Turkeys become numerous quickly and here is where humans as apex predators begins. You're supposed to create abundance and harvest sustainably, instead of stripping the resources bare and leaving behind ravaged local people and poisoned watersheds.
There seems to be scare tactics in the media that intends to keep people out of the forests. and an effort to marginalize nature as something that is no longer important. Forests and watersheds abused by corporations rightfully belong to all people to enjoy as recreation, or to use for hunting sustainable populations of animals.
There is an excess of 20 million deer in the United States and the alligator population is not endangered and would yield quite a few tons of meat. I propose a giant hunting park in the everglades where you can take home what you find, and a place where nuisance alligators can be taken.
As much as I like bears, there are rapidly growing populations in many states. More for the survivalists, bear fat is useful for many things, but I still feel Apex Predators don't belong near human populations. But human populations are increasing along with the Bears. I got an area I call Frankliniana. Franklin North Carolina Franklin Tennessee and franklinGeorgia. Find those three towns on a map and within this triangle is where human populations will be drifting to. Where Florida Grifters will be looking to develop more "scenic" areas.
I got a feeling though, that there’s a propaganda effort going on to scare people about the wild lands. Deer ticks, cougars, grizzlies, West Nile Virus and many other scary aspects to the outdoors in the news.
Mining companies and cattle barons have waited so long to completely own the land, because they have used the hell out of it, as if they DID own it. Now they want the rest of it. Never mind that people will be turned away at parks this summer and these National Parks are mostly full of visitors and the government isn’t putting the money where it should, as we spend way too much on war, and precious little on recreation. But to facilitate the enjoyment by quite a few Americans in our National Park System, unfortunately, we can only talk about adding millions in federal budgets.
War has become more important than recreation, subverting our “pursuit of happiness.”
We are becoming too modern. Too sophisticated. Too smart. Pilotless drones killing people. War is not really normal human behavior, wouldn't you say? Yet now we kill so cleanly. No one has to see blood. "THEY" absolutely want him dead because he released tapes of these cold bloodless drone murders. The last thing "they" want is Julian Assange being interviewed on every TV show. So where has he been the last two months since his release.
Time to evolve away from war preperation and stop sending the healthiest off to die overseas. Sphere’s of influence need to be in place. Europe, India, China, Australia and others need to step up to the plate with organized relief efforts in their sphere of influence, and an authentic effort to end war. The BRIC organization is part of the process of de-hegemonization.
It was conservatives that finished the American Revolution. Not of the past but of the present The Liberals of that era wanted freedom, but with a managed liberty facilitated by royalty, and they were ready to make our first president a king; called King George (Washington). He said "nay" Then added this warning, ”A government is like fire. A handy servant but a dangerous master “.
The Libertarian Patriots would have no part of a monarchy. Conservatives said, gather in Philadelphia, and let’s get down to some business and create a libertarian type of freedom for the individual. Create a covenant to shield every American from religious zealots and their invisible friend that allegedly wrote the Bible. Leave it open ended so every American shares the same freedoms. They wanted to be not like Europe in many ways.
Is it any wonder that in polls, preachers are rated very low along with car salesman for trustworthiness? They were regarded in this manner in 1776 when they were on a par with the snake oil salesman. Movies make it like everyone respected the preacher or priest. Jenny or Johnny Axhammer out there fair trading with the indigenous people gave a skank eye to the preacher when he came around.
I am neither liberal nor conservative and I made up the phrase “Independent Majority” to describe most of us. Conservatives have corrupted the meaning of the word, conservative, and Liberal was not derived from the word liberty. In the Revolutionary Era, liberals had a reputation for siding with totalitarians and royalty, for our own good, you see.
In the 60’s, liberals became associated with liberty and civil rights, a traditionally conservative viewpoint and an offshoot of the Progressive Era who were represented by the conservative conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt (Republicans take note).
Liberals of the 50's were disturbed by the mad devouring industrial machine and the need for full civil rights for all people. A final blossoming of the constitution Liberals also stewarded laws to reduce and slow down air and water pollution by the greedy corporations and thusly, the Liberals modernized themselves. The land and air should belong to the people, not a waste bucket for the Protestant profiteers, even Richard Nixon knew that.
The unseen cost of our “prosperity” is the degradation of our prime raw materials---air and water. What about all these 60-year-olds dying of various cancers? Maybe they frolicked on lawns poisoned by DDT, Chlordane and other WW2 nerve agents. Conservatives can finish this modern age of reform with a Conservative Counter revolution, The religious wackoes and apologists of the grandiose rich have stolen conservatism. Time for an independent party. Third party or bust. #independentmajoritypartGrowing crops to keep our trade deficit down has degraded so much land that soil scientists say we have lost 50% of the topsoil we once had. Thanks Earl Butz. You'll have to look him up. And James Watt while you're at it.
That unseen cost again, and why I say most wealth is illegitimate. Profits of the last 65 years have come at the cost of pesticides in the people and water and half the good topsoil removed. The continuing soil erosion is a result of our cheap food policy. These large acreage farms support tractor and fuel suppliers and not communities. These farmers with their guaranteed sales are basically stripping the land of organic matter for a years profit.
Home and farm foreclosures should never have happened, the bank will get their thirty years of payments, but there are going to be bumps in the road for everyone. America is stressed because most of us have to worry about keeping a roof over our heads. A good conservative move at this moment? FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM. Americans need to own their homes outright.
A conservative should be a steward of the land. Restoring prairie ecosystems and protesting forest destruction. This is how the self-sufficient native Americans and pioneer yeoman used to do it. and it should be available today as an option. There should always be enough fish for people to catch and it would be conservative to be an advocate to retain Americas wild lands and clean up Americas rivers.
Planting trees as windbreaks so the soil does not blow into rivers and streams, and restoring the health of trout streams and knocking down dams so Salmon can breed again are initiatives that should come from both sides. Where are you GOP?
Could you convince this Zoomer generation that we need nuclear energy? Not likely. There is only one problem besides annihilation in a meltdown when it comes to a nuclear site. We need to store radioactive materials for, like, 10,000 years, not to mention the 50 billion needed for each plant to be decommissioned in the near future. All these ideas for energy creation, but the best one remains conservation.
Nuclear power fuel costs were lower for the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s but now 400 generations will need to inspect, reject, object and hire 10,000 years worth of people to keep an eye on the radioactive poison that was created by one short-sighted generation. The unseen cost; as we hope for no radioactive leakage problems for thousands of years.
But money is so important, potential investors of the nuclear industry are trying to subtly brainwash people to think that it’s okay. Our friend the atom.
Yes the kids get it. They get what the creator was trying to do. Maintain a balance of life. When you kill frogs you get flies. Let’s fill in more wetlands! Birds have confronted so many poisons in the last 60 years that their populations have been halved with the most beautiful and interesting birds suffering the most. Knock down more trees or plow the prairies to cultivate it to create a monoculture of 5,000 acres of wheat. Make it make sense to me. To ship overseas. Come on! Where's the common sense anymore?
What are big farmers giving to America? Taxes? Hopefully. At what cost? The tilled acreage may have contained 50 animal species and 400 plant species. The prairie ecosystem was a deeply rooted mix of low growing plants, numerous grasses and small shrubs with a wide variety of perennials. The prairies were a very unique set of ecosystems that dominated the central United States and now only 3% remains, while greed mongers have profited from the destruction of the other 97%. Most wealth is illegitimate.
It takes 10 pounds of corn feed to make one pound of beef. (Cow muscle and fat.) Instead of one beef patty you could have 10 corn muffins. Beef needs steroids and antibiotics. Veal is raised in cruel conditions. The world has decided that eating animals is important and Beef in general is grown as if they were tomatoes or peppers, where has respect for all life gone to? Vegans have trouble with all the dead animals on plates but growing vegetables also destroys land. Keep that in mind. The core problem is overpopulation.
Oh yeh, Manifest Destiny and the belief that God wants us to use up Nature for profits. Trust me, you can be a conservative and be a vegetarian. Beef doesn’t have to be for dinner as the cattle growers continue to destroy ecosystems out west. Manly men are just looking so stupid right now.
Richard Hofstadter is my favorite author. He’s able to sum up the Midwestern culture in one long complex sentence, He said, "If a rural culture means an emotional and craftsman-like dedication to the soil, a traditional and pre-capitalist outlook, a tradition directed; instead of career directed type of character, and a village community devoted to ancestral ways, then the prairies and plains never had one.” Those college professors sure can construct some convoluted sentences. But do you see what he means, Vern?
Globally these corporations are doing the same thing to small farmers everywhere. The Predatory Capitalist Dream is to have everyone grow for one store and foreclose on every home they can, to erode our freedom and independence. Everyone paying rent to vicious and pernicious corporations, while our languid legislators remain lame. Corporate fascism, as long as people got a lot of stuff to fill their busy life, they will follow any law.
I’m trying to answer the oft asked but never quite completely answered question, can a conservative be a conservationist? Hell yes, a real conservative would be in favor of restoring the prairies more to what it was. Remnants and fragments are being saved and enhanced in many areas but all todays conservatives can do is whine and complain about environmentalists.
It is ridiculous to have these giant fields of crops that are exported for the profits of the mega farmer. People drive by these farms with their wave after wave of corn or wheat or something, then remark how marvelous a sight like this is. It’s not --- it’s not. The soil is dead and nature is on the ropes.
So take your fundamentally independent or conservative or libertarian viewpoints and take a good look at what humans are doing to the creators fine work. You may as well snatch the hat off of the God and Goddess and take a crap in it because that’s how we are treating this once marvelously working planet. The worst of them wear bow ties and are editors of college newspapers. Conservatives have become apologists for big business and the planet polluters. How did this happen? Billionaire political influence. These neo-con phonies need to go. Koch Brothers bought the anarchist, left leaning Libertarian Party in 1980. Stole it with their money.
Another fine writer I enjoy is Peter Drucker. He died recently at 95 and he wrote more than just about business which he was well known for. Here’s what he wrote about the Revolutionary era Patriots in his book from 1942, The Future of Industrial Man. “In the first place, while conservative, they did not restore nor intend to restore. They never did idealize the past: and they had no illusions about the present in which they lived. They knew that the social reality had changed. They would never have conceived their task as anything but the integration of the new society on the basis of the old principles: never would they have countenanced any attempt to undo what had happened."
" It is their unconditional refusal to restore which has made the founding fathers appear radical, and which has obscured the essentially conservative character in their work. Their social analysis was indeed radical, extremely radical. They never accepted the polite conventions or the wishful restorative dreams which were based on the assumption that the old society was still functioning. The founding fathers of America were conservative of the present and future.”
The observations of our founding fathers looking at todays world would be ‘too much technology’ and ‘what are you doing fighting a war on the other side of the world?’ They would also say, “Too bad 21st century people don’t love the earth the same way they love money”. No wonder kids rebel, they don’t want to spend their life in cubicle hell, another brick in the wall, a cog in the consuming machine. Watching the planet go to hell and the mean people having all the power. They are searching for a way to make their life meaningful and many of them are finding ways. Their lives can too easily become formulaic and they are easy prey for todays phony conservatives.
Venom spewing rage at liberals. Brainwashed even to kill liberals. They are literally trained mad dogs. Chomped down on your leg.
The 1600’s may have been one of those “golden moments” in American economic history. Like today, there were just a lot of regular people, like us, who only had a minimal impact on society. Working hard, trying to do right by society and trying to keep children happy and healthy, and not really giving a crap about giving money to organized religion!
The agrarian world of the independent farmers and their families became a threat and by 1700, the religious leaders and the royalty saw a need to curb this independence in the American colonies. In 1639 an important document, the Fundamental Orders, had been written. It declared that all political power was derived from the “free consent of the people” of the Connecticut Colony.
Well, this waPeople took care of a lot of their needs themselves, but the left-over issues were solved at the monthly town meetings and this was decentralized government at its finest. Also, the neighboring natives, particularly the Iroquois and Mohawk, had systems of peaceful self-government, though I mention elsewhere how they were mean to the peaceful woodland tribes.
No one back then could have imagined the gargantuan waddling monster of a government that it became, and continues to grow like a coral colony with every new special interest with a gripe.
I last lived in New England in the 80’s. In 1984 I moved away from Arizona because I yearned for New England again. Leaving the laid back, c’est la vie attitude of Tucson, it was back to the land of material yearning, Cuisinart's, cars, curtains and children’s private school. I moved for the quaintness, history and diversity of opinions and to observe recovering wild lands. Living north of the busy Hartford County area, I ventured back one day to see my quaint little hometown of Wethersfield, Connecticut in southern Hartford County.
In the War on the Trees the developers were winning everywhere I visited. How about some access to a park with a lot of trees? The town has 15 drug stores but no wild lands. All that was left was the meadows where I had a lot of adventures as a youth>>> or I could go to the Green. 300 years old and it wasn’t going anywhere. In just 10 years the younger trees seemed to have grown a lot and none of the old trees seem to have died. I loved the giant beech trees. 50 years of names carved into the trunk seem to have done no harm. Jogger’s, biker’s, strollers & walkers and benches to accommodate the crowds.
But what about peace and quiet? I drove around town to the old spots, but the only quiet place was Ye Anciente graveyard. Headstones dating back to a man born in1666. Even the ghosts have moved on. Unfortunately, the noise from the Interstate Highway, Rt. 91, was constantly droning.
In the 1600's, pioneers built their houses from trees in the forest. The “elite minority” followed their roughhewn footsteps of the first westward moving pioneers. They left Boston and Plymouth to settle in river valleys; particularly the Connecticut River and the Hudson. These pioneers eventually reached the Appalachian Mountains. With virtually no government, there was agrarian freedom, it was virtually anarchy. Agrarian Anarchy. Trade, barter and self-sufficiency greased the wheels of society. Today, can this type of freedom be replicated without the pinhead accountants that say it’s not possible.
Developer delirium will always dwarf agrarian anarchy unless the good people advocate and implement changes. Future generations will puzzle over the recklessness of 20th century people that allowed forests to be leveled. .
This constant rapid growth can’t be good for ecological balance. Agrarian anarchy is the antithesis of parasitical capitalism. Agrarian Anarchy asks the question, “What is better, 70
0 farmers, truckers, small store owners and others making 40,000 dollars a year or one “export executive” Making 10 million dollars? That one executive is somehow as valuable as an entire small community who actually produce goods? Look for the holes in this Predatory Capitalist system we have now and rid ourselves of these white-collar parasites. Conservatives used to be the small business advocates.
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Websters College dictionary,” Populuxe, n, a flamboyant decorative style of the period 1954-1964. Implying pastel colors and futuristic contours to impart a sense of luxury in everyday objects, as cars, appliances and dwellings.” Instead of calling it Post Art-Deco, Thomas Hines has given the era its own identity. The Populuxe Era.Untainted by the hopeless political and social quagmire that Vietnam became by the late 60's, the Kennedy years buoyed people's spirits. But not all.
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The automobile culture in 1961 was firmly entrenched; it wasn’t such a new thing anymore. it was a historical transition from the old era to the new with baseball and most everything else. Soon Cassius Clay would rock the oldsters with brazen outspokenness. He would handle the glare of the modern era much better than Roger Maris.
War was very profitable for America. The era of Madison Avenue, it's propaganda and commercials, became a heavy influence in the 50's and people believed the lie that 'war lifted us out of the depression.'
Tailfins disappeared and Detroit floundered till the muscle cars of the mid-sixties became the fashion and this was another way Populuxe was ushered out. Peace, love and Camaros baby.
Imagine you’re an embittered New York reporter. Maybe you’d seen the Babe or saw his farewell speech in 1948 shortly before he died. Ruth was baseball. The god of baseball.
In 1962, I was 8 years old and started playing baseball and in time started collecting cards. But I remember the 1961 season, how everyone was talking about the home run race. My dad had just finished building a huge porch and I would often sit there and write down what cars drove by. As my Uncle was going out the porch door one day they had a serious discussion on baseball.
By 1966, I was a paperboy waking up at 5:00, and the first thing I did was to check the box score if the Yankees played. Scanning right down to where Roger was. Fourth in the lineup. He hit 33 home runs and batted in 100 in 1962 which was a big disappointment to all.
He had a good year in '63 but was injured a large chunk of the season. In ’64 the real decline began,the damage had been done. The stress of the world weighed heavy on his feel-good, do-good farmboy simplicity.
Apparently, he was viewed as a seasoned pro and was highly regarded with the Cardinals, despite only hitting 9 home runs. He won some games with timely hits and became a good clutch hitter helping the Cards reach the World Series and he was always one of the best fielders. He had his best World Series ever and hit .385 going 10 for 26. He was 2 for 3 in the last game as Bob Gibson pitched a 3 hitter, winning the series for the Cards.
It was the most exciting World Series I ever remember, and it was the last good ball I’d ever watch him play. The Red Sox played some gutsy ball, but Gibson won 3 games and was unbeatable. I still had a paper route and religiously checked the box score for every game the Cardinals played in '67 and '68, hoping he would do it again. Roger played another year and was in another World Series in ’68, then retired at the relatively young age of 34. He was done.
No longer a Yankees fan, I ended up becoming a Red Sox fan for 35 years. Finally beating the Babes curse in 2004 when they won. Uncle Joe would have been proud. He was a foam at the mouth Red Sox fan.
The movie pointed out how destructive the media can be. Later evolving into the relentless paparazzi that chased Princess Diana causing her to crash. The ever-intrusive snoops looking for something to keep the rabble buying the various rags that pass for entertainment. They completely made up the story about a Mantle / Maris fued.
Roger Maris' movie son said to another son, during the McGuire Sosa home run race, “It’s like the best year Dad ever had.” Mcgwire smashed 65 homers by the 154th game thereby making sure Ruth’s record was buried forever.
After World war two the modern era began running on all 8 cylinders. Free college, forests being destroyed for the cheap housing boom. Material growth rocketed as the space age approached. Atomic waste created for the cheap electricity. Water was clean and free out of the tap. But unfortunately, the greatest generation was using up resources in the most reckless ways possible and polluting the waterways.
Later in 1965, Louie Armstrong’s hit, “Mame” was something everyone could love. Wayne Newton’s “Danke Schein” was on both stations also. "Sugar Shack" was another with its thunky bass line.
I have a populuxe display or two in the house and it’s about cars from 1947 to 1967. Die cast cars. I have black crouching jaguars that complemented grandmas homemade pillows and decor. Well, maybe they didn’t match but they were the most distinct object d’art in her house. Blue glass ashtrays, Silver or pewter candy dishes. Probably filled with lead but it's been a good life.
We saw the past fade away during the Populuxe Era. It seemed like hardly anybody had an outhouse anymore. It was a new, modern,…...clean era. Jet Age style. There was debates about clothes dryers, should we spend 10 dollars a month on electricity instead of 8? That was the choice. Clotheslines were such a common site. Using air to dry clothes. Free air no less. I would carry wet laundry outside as one of my jobs. As one of the New Lazy Youth, I was too modern to help out much more than that. You know how laundry piles up.
That coven of conspiratorial compadres, the International Bankers, giggled with glee at the debt that was to be amassed during a world war. They offered Hitler and others some low interest loans. 50 million lives later, It was 1946 and the smell of spent bombs was still in the air, and then effluent from the production of herbicides and pesticides derived from chemical weapons began the silent slaughter of aquatic regions.
The Mad Men of Madison Avenue could convince people of anything. Destructive, ecosystem destroying logging, was portrayed as 'inexpensive homes for war weary citizens.' Aw. Except for the black veterans who were rebuffed at every turn.
Everything was okay, you know, just consume a lot of products, throw litter right out the window of your car, and always trust the boss, the company, the police, your priest, and what the government tells you. Meanwhile the Beatniks were enjoying life and American freedom in their own way. The "ban the bomb" movement arose from those Bohemians.
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Green Ethics and Polytheist Spirituality will EVENTUALLY emerge together one day. Will it be a potent brew or strange bedfellows? Hybrid vigor or invalidating opposites? The Green Cult feared by right wing Dominionists?
The brainwashing is so complete by Christians these last 1600 years, that the word pagan brings up evil and/or negative impressions with probably 85% of the population, 85% of the time. It's naturally assumed Pagans are in league with the Devil, which is such fuckall idiocy.
Pagans are known for their freewheeling antics in their American pursuit of happiness. Greens however, are often antagonistic to spiritual beliefs, generally because Christianity and Islam are so patently objectionable to logical people, and therefore all religion seems ridiculous to them. So remember, at first glance, Paganism seems even sillier and even more illogical to an atheist green, and they never get past the costumes to get to the content.
Most Greens find Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the book of Revelation as preposterous, and Islam is so, a thousand years ago; that both religions are given virtually no credence or relevance. There are Muslim Greens, thank Allah, and I hope they come to prominence these next couple of years.
Pagan gods and goddesses just seem like so much effluvium to many Greens. Aren't they over the Greeks and Romans yet, the Green Atheists ask? They don't know about the thousands of other pagan religions and white people don't realize how many meaningful deities existed before Christianity. Black people don't know their Ancients believed in a triple god pantheon. Africans and Europeans had much in common during the years Before Christ. BC.
Crazy wheat planting people from the middle east took over both continents, killing millions of African and European Pagans in the process.
Many greens have no connection to the divine and that’s fine with them, who cares and why waste my time they ask? The simple fact is that the greatest generation and their lackeys have done 7 generations of resource extraction in one, and thy say a deity told them the earth was theirs to plunder. Stunningly dysfunctional, and seriously, not reality based. Logical people in the 21st century need to call them out on it, which Greens often do.
When Greens see Pagans wearing antlers or flowers, they are dismissive of us also. I'm not into all the gear and getups people get on. But after I got my article "This is the Folk Magic" published on the Witchvox website, I discovered there are many people like me who have our own independent belief systems and we don't need to wear costumes. I got a lot of email stating they agreed with me that "traditional", horn wearing, costume adorning paganism is not to their liking. As I like to say, "Halloween is what I do once a year, not all year".
Similar to the way the priesthood attracted pedophiles, Paganism seems to attract the Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Fair types. Dress up fetishes I call it, but to each their own of course. The plain pagans, the dungaree druids, that's the rest of us.
The Bible, Koran and the other one is too much about people and not the earth. It's a world where the chatty loudmouth huckster dominates our economy, and where the ten commandments carry far more sociological weight than it should. The nine noble virtues listed below, are far more relevant to a pagans life. Vikings or the Norsemen have a belief in the old gods still, and in modern times they are known as Asatru or Asatruar. I wonder what has ever happened between meetings of a follower of the Norse, and a tree hugging atheist environmentalist.
For that matter what do greens think of Buddhisms eightfold path? Add the Greens 10 Key Values to the 9 virtues and that makes 19. Then add the Unitarian Universalists 7 guidelines and you'll have 26 GUIDEPOSTS that are far more relevant than the 10 Commandments. My contribution are the eight directions of Druddism. The secret green cult religion.
THE EIGHT DIRECTIONS OF DRUDDISM
"1……Encode Liberty ….2……Embed equality…3…. invalidate injustice …..4… Ostracize criminality ….5….humble the mighty …6 …, vanquish cruelty ….7 …. cultivate opportunity and …..8….. "Unity Without hierarchy"
Asatru finds a way to help people stay strong with the everyday reality, and the eightfold path of Buddhism lights the way for many in the world. So to the Greens, I’m asking you to rethink the role of religion and spirituality. Consider the more reasonable outlooks of various religions you may not be familiar with, the stories of the conquered people and folk cultures around the world, that have fallen to the cross and scimitar. There has never been a history of the world from the Pagan point of view. (So I copyrighted History of the Pagans Fall of 2008.) As much as I suggest to steal this book, all the pagan stories and characters are copyrighted and you'll need to ask permission
Maybe greens are jealous that all those TV preachers experience miracles and they are just jealous, I'm tellin 'ya. Well, tell ya what, pagans experience miracles too, and I’ve had my own Christian miracle of the brown scapular. But no one blithely gives god credit for all these variables in life, most of us know that god doesn't do all the shit he's purported to be doing.
I want Greens to know that Pagans don’t try to describe the nature of the universe or the miracle of life as christians and islamics do. We live with reality, like harvest festivals 'n shit.
Preachers, pastors and priests all telling us in their mega churches what god has told them. Imagine, the TV evangelists are sending blessings and miracles over the airwaves. “And god, ah knows you be busy" paraphrasing Richard Pryor, "but Doris in Kansas City has just sent a generous donation for our building fund and wants you to cure the paralysis………in her brain from listening to me.” Is this any way to run a country? Most of our senators are from these states with superstitious bobble heads being bilked out of their money.
Christians finally realized they are no longer able to kill or harass those who are heretics and heathens, so they embedded themselves in the political systems of the United States in the last 40 years. Their attempted coup wants to make us subject to 3,000 year old lies. Go away, you have no power here. Democrats and their feckless attempt to lead also need to get out of the way.
The Great Spirit that has ruled this continent is returning, Growing a green canopy over the dark heart of Capitalism and its Christian apologists.
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 only destroyed 496 of the 500 Mayan codex’s. Big brother has been here all along. Now in 2024 it is still here. Christians and Islamofascists---they have their eye on you and if we allow heretics to be to be harassed, it’s over.
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 that is quite visible, without needing all this imaginary evil.
I made up a religion that I discuss in other parts of The History of The Pagans. All adherents are known as Druddités or Drudds for short. I combined the words Druid and the word Luddite. Here’s where I bump into a wall of pagan snobbishness. They believe you can’t combine goddesses and gods from different pantheons.
Historically, Druids were collectors of knowledge and were poets and bards along with leading ceremonies.
The Luddites were people in the early 1800’s who rebelled against the quick acceptance of every new technology. They destroyed machines back then but today would be questioning our overly quick acceptance of genetically engineered food and plants along with the pandoras box of cloning.
Druids of course were hunted down and killed, many of course fleeing to outlying posts of the once forested world to try and pass down Druid traditions. The Luddites became the enemies of the newly emerging industrialized and predatory capitalism so you can guess what happened to them.
I was a Reagan Era Pagan, and my best nature experience was the overwhelming spirituality in a power spot near the Rincon Mountains in Tucson Arizona in the early 80’s. More like a vortex. You could get in it for miles around. I lived in the last house on Broadway in Tucson. On one side was the Saguaro National Monument, a startlingly beautiful desert preserve featuring the Saguaro Cactus. Then travel almost 60 miles to the next town and in between was a mountain range, part of the 250,000-acre Coronado National Forest.
Nature was a powerful force in that area, and I was fortunate to be a caretaker on a 40 acre ranch which has since become a nature center. I’ve extensively hiked everywhere I’ve lived, and the outskirts of Tucson was the most remote wilderness I’ve ever known. On Google Earth go to 12,661 East Broadway in Tucson to see where I’m talking about. It used to be called the Kingston Ranch and we lived in a fancy tack house..
One day I found this unique grassy area in some shady trees out in the desert. A Mini-oasis. Snowmelt and storms created a network of temporary streams that ran nearby and this was A very special place of peacefulness. Not much natural grass and not many deer in the Sonoran Desert but I had seen them scampering away from this place. When I found a pair of antlers on the short soft grass it felt like some special gift.
The antlers are a memory and a remnant of what I felt in that very special area. My atheism lapsed knowing that nature was the true force in the world. Nature is my god I used to say. Then, I worked with this native American dude named Mike Two Hawks in the late 80’s. He was an enthusiastic modern native, doing ceremony at work. He had A lot of respect for his surroundings and enthusiastic about Mohawk tradition.
Most importantly he taught me how to feel the unseen energy of nature. Regarding the human assault on mother Earth Mike would often use a baseball metaphor saying, “Earth bats last and she’s coming to the plate. Nobody out with the three best hitters coming up. Hurricanes earthquakes and volcanoes.” When I described my “power spot” to him he said I very likely found something very special.
Suddenly everything has come alive for me again, this time for good. I’ve been a pagan all along. My message is that you also may be a pagan; maybe you’ve been a pagan all along.
Here are some more viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths that will fill our media in 2026. As I mentioned it will be presented by Fux News 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, “The end of religious wars and extreme persecution, the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism and a more affluent and luxurious life, had taken some of the terror 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 their clarity of thought. This is what right wing Christian conservatives aren’t getting, that the founding revolutionaries were masons, which allowed the rigors of intellectual elasticity and curiosity and the Bible was a straight jacket for those of nimble intellect.
I can barely deal with believers. Any belief these days. I substitute Easter Bunny when someone mention mentions J-boi and the 42 commandments
Here is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time in the 1730's. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times 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. All the other religions are not talking about war; but Dharma, Harmony and Community, so maybe we need to give them a listen.
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so I went back to town and bought a quilt
Above is an Amish buggy I was trying to take a discreet picture of. Its way off in the distance and I was starting to feel like paparazzi trying to get a good picture. I wasn't after the photos after all, I was wondering what is in their hearts and what is in their heads.
I’m visiting the city of New Holland, Pennsylvania in an attempt to parachute into Amish Country to check them out for myself. A parade route was filled with lawn chairs from townspeople who were reserving their spot for the harvest festival parade that was to begin that next Wednesday. Clever front yard mini-landscapes, and some very hip, thrift shop owners.
I noted some really good vibes outside of town too, Amish children playing and riding bicycles and the locals were respectfully going around the horse and buggies of the Amish.
I'm a little skeptical about the "technologically impaired" aspect of the Amish when I see rubber tires and such and I wonder what kind of Smithing was needed to make their bicycles. I know for a fact that the carriage wheels are handmade and many of the carriages are made locally, but I was wondering about the part in the weird al song "Amish Paradise" that goes...
"I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
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I bought a couple pounds of them and six weeks later only five had sprouted. “This is the time when we plant them in Florida," I had told her. It can get cold some fall and winters and that would slow the growth down some years, and we harvest in April, mostly from containers. Fresh Florida potaters February to April.
My planning was extensive for my trip, even growing a mustache-less semi-beard despite having no sideburns. Here I look like a stern Amish smiling his fool head off.So whatever it was, this Amish maiden was so real and open and fun to talk to, I’m thinking, you know, these people are probably pretty cool in actuality. Use your head and don’t mess with them.
The Amish knew this a long time ago. They will survive. They won't even notice an economic collapse and it seems only cockroaches are tougher than the Amish.
Mary was always there to temper Jesus' enthusiastic youthful extremes, "go feed the donkey before you get us in trouble!"
Centuries of religious instruction and indoctrination has provided fertile ground for the heresies that continue to question Christian dogma. Strap yourself in for a bracing dose of heresy, as the Enlightenment continues to question miracles and magic.
Question What was Jesus’ mother Mary like? As a person? Was she a leader, was she humble? Please tell me anything you can about her.
Thanks* 1 hour ago - 4 days left to answer.
John A Almada
Here is the real story. First off, the "virgin" Marys' mother Anne was like 60 years old or something, and one day she was gnashing her teeth over her barren womb and an angel heard her. "Go forth with vigor old woman, and thou shalt be blessed." The grandmother of Jesus walked away puzzled.
Alas, she left without hope; and there was sorrow in her heart. How badly she had wanted a child and despite the miracle of the Angel, it seemed like a cruel joke. However, shortly after an eating frenzy of goat cheese and pickles ...SHE REALIZED SHE WAS PREGNANT. ''How can this be?'' her husband asked and so she told him about the angel, which of course explained everything.
Jesus' Mother Mary is one of the nine goddesses in my DIY religion, and the first Goddess to live a complete human life. She was conceived from the spiritual melding of Mary in the Veles and the barren womb of her mother, Anne. The Divine Adoption, which ended with the Astral Ascension. There's the first heresy.
Mary grew up and she was of childbearing age when she got married. The angels, muses, and Goddesses had picked Joseph the Carpenter to marry her, being a gentle man of great integrity, and he became a kind and gentle role model for the forthcoming holy son, but it took a few years until she was ready.
The Goddess Mary and the human Joseph created a half -human son named Jesus. This is the second heresy, but more plausible compared to the time tested, biggest lie of all time that states that God got the virgin pregnant with, like, magic dust or something.
Mary came from Heaven (Veles) in a cosmic womb that Joseph seeded. Nah, this is a much more workable theory.
Sorry God, you're not the father"
Jesus was born of the goddess Mary, and his birth was foretold in the stars, it was such a great spiritual event. Expert pagan astronomers, called the Magi, were able to locate the child using the stars and what they knew of astronomy. Myths of a King, a Savior, a Messiah was prophesized to be born. The three-pointed Crown Constellation and a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus (star of Bethlehem) pointed the way and they brought three offerings.
The Magi discussed the various pagan religions and Mystery Schools in Egypt, where Mary and Joseph had planned to move. Good farming and prosperous people that needed a good Carpenter, and there were some nice liberal synagogues. Jerusalem was such an uptight city, you know? Doctrinaire Pedantic. They had to get out of there.
The Magi and Mary and Joseph all agreed that the Old Testament god of the Judaic Tradition is a spiritual poseur, an angry gasbag trickster deity who seemed to demand an inordinate amount of fealty and worship, oddly reminiscent of insecure old men, Joseph noted. #3
Jesus was going to invalidate this trickster god when he grew up. This is what his real ministry was going to be about. They were doubtful of the authenticity of the Old Testament, as were most logical people in those days when confronted with the WORD. The Jerusalem area was way too orthodox for their taste. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLater.
The Old Testament god is some sort of an illusionist that needed some anger management classes back in the day. The Magi (magicians) told them the blessed son must write a New Testament for all the people, a true covenant of peace and tranquility in order to invalidate the trickster evil god. #4
Mary and Joseph agreed to teach the child named Jesus about many faiths. The Ancient Goddesses had begun to fight back. Jesus was to change Gods status.
“Flee to Egypt,” the Magi insisted. "Take him somewhere peaceful, teach him the mysteries, and eventually, have him initiated by a Telestes." Forms of Buddhism had reached the homes of the Magi from India and China; and, although Egypt was marginalized politically by the time of Mary’s Pregnancy, it was still a spiritual place and the Mystery Schools were a highly regarded form of education at that time.
Mary and Joseph inherited a modest, middle class structure, Jesus being in the same line as King David they say, his kin had some money, but none had accommodations that dry, starry night that Jesus was born.
The Magi made this three-month journey from out near the Ukraine or something, some say almost from India. We three kings of Orient Are, remember? That also means theoretically, Jesus as the divine teen, may have made some extensive voyages back to the Magi's homeland, as speculated by some.
It has been theorized that Mary, Joseph and Jesus frequented a liberal Jewish Temple near Alexandria Egypt, after they had moved there. Being half divinity, you can easily imagine the half man, half god Jesus, as a very precocious child. By 12 years old, it was known that he was arguing circles around the dogmatic religious leaders. “Jesus Christ, go feed the god blessed donkey!”
This temple in Egypt they supposedly went to, had tunnels underneath it and initiation ceremonies in the style of the Pagan Mystery Schools. You know, where they go deeper underground in tighter and smaller tunnels and eventually, they are reborn at some secret underground site once they are fully disoriented by the dark.
The River of Styx was an important symbolism in this ritual, and Styx was an underground stream that symbolically carried them into a more spiritual life. Some of these temples had actual underground streams deep inside them for effect.
Presumably, as the family travelled, he created controversy wherever he went as he questioned the hypocritical Abrahamic leaders. Mary was always there to temper Jesus' enthusiastic youthful extremes, "go feed the donkey before you get us in trouble!" she would say as she shushed him away from time to time.
The goal of the Goddesses was to have him start a holy organization of adepts and healers, to get the world away from the excess of the growing, patriarchal led violence, and move towards social justice for all. It was time to confront the dark side of doom. An Empire of Compassion, not Conquest was what Jesus’ ministry was about. His human mistake was showing his hand too soon,
Not well known, is that slaves and women held prominent roles in early Christianity, but the Pauline’s thwarted that effort less than a century after Jesus' death and offered up these original fundamental Jesus followers (Gnostics) to be fed to the lions. His mission was to unify humankind without the hierarchy of patriarchal, religious groups, while at the same time, not to personally fall victim to the brutal, bloodthirsty Pagan Roman soldiers.
Pagan slaughter began with the Levites, 2800 years before Jesus’' era; and these Levites ambitiously tore down Pagan temples, stole pagan gold, and even burned, not only innocent pagan children, but their own daughters as well, as per the bible, "if she playeth the whore". Who does that shit? Pretty bad, even for historical assholes.
The Holy family eventually settled in Egypt for probably at least 10 years, and went back to Israel to live with the Essenes eventually, while maintaining their connections in Egypt. It wasn't that far after all. Two weeks of steady walking. Poor Moses lost in the desert for 40 years. Loser.
A friend's daughter from Egypt, Mary Magdalene, became a pagan priestess, a Telestes, and some theorize she educated Jesus in more ways than one, if you know what I mean.
The Essenes were the only sect to truly follow the commandment "thou shalt not kill." They were reputedly vegetarians and eschewed blood sacrifices. No doubt, the Pharisees & Sadducees had serious conflicts with the Essenes.
As Jesus got into his 20's, he joined the Masons and Mary's home became a lodge of sorts, and friends of Jesus admired this wise, foresightful mother of his. In time, Mary Magdalene, a follower of Isis, became enamored with Jesus, and as it became time for his ministry, she wrote a song called "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and sang it to Mother Mary trying to figure out the wazzup with this miracle shizz.
Mother Mary then confided to Mary Magdalene, that she is actually a goddess having a life on Earth, and Jesus is a half-divine preacher who was going to bring equality to all people of the world if his mission succeeded. Teach people how to become healers and peace makers. Mary Magdalene was in on this, the greatest story never told. Jesus the Pagan Revolutionarywas redone as Jesus the son of god.
"Go forth with vigor child," Mary said to the Magdalene, “and remember; no woman shall ever own Jesus. I have taught him as best as I can about the world, but he needeth the affection a lover could bring, in order to experience the most sacred mystery."
Mary Magdalene was an Isis trained Priestess. She had some dough and she was one of the merry widows that funded his ministry. Magic. Heresy #5 is the notion that there is a Mary Jesus Mary thing going on here. The actual trinity. Mother, Son and Wife. Not Father Son and Holy Ghost. Sheesh. What the hell? A ghost? No females to actually give birth? No balance or sense with that concept. A man, a woman and a divine mother, how’s that? Much better. Patriarchy is such a pile of bunk. #6
Mother Mary became worried in time, as Jesus was riling up the Jewish fuddy duddys who were controlling society with their schizophrenic nonsense of the Old Testament god, as I explained. Gnostics believe the author of the Old Testament, the christian and jewish god Jehovah, is actually a fallen angel called Lucifer. Personally, I think a bunch of nasty old men made up the small b bible.
Only the Essene community provided the environment a peaceful half man, half god like Jesus could feel comfortable in. As it is today in 2026, religious leaders back then were moral high ground hypocrites, and were frequently complicit with dictators, tyrants and Fascists.
Jesus began his ministry when he was about thirty and He kept pushing the envelope with what the local authorities could tolerate. Jesus went into the main temple one day, and went bonkers in the market place. After observing the greed of bankers, he flipped all their tables over. An anti-social act most of us wouldn't even consider, and Mary knew the time for a major confrontation had come, but would Lucifer thwart him?
Mary advised and prepared him best she could, Lucifer then tempting him on His 40-day Vision quest in the desert. Other trials occurred, tempering Jesus’ fortitude. When Jesus talked about the father in heaven, he was thinking of Odin. lol It was Joseph, remember.
Jesus brazenly rode into the big city despite knowing he could get arrested for disturbing the peace, amidst cheers from his followers, and was going to publicize the formation of his organization of healers. People didn't believe the stories that had been circulating about Jesus the Pagan Preacher, and he had some rockin' miracles he was going to perform. A Miracle Man was the scuttlebutt on the grapevine. Mary had a bad feeling though, and notified Joseph of Arimathea who went to Pontius Pilate to try to keep Jesus out of trouble.
Joseph explained to Pontius Pilate, that the best thing Pilate could do, was to let Jesus do his thing. Just leave him be, the people will forget, Joseph told Pilate. Besides, Jesus' heretical outlook would weaken the psychological strangle hold the Pharisees had over the population, enabling the Romans, Joseph had told Pilate when he took him aside from prying ears and lying eyes.
Then an angry mob began forming-ditto heads with pitchforks- and demanded that Jesus the Isis loving pagan needed to be crucified. The religious leadership needed to make sure this strange; miracle-performing demon-man would not infect proper society. He could expose the moral high ground posturing of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who were the forerunners of today’s Republican Party. He could rouse up a crowd with those parables he had been entertaining people with.
"Things are going terribly wrong." Mary said, and pleaded with Joseph to go back to Pilate to help.
"What happened to his magic?" Joseph of Arimathea asked Mary, as things went bad for Jesus.
"I don't know, that danged Lucifer must have a trap spell on him or something." Mary said. Pilate did the best he could, stalling and washing his hands of this hysterical crowd outside, but they were wound up like the false accusers at the Salem witch trials, more madness than hysteria. Crucify Him the crowd yelled. |
Pilate hired guards, and he confidentially instructed them to crucify Jesus without breaking any bones if possible. Jesus went up three hours before sundown, which gave him a chance of surviving, because he would be taken down at sundown as per the holy law. He was still alive, people speculate, when he was taken down before sundown, though he had lost far too much blood and several muscles were completely severed. He had endured tortures few could endure. He was left for dead, spirited away to the cave and the Essene healers helped him recover from his severe injuries and 3 days later Mary Magdalene mistook him for the gardener.
On the other hand, maybe he died, or maybe Jesus and his homies had pulled off a "Jackass" type of stunt. Faked his death and went to France. Just the same, the Marys' wept as Jesus was in great pain on the cross. All they had worked for would be ruined by the hysterical, sycophantic chumps of the evil Pharisees.
The Romans didn’t even care! Vigilantes out for blood or paid mercenaries of the ruling elite? Decades after his death, had he escaped to the Far East, then came back and settled in France?
The Pauline’s ran away with Jesus' concepts eventually, as I said before, and distorted or destroyed what they didn't like about Jesus’ sermons and teachings. Jesus’ Christianity was never the same. Then came the slow turning of the patriarchal screw as years went by and censorship was common; The Gnostic verses, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas, and everything good, got cut from the new testament by the male compilers of the Bible, during the 4th Century.
Invariably, they came up with something to use against women and Pagans, then gave this Bible, the bogus New Testament along with the bi-polar madness of the Old Testament, to the Christian men. “Here is a small prize; The History of the World.” Gang of Four ( Mary is prophesized to return with the truth and I think that is what the third secret of Fatima is all about. Later on that) #7
History was written by the winners, the warriors, the dogmatic ideologues and the TYPE A fart knockers. Today these braying sycophants worship the crumbling façade of Manifest Destiny and continue to perpetuate this predatory capitalist, earth destroying philosophy. Not much more than a political Party, they banned Paganism and promoted this corrupt form of Christianity.
Pagans are among history’s losers; hung, banished, burned, conquered and otherwise, in 21st century parlance, losing in a hostile takeover bid. Today, 21st century paganism is progressive and positive in its thoughts and actions, and they are embracing some of the most thoughtful and kind precepts: free of coercion, while tuning back to the earth.
Women and Pagan hating pinheads, codified brutality and repression with the vague wasteland of words called the bible. The whole field of Pagan history is still wide open, as giant gaps need to be filled: Pagan is the word we dare not speak, or write about.
Triumphantly, after 1600 years, Pagans are now finally free to express ourselves without fear of harassment, imprisonment, or being burned as a witch thanks to the Goddess inspired Bill of Rights.
Jesus was a heretic, a Pagan if you will, and I can only hope He returns to reveal the truth.
In the meantime, we have, The Constitution.
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The Fundamental Orders
“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.”
ROUSSEAU 1776
This is one of my first and favorite stories. The history of the Charter Oak updated and my hometown remembered. In your face history.
A popular T-shirt in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.” These preachers used scare tactics, suggesting the Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start. Seriously, WWJD? He'd break out a can 'o whoop ass right there. Did Jesus have a grudge with the native North Americans?
I don't think so"
" Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it
The Fundamental Orders .
Since the beginning of civilization, wartime has depleted and polluted the earth’s resources, and absorbed the lives of the civilian-soldiers. Death and injury bringing grief and disruption to innumerable families over thousands of years of war. Most accepted their lives of toil and misery: THEIR BODIES no more than CANNON FODDER, their labor taxed heavily by the local despot.
The despair of the working poor is captured in the 16th century phrase, “Thy life is a bitch, and then thouest dies.” In time, the pilot light of personal liberty had begun to flicker, and new lands were sought.
Punishment was everywhere and eternal in those olden days, with a vengeful God and a diabolical Devil waging a war for our souls. Many people rolled their eyes and shook their heads at the superstitious nonsense spouted by religious zealots at the time before the Revolutionary War. Logic had taken hold in cultures during the Enlightenment of the 1700’s.
Going back to 1600, much trade had developed between Europe and the Far East, and a curiosity developed about the edge of the world, maybe it wasn’t flat! The Greeks figured that out a long time ago, but Christianity insisted the earth was a flat plane (maybe it is) and was the center of the Universe. lol. I mean, it was in a Papal Bull and everything.
European explorers and adventurers wondered if there was an ocean or a continent they needed to cross to get to China, and during the first decade of the 1600’s Dutchmen drove their ships up the Hudson River in New York State. In 1614 a Dutchman, Adrian Block, sailed up the Connecticut River as far as the Enfield Falls. Meanwhile, the French were exploring the Canadian wilderness via the St. Lawrence River.
There was a lot of friendliness and trade between the natives and the original European roughnecks and roustabouts. These original explorers paved the way for other pioneers. The first waves were the Gypsie's, the individuals, the characters, and the Johnny Hucksters by the score. Dudes looking for adventure led the way, and the families came along later.
It wasn't until after the initial explorations into Indian territory that the elitists actively promoted the slaughter of the indigenous people. Faith based genocide; it was. The New Capitalists found easy money as they stripped the country of resources. Elitist historians think our history is war; true, a war to stamp out the heathen polytheists, in any form! A war on nature. A war on life. Always war. Always fear. Fear of an angry god that needs you to obey coercive authority. You know what, FTS.
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Plymouth Massachusetts became the first permanent European town in 1620, and other settlements began on the nearby east coast. The Puritans were a dominant force in the settlement, and despite escaping the clutches of tyrannical royalty in England, they then imposed a ridiculously restrictive theocracy on themselves when they got here. For instance, if you said a curse word and the authorities found out, you might get your tongue nailed to a board in the center of town. It was going to take a while for this place to be called "land of the free," with this christian albatross around our neck.
The tally ho of the English elitists became the westward ho of those disenchanted with the Puritans and the Royalists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thusly began the westward movement in this country. Starting in the 1630’s, pioneers emigrated from Plymouth and Boston Massachusetts, and after that the religious zealots fanned out among the countryside looking for towns that would support and sponsor their "ministry".
Truthfully, I realize many preachers started their own towns for the captive audience that ensued, and that is part of history. They were portrayed as great Pioneers. They were actually instilling people with fear and damnation, and it kept them employed. There was always one religious sect or another trying to capture your mind and control your town.
Eventually, the preachers asked, do we worship the Creator or the Creation? Most preachers seemed to think we must worship God and to hell with the animals and trees. Forests and babbling brooks and a countryside filled with animals. It’s not reality they insist. We must bow down to the creator they implore.
He's so big we can't see him.
Things were different with the freedom loving, non-Puritan pioneers, who were agriculturally independent and self-sufficient working slobs ruled by good spirits and kindness. They were not puppets of a conquering tyranny or Lemmings following absurd theocratic philosophies. Remember that dinner party libruls when you say the pioneers were racist genocidal maniacs.
Before Plymouth and Boston, there was the first settlement of English-Europeans at Jamestown Virginia. The indentured white servants of the wealthy English were supposed to hold down the fort during the winter but were missing the next spring when a fresh new crop of rich preppies came to rule them. All that was left of the settlement of Jamestown was a note that said ’Gone to Croatan,’ that was carved in the tree. Croatan were nearby Native Americans.
In 1631, stifling and stultifying governments around the world led many of its citizens to look for new homelands. Wethersfield, Hartford and Windsor became known as the Connecticut Colony and this was a good area for those wishing to work their craft and live honestly.
It wouldn’t be long and there would be 50 different sects and religions in the colonies. It was a pity the pesky Puritan preachers promoted patriarchal platitudes, and these vultures were always looking for cowering, fearful, suspicious people to brainwash. Like todays Republicans.
Most of the population paid lip service to the preachers who were whipping up an anti-native frenzy. The new world was filled with heathens, the population was warned from the pulpits of hate, and a popular T-shirt back then in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.”
They used scare tactics suggesting these Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start, and encouraged their parishioners to kill as many as possible. Seriously, WWJS?
Encouraged by a Podunk Chief whose tribe was settled on the east side of the Connecticut River, settlers explored the west side of the Connecticut River and found a Dutch trading post there in 1632 at the future site of Wethersfield. In 1633, the first permanent settlement was built in Windsor. In 1634, Wethersfield became the first incorporated town and in 1635, an area between the two towns, Hartford was founded. Wethersfield, Windsor and Hartford commingled in trade and held town meetings, and in 1639 banded together into what they called, "One Publick state or commonwealth".
Unbeknownst to today’s pious hypocrites, Wethersfield settlers were about trade and not religion. The Podunks were looking for friends and allies.
Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
He created what has been praised as the first practical constitution to declare, "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people."
Also at that time, in 1636, Roger Williams said the king had no right to claim native lands and he was banished for his efforts. He went south to Rhode Island where he started his own colony through legal means, purchasing land from the Narragansets at fair value.
By 1662, the Connecticut Colony was a proud and thriving region. The Wethersfield Red Onion was getting known around the world and was a superlative cash crop. The locally elected Governor sailed across the Atlantic to see the King of England. The governor and the king had a splendid time, and along with extending the Connecticut Colony borders to the Pacific Ocean, he legalized the Fundamental Orders of 1639. It was the most liberal document ever approved by an English monarch, ever; anywhere.
Remember the English counted India, Africa, Hong Kong and many other places as part of their empire. The sun never sets, remember? On the British Empire. Now 61 countries have Independence Day to deter the colonialism of the past.
Things went well for another 25 years as people peacefully farmed fertile flood lands in the Connecticut River Valley. Their only government was the monthly town meetings that were guided by the spirit of The Fundamental Orders of 1639. In the mid 1680’s one of the first sparks of revolutionary fervor burned right in my old hometown of Wethersfield. A previously unprecedented defiance, they succeeded in their refusal to pay a five-pound fine, which was imposed on them by the Royal Courts. They held a public election and voted in favor of not paying and this was a form of anarchy, thwarting government.
Feisty, independent and developing a fervent civic pride, the Connecticut Colony did not kowtow or patronize British leadership. Moreover, yes, they excluded many from voting but the evolution of personal liberty had to begin somehow, and it had to begin somewhere. Many Third World countries are hundreds of years behind us in understanding the notion that all people deserve freedom and liberty, so give these patriots a break.
The Connecticut Colony was mostly taking care of themselves, and they enjoyed unprecedented economic freedom. This was something new. It was anarchy in a sense because of the completely decentralized nature of authority. Don't get in the way of chimney and fence inspectors, and if there were no religious kooks in the neighborhood, you could get by pretty well if you were good at storing crops for the winter and could get a load of firewood piled up in time.
So anyhow, years went by and the new king found this self-rule, this unity without hierarchy, this … freedom, was absolutely outrageous. He appointed his own governor who went to Wethersfield to proclaim his royal authority while trying to invalidate the Fundamental Orders. Apparently, the town narcoleptic fell asleep at the main table and knocked the candles over as the Crown appointed governor, Edmund Andros, went to take the document. When the candles were relit, Andros was stunned that the charter, the original copy of the Fundamental Orders that was in plain view, had disappeared even though no one had left the meeting!
Tradition states that the Charter was thrown out the window to someone who traveled on horseback from the meeting place at the Wethersfield Cove to be hidden in an oak tree on a hill near the Hog River, a small creek near the Connecticut River in Hartford and site of the current capital building. The Redcoats could search homes and possessions but would be hard pressed to figure out where else it was hidden, like in a tree.
As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority, and it is carved into this arch.
America is an example of how coercive authority was given the boot. No messing around like the Third World Half Men that kowtow to illegitimate authority. Many people in many countries need to just grow a backbone and fight for their family and their future. Stop coming to America because the gravy boat can only sink. Men that allow tyranny or fascist and obnoxious zealotry should be ashamed of themselves for not speaking up. We need to learn from the freedom-seeking activists of the Connecticut Colony so many years ago, and be inspired by their charter of freedom called the Fundamental Orders.
In time, a cult developed on the hidden document. Someone hid it and kept it hidden. The infamous tree became known as the Charter Oak. The tree, a white oak, was huge and hollow. It was reputed to be 33 feet in its circumference at the base but was blown down in a hurricane in 1856. When I wrote the original story of the Charter Oak in the Bicentennial year of 1976, my idea was to show the fire in the belly the original settlers in Wethersfield possessed.
After a couple hundred years, Wethersfield citizens became complacent, with the “old families” running the Bored of Education and ruling other functions. Stuffy aristocrats you just wanted to slap upside the head. The story of the Fundamental Orders and the Charter Oak is the story of the roots of our eventual American Independence and not some Puritan fairy tale.
They did not want to be toadies to royalty, and independence burned in their hearts, and this spirit moved with the pioneers. Kissing feet and rings and kowtowing profusely was not on their agenda and they were less enamored with the clergy than you are led to believe by TV.
Interestingly, about fifteen years ago, the U.S. Mint allowed states to design quarters and Connecticut chose to use a representation of the Charter Oak, Rockin‘! The story goes even deeper and the following is from Wikipedia, “The Dutch explorer Adrian (or Adriaen) Block described, in his log in 1614, a tree, at the future site of Hartford, understood to be the Charter Oak. In the 1630s, a delegation of local Indians approached Samuel Wyllys, the early settler who owned and cleared much of the land around it, were encouraging its preservation and describing it as planted ceremonially, for the sake of peace, when their tribe first settled in the area. “This tree has been the guide of our ancestors for centuries as to the time of the planting our corn; when the leaves are the size of a mouse’s ears, then is the time to put the seed into the ground.”
Corn was easily their most important crop because it could be saved for lean times and crop failures. Important to note is that the local “Indians” knew that this tree was planted ceremoniously in the name of peace three hundred years previous and I find this fairly amazing and an example of our Native American pagans and what was sacred to them.
This Charter Oak has a much deeper meaning and deeper roots than I realized. The tree’s beginning was actually in the 1400’s when the Oak was born and began to grow. When the tree was 20 years old or so, it was ceremoniously consecrated to be THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the open gap in the trunk of thetree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s.
A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree!
Fourth of July is a lot more than waving flags to me and this story had its original inspiration from the Bicentennial in 1976. The ideas of the Revolutionary Era should remind us not to take our freedoms for granted. Today’s Moral High Ground Hypocrites, the religious right and the alt-right and the not quite right, and are all about power, not liberty, and they have more power than numbers.
Not all of our oppressors are hiding in caves plotting our destruction. The Christians have been trying to create a theocracy for nearly forty years now, and they think they are in control with the alt-right coup of our United States.
If America is ever taken over, I know I will create my own fundamental orders and fight with others to regain our freedom, we all would. Whether it's Nancy Pelosis gay police that are going to take your guns away, or some theocracy led by a hallucinating pastor who sees demons everywhere, we got to be ready for a loony toons fascist coup
All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old. For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy.
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Also at that time, in 1636, Roger Williams said the king had no right to claim native lands and he was banished for his efforts. He went south to Rhode Island where he started his own colony through legal means, purchasing land from the Narragansets at fair value."
"By 1662, the Connecticut Colony was a proud and thriving region. The Wethersfield Red Onion was getting known around the world and was a superlative cash crop. The locally elected Governor sailed across the Atlantic to see the King of England. The governor and the king had a splendid time, and along with extending the Connecticut Colony borders to the Pacific Ocean, he legalized the Fundamental Orders of 1639."
"As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority."
" THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the tree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s. A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree! "
"All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old. For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy."
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NEW SQUARE DEAL
A NEW SQUARE DEAL. Not a New Green Deal. People aren't buying it. Progressives and Independents want to separate themselves the best we can from the virtue signalers; the obsessive, single-issue city slicker liberals.
And we can live without bile-filled, bilge mongering GOP. They muddy the waters so you can't see how shallow they are. They got nothing.
The Dinner Party Liberals ruined the Green party. Milquetoast magas have allowed the devolvers of right wing fascism into leading THEM.
You know what Democrats; abortion, immigration and gay exuberance are not the hills we want to die on. The workers revolution(equality for all and safety on the job), the earth, and fighting fascism can be our three-legged stool instead. Something to unite the good people on both sides.
The conservative three-legged stool is christian nationalism, anti-communist paranoia, and an authoritarian worship to keep the rabble in line. I've worked with thousands of people in three corners of the United States. It's a handful of freaks making all the noise.
So what we do is this, we consume the Green party since they are on the ballot in 47 states. A third party to light a fire under the ass of the languid liberals and ridiculous right wingers. The Independent majority needs to be heard as we once were.
The Progressive Era was 1894 to 1914. In the 1912 election all three presidential candidates called themselves Progressives. M'kay? Not a Deep State but deeply troubled men, unable to never have enough, fought back with the federal reserve and the Great Depression. Today Conservatives have embraced Mussolinis corporatism and are the ones trying to invalidate and roll back the "Square Deal" and the "New Deal."
We need to show right wing workers who has their back. Pull them out of the Fox News entertainment bubble and let them embrace the idea of being Independent. And let the Green party embrace Independents and disallow companies with shareholders and push the issues in US 250. GREENHAMMER: US 250
Who has their back? Not the bankers, or tech giants and certainly not the GOP. A third party for the rest of us. Non-profit banking, an internet for people, and a fierce third party that will deal with the issues that affect 80% of us. When we are all standing in line at 7-11. We're all workers or citizens.
All we have to do is start running Progressive candidates as Green party. From here on we work on the platform committee. More railroad signals and less virtue signaling. Many millions of us are rural/suburban. There were four farms on my street as a child. An Interstate was built over it in 1963. Most of us know growth has to stop somewhere.
The American Progressive Party from Facebook in 2022 or so. “We of the American Progressive Party seek government accountability; an end to wars of aggression, a vibrant economy including living wage jobs, sustainable environments, social justice and constitutional rights for all.” Kind of makes Liberals look lame and Conservatives look ...lame.
Let's go back in time to the days of yesteryear.
Here’s some scattershot of what the Progressive Party was. It became the nexus of change, forcing corporations of that era to start following rules. They had proven they really couldn’t be trusted.
Progressive Platform of 1912(100+ years ago)
THE BULL MOOSE PARTY
"The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national problems, has called into being a new party (the Bull Moose Party), born of the nation’s sense of justice. We of the Progressive party here dedicate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us to maintain the government of the people, by the people and for the people whose foundations they laid."
I might add the guiding principle of liberty. The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people.
"We hold with Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln that the people are the masters of their Constitution, to fulfill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who, by perversion of its intent, would convert it into an instrument of injustice. In accordance with the needs of each generation the people must use their sovereign powers to establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice, to secure which this Government was founded and without which no republic can endure."
"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Its resources, its business, its institutions and its laws should be utilized, maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general interest of the people.”
REMEMBER, THIS WAS WRITTEN IN Nineteen 12.
THE OLD PARTIES
"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.
From these great tasks, both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
We resolve to destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics. and the first task for the statesmanship of the day.
The deliberate betrayal of its trust by the Republican party, the fatal incapacity of the Democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time, have compelled the people to forge a new instrument of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions.
Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed by the magnitude of the task, the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses, to build a new and nobler commonwealth."
“A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE
This declaration is our covenant with the people, and we hereby bind the party and its candidates in State and Nation to the pledges made herein.”
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Amazing how relevant the Progressive Party at that time seems to us here in 2026. The Green Party is like a fish flopping on the dock. Trying to stay alive, despite having the progressive message that a majority of Americans agree with on justice issues. Unfortunately, these are city people who go into the woods on their vacation. Most of us grew up near woods that were being cut down for development.
Us rural/suburbans are the majority now. The quiet ones. We just keep working. Give and give and give till we give out. We keep the small businesses going in our medium sized towns and cities despite burdensome property taxes and a labyrinth of a tax code.
Independents are now a vast majority but have nowhere to call home. I’ve known very few Republican or Democrat loyalists, most people I’ve met during a long and varied work career didn’t belong to a party.
You see, if there are only two parties, then one of these two will always have the power. So, our politics has become this battle between these two Machiavellian, milquetoast, malcontent parties and their crooked herd dogs, the attorneys.
Don’t let them fool you. To the Democrats, the poor are their charges, their responsibility to manage. Managed liberty. If you don’t own anything, you can receive indigent care. They'll make sure of that. Your not owning anything, that is.
Some people have a good asset but can’t work and therefore don't qualify for various benefits.
They don’t really want to work at solving the poverty crisis. The Republicans are the country club elite, and they are lackeys that carry water for the world oligarchs. Nothing you can do as they look right past you.
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.”
“Come York or come Hampshire, come traitors or knaves,
If ye rule o’er our land ye shall rule o’er our graves
Our vow is recorded, our banner unfurled,
IN THE NAME OF VERMONT WE DEFY ALL THE WORLD”
The Green Mountain Men of Vermont
The New Square Deal takes the battle royale of class warfare to the town square. A NEW SQUARE DEAL. Is it the New Deal or Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal? It’s a combination of both of these successful socialist initiatives. What the fascists have been trying to kill for over a hundred years. The fountainhead of the right wing brainwashing and media control.
FROM WIKIPEDIA "The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal."
Listen, the Green Party is pretty cool, and I have been registered Green Party in my county since 1994. My small business is called The Garden Green and I promote green gardening and nature friendly landscaping processes, while focusing on pollinators. Sometimes gardening, always green. The Green Party can be successfully bring a challenge to the two lame parties. But they need to shift from being dinner party liberals, professional students and chalkboard Utopiasts to working class. Pink and Blue collar. .
The Green New Deal hits people wrong, right at the start. They might vote for the Green Party if it can get a better focus on the workers situation. People hear the word green and they immediately go to socialism or communism. The dim bulbs of America are totally obsessed with communists and so to remove that taint, I suggest we use a bit of the New Deal with Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal and make it The Square Deal. The New Square Deal.
To once and for all create a covenant for all Americans, for all time, to protect them. Safeguards to protect them instead of allowing a permanent underclass to develop as is happening today. This is the hill we could die on. Not abortion or immigration or ABCDEQUALITY.
We can be like the Green Mountain Men and fight for what we want to preserve. They took up arms to keep their independence just before the Revolutionary War. New Hampshire and New York were buying land and fought to take over Vermont. Vermont held them off and remained free. 10 years later they became a rowdy contingent in George Washingtons army. As an ally. Because they were a country they named the Republic of Vermont. (1777-1791)
Many greens have no connection to the divine and that’s fine with them, who cares and why waste your time they ask? The simple fact is that the greatest generation and their youthful lackeys and apologists have done 7 generations of resource extraction in one and that’s bad in itself, but to say that a deity told them the earth was theirs to plunder, is simply, stunningly re****ed. No offense of course. Then they see pagans wearing antlers or flowers 
and dancing till dawn and they shake their head and continue down their lonely atheist road.
Theodore Roosevelt speech after he got shot in 1912
“Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who attacks with such foul slander and abuse any opponent of any other party; and now I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.”
“Now, friends, I am not speaking for myself at all, I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap.
I have had a good many experiences in my time and this is one of them. What I care for is my country. I wish I were able to impress upon my people -- our people, the duty to feel strongly but to speak the truth of their opponents. I say now, I have never said one word against any opponent that I cannot defend. I have said nothing that I could not substantiate and nothing that I ought not to have said -- nothing that I -- nothing that, looking back at, I would not say again.
I regard this incident as compared with the great issues at stake in this campaign, and I ask it not for my sake, not the least in the world, but for the sake of common country, that they make up their minds to speak only the truth, and not use that kind of slander and mendacity which if taken seriously must incite weak and violent natures to crimes of violence. Don't you make any mistake. Don't you pity me. I am all right. I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.
And now, friends, this incident that has just occurred - this effort to assassinate me- emphasizes to a peculiar degree the need of the Progressive movement. Friends, every good citizen ought to do everything in his or her power to prevent the coming of the day when we shall see in this country two recognized creeds fighting one another, when we shall see the creed of the "Havenots" arraigned against the creed of the "Haves." When that day comes then such incidents as this to-night will be commonplace in our history. When you make poor men - when you permit the conditions to grow such that the poor man as such will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they improperly have won, when that day comes, the most awful passions will be let loose and it will be an ill day for our country.
“ Theodore Roosevelt
Remainder of Progressive Party platform 1912
THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE
The National Progressive party, committed to the principles of government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people, pledges itself to secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the several States and of the United States as shall insure the representative character of the government.
NATION AND STATE
Up to the limit of the Constitution, and later by amendment of the Constitution, it found necessary, we advocate bringing under effective national jurisdiction those problems which have expanded beyond reach of the individual States.
It is as grotesque as
it is intolerable that the several States should by unequal laws in matter of common concern become competing commercial agencies, barter the lives of their children, the health of their women and the safety and well being of their working people
for the benefit of their financial interests.
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
The Progressive party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike.
Yet it was Eight more years, till women could vote.
PASSED IN 1920, America partially emerges from third world conditions!
CURRENCY
We believe there exists an imperative need for prompt legislation for the improvement of our National currency system. We believe the present method of issuing notes through private agencies is harmful and unscientific.
END THE FED 114 years ago? Kill it in the cradle.
The issue of currency is fundamentally a Government function and the system should have basic principles such as soundness and elasticity. The control should be lodged with the Government and should be protected from domination or manipulation by Wall Street or any special interests.
CONSERVATION
The natural resources of the Nation must be promptly developed and generously used to supply the people�s needs, but we cannot safely allow them to be wasted, exploited, monopolized or controlled against the general good.
We heartily favor the policy of conservation, and we pledge our party to protect the National forests without hindering their legitimate use for the benefit of all the people.
Agricultural lands in the National forests are, and should remain, open to the genuine settler. Conservation will not retard legitimate development. The honest settler must receive his patent promptly, without hindrance, rules or delays.
We believe that the remaining forests, coal and oil lands, water powers and other natural resources still in State or National control (except agricultural lands) are more likely to be wisely conserved and utilized for the general welfare if held in the public hands.
In order that consumers and producers, managers and workmen, now and hereafter, need not pay toll to private monopolies of power and raw material, we demand that such resources shall be retained by the State or Nation, and opened to immediate use under laws which will encourage development and make to the people a moderate return for benefits conferred.
In particular we pledge our party to require reasonable compensation to the public for water power rights hereafter granted by the public.
Natural resources, whose conservation is necessary for the National welfare, should be owned or controlled by the Nation.
GOOD ROADS
We recognize the vital importance of good roads and we pledge our party to foster their extension in every proper way, and we favor the early construction of National highways. We also favor the extension of the rural free delivery service.
GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OVER INVESTMENTS
The people of the United States are swindled out of many millions of dollars every year, through worthless investments. The plain people, the wage earner and the men and women with small savings, have no way of knowing the merit of concerns sending out highly colored prospectuses offering stock for sale, prospectuses that make big returns seem certain and fortunes easily within grasp.
We hold it to be the duty of the Government to protect its people from this kind of piracy. We, therefore, demand wise, carefully thought out legislation that will give us such Governmental supervision over this matter as will furnish to the people of the United States this much-needed protection, and we pledge ourselves thereto.
CONCLUSION
On these principles and on the recognized desirability of uniting the Progressive forces of the Nation into an organization which shall unequivocally represent the Progressive spirit and policy we appeal for the support of all American citizens, without regard to previous political affiliations." END. PROGRESSIVE PARTY 1912
Progressive Party Platform of 1912 | The American Presidency Project
NOT THE GREEN DEAL BUT A NEW SQUARE DEAL
It’s the Balrog! Beezledoom!
Before that, they objected to bringing electricity to rural areas, I'm sure.
The skint bastards that squeeze a penny so hard, it makes Lincoln cry.
Now I’m not a fan of big government, but I enthusiastically applaud the effort of the Democratic Socialists at that time who built a remarkable road often at heights of 3000 feet or more. The area is nearly unspoiled, and the Blue Ridge Parkway has minimized the loss of habitat for the wild things.
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“The founding revolutionaries excoriated and eviscerated religions creepy grasp on the
VITAL ENERGY OF DEMOCRACY,
when they started the United States.”
a) The Sky is Falling
b) The Vital Energy of Democracy
c) The is no religion in the marketplace
d) Dog Whistles
e) Donut Shop Pundits
f) Who are the White People?
g) Intractable Dilemma
h) The Meek are now the Enlightened
Here we go, we're buckled in and the ride into the future has started. You can go numb and pretend nothing is happening or participate in the fun we are going to have making history and invalidating injustice.
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If the Constitution of the United States were embedded in all our hearts, this secret world of surveillance and spying would not exist. In addition, these unconstitutional foreign wars wouldn't have wasted safety net and infrastructure money.
What we have had since World War Two is right-wing authoritarianism run amok with American foreign policy. A black budget CIA doing things we would never vote for. Then we have capitalist opportunism gone wild as it began running roughshod on the domestic economy crushing all the small markets.
Amoral Chicken Hawks getting your kids to fight in their paranoid wars since WW2. Meanwhile, numerous countries in the Middle East have been bombed into rubble, much to the delight of those with stocks in American bomb-making facilities and mega-developers such as Dick Cheney's Halliburton.. Lookin' at you Boomers.
When you see the Afghanistan veteran with one leg, remember your comfortable position in life with your war stocks was a trade off you accepted with the reality of war and the casualties that occurred and causalities that ensued.
Regime change in Libya was abhorrent in my view, and it's why I could not find any enthusiasm for Hillary in 2016. Nobody could, she couldn’t even attract a disinterested cynicism and was in favor of a war of any sort. Totally Bernie or Bust.
There was also a clotted nothingness to her, not to mention the bill baggage. How did we end up with two international crooks as the best two candidates that year has been my question? Then Bernie got totally snowballed in 2020 as Bidens tepid campaign continued even as Bernie suspended his campaign because of Covid Cluster concerns with the crowds.
Biden didn't have to worry about that since there has never really been crowds for Biden. No primary in 2024. What a joke.
There was the corporate invasion of Iraq which proceeded for 13 years with virtually no antiwar effort, once the wars began. Therefore, in 2009 as the wars droned on, Obama appeased the right wingers by keeping up with their wars. If he had quickly wound down the two wars after becoming president, the rest of his presidency would have been all about what a coward he was. How he couldn't stand up to terrorism.
This is how the GOP works, even after 13 years, members of the GOP say we should still be in Iraq. Hedging their bets on many issues, getting nothing done. Both parties thinking it was all right to stay in Afghanistan for 16 years. these politicians and the warrior elites have spent ungodly amounts of money as war without end became popular.
Boomers appreciated how well their war stocks were doing, "Space Program," their broker told them.
President Obama somehow got his footing in the quicksand of Republican incontinence, and he salvaged George "Cheney" Bush’s wars, acting more like a republican than a republican. I called Obama the best republican president since Eisenhower and Obama is sometimes called George Bush the Third." Where is the party for peace? 300 million guns and we can't protect ourselves? Accept we are a nation filled with guns and the CIA doesn't need a secret 35 billion dollar budget! WTH! Now what do we do?
Some white people seem obsessed with cleanliness and order, especially order. As my Facebook bio says, "White people have become sociologically inbred with their faith in authoritarian excess." Unless it's a test range for bombs and weapons, then hell, the messier the better. ⇛ ⇒
Show them who's boss.
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As a youth, I would often note "Columbus didn't discover anything," and I would add, "the Indians were already here." People actually responded with, “you know, the first civilized people." This benighted behavior, 'donut from bile spewing haters are turning out to be far more dangerous than supposed, and their verbal bilge more prevalent than I ever realized.
There haven’t been many people as deeply and severely critical of white people as me in many of my past essays, and conversations with people about the sham of Manifest Destiny. Therefore, I am going to tackle the white supremacy problem prepared for disagreements from all sides, because this is one of those volatile and polarizing issues we can't talk about with few issues we can agree on.
2022 ed. note Conniving hucksters on both sides pushing their agenda while Independents attempt to find a consensus. 20% are conservatives and 20% identify as Liberal which leaves 60% as independents and if these independents voted for independent candidates, the right or the left wouldn't be fighting for a majority. The Independents would be a majority. Independents vote by the issue, not the party line. Why is our news about whose got the most votes? It should be about how the two parties stifle competition.
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Trust me; there are scarier aspects to this whole alt-right problem that people don't even see yet. First of all, as I update this piece a bit, what has happened in 2017-9 is white MALE supremacy. I'm trying to put a fresh perspective on this issue and I want to help us all understand how to read between the lines with these people. The red hats who speak in riddles and dog whistles. All they have are vulgarisms and terrorism. Nothing for workers or families or markets in poor areas.
"Are you a white supremacist?" is the question that popped up in the break room one day. In the mind of the White Nationalist he is thinking that he is a white MALE supremacist, which is different, so he says no and this is one way they avoid answering direct questions, and this is how they lie in your face. They lie to themselves first.
Who are these white people, and is it worth the time to refute their walls of fallacious arguments? They bombard good facebook pages with nonsense. They got their screwy fanaticism and flag fetishism and if protestors come up their driveway, they are ready to mow them all down like zombies
Their evolving coup of the United States government is 40 years in the making, even 60 years going back to the founding of the JBS. John Birch Society. I trace it back to 1946, 78 years ago, and the Nazis who were pardoned and brought into our government. Our foreign policy became rooted in the fear of communism, instead of the actual threat. Creeping Naziism.
Stupid Bigly forced their hand, and today in 2020 we have apparatchiks encouraging t***p to declare Martial Law. Then the Gravy Seals invasion of Congressional buildings in 2021. Because why?
Misguided but motivated, Christian militants in the early 80's announced their plans to "put as many Apocalypticists as possible in the military and police." Their plan was out in the open at first. God is coming and so is the end of the world. They are yearning for Armageddon, and you have to wonder if there is some mental illness at work here. Maybe even demon possession.
"No one can know the time" said a Pentacostal girlfriend referring to the Second Coming...."but soon," she assured me back in 1976.
Back then, I would point out to people that ... intending to create Armageddon via our military was Treason. "Aw they're not serious." So, there I was, "the sky is falling" again. Yet here we are many years lateT***p moves the embassy to Jerusalem because the evangelicals told him it was prophecy.
Fox News is the ultimate KKKool-aid and brainwashing tool for far too many white people. Mind control candy. GOP politicians are probably the most despicable demographic going, but, on the other side, the cultural appropriation nonsense needs to be dealt with also.
On the other hand, those gender issues that the city slicker liberals have gotten themselves mired in, that rural people could really give a shit less about, have stolen the narrative. Hard fought, pyrrhic victories for simple equality based on our Constitution, while the rich get richer and most of the rest of us are now leading lives of quiet desperation. The middle class has shrunk from 60% of the population to 30% as a result of trickle-down economics. 50% of Boomers have no savings and live on the edge of survival.
These are battles that shouldn't have to be fought were it not for the snowflake conservatives and their moral high ground hypocrisy. Marriage equality? Check the Constitution. Americans have the ninth Amendment to protect themselves from the regressive ideocracy that is emerging.
On the other hand, I am at my wit's end trying to understand what I can and can’t do and say, with this extreme City Slicker Liberal agenda. There are so many things I can't talk about any more, and not just the Polish jokes.
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Either way, if we play this right, we can uproot the neo-liberal people in power.
The dingleberries clinging by a hair to their illegitimate authority. The congealing Oligarchy guiding the hapless peasants who only know how to obey ... is not going to be the story.
I know the American Constitution has all the freedoms that I love, but I am also the last person who wants to insult someone about their culture. So one of my kin picks up a shirt from Africa about Africa and then she has to worry about offending someone when she wears it back here in Florida? How crazy is that?
Independent thinking people are beginning to be concerned about this dumbed down mob rule. Political correctness needs me to identify with “my” cultural group instead of considering myself, a… global citizen? One problem for me is that I've been appropriating Yoga for over 45 years now and I am absolutely in shock that I have been insulting people by appropriating their culture!
Do I follow “white” customs only now? Am I white enough though, to do an Irish jig?
Did you know "paddy" is a slur against Irish people! It never ends, all these slurs and insults. Luckily the Irish don't give a shit.
What can I dress my child up as for Halloween with all this noise about cultural appropriation? This is how this whole article started.
Am I white enough to drink tea at Tea Time without insulting someone? Political correctness is like six million band aids when just a bit of surgery is what is needed. Honesty surgery to the body politic. Out of many...one. UNITED states. United people. god has nothing to do with it. God is the problem here, not the solution.
Would my southern Mediterranean self be insulting the pasty white northerners from England and Ireland if I appropriate their customs? Am I the right kind of white? Is there a wrong kind of white? Holy shit, I'm getting confused!
What if my DNA profile shows I’m from Egypt or India? Quite a few people thought my dad looked like Anwar Sadat and I look like my dad. The point I am going to try to make is that some of us are going to use whatever we damn well please from whatever culture we want to.
"Life is tough, get a helmet" Dennis Leary.
B} THE VITAL ENERGY OF DEMOCRACY
One prism of understanding the American Constitution is when you can comprehend why we don't put the Ten Commandments on court building walls, as fervent christian zealots want. As I said before, the founding revolutionaries excoriated and eviscerated religions creepy grasp on the VITAL ENERGY OF DEMOCRACY in the United States as best they could. Clergy has been coercive for five hundred years in America and their corrosive scare tactics have about run their course. 500 years with not a single demon produced. All they have are unprovable myths, death threats and military grade weapons. I'm trying to get inside the bubble and show them the frailty of their initiative. Faith has no legs.
The Founding Documents is where the actual spirit of Liberty was born. The Founding Revolutionaries were most decidedly in favor of the separation of church and state, and Liberty was the Vanguard of the Revolution, not the bible. Jefferson showed his scorn for the clergy by making a Jesus Bible that deleted all the miracles but kept the commonsense kindness.
The one constant that all the founding revolutionaries believed, was that religion was too often a corrupting influence on government, and they were determined to keep the clergy at arm’s length in this new country they eventually called The United States.
Freedom of religion was to protect YOU, from ANY coercive majority religion. The forced conversions of islam and christianity was foremost in the FOUNDERS thoughts with the bloodthirsty Ottoman Empire actively rampaging into Europe, and the Christian Inquisition still in the news in the late 1700's when the American Revolution occurred.
It could be Quakers or Hindus 500 years from now. No religion, period, insisted the Founding Revolutionaries.
EVER! Got it? Christians creating an anti-liberty and anti-freedom judicial precedence.
This was truly on their minds as the founding documents were drawn up. No invisible ruler in the United States. End of story. Now the Supreme Court is packed with these kooks.
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I don't want police cars to say In God we Trust. I don’t want them to say In Allah we Trust either, a hundred years from now, or in Krishna we trust three hundred years from now, if you get what I’m saying. When our gracious islamic brothers and sisters want to kneel and pray 5 times a day at work or in the public commons, I have every right to object to this practice. because I think banning prayer in the common spaces would be covered by the Ninth Amendment which is guided by judicial precedence.
Your constitutional rights end where mine begin. Keep your prayers in your pants and don't wave them around in public. Hey, I can pray five times a day too, and I guarantee you, it is disconcerting to hear my freedom of religion, because I pray to my Metal Gods at full volume.
Guess what? The best way to keep Sharia Law out of this country is to keep Biblical Law out of our Laws and Statutes and Ordinances. Take “In God We Trust” off our money, for crying out loud.
Stop forcing politicians to use the Bible, for Christs sake, for oath swearing, are you kidding me? We are not one nation under god. We are many united as one. Sharia Law can only gain a foothold if knucklehead republicans insist on encoding Biblical Law. Leave shit alone! You Lost to the Secular Enlightenment.
My thing is that we aren't colors, genders,
Instead, think of all of us as workers, voters, citizens, and children. Uniting as workers would be a simple thing but no one is doing it. Wait, hold my beer.
Before this foray into the white people controversies, I want it known I love everybody. Well, not really. There's a meme that goes "somebody out there loves you. Not me, but somebody must."
Vanishing cultures around the world say, "Hey we had a fine system here before Columbus came along; didn't need y'all."
Tens of millions of Native Americans died from smallpox and other diseases brought by the POS conquistadors in the 1500's, even before Virginia was invaded in 1609 by the British.
Colonialism by rich white people proceeded once the European Commons was absconded with, (it takes money to make money), and then Industrial Capitalism came along and that destructive system has disrupted virtually every culture in the world since. Consumed the Market Socialism that had controlled commerce.
There were common area street markets that were free to use, there were mom and pop shops that knew their customers and household industry was producing the necessities of life in every community. This had worked with varying degrees of success since time immemorial and provided what was needed without filling our dumps and oceans with plastic trash and rusted bilge.
In years past, most white people were tyrannized by a local despot such as a Prince, Priest or Duke that parasitized off their industrious labor.
It's always been a sick strain of dogmatic religiosity and the notorious implementation of Manifest Destiny, that fueled this global empire. The gleeful clergy worm tonguing their way to power and influence.
Poor people inventing things, and the already rich making the profits. The workers revolution is a long time coming.
Europe was Pagan and White, and Africa was Pagan and black for 30,000 years. Eventually, Mecca became a great Pagan meeting place for polytheists of all colors to commingle, and there was no religion in that marketplace because Pagans didn't have wars over the gods and goddesses.
Religious people say the Pagans were corrupt and lawless during that period in Mecca before Mohammad. Read that as, having fun. Remember that Islam and Christianity basically started in the same neighborhood. These were crazy brown people getting all violent with the heat 'n shit. They became established near Jerusalem, Mecca and Constantinople and proceeded to kill each other all the time. THEN those crazy brown bastards invaded White Pagan Europe and Black Pagan Africa.
Back to this cultural appropriation nonsense. Culture is as important as climate and the two will clash, collide and confront. So, I ask myself, what is my culture? I find out I cannot have Dreads, hunt seals, or be a Buddhist monk or any of the 6,000 other things that non-whites do.
We cannot appropriate the customs of other cultures willy-nilly, say neo-liberal totalitarians, or we risk being publicly chastised and ostracized, it seems. The Liberal PC crowd is brainwashing its minions by saying white people have to like only white people stuff or be prepared to be corrected. Don't insult other cultures by copying their traditions, is the basis of the scolding.
Trying to run through the swamp here, just keep going. Don't get bogged down. 'Nobody is right if everybody is wrong'. Peace.
My favorite religious practice that I have found inspirational is a Pagan religion from Lithuania. It’s called Romuva today, but this ancient folk religion has ALWAYS been there as folk tradition, and importantly, Lithuania was the last European country to be christianized. Pagan traditions survived.
On Romuva forums though, I find out that they don’t want to know you, if you are not Lithuanian. I can't be authentic in their eyes, you know? Same thing with Native Americans and Nordic Pagans. They want to see blood.
Natives and Nordics often also similarly believe they are reincarnated within their family clan. But eternal skeptic that I am, if I say to someone that reincarnation couldn't possibly occur within a family or clan, people get miffed, they don't want to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZqZVunCb4
I have been attracted to Northern European Pagan traditions but have lived in the warmer part of the United States for half my life, in USDA zone nine, (Soon zone 10 with global warming), in both Florida and Arizona. but these Northern European rituals are not quite relevant for southern climates when our planting season starts in October and ends in April.
My thing is about bringing these northern European traditions down south and translating them into USDA zone 9/10 kind of stuff. Traditions that white, (read that not christian) Pagans had before the brown christians and brown islamics invaded Europe. Mediterranean people are brown because of black and white mixed.
The indigenous Europeans and Africans got invaded the same way the North American indigenous people got invaded, but historians won't point that out to you. it's all rah rah rah! Victory over savages. This is one of those hidden truths, their lies of omission. Pagans were slaughtered, their sacred places buried or destroyed by these invading brown hordes. These lunatic brown barbarians and their crazy religions, xlam and xianity.
NONE OF THE APOSTLES WERE WHITE, Remember? ffs
Before all that mess, there was the kind prophet from the Essene People nearly 2,000 years ago. He was an anomaly at the time, preaching about peace and freedom and being good to our neighbors and shit, and this is why Jesus became a viral celebrity after his death or disappearance. ⇎
People were digging it and hidden by historians, is the nature of Jesus' early followers.
Back then, the people were generally sick of all the coercion and bullshit rules they had to live by with Judaic Law and the generally fair, but randomly brutal and indiscriminate Pagan Roman rules. Jesus was the influence of Buddhism washing over into Europe.
Patriarchal forms of Christianity kept wedging themselves into the circle of truths discussed by Jesus and, eventually, they stole the vitalness of his energy as the years rolled on. Jesus was esteemed by women and slaves who were the early christians along with the other downtrodden in society. Looking for equality.The peaceful Essenes were his people. The Essenes refused to slaughter animals, live, in the common market for instance. The Essenes were also reputed to be vegetarians.
In years after the One died, the Gnostics believed in only Jesus, and they proclaimed that the old testament god was an imposter. A Poser. It became a battle between the energetic Gnostics and the Patriarchal Paulines, but the Gnostics got snitched out and outmaneuvered by the Paulines.
The Gnostics were the christians who were thrown to the Lions because the Paulines privately outed them to authorities. Christians killing their own by 200 A.D.
Here is where it gets dicey for me. I would like to ask, what in the heck IS white culture? We know we can’t say it. Can’t have a White television channel, that's ra’ist, right? So if I want to say I am extolling the best of what white culture could possibly be, that’s ra'ist once again. What is white culture anyhow, and how come I can't talk about it? How is it everyone else has a culture and I don't?
For that matter, I'm not a vet, or a biker, or a Rotarian, or affiliated with any group. I'm a UU, that's true. Thank God for them.
It seems that we can no longer even talk about white culture because the discussion of it is ra'ist and this is what the regular working folks are puzzled and pissed about. Everybody else exulting and exalting their particular cultures while white people have to shut the hell up because white culture represses all cultures. 😒 Weary of that shit.
Conservatives think black lives matter has charged the general atmosphere with racial division, when it is the patriarchal white system that has been sick for hundreds of years with the gangrenous pus of discrimination, division and exclusion, and the wounds that never heal.
Academia’s politically correct city slicker liberal says, if we "do things from other cultures, we are stealing from them" and that's how this newly concocted horror of cultural appropriation came to be.
Oppressed people laugh and say white culture is genocide and factories. However, they have yet to explain what white culture is. The Culture Police need to tell me the right way to do things, so you know, email me, you over credentialed eggheads.↭
From bullfighting in Spain, to Greek pottery, to Laplanders and their Reindeer, these are just a couple of the corners of European culture. But wait, my ancestors were from the Azores, and that is a whole 'nother corner of the world, out in the Atlantic. How are we even Europeans?
Recent discoveries of pre-Portuguese artifacts has me wondering who had these boats to travel that far, so long ago? The Phoenicians, the Polynesians? The ancient Iberians? Mali in Africa reportedly had an 800 ship Navy that sailed far and wide well before Columbus, so it was probably them or Vikings looking for warmer ports.
Don’t know when the original settlers got there, but the Azores are 900 miles out into the ocean, away from Europe. As part of Portugal, it's European, I reckon, and the Portuguese moved there in the 1500's.
My kin have been fishing and farming in the Azores for untold generations, and I am going to guess my poor ass peasant ancestors did not profit from the Portuguese slave trade. Chances are a local despot or clergy taxed their harvest bounty however.
Going back even further in time, it turns out that Jewish people civilized mainland Portugal about 1500 years ago and gave them a written language, and this was part of the evolution of Portuguese culture. This begs the question, are Jewish customs okay for me to use? Can I dress my child up as a Talmud Scholar on Halloween? Would Jewish people be offended? This whole article started as a Halloween skit. What can the children wear?
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Portugal has seen many migrations of Greek and Egyptian sailors the last 3000 years when it was known as Iberia.
So consider this, Portugal is actually closer to Mali in Africa than Norway in Europe. The Azores is closer to New Jersey than Greece. So needless to say I am scratching my head. ⇟
I am presumably white, yet the first Mexican to play American Major League Baseball, shared my last name, Mel Almada. Mexicans are brown right, derived from Spain? Spain is closer to Switzerland than The Azores. Therefore people from Spain cannot appropriate culture from Switzerland but I can, because Portuguese people are allegedly white and Spaniards are brown? What? They're not Hispanic? I'm getting confused!
Hispanic people can celebrate Cinco de Mayo with it's cultural link to Mexico, but French and Portuguese people cannot since that is cultural appropriation? But Spanish people can?We need some explanations here. I see this shit on Facebook, everybody yelling at each other and getting nowhere.
But that's what Liberals do. It can be called enlightened despotism, and its their intention that they are doing things for your own good. This is how Democrats absorb every good radical impetus into it's managed maw. Calm down radicals, we got this, say the Democrats, but they have been feckless, ineffectual do nothings who can't stand up to Neo-con bullying.
Three decades of feel good, gauzy nothingness that began when the Democrats couldn't counter the GOP "Contract on America" in 1995 or the Tea Party buffoons in 2010 and have been mute since, steadily losing governorships and state legislatures. Both major parties are broken down ships unfit for sailing into the future. Like two last place teams in the world series.
This is why it has to be third party or bust. ⥁
South of the Azores are the Madeira Islands that are primarily composed of black people. Further south than that, are the Canary Islands whose people were slaughtered into extinction by the Spanish who were freaked out by the very strange people they encountered there and they were immediately compelled to kill them all. WTF! Canary Island customs and language were barely preserved because of the ferocity of the Spaniards attack.
Spaniards were even more freaked out that the Canary Islanders were Brown people and not Black people seeing how far south they were. How could that be? It’s been speculated that the Catalans and Basques and other genetically isolated populations were scattered cultural remnants of Atlantis and were allegedly related to the mysterious Canary Islanders. http://www.ancient-atlantis.com/guanche/ Some say the Canary Islanders were from a pre-dynastic period in Eygpt.
Back to the beginning of the story then. What can I dress my child up as for Halloween with all this noise about cultural appropriation? All these insulted demographics. First, it seems people speaking for American Native Indians are the very most offended by cultural appropriation on Halloween. They are also the people I most admire so it's quite a conundrum. They've had enough, I get it.
But we are warned that Indian Princess is now out as a costume for Halloween unless you are 1/16th Native American. Or is it 1/8th? So many rules.
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I cannot honor their customs? Or do whatever I want with their celebrations and ceremonies? Am I not allowed to use dream catchers or play drums like Native Americans? Should I ake John Trudell off my Youtube playlists? The Native Americans are the true owners of this continent and my elemental self, bonds with their beliefs.
I can’t call myself Two Crows because I don’t have the genetic heritage? I fully understand that names of great respect are given to people who deserve it, and White Eagle is one such name.
When I used to live 15 miles from the O'odham People, I named my roommate Eagle that Walks with his 30/20 vision, and I was Heap big Four Eyes. You know, who cares.
One of the funniest notions from the politically correct cultural appropriation police, as I mentioned, is that even Yoga is now cultural appropriation! That's the one that made me realize that they are completely full of shit, and my eyes were finally fully opened to this Brainwashing.
The traditional stance of Liberals is managed Liberty. They rule us magnanimously “for our own good.” They help the poor for their own good. They imagine they are the salve in a sick world but its the economic system that needs a drastic re-engineering..
They will save the environment for the good of the planet they will say, but what they are actually doing is creating six-figure jobs for them and all their friends and eventually, a world regulatory body that a carbon tax would yield. You send money to preserve habitat and more than half of it goes to an elite white lollygagger and their do-gooder foundation.
Recently we've seen that every famous person in Washington has a son or daughter that works in the Ukraine. George Carlin's "its a big club and you're not in it" becomes more apparent every day.
Liberals want to create a carbon tax and a sprawling world bureaucracy so their compatriots all have six-figure jobs and their kids will have six-figure jobs as neo-Liberal institutions grow like coral colonies under the guise of saving everything. We have to be independent, we have to create a third party. Community based, general assembly. Call it the Independent Majority Party. Go ahead and steal the idea, as long as independents can start having a say to break up the Liberal Conservative logjam.
The problem is that we have reached the end of the line with managed liberty, enlightened despotism, and cronyism. We actually want anarchy, which is the absence of coercion.
We got it now. We know how to shop thriftily and knowledgeably. We are far more discerning now when it comes to what we eat and what we add to our lives. People know so much more today than they did 50 years ago, an awareness of many small but important daily issues such as food and hygiene.
But yoga is cultural appropriation? I don’t know what my Azorean ancestors did to stretch in the morning, but maybe the exercises were very much like Qi Gong or Yoga in their movements. Unfortunately, I will never know what exercises I am allowed to do because all the records of Azorean exercise have disappeared. No exercise tradition handed down.
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I am clearly not Chinese so my cheesy reinterpretations of Qi Gong mixed with Yoga are clearly insulting on so many levels. I add light weights and call it Yogaerobics. Life sucks. Get a helmet.
Meanwhile, what about that Halloween costume? Maybe my child can dress up as a Fish Monger or a Fish Mongers Wife since my children are Portuguese and French. They can rinse some Bacalhau (dried salted Cod), and carry it around since it’s said Portuguese people are able to tolerate the smell of rotting fish better than any other culture. "And what are you little boy?"
Then across the planet, what happens if some Saudi Arabian mother tells her child at Halloween time that he is not allowed to be a fishmonger since that would be a cultural appropriation from white people.
In India, there is a child pleading to his parents. “It is NOT cultural appropriation for me to dress in the style of the ‘Rockabilly culture’. Mother… I INSIST …it is my choice. Please listen to this and tell me you don’t feel the energy. I love Rockabilly!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZEt7J5RNs&list=PLD1018BBF28138B27&index=7
IT’S ALL RIDICULOUS AND WE KNOW IT.
Not Rockabilly but all this tight ass whining.
The word is that Newt Gingrich is going to have a new Un-American Activities Committee in the t***p administration and there will be money for his goons to investigate private citizens, but hypocritically, none for the Meals on Wheels program. Thank the gods the Orange Menace is gone.
The NSA can screen every email that discusses “secession” and you will find yourself under investigation. The white van with the tinted windows down the street listening to what you are talking about. (Heads up: they ditched the obvious and hot black vehicles.)
The FBI doing a background check on your son, taking pictures with their glasses cam. "Has he ever said anything bad about America?"
But right-wing deplorables go yeehaw whenever someone talks about Texas secession, so it would seem to me that we could talk about an anarchic secession all we want, with our First Amendment protections.
Vermont (The Republic of Vermont 1777-1791) has an active secessionist movement currently. In Canada, the very large province of Quebec has voted on separating from Canada but so far, they are remaining as part of the biggest country in the world. Quebec and Vermont united in an Anarchic state. Everything needed would be within the borders.
Lord knows the current situation in the United States is dire. The countries largest demographic, dumb white people, have opened the floodgates to all kinds of poorly educated kooks and deplorables and your well-educated white nationalists brainwashing whom they can. Can you believe it, the fucking Nazis!
After beating back white male authoritarianism for 50 years, it has come alive again like an alien popping out of Americas chest or something, with the electoral victory of Stupid Bigly.
2008 was one of Americas most difficult years as we were mired in the abyss of the two ill-conceived, unconstitutional wars and billion dollar businesses failing as the housing market crashed.
Don’t even mention reducing the military to anybody. Our foreign policy is about the 1,000-year-old Holy War between Islam and Christianity, and I am stunned people are oblivious to that fact. A new Counter-Revolution needs to happen against this religious right wing anti-communist kookism that has ran world affairs since World War 2.
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Regular folks created Rockabilly and its enthusiasm took over the world, along with surf music a few years later. We want to sing and dance and play rock and roll in the garage, nobody gives a shit about white supremacy and immigrants. Fuck your god and fuck your racism. This unconstitutional intrusion of being under god and in god we trust, needs to be dealt with. Elvis, Charley Parker and Buddy Holly are our triple gods. Poor people gonna do it again.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGE5GD4iRUkdlPR0Ai70EfNGFtKbfCzd
We are going to have a revolution in music to get the white people back on track. Rock and Roll was created by the fusion of black boogie-woogie and white hillbilly music and created the greatest art form the world has ever known. Some say Gospel and Bluegrass are the main influences. That’s right Rockabilly fathered rock and roll and they boogied all night long.
"I knew if I had the chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a while" The mission is to go into the heart of rural culture and de-program these bewildered hillbillies and the flummoxed flatlanders that voted for Stupid Bigly. I’m starting a Hillbilly band for the purpose of dancing but also commonality and consensus. Community Democracy inspired by the Black Panthers.
White liberals overcompensating with their white guilt will tell you black people invented rock and roll. It’s even racist to suggest otherwise. Rock and roll was invented when all the sub-genres of music came together, but particularly, boogie woogie and hillbilly music (which was kinda Bluegrass.)
Some people say Rocket 88 by Ike Turner is considered the very first rock and roll song in 1952. Some say rock around the clock in '54 was first, among others. However, I suggest the Delmore Brothers song "Hillbilly Boogie” in 1946. This is when hillbilly and boogie-woogie were fused together and the song was about playing the boogie-woogie on the guitar, instead of the piano. Hybrid vigor. That would make rock and roll over 75 years old.
Bluegrass, Blues, Western Swing, Boogie Woogie and Hillbilly music were streams that fed the river that became known as Rock and Roll. "If you don't want my Peaches, Honey, don’t shake my tree".
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGE5GD4iRUkdlPR0Ai70EfNGFtKbfCzd
All the streams for social justice and workers rights are currently flowing into one river. If it isn't directed it will flood everything with confusion as it has in the past.
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One of the first labor strikes was in 1834 by children demanding an 11-hour limit to the workday. Okay? Children. Since then, workers fought and died to work a 40-hour week and a weekend to look forward to, because nobody should be slaves. Companies don't own us, they employ us.
Newt Gingrich however, would have poor children work in their schools as janitors while the rich kids go to Sea Camp. Dignity for the worker voter citizen has not been embedded in our culture but it will be soon because that is how a workers revolution will work.
The 2 billion working poor in the world are suffering so the Donald tr***s of the world can have gold toilets. We have had about enough of their shit and the long-awaited worldwide worker's revolution is about to begin. Thanks to Stupid Bigly the workers now know the rich would crush them if they could. The only problem is white workers who have been voting against themselves during this Reagan Era of Greed.
White male supremacy operatives have wormed their way into our political, law enforcing, and educational systems with right-wing brainwashing. This is why an outreach is needed and why I am starting a Hillbilly band. Why we all need to reach into their fox ‘hole den and pull them out into the sunlight.
Other white people have maliciously maligned hillbillies and many of these mountain people are actually industrious and fun-loving redneck survivalists. They were Americana, you know, Rt 66 and everything uniquely American such as blues and rockabilly died as the Interstate Highways favored large corporations. Black farmers were foreclosed on then at black dudes were thwarted in their efforts to use the GI bill.
So today, because of all the fights for equality in the last 50 years, we are theoretically all on an equal footing. Unfortunately, cops are still racist, and the whole system is still toxic. It's sad to realize this, but the worst problem is white intolerance of Mexicans, witches, handicapped people, and just about every demographic going. I always thought they were the snowflakes since nearly everything makes them uncomfortable. What the hell is wrong with these people? Bricks in the wall of their refutable racism.
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One strategy by White Nationalists since 1960 was to make sure felons became unable to vote, and there are now 3 million black felons finding it difficult to get work and unable to vote. This is one of the reasons why Driving while Black can be a fatal enterprise. Even walking while black. Then the honkies say welfare is what broke up black families.
Many of us have been shocked that so much racism still exists. My old relatives are dead, my Unitarian brothers and sisters embrace all, even crazy me. My children are post-everything and I have learned a lot from them. My 7 customers are all jovial, nature loving people and we never discuss politics. So I am surrounded by kind loving people and I honestly don't hear bigotry anymore because I am about sick of nasty white people and won't go where they are.
I saw in my grandmother a person who was bigoted against blacks then finally realized, "every group of people has its good and bad." She even had a lawn jockey once upon a time. It seems that nearly everyone saw the absurdity of being racist in my lifetime and we were living liberty and justice for all from here on out. I don’t hear any racism anymore, honestly. I did hear the “he’s the wrong color” meaning white discrimination at Wal Mart the other day. I let those kind odd comments hang in the air like the rotten fruit they are.
The white enclaves known as the Fox News echo chamber continues to delude the trump humping bumpkins, the cock holsters of gangrenous greed and authoritarian excess.
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Thomas Jefferson is one of my 23 gods. Thank God, Biblical Law is not constitutional, or we would not have any freedoms at all. This is what the warriors for Christ do not seem to understand. Biblical Law and Sharia Law are kissing cousins and they would be the death of me, for heresy and blasphemy. Christian "Patriots" will be thanking God for atheists when Sharia Law finds they hit a stone wall anywhere they try to establish Sharia Law in the United States. Because the atheists were there fighting for the Constitution. Real patriots fighting for us right here in this country. Thank you for your service.
Thanks to the Founding Revolutionaries, we are given a shield to protect us from coercive religious authority, because otherwise, heretics would be in prison and gay witches would be dragged to the center of town and burned for entertainment. That really hurts you know, to be burned alive. Or scraped to death with clamshells like Pagan scholar Hypatia was by a christian mob.
The influence of Paganism is everywhere, and yet this word stirs up the ancient hatred, a brainwashing and induced delirium that has been going on for many hundreds of years, by the most fraudulent, illegitimate authority in history. I keep wondering when the right wing kooks are going to discover the millions of Pagans and Pagan tolerant and Pagan curious people there are in our country. You know booga booga, demons and all that shit.
The founding revolutionaries subverted religions insidious grip on power. Christians would still be burning the Witches, I am sure, and this inspired the Bill of Rights so religion could be marginalized once and for all. On the internet, I find the witch demographic as the friendliest by far, and the most gracious and wise group of people that I have ever encountered.
Trumpoons will add Pagans to their Gay, Islamic, and Mexican list of people to harass and we will then realize we haven’t advanced much since the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 or the Zoot Suit riots of 1943.
There was friendliness and trade between the natives and the roughneck pioneers at first. The founding revolutionaries were familiar with native freedoms. Following close behind from their pulpits of hate, the ‘elitist clergy’ actively promoted the slaughter of the Red Man to all would listen. Religion hadn't reached many of the Hillbillies in the hills.
The slick talking, rubber jawed, city slicker preachers had a convenient target for focusing the rage of the Pioneer peasants in the New World. The Native Americans were seen as far too pagan to be managed and assimilated and being extremely earth-centered, they could never really be Christians so the idea was to kill them all and let god sort them out.
Washington Jefferson Adams Madison and their ilque were the actual greatest generation. The complacency and blind obedience of the misnamed greatest generation gave the world 20,000 nuclear weapons. It gave us a surveillance nation contrary to the bill of rights. Normandy survivors worked in weapons plants that have filled the world with weapons and gave them a great retirement. Boomers inherited their parents house that increased ten fold in value as the black demographic were trapped in the city.It's ironic they gave everything they could to fight fascism during WW2 but allow it today with the neo-con republickin' coup of our government leading the way.
Subservience and fealty to corporate greed have destroyed unions but greatly benefited stockholders. Meanwhile, our young people (parent of 5 here) can far better articulate why racism is wrong and why sexism is incomprehensible. Millenials will not allow "war without end" that Boomers have allowed. They mistrust the pedophiles (catholics) and the demagogues (baptists) that claim to be christians. They have far more expansive vocabularies than high school graduates of 1940 that memorized Shakespeare but accepted "colored bathrooms".
There is no comparison in my mind between these nasty retirees I meet who have replaced "feelings" with fear and submission to authority. Men are taught to crush their feelings and rumble inside with restrained emotion. When I was 20, I remember being oddly proud that I hadn't cried since I was ten years old.
There has never been a generation that has allowed so much bad policy to prevail or accumulated so much wealth. Myopic vision of short-sighted opportunists has left us with radioactive waste, plastic filled oceans and mercury-tainted fish, leading us to the brink of environmental collapse.
Sorry bro, but I've taken it upon myself to defend Millennials when I see them maligned at the expense of the close minded dupes, lackeys and sell outs of the older generations.
“A psychotic pall so widespread, it was assumed to be normal” John Trudell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaxhRmq1wQ
DOG WHISTLES
Hillbilly is a word for white people. Metal is another word for white people. Didn’t know that, did you? Boogie Woogie still stirs my soul, and Hillbilly and Metal music know how to build up momentum. I like what I like when I like it and it does not mean I am a racist if I like white music or make a white playlist. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell is white culture anyways.
Then sure, Barack Obama. The problem there, is that his white half was sensationalized as communist, and then ignored. During my adult life, white people are often on the ropes about how they are not racists and white men are constantly accused of being sexist along with being racist.
Liberal city slicker whites fall over themselves overcompensating on the equality issue, gushing over non-white everything. What is white culture anyways? I mean really. European? Japanese people are pretty white aren't they, but crazy white people put them in camps during WW2 and the media convinced regular folks that the Japanese couldn't be trusted. The fight for freedom, remember?
Not many people have been as critical of the whites as I have and WASPy greed masters have been my primary target for many years. Their Capitalism is Americas worst nightmare and I've always called it Predatory Capitalism.
I want to delve into white issues because I see some perspectives that can get us to a higher level, but it is nearly impossible to talk about white people issues without somebody blowing a gasket. I've heard mostly negative things about white people for decades and it does get tiring. I wish people could accept each other. Tolerance is not enough. One world one people. Unity without hierarchy. Workers, citizens, and voters “I don’t want to spend my life being a color.” Michael Jackson.
Now, in the 21st century, our modern sensibilities are not able to comprehend how women were not allowed to vote until 1920. People are finally able to embrace women equally as men, as we should embrace the Goddess as well as the God. Whatever.
Lately, however, I have been visiting these alt right websites and they are as angry as ever and they have a desire to marginalize women and they praise the homebodies. I mean, haven't these people been in the working world? I deal with female property managers and Administrators and teachers and writers. It's a different world now. Women even are welcome on boats these days.
Those aren't demons, we call them germs now.
In 1789, just before the bill of rights had been formally ratified, southern racists were having a tantrum and would not sign on as part of the 'United States' unless they could keep their slaves. Northerners thought this unfair since they had to pay their employees. Labor was dear in that, as yet un-pillaged North America.
During the Civil War, the 1% of the southern population that owned slaves, convinced the poor whites to fight for them. I can't help but think of this lackey attitude when I see some 'rebel's' flag fluttering behind them as they drive by. Brainwashed bigoted chumps. No offense. I roll my eyes when a "Smoke truck" sends black smoke (rolling coal) into the air.
In 1789, northern economies were primarily community-based and agrarian. You could buy, sell, repair and trade nearly everything that you needed to run the family farms right in your home town. Household Industry involved 80% of the population. Before factories, people made products at home and the Industrial North had yet to arrive. The steam engine hadn't even been invented yet or the cotton gin, so to a Northerner, slavery was an unsavory and unfortunate reality that needed to change.
Unitarian ministers were prominent in the safe house underground railway movement and the last person arrested for heresy in 1848 was a Unitarian. Always there fighting for social justice. Onwards to 1960 when only 10% of the black population in Mississippi was registered to vote, prompting the need for civil rights legislation in a country founded on freedom. Constant, incoming tides of coercion from white male supremacists who continue to do harm. A persistent stain in the fabric of democracy.
In 2008, a liberal hating lunatic burst into a Unitarian Universalist church with a gun killing two and injuring seven. The shooter, Adkisson, stated that he had targeted the church because of its "liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country."
Racists are traitors to Liberty.
Freedom and Compassion got married and their first child was named Liberty.
In 1895, children were working in factories and Protestant CEO's took great delight in hiring the Catholic wave of immigrants from 1875 to 1895, and recreated European feudalism in the cities of America. Back to the right kind of white, only the ruling class considered themselves privileged and they hated Catholics.
Two kinds of white people? Privileged whites and working whites. The ruling class and the working class. That's why the only war in the future should be class war. I have Facebook friends who are quite antagonistic to whites and I want to say, hey don’t raise your babies to be racist. They learn that shit, it’s not in the genes.
Greedy oppressors and yeah, we know all that. I saw in my youth how white people participated in the marginalization of handicapped people, and keeping blacks out and making the Browns pick fruit with no opportunities to further themselves or become citizens. The Yellow Peril is another embarrassing chapter of white privilege in a previous era. With Enlightenment at hand, we have become post-race and post-gender and participation in prejudice is a thing of the past. I had thought. Workers voters citizens and children, remember?
As a teen, there was a disturbing amount of bigotry abounding, mostly in school and church, with my Uncle Joe being the most prominent with his antagonism of Black people.
Time waits for no man and it got to be the 70's and most went on a success track, I rejected the white-collar world and the sphere of college edumacated idiots.
I was content to work a second shift janitorial job because the steady paycheck gave me enough money to do what I really wanted to do. Ride my bicycle, join book clubs and visit book stores. I went through some nice guitars and took jazz guitar lessons.
At work, my friend Dewitt would say 'you got?' or 'I got' and we'd take a nice long break when the work was nearly done. One great time was when we said forget the work and we all watched the entire Young / Ali fight with much discussion when it was done. Young won, but judges felt Ali needed to be beaten decisively to have the crown taken from him. Everybody loves Ali but he lost we decided.
In the 80's bigotry dissipated and was viewed as favorably as a canker sore or really bad breath, and in the (non-white collar) working world, the need to survive was a common struggle with all colors and all genders and we all helped each other best we could and listened to each others stories. The working world, not the world of the white shirted parasite class.
Go to bourgeois(white) locales and the Ivegotmine upper middle-class whites will be uncomfortable with a black dude walking around the hotel pool with a "kill all the cops" T-shirt. 'Because white people suck' his facebook friends yell in caps. So are we doomed to this atrocity and reprisal hamster wheel? How does one hate all black people or hate all white people?
Try to conceptualize that the ruling whites are also standoffish with me and my hillbilly truck, my nasty face hair, and my Union cap confounds the confederate, flag waving racists that remain. The North won bitches, we are the UNITED States and no you can't have slaves and if you need to be beaten again it will happen.
What I'm trying to say is don't be my Uncle Joe and perpetuate mistrust of other people. whatever your race is. My diatribe about Brown people was to illustrate the ridiculousness of color issues. I get into some interesting conversations wearing my Union cap. The South will rise again they say, and I say 'and do what exactly?' #unitywithouthierarchy
Was it my ancestral whites fishing and farming on the Azore Islands during the American Civil War that were the slave masters? You check on this, but the sources of prejudice from white people come primarily from White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. WASPS. As the much discriminated Irish and Italians found out, you must participate in the system, you will no longer be targeted. They created the mafia to supply the liquor White wasp people needed to perpetuate their atrocities.
DONUT SHOP PUNDITS
They needed a smooth talking anti worker, anti- environmentalist who makes white people feel good, to run for president. Someone the 'white guy with a clipboard' demographic can embrace. Someone the cranky old white people in the Donut Shop can quote.
Conversely, the black and brown donald trumps have raised their children to hate 'the man' and 'whitey' when a large percentage of white people are like, what the hell? Race can't be an issue anymore, anywhere, and racism needs to be addressed and the white nationalists are talking out their ass of hate. The good white people are emerging after 35 years of sleepwalking through this military, corporate, and right wing religious coup of America. The aberrant tumor that made corruption legal.
Time for all of us to unite as workers/voters/and citizens. Out of many, ONE. "Is anybody in there? Nod if you can hear me"
Stupid Bigly is walking into a fascist police state 35 years in the making, so I find the dumptrump movement a waste of energy. El-Rushbo has paved the way with Alex Jones and others right behind him. Roger Ailes has been our Joseph Goebbels but the difference is this. 25 years of brainwashing is already in place by Ailes alone. Ailes was his program director and, Limpbaugh endlessly repeated phrases such as 'the rich are the job creators', ad nauseum. A lie that became gospel to his truth-impaired fans, believable because of the relentlessness of the repetition.
Then at Fox News, Roger Ailes’ motto was to brainwash the nation with a white male supremacy agenda without them knowing it. Three guidelines for brainwashing are repetition, repetition, repetition. 'The lies became truth and Fox News Director Ailes created an army of Herman Goering’s wannabes, sitting in their living room with their gun in their lap, waiting for the liberal bloodbath they are prepared to participate in. How many times has Rush-bo or his callers said "lock and load?" Hundreds of times in the 6 years I listened.
With an enemy of public education, Devos in the cabinet, Blackwater has now gotten in the inner circle of the White House. Why would this be, other than anticipating the rise of an elitist Himmler style attack force?
A Right Wing International Cadre of Lawless Marauders
A mercenary army that is already embedded in police departments and the military and is KKK inclined. The 3% Warriors for Christ sympathizers, at the least. Fence keepers and Soldiers of Odin and 984 other hate groups.
This is what I mean when I say most people have no idea the danger that white nationalists pose. Importantly it’s a white Male supremacy agenda and not a master race thing that includes women. "You are going to bear a child for Hitler and the master race." Instead of a regional conflict, we are looking at a worldwide explosion of war as Putin and Trump divide up the world as slow moving, long term planning China is completely taken by surprise and marginalized.
They will do it to "contain China". Therefore, you wake up one day and you can’t get online with your laptop or phone. You turn on the TV and chief executive Stupid Bigly is on every channel explaining the crisis. "China did a very very dumb thing by bombing our refineries with neutron bombs.” In actuality, Oil and gas companies had sabotaged loosely capped wells and weak pipelines creating environmental havoc then blamed it all on China. Luckily, we avoided this with the clotted nothingness of Biden.
WHO ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE?
I research so you don’t have to is my motto. The search starts with who are the white people? At first, I follered the Caucasian People to the Caucasus Mountains they are supposedly derived from. It’s out near Armenia or something. Well, they migrated to Romania and then eventually over the entirety of Europe.
Then I found out another branch of the Caucasian People went to India for a couple thousand years and then they came back and took a more Northerly Route than the first Caucasians. I believe these people are the ones referred to as Aryans. This was as the last ice age ebbed and unconventional wisdom has Europe settled much earlier than Conventional Wisdom states. By 14,000 BC the ice age was ebbing and nothing but grass filled meadows were in every valley after the glacier melted..
Now I read people from India are closer to Caucasoid than any other genera. Lithuania to India saw many white people migrating back and forth and there is a secret there I am trying to uncover in the ancient past. One peculiarity is the the Lithuanian language has similarities with Sanskrit is the most prominent archaeological clue.
There are 25,000-year-old stone houses scattered across Europe and vivid, artistically rendered cave paintings. H.G. Wells discussing the cave painters or Reindeer Men as he called them.
“They had vivid perceptions, an acute sense of animal form; they had the real artist’s impulse to render. These races of Reindeer Men were in undisturbed possession of Western Europe for a period of at least ten times as long as their interval between ourselves and the beginning of the Christian Era, AND THROUGH ALL THAT IMMENSE TIME THEY WERE FREE TO DEVELOP AND VARY THEIR LIFE TO IT’S UTMOST POSSIBILITIES.”
But we are taught that the first "civilized" people were the brown people from the desert filled with crazy religions, remember? Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization was drilled into our heads in school, but the indigenous White People of Europe were the Reindeer People, and possibly descendants of the Grimaldi People of West Africa.
Maybe the original Denisovans, or the Neanderthal, but people seem confused when I tell them that it was the brown people and their Holy Rampage of Conquest that disrupted and destroyed the indigenous white people along with the indigenous black people of Africa, and everyone's triple gods and goddesses. Christians are interlopers in Europe and Islamics have been coercing Africans for a thousand years.
Imagine it’s thousands of years ago and you are a teen with a sense of adventure living in Georgia, south of Russia. Maybe 5000 years ago. You and your posse go off in the spring intending to come back by winter. You visit the ancient ruins of Atlantis at the north end of the Black Sea. As you approach northern Italy’s mountains you head back after being blocked by the Alps. Then you come across a remnant tribe of Grimaldi People. The Grimaldi people had migrated from Africa and arrived in Europe 50,000 YA via the Straights of Gibraltar. Yes, black people were among the first Europeans.
The ancient cave painters and reindeer hunters had moved east and north, assimilated Neanderthal man, and then met the migrating Caucasians 10,000 years later as they migrated a little further north in Europe.
You spend a night as the guest of the Grimaldi Village and note the children riding the amazing posteriors of the First Homo Sapiens sapiens of Europe. Then you and the boys stay and forget the way home. So now, ask yourself where did these two sets of people come from? It appears that the first religions and the first cave paintings occurred in Africa around 60 thousand years ago and a northerly migration out of Africa was also occurring as the Ice Age ebbed away.
In addition, there was an eastern African migration that the Proto- Nubian People had around 100,000 years ago. It is as if there was an evolution of spirit somehow around 120,000 years ago, as Homo sapiens became our final form, Homo sapiens sapiens. H. sapiens sapiens around the world had evolved and ancient prototypes became extinct over the next 100,000 years. Except for Yetis and Bigfoot and the Allegheny Cabbage monster.
This is where my freedom of religion comes in. I take different threads of very ancient history and try to weave a sensible carpet that suits our purpose. In my religion (from a very ancient secret source), the Goddess Venus arrives on earth on a clamshell, I would guess around 120,000 years ago. The water levels of the Red Sea were at their lowest point when she arrived as a previous Ice Age was in place.
The humans found it natural to co-operate and share the bounty of fruits and vegetables. Then they traded salt and gemstones, eventually discovering gold and silver. Figs, Jerky, and Palm nuts too. People were not inclined to kill each other like in the movies, but to have a nice day and a quiet night.
So where did white people come from? How about the so-called Yellow People? Supposedly derived from Denisovans (a separate human species) from Siberia. Then you realize that for all the folderol about race and wars, we all come from a similar place not really all that long ago geologically speaking.
Evolution is real and not a theory. Where did the Chihuahua come from you ask? That’s right, in less than 20,000 years the wolf became the Chihuahua because of evolution. Humans are also malleable that way.
Look at pandas; they all rather look the same. Squirrels, Camels, and Elephants are indistinct from each other. Squids haven't changed much in 600 million years.
Whereas, cats have genetic variety, and bovines evolved into many different looking ones. I'm saying some creatures never change or evolve while others are prone to evolutionary adjustments.
Then look at the people in line at 7-11. The pasty white rich people, the drunken painters, the black roofers, Mexican landscapers, nurses and secretaries of every color are in line and I am part of the working class struggle of the industrious working poor.
One question I had was, are there two distinct two white races? They are elite whites and worker whites, but are they the same color? If you look at who owned the factories where children worked or who owned the plantations or who dumped toxins into watersheds or who stand to make billions off the Keystone Pipeline or who owns the City of London, it has always been the WASP, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. They are the masterminds of world domination.
They give all Europeans a bad reputation with their cold, bleached egomania. My people from the Azores fished and farmed for centuries before coming to America as did many other Europeans running from the religious kooks. They were simple forest folk that became Hillbillies when they came to America. The black/white schism had me wondering what would be a way to unify all people.
In Africa, going back to a tribe 60,000 years ago, and to the Reindeer People who were the indigenous Europeans 15 to 40 thousand years ago, these Pagans lived with their triple gods and goddesses and people of Europe and Africa had very similar lifestyles for thousands of years. Tens of thousands of years. As I explained, the Grimaldi People were the first black people to inhabit Europe and those descendants of Pygmies assimilated with the people they met as they drifted eastward and it's why Mediterranean whites are shorter than northern whites.
What happened was that the so-called civilized people of the Middle Eastern area created capitalism with their overproduction of wheat and began invading the lands of the indigenous Europeans and indigenous Africans. These brown people invaded the villages of black and white tribes as they moved northwards, westwards, and southwards. Thousands of years later, Islam and Christianity (those crazy desert people) usurped peaceful pagans with violent, forced conversion and leaving millions of slaughtered pagans in their wake. Black and white alike. Unity without hierarchy----heed the call. We will be too powerful if we work together.
Compare the 13 goals for a witch, to let's say, the 10 commandments where the whiny god of Canaan exhibits his jealousy of other gods, and is quite prepared to torture you with fire for eternity if you get on his bad side. Then there is islam where a husband is allowed to beat or kill his female property. Can you see why both of these bloodthirsty religions have demonized Paganism and Witchcraft over these many years? We are the competition and an injury to one is an injury to all.
They needed a scapegoat. There are no demons in the craft as far as I can tell and I’ve been studying and practicing Paganism for years. Racism is the new kid on the block compared to Pagan Hatred.
The Holy Rampage of Conquest by Islam and Christianity over the Indigenous African people and the Indigenous European tribes is a slaughter your ancestors want you to address.
The Brown invaders became the white usurpers as Pagan cultures were conquered demonized and assimilated as they moved North and West. When these ruling whites got to America, the Native Americans were considered Pagans---plain and simple, and these, upper class ruling whites, were delighted as Baptist Preachers promoted their genocide. By 1920 the spirit of the Native Americans was broken and they disappeared into movies.
A book from 1928 called Lady Chatterley’s Lover, describes post-WW1 England. The ruling class has power because they are the most qualified to lead, they told themselves, and don't forget that he who has the gold makes the rules and that is the actual golden rule.
In the book I mentioned, the coal miners in the town drag their feet home every day after 12 hours of slavery in unearthly, horrible conditions. The local oligarch, the owner of the mine, looks on their parade of gloom with pity, and repeats that he has “been given the burden of keeping the rabble in line.”
Maybe he could give them a free ham for chritsmas and the pitiful masses would be thankful, not realizing the actual criminal class that the Oligarchy is, and the theft of their labor and their lives must never be forgotten and I hope you hear their call.
Oligarchs are mobsters and criminals when they keep people in chronic poverty. Keeping entire towns impoverished, what kind of asshole does this? Look at these extreme capitalists; they have many WASPS among their ranks. These are the white people that the people of color should be upset with. These are the ones with the control problems. These are the ones to tax to rebuild an entirely new infrastructure.
The people of the single god theory and their political machinations began burning and banning the meek a long time ago. Hell, they even "burned their own daughters if they playeth the whore" as it says in their book, the Old Testament. Christians crawled into the exoskeleton of the dying Roman world and became the "Holy" Roman Empire.
They banned the Meek in 395 AD and began a thousand year campaign to eradicate the meek and their thousands of gods and goddesses. A long bloody struggle, it was, till they finally conquered the Lithuanians who were the last remaining Pagans in Europe. This was in 1384 when the 15-year-old prince of Lithuania married the 12-year-old christian princess of Poland. Sacred fires were kept burning till the last one was extinguished in 1434, it's ashes thrown in the river, just in case.
They named buildings, rivers, and towns after their saints and they stuck the heads of dead Meek people on poles to convince other Meek people to give up their kind and fun-loving cultures.
Meanwhile, a little south of the holy empire, the last prophet and the people of the scimitar began THEIR holy rampage of conquest. They considered themselves great warriors but they married little girls and beheaded many of the Meek and we say "yeah right dude, real manly". The ancient stories of the Meek were burned at the library of Alexandria so all traces of them would disappear. This was something Rabbi's, Caliphs, and Bishops could agree on.
The cross and scimitar invaded the indigenous cultures of the Meek of Africa and the Meek of Europe and took their gold as usually violent forced conversion became the order of the day. Their great holy leaders surveyed the world years later, and found that the Meek had finally been subdued, the blood and money cults of Abraham were victorious, and the Meek were subsumed.
Today the Meek have begun to make their voices heard. "There is no god" and "there are many gods and goddesses" the Pagans and Atheists declare. These are the new people of the word. The many words of the internet to double check all these con men.
Their great goddess holds the lamp of liberty aloft to light the way and the great journey of the Meek has begun, guided by the words of the first true covenant of the people called the mutrfukon United States Constitution, bitches. Every day gets a little brighter as the dawn of civilization approaches and the Meek (today they are known as Pagans and Atheists and Independent thinkers) are cautiously coming out of hiding to reclaim the cultures of the world. This is the basis of black and white unity. Fuck those Brown People.
The white WASP elite needs to feel the sting of the workers discontent from the inevitable worker's revolution. Like in the south during the Civil War, how did less than 2% of the population convince the other 98% that secession and war was necessary? 600,000 deaths for bullshit. Cold-hearted elite, the slave owners, sent the working white people to their gruesome deaths.
Nasty white WASPS opened factories fashioned after slave ships and Catholics such as the Irish and Italian were scorned and abused. In todays America every European country has assimilated itself into the industrial greed machine and the white collar parasite economy perched atop the actual economy.
Maligned no longer, the Meek and their peace loving allies are poised to rule the earth. Ecosystem Stewardship is the word to replace resource gobbling for gold. When the dumb white demographic catches on, we will have another Progressive Revolution.
At this point I could have ended the article but didn't. It just goes on and on more like a book than an article. Feel free to quote the article and utilize the concepts. Don't let the doomsday clock run out.
and a new attitude regarding wealth. When they realize all wages would go up if we put the 1% in jail. Just for fun. A little profiling, charge them with a felony and tear up their corporate charter.
Unitarian Universalists have no exclusionary ethos like the way hyper-patriarchal Christianity and Islam does. Unitarian Universalists are the kindest people you will ever want to meet. We had a lifelong Muslim visit our UU church one Subnday Service and he came to talk with us. Everybody in the congregation is fine with Islamic people worshipping down the street because UU's want to get to know you, not your religious beliefs. UU's embrace all.
Bring something to the table, some conversation, some volunteer work, that is what the UU’s are about and what freedom of religion is all about. UU's are the American Freedom of Religion ideal.
Well, we were not impressed with our Muslim visitor as our liberal Reverend asked questions and we listened as the Muslim preacher articulated his Stone Age opinion of women’s equality. The enlightened, liberal Muslim opinion about gay people is that it is up to Allah to judge you. “We cannot judge you. “ Then Allah burns gay people in Hell of course.
Catholics and Protestants have been willing to fight for decades in bloody wars in the past, but civil authority has constrained their violent excess in the last century. A Secular framework in the United States has penned in biblical law finally, and has kept it from being implemented. They are like Wack-A Mole, taking over state legislatures and drunk on needing power. We have to do the same with Islam. Ban them both, get it? The 9th amendment is about precedent. Use it.
In God we trust? Added in 1956 by Congress to replace "out of many, one" as our national motto. What in the Hell for? In God we trust, all others pay cash? Trust God to do what exactly? I know Magic and the Law of Attraction has affected my life, I can claim, but with God, maybe not so much. What really chafes my goiter is how swearing oaths on the bible has been normalized. For crying out loud, use the Constitution. Rule #1 is not to endorse ANY religion. So help me god is such a load of crap too.
I have no patience for christian nonsense and their coercive proselytizing and I can see Islam using Christian. Legal Precedence to shoehorn Sharia Law into our legal system some day. We don't need it. We don’t need any religious law, period! So dig this.
The best way to keep sharia law from getting embedded, is to continue slapping down attempts by christians to embed THEIR stone age biblical law into our secular legal system.
The founding documents created by ALL the founding revolutionaries were designed specifically to exclude God from the governments 'covenant with the people’. To assure life and liberty, and to ensure the pursuit of happiness and the freedom to not have to deal with zealotry in the town commons.
If your religion thinks the American ideals concerning liberty and freedom are a bad idea, then maybe consider a different country to go to if you are a refugee.
Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in this country thanks to the founding revolutionaries who built a time-tested framework of morality, without any god interfering. Most of us are accepting of all who cross our path out here in the working world and in the streets of America and in the kind community churches. Seriously, though, keep your religion in your pants and don’t wave it around in public. Most of us know how to get along.
The intractable dilemma then is not just religion, but how to deal with the gun issue. Wait, what? Let's drive straight into that wall called the second amendment, no one survives. It's all or nothing gun rights advocates claim. Once you outlaw semi-automatics, it's a foot in the door for taking all guns. As the Obama pointed out, there was not one attempt by executive order to take any guns, and more guns have been sold during his 8 years than in any previous 8-year period. We have the proverbial guns coming out of our ass.
Keeping religion away from the Commons makes simple constitutional sense. We have to go back to what the founding revolutionaries believed when they made a constitution for the ages. They asked themselves, how do we deal with crazy white people and their guns and god?
In years to come, many billions of Passenger Pigeons were shot out of the sky and the breed became extinct in 1913. Buffalo's were slaughtered by the millions until only 1,000 were left. We had freedom, but too many guns, too much hate, it seems. Racists seemed to love killing things. It's no surprise people that hate and cheat are the meanest demographic.
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Rebels they were back in 1776. The Founding Revolutionaries were Rebels with a winning record. They were mostly farmers and small business owners jacked up on Liberty and Freedom and they were disturbed by the increasing British coercion in their communities. Most of them didn't even go to church, even though preachers warned them germs were demons and there was an angry god waiting to baste them with his special angry marinade and burn them in Hell-Fire. Toilet Paper was still a gleam in the eye of civilization, though Bibles were often used as toilet paper back in the pioneer days.
Farmers with 'old fowling pieces’ were able to rout out the soldiers of the largest empire the world had ever known. The Minutemen some were called. The Sons of Liberty. The Loyal Nine originally. These were not people coming home from church.
Raw Revolution it was, and I try to remind people that all those portraits of Revolutionary Heroes were done towards the end of their life when they were old and famous. Ben Franklin was very old at the time of the Revolutionary War and was the elder statesman, but most were in their thirties when stirrings of the revolution began in 1765.
They had guns. They had them out in the open; you knew who had a gun and who didn't since you had to carry gunpowder and other items, not to mention the size of the gun was obvious. Guns were a welcome sight, you never knew if a rabid animal needed to be dispatched, or some horse thieves needed force to meet force. "Go back and tell your boys they ain't welcome here no more."
Your citizen militias were groups of people who set out to protect each other with their guns or whatever; neighbors looked out for each other in many different ways. People who had each other’s back.
What does a well-regulated militia mean anyhow? Groups of people protecting their community? Their neighborhood? Their state?
When the British Empire brought in governors to replace locally elected officials no one went home and got their gun so they could shoot up the place. Lunatics didn't have guns in most cases.
The founding revolutionaries used boycotts and hooliganism to make their frustrations known, and saved their guns for war. When British soldiers began going into people’s homes demanding to be housed and fed (and looking for guns), the American Colonists began plotting their overthrow.
As Liberty grew in the minds in the Colonies, the misguided Great Britain thought their average, every day, enlightened despotism would subdue the rabble. Not this time. No timid third worlders here. This was America, many united as one.
Gun sales were way up in the pre-revolutionary days of 1775-6. Theoretically, no one could individually stand up to a band of soldiers demanding lodging, but the presence of a well-regulated militia made the Redcoats think twice before coming into a town.
When news came that Henry Knox and his teamsters from Boston had hauled 80 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston Harbor, the people of Olde Boston Towne were inspired. Be a fair fight if I get the boot in first they said going to the house for their gun.
Ships couldn’t get out of that harbor quick enough with the surprise cannon attack, and ships in retreat were ordered to abandon Boston and go north to Salem to make a new capital. The despicable rabble with their old fowling pieces and stolen cannons had made the Crown blink.
So given all this revolutionary mischief, what is the core of the second amendment? It was to allow people to gather civilly and provide protection for their community. You knew who had a gun, and very importantly, you knew where to go for help.
Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton could have been an engineer and a lawyer respectfully if they had put their nose to the grindstone and finished their pursuit of degrees. They became revolutionaries instead. The Panthers were caricatured as gun crazy rioters, but Huey Newton knew every gun law and could find precedent for every defiant gesture he made, at the law book library. I have yet to see a purer use of the second amendment considering what the Black Panthers did. Their motivation was the protection of the community and "Seize the Time" by Bobby Seale captures that moment in history.
They were truly a civilian militia and their club was a gathering place. They knew what kind of weapons could be carried into which situations. They created a sense of community and it is not about individuals with guns, it was about policing the police. They were like those upset with the British in 1765-75 who gathered under Elm Trees to organize actions. This is what Freedom of Assembly is about.
I think the missing aspect of our argument regarding guns or no guns or licensed guns is this: Gun Clubs and Rifle Clubs. The crux of the argument against the government knowing who all the gun owners are, is that the government can confiscate weapons in a civil emergency. This can't happen with gun and rifle clubs.
I am of the school of living with no guns anywhere. I much prefer the America I thought was visibly gun free. I grew up in a transitional farm community/suburb and no one had guns. The farmers didn't seem to have guns.
There were many children on our street and we never saw guns, from parents or otherwise. People weren't packing on their way to the A&P; it was part of what was envisioned as a peaceful time. You could send your kids to go to the movies downtown with the trolley and feel safe about it. Whoever you were in whatever neighborhood you were in.
In the boomer era, we were about dirt bombs, bicycles, sleds, and swimsuits. It never occurred to us that we could go to school and be shot up and massacred. Blown up in a nuclear war perhaps, but the outside world, in general, was not to be feared. What an unimaginable horror it is to explain mass shootings to little children these days. How can we bring sanity back to this country?
The idea that crazed, badly medicated loonies can go into all our peaceful places and shoot everyone up is no longer acceptable. What next … Wet and Wild? The top floor of the Empire State Building? Terrorists find it impossible to use planes and now have turned to mass transit.
How do we protect ourselves in public places? We create a network of well-regulated militias. Gun Clubs. I even think the second amendment includes having an armory. A community armory. To keep government goons from raiding gun clubs and armories, an exclusion zone can be created. Club members only. Don't forget that ninth amendment. Gun Clubs can't be involved with neighborhood watch or you will end up with 10,000 mini dictatorships in this country.
Certain weapons can and should be banned, because how is the right to keep and bear arms legitimate otherwise? Why can't we have wisdom with this? If we can create speed limits then we can make a few kinds of guns illegal. If we can ban hand grenades for fishing, we can keeps guns out of the hands of loonies.
Today we allow weapons that gun lovers, home protectors, and hunters do not really need and most of us don't want to live in a Wild West movie. What we have now is a nation full of people all giving each other the skank eye because trust has gone out the window with all these weapons and white anger.
Guns were legitimate 200 years ago, as people needed to protect their property and themselves on occasion. They had to protect their crops from destructive animals and to keep from being raided by cattle rustlers and worse.
The unacknowledged part of the second amendment is that we want to be able to rout out oppressive government and criminals. Many go pashaw, the government is far too powerful and you couldn't acquire enough guns to fight the government. They can just bring in tanks. Are there enough assholes out there willing to shoot their fellow Americans for a crooked government?
Keep in mind that it once took 80 cannons and old fowling pieces to rout our foes, 242 years ago. Britannia ruled the world, but the 13 colonies thought the freedom was worth fighting for.
Thomas Jefferson's secret was that we needed to protect ourselves from the assholes that usually end up in government. They were abundant in his time as well. Thomas Jefferson had a vision of someone like Stupid Bigly declaring martial law and they jerry rigged a covenant and a constitution that has lasted an unusually long time. This is why I poo poo rewriting the constitution.
This is why Jefferson wanted us to have an antidote to encroaching fascism in any form and the founding revolutionaries wanted to be rid of ALL coercive authority. They were Libertarian Anarchists, like it or not. They set up a government that they thought would lead to freedom for all. It wasn't supposed to be instant but a guide to eventual full equality. "Authority is derived from the free consent of the people." stated a pre-revolutionary era document called the Fundamental Orders.
So let's run with the redneck wingnut scenario of 2016. A false flag national crisis occurs and Barack Obama sends five black helicopters to your house. “Martial Law has been declared” the internet screams and your computer goes dead and President Obama has made himself Dictator for Life. This is what they imagine.
mysterious soccer ball appears
ROUTE 50 IN GEORGIA
A couple years back it seemed that everyone was talking about a bucket list and so I thought about it, and I figured I had 5 things left. I wanted to get over to Austin and see Little M, and I had also wanted to see the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Blue Ridge Mountains since I was like, twenty. I heard it was beautiful. I had no idea.
#3 was to visit Amish country. I wanted to meet a few of them and learn about their culture.
This trip sounded like something I needed to do. Secondly, I’ve always had the feeling that Oregon was where I needed to go and that was #2 on the list and seeing the Redwoods was #1.
Sure, I’d like to see Solutre, France and the Niobrara River in Nebraska (the least populated part of the continental US) and visit Hudson Bay from the St. James Road, but I would be pretty satisfied to finish these five items.
Glacier National Park sounds like, potentially, the most interesting national park to visit, and it would be really swell to see Katahdin in Maine, but, speaking bucket list, I had five to go.
Glacier opened its Sun Road into the park a week after I had gotten back from going to Oregon in May. We’re glad we didn’t drive an extra thousand miles to find it was closed. Here are some pictures from Colorado in May.
TELLURIDE
Spring was just starting in Mid-May in Telluride
=1=13= MARKET SOCIALISM
“ ....anarchy is the absence of coercion ....”
The road to anarchy will not be a chaotic anarchy as you’ve been led to believe, but anarchy as self-rule in our various communities. We have to have free spaces and common local markets open for small business and household industry. As it had always been.
Now that the rich have saved up trillions of dollars in hidden off-shore accounts, we can find and use this stolen labor (profit) to create the Infrastructure Initiative. (II26) Envision something great for every one of us, and future generations, to use in the next 50 years in an expanded and expansive safety net, a beautiful and enduring hardscape and finally wildlife corridors for migrating wildlife. #girdthegrid
You get it done by 2035. Lasts till 2095. We can create abundance AND create a new economic system. But you have to get your head into the future where we wrestle back control of media food and transportation away from the corporate stranglehold we have. United States isn't welcome anymore in the furthest side of the world. You see a new economic alignment going on. If you know how the Sterling was after WW2, you can see where the Dollar is going.
I finally see lots of smaller transportation. Some really fast bicycles with fat tires, most recently. It's all changing, an era of alternative transportation is emerging
One way to start would be to sell half of our military bases, the ones furthest away from American ports, and be there for our fellow citizens and any one we can. Friend or foe, we’re ready to help. But closer to home, right? The Republicans want to eliminate things we all own in common such as the National Parks, the dirty bastards.
We need to put the languid and miasmic political will of the last 35 years aside, and let’s have a go at a New America. It’s time to roll ‘em up and get down to work to preserve our wild lands forever, and the last chance for you Democrats in 2024, we'll have a third party otherwise. 2024 update: Yeah fuck those guys. Third Party or bust.
What a joke. The spoiler, the spoiled and the Peloid.
In our II26 we’ll be initiating the construction of a real infrastructure with immense areas set aside for barter and small business. Community spaces where the majority of us can set up our small business, or non-profit enterprise. Rural Hubs
Free spaces for all to use. Not along the highway, but in the rural areas that were abandoned when the interstates went in. The interstates that allowed the corporatization of America from the small business economic system we had.
Giant parks for people to stay for free as they vacation and to accommodate those that are camping out in their cars.
This is not an outrageous notion once people realize we could have all this by simply taxing Walmart and Amazon, and start penalizing the gangrenous greed of corporate America and its stockholder enablers.
Put a cap of 500 billion on the military and have them explain how much their promised pensions and benefits will cost in the future in the same way the GOP did with the Post Office. Do something! A federally mandated 5% reduction in the military budget every year.
So every department has to cut out the waste. Particularly this American Death Star military. Fix the bridges for the floods to come and say goodbye to all the countries from Turkey to Thailand. Sell the Ambassador palaces. Close 200 military bases in Germany and Japan.
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 BILLION dollar military that has brought peace to no one and power overwhelming for the Nazis running the United States. What? 780 Billion! And people are complaining about food stamps?
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? Capitalism doesn't care but Market Socialism does.
We should create a country that cares for everyone with a real infrastructure, with humungous rest areas on the state 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. Taxing and demonetizing the corporate structure of Google Amazon Facebook and some others will allow the people to gain control of our people generated content. The Commons known as the Information Superhighway. It belongs to people not these international billionaire crooks.
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.
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 as we marginalize these pollutants.
We can complete the grid that will allow Americans to be free of government. #girdthegrid
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!
I had been pushing the idea of a LUXURY TAX and I was happy to note a presidential candidate also suggesting this idea finally. Unimaginable wealth has been accumulated, and like a rich harvest of fruit, we need to juice it and use it before it becomes a pile of rotting compost.
In contrast to most, I don’t think we should tax this years high income earners. These are the people who are doing the best in this current climate. They’re doing something right economically, if not morally. Tax total assets, once people accumulate more than 20 million dollars, the National Property tax begins. No one is earning that shit.
What do you think Mr. Libertarian, wouldn't it streamline government if we taxed ten people instead of a thousand? Everyone with more than 20 million dollars of equity, cash, stocks and precious metals would have to report to the government. Leave the poor people alone. We discuss UBI later.
Tax 1% of all assets the first year. A One percent tax on total assets over 20 million dollars is a modest proposal. Side by side with eliminating corporate tax loopholes. We also tax businesses with more than 20 million in assets. At the same time we can have our Progressive Senators and a re-animated Congress looking to eliminate corporate loopholes.
This LUXURY TAX will go up one percentage point, per year, TILL THE NATIONAL DEBT IS PAID, AND OUR BUDGET IS BALANCED! Therefore, 2% the second year. 3% the third and on and on. Turning the pressure up slowly, it’s suddenly in the interest of the wealthy elite best interest to eliminate the national debt. Much of the national debt goes to banks and their usurious interest anyways, but then we can tax THEM and we keep the money flowing through the economy.
No wealth will escape taxation. Instead of the poor reporting every asset and every detail of their life to qualify for indigent aid, and instead of every small business having to keep every receipt and burdened with regulations and a nightmarish tax system, we can leave the poor and middle class alone. Leave small business alone. This is my version of Market Socialism
Knock down all those toll booths and petty license fees, you’re holding up the working person. 28th amendment. Tax accumulated wealth till the national debt is paid. I shouldn’t have to use caplocks to make my point.
The lawyer/lobbyists have hijacked the United States and they like to find every kind of way to make your life more expensive and inconvenient. They will do whatever possible to keep you from accumulating any assets, while they amass their dragon hoards. There has been unimaginable damage to OUR countryside by thousands of pipelines that destroy nature, but enhance stock portfolios.
This will be just a start in our national recognition of who we really are. Americans are not heartless opportunists. Not the working people I've met!
Is it about energy and national security, or is it actually about profits and market control with a government run by corporations? Our global effort to keep the earth from getting poisoned, will be about curtailing the abuse that automobile, airplane and truck exhaust has done to the life that was on this planet. Yes, keep it in the ground for the thousands of generations unborn.
All these shenanigans in Washington and the focus comes off of polluters such as Shell creating billions of plastic pellets destined for the gonads of the of the governed.
Step one towards Market Socialism is to smash monopolistic control of the markets.
Artificially low prices from resource thieves have undercut all competitors and destroyed the fine network of small businesses that were in existence up until WW2. Money didn’t grow on trees they joked after the war ,,, Money was trees. American forests stripped for Suburbias Cheap Housing .
Far too many of them.
Far too many rastic degradations of all the mini ecosystems that are part of bigger systems such as watersheds and forests. For instance, buying a beautiful forest to clearcut it has to be considered theft, but today is still considered "good business." I mean come on, this has been going on for hundreds of years nearly all the ancient trees are gone!
Capitalism has created an illusion of prosperity. Houses filled with priceless junk and “what am I going to do with all this stuff?”
‘Just get a storage space, Joe’
People hunger for battle with the oligarchs and the first thing we need to do is take out all the tax loopholes that are in place for the Oil and Gas Industry. Then get ready to ride the scariest ride on earth, “The Vicissitudes of The Market.” It’s not even about global warming I keep insisting, but the pollution of everything. Have international no fly days so we can see the old blue sky return.
Replace the whole withholding tax nonsense and its attendant bureaucracy with a federal Property Tax for all billionaires and billion dollar corporations.
Create a global effort in all 200+ countries, to expose ALL THE hidden income everywhere, so the wealthy have nowhere to hide. Let the mighty be taxed mightily as it's suggested in the bible.
Go ahead, tell me why that’s ridiculous or impractical, Mr. Libertarian. Taxing ten people instead of 1000 would certainly streamline government, wouldn’t it?
This is where your basic income starts. What can be afforded, and the blessings of Liberty going to the destitute and homeless first. A $500 UBI to start, so people can survive.
The previously discussed Anarchy cannot last with the predatory fascists looming nearby and would never be permanent. Therefore, Market Socialism is the best economic system that can exist for the majority of the people for the majority of the time, because complete anarchy would leave a vacuum for fascism to fill.
Market Socialism is a designation most people can be comfortable with as it alludes to the elimination of record-keeping for the small business markets. A market where the sole proprietor is Queen, because corporations are not people. Only individuals can be people.
The new rules? Thwart the monopolies by taxing the rich till the national debt is paid. That sounds like a good idea. Imagine 50 AOC’s (citizen legislators) walking in singing a verse of Joe Hill as they sign the tax the rich legislation. They’d think it was a movement.
A squad to be reckoned with in Congress should be arriving in 2026 that should be implementing a higher minimum wage for larger companies. Give the family run, Mabels Diners of the world a chance again, and make these billion dollar corporations like Olive Garden feel the sting of small business dignity and community connectedness. Commonality and communitarianism.
The bigger you are the more taxes you pay. The more focused the scrutiny from our citizen legislators.
The service industry treats its hardest workers the worst. Many workers barely attain minimum wage after tips are shared. People in the food service industry know what I’m talking about. It should be a crime.
Looking to get weighed, the people step on the scales of justice. There was exceptional service in America once upon a time, but the new modern corporation thinks it’s a person. In reality, it’s a puppet show with pompous old men cutting every corner possible and dodo brained tech billionaires poised to run the world. Heartless capitalists with unresolved childhood issues.
Sam Walton created the work atmosphere where employees talking to each other is considered a waste of time, and after three warnings for unauthorized talking, the pink slip. You know, we need to bond with the people we work with, people need to talk. The system is dysfunctional. What would Market Socialism do?
Arms and elbows always in motion for low wages with the heartless management strictures of the last 40 years. For most of the people I’ve worked with, Capitalism sucks. There’s no reforming capitalism. Chain stores and restaurants have left millions of workers despairing to what has happened to service in America.
The Workers Revolution means to fight for a living wage for all of the worlds workers. In the end, this world wide workers movement will inspire all future generations to persistently maintain an equitable worksite, so the toxic tide of corporatism can’t creep back into our world again.
This time we win. Profit is theft from the workers who produced the product and every worker in the world needs to understand this. The age of Piratical Profiteering is over if we want it to be. We hunger for battle. The workers are ready.
Self government is where Communists AND Capitalists both fear to tread. How do you do it with the super structure of excessive government that is already in place, and a placated public happy with the status quo of corporatism and not aware of the child, slave-labor derived products such as chocolate and titanium?
A billion working poor people around the world, making products for the entitled Lord Fauntleroy’s of America.
Bioregionalism is one of the tools to break free of all the previous inhumane paradigms. We connect voluntarily through our Bioregion. Using various forms of Community Exchanges.
Another concern of mine is the red and black, the communists trying to usurp another movement it seems.
Why are we still dragging (Marx)around? We got remineralization of the soil to be concerned about and carbon and sulfur rates accelerating, and we have to drag around someone who did not write a single word about the environment?
It's the future, yo.
Russell Means, for one, has some thorough earth loving things to say, regarding our world, and he is much more relevant to the modern worker than Marx. Particularly in regards to marx he points out, that Marxism is just more white privilege in his mind, and I agree. Just more of that old white bullshit.
Didn't Karl Marx's mommy make his lunch and bring him antibiotics for his carbuncles? He could barely walk to the bakery by himself he was so feeble minded. (something someone told me privately, not sure if it's historically accurate) But it’s well known his children loved him, which is good enough for some people. But seriously, how about labor theory from a more recent activist?
In the early 1900’s, Eugene Debs was a great socialist and ran for President from jail and got quite a few votes and was instrumental in convincing people they were worthy of decent living conditions and a safe, fair paying job.
Recall also, "fightin’” Bob LaFollette, Progressive governor of Wisconsin, who actually implemented Progressive ideals into action and reform starting in 1900. He reportedly had no carbuncles.
One person to accomplish advances for workers in recent memory was Cesar Chavez. Strikes for better wages at that time made the general public aware of the problem of incredibly underpaid workers in extreme, unsafe physical conditions.
Are there are no other theorists for the workers revolution? Maybe someone who goes outside once in a while and recognizes an impending climate disaster? It turns out people don’t care and workers seem too servile today to demand better pay. Maybe the spirit has been beaten out of us.
Why couldn’t American furniture makers compete during the 70’s? You don’t compete with 25 cent an hour workers in Asia, that’s why. Therefore, an important part of Market Socialism would be to boycott companies that don’t pay, not just a living wage, but a thriving wage, in any part of the world. This is where boycotts can slay the giant. The essence of the workers revolution. An injury to one is an injury to all.
We can't raise the minimum wage high enough here, till workers around the world make more. Simple fact, prove me wrong.
Just an aside here, but did you ever notice the most frantic recyclers are the ones who seem to be addicted to buying things online? A new malady created by Capitalism.
American, European and Asian companies have enslaved a billion people who now live in poverty, abject or otherwise, making nifty products and priceless junk for people with white collar jobs.
Sadly, it was American corporations that threw American workers under the bus by moving factories overseas. My dad worked at the Royal typewriter factory for 20 years and was a victim in 1972 of unemployment when the company moved to England for the low paid, desperate workers. Later, in the 80’s, the parent company then moved to Asia for the extremely low wages there.
YOU'VE NORMALIZED GREED YOU KNUCKLEHEADS.
It has been a pity that The Left is stuck on the chalkboard Utopia of communism, and some even hinged to its rapacious Stalinist sideboard. It's the Green and Black baby.
Dump the reds.
Americans are never going to call themselves communists ... and I don’t care how many quotes of marx or “books I should read” you throw at me. Or how the young "are into it."
The Blue Collar Green Collar and Pink Collar will become Americas largest demographic after the ' voter citizen worker '.
Pink, Green and Blue united as one. Unity without hierarchy for the workers. Covid showed us who the essential workers are.
Let the white collar parasites push the wheelbarrows for the Infrastructure Commons and let unionized blue collar workers fix and build up America again. The solutions to most problems lay in the garages of America, not the boardrooms in the cities.
Companies abandoned America in the 70's in order to take advantage of the reckless breeding in India and China and Bangladesh. Corporate farming created far too many people with its misnamed “green revolution”. In their desperate struggle to feed these children, they were willing to work for 15 cents an hour, 15 hours a day. How do you compete with that?
Savvy consumers: You should be banning plastic products made with pennies per hour labor, not purchasing them. Place a tariff on all plastic products and boycott companies who are not fair to their workers. Tactics people, try some.
At least try to source your purchases, because boycotts will be swinging from the cleanup spot in the big game. The mouths of these lawyer/lobbyist/leeches move when they run for office, but nothing changes, so it’s up to Progressives, Greens and Independents to stomp on the accelerator of reform. The DNC donkey is dead and rigor mortis is settling into the entire body politic.
Like Islam, it should seem obvious that extreme forms of Marxism will never work in this country. We have to make everything uniquely our own and that’s what people have forgotten. America IS different but no longer exceptional, with the right wing coup eating us alive like a tapeworm.
They purposely bog down Progressives with fruitless battles, that should never have been fought in the first place. Cuz a bunch of anti communist weenies (fascists) got their silk stockings in a wad.
Mass corporate hegemony of the Republican/Democrat, Wall Street Power Structure continues to feast on the pavement pelts of small business Main Street. Ironically, a minimum wage for all will be the final nail in the coffin of small businesses. It has to be a progressive or escalating minimum wage. Twelve for small business (under a million dollars of sales and income), 15 for medium(over a million) and 18 dollars an hour for billion dollar corporations. I'm saying have a lower minimum wage for small business.
Leave small business alone. Let individuals make 20 thousand dollars before taxation and let small business make 40,000 before taxation. Then, a ten percent flat tax.
American Progressives, Greens and Independents are poised to lead the world out of its miasma of greed, but this never ending, left/right tennis match (back and forth back and forth), has kept Americans distracted the last 35 years. Marx or Mussolini? What will it be? The Left has to abandon Marx to gain any credibility with the American worker, that’s all I’m saying. On the right, the GOP is what Mussolini had in mind.
The billionaires have shown their hand, they’ve chosen Benito’s corporate-run government, and they don’t care if we all die, and everyone knows it now. They are stripping the earth of her assets without any regard to the 100 billion people that will be born on this planet during the next 5000 years.
The workers revolution will be inevitable once the Steam Age academics of Marxism have been replaced and Republicans have been deloused and deprogrammed from the brainwashing of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
How do you like that? We need unionism, not Marxism. Marx is insightful, but not useful. Does he really have to be the face of socialism? A man who didn't work or bathe? People are not inclined to malign Marx online and I don’t know why not, I know I will get heat for my stance. Lost all my marxist frends on facebook.
I do know an American will never call themselves a communist. Sorry Tom and others, I’ve worked with a lot of people in three corners of this country and Americans will never call themselves communists. Never. Ever.
Down here in the underpaid working world we have adjusted in many ways to the vagaries of the market. Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich is the system we were forced to adopt.
Bankruptcy and foreclosure? Aw too bad say the bankers who are gouging the American worker with interest. Should be a crime, used to be. Tens of trillions of dollars charged in interest by bankers to the detriment of American workers. 6 trillion in yearly interest alone with our national debt. What the hell are these elites thinking?
For instance, in a world awash in excessive clothing manufactured by 25 cent an hour workers, we go to thrift stores now to buy much of our clothing in 2026. I buy three dollar shirts and pants on the regular and they are normally only nominally worn. I got storm shoes and a nice pair of shorts for less than $5. We go to Dollar Stores and church rummage sales and reliable second hand exchanges.
We love bargains, but let the buyer beware with the guy that has the frozen shrimp in his trunk though, we all have our particular discernments.
The whole scene is changing from below. There are more distribution sites from groups that are taking in food. If you can turn over a ton of food with volunteer labor in thousands of sites, we can begin to lessen the reliance on government programs and eliminate as much waste as is practically possible.
The problem with the bush and t***p tax cuts for billionaires, was that the wealthy were theoretically supposed to step up with more charitable donations, and of course a handful have, but the dark heart of capitalism always says, “no thanks not today, the guest house needs new furniture.”
My point being is that we are drifting back towards buying locally sourced products again, Market Socialism, if we possibly can. We are buying hand made quilts for xmas presents. We buy reconditioned bicycles The over credentialed, over certified white collar world isn’t going to rule us with their stuffed and mounted academic validations forever. We can and are creating a Market Socialism structure of small farmers drivers and roadside stores.
Another fix is we would lift the cap on social security from $106,000 to $ gazillion. Let everybody make a little money … for crying out loud and give them food stamps if they need them. Every person who has no permanent address but has a social security number, a basic income. Make the Republicans fill the social security fund back up. Let the billionaires give back what they stole from the languid, complacent, servile, no longer unionized American. See how that works?
Socialist Eugene Debs actually went shoulder to shoulder with the workers and spent nights in jail as needed. Progressive ‘fightin’ Bob LaFollette, in his role as governor of Wisconsin in 1900, actually implemented Progressive Pro Worker ideals into action and reform.
There are no other theorists for the workers revolution? How about someone who goes outside once in a while and recognizes an impending environmental disaster when they see it. People simply don’t talk about marx. I’ve worked in three corners of this country. Talked to thousands of plumbers and gardeners and property managers and security guards and administrators and store managers and even homeless people I find sleeping in the bushes. Not a one of them talked about Marx. The working people don’t talk about Marxism, they talk about what is going on in their life.
The maids, the sandwich makers, the floor polishers, the CNA’s, your finishers/your starters, the kitchen crew and clerical staff. Gardeners get around, we are usually the last to go onto a project and people unload their problems on us. The ferry captains, the car washers turned computer techs, the vegetable growers and organic chicken egg producers. I can’t ever remember talking about marx, but we did talk a lot about unions. First I saw a union go in in 1975 and later we decried the disappearing unions in the 80’s.
America IS different and no longer exceptional with the right wing coup eating us alive like a tapeworm and we need more than Marx to stem the tide. Small business has been destroyed and a minimum wage for all will be the final nail in the coffin of small business but we could have a cap for small business as I mentioned previously. Call it an apprentice wage.
Progressives, Greens and Independents are poised to lead the world out of its miasma, but the left/right tennis match (back and forth back and forth nothing gets done) Marx or Mussolini? The billionaires have shown their hand, and they don’t care if we all die and everyone knows it now. They are stripping the earth without regard to the economies of the future.
Make a showcase for ending government intrusion of the market place with these market based community centers. Really, why can't I sell produce from my house? Land of the Free? It doesn't sound like it. We are strangling from an over-tweaked, law debilitated paralysis that destroys too many small businesses and keeps communities separated socially. We are dependent on 8 companies to feed us, fuel us, fleece us and forget US. The four F’s.
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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.
