COMPENDIUM
FEBRUARY 2024
We are already in the process of creating small markets, and that is what Market Socialism (-2-12-) is about, and I also make a case for Bioregional Autonomous Zones in section two.
We are going to set the precedents of Earth stewardship for the Millennium ahead. Trying to give a voice to the earth and the two billion starving people on her. Exposing the systems of coercion and destruction that have been placed on Her, so that you, who has a voice, can speak up.
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 incorrect facts loose on the
internet with millions of undisciplined minds on the loose.
It is a consensus that we
seek, not confrontation, and need to require reforms that all sides can agree with. We can get there.
I created a series of interlocking systems for a simplification of this excessively technical system that is eating cultures like a tapeworm. We all must compromise. Except for when it comes to the earth and the ancient forests that remain. We start there by banning clear cutting.
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. We've failed to manage it up to this point, and we'll see how this first brush with extinction will end. 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.
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.
MYTH SEEKS TRUTH
1-1- THE WAY OF THE BIRDS contains the secret of the Universe
-1-2- THE STONE PEOPLE hidden from history. The
story of my people (and yours) the Iberians.
Too long. Read this last. Revealing pre-history
-1-3- IN THE MEANTIME some delightful heresy and
the crumbling facade of manifest destiny
-1-4- THE PURIFYING FLAME OF LIFE a bit scattershot. Spiritual aspirations and earth action
-1-5- THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS the birth of liberty
Connecticut in the 1600's
-1-6- THE REINDEER PEOPLE they painted caves and
survived 30,000 years. The indigenous Europeans
-1-7- SONG OF OOGLOK civilized hunter gatherers
and "cultivators" working together
-1-8- QUIET AS THE ELVES made up Viking
history
-1-9- ZEMYNA ZEPHYR ZORYA ZVORUNA
-1-10- VENUS AND THE FIRST HUMAN SOUL intro to my
religion
-1-11- THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC most of us
aren't Shamans and Empaths and Psychics. The story of magic and regular folks
-1-12- BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERAL CITY womens hidden history
-1-13- TAROT FOR NEWBS
SECTION Two UNITED SCAPES
-2-1- THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION war and
peace and supply and demand
-2-2-
PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE America
in 1765. alternative view of the Founding revolutionaries
-2-3-
II22 finally getting vacations. 40 days on the road
and an analysis of the highway system and why we have to think of the future
-2-4-
NON PROFIT BANKING Bankrupting usurious banking
-2-5-
A NEW SQUARE DEAL who were the Progressives and why do Liberals claim
credit for the reforms that upgraded America
-2-6-
MARXISM IN AMERICA Capitalism AND Communism are two
failed euro-centric economic systems. The world needs something better
-2-7-
SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS Greed Mockumentary
-2-8-
CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
-2-9-
LIBERTARIANS see revised blog version
-2-10-WHO ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE? most read on the blog
-2-11-
THE INDEPENDENT MAJORITY PARTY
-2-12-
MARKET SOCIALISM the inevitable market
system
-2-13-
TABOOS EXPOSED Unionism
SECTION THREE
THE FINAL
SLAUGHTER
-3-1- The Earth Movement
-3-2- GHOST NETS
-3-3- WILLING DUPES
-3-4- DO AS YE WILL
-3-5- FETID
CESSPOOL
-3-6- BOREAL GATHERING
-3-7- SON OF POPULUXE
-3-8- I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T
HAVE TO
-3-9- HARVESTING ZOMBIES
-3-10- MARKET SOCIALISM
-3-11- MYSTORY OF
METAL
-3-12- SAME AS 3-5?
=3=13- PROUD TO BE
PROGRESSIVE
SECTION 4 DRUDDOCCITAN
A SECRET GREEN CULT LANGUAGE. A SLANGUAGE
SECTION FIVE
A BRACING DOSE OF HERESY
-5-1- Liberty in ascendance over Religion
-5-2- I’M NOT GOING TO HELL AND NEITHER ARE YOU
-5-3- TOUGH LOVE I GUESS
-5-4- ANGER MANAGEMENT
CLASS
-5-5- SUBVERTING LIBERTY
-5-6- OUT OF THE TENT AND OFF THE CHAIN
-5-7- SATANS WILDERNESS BASTION
-5-8- TO YOU I HAVE COMMENDED MY SPIRIT?
-5-9- TELESTE
-5-10- THE INEXACT NONSENSE OF RELIGION AND THE
PRECISE BULLSHIT OF SCIENCE
-5-11-
JESUS AND ALLAH
-5-12- The Heart of God
-5-13- 34 COMMANDMENTS
SECTION SIX
1 WEEDS OR WILDFLOWERS FULL VERSION
MYTH SEEKS TRUTH
SECTION ONE
-1-1- THE WAY OF THE BIRDS
"We all learn to love all,
eventually"
.
The less you use magic, the
better it works 
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.” (1)
We love
the birds and plant our gardens in consideration of them. My effort
is to show you the way to plug back into nature, 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. Plant for you and
plant for wildlife.
The BIRDS symbolize
the spiritual wings we grow after we die and return to our innocent, spiritual
counterpoint, our actual immortal selves. Unless you're an atheist who doesn't
believe in an afterlife. Atheists are like birds that fly into your picture
window and BINK! They're dead. Consciousness lost forever. No
better than that moth that got caught on the windshield wiper.
This is what you are here for. Not to be sacrificing and working every minute
by keeping the devil at bay with busyness and business. Working to
exhaustion so the kids can 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.
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. I relate to different aspects of religion in this E book-to-be, and my goal is to truly explain Freedom of Religion in the hopes that one day the world will live it. Polytheism can't be considered flights of fancy, it's more like myths seeking truths.
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 the Dead Zones, from the Gulf of Mexico to the gated community retention
ponds that are constantlyPollinators and migrating
song birds 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. (2) "The secret to life lay within a single seed" (2) 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 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. The gods and goddesses were born into this Universe, yet, have no ideas of their origins. Or
how the Universe began. It’s always been here. I made up a religion just to show how easy it is to make one up..
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 and also with the Master Gardener Volunteers, and I found that most people don't want to trample over the environment. Whatever their political views are. After WW2, suburban yards were a war zone as commercials convinced us that we wanted bug-free plants and a perfect lawn.
Resource extraction
continues unabated. It has become time to stop The Final Slaughter of Nature and
human rights, of family, and community.
Then there is Green resistance. The Greenhammer.
The canary in a coal mine is migrating north with climate change. Pope Francis is making it easy 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.
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 animalsmigrated back northwards.
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. Remember they survived, and the dinosaurs didn’t.
Small songbirds carrying endemic and rare seeds to new locations are crucial in saving plant species. Evolutionary changes take thousands and millions of years and we are forcing natures hand, to do something extreme. 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 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 cyclical cycle of heat that would result in extinctions and crop failures.
Then again a serious volcano could erupt creating a nuclear winter and it will cool off that way.
A cyc with a compromised
atmosphere and ocean, is greatly exacerbating the near total destruction of
Earths living systems. Pest insects will adjust faster to changing conditions.
Birds will be able to keep insect populations from becoming overwhelming, and 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 as they have in the last 75 years
SAVE SEED
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. The environment is quite real, God maybe not so much, and that is still my opinion. The gods and goddesses represent the forces of nature. I didn't mean to get all New Agey in the first article.
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. Not a myth, but the truth.
Speaking of seeds, there ere 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 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 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.
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 that's where you start.
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. 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. I happened to glom on to Seed Savers
Exchange way back when in 1977 and bought every seed book they had. They
have firmly developed a system of sharing seeds while stemming the flow of
extinctions in the plant world.
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 are gone. On your watch, yo. Unchecked development and habitat loss has put ecosystems and watersheds in peril arounbd the worldas you 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.
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.
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 and what the false promise of salvationFor 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.
-1-2- 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 article, 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.
THE STONE
PEOPLE
A) MYTH SEEKS TRUTHS
B) THE OTHER WHITE PEOPLE
C) WHO ARE THE IBERIANS
D) ALTERNATIVE ENDING
a) Myths seek truth
It all started when I was researching the roots of witchcraft
and trying to uncover how worshipful Pagan traditions could have started. More
specifically, I had a feeling I was going to find the truth about the first
religion by going back to the days of the Cave Painters, 15 to 35 thousand
years ago. They lived in Southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
Curiously at that time, within the inhabited world
25-30,000 years ago, hundreds of carved Venus figurines appeared in disparate
and far-flung places. From Austria to Australia, if I remember correctly, and
it’s another mystery scientists are having trouble deciphering. Somebody was
doing a lot of migrating.
Cave art and carvings are all that remains of
these most ancient people after their shelters and fire altars and clothes have
weathered back into the earth. The Hunter-Gatherers had always been
part of the earth, but it was also the end of the Middle Stone Age and
time to kick it up a notch.
In this era of stolen narratives, one of the biggest thefts has
been by christian nationalist malcontents and their idea about who white people
are. Well, I got me a passel of facts to hassle these asshats with, so
back atcha, you betcha. Some myths too.
People be acting like all
this anglo-saxon-germanic-scandinavian motif is what Europeans are all about.
But these folks are relative newcomers compared to us Southern
Europeans.
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As
people research their white roots, it seems to be all about northern European traditions.
Warrior traditions and Gods. “Arrr, always recycle, and remember the skull of
your enemy makes a swell drinking cup you can use over and over again.”
Well, hold on one
cotton pickin’ minute there Sven… What about the French and
Portuguese? What about all the Mediterranean people, the Berbers, Dogons
and Malians who used the Mediterranean, and the Sicilians and vivo Italia and
Occitania, c’est la vie! Then there are the Cretans and Corsicans and the non-Hellenic
residents of the ancient Greek hinterlands, not to mention thousands of other
ancient places and forgotten people.
As
I discover my people’s heritage, I note that there doesn’t seem to be any TV
shows that show us in our flaxen braids and horned helmets. How can anyone with
a drop of Nordic blood invalidate our claim to indigenous European ancestry and
spirituality? My point is that we are all reanimating our pre-christian past
and that’s the good thing we have in common. Light whites have written the history, while the dark whites are the ones making it.
But where are my people? I never see my people on
the internet. We eat black bread and olives, drink clean water, eat figs and
aloe and a multitude of berries and nuts and we barter for a slab of Venison
now and then from the hunters. What is my culture and where is it?
A couple of Sophia Loren movies and that’s about it. The new Aladdin
movie is in the Middle East. (that’s not us) How are we different than the
Nordics or the Middle Eastern people and their "blood as high as a donkeys
shoulder."
As it
turns out, the Vikings weren’t even horn-helmeted, but that’s a misconception
for another day. 98% of Viking adults were farming and herding anyways, but
you don’t hear about them. Unfortunately, it has always been about warriors and
battles and Machiavellian shenanigans from the clergy and the court.
Not all Europeans
were Vikings, duh, and most paid lip service to the Christians after they were
conquered. Our American history books are all about christian war
victories, and they are embedded in such a way that the violence is normalized
and justified, and no one bats an eye. Why were we warned about the
witches and not the people who burned and hung them? We are indoctrinated to
the myth of christians conquering savages but, hell no. People are discovering
that their Pre-Christian roots are actually very interesting, and the
music is compelling. The Christians were the savages. People hear the
music and are entranced.
In a
ginormous leap of faith, the white nationalists have fraudulently claimed all
of Europe as their own and twisted it into another white guy warrior world
where, “everyone’s a Captain Kirk”. The Germanic thing, that slippery slope of
racism thing, is throwing shade now with the rampage of white nationalist
terrorists in mosques, synagogues and churches in the United States and
elsewhere. Death threats is the milder form of terrorism that is yet to be
recognized, but is becoming more widespread..
Listen,
most of us were fishers and farmers and traders and it’s in our blood. We know
about "let the buyer beware", in our distant past. We are about done
with all this religious zeal and right-wing nationalism, whatever form it
takes. We want markets to sell our goods and services.
Therefore,
I’m going to introduce you to a new narrative. It’s not nationalism;
it’s the rising of the clans. All the clans, all the independent groups of
people around the world can be uniting without the usual hierarchy. Pagan
Europe was a peaceful world, but they didn’t have the weapons to stop the blood
thirsty xian and xlamic middle-eastern invaders and were consequently subsumed and subdued.
Who are my people? I’m like 56% Iberian and 25% French. Got
lots of Iberian in your DNA? Lots of Iberian in many people’s DNA? Well yeah,
and here’s the story why.
I am of the people who knew the Berbers and the Corsicans, the Canary Islanders
and the Phoenicians. The Basques, the Gauls, the Goths. We were there. The
Scots and Irish have strong strains of us in their veins. The Celts visited us
first when they initially gathered together and left for the Alps as the Ice
Age ended.
It seems that the Frost Giants had built a mile thick glacier over
Northern Europe, and the proto-(K)Celts wandered over to our little corner of
Europe in the southwest part of the continent for the duration of the cold
weather. Fire in the cave entrance is what they did.
There are fascinating remnants of ancient populations around the
Mediterranean such as the Berbers and Basques that cling to pieces of their
ancient culture, not to mention the hundreds of enclaves of diverse culture
from Cordoba to The Caspian that have been marginalized, if not destroyed.
In ancient days, The Iberians were the reindeer hunters, the cave
painters. Thousands of years later, the Masons and the Jewish people knew they
were safe from persecution if they came to live with us. In turn, they brought
us a written language, stonework and secret rituals.
What I’m suggesting is a unity based on a unification with all the independent groups, tribes and peoples
on this ever-lovin’ earth. What may chafe some people’s goiters, however, is
that I include the people of Northern Africa and southern Europe as one region. Africa north of the Sahara and southern Europe share a common identity. Some people don’t like
the suggestion that there was an ancient civilization in what today is known as
the country of Mali. These were the people before Egypt. The Mediterranean was
our ocean. Myself, I trace my origin to somewhere north of the 626-mile Tagus
River. Where the earliest Europeans were found in a cave. Mixed with
Neanderthal, no less.
Ra’ist academic motherfuckers over the years have actually
drawn Africa smaller than it actually is! Anything to minimize how much was
being stolen out of the rich land in our planet’s largest continent. Africa and
North America are the most species rich places on Earth but were
enthusiastically despoiled by Christianized Europeans and why I consider most
wealth, illegitimate. The money it took to make money is covered in the blood
of innocent people. Even today, Africa produces 75% of the world’s cocoa but
produces only 2% of the products made from chocolate. China is plundering what
it can in Africa. Loaning countries money and taking over ports when they can't
pay it back.
The people of the Mediterranean mingled together until the Holy
Rampage of Conquest by Islam and Christianity disrupted the diversity of the
Mediterranean cultures and the ancient Pagan traditions. Amazigh are what the
pre-Islamic people call themselves in North Africa. Men and women’s roles
weren’t defined so I am talking very much to women who are up in arms about
abortion and the impending NAZI takeover of our government.
Remember Ladies, the best way to a man’s heart is through the fourth and fifth
rib.
Everybody worked in the Iberian type of culture. In the
summer we rested mid-day. You were part of something, everyone had skin in the game was an early form of
market socialism and there were ways to give to the struggling poor. These
markets worked. Compassionate villages took care of the general welfare of
those around them.
We intend to embrace all the worlds independent and unallied people in our Iberian Revolution, as we pull white racism out by the entire root. Invalidate their jaundiced, “we are the only Europeans that count,” attitude.
We embrace our brothers and sisters to the east and the Kurds’
ancient struggle. We are able to connect them to the Kingdom of Iberia in present
day Georgia … or Ukraine or Armenia, somewhere out that
way. Kurds are more genetically connected to Iberians than
other people of the Middle East. There’s a connection there.
An interesting video about African migrations was that Africa is
both above and below the equator and the drastic changes in the geography were
much harder to traverse and adjust to, unlike the east to west and west to east
migrations of most ancient people which were primarily from Mongolia to
Romania. Northern Africa has always been part of the people of the
Mediterranean and we are claiming and cordially invite the Dogons and Malians
to join us since we share the ancient heritage. In fact, very likely, we come
from you.
Africa south of the Sahara is plenty big and organic crops grown
there can dominate world commerce. South America poisons its produce and the
east depends on pitifully paid employees. Europe is over-developed, so Africa is
poised to become an organic food hub for the world. Build the worlds energy
dynamo in the Sahara with solar energy and support the thickening of the green
belt of millions of trees being planted to halt the advancing desertification.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/iberia-prehistory-dna.html Turns
out that numerous Neanderthal (silent h) skeletons are being found out
towards Eurasia NOW instead of just in Europe as had been the case. Seems the
hub of Neanderthal activity was out near the Caucasian Mountains. Armenia
or Azerbaijan or wherever, I lost all those tabs, whose got time for all this
research? Internet is out.
Europeans
have been inaccurately portrayed as hairy backed cave-dwelling lunkheads, but
the Neanderthal is part of who we are and what no one will tell you is that we
are also the Grimaldi People.
Plot twist here, who are the Grimaldi People? The proto-Grimaldi’s
began their ancient journey after Toba erupted 75 thousand years ago, as the
migrating Sans People from Southern Africa. Migrating north, they were dosed
with the ancient alien Dogon spirituality in Northwestern Africa, and then they
morphed into the non-Pygmy, Cro-Magnon, Grimaldi People, crossing the straights
of Gibraltar 65-70,000 years ago.
Black
hobbits they were, and the reason Mediterranean men are so short. What people
are unable to accept is that the Grimaldi People were the first modern humans
to traverse the entirety of Iberia and southern Europe. Black people were the
first modern humans to inhabit Europe, and they taught rock art to the
Neanderthals as evidenced by recent findings in caves. We need a message of unity
and consensus and we’uns need to shut down abusive authoritarian nazi creeps
and their lies.
There
was probably intense cooling for a few years after Tobas volcanic explosion and
the ash cloud circled the earth for many, many moons and the rapid regrowth of
the ice caps and glaciers caused the ocean to lower for a time after Toba,
exposing more land and land bridges. Crossing Gibraltar could be done with a
sturdy raft, and swam if Gibraltar could be seen. During the last Ice Age
people walked during low tide and some say the Atlantic was walled off from the
Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean Sea evaporates much faster than other
bodies of water, and being isolated from the Atlantic Ocean AND the Black Sea
during the great ice age, no one is certain how low the Mediterranean Sea
actually went.
I’m
speculating that Solstice traditions may have begun with the ancient memory of
Toba and the trauma that ensued during the aftermath and how people did
anything that they could to get the sun to return. The survivors embossed the
traditions with ceremony and reverence. Greeting the sun as it returned.
Take a look at Google Earth and
note that all areas of shoreline with a depth of less than 100 feet and imagine
that it was dry land for a time after Toba and you can be certain there were
people living there. When a great Ice Age finally arrived 55,000
years after Toba, our oceans and seas and bays were as much as 350 feet lower
than today and it seems science is just coming to terms and contemplating this.
White academicians love incrementalism, but catastrophism is what actually
happened.
My great and
fabulous ancestors savored the abundance the Mediterranean climate offered. We
are also the people who hid the Druids as they were fleeing christian
assassins. We docked the Templar ships on their way to hide in Scotland as they
were escaping the same. We are genetically tied to people from Scotland to
Kurdistan but we have no warrior culture so we are ignored by the media.
b)
THE OTHER WHITE PEOPLE
We are the
Iberians and in our heyday the earth was healthy. We spent our time netting
fish and harvesting fruits and collecting and saving nuts and seeds as they
came into season. We were hunting reindeer, sewing together clothes with
sinew, and drawing lots of groovy shit in caves, you betcha. Clueless,
stuffed museum characters staring at their naughty bits. I don’t think
so. With no defined male and female expectations, women were enjoying
life as much as men.
Eventually,
weak insecure patriarchal religions encouraged the slicing off of vital man
parts while the other crazy desert religion chopped off women’s parts. Then
insist they are civilized. Not funny, I know, considering all the
suffering.
We
drove those sorry ass Neanderthals out of their caves, god bless ‘em, and man,
they were some dumb motherfuckers, but they had some bodacious disease fighting
genetics. I get some stern looks when I say Neanderthals are the reason
Italians have hair on their back. (I’ll edit these rude bits out later but
Italians do have 4% Neanderthal compared to the European average of 1-2%. Just
sayin’.)
I also
find it amusing, but disconcerting to other people, when I say that Norway,
Sweden and Denmark were covered with a mile thick sheet of ice while we was
already livin’ in our little hillbilly villages. Many people came to our corner
of Europe to hunker down during the last ice age ten to twenty thousand years
ago and we lived in many small villages on both sides of the Mediterranean as
one wave of people after another rolled in. No wonder most of you
motherfuckers are Iberian.
Yessir,
we was hunting and gathering but seriously, how hard was it to grow the plants
they needed? In some places fruit seeds that were spit out survived and grew
into fruit filled trees, and if you think they didn’t figure out shit like from
there, then you’re stupider than you look.
We lived in all sort of caves and natural protected areas. We had
look outs that kept the dangerous man-eating animals away along with pests on
the crops or on their favorite patch of wild blueberries. WE had oasis’s ‘n
shit, yo. Slept in the trees if that’s all there was. Home was where they left
their spear points. Or home was that special spot where they found Reindeer
antlers and a cool spring where they could rest on the short soft grass, or
where there were berries all summer long. The water was glistening and clean
and healthy and they often lived near waterfalls and the fish were practically
jumping in the pan. Oh, about that pan.
Academics and Pagan Reconstructionists are all about sacred spots, but think about it, how much time do you spend praying compared to how much time you spend getting and growing and cooking and eating food? Right? How about the time spent at work so you earn enough to spend it in the store on Friday? Too tired on Sunday to costume up and go to church.
But back
to the Iberian Revolution.
Why hell, we was so
advanced we even had 32 symbols that have been found throughout southern Europe
and the Mediterranean islands and these were not 500 random doodles with our
language, but the same 32 symbols in a widespread area and in the deepest
caves. We had ports way before the Phoenicians and Sumerians came to trade with
us.
You don’t think
ancient Iberian teenagers were tying logs together with vines to make rafts to
go raise some hell somewhere? You can be certain they weren’t the
lifeless caricatures you see in museums. They had love and humor and wonder and
friendship and only 32 symbols, this was not random shit, this was a language.
We’ve been lost to history, “disappeared” as they’d say in the modern parlance.
Our story, bought to be buried.
Venus
figurines, thousands of stone houses and a symbolic language. I was closing in
on something in my search for the ancient religion it seemed. Unfortunately,
the Library of Alexandria was destroyed so I’ll have to make some things up.
Scientists
are like, ugh, we don’t know what these 32 symbols mean. Logic maintains the
symbols were part of an existing language at the time. Remember you were taught
that “civilization” started 8000 years ago but these cave symbols are from
20,000 years ago. The symbols created maps, perhaps, or where and when ripening
fruit occurred, or where it was easy to catch game or where other
members of the tribe were located. Come on, a central
village and small satellite communes have been around a lot longer than
8,000 years. Humans last evolution into homo sapiens was about 120,000 years
ago and recent archaeological research and DNA confirmation shows there was
more migration than what was once supposed.
It’s
even possible that the Nordic runes were derived from the 32 symbols found
throughout Iberian caves and dolmens. Taken by the Celto-Iberians into the
center of Europe. Now THERE is something to chafe their goiter. Caucasians are
the Johnny-come-lately people of Europe and I have finally found the indigenous
Europeans and they are the proto-Iberians; the post Reindeer People. Who knows,
maybe the symbols and drawings were an ancient version of tic tac toe that the
aliens taught us!
They figured shit out. They figured a lot of shit out. There were
copper pans 25000 years ago, you betcha. An archaeologist has never found one,
so therefore they never existed? Historians always assumed my people were
idiots, standing around the fire burning their hands and shit trying to figure
out how to cook meat.
There is a natural human instinct to fuck with shit around the
fire. I know if I was living back then and I found some copper or some other
malleable shit I’d be fuckin’ with it. Be sittin’ by the fire and shit, banging
it with a rock throwing it back in the fire till a flattened metal cooking
utensil was created.
What else was there to do but explore their world? Trying to
create sparks by banging different rocks together. There was no going to
town to pick up some sunscreen for your primitive adventure.
But if an archaeologist doesn’t have a white peer review,
then your research or speculations are not valid. You think they were
staring at the fire in awe? Naw, they were fucking around burning shit and
melting things when they weren’t carving beautiful Venus figurines. They
went to work, literally at the grindstone, making their tools sharper than the
Levite machetes that were used to behead Pagans thousands of years later.
In too
many cases, Science is just more white privilege. You know the schtick, western
civ educated are the only legitimate sources of science. Harvard Yale Stanford
blah blah blah. Folk knowledge is shit they think, tribal elders aren’t writing
papers they’ll say. That’s the attitude of white colonialism, so I’m of the
impression that there may be a much deeper racism in academia than there is in
rural Alabama, and once you see it, you will never unsee it.
In 2022 we
still have fetal alcohol syndrome racists who have traditionally discounted and
jettisoned scorn on “pointy headed Ivy League” professors in years past. Ironically, these
elbow-patch, city slicker, mostly liberal, professors, are the ones who codified
the ‘only white science is knowledge,’ scenario. You can’t make this shit up.
My central
point in the efforts here is to dig out the entire root of racism. Something
people can read so they are no longer swayed by exclusionary rhetoricians or
demagogic politicians. Invalidating the most destructive prejudice of our
era arising from white nationalists can’t happen soon enough.
Another elephant
in the room is the brutal forced conversion by the blood-thirsty adherents of
Islam and Christianity the last 1500 years. The insane violence of these Middle
Eastern, desert, kook religions, with their “blood as high as a donkeys shoulders”
as (a gratuitous biblical reference I just threw in there.) The women were
brutalized and children were less than goats and sheep to the obnoxious
patriarchy that took hold in the Abrahamic religions.
Many
centuries later, the Spaniards became the most vicious … the absolute worst
when it came to inhumane treatment. Indigenous Native Traditional People gave
these white devils the skank eye.
Old white historians
have created the history we have read the last couple of hundred years and
(cough cough), I must note now that white historians are slowly edging away
from the oogly boogly dimwit Caveman concept of the Neanderthal, now that white
people have the most Neanderthal heritage. Lol.
Many years later when
the ice melted at the end of the last ice age, plants and animals went north in
an unprecedented abundance that the Celto-Iberians and others took advantage of.
Back to the
stolen narrative issue, my people hunted reindeer and horses and had large
gatherings in Solutre France, long before Thor was even a gleam in Odins eye.
c Who
are the Iberians?
The remnants of the
Reindeer People followed the reindeer north as Europe warmed up 10,000 years
ago. The fish were so numerous, a bear could catch them with one paw tied
behind his back. Other Iberians followed the sun east and stayed in sparsely
populated human gatherings, bringing the initial technology of the Later Stone
Age to those still stuck in the Paleolithic. Neolithic harbingers of invention,
they greeted every migration from the east.
We migrated east
all the way to the Black Sea and discovered the Aryan people on the other side
of the Caucasians. We taught them how to make clothes so they could head north
to fight the frost giants. Wink wink nod nod
Who are the Iberians? We
were there in Egypt when Sashat was pounding in the stakes for the pyramids.
Our buddies, the Sumerians, made the hemp rope for the marking lines and pull
carts. My people go back in time even further to Noblecki Tepe and the bare
ground before construction. Who were we? Why did we gather together at Solutre
and Tobleeki Teepee 12,000 to 25,000 years ago? How did we move multi-ton
stones and why were we erased from history? How are we considered second class
Europeans today, and why? Because of white bigotry of dark whites.
This is my whole
point, right here. People telling me that no one cares about ancient history,
but what I am trying to do it expose the entire root of the racism of white
people before they start WW3. Take it out by the root they said,
that’s the only way to eliminate racism, so here it is.
Who else but Christians would have
a Hundred Years War and a continual cycle of atrocity and reprisal? Islam only
seemed to have a cultural Renaissance 800-1000 AD because of all the rich Pagan
cultures they encountered, and presumably accepted to some
degree. “Here comes the Sharif, hide the cards.”
The Mediterranean Europeans
seem slighted, so let’s embrace the concept of
THE STONE PEOPLE.
Kurds are our ancient brothers and sisters and we are genetically connected,
particularly to the Azoreans. Something about a J2 haplogroup.
We have been given the
history eraser button because of our unshakeable faith in the Goddess. We love
Cerridwen of the Celts, Freya of the north, Mary of the people and Nu Kua of
the afterlife. The ancient Gaullic goddess Dexsiua, once hidden, now is the
May Queen and the goddess of the life-giving southern wind. Don’t be alarmed
now.
We are Children of the Goddess. The hidden
history of Yemaya and Venus. The Empresses of Atlantis and their consorts, Atl
and Grong. You’re wrong Grong, lol. He hated that name. “Call me
Spike, yo”.
The young hunter
named Grong awoke in a tree. He had once kilt a black jaguar with his Daniel
Boone spear point and was bundled up in its coat. His half open eye spotted the
sunrise and he rolled the coat/blanket/robe up and climbed down the tree. Then
he went over to where he hid the bison jerky, he carried with him for emergency
food.
He had had enough of cold weather and he was headed for warmer
lands, and he was certain, he wouldn’t come back to the cold lands, having barely
survived last winter when devastating polar vortexes
occurred. “Frost Giants” he was told.
As mentioned before, 74,000 years ago, a volcanic ERUPTION exterminated 90% of
us. Soul equipped life and intelligent design made recovery quicker for the
humans.
20,000 YA a great ice age began to lock up freshwater into glaciers and levels
of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea began to get lower and settlements
travelled lower with the shoreline, no one quite understanding what was going
to happen in the future, they assumed it was natural. Shellfish was abundant
with the receding waters and the alluvial soil grew bountiful plants. People
were settling deeper and deeper into the lake basins where there had once been
water.
The
flooding that occurred after the previous ice ages was largely forgotten.
Global Cooling dropped water levels everywhere 10 to 20 thousand years ago. The
Mediterranean Sea is an evaporation sponge and possibly dropped lower than
other bodies of water, as I have mentioned.
People were busy exploring and finding areas that contained an abundance of
fruit and nuts, which was chiefly our diet, along with fish. Groups
of hunters were following giant herds of animals, and a very successful group
was called The Reindeer People. Impassable mountain passes blocked
this hardy, adventurous bunch once the Ice Age was fully underway 16,000 years
ago, so they gathered in Solutre, France for many thousands of years and
hundreds of generations. In time the reindeer followed the
retreating glaciers and never came back to Southern Europe, replaced by the Red
Deer.
Modern genetic testing is proving my wildest speculations of our pre-history to
be true. I made up a story about how Atlanis was a scattered group of
communities that communicated telepathically. Quite a large part of the
Northern Black Sea is only 70 feet under the surface of the water and was above
water for many years. Probably since the Toba eruption 75,000 years ago. So in
my story, homo sapiens final evolution was 120,000 years ago (for the last
surviving homo species, us). So 25,000 years ago we were evolving around the
Black Sea and the Red Sea during colder periods. There was a great
meeting in Atlantis and all six colors were represented. They went in six
different directions to all return together some day as one. Out of many, one
race.
The
reindeer people learned to sew together clothes more than 20,000 years ago
which allowed them to travel further north and adjust to the colder
conditions. It’s speculated that the Saami People were actually Reindeer
People from the Iberian Peninsula who got caught in the temporary
return of the ice age 12,000 years ago during the (what the fucxit called?
Greater or Lower Dryas or something). Graham Hancock thinks meteors hit the
North American glaciers and the ebbing Ice Age returned for a time. Recently
there has been more scientific proof of that.
The
reindeer also went north and were extirpated in southern and central Europe by
the end of the ice age and it is believed the Laplanders of today are remnants
of this civilization of reindeer hunters. Their compelling drumming ritual, and
a life revolving around the deer remains to this day. DNA testing
shows that the Saami are related to the proto-Iberians.
The
Reindeer People of ancient days had sharpened bones for making clothes with animal
pelts stitched together with sinew (muscles, ewww). Their fancy arrowheads were
the most advanced at that time and were as sharp as Roman swords many centuries
later. You can bet along the way, an occasional greenstone axe was created,
since they were skilled at using muscle fiber, sinew, for strapping down
the occasional axe head.
Just
because archaeologists haven’t found this or that artifact, doesn’t mean it
didn’t happen. The Ancient People were more industrious than we give them
credit for.
But
Science tells us axes weren't made till thousands of years later. Blahblahblah
harvardnyale. There’s that over credentialed expert again, Mr. White
Science.
Keep in mind the reindeer hunters are also called the Cave Painters. Oh! And
what if they never painted in caves? Like every other artifact, it would
have weathered away, but since the discovery of the cave paintings in
Southern France and Altamira Spain, we have begun to piece together some of
what happened in Iberian Pre-history.
There was
history and civilization before war making communities with their walled cities
came into being, and before the Bible told everyone that god made the world
***poof*** in like six days. Yeah okay. People still believe that shit, sad.
This is
why I think Atlanis was not an advanced society lost to history, destroyed by
crystal technology and all that New Age nonsense you have heard. Stone Magic sure,
but I am trying to get you to imagine a world being filled with primitive basic
instincts. I think people tend towards kindness, and I can easily picture
people hanging around the fire, drinking fermented fruit, eating small mammals
matter of factly. "Hey Joey, look what I caught!"
Is it so
outrageous to suppose these people had friendships and their sense of humor
sometimes carried the day? Ya reckon they laughed and had fun?
Of course they did! Most of history has weathered away or remains hidden, but
more is being revealed every day and we need to stop thinking like white guys
with clipboards.
Then,
(white academic elitists) pretend to speak for the ancient people? Everything
is about gods and Booga Booga, but most people chopped wood and carried
water. Could give a fuck about whatever god the preacher, priest, pastor
or shaman talked about. Lifeless recreations in museums belie the fierce nature
and inquisitive initiatives of our ancestors. And I do mean OUR ancestors. We
are all in this together in the future. No more color or genders. Drive
the xians and xlamics back to the middle east so we can live in peace. Leave us be.
Maybe the Goddesses are trying to tell us to wake up before growing populations
and shrinking resources reach a point of perpetual crisis. I like
to say, 100 hands clasped in prayer cannot plant a tree. It’s time
for action not prayer. Religion is irrelevant but love isn’t. Faith has no legs and trees are real and give us air.
Oxoheartsvoken is
the peoples love. The love of all the people and the compassion that
communicates, creating a community of Love that binds us all together. Bound
together in communitarian communities, “We all learn to love all, eventually.”
Giving when we can, receiving when we need it. It's there for all of us, except
maybe some of those nasty Republican hypocrites whose souls will be
extinguished when they die. LOL.
I am envisioning an anarchic Iberian union that will include
all the ancient tribes that are about to disappear, The Swamp Arabs (they are
the last vestiges of the Essenes, Jesus’ tribe) were victims of Saddams
genocide. The Ainu have finally been recognized by Japan. More on this in a
bit.
History
was written by the winners, the warriors, the dogmatic ideologues and TYPE A
fartknockers. The braying sycophants worship the crumbling façade of manifest
destiny and continue to perpetuate this predatory capitalist earth destroying
philosophy. Pagans are among history’s losers; hung, banished, burned,
conquered and otherwise, in 21st century parlance, badly losing
the battle in a hostile takeover bid.
We can save
all the accumulated cultural memories in one place now, and we realize there is
more to us than war. The poor and disenfranchised write their stories today,
not just kings and lawyers and other nefarious characters of the court and the
realm. The past was once ours, and though it was burned in Alexandria and
destroyed in every culture that came into contact with Islam and Christianity,
the myths abound for us to seek. So my premise I want to introduce is that we
mobilize politically to drive these Abrahamic religions back to where they came
from. Drive Islam and Christianity back to the Middle East.
The
Pagans were on the receiving end of war and invasions, but mostly people lived
their lives, in synchronization with = nature. They hunted and gathered, and
began the long process of knowing which plants could help which
ailments. Pottery and poetry were invented and metallurgy was
discovered. Just because science has not found much evidence of so-called
civilized culture more than 10,000 years ago, does not mean a civilized culture
did not exist. Ancient people had a diverse palette of food. Fields of
Blackberries and Figs and Almonds or whatever and wherever they camped it was
possible the seeds they spit or shit out would proliferate around these sites.
They knew where to go throughout the year. When they weren’t wiped out with Ice
Ages, Volcano Winters and hungry overwhelming predators, they persisted and
travelled.
Maybe
their buildings weren’t big with foundations, and their temples were nothing
more than shrines in sacred places like, tree groves or special shelters. As I
like to say ‘if an archaeologist doesn’t find it, does it mean it didn’t
exist?'. The only reason we lack artifacts of culture before 10,000 B.C. is
that nature has taken back all the wood and animal objects used by ancient
people. I also suspect any trace of the aforementioned STONE
PEOPLE was destroyed as years rolled on.
The reindeer people were a healthy group of hunter-gatherers that survived a
total of 30,000 years, no one disputes that. Historians and scientists kept
shoving the evidence of the Reindeer Peoples advanced culture under the conventional
wisdom rug however. Hidden history, they were six feet tall with
brains somewhat larger than ours in some cases. Look it up. Skulls
in caves, and recently, more elaborate burials are being found. The Reindeer
People were also known as The Cave Painters, but Hollywood has confused
Neanderthals with these healthy Reindeer People who are also known as the
Solutreans and later Aurignacian.
The cave dwellers are portrayed as hairy, uni-browed ogres that used sticks as
tools. We are led to believe this, it shows you how a lot of the past has been
misrepresented, and many times what is being taught is downright false. Hidden
by historians is the apparent healthiness of the inhabitants of the
early goddess cultures. Dismissed as a fluke with their
art in the caves. The cave paintings are just the tip of the iceberg regarding
their talents, as I’ll explain. Neanderthal man, who went extinct 25,000 YA, is
the cave dweller of movies and TV. The Reindeer People were the
indigenous people of Europe.
Scientists want to perpetuate the myth that people were once
sickly, short and disease prone, but now, because of science, they
declare, people are healthier in this modern age. Actually, the truth is that
humans degenerated in the Middle Ages from their hardier hunter-gatherer Paleo
and Neolithic ancestors, and they became peasants and chumps that allowed
feudalism to exist. Christianity has had the effect of making white people weak
and servile.
The natural abundance of Earths ecosystems was destroyed and
people were moving to the cities, living like rats; and eventually becoming slavesto
the growing industrial machine.
They degenerated even further as advancements in
science created a society where family farm incomes collapsed, because of
Mechanized Agriculture. Sterile, poison packed seeds became the
norm. Altered genes in your cereal. “I don’t want to think about that right
now.”
When Ice Age glaciers melted, vast valleys of grass appeared
across central Europe because Mother Nature covers her dirt as quick as she
can.
Fish and game multiplied at an astounding rate, I would assume,
till the prey populations could catch up. The humans ate bunny rabbits and
currants and figs and grasshoppers. There was not a call from the hubby at
the store, “should I get the 15 oz or the 12 oz?” Just eat it. Fish roiled the
fresh clean water of melting glaciers and ran heavy in the undammed streams and
DDT-free wetlands that appeared after the local glacier melted.
The humans mutated and evolved to the conditions they found
themselves in. Like tomatoes. Like humans. This is why you find black tomatoes
in Siberia. They absorb the very minimal sun better than other colors.
The specious white nationalist argument is that only recent white Europeans are
the only lives that matter. Like the last few thousand years, whereas
Iberians have been many colors over the years. My point is that todays
Nazis have taken a tiny sliver of white history, claimed it for themselves and
are treading on the rest of us who have deep and ancient pre- xian and pre xlamic
cultural traditions.
Today it seems we are no longer evolving; we have reached the
pinnacle of civilization people keep telling themselves. So here I am in
Paradise Florida with my arm stuck out the window like a fuckin’ hillbilly or
something. I look around and no one else has their window rolled down. Pasty
old white people of West Vero Corridor grimly going from doctors to the stores.
Gods waiting room they nervously note. Functional statues.
From the home pod, to the transportation pod, to the doctor
pod to the shopping pod. Cut off from nature forever. I mean, it’s 72 degrees
outside right now, nearly always perfect weather for four months, but out of 50
cars only a handful of us outdoor workers have our car windows rolled down.
What would even be on when it’s 70 degrees, heat … AC? Millions of little white
snowflakes silently melting into the pavement, not much raging against
the light here in my little census district.
So-called western civilization is not our culture and many are returning to a primal relationship with our natural surroundings. With ocean and sea levels 300 feet lower than they are today, the time of the Ice Age was a time of great migrations around the Mediterranean Sea. The deeply tribal, indigenous Europeans had been living in peace for over ten thousand years by the time the ice Age began 20 thousand years ago. Bright white historians have been busy re-inforcing the idea that Ur was the first city. When people started growing wheat in the "cradle of civilization," 8000 years ago. Toblecki Tepe had been in existence for four thousand years.
Where did the ancient
Iberians come from? As I stated, the Grimaldi people of Africa traversed
southern Europe 60,000 years ago and remnant males remained behind with their
Neanderthal girlfriends and later asking the Cro-magnards that wandered into Iberia 45 thousand years ago, out on
dates.
From
the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea, I’m suggesting villages used some form of
psychic powers to stay connected, and they travelled from village to
village, much like the Masons with their lodges. This is where all these stone
houses come in. Not masons, THE STONE PEOPLE. Most were hunter
gatherers but permanent settlements dotted the early human landscape 40
thousand years ago, contrary to what you have been told by white racist
academicians. I mean c'mon, prairie dogs live in co-operative villages, you
don't think humans were? 25,000 stone houses called Dolmens are not getting
swept under the rug anytime soon. A vast fraud has been perpetuated about our ancient history.
d Alternative Ending,Lucifer thought if he could distract her, then entrance her with powers she would leave her leadership role behind and help him create the patriarchal nightmare we have today. Lilith and Adam were sufficiently impressed with this booming voice in the clouds, but Lilith was suspicious and eventually told him to "eat my shorts", in the vernacular of the day, and stomped off. ,Lilith didn't want to "become stupid" in this faux paradise while becoming servile and subservient in this "man cult".
The Doomsday Hound started to call himself the God. The God of
all. The God of everything. "Really?" asked
Adam.
"I made the sun and moon and all the
lights in the sky."
"The animals too?" asked Adam. "No shit! You da man!" Adam
exclaimed.
"Yeh yeh, all the animals too." Well, this was a miracle and Adam was
ready to follow this god, this deceiving light. Satan/Lucifer told Adam his
name was God and soon after he found Eve who was not the sharpest tool in the
shed, and they soon started a family. Cain and Able did not ******their sisters
but married women from the nearby village. Jesus Christ who would believe this
stuff? About 2,000 years later God was telling this dude named Abraham that
Adam and Eve were the first people 'in the whole world' and this little white
lie became the biggest untruth ever told. How do you disprove a
gobber like that? Just like in the Mel Brooks movie Moses was carrying the
fifteen commandments down from the mountain he tripped (nobodys perfect) and a
third tablet smashed into
pieces.
This
Satan inspired tribe really came into its own when the Levites came into power
about 4800 years ago. They burned their daughters (it's in the Bible) if they
remained pagans. They knocked down goddess temples, torched entire villages
laying waste to many peaceful people.
Hey,
light bulb moment. 3 gods and 3 patriarchal religions, seemingly from the same
source is more than a little suspicious. The evil, malignant trickster god can
inspire violence and talk to humans such as Abraham Jesus and Mohammed.
(burneth thy daughter is she playeth the whore suggests the old testament), and
he is pretending he is the One, the one true god. I'm saying this happens in
all three religions-Islam, Christianity and Judaism. They all have god
firmly on their side but have been fighting about it for thousands of years on
the blood-reddened soil of the Middle East.
The loving goddesses sent Jesus to thwart the efforts of the evil trickster god via the Goddess Mary. Then there's the goddess, the earth mother
or Ancient Mother, the ancient maiden Zorya greets the dawn, then
there’s the mother Zemyna. The moon goddess -- Zvoruna is the Crone. (She who
sleeps with one eye open). The male force of all positive activity, one of only
eight gods in the entire universe, can only protect the earth with an electromagnetic
shield and whose spirit inhabits the sun. We literally have a Sun God. That was a brief intro into the secret green cult religion.
I’m serious, push them back to where they belong. Africa
Europe and Asia were ravaged by colonialism and communism and
slaughterism. You think I’m kidding. We work with the Nordics and
the Africans and the Mongolians and we drive them back and make them take
their bullshit Mosaic and Sharia law with them.
Imagine the unity of 200 African tribes and 200 Indian tribes and
all the other struggling indigenous people around the world that I’ll soon be
making a list of. The Berbers and Kurds and Ainu, the Sioux and the Cherokee and, as a few examples. The tribes in the Amazon are fighting the fascists. We
are all fighting the fascists so remember sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
This story is not a pointless diatribe, but a call to arms.
Create a worldwide network with the CPSE. Community Product and
Service Exchange. The computer connects us, but the laws bind us. Let the buyer
beware. Caveat Emptor. Use your head to help other people and the suffering of two billion working poor making
goods for those who don’t know how good they got it. Help those who are victims
of natural disasters.
Let the people who make a lot of money fix the roads and
bridges since wearing out our road system was how they made their money. Then
create transportation access for all the people in the world. This is how we
work together globally because an authoritarian global centralized power is too
close to completion and we are going to represent the needs of the people to
stop this. Imagine someone dumber and meaner than t***P, it could
happen.
Imagine sycophantic right-wing goons with high tech control of all
satellites and computer networks. Robot dogs patrolling your streets
and sniffing your home for guns. All Your base is theirs and also control
of your garage door opener, your locks, your cameras to see how Fido is doing
while you are at work. All your base is theirs, even your karaoke machine and
self-driving car will be controlled from one command station filled with red
hats. Enforced by robot dogs. “Arf!”
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-1-3-IN THE MEANTIME, WE HAVE THE
CONSTITUTION
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, 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 be born as a human. She was conceived from the spiritual melding of Mary with the barren womb of
her mother, Anne. The Divine Adoption, which ended with the Astral Ascension.
TMary 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 first 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 in a cosmic womb
that Joseph seeded. Nah, this is much more workable theiry.
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 and
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
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
some nice liberal synagogues. Jerusalem was such an uptight city, you
know? 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. Jesus was going to invalidate this trickster
god when he grew up. 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.
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. . 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.
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?
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
was 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 #4 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.
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 2023, 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.
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 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.
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"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.)
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.
-1-4-The
Purifying Flame of Life
"They had to do something with all that stolen gold,
so they built a bunch of big churches over Pagan holy sites. This may be
their undoing because these sites will be the seeds of apostasy."
14,000
years ago, settlers came across the frozen North American continent and 15,000
years ago, they came from Solutrean sources across the ice and tundra and
16,000 years ago in South America from Polynesian sources. As they traveled,
they marveled at the lush conditions and plentiful opportunities for omnivorous
humans. Many years later, the Native Americans taught the English about the
food and the medicine the land could produce. Thousands of years of knowledge. It’s their
land.
In
the 1600’s, industrious New Englanders became known for their work ethic and
self-sufficiency. Often supporting large families, ignoring their European
homeland, they often had political, religious and economic freedom, and this is
rarely mentioned in the over sentimentalized Hollywood version of
reality. It was anarchy. Later, new arrivals moved to Appalachia and
beyond to maintain this tradition of self-sufficiency.
Protestant
Preachers ruined this burgeoning freedom whenever they could, with their
ridiculous patriarchy and hellish strictness. Poor people were not
famous, so there was no reason to tell their story---the story of most of
us.
There is a growing sentiment that religion has prevented humanity from socially evolving while others point out that the Church created the greatest art. The Churches wealth was tainted and derived from all the gold they had stolen the previous 400 years from many Pagan cultures, and you know Karma is going to kick their ass sooner than later.
Even today, the rich use paintings as their own currency, while children's bodies are being found buried in Canadian Catholic mission
schools. "Kill the Indian and save the man." is a quote from Richard Pratt who
started the first Mission.
Remember,
the Masons built these churches, and along with artists, were often heretics who
didn't knuckle under to all the Catholics rules all the time. But everybody needs a job, and
masonry employed many. The church had to do something with all that gold, so
they built a bunch of big churches over pagan holy sites.
The Pagan gods and goddesses are still alive and are returning to teach us how to be human again. “Our birthright is happiness, born from the dawn of time” as African band Osibisa states in one of their songs. The notion that we can all live together equally is the basis of many Pagan and heretical Christian faiths such as The Quakers. The Quakers influenced the Founding Revolutionaries in the 1700’s, but they had been severely persecuted in the 1600’s. Christians immediately tried to create a theocracy and people such as the Quakers were ostracized and even murdered. Pagans are harassed continually and don’t even consider being an atheist in the 1600's, as the American Colonies seemed headed to Theocratic Despotism.
Christian preachers, and I assume, Islamic Preachers; use the demon card a lot and congregants really believe atheists and Pagans like me, are possessed by demons. I mean, think about it for a second. These accusers are whacked and wicked. Has a single demon been actually seen in the last two thousand years?
You might also read how Amish-living, Jesus-loving ascetics called the Cathars were burned at the stake 800 years ago. As were the Templars by 1307. The faith of the Cathars was so strong; they stunned their killers by singing joyfully as they were dying. The King and Pope and numerous other, so-called dignitaries came for the execution of the leader of the Templars, Jacques DeMolay, in 1307. And Demolay cursed them as the flames rose higher. Just imagine Jesus looking on in horror as this happened? He would have kicked the Popes ass right there.
This is the purifying flame of life. Our soul is seared and scorched with reality and renewed with pleasure and relaxation. Our birthright is happiness. It can get boring with all that cotton candy flavored Ice Cream and all whatever else in Heaven. This isn't punishment; this is diffusion of the spirit and fusion of the soul. We need this experience, and we need to learn how to love.
I refuse to see the universe as evil, although it's scary to
think it could be true of the KNOWN universe. Kind of scary a radioactive dust cloud could kill us all. Hubble us seeing exploding stars 'n shit. When we die, it is the same for
all of us. There is no prison sentence in purgatory or an eternity in hell, you
can be assured of that, but there is possibly a peaceful resting spot if that is what we
desire. We scatter, there's new bondings and other worlds. We carry that string
of connection as long as we choose.
If it’s unexplainable, or seemingly a miracle, how does god always manage to get credit for it, that old rascal? How do these people know the unknowable? We must shed this uncomfortable garment called faith. Faith has no legs and is a bad presumption for the future. What about a nod to Svarog, Priapus, or any of the other gods, then? Pan says "it's break time somewhere."
In truth, The Christians actually prefer gold to god and
their moronic rationalizations allow them to be cruel and manipulative. Their
god is gold ... without the L for love. Preachers curiously using the Old
Testament for their sermons. Prophets of god or Humbug? It's all too dodgy
to create the vanguard into the future.
Christian clergy insist we worship the creator with our every breath, and too
effin' bad about the planet. Use up the resources; catch all the fish, cut down
all the ancient trees. God gave it to us, they claim. Par for the course,
but I’m saying it’s a triple bogey. God may not provide for the future, and we
may have to take care of the planet ourselves. Stupid fucking Morons! Faith stumbles on with wobbly legs.
God has worked so many miracles in their
life, people always tell me, and how can they explain it — just have faith they
tell me. Um, no thank you, that doesn't sound like freedom to me. Unfortunately,
faith is not only superstitious, but dangerous. Christians have
used Jesus as a shield and sword for their nefarious, outrageous cruelty over
the centuries, and today, christians are excusing rapacious greed after having
gathered much of the worlds wealth. Whether it's the Papacy or the rich WASP
industrialist or the conniving clergy, most of the best has been cut down, dug
up, sold and turned into gold bricks.
Accepting Jesus Christ as your savior with the local
pastor only gives him a dominion
over you and Christianity seems to be nothing more than
Linus' security blanket that people cling to during their “blessed” day.
Thinking they got a leg up on immortality, but its laughable 😁 bullshit
that I had figured out by Fourth Grade.
Do you see that atheist over there? Hell for her. Hell and
burning. “It’s like burning a hundred Christmas trees and jumping right in the
middle, ya know,” George Carlin describing hell. Hell for the Pagan, Hell for
the 25 cent an hour worker that refuses to accept the Lord, although she works
14 hours a day making your good Sunday shoes over in Bangladesh. Children
making expensive suits their daddy is too poor to buy.
History is rife with various manipulations of the Bible and this chapter is written to give you some food for thought as we battle Satan’s minions in the letters to the editors page. They keep trying to put their Old Testament God into our classrooms and try to wire our childrens brains with their dumbed down version of morality, the Ten Commandments. Grooming is a big word today.
Colonialism, Christianity, and the Scimitar of Islam have left endangered tribes all around the world. What a shame some said in the 1700’s, when they heard about what the Spaniards did to the people of the Canary Islands. Wiping them all out. You have to wonder how people inhabited an island out in the Atlantic as the indigenous Canary Islanders had done.
Some say
it was a remnant population of the Great Empire of Atlantis or that they were
related to the Basque or Berber people. On the other hand, maybe they were
Polynesian sailors who may have sailed around the tip of South America to a port to trade with The Stone People.What
could we have learned from them if we took the time to understand their strange
language? This is the brutality we have to rise above. Or maybe they were all
killed because of what they all knew. The secrets of the Ancient world needed
to remain secret.
If you
remember history, most of the world’s knowledge was transported to the great
library in Alexandria by 130 BC. In later years it was burned to the ground,
and the ancient scrolls were lost forever. Single copies of books were the norm
and they no longer existed. Maybe the natives of the Canary Islands knew
too much. The world wasn’t ready to hear about ancient civilizations from
35,000 years ago. the Conquistadors must have figured. Some ill-tempered,
superstitious Spaniards, and it was over.
Unable to
leave things alone, we are still wiping out Stone Age tribes. Before 10,000
B.C., there is no specific date you can say some historical event took place.
Middle Earth was the Western Alliance with Atlanis, and was located between the
Red and Black Seas.
I would worry if I were you if you've decided to
be an asshole in this life. Maybe evil people get sent to ant heaven.
Where giant ants try to bleach or burn us. Try to spray us, step on us, leave
out sweet poisonous bait and burn us with lighters. Or shark heaven,
where sharks cut our arms off because human arms are considered an aphrodisiac
and we float helplessly to the bottom of their ocean.
This will put humility back into the soul that has just
spent a lifetime as a rapacious human plunderer. We are rapacious polluters by
proxy because we don’t want to know the full scope of pollution and animal
cruelty and poverty we create with our materialism and "low prices".
Most Karma is worked out after we die.
Meanwhile
back at the ranch, export executives chortle at the collapse of rural society.
They made their money with Big Coal and too bad about the one-industry towns of
the South. The mom-and-pop system of yesterday has the capitalist boot at its
throat, that is not much more than a thug with a tire iron as corporations supplant the
local supply chain with corporate dependence. People clouded with material
riches and separated from the outdoors want profits and the Liberal city
slickers laugh derisively at the bumpkins joy of a clear bubbling stream. Their
million dollar property has it’s own stream.
The Big
Business CEO clips another fat cigar as insect species become extinct before
they were ever even identified. No one seems to want to dare these large
corporations. No one has the temerity and the lawyers to tangle with the
New World Order. Moreover, you know they are not telling the truth. “If anyone
asks ya we was out smashing mailboxes.” ( ) Obscure cultural
reference.
“Send the
nets out”, the bosses yell as their 10-mile wide nets scoop up more than fish
headed for market. The extra fish are emptied back into the ocean bleeding and
injured. Do we want predatory capitalist corporations representing how we
feel about the worlds resources? Which are our world citizen
representatives?
Even
after crossing the Atlantic, they would know they were near land from the smell
of giant pine forests of America. Then marveling at the ancient trees and
running their horses in these forests that were clear of branches for like, 50
feet. Horse hoofs softly pounding on a mulch of pine needles on the forest
floor: violets and lilies, reeds and rushes scattered about where trees die or
after a fire where when the sun gets in. The fish were jumping out of the water
and right into the frying pan in the north America that once was.
Maybe our God or Creator is just a renegade God, someone in the galactic work
release program. Banished, but somehow it still managed to sneak out some
building blocks of life. Someone who should have been locked up. Nevertheless,
this seemingly vengeful God has released Aids, monkey pox, anthrax, smallpox,
and 4000 other delights on an embittered and embattled population. The rebel Gods
theory is that people should go through the purifying flame of a difficult life
before achieving heaven. Whereas all the “normal” law abiding gods in other
galaxies make life as easy as possible with its primary soul equipped creature,
since the Spirit is immersed in love.
Into the future where my disaster scenario has world population at 11 billion
in 2089 but then it crashes back to 4 Billion after the attack of FUNGUS-x. An
infectious, irascible attack on the human body spread by rain or in the air. It
was everywhere as was the smell of death.
Who can
say what God is, other than dog backwards? Hopefully, an afterlife will be our
spiritual journey to join up with this so-called Creator. Maybe The Force or
maybe even the corn god. We certainly are not going to burn in hell for 435,000
years (1 eternity) for what we do in this little life. I don’t think
so. Satan is the greatest hoax of all time and the finest tool for
controlling the masses… the bewildered herd... In your eye with custard pie
satan. I ain’t scared of something that doesn’t exist, but I still disrespect
his nasty ass with a small s satan.
God
doesn’t want me in heaven, so I go to hell to be burned alive and never
die? Burning in hell for 435,000 years? I wonder how people can even
believe that. I wonder if humans lack some common sense, the actual missing link? This is why the USA tries to keep religion out of the public square. Bad
enough we've been subsidizing christianity all this time with the lack of
taxation.
The ancient forests have been ignominiously sliced and sold like luncheon meat. So why is sustainable forestry such a hard concept to understand? Why are we convinced there is nothing we can do? Instead, the restless maw of exploitation seeks profits wherever trees can be cut down.
Japanese as of
late are notorious with their style of predatory capitalism. Giving jungle
tribes trinkets for the right to chop down their traditional hunting areas.
Previously these avaricious capitalists have compromised self-sufficient
tribes. The quality of wood products, of the wood itself, is declining
precipitously. There is a trend in the last 30 years where builders use wood from
houses over 75 years old. It’s worth the time to salvage it because that kind
of quality acquired from older, mature trees rarely exists anymore. How good is
furniture made with wood that is still practically green?
One of the most widespread
misconceptions is that there are more trees now than when the aforementioned
sailor/settlers began arriving on our shores. This from the forked tongue of
Rush Limbaugh of course. In his view, 800 one-foot seedlings are 800 times
better than one lousy ancient tree. There might only be five or ten trees in an
acre of old growth. A diversity of growth. Deep forest creatures. What
then of the subsequent applications of herbicides pesticides fertilizers
rodenticides, molluscides and the rest in those tree plantations.
Georgia Pacific finds ecosystems inefficient. They need to plant trees in rows.
Now our timber has insecticides and pesticides in it. Prove it you ask. Hey, do
you see a lab coat? The essence of the Ancient species was that there is so
much life. Nature continually changes and renews herself.
"A lot of wealth was created illegitimately, so hence my lack of awe and respect for the old wealthy families. I'm all about taxing the illegitimate wealth accumulation and having health care and the means of survival for the battered bodies of the least fortunate. The ones not quite physically able to work 14 hours a day with virtually no breaks. Elites have assumed they deserved all the best; thinking the working classes were nothing more than foolish imbeciles.
Hey… leveled forests. Filled in wetlands. Legacies of dead fish, dead buffalos, and dead birds. Death instead of abundance. I know the anger and frustration out there, and once the people feel their power, it's over for the elites."
This is a Christian nation? 96% believe in God? In addition, all these people
think humans should overwhelm this planet? Every other life form is a lower
priority and should not be saved. 96% of the country believes that God only
wanted humankind to enjoy life? They feel no pain the intern heard often as she
sprays different chemicals in the eyes. Heaven or hell, religion tells us it will be one or the
other for all of eternity. For one stinking lifetime on this…planet….the butt
hole of the universe. I don’t think so!
These obvious shortcomings in our belief system make humans the way we are.
Like a bully justifying why someone needs to get beaten, Capitalists tell
themselves that they can extract minerals and clear-cut forests and fill in
wetlands because……….we are the mighty humans, gods goriest creatures! We are going to heaven and the animals aren’t, except
maybe our dogs and cats. Parrots and Ferrets too I suppose.
My idea is to have an umbrella organization for all the Pagan solitaries out
there. “No more robes” could be our motto.
No robes, tiaras or fairy loops. A simple earth religion with a handful of
ceremony. The Druddité religion I made up can be used as a model for your own group
or solitary activities, an introduction to Paganism and you go on from there,
wherever you will.
Just a few simple things and the rest of it is
spontaneous. A more earth centered religion with less ritual and ceremony. More
ballet (joy), less bureaucrats (tedium). More trees, less skulls and
demons. No more robes. I like that idea and so would many others. We don’t
really want to be identified with Neo-Druids or the New Age
kooks.
Some of the more peculiar aspects of pagan rituals seem like useless nonsense,
but I do realize that spectacular magic has to be done in the spirit of
learning and knowledge, and I know there are reasons for certain phrases.
Although, I was just reading about some Pagans who make a point of never doing
the same ritual twice.
Druddités want to capture some of the ancient knowledge about sacred places, so
we use instinct and heart. I think a lot of what goes on with Pagans may
not be appropriate for all, and no offense to ritualistic Pagans, as usual, I
am trying to find a middle way, a different way. Think you got the answer? No
one does, got it? Pagans are the ones to most likely embrace the fact
that we really can’t quite know what the Hereafter or Afterlife is about, so
get over it, and take care of the earth in the meantime. Trillions of people
will follow us in the next 100,000 years and this is a big part of what the
Earth Movement would be about, a sustainable Earth.
Pagan priestesses and priests can be at a kind of a kind of purist level, like the Cathar Perfecti, but more importantly, Paganism really needs to embrace the working poor and middle class around the world. We've always been the vast majority. Women are more inclined to enjoy the colorful and symbolic ceremony, but many women are also too shy or uncomfortable to use all the robes and objects, and would be very amenable to paganisms gentle ways without the dress up. Fetish much?
The Goofiness factor has discouraged many from Paganism, so usher in Druddism because Halloween is all the dress up some of us can manage, men and women alike. Halloween is our new year, not what we do all year. Our gushy soft spirits are damaged in this material sphere and we should be more inclined to savor this life. Life on Earth should be a purifying flame and not a crushing blow to our spirits. This is the change we need to make.
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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 favorite stories. The history
of the Charter Oak updated and my hometown remembered.
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 the christian
albatross around our
neck.
-1-5- 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.
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? To Hell with you!
-1-5- 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.
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, very
little in the way of 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 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!
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.
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.
PAGAN
FAIRY TALES
1-6 The
Reindeer People
" I want to create. I don't want to perform. “
Thus
starts the initial, four-part, Pagan Fairy Tales. Much of Pagan history has
been lost, so I decided that I would make some up. Questioning traditional white historian narratives.
This
chapter starts a four-part fictional story of four forgotten eras; the first
being the era of the Reindeer People-- 40,000 BC to 14,000 BC. Then along comes
the era of OOglak, in the Song of OOglak from 12,800 BC to 9800 BC. Thirdly,
there is Groniger Bloodaxe from a thousand years ago and then Zorya, Zemyna
Zvoruna Zephyr from Lithuanian mythology.
So little of pagan history is known, and conventional wisdom is on the ropes as new discoveries arrive. Scientists are finding more extinct primates that never evolved into Homo sapiens, and they are trying to stitch together threads of myth to fabrics of truth. Rocco Hornspread and Aargballs the Pirate are yet to come in a line of my descendants…that I made up… that leads to Antonio Suggins and Dagmar Oxoheartsvoken of the current day, and their 13 children who are the stars of “Middlestone Avenue.”
One
of my favorite books of all times has been The Outline of History by H. G.
Wells. You know him from science fiction, but he was considered quite the
researcher and innovator in his day. He published 'The Outline of History' in
1921, it was updated in 1949 before his death, and I bought the updated 1971
edition from the Book of the Month Club. Professor Wells took a decidedly
different approach than his Eurocentric peers, but still, it was primarily war that linked events
from one era to the next; historical eras I mean.
Is war really our history? It seems like it in the history books. In 2101, will the beginning of the 20th century be known for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? We are the history, the opposite of war, the peaceful community of ordinary people. Today as I dropped off my 5th grader at school, we were talking about history and I told him, “history is not really about wars like you're being taught; it should really be about ordinary people like you and me, and what we did and how we lived.” Because now we can save all the accumulated cultural memories and realize there is more to us than war.
The poor can write their stories today, not just kings and lawyers and other nefarious characters of the court and the realm.
The Pagans were on the receiving end of war and invasions, but mostly people
lived their lives, in synchronization with = nature. They hunted and gathered,
and began the long process of knowing which plants could help with which
ailments. Pottery and poetry were invented, and metallurgy was discovered.
Just because science hasn’t found much evidence of so-called civilized culture
more than 10,000 years ago, does not mean a civilized culture didn’t
exist. Göbekli Tepe has thrown a wrench
into the old white historian machine.
Maybe their buildings weren’t big with foundations, and their temples were nothing
more than shrines in sacred places like tree groves or special shelters. As I
llike to say, ‘if an archaeologist doesn’t find it, does it mean it
didn’t exist?' The only reason we lack artifacts of culture
before 10,000 B.C. is that nature has taken back all the wood and animal
objects used by these ancient people.
There
is a pyramid called the Red Pyramid and people are saying there is an ancient
weathered building within this bigger pyramid. In my novel “Middlestone
Avenue,” the biggest secret of all time is revealed. Or maybe not. Depends on
what you believe.
Thank the Goddess the Reindeer People made drawings in caves or we would never have known they existed. I don't believe the stories of Atlanis that say there was some advanced culture and there is no evidence anywhere of Atlantis or any remains. But, as we speak, artifacts are being dated further back in North America , such as the Vero Man in Florida. A 14,000 year old bone carving.
I tell the specious tale of 35,000 years ago when gatherings occurred around the first city. They
crowned a king named ATL and a Queen named Lani and they called their land
Atlani. Atlani(s) which was at the southern end of the Black Sea and most villages were in the northwest corner of the Black Sea. All traces of
Atlanis were submerged in floods after ice ages which would raise oceans 100 to
300 feet.
Forgotten history begins with the Goddess. Huh? Not pharaohs or kings? The Boys of War are what we’re mostly taught, and Pagan lifestyles have been left out of history. Armchair generals write the history in their dry, clever less way because most dudes love war. But 85% of the people born before 1500 were pagan and they were generally polytheists, and female goddesses were well represented, and, as a rule, people like the Celts and Gauls had much respect for women. You know, father son and the what?
I consider the Romans more like the Christians than Pagans and why they so easily supplanted the Romans, thus becoming the Holy Roman Empire. I was born in a Roman Catholic church. The warrior elite came to dominate societies by this time, and especially with
the Romans, who are frustrated Neanderthals if I read that right.
Now,
in the 21st century, our modern sensibilities aren’t 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 as they had done for much of the past.. They are getting back the Divine Feminine and beating back
the Patriarchy of the three Abrahamic religions, with sexual equality.
The
reindeer people lived from 45,000B.C. To 15,000B.C., and although
my mention of Atlanis is fanciful, the Reindeer People were real. The people
who had invented art, it is said. Esteemed historian H.G.Wells, was my original
source of this information and he named this group of hunter gatherers, the
Reindeer Men. H.G. wrote this in 1921, so keep in mind that women in the United
States had finally been allowed to vote the year before in 1920. Hence my
renaming of them from Reindeer Men to Reindeer People, which acknowledges our
modern sensibilities.
The
reindeer people were a healthy group of hunter gatherers that survived for 30,000
years. Historians and scientists kept shoving the evidence of the Reindeer
Peoples advanced culture under the conventional wisdom rug. The Reindeer
People were six feet tall with brains larger than ours in some cases.
Look it up. Skulls in caves being discovered and more elaborate burials are being
found. The Reindeer People were also known as The Cave Painters, but Hollywood
has confused Neanderthals with these healthy Reindeer People. Also known
as the Solutreans and Auragnacians, going back even further.
The cave dwellers are portrayed as hairy, uni-browed ogres that used sticks as tools. We are led to believe this, and it shows you how a lot of the past has been misrepresented and downright false. Hidden by historians is the apparent healthiness of the inhabitants of the early pre-goddess cultures.
Dismissed as a fluke with their art in the caves, the Reindeer People have been misrepresented as cave dwelling lunkheads, but the cave paintings are just the tip of the iceberg regarding their talents, as I’ll explain. You see, white historians have been hiding the fact that the ancient reindeer people, then the Copper Culture of the Lusitanians followed the age of the Solutreans. This is why the western migration out of Africa has been swept under the rug. It invalidates the "indo-european" notion that Europeans came from that race.
So much of history is bunk. You are taught that the Indus Valley is where humans came from. The fertile crescent. the cradle of civilization blah blah blah.
(16) AURIGNACIAN - the World's First Abstract Mindset Man (from Europe) - YouTube
The Neanderthal People went extinct 25,000 YA, and are the cave dweller of movies and TV. The
Reindeer People were the indigenous people of Europe, and the Laplanders are a
remnant population. H G Wells speculates the Laplanders got trapped too far
north as an ice age returned during the Greater Dryas. (don't ask) and they adapted. Recent DNA discoveries have
concurred that this is true.
nter gatherer
Atlanis as an empire was in its golden age by 30,000 B.C. or 32,000 BP if you prefer. Its islands and territories bound together like the Roman Empire, but spiritually instead of physically, and there were tribes from the Baltic Sea to the Indian Ocean. People walked, talked and traded. Black Tribes moved back into Africa 60,000YA after wandering in the middle east down the coast to India and possibly further.
They came back as Homo Sapiens.
Aurignacians, Solutreans and the Reindeer People are the indigenous Europeans. They were there before the ice age while your homeland was covered in a mile thick sheet of ice, Sven. Crumpet munching historian 30,000 years of peaceful living and art. The Great Dispersal when it all ended. The center of communication for the ancient societies was a gathering of villages on the north shore of the Black Sea and ancient village of Atlanis at the Bay of Bosporus?
There was no
Atlantean destructive crystal technology, and no giant palaces but two other
important talents: mental telepathy and most crucially of all, being able to
manipulate matter. The greatest examples were the last before the magick was
lost but not before leaving behind Stonehenge, the Sphinx and the ancient
building inside the Red Pyramid and the hidden Mayan Temples. The great riddles
of our age. The secret to moving multi ton stones is lost in the past. In
Egypt, Bast was not a Goddess, but a real woman and she helped lay out the
dimensions for the Pyramids pounding in stakes for the Sphinx around 11,000 years ago.
The second most recent
glacial age began 20,000 years ago and peaked around sixteen thousand years ago, and the warmer temperatures in the 8000
years to follow, melted freshwater glaciers and tundra. Atlanisians began to
abandon the coastal towns and followed the rising waters as ice caps shrunk. Later, as waters rose during a period of global warming from 10
to 16 thousand years ago, the main island became separate from outlying areas.
Many outposts were abandoned as citizens sailed for the mainland. All traces of
the greatness of the Psychic Kingdom of Atlanis were lost under water. Avoiding
the slowly rising water became a way of life. Most of the Atlantean
culture is buried in 70 feet of water and mud near the north shore of the Black
Sea.
Check out Google maps,
you'll see what I mean. As Atlanis reached its zenith many feared the worst and
sailed to higher ground on different continents settling on various shorelines.
A final dispersal of ancient people. The people hidden from history by the crumpet munchers. "Doris! Another crumpet please, it's helping with my writers block."
12,800 years ago began
the warmest 7 years of that postglacial era 200 years before the Greater Dryas)and glacial melt tripled, flooding
drove all shore dwellers further inland. At the time in Europe, the Reindeer
People never noticed a thing. They followed the reindeer and foraged from the
abundance that was on the earth. They travelled between Lithuania and France as
weather permitted. Atlantean villagers wandered far and wide while the
Reindeer People continued rendering their great artwork in caves that had been
abandoned by the Neanderthals. Nothing so amazing really, Atlantis was
more an idea linking large and small villages that were in communication with
each other telepathically and physically. They walked and talked great
distances and had the same brain potential as us with out all of todays
distractions. Our brains are mostly filled up with junk.
A majority of the
research I have been reading also has the Black Sea as the location of Atlanis, not
in the Atlantic Ocean. In the Indian Ocean, 55 Gazillion tons of lava
have been found in lava streams at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and there is
evidence that a large chunk of what was southwest India collapsed into the
Indian Ocean. This may be where the myth of the lost continent of Lemuria has
its source. As with all pre-history’s disasters, many people lost their lives
and this myth leads to the Legend of Lemuria and the lost story of the Lemurs, but
that is a tale for another day.
Not Darwin’s fittest, but
survival of the luckiest is the actual reality. If California broke off
tomorrow due to an earthquake in a similar catastrophe, you would be lucky to
survive it. It wouldn't matter how fit and agile or clever you were.
There was The Great Flood 12,800 YA, which was exacerbated by volcanic outbursts in the North Atlantic and then meteors hitting the North American Glacier in Canada shortly afterwards during the ebbing Ice Age. The rapid melting suddenly became a rapid re-freezing. and gave the Ice Age a brief return.
There is archaeological evidence in the
fjords of Finland, that there were 300 foot Tsunamis at some point. Tsunamis
have played a greater part in our pre-history than they are noted for, and
cliffs and large amounts of rock falling into water have caused tremendous
disruption of the earths climate in previous eras.
It is not so strange to think a chunk of ice the size of Greenland landed in the ocean as the earth warmed up after the Younger Dryas Period. The splash heard round the world, I’m sure. The Reindeer People didn’t even notice the seas, they were continually heading north with the reindeer that preferred the cold Boreal Forest. The last of the Atlantean refugees mated with remaining Reindeer people and became Gaul’s and Celts and Visigoths and before them the Solutreans.
H.G. Wells put a face on these ancestors. He called them the Reindeer Men, while declaring the evidence of their heights of six feet and brains as large as those of us today. Their diet was healthier than today’s sugar, sodium and fat encrusted fare. 12,800 years ago with the temporary warmth, the Reindeer People headed into northern climates. They became the Celto-Iberians and went to the Alps and Carpathian Mountains.
This is why some people think the Saami people of northern Norway are believed
to be a remnant population of the Solutreans. Originating from Northern Spain
and Southern France, settling and migrating as far north as Moscow and Vilnius,
Lithuania they were slowly heading north as glaciers retreated.
Scientists want to
perpetuate the myth that people were once sickly, short and disease prone, but
now, because of science they declare, people are healthier only in this modern
age. Actually, the truth is that humans degenerated in the Middle Ages as they
became peasants and chumps and the natural abundance of many ecosystems was
destroyed. People moved to cities, living like rats; slaves to the growing
industrial machine. They degenerated even further as advancements in science
created a society where family farm incomes collapsed because of Mechanized Agriculture.
In Goddess oriented
pre-history we find many cases of quite healthy people, the Reindeer People
being a good example, the First People of Europe. H.G.Wells describes one
of the great gathering places in France. “At a great, open air camp at Solutre, there seemed to have had annual
gatherings for many Centuries. It is estimated there are bones of at least
100,000 horses, reindeer, mammoth and bison.” As they were thriving, the
beetle-browed cave dweller known as Neanderthal Man were in decline and extirpated during the reign of the Cave painters.
The Reindeer People
made bone needles for sewing clothes that are superior to those of other early
cultures, even past the Roman era and the Renaissance.”
( ) I’m
not kidding when I tell you they had leather clothes and they printed insignias
on their clothes, from carved reindeer bones and dye. The biker uniform of
the last 50 years is similar to what they wore, without the wallet on a chain,
and the tattoos were more on their leather clothing, and not on their body. True
Facts.
The Reindeer people were the first Cro-Magnons of Europe. The Native Europeans, andwho can say what is left of them? As I write in ‘OOglaks Song’, many reindeer people stayed behind and mixed with the cultivators from the Middle East. H.G. Wells from his history book, “They had a sense of animal form; they had the real artists 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 the 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.”( )Capslock Mine
words by H G Wells
30,000 years of peace, as
far as we know. The Reindeer People ate berries and nuts and as H.G. Wells says
in his History of the World “….when reindeer gathered so did the Reindeer
Man.” Did they possess something we didn’t.? The art in the cave paintings
was not equaled for another 10,000-20,000 years. The bone needles they made
were so sharp that even the Romans could not compare, as I said. So, when I
heard these Solutreans had migrated to North America I had to ponder the
possibility. Scientists are finding more evidence that America was settled by
these Indigenous Europeans.
Could
their lives compare favorably to ours in anyway? Let’s see; wild meat has one
sixth the fat of what present day meat eaters consume from the Super Market.
Very likely they slept peacefully (snorers were thrown off the cliff). No
deadlines or reports to finish, and as hunter gatherers, there was not even
crops to protect and harvest; can we assume it was the Garden of
Eden?
Archaeologists
were puzzled at first when they saw little stick figures drawn amongst the
vividly shaded and colorful renderings of cave art by the Reindeer People. Then
they realized that these stick figures came along much later, drawn by
supposedly more advanced people. The cultivators the wheat growers.Studies show that these Reindeer People were
heavily muscled and were above average in height and scientists and religious
leaders have suppressed information concerning the Reindeer People because of
these facts and others. Their laurel leaf shaped spear tips cannot even
be reproduced today and is the basis for the Clovis People controversy..
H.G.
Wells must have been unafraid of his scientific peers, because they surely must
have chastised him for his portrayal of the Reindeer People in a favorable
light. We can’t have modern looking people with exceptional skills in
pre-history, says white science. I'm glad I chanced upon the information
because it is the key to settling the, 'where did the White People come from'
question. And recently I noticed that there is a lot more on the internet
regarding H.G.Wells' book compared to a couple years ago.
In 1995
Time Magazine featured these people in an article called ‘Behold the Stone Age’
by Robert Hughes. Finally, the concept that these cave painters were advanced
had gone mainstream. Robert Hughes writes “They were not the inarticulate
Alley-Oop of popular myth. They were nomadic hunter gatherers with a fairly
developed technology. They wore animal skin clothing and moccasins tailored
with bone needles, and made beautiful (and highly effective) laurel leafed
shaped flint blades and constructed tents from skins and huts from branches and
mammoth bones.”
Let’s
not forget we are talking about 20, 30 even 40 thousand years ago. Scientists
need us to believe “civilization” began 8,000 years ago with the capitalist
wheat growers, but forms of metallurgy and pottery making, had been a part of
the goddess cultures before that. Non-war metallurgy, pottery making and
socialization from 5,000 YA to 15,000YA was preeminent because of the dominance
by the goddess loving civilizations. Somehow historians equate the
first large cities as a sign of being civilized; we all learned about UR and
how it was the first city.
Here is something from
Hughes again as he presents us with an interesting perspective. “A mere picture of a bison or a woolly rhino tells us nothing much. Suppose
that 20,000 years from now, after a global cataclysm in which all the books
perished and the word vanished from the face of the earth, some excavators dig
up the shell of a building. It has pointy ogival arches and a long axial hall
at the end of which is a painting of a man nailed to a cross. In the
absence of written evidence what could this effigy mean? No more than the bison
or rhino on the rock at Chauvet. Representation and symbolism have parted
company." ( ) Researchers
admit that primitive people were able to gather a lot of food, and it really
was all about, knowing what was ripening when.
Who in the heck used those
stone dolmens all over Europe? They were built 25,000 years ago at the same time
as the Venus figurines were being carved. Next is a story about modern day primitives
and their heightened senses and instinctive abilities. From the book ‘Future
Primitive’ by John Zerzan we read the following ( “…a great deal of evidence not only for physical and emotional vigor among
primitives but also heightened sensory abilities. Darwin described Stone Age
people at the southern tip of South America who went about naked in frigid
conditions. Another South American tribe was able to see the planet Venus in
full daylight. This compares to an African tribe, the Dogon who consider Sirius
B the most important star; somehow aware, without instruments, of a star that
can only be found with a powerful telescope. Australian Bushman are able to see
four moons of Jupiter with the naked eye.”
“A
bushman walked onto a vast plain with no bush or tree to mark the spot, he then
pointed to a nearly invisible blade of grass with a filament wrapped around it.
He had encountered it months before during the rainy season when the plant
above ground was lush and green. Now in the dry season he dug underground to
expose a succulent root and quenched his
thirst.”( )
7 Song
of OOglak
" “Paganism
truly allows the freedom of thought and choice and association, and especially
our freedom of speech which we hold dear, unlike Christianity and Islam whose
precepts counter American style freedom with their laws on heresy and
blasphemy.”
This chapter
imagines a hunter/gatherer joining a tribe of cultivators and also assuming crops
were being grown long before so called civilization
began.
OOglak stepped out onto the
ridge. He saw snow covered mountains off in the distance where the climate was
distinctly colder. What he didn't know was that, this long Ice Age was ebbing
away but the Younger Dryas period was beginning. It had been so warm the last
one hundred moons and he has continually migrated northward; first with a tribe
of Reindeer Hunters, and then on his own, being self-sufficient. Looking into
the valley he sees a village, “cultivators” he presumed, and he wondered how
long they had been there. What he didn’t know was that for the last 700 years,
glaciers had been rapidly melting with a slow, long-term warming trend, and
many humans had been moving north. Then the meteors hit the Canadian Ice
sheet and all hell broke loose if you lived in any watershed that emptied into
the ocean. As I said, the oceans rose 10 feet a year during the hot
temperatures the next eight years. He watched great migrations of Reindeer go
north and remembered his early years.
He found scattered stone
buildings as he wandered northwest through Europe. These stone buildings were
called dolmens and all this religious significance is given to them, but I
think they were places to get out of the rain. The Stone
People, wanderers from Atlanis, built the dolmens and left the Venus
Figurines. They were the Children of Venus. The first people of Europe.
Despite the conventional wisdom of the alleged clash of the first Cro-Magnons with “civilized people”, OOglak clambered down the side of the ridge when he saw the people who were living there and he walked into the village with not a suspicious glance or disapproving stare. Human’s war like tendencies had not materialized as yet.
“Help us
out and we’ll love you, but fuck with us and we throw you off the cliff” was
the basic credo of the Middle Stone Age.
He was welcomed in the
village, and his meat catching ability put him in good stead with these crop
growers and he stayed with them for the rest of his life. Remember this was
before television bred mistrust of everyone with everyone else, and there is an
indication that the intelligence levels of humans were higher than what they
were given credit for. Their brains were bigger. Hmmmm?
The Reindeer were
extirpated from the west central part of Europe, south of where they had once
been, and there were glaciers covering present day Vilnius and
Moscow. Plants and animals migrated northward during these warm years
after comets hit the ice sheet. OOglak’s restlessness drove him on many hunting
journeys. One day he came back from a two-month journey with his best buddy and
found that a band of war making thugs had been terrorizing the village while
they were away. His buddy was another hunter who had wandered into the village
about 20 moons before OOglak did. The two-man posse immediately hunted them
down and let loose some indiscriminate justice on these thugs.
Bearskin, OOglak’s friend
was not reclusive and wild like some of the first wanderers who encountered the
“cultivators” and he became an integral part of the village. Bearskin and
OOglak routed out the thugs from their hideout and they became heroes. A great
feast of good cuts of meat on sticks along with heaps of berries, celebrated
their successful hunt and the villages liberation from thugs and terror.
They called him Ancestor Oooglok so he would be remembered forever.
OOglak taught them how to
make rope from sinewy reindeer muscle and his bone needles were treated like
sacred icons. Bearskin was a welcome sight after a hunting journey where
he would have 50 pelts of animals he had first eaten and then skinned. In their
cave, Bearskin used very thin sinew to tie together bones for necklaces while
OOglak sewed together clothes. Traditional male and female roles were yet to be
established, and I guess Bearskin and OOglok were hunter gatherer, bone needle
necklace makers.
As years went by the
two would always take a long mid-summer journey, exploring mountain passes and
using the planet Venus as their celestial guide. The glaciers in the Pyrennes
had completely melted and they found the Little Alps in Prevence, France and
since Mother Nature doesn’t like bare ground, they saw lush green valleys of
grass that pioneered the areas that were once tundra and ice. A chill north
wind was persistently blowing for days and so they gathered together the 100
best pelts, did a 180, and headed home.
The villagers lived in huts but Bearskin was living in a south facing cave for winter sun and warmth, and eventually OOglak moved in with him till the Empress Polena came along when Ooglock reached his 500 moon milestone. As Bearskin and Ooglok & Polena and others grew older and became elders, they took in many young apprentices from the cultivators and they caught prodigious amounts of game.
Bearskin and
OOglaks era included prominent villagers who had discovered many new crops and
underground tubers to reproduce, and above ground seeds to find and cultivate.
It was a seminal time for the evolution of civilization, 4/5,000 years before
the first city in Mesopotamia, the so-called cradle of civilization.
The entire illegitimate
claim to whiteness lay in the belief that middle eastern people were the first
ones who became civilized. It was the ancestors of the Iberians whom
Bearskin and Ooglok embraced. The Iberians were the indigenous Europeans. The
cave painters were the indigenous Europeans, not the wheat growers.
Sons and daughters of
Ancestor Ooglok and Polena carried on for 39 generations and each male leader
of the clan was called the Ooglokas and the women became known as The
Polenakas. The Empress was the administrator as women were seen as generally
wiser. Comets had hit the mile thick glacier in Canada and the land was
torn asunder there with the impact and then came rushing waters and floods that
led to the rising of oceans, seas, bays and ALL watersheds. Veneration of Venus
the planet, and the Venus of Legend--the life giver, began to include a new
goddess they called Jurat. Continual migrations from the Black Sea brought
people who knew how to fish and build boats and the OOglok clan prospered for
many thousands of moons with a steady influx of immigrants who followed the
path of the Stone People.
There is one story that was told about the day when Bearskin was cleaning out bones in the cave. Many were soft and fungus-laden, and needed to be discarded. On that mythical day, Bearskin threw the garbage off a nearby cliff and spotted something in an outcropping of rocks.
The Saber Tooth Tiger had become nearly extinct because of geological
calamities, and many other types of wildcats evolved. One last mother Saber
Tooth had kittens with a black jaguar that had wandered north out of its
traditional range.
Back at the cave, OOglok had lit the soapstone lamp and was crushing ochre, which produced a reddish brown dye, and along with big ol goobers he was spitting in his hand, he was painting a giant mural of their hunting adventures. Villagers would visit and marvel at his cave paintings. Artists and tailors and the badasses of the tribe. Bearskin and OOglak were hunter gatherers, but advanced in many other skills. It would be a very long time, past the Roman Era and even till the Renaissance till artisans could match the painting and sewing skills of The Reindeer People of Iberia. The Legacy of the cave painters has not been fully acknowledged and Conventional Wisdom barely discusses the idea of intelligent cave painters, the Reindeer People. The Solutreans, previously. That's not you Petra and Hans.
The Saber Tooth Tiger
mother had died from an infected wound leaving five 3-week-old kittens
abandoned, an owl, a bear and a Pterodactyl had taken three, but two black
kittens remained. Bearskin witnessed a Giant Snowy Owl take one of the
last two kittens and made an extraordinary effort to save the last one that was
meowling in fear. After a rugged descent and climb, Bearskin scooped it
up and carried the starving creature back to the cave, a Jaguar/Saber Tooth
hybrid. OOglak was a little startled at the first sight of the cat, because
normally they dispatched apex predators and turned them into coats.
Bearskin squeezed animal
guts from some squirrels he had just caught; giving the cat liquid nourishment
showing he would be responsible for the animal. The kitten learned to drink
water from dew dampened leaves or down at the lake and grew into a loyal pet,
the first pet cat in history, and perhaps the only Saber tooth Jaguar,
ever. The villagers had their dogs and sheep but shook their head in amazement
as the animal grew to over two hundred pounds, and it was very tame, yet
fierce, protecting them from animal intrusions in the village. Jungle Cat they
called it and mostly the feline had to walk up to a band of wild pigs and they
would scoot.
During the cold interlude
of the last ice age, 12,800 to 11,600 years ago, the ice refroze
then melting glaciers were rebuilt. The tribe lived as the Inuit and
Northern Siberians do in the chronically cold weather. It became too cold to grow crops.Glaciers had grown to
within 150 miles of them and fur lined tents and strong fur coats helped them
survive. There were berries and grains they were able to store through
the winter. Though originally founded as a cultivator’s village, they reverted
to more hunting as the cold years prevailed. The Reindeer had been driven
north and were still plentiful. They kept on, passing on what knowledge they
could. The birds moved the seeds of fruiting plants northwards or southwards as
the climate changed.
A cultivator named Ludd was
a good friend of OOglak and was with him on that fateful day. For 150 moons the
heat persisted and they saw the ocean rise and then there was a summer when
there were weeks of storms, and they stayed in the caves. What he didn't
know was during the storms, the glaciers of Sweden had melted and dropped into
the Baltic and catastrophic weather was the new normal around the planet. OOglok and Ludd hiked
to the bathing stream after the persistent rains stopped, but the flooding was
so intense and the flow so fast and dangerous, they stood on a cliff and dared
not go down into the rising waters. It had rained throughout the usual dry
season. "Gather up the children, we must move, I fear it is time the ocean
wil Let us move the village to higher ground, and then we will
have time to grind up the yak horn," he famously said.
Ancestor OOglak began the
Axox clan 12,800 years ago. He saw animals retreating to higher ground
and evacuated his village in time as the ocean was rising during the hot weather cycle just before the Whatever Dryass it was.and a great flood
broke over the land and inundated Jurat Lake in a few short days, creating the
Baltic Sea.
.
“I am the ax” OOglak recited.
“I
am the ox” says the Empress Polena in response during their hand fasting
ceremony, 10793 years B.C.E. Many women named themselves after the first
wife of Ancestor OOglak. Empress Polena the 39th, 1200
years later , and this gives a nod to the first empress named Polena.
Ludd Axox, their firstborn son, and Sophia Oxax their firstborn daughter, began
two family lines that endure to this day. More on this in my novel,
"Middlestone Avenue."
The
39th OOglak, began the two clans of legend, The axes and
oxes. The son of the 39th OOglak, Ludd, was the
first Axox which began all the Ax families bloodline and Sophia Oxax, the
firstborn daughter, began a clan of matrilineally led clans whose names
started with Ox, such as the Oxspryds and Oxhorkens and the root word of the
first religion of indigenous Europe, Oxoheartsvoken. Unfortunately, researchers
marginalize the women of history.
POLENA
--- Wife of OOglak, the 39th OOglak.
She claimed to be the Goddess Venus reincarnated, but there were doubts.
She had natural red hair which was reputed to be a distinctive feature of
Venus, the mother of us all. She told the story that in a previous incarnation;
she had brought the soul seed of immortality to Earth. Was she a huckster
or did Venus actually return? This is one of the few questions Druddism cannot
answer. Our spirits would live forever with the Goddess she told us. Just
wish it, she was known to say, and it will be.
How the
39th Polena met the 39th Ancestor OOglak was an amazing story,
She had been on a journey of over a thousand miles and she was drawn to an area
and she stopped for the evening. The sky was dark with smoke and the
weather had gotten colder but she felt she was close to her destination.
Gazing into the night sky she heard the Song of OOglak. There was
faint singing from up in the mountain somewhere and so she ran the rest of the
way to him.
He was singing the song of thanks to his Goddess, for giving him the
inspiration and insight to move to higher ground. The Glaciers of the ice age
had mostly melted and rose quickly at the end as meltwater raced down rivers
and the ocean rose to nearly its present height. He thanked her for giving him
the wisdom that saved the village from the Great Flood. Meanwhile,
around the world, tsunamis and rising oceans created catastrophe to all those
who dwelt near bodies of water.
She crossed the valley and found him in the initial settlement where over 300 people lived. They had dreamt of each other and immediately
embraced when they met. He took her back to town and they rained a family. When
he went on a planned reindeer hunt, she sometimes went along with him and
proved she was no ordinary person. They married in the autumn season
(which they called Badaboom) and went on to have 13 children. It was their
story which was carried down for 39 generations till the OOglak became the Ax
and Ox people.
This original Polena had
extraordinary psychic powers and was able to dematerialize objects. Twelve
hundred years later, the son of the 39th Empress and Ooglok,
Ludd Axox, also had this gift and traveled to Egypt during the “Flight to
Egypt” which was the last hurrah of Atlanis 11,618 YA, but that's a story for
another day. Who was Ancestor OOglok? Who is this legend that galvanized
a hybrid tribe of cultivators and hunter gatherers? Who were these civilized
people and why are they not recorded in our history books?
12,792 Years Ago
THE STORY OF THE FIRST OOGLOK
One
thousand one hundred and seventy four years between the first and 39th Ooglok.
8 QUIET AS THE ELVES
"Groniger
Bloodaxe explains in recently uncovered runes. 'Ate many
ox 
today'."
We
move up in time to 950 A.D. with the story of people who were not famous. They
were not Nordic or European or even Iberian Fishermen that may have reached the
Baltic Sea. Lithuania. Sweden. Poland. Denmark, is where they travelled. All part
of my fictional narrative throughout what I write. The family history of
Antonio Suggins (Middlestone Avenue)goes back to the time of Rocco Hornspread and the Swamp Dogs in
the 1720's and Aargballs the Pirate around 1500. Then further back in time to
Gronyar Bloodeau and his 6th grandfather Groniger Bloodaxe. Then back to
the time of Grimhammer and Anagar and Anathar and all the way back to Ancestor
OOglok, the first Ooglok.
This story is about putting together a Gronyar Bloodeaus biography.
Fragments were left and I try to fill in the blank spaces with stuff I make up.
What we do know, is that Gronyar’s legacy begins with his grand grand grand
grand grand grand grandfather, Groniger Bloodaxe. The Bloodaxe clan in the mid
900's lived in the eastern fringes of Viking lands, and the Baltic Sea was
their ocean. The family clans lived amongst the fjords in Sweden, also on
Gotland Island and also the coast of Lithuania near the Gulf of Riga.
It was in Lithuania that Groniger met his wife Dagmar Oxhorken who was known as
a Gypsy Queen. The Oxhorken clan was believed to have ties with an
ancient goddess civilization that migrated from the Black Sea region. Sailing
in small crude versions of the longboat in Eastern Europe’s rivers, the
Oxhorken clan is reputed to have reached the Baltic Sea 11,600 Years
ago. Bloodaxes were also soldiers in Odin’s Army around 8,000 BC., north
of Greece, up near the Carpathians. Odin was a real dude you know. Secret
Oxoheartsvoken cult knowledge traced the Lineage back to the Axox and Oxax
clans.
Groniger Bloodaxe (914 A.D.-1014 A.D), was the first person to say “If I had
known I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself”
It’s been written that the Bloodaxes trace some of their ancestral lineage to
the last of the Druids who went north to hide in the Deep forests. These Druids
found refuge with the Axborgan clan in the 500's when Christian Treachery was
everywhere.
Migrations occurred amongst the alliance of villages that once comprised Atlanis and were centered along the Black Sea. There were many easy paths to take through deep forests and along rivers, including the ancient destination of lost ports near the Courish lagoon in southwestern Lithuania. The rising ocean buried established villages over 11,000 years ago as Ice Age Cold was losing its grip. Here's where conventional wisdom and white science is wrong. The mile thick glaciers took a while to melt so it was quite common to go right up to them. Reindeer and Red Deer ran along them eating valleys of grass.Temperatures were above normal and water was stuffed with fish
Great traditions of exploration and a peaceful social order were
accomplishments of these ancient clans who honored their ancestors as part of
the earth and also Venus as the Mother Goddess (Oxoheartsvoken). Gronigers clan
honored these ancient traditions after they were ushered into the Oxhorken Clan
with the marriage of Groniger and Dagmar.
Groniger Bloodaxe explains in recently uncovered runes. "Ate
many ox today. Anagar is my kin and this land belongs to Courish Bloodaxes. All
other Bloodaxe claims are myth unless derived from Axborgan or Oxhorken
clan.”
The year, 950 A.D., is when it is estimated these runes were written, and
we begin to trace the incredible lineage of this great Viking Gypsy named
Groniger Bloodaxe who believed in Perun from the Slavic pantheons, and not Thor
the popular Viking God.
Groniger was around 36 years old when he left these
runes, and He and the clan that followed, were neither Viking nor Gypsy, nor
Druid, nor Celt; but all of them together. They never were much on plundering
and invading, so they worked with the land and travelled widely and seemed to
stay obscure from the ravages of that time. Members of the clan were sailors of
some notoriety. As the Templars came and went through the 1100's, the Oxhorken
clan absorbed more traditions and their secret religion is with us today, as
explained in my book Middlestone Avenue.
Unsubstantiated
manuscripts allegedly once in the possession of Gronyar Bloodeau Senior
(1181-1259) told the tale of Groniger Bloodaxe, who was Gronyar Bloodeau’s
Seniors grand grand grand grandfather.
Manuscripts
from his standup Bard routine have survived. His incisive biting satire proved
even deadly to victims as reports of heart attacks and death occurred soon
after hearing his words. But then heart attacks and death occur after people
brush their teeth, so there. This is very likely a tale that grew in the
telling.
Kernave,
Samland and Jomsborg were among the towns visited by Groniger. Mostly, he and
Dagmar raised their five children: Gronyeth, Gakanrth, Gronierss, Gronstangr,
and Gakhorken, in the western fjords and Snuflesnes peninsula in Sweden. There
were many joyous expeditions to the summer magick festival on Gotland Island
and one tale tells of Gakhorken fighting a mighty sea monster.
Gronigers comedy gained a giant reputation especially at solstice when he
played the mock bishop (Danish myth) to standing room only crowds. The Baltic
Sea is not that big and Denmark and Finland were an easy sail from where they
lived. Yar! As they got older, Dagmar and he sailed through the heart of
Skalvian lands (a Lithuanian tribe) with his small boat on the river.
They settled permanently with their youngest and last born child, Gronygyr Bloodaxe
Junior(975-1066A.D.). Reportedly, Junior was a droll, humorless toiler of the
soil and amassed a very large tract of land where his many children slaved
during the growing season, and singlehandedly they created the province of
Axdruva.
Gronyger Bloodaxe 3rd (1011-1105) knew his grandfather
Groniger, who had finally retired at his sons farm, dying when he was three but
not without leaving a distinct impression. Gronyger the 3rd became
famous like his grandfather the Bard, and unlike his stay at home siblings in
the burgeoning Axdruvan lands, he was a sailor who often travelled out to the
Baltic Sea in his boat, The Groggy Slut.
People from their part of the fjords and the Courish Lagoon were independent and eschewed Chritianity and felt more at home in Pagan Lithuania. Many of the ancient clans with ax or ox in their names went eastward into Lithuania and also back to France during the Troubadour era.
Finally,
at age 72 , Gronyger the 3rd settled down with a woman who was 36 and they had
only one child, Gronyagar Bloodeax 4th (1083-1168).
Unverified copies of rune manuscript are somewhat uncertain as to where his
family actually lived. Here is the history that has been reconstructed so
far.
Groniger
Bloodaxe
914-1014
Groniger Bloodaxe Junior 975-1076
Gronyger
Bloodaxe 3rd
1011-1105
Gronyagar
Bloodeax
4th
1083-1168
Gronyagar
Bloodeax
5th
1118-1230?
Gronyar
Bloodeau
Sr.
1181-1259
Gronyar
Bloodeau
Jr.
1211-1291
Gronyar
Bloodeau 3rd
1276-1374 Gronyar Bloodeau
4th
1350-1434?
The Ax
and Ox clans along with the Romany People and others, formed a secret society
between the Languedoc region of France and Pagan Lithuania. Sailing the rivers
and hiking the deep forests and knowing when and how to traverse the seasonal
bogs and swamps. They knew how to take short cuts when ponds and bogs
were frozen.
Gronyagar Bloodeax 5th (1118-1230?) Continuing the unusually
long lifespan of the ancestral line, he was reputed to be 110 years old and
still hunting squirrels for the traditional Squirrel Breakfast Sandwich, and his
date of demise is uncertain. He said he was going to jump off the cliff and
waved goodbye, but it’s believed he went north to be a hermit in one of the
ancestors’ caves.
Reportedly,
his 13 children from 3 wives were all male and they formed a fellowship of
Pagan Knights that would take up the cause of persecuted Pagans and came to the defense of many persecuted people while keeping the traditional roads worn and open and marked. Someone can steal this idea and make a good story.
The
Pope slated the heretic Cathars for extinction and they nearly were, many
hidden by the Pagan Knights. Eventually in 1305 The Pagan Knights harbored
Templars who were on the lam and the Templars stayed with the Gakhorken clan.
By 1307, the other Templars were either dead or imprisoned. The Templars plan on
reviving the Pagan Knights is about to unfold, but that's a cult secret so keep
that to yourself. It's hidden here deep in the nonsense.
The
13 Sons, the Bloodaxe Pagan Knights, had to hide their Pagan Viking roots, and
the name was Frankified to Bloodeau. The 13 brothers became protectorates of
various downtrodden and persecuted groups of people. Paying lip service to the
conquering chritians, they kept their distance and savored every moment in
life. Instead of Bloodaxe, however, his children were re-named Bloodeaus,
and later Brousseau when they migrated to Canada. They rode their horses
from France to Lithuania and to the Caucasus Mountains and back.
As
they grew older these sons had an extraordinary number of strong-willed
daughters, daughters who revived some older goddess rituals of the
Oxhorkens while calling themselves the Polena Rangers, after the famous Empress
Polena in their sacred stories. Their sacred number of 33 riders, was maintained for many years.
There's a story of horses that sailed to America with Rocco, Hornspread and the
indigenous Americans found great use for them.
These
daughters became a mysterious cult of horse-riding women who formed a “Pony
express” of sorts keeping the Oxhorns and Bloodeau’s, Oxborgans and Axhorkens in
communication with each other, riding horses from Languedoc in present day
France to Kernave, Lithuania and on secret journeys to many other places traced
back to former Atlanean villages, and taking former migration routes to the
Black Sea. They went anywhere the bloodthirsty religious fanatics were
not. They just wanted to live in peace. Fishing, farming, hunting and
gathering in the fruitful and bountiful giving earth that remained. Genghis
Khan came and went, even the Ottoman Empire came within spitting distance in
time.
Pagan
ways faded further and further out of view as Islam and Christianity went on
their Holy Rampage of Conquest during the 13 and 14 hundreds. The Baltic Sea
and Black Sea stayed connected with the Polena Rangers travelling between them
till 1486, when it is rumored, they left mainland Europe to live in the islands
starting with England all the way out to Newfoundland. They were
headed for
America to fullfill the prophecy. They had the hidden Templar ships among other assets.
Their
well-formed trails through dense ancient forests spurred many tales of bravery,
mystery and superstition. Gronyagar the 5th’s, last son, was allegedly
born when his wife was 56 years old and he was 63. The son became royalty,
eventually marrying a French princess. His oldest son, Gronyar Bloodeau Senior
was the shortest lived in the unusual long-lived ancestry of this family (born
1181 and lived till 1257, 76 when he died). Bloodeau seniors firstborn son, Gronyar Bloodeau
Junior(1211- 1291) became Duke of Minnew, in a distant unpopulated part of
France.
Reported
to practice pagan earth worship while maintaining a neutrality between the
persecuted Cathars and the crusading bloodthirsty minions of the Popes, Gronyar
Bloodeau Junior eventually fled back to Lithuania in 1276 after his wife and
several children were beheaded as Christianity fully absorbed France in its
Empire, and had nearly swallowed all of Europe in its maniacal maw.
Deeply
hidden in the forests, there are no further exploits of this family to be
reported on till 1385 when Gronyar Bloodeau the 4th (1350-1434?) became
the most famous of all. His new religion grew quickly in popularity and he
attempted to blend in Lithuanian pagan beliefs with new inspirations from St.
Francis, along with Ancient Oxhorn Goddess ceremonies, secret Cathar ceremonies
and Templar spells. Also included is a tradition of earth worship which went
back to the time of the Atlanis Empire, and also a cult embraced a cult that is
derived from the believers of a nearly lost Druid secret society. It's rumored
that its ceremonies and beliefs may have survived to the present day within the
secret Green Cult religion of Druddism.
Gronyar’s secret religion faded away with no written work, except one. His most
famous tract was written as a final message to all villages where relatives
resided. Portions of this book allegedly have been recovered. It’s grim
prognosis heralded the end of the Pagans in Europe. His Book begins…
“ It is all over now except for the dousing of sacred fires. Research
reveals that Ragnarok did happen at the turn of the millennium in 999 A.D. with
the fall of the Faeroes Island and the conversion of Eric the Red, and we
are the last vestiges of the truth. The light of the Goddess will go out as the
1,000 year reign of these devils will take our populations through many wars,
creating guilt complexes and taking hypocrisy and forced conversion to
unimagined heights.
What
we must do is to form shadow societies that will promote peace and abhor
violence. Peaceful pagans; we are the Heathenistas! We will create
traditions of love to help carry the worthy few to the next millennium when we
will emerge with a new age of consciousness after 1999. Protect the women, the
midwives, the herbalists as we see our sisters burn as witches for what they
practice. They say witch like it’s a bad thing, I’ll never understand.
Herbal
health has given way….” The text ends here and the unknown middle half of the
prophecy can only be speculated about.
His
book ends with the final words. "Stay close to our sacred roads
along the rivers and be as quiet as the elves” his book
concludes, and basic instructions to family members are given.
The
much-persecuted Oxhorkens sailed to North America and changed their name to
Hornspread, acknowledging a trend at the time that involved a paste made from
horse hooves, Oxhorn paste and honey, which was eaten with the newly invented
craquer. Hornspread was also good on bagels and croissants.
SECTION ONE ARTICLE 9
Zemyna
Zephyr Zorya & Zvoruna
Quote “Even the goddesses
have their own different beliefs, and are unable to come up with a
consensus on the origin of life in the Universe. They mostly
believe the original life force of the known universes was probably neither
male nor female.
Ancient creation myths abound on EARTH, so which ones are
true? This story introduces my DIY religion called Druddism.
Zorya greets the Sun at the Gates OF Dawn. The Sun is where Zephyr dwells. And then there's Zemyna: goddess of all life and death; and finally, Zvoruna the Moonchild, who is traditionally also associated with Saule, the Sun in the Lithuanian Pagan religion called Romuva. These are the triple goddesses of the Druddités, one of them anyways, along with Venus Diana and Hecate, Zemynas assistant. She is charged with guiding the evolution of the eventual soul bearing creatures.
So how should we approach
magic, how do we connect with the unseen source? So much of thefolklore of the
Pagans has sunk into the mists of time, that I had to make some up, and here is another one. Let me propose a story that
feels right to me.
The story begins outside of our solar system.
Did you see the Jodie Foster movie, “Contact”? There is
a traveling mode faster than the speed of light, the movie suggests. Not even a
wormhole but a shadow of this real world, where interstellar travel is common. When you can get through all the traffic jams of people astral traveling. She goes many light
years away to Vega or something and returns in 30 seconds. She talked
with people there for a full 24 hours according to her watch, including her father, the amateur
astronomer. We call it the afterlife, but according to my DIY religion, it’s just
more life.
Then I see clues in ancient
history for the reason Ursa Major is a very important constellation. It is the
location of our grandmother planet, within the constellation of Ursa Major the
Bear. Forget human space travel, when you talk about gods and goddesses, muses
and ravens and the dragons and… all the rest .....their spirits are not bound to such limiting
concepts as time and space.
Somewhere in the constellation of The Bear was a planet that held life. Gaia, Zemyna, or whatever you call her, our Ancient Mother, was one of the 9 goddesses on that planet. It’s like, a relatively empty universe and immortal life has barely begun filling it up. Enlightend souls going through a purifying flame of an Earth life.
The Ancient Mothers can trace back their history 400 billion
years and even THEY do not know what came before them. Some kind of "Men in
Black" memory swipe they figure. Even the goddesses have their own
different beliefs and are unable to come up with a consensus other
than the original life force of the known universes was probably neither male
nor female. The force was unlike anything they could actually imagine. Who is
everywhere and nowhere at the same time goes the joke. This is about the soul
energy of the God and Goddess expanding through the cosmos.
Our Ancient GREAT grandmothers sun, within Ursa Major, reached its twilight, and then it began to cool off and started to grow into a Red Giant. Population growth was halted on the planets in that solar system and hence our myth of The Last Pagan. Someone has to be the last person in a dying solar system. There's a story idea for you to steal.
What had been
a sun became a rock as the inner fires cooled. The theory that planets blow up
at the end has been proven wrong elsewhere in the Universe. They are able to tell which ones will blow up and so people move to the dying sun because their
planet got far too cold with temperatures reaching Absolute Zero not more than a
few million miles out from the Sun.
There has never not been
life, never any great emptiness but always the original male-female Great
Spirit, the Unseen Source impalpable even to the Goddesses and Gods. Most visitors to the dying star are space
travelers who want to go to exotic Discos of which there are plenty. I recommend Space Gigilo.
Ten million years ago our planet, the earth, was solidifying and phasing out of its gaseous state. Ten million, not 4.7639826 billion years. billion. I know it seems preposterous,, but I will prove it to you by the end of the book. Do you realize how long billions of years is? Science picks numbers arbitrarily using imperfect, random calculations. Carbon dating is one of them. They say four billion years ago the earth started forming, but I’m telling you it’s 10 million years ago. Maybe 40 million.
Therefore, one million years ago, microscopic life forms began growing in our oceans. Zemyna, the ancient mother, had scouted many areas as an apprentice goddess, and chose Earth as a planet with the best potential for life, and an optimum habitat for creating soul bearing creatures. Science says the Cambrian Explosion was like 250 million years long, and I'm saying it could be ten million years. 25 to 35 MILLION years ago
As a youth I had made up a character, a superhero, called Zephyr the Flying Chuckwalla, but I never fleshed out this character within the context of a story or a movie. So I pulled that one out of the air as I was putting together this story of the Universe. Yeh…I thought...The male source can be a Flying Chuckwalla. Suuuurrre.
Dragons and gargoyles are ancient symbols; let’s make chuckwallas the new symbol, Zephyr the Flying Chuckwalla. The God of the Hoax. But not a trickster god. The drop of Yin in the overwhelming Prescence of Yang. Flying in from another constellation…Yeh, that's the ticket. A Chuckwalla kind of looks like what a Dragon and Gargoyle spawn would look like. So there you go. The Sun God is a Chuckwalla.
Now pretend many people pretended they were of this religion. Notice there aren't the huge leaps of faith that Christianity requires
As I was working on a religion for myself I was contemplating about Gaia embracing us in her spirit. Awaken! ... to my love and justice she says. Our soul evolution is nurtured in her womb of creativity. Then I got to wondering who would be the Ancient Father, and I remembered Zephyr the Chuckwalla. I thought it was ridiculous but as it turns out, there is an ancient Greek legend about Zephyr that ties in with different aspects of Pagan history. It seemed to plug right into the story A seed of truth planted a long time ago.
Zephyr was stuck in my head a long time ago, and I will tell you right now that every aspect of my DIY religion is completely made up, but the biggest pieces occurred when I was actively seeking an answer from the Universe and could conjure from a stance of compassion and passion. Beacons of inspiration.
You have to be inspired to do magic, I insist, and I found a
religion from the past from Poland called Zadruga where I confirmed my belief.
The less you do magic the better it works for most of us. For those of us who use
the Folk Magic because we have no super powers of clairvoyancy and such.
Primarily in legends, Zephyr is the bringer of the west wind and I made him the
Life Bringer. The male aspect and balance with Zemyna, a drop of yang in the
overwhelming presence of yin, but all that is needed.
In their realm it isn't about sex, we could best call it a celestial union between Zemyna and Zephyr. This occurred 800,000 years ago, when the ocean had the Cambrian Explosion goin' on. She was going to need help, and as in every case, throughout the universe,9 Goddesses were born.
Okay, let me take you aside here and comment to you privately. I hear about Scientolgy and I had 3 Mormon Bettys visit me regularly.
What I did with my DIY religion is to show you that you can be comfortable with whatever you like. So just humor me here, I believe I have made up a religion and you can ask me any question about anything concerning gods and goddesses and the afterlife. The ancient past. Anything at all. Section 10 dives deeper into the mess I made up.
The nine Goddesses are Cerridwen, Nu Kua and Yemaya, Jurate, Mary, Freya, Diana (project manager triple goddess) , Sedena and Dexsiua (who I discovered deeply hidden, but she summoned me to make her known again. A story for another day, she was the Goddess of the Reindeer People and The Stone People.} Belief in this Goddess of the Gauls and Soutreans before them, lasted a long time, finally fading away about 1000 AD.
Zephyr is our spiritual father and he created the electromagnetic shield
that protects the earth, and his mighty spirit has retreated to the Sun till he
is needed somewhere else in the Universe. He spends about a million years wherever he goes, creating habitat for soul bearing life. He also watches us, and his
timeless knowledge inspires the Goddesses. He'll spend time on earth,
always as a lizard of some sort. A Chuckwalla sunning on a hot desert
rock is his favorite. On the other hand, a dragon with magical powers is the choicewhen He wants to be
invisible. Okay kind of getting it? We can have some fun with this. The next chapter goes into more detail.
The feminine is the spirit, the propane if you will, and the male is the spark
that creates the explosion of
life.
In Baltic Paganism, Zemyna is the child of the sun and the moon. Here again, myths seek truths to try and explain our life. About 240,000 YA the ancient mother ceded responsibility of evolution to the nine goddesses and the she fell into a deep sleep. 80,000 years later the first land based souls were placed. “Remember the Shaman-man is the dream of the dolphin.”
Talpa Finfur became the first soul
bearing creature. Intelligent design by the Goddesses quickly led to the
evolution of the next step the polecat, or weasel as they are known here in the United
States. Eventually a genetic outburst occurred with one of the litters of the
Great Albino Polecat where the first feline, the first bear and the first
marsupial, were born in the same litter. There's another story to steal.
Baltic Paganism has a legend
that the Goddess at the beginning of this section, Zorya, actually had numerous
sisters and they were supposed to keep the Doomsday Hound from escaping Ursa
Major as they Shepard the sun across the sky. I’m saying the hound did escape,
hitchhiking a ride with the Rozanacus discussed in the Druddoccitan. The
Rozanacus was a group of highly specialized creatures from the home planet who
wanted to serve Zemyna. They were all she had till the Goddesses were
born. The Myth of the Doomsday Hound is one of the many thousands of
myths people used to describe life, but the one that rings true. The
constellation of the Bear is always visible to us here in America (The Big
Dipper is part of it) and we are strangely drawn to it. "The call of home
is loud."
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We need a southern version of
Northern Paganism and we need to adjust. Let me try to remember some of the
other Goddesses. Cerridwen- goddess of hobbies and leisure time, Diana is the
facilitator of all life on the planet, a project manager if you will. She’ll
make a great Ancient Mother someday. Jurate is another powerful goddess though
she is very humble and sensitive and is troubled when her rising oceans create
havoc. Mary is the Goddess in control of the soul bearers, and she is the most
empathetic to the humans.
Sedena and Yemaya control
much of the life in rivers and lakes and the ice and the life that dwells
within the wilderness. Dexsiua connects them as her winds fly with all that is
in the air. Nu Kua is a dragon tailed Goddess that helps us connect with
the Otherworld, the Veles where our spirits home base is. Freyas
domain includes all the roots in the ground because without plants there
wouldn’t be anything else. Freya weaves a harmony amongst the goddesses and is
called by many names around the earth. Some know her as the Corn Mother.
Villages became
more numerous west of the Black Sea, the four genetic variations gathered
together northwest of the Black Sea over 30,000 years ago. They were told by
some God in a flying saucer or something, to disperse around 30,000 YA.
Yellow people to the east, Black people to the south, The Red Man to the west
and the White man to the north. 30,000 YA Atlanis had already been in existence
for 10,000 years. Sea levels were at their very lowest in human history and
some walking and some sailing along the shore helped get Red People to
America. Hmmm maybe not, they must have used a star gate or
wormhole or something to get to 4 Corners.
-1-10- VENUS
AND THE STORY OF THE FIRST HUMAN Soul (introduction)
Who was the
first Matriarch? Who pulled it together sociologically to begin the first large
settlement on the planet? I focused really hard on this one and asked for an
ancient name and ‘lani’ were the letters that came to mind, which led to the
name Atlanis. Could this be where the Atlantis legend became confused? T for Texas T for Tenneessee but no T in Atlanis.
Souls
were placed in primates approximately 120,000 years ago. Atlanis was
incorporated about 50,000 years ago. You probably know our last
evolutionary step was about 120,000 years ago when we became Homo Sapiens
sapiens and I am suggesting this was how we evolved. Our intelligence was
changed from the animals, and we have not been wild eyed murderous bug eaters, most of us anyways. I
think people co-operated in many ways. They hunted and housed together and
looked at the night sky together.
80,000 years later Empress Lani gathered together many tribes on
the shores of the Black Sea. She started the first large clan including members
of different families and they shared the magic they had learned the first 80,000 years of our soul bearing existence. Magick we are still trying to
capture. Not alchemical magic (that came along later) but telepathy and the
ability to dematerialize objects.
Lemurs were watching from the trees, they had been the previous stage of soul-based
evolution and gave the goddesses a bit of a hard time. Fairies and mermaids,
dolphins and centaurs; many had gathered to witness the last great step in the
Goddesses plan. Diana, in her guise as Venus, arrives on the shore as a fully
grown adult and meets the man she chose from Earth. (cue dramatic music).
He had no memory of seeing her turn into a human from a raven. She walked on to
the shore and he couldn’t comprehend what he was feeling. She had stirred
his soul. In fact she brought him the first one from the Tree of Life.
They had numerous children, all were born with souls and if one of your parents had a soul, so did
you. Soon, in a few short centuries all humans had souls. Sadly, the
fairies and sprites and elves all moved into a parallel dimension as this
happened and are rarely seen anymore though their legends
persist.
Transit of Venus. Diana in the Greek or Roman myth supposedly had a conflict with Venus, I just don’t believe it. Why depend on Shakespeare for pagan myths? Diana is one of the nine goddesses and as stated, she began the lineage of soul bearing humans in her guise as Venus. In the system of Ursa Major there was a being she bonded with, and he was reincarnated on earth after his last life as a soul bearing sea horse from a planet within Ursa Major. He noticed the Raven, but fell instantly in love with the beautiful Venus barefoot on the beach.
Then 40,000 YA, Empress Lani and Emperor Atl
formed a network of communication among all the existing villages at that time using the
psychic powers that had been developed in the pre-shamanic era. Every village
had a resident psychic that later became known as rishis and vishis.
They all gathered together 30,000 YA to enlighten and expand human psychic and physical presence. All four races were told to disperse; the white people to the north the yellow people to the east the black people to the south and the Red to the West. With an ocean to cross, the Red People entered a star gate that took them to the 4 corners area where they emerged as the only humans to ever see the underworld, a perilous journey. The Proto-Hopi’s whose fragmented knowledge survives to this day.
-1-11- THIS
IS THE FOLK MAGIC
We are at a crossroads here in the 21st century
with magic, environmentalism and the future of pagan religions. Pagans
are the throbbing heartbeat of the earth lovers, despite their small
numbers. I call it Dark Green Renaissance, with a nod to Derrick Jensen
and the DGR, Deep Green Resistance, which reminded me of deep ecology from the
80’s that asked important questions about capitalism and the earth.
Dark Green Renaissance is the more spiritual side of ending the
damage to Earth. That’s her name. Earth. The renaissance is living as if
we were living in a world of expanded freedoms and individual Liberty. So
it’s not about faith, it’s about the future.
There are many pagan-curious looking into
polytheism and more than a few of them come from the sphere of environmental stewardship.
As nature lovers and other people investigate what Paganism might be, their
first impression is generally that of the Wiccan religion and Greens wonder why
Pagans seem more interested in candles than ecosystems. They aren't getting out
to the forests. If they do, it’s usually about magical plants.
Pagan Traditionalists seem to prefer a kind of a country club with
initiated membership where people need to be trained or initiated. I
don’t see why and I ask, “Can I call myself a witch since I live so close to
nature in my work and home life?” No, I was told, I have to be initiated. I
need to listen to someone else’s ideas if I want to become an initiated Witch or
Druid. Truthfully, I don’t want anyone to interfere with the path I take, a
path that I claim lays somewhere between the Green Man and Greenpeace. What I
refer to as, Progressive
Eclecticism.
I disagree with traditionalists and Reconstructionists, and I totally believe
in the big tent concept for Pagans and the freewheeling eclecticism I enjoy. We
need teachers and clergy and experienced Pagans to provide guidance, but it
can‘t be like the Church with its cowering masses and their kowtowing to
hierarchy and behavior based on divine judgment. Remember the sixth principle
of witchcraft and that's, "We do not recognize any authoritarian
hierarchy, but do honor those who teach, and those who share their greater
knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have given of themselves in
leadership."
DEMON
CATCHING BOX
One of MY 23 gods discussed his“ God of Nature” in the Declaration of Independence, but otherwise was curiously silent about exactly what he believed: because to Thomas Jefferson, it was essential that religion should have no participation in public policy in the new country being created.
Many
of the pagan-curious just want to tend their garden in peace and in harmony
with the ecosystems by planting as if nature mattered and are not looking for
“enlightenment”. There is a fascination that a lynx spider made a web
while I was away, the joy of cardinals making a nest directly overhead. The
delight in seeing one colorful pollinating insect after another as you strolls
through the garden.
The Green Pagan-curious are not spiritual or religious, but they
do feel something and they are curious about it. The Mother, the earth spirit,
lies somewhere between perception and reality and many people are looking for
some sort of link between spirituality and stewardship of the Earth.
So forget anything you have heard about Pagans and Witches and
Druids and strap yourself in for a bracing dose of secret green cult
knowledge.
The Pagan-curious would like to consider becoming Pagan, but are a
little put off with costumes they see at gatherings or in the books. You know
we are not about going to Renaissance Fairs and all that, we’re creating our
own renaissance for the future. Pagan books seem to be all about spells and newbies
end up trying to figure out the right candle color to use in which situation,
and I don’t think that’s what it should be about. 100 black candles have yet to
plant a tree.
I’m telling you
right now that ecosystem stewardship should be the main emphasis of so-called
real Pagans. I can understand smudging a place with sage and beseechments to
the four directions, but does it really matter what colors you use for your
candles? Another Olympic long jump leap of faith here and I have to just call
myself a non-ceremonial Pagan. Most people are like what I was, a nature lover
looking for something a little deeper. Basically living like a Pagan all
along, we need myths, dreams, and inspiration, but logic needs to prevail.
Where’s the folk religion for the majority of us? Where is the folk magic?
Buddhists don’t consider themselves pagans but they are, and Native Americans didn’t realize they were viewed as Pagans, and Pagans were bad. Bad bad bad. Over and over again from the pulpits of hate, and then the whisper campaigns among the good people of the town.
If you’re not christian you must
be of the devil. This is the basis for the faith-based genocide by Europeans of
the Native Americans. They were viewed as Pagans, pure and simple;
and yet today they don’t call themselves Pagan to honor their part in the
history of Pagan civil rights. In the past I had been calling myself agnostic,
when I wasn’t an atheist, and now I realize many “agnostics” are actually
Pagans. Let’s drop the snobby pretensions and accept that every phase of
thought and gradations of belief we have across this American Prism of
Freedom of Expression can be viewed as Progressive Eclecticism. My
people.
Gnostic is not agnostic: Gnostics believe that
the Old Testament god is an imposter, a poseur who took advantage of the Jews.
For some reason the Christians have dragged this Old Testament god around and
even Islam embraces Abraham from the Bible. It’s too useless and crazy to me
and all these three major religions are from a very small part of the world.
These three powerful religions were all created in the same region. Not
spiritual so much as they are angry, middle east oriented, fire and brimstone
religionists. Drive them all back to the Holy Land.
They are
people that hold grudges for thousands of years with their endless cycle of
atrocities and reprisal known as the Holy Rampage of Conquest. What happened to
‘turn the other cheek?’. Gnostics believe in Jesus just fine, and believe
salvation can be achieved without the intermediary, priest or preacher.
Many Greens are highly tuned into nature’s rhythms and
yet any yokel can be initiated into Wicca and would be considered a
Pagan. Imagine the Atheist Green who feels the energy of a forest and has
planted many trees, compared to your weekend Wiccan who has gotten
certifications and can twirl an athame with the best of them, but can’t
identify more than a couple kinds of plants. This is the dilemma I am
presenting.
Back
to our main topic, and that’s magic. First, forget card tricks and being sawn
in half, we know that isn’t magic but snarky parlor tricks. As I’ll explain,
the traditional meaning of magic is simply working with the forces of the earth
and universe. I believe that earth lovers looking into Paganism are put off
with the ceremonial excess they see and often times turn away.
I’m
happy to walk outside to look at the full moon or praise the north wind or pray
to the corn mother for a successful crop, and feel no need to be initiated into
any specific path. I made up my own religion as an example of how easy it is to
be comfortable with the path you are creating for yourself. It’s
also time to discuss what aspects of magic are needed for the future. I’ll
attempt to explain myths and why it is that New Agers are so into
rocks…….huh?,,,,,,,oh..., stones; they’re not rocks I’m told. I call them rocks
so bear with me.
Back in the seventies, the Book of The Month
Club offered many occult books and I bought a batch of them. What I learned is
this: don’t mess with these things unless you’re ready. Don’t
summon what you can’t banish. Mysterious and unexplainable at the time, I let
it go. Soon after that, my new girlfriend took me to Pentacostalist meetings
and I looked askance at what I saw: definitely a WTF moment with the talking in
tongues and rolling on the ground. One time I took a crack at speaking in
tongues: but there was nothing at the other end. “The holy ghost is not here.
Please leave a message.”
People talking in tongues seem flip and
superficial, with them assuming they have found a connection to their deity. In
fact, they may be responsible for negative emanations coming to our plane:
demons if you will, and every day new evil entities begin to possess some of
these simple minds. Let the Christians bear all the false witness they
want about Pagans, but it is THEM that are possessed by negativity and demons.
The
topic of magic contains the greatest curiosity factor so let’s explore this
together. You put power, energy, wishes, and most of all compassion into an
object with positive results. Today, Pagans think they are Druids, Priests or
Priestesses and my point is that in every culture, there was the shaman or
priestly class, and then there were the rest of us, who
would prefer less ceremony. As we begin our journey into ritual and
magic, I first have to question the books that explain about magic and its
practitioners. Are they capturing what 90% of us did: the folk magic, not
everyone can be a Priest, Druid or Pagan clergy?
The
Wiccans have a strong form of rituality and it works just right for them but I
feel that it is not for everybody. To be a Pagan means you can do what you
want, don’t let any book tell you there are absolutes. An elephant can be your
god and you can collect elephant icons as a focus of your spirituality or
whatever. Then you try to do some book learnin’ and looking on the internet to
find out what Paganism is about. You read that there is something called an
athame that all Pagans have. This is your ritual knife, and books and
practitioners say it’s like a mechanic without a wrench, a dentist without a
drill: you absolutely must have an athame.
This is why I made up a practical religion whose credos include
less athames and more trees, and only doing ceremony when inspired. Saving
heirloom seeds among other earth stewardship issues, people are trying to save
our enduring heritage of husbandry and yeoman ship. That’s what Paganism should
be about.
Don’t get me wrong about magic because I do believe there is magic and
the more in tune with it I get, the more readily it happens. However, my
approach is that you can’t summon or call upon magic any time you want. To all
psychics, sensitives, empaths and others: some of us don’t have these
superpowers and the phrase “getting in the zone” is the best some of us
ordinary folk can manage.
I
would like to quote Scott Cunningham from his book ‘Earth Power’ as he explains
his view of magic. “Magic was the first religion and that if you lovingly utilize
the forces of nature to cause beneficial change, you can also become one with
them. These powers are personified as gods and goddesses. Attuning to them is a
spiritual experience and is the basis of all true religion…Natural magic is
direct and to the point. Despite what you may have heard, magic is nothing
supernatural, unnatural or even alien. It is in our back yards, our homes, in
the very essence of our beings. The forces of nature empower magic, not demons
and imps, “Satan” or fallen angels. “
Don’t quote me but I think it was the Celtic tradition many hundreds of years
ago that used severed heads to ‘see’ the future. If Celt Reconstructionists can choose what practices to take into
their spiritual future, then why can’t I? In addition, for many hundreds of years Catholic priests
were considered practitioners of magic. Pope Honorius even had a
grimoire and here is a spell from it. It says, “to prevent a dog from biting and barking, say
three times (looking at the dog), barbaric arch, the heart splits, the tail
hangs, the key of St. Peter becomes your maw until tomorrow.” I’m trying to memorize this so I can try it out on some growling
dog one day. The wielding of Christian magic by St. Patrick supposedly battled
and defeated the Druids and their magic, and that was the real reason the
pagans abandoned Ireland. He drove the Druids out with Christian
magic.
So
what is out there in the spirit world anyways? Sunday morning, new articles
come out on Witchvox and I find many of them interesting and well written and
many writers are practical and sensible. However, what about the people that
see extraordinary visions such as those that have seen and encountered Odin and
Hecate and Jesus and I’m skeptical. If I saw a leprechaun, I
don’t think I could ever be the same. PDLSS(post dramatic leprechaun sighting
syndrome) would be my bane. If I saw one with a bowl of cereal, I would drive
straight to the hospital for evaluation.
Am
I not a good Pagan having thoughts like this?
The
visions and insights I do get are in my minds eye. They are defined, distinct
images but not physical beings, merely intuitive feelings I visualize with the
inner eye when I am in the zone. Moreover, these types of comprehension
are the rudiments of the folk magic. It’s not demons; it’s the power of the
human mind unbound by superstitious bugaboo that has the real power in the
Universe. I can't help but be optimistic that what we consider good and true to
be the more powerful force.
I’m
saying we all find our own way and a so-called “newbie” has life experiences to
draw on right from the start for their pagan expression. A newbie could have
superlative insights when a traditionalist may have lost their focus, spending
an entire weekend “driving 300 miles in the Lincoln Escalade looking for
coltsfoot root.” I would much rather take a walk around the nayba’hood and
imagine the tree roots and shrub and flower roots all touching and entwining
themselves for hundreds of miles and not be a slave to spells, ritual and
ceremony. You love nature, call yourself a Pagan. Let those Reconstructionist
doopahs call themselves neo-pagans if they want, no offense of course.
Pagan
is as Pagan does. With Progressive Paganisms freewheeling eclecticism, we
create our own path. Mine is a well-worn post road that can’t seem to stop
ruminating about pre- 1800 America. How did enough of Paganism survive
to 1776 to light the lamp of Liberty when our founding revolutionaries
envisioned a country free from religious
coercion.
A Pagan sure: a progressive….proudly! I love this country too and I do not appreciate any demeaning by tea baggers suggesting many people are not patriots, but commie socialists. I insist that Lady Liberty inspired our Founding Revolutionaries and our freedoms are derived from the Pagan lifestyle. Pagans more easily embrace all the freedoms we enjoy in the United States unlike the patriarchal pustillades of the Abrahamic religions,. The country created by Washington Jefferson Hamilton Madison and Adams and others are under attack by those who think god is arming them for battle to “take back” the United States. There is no taking back that which there never was.
Now they say that the founding revolutionaries WERE
not christians and they need to make this a christian country. Wrong.
They created a country that was supposed to be free from religious and class
strife. They created Liberty for the future. They wanted to leave the blood stained streets behind.
A green
living person will wonder why there is such a limited emphasis on ecosystem
stewardship in Paganism. I found a lot about pagan dress up and ceremonies
galore, instead of the green ethics that you might expect. Witchvox accepted
this article a few years back and it was moving up the viewed charts and I got
email from people enthusiastically agreeing with me.
I believe that earth lovers looking into
paganism are put off with the ceremonial excess they see and often times they
will turn away. The gardener, earth activist, or tree planting green would be
considered, “just a tree hugger, you’re not a ‘real’ pagan.” Says you; Pagan is
as pagan does, earth lovers are real pagans, not neo-pagans. So here I am,
Martin Luther, creating a schism with pagans, but I’ll say it again--more trees
and less candles, more organic vegetables and less skulls and demons. The near future will be less about ceremony and
more about attaining full civil rights for Druids and Witches who cannot openly
practice or talk about their religion in this sweet land of liberty and many
other countries.
Reality based morality instead of religious bugaboo will be about restoring ecosystems worldwide after 200 years of profit taking by industrial capitalism. The future will be less about candle color and more about creating new forms of governance and embedding an economic model of market socialism.
Pagans will be there to replace war, violence and greed with passion and compassion, but there are bridges and rough terrain to cross, and it won’t be as easy as using your broomstick to get to the Emerald City. “Did you bring your broomstick?” Most people worship the golden calf, and walk that yellow brick road of greed behind the façade of the flag and the cross. Freedom for them to be jingoistic SOB's.
There is the classic pagan ceremony where a
knife represents the male and a goblet of wine symbolizes the woman, and
everyone takes it so seriously and here is where I part company with today’s
pagans. Why do I need to do that? It’s just not right for me. It’s like
kneeling and standing in church when I was a child; it seems kind of silly and
uncomfortable. I kneel for no deity.
I’m a gardener and I have a few knives around, like
15, and they have many uses. Cut open our modern impenetrable packaging, slice
fruit, cut string and tape, tighten glasses, open up bags of mulch, carve
pinewood derby cars and on and on. Do I really need an athame, a double-sided
knife, one sharp and the other dull? I do have a favorite knife that has a
compass in the handle and it's nice for outdoor ceremonies and orienting to the
four directions, but my favorite use for it is to cut seed potatoes which I do
every fall.
I have hope that potatoes can be my sustainable crop
and I call the knife my potato knife. Books and practitioners say a pagan
without an athame is like a mechanic without a wrench, a dentist without a
drill: you absolutely must have an athame. My favorite potato knife is going to
be my athame if I really need one, so does anyone have a real problem with
that? Let’s loosen up a bit here and start setting up posts to make the tent
bigger.
It’s time to discuss what aspects of magic are needed
for the future. Why is it that New Agers are so into rocks, huh? Oh, stones;
they’re not rocks, I’m told. I call them rocks so bear with me. Rock magic
seems interesting and I do have a stone shrine indoors with some small but very
interesting unpolished rocks…I mean stones.
A few
years ago, I found this shrine that fit on my dashboard and startling things,
mostly good and some bad, happened for three weeks straight when I placed it
there, until I brought it back in the house. Stone Magic happens more readily
than you might think. Rookie Me with my favorite rocks on the dashboard.
This is why I indulge in what I call Oxoheartsvoken,
the as yet undiscovered folk religion of the Reindeer People, the cave
painters, and the Solutreans. The magic of the people, for the people and by
the people in accord with the presence of the planet Venus, that planet we call
the morning and evening star. Venus is visible far more often than the moon and
helped early navigators such as the Polynesians and the Phoenicians. By now,
many know about the mysterious pentacle shape that Venus traces across our
night sky every eight years.
Today, pagans think they are Druids, Priests or
Priestesses and my point is that, in every culture there was the shaman or
priestly class and the rest of us who would prefer less ceremony. As you begin
a journey into ritual and magic, you first have to question the books that
explain about magic and its practitioners. Are they capturing what 90% of us
did: the folk magic? Not everyone can be a Priest, Druid or pagan clergy.
Experienced pagans might rail against someone like me
who has unconventional ideas and refuses to wear the fairy king costumes. As I
like to say, ‘Halloween is my new year, not what I do all year.’ Costumes don’t
seem natural, and I know there are many people that agree with me on that one,
maybe we really don’t need to wear robes. No offense of course.
Pagan Traditionalists have created too big of a wall
that conservationists and environmentalists try to look over but only end up
shrugging their shoulders and walking away because all they see is ceremony
that is about connecting with the divine. Getting your hands dirty as a
gardener or speaking at a town meeting in support of habitat restoration isn’t
even on the radar of all those city slicker pagans.
Neophytes to pagan initiation may hear, “Your athame
has to be blah blah blah” or some version of, “you’re just starting, you don’t
know anything,” which is highly insulting. In my opinion, Paganism needs to be
more about planting trees and less about spells and candles and I think there
are many people who would agree, and many of us have a lot to bring to the
table and this is why I’m promoting the big tent concept of progressive
eclecticism.
There are those that say you have to be on one
specific path or another and you’re not a real pagan if you mix and match your
deities from different pagan religions. I’m a real pagan in my view, although
serious pagans would disagree with my notion of Progressive Eclectics and my
iconoclastic pantheon of 9 goddesses and 23 gods from a variety of sources.
Wicca may be the face of paganism with its Lord and
Lady Ceremony, but in time there will be ten times as many progressive
eclectics as there are initiated wiccans, so the sooner you open that barn door
and let us all in, the better.
My vision is that we all find our own way as Pagans and a so-called “newbie” has life experiences to draw on for their pagan expression. In my religion, there are no newbies. A newbie could have superlative insights when a traditionalist may have lost their focus, spending an entire weekend “driving 300 miles in the Lincoln Escalade looking for coltsfoot root.” I would much rather take a walk around the ’hood and imagine the tree roots and shrub and flower roots all touching and entwining themselves for hundreds of miles underground as I take a walk, and not be a slave to spells, ritual and ceremony.
You love nature, and then call yourself a
pagan if you like. Let those Reconstructionists call themselves neo-pagans if
they want. Don’t quote me, but I think it was the Celtic tradition many
hundreds of years ago that used severed heads to ‘see’ the future. If
Celt Reconstructionists can choose what practices to take into their spiritual
future, then why can’t I? No offense of course.
Native Americans didn’t realize that the basis for the
faith-based genocide by Europeans was because they were viewed as pagans, pure
and simple; and yet today they don’t call themselves pagan to honor their part
in the history of pagan civil rights. The Great Spirit of the Indigenous People
kept this hemisphere in balance, and they have respected the Mother for
thousands of years here before it was the U.S.A. The Vikings created
settlements on the mainland peacefully, but Christopher Columbus thought the
Caribbean islands they landed on was the Garden Of Eden and it was his job to
drive out the ‘savages’, or at least enslave them and take their gold.
Is there an ancient mother and are there goddesses? What have the
Goddesses been telling us: maybe they want us that we must encode liberty,
embed equality, ostracize criminality and vanquish cruelty Maybe
Hecate wants you to plant willow trees instead of invoking her to help with
your love life. Maybe Cerridwen would rather have you using your creative will
to help craft a cap and trade program that makes sense in this polluted world.
Sedena of the Inuit doesn't need prayers so much as she needs a solution to the
invasion of her cold northern arctic by Bernie Madoffs with drilling equipment.
Maybe Yemaya wants you to indulge your carnal side a little less and take care
of your little creations better.
Jurate wants you to be aware that humans have killed and fished with a profit
seeking rapaciousness that will leave future generations scratching their heads
at the depletion of fishing stocks and the lack of earth stewardship, and the
illusion of prosperity created by predatory capitalism. Maybe Freya is
unimpressed with your double axe zipper pulls and wants you to raise your level
of awareness about eroding topsoil and to learn how to certify organic growing
conditions to keep up with the demand for clean food. The dragon-tailed goddess
Nu-Kua appreciates that you are beginning to understand about Feng shui and
Dharma, but would be happier if you understood more about the ecological
devastation of war and the emotional toll on civilian populations.
"This Satan Lucifer God Doomsday Hound Dude, was determined to take down all the peaceful pottery making goddess-oriented societies that were developing. He deceived Adam and Eve, confused Abraham, and found out that humans were defective enough to be willing to kill their own child, for a bullshit concept called faith. Well, faith has no legs. "
1-12 BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY
Author: Greenhammer
Posted: January 1st. 2015
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Pagans are purposeful and passionate with their
motivations in life, and are also harmoniously allied with the true American
ideals of freedom and liberty. Witches are heirs to the spirit of the American
Constitution, so why are most of them trying to be invisible?
Women and their stories are rarely in history
books, yet they influenced everyone; big names and little ones throughout
Revolutionary history. Mothers, daughters, sisters and revolutionaries, their
impact is not fully understood during those years, 1765 to 1788. This is why I
prefer to use the term Founding Revolutionaries instead of Founding
Fathers.
The spirit of the American Revolution is not
about restrictions and punishment, but the pursuit of happiness, and for the most
part people were obliging, gentle, kind and industrious. This country was built
with an ax and not the Bible as some contend, and this negative and
reactionary force has been trying to hijack this country since the
European settling in 1620. The religious elites saw the Native Americans as
Pagans and this is why they were massacred, plain and simple.
Why call this story “Broomstick to the Emerald
City”?
I remember the good witch in the Wizard of Oz, Glinda, asking Dorothy if
she brought her broomstick " because it was a long way to see the
Wizard". It's never been an easy way for witches; even now in the 21st
century there is still quite a long ride still in store to achieve full
equality.
I don't have to be initiated or take courses
with certifications to call myself a witch. See rule #8 from the 13 Principles
of Witchcraft. "Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch--
but neither does heredity itself, or the collecting of titles, degrees, and
initiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within him/herself that make
life possible in order to live wisely and well, without harm to others, and in
harmony with Nature."
Sure, witches may be a little edgy and
mysterious, but paganism allows for a wider range of expression. An abundantly
wide variety of people practice witchcraft in many forms, and it's a good
thing. Reminiscent of the American Constitutions freedoms; we love our freedom
of thought, expression, and association, with witches and pagans certainly
engaging in "the pursuit of happiness." After all, this is the USA
where personal expression should be at its zenith.
It seems to me witches are still doing what they
have always done. They are wise in the use of herbal remedies, and, unknown to
most, they use intensity and inspiration to achieve ideals, and influence a
positive outcome in their endeavors. Despite all the positives I have observed
in witchcraft, they are still viewed as demonic which frustrates Witches,
Wiccans and Pagans to no end. Hollywood doesn’t help with all its shootin' fire out they hands.
Rolling our eyes and shaking our heads at people
that don’t like witches can't be enough anymore. Full tolerance is necessary
and acceptance is coming around the bend. They can't just turn the other cheek
and shake it off any longer because they can't remain invisible forever. 1628 years is long enough and that calculation is derived from 395 AD when Paganism
was banned in the Roman Empire. Thirty-five years previous to the ban, Julian
the last Pagan Emperor came to power and told the population to worship with
exuberance, Christians and Pagans alike.
When all discrimination ends, and there is a
massive Christian apology from the pulpits of hate and division, Pagans will
finally exhale. 1600 years of persecution, murder and ostracization has to
cease. Congregants are riled up from believing the demons that pastors and
preachers talk about. If a person calls him/herself a witch, there is not a
reason to be fearful if they are a neighbor or co-worker.
Like pagans in general, witches are passionate and sensitive and in many cases, wise in the ways of the world. I wish I had more Pagan and Witch neighbors; it would be a friendlier neighborhood and world. Pagans have American Freedoms embedded in our genes, but we live amongst people who believe Halloween is "the devil’s birthday."
Unfortunately, the promise of heaven espoused by
Islamic and Christian clergy has no "lemon law". The perfect product:
no returns no refunds, not even something you need to make. Eternal salvation
sounds specious to the skeptical.
Many obelisks erected by Masons around the world
were purposefully set up with a pyramid shaped capstone. The sun first shone on
America in the late 1800's at the top of the 555-foot Washington Monument. It
was the tallest structure ever built.
Bible thumpers know the Masons were very much behind the American Revolution, while pastors preachers and priests were conspicuously absent. Inspired by various Goddesses such as Minerva and Libertas, Washington D.C. is set up like a Goddess Temple from long ago.
Therefore, cast a skeptical eye when you see Youtube videos calling Masons
evil. We are weary of 1600 years of whisper campaigns to destroy reputations
and of the outright murder of heretics and non-believers. Let this holy war
end.
Paganism is something people can’t quite
comprehend, and when it comes to witches, most people have a really biased
opinion and it’s based on brainwashing. Witches may cast spells, but they know
the consequences of wishing harm to another person. Important also, the need to
be careful, because you really can get what you wish for. Witches can be very
ordinary and here is where the last hurdle to freedom lies.
Witches are generally thoughtful, thinking and
kind people. Pagans seek the true American ideals. We are actually strict
constitutionalists, and we are enthusiastic purveyors of the ‘pursuit of
happiness’, and laugh at the hackneyed harangues of hate. Then don’t forget
Pagans are also, hands down, the best sociological entity to steward the
environment, although it's true that many Pagans even don't have a clue about
how ecosystems work or what earth stewardship would entail.
Remember pagans aren’t witches but witches are
primarily pagan. As an aside here, there is every range of belief with some
witches even having Christian saints in their pantheon of gods and goddesses,
and there are Pagans who have very high regard for the teaching of Jesus who
basically preached the Universal aspect of Unitarian Universalists.
So, toss
all the pagan baggage aside and open your heart to the key to our peaceful
future. Tolerance: then acceptance.
Witches may not be subject to being dragged down
to the town square and burned anymore, or need to worry about being beheaded
and having their skulls placed on spikes to scare other pagans into converting
to the one true religion; but they can easily lose their jobs or leadership
positions in volunteer organizations such as the Cub Scouts, should we be outed
as Witches or Pagans. How Un-American can you be with this attitude and why are
witches still subject to severe discrimination such as this? The Founding
Revolutionaries invented something called Freedom of Expression, but many
Pagans cannot have a booth at a fair without some kind of virulent discrimination
or harassment.
This is why so many pagans have to stay in the
broom closet. Police authorities
cast a wary eye on any pagan activity, even charitable volunteer work
completely devoid of religion. Unbelievably, pagans are subject to
unconstitutional harassment and when this issue concerning pagan civil rights
becomes known, it will completely overshadow marriage equality in scope. These scaredy cat right wingers all brainwashed to believe "demons" inhabit Pagans. This really has to be the biggest mental illness of all time.
To praise the Goddess out loud is an act of
bravery even in 21st century America. I know there are people that conclude I
am nuts to even consider that the Supreme Being or beings are Female oriented.
Patriarchy has been fighting for your mind for many centuries, yet the American
Constitution is not based on the Bible or some warrior code. It couldn't be!
Thomas Jefferson, for one, discussed what he called his “God of Nature”. One of
his favorite sayings regarding religion is one of indifference: “Why should I
care about my neighbors religions, ” he asks, “it neither picks my pocket….nor
breaks my leg.”
Come on, let's pull up our big American pants
and look at the individual you meet as an individual… as a citizen, a voter a
worker or a child. Jefferson was only too aware of the Church and its agenda
for control. The Spanish Inquisition was still fresh in his 18th century mind.
"Divine Authority" had become a joke to intelligent people during the
Enlightened period.
As the boomer generation reached school age,
many of us were puzzled and disgusted that a race of people had to use separate
facilities and were treated as less than equal. It also seemed dumb and
unnatural that females were somehow not equal to males. We didn't GET IT. The
bigotry and sexism of the greatest generation was put to the test in the 60’s
and failed as cultural norms. The Old Order was about to be stood on its head!
Jefferson was very determined not to let any
religion become dominant in this country. Our revolutionary founders looked
decades and centuries into the future, and they envisioned a nation of law, an
experiment in freedom and they developed the template for Liberty. People will
be shocked to see the ignorant beliefs the intolerant majority hold if pagan
civil rights become a national issue. (Like in 1919 when the Congress debated
whether or not women should vote.)
Paganism has inspired me to learn so much more
about life and now everything I have experienced has an odd synchronistic feel
to it. I try to put a comic spin on issues, but I am really serious about the
Goddess. Her name is Zemyna, the life of the living earth, the Mother Earth,
Deity of the Romuvans, the moist mother earth of the Lithuanians, Estonians,
Poles, Latvians and other Slavic peoples.
I'd like to quote Phyllis Curott and her book , The Book of Shadows. She discusses the Masons. ”The Masons arose from a magical and intellectual lineage and it was their revolutionary brotherhood that founded the United States. They believed in the brotherhood of man, the existence of a divinity, and the immortality of the soul. Many of the treasured secret rituals of the masons reflected those of the Goddesses at Ileuses and Delphi, and the most overt symbols decorate our flag, dollar bills, and seals of high office. Often these days as right wing politicians and conservative Christians appropriate history for their own exclusionary political ends, they assert that we were founded as a Christian country. In fact we were founded by magicians as an astounding political experiment, reflecting their equally insurgent and ancient spirituality.” (1)
Seriously, our revolutionary ancestors were magicians, Pagan wizards, and eclectics? The actual greatest generation (of 1776) may indeed have been. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine were gifted individuals who studied many esoteric philosophies and no true biography of them shows that any of them they were a Ned Flanders, foam at the mouth, fundamentalist type. Jefferson and Paul Revere were Unitarians who eventually shed their deities. It is reputed that Benjamin Franklin cavorted with witches and various Bohemians on his frequent trips to Paris.
There are many Goddesses in many buildings as artwork or statues in Washington D.C., and like Lady Liberty, they have played prominent roles in our national inspiration. George Washington’s beliefs had more in common with Native Americans than some Calvinist ideals.
We can’t just get on our broomstick and fly to the Emerald City. It will be a long journey. Our broomstick may help with a few shortcuts, but the road is going to be long no matter what. Neither god nor goddess but super spectrals.
1=13= TAROT FOR NEWBS
August
26th. 2012 in Witchvox
A true total explanation of one way to use the Tarot cards. I created a simple explanation and procedure eschewing some unnecsessry strategems that exclude the common person from using the Tarot. The Tarot is for everyone i insist. .
The
origin of the Tarot goes back thousands of years, and tarot may have even had
its origins in Egyptian history. Maybe, even the cave painters; the mammoth
hunters, began drawing its earliest symbology with the 32 symbols paleontoligists are finding in caves.
I have found a way to
help people, who are giving and getting tarot decks for our celebrations, to
explain how to get started. Some people collect decks like coins and are
only interested in the artistic creativity and symbolic values. My purpose is
to explain a way to help the curious learn to read tarot with a simple
overview. Some of the stuffy traditionalists have way too many ‘shoulds’, so I
am compelled to demonstrate a basic introduction so anyone can learn to do a
Tarot reading. Move on to another chapter if Tarot isn't what you want to read
about.
Like any of the mysterious arts, some
practitioners try to foment exclusivity with it, by saying things like, “You
know, not everybody should do it. I’m psychic and understand how to use
it. I’m fortunate to have a special gift,” they tell me.
Well, don’t let anyone tell you can't use it because all you need is an
interest; I learned without knowing step 1 about it. It was a crash
course at first, and I feel I can do a fundamental reading if I have my best
book with me, the book that came with the cards. Of course, I understand that
to be good at it will take years, and I hope to develop a more intuitive skill,
but my desire to learn is Important to me.
During a pagan pilgrimage to Salem,
Massachusetts, I was open to all things Pagan and Wiccan. Poking around one of
the interesting shoppes, I saw a large variety of Tarot Decks, and the
storeowners had sample packs to inspect. The Lord Of The Rings has
always been a borderline obsession with me and I was really drawn to
those 78 Lord Of The Ring Tarot Cards. I took them out of the box
and looked at them eagerly. As I scanned the symbols and pictures, I was
shaking my head, ‘Oh yeah, NOW I’m going to learn.’
Looking at them during my pilgrimage I was just
as puzzled as ever. After getting back to Florida I even took the pack with me
to work and took another look at the instruction book that went with
it trying to figure it out. ‘I’ll read the books entire 260 pages cover to
cover and somehow that will kick start the effort.’ There were a lot of
pictures in a small book, so it wasn’t as daunting a task as you might think,
and what I have discovered is a way for all of us to have access to this
wisdom, knowledge and fun.
Part 1: The next day, as a way of starting, I
took out the ten most interesting cards to me personally and looked up their
meanings. If you’re new to the Tarot, you should try this yourself;
go through your deck without any preconceived notions and pick out the ten
cards that call out to you. I was a total Newb at this point, but determined.
The LOTR book discusses the three-card throw, the Gandalf spread and other ways
of interpretation but they didn’t feel right.
The next day, I stopped off my favorite local
nursery. I got what I needed and was leaving when some mysterious force pulled
me into the statuary area. How about this here Celtic cross piece? The Celtic
cross is some pagan remnant of the Celts, right? Well, I stared at it and said
‘That’s what I want!’ Imagine Homer Simpson saying, “Mmmmmmmm… statuary.” The
rest of the day it rode in the back of my work van. I still had the ten cards I
thought were the most interesting and was planning on reviewing them again and
picked three as my favorites, indicator cards after a fashion.
That evening my driven, focused, semi obsessive
determination to figure this out made me concentrate. I was ready to give up…
but don’t you know the very best part was in the last couple of pages. Buddha
Bing! There it was… the Celtic Cross spread! Thank the goddess. Celtic Cross
Synchronicity! This is supposed to be the most common spread anyway, so I laid
them out as directed.
Tarot decks can be lame looking in my opinion,
but this Lord of the Rings Deck is really well drawn and easy
to relate to because only characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy
and The Hobbit are used. If you know the stories, then every
card has some meaning for you. Find a deck you're comfortable with. People all about gift decks but maybe they don't get loners.
Part 2:
Get
out your cards. At this point, it’s time to figure out what to do with your
deck. We all know how to shuffle cards, right? Tarot cards are a bit bigger
than playing cards but it’s easy to adjust. New decks can be slippery at first,
just work with it.{Update: Lord of the Rings Tarot author,
Terry Donaldson, writes that oiling your cards is one of the first things you
should do. Look into it if you like.} Don’t damage them or bend them in half,
it influences your outcome; even if you try to ignore that bent or marked card,
your Zemyna (favorite goddess) , spirit guide or angel knows that you still see
it in your subconscious.
Here’s my new easy to understand Tarot. Shuffle
the deck five times and cut it four times, which makes nine passes with the
cards. Very importantly, on the last cut, concentrate solely on the Question.
If you are doing a reading for somebody else, then that person (asking the question)
makes the last cut as he/she completely concentrates. The cards that are cut
last are the ones you will be using, so (duh) , these are important so focus
on. Shuffle and cut thoughtfully because this is an absolute.
7
3
9 6 (1 and 2) 4 10
5
8
Try a dry run. Shuffle the cards 5 times
(elements) and cut them 4 times (directions) concentrating on the question
throughout, especially on the last cut. “Will I ever take a European cruise?”
“What will be my economic future?” The first two cards are laid out as
indicated above and my Lord Of The Rings Tarot book
says card 3 goes above (a crowning) and this is where this reading
diverges from other Celtic Cross readings: Other
deck instructions say to start on the right, for no particular reason I can discern,and there are books that say card 3 goes on the bottom!
My Lord of the Rings Tarot book
says the third card goes on top and Card #4 goes to the
right; #5 goes at the bottom and #6 to the left. (See
above) Card six concerns future influences and is where you’re really
free to interpret future events and influences. This is where you put your
knowledge to work, because Tarot is not just for the esoterically gifted, I
insist, but also a way for friends and family to communicate and influence the
future in some way and to also share in some fun. Divination? Yes. Evil? No.
Hey! I just remembered what one of the other
books said. The Celtic Cross reading has something to do with the Catholic
‘sign of the cross’, though it didn’t say how. The sign of the cross is a razzle-dazzle
Catholics do with their hands before they pray or walk in a church. I was
wondering what to do with the last 4 cards, so utilizing this idea, we go top,
bottom, left and then right for a symbolic sign of the cross as you lay out the
last four cards. (See diagram.)
Here’s a good time to mention that a
Tarot deck would be a great Christmas, Samhain or Solstice gift and a good way
to introduce your friends, relatives and co-workers to two aspects of Paganism,
Tarot and our Holidays. Traditionalists say a tarot deck that was given to you should be the deck that you use. Run them off a copy of this chapter and fold it up in
their present. Get them a deck they will be able to use and, happily, most
decks have books to go along with them. If not, order Tarot Plain and
Simple by Anthony Louis. There are so many interesting tarot decks, so
find some books you feel comfortable with.
Part 3: When you read about Astrology and Tarot,
just remember that, “astrological aspects are an addition to a reading, and they
are never required." Astrology and Tarot have crossed paths at different
times in history but are exclusive of each other. For instance, where did the
choice of 78 cards in a deck come from? The twelve houses of the zodiac say
some. Add 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12=78.”
Okay, if you still have your cards laid out then
let’s start. Sometimes I have simple questions.
Today my question is: Should I put Tarot
for Newbs in my book, History Of The Pagans, or make it
something separate? Let’s find out. I shuffle five times to mince up any
previous throw. Then I cut 4 times concentrating solely on the question
throughout. The first card is the three of coins. My Lord of
the Rings Deck shows Bilbo in his library. The first card indicates
the present situation of the questioner. Recently, my life seems to be about
learning new things and this card says to ‘extol in the learning of new things'
to make life even more interesting. Learning a new craft such as tarot is an
excellent use of time’ this card says.
The second card lays sideways across
the first one and directly influences it. This card is the Ace of Swords and
most prominently featured is Gwaihir the Eagle. Remember, in Lord Of
The Rings, Gwaihir saved the day a several times when least expected. A
positive card, it says unprecedented opportunities are present. ‘By all means,
include the tarot chapter’ is what I’m hearing so far.
The third card concerns goals. It’s
the six of Cups. Remember, card three goes above, a crowning
achievement in your life. (See diagram) A playful card, the six of Cups shows
Merry and Pippin smoking Saruman's ‘pipeweed’ while they laugh about the
victory of the Ents and the fall of Orthanc. The card says ‘re-discover the
child within’, a reminder to not be so serious and to have fun. Sometimes I do
take things too seriously; I need to loosen up and have fun so I should make a
tarot chapter fun and accessible. Our modern sensibilities demand excellence
with playfulness and I need to remember this.
The 4th card goes to the right of the
center cards and the card will show some aspect of the distant past that links
with this question. It’s a card from the 22 card major Arcana; the important
cards, if you will. The Hermit is the card, that’s me -- not real keen on city
life, even in my distant past, I had been wishing for a country paradise. Never
planning on doing anything of significance in life, but secretly hoping I could
and History Of The Pagans is where all the different aspects
of my life come together. I feel that writing History of the Pagans is
what I was meant to do.
Paganism will be one polarizing issue in the
near future. Everything that has been under the media radar regarding paganism
will charge the atmosphere. Maybe I can help by revealing some of the mystery
while admitting that, even to a skeptic like me, magic is there when you use
the Tarot.
The 5th card is below the center. I
deal a card that indicates that careful thinking, but decisive action is needed
regarding recent past events Can I learn tile and stonemasonry and be a better
father and husband and increase my business income? Can I learn Tarot and many
other things that have fallen in my lap lately? Determination and focus may yet
trump my chronic procrastination.
Card 6 is about future influences and I
draw The Hanged Man, which I don't ever remember getting before. This is not
good because it means some delay is in store. Should I rename the book, Pagan
History and Culture? History of the Conquered People? A stumbling block is “in
the cards" says card 6. Hanged Man indicates some sort of delay and with
some readings it concerns court cases plodding along and delaying action, but I
don't think this is the case. When I type out the book I shouldn’t waste time.
Things could get delayed and the card says to persist with my goals. {Update:
Grandma went into Hospice and died shortly after I did this reading and it took
a while to get up to speed with our lives I can see now in retrospect. Grandma
was an important aspect of the children’s lives and she was very helpful and
kind and we honor her memory.}
In the study of Tarot, you will read about cards
‘reversed’. I make sure they are all facing the same direction before I shuffle
them. Those reversed cards add so much inexactness, bewilderment and negativity
that I personally avoid them altogether. I recently discovered that reversed
cards were introduced barely 100 years ago… specifically to discourage people
like me who try to explain tarot for everyone’s use. (Some might say there is
something to cards that are near each other or related to another but that is
another layer of difficulty I need to comprehend, and this will lead to a
deeper level of understanding.)
Card 7 is the questioners’ attitude. My book
says three of Cups means rediscovering someone from the past. This has come up
in my readings a lot. Someone I know from the past is going to have some sort
of influence on a job or occupation, my book and my future. How does this
relate to my current attitude? I used to think that my friends are more likely
to enjoy things I write than people off the street. Buddha Bing! Now I’m
suddenly inclined to think that I really need to rediscover maybe not a friend
from the past, but the attitude I had in the past.
Here is the magic of the tarot; follow what your
heart is telling you and be open to what may be revealed. Loosen up on the
direct ‘meanings’ of the cards and stay intellectually nimble with
interpretation. As I was contemplating this card, I realized that it may not be
an old friend from the past, but how I used to meet dozens of people in short
periods of time during my young adulthood. I learned so much from the constant
parade of unique people and the situations and scenarios of my youth. Tarot is
not Rubik’s Cube.
Card 8 is about how other people affect the
outcome, and environmental factors (like if a hurricane blows the house away
and I have to move) . It’s the 4 of Cups and that says ‘new friendships will
occur’. The last couple of years have been about full time family, and besides,
you get older and you tend to want to stay home anyways. But, I do need to send
up the periscope to see beyond the current existence I had been leading and
card 8 encourages me to get out and make new friends, friends who know what the
tarot is.
Card 9 is about inner emotions, my hopes,
fears and anxieties. I flip over a card; it’s The World. Everything I’ve done
before is just practice. History of the Pagans and the Tarot
chapter is to be my entry into The World.
Finally the 10th card indicates the
final outcome, the Net result and cumulative factors in answering the question.
High Priestess comes up. This indicates balance with our goddess, everything
lining up for a positive yin and yang result. Pagans will accuse me of
occasional insensitivity and Christians will accuse me of… who knows...
whatever they can think of, but the end result will be something that pleases
the goddess. Tarot for pagans? The cards say ‘by all means!’ It will be part of
the balanced picture in the book I’m writing. So there you have it, Tarot is
for all of us.
I hope this has encouraged you to try a reading
on your own. The readings I have done for myself so far seem freaky accurate,
but more than that, I’m able to see problems and obstacles in a different
light. The Tarot opens up the creative parts of our mind. The readings have
given me more confidence in myself and provided me the occasional illumination
to move forward with this new kind of life I’m creating.
When I went and got my first professional
reading, the results matched the ones I was coming in with; they really were.
Tarot Card practitioners can interpret my results here and let me know if I’m
close with my interpretation.
I remember the Tarot reader explained to me ‘she
had a gift’ and said I ‘had a guardian angel over my left shoulder’. Maybe us
simple folk can’t really see angels but we all have gifts, remember? Tarot is
for me and Tarot is for you, too.
;
Footnotes:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TAROT; TERRY DONALDSON
TAROT PLAIN AND SIMPLE; ANTHONY LOUIS
ON TO SECTION TWO
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SECTION TWO
UNITED SCAPES
-2-1- THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION war and
peace and supply and demand
-2-2-
PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE America
in 1765. alternative view of the Founding revolutionaries
-2-3-
II22 finally getting vacations. 40 days on the road
and an analysis of the highway system and why we have to think of hte future
-2-4-
NON PROFIT BANKING Bankrupting usurious banking
-2-5-
A NEW SQUARE DEAL who were the Progressives and why do Liberals claim
credit for the reforms that upgraded america
-2-6-
MARXISM IN AMERICA Capitalism AND Communism are two
failed euro-centric economic systems. The world needs somthing better
-2-7-
SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS Greed Mockumentary
-2-8-
CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
-2-9-
LIBERTARIANS
-2-10-WHO
ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE
-2-11-
THE INDEPENDENT MAJORITY PARTY
-2-12-
MARKET SOCIALISM the inevitable market
system
-2-13-
TABOOS EXPOSED Unionism
-2-1-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."
This first story of section two is about how completely primitive the humans are. And not in a good way.
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 notion would seem
logical for a country that includes "The pursuit of happiness" in the
preamble to its Constitution, 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?
Apparently, making a fleet of eighty-MILLION-dollar fighter jets is much more
important than anything nature has 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.
Park
expansion, safety of campers and visitors, and the preservation of ecological
diversity has been subverted by corporations that profit from war, and by the
army of corporate lobbyists in Washington. THE PEOPLE WANT PARKS NOT WAR.
2022
update. The current administration has created a fund for the National Parks
but still won’t reduce the military.
The
American people and visitors from around the world, are out there trying to
have a grand vacation visiting the great places of America, only to find stinky
bathrooms, traffic jams, and tour guides swamped with crowds. Not only are you
creating recreation for today when land is purchased and preserved, but wild
space for ever and ever. Pondering all this, how does an upgraded
150-million-dollar fighter jet ever make sense?
It makes
sense, mon aci, because everyone has gotten fat off the government 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 not fully
comprehending the markets and products that the government encouraged, created
their prosperity. Markets as diverse as Dairy and Nuclear Energy. The
capitalists slipped America a roofie, 60 years ago, and have not stopped
ravaging her. They can't believe that no one has stopped them, so they keep
taking from her, rapidly poisoning our earth with their newest degradation
called Fracking.
Making weapons and selling weapons is profitable. Creating wars to destroy them, so they can make more, made these phony wars enormously profitable.
Boomers are
sitting pretty in their gated communities after using Millennials as cannon fodder
since 2001. Making weapons is a dirty income and many of todays tea
beggars and Q=nons profited, and perhaps you are profiting also, with your
investments, you liberal douchebag.
Now that they’ve
got their pensions and social security, the senior teahadists are quickly
closing the barn door so no one else can share this government subsidized
wealth, which they stole directly from our natural resources. One entire
generation destroyed more forests than any other generation, EVER, and profited
wonderfully from the drastic reduction of prices with the ravaging of these
resources, particulary our forests and wild lands. The cost of paper products
was artificially cheap as a result.
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. The Klondike Capitalism
of the Green Movement needs to be regulated as little as possible. Home
grown in every way.
We agree with Conservatives
on this one. Raw milk producers want regulations eased but Big Dairy is firmly
in the driver's seat. People who sell il 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. Farm
income should not be taxed for the first $25,000 of sales.
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 booksin our schoolbooksthat has become reality. The truth was that the explosion of innovations during and after WW2, was actually possible because of all the scientific innovations that had been made in the 1930's. In radio, refrigeration, electricity, and many other areas of research that were 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, in many cities, then WW2 disrupted everything. Undermining the propaganda.
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 2022, 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. One sniper and drone or ten Maybe have more security at Interstate Rest Areas.
Recycling roadside garbage. How many times did I stop on the beautiful Route 50
in Georgia to stretch and smoke, 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! Conservatives cut all the wrong government funding. 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. 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..
Try as they might to
make mass murder acceptable and patriotic, deep in our collective American
hearts we know it’s wrong.
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. 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 elites 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 despotism of
manipulative men and the 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 Orderrder, 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 and billions of lives will be enhanced when we tax the accumulated wealth of the bilionaires.
Positive momentum will feel so good. Unlike the recent decades of divisiveness.
It is the darkest before dawn.
The theme
to most American movies, the good guy wins in the end, is all fine and dandy,
but they have all been pyrrhic victories. Life has to be more than
vanquishing enemies. They won’t be real victories till we can:
"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.
-2-2- - PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE
a) The Great
Elm
b) Riotous Revolutionaries
c) A storm was brewing along with the beer
d) Disperse ye Rebels
E Liberty in Ascendance of Religion
F Libertas Holds the Lamp
a) The Great Elm
After another strong squall had blown in from the east, on that stormy day
September 21st 1938, and my dad bent down and grabbed the cap
that had blown off his head. He said he tucked it under his arm like a football
and ran the rest of the way home with his seven-year-old sister in tow.
Although far out to sea when he went to school, the undetected and
untracked hurricane had picked up speed, slamming into the Connecticut
coast around 3 o’clock with 115 MPH winds.
The
winds were still blowing over 90 MPH as the dangerous quadrant of the storm
went through Hartford, where my dad lived; his mom, sister and he looking out
the window as trees flapped like the neighbor’s laundry on the clothes line. My
grandmother barely had time to bring hers in. My dad and his sister had walked
home from school in 70 MPH gusts around 3:30.
The
Long Island Express it was called, and this unseen hurricane was the strongest
storm to hit New England in recent memory. Just south of Hartford in
Wethersfield, where my mother lived, the Great Elm, pictured below , held onto
most of its large branches but was heavily damaged.
The Latin designation of the
American Elm is Ulmus americana. With its downward growing roots and immense
shady canopy, it had become Americas' street tree. A disease introduced around
1930 called “Dutch Elm Disease” ravaged these trees the next 25 years, and many
boomers and their parents remember when they were torn down and replaced. Main
streets across America were once lined with this stately, tenacious shade
maker. Then IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES, they were gone.
By 1966, the tree was merely a plaque on my paper route, a victim of Dutch Elm
Disease and suffering from the stress, and slow recovery, of the ‘38 Hurricane.
The Great Wethersfield Elm it was called and was cited as the largest Elm east
of the Rockies. Further down the road is Ye Ancient Graveyard and also
the house George Washington stayed in as he planned the Battle of Yorktown. An
old sidewalk that I would ride my bicycle on had 5’x 5’ stones, all wavy and
crooked from tree roots, as I threw newspapers to customers. Almost half
of my customers near the Wethersfield Green lived in houses built before 1850.
To help you
understand this story, use July 4th 1776 as your baseline reference. A high
recognition date, it was the day the Declaration of Independence was signed,
but how did the United States get to that point in 1776? From the Village
Improvement Association of Wethersfield Connecticut; comes this quote about the
Town Green on Broad Street in Wethersfield.
“The
Stamp Act of 1765 threatened Connecticut's tradition of self-government.
Connecticut's participation in the War of Independence began right here in the
shadow of Broad Street's Great Elm, where 500
mounted and armed, Sons of Liberty, surrounded
Stamp Master Jared Ingersoll. According to contemporary sources,
Ingersoll then took refuge in a nearby tavern, presumably the Chester Tavern,
at 138 Broad Street. With the crowd clamoring outside, he decided his job as
tax agent was not worth dying for, and he resigned.”
“On August 14, 1765, a group of men calling themselves the Sons of Liberty gathered together in
Boston under a large Elm tree near Hanover Square to protest the hated Stamp
Act. The Sons of Liberty concluded their protest by lynching two tax
collectors in effigy from the tree.
“Ten years later, as they retreated from
Boston Towne, British soldiers defiantly cut the Boston Liberty Tree down in an
act of spite, knowing what it represented to the colonists, and used the tree
for firewood. This act further enraged the colonists. As resistance to the
British grew, flags bearing a representation of the Liberty Tree were flown to
symbolize the unwavering spirit of liberty.” This quote is
from the Village Improvement Association of Wethersfield Connecticut.
In this chapter, I will give you a
history of the origin of our American freedoms unlike any you have ever heard,
and my version of the struggle to unite the 13 colonies that saw themselves
more like 13 separate countries.
The Republic of Vermont did
declare themselves a separate country in 1777, but eventually joined
the United States in 1791, sewing the 14th star on the flag after 14 years as
the Republic of Vermont.
I must also make a basic outline for those
who would like to know more, but who are still confused or uncertain about American
Revolutionary History. Shout out to those who don't think they should care
about what happened during the Revolutionary War. It relates directly to
our freedoms today.
You need to care because an authoritarian,
neo-fascist entity, that wraps itself in the flag and cross, while misleading
the people of the cross, have now accomplished a stealth coup. You, at least,
as a citizen and patriot, a voter and a worker, need to arm yourself with a
contrasting viewpoint and here it is. At least learn some basics about
the Constitution and how the ideas from 1765 onwards, formed its
inspirations. Easily refutable lies are thrown around the media by
ne’er do wells like Newt Gingrich and other white male supremacists, mis
interpreting the American Constitution in their own bizarre way.
I research so you don't have to, and I
have found more raw facts than the engineered Conventional Wisdom would have
you believe. Britain began to harness the colonies resources, while slowly
raising taxes on colonists through the 1750’s. In subsequent years lower middle class and
the poor, the homeless or the nearly homeless, as Paul Revere was; were all
stout hearted, independent people who lit the pilot light of Liberty that
winter of The Stamp Act in 1765. They'd finally had enough.
Some say the founding Revolutionaries were
Liberal some say Conservative, it's too long ago really, and the meanings have
changed. Regardless, the Colonists found the bravery to defend the principles
of freedom, liberty and libertarianism, against the growing coercion of British
Rule. Inspiration for the Bill of Rights came from confrontations with British
authority the next 10 years after 1765, most particularly in Boston,
Massachusetts where the live, beating heart of American Democracy was born.
The
'troops in the house,' 3rd amendment seems odd, but not when looked at from the
colonist's viewpoint, as the Redcoats bullied their way into people homes and
lives during the occupation. “We must lodge here tonight and you are obligated
to share your provisions with us.” A most basic freedom, it was logical that no
one should have authority to force you to lodge them, especially in the case of
the Redcoat soldiers who were becoming an occupation army. Less known about the
3rd amendment is that it is about a basic right to keep all forms of government
intrusion out of our homes. That would include NSA spying on our phone
conversations one would assume, and any other heavy-handed tactics in the
future. Mrs. Noseypants across the street with the camera system set up for her
by her CIA son. Keeps her safe but she films much of the neighborhood without
permission.
This is the story of the real Tea Party and
the events that led up to the revolution of 1776, and the crucial role the
Liberty Tree played in nearly every large town within 150 miles of Boston.
The American Elm as democracy; love it
while it’s here.
b) Riotous Revolutionaries
It was the roughnecks, the visionaries, the
apprentice helpers, and the hard drinking lower middle class that became heroes
in the initial fight for American Liberty, not the Glenn Becks of the day with
their chalkboards and half-truths. And not your preachers neither, with their
clean fingernails and collection baskets. In fact, in my research, I find few
references concerning patriot preachers during the Revolutionary
Struggle; in fact, they seem conspicuously absent for a so-called
christian country.
The tea dumping, mock
lynching, stone throwing, rioting revolutionaries of 1765 to 1775 did not
allow religious bugaboo to cloud the clarity of their vision. In
fact, religion had cooled to the point of being inconsequential, in many towns.
This is where Republican Revisionist Rightest Rogue historians are completely
wrong when they perpetuate the lie that this is a Christian country. Like
Big Brother in the book 1984, they rewrite as much history that can be
distorted, and enough people buy the deceptions. If you could make a dollar off
a million Americans, you’re a millionaire.
I am going to quote what should be a
significant book on American History, by an author who needs to be better
known. I find clarity in his writing that rings true to the facts and in
my opinion, he tells an authentic story. The book is called "Riotous
Revolutionaries." His name is Robert Ellis Cahill and he has written a
series of books about New England and particularly Salem, Massachusetts. He was
a long-time sheriff in Salem, and he finally beat the so-called witches curse
in the 1970's. The alleged curse that began during the witch hysteria of 1692.
Sheriffs in the town of Salem always had bad luck for like 250 years. He
has a personal view of the people and events that led up to the Battle of
Bunker Hill and the Declaration of Independence. Robert Ellis Cahill
gives a well-researched, eminently accredited background to show you the real
people who started the American Revolution. FARMERS TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST THE
EMPIRE is what the newspaper headlines would say.
Republican revisionists
continue to sell you a distorted view of the REAL patriots. It wasn’t the
Robert Bennett’s or the Rush Limbaugh's or Bill o’Reillys, or anncoulters and
glennbecks who instigated the Revolutionary War, and this is a fundamental
truth I wish to convey with this article. Republican Teabag Entertainers would
have been the pompous apologists of the British in 1765, mocking the rebels and
their pipe dream of personal Liberty. Reconstructionists of the non-existent
christian country that never was, and back in the day, these Republican pundits would praise the
righteous rule of the King. If the King was a dick like them.I intend to repair some of the damage done by these
Repulsicans who would be quite uncomfortable being in the presence of our
actual founding revolutionaries. The actual greatest generation.
Here is the history of the
real patriots.
Mr. Cahill from Riotous Revolutionaries,
chapter one- paragraph one,
“George Robert Twelvetrees Hewes was born
August 25, 1742. He was named after his father George, who was a tanner, a glue
maker, chandler, soap boiler and jack-of-all-trades in Boston Towne. He was
given the second name Robert for his uncle who was a blacksmith in Boston.
Father George didn’t like the name ‘Twelvetrees’, and since mothers didn’t go
to christenings, he asked the minister of the church to shorten baby Georges
middle name to “twelves”.
“The Hewes family of fourteen was poor and lived in near squalor on Water
Street near the docks of North Boston. The kids growing up in the area, Ben
Franklin in the 1730's and Paul Revere in the 1750's, were among
them, were tough and water wise, fondly referred to as “water rats”
and "wharf rats". As a youth, George Robert Twelves Hewes not only
had to live down his name, with taunts from his peers and fights on the piers,
but his size as well. His father, who died when George was ten, stood 4 feet 6
inches tall, and his mother was no taller, George growing to 4 foot 4 inches by
age 17 and never gaining another inch.” Danny DeVito could play
George Hewes.
We can begin to see how this pre-revolutionary society was an economy filled
with artisans and tradespeople, glue makers of all things, and
jack-of-all-trades type people. Apprentices, dairy farmers, loggers,
blacksmiths, carpenters and on and on, nearly everyone had a craft. Paul Revere
eventually became a respected silversmith, but had his ups and downs at the
beginning; and I am trying to imagine the bespeckled elder, Ben Franklin, as a
youthful gang member in the 1730's.
I want to continue with another favorite author of all time, Professor Richard
Hofstadter. This from his book 'America at 1750', “We in New England
know nothing of poverty and want; we have no idea of the thing" wrote
Joseph Trumbull of Connecticut in 1764. "The price of labor is high and
with this advantage we are able to take up a tract of land where ever we are
able to settle it.
This great ease of gaining a farm renders the lower class of people very
industrious: which, with the high price of labor, banishes everything that has
the least appearance of begging which we see so common in
England." Arthur Young, the agricultural writer who saw much of
the Scottish Irish migration once remarked on its quality. ‘They who emigrate
are, from the nature of circumstances, the most active, hardy, daring, bold and
resolute spirits, and probably the most mischievous also. The most visionary,
the most impatient and restive under authority, the most easily alienated, the
most desperate and cranky, were the most ready to leave the old lands, giving
at least the initial population of the American Colonies a strong bias towards
a dislike of authority.”
Pioneers were exploring the Great American
wilderness and families followed behind them during the pre-Revolutionary
period. Conniving clergy followed THEM, looking for the free ride.
There were many prosperous, self-sufficient farms, but there were hard times in
the cities by 1765, and a general unease regarding the Crowns authority
throughout the Colonies. Industriousness was rewarded as noted, but the growing
prosperity of the newly rich in the cities, was where the British Corporate
Empire could interfere best. If your business became too successful, the Brits
started making problems for you. British corporations didn't like
competition.
c) A Storm was brewing along
with the Beer
Back to Robert Ellis Cahill writing about
America in 1765, “All of America, but especially New England was in a
depression. All of the imposed taxes, most believed, were the cause of the
depression. Britain's Parliament caused food and clothes prices to go up.
Seamen and dockworkers, some 12,000 people, were unemployed--- for
them and the merchants; the new Stamp Act was the last
straw."
“ The Stamp Act in the American
colonies required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts,
newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards, to carry a tax stamp. The Act applied to papers,
newspapers, advertisements, and other publications and legal documents, such as
marriage certificates, and it was viewed by the colonists as a means of
censorship. They called it a "knowledge tax," on the rights of
the colonists to write and read freely, hence, and importantly, this became the
inspiration of our eventual first amendment.”
Robert Ellis Cahill
continues describing the era of unrest and rebellion. “The Suffolk
County Sheriff and the ten constables of Boston were frightened, for they knew
they couldn't control the thousands of 'bully boys' of Boston, who every year
on November 5th would parade the street carrying clubs and effigies of the Pope
and the Devil. This annual celebration of marching, singing and public drinking
would inevitably turn nasty when darkness set in. Guy Fawkes Day was much like
Halloween is celebrated today, with children in masks and coal blackened faces,
going door to door costumed carrying Jack O' Lanterns and trick or
treating"
"Following Boston’s
example, almost every village and town in New England eventually had a Liberty
Tree, and if there was not an appropriate large tree near the center of
town, the people erected Liberty Poles. When November 1st 1765
rolled around, dockworkers refused to load or unload cargos, shops were closed,
church bells rang, and every flag and ship-ensign was flown at half-mast. In
Boston, the blood red stamps were delivered to Castle Island, but Governor Barnard
didn't dare have his customs men bring them into port.
In
other towns, if the stamps could be confiscated by the Liberty Boys, they were,
and burnt in great bonfires.”
“In retaliation the government closed
all the courts, for the law was that no legal business could be transacted
without the stamp. Barnard wrote to his friends in Parliament: "I am at
the mercy of the mob. The power and authority of the government is really at an
end." There were no business transactions and little activity that
terribly cold winter of 1765-66. Paul Revere, for one, was so deep in debt he
almost had to spend the winter in jail.”
Freedom of Assembly is
discussed in the first amendment to the Constitution and its spirit is derived
from the tradition of meeting at a tree in the center of town.
Many people are discussing the amendments to
the Constitution these days, but what is the constitution about anyways? How
did we get from 1766 to 1776? There is a Preamble to the Constitution but
Republican knuckleheads don't think much of it. "It's not binding,"
they say, or "Not really part of the Constitution." It goes like
this.
"We the People of the United
States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, ensure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the General
Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, we
do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of
America." Sounds like a mission statement to me.
Time waits for no man, and
regarding 1766, Cahill writes, “The British Parliament had no option
but to repeal the Act. And March 19th was to be the day of celebration, yet
many Tories and government officials still feared retaliation from the bully
boys, and although a couple of effigies of customs officials were hung on the
Liberty Tree, and a few house windows were broken, it was a day and
night of all out gaiety.
Drummers and fluters marched through town and
wine flowed like water, houses were lit up with candles and people danced in
the streets. The Liberty Tree was decorated with lanterns, 'till its boughs
could hold no more' and the Liberty Boys sponsored a fireworks display on the
common. Paul Revere tacked a copper plaque he made to the trunk of the
Liberty Tree, it read, "To every lover of liberty-August 14, 1765"
being the date 'Olivers house was ransacked.' The sacking of Oliver’s
house was one of the first acts of defiance in 1765. Open houses and banquets,
and John Hancock had a Madeira wine party, 'where barrels rolled onto the
common for all to partake.'
It seems
as I read various, authentic accounts of history, religious fervor had greatly
cooled since the bogus Great Awakening of the 1730's. The Great Awakening was a
"spiritual revival", and the decade when preachers were out of the
tent and off the chain, desperate to grow their congregations and keep their
easy jobs amidst a steady decline of interest from the public. Preachin' Gods
word was a craft, and one of the few that didn't need tools or made you
dirty. During these many riotous celebrations, remember it was liberty
that was the moral vanguard of the Revolution, not the Ten Commandments.
Freedom of thought and choice and association and assembly were newly
burgeoning traditions anathema to organized religion. It was a blue-collar
revolt, a Freeman peasant revolt, that occurred from 1765 to 1775 and that
should be the model for us today in 2024.
As stated in the
Fundamental Orders of 1639 established by the Connecticut Colony,
"authority is derived from the free consent of the people." Though
crude, with a pandering to the white male god, the Fundamental Orders was a
first step away from monarchal, maniacal and parasitical patriarchy. I mean,
there was slavery till 1865 and women couldn't vote till 1920 and really, most
advancements in the pursuit of Liberty have occurred in the last 60 years,
starting in the spring of 1962. The pursuit of Liberty had to begin somehow,
and the Fundamental Orders relit the pilot light of Liberty after the
marginalization of the Magna Charta from previous years.
Those
patriots did not achieve this revolution coming home from church. They were law
breaking, window smashing, effigy hanging, cannon hauling, tavern singing
patriots, whose hearts burned with a passion for freedom.
D “ Disperse ye rebels!!"
1767 came along and so did the Townsend Acts. Google this if you like, it’s
about a tactic the British thought they could use to stop American smuggling.
John Hancock's boat, The Liberty' was seized, but the cargo of
Madeira wine had been delivered, which caused a great celebration. The British
ship of evil opposed to the cause of Freedom and our pursuit of good wine, was
called ‘The Romney'.
’ EDITORS NOTE: See how I
used the Fox News style of putting 'evil ship Romney' into your brain without
you knowing it? Look again. Nit Romney was on a Mormon mission during the
Vietnam War. Remember that when you see him speaking in front of a 50-foot flag
and talking about his corporate patriotism.
More from Robert Cahill, this time
concerning Samuel Adams--'brewer and patriot', “Sam
Adams activated his bully boys again, North and South Boston gangs united as
the Sons of Liberty. “They paraded up and down in front of Governor Barnards
house, shouting, whistling and drumming, 'making a great noise and hallooing'
wrote Barnard. He complained to the king to send troops to, 'control the mobs
that rule this towne.' The Governor now recognized who the ringleader was and
he publicly called Sam Adams, 'Chief of this tribe of Mohawks.' Sam took the intended
slur with a chuckle, and later would spoof the governor's comment by having his
men disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians at the Tea Party.'"
"'He is a grand incendiary," cried Lieutenant governor Hutchison,
"a master of puppets.” To further resist the Townsend Acts, Sam Adams and
Joe Warren asked all New Englanders to refuse the importation and consumption
of any goods from England that were taxed, and encouraged their manufacture
here in America."
"One Boston merchant and shop owner, Theophilus Lilly, refused to follow
the dictates of his fellow merchants by not only shipping in taxable items from
England, but selling them in his downtown shop. One morning Lilly discovered a
large canvas head, stuffed with straw, sitting on a pole in front of his shop,
and the face was a likeness of him. There was a large finger and a
cartoon of a man’s rear end painted on his front door, and a group of
boys, wharf rats, gathered outside his shop to taunt him. A neighbor, Ebenezer
Richardson, known for his Tory tendencies, taunted the crowd and attempted to
get a teamster to run over the boys. The boys started throwing 'filth and
stones' at him until he retreated into the house."
"Richardson grabbed his musket and fired out a second story window,
wounding a teenager named Christopher Gore, and killing a twelve year old
German boy, Chris Snider. A musket ball was removed from the wounded boy’s leg
and Chris Snider was set in a coffin under the Liberty Tree-- and carved into
the coffin were the words, 'innocence itself is not safe.' A funeral procession
led by his family was followed by 34 carts, chariots and coaches and 1,500
marchers, including 500 schoolchildren. Christopher Gore later became
governor of Massachusetts."
Our current
government is extremely over-tweaked as special interests, good and bad, have
created a Tower of Babel that is stuffed with unconstitutional statutes, codes
and ordinances. An authoritarian excess and government over reach that
our founding revolutionaries would find cringe-worthy. The Founding
Revolutionaries would bring out the 9th amendment to the Constitution they
created, and dispose of excessive laws in a timely manner
.
Luckily, the actual greatest generation of 1776 was a rowdy contingent of free
people. You can bet women were involved but white historians are too hung up on
battles and wars, then what people did during the wars. Women have been
whitewashed from historical accounts. These ‘little general’ white
historians. “Bring me another crumpet, if you please. The manipulation of
markets by big business would also make Theodore Roosevelt wince, and our lack
of courage and temerity would make George Washington face palm himself and say
"WTF! Why did I even bother?"
In 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred and here is another quote
from 'Riotous Revolutionaries. “As they entered King Street, a thirteen year
old boy stumbled towards them crying. He was Piemont, the barber’s apprentice.
He blubbered to the crowd that the British sentry in his box outside the
customs house, ‘cuffed me on the head with the butt of his musket, and I
thought I was killed.’ As some stopped to examine the bump on the boys head,
the others moved on past the State House and to the tiny sentry box nearby,
located outside the custom house.
Private Hugh Montgomery stood in the box stomping his feet and
blowing on his hands to fight the coldness in them, but he grabbed his musket
and held it at the ready when he saw the angry mob approach. Leading the mob
was a husky mulatto, a half black, half-Indian named Crispus Attucks. He
carried a club and waved it in front of Montgomery's face. "If you molest
me, I will fire.' Montgomery shouted at Attucks, aiming his musket at him.
'I'll blow your bloody brains out,' he screamed at Attucks, who was taunting
him with his club. "You do and you'll swing for it" shouted the
local bookseller Henry Knox, who later became a general in
Washington’s army, and the lead teamster who directed the hauling of cannons
over the Berkshires to Boston Harbor."
"Snowballs packed with ice, stones and oyster shells started
flying through the air and landed on the scarlet coats and pointed hats of
summoned soldiers." Rope maker Sam Gray, without a weapon or even a
snowball, was shot dead along with Crispus Attucks and others in what became
known as The Boston Massacre.
Today,
traitorous Republican governors want state militias to be directly accountable
to them, so they could shoot protestors if any of that Occupy stuff happens
again. The GOP suggests a return to child labor giving these children a
newly lowered minimum wage of $5.25 for their efforts in 2018, and also to
bring back child sweatshops again, among other outrageous notions.
The oligarchy is forming to fight the public at large, and goons are being paid
off, brainwashed and armed, infiltrating the military and our police
departments and interfering with peaceful forums on the internet. I’m
telling you, the corporations have started the war against us decades ago and
we haven’t started to fight back yet. Unfortunately, we may have already lost
since banks actually own most of the cars and houses and practically everything
else in the United States and Canada. Those who have too much, need most of us
to have nothing.
Escalating
minimum wages around the world is going to create an economic boom. End War,
tax all accumulated wealth, homes and food for all and building infrastructure
around the world. The complete sequestering and elimination of nuclear weapons.
Continuing with the comparison with the First American Revolution, we continue
to see the diverse nature of the people. From Riotous Revolutionaries, “Doctor
Young, who John Adams said, ‘talked too much,’ was an atheist and Doc Warrens
professional rival. He however, was a talented writer and wrote an effective
treatise in which he comically reported among other things that ‘tea causes
cancer.’ Appealing to all members of the household to boycott goods, posters in
1773 were plastered everywhere warning British ships had brought the dreaded
tea and, ""the worst plague, the detested tea shipped to this port is
now arrived in the harbor. The hour of destruction is now at hand."
“Josiah
Quincy entertained a crowd with a patriotic speech. 'I see the clouds, which
now rise thick and fast, upon our horizon. The thunder rolls and the lightning
plays, and to that God who rides the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit
my country." What God is this then that he called upon? Thor,
Perun, Boreas or others? Seriously! Can you hear me Asatruar? This is
"not a Christian nation, but a nation of diversity," as President
Obama noted early in his presidency assuring the world the Crusades were over.
As Josiah Quincy gave this rousing speech, the local business people had
dressed up as Mohawks and were headed for the 300 chests of tea sitting in
Boston Harbor. The real Tea Party had begun.
Always
remember that members of religious congregations were less than 20% of the
population at the time, directly preceding the revolution. For more on the
period between 1767 and 1774, feel free to research and come to your own
conclusions. These are opinions but if you check my information, you will
find them factually accurate. Also, research the Green Mountain Boys who
captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 to give more depth to that era. The British
were routed from Boston Harbor with the cannons absconded by the Green Mountain
Boys at Ticonderoga.
After Colonel Leslies retreat at Salem, Gage had received a
letter from the Kings ministers, ordering him 'TO TEST THE PEOPLE TO SEE IF
THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT'…….If there is going to be a war," Wrote Lord
Dartmouth, "let it be brought on immediately before the Colonials
can develop an army."
"Major Pitcairn, who had been itching for a fight with the rebels for a
long time, was chosen by Colonel Smith to lead six companies of Redcoats ahead
of the column to secure Concords two bridges, north and south, leading in and
out of that town. It was Dawn as he rode, and his men marched, onto
Lexington Green. "We saw a militia company assembled and other spectators
milling about," the Major later reported, "and I ordered them to lay
down their arms and disperse."
Captain Parker, leader of the Minutemen, had called his men out of
Buckman Tavern and onto the Green, because the tavern had gotten too
crowded. Said Parker, "… not to meddle or mix with the regular
troops." Captain Parker told his men, some 77 in number and outnumbered
ten to one, "don't fire unless fired on, but if they mean to have a war,
let it begin here."
"A few months after the Battle of Lexington and
Concord, Boston was under siege by British troops and the revolution was careening
towards dangerous confrontations with a formidable invading force.” Author Robert Ellis Cahill continues
with a letter from a Patriot to his legislator, "An army is needed, to
defend our wives and children. We beg and entreat you to save our country from
absolute slavery," The Massachusetts Provincial Congress called 8,000 men,
over and above the militia, to serve seven months. Some 2,000 Connecticut men
under the fearless, roly-poly tavern keeper, 59 year old Israel Putnam, rolled
into Cambridge with four cannons, and Nat Greene arrived with two cannons and
1,500 Rhode Islanders.”
“Even Benedict Arnold came up from Connecticut and convinced Warren that with
400 men he could get needed cannons and ammunition from the British held, Fort
Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. Warren agreed to give it a try, but Arnold
had to do his own recruiting outside Cambridge. On May 15th, Arnold, with Ethan
Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, took the fort without a casualty on either
side. 300 pound Henry Knox was sent to upstate New York with a group of
teamsters, given the almost impossible mission to bring the 58 captured cannons
and mortars back from their fort back to Cambridge."
“British General William Howe attacked the hill and 600 redcoats were repulsed
by, 'old fowling pieces' as Gage called them. 'None of the Americans had
bayonets, nothing but fists, clubbed muskets and rocks, but they fought on,
more like devils than men.' Salem Prince, a freed slave, with his
last round of ammunition shot Major Pitcairn in the chest and
killed him. General Gage was so surprised at the outcome that he was heard to
say, 'these rebels are not the despicable rabble too many of us have supposed
them to be.”
"With all this heavy intrigue going on in the Cambridge camp, Henry
Knox was dragging 58 cannons and mortars, some of them weighing 5,000 pounds
apiece, 300 miles from upstate New York and over the snowy Berkshire Mountains,
using 80 yoke of oxen. He arrived in the Cambridge camp in late February, 1776.
By March 2nd, the cannons began blasting the 78 British warships that were
anchored in Boston Harbor. General Gage sent 3,000 Redcoats to attack the
heights but a wild storm prevented them from even landing. “ Divine intervention the one time the Colonists
needed it! Let me reiterate, order this marvelous book for your collection,
“Riotous Revolutionaries” by Cahill. The most personal and realistic view
of the American Revolutionary War. My fourth favorite book behind Leopold
Thoreau and Hofstadter.
Colonial
Privateers were capturing British food cargo vessels and the Redcoats were
dispirited despite their large numbers. Who would fight against another's
freedom after all, especially when you were tired and hungry? Meanwhile
the hero of Cahills book, 4 foot 4, George Hewes, had escaped his captors in
the bay near Boston and informed George Washington of the demoralized British
troops. By March 20th, General Howe was three days out of Boston as Americans
to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, "marched triumphantly into
Boston after British Redcoats 'quitted the town' and sailed for Halifax. Before
leaving, British soldiers cut down the Liberty Tree and George Hewes was
pleased to hear that when the Liberty Tree fell, a limb of it landed on a British
soldier, crushing him to death." The 'despicable rabble' had finally stood
up.
“On August 13, 1835, over 60 years after Boston's 'evacuation day', a small
article appeared in a Boston newspaper. It read, 'A ninety six year old man,
said to be the last surviving member of the Boston Tea Party, visited Boston
this week. His name is George Robert Twelves Hewes."
You
see, the Revolution was by the blue-collar types; the apprentices of yore, the
tavern keepers, the post riders, among many others and us. Don’t believe
Republican Revisionist lies anymore about christians fighting for the
Constitution. Veterans of the Revolutionary War starting
in 1775, would be sneering at most of the Tea Party, whom they would consider
toady chumps for the Greedy Rich. Today they’d whack these cold-hearted war
loving GOP chicken hawks on the side of the head with the smooth end of their
muskets.
We are the despicable rabble and if more refined and graceful people join us,
this is fine; but it has to start somewhere, somehow--let it be here and let it
be now. Let it begin with the despicable rabble, the independent majority, and
if they mean to have us fight a war; let it finish here. I am trying to put a
little wind under your wings as the sons and daughters of American Liberty and
what we consider that we’ll to do next.
Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine
(partial quote)
In
a chariot of light from the regions of day, The Goddess of Liberty came;
Ten thousand celestials directed the way,
And thither conducted the dame, This fair
budding branch, from the garden above,
Where millions with millions agree; She bro't in
her hand, as a pledge of her love,
The plant she called Liberty Tree.
From the east to the west, blow the trumpet to arms,
Thro' the land let the sound of it flee, Let the
far and the near, – all unite with a cheer,
In defense of our Liberty Tree.
LIBERTAS
HOLDS THE LAMP (my only poem)
When the greedy can mock the compassionate, when the slovenly
moral can hurt the innocent,
When the ones you love destroy your dreams, it becomes time
to concede the hint.
Whether reform becomes revolution with the
separation of church and hate, Calls to us to secure our means,
And cling to freedom to bring change to the state.
Falsely accused the righteous will plead, The veiled will scream
and clamor for justice,
The gift of life falls from our grip, Game over friends, it’s the
end of bliss. Poetry is power, the Egyptian understands,
and the camel concedes the passage is small. The gods cry and the
goddesses cringe, Now hoping we will stand tall.
Pele erupts to bury the deceit and People look up to see the
flames. Even the blind will see the light and History cannot record all our
names.
Thank you muse and inspire me now To reach the souls who have gone
dead and cold The evil conspire to deceive the lame
But clarity of vision is ours to hold.
We stand together to exorcise and train While Libertas holds the
lamp aloft to see.
Temerity we seek with hope to claim A life worth living for all to
be. The other side embraces and awaits our
return,
and with shield and sword, we discard our name. Swirling the
whirlwind we ride tonight, V for victory and PEACE for all to claim
Robert Graves said, "The function of poetry
is invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and
chaos that her presence excites." Something I must note that this entire
poem came pouring out of me one day at the Laura Riding Jackson House. An
obscure cultural reference; she was a muse to Robert Graves, he of “The White
Goddess”. I acknowledge her inspiration and powerful presence.
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II24 INTERSTATE INITIATIVE
In
1969 I picked up a second paper route and have been working hard ever
since. 1970 to 2020. This year (2021) I celebrated a life of working too hard
for too little by taking two well deserved, out of state vacations. I saw 29
states in 40 days, and the priority was to find peaceful places and not spend money, other than gas and lodging.
I was a notorious "staycationer" for thirty years in Florida 
although my spirit belonged TO THE MOUNTAINS. I grew up a river rat in Wethersfield, Bloomfield and
Enfield Connecticut in the Connecticut River Valley, and places such as
Pennwood Park in Bloomfield were remnants of the Appalachian Mountains.
The interstate highway system had always seemed like a good idea to me. As an American
who believes that the Constitution is the law of the land, the interstate
highway system fulfilled the constitutional protocol of providing for
the common defense. Emergency equipment could be moved to any part of
the country without worrying about the height of bridges or washed-out muddy
roads. Military equipment too if someone was foolish enough to invade us.
Long ago when I was seven and sitting in my sandbox, I could see Interstate 91 being built. Loaders, graders, dump trucks. They were far off in the distance but within view when they were working near the overpass on our street. Such an inspiration for the highways I was building in my big red sandbox!
A couple years later when I was ten, me and the boys took our bikes up on that interstate highway. It was like the Bonneville Salt flats. A huge expanse of concrete, the likes of which we had never seen and we delighted in seeing who could make the fattest or longest skid with our bicycles. We'd practice wheelies without worrying about oncoming traffic. Do endless circle 8’s and play chicken. Crazy fun. Every day for a couple of weeks.
We'uns dint need no theme parks back in the olde days.
The work was done on this part of I 91 and it
was quite a while before someone finally came along to tell us to
skedaddle, "..get outta here you kids, this isn't a
playground." A summer vacation to brag about.
Now
that the rich have saved trillions of dollars in hidden off-shore accounts for
us, we can use this stolen labor (profit) to create the Infrastructure Initiative
of 2024. (II24) Envision something great for every one of us
to use in the next 50 years in an expanded and expansive safety net, and a
beautiful and enduring hardscape.
One way to save money would be to sell half of
our military bases, particularly the ones furthest away from American ports,
keep it closer to home, right? The Constitutional mandate is for “a common
defence”, not an international death star.
Prove me wrong, but the cost of keeping one soldier with all the attendant weapons, housing and logistical support could provide ten jobs domestically.
Take all those paper tigers at the Pentagon
coasting to retirement, and put them to work. Put them behind a
wheelbarrow, we got an infrastructure to build.
The interstate highway system had seemed like a good idea to me, but a closer
examination many years later exhibits its flaws. The reason we were
compelled to test the highway before the public did, was because our
baseball/football field was at the edge of it.
I’d guess it was an early spring day when we went to play our first baseball game and a fence was there, about 75 feet from the highway and 200 feet from our home plate. We were like okay, a home run fence. It was pretty far away and there would be a handful of home runs, if any. That stretch of I 91 was getting ready to open.
Today
I realize these fences not only kept wildlife from running across the highway
and getting run over, but also kept them from migrating as they had done since
the Ice Age. All those fences were responsible for trillions of animal deaths
as they were no longer able to follow their simple migrations.
There was a tunnel under the interstate for Beaver Brooks ebb and flow and this benefitted the turtles turtles, polliwogs and other aquatic creatures, but mostly I 91 blocked migrations of rabbits, foxes and all the rest of the animals who weren’t keen on walking in two feet of water in this tunnel or becoming pavement pelts on the road.
Twelve years before I was in my sandbox playing with trucks, my mothers neighborhood was disrupted by the planning for Interstate 91. About a mile north is the area. and had to be purchased for this stretch of the interstate highway system and eminent domain was used heavily in Wethersfield. Mom’s River Road no longer a way to get to the river.
The gray house in the pictures above and below is where my mom lived during the
forties. River Road, Wethersfield Connecticut RFD #3, and the street was a
stones throw from the Wethersfield Cove, which had been a port of note since
the latter half of the 1600's .
Back then the plans for
the interstate involved buying around ten properties on or near River Road and
nearby. Buying them to be demolished for the new highway.
They got a good price, my mom said, but people were not happy about it, and
she always said, the neighborhood was never the same.
I was there recently and there is a house within 50 feet of the Interstate
today, and I imagined this 20 foot wall of a highway was quite disturbing in
the midst of a once quaint area with a nice green space. (see
photo) 
Who wanted to live with the constant drone of
highway noise?
What then of future highway building? I drove 13,000+ miles and went through 29
states in 2021, and I want to share my experiences and suggest improvements.
II24 is the Infrastructure Initiative for 2024.
Monarch Pass 11,312 feet
I want to tell you
about the state of our highways in 2021, and also that there is a whole lot more
to infrastructure than roads. On the other hand, I’m kind of wondering
what this Infrastructure Bill that is trying to get passed here in 2021, is
about. I hear about child care and other social band aids in the bill, but
nothing about bridges being fortified for strong storms and an ocean rise.
#girdthegrid
A plan that would include plans for evacuating the elderly before
a hurricane, as one example. Tornado shelters in every vulnerable town. After a
pretty strong hurricane, and the roads were somewhat cleared of trees, I went
to see my 90+ year old customer first, after a dangerous hurricane. She was traumatized and frightened
and "never wanted to go through that again."
So yeah, 40 days, 13,000+ miles and 29 states later I have some opinions on the
state of American roads, and I would estimate only 5,000 of those miles were on
the interstate. My GPS guide, Bubbles, took me on back roads and state
highways everywhere and I saw how America really lives.
Even going out west in May, she found all the cool state roads and the only
place I was in a traffic jam was in California (3 times). She took me to Rt 50
in Colorado and it was probably the most beautiful spring ride I could have
ever had.
On the trip to New England in September, I got off RT 81 and asked Bubbles for
the scenic route to Deposit New York, where there was an alleged Motel 6. From
Old Forge Pennsylvania, where I slept on the side of the road, and then driving
to Deposit New York, I went on the most scenic 9 hour drive of the year. Six
dead deer, unfortunately, (how many were picked up fresh for the deer
processing facilities?) I went on Route 11 then 220 then 17 to Deposit. I saw
SO MANY rural homes and noted 
how many people live. Too many planned
communities and uniformity and HOA rules in my central Florida locale I forgot how interesting the rest of the country is.
I needed to get gas because I started the day at less than half a tank after the I 81 highway driving. I went through two tiny towns without any gas stations and finally in Millersburg there was a bodacious rest area with lots of local hsndicrafts
Something new I noticed are self-regulating, one-way roads. Instead of two
people on walkie talkies standing there with their stop and slow signs, there
were timed lights. Timed out to 5 to 10 minutes, it was a bit of a wait
but work crews were busy tending to rock fall areas among other
improvements. All those police officers with their lights going at
construction sites cost the public 80 dollars an hour per car and officer, so
maybe some money is being saved.
Well, the bill passed but I must say that it seems like there is already too
much construction and repair going on. There is certainly the need for repair
and for one thing, I crossed many bridges that appeared to have been built 80
or more years ago. #girdthegrid
a) 55 MPH AHEAD
Too many construction zones whose cement mini
walls were disconcerting and scary to me. In construction areas I would be
part of the traffic funneled into one or two extremely thin lanes and
those cement abutments are two feet from the car on the right side and even
less when driving on the left. The scariest moments of both trips were driving
through these areas IN THE RAIN.
Good Lorby Lobster, I could hardly see! People high beaming and beeping with me
going 30MPH through these dangerous construction zones in the pouring rain. And don't
say I could have just pulled over because that is a whole 'nother
problem.
On
the trip to New England, I had a wonderful ride on Vermont Route 7a. Simply beautiful as early patches of red and orange leaves began to appear. I left
Pittsfield Massachusetts a little after noontime, (420 in the 413), enjoying
the slowly setting sun to my left and taking the gently undulating scenic
route, 7/7a, well up into Vermont to check on the progress of the fall foliage
colors.
When it got
dark and there was no more scenery to enjoy, I asked Bubbles to put me on the
quickest route to Interstate 89. I didn't know at this point about the dearth
of facilities. I assumed I'd find a rest area on the interstates, no problem,
though I'd been fooled before on the previous trip in May driving in New
Mexico. I had driven 100 miles in a state of extreme tiredness waiting for a place to
pull over and had a nightmarish near collision with a tractor trailer.
So I get on I 89 and la la la. Nothing,
well surely when I connect with I 91 there should be a large rest area so I
could at least sit in my seat to get three or four hours of sleep.
Parking area ahead I see on a sign but it was full of trucks. I
figure I'll just keep going till I find a rest area with a bathroom. La la la
nothing ... another parking area full of trucks. Finally, I made it, the
Vermont Welcome Center was a relief to see. Lots of parking ... but ... the ...
place was closed. Open 7 to 7.
, they would make the rest rooms available? The doors were locked.
This is all you got Vermont? As it turned out there are virtually no rest areas
till the one in Middletown Connecticut. I must have missed the one in
Massachusetts. This is a seriously important issue.
After driving on hundreds of state roads, I got the idea that the
II24 infrastructure plan would create rural hubs away from
the interstates. Large parking areas where people can stay and rest and local
people can sell their wares. Where the free national bus company goes where people can go and pick up their friends and relatives
I drove into the far corner of the Vermont
Welcome Center and went to Whee behind some evergreens in the dog walking area.
Every 15 minutes or so someone would park and check the door of the building in
order to use the facilities and would walk away disappointed. I was kind of
wired and couldn’t relax enough to fall asleep.
A cop pulled in as I was trying to figure
where I would go if he/she kicked me out and I tried to rest in my seat, but I
really wanted to go in the back of the car where I had a cushioned space I made
for a bed. 100 parking spots and I was the only one there and luckily the
officer left, so I finally laid out in the back. Florida plates in Vermont, let
me rest FFS.
On the average I can get a comfortable 3 hour nap in the seat of
my car, but in the back of the car I could get 6 hours of good solid sleep with
the six layers of various cushions and blankets and one of those, rated -20,
sleeping bags for the top. The coldest temperature was
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b) PAVEMENT ENDS
Sticks and stones will break my bones but not if I use a cane. I was a bit
early to see peak fall foliage, but I observed the early stages, which was
interesting in its own way.
I found out that this is
also the time of year when mushrooms abound and moss is thick and green. Every
path I went on had tree roots sticking up and I had to be careful of tripping
hazards.
Back to the drawing board. A new infrastructure plan should be a
given, but the obfuscation of "yachtboy" Manchin and cynical Simena
kept it from totally happening. Even a 3.5 Trillion dollar plan is nowhere
near a big enough plan, I'm sure.
I'm seeing lots of engineers leaving their petrochemical jobs in the near
future, for jobs with II24 as the fossil fuel industry prepares to collapse. Make more highways and less pipelines. smaller military and bigger transportation alternatives.
All these on and off ramps
on the interstates are not easy to design and every aspect of a plan will need
people that understand we have to consider Mother Nature and all her little
creatures this time.
The planning alone will cost a trillion dollars to get it done properly. Some real work lay ahead. Challenging fulfilling work involved in building an infrastructure to last 60 to 80 years. Fortified for the rise in all bodies of water in the near future.
Prioritizing, designing in many new way, creating many more wildlife tunnels and overpasses. Forests saved from development and rural hubs built in areas restored, renovated and towns renewed. There is going to be a population shift and it will be a good thing. Who is going to work on the wind farms in the midwest where most of them will be located? I saw so many abandoned houses that were still restorable now, but won't be ten years from now.
Jobs will be moving around as we begin to take back the Commons and Millennials
take charge of the economy.
Seriously do you want a
soldier in some distant continent pretending to preserve your rights, or ten
people working as Road Rangers or bridge builders getting our shiny new
infrastructure built.
I've been on some entrance maps that are more fun than an amusement park. We
need planners and designers. It all needs to be worked on and what this decade
should be about.
Sadly, there will be cases of eminent domain as I
described before and so I propose a triple indemnity. Pay those relocated,
three times the value of their property and long-time renters could also be
compensated in this manner.
Concurrently, large areas of forest need to be preserved around these rural
hubs and MANY MORE rest areas getting built should be a priority. We need to
start a de-corporatization of America and realize the innovation and invention
we need in the future will come from our barns, garages and she-sheds..
One feature could be trail cams in these forested areas so travelers at
the rural hub could watch hidden camerasat the rest area. People can observe the local
wildlife as they take a break from traveling.
I drove on over a hundred lightly trafficked state roads, and a federal program
needs to make sure these stay in good shape. My gas mileage was still very good
on these state highways. Too many people are shoehorned into these
incredibly crowded cities and Americans can be more evenly distributed
throughout this country. A new Homestead Act has been proposed.
Rural Service Hubs | Rural Urban (rural-urban.eu) .
Rural hubs. 500 acres of preserved forest and wetlands along with lotsparking
areas. Generally, at least ten miles from the interstates with an abundance of
free space for local people to bring their food trucks or locally sourced
products. Lots of people cleaning the facility. #jobsnottanks
Make these areas in run down
abandoned towns near nice forests or swamp habitats. Habitats that can be
preserved for all time. Buying private land for the commons and eminent domain
for the highways.
Also, large darker areas to
park overnight for people living out of their cars who are needing some
sleep. Someone in a tank in Africa or Asia ... or ten jobs back at home providing
much more security for travelers, visitors and vacationers? The choice is
yours. Here are the jobs for those laid off by the much smaller military I
mentioned previously.
Most interstate rest areas
are corporate traps with overly lit, parking areas.
c)GPS SIGNAL LOST
I was in Pennsylvania and was losing my GPS signal and getting low on gas. I
had no idea Pennsylvania was so deeply forested and mountainous. I'll get the
name and location later but, like a mirage, a gas station appeared in Millersburg.. I had been
worried of running out of gas and suddenly there was no cell phone coverage and
I was greatly relieved I didn't run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Next time I look ahead at the routes to come before
I lose the signal. Icing on the cakem my cigarette lighter charger stopped
working and I didnt know it and was why I ran out of charge.
I could have taken I 81 to
I 84 and got to New England much quicker, but my phone had a no interstate
protocol. I went with the flow of the no interstate directive and consequently
saw so much more of America.
Back to the mirage in the middle of
Pennsylvania's Appalachians, this store had truly impressive displays of
locally sourced products. From furniture to smoking blends to Cinnamon Pear
Jelly. It was literally in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania's aptly
named endless forest and was a fair sight better than most of the other
farmstands I saw.
With
these rural hubs we can create economic activity away from the already busy
highways. Driving 13,000+ miles I noticed something significant. Americas
highways are oriented from the north and northeast to the west and southwest.
Chicago to Vegas. New York
to LA. Everyone was moving out west back in the 50's and 60's when many of
these roads were built. Florida to Oregon, Fageddabout it. Georgia to
Washington State? South Carolina to Idaho. Not gonna happen. Discrimination against southerners in my opinion.
This is going to be important in future planning.
Sure there's I 10 but it's
super boring.
Blue Ridge
Here is what I wrote for my trip to Oregon in May 2021
Johnny Huckster sees America
(Ye Olde Quest)
After 50 years of ,“nose to
the grindstone”, I gave my nose a rest and had a grand adventure. My
travelogue is in the “DOWNLOAD FILE” ON MY Greenhammer blogspot blog. GREENHAMMER: Download File
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Certainly not the preppy
Grand Tour, I wanted to see the United States without getting into covid
clusters and waiting in line anywhere. I wanted to see America but
not necessarily talk to Americans. I've paid my dues being a good listener to
those over talkers, and all their lines of shit these last 50 years. But I learned a lot.
I want to also show a new way to vacation
and propose that we build an infrastructure to last till 2100. There are more people
living out of their vehicles, and why not? The nature of work these days is
transitory and temporary. The RV life can be fun and fullfilling to some.That’s the reality of the United States today.
It was March 2021 when I got
the idea to go to Oregon finally. My gypsy friend was going back to the PNW for
good, and needed a ride. She was done with Florida and I needed to get away
myself and I had always wanted to check out an isolated warm zone in southwestern
Oregon. USDA Zone 9 located from Port Orford down the coast to California.
There hasn’t been a freeze in years and I think they can consider year-round
crops.
we used to be zone 9 in Central Florida. Zone 10 is steadily moving northward in Florida, today its 50 miles north of where it was when I first came to Florida. Several configurations of the trip developed and then almost came to a halt with a bad EKG on April 27th. “You’re not having chest pains?” my doctor seemed alarmed. He was ready to drive me to the hospital. This is shortly before I was to leave on my 7200-mile journey.
Weirdly, I thought I
had two new skin tags, but they turned out to be ticks. I am getting older and
it seemed that skin tags and age spots began appearing more frequently, so I
try to ignore them. The skin tag under my arm began getting really irritated
and I needed to find a way to get rid of it. Imagine my shock when I realized I
could pull it off and though almost unrecognizable, it was a dead deflated
tick. Died of a garlic overdose, still hooked into my vascular system.
The bite near my bicep still itches and is red
six months later.
So
four days before we were to leave for the cross country trip, my friend seemed
alarmed that I could
have a heart attack at any time and we both became panicky and anxious about
the trip we had been planning.
Suddenly I had a heart condition and my extremities were steadily getting numb
from nerve damage and on top of it all, what if I had Lyme disease from the
tick? What if I became diabetic and slipped into a coma, having just been
confirmed pre-diabetic? “ROAD TRIP”
I had gotten a seven-week rental because
my electronic nightmare of a van finally shit the bed and I needed to keep
working. I couldn't get a loan for another vehicle so I took a chance with a long term rental. I’m glad I didn’t get a loan because it was for a Chevy pickup
with a lot more miles than what I ended up with for 2000 more dollars. Dealers taking advantage of people.
As a super bonus of this big tripI loved seeing my five children in 3 different
states. I just missed getting the rental for a trip to Tampa to my oldests’
house with his 4 children. Then the first weekend with the rental, I
went to my firstborns new condo, helping her on the weekend of a 5K she had
organized, and adding a couple plants to her garden.
The next
Thursday I picked up a rescue Pug named Jack in Vero Beach and brought him to Raleigh. Saw my grand dog Louie and son in law Mitauex. Bonz the
Cat does the best he can in a house with rescues and foster dogs.
My youngest had left the nest last year and also
moved to NC and I visited him and his internet girlfriend who seemed to be
doing nicely in Four Oaks. A heavenly country atmosphere, it was out in
the country and it was gratifying to see him out in the boonies. I spent the
remainder of this 6-day weekend exploring the foothills of the Appalachians. A
scenic Route 50 in Georgia seemed just as beautiful as the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Marys miracle site in Conyers Georgia
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 for a long time. 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. That was a practice vacation for what
was to come.
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.
The Blue Ridge Mountains was
first on my bucket list since Austin was too far the wrong way to go this time.
I vowed to go there on the next vacation.
In October 2018 I planned out a vacation to Connecticut, to Amish
country and the Blue Ridge Mountains, but Hurricane Florence had just torn
through North Carolina and closed many parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway for a
week. Luckily the beautiful Blue Ridge had just opened back up a few days
before I got there. Interstate 95 was washed out in South Carolina and the GPS
had me on all small country roads to get to the Blue Ridge.
Hurricane Florence pretty much followed my proposed vacation drive through the mountains a week before I was to go, but the damage wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be. News always exaggerates
I went to spot #77 in Section C at the Doughton
Campground near Sparta North Carolina, and I had the place to myself for six
days. Strong fairy spirits up
there on the knob.
So, the Amish visit and exploring the
Appalachians knocked a couple things off the bucket list in 2019.
2021 comes along and
finally a chance to go to that isolated area in Oregon I had wanted to see
and finally feel the majesty of the Redwoods. The pandemic was winding down but
we weren’t in the clear yet. Commitments, logistics and complications changed
the plan 10 times over the next two months and how do I justify a 7-week, 1500
dollar rental? I rented three extra days and with all the charges it came to
$1800.
Was this a $1800-dollar
gamble? How did I possibly think my back would hold up driving 7200 miles after
just driving 1800 miles for the Pug rescue in North Carolina and then to the Georgia
Guiding Stones and the Holy Mary site in Conyers Georgia?
Luckily, I didn’t overthink this one or
how crazy the whole notion was.
It seemed a bit of
money was on its way, though not yet a sure thing, and that vacation out west
to Oregon was finally within reach.
No point in going to any Covid clusters and the
only two places I went in was the gift shop at Monarch Pass and the gift shop
at Crater Lake.
I saw lots of America and very few Americans,
except at rest areas and it was good to see people were all masking up as I
was, but I was also yet to be vaccinated. I did in August and never got the boosters.
Everyone in the world was supposed to get the
shots and I couldn't help being suspicious, so I waited, as did my client. This
turned out to be a good thing because our hosts in Oregon were anti-vax
preppers who would not have welcomed vaccinated people and their shedding
proteins.
Gas was easily $600 for the
trip. Motels $500 more. Food $300 easily. No income from work for three weeks.
The plan seemed precarious at best.
For sure, there were at least 15 rest stops I
slept at. AND, I also had three residences to stay at and that worked out
great. I actually did more socializing than I am used to doing as a guest with those seven
days in normal housing.
Most excellent hosts in all three
cases and with three different groups of people. Slept well and had fun with my
people and the one thing this disparate group had in common, though, is
“Freecycle.” Freecycle:
Front Door
Disconcertedly at the start,
it took 22 hours to get out of Florida. A strong storm had passed over us and
our trip to Oregon almost ended before it got started. I left the
impression I was heading for “the mountains”, implying the Appalachians,
knowing I was setting out to see the Rockies for the first time in 37 years.
Less than a handful of trusted people knew my plans.
Too many buttinskis out there intent on telling
me how to enjoy my first long distance ride in a long time. I don’t need the
endless advice or the Tour books or the go see so and so. I no kongr need your advice and interference.
I’d
never done much more than drive through Colorado three times in my youth, but
this time I saw some deep Colorado.
Rugged Route 50 in Colorado
was dangerous with its descents but there was breathtaking non-stop scenery. By
planning a Mid-May ride, there were snow covered mountains the entire way.
Afterwards I read Rt 50 is called the “loneliest road in Colorado.” My
passenger/friend/client and I hardly talked as we watched the scenery unfold
for the next 1,000 miles into Utah, Nevada and Oregon. No movie in a big theatre could compare.
TELLURIDE
I
remembered the ride through Nevada and Utah seemed a bit boring a long time ago
when I was young, but now I kner so much more about rocks and tectonics and
shit, it become absolutely fascinating. I love the western mountains so much again.
Anyways, here I am with my
client (friend actually, but hereafter known as the client as I was creating
the prototype for my “driver for hire” side hustle.)
I have been telling people the last five years that the economy is going to reassemble itself and opportunity will abound and everybody in every field needs to be playing some heads-up ball. Plumbers and mechanics will find work. Your kids with their hard earned MBA’s to be white collar functionaries for the capitalist takeover of the world, can use their degrees as artwork on the wall or something.
The
world of 2033 will be different than what we can imagine. America needs
to shed its white collar parasitical economy and learn to work again. Class
War. The workers vs. the parasites.
We needed networks to connect. In the past, Americans unionized to create a giant middle class. and now we can enable a revived middle class so much better in many ways in our modern computer era. Easy to connect with fellow quilters and amateur astronomers and those creating Pollinator friendly yards and join the latest groups created, such as ‘freecycle’.
It's all happening so fast, and I don't know how I would deal with it if I was younger. I'm out to create something brand new at this late stage of life because, why not?
Connecting
food communities, organic growers and fighting for migrant workers that many of
us will be. One area I'm focusing on. Meat Eaters, Vegans and intentional communities all trading together.
People need to add a balance to the overwhelming influence of governments and corporations and religions. I really believe the American people are going to see themselves through all this. We can go back in the past to bring back the good ideas we abandoned. One would be to make rural hubs and large rest areas as a partial return of the commons that were stolen from us. Rich people stealing land to sell to other rich people.
Tax the largest landowners and purchase the properties for
organic farm initiatives. The rich have become lazy, and the working poor have
always been industrious. We will have a new Homestead Act.
We can make the connections
that will create the networks of the future. We can create our own economy as
if the old one doesn’t matter is my battle cry. The old one best being
described as crony capitalism.
Getting out of Florida
Driving Interstate 10 west,
we were six hours out of Boynton Beach. A windstorm and downpour had just
finished. The road was misted and it was difficult to see even twenty-five
feet.
A TREE appeared out of the mist across at
least two lanes of traffic and we hit it direct ...dead on. Like, I don’t even
tell people cause I’m not a drama queen like that. It nearly broke through the
windshield in three places and I shit you not we could have been impaled by huge branches if I skidded and swerved and went into it sideways. t National News “two people impaled on I 10 last night in a bizarre
act of misfortune.” Luckily there was not even time to put on the brakes to
stop completely. Best I could guess it was a dead
tree blown by a tornado on to the middle of the highwayhighway.
It hadn’t fallen off a truck
and it was a large thirty foot tree stripped of its branches. Or so I thought.
But there were fresh needles everywhere when we pulled over a short ime later. A Pine Tree you see, we found needles on the top of the engine when we looked and it did impale the radiator area.
We were 7 hours into the trip, and we drove a mile more
into the rest area that was our destination. Miraculously, our battered steed
made it, and we got 6 hours of sleep. Enough of that day.
When I saw a dead pine tree walking in the
woods, one day recently, I noted its ghostly white color, and it looked exactly
like the tree we hit. I cant explain the needles though.
There must have been a tornado. Pine needles
covered the slow lane and shoulder for the mile leading up to the rest area.
The next day when we left there were many trees that were in the road but were
cut.
We called the police and Budget
rental Car very early in the morning, and to make a long story short, we had the
originally rented Rav 4 replaced with a Jeep Compass by eleven. Might have to
pay a fee for not being able to go pick up the Jeep at the airport 39 miles
away. It MIGHT be as much as $425. We’ll find that out later.
So, from 1 o’clock the previous afternoon when we
drove a car to Boynton Beach to drop it off, till we then finally reached the
Alabama border, we were finally, 22 hours later, leaving Florida for day 2. So,
we nearly got impaled by a 30-foot tree that was laying across Interstate 10,
but we ended up getting a nice vehicle upgrade, and were finally on our way to
Oregon.
That afternoon we drove through some scenic
state roads in Alabama (231?) and stopped at a quaint farm stand/eatery for the
big healthy meal of the day. There were chickens loose in the store and
everything and we ate inside a gigantic barn.. We had a fabulous healthy late lunch there and drove on. Night fell
and I white knuckled it through Memphis and drove through Arkansas in the
dark. “Slow down Memphis” the sign pleaded as motorcyclists and cars
passed us going 100 mph. I seemed to be having some trouble with city-based,
busy highways and traffic seemed too intense.
We parked in what turned out
to be a motel parking lot and were told to leave and then an empty lot nearby but got gently thrown out. We finally slept for three or four hours at Walmart.
Daytime came and we spent much of that day driving through Nebraska.
The Cherokee had two bodacious
gas stations. Large clean areas with lots of choices for travelers and the
highways appeared to be freshly paved. The GPS Guide, Bubbles, seemed to be
keeping us off the interstates and on much more scenic state roads. I learned that too many roads out west are oriented for mid-westerners
going to California and not the south to the Northwest.
There was a Route 412 in Oklahoma that traversed that really thin part (handle) of Oklahoma that I found interesting. Driving those many roads it . I had really begun to notice that people living in these areas had really trashy yards. Now this coming from a guy who had a yard full of stuff once upon a time. My hillbilly yard filled with things “I might need someday.”
I couldn't believe how much stuff people had but later learning most of the stuff is useful. With cheap ass government garbage or white goods pickup is rare. There's nowhere to take that shit.
It was puzzling to see
10 or 12 cars but then I started seeing yards with 50 or 100 cars. Too many 55 gallon barrels from farm chemicals like the Vorlex barrels I found in Hazardville. Rusting leaking? Of courseTractor attachments, PVC stacks, etc.’ People in the fly over states don’t throw anything out.
But you know, it
seemed that in all these “hick” towns the American people had gone back to
work. Businesses had trucks that were busy being used and metal building doors
were open. I had yet to see a shuttered-up business while the people on the coasts were bathing in hand sanitizer.
So I was racking up some miles driving and there wee no no aches or pains yet. We finally arrived in Pueblo Colorado at 6:00 and checked into a motel. Seedy thought my client but I could care less. I slept in a sleeping bag on top of the bedding and used my own pillow.
In Pueblo that night, we bought legal and had a smoking room so, voila. First
time I could administer my medicine in a hotel room without Ozium and incense.
Then we got on Route 50 in Colorado, and it was non-stop, breathtaking scenery
from there out. The Jeep Compass was climbing and climbing, getting half the
gas mileage it should. The gas pedal was hardly responding, and I figured we must had
gotten pretty high. The altitude I mean. Then we got to Monarch Pass which sits
on the Continental Divide at 11,312 feet. Honestly didn't see that coming
The mountain forced me to breathe deeply, and it felt good though I could tell
it would take some getting used to. Then down we went and eventually I would
tire of the 7% inclines and giant tractor trailers passing me out in the
passing lanes, but at first it WAS exciting and dangerous. I read later that
Route 50 is called “the loneliest road in Colorado.” It was a trip.
Spring was just starting in Mid-May in Telluride
The goal was to reach Telluride for a second motel rest on this six-day trip.
At 7950 feet, my breathing was labored here also, but deep breathing that Clean
Colorado air also seemed to do a lot of good.
The client went to a hot spring up the road and I took a nap in the Jeep. The
next stop was Crater Lake. Following that was the rugged scenery of Colorado
and at night we drove through Utah and then Nevada’s stark beauty became
apparent as dawn approached.
Truthfully, by the time we got to the Oregon border, we had had about enough
sagebrush country. Took the Oregon Redwood trail and saw and touched my first
Redwoods. So, there I was with an empty bucket list and a motel
within view of the Pacific Ocean.
The next day we got to our destination in Port Orford, Oregon and I was finally
going to experience this anomalous warm area that was in southwest Oregon. At
the motel near the beach, I noticed the largest Geranium I remember seeing in
my entire life. I lived in Tucson for six years and people had their Geraniums
for three years and they weren’t half this size. I estimated it to be six to eight years old.
I would later come to learn the Port Orford area rarely freezes and rarely gets
too hot. It seems I had found a place that doesn’t freeze and doesn’t burn, and
I have to consider a move to this area.
I think it would be fun to escape there to trim buds for a month
or two during the outdoor harvest in August and September when Florida is at
its hottest. It seems almost too cool. Every time I check the Port Orford ten
day forecast, the average high and low seemed to be 65 and 52 and it was pretty
cool the three days we were there. When those western heat waves happen it
might get over 70. No more heat.
The folks in Oregon were busy with their
garden, but took us to a very nice path near the Pacific Ocean.
PROBABLY COULD USE MORE DETAIL HERE
Shedding proteins, and wonderful home schooled
children.
Redwood puppies, the bark with soft bark. I just
about fit in the Jeep Compass and spent two nights in it. The first morning I
open the door to the sun coming up and there was a huge Crested Jay, right
there. I had some distinct experiences with Magpies in Telluride I have to
remember. No one is really interested in my stories and I’m like oh well. I
want to share and swap stories, but boomer men are all about what they’ve
accumulated in the rat race. There's a niche audience out there.
When I left the trailer park in Oregon, I should have turned right to get back to 101. I went left figuring the first right turn would get me on Rt101 again. I drove down an increasingly narrow road for 19 miles that had no right turns. I knew that because I came upon a sign when the road forked finally and both ways became dirt roads with four numbers on the sign. I think I was in Californias deep forest with no way out.
I got a clue when I saw
grass growing in the road. You can tell there had been some landslides looking
down at the cliffside and up at the higher elevations, everything was sliding
down to the river below and cracks in the road where there were visible
rockslides. The road kept getting thinner and thinner and I didn’t see any
other vehicles and I got to wondering why. Nothing seemed familiar. It didn't
occur to me to turn around probably because of the thin road and the
cliffs on both sides. There wasn’t room to turn and often there are good results from
getting lost when fate grabs the wheel.
A rule of driving is not to get lost on a
lonely dirt road and when I came to a fork in the road and both choices were
dirt roads . I turned the Jeep around and saw the sign. 19 miles to Rt 101.
The other way. I was nearly in Humboldt County in California.
Well, I was two days behind schedule and
decided I was just going to drive right through California and get past Kingman
Arizona by the next sunrise, 20 hours away. Sometimes I had to settle into long
hours of driving. California could be a vacation by itself but not this time.
Time to hoof it to Austin.
I had slept in the car for two nights and
was feeling good. I had about five layers of different materials such as yoga
mats and sleeping bags and an outdoor lounge chair cushion laid across the
back.
Arizona and New Mexico,
though boarded up, were much more starkly beautiful than I remember. The
entirety of New Mexico seemed to be in dire economic ruin unfortunately. In the
previous 15 states it appeared to be that America was back to work. Not
in New Mexico though I didn’t visit Albuquerque or Santa Fe or Taos.
MAYBE MORE DETAIL HERE ABOUT unnecessary cattle
GRAZING and small business entrepreneurs getting the work done because being a
cowboy in semi-arid lands is a tradition.
After the visit to Shiprock I got on 481
South and figured I could sleep at the first rest area I come across on
Interstate 40 east. So, I get on the interstate and thirty miles go by and I am
thoroughly tired and I really need to stop. I drove quickly to get through
California but it took 14 hours with three traffic jams on the day that started
with me almost getting lost in Humboldt County California.
Sixty miles go by and I’m like “what in the
hell!” There always seemed to be a rest area just in time, but not this time.
Here comes the fatigue driving. I count backwards from 100 to 1 and then start
again with 99 to one then 98 to one backwards. Out loud to keep as many
facilities working as possible. There are other tricks to keep the mind alert
but I’d driven 20 of the last 30 hours and seriously needed a break.
There was an exit with lots of trucks but
nowhere for cars to park. Then I did a big circle for about 8 miles following
an apparently drunk GPS lady and there was nothing anywhere that was safe from
thieves and highwaymen. Finally, I saw an area that was 200 by 150 feet with
several trucks that were parked. I nearly got hit by a tractor trailer while I was
going left toward this wide open space while the truck was signaling to go on
the 40 East entrance ramp. We crisscrossed each other by like, inches, and I
saw the corner of the truck a few feet from the windshield. I never want to be
that tired while I was driving again. A regrettable risk, but a good lesson.
I slept 5 hours there and took off raggedy
without coffee. Ten or twenty miles later there was relief though I did wee
when no one was driving by at 3 in the morning.
I must have spent ten hours driving in Texas
before I got to Little M’s house. So much ugliness coming out of Texas, it
seems, but they definitely won the wildflower award. Vast areas of flowers and
diversity spread throughout the Texas highwayside. The hill country was
impressively scenic and I thanked my luck with all these fabulous roads I drove
on. The, NW to SE routes, ignored by the interstates.
I was tired, having driven 35 of the last 55
hours so I was thankful to be able to stay in Austin for 2 and a half days to
rest. M and her beau listen to the most interesting mix of music. New
stuff to entertain my ears.
I was mirthful to discover that Austin has so
many wildflowers and a Central Park of its own and a world-famous natural
spring. We walked to the largest bat roosting area in an American city and I
didn’t hear it though my companions did.
Trying to capture the parts of America you don't
see on TV. New roads, new lands, new people.
May and October tours.
Cannabis friendly stops. Colorado can’t be beat and Massachusetts is all that’s
good in New England.
GPS
guide took me down two questionable dirt roads but they worked. The nine
hour ride from Old Forge to Deposit included the only clusterfuck of the trip.
My cigarette lighter charger went out. I had 1% charge suddenly, so I had to
pull over and test the other plug-thing behind me.
Shortly after
that I lost the GPS in a remote area and drove down some dead end roads. by
trying to guess the route. But it was all scenery you know? My goal was to get
to Deposit by 1 and after this, 3 o’clock became the goal.
Enough 7% inclines for a while. Where were
the cannabis dispensaries in New York? Turns out they hadn’t gotten it together
yet. Now imagine people selling bud at the local rural hub?
Signs said “women only” I noticed on my two
trips this year. I hate to say it, but the smaller the town the bigger the
ignorance. In an enhanced infrastructure program, there would be MANY more
bathrooms to be built. Areas with bigger stalls for anyone to use Men Women
Babies Anyone.
State road 11 and local road 111 meet in the middle of Pixville. 20 million is spent purchasing nearby pristine forests and swamps. Up north of town hub road #54 is going to be built connecting state road 11 and state road 22 that winds its way northwest to the river.
Build it and they will come. Pixvilles
population booms and soon Lakeside, six miles away has bed and breakfast and
Second Breakfast facilities. RV parks opening up everywhere. People vacationing
to the caves 20 miles south begin driving through this area.
We have to encourage working from home to relieve traffic everywhere else.
RV parks and yards with many cars and debris and
what looks like a mess as observed from the highway.
Trucks that are running, are busy, though.
America is back to work. Flyover country for you jet setters. Got a plan for
that shit too.
E? PAVEMENT ENDS
Going back to my trip to
New England recently
ways to pay
-defund energy dept reduce military. You fund this by taxing accumulated
wealth, not current income. The people doing well don’t need to be bashed in
the back of the knee with taxes. The individuals and companies that have
accumulated billions have saved enough money for us to completely rebuild the
American infrastructure with compassion built into this time. For the animals
cut off from their migration routes and for the humans abandoned by a
compassionless economic system dominated by long distance trucking. Mass production undercutting all the local economies .
II24 You absolutely have to have a nationwide bus system. Free for all so all that
paperwork and government mumbo jumbo, and who qualifies for what discount is
eliminated. People visiting sick friends and relatives? Why does everyone have to
have a car?
The goal is to cut down the cost of living. Anyone who runs away screaming
about socialism or Marxism isn’t getting how I am talking about the
self-governing goal of the future.
Primary
to this is to set up a solid infrastructure. An infrastructure to have what we
and those unborn will need till 2080 to 2100.
Interstate 3. will be highways built exclusively for trucks. We need shipping
and those truckers are a menace with their tailgating and spiked hubcaps.
18’8”
could be the minimum height for bridges on truck highways.
Think Big. No kill shelters is infrastructure. Tornado shelters. Costing
peanuts compared to this bloated sow of a military. The USPS acting as a non
profit banking system is infrastructure. Hey, I’m not convinced this global
trading order is working out. Worser things are coming after Covid, this global
supply chain is full of weak links.
Road rage in New Britsky. I took very few notes,
I needed to be 100% alert, but I noted this one. The most pock holed Main
Street of 2021 is New Britain. So here I am, I just scored at Dunkin Donuts
headed for Rugged Mountain. Kind of an early morning traffic tie up and I’m
like hyper aware and suddenly two cars ahead of me stopped dead. I had time to
stop though things fell on the floor.
Behind me I hear a crash about three cars back. Then yelling. Nobody needs that shit but we are risen apes and we do the best we can. Don’t pay attention for a couple fucking seconds and you get in an accident. I got in an accident with a rental that way.
It was an amazing 6
months. 13,500 miles and 29 states. Not knowing where the next place to sleep
would be and seeing how many live. There are more homeless than is realized and the dearth of facilities will be the death of many in the future. Shelter is infrastructure.
-2-4- NON-PROFIT BANKING
With the exception of Alexander Hamilton, the
American Founding Revolutionaries greatly feared a central banking system.
Imagine all the work involved in building a
house with all the different contractors; and compare this to a banker who
makes the same amount of money with a click of a mouse. They make as
much money as the builder and all the contractors PUT
TOGETHER!
Amazingly, I hear no one trying to reform this
system.
It's all pure profit for the Banksters, since they don’t need tools or trucks to move and install their product, like roofers, electricians or landscapers. They don't even need stagecoaches anymore like they did when banking was dangerous. It’s the elephant in the room that everyone is intensely trained to avoid.
Well; we rationalize, we signed a contract and nothing could get done
without the money involved in a loan, right? People tell me this and I
think “what servile chumps they must be not to call out this gangsterish subterfuge. It’s
part of our gritty reality, that banks can make these outrageous, engorged and
fully ripened profits, and too bad for families and homeowners, who pay at
least five times more interest than they should. Did we forget, "Authority
is derived from the free consent of the people"? I'm outraged that people
retreat with their tails between their legs against these bankster crooks who
make the Mafia look like bumbling amateurs.
The tea party protestors don’t seem to notice this robbery out in broad
daylight, and Faux news doesn’t see it either because they are too busy
inspiring brave individuals who are urinating on Islamic prayer rugs and
telling everyone they are going to Hell.
Was it President Andrew Jackson that said bankers were nothing but a den of vipers, or was that
Jesus? In the 1830’s Andrew Jackson managed to eliminate the National Debt
while calling the entire banking system, ‘A pit of vipers’. Or was it Jesus
that called the bankers, "a Den of Vipers", I can't recall. Andrew
Jackson was determined to get these parasitical leeches off the life blood of
the country. With the exception of Alexander Hamilton, the founding fathers
greatly feared a central banking system that would feed upon the healthy
commerce of an emerging nation.
I have an idea for a new kind of banking company that would
charge a true 10 percent, and it would break even. This new bank would loan you
100,000 dollars, and you pay back 110,000. It's as simple as that, and the
question is, how much would the paperwork cost with nonprofit banking? USPS creates this non profit banking system that AI and banks with high interest loans go out of business. Every loan Banking executive would make less money in this system, because it
would be a slimmed down operation that would handle this and any loanloan. HERE’S YOUR NEW
SQAURE DEAL!
And happy people with refinanced mortgages, interest deleted
from college loans or car loans for cars over ten years old. Someone has been
paying off that car loan. Along with payments for everything else from laptops
to refrigerators, would be reduced 10 to 60 percent. A stimulus program the government doesn’t have
to pay for. Non-profit banking would
reconfigure all the loans to 10% of the remaining balance, and bill
accordingly. It's not that people can't afford the items they get on
credit, it's the interest paid, that weighs down consumers. They
don’t have to charge that kind of interest. Period. Give these fucks some
non-profit competition.
The basis of the common 30 year Home loan is the institutionalized price
gouging, the front loading of ten years of interest right at the start, so
capital doesn’t get paid down for a long time. With this non-profit 10% system
I am suggesting, it becomes a 20 year loan instead of 30 with a house. There
has been a smash and grab robbery of the middle class by the banking class
system and its why people won’t feel guilty about taxing wealth. Once people
understand. A hundred thousand dollar loan to most people ends up as 200,000
dollars of total payments when you add in the accumulated interest and ten
extra years of payments.
Another horror of this anachronistic system to me is the fact that the interest
is almost all front loaded, so people refinancing with lower rates end up
paying for the principal twice. I fell for that scheme.
This is really a crime, and we have allowed it. Legalized theft, I don't see
what else you can call it. They penalize us like law enforcement with
these late fees, LIKE WE ARE SPEEDING OR RUNNING A RED LIGHT. They have these
supernatural rights beyond any individual and they get bailed out, to
boot. This is the corrupt white-collar
class robbing you in broad daylight and Glenn Beck wants to talk about
restoring honor to America. Wake the fuck up conservatives.
One day a child is born and a father puts a couple of hundred dollars into a savings account for the child and years later, when he goes to move the money to a CD, he finds the account empty due to “inactivity fees.” The population has been screwed in so many ways like this. 50 billion dollars in overdrawn charges in 2013. If I was in Congress I would propose a ten dollar limit to all fees, everywhere. Banking is rich in corruption and are the true drag on the economy, but the billionaires have managed to brainwash people.
So clear, so plain, and these reasonably priced loans I suggest,
could be such a stimulus package for 50 million struggling American home
owners---why is no one discussing this? Nonprofit loans could be very popular.
In my case, I could pay off my house loan and save 75,000 dollars in interest
payments if I could get a loan like this. Many millions can feel closer to
owning their home.
Very importantly, the evil Bankers use these gouged profits to buy
up and accumulate land and buildings and assets as tax write offs, while
investing in companies that pollute our waterways and contaminate the
groundwater. Mother Nature loses with every turn of the wheel. When
we’re ready to rise up, it will be sweet to see.
Bankers financed the brutal western expansion of the United
States, and therefore sponsored the silent slaughter of most of North Americas
precious fauna. Beavers and mink turned into fur. Wolves extirpated in state
after state to raise sheep. Rivers dammed and streams gutted and lakes
polluted, as America was recklessly bulldozing nature. Money doesn't grow on
trees, it is trees. The cheap homes of the 50's and 60's that the Greatest
Generation sold for 10 times as much during real estate booms, led to the
demise of southern forests.
Americas Corporate legacy will not age well in the history books.
AS toxic sites are cleaned up, I see activists archiving the corporate activity
that led to cases of toxic pollution. Time to stop polluting and let's break
down all these toxic wastes. Chemicals combining underground even create a new
substance. Dioxin is frequently created by 2 bad chemicals mixed together. This
toxic brew needs to be cleaned up, not encouraged.
What’s the reality here? You are trained to not be aware of rapacious, gangrenous, oozing greed as it haunts your life with payments that are far higher than necessary. It seems wrong, but don't think about it! You are raised with the double brush brainwashing of worshiping authority and shaped by the greatest generations' mantra, "you can't stop progress".
Seniors look
in dismay at their CD, and see a .083% interest, and remember the time in their
youth when they got 5% with their savings accounts. Even to them, it is
apparent the banksters have found many schemes for accumulating their fortunes
but they are resigned to make a token objection now and then. Today we
have arbitrary late charges that are really not earned, but more like civil
fines, than business between two adults.
To hear Andrew Jackson put it, “If the people only
understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a
revolution by the morning.” Shame on all you people, worried about the ‘ground
zero mosque’, and gay marriage.
You were right Jesus, bankers are evil, and thanks Andrew Jackson, for the
worthy effort you made during your presidency, eliminating the federal debt
owed to bankers. I know he is despised for being a genocidal maniac but we are
talking about corrupt banking here,
Here is how non profit banking would work. A Non-profit banking
company, loans your hard working family 100 thousand dollars with 10 percent
interest. A real ten percent, a non-usurious 10 %, an authentic, stripped down,
no bullshit loan. 100,000 is lent and 110,000 is paid back. How much paperwork
is needed in this computer streamlined world? For Gods sake, give these lending
institutions some competition.
Non-profit banking is not socialism. It's
common sense.
-2-5-
A NEW SQUARE DEAL
A NEW SQUARE DEAL. Not a New Green Deal. People aren't buy it. Progressives want to separate themselves the best we can from the virtue signalers. The obsessive single issue city slicker liberals. They ruined the Green party. You know; abortion, immigration and gay exuberance are not the hills I want to die on. The workers revolution, the earth, and fighting fascism can be our three legged stool instead.
The conservative three-legged stool is christian nationalism, anti-communist paranoia, (and all (what they think) is socialism), and an authoritarian worship to keep the rabble in line.
So what we do is, 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 and we were once. The Progressive Era 1894 to 1914. In the 1912 election all three presidential candidates called themselves Progressives. This irked the elite to no end. Importantly we need to show right wing workers who has their back. Not the bankers, or tech giants and certainly not the GOP. Non-profit banking, an internet for people, not corporations but a fierce third party that will deal with the issues that affect 80% of us.
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 less virtue signaling. So here’s some scattershot of what the Progressive Party was. It
became the nexus of change forcing corporations to start following rules since
they had proven they really can’t be trusted.
“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.” The American Progressive Party from Facebook
Progressive Platform of 1912(100+ years ago) THE BULL MOOSE PARTY
The Platform aspires the best for people.
"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 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.”
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 is
the first task of 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 2024. 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. These are city people who go into the woods on their vacation.
Unfortunately, they cling to the dead ligaments of liberal hand wringing and virtue signaling that just doesn't cut it in independent America.. The last gasp of the Progressive Party was when Henry Wallace ran for President in 1948.
Independents are a
vast majority but have nowhere to call home. I’ve known very few Republican or Democrat
loyalists, most people I’ve met don’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. 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. Some people
have a good asset but can’t work. Too many stories of deprivation to tell here
of liberals bungling the funded money and making excessive bureaucracy.
They don’t really want to work at solving the poverty crisis. The Republicans
are the country club elite, and their lackeys carry water for the world
oligarchs. Nothing I 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.
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 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 New Deal will hit 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 and The Square Deal. The New
Square Deal. To once and for all create a covenant for all Americans for all
time to protect them instead of allowing a permanent underclass to develop as
is happening today. This is the hill I could die on. Not abortion or
immigration or ABCDEQUALITY.
We
have to put the religious kooks in their place but we need atheists to
understand the importance of faith Green Ethics and Polytheist
Spirituality; A potent brew or strange bedfellows? Polytheist is my code word
for pagan because pagan is such another strong word in our culture. The
brainwashing is so complete that the word pagan brings up evil or negative
impressions with probably 85% of the population. Pagans are known for their
freewheeling antics in their American pursuit of happiness is how I see it.
Greens however, are often antagonistic to spiritual beliefs, generally because
Christianity is so patently objectionable to logical people, but they don't
realize there are alternatives.
They
find Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah and the book of Revelation as preposterous
and burdensome to the American psyche. Islam is so thousand years ago, that it
is given virtually no credence or relevance, and rightly so. Islam once spurred
the Middle East to great learning of the maths and sciences, codes of
cleanliness, and works of expressive art in the hybrid vigor of melding with
Pagan cultures as they took them over. . The Fundamentalists ruined the basic
pagan nature of it around 1100. Then it became the really DARK Ages.
The nine noble virtues are far more relevant to a pagans life than any ‘thou
shalt have no other gods before me’ type of commandment. Vikings or the
Norsemen have a belief in the old gods still, and in modern times are known as
Asatru or Asatruar. I wonder what has ever happened between a meeting of a
follower of the Norse and a tree hugging environmentalist. Do members of
the Green Party object to the nine virtues? How could they? For that
matter what do atheist greens think of Buddhisms eightfold path? Or the dumbed
down version of morality, the Bible?
Asatru finds a way to help people deal with everyday reality and the eightfold
path lights the way for many in the world. You know and christianity does it
for people to. Have all the beliefs you want. Believe in Noahs Ark but also
believe there were dinosaurs. So to the greens I’m asking you to rethink the
role of religion and spirituality and consider the more reasonable outlook of
the various religions. The religions and cultural practices of the many
conquered people and cultures around the world that have fallen to the cross
and scimitar. With civil and human rights gaining ground around the world,
people are getting back up and brushing themselves off for a fair fight.
No
one blithely gives god credit for all these variables in life, nobody I know,
and I want greens to know that many of us don’t try to describe the nature of
the universe or the miracle of life with all the answers, as christians do.
There is a great majority in this country from all demographics who would agree
on many things. The convulsive social issues get the media face time though.
Teddy Roosevelts Progressives were a varied lot but found this common cause to
fight for.
Preachers pastors and priests all telling us what god has told them. Imagine,
the TV evangelists are sending blessings and miracles over the airwaves. “And
god, ah knows you be busy, but Doris in Kansas City has just sent a generous
donation for our building fund and want’s you to cure the paralysis………in her
brain from listening to me.” Is this any way to run a country? I object so very
strongly to this gleenbeck initiative to inject god into our country. Freedom
of religion means you live your eightfold path or follow the nine virtues. You
don’t pray to something invisible on the 50 yard line. We all add strands of
diversity to the tight weave of our freedoms here in the States and wherever
liberty is treasured and protected.
Some of us have other gods such as Perkunas, Perun, Boreas or Zues, or in my
case, all of the above along with 19 others. I’m a polytheist but I have to
hide this fact because of the book burning, book banning, pitchfork carrying
purveyors of the “word”.
My main point is that all of us free minded people need to keep the United
States on track with a form of patriotism not often heard. How would Thomas
Jefferson be spending his days in 2022? He would be loving the diversity,
exploring the technology and would be engaged in the lively blogs of the day
and having the time of his life. He would have contempt for the continual
attempt to stuff everyone into this christian box of conformity and would
probably have a show to directly oppose Fox News. It took a real effort to keep
the pastors and preachers at bay.
Contrary to the killing done in Jesus’ and Allahs name, polytheists are not
actively engaged in conversion. They give you freedom of religion and there is
no preaching about god and punishment in hell. That sounds like a familiar
phrase, freedom of religion….where have I heard that before? Oh yeh, the
Constitution of the United States. So if you are a green atheist, I can
understand your antagonism to religion, but chill out with people who have
beliefs. Churches putting giant billboard messages for you to read on your way
to work, in god we trust on the money and on and on is a dealbreaker for
democracy and unconstitutional if someone had the brass ovaries to speak this
truth.
Atheist greens say two hands planting a tree is far more practical, and reality
based and does more than any 10 hands clasped in prayer. Our diversity is the
high thread count in the quality of our constitutional fabric of freedom.
Religion is pollution in the eyes of many and this is what the Progressive
Pagan Patriots intend to do. Fight for our freedom, a simple civil rights for
pagans. Not in Vietnam or Afghanistan, but like the civil rights activists
fight for right here in our own country. People need to get that. A moral high
ground hypocrisy, and a continued disconnect with nature is all that exists
within the power structure now.
Pagans and polytheists have ceremonies that connect them with nature and
atheists find it all ridiculous. I find the Lord and Lady ceremony and the
twirling athame in the dark as irrelevant to my life, but I do have
some nature respecting ceremonies instead. There is no “Gaia cult” that is
going to put Mother Nature in ascendance over the bible god, no takeovers of
constitutional governments. Once conservatives are done
with the Dr. Suess controversy, they will very likely seek other targets.
Media personalities such as radio star “Mancow” are preaching that there is a
dangerous “green cult” of people who are going to reduce the worlds population
by 90%. Well, that’s me and I’m not dangerous. Media personalitites all
striving for that dumb ass dollar.
There are greens and there are Gaia lovers but it seems thus far, but
never the twain shall meet, and to tie environmentalists to eugenicists is
absurd. I suggest a population cap of 9 billion that the world can reach
voluntarily, and I get accused of being a eugenicist.
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 bought and fought to take over Vermont. Vermont
remained free and some 10 years later they became a rowdy contingent in George
Washingtons army. As an ally. A country named the Republic of Vermont.
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 wear antlers or
flowers 
and dance till dawn and they shake their head and go their lonely
atheist road. I was often an atheist but Paganism is fun.
Religion will tear this country apart so I am calling everyone to work for our
common goal. Hail the Constitution. Praise the bill of rights. In Libertas we
trust. Freedom of religion needs to be clearly defined and will be part of a
New Square Deal. No invisible leader of our country.
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. Eight more years till women can vote.
PASSED IN 1920
America emerges from third world conditions!
CURRENCY
We believe there exists
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
The issue of currency is
fundamentally a Government function and the system should have as basic
principles 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.
We pledge legislation to
lease the public grazing lands under equitable provisions now pending which
will increase the production of food for the people and thoroughly safeguard
the rights of the actual homemaker. 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.
NOT THE GREEN DEAL BUT A
NEW SQUARE DEAL
-2-6- MARXISM IN AMERICA
Do we follow the 9th commandment ……or the 9th amendment of the
Bill of rights constitution thingy? In the case of tea party ‘patriots’, the
answer is neither. In the absence of law, the 9th amendment says we must use
precedence and the spirit of our constitution to make decisions. The Tea Potty
has warped the meaning of this and this will be one of our constitutional
wrestling matches this year. The 9th commandment of the bible talks about
bearing false witness and needless to say glennbeck will spend an eternity in
hell just for what he has said demonizing Progressives. The deception and half-truths
from today’s neo-cons is the epitome of bearing false witness.
We
anticipate the logjam of the Liberal-Conservative debate to break soon and new ideas, independent ideas, will burst onto the media. A new culture has
begun to rise up. Its healthy greenery will grow a canopy over the dying,
destructive, death dealing, war loving culture of Manifest Destiny. We
will evolve out of this entirely corrupt predatory capitalist system.
The
Populist-Progressive era of 1890-1915 is being revised for modern times but
Progressives are called Liberals and I’d like to tell you why that is wrong. One star of the Progressive era was Teddy Roosevelt, a populist
conservative, who was often at odds with big business, although there also
times when he was accused of coddling business. He was one of the few in
power that was brave enough to confront the predatory monopolies head on. He
was also enough of a conservationist to have started the National Parks system
and the National Estuary Program. There was also Bob Lafollette, “fightin’ Bob” and
the muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair who wrote “The Jungle” exposing the
disgusting conditions in meat factories.
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In the late 20th century
the GOP had people like Phil Gramm and Cal Thomas, glennbeck, George Will,
Billo Reilly, Anne Coulter, Half-Truth Hannity AND the great deceiver, Rush
Limbaugh. They all truly defined the phrase, “mean spirited.” They
are moral high ground, hypocritical, corporate apologists carrying water
for the greedmeisters. They insist on trying to hold up the crumbling façade of
manifest destiny and acting out the “white man’s burden.” Ann Coulter tells us
that god gave the resources of the earth for everyone to use. It’s such a load
of nonsense that it needs to be countered.
In a book called The
History of Gardening, Neal Fairbairn quotes George Washington who said,
"How much more delightful is the task of making improvements on the earth,
than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it."
People are
waking up to the fact that 30 Independents in Congress and 10 in the Senate
would keep either entrenched party from holding a majority and controlling the
situation. Independents: be they Green or Libertarian or Progressive.
Progressive Independents can investigate corporate greed while on the other
side of the spectrum, Libertarian Independents can root out government waste.
“Surprising as it may seem to those who
equate the collapse of communism with the failed ideas of The Communist
Manifesto and Das Kapital, there was actually little connection between the
two. Marx would have applauded the Soviet Union going into the dustbin of
history, as it exemplified all that he stood against; a corrupt oligarchy
blocking the forces of production.” Jude Wanniski
People here in Indian River County are in a panic that
Barack INSANE Obama is turning us into communists right under our noses.
Socialism will devour us! Yikes! What is this socialism and why do we need to
tremble at the thought of it? Our President is a commie Marxist? I have read
Mr. Obamas books and I didn't get that impression AT ALL. Here in America, we
cover our children’s ears to protect them from what a sitting President has to
say and call it “don’t tread on me”. In retrospect he was the best
Republican president since Eisenhower, not a Progressive. He had the most
difficult job in the country, which was reviving a dead economy. If he was a
republican they’d be all like “best president since Reagan.”
Remember in 2010 when the Obama speech to
schoolchildren was boycotted by angry Republican parents? It was fear mongering
similar to the McCarthy Era and the Great Awakening of the 1730's and people
are falling for it again. The fear mongering put the Tea Party in power. The
letters to the editor page in our paper, The Press Journal, was filled with the
dire warnings that our country will turn socialist, communist or Marxist and
they try to muddy the waters of logic best they can. Staple tea bags to your
head as a talisman to protect yourself from Barack Khrushchev Obama.
Well, I will tell you what. I really have never read Marx,
but I do understand that communism is a proven economic and environmental
disaster. Let me go check out some websites to figure this out (be right back). Well, I found a distinguished
iconoclastic conservative and his quotes about Marxism. He takes an objective
look at what Marx said and I quote some of his comments. His name is Jude
Wanniski and he was an adviser to Ronald Reagan from 1978 to 1981, and designed
the Reagan tax cuts during his first term in office.
In 1978 Wanniski started Polyconomics, an economic forecasting
firm, a business focused on providing investment advice based on political and
economic analysis. He became a controversial figure in the conservative
movement at the beginning of 2003 when he vocally opposed the impending US war
with Iraq. Here is this intellectual conservative speaking truth about
Marx, “Because we naturally equated Marx with our mortal enemies
throughout the Cold War, we found it easy enough to think of him as an evil
genius, who would have nothing to teach us today. In many ways, though, his
original insights are more valuable because we now no longer have our vision of
him colored by adversarial tensions. Indeed, when I visited Moscow in 1989 at
the invitation of the Gorbachev government, I told my hosts, with only
a slight smile, that 'Marx would have been ashamed of what you have done here
in his name.'"
Wanniski continues, “What
would Marx observe unfolding in China, which is, of course, still technically a
communist state? First, it would please him enormously that China is now the
fastest growing economy in the world. Just as he greatly admired the United
States of the 19th century, with a government subservient to a fluid society
and its own brand of untrammeled, klondike capitalism, he would see China at a
similar stage of development. The western intellectual aristocracy remains
befuddled, transfixed by China's explosive breakout. What is going on under
their noses is a rampant, democratic capitalism developing from the bottom up,
with Beijing's Communist Party standing aside to keep from being trampled by
the unleashed energies of 1.2 billion ordinary people. Marx would cheerfully
observe that there is no Big Business in China! The remnants of the Chinese
business class escaped to Taiwan years ago, just at the point it was congealing
into a new oligarchy. These are young Chinese who are starting fresh, advised
to get rich by an 89-year-old admirer of Marx and the historic forces of
production.”
Jude Wanniski continues,“The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the principal Establishment voices
in America, are horrified by all this. China is setting a bad example, its
ordinary citizens actually getting rich by paying no attention whatever to the
IMF, World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, or the British colonial interests in Hong
Kong. When Deng Xiaoping looks for outside advice, he draws upon the Chinese
diaspora in Singapore and Hong Kong, now patching things up with the Taiwanese.
“ These have been quotes from Jude Winniski.
On October 27, 2004, he publicly denounced
George W. Bush, saying that "Mr. Bush has become
an imperialist; one whose decisions as commander-in-chief have made the world a
more dangerous place".
What this noted conservative is saying is that
Chinas economy is thriving because there is not much of a white collar
parasitical class yet. What I’m telling you about, will also work here if American
innovation can be unleashed. We need freedom for small business and a reputation
for quality and the right to repair can become prominent. The advantages that
corporations have written into law the last 100 years were to get around the
trust busting initiatives of Teddy Roosevelt and now we have this law
debilitated nightmare created by our congress and senate. The coral colony of
lobbyists needs to be investigated.
There will be no communism in America. There are
ways to over throw the capitalist economic overlords and it starts with the
banking system. Bankers are the vanguard of Predatory Capitalism and their
Institutionalized Greed needs to die, not a war fighting the phony threat of
creeping socialism. An innovative blue collar oriented or small business world
can ignore the needs of big business that always seems to need taxpayer
bailouts and require toxic clean ups: while they roam the globe for the most
servile labor force. Corporations thought nothing of putting their pipes
directly into bodies of water create a toxic amount of pollution in the 20th
century.
To me, the massive wealth accumulated by the banks
is also the absolute pinnacle of predatory big business, a transfer of wealth
from the middle class these last 30 years. More overdraft fees than the amount of money from banks
getting robbed. Thomas Jefferson said, “We in America do not have government by
the majority. We have a government by the majority who participate.“ What was
developing in 2009-10 was a growing mob mentality similar to the McCarthy Era
that was fueled by the neo-conservative hairballs.
The ones participating in
this faux hysteria carry psychological pitchforks to suppress the independent
majority with their sputtering outrage at “Health scare”, the Twin Towers
mosque, and beheadings by Mexican drug gangs and other bullshit issues that
keep Progressives from getting down to business to help small business gain
their first advantages in 100 years.
One reason I had to be without healthcare by
the end of 2009 is because of the inherent greed that most health practitioners
will readily acknowledge is rampant through the entire system. Our insurance
costs went over a thousand dollars and I opted out because we couldn't afford
it. Ask the family whose life savings has been absorbed by intrusive fancy
pants, end of life procedures, as elderly parents last days were filled with
indignities to keep them alive a few days or weeks longer, adding tens of
thousands to an already bloated hospital bill. We have the best health care in
the world? Yes, if you are a hypochondriac getting 5 MRI’s a year for every
itch you have. As George Bush fiddled to Cheneys fires, this health care
inflation became the major cause of personal bankruptcies .
You have to weigh in and make your influence felt, otherwise,
you are accepting the tyranny that will fill the vacuum when good people do
nothing. Never mind Freddy Kruger and the Halloween movies, the proven failure
of communism is trotted out to put fear in the gelatinous lump called the
American electorate, the goober nation. Barack Maobama is turning America into
Communists right under our noses! Notice it didn’t happen. He didn’t even write
any executive orders limiting guns in any way.
I have a dream where
America will not be a place where my five little children are to be a herd of
toilers to pay off the pension funds of those who worked in the weapons or
chemical industry. Then there's the AIG’s and other banks who produce no actual
products other than to make more money for those who already have enough, and
are too big to fail. But not too big to take the handouts in the form of taxes
from my five little children and 50 million other children who will soon become
taxpayers.
We have two Americas, one where Earle, Eugene
and Carlton (made up names,) drink from the health care fountain gushing
unlimited MRI’s and 300 dollar a month medications for 15 dollars, and the
non-insured fountain dribbling not enough care for people like me who can no
longer afford to subsidize those who have ‘worked hard all their life’. Trust
me I’ve worked hard all of my life, turning my passion into income but working
with the earth as a gardener does not pay like those careers in the extractive,
investing and polluting industries. Quite unlike the coral colony of white collar parasites
This is why the Health Care bill works for
most of us. We are all in this together now, preventative care costs rise now
for a lowering of prices later. It’s called long term planning and I wouldn’t
expect those with pensions and good medical coverage to be supportive.
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SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS
Here is an inside out look
at the question I found posted on a forum.
How many
people understand socialism and understand it's destruction of America THE
WRITER ASKED? You know, that bit that we are all going to hell in a handbasket.
Tongue in cheek, this was
my response. “It hasn't destroyed us
yet. I invested in GM in the 50's but taxpayers cleaned up the toxic waste from
production facilities. Then I got a job at Dow Chemical where I made a lot
of money 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 they 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
where I got involved heavily in sugar production, making gargantuan profits in
the 80's as Americas 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. Taxpayers are now paying for
a 2 Billion dollar cleanup of the Everglades 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 Obama takes from us rich people who have worked
hard all our lives."
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-2-8-CONVERSATIONS
with
CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
Will conservatives and conservationists continue to battle about our future? Neo-Conservatives decry the so-called damaged environments, and the oppressive Endangered Species Act. Saying it’s all a hoax. There’s no problem.
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 poor people who can’t afford the fines imposed by lawyers. For
instance, I can’t prune mangroves the way I think that is best, the way I have
done for 5 years that has resulted in the nicest mangroves on Indian River
Boulevard, so I no longer do. (wink wink).
Is there a middle
ground where peace can be negotiated? America’s future strength will be in
embracing our diversity of viewpoints and endorsing a traditional American
Dream. A vision that respects all opinions, not just the ones we like. Opinions
are not wrong, they are opinions. Tolerance and freedom would seem to go hand
in hand so please reject the Intolerant Minority and embrace our true
conservative roots.
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 just 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, this
bothers me a hell of a lot more. 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 a Capitalist economic system of sustainability. Well no. Research Market Socialism.
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. Or 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 are eager for an era of unregulated clear cutting of trees with pipes of toxic effluent leading directly into bodies of water, and untrammeled exploration of oil and natural gas fields. This is a sick evil greed we are responsible for by allowing.
Don’t we arrest murderers and bank robbers? There were more bank overdraft fees last year than there was money robbed from banks. Stealing from people who have no money is lower than any criminal activity with the greedy rich.
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. He relates this conversation
concerning hunting when he was young in the early 1900’s. “In those
days we had never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf. In a second, we
were pumping lead into the pack, but with more excitement than accuracy... How
to aim a steep downhill shot is always confusing... When our rifles were empty,
the old wolf was down and the pup was dragging a leg into the impassable slide
rocks.”
“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. 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 create abundance and harvest sustainably, instead of
stripping the resources bare and leaving behind ravaged local people and their poisoned
watersheds while making sure you are having fancy dinners parties in your
Manhattan apartment.
There seems to be scare tactics in the media to keep people out of the
forests and 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 dont belong near human populations.
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 we
continually read or hear. I propose that conservatives and libertarians abandon
their venom spewing extremes and take a stand on the real extreme, and embrace
another mysterious conspiracy. Why is the U.S. government and our scientific
resources trying to scare people from the national parks? Our wild lands keep
us free. It’s because Republicans hope that you all stop going to the National
Forests, so this way they can buy it and strip them clean.
Mining companies and cattle barons have waited so long to completely own the land, because they 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 of 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 anymore, wouldn‘t you say? Yet now we kill so cleanly. No one has
to see blood. Time to evolve 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-hegemonize
It was conservatives that finished the American Revolution. 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). It was the original G.W. that said, ”A government is like fire. A
handy servant but a dangerous master“. The Libertarian Patriots would have no
part of that. Conservatives said, gather in Philadelphia, and let’s get down to
some business and create a libertarian type of freedom for the individual and
to shield every American from religious zealots and their invisible friend that
allegedly wrote the Bible.
Is it any wonder that in polls, preachers
are rated very low along with car salesman for trustworthiness as they were in
1776 when they were on a par with the snake oil salesman.
I am neither liberal nor conservative and I made
up the phrase “Independent Majority” to describe many 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 conservative conservationist Theodore Roosevelt (Republicans
take note). Liberals were disturbed by the mad devouring industrial machine and
the need for full civil rights for all people. 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 and WW2 nerve agents. Conservatives can
finish this modern age of reform with another Conservative Counter revolution,
but the religious wackoes and apologists of the grandiose rich have stolen
conservatism. Time for an independent party. Third party or bust.
Growing 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. 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 not communities. They keep the
commercial silos in business. They fill that big empty hole where there should
be a community with that peculiar form of predatory capitalism that is all
about profit and not compassion. Home and farm foreclosures should never
happen, 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.
The large corporate farms cried that their
subsidies were an important part of the local economy and the government was
not only hurting them butSuch BS, you can't even believe it. also the community. Wah wah, big tears, they are
about commerce not communities. What could replace them? Why do BIG
corporations have a problem with small farms, close communities and
independence?
A
conservative should be a steward of the land. Restoring prairie ecosystems and
protesting forest destruction since 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,
restoring the health of trout streams and knocking down dams so Salmon can
breed again are initiatives that should come from both sides. . Schoolchildren get it. But the so called “greatest generation”
never will. Apologists for corporate totalitarianism, the post WW2 generation
were the most easily brainwashed group of people ever. Could you convince this
younger 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 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 would be conservation. Not
being spoiled
Americans and more unseen costs for Milennials..
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. The unseen cost; as we hope for no leakage problems
for thousands of years. But money is so important, the nuclear industry is
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.
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 and 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 50 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 Growing vegetables also destroys land. Keep that in mind.
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. Manly men are just looking so
stupid right now.
Richard Hofstadter is my favorihe 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? It became about profits. The heart and soul torn out of the community replaced with the bottom line greed of the Predatory Capitalists.
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.
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. Many people are Green Social
Conservatives. Sometimes we don’t know where we fit because we have abandoned
too much of the past. Going back to Thomas Jefferson’s time, Hofstadter wrote
this about the yeoman farmer, “Making at home almost everything he needed,
buying little, using each year but a pocketful of cash, he would be independent
of the marketplace as he was the favor of others." As rural
people could be today. But they’re chickenshit. “Can’t stop progress.”
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 Prarie ecosystem was priceless and to a growing number of people who
read about the prairie ecosystem, they can only imagine what was lost. Just a
few hundred years ago there was an ecosystem here, with bugs and bees and birds
and flowers and buffaloes and a sustainable population of game animals. Taken
back 200 years, you would also note how large and marvelous the native prairie
once was and you would support its preservation and replanting.
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 marvelously working planet. Conservatives have become
apologists for big business and the planet polluters. The worst of them wear bow ties and are editors of
college newspapers. These neo-con phonies need to go.
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 have 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 hard
earned 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”.
Well, this was not to be tolerated by the ruling elite. People 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 peaceful woodland tribes.
No
one back then could have imagined the gargantuan waddling monster of a
government it became, and it continues to grow like a coral colony with every new special
interest with a gripe.
The Libertarian conservative and the anarchic
green fringe is trying to funnel this government power back down to state,
county and local government, eventually leading to states taking care of
education, state roads and other functions. In a truly civilized world. there
will not be a need for this intrusive government and The Greens particularly
have solutions that will eventually have us taking care of ourselves.
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; Cuisanarts, 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 1666. 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 nonsense of religion
that ruin that century? Or 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 allowing forests to be leveled as they were. I’ve mostly lived “outside
of town”. In Hazardville Connecticut I was in a house surrounded by 200
acres of corn and a couple hundred acre shrub farm. Then a cul de sac was
built. Great for property values but the trucks would speed around the
corner, sand piles built up and gravel flung all over the road. Here in
Florida, they dig out ancient sand ridges to built one new house after another.
that boom recently collapsed.
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, 700 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.
-2-9-LIBERTARIANS
“trust is the essence of anarchy”
The
Blue Ridge Parkway is a marvel of engineering, construction, recreation, and
conservation. Very limited signage like “overlook ahead” or “Pine knob 3728
ft.”, and no stop lights for 469 miles.
Long after I left Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, I finally realized the GPS voice
was bringing me to Dalton Campground in Virginia, and not Doughton Campground
near Sparta, North Carolina, so I turned and went went southwest and got on the
Parkway eventually and began to search for a place to camp out. When I got to
Doughton Campground, I fell in love with site #77 and stayed for 6 days of a
16-day vacation.
When
I first got there, three choppers roared by at eye level after they were
leaving the disaster area that was the North Carolina coast after
Hurricane Florence. Even Interstate 95 got washed out. I was ready
to expect the unexpected. The Blue Ridge Parkway had only opened two days
previous in North Carolina after trees were cleared from the road. Sawdust
everywhere and trunks in piles by the side of the road. There’d been a
bear in the park recently too, so I decided to sleep in my rented Jeep.
I was able to
set up and get a fire going as a light sprinkle and occasionally the setting
sun filtering through the trees. This was a chance to truly relax because the
last mountain I saw was Stone Mountain in Georgia ten years previous. I enjoy
Florida’s great weather but it is as flat and green as people say it is. I had
a moment of Zen listening to the many bird calls and crickets as nightfall
approached and I sat with my eyes closed at the picnic table. Releasing my
troubles to the breeze, I closed my eyes.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
It’s the Balrog! Beezledoom!
Out of my comfort zone, I sat up startled till I realized was just a drum
circle over in area B, and it was a welcome addition to the night noise of
birds and crickets.
There was also a squeaky,
metallic thumping noise that I disregarded at first. By nightfall no one else
had parked in the entirety of Area C. I had that whole further section of the
campground to myself since people weren’t traveling the Parkway. I couldn’t
believe my luck!
Later on, I went to the bathroom to see what there was
and there it was again, gears gnashing…a loud mechanical noise... Invasion
from Mars? Were Robots clambering up the side of the knob I was camping
at? Self replicating 3D robots. Later after walking to the bathroom to rinse off the days dirt
and grime, I realized it was a water pump.
It was an
excellent bathroom with sinks of course and a water spigot about a foot above
the floor, for taking a French shower or whatever cleanup you had to do. No
lights in the building but a solar powered light outside so you could see the
place on a foggy night.
Then I got to wonderin,' how
would a Libertarian get hundreds of gallons of water a day to this remote
bathroom? The bathroom is a sacred place when you're camping for a
couple of days. The short answer is, they wouldn’t.
They wouldn’t build a campground that every day working class people could
afford. These are the kind of people who objected to a Postal Service
that would deliver to every single house in this country, so people could stay
in touch and important communications could happen for all times within our
borders. Oh no, privatize it. Delivery trucks zooming by every day instead
of a predictable delivery time and complete system the USPS has.
Before that, they objected to bringing
electricity to rural areas.
The
skint bastards that squeeze a penny so hard, it makes Lincoln cry.
Some years ago a rich dude
built a road to the top of Mount Mitchell and I checked it out towards
the end of the vacation. Bosses could afford the fee to the top and were
also the first to have automobiles back in 1927 when this road opened. In time
the state of North Carolina came in, and developed the services
necessary that would allow everyone to enjoy the views from
the Majestic Mt. Mitchell. At 5500 feet a sub alpine habitat suddenly
emerges on the summit drive and for me from #toomuchfloridausa, it seemed
to be another world.
Now I’m not a fan of big government, but I enthusiastically
applaud the effort of the Democratic Socialists at that time that built such a
remarkable road and often at heights of 3000 feet or more where cold arrives
early. The area is nearly unspoiled, and the Blue Ridge Parkway may be
the last hope for the wild things in the Appalachians.
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Libertarians don’t think much about “the blessings of Liberty” or “the pursuit of happiness”
unless it’s for themselves. We need a government to cover the basics so there
is less suffering among its people, and at least food and shelter for everyone.
It wouldn’t cost that much. Just have a moratorium on building new jets or
tanks. Sell a couple of embassies and military bases in places where the United
States doesn’t belong. Social Security extended the lives of
millions of seniors but they are still grousing about it.
The Park
Service needs to double its budget, and you know, sell a tank or something.
Reduce the CIA by 25%. What about supply and demand GOP? We demand
recreation but are supplied with war instead? WTH! A country by the frat boys,
for the frat boys, and of the frat boys. Stop giving rich senators their
Agricultural subsidies, their million-dollar paychecks for not growing crops.
There are many ways to starve the beast called Oligarchy. To save America we
have to save the land along with the liberty and justice for all that the
essentials.
Then I got to thinking
about Pilot Mountain that I had visited the day before, and I wondered how
the Libertarians would manage that park. The sign that says:
hikers below, do not throw rocks. Gone, that’s no fun being careful and
courteous. The no alcohol in the Park directive? That's a silly Liberal
rule by sissy men of today. “How do you like your steak sir,” the waiter asked.
“Next to my other steak” was the reply from the macho posturing pinhead.
Fences that prevent people from falling down the cliff would never get fixed. There’d be drinking parties “We have to go kids; the Libertarians are here.” They’d be shooting the crows that use the mountain for resting, after gliding and hunting. Learn what is good government and what is bad government because the Libertarians haven't.
We can certainly reduce our
military to 500 billion a year and dramatically increase mass transportation
for everyone here in the homeland. We can have small-home villages for the
homeless and places for the rarely homed or the nearly homeless, and create many more
recreation areas, so people with homes can get out once in a while, and out
into Nature. A place to stay for people living out of their cars.
I can’t say enough about the
Doughton Campground and how it is laid out. I had 100 acres of mature
trees and steep slopes on three sides to enjoy. I didn't need to travel for
hiking. I prefer, close the trail stuff where I won't get lost and lose my
bearings. For someone stuck in Florida for 12 years, even a nearby naturally
flowing streamlet was enjoyed immensely by me. Remarkable preservation along
the whole Parkway was gratifying to see. Truly the ultimate forest experience
for someone like me who doesn't want to hike 6 miles to get a view.
The network of roads at
Doughton Campground is organized and not filled with signs for the idiots, as
is the entire Blue Ridge Parkway. Bear proof dumpsters many humans can't figure out how to suseI didn’t see any police or ambulances
or fire trucks either in 6 days. I can’t imagine what the Rhododendrons that
hang over the road are like in the spring. Breathtaking, falls short in
describing The Blue Ridge Parkway, and that is what I’m thinking about when I
try to imagine what a large infrastructure project would look like. Build it
and they will come.
Bloodthirsty libertarian
predators are ready to buy up the rest of America that isn’t nailed down. They
made out with the banking crisis of 2008, and they bought up many of the 10
million foreclosed homes. That's how Bill O'reilly got his 78 houses. Super
predators brainwashed by Milton Friedman and others with the Chicago School of
Oligarchy.
Ecosystem health is an important issue, and the corporate naming of the parks is the worst idea I have ever heard. Conservative cranks want to sell off the parks but I say sell off military bases and embassies instead, and stop selling weapons to prop up dying capitalist and communist systems. -the end-
-2-10 who are the white people?
“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. 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. Lookin' at you Boomers.
When you see the Afghanistan veteran with one leg, remember your comfortable position in life was a trade off with the reality of war and the causalities and casualties 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. 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?
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 staying in Afghanistan for 16 years and 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 for, "engaging terrorists
on the battlefield instead of in the homeland." 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!
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." I call this benighted
behavior, 'donut shop punditry'. " These bile spewing haters are turning
out to be far more dangerous than supposed, and their verbal bilge more
prevalent than mI 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 it. 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. Dont you get it, independents who 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 and
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. 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. I have to drive by
a church in 2023 with its "Jesus is Coming" sign. Something is wrong
here.
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. T***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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Clergy has been coercive for five hundred years in America and their corrosive scare tactics have about run their course.
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 common sense 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, 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.
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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,
or
nationalities. 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. 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) but these Northern European rituals
are not quite relevant for southern climates when our planting season starts in
October and ends in May.
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, is what I am trying to discover. Mediterranean people are brown because 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.
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. 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.
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 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? 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.
Over two decades of
feel good, gauzy nothingness and 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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Even if the people who
cluster-fucked Custer are heroes of mine, 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? Take 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 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 just know so much more today
than they did 50 years ago, so much 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 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.
C} THERE IS NO
RELIGION IN THE MARKETPLACE
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.
I hope you remember this
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. Not the
right to start a union or save a forest. They are chasing their tail and
barking up the wrong tree at the same time.
You run outside to panic
and 20 soldiers jump out of the black helicopters and run towards you. This is
what is imagined by my neighbors and other cock holsters in this Trump
town I live in. This is why they have AR-15's. Some crazy ass paranoia,
I'm telling you.
I'll send you some
#postcardsfromtrumptown.
At what point should the
white nationalists do as a national crisis unfolds (Obama
declares himself dictator for life) ? Play it cool. Maybe they
aren’t after you, and were going to raid the organic okra farm next door.
Always play it cool. There's a plan to take t***p down with a tranquilizer gun
if he doesn't want to leave, here in 2020. I would hope. He had a treasonous
insurrection instead.
A well-regulated
militia is one that makes sure all of its members pass proper training and do
not own any banned guns. A community… remember… with people helping each
other.
I think the gun
issue is going to confront the Big Pharma issue. You and I know people who
“don’t like their new medication” and many have trouble adjusting their
medications and most believe our nation is totally over prescribed in the first
place. Apparently, America takes 60% of the world's prescription drugs and
there are those who suggest it’s excessively medicated people who perpetuate
the mass killings.
Back to the
question I would ask Middle Eastern Muslims who want to come to this country.
Do you think Mohammed intended you all to take over the world? It is a
yes or no question. Yes would be treason. This should be an easy question to
answer; what do we do with Muslims who unashamedly treat women as less than
equal?
So for
crying out loud, quit pandering to christians forcing their biblical law
wherever they can. Biblical Law has to be blocked first and foremost so
as not to create legal precedence. This way, our grandchildren can ban Islam
from embedding itself in the future. That's how America works because
the Founding Revolutionaries looked decades and centuries into the future
and secular law is there for everyone, you knuckleheads.
I hope I was able to expand some
perspectives with this, but to conclude, the boogie man of Sharia Law that the
right wing is obsessively scared of, is best prevented by keeping Biblical Law
out of our country. Ironic, isn’t it? Some of us want religion out of our
country altogether and we will be the ones to keep Biblical and Sharia
Law from making any inroads into our embedded laws.
Instead of posting refutations (transitive
verb. 1: to prove wrong by argument or evidence: show to be false or
erroneous.) on each page, this is a blanket condemnation (the expression of
very strong disapproval) for all my wonderful but bamboozled t***p supporter
friends. Read your history books, the racists insist, the Civil War was about
tariffs. Well no, it wasn't.
In 1789, Ben Franklin said, in
one of his last political efforts tried to insisted they should outlaw slavery.
Elite wealthy Southerners bristled (getting ones dander up) at the thought of
having to have to pay for labor and they pouted and fumed and nearly kept the
country from forming. Got that? White Nationalism has ALWAYS been
divisive and un-American and it's promulgated by a vocal minority.
Authoritarian Oligarch wannabes.
Segregationists and gooberism,
(v. to hate blacks and marginalize women) prevailed in southern states. Then it
took 100 years to combat Jim Crow laws that unconstitutionally took rights from
the freed slaves, but on the other hand, sign makers profited greatly from all
the "colored only" signs that were printed. (this is caustic
irony---not literal).
To see the enthusiastic
support for the nastiest carpet bagger (n. a person from the
northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the
Reconstruction) of all time, DJ t***p(Stupid Bigly), how can we not
see y'all as a bunch of sycophant chumps, easily brainwashed
by the clergy and that angry prick at the donut shop. We're here to help.
Hey, I
loved my flatbed truck and cowboy hat and hillbilly yard full of shit "I
might need someday" and my dank playlist of southern inspired music,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0fu9OHqZ1Y&index=19&list=PLgGE5GD4iRUkdlPR0Ai70EfNGFtKbfCzd
Seriously though, how can you support these seriously demented assholes
who want to disassemble the parts of government that the people need?
Independents and Progressives
will be reaching out to y'all to discuss some plum bodacious northern notions.
It's really cool because, we respect all. We see a persons head and heart, not
the flesh prison. We want to take us off the hamster wheel of capitalism.
Leftists will be fighting for you against this congealing oligarchy and the
more you abide by the lies you have been told, the longer it will take for the
long sought equality in America the Founding Revolutionaries had envisioned.
We don't interrupt women
with fly, white guy mansplaining. and we throw a smile and offer a handshake to
everyone we meet. Or we will when the Rona is gone.
Lastly, it allows organizations
such as unions (n. they represent the workers against corporate greed and there
are scattered populations of them in the north and west) to exist to help the
individual. We are the people--we are the land—.
“A policy of containment” it
was, but you didn’t enhance my pursuit of happiness with Vietnam. In fact, my
last six years of school was tainted by the looming presence of the military
draft. Did my graduating class need go to Asia to kill people we had no
real quarrel with, in order to stop a world takeover of communism? Sounds kind of
loony in retrospect doesn't it?
We didn't
get it, it seemed to be a severely dysfunctional world filled with prejudice
and inequality that we had been born into. Greatest Generation, my ass!
Once I left the numbing and stultifying school system, I began to read. I
joined book clubs and went to many used bookstores. I talked to Libertarian
Anarchists and drove 30 miles on my bicycle to put in my volunteer hours at the
food co-op. Sometimes you'd find my bike locked up in front of the
state library researching trees and corn, of all things, while others were
getting abortions for their girlfriends.
I am sure I learned more
my first four years out of school, than I would have learned going to a college
town socializing with Bourgie Rats, and I made up for the dearth of real
knowledge in high school by reading whatever I wanted and talking to whomever I
wanted.
History is not much more than
the tainted perspectives of the Pagan Slayers. Had the Deep State emerged by this
time? Were the Masons a secret cult? In plain view but also hidden? I developed
this notion that a cult of "warrior elite" had been secretly running
the world for 2500 years.
The theories of archaeologist
Marija Gimbutas rang true to me. There had been Goddess oriented societies in
all the indigenous lands of the world. Gimbutas notes that, prior to 500 BC,
European pottery, aside from Greece and Rome, did not depict warfare.
These Goddess oriented societies had streets and small homes and common
areas for storage and protection. 2022 is not the pinnacle of civilization, I'm
telling you. To read the story of who the indigenous Europeans were, go
to "The Stone People", also on this blog. Got a search bar check it
out.
Had a bloodthirsty strain of men taken
over the world's cultures? A cult of patriarchal supremacists? The new
religions burned and buried all traces of the ancient, peaceful societies of
the past, but the earth warriors will be back to kick it up a notch. Not saving
Earth for her, but for us.
2-11 THE INDEPENDENT MAJORITY
THE INDEPENDENT
MAJORITY PARTY
“If
you are stuck in an ideological rut, (Liberal or Conservative), the
incendiary rhetoric contained herein may greatly increase blood pressure.
Please be advised that in the emerging marketplace of ideas, the independent
viewpoint needs to be heard.” Excerpts from the zine, “Conservative
Conservationist” (1995) and 2021 updates.
This chapter goes to the core of workers dignity and personal
Liberty and seeks economic and environmental justice.
A Malicious
Guile on Display
B Environmental
Justice
C Economic
Justice
D The
High Thread count in the Fabric of Freedom
To
find peace in this chaos is to be enlightened. The clotted nothingness of liberalism and the
venomous spewing of most conservatives, represent only small slices of the
American Pie; unfortunately, the only two that have a voice in the mainstream
media. What about the independent viewpoint? Independents have
no steadfast, limiting ideology and we develop our own unique viewpoints and
philosophies. We are tired of coercive governments and corrupt, polluting
corporations and reclaiming the Commons is going to be one of our
strategies. We anticipate the logjam of the
Liberal-Conservative debate to break soon and new ideas, independent ideas,
will burst onto the media.
Many
people are beginning to recognize the emptiness of the consumer culture and are
striving to put communication back in our communities, although it seems that a
vast majority seem more concerned with appearances and acquisitions. In the
past, many Independents have voted reluctantly or not at all. Over many
years I have heard “there’s no one to vote for. I don’t like either if
them.” The truth is that we don’t need term limits; we need easier ballot
access for third party candidates and Independents. There is not
much choice between attorney at Law Tweedle Dee or embittered lawyer Tweedle
Dum.
The Democranks and Republicants have our opinions properly stifled. The next wave of activism will be a Progressive initiative to reform capitalism into a system that the world can work with forever. At first, I thought of Democratic Capitalism. Concerned with the general welfare of the populace, Democratic Socialists such as Bernie Sanders are looking to take our current revenue and arrange that money to go where it is needed and where it is not needed. However, for the long term, I settled on Market Socialism. A refinement of Democratic Socialism.
Market Socialism
immediately goes to the core of America: where we get supplies. Who cares about
our war machine really and what the War Hawks want? I don’t remember
voting for perpetual war. Slash that budget in half and let the whiny white
people leave the salty stains of their tears on the Statue of Liberty.
Every
day we have to have supplies on hand but the corporate stranglehold leaves us
dependent on them. Pandemics and Hurricanes showed us that. The
threats of terrorism and communism seem unimportant in retrospect. A New Square
Deal is what we will call getting back the money the 1% has stolen from the
working people in the last fifty years.
Progressives
have been around a long time and here is the theme of the current Progressive
Party, “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.” I would like to add from my own box of sayings, “encode
liberty, embed equality, ostracize criminality and vanquish
cruelty.” This can be achieved in any country in the
world. If we have a global economy, we will certainly need global
unions. We all can fight for each other and most know the apropos phrase is “an
injury to one is an injury to all.”
The
Independent Majority is about the many millions of unique, free-thinking people
around the world; a majority of people that crosses all class, gender and race
barriers. Independents are not brainwashed into religious or cultural extremes,
and comprise the bulk of what we call ‘regular folks’.
In
a collapsing society or in a Depression, or when the dollar is no longer the
go-to world currency; how many pension funds, guaranteed by the government, can
be paid? How much money deposited in banks can be
insured? Tea Party enthusiasts don’t realize they are one government guaranteed
pension fund away from dumpster diving, and the government is backing far more
than it could possibly support in a large market crash. In a true collapse, the government cannot cover it all. This is why
Wall Street was bailed out in 2008. The government didn't have the
trillions to pay depositors and investors.
A new culture and economic system have begun to
rise up and its healthy greenery will grow a canopy over the dying,
destructive, death dealing, war loving culture of Manifest
Destiny. This final, demented phase of Capitalism that wasn’t
imagined, even by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Oligarchy, with
their rose-colored greed glasses. In their world, the rich should
own everything, for our own good of course.
MALICIOUS GUILE ON DISPLAY
The
star of the Progressive Era was Teddy Roosevelt, a Progressive
Conservative, who was often at odds with big
business. A true conservative historically has been mistrustful of
the Bigs. Big banks, big companies, and big religions.
Theodore
Roosevelt was one of the few in power who were brave enough to confront Big
Business and the predatory monopolies head on. He saw what grappling
beasts the giant corporations could be, and how the Mom and Pop Market
Capitalism, and our traditional rural culture were suffering from
corporate bullying in the marketplace. He was also enough of a conservationist
to have started the National Parks system AND the National Estuary
Program.
Je
suis Teddy. Sadly, even if government taxes and interference were reduced, as
the conservatives want, greedy corporations would quickly jump in and
increase their chewing and sucking of our lifeblood, as parasites are inclined
to do. This is why we have to reduce the influence of corporations AND
government equally. Most regulation has only stifled the very small business
entrepreneurs, not vulture capitalist investors like Stupid Bigly. The goal of
reformers will be to knock aside the corporate apologists and
entrenched bureaucracy. while the real battle ahead for authentic conservatives
and practical Liberals, will be in defense of small business.
Barry
Goldwater was an advocate of small business and a smaller government, and his
advice over 60 years ago regarding budget cuts was to, “put the ax in the right
places.” However, these days (1995) there have been a lot of misguided
chopping. Mean spirited Republicans eagerly axing small programs that funded
community improvements in 1995. Programs that often organized (liberal)
volunteers to help assist paid employees were dramatically slashed for no
reason other than spite. It doesn't matter how clever the program, if there is
one whiff of Liberalism; these empty hearted Republicans go after it. A 2024 update: they are worse than ever.
The
Master Gardener program, within the Agriculture Department, harnesses 10 times
more volunteer labor than the total paid labor hours of the program. I know
because I went through the program three times in two states. It is
one of the best government-subsidized programs going and for how much, the cost
of a dozen patriot missiles. That’s ten volunteers or Interns or
apprentices for every paid employee. You won’t find any conservative
based programs that can do the same. What other organization does that? Hmmm?
Meals on Wheels, that’s who! For god’s sake, how can you stop feeding the
hungry and send an army of volunteers packing as the administration of the
Orange Menace got into gear? It’s the most shortsighted budget cuts ever,
nothing but malicious guile on display.
The
Master Gardeners are helpful educating the public. I know because I
volunteered 175 hours with them, and every year there were budget cuts in the
Agriculture Department, slashing ten or twenty thousand dollars on this good
program every year or two so everyone involved sacrifices a little to work and
volunteer for the Extension Service. Meanwhile the Congress in the
last 15 years can’t write a check fast enough to buy bombs or increase their
own pay and benefits.
Service
in America has gone to shit with the tight-fisted corporations who spend
lavishly on themselves but pay peanuts to the employees. Servers working too
many tables, part timers covering too many departments in a store, and many
other degradations of the once, service-oriented America. Sales oriented Sears
may or may not survive as one example. They didn’t at our local
mall.
Another
example of shortsighted Republican budget cuts in 1995 was the 2.5 million
dollars cut in the department that releases formerly classified
documents. You know, like the documents that exposed the names of
soldiers who were used as nuclear guinea pigs in the 50’s during atomic weapon
testing or the files of black men that were given diseases to see what
happened. We’ve read the news and compartmentalized the torture and
people say, “Aw that’s a shame, thankfully it’s in the past”. Well it’s not.
The right wing reprehensibles would light witches and gays on fire in the
center of town if they could.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Seventy
five years ago, there were three times as many hiking trail miles as there were
logging road miles. Currently the opposite is true and there are now three
times as many linear miles of logging roads, compared to hiking trails. It’s
cheaper to develop hiking trails, isn’t it? Keep the trees, where
they are, we can recycle for our paper needs. We can grow Hemp and Kenaf and
others to make many wood and paper products. We are quite ready to
leave the trees where they are and let forests become wild again. We are eager
to give hemp crops a chance to revitalize small farms.
You see, those scurvy Republicans are poised to launch more forays into our ancient forests. Moreover, in 2024, republicans are ready to sell naming rights of our National Parks to corporations, if not outright sell the parks to mining companies and other polluters. It’s not about global warming in my mind, it’s about the pollution of our air and water and the nearly complete destruction of the world’s ecosystems. It’s about planning for 1,000 generations from now despite Capitalisms goal to liquidate it all as quickly as possible.
They will
need the earth 1000 generations from now and these are the people to think about Please, sell some military bases around the world to
balance the budget. Start with the military bases that are the furthest away from San Diego and Norfolk Virginia. That would be all the countries between Saudi Arabia and India. Keep in mind the US military is the largest user of gas and oil in the world. So we can manage the liberty of others. Sounds fishy to me. Computerize the Pentagon and have bake sales to buy that
next jet.
I
found some old forestry magazines from the thirties and took a look. Many
articles warned about the foolishness of clear cutting. The last of the old
time, original conservationists of the Teddy Roosevelt Progressive Era had
passed on by the 1930's. Logging companies were slogged for being greedy
instead of being steward of our wild lands. The Forest Service lost sight of
their mission and became a toady to large corporate interests by the end of the
Second World War. Forests became primarily for the
corporations: bribes and politics and all that. Money doesn’t grow on trees, it
is trees. Paper was cheap in the fifties and so were the lives near clear cut forests.
Millions
of acres were clear-cut for the population explosion and cheap paper products
fueled a big chunk of the prosperity of the 50’s and 60’s included in many cases, trees that were hundreds of years old. Destroyed also were the micro
niches in ancient forest ecosystems that are now lost.
With
logging lobbyists rewriting forestry laws, the last ten percent of the Americas
ancient forests are in peril, in the name of cheap paper and wood products that
have been priced far below what they should have been since the end of WW2. Why
did the greatest generation figure the rapacious plundering of the forests
would last forever? I thought they were good at math? Clear cutting until they
were clear cutting second growth, and forest devastation was finally curtailed
during the seventies.
Didn't their parents dunk their heads in ice water to punish them if they got bad grades? Allowing nuclear waste and encouraging the use of poisonous chemicals while they hacked away at America’s natural resources and pocketing the profits for themselves was wrong and now it’s too late to dunk their heads in a galvanized basin filled with ice water.
The Love Generation
found out what they actually loved was money, luxury, and retirement security
and they were nearly as greedy as the greatest generation. They invested in the war machine pretending it
was “the space program.”
Why
have conservationists been assaulted in the media during this never-ending
Reagan Era of Greed? The concerns of conservationists over the last 50 years
have been to save what is worth saving, while every hurdle possible is thrown
out in front of them. Corporations throwing teams of avaricious attorneys at
private civic groups fighting to preserve their land and safety. The conservers of
nature battle with conservatives, who have sold as much of the natural world as
they possibly could, not comprehending what they are doing to God’s treasures.
What
is wrong with saving a 500-year-old tree? What is so right about making
toothpicks or cheap tissue paper out of it? Hang tough, it’s no crime to have a
little foresight, and saving the Creators wilderness is important. I may or may
not believe in a creator, I am pandering here to believers, but they need to
realize we need trees, god or no god. Trees are real; they make air,
while religion produces hot air from the pulpits of hate.
Can’t we make toothpicks from recycled material? Of course, we can. Logging companies still clear cut because it is cheaper to cut down a 200-foot tree than it is to recycle old pallets and wooden construction waste and the forest service needs to be gutted and replaced by the protectors of the forests. That’s a real shame and an indictment on capitalisms excess and waste. If clear cutting were banned for 10 years, woodlot management and recycling would finally become viable.
How do you define was clear cut is? No more than four trees an acre every ten years
is my guide to define what clear cutting is. Inflation yes, but we need
a good dose of inflation so prices can float up to where they should be for
resources and essential labor. You might not know this, but,
with inflation, your home will have more value with an inflationary spiral and
many fewer of us would be underwater with our mortgages. The Country
Club doesn’t want you to know that because they make money from usurious loans,
and so by the end of a twenty year loan, inflation has eaten away some of their
profit.
How many Independents in the House and Senate?
One? Two? It’s a joke and we know it. (I was thinking of Bernie
Sanders and his brave solo struggle when I wrote most of this in 1995.) Independents
are not middle of the road, yet we are weary of two extremes. A
constant hum of moralistic rantings and non-stop ravings by the moral high
ground hypocrites and the immoral, depraved criminal class cheating their way
through life. They are there lurking in the shadows of the honest workers.
Independents
are tired of the preachers and tired of the perverts and weary of do nothing
politicians, so I’m asking, who speaks for us? We are weary of the
con men and the dishonest hucksters everywhere in America.
We
nearly woke up during the GATT “debate,” but they slipped it by us and now it’s
another layer of bureaucracy to peel off. The public outcry did not convince
Congress that GATT wasn’t what we wanted. Are you kidding? A world
trade bureaucracy? Telling me how much I sell my organic peaches for!
I
don’t think so; no to GATT and no to the New World Order. Say NO to a two-tier
global structure of struggling peasants who have lost their land and rich elite
parasites and polluters that are buying it up and destroying it along with the
local ecosystem.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
How
much longer will the 20 cent an hour worker in third world countries remain
silent, docile and obedient? They struggle every day with the knowledge that, in
their heart, they know something is deeply wrong when they work so fucking hard
under such horribly difficult conditions, while a select few are clipping fat
cigars at the country club.
These
workers need a match to set them off, and I’m eager for the day when that will
happen. If the workers of the world unionized and protected themselves, they’d
be off to a good start in this rat race. Our placid, over consumptive lifestyle
will be badly shaken if 20 cent an hour workers were to start making two
dollars an hour but it would create a good deal of income
equality. Not sure if you stockholders will agree. Your stock broker
said space program but your investment went to incinerating wedding parties.
Asian
sweatshops that make our clothing a would have to pay workers a livable wage,
then voila, Instead of being on the verge of starvation workers would have
money in their pockets. American made clothing becomes more competitive in that
case when slave labor gets paid a living wage. I can’t emphasize it
enough so I’ll say it again, the more workers make in all the other
countries of the world, the more competitive American exports become. Furniture
and many other products, whose manufacture has left our shores, would return if
workers around the world were paid a living and thriving wage.
Their
product costs more but workers have more to spend. It’s a win win,
ya know and as Will Rogers said, “it all trickles back up to them anyways.” You
are told of the down side of inflation by economists and Wall Street who only
care about their investments that will lose their value with inflation and they
repeat the lie in a thousand different ways that inflation is a terrible
thing.
People
have been brainwashed to accept a minimum wage that creeps up while insurances
and many services increase their costs at a far greater rate than
the inflation rate would indicate. 80% of us struggle with the cost of this
modern life that has been forced on us by the violent and wasteful paradigm of
Capitalism.
The
war economy and nature destroying economy. Paltry pay affects too many
families, but raising the pay of the lowest paid of the world would be good for
all in that lifting up of all boats kind of way. Call it float up economics as
opposed to trickle down. Some say the only way forward is to smash capitalism,
but I am inclined to think that we create a new economy for workers
instead and let capitalism collapse.
( #bernwallstreetbern
) All American products become more competitive when wages go up in
the poorest parts of the world, and conversely, these same people
will be able to afford American products with better wages. You know,
like movies and music that doesn’t need super tankers to ship it. Float up
Economics, let wages go up and create inflation. We can’t lose. Tax the funny
money of the wealthy and turn their fake paper profits into housing and food
for people.
Promote
good pay and safe working conditions around the world and a new economy will
emerge and a more competitive market for our exports. Imagine better
wages for all when CEO pay and shareholder benefits are reined in as a result
of higher wages and safer working conditions and a 35-hour week which will give
people more time to spend with their families.
What
I’m saying is that many people have become rich by providing goods for
unnaturally low prices and call it prosperity. This makes it appear that
Industrial Predatory Capitalism has really worked great with so much prosperity
but an inevitable Predatory Capitalist system collapse will be discussed in
terms of trillions of dollars. We are living under an Illusion of Prosperity,
and the curtain of deceit is being pulled back exposing the swindles of them
gold hoarding bastards.
10%
on all accumulated wealth over 10 million dollars. A luxury tax a la
Monopoly until the national debt is paid, how about that as a budget balancer?
It would pit bankers against the rest of the rich. The rich will pay off the
six billion in interest on the national debt with this tax and a laser hot
focus will be put on this ridiculous price gouging of the
banksters. The rich can also put the money back in social security
that they used for two ridiculous wars and Ronnie Ray guns military buildup,
which initially ballooned the deficit into the stratosphere.
It’s
a living hell for many in this world, and I want to know, where is the joy the
Creator presumably wants us to have? On the other hand, is life supposed to be
brutal with no universal consequences? Maybe god is an asshole who
hates people. You never know; that boss who screws us at work--is it any
different than the cheetah biting and tearing the neck of the Impala? It’s just
a slower death, a death of the spirit. A concussion of the heart.
Who
best to lead the vanguard of economic justice? Who has the simple
concepts we can follow while reducing the ridiculous bureaucracy we have now?
Brave enough to expose the parasite economy? forward thinking enough to
abandon the steam age economics of Narxists. The answer you’re looking for is
modern 21st century Progressives.
My
favorite concept is called the Escalating Minimum Wage. I’d raise the minimum
wage to 10 dollars an hour for small business, and 12 dollars an hour for
businesses that have sales or income of a million dollars or more the next
year. Then the following year, 16 dollars an hour minimum wage for
billion-dollar corporations An across the board 15
dollars an hour will not work and will be the final nail in the coffin for
small business here in America.
Republicans
lying out their ass about this tax reform nonsense they passed that Democrats
will have to repeal. Corporations such as McDonalds and Walmart depended on
minimum wage workers to build their empires and fortunes and put all local
small business, OUT OF BUSINESS. Teen workers forced to go home if
the worksite wasn’t busy. Workers with no transportation and workers having to
arrange baby-sitting are frustrated to tears with this arrangement.
Imagine
all the workers that would have more disposable income with a more equitable
worldwide minimum wage. Money to catch up on bills and go out, have some fun
occasionally, and maintain sturdy, time saving appliances for their
homes. We are not looking for Jaguars with mink umbrella holders.
People are weary of suffering. Our culture would diversify with even more
variety and freedom of expression if more people had time to recreate and relax
and having some jingle jangle in their pocket to do things would be a great
relief to the people who have kept America running the last fifty
years.
Use
minor league baseball as an example, and local bands and singers and musicians
as another. Fans and audiences would better be able to pay for more
entertainment with better pay. Part time musicians and minor league
ball players would all make more with a prosperous middle class, and
consequently spend more. People would be going out to listen to live
music and watch minor league ballgames with a little more money to burn. This
floating up of poor people’s incomes would benefit many, but the Wall Street
“experts” will say inflation is a bad, dangerous thing. Wall Street
doesn’t want you to know that inflation due to increased wages would increase
house values, but provide no benefits for banks whose profits would diminish as
the value of their loan decreases.
Restaurants
and Historic sites would see an upswing in visitors when incomes increase and
vacations expand. People would vacation more with better pay, no
shit. Corporate kingpins such as the Walton’s that own Walmart would find their
175 billion dollar nest egg start to shrink and it would be a good thing, as
millions had more to spend. People just want a vacation and a little
vacation ,oney to spend but Sam Walton was a ruthless parasite. Soon a circle
of prosperity would develop among the working poor, we don’t need luxuries, we
need to pay the bills. Extremely profitable business should pay the
best.
People
growing and selling food as capitalisms waste and excess is sent to the
showers. Food trucks are going to get a larger share of the restaurant market.
Picture this: Non-GMO corn from Mexico made into tortillas filled with locally grown
beans and tomatoes. For meat eaters there’s a certified humanely grown beef
market to expand. Small Farm agriculture as it used to be known. Voila! A taco
truck on every corner sounds like a good idea with people growing, buying and
selling locally. A ravioli truck and a Hummus truck too.
Many
recognize what has been lost and it is not a social decay as much as the loss
of the vibrant small businesses that had always been the
backbone of the United States. The Klondike Capitalism of the early 1800’s and
the Mom and Pop Capitalism up to World War 2 were vibrant, alive and diverse,
and this is what has been destroyed by predatory capitalism.
Big
Business (Wall Street) has sucked the life out of Main Street and I think the whole
Predatory Capitalist system is dysfunctional, anti-family and
anti-liberty. Do we revolt or reform? No, our answer to
paracidicidal price gouging and usury is to take on second or third jobs. Too
busy, too busy, and there is no time for spiritual renewal or healing. No time
to slow down the destruction of the planet.
There
are the lawyers, the bankers, and insurance industry profit pigs and health
care price gougers. Not to mention bureaucrats and criminals: the parasites of
the workers. All paracidicidal industries I’ve mentioned, do they make food or
fuel? Do they actually produce something of value? Like vultures on our
shoulders, their job is to wait for a dollar to fall out of our pocket so they
can take it. Then Wall Street finds many different ways to funnel your money
their way. The final bamboozling is yet to come and upper middle
class savings are the next target.
Economies need to be based on workers protection
and the easy movement of unions where they are needed, like, everywhere.
Escalating Minimum Wage….hmmmm…...business experts would say that as wages
rise, so would inflation. The Federal Reserve, a private corporation, wouldn’t
like this either, but we need a good dose of inflation right now to
take some pressure off some artificially low prices, and to raise some long
stagnated wages.
Governments
and corporate elites have an economic system tailored to their greed and
cruelty. Seriously, would you personally have 500 workers making 20
cents an hour in your factory? Cold blooded CEO’s fire you if you cannot
inspect and test a circuit board in less than 73 seconds---all day long, one
after another. Human robots standing on an assembly line 16 hours a day so the
workers children can have something to eat. These companies need to
feel the sting of the workers anger and frustration. Never mind having a family
life in these conditions. Go home and sleep, go back to work. The
workers revolution is inevitable. The “owners of this country” are too blind to
understand what they are doing to the spirit of people.
In
this country, lawyers have created a law debilitated justice system along with
a grossly disproportionate representation in congress. Our constitutionally guaranteed
rights cost over a hundred dollars an hour and predatory capitalists use the
judicial system to bully anyone that bothers them. They tie them up
in court or bankrupt them with lawyer’s fees and there are literal armies of
lawyers out there fighting against the public.
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OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Where
are the liberty seeking patriots? They aren’t the ones in those militias all
fired up to fight a war with the government. They are not those big business
sycophants who are holding up the crumbling façade of Manifest Destiny. The
real patriots are the Independents and the Progressives and the
Greens. The activism and street protests are going to increase until
the obvious inequalities in our societies is finally changed. Tired of the
Republican Stupid, people are ready for action and I’m feeling energy. There is
magic in the air and we need to pull it down. Anticipating an activist spring,
an educational year to de-program those who have been indoctrinated.
The
spirit of 1776 has been crushed. We have replaced independence and
small business with interdependence and convenience and what Noam Chomsky calls
manufactured demand. We have replaced Liberty and Justice for all with the
culture of the warrior elite. Bloodthirsty foreign actions with
drones and jets dropping bombs on numerous wedding parties in
Middle Eastern countries and trillion dollar wars encouraged by misguided
people. They are the War Culture. The tree cutting
culture. We are not a christian nation, we are an asshole nation.
Veterans
have bought into all this flag worship and my country right or wrong nonsense,
and feel they are patriots because they risked their lives in Europe and Asia
and wherever else. George Washington might not agree with the
patriotism angle, and would find that bomb bomb bombing Iraq or Vietnam isn‘t
the same kind of effort he made at Valley Forge.
Who
will pay for all the fake wars of the future? Pension costs and toxic cleanup sites
of military bases is going to bust the budget in the future. Can you see the
headline in the year 2081? ARMY PENSIONER DIES AT 108. COLLECTED PENSION FOR
RECORD 65 YEARS. Yes, they can collect a full pension after twenty
years of service. The military has become the prime example of socialist
overkill. There is tremendous waste and virtually no citizen oversight and
lots of money to spread around. Of course, injured and traumatized veterans
earned their free health care and deserve what they get and more for
rehabilitation, but this type of socialism will soon be costing us 100 billion
a year in benefits for former soldiers. This is why I think the
military should cap its budget at 500 billion, and as the Post Office had to,
the Military should also show how much is being set aside for pensions.
I
know a dude that spent 18 years in the commissary selling shoes and he started
collecting a full pension at the age of 45. Needless to say, a
Rush Limpaw addict and Obama hater and ironically a great complainer of
moochers. What I mean to point out is that, to support the Conservative world
totalitarian conquest, great incentives had to be given to people serving in
the military so they would be gung-ho hoes disguised as heroes and unapologetic
flag wavers. You can bet that Mr. Sunshine, the shoe sales
clerk, loves playing golf and going to the Tiki bar on your dime.
First
thing they do to a soldier is unconstitutionally strip you down mentally and
physically during boot camp. Today we have a nation of hyper
patriotic, roided up alo=hiccup=coholic retirees. Maybe we should shift the
pension to start after 30 years served, instead of 20? Everyone is
tightening his or her belts---except the military. Many today that are
biding their time and milking it, so to speak, so they can get that 20 year
pension. You see them at the Tiki Bar, spending freely and drinking
bigly. Later, they wobble towards their flag bedecked Cadillac. Let these
leeches retire, then start phasing out all this gravy. Then there are the paper
tigers in the Pentagon, the pencil pushing pensioners with plush
payments. So much can be cut from the military budget!
The
older generation had been brainwashed to worship all coercive authority. The
boomers work ceaselessly to keep their heads above water or are deeply into the
greed machine. The youth are looking ahead but don’t understand some of the old
American traditions like blue-collar solidarity.
We
don‘t want militias or Unabomber’s. Did Mahatma Gandhi belong to a political
party? Billions of us have been transcending generation, race, gender, and
class barriers to discuss the taboos of peace, love and rock and roll, and are
aware of our right to speak out. Fight for your right to party, if you know what
I mean.
Was
America great when forests were clear-cut to ignite the housing boom of the
50's and there was the cheap electricity from government-subsidized nuclear
power? The rich were taxed 90% and the biggest middle class the
world had ever known were born. Weapon manufacturing jobs gave people great
pay, but now we have a trillion dollar cleanup at military bases and weapon
manufacturing
sites.
People
got cheap electricity in the 50’s and 60’s but left the problem of storing
nuclear waste to generations unborn. There will be 10,000 years’
of storage problems in the future, another face palm moment because of the bass
ackwards ‘greatest generation’. The agenda of the Predatory
Industrialists was to make a lot of money and creating nuclear weapons from the
spent fuel. It was all about the bombs not the integrity of the workers lives.
The
profits of previous decades has given us the weapon-saturated world owe have
today. When weapons are captured from Daesh (Isil), they are usually from
America is the opinion I have heard. Along with toxic
military sites, there will also be a multi-billion dollar effort to
decommission these nuclear power plants that created temporary cheap
electricity in the 50's 60's and 70's. It will cost 40 billion
dollars per plant to break it down and decontaminate it and then leave it to
future taxpayers to bury monitor radioactive concrete for 1,000 years. This
illusion of prosperity created by the misnamed ‘greatest
generation’ of the 50’s and 60’s who didn’t give much thought to the
consequences, or worry about the world they were poisoning as proxies to the
Industrialists.
Individuals
may have free speech, but when many are united in the associations and
organizations we belong to, it gives us citizens /voters/workers a weapon to
use against coercive authority. The big boat is starting to change its course,
so be prepared and look over the next rouge wave. Help is on the way. Be
prepared to snap out of our national coma and be prepared to burn the ticks,
fleas, leeches and parasites off our wallets and/or pocketbooks. Get
independent, get in the majority.
Who
has got the money, time AND temerity to be independent and face down the
Democrat-Republican monopoly? Our constitution demands that we protect our
liberty…how will we do it? This has to be the time Independent Progressives and
Greens and Libertarians and others can create an umbrella third party. I
suggest calling it the Independent Majority Party. IMP. #independentmajorityparty.
The Independent majority Party would gain ballot access everywhere to allow
Independents to emerge from the shadows.
Our
life will be a cakewalk compared to what union organizers in the third world
will face. The worldwide revolt of the 20 cent an hour worker is inevitable.
Entirely new principals of thrifty and fair, war-free governments will be
developed. The totalitarian capitalist despots and socialist coral
colony do-nothings will be on the run. Independents need to stand up
and be counted.
Imagine
extraneous laws wiped off the books. A future where
lawyers make 1,600 dollars a week instead of 160 dollars an
hour. We will all be able to afford fair representation in our justice
system as our constitution demands? Maybe if enough laws are eliminated,
people could get a law degree at like, a community college or something. Cool.
A
cleaning of the barn doesn’t say it any better. Ross Perot drove to the heart
of our dissatisfaction with that statement. Paradise has been lost to the
parasites. They exploit the hard-working people of the world and we act like
faithful dogs, lemmings and sheep. We bleat furiously but realize we are
already fenced in, “for our own good.” Push aside the liberals and conservatives.
America waits for her sons and daughters to react. The Independent Majority has
arrived. Focus…wake up….get involved.
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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 incorrect facts loose
on the internet with millions of undisciplined minds on the loose.
I believe
it is a consensus that we seek, not confrontation, and I look for reforms that
most can agree with.
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. Once it was ours and it will be ours forevermore if the
working people wake up. Capitalism And Communism have failed and we need a new
set of governing principles.
Let me
guide you around some of the seemingly intractable dilemmas of our modern era
and offer solutions, and please be willing to contemplate new
perspectives, because the
voter/citizen/worker
needs to lead now, and follow no longer.
COMPENDIUM
2--12-- 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 and managing ourselves in our various communities. We have to have free spaces and common local markets open for small business and household
industry.
Now that the rich have saved up trillions of dollars in hidden off shore accounts, we can use this stolen labor (profit)to create the Infrastructure Initiative. (II24) Envision something great for every one of us 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.
You get it done by 2030. Lasts till 2080. We can create abundance AND create a new economic system. But you have to get your head into the future. 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.
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 2020, we'll have a third party otherwise. 2023 update:Yeah fuck those guys. Third Party or bust.
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.
Free spaces for all to use. Not along the highway, but in
the rural areas that were abandoned when the interstates went in.
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 like the GOP did with the Post Office. Do something! A federally mandated 5% reduction in the military budget. So every department has to cut out the waste. 5% a year, every year and that's how we pay to rebuild America. Fix the bridges for the floods to come and say goodbye to all the countries from Turkey to Thailand. They're fixin to use the Chinese Yuan or some such shit.
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?
We should create a country that cares for every one 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 the people generated content. The
Commons known as the Information Superhighway. It belongs to people not thes 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.
We can complete the grid that will allow
Americans to be free of government. And corporate monopolies.
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. 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.
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 in everyone’s 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.
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. 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 and Money was trees. American forests stripped for Suburban Cheap
Housing Project.
Far too many of them. Drastic 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.
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 2020 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 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 brains 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. Arms and elbows always in motion for low wages and heartless management
strictures. 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, and 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 Socialists 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 are 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 a Community Exchange.
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, which 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 was Cesar Chavez.
Strikes for better wages at that time made the general public aware of the
problem of incredibly underpaid workers in extreme 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.
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?
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. 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. 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. Update" Covid showed us who the essential workers are.
I'm telling you AI Let the white collar
parasites push the wheelbarrows for the Infrastructure Commons and let
unionized blue collar 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 their children, these people are willing to work for
15 cents an hour, 15 hours a day. How do you compete with that? 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.
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. Ten
for small business (under a million dollars of sales and income), 13 for
medium(over a million) and 16 dollars an hour for billion dollar corporations.
I signed a petition for $15 an hour minimum yesterday and found out it is going to go up a dollar a year and that’s something to work with to create a small business revival. UPDATE that got passed and Florida's minimum will be $12 next year.
I would suggest capping a small business
minimum wage at ten dollars an hour with small business being one that
generates less than a 100,000 dollars in sales or income. Leave small business
alone. Let individuals make 10 thousand dollars before taxation and let small
business make 25,000.
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 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.
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. Marxists will unfriend you on Facebook quick as you can blink. "
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 to..
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."
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 2020/21. I buy three dollars 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.
I would have each person exempt from taxation for
the first 10,000 dollars of income, and $25,000 for small
business. In addition, 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 and every person who has no
permanent address but 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. 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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TABOOS EXPOSED
In the 70’s when I entered the work force full time, unions were very controversial. In 1975 a union was voted in where I worked, much to the consternation of the chief influence peddler, I mean, department head. To everyones astonishment the bosses assistant ran for president of our local…and won! The union reps were tearing their hair out. No, no, no, don’t vote in a member of management as president of your local! It took a few years to dismantle this lackey system, but the union raised a lot of standards and brought the pay scale more in line with neighboring towns and eviscerated the small town corruption. New equipment stopped disappearing and town workers stopped going to the boss’s house to clean windows and paint. My dad was in the union and I got updates from him because I had moved out of state. I had moved to a “right to work” state, which is Republican Party code for NO Unions Allowed. In America, unions had always been there to show profit gobbling industrialists that workers rights would always be part of the equation.
Unions were a polarizing force back then and I would hear people ask, “What does my union do for me anyways?” and in many cases they did nothing. Union money was going into political campaigns? How can an organization speak for an individual voter, but on the other hand, there was always the old timer regaling us with stories of the old days, “Unions fought for the rights you have today you lazy ass kid!” Some remembered the bloody strikes of yore or heard tales from parent’s, aunts and uncles. Unfortunately, union wages far outstripped national averages during the 70’s, and unions priced American goods beyond what people in other countries could afford, yet historically, unions tempered the horrors of disgusting dehumanizing factories of the Industrial Age.
The question to ask is how best to represent workers on a planet wide basis because corporations just wander the globe looking for the least costly and most servile workers. A great fear amongst predatory capitalists is the day when all the workers hold the line together. As it’s asked in a song by hair metal band Poison, “It just makes me wonder why the poor eat hand to mouth while the rich drink from the golden cup. Why do so many lose and so few win?”( ) Unions are needed badly in many countries, and have not outlived their usefulness. Many unions had become bloated and complacent and corrupt in the United States and need to be modernized for the 21st century. They need to be modified without the taint of socialism, representing workers during the rise of Enlightened and Sustainable Capitalism as we abandon Predatory Capitalism and the chalkboard Utopia of Socialism.
So I agree, if a union has helped you reach equitable comparative pay and you can manage to negotiate within management then by all means, vote the union out. There are progressive companies such as Whole Foods Market that have many clever and generous ways for employees to get better pay through incentives, productivity and smooth operations without the intervention and bureaucracy of unions. Ideally it should be easy to vote in unions and easy to vote them out. Many modern industries are fair to their workers but there are also many that are not and there IS corporate tyranny on the jobsite. An American should have the right to allow a union to step in and individuals should not fear corporate reprisals as workers at McDonalds and Wal mart know only too well in their attempts to unionize these low wage, no benefit, highly profitable corporations. How about a worldwide minimum wage of one dollar an hour? There’d be so much chaos. “Cancel the order for the Rolls Royce and the quarter million dollars of furniture for the guest house, things are going to get tight with this global union nonsense taking hold.” Something economists don’t see is that if that worker in the sneaker factory in Thailand or Bangladesh made a dollar an hour instead of 25 cents an hour the price of the sneaker would only go up from seventy dollars to seventy five dollars because as we now know, most of the cost goes to the corpulent export executives. The global sweatshop has proven to have inhumane conditions, so why not pay 7% more for those sneakers so workers can have a livable wage and a life worth living? A dollar an hour minimum wage for the world, would finally make a better life for many millions, perhaps even a billion people and slightly higher prices for those of us that can afford it.
If foreign goods began to go up in price because of higher labor costs then guess who benefits? We do! Get it? This is when inflation is a good thing; American goods still cost the same while those sneakers from Thailand will cost more and the more these Corporate Slaves in other countries get paid, the more competitive American products become. We can’t lose! It’s in our best interest to promote safety and good pay in all jobsites around the world no matter what the grumpy neocons may tell you. This is the secret corporate taboo no one is to speak of. Union is the word we dare not speak. Striketober inspiring the needed change.
taboo numero 2
I’ve always thought it was unusual that in this country we find glory and patriotism in the killing of people. Yet one thing that makes America unique is the fact that more people from more different countries have arrived on these shores. So why kill people that are potential Americans? It’s unfortunate that patriotism requires us to enthusiastically hate our enemies, “Huns”, “krauts”, “nips”, “gooks” and now “Sand monkeys.” Then we’re told the United States is slipping into third world conditions with our liberal educational system. Well, the truth is, thanks to unions, we have only emerged from our own third world working conditions since 1945. We started slipping back in the 80’s because most Republican jobs are low paying service industry jobs. Civil rights advocates were abused and hassled and murdered. I’m not seeing how going back to that era, the golden age of the 50’s, would be good. Those who fought for civil rights were brave patriots who were directly fighting for equality and their constitutional rights in their own country, and there was no lifetime military pension as incentive either. They fought for equality and what was right and they did it right here in this country. Why are they not considered patriots?
Boomers, stand up to this claim that we are a lazy and immoral generation. We have discarded a lot of unfair traditions of racism and sexism. It was the “greatest generation’ that left us with 10,000 years of nuclear contamination to store and 160 toxic nuclear sites and aging nuclear power plants that will need to be decommissioned at a zillion dollars apiece. It was the greatest generation that told black people to stand up and get out of “their” seat and supported segregation as it persisted through the sixties,mostly in the south, and they wistfully want to return to those days when men could beat their children and wives and there was nowhere for these victims to go. The boomers managed to change these cultural nightmares and it was the parents of the greatest generation that did the lion’s share of risky strikes, labor reform and unionization during the 30’s which shook the corporate world and finally gave American workers a good living and lifted us out of third world conditions. Look up the Ludlow Massacre to get a feel for that era
In 1918, my grandmother was twelve years old and working 12 hours a day in a factory while the company big wigs were at the country club clipping fat cigars and drinking martinis. They laugh at the workers who have to beg to take a bathroom break. I remember the pain in her face as she recounted some of this type of corporate cruelty. Imagine that a long time ago, in 1834, one of the first organized labor strikes occurred. What I read is that child laborers went on strike to lower the work week to six days and limiting the workday to 12 hours. You wonder how they got away with this.
Factories and many other large companies really treated workers poorly. Our American ancestors, endured difficult, torturous working conditions. Still today, so many employees are pushed beyond their endurance, but they keep going and going. Have you ever seen a 7-11 at lunch hour when there is only one employee? This cannot be the life the Creator intended and it’s very sad that so many people freely give their lives to enrich the few unworthy ones. There’s no denying the extreme bravery of those in a war zone. But I ask myself, was it our victory in World War 1 (1914-1919) over the “Huns” that improved working conditions for my grandmother? NO! The child labor laws enacted during the Progressive Era and their enforcement as years went on was how her life improved; these labor reformers are the patriots to me. Fighting the corporations and eventually all this reform paid off with the prosperity of the 50’s and 60’s which the “greatest generation” primarily enjoyed!
Other examples of true patriots…..how about the suffragettes? For over fifty years they endured the criticisms and efforts to thwart them. But of course they were right; half the countries population was finally given a voice in 1920. Till then women were not allowed to vote. Talk about third world conditions!
Of course, we have advanced a lot further than many countries, like China, whose tyrannical communists have conceded only one reform to labor activists. Women are now allowed a 15 minute break to give birth. Then it’s back to work making “happy meal” toys for McDonalds.
I’m saying military service shouldn’t be the keystone to patriotism. What about the 250 million Americans that have never been in the military? Why do veterans have a lock on patriotism and now they are SUPER CITIZENS!
This is the military taboo we are not to speak of. Taboo Numero 2. The working people of the world need to find dignity and fair pay on a planet wide basis as the main priority of our societies and dismantle the system that supports the warrior elite, corporate fascists and weapon manufacturers that continue to steer us away from the peaceful and sustainable world that is our birthright.
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SECTION TWO
UNITED
SCAPES THE END
SECTION THREE
THE FINAL
SLAUGHTER
-3-1- The Earth Movement
-3-2- GHOST NETS
-3-3- WILLING DUPES
-3-4- DO AS YE WILL
-3-5- FETID
CESSPOOL
-3-6- BOREAL GATHERING
-3-7- SON OF POPULUXE
-3-8- I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T
HAVE TO
-3-9- HARVESTING ZOMBIES
-3-10- MARKET SOCIALISM ????
-3-11- MYSTORY OF
METAL
-3-12- SAME AS 3-5?
=3=13- PROUD TO BE
PROGRESSIVE
-3-1--
THE EARTH MOVEMENT
“Authority is derived from the free
consent of the people”
“Environmental wacko is the term used by Rush
Limbaugh, who used to say, that the only good tree is a dead tree, and you are
a whack-O if you believe otherwise. Furniture, decking, house frames, and sports
equipment are all good utilizations, but to the neo-cons, trees are a product
exclusively. Many of us however, feel that ...
trees need to be forests and not just baseball
bats.
This
planet will be spinning for a long time and our ecosystems will need to have
healthier forests than the ones that Capitalism has left us.
D
I was dismayed as I searched
many Pagan paths looking for the green ethics, SAVING SEEDS AND PLANTING
TREES, and such. On a forum I would post about an environmental
issue, forests or something, and there would be dead air on Pagan websites.
Then someone asks a question about healing light and pink candles, and then,
BOOM! THE PHONES LIGHT UP!
I was kind of new to the internet and wanted to discuss forest
issues, but Pagans didn’t seem interested. That seemed very odd to me
since they are supposed to be “green” and, love nature and all that. Though I
did find some environmental Pagan compadres, it’s mostly about sending love and
light. Love has yet to plant a tree. People do that. And that's not the kind of light your tomatoes need indoors.
Then I came across an article by Dr. Susan Greenwood in the book, Pagan Visions
for a Sustainable Future, and her view had me nodding in total agreement.
”Paganism is a philosophy that would join
ancient and modern values in a religious way of life that would allow a
regaining of kinship with nature. A religion that venerated nature would
consider the protection of the earth and the restoring of nature as paramount.
You would think. “
Dr. Greenwood continued, " I
thought Pagans would automatically be interested in the natural world, however
there was more emphasis on ritual and a psycho-spiritual internal nature as a
personal experience, rather than a connection to, or even
an interest in the environment.
Margot Adler in the 80’s, wrote
that there was a split between Pagans with ecological principles who called for
a change of lifestyle, and those with a religious vision that change would
evolve by itself.”
Margot Adler, though deceased, is still a Facebook friend of mine and had
actually communicated with me about this before her untimely death. She
also gave me some suggestions for other publications to read. Her book
‘Bringing down the Moon” is highly recommended by me, for any spiritualist, or
anyone who is re-connecting with the earth. A great starting point,
Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler has the science and the myth. The facts and the mystery. A wonderful read.
The conservation of the land and protection of our resources is the master key
to long-term prosperity. This is the battle between the ecological values of
the land versus the real estate values of the land. Looks like another
real estate boom is bubbling up this year. Having a real prosperity based on
creating abundance and not a house of cards “on paper” prosperity that
continues to degrade all natural ecosystems. Resource extraction will be our
undoing.
The press co-opted the word “green” as
an umbrella for all environmentalists back in the early nineties in order to
dilute the radical nature of the emerging Deep Green Schism that developed
between the city slicker liberals and the left-leaning anarchists.
Unfortunately, the radicals in the 80’s could not rise above petty disagreements and internecine infighting to make the Green Party a viable Third Party as the nineties emerged. The time has passed for the Green Party; they should have recruited Bernie Sanders a long time ago. Bernie has held elected office in the Congress and Senate for more years than all the Green party candidates put together.
Tainted
with the limousine liberal marxists, the Green Party needs to come
out Independent. Call it the Green Independent Party. Two thirds of the
population would consider themselves independent or green. It's the nature
lovers whose voices have been silenced by the weak stream media.
The
smartest thing to do in 2024 is to start some sort of Independent third party
that I have named the #IndependentMajorityParty or IMP for short. As in
troublemaker. UPDATE Cornel West is the leading candidate for the Green Party in 2024. This is a go.
There are thousands of political offices infested
with GOP vermin and we need to build foundations for a large third party and
get them and most of the aforementioned tapeworms out. Democrats are a writhing
pile of attorneys who see the poor as helpless and needing management.
Independents
see how a small business oriented localized economy could return. In it's final
form, America will pioneer the Market Socialism concept.
Progressives
and Independents can easily take over the Green Party which is already on the
ballot in what? 47 states? Most people that look into the Green Party
accept their platform, but seem reluctant to back most candidates. There
is a structure in place with the Green Party, but I'll tell you what. I
have been registered with the Green Party since 1994 and as a Green I think
it's a great idea for Greens, Progressives and Independents to create their own
political party. Independents have nowhere to tie their horse you know. You
can't just toss the rope like they do in the movies.
In the 70’s and early 80’s, being green meant more than recycling newspaper. A
deep green knows the sources of pollution is our products. A hardcore
green doesn’t want ANY of the old large trees to be cut. Less than 5% of the
ancient tree forests remain. By my definition, clearcutting is when you chop
down more than four trees an acre. My particular view is that all
clear-cutting can be banned, and our paper and wood product needs can be
satisfied with selective logging, the growing of high cellulose perennials or
annuals such as hemp, and let’s face it, recycling has yet to achieve its real
potential. You ABSOLUTELY have to preserve every last old tree and we secretly
would love to ban clear-cutting world-wide.
There’s woodlot management to boost rural incomes where landowners sell
selectively cut trees with no real net loss of canopy. This can be part of a
simple form of sustainability that enables forested lot owners to make money
and to be part of the overall return to a small economy. I would love to see
the return of local lumber yards for one thing. Local jobs, local lumber,
custom cutting and jobs in furniture making again. We gave up craftsmanship for
cheap throwaway garbage from China.
Yes, it’s true, there would be inflation for wood products at first until
prices “float up” to where they should be. Trickle down just isn’t happening,
and resource extraction directly robs generations yet unborn.
Today the old
school green mocks the label on the plastic soda bottle that says,
“environmentally friendly.” There’s a certain understanding that all plastic is
an abomination. The Pacific Garbage Patch is what we were trying to avoid.
The production of plastic has created billions of tons of toxic waste, and no
one can seem to stop it or slow down the demand for petroleum-based products.
The Pacific Island garbage patch is the "we told you so" by
environmentalists.
Dioxins and other poisons are working their way down through fissures and
macropores underground, and this dangerous mixture of chemicals is worming its
way to our underground water supply. Humankind has been irresponsible by
allowing this. Earth killers will keep killing and it will take some work to
stop them. Then how many decades will people spend trying to ameliorate the
damage?
Being green meant more than planting a tree back then. It meant being prepared
for the battle with the elitist industrial tyrants who are bent on wasting our
earth. You seemed stunned in recent years when you realized that they don’t
care, but they don’t, and they don’t think you care enough to stop them. Woke
used to mean awareness of the destruction of the earths systems not the
virtue signalling nonsense of today.
There are “experts” that claim we are hardly using the earth at all, and this
planet could hold 15 to 20 billion people. Yikes! Most people don’t seem to
have the foresight to see that our ecosystem resource base could be destroyed
if we stay on this path of uncontrolled births and resource extraction
insanity. People want to colonize Mars but look what we are doing to near
space. Hundreds of thousands of objects (space junk) travelling at 11,000 miles
an hour encircle our earth. 30,000 more sate;;ities are being planned to be
sent up. I don't remember voting for this.
Let's see if we agree here on step one to
support the earth movement. "Have two and you're through." Don't be
responsible for more than two births. maybe you can afford to raise ten
children but will the earth be able to feed the 400 descendants ten generations
later.
How about a voluntary
population cap and I propose we make 9 billion the cap and give ourselves till
2050 to accomplish this with a permanent leveling off of the world’s population
at that point. With 7.2 billion now (wait what? 7.6 billion now!! Dude. Update.
We hit 8 billion last week., we have to put the brakes on soon. Every
country would be encouraged to comply but not forced because we want to
avoid any sort of world order. Limit the population of every
country to 10% more growth before leveling off. The United States with 340
million people would cap its sustainable permanent population at 375 million.
Seems like a reasonable goal, doesn’t it? Nevertheless, I’ve been accused of
eugenics simply for suggesting this. A raw cultural taboo nerve I hit there.
Ow!
I’m here to help you undo the brainwashing that has occurred. You
can tell when you have hit a nerve by the severity of the reaction. I noticed
this with Marija Gimbutas and her archaeological theories. Gimbuta’s theories
and discoveries upset the house of cards that is the conventional wisdom of
Archaeology, and I also got some ridicule for extolling her forward thinking
which stated goddess oriented societies were much more peaceful. She pointed
out that pottery from Goddess oriented cultures never depicted weapons and war
unlike more modern ones of Greece and Rome that did.
Can we make a sustainable planet in perpetuity? I firmly believe there can be
prosperity and sustainability. We have to work with our ecosystems and
economically align ourselves as bioregions. More markets, fewer borders. For
instance, Florida could replace citrus with cattle because grass grows here
naturally all year long, whereas western ranchers graze
cattle, where there is less than 15 inches of rain a year. They are
creating a desert the same way the Sahara was created. My trip across the
country was dismaying as it seemed everything had been fenced off for cattle.
Places I could pull over and walk into the desert a bit were now fenced.
Sustainability needs to be our reality
someday, but it will take some work. A population cap is critical as a first
step that we can carry into the future. When is our sun going to burn up and
become a red giant? Five million years? Five Billion years? Believing in the
End Times is insanity. The reality is that we have been gluttonously foolhardy,
shortsighted, plundering, rapacious idiots the last 200 years. For 500
years, Christianity has been telling everyone the white man’s burden was to
subdue the earth and tame the savages.
How many natural brooks and streams have become culverts and ditches during the
expansion of suburbs in America? Are we going to continue to be the
head-nodding milieu, sycophants to developers and resource exploiters? Will we
do anything for jobs in this broken economic system?
Sometimes I like to see humans as a
catastrophic earth cycle, like a Yellowstone super volcano going off, resulting
in a 90% loss of species. Is it really the Anthropocene? Humans have challenged
the mother and the mother has to ask herself how much discipline to apply. Is
Gaia always angry like the Old Testament God? That grumpy touchhole,
exploding in fury and basting us with his special angry sauce before He burns
us in Hell for eternity? Is Gaia wise but sees us as no better than wildebeests
and mountain goats? She'll think nothing of wiping us out in another one of her
mass extinctions, although, Science says that humans are initiating the sixth
extinction all on our own. The final slaughter, the Anthropocene.
Being green in the early
90's meant rejecting the chemical dependency of the food produced on factory
farms while promoting, purchasing and producing organic food. This market has
completely emerged from demand. The Ag corporations think we have accepted the
fungicides and weed killers and pesticides that get on our food. They were
wrong and the 10% increase in sales yearly of organic products proves
it. Veganism is also trending with people rejecting
the poisons we have normalized as food. The slaughter of animals. 170 million
chickens a week are killed around the world?
As green awareness mainstreamed in the 90’s, everyone planted a tree. Maybe
stopped using plastic bags at the supermarket, not to mention using less water
when you brushed your teeth. You walk more and drive less and get the cigars
with the wood tips instead of the plastic ones.
These are all needed efforts, but we can bust a gut recycling and save energy,
but it’s the production of many of our products where waste and pollution is
the biggest problem. Well over 70% of it is from large corporations, not
the general population. One factory puts more toxins in the air and on
watersheds than a whole town could produce in a whole year. My friend ’John
Doe’ told me about a Ford plant he worked at for 30 years, and he enumerated to
me about the various toxic wastes they dumped right into the nearby Hudson
River, with a wheelbarrow! Ill-gotten gains may be an overused term, but
it needs to be said concerning these polluting profiteers. Can we have
sustainable prosperity? It’s the logical path with brand new opportunities,
inventions, and peaceful living awaiting. If we don’t do it we will be reminded
that Nature has no mercy.
xxx
Our goal should be to prevent doomsday, not stall it, or as Blink-182 says,
"let this train wreck burn more slowly." The Coming Credit Collapse
will clear the path for the final industrial and military destruction of what's
left, that's any good. This is what I mean when I say the Final Slaughter.
Corporate bankruptcies and resource depletion will be our grandchildren’s
birthright, instead of happiness. Do you want those unborn to be a pool of
workers to pay off bank, insurance, automaker and city government bankruptcies?
Workers of the 21st century will be a herd of toilers for the business giants,
industrial tyrants and government pensioners, particularly military pensions in
this CURRENT socialist military sphere many depend on.
Also very importantly, the military needs to show how
they are going to pay all these pensions of people not even 50 years old.
Mutilated veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars should receive health
care forever. We could afford it if we pull our military back from the furthest
one third of the world.
Courage and
foresight will be needed in the transition, and citizens will be called to make
their voices heard. We can't hope the other guy does something because we need
to be the other guy this time. We need the 60 million who didn’t vote to get
off their ass. Open minded, thinking independent people without agendas are not
participating because of the paltry choice of candidates. Citizen
legislators. I dare say the lunch lady or the shipping and receiving dude or
the manager at Taco Bell. It's all about the vote and these people would vote
for the working people unlike currently, where our lawyer infested justice system
that favors corporate interests.
Predatory Capitalism and Big Business will falter and collapse; swallowed whole
by the debts of banks, insurance companies, and governments. Unfortunately, in
that scenario, tyranny would fill the social vacuum, with Techno Goons imposing
martial law as World War 3 breaks out. We had a tyrant in the White House, an
apprentice at life, who hates kids and animals and now we know Putin is nuts.
We trust these people not to start a nuclear war? Sheeeesh. China has
become 1984 with their good citizen points. We have some work to
do.
too many people programmed in one way or another
Indoctrinated lackeys continue feeding off the military matrix of
benefits and will decry the reduction of military bases. Except for the
homeless vets of course. There shouldn’t be homeless people period.
Market Socialism is a place where all goods are sold for what they are worth
and all resources are self-sustaining with wages fair, and worksites
safe. This would be at every jobsite in this world, flat or otherwise,
it's about the worlkers. One very important aspect of Democratic
Socialism is water usage. Are landfills around the world lined to protect the
groundwater as they mostly are in the United States? How badly are European
Asian and African aquifers faring? People in the future will learn toxins
recognize no borders.
Will Americans continue to use billions of tons of dangerous chemicals that run
off into our waterways? Half the fish in the world may have mercury in them,
how did we get to this state, aside from the peoples waterways being used as a
sewage dump by long bankrupt corporations? Coal burning pollutes the air and
spews mercury. I ask myself why we are killing each other by doing
nothing. Here’s a clue for you
all. How can the people feed themselves in the future when corporate (and
state) interests drain the oceans of fish and consequently compromises
everybody of the water that has a sustainable amount of fish to eat?
How can the people feed themselves in the
future when corporate interests drain the oceans and consequently the rivers,
of fish? Industrial Farms are out there, literally, killing the soil. We have
since learned about the Soviet bankrupting of the soil and their horrible
stewardship of the land during the tenure of the Communists. The toxic waste
estimates cannot be known with all the hidden toxic sites in the US and Russia.
Possibly a three trillion dollar cleanup.
The Predatory Capitalists won the
Great Economic War of the 20th Century between Capitalism and Communism, but I
see a small business-based Market Socialism being the primary economic order by
the end of this century.
Predatory Capitalism will falter and will be swallowed whole by the future
debts of banks, insurance companies, pension funds and the spiraling National
Debt, while stocks and investments will end up circling the drain (but not
quite. Just enough left to fund the war machine.) Unfortunately, in that
scenario, tyranny would fill the social vacuum. Techno-goons imposing martial
law as World War Three 3 breaks out. A virulent, pernicious and avaricious evil
strain of greed has subsumed capitalism. Communism is a chalkboard utopia that
would only lead to authoritarian cronyism.
The degradation of the earth continues at an alarming pace. Nature’s dirge will
become more apparent in time. Cyclical disasters in nature will happen and I
expect more are to come since pollution affects the atmosphere more than we
want to admit, and taking natural gas and oil out of the deeper depths of
the earth may have affected the tectonic plates and underground water quality.
Minerva going over stuff with Ben franklin
The credit collapse will clear the path for
the final industrial and military destruction of what’s left….that’s any good.
Resource bankruptcy will be our grandchildren’s birthright. THEY WILL MERELY BE
A POOL OF WORKERS TO PAY OFF BANK, INSURANCE, AIRLINE, INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENT PENSIONS. As the dominoes of
the world economy crash against each other, the damage will be unstoppable and
enduring.
How come the concentration of wealth is the highest ever? One percent of the
population has 35% of its wealth and the only other era where it was that lopsided
was during the Pro-business 20’s just before the devastating stock market crash
in 1929. Now, 200 years into the Industrial Illusion of Prosperity, our
economy is destined to shit the bed. On the news, we will watch as plants
animals and indigenous cultures become imperiled, then extinct. Steep price
hikes or shortages? The vicissitudes of all industrial and agricultural markets
will get worse and the corporate stranglehold on most supplies will
become more apparent. We see the beginnings of this with the empty store
shelves. Why I am getting involved in the food distribution process. moving
surplus between bioregions.
The low price of gas up to 1973 was due to the deliberate manipulation of the
energy markets to gain monopolistic control of food and transportation. All
competing forms of energy were overwhelmed and eliminated. Automobiles
are nothing more than toxic waste when they are junked: batteries exploding,
mercury and cesium dripping. Microscopic and carcinogenic dioxin is created
when chemicals meet in the corporate toilet bowl otherwise known as our
underground water.
Not to sound contradictory but I can also see where our American freedom can
also include sections of interstate highway where 90 MPH sections are opened,
and roads are built exclusively for trucks. Rural hubs where people can gather
and where jobs will be made. I mean, in an American autobahn would be
interesting and vitally necessary in the vast open Interstate highways of the
west. Vegas to Denver. 90 miles an hour limit. And consequently, we need
reductions down to 30 MPH in many residential areas as alternative forms of
transportation take to the roads. And sidewalks. I saw what looked like a
bicycle going 20 MPH on the sidewalk. Probably many electric vehicles
among the ones I see. To allow more of us more access of our streets since we
all pay for it in our taxes.
Making it easier somehow for a more diversified transportation system, that
would include bicycles, mopeds, electric cars, and hybrid buses for public
transportation, is a necessity. The roads are for all of us to use but the
automobile has taken over. What's been calculated lately is that if
everyone in the world lived like the average American, we would would need 5 planets
worth of resources.
Try to be a pedestrian these days! It seems
unbelievable that practically any moron can drive 8,000 pounds of automobile 50
miles per hour about two feet away from where you are walking or where your
child is bicycling. Just something wrong here. America seems unconcerned
about the general welfare.
The predatory capitalist
system went through its first death throes with investment companies in 2009.
This gets my goat because what do companies like AIG produce? Toothbrushes?
Bicycles? Furniture? Lettuce? ...nothing, only more paper income for
those that already have enough. Yet they needed to be bailed out or
"the entire economy could collapse?" We will be shocked and grossed
as Big Business begins the final bamboozling and the good people of America
won't be able to stop it.
The last senile phase of the Industrial Revolution
(1830-2030) will leave a legacy of misery, despair and environmental
devastation, and debts too immense for one generation to dig out of.
Given the morals of Big
Business, do you think your pension funds are safe? Your life insurance policy?
Your "insured" savings? Even the money in your wallet is no longer
backed by silver and gold reserves as it had once been. The capitalism of
credit. In Debt, We Trust.
We can create unencumbered markets where
the government only regulates product safety. The proposed
Farmers-Truckers Union bypasses the white-collar parasites who are looking for
their percentage of the deal with stores and shipping. We can rid ourselves of
these leagues of leeches that get between production and purchasing.
The Community Product and Service Exchange wants to join the movement toward
more farmers markets and Market Socialism will create more common areas so
people can set up for free. There will be lots of jobs in a small business
economy.
There is
a simple solution to keeping the economy robust as it gears down
from its bloated military budget, and that is to reduce our sphere of
influence. My foreign policy idea is to respectfully withdraw from any
country that does not border the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. How simple is
that? While at the same time we have to decentralize Russia and Chinas
and thwart their expansionism. Look at all the troublesome countries
we are avoiding with this reduced sphere...Iran, Pakistan, Czech Republic,
Saudi Arabia, India, Bangladesh, eastern Africa and all the rest of the
countries that are the furthest away from us. Over 5000 miles
in most cases. Oil and Gas companies need war.
We could cut troop strength down to 750,000. More warriors, less shoe
salesperson (no offense Angus) and pencil pushers. More protected military
vehicles and less retirees and consequently an end to the cost of disability
payments. I can't imagine that when my children are 60 they will be paying
disability for those injured in the Bush Wars when they were children.
This is what the
Boomers will be known for---bankrupting the future. Highways, bridges,
hospitals, wetlands, inner cities, all needed people to repair and maintain.
The boomers who owned stocks to “save for their future”, did nothing as
the reputation of sterling American service went to hell, as employees were
laid off to please stock holders. Boomers. The Boomers ignored the
abysmal minimum wage too many of us had to work for. The blinders were on
during the corporatization of EVERYTHING! They told themselves that unions had
outlived their usefulness, but who else was going to look out for the workers?
Certainly not the white-collar Boomer parasites saving for retirement. Funny on
many levels, the Boomers I see don't even remember how to ride a bicycle.
Now the
Boomers think we need a 716 Billion dollar military? What? 750 now? Wait, 813?
R U Kidding me? We are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military: we
cannot interfere in other countries politics any longer. That is the American
Doctrine of Peace. Withdraw from the furthest one third of the world and start
having effective peace talks to solve all these conflicts and look into what
the CIA is doing.
It’s different now, it’s up to the Millennials, and Generation X to fix the
mess created in the last 200 years of the Industrial Revolution because the
Boomers emulated the WW2/Depression generation in its greed.
Planting for wildlife, creating a sustainable resource base, making
corporations pay for pollution instead of the taxpayers. A movement for
change, a movement away from democrat-republicanism and Islamo-Chritianityism
and a movement that respects all life on the planet-The Earth Movement. It
would change everything.
Billions of tires are piling up, breeding mosquitoes but nothing on the news.
Keep us busy with celebrities. Hundreds of oil spills and poorly capped wells
in the Gulf of Mexico but the #lamestreammedia never covers it. In other
environmental news, has acid rain suddenly gone away? Not a problem no more?
Because of the environmental alarmist backlash, nothing is taken seriously
anymore.
I
speculated that there would be some sort of terrorism that would involve
international shipping. As it turned out, the terrorists went after symbolic
targets and not economic ones in 2001. There are so many other ways terrorism
can manifest itself. I’m trying to say there are so many vulnerabilities
with our present predatory capitalism system, that price spikes and shortages
will be the norm. Because it has to collapse. It must die. As I
like to point out, will Wall Street be here in 10,000 years? Fish filled oceans
and fertile fields will need to be here 10,000 years from now, so I ask
everyone, what are you thinking? Low prices mean death to the future.
Tankers bombed, production facilities sabotaged. “Emergency” drilling begins in
the arctic. “We need the energy for the war effort! “will be the excuse to
ravage the North Pole. The frozen poles where toxic debris from scientists is
being revealed as snow melts. It’s a fragile ecosystem up there, not
easily repaired. What if there’s a revolution in Saudi Arabia or something and
they won’t be there to pump extra? What if there are new Arab governments that
seek to preserve their major resource and not give it away like they had been
doing to the international oil companies?
Yet independent transportation is an aspect of our freedom. As I said we have a
one-sided transportation system where buses, bicycles, and pedestrians are not
in the club. The Perpetrators of the Petroleum Plot have created a system where
70 MPH death wagons kill over 40,000 people a year and injure millions. It’s
not drunk drivers that are completely to blame. The blame goes to a system
where 3-ton vehicles need to carry a person one-thirtieth the weight of these
behemoths. Why not a 550-pound vehicle to carry that same person? Wouldn’t it
use less fuel? Wouldn’t we all be safer? Why are 1,000 bicyclists killed each
year? It’s those damn death wagons. Driving a bicycle is simply too dangerous
with two-ton cars are driven by the barely witted, careless, half-awake
American worker.
B DUST BOWL OR MARKET CRASH?
The year is 2036 and the big news is that the government is trying to round up
all the escaped zombie clones and chimeras. An early May hurricane caught coastal
residents off guard and thousands are dead and major bridges have fallen. A two
inch rise in the ocean turned out to be more problematic than realized. Not to
scientists of course.
2038 Should we call it World War 3 or are
they still five different wars? Recessions, depressions, bank failures, wide
scale insurance fraud uncovered, pension funds going belly up. The white-collar
crooks fleeing to hidden enclaves. Viewers are shocked as they witness the
final collapsing and the implosion of the Industrial Revolution. Terrorists are
jamming satellites disrupting important transmissions.
Now we are left with radioactive material that needs to be stored and a
trillion-dollar cleanup of toxic sites. Panic is mounting as social security
funds are propping up collapsing banks and pension funds. The Pandora’s Box of
genetics has been opened as various creatures have been loosed on the world by
renegade labs. Some believe we won’t even make it to 2039 but they've been
saying that for years.
Steep price hikes or shortages? The petroleum markets exhibit the vicissitudes
of all markets of the future. The dirt-cheap price of gas until 1973 was due to
the deliberate manipulation of the energy markets by the oil barons. All
competing forms of energy were overwhelmed, underbid and eliminated from the
market so this one product could rule them all GASOLINE. One example is how
General Motors bought up trolley lines back in the 40's and 50's, only to close
them down and tear up the tracks so they would never be used again. My little
hometown had electric trolleys but they were paved over. Bought to be buried.
I'm reminded of the Petroleum Plot the other morning when I went jogging. There
was no air movement and it was humid. A neighbor started their car and drove
by, the exhaust cloud clung to the ground longer than usual, and the stinking
smell of exhaust was disgustingly distinct as it hugged the ground. Multiply
this by millions of cars for the past 60 years. Even if cars aren't
contributing to global warming, they are still polluting. We allow toxic filth
because we just don’t quite care enough.
Oil companies want to drill for oil in a wildlife refuge to satisfy those who
want it all and want it now. Drill Drill Drill. To many people, this Republican
Party mantra of 2012 was quite chilling.
Why are roads so crumpled, bumpy and worn? 40,000-pound trucks, that’s why.
They make the profits and you maintain the roads and truckers pay many extra
fees. I'll tell you what, I drove across a tall bridge over the Indian River on
my bicycle and it was a little scary, but became eye opening when the trucks
rolled over the bridge. The whole bridge shook and when another one came along,
I got off the bike and walked to be safe. No lie, but Interstate shipping
has shortened the life span of many roads, taxpayers pay for the repairs and
corporations make the profits while you are told that Big Business means small
prices. When the Interstate Highways system was planned and built, it was
never imagined that trucks would get so large. If you drive the Interstates you
know how reckless truckers are with their tailgating and flashing lights at
people who are going the speed limit.
Recessions, depressions, bank failures, insurance fraud, price gouging,
overcharging--and soon life insurance companies will be going under if just one
of many geological mega disasters that cyclically occur, comes around. Maybe
not a nuclear winter but some other disaster that will shock people into
submission. No phones for years is hard to imagine for instance. “I knew there
was something wrong
Given the morals of big business: do you think all your policies and pension
funds and IRA’s and 401 K’s are all safe? I mean seriously, all this invisible
prosperity is built upon our trust of bankers. Bankers not backed by the FDIC.
Bankers who are worried that if the minimum wage goes up, it will cause
inflation. When wages go up, the stocks will go down. Never mind that it could
make a lot of lives easier. That’s no longer important with the entrenched
parasitical class driving the big boat.
No change is forthwith. Why can’t there be good incomes for skills and trades?
You know, the people who actually do the work. Mom and Pop stores should be
able to thrive again, they were driven out of the market by scoundrels and big
business hucksters and service became less important than “price per unit”.
Balls to the wall materialism till this gig shits the bed if we don’t put on
the brakes. And whoever does put on the brakes, will be demonized for
bringing the game to an end. But it has to end.
Agriculturally damaged farmlands in the Midwest could not survive an extended
cyclical drought and the imfamous Dust Bowl was made. How was the Sahara
created you asked? A medium size desert was there. (Like we have out west) but
North African tribes farmed and dammed the few rivers of Northern Africa
thousands of years ago, and they dried up during a long-term cyclical drought.
Diversion of water, too much cattle and goats grazing and then more soil
erosion as the trees in that formerly semi-arid area were cut down for firewood
or fences. Like today where cattle are fenced in and hikers are fenced out.
Todays ignorance is not without precedence. We have cattle grazing the
semi-arid lands of the West and that’s absurd.
The last 100 years have seen our taxes go to damming of rivers for cheap
electricity and to pay for western farmers to water their crops by building
giant irrigation facilities, while putting the small family farm in the midwest
and east out to wither and die. There is a bigger cost to pay for this
prosperity.
Two billion will be
spent to repair some of the Everglades. Why did we almost destroy the “River of
Grass?” For developers to pile up some soil and build homes for that burgeoning
pest-the humans? For farmers to make profits? Are you seeing a pattern here? We
get taxed to set up an enterprise, while corporations get “relocation
incentives,” from cities and counties.
Then there’s the Western American farmers who actually suck the Colorado River
dry. They have to do something to compete with foreign slave labor so they get
cheap water. Therefore, we have giant rice farms in California. The Grape and
Apricot growers got the government to build canals for irrigation. How are they
going to compete with South American farmers and their wanton use of chemicals?
Give them free water! This whole “cheap food” policy uses up many resources and
pays its workers poorly, while encouraging excessive population growth and
spurious business development.
Free people in the world need to help the exploited 20 cents an hour worker.
Maybe unions aren’t right for some of us, but they would certainly help the
Third World pull those people up by the bootstraps. The unionizating of
Starbucks, Amazon and the others is the most encouraging sign I've seen in many
years. Things are not going well for most of the world’s workers. There are too
many of them, too many young people without jobs. More hungry
people than than there ever has been.
the undending cycle of atrocity and reprisal
The basic premise I was presenting is that the United States should only ally
ourselves with countries that share the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, Go east of
the Atlantic and west of the Pacific and you’ll see what I mean. Most of the wars are over in that nasty one
third of the world, furthest away from us. A part of the world that hasn't stopped
fighting for 6,000 years. Let’s leave these people be and quietly withdraw from
there. (buh bye) Some may want to include countries on the Mediterranean;
it’s all up for discussion. Pull out a world map and you’ll see what I mean. I
was thinking we withdraw our interests from Italy to Thailand. There are
so many trouble spots we can extract ourselves from and where it really isn't
our business. We need to “pull in the horns” as they used to say. Shrink our
commitments. Unfortunately, Neo-Liberalism wants to manage the world. For our
own good, you see. For the good of all. We need an earth movement to counter
this fake hope, don't fall for that "Great Reset" stuff.
Cap the world
population at 9 billion. Ban all clear cutting except for invasive trees.
Conservation of energy, not increased production of not so green
technologies. We are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military. Too
many lifers just milking their jobs to get to twenty years. It is conceivable
some day that someone who retired from the military at 48 collects a pension till
they are 98. Collect a pension for 50 years, because, why?
We need to evolve also. We sell weapons to 100
countries, what’s that all about? Do weapons boost the economy? Would taxing
their illegitimate accumulated wealth be better spent on hospitals, bridges,
restoring wetlands, dental care, blighted inner cities rejuvenated, building or
adapting roads to accommodate the slower 25 MPH traffic I was talking
about? Day care for all children and adults with Alzheimers?
I’m trying to raise the alarm about another
issue. By then2030, a growing share of the military budget will be used for
retirement and health issues of veterans. Exposed to toxic chemicals, extremely
loud noises and specious causes. Corporations throwing Americans into war zones
for what reason? First, you have to phase out the 20-year military
retirement pension. Stretch it out to thirty and pay current soldiers more and
reduce our forces 25% as a benefit to staying closer to home. This idea is more
in line with some generals who think we need less of an army on the ground and
naval and air supremacy. But do we need to upgrade every jet for the cost of
150 million per?
Get it?
We can help allies closer to home because we can get there a lot faster. Do
this first and we can begin to create safe, worldwide markets for Market
Socialism. An infrastructure for the world.
Planting as if nature mattered, create a sustainable resource base, a movement
for change and real progress and getting a grip on the 21st century. Capitalism
bankrupt…...dictatorships barbaric…Communism passé…like it or not this is the
era when new governing principles will be created. “Authority is derived from
the free consent of the people...”
“Authority is derived from the free consent of
the people”
-3-2- GHOST NETS
“Yar”, jettisoned Rush. “Throw me them pataters, ya piece a crap.”
Hannity threw the
platter of potatoes at Rush, then grabbed the jar of caramel syrup and
began chugging it down, squeezing the sauce down his throat in loud gulps.
He threw the empty plastic container in the fireplace. “Run…. toxic fire.
Ha ha ha ha.” He said as the plastic melted and the fumes filled the room. Bill
O’reilly hopped from one leg to another, “pinhead pinhead.”
Rachel
Maddow was invited to the party for balance, but Anne Coulters plan was to
KNOCK her off balance by hitting her behind the knees with a baseball bat. When
she was on the ground grabbing her knee in pain, Anne squatted down and started
farting on her head and everyone had a good laugh. Funny and entertaining for
some, but are these appropriate dinner manners for a dinner party?
I’d say it’s not, but this is how The Republicans treat the environment.
Tuna is probably the most popular fish to buy and everyone had to experience
this as children because of the cheap cost. But how did tuna stay so cheap all
those years? Last year I got 2 cans for a dollar, like it was 1980 or
something. Great for people with the protein and fat ratio and anyone on a
budget, but for these last 50 years there were mile long nets catching this
tuna. And dolphins and seabirds and turtles got caught in the nets as do
billions of fish that gets tossed overboard, half dead, and this is so
completely wrong that the word by-catch doesn’t do it justice. Death catch
works better.
There are now too many compromised ecosystems on the planet and many people
around the world are unable to catch the fish their ancestors were used to
doing with their traditional hunting. It’s as if we still don’t see how the
world works. Thank the goddess the kids understand and every generation will be
more inclined to a gentle stewardship of the earth, but will it be too late?
The biggest nets were banned eventually but a lot of poor practices persist and
fishing stocks are severely depleted and we suffer today with trying to restore
fish populations as the ones who got rich from it are sitting pretty.
Pretend you’re a sailor out
there in the middle of the ocean and imagine how tangled up a ten-mile net can
get. Sometimes the sailors have to cut away parts of these monster nets
to get everything back on board. So there are these 1000 foot pieces of nets
floating around the ocean entrapping plastic garbage and killing sea
life. These floating webs of death are called ghost nets.
Greenpeace made a great effort to get dolphin free tuna on the market.
Sustainable products can be obtained; otherwise you are
encouraging the wrong markets to flourish if you don’t know what you are
buying. Wild-caught labeling seems like another sustainable concept to pay
attention to. Environmental groups try to raise awareness by tracing back how
your food was produced. Now, as the Anthropocene approaches, Republicans are
decrying the Green Cult once again. Resisting the Green Dragon is a DVD that describes how
environmentalists are taking over the world.
Environmentalists realize we may need this world for a million years and we
should be the people that put sustainability on the right track. When the ocean
is healthy and full of fish, everyone can have fish. No more fishing licenses.
All line caught is legal. The corporate depleting of fish in the ocean has led
to hundreds of thousands of bankrupt small fleets and impoverished people who
live near the ocean.
To me it’s discouraging that people diligently recycle while reckless
corporations can leave 600 linear miles of fishing nets
floating around the ocean. That’s a low estimate. A lot of illegitimate wealth
was obtained from this insane extractive insanity that has occurred. Clear
cutting, overgrazing, overplanted soil with their piss poor excuse for farming,
mineral robbing and on and on. Units sold is all that counts, the gross
domestic product reigns supreme.
I
discuss American excesses, but here is a case where Japanese people need their
comeuppance along with all the other multinational corpsters. Japan is a tiny
island, smaller than Michigan, and there’s 120 million people there.
Since WW2 they have needed a lot of wood since they have no forests and
so they bought giant tracts of land where timber was clear-cut and the local
indigenous people had their livelihoods go up in smoke as trees were clear cut.
Japanese
catch a lot of fish too, oh and they experiment on a lot of whales which we know
about. Does their Pagan religion Shintoism encourage them to use up the land
because their deity said it was all right? No, I think it’s because they
learned American style greed. We taught them predatory capitalism.
Here’s
your American guy out fishing with his family and he keeps telling them that
plastic comes from the earth as he throws tangled line into the water. Why
should he care or recycle when the big guys do what they do? (Note: see the
lesson here? With corporations as our high profile examples of behavior, many
people emulate these approved behaviors.) Why should he care about a
tangled line? “What, maybe one fish will get tangled in it and in five years it
will be deep in the mud. Besides, plastic comes from the earth anyways,” he says
remembering something from Fox news.
“Yeh in a hundred years,” his child states. “There’s styrenes and PCB’s
and other chemicals created in laboratories that the earth will have to
assimilate,” retorted his daughter.
“All right”
he says reaching into the water to retrieve the twisted ball. He did more
research and found out that many towns were installing fishing line recycling
tubes and he went to his city council, and the parks director and got them
approved for all the fishing lakes in town.
This
is green ethics, this is cultural reform. With the way things are now we
are farting on Mother Nature’s head when she’s down. Digging out diamonds
and metals, scooping the ocean clean of fish and reckless clear cuts of ancient
forests. Recycling is going to be able to take care of 50% of our paper needs
if we can manage things right. That begins with a ban on clear cutting. We
share our destiny with forests and we also need our watersheds and oceans clean
and healthy. remember those that die in battle qualify for Valhalla.
Do you own property to sell the resource that’s on it? How can everyone do this
and think anything will be left to the future? Yes, it means inflation when
clear cutting is banned; we are living in a subsidized nanny state of
materialism. Logging roads are built by the federal government because we
need cheap paper. Then loggers cry about lost jobs when people try to save
endangered species. The paper companies don’t care about jobs or the lives that
are sustained by them, they go looking for the cheapest deal. Predatory
Capitalism assumes that 80% of the population will suffer from shortages in the
future and well, that’s too bad. They really see us as cannon fodder and
consumers.
Limit
clear-cutting to 4 trees per acre as a worldwide custom; a limit at last to
curtail rapacious profiteering so we’uns can begin growing back forest cover in
the world. The price of timber will go up, raising prices at first, then
suddenly wood and paper recycling begins to pay off as a sustainable price
level has been achieved. Meanwhile, many small companies will be getting a
start with paper production from recycled materials and many individual
families or villages will be making money from a woodlot management program
will also benefit. Not to mention the hemp revolution that is gathering
strength. We can ban clear cutting NOW!
With a clear cutting ban
in place, wood from construction dumpsters will finally be recycled and instead
of large amounts of heavy cardboard getting thrown away will start
fetching a decent price. Lumber has always been too cheap, and a price spike is
inevitable with timber being cut at the unsustainable rate that has been in
place the last 100 years. But it may go up from $7 a foot to $12 a foot but at
that point a stable system of paper and wood recycling will be set up. Lumber
yards will be selling plants from local trees.
Small business, and family
companies making money off trees on their properties will be part of our
future. People at recycling centers turning trash into recyclables ill have
jobs. Pickers of many stripes recycling. People growing hemp on small farms
will hire people. Small paper companies starting up. Small business is the
answer. 3-D technology will be putting many large companies out of business
anyhow.
The high
carbon footprint of White-collar wealth is an invisible economy sustained with
imaginary money and it allows them to ACQuIRE, ILLEGITIMITLY, the land and
water resources of the world.
We need to teach our children
the value of the land not land values as it’s stated in The Sand County
Almanac.
-3-3- WILLING DUPES
People are simply not understanding how dwindling resources and skyrocketing
populations is a recipe for disaster. Meanwhile, phony conservatives are
decrying the preserved National Parks, Monuments and Estuaries saying they
should be sold to ‘balance the budget’. This preservation of National Park Land
for all Americans for all time, has stymied the potential profits they could
make from oil, gas and mineral extraction.
IF THEY CAN'T HAVE IT NOBODY CAN HAVE IT
Cattle and mining interests lease government land but act like they own it.
Mining interests have sold chunks of earth from National Park land during their
industries avaricious mining,while others have made a lot of money during the
weapon production for our military. All dirty money to me. Illegitimate wealth.
Maybe coal needs to be rationed like we need it for a few thousand years.
Others test nuke weapons underground shaking Mother Earth to see if their
product works and this is just wrong to an earth lover. Nuclear Power companies
and weapon labs have made money supplying the largest military on the earth
these last 70 years, many times more than what is given to people with welfare,
food stamps and Medicare.
My main point is the wealth amassed by IVEGOTMINE America has blood and
pollution on its conniving hands and the greatest generation were willing dupes
when the corporate stranglehold of our economy took place. They were paid off
with investments that paid back ten times as much. A 10,000 dollar house built in 1950 with wood
stripped from southern forests by carpet bagging developers, would be sold for
100,000 in 1985. It takes money to make money and many make money by killing
trees. Then they all got bigger
homes through the 80’s that they resold in the 2000’s for 5 times as much.
Land values were important they taught their children, not the value of the
land.
This is the real basis for
the housing crisis. September 2010 and house prices are slipping again, what do
we do with overvalued land? Keep paying the banks? They have enough money at
this point.
With housing, It has always been a race to beat the developers, and I saw it in
Tucson late 70‘s and early eighties. Then I witnessed Hartfords real estate
boom in the 80’s and now here in this little town of Sebastian Florida, whose
population was 5,000 people when I got here in ‘89 and has tripled since.
Stunning growth that couldn’t possibly be good for any ecosystem and has
resulted in very high unemployment as workers flooded this boom town and never
left. Thank god for the environmentalists who managed to preserve some large
tracts of land.
Private property rights as per the Constitution, are for
individuals and theoretically their self-sustaining farmsteads. In 1776
America, 90 percent of the population lived on a farm. After 1840, the
Industrial Machine began pumping out jobs to displaced members of family farms
in the big cities. Family farms became production farms and machines replaced
people. In the late 1800’s numerous waves of immigrants entering the
United States went to work in factories or digging ditches providing great
wealth to a few unworthy greedmeisters. “Get a good education son, you
don’t want to dig ditches when you grow up.” The memory of that era still rang
out as I was growing up.
The very worst unsustainable resource of all is nuclear energy. Maybe in 50
years there will be advances and the problem of storing radioactive waste for
10,000 years will be solved. Yucca Flats remains in limbo and hundreds of sites
have leaking barrels of radioactivity and they are anxious to inject this
poison into our mother, the earth, but final approval is pending. Polluters are
waiting for Yucca Flats to open up so 158 radioactive waste sites can ship out
this material and store it underground at Yucca Flats. If Yucca Flats is
approved, all that waste will be barreling down the interstate highway with you
as you travel to Disneyland as it heads for New Mexico for ‘storage.’ No nukes
on my planet please.
It’s up to us now to take this damaged
resource base and build a structure for sustainability. The so-called ‘greatest
generation’ used up 7 generations worth of resources in one and are loath to
give up the illegitimate wealth as they ‘played the game of life’ and made out
swell with their investments. They turned a blind eye to how much of the earth
was being destroyed as they proclaimed capitalism lifts people out of poverty.
Remember when we were young and
we watched fields and forests recklessly cut down to make room for more people?
Taxes were then used to try and save forest and riparian areas before it was
all gone. A town shouldn’t even be allowed to incorporate without setting aside
significant common areas for all the residents to use in perpetuity. Imagine
the taxes used to clean up rivers that were used by high profit corporations as
their own personal sewers. The fishkills, the no swimming signs, do I even have
to discuss this, we know how much pollution has been generated by amoral
companies. Guess who profited? They are now stapling tea bags to their
hats and putting mean spirited bumper stickers on their car. “My guns, my bible
and my money, YOU keep the “change.”
ROUSSEAU
“since no man has any natural authority over his fellows and since force alone bestows no right,
all legitimate authority among men must be based on covenants.”
-3-4-
DO AS YE WILL
I’m not going to
complain without offering solutions of course. Taxing Gasoline at their source
of production (the refineries) and taxing plastic at the site of their production
will become a good income stream. Eventually, till we can complete the grid
that will allow Americans to be free of government,
We can power and feed and rule without the monopolistic
corporations and the coral colony of government. George Washington
said the government "should be like fire. A useful employee, but a
terrible boss."
The people can use
the government to create the structure that will make us less dependent on the
government. We don’t need more tolls and fees, what we need are pipeline
taxes. Duh, tax the rich, they wonder why we’re not!
The
Wiccan code states, ‘DO AS YE WILL AND HARM NONE’, and I would like to
introduce this angle to help advance our thinking. In the marketplace, it
doesn't matter what religion we are, but how you interact with other people.
What we buy is ALSO becoming more important, and I’d like to show you how.
Given the choice of a 20 dollar shirt from a company in Bangladesh that pays
its workers five dollars a day, or a 30 dollar shirt from Sweden, which should
we choose?
Take the
example of Lucy in Bangladesh, taken out of school at the age of 9 to work in a
sweatshop. Now at 19, her hands are so sore and worn out, she doesn’t know how
she keeps going. Every waking minute is torture and she is unable to see the
gift that life is. Like many working poor, she is vulnerable to Christianity
and Islams message; that it is okay to live with coercive authority,
because there will be rewards in heaven. Could there be a
misplaced trust with the heaven bound clergy and their invisible product?
Back to
that shirt: why would you want to pay ten dollars more to the Swedish
manufacturer that treats its workers humanely with good pay and
vacations? They have to compete with Bangladeshi sweat shop workers
who are the modern day slaves? Why change now? It was our parents
and grandparents purchases in the 60’s and 70’s that precipitated the exodus of
clothing manufacturers from the United States. A low price
means low wages.
Buy
the cheaper shirt and laugh, it’s not my problem, but then it’s YOU that is
helping to expand the sweatshop system that will eventually engulf every
worker and perpetuate a growing workplace tyranny as we return to
neo-fuedalism.
People
tell me these lowest paid workers of the world need jobs too. The hidden truth
is that there will be inflation, if all workers made a decent wage. By
remaining silent, you allow that encroaching neo-feudalism while keeping prices
low. Your grandchildren will look at you one day, all misty eyed and weary from
another 14 hour day at the microchip factory and ask,” Why did your generation
just lay down and die, Grandma? How were you so brainwashed, that you couldn’t
stand up to coercive authority, and prevent the emergence of corporate
theocratic fascism. What shortsighted idiots!. Smart slaves is all we are.
Toilers for the rich." " To everyone
else who wants a peaceful world, I’m asking you to look a little deeper: do ye
harm none when you buy that cheaper shirt or any of the other products created
in unsafe conditions or where slave wages exist? Like it or not we
are all loosely connected in the global marketplace. We need to see the
billions that slave for our low prices today. Low prices means someone
is getting low wages, and is not fairly represented at the jobsite.
There
has never been this many hungry people in the world There have never been this
many homeless people. Don't all lives count? Shouldn't every country
have a volunteer population cap? Billions are suffering as the human population
skyrockets out of control; women thrown into factories, men working in a near death
state in mines. The most fit work 16 hours a day and the misfits are
homeless. This is the Low Prices mentality.
Lucy
Thu in Bangladesh, who I HAD MENTIONED BEFORE, is so tired and disgusted that
when shop mate Rosuh Rivutah loudly proclaims that they should start a union,
her hopes rise briefly as she dreams of joy and happiness. If she could earn
more, SHE DREAMED, she could buy a refrigerator and TV for the family, and some
rugs and maybe someday have children that wouldn’t starve to death. The next
morning Rosuh is found dead with the implied warning that if you fight the
power, you will die. Lucy’s despair deepens; it seems like the End of All Hope.
UNION IS THE WORD THEY DARE NOT SPEAK.
The fact
is that if there was a worldwide minimum wage of a dollar an hour, a pair of
sneakers, for instance, would only increase from 70 to 75 dollars. Even though
the workers wage has quadrupled, the price only goes up 7%
because most of the cost of the product goes to corpulent executives and their
sickening greed. Then there are the transportation costs and various forms of
white collar crime that is derived from all this money sloshing
around.
We have
more products than we can manage, and we can create dignity, comfort and
happiness in the lives of the two billion working poor in the next 20 years, or
choose to continue to kowtow to the monied interests. Boycotts work. Nestle and
Monsanto for a start. It’s a sick, evil greed that has made the lives of
billions, a hell on earth, but the concern of right wing wackos and moral high
ground hypocrites is gay rights and other contrived moral issues. Being alive
isn't enough; you need to be awake also, and you need to push forward or clear
a path for others wherever you find yourself.
Secret
Antifa Plan
Detoxify the earth. The Earth Movement. Village
Autonomy. The first day of summer showed a lot of promise for the
future. Only 2.5 inches of rain per month in this area during July and August,
with temperatures between 50 and 75. Sunrise at 4 50 and sunset after 10
at night, it was an ideal summer getaway and the crowds were gathering. Boreal
Gathering 2 had exploded far beyond its original parameters.
In the much delayed,
total infrastructure rebuilding program, there will be lots of work for
engineers and designers, and good paying jobs for boots on the
ground. A real infrastructure for ALL OF US to have access to, AND a
unifying coast to coast effort to show everyone in the world how it’s
done. Deconstruct this 700(800?) BILLION dollar military that has brought
peace to no one and power overwhelming for the Nazis running the United States.
There is plenty of
money once people wake up to the illusion of prosperity that is capitalism. Why
isn’t there emergency housing for natural disasters and tornado shelters in
every vulnerable town? Where are the evacuation facilities for seniors and
people with special needs during weather disasters? What about the many
terrified people trying to survive an approaching hurricane?
We should create a
country that cares for every one with a real infrastructure, with humungous
rest areas on the highways for vacationers and people living out of their
vehicles. Call it the INFRASTRUCTURE COMMONS, with lots of public land for
recreation and small business commerce.
Taxing and
demonitizing the corporate structure of Google Amazon Facebook and some others
to allow the people to gain control of our people generated content. The whole
Facebook jail thing is ridiculous, and we will find something else.
Clearly, large
corporations were the only ones considered during the planning of our
interstates, and we can fix that. Oil and Gas subsidies have to end so the
alternatives can come online. Biodiesel is great for recycling restaurant oil
and creating less toxic fumes and could compete with petroleum.
-3-5- Fetid Cesspool
The spirit of 1776 has been crushed and
replaced with the culture of the warrior elite. The War Culture, the tree
cutting and ecosystem destroying culture that has been on a rampage against
nature these last 100 years.
The profits of previous decades have given us this weapon
saturated world we have today, and nuke waste is still waiting for its 10,000
year storage bins. There will need to be a multi-billion, if not trillion,
dollar effort to decommission the nuclear power plants that created temporary,
cheap electricity.
U.S. Veterans feel they are patriots because they
risked their lives in Europe and Asia and wherever else. I hate to say it but,
George Washington might not agree with the patriotism angle. Bomb bomb
bombing Iraq isn‘t the same kind of effort he made at Valley
Forge.
I am referring to George Washington and his famous quote
about "avoiding foreign entanglements," when he became President.
Remember, the Constitution says the military would "provide for the common
defense." And thats it!. How did we get this 800 billion dollar death star
war machine?
I'm not against the military, except when they are not
"providing for the common defense." Which is like, always. In 2004
the Louisiana National Guard was fighting in Iraq and unable to help during the
after math of Hurricane Katrina as one example. A simple solution is to cut the
military 5% a year. It's like a 400 pound person who is told to lose 5% of
their weight per year. 20 pounds the first year. 19 pounds the second
year.
The 5% of 361 is
18. Down to 310 in 5 years. The military can do it but who will have to
guts to challenge corruption in the supply chain, The over pricing.
President Washington would also discover that
the “unprecedented” post war prosperity of the fifties and sixties was fueled
by rapacious plundering, such as the many forests that were clear cut to ignite
the suburban housing boom. "White flight."
The government subsidized nuclear power industry,
and other weapon manufacturing jobs, gave people great pay back in those
"greatest generation" days, but now we have a trillion dollar toxic
cleanup no one wants to talk about. Cheap energy wasn't the goal, plutonium was
for bomb making was the plan.
Just something to think about as you work for
minimum wage at McDonalds or WalMart as your conservative Uncle touts his
"values system". Then you start realizing the Muslims aren't the
problem.
Tons of dangerous chemicals at military sites and
biohazards at weapons of mass destruction assembly sites need to be taken
care of. The Greatest Generation got cheap electricity in the 50’s, 60’s &
70's, but left the problem of storing nuclear waste to generations unborn. That
is a values system? Judeo Christian ethics?
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A rising tide of enlightenment will eventually drown
the meanness, prejudice, bigotry and hate of this grossly misnamed greatest
generation. They will disappear into the fetid cesspool of ignorance they
created. The Corporate Authoritarian Despots (c.a.d.'s), that they bow down to,
will no longer control our economy, once Progressives get motivated. But
mark my words, one day it will be realized the greatest generation was actually
the worst generation.
This
older generation has been brainwashed to worship all coercive authority.
Boomers work ceaselessly to keep their heads above water or were deeply into
the greed machine, and their stock investments in polluting corporations keep
them docile. The youth are looking ahead, but don’t understand some of the old
American traditions. Around the world, millions of us are transcending
generation, race, gender, and class barriers; are unafraid to discuss the
taboos. We are uniting without a coercive hierarchy.
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The
clotted nothingness of todays liberalism and the venomous spewings
of conservatives actually represent only small slices of the
American Pie; and unfortunately, the only two that have a voice in the
mainstream media. L ike Lewis Black says, "The Democratic Party is the
party of no ideas, and the Republican Party is the party of bad
ideas."
Let’s give ourselves the chance for a new
start, with the rejection of violence and discrimination, and the ushering in
of The Dawn of Civilization.
What
about the independent viewpoint? The independents have no steadfast, limiting
ideology. We develop our own viewpoints and philosophies. We are tired of
coercive governments and corrupt corporations. We are in the Tea Party and we
are in Occupy Wall Street.
We
believe Churches serve quasi-governmental functions, as do the Cub Scouts, the
Rotary, Homeowners associations and Garden Clubs. Government should be our
solid edge and border maintaining our Constitution, and all these civic groups
are a high thread count in the fabric of freedom.
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A
storm is brewing |
Josiah Quincy in 1773. 'I see the clouds which now rise
thick and fast upon our horizon. The thunder rolls and the lightning plays, and
to that God who rides the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country."
What God is this then that he
called upon? Thor, Perun, Boreas or others? As Quincy warmed up the
crowd, local businessmen were walking over to the wharfs to destroy
the 300 chests of tea sitting on British ships in the harbor.
The real Tea Party was
about small business striking a blow against Britains corporate control of the
colonies commerce. Small business entrepreneurs and their apprentices, along
with member of Bostons north and south side gangs were the instigators in the
acquisition of liberty. They were the motivating force of the Revolutionary
War.
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people I have known are hard workers-THEY lie. |
Jesus never said anything
like, “thy life sucks and then thouest dies”. The bible writers censored
many of Jesus’ actual sermons while Christians, Caliphates and the Romans
burned down the Library of Alexandria which contained hundreds of thousands of
scrolls that were the single copies of writings; traditions,
philosophies and myths of the ancient days.
There is a reason the bible
became a popular book. All the other ones were destroyed! Even in 1913, Hopi
children were kidnapped and taken far away to be taught the bible, to separate
them from the Old Ways. Why, in 2013, are witches being killed in Africa, and
now India recently? Exodus 22:18? It all derives from the pulpits of hate, the
uninspired clergy George Tennent referred to in the 1730',s during the
bogus "Great Awakening." I research so you don't have to. I research
to prove David Barton and glennbeck wrong.
The American Revolution truly started with the 'despicable
rabble' of Boston Towne; the rock throwing, stamp collector confronting, effigy
hangin, bar room debating restive roughnecks. (See Liberty Tree on this
blog)Small business owners along with their young apprentices and stout
hearted, Independent thinking individuals took the actions needed to
ignite the public at large. This country was created by people who
finally outsmarted the christians politically.
Remember it was only 50 years previous to our revolution that it
finally became illegal to kill witches and Quakers, and enlightenment was
spreading fast and true freedoms were within reach, and by 1776, most thinking
people were no longer swayed by the religious bugaboo that kept people frozen
in fear of an angry god.
Demeter
is the goddess of the harvest and her story is at the heart of the Eluesian
mysteries. As Masons, our founding fathers had secret ceremonies invoking
the oracle at Delphi. Delphi was a place where the intellectually nimble
debated, and its well was considered the navel of the world . The umbilical
cord of liberty. The Axis Mundi.
The
Founding Revolutionaries of the United States created Washington D.C. much like
a giant mason lodge and the Capitol building like a Goddess temple. Please note the picture below is Ben
Franklin with Demeter or Minerva- Greek and Roman names for the goddess of the
harvest. Above Ben and Minerva is the apotheosis of George Washington,
surrounded by 13 goddesses and muses. Keep in mind this is in an important
building in D.C. seen by millions.
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What of the people most known for their stone work; the
architects of Chartres Cathedral and most other ancient structures made of
stone? The Free men masons became the freemasons . Ritual was added as time
went by, and tweaked by the idle rich with nothing better to do. That’s my
Cliff Notes version of the Masons. I am not a Mason nor do I wish to
join. But mason bashing by xians needs to be stopped.
Critics of our founding fathers say they were an elite ruling class. I tell
these people that the evolution of personal liberty ‘had to begin somewhere and
it had to begin somehow’. How could justice and equality suddenly arrive full
blown out of nowhere? Give these dudes some credit. It would be like complaining
that Alexander Graham Bell should have invented a message machine too.
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, AND Sam Adams
along with many other progressive independent thinkers, were the primary
progenitors of American independence. On the night of Paul Reveres ride,
he emerged from a Masonic hall to get on his horse to warn his neighbors, or
was it a Masonic meeting in a tavern? In Paris, Benjamin Franklin talked to
Thomas Paine, convincing him to come back to the colonies in 1774 while
gathered in a Masonic Hall.
And yes, I see quotes about how George Washington called upon God in some of
his famous statements implying the Christian God. I’m here to tell you my
friend that George was inaugurated with his Mason apron on, okay? He was
paying lip service to the pesky clergy of his day with gratuitous quotes about
god.
Most Masons basically believe in a God, a great
architect of the Universe. Primarily, they believe in the duality of male and
female in their higher degrees and understand a lot of Egyptian mysticism.
Isis and Minerva and Liberty and muses such as Clio are among their gods
and goddesses,or were.
George Washingtons beliefs had far more in common with the
Native Pagan Indians than they did with some Puritan or Calvinist tightass
ideal. If our 1776 ancestors talked about god they were mostly paying lip
service to the pontificating buzz killers. It is not your imagination that
dogmatic authoritarian despots have embedded themselves in the American
government as they prepare their treacherous coup and continue to divide the
nation. Stay alert Patriots.
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BOREAL
GATHERING
The Final Slaughter of nature will begin in the melting sea ice
in the arctic region. Outside the Arctic in lower latitudes, a Boreal Forest
encircles the globe from Canada to Greenland to northern Europe, Russia and
Siberia. Corporations have been permitted to steal Diamonds and oil and
virgin timber and other resources in an extracting frenzy all around the globe
and now want to look for these resources in the frozen north, and this is
where environmentalism will take its last stand.
The biggest shipping
shortcut in 100 years will be developed when the Northwest Passage is open 7 or
8 months a year because of melting and shrinking ice instead of the four months
that ice breakers have now. This will introduce a lot of supertanker traffic in
the fragile artic area where the degradation of anything is much slower because
things don’t break down as readily when they are frozen all the time. The
plastic cup that breaks down in 100 years here in Florida’s soil will take 500
years in the frozen north, remember the Iceman that was found in a mountain
pass?
New ports will begin to grow in relation to
various paths of the Northwest Passage, mostly in the indigenous Nunavat
Province. I am going to suggest that environmentally minded people of the world
need to grab a green opportunity.
The summer of ’07 was the first time this northern shipping route was traversed
without the help of ice clearing ships, and it will get easier every year and
we need to create an earth protector presence to counter the profit gobbling
greedmeisters.
With all this in mind, it occurs to me that
there should be some place where all of us regular folks can stand up for each
other, and a place where outrageous corporate evil can be thwarted. A place I
want to call the NOMOREWAR Conference Center. We can build our port at the far
southern end of the Hudson Bay. There is a St James Bay Road that goes from the
last populated area that is between Amos, Canada and Lake Matagami; that
goes near St James Bay.
I seem to focus mostly on one area of the Boreal
Forest for a great gathering place. Look at the Hudson Bay in Canada on a
map. The far southern end of Hudson Bay is named St. James Bay and is visible
but not labeled on some maps. We can change the name of St. James Bay to
Godfred Bay. Godfred was a warrior, a king of Denmark, who built sea walls
defending his country against Charlemagne's Christians. I know you were taught
Charlemagne was a good guy, but he wasn't if your peaceful community was in his
way or targeted for conquering. Sometimes the conquered people didn't want to
be conquered.
The icecap is getting smaller and since the ice
is derived mostly from snow and rain and not so much from the salty ocean, this
melting freshwater will change the salinity anywhere nearby. A rising
ocean would also crack and loosen all these different ice sheets exacerbating
the problem even more. Imagine a one foot ocean rise flooding up and over all
the ice sheets? It has also been mentioned that the lessened weight on the
tectonic plates from melting glaciers will facilitate the plates movement and
subsequently there will be earthquakes. It could be a bumpy ride.
My idea is to pay
for this peace conference complex with money made from a giant desalination
complex near the outlet of the Nottoway River that flows into Godfred
Bay. Pure iceberg water can be separated from the melting iceberg and
sold as gourmet drinking water while the unmelted chunks can be made into
Iceberg ice cubes. Call it Carbon Sink Springs Water and sell it in
biodegradable corn based containers. These containers are so biodegradable that
they can be tossed outside your car window; just like they did back in the
50's.
The throwing of greatest
generation garbage outside the car window ended up being the catalyst for the
littering laws in the 60's, but these modern containers will cause no harm.
Desalination should be easier in this location with a higher percentage of freshwater
flowing out of the Nottoway River that empties into Godfred Bay. The
Desalination plant can be near where Nottoway River empties into Godfred Bay
(formerly St. James Bay). The Desalination plant can be expansive, but
carefully planned will create no real footprint in the overall pristine nature
of the Boreal Forest. The building can be made from local trees that are cut
down. This can be a port where green technology rules and fossil fuels can be
eliminated.Fossil fuels banned above the Arctic Circle.
We need a rich
consortium of people to build the facility, and their investment will be
returned. Dividends will be perpetual and ever giving to employees and the town
that is created and the commerce that takes root there. The St James Bay
Road can be changed to the Godfred Parkway and it would be a 5 hour ride to
Lake Matagami area if the road is improved. Here the NOMOREWAR Conference
Center can be built. As the sponsors of this facility, Pagan Reformists
can show the world we can all live peacefully, enjoy our crafts and traditions
and holidays and turn this religious and corporate hell of modern society into
something worthwhile.
There are way too many
unhappy souls in the world and the human population is out of control. There
are obvious obstacles in the way of the planets overall quality of life but
when will everyone’s vision become action? Can you imagine a world where
someone starts a war with a belligerent neighbor and the both of them get
interrupted and dragged by the collar to the peace table? I’m suggesting a kind
of Bounty Hunter for people perpetuating crimes against humanity and nature;
and a hunter gatherer tribe of modern 21st century people.
First off they can hunt
the excessive deer population in the States and Canada, and send the venison
north to foragers in Canada. I call them the Druddité Rangers. A
volunteer group that will thwart the efforts of the polluters and parasitical
pirates of Industrial Xapitalism.
These Druddité Rangers can
work with the Canadian snowmobile squad, American Navy seals, The
Norsemen Brigade, the Artic Mounties, The Polena Rangers, Coast Guard and
Greenpeace to bring law to the extractive insanity that is going on. For
instance, you may have heard about a Soviet sub going under the arctic ice to
plant a flag to claim ownership so they can get resources like
natural gas to sell. Assholes. They are lining up like jackals during a lions
kill. Meanwhile Russia spills 20,000 tons of diesel fuel in 2020.
I
think that once a building is built for meetings, the first issue that can be
addressed concerns Quebec and its quest for independence. Why can’t Quebec be
its own country? Sure, I joke like the Canadians do, that Canada is almost the
biggest country in the world, as long as Quebec doesn’t secede. Well, why can’t
they? The less centralization the better, there will be freedom for cultural
groups to have rights as entities, not someones satellite. Go over the Quebec
issue first since the NOMOREWAR conference center will be based in Quebec Province.
Conference 2 can begin with the Basques separatists of Spain suing for the
rights to their own country and representatives are forced to come from Spains
government to have explain themselves or have the bad publicity go unanswered.
Conference 3 can be about the Zapatistas in Mexico and what they are seeking.
Number 4 can be about Tibet. Agenda items 5-10 to be announced later as its
understood that this is not the UN but the people united. Perpetrators of war
crimes, or people harassing those starting unions or involved with
genocidal ethnic cleansing will be spotlighted in this situation. The Global
Court of Public Opinion.
If polluters and
piratical profiteers win, say goodbye to our Mother Nature. If a technological
theocratic Fascist group takes over the world say goodbye to
Liberty.
The Boreal Forest
encircles the globe and has been called the world largest biome. Over on the
Russian side of the world is a mirror image of the Canadian and Alaskan Boreal
forests. Will corporations be allowed to pillage the resources? We all
own this, who sold to all the big corporations and countries like Russia.
Forest clear-cutting is going on right now. Recycling should be providing more
of our paper products than they do now. But we continue to allow these
large corporations to cut down virgin forests for toilet paper and that keeps
recycling from being viable.
Corporations are
unchallenged in their plundering of the world, and religion is too weak kneed
to deal with their greedy machinations. Let’s have wars about our belief in the
afterlife, (Jihad and The Crusades). and ignore the sustainability of nature.
This makes sense (not). Polar ice is melting as scientists have noted,
and sailing will start becoming more common up in the artic as I said. This
will be big news because ships find the Panama Canal difficult and going around
the bottom of South America is very time and fuel consuming. With gas prices
having risen so much, the pipeline pirates want to drill again; but why we
don’t we save petroleum resources for other generations in the future? The
United States really needs to lead by example and we need to do it soon.
There is no sane policy
in place and the world can support 15 or 20 billion people say prominent
people. apparently unaware of the chaos and starvation that would result. They
must assume genetics will create 25 -foot chickens and 7 ton cows to produce
all the meat needed.
As populations level
off, a rising tide of prosperity will lift all boats. Rule number 1 is, a world
population cap at 9 billion. Birth control has to be part of everything a
society deals with. Have two and you’re through could be rule
#2.
Our world societies can evolve to where motivation to be good is derived from
common sense, knowledge and wisdom, not religious bugaboo. We have grown past
the point where the threat of an eternity in hell getting poked by demon
pitchforks and an eternal immolation in the Lake of Fire seems less and less
believable. It's time to cast out these phonies and Moral High Ground
Hypocrites and create our own rockin’ world without government and
religion.
Repressed Victorian Era Moral High Ground Hypocrisy led to sexual suppression
and as the pendulum swung the other way to find a balance, it swung out too far
and is still swinging out. The Druddité religion encourages the use of birth
control to achieve zero population growth, so a tradition would be to not be
responsible for the birth of more than two people. Of course, there are so many
different kinds of blended families and people taking care of others children
but a good credo can be “Have two and you’re through”, in other words, to be
genetically responsible for no more than two new lives in this world. Any more
than that will be considered greedy and déclassé. People with ten children that
suffer from malaria or are bothered by flies in their mouths; and countries
that are so overpopulated you have no room to bury your dead so you throw them
in the river after dark, need to be slapped upside the head and given birth
control.
Another problem is what I call the Babe Culture. The wrong kinds of women are
treasured; the healers, the gentle women that can bring peace to a situation, should
be most revered in a violent world. Instead, we have this lurid culture
where women sell products with seduction. This babe culture is part of this Era
of The Loudmouth Huckster. The pendulum of crass has arced out far enough, and
a little pagan soup is needed for the empty soul and peaceful enlightened
market socialism will be about producing, selling or buying products from each
other without an excess of ads and corporate control. Our field of vision
is filled with more and more advertising and Youtube is filled with 5 second
ads. Shopping cart ads is an example of the ubiquity of what it is becoming.
There is a difference
with the sexes and males need to get out and be exuberant. Get out and be
nearly primitive, everyone knows the story how on a clock of time we would be
hunter gatherers till 11:54 and “civilized” the last six minutes. It’s still in
our genes.
This is the Anglican Church flag of Canada
but how about our own Druddité flag something like this; green and black with
maple leaves and stars. Keeping the Boreal Forests intact around the world
will be environmentalisms last stand, and the Boreal Gathering will bring
attention to what is going on up there. I also imagine a Boreal Gathering
in Russia also where people from that side of the world will
gather.
Eventually what I envision
are the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ceding land to make a neutral site for
a world headquarters for Peace conferences; from Lake Matagami in Quebec to
Lake Lawagamau in Ontario. The rainiest months in my targeted area are June and
September. I would like to start an annual progressive gathering there for six
weeks in July and August. Craft fairs, drum circles, swap meets educational
settings and classes; Camping, celebrating and ceremony, all on the road from
the town of Amos to Lake Matagami. There would be campsites available and if it
becomes popular the road is about 100 miles long and conceivably there is
plenty of camping potential. Have people discreetly buy some property up there
for a summer escape from rising temperatures in the south, maybe develop some
sort of eco tourist business. Languedoc is about 20 miles the other way down
the road from Amos. I have to guess that local residents will appreciate
tourists spending money.
Lower right corner is Lake Matagami upper left
is Godfred Bay (formerly St. James Bay)
On map, note the white line on left side
of picture, this is the Quebec Ontario border. My proposed area to look at is
the lower right corner till the outlet of the Nottoway River in upper left of map.
To review my suggestions, I think a highway should be built from the Lake
Matagami area to the St. James Bay (soon to be renamed Godfred Bay), A highway
that has smooth dirt and 40 MPH areas where animal migration will not be
effected along with a superhighway in sections with 80 MPH limits that is
fenced in to keep animals out. But the highway can go underground with shrubs
on top like plants on top of buildings to feed the birds on their northern
migrations. The Godfred Bay Parkway could have solar refilling
stations. Keep in mind this cold frozen region is warming up and in
ten years the growth of port cities in Hudson Bay will begin in earnest. It’s
going to happen anyways, grab control of this idea and make a green highway and
initiate some environmental safeguards for all the animals. Trucks over a
certain weight can be required to use Bio-diesel which will also be
available.
The NOMOREWAR Conference Center will
be located along this road and also the Boreal Forest Pagan Preserve; a kind of
a mitigation to all the pagans throughout history that have lost their land to
religious warriors. Saudi Arabia, The Vatican, and others can contribute. The
idea is this; in 2023 we gather on the road to Lake Matagami in Canada and make
a Freedom Pilgrimage; the first of its kind. For some reason I have zeroed in
on this area. As I tried to get a feel for the area I discovered the town Of
Languedoc; of course this is also the name of a region in Southern France I
refer to numerous times in History of the Pagans. The place famous for the
Cathars, the Templars and Mary Magdalene and it was here the Troubadour
movement emerged from and the Occitan language once connected the cultures of
eastern Spain, southern France and western Italy: Occitan is the Druddités
second (and secret) language.
Hudson Bay is going to become
important. The Northwest Passage in the artic circle is melting to where it may
become a viable transportation route for shipping and ports will develop.
Global warming is happening faster as you get closer to the artic. I can see a
northerly migration of people and animals and plants. The American
Catholic Church can also be given a piece of land: In chapter 8 I describe them
and their feelings about married clergy and child abuse. Pagans and Catholics,
bitter enemies for centuries will show the world how to peacefully co-operate
and would also invite Jewish people to have an alternative Homeland there.
Beautiful grounds, walking paths, monuments, shrines and churches and temples
that emphasizes the beauty of the Boreal Forest. There will be one main
building where world disputes will be discussed. A conference center like the
Lied Center at the Arbor Day Foundations headquarters which is designed for
energy conservation and ecosystem integration. Call it the NOMOREWAR Conference
Center. Compare the carbon footprint of this compared to let’s say the diamond
mine that will open and have a pit nearly a thousand feet deep, using
unimaginable amounts of water to separate the diamonds from
dunghills. Water used to extract diamonds will be returned to local lakes and
streams polluted and possibly toxic.
Tourists, such as those in the next picture, can
plan vacations there; hiking, fishing, getting together with like-minded
individuals. How about a stop from Ozzfest one summer? 2022? One
advantage of this area is that the sun rises at 5:15 and sets at 9:15. Go
further north and the days are even longer. Average temperatures in my proposed
Boreal Headquarters is 72 and 52 during July and August, a welcome relief in
the middle of the summer from our pre-heating planet. Six weeks of abundant
sunshine and cool temperatures in July and August. A safe place from ravaging
200 MPH hurricanes that develops in 90 degree ocean waters.
The
21st century should be about “LAWAGAMAU” which is picking out the hi-tech we
want to keep and knowing what we need to discard. Nanotechnology is poised to
create potential for unbelievable disruption of Natural Law. Why should a
couple of profit heavy corporations decide? This is time when the humans really
need to stand up for their planet and their dignity. Let’s keep IPods and
digital cameras and discard cloning and plant genetics. This is an example of
what I mean. It’s probably already too late to put the genetic manipulation
genie back in the bottle, but other horrors can be prevented. Cloning just
sounds wrong on so many different levels even the popular squirrel cloning.
A yearly pagan pilgrimage, call it the Boreal Gathering. The Boreal
Forests around the world are the largest “carbon sink” we have. I got this
feeling that extractive profiteers are going to do as much damage as they can
before the public notices, and what corporations have learned in the Reagan
Gingrich Bush Tea Party Era you can do nearly anything and the American public
has no real protest that amounts to anything anymore.
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SON OF POPULUXE
By
John Almada
All I
can say is that you know it when you see it. Sure, it’s a boomer thing, but
children can understand also. They call it “retro”, and retrogressive means
culling from the past. Clothes, interior décor, car design ………...
Simpson’s do it. “The Incredibles” was based on a newly built 60’s ranch
house with all that eras attendant artwork.
Ren and
Stimpy was so much about recreating the 50’s cartoon imagery and quirky
cartoonery. Jimmy Neutron on Nickelodeon was big on the
Populuxe design and color. All the best cartoons my children seemed
to like, really, have that motif. The Jetsons was Populuxe in the rocketing
space age of the 60’s.
Thomas Hines wrote a book
called "Populuxe", in 1986 or so. He has been trying to popularize the idea of what Populuxe is, and
has coined this term with a specific meaning. His book, “Populuxe”, was
published in 1986 and in the revised 1999 foreword, he is delighted to note
that his word got into the dictionary.
From the Random HOUSE
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.
I see the Rogers
Maris home run chase as the peak of Populuxe. I wonder what Thomas Hines would
think of that notion. 1961. It was also President Kennedy’s first year in
office. At the time it must have been great to have two modern people for
president and first lady.
Untainted by the hopeless political and social quagmire
that Vietnam became by the late 60's, the Kennedy years buoyed peoples spirits.
But not all.
Billy Crystal made a fabulous
movie called “61” depicting that period of time.
The automobile culture in 1962 was firmly entrenched; it
wasn’t such a new thing anymore. Except
for those bitter Ruth diehards, 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 Maris.
No. 61 was
the nexus of the Populuxe Era. Whether you were a surfer or a housewife.
September 30 1961 was when the modern era was born. The Era of Youth. A 43 year
old president. A 27 year old breaking Babe Ruth’s 37 year old record.
Astronauts and movie stars and youth oriented television.
Populuxe was really about the material enthusiasm after World
War 2 and the rapid improvements of convenience, leading to the rampant over
consumption and the empty busyness of modern life. Critics call it, enthusiasm
for the tacky, but look at those cars from the 50’s. Recognized worldwide for
their industrial artistry, it was an era of too many choices, yet worthy
experiments.
Inventions were showing the world a new way back in the 30’s,
but World War Two put the kibosh on everything. Drills, saws, refrigeration,
cooking, plumbing, electricity, lawn mowers and thousands more improvements
came on line despite the world wide depression. Dramatic improvements.
It appeared Americans, and others around the world,
were inventing themselves out of the depression during the
30’s and World War two usurped this momentum. Many factories, owned by a few
corporations, profited greatly from government money to convert to wartime
production to say nothing of the profits created by accoutrements for the
'dancers of death'.
Every area of the country shook off its Bank depression in different ways and
at different times. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I believe World War Two slowed
down the momentum of what could have been a long term, economic
recovery that could have lasted many decades.
A
corporate mantra I heard as a youth, that was embedded in our minds, said 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 'war
lifted us out of the depression.' but this was a psychological setup for
the Vietnam War.
Tailfins disappeared and Detroit floundered till the muscle cars of the
mid sixties became the fashion and was another way Populuxe was ushered
out. The suppression of male aggresion was able to be transferred. The Press
was becoming the media. Press was the written word; and media became the term
for all what was going on with news. The Roger Maris home run chase was an
early exhibition of what was to become the paparazzi. Their merciless hounding
undid Roger Maris' spirit and showed a dark side to the endless happy face of
baseball.
I think from 1962 onwards, Populuxe went into
decline. The heady heydays of too many choices and traditional male dominance
and mismatched two tone design began to splinter away. Women went to college
and work and found others frustrated with their spouses and the divorce boom
began in earnest through the sixties.
The old fuddie duddies decried
"this new permissiveness". Women realized it wasn’t all right that
men run the family and beat their wives. The Old Order had outlived their
usefulness, if there ever was any.
Culture was moving fast. The farmboy from North Dakota simply
didn’t understand what was happening to him as he arrived home to embrace his
family after a very successful road trip in 1961. There were 30 or 40 reporters
standing around his front door. He insisted family came before profit and
chased them away like raccoons eating his garbage. Reporters in his yard,
the new paparazzi, reported in the papers he was enraged and hysterical.
The home run chase was a part of our boomer
childhood that was pretty much forgotten till Mark McGuire and Sammy
Sosa had their home run race in '97. Roger was not a fluke or a freak. The
previous year he was voted the American League's Most Valuable
Player. Then the next year he breaks Babe Ruth’s record that had
stood for 34 years.
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.
A few years before 1961, Elvis
had led a parade of rockabilly rockers that had upset the older generation’s
apple cart. Old people at that time really had sand in their pontaloons.
They wanted their world to last forever.
In the movie
"61", it showed how Rogers hair started falling out near the end of
the summer. Mickey Mantle was then an old veteran over 30 and was trying to
help Roger deal with the mess. Babe Ruth Fans had written death threats as
the trailer to the movie showed. The Press was constantly twisting his quotes
around to make him look bad IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. All he wanted to do was help
his team win. Trying to tell him that others faced the same monster, Mickey
told him,” Hank Greenberg had 58 home runs with a week left in the season,”
said Mantle, “He couldn’t take the pressure, then they conspired to not give
him anything to hit……cuz he was a Jew.”
During the
heat of the season the Commissioner of Baseball, the evil Ford Frick, decides
an asterisk would indicate that the record wasn’t broken in 154 games. Major
League baseball had switched over to a 162 game season since the old days of
Babe Ruth. This gave Roger more pressure to do it “in a timely fashion.” on the
other hand it’s been pointed out that Maris didn’t get a homer during the first
11 games. So in actuality if you take the last 151 games in the season
he hit 61.
In 1962 I was 8 years
old and started playing baseball and in time started collecting cards. But I
remember that season, how everyone was talking about the home run race. I woke
up in different ways that year and baseball was like what video games are today
and Roger Maris was my hero. I even pretended to be Roger Maris Jr. when a hobo
staggered down the street and our little posse started chatting it up with him.
By the time
I was 12, I was a paperboy waking up at 5 00, and the first thing I did was
check the box score if the Yankees played. 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. Just a fluke they said but keep in mind he was MVP
Most Valuable Player two years in a row.
He had a good year
in 63 but was injured a large chunk of the season. In ’64 the real decline
began but damage had been done. the stress of the world weighed heavy on his feel
good, do good farmboy simplicity. He was never really the same. One of the
greatest sporting feats of the century and it ruined his spirit instead of
nourishing the man.
Can’t you be just good at what you do and not
have a press corps plucking at you? The emotional water boarding of the
vicious New York Press was the most avaricious ever concocted. It wasn't about
being a man, it was about being an asshole. In ’66 it was clear he would not
fulfill his potential as a longtime slugger after he had a second bad year in a
row. In ’67 he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and I became a Cardinals
fan following Roger as he switched leagues.
Apparently he was viewed as a seasoned pro and was
highly regarded, 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. He had his best 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.
Roger played another year and was in another World Series in ’68 then retires
at age 34. He was done. I still had a paper route and still religiously checked
the box score for every game the Cardinals played.
In 1969 I was 15 and at a loss after Rogers retirement. I didn't like the
Yankees and I came around to becoming a Red Sox fan for 35 years. Finally
achieving satisfaction in 2004 when they won the World Series. Uncle Joe would
have been proud. He was a foam at the mouth Red Sox fan and was happy when I
converted.
My dad was a lukewarm Yankees fan and grew up 104
miles from Fenway Park in Boston and 115 miles from Yankee Stadium. Those of us
growing up in the Connecticut River Valley were split on our allegiance so I
would show an interest in the Red Sox and the World Series in varying degrees
over the years.
Back on the road Mantle tells him. “We’re
chasing a ghost Rog. Frick used to be Ruth’s ghost writer, they were tight.” On
television they watched a news item about the Mantle and Maris feud?” “Are
we feudin?” they laughed and asked each other. "Must be, its on the
TV."
The movie pointed
out how destructive the media can be. Later evolving into the relentless
paparazzi that chased Princess Diana when she crashed and the ever intrusive
snoops looking for something to keep the rabble buying the various rags that
pass for entertainment. they made up the story about a Mantle / Maris fued.
Roger got letters that said, “DIE Roger DIE” Fans began to boo him on those
days after he was misquoted in headlines. He’s supposed to just deal with this?
He does somehow and ends up with the unassailable 61 home runs. Till
1997, 121 years since the first professional baseball
league began, only one person hit more than 60 home runs. . –All those
great home run hitters of the past Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew,
Hank Greenberg, Hank Aaron, Ralph Kiner Rocky Colavito and many others could
not achieve what was Rogers that fateful year called 1961.
When Mark McGuire was on his record pace he made it clear that if he broke any
record it was Rogers. Mark got payback for Maris to get back at the New
York media dissin' of Maris. Mark was a California boy but understood the
Roger Maris story like others of us. After all, did any other records get the
asterisk it was asked? Suzuki’s 262 hits recently? Maury Will’s 104 stolen
bases in 1962?
It was Ford Frick versus Roger Maris
and Frick told the press, "sic em boys". I don’t
care what anyone says about the 50’s. There was too much verbal harassment and
threats and meanness. Relentless hostility embedded in the culture. If
only he lived long enough to see the respect he would eventually earn. Roger
only lived to 1985 which was his 51st year.
His 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.
The tailfin era began and
styling reached a disquieting zenith. In 1961 I was seven years old and poised
to absorb this cultural tsunami. From the men in the world I heard about
baseball. Friends of Dad, guys at church, fathers of friends, I became
initiated into the baseball tradition. Geez, look at those Yankees. Mickey
Mantle and Roger Maris both looked like they were going to hit over 50 home
runs as the summer of 1961 proceeded. Mantle got injured, then it became Rogers
quest for Babe Ruths record.
In 4th grade
I listened to my first pop radio. I was all about the big bands till then. I
remember walking down Ritchie Casasantas driveway and hearing “Tie me kangaroo
down, sport” We just stood in his driveway and listened to the radio. Hey we
had a radio!
‘Richies family listens to other radio stations.” Mom
and Dad probably gave each other wary glances as I suggested we listen to other
stations. The modern American culture was about to enter our home. “That’s such
trash, we don’t need that kind of music in our house.”
“My Boyfriends Back “was a song that made
an impression on me. The drums were SO huge. Syncopated clapping and the
heavenly singing by The Angels. There were cool instrumentals like Pipeline and
Telstar. Barbara Streisand’s “People” and Ray Charles “I’m Busted” were some of
the earliest crossover songs. These songs were on “my stations.’ AND MY PARENTS
CORNY STATION.
Later in ‘65” Louie Armstrong’s hit, “Mame” was
something everyone could love. Wayne Newton’s “Danke Schein” was on both
stations also.
Thomas
Hine’s “Populuxe” is a scholarly address of the many details of life back in
that era and I recommend you read it. Is there a reason to historically recall
those times? Some of us think so. I e-mailed T. Hine, telling him what a great
book he’s got and how I enthusiastically support his idea for making the era
special in our history. Oddly I got a response. He sounded thankful and kind
and said it could help to request another printing by asking for it at places
like Amazon.com.
When was the Populuxe Era? 1946 to 1966 is the most expansive time span
and I like to use those 20 years instead of the ten years described in the
dictionary. In 1967Everything changed..
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 complements grandmas homemade pillows. Well, maybe they didn’t
match but they were the most distinct object d’art in her house. Blue glass
ashtrays, Silver of pewter candy dishes. Some crap that never wore out whatever
little things I can find. 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 the New
Lazy Youth, I was too modern to help out much more than that. You know how
laundry piles up.
Imagine
squeezing the water out of clothes one by one? Then dragging them outside. But
back then, there was no Oprah to nail laundry oppression to the couch. Laundry
smelled fresher and dried softer when hung outside, but now Americans are too
good to do that anymore. It's not womens work either, fellas. We insist on more
stuff. Make everything cheaper regardless of quality, Americans needed more
stuff and eschewed anything reminiscent of Old Europe during the Populuxe Era.
Populuxe was the push button era. My grandmother Eva (memere) was the only
person I knew who was willing and able to buy these things. Her dryer had
buttons. Her boyfriend/driver’s car had the buttons. “Drivers car,” that’s
funny. I was creating a deception. She wasn’t rich but how do you describe her
fella? They never got married because they were strict Catholics and he was
divorced, taboo. They spent every Sunday together. Anyways he had the Rambler
Ambassador which was a fancy version of the Ramblers we had. Before that He had
a 59 Chevy with full Dagmars and fancy chrome. She was the first to get a
self-propelled mower.
The Populuxe era
is really about the postwar boom. World War 2 in case some of you are too young
to remember... Burgeoning suburbia. Too many choices, too many colors, not
enough carports. The houses from the most extreme fringes of Populuxe design
are on the verge of being appreciated in these modern times.
In the Populuxe era service was different. Americans took to the road. Other
Americans learned about the tourist dollar. Or just good customers. An older
friend of mine named Joe often spoke of the era. I remember as a child going to
the beach and experiencing the hometown hospitality when we got our gas. Going
further back in time Joe reminisces,”…check your oil, fill your gas tank wipe
the mirrors, check other things, even greasing the U-joint… all that….for two
fuckin’ bucks.”
Everyone looked out for the kids. Would know when they had
seen someone last. There was the milkman. Fresh milk and eggs from nearby
farms. What was wrong with that system?
1961. Game 154 of the season, Roger still has 59 homers.
His last at bat in the game. One last chance to tie Babe Ruth. The white Sox
sent in Hoyt Wilhelm, the knuckleballer whose strange floating pitch was
difficult to hit. It was not even about winning the game. Stop Roger. There are
virtually no home runs hit off the knuckler.
Fast forward to 1997. Mark McGuire was about to smash
Rogers and Ruth’s records. In a press conference Mark Held Roger Maris bat with
reverence and respect. as Rogers’s wife Pat handed it to him. He touched it
with his heart and made no mention of Babe Ruth. Put a tear in my eye, that
finally, my Populuxe idol finally got his just due.
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The beatniks…………………
part 2 of the Son of
Populuxe. What is a way to identify this era? Those 50’s diners everybody
loves.
The roadside diner is so
Populuxe. Outdoor movies also.
The previous stylistic era was what was known as Art Deco. 1925-1940?
1923-1938? 1921-1941? It all depends on who you ask. While it was happening it
wasn’t called Art Deco. It was the jazz moderne or moderne era among
other names. Well the stylistic flourishes of that time period were interesting
and modern and the Empire State building being a prominent example.
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 cheap electricity. Water was clean and free. The greatest
generation was using up resources in the most reckless ways possible.
The Modern Era of the Mad Media began here. Roger was one of the first
victims of the tectonic sociological shifting that was about to occur.
Roger was booed and abused, but when he hit his 61st, it was a
celebration of triumph and national exaltation. He did it and as is hoted he
hit 61 home runs in the last 151 games of the season.
Everyone looked out for the kids. Would know when they had
seen someone last. There was the milkman. Fresh milk and eggs from nearby
farms. What was wrong with that system?
The
Warrior elite would like you to believe that building bombs and jet planes and
bullets for World War 2, was what got us out of the depression. The burgeoning
Military Industrial Machine that Dwight Eisenhower warned of in his farewell
address, seemed to have a plan. Now we know the plan is called War Without End.
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 their production began the silent slaughter of
aquatic regions.
Appliances and other
household items saw a dramatic rise in sales after the war. In 1948,
signs that automobile design was going to enter the “jet age” began.
Refrigeration was turning the “icebox” into a distant memory. Land was cheap
and wood was even cheaper. The titans of the Logging Industry saw advances and
huge profits when the ten foot chain saw was invented.
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.
The
poor and discriminated against, the abused and beaten, and the crazy aunt still
in the cellar, were still invisible to rampaging consumers. Taxes were low as
these societal ills were continually hidden under the rug as the trillion
dollar toxic waste cleanup is today.
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 going to destroy America.
The sheriffs' son in
a small town could still get away with anything. American Liberty was subject
to local censorship. Business was booming for the production of chemicals as
WW2 stockpiles were spread across the land like cheap margarine. Taxes weren’t
used yet for cleaning toxic waste. Car pollution wasn’t smoky enough to need
pollution controls in 1948. No cars were built between 1941 to 1945, and there
was a pent up demand that was filled and then television became very popular
after 1952.
The interstate
highway system was quickly developed during the Eisenhower years and I saw it
as a good thing. We rode the unfinished highway on our bicycles after making
highways in our sandboxes. Americans were now able to go anywhere in their two
ton death wagons. The Industries of the Warrior Elite continued full steam
since all the weapons were used up in the world war. More weapons, more jobs.
The taxpayers were footing the bill so high wages for all!(According to plan)
The Russians tested the hydrogen bomb in 1952 and the cold war was on.
By 1954 television was entering homes at a much quicker pace: from the saloon
to the living room. Radios were household items and getting smaller. In 1958, the
transistor radio came on the market and in five short years it seemed every
young person had one stuck in their ear. Music could now be everywhere.
There were still hobos. At an abandoned railway stop we found hats with fishing
hooks in them. They looked like hobo hats, so we called them that. “Look, hobo
stuff!” In many neighborhoods at the end of the row of houses would often be
some woods or an open area. Those who grew up during the initial birth of
suburbs had plenty of places for wild play. We had the fun of skipping
rocks on actual unaltered streams before they storm drains. Magazines, hula
hoops, little pedal cars, Frisbee banana bikes, infinity nauseum. We had a
gushing of goods from the toy manufacturers.
As 1953 progressed, the bigger hydrogen bomb was being tested by America and
then by the Soviets. From June ’53 till testing stopped, Atomic weapons
were tested in the American Desert. Did radioactive fallout drift down on my
mother as she hung the laundry outside? What was going on inside the secret
America. 1953 was a great year for a new car and kept you distracted from what
the CIA was doing in Guatamala.
Beatniks pt 2
somewhere else, Populuxe.
Meanwhile beatniks
were being refused service
-8-8- I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
The
pain of being burned to death never ends in hell, you get that, right? Our
Patriot Revolutionaries are being punished in HELL for mocking god in the case
of Thomas Paine; considered an atheist, who described Christianity as “a
history of wickedness”. Jefferson is certainly in Hell being torn apart by
iron maidens and poked by a million demon pitchforks for talking about his
pagan “god of nature” in the constitution. Not one word from the Bible in all
the founding documents… god was pissed. Our Constitution is about liberty, not
dogma, and that's why there's no mention of the Bible.
In
an essay from Time Magazine, Barbara Ehrenreich explains the reason for the
separation of Church and State.
"The
government that the Founders designed could levy taxes and raise an army, but
it could not do these or any other things in the name of a higher power. By
stripping government of supernatural authority, the Founding Fathers created a
zone of freedom around each individual human conscience. They demystified
government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension,
protest and change” italics
mine.
Glenn
Beck and an ‘expert’ was on a special show about the bible and the
constitution, trying to prove that the colonies in 1776 were enthusiastic about
their religion and this notion is misleading--false witness even, to conclude
the bible is the source of the American Constitution. Men have always been men
and I can’t imagine many of them willingly going to church, arm in arm with the
sissy preachers. Therefore, Religion held an iron grip wherever they could,
even requiring mandatory attendance in the early days of the colonies, but
let’s face it, these were tough pioneers who weren’t big on kissing up to these
pesky preachers. This country was built with an ax and not a Bible and many
were loath to give their hard earned income to the machinations of
clergy.
This
is why fear has worked so well for 1600 years; this was how to break the
resolve of the peasant. If you saw your church father stringing up Quakers in
1650, you sure as hell wouldn’t be the one that was going to test him. By the
1720's, when hanging Quakers and witches became illegal, they stridently scared
people with Hellfire and doom to hold onto their fraudulent authority. Were
most people cowering wimps who had to pray as much as possible to keep demons
away?
Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called, 'America
at 1750', and in it he quotes someone who wrote about those days,
"Hector St.
John de Crevecour, after observing sects in the middle American colonies, and
the feeble religious instruction of the children, thought this a world of
waning zeal,”
de Crevecour
writing,
"religious
indifference is imperceptibly disseminated from one end of the continent to the
other…persecution, religious pride, the love of contradiction, are the food of
what the world commonly calls religion. These motives have ceased here.’”
The
Germans and Scots were hard working farmers who pushed the boundaries of the
colonies hard westward and they were reluctant to give their hard-earned
profits to some lazy ass preacher who was only out to scare their children.
This is how they talked; it wasn’t Little House on the Prairie. Real men love
Jesus sure, but Jesus only puts food on the table in their imagination.
Let
me go get my bible and randomly pick something, it must be
time to bring out the good book again, maybe a commentary or analysis relevant
to this discussion. That's the fun of the Bible; close your eyes and point to a
random verse, kind of like astrology, and make the quote something to live by.
Like Tarot and the 10th card of a Celtic Cross spread, the summation of all the
cards or an end result, does it please the goddess? Well here goes, Proverbs
5:9-11, “Give your honor to others and your years to the merciless.
Let strangers take the fill of your strength and your labors go to the house of
an alien; and at the end of your life you groan when your flesh and body are
consumed and you say ‘how I hated discipline.”
What this
verse says to me is that if you put your hopes in the unknown(faith), you will
regret it.
But
verse 6 continues with the solution to our woes, stating how the meek will
someday overcome the evil lying Republicans and the era of greed, 1981 to 2011.
Verse 6:12-15 states, "A wicked man goes about with crooked speech (Rand
Paul), winks with his eyes, (Sarah Palin) scrapes with his feet(Huckabee)
points with his finger (Hawley Gaetz & the others) and with perverted heart
devises evil, (Newt G), continually sowing discord: (Pat Robertson):therefore,
calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond
healing.”
Don’t worry all you
cowering fearful children, there is no hell. These people are hallucinating
demons and they really can't be taken seriously.
gOd told me
tell you to pursue happiness, and not to fear an eternity of torture. The
afterlife that Christians try to scare everyone with, would seem to
portray god as a mass murdering evil god. A notorious galactic despot with rage
issues who is not happy that your life sucks beyond your wildest dreams; in the
poor countries and regions of the world, but also promises you an eternity of
Halloween the 13th type of scary hellish torture after you die! ?….and your
pledging allegiance to HIM?
This is
the god that the Tea baggers want running this country? This is the god they
want in our schools? This train wreck of a deity who tortures people in Hell?
This is the god that gives us our validation says glennbeck!! A leap
of faith, or reason?
Glenn
Beck is sadly rewriting history, brainwashing the population and people are
bobbing their heads thinking he is such a history expert, but compared to
Hofstadter, he’s not much more than a rhetorictician and …well…a rodeo clown. I
intend to fight this misology, zealotry and bigotry with another way to look at
our history to give people a more fair and balanced outlook. I’m here for ya
baby!
I
research so you don’t have to.
It’s
very frustrating to Christians that they can’t kill those who disagree with
them anymore, and now they despair that there are so many books there never
will be enough time to burn them all. So they have now embedded themselves in
the political system, and they want a return of child labor and hey slavery
wasn't that bad. Worth another try.
Logic
should tell you to deprogram yourself. Reject these religious notions that the
afterlife is one horror after another if you don't believe what the clergy may
say. Like when the car salesman says “we checked it out top to bottom, she’s in
great shape.”
I don't
think life is not some made up game with a puzzling rule book (bible). For
instance, people are gambling with their eternal salvation when they don’t go
to church. “Missing church is a mortal sin,” my mother would say. “Your soul
becomes all black and you don’t get to go to heaven.” The truth is that The
Great Architect created souls so s/he could share the joy of being
alive. Sharing joy and creating life, that's more like it, that's a
God I can party with. There is no hell and to believe this old testament
fairy tale is nonsense.
Think
about this my friend, if that pastor, preacher or priest had no
audience, he’d have to get a job, right? Bearing false witness to beat the
band, it’s his or her job to keep you coming back to give to the building fund.
Religion is an easy product to produce -rhetoric and brimstone; “Showtime,”
says the evangelist as she straightens out her wig, “time to be
authentic”.
People
who say this is a Christian nation are bearing false witness; most Christians therefore
break the 9th commandment. Spreading lies, half-truths, and
defying the spirit of the 9th commandment while they passed out
NObama stickers at Bob Evans.
Then
there's the fear of Islam, but the Moslems who opened an office. The people
going to the ground zero mosque are Dervishes I found out recently. The
Dervishes are the most opened minded and reasonable sect of Islam, the ones who
could have a dialog with terrorists. Living in America, Christian preachers are
no longer able to gather up a mob to carry torches and pitchforks to terrify a
social adversary, such as these
Moslems.
The
difference is that today the pitchforks are psychological, and the scars are on
the inside. They can’t even become KKK because the Klan is held in very low
regard, unlike 100 years ago. There are chritians targeting people for
harassment as we speak, or typing to somebody encouraging them to keep buying
as many bullets as they can, because fighting for gods honor is going to take a
lot of ammunition. Kookbag politicians are still promoting this notion in
2022. When the Christians come for your guns after they take
control, will you object? With god on their side? I’m sayin’ we may
need a militia to protect ourselves.
There
are dangerous people with too many guns in my estimation, but I optimistically
predict that a general rising tide of enlightenment will drown the meanness,
prejudice and hate of the mislabeled greatest generation. Spinning their wheels
in the fetid mud of the bigoted and hateful authoritarian despots they bow down
to.
But it will be a photo finish and I truly fear Christian violence. Part
of Christianity is evil, as it has been from the day the Old Testament was
written, till the time of Plato. Then it became embedded in political
structures till Jesus came along. Remember the traditional clergy that was
harassing him? Pharisees or something. They maneuvered their way
eventually to many positions at the Council of Nicea that established Christianity
as the religion of the Roman Empire. Then corrupted the Koran in
various ways. An intelligent, evil, otherworldly presence wrote the
Bible. Change my mind.
You’ve been so very much
lied to and so have your ancestors throughout history. The people that wrote
down the history were the only ones that knew how to write and
as people began t0 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 2010 it is still
here. Christians and Islamofascists---they have their eye on you and if we
allow heretics 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.
Here are some more
viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths that
will fill our media in 2011. 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, “With 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
the clarity of thought.
This is what right wing
Christian conservatives aren’t getting, the founding fathers were masons, and
the rigors of intellectual elasticity and curiosity allowed them to perceive
that there was a reason there were so many goddesses in Greek
mythology. Believing in the Bible was a straight jacket for those of
nimble intellect.
Here
is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time
of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time. “New England pastors, growing
desperate, would even hope at times 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. Soon, they
said. We can’t know when, but soon, I was told back in the seventies. The other
religions are not talking about war, but Dharma, Harmony, Community, and maybe
we need to give them a listen. They have miracles all the time too ya
know. Even Atheists are experiencing miracles, except they call them, random
designated
realities.
Get
lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots---Liberty will always be in
ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United
States.
-8-9-- HARVESTING
ZOMBIES
As a youth I
argued with my parents about nearly every aspect of Catholicism. There was so
much of it I couldn't respect, even as a ten-year-old and I was finally
allowed to stop going to church at the age of 14 and therefore doomed to the
fires of HELL.
The infallibility of the Pope was a
doctrine completely incompatible with my true belief that I had developed as a
young teen. The tenets of the American Constitution and the founding
documents of America, and the separation of church and state made sense. The
constitution was my religion. It didn't choose me, I chose it.
Afterwards, my mother
always said at the least, I could say the rosary. A way to keep me in the fold
but it became the thread I used to fuse Paganism and Mary. There was a lot of
mystery about it, I figured, and it was a bit like chanting, a la 70's eastern
spirituality. In the 70's and 80's, it was said Mary and her earthly visits
were about peace, keep praying the rosary, pray for peace. Without the Rosary,
I never would have experienced my own personal miracle of the brown scapula.
Pray for peace and pray to reach
into the hearts of the evil Soviet Union was the effort for three decades. This
is what my mother told me, and this was what many millions believed. So, we
prayed for a peaceful, velvet revolution in Russia and that is exactly what
happened.
Millions of us prayed and
the power of prayer is something that is difficult to study, but being the
Unitarian Pagan Taoist Catholic Atheist that I am, I've never felt
uncomfortable about the rosary; a series of prayers to the Blessed Mother. The
Lady of the Rosary. No skin offa my nose.
Frankly, there are 200 books I
would rather read than the Bible, and I truly believe if there was a second
coming of Jesus, he would denounce the Vatican and devastate WASPy
fundamentalism. He's one of my 23 gods because Jesus is just all right by me. He
certainly would vehemently demand justice for the indigenous North Americans
who were abused, murdered and raped in Canadian schools. WTF, you people!
When I was 12 or so in
1966, 2 important events were taking place: Vatican 2 and its controversies
were in the news, and the Beatles stopped touring to focus on studio
work. Less important on the world scene, I was preparing for my
confirmation at that time and I chose Paul as my confirmation name in honor of
Paul McCartney. So I became John Paul (Anthony Almada) in Catholic
parlance. The Mass was being read in English after Vatican 2, and a large
majority approved.
Then it was the 70's and I
was a logical young atheist who delighted in confounding the christians who
were like buzzards looking for dead souls to consume and convert. Legions of
programmed converts intent on harvesting weak minds for their army of thought
control zombies.
In '75 I went out
with a Pentacostalist woman and I observed the heart of the Protestant
evangelical nonsense. I was told the rapture was coming and all that ...soon...
I better give myself over to Jesus to save my soul. “How soon” I asked? “We
can’t know the time, but it will be very soon” I was told…..38 years ago.
That relationship
fizzled out when I was not able to speak in tongues. I was always skeptical of
all religion, calling myself an agnostic, then along came Pope John Paul the
1st, who died shortly after becoming Pope, and then John Paul the 2nd was
chosen. He had the Mother Mary thing going, and I related to that, the one last
thread of my Catholicism.
He and I were both John
Paul so, hey, maybe this Pope won't be so bad. In 1981 he was
waving to the crowd and as he turned to what he believed was a vision
of Mary (Mary imprinted on a t-shirt, he was never sure) his hand
deflected the bullet headed for his heart, a movement that saved his life. And
what did he say after being shot? Miracle Man authenticating Mother Mary for
our modern times by saying, "Mary, my Mother" just after being shot
and shortly before passing out from his injuries.
So here is my
namesake John Paul the second, he recovers, forgives his shooter, Ali Agca, and
then visits him in prison. He then proceeded to put the weight of the Catholic
Church behind Lech Walesa and the defiance of the Soviet Union during the
shipyard strike in 1980. which was the first domino to fall with the
soviet union. THE pivotal moment that began the downfall of the evil empire,
the coral colony of communist corruption and coercion. So, no shit, we prayed
for peace and got it. Not getting assassinated was a miracle. I'll certify it.
In America, we
protest and fight and disagree and keep it real, but the Soviets were barbaric
tyrants with no relevance for liberty seeking people. Those who went against
the Commies were poisoned, assassinated and disappeared. It was the ultimate
bravery to call for a General Strike.
Let’s recall the first trade union in the USSR, Solidarity. Lech
Walesa and the first Polish Pope kicking their ass.
Let’s recall that
during all this, Pope John Paul 2 was shot on May 13th in 1981.
I truly believe we all prayed the rosary enough to save JP2's life, Mary's
greatest miracle, and the Soviet empire began to fall as a consequence. It was
a metaphysical photo finish as the Goddess decides we don't need WW3 to teach
us a lesson.
Reagan busted the federal
budget with weapons in the 80's, like a spoiled rich kid, and the rights
Muslim, neo-con ally, Osama Bin Laden, held off the Ruski’s for ten years in
Afghanistan, which financially finished them off.
Finally, the
Berlin wall fell with Reagan taking credit and glad handing with the press, but
the true hero was the Pope. JP2 took the gloves off and challenged the
communists directly with the full weight of the Church behind him in 1980. It
took years for the dissatisfaction with communism to manifest into protest, but
it all happened. Theoretically and theocratically, he shouldn't have done
what he did, but he did and it’s done.
No other Pope
would have done that. Heavenly intervention? He knew. He knew the real
prophecy. Not many know about the three secrets of Fatima.
Fatima is a
story you may or may not know about, but the third secret of Fatima is a
fascinating story and my cliff notes version of it is this: Cardinal RATzinger
presented what is reputed to be a phony third secret, an indecipherable
obfuscation, 40 years after the promised release of the third secret of Fatima.
This revelation was a
personal disappointment, but John Paul 2nd continued insisted on seeing it.
Then, keeping the real prophecy to himself, even reaching out to many pagan
groups, praying with them. My parents openly talked about the third
secret of Fatima and I believe the pope knew that the female wisdom was coming.
Sophia Gaia Fatima Diana, whatever you call her, the divine feminine is
poised to bring equality.
Pope Ratzinger
(Benedict the 16th), is a deceptive liar: (clue: zingers are devil’s food cake)
who was so traditional, he didn't think people should know the actual secret
which states the mother of us all is an embracing and ancient female earth
spirit.
These perfect
prefects kept the secret from even the Popes. This is why Benedict became Pope,
to prevent the return of the ancient mother and the Goddesses. The
Doomsday Hound was cornered. But that’s a story for another day.
-3-10- MARKET SOCIALISM
“anarchy is the absence of coercion”
Communism and
Capitalism are failing and we need to
come up with something else, something for the
world.
Yes this is the same Market Socialism as in
Section Two. Important to me and may in this one I can condense it somewhat.
The road
to anarchy will be wrought with confounding battle
royales. Not a chaotic anarchy as you’ve been led to believe, but anarchy as
self-rule and managing ourselves in our various communities, while keeping
common local markets open for small business and household
industry. The struggle will be with the despots and corporate
special interests. Authority and Monopoly.
Now that
the rich have saved trillions of dollars in hidden off shore accounts for us,
we can use this stolen labor (profit)to create the Infrastructure Initiative of
2022 (II22) Envision something great for every one of us to use in
the next 50 years in an expanded and expansive safety net, and a beautiful and
enduring hardscape. We can create abundance AND create a new
economic system that gives more than it takes. A system that creates abundance
without mining the earth and clear cutting ancient forests.
One way
to start would be to sell half of our military bases, the ones furthest away
from American ports, keep it closer to home, right? The Constitutional mandate
is for “a common defence”, not an international death star. Closing 450 of the
900 overseas bases would not make us any weaker.
The
Republicans want to eliminate things we all own in common such as the National
Parks. Eventually in the future it will be understood that no one
owns the water. Everything has to be owned insist the goons and lackeys for the
rich. Communists Stalin Genocide booga Booga.
The
languid and miasmic political will of the last 35 years has to be put aside and
then we can finally have a go at a New America without the white-collar
parasites this time. It’s time to roll ‘em up and get down to work
to preserve our wild lands forever and to create a covenant of caring for all
people. Last chance for you Democrats in 2020, third party
otherwise, how long can we go kicking the can down the road?
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. Free spaces for all to
use and an interesting way to illustrate Market Socialism. Giant
parks for people where they can stay for free as they vacation. A secure safe
place for those living out of their cars. The people with jobs that don’t pay
enough to make rent.
A new
infrastructure program would focus on the rural areas abandoned when the
interstates went in. Cities and towns in the rust belt that the
steel industry left behind. The towns along Rt 66 that saw economic activity
flatten when the large chain stores destroyed millions of small businesses in
small towns. Corporations destroyed American craftsmanship when they sent jobs
overseas to be made by dollar a day labor.
A
ginormous infrastructure program will not be an outrageous notion once people
realize we could have all this by penalizing the gangrenous greed of corporate
America and its stockholder enablers. Taxing Wall Street and the churches and
accumulated wealth. Not current income.
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.
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?
Am
I the only one who sees America as a war mongering bully abroad and a callous
band of hucksters at home?
We will
create a country that cares for every one with a real infrastructure, with new
humungous rest areas on the highways for vacationers and people living out of
their vehicles. Instead of paying for soldiers to patrol foreign
streets, we can have our jobless citizens train to be security and grounds
personnel in what will be a greatly expanded national Park Service and the
aforementioned rural recreation hubs.
Our new
infrastructure commons will have lots of public land available for recreation
and small business commerce. How do we pay for it? Tax the largest
landowners. If they cry when they sell properties, have
handkerchiefs handy. There is a land grab by the largest banks and the
nefarious oligarchs in their quest to own everything while you have nothing.
Banks and foreign interests are buying up as many homes as possible and a
Congress with any guts would be investigating this.
When we
say the two parties are the same we mean THE PEOPLE as such, are not
represented.
Clearly,
large corporations were the only ones considered for our interstates and we can
fix that. Oil and Gas subsidies have to end so alternatives can come online
which will be available. You’ll see that $5 a gallon is where the price will
settle in.
Market
Socialism is refunding what needs funding. Cut 30 billion from the military and
put that into a national bus system where everyone rides for free. Instead of
one employee at a large rest area, that are generally widely spaced, we could
have ten people in a larger rural hub running security and facilities.
State
roads can be enhanced wherever possible. Habitat set aside anywhere near where
roads are built. Purchased for all of us to own. This is what the rural red
hats need to understand. It’s not Socialism per se, but common ownership. With
everything developed there’s no where to go, the commons has been stolen from
us. We decide this decade if a handful of people and corporations own everything
and call the shots or we decentralize into Small business based Bioregional
civic groups is all that should be needed in the United States.
All that
“means of production” nonsense is just out of touch white people making things
more complicated than they need to be. Grumpy people with carbuncles say the
darndest things.
We
build the roads now to integrate wildlife back into our lives with
modifications to enable animal and pollinator migrations. Fallow farms
replanted with wildflowers and permaculture orchards. Destroyed city blocks
cleared of debris, remineralized and replanted and tiny homes for the homeless.
Time to tax the landlords more severely. Not Doris renting out her back room
but billo the clown who bought 50 homes after the housing crisis of 2008/9.
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 could become a good income stream, till we
can complete a grid that will allow Americans to be free of government, and
free of the large corporations, who have no intention of allowing healthy
ecosystems. We have to force them to do it today!
We can
power and feed and rule without the monopolistic corporations and the coral
colonies of government. George Washington said government is like
fire. A useful servant but a terrible boss. Religion Government Monopolies. The
American people have become servile and weak, languid and meek.
The
people can use the government today to create the structure that will make us
less dependent on government tomorrow!
Instead
of hard-fought incremental safeguards for the public the next 20 years, just
tax these bastards at the source of our misery. Tax the refineries
and tariff imported plastic. We don’t need more tolls and fees, what we need
are pipeline taxes. Duh, tax the rich, they wonder why we’re
not! Knock down all these toll booths, you’re holding up the working
person. Just tax the churches and every toll booth can be closed. How crazy is
it that there is a toll booth at the end of every giant bridge.
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, even of its ethically wrong.
Tax total assets, once people accumulate more than 35 million dollars. No one
is earning that shit. The tax-free stock market is basically stolen wages
and/or depleted resources. Everyone with more than 20 million dollars of equity
cash or stocks has to report to the government.
Here’s
one for the Libertarians. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to tax a million of the
richest people instead of all the employees and forms needed to tax the 100
million least wealthy? Small business owners spend way too much time on
paperwork. Corporations are large enough to afford teams of lawyers and squads
of accountants to take care of that. There are ways to make a flat tax system
work.
Tax 1% of
all assets the first year. A One percent tax on total assets over 20
million dollars is a modest proposal. Where we make the money is we
also tax businesses with more than 60 million in assets. Or whatever.
Everything above that taxed at 1% the first year. At the same time we can have
our Progressive Senators and a re-animated Congress 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 in
everyone’s 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 with an infrastructure
system for all for the next fifty years.
If
we are smart, 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 of every
transaction while burdened with burdensome regulations. 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 caps lock 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, only those who speak for us on the
global stage seem to be.
Is it
about energy and national security, or is it actually about profits and market
control with a government run by corporations? I think our global
effort to not let the earth get 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. On the other hand we aren’t going to let fragile ecosystems
get torn up with Lithium mining.
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 in the
United States, and that is called a monopolistic control. Money
didn’t grow on trees they joked after the war and today I add, Money was
trees. Far too many of them. Drastic degradations of all the mini
ecosystems that are part of bigger systems such as watersheds. For instance,
buying a beautiful forest to clear-cut it has to be considered
theft. 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 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, but the
pollution of everything. Have international no fly days so we can see the old
blue-sky return. 2-22-22.
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
said in the bible. Let the people be united and strong and be ready for a mass
unionization of the world. The John Deere strike is setting the precedent.
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 destitute and
homeless first. $300 for a start.
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
Profiteers is over if we want it to be. We hunger for battle. The workers are ready.
Self-government
is where Socialists 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 child
slave-labor derived products such as chocolate? 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.
Another concern of mine is the red and black, the communists trying to usurp
another movement it seems. Why 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?
Russell
Means has some thorough and earth loving things to say, regarding our world and
he is much more relevant to the modern worker. Particularly in regards to marx,
which 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 anti biotics for his carbuncles?
He could barely walk to the bakery by himself he was so feeble minded.
(Something someone told me privately.) But it’s well known his children loved
him, which is good enough for some people. But seriously, how about labor
theory from this century? Or maybe even a more recent century? In the early
1900’s, Eugene Debs was a great socialist and ran for President from jail and
got quite a few votes.
Recall
"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 was Cesar Chavez. Strikes for better
wages also made the general public aware of the problem of underpaid
workers. 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
them.
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.
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?
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. In the 80’s, the Royal McBee
moved to Asia for the extremely low wages there.
It has been a pity
that The Left has been stuck on the chalkboard Utopia of communism, and hinged
to its rapacious Stalinist sideboard. It's the Green and Black baby, Americans
are never going to call themselves communists. Blue collar environmentalist’s
maybe.
I
don’t care how many quotes of marx or “books I should read” you throw at
me. The Blue Green and Pink could become Americas largest
demographic. Pink, Green and Blue collar united as one. Workers around the
world creating unity without hierarchy. You know what pink collar is,
right?
Companies
abandoned America in the 70's in order to take advantage of the reckless
breeding in India and China and Bangladesh that created far too many people in
large part, because of its misnamed “green revolution”. In their desperate
struggle to feed their children, these people are willing to work for 15 cents
an hour 15 hours a day. How do you compete with that? You should be
banning plastic products made with pennies per hour labor, not purchasing
them. Place a tariff on all plastic
products.
Boycott
companies who are not fair to their workers. These people need jobs you say but
I’m telling you these people had jobs in the market socialism that existed in
most markets in the world. These were autonomously run markets that communism
and capitalism trampled over in the 1900’s.
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 Progressive 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.
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 business. It has to be a progressive or escalating minimum wage. Ten for
small business (under a million dollars of sales and income), 13 for
medium(over a million) and 16 for billion dollar corporations.
I signed
a petition for $15 an hour minimum yesterday and found out it is going to go up
a dollar a year and that’s something to work with to create a small business
revival. I would suggest capping a small business minimum wage at ten dollars
an hour with small business being one that generates less than a 100,000
dollars in sales or income. Leave small business alone. Let people make 10
thousand dollars before taxation.
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 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,
but 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.
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
have.
Bankruptcy
and foreclosure, aw too bad say the bankers who are gouging the American worker
with interest. Should be a crime, used to be.
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
2019/20. I buy three dollars 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.”
I noticed
on my 3300 mile journey to find America, most local gas stations were now
selling local products. I bought a Pumpkin Turnover to die for and Apple Butter
somewhere else at a reasonable price. I noticed home-made items standing near
the register in many places. The Apple butter was so good I drank
that shit right out of the bottle when I needed a snack while I was driving.
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.
I
would have each person exempt from taxation for the first $10,000 dollars of
income, and $25,000 for small business. In addition, we would lift
the cap on social security from $106,000 to $a gazillion. Let everybody make a
little money … for crying out loud, and give them food stamps if they need them
and every person who has no permanent address but 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 was a second revolution in the
United States and it was called the Progressive Era.
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. 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. 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) 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 trillion people that will be born on this planet the next 50000 years.
Leave it in the ground.
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.
MYSTORY OF METAL Metal energizes all of rock
and roll. My view from the beginning.
-3-11 MYSTORY OF METAL
From thee the river flows
What hath Ozzie wrought?
Heavy Metal, like the ice
breaker tearing across the ice, opens the road to new innovations; always
pushing hard, sometimes over the edge and never standing still for too long.
Pop music remains content to use traditional and popular structure, dwelling on
the ubiquitous love song and derivative riffs stolen from rock and roll.
Mainstream rock music cops metal riffs and the crushing beats from previous
years metal, and this will keep rock and roll alive.
We are the metalloids, magnetized by the metal. I wanted to point
out we are all going to have our favorites and my metal may be a little PG for
most metal snobs who love brutal 24/7. How can you have a Top 100 with
all brutal compositions that most people can barely understand? I am not
going to consider Cannibal Corpse or Rotting Christ as worthy of my Top 100.
Just gross, that’s why. I aspire to nuanced metal song construction and won’t
tolerate violent lyrics. Except like Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil album.
Going back in time and sifting through my memories of heavy guitar rock, I
remember holding my breath the first time I heard "Cry for a Shadow"
by the Beatles. There was such a perfect guitar sound. This was what I was looking
for, listening for, that is. (add cry for a shadow here.)
In 1964, the
Beatles entire catalog was being played on the radio and the Instrumental “Cry
for a Shadow” broke out of the Pop Music formula as a Beatles instrumental. It
was the sound my core was looking for and was all about the guitar. The
song managed to make the top forty briefly and I would listen to the radio
every hour I could, in order to hear it again. Then it dropped out of the
survey like a second flush and I couldn't believe it. Listening to it
these days, it seems like a prototype Blue Oyster Cult song. It was the first
song with elements of metal. Convince me I’m wrong.
The Kinks were proto-metal as far as I am concerned. It was in the guitar, the
sonic siren leading to a lifetime of metal addiction. Fifth chords to the
center of the earth. The Avant Garde scene was noodling around the
boundaries of what was possible thereby opening the door to psychedelic rock.
Pop songs such as Hot Smoke and Sassafras and Journey to the Center of the Mind
condensed the power of proto metal into a 3 minute pop
song.
Garage Rock
has always been the birthing ground for metal, poor-ass motherfuckers out to
create a noise louder than there’s ever been before. The garage is our
cave, I guess, it could be seen in retrospect. The 4 dudes of Black Sabbath
emerged from their caves on the gritty end of industrial Birmingham England,
and woke the world up with a new genre. They must top my list of top 100
METAL MASTERPIZZAS and so I asked myself a very important Black
Sabbath fan question, and that is what was their best tune, ever?
"Warning" from
the first album is #1 on my list is my #1, the Rosetta Stone of how metal was
created, illustrating the link that separated rock and roll from the blues to
create the dark sound we were craving.
#2 favorite song of
all time is "Cities on Flame" by Blue oyster Cult. In 1971,
East Coast Garage rock met English Heavy Metal in Blue Oyster Cults first
album. Cities on Flame was a wake up call to Americans to have a counter
revolution as another British Invasion began, led by Black Sabbath.
I went to very few
concerts as a youth, but managed to see Blue Oyster Cult early in their career
when they were still billed as ‘formerly known as the "Soft White
Underbelly" because the New Jersey band had regularly toured Connecticut
in previous years.
Alice Cooper, MC5, Blue
Cheer, the Stooges, were some of the notable American bands that were active
when Sabbath came on the scene, and there was a genre busting fray in the early
seventies. Cream Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix certainly have metal songs but
Sabbath took their machete to find new lands. Grand Funk Railroad’s “I
don’t have to sing the blues no more” was rock in its hard rock way, but its
misogynistic lyrics make the song impossible to update.
When I
first started this Mystory of Metal chapter, it was 2003 and Napster was
great fun at the time. I finally found every song I had ever wanted to
hear, and We engaged in (file sharing) finding one interesting song after
another. From “London Bridge” for my 7 year old, to “London Calling.” As a
sidenote I bought more music during the Napster period that I had in the
previous ten years. Support your keepers and support the system that allows
file sharing. I don’t even know if people do that anymore. They stream now and
music is getting steamed homogenized and packaged.
My boys didn’t listen to
the cornball nonsense they make kids listen to, the oldest gravitating to
various hardcores and the youngest discovering Rage Against The Machine and
others in 2004 when he was 8. Eight year olds don't get depressed. You
can be Emo when you're older, you're only young and innocent once. Learn the
difference between Iron Fist and Iron Maiden. Then Guitar Hero came out in
November 2005 featuring all the great metal works of the past. Probably the
best game ever invented.
These eight year olds
grow up and become dudes and get obsessed with one interest or another. I let
my boys flow where they wanted though made it known my disgust for some bands.
Misogyny and Violence suck out loud. Skate boards, slot car racing, lifting
weights and I guess playing games for the younger folks. In olden days,
14 year olds got married and became apprentices for 7 years as was the habit
back then, and it seemed a grim time. No IPod to cut the boredom as you worked
long hours. They’re young now but they are the first generation to be complexly
computer immersed and as elders will grumpily note, “it wasn’t like that back
in my day.”
As it says in “Working in
a Coal Mine”, “when night time comes I’m too tired for having fun.” Then
dudes are told in their 20’s, 'A happy wife is a happy life!' and as young
adults they think "Oh my fucking God, it's over."
Metal is the acid in the face of bullshit.
I find the dead (all dead all dead Queen)
thank you little buddy. Find your power and use it.
We are irresistibly drawn to Metal by some primitive gene that is deeply
embedded in our behavior. The link between our head and our heart. Drawn
together by chanting and insistent drumming throughout the centuries, human
expression is now drawn together by the guitar. Nazis switched the something or
other to 440 after it had been inexact previously but primarily 432. Now
after 45 years of metal the guitar reigns as the greatest INSTRUMENT of all
time and Metal is the greatest art form of all time. Or maybe it's just the
creative part of Rock and Roll. We can discuss the future of 432 and the metal
revolution that will sweep the world in the near future.
Gravity is not a theory. The older ones of us remember the British Invasion.
Ears were opened to the hard guitar of The Kinks and the Sonic explosions of
The Who and the psychedelic birth of hard rock in 1966. One truth most
will agree to is that the album Black Sabbath 1 is the birth of actual metal in
1970. Though I may discuss "The Dude Culture" and 'dudes will be
dudes', I am of the opinion that the more women that become dudes, the better
we all will be.
Some dude hears a womans voice singing and go, "that's not metal"
making that wing of the Heavy Metal Movement as misogynist as any Republican
Country Club. I hope by now with Arch Enemy and Battle Beast and Jinger and
many other combos led by women, these snobs can get over themselves. That same
dude hears an organ and says, “that’s not metal”, so I want you to know metal
is what you make it.
Dudes gather in their
caves(garages) and light our amps on fire creating warmth and making sense of
an obviously fucked up world.
A world where the future
was to be a faceless fiduciary or a toiling miner and it didn’t look good
either way. Dudes grow and learn and there are many stages. One is their active
thread in the fabric of our culture. Actually it’s our culture, the dude culture.
An ancient and
insistent beat, there has been a return to chanting and drumming and grooving
as we tune into the hum of the earth. I've got my eye out for the next
big phase of metal and looking for bigger outfits with more percussion and chanting
and singing. The Solfeggio Frequencies is something to look into. Punk energy
and Metal chops continue to propel rock and roll into the future.
Rockabilly is the beating heart of metal prepared to meld with metal.
California garage
rock was reaching an apex of innovation and was spinning off sub genres and
gave us glimpses of genres to come in the early and mid-60’s for those infected
with the hard guitar bug. You can still hear the influences of California
garage rock today. The Monterrey Jazz Festival of 1967 was an explosion of
inventive music from many categories. It created the cauldron of creativity
from 1967-1973 for American Music. This era also signaled an American dominance
of the charts by people who had been enthralled with the British Invasion
64-66. East Coast garage rock was never derivative of West Coast and tended
towards punk and a stripped-down version of Rock.
In tiny little England, they tended not to have garages and garage bands, but
they did have sheds old metal buildings and The Yardbirds. The second wave of
the British Invasion began in ‘67. Rock and Roll dropped its Blues base and
evolved the next three years into Heavy Metal, Black Sabbaths first album
marked where a new important branch began to grow on the Rock and Roll Tree of
Life. The song "Warning" on Black Sabbath 1 showed all the
ingredients Tony Iommi used to forge this new weapon against Conformity.
Please go and give a listen to my #1 song on my Top 100 Metal Masterpizzas on
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-T_6IdXFuw&list=PLB17282A8A544C863&index=10
Controversies.
Progressive Rock is not metal. To other snobs, a keyboard also
disqualifies the metal designation. Good musicianship is discounted as
self indulgent excess. Drummers can make a band metal with Carl
Palmer(ELP) and Bill Bruford(Yes) and Billy Cobham(Mahavishnu) John Bonham (Zeppelin)
all influenced by jazz but created the big beat sound.
Unlike
the former #1 instrument, the piano, guitars have more harmonics and scales and
you can beeeend the notes. Always artistically inspired, unlike pop music
which is profit inspired. Pop Music is weighed down with a preponderance of
love songs which gets quite tiring quicly for a dude looking for raw energy.
How many times can you fall in love and have your heart broken? Pop music
sucks.
We are the Metalloids,
magnetized by the Metal and the searing melodic screaming guitar is our siren
call. Avoid the rock and sail into the Unknown. Joints, beers, torn clothing
and the Blue Jeans Army emerged in the seventies and the concert hardcore was
born.
Iron Butterfly had
emerged in '68 and it was like, "dude, listen to this."
Seemingly stripped of the Blues, it was in the Psychedelic Metal category, as
was Hendrix. This is the reason Led Zeppelin is not considered the first metal
band. Metal is stripped of the Blues despite Blues being located in our
metal genome. Garage Rock continued to churn out innovation, and sub
genres littered the sonicsphere. East Coast Garage rock was never as big as
west coast but was never derivative. The English hardly had room for
garages and soon a third British invasion began.
The etymology of Dude
goes back to the Wild West and also became ghetto slang for friend, compadre,
buddy or brother. mocking the “King of the Dudes”. When the brothers adopted
'brother' and dropped dude, honky dudes began using the word. We called
each other dude and we refined hanging out into an art form. "Dude, you
suck". "You suck." "No way, you suck" "and
you suck until infinity" which trumped all other sucks.
And so it began in
the primitive years and our habits became embedded in the culture.
Phrases becoming much more complex in the eighties till the phrase "that
doesn't suck" became the definitive phrase of something that is "
cool " or "neat".
Most hardcore dudes
abandoned the word dude in 1974 when the words "let's get it on
dudes" appeared in the Grand Funk Railroad Song 'We're an American band’
on Pop radio. The eye roll heard around the world. We simply called each
other asshole after that. The word dude disappeared buried by disco, one
might suspect. At the end of the Vietnam War we didn't need jingoistic
patriotic crap. We wanted to tear down this predatory capitalist military
christian complex. It is such a phony morality, but most Americans love to
perch on their pretentious branch and decry our morality with their moral high
ground hypocrisy.
The dude language
continued to evolve as fuckwad and jackbag and other creative terms were used
in our friendly interactions. Touch’hole is a western New England
colloquialism and it is a contraction of touchy asshole Not long after, we grew
up and kept jobs and left our words behind and became responsible members of
society. Usually.
I liked
Jazz and Classical and still do, but once favorite songs became classic rock
and were played too much, they lose their authenticity. I never really
considered myself a hippie and I identified more with the dude culture created
by the sons of the working poor and I was influenced by the Beatniks of the
50's and the Be Boppers of the 40's. My dad seemed to be on the edge of the Be
Bop with a strong interest in Hard Bop and I viewed this radical jazz through
his eyes. In retrospect it turned out to be melodic and thoughtful stuff.
Dad didn't like the
Beatniks though. I remember our trip to Quebec in 1966 when I saw a herd
of Beatniks walking across a town square. "Who are those people?" I
asked before I knew their anti-social activity and protests were the fore
runners of the protest folk movement.
There were Beatnik
remnants which people had forgotten about. Hippies were soon to become
the scapegoat for an alleged decaying society after the Beatniks were gone.
Black people were finally getting to vote and it was a primitive time and the
Beatniks were thinkers and philosophers from 1955 to 1965 that lived outside of
proper society as they tried to usher in the dawn of civilization.
This is why I considered
myself a Blue Collar Progressive and unable to be categorized otherwise.
Pagan Anarchist Beatnik Hillbilly is my final form, and writing this book is
one of the most important things I can do at this point. I don't want to die
with my book in me, so thanks if you have gotten this far. We weren't the dumb
ass dudes of let's say, the Midwest or we weren’t eastern CITY dudes who didn't
really get it. East coast suburbia invented the dude culture which went
through Americana and came out as the Valley Girls of California.
Progressive dudes have intellectual obsessions, mine was and is still is that
corporations are taking over the world. Monsanto is practically its own country
and certainly more powerful than many small counties. Chevron has its own
system of justice as it can't seem to get out of the way of itself in South
America. Walmart heirs make more than a million of their employees combined. It
happened on our watch dude!
Libertarian Anarchists, we thought the Vietnam War was the greatest lunacy of
all time. We understood the Hippie Cultures protests but weren’t really part of
it. We collectively decided war was over, because that is what we wanted. Who
could have known warmeisters Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and Wolfowitz and
other chicken hawks who never served, would direct American foreign policy and
give us two wars at once. We could have been restructuring this country instead
of destroying others. Much of metal is anti-war.
Dudes were more of a
powder keg demographic coming down the pipe, but the killings at Kent State
chilled the hippies fervor and that apathy reached down into us younger dudes.
Reagans go go jingo go America attitude was a bitch slap to Green Anarchists in
the 80's that many of us became. All protest groups were investigated and
infiltrated by the FBI in the late sixties and seventies and ethnic spying of
the Black Panthers
and AIM, The American Indian Movement was a brutal revival of a long forgotten
police state.
The police state headed
by J Edgar Hoover, the notorious cross-dressing hypocrite. These leaders didn't
follow the Constitution, but their own authoritarian right wing fascist
leanings.
Not hippies, not
beatniks, dudes are something else entirely and we persist in every generation
now. It was 1971 and an element of synergy was bubbling around the genre
defining Black Sabbath album. Metals Golden Age began as an explosion of
music the world had never experienced. As disco would influence rock years
later, metal would rock from 1971 to 1973 and Pop music really began to suck.
Then it all went bad.
With todays corporate
control of the world, boys grow up to be dudes and we are all subjected to the
numbing sameness and boring minutae of what educators think we need.
Education must still be in infancy because it is virtually useless and can be
taught in 2 years when the child is ready, not programmed into children before
they are ready. Not dragged out for 10 years forcing children to learn things
before they are really ready. I remember being in school and thinking
what a load of crap most of it was.
We know it's all about
conditioning minds, the liberal commie plot to make us knuckle under to the
state, and dudes know this. Trained rats running to their next cage, I mean
class, summoned by the bell. Making sure you become a kiss ass and toady for
the monied elite who are treated with reverence. Conditioned to be callous of
other people with the Never Ending Wars.
Dudes, then guys, then
men. Many females have grown up in this mold and this makes a them more well
rounded, questioning anarchists. Among the women I have gotten to know,
there are no gender barriers. No men no women, just people. Women have the
additional tool of empathy to understand the emotional roller coaster of youth
and would make some righteous dudes. Calling a girl or woman a dude, is a
compliment of the highest order, and trust me you are welcome and we need you
to rout out the mysogynists.
So how does one qualify
for a dude card? First, you need a hangout and these days straight or not,
stoned or straight, the Dude Enlightenment is open minded in a Buddhist
Way. Zone out and feel the groove. "Shut up dude and enjoy the
music!" It's really not about drugs and alcohol, and it shouldn't
be. But it can also be a support group of party enablers, though really, most
dudes like to hang out……some call it hang out and party. The partiers are the
ones who end up as alcoholics. Hang out and grind up the Yak Horn with the
dudes.
The Love Generation of
hippies found out that wahat they really loved and that was money. Security and
happiness as you build your nest somewhere in the inner workings of the
machine. But some of us ended up as misfits, going against the grain of our
training and brainwahsing and still walk outside of the civilized circle.
Vietnam was about
manufacturing weapons and tanks and jet fighters and machines. Imagine the
empty soul that sends someones son to a war without end. The dark spectre of
Vietnam cast a shadowy pall over my life. In 68 I was 14 and suddenly with
Tricky Dick Nixon as President, things suddenly were not going well.
"Why do good in school, just to get shot in Vietnam?" I questioned my
parents who only said authority must be right.
We are
irresistibly drawn to by some primitive gene that is deeply embedded in our
behavior. Drawn together by chanting and driving insistent drumming, human
expression is now drawn by guitar. Now after 50 years of metal, that guitar
music reigns as the greatest art form of all time.
At first I was going to call this the History of Heavy Metal but
then I thought that would be a little presumptuous. Like, I would know
the definitive history of anything, it is all about choice. I wanted to
point out we are all going to have our favorites. My metal may be a little PG
for most. Probably old school too. The Solfeggio Frequencies.
Punk energy and Metal chops continues to propel rock and roll into the future,
an enduring genre and perhaps the greatest art form ever created.
Heavy Metal, like the
Icebreaker tearing across the ice, leading the pack with innovations.
-3-12- Fetid Cesspool
ARE 3-12 AND 3-5 THE SAME?
“A rising tide of
enlightenment will eventually drown the meanness, prejudice, bigotry and hate
of the greatest generation. It will disappear into the fetid cesspool
of ignorance and the hateful Authoritarian Despots that they bow down to,
will no longer control our economy.”
The
Libertarian spirit of 1776 has been crushed and replaced with manufactured
demand and the culture of the warrior elite; The War Culture, the tree cutting
and ecosystem destroying culture. Developer Delerium. Veterans feel they are
patriots because they risked their lives in Europe and Asia and wherever else.
George Washington might not agree with the patriotism angle, and would find
that bomb bomb bombing Iraq isn‘t the same kind of effort he made at Valley Forge.
He’d
also discover that the “unprecedented” post war prosperity of the fifties and
sixties was fueled by rapacious plundering. Forests clear cut to ignite the
housing boom and the government subsidized nuclear power industry and other
weapon manufacturing jobs, gave people great pay, but now we have a trillion
dollar toxic cleanup no one wants to talk about. As all this wealth
accumulation occurred black people were herded into the city in an invisible
reservaion.
Tons of dangerous chemicals at military sites
and weapons of mass destruction assembly sites continue to fester. The
Greatest Generation got cheap electricity in the 50’s and 60’s but left the
problem of storing nuclear waste to generations unborn. Atomic bomb
makers want to thank you though.
The
profits of previous decades has given us this weapon saturated world of today,
and there will need to be a multi-billion dollar effort to decommission these
nuclear power plants that created temporary cheap electricity in the 50's 60's
and 70's. France still doing it? Ask them where they are storing the waste.
Meanwhile, Russia is propping up its weak
economy with weapon and oil sales and China has not got a clue that they are
shitting in their own nest with the pollution they create, and the weapons they
sell.You may have too many people but it's our world too.
The
older generation has been brainwashed to worship all coercive authority. The
boomers work ceaselessly to keep their heads above water or are deeply into the
greed machine. The youth are looking ahead but don’t understand some of the old
American traditions. We don‘t want militias or Unabombers. Did Mahatma Gandhi
belong to a political party? Millions of us transcending generation, race,
gender, and class barriers are unafraid to discuss the taboos and are
quite aware that our right to speak out is in jeopardy.
“The theme to most American movies, the good guy
wins in the end, have all been pyrrhic victories. They won’t be real victories
till we encode liberty, embed equality, ostracize criminality and vanquish
cruelty. Let’s give ourselves the chance for a new start, with the rejection of
violence and the ushering in of The Dawn of Civilization.
The clotted nothingness of todays liberalism and
the venomous spewing of conservatives actually represent only small slices
of the American Pie; and unfortunately, the only two that have a voice in the
mainstream media. What about the independent viewpoint? The independents have
no steadfast, limiting ideology. We develop our own viewpoints and
philosophies. We are tired of coercive governments and corrupt corporations. We
are in the Tea Party and we are in Occupy Wall Street.
We believe
Churches serve quasi-governmental functions, as do the Cub Scouts, the Rotary,
Homeowners associations and Garden Clubs. Federal and state government should
be our solid edge and border maintaining our Constitution, and all these civic
groups are a high thread count in the fabric of freedom.
Josiah Quincy in 1773 "I see the
clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon. The thunder rolls and
the lightning plays, and to that God who rides the whirlwind and directs the
storm, I commit my country."
What God is this then that he called upon? Thor,
Perun, Boreas or others? As Quincy warmed up the crowd, local
businessmen were walking over to the docks to destroy the 300 chests of
tea sitting in the harbor. The real Tea Party was about small business striking
a blow against Britains corporate control of the colonies commerce. Small
business entrepeneurs and their apprentices, along with member of Bostons north
and south side gangs were the instigators in the acquisition of liberty. They
were the motivating force of the Revolutionary War.
Jump ahead to the election of 2008. Suddenly, around every corner, there
were communists and demon possessed atheists; and by the way, did you know that
environmental groups are going to initiate a gigantic die off of humans on the
planet?
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Proud
Proud to be Progressive
Where
do progressives get their name from? Progressive has come to mean many
things, but the reformers from the Progressive movement of 1890 to 1915 brought
the world into our modern era. Work site safety, decent wages and a more
reasonable number of hours worked was the focus.
The immigrant wave of
Europe (1870-1890), had provided corporate factory owners with cheap labor in
those industrializing decades. The Progressives created child labor laws and
improved school systems because the children who were working in Christian
(read that Protestant) owned factories, began going to school during the
Progressive Era, and the second American Revolution began. Many more
people began reading books other than the Bible, and thusly the Dark Ages ended
once and for all. Improvements in Interior
lighting led to a book boom
Protestant
factory owners hated the laws passed in favor of workers, following union
strikes. The man who could break the back of these unions would be a great hero
someday.
Progressives encouraged
invention and innovation and science, while bible thumpers kept insisting that
indoctrinating people with Adam and Eve as truth and Hell for atheists is an
absolute truth, was important to teach. They still think that today, as
they attempt to change history schoolbooks.
There was
a resurgence of classical music--- boy scouts and girl scouts were founded; and
there were many forward thinking reformers. It was a great cultural era in the
improvement of human societies.
The
Progressive Era grew a healthy canopy of honesty over the moral high ground
hypocrisy of the Victorian Age. Today, Republicans are the heirs to
the moral high ground hypocrites of that age. Nefarious characters such as
Newt Gingrich (divorcing wife while she was in the hospital) and Mark Sanford
(Hiking the Appalachian trail-the new part that goes to Argentina) and Strom
Thurmond ( encouraging segregation, but having a black child nonetheless); are
prominent examples within a long list of others.
The meat packing industry was
shamed in 1906 with a famous book that revealed horrid conditions and the
disgusting nature of the Meat Industry. Standards of cleanliness were
enforced in many industries after that.
Left to their own
devices, big business will pay as little as possible for safe working
conditions and not give a whit about the sustainability of raw material, and
make safety a priority, only when forced by legislation. This is repeating
itself today.
Are you seeing the pattern of greed and hypocrisy and the
traitorous lies? Hypocritical grandstanding idiots like glennbeck, will diss
and discuss Progressivism like it was some horrible movement that has hampered
mankind ever since its beginning. I'm offering another view of what
Progressivism is.
Progressives are under
attack, prompted by the apologists of greed and authoritarian excess with the
likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Progressive to many means commie socialist
Marxist moochers. Republicans muddy the waters so no one can see how
shallow they are.
Theodore Roosevelt was
perhaps the most prominent progressive and spent a career busting up the
Rockefellers and other corporate monopolies that paid little wages, but
accumulated wealth beyond any before them. T.R. started the National estuary
program at Pelican Island here in Sebastian, Florida, because the slaughter of
birds for the Victorian Age fashion of the day-hats with feathers- was a
disgusting and violent disgrace.
The passenger pigeon went extinct because they were shot out of the sky
after the civil war, as neo-pioneers shot for fun instead of food.
Indoctrinating youth towards loving war, and killing animals makes them
violent adults, in many cases. It certainly did after the civil war, as
it does today with todays veterans hating terrorists and 500 million other
Muslims.
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Progressives halted the killing of buffalo and we only have buffaloes today
because the last 1,000 were able to expand their numbers. How many millions of
Buffalo were killed by lunatic gun enthusiasts? Progressives want to end the
blood sports encouraged by the warrior elite, shooting everything in sight
these last 200 years. Progressivism is about sustainability, peace and personal
liberty.
Womens
right to vote in 1920 rode one of the last waves of progressive era
reforms. WE THE PEOPLE was important to Progressives then, and they
proved their commitment by their actions. The Progressive Era was not a violent
revolution, but the most thorough evisceration of corruption and cruelty in
modern times. Activism AND action to bring about change. This can happen in
every country that has corrupt business and politics. It appears that after 100
years the oligarchy is poised for a poisoning of the earth and an enslavement
of peoples minds.
Anti progressivism and
half truths will not stop the real American patriots from prevailing. Jingoists
waving the flag and Dominionists thumping that bible are still shocking to us,
but the new progressive era will marginalize these people --so much -- and
reveal them to be the moral high ground hypocrites that they
are.
Freedom and Compassion got
married and their firstborn was named Liberty. The good people of America
need to stop hoping the other guy does something and support reforms and
change. You are the other guy now, so take another look at The
Progressive Era. It was about small business, farmers and various tradespeople
having a bigger say in what went on in this country.
Pre Progressive Populists
were agrarian utopians, and they tried to create an equitable
bi-metallic economic system. Gold and Silver, with silver being the
working mans coin. Populists hated the bankers as modern Progressives do
today.
Progressives of 1890-1915, were
middle class business people, writers and reformers and those who were being
marginalized by wealthy industrialist oligarchs in many small towns across the
country.
Wall Street has
always tried to control Main Street and the Reagan Era of Greed has
accomplished what oligarchs in the 19th century only dreamed about. The hero
had arrived to kill the unions and all workers representation. The black hole
of oligarchy had swallowed the mom-and-pop system of family farms and
small markets, and now seeks a future of profit and control. These are freaks
of human nature we are fighting, super villains if you will.
Modern Progressives will work towards the
liberty and compassion, justice and freedom that every human on earth should expect.
Progressives are not GO USA but GO WORLD!
The Republicans inability
to balance a federal budget since Eisenhower is not mentioned enough.
Republicans are good at breaking things and bloating budgets, but have not
balanced the federal budget within the lifetime of many alive today. They
try to take credit for the Clinton Prosperity, but they had nothing to do with
it. It was a cheeky optimism and lowering barriers and borders. The global
economy is a step too far however.
The Illusion of Prosperity will be
the cause of many higher prices in the future. The blame will go to
Progressives who are trying to correct these obvious flaws in our markets.
Savor these low inflation rates because our reality, in the future,
will be shortages and price spikes. To state that there has
been low inflation is a joke. House insurance is up 30% in Florida.
Medical procedures go up 20% a year and costs of many items increase
dramatically while the government tells us there is low inflation.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is our
guide to inflation and it is simply no longer accurate. Neither is the
GDP that was created shortly after the Great Depression. Nobody can tell me
there is low inflation. Veterinarian services are up 20%, car repair is rapidly
getting more expensive. Plumber’s rates have increased 50% in the last 5
years.
Some of it is caused by the over reach and
over regulation of the government increasing costs everywhere and Progressives
have that smaller government mentality. Regulate only where it's needed.
Government passes out favors to those who can manipulate the system. Rich or
poor with the middle class holding the bag.
Briefly, regarding the word
Progressive, Republicans are trying to associate what was once a good word,
into something that means hippies, blue collar dinosaurs, unions, conservation,
and all those other code words and dog whistles that tell the Rush Republicans
that progressive means anti-profit, anti-private property. NO! Blue collar
Progressives take their cue from the Progressive era, duh. 1890 to 1915.
The Progressives set out to reform the obscene profits and inhumane
working condition of the Robber Barons and Industrial Tyrants.
Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle”, in 1906 was very popular and boosted the
importance of muckrakers who were finding avaricious and hexcretous
wealth in the lives of the greedy and gluttonous. The grandiose and
grotesquely rich who saw nothing wrong with rat meat in the commoners
sausage, or who were responsible for making my grandmother, and millions of
others, work 12 hours without a break, when she was 12 years old.
They tried, and the result was 12 year old girls peeing their bloomers.
Or people adjusted as they always do and didn't drink anything all day to
please their bosses by not using the bathroom and suffer from problems related
to dehydration. This is why I often say that most wealth is illegitimate.
Child labor laws were passed and small business was going strong and the
Federal Tax System had yet to arrive during the Progressive Era. Good hearted
people fought back with results. It began in 1890 with the big Carpenters
strike. It ended in 1920 as women were finally allowed to vote and then
Prohibition and the Roaring 20's emerged. The federal tax system got
its foot in the door and is now the elephant in the room controlling our
economy with its endless loopholes for corrupt business. The White Collar criminal
class has taken over and Progressives intend to get it back.
Thomas Jefferson promoted the idea of the citizen
legislator, where a broad spectrum of workers and crafts are represented in the
federal government; Carpenter, blacksmith, nurse, teacher, fireman, lunch lady.
The idea was to always have a representative sample of the population, not what
we have today; where 45% of Congress are lawyers, an army of law making
psychopaths with more personality than brains, in lockstep with their oligarchs
agenda.
Richard Hofstadter was a Pulitzer Prize winning author back in the fifties and
I find his more traditional conservative viewpoint, open minded and somewhat
radical in retrospect. Hofstadter had this to say, “frequent and
sensational rises in land values bred a boom psychology in the American farmer,
1800 to 1899. This caused him to rely for his margin of profit more on the
process of appreciation than on the sale of crops. It took a strong person to
resist the temptation to ride skywards on lands that could easily triple or
quadruple their value in one decade and double again the next. “He
continues, “It seemed ultraconservative to improve existing possessions if
one could put savings or borrowings into new land. What developed, along with the
relentless march of commercial agriculture, was an agricultural society where
real attachment was not to land but to land values.”
Murica. Not to
mention the deforestation and prairie destruction involved with the farming of
America. Hofstadter would be puzzled today by corporate apologists and moral
high ground hypocrites like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly
calling themselves conservative.
They will have
retrospect in the future I’m sure. Their intellectuals will discuss the myopic
wisdom of 20th century economists, who were unable to see
the rapacious plundering of the earth that will have a negative impact on
future prosperity and resource sustainability. Environmentalists are
despised by right wingers, but the Greens are trying to save a nice piece of
Earth for all future generations.
Humans are the large square peg pounding our way into the small round hole in
the fabric of living creatures. Becoming more sensitive,
individually, yet still quite hostile, to all the planets REMAINING
lives BY FEELING THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO TO CHANGE THINGS, even enthusiastically
supporting a system that looks the other way to the homeless and hungry workers
of the world: the people making the goods that give us an Illusion of
Prosperity.
I'm proud to stand with Progressives because the First Progressive Era brought
Americans into a modern age of invention, convenience, recreation and freedom
of assembly (unions). People like glennbeck think the mass of people
should be working 16 hours a day at 5 dollars an hour. The Progressive idea of
Liberty is something completely different.
SECTION
FOUR
INDEX
DRUDDOCCITAN
SECTION ONE
MYTH SEEKS TRUTH
SECTION TWO
UNITED SCAPES
SECTION THREE
THE FINAL SLAUGHTER the death of living systems IN nature .. doom monger
SECTION FOUR
INDEX DRUDDOCCITAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
SECTION FIVE
A BRACING DOSE OF HERESY
SECTIONSIX
ANCIENT GARDEN
SECTION SEVEN
COMMUNITY PRODUCT AND SERVICE EXCHANGE
SECTION EIGHT
LIBERTY LESSONS AND FORUMS
SECTION NINE
MIDLESTONE AVENUE
SECTION TEN
HISTORY OF THE PAGANS quotes and all remaining pagan
articles
SECTION ELEVEN
SECTION TWELVE
SECTION THIRTEEN
DRUDDOCCITAN
KEY TO SALVATION
DRUDDOCCITAN
SECRET
CODE LANGUAGE
GREEN
CULT MEMBERS ONLY.
(Dog whistle decoders now
available for $100)
The text of DRUDDOCCITAN is partially translated from the
recently discovered “Scroll of the Stone People” and this chapter attempts to
assign meanings to the arcane language that has been discovered, and explain
the inexplicable imbroglios in the twisted carrots of word salads that
characterizes the Old Testament.
Linguists will note words from the Occitan language of ancient
France, formerly Iberia.
As an example, ‘MON AEROLISADOR ES PLEN
D'ANGUILAS My hovercraft is filled with eels.
Overheard in Venice
today, “debarias dejarlo ser”, you should have let it be.
Actually, I have fun with
words and I have many stories to tell and people need to expand their
vocabulary.
DRUDDOCCITAN
Code to salvation
AARGBALLS see
Sam half-face
ACABAR to
finish
AGHAST
ANAGAR
ANTonio
ALMADA AAA ATHEISM ANARCHY AND
AEROSMITH
ANARQUISTA ANARCHY Federación Anarquista Ibérica
ATROCITY
AND REPRISAL RELIGIOUS WARS
AUTHENTICO sounds
like authentic and it is
Anagar brother
of Anathar
Anathar brother
of Anagar
APOCALAPSE----THE
TIME YOU ARE WASTING WAITING FOR GODS RETURN
ATLANIS hardly
anyone knew chunks of polar ice was out drifting and melting in water 11,832
Y.A. The most catastrophic ocean rise IN THE MODERN ERA, levees were breached
during a disastrous high tide storm surge, flooding the Black Sea basin where
Atlantis was located. Once the water started rising, it took another 3 months
to hit the high-water mark. People had some time to run and there was an
earthquake, common in that area which made it seem like the end of the world.
People freaked and Atlanis went into decline as warm weather from 8 to 10
thousand years ago led to exploration and resettlements. By boat AND by land.
The Magi of Jesus' birth fame, were astronomers and astrologers. So were many
other people like the Mayans and Toltecs, I think.
AX AND
PENTACLE It's always happy hour at the AX
and Pentacle. Smoking Lounges The Cinnamon Teal and the Populuxe Café are
related to the Community Product and Service Exchange of Indian River.
AXOX the
male line From the Ooogllok clan. The daughters of Empress Polena began the
Oxax line
BEWILDERED
HERD boomers saving for retirement.
Blue
Moon moon cycle is 29.5 days so that works out to
12 or 13 full moons a year. One month will have 2 full moons and the second one
is a blue moon. June 30 2007 had a blue moon because there was also a full moon
on June 2. Blue New Moon Aug 1, 2008 and Aug 30, 2008
Bill and
Ted rule
the future that could be icons FACE THE MUSIC THEN, rule the future
that could be. Icons
BLUE
MOON moon cycle is 29.5 days so that works out to
12 or 13 full moons a year. Blue New Moon is when there are two New
Moons in a month. This one will take some work to figure out but the
next regular Blue Moon is on Samhain, October 31st 2020.
Halloween people. Shenanigans night. Milkshakes for fascists.
BOMBASTICS EGO
DRIVEN, sometimes RELIGIOUS, mind control freaks
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Boreas #5 god
of the north wind god
BOREASICATOR 23
triangles Symbol of Druddism turned twice a year. Symbolic of simple ceremony.
BRACING
DOSE OF HERESY the scorching fire of the critics of xianity and
xlam.
BRAGGADOCIO Braggers
with an Italian flare
BRAYING
SYCOPHANTS GOP
goons flunkies and toadies, donkey democrats got 'em too
Brighid Celt
goddess and Christian saint raised by Pagans. Imbolc ceremonies honor her.
Buddha
Bing! When magick happens, this noise
results.
BULTSNA Word of Swedish origin, meaning "a stubborn
insistence on premises being based on verifiable facts and sound logic, in the
face of an argument being widely advanced that is based on neither."
BUTTINSKI Oh
I forgot to tell you? Maybe it was none of your fucking business.
Buddha no
explanation needed but I probably should go over the five paths and all that.
Oh wait, this is just a listing!
Butterfly my
personal goddess manifests on earth as butterfly to remind me of the gift of
life.
Canadian
Beaver- always gives a dam endangered
species in the maple leaf state, none left in America. CANADIAN CARE
BEAVER- always gives a dam, an endangered species in the maple leaf state
Capitatatership capitalist
dictatorship. NOW IN RUSSIA AND CHINA, US IS NEXT.
CARBON
DATING a false guide, accuracy is severely compromised after
20,000 years, everyone nods their head as science baffles us with their
bullshit. As Thor says, “thou shalt not have false guides before
me.”
Christian
hammer, Charles
Martel stopped Arabs in the Battle of
Tours 732. Send 'em all back
cHRITIAN phony
christian small c
CHIP and
SKIP- dung beetles, contemporaries of Clam
Chocalatierax MUSE
in the clouds that makes us want to eat chocolate
CIVIC
GROUP our high thread count in the fabric of freedom
CLAM bean
scout in Boreal Canada, Lowest form of life in Druddism. Humans under
ten years old. DSid I say lowest form of life, human aged birth to 9. On 10th
birthday clams become moles. Hey you Clam! Get over here! They are
all called clam
COLONIAL
FORECLOSURE Call you a witch and while you are in jail, they
take your property
CORPORATE
INDUSTRIAL TYRANTS need to be hunted down and taxed
CROATAN to flee,
gone to Croatan. Live simply with the
earth
.
CRUSIFIXATION obsession
with Jesus’ death
CSUZAC Solstice
star
DABAKIETEASE blundering
ignorance
DAYLIGHT
SAVINGS TIME REFORM refers TO ALL government mandated nonsense that
needs to be eliminated.
Dennis
Leary the
best of coffee & meat “But that’s it”
DEARTH
DEXSIUA 3 powerful
goddess of the south wind.
DOCTOR
KURTS more myth than truth
DOOPAH an obsessive
idiot
Druddité
Scouts==They are called Clams till their tenth birthday and then they become
moles 10&11 years old +polecats, 12 and
13 lemurs 14 15
16 monkeys (Guides) 17
18 then becoming Rangers at age 19 the age
of adult initiation. At age 54 you can earn the title Elder Grouch.
Get your final badge, your grouch badge.
DRUDDGROVE where
drudmoot ceremony occurs. Three, five, six, ten trees, whatever you like or
meet in a living room, what do I
care?
DRUDDMOOT THE WAXING
MOON MEETING
ENCODE
LIBERTY embed equality, ostracize
criminality and vanquish cruelty. Sign at the entrance of the NOMOREWAR
Conference Center
ENDEMIC indicates
scarcity, exclusive to a region
ELLCRY tree goddess in book by Terry
Brooks LINK TO immortality
ESCALATING
MINIMUM WAGE three levels 12 --14--16. Worldwide 2--4--6 in
preparation to go higher.
Fa bela
pausa! Long time no see
FEALTY
Fence
of Protection A self protection spell to protect against fuckwads
and dickweeds.
FIREDOGS-
holds wood for the next Druddmoot shaped like a crescent moon. Ren and Stimpy
symbols carved or painted on them.
FRAN
TARKENTON the living icons; in football as in life don’t
throw it Away, run with the ball, don’t be scared of getting hurt.
FOUR
WINDS AND DIRECTION -North first and the North Wind is Boreas.... East we
look and Zemyna embraces us with her wisdom. South we have the warm life giving
winds of Dexsiua. West the unpredictable Zephyr. Meanings of the directions.
North is our strength and courage. East is our wisdom. South is the pulse
of life and west is our adventurous human nature.
GIANT
BEAVER 11 foot tall at the shoulders, it was
hunted to extinction by aggressive snot gobbling
Gaia- You don't fool around with
Mother Nature is a cultural reference you may have heard. Gaia is
the Earth Mother and James Lovelock wrote a book called the Gaia Hypothesis
where he speculates the earth is a living organism. Two groups I admire are the
Romuvans of Lithuania and the Hopis of the southwest United States and
they have traditions going back thousands of years stating how the
Ancient Mother created all life on the planet. My personal belief is that the
ancient goddess Zemyna of the Romuvan pagan religion is the actual Ancient
Mother and there are 9 Goddesses that assist her and as the Mother
sleeps these last 240,000 years they are trying to shape our planet into the
peaceful world we will someday achieve. The Creatrix.
Giles Corey to be crushed by rocks in
defense of justice. #23
GISELLE official Druddité ballet
Glaucus sea
god #6 power of prophecy.
GOBBER a big fat lie
GODS Zephyr 1 Giles
Corey 2 John Proctor 3 Jesus 4 Joseph 5 Julian The Apostate 6, Terminus 7 St
Francis Pope 8 JP2 9 Thomas Jefferson 10 Thomas Morton 11 Zeamuzi
12GODFRED 13NEPTUNE 14
BOREAS 15 Roger
Maris. 16 Pan 17 Priapus 18to 23 in negotiations. (taking
suggestions)
GODFRED king of the Danes
long ago. He challenged the Germanic tribes trying to Christianize them. He
fought Charlamagne in 808 A.D. with a seawall made from a double fence of rocksand
the entrance of the bay.. Christians conquered and named everything after
saints, so to promote the unnaming and deprogramming of society from the
chritian conquerors, we will name Hudson Bay and St James Bay simply, see also
Godfred Bay GODFREDIANS.
GRAND DUKE
MINDAUGUS the iron wolf envisioned a large and
formidable city that became Vilnius Lithuania
GREENLAND-
our sacred ground. Pilgrimages very popular every year, to watch as Greenland
heals herself after the Taliban invasion.
GRIND UP THE YAK HORN. Roll a joint
GUMBY gingerbread
house HOLIDAY icon. Someone 1,000 years from now hears a little
girl crying, “But mommy I want a plastic Gumby for my birthday.” ‘I’m sorry’
her mother replies ‘but those 20th century plastic pigs used nearly
all of the raw material and subsequent generations had to ration strictly till
finally it was completely recycled and it all ran out. There are no plastic
Gumby’s to be found anymore honey, I’m so sorry.”
“I wish I could go back to the 20th century
and tell them to use their resources more carefully” says the
child.
GUNBORGA
THE RUNE
CARVER goddess
of all media, I went looking for a famous woman Viking and found Gunborga; an
obscure but interesting character
HAMMER OF
THOR small heavy hammer used in Drudmoots is
ones own symbolic hammer of Thor. To instigate decisiveness. To initiate power
spells for farmers and workers. The peasants. The hammer of justice. They can
take away our guns but they can’t take our hammers.
HAIL
TO THE HAMMER SONG BY Faeroese metal band TY Druddite National
Anthem
HOLY TRINITY Mary Jesus
Mary Goddess Mary Half god
Jesus and his human wife; the Magdalene
HAPPY
HOUR AT THE AX AND PENTACLE Our secret online meeting
places. It's always happy hour at the Ax and Pentacle
HOLY
RAMPAGE OF CONQUEST a thousand years of forced conversion by Islam
and Christianity. Over a thousand years of atrocities and reprisal needs to end
HULDRA concubines
of the gods sometimes appear to
humans.
Independent
majority WORKER VOTER CITIZEN
Inexact
nonsense of religion and the precise bullshit of science. Don't believe in
anything.
INDEPENDENT MAJORITY WORKER
VOTER CITIZEN shall rule when they understand their power.
Inexact nonsense of religion and the precise
bullshit of science. I believe in everything and I believe in nothing
IGNONIMOUS, I don’t
know how its spelled, do you?
IMBROGLIO that’s another fine
mess you got us into.
Jarute ocean
goddess Shepard of life see
jurate. It was so long ago no one really seems to remember how to spell her
name.
JESUS stolen from us,
they twisted his philosophy and brainwashed for 1800
years Immortal goddess Mary was sent to earth to mate
with a mortal and conceived Jesus. Back then there were 3 or 4 dudes claiming
to be the dad after Jesus began preaching and performing feats of magic. He
wanted to develop a group of priests that were far more advanced in the healing
arts, would be significantly spiritual--- teachers who would selflessly help
the sick and disturbed. Most especially helping people steer away from violence
and sexual depravity. He’s probably up there in Valhalla itching for a return.
“Let me at ‘em, let me go back, I was hardly getting started.” He
went up against government and paid the ultimate price. He needed to cut and
run, not be brazenly defiant . A simple half human miscalculation and he missed
out on the second half of his life.
JIM
CARREY controls the fate of the number 23
JOAN OF
ARC She was about France, Chritianity was an
afterthought
JOMSBORG a
warrior God similar to Odin I guess. No fight is too difficult. Start a job and
be damn sure to finish it. Jomsborg Vikings were known for their fighting
spirit. "For Jomsborg!"
Jurate goddess
queen of the ocean
see John
Proctor stood up for the accused
witches in Salem. Tried to take the righteous stand during hysterical times.
Wrote letters to Boston to stop the witchcraft hysteria. He ended up being the
first man accused. Wife was hung, her new baby went
where? Time to bring back John Proctor you
might say to a fellow Druddité and they would know you mean: jumping in
where others fear to tread.
JOSEPH
THE CARPENTER #6 one of the 23 gods in my religion.
Became a god when he died around 25 A.D. Mother Mary had fallen in love
with a mortal. A boy needs a father and Joseph knew how to teach his son about
work and social ethics. God the father, see? Thanks Joseph for taking the
advice of the magi and taking Jesus to Eygpt where he learned the
pagan mysteries. Joseph the carpenter became
a God #10, in 25 A.D. after his earthly demise. Mary had fallen in love. They
had quite a dynamic relationship and Joseph was a wonderful example to his son
and in my religion, Joseph is Jesus’ actual biological father and later becomes
a god when he dies, God the Father, see?
Julian
#7 The last pagan emperor OF THE Roman Empire. He
advised the populace to "worship with exuberance"--Pagans
and Christians alike.
Julian was an emperor of the Roman
Empire in the mid 300’s and he was a “throwback, a philosopher emperor”.
Constantine the Converter 323-337? AD and successor (337-362AD were dead and
Julian became emperor. For Julian, (4) “philosophy provided the underpinning
for wise and moderate rule. Like many educated pagans, he combined mysticism
with rationalism.” (4) Romans briefly toss off the clothes of Christianity and
return to pagan ways one last time. Even back then Christians were often given
tax exempt status but when Julian became emperor he began taxing them again.
Check out “contra galilaeos” written in 362 by Julian where he logically
questions why Roman society should absorb this expense. Why did God not want
Adam and Eve to know the knowledge of good and evil? That sucks, said Julian,
and pagan practices had been in place all along and were encouraged again.
Julian declared that all people should practice their religion, whatever it
might be, “boldly without hindrance.” A thinking mans emperor, less war, more
rational
Platonism.
KRAVITZ nosy neighbor, not as
intrusive as buttinski TZIVARK
Lawagamau Lake in Canada, border of
proposed world peace conference center. Second meaning involves the
eschewing of technology and industrialization we no longer want.
LAURIE CABOT Prominent Wiccan has been
interviewed on Oprah and that, I consider her an icon because she showed what
we need to do. She helped stifle anti witch propaganda with a civil rights type
of organization that allowed Wicca to become acceptable and eventually
entrepreneurial in Salem and therefore elsewhere. To Laurie Cabot means
to open up a new market amidst great objection. I am glad I ran into her during
my Pagan Pilgrimage to Salem as she was in one of the shops talking with people
that came in. It was an unexpected surprise and I talked to her about this idea
I was forming. There are a lot pagans nobody knows about I said and many pagan
societies were peaceful. ‘Sounds like an interesting idea...” she said which
boosted my energy. A few days later my collection of ideas became a goal. To
make a compilation of interesting pagan history becoming my story: The History
of the Pagans.
Leif Eriksson Explored the cold north for habitats,
first European in America. LAWAGAMUA Lake
in Canada, border of proposed world peace conference center. Second
meaning involves the eschewing of technology and industrialization we no longer
want.
Madame
Blavatsky
MAPLE
LEAF STATE Canada
Margaret
Murray “The God of the
Witches”
MARION
WAWZENIECKA website?
Marija
Gimbutas- archaeologist has come closest to discovering the truth about the
connection between Lithuania and India and Atlanis. She wrote “Language of the
Goddess.” To many she proved there were pottery making, peaceful
goddess oriented towns and villages.
Mary
Magdalene- feast day July 22 Jesus’ lead
apostle, she told men to get a grip and go out and spread his message of love.
Mother
Mary 4 A goddess all
along. An immortal, she was sent to earth to mate with a human and give birth
to a son who would start a divine dynasty to raise human
consciousness. Jesus had a mind of his own however
and wanted to start a cult of priests
etc. Part of the Holy trinity in Druddité religion….Mary
Jesus Mary
MON ACI my most
excellent friend, usually ironic. It’s all about the inference.
MON AEROLISADOR ES PLEN D'ANGUILAS My
hovercraft is filled with eels
Mootgrove- where
meetings take place. “Meet at the usual mootgrove.”
MYSTERY OF LAKE
POTREZEBIE a strange place like Lake Woebegone where
people with many strange names live. Ollie J Rosky, beat
patrolman of Skitefrenia Falls. Sylvia j Poytnoyt-known for
screaming out in drunken abandonees. Groniger Herschfield on his nightly
rounds. Grand Imperial Krud he called himself in the klue
Klux Flan. He was nuts, people crossed the street when they saw him coming.
Zephyr the Flying Chuckwalla was Igor Dungs pet and jumped from tree to tree
like a flying squirrel. General Culpepper J Potrezebie for whom the lake was
named. And Clancy O'Rubenstein and his Kumquat Hounds.
NIKE who
the fuck they think they are naming corporations after gods
OBSEQUIOUS
OBFUSCATE
OZZY "DAY
of Judgement God is calling”
PAN Typecast
as a rogue but really the gentle soul #22
PARACITICIDAL a
pest that kills you
PEDANTIC
People of
Stonehenge We yearn to learn
PLATO being
logical
POLENTA something
not quite true "sounds like rolled corn to me" would cast doubt on
someone claim
POLYTHEIST code
word for Pagan
POPE
FRANCIS> JUST WOW, he is going to single handedly save the Church
POPE JOHN
PAUL SECOND #8 reached out to all people of
the world
Praetextatus
and Paulina 4th century pagan power couple
kind of like Bill and Hillary
PRAY
FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE invocations to keep genetics
and other waste products of our society from polluting the
slow to clean Artic Ocean. Protecting spells are also
appreciated AS WE TRY TO PREVENT THE
FINAL SLAUGHTER OF NATURE.
PRIAPUS god
of gardens #1
Quant
es how much is
this
Rau cat
goddess Mary Lou the cat was 32nd reincarnation. 33rd reincarnation will appear
as dumpster kitty at new world peace conference center in Canada. She
eventually becomes a Druddité icon a descendant of Ka, at the first goddess
kitty. Every time they tried to catch her for a sacrifice, she escaped. There’s
a story there.
RAWGAMAU eschewing
ritual practice we no longer need in the
future
REMEMBER HUMILITY a spell to keep us from
getting overconfident when things really begin to go well.
Ren and
Stimpy remember to
laugh
Richard
Hofstadter- oft quoted historian .
Richard
Pryor- brought comedy to the people
Rocco
Anagar Hornspread one of the prominent
Druddité personalities, as disorganization threatened to unravel aspects of
Druddism, he stepped in and with a minimum of administration overhead to helped
keep chaos at bay and by 2016 had also sent a large contingent of Druddité
Rangers during the Nebraska Takeover.
ROGER
MARIS #3 icon for fighting against the
overwhelming aspects of a mean spirited society. What was it like for the
person that came up with the Zeus or Odin idea when the idea was new and fresh?
I’m trying to capture this era of the loudmouth huckster for a historical yet
timeless approach. Rogers struggle becomes mythologized as the exaggerated
pressure of the press made it seem like an entire nation was against him. On
certain mornings Roger would see how he was misquoted and manipulated in the
newspapers and HOW this new medium of television made press pressure, far worse. Roger
and his “feud” with Mickey Mantle became news. So much pressure, and knowing
that the reporters wanted Babe Ruth’s record to last forever, or, if it was
going to be broken at least let Mickey do it. New York sportswriters were
prominent in those days. They purposefully tried to make him crack with lies
and exaggerations and Roger was just a farm boy who expected people to be
honest. See, your Gods from long ago were all kinda made up and here I am
deifying somebody 20 years dead and making him a God. I order to tell our pagan
stories, to translate these things for all the People. How modern myths and
legends begin. Who’s to say Roger Maris doesn’t become a god like Zeus in two
hundred years. Where did Nordic myths begin in the first place? See
“Son of Populuxe”
Rozanacus- Spirits
from another part of the galaxy. The Ancient Mother, the 9 Goddesses born from
her and Zephyr. The mermaids and Mermaids and the Dolphin Spirits. The first
immortals to reach sphere of earth.
Seattle -
Native American understood the value of the land and didn’t understand greed
Stanislas
Szukalski artist inspired by pre-Christian tradition
Starhawk
Stevie
Nicks reputed to be a Wiccan. I think
her song ‘Rhiannon” was about the goddess Rhiannon
St
Francis of Assisi best saint ever,
he can be a druddite god, hardly a false idol and a most wonderful example of
peaceful living. A model life and exactly what we need today.
SYCOPHANT
Sylvia
Browne much acclaimed Gnostic. Gnostics are so heretical they
have to be considered pagans.
Sylvia
Orcutt another famous witch, currently
active.
Samantha
Stevens when the pupil is ready the teacher will appear.
SAM
GAMGEE represents the working man as the ultimate
hero, the humble peasant getting to Mt. Doom, with Frodo the preppy on his
back, and having been quoted saying: “The one small garden of a free gardener
was all my need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; my own hands to use
not the hands of others to command.” Sam from Lord of the Rings
Seattle - Native American understood the value of the land
and didn’t understand greed
Stanislas Szukalski Polish artist
inspired by pre-Christian tradition
Steve
Irvin god of
reptiles What
did Steve say about dragons?
STRAWBERRY THUNDER
St
Francis of Assisi best saint ever, he can be a druddite
god,#2 hardly a false idol a most wonderful example of
peaceful living. A model life and exactly what we need today.
Sylvia
Browne much acclaimed Gnostic. Gnostics are so heretical they
have to be considered pagans.
Sylvia
Orcutt another famous witch, currently
active.
System
Down Yu-gi-oh card. Ultimate Drudd card to stop opponents’ use of overwhelming
technology to destroy your
village. Talpa
Finfur. First mammal to be given a soul in humans evolutionary
line. Intelligent design? Some say initial experimentation was a
little careless and premature as the hapless blind creatures just fresh from
shaking off their gills are expected to figure out the meaning of life and
embrace spirituality.
Tanequil plant
goddess a link to a parallel world.
Tarzans
Monkey he had it going on, better than most humans.
Temerity
Templars They
were Christians massacred by Christians for trying to find a peaceful medium a
joining of Moslem and Christian. There is a lot of information available. See
Future primitive.
Terminus #9 roman
deity who presided over frontiers
The Great
White Polecat reputed to be an
albino mink ferret, the first soul in the evolution of polecats during the
second stage of evolution by Rozanacus. Intelligent design at it’s finest; we
were on our way once again.
Thomas
Jefferson- I hadn’t realized till very recently that Jefferson had his own
personal religion, like me. If he could describe it as the “God of
Nature,” then he was basically a pagan
Thomas
Morton and the Merry Mount
TOUCH
HOLE ONE WORD OR TWO?
Trakai
Castle
Treebard the primary person involved
in getting meetings together or a trio of people with bigger group, the
Druddités Drudmoots
UNCLE
JACK-
Franciscan monk. Ascetic-check meanings. “Make me a channel for your peace. 3rd
order. Also has dude culture meaning
Vanir Viking
god of agricultural prosperity and fertility.
Vikings. Recreations of Viking
villages in recent years show that there were many facets to Viking life, not
the depraved and grossly barbaric which became the face of the Vikings when
actually the peaceful ones were all at home being excellent to each other. -
Northern crusades, people were forced to adopt Christianity or
die. Used as Scapegoats for those centuries religious proselytizers
WETHERSFIELD
GREEN I really
enjoyed the historical aspects of living in a town that is now 375 years old.
Half the houses on my paper route were built before 1825, and the Town Green
was right in the middle of my route and is a very peaceful and memorable place
for playing baseball or flying kites, walking the dog, pushing a stroller and I
can easily imagine the contemporaries of Paul Revere, the Post Riders, allowing
their horses to graze while chatting with friends before taking the trip south
to New Haven and Old Saybrook to deliver the mail.
WE’UNS Y’all
is you and we’uns is us.
Y.A. Years
ago. Or YA. Instead of 6000 B.C., its 8007 Y.A.Once you get past
A.D., Anno Domoni, the exact date doesn’t matter
much, right? Unless of course you are having a birthday party for Plato.
YEMAYA
AND THE PSYCHIC VILLAGES OF STONE MAGIC
Zeamuzi corn
god sacrifices himself to increase harvest
SECTION FIVE
A BRACING DOSE OF HERESY
-5-1-
Liberty in ascendance over Religion
Do we follow the 9th commandment ……or the 9th amendment of the Bill of rights, constitution thingy? In the case of white xian nationalist ‘patriots’, the answer is neither.
From the Great Book of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Rigatoni #23 verse 9. "Though others may pass through my strainer and into the void, thou whost believeth in me, will stick to my teeth as oregano clings to a meatball."
Here in 2022, venom spewing conservatives continue to take a country that was filled with hope and enthusiasm at the turn of the Millennium, and turned us into a fractious, mistrustful and divided nation. People were ready to ride the positive momentum of a budget surplus and the realization that TECH was going to be a boon to research and problem solving and communication. The 35-hour work week and a higher minimum wage was within view. Tech was going to make everything quicker and easier.
I remember the progressive ideas that were being discussed at the time, despite Newt Gingrich’s Contract on America with its jingoistic patriotism and corporate fealty. American Industrial production shifted to China and those in the know made a fortune in their investments.
It seemed that American innovation was going to be unleashed with small business leading the way in 2000 to create new ways to make sustainable green businesses and creating advancements. The cream of this unleashed talent would rise to the top, but alas, George Bush, led us back to 1953.
Remember when the national discussion was energy self-sufficiency and Infrastructure Repair? Yeah, me neither. We needed a fresh, optimistic new start, and it had nothing to do with Republicans and Democrats. It had to do with Liberty and our ability to create without coercion. Here comes 9-11 and Americas response was vengeful hysteria. 
Small business creates more jobs than the big corporations, let’s remember, and as I often say, “the innovations of the future are going to come from the garages of America, not the boardrooms of corporations.”
We gave Reagans Big Business Era of Greed a chance and we’ve been turning the other cheek as the religious kooks stole our nations narrative, and now we wonder what the fuck happened?
There is a perception throughout the world that America still has the racist and sexist fire in the belly: this toxic fuel that heats Qanon anger as they buy ammunition and prepare for the worst. glennbeck and rushlimbaugh sounded like, the charismatic right wing jackbag at the donut shop, or breakfast place, holding court as underpaid teens sling the donuts. Slack jaw yokels nod as these ‘pundits’ jettison dissension and fear. Paranoia of goddam everything, it seems.
They have wanted to go back to 1950 since 1962 and they influence public opinion more than we’d like to admit. The only problem is that>>> their world has died, and the Old Order refuses to admit it. At the donut shop you hear, "I earned that lifetime pension defending our country, not like those welfare queens and food stamp moochers".
What the alcoholic military pensioner doesn't like to talk about is that he or she worked 18 of those 20 years, selling boots in the commissary. Hardly defending our country, but thoroughly enjoying the perks of a socialistic, overly huge, bloated and corrupt supply chain for the military.
I’m reminded of Republicans standing guard at Terry Schiavos bedside, trying to second guess a husbands decision, living with a brain-dead Mrs. Schiavo for 10 years. Now they stand guard in front of the crumbling façade of Manifest Destiny, holding up the pillars of the Old Order.
It's IVEGOTMINE on steroids; Greed, Control, and Coercion is the 3 legged stool they all try to crowd themselves onto. I'll keep my guns, my god, my money; they say, and you keep the change referring to Obamas hope and change. Their world of moral high ground religious hypocrisy; of wars against political enemies, and an economic system destined to collapse; is now finally dying. As the Old Order of Divine Kings died in 1790 and Liberty was born, we began our pursuit of happiness. Now it’s time to burn down the Patriarchy.
We had wanted to make neglected bridges safe, and dangerous highway conditions lessened. Not to mention shoring up the electrical grids that break down during blizzards and heat waves. #girdthegrid
So, instead of streamlining our nation, 9-11 happened, the flags came out and the Islamic/Christian Holy War flared up again.
You’re not just giving people jobs when you fortify a bridge or make an animal friendly highway overpass. The bridge won’t need to be replaced for 50 years and this is real wealth, sometimes referred to as natural capital. We expect our government to repair our infrastructure like we would repair our home, right? Face palming their audaciousness, we look on in horror as Rethuglicans are still too busy talking about social issues like allowing children to legally work again. We need to fix our bridges, but their concern is putting more (chritian) god in the classrooms.
Everything is permissible when you don the armor for Christ as these christian warriors describe it. Social ostracism to isolate the heretic, ridicule and shame for the Atheist and gossipy false witness to all who oppose them and hinder their take over the world agenda. Don’t let the “have a blessed day” fool you. Let me make it clear, and say, that Jesus is one of my favorite gods and I never mean to mock him, and I strongly object to these corporatist fascist Qanon dim bulbs and their claim to him.
My intention is to debunk their claim to divine assistance, the agenda (gods plan) handed down many thousands of years ago. Time to invalidate these lackeys, dupes and Hillbilly fundamentalists. Otherwise, our level of discourse will return to 1692 and the Salem Witch Trials. Bearing false witness is when you lie or speak ill of another person’s intentions and motivations or malign their character……”
“How do you know that she is a witch?
“She turned me into a newt.”
“A newt?”
Pregnant pause, “I got better.” Monty Python
Everyone pays lip service to Christianity, but there’s thousands of Christians out there, right now, bearing false witness about our president; lying, deceiving, cheating, disparaging, gossiping. Mean spirited ‘religious people’ who appear themselves inhabited by some evil spirit. In any given minute there are a million Christians telling lies and bearing false witness, I'm sure.
Little white lies like the one I used to hear in church about Mary Magdalene are okay though. A classic example of bearing false witness; for many years, priests linked Jesus’ best friend, Mary Magdalene, with 3 different whores in the bible during their sermons.
It was suggested Mary Magdalene was the penitent whore who washed Jesus feet with her hair. She was also the whore the mob was going to stone to death, remember? Then there’s some other groggy slut episode that escapes me at the moment. Then, in 1969, the Church issued a Papal Bull regarding this mistaken zeal and formally apologized. They also upgraded her from Floozy to; Not a Floozy.
How about the 9th amendment to the American Constitution that states," The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The 9th Amendment means that any right not enumerated, or listed, in the Constitution is still retained by the people. Not an overarching religious authority, or emergency government control, but the people saying ---whoa there---I call the 9th amendment on you.
They want god and country to be married completely, church and state on a blissful honeymoon, forever cleaving together as one fleshy appendage writhing in harmony. Reverend Redscare telling us what god told him to tell US.
-5-2- I’M NOT GOING TO HELL AND NEITHER ARE YOU
Will I see my demon possessed cat when I go to Hell?
A thousand years after the Gnostics were thrown to the lions and booted out of Christianity, the Cathars and their gnostic beliefs in the 12th century were also brutally repressed. The Cathars just wanted to believe about Jesus, and they were on the verge of breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church. This was like, hundreds of years before Martin Luther.
Eventually the Pope convinced knights in the rich north of France to invade the rural south, and these Parisian lackeys obtained castles and land as a result of the invasion. Rich farmland that the ring kissing knights had craved.
Then came the Baltic Crusades of the 13the century, and the Papal Army took 100 years to put the Slavic countries under their control with Lithuania being the last pagan led country to fall in 1386.
In 1453 the warlockiam diabolicus described the evil things witches do and the witch holocaust began in earnest. Christianity has always had an abundance of enemies they needed to kill. The 15/1600's saw many wars as conflicts between Catholics and Protestants intensified.
Personally, I have this theory that Jesus was going to invalidate this evil god, this Jehovah, this irrational & emotional train wreck of a deity who wrote the Old Testament. “Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus asks. “To you I have commended my spirit?” he questions. You may gasp at the thought that god is not as he is portrayed according to my perspective, but heresy is not against the law in the United States any longer, so thanks for opening your mind to alternatives. You really need to question the authenticity of something that was told to goat herders 4,000 years ago. Gotta have faith? We don't start fires with rocks anymore, so why do we need to study the incomprehensible malarkey that is twisted into every inconceivable shape by modern day Cotton Mathers?
-5-3- TOUGH LOVE I GUESS
Encode liberty, embed equality, ostracize criminality, vanquish cruelty, invalidate injustice, banish coercion, CULTIVATE OPPORTUNITY, and sleep on the couch as needed.
I believe Jesus was tricked at that crucial nexus of history, and his life was cut short by this demon god of the old testament, and the Pharisee brown nosers who were finding Jesus and his crew troublesome. Zionist dittoheads out for a night of bearing false witness.
The trickster god, the Great Pretender, and what I believe is the manifestation of the myth of the Doomsday Hound was behind Jesuss' execution. The deceiving light: even Jesus was not powerful enough to defeat him.
Jesus is the real light, the Christ Consciousness, but that’s a story for another day.
From the Bible, referring to the Apocalypse or Armageddon, Revelation verses 14:9-12 says that accepting the mark of the Beast is a one way ticket to an eternal barbeque where you will be basted with God’s special angry sauce and you’ll be……..well, here, straight from the horses mouth.
“Anyone worshipping the beast from the sea or his statue and accepting the mark on the forehead or the hand, must drink the wine of the anger of God: it is poured out undiluted into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning Sulphur in the presence of the Holy Angels and the lamb. The smoke of their torture rises forever and ever, and they have no relief day or night, for they worshipped the beast and his statue, and have been tattooed with the code.”
Go dude! Bring out those boiling lobster pots of revenge.
Now there is a religion for you! Disagree with us and you will be tormented forever with unimaginable tortures by our god personally: forever and forever. I don’t think so! Let’s hope that the Old Testament God got a vacation and maybe some medication. An anger management class probably would have helped. We haven’t heard from him lately so I’m guessing he’s in an intergalactic prison somewhere.
This is the god I want to embrace my American freedom of speech and freedom of association, not to mention my pursuit of happiness? This is the god we praise and toast and thank and give credit to? Despite the lack of any facts, he gets credit for creating the whole world and every complicated organism there is? In a couple of days, no less. Why do people need this?
The god we thank for helping us win the Academy awards or American Idol while much better actors and singers sleep in their cars? Created the whole universe too? Wow, what a guy. How do we know this to be true, it just is you say---I got to have faith. God will bring miracles to my life, if I give myself over to him.
Installing the christian security blanket and invisible friend as de facto leader of the United States is simply madness. The Founding Documents are there for those of us who use logic. The Unitarian Universalists have been around since 1650 or so, I am told, and the UU’s are the perfect religion for binding all wounds caused by xianities insanity. Bring what you got and be a volunteer and be a part of the community.
Who needs the freedom of speech when the only book I really need is the Bible? This is what the home-schooled Christian children hear from their fundamentalist parents. Reading the Bible enhances their American pursuit of happiness, I’m sure. Here’s where the 9th amendment comes in. The founding revolutionaries tried to implement a complete system of government but you can’t think of everything. The 9th amendment says that in the absence of law, we need to be judiciously guided by the spirit of our freedoms and that all authority refers back to all the people. Not the Bible.
Do children have civil rights? Do the parents “own” them like slaves or cattle? There are children who are made to work 12 hours a day, pretending they are "home schooled. “The only book they DO read is the Bible, and I wonder if their civil rights or human rights are being violated? Maybe they are routinely chained to a bed for punishment because, well, the devil is in possession of the child, and I’m the parent they say. I can do what I need to do to discipline my child say the people in court for killing their “demon possessed child”.
Like Martin Luther talking about "demons, that live in clouds” back in the 16th century, there has not been much evolution of thought regarding the Devil. If you can’t explain something, just say, “the devil made me do it.” This sounds kind of like, “I’m sorry about last night, but I was drunk,” just another excuse. Martin Luther started the first protestant religion, and he thought demons were in the clouds among other places. Can we please… evolve?
The separation of church and state says to me that you can believe what you want at home, but do not insult my sense of logic with this nonsense in the workplace, or in social situations. I don’t think people are realizing the rapid rise in atheism this century is due to children being more logical, and there is a rising sentiment that Christianity has nothing to do with Christ anymore anyways.
Of course, there are good Christians out there, but statistically, Atheists are the kinder demographic. They find the concept of god implausible and prefer to have their own thoughts. Atheists have to stand boldly alone in many situations because the Christians know they can form a mob with a calculated scare tactic at a moment’s notice. They’d step over their own mother to smite an atheist. You can’t have people doubting the existence of god.
-5-4- ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASS
In 325 A.D. Roman Emperor Constantine used Christianity to bring all the far-flung pagan deities into line. Essentially, the Pauline’s and others established christianity as a woman and pagan hating political party. Much of the bible is about what this corrupt clergy want you to think Jesus said. Then I wonder, did Jesus ever tell stories about his youth in Egypt? Or what he did in his 20's; where he travelled? Those stories and others were censored by this political party. There were like 50 books in the Bible but after the sleepy Synod of 325 AD there were only 25 or so.
Jesus never said anything like, “Women, be doth like chattel.” Or “thy life sucks and then thouest dies”. The bible writers censored Jesus’ actual sermons and starting in 325 or so, the Christians, the Romans, then the Caliphates burned down the Library of Alexandria over a span of 400 years. The library of Alexandria contained hundreds of thousands of scrolls that were the single copies of writings, traditions, philosophies and myths of the ancient days. There is a reason the bible became a popular book. All the other ones were destroyed!
People tend to think Jesus endorsed everything written in the old testament, but he didn’t. He tried to stay under their radar best he could till he was ready for his incendiary ministry. He was trying to adapt his teachings to the conventional wisdom of the day, trying to avoid the hypocritical nonsense of the Pharisee ditto heads. His buddy, Mary Magdalene, was actually a teacher from the Pagan Mystery Schools in Egypt- you know, where Jesus grew up. She was even a Telestes, an initiator for the rites of Isis and you can bet she and Jesus talked about a lot of different spiritual things. She had an intellect to match his own it is said, while the male disciples were lunkheads that got fishing hooks caught on each other’s faces.
The old testament god seemed to be an emotional train wreck of a deity, as I stated before, and I want you to be prepared for a bracing dose of what LIBERTY actually is. The illuminated ones created this ‘god’ and protected the “sacred writing” in any way they could. The world’s first political party "The Levite Party, found a way to convince people that god spoke to Abraham and also speaks through them in spirit. Guided by the hand of god, they wrote the bible. Not!
Jesus nearly ruined it for them as he was subtly saying their leadership was fraudulent and was therefore assassinated as part of a political power play by the Reprehensible Deplorables of those days.
The author, Merlin Stone, pointed out the historical beginnings of the bible, or torah they called it back then. This god they praise and who wrote their holy book, told the Levites of long ago to “burn their daughters if they playeth the whore.” Rules like this put women into second class citizenship.
There is no antichrist coming and of course the bible talks about people “falling away from the faith”; well, it happens to nearly every religion. Now it’s being told people who don’t believe the bible are doomed, hell bound and spellbound by Satan and his demon lackeys, who are all over the place. Only the clergy can see them or sense them, or really holy chritians. Come on. Is it really still the Dark Ages? You don’t have to be an Atheist to see the faulty logic in all that.
The Propaganda lately is that Goddess worship is Satanism. Satan is a rebel and witches are rebellious, so witches are actually following satan, GET IT? Do you get that this is being said by TV evangelists, and people believe it? Not a very sophisticated spin, but the result will be the same; a continued discrimination of women.
It’s like when Lewis Black is pointing out how glenn beck is always bringing out the Nazi card in one of the funniest comedy sketches ever. “Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette's! Using that logic…… Mother Theresa had a mustache ……. Hitler had a mustache ………. Mother Theresa is Hitler.” Kind of like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon with these false witness bearing preachers spotting demons. Here in Indian River County, we have professional liars such as Pastor Buddy Tipton who says there is an evil pagan entity that controls people’s minds down in the Jungle Trail area. I mean, I can be accused of slander by pointing this out?
Apostasy will be the karma of the violent cult of the Paulines that got out of hand, took over Jesus’ preaching and teaching. The evil purveyors of the old testament usurped Christianity. This false religion manifests itself today with Republican Greedmongers who use Christianity as a cover for their evil deeds.
Apostasy is the great falling away from the faith and it is inevitable, and this will be the true Armageddon. The end of Judaism Christianity and Islam. The Peasant Revolt will over throw all religious nonsense and bring government under control and tear up corporate charters of polluters and financial crooks.
This is America, there is no bible in our founding documents. A mention of Jeffersons God of Nature maybe, but that’s about it. The Green Man is not satan and the statue of liberty IS the goddess Libertas who holds her lamp aloft for us to always act with a clarity of vision. But wacko xians think the statue of Liberty is a demon or something.
Christians? George Washington wore a mason apron at his inaugural for crying out loud, and the American Revolution was not started by people coming home from church. This country was founded by open minded intellectuals who were well read and brave enough to fight for the idea of liberty, even against the greatest fighting force ever assembled on this planet. An empire that had taken over 75 countries. These founding masons were quite aware of the oracle at Delphi and the many goddesses of ancient days.
The American Revolution started with the 'despicable rabble' of Boston Towne, the rock throwing, stamp collector effigy hangin, bar room debating restive roughnecks. This country was created by people who finally outsmarted the christians politically. Maybe the flag with the 13 stars in a circle was something Ben Franklin brought back from his debaucheries and his pursuit of happiness with the witches in France. It always has reminded me of a coven. May the circle be unbroken.
Our founding revolutionaries are accused of being slave owners and that, but the foundation of liberty had to begin somewhere and it had to begin somehow, it couldn’t arrive full blown out of nowhere. the Sons of Liberty who instigated the revolution, were not slave owners or slave holders.
Of course there’s a goddess, the mother of all life is a dude? I don’t think so. The law of the universe is magnetism and evolution, attraction and growth. The attraction of male and female and our need for each other that is symbolized in the flower and the seed. I witness for Jesus right now, he has become my favorite god and brings me revelations, curiously the most during the New Moon sunrise. Love thy neighbor is what he wants us to believe in, forget what that mad hatter mass murdering old testament false idol.
Here is more from Revelation. Revelation 13:19 “So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God. And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses' bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.” Does somebody need an anger management class here? What in the fucking hell?
What is it about the great harlot of Babylon that all these preachers and kooks talk about? Here is also from Revelation 14:1, “no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste.” huh?
“And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? / And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; / And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? And they could not answer him again to these things.”
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Here is a quote from Barry Goldwater, "the religious factions will go on imposing their will on others, unless the decent people recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives. We have succeeded in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic."
Republican right wing stalwart Goldwater was a real conservative and so was Teddy Roosevelt. People that call themselves “conservative” today are actually authoritarian bigots and fundamentalist troglodytes.
Mental hospitals are filled with people who think they are Jesus, or talk to god, or see demons and whatnot. The great awakening of the 1730’s was a last gasp of religion when it should have just died and went away, the vine shriveling as the season of dark ages bugaboo ended. This religious joy the Christians claim occurred during the great awakening of the 1730’s is patently false and was not a strong impulse in America; as much as these religious doopahs insist.
Conservative historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called ‘America in
“Sorry”, I’m told, “there is only one way to heaven and there is no stop drop and roll in hell,” warns the sign out near the highway.” “Jesus saves”, it says on the tires that people put on fence posts on Interstate 95.
“Won’t I go to heaven for living a fundamentally decent life,” I asked Christian dudes I have worked with, and the question I’ve asked dozens of times to other cult members who have tried to convert me in the past.
“No,” I was informed, “I have to accept Jesus Christ as my savior” he insisted. I refuse to believe we live in an evil universe with a deity that craves worship and sends most souls to an eternity of torture. I am passionate in my effort of deprogramming people, but some of these dimwits are beyond help.
Home school or Sunday bible class or Wednesday rec program, little children are being told they will burn in a lake of fire for millions of years if they sin. This abomination is the primary result of the Great Awakening from the 1730’s that lingers even today and it’s why the church does not belong in public schools. The Great Awakening was a disease-like insanity where preachers told congregations that hell was going to burn you up for literally millions of years. There had always been Dante’s version of the gnashing of teeth and fires and iron maidens stretching your guts apart, but the Great Awakening of the 1730’s popularized the idea of eternal torment, that survives, incredibly till today.
Churches were particularly cruel in those days, enthusiastically supporting torture and the enslavement of minds. They meted out punishments and promised an eternity of gods angry wrath, quite the opposite of the spirit of our constitution. There was to be no freedom of speech with Christianity spearheading a government and thank the goddess that masons such as Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin and Paul Revere didn't fall for that nonsense.
George Washington outfoxed them and created this country…. despite Christianity’s continual attempt to usurp the authority of the people, and their continued efforts in our modern times to subvert liberty. Criticize the Founding Revolutionaries as you will, but it's important they did what they did at the time that they did.
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Government has a real good time spending your money and making confusing laws that favor special interests because nearly 40% of Congress are lawyers. Forget parties, vote out the lawyers who have created this law debilitated society.
To delete as many laws as possible should be our goal and enforce the ones we choose to keep. Respect all the laws in harmony with the spirit of the 9th amendment. Government needs to be reduced and that is certain, but not with the chain saw of possessed Q-baggers, but a judicial and impartial ax.
The Foundation of authority lay with the free consent of the people, not the mysterious bugaboo of these christian snake oil salesman who burned the books and knowledge of many cultures. In their letters to the editor recently, Christians say there is some awakening with God and country, but it ain’t true, I’m telling ya’. This countries freedoms were achieved despite religion, and now these wackos are out of the tent and off the chain with more lies and deceptions than people can refute.
Here is Professor Richard Hofstadter describing the true character of many of the early settlers. It wasn’t like the sanitized old movies and their sappy sentimentality with its defined good guys and bad guys. According to Hofstadter, “the most venturesome or visionary, the most impatient and restive under authority, the most easily alienated, the most desperate and cranky, were the most restless to leave(England), giving at least the initial population of the colonies a strong bias towards a dislike of authority”
Glenn Beck has been sadly rewriting history, brainwashing the population and these people are bobbing their heads thinking he is such a history expert. However, compared to Hofstadter, he’s not much more than a rhetorician and …well…a rodeo clown. I intend to fight this misology, zealotry and bigotry with another way to look at our history to give people a fairer and more balanced outlook. I’m here for ya baby! I research so you don’t have to.
Glenn Beck does not speak for our founding revolutionaries. On many of the websites I enjoy, quotes of our deist and mason founders show that they actually despised religion and I’ll leave it to you to find them, it’s sort of common knowledge these days. I want to go deeper to truly capture the spirit of the people who believed in the American Revolution because by 1776 Americans were firmly in favor of not having god lead the country since they had left the divinely appointed king.
The sociology of the nation was that of an open-minded freedom that abandoned coercive religion. They understood the importance of keeping church and state separate. It was the hot topic in all the pubs because they know god is not making the rules in a theocracy, really, but it was the preachers that god has delegated authority to. So they said. How did they know? They were professional liars is why.
The preachers, pastors and priests have usurped the inherent goodwill that god has in our world by insisting god talks to just them.
That mysterious benevolent invisibleness was absconded with a long time ago by politicians who used Jesus name as a shield for their violent control of governments. Big Brother has been here all along. Starting in
They eradicated truths that people had been gathering for thousands of years, an avaricious tyranny from the start, that knew no bounds. Fire was great for banishing long held truths of all the conquered people of the world and burning sacred groves and forests was one of their specialties.
With the rise of Catholicism, networks of lackeys and stooges arose in many governments. The greasing of palms and paybacks and corruption and weapon trading and the constant wars were normalized. Christianity was Big Business, and just like the way McDonalds put many small diners and restaurants out of business, christians destroyed many peaceful communities.
By 650 A.D. Islam had joined Christianity in this Holy Rampage of Conquest as they converted the masses at the edge of a scimitar; conquering free spirited cultures. God talks to us through the bible- really? Through the Koran say others. What I call the Holy Rampage of Conquest. They seem to be fighting each other, but actually they have been collectively taking over the world.
“That’s great” Jesus might say when he returns in 2022, “You defended my honor by killing millions of people…what are you people thinking?.....No thank you.” He would say this while symbolically wiping his hands of the association with Christianity, much like what Pilate did when the Pharisee dittoheads wanted to crucify Jesus.
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SATANS WILDERNESS BASTION
“Early Christians experimented with a variety of formal arrangements, from relatively unstructured charismatic organizations, to more fixed hierarchical orders. In some congregations, leadership was shared among men and women according to the movement of the spirit in inspiring gifts of prophecy, teaching, healing, administrations and service. Others were headed by elders, bishops, deacons and widows. In many, women and slaves were important leaders; others resisted this reversal of the dominant social order and worked to exclude them.”
The Bible Koran and Torah, and Pagans like the Romans, who dismissed their women as unworthy of civil rights. Women were mere vessels to birth exalted warriors and infallible popes, and wondrously and divinely appointed Kings, along with Bishops and Earls and Dukes. Birthing the mighty servants of god was an important role, as patriarchal pastors, priests and preachers gained control of as many cultures as possible. It's believed that the Bible was excoriated of all references to women. Mary Magdalen was too important to be hidden so she was marginalized as a whore, as all pagan women were.
The search for the roots of the Mary Magdalene story led me to southern France. She left Palestine after the crusifixation, and travelled to southern France. Or as I read recently, Mary and other Friends Of Jesus(FOJ) were set adrift in boats on the Mediterranean without oars and the Mary Magdalene group landed in southern France. She was sainted in 1900 and her feast day is July 22nd. In southern France there are churches dedicated to her and her feast day brings on a lot of celebration. There is a mystery to the history in this area. Once called the Languedoc, it is also home to the language called Occitan and a famous group of heretics called the Cathars, and also the place where the Troubadours sprang from a very long time ago.
John Lamb Nash speaking of Mary Magdalene and Jesus and that they were actually pagans. (1) ”regarded as Pagans and heretics, Jesus and Magdalene would have been a pair of initiated teachers from the mysteries, the spiritual universities of the classical world. As such they would have taught the divine potential of humanity, but not claimed divinity for themselves, or anyone. The aim of gnosis was to know what the Gods know, neither to become God in human form nor even to find God in one’s innermost self. Almost all we know of Mary Magdalene comes from gnostic sources, texts that portray her as an accomplished seer, an initiated teacher, a telestes. She would have been an enlightened woman facing a world in spiritual crisis.
At the dawn of the Piscean Age 2,130 YA (years ago) some Pagan teachers emerged from the anonymity of the Mystery Cults and undertook a public mission to address the controversy centered on a single crucial question; Is human fate pre-determined, or can we each be guided through a life of our own choosing?
In that time of tremendous upheaval, a kind of New Age fever raged across the Roman Empire. Many people expected a messiah to come and bring social justice. As gnostic initiates (Jewish or not), Jesus and Magdalene would have been committed to the task of spiritual guidance, helping people in all classes of society to find their way against the dictates of fate. It was a moment of tremendous promise, when a great shift for humanity might have transpired. What happened instead was that Roman Christianity took control of the social and political life of the classical world. The pagan profile of Jesus and Mary, which is strongly supported by historical and textual evidence, undercuts the sacred bloodline scenario because what they very likely believed in was Tantric Principles and procreation was discouraged.” (1)
Here are some viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths that will fill our media in 2013. 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.
(2)“A strain of rationalism was strong in the Anglican Church, and worse still, had given rise to Deism, which needed no church at all, and with 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 like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was clearly loosening its religious stays, and the example of such men would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including, freedom of thought.” One of those pagan virtues enshrined in our constitution.
“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,” writes Hofstadter. 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 that is prophesied. People around the world cannot figure out American Christians and why they are so extreme. Here is Pat Robertson and what he said about Haiti, with one of his most perplexing platitudes. “You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” facepalm
As the 1730’s progressed, a religious fervor gripped the populace and the following is a quote from the fiery preacher responsible for much of it, Jonathan Edwards, (and more comments from Richard Hofstadter.) “It is a reasonable thing to fright persons away from Hell.” His famous sermon ’Sinners in the hands of an angry god’ was to do just this,” Hofstadter tells us, “to bring his listeners to a vivid sense of eternal punishment and to impress them with the necessity of immediate contrition, since death might strike at any moment. A sermon such as a sadist might have trembled to deliver, it was presented by Edwards in a posture of transfiguration, his gaze firmly fixed on the bell rope that led upward to the steeple. The people of Enfield were urged to consider the torment of burning like a livid coal not for an instant or a day but for millions and millions of ages and they would never be delivered’”. How’s THAT for a sales pitch?
I have my doubts about this Christian God creating everything and disagree with peoples insistence that I should just accept it: don’t mock god I’m told. I do not believe that some magical Dude with a really big wand created the universe and life on earth. From like, out of nowhere basically. No experiments in his garage just POOF …. I am creator of everything. Hogwash, the only constant of the universe is matter and magnetism. Where the spirit came from we can only guess. An imposter, a poseur wrote the WORD.
I propose these demons have another source. Demons are called into the Material World by Pentacostalists and others as they “speak in tongues.” Then these demons jump into people like Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Half-Truth Hannity and some of the others, trying to corrupt society with hateful mean spirited brainwashing: uh huh, this is a true rumor I heard.
This modern Great Awakening is really an attempt to put everyone back in the box and put everyone to sleep so this sweet land of liberty becomes a repressive theocracy. Edward Gibbon wrote about clergy and the basic deceptions of Christianity and how they are the antithesis of Liberty and Freedom in 1776. He compared the light hearted spirit of freedom that was developing, as a startling contrast to the cold empty life that a Taliban style Christian ayatollah inspired world and what that would be like. “The acquisition of knowledge, the exercise of our reason or our fancy, and the cheerful flow of unguarded conversation, may employ the leisure of a liberal mind. Such amusements however, were rejected with abhorrence, or admitted with the utmost caution, by the severity of the church fathers, who despised all knowledge that was not useful to salvation, and who considered all levity of discourse as a criminal abuse of the gift of speech. The unfeeling candidate for Heaven was instructed, not only to resist the grosser allurements of the taste or smell, but even to shut his ears against the profane harmony of sounds and view art with indifference.” Edward Gibbon 1778
I don’t even understand how Christians can claim this is a Christian Nation. Their precepts are not compatible with the codes created in the American Constitution. Beginning with Thomas Morton the Pagan Pilgrim in 1626 and Thomas Hooker, the liberal preacher, in 1639, our pagan roots attempted to grow liberty out of the chaotic tyrannies of the King and Pope. Thomas Mortons cheerful attempts to bring the maypole tradition to New England in 1626 was crushed by the Puritans and their austere, empty house of a religion.
Thomas Hookers sermons were the inspiration of the Fundamental Orders I discuss in Book 1-The New Square Deal and the Electronic Bully Pulpit. “The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people,” wrote Roger Ludlow. Liberal preacher, Thomas Hooker, managed to slip by their radar but the Pagan Pilgrim, Thomas Morton and his flamboyant attempts to party and mingle with the Native Americans were incompatible for a religion that nailed your tongue to a wall if you cursed. The Puritans were unable to see the kindness and humanity we all need in our pursuit of happiness and the communication of our communities. Authority is derived by the free consent of the people.
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To you I have commended my spirit?
I have this theory that Jesus was going to invalidate this irrational evil god, this Jehovah, the emotional train wreck of a deity. “Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus asks on the cross. “To you I have commended my spirit?” he questions as he suffers as few people have. This is why I take offense to “nailed it” jokes.
The "Devil" played 2 important parts in the history of Jesus. One- the angel messenger, and confidant of Christ, “Luke, I am your father", and Two, the diabolical, mass murdering god of the Levites and the Old Testament. The real GOD/GODDESS remained silent, and would never lower him/herself in such a manner anyways.
He and She await us; they love us and pray that we find our way. Love is the gravity and magnetism of the spiritual world, many suggest, as we all eventually unite with God or something. We all learn to love all, eventually. When we die, the purifying flame OF THIS LIFE, will seem like a shadow of a dream. The purifying flame of life renews our SOUL/SPIRITS.
I believe Jesus was tricked at a crucial nexus of history, and his life was cut short by this deranged, demon god of the Old Testament and the Pharisee brown nosers, the primary progenitors of todays patriarchal religious traditions.
The Judaic Elders, guided by ancestors’ writings and Mosaic law, were finding Jesus troublesome, much like Republicans in 2022 who make environmentalists the scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the world. Liberals and environmentalis are two different groups of people.
The trickster god, the Great Pretender, has amassed unlimited power with his misnamed 'holy book', filled with debaucheries and misogynistic violence. Even Jesus was not powerful enough to defeat him back in the day. The Loki of the Christian World managed to fool everyone into thinking he was the god. The ultimate trick. In the world of evil magic, imagine the black magic from a mass extinction? Gnostics and others often discuss this poseur god, the false light, the one who inspires the vengeful hysteria of right-wing Republicans.
. Glenn Becks god. Rick Santorum's god. A false God.
From the Bible, referring to the Apocalypse or Armageddon, Revelation 14:9-12 says that accepting the mark of the Beast is a one way ticket to an eternal barbeque. You'll be basted with God’s special angry sauce and you’ll be……..well, here's the exact quote, “Anyone worshipping the beast from the sea or his statue and accepting the mark on the forehead or the hand, must drink the wine of the anger of God: it is poured out undiluted into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulphur in the presence of the Holy Angels and the lamb. The smoke of their torture rises forever and ever, and they have no relief day or night, for they worshipped the beast and his statue, and have been tattooed with the code.”
Go dude! Bring out those boiling lobster pots of revenge.
Now there is a religion for you! Disagree with us and you will be tormented forever with unimaginable tortures by our god personally: forever and forever. I don’t think so! This is the basis of my anger and my revulsion of people who tell me I am not worthy of their heaven. Let’s hope that the Old Testament God got a vacation, and maybe some medication. An anger management class probably would have helped, with his murderous tantrums and jealous rage issues to get under control.
So this is the god I want to embrace my American freedom of speech and freedom of association, not to mention my pursuit of happiness as per the Constitution? This is the god we praise and toast and thank and give credit to? This is the god we thank for helping us win the Academy awards or American Idol? Created the whole universe too? Wow, what a guy.
Despite the lack of any facts, he gets credit for creating the whole world and every complicated organism there is. Just because he says so in the bible. All at once too! POOF, you are a planet. I wonder what those goat sniffing academics were taking.
Maybe the Universe has its own way of working! Maybe elements, and evolution, and magnetism makes more sense. Maybe the Nine Noble Virtues displayed nearby are more relevant than the Ten Commandments. Maybe the Eightfold Path of the Buddhists would be a better and more peaceful influence in this country. The seven principles of the Unitarian Universalists seem highly worthy.
On TV the Pontificating Pustillades are personally guiding us to glory if we simply listen to the preacher, priest, pastor or imam and all those other holy men shilling out their scam. Be cautious too with the Noble Savage notion of astral traveling Shamans. Some of them may be just smooth talking crooks. Many in the past have been, and it's why I promote the original folk magic, Oxoheartsvoken. How do we know any of Islam and Christianity to be true, it just is you say---and I got to have faith? God will bring miracles to my life, if I give myself over to him. Sweet rockin' Jesus, what a pack of lies! It really sounds like such a phone scam to me.
Heresy, you bet. I know, I know;````` start the briquettes for the eternal fire, but first, baste me in Gods special angry sauce. I was told it was a mortal sin to miss church, even one day, except if you were sick or in a bad car accident or if you are being held for ransom. (I asked). "All right, what if……you were kidnapped. Does God allow me to go to Heaven if I don't go to Mass in that situation?"
"God will be watching to see if you ask the kidnapper if you can watch it on TV. You always have to try and do the right thing," my mom would say.
Did god create Alpha Centauri and the other 400 billion suns for us to look at? Did he set them up a million years ago when the light from them began traveling to earth? Don't forget the light we see from stars was the light they were projecting millions and billions of years ago.
2,000 years ago it was easy to explain the stars as, maybe, Angels who are resting, or some shit like that to goat herders and temple slaves. But not anymore. Are the Ten Commandments the end all, be all for guidance for our lives? Imagine 7 billion people on earth and then imagine how big space must be with 400 billion suns? Why have that many stars unless you were going to populate The Universe? If God is real, we have to realize he has other commitments. He's not really that much into you.
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“Early Christians experimented with a variety of formal arrangements, from relatively unstructured charismatic organizations, to more fixed hierarchical orders. In some congregations, leadership was shared among men and women according to the movement of the spirit in inspiring gifts of prophecy, teaching, healing, administrations and service. Others were headed by elders, bishops, deacons and widows. In many, women and slaves were important leaders; others resisted this reversal of the dominant social order, and worked to exclude them.
Women were treated as sub-humans throughout written history, mainly because of the teachings in the Bible, Koran and the Torah. Women had always been mere vessels to birth exalted warriors, infallible popes and wondrously and divinely appointed Kings; along with all those Bishops and Earls and Dukes &; Sheiks AND ……..Caliphates and all those other Most Holy Men of God. Those mighty servants of god, warning us of demons; while trying to steer us away from the evil of "The Devil" influence being their motivation. "Let me grab the wheel….of your life!" Demons arrow them when thee invisible, but the Priests know they are.
Patriarchal pastors, priests and preachers with the slickest sales technique ever, blanket the airwaves and pollute our street views. We need to turn this ship around and save the people who are wasting their lives. Atheists and Pagans united.
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Baptists accuse Catholics of being a Mary cult, and it's true in a sense. There is also a Mary Magdalene cult, the people who call her the spiritual successor to Jesus and who was his favorite disciple. This is part of what Dan Browns Da Vinci Code was about. The Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1946, had chapters from Thomas and Mary Magdalen that was deleted from the Big Bible. The Gnostic Bible, it's called.
The Bible never specifically says Jesus's gal pal, Mary Magdalene, was a prostitute. All pagan women were called sluts back then to invalidate Pagan worship and Pagan Women, as the Thumpers began to wrest control of various cultures by invalidating the many Pagan gods. Mary MAGDALENE was another of those wicked sinning females, like Eve, that can’t resist temptation and sin; dragging men into their pits of depravity. Wink.
Christians say there are little white lies that are necessary, I was told as a lad. Little white lies like the one I used to hear in church about Mary Magdalene were okay, as one example. A sterling case of bearing false witness, the church thought nothing of the defamation and degradation of Mary Magdalenes character. For many years, priests linked her with 3 different whores in the bible during their sermons. It was suggested Mary Magdalene was the penitent whore who washed Jesus feet with her hair (there was a lot of foot massages back then, not so strange). She was also the whore the mob was going to stone to death, remember? Then there’s some other groggy slut episode that escapes me at the moment. None of those attributed to her were actually her, as it turns out. The casting out of seven demons has been interpreted as Jesus fully opening her Chakras.
Finally, in 1969, the Church issued a Papal Bull regarding this mistaken zeal, and formally apologized. They also upgraded her saint status from Floozy to Not a Floozy. In 1971 Magdalene was finally portrayed in a sympathetic light in Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus’ romantic interest, which created a lot of controversy at the time. No one wanted to think about anything other than the Party Line. The nonsense those Pustillaneous Preachers Pastors and Priests spout from their Pulpits of Hate continue to pilfer unproven myths .
Don’t get me wrong, I like Catholics, they still have a grain of the truth, it’s the Protestants I have difficulty understanding. They want god and country to be married completely, church and state on a blissful honeymoon, forever cleaving together as one fleshy appendage, writhing in harmony. Reverend Redscare and his ilque, telling us what god told them, to tell US. Exactly what the Founding Revolutionaries were trying to prevent.
We don't need no Middle Man between us and the deities within a nation of laws and covenants. No Miracle Man to save our soul. Too many people can't see the sham that Extremist Christianity is. An abomination created in Jesus' name as I've said before.
Think about it, could there be a more devious mind control device than the Old Testament? A deception of the Devil right under everyones noses. The Bible as the Tower of Babel. It’s practitioners have been converting by force for over 1600-3600 years, while concurrently, fracturing into thousands of sects. Sowing discord, while reaping insanity and blind faith; destroying community after community of peaceful, pagan, peasant farmers around the world.
Soon, we hope, the hammer of justice will fall and they will reap the final apostasy. Our eastern friends would refer to this as Karma. I can see now why Israel should exist, God gave them the land of Canaan, and they should be able to live without the fear of being bombed. Jewish people can't eat pork, but you don't see them jailing or killing those who do eat pigs like Islamics do.
The Old Testament god needs to be expelled from the United States in a diarrheic diaspora, to say nothing of what should happen around the world. Someone is going to have to explain the value of Mohamed and Allah to me, because I don't see it. The vengeful hysteria of those who claim to speak for god and allah have gone too far, for far too long. It is not a time to hope the other guy does something to counter the pile of poisonous slag they spout. They talk about love, but seem to hate practically everyone in the world. I have also found out, that the more the preacher talks about the Old Testament, the more full of shit and hateful they are.
Finally, the story of the Lead Disciple. The search for the roots of the Mary Magdalene story led me to southern France. She left Palestine after the crusifixation, and travelled to southern France. Or as I read recently, Mary and other Friends Of Jesus(FOJ) were set adrift in boats on the Mediterranean without oars and the Mary Magdalene group landed in southern France. She was sainted in 1900 and her feast day is July 22nd in the Catholic Calendar. As the Penitent whore initially, and now a leading light for equality in the 21st Century.
In southern France there are churches dedicated to her and her feast day brings joyous celebrations. There is a deep mystery to the history in this area along with the myths of the Great Teleste called Mary Magdalene. Sometimes this area in Southern France is called the Langue'doc, as it was called before it became part of France, it is also home to the language called Occitan and a famous group of heretics called the Cathars. Before the Inquisition, a place of art and beauty and the place where the Troubadours sprang from, a hundred some odd years before the troubles with the Cathars began.
John Lamb Nash speaking of Mary Magdalene and Jesus and that they were actually pagans "regarded as Pagans and heretics, Jesus and Magdalene would have been a pair of initiated teachers from the mysteries, the spiritual universities of the classical world. As such they would have taught the divine potential of humanity, but not claimed divinity for themselves, or anyone. The aim of gnosis was to know what the Gods know, neither to become God in human form, nor even to find God in one’s innermost self. "
"Almost all we know of Mary Magdalene comes from gnostic sources, texts that portray her as an accomplished seer, an initiated teacher, a Telestes. She would have been an enlightened woman facing a world in spiritual crisis."
"At the dawn of the Piscean Age, 2,130 YA (years ago) some Pagan teachers emerged from the anonymity of the Mystery Cults and undertook a public mission to address the controversy centered on a single crucial question; Is human fate pre-determined, or can we each be guided through a life of our own choosing? A tremendous upheaval, a kind of New Age fever raged across the Roman Empire. Many people expected a messiah to come along and bring social justice. "
"As gnostic initiates (Jewish or not), Jesus and Magdalene would have been committed to the task of spiritual guidance, helping people in all classes of society to find their way against the dictates of fate."
"It was a moment of tremendous promise, when a great shift for humanity might have transpired. What happened instead was that Roman Christianity took control of the social and political life of the classical world. The pagan profile of Jesus and Mary, which is strongly supported by historical and textual evidence, undercuts the sacred bloodline scenario because, what they very likely believed in was Tantric Principles and procreation was discouraged.”
To the present then, here are some viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths concerning Christian America, that will fill our media in 2022. It has been presented by Fux News that there is some ‘Great Awakening’ going on, another great Christian Revival, and I’m going to quote conservative historian Richard Hofstadter from his book, ‘America in 1750‘ about the original Great Awakening to counter their nonsense..
)4(“A strain of rationalism was strong in the Anglican Church, and worse still, had given rise to Deism, which needed no church at all, and with 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 like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was clearly loosening its religious stays, and the example of such men would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including, freedom of thought.”)4( One of those pagan virtues enshrined in our constitution. Freedom of Thought. Satans Wilderness Bastion. Did you ever?
“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, "writes Hofstadter.
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 that is "prophesied." It's been 2,000 years. Give it up already. People around the world cannot figure out American Christians and why they are so extreme. Here is Pat Robertson, with one of his most perplexing platitudes. )5(“You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” )5(facepalm).
As the 1730’s progressed, a religious fervor gripped the populace, and next is a quote from a fiery preacher responsible for much of the hysteria called the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards once pontificated, “It is a reasonable thing to fright persons away from Hell.” Historian Richard Hofstadter recalls that famous moment, considered the Zenith of the Great Awakening, )4(" His famous sermon ’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ was to do just this,” Hofstadter tells us, “ bringing his listeners to a vivid sense of eternal punishment and to impress them with the necessity of immediate contrition, since death might strike at any moment. A sermon such as a sadist might have trembled to deliver, it was presented by Edwards in a posture of transfiguration, his gaze firmly fixed on the bell rope that led upward to the steeple. The people of Enfield were urged to consider the torment of burning like a livid coal, not for an instant or a day but for millions and millions of ages and they would never be delivered’”. How’s THAT for a sales pitch and little white lie?
I have my doubts about this Christian God creating everything, and also disagree with people's insistence that I should just accept it: 'don’t mock god' I’m told. For one thing, I only capitalize god at the beginning of the sentence so I can counter balance a little bit of what has gone on in the past. I do not believe that some magical Dude with a really big wand created the universe and all life on earth. From like, out of nowhere basically. No experiments in his garage just POOF …. I am creator of everything.! What a Great Concept! Hogwash, the only constant of the universe is matter and magnetism, adaption and evolution. Where the spirit came from we can only guess, we cannot know.
Then there are all those demons the christians are always talking about, servants of satan everywhere, that they must battle. I propose these demons have another source. Demons are called into the Material World by Pentacostalists and others as they “speak in tongues.” Then these demons jump into people like Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Half-Truth Hannity and some of the others, possessing enough people so they can corrupt society with hateful, mean spirited, brainwashing: uh huh, this is a true rumor I heard. So, in conclusion, this modern Great Awakening of the 21st century is really an attempt to put everyone back in the box, and put everyone to sleep, so this sweet land of liberty can become a repressive theocracy. Kneeling to false gods and toiling for the corporate behemoth. We can do better than this.
In the 1700's, Edward Gibbon wrote about clergy and the basic deceptions of Christianity and why they are the antithesis of Liberty and Freedom. He compared the light hearted spirit of freedom that was developing with the Enlightenment, as a contrast to the cold, empty life that a Taliban-style, Christian ayatollah inspired world would be like. “The acquisition of knowledge, the exercise of our reason or our fancy, and the cheerful flow of unguarded conversation, may employ the leisure of a liberal mind. Such amusements however, were rejected with abhorrence, or admitted with the utmost caution, by the severity of the church fathers, who despised all knowledge that was not useful to salvation, and who considered all levity of discourse as a criminal abuse of the gift of speech. The unfeeling candidate for Heaven was instructed, not only to resist the grosser allurements of the taste or smell, but even to shut his ears against the profane harmony of sounds and view art with indifference. " Edward Gibbon 1778
I don’t even understand how Christians can claim this is a Christian Nation after a long term, personal study of the Era. Their christian precepts are not compatible with the codes created in the constitution, it's as simple as that. Beginning with Thomas Morton, the Pagan Pilgrim in 1626, and Thomas Hooker, the liberal preacher in 1639, our pagan roots attempted to grow the future concept of Liberty. Liberty born as an escape from the chaotic tyrannies of the King and Pope, from across the ocean in Europe. Thomas Mortons cheerful attempt s to bring the maypole tradition to Massachusetts, in 1626, was crushed by the Puritans and their austere, uninspired, empty house of a religion. The Unitarian Universalists say there is no Original Sin we need to washed of, but an Original Blessing of kindness and sharing and an inherent worth and value of every life.
My point is that whatever moral authority christians and islamics have today is illegitimate. It's like a Mafia Dude after 20 years of killing and extortion, buys hisself a legitimate business.
Thomas Hookers sermons were the inspiration of the Fundamental Orders I discuss elsewhere, and its quintessential essence was this quote. “The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people.” Roger Ludlow was contracted to write the covenant for the Connecticut Colony in 1639. Ludlow also wrote the Codes of 1650 if you want to research him. Liberal preacher, Thomas Hooker, managed to slip by the Puritan radar, but the Pagan Pilgrim, Thomas Morton, and his flamboyant attempts to party and mingle with the Native Americans were incompatible with a religion that nailed your tongue to a wall if you cursed. The Puritans were unable to see the kindness and humanity we all need in our pursuit of happiness, and the communication our communities require. People of the Enlightenment wanted no part of the hypocritical, moral high ground posturing of Christians, and the Founding Revolutionaries were finally able to outfox the cagey conservatives and their obesiant clergy. Authority is derived by the free consent of the people, or a " Mandate from the Masses", as the annoying peasant in the Monty Python movie"The Holy Grail" states.
So here we have Protestant Preacher, Jonathan Edwards Great Awakening, along with The Catholics and the Mary Magdalene bashing Priesthood. Just lying out their ass like any other con man; making up shit about burning forever in hell, in the case of the Leader of the Great Awakening. Leaving the burgeoning 13 colonies scared shitless about their fate when they died. Those few that still believed as Enlightenment Heresies opened peoples minds. Undermining the lead woman in the Jesus' Ministry, even today these "moral authorities" continue to throw women under the bus. The rising tide of Enlightment e and the American and French Revolutions ventually denounced and defeated this divine authoritarian excess.
Was that Mary Magdalen in Da Vincis painting of the Last Supper? Did he really possess secret knowledge as Dan Brown suggests? Was she the Great Teleste, learned in Pagan ways? How was it Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen (or healed) Christ? How did she become the person to shake the disciples out of their despair, after Jesus was crucified, to get them to hit the streets and preach? Telling the Disciples to get off their ass, and spread the word. Mother Son Wife, the new Trinity. Mary Magdalene became the leader of the Muses after her death. Because I said so. 
8-12 Get lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots---Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United States.
Posted by John A Almada
PeterbiltMay 18, 2011 7:13 AM Nice post. I appreciate your research. Have you considered relocating to WordPress? It's free, too. Word verification: Bultsna: Word of Swedish origin, meaning "a stubborn insistence on premises being based on verifiable facts and sound logic, in the face of an argument being widely advanced that is based on neither."
I am amazed at the depth of your research John. I hear your message. You make some great points!! " God as mass murderer...LOL good one. Its sad how many people believe in Satan, and god sending people to burn in hell for all eternity...Brain washed as children and wanting to think that your parents/ancestors are right. You have certainly broken out of the box thinking thoughts that many dare not to consider.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply.
Thoughts that many dare not to consider.
That is a nice review of the article.
-5-10- THE INEXACT NONSENSE OF RELIGION AND THE PRECISE BULLSHIT OF SCIENCE
In our present era, the stunning hypocrisy of the Moral High Ground Hypocrites has disheartened many. Jimmy Swag'art represents this group with a name that is a contraction of swaggering braggart. We also keep plunging into the tar pit of technology and genetics, nodding our heads to anything scientists say. The ordinary people, those of us who won’t get in the history books, need to clear a path somewhere between the inexact nonsense of religion and the precise bullshit of science.
I seem compelled to prepare history in a different light because among all of us peasants, pagans, office drones, functionaries, riff-raff, heathens, Libertarians, workers and ordinary people (me and you); there is a lot of knowledge. Too much wisdom to tolerate a country that says war brings freedom. Those of us that know history, see the stealth campaign with the continuation of The Crusades after 9=11.
Many post war boomers are resting from the endless sinning, such as the plague of infidelity, or screwing others at work and the mad obsession of material validation. The endless gossiping and back biting that many participate in. Now they are turning back to their Catholic roots because they remember about last rites where a priest can forgive your sins at the moment before death which is something known as last rites. Or go to confession every Saturday and have them WIPED CLEAN! Amen! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, the sacrament of Last Rites is not being done anymore. Trillions of dollars of gold along with being the largest landowner on Earth, the Catholic Church no longer can provide the service of Last Rites. Budget cuts. Truthfully, it's because of the shortage of priests. There is a shortage of priests because of the issue of celibacy.
I emphasize the goddess aspect of the God and Goddess spirituality of the pagans, because the balance is so askew. Here’s a quote from ‘The Return of the Mother’ by Andrew Harvey ”The tragic imbalance of the masculine has brought humankind to the brink of disaster, and unless we recover the feminine power of the psyche, the powers of intuition , patience, reverence for nature , and knowledge of the holy unity of things, and marry in our depths these powers with the masculine energies of rule, reason, passion for order and control, life on the planet will end. The sacred marriage of the masculine and the feminine has to take place in our hearts and minds, whether we are male or female. The rich and organic integration it alone can furnish is the goal of human life.” This is where I hope we are heading.
I had seven years or more of Sunday school and Catholic indoctrination and brainwashing, jumping through every ritualistic hoop so I wasn’t doomed to spend eternity in That Place. A cell in hell awaits you bad boy! Now as in the past, religion is overly represented in society, and many unfair advantages have been given to these usurpers of race and gender equality. The double brush brain-washing of the very young is the cornerstone of modern society; the decaying Patriarchal and Industrial Society.
In the years to come, as the Old Order dies, teens entering the workforce need to question why religions are not taxed as their own taxes skyrocket because of an aging generation’s myopic foresight and a Republican Partys inability to balance a budget. Churches build their buildings tax free and I don't understand why there is no real objection to this. Eliminate the 501-c which must cost the government billions to oversee, to say nothing about the billions in lost taxes.
Some of us have no real place to hang our sociological shingle. We might go jogging but don’t always wear “runners gear”, or go ten speedin’ without our aerodynamic pointed helmet and tight spandex pants. We might have a motorcycle without needing to have the Tattitude to go with it. Maybe you are a war veteran but don’t wear camo pants and have an attitude mustache to go with your angry body language. We are the independent minded and we transcend gender or race or anything else, and we are everywhere, in every country. We are the greatest fear of those who will compete to be leaders of the New World Order; we will be the Freethinkers in a world of greedy sheep.
We don’t think a god controls every move we make and hears every plea from every schmuck in Trenton and every overconfident blowhard in Hohaugen. Politically we are what I like to call us Blue Collar Progressives or the Independent Majority. We may be Libertarian leaning conservationists, or may be a gun toting animal lover who hunts for her own food; or any other of the numerous examples of good hearted, intelligent and caring people who don’t need much government or religion. I think you understand what I’m getting at. There is a simmering pot of independent thinkers across the world, no longer mentally hemmed in by government and religion. Imagine!
I have great hope that the emerging Chinese middle class may latch on to pagan ways, and they are returning to a now burgeoning Taoist Community. Taoism is one of the 5 approved religions of communist China but unfortunately, the leaders of China and our leaders need us to hate each other, so the gluttonously wealthy can get kickbacks from the real source of evil in the world, the weapon manufacturers and the bankers crooked lending system. Most of history is about charismatic men who find ways to convince other men to kill themselves as needed in battle for the country, religion or both.
Pagans have the intellectual foresight and historical precedent to logically launch us into a peaceful world, but preachers and priests needing to fill seats and keep their easy jobs will happily deceive with slick misrepresentations and derisive & dismissive put downs of Paganisms extremes. The Hindu Goddess with 22 arms is a favorite target. The idea of any goddess is generally met with exuberant resistance. Marija Gimbutas, the famed archaeologist, has concuded that goddess venerating societies were the norm, 3 to 6 thousand years ago, but she is still roundly repudiated by many people.
Do people really believe in the Devil? Come on…really? An eternity!? Tortured and burned? 83 years here and 600 gazillion years in Hell, it doesn’t make much sense to me. They are convinced a pagan like me will burn in their notion of Hell. There are over 1,500 Goddesses and Gods out there in the Pagan World, and so if I decide that something as simple as a butterfly can be my goddess, my Zemyna, because the butterfly will always remind me of death and the rebirth of me; then that’s what I’m going to believe and to hell with you. I realize that to come out as a pagan I will have to receive the scorn from the brainwashed religious doopahs, but I also realize that most people think for themselves and are accepting.
We glorify Science, but don't realize the demons being unleashed by them. The Vanishing bees is one example. Science needs to stop trying to fix things and leave things be. Let nature return. Some of us don't want to live in a high tech world.
-5-11- Jesus and Allah
In a Universe far away we hear a teacher speak to the class, “All right, next, we have Jesus and Allah. Are you prepared mighty space gods?”
“Yes ma’am we are,” said Allah as he nudged Jesus to start the presentation.
“Well…our idea was to evolve life on a planet much like ours using the common template. When they had advanced sufficiently we introduced this, like….voice from the clouds that said “I am god and creator of the planet.”
Jesus said and nodded to his friend Allah to continue.“God helped write a complicated story about how he got to be god, and there was enough people who believed it eventually. They even burnt all other books and destroyed knowledge wherever it could be found. We have charts and graphs to follow.”
“And get this,” Jesus continued,” if you didn’t have faith in this invisible diety you would go to a plane of existence where many tortures awaited. Eternity was to be spent in constant agony,” the class chuckled a bit thinking how gullible these people were.
They finished the power point presentation and took questions. “Did these 7 billion people have souls?” someone asked.
“No, that was too much work frankly, we didn’t have the time.”
Another question that was posed was, “Didn’t any of these people figure this out? What you were doing, I mean.”
Jesus said, “yes, there was a movie called The Matrix which came pretty close.”
The sheer complexity of the project guaranteed them a good grade but by working closely together on the video, the class was impressed and so was the teacher.” There’s no I in team,” said Allah to Jesus when they found out they got the best grade in the class and high fived each other. Work together for the best results kids, is what it's all about.
Later that week, the computer program that contained their project (our earth) was disposed of in the vaporizer by the janitor for safety reasons. The evil created was determined to be toxic biowaste and there became a necessity for disposal.
-5-12- The Heart of God
About 10 years ago I began praying to Mary again in earnest as I hadn't since 1990, when we seemed to have accomplished the mission of destroying the Soviet Empire with prayer. Now we read that Our Lady wanted us to pray for others. This I began doing after being solidly atheist for 5 years. Unselfish, loving prayers for others...."Please help starving children...please wake up ignorant idiots like Pat Robertson......please help the local soup kitchen stay open...please make men less violent....and on and on. I had to payback some of the prayers I had answered previously in my life, and pay forward.
This felt really good and I unselfishly prayed for others. However I was struggling financially in 2006-7 and I made up a new prayer.
A MODERN PRAYER
Please help me Mary, you can do it girl. I attempt the selfless seeking, and pray for others as you asked. Bless those (FILL IN YOUR OWN) “soup kitchen” Christians Mary. The third secret was about Paul getting shot and coming back to help undermine the communist empire………And to SHOW US WHAT FORGIVENESS IS. The Rosary collectively brings people together in prayer that travels through the Veles, creating energy. Please goddess Mary , rewards in heaven is not enough, this dude needs a break right now,……. please. Amen
At that time, I began to research about Druids and Vikings and realized that deep down I had been living as a pagan all these years and didn't know it. Mother Mary was all I had left from my Catholic years. Jane and I got married in the Church even though it was the second marriage for both, and we took advantage of the Catholics trying to bring lapsed Catholics back into the fold. Things started falling into place, good things began to happen and I prayed to Mary, and still do. Then I came up with my first ritual in this Dungaree Druid thing I was working on. Palms out, and then I imagine an impenetrable zone in a circle around me. To keep the dimwits, the brainwashed and the fartwads away. Then I came up with the idea of combining Druid and Luddite into the word Druddite, the name of the religion I had decided to make up.
I started getting inspirations and came across 8 other goddesses that I now have in my Pantheon. I saw my mother in a vision 2 hours after she died and saw my dog Ginger 2 hours after SHE died. I prayed a rosary for my dying mother in law 5 months later in Hospice, bringing a rose for her to hold. I put on my atheist hat now and then because it is familiar territory, but spiritual experiences give me hope that there is an afterlife.
I had my own miracle that involved the Scapular ritual. It was early in the morning, my mother in laws husband and son were resting somewhere off site and the nurses saw what I was doing, saying a rosary. Jane , my wife, got there at 7 and her mother died at 1:00. She was scheduled to be turned to prevent bedsores so "if we could interrupt”. I went and took a break and when I came back they had put on a CD of Pope Paul saying the rosary in Latin and kept the rose I had placed in her hand. Obviously respectful, I thanked them for their thoughtfulness, “now and at the hour of our death," states the prayer. I prayed for Mary to come and take care of this gentle soul who did die 6 hours later.
I didn't think anything of the brown scapula she had around her neck when I came back in the room after they moved her. Asking around, no one could account for who had put it there, and there were no visitors that previous night. Not her son or husband or my wife, no one had ever seen her wearing it. So with very little coercion, I became the inheritor of this brown scapula. I like to think it's my own little miracle, the miracle of the brown scapular. Where did it come from?
The heart of god is a goddess and her name is Mary.
-5-13- 34 commandments
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MINERVA AND BEN FRANKLIN |
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.
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. 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 thousand other pagan religions and white people don't realize how many meaningful deities existed before Christianity. Black people don't know they believed in a triple god pantheon in general and Africans and Europeans had much in common during the years Before Christ. BC.
Crazy wheat planting people from the middle east took over both continenets, killing millions of 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. 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 there's 26 GUIDEPOSTS that are far more relevant than the 10 Commandments. My contribution are the eight directions of Druddism.
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.)
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 30 years. Their attempted coup wants to make us subject to 3,000 year old lies. Go away, you have no power here. 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 t0 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 2010 it is still here. Christians and Islamofascists---they have their eye on you and if we allow heretics 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 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 oin 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 40 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.
One day I found this unique grassy area in some shady trees. 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. I have an oil painting my roommate Tom painted of the area featuring an 8400 foot mountain, Rincon Peak. I see Toms painting every day and always gives me a little positive charge.
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's History of the Pagans to help your curiosity.
Here are some more viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths that will fill our media in 2019. 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, “With 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 fathers were conservative but didn’t allow religious bugaboo to cloud the clarity of thought. This is what right wing Christian conservatives aren’t getting, the founding fathers were masons, and the rigors of intellectual elasticity and curiosity allowed them to perceive that there was a reason there were so many goddesses in Greek mythology. Believing in the Bible was a straight jacket for those of nimble
Here is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times 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. All the other religions are not talking about war but Dharma, Harmony, Community, and maybe we need to give them a listen.
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