COMPENDIUM
JUNE 2024

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 hungry people on her. Exposing the systems of coercion and destruction that have been placed on all of us, so that you, who has a voice, can speak up.
  Warning
I am responsible for what I have written, not for what you think I wrote, or meant. Simply stated, the opinions expressed herein, may at times resemble facts, therefore… always double and triple check before you let any information in "Compendium" loose on the internet with millions of undisciplined minds on the loose. But tell them Greenhammer sent you
   It is a consensus that we seek, not confrontation, and we 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 new world. What we have now is a house of Cards built on Pyramid schemes. An economic order that is eating cultures like a tapeworm. Capitalism and communism both. 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.
Market Socialism is about small business unhindered and big business heavily regulated and minmmal influence of government on markets.
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.


SECTION ONE
UNITED SCAPES
THE SOCIOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE THAT IS AMERICA
-1-1- THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION war and peace; supply and demand
-1-2- THE WAY OF THE BIRDS
-1-3- SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS
-1-4- CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
-1-5- SON OF POPULUXE
-1-6- 34 COMMANDMENTS
-1-7- PARTY LIKE IT'S 1699
-1-8- IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE THE CONSTITUTION
-1-9- THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
-1-10- A NEW SQUARE DEAL who were the Progressives and why do Liberals claim credit for the reforms that upgraded America?
-1-11- LIBERTARIANS a simple mans version of complicated idiots
-1-12- II24   finally getting vacations. 40 days on the road and an analysis of the highway system and why we have to think of the future
-1-13- MARKET SOCIALISM the inevitable market system

   SECTION TWO
HISTORY OF THE Pagans
-2-1- THE STONE PEOPLE
-2-2- THE PURIFYING FLAME OF LIFE
-2-3- THE REINDEER PEOPLE
-2-4- SONG OF OOOGLOK
-2-5- QUIET AS THE ELVES
-2-6- ZORYA ZEMYNA ZVORUNA & ZEPHYR
-2-7- THE NORTH WIND
-2-8- ANGELS AT THE INTERSECTION
-2-9- DO AS YE WILL
-2-10- BALTIC PAGANISM
-2-11- DRUIDS VIKINGS AND DARWIN
-2-12- THE PEOPLE OF THE SHORT CORN
-2-13- VENUS AND THE FIRST HUMAN SOIL
SECTION THREE
THE FINAL SLAUGHTER
SECTION THREE

-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-   I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
-3-9- HARVESTING ZOMBIES

-3-10- PROUD TO BE PROGRESSIVE
-3-11- THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC
-3-12- BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY
-3-13- TAROT FOR NEWBS

SECTION 4 DRUDDOCCITAN UNDER CONSTRUCTION

A SECRET GREEN CULT LANGUAGE. A SLANGUAGE

SECTION FIVEUNDER CONSTRUCTION
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- Wildlife value of our plants (full version)

-2- 20000 word sermon

-3- Johnny Huckster

-4- Who are the White People?

-5- THE GARDEN GREEN

-6_The Independent Majority Party

-7- Tucson to Thompsonville

-8- ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION DESTROYED MY FIRST CAREER

-9- Non-existent Career Ends

-10- We Didn't Get it

-11- Druddmoot

-12- Taboos Exposed

-13- PAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE

SECTION ONE
THE DAWN OF
      CIVILIZATION
"Try as they might to make the mass murder

acceptable and patriotic, deep in our collective American hearts, we know war is wrong."

Nationally, Americans demand recreation areas, protected forests, estuaries and parks of all sorts; and walking trails locally. They appreciate being supplied with good facilities during their travelling adventures in this wonderfully expansive system of national and state parks in the United States.        This noogical for a country that includes "The pursuit of happiness" in the preamble to its Constitution, essentially its mission statement. Then why does 800 billion dollars go to The Pentagon every year, and only 3 billion goes to the national park service? Who's running the show here.
          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. Any GOP jawin' this? No way.
Park expansion, safety of campers and visitors, and the preservation of ecological diversity has been subverted by corporations that profit from war, and by the army of corporate lobbyists in Washington. THE PEOPLE WANT PARKS NOT WAR. People tired of money going to Israel too.
2022 update. The current administration has created a fund for the National Parks but still won’t reduce the military. What are politicians scared of?
The American people and visitors from around the world, are out there trying to have a grand vacation visiting the great places of America, 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. The recreation angle creates jobs. The military is a money pit for taxpayers but a honey pot for paranoid anti-communists hav. 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 are 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.
          Making weapons and selling weapons is profitable. Creating wars to destroy them, so they can make more was an economic boon for Boomers. made these phony wars enormously profitable and 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, while, dinner party liberal douchebags, have looked the other way as their shares of blood and oil cocktails ballooned.
         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, particularly our forests and wild lands. The Endangered species ACT was an attempt to stop this profit taking. The cost of paper products was artificially cheap as a result of the insane clear cutting that occurred.
Dear reader, if you invest, then divest of your poison stocks. It is time to think about all life on this earth that will be here the next million years. Invest Green best you can. Invest clean. As Derrick Jensen says, not the “bright green” the techies want, but the deep green of true earth stewardship.
Divest is going to prove to be a much better tactic for reform, than let's say blocking traffic. The Klondike Capitalism of the Green Movement needs to be regulated as little as possible. Home grown in every way. Boycotting Israel is just the beginning.
We agree with Conservatives on this one. Raw milk producers want regulations eased but Big Dairy is firmly in the driver's seat. People who got them there are of no particular political party. Once people in the red states realize they’ve been railroaded by the big corporations, some heads are going to roll and a long battle lay ahead in many different places. The sterile poison seed of corporate farmers gets a pass, while small organic farmers have many regulatory hurdles to leap and certifications to achieve, in order to participate in the market.
In Florida fresh eggs have to be sold with the warning sign "Not for human consumption". It took some nasty ass Republican state legislator to come up with that law. 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 books in our schoolbooks that 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 2024, 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? Recycling roadside garbage. How many times did I stop on the beautiful Route 50 in Georgia to stretch and try to capture some roadside scenery, and I'd look down the hill and it’s all washing machines and attic foam and clothes and cans of beer. What trash we are! 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. Buying into this and selling out to corporatism made many millionaires on both sides of the political system.

The Greatest Generations antiquated notions of how everyone has their place, was put to the test and failed in the 60's. The boomers saw this world filled with racism and sexism with our young hopeful eyes, and collectively our disgust level was so high, that things have changed in the last 50 years. The real war was at home as people fought for equality. Thank you to all who have stood up for equality, you are the actual patriots. Why couldn’t a black dude or a woman be hired for any job? Why not pay the woman the same as a man? Whazzup with that? We didn’t get it.
Will there ever be a disgust level with war which will help us change? Not until societies embrace the feminine, it seems. Women are always trying to fit in, but most cultures do not mix the masculine and feminine very well. How can a smooth polarity of the masculine and feminine be achieved, as cultures constantly chafe with this exuberant, toxic masculinity. Incivility and brutality is the result of the warrior 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 Order, but decentralized spheres of influence with minimum standards for all to follow voluntarily.
We must upgrade our earth manners while creating permanent safety nets for all people.   Your good efforts will be returned threefold as the momentum of all of us working toward a humane humanity, is finally with us, and billions of lives will be enhanced when we tax the accumulated wealth of the billionaires.
          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.

-1-2-   THE WAY OF THE BIRDS

"We all learn to love all, eventually"
The Way of the Birds is a philosophical overview of spirituality with birds as the focal point. We all eventually learn to love all, and this is my end all be all. This suggests that after we die we raise up to higher realms of consciousness and we all unite in love. The nasty gits get vaporized, I reckon, and the rest of us grow with god. Here's some quotes for a condensed overview of this article.
      "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 too, can get on the hamster wheel of capitalism.
                  "Taking pride in never resting with the sole purpose of sending the kids to college. Cultivating that image, and, 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."
              "There is a simplistic answer for life and the reason we are here. We are here to create abundance for all and sustainability for the planet. Create life and to become Love. The secret to life lay within a single seed as It grows into a mighty Oak or a sturdy Cherry tree,
          "Bird populations are critical if we have to adjust to climate change because it was the birds that primarily carried the seeds to new locations during all other periods of global warming.  To deny any life of its food and home and freedom is to invalidate your existence in the Universe."
"Remember they survived, and the dinosaurs didn’t."
      "Every nut and bolt must be preserved so we know what we have", as Aldo Leopold explains throughout his book, Sand County Almanac. Also, every 120,000 years or so there is a natural spike in the temperature, and this appears to be occurring at this time, since the last one was like, 117,500 years ago. Temperatures went up 7 or 8 degrees each time. Four times in the last 500,000 years.
            "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."
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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 and 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 when we return to our innocent, spiritual counterpoint, our actual immortal selves. Unless you're an atheist who doesn't believe in an afterlife. Atheists think they areare like 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. Not to be a brick in the wall. 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. And our beautiful earth. I relate to different aspects of religion in this and Polytheism can't be considered flights of fancy, it's more like myths seeking truths.
   Once you get past the straight jacket of religion, then you can go anywhere.

        The main emphasis of the book, COMPENDIUM, is to explain that this is the time when we stand up for the earth and all its cultures before Toxic Terrorism makes her uninhabitable. Today the Dead Zones, from the Gulf of Mexico to the gated community retention ponds that are constantly sprayed for weeds and bugs.
       Pollinators 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 own 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 as the town park system was being set up and also 250+ hours with the Master Gardener Volunteers, and I found that most people don't want to trample over the environment. Whatever their political views are. Most T****ers are animal lovers and environmentalists.

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 and it's 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 which was in direct contrast to Americas Prosperity Bible.

In millenniums past, there has been climate change and glaciers ground their way southwards for thousands of years. When the ice age was over, plants and animals migrated back northwards.

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 anyways. All of Earths living systems are compromised

Then again a serious volcano could erupt creating a nuclear winter and the Earth will cool off that way. Pest insects will adjust faster to changing conditions and hopefully birds will be able to keep insect populations from becoming overwhelming. It’s the fragile songbirds that get into those micro niches where the rare things are. Every nut and bolt, beak and claw. Bird populations need to increase instead of decrease.

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 were 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 around the world as 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.

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.

-1-3-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. I remember the American Legion passing out leaflets at the Midnight Movies about hippies being the end of the world.

Tongue in cheek, this was my response. “It hasn't destroyed us yet. I invested in GM in the 50's and taxpayers cleaned up the toxic waste from production facilities. That was sweet. Then I got a job at Dow Chemical where I made a pretty good buck from the government designing methods to deploy napalm in Vietnam. Then I invested in a high profit company that obtained numerous government contracts and when 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 those Democrats take from us rich entrepreneurs who have worked hard all our lives."
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-1-4-CONVERSATIONS

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CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIONISTS
Will conservatives and conservationists continue to battle about our future? Neo-Conservatives decry the "oppressive" Endangered Species Act. Saying it’s all a hoax. There’s no problem they say.
On the other hand, Conservationists go too far with excessive regulation. Poor lawn mowing dudes, scraping by, can be fined $5,000 for spraying some weed killer. USDA goons look the other way with citrus growers, but not 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.
Is there a middle ground where peace can be negotiated? America’s future strength will be in embracing our diversity of viewpoints. 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,. The Birds are my brothers. They need to be free. To understand our meat factories and continue to eat the same amount of meat, is to endorse animal cruelty.
Jeremy Rifkin suggested in the 70’s that everyone should cut their meat consumption in half. If that simple rule were followed, the Amazon would not have been clear cut as it has been, jeopardizing the health of the worlds lungs.
I would happily eat gator meat or venison if it was sustainably harvested by an unleashed small business effort. There is a new attitude that would have us creating self-sustaining resources with Market Socialism. Small business runs free while Big Business has rules and gets scrutinized. Being a corporation is a priveledge not a right.
People hunting for their own food should not be treated the same as someone who kills an unsustainable amount of food, (think tuna) (think rain forests cut down for hamburger), that weakens ecosystems for those who live there, and COULD hunt. Wildlife needs a lot of square miles. Gluttonous windfalls of these billion dollar “food” companies is the only concern of predatory Protestant capitalists, not ‘feeding the people’ as they claim. Now they claim to be feeding people with factory farms or now lab grown meat. A new horror unleashed on us with a happy face. Just stop eating so much goddam meat!

Those exploiting resources need to know Americas future is tied to its land and water resources. Karl Rove and the phony conservatives were eager for an era of unregulated clear cutting of trees and pipes of toxic effluent leading directly into bodies of water, and "drill baby drill" our insane grasping for fuel and untrammeled exploration of oil and natural gas fields. This is a sick evil greed we are responsible for.

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. The integrity of the US as a beautiful country.
Let people hunt FFS, but that means ending development in undisturbed areas so populations can grow. Bear and Deer and Turkeys become numerous quickly and here is where humans as apex predators begins. You 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 dinner parties in your Manhattan apartment.

There seems to be scare tactics in the media that intends to keep people out of the forests. and an effort to marginalize nature as something that is no longer important. Forests and watersheds abused by corporations rightfully belong to all people to enjoy as recreation, or to use for hunting sustainable populations of animals.

There is an excess of 20 million deer in the United States and the alligator population is not endangered and would yield quite a few tons of meat. I propose a giant hunting park in the everglades where you can take home what you find, and a place where nuisance alligators can be taken.
As much as I like bears, there are rapidly growing populations in many states. More for the survivalists, bear fat is useful for many things, but I still feel Apex Predators don't belong near human populations. But human populations are increasing along with the Bears. I got an area I call Frankliniana. Franklin North Carolina Tennessee and Georgia. Find those three towns on a map and within this triangle is where human populations will be drifting to. Where Florida Grifters will be looking to develop more "scenic" areas.

I got a feeling though, that there’s a propaganda effort going on to scare people about the wild lands. Deer ticks, cougars, grizzlies, West Nile Virus and many other scary aspects to the outdoors in the news. 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. Now it's about Lithium.

Mining companies and cattle barons have waited so long to completely own the land, because they have used the hell out of it, as if they did own it. Now they want the rest of it. Never mind that people will be turned away at parks this summer and these National Parks are mostly full of visitors and the government isn’t putting the money where it should, as we spend way too much on war, and precious little on recreation. But to facilitate the enjoyment by quite a few Americans in our National Park System, unfortunately, we can only talk about adding millions in federal budgets.
   War has become more important than recreation, subverting our “pursuit of happiness.”
We are becoming too modern. Too sophisticated. Too smart. Pilotless drones killing people. War is not really normal human behavior, wouldn't you say? Yet now we kill so cleanly. No one has to see blood. "THEY" absolutely want him dead because he released tapes of these cold bloodless drone murders. The last thing "they" want is Julian Assange being interviewed on every TV show. So where has he been the last two months since his release.
   Time to evolve away from war preperation and stop sending the healthiest off to die overseas. Sphere’s of influence need to be in place. Europe, India, China, Australia and others need to step up to the plate with organized relief efforts in their sphere of influence, and an authentic effort to end war. The BRIC organization is part of the process of de-hegemonization.
It was conservatives that finished the American Revolution. Not of the past but of the present The Liberals of that era wanted freedom, but with a managed liberty facilitated by royalty, and they were ready to make our first president a king; called King George (Washington). He said "nay" Then added this warning, ”A government is like fire. A handy servant but a dangerous master “.
The Libertarian Patriots would have no part of a monarchy. Conservatives said, gather in Philadelphia, and let’s get down to some business and create a libertarian type of freedom for the individual. Create a covenant to shield every American from religious zealots and their invisible friend that allegedly wrote the Bible. Leave it open ended so every American shares the same freedoms. They wanted to be not like Europe in many ways.
Is it any wonder that in polls, preachers are rated very low along with car salesman for trustworthiness? They were regarded in this manner in 1776 when they were on a par with the snake oil salesman. Movies make it like everyone respected the preacher or priest. Jenny or Johnny Axhammer out there fair trading with the indigenous people gave a skank eye to the preacher when he came around.
I am neither liberal nor conservative and I made up the phrase “Independent Majority” to describe mostof us. Conservatives have corrupted the meaning of the word, conservative, and Liberal was not derived from the word liberty. In the Revolutionary Era, liberals had a reputation for siding with totalitarians and royalty, for our own good, you see.

In the 60’s, liberals became associated with liberty and civil rights, a traditionally conservative viewpoint and an offshoot of the Progressive Era who were represented by the conservative conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt (Republicans take note).
       Liberals of the 50's were disturbed by the mad devouring industrial machine and the need for full civil rights for all people. A final blossoming of the constitution Liberals also stewarded laws to reduce and slow down air and water pollution by the greedy corporations and thusly, the Liberals modernized themselves. The land and air should belong to the people, not a waste bucket for the Protestant profiteers, even Richard Nixon knew that.
The unseen cost of our “prosperity” is the degradation of our prime raw materials---air and water. What about all these 60-year-olds dying of various cancers? Maybe they frolicked on lawns poisoned by DDT, Chlordane and other WW2 nerve agents. Conservatives can finish this modern age of reform with a Conservative Counter revolution, The religious wackoes and apologists of the grandiose rich have stolen conservatism. Time for an independent party. Third party or bust. #independentmajorityparty

  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. Thanks Earl Butz. You'll have to look him up. And James Watt while you're at it.

That unseen cost again, and why I say most wealth is illegitimate. Profits of the last 65 years have come at the cost of pesticides in the people and water and half the good topsoil removed. The continuing soil erosion is a result of our cheap food policy. These large acreage farms support tractor and fuel suppliers 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 not compassion
Home and farm foreclosures should never have happened, the bank will get their thirty years of payments, but there are going to be bumps in the road for everyone. America is stressed because most of us have to worry about keeping a roof over our heads. A good conservative move at this moment? FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM. More than half of America needs to own their homes outright.
The large corporate farms cry that their USDA subsidies were an important part of the local economy, and the government was not only hurting them by taking away the money they get FOR NOT growing crops. People on the left and right waking up to all the scams that have been perpetuated on them.
but ... Blah blah. Such BS, you can't even believe it. Wah wah, big tears, they are about commerce not communities. No matter how many commercials they bomb the airwaves with. What could replace them? Why do BIG corporations have a problem with small farms, close communities and independence? Time to give small farmers a break. Don't you think. Let's define small as a million in sales or less.
A conservative should be a steward of the land. Restoring prairie ecosystems and protesting forest destruction. This is how the self-sufficient native Americans and pioneer yeoman used to do it. and it should be available today as an option. There should always be enough fish for people to catch and it would be conservative to be an advocate to retain Americas wild lands and clean up Americas rivers.
Planting trees as windbreaks so the soil does not blow into rivers and streams, and restoring the health of trout streams and knocking down dams so Salmon can breed again are initiatives that should come from both sides. Schoolchildren get it. But the so called “greatest generation” never did. Apologists for corporate totalitarianism, the post WW2 generation were the most easily brainwashed group of people ever.
Could you convince this Zoomer generation that we need nuclear energy? Not likely. There is only one problem besides annihilation in a meltdown when it comes to a nuclear site. We need to store radioactive materials for, like, 10,000 years, not to mention the 50 billion needed for each plant to be decommissioned in the near future. All these ideas for energy creation, but the best one remains conservation. Not being spoiled Americans but more unseen costs for Millennials.
Nuclear power fuel costs were lower for the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s but now 400 generations will need to inspect, reject, object and hire 10,000 years worth of people to keep an eye on the radioactive poison that was created by one short-sighted generation. The unseen cost; as we hope for no radioactive leakage problems for thousands of years.
But money is so important, potential investors of the nuclear industry are trying to subtly brainwash people to think that it’s okay. Our friend the atom.
  Yes the kids get it. They get what the creator was trying to do. Maintain a balance of life. When you kill frogs you get flies. Let’s fill in more wetlands! Birds have confronted so many poisons in the last 60 years that their populations have been halved with the most beautiful and interesting birds suffering the most. Knock down more trees or plow the prairies to cultivate it to create a monoculture of 5,000 acres of wheat. Make it make sense to me. To ship overseas. Come on! Where's the common sense anymore?
What are big farmers giving to America? Taxes? Hopefully. At what cost? The tilled acreage may have contained 50 animal species and 400 plant species. The prairie ecosystem was a deeply rooted mix of low growing plants, numerous grasses and small shrubs with a wide variety of perennials. The prairies were a very unique set of ecosystems that dominated the central United States and now only 3% remains, while greed mongers have profited from the destruction of the other 97%. Most wealth is illegitimate.

It takes 10 pounds of corn feed to make one pound of beef. (Cow muscle and fat.)   Instead of one beef patty you could have 10 corn muffins. Beef needs steroids and antibiotics. Veal is raised in cruel conditions. The world has decided that eating animals is important and Beef in general is grown as if they were tomatoes or peppers, where has respect for all life gone to? Vegans have trouble with all the dead animals on plates but growing vegetables also destroys land. Keep that in mind. The core problem is overpopulation.
Oh yeh, Manifest Destiny and the belief that God wants us to use up Nature for profits. Trust me, you can be a conservative and be a vegetarian. Beef doesn’t have to be for dinner as the cattle growers continue to destroy ecosystems out west. Manly men are just looking so stupid right now.
Richard Hofstadter is my favorite author. He’s able to sum up the Midwestern culture in one long complex sentence, He said, "If a rural culture means an emotional and craftsman-like dedication to the soil, a traditional and pre-capitalist outlook, a tradition directed; instead of career directed type of character, and a village community devoted to ancestral ways, then the prairies and plains never had one.” Those college professors sure can construct some convoluted sentences. But do you see what he means, Vern? It became about profits. The heart and soul torn out of the community replaced with the bottom-line greed of the Predatory Capitalists. Red Lobster running Mabels Diner out of business.
Globally these corporations are doing the same thing to small farmers everywhere. The Predatory Capitalist Dream is to have everyone grow for one store and foreclose on every home they can, to erode our freedom and independence. Everyone paying rent to vicious and pernicious corporations, while our languid legislators remain lame. Corporate fascism, as long as people got a lot of stuff to fill their busy life, they will follow any law.

I’m trying to answer the oft asked but never quite completely answered question, can a conservative be a conservationist? Hell yes, a real conservative would be in favor of restoring the prairies more to what it was. Remnants and fragments are being saved and enhanced in many areas but all todays conservatives can do is whine and complain about environmentalists.

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 soil is dead and nature is on the ropes.

Mega farms have turned top soil into dollars. The Prairie 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 once marvelously working planet. The worst of them wear bow ties and are editors of college newspapers.  Conservatives have become apologists for big business and the planet polluters. How did this happen?         Billionaire political influence. These neo-con phonies need to go. Koch Brothers bought the anarchist, left leaning Libertarian Party in 1980. Stole it with their money.
Another fine writer I enjoy is Peter Drucker. He died recently at 95 and he wrote more than just about business which he was well known for. Here’s what he wrote about the Revolutionary era Patriots in his book from 1942, The Future of Industrial Man. “In the first place, while conservative, they did not restore nor intend to restore. They never did idealize the past: and they had no illusions about the present in which they lived. They knew that the social reality had changed. They would never have conceived their task as anything but the integration of the new society on the basis of the old principles: never would they have countenanced any attempt to undo what had happened.
It is their unconditional refusal to restore which has made the founding fathers appear radical, and which has obscured the essentially conservative character in their work. Their social analysis was indeed radical, extremely radical. They never accepted the polite conventions or the wishful restorative dreams which were based on the assumption that the old society was still functioning. The founding fathers of America were conservative of the present and future.”
The observations of our founding fathers looking at todays world would be ‘too much technology’ and ‘what are you doing fighting a war on the other side of the world?’ They would also say, “Too bad 21^st 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 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 the 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.
I last lived in New England in the 80’s. In 1984 I moved away from Arizona because I yearned for New England again. Leaving the laid back, c’est la vie attitude of Tucson, it was back to the land of material yearning, Cuisinart's, cars, curtains and children’s private school. I moved for the quaintness, history and diversity of opinions and to observe recovering wild lands. Living north of the busy Hartford County area, I ventured back one day to see my quaint little hometown of Wethersfield, Connecticut in southern Hartford County.
             In the War on the Trees the developers were winning everywhere I visited. How about some access to a park with a lot of trees? The town has 15 drug stores but no wild lands. All that was left was the meadows where I had a lot of adventures as a youth>>> or I could go to the Green. 300 years old and it wasn’t going anywhere. In just 10 years the younger trees seemed to have grown a lot and none of the old trees seem to have died. I loved the giant beech trees. 50 years of names carved into the trunk seem to have done no harm. Jogger’s, biker’s, strollers & walkers and benches to accommodate the crowds.

But what about peace and quiet? I drove around town to the old spots, but the only quiet place was Ye Anciente graveyard. Headstones dating back to a man born in1666. Even the ghosts have moved on. Unfortunately, the noise from the Interstate Highway, Rt. 91, was constantly droning.
In the 1600's, pioneers built their houses from trees in the forest. The “elite minority” followed their roughhewn footsteps of the first westward moving pioneers. They left Boston and Plymouth to settle in river valleys; particularly the Connecticut River and the Hudson. These pioneers eventually reached the Appalachian Mountains. With virtually no government, there was agrarian freedom, it was virtually anarchy. Agrarian Anarchy. Trade, barter and self-sufficiency greased the wheels of society. Today, can this type of freedom be replicated without the pinhead accountants that say it’s not possible.
Developer delirium will always dwarf agrarian anarchy unless the good people advocate and implement changes. Future generations will puzzle over the recklessness of 20^th century people that allowed forests to be leveled as they were. 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 build 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.

-1-5- 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 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. The Populuxe Era.

I see the Rogers Maris home run chase in 1961 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 people's spirits. But not all.

Billy Crystal made a fabulous movie called “61” depicting that period of time so well.

The automobile culture in 1961 was firmly entrenched; it wasn’t such a new thing anymore. it was a historical transition from the old era to the new with baseball and most everything else. Soon Cassius Clay would rock the oldsters with brazen outspokenness. He would handle the glare of the modern era much better than Roger Maris.

Home Run No. 61 was the nexus of the Populuxe Era. September 30 1961 was when the modern era was born. The Era of Youth. A 43 year old president and a 27 year old farm was going to break Babe Ruth’s 37 year old record. Astronauts and movie stars and youth-oriented television overwhelmed the established order. Joe Namath brazenly beating Johnny Unitas in Super Bowl 3 in 1968 or so.

Populuxe was really about the material enthusiasm after World War 2 and the rapid improvements of convenience, leading to rampant over consumption and the empty busyness of modern life. Critics call this time, an era of 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 but 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 in the thirties.

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. Factories, owned by corporations, profited greatly from government money given to them to convert to wartime production, to say nothing of the profits created by these accoutrements of these 'dancers of death'.

Every area of the country shook off its Bank depression in different ways and at different times. Contrary to conventional wisdom that says the war took us out of the depression, 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.

This notion was a corporate mantra I heard as a youth, was that war was very profitable for America. The era of Madison Avenue, it's propaganda and commercials, became a heavy influence in the 50's and people believed the lie that 'war lifted us out of the depression.' But this was a psychological setup for the Vietnam War. The fascist architects of our foreign policy wanted "war without end" to begin in Vietnam.

Tailfins disappeared and Detroit floundered till the muscle cars of the mid-sixties became the fashion and this was another way Populuxe was ushered out. Peace, love and Camaros baby.

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. Please watch the two videos above to get a big view of what I'm saying.

From 1962 onwards, Populuxe went into decline. The heady heydays of too many choices and traditional male dominance and mismatched two tone kitchen 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. But one of my first memories was listening to some old dudes on our porch talking about that home run race in 1961.

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 wrote and how I enthusiastically support his idea for making the era special in our history by giving it the label "Populuxe". Oddly I got a response. He sounded thankful and kind and said it could help to request another printing by asking for it. Today that would seem to be Amazon.com. So you book reviewers out there need to do that.

Culture was moving fast. Roger Maris, 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 that family came before fame and fortune, and chased them away like they were Raccoons eating his garbage. Those reporters in his yard, the newly formed paparazzi, reported in the papers that Roger was enraged and hysterical. Today we call it pissed off.

The home run chase was a part of our boomer childhood and pretty much forgotten till Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa had their roided up home run race in '97. Roger was not a fluke or a freak. MVP (most valuable player) in 1961 and the previous year he was also voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. (1960) MVP two years in a row, as he breaks Babe Ruth’s record that had stood for 34 years. New York reporters were vicious every day. Babe Ruth diehards sending him death threats. WTF is wrong with people like that?

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 and old people at that time really had sand in their pontaloons. They wanted their world to last forever.

The old fuddie duddies decried "this new permissiveness". Women realized it wasn’t all right that men run the family as dictators and beat them and their children. Boomers protested so strongly it forced the Old Orders hand.

In the movie "61", it showed how Roger's 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 to Roger 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 Mantle told him,” Hank Greenberg had 58 home runs with a week left in the season,” said Mantle, “He couldn’t take the pressure, 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 and 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 in 1961. So, in actuality, if you take the last 151 games of the season he hit 61 home runs in less thatn 154 games.

After all, did any other records get the asterisk it was asked? Suzuki’s 262 hits recently? Or recently deceased, Maury Will’s, 104 stolen bases the next year in 1962 did not get the asterisk?

It was Ford Frick versus Roger Maris who told the press, "sic em boys". I don’t care what anyone says about the 50’s. There was verbal harassment and threats and meanness in every corner of society. Relentless hostility from the white male control freaks. If only he lived long enough to see the respect he would eventually earn. Roger only lived to 1985 which was his 51st year.

In 1962, I was 8 years old and started playing baseball and in time started collecting cards. But I remember the 1961 season, how everyone was talking about the home run race. My dad had just finished building a huge porch and I would often sit there and write down what cars drove by. As my Uncle was going out the porch door one day they had a serious discussion on baseball.

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 one day and our little posse started chatting it up with him.
By 1966, I was a paperboy waking up at 5:00, and the first thing I did was to check the box score if the Yankees played. Scanning right down to where Roger was. Fourth in the lineup. He hit 33 home runs and batted in 100 in 1962 which was a big disappointment to all.

Just a fluke, they said, but keep in mind he was the league's MVP (Most Valuable Player) two years in a row. Added together he compiled 133 home runs 358 RBI and only 210 strikeouts in 60 61 and 62. Aaron Judge tied Roger yesterday .....

but also has 178 strikeouts so far this year.

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 after 1961. One of the greatest sporting feats of the century and it only ruined his spirit instead of nourishing the man, primarily because of A-hole reporters from New York.

Can’t you be just good at what you do and not have a press corps plucking at you? Trying to upset your personal life? The emotional water boarding of the vicious New York Press was the most avaricious ever concocted.

In ’66 it was clear he would not fulfill his potential as a career-long 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. I was a fanatic.

Apparently, he was viewed as a seasoned pro and was highly regarded with the Cardinals, despite only hitting 9 home runs. He won some games with timely hits and became a good clutch hitter helping the Cards reach the World Series and he was always one of the best fielders. He had his best World Series ever and hit .385 going 10 for 26. He was 2 for 3 in the last game as Bob Gibson pitched a 3 hitter, winning the series for the Cards.
It was the most exciting World Series I ever remember, and it was the last good ball I’d ever watch him play. The Red Sox played some gutsy ball, but Gibson won 3 games and was unbeatable. I still had a paper route and religiously checked the box score for every game the Cardinals played in '67 and '68, hoping he would do it again. Roger played another year and was in another World Series in ’68, then retired at the relatively young age of 34. He was done.

In 1969 I was 15 and at a loss after Rogers retirement for a team to root for. I batted .239 that year in the Babe Ruth league, striking out twice in the final game. I had a good arm and could reach the catcher from center field, but the pitching had gotten too fast, and I was too small.

Then it became downright scary with pitchers throwing 88 MPH only 42 feet from home plate. In the major leagues it is 66 feet away. Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox was going to miss a second full season from the injuries sustained by getting hit in the head with a baseball. Then Jimmy Pierce threw a rock at my head and blinded me in my left eye that summer. I bonded with Conigliaros plight and became a Red Sox fan till 2007.

No longer a Yankees fan, I ended up becoming a Red Sox fan for 35 years. Finally beating the Babes curse in 2004 when they won. Uncle Joe would have been proud. He was a foam at the mouth Red Sox fan and was happy when I converted.

My dad was a lukewarm Yankees fan and we 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.

Back to the 1961 season and 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, it's on the TV."
The movie pointed out how destructive the media can be. Later evolving into the relentless paparazzi that chased Princess Diana causing her to crash. The ever-intrusive snoops looking for something to keep the rabble buying the various rags that pass for entertainment. They completely made up the story about a Mantle / Maris fued.

Roger 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 the New York media dissin' of Maris. Mark was a California boy but understood the Roger Maris story like others of us. How the New York media tried to kill him.

Roger Maris' movie son said to another son, during the McGuire Sosa home run race, “It’s like the best year Dad ever had.” Mcgwire smashed 65 homers by the 154^th 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.

1961. Game 154 of the season, Roger still had 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 had finally got his just due.

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The roadside diner is so Populuxe. Outdoor movies also.

The previous stylistic era became 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 out of the tap. But unfortunately, 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, the reviled mantle wanna be, was booed and abused, but when he hit his 61^st, it was a celebration of triumph and national exaltation.

Here's a toast to Aaron Judge and I hope he hits #62 today.

Roger Maris and JFK

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. I hope I captured some of this era with this story.

“My Boyfriends Back" in 1963 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 1965, Louie Armstrong’s hit, “Mame” was something everyone could love. Wayne Newton’s “Danke Schein” was on both stations also. "Sugar Shack" was another with its thunky bass line.

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 1967, Everything 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 complemented grandmas homemade pillows and decor. Well, maybe they didn’t match but they were the most distinct object d’art in her house. Blue glass ashtrays, Silver or pewter candy dishes. Probably filled with lead but it's been a good life.
We saw the past fade away during the Populuxe Era. It seemed like hardly anybody had an outhouse anymore. It was a new, modern,…...clean era. Jet Age style. There was debates about clothes dryers, should we spend 10 dollars a month on electricity instead of 8? That was the choice. Clotheslines were such a common site. Using air to dry clothes. Free air no less. I would carry wet laundry outside as one of my jobs. As one of the New Lazy Youth, I was too modern to help out much more than that. You know how laundry piles up.

Imagine squeezing the water out of clothes one by one? Then dragging them outside? "Squeeze these while I go hang this bunch." -Mom. Laundry smelled fresher when hung outside, but now Americans are too good to do that anymore. It's not women's 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 fancy new things. Her dryer had buttons. 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 and we visited once a month and spent the entire day there. Anyways he had the Rambler Ambassador which was a fancy version of the '65 Rambler we had. Before that he had a 59 Chevy with full Dagmars and fancy chrome. Memere was the first person I knew to get a self-propelled mower, a snow blower and color television.

The Populuxe era is really about the postwar boom. 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 the Populuxe Era, service was different. Americans took to the road. 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, friend 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?

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 the production of herbicides and pesticides derived from chemical weapons 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 as Southern forests were stripped. 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. Except for the black veterans who were rebuffed at every turn.

The poor and discriminated against, the abused and beaten, and that crazy aunt was still in the cellar. Taxes were low as these societal ills were continually hidden under the rug as the trillion-dollar toxic waste cleanup at mimlitary sitesis not being discussed 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 enjoying life and American freedom in their own way. The "ban the bomb" movement arose from these Bohemians.

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 during the war. 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.

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 we were told. 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: the old guys at work telling me how TV went 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 in the sixties. 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!” Those who grew up during the initial birth of suburbs had plenty of places for wild play. In many neighborhoods, at the end of the row of houses, there would often be some woods or an open area.

We had the fun of skipping rocks on actual unaltered streams before they became suburban storm drains. Magazines, hula hoops, little pedal cars, Frisbee banana seat bikes, infinity ad nauseum. We had a gushing of goods from the toy manufacturers but the most fun was our wild play.

As 1953 progressed, the bigger hydrogen bomb was being tested by America and 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.

Meanwhile beatniks were being refused service

-1-6-

34 commandments

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, and therefore all religion seems ridiculous to them. So remember, at first glance, Paganism seems even sillier and even more illogical to an atheist green, and they never get past the costumes to get to the content.

Most Greens find Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the book of Revelation as preposterous, and Islam is so, a thousand years ago; that both religions are given virtually no credence or relevance. There are Muslim Greens, thank Allah, and I hope they come to prominence these next couple of years.

Pagan gods and goddesses just seem like so much effluvium to many Greens. Aren't they over the Greeks and Romans yet, the Green Atheists ask? They don't know about the thousands of other pagan religions and white people don't realize how many meaningful deities existed before Christianity. Black people don't know 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 continents, 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 and we don't need to wear costumes.. 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 40 years. Their attempted coup wants to make us subject to 3,000 year old lies. Go away, you have no power here. Democrats and their feckless attempst to lead need to get out of the way.

The Great Spirit that has ruled this continent is returning, Growing a green canopy over the dark heart of Capitalism and its Christian apologists.

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

Like Orwell’s 1984, history was changed as it suited the monarchies and their protestant and catholic lackeys. Censorship? Well the Spaniards only destroyed 496 of the 500 Mayan codex’s. Big brother has been here all along. Now in 2024 it is still here. Christians and Islamofascists---they have their eye on you and if we allow heretics to be 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 in a power spot near the Rincon Mountains in Tucson Arizona in the early 80’s. More like a vortex. You could get in it for miles around. I lived in the last house on Broadway in Tucson. On one side was the Saguaro National Monument, a startlingly beautiful desert preserve featuring the Saguaro Cactus. Then travel almost 60 miles to the next town and in between was a mountain range, part of the 250,000-acre Coronado National Forest.

Nature was a powerful force in that area, and I was fortunate to be a caretaker on a 40 acre ranch which has since become a nature center. I’ve extensively hiked everywhere I’ve lived, and the outskirts of Tucson was the most remote wilderness I’ve ever known. On Google Earth go to 12,661 east broadway in Tucson to see where I’m talking about. It used to be called the Kingston Ranch.

One day I found this unique grassy area in some shady trees out in the desert. A Mini-oasis. Snowmelt and storms created a network of temporary streams that ran nearby and this was A very special place of peacefulness. Not much natural grass and not many deer in the Sonoran Desert but I had seen them scampering away from this place. When I found a pair of antlers on the short soft grass it felt like some special gift.

The antlers are a memory and a remnant of what I felt in that very special area. My atheism lapsed knowing that nature was the true force in the world. Nature is my god I used to say. Then, I worked with this native American dude named Mike Two Hawks in the late 80’s. He was an enthusiastic modern native, doing ceremony at work. He had A lot of respect for his surroundings and enthusiastic about Mohawk tradition.

Most importantly he taught me how to feel the unseen energy of nature. Regarding the human assault on mother Earth Mike would often use a baseball metaphor saying, “Earth bats last and she’s coming to the plate. Nobody out with the three best hitters coming up. Hurricanes earthquakes and volcanoes.” When I described my “power spot” to him he said I very likely found something very special. Suddenly everything has come alive for me again, this time for good. I’ve been a pagan all along. My message is that you also may be a pagan; maybe you’ve been a pagan all along. Section 2 is 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 2024. As I mentioned it will be presented by Fux News that there is some ‘Great Awakening’ going on and I’m going to quote conservative historian Richard Hofstadter from his book, ‘America in 1750’, about the original Great Awakening to start educating you about it.

Richard Hofstadter, “The end of religious wars and extreme persecution, the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism and a more affluent and luxurious life, had taken some of the terror out of existence. In America, it had not been long since (slaveholder and witch executioner Cotton) Mather had seen the Protestant Vanguard as leading a direct assault on Satan’s wilderness bastion, the cooling of religion could be felt, and men, even clergymen, leaned unmistakably to Enlightenment heresies. A society that was beginning to produce deistical leaders would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including freedom of thought.”

Freedom of thought is one of those pagan virtues that was enshrined in our constitution. Our founding fathers were conservative but didn’t allow religious bugaboo to cloud their clarity of thought. This is what right wing Christian conservatives aren’t getting, that the founding revolutionaries were masons, 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 in the 1730's. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times that a smallpox or diphtheria epidemic or perhaps an earthquake would prod the people into a revival.” Americans continue to become more logical and educated, but still we have to live with this Christian fantasy of a great battle between good and evil. All the other religions are not talking about war; but Dharma, Harmony and Community, so maybe we need to give them a listen.

-1-7- Party Like it’s 1699

“Your season draws nigh, as the north wind blows.”

Chasing them down to take a picture seemed gauche and distasteful,
so I went back to town and bought a quilt

Above is an Amish buggy I was trying to take a discreet picture of. Its way off in the distance and I was starting to feel like paparazzi trying to get a good picture. I wasn't after the photos after all, I was wondering what is in their hearts and what is in their head.
I’m visiting the city of New Holland, Pennsylvania in an attempt to parachute into Amish Country to check them out for myself. A parade route was filled with lawn chairs from townspeople who were reserving their spot for the harvest festival parade to begin that next Wednesday. Clever front yard mini-landscapes, and some very hip, thrift shop owners.

I Noted some really good vibes outside of town too, Amish children playing and riding bicycles and the locals were respectfully going around the horse and buggies of the Amish.

While wary of strangers, the Amish seem unaffected by technology, happy in their ways, purposeful in their tasks. Quick too, their horses were really hoofing it and they didn't cause any traffic problems that I could see.
I'm a little skeptical about the "technologically impaired" aspect of the Amish when I see rubber tires and such and I wonder what kind of Smithing was needed to make their bicycles. I know for a fact that the carriage wheels are handmade and many of the carriages are made locally, but I was wondering about the part in the weird al song "Amish Paradise" that goes...
"I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain

But that's just perfect for an Amish like me,

You know I shun fancy things like electricity."

Weird AL

Now if I was the typical tourist, I would cynically note that the best way to find the Amish was to follow the horse poop in the roads. However, their patriarchal system aside, I have some real respect for them now after having taken a closer look.

In October I traversed many of their farm roads as I headed to that seed company in Lancaster. A seed store the Amish shop at. Most distinctly on this trip was noticing how beautiful their horses are. Whatever the horses are eating, its good for them.

When I came out of the store, a precisely painted Buggy and an absolutely beautiful horse were parked next to me. Once again I was tempted to take a picture but I I drove over to the corner of the parking lot to prepare for the next leg of my trip.

Around the time of the vengeful hysteria of 9-11, when Saudi hijackers created a war in Iraq, America was out for blood. A flag-waving, Muslim hating minority vowed revenge. Around the same time, there was a mass shooting and five deaths at an Amish schoolhouse. Shocking the country, they forgave the shooter. I thought, wow America … here’s how real christians act. What part of ‘turn the other cheek’ don’t you understand?

How did the Amish lack the bloodthirsty, vengeful hysteria of George Bush's America?

Big rocks and small yards in New Holland Pa.

I walked a good deal around New Holland and there were no scuffles or people rushing or upset ...(except a bicycle riding Amish dude who was trying to make the green light. He gave the skank eye to a boneheaded tourist that got in his way as the light turned yellow). "An Amish with a 'tude, you know that's unheard of" --- Weird Al

They talk with outsiders and they are not deaf, dumb and blind. A friendly merchant, a grain salesperson, a potato wholesaler, or the driver taking 500 pumpkins to Florida. The working people all talk with each other and the Amish know a good deal more than they are given credit for. Remember they don’t watch TV and conversations with people is where they learn the most about the outside. Different sects have various strictures and freedoms with the strictest of them living in less accessible hinterlands.

I found it amusing that they hung their clothes to the electric pole by the street. All kinda laundry drying outside and fields full of

PumpkinsSquashandCorn.

Do you kind of get that they are actually Anarchists and Preppers and Survivalists? They follow the rules that they have to, such as stop lights, but have cut off all ties with the US government. They think Satan is the tapeworm eating America and they plan to outlast Satan.

They are a country within a country, like the Basques in Spain or the Kurds in the middle east but not wanderers like the Tinkers or Gypsies. The Amish are a community that allow their young to decide their future by living among the outsiders during the wild oats phase. Would the common sense of their youth translate into a desirable future within the community? You may have watched the TV series about the Amish and found them cautious and thoughtful when the rules are broken.

During this period, they will be deciding on having an adulthood that is filled with non-stop chores during the daylight hours, or they may choose a life among the capitalist Americans and the vicissitudes of the market, subjecting themselves to the inherent cruelty of capitalism. Not having a job to do is unheard of in their world. Everyome has skin in the game in their communities. Alone in the world like Moby with no real community, is what moving to the city entails.

Note lawn chairs saving a space for the parade

When this capitalism crap shits the bed, guess who won't even notice

So I’m in one of the large thrift shops and I see a partial quilt that I really liked and I talked to the lady whose mom was an Amish. She showed me something her mother made and it was quite nice, and then we looked at a piece that caught my eye. 1903 1904 and women's names stitched in. The corner of a quilt where they quilters signed their names. Cut from a corner of an 8x8 foot quilt? Fascinating stitching and colors.

With the ladies 100 years dead, I thought I had gotten myself a bit of an antique, but it was also time to listen. She said the price is negotiable and I was going to say 25, but it was obviously worth more than that, so I said thirty and I had it. In the meanwhile, I love when people volunteer information I’m looking for, and I followed the banter between the co-owners and I learned a lot more than if I asked stupid questions.

As I went to leave to go to Hershey Gardens , I stopped at a farmstand. Finally an Amish in full regalia I could talk to. I didn’t know if they were brainwashed zombies like christians and islamos, so I didn’t know what to expect. I was out to get seed potatoes from the Amish which was big on my itinerary from the git-go. But there was nothing sprouted, they were all perfectly beautiful Kennebecs.
I bought a couple pounds of them and six weeks later only five had sprouted. “This is the time when we plant them in Florida," I had told her. It can get cold some fall and winters and that would slow the growth down some years, and we harvest in April, mostly from containers. Fresh Florida potaters February to April.

Luckily no customers came along for a bit and she told me about how they specialize. Different people have different talents and tools and she hinted on how their barter system works. Got into a seriously normal conversation for a good twenty minutes till somebody finally came in.

My planning was extensive for my trip, even growing a mustache-less semi-beard despite having no sideburns. Here I look like a stern Amish smiling his fool head off.
So whatever it was, this Amish maiden was so real and open and fun to talk to, I’m thinking, you know, these people are probably pretty cool in actuality. Use your head and don’t mess with them.

Instead, bond with people about agriculture. Considering we eat three times a day, a thousand times a year, an important part of the revolution, is food. What do I see in gas stations across America? Amish this and Amish that. As I left Amish country there were piles of squash at the end of peoples driveways. 50 cents a piece on that beautiful October afternoon.

If you treat people who are different, like fish at the Atlanta Seaquarium, don’t expect any warmth or confidentiality. Talk about the guy that cuts the silage at the end of the growing season, or discuss tricks of the trade regarding tomatoes and potatoes, well that's another story. Not, "why do you hang your laundry in the front yard", like a city slicker libtard would?

The energy hog we call the dryer, gives most people an automatically bigger carbon footprint than any of the Amish. Do you think the Amish were worried about Hurricane Florence damaging gasoline refineries? We shouldn’t be either, and now ask yourself how many pipelines do you need to supply YOUR community with gasoline.

It’s not just smoke in the air, but the entire mining and processing of fossil fuels that has compromised our ecosystems. Thousands of pipelines crisscrossing the country (that will be abandoned when we switch to safer technologies) that created a silent slaughter of billions of animals who were unable to migrate, unable to find food.

Traditional wetlands for millions of years wiped out in several generations by short-sighted sycophants of capitalism. Carpetbagging trumps, looting someone else's resources.

I see Despicables and Deplorables in line with a mountain of pork chops at the register, and this is somehow more civilized than an Amish root cellar? That’s right, I didn’t see many fat Amish. I can also see the Amish understanding Bioregional Autonomous Zones far better than some city slicker libral could. They are about survival within their community.

Now imagine this type of independence coupled with a less superstitious, strict religion. Hunter-gatherers, harvest gleaners, taking 50 cent Amish squash and selling it for a dollar in Florida. Wholesale Vermont Maple Syrup and making pints to sell, a whole new independent crop of survivalist hucksters will emerge and it will be a good thing.

People living in their cars, camping, not homeless. Maybe make our own internet, and corporations and governments can be told to take a hike. Talk to the hand Fascism. Banishment(boycott) all POS corporations as the Amish banish those that they want to remove from their life.

Horse and buggy isn’t the answer to your beguiling question, but real, actual energy independence is what we’ll be doing in our spiraling autonomous communities when gasoline gets to about $4.50 a gallon, then all the alternatives will come on line. Production of slower vehicles and an infrastructure project for safer traveling will boost the economy. The frantic fracking of the last ten years was to keep the Petroleum Plot rolling and gas sales booming.

It was the Obama administration that looked the other way when shale oil extraction (fracking) became the norm. Suddenly we were only buying 15% of our oil from the Middle East. Gas prices flattened below three dollars a gallon but unknown toxins were being injected into the bedrock below the soil.

The people of New Holland and the nearby Amish community seem to do parallel play pretty well. Amish carriages never seemed to hold up traffic and they also seemed intent to get things done that Saturday. Trucks with bales of hay going thru Main St and harvests with their gales of surplus.

The Amish will survive Armageddon, will you?

The Amish knew this a long time ago. They will survive. They won't even notice an economic collapse and it seems only cockroaches are tougher than the Amish.

-1-8- 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!"

Through the fog and haze we travel through the embedded nonsense of religion in our culture.

QUOTES "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 have provided fertile ground for the heresies that continue to question Christian dogma. Strap yourself in for a bracing dose of heresy."

"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, was the question on a forum."

"Here is the real story. First off, the "virgin" Marys' mother Anne was like 60 years old or something. 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 how a 60 year old woman became pregnant."

" Expert pagan astronomers, called the Magi, were able to locate the child using the stars. The three-pointed Crown Constellation and a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus pointed the way and they brought offerings. The Magi discussed the various pagan religions and Mystery Schools in Egypt, where Mary and Joseph had planned to move. Good farming and there were prosperous people that needed a good Carpenter, and there were some nice liberal synagogues scattered about. Jerusalem was such an uptight city, you know? They had to get out of there. The fanatics were dominating the culture."

"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. That was his mission. 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, so off to Alexandria they went."

"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. "

"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 and destroy the Doomsday Hound. An Empire of Compassion, not Conquest . That 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. The patriarchal Paulines offered up these original fundamental Jesus followers (Gnostics) to be fed to the lions. Jesus' 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. It was a dangerous mission."

"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."

" 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."

" When Jesus talked about the father in heaven, he was thinking of Odin. "

" 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."

,,,,in the meantime

Centuries of religious instruction and indoctrination has provided fertile ground for the heresies that continue to question Christian dogma. Strap yourself in for a bracing dose of heresy, as the Enlightenment continues to question miracles and magic.

Question What was Jesus’ mother Mary like? As a person? Was she a leader, was she humble? Please tell me anything you can about her.

Thanks* 1 hour ago - 4 days left to answer.

John A Almada

Here is the real story. First off, the "virgin" Marys' mother Anne was like 60 years old or something, and one day she was gnashing her teeth over her barren womb and an angel heard her. "Go forth with vigor old woman, and thou shalt be blessed." The grandmother of Jesus walked away puzzled.

Alas, she left without hope; and there was sorrow in her heart. How badly she had wanted a child and despite the miracle of the Angel, it seemed like a cruel joke. However, shortly after an eating frenzy of goat cheese and pickles ...SHE REALIZED SHE WAS PREGNANT. ''How can this be?'' her husband asked and so she told him about the angel, which of course explained everything.

Jesus' Mother Mary is one of the nine goddesses in my DIY religion, and the first Goddess to be born as a human. She was conceived from the spiritual melding of Mary in the Veles and the barren womb of her mother, Anne. The Divine Adoption, which ended with the Astral Ascension. There's the first heresy.

Mary grew up and she was of childbearing age when she got married. The angels, muses, and Goddesses had picked Joseph the Carpenter to marry her, being a gentle man of great integrity, and he became a kind and gentle role model for the forthcoming holy son, but it took a few years until she was ready.

The Goddess Mary and the human Joseph created a half -human son named Jesus. This is the second heresy, but more plausible compared to the time tested, biggest lie of all time that states that God got the virgin pregnant with, like, magic dust or something.

Mary came from Heaven (Veles) in a cosmic womb that Joseph seeded. Nah, this is a much more workable theory.
Sorry God, you're not the father"

Jesus was born of the goddess Mary, and his birth was foretold in the stars, it was such a great spiritual event. Expert pagan astronomers, called the Magi, were able to locate the child using the stars and what they knew of astronomy. Myths of a King, a Savior, a Messiah was prophesized to be born. The three-pointed Crown Constellation and a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus (star of Bethlehem) pointed the way and they brought three offerings.

The Magi discussed the various pagan religions and Mystery Schools in Egypt, where Mary and Joseph had planned to move. Good farming and prosperous people that needed a good Carpenter, and there were some nice liberal synagogues. Jerusalem was such an uptight city, you know? Doctrinaire Pedantic. They had to get out of there.

The Magi and Mary and Joseph all agreed that the Old Testament god of the Judaic Tradition is a spiritual poseur, an angry gasbag trickster deity who seemed to demand an inordinate amount of fealty and worship, oddly reminiscent of insecure old men, Joseph noted. #3

Jesus was going to invalidate this trickster god when he grew up. This is what his real ministry was going to be about. They were doubtful of the authenticity of the Old Testament, as were most logical people in those days when confronted with the WORD. The Jerusalem area was way too orthodox for their taste. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLater.

The Old Testament god is some sort of an illusionist that needed some anger management classes back in the day. The Magi (magicians) told them the blessed son must write a New Testament for all the people, a true covenant of peace and tranquility in order to invalidate the trickster evil god.

Mary and Joseph agreed to teach the child named Jesus about many faiths. The Ancient Goddesses had begun to fight back. Jesus was to change Gods status.
“Flee to Egypt,” the Magi insisted. "Take him somewhere peaceful, teach him the mysteries, and eventually, have him initiated by a Telestes." Forms of Buddhism had reached the homes of the Magi from India and China; and, although Egypt was marginalized politically by the time of Mary’s Pregnancy, it was still a spiritual place and the Mystery Schools were a highly regarded form of education at that time.

Mary and Joseph inherited a modest, middle class structure, Jesus being in the same line as King David they say, his kin had some money, but none had accommodations that dry, starry night that Jesus was born.
The Magi made this three-month journey from out near the Ukraine or something, some say almost from India. We three kings of Orient Are, remember? That also means theoretically, Jesus as the divine teen, may have made some extensive voyages back to the Magi's homeland, as speculated by some.

It has been theorized that Mary, Joseph and Jesus frequented a liberal Jewish Temple near Alexandria Egypt, after they had moved there. Being half divinity, you can easily imagine the half man, half god Jesus, as a very precocious child. By 12 years old, it was known that he was arguing circles around the dogmatic religious leaders. “Jesus Christ, go feed the god blessed donkey!”

This temple in Egypt they supposedly went to, had tunnels underneath it and initiation ceremonies in the style of the Pagan Mystery Schools. You know, where they go deeper underground in tighter and smaller tunnels and eventually, they are reborn at some secret underground site once they are fully disoriented by the dark.

The River of Styx was an important symbolism in this ritual, and Styx was an underground stream that symbolically carried them into a more spiritual life. Some of these temples had actual underground streams deep inside them for effect.
Presumably, as the family travelled, he created controversy wherever he went as he questioned the hypocritical Abrahamic leaders. Mary was always there to temper Jesus' enthusiastic youthful extremes, "go feed the donkey before you get us in trouble!" she would say as she shushed him away from time to time.

The goal of the Goddesses was to have him start a holy organization of adepts and healers, to get the world away from the excess of the growing, patriarchal led violence, and move towards social justice for all. It was time to confront the dark side of doom. An Empire of Compassion, not Conquest was what Jesus’ ministry was about. His human mistake was showing his hand too soon,

Not well known, is that slaves and women held prominent roles in early Christianity, but the Pauline’s thwarted that effort less than a century after Jesus' death and offered up these original fundamental Jesus followers (Gnostics) to be fed to the lions. His mission was to unify humankind without the hierarchy of patriarchal, religious groups, while at the same time, not to personally fall victim to the brutal, bloodthirsty Pagan Roman soldiers.

Pagan slaughter began with the Levites, 2800 years before Jesus’' era; and these Levites ambitiously tore down Pagan temples, stole pagan gold, and even burned, not only innocent pagan children, but their own daughters as well, as per the bible, "if she playeth the whore". Who does that shit? Pretty bad, even for historical assholes.

The Holy family eventually settled in Egypt for probably at least 10 years, and went back to Israel to live with the Essenes eventually, while maintaining their connections in Egypt. It wasn't that far after all. Two weeks of steady walking. Poor Moses lost in the desert for 40 years. Loser.

A friend's daughter from Egypt, Mary Magdalene, became a pagan priestess, a Telestes, and some theorize she educated Jesus in more ways than one, if you know what I mean.

The Essenes were the only sect to truly follow the commandment "thou shalt not kill." They were reputedly vegetarians and eschewed blood sacrifices. No doubt, the Pharisees & Sadducees had serious conflicts with the Essenes.

As Jesus got into his 20's, he joined the Masons and Mary's home became a lodge of sorts, and friends of Jesus admired this wise, foresightful mother of his. In time, Mary Magdalene, a follower of Isis, became enamored with Jesus, and as it became time for his ministry, she wrote a song called "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and sang it to Mother Mary trying to figure out the wazzup with this miracle shizz.

Mother Mary then confided to Mary Magdalene, that she is actually a goddess having a life on Earth, and Jesus is a half-divine preacher who was going to bring equality to all people of the world if his mission succeeded. Teach people how to become healers and peace makers. Mary Magdalene was in on this, the greatest story never told. Jesus the Pagan 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. #4

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 2024, religious leaders back then were moral high ground hypocrites, and were frequently complicit with dictators, tyrants and Fascists.

Jesus began his ministry when he was about thirty and He kept pushing the envelope with what the local authorities could tolerate. Jesus went into the main temple one day, and went bonkers in the market place. After observing the greed of bankers, he flipped all their tables over. An anti-social act most of us wouldn't even consider, and Mary knew the time for a major confrontation had come, but would Lucifer thwart him?

Mary advised and prepared him best she could, Lucifer then tempting him on His 40-day Vision quest in the desert. Other trials occurred, tempering Jesus’ fortitude. When Jesus talked about the father in heaven, he was thinking of Odin. lol It was Joseph, remember.

Jesus brazenly rode into the big city despite knowing he could get arrested for disturbing the peace, amidst cheers from his followers, and was going to publicize the formation of his organization of healers. People didn't believe the stories that had been circulating about Jesus the Pagan Preacher, and he had some rockin' miracles he was going to perform. A Miracle Man was the scuttlebutt on the grapevine. Mary had a bad feeling though, and notified Joseph of Arimathea who went to Pontius Pilate to try to keep Jesus out of trouble.

Joseph explained to Pontius Pilate, that the best thing Pilate could do, was to let Jesus do his thing. Just leave him be, the people will forget, Joseph told Pilate. Besides, Jesus' heretical outlook would weaken the psychological strangle hold the Pharisees had over the population, enabling the Romans, Joseph had told Pilate when he took him aside from prying ears and lying eyes.

Then an angry mob began forming-ditto heads with pitchforks- and demanded that Jesus the Isis loving pagan needed to be crucified. The religious leadership needed to make sure this strange; miracle-performing man would not infect proper society. He could expose the moral high ground posturing of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who were the forerunners of today’s Republican Party. He could rouse up a crowd with those parables he had been entertaining people with.

"Things are going terribly wrong." Mary said, and pleaded with Joseph to go back to Pilate to help.
"What happened to his magic?" Joseph of Arimathea asked Mary, as things went bad for Jesus.

"I don't know, that danged Lucifer must have a trap spell on him or something." Mary said. Pilate did the best he could, stalling and washing his hands of this hysterical crowd outside, but they were wound up like the false accusers at the Salem witch trials, more madness than hysteria. Crucify Him the crowd yelled.

Pilate hired guards, and he confidentially instructed them to crucify Jesus without breaking any bones if possible. Jesus went up three hours before sundown, which gave him a chance of surviving, because he would be taken down at sundown as per the holy law. He was still alive, people speculate, when he was taken down before sundown, though he had lost far too much blood and several muscles were completely severed. He had endured tortures few could endure. He was left for dead, spirited away to the cave and the Essene healers helped him recover from his severe injuries and 3 days later Mary Magdalene mistook him for the gardener.

On the other hand, maybe he died, or maybe Jesus and his homies had pulled off a "Jackass" type of stunt. Faked his death and went to France. Just the same, the Marys' wept as Jesus was in great pain on the cross. All they had worked for would be ruined by the hysterical, sycophantic chumps of the evil Pharisees.

The Romans didn’t even care! Vigilantes out for blood or paid mercenaries of the ruling elite? Decades after his death, had he escaped to the Far East, then came back and settled in France?

The Pauline’s ran away with Jesus' concepts eventually, as I said before, and distorted or destroyed what they didn't like about Jesus’ sermons and teachings. Jesus’ Christianity was never the same. Then came the slow turning of the patriarchal screw as years went by and censorship was common; The Gnostic verses, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas, and everything good, got cut from the new testament by the male compilers of the Bible, during the 4th Century.

Invariably, they came up with something to use against women and Pagans, then gave this Bible, the bogus New Testament along with the bi-polar madness of the Old Testament, to the Christian men. “Here is a small prize; The History of the World.” Gang of Four ( Mary is prophesized to return with the truth and I think that is what the third secret of Fatima is all about. Later on that) #5

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.

-1-9-

The Fundamental Orders

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

ROUSSEAU 1776

This is one of my first and favorite stories. The history of the Charter Oak updated and my hometown remembered. In your face history.

"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 constant 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."

"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."

"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."

"The new world was filled with heathens, the population was warned from the pulpits of hate. A popular T-shirt in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.” These preachers used scare tactics, suggesting the Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start, and encouraged their parishioners to kill as many as possible. Seriously, WWJD? He'd break out a can 'o whoop ass right there. Did Jesus have a grudge with the native North Americans?

I don't think so"

" Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it

The Fundamental Orders .

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."

"As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority."

" THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the tree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s. A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree! "

"All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old. For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy."

The Fundamental Orders

Since the beginning of civilization, wartime has depleted and polluted the earth’s resources, and absorbed the lives of the civilian-soldiers. Death and injury bringing grief and disruption to innumerable families over thousands of years of war. Most accepted their lives of toil and misery: THEIR BODIES no more than CANNON FODDER, their labor taxed heavily by the local despot.

Punishment was everywhere and eternal in those olden days, with a vengeful God and a diabolical Devil waging a war for our souls. Many people rolled their eyes and shook their heads at the superstitious nonsense spouted by religious zealots at the time before the Revolutionary War. Logic had taken hold in cultures during the Enlightenment of the 1700’s.

Going back to 1600, much trade had developed between Europe and the Far East, and a curiosity developed about the edge of the world, maybe it wasn’t flat! The Greeks figured that out a long time ago, but Christianity insisted the earth was a flat plane (maybe it is) and was the center of the Universe. lol. I mean, it was in a Papal Bull and everything.

European explorers and adventurers wondered if there was an ocean or a continent they needed to cross to get to China, and during the first decade of the 1600’s Dutchmen drove their ships up the Hudson River in New York State. In 1614 a Dutchman, Adrian Block, sailed up the Connecticut River as far as the Enfield Falls. Meanwhile, the French were exploring the Canadian wilderness via the St. Lawrence River.

There was a lot of friendliness and trade between the natives and the original European roughnecks and roustabouts. These original explorers paved the way for other pioneers. The first waves were the Gypsie's, the individuals, the characters, and the Johnny Hucksters by the score. Dudes looking for adventure led the way, and the families came along later.

It wasn't until after the initial explorations into Indian territory that the elitists actively promoted the slaughter of the indigenous people. Faith based genocide; it was. The New Capitalists found easy money as they stripped the country of resources. Elitist historians think our history is war; true, a war to stamp out the heathen polytheists, in any form! A war on nature. A war on life. Always war. Always fear. Fear of an angry god that needs you to obey coercive authority. You know what, FTS.

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Plymouth Massachusetts became the first permanent European town in 1620, and other settlements began on the nearby east coast. The Puritans were a dominant force in the settlement, and despite escaping the clutches of tyrannical royalty in England, they then imposed a ridiculously restrictive theocracy on themselves when they got here. For instance, if you said a curse word and the authorities found out, you might get your tongue nailed to a board in the center of town. It was going to take a while for this place to be called "land of the free," with this christian albatross around our neck.

The tally ho of the English elitists became the westward ho of those disenchanted with the Puritans and the Royalists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thusly began the westward movement in this country. Starting in the 1630’s, pioneers emigrated from Plymouth and Boston Massachusetts, and after that the religious zealots fanned out among the countryside looking for towns that would support and sponsor their "ministry".

Truthfully, I realize many preachers started their own towns for the captive audience that ensued, and that is part of history. They were portrayed as great Pioneers. They were actually instilling people with fear and damnation, and it kept them employed. There was always one religious sect or another trying to capture your mind and control your town.

Eventually, the preachers asked, do we worship the Creator or the Creation? Most preachers seemed to think we must worship God and to hell with the animals and trees. Forests and babbling brooks and a countryside filled with animals. It’s not reality they insist. We must bow down to the creator they implore.

He's so big we can't see him.

Things were different with the freedom loving, non-Puritan pioneers, who were agriculturally independent and self-sufficient working slobs ruled by good spirits and kindness. They were not puppets of a conquering tyranny or Lemmings following absurd theocratic philosophies. Remember that dinner party libruls when you say the pioneers were racist genocidal maniacs.

Before Plymouth and Boston, there was the first settlement of English-Europeans at Jamestown Virginia. The indentured white servants of the wealthy English were supposed to hold down the fort during the winter but were missing the next spring when a fresh new crop of rich preppies came to rule them. All that was left of the settlement of Jamestown was a note that said ’Gone to Croatan,’ that was carved in the tree. Croatan were nearby Native Americans.

In 1631, stifling and stultifying governments around the world led many of its citizens to look for new homelands. Wethersfield, Hartford and Windsor became known as the Connecticut Colony and this was a good area for those wishing to work their craft and live honestly.

It wouldn’t be long and there would be 50 different sects and religions in the colonies. It was a pity the pesky Puritan preachers promoted patriarchal platitudes, and these vultures were always looking for cowering, fearful, suspicious people to brainwash. Like todays Republicans.

Most of the population paid lip service to the preachers who were whipping up an anti-native frenzy. The new world was filled with heathens, the population was warned from the pulpits of hate, and a popular T-shirt back then in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.”

They used scare tactics suggesting these Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start, and encouraged their parishioners to kill as many as possible. Seriously, WWJS?

Encouraged by a Podunk Chief whose tribe was settled on the east side of the Connecticut River, settlers explored the west side of the Connecticut River and found a Dutch trading post there in 1632 at the future site of Wethersfield. In 1633, the first permanent settlement was built in Windsor. In 1634, Wethersfield became the first incorporated town and in 1635, an area between the two towns, Hartford was founded. Wethersfield, Windsor and Hartford commingled in trade and held town meetings, and in 1639 banded together into what they called, "One Publick state or commonwealth".

Unbeknownst to today’s pious hypocrites, Wethersfield settlers were about trade and not religion. The Podunks were looking for friends and allies.

Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS

He created what has been praised as the first practical constitution to declare, "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people."

Also at that time, in 1636, Roger Williams said the king had no right to claim native lands and he was banished for his efforts. He went south to Rhode Island where he started his own colony through legal means, purchasing land from the Narragansets at fair value.
By 1662, the Connecticut Colony was a proud and thriving region. The Wethersfield Red Onion was getting known around the world and was a superlative cash crop. The locally elected Governor sailed across the Atlantic to see the King of England. The governor and the king had a splendid time, and along with extending the Connecticut Colony borders to the Pacific Ocean, he legalized the Fundamental Orders of 1639. It was the most liberal document ever approved by an English monarch, ever; anywhere.

Remember the English counted India, Africa, Hong Kong and many other places as part of their empire. The sun never sets, remember? On the British Empire. Now 61 countries have Independence Day to deter the colonialism of the past.

Things went well for another 25 years as people peacefully farmed fertile flood lands in the Connecticut River Valley. Their only government was the monthly town meetings that were guided by the spirit of The Fundamental Orders of 1639. In the mid 1680’s one of the first sparks of revolutionary fervor burned right in my old hometown of Wethersfield. A previously unprecedented defiance, they succeeded in their refusal to pay a five-pound fine, which was imposed on them by the Royal Courts. They held a public election and voted in favor of not paying and this was a form of anarchy, thwarting government.

Feisty, independent and developing a fervent civic pride, the Connecticut Colony did not kowtow or patronize British leadership. Moreover, yes, they excluded many from voting but the evolution of personal liberty had to begin somehow, and it had to begin somewhere. Many Third World countries are hundreds of years behind us in understanding the notion that all people deserve freedom and liberty, so give these patriots a break.

The Connecticut Colony was mostly taking care of themselves, and they enjoyed unprecedented economic freedom. This was something new. It was anarchy in a sense because of the completely decentralized nature of authority. Don't get in the way of chimney and fence inspectors, and if there were no religious kooks in the neighborhood, you could get by pretty well if you were good at storing crops for the winter and could get a load of firewood piled up in time.

So anyhow, years went by and the new king found this self-rule, this unity without hierarchy, this … freedom, was absolutely outrageous. He appointed his own governor who went to Wethersfield to proclaim his royal authority while trying to invalidate the Fundamental Orders. Apparently, the town narcoleptic fell asleep at the main table and knocked the candles over as the Crown appointed governor, Edmund Andros, went to take the document. When the candles were relit, Andros was stunned that the charter, the original copy of the Fundamental Orders that was in plain view, had disappeared even though no one had left the meeting!

Tradition states that the Charter was thrown out the window to someone who traveled on horseback from the meeting place at the Wethersfield Cove to be hidden in an oak tree on a hill near the Hog River, a small creek near the Connecticut River in Hartford and site of the current capital building. The Redcoats could search homes and possessions but would be hard pressed to figure out where else it was hidden, like in a tree.

As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority, and it is carved into this arch.

America is an example of how coercive authority was given the boot. No messing around like the Third World Half Men that kowtow to illegitimate authority. Many people in many countries need to just grow a backbone and fight for their family and their future. Stop coming to America because the gravy boat can only sink. Men that allow tyranny or fascist and obnoxious zealotry should be ashamed of themselves for not speaking up. We need to learn from the freedom-seeking activists of the Connecticut Colony so many years ago, and be inspired by their charter of freedom called the Fundamental Orders.

In time, a cult developed on the hidden document. Someone hid it and kept it hidden. The infamous tree became known as the Charter Oak. The tree, a white oak, was huge and hollow. It was reputed to be 33 feet in its circumference at the base but was blown down in a hurricane in 1856. When I wrote the original story of the Charter Oak in the Bicentennial year of 1976, my idea was to show the fire in the belly the original settlers in Wethersfield possessed.

After a couple hundred years, Wethersfield citizens became complacent, with the “old families” running the Bored of Education and ruling other functions. Stuffy aristocrats you just wanted to slap upside the head. The story of the Fundamental Orders and the Charter Oak is the story of the roots of our eventual American Independence and not some Puritan fairy tale.

They did not want to be toadies to royalty, and independence burned in their hearts, and this spirit moved with the pioneers. Kissing feet and rings and kowtowing profusely was not on their agenda and they were less enamored with the clergy than you are led to believe by TV.

Interestingly, about fifteen years ago, the U.S. Mint allowed states to design quarters and Connecticut chose to use a representation of the Charter Oak, Rockin‘! The story goes even deeper and the following is from Wikipedia, “The Dutch explorer Adrian (or Adriaen) Block described, in his log in 1614, a tree, at the future site of Hartford, understood to be the Charter Oak. In the 1630s, a delegation of local Indians approached Samuel Wyllys, the early settler who owned and cleared much of the land around it, were encouraging its preservation and describing it as planted ceremonially, for the sake of peace, when their tribe first settled in the area. “This tree has been the guide of our ancestors for centuries as to the time of the planting our corn; when the leaves are the size of a mouse’s ears, then is the time to put the seed into the ground.”

Corn was easily their most important crop because it could be saved for lean times and crop failures. Important to note is that the local “Indians” knew that this tree was planted ceremoniously in the name of peace three hundred years previous and I find this fairly amazing and an example of our Native American pagans and what was sacred to them.

This Charter Oak has a much deeper meaning and deeper roots than I realized. The tree’s beginning was actually in the 1400’s when the Oak was born and began to grow. When the tree was 20 years old or so, it was ceremoniously consecrated to be THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the open gap in the trunk of thetree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s.

A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree!

Fourth of July is a lot more than waving flags to me and this story had its original inspiration from the Bicentennial in 1976. The ideas of the Revolutionary Era should remind us not to take our freedoms for granted. Today’s Moral High Ground Hypocrites, the religious right and the alt-right and the not quite right, and are all about power, not liberty, and they have more power than numbers.

Not all of our oppressors are hiding in caves plotting our destruction. The Christians have been trying to create a theocracy for nearly forty years now, and they think they are in control with the alt-right coup of our United States.

If America is ever taken over, I know I will create my own fundamental orders and fight with others to regain our freedom, we all would. Whether it's Nancy Pelosis gay police that are going to take your guns away, or some theocracy led by a hallucinating pastor who sees demons everywhere, we got to be ready for a loony toons fascist coup

All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old. For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy.

QUESTIONS TO ASK

Was this freedom in 1662 a form of anarchy? The Connecticut Colony ran itself without government pretty much and my definition of anarchy is the absence of coercion. There were monthly town meetings to take care of most business.

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NEW SQUARE DEAL

A NEW SQUARE DEAL. Not a New Green Deal. People aren't buying it. Progressives and Independents want to separate themselves the best we can from the virtue signalers; the obsessive, single-issue city slicker liberals.

And we can live without bile-filled, bilge mongering GOP. They muddy the waters so you can't see how shallow they are. They got nothing.

The Dinner Party Liberals ruined the Green party. Milquetoast magas have allowed the devolvers into leading THEM.

You know what Democrats; abortion, immigration and gay exuberance are not the hills we want to die on. The workers revolution(equality for all and safety on the job), the earth, and fighting fascism can be our three-legged stool instead. Something to unite the good people on both sides.

The conservative three-legged stool is christian nationalism, anti-communist paranoia, and an authoritarian worship to keep the rabble in line. I've worked with thousands of people in three corners of the United States.. It's a handful of freaks making all the noise.

So what we do is this, we consume the Green party since they are on the ballot in 47 states. A third party to light a fire under the ass of the languid liberals and ridiculous right wingers. The Independent majority needs to be heard as we once were.

The Progressive Era was 1894 to 1914. In the 1912 election all three presidential candidates called themselves Progressives. M'kay? Not a Deep State but deeply troubled men unable to never have enough.

We need to show right wing workers who has their back. Not the bankers, or tech giants and certainly not the GOP. A third party for the rest of us. Non-profit banking, an internet for people, and a fierce third party that will deal with the issues that affect 80% of us. When we are all standing in line at 7-11. We're all workers or citizens.

All we have to do is start running Progressive candidates as Green party. From here on we work on the platform committee. More railroad signals and less virtue signaling. Many millions of us are rural/suburban. There were four farms on my street as a child. An Interstate was built over it in 1963. Most of us know growth has to stop somewhere. It starts by recycling and repairing

The American Progressive Party from Facebook in 2022 or so. “We of the American Progressive Party seek government accountability; an end to wars of aggression, a vibrant economy including living wage jobs, sustainable environments, social justice and constitutional rights for all.” Kind of makes Liberals look lame and Conservatives look ...lame.

Let's go back in time to the days of yesteryear.

Here’s some scattershot of what the Progressive Party was. It became the nexus of change, forcing corporations of that era to start following rules since they had proven they really can’t be trusted.

Progressive Platform of 1912(100+ years ago)

THE BULL MOOSE PARTY

"The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national problems, has called into being a new party (the Bull Moose Party), born of the nation’s sense of justice. We of the Progressive party here dedicate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us to maintain the government of the people, by the people and for the people whose foundations they laid."

I might add the guiding principle of liberty. The foundation of authority rests with the consent of the people.

"We hold with Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln that the people are the masters of their Constitution, to fulfill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who, by perversion of its intent, would convert it into an instrument of injustice. In accordance with the needs of each generation the people must use their sovereign powers to establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice, to secure which this Government was founded and without which no republic can endure."

"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Its resources, its business, its institutions and its laws should be utilized, maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general interest of the people.”

REMEMBER, THIS WAS WRITTEN IN Nineteen 12.

THE OLD PARTIES

"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.

From these great tasks, both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

We resolve to destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics. andis 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. Unfortunately, these are city people who go into the woods on their vacation.

Us rural/suburbans are the majority now. The quiet ones. We just keep working. Give and give and give till we give out. We keep the small businesses going in our medium sized towns and cities despite burdensome property taxes and a labyrinthe of tax code.

Honestly, I've had about enough of people and their stories.

Independents are now a vast majority but have nowhere to call home. I’ve known very few Republican or Democrat loyalists, most people I’ve met 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 and their crooked herd dogs, the attorneys.

Don’t let them fool you. To the Democrats, the poor are their charges, their responsibility to manage. Managed liberty. If you don’t own anything, you can receive indigent care. They'll make sure of that. Your not owning anything, that is.

Some people have a good asset but can’t work. They get less i food stamps. Too many stories of liberals bungling the funded money while making excessive bureaucracy.

They don’t really want to work at solving the poverty crisis. The Republicans are the country club elite, and they are lackeys that carry water for the world oligarchs. Nothing you can do as they look right past you.

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

“Come York or come Hampshire, come traitors or knaves,

If ye rule o’er our land ye shall rule o’er our graves

Our vow is recorded, our banner unfurled,

IN THE NAME OF VERMONT WE DEFY ALL THE WORLD”

The Green Mountain Men of Vermont

The New Square Deal takes the battle royale of class warfare to the town square. A NEW SQUARE DEAL. Is it the New Deal or Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal? It’s a combination of both of these successful socialist initiatives. What the fascists have been trying to kill for over a hundred years. The fountainhead of the right wing brainwashing and media control.

FROM WIKIPEDIA "The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal."

Listen, the Green Party is pretty cool, and I have been registered Green Party in my county since 1994. My small business is called The Garden Green and I promote green gardening and nature friendly landscaping processes, while focusing on pollinators. Sometimes gardening, always green.

The Green 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 with Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal and make it The Square Deal. The New Square Deal.

To once and for all create a covenant for all Americans, for all time, to protect them. Safeguards to protect them instead of allowing a permanent underclass to develop as is happening today. This is the hill we could die on. Not abortion or immigration or ABCDEQUALITY.

We can be like the Green Mountain Men and fight for what we want to preserve. They took up arms to keep their independence just before the Revolutionary War. New Hampshire and New York 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.

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.

Yet it was Eight more years, till women can vote.

PASSED IN 1920 America emerges from third world conditions!

CURRENCY

We believe there exists an imperative need for prompt legislation for the improvement of our National currency system. We believe the present method of issuing notes through private agencies is harmful and unscientific.

END THE FED 112 years ago. Kill it in the cradle

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.

Natural resources, whose conservation is necessary for the National welfare, should be owned or controlled by the Nation.

GOOD ROADS

We recognize the vital importance of good roads and we pledge our party to foster their extension in every proper way, and we favor the early construction of National highways. We also favor the extension of the rural free delivery service.

GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OVER INVESTMENTS

The people of the United States are swindled out of many millions of dollars every year, through worthless investments. The plain people, the wage earner and the men and women with small savings, have no way of knowing the merit of concerns sending out highly colored prospectuses offering stock for sale, prospectuses that make big returns seem certain and fortunes easily within grasp.

We hold it to be the duty of the Government to protect its people from this kind of piracy. We, therefore, demand wise, carefully thought out legislation that will give us such Governmental supervision over this matter as will furnish to the people of the United States this much-needed protection, and we pledge ourselves thereto.

CONCLUSION

On these principles and on the recognized desirability of uniting the Progressive forces of the Nation into an organization which shall unequivocally represent the Progressive spirit and policy we appeal for the support of all American citizens, without regard to previous political affiliations." END. PROGRESSIVE PARTY 1912

NOT THE GREEN DEAL BUT A NEW SQUARE DEAL

-1-11- LIBERTARIANS

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a marvel of engineering, construction, recreation and conservation. There is limited signage ... “overlook ahead,” or "Pine knob 3728 ft.", and no stop lights for 469 miles.

When I got to Doughton Campground, I fell in love with site #77 and stayed for 6 days of a 16 day vacation. The first four days, I was the only person camping in section C. Fallen trees had closed the Parkway after Hurricane Florence, and I was able to have to have a peaceful time without any other humans.

When I first parked there, three choppers roared by at eye level after leaving the disaster area that was the North Carolina coast after Hurricane Florence, so I was ready to expect the unexpected. There’d been a bear in the park recently too.

I was able to set up and get a fire going. A chance to truly relax, I had a moment of Zen listening to the many bird calls and crickets as nightfall approached. Releasing my troubles to the breeze, I closed my eyes.

Boom! Boom! Boom!
It’s the Balrog! Beezledoom!

I sat up startled, till I realized was just a drum circle, and it was a welcome addition to the night noise of birds or crickets.

There was also a squeaky, thumping noise that I disregarded at first.

Later I went to the bathroom to see what they had and didn't have. 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? I finally realized it was a pump as I was rinsing off the days dirt.

It was an excellent bathroom. No shower, just 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 light outside so you could see the building on a foggy night. No electricity as far as I could see and that is saving money by not having to run all that wire. I guessed that the light was battery operated.

Then I got to wonderin' how would a Libertarian get hundreds of gallons of water to this remote bathroom every single day? A bathroom is a sacred place when you're camping for a couple of days or more, and the answer is, they wouldn’t bother.

They wouldn’t build a campground that every day working class could afford. Libertarians 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.
Before that, they objected to bringing electricity to rural areas, I'm sure.
The skint bastards that squeeze a penny so hard, it makes Lincoln cry.

Some years ago, a rich dude built a road to the top of Mount Mitchell which is down the road a piece. Bosses could afford the fee to the top and they were also the first to have automobiles back in 1927 when the road was built. 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.
Now I’m not a fan of big government, but I enthusiastically applaud the effort of the Democratic Socialists at that time who built a remarkable road often at heights of 3000 feet or more. The area is nearly unspoiled, and the Blue Ridge Parkway may be the last hope for the wild things.

Libertarians don’t think much about “the blessings of Liberty” or “the pursuit of happiness.” 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 in places where the United States doesn’t belong.

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.

There are many ways to starve the beast called Oligarchy. To save America, we have to save the land along with liberty and justice for all.

Then I got to thinking about Pilot Mountain that I had visited the day before, the first mountain I'd seen in 12 years after living in flat and green Florida. I wondered how the Libertarians would manage that park.

The sign that says: "hikers below, do not throw rocks." Gone, it’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.

We can certainly reduce our military to 500 billion a year and dramatically increase mass transportation for everyone, and we can have small home villages for the homeless and the rarely homed or the nearly homeless, and create many more recreation areas, so people can get out of their homes and out into Nature.

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, off 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. Truly the ultimate forest experience for someone like me who doesn't want to hike 6 miles to get a view.

The Blue Ridge Parkway, is what I’m thinking about when I try to imagine what a large infrastructure project would look like.

Bloodthirsty libertarian predators ready to buy up the rest of America that isn’t nailed down. They made out with the banking crisis, and they bought many of the 10 million foreclosed homes. That's how Bill O'reilly got his 78 houses. Aside from the vulture capitalists, Libertarians are the actual super predators. Brainwashed by Milton Friedman and others at the Chicago School of Oligarchy.

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II26 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 during May and October, 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. Who could resist?

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 but it would take Carl Yastrzemski to get one on the highway.

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 for the interstate highways 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 through this 500 foot 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 and I forgot how interesting the rest of the country is. Every house and property were different.

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 handicrafts.

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 were built 80 or more years ago. #girdthegrid

a) 55 MPH AHEAD

There were 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 a very cautious 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. There are so few places to pull over.

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 envisioning 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 ways, creating many more wildlife tunnels and overpasses. Forests saved from development and rural hubs built in junk areas that have been restored, renovated and nearby 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 ramps 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. Let the designers design with modern environmental sensibilities. It's the politicians that screw things up.

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 cameras at the rest area where the wildlife walks under or over the highway, their migration routes healed one by one. 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.

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Rural hubs. 500 acres of preserved forest and wetlands along with lots of parking 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. Ain't no sin to be between e 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 that discourage long distance travelers..

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 cake, 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 (thegrimoireofgreenhammer.blogspot.com)

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, with all their lines of shit these last 50 years. But I learned a lot. Most people are liars.

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 for a while, 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. The USDA has confirmed this with updated maps.

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! Himself! 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 as I prepped for this big vacation.. 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. 60,000 more miles and 2000 more dollars. Dealers taking advantage of people.

As a super bonus of this big trip, I 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

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mysterious soccer ball appears

ROUTE 50 IN GEORGIA

A couple years back it seemed that everyone was talking about a bucket list and so I thought about it, and I figured I had 5 things left. I wanted to get over to Austin and see Little M, and I had also wanted to see the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Blue Ridge Mountains since i was like, twenty. I heard it was beautiful. I had no idea.

#3 was to visit Amish country. I wanted to meet a few of them and learn about their culture. 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. Vaccines were available but we hadn't indulged.

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 longer need your any advice or interference.

I’d never done much more than drive through Colorado three times in my youth back and forth from Arizona, 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 800 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 knew so much more about rocks and tectonics and shit, and it become absolutely fascinating. I love the western mountains so much again but I have come to realize the Appalachians feel like home.

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 who wanted to be white collar functionaries for the capitalist takeover of the world, can now use their degrees as artwork on the wall or something.

The world of 2034 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. Plot twist: AI is going to wipe them out.

We need networks to connect. In the past, Americans unionized to create a giant middle class. and now we can enable a revived middle class 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’. Or get that carburetor for a '62 MG.

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? Give it a go. Like traveling before I get too old, imma see what I can do to connect people.

Connecting food communities, organic growers and fighting for migrant workers that many of us will be. One area I'm focusing on. Frankliniana. Franklin Tennessee to Franklin Georgia to Franklin North Carolina. This is where the big population explosion will occur the next ten years. 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 so we can have a partial 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 and we will tax the illegitimate wealth of the rich.

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. We were going about 40 MPH

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. 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 onto the road by a tornado on to the middle of the highway.

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 time 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. Somehow live trees had also blown onto the interstate.

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, so it was all very strange with the policeman who said he hadn't heard about it.

. 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.

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Shedding proteins, and wonderful home schooled children.

Redwood puppies, the soft bark. I just about fit in the Jeep Compass and spent two nights in it. The first morning I opened 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. They seemed to follow me around.

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. Four numbers on the sign. I think I was in Californias deep forest with only one way out.

I got a clue when I saw grass growing in the road. You can tell there had been some landslides looking down on the cliffside and up at the higher elevations, everything was sliding down to the river below and there were 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 hoped there was a way out. 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.

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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 between exits and entrances 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.

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.

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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 it 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 undercut 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 can be avoided, and all the red tape about 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 250. 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 is infrastructure. Costing peanuts compared to this bloated sow of a military and State Department with it's "ambassador palaces".

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 completely full of weak links.

Finally in Connecticut. Hiking Rugged Mountain and road rage behind me in 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 was 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 across this country 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.

=1=13= MARKET SOCIALISM

“ ....anarchy is the absence of coercion ....”

The road to anarchy will not be a chaotic anarchy as you’ve been led to believe, but anarchy as self-rule in our various communities. We have to have free spaces and common local markets open for small business and household industry. As it had always been.

Now that the rich have saved up trillions of dollars in hidden off-shore accounts, we can find and use this stolen labor (profit) to create the Infrastructure Initiative. (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. #girdthegrid

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. It's all changing, an era of alternative transportation is emerging

One way to start would be to sell half of our military bases, the ones furthest away from American ports, and be there for our fellow citizens and any one we can. Friend or foe, we’re ready to help. But closer to home, right? The Republicans want to eliminate things we all own in common such as the National Parks, the dirty bastards.

We need to put the languid and miasmic political will of the last 35 years aside, and let’s have a go at a New America. It’s time to roll ‘em up and get down to work to preserve our wild lands forever, and the last chance for you Democrats in 2024, we'll have a third party otherwise. 2024 update: Yeah fuck those guys. Third Party or bust.

What a joke. The spoiler, the spoiled and the Peloid.

In our II26 we’ll be initiating the construction of a real infrastructure with immense areas set aside for barter and small business. Community spaces where the majority of us can set up our small business, or non-profit enterprise. Rural Hubs

Free spaces for all to use. Not along the highway, but in the rural areas that were abandoned when the interstates went in. The interstates that allowed the corporatization of America from the small business economic system we had.

Giant parks for people to stay for free as they vacation and to accommodate those that are camping out in their cars.

This is not an outrageous notion once people realize we could have all this by simply taxing Walmart and Amazon, and start penalizing the gangrenous greed of corporate America and its stockholder enablers.
Put a cap of 500 billion on the military and have them explain how much their promised pensions and benefits will cost in the future in the same way the GOP did with the Post Office. Do something! A federally mandated 5% reduction in the military budget every year.

So every department has to cut out the waste. Particularly this American Death Star military. Fix the bridges for the floods to come and say goodbye to all the countries from Turkey to Thailand. Sell the Ambassador palaces. Close 200 military bases in Germany and Japan.

In the much delayed, total infrastructure rebuilding program, there will be lots of work for engineers and designers, and good paying jobs for boots on the ground. A real infrastructure for ALL OF US to have access to, AND a unifying coast to coast effort to show everyone in the world how it’s done. Deconstruct this 700 BILLION dollar military that has brought peace to no one and power overwhelming for the Nazis running the United States. What? 780 Billion! And people are complaining about food stamps?

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

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 our 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.

We can complete the grid that will allow Americans to be free of government. #girdthegrid
We can power and feed and rule without the monopolistic corporations and the coral colony of government. George Washington said the government "should be like fire. A useful employee, but a terrible boss."

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

I had been pushing the idea of a LUXURY TAX and I was happy to note a presidential candidate also suggesting this idea finally. Unimaginable wealth has been accumulated, and like a rich harvest of fruit, we need to juice it and use it before it becomes a pile of rotting compost.

In contrast to most, I don’t think we should tax this years high income earners. These are the people who are doing the best in this current climate. They’re doing something right economically, if not morall. 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 the interest of the wealthy elite best interest to eliminate the national debt. Much of the national debt goes to banks and their usurious interest anyways, but then we can tax THEM and we keep the money flowing through the economy.
No wealth will escape taxation. Instead of the poor reporting every asset and every detail of their life to qualify for indigent aid, and instead of every small business having to keep every receipt and burdened with regulations and a nightmarish tax system, we can leave the poor and middle class alone. Leave small business alone. This is my version of Market Socialism

Knock down all those toll booths and petty license fees, you’re holding up the working person. 28^th 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 ,,, Money was trees. American forests stripped for Suburban Cheap Housing .
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 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 2024 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 with these 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. The essence of the workers revolution. An injury to one is an injury to all.

We can't raise the minimum wage high enough here, till workers around the world make more. Simple fact, prove me wrong.

Just an aside here, but did you ever notice the most frantic recyclers are the ones who seem to be addicted to buying things online? A new malady created by Capitalism.

American, European and Asian companies have enslaved a billion people who now live in poverty, abject or otherwise, making nifty products and priceless junk for people with white collar jobs.

Sadly, it was American corporations that threw American workers under the bus by moving factories overseas. My dad worked at the Royal typewriter factory for 20 years and was a victim in 1972 of unemployment when the company moved to England for the low paid, desperate workers. 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.

Let the white collar parasites push the wheelbarrows for the Infrastructure Commons and let unionized blue collar workersfix 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?

Savvy consumers: You should be banning plastic products made with pennies per hour labor, not purchasing them. Place a tariff on all plastic products and boycott companies who are not fair to their workers. Tactics people, try some.

At least try to source your purchases, because boycotts will be swinging from the cleanup spot in the big game. The mouths of these lawyer/lobbyist/leeches move when they run for office, but nothing changes, so it’s up to Progressives, Greens and Independents to stomp on the accelerator of reform. The DNC donkey is dead and rigor mortis is settling into the entire body politic.

Like Islam, it should seem obvious that extreme forms of Marxism will never work in this country. We have to make everything uniquely our own and that’s what people have forgotten. America IS different but no longer exceptional, with the right wing coup eating us alive like a tapeworm. They purposely bog down Progressives with fruitless battles, that should never have been fought in the first place. Cuz a bunch of anti communist weenies (fascists) got their silk stockings in a wad.

Mass corporate hegemony of the Republican/Democrat, Wall Street Power Structure continues to feast on the pavement pelts of small business Main Street. Ironically, a minimum wage for all will be the final nail in the coffin of small businesses. It has to be a progressive or escalating minimum wage. 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'm saying have a lower minimum wage for small business.

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 of her assets without any regard to the 100 billion people that will be born on this planet during the next 5000 years.

The workers revolution will be inevitable once the Steam Age academics of Marxism have been replaced and Republicans have been deloused and deprogrammed from the brainwashing of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
How do you like that? We need unionism, not Marxism. Marx is insightful, but not useful. Does he really have to be the face of socialism? A man who didn't work or bathe? People are not inclined to malign Marx online and I don’t know why not, I know I will get heat for my stance.
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.

Bankruptcy and foreclosure? Aw too bad say the bankers who are gouging the American worker with interest. Should be a crime, used to be. Tens of trillions of dollars charged in interest by bankers to the detriment of American workers. 6 trillion in yearly interest alone with our national debt."

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 2024. 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.

SECTION TWO

HISTORY OF THE PAGANS

The whole idea of trying to sell the book to a publisher and then market it, just didn't feel right. Not now, not in 2024. All that effort for a result I didn't desire. Be a popular writer? I don’t need it, I just want to dig into your brain and give you new perspectives. I want people to think.

I WOULD love to find a way to make just a bit ‘o change, however. There are SO MANY good writers out there and the competition is completely overwhelming and I can’t imagine being able to monetize this old style of writing. I copywrighted parts of this entire book but if you want to run with idea go ahead.

I stopped playing the Lottery because I don't want my life to be influenced by money anymore. I want to be in on the change that optimistic Doomers have foreseen.

So, this is just some summer reading. Your summer up north goes too fast, save some reading for when you’re snowbound. I’m gearing this to help people adjust to the realization that a peaceful world is what we need, right now, but we have psychopaths and zealots to work around. The old normal wasn't working, as the memes state, and we know why. Profiteers and Greed mongers were not paying employees what they were worth.

I write in a style I compare to “The Era of Reform” by Richard Hofstadter and “History of the World” by HG Wells and Walden Pond by Thoreau or Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. Long winded with recurring themes throughout. These were myy influences in the 70’s after I got out of school and started my education.

Some of it was copyrighted in 2008 as History Of The Pagans. Many of the core ideas were also copyrighted but I want to say that you can use my writings any way you choose. These are ideas that can be extrapolated on. What would an anarchist do? Share and communicate.

I think the connections we are making now are more important than any other vain, inglorious pursuit. We are already in the process of creating the small markets that Market Socialism is about, and I make a case for Bioregional Autonomous Zones. Seeking and finding community. First we gotta get along. Then we get along in the small markets we are going to re-create to enable us to survive and not be dependent on a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.

Also, this late in life, it is readily apparent I could go the way of the birds at any moment. We really are at a brand-new time in history and we need efforts from the Zoomers to the Boomers. A precedent setting era, and the sociological changes that are going to occur will set the precedents of earth stewardship for the Millennium ahead and here is my contribution to the commons.

THE STONE

PEOPLE

I lapse into dude vulgarities(slanguage) in this overly long attempt to invalidate white nationalism. No crazy new age theories, but a studied version of hidden history.

Life on Earth should be a purifying flame and not a crushing blow to our spirits. This is the change we need to make. Here are 19 quotes from this article to encapsulate my theory on the Stone People, and to pique your interest to read this overly long article.

"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 Southern Europeans."

"Unfortunately, history has always been about warriors and battles and Machiavellian shenanigans from the clergy and the court."

"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."

" I’m speculating that Solstice traditions may have begun with the ancient memory of Toba and the trauma that ensued during the aftermath and 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."

"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."

"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."

" 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 give you 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."

" Another elephant in the room is the brutal forced conversion by the blood-thirsty adherents of Islam and Christianity in the last 1500 years. The insane violence of these Middle Eastern, desert, kook religions, with their “blood as high as a donkeys shoulders” (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."

"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 the pallid white bigotry of dark whites."

"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 Big Science tells us that 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.

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.

THE STONE PEOPLE

As they talked, a black cloud was emerging from the horizon. Mt. Toba had erupted. After the volcanic explosion, the ash cloud lingered for a very long time and untold numbers of plant species became extinct in the aftermath.

90% of the human population died, and it’s generally speculated, 75% of the animals. Knowledge lost; traditions shattered. It was like starting over.

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 I noticed that 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.

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. ###############################################

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. The Greek hinterlands is any area from the Mediterranean to the Carpathian Mountains. Perhaps the second group that can be called indigenous Europeans, and perhaps the eastern tribes of the Stone 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 were 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 dates and aloe and a multitude of berries and nuts that existed before development and wealth accumulation. 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 Indo-European speaking people?

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 in our history books.

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 goes the meme? We are indoctrinated to the myth of christians conquering savages but, hell no. That's not what it was.

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 with our right wing kooks.

Listen, most of us were fishers and farmers and traders and that's in our blood. Whatever your ethnic background is 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. We're done with this corporatization of everything and cringey patriotismthat stole our independence.

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 as were the African Pagans.

Who are my people? I’m like 56% Iberian and 25% French. Got lots of Iberian in your DNA if you go back far enough.? 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 black Irish. The Celts visited us first when they initially gathered together and later left for the Alps as the Ice Age ended.

It seems that the Frost Giants had built a mile thick glacier over Northern Europe (coincidentally in the geographic region that the white nationalist idiots hail from).

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. The Cave Painters, yo. Not Fritz or Sven though they claim the first civilized culture as being theirs. 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.

Randomly drawn borders for people who had none. 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 and we need to be designated as The Mediterranean People. Or, as I suggest ---THE STONE PEOPLE ---.

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 and reportedly the ancient Egyptians. The Mediterranean was our ocean. Myself, I trace my origin to somewhere north of the 626-mile Tagus River in central Portugal. Where the earliest Europeans were found in a cave. Mixed with Neanderthal, no less. And the Grimaldis.

Ra’ist academic motherfuckers over the years have drawn Africa smaller than it actually is! Anything to minimize how much was being stolen out of the rich land on our planet’s largest continent.

Africa and North America were the most species rich places on Earth but were enthusiastically despoiled by Christianized Europeans and Islammed Africans, and why I consider most wealth, illegitimate. At its source, 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 where all the revenue was generated.

Vulture Capitalist China is plundering what it can in Africa. Loaning countries money and taking over their ports when they can't pay it back.

The people of the Mediterranean mingled together for tens of thousands of years 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.

Everybody worked in the Iberian culture. In the summer, we rested mid-day. You were part of something, everyone had skin in the game, and this was an early form of market socialism. These markets worked. Compassionate villages took care of the general welfare of those around them. Don't rely on Hollywood market scenes for a history of this.

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 along with any other coercive authority we come across as we unite without hierarchy. 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. 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. There are widespread efforts of small organic farms across Africa the moment. But does the NEWS show it? Of course not. Just Bill Gates and all his techno solutions.

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 with millions more 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 homo sapiens 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 from the Moroccan shore. 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 all this 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 then 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, making history and drawing shit in caves. 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. Morrocco has many Solutreans sites. (I'll leave it to you to look up Solutreans, Magdalenian's, and Aurignacians).

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 that, then you’re stupider than you look.

We lived in all sort of caves and natural protected areas. We had lookouts that kept the dangerous man-eating animals away along keeping pests off the food forests they had 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?

But back to the Iberian Revolution. Watch this video

See? Why hell, we was so advanced we even had 32 symbols that have been found throughout southern Europe and the Mediterranean islands. 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 weren't 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 the white nationalists 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. The Stone People. You won't find the harvardyaleblahblahblah crowd too enthused about this idea. I am cutting off their notions of being the indigenous Europeans by the massive root. Now to dig THAT out.

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 2024 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 that racists in MAGA country believe. 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. We are being blocked from loving and supporting each other. "Europe going Right" scream the headlines.

Another elephant in the room is the brutal forced conversion by the blood-thirsty adherents of Islam and Christianity the last 1500 years. Indescribable and incredibly insane violence from 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 monsters when it came to inhumane treatment endorsed by the Papcy. 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), for instance, 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.

So 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. See ya later!

Who are the Iberians? We were there in Egypt when Sashat was pounding in the stakes to build 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 to subdue the people of the Baltic Region during the Baltic Crusade? 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. 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 these 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 has been 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. As the ICE AGE ebbed away, reindeer followed the retreating glaciers and never came back to Southern Europe, and were replaced by the Red Deer, the Solutreans following them and in another haplogoup thing, are actually related to the Saami People.

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 anywhere in the world.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.

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. Come on. We need it!

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 21^st 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. 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 Aurignacians and later Solutreans.

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 slaves to the growing industrial machine created by profit motivated scientists. That's different than the scientists who found cures 'n shit.

They degenerated even further as advancements in science created a society where family farm incomes collapsed, because of Mechanized Agriculture. Again the profit minded inventor scientists. 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 all of Europes history 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. Old white historians are scratching their heads.

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. Using smoke signals, you betcha. 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

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. We have to 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 and trampled over all the small community markets. 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 or 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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-2-2- The Purifying Flame of Life

running roughshod over the moral high ground hypocrisy

34 QUOTES?"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. "

"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 normalize rapacious greed after having gathered much of the worlds wealth through the despoiling of Africa and America. "

"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. All the good things have been taken as the Animals sing."

"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."

" 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 them. Try to spray you, step on you, leave out sweet poisonous bait in cheesecake or burn them 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, 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 a continual gain in their portfolios as Earth's portfolio withers. I'm talking about the Liberal city slickers who 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."

" Maybe our God 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 diseases 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. Two negatives still don't make a positive."

"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 founding revolutionaries tried 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?"

"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. And the ones physically able to work 14 hours a day with virtually no breaks get taken advantage of. Elites have assumed they deserve all the best; thinking the working classes were nothing more than foolish imbeciles. Working like a machine, our dignity has been stolen by these crooks."

"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."

"Life on Earth should be a purifying flame but not a crushing blow to our spirits. This is the change we need to make."

"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."

"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. "

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. All the good things have been taken as the Animals sing."

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."

"Life on Earth should be a purifying flame but not a crushing blow to our spirits. This is the change we need to make."

THE PURIFYING FLAME OF LIFE

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 history. 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 and to launder money, 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 those churches across Europe, 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 mid 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? Don't we have psychiatry that has attempted to answer mysteries.

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 has 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. Now, christians have too much money. 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.

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? Where 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 diseases on an already embittered and embattled population.

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. Ever seen a fishkill? Then you smelled it too.

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 this nonsense 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. 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?

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! I mean gloriest! 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 and their costumes, 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 purist level, like the Cathar Perfecti, but more importantly, Paganism really needs to embrace the working poor and middle class around the world who are 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(UID), 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, and less inclined to slave our lives away.. Life on Earth should be a purifying flame and not a crushing blow to our spirits. This is the change we need to make.

-1-5- PAGAN PAGAN FAIRY TALES

-2-3- 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 and challenging traditional white historian narratives. Feel free to share.

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 and the introduction of Venus and the first human soul, my DIY religion.

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" ... 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.

THE FOLLOWING ARE QUOTES FROM THE ARTICLE

"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."

" 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."

"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."

" 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.""

"Who in the heck used those stone dolmens all over Europe? The were built 25,000 years ago at the same time as the Venus figurines were being carved."

"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

"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?"

THE REINDEER PEOPLE

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 5^th 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. The uncontacted tribes of the world need to be left alone.

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 . But 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 and 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.

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 21^st 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 facts about the ancient reindeer people, and then the Copper Culture of the Lusitanians who followed the age of the Solutreans. This is also 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.

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. To Crumpet munching historians, here's 30,000 years of peaceful living and art. The Great Dispersal is 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. Or is it? 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 creaating worldwide floods. Atlanisians began to abandon the coastal towns and followed the ris

ing waters as ice caps shrunk. Later, as waters rose during a period of global warming from 8 to 12 thousand years ago, the main island became separate from outlying areas. Many outposts were abandoned as citizens sailed for the mainland. There were times floodwaters from the mountains raised water levels dramatically. All traces of the greatness of the Psychic Kingdom of Atlanis were lost under the rising 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 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, without all of today's distractions. Our brains are mostly filled up with junk. Advertising saturation and such.

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 12,793 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 dark summer days, 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 and 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. Shoreline encampments destroyed.

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.

H.G. Wells gave identity to these forebears. 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 as evidence that they were our equivalents in many regards. Their diet was healthier than today’s sugar, sodium and fat encrusted fare and they becamehey 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 to the ings and popesand 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 were 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 often on their leather clothing, and not on their body. True Facts.

The Reindeer people were the first Cro-Magnons of Europe. The Native Europeans, and who 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, is what he was suggesting. 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 the 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. Profit mongers, walled city builders.

Studies show that these Reindeer People were heavily muscled and were above average in height and scientists and religious leaders have suppressed this information concerning the Reindeer People. Their laurel leaf shaped spear tips cannot even be reproduced today, and is the basis for the Clovis People controversy. The Cave Painters discovered America.

The Polynesians had discovered South America 2,000 years previous and the Red People had taken the wormhole from Atlanisto Four Corners about 26,000 YA.

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 in HG Wells book, 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. At last, the idea that cave painters were advanced has become widely accepted. 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 in the goddess loving civilizations. Historians often regard the emergence of large cities as a hallmark of civilization; for instance, Ur is commonly taught that it is one of the earliest cities.

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. Hollywood had always seemed obsessed with primitive man all hunched around a fire with an animal they tore apart. Like they didn't know what they wer doing

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 was only found with a powerful telescope in 1938. They already knew it was there. 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.”

=2=4= Song of OOglak

" Paganism is often celebrated for its embrace of free thought, choice, and association, particularly valuing the freedom of speech that is cherished in American culture. This contrasts with the doctrines of Christianity and Islam, which have historically included laws regarding heresy and blasphemy that differ from American ideals of freedom.

This chapter imagines a hunter/gatherer joining a tribe of cultivators and also assuming crops were being grown long before so called civilization began.

"Bearskin observed a Giant Snowy Owl snatch one of the remaining two kittens and made an extraordinary effort to rescue the last one, which was mewling 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."

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. He watched great migrations of Reindeer go north and remembered his early years.

As he roamed northwest across Europe, he encountered dispersed stone structures. Known as dolmens, these edifices are often imbued with religious importance, yet I surmise that they mostly served as shelters from the rain. I'msaying that the Stone People, nomads from Atlanis, erected these dolmens and bequeathed the Venus Figurines to friendly tribes, proclaiming themselves the Children of Venus and the progenitors of Europe.

Contrary to the popular belief of an inevitable conflict between the first Cro-Magnons and "civilized people," OOglak descended the ridge's side upon spotting the inhabitants below. He entered the village without a single suspicious glance or disapproving stare, as human warlike tendencies had not yet emerged.

“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. Once settled in the village,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 those 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. Where ancestor veneration came from.

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 resided in huts, while Bearskin dwelt in a cave facing south to bask in the winter sun and warmth. Eventually, Ooglok joined him, and they lived together until Empress Polena arrived when Ooglok celebrated his 500th moon. (They could count to 999). As Bearskin, Ooglok, Polena, and others aged and became elders, they welcomed numerous young apprentices from among the cultivators and these young ones recaptured the ancient essence of wildness and captured an impressive abundance 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 who settled Europe long before anyone else.. The Iberians were the indigenous Europeans. The cave painters were the indigenous Europeans, not the wheat growers from the fertile crescent..

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.

The veneration of Venus, both as a planet and as the legendary life-giver, expanded to encompass a new deity named Jurat. Persistent migrations from the Black Sea region introduced skilled fishermen and boatbuilders, leading to the flourishing of the OOglok clan. Over countless moons, a constant stream of immigrants, tracing the route of the Stone People, contributed to the clan's prosperity.

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 far away from the caveentrance.. 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 jJaguar that had wandered north out of its traditional range.

Inside the cave, OOglok had ignited the soapstone lamp and was grinding ochre to create a reddish-brown dye. Mixing it with the large goobers he spat into his palm, he began to paint a grand mural depicting their hunting exploits. Villagers would visit and marvel at his cave paintings.

Artists and tailors and all-round 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. n owl, a bear and a Pterodactyl had taken three, but two black kittens remained. BearAskin 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 frigid interlude at the end of the last ice age, between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago, the ice that had melted began to refreeze, and the glaciers were restored. The OOglok tribe, enduring the chronically cold weather similar to the Inuit and Northern Siberians, could no longer grow crops due to the extreme cold but managed to survive by hunting.

In the summer, the gatherers traveled south to collect nuts and seeds. With glaciers expanding to within 150 miles of their location, their survival was aided by fur-lined tents and robust fur coats.

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 but 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 ancient ancestor 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 will rise again." 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.

1200 years later “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 39^th OOglak, began the two clans of legend, The Axes and Oxes. The son of the 39^th 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 39^th 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. (This is supposed to be confusing, just like hte Bible.) lol

How the 39th Polena met the 39^th 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 from the ice age have largely melted, causing a rapid rise towards the end as meltwater surged through rivers and the ocean ascended to nearly its current level. 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 as the Younger Dryass ended.

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.

The original Polena possessed extraordinary psychic abilities, capable of dematerializing objects. Twelve centuries later, Ludd Axox, the progeny of the 39th Empress and Ooglok, inherited this power and journeyed to Egypt during the "Flight to Egypt," marking the final chapter of Atlantis 11,618 years ago—a tale for another time. Who was the ancestral Ooglok?

What legend inspired a mixed tribe of farmers and hunter-gatherers? And why do these civilized individuals remain absent from our historical records?

-2-5- 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.

one of my faves to create. silly af. I love having fun with history. Even if I have to make some of it up.

"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."

"Gronyger Bloodaxe 3^rd (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 3^rd 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.

Gronyagar Bloodeax 5^th (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.

It is said that his thirteen sons from three wives were all male, and they established a fellowship of Pagan Knights. This fellowship was dedicated to the cause of aiding persecuted Pagans and defending various oppressed individuals, ensuring that the ancient pathways remained well-traveled and clearly 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.

" ... 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, Bloodeau’s, Oxborgans and Axhorkens in communication with each other, riding horses from Languedoc in present day France, to Kernave, Lithuania where many were living 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 fulfill the prophecy. They had the hidden Templar ships among other assets. "

"Deeply hidden in the forests, there are no further exploits of this family to be reported on till 1385 when Gronyar Bloodeau the 4^th (1350-1434?) became the most famous of all. He created a new religion that grew quickly in popularity amongst the Pagan People feeling the pressure of the Tuetonic Knights and their bloodlustitching for battle.

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 35,000 BP, 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.

What we must do is 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."

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 made 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 fresh green spring mix grass. Temperatures were above normal and water was stuffed with fish.

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 kin this land belongs to Courish Bloodaxes. All other Bloodaxe claims are myth.”

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 from historical migrations.

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 3^rd (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 3^rd 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 4^th (1083-1168). Unverified copies of rune manuscript are somewhat uncertain as to where his family actually lived. In case you are confused, 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.

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 on purpose.

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.

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 5^th’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 4^th (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.

“ 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 two

ARTICLE 6

SECTION TWO

Zemyna Zephyr Zorya & Zvoruna

Quote “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."

We call it the afterlife but according to my DIY religion, it’s just more 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."

"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."

"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. 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. "

"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. "

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 soul bearing creatures.

So how should we approach magic, how do we connect with the unseen source? So much of the folklore 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.

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.

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.

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. Enlightened 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 GREAT grandmothers sun, within Ursa Major and nearly 60 light years away at the far end of Ursa Major.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 the last 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 for like, 450 billion years, like I said. Thats as far as ancient memory goes. No Big Bang, 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. Tipsy Tuesday is a blast! People live in space. Droids are everywhere and equal. They have to obey the law

Ten million years ago our planet, the earth, was solidifying and phasing out of its gaseous state. Ten million, not 4.7639826 billion years. 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 another 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. 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. Zemyna, the ancient mother, had scouted many areas as an apprentice goddess on her home planet, and chose Earth as a planet with the best potential for life, and an optimum habitat for creating soul bearing creatures.

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 (the god)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.

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. Then I got to wondering who would be the Ancient Father, and I remembered Zephyr the Flying Chuckwalla. I thought it was ridiculous, but as it turns out, SYNCHRONICITY

here 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.

Myths seek truth.

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. Where the real magic is. 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 it states. Its 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. She was going to need help, and as in every case, throughout the universe, 9 Goddesses were born.

This occurred 800,000 years ago, when the ocean had the Feather Stars doing the wild monkey dance.

Okay, let me take you aside here and comment to you privately. I hear about Scientology and I once had 3 Mormon Bettys visit me regularly. I make sport of religion and I hoped I turned them into sinners.

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 (not yet determined) dives deeper into the mess I made up.

The nine Goddesses on this planet are Cerridwen, Nu Kua and Yemaya, Jurate, Mary, Freya, Diana (project manager triple goddess), Sedena and Dexsiua. I was researching for the original gods and goddesses of Gaul I was reading Robert Graves at the time. "The White Goddess".

I discovered Dexiua 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.} Goddess of the Gauls and Solutreans before them for 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 the spark and stewarding soul bearing life. A drop of yin in the overwhelming presence of yang. Or vice versa.

He watches us, and his timeless knowledge inspires the

nine 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 choice when 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 then 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 to 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, the Ancient Mother. They were all she had till the Goddesses were born. Mermaids and talking Dolphins 'n shit.

Back to 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." ( SLADE )

We need a Southern States version of Northern Paganism. May Day is our last harvest holiday. 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. Dexiua 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. Dexiua borrows her dragons to bring the fresh southern breezes in the spring. 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.

Going back to Atlanis, 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 the world. 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 around 20,000 years ago 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.

-2-7- THE NORTH WIND It was a global warming fall here in 2007 with many northern cities hitting record temperatures. In Florida we had hints of fall in September but for those of us working outside in October, those humid mornings started with temperatures near 80 degrees. Traditionally, the first cool front used to arrive around the tenth or fifteenth of October and I was holding my breath everyday, what was taking it so long?

Five days before Halloween, a combination of weather logistics created 30 MPH winds for three days with muggy temperatures still in the upper 80’s. Easterlies leaving salt burn in its wake. Walkways to the beach ended with a drop because up to ten feet of sand was gone from erosion. Keep in mind that Tropical Storm Noel was still over Cuba and not affecting us yet.

Thursday, November 1^st arrives, and a cool front is finally predicted with temperatures going to 58 tomorrow night. Praise to the Goddess! The last time it was less than 68 degrees was back in May. We need to tough it out for one more late season, hot, humid Florida day and we’ll be home free. Is Mother Nature or Jurate(Joo rah tay) the Ocean Goddess controlling the cool front and is the Lord of Storms going to turn Tropical Storm Noel into a hurricane, a late season surprise?

About nine o’clock I went outside to see if I had some candy corn taffy leftover from Halloween in my van. As I returned to go back in the house, a cool breeze from the north unexpectantly swept over the land and my gut response was ‘Hail the North Wind’ as thrill bumps appeared. I raised my arms in greeting, and I didn’t care who heard me. The cool front suddenly arriving sooner than forecasters had predicted. It had been so very long and I had been hoping for a month to feel this first harbinger of our cool season, the cold breeze from the north that finally ends our Florida summer. So is being a pagan so bad then, praise the North Wind, instead of praise Jesus? I felt an intense joy and relief from the north wind because it had been a really long hot summer.

Paganism will test America’s sincerity of its freedom of religion braggadocio, and will the blood run again as the crosses grow, stirring up the ancient hatreds of those brainwashed to fear the pagans? Zombies trained to search and destroy all forms of pagan expression. I’m here to tell you that Paganism is everywhere. Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh and many video games, Mother Nature, Yin and yang, the Tarot, the Olympics, illumination and enlightenment of eastern religions, the four directions of the Native Americans, Yoga and chakras and Tai chi and karate and talismans and dream catchers and Kwanzaa and Zen gardens and innumerable other examples that will make people realize our whole society is Pagan anyways, the entertaining parts of it anyhow.

Yearly festivals and seasonal fairs and gatherings are Pagan inspired. Imagine a world run by Christian and Islamic fundamentalists? Booorrrring! This is why we need to have harvest festivals in April May and June for us Southern folks. We can make May Day bigger than Memorial Day. Solstice is coming and we got Mangoes and Watermelons and Peppers and Tomatoes! Harvest pride you betcha. Easter, May Day and Solstice could be our Harrvest Festivals.

Any kind of pagan fun was banned by sourpuss priests for over a thousand years starting with the Olympics long ago. They was naked. Any form of divination was banned, Tarot specifically in 1639, and other forms of “soothsaying” even as long ago as 539 A.D. I can be corrected on this because different sources have different dates. Pagan artists provide the spark of creativity with nature and pagan illumination creates thousands and thousands of stories. Christians and Muslums suppressing as much of it as they could.

Most Disney animation is adapted from pagan fairy tales. The Brothers Grimm recorded pagan tales in their famous books. We just can’t say the word. Pagan is the word we dare not speak, yet modern paganism is behind the American concept of Freedom of Speech while Christians and Islamos clearly fall short. Let’s face it, Christian music is insipid and pretentious and what was more fun to watch ………………………..Beowulf/or/the/Passion? …………………... ………………………………….Praise Odin!! …………………….… and speaking OF CULTURE…………………..What Muslim art forms have inspired you lately? Those pitiful hordes are losing out on so much in life.

In Star Wars many of us find The Force as more believable than most religions. As Ben says to Luke, “The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us and binds the galaxy together.” That about describes it, doesn’t it? It certainly describes my Zemyna, the Mother Goddess.

So this week I’m using The Force to see what that does. I traditionally spend five minutes in the morning to run my block. The first three days as I got back to it, after a summer lull, I was slow. “Use the Force” I heard the next time and tried to remember about the Jedi energy field to pace my jog evenly to improve the time. Try to get in the zone, imagining all the tree branches holding me up and the road spongy and soft with tree roots; get in the rhythm and pace myself for the whole trip. This focusing on “The Force” enabled me to improve by 45 seconds, or 15% to four minutes and fifteen seconds.

The Force is real then, so is that my religion? I’m a pagan because I don’t ascribe to any of the stultifying patriarchal power structures? Am I a Heretic? Yer darn tootin’ I am, a blasphemer? Perhaps not, that has destructive undertones, but I do like heretic. Heretique! I hope the christians don’t burn my village down.

If Neptune would be the Ocean God, then is there a Goddess? These Gods and Goddesses are just ways to explain what goes on around us in life, and there are probably 100 ocean gods and goddesses with all the beliefs on this planet. Baltic Paganism is where I found Jurate the ocean goddess. Of course the Baltic Sea seemed like an ocean to people living around it and on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea are Lithuanians who have an interesting history and their own chapter here called Baltic Paganism. Also in that area are the Latvians and Baltic Polish.

The Lithuanians put a new name to their ancient religion that survived since pre-Christian times and began calling it Romuva after World War 2, named in honor of one of the last pagan temples that was destroyed and overrun. Unfortunately the “Dabakietese” (blundering ignorance; in Lithuanian) of Communist Russia became the bane of this emerging organization and Romuvan leaders were sent to the Russian Gulag. So how much of these pagan religions can we believe and how much should we discard? Jurates Castle is the source of Baltic Amber as the aftermath of the Lightning Gods anger, but our sensible 21^st century mindset are skeptical. Lightning God Perun was jealous of Jurates human paramour and destroyed her underwater castle that was made of Amber and this amber washes up on the shores of countries that border the Baltic Sea. Pagans created myths for what they couldn’t explain, and yet the more I explore these myths, the more answers and truths become apparent. Sure, you can explain in geologic terms how Amber is created and how Baltic Amber came to be, yet, do we always need to be boring and scientific? Myth seeks Truths.

The Baltic Sea was once a lake till melting ice age ice and rapidly melting nearby Scandinavian glaciers raised ocean levels 200 hundred feet and like the Black Sea, the rising ocean began as a trickling, then as water pressure against low lying land became too much, the land blew apart filling in these basins in a cataclysm, (See Song of OOglak and also Noah and the Seven Dwarves).

Who were the first settlers in the Baltic Sea area? History books, such as they are, mostly plays connect the dots with the various wars, invasions and conquests so it is difficult to tell. I’m on the search for all those stable pagan societies that lived many years without interference and war. They survived, praised nature and were not the creeps that they are depicted to be.

History of the Pagans is not a chronological listing of our history; it’s much taken from a more sociological point of view. We will cruise in and out of different eras as I find different ways to exhibit the quiet pagans in history. Wear the Baltic Amber, pray that the newly formed Hurricane Noel misses your state, and praise Jurate, Hail to Poseidon, Yemaya, Glaucus and Neptune, ocean goddesses and gods all. Always the skeptic, yet: there is something out there. Also: Paganism is more fun than Atheism.

Back in time we go to the burning of the library in Alexandria which contained 100,000’s of “rolls”, papyrus scripts and stories. A lot of ancient knowledge blew away with the wind from the most heinous case of arson in history. It didn’t just burn overnight but reputedly took quite a long time to reduce all pagan knowledge to cinders. A series of fires by Christians, Caliphs and Romans at three separate times assured that ancient pagan history would not see the light of day again.

Gaps in history can be attributed to the Goddess oriented societies that were given the History Eraser Button.

( ) “Stimpy….don’t touch that.”

“Uh, why Ren?” “That’s the history eraser button……….stoopid.” (58) `

-2-8-Here’s an example that shows us that we can’t really know the answer to the afterlife. Other Angels at the Intersection

Two people are driving hurriedly; one person wants to make sure her young child arrived home safely from school; the boy has sounded unsure of himself on the phone when he has had to call. Another person has turned around to go home because he remembered he turned the oven burner to low; but never went back to turn it off. He had to hustle, burning food awaits, yet he needed to get to his 4 to 12 shift on time.

Floyd is racing back to his burning oatmeal and as he approaches the intersection he’s praying really hard, “Please God please please angels, Jesus Mary Joseph make this light turn green!” In car #2 is Jane the donut shop employee who can’t quite get out early enough at work to pick up her son from school, and so at 9 years old the boy rides his bike for a mile and a half home. Cars go whizzing right by at fifty miles an hour and the snowbirds are back having problems adjusting their medication. It’s worrisome for a parent to give our children the same freedoms we had as children riding our bikes.

Don’t you know she is also praying like the Dickens and her guardian angel hears her plea, “Please please please don’t turn red I wanna get home please please please Diana keep the light green.” Floyd’s spirit guide races ahead to the signal box to delay the electrical connection for the light.

At the same time the guardian angel of the Diana Loving Pagan zooms ahead to the intersection to facilitate Jane’s plea. And, well, they meet. The angel says, “Hey, step aside little league.” The spirit guide replies “over my ethereal shadow of mercy.” Can all this be happening? We seem to think so. What are you thinking when you are praying for the light to stay green? It must be really congested in the “Otherworld” with all these angels and spirit guides flying around trying to keep up with all the wishes. How about the Bronx during rush hour? You can bet God is also real busy with his laptop trying to keep up with all the requests. As one example, four million children in this world got sent to the principal’s office last month and 3.7 million of them prayed that they wouldn’t get in trouble. This is the base of my skepticism; and most religious bugaboo is pretty ridiculous but it’s no reason to be an atheist. The key is this: we are really lucky to be given this gift: just being alive is the gift, it’s all the God and Goddess are really able to give us.

Who can know what to believe but our gut instinct tells us that we have grown beyond slavery and torture and war and we''unsneed a clean start. I was hoping The Millennium year was the time to build up some positive momentum and I feel Bill Clinton fell short on that although we ended up with a surplus and a reduced government.

What then of the Good caused by religion? In a novel called “The Last Templar” , a secret scroll was discovered that was written by Jesus. Update: this was a TV movie recently and I missed it…arrr. Two researchers and an FBI cop in the story are all bent on revealing whatever they find and near the end of the book a terrible maelstrom capsized both boats during a chase scene and they found themselves washed ashore. The islanders were humble pious Catholic Greek peasants who were heavy on the sign of the cross and selfless kindness. No one had to be kind to the strangers, but the peasants were very gracious, and the author was trying to illustrate that many of the peaceful people of the world are devout to their Catholic faith. The good remains, but an exorcism is needed to excise the evil.

When given the choice to reveal a scroll with Jesus’ actual words the female researcher and male cop let the paper fly away from a cliffside, rather than disturb the tranquility that has been created by the good people of the world. Distrustful of each other in the beginning of the novel, the cop and researcher had fallen in love so that probably clouded their judgment and you can just imagine the bad guy researcher, the third main character, saying “Noooooooooo!!!” as Jesus’ actual words flutter down to the ocean.

Before I lose readers who think I seem to be mocking everything and everybody let me prepare you by way of explanation. In Druddoccitan, Gods Idols and Icons, I list Fluffy the Cobra. He’s described as “light god-replaces hard to say light gods like Quetozaotacal”. I’m not making fun of Quetozaotacal. I’m trying to light a path for 21^st century people who may find pagan paths a little too strange and easy to ridicule, and letting people know they can have some fun being a pagan.

What is great about pagans is that they accept who you are, and whatever you believe. Paganism might be the answer to give freedom to everyone in the world and embolden people to upend coercive authority and the growing Islamofascist threat to liberty. I'm waiting for the racist Odinists to create a schism with Christians in the white nationalist movement.

Seriously though, Fluffy is a God I added to my pantheon of Gods and Goddesses and he lit the way during my pagan pilgrimage to Salem. Never getting lost or delayed, even through New York City, which is a white knuckle experience, even at four in the morning when we went through.

If I can get someone to sit up and take notice of the Pagan resurgence through my attempts at humor, maybe I can get them to turn on the light in the closet of their spirituality. In this book I’m not preaching to the Pagan Choir, I want thoughtful intelligent independent thinking people to consider becoming Pagans. I indulge in the serious also. The Wiccan code of morality begins with this statement. “Do what ye will and harm none.” So a Wiccan wouldn’t throw a box of tacks on the driveway of some idiot preacher that made the newspaper with a demented anti-Halloween tirade. Bad form.

Many believe that what you do bad or good comes back to you three times as strong. I believe Wiccans and Pagans would be fundamentally better citizens since we aren’t like the Christians who would step over their own mother to smite a pagan OR HURL GOSSIP AND HATE AND BIGOTRY ABOUT SOMEONBE DIFFERENT THAN THEM. Trust me, a child raised as a pagan will be just as likely to be kind and charitable and will integrate an upstanding morality into their lives seamlessly.

-2-9- Do as ye will

Welcome to the Pagan Reform Temple homepage, "Medieval Misfits." The Wiccan creed advises, 'Do as ye will and harm none.' So with this in mind, I propose a new perspective to enhance our understanding. The choices we make when purchasing goods are increasingly significant. Consider the dilemma of selecting between a $20 shirt made by a company in Bangladesh that pays its workers $5 a day, and a $30 shirt from Sweden. Reflect on Lucy's story from Bangladesh: removed from school at age 9 to work in a sweatshop, and now at 19, her hands are painfully worn from labor. Her life is a constant struggle, obscuring the beauty of existence. Like many in poverty, she is susceptible to the allure of Christianity, which preaches submission to authority in exchange for heavenly rewards.

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 but whose job is threatened by 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.

Buy the cheaper shirt and laugh, it’s their problem, but then it’s YOU that is helping to expand the sweatshop system that will eventually engulf us all and perpetuate a growing workplace tyranny. Your grandchildren will look at you 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!”

`Pagans, I’m asking you to look a little deeper: do ye harm none when you buy that cheaper shirt? Like it or not we are all loosely connected in the global marketplace and as poorly as Pagans have been treated, we need to see the billions that slave for our low prices today. Billions are suffering as the human population skyrockets out of control; women thrown into factories, men working in a near death state in mines. `Lucy Thu in Bangladesh is so tired and disgusted that when shop mate Rosuh Rivutah loudly proclaims that they should start a union, her hopes rise briefly as she dreams of joy and happiness. If she could earn more she could buy a refrigerator and TV for the family and some rugs and maybe 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 WE 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 along with the transportation costs and all other forms of white collar crime.

We have more products than we can manage, and we can create dignity, comfort and happiness in the lives of the working poor in the next 20 years or continue to kowtow to the monied interests and the pitchfork wielding Christian and Islamic mobs. 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. Do as ye will but wake up

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Baltic Paganism The Goddess is a concept by which we measure our joy.

As I prepared History of the Pagans I realized I could never follow any single religion so I made up my own called Druddism. Druids and Luddites….. Druddité is the name, combining the qualities of each. Druids were practitioners of wisdom and knowledge, the oral tradition, working with people and guiding their spirituality. Luddites were once well known protesters of the advancing dehumanizing technologies. Pass on the knowledge and be cautious of machines, and this message is even more important today as we helplessly watch animal and plant genetics, cloning, and the fragile house of cards our computer dependence has given us. I just want to be spiritually agile so when I die I can land on my feet running. A spirit guide angel type dude taps me on the shoulder and says excitedly “Come with me, one of the Goddesses is having an orientation.”

“Where am I? This is a good place, eh?”

“Dude, it’s the afterlife, look down there, you’re dead.” A brief pause.

“Can I stay here and watch my funeral n’ shit?”

“All life can be observed again, it’s all on tape in the Hall of Records, come on, you can come back and watch any aspect of history or your life, Diana is a busy Goddess and she’s way cool and doesn’t visit too often. She’s on tour with Thomas Paine.”

The goddess is a concept by which we measure our joy.

One of my primary inspirations happened one day while I was reading the book "Ancient Wisdom" by Vivianne Crowley and Christopher Crowley. I’ve been an earth lover all along and was enthralled reading the chapter on the religion of the eastern Baltic Sea; it seemed to fit me perfectly. In "Ancient Wisdom" it states that there are actually three parts of us. Our body that decays back into the earth and our soul which goes to the divine and a third part that goes to a place where the etheric component that holds our life and immortal consciousness resides. That place is called the Veles. Exactly! I thought to myself, this is how it happens. Buddha Bing! This is it; it feels like the truth to me. Baltic Pagans are the ones carrying most of the ancient folk religion and the original goddess inspired truths I had been seeking. Then along came the synchronicity when a few days later my better half brought home some CD’s about a woman who channels a spirit from the otherside. The voice calls itself Abraham, yet oddly enough, has nothing to do with the so called Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Catholicism and Islam. Abraham says to follow the Christ that lives today, not the martyr of 2,000 years ago noting many ways the Bible has been “changed and added upon to” (21) Go to the Abraham Hicks web site and buy some CD’s.In the book Ancient Wisdom it is described in great detail how to use this part of ourselves, how to connect with our vibrational counterpoint. That little voice in your ear, that’s the rest of you vibrating out there in the Veles, your spiritual counterpoint. That larger part of you that is a spiral of energy and 7 waves of thought with your 7 chakras and your personal auras and the smaller sub auras and all this other stuff that goes on that we cannot see in this very physical world.

From WIKIPEDIA is a description of this Baltic Paganism, its called Romuva. “Romuva is a modern religious community of the indigenous Baltic region practiced by the Lithuanian people prior to their Christianization. Romuva is an ethnic religious community living Baltic pagan traditions which survived in folklore and custom. This feature differs Romuva from neopagan religions which are mostly based on mythology and written sources. Romuvans are celebrating traditional forms of art, retelling folklore, practicing traditional holidays, playing traditional music along with ecological activism and stewarding sacred places.” WIKIPEDIA. Do I have to follow every ceremony and habit? Is there a wrong or right way about Romuva, does anyone mind a little update for the 21st century? They’ve carried the burden so very far and you all be purists if you want, but much of Romuva seems like the truth to me and I must respect and use parts of it. One idea I adopted was that this afterlife in the otherworld is in a place called the “Veles” according to the book Ancient Wisdom. Furthur study showed there is a god for cattle or something whose name is also Veles, so which one is it? The votes are in: Veles is the afterlife, and I’m sticking with this term Veles as the afterlife concept for my own use, even if the Romuvans think I’m wrong. Update 4-18-09 I set up my fire altar with gray bricks. One other major belief I adapted from Baltic Paganism is that (33) “people have religious or spiritual experiences. Everybody experiences them different in his or her own way. They can happen any time and any place, even in mundane life, when not expecting them. When seeking them, they are often evasive,” (Mind-N-Majick Paganpedia). There are no miracles, only transcendent experiences that occur infrequently at unpredictable times, much like the bird and butterfly experience (see chapter 9 The Goddess God and me) and the Fence of Protection experience I had among other synchronicities in the last two years.

Ruling elites have never liked the pagans. As Soviet communists became aware of Lithuanian pagans that were starting to outwardly practice their nature loving religion back in the 50’s, they were arrested, then sent to the Gulag in Siberia. Paganism has always been this kind of threat, despite the basic earth loving nature of it. Here’s part of a poem from the Second World War from a Lithuanian soldier that echoed sentiments of these earth lovers, very similar to the sentiments expressed by Hopi Elder, Ed White Eagle, in the chapter called “Corn”. If I should not return

Let my brother sow the seed next spring, As the moss shrouds my bones so will I enrich the soil One morning go into the field and take a rye stalk in your hand, Kiss it as you would your beloved, I will live on in the sheaves of grain.

)” The Slavic peoples originally venerated a goddess in the form of a bird but with population movement and the development of agriculture the Great Mother Goddess, known as the Moist Mother Earth-Matka Syra Ziemia in Russian and Polish and Zemyna in Lithuania became predominant. The earth was seen as alive, a goddess who protected people and needed to be protected in return.”

In my opinion the Lithuanians are very close to the Hopis of southwest United States. Very similar when it comes to respect for their dead ancestors and love of the earth that will always provide, if we respect her along with the importance of matrilineal ancestry. Mother earth was to be respected. The following is from a Romuvan website that I forgot to write down. “Lithuanian Paganism differs from American Neo-Paganism. Superficially, it dearly adheres to its ages-old traditions, which are not set in stone. Lithuanian Pagans adapt their traditions to their circumstances. They learn songs, practices, and the elements of ritual. Then they select the materials to create the appropriate ritual they need for the particular holiday each year. Everybody celebrates the same ritual, but everybody does it differently. What one group does this year, another group may have done a decade ago--- or a millennium ago.” ( 38 )

(38) “……The residence of those chosen souls is among the stars, to the north from the Way of Birds.” The lecturer, you’ll have to look it up yourself, I’m tired, continues to go on about how the religion is deeply rooted and pure. Think about it, where are the limits on soul travel or etheric presence? The ancient mother has traveled the growing universe leaving life wherever she goes. These beliefs about the Goddess are the first that I really feel are true.

Most have their doubts about God making our world in 6 days. I think the cosmos is something the gods and goddesses use to create soul bearing life. They didn’t create the stars and planets. I can’t really capture any one religion completely in its concepts and I could never embrace one religion fully—unfortunately most people want someone else to tell them what to believe. Hell with that, let’s take a look at other options. So what do we take with us into the 21^st century? Not all myth can be discounted because words and symbols are not what they seem. Symbols are not letters and ancient languages were ideas and concepts expressed in these symbols such as those found in the Tarot. Instead of needing to know letters like p-a-g-a-n, there would be a picture of a happy person dancing around the maypole. Today we are going back to symbols as an international language. Using one example, on any device or website a speaker with lines coming out of it represents volume and everyone understands it once they learn what it means, in whatever language they speak. There are many other symbols we can compile into a list.

Scientists keep trying to shoe horn the mounting contrary evidence into their neat little package of conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom says that ancient cultures that embraced the Goddess were insignificant and not important. They were very important say others and noted there are no indications in their art that warfare was part of their society. They created useful items such as pottery and the Goddess cultures lasted much longer than the war oriented ones that came along later.

Do you have a grove of trees you stand around? I got this inspiration one early morning. Find a place where you can go on your hands and knees to touch your forehead to the ground. I guess this ritual has got to do with chakras too and maybe something to do with your third eye. Do this facing east of course to greet the rising sun. This is what is done in my new religion; the forehead on the ground is an inspiration from Romuvan paganism, the greeting of the Mother in the morning, expressing our humility amongst the greatness of Gaia (Zemyna, the daughter of the sun.

I was trying to think up some simple folkways and respect for Mother Nature during Zemyna Time (4:00 till sunrise) and touching the ground with your forehead is an ancient ritual that needs to be brought back, along with the bird ceremony, and I’ve incorporated them into Druddism. One day I was reminded that Islamics touch the ground with their foreheads, but the difference is that they do it on tile and we only do it right on the mother earth. Remember I’m telling you to stay loose, and there are variations for every climate, location and elevation. If you live on the west coast of Florida the sunrise may not be so special but sunset time is when you want to embrace the Goddess and Nature; thank you Goddess for another day. A little aside here: get rid of that bogus Daylight Savings Time so we can return to normal cycles. Why have that sudden disruption twice a year?

(17)The Great Mother Goddess in Lithuania was known as Zemyna. The earth is seen as alive, a goddess who protected people and must be protected in return. In a mainly rural economy people felt a deep kinship with the earth. The sea also had a goddess known as Jurate in Lithuania and Jurata in Poland, and she was the queen of the Baltic Sea. Most Lithuanians do not practice the traditions of their ancestors as religion but as cultural heritage. Baltic spiritual revival is strongly bound up with environmental issues and the Gaia hypothesis of British biochemist James Lovelock that says the earth is a giant living organism, a biosphere of interconnecting and mutually dependent life forms, has been influential. From Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia we hear about Zemyna. “Zemyna is the cherished Mother Earth who protects and guides animal and plant life. She is the womb and tomb. Lithuanians greet her when they rise in the morning and go to sleep at night.” (17) Is it so bad then that I live my religion starting with the first light? Is it heresy to step outside and feel a jolt of energy from the new day? Is it such blasphemy to gather in groves with friends or to read a book leaning against an old oak tree? It was back around 1350 A.D. and Lithuania had managed to remain a pagan led country, the last in Europe. One Grand Duke named Gerdinmas, or something, pretended he was Christian to keep them from invading in the late 1200’s and was able to forestall the invasion of the Popes troops. Finally, in 1384 a ten year old Christian girl became ruler of Poland and two years later married a Lithuanian grand duke who had recently converted to Christianity. An inauspicious start to Christianity in Lithuania it seems. Furthur research show that the Duke was only, although that still doesn’t make it right. Please note that I have nothing bad to say about Jesus. He can’t be blamed for what has happened and I wince when peoples anger with Christianity results in Jesus being made into the leader of the minions with too many opinions. Jesus was mostly about people and morality, so the Romuvans wouldn’t hold much sway with him because they are more about forests and friendships and loving the mother earth. Jesus would find Buddhism an interesting discipline and Taoism would ignite plenty of debate about feeling the creation in various forms. He’d appreciate pagan ways and would be reminded that the diversity of concepts is as numerous as it was back in His first life, and truth to tell He’d be more readily embraced by the Pagan community if he should return.

Environmental devastation was not too bad back then with 50 million people in the world. Six billion of us now would probably give Jesus pause and he’d find most of us really messed up the way wealth is created by disruption and disgrace to the beauty of nature along with Predatory capitalisms gleeful bashing of the planets web of life for the sake of wealth. While Pagans extolled in the seeking of knowledge, and were dismayed at the destruction of their sacred sites, Christians were busy making sure they named everything in sight, St. Louis, St. Sebastian River (It was the Sebastian River till some wackos insisted it was named after Saint Sebastian). St. Francis hospital, Minneapolis Saint Paul, St. James Bay. Saint this saint that; on and on times a million and making words like heresy and blasphemy the kiss of death for people who disagreed with them the last 1600 plus years.

Elsewhere I’m going to try to explain who the Teutonic knights were. They destroyed pagan villages and took any resources, like buildings and gold and such, but found Lithuania a tough conquest because of the deep rooted earth religion they adhered to. From the book “Northern Crusades” I’d like to use this quote. (32)”It has been alleged since the 13^th century that the Lithuanians were deterred from becoming Christians because of the brutality and Greed of the Teutonic Knights. This view may have its merits, but it ignores the fact that the Lithuanian religion was successful in its own rights…..The Teutonic Knights could do little except contain them. Paganism allowed the Lithuanians to govern Latins, Greeks, Jews and Tartars impartially. When Grand Prince Jogaila finally accepted baptism in 1386, he was moved by the prospect of winning the Polish Kingdom, and of depriving the Knights of their raison d’etre (in French; reason for existing). The slow progress of the missionaries within Lithuania after 1386 suggests a deep rooted and much valued pagan religion.”(32)

The following is an example of a ceremony done by Romuvans. This is from WIKIPEDIA,”…the Baltic aukuras or “fire altar” is a stone altar in which a fire is ritually lit. Participants wash their hands and face prior to approaching the aukuras, and then they sing dainas or ritual hymns as the fire is lit. After the primary offering, participants offer their own verbal or silent offering of thanks which are carried to the gods and ancestors with the smoke and sparks of the flame.”WIKIPEDIA

Quoting from the Mind-N-Magick paganpedia, (33)”Lithuanian religion does not have a founder or any single source, and it predates recorded history. It is one of the oldest religions in the world, it evolved from the natural and native beliefs of it’s indigenous people. The focal point of each Baltic Temple was an aukuras, the “fire altar”. The ritual is often held to commemorate special occasions, and is an essential component of many holidays. The aukuras is erected at a sacred site, usually outdoors. A group of people leads the congregants in singing dainas –ancient spiritual hymns-as the fire is lit and the ritual progresses.”(33) From the Book ‘Ancient Wisdom, (17) “Baltic people are found in Lithuania and Latvia and share a common ancestry with Celts, Germans and Scandinavians. Balts are descended from people from the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea.” As time went on Swedish Vikings attempted to settle the eastern Baltic Sea but settlements were “…short lived, destroyed by the Baltic tribes.” (17)

Okay, these goddess believers were no sissies, driving away the Vikings when no one else could. On the other side of their land they kept gold grubbing, sacred site smashing Christians at bay. These were tough people and many are proud of their pagan past.

(17) “In the early religion of the Balts, worship took place in sacred groves and impressive natural sites. Temples that existed during the beginning of Christian occupation were beautiful and one was noted for carvings so natural that they seemed alive. This temple was built around an old oak tree, probably the original sacred site. In the 13^th century the Pope initiated a crusade to the Baltic region that evolved into a war that lasted 100 years. Sacred sites were either adapted to the Christian religion or destroyed. Statues of Perun, the thunder god, were thrown into rivers or smashed up. The largest of them even suffered the additional indignity of being flogged by 12 strong men before being thrown into the river. Prince Vladimir also arranged for a mass baptism of his people by the simple expedient of driving them into the river to be baptized. They went in pagan and came out Christian.”(17)

These people loved the land and something else they did was to have eternal fires, fires that burned for decades. (17) “In 1434 the last of the great and most revered of the sacred fires were put out. The fire was extinguished and the ashes thrown into the river so the fire could not be relit.”(17) This is just mean spirited and it’s why many independent thinking people today are mistrustful of Christians because we feel they are still capable of being like this, their inspiration derived from the mean spirited vengeance of the Bogus God of the Old Testament.

Continuing then with “Ancient Wisdom” (17) “As time went on Lutheran Protestantism replaced Catholicism across Eastern Europe and only Poland and Lithuania remained Catholic: the Catholic Church, with it’s multiplicity of saints and veneration of the Virgin Mary also adopted pre-Christian customs into it’s tradition with a freedom that could not be tolerated by austere Protestantism. In rural regions pre-Christian traditions in Poland and Lithuania continue to flourish into modern times. Poland preserved much of its folk tradition and customs and between the world wars there was a strong revival of interest in pre-Christian conditions. These became an inspiration for art, including that of Marian Wawzeniecka whose works often had pagan imagery.

Stanislaus Szukalski (1893-1987) was a blacksmiths son from Warta who immigrated to the United States and then was sent back to Poland by his father to study art in Krakow. He was inspired by pre-Christian folk tradition and a group of like minded artists called “The Tribe of the Haughty Heart” built up around him.

Jahn Stachniuk, born in 1905 in Kowel, founded a pagan magazine and movement called Zadruga. Stachniuk believed in ‘the sacred power of intellectual creativity and ability to harness cosmic energy through strength of will.” Let me stop right here. Explaining why I find Lithuanian and Polish paganism, the most compelling of all is this; ideas like using the strength of intellectual creativity while manipulating the cosmic forces from inner peace and strength seem compatible with what I want to do. I read all these magic spells and grimoires and what not and, I don’t know, it doesn’t feel right, Ya know? As you make up your own personal belief systems try to understand when you are forcing an idea down your own throat. Try to be more alert to what doesn’t feel right. To pagans, if a ritual feels goofy, maybe we need to leave it behind. My goal is to trace primitive religion back as far as possible. A personal note to neo-Pagans; you may feel the need to be outside mainstream acceptance. I, however, think that it’s time to stand up like a proud American and Pagans need to be counted in this complicated cultural weave. Pagans need to be on 2010 census form.

Stachniuk wrote that “neither prayers to a deity or magic would help people achieve what they wanted. They have to do it through effort and manifesting a creative attitude in life.” This is what I’m talking about; the Romuvans inspired by pre-Christian traditions are reviving rituals and customs that have never quite been destroyed. The Soviets imposed atheism and/or Stalin worship and believers in Zemyna went to Soviet prisons like everyone else who disagreed with the communists. Romuva is now thriving in Lithuania and one of its founders face is on the new 50 dollar coin. Not quite In the Goddess we Trust but there is respect and pride in the ancient Pagan ways, in some places.

Many archaeologists and historians agree that people were living together in clans, tribes or villages as far back as 40,000 YA. Wouldn’t working co-operatively have happened in fits and starts? As humans became the apex predator they sought to get in harmony with their world. Groups of disparate people would tend to trade together, and even become friends(not such a strange concept), joining their clans together, sharing fruit, harvesting areas and other co-operative behavior that you just won’t uncover during an archaeological dig. This brings me to the question; if an archaeologist doesn’t find artifacts from the Baltic Sea older than 8,000 years, does it mean the people never existed? These people, as a rule were not stupid or sickly. Even their hunter gatherer ancestors were of a healthy stock. Lithuanian pagans have also been greatly influenced by Lithuanian feminist archaeologist Professor Marija Gimbutas (1921-94).” To quote from her book “Language of the Goddess”, (56)”This ancient culture took keen delight in the natural wonders of this world. It’s people did not produce lethal weapons or build forts in inaccessible places, as their successors did, even when they were acquainted with metallurgy. Instead they made magnificent tomb shrines and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long lasting period of remarkable creativity and stability, an age free of strife. Their culture was a culture of art.”(56)

Solstice …. . Baltic solstice is a plain good hearted celebration and from Ancient Wisdom I want to quote what they wrote about it. (17)”Winter Solstice became Christmas in the Christian calendar. In Lithuania and Latvia, preparations for the winter solstice starts in one example when a cherry twig is placed in water, so that the twig sprouts roots in time for the Winter Solstice December 21^st symbolizing the hope of new life to come.

“On Solstice eve, candles are lit and a table is prepared with bread, salt and 13 different vegetarian foods. These include grain and peas, beans, nuts and honey. Before the ceremonies quarrels are worked out. The celebration begins when the evening star appears in the sky. The eldest person says an invocation to the earth mother and bread is broken. There is also a feast of cranberry jelly, hot beet soup, mushroom dumplings, cabbage and fish. No meat or dairy products may be eaten and at the end of the feast, grains are poured on the hearth and a log representing the old year is burned.

“In nearby Poland, Solstice is similar. Evergreen boughs are cut and brought into the house to be decorated with apples, nuts and ornaments of straw or paper such as a five or eight point star. Sheaves of wheat decorate the corners of the home to ensure a bountiful harvest in the coming year. Fires and lights are allowed to go out. As the day turns to dusk the youngest child performs the czuwac, or star watch, and stands at the window to watch for the evening star to signal the start of the festivities. Then a Yule log is consecrated and lit and then a candle is lit in the czuwac window and then in all the windows of the house.

“Bread and drink are passed around, followed by 13 meatless dishes, and a flat wafer bread called Oplatka, the bread of love. The sharing of Oplatka bread symbolizes forgiving of past wrongs and a new beginning. Herbs are thrown on the fire to make smoke patterns and candle wax is dripped into glasses of cold water. The patterns and shapes of hardened wax could be interpreted with the help of the village babci or grandmother, an elderly wise woman, or tsarowinica; a witch” `I have a blue candle burning at the moment and so I poured the hot wax into a glass of cold water to check out this tradition. I lifted it out with a fork and when I turned it upside down, it looked exactly like the clouds of eternity I have on page 1. The Tsarowinica would probably find some positive viewpoint with that coincidence, a confirmation of my undertaking. The History Of the Pagans.

Were the pagans so bad then? Christians eat a bloated turkey grown in cruel conditions, use tinsel on a plastic tree and ‘candy canes made with red dye #3’ (86?) Dar Williams, and spend a long season trying to buy just the right gift. Let’s face it most of the Christian Christmas ends up in the landfill while Solstice fills the heart. Romuvans in Lithuania are reviving more of these old traditions and who can blame them when it’s so easy to reject our modern commercial Christmas and the empty social vacuum created by industrial society. Sounds cheaper too, cranberries, nuts, sauerkraut, beets, turnips, potatoes, dried fruits; all symbolic of the foods you are storing to get through the winter in colder northern countries. A last hurrah for the harvest season before everyone needs to tighten their belts. Something I want to work on is adapting these Solstice traditions to tropical and semi tropical areas. Did I hear someone say Fresh Fruit Fest five times fast?

Do you see what I am trying to say? Pagans were building fire altars, kissing images of the Mother Earth and forgiving past wrongs, but the Christian propaganda machine has you visualizing goat horned demons and bizarre rituals. The simple folk religion is harmless, respectful and exemplary. Romuvans may find I place most of the accent on the feminine aspect of their religion but I think that’s where the roots of it lie. A lot of pagan costumes and priestly rituals were created by the idle rich as time went on, and this goes for most religions.

One last excerpt from Ancient Wisdom, (17)” In Lithuania and Latvia, traditional beliefs are conveyed through an oral tradition of poetry and songs known as dainas. The Dainas show that the Balts worshipped a number of gods, and their religion was based on natural phenomena, such as the suns movement in the sky and the changing of the seasons. An important concept in Baltic tradition is darna. The concept is similar to the Hindu dharma-moral order and principle. The aim of existence is to seek darna within our lives, within our home and within the community.”(17)

I hope Romuvans are not snobby with the specifics of their folklore and allow me to pick and choose what I like. One thing pagans do is create their own pantheon of gods and goddesses as we celebrate the creation and our bountiful Mother Nature. Not to Ignore the Gods, (38) “…the Prussian Romuva Temple established Dievas, Perkunas and Velnias as the three main gods. Dievas is the sky god who lives atop the heavenly mountain, he protects and guides agrarian work. Perkunas is the god that embodies justice and Velnias is the trickster god.” I refer to Baltic paganism elsewhere but for now I’d like you to remember what their thoughts on the afterlife are. It is believed that humans have a body, a soul and a veles which is the etheric part of us. After death, the soul returns to the divine, the body to the earth, but the etheric body continues to live in the Otherworld, the realm of The Veles

Famous ancient pagan sacred site in Lithuania

-2-11- ) Druids, Vikings and Darwin note!! Keep version in Myths and delete this one but figure out which one is better

The Druids left no written records that we know of. As one of the first competitors with Christianity in social circles and government, they were hunted down and murdered as the equality of early Christianity was supplanted by women and pagan hating pinheads. By 400 A.D. the Druids were no longer a dominant presence. By then, Christianity was no longer driven by the kindness of Jesus; it was usurped by patriarchal power mongers who used the rotting corpse of the Roman Empire as their base of power, even adopting the Roman language, Latin.

                              Historians disagree whether Druids actually used human sacrifice as one of their rituals and as I read obscure historical accounts, it seems that they were using criminals and not random victims for these alleged sacrifices. History is written by the winners of war and Machiavellian intrigue and very likely this lie about human sacrifice was meant to keep the Druids from ever regaining their voice. These same lying “Chritians” encouraged the enslavement of Africans and massacre of our Native Americans who were seen as savages.
                            Native Americans were seen as far too pagan to be managed or assimilated and being extremely earth centered they could never really be Christians. As long as the Black slaves converted to Christianity, (Yemaya and Voodoo went underground or mixed with Christianity in some cases) and the Red Genocide converted the Native Americans, things would be fine and dandy. Today, America needs to allow Pagan Expression to be free to flourish as guaranteed by the American Constitution and make up for this brainwashing and the subsequent massacres or enslavement of the earth loving, Goddess worshipping Pagans. Protesting The DaVinci Code, trying to eliminate Halloween, Banned in Boston, and enthusiastic support of usury in lending….. Onward Christian soldiers.
         Unseen by most is that the dark side of American Liberty was the faith based genocide. The pioneers generally mingled with the natives and the Indians were welcoming. From Thomas Morton (see Pagan Heroes) in 1624 who was known as the Pagan Pilgrim to Hindus from India today, alternatives to Christianity are actively discouraged. Christianity has prevented the United States from the full blossoming of the Constitution with the true equality and freedom of religion it would provide.
The Vikings were also one of histories losers. They were about exploring and bonding with their land and having a respect for women similar to the Celts and many other pagan societies that is not commonly found in religions such as Islam and post-Constantine Christianity. Recent research is showing the Vikings, the Norse people had a lot to do with the land and weren’t all out pillaging. The founding of ancient Russia was credited to a Viking, and they put the hardiness in the spirit of the Irish. Viking journeys led them across Europe and nearly to Iraq, even becoming royal guards for a Moslem nation. These spirited people were converted to Christianity in many un-Christian ways. In the Faeroes Islands of the North Sea, a converted Viking gave the leader of those islands a choice as they stood on a cliff by the ocean in 999 A.D. Live as a Christian or die as a Viking. A dagger in his throat and an imminent icy death helped with his choice.

     Onward Christian soldiers, they are still trying to divert and divide us when the future strength of the United States is in our desire for liberty and the diversity of our ideas and our acceptance of each other. Not everyone believes the same thing. Thank Goodness that Barack Obama defined America to the world and we will gain their respect back when he declared to the Turks that “We are not a Christian nation, but a nation of diversity.”
           The Christian knights called the Templars were charged with keeping Jerusalem within the Christian sphere during the Crusades. Many of you may know the history of the crusades, but suppressed was the fact that the Templars lived amongst Moslems and were renegades in a sense because they attempted to join the two religions and their reward for this peacemaking was another epic slaughter directed by Rome. The Templars were rounded up and killed, all of them! Wink wink nod nod. Like the Druids, they were no strangers to travel and knew better to hide out in the Ancient Forests after escaping. Some say the Templars are the source of some of the secret societies as their exemplary fortitude was not destroyed. They await the day to rise again.
             Do I even need to discuss the Spanish Inquisition? I’m sure Thomas Jefferson had it at the forefront of his thoughts as he debated the separation of church and state with other people. The Horror of the Spanish Inquisition was still fresh in his 18^th century mind. Then there were the Bankers who fueled the swift western expansion of our country, the ecological devastation and native genocide. They were thwarted temporarily by Andrew Jackson, Mr. 20 dollar bill to those unschooled by history.

He was President 1828 to 1836 and he denounced bankers, calling them “a pit of vipers” and paid off all American debts. It wasn’t until Abe Lincoln needed funding to free the slaves did the bankers return. Coincidentally at this time American coins began sporting In God We Trust. In 2009 every man, woman and child in this country now owes 75,000 dollars to the national debt. “One day old and I’m livin’ on credit.” (5) God will provide I guess.

                         Pope John Paul the Second showed us what forgiveness was when he forgave Ali Ajca who attempted to assassinate him. John Paul had the modern sensibilities of people living with freedom without giving a nod to the excess of sex and violence in the world of entertainment. He also reached out to many Pagan groups and visited them and prayed with them in his expansion of seeking truths. Forgiveness after 9/11 could have prevented the killing of a hundred thousand since then. It’s said 3,000 Iraqis die every month because of this idiotic war. They are not our enemy; their leaders are fools as ours.                                                                                                                             The Moslem people are our brothers and sisters but we are absorbed by the feuds of monotheistic religions and I pray we learn to rise above these patriarchal religious warrior elites like they don’t even matter an
+ok, “       The Origin of Species”, he mentions that there are great gaps in the evolutionary parade and if they are not found in the future then some of his theories would need to be updated. Links between fish and walking terrestrial creatures are being found in Greenland recently, “BUT that’s It!” (80) Most evolutionary links have not been found and you really need to question the “truths” of Evolutionary conventional wisdom. I think Darwin would give pause to “intelligent design” if he were alive today, and would wonder why certain things still don’t add up. For instance up till a certain point in time; there were not any flowering plants. Flowers lead to seeds and fruit, flowers and pollinating insects, flowers and bees—get the picture? Fruit needs pollination and flowers are crucial to the diversity of life on this planet. Scientists cannot clearly find the links between non-flowering and flowering plants and it disconcerting to them.

                   Flowers are crucial to diversity of life, and my religion solves this mystery by stating that the Ancient Mother created the flowering plants; SAVING MILLIONS OF YEARS OF EVOLUTION. Please don’t let Christians get away with their claim to the Intelligent Design concept, because the Ancient Mother is the Mastermind behind it all.    was a genius at observing, and if we brought him to our present day he’d spend a couple weeks studying and would announce in our modern times.” I can see some sort of intelligent design occurred on this planet. There was no POOF!! Abracadabra, Youuuuu are now a planet. But some sort of gentle nudge from the uh….. Unseen Source.”

-2-12-

People of the Short Corn

WIKIPEDIA--- “In the Hopi Prophecy, it spoke of a white man who would come to them and help transform the entire continent into a spiritual paradise. He would be recognized because he would carry the fragment of stone which would complete their Holy Stone, filled with Indian writing characters. The Holy Stone had been preserved for thousands of years. Thus, when the white settlers came to the American continent, remembering their prophecy, they were openly welcomed.

The Indians shared all they had. But, in return, all the White Man did was to take. The Indians noticed that their White Brothers had brought a cross. However, it was not enclosed by the circle of the Great Spirit, showing the White Man had lost his way.

The Indians believe that at the beginning of the 5th World, when man was told to disperse throughout the planet, from Four Corners, the White Race was one of the original races that went East. Upon their return to our continent, they had become confused and forgotten the ways of the Great Spirit. Further the prophecy continued, either the White Man would bring peace and harmony or attempt to totally destroy the Indian's way of life and take all his possessions and the land. If the latter occured, (which is clearly the case today) there would come a time when the Indian people would appear to be almost non-existent. Yet, one day, they would rise out of nowhere, as the white race is falling due to their own ignorance and destruction, to lead a spiritual revolution, so all people on this continent would become attuned to the Great Spirit. To hold fast to the traditional ways even if it seemed that everything was against them. To protect Four Corners at all cost, because there is great power under the land that if it is allowed to escape, great destruction would result.

The Indians believe that at the beginning of the 5th World, when man was told to disperse throughout the planet, from Four Corners, the White Race was one of the original races that went East. Upon their return to our continent, they had become confused and forgotten the ways of the Great Spirit. Further the prophecy continued, either the White Man would bring peace and harmony or attempt to totally destroy the Indian's way of life and take all his possessions and the land. If the latter occured, (which is clearly the case today) there would come a time when the Indian people would appear to be almost non-existent. Yet, one day, they would rise out of nowhere, as the white race is falling due to their own ignorance and destruction, to lead a spiritual revolution, so all people on this continent would become attuned to the Great Spirit. To hold fast to the traditional ways even if it seemed that everything was against them. To protect Four Corners at all cost, because there is great power under the land that if it is allowed to escape, great destruction would result.
The Indians believe that at the beginning of the 5th World, when man was told to disperse throughout the planet, from Four Corners, the White Race was one of the original races that went East. Upon their return to our continent, they had become confused and forgotten the ways of the Great Spirit. Further the prophecy continued, either the White Man would bring peace and harmony or attempt to totally destroy the Indian's way of life and take all his possessions and the land. If the latter occured, (which is clearly the case today) there would come a time when the Indian people would appear to be almost non-existent. Yet, one day, they would rise out of nowhere, as the white race is falling due to their own ignorance and destruction, to lead a spiritual revolution, so all people on this continent would become attuned to the Great Spirit. To hold fast to the traditional ways even if it seemed that everything was against them. To protect Four Corners at all cost, because there is great power under the land that if it is allowed to escape, great destruction would result.
                                                   The Indians believe that at the beginning of the 5th World, when man was told to disperse throughout the planet, from Four Corners, the White Race was one of the original races that went East. Upon their return to our continent, they had become confused and forgotten the ways of the Great Spirit. Further the prophecy continued, either the White Man would bring peace and harmony or attempt to totally destroy the Indian's way of life and take all his possessions and the land. If the latter occured, (which is clearly the case today) there would come a time when the Indian people would appear to be almost non-existent. Yet, one day, they would rise out of nowhere, as the white race is falling due to their own ignorance and destruction, to lead a spiritual revolution, so all people on this continent would become attuned to the Great Spirit. To hold fast to the traditional ways even if it seemed that everything was against them. To protect Four Corners at all cost, because there is great power under the land that if it is allowed to escape, great destruction would result.
Today, the Indians are going through the test to hold onto their traditional ways and protect the land. The Pahana (or Bahana) is the "Lost White Brother" of the Hopi; a white, bearded deity who appeared to the Hopi and worked many miracles. The Hopi say that he will return again and at his coming the wicked will be destroyed and a new age of peace will be ushered into the world. It is said he will bring with him a missing section of a sacred Hopi stone and that he will come wearing red. Traditionally, Hopis are buried facing eastward in expectation of the Pahana who will come from that direction.”--- WIKIPEDIA
                           Wikipedia turns out to be very helpful with a writers needs. As I state elsewhere Romuvan paganism is the closest I can find for my own needs but the Native Americans are my sentimental favorites. Among them I find the Hopis are similar to the Romuvans. A Great Mother Goddess created the Hopi world and like The Romuvan Zemyna, the world is our mother. A child that is born will become part of the womans clan though naming is done by fathers clan.

On the 20^th day the child is taken to an eastward facing cliff and held out to be embraced by the rising sun. Did I hear someone say Lion King? Thanks for all those pagan fairy tales Walt.

I know, he forgot about the good witches and demonized the bad ones. Most witches are goOd so I think Disney needs to straighten it up with a movie about a good witch. Sabrina and Samantha didn’t quite capture the authentico of witchcraft. Magic is real, supernatural powers such as turning people into monkeys is show biz.

If you are open to it , Native American culture is all around when you live in Arizona. Papagos or O’odham were only 15 miles away when I lived on the west side of Tucson. Mother earth and the corn mother loom large and the west side of Tucson there is Cat Mountain and Kitt Peak the famous observatory is not too far away. The Hopis live in cliff dwellings in northern Arizona, as many people know, and despite the harsh conditions they are able to sustain themselves with crops. The lost white brother is certainly a curiosity and since white dominated technocracy could easily fall if their computer system were put out with an EMG burst, it could very well land in the laps of the Hopis to spiritually lead the remnants. Hopis have been on their land for over 11.000 years and I see a link between them and the Black Sea people who settled the land between the Black and Baltic Seas on Eurasian continent seven to 10,000 years ago, even 14,000 years ago according to my Pagan Fairy Tales in ‘The Song oF Ooglok’. Hopis believe in the 4 peoples who drifted from their lands and there could be some sort of unification that the Goddess has in mind with their ancient prophecy of the lost white brother. The Spanish vanquished many of the Pueblo people but were unable to conquer or convert the Hopis.
         Corn is very important to the Native Americans, for instance a shaman gives an ear of corn to the young child that the growing child uses in various initiation ceremonies the next 20 years. I know an ear of corn can last 20 years because I want to tell you my own experience with corn. 1978 to 1983 I gardened in Arizona and found it true that the soil is fertile even if some years as little as 8 inches of rain can fall, this is why hoses were invented. I was an uncompromising organic gardener there and used a technique called sheet composting to enrich the soil, and grew some decent vegatables; carrots and peas doing especially well for me. My corn was short.
         I may seem not so serious about some pagan ways but growing corn was very special to me and I was respectful to the ways of the First People. In ’84 I moved back to New England and worked very hard to re-establish myself in another region. In ’85 I got the notion to grow Indian sweet corn because I was disturbed by the hybrid corn that was exterminating the thousands of locally acclimated varieties in the Americas. I discovered teosinte which is the rumored wild relative of corn.

Teosinte was grown in the corners of corn fields, primarily by natives in Mexico. It was believed to strenthen the corn. It’s a 120 day crop I plant in April to Harvest in October here in Florida. In Connecticut it matured in less time. It was hardier and could be planted a few weeks before the corn.

Going back to New England in the 80’s I ordered open pollinated sweet corn and planted it in the rich 16 inch topsoil of the Connecticut River valley. Aztec Black among many other varieties including one or two Hopi varieties. Unlike most, I wasn’t going for some sort of purity but wanted to cross pollinate all the varieties to create the New England Rainbow. Blue corn (black aztec) was a dominating color and people would look at them and go, Blue Corn?, who would eat blue corn? Well, a couple of years later a blue corn chip came out that caught peoples attention and survives to this day.
After four years I was astonished at what I was producing. Some ears were getting smaller and smaller. I don’t know what scientists call it but I called it back breeding. There seemed to be majick in the pollen. My goal was to breed a variety I was going to call New England Rainbow. So I ordered different colored Indian sweet corn seeds and wrote to some of these seedsmen and women during my third year and got back some hand written replies. One dude named White Eagle sent me 5 different varieties to mix in with my open pollinated sweet corn and wished me luck. I don’t know if it is the same White Eagle The Hopi Elder coming up soon. It’s a name of high honor but the return address of the seeds was Nebraska, a company called ‘Corns’. I believe his seeds helped accelerate what I was doing. He gave me one pack of flint corn seeds and that didn’t make sense but I’ll bet he knew about breeding and there was something I needed to learn here. The genetic variety exploded that third year.

Hybrid corn is made to be harvested by Hexxus like machines all on the same day but open pollinated sweet corn is harvested over a 4 week period. So if I made 3 plantings, 3 weeks apart, I could theoretically harvest for 12 weeks. Mid July to frost. Another disadvantage was that it only was sweet for two days then it began to get hard and inedible. Another goal was to grind up those ears that were overripe and make corn meal, which I have yet to do. Note to self: go get a corn grinder to make corn meal, and get back to growing corn again.

ED WHITE EAGLE
                                                                            Hopi Elder tells a story

"I woke this morning and knew the spirit was inspiring me to write to you. Though I didn't want to think about it, because it takes time to do these things and I have much to do this time of year. I tried to ignore the feeling that filled my heart and went about my day. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to write to you anyway. Then in the afternoon, I was working at my son's house. I was helping him till his soil for his garden. The tiller hit a big rock, and I reached down to move it. When I put my hands into the soil I realized what the Great Spirit wanted me to tell those of you who will listen to the words of this old man. So once again I am here to share with you my knowledge.
I felt my wife's spirit in the rock I grabbed from the ground in my son's yard today. More than 20 years ago this year, my wife left the mortal life and became one with the ancestors. A day does not go by that I do not think of her, but every spring when I work the land with my son and grandsons, I think of her more. More than think of her, I know I am touching her because our world is made from the bones of our ancestors.
Some people believe in heaven, angels and things like that. Hopi do not in the same way. We believe that the Great Spirit is all around us, so we don't have to go to heaven to meet him. We believe that our ancestors live with us, guide us and share with us, so we don't have to call on angels to help us. Maybe those who believe in angels are right for themselves, but not for Hopi. The Hopi have a different view of their relationship to the Earth. Because when we look at a tree, a plant or a flower we see our loved ones who have gone. We see our mothers, fathers, grandparents. We see our wives, husbands and children. We see our past alive again.
When the Hopi die, they are buried in the ground in a simple way. Soon, with the help of the animals and bugs, they are returned to the ground and become one with the Mother Earth. They return to the Earth that they are made from. Their spirit --soul maybe -- goes on in some way to become one with the Ancestors. But also their spirit and their body becomes one with the Earth. Then, when they are one with the Earth, it is their being we are planting our food in. It is their body we are walking on. They fall as rain on our heads and make our corn grow. It is their body that is in the corn we eat. They hold the key to our continued life. They become a working part of the cycle of life on the Earth in a way they could not be as people. And when we each pass away from this life, we too, in our own ways, will return to the Earth. It doesn't matter if you are not Hopi. It doesn't matter if you are buried or burned or even lost at sea. Your body will return to the Mother that gave it life and you will become part of the chain that brings life to the world.
It is this chain of life that is very real to the Red Man. It is this chain of life that challenges us to remember that in every blade of grass and every ear of corn our Ancestors, and (thus) our own existence lies. Everything on the Earth is sacred. How could you not hold it that way? When you destroy any part of the Earth, you are destroying your past. When you care for the Earth, you are caring for yourself. Our Ancestors surround us every moment of every day. They are not just ghosts or memories. They are the water we drink, the ground we step on. They are the world around us. Our past is all around us. Our future too. For it is the dust that is between your toes that may someday be the things your children and grandchildren are made of. Nothing ever goes away. It is here with us.” ----- Ed White Eagle

         I was a Reagan era pagan(but never called myself that), and I did actually pray to what I imagined was the Corn Mother. I used a traditional planting stick to poke holes in the ground after praying and every year became more astonished at what happened. Ears were growing on the top of the plant and at the base. Strange configurations in the rows of kernels that I read were what the primitive corn “carbon dated” to three thousand years ago looked like.        Double cobs and most assuredly cobs with both teosinte and corn on the same cob, the same row even. Even more primitive ears emerged that there were not even pictures for, but reconstructive drawings of what the early corn ancestors looked like. I really wish I could get someone who knows corn history to come and look at them. And yes, bring them to the lab to identify the genomic structure. I never quite came up with primitive varieties in my attempts in Florida. Happy ending here. I still have them, the genetic sports of the New England Rainbow Sweet Corn and they are nearly 20 years old, so I can prove I am not lying or kidding.
         Back to Connecticut I was more interested in growing the corn as a genetics experiment, eating the ones that came out a decent size and good flavor was gravy. I have an ear that has teosinte like kernels and kernels that look like small kernels of sweet corn. As much as I’d like to believe the corn myths about the corn mother giving corn to people, I believe I back breeded right to the beginning. Corn must have started out as a genetic variation of teosinte, I have cobs with teosinte and blue corn in them; perhaps even triggered by the goddesses intelligent design, the Corn Mother, maybe Freya in disguise, providing the trigger to the change, evolution has to happen on its own. Not, Poof! you are now corn. In a catalog I found a real curiosity, it was a nearly extinct variety of PERENNIAL teosinte. Even though in the 90’s I was drifting back to atheism I prayed really hard to pollinate a perennial sweet corn. Imagine the implication of perennial corn!
         As much promise as this breeding showed: my genetic bank is now threadbare and may no longer be viable. I kept ears for breeding in the nineties but have only been able to grow in 98-99 and 02-03. With everything else I need to do, I’m determined to grow open pollinated sweet corn again. Genetics is an insidious intrusion into natural evolution. I suspect something is going on behind the scenes and I’d like to speculate about it. After the mid nineties, the perennial teosinte seemed unavailable. I think some corporation has bought all current stocks and are attempting to take a short cut to what I wanted to do naturally. They may be attempting to splice the perennial gene to their hybrid corn. Imagine the money that could be made if you could plant corn one year and have it come up a second year, or even a third. This seed would be expensive I’m here to tell you and the inventing company would slaughter competing companies with this product and could corner the market for ethanol.

The way I wanted to do it would be not to make a sterile hybrid but a perennial rainbow open pollinated sweet corn I’d sell only to the poor farmers in the world. All they’d have to do was put manure between the rows. Then save the seed for the next year to expand their field and share with farmers in other climates and locales and elevations, although Mexico would be the most logical place because this is where the nearly extinct perennial seed was discovered and I presume there would be a minimum soil temperature that would need to be maintained along with otherc compatibility factors. Here’s an odd story from five years back. I went looking for the perennial teosinte again and my search yielded a result. My finger paused briefly, I held my breath, was I going to be able to begin the experiment again? I don’t care what it costs. I pressed to find out more and suddenly my computer had a spaz. Can’t go on line, reboot, fegeddabout it. The Bell South Help Center came on board to repair the problem, something strange here, search for perennial teosinte and get a virus.

People enthusiastically scarf down corn every year and I don’t really have a fundamental problem with this. What happened in the last 50 years, however, is that your average farmer was no longer able to save the seed for the next year because of the nature of these F1 hybrids. Farms became mechanized and ecosystems were torn apart for agricultural production. Small farms went deeper into debt, it was overplanted creating gluts and farms became corn factories.

Pollution is created by the mechanized farm equipment, water tables dropped because the mega farms needed irrigation water, corn was shipped much furthur creating more pollution and trucks wear out roads (and especially bridges) increasing highway budgets and on and on. American topsoil has been reduced by 50% the last 100 years a good deal of that by corn. What will they be expected to farm on seven generations from now? The true price of 4 ears for a dollar is not really calculated as resources are depleted, critical resources such as topsoil. What is the diference between the earth and the moon? The simple answer is topsoil. When topsoil is depleted the land turns to desert. Could the Indians, pagans all, have had such a bad life? Hopis have a strong sense of monogamy so STD’s weren’t common, and so I imagine what my life would be like if I was born an Inca or a Hopi. Get up early in the morning, mutual pleasure assured, go running and breath in air not polluted by automobiles and listen to the birds and animals and not loudmouths on their cellphones.

Stop at some eastward facing cliff to stretch and greet the sun. Run back to the corn field to chase away birds or raccons, check for earworm infestation and squeeze them out (or eat them?). Get the bison shoulder bone tool to scrape out the weeds, greet your friends out in the field, because many were involved with growing the food they all shared.
Harvesting of fresh corn was done, the Indian Sweet Corn has only three days when it’s sweet. Take your sack and bring food to your neighbors. Go back home and appreciate and love your partner and help her with things, take a nap, look for people to play games and have fun or help people repair or upgrade living areas. Prepare the supper, maybe talk to the medicine man, wait for the evening star to come out or help other tribe members out with problems.
What are we about in our modern ways? Get stressed trying to go out early to work, feeding children with no relaxing time together as the children spend 7 hours a day learning virtually nothing while our polluting car may have a dead battery and so we are late for a meeting where cut throat competition is the order of the day. Is a community so bad then that is based on togetherness and growing corn? This is not socialism my friends, but a fundamental form of sustainable capitalism.

The Mayas and Aztecs devised calendars more accurate than any other known at that time, people know this if they watch the History channel but do the shows state the reason for these calendars? It was to know the correct time to plant the corn. Corn could be stored for the cold weather, corn meal and homemade food such as tortillas can be made at any time. Tribes concerned with famine would plant enough so two years worth of food could be saved.
“…the whole Bible-Quran crowd would feel aced out of the most important prophecy in the history of humanity by a bunch of pagans from the boonies of Central America.” Joseph goes on to explain how the three patriarchal religions are trying to make Armageddon happen, trying to force circumstances to fit Bible Phrophecy. The Temple of the Mount could become quite a contentious issue and the Christian Theme Park in the nearby area where the Great Battle of Good and Evil will happen seems kind of odd to me.

Mayans have no love of what archeologists do on their land and here a scientist gives his view. (38)”…in one such case I was told about the ruins that we have never discovered. Apparantly the Maya are to this day still keeping secrets from the general public about their great history in Central America. I was informed that some ruins were buried by people to preserve their temples till the Gods come back from the Stars. A Mayan informed me that the real temple where the Great Lightning Bolt will hit do not know the location.”

A story to end Corn (38) “Yawpa the Mockingbird said, “There is still something to be done-the selection of the Corn.” The people gathered around as the Mockingbird laid many ears of corn on the ground; One ear was yellow, one was white, one was red, one was grey, some were speckled, one was a stubby ear with blue kernels, and one was not quite corn but merely Kwakwi grass with seeds at the top. The Mockingbirtd said “each of these ears brings with it a way of life. The one who chooses the yellow ear will have a life full of enjoyment and prosperity, but his span of life will be small. The short ear with the blue kernels will bring a life full of work and hardship but the years will be many. (Meaning the longetivity of the entire tribe).

The Mocking bird explained the life that went with each color they chose. The Navaho quickly chose the yellow ear, a short life of enjoyment. The Sioux took the white corn, The Supais chose the ear speckled with yellow, the Comanches took the red, Utes took the flint.

At last two ears remained , the leader of the Apaches chose the longest. It was the Kwakwi grass. Only the Hopis had not chosen. The ear that was left was the stubby blue ear. The leader of the Hopis picked it up and said, “We were slow in choosing. Therefore we must take the shortest ear of all. We shall have a life of hardship but it will be a long lasting life. Other tribes may perish, but we, The Hopis will survive all adversities.

Thus the Hopis became the people of the short corn.”

-2-13-VENUS AND 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 Tennessee but no T in Atlanis.

Souls were finally 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 with soul placement, and we are no longer 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 (those attempts 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.

Soul evolution began with the Moles then the Polecats then the Lemurs and evolving into primates. 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. The first one.

In fact she brought him the first one from the Tree of Life.

They had numerous children, all were born with souls and as time went on, 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 all 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. lol. You can do anything with a DIY

He 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.

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- PROUD TO BE PROGRESSIVE

-3-11- THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC
-3-12- BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY
-3-13- TAROT FOR NEWBS

-3-1--

THE EARTH MOVEMENT OR

THE FINAL SLAUGHTER

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

Environmental wacko was the term used by Rush Limbaugh, 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 ecosystems will need to have healthier forests than the ones that Capitalism has left us.

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

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

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

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

Margot Adler, though deceased, is still a Facebook friend of mine and had 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. People are out there trying to stop these mines and pipelines. A free national bus service would get people there instead of being trapped by the Petroleum Plot.

We need a real prosperity based on creating abundance and not a house of cards “on paper” prosperity, that continues to degrade all natural ecosystems. Resource extraction will be our undoing for all the shiny new bright green toys.

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

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

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

The smartest thing to do in 2026 to start some sort of Independent third party that I have named the #IndependentMajorityParty or IMP for short. As in troublemaker.

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 have become a writhing pile of attorneys who see the poor as helpless and needing management. They need to go also.

Independents see how a small business oriented localized economy could return. In it's final form, America will pioneer the Market Socialism concept. (-1-13-)

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. GPI, like RBI or or GIF or GFI.

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

In the 70’s and early 80’s, being green meant more than recycling newspaper. A deep green knows the source of pollution 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. You ABSOLUTELY have to preserve every last old tree and we secretly would love to ban clear-cutting world-wide.

Let’s face it, recycling has yet to achieve its real potential.

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. There is less biotic diversity in the deep shaded areas so woodlot management can be a real win-win.

I would love to see the return of local lumber yards for one thing. Local jobs, local lumber, custom cutting and jobs in furniture making again. We gave up craftsmanship for cheap throwaway garbage from China.
Yes, it’s true, by banning clear cutting (world wide) there would be inflation for wood products at first until prices “float up” to where they should be. 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. Micro-plastics in mothers milk is now a concern.

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.

Thirty years later we are stunned at the apathy.

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 signaling nonsense of today.

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

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

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

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

Every country would be encouraged to comply but not forced because we want to avoid any sort of 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 or war, unlike Greece and Rome later, that did.

Can we make a sustainable planet in perpetuity? I firmly believe there can be prosperity and sustainability. We have to work with our ecosystems and economically align ourselves as bioregions. More markets, fewer borders and #nomorewar.

For instance, Florida could replace citrus with cattle because grass grows here naturally, all year long, whereas western ranchers graze cattle, where there is less than 15 inches of rain a year. They are creating a desert the same way the Sahara was created.

My trip across the country recently 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. Already bad money is deriding the concept all across the lamestream modern media. Of the benign concept of sustainability.

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. I got your systemic coercion right here.
How many natural brooks and streams have become culverts and ditches during the expansion of suburbs in America? ALOT! 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 might think nothing of wiping us out in another one of her mass extinctions.

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

       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 in watersheds than a whole town of people could produce in a whole year. The demand for plastics is projected to grow 30% in the next five years. We can't seem to stop poisoning ourselves.

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

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

Our goal should be to prevent doomsday, not stall it, or as Blink-182 puts it, "let this train wreck burn more slowly." The Coming Credit Collapse will clear the path for the final industrial and military destruction of what's left, that's any good. This is what I mean when I say the Final Slaughter. Corporate bankruptcies and resource depletion will be our grandchildren’s birthright, instead of happiness. Do you want those unborn to be a pool of workers to pay off bank, insurance, automaker and city government bankruptcies? Workers of the 21st century will be a herd of toilers for the business giants, industrial tyrants and government pensioners, particularly military pensions in this CURRENT socialist military sphere many depend on.

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

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 would vote better than what we got now. It's all about the vote and these people would vote for the working people unlike currently, where our lawyer infested justice system favors corporate interests.
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.

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 workers.

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

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

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. Unfortunately, in that scenario, tyranny would fill the social vacuum. Techno-goons imposing martial law as World War Three 3 breaks out. A virulent, pernicious and avaricious evil strain of greed has subsumed capitalism. communism is a chalkboard utopia that could only lead to authoritarian cronyism.
The degradation of the earth continues at an alarming pace. Nature’s dirge will become more apparent in time. Cyclical disasters in nature will happen and I expect more are to come since pollution affects the atmosphere more than we want to admit, and taking natural gas and oil out of the deeper depths of the earth may have affected the tectonic plates and underground water quality.

Minerva going over stuff with Ben franklin

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

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

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

We see the beginnings of this with the empty store shelves. Why I am getting involved in the food distribution process. Moving surplus between bioregions is going to be a job.
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 new roads are built exclusively for trucks. Rural hubs where people can gather and where jobs will be made. I mean, an American autobahn would be interesting and vitally necessary in the vast open Interstate highways of the west. Vegas to Denver. 90 miles an hour limit.

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

       Try to be a pedestrian these days! It seems unbelievable that practically any moron can drive 8,000 pounds of automobile 50 miles per hour about two feet away from where you are walking or where your child is bicycling. Just something wrong here. America seems unconcerned about the general welfare that was promised in our Constitution.

The predatory capitalist system went through its first death throes with investment companies in 2009. This gets my goat because what do companies like AIG produce? Toothbrushes? Bicycles? Furniture? Lettuce? ...nothing, only more paper income for those that already have enough.                Yet they needed to be bailed out or "the entire economy could collapse?" The parasite economy not the working class economyWe will be shocked and grossed as Big Business begins the final bamboozling and the good people of America won't be able to stop it.

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

The Community Product and Service Exchange wants to join the movement toward more farmers markets. For many centure

ies people could set up at local markets for free. A shared area was a common principle. Today in 2024, everyone has to pay $2000 a month just to rent a place. Market Socialism will create more common areas so people can set up for free. There will be lots of jobs in a small business economy. Local jobs without a long commute.

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 500,000. 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 and then allowing war without end.

. 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 behemoths rule the roads. Why not a 550-pound vehicle to carry that same person? Wouldn’t it use less fuel? Wouldn’t we all be safer? Why are 1,000 bicyclists killed each year? It’s those damn death wagons. Driving a bicycle is simply too dangerous with these cars are driven by the barely witted, careless, half-awake, stressed American worker.
B      DUST BOWL OR MARKET CRASH?

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

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 of this is how General Motors bought up trolley lines back in the 40's and 50's, only to close them down and tear up the tracks so they would never be used again. My little hometown had electric trolleys but they were paved over. Bought to be buried.
                         I'm reminded of the Petroleum Plot the other morning when I went jogging. There was no air movement and it was humid. A neighbor started their car and drove by, the exhaust cloud clung to the ground longer than usual, and the stinking smell of exhaust was disgustingly distinct as it hugged the ground. Multiply this by millions of cars for the past 60 years. Even if cars aren't contributing to global warming, they are still polluting. We allow toxic filth because we just don’t quite care enough.
                          Oil companies want to drill for oil in a wildlife refuge to satisfy those who want it all and want it now. Drill Drill Drill. To many people, this Republican Party mantra of 2012 was quite chilling.
                         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 infamous Dust Bowl was made. How was the Sahara created you asked? A medium size desert was there. (Like we have out west) but North African tribes farmed and dammed the few rivers of Northern Africa thousands of years ago, and they dried up during a long-term cyclical drought.

Diversion of water, too much cattle and goats grazing and then more soil erosion as the trees in that formerly semi-arid area were cut down for firewood or fences. No conservation advice in the bible/Like today where cattle are fenced in and hikers are fenced out. Todays ignorance is not without precedence. We have cattle grazing the semi-arid lands of the West and that’s absurd.
The last 100 years have seen our taxes go to damming of rivers for cheap electricity and to pay for western farmers to water their crops by building giant irrigation facilities, while putting the small family farm in the 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 then, 2030, 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”

-3-2- GHOST NETS

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

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

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

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

Tuna is probably the most popular fish to buy and everyone had to experience Tuna sandwiches as children because of the cheap cost. But how did tuna stay so cheap all those years? Even last year I got 2 cans for a dollar, like it was 1980 or something. Though it was a bit dodgy looking.

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

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

Thank the goddess the kids understand and every generation will be more inclined to a gentle stewardship of the earth, but will it be too late? The biggest nets were banned eventually but a lot of poor practices persist and fishing stocks are severely depleted and we suffer today trying to restore fish populations while the ones who got rich from it are sitting pretty in their big homes and social standing.

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

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

Resisting the Green Dragon is a DVD that describes how environmentalists are taking over the world. Narcissistic patterns continue to emerge.

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 millions of 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 and a piss poor excuse for farming, mineral robbing is rampant 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 boy states. “There’s styrenes and PCB’s and other chemicals created in laboratories that the earth will have to assimilate,” retorted his daughter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Small business, and family companies making money off trees on their properties will be part of our future. People at recycling centers turning trash into recyclables 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 and 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! PSYCHOS!

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

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

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

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

With housing, It has always been a race to beat the developers, and I saw it in Tucson in thelate 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 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 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 worldwidem 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. But EVERYONE needs a proper wage. By remaining silent, you allow that encroaching neo-feudalism while keeping prices low. Your grandchildren will look at you one day, all misty eyed and weary from another 14 hour day at the microchip factory and ask,” Why did your generation just lay down and die, Grandma? How were you so brainwashed, that you couldn’t stand up to coercive authority, and prevent the emergence of corporate theocratic fascism. What shortsighted idiots!. Smart slaves is all we are. Toilers for the rich." "

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

There has never been this many hungry people in the world. There have never been this many homeless people. Don't all lives count? Shouldn't every country have a volunteer population cap? Billions are suffering as the human population skyrockets out of control; women thrown into factories, men working in a near death state in mines. The most 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 as it stands now. 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.

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.

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

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

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

-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 were unable to help during the after math of Hurricane Katrina as one example.

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

YOU CAN DO IT

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

The Greatest Generation allowed this with their inaction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A storm is brewing

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

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

The real Tea Party was about small business striking a blow against Britains corporate control of the colonies commerce. Small business entrepreneurs and their apprentices, along with member of Bostons north and south side gangs were the instigators in the acquisition of liberty. They were the motivating force of the Revolutionary War.

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

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

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 davidbarton and glennbeck wrong.

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

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

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

Apotheosis of George Washington(upper right corner)

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

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

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

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

In 2025 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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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 or longer in the frozen north, remember the Iceman that was found in a mountain pass?

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

grab a green opportunity. Secret Antifa Plan

Detoxify the earth. The Earth Movement. Village Autonomy. The first day of summer showed a lot of promise for the future as people gathered on the road to Lake Matagami in Quebec. Only 2.5 inches of rain per month in this area during July and August, with temperatures between 50 and 75. Sunrise at 4 50 and sunset after 10 at night, it was an ideal summer getaway and the crowds were gathering. Boreal Gathering 2 had exploded far beyond the original gathering in 2025.

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. Where small business clashes with mmonopoliesA 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; and that road goes near St James Bay.

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

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

My idea is to pay for this peace conference complex with money made from a giant desalination complex near the outlet of the Nottoway River that flows into Godfred Bay. Pure iceberg water can be separated from the melting iceberg and sold as gourmet drinking water while the unmelted chunks can be made into Iceberg ice cubes. Call it Carbon Sink Springs Water and sell it in biodegradable corn based containers. These containers are so biodegradable that they can be tossed outside your car window; just like 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. Less salinity at the mouth of the Nottoway River. The building can be made from local trees that are cut down. This can be a port where green technology rules and fossil fuels can be eliminated. Fossil fuels banned above the Arctic Circle.

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

There are way too many unhappy souls in the world and the human population is out of control. There are obvious obstacles in the way of the planets overall quality of life but when will everyone’s vision become action? Can you imagine a world where someone starts a war with a belligerent neighbor and the both of them get interrupted and dragged by the collar to the peace table? I’m suggesting a kind of Bounty Hunter for people perpetuating crimes against humanity and nature; and also a hunter gatherer tribe of modern 21^st century people.

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

These Druddité Rangers can work with the Canadian snowmobile squad, American Navy seals, The Norsemen Brigade, the Artic Mounties, The Polena Rangers, Coast Guard and Greenpeace to bring law to the extractive insanity that is going 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 privately. 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. The little people need protection as we finmally realize we need to fight back in this class war. We need some bad ass enforcers.

If polluters and piratical profiteers win, say goodbye to our Mother Nature. If a technological theocratic Fascist group takes over the world say goodbye to Liberty. Get your low carbon footprint ready to try new strategies. It will never be 2024 again.

The Boreal Forest encircles the globe and has been called the world largest biome. Over on the Russian side of the world is a mirror image of the Canadian and Alaskan Boreal forests. Will corporations be allowed to pillage the resources? We all own this, who sold to all the big corporations and countries like Russia. Forest clear-cutting is going on right now. Recycling should be providing more of our paper products than they do now. But we continue to allow these large corporations to cut down virgin forests for toilet paper and that keeps recycling from being viable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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”

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

Men have always been men, and I can’t imagine many of them willingly going to church, arm in arm with these clean fingernailed con-men preachers. Therefore, Religion held an iron grip wherever they could, even requiring mandatory attendance in the early days of the colonies, but let’s face it, these were tough pioneers who weren’t big on kissing up to these pesky preachers. This country was built with an ax and not a Bible and many were loath to give their hard earned income to the machinations of clergy.

This is why fear has worked so well for over 1600 years; this was how to break the resolve of the peasant. If you saw your church father stringing up Quakers in 1650, you sure as hell wouldn’t be the one that was going to test him. By the 1720's, when hanging Quakers and witches became illegal, these lily livered preachers stridently scared people with Hellfire and doom to hold onto their fraudulent authority. Were most people cowering wimps who had to pray as much as possible to keep demons away? I don't think so.

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

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

de Crevecour writing,

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

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

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

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

But verse 6 continues with the solution to our woes, stating how the meek will someday overcome the evil lying Republicans and the era of greed, 1981 to 2021. Verse 6:12-15 states, "A wicked man goes about with crooked speech (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: (Bannon):therefore, calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.”

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

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

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

Glenn Beck is sadly rewriting history, brainwashing the population and people are bobbing their heads thinking he is such a history expert, but compared to Hofstadter, he’s not much more than a 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 9^th commandment. Spreading lies, half-truths, and defying the spirit of the 9^th commandment while they passed out NObama stickers at Bob Evans.

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

The difference is that today the pitchforks are psychological, and the scars are on the inside. They can’t even become KKK because the Klan is held in very low regard, unlike 100 years ago. There are chritians targeting people for harassment as we speak, or typing to somebody encouraging them to keep buying as many bullets as they can, because fighting for gods honor is going to take a lot of ammunition. Kookbag politicians are still promoting this notion in 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.

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.

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

Richard Hofstadter, “With the end of religious wars and extreme persecution, along with the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism and a more affluent and luxurious life, some of the terror had been taken out of existence. In America, it had not been long since (slaveholder and witch executioner Cotton) Mather had seen the Protestant Vanguard as leading a direct assault on Satan’s wilderness bastion.The cooling of religion could be felt, and men, even clergymen, leaned unmistakably to Enlightenment heresies. A society that was beginning to produce deistical leaders would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including freedom of thought.”

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

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

Here is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times 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.
Get lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots,---Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United States.

-3-8= 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. In 2025, 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. The most successful pyramid scheme.

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…..going on 50 years now.

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 in Poland.

Let’s recall the first trade union in the USSR, Solidarity. Lech Walesa and the first Polish Pope kicked their ass.

Let’s recall that during all this, Pope John Paul 2 was shot on May 13^th 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 who pushed over the first domino. 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.

MYSTORY OF METAL Metal energizes all of rock and roll. My view from the beginning.

-3-9- MYSTORY OF METAL

From thee the river flows

What hath Ozzy wrought?

Heavy Metal, like the ice breaker continues 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 keeps rock and roll alive.

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

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

In 1964, the Beatles entire catalog was being played on the radio and the Instrumental “Cry for a Shadow” broke out of the Pop Music formula as a Beatles instrumental. It was the sound my core was looking for and was all about the guitar. The song managed to make the top forty briefly and I would listen to the radio every hour I could, in order to hear it again. Then it dropped out of the survey like a courtesy flush, and I couldn't believe it. Listening to it these days, it seems like a prototype Blue Oyster Cult song. It was the first song with elements of metal. Convince me I’m wrong.

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

Garage Rock has always been the birthing ground for metal, poor-ass motherfuckers out to create a noise louder 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 wakeup call to Americans to have a counter revolution as another British Invasion began, led by Black Sabbath.

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

Alice Cooper, MC5, Blue Cheer, the Stooges, were some of the notable American bands that were active when Sabbath came on the scene, and there was a genre busting fray in the early seventies. Cream Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix certainly have metal songs, but Sabbath took 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. He learned the difference between Iron Fist and Iron Maiden. Then Guitar Hero came out in November 2005(7?) featuring all the great metal works of the past. Probably the best game ever invented.

These eight year olds grow up and become dudes and get obsessed with one interest or another. I let my boys flow where they wanted though made it known my disgust for some bands such as (I can't say. Misogyny and Violence suck out loud. 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.

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. For many of us Deep Purple is metal.

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 rock and roll and 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 bass drum sound.

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

We are the Metalloids, magnetized by the Metal and the searing melodic screaming guitar is our siren call. 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. Today, Bubba is buddy-a brother and it;s been shortened to Buh.

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

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

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

I liked Jazz and Classical and still do, but once favorite songs became classic rock and were played too much, they 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 in the Valley Girls of California.

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

Libertarian Anarchists, we thought the Vietnam War was the greatest lunacy of all time. We understood the Hippie Culture 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 in the 2000's. We could have been restructuring this country instead of destroying others. Much of metal is anti-war.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Love Generation of hippies found out that what they really loved, and that was money. 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 brainwashing and still walk outside of the civilized circle.

Vietnam was about manufacturing weapons and tanks and jet fighters and machines. Imagine the empty soul that sends someone's son to a war without end. The dark 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 continue to propel rock and roll into the future, an enduring genre and perhaps the greatest art form ever created.

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

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Proud to be Progressive

    Where do progressives get their name from? Progressive has come to mean many things, but the reformers from the Progressive movement of 1890 to 1915 brought the world into our modern era. Work site safety, decent wages and a more reasonable number of hours worked was the focus.

The immigrant wave of Europe (1870-1890), had provided corporate factory owners with cheap labor in those industrializing decades. The Progressives created child labor laws and improved school systems because the children who were working in Christian (read that Protestant) owned factories, began going to school during the Progressive Era, and the second American Revolution began. Many more people began reading books other than the Bible, and thusly the Dark Ages ended once and for all.  Improvements in Interior lighting led to a book boom.

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

(fix this for gods sake) Progressives encouraged invention and innovation and science, while bible thumpers kept insisting that indoctrinating people with Adam and Eve as truth 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. This was the Progressive Era, not the Liberal Era. Note that Liberals are fond of taking Progressive accomplishments as their own.
Left to their own devices, big business will pay as little as possible for safe working conditions and not give a whit about the sustainability of raw material, and make safety a priority, only when forced by legislation. This is repeating itself today.

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

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

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

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

Canada wins the gold

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Republicans inability to balance a federal budget since Eisenhower is not mentioned enough. Republicans are good at breaking things and bloating budgets but have not balanced the federal budget within the lifetime of many alive today. They try to take credit for the Clinton Prosperity, but they had nothing to do with it. It was a cheeky optimism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Child labor laws were passed, and small business was going strong and the Federal Tax System had yet to arrive during the Progressive Era. Good hearted people fought back with results. It began in 1890 with the big Carpenters strike. It ended in 1920 as women were finally allowed to vote and then Prohibition and the Roaring 20's emerged. The federal tax system got its foot in the door and is now the elephant in the room controlling our economy with its endless loopholes for corrupt business. The White Collar criminal class has taken over and Progressives intend to get our economy back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-3-11- THIS IS THE FOLK MAGIC

We are at a crossroads here in the 21^st century with magic, environmentalism and the future of pagan religions. Pagans are the throbbing heartbeat of the earth lovers, despite their small numbers. I call it Dark Green Renaissance, with a nod to Derrick Jensen and the DGR, Deep Green Resistance, 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 their 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."

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, a feeling of joy of cardinals making a nest directly overhead. The delight in seeing one colorful pollinating insect after another as you stroll through the garden. Living in a created moment.

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

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

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

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

100 black candles have yet to plant a tree.

I’m telling you right now that ecosystem stewardship should be the main emphasis for Pagans. 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 so I ended up calling myself a non-ceremonial Pagan.

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

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

If you’re not christian, you must be of the devil. This is the basis for the faith-based genocide by Europeans of the Native Americans. They were viewed as Pagans, pure and simple; and yet today they don’t call themselves Pagan to honor their part in the history of Pagan civil rights. In the past I had been calling myself agnostic, when I wasn’t an atheist, and now I realize many “agnostics” are actually Pagans. Let’s drop the snobby pretensions and accept that every phase of thought and gradation of belief we have across this American Prism of Freedom can be viewed as Progressive Eclecticism. My people.

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

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

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

Back to our main topic, and that’s magic. First, forget card tricks and being sawn in half, we know that isn’t magic but snarky parlor tricks. As I’ll explain, the traditional meaning of magic is simply working with the forces of the earth and universe. I believe that earth lovers looking into Paganism are put off with the ceremonial excess they see and 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 your superpowers and the phrase “getting in the zone” is the best some of us ordinary folk can manage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=3=12-BROOMSTICK TO THE EMERALD CITY

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

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

The spirit of the American Revolution is not about restrictions and punishment, but the pursuit of happiness, and for the most part people were obliging, gentle, kind and industrious. This country was built with an ax and not the Bible as some contend, and this negative and reactionary force has been trying to hijack this country since the European 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 in store to achieve full equality.

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

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

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

Witches as a rule have great empathy.

When I first started researching on the internet witches were the most obliging and knowledgeable. Despite all the positives I have observed in witchcraft, they are still viewed as demonic which frustrates Witches, Wiccans and Pagans to no end. Hollywood doesn’t help with all its shootin' fire out they hands.

And I mean witches not Wiccans. Wiccans, I don't know no offense, but they are a little doctrinaire and snobby like dinner party liberals. I tried to start something called The Pagan Reform Temple to unify all the solitaries.
Full tolerance is necessary and acceptance is coming around the bend. People can't just turn the other cheek and shake it off any longer because they can't remain invisible forever. 1628 years is long enough and that calculation is derived from 395 AD when Paganism was banned in the Roman Empire. Straight out persecution since then.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Time to do some adulting, yo.

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

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

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

As the boomer generation reached school age, many of us were puzzled and disgusted that a race of people had 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.) Its quite possible Paganism can be banned in the near future.

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

I'd like to quote Phyllis Curott and her book, The Book of Shadows. She discusses the Masons. ” The Masons arose from a magical and intellectual lineage, and it was their revolutionary brotherhood that founded the United States. They believed in the brotherhood of man, the existence of a divinity, and the immortality of the soul. Many of the treasured secret rituals of the masons reflected those of the Goddesses at Ileuses and Delphi, and the most overt symbols decorate our flag, dollar bills, and seals of high office. Often these days as right wing politicians and conservative Christians appropriate history for their own exclusionary political ends, they assert that we were founded as a Christian country. In fact we were founded by magicians as an astounding political experiment, reflecting their equally insurgent and ancient spirituality.”

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

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

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

-3-13-= TAROT FOR NEWBS

August 26th. 2012 in Witchvox

A true total explanation of hpw to use the Tarot cards. I created a simple explanation and procedure eschewing some unnecessary stratagems that exclude the common person from using the Tarot. The Tarot is for everyone i insist. A w

The origin of the Tarot goes back thousands of years, and tarot may have even had its origins in Egyptian history. Maybe, even the cave painters; the mammoth hunters, began drawing its earliest symbology with the 32 symbols paleontologists are finding in caves.

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

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

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

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

Part 2:

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

Don’t damage them or bend them in half, it influences your outcome; even if you try to ignore that bent or marked card, your Zemyna (favorite goddess) , spirit guide or angel knows that you still see it in your subconscious. Their doing n AI shuffle figuring out outcomes with every possible cut of the deck.

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.

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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 by Terry Donalsonsays 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 article and fold it up in their present. Get them a deck they will be able to use and, happily, most decks have books to go along with them. If not, order Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis. There are so many interesting tarot decks, so find some books you feel comfortable with.

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

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. It was copyrighted but no one seems interested in my writing content.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 and the twisted carrots that find their way into the word salads that characterize 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. All right, time to learn a new language.

DRUDDOCCITAN

Code to salvation

AARGBALLS see Sam half-face

ACABAR to finish

AGHAST Excuuuuse me!

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 were 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 Younger Dryas Period ended, moderate temperatures melted glaciers fairly rapidlywater 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 and all that chaos 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.

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.

BOMBASTICS EGO DRIVEN, sometimes RELIGIOUS, mind control freaks

Bonjorn
Bon vèspre GOOD AFTERNOON
Bonser Good evening

Boreas 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 from 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 a 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, another endangered species.

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. Did 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 in the Drudd Scouts

COLONIAL FORECLOSURE Call you a witch, and while you are in jail, they take your property. You heard me.

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 Dear Death there is a dearth of deer in the desert.

DEXSIUA 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.

Fa bela pausa! Long time no see fave greeting

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 Canooks.

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.

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 18 GODFRED 19to 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 rocks at the entrance of the bay.. Christians conquered and named everything after saints, so I 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 we hear a little girl crying, “But mommy I want a plastic Gumby for my birthday.” ‘I’m sorry’ her mother replies ‘but those 20^th 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 20^th 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

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

Strap yourself in for a bracing dose of heresy, the Enlightenment continues to question miracles and magic.

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."

Do we follow the 9^th commandment ……or the 9^th amendment of the Bill of rights, constitution thingy? In the case of white xian nationalist ‘patriots’, the answer is neither.

Here in 2024, 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. That was the promise. A new millenium had arrived.

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 on the other side. 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. 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 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, but I do 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?

We know the followers of Qanon are the real snowflakes. Suddenly around every corner there are communists and demon possessed atheists and god forbid, Liberals. Scary.

Did you know that environmental groups are going to initiate a gigantic die off of humans on the planet? Yep, I heard that at the donut shop, it must be true. Gays and Moslems and immigrants need to be feared and despised, because they are ruining the country. Heard that at Bob Evans today. Oh, and socialists and Marxists of every demonic stripe are running amok, stealing our honor.

Instead of using the 9th amendment to support the effort of people to balance the foundation of authority: and instead of heeding the spirit of the 9th commandment, which says that bearing false witness is a punishable offense, IN HELL, they persistently plunge forward, jettisoning their appalling display of ignorance and broadcasting the fecal contamination of their half-truths.

False witness can be described as making up deceptions to make a person appear sinister, crooked or un-American in the teabag/Qanon rulebook. Gossip and whisper campaigns that bring people down, well, this is what bearing false witness means, but they seem to revel in it. Do not lie about your neighbor or relative, ALWAYS SPEAK TRUTH, this is what the 9th commandment states.

A thousand years after the Gnostics were thrown to the lions and booted out of Christianity, the Cathars and their gnostic beliefs in the 12^th 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.

The Revolutionary dudes of 1776 were ready to leave behind the old world of Europe, the emotional intrigue, and the violence and blood. I guess you can take the European out of Europe, but you can’t take the Europe out of the European. Great Britain had command of 75 countries back in the Empire days.

The horror of the Inquisition was still fresh in the 18th century minds of the Founding Revolutionaries. The United States of 1790 was something brand new and the world stepped back to watch. As a matter of fact, our founding revolutionaries had no real problem with the Arabs. There was the Treaty of Tripoli in 1791 that said that America bears no ill will to the Arab world and Christian proselytizing about the 'demonic' Islamics would not affect American foreign policy, thereby washing their hands of the actions of the idiot preachers.

These neo-conservative, pulpit pounding republican kooks of 2022 have the audacity to get away with saying that >>>Jefferson, Washington, Paine, Sam and John Adams, Paul Revere and the jovial Ben Franklin along with the serious Israel Putnam, and the spy George Hewes would all be in the Tea Party carrying misspelled signs. I DON'T THINK SO.

I wonder, would these heroes of 1776, the actual greatest generation, gleefully agree with ridiculous Republican revisionist history that insists that this is a christian country and god needs to be in charge. Not true at all! Youtube is filled with actual quotes of what the Revolutionary Heroes said, and they were quite disdainful of the thoughtless theocratic dunderheads of their day.

Let me tell you something seriously, Mr. Rand Paul and Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter and Newt Romney; according to the definition of Christianity that you pander to, the founding revolutionaries of 1776 are all in Hell burning and choking and smoking, their skin peeling off in layers as god tortures them for having doubts about him and for not believing the priests, preachers, and pastors.

Have no fear kids, I’m not going to hell and neither are you. There is no hell. Little white lie? Hardly, it’s the biggest lie of all time. Top three anyways.

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 him, and particularly in the case of Thomas Paine who called out Christianity’s “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!

For this lack of faith, the boys of 1776 are being pulled apart by elephants and their nails and eyelashes are being pulled out by foul smelling demons and BUSES run over them at least once an hour, while rabid squirrels tear their clothes apart. They can never die, only helplessly watch squirrel fury on their face and then the bus barreling down on them repeatedly like an episode of Outer Limits. "Welcome to hell boys. Ha ha ha." This is the god that the progenitors of Project 2025 want running this country? This is the god they want back in our schools? This is the god that gives us our validation according to glennbeck?

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, is the manifestation of the myth of the Doomsday Hound and was behind Jesus' 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. “So this is Hell,” you say as you look around after you die." Hey, there’s Buddha being waterboarded and Einstein is getting electrocuted," as angels gather around to laugh.

“The smoke of their torment will rise to the heavens,” god snorts as he walks into the scene, “tough love I guess,” he said putting out another cigar….on John Lennon.

You see, I am of a similar opinion that the Gnostics held back around 100 to 200 A.D. They were all about Jesus the Teacher and Healer and couldn’t figure out why chritians were still dragging the old testament around. Jesus only reluctantly pays lip service to the old testament god if you notice. The Paulines ruled the day and their misogynistic obfuscations eventually got Constantine to encode their bullshit in 325 A.D.

Jesus was deified and set aside. Bought to be buried. Like a Hollywood movie.

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? It couldn't possibly be true.

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 their invisible friend as de facto leader of the United States is simply madness. He neither votes nor is a citizen. 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 9^th amendment comes in. The founding revolutionaries tried to implement a complete system of government, but you can’t think of everything. The 9^th 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 16^th 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 and koran became popular books. 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 in 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.

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 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 and would blow it up like they did with the Georgia guidestones..

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 says.

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.”

-5-5- SUBVERTING LIBERTY

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 1750’ and it’s a very accurate pre-revisionist text, and here is a sample quote: “A strain of rationalism was strong in the Anglican Church, and worse still, had given rise to Deism which needed no church at all. 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 effect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including freedom of thought.” Richard Hofstadter goes on to say people were rapidly getting away from organized religion.

“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.

-5-6- OUT OF THE TENT AND OFF THE CHAIN

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 9^th 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 325 A.D., intensifying in 395 A.D. when all hell broke loose; and a murderous, 1600-year Holy Rampage of Conquest to defeat all who oppose the word.

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.

-5-7-

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, 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 22^nd.

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 2024. 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 2024 who make environmentalists the scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the world. Liberals and environmentalists 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.

-5-9- TELESTE

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."

Jane June 27, 2011 10:35 AM

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.

John A Almada

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-

SECTION 13

SECTION SIX

6-1

WEEDS OR WILDFLOWERS

the full first version

Wildlife Value of our Plants

"How much more delightful is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vainglory in destroying it." George Washington

a) Unitarian Earth Day

b) It's not a dinner party y'all

c) planting for looks, not wildlife

d) LAURA RIDING JACKSON

e) the single seed

f) Integrated Pest Management

g) Unitarian Universalist Plant Inventory

h) gratitude reverence and care

i) trees need to be forests, not baseball bats

j) the invisible plastic of the Green Industry

k) Kevin the Turkey

l) Back to the UU

a) UNITARIAN EARTH DAY

27th Ave and 16th Street.

Always a lively presentation of Issues and fresh perspectives during the service on Sunday. Then a bodacious coffee hour afterwards with the nicest people in Vero.

Earth Day is on the way, it's always on the way, and people at the UU like to say, let's make every day, Earth Day.
Okay, let’s do that.

This is specifically for the Unitarian Universalist site, but also an overview of the Route 60 corridor, and the new Laura Riding Jackson historical home.

I'm here to help you save a site from becoming a biotic dead zone. Are UU properties around the country filled with food for the many forms of wildlife? From the Common Toad to the Nematode to the American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis?

UU charters talk about "reverence, gratitude and care" for all of nature. But my observation is that the property on 27th and 16th is not wildlife friendly.

"everyone wants to park in the shade ..."

This presentation is a fresh perspective on how to be part of the ecosystem. How to turn your yard or civic facility into a garden that would be useful for birds, butterflies and pollinating insects and a safe harbor for all life, and the pollinators for EVERYONES fruits and vegetables.

I'm also setting out to show you that the Green Industry has been all about making money, utilizing gasoline by-products to make that money. It has never been about creating habitats in our yards.

I remember when Flower Time ravaged the small nursery businesses all across New England. Hundreds ... thousands of small business livelihoods were crushed. Eventually Lowes and Home Depot came to dominate the horticulture sales market as small business America was paved over to make way for corporate dominance.

Market socialism can't compete with capitalist monopoly. Craftsmanship and customer service were once the hallmarks of small business America. Mom and Pop shops were the anchors of this, Market Socialism. There were the common street markets where you didn't pay to set up. America sold its soul for low prices. We had it going on once upon a time.

Ye Anciente Warehouse

Everyone wants to park in the shade, but no one wants to plant the trees. How did trees manage for millions of years without Joe's Landscaping and big bags of fertilizer? Let's try and figure that out.

"sometimes you have to walk in that ring all alone" Billy Joel

The intention of the new Atrium Garden at the UU property was to bring the indoor Green Sanctuary idea, to the outdoors. As a result, there are always at least ten plants blooming or fruiting in the Atrium, all year long.

It is not designed to be pretty and orderly like a gated community entrance, but wild and spontaneous with blooming flower and leaf displays that change and evolve. It is never the same, it is always changing. This form of garden design creates cognitive dissonance. People don't get it.

It seems that there are sedate and stately people that like static landscapes. Get the best look and don't change it all, EVER. Call it a winning formula, but a closer look at reveals it is a conglomeration of biotically useless exotics. Singularly useless plants to the thousands of species looking to eat and multiply.

The one large Simpson stopper in the Atrium had more fruit to offer than the entire Memorial Garden. Once the fruit ripened it was gone. The birds are in there at 4 in the morning. Flying in and feeding. Hopping around looking for insect appetizers. People are not making the connection between the nature shows they watch and what nature could potentially be right outside their door.

The two feature plants I bought 13 years ago for the Atrium, were a White Indigoberry and the Simpson Stopper. Big $60 plants. They are still there, and they both have had seedlings growing nearby and fruit taken by birds. For the wild life, there is literally more to eat in the Atrium than the remainder of the property. The Marlberry was chock full of juicy purple berries recently, and is now currently flowering.

The Mockingbird Plant is a controversial native that has Orange Berries at the moment and has had them most of the summer. Controversial because it is also considered an invasive pest. One of these is enough, if it has babies, I pull them out and toss them in the garbage, like the way they do with male chicks at the Egg house.

I'm trying to educate people about weeds and wildflowers these days and I'm looking for cooler indoor situations to make some income. Don't know how many Florida summers I can survive. Then it occurs to me, sure, the UU site is a wasteland for nature, but are there any local places that emphasize about wildlife first? ... prosaic ...formulaic ... everywhere you go.

I went to the Unity Church once to look at the Labyrinth, and that was interesting. Down the street a half mile from the UU site, I'm suddenly wondering about the wildlife value of the plants on the property. I should go and visit to REALLY look at what they are offering wildlife besides a labyrinth. Driving today I see another church near 12th that had Hawthorns. Hawthorn hedges. Everywhere. Once the safe, reliable(boring lifeless) and highly recommended plant to use, it turns out to be junk for nature.

You betcha the nurseries have been selling the shit out of this plant. They want sales,

In fact, it would be a fun idea to start rating sites for their wildlife value all along the Route 60 corridor. Yes, I think I'll do that.

Reverence, gratitude and care,

does not plant a fruiting shrub.

Looking around the Unitarian Universalist property on 27th Avenue, I see Arbicola, too many of those Hawthorns, non-native Eugenia, and ...literally... nothing that wildlife can use in 1000 linear feet of hedge. That's a real shame.

The Bougainville in the first grass parking lot is climbing the Oak again and will look good when it starts to flower, but this South American plant has no value for pollinators here in Florida.

Then there's the Memorial Garden upgrade and I need to question if the result was good or not. In my opinion, the wild coffee hedge planted by Jim, around the electrical box, has more wildlife value than all the new Memorial Garden plants put together. Fast growing 👸exotics have replaced the natives.

I had something going on there, as I was able to add plants for no cost, culling from native plants at other sites. Probably 12 to 15 species of native plants were removed from the memorial garden. As Weeds. You know. Unstructured. Wild. The garden was always changing. Why would you want to have it look the same year after year? And hedges that look more like walls. Recall build that wall.

My only protocol was to keep the Chalice visible from the street and parking lot. They were good looking natives to those who have been on forest trails and have seen real life Savannas, but to some it was wild and disorganized. This isn't the John Island Clubhouse, y'all. Lighten up.

Scorpion Tail slowly multiplies so when a plant got old, I would just toss it out and manage the ones that were left. Native plants regenerate, and so after 13 years there were virtually no costs to the congregation for the Memorial Garden but for my pay.

I'm objecting to people, "volunteers," randomly pulling all plants on several sites and it's about time to make my objections known. Probably about time to seriously look at outdoor policy. I remember Harry installing all the downward facing lights. Wildlife friendly so it lights up where people walk, not in every direction skywards. That was a green move.

Gaillardia keeps popping up on one site, but the "palm guy" keeps pulling them out as weeds. You know, how many times am I supposed to turn the other cheek to this reckless and thoughtless wildlife subsuming activity? People know more about their Keurig's and Cuisinart's, than they do about the outdoors.

I designed the Annex Garden at the Sebastian Town Hall and it has been self-replicating since 1999. Today the only costs are the time spent pruning the two hedges by town workers. These alternative hedges were there to show people that there is a much wider variety of plants if you include native plants. It doesn't have to be Hawthorn or Arbicola or exotic Eugenia.

Wildflowers bloomed year after year without being re-planted! They re-planted themselves. Bunnies Tortoises and birds were attracted to this new garden outside the door of the Sebastian Engineering Department, where people got all their permits.

Blue Love Grass.

Imagine that this happy little plant was pulled out as a weed! Twenty of them! This is Arbicide, considering how long it took to grow these fucks from seed in the Atrium. 5 years of getting them to seed and breed. I moved them out from the Atrium as they got old enough. This WAS the outdoor Green Sanctuary idea in action. Reverence, gratitude, care and pride have still not planted a fruiting shrub.

From time to time in the memorial garden I would add bags of peat humus and other soil amendments to the plants. Maybe buy a couple bags of mulch now and then to neaten the look up. Sporadic use of mulch enhances the soil. Heavy use results in caking, runoff and fungus problems.

But blame the leaves.

So I had a good thing going on there with wildlife in the Memorial Garden. Did someone see a spider and get scared? A healthy ecosystem has thousands of spiders per acre.

Where did the initiative for a sterile, lifeless entrance garden come from? Someone who wanted it to be pretty, and not to be wild? To be like grandmas plastic covered couches. "I'd rather you not sit on them, dear."

Not long ago you would see many Butterflies in the garden. Dragonflies, Spiders. They're gone.

some people see weeds, but nature sees food. Now the nature is gone.

One problem is increased pruning time with the newly planted Firebush, Green Gem, and Plumbago this summer. Taking time away from the fall pruning of the Atrium. Oh and Kentia Palm, Bouganvilla, Thryallis and the other new plants offer zero food for bees, butterflies, insects and all the little soil creatures. Always in need of pruning too.

The completely wrong plants were placed in the Memorial Garden. Where was the Outdoor Green Sanctuary Committee on this issue? There is no committee.

No pollen no nectar no fruit. Just big showy flowers for people that can't design past color and placement. Well, there's supposed to be big showy flowers on the new dwarf ultra flowerific Hibiscus! I felt that Memorial Garden die. Everything that gave it life was gone, replaced by the life-deadening plants from all around the world.

I showcase in blue letters above and below so you can research for yourself. I'm recommending everyone to take a look at what these "professionally designed" landscape designs offer wildlife in Florida.

Also, check the plant list of what was planted and see what is still alive. I mean who would plant Begonias in May? I looked at them and went 'sorry ... not coming back three times a week to keep them alive'.

1985 called and they want their hackneyed designs back. I was intending to help people advance their knowledge of the plants in the world but peoples brains are wired from all the Scotts fertilizer commercials that called for killing all the bugs in your soil.

There is a distinct link between what I am up against at the church and also the newly moved Laura Riding Jackson historical home. The problem are the rookies to Florida. A Master Gardener from Indiana and an amateur poet from South Dakota. They want pretty, I want the bugs life.

I see how many plants were planted from May onwards and it's like raising children, I guess. Sometimes they have to learn for themselves.

Gaillardia is a great native plant. But at LRJ they bought some cultivar with big puffy blooms and groovy new colors. Gaillardia 'glitter pony rose' or something. Looked great in May and June when school was out, and being the beginning of summer, no one visited the garden. Looked great and no one saw them, but they are gone. Just poof. They shit the bed.

Oh, by the way, round these parts, stakes are tacky. One gardening standard I use is a plant shouldn't need to be staked. Vegetables sure, not native plants. I suggest we take it off the tree Hibiscus in the Memorial Garden. New Rule. No plant should have a stake after surviving two summers in Central Florida.

The tree Hibiscus is one of the plants that are hiding the Chalice. Also, I'm having to pull the hose out far more often now, which is even more time expended. What a long summer it's been. The Atrium continually flowering and fruiting while the Memorial Garden is doing what. To water these new Hibiscus' planted right in the middle of the hottest area in that garden. They look like shit after a summer of extreme sun and heat.

So yeah, at the UU, take a look at the $1700 planting list for the Memorial Garden, and check and see how they are doing today. At the LRJ Historical home, I recommend that nothing gets planted after the April bar-b-q. Our big event to conclude the season and Summer is right around the corner. I saw SO MANY things at both sites getting planted and knowing lots of money got wasted. By people who have spent barely anytime here in the summertime. I just survived my 33rd summer here btw.

As gardeners we don't play around here in Florida. Vanity projects usually don't survive the summer. We have 358 sunny days a year, and up in Indiana and South Dakota they have like, 86. IT'S NOT THE SAME HERE!

I converted the memorial garden to native plants that I planted and grew, as mentioned, while keeping all the plants from the original hackneyed design, and I filled in spaces, leaving plenty of lines and curves in the beds. Always changing, it was the opposite of a static, unchanging, lifeless design. Plants that I knew from 33 years in Florida, that could take the sunny conditions of the Memorial Garden. Now I have to watch all these "pretty" exotics die from six months of extreme heat and humidity.

Plants I didn't charge the congregation for, but worthy plants I get rootlings from at usually no cost. I move a lot of plants around. This is how you garden in the green way. "gardening adds years to your life, and life to your years." The green Sanctuary outdoors, remember? The Memorial Garden went from a barely negligible carbon footprint to gross excess per square foot.

How many new plants? All those plastic pots went where? 200 bags of mulch. People tell themselves mulching helps in many ways, but there are those gasoline by-products again. 200 empty bags of mulch is like 1000 ziplocks. No recycling them either. The Green Industry is a notorious user of fossil fuel based containerization.

Then there's the pelletized fertilizer.

GREENHAMMER: THE GARDEN GREEN (thegrimoireofgreenhammer.blogspot.com)

One of my e-z gardening methods is to establish small native plants, and they naturally grow slowly (well, maybe not Fiddlewood and some others), but mostly they are slow growers. So, as a consequence, there is much less pruning time, en todo.

Hog Plum (wildsouthflorida.com) This has been pulled out two years in a row in the memorial Garden. It has come back another year defying the pulling of it in its previous two eradications. Ironic that I have to take care of all these time consuming, non-native plants while tenacious useful natives get torn out.

Look at what was planted and check to see what is still alive. It was pretty frustrating to not have an input into the plans. I will be noting very vociferously as to what happens to this innocent looking Hogplum in the coming weeks.

In support of my Hogplum, I wrote this on one of the pride flags. "I am not a weed, I am a useful native plant that has scented blossoms and large fruit for wildlife.

Never mind the hackneyed choices in the Memorial Garden, there is no plant diversity at all on the entire property. Quite a few Oaks, but they are always stressed and most of their roots are under the parking lot. They are constantly dropping leaves as a consequence, and besides, they are Laurel Oaks that grow too fast, too quick. The Live Oak can easily live 200 years while the Laurel Oak only lasts 50-60 years, and sometimes much less. Big impressive trunks make people enthusiastic about the fast growing Laurel Oak at first, till the roots start buckling sidewalks and parking lots.

We did discuss today after the Zoom meeting whether they were Live Oaks or Laurel Oaks. Also Dahoon Holly are looking good. After seeing how well they were doing in Sebastians planting and parks plan, I suggested them as replacement for the rapidly declining Oak population. It was noted there are two more dead Oaks that need to be removed.

The Emerson Center seemed unwilling to let ten parking spots go natural and let these Oak roots breathe? So they had to be covered with asphalt? That the congregation paid for? Every space needed for sold out shows? Is this what other UU congregations do? Maximize parking and too bad for plant health? One of those, not-very-green moves I'd say.

How badly do they need those last ten spots? I suggest making these spaces for bicycle and under 49cc parking only, with a way to lock up bicycles. A pole with holes in it. But how could we work around the ever expanding, above ground, root mass? Or should we continue parking on these Oak Tree roots and covering them in tar?

This might be a good way to encourage conservation among the congregation. Green Sanctuary outdoors! Hey look guys! We are closing 10 parking spots to make parking available for less polluting vehicles. Reverend Scott would sometimes drive ten miles on his bicycle before work. He knows how to get out and be in nature. But I'm of the opinion he drove more miles than the entire congregation combined, and I'm not counting his cross country miles for hunger. Where are the conservation efforts? What are UU's across the country doing to enhance nature?

The idea of the Green Sanctuary outdoors might be puzzling to some people. There is a need to go beyond recycled toilet paper and dimming the lights. That's tokenism. Then thinking the problem is solved which is self-delusion.

I'm not convinced this panic to switch to electric cars is warranted either. How about conservation? How about drive less? Quality miles. More school and work from home. Build a transportation and Infrastructure to accommodate many types of smaller, cleaner modes of transportation.

Let's lead by example. As Jimmy Carter wanted to do, conservation alone could cut down energy usage by 25%. Unfortunately, Obama and Biden enthusiastically promoted fracking to keep the price of gas low. The Military Industrial Complex needed a gazillion gallons of gas to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, so Boomer stocks were booming! They were going to be millionaires after all!

And OMG. Do you realize how much mining and toxic waste is going on with EV's? You're being bamboozled again. This is about the faux green industry that thought money was the greenest of all greens.

The Emerson Center needs every single space on the property for events? Reserve 20 seats in the front rows for bicyclists only. Do something dramatic. Two years now, and I have yet to see a bicycle hooked up to Scott's bike rack. Or as a volunteer parker, where are the people who walk in for a concert? I don't remember seeing any. Lots of nice cars though. People who can pay $150 to see famous bands with no original members.

UU's should be encouraging conservation in every aspect of life, and I'm just not seeing it.

How are these suffering Oaks getting nutrients with 90% of their roots covered by Asphalt? Mysterious deaths? Not really.

Laurel Oaks are known to be quick growing, weak and short lived. Dropping dead branches among other problems, I would love to know how much has been spent in the last ten years taking care of these trees. These kind of short-sighted mistakes can be prevented.

SOOOOO....

Do we want to make a long term plan now or 20 years from now?

As it's said, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. Luckily, two very small American Elms were planted six and twelve years ago respectively, and are growing quite large with a very minimal effort. A little watering when they were little and now they are 16 and 24 feet, respectively. They started as $3 wholesale 1-gallon trees. This is Green. The Garden Green.

This is the green sanctuary. To use as few resources as possible, for the desired green effect. Right?

An already large Live Oak, was purchased for $300 by an Administrator about five years ago and is now worth around $1300 if you were to sell something like that in its current size. The Live Oak was planted at the eastern end of the grass parking area near the entrance, and I ask you, where else can you get that kind of return on your investment? 433%. Where's the tree planting plan and planting for wildlife initiative? Do other UU properties have long term plans? I'm really curious now.

This Live Oak should have been pruned in its first few years, but there is only so much volunteer work I can do. I need some Denero in my Sombrero. Also, another problem the Facilities Committee needs to face is the brush disposal problem. We took it up at the last meeting. I'm hesitant to prune the American Elms. Where do I put the branches?

But a timely prune down below will keep the tree from getting in the wires in 5 or 10 years. I completely cleaned up the sloppy Bougainville in the grass parking lot, but a pile of branches remain.

I want to prune the Juniper in the Atrium but where am I going to put the branches? It's a logjam at this point and we can't keep leaving piles of brush around the property. The Juniper is 5" DBH and probably has some nice veination for woodworking. I wanted to make a xmas tree out of it, string it up with lights but we need to cut it down. Maybe make some wreaths with the needles.

recent planting of Love Grass at LRJ

Replacing the dead looking Hawthorn with Cocoplum on the north side of the Unitarian Universalist property was a good idea a few years back. Finally, a native Florida plant, and a little variety finally, but the stultifying sameness remains elsewhere on this 4 acre site.

And, unfortunately, the Cocoplum is not being pruned to encourage flower and fruiting. It's pruned across the top, over and over and over zing zing zing, in the same spot and is dying below. Duh. A plant has to be rejuvenated.

It never flowers and fruits as it did naturally the first few years after it was planted. Something that is not done around here is the rejuvenation prune. This is how I take care of hedges without a gas powered trimmer. Cut every fifth branch or so, down below. It rejuvenates from below and more likely to fruit in a year or two.

This current style of pruning is plant torture to me. Instead of the entire plant growing leaves, branches, flowers and fruit, it basically has two inches at the top where it does everything. What's visible to the public is all that counts. Wildlife be damned. This occurs county wide and correct pruning is rarely seen. Plants are a pain in the ass to these profiteers and many plants are ruthlessly pruned to the ground once a year. Ligustrums are pruned like lollipops.

Therefore, I'm making it a volunteer project to carefully and gently revive the hedge by the Ministers and Administrators offices with lots of pictures to show you what I mean. A similar hedge on the west side has died and was pulled out. Can I save this one and then the one on the north side? This looks terrible, but it is the rejuvenation process.

Rejuvenation. Deep cuts spaced out to avoid sun scald. It takes time.

I'm going to explain why good enough isn't good enough. It's why that hedge on the west side of the building was completely pulled. Deader TAF from poor pruning and 4 inches of sand blown up into the bed. Every time I go by the west side I marvel at the pitiful, hackneyed plant choices. Decades of poor landscape techniques all rolled into one. Same old same old. How much has been spent on irrigation the last 20 years to try and keep this unnatural crap alive?

As near as I can tell, there has been no real management of the outdoors at this facility. The central west side has six inches of leaves blown up into the beds and who would plant 30 foot Bottlebrush in a ten foot space? Oh yeah. Showy Pretty flowers but a heck of a lot of pruning the last 20 years and btw, has anyone seen it flower? I think we need an outdoor person to present these problems and perspectives to the Facilities Council.

Someone was going to plant Macho Ferns to replace the, dead from stress, Ilex Schillings on the west side? Who was going to water them? Update. They don't look good yet. They look kind of dead. I'd suggest Ernodea. But those are hard to find, native plants. Expensive, slow growing. Invaluable to wildlife.

When you think about it, how many birds do you see on the property? Not very many, and I spend 12 to 15 hours a month outside on the property, which is more than anyone else, I'm sure.

The entire Route 60 corridor has had no real plan for feeding and sheltering wildlife either, and landscaping in Indian River County leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to planting for nature, so don't feel bad. The art of gardening has been totally lost in this area; $90 an hour landscape architects, who live far from here, can be held responsible, and nurseries and garden clubs need to be called out for the plastic waste and the hackneyed designs they produce.

Enormous plastic waste and selling inappropriate plants from the other side of the world purchased by people from up north with their notions on what Florida should look like.

b) It's not a dinner party y'all

The Laura Riding Jackson house was moved from the nutrient-rich semi-scrub in Wabasso to the Environmental Learning Center in the 90's. ELC as its known. Then ELC went private or something and LRJ was told their lease was up. That was 2019. Somehow, it was arranged for this historical home to be placed on a college campus next to a Library. So far so good. This is a one-of-a-kind educational opportunity. At IRSC. Indian River State College.

Luckily Elliot has been on top of keeping the wood of the house from getting degraded. No house, no native plant garden. Drainage in flat Florida is difficult but he got it perfect around the house with an extensive drainage system that allows the water that used to collect under the house to now flow to the canal.

Listen, it's not a Vero Ladies dinner party where we show off our $3000 paintings and $8000 couches. Design, looks & beauty is fine, but you have to deal with the reality that we have lost 50% of our songbirds. Primarily, multitudinous ecosystems were completely over developed, lining the pockets of stockholders (aka boomer retirees).

There is no hoping for the best or sending thoughts and prayers. A fifty percent loss since "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson was published in 1962! THEY STARVED TO DEATH. COULDN'T RAISE THEIR FAMILIES.

On your watch Boomers. WHERE DID ALL THE BIRDS GO?

People aware of the outside world are also talking about an insect apocalypse, but unfortunatly not as much as they talk about pride. Insects can't lobby legislators with their inherited money, or demand facetime in the media pleading for equality. So the birds and insects are stuck with people like me. Pulling my hair out at the LRJ site that had already planted Wedelia, a horrible pest plant. What designer in Florida could possibly suggest this? Then saying WTH when the "garden committee" proposed to plant Rattlebox, Cardboard Palm and worst of all, more Lantana Camara. 1983 called. They want their hackneyed and platitudinous designs back.

The local Native Plant Expert told me the facility has been told to pull out the Lantana camara at this site, so we'll see, they are going for looks. Best I can do is point out it is a major pest plant. Or maybe I'm just prdjudiced against the plant.

So far the Tortoise guy, the county Extension Agent and I presume Janice Broda have advocated for the same things I've been advocating for in their presentations. Things like allowing the Sabal Palms to flower and fruit since they are the anchor to our Indian River Bioregion. Over 150 species use our state tree in one way or another. This why the fruiting stems have not been pruned. Mockingbirds are delighted. I often see them flying from the high peak of the house and into the Palms. Some of the taller palms have dead in them and look sloppy, even to me, so I'll try and get them this week.

Come on guys. Not the same old, same old. Thinking they are planting native but It's not a dinner party. I've worked on the barrier island for 33 years now and met some wonderful people, but it really is about the look. About what you got. Not saying it was wrong; everyone was bamboozled when it came to the pretentious. safe landscaping. Lots of plants. Hundreds of plants unloaded every day at johns siland. "helps the environment".

Real gardeners want to see some wild and free material. Knowledgeable botanists want to see variety. Some really nice labelling going on at LRJ. Very educational signage. But I can tell you that these young botanists are good at research and they know their ecosystems. They've been watching wildlife show since they was soiling their britches. Young people that DO ACTUALLY know better, are going to ask some tough questions. 2033 called. Where did all the wildlife go?

Maybe if we all planted fruiting shrubs as a mass American effort we'd all know that we can all get along. And reduce the military to create infrastructure jobs here in the homeland. AND, we don't need to cater to the divisive storm trooper wanna be's of the reich wing. I'm thinking to myself, "Civil War? What the fuck is wrong with you guys?" Are they afraid that Nancy Pelosi is coming to take away their guns with gay soldiers and rainbow helicopters? It's about soldiering now, not male bonding. Or white guy dominance over one and all.

I continue chatting it up about Floridas 4700 Native plants hoping that number sticks into somebodies head wherever I go.

I told the LRJ Garden Committee that the only native Lantana is White because i had some experience with it. At the UU, Our previous minister had me plant a wide palette of native plants in his front yard, since he is an outdoors dude, and 'gets it' when it comes to nature. I planted the native white Lantana at his newly purchased house, and it didn't look like ones that were purchased for the Laura Riding Jackson property. Not even close. I'd gone to many dozens of meetings of the local Native Plant Society and was quite familiar with the species.

Why Cultivars Could Be Problematic (choosenatives.org)

What's going on is people don't quite get it yet. Colorful new varieties "Look a Black Petunia!" Making more work for me, these lifeless cultivars were planted to improve the visuals. So don't put up a sign that says native plants bring life to the garden when you plant the invasive and non-native Lantana, and these lifeless cultivars. White Turks Cap and Bottlebrush. The white Lantana that was planted is just another L. camara. You know the ones experts have advised to be pulled out. Not the native. Lanatana Involucrata — Wild Sage (wildsouthflorida.com)

To take another simple example, I have yet to see a Rusty Lyonia planted by the anyone in this area. Rusty lyonia - Florida Wildflower Foundation (flawildflowers.org) Not seen one in 20 years in business and I've been in quite a few yards. Easily recognized by its brownish fuzzy color underneath.

I had close close proximity to 300 homes at Orchid Island for decades. My adopted hometown. 289 homes built since the Receivership. 1991-4. Not one Rusty Lyonia. No Lyonia species period, out of the five local ones, have been planted, period. But go to the 7700 acre Sebastian Buffer Preserve and Lyonias are in many of the various ecosystems within the park. Uncolonized Florida had them everywhere. Birds love the fruit. Tastes like Key Lime Pie to them.

I'm inclined to buy small for all my designs and got little Rusty the Rusty Lyonia for $5. About 4 inches tall. Well, ten years later, Rusty is all growed up and 12 feet tall and I spend about an hour a year taking care of the plant. Probably less. Prune it so its proportionally pleasing to the passerby. Clip out dead branchlets for looks. This is the big difference compared to all the exotic, architect recommended and popular plants that have absolutely no wildlife value and take up most of the pruning time. Properties I design or manage don't need fertilizer or much pruning, because they grow slow as native plants do. It's like 80% less growth to prune. But that takes planning foresight and knowledge about what works in Florida.

As I point out, the Sea Grape is a great native plant. But the flawed design of the LRJ (Laura Riding Jackson) site has these monstrous 30' x 50' trees planted 3 feet on center and ONE FOOT from the cart path. 😟

In place of what naturally grows well in Florida, these overwhelming exotic and needy plants that are sold by local nurseries, accompanied by hackneyed and formulaic designs that creates these dead zones. They have virtually no wildlife value. So, I want to ask people, what does the migrating bird eat in your yard? In Vero Beach there is so little planted for wildlife.

I'm fixin' to talk some sense to these overpaid landscape architects who only design their derivative designs to pay for their $80,000 pickup trucks. Just like Economists or Marxists --- they take no consideration of NATURE. I want to clarity the peril our ecosystems are in, to people who should know better.

c) Planting for looks, not life.

How do you find a balance
between visual aesthetics, which everyone wants, and wildlife enhancement that people don't understand? Planting as if all the creatures mattered. Are people willing to tolerate a little wildness in their yards and gardens? Is your civic facility ready to shift to native plants?

We will need that wildness to stave off our first brush with insect, animal, and human extinction.

Over ten years ago, it was decided that in order to prevent future flooding problems, much larger drainage pipes needed to be installed in our Atrium at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on 27th Avenue and 16th St.

The old overgrown, non-native plant garden in the Atrium was extracted and all the rats ran hither and yon into the mouths of Black Racer Snakes. All the plants were pulled out as part of the project that included adding an elevator so everyone could have second floor access.

The Atrium garden area was a literal tabula rasa, a blank slate. I did save a Thatch Palm, (not really sure, some kind of Coccothrinax, that looks like a Sabal Palm), and a Firebush, but was given carte blanche to create something new. This Thatch Palm has ironically been targeted for elimination because ...JUMPING RATS ... get on the roof and invade the building by jumping off palm fronds. The Atrium is more amenable to our three local Black Racers and I haven't seen any Mice or Rats in years. That was the old overgrown garden that did that.

The Rain Lily appears after I thought it had died.

An important part of the new Atrium Project was to find plants that could survive rugged situations (full sun and reflective heat) and plants that could also be beneficial to wildlife. How to plant as if Nature mattered in an enclosed outdoor garden surrounded by four walls and no other plants within 50 feet. Yesterday I saw a bigger variety of insects in there than I would see on the entire property.

In the beginning..

tabula rasa

At this point in the planting, a contribution of 50 beautiful, stackable rocks by Al P. was the coup de grace that helped finish the project. I was trying to give the illusion of changing elevation with our overwhelming, flat Floridaness, and with 50 more flat rocks, I stretched the step and made it taller.

All that was left was dead sub-soil, churned up, so 18" drainage pipes could be put in. The new plants were planted with bagged soil and were foliar fertilized eventually with Fish Emulsion. I charged $1350 and managed to get at least 30 native plants in there. Not a purist, I used some exotics for variety.

In place for 13 years now I have spent less than $200 on replacement plants fertilizer and mulch. That's like, $15 dollars a year. I'm telling you I know what I'm doing.

Those dead shrubs on the west side. Replace with Ernodea? But that's none of my business.

Pelletized fertilizer is only a steroid-style burst of nutrients. There was a glitch in the Matrix when a local "expert" told me pelletized fertilizer was basically "nothing but minerals." Well, no, its not. I am still stunned at the lack of knowledge by people that should know better.

The "Green Industry" is the knee on the neck of wildlife.

At the two primary sites I am going to discuss, there has been some similarities. One is the genocide of the life in the soil. First with too much mulch and then at the UU site, volunteers actually raked the leaves before the mulch job at one site. Anyone that knows anything about the science of life, what's that called ...biology or something, knows that life begins in the dead things. Insects that are crawling around brush piles is what birds eat. That's why i leave brush piles at the west end of the LRJ property.

The 25 different kinds of plants currently, creates the diversity of insect life in the Atrium, and this enhances the soil activity from fallen leaves and dead branchlets and this is what has been fertilizing plants along with fish emulsion spray these last 13 years.

In 13 years I haven't purchased any pelletized fertilizer for the Atrium. This Atrium is located 30 feet from the Emerson Center Box Office inside the facility and is visible to the public. So come on over and visit. Take a look.

At 27th Avenue and 16th Street. Box office open weekdays 10 to 3 on designated days till April 2024 or so, selling tickets. Though, it's a real lineup of fuddy duddy bands for people who don't like thinking out of the box for music choices. ABBA cover band. No thanks. Serenades for Squares.

Just think about the billions of animals that have starved to death with all this delirious development in Florida since 1960. Billions of fruiting shrubs like Huckleberry and Blueberry along with fields of Wild Coffee and Simpson Stopper all plowed into burn piles. It was a garden of 'eatin for birds travelling the Atlantic Flyway. Then They Paved Paradise.

Every year there was less and less food for migrating wildlife in Florida as New Yorkers got rich and developed anything they could. It wasn't the garden of eatin' any more here in Indian River County, Florida, as everyone was out to become millionaires.

d) LAURA RIDING JACKSON

In the middle of the last century, Citrus growers were using Arsenic to ripen the crop. This, after many scheduled sprayings of chemicals in the previous months. Had to keep the Citrus skin spotless, right? At least three fungicide treatments for the fruit in that fruit bowl in your kitchen.

Chlordane in your sink drain.

In the eighties and before, chemical spraying was done with schedules. Fungicides, Insecticides and the dangerous herbicide, 2,4d were regularly poisoning the ground and consequently, the groundwater. These sprayings followed a schedule before Indian River County Xitrus was boxed and sent up north. Such pretty fruit, filled with chemicals.

As an aside, I have to bring up the controversy regarding Roundup. As a reliable killer of whatever it was sprayed on, it replaced all the old school, dermally toxic herbicides through the 8/90's. It bio-accumulates hoever and that make Roundup a big problem in waterways, watersheds and anywhere people go fishing. But it's not toxic in the same way the old herbicides were and hardly anyone knows that.

Worse than that, when the tourists and Snowbirds are here, the water tables drop with the excessive usage, and we have saline intrusion from the ocean along with this toxic runoff from chemicals sold at nurseries to these flower crazed northerners. All the solutions for your plant problems ..... that they create ... by selling trendy bullshit to make a buck. Now Roundup is accumulating in the lagoon and that's not cool.

The innocent migrating songbirds were basically being starved and/or poisoned to death during this developer delirium that's been unleashed since 1960. Normalized as progress, it was wildlife genocide. "filling in the swamps" people were told. Bird murder. Some died in mid-air in their frantic search for food. Most yards will waste a birds time in our area with all these singularly useless plants.

Spending too many calories flying from shrub to shrub, looking for fruit, seed or insects. Something, anything!

How does migrating wildlife fare in your yard?

Sad little birds. They just wanted to start a family. Birds may have been here for a hundred million years, but it hasn't increased their lifespan. Many songbirds live less than five years, let them enjoy their life. Leave the poisons unsold on the shelves of the nurseries. (take a poll of the audience to name three plants in their yard and we'uns try to determine their wildlife value)

when it filled in

There are thousands of over pruned plants that never flower such as Jasmine and Ligustrum and Sea Grape in the gated communities I used to work in, here in Vero Beach, are a puzzling imbroglio. Most plants are pruned so regularly, they never get to fruit or flower. Then there are the blanket chemical sprays to kill all the insects. One gated community in particular seems to have virtually no insect life at all, or song birds either.

Through all the geological changes of the past, plants have adapted, and it has always been the birds that spread the seeds during planetary climate change. Now, with perhaps the most abrupt and severe global warming Homo Sapiens have ever experienced, it has become important that we initiate stewardship of the world's ecosystems. Now. Why I'm compelled to do this Fred talk. We start right here in our back yard.

As responsible Unitarian Universalists, we need to be concerned with the interdependent web of life, right? Yet my observation is that I saw more songbirds in my little 80x120 yard ... last week, than I did all last year, on the entire 4 acre Unitarian Universalist property. FACT.

Why it is nearly a biotic dead zone? Because no one realizes it, that's why I'm bringing it up.

Four miles down the road apiece from the UU is the Laura Riding Jackson site on the campus of the local college, and we have an opportunity to educate the public there, also.

Laura Riding had a riotous personality and harbored no sentimentality towards the established order. By WW2 Laura was done with poetry and eventually settled down nearby in Wabasso Florida, to grow organic citrus.

Meanwhile her peers were spraying Arsenic to ripen the Oranges shipped up north. I remember the Indian River County pride in having the best Citrus on the East Coast of the USA. Their famous shipping boxes recycled in places like my parents cellar pantry. Year after year, holding jars of Green Beans. The ideal xmas gift. A box of fruit from Florida.

The Word Woman doing things in her own inimitable way. Hand written notes to customers explaining the occasional spot on her oranges was because she grew Organic and did not use Chemicals. Whoa. Synchronicity. Kind of what I was trying to do at her historical home.

e) "The magic of creation is contained in a tiny seed."

Look at a book with all the Florida habitats and you realize most yards,

do not resemble the wild lands in any way. Landscapes in this area are like flower arrangements at a dinner party to most people. It just has to look good. Very few yards replicate our wild lands and as I drive around town, it's yard after yard filled with useless plants. I am going to try and do what I can to influence people's perceptions of what is really going on. The Green Industry is like a death cult trying to kill off everything. The knee on the neck of nature.

There are scams that arborists and horticulturalists engage in. Nurseries and landscapers are their flunkies. Of course plants from China are going to have problems. I think of Hibiscus, (Vero Beach is the Hibiscus City or something), and I think of all the insects. Pest insects. Huge delicious flowers ... tastes like Cream Puffs to Aphids. As a result of being aphid magnets, Hibiscus pests are sprayed with chemicals frequently. I've seen it. I've been working on the barrier island for 33 years now. I know the scene.

Literally tons of pesticides at Johns Island alone, yearly. Dollar Weed constantly sprayed with Atrazine. Snakes all chased away, so Johns Island developed a big Rat problem. Or they did 10 or 20 years ago. One day I cleaned a shit ton of dead vines off a big trellis. Watching the rats scurry away, I was like, no snakes in this billionaires Eden, but plenty of rats. Rats were making nests in peoples bar-b-q'ers all through the barrier island.

I forgot the old school chemical used to kill Hibiscus pest insects, but I compromised with people when I started taking care of them in their yard, and I sold them on the use of Horticultural Oil. Hort Oil requires repeated applications, but in time it got to feel like putting a square peg in a round hole trying to keep up with Hibiscus pest insects. Enough Hibiscus already. Big flowers heh heh heh.

Once again, Murica, land of the profit. Florida has 4700 different native plants but visit a local nursery and they may have a handful and in many cases, no native plants at all. How did that happen? Are you kidding me? The scam was to get you to spend money. This is like basic science. Asian African and Mediterranean plants are not suited for North America in many cases.

Native Beauty Berries are lauded for their colorful berries, but in central Florida they get fungusy and yellow leaves and can look really bad.

Then there's the pollinator issue. All these college degrees and its never occurred to anyone that European Honeybees are not the only pollinators of Florida's crops. There are 400 native bees. Florida Bees. They hold pollen on their little bodies better than the European Honeybee. This is some wicked tunnel vision, we'd say up in New England. No pollination, no people.

Florida ecosystems are on the ropes and most of what isn't swamp has been developed. Sebastian was a swamp that was drained and platted. Logically you'd think people would replant with what was there before in the flatlands or Scrub habitat. Not the case.

Nurseries sold the dangerous chemicals that are used to treat insect infestations for these exotic plants, like Hibiscus. Another weird thing are the people who have a knee jerk reaction when they see chewed leaves.

ALL INSECTS MUST BE KILLED

I'm reminding people how many shit tons of chemicals were used on yards back in the day, with no one questioning what would be the long-term effects.

Then in the end, Cats become the scapegoats for the deaths that these profitable poisons caused. Not to mention the habitat destroyed by developers and capitalist profiteers. The cat haters blame cats, not understanding what has gone on before with poisons and developer delirium.

Why would I implicate Nurseries in this greenwashing expose?

The earth doesn't need us to save her; she can shake us off with a mass extinction. What we CAN DO, is replant our yards and common areas to connect with larger, nearby ecosystems, and be a healthy cell in a sick, poisoned world. What's that 7th principle again? Because why? The survival of the humans would be the answer.

7th Principle: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." Respect has yet to plant a tree. Can't work a shovel, you know?

Now we ask ourselves. What plants were here before the nurseries and landscape architects' quest for profit these last 75 years in Florida?

The latest trendy plant is what the nurseries are about. Not the Lyonia as I mentioned. Come on in and buy a ton of mulch too. Hey, you need this expensive fungicide if you want to save your plant. Hey, you need this tree sitting out in the hot Florida sun all day, so you come back and buy another one after it dies.

Driving back today I see two people dutifully planting a palm from the Philippines or something, and I say to myself, oh great, another plant that birds and insects can't use. It's sad every time to me, because I know people think planting a tree is somehow helping the environment. But getting that Palm Tree big enough to sell in a 7 gallon pot required lots of pelletized fertilizer and Peat Moss, along with several plastic pots. Heavy carbon hurling content there, Hoss.

I drive by yard after yard here in Indian River County and wonder what will the insects and birds and reptiles and mammals eat? Most of the plants in people yards have absolutely no value for wildlife. Zero. People plant Ixora for looks. It's poisonous berries not filling any bellies. Ever see a Songbird near an Ixora hedge. No, you haven't.

I did an experiment last year with the other Palm Tree in the Atrium. The frond stems were covered in Scale, a dreaded pest insect, and it was caked thick on the frond stem. I cut the big part away, and left 18" of the stems and they were completely covered with Scale.

Which poison should I use to kill them?

Time goes by. No chemical treatment at all, not even horticultural oil. Then, three or four months later when I remembered about the infestation, the scale were gone. Kaputski! Most likely lizards ate them all, because scale tastes like marshmallows to them. Or it could have been something else. But the point is to leave shit alone sometimes.

The Atrium has to be wild and a bit messy in spots because life begins in the dead things. Plants that reseed travel around. Think about that next spring you northerners. You buy annuals and the large carbon footprint that goes with it.

You can't have a soil replenishing soil profile if you don't leave the leaves. I don't need fertilizer because the healthy soil feeds the plants.

Master Gardener raking leaves, then adding pelletized fertilizer, before a thick micro-organism suffocating layer of mulch is applied? No wonder we don't see Fireflies no more if conventional wisdom is all about neatness and not nature. An OCD kind of neatness.

Imagine, a Sequoia growing 384 feet tall without help from Joe's Landscaping! Relying completely on dead leaves and plants.

f) Integrated pest management (IPM)

I went through the Master Gardener program in the spring of 1989 in Connecticut and in Florida, in the fall of 1991. This was thirty years ago, back when people still had bags of toxic powders such as Chlordane in their chemical sheds. And everybody had a chemical shed The Cold War was over there somewhere, but the war on insects here in the homeland raged continuously my entire life.

Most garages stunk the high heaven with chemicals like Orthene or the other dizzying compounds of the day and were quite toxic. But, after all, there was a war on insects. And weeds. Poisoned groundwater be damned. What I remember was that people were so DETERMINED to keep pests out of their little fiefdoms. That's the commercials that did that. Yep.

In 1984, as a salesman for Tarnow Nursery, I was supposed to recommend Diazinon to kill moles or something. Birds were eating the Diazinon pellets and dying, en masse. Finally banned in 2004, but unfortunately today we still have weed and feed whose pellets also look like seed. Don't claim to be for nature if y’all do stuff like this. Preventative weed killers poison the ground for months. I can see doing it in sidewalks, but chemically sensitive people need to be warned.

In '89 as a phone volunteer for The Extension Service, I was supposed to be recommending Sevin to kill Japanese Beetles on roses. Then two days later "aren't those a beautiful bunch of roses" were on the dinner table. Little chunks of Sevin falling in the mashed potatoes. Today people still use it, but in many countries, it has been banned. Sevin S-E-V-I-N. Not only are people planting plants that do not feed all the pollinators out there, but they have systematically and systemically poisoned the earth.

I'd tell people to knock them god dang Japanese beetles into little bags (they were all Paper back then) and burn the little bastards in the Bar-B-Q. Wink wink, nod nod. No one likes to kill anything, but University research says to kill them. Kill kill kill. Some people don’t have it in them to kill every bad bug they see with their organic gardening, and I totally get it.

Who wants to squish a fat, two-inch Tomato Hornworm? Any Bearded Dragons in the neighborhood? They love those Hornworms! This is why we need to connect. Re-invent community. Somewhere free of the right wing douche bags who infest places like *Next Door.

I’ve been fortunate to no longer have insect problems in the seven gardens I take care of, and I did use horticultural oil to great effectiveness back when I did have twenty customers. I don't even do that now. if you see me with a sprayer you can figure it's fish emulsion fertilizer, or enzyme packed soil conditioner. Luckily, I only see an occasional Japanese Beetle where I live, and I know how bad they can be. Impossible, like a Locust swarm. That's a tough question, how do you battle complete devastation in your crop or fruiting shrub?

I NEVER suggest using irrigation either as part of Green Gardening common sense. Start planting where the hose is. Native plants are slow growing. They grow in plant communities, and they hug each other with their roots. Namaste.

I keep track of which accounts might be drying out. After a summer full of rain, I finally need to take the hose out today. Less than a half inch the last three weeks. Know your yard so you can maximize the management of it.

I’ve promoted the idea of using native plants since like, forever. Diversity is the key, but I also use lots of worthy exotics. Many are benign or add food to the ecosphere. So I plant lots of native plants and tear out some invasives. I work with what people have. Move a few things. Add natives and check monthly on the gardens progress. I can help you manage your own yard without great espense.

There's some that would have you buy thousands of dollars of plants and put in an irrigation system and kill any insect that lands in the yards, and somehow expect to see birds outside their newly remolded gated community kitchen.

With some long term customers there is always a plethora of insects and 99% of them are harmless. The bad 1% get eaten by this Army of Good Insects. I've been fortunate to be working on a site where there was a hatching of Atala Butterflies. I was like, …endangered species, gotta get a count... there was 23 of them, all floating in place. What a delight standing there and counting them. An endangered species making a comeback because of the effort to plant the native Coontie. That was when the LRJ house was at the Environmental Learning Center and they had ten or 20 Coonties and the ELC had dozens. One of my favorite nature moments. I was glad to see 10 new Coonties get planted at the new site.

In general, pests abound, and they invade quickly, while beneficials are slower to reproduce. I worked with Biogreen and learned there was a registry of chemically sensitive people. These were among Biogreens customers whose business was oriented towards organic, natural, shrub and lawn fertilization. I went to Okeechobee once and picked up a ton of feather meal and other bagged organic by-products for the fertilizer mix he was making. The last chore for Molly the '74 Econoline. Later it seems a Palm Beach company bought his name and idea and are quite successful down there with it.

With the weed spraying and preventative weed killer on all the shell pathways recently at LRJ, you might want to have a warning for these chemically sensitive people. Just because a chemical company says its safe doesn't mean it is. I was up on Shirleys roof one day and here comes Sandpiper Pest Control. "Is that stuff safe?"

"Oh sure" I was told. Well, no, it wasn't a safe thing to spray on all the leaves I had blown off the roof, and was going to rake up when I got back on the ground. He was told it was safe but I looked it up. Normally I brought the roof leaves back to where i could compost them because there was accumulated organic matter.

People have been programmed to think that all insects need to be killed. Annoying little buggers. But there’s a Dragonfly resting on that tall dead flower stem you were just going to prune. Now there’s dozens of them. Certain yards have become Dragonfly magnets. Gerts and Sams. In central Florida, once the mosquito problem begins in earnest, the Dragonflies follow about two weeks later. It's important there is a thriving Dragonfly community because I notice once they come out, the Mosquito problem ebbs away.

When I moved to Florida 33 years ago, I was expecting far more mosquitos than there were. Indian River County was foresightful many decades ago, in its mosquito management plan. Quite ahead of other counties that tried to tackle the problem.

So here I am leaving brush piles to encourage insect populations and knowing that pruning ALL the dead looking stuff would end up keeping bird food limited. You know how birds like to sit at the top of dead trees? Yeah, kind of like that. They're resting, but also scanning for food sources.

native grass and Paw Paw

Leaf mulches is what i try to encourage with my gardens. Leaves could keep the plants green without the pelletized fertilizer, which is something a chemical free, organic, historical site would want. So many lesser-known good guy insect such as Assassin bugs need to be coming through the garden. Only one in two hundred bugs might be an Assassin Bug, but boy, they carry a can of whoop ass on them. Like Gimli slicing through Orcs.

Educators will tell you 99% of insects will not harm your plants and this is a good basis for a LRJ FRED talk. I was alarmed when a 4 inch thick mat of mulch went down, knowing how many ground dwelling insects were murdered. That bird in the tree? Can't eat mulch. 80% of the garden was mulched. So I am strongly compelled to bring some basics of botany and stewardship around because it seems people that should know better, don't seem to know better.

After that stint with the guy who created an organic fertilizer company called Biogreen, I went to work in a golf course community and I saw the end of an era. I remember one of the first times I went to cross the Wabasso Bridge to get to work, there was a tractor pulling a 500 gallon tank. Then …splip… all this gray chemical on the windshield and side window. In a twenty mile an hour wind he was gettin' 'er done. It was the wild west of chemical use when I got here in '89. Hilk.

END scheduled sprayings at your home or facility as a basic second step in learning how to steward your property. The first step was stop to planting those bullshit foreign plants and learn your natives.

We've all been poisoned here in the glorious homeland, the younger ones less so, since many of the worst chemicals have been banned. Chemical warfare on the Boomers subsided when the worst of the WW2 chemicals had been expended. None of the last seven presidents have wanted to tackle the Trillion dollar Toxic Waste cleanup that waits for us at military bases here in the USA. La Jeune military base is in the news lately. and other military sites that poisoned the well-intentioned soldiers are subject to lawsuits because of careless chemical use and storage. Still poisoned, but soldiers are assured everything is fine. I'm not kidding, a Trillion Dollar Toxic cleanup. everything is fine.

In the mid eighties, I was reading permaculture literature, primarily, Michael Pilarski. There wasn't a need for chemicals in a food forest he would explain. Permanent Agriculture is called permaculture, and I was able to do that in Hazardville Connecticut. So, I would like to introduce the idea of a food forest to the LRJ site and maybe even the UU site or some of these other Route 60 Corridor sites. However the previous user of the Historical Home site was SYNGENTA. Yes, that Syngenta, bought by Bayer and one of the top ten polluters of our air and water. That Syngenta on 58th that has barbed wire fences around their experimental fields. Secret experiments going on there. Better check the soil for contamination.

I was also reading and purchasing the Rodale books about organic gardening and really started gardening organically with heirloom seeds when I got to North Street for the summers of 87 88 and 89.

Seed Savers Exchange was my other primary source of information which I had joined in 1977. Seed Savers Exchange - Wikipedia Magazines such as Harrowsmith promoted no-till pesticide free farming and articles by Wendell Berry while the Rodale books on organic gardening laid out the basics for keeping chemicals off your own food.

Why the wholesale genocide of every form of life then? Gardeners and farmers doin' so much killin'. At a gated community, Orchid Island, there seemed to have no birds for a while. I would notice, I was there several days a week. For a good six months it was like, there … are … no birds. Wading birds, sure, because of the retention ponds. There were no insects and consequently no songbirds. It was spooky.

Integrated pest management is about knowing your plant. Knowing your site. Is that leaf spot on the Gumbo Limbo a problem? “It looks like it’s dying”. A few weeks later, the new growth covered it up. Leaf spot rarely kills plants, but peoples startle reflex is to spray fungicide.

A natural, unsprayed garden in 2024 will look like Laura’s citrus.

A less than beautiful fruit, but easily as tasty for the birds. Like Lauras poems, even more beautiful when you understand the deeper meanings. Tasty as in attracting all kind of different insects out there for the little birdies to eat. I don't understand why people want birds to die. That's what your plant purchases indicate. Hibiscus, Bouganvilla and the others offer no flower or fruit for wildlife.

Last June there was a baby Sand Hill Crane hanging out, and its parents were spending the morning hunting on the front lawn and near the library. The baby Crane grew quick and now they are all gone. So, I'm looking out for them and other creatures not to get poisoned. Then the whole site was treated for Fire Ants! Had to be done. I had twenty bites on me at least they were everywhere. When I talk about Nature, I'm also talking about the billion organisms in a spoonful of soil, those ones buried by 4 inches of mulch, cuz they're dead.

I imagine Laura had gotten many regular customers who understood that organic growing was just the old school way of growing, although Citrus growers have been using chemicals of various sorts since the roaring twenties. Laura didn’t need Arsenic to sweeten her grapefruit, as was the custom with the big companies. She probably wouldn’t use pelletized fertilizer either but would add organic compost of some sort. I think she'd find the current garden tame. Maybe even lame. Born to Be Mild.

Probably by the seventies, Scotty’s was selling compost in bagged form, but Horse manure was probably readily available in her area during her business years. George the ancient Nurseryman who lived down Route 1, a mile or so, could probably get her anything she wanted.

From '89 to 95 George was such an amazing person to talk to. I learned more from him than most. Cindy at Rock City knew the scene also. I could never have predicted I'd stay here 34 years but have had a variety of horticultural experiences including growing USDA field plants from a field that eventually was burned because of Citrus Greening.

Integrated pest management is about knowing the insects. In the last few years, Bagworms seemed to have become prolific, as an example. I thought maybe these tiny bags of sticks they make might make good nesting material for birds to use. Tiny sticks and food ready to hatch inside. But when I researched it, it seems that bagworms are not a used or useful bird food, so I rinse them off the peoples houses. Maybe some ground feeders would enjoy them, like Doves. There is a real lack of definitive answers when you get past University Research. We're learning together, let's go!

IPM Integrated Pest Management is about monitoring for pest problems.

I'm reminded of our most interesting insect invasion so far at the LRJ homesite on the campus of Indian River College in Vero Beach. Come on over and visit. No rules yet because the site attracts respectful people and there aren't any problems. One day Elliot and I were talking about the property, and he got me to take a second look at the Pine Trees.

We were in a semi-drought condition from May through July and there seemed to be many yellow needles. Raining just enough, just in time, to avoid a severe drought, but a Pine Tree drops needles after a drought, and it would have been natural for them to have yellow needles ready to fall off. Makes good mulch. Better take a second look, he said, and I did. It was the most caterpillars I’ve seen in a long time. What the goody two sticks, I thought! It was a horrible infestation! This could be a BIG problem. Devouring the vulnerable Long Leaf Pine in its extreme southern range, the inchworms reminded me of Gypsy Moths, on trees up north. Inchworms, right? Actually Sawflies.

Earlier in the visit, I noticed we had some Doves and it was good to see we had some more ground feeders to eat pest insects. Scale in the crawling stage for instance. But they were acting strange, frantically flying around a couple of the Pines. To make a long story short, they were flying into the three trees that had the caterpillars in them and used their wings to knock them to the ground where they would then feast. These inch-worm, looking things were frantically crawling back to the tree and when they got on the trunk I whacked as many as I could with my Crocs. So me and the birds killed them all, but Elliots observation was critical. Don't be afraid to speak up, people that should know better don't seem to.

So what am I saying? I'm saying you have to know what you're doing and it's really not that hard. There are regulations and ordinances for safety in construction, why not outdoors too? Know when to let the birds take care of a problem.

I promote the idea of not using chemicals and using less or no fertilizer, along with the elimination of irrigation systems. That toxic accident in Ohio recently? The worst spill was the Poly Vinyl Chloride that is used to make PVC irrigation pipe. A million miles of this horrendous plastic is hidden underground for irrigation purposes. That is enough to go to the Moon and back twice. M'kay?

Put your plants together in islands so they feed on the fallen leaves of different plants and shade each other from the wicked Florida Sun. I encourage people to save the grass that is growing exceptionally well. And unmown large, wild areas should be a given.

Your most vulnerable plants can be watered with a hose during dry spells, and you can save yourself the folderol of irrigation. Do you know what these irrigation companies charge just to drive to your house for a repair? You can't figure out when the soil is dry? Come on, use your head for something other than a hat rack.

Irrigation for what? For vanity. To keep something alive, where it doesn’t belong. Plant slavery.

BEAUTY WITH NATIVE PLANTS in TUCSON. We were caretakers with nothing between us and Gammon Gulch. 45 miles away. 60 by car. Many expensive trees were used Joshua Trees among them.

BAHAMIAN WILD COFFEE ... MY BEST POLLINATOR. A bird magnet, but not a native according to some.

FANCY PLANTS NURSERY

"free advice, expensive plants"

I'll tell you what. I had a customer that showed me how much a visit by the local plant columnist cost her. $150 for two hours and that was over five years ago. She is a lecturer and county extension agent and presumably the best in her field.

In the working world, some people talk, and some people do. I'll use leaf mulch and primarily native plants. I know how things work, but not in a pedantic, by the book way. I don't have the big-league cred people are looking for, but I have the earth cred. So if you're looking to join the living by putting useful plants in your yard, let me know.

No staking. No Bonsai either. No Areca Palms in the full sun. No irrigation. Nature has a network out there for you to plug into.

What was here before European settlement? So many different ecosystems. Wetlands. Swamps, bogs and bayous. 16 distinct habitats alone, at Johnathan Dickenson State Park, south of here.

Here come the humans. First the Original People, then the big Florida sell-off began as developers touted Paradise. Planting nearly all the same things. The same old same old, same old 25 plants that were popular and "trendy" these last 75 years. Mind numbing conformity. Our outdoors are arranged neatly like our living rooms without a single thought to the creatures. Everyone imitating Lord Fauntleroys Green Castle.

With 4700 choices of native plants spread out over Florida, why have we chosen the same twenty-five lifeless progenitors of widespread, biotic dead zones? What's the deal with all these plants from disparate parts of the world?

It's not working folks. An insect apocalypse is upon us and the blame lies squarely in the laps of landscape architects, nurseries and the Garden Clubs who have promoted the use of plants they thought looked good.

There is no education regarding the collapse of ecosystems caused by all the development since WW2. Boomers all trying to be millionaires and they looked the other way as the wild animal populations were halved, their traditional hunting grounds destroyed. Songbirds worse than that.

It was never about the value of the land, but land values instead.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PLANT INVENTORY

The ones in blue are new to the garden. My point being that we are veering away from our outdoor Green Sanctuary.

"Respect for the interdependent web of all existence" of which we are a part with. Sound familiar. It should.

How many acres are not buildings or asphalt parking lots? What's with these plants that have no value for wildlife? I don't see many birds on the property, but in the last week I've seen Catbirds, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Doves, a bunch of Yellow Warblers, (I think) Mockingbird, Hawk and Blue Jays in the yard I've been taking care of the last twenty-five years.

I've got food in the yard. Wild Coffee berries, Marlberries, Starfruit. A gang of Warblers were having a feast on something in my mature Ulmus americana. Bouncing on the branches gorging themselves on something.

As I said, the small coffee hedge around the electrical box is more valuable to wild life than all these plants I have notated in BLUE. Packed with pollinators when it flowers and visited by birds and mammals when it fruits, Wild Coffee should be a staple for bright but shady areas.

THE NEW ARE IN BLUE

DRACENA Wildlife value? Probably none.

TI PLANT Looking raggedy here in February.

ARBICOLA “chinette” a more pronounced variegation and very attractive, but no apparent wildlife value. Driving around today I noticed, it's like, one third of the plants in all the local landscapes. Wildlife value --- zero.

How to say I don't know how to plant for wildlife without saying u don't know what it takes to plant for wildlife. Like religion is the last refuge of a scoundrel, Arbicolas are a plant of last resort for those that don't want to make the effort for the wild things. Count on plenty of pruning time.

Why are there hundreds of mostly Green Arbicolas on the UU property? They are about the most, dead to wildlife, plant going. I've pruned many of them over the years on many accounts and they harbor no life and are rampant, annoying growers.

Apparently, it's the only plant people can keep alive. You really need an outdoor person to replant these dead areas with native plants such as Gopher Apple that feeds tortoises and other ground feeders. Wild Coffee will fill in all the dead spots in the hedges. As would Marlberry Fiddlewood and other prolifically berried natives. I got a bunch of baby White Indigo Berry plants in the Atrium I'm hoping to plant somewhere.

BROMELIADS wildlife value? some water for lizards and others, maybe. Not even a good look.

PLUMBAGO Bees are attracted, but the nectar is too deep in the flower for them and other local insects. A big waste of their time. Spiderwort would give us the blue flowers we crave, but they all got pulled out as weeds. Plumbago is adapted to its native bioregion in China, so remember that, if you decide to move there.

Spiderwort was one of the natives removed as weeds along with Scorpions Tail and quite a few other useful plants such as the southern favorite, Blue Love Grass. blue elliot grass - Bing images

BOUGANVILLA colorful papery bracts is what we see, and to pollinators it's like eating cardboard. The flowers are teeny tiny and they may have a minute amount of nectar for tiny moths. Inchworm infestations July to December. Let them eat leaves or kill the caterpillars? Minimal wildlife value and a major waste of time.

The new BOUGANVILLA is planted where a 40 foot vine shouldn't go in the Memorial Garden. Pest caterpillars that turn into annoying moths is all it offers. Do localized birds feed on those worms on Bouganvilla? There are so many questions and it's time to find out what the heck people are thinking. Dig into the heads of this death cult trying to eliminate nature.

FLAX LILY Cerulean flax lily ( Dianella ensifolia) from Australia. In China, it’s believed the blue berries kill cows. (I hope by this point you are picking up the patterns. It was about sales and not seeds.

CROWN OF THORNS sap can cause nausea and diarrhea in humans. Still searching if there is any wildlife value. Maybe in Madagascar where it's from, but at best, it can be pretty, and it's been used in different areas here.

We need to plant native plants around the UU property. The LRJ site needs to loosen up and drop its new directive and "go according to the plan." A flawed plan at that. Bottlebrush, White Turks Cap Wedelia Lantana and exotic Passion Vines are counter to what nature would like to do. Plenty of flaws in the design and a dramatic increase in the variety of natives need to be planted. A natural garden with life in it, is not a dinner party y'all.

It seems the committee wants to stick with the ten natives and that's it. From the National Wildlife Federation regarding native plants. “Native plants have formed symbiotic relationships with native wildlife over thousands of years, and therefore offer the most sustainable habitat. A plant is considered native if it has occurred naturally in a particular region, ecosystem, or habitat, without human introduction.” 4700 natives minus 10 leaves 4690 more possibilities.

Peel back another layer and what we have is another form of colonialism. Botanists found all these marvelous, colorful, unique plants from around the world. They brought them back to show the people who sponsored them. “Does doth please thee, your highness.”

Then these exotic plants become trendy, so I am hoping to make people understand that the nursery business in the last 150 years, has been about profits, not pollinators.

Birds are the keys to healthy ecosystems as they are able to replant native fruiting shrubs. Those little songbirds get into those niches where the rare things are. Fish and fruit in their claws carried northwards.

Sadly, they have been subject to a chemical brew and there has been a silent slaughter since the end of WW2. So I plant for birds and use prolifically fruiting plants to feed them. I don't need to kill an insect, that's what the birds and lizards, toads, frogs, spiders, Earwigs, Assasin Bugs and other insects are for.

Yet somehow these very helpful natural allies are the creatures that people find creepy. Coincidence? Have the chemical companies been controlling the narrative all along? kill all the bugs

Something to remember is that 99% of the insects that come into your yard will not cause harm to your plants. They are pollinating vegetable gardens and fruit trees and everything else, or just eating other insects or getting eaten themselves. All of wildlife out there, all murdering each other, lol.
Insects are the fresh meat needed for bird nestlings in the spring and an important food for resident birds in the summer. SO WHERE HAVE ALL THE INSECTS GONE? They have nowhere to go, so they die.

Birds feed their helpless young, and it consists of 95% live prey. The quicker they can find some breakfast for the babies,

the more time they can spend in the nest,

and be with their families. So are you anti-family? Don’t all families matter? Birds are endangered, humans not so much.

Not just the invasive exotic plants that cause problems, but singularly useless plants.

PHILEDENDRON for instance, is in the Memorial Garden and is a good example. Too common outdoors here, and so I looked up to see if there was any wildlife value. Turns out in warmer areas, it fruits a bit and monkeys eat it. So, no. No Monkeys in Indian River County to feed.

Philodendron serves no useful benefit for wildlife in central Florida. Maybe Cane Toads can hide in them, but most big leafed stuff from South America are adapted to the South American pollinators. They are languishing in the pots by the entrance and can be replaced with native plants so we can begin to educate people about how nature works.

FICUS GREEN GEM. Let's look that up. This plant has become ubiquitous across the county and surrounds our chalice in the Memorial Garden. I guess it's beloved by overpaid landscape architects because it "doesn't get thrips". Rabbits love it. So if you need those pesky pests, go right ahead, but it has no flowers for butterflies or fruit for birds. Zero wildlife value aside from the bunnies. It's supposed to look like a wall. A short green wall. Not showy at all but dependable af.

The problem is that the native plants in this area are not showy and colorful either, unless you like seeing a Cardinal sitting on a branch eating Wild Coffee (Psychotria) berries. Or a Blue Jay sitting in an old Simpson Stopper looking for a water source, or maybe a Painted Bunting feasting on something you planted, as it gets some calories to fly to Cancun. Now that's some real color!

Necklace Pod is a native that does have showy yellow flowers and is blooming, at the moment, but it has awkward stages it goes through. It looks dead and raggedy at times in the summer. "Can we save that plant?" It's not dead ma'am. Just resting. "The Gumbo Limbo is dying." No, it's not. "That tree is going to die." No it didn't. Alarmists everywhere, ready to spray chemicals at any problem they perceive. Mo·noe·cious drama queens. No nuance. Creating habitat. Knowing your plants, knowing your soil.

People are so OCD about the outdoors, they are even motivated to straighten out trees bent from hurricanes. That's some cred there , man. I survived, is what a hurricane bent tree says!,

WHITE INDIGOBERRY

I think the best spiders to have around are the Lynx spiders. They have a very nice green color and no patience for scale, mealybugs or aphids. Particularly when pest insects are in the crawling stage, the Lynx spider is on the prowl. I need to find some to place in the Atrium.

With their probing and chewing mouthpieces, Scale type insects are looking for a sugar daddy shrub to stake their claim, but they do have a brief crawling stage when they are vulnerable, and Spiders are doing the work to keep them off your plants. Unless your yard is sprayed. See?

So ask yourself, are there spiders out there in the Memorial Garden? An occasional butterfly looking for something to sip on, but it's gone silent to me. No spiders, no lizards, no birds. I'd really like to change that and disallow anymore lifeless, exotic plants to be planted. Let's make every day, Earth Day, eh? Allow the Memorial Garden to become wild and free. The introduced plants didn't do well and a couple of them grew too fast.

The Variegated Yucca looking thing is a totally inconvenient plant to weed and prune and there is no kind of nature gonna find sustenance there. Hostile pointy projectiles. Agave with spear tips needs to be pulled out. I had a plethora of native plants that were pulled out as weeds, so I'm compelled to make my point of view known instead of continuing to be silent.

So this brings me to the wildlife value of the Memorial Garden. It’s fine if you want to keep it pretty, right? Sure. I notice all the shapes work together and it looks good from every angle. The volunteer sweating his head off, making all the hedges look like walls. "There" he said sweating in a profuse stroke ready way --- "now it's fixed". PS: I pruned it rounded so the plant would get more sun inside it, but you know neatness. Order.

But what was there before this radical return to landscape design principles of 1985, with all the attendant leaf litter and dead parts of plants, was a habitat for many sorts of insects. It was alive and it was upsetting to see a garden connected to nature, become a lifeless caricature of environmental health. I'm going to be looking to have a vote on the next outdoor devolution.

We need the leaves to break down into dirt and they can't do their job if they get raked up. Lesson #1. Leaves turn into dirt that feeds the plants. I mean, didn't we learn something about plants in school?

I don’t see Lady Bugs or Butterflies or Spiders anymore, or even lizards. Lizards like things to climb on and that's why I used to have rocks of different sizes scattered about. But I guess it looked random and not soldierly, so I put them back in the Atrium.

Geckos can walk up walls and upside down, but Lizards can’t, and they keep the Atrium pest insect population under control so pretend you're a Lizard, and where would you live? Atrium or Memorial Garden?

Lizards need things to climb. Places to hide. Especially now with those giant, orange, Evil Lizards prowling about. We want to protect the little guys. Probably the last thing we want to do is rake the leaves out before mulching. In fact, many people might not know how mulching kills insect activity. That little lizard hiding under a leaf as the Orange Rex Lizard walks by.

Those of us in the no-chemical world, realize leaf litter is where life begins. It eventually breaks down into nitrogen fertilizer and soil. Soil, also known as dirt. We believe the health of the soil is essential for the health of the plant. Let's recall the interdependent web of life. What it really is and not what it's like in our thoughts and prayers.

If the soil is alive, the plant will very likely be healthy. Most soils are dead with no organic matter and many plants are looking for that chemical fix from pelletized fertilizer. How did the General Sherman Sequoia get to be 384 feet tall without Joe's Landscaping fertilizing it four times a year? Hopefully I've helped you figure that out.

Self replicating City Hall Model planting

Good bird food too. easy to find in the dark.

What has happened is people have made their plants addicted. Blast it with Sevin to kill a pest. Chewed leaves is so unsightly. Are they supposed to be like, living room couches or your Beamer? No scratches, no damage? No insects or fungus anywhere. Pretty all the time, but a waste of energy for the pollinators? Naturally healthy plants will have less insect and fungus problems and like they say, happy soil. less toil.

Wildflowers holding their own in North Carolina

Psychotria nervosa berries. What birds eat.

h) GRATITUDE REVERENCE AND CARE?

With this exotic, divergent ecosphere of plants from all around the world in the UU Memorial Garden at the moment, Nature now seems absent. Do you want one garden that looks good? Right in the center of the outside area? Why not?

Or do we really want to follow the seventh principle of the Unitarian Universalists that states respect for nature. Respect has yet to plant a fruiting shrub. No thumbs, lousy helper.

I'd like to introduce native plants I save or dig up and plant them in the hedges around the property. This is how I avoid the whole plastic pot thing. I can create an English hedgerow with various native plants that will eventually replace the exotic Eugenia. I move surplus plants. The durable, but usually expensive native plants. Buy them small. At Rusty the Lyonias yard there is also a Saw Palmetto that was the teeniest of things. Another 5 dollar plant that has slowly grown into a $50 beauty.

But I'm trying to survive on $1500/month and I'm not like a fucking saint or anything. I need some income. Did I hear the site has been paid for?

How many feet of hedge is there on the UU property? Easily over a thousand linear feet and a great opportunity to introduce life. A way to educate the entire congregation. The native plants will create more native plants to create a hedge that won't be perpetually dying but continually coming up from below from fruiting native shrubs.

Or I'll just do a TED talk to piss everyone off with my truths.

me so corny

So let's make every day Earth Day.

Okay, let’s do that.

There is very little habitat and a shockingly limited selection of wildlife friendly plants on the entire Unitarian property. Kind of a biotic dead zone when we actually want to be part of the "interdependent web of life". A death cult you're in.

Earth Warriors here to deprogram you. Next, I have to time this out. Maybe more images for the overhead screen

The Unitarian Fair Trade store sells products from villages trying to restore or maintain the healthy ecosystems they live in, by creating products for a cash crop. Many villages around the world are nearly self-sufficient, but need a cash crop to buy what they can't produce. So this is very cool and shows an awareness of worldwide economics and common sense. It's so important to support the markets we want to encourage. Small family farms especially.

I'm telling you to buy some home-made products at the Fair-Trade Store, and realize you are helping a community and not just corporate profiteers. And BTW the office jellies are DeVine. Subtle flavor on that Beauty Berry Jelly.

I am obligated to spend six hours A MONTH to maintain the Atrium garden and Memorial Garden. These additional exotic plants have doubled the time I need to spend in the Memorial Garden so I will be requesting an increase in hours and pay. I also have some ideas for the outdoors. There are places that collect way too many oak leaves and there are also places that need Oak leaves. The desert garden on the south side took bucket after bucket of leaves from the parking lot and it breaks down quickly into the soil. The north side free garden has Oak leaves I've raked up to keep the ubiquitous weeds suppressed and break the leaves down quickly. Making some bodacious soil there.

It's the middle of August and I get a complaint that there are too many weeds, but it's the middle of August FFS. It's the time of year weeds and pruning gets ahead of you. This summer particularly has seen spectacular growth. People out there furiously scribbling notes of the weeds' location. You know, is Tassel Flower really a weed? The is the crux of the biscuit. Weeds or wildflowers? Some see weeds others know they are wildflowers and pollinator friendly plants. You need to start accepting weeds. Learn their names. Fleabane is a friend. Frogfruit fills a niche and here was I pulling it out for decades. I'm learning stuff every day. The "Dwarf Firebush" story below.

The Porterweed we promoted was not the native as it turned out. The Butterfly Plant everybody was trending hard with, actually hurts the Monarch as it turns out? We need a source for the best information so let's make a guide for free for everyone. Weed or Wildflower, with amateur photos and reviews and opinions along with descriptions. What insects have been spotted feeding or resting on them.

It's not just the technique, it's also the passion and the peace.

I have to have my say at some point since I have to take care of everything in the dead of summer. The "dwarf" firebush is an exotic and take a close look. Butterflies don't go there, but I do, spending 20% of my time cutting back, cutting back, cutting back. People got fooled because the "dwarf" Firebush was enthusiastically sold, but it grows to 20 feet! And it's not the native. I haven't seen butterflies on it. Have You? The standard grows to 25 feet. Another sales gimmick, sleight of hand. It's smaller, call it a dwarf. Now I have a good deal of trouble trying to dispose of the many "dwarf" Firebush pruning. I have to prune out huge chunks of branches to keep it under six feet, it's ridiculous.

Kentia Palms near the front door need to be constantly groomed.

20% of my time now goes to the Ficus Green Gem. A real curiosity, it can be kept low WITH FREQUENT PRUNING. So now we have Firebush that wants to be 20 feet (the dwarf) and Ficus Green Gem looking to be ten feet tall and needing to be frequently pruned while trying to maintain the protocol of being able to see the big metal chalice. More time is also lost trying to keep the Hibiscus alive. Particularly the tree-form one in the middle of the hot area. Pulling out the hose is a drag in the summer heat and I used to only need it during dry spells. Rain or shine, that tree Hibiscus (tackily staked) needs water twice a week. Stakes in the landscape make everything seem unfinished.

Then there's the PLUMBAGO, a rampant, sloppy grower and another one I spend too much time with. As noted before, its flowers are too deep for the local pollinators. Yes LRJ, that includes the white ones planted next to the house. Probably a lifeless exotic cultivar. They will try but their modest proboscises won't allow feeding. It's Florida and we are like nowhere else.

At the Laura Riding Jackson gardens, I have 8 hours A MONTH to keep it weeded and pruned. When I started it was like being dropped into a war zone. "Here's 50 hours of weeds to pull and you have 8 hours a month to get it done." In May I was about caught up with volunteers helping when they weren't planting section after section of short lived plants. Where did the Rosemary go? It was doing fine.

So at first, I tried different things to hasten the demise of the quickly growing weeds last summer. Tried a big plastic tarp to kill weeds. "Didn't look neat." so I had to remove it. I found that kind of curious. I thought we were looking for organic and natural ways to solve weed and insect problems. It took three weeks to kill a patch covered with the tarp. It was brown, black might work quicker.

No one objected to the 55 gallon rain barrel I left at the LRJ's Houses previous location at the ELC. No running water or a working irrigation, so I was able to water plants with rainfall.

I'm telling you I've been totally green in all my projects the last 25 years Laura would have approved my efforts at both sites. How much money was plowed into an irrigation system that could have been replaced if someone knew how to run a hose she would probably say?

i) Trees need to be forests and not just baseball bats.

Your yard isn’t a living room to be arranged with what looks good. You can make it look good with useful plants and skip the annual purchase of annuals because the fertilizer, water and plastic pots needed to get your pretty little annuals to market has a heavy carbon footprint. All that gas to ship these annuals too. Vanity gardening. Too many Easter Bonnets not enough Blue Bonnets.

How many? 600 million annuals sold every spring in America? 700 million? That's only two per person. Who knows, but when I see pretty pretty, I liken it to a dinner party arrangement. A lifeless museum piece. I dreaded seeing Hibiscus getting planted in the memorial Garden. They just suck. Where are they from? Then there's the hundred million plastic containers for those 600 million annuals.. Where did all that shit go from last springs plantings? Where is all that plastic waste you suppose? I'm trying to get you to comprehend how much plastic waste there is in the "Green Industry."

How do these new plants at the LRJ site that didn't survive the summer help the little creatures of the world? Rosemary does if allowed to flower. I've planted ground cover mimosa to practical success in several locations and just cant comprehend how anyone thought M. pudica was going to contain itself in a 4 foot by 6 foot area?Who will help those with no voice? Ask this before every purchase. Seems like a lot of planting and re-planting is being done. Weed warriors are not working the acreage but deadheading cultivars that died anyways.

Helpful tip for those new to Florida. Don't plant stuff in April and EXPECT it to live. Your summer is 80 days in Indiana and , ours are 160 days. Plants don't act the same. it's hot and humid for too long and I watched the parade of "original plan" replacement plants come and go. We have to create a demand for native perennials and wildflowers with the nurseries. The only way to get proper supply.

Peat pots was a good idea twenty years ago, till the peat bogs became scarce. I would suggest we boycott plastic pots and trays. The other day I noticed a “peat free” soil mix. Headed in the right direction, that.

j) plastic waste in the green industry

... day after day I was left with dozens of mulch bags. Upset with myself for participating in this exuberant use of plastic, I'm done planting annuals. So symbolic of our throwaway culture. Then dealing with the irony that people think they are helping nature with the 50 Begonias they bought and planted like they do every year. Formulaic is being generous in describing this type of "gardening." Tell me then, what benefit do Begonias bestow?

Maybe some slugs and snails were happy but there is no other insect or Mollusca that uses the Begonia in any way. There ARE Begonias that last up to ten years here in Central Florida and that is good in an easy color way, but in no way are they helpful to the starving bird populations. Maybe a bird would find soil insects amongst Begonias but the Begonia itself bestows no benefit to Bee or Butterfly. Tell me if you disagree. I do read Begonias have Vitamin C and Oxalic Acid so they are useful for humans medicinally. Just chew some leves when you feel that scurvy closing in.

Remember, I am not the end all be all botanist, my personal experiences shouldn't reflect in what is the actual, accurate information. I realize something has to go in those pots in the driveway.

In the aforementioned gated community, we laid out 125 bags of mulch in every yard. Think of one empty bag of mulch as 35 large ziplocks or 25 plastic shopping bags if that gives you a better perspective on the plastic waste that goes into professional landscaping. It's like 2000 plastic shopping bags. Per Yard! Wheeee! Recycle that beer can though.

Then, 36 -- 72 or more plastic pots that everyone pretended would get recycled get. Every day annuals were planted, resulting in a sickening amount of plastic pots that had to be discarded. “Leave them by the dumpster. We’ll pretend to recycle them.”

Question: how do you NOT use plastic pots when replanting your yard? You transfer self replicating perennial natives to the parts of the yard where you need them. Trading or giving away plants would be an important component to the Community Product and Service Exchange. Exchanging surplus is the vanguard of the CPSE and trays of young Wild Coffee, Psychotria nervosa, should be becoming more available.

A 4 ounce bird has just flown 250 miles hopping from one island to the next looking for food and shelter as it migrates north. She goes to the cookie cutter house in the gated community, and sees oleanders, ixora, plumbago, philodendron and other popular, same old same old, non-native plants. Off to the next house....no food there either.

The yard looks great to the judgmental HOA’s. All neat and tidy. HOA”s are another detriment to enhancing our ecosystems with their policies on neatness. A wild garden is going to be messy. Life begins in the dead things. Under logs, under rocks. Lizards also like a perch as they hunt for prey. I like to place rocks in rockless Florida yards. Lizards climb up. Insects burrow underneath. Creatures that birds like to eat, live around rocks or brush piles, not on four inches of mulch. Ain't nobody round these parts what can eat da mulch.

Please understand this … what looks good are plants that are very likely, from various places around the world. It’s the Age of Information. One last time. ASK YOURSELF --- How will these plants I'm going to purchase enhance wildlife? It’s easy to learn. Learn the plants you see every day. How do they function in the ecosystem? Wedelia, Scheflerra, Asparagus Fern and other detrimental ecosystem destroyers need to be ostrasized from all our gardens.

Remind me to check out the Unity Church property for wildlife value. That was a good idea. There's a Quaker Meeting House. I can check that out. The local Rabbi gave me the Skankii and probably wouldn't want to see me traipsing around the Temple property, checking out the wildlife value of their plantings.

There was an ecumenical effort where about 5 churches all planted an Olive Tree. I'd like to see it. The UU and the Temple among them. Our olive needs to be pruned again. You see, the five churches all planted Olives and we would all theoretically create olive oil from squeezing all our Olives together and, we would all use, in like, a peaceful loving ceremony or something. The only problem being they don't produce Olives in this area.

One more time. This is not Indiana or South Dakota. We are Central Florida Proud. When is Ecosystem Pride Month?

Finally, that little four ounce bird that we observed is now starving, she flies over to the mainland and into my yard with White Indigo berry, Wild Coffee, Tamarind, Elderberry, sugar cane, Fiddlewood, Maypop (passion vine) and Marl berry. Saw palmetto Snowberry and a few dozen others. Like, 80 other varieties. If not fruiting, they are flowering, which attracts the many pollinating insects that birds love to eat. Once again this is why a 80x120 yard can contain more bird nests than an entire 4 acre facility. Planning. And Stewardship. If you think there is a climate crisis, then it is time to stop kicking the can down the road.

Deprogram yourself from the green industry. The headlong rush into Lithium mining is more than a little suspicious. Bill Gates and China buying up the good American farmland will be the end of the family farm. Hopefully tx them out of existence.

So little original habitat left save it all for the rest of humanity's future. Most of us have about had enough of these techno Doofuses setting out to create policy. These CEO's that buy thousands of acres of forest then clear cut them, then re-sell the property. They should be seen as criminals stealing from the mouths of the unborn. It is not easy to regrow a thousand year old ancient forest. No one's got time for that.

NEXT: introducing the very worst offender for soil health in the future, and that’s PVC pipe. You thought the microplastics we are already ingesting was bad. Hoo boy. On your watch Boomers. Why have you been so enamored with exotic plants propped up with an elaborate irrigation system?

Today I read about 14 billion pounds of PVC are produced per year and I wonder if that amount can be lessened? Dear god please this can't be true.

It can’t be billions. It must be millions, I’d check that.

Later: Basically its 7 million metric tons. So that’s like 7 million times 2000 pounds, which is a ton, and more than I can add right now. I mean tons of plastic that will be recklessly degrading fifty to one hundred fifty years in the future. Disintegrating into the soil profile and plastic never breaks down. It never is gone.

Worst of all it is unseen, buried in the ground. It was literally swept under the rug, never to be seen again. (except the 65 dollar an hour repair guy. I've been monitoring these networks of PVC for forty years. You thought the ocean garbage patch was bad. This country is entirely gridded out with PVC.

Plastics just break into more pieces. Getting the picture? 700 million what? Plastic containers of annuals? A sloppy mess that has been left for generations unborn to deal with. PVC is the ultimate sand in the face to the people in 2100, when the problem is at hand.

There are the obvious polluters but then there are the hypocrites. I notice a certain demographic are the most avid recyclers. Going on and on about recycling different things, but then I notice their recycle bin is filled to the top with packaging on a weekly basis, where as ours barely covers the bottom. They obsess about recycling and yell, “recycle that!” if they see someone tossing out something that could be recycled.

I want to say “buy less STUFF! Only 14% of the packaging gets recycled.” The answer is to buy less stuff, not recycle all the plastic packaging and wrap and whatnot you use for the ridiculous gifts that are given with so many pretentious holidays. With this obsessive online shopping and delivery trucks speeding around the corner at any hour of the day, people be telling themselves they are helping the econonmy but it's just another year the landfill grows ever larger.

Greening the indoors and outdoors starts with the waste you create. Rich people all big on giving money to eco-charities while at the same time being responsible for the rarely mentioned pollution from cement production with their gigantic houses. “Let’s build another guest house!” "Let's change the driveway!" Constant renovations and thousands of dumpsters taken to the landfill. Millions!

Boxes and boxes of schtuff out by the street on recycling day in thousands of these wealthier neighborhoods. Interior decorating leaves a heavy carbon footprint, but that is their religion. Freedom of religion.

People out in the country just make another metal building to put stuff in. People primitive camping carrying out their garbage realize how much wasteful packaging there is these days. This is the dilemma of our current paradigm.

Your lawn philosophy can be “anything, as long as it’s green.” I remember the suburbs of yesterday and

Big Papa comes out with the spreader on Saturdays basically creating biotic dead zones all over this country. Not to mention carcinogens in your sandbox. Died young with cancer? Hmmmmnn. Never mind Jarts, Boomer kids played in DDT.

I’m horrified at the thought of the gridded out lines of underground PVC across this whole country, across the entire world. Sure, I realize PVC is used in big cities where aging pipes are corroding. Should last longer than the old stuff.

That’s when it’s good to have something last 100 years. The municipality will keep track of the integrity of the pipes and their eventual removal. Many tons lay underground now, lost and forgotten in suburbs and gated communities across the land

I see it as a grid of plastic poison. Forever part of American soil. In a hundred years they will begin to degrade, and everyone will be forever ingesting microplastics. And yes, the yearly production of Poly Vinyl Chloride is 14 BILLION pounds. Unimaginable. There's like a gazillion tons already in the ground around the world. See we don't get to vote on shit like this.

Need I remind you of the recent train wreck in Palestine Ohio and the toxic spill was of this very same pollutant, poly vinyl chloride. PVC. 14 billion pounds of plastic that won’t be recycled. Per Year! Profits in Toxics. How are your dirty investments?

Please tax the Plastic industry and plastics coming in from other countries. It's the single most influential component for the failure of recycling. Plastic is so cheap. Untaxed BS, gasoline has a federal tax. let the plastics industry start to clean up its own mess.

As long as you … sound … like you know what you’re talking about

Garden clubs and nurseries as the enemies of nature.

European Honeybees are not our best pollinators. They retain as little as 10% of their pollen in their travels, whereas a native bee is caked thick with pollen and consequently has higher pollination rates.

As THE GARDEN GREEN I spent twenty years proving fertilizer and irrigation and pesticides aren't needed for a native planting. It doesn’t have to be messy either. Susan Dan Gert John are chock full of natives that are allowed to flower and fruit. No pest problems. Everything grows slow. Honest I am your low carbon footprint solution.

I chose to try and prove chemicals and irrigation weren't needed in our gardens in this already poisoned world.

And to me personally, I was out to prove that a diversity of plants, leads to a yard that doesn't have problems with pest insect population explosions. It’s true with the six remaining gardens I take care of.

Most people treat plants like indoor furniture, you know, it’s all about how it looks. Like a prototype car with no engine, it doesn’t work.

A lizard gets it’s drink from water drops on the leaves. A bird feeds its babies with live insects and most people don’t know about the billions of tiny creatures in the soil, or the hundreds of spiders in their hopefully, unsprayed yards.

Dragonflies scan their horizon when they rest on the dead tips of plants. Life thrives in the brush pile, not under four inches of mulch.

My concern is the 50% reduction of songbirds the last 50 years. My yard was not flashy and colorful with the big blooms because native plants tend to have small blooms. But by USING SOME OF Floridas 4700 plants you will find there are other useful attributes. Then again there are what I categorize as "worthy exotics."

Native plants such as Fiddlewood and Marlberry are strongly scented with medium sized dark colored berries and birds are well fed when they arrive from up north on their journey south. Grasses provide seeds the smaller birds enjoy. Grasses that seed in the spring feed them when they come back in the spring to fly north. BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE GIANT COLORFUL PUFFY BLOOMS.

Do you want to feed animals and insects and look good in a wild way, or do we want a world devoid of all but human life? We have to stop right now and ask that question.

The colorful biological deserts of most yards may have their "curb appeal," but I would rather have "mother nature appeal" a balancing of all life, a healthy cell in a sick world. I think most people would if they knew better. This story is a deprogramming device for us to think new. Think smart nature.

WEED OR WILDFLOWER?

1 FROG Fruit

2 fleabane

3 spanish needle

My original intention was to make a list of "weeds" that should be seen as wildflowers. This is what I mean by "under construction". My professional goal is to make people aware of all life and what weeds we need to show the general public don't need to be sprayed or pulled. How to Tell Weeds from Wildflowers - Our Wild Garden

Gardening also requires more time and attention than people are used to. You’re too busy to garden? More like, you’re too busy. Fix that.

Should “looking professional” be the goal? Or is using what we already have till it is no longer usable the right thing to do? It is now. Why is recycling seen as low class? To waste means wealth to the upper middle normies. At a gated community I worked at for 30 years, 300, multiple-million dollar homes got built and the dumpster waste could have built 2000 tiny homes.

Just The Waste in the Dumpster.

I tried cutting out waste in whatever way I could think of. I was experimenting with different materials of different thicknesses. I didn't like the recommendation to put 4 inches of sand under brick work. Such a waste and how many more millions of bags of plastic? I tried to use as little as possible and played around with that. There is so much waste, and the reality is that in the next 5 years the demand for plastic is going to INCREASE 30% a year instead of levelling off as it should have.

SUMMARY People talk about recycling plastic as demand increases 30%. Do the math.

I do a lot of FAUX. I had a faux granite rock that I broke up when I dug the trench for the city water back in March. I liked it though. It was supposed to look like a gigantic New Hampshire boulder. I put bits of it in the wall and I think it looked like the tippity top of a gigantic boulder. I liked the effect, but it was seen as sloppy. Unprofessional.

My front sitting area also. Every brick was picked up at the side of the road or abandoned by customers or friends saying “You want ‘em?” Did a nice Herringbone pattern I thought with streaks of red and white.

On the north side are more bricks making an edging. I once used 100 coconuts as an edging and six of them sprouted. Which was a Bonus. They got blown over after about 8 years of looking good but lived after the Hurricanes but then finally died in the cold. 25 degrees one night during a real cold spell.

LOVED THESE GUYS

Greening the indoors and outdoors starts with the waste you create. Rich people all big on giving money to eco-charities while at the same time being responsible for most of the construction waste and the rarely mentioned pollution from cement production. “Let’s build another guest house!” Boxes and boxes of schtuff out by the street. Interior decorating leaves a heavy carbon footprint.

At the UU, the dumpster is emptied three times a week. At least half of that is plasticware. Soup bowls, forks and spoons, all plastic from children eating at the aforementioned pre-school. On and on from the Bridges pre=school. So much plastic waste and diapers were spilled behind the dumpster. Ewwww.

So Bridges, the pre-school is a separate business, and the UU has no say in what they do? They should have required the new owners to use the industrial dish washing machine in the UU kitchen. Bad enough we have to smell the food in the bathrooms, but I use the dumpster and am amazed at the amount of waste they produce. Some of the help miss the huge dumpster and bags break open behind it ande forks and diapers and vomit are exposed when Racoons tear open the bags.

Is this the reverence, gratitude and care we was seeking?

The business model in America is buy a business and think of fresh new ways to cut corners, and I’m sure they don't want to pay for a new dishwasher. Plastic is cheap and disposable and no messy dishes ... and ... get what I'm saying yet?

90 seconds of peace

People primitive camping carrying out their garbage realize how much wasteful packaging is our paradigm dilemma.

I remember the suburbs of yesterday and Big Papa comes out with the spreader on Saturdays basically creating biotic dead zones all over this country. Not to mention carcinogens in your sandbox.

So let’s take a look at your own yards and what you are looking to do in the near future. (5 min discussion)WEEDS OR WILDFLOWERS

On the golf course we heard that there was more leaf surface on the grass than in the Oak Canopy nearby. And, per square inch, I could believe that for a while.

Think of covering a kitchen table with grass and leaves. A lot of photosynthesis going on in both cases, whereas, a tree is mostly empty space. Now imagine that dramatic increase of photosynthetic potential there is in a field of wildflowers!

Natural habitat conservation. I have too many Sea Grape Leaves in one spot and would make a nice blanket of weed suppressors. Lots of bugs like Roly Polys crawling around the decaying leaves. They taste like Cream Puffs to Birds. But cover soil with sea grape leaves? Oh no. That looks sloppy.

Sea Grape leaves. used as plates when green, mulch when dried and brown. Now there is a product with potential. You cant beat it for weed control. But the look is unacceptable. HOA"s and the johns Island and Orchid Island type of places are all about the Real estate value. "Too sloppy. We not white trash." Land values and not the value of the land.

Sea Grape Leaf Mulch would be a great recycled product instead of digging up peat bogs in Canada or decimating Cypress swamps in the south. We don't think local anymore. Thanks to plastic bags. Diesel fuel hauling these bags across the country. Golly, it's such a wasteful polluted system with future contamination problems awaiting for the green economy. How much PVC do we need in the ground?

So many real estate millionaires love their commissions from three million dollar homes, but flip about the preservation of nature. Remember gratitude reverence and care have yet to plant a fruiting shrub.

A lot of what is unacceptable for community standards is common sense. We nearly emptied the swamps of Cypress Trees in our green initiatives in the nineties. Cypress mulch prevents insect damage everyone was told. Remember kill kill kill. So millions of trees were cut in the swamps as if nature would be unaffected. The demand for irrigation and PVC surely hasn't declined in what passes for landscape design. Suddenly everyone seemed to need irrigation. No one needs to tell me twice not to use or adjust an Irrigation System over the past 40 years.

Not too lazy to hold a hose, I guess.

I go out and I need a bit of soil and go to pull the weeds out of a small 30 sq ft area. But here is Merrimia diseccta and there is the Velvetleaf. It sprouts about but no real problem. It’s easy to pull out. But it has a unopened Dandelion look, and a lovely purple color, so leave it. 19 out of 20 people see a weed.

Learn the weeds. The worst is Spurge. It has ten different kinds around here and it's easy to identify. They breed in like 5 days and can quickly take over a brick sidewalk.

The scourge of Spurge is how I remember it. Then there is a weed called the Wimpy Winter Weed. Dies with soap, it's so week, but it doubles in size every day.

Learn to spot Sedges. They will tell you when something is being over watered. Keep the ones you like and put the others in your weed pile. Sand Spurs gotta go. Learn what they look like.

It’s not about knowing so much; its about learning what tends to not work. In gardening, the exception to the rule is the rule. I got A Blue Eucalyptus to survive down to 5 degrees in Connecticut and took it to Florida later in the year. 1989. Not supposed to do that. I grew three mature Mesquite Trees in Florida. Not supposed to do that. According to the Master Gardeners.

Dollar Weed is a problem. Many irrigated lawns have Dollar weed and people call in the herbicides to get rid of it but, but today, the recommendation is not to spray it but turn down the time on your irrigation in that zone. Oh! But then an area that needs irrigation will get dangerously dry. Irrigation is a crutch and a nuisance at the same time. Dollar weed is also edible but not in Johns Island, the toxic wasteland where probably nothing is safe to eat.

So see, doing without irrigation simplifies life. Keep Dollar Weed at least two feet away from the garden areas but otherwise its green and shiny. Mow it with everything else. It's edible? Are you sure? Not the poisoned ones at Johns Island.

We should try and identify these nice=looking daisies and other wildflowers that pop up and dominate the lawn. In February and March. Fleabane. There are so many, and we hardly know who is worth saving. Don't like all this weed pullin'? Then there's Lori the Tortoise who seems to enjoy the variety we have now and why we need to keep more weeds and plant. The latest is she likes juicy Firebush Berries. Pluck a bunch off and let her have at it. Saw her eating a weed. A Chinese Lantern or something and it was gone the next time I looked for it. Very not invasive, this "weed" getting pulled is akin to taking candy from a baby.

Orchid Island stories: -Stickneys Brazilian pepper. Yes I remember. I had gotten so sick of Orchid Island not taking care of its Brazilian pepper problem I went on private property and chained sawed through five of the biggest ones I could find. Then waited.

A1A pepper removal east side

Jungle trail snowberries. Violations everywhere.

How can any plant be a bad plant? Plant communities change all the time. But its a slow shift over years and decades and then sometimes it’s catastrophic. A cow pasture back 'o my house was sold so seven ranch style houses could be built. Red Schuman owned the land and wild dogwoods and pears sprung up from the former cowfield in ten short years. With little being developed all the native plants and fruiting shrubs popped up.

Todays it's a mixed forest of native hardwoods as it remained undeveloped because I assume it was zoned as an occasional flood plain. Local plant communities and ecosystems were basically intact enough so when land was cleared, the local natives sprung into action and covered the bare ground.

That isn’t always true today with all the nature that has been cleared. Invasive weeds are ubiquitous in our ravaged towns and cities.

- Twenty years proving fertilizer and irrigation aren't needed for a native planting, that was my business. I had no reason to underpay people, so I had a craft gardening business. Got my own style. No annuals, no stakes. No wussy plants. I prune most trees at ground level and deep prune fruiting shrubs. Pruning cuts that are not visible.

I chose to try and prove chemicals and irrigation weren't needed in our gardens in this already poisoned world. I could have made so much more money with applications I could sell to people. Or working with people I despise such as funeral directors or indoor plants in lawyers offices. I've watered indoor plants at Hallmark and IBM and Ernst & Whitney among many others.

Most importantly to me personally, was being able to prove that a diversity of plants, leads to a yard that doesn't have problems with pest insect population explosions. I wasn't motivated to be booxhy daddy sending the kids on expensive foreign vacations and spending their entire childhoods preparing for college. Sell the Smiths an expensive fertilizer plan. You know? I would have had to compromise too many of my standards. Did I want to be a green industry hypocrite? The market was already saturated with them.

On the other hand I've used Roundup and can claim to have landscaped with a chain saw and roundup. That's my native habitat landscape on A1A on the east side along Orchid island city limits.

I'd buzz down one Brazilian Pepper a week with the chain saw. Kept invasive plants dead with Roundup. Year by year, the native fruiting shrubs multiplied and expanded into the bare areas. Even nearly

thirty years later you can see how the east side is chock full of fruiting shrubs while the west side of A1A is still a solid wall of Brazilian Peppers.

And of course, irrigation free gardening needs a good hose, ready to go. Windy, dry and hot conditions means monitoring soil moisture and understanding the soil moisture in your entire yard. That's all you really need to know along with which plants are vulnerable to drought damage.

You're brilliant about all things indoors, you can be brilliant outdoors too, now git. What plants need water during a time of drought in your yard? In time you’ll know by just looking. It’s about observation and learning. I'm here. I need a bit 'o work but I got a free hour of suggestions to help anyone to become more aware of what they got and what they could have.

To maintain life we have to be self-sustaining without developing any more wild lands. Wildlife needs lots of space and we have to save whatever is left. THIS IS TOUGH LOVE. Not trying to be insulting, but opening perspectives on stewardship of ecosystems is the purpose here. We can live cheaper and smarter. Bankers own everything but we can put them all out of business with a non-profit AI driven loaning system maintained by the United States Postal Service.

In a total stock market crash they will foreclose on all of the unpaid houses when no one has money anymore. That's the Black Rock conspiracy theory. They will own everything. There's an effort out there to stop them, find out.

Recyclers and recycling You spend time checking to see if that aspirin bottle is recyclable, but no time wondering where the 125 plastic bags from the mulch application goes every year. Or the disposal of 75 plastic pots from new plants to freshen up your landscape. Or the 100 bags of sand for the walkway. To Re Use and RePare is not a meaningless slogan. There is profit in waste and resource extraction.

K Kevin the Turkey Kevin the Turkey attempted to take back the land of his ancestors. He was a polarizing figure in Wethersfield Connecticut and has a large following on Facebook.

He gave me an idea for the germ of an article regarding wildlife returning to populated areas that were once their genetically encoded forage areas. KEVIN THE TURKEY===Birds have large areas they forage in and Kevin was brave enough to mix with the human population.

Owls rotate around three square miles and I love watching the Hawks hunting. Standing on my Recycle barrel looking for something to catch or watching for movement from the wire over the street.

I would certainly hope no one was feeding Kevin the Wild Turkey, but on the other hand Kevin needed to stay away from people who want him to be safe. This is such a teaching moment. We wanted Kevin to have his freedom and reclaim the land of his ancestors but he was chasing small trucks and blocking roads. It was Nature In our Face.

We held our breath fearing the day when we would read that Kevin got hit by a truck he was chasing, but conveniently forget the millions of animals whose habitat was destroyed as Wethersfield went from farms, forests and wetlands, to suburbs, stores and sprawl.

Baby bunnies buried as the foundation of your house was being poured. All that prosperity in Wethersfield. Meanwhile Muskrats were starving and hiding when their wetland was filled in during the silent slaughter created by "civilization". Beavers and Weasals long lost to the empty ecosystem dominated today by Squirrels and Raccoons. Large bug eating animals such as Skunks and Possums are on the ropes in all these communities.

Everything wild about America was tamed and Kevin the Wethersfield Turkey is the symbol of what we once were. There are many ways to integrate wild life back into our life and we need to learn that. Plant trees that have nuts that wild turkeys like, and grow native grasses so turkeys can harvest the seeds. Prune up the canopies of the numerous beautiful trees in Olde Wethersfield so Kevin can fly low like turkeys do.

Kevin reclaiming the ancient hunting grounds and America is finally ready to stop cavalierly running over wild life. A perfect storm of goodness. The cavalier attitude towards animal suffering in the 5/60’s has been put to the test as a social norm these last 60 years and has failed. Kevin symbolizes the wildness we have lost and please ... don't let the Quilting Club knit sweaters for him.

F) BACK TO THE UU

All the unraked Oak leaves lend a sloppy feel to the Dumpster Area and entrance to the pre-school but Oak leaves are great for Earthworms, so I have been moving them into spots. I have 4 or 5 areas now where I put Oak leaves.

Finding native plants is very difficult. Why is that? There is no demand, because there is no education about using native plants, which leads to less demand. Meanwhile, 4700 plants native to Florida, are unavailable in Florida Nurseries. If they sell you native plants, you may never come back. It's all about sales and once you see it, you can't unsee it.

ERNODEA is a seaside plant that grows slowly, and we have one in the Atrium and I have them in at least two yards I take care of. It is a tough plant that is used to exposure and sun. I've seen them come back after being pulled out. Tiny flowers are beloved by tiny pollinators. Fruits are loved by any critter that finds them. We could plant GOPHER APPLE at LRJ which is a ground cover that is fine with full sun. But try and find these plants. Seriously.And now the directive is to just have what was in the (flawed) plan. I am compelled to introduce an acceptable list of potential additions.

Nurseries WANT to sell you plants from all around the world. Landscape architects want you to pump up that total cost of plants. Those big flowered beauties. You can't resist. They know you will come back to spend more money because these plants will need fertilizer and insect control and replacement. Our native plants from central Florida are symbiotically linked with our soil profile. It's small. Small flowers, small pollinators. What leaves break down, whatever twigs there are or what debris blows in, what insects die there or what bird or Fox or Squirrel poops there, is what makes the soil. Earthworms working the dead roots. Raking up the leaves depletes the soil in the Memorial Garden. Organic matter in Florida's sandy soils doesn't last long.

Roots of plants tend to go sideways instead of downwards here. Live Oak roots will stretch out 150 feet in a mature tree. They are picking up nitrogen and nutrients all over the place. There are a lot of Oak roots under the pavement. The 20 places where they intrude on parking spots, can be made inro bicycle parking.

We don't fertilize much because soluble nitrogen that is in 6=6=6 formulations goes right past the root zone with two good, summer afternoon showers. But golly, those previously fertilized Memorial Garden plants are looking needy. More fertilizer. Now check with Accounting. How much EXTRA have I charged the Congregation to keep up the Memorial Garden the last 11 years and Atrium the last 13 years? Fertilizer, mulch, chemical purchases? Plant replacements and other enhancements? My guesstimate is $600 and that is $46 a year.

Taking a look at this property. there has been no policy to plant as if nature mattered. Every last hose is so completely shitty, I don't wonder why no one wants to work outdoors. I'm going to enjoy checking out the Route 60 corridor habitat report. Bring a clipboard and look like I'm from the government and I'm here to help.Inspecting the hoses on the UU site I see one that is not long enough, and one is connected to a bib with no knob to turn it on. The one to water near the pre-school entrance is a joke. 100 feet of hos that barely reaches 20 feet its so old and inflexible.

Reverence, gratitude and care is what the Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary 2030 discusses. But how are UU's stewarding the properties they own? How does our property stack up as a nature-embracing sanctuary? Not very well. I think we need some dramatic improvements, and I will bring it up at a Facilities meeting. Looks like the Unitarian Universalist site in West Melbourne has lots of trees. But what kind of trees? Shrubs and wildflowers are the most prolific food providers.

ASTER blooms every November in the Atrium

IXORAS are from tropical Asia and they used to be problematic because they looked bad after cold winters. But we don’t seem to have cold winters anymore and Ixoras are looking good this year and nurseries are selling lots of them. Do we need to consider the well-known toxic components of Ixora? Possibly toxic to Dogs, it’s being looked into. Meanwhile let's get serious about what we plant. Ixoras have no useful contribution to our Indian River Regions Biosphere. Nothing.

Ixoras have no use here other than to give color. Eye candy. The choice is yours. A splash of color but dying, starving wildlife.

Vanity and extinction, or diversity and life? Make your voice heard.

Ixora is from tropical Asia, and I keep asking, why do we need to plant all these plants not native to Florida? Do we want to look good, or do we want to be useful?

FIDDLEWOOD. Native pollinator magnet and has a gentle gardenia/jasmine scent in its tiny flowers. We have one in the Free Garden, and when it is blooming, people probably don't notice it. They assume that the heavenly scent they detect, is from a Jasmine or something. Fiddlewood also has large fruits that birds love.

KENTIA PALM another one from Australia, is planted near the entrance. People think palms are what Florida is all about, and it’s not. Not in this area. There are 4700 different plants in Florida. Is Kentia Palm from Florida? No. This is where my educational emphasis is going to be. Spotlighting the same old same old twenty plants found county wide, to do what? To purposely look nice. For who? Martha Stewart is coming over? It's not a dinner party y'all.

And guess what! Martha Stewart is no square. She gets it that soil health is plant health, and from Martha Stewart Magazine comes this quote. "Phillips recommends adding food compost to the area to create a nutrient-rich soil without the need for potentially toxic fertilizers. "The best amendment for a native habitat garden is compost," she explains.

"Compost conserves kitchen waste and naturally enriches the soil." Martha Stewart. I used to dig holes and slowly fill them with kitchen waste and cover each addition with little shovelfuls of dirt or leaves. I never liked hours and hours turning a compost bin. It didn't seem right.

Looking for native plants may take me far afield, but I am going to have some by the end of the year that I would like to use.

Take a big look around at the property. Hawthorns rarely grow edible Haws around these parts, and Hawthorns are the majority of the hedges we have planted. The Southwest corner grasss parking lot, does anyone know what is going on environmentally and have there been any attempts to plant for birds or butterflies? Is there a safety check by an outdoor observer. Kristy already has 60 hours of work, in my estimation, and doesnt need outdoor work also.

Go to the northeast parking lot and I see the two ...

AMERICAN ELMS and they are doing well. Tick eating Possums would welcome any seeds they could grow. Many caterpillars are born in them, feeding the birds that visit.

Jamaica Caper a pretty native plant that is happy in the Atrium

WHITE INDIGOBERRY A Florida native with attractive glossy leaves and useful fruit for Birds, Possums and others. White fruit that is vividly colored purple inside. It attracts numerous wasps, flies, Oblique Stripetails, bees and a host of other pollinators, and we have a beautiful example of one in the Atrium. It's about four feet tall on the far right.

ROUGE PLANT. Another useful native I almost forgot to mention.

SIMPSON STOPPER So beloved by the local native plant chapter. They call themselves the Eugenia chapter. Named Eugenia simpsonii before it was reclassified as Myrcianthus. It’s pruned as a topiary in the Atrium, and had hundreds of little red fruits. The fruit didn't fall to the ground, the birds got them, except for a few late ripeners that are still on the plant. They're out there real early, like 4 or 5 o'clock when they know no one is around. Someone had a feast when they found them.

Dr. Khalid has a hedge of Simpson Stopper surrounding his office on Rt 60 and 32^nd Avenue. Walking off some medication, I pulled off a leaf and crushed it and smelled it. That Eucalyptus smell. It was nice to see a solid hedge of our adaptable native on the west and north side of the property. Street conditions but they are holding up pretty nicely.

When it came time to replace the shopworn Hawthorn, I was able to convince the committee to plant 130 Cocoplum. They are a native and hosts so many pollinators but are slowly going dead with our modern hurry up and prune style of care as mentioned.

So here was the challenge. When I was approved to make a design for the plants in the Atrium, I knew what I needed was a variety. Something to bring down insects flying overhead. Birds would naturally check it out ,but the best thing to do was plant a variety of plants with a wide palette of colors and shapes to attract different bugs and whatnot.

One time I grew some Millet. It reached 11 feet tall, and I hoped the seeds would attract random birds flying by. The input I got for that effort was “why are you trying to grow corn?” Plants are everywhere. Do we want to recreate Hershey Gardens or use the 4700 useful plants, native to Florida? Huh?

There's the question. Hershey Gardens or Oslo Park? Looks or Life? pretty or useful. The era of vanity projects is over, and I'm determined to bring the congregation into the 21st century.

In the United States we have been sold a bill of goods regarding lawns and colorful Asian or African plants. Why not use the most beautiful plants and largest blooms? Kill all the soil insects and have a perfect lawn. Makes no sense now, but it is still engrained in peoples minds from all the commercials. It's like people don't understand the first thing about soil. "It turns to mud when it's wet, right?"

I hope I'm clearing things up.

Ecosphere is described this way. "the biosphere of the earth, especially the interaction between the living and nonliving components. What is habitable for living organisms." You representin' a Ecosphere or a Biotic Dead Zone?

Imagine that little four ounce bird flying in from Cuba. Where does it find food or shelter on the Unitarian Universalist property? I wonder if other congregations are aware of the life outdoors? Time to visit some sites. This is going to be fun.

Is COCCOTHRINAX crinite Barbadensis?, a threatened species in Florida. I saved a Firebush and what I thought was a Cabbage Palm. Years later I discovered it was possibly a Coccothrinax, and it’s growing very slowly. Looks like C.crinite. It has a different, thatchy trunk that I didn't notice at first.

However, there is a fear of “Jumping Rats” and I have to keep fronds away from the roof but this stresses it by leaving only three fronds. Maybe 15 years ago there was a rat problem in the overgrown jungle that was once the Atrium, but not anymore. I know the Black Racer visits the Atrium and a mouse or a "Jumping Rat" doesn’t have a chance against it. So, it's not happy to be pruned so severely. I'll google jumping rats to see if we can solve the problem.

GOLDENROD Just getting ready to bloom, the usual fears of its pollen will be mentioned. Even if it were the cause of Hayfever, it’s isolated from everything, 50 feet from any door. It gets confused with Ragweed that is the actual problem plant. This is a new introduction that did fairly well last year and was a small insect magnet.

Here I’d like to make an important point about native plant gardening. Habitat gardening, which I think is what we want to do. I designed a Habitat/Pollinator garden at the Sebastian Town Hall. The Tree Board called it a model planting. This model planting is over twenty years old now and is still presumably self-sustaining.

I took care of it for ten years and didn’t use fertilizer or mulch. The town took it over and seem to be keeping it wild. People from New Jersey think it's a good idea to put their tropical house plants from South America there, however. To this day it has a natural leaf mulch. Self-sustaining and self-generating with wildflowers that reseed themselves. The Florida Privet that I shaped into a tree, and its braided branches, is still there. Time to go there and take pictures.

You can’t plant one native plant and expect it to do well. They want to be in a community of plants. How often does nature plant a single tree in a field of grass? Come on, use your head for something other than a hat rack. It's not natural the way people do things. What passes for design will cost you $75 dollars an hour by college edumacated experts. Professional Landscapings Conventional Wisdom is in dire need of updating. People still out there with their spreaders flinging poison in every direction.

I remember how much changed between the 1991 Master Gardener course I took, and the 2001 version of the Master Gardener course I went through. They went totally non-chemical between those years. I took the course twice at the same location ten years apart.

Very little money is needed to maintain a native planting. That’s the secret the Nurseries don’t want you to know.

Sebastian Town Hall

For $326 in plants, and volunteer labor, this garden has been host to Gopher tortoises, cute little bunnies and innumerable Bird Species since 1998. Always butterflies floating by. It was once a chronic wet area next to where we had our meetings, after a rain the water was almost seeping into the buildings. We decided to plant it ourselves and the result was a self-perpetuating native model planting for new residents to look at while they were getting their permits and dropping off stuff at the Engineering Department.

A little maintenance on the model planting hedges and that's it. Much less time spent (per square foot) managing a native stand as opposed to an exotic, irrigation watered and fertilized flower cluster buster. You all been suckers paying for all that shit all these years.

Same with the Atrium. $1300 to plant and UU has spent less than $100 dollars in replacement plants in the last 12 years. The 25 year old model planting at Sebastian Town Hall is completely self-sustaining. Work crews only have to prune the two native plant model hedges. While $1700 went to refurbish (deaden) the Memorial Garden, with no real net gain.

The Memorial Garden had never needed fertilizer and I introduced many native plants such as Elliot Grass and Scorpions Tail through the years that were popping up throughout the garden in a self-perpetuating way. Didn't need to buy annuals because of that, just pull up the old one because something new was always regenerating.

It was alive with a vast variety of small plants that were useful for insects. Did people think it was a little too wild looking? I think so. Someone saw a spider? Maybe we can build a sidewalk or something. Oh wait, there is a sidewalk?

The seventh principle was an afterthought, wasn't it? Reverence and care of the natural world, something like that? Or maybe just thoughts and prayers do the trick?

These newly planted plants are marginally adjusted to our climate, some die over the summer in the all-day sun exposure. The plants need soil and humus, not mulch. Healthy soil healthy plant. I would buy five bags of humus now and then to enhance the plants and the soil profile, but I'm letting this good looking dead zone run it's course.

Thryallis is pretty but has no wildlife benefit. Let me know if you ever see a butterfly or moth on it. I mean virtually none of the new stuff has any benefit to wildlife.

For 11 years, there were occasional applications of mulch. It wasn't messy, it was busy. Busy with life. I've proved it over and over again the last twenty years as the Garden Green, that a diversity of plants is the best way to co-create with nature. I have no insect problems on any of my accounts and there are lots of insects.

Leaves raked up before mulching and natives such as the sweetly scented Hogplum were torn out. It FEELS lifeless now. For the sake of beauty, I guess. Comfort zone for Boomers, I guess. For pollinators and the rest of Nature, the Hogplum, by itself, had more to offer than all the Ficus Ixora Plumbago Canna Lily Hawthorns, Queen Palms and Hibiscus planted in the Memorial Garden ,,,PUT TOGETHER. So I think we need to discuss the future of the Memorial Garden.

The good news is that it wasn't all eradicated. A new Hogplum has popped up recently. Hopefully it won't be pulled out as a weed FOR THE THIRD TIME. It has come up from a root fragment or something.

So do we want to take the Green Sanctuary commitment outdoors? We need to make a long-term plan that involves replacing dead plants with at least 50% natives. A little quarter acre in Sebastian has more species on it than the entirety of the UU property. That doesnt see right. So, I’d like us to consider how we can help wildlife right here, where we hang out. Make every day Earth Day? Be careful what you ask for.

Reverence, gratitude and care have yet to plant a fruiting shrub.

This picture shows what birds actually eat. Marlberry. A native plant. It flowers, then fruits spectacularly, providing vittles for exhausted, migrating birdlife. This picture is from between annex buildings at Sebastian Town Hall. And I'm sure this prolifically fruiting shrub has begat others, as its seeds are deposited elsewhere by squirrels and birds.

WHEREAS, Ixora, Philedendron, Agave, Arbicolas and other plants from the other side of the world, that have been newly planted, do not. Bottlebrush? A worthy exotic? That's a bit of a stretch. A Bottlebrush hedge is completely overgrown, and in constant need of pruning on the west side of the Unitarian Universalist building. Listen folks. These pretty plants with big flowers. Stop it. Human survival is on the line and the climate change can has been kicked down the road. The Oil and Gas Industry won't go quietly.

LET'S MAKE A PLAN

At the LRJ historical I think we should be exhibiting as many native plants from Florida as we can. Even with natives it doesn't have to be about pretty flowers. Get over yourselves. Get a variety in there and marvel at the explosion of bird and butterfly species. A model planting not a planting for models.

All these rules with the "Johns Island style of Landscaping" 1985 called and said they wanted their weed control mats back.

"Plant things in odd numbers like 3, 5 or 7 so it seems round""

The tree has to be planted here, lined up with the front door." So many "professional" rules that have absolutely sucked the life out of our yards.

I didn't know what the heck that was all about for decades. Some esoteric meaning beyond my comprehension, I figured. Buddha, Kundalini, chakra cleaning? Who knows. The song portrayed the emptiness of upper-class luxury and the story of a cruel master.

In 1981, I inherited a 528-sprinkler head system. Just monitor it, not fix it, thank god.

I still didn't know what the hissing meant in the song, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns". Finally, a few weeks, ago I was revisiting the song and --ding--sprinkler systems, of course! Not so mysterious after all.

Don't need thousands of dollars of PVC to keep these exotic plants alive.

The colorful biological deserts of most yards may have their "curb appeal," but I would rather have "mother nature appeal," a balancing of all life, a healthy cell in a sick world.

Anyone out there wanting to turn their yard into a garden please give me a call. This is actually an infomercial for my side quests; I would happily give potential customers a free analysis of their yard, but I require yards that will yield a minimum of 100 dollars a month in maintenance fees. Or once a quarter in some cases. Phone number earlier in the post. Sometimes managing acreage isn't as difficult as it may seem.

Green lawns in the desert. Lawns where they don't belong. Plant slavery. Pretty over plenty. Water tables and Aquifers be damned. The San Pedro River went underground for 30 miles as a result.

Profit oriented nurseries and overpaid, college edumacted landscape architects. Clueless property managers. Budget cutting City Councils. And yeah. The Garden Clubs. Death panels, every last one of them. Choosing aesthetics without regard to nature. We're coming for ya. Young scientists gonna kick your silly asses. Veterans of the stewardship game R gonna shame your lame, platitudinous designs in order to reclaim our wildness.

plat·i·tu·di·nous plan·tings

[ˌpladəˈto͞odənəs]

ADJECTIVE

(of a remark or statement) used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; hackneyed:
"this may sound platitudinous"
SIMILAR:
hackneyed
overworked
overused
clichéd
banal
trite
commonplace

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Wildlife Value of our Plants

Always a lively presentation of Issues and fresh perspectives during the service on Sunday. Then a bodacious coffee hour afterwards with the nicest people in Vero.

Earth Day is on the way, it's always on the way, right? And people at the UU like to say, let's make every day, Earth Day. OKAY, LET’S DO THAT!

Are UU properties around the country filled with food for the many forms of wildlife? From the Common Toad to the Nematode and the American Three-toed Woodpecker? Habitat useful for birds, butterflies and pollinating insects, and a safe harbor for all life? Not just another vanity project, but a home for nature. Rapid population declines of many: Insects, Bats, Moths, Beetles, Birds and Bees, are jeopardizing the pollination of EVERYONES fruits and vegetables.

I'm also setting out to show you that the Green Industry has been all about making money and quite dependent on gasoline by-products to make that money. It has never been about creating habitats for wildlife in our yards and there has been a callous disregard of nature for forty years throughout this fake Green Industry. An illusion of green gardening, and this is why UU’s need to lead into the future because the monied interests will not.

I remember when Flower Time ravaged the hometown nursery businesses all across New England in the 80's. Small business livelihoods were crushed as chain stores displaced corner markets. Many families closed their roadside stands and farm stores. Along with that, local lore and plant knowledge was lost as the corporatization of America swept over us like a Red Tide.

California "farmers" were allowed to take the water from the Colorado River and monopolize produce markets and the entire small business community is no longer able to function.

How did trees manage for millions of years without Joe's Landscaping, and big bags of fertilizer? Let's try and figure that out. Everyone wants to park in the shade, but no one wants to plant the trees.

The intention of the Atrium Garden was to bring the indoor Green Sanctuary idea, to the outdoors. There are at least ten plants blooming or fruiting in the Atrium, all year long. Goldenrod, Aster, Rouge Plant, Marlberry, White Indigoberry are all native plants that were prolifically flowering and/or fruiting this past year.

Our UU site has reversed direction and back towards the hackneyed design concepts and specious plant choices of 1985.The Atrium is not designed to be pretty and orderly like a gated community entrance, but wild and spontaneous with small blooming flowers and colorful leaf displays that change and evolve. The Yoga class enjoys it.

These gated community entrances are about selling real estate, and never about recreating the local ecosphere. People understand land values but not the value of the land, or the millions of creatures in every town that depend on it. Doing for wildlife. Starting right here. Right Now. Understanding that the web of life isn't out there somewhere ... but right here. It's the spiders and potato bugs. Gated community garden designs are platitudinous conglomerations of dead to wildlife exotics.

It's like burning an enemy's crops so they starve to death when thousands of biotically useless plants are installed. Place 1000 plants on your big estate and never ask if they benefit the local flora. Looks neat and tidy. Benefit to wildlife? Meh. 1985 called and they want their chemical-filled curb appeal back.

Thousands of living species fly or walk or crawl past our properties in Florida. Nature is looking to eat, sleep, migrate and multiply. The Simpson stopper fruit ripened in July and August, and it was gone. The birds are in there at 4 in the morning when you can't see them. Flying in and feeding. Hopping around looking for insect appetizers.

Mockingbirds found the Marlberry berries and I viewed them two feet away from the window indoors. Go to the Emerson Center Box Office. The Atrium Garden is in view from there. Lots of Natives. A Hummingbird found its way into the Garden for several weeks.

Reverence, gratitude and care, does not plant a fruiting shrub. Ask yourself when you go home today ... what would a Painted Bunting find to eat in my yard as it flies to its summer feeding grounds up north. Earth Day, remember? Every day.

Nurseries don't want people filling their yards with prolifically fruiting native shrubs such as Rouge Plant or Wild Coffee or the ubiquitous Lyonias you see at the 7700-acre Sebastian Buffer Preserve. Before you know it, your yard has filled in with them and you don't need the nurseries anymore except for the occasional statuary.

I was able to add plants for no cost, culling from native plant babies at other sites and the Atrium. Probably 12 species of native plants were removed from the garden. As Weeds. You know. Unstructured. Wild. Spiders everywhere! Native plants regenerate, and so after 13 years there were virtually no costs to the congregation but for my pay. All the host plants I had planted were gone. Some people see weeds, but nature sees food. Now Nature is gone.

This WAS the outdoor Green Sanctuary idea in action. A nearly zero carbon footprint. No fertilizer, no plastic pots, and plants that our native creatures were using as food. Leaves breaking down to make a living soil in our sandy Florida soil profile. There it is. Biodiversity is a wide open field we can lead in. Imagine, a Sequoia growing 384 feet tall without help from Joe's Landscaping! Relying completely on dead leaves and plants. Could that be the secret?

Do we plant gardens for people who want vanity gardens and an insect-free world, or do we plant for all life? The Garden Green. Sometimes Gardening, always Green. Reverend Scott Alexander knew what I was talking about and I planted a nice habitat in his yard for the ten years he was here. The new owners tore it all out, as people tend to do because there is virtually no education about building habitat. It’s all about looks and the resale.

I was curious to visit the nearest UU in Melbourne. They have a large native plant stroll garden at their entrance, and they allow community groups to use their container gardens out back.

Colorful trendy plants from the other side of the world do nothing for the abundance of Florida's 365-day outdoor life, You bet the nurseries have their shelves stocked with fungus, weed, and insect killers for these unnatural aliens that are commonly planted. No pollen, no nectar no fruit. Just flowers for people that can't design past color and placement.

Where do they come up with this exotic folderol? It started with Colonialism and botanists bringing back plants for the Queen. “Doth pleaseth thee, your majesty?”

Two hundred bags of mulch. That’s a half a dumpster of plastic that can’t be recycled. 2,000 Ziplocks. Not gardening in the green way. "Gardening adds years to your life, and life to your years."

Dahoon Holly are looking good. After seeing how well they were doing in Sebastians parks plan, I suggested them as replacement for the rapidly declining Oak population. American Elms were planted eight and twelve years ago respectively and are growing quite large with very minimal effort. A little watering when they were little and during a few dry spells, and now they are 16 and 24 feet, respectively. They started as $3, wholesale, 1-gallon trees.

This is Green. The Garden Green. The lightest carbon footprint that can be found. To use as few resources as possible, for the desired green effect. Right?

Flower crazed northerners. It's not Michigan or Indiana or South Dakota. We don't have a 100 day growing season where we plant annuals for pizazz after a LONG, GLOOMY, winter. We have to keep things going all year. How much has been spent on irrigation the last 20 years to try and keep all this unnatural detritus alive? Staining everything brown with tannic acid.

The art of gardening has been totally lost in this area; $90 an hour landscape architects, who live far from here, can be held responsible. Nurseries and garden clubs need to be called out for the plastic waste and the hackneyed designs they encourage.

Eduaction. Billions of fruiting shrubs like Huckleberry, Blueberry, Wild Coffee and Simpson Stopper were plowed into burn piles for development. It was a garden of 'eatin for birds on the Atlantic Flyway.

Is there a balance between visual aesthetics, which everyone wants, and wildlife enhancement that people don't understand? Are people willing to tolerate a little wildness in their yards and gardens? Planting as if all the creatures mattered. Is your civic facility ready to shift to life-supporting plants because most yards do not resemble the wild lands in any way. Landscapes in this area are like flower arrangements at a dinner party to most people. It just has to look good and very few yards replicate our wild lands. 7th Principle: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."

700 million plastic pots every year for annuals in America? Where does all that plastic go? This is what we need to be talking about to our congregations. We can lead here. INSECT CONTROL. I did an experiment last year with a Palm Tree in the Atrium. Completely covered with Scale. Which poison should I use to kill them? Air circulation is compromised with the four walls surrounding the garden. Time goes by. No chemical treatment at all, not even horticultural oil. Then, three or four months later I noticed the scale were gone. Kaputski! Most likely lizards ate them all, because scale tastes like marshmallows to them.

Birds feed their helpless young, and this food consists of 95% live prey. The quicker they can find breakfast for the babies, the more time they can spend with their families. So are you anti-family? ASK YOURSELF --- How will these plants I'm going to purchase enhance wildlife? It’s easy to learn. Learn the plants you look at every day. How do they function in the ecosystem? You will learn that many do not.

A 4-ounce bird has just flown 250 miles hopping from one island to the next looking for food and shelter as it migrates north. She sees the same old same old, non-native plants. Off to the next house on the barrier island....no food there either. She flies over to the mainland to a yard with White Indigo berry, Wild Coffee, Elderberry, Fiddlewood, and Marlberry. A gang of Warblers were bouncing on the branches gorging on something.

Catbirds, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Doves, Mockingbirds, Hawks and Blue Jays in this yard. A Birdgarden designed to feed and house them. On a tiny 80x120 lot with more bird visitors than an entire 4-acre facility. Stewardship. Stop burning the bird villages to the ground.

At the intersection of Action and Education. European Honeybees are not our best pollinators. They retain as little as 10% of their pollen in their travels, whereas a native bee is caked thick with pollen and consequently has higher pollination rates. Even this one little fact is not general knowledge. Most people treat plants like indoor furniture, you know, like a prototype car with no engine, it doesn’t work in nature.

Feed animals and insects or a beautiful world devoid of all but human life? "Curb appeal," or "mother nature appeal," a balancing of all life. A healthy cell in a sick world. I think most people would.

Reverence, gratitude and care is what the Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary 2030 discusses. But how are UU's stewarding the properties they own? It's like people don't understand the first thing about soil. "It turns to mud when it's wet, right?"

"Curb appeal," or "mother nature appeal.”

A last note on the piratical, profit-oriented nurseries and overpaid, college edumacated landscape architects. Clueless property managers. Budget cutting City Councils. And yeah. The Garden Clubs. Death panels, every last one of them.

Ecosphere is described this way. "the biosphere of the earth, especially the interaction between the living and nonliving components.

*plat·i·tu·di·nous Hackneyed overworked overused clichéd trite commonplace.

END OF WILDLIFE VALUE OF OUR PLANTS

BELOW IS DIFFEERENT ENTRY

-6-3-

JOHNNY HUCKSTER

December 30, 2023

I had started 2023 with the vague notion to create the Johnny Huckster persona which was going to be within the Community Product and Service Exchange concept.

We need to get behind something. People are using thrift stores much more, spontaneous markets have begun to pop up, and in my travels, I see gas stations selling goods that are obviously homemade and locally sourced.

When there is a major conference somewhere in the world, who goes? The G-20? Certainly not the People. NAFTA? Wasn't that about crushing small business on both sides of the border?

What have we got to get behind, then?

We set up a series of Community Exchanges.

What we do is trade amongst each other. Zoom or actual meetings. No more third Thursday of the month meetings to connect unless you want to. Let THEM worry about cargo ships stuck in the Suez Canal and the Somali pirates.

Community Product and Service Exchange. How does only Facebook have a marketplace? Though I have noticed it works well for regular folks selling their surplus stuff.

Much like the Grange of Old, at the CPSE, we store surplus, shelf-stable goods. There are days we are open and staffed by volunteers.

Bring Sysco and its food like products to its knees. I saw amazing growth in the farm to table initiatives as Covid progressed and corporate shelves were getting empty.

Imagine a Community Exchange (CE) in any form you like. These abandoned malls and closed Burger Kings and country homes on the verge of being too expensive to repair. You know, Turkey threatens to close US bases in 2019? Fangool to them ...imagine the savings if we did. Close the bases and Ambassador palaces.

We could close 200 bases in Turkey Japan and Germany.. We could fund 1,000 No-kill animal shelters across the country with 20,000 employees if we start abandoning the Middle East. Or a free intercontinental bus system. The Middle Eastern people haven't stopped killing each other since 4000 BC. Leave them be.

Once upon a time every town had a Grange but they were all closed up in my young years. Some had 125 years of farmers selling their wares, and the furniture makers marketing their wares, and wool garmenters, their home made wears.

I belonged to a food co-op in '73 and '74, and to get the wholesale prices, you needed to volunteer two hours a month. I'd have a backpack full of peanuts and potatoes and carrots to bike home with, and was even a vegetarian for a while with so much produce available. It was about that time when I learned how Veal Loaf was made.

Art or Furniture or anything else that used to be made in this country, can be sold at these Community Product and Service Exchanges CPSE.

You're going to see a BUY USA initiative get serious this y.ear.

A focus on locally sourced products that local people are looking for.

Community Exchanges would also trade with each other, exchanging surpluses. Sending Mangoes up in June and sending peanuts down in September.

The Johnny or Jenny Huckster, is the person that drives between the Community Product and Service Exchanges. This is what I was trying to put into action in 2023.

I try to have as low a carbon footprint as possible with my 2009 HHR. At 52 MPH on a smooth road, I get 39MPG. I lived AND worked in and out of that car over 125 days in 2023. I visited ZERO tourist destinations and used a single burner propane burner to cook when outdoors.

Biscuits and Gravy at local historical home. Single burner and my cast iron pan gets the job done.
I made Chicago Dogs at Mill Woods in Wethersfield. Completely contained in my relatively small vehicle. That was the goal.

cute cat pic till I find the "mill woods chicago dog" pic

An improvement on that carbon footprint would be Bio-diesel. Using restaurant oil to deliver to restaurants. Some delicious irony there and a double pun.

Or deliver to Food Trucks, which is another trend that will be big in the next five years. Not just farm to plate, but farm to food trucks. Putting the chain restaurants out of business. Their greed is going to drive them out of business. Pricing themselves right out of the market.

So to create Johnny Huckster I had to be Johnny Huckster. The spokes that support the hub that the Community Exchange would be.

I had to live it and also, I have to do what I can ... while I still can, as I approach 70.

#Houselessness is trending. It was an adventure for me. I could have borrowed a few hundred bucks to get a roof over my head, but I wanted to do this. One last ride. Well ... a couple last rides. I've been in 32 states the last three years.

Like I mentioned, our American economy is about to change dramatically but, I'm hopeful it will be mostly good changes.

The people who save the seed grow the food ship the food, process all the agricultural products people who cook your food and clean up the mess you make at Cracker Barrel. We'uns going to create our own economy and by doing that we will resolve our left/right differences and without the parasitical white collar class we will all make more money.

I'm imagining people living out of their food trucks. I see these electric bicycles popping up everywhere. The whole economy is ready to do a transposition into Market Socialism.

The hapless, feckless fools in Washington are all about enabling corporate control of all markets. They don't even know we exist anymore. So we're going to create a new economy as if the old one doesn't even matter.

We need food trucks at work sites. We need work sites so we can get food. Let the buyer beware. Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware) is also CE. We are not the rubes of 1950 who bought into every corporate ensnarement they could get their hands on. I recall the Tabacco industry going to Saturday movies back in the 30's and 40's and give away free cigarettes so the kids would get hooked.
Gonna be A LOT of bridges getting repaired and rebuilt in the near future. Water pipes collapsing and rotten in big cities need to be replaced. Everyone trying to be millionaires with the overlapping pyramid schemes in the last 40 years and resource and ecosystem destruction fueled development and to create the illusion of prosperity.

Alachua, Tallapoosa, and Tallahoma would all have exchanges and would trade with each other. Add Durham and Four Oaks and I am looking into the Franklin North Carolina Asheville corridor for opportunity.

My target area is; Franklin Georgia to Franklin Tenneesee to the, oh so beautiful, Franklin North Carolina.

Look that up and within that triangle is where the best "climate change --- work at home" place to be is going to be. Learned that from a strange visitor at a campground, and from some real estate insiders. In ten years most of North Carolina will be too expensive to live in for the workers.

At the Community Exchange (CE) we would co-incidentally keep Caveat Emptor (CE) as the underlying theme. "Let the buyer beware". The motto of the marketplace for thousands of years will return.

People should be able to sell tinctures and potions out of their house. Or have a Raw Milk delivery route.

Here's the rub. Without government regulation or interference.

So much STUFF out there that needs to be fixed. And seriously do you go to thrift stores? The world can stop making clothes for ten years and we would still have most of it ending up in the dumpsters.

We create our own network of Community Exchanges. Running between them are the Johnny or Jenny Hucksters.

I haven't told my stories to anyone yet and I didn't even write down any notes in 2023, so I have to flashback.

I remember driving away from Tennessee headed for Durham and getting in a three hour traffic jam to go 40 miles outside of Chattanooga. That was going to have me coming in late to Asheville. After sunset.

I wanted to check out the Asheville alternative scene and I needed a place to spend the night. I ended up getting there at 8 that evening and finally staying at an RV friendly Cracker Barrel after a visit to the Waffle House.

After five hours of sleep, I needed a rest room. 3 am there were none. Wait, there's a Waffle House. Then I figured I could just pullover on the Blue Ridge somewhere and get a couple more hours of sleep, so that's what I did. I drove out of town then slowly up the Blue Ridge Parkway to Mt. Mitchell which was my #1 goal.

It was raining up on the Blue Ridge but not foggy, which was a great relief and I found a pullover that no one was going to bother me at . Well, there was the big heavy storm at that time, closing roads and whatnot. Headline news. It was the 18th of June and I was catching up to the storm as I drove eastwards.

I woke up three hours later to three inches of water in the parking area. I must have slept through a downpour. Lucky to have my Crocs on. But it was all good, 6 o'clock and I was a half hour from Mt Mitchell.

I was up to the parking area at 6:45, even before the employees. Too foggy for the big view, but dry enough to hike the moss covered trails.

Hiking comfortably amidst massive moss at 6300 feet, I noted on FB that people on Mt Washington at 6288 feet were probably pretty cold. And that, after the harrowing drive up the thin laned and precariously curved mountain road.

There was one facebook friend who posted pictures of them and some friends in their Parkas with piles of snow in the background. All smiling after not sliding off the dangerous icy road to the summit. It was late June and 60 degrees on Mt. Mitchell to start the day. Extremely recommended if you're down that way, Mt. Mitchell has an easy drive up, and a spacious parking area.

Johnny Hucksterism is a lifestyle and I lived it in 2023. 125 days on the road. No notes so I'm going to indulge my memories. This is a manual for laying out your future. "van life" as some call it. #Houselessness is trending and I never considered myself homeless. I was building a business model. It was also one last adventure perhaps, as I approach 70 but still enjoying sleeping in a cot and looking up at the stars from my tent, or the HHR Moon Roof.

One theme. I go where the good weather is. Or I been hella lucky.

First of January in 2023 I went to practice my camping at Fort Drum for five days. Trying the patience of my calves and triceps as I dragged everything I needed six tenths of a mile to the campsite. I counted the steps. 2500. So in a five day stay I walked it 12 times, let's say. Mostly to charge the phone back at the car. 14.4 miles in total and my back never felt better sleeping on my borrowed cot. Legs and arms felt strong when it was over.

glad I saw the Georgia Guidestones before they were blown up by the local snowflakes. Illuminati boogie man you know.

In April, I went to Georgia to paint a house. A twelve day, all expenses paid, cannabis friendly, biscuit-fest. I also began tearing up a sidewalk of interlocking pallets. They were slippery and dangerous but kept the walkway above water. We made a plan for finishing in July.

Twelve days deep in the forest in Georgia within sight of the Alabama border and then back to work in Florida. No one was even aware I was gone. Going to Carolina for a week I told a few people since I am expected weekly at most of my jobs.

At the time K was done renting a room from B and she wanted to get the heck out of Florida before it got too hot. So we shared a camping spot at Donald McDonald Campground for 8 days in April 2023. Ten dollars a piece per day. Then I went to site #14 by myself for four days. Beautifully managed, foresty place.

So, I was literally in the forest for the entire month of April with the combinations of jobs and situations I found myself in. This felt like what I was trying to accomplish.

And you bet your bippy I was wore out from camping, cars and couches for an entire month.

It hurts. Sometimes everything hurts. But I'll tell you what, there are going to be many thousands like me looking to avoid the high rents and make an attempt to live and work out of their car. So let me recall as much detail as possible and try to explain the business model i am trying to create.

Stayed with ex and son till June 14th and then a planned house and dog sitting gig was on deck in Durham.

Streamside in Lynchburg Tennessee

Sturdy inside. Has electric. Be a nice site for a

COMMUNITY PRODUCT AND SERVICE FACILITY. We can do it folks. Create a new small business economy as if the old one doesn't even matter.

There was a brouhaha about some Fathers day slippers I was supposed to deliver, but I already had plans. I had three hundred pounds of some very fine, rich people paver rocks to deliver. Some medicine to deliver to Tennessee. Great weather in Georgia again last June and then Tennessee. Summer hadn't hit yet. In Lynchburg Tennesse I stayed in a newly purchased plantation home that was getting renovated. Asked about a painting gig there but they got it all done themselves.

Two barns on site and fencing for Sheep. Some really fine hundred year old trees. A creek was nearby and giant slabs of rock appeared to have been moved by the currents during extreme washouts. (see photo above). So much Birdlife it seemed; like I hadn't seen since my childhood when birds were always flying out of the brush all day long.

And fireflies. So many and a family of Cardinals were feasting on them. Fireflies is bird food with lights on, so it was moonlight madness sittin' on that .

So far, staying in the forests in June and July also.

In Durham North Carolina, I had a dog/cat/house sitting gig in a nice 60's style house in the Parkwood Section. Close to downtown. Importantly, one of the most nicely designed neighborhoods I've ever seen. Most houses were off the main road but close enough for easy access. So much safer and every house looked different quite unlike Indian River County and its ticky tacky gated communities. There was a really swell Mideast Market with some unique selections to create recipes that was near the community garden.

Amazingly, there was an Ancient Forest trail that started within view near the back yard. So me and Baloo, the lovable Pittie, would hang out in the back yard. Anyone walked by and he'd be off barking. Don't need a no trespassing sign with Baloo on duty.

The picture below doesn't do the Ancient Forest trail any justice. Very nice hiking trail that started next door and a community garden that was flowering prolifically at the other end of the trail. The weather continued to stay cool till about the 4th of July. At the same time I saw the smoke and haze from the Canadian wildfires roll in.

Two days we stayed indoors. Hot and Smoky. Summer of 2023 finally caught up with me. In Florida, where I normally would have been, it was fully summer with its debilitating humidity. It was also Mango season and I had brought a bunch with me. People going ewww when I posted a picture of my Spam l'mangue. Organic Mango, locally sourced peppers and Spam.

I managed to stay out of state for a month and check off the last thing on my bucket list which was seeing the Rhododendrons in bloom in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Parkwood Durham NC

So, another month on the road. 3 weeks in Durham and a week in Georgia finishing the walkway project. Sixty five days so far. I didn't go back either time to re-supply at my storage space. I was totally contained, then switched back to a working vehicle on July 15th and stayed with the ex and my youngest till October 15th.

Customers seemed all right with me being gone for a month and it was a most triumphant moment to have finished a second full month as Johnny Huckster.

You don't see the homeless till you are homeless or houseless yourself. I stayed at truck stops for $5.35 and saw the homeless on their bicycles and some with their young children and I listened to stories about conflicts while standing in line.

I stayed at a location that will remain a secret for now. Cost $0.00. A little outside of town but nice dark sky to watch the moonrise of see the stars. Listen to the distant sounds of large bird life. Big hooty Owls. Trying to figure out what noises were alligator noises, and did I just hear a pig getting caught by a Panther or Coyote?

Another thing about memory. What do you do as you see your own facilities decline? Many elderly will be homeless or already are as the squeeze continues to bleed the middle class, and the long time essential workers of the lower middle class.

This is the core of my business model. How are people going to move around? Where will we live? It's concerning that predatory male creeps are everywhere and the safety of women trying to be Jenny Huckster is in jeopardy.

And where are all the Black People? They have to be overly cautious with all these crazy, heaven-bound, gun crazed White people around. Not to mention the knuckle dragging white nationalists and racist police.

In St. Lucie County there is a gigantic rest area, but you are only allowed to stay there 3 hours. THREE. Florida state law.

But I felt I was an advantaged homeless. I had a car. And money for gas and I have work commitments. But I was running out of places to be discreet. My luck that this area has been noted for its notoriously over priced rentals.

Now it's 2024 and I need to expand on this.

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The whole economy is doing an inversion. It looks like the paperwork parasites will be on the run since Artificial Intelligence can easily replace them.

Non-profit banking and non-profit insurance companies can bring the cost of housing down tremendously. Have hope, there are ways for nearly all Americans to achieve home ownership.

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WHO ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE

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. A black budget CIA doing things we would never vote for. Then we have capitalist opportunism gone wild as it began running roughshod on the domestic economy crushing all the small markets.

Amoral Chicken Hawks getting your kids to fight in their paranoid wars since WW2. Meanwhile, numerous countries in the Middle East have been bombed into rubble, much to the delight of those with stocks in American bomb-making facilities and mega-developers such as Dick Cheney's Halliburton.. Lookin' at you Boomers.

When you see the Afghanistan veteran with one leg, remember your comfortable position in life with your war stocks was a trade off you accepted with the reality of war and the casualties that occurred and causalities that ensued.

Regime change in Libya was abhorrent in my view, and it's why I could not find any enthusiasm for Hillary in 2016. Nobody could, she couldn’t even attract a disinterested cynicism and was in favor of a war of any sort. Totally Bernie or Bust.

There was also a clotted nothingness to her, not to mention the bill baggage. How did we end up with two international crooks as the best two candidates that year has been my question? Then Bernie got totally snowballed in 2020 as Bidens tepid campaign continued even as Bernie suspended his campaign because of Covid Cluster concerns with the crowds.

Biden didn't have to worry about that since there has never really been crowds for Biden. No primary in 2024. What a joke.

There was the corporate invasion of Iraq which proceeded for 13 years with virtually no antiwar effort, once the wars began. Therefore, in 2009 as the wars droned on, Obama appeased the right wingers by keeping up with their wars. If he had quickly wound down the two wars after becoming president, the rest of his presidency would have been all about what a coward he was. How he couldn't stand up to terrorism.

This is how the GOP works, even after 13 years, members of the GOP say we should still be in Iraq. Hedging their bets on many issues, getting nothing done. Both parties thinking it was all right to stay in Afghanistan for 16 years. these politicians and the warrior elites have spent ungodly amounts of money as war without end became popular.

Boomers appreciated how well their war stocks were doing, "Space Program," their broker told them.
President Obama somehow got his footing in the quicksand of Republican incontinence, and he salvaged George "Cheney" Bush’s wars, acting more like a republican than a republican. I called Obama the best republican president since Eisenhower and Obama is sometimes called George Bush the Third." Where is the party for peace? 300 million guns and we can't protect ourselves? Accept we are a nation filled with guns and the CIA doesn't need a secret 35 billion dollar budget! WTH! Now what do we do?

Some white people seem obsessed with cleanliness and order, especially order. As my Facebook bio says, "White people have become sociologically inbred with their faith in authoritarian excess." Unless it's a test range for bombs and weapons, then hell, the messier the better. ⇛ ⇒

Show them who's boss.

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As a youth, I would often note "Columbus didn't discover anything," and I would add, "the Indians were already here." People actually responded with, “you know, the first civilized people." This benighted behavior, 'donut from bile spewing haters are turning out to be far more dangerous than supposed, and their verbal bilge more prevalent than I ever realized.
There haven’t been many people as deeply and severely critical of white people as me in many of my past essays, and conversations with people about the sham of Manifest Destiny. Therefore, I am going to tackle the white supremacy problem prepared for disagreements from all sides, because this is one of those volatile and polarizing issues we can't talk about with few issues we can agree on.

2022 ed. note Conniving hucksters on both sides pushing their agenda while Independents attempt to find a consensus. 20% are conservatives and 20% identify as Liberal which leaves 60% as independents and if these independents voted for independent candidates, the right or the left wouldn't be fighting for a majority. The Independents would be a majority. Independents vote by the issue, not the party line. Why is our news about whose got the most votes? It should be about how the two parties stifle competition.

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a} THE SKY IS FALLING

Trust me; there are scarier aspects to this whole alt-right problem that people don't even see yet. First of all, as I update this piece a bit, what has happened in 2017-9 is white MALE supremacy. I'm trying to put a fresh perspective on this issue and I want to help us all understand how to read between the lines with these people. The red hats who speak in riddles and dog whistles. All they have are vulgarisms and terrorism. Nothing for workers or families or markets in poor areas.
"Are you a white supremacist?" is the question that popped up in the break room one day. In the mind of the White Nationalist he is thinking that he is a white MALE supremacist, which is different, so he says no and this is one way they avoid answering direct questions, and this is how they lie in your face. They lie to themselves first.

Who are these white people, and is it worth the time to refute their walls of fallacious arguments? They bombard good facebook pages with nonsense. They got their screwy fanaticism and flag fetishism and if protestors come up their driveway, they are ready to mow them all down like zombies

Their evolving coup of the United States government is 40 years in the making, even 60 years going back to the founding of the JBS. John Birch Society. I trace it back to 1946, 78 years ago, and the Nazis who were pardoned and brought into our government. Our foreign policy became rooted in the fear of communism, instead of the actual threat. Creeping Naziism.

Stupid Bigly forced their hand, and today in 2020 we have apparatchiks encouraging t***p to declare Martial Law. Then the Gravy Seals invasion of Congressional buildings in 2021. Because why?

Misguided but motivated, Christian militants in the early 80's announced their plans to "put as many Apocalypticists as possible in the military and police." Their plan was out in the open at first. God is coming and so is the end of the world. They are yearning for Armageddon, and you have to wonder if there is some mental illness at work here. Maybe even demon possession.

"No one can know the time" said a Pentacostal girlfriend referring to the Second Coming...."but soon," she assured me back in 1976.
Back then, I would point out to people that ... intending to create Armageddon via our military was Treason. "Aw they're not serious." So, there I was, "the sky is falling" again. Yet here we are many years lateT***p moves the embassy to Jerusalem because the evangelicals told him it was prophecy.

Fox News is the ultimate KKKool-aid and brainwashing tool for far too many white people. Mind control candy. GOP politicians are probably the most despicable demographic going, but, on the other side, the cultural appropriation nonsense needs to be dealt with also.

On the other hand, those gender issues that the city slicker liberals have gotten themselves mired in, that rural people could really give a shit less about, have stolen the narrative. Hard fought, pyrrhic victories for simple equality based on our Constitution, while the rich get richer and most of the rest of us are now leading lives of quiet desperation. The middle class has shrunk from 60% of the population to 30% as a result of trickle-down economics. 50% of Boomers have no savings and live on the edge of survival.

These are battles that shouldn't have to be fought were it not for the snowflake conservatives and their moral high ground hypocrisy. Marriage equality? Check the Constitution. Americans have the ninth Amendment to protect themselves from the regressive ideocracy that is emerging.

On the other hand, I am at my wit's end trying to understand what I can and can’t do and say, with this extreme City Slicker Liberal agenda. There are so many things I can't talk about any more, and not just the Polish jokes.

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Either way, if we play this right, we can uproot the neo-liberal people in power.

The dingleberries clinging by a hair to their illegitimate authority. The congealing Oligarchy guiding the hapless peasants who only know how to obey ... is not going to be the story.

I know the American Constitution has all the freedoms that I love, but I am also the last person who wants to insult someone about their culture. So one of my kin picks up a shirt from Africa about Africa and then she has to worry about offending someone when she wears it back here in Florida? How crazy is that?

Independent thinking people are beginning to be concerned about this dumbed down mob rule. Political correctness needs me to identify with “my” cultural group instead of considering myself, a… global citizen? One problem for me is that I've been appropriating Yoga for over 45 years now and I am absolutely in shock that I have been insulting people by appropriating their culture!
Do I follow “white” customs only now? Am I white enough though, to do an Irish jig?

Did you know "paddy" is a slur against Irish people! It never ends, all these slurs and insults. Luckily the Irish don't give a shit.

What can I dress my child up as for Halloween with all this noise about cultural appropriation? This is how this whole article started.

Am I white enough to drink tea at Tea Time without insulting someone? Political correctness is like six million band aids when just a bit of surgery is what is needed. Honesty surgery to the body politic. Out of many...one. UNITED states. United people. god has nothing to do with it. God is the problem here, not the solution.

Would my southern Mediterranean self be insulting the pasty white northerners from England and Ireland if I appropriate their customs? Am I the right kind of white? Is there a wrong kind of white? Holy shit, I'm getting confused!
What if my DNA profile shows I’m from Egypt or India? Quite a few people thought my dad looked like Anwar Sadat and I look like my dad. The point I am going to try to make is that some of us are going to use whatever we damn well please from whatever culture we want to.

"Life is tough, get a helmet" Dennis Leary.

B} THE VITAL ENERGY OF DEMOCRACY
One prism of understanding the American Constitution is when you can comprehend why we don't put the Ten Commandments on court building walls, as fervent christian zealots want. As I said before, the founding revolutionaries excoriated and eviscerated religions creepy grasp on the VITAL ENERGY OF DEMOCRACY in the United States as best they could. Clergy has been coercive for five hundred years in America and their corrosive scare tactics have about run their course. 500 years with not a single demon produced. All they have are unprovable myths, death threats and military grade weapons. I'm trying to get inside the bubble and show them the frailty of their initiative. Faith has no legs.

The Founding Documents is where the actual spirit of Liberty was born. The Founding Revolutionaries were most decidedly in favor of the separation of church and state, and Liberty was the Vanguard of the Revolution, not the bible. Jefferson showed his scorn for the clergy by making a Jesus Bible that deleted all the miracles but kept the commonsense kindness.

The one constant that all the founding revolutionaries believed, was that religion was too often a corrupting influence on government, and they were determined to keep the clergy at arm’s length in this new country they eventually called The United States.

Freedom of religion was to protect YOU, from ANY coercive majority religion. The forced conversions of islam and christianity was foremost in the FOUNDERS thoughts with the bloodthirsty Ottoman Empire actively rampaging into Europe, and the Christian Inquisition still in the news in the late 1700's when the American Revolution occurred.
It could be Quakers or Hindus 500 years from now. No religion, period, insisted the Founding Revolutionaries.

EVER! Got it? Christians creating an anti-liberty and anti-freedom judicial precedence.

This was truly on their minds as the founding documents were drawn up. No invisible ruler in the United States. End of story. Now the Supreme Court is packed with these kooks.

Careful Joe, could be a bomb in that collar

Capitalism has failed the world and depleted it's resource base.

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 and proceeded to kill each other all the time. THEN those crazy brown bastards invaded White Pagan Europe and Black Pagan Africa.

Back to this cultural appropriation nonsense. Culture is as important as climate and the two will clash, collide and confront. So, I ask myself, what is my culture? I find out I cannot have Dreads, hunt seals, or be a Buddhist monk or any of the 6,000 other things that non-whites do.

We cannot appropriate the customs of other cultures willy-nilly, say neo-liberal totalitarians, or we risk being publicly chastised and ostracized, it seems. The Liberal PC crowd is brainwashing its minions by saying white people have to like only white people stuff or be prepared to be corrected. Don't insult other cultures by copying their traditions, is the basis of the scolding.
Trying to run through the swamp here, just keep going. Don't get bogged down. 'Nobody is right if everybody is wrong'. Peace.

My favorite religious practice that I have found inspirational is a Pagan religion from Lithuania. It’s called Romuva today, but this ancient folk religion has ALWAYS been there as folk tradition, and importantly, Lithuania was the last European country to be christianized. Pagan traditions survived.

On Romuva forums though, I find out that they don’t want to know you, if you are not Lithuanian. I can't be authentic in their eyes, you know? Same thing with Native Americans and Nordic Pagans. They want to see blood.
Natives and Nordics often also similarly believe they are reincarnated within their family clan. But eternal skeptic that I am, if I say to someone that reincarnation couldn't possibly occur within a family or clan, people get miffed, they don't want to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZqZVunCb4

I have been attracted to Northern European Pagan traditions but have lived in the warmer part of the United States for half my life, in USDA zone nine, (Soon zone 10 with global warming), in both Florida and Arizona. but these Northern European rituals are not quite relevant for southern climates when our planting season starts in October and ends in April.
My thing is about bringing these northern European traditions down south and translating them into USDA zone 9/10 kind of stuff. Traditions that white, (read that not christian) Pagans had before the brown christians and brown islamics invaded Europe. Mediterranean people are brown because of black and white mixed.
The indigenous Europeans and Africans got invaded the same way the North American indigenous people got invaded, but historians won't point that out to you. it's all rah rah rah! Victory over savages. This is one of those hidden truths, their lies of omission. Pagans were slaughtered, their sacred places buried or destroyed by these invading brown hordes. These lunatic brown barbarians and their crazy religions, xlam and xianity.

NONE OF THE APOSTLES WERE WHITE, Remember? ffs

Before all that mess, there was the kind prophet from the Essene People nearly 2,000 years ago. He was an anomaly at the time, preaching about peace and freedom and being good to our neighbors and shit, and this is why Jesus became a viral celebrity after his death or disappearance. ⇎

People were digging it and hidden by historians, is the nature of Jesus' early followers.
Back then, the people were generally sick of all the coercion and bullshit rules they had to live by with Judaic Law and the generally fair, but randomly brutal and indiscriminate Pagan Roman rules. Jesus was the influence of Buddhism washing over into Europe.

Patriarchal forms of Christianity kept wedging themselves into the circle of truths discussed by Jesus and, eventually, they stole the vitalness of his energy as the years rolled on. Jesus was esteemed by women and slaves who were the early christians along with the other downtrodden in society. Looking for equality.The peaceful Essenes were his people. The Essenes refused to slaughter animals, live, in the common market for instance. The Essenes were also reputed to be vegetarians.
In years after the One died, the Gnostics believed in only Jesus, and they proclaimed that the old testament god was an imposter. A Poser. It became a battle between the energetic Gnostics and the Patriarchal Paulines, but the Gnostics got snitched out and outmaneuvered by the Paulines.

The Gnostics were the christians who were thrown to the Lions because the Paulines privately outed them to authorities. Christians killing their own by 200 A.D.

Here is where it gets dicey for me. I would like to ask, what in the heck IS white culture? We know we can’t say it. Can’t have a White television channel, that's ra’ist, right? So if I want to say I am extolling the best of what white culture could possibly be, that’s ra'ist once again. What is white culture anyhow, and how come I can't talk about it? How is it everyone else has a culture and I don't?

For that matter, I'm not a vet, or a biker, or a Rotarian, or affiliated with any group. I'm a UU, that's true. Thank God for them.
It seems that we can no longer even talk about white culture because the discussion of it is ra'ist and this is what the regular working folks are puzzled and pissed about. Everybody else exulting and exalting their particular cultures while white people have to shut the hell up because white culture represses all cultures. 😒 Weary of that shit.

Conservatives think black lives matter has charged the general atmosphere with racial division, when it is the patriarchal white system that has been sick for hundreds of years with the gangrenous pus of discrimination, division and exclusion, and the wounds that never heal.

Academia’s politically correct city slicker liberal says, if we "do things from other cultures, we are stealing from them" and that's how this newly concocted horror of cultural appropriation came to be.

Oppressed people laugh and say white culture is genocide and factories. However, they have yet to explain what white culture is. The Culture Police need to tell me the right way to do things, so you know, email me, you over credentialed eggheads.↭

From bullfighting in Spain, to Greek pottery, to Laplanders and their Reindeer, these are just a couple of the corners of European culture. But wait, my ancestors were from the Azores, and that is a whole 'nother corner of the world, out in the Atlantic. How are we even Europeans?
Recent discoveries of pre-Portuguese artifacts has me wondering who had these boats to travel that far, so long ago? The Phoenicians, the Polynesians? The ancient Iberians? Mali in Africa reportedly had an 800 ship Navy that sailed far and wide well before Columbus, so it was probably them or Vikings looking for warmer ports.
Don’t know when the original settlers got there, but the Azores are 900 miles out into the ocean, away from Europe. As part of Portugal, it's European, I reckon, and the Portuguese moved there in the 1500's.
My kin have been fishing and farming in the Azores for untold generations, and I am going to guess my poor ass peasant ancestors did not profit from the Portuguese slave trade. Chances are a local despot or clergy taxed their harvest bounty however.

Going back even further in time, it turns out that Jewish people civilized mainland Portugal about 1500 years ago and gave them a written language, and this was part of the evolution of Portuguese culture. This begs the question, are Jewish customs okay for me to use? Can I dress my child up as a Talmud Scholar on Halloween? Would Jewish people be offended? This whole article started as a Halloween skit. What can the children wear?

Jesus loves all the little hands of the world

Portugal has seen many migrations of Greek and Egyptian sailors the last 3000 years when it was known as Iberia.
So consider this, Portugal is actually closer to Mali in Africa than Norway in Europe. The Azores is closer to New Jersey than Greece. So needless to say I am scratching my head. ⇟

I am presumably white, yet the first Mexican to play American Major League Baseball, shared my last name, Mel Almada. Mexicans are brown right, derived from Spain? Spain is closer to Switzerland than The Azores. Therefore people from Spain cannot appropriate culture from Switzerland but I can, because Portuguese people are allegedly white and Spaniards are brown? What? They're not Hispanic? I'm getting confused!
Hispanic people can celebrate Cinco de Mayo with it's cultural link to Mexico, but French and Portuguese people cannot since that is cultural appropriation? But Spanish people can?We need some explanations here. I see this shit on Facebook, everybody yelling at each other and getting nowhere.

But that's what Liberals do. It can be called enlightened despotism, and its their intention that they are doing things for your own good. This is how Democrats absorb every good radical impetus into it's managed maw. Calm down radicals, we got this, say the Democrats, but they have been feckless, ineffectual do nothings who can't stand up to Neo-con bullying.

Three decades of feel good, gauzy nothingness that began when the Democrats couldn't counter the GOP "Contract on America" in 1995 or the Tea Party buffoons in 2010 and have been mute since, steadily losing governorships and state legislatures. Both major parties are broken down ships unfit for sailing into the future. Like two last place teams in the world series.

This is why it has to be third party or bust. ⥁

South of the Azores are the Madeira Islands that are primarily composed of black people. Further south than that, are the Canary Islands whose people were slaughtered into extinction by the Spanish who were freaked out by the very strange people they encountered there and they were immediately compelled to kill them all. WTF! Canary Island customs and language were barely preserved because of the ferocity of the Spaniards attack.
Spaniards were even more freaked out that the Canary Islanders were Brown people and not Black people seeing how far south they were. How could that be? It’s been speculated that the Catalans and Basques and other genetically isolated populations were scattered cultural remnants of Atlantis and were allegedly related to the mysterious Canary Islanders. http://www.ancient-atlantis.com/guanche/ Some say the Canary Islanders were from a pre-dynastic period in Eygpt.
Back to the beginning of the story then. What can I dress my child up as for Halloween with all this noise about cultural appropriation? All these insulted demographics. First, it seems people speaking for American Native Indians are the very most offended by cultural appropriation on Halloween. They are also the people I most admire so it's quite a conundrum. They've had enough, I get it.

But we are warned that Indian Princess is now out as a costume for Halloween unless you are 1/16th Native American. Or is it 1/8th? So many rules.

I evolved, so can you.

I cannot honor their customs? Or do whatever I want with their celebrations and ceremonies? Am I not allowed to use dream catchers or play drums like Native Americans? Should I ake John Trudell off my Youtube playlists? The Native Americans are the true owners of this continent and my elemental self, bonds with their beliefs.
I can’t call myself Two Crows because I don’t have the genetic heritage? I fully understand that names of great respect are given to people who deserve it, and White Eagle is one such name.
When I used to live 15 miles from the O'odham People, I named my roommate Eagle that Walks with his 30/20 vision, and I was Heap big Four Eyes. You know, who cares.
One of the funniest notions from the politically correct cultural appropriation police, as I mentioned, is that even Yoga is now cultural appropriation! That's the one that made me realize that they are completely full of shit, and my eyes were finally fully opened to this Brainwashing.

The traditional stance of Liberals is managed Liberty. They rule us magnanimously “for our own good.” They help the poor for their own good. They imagine they are the salve in a sick world but its the economic system that needs a drastic re-engineering..
They will save the environment for the good of the planet they will say, but what they are actually doing is creating six-figure jobs for them and all their friends and eventually, a world regulatory body that a carbon tax would yield. You send money to preserve habitat and more than half of it goes to an elite white lollygagger and their do-gooder foundation.

Recently we've seen that every famous person in Washington has a son or daughter that works in the Ukraine. George Carlin's "its a big club and you're not in it" becomes more apparent every day.

Liberals want to create a carbon tax and a sprawling world bureaucracy so their compatriots all have six-figure jobs and their kids will have six-figure jobs as neo-Liberal institutions grow like coral colonies under the guise of saving everything. We have to be independent, we have to create a third party. Community based, general assembly. Call it the Independent Majority Party. Go ahead and steal the idea, as long as independents can start having a say to break up the Liberal Conservative logjam.
The problem is that we have reached the end of the line with managed liberty, enlightened despotism, and cronyism. We actually want anarchy, which is the absence of coercion.

We got it now. We know how to shop thriftily and knowledgeably. We are far more discerning now when it comes to what we eat and what we add to our lives. People know so much more today than they did 50 years ago, an awareness of many small but important daily issues such as food and hygiene.
But yoga is cultural appropriation? I don’t know what my Azorean ancestors did to stretch in the morning, but maybe the exercises were very much like Qi Gong or Yoga in their movements. Unfortunately, I will never know what exercises I am allowed to do because all the records of Azorean exercise have disappeared. No exercise tradition handed down.

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I am clearly not Chinese so my cheesy reinterpretations of Qi Gong mixed with Yoga are clearly insulting on so many levels. I add light weights and call it Yogaerobics. Life sucks. Get a helmet.
Meanwhile, what about that Halloween costume? Maybe my child can dress up as a Fish Monger or a Fish Mongers Wife since my children are Portuguese and French. They can rinse some Bacalhau (dried salted Cod), and carry it around since it’s said Portuguese people are able to tolerate the smell of rotting fish better than any other culture. "And what are you little boy?"

Then across the planet, what happens if some Saudi Arabian mother tells her child at Halloween time that he is not allowed to be a fishmonger since that would be a cultural appropriation from white people.
In India, there is a child pleading to his parents. “It is NOT cultural appropriation for me to dress in the style of the ‘Rockabilly culture’. Mother… I INSIST …it is my choice. Please listen to this and tell me you don’t feel the energy. I love Rockabilly!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZEt7J5RNs&list=PLD1018BBF28138B27&index=7

IT’S ALL RIDICULOUS AND WE KNOW IT.

Not Rockabilly but all this tight ass whining.

The word is that Newt Gingrich is going to have a new Un-American Activities Committee in the t***p administration and there will be money for his goons to investigate private citizens, but hypocritically, none for the Meals on Wheels program. Thank the gods the Orange Menace is gone.

The NSA can screen every email that discusses “secession” and you will find yourself under investigation. The white van with the tinted windows down the street listening to what you are talking about. (Heads up: they ditched the obvious and hot black vehicles.)
The FBI doing a background check on your son, taking pictures with their glasses cam. "Has he ever said anything bad about America?"
But right-wing deplorables go yeehaw whenever someone talks about Texas secession, so it would seem to me that we could talk about an anarchic secession all we want, with our First Amendment protections.
Vermont (The Republic of Vermont 1777-1791) has an active secessionist movement currently. In Canada, the very large province of Quebec has voted on separating from Canada but so far, they are remaining as part of the biggest country in the world. Quebec and Vermont united in an Anarchic state. Everything needed would be within the borders.
Lord knows the current situation in the United States is dire. The countries largest demographic, dumb white people, have opened the floodgates to all kinds of poorly educated kooks and deplorables and your well-educated white nationalists brainwashing whom they can. Can you believe it, the fucking Nazis!

After beating back white male authoritarianism for 50 years, it has come alive again like an alien popping out of Americas chest or something, with the electoral victory of Stupid Bigly.

2008 was one of Americas most difficult years as we were mired in the abyss of the two ill-conceived, unconstitutional wars and billion dollar businesses failing as the housing market crashed.

Don’t even mention reducing the military to anybody. Our foreign policy is about the 1,000-year-old Holy War between Islam and Christianity, and I am stunned people are oblivious to that fact. A new Counter-Revolution needs to happen against this religious right wing anti-communist kookism that has ran world affairs since World War 2.

  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.

If he could have been honest

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.

War Always War. Tuba cannons from WW1

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.

-6-5-THE GARDEN GREEN

THIS IS MY RESUME

Bok Choy, Kale and Spinach seem to be the easiest for me to grow. Brown Peppers and Purple Carrots not so much.

Honestly, I'm not a gardener or a landscaper. I consider myself a habitat gardener and will admit that I don't have a green thumb overall.

Broccoli Black Thumb.

THIS IS MY RESUME

MY EARTH CAREER BEGAN IN 1980 IN TUCSON ARIZONA

1980 with LARRYS JANITORIAL He wanted me to get on a career path and got me some work outside the restaurant, moving six Barrel Cactus as my first job. "Remember they lean into the Sun." When he laid me off, I parleyed that minimal experience into a job with ...

1981 CASA VERDE LANDSCAPE much to my surprise they had all the fancy accounts in town. The new office buildings with lots of glass and fancy elevators. All new machines with Casa Verde and an enthusiastic crew of potheads that knew what they were doing. It was agreed I would focus on plants n shit, and they would mow.

At the very first job I was told to rake the sand in a certain pattern in a 100-foot Zen Garden. Right in the middle was a 75-foot-tall Deodar Cedar. Probably the most beautiful tree I've EVER seen before or since, and I groomed it up cutting excessive branches and raking dead needles, so it looked nice and clean at the bottom. Then made the rake lines so it looked like a Zen Garden. I looked forward to this every week and have been in love with Deodar since.

There are only four true Cedars in the world. When I went to Connecticut and worked in the garden center, Cedrus Atlantica was getting very popular. Then there's the Lebanon Cedar and one other Cedar I can't recall.
not the same tree. this Deodar Cedar needs a prune on the right side
When he got the Park Mall account he told me, "I got the perfect job for you." Amazing place with beautiful street trees and a complex irrigation system with 528 heads. I learned irrigation and endurance. There was a bunch of Pyracantha hedges in the parking lot I had to keep precise. Every one of them had a different shape or style to it because the cement curb islands were all different shapes. So I parlayed THAT experience into an application for a work for rent job at

a 40-acre horse ranch.

1981-84 We lived in a converted tack room. There were six unfenced dogs guarding the property and nothing between us and Gammons Gulch, 45 miles away as the crow flies over the mountain. See original oil painting below.

As the Buzzard flies, gammons gulch to tucson miles - Search (bing.com) This was a work-for-rent full on caretaker situation. Some gardening good 'ol days. Wearing overalls every day for 40 hours as indoor/outdoor plant guy at the original mall in Tucson and a co-caretaker of the last house on Broadway. Bordering the 9-acre Sahuaro East Monument, and a 170,000-acre section of the Coronado National Forest.

Then the boss lost the account at the mall by an unscrupulous head of maintenance, and I went to work for ...

SCHOMBERT ELECTRIC 83/84 A great set of experiences I really needed. I'm not a fixup guy, you know, not real handy with tools ever, but I was running miles of wire through new condos and updating the wiring in a male dorm in the middle of a Tucson summer with only fans to keep us cool. Average daily high temperature 104.

APRIL 1984 picture of loaded van here. Moved to Connecticut and worked for

TARNOW NURSERY 1984 -86

STANLEY GREENHOUSE 1985-1987

DAT SHENOY 1987-89 Entrepeneur, house flipper, I did painting, cleanup and landscaping as needed for each house. The wife often made me Indian lunch wraps when I worked on their yard.

PLANTATIONS 1986 interior plants professional training

PLANTSCAPES 1987 interior plants in an old building with a really old elevator. They went all female with a pink and black theme, and I was out of there.

SPIELMAN LANDSCAPING 88 TO 89 landscaped fancy homes in the hills. Redneck, Biker, Indian, and our Farm Girl boss who loved tractors. Was probably the best crew I was ever on.

moved to Florida

ATLANTIC VIEW 1989

BIOGREEN 1990

ORCHID ISLAND 1990 TO 2001

THE GARDEN GREEN 2001 TO 2021

Ancient Garden attempts to bring you a working knowledge of the plant world, so we can all create a plan for the stewardship of nature.
          Left to its own devices, nature knows what to do. Humans however have taken resource extraction as a basis for wealth, with very few of them giving back. Everyone wants to park in the shade, but no one wants to plant a tree. Capitalism is like your Aunt emptying valuables from Grandmas house as me mere is dying in the hospital.
          I like to use the example of the Astor family to illustrate how we've gone wrong. John Jacob Astor made his money by having millions of animals killed. A master of the Fur Trade, it's said he had a golden touch, but I can't stop the image of the bones of skinned animals drying in the sun. Slaughtered.
          Dynasties of wealth were made from the stripping of the ancient forests across the world. Proper society is filled with illegitimate wealth that has been derived from development and destruction and understanding this ... is lesson one. Creating abundance is the only true wealth.
             Imagine some little 4-ounce bird has just flown 250 miles hopping from one island to the next looking for food and shelter as it migrates north. She goes to the cookie cutter house in the gated community and sees oleanders, ixora, plumbago, philodendron, and other non-native plants. Off to the next house....no food here either.
           Finally, she flies into my yard, White Indigo Berry, Wild Coffee (Psycotira nervosa), Tamarind, Elderberry, Sugar Cane, Fiddlewood, Maypop (passion vine) Marlberry, Saw Palmetto, Snowberry and others. If not fruiting, they are flowering which attracts the many pollinating insects birds love to eat. Right now in early November Fiddlewood is flowering and Marlberry and Firebush and Wild Coffee have large, juicy berries waiting for migrating birds to arrive.
New England Rainbow

The ear of corn above, at the top of this article, reminds me of my best corn growing days. 1987. '88 and '89. My gardening good old days. I had ten packs of Indian Sweet Corn seeds I bought in Fevruary or so, and was going to mix them all together to make my own variety as soon as the soil temperature was right. Mix all the breeds of Indian Sweet Corn together, then acclimate them to my ecosphere and start trading with others.

The big surprise was when the ground had thawed out and I dug into the soil for the first time. "Are you kidding me?" I dug a second hole and more all over the yard, shocked at what I found.

HARVEST 1987

We rented the house on North Street in Hazardville Connecticut and there was 16 inches of black topsoil in this free rental that had been used by Stanley Greenhouses primary truck driver. Formerly a field office amidst a couple thousand acres of tabacco and corn, apparently no one had ever planted anything there. The land only knew poor people standing in line, waiting for their paycheck.

I'm sure the soil in the 200 acres of corn planted nearby is nearly depleted of organic matter. Yet, it appeared to be Connecticut River Valley alluvial soil at our new home, but the curious thing was where we lived is not in any flood plains. In fact it was at the crest of two watersheds.

I shoveled up a hunk of soil one day when my dad came to visit and showed him. He looked at it and it was like "OMG! Time to grow some vegetables, sonny boy".

It was a bit mysterious how 16 inches of black, crumbly alluvial soil sat on a crest at the 183 foot elevation of that area. Five miles away in the Connecticut River, the elevation is 36 feet.

Over yonder going northwest, the local area drains into bogs, then Freshwater Creek, then Freshwater Brook and eventually Freshwater Pond in downtown Enfield. Out the other way, most of North St. drains southeast to the Scantic River. So how did Connecticut River alluvial flood plain soil get to this elevation, over 180 feet above sea level? Could it be the blessings of the Corn Goddess?

Above are dramatic photos of the flood of 1955.
I was One Years old and often had nightmares of this flood till I was a teen. My dad's garden was at the edge of this flood plain in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He had a compost pile and rarely bought fertilizer, the soil was so rich and his compost abundant. There was even a grease pickup in those days.
Another hundred-year flood and the Connecticut River was six miles wide at the peak in the spring of 1955. In previous years, the edge of Red Schumans cow pasture was where our families Victory Garden was. My parents canned an enormous amount of food from this rich soil in the 60's.
In our new home in Hazardville in the 80's, I spent a good deal of time breaking ground and planting the seeds I had been obsessively buying. I put all the grass clumps from digging out new areas, in a giant pile, and it was dirt by the end of the summer.

HAZARRDVILLE CONNECTICUT 1987

Summer of 88 and I had a second year of gardening this site. Planted some corn seed that I grew in 87, and bought more varieties, some rare shit for sure, and I was ready to do some science.

I bought a book called the Ethnobotany of the Hopi which I could relate to, having just spent six years gardening in the desert environs of Tucson Arizona. But here I was, back in New England, growing Indian Sweet Corn and many other heirloom vegetables, such as the Egyptian Walking Onion.

Colonialism bullied its way across the North American continent, and I had a hankering to know more about the original inhabitants of Wethersfield now that I was back in the area with some practical out of state experience.

My search to uncover Native American traditions began ten years previous when I rode my bicycle to the state library in Hartford after high school.

My friends went to college, my parents moved to Bloomfield, and I was out to re-educate myself properly. Deprogram my mind from the stultifying nonsense that dared to call itself education. I didn't want to train to be a bookkeeper any longer.

I locked up my ten speed and walked in, marveling at how huge the place was. Immense. I wanted to find out more about the history of Wethersfield Connecticut, as a starting point, with the Great Wethersfield Elm (biggest Elm east of the Rockies) and the meeting house of the Charter Oak incident being on my paper route.

Wethersfield soldiers during the Revolutionary War were the elite soldiers who escorted generals and what not. Some history in this town.

The Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion - New England Historical Society I learned about the indigenous Podunks, who lived from central to northern Connecticut on the east side of the Connecticut River. They went to Boston and invited the original settlers of Wethersfield to settle the west side of the river.

Later, I learned about the Nipmucks, who also lived along the east side of the river from Springfield to the Quabbin Reservoir area, inhabited territory north of the Podunk's. Both tribes were trying to keep the Mohawks and Iroquois from infringing on their land.

The Podunks and Nipmucks were quiet woodland tribes, and these peaceful people were often overwhelmed by hostile tribes, though, to their credit, the Iroquois Confederacy of Peace is allegedly the inspiration for the American Constitution and the Mohawks are pretty cool people.

I adopted the Native American notion of a planting stick out there in the desert and also beseeching the Corn Mother for her blessings.

A couple summers in Thompsonville, then off to Hazardville after my firstborn arrived. Time to move to a safer neighborhood and the little white house in Hazardville was delightful. Then I dug into the soil.

Hazardville looking east

16 inches of the richest soil I had ever seen. Black gold. I also grew perennials and they spread quickly and I split them and sold them the following two springtimes at tag sales. Flowers such as Echinacea grew to their maximum height at this site, and a corn variety grew 11 feet tall. A 60 foot row of sunflowers lined the south side of the property.

But you know, people are not really interested in plants, but I was, and I did what I wanted to anyways because I was self-educating myself with botany, horticulture, habitat building and hobbyist gardening. No one cared. I was the plant guy. You know. the dude with no skills.

Mike Two Hawks was someone who also did what he wanted. Steeped in Mohawk tradition, he was an indigenous activist and caused quite a stir wherever he went. I was able to share my thoughts with him and he seemed to think I was authentico, with my planting stick and all, so he shared with me a few of his native American rituals.

I was growing corn ceremonially and my off road research kept returning to Native ways. The ancient ways, traditional ways. The way we all were once upon a time. Red, White and Black.

My people are the Lusitanian people of Portugal and the Copper Culture and the Stone People and the Cave Painters before that. Before xianity, indigenous Europeans were very much like the native Americans in their habits, customs and cultural practices.

We talked about the Hopi when I wore my t-shirt one day that said, "Save Big Mountain. End Apartheid in America." That is about the Hopis being forcibly moved from their traditional land. For ten thousand years they have been there, protecting the Four Corners, repelling all invaders, even the Spanish who couldn't hustle their stout defense. In the 80's more attempts to remove them from their land were fought back.

So we'd do a Tabacco ritual before the work began for the day. The boss was cool and knew a bit of fun and bonding led to motivated workers and we were motivated, efficient, and professional. Mike was forever quoting John Trudell (2) John Trudell - Mining our Minds For The Machine - YouTube

The corn I was growing was different than the Silver Queen F1 and F2 hybrids at the farm stands. Native American sweet corn is more nutrient dense than the candy corn hybrids. I think the corn my dad grew was "Country Gentleman" which was the last of the popular heirlooms before the ridiculous F1 and 2 hybrids became popular and overwhelmed the market.

Native Sweet Corn is smaller and there was only a two day window when they could be eaten before the kernels became rock hard. For most people, they think its a waste of time to grow smaller, subtly flavorful corn, that ripens too quick. But I was motivated to try this as my science experiment.

I staggered the plantings three weeks apart in and harvested from August to October. Black Aztec dominated that second year and people would go "ewww why would you eat blue corn?" Blue is rot and fungus, right?. Gorgonzola.

Then in the 90's, the super markets were selling this new Blue Corn Tortilla.

Touche, mon aci.

The 60 foot row of Sunflowers and Echinacea and Bee Balm and what all else, was an attempt to build a English hedgerow. (see above) A wonderful memory was counting at least 13 Yellow Finches in a feeding frenzy on the sunflowers one steamy August morning. So, two years of explosive growth and a total immersion into heirloom seeds and native perennials was a peak gardening time.

My little sweetie was going on two years old, and she had lots of running energy. On Earth again, yah! Lots of room to run in any random direction. Chasing Dickens the Calico who never got caught, my little toddler would sleep good at night.

Then the cold weather, winter was coming. Somehow, I got into a lab for a growing job in a greenhouse and saw some early examples of tissue culture with plants and then worked in a greenhouse in January and February. Whereas micro plugs were the rage in the early 80's, tissue culture came along in the late 80's with its trays of completely identical plants. Just happenstance that I came upon these new technologies early in the game.

Early 1989 was all about seeds for me personally. Traditional seeds. Vegetables, ground covers, small trees and tree seeds. Just ... everything.

I wrote to a dude in Oklahoma who had a company named "Corns". Carl Barnes is now deceased but became famous for his "Glass Gem" variety of corn about a decade ago.

Gardeners know the anticipation of incoming seed catalogs and I was psyched for the next growing season. So here I am 33 years ago writing to this dude about what I was attempting to do with corn. I told him I wanted to blend all the varieties together and then send free seed to people in various countries, locations and elevations to revive traditional growing and chemical free agriculture.

Carl sent me a letter in return, stating the seeds he sent back were from Anasazi stock. 900 years old, he wrote. Carl Barnes Documentary Trailer - YouTube

He signed the letter, "White Eagle," which is a name of great distinction and honor. Some of my stated intentions were what he was already doing. Looking at his video now, I realize he was a mid-century Luther Burbank, and his letter is now in my scrapbook. His wall of Corn Seeds in the video took my breath away when I first saw the video. I could comprehend the amzaing amount of work it took to have a wall like that. Seed is the history of the people. You take that away and you are a world class asshole.

The "Glass Gem" variety of Corn was trending hard ten years ago or so, and when I read an article about it, I noticed the name Carl Barnes of Oklahoma. It was HIM! Dude went viral.

He even has a meme. He's the "at least it's an honest living guy."

Back to that cold winter day, I mailed a check with my order. I wanted two packs of seeds and he sent me back five. Not even sweet corn either. Flint corn, among others such as Hopi Orange. I questioned the generous response but had enough confidence that the mf knew what he was doing. But still, I'm thinking the Flint Corn is gonna make my sweet corn hard to chew, and I was wrong.

Soon enough the summer came along and I began marveling at what grew that year. It was astonishing. "Lots of genetic diversity" he stated in the letter. I had the genetic base already in place, to brace for the explosion of botanic wonders he sent me. Saved seeds from the previous year and new varieties made the perfect storm of genetic diversity. The photo of the corn ear above from 2020, is the one that seems to have lasted the longest.

First and foremost, I managed to get Teosinte and Maize on a single cob, proving Corn evolved from Teosinte. Would this be heresy to those that believe the Corn Mother gave the Native Peoples Corn by using magic? Did he know that I might discover this? I told him I grew Teosinte at the edge of my patch like the Tarahumara people have done for a long time.

Finally, what a year that was! Cobs grew at the top of the plant and at the bottom. Ears were fat, ears were thin. Three ears grew together. Triple goddess symbolism. Things that didn't even look like corn grew on the stalks. Smut and other weird shit was abundant. Modern corn has 22 rows or something like that jammed together and sweet as candy corn, but I had 8. 12. Even 4 with flattened sides. (see below) Despite my instinct that I was going to ruin my sweet corn crop with these Flint seeds he sent me, I had planted them anyways. Trust is the essence of anarchy. That year the taste improved, the size improved, and the window of edibility increased. Early version of Glass Gem.

Evolutionarily speaking, anomalies such as variegation and dwarfism occur in 1 in a thousand cases. Sometimes one in a million, depending on the animal or plant.

Who noticed a Teosinte plant that had enlarged kernels and saved those seeds to plant for another time? Teosinte seeds are hard as heck and Dove, Turkey and Quail can eat them, but not the small songbirds and not the humans. They could fracture human teeth.

Teosinte and Maize on the same cob

It was an incredible piece of land I was on and I created a permaculture structure in three years, harvesting an abundance of beans and squash and corn ... and I forgot all what else. We froze instead of canned. Pollinator friendly perennials and potted fruit trees. June to September 25th, the abundance was a total blessing.

I could have lived in Hazardville Connecticut forever, but by the 27th of September, we had arrived in Florida, and it was 97 degrees. Blistering, dry heat, but within a month, the temperature had moderated, and we found ourselves on another relatively fertile piece of land. It was USDA Zone 9b, and in the last 30 years here, I have noted the change in climate. Now we are just into zone 10. 10a.

MESQUITE

The previous spring in 1989, in Connecticut, I went through the Master Gardener certification Program in February and March, so I naturally turned to the Extension Service and Master Gardener Program for my questions when I moved to a new state.

"Can I grow Mesquite in Florida?" I queried back in 1990. I was in the office and there was an Extension employee and two elderly Master Gardeners. They were briefly stumped. "Can I grow Mesquite trees in Florida?"

"Of course not," was the derisive reply. I could tell they weren't sure.

I had so many seeds and many of them were thriving in one-gallon pots. I had seeds for Palo Verde, Acacia koa, (photo at top of the page), Indian Rosewood (hardest wood in the world, well, third hardest), Carob, Tamarind and many others which I soon planted. Needless to say, by '93, the Mesquite were producing pods (cattle feed) and in 95 they were stout and throwing shade. This is the deeper green gardener ... doubting the experts and succeeding despite them. Trying something anyways despite the experts.

Having gotten Master Gardener certifications in Connecticut in '89 and Florida in '91, I had learned quite a lot. Could I simulate similar conditions? I planted my three little straplings in extremely hot, sunny, quickly draining area. Being used to 10 inches of rain a year, the Mesquite could not tolerate ANY water accumulation.

So they grew fast. When it rained heavy like it does in Florida, the soil drained in a few hours. So it was ideal. Hottest sunniest part of the yard, lots of moisture without the rot. Three years is easy to keep something alive, but could it survive cyclical fungus diseases that thrive in Florida? They were still growing fast after five years, and this indicated that they made it.

In 2001 I had quit the job I had for ten years and started my own business. The Garden Green. Green from the git go, I was also one of a handful of registered Green Party citizens and was interviewed by the local paper in 1995. "Sometimes Gardening, always Green".

No college degree to wave around, so it seems I have to establish my horticultural cred with some people here in 2022 and that's why my resume is at the top of this. I need to make some kind of resume for future employment, and this is it. May need a bit of editing.

When I moved to Florida, I found a job with the landscaping crew at Atlantic View. Indian River County had banned oceanside condos over three stories, so Atlantic View was just over the line in St. Lucie County. Seven stories and three buildings. Developer delirium.

I got a job at Atlantic View in early October of 1989, a seven-story condo with ocean views. Well one day my landscape boss was caught smoking crack on the fifth floor. He got fired and my New Age buddy, Dave, was suddenly boss. Turnover such as it is in Arizona and Florida, Dave was funny and smart but definitely suffered from IED. Intermittent Explosive Disorder. He ended up getting fired too, so there I was, two months in Florida and I was the landscaping boss.

South American investors with alleged, old school drug gang connections, was the shadowy power behind the throne of this development. It was reputed they were laundering money. Then one day, they went to clear land on the dunes, and we were all told "if we called the county, we'd be fired immediately." They began clearing the dunes like a military invasion, then a helicopter flew over and hovered. The county caught them.

Fred Stresau had done the landscape design and I learned he was a bestselling author. He wrote “Florida, My Eden” which remained the landscape bible through the nineties for many in Florida. He had died before the project was finished and planted, and I never met him, but Fred Stresau Jr. visited the site, and he was such a dick.

The project manager was also a dick. The developers hired gun, he fucked with everybody, but respected me for some reason. On December 24^th, one of the worst freezes in decades was predicted for all of Florida. It snowed on Christmas Day in Titusville, we later found out. Even though I had a difficult time whipping the boys into being 100% productive during regular hours, this emergency made us gel into a real team. Through their initiative.

There was nothing we could do to protect the 70 Coconut Palms out by the street from the predicted 22 to 24 degrees, but we had many plants in pots that were bound to be frozen by this freeze. The site boss would write it off as a business loss, but the boys had a different idea. This was one of those worker moments when the workers grabbed the initiative.

There was Paul the pot dealer and a seriously redneck dude from West Virginia and the guy that looked like Jesus. A 6’4” Jesus. He gave me some Alligator toes and I still have them. A pagan welcome to me in Florida. All great, sincere men who respected each other and they got the notion to build a greenhouse. Five hooligans with a focus.

“Are you kidding,” the developer said when I told him their idea, We didn’t need to buy a thing. They made a 15 by 10 foot greenhouse to protect the more rare and frost sensitive material. I planted those tree seeds I had ordered from catalogs in 89 that I had hoped to grow in Florida.

They built the entire thing from what was in the dumpsters and what we could scrouge from home that night. Plastic and wood, it was a work of genius with this incredible cold front headed our way. Twenty degrees along the whole Treasure Coast as it turned out, the coldest night in 40 years.

Everything survived, and my seeds even germinated. What didn’t fit in the greenhouse we placed next to it where it was warmer and covered them with sheets. Our fifth guy, a young troublemaker, but a good egg, didn’t have anything to do on Christmas Day, so he came in checked on the heater.

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TURNING YARDS INTO GARDENS

Twenty years as the Garden Green and now I'm looking to do something else here in 2022. My back is wore the hell out, so now I want to use my brain instead of my shovel. However, how do I tell these young Permaculturalists about what I know? I try to avoid saying things like "I was doing native plants, planting heirlooms and practicing permaculture when you was still shittin' your britches."

My dad had a "victory garden" which was very productive. Still, I just took it for granted and other than bringing the bounty in the house, I really didn't notice. I DID notice no one else's dad did. "Victory Garden?" I questioned. "The war's been over for 20 years." He knew what he was doing and this imprinted on my brain. We had a cellar pantry that was huge. Green Beans, Peaches, home-made Tomato Sauce and others. I had my paper route and had chores like taking out the garbage and brought in the milk and other things but never did any gardening. My Mom loved Roses and my Dad loved Peonies and we had a really nice Mountain Laurel near the door.

So in '73, I got my own apartment and planted my first garden in the spring of '74. Heavy rain from a Tropical storm actually destroyed my lettuce at the end of the summer and I gave vegetarianism a try. I joined a pretty cool Food co-op and would bring home Peanuts, Potatoes and Peppers. '75 and 76 were party years till I got arrested for running out of Bowl-O-Rama with my bowling shoes. Fourth degree larceny and three cancelled court appearances when the charge was finally dropped, and I entered the "accelerated rehabilitation" program. Suddenly the harmless hooligan days were done.

I got more serious with researching ecosystems and botany. I subscribed to Mother Earth News and Harrowsmith, and other back to the earth publications. In 1977 I discovered Seed Savers Exchange via Michael Pilarski, a Permaculture Pioneer. Now that was some shit ... learning about our genetic heritage of seeds and how important seeds and forests are and what Permaculture is.

Gardens all the time from here out. Garden in East Granby Connecticut. Then the move to Tucson Arizona. Three Amigos out Ajo Way. Cat Mountain was in view, and Kitt Peak was a short drive away.

We developed a system where everything we planted could be watered with a hose. Just turn it on for a half hour and it filled the ditches where the watermelons were. Rivulets were diverted to the side to water radishes and all the other things we tried. The soil was good, just add water.
We lived near the Tucson-Sonora Desert Museum which is best stated on their web page.
"21 interpreted acres, two miles of walking paths, 242 animal species, plants from 1200 taxa and one of the worlds largest regional mineral collections."

Three New Englanders living the western life at 160 Swinging A. Little Jenny next door often visited because we were fun and her parents knew we was good people. Gardens, Music and Art. TS always had a painting going, and this is his below.

The painter moved downtown and we moved mid-town in 1980. A tiny home on Adams St. with more good soil for gardening. I aspired to be nothing more than a janitor for work and a gardener at home. One day my boss Larry sat me down. Normally a garrulous old fart, he sat me down one night and asked me what were my plans for the future.

"Chop wood and carry water" I shrugged?

"where do you see yourself in ten years?" He seriously cared. At the time I had been thinking that somehow it might be nice if I could translate my irresistible urge to garden into some kind of occupation. So I told him. A week later he got me some work outside at the restaurant we cleaned. Moving six Barrel Cactus that were out near the street, closer to the windows, so customers could see them. Always leaning towards the sun, now I find out they can be eaten. So I planted them in the same leaning direction southwards and so they had me do some pruning. Larry got me on my career path.

He lost the account, six Village Pizzas, and so I got a job with Casa Verde Landscaping. I turned that minimal experience into an updated resume.

They had the best accounts in town and when the owner got the 78 store Park Mall account, I was sent there, since I seemed more into plants that mowing. 520 sprinkler heads and me not having ever even seen an irrigation set up. 106 degrees and me turning on a station, getting on my bicycle and checking it. The perimeter road had about a 2000 feet of Juniper along it I was responsible for.

THEN ... my gal and I got a job on a 40 acre horse ranch in 1982. Can't hurt to try, we figured, applying for the positions, and somehow we beat 125 other applicants. I had Citrus and Joshua Trees and much more to take care of, such as pulling mistletoe out of trees. We had six Australian Shepards who were not fenced or leashed because we were so far outside of town. Though when the Peccaries were around, they had to be fed within the walled compound.

One day some coyotes thought they'd go through the yard in the daytime and I watched as Sammy (on the left) stood on his hind legs, looking very much like a bear because he had no tail, and scared them off. One of those great moments where I wished I had a camera. I did catch my cat Dickens standing up once during our time there.

That caretaking gig lasted three years and I had a fenced garden where I used sheet composting and other composting methods using my books from Rodale to learn the organic way.

We had experienced so much in six years but we moved back to New England because we missed it and I intended to learn more about my craft. First at a nursery then a greenhouse back to the nursery and back to the greenhouse. Then I gave indoor plant maintenance a try for a year and a half keeping me employed during the winter.

Rolling my 30-gallon tank of water through parking lots and into elevators with Plantations and Plantscapes. Rolling through IBM, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank and many insurance companies I fielded hundreds of questions from employees. I was big on giving plants away too.

Then a landscaping job in Ellington with our super crew of farm girls, bikers, rednecks, Mohawks and me ... whatever I was. The working class knows how to get along, we had fun.

1989 was a great year. Everywhere I went my two-year-old was there too. Trips to the Dump or the Trolley or the store or over to the woods Mike Two Hawks hung out. We let her run ahead the first time we were there, and he told me later she found all the power vortexes on the property. But she didn't go to the Master Gardener Course I took.

Carl Salsedo was a very entertaining teacher, and he was extension agent and he and his wife who was the administrator of the building were always arguing. It was funny because they would laugh at themselves after one of their silly arguments. To get your Master gardener certification we had to do 50 hours of volunteer work. Mostly phone work in four-hour chunks. We ended up moving to Florida in September and so I went through the program in 1991 and 2001.

University research was now showing the harm of chemicals, and instead of promoting their use, it was now being discouraged and the 2001 program was dramatically upgraded.

As I explained earlier, I got to be landscape boss at Atlantic View, then worked for Biogreen, which was an organic fertilizer company. Then on May 30th, 1990, I got hired at Orchid Island, a gated community.

I thought I had learned a lot in the 80's but the nineties proved to be even more educational. In '94 I entered my A1A / Jungle Trail native plant work with the Florida Native Plant Society FNPS and got a Certificate of Distinction. Today you can still see the results. The west side of A1A is still a biotic dead zone with the invasive Brazilian Pepper choking out everything else. The east side where I worked, is all natives, even today. 2000 feet by 40 feet and part of my job was burying the dead animals that got hit by cars. I made the claim I created this habitat using only a chain saw and Roundup. But that's a story for another day.

In '98, I somehow got first place in the residential category with the FNPS. On his 2 acre oceanside, 10 million dollar home, Mr. Avery saved all the native plants in a 150' x 40' part of his property by the roadside. It was a wreck after construction of the home and I cleaned it up, pulled the weeds and invasives, which allowed native seeds to live long and prosper. Liz Gilleck got an award for her work designing the remainder of the property using the hackneyed choices of that time. Same old stuff for beauty and lines and all the stuff overpaid landscape architects do. Notorious for putting Queen Palms next to pools, the clueless experts never saw the great delight that Raccoons exhibited by this choice. On the steps the barely digested fruit was deposited on the steps going into the pool.

The walkway to be beach had to be just so. The environmental laws had caught up to the developers at long last. At this point, I had made two thoughtful presentations to two bosses. The mucky mucks at the top. Trying to get them to do mainstream environment initiatives proved impossible. So anyways, I went to the annual conference where I saw my slides enlarged to twenty feet and given an award. First god damn place no less.

I was getting to know all the horticultural players in the county and applied for an opening on the Sebastian Tree Board. I was told, "you know what, you could be an adviser and not be subject to the Sunshine Law." Turned out to be good advice because members could talk to me when the meeting was done.

Walmart was expanding and we tried desperately to get them to save the existing semi scrub habitat. The parking lot was goinbg to be atthe same elevation as the Scrub Pine Forest. Parking spots in the shade and downpours could be collecting in natural, quickly draining soil. Today the sad looking Elms they planted twenty years ago are not even 15 feet tall. They are so sad.

My first real assignment was filming all the cities properties. Many were small for drainage, but some were really large. I suggested that all they had to do at the 2.3 acre property on the corner of George and Barber was take out the Brazilian Peppers and you would still have a canopy of Oaks and native Palms. They did and added a playground area there. My firstborn helped me with the filming and we went to the 5 acre site on Keen Terrace and came up with the idea that it would be a cool place for dogs to run free. I also had an open door agreement with the city manager to come in anytime and I made the case for it. We imagined the whole place fenced in and dogs could avoid each other but the one they made is pretty large. None of my dogs seemed to like it though.

I was told by the Orchid Island people my ideas were valid ...but...and... uh. They seemed more concerned their real estate parasite friends, would all be millionaires. Or selling club memberships.

One year a big log had blown into the lake near #7 Tee. When we went in for lunch there was always a couple birds and turtles resting on it. A place to feel safe, you know. Where is a turtle supposed to go with these biotically dead retention ponds? There was native Spartina everywhere but that gets old.

In Sebastian I could be part of the developing park system. There was 4000 people when I moved there and 14 thousand about fifteen years later.

2001 came along and I started my own business. Oh ... one more thing about Orchid Island. I was driving my tractor picking up brush and I finally had had enough of these Brazilian Peppers so I went on private property and ran my chain saw through five of the thickest trunks I could find.

A couple days later the golf course boss came running over. "John ... John did you cut those trees that are all dying now?"

"Which trees?"

"Over by nine fairway?"

"Why yes I did."

"Are you crazy. The property owner is in Kevins office and hysterical that someone cut his Oak trees down."

"MMMM. I don't think I cut any Oaks. Maybe accidently. Why don't you go over there and look for yourself. I'll talk to the guy if you like." Well, long story short the property owner and I got together and I explained about Florida plants and how the Brazilian Peppers were subsuming millions of acres of native habitat. He knew all about what I was talking about. I went on and on about birds and how they used that site for feeding and nesting and it was being lost to this pest tree. Atlantic Flyway, blah blah blah.

Turns out he was a Birder and I worked for him for over five years. He gave me a signed copies of the book his mother wrote. A Little Bird Told Me So: Birds in Mythology and History by Eleanor Stickney (1997-12-04): Amazon.com: Books

This resume needs to be edited and reduced, and I 'll make 20 years of being the Garden Green creating native habitat, for another day. I was into the work, not the money. My customers no longer spend money on irrigation repairs or fertilizer applications. Some began taking care of their own which I encouraged and that's what I want to do in 2022. Weekly visits had gotten so restrictive in many ways. I was never able to really take a vacation. I was happy in the Pine Forest next door.

I'm looking for monthly customers. People who give me free rein to plant what I thought was right, and to keep what is doing well as long as it's not invasive. I did one yard in 8 phases over 4 years. A minimum of expenses since I start with small plants so there is less plastic waste with uppotting. I tell people that whatever they may spend on my labor and new plants, double that and that is probably how much a good, easy to take care of yard, increases the total value of the property.

That 20 dollar unstaked tree is worth 200 in les sthan ten years. Where else you gonna get that kind of return?

I can check the property monthly or when your away for a season. I know how much water is needed when I visit. So my customers have moved or died and I tried to rest my back so now I want to transition to property stewardship. I need some work so let me know.

Current plant inventory

2023

n NATIVE

ACALYPHA

ALOE

n AMERICAN ELM

AVACADO

n BAHAMIAN WILD COFFEE

BAMBOO black & yellow

n BAY TREE

BEAUTY BERRY

BEGONIA

BIG FLOWER AQUATICA

BIRD OF PARADISE

BLACK BAMBOO

BOBS DRACENA

BOUGANVILLA

n BUMELIA TENAX

n CABBAGE PALM

CANNA LILY

CARAMBOLA (STARFRUIT)

CARDBOARD PALM

CASSIA

n CASSIA

CAST IRON PLANT

CHINESE EVERGREEN (pink)

CONFEDERAT JASMINE

CROTON

n CYPRESS

DESERT ROSE

DRACENA

DRAGON FRUIT

EGGFRUIT

EXPERIMENTAL CITRUS

n FIDDLEWOOD

n FLORIDA PRIVET

FRANGIPANI

GARDENIA

GERTS FERN

GRAPES

HACKBERRY

HELICONIA

HIBISCUS (red hot)

HOMERS BROMELIAD

ICE CREAM BEAN

IVY'S ERYTHINA

n JAMAICA CAPER

LADY PALM

LEAD TREE

LIME

n MAGNOLIA

n MAHOGANY

MARIGOLDS

n MARLBERRY Ardisia escallonioides

MILLET NC roadside

n MORNING GLORY MERRIAM DISSECTA

Nepthytis (red veins)Syngonium podophyllum

OAKS

ONIONS

PAPAYA

PASSION VINE

PEPPER

PINEAPPLE

PINTO BEANS

n POINSETTIA

POISONOUS EUPHORBIA

POND APPLE

n PORTERWEED

PORTULACA

n POST OAK

POWDER PUFF

QUEEN PALM Syagrus romanzoffiana

RED FLOWER

n RED MAPLE

ROSE

n ROUGE PLANT

SAPOTE

SAW PALMETTO

n SCORPION TAIL

n SEMINOLE PUMPKIN

SHAMPOO GINGER

n SMILAX

SNAKE PLANT (DWARF)

SOUTHERN TREE (purple flower)

SWAMP LILY

SWEET POTATO

TI PLANT

TOMATO

TRIANGLE PALM

WAX MYRTLE

WHITE INDIGOBERRY

WILD COFFEE

YLANG YLANG

YUCCA

ALL THIS ON LESS THAN 10,000 SQ FT. I have a Squirrel problem now. 9 new houses and 9 lots cleared and since I have lots of food for them, I now have about 8 squirrels living in the yard. Though I think the two from Larrys lineage are trying to contact me.

THE GARDEN GREEN (continued)

Here are some of my Connecticut job experiences. Looking for a New Englandy place to live after living in Tucson for six years, I went to the Boston area first. I got pulled over by a cop trying to find my way around a tight little neighborhood in Boston in my search for a home and the only way out was going the wrong way on a one-way street… and there’s a cop. I talked my way out of it and went on for a quieter town between there and Salem.

Then I realized that maybe Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts were far from the people we knew, and Enfield Connecticut was quite New Englandy in its own way with its old houses and farm stands. At the end of April, I had been at Norms for two weeks. They spent a month or something in Cape Cod and I was house sitting which, all in all, was a pretty cool transition to New England. Taking care of Freddy the dog and shepherding the arrival of Dickens and Rocky, our cats.

I applied at Tarnow Nursery which was down the road about a half a mile and got a job. Minimum wage had risen to $3.35 an hour and despite a pretty good horticultural resume by this point, I started at $3.50. Owner John was a well-known skinflint as I found out from his nieces Nancy and Susan who had set up the nursery the previous fall and ran the place. He barely paid them 4 an hour to run the place, and they were kin.

There’s that pattern emerging that most guys wanted to be millionaires. The nursery owner probably became a millionaire eventually, on the backs of 100, mostly dedicated young people of course. As did Tom Collins in later years with lots of turnover and probably 1000 employees at Captain Hirams in Sebastian Florida. As did the owners of Rock City leaving 500 disgruntled employees in their wake at least.

Joe from Springfield came along at Tarnow Nursery, and he was a young, but old looking, college grad and he became the boss and Susan and Nancy went back to the main store to work, except weekends when Joe was off, and they were the bosses. We spent a lot of time talking on the weekends and there was quite a bunch of interesting kids that came through that summer. That was a good crew.

At 32, I was the oldest at the jobsite and should have been well on my way to a capitalist career and accumulating assets and investing for retirement, but I wasn’t buying into this system. I had learned quite a bit about plants the previous four years with the mall and caretaker job, and I quickly learned about Connecticut's favorite plants.

I thought I had quite a good sales approach and we were taught to handle two customers and go between them while, you know, keeping the elbows and ankles flying when Joe was there. I started by being a loader and met many of the Enfield people who frequented the store who lauded the variety of the plants. This was no vegetable stand with plants, it was a slick professionalism that people like, and Tarnows quickly became Enfields favorite nursery.

The end of the summer came, and it was pumpkins and fall decorations and selling the fall planting concept. The kids went back to college, and I became the main salesperson (except when that lazy guinea schlub from the Main store worked there). He was lazy as fuck and immediately had an effect on productivity. By November, Michelle ran the Christmas shop, and I was the everything else person. She was sharp and knew how to please the little old ladies buying Christmas fluff.

So, my first winter since 1977-8 was set to arrive. We came back to experience the seasons, right? My partner and I had moved to the Thompsonville section of Enfield, and it was like a slice of Boston, a dose of “Southy” that had dropped down in the Connecticut River Valley.

There was Ragnos where they served the food I had missed out in Arizona. A little further away was the best Polish Deli I had ever hoid. Our daughter was born and then baptized at the ancient gothy church down the street. A little further down the street, a Norman Rockwell Christmas emerged at Freshwater Pond when the ice froze.

It was exciting and I realized at this point that I had truly created my own path. My peers were buying houses and working in cubicles, but I decided to carve my own path. I was creating my own horticultural college experience in a pull up your bootstrap's way.

There was Tiny’s Little criminal enterprise next door in a pool hall and a host of characters living in 8 rentals in two large houses. Add loose soap opera here.

I bought some choice little evergreens and had planted them on the side of the house. Rocky and Dickens would run up the steps to come in because the back steps were missing. I was planting in this grey dust they called soil and people were digging it. “Looks good” said local murderer Wilmer Paradise.

My partner was working downtown, and I went to the local employment agency to find another job when I got laid off after Christmas. When you make peanuts, the unemployment was very minimal and a couple weeks before Valentines day I got a job with a wholesale Greenhouse.

Former Ball Seed Vice President Peter Stanley was one of the most manic people I’d ever met. He had reconstructed two 440 foot greenhouses and was striking out on his own with his patented concept called Jet Plugs. Instead of the usual 75 cent plugs these were much smaller and only about 35 cents if I recall, so that was 40 cents a plant profit. I learned the long road from producer to purchaser.

One day running between greenhouses I caught the top of my head on a round eyehook. Shouldn’t have torn my head open since it wasn’t sharp in any way, but that was a trip to the emergency clinic and 13 stitches. My nickname was Zipperhead for a while.

So there I was off to a new job in early February with the temperature around 10 degrees and a dry wicked wind was blowing so it felt like it was well below zero and I was reminded of one of the reasons I moved to Arizona. It was COLD! Everything was frozen and the loading dock area looked to be abandoned with 4’x4’ flattened boxes blowing around and other litter was being blown around. I was looking for a job here? It looked like a disaster area.

Peter was short on employees and this was his problem. So he hired me on at $4.25 an hour which was 25% more than I was making at Tarnow Nursery. An employee was walkie talkied to come and give me an orientation. She was one of those tall Nordic women who cursed very fluently. We got on pretty good, I was always monogamous, so there was never sexual tension with any female co-workers.

In the world of capitalism, men are sheltered from the minorities and they were the bosses of the women and this is why so much sexism remains. You treat a woman like a dude, and they respond in kind. At the mall I also talked with dozens of the employees from every demographic. I reject the notion that I “don’t know how to communicate”. At Tarnow Nursery I met practically everyone in town who came to check out the place. I had the gift of gab when I was younger. I spent the entirety of the 80's meeting people. 9 different jobs 9 different experiences.

I don’t remember the flaxen haired Valkyries name but she walked me to the first Greenhouse and it was a moment like no other. People with glasses know how they fog up in changing conditions. Ten below zero with a wicked wind chill and it was like Dorothy opening the door to the colors of Oz.

Tropical plants as far as the eye could see and a temperature to match. Plants poised for the Valentines Day sales. Here was a new experience to jump into, fer sure. Many tales I will relate later and just one to keep the flow. Bosses such as Jim the asshole came along and White Knight Dwight from out of state was a hired gun and a spectacular dude. No college for him either and he was older than me and had a wide variety of job experiences. He and his friend from Pittsburgh completely refurbished the existing greenhouses and brought another one into service.

When all was said and done, our little family moved to the field office of Consolidated Cigar that Dwight and Marian had p reviouslylived in. There was always a boss over me, and they all got fired or quit and I was a constant for Stanley Greenhouses and now lived across the street in the cutest little white house you ever saw.

Summer of 86 with my first biological child who was a fun little baby and it was an exciting time. I believe the wife quit her job to be a mommy since I was putting in 60 hours a week, and making enough. A typical day would have me at 7:00 walking over to begin venting around 15,000 sq. ft. of greenhouse.

By then the Weather Channel had become the bomb, and I would vent accordingly, depending on that days conditions. Rolling carts waited on the very large loading dock and sometimes I took a smaller truck and loaded from the greenhouse. Then I would drive and deliver for ten hours going to Mattapan or Poughkeepsie or over Mt Adams with a ton of wet plants. I’d come back and close the vents to keep the greenhouses at 75 degrees, then walk home after a 13-hour day. But it was interesting, you know. I set up plant displays at BJ’s Wholesale and delivered to every Paperama in southern New England out to the Hudson in New York.

Work hard and be rewarded was the message of my youth but then I learned from a friend that I had to work smart. That made sense. But did it mean conniving to scratch and claw my way above other employees? Yes, it did. The secret to the American Dream, if you wanted financial security, is that you needed to be the boss. To be able to manipulate people to work harder than they should. Squeezing productivity from underpaid employees was never a lure to me.

The boss at Walmart making sure no one talks to each other. The warehouse manager not caring about workers injuries. The head nurse that all the CNA’s hate. My philosophy is that I don’t like being bossed and I don’t like BEING the boss.

So here I was with caretaking experience, a difficult mall gardening job that included irrigation work, and then some electrical work. A nursery job and greenhouse experience. I was training myself in Horticulture. So, by 1987 Peter ratcheted down his business because his mercurial bossmanship just wasn’t making the money he expected, although of course he blamed the employees.

He even had me set up a retail shop the spring after Dwight left and people recognized me from Tarnows. Then there were the BJ Wholesale sites where I set up the indoor displays and returned weekly to replace plants in ‘86. I even drove to Syracuse a couple of times.

I reckon it was the summer of 87 and I decided I needed indoor plant experience on my resume. The good thing about interior plantwork was that it was a way to work through a New England winter. I spent nine months at Plantations who had some very professional training. I forgot how I left that job.

Then there was the Plantscape job where I was the only dude. When they went big on a pink and black theme with uniforms and stickers and what all else, I found it amusing and they found a way to frame and fire me.

In spring of ’88 I got a job with probably one of the best crews ever. There was the boss, another Lori with an I, who was a dairy farmers daughter. She had grown up with machines and tractors and got the notion to start a landscaping business. Dwarf Evergreens were trending and the plant selection was minty and the boss was calm and organized.

There was Bob the biker. A big bear of a guy with a big beard that the boss described as more a Teddy Bear than a Grizzly. There was Randy the Redneck and there were many interesting discussions altogether between all of us. A big gun enthusiast and one of the first Preppers I ever met. He had enough food for a year at least and even an underground gasoline tank. Randy and his Super Swampers were such a caricature.

Armageddon happens and people are hungry roaming the land for food and shelter We asked him what he would do if dozens of hungry people and their children were walking up his driveway looking for assistance. His answer was that he would “mow them down like zombies.” Then there was Mike Two Hawks, who said he was derided as “only” a quarter blood Mohawk by his peers, but who seemed to be fully authentic. He taught me ceremony and quite a bit else though he was younger.

There was Dat Shenoy and his family. He was a tech dude who quit the biz and wanted to be a landlord. He would be buying houses and I would renovate the landscaping and help him clean and paint the indoors. I’ve liked Painting ever since.

I don’t know what years those were with Dat and his lovely family and where they fit in with all those other Connecticut jobs I had, but it was certain that no one could cite my lack of hustle. A 50 hour week was quite normal for me in the 80’s. I had packed in quite a bit of training in horticulture and with Lori I had the classic experience of driving a 1949 Ford tractor down the state road creating a traffic jam.

With my previous greenhouse experience, I stayed on with the landscaper when it got too cold to plant Junipers in the frozen ground. There was Joe Gidvelas with his mafioso persona. He cursed all the time and was very gruff, except when he was planting tissue culture jet plugs and he treated those like newborn babies.

In ’89 we got an offer to come to Florida to be manipulated by my in-laws. My dad drove my rusted Datsun King Cab pickup, and I drove a Hertz rental truck like the ones I drove for Stanley. Without cell phones and global positioning satellites, we always had a place where we would meet if we got separated. This was important going on the six lane I-295 around Washington DC.

Susan and Nancy

Probably more administrative skill than all the men in the Tarnow organization. A song called “The Warrior” brought me back to that time. And really it all just brings me back to when I started getting into the groove with a career in horticulture, botany, hydrology, being in on the beginning of tissue culture and all the rest.

My first notion is that the Green Industry is about the least green of them all. All the pollution required to make plastic and then there’s the toxic particles when it burns.

First there is the immense tracts of irrigation pipes at Park Mall where I worked in ’81/2. 528 sprinkler heads in an area so vast I had to use a bicycle to reach the further ends of it. Today they have an easy, remote thingy that lets you to change to different irrigation zones without having to go back to the time clock.

I started to point out the hypocrisy of using a lot of mulch for environmental reasons when the plastic bags for one job created more plastic garbage than ten families could make in a week! I really noticed it after I moved to Connecticut and worked at Tarnow nursery as a loader. All day long loading “green” products in thousands of plastic bags. Brian and I had to wind down with some California bud and Motley Crues “Shout at the Devil" after loading many tons of bags.

Stanley Greenhouse was a joke in the waste department. Thousands of hanging baskets. Thousands of holiday plants. It was about the profit. I went back to Tarnow for another interesting spring but Stanley wanted me and I got another paltry raise to $4.75.

I went and did 18 months with two interior plant companies in the third largest indoor plant market at the time, Hartford Connecticut.

After I told Mike Two Hawks about my Indian sweet corn project, we began talking how the natives here, The Podunks among others, lived cleanly and simply on the east side of the Connecticut River.

I told him about the Charter Oak and how it was also the ceremonial Oak. When the oak leaves were the size of mouse ears, it was time to plant the corn. Later the “Fundamental Orders of 1639” were hidden in the tree.

So I learned ceremony at the start of the work day. It was the cusp of the dwarf evergreeen trend and we planted many yards during the year and a half I worked there. The same crew; a redneck - a biker -an Indian- a farm girl who loved tractors, -a foul mouthed fat guy and me the heirloom organic dude.

Orchid Island; invasive plants A1A and Jungle Trail and cutting the pepper at Stickneys.

I made TWO habitat reports and talked to two property managers and if nothing else showed them up to be hypocrites. Headline proclaiming how they gave $3726 to the Environmental Learning Center. A greenwashing of the corporate sort. A showy gift of charity (probably some costume fetish ball) but not able to comprehend how the 600 acre community should be managed. No outdoor stewardship, it was about selling memberships and empty million dollar lots. No fucks given for the sake of migrating animals and enhancing nature. No one to notice the disapearing stands of native plants on site.

I saw an opportunity for me to create a job with habitat at this place but these richy rich clubs have their richy rich wanna be millionaire employees (bag boys / shop girls / wait staff / department heads /real estate parasites) all stabbing each other in the back as they kick and claw their way to the top of the Torwest corporate organization.

Finally, I started my own business The Garden Green. A humble, small company as there ever was. 2001 to 2021. Now I’m off to start something new.

Diversions. 2022.

DIVERSIONS 2023

DIVISIONS OF DIVERSIONS

THE GARDEN GREEN

FANCY PLANTS NURSERY

-6-6 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. Common sense Democracy 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 21^st 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.

THE HIGH THREAD COUNT IN THE FABRIC 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.

TUCSON TO THOMPSONVILLE

After a thousand miles my hands were numb from the noise of my engine and my mind blank from the ceaseless revolutions of my tires. The yellow lined road points to some distant towers and spring grasses of early April, freshly greened the Texas and Oklahoma countryside's. The rivers in Missouri were running high with snowmelt caused by recent rains.

Riding the great open spaces between Midwestern cities, structures loomed far off down the road as if the road would end when entering this great palace. I continued to head straight for them. They were glistening and futuristic----with a touch of grey, reminding me of the Hollywood backdrop for the Land of Oz. What Dorothy saw off in the distance at the end of the yellow brick road and all that stood between her and the Wizards castle was a field of poppies.

The Towers. Who cared that they looked a little fake. They lured Dorothy and the others and drew me in too. Even when I drove by the massive grain towers it was not a disappointment…because seeing America was mysterious and magical.

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As many people know America is divided into ten growing zones. Zone 10 being Miami and Zone 2 the Boreal Forest in Canada. Some configurations gauge their results from the lowest winter temperatures and some use the date of the last frost. Either way there is a general agreement as to where these zones are.

Zone 10 includes Miami and Sand Diego that are frost free. Zone 9 runs up the Pacific coast out to the Mojave Desert and into the Sonoran Desert where Tucson and Phoenix are located. Zone 9 also includes the Texas town of Corpus Cristi and areas north of Miami and up to Orlando, higher along the coasts. Averaging less than five days of frost with minimums of 20 degrees.

My trip from Tucson to Thompsonville begins in zone 9. I entered zone 8 only five hours into the trip. Zone 8 is north of Phoenix and through the mountains of New Mexico and going through lower central Texas and across the south to South Carolina. As I headed north of Alamagordo in New Mexico I hopped over zone 7 quickly. Alamagordo is 4300 feet above sea level and lies at the western edge of the mountains.

I maintained a path through zone 6 as I got to 6,000 feet in Northeast New Mexico. I continued in a northeasterly direction to Amarillo Texas, central Oklahoma, and the beautiful mid western state of Missouri. Zone 6 covers a wide band, including Kentucky Tennessee, northern Virginia New York City and Newport Rhode Island.

Zone 6 had just been waking up fom the winter. I suspected zone 5, which had seen a snowstorm of epic proportions that early April winter day, was still frozen and asleep. In Missouri I skirted the line between 5 and 6, and up till that point had seen no precipitation. Up ahead on the drive across country was Illinois Indiana and Ohio at the lower edge of the heavy snow areas. After leaving Tucson when it was 75 degrees, I wouldn’t feel any temperatures above 40 degrees. Had I left too soon? In Illinois it was 38 degrees when the rain started.

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November in Tucson is not always pleasant. November is when the coldest temperatures hit Tucson. It was the month I saw the only snowfall over one inch. It was the month of the coldest temperature I experienced in Tucson---18 degrees. November ’83 was no exception. From upper 80’s at the beginning of the month to frost and 35 and frost or 45 degrees and rain. On my job as an electricians helper I was digging 10 foot wide ditches 3 feet deep. These would fill up with rain and collapse.

My friend and boss Jeff Schombert was letting his friend, Jesus, run a job by himself for the first time. The illustrious dumb-fuck macho queen, Jesus (Hey Zeus)Romero made many mistakes. It was a job with 160 apartments led by the primary contractors---the Valley Carpentry crew. I was stuck in the ditch while other beginners were shown how to do electrical installation.

However, as the Motorhead song says, “Don’t let the bastards grind you down,” as I never let them. As time went by I had to grit my teeth and survive with my principles and convictions intact. There was six months to go before we moved back to New England and many times our trip back could have been halted or delayed. The plan was to leave Tucson just before the summer started and in New England as the spring was at its flowerful best. I had a month long house sitting job in Enfield.

Many people who move to Tucson miss the four seasons. It’s hot for 5 months and moderate for 7 months, but on the other hand many Tucsonans would be happy with a year round summer. “Don’t like the cold. No sir, I don’t.” When the temperatures turn from moderate to looking into the hot oven warm, there are collective groans and cheers across the valley.

Where would we end up? Boston was a good idea, a return to tradition and intensity. Boston---culture, history, and activity. I was ready to move but my bank account wasn’t. Unlike many Tucsonans who empty their bank accounts to take yearly trips back “home,”I had no desire to visit Connecticut. Living in Arizona gave me the opportunity to see America and meet people from fifty states. Native people, Pacicific coast people, disgruntled Floridians looking to flee the humidity and arthritis. Mexicans Guatamalans, Detroiters, Minnesota people, Vermonters Texans.

I became a global citizen there and now I live in New England not because I was born here but because I choose to. In fact we almost become Marylanders. My girlfriends brother was a muffin executive at Thomas English Muffins. He could hire me for 12 an hour which was a lot for me never making more than 5 an hour. We would be rich and all I have to do is poke the muffins with toothpicks.

The factory was in the beautiful Maryland countryside, 35 miles from D.C. My potential boss ended up getting a promotion and moving to the god-awful cold city of Chicago.

After five years in Tucson it felt like the city was a bit of an island. Isolated and out of touch, beautiful young and strong with hints of class. Yet somehow boring. Or was it just the people? So there I was in November of 1983 with a dream about getting back to New England. It kept raining like a Connecticut spring, and some weeks I only worked 20 hours, at 4 dollars an hour.

Through December we never got out of the 200-400 dollar range with savings. I had decided not to tell anyone in town about the plan till we had 500 dollars solidly in the savings.

There is an old movie called the seven trials of Hercules. To escape the beasties, Hercules had to endure seven major tribulations before he could be set free. That’s how I saw myself once again, nose to the grindstone trying to endure. The first trial was the chronically small savings account but still knowing this was going to get done. The February plan was scrapped and then the March date of escape. Then I picked April 11^th as the day of departure.

January progressed and we were solidly above 500 and we told people about our plans. Why? They all asked. When I left Connecticut in 1978 I got the same question---why?

At that point the van was 92% repaired. Engine overhaul carberator overhaul, fuel pump front end and much more. Then Memere Bellemare pledged 500 dollars for our effort.

Then came the second trial. Since I was concentrating so much effort raising cash---getting a raise, selling and trading our extraneous possessions, I neglected my work on my, work for rent situation. The Kingstons our landlord and boss demanded a major effort. They suggested I was complacent and said we should leave if we can’t do the job right.

It seemed like they wanted to fire us but we squeaked by knowing we weren’t ready to tell them we were leaving in two months anyways. Moving into an apartment at this point would cost us too much in deposits, first and last months rent.

Ah but Tucson. How COULD we leave? January 10^th was the last day it rained till at least March 10^th. High temperatures ranged from 64 to 82 degress which is ideal for most people. When I left with my whole life packed into an Econoline Van on April 11^th I knew that for three months I had experienced the most beautiful weather on the planet. I found out later from a weather buddy that Tucson had its warmest May on record.

Jesus, the macho turdball, returned to the story to present the fourth trial. He had finished the Valley Carpentry Crew job and joined us at the Mission Road Apartments. I had gotten a raise to $4.50 while I was there working with Jeff the owner and boss. My nemesis blandly stated upon our first meeting that his intention was to fire me. But I prevailed.

As Jesus tried to provoke arguments that would lead to a fight and the inevitable deceptive descriptions of events, so I approached my boss and friend about this problem. But Jesus was his business partner. If Jesus could direct a lot of people, Jeff could expand the business. A good business partner is hard to find.

Calmly I discussed the problem. Unbeknownst to me, Jeff had suspected a problem and was aware of the loss he took at the Valley Carpentry job. Jesus Wormtongue was one of those gossiping sorts, saying bad shit about a lot of people frequently. Jeff concluded from the mountains of paperwork that it was more than lazy workers that ballooned his expenses. A lot was spent on supplies and fuel and miscellaneous.

The worm became a mouse and I became the Cheshire Cat, by doing nothing more than telling the truth. Motherfucker never said shit to me after that, and Jeff didn’t scapegoat me in any way, he told Jesus that he was inefficient and should spend more time watching himself instead of the workers. Jesus was demoted back to the crew for more “seasoning”. Patience is rewarded.

The fourth/fifth trial arrived about two or three weeks after the Jesus fiasco. It appeared this time as the flu. We were struggling to save, and I needed every paycheck. Stumbling around the job site, I tried not to fall off the second floor. It was a killer flu, and it took an extreme effort to work.

Not even a week or two later came the fifth trial. At 10 o’clock one evening my tooth inflamed and massive pain became my bane. My girlfriend said to call the hospital for pain killers. Mouth pain I could have survived but the tooth needed work, over 500 dollars worth---a punch in the stomach for our savings effort. The grimmest outlook had us leaving for New England at the onset of this coming winter,

Memere sent another 500 and my parents had sent a 300 dollar birthday present. People were eager to have the Prodigal Son back. The only one they knew in recent memory to move out of Connecticut. The Vagabond, the wanderer.

I really got to know the weather of the desert and it’s imprinted on my mind like childhood memories in Wethersfield. The flooding arroyos, the random dust devils spinning nearby, the baking hot dryness, and the sacred rain, never repeating a pattern and always different. The Robins arrived in their flocks much earlier than usual and this indicated to a weather watcher that an early spring would commence.

The weather was more boring in Connecticut and New England with it’s tedious, never ending light rain. But there was the big trees and the fine old homes, the beaches and small quaint towns, rude people and every extreme of individuality and conformity.

Three weeks before the trip I organized a weekend outing to New Mexico. Why would I take a long drive three weeks before a cross country trip? There were logical reasons like checking out if there were any places to get gas and food. From Tucson to Las Cruces (275 miles), there were sporadic stops for travelers. No phones that I could see and very small towns like Bowie and Deming. These towns roll up the sidewalks at six o clock, I’m sure.

The first gas stop would be only 75 miles outside of Tucson in Willcox. Belly up to the pump with the engine running to get every teaspoon I could in there. I could make it to las Cruces but what about Alamogordo (375 miles) and Roswell (525). No one wants to run out of gas in the desolate mountains of New Mexico. I’m sure. There were two 24 hour stores in Alamogordo as it turns out as I asked around more.

Hopefully the mountains would have gradual grades and I wouldn’t waste gas. So the little weekend in New Mexico allowed me to listen to the van carefully to see if there were any sort of problems. I hadn’t take any strenuous trips in the aging van in the last two years.

Her performance was sluggish at best and became downright dreadful on the little trip. I went to Tuneup Masters where they did a lot of replacing. A complete tuneup was needed. I DID NOT want to break down in the middle of the country with everything I owned. Well it ran better and was solid with the recent front end work I got done on it.

The New Mexico getaway psyched me for being on the road again and this time, to another new place. I took the trip with Steve who was the one who was responsible for me moving out of Connecticut in the first place. I stayed at his place when I first moved out there and my two room mates joining me later in the month.

I hadn’t seen much of Steve the last two years because of his chaotic marital situation. We played in bands together back in Wethersfield and wrote songs together. We made up some pretty complicated jazz rock fusion progressive music. At the White Sands National Monument we let our imaginations run free and pretended to be filming different movies from that location.

After that weekend I was ready and resolute. Chance of snow at 5500 to 7000 feet where much of the road lay. Once I got to Amarillo there would be plenty of places to gas up and gobble down.

The sixth trial was of course another surprise. The girlfriend was going to stay behind and leave on the 27^th and fly to meet her brother in Chicago. Well on April 5^th, which was 10 days after we’d given our notice, we suddenly had to move by the 11th. She couldn’t wait to bring in the new people even though she originally liked our plan which gave her time to screen a lot of people. Mrs. Kingston said there were 125 people that applied for the job that we got and we thought it would take a while.

We had to super pack since I was going to leave between the 12 and 16^th as per the plan and casually pack. Luckily I scored six ounces. So the girlfriend scrambled staying mostly with Cheryl who was Jeff the bosses wife. The last picture of me in Tucson is with my arm around Cheryl standing by the black van. I set sail from there at 4 in the afternoon and drove the 18 hours to Amarillo without sleeping.

Our packing was rushed and so were our farewells. The 40 acre ranch we were caretakers of was a great place for friends to hang out. Nearby looming in the eastern sky was 8400 foot Mt. Rincon. The Catalinas, topping out at 9200 feet were due north. The pool was like 40 feet long and 8 foot deep and many enjoyed the scene. People would visit with their pet tarantulas among other memorable people. Pregnant friends relaxing in the pool because it made their joyous burden less heavy to carry.

I was leaving a career in electrical construction and leaving a very desirable living situation. These moves have to be made and I lost out, took one for the team. Actually electrician work was boring and the Kingstons and us had had enough of each other. Like pruning back a rose to watch it grow. we made the break from the comfort zone.

I patted and hugged Sally and Sammy, our most wonderful dogs. We would miss each other. The long hikes in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains. The time we were in a small canyon and coyotes were on both cliffs. I had a beating stick and Sammy regularly chased coyotes out of the yard. The times the Javelinas tried to dig under the stone wall to get at the dog food. Sammy was more wary of the wild pigs. You know you stand there and all you can say was “bye you guys”.

The Kingstons took pictures of us and the heavily weighted down Ford Van and we said good bye. No tears or regrets we would spend the night at the Holiday Inn about 8 miles away. It was hot enough at 85 degrees and the black van attracted the sunny heat. The van swayed as it picked up speed going down Broadway, I was completely over loaded.

The starting mileage was 160,353. It was hot enough with a reminder of the summer to come at 85 degrees. It had yet to hit 90 that spring but it was hot in that van when the 7^th trial reared its ugly head. As I approached the intersection of Pantano and Broadway and the…..van……..died! Holy fuck, it wouldn’t start for anything. I know the battery is good so what was wrong. We were now officially homeless waifs all our belonging stuffed into one vehicle.. A dead vehicle. Luckily I had AAA road service and the driver dude discovered a thin wire that had worked itself loose. Phew!!

At the motel I was still organizing the truck that night and the next morning. The girlfriend would stay at our friends home and they helped prepare my launch. I had fixed heater hoses, ignition switch, gotten gas shocks and new tires all in the last week. I only had one more thing on my list to get and that was a couple of flares because of the desolate area I was going to drive through.

>>>>STATE OF THE INTERSTATE<<<<

I WAS TRAVELLING ON Grant road to catch I-10 from there. Too many things on my mind and I drove right past Checker Auto Parts. I cursed because I couldn’t just turn around. Tucson has a No Crossing Rule between 4:00 to 6:00 and I drove down a bunch of back roads to get back to Grant. Grant Rd. goes under I-10 and goes further west of town.

Five o’clock and I was finally getting on the Interstate after going to get flares then getting caught in a traffic jam. I inched my way up, then finally I was on the entrance ramp with its smooth concrete sides. Vehicular conveyance merges brain unit relaxes and I am plugged into the Interstate Zone.. Happily I thrust my elbow out the window as the warm day began to cool off. I drove by the power company and I drove by the new IBM headquarters and was soon on the quiet stretch of highway to Vail Arizona.

On my journey to Arizona on August 18-25 1978, my favorite cat of all time, Mary Lou, accompanied me on the trip. She made the journey enjoyable and the memories golden. She died in a coyote attack living free as she wanted but now I am missing her a lot. As the Catalina Mountains faded in the distance that April 12^th 1984, I reminisced. I would look at a spot on Mt Rincon and say a prayer to her and now I was passing that spot but closer than usual from the southern angle.

I always hoped she could hear my messages, so I concentrated them in one spot to give me better odds. Losing her to the desert ways was one of the saddest days in my life because we interacted so much we were really close friends.. I looked at the spot one last time and yelled out, “Come on Mary Lou, let’s go. Let’s get back to New England, you can be my travelling companion again on these lonely interstates. I’m leaving Tucson, let’s go.

Sixty miles later I pulled into Willcox. One last fuel stop before the long empty ride to Las Cruces. One thing I was looking forward to doing was keeping track of the gas mileage. It has to be wild estimates at first till more mileage data rolls in. At the 250 mile mark I took my first estimate. Which was 15.5 MPG. I had a tape recorder to play cassettes to relieve boredom but also was recoding my own tape of the journey.

Just as I was talking into the tape recorder about 15 and a half MPG I went under a bridge that said 15’6”. Just one of those good luck coincidences I told myself. I’m getting ahead of myself here. I went by Bowie Arizona and then San Simon then Lordsburg New Mexico. After that came the most desolate 125 mile stretch of road you ever want to see. For you New Englanders that would be like driving from Danbury Connecticut to Cape Cod without seeing any people. Well…except for Deming New Mexico which couldn’t be seen from the highway but the signs assured us it was there.

No phones no services and truckers and travelers knew they would get gas somewhere, but Deming was in the muddle of nowhere. A nearly full moon rose and its luminescence lit up my dashboard and I could see the things I needed to keep me entertained. There’s boredom and a disease called white line fever. I paced myself, a little music then I’d turn that off and have some snacks. I saw some deer and this truck with 10,000 lights on it coming towards me and flashed his killer beams before and after he passed me.

Then I would smoke something and then check my thermos. Coffee was still hot and it was good. Some time later and 313 miles into the trip I came up on Las Cruces. I filled up my thermos at the McDonalds in Willcox and stretched. Four pumps outside a food oriented 24 hour fast food place. I got back on the highway and started the revolving stimuli again. A little of this a little of that.

Now I have put in 34.1 gallons and that is divided into 313 miles or about 9 MPG. I can estimate safely that I will get 250 miles from this tank which would bring me to 563 miles or about 19 MPG. Three or four cops drove by slowly because you know….black van. Don’t need to get arrested either with 6 Units.

I was glad to be back on the highway and I was one alert dude with my mission fully actualized. No clouds and a nearly full moon was traversing the sky at about 1 P.M. The I got to Alamogordo and stopped to top off the tank for the ride through the mountains. A couple of guys yelled out some indecipherable comment. You can bet I didn’t blithely give the finger. You don’t fuck around like that when you’re traveling by yourself. Just like the way you don’t drive 50 MPH in a 30MPH zone in these small western towns. Even after driving for an hour at 80 you obeyed speed limits because small town cops don’t got much to do but pull over tourists and travelers.

Let’s leave the details behind and get rolling here.. The second phase of this leg of the trip. I’d be over 6,000 feet in elevation for over 75 miles and a storm could pop up anytime though unlikely in that arid climate.. It seemed very cold when I stopped to pee. Probably 25 to 35 degrees. But I saw 6 deer hopping across the road. This highway was nicely surfaced but there were no towns or cars or trucks or people.

My thermos had broken so I had two giant 85 cent coffees. One I drank right away and one I insulated with a towel and it was still hot two hours later. The night was clear and I was very awake considering it was 3 in the morning. Everything was going okay but I could completely trust the ten year old, 160,ooo mile veteran of the party wars.

Could I stay awake? I was on the way to Portales New Mexico. 590 miles into the trip and 46 gallons purchased. It was about 5 in the morning and you know you get a little tired and sleepy. You tell yourself you won’t accidently fall asleep and hit a bridge but you never know. I was closing in on a new time zone and calculated I was averaging 47 MPH even with the brakes and the overloaded truck I didn’t dare drive over 60.

At 6:00 I jumped ahead an hour and was being kept awake by a beautiful sunrise. Slowly, the sunrise took an hour and a half before the sun came over the mountain. Then it stayed real low at the bottom of the sky for an hour. No clouds but this mysterious weak sunrise managed to make me feel like I had just woken up and a new day was upon us.

A time and temperature clock in Portales said 36 degrees at 7:32. And then I got back on 70 with only 125 miles to get to Amarillo.

Lost in Texas green, cold, corn, lotta silos. Zone 7 grass is up. The ride from Lariet to Bovina was gorgeous reminding me to take a trip someday on the back roads like I did on other trips Farm roads 3333 and 1731 which I took are basically lush Midwestern farm roads. Active fertile pump engines running for the 300 foot irrigation devices the only trees are the ones near houses.

All kinds of machinery many water tanks fields turned over ready for planting. Warm looking brown dirt. Tractors plows and pick ups. All new all vital all outdoors unlike the south and north this flat Midwestern area has only 10 to 20 inches of rain a year. Machines left outdoors won’t rust as readily though

Canyon Texas headed for Amarillo. 721 miles into the trip 15 hours later. Seeing the sun rise woke me up all over again. Not tired just a little spaced out. Rt 60 ended and I got on Interstate 27. It was one of the most absolutely beautiful exits I’ve ever seen. Masters of motion. A 270 degree turn so graceful it puts connecticuts exits in a clearly inferior category.A marvel of engineering. Sweeping and guiding me with no defects. Purple flowers on the side of the road.

In Amarillo I searched for a pizza place, I had a desire for pizza. An insatiable desire. No luck at 1030 they were all closed. I ate at Wendys and got back on the highway. 50 miles outside Amarillo I finally took a nap. I went 805 miles in 18 hours at 44 MPH. A half ton van with ¾ ton of shit. Mostly my musical equipment. I rarely went over 55.

A three hour stop in Amarillo. Till this point I don’t recall seeing any roadside pullovers. At 300 I was on the road again. At 430 I called Sherry and she was surprised I was in Ol;ahoma. After 26 hours on the road with 2 hours of sleep I began getting tired again. And since I was in safe pullover country I took a 3 hour stop outside of Oklahoma City.

There was a knock on the wndow. I didn’t feel threatened with so much life and activity nearby so I rolled down the window. Two youg dudes They needed a hanger, they locked themselves out of their car. Two Okies they were also ‘riggers’. They worked on an oil rig. They drove three hours to work and three hours back. It was a job.

On through Oklahoma and Missouri. Full tank of gas in Joplin and 1200 miles into the trip. Some reflections half way through the trip. Where else n this world can you travel 2700 miles unfettered and unmolested on safe fast dry roads? Places to pull over to tighten the straps of the two bicycles on the back check tire pressure stretch and all that? No hairy eyeballs from KGB spies or Libyan terrorist police. How are the roads in China, impassable during rainy periods. People in Moscow need a permit to travel outside the city.

I hate plastic but these countries still wrap their food in paper. Cheap toxic ink spotting your leg of lamb or hunk of beef. Give me the USA anytime.Where is your Arizona passport comrade?

I ate ¼ pounder and grapefruit juice. Las Cruces—ham and cheese. Shaklee energy bars throughoutAmarillo bacon cheeseburger Okla pecan maple candies and Stuckeys coffee (yuck). Unlike Europes inconsistent food and South Americas bug ridden fare Americas corporate feeding is an advantage for travelers. Did need some Tums however. Throat burn with all that coffee, Stuckeys candy and sesame chips.

Too many trucks going by and they blow me around. I weave in all kinda directions when they roar by. Always something to see or think about. I’m reminded of the trip to Tucson. Totally joyful and totally awesome. I love this country.

Headed to St. Louis with a full tank of gas. 5:00 Wednesday the 11^th of April. Friday afternoon. Rolling down the interstate I was thinking about Oklahoma. Red dirt red and green from early spring grass. The barns and farms were bigger and older than the ones in Texas. Oklahomas rivers erwe as big as Missouris streams. Many billboards in Missouri like darlenes antiques and needlecraft, insuranc, advertising doesn’t cost it pays says the empty one. Roads are quick and steep.

Three shits in two days. No problems with THAT. Ah yes St louis. Stopped at the information bureau. Noted food spots so I didn’t drive two hours looking for one. Closest call for smoking came shortly before St. Louis. I was pulling on a number and around the corner a cop had someone pulled over. As I drove by he was just getting back on the highway and so I extinguished the stick and slowed down. He was going agonizingly slow behind me 6 miles at 52 MPH. Keep in mind I had 6 ounces in one of my suitcases and driving I noted the gas was $1.05 on the average. Many caves, caverns and historic side. I can see where a person would be proud of their state and at the very end was the Mississippi River.

The big muddy. Big big. Standing next to it was like looking at a lake. Slate blue, serge blue? Blue brown yellow? Metallic light blue lack. Hard to describe the color and I pulled over and noted many black people fishing. I clambered out of the van to stretch my road weary body. With an eye on the truck I jogged along the river to get fresh air in my lungs. I drove around Bellefontaine and found a Steak and Shake.

I was about needing a dose of vegetables and got a big salad and read the Time magazine I had brought with me. Shortly before dinner arrived I noticed people gathering around a dead guy in the street. Too many bacon cheeseburgers I suppose.

THIS IS NOT FINISHED WHERE IS THE REST OF IT?????

12-2

“ENVIROMENTAL LEGISLATION

DESTROYED MY FIRST CAREER”

The paperboy of yesteryear was a wonderous option for boys in the 60's. Girls broke in during the seventies. It was a skill building, freedom loving occupation; with the obvious benefits that came from learning about small business at a young age. If you were never a paperboy, there was also a social component involved with this job that was critically important.

When I had to go collecting for the weekly bill, I went to nearly everybody’s house, exchanging pleasantries then enjoying talking with the many different kinds of people and listening to what they had to say and always adding in my youthful two cents. Now it’s funny to look back and realize I had my own small business with 40 customers such a long time ago, one of the last of the door-to-door peddlers.

By 1971, I was 17 years old and getting many questions; derisive questions from my peers wondering when I would get a real job. You see, being a 17-year-old paperboy was so uncool to them, just arrived from the misery of South Hartford. The minimum wage back then was $1.25 an hour and when I got the second paper route in tenth grade, I made 40 dollars in about 13 hours a week. Over three dollars an hour! It would be like making 16 dollars an hour today, in 10^th grade! I thought I had it going on, because work and school were over at 3:10, and when that school bell rang; I was free! “Tell me when you’re making forty dollars a week” I told my peers, “From your real job.” They spent 20 hours a week in the hot Connecticut sun, working shade tobacco, to make 22 dollars.

I spent three hours of the thirteen total collecting what was due, but that turned into 6 hours a week, with all the diversions and wanderings I pursued, but fun didn't count as work hours. I was a young teen running loose in the morning and in the dark delivering papers. On Friday and Saturday evening I didn’t have to account for any of my time with my parents. Nice to be trusted. Now it’s like, “why were you at the store so long?”

Eventually, I did get curious to see what a “real job” was like. You know, a first step towards that corner office. Remember my work was done by 7 in the morning. So I had time to be a “soda jerk” at Dougherty Drugs after school. I only made 20 dollars a week there, in about 16 hours from 4 to 8, 4 days a week. Who needed that, not even half of what I made as a paperboy? I’m glad I didn’t give up my morning job.

Back even further to 1965 when I was 11, my very first paper route was for the afternoon paper. Back in those days there was a competition in all the cities between the morning and afternoon paper and the paperboys were active selling the product, and there was no advertising needed. My parents approved of this activity, and thought if this worked out, I could start my own college fund. I just wanted to make ten dollars a week and ended up having more fun than I expected.

Back in those days, banks gave between 5 and 6% interest. Today most “banks” don’t deal with savings accounts that are small, and they get away with the legal corruption of eliminating many savings accounts for young people. They did this by instituting the "Inactive Account" scam throughout the nineties.

People thought they had put aside 400 dollars, for instance, for a newborn child’s future, only to go back 10 years later to see that there was nothing left in the account! Inactivity fees. Today, banks never pay more than 1% interest in savings, stifling the teen entrepreneur at the very least. In fact, if you do not have a minimum of $400 in the account these days, there is a penalty.

In the old days, you could put money in the bank and every quarter you would check how much interest accrued, so my mother set aside 8 dollars every week to go in the bank and I kept the rest. I got a few new customers and got my income up to 11 or 12 dollars a week which gave me some jingle jangle in my pocket. I had 3 dollars a week to spend as I chose from the time I was 11 onwards and 7 dollars a week by the time I was 16. Usually for bicycle parts or sports equipment that wasn’t available in the paperboy contests, but I can say I’ve been buying my own shit since then.

My bundle of papers was dropped off at the apartments where half of the customers were with the Hartford Times route. Sure enough, I was up and down those elevators thousands of times. Friends seemed to like to help deliver the papers if they got to mess around with the elevator. "Dude, that's the last time" I'd tell them as the elevator opened up to a generally friendly old person. "How are you fellas doing today?" “Great Sir, we forgot a paper on the third floor and we’re going back. Rodney Kolodny here (pointing to a friend) still doesn’t know how to operate an elevator.”

I had businesses on the Silas Deane Highway; along with a couple remaining residences on the Silas Deane that refused to sell to developers. Customers included the gas station at the light, Western Auto (where I got tires, spokes, and ball bearings) and a wide variety of other customers. A place called Carlin Inc. had the WORLDS MOST PERFECT BIKE JUMP.

I had a stretch of customers down the other side of the light including a hardware store. Burger Chef, the first fast food to arrive in Wethersfield, was where I would give 25 cents now and then to the teen age panhandlers Tony and Tommy. Every day I cruised through the Carlin INC. loading dock, setting up for the jump. I only had to fall once at the beginning, to be much more careful.

Back when we could have unsupervised rough play.

Then I'd drive over the tracks and over to Mill St. A wooded swampy area with some very dilapidated housing. They were very poor families, much like you’d see in Appalachia; people that still had outhouses. One generation removed from potato sack clothes, they were former mill workers and it was a stark atmosphere that was hard to forget. The mill had been closed more than ten years and these families were impoverished by the paltry pay from the predatory capitalist fat cats, no doubt, and became desperate minimum wage workers.

The Mill Street Appalachia was demolished a year or two later and there was a rumor something different was coming to that site. Something we’d never seen before. During the summer of ‘66 I was 12 and decided I couldn’t go another school year working the afternoon paper and miss all those baseball and football games after school. I made the phone call to sign up with the morning newspaper, The Hartford Courant, which was established in 1764. Their motto was and still is, “Older than the nation, newer than the news.”

Two weeks later came the phone call; route #406 was available, was I interested? “Yeh!” Dude named Gorski was giving up his route, being 14, a big kid who was going to get a “real job” working tobacco. In Connecticut we know about “working tobacco”. Shade grown for cigar wrappers, it was hot and horrible work, but what a pile of cash at the end of the week and 14-year-olds were allowed to work it though you had to be 16 for the full-time work. 50 dollars! In one week! All you had to do was resign yourself to exhaustion, sunburn and summer fun only on the weekends.

Gorski told me about the customers he liked on the route and made sure I treated them right and they WERE great people. I went with him for three mornings and that was it. He passed on the collection book and told me I’d make 14 a week from it. This route was in historic Old Wethersfield and I did make 14 a week and built it up a little bit to 16, and then something big happened at the former Appalachia site.

Eventually, there were sixteen buildings and 64 living units on the site. What a bonanza, so many potential customers in such a small area. I could drop five papers in a minute. Mill St. Appalachia gave way to something I’d never seen before. It looked like the Jordan Lane Nursing Home, but everyone grew to love it despite its bricky nothingness for architecture. These homes were called “condos”. Condominiums.

I had been like any other fierce, territorial CEO. As they were being built, I hovered around them territorially while letting Izard and Joe, the two closest paperboys, that this uncharted Hartford Courant territory was mine, because, after all, I had customers on both side of the project. Permanent residents I once had on the Hartford Times afternoon paper route that I strategically converted to the morning paper, the Hartford Courant.

So, Gorski went off to work tobacco in the blazing sun and humid summer heat. 50 bucks! 44 after taxes… he had big dreams. For the full timers. Under 16 was limited to 25 hours a week. Saving up his pennies saving up his dimes to buy him a 409.

The Hartford Courant had good contests for getting new customers, and I often won basketballs and gloves and bats and newfangled collecting books. With these condos; I got enough new customers to qualify for numerous day trips to New York City. In the winter, the Courant took us to a ski lodge in Massachusetts and when I had gotten enough new customer points; there were the three-day trips to D.C. or Cape Cod.

When things go well and sales are up, everybody prospers.

Customers were all pretty nice, and everyone had their own little gig to talk about, and it was fun getting a peek into other people’s lives, and there were lots of people to talk about the issues of the day.

“We buy our milk from the store now," I remember people telling me things like this as we were transitioning into the modern age. The local dairies began having trouble competing with the avaricious new dairy corporations bent on excessive profits and converting the family farm into the factory farm.

“The fruit peddler used to stop here," was another comment I remember. He had a rolling fruit stand, and when I was about 12 He had 10 or 15 customers on our street and I would wave to him, though he was a grumpy sort. He’d about had enough of punk ass kids. A couple years previous he even had a horse that pulled his cart, for real, with horse poop (road apples) in the road and everything. Nobody cared; you went around road apples in those days. Today you sue the horses’ owner.

Business was bad since the A&P opened up in 1964 and by 1970 he was gone. Mrs. Gangi, who was handicapped, was his last steady customer and one or two others. A & P became the place to shop. Then Popular Market in 67 across the other side of the Silas Deane Highway opened up and all the small stores in town be closing down.

Now instead of fresh market produce and locally sourced goods, we would all drive to the store instead of walking to the corner store or common market.

Two small business institutions I saw fade away in my youth; the milkman and the fruitman, and eventually the paperboy also disappeared.

But I was thriving by 1969, making about 20 to 24 dollars a week and I think my mother was making me save a minimum of 16 dollars per week at this point. She’d show me the passbook now and then. Astonishing, approaching 2,000 dollars when I was 15! The 5.5% interest helped the savings build faster. In this world of 2022, you need to save thousands of dollars in long term notes, to barely get 1%. Did I hear someone say ‘pit of vipers?’

What then of the milkman and fruit peddler now? Our local dairy was probably 8 miles away in Rocky Hill. Every 20 miles or so, there was a dairy, I’m sure. Locally grown eggs and milk from cows you could wave to as you drove by. "John-get your head back in the car!" “Hi Cows!”

One of my jobs was leaving out the milk bottles to be picked up; then bringing in what the milkman left, since I was the first one to wake up in the morning. Looking back, what was the greatest generation thinking when they let progress trample over this and other old fashioned but useful traditions? Predatory capitalism has torn apart the social fabric with the greatest generation as willing dupes. The small market economy was crushed as Boomers languidly tried to halt the corporatization of America.

How old are our eggs now and how far have they traveled? What chemicals have been applied to feed? How crowded are conditions with the chickens? Our modern food production kept food prices artificially low, but at what social and moral cost? Too much lost…landmarks, wetlands, ancient forests, and the fine network of small brooks and streams were compromised or destroyed as the greatest generation ravaged resources such as Southern Forests for cheap homes in the fifties and sixties, and the Atlantic Ocean for fish on Friday.

That white Cadillac, so many aspired to, symbolized purity and wealth and the façade of prosperity. Corporations tore apart the family farm and the self-sufficient homestead during the alleged post war prosperity. Much of what makes a community tighter was destroyed by the Greatest “can’t do anything about it” Generation. “Can’t stop progress” the cathode ray instructed them.

Where are the paperboys now? I don’t think I’ve seen a real paperboy for 20 years. What a great way for children to learn about profits, and loss, productivity, and efficiency along with customer relations. Something has most definitely been lost. Now our pollution spewing death wagons are used in paper delivery. I could always throw a newspaper within two feet of the door. No one wants to get dressed to go get their paper at the end of the driveway like we do today. The death wagons spew carbon monoxide in the early morning stillness. Some customers demanded I put the paper inside the screen door, and usually these people tipped pretty well.

I was deadly accurate, even at 15 MPH on the bike, so my customers opened the door just a crack to get their news instead of walking down to the street in their jammies. A lot of youngsters like me had an income and my money circulated through the economy via Western Auto and Mad Magazine and Nestles chocolate, while saving 4,000 dollars by my senior year in 1972. Take that … real job.

Before being a paperboy. I had my first career picking up soda bottles. It was 1964 and littering had gotten out of control. People thought nothing of just throwing out garbage of any sort as they drove, the Greatest Generation, right? The privileged 'we defeated Hitler' generation. Unbelievable now to think how our roadsides used to look like garbage at the dump. Most frequently littered were soda bottles. Some were worth 2 cents, bigger ones were 5 cents.... America was discovering soda in a big way and we brought in bottles frequently.

Business got really slow in ’65 because of the littering laws that were being passed and ironically; environmental legislation drove me out of my first business. It was worth it though; a new consciousness was arriving, questioning the strictures of the Old Society. The Greatest Generation felt they deserved anything they could get, and the resources of this country and planet was theirs to use: seven generations worth of consumption in one. Consume they did and dumps became landfills.

One day, to make some money, me n' Richie got the notion of picking blackberries and selling them to the produce manager at Popular Market. With a spaghetti saucepot half filled with berries, we walked into the store figuring we could possibly make 75 cents. It would be like finding more than 20 bottles, all at once.

The produce manager looked at our fruit and for perhaps for a second, a bemused smile crept over his face as he thought about tasty local fruit…………………..but then he looked at our crud encrusted fingernails and said, “I appreciate this fellas……….but uh, I'd need to see a business license.” What hath the corporate world wrought?

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-12-3-FROM 1973

non existent career ends

Today, I feel like recalling and recording my "musical career"

I must have been 19 when I wrote this and couldn't admit my chops were not good enough for steady playing in a metal band. Just never quite fast enough either. This never discusses the Fusion years with Frank Marzano or Gigolos Dream with Steve Merski or the Robot City Years in the 80's with Bernie and Cliff. Haven't been in a band in 30 years though and I am going to put something together with the songs I like to play.

Back to 73. “My Musical Career" is now nearly over and I am transposing hand written things to computer document. This is that old. 1973. The best year of all time for music and I was ready to give up. So fascinating to find something like this untouched for 40 years. Me just pack ratting it so now I can feel free once it is in a document and on a physical copy.

hERE is the remainder of the story.

Today, I feel like recalling and recording my "musical career". The reason is because this is the end of it. I don't regret the fact of course. It enriched my life at many different points.

I'll never play an instrument again, unless tinkering around, or if one last project comes up such as playing with Anne Austin in the studio. That will be the end of playing music as far as I can see.

Music first entered my life when I was around 8 years old. Of course there was music before that, but when I was 8 music had its first impact. Me and Richie Casasanta got to be really good friends and he and I were walking down his driveway when a song blasted out the small kitchen window. The song was the one by that Austrailian guy in 1962 about tie me kangaroo down. I thought that was the funniest thing I had every heard.

"Tan me hide when I'm dead Fred. Tan me hide when I'm dead." Richie asked what radio station we listened to at home. It was WTIC and they were determinably Squaresville. IN 1962 there was a rivalry between WDRC and WPOP as they converted to pop rock formats. He told me to listen to WDRC and I did and I liked it.

What was popular then? The Shirelles, The Orlons, The Martian Hop. The Twist wwas dying, surf music being born with The Beach Boys popularity. Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer was metal to me with my 8 year old ears. Dat bass. The Four Seasons had a big year in 1963 and they spoke for a lot of us.. Puppy Love by the Essex had come and gone as we tried to define real love.

Then the Beatles got into everyones life. What was my personal reaction to the Beatles? It was November and I want to hold your hand was out and I had bought it without my parents permission or they bought it at Kinbgs or Topps or something. I like the Beatles in a less frantic way than most people did with the much discussed hysteria. Beatlemania.

I remember when I saw them on television in February and was then awe-struck. They were just boppin' around but I was awe-struck. Clearly there was an energy here to contend with.

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND b/w I SAW HER STANDING THERE WAS THE FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT. We had a 4 string Tenor Guitar. I tried playing along with I want to hold your hand and that was my first instrument. Then came an unsuccessful attempt at the BaSS vIOLIN. I couldn't press down the big fat strings good enough. He was testing to see if I had some musical talent because playing bass was always his second job.

Then my dad tried me with the harmonica and maracas which were some other instruments he had. The harmonica was fun because it always made noise and sometimes what sounded like music.

Throughout sixth grade, me and Rich and Lavallee and some other people wanted to start a group. We figured we could all take up an instrument and start a band. How hard could it be to play the drums? We had fun thinking about how famous we could be. It was nice to have imagination.

We made up names for the group. The Fleetfoots since we was all good runners, an adaption of a band name known as the Fleetwoods. Then on my 12th birthday I got a 40 dollar Kay guitar. Every year I would learn a little from the Mel Bay books but I only learned to read a few notes. That was it.

Finally when I was 16, I started again in earnest. MTAG was making movies and we had finished "The Snorff" at that time. We filmed it at Wakefields house since we needed The Snorff to jump out of an oven and run out of the front door. Our parents would think we were too crazy, but Peter Thorsells older friend had a house . I was interested in the amp they had there. 20 bucks. Practically new! It cost 40. It looked to me then. That nice sky blue that I also chose for my bass amp. I remember distinctly that I learned my first chord (C) in June.

It was the summer of 1970 and Maury and Ayers created a group and wanted Steve Merski on bass. He had never played before, except piano. He was really bad, but then there is Maury McCarhy who had his unique version of bad. They recruited Rich Carling to be the drummer, and off they went. Steve always told me not to learn chords but just play lead like Maury, all lead.

By that time I knew 25 chords or so near the end of the year. Then I started going out with Anne Austin who was an influential person in my life. A fun naughty girlfriend, she was good enough on some blues guitar. It was a musical adventure playing songs out in the back yard, both of us plugged into a completely inadequate amp. Gary Smith got us a drummer named Mark Privetera, who died young at age 40.

Anne and I played with Drew Kendrick who had learned a few things but was in a lower level like us. Sometimes we had Steve to play bass because he started making sense of it. He had a lean rockers stance and this was important in Maurys band.

The party was fairly big, Ralph Arenas 18th birthday at Marks house. Got some pictures I should scan. We were beginners; we shouldn't have played a party. We did alright considering and Bob Geiser helped us out with his mature style of playing on a couple songs. I remember Marks mom loved the song Sunrise , Sunset so we played it 3 times.

Bob Geiser was in Freedom Train at the time and we were offered a chance to play Incarnation Church which meant a certain level of expertise was sexpected. We didn't have it. I objected and so did Steve, Anne and Dippo thought we were ready and we weren't.

We kept arguing about this issue and soon our practices started sounding worse than better. We kind of made Anne quit and then Steve went to play exclusively with Maury. Suddenly me and Dippo were alone and Gary Smith got us to play with Jeff Gedutis and that worked out fairly badly. I just wasn't that good and had a good rhythm but sloppy and slow.

As the summer of 71 came along Bob Geiser jammed with us when he was available. We played at Dippos sisters party at his house with Tony Deliscio. There was a Three Arts Festival I was heavily involved in. The sabotage night I think. Greg Hall and now Larry Tamiso. He ended up taking my gal, Donna Franklin, who was dismayed at my ignorance of relationships. Then came Ralphs 18th birthday Party. That was kind of big and was a really great show with pictures.

So Dippo, Larry and various guest guitarists, like the albino, dude would play in my back yard or meet us at Marks house. When I strted 12th grade in September I became better friends with Steve Merski and I joined the band with Maury Rich and Steve. We played New Years Eve at A PARTY AT Rich's house. When we practiced beforehand I remember Trying to learn Funk #49 by the James Gang. Fitz was friends with Rich the drummer and had started practicing guitar and had a knack for funky rhythm guitar.

In February, there was the historic Battle of the Bands where we played as Dr. West's Delight. We smashed a dummy amp, I broke a crappy old guitar and we threw Yodels and squirted shaving cream. Some of the greatest mayhem I was ever involved in.

We almost broke the good PA system we borrowed while we screamed and fell in the audience. We wore suits (before anybody in metal) and had prominent carnations thanks to Rich Carling stepmom Mrs. Morton as she sent us off to the show. "You sure you don't want another brownie?"

"Thanks Mrs. Morton, no one knows how metal I am with my short hair and Poindexter glasses but I am ready for the show." By April we had muscled Maury out of the group. Seriously what fucking planet did he live on? His guitar playing never sounds good except in that freaky space music way of Sun Ra or someone from another planet.

We played a bit with Dave Jacques but that didn't work out. Fitz had practiced a lot while he was away at school and joined up with us in late May. It was a fun summer of playing. I had graduated. The drinking age was lowered to 18 and the song by Alice Cooper "18" was a big hit early in the year. The draft for war ended the year before so I was clear for takeoff.

As I said it was a fun summer and we practiced a lot with Fitz but he became a senior and Steve was a senior at Wethersfield High. I had college at 4:00. Rich did get us a job at High Meadow for 120 bucks, I think, in October. We had become an extended family of musicians. Bruce Gorman (Dusty Roads) was always in on a jam or a gig. Pete Thorsell lived nearby when I lived in the barn with Bruce a couple of weekends. Later in the spring I lived in Steves Merski barn on and off.

When I wrote this it was 1973 and I wrote something about Plaut and Maury and Steve. Then a group with Pete Ed? And Bruce. I was feeling like groups didn't seem to work and maybe I was wasting my time. I had another burst of reading and research as I took jazz lessons for guitar and went back to the guitar but switched back to bass in a year or so.

But with this document I found that I was describing how I was done with it all. Except if I do something with Anne Austin. Maybe when I'm 30 or something I'll pick up the piano but never another guitar.

-6-10

WE DIDN'T GET IT

“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 with 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 we had been born into a severely dysfunctional world filled with prejudice and inequality. Once I left the numbing and stultifying school system, I began to read. I talked to Libertarian Anarchists and drove 30 miles on my bicycle to put in my volunteer hours at the food co-op. I joined book clubs and went to many used book stores in the Hartford Connecticut area. Over by the Wadsworth Atheneum there were at least three old fashioned book stores.

People talked and we explored everything. I would offer this question to people; why did the Pope in 1494 think he could divide the world into two parts? Spain and Portugal were wasting resources by being at war with each other and they agreed to split the world in two. Here is a school project representation of that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQ8kl1J6NE
Next is the embedded story within a story. This is about the Deep State. What is history and what is a conspiracy theory? Conspiracy theories suppose truth, and 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 "warrior elite" had been secretly running the world for 2500 years. In a third wave of research years later, the theories of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas rang true to me. As it turned out, there had been Goddess oriented societies in all the indigenous lands of the world. Prior to 500 BC European pottery, aside from Greece and Rome, did not depict warfare. Excavations keep pushing back the timeline of civilization. These Goddess oriented societies had streets and small homes and common areas for storage and protection.
Had a bloodthirsty strain of men taken over the worlds cultures? A killer elite. They burned and buried all traces of the ancient, peaceful societies. The destruction of History accelerated as Christianity declared all Paganism illegal. The severed heads of the Scimitar (dog whistle for Islam) would have circled the globe by 1400 AD. Was it remnants of the Neanderthal genes, who are reputed to be violent hairy backed lunkheads, that made the brown race so violent? From Italy to Israel these genes loom large.
The invasion of white indigenous european cultures and the black indigenuos african cultures began in earnest.

Nazeer Ahmed "In spite of its strong Crusader underpinnings, there was nothing unusual about the African slave trade until 1492. It fit a pattern that had existed for centuries wherein slaves from Europe were sold in Egypt, Central Asia and India, while slaves from sub-Saharan Africa were sold in North Africa, Spain and India. The slave trade declined towards the end of the 15^thcentury because the European market was saturated. Lisbon had about ten thousand Muslim and African slaves and could use no more. "

Muhammed Shareef "In 1814 and 1816, the Muslims of Bahia attempted to organize a revolt against the Portuguese. They wanted to overthrow the local law enforcement, free all the slaves, and commandeer ships back to Africa. Unfortunately, some slaves were serving as informants to the local police, and the revolt was crushed before it even started, with its leaders being killed. Over the next 20 years, intermittent minor revolts by Muslims and non-Muslims alike were met with no success in bringing freedom to Bahia’s slaves."

Many of today s teabaggers are formerly corrupt union democrats. They are often pensioned from a war production facility, and this authoritarian loving; heaven bound generation were the biggest sellouts to coercive authority there had ever been.

Why can’t a black guy be hired? Why not pay the woman the same as a man? Whazzup with that? We didn’t get it. But that was Americas business culture.

You can't have instant Anarchy. So the transition is having good government, not the bloated sow of the sinfullly rich that we have today ... a clusterfuck of pyramid schemes that's larded up with lawyers and lobbyists and their legal corruption that has reduced the American middle class from 60 to 30%.

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 a new Dawn of Civilization. Demand Peace and cut the military budget in half. If you are not embarrassed the United States has managed to drop bombs (for peace and freedom thanks for your service) on 14 countries since WW2 then do something about it.

-6-11-

DRUDDMOOT

I made up a religion. lol.

Druddism- Beliefs of the Druddité religion. Everything Drudd.

Druddmooté - a moon based meeting schedule. There is an exact way to measure the beginning time of a Druddmoot. The Waxing Moon is between the New Moon and the Full Moon.

Take the Waxing moon night and find out when the end of Druddmoot on moonset is subtract 33 hours and thirty-three minutes before the waxing moon moonset. Or, a much simpler way is to start at 6:00 the evening of the waxing moon. Generally start this 30 hour religious holiday with a meeting. A Druddmoot. Kind of like the Ent Moot, right?

Then lasting through the entire next day which is dedicated to relaxing and letting loose and sharing and connection. The Druddmoot ends at Moonset and ending either at midnight or moonset. A thirty hour holiday 13 times a year. We don’t go to work or look at Honeydew Lists.

The waxing moon has traditionally been the time to forge new ideas, or gain new inspirations and gain positive momentum, so why not use that time ceremonially? At first when I began banging together this new religion, I was drawn to the waning moon. But it's a time of sacrifice and denial and discipline and purging bad habits. As I followed the moon more studiously, I noticed the waxing moon is more visible on both nights of the 30 hour Druddmoot and throws out just enough light for seeing in the dark and walking down forest paths.

What about the full moon you might be asking? I wait all month for the 30 hour period of Druddmoot. It's an important foundation for what I like to do and this enables me to be able to go to other peoples full moon ceremonies.

So there's a certain amount of freedom with this, even though it goes against traditional paganism.

I will tell you right here that even I don't know when I'm kidding and when I'm serious. There is alot of wink wink nod nod here, particularly when I discuss the Goddesses Intelligent Design of life on this planet. I mean to be respectful to my fellow pagans, even if they don't readily embrace me, but I like to illustrate the absurdity of religion.

My section, History of the Pagans, is a direct frontal assault on the Christian hegemony of society. I pull no punches for the Islamos either who are simply doing what Christians did 1,000 years ago in this modern age despite the people’s desire for liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

You see the flag above with the 13 stars in a circle? If this isn't a ceremonial representation of a coven i don't know what else it could be. You are all familiar with the mason symbols on the dollar bill. The pyramid and Egyptian mysticism abounds and the dollar bill should really say....in Isis We Trust.

Did you know George Washington had 13 generals in the war and had Washington D.C.'s streets laid out in a pyramid or some form of outdoor mason lodge? These were some clever dudes I'm telling you, our actual greatest generation--Thomas Paine, Jefferson, Israel Putnam, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere and Sam Adams are some names that come to mind.

That flag with 13 stars is magical and this is just some of what can be talked about at Druddmoots. Maybe we can divide America into 13 Bioregions as we grow a new economy as if the old one didn't even matter.

Here also I want to tell you that the Druddité religion feels a lot of ceremony is not really needed and there is more to being a pagan than doing spells and lighting candles. Really a lot more that is integrated right into our lives. Pagan sites I go to do not seem to be interested very much in the stewardship of the planet and I doubt anyone even knows what Bioregion means.

The number 13-----not too many get the 12 disciples plus one of Jesus also equal 13. Mary Magdalen was an Isis trained priestess. The formerly famous Goddess named Isis.

It is my contention that Jesus was planning on repudiating the Old Testament God once he built a large enough following but was thwarted by what the Gnostics call the demiurge. Jesus, though interesting, and what I call the Babe Ruth of spiritual healing, is just one of the 23 gods I have in my pantheon. You know, do whatever you like.

With a handful of religions controlling their billions of devotees, along with a relative handful of corporations that make most of the products we buy, while finally, this precarious computer dependence could conceivably break down. I mean people can barely add and subtract anymore

11-2 Druddite Ranger First let me explain all the age designations. My son was in the boy scouts and learned some valuable things. But it seemed to be too much about the military style uniform. Badges and pins were fun as the boys studied and learned about a lot of real type of life skills but why did they have to look like little generals? When it came time for him to get his religious badge I hesitated. Hellenic? Asatru? or maybe miscellaneous Pagan. How about a solitary witch badge? No, I wasn't ready to be the only declared Pagan in the entire county, so I backed off.

Warriors for the lord would have made my life a living nightmare and harassment would carry on towards his elementary school. Recall the flap about a couple of children that wanted to be atheists while they were in the scouts and people thought it was so terrible, they weren’t like them. They weren't brainwashed with the invisible friend concept of God. The Drudd Scouts will readily embrace atheists because many of them are good thinking people, logical and intelligent as a rule.

What to do then? If true liberty and equality and religious freedom sweeps the country it would be fun to start our own version of the boy and girl scouts. There is a group called SPIRAL SCOUTS that are doing what would be some good ideas. I did like the camping, civic participation. There would be no reason to separate male and female since in the future we should all have pretty much the same type of skills and gender won’t be a concern.

The Drudd Scouts. Age 10 and 11 would be the Moles, younger ones are known as Clams. Like wolves or bears in Cub Scouts they would move up to the next level after Moles and they are called the Polecats. They are the 12 and 13 year olds.

14, 15 and 16 are called the Lemurs and this is kind of a pre-college level because home schooled children can advance a lot further, much more quickly. At home learning can lead to a lot less traffic among other productivity gains. Motivation and Productivity go hand in hand. This group takes the passions they find and they explore these passions completely. They can start little businesses to practice for the adult world or a good enough one that carries right into adulthood.

They learn to cooperate with each other and have fun as pagans are wont to do and when they get 17 years old they become monkeys and at the end of their 18th year they are designated a Druddité Ranger at 19 with an adult initiation ceremony. The Rangers look out for others in the community and start families and set out to achieve the pursuit of happiness.

Finally at age 54 we are required to write something, anything -even one page if you are that lame, but something about your life so far and what you would like to tell or teach to the younger voices following in our footsteps. Then we have some simple ceremony that designates us as Druddité Elders when we reach age 54. When get our Grumpy Badge.

Druddgrove

where Druddmoot gatherings can take place, like the Druids and many pre-christian pagans, we look for the most spiritual part of the nearby Forest. Or a breath taking grove of oaks or evergreens or whatever we have near us. If all you have is a couple shrubs then what the heck, there are no restrictions. In your own back yard.

-11-3- Druddité Alphabetical Platitudes DAP

Verse 6:12-15 states, "A wicked man goes about with crooked speech (Rand Paul), winks with his eyes, (Mike Pence) scrapes with his feet (Huckabee) points with his finger (Newt G) and with perverted heart devises evil, (t***p), continually sowing discord: (Pat Robertson): therefore, calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.”

LIBERTY, NOT SALVATION

I got this notion that America was founded with freedoms that are simply not compatible with Christianity. Theocrats have been trying to create a theocracy here since 1620. The Masons (George Washington tapping in the cornerstone of the Capital building with his mason apron on), managed to outmaneuver christianity to create a country based on liberty (not salvation).” It’s the Masons versus the Christians. I created a third way that shows you how to do things your own way. We don’t need either group to lead the way.

This is an A to Z about the religion I made up. Blasphemy and Heresy are splattered all over this chapter, and besides, what could be a bigger heresy than making up your own religion?

Druddmooté is our most important ritual; it’s a gathering of Druddités every waxing moon. Mostly to share what we’ve read, and we bring our homemade food and homegrown goods and our favorite books. We have a literary and culinary potluck. Forget discipline, thrift, and sobriety for a while. Do some divining and Taroting.

Here are some options to choose from as you create your own religion. Feel free to adopt any of the following A to Z absolutes of my Druddité religion. Obtain the confidence in yourself that you can believe anything that you damn well please, and …don’t forget, in the end, you won’t be damned and certainly not burned in fire for all of eternity.

YOU CAN’T KNOW THE FUTURE No God or Goddess knows neither. You can be sure the future isn’t predetermined or predictable. There is no creator, only the creation with no beginning and no end. People die on the operating table and they see a muse or a random spirit travelling nearby when they are briefly dead. So when they come back to life, they say they saw god. “Yeah sure, I’m God, and Jesus too.” Said the random dead spirit floating by, “Your mom and dad are my best friends.”

There are three parts of you on earth 1-physical self-2-a vibrational self that is eternal (an invisible thread). 3-is the soul that combines physical and vibrational to give you your land legs; on loan from the gods and goddesses, we give it back to the tree of life after our material life. Except when I'm feeling like an atheist; then its splat I’m dead, just another dead bug on the windshield.

You shouldn’t summon or force magic is my personal belief. Magic just happens when it happens, and you just need to grab a hold of it, when you are in the zone and the magic is in the air. If you can make magic on command, well then, that’s what works for you, MOST OF US CAN’T, and as I said in the previous chapter, some of us don’t have these super powers.

To aid in my very infrequent magic, I designate the north direction as male with Boreas as the God. I designate the east direction to Zemyna the earth mother, and east symbolizes the elder and wisdom. South is another female direction and Dexsiua the ancient Gaullist Goddess holds down this direction. The child is west so it goes like this=male, elder, female and child ---perfectly balanced four directions. Make up your own or steal mine I don’t care.

Intelligent design by a goddess, and not a god- she is an ancient mother (duh). Ancient world spirits spread happy eternal life throughout the universe. The God feeds the seed, the Goddess nurtures it. Across Creation, there are 453 Ancient Mothers at the moment, and eight gods that are critical to manage the universe. In their studly, cosmic kind of eight-directional way. Greeks almost got it with their eight directions.

Islamic and Christian purists will be disoriented when they die because of what is actually there. "They are most confused that come to us" says Diana. Mother Mary nods in agreement.

CAP WORLD POPULATION AT 9 Billion.

We are past the tipping point of natural capital and the best thing we can do is to have a population cap. Encourage birth control because way too many young people are entering the workforce with all this reckless breeding and with Capitalism poised to collapse and all, it’s just bad Juju. Let the median age go up with less youth, and you will have a more mature world. Less crime, better decisions. Appears to be fundamental but somewhere in the programming people believe reckless breeding is gods way. Bullshit.

N ever wear black socks with shorts. Period.

The Universe has always been there, it's the only universal constant besides magnetism and gravity. The Creation never ends either. No Big Bang Bullshit, the Universe has always been here, there was no ‘before creation’. No creator, just a creation that never ends and no beginning. This view will prevail in the future when people realize The Big Bang should be about the TV show, and not Science guessing at truths they can’t prove. Maybe there is a beginning. It don’t matter. Maybe the Cosmos explodes and it starts all over again.

Reincarnation is an option in the afterlife and there are animals and trees that are reincarnated, there are muses also-living inspirations. If you are capable of love, you are capable of eternal life and this is a simple message I leave here regarding the nature of the universe. This is why love is the answer to the big question. What happens when we die? Our malleable spirits become love. We all learn to love all eventually.

Random Reincarnation seems to be counter to some pagan religions who believe ancestors are continually reborn within the family. Once an ancestor, always an ancestor is wishful thinking at best, and complete nonsense at the very worst. You can roll your eyes at my religion and I’ll roll my eyes at yours.

Druddité Universalists- similar to Unitarian Universalists. Accept all –“unity without hierarchy” no mass, just the Druddmooté. Everyone invited. The Druddmooté starts at 6:00 the evening of the half-waxing moon, and lasts until midnight the following day when the moon sets around midnight. It is a 30-hour holiday. Eat meat, yell and burp, do ceremony and smoke. I would have disciplined habits otherwise during the rest of the month, when we have to focus on work and raise families or help friends and relatives.

We have our 30-hour holiday every 28.5 days, no matter what day it is and we can't go to work during Druddmooté. Period. We relax from all the work and responsibility during this time and this causes a stir in Middlestone Avenue. Christianity has to realize their naming of everything in honor of their saints and their goddam holidays are given days off in America. We need some pagan Holidays to celebrate. Yule and Yagans and Christmas and Easter Chreasters. Druddmooté is your holiday, take it.

Creating your own creation myth can be the most fun you can have. I propose that the Garden of Eden was in the Red Sea where the four rivers met. Satellite images have shown there are two small riverbeds unseen from land. During the ice Age water levels were way dowPAUL REVERE AND THE LIBERTY TREE

a) The Great Elm

b) Riotous Revolutionaries

c) A storm was brewing along with the beer

d) Disperse ye Rebels

E Liberty in Ascendance of Religion

F Libertas Holds the Lamp

a) The Great Elm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some say the founding Revolutionaries were Liberal some say Conservative, it's too long ago really, and the meanings have changed. Regardless, the Colonists found the bravery to defend the principles of freedom, liberty and libertarianism, against the growing coercion of British Rule. Inspiration for the Bill of Rights came from confrontations with British authority the next 10 years after 1765, most particularly in Boston, Massachusetts where the live, beating heart of 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 they can distort, 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. These Republican pundits would praise the righteous rule of the King. If the King was a dick like them. And helped them get rich. I intend to repair some of the damage done by these Repulsicans who would be quite uncomfortable being in the presence of our actual founding revolutionaries. The actual greatest generation.

Here is the history of the real patriots.

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

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

“The Hewes family of fourteen was poor and lived in near squalor on Water Street near the docks of North Boston. The kids growing up in the area, Ben Franklin in the 1730's and Paul Revere in the 1750's, were among them, and they were were tough and water wise, fondly referred to as “water rats” and "wharf rats". As a youth, George Robert Twelves Hewes not only had to live down his name, with taunts from his peers and fights on the piers, but his size as well. His father, who died when George was ten, stood 4 feet 6 inches tall, and his mother was no taller, George growing to 4 foot 4 inches by age 17 and never gaining another inch.” Danny DeVito could play George Hewes.

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

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

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

Pioneers were exploring the Great American wilderness and families followed behind them during the pre-Revolutionary period. Conniving clergy followed THEM, looking for the free ride. There were many prosperous, self-sufficient farms, but there were hard times in the cities by 1765, and a general unease regarding the Crowns authority throughout the Colonies. Industriousness was rewarded as noted, but the growing prosperity of the newly rich in the cities, was where the British Corporate Empire could interfere best. If your business became too successful, the Brits started making problems for you. British corporations didn't like competition.

c) A Storm was brewing along with the Beer

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

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

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

"Following Boston’s example, almost every village and town in New England eventually had a Liberty Tree, and if there was not an appropriate large tree near the center of town, the people erected Liberty Poles. When November 1st 1765 rolled around, dockworkers refused to load or unload cargos, shops were closed, church bells rang, and every flag and ship-ensign was flown at half-mast. In Boston, the blood red stamps were delivered to Castle Island, but Governor Barnard didn't dare have his customs men bring them into port.

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. America with god as the invisible leader?

I DONT THINK SO.

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

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

D “ Disperse ye rebels!!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Escalating minimum wages around the world is going to create an economic boom. End War, tax all accumulated wealth, 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 Treeby 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.

n and there are two riverbeds, once exposed that are now covered. Thereby, we are locating the actual Garden of Eden from a biblical reference which states the Garden of Eden was where the four rivers meet. What the Garden of Eden actually was where there were permaculture orchards planted by Ancient Iberians.

Ocean levels 120,000 YA were lower than today and it was then that we evolved into Homo sapiens Sapiens. Or Hetero Sapiens as Michelle Bachman would say. The temperatures were a couple of degrees colder and the ice sheets were huge if you believe ice core research.

Since that time, over 120,000 years ago, there has been a steady cooling with spikes of much warmer weather. Then 20,000 years ago, the last global maximum ice age began, and ocean levels ended up 400 feet lower than they are today during the peak of the Ice Age around 18,000 years ago. Some say it was only one or two hundred feet, that’s the funny thing about science. People think their degree makes them an expert. They all disagree as usual. (they don’t really know).

Humans from the Red Sea migrated to the Black Sea when waters began to rise after a volcanic explosion about 74,000 years ago and though it was dark and sunless, the average temperatures were warmer because the earth had become more humid. The people had gone north and began settling around the Black Sea and walking the land between the two seas. Many hunting areas were abounding with game and endless fruits, berries and nuts, and the people remembered what ripened when. You know, what else did they have to do? They studied their environment and were able to learn what the animals could not.

Turkey contains some of the great areas, such as Ephesus, where ancient skills survived at Tamca Pecky or whatever it's called. Sambuca Pecky. Goblecki Tepe, that’s it. Giant stones were placed 12,000 years ago and conventional wisdom was laid on its head because science says no way.

Atlanis was a telepathic merging between many villages, like 100 of them from 60,000 years ago till about 30,000 years ago when climate change warmed the earth.

Before the decline of Atlanis, there was a great dispersal about 32,000YA from the Black Sea settlements and so the yellow people went east: the black went south again and the white went west then north and the red people got to North America via a wormhole, coming up in Hopi Country. Jesus took the wormhole when he came back to Earth in my forthcoming novel “The Earth Movement.”

So guess what, in 2016 news came out that around this time there was a great merging of migration routes in this area according to very recent DNA research. Genetic proof of what I had been writing about for the last ten years about The Great Dispersal.

On the other hand, maybe the Native Americans were a hybrid of the Solutreans who travelled the edge of the ocean glacier where game was plentiful, and commingled with the Mongolians who came across Beringia not long after and they met in the middle. I prefer to think the Hopi came here 32,000 years ago via a wormhole because of my creation myth. Change my mind. Discoveries are putting conventional wisdom under fire for its limited view and my point is to open your mind to any possibility.

Druddmooté is a gathering during every waxing moon. Mostly to share what we’ve read and share homemade food and various edibles. Literary and culinary potluck. Forget discipline, thrift, and sobriety for a while and have fun 12, sometimes 13 times a year. Camping out where the fire or Druddmooté is, we celebrate life together. We have these meetings in the Druddgrové, a forested place or a members neighborhood grove or forested lot. To time the Druddmooté, you count backwards from the time of moonset on the second night of Druddmooté. Then subtract 33 hours 33 minutes and 33 seconds if you’re OCD and want to be precise. So let’s say the moon sets at 1 o’clock, which is typical during a full waxing moon; then you go back 33 hours to 4 o’clock the previous afternoon, then back another 33 minutes, which is the start of the Time of Druddmooét officially. 3:27 in the afternoon. Alternatively, like I said, if you're OCD it's 3:26:27. As your religious holiday, you can have the day off at work. You know, cuz you’re so holy and all that.

I like the easy designation of 30 hours, though shorter, it seems more formal to start at six and end at midnight the next day. The simple idea I have is that you mostly try to be disciplined and thrifty on the other 26.8 days in the moon cycle and let 'er rip during the 30 hours of Druddmooté. I’ve tried to give up meat because we are losing the integrity of our worldwide ecosystems with meat production, but during Druddmooté , I eat bacon the whole time, preferably humanely grown. Chicken farming is cruel beyond measure with all the chicks torn from their mother on the first day and crushed alive if they are male. I can’t eat any birds anymore. This is why a worldwide cap of 9 billion is necessary. Then we can truly work the land sustainably and not have to kill 170 million chickens for our food every week.

When ya die>So when ya die the soul you need for the physical plane, goes back to the source, and your vibrational self goes back to the Veles(Heaven) and you recharge much like a cell phone. A long life it is and it takes a very long time to recharge your spirit. But first, you must get there, and I have a story that explains it called “The Heathen and the Christian”. There is an ancient legend concerning something called the way of the birds(chapter 1), a story that says we are able to fly anywhere, to the heavens (Veles) and all through the universe once we get on the next level. Beyond that, you then choose to be strictly vibrational going on to a higher level closer to the Gods and Goddesses and can never reincarnate again or visit other physical worlds. It’s the most important decision you make in the Afterlife. After you’ve answered any question you ever had in your human life, you are ready to move on. Exclusive heavens such as Valhalla are in the 2^nd level of the afterlife. Metal Heaven and Chocolate Heaven are nearby.

You learn everything about yourself between reincarnations. “I was a hamster in one life and I was a zortroid on the planet Xerxes in another, and a human on earth and a dinosaur on Eastlandia." Then you forget it all during your next life. Grind up the Yak horn and beat the reindeer skins and experience a hunter-gatherer lifestyle on another planet if you desire, never realizing you are immortal in a sense as you experience each life.

3O Holidays- >Druddmootés 12 or 13 a year and there are about 20 other holidays to assure us a lot of time off. Svarogs day Sep 21^st for instance and there is the Runic New Year on June 29^th or something. Yule on Dec 21 and Imbolc and groundhogs day. Halloween is Halloween, Samhain or Shadowfest and Tree day is in early December- a day you dedicate to the solstice season by bringing evergreens into the house. Or buy a fake tree with fake snow and make it last 6 to 8 years.

Phrases. Theodiecy or Theoddessey> searching for divine truths

Other words belong in secret language called Druddoccitan. A multitude of words and phrases and at the base of it the language shared by Italians French and Spaniards over 1,000 years ago. Druddoccitan will be in my second documentary book called “The Final Slaughter”

Origin of my religion>Where does the word Druddité come from? Some of my initial inspirations came from the Druids and so I had that in mind when I was trying to come up with a name. I used to read a lot about the Luddites from the early 1800’s and how they were anti=capitalist heroes. Around 1810, as machines began taking peoples jobs, these Luddites would sneak into the factories and bust up the machines. I see the Luddite attitude being relevant in the future, naturally being mistrustful of the head spinning advancements in technology. Cloning and Genetically modified food should not be allowed and the Luddite in me says no way.

DRUid and luDDITE.

I got this notion that America was founded with freedoms that are not compatible with Christianity. Theocrats have been trying to create a theocracy here since 1620. The masons (George Washington tapping in the capitol building cornerstone in his mason apron), managed to outmaneuver christianity to create a country based on liberty (not salvation).
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The Illuminati used the masons as the fall guy for their nefarious deeds and this is why there is an unfounded mistrust of the Masons.
Louis Farrakhan has always been a truth teller in my mind, even though many people have spoken ill of him. A video shows his passion and his sadness of a world he knows is controlled by the speculators and the war pigs. “BABIES DYING FOR…BULLSHIT” he implores in one video.

No offense of course to people who think this is a Christian nation. It's a country that is here for all to believe what we want, and do what we will as long as we don't infringe others freedoms. Do as thou wilt and harm none. You christians are bullies and assholes. No offense, right? America is destined to be the light of this world, but the Deceiving false light of the Illuminati is preparing for the final slaughter. Things are not what they seem. You’ve heard that a lot haven’t you?
I hope I haven't stirred up a hornets nest. Peace.

Fence of Protection -- Building a self-sufficient community and looking for a bit of a spell? Druddités believe a schism is going to develop with a large segment of the population demanding to get away from all the technology. Modern Druddités are tired of the beeping flashing glowing tech that never rests. We are also tired of the dumb ass robes that Druids wear, but are inspired by their priorities. I'll show you the fence of protection at the Druddmooté.

THE GODDESS IS A CONCEPT BY WHICH WE MEASURE OUR JOY" ----John Almada

REMEMBER THE GODS! ZEPHYR OF THE UNIVERSE, AND 23 CELESTIAL GODS ON THIS PLANET

FETCH a soul aspect that appears to the minds eye. A squirrel is my fetch. Reminds me of the daemons in 'His Dark Materials'. New Agers scared of darkness and chaotic thinking, will take a step back in fear. They are missing half of life. No matter what you say about the redeeming qualities of light, the dark always gets there first.

A deer was my fetch in the Rincons and Tucson. One I never saw but left traces. Then an evil deer behind Sears, at Ingleside in Massachusetts, attacked me. On the other hand, is a bear my fetch, my link to Ursa Major and our grandmother planet?

THE PROPHECY Greenland is under threat of Jihad Terrorism according to my prophecy. Druddités organized to fight Northern Jihad and all fascists. There is a plan afoot to detonate a nuke device that will crack Greenlands ice cap. Both Poles are experiencing puddling and lakes where there never was before. Who would expect it? Set up powerful explosives that could split the icecap of Greenland, have pieces land in the ocean, and raise the ocean level. It would be a way to sabotage all the eastern cities in the US if some of the icecap slides into the ocean after a nuclear explosion. A ten-foot rise would destroy New York not to mention many other coastal cities.

Greenland is sacred ground to Druddités. We respect all living things in the world and would never invade any country and our ancestors are under the ice sheet. An independent group of nomads will protect the northern lands in Russia and Canada is part of the prophecy. As the Druddité Warriors hunt and gather near the Arctic Circle.

33 Holidays- >Druddmootés 12 or 13 a year and there are about 20 other holidays to assure us a lot of time off. Svarogs day Sep 21^st for instance and there is the Runic New Year on June 29^th or something. Yule on Dec 21, Imbolc, and Groundhogs Day. Halloween is Halloween Samhain or Shadowfest and Tree day is in early December- a day you dedicate to the solstice season by bringing evergreens into the house. Celebrate kids birthdays and national holidays.

Eclectic and Independent beliefs form the basis of my DIY religion and good old fashioned Esotericism. Illustrating my American freedom of religion with a Do it Yourself Religion. You can do it!

-6-12- TABOOS EXPOSED

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 21^st 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.

-6-13-

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

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.

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

Here is the history of the real patriots.

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

c) A Storm was brewing along with the Beer

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

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.

I DONT THINK SO.

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.

Liberty Treeby 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

MARKET SOCIALISM

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, 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

V2R

Green and Black baby

=13=13-

June 10

A cacophony of complaints

wake up from a nap. Where's the burger you made yesterday? . Made a ten inch meat loaf for sandwiches but suddenly wants the single burger I made, she wasn't interested in yesterday.

I lose my concentration easily when she does one topic after another.

She brings up the new TV idea. Then what ethnicity is that guy (on TV). Then a big deal about the Roach crisis. How she cares even if I dont and then a series of insults too rapid to ewmwmber. But it was a depression trigger. AN D I'm in a state of high anxiety. I can't ever focus.

I walk in the house and she is coincidentally telling Bubba Maybe I;ll pay attention to them Oh she's has all the worries and I have none. I thought I had 40 minutes to work on Compendium in peace. Suddenly we have to do Bubbas ears! Crisis!

YESTERDAY

Well I was willing-13-13-

to delete the past. What I will present as mental abuse.

I gave her a choice. A new attitude. No more narcissist rage to deal with but the last two days have been bad.

the constant complaining and second guessing has me on the ropes constantly. "why didn't you ... you had all morning an" and the hysterical IWASGONEFOR FIVEHOURSAND YOU DIDNT DO NOTHING.

Okay here's where we're at. I've gone from kelly's rental to Donnas in GA. for 12 days and now to Janes for 4 months. Thought it was fine. Then out comes the evil.

Sometimes I say a point in every direction is no point at all and I'll try to remember the scattershot jibber jabber of the last 30 hours.

Its literslly one crisis after anoter. Oh no, Bubba will get sick with the dirty water in the bird bath. Fungus is black it needs to be scraped. Just before she said that I had filled it with clean water. This morning I scraped it out, though I wanted to wait till I got soe bleach. I still doggedly removed 60% of the black fungus. Crisis averted.

How many times have we talked about her dog food crisis? since May 1? 30 ... 40 times?

So to the 600 rent add 50 for dog food. Not my dog though. I have no pets for a reason. Oh and 52 for the water bill and now 30 for half of the last garbage bill. $732 so far.

GREENHAMMER

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