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New Blog

2010-01-03T08:26:00.000-08:00

Dear Readers,

Due to the completely inadequate service offered to me thus far from Echo, the overtakers of Haloscan, I have decided to start a new blog because I cannot figure out how to get the a-holes off of my blog so I can post comments easily.

pudgyindian3-eugene.blogspot.com

Having put up the demanded $10 to continue with their newly formatted services, I have found that my user name and ID are not a part of the Echo service, nor does my blog exist within said service. I was able to manage my comments for a day or so, however, after receiving my $10, they haven't heard of me. Hmmm!

I have already made a new post about Steve Martin on my new blog. I am using Blogger comments with moderation. There were two comments about Paul Watson, one by kk and the other by someone I forget that never appeared in the new Echo format and thus were never published, I apologize.

I am a luddite to an extent. I went through all the html code looking for a hint as to the potential removal of Echo/Haloscan from this blog, and it has lead to nothing but anger and frustration. Much easier to move on.

See you at the new site.

Sincerely,

Eugene Douglas Johnson

The word is "Fear"

2010-01-01T08:12:00.000-08:00

I was hiking up Hamilton Mountain, near Beacon Rock, in Washington.

My now ex-wife took me there. It was to be some sort of exercise for my psyche or some sort of armchair psychological bullshit (yet not bullshit) she had planned in her head for me. I was to hike it alone.

It wasn't the first time she did such things. Fear. Fear was a damned big way in which I ruled my life at the time. Fear. Fear was what I called into existence in my life. Fear.

The first such exercise she had me do was to hike up to the second bridge on the Balche Creek trail in Washington Park by myself, about a half-mile one way. Doesn't sound too scary, does it? Except, it was to be done at night. Her idea, I chose the time that was right for me.

I kept a little flashlight with me just in case. and headed up the trail. I used the flashlight once for a brief second, but that was all. I trudged up the trail in the dark. The darkness was like a warm blanket. But the blanket housed every demon my mind could conjur. Every demon I heard and hadn't heard of was on my trail, right behind me, ready to eat me, cannibalize me. Every demon! EVERY DEMON KNOWN AND UNKNOWN! And I was determined. Determined.

When it would get really bad, I made myself stop, wait for them to catch up. When it was worse than that, I would stop, and turn around, and face them in the darkness. I made it to the bridge, I made it back, and I only let myself feel that free form of nightmare hard breathing panic just once. Just once I ran, and after a few feet, made myself stop. Just once. Tears running down my cheeks, I stopped, breathed deep a few times, straightened high and proud waiting the imending death or torture or whatever it is the demons I gave word and existence to right behind me, and...it didn't come. I am...alive...to write this.

And so, I'm high as a kite or higher...higher I'm sure...on Bhang, a bastardization of the East Indian traditional marijuana chai. And I'm heading up Hamilton Mountain, glad to be in the hills (during the daylight) and away from my now ex-wife (ex for a good reason). I hadn't hiked this four mile stretch pretty much uphill. Four miles, one way, uphill. I saw many wonderful beautiful sights on that journey. One spot, there were lots of switchbacks. I had my head down and hiking fast to get to who knows where? The top? Suddenly, the trail is getting narrower. Hmm. Then it is barely noticeable. Hmm. Then, there is a large boulder in front of me blocking the trail. The trail doesn't go over it. The trail doesn't go around it because there is nothing but down on one side. My mind strated to make sense to my situation.

Let's see, narrow trail, steep hill on left side of rock. Nothing on right side of rock. WFT? I thought in my rather extensively high mind. I look to my left, steep hill, grass. I look to my right...DOWN! NOTHING BUT DOWN! WTF!?

My heart fell into my shoes in a feeble attempt to add weight to my feet to keep me from falling off the cliff. The trail, 8" wide, 1 foot, didn't matter, way high. HIGH! No earth to the right. HOW THE HELL DID I WIND UP HERE? WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I PAY ATTENTION? I'M F***ING HIGH! TOO HIGH TO BE THIS HIGH!

I leaned to the left with my hard, rapid, nightmare breathing. One hand on the earth hoping that there is magnets in my palm to hold me to the earth, stone, and grass.

I can hear a distant laugh in my head. Not a "You're such a stupid f***ing idiot" laugh like I thought, at first. It was the kind of laugh where, say, a child feels unsafe and gets panicky, but there is an adult there to keep them safe, like learning to swim.

"Stop," the voice smiled.

"Fuck you!" I responded.

"Stop."

"Fuck you!"

"Stop."

"Fuck you!"

I stopped. I kept my face and eyes down.

"Now look."

"Fuck you!"

The argument went back and forth for a few, but I knew I had to listen. I looked out. It was beatuiful. It was the most beautiful view I had ever had of the Gorge. I was still terribly scared.

"Now, face out. Have your toes facing out, your back to the hill, stand up straight, and look."

Holy cow. What are you asking of me?

I did as instructed, but only for a breath, and then got my ass back to the real trail where I missed the switchback. I hiked to the top and back down.

To Start the Year with a Word

2010-01-01T07:34:00.000-08:00

One time...
One time...
I was getting high with these Rastas in Belize, South America.
This cat ran out of rolling papers, so
he just pulled out this bible
and started reading the first chapter of Genesis
right.
The first page of the bible
front and back.
We was all just quiet,
listening, ya know.
When he was done,
he ripped the page straight out the bible
and rolled the fattest spliff I ever saw.
Straight up!
You know! Straight up!
and that's when it struck me, you know,
in the beginning was the word,
you know what I'm saying,
and God said
"let there be"
and then there was
knawm sayin'!
He said it
and that's the power of creation
that's the power of MCin'.
We call things into existence.

(as best as I can make from Saul Williams', Purple Pigeons, intro.)

What shall I call into existence?
What shall you call into existence?
What shall we call into existence?

Where the "Final Solution" Really Began

2009-12-31T01:30:00.000-08:00

I have finished reading "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black. One of the most disturbing people discussed in it was Edwin Kasten-Ellenbogen. What was interesting about this semi-Nazi doctor interned at Buchenwald for being a Jew was the work he did for the Nazi's. You see, Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen was a eugenicist. But wait, he wasn't just into Eugenics, he studied at the racist Cold Water Springs. But wait, he helped Woodrow Wilson when he was a governor in the early part of the 20th century create sterilization laws for the state he was governor of in the 19teens (I forget the state).

After running from the Nazi's all over Europe, he was finally arrested and deterred at Buchenwald where he enjoyed working with his Nazi brethren as a psychologist and hypnotherapist and enjoyed killing directly, and indirectly, French Communists. Nice fella, this ally of American Eugenics, Woodrow Wilson, Genocide, and the Nazi's.

The things you learn when you read history the U.S. and other governments would much rather you forget. Forget, erased, kinda like "Nineteen Eighty-Four" don't you think. "Vaporized" I believe is what they called it in the book. But thanks to Edwin Black, folk like Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, their alliance not only with the Nazi's, but how their ideas of Eugenics were nurtured in America, not Nazi Germany. Hmmm?!

I have also read a bit of "Nazi Nexus" by Edwin Black. I haven't finished because after the chapter on Henry Ford, I have read the material in "War Against the Weak," "IBM and the Holocaust," and am listening to "Internal Combustion," which has some of the other material. I had not known that Henry Ford was a HARDCORE JEW HATER! Henry wrote a book called "The International Jew," a Jew hating book, in the '20's. He printed a paper for a while that he forced his car lots to promote and sell. A Jew hating propaganda paper called the "Dearborn Independent." Hitler referred to "The International Jew" and Henry Ford in the original version of "Mein Kampf." Jew Hating Henry was even awarded one of the highest civlian honors from the Reich which he refused to give up despite the protests. The things you learn when you read a book. I found it most interesting that after Henry Jew Hater submitted to Jewish protests and relented on his Jew hating propaganda and forced America to stop printing his Jew Hating book, "The International Jew," Adolf edited Henry's name out of the newer versions of "Mein Kampf," again, reminscent of "1984," by George Orwell.

Feh, all that aside, I think you should read "War Against the Weak" and or "Nazi Nexus," by Edwin Black, for the following quote:

A leading Virginia racist and eugenicist, John Powell, explained his state's inter-racial marriage eugenic prohititions in these words: "Of course, laws against intermarriage cannot solve the Negro-problem in any of its aspects--industrial, economic, political, social, biological or eugenical. They can, however, delay the evil day and give time for the evolvement of an effective solution...a real and final solution." Virginia eugenicists were determined to wipe out more than just blacks. They also wanted to do away with Indians, mixed-race families and poor whites--a group that state officials collectively called "Mongrel Virginians." In fact, the state actually published an official reference pamphlet entitled "Mongrel Virginains" to expound on the issue.

--Pg. 24, "Nazi Nexus." the quote is from the 1920's.

upgrade

2009-12-31T01:25:00.000-08:00

I am in the process of being forced, as it were, to upgrade my comments for $10. I like to call it extortion, but there you go. I could not figure out how to get the asshole Haloscan comments off of my blog and thus put up the money to upgrade, unwillingly. If I don't, I think I'd basically have to start a whole new blog in order to get just the regular Blogspot comments. I am basically a luddite and cannot figure this shit out all that easily. "Say uncle. Say uncle." ...uncle...

Wounded Knee

2009-12-29T14:29:00.000-08:00

Today is the anniversary date of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. May we never forget, may the Lakota receive justice and remittance. It is said that at least one fella was still alive when they buried them in this mass grave.

Comments on Paul Watson

2009-12-29T14:27:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure what will happen to these comments tomorrow, so I wanted to save them as a post. I will probably revert the comment stuff to blogger tomorrow.

Eugene

Paul Watson has more compassion, more bravery and more intelligence than you.

What have you done to save the Great Whales? What have you done at all with your life?

You are taking up space that is better used by beings of compassion and intelligence.

Go away.
zJ | 12.28.09 - 12:34 am | #

Unfortunately these comments are doomed to disappear in two days, the reason being that Haloscan is now charging and I plan on reverting to the comment section offered by Blogger.

No doubt in my mind Paul is a brave dude. Compassionate, that is less measurable in this sense. Compassion is not a measurable attribute. And as far as your last comment, have you read anything else that I have written on this blog? What do you think of it if you have? My points were and are just what I stated in these posts.

It is seriously questionable Paul Watson was at Wounded Knee is '73. Wallace claimed he didn't remember Paul, did not name anyone during that siege, nor would he have given him the name already belonging to Frank Clearwater. No one that was actually there remembers Paul Watson. There is regular talk about some mysterious photos showing him there but no one will post them on the internet for the rest of us to see. We are just supposed to accept out of hand that these photos exist, that it is actually Paul Watson in them, and that it was of Wounded Knee in '73.
Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 3:41 pm | #

Paul used "Binky" Thompson, IMO, as a way to pit Indian against Indian. A wonderful tool used from the good old days to the present to keep Indians fighting amongst themselves for the gain of a third party. It is done great and small. My wife and I have seen this type of behavior even amongst many local activists.

Paul also allied himself with some racist anti-environmental congressfolk at the time because he beleived the "enemy of his enemy is his friend." Slade Gorton and Jack Metcalf were there names. These folks openly expressed a dislike for Indians throughout their careers. Gorton made his fortune from the Gorton fisheries who purchased their fish from industrial trawlers out of Norway. Industrial trawlers lay waste to the ocean floor and thus, the environment of the whales I would assume, wouldn't you?

Paul did not go to the Makah in a peaceful manner. Like the U.S. government, he was there to FORCE his personal ideals upon a people because...well...isn't it obvious? If someone disagreed with you and you wanted them to see how you see things, wouldn't you have a talk with them? Wouldn't you open up a line of communication? Wouldn't you try to see things from their perspective? If not, would you try to force your own personal beliefs upon another or another group? What would you call that? Being superior? Arrogance? Warlike? Destructive?

Do you truly believe coming here and telling me Paul has more compassion than me changes the facts that he allied himself with powerful racist anti-environmentalists to further his attack on the Makah? That he used "Binky" as a tool for said gain like he used Slade and Jack? That he made some serious racist comments like "we've become the Indians and the Indians have become the cavalry."

In order to force his personal beliefs and opinions upon the Makah, he also did his best to disrupt ceremonies and celebrations that the Makah use. Tell me, if I came to you and whatever group/s you may belong to and try to forcefully impose my beliefs upon you, what would you think of me? What would you think of the folks that follow me?
Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 3:57 pm | #

And as stated, what about the campaign of mis-information? What would you think if, say, I came to you and your organization and said that you are a bunch of meat eating capitalists. Then, even though you may or may not be either, started a campaign which is easily refutable?

The Makah have a treaty right to hunt whales. Treaties are the supreme law of the land according to the constitution, which means the Makah have a legal right to hunt whales and the U.S. and Paul and his buddies have no legal right to stop them. Even in the light of these facts, Paul and his buds continually informed the public without any substantiation that the Makah whale hunt was ilelgal.

The Makah, as stated got their quota from the indigenous Russian quota, a total of 120, but were held to 20 a year for five years. In that five years, how many whales did the Makah kill? One. Yet, Paul and his buds continually stated that since the Makah were going to whale again that they were going to hunt whales into extinction. Who was it that hunted whales into extinction? Was it the Makah whaling that depleted the whales to near extinction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Who was it that did that?
Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 4:04 pm | #

I will probably always hate Paul. He has not truly come forward to discuss his alleged Wounded Knee II experience with any WKII vets. He has never come forward to any WKII vets to discuss the issue around his naming. He has never discussed with his own community openly why he allied with two of the most racist and anti-environmental congress types at the time. He has never discussed openly tokenizing "Binky" in order to do the age old method of getting Indian to fight amongst Indian (didn't work, BTW).

And, as with all...what do they call them...cult of personality?...folk will always hold on high Paul Watson as a great super hero without question as to any of these things. I basically have a hard time stopping myself even though I know issues such as the truth, racism, allying with racist and anti-evironmentalists, tokenizing Indians for you own gain, etc., will never stop. And folk like you will never question Paul. We all need our own personal Jesus so we don't have to take up our own responsibility. Someone else is doing it for us.

Also, never heard Paul speak out against industrial trawling. Has he? I don't know. I haven't listened to all the speeches he's made throughout his life, but those I have heard, until that event at e-law, he always talked about how the whale was killed and looked him in the eye and asked him to be the savior of all whales. No one else. I question that. No doubt he saw the whale, but he is not the whales personal savior. If he was, why'd he ally with Slade and Jack? Why doesn't he sit with WKII vets and stir their memories? Why doesn't he post those photos? Why doesn't he drag members of his crew along to tell their stories and experiences? His crew members are allgedly in it to save the whales, too. Why aren't their stories as important as his?

It is not just me whose motives you should question. It is everyone's, including Paul's. And what have his methods brought? Have the Japanese stopped whaling? Has anyone stopped whaling because of Paul? Has the environment gotten better because of Paul? What else does Paul do besides lecture and chase whalers to save the whales because it isn't just the whalers killing them? You do know that, don't you? Makes a damned good television show, though, doesn't it? How'd you like the way he was profiled then turns his face to the camera to record his great and personal glory?
Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.28.09 - 4:16 pm | #

Eugene, what is the deal with Indymedia?
vi | 12.28.09 - 9:00 pm | #

Shusli corrected me and informed me that Indy Media did not censor her. They were having technical difficulties and a comment she made didn't show up for two days.

Me, on the other hand, have been rather inflammatory toward some of their great unquestioned heroes, in fact I believe it was Paul Watson. I pretty much said the same thing, but in rather colorful speech. I get a little tired of non-Indian types using Indians for their own gain. Happens all the time, great and small. Folk lie or take the little bits they want for their own. Indy Media folk told me repeatedly they were not censoring me and that they do not censor. I think what the fella called it, in fact, was "enhanced moderation" in order to keep right wing folk off of the forum.

Since then, however, Shusli and I have talked with several other folk who claim they have been censored as well by Indy Media.
Eugene Johnson | Homepage | 12.29.09 - 4:27 am | #

Addendum to: The Not So Great, Great Paul Watson

2009-12-27T10:52:00.000-08:00

Shusli and I have made over the years that vegans seem to accept the story of Paul Watson without question. Kind of like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

I have met some very awesome vegan types. We met some in the summer (who are no longer vegan) and I've known of one other who are the ONLY vegans I have personally met or been in contact with that do not consider themselves far above god simply because of their dietary choice.

I do not seem to be able to post a comment on indy media. Shusli and I both allege that we have been censored by Portland Indy Media who claimed in the past that they do not censor. For some reason, I do not seem to be able to make a comment to the forum from this computer and have asked that the author of the post in an e-mail to post a comment I have made.

This is a comment I have read on Indy Media that I will quote here from the comment section of the post of the e-law dual between Paul Watson and Ward Churchill in March of '99:

Missing authentication of venorating evidence for Paul's "Nativity"

26.Dec.2009 01:04

Vegan Cabal

link

Hello Jim, Thanks for commenting about this. Someone I spoke with who previously was a Sea Shepherd crew member saw the photos from Wounded Knee that Paul talks about. She affirmed Paul's story and we laughed because we've been fighting for liberation and sovereignty more determinately every day to live. That is a powerful force, to save our grace and satisfaction into the indeterminate ending. A sentiment that "there is absolutely no excuse to not set them loose" nails another clincher on the coffin of abusive industries in modernized concentration camps for "fur-wearing" beasts of the wild, all creative opulence beckoning early releases from hellish lamentation. ...

For some reason, the mysterious Paul Watson at Wounded Knee photos never seem to be shown but to a simple few. Why aren't these photos posted on the internet and circulated throught the Netosphere? Could it be because that maybe, possibly, could be, that there are Wounded Knee vets, folk who were actually there, who would see those alleged photos and refute them? Maybe? Hmm? Why is it that no one who was there (including the dozen or so "actual" WKII vets who were there that I personally asked) recall such the great and glorious Jesus Christ like savior of the "buffalo of the sea" Paul Watson. I mean somebody who claims such greatness as a white man honoring Indians and being the one and only Jesus Christ of the whales, Paul Watson, should be remembered by MANY if not ALL of the WKII vets, wouldn't you think? Tell me, military combat vets, I have heard that your memories are rather clear about the people around you at the time of combat. If that is true, wouldn't you think that during a 72 day seige where Paul Watson claims that he played many important roles and was allegedly given the name "Greywolf Clearwater" would be remembered by his comrades, especially considering his self-proclaimed heroics? Don't you think, military combat type vets? I think.

Now here is my more important point:

A friend of mine said he found a website where non-Indian folk talk about how great Indian stuff is, like sweating and "four-directions" and Love of nature, blah, blah, blah...WHATVER! So my buddy made a post on their stating that Indianness isn't a few momentary glimpses by non-Indians into our ceremonies. He said in a big part, it is about making community. These folk asked what they could do then. So, he told them all about the issues of what is going on with the Crow Creek in the IRS land grab and what is happening to their people from the power company and just exactly how they can help. What he has received since has been...silence.

Indians are for the most part only as important to non-Indians as to what meaning they have in the lives of said non-Indians. For example, if the self-proclaimed Jesus Christ of the whales, Paul Watson, was at Wounded in '73 during the seige and actually did do the heroics which he claims to have done and no one who was actually there seems to be able to corroborate, then listen to how he tells the story. It is not told like it is a plight of Indians against a far more fearsome and better armed power illegally occupying there land and supporting an illegal puppet government to the death and detriment of MANY Indian people. Paul Watson tells the story in how it enhances the true greater story, the story of Paul Watson.

Paul Watson is not the only person guilty of this type of behavior. Shusli and I see it all of the time all over the place. It happens great and small. There are also many non-Indian folk who do honest work to help indigenous people. How often do you hear their stories? Not often. Why? Because, oddly, they don't make it about themselves. Indigenous life does not become an accessory to their lives, like a turquoise bracelet or genuine Indian beaded necklace. It is not about how great they are for helping us Indians, it is about humanity and struggles for justice along side the Indian. Not so with Paul Watson's story. Listen to it.

And as far as being supportive of "liberation and sovereignty," but only for cute fuzzy animals, what about the liberation and sovereignty of the Crow Creek? Lab rats? Women? The plants you eat? The oceans? The homeless? All Indians? Poor white folks? Blacks? The middle class? Oh, that's right, it is not your specific narrow minded scope and definition of what "liberation and sovereignty" are. Thus, you being vegan and far superior to all other non-vegans and spirits and all other forms of life cannot be wrong in your own personal narrow minded scope. You are just too holy for the liberation and sovereignty of anything beyond your simple narrow focus.

The Not So Great, Great Paul Watson

2009-12-27T06:36:00.000-08:00

If you want to know how great Paul Watson is, just ask him. He'll be more than happy to tell you.

In memory of fellow Paul Watson exposer, Peter Webster.

Inspired by a post on Portland Indy Media by Jim Lockhart.

A BIG THANKS to my wife, Shusli, for turning me on to this post.

PAUL WATSON IS A "POS"!

I first heard of Paul Watson on KBOO. He was being interviewed by Andrew Geller as he was heading up the coast to go fight against the Makah whaling effort. During this conversation, Paul Watson seemed like a pretty interesting fella. Something didn't seem altogether right about him, but then show me an activist where everything is altogether right about them. Then Paul made a comment that taught me to hate him forever, "We've become the Indians and the Indians have become the cavalry." Odd, however, the Indians were not seeking to slaughter women and children as the cavalry so bravely had in the past. But after the Makah got their one and only whale, a little incident happened in Forks, Washington.

After the whale was taken in May of '99, me, Skip Mahawk, and my ex-wife headed up to Neah Bay to get some of our own answers. Skip knew a fella in Forks and we stopped on the way. There we were informed by this man's wife that she worked or volunteered for Neah Bay's Head Start. They had brought a bus load of children down to Forks to watch a local school baseball game. When they pulled into town, there was a group of anti-Makah whaling protesters. These brave and glorious protesters seeing that the words "Makah Head Start" were printed on the side of the bus bravely attacked. They hit the sides of the bus with their protest signs screaming threats to the children (all aged 6 years and under) and few adults inside as well as numerous racial epithets. The bus load of kids managed to escape before the glorious and brave protesters could tear the little kiddies limb from limb. Now, who has become the cavalry?

We had brought some recording equipment with us, and Skip's friend gave us the name of a fella in Neah Bay that would be willing to talk with us. Mr. H. (not using his full name for his and his family's safety) had a lot to say about how the community had reawakened in the renewing of their whale hunting rights. More singing of traditional songs, less drinking and drugs, less depression, etc. They also told us of how Sea Shepherd Folk managed to force themselves into schools in Neah Bay to preach their anti-Indian anti-whaling propaganda to the kids up there. Mr H. also informed us of how the great Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Society and the Sea Defense Alliance and others would harass their ceremonies prior to and after the successful whale hunt. Those brave SELF-PROCLAIMED white Indians Paul Watson and his various thug allies, how quaint. I also asked Mr. H. about Alberta "Binky" Thompson.

You all remember "Binky" Thompson, right? I'm sure the great Paul Watson has forgotten his little Red N**ger tool by now. As the issue of the whale hunt was coming to a head, the great Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Society paraded a Makah elder around to denounce her own peoples efforts. I saw "Binky" speak at the "End Corporate Dominance" conference at Portland State University. Little old grandma crying for the whales and denouncing her culture and her people. She also claimed that pro-whalers had killed her dog, though she had absolutely no proof, and I bought it, kinda, at first. I gave "Binky" a hug, and so did a whole lot of other folk. But something just doesn't sit right with me when someone accuses a specific group of committing a crime that they can't prove when they have an agenda.

Mr. H. told us what he knew about Alberta "Binky" Thompson. Makah people had little respect for Alberta Thompson as an elder because she never did anything to warrant respect from the people. I asked about her safety in Neah Bay, where she lived, considering what she had done. Mr. H. said people just leave her alone like they always did. There was no threat to her safety. (I saw her at "Makah Days" a few weeks later and she was sitting around eating and having a good time pretty much by herself).

Paul Watson attached himself and his organization to "Binky" because he realized he could use her as a propaganda tool not against her own people, but to convince non-Indians that Makah elders were against the whaling and those against the whaling were being terrorized by the pro-whaling Makah. So the Sea Shepherd Society takes "Binky" on tours of their boat and offer her all sorts of little gifts and lots of undeserved unwarranted attention for one reason and one reason only, so they can use her as a tool for their own ends of attempting to stop Makah Whaling. I have only a basic understanding of psychology and the patterns in which people behave having studied them in personal life and in the greater civilization through observation, reading, and history, and so I don't come up with this accusation by simply pulling it out of my ass. It is a common method to use someone as a tool for people to gain an ends to their own means. In my opinion, however, the ends was not, is not, and never really has been getting the Makah to stop their whale hunt, especially in the case of the great racist Paul Watson.

[side note: I wonder if in that new TV show about the great (big fat and ugly) Paul Watson if he ever has had his little Red N**ger token on, Alberta "Binky" Thompson. I kind of doubt it because "Binky," being accused (and rightfully so) of being an attention whore herself, just might take away some of the attention from where it should be, on the great Paul Watson.]

Armed with this information, I started listening carefully to lectures by the great Paul Watson. I started noticing a pattern. Paul Watson was talking about the great Paul Watson. If you get a chance, and you will if you go to the Portland Indy Media article linked above, listen to Paul Watson talk about how great he is. Whales seem only a back drop in the life of the great Paul Watson according bo Paul Watson. However, you will notice that the great Paul Watson is proven a liar by Ward Churchill.

Paul Waston wrote a book about one of his favorite subjects, Paul Watson. In this book he claims to have been at Wounded Knee during the seige of '73. Even makes a few statements about events that actually happened during this time. Claims he was given a name by Wallace Black Elk during a sweat. That name was "Grey Wolf Clearwater." Paul said that Wallace told the great Paul Watson that he was on this earth to save the Buffalo of the sea, aka, whales. Odd, however, no one who was actually at Wounded Knee in '73 remembers the great Paul Watson. Now, for anyone who has been in a high stress situation such as a seige and a firefight, you are gonna remember those around you, especially someone as great as the great Paul Watson, wouldn't you think? Why doesn't anyone who was actually there remember him? Ward does claim that Paul could have been amongst the many folk who came and offered aid to those beseiged but was gone within 24 hours. It is a possibility, but rather doubtful. Ward Churchill asked Wallace about the naming and Wallace stated that he didn't name anyone during that seige. In fact, Wallace stated he wouldn't have given anyone two names ever and he especially would not have named him Clearwater, considering Frank Clearwater. It would seem that again, Indians are just a tool for the great Paul Watson to agrandize the life of the great Paul Watson. Red N**gers are just tools, tokens, and backdrops (just like whales) in the life of the great Paul Watson.

During this time there was a misinformation propaganda campaign enacted by the anti-whaling organizations. At the e-law conference panel about the whaling just prior to the taking of the whale, the great Paul Watson was telling the folk that the hunt was illegal, a clear and provable lie. Article 6, section 2 of the U.S. constitution states that treaties are "the supreme law of the land." In the Makah treaty it states that with the theivery of most their lands under the illegal conquest and occupation of the U.S. government that the Makah maintain their right to hunt whales. To state that the Makah have no legal right is to state that the U.S. constitution is a lie.

Also stated was that the whale hunt was gonna kill more whales. The Makah received their quota from indigenous Russians. The Makah could take 20 a year for five years, even though the indigenous Russian group actually gave up 120. 1, count them, 1 whale was taken in that five year period. That means 119 whales were NOT killed during that time.

Johnathan Paul was trying to propagandize on behalf of his Sea Defense Alliance organization that the Indians were going to sell products made from the whale. Funny, the Makah had sent their lawyer to sit on the panel (the Makah were too terrified to come themselves because of the actual Cavalry mentality of the alleged activist community toward them). When asked to respond, this is what he said, and I paraphrase from memory: "It is true the Makah asked me to ask the International Whaling Commission if they could sell products made form the whale because they have a treaty right to do so. So I asked. The commission said no. I told the tribe what the commission said, and they were fine with that. They will not be selling any products made from the whale." (Later, Jonathan Paul and I almost got in a fight behind the law building at the U of O. The great Paul Watson's ex wife was even involved. I forget what her name was as she was screaming at me and those with me that she was 1/8th Cherokee and therefore had some sort of supremacy over the Makah [never clearly explained]. Then again, her name doesn't really matter in the life of the great Paul Watson). It wasn't until after our little vocal altercation was ended (being photographed prolifically by a photographer from the Register Gard, though I do not believe any were published) that I noticed Jonathan Paul's bicep was about as big as my head. I have since joked with many a person that he may have sent me to the hospital had we come to fisticuffs, but I would have left him with a nasty pinch he wouldn't have forgotten for about 2 days. Jonathan Paul is now in prison for his activist work, which is bullshit. The man should be free and roaming the earth, even though I don't personally care for him all that much.

About 2 or 3 years ago, Shusli had contacted a young Makah woman about the whaling issue, shortly after the Makah's second attempt to kill a wounded whale near Neah Bay. (The attempt failed, the Navy or some group like them killed the whale and let it sink to the bottom). Shusli and I and others had a call-in program on KBOO about the whaling issue and we were talking about the great piece of s**t Paul Watson, and what his actions against the Makah meant. I went on my usual accusatory tirades of Paul Watson being an ego maniac and a liar and that whales meant only as much to Paul in how they can elevate the life of the great Paul Watson. A fella called in claiming to have been a crew member on the Sea Shepherd and that my accusations about Paul are true. He is an ego maniac, he is a racist, and whales do only mean as much to him as how he can stand upon their greatness in order to elevate his own. I also find it interesting in how few to zero of his crew members are on any lecture circuits. I never hear him mention their names other than some are former members of the SEALS (bfd). Why can't we talk with them? Why are they never on tour with him? Why does he hog all the glory? AND WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

I have seen clips of Paul Watson's TV show. I've seen the video of him on the helm. I can just imagine him telling the camerafolk the proper angles to get of him, how he will turn his head at a certain time and share with the world his glorious and fat ugly face. But here is another issue I have with Paul...WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

Whales are facing many more issues than just whaling. Truthout did a big expose on the U.S. military dumping tons of its poison gas cannisters into the bottom of the ocean. Any mention of stopping that for the whales? Any mention of stopping the industrial pollution for the whales? Any mention of the current global climate change on the whales? Any mention of the U.S. military using their sonar on the whales? Any mention of the indigenous further north and their issues in subsistance hunting whales? Anything about whales at all? All I've seen is the great Paul Watson and his (nameless?) crew members chasing down Japanese whalers. Mind you, I do not support industrial whaling under any disguise like that which the Japanese are doing, but where are the whales? What is happening to the whales? Mind you, it is more than just industrial whaling that is killing them. And all I see are Paul Watson and crew going after whalers. Nothing more. The show is about the glory of the great Paul Watson and to a lesser extent, the Sea Shepherd Society, and to an even lesser extent, the crew members. WHAT ABOUT THE WHALES?

Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd Society, and their whole crew and supporters can GO F**K THEMSELVES! Industrial whale hunting is only part of the problem. In my opinion, because the Makah issue was getting so much publicity is the ONLY reason Paul and crew went up against the Makah. Paul was latching on to their publicity and making it his own. Had the cameras been gone, had their been little to no attention paid to the issue, I doubt Paul would have ever shown up, nor any of those other f**king a**holes. In fact, Paul would have probably been saying, if asked, the same s**t I said above, "The Makah have a treaty right to hunt whales. They had voluntarily given up that right when the industrial whaling came close to making whales extinct. Now that they whales are coming back and they received thier quota from the indigenous Russians, not only will their at best be the same amount of whales legally taken every year, but their may be even less should their hunts not be as successful." But the Makah got a lot of media, and what better for an ego maniac in his constant personal self-promotion. Whales? yeah, Whatever.

Don't get me started on some of the alleged leaders of the alleged Peace Movement, either!

40 States Unemployment Funds Will Dry Up Within Two Years

2009-12-24T12:16:00.000-08:00

Read the whole story here.

I guess this, along with being cut down to 3 days a week at my job, are signs that the ECONOMY IS IMPROVING! Might be a good time to read "1984," which is next on my list.

Currently, as stated previously, I am reading "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black. This book is about how the U.S. using eugenics as an alleged science (nothing to back it up, no studies, etc., kinda like Kennewick Man) to create a master race of white folk while elimating the rest of us, including lower class white folk, all of us being too feebleminded to be born multi-millionaires. So, here would be an interesting excercise in eugenics.

The "master race" types with Carnegie and Rockefeller money keep stating that it is natural for us lessers to be wiped out. It was a natural progression for Adolf and friends to slaughter Jews, Sinti, Roma, etc. Natural.

What should naturally happen to the lessers too feebleminded to have a job? That's right! According to the eugenics movement of earlier this century and what may remain of it today amongst the monied classes, the lessers should take their lumps and starve out and die. This is American thought of the master race, perfected with joy and help from the Americans in Nazi Germany.

This eugenics pattern seems to fit over what is happening to the Crow Creek folk, what is being done to the Palestinians by Israel, and I'm sure a whole lot more.

The Next "Mitakuye Oyasin"

2009-12-23T03:22:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, December 24th, on "Mitakuye Oyasin," we will be talking with Tiokasin Ghosthorse host of "Indigenous Voices" on WBAI, Crow Creek tribal chairman Brandon Sazue, and Moses Brings Plenty on the illegal theft of Crow Creek land by the IRS to sell to a wind power company for development and the many other issues of oppression facing the Crow Creek today.

Tiokasin will be discussing the same issue on the East coast earlier in the morning.

WBAI NY "First Voices Indigenous Radio" w/Brandon and Moses and Eric Klein. Eastern Time 10:10 - 10:29 AM continue at 10:31 to 10:43.

Tune in, December 24th, 6-7pm PST to KBOO 90.7fm in Portland, 100.7fm in the Willamette Valley, 92.7fm in the Gorge.

Economics and Eugenics

2009-12-22T06:57:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately, I have plenty of time to write considering I have been given the day off of work. It seems the the economy is improving so well [for billionaires] that my small company saw fit to give me the day off. You see, they aren't billion dollar bankers stealing tax dollars to maintain their misstresses after they made horrific financial errors. I mean, it's not like those billions in our tax dollars should go to the folk those assholes swindled to keep them in their homes. Fuck them! They Ain't Rich! I shall be looking for a part time job, now. Thank goodness the economy is improving...for billionaires who are given billions in our tax dollars.

So, here are some interesting bits from "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black.

"Sanger's book, Pivot of Civilization, included an introduction by famous British novelist and eugenicist H. G. Wells, who said, "We want fewer and better children...and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.""[pg. 130 "War Against the Weak"]

Margaret Sanger, for those of you who don't know, helped found Planned Parenthood. I agree with her as far as women having reproductive rights, but she was also a eugenicist, a believer in the master race. And she was IRISH! Irish aren't part of the master race! Irish and Scots I've heard referred to as the Niggers of Europe. C'MON! Margaret was still a eugenicist even after WWII, when most folk got to see what eugenics was really all about in Nazi Germany. Eugenicists here kept on talking euthenasia, but dismissing it.

H. G. Wells. George Orwell and H. G. Wells were friends for a while, until George wrote a criticism about him living in a fantasy world of visioning a utopia without seeing reality. Orwell's Utopia was what he saw in Barcelona, Spain when he arrived where everyone got along and worked together, only later to be betrayed by the Stalinist communists which eventually led to the long running Franco fascist government of Spain. H. G.'s was more along a eugenicist line, and he became a rather unhealthy great big fat fuck, didn't he?

I have other quotes, but I won't get into them right now.

What I find most interesting is that the alleged science behind the eugenics (Greek for "Well-Bred") movement was all but non-existent. Folk like Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter A. Plecker, musician John Powell, and so many others based their belief on was just that...a belief. There was literally little to no scientific foundation. The science seemed to be all pulled out of their racist, classist, sexist assholes. All of these folks despised charitable organizations (what the fuck is Planned Parenthood, if not a charitable organization?) because they believed that the lesser folk (aka, white trash, blacks, indians, mexicans, italians, eastern europeans, etc.) should be allowed to starve to death when it came to their time. No, we shouldn't help one another, but euthenize them through complicity. Shit, if America had it in it (and it was heading that way), there would have been gas chambers here before Adolf got them going in Europe.

"Feebleminded." What the hell is feebleminded? There is, of course, no clear definition of "feebleminded," but this helped the Eugenics movement sterilize many of the lower classes. You see, it wasn't really about the "master race," because most of the folk that believe/d that shit were a mighty fucked up and rather useless bunch of scum, except maybe Margaret Sanger who did at least struggle for women's reproductive rights. The eugenics movement made sure that you could be sterilized for being diagnosed as "feebleminded." There was, however, absolutely no clear definition of feebleminded, just like there is NO EVIDENCE that whites, let alone any other race, is the master race. But, Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Carrie Buck v. Bell case decided that Carrie Buck was feebleminded and worthy of sterilization.

Carrie did well in school, which makes one question the allegations of "feeblemindedness," but since when does actual evidence count in a U.S. court room? Carrie's mother was institutionalized by a copper in Virginia. His family generously took Carrie in because they needed some cheap slave labor, she was about 8 at the time. At around 18, Carrie was raped and got pregnant, and the copper had her institutionalized. The eugenicists wanted a test case to legalize all the illegal sterilizations they were performing already, and managed to get it all they way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They had Carrie, her mother, and her two month old daughter diagnosed as feebleminded. Not that they were, the eugenicists coerced and fabricated the diagnoses, but that is how the U.S. legal system works. Not only did Carrie do well in school, but her daughter, also taken in by the alleged generous copper, also did well in school, but died at 8 from a brief illness.

The eugenicists seem more interested in killing folk before they are born than they do in creating healthy human beings living in healthy environments.

You all have to read this book.

Even so, how much will all this shit matter in an economic collapse?

Auschwitz Sign Update

2009-12-22T06:42:00.000-08:00

Auschwitz sign theft re-enacted

(UKPA) – 31 minutes ago

Three men who confessed to the brazen theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have re-enacted the event for investigators who said the crime might have been commissioned.

Polish media have reported, without citing any sources, that a person living in Sweden could be under suspicion.

Krakow police spokesman Dariusz Nowak did not say why investigators were looking at the possibility of the theft being organised, but said that "indeed it looks like someone is behind it".

Mr Nowak said foreign police have been notified and are working on the case but refused to elaborate.

Police found the sign on Sunday - cut into three pieces and hidden under snow in the woods - and arrested five suspects in northern Poland.

Officials said three of the five men have confessed to Friday's pre-dawn theft of the sign, which is a symbol of Nazi Germany atrocities during World War Two.

Prosecutor Piotr Kosmaty said the three who had confessed were taken back to Auschwitz to show investigators how they unscrewed and tore the sign, which weighs 66 pounds (30 kilograms), and is 16 feet (five meters) long, from the gateposts.

Mr Kosmaty said the two other men had denied any involvement and, further, denied being at Auschwitz.

In Krakow, police displayed the broken sign for journalists. It was cut into three parts, with each part bearing one of the words. Some of the steel pipe that formed its outline was bent and the letter "i" was missing from the word "Frei" because it had been left behind during the theft. It was recovered at the scene.

She said experts will be analyzing the sign "millimeter by millimeter" for clues as to how it was cut up and by whom.

Work Shall Set You Free

2009-12-20T08:09:00.000-08:00

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/2009121992456163487.html

The "Work Means Freedom," sign from above the Auschwitz Death Camp museum has been stolen. You can link the article from English Al Jazeera above. An investigation is being done into the theft.

In my mind, I am starting to put a lot of shit together. The connections between the eugenics movement ("War on the Weak" by Edwin Black), to what is happening to the Crow Creek Indians in South Dakota, connected to WWII through eugenics, connected to corporations and fascism, to how we work today, to the Gulag system in Russia, to the Spanish Civil War, to George Orwell, to the current wars and the greed and need for corporations to steal the remaining resources of the world for the few, etc.

"Work Means Freedom." "Work Shall Set You Free." Maybe a corporation stole it to help motivate their workers?

I am currently listening to a biography of "George Orwell" by Gordon Bowker. I have yet to read "1984," but have read "Animal Farm" in high school which I also have coming in from the library in book and CD form. All of these things are becoming connected in my mind and I am unable to put the words clearly to blog. Eugenics, George Orwell, Spanish Civil War, current work environments of myself and those I Love, Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, World War II, World War I, Vietnam, everything around me now and into the future, for a while anyway. I can't put it into words yet, what I am seeing in my head, but I will. Give me time. Maybe lots of words, maybe just one or two.

[side note: Listening to this biography of George Orwell, I see that he was a very strange fellow, and still rather amazing. He was very misogynist yet worked best with women. He was racist, hating Scots, yet lived among them and enjoyed their company. Goofy fella. But it made me remember a time at Aloha High School where I was taking an English Literature course taught by Dean Johnson who described the odd behaviors of, if I remember correctly, Edgar Allen Poe. Tim (last name forgotten) made mention that writers seemed like rather weird folk. Dean agreed. Tim then asked Dean if he was a writer. The whole class burst into laughter.]

Comments

2009-12-19T14:44:00.000-08:00

Echo...Echo...Echo...Echo...Echo

Haloscan has been purchased by a company called Echo and is now charging for use of their comment software, which I would have to upgrade to without so much as being able to check it out. It is only 9.95 a year, but I just don't trust that, especially after using Haloscan for all these five or so years of writing these blogs.

So, as of December 29, Echo will more than likely obliterate all the comments posted on this blog and I will use Blogger's comments, which are just fine and cost nothing.

There's a friendly little heads up for youz all.

Theft of Crow Creek Land by the IRS

2009-12-18T01:06:00.000-08:00

Shusli found this information on the Derrick Jensen Forum. We made mention of it on "Mitakuye Oyasin" yesterday as well. The land grab is so that a wind energy corporation can make money without having to pay anything to the Red Nig...er... Indians whom the land belongs to. Alleged green energy also seems to help contribute to Native American genocide, but ain't that the way the U.S. government works.

Also, check out this video made about other suffering that the Crow Creek have to put up with because they are Indians who aren't suffering enough according to the U.S. and corporations. It is disturbing (though you don't see dead bodies, you see what helps make dead bodies). Please help these folk as best you can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVc1QG63AM

Crow Creek Land Is Not for Sale

CROW CREEK RESERVATION, Friday, December 11, 2009—Brandon Sazue’s camper sitting in the middle of the prairie presented a lonely but inspiring image as we drove up Wednesday afternoon. Despite the bitter cold and wind, the young Crow Creek tribal chairman was taking a stand against the United States theft of any more Dakota lands, telling us “Crow Creek land is not for sale, and it never will be.”

Symbolically placing his camper under a wind data tower, Sazue has committed to remain on this parcel of land as long as it takes to achieve justice. The land is part of the 7,112 acres recently stolen by the United States government in what amounts to a 21st century land grab. Because the land is not currently held in trust, on December 4, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service used that as an opportunity to claim it and auction it off as a means to settle what they assert is a delinquent $3,123,790 tax bill. Though most of the Crow Creek reservation is situated within the poorest county in the United States, the land under dispute happens to contain world-class sites for the harnessing of wind power. As the world’s fossil fuels dwindle and alternative energy sources are increasingly sought after, Crow Creek lands also become increasingly more attractive to outside interests. Whoever develops the site for wind-energy stands to make a fortune. This connection is not lost on Chairman Sazue.

Anyone who understands the history of the Dakota people since invasion and conquest cannot help but be stunned by this attack on the tribal lands of people who have already suffered so much. After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the U.S. federal government and the State of Minnesota initiated polices of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Dakota people in our beloved homeland. White Minnesotans hanged thirty-eight Dakota warriors, rounded-up and force-marched our populations to concentration camps in Mankato and Fort Snelling, then forcibly removed us from Minnesota to fulfill Governor Alexander Ramsey’s genocidal call for extermination or forced removal. Dakota people were loaded onto boats that went down the Mississippi River and then up the Missouri River on a journey that was so horrendous, a missionary at the time compared it to the Middle Passage of the slaves. Under gun and bayonet, our ancestors were brought to Crow Creek in 1863. Thus, Crow Creek began as a concentration camp.

The trauma to Dakota people only continued there. Within the first few months of arrival at Crow Creek, hundreds of Dakota people died from the dreadful conditions. In fact, the missionary John P. Williamson wrote “Nearly all the small children died in 1863.” The heartbreak from those events are still felt today. The people of Crow Creek live with that legacy, as do the rest of us with ancestors who were subjugated on these lands. After 1862, the United States government left our people with so little. Now, even what little we have is under attack again.

Sazue’s stand in defense of the land is a rallying cry to the rest of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate (Nation). Though fierce winter weather has so far kept supporters from camping out next to Sazue, a steady stream of allies offering prayers, songs, food, supplies and encouragement continues throughout each day and even more people show their solidarity through phone calls and emails. We know more of our people will be coming. Like Chairman Brandon Sazue, we will not allow these lands to be taken. We will stand with him.

Waziyatawin, Ph.D.

waziyatawin@gmail.com

Crow Creek Supporters:

In addition to your presence and prayers, we need supplies at the encampment site. The first objective at the site is staying warm. We need people to help cut, haul or donate wood to keep a fire going, lumber for building windbreaks and shelters, sandbags, blankets, sleeping bags (especially those made for below 0 temperatures), hats, scarves, mittens, boots, tarps and tipis.

Oceti Sakowin and other Indigenous relatives, please bring flags from your communities to show solidarity with the Crow Creek Oyate. Everyone bring banners—7,100 acres is a lot of ground on which to maintain our presence.

In addition, we need food, flashlights, cookware, tools (shovels, axes, saws), concrete blocks, matches, and water containers.

We also need people who have other gifts to encourage these resistors to U.S. land theft. Drummers and singers, your presence and support would be most welcome.

Supporters may stay in the tribal hall. Please bring your own bedding and linens. Showers will be available at the motel.

If you can donate some goods, please
call this number to arrange a drop-off at a south Minneapolis location:

651.283.3495

DONATING MONEY....

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Attn: Chairman Brandon Sazue
P.O. Box 50
Ft. Thompson, South Dakota 57339

If you have any questions you can call:

Tribal Chairman's Secretary, Carol Quilt at (605) 245-2221

SIGNING THE ONLINE PETITION.....

"Crow Creek Sioux Land is NOT For Sale"
hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CrowCrek/
<http://www.petitiononline.com/CrowCrek/>

CONTACTING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.....

In Minnesota Contact:

Senator Amy Klobachar: 302 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
20510, phone: 202-224-3244, fax: 202-228-2186. Metro Office: 1200
Washington Avenue South, Suite 250, Minneapolis, MN 55415, Main Line:
612-727-5220, Main Fax: 612-727-5223, Toll Free: 1-888-224-9043

Senator Al Franken, 320 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
20510 (202) 224-5641. Saint Paul Office: 60 East Plato Blvd Suite 220,
Saint Paul, MN 55107 (651) 221-1016.

White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Here’s a link that will take you to an email form:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

And one to the senate:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Telling Truth Gently

2009-12-18T01:03:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to an excellent video called "Telling Truth Gently." I no longer know how to post a video from Youtube to a blog. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtwbg6Bnmk

Those Who Do Not Listen

2009-12-17T06:01:00.000-08:00

Recently, kk made this comment on my "Hey, Climate Change Deniers" post:

What I am saying is that the statistical sample that is being used to push the man made global warming case is too small.

Talk to youer community college econ guru and ask him about the statistical sample size used for the man made global warming crowd.

If I have a contrary view, you seem to respond to my comments with personal attacks.

Climatatic fluctuations are a natural occuring event. Through history, climate has always varied and always will. 100 years of climate data is like a grain of sand when compared to the actual age of the earth. A few years ago global warming was being blamed for causing our increase hurricane activity. The past few years have seen decreased hurricane activity, and now that is being blamed on global warming. Sorry, but they can't have it both ways.

I am getting a little tired of arguing and am about to just tell kk, "okay, kk, all those climate scientists and politicians, Nepalese, Virginians, Africans, indigenous, etc., they are all wrong and you are right," simply because I am getting tired of this argument.

First, let me take offense to you calling my friend, James Craven, who has a Ph.d. in economics and is not a "community college econ guru." Jim is the head of the economics department at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. He has also been offered a position at Xinua (sp?) University in China to teach their Ph.D. students economics, a position offered to only 4 people in the world once a year. It is the at least the second time this position has been offered to him. Jim is also the Solicitor General to the Blackfoot Traditional Government, wrote the Blackfoot Constitution and the indictment of the U.S. and Canada for the crimes of genocide against the Blackfoot Nation. He was also a judge on the child sex abuse tribunal in Canada (the U.S. still refuses to admit that they raped Indian children). He has also taught law and is an expert in indigenous and international law. He is currently editing a book he wrote on the genocide of Indians and how it is connected to U.S. economics. Here is his website. So, as far as that little snide comment goes, "community college econ guru," go f*** yourself.

Personal attack? Yes, I do take these things as personal attacks. It is not only you I get this type of response from, nor only this subject. I have toned down quite a bit, to be honest, after getting fired from Boydstun Metal Works in 2003 the day that co-King George started his illegal war against Iraq. I spoke out against the war, constantly, to everyone, and pointed them to various facts, figures, etc., to do their own research and prove me wrong. The only thing I got stumped on at the time was when some fella came up to me and said that Iraq had purchased some weapons grade uranium from Africa. I had not heard of that at the time, but looky at what came of that, eh. Proven lie. I didn't think it was possible at the time, because of the heavy regulation in the nuclear industry, and it turns out that it wasn't. Iraq didn't purchase the uranium and the documents were fabrications.

Fast forward to today, I rarely talk about anything other than work and acceptable conversation at my current workplace. Recently, I stepped across that boundary a little bit and told a fella I assumed because of his looks (long hair, scraggly goatee) that he was somewhat of a lefty. When he asked me what I was doing for Thanksgiving, I told him I was doing a radio show called "Genocide Cover-Up Day." I told him of the document stating that the first annually celebrated Thanksgiving was for killing Indians. "I DON'T BELIEVE THAT!" "Even with documentation?" "I don't believe that!" He later informed me that I am not to say anything bad about cops in front of him, either. He Loves his men in blue. I have recently watched a video of cops beating, torturing, and murdering citizens for a common crime, not respecting coppers authority. Then there is the Brotherhood of the Strong here in Portland where cops have the backs of their buddies for any criminal activities they perform. And, well, I have a long list of information on those criminal organizations as well. But, I don't say anything because that could put my job in danger. I'm an at will employee, not union, and therefore can be fired for any reason at anytime.

So, that is why I take things like your comments personally. I'll probably get over that soon enough, as I grow to understand that there are many folk one cannot have a sharing of knowledge with. Heck, I've learned a lot from you in our conversation on this subject. I hadn't heard of the "Midieval Warming Period" nor have I heard of the increase in ice in Antarctica. I looked them up, and the Midieval Warming Period was only over Europe according to the studies done. Why, I wonder? You claim it was just natural. I assume you mean that whatever possible environmental causes that may have been produced by men in that area at the time are irrelevant. What is your proof on this? What does it have to do with the subject at hand (nothing according to the scientists)? You seem to state it as proof that the current climate change crisis is not caused by man. It is natural. You seem to insinuate that humans, especially civilized humans, have no effect on the natural environment.

I have heard of things like the Little Ice Age, but have not really looked into it. Sometimes wording of these things can be misleading. I may or may not study this. Again, what does this have to do with climate change today? You seem to be insinuating that since there were weather changes in the past that civilized humanity has no effect on their natural environment. That is like saying Indians killed each other in the past, therefore the U.S. genocide of Indians is OK today (yes, people actually do use that argument, unfounded as it is). You pointed me to the Harvard study on the Little Ice Age and the Midieval Warming. I haven't looked, yet, however, but I wonder if their conclusion is that since there are possibly naturally occurring climate changes in history that the current climate change is not caused by industrial and civilized humans because humans seemingly have no physichal effects on their surrounding environment.

Back even 20 years ago, I remember it being an unspoken agreement that when the issue of salmon destruction and possible salmon recovery on the Columbia River, that the issue of the dams was not to be brought up. We had the salmon wars in the '60's and '70's when the "never do anything bad or illegal" cops were beating the shit out of Indians, aka "Red Niggers." Why? Because anglers and their supporters alleged that it was Indian fishing that was depleteing the salmon. How did they come up with their conclusions? Because Red Niggers were fishing. Not the fault of the dams. Nor was it the fault, as it was actually found to be later, of the flouride dumped in the Columbia and its estuaries by the numerous aluminum smelters in the Northwest at the time. It was Red Niggers, and many anglers still believe that today. Few still look at the dams. Not the fault of man, the fault of Red Niggers, who aren't really human.

I have seen a video some 15 years ago of a Kwakiutl stream in Alaska that was being cleaned up. It used to have thousands of salmon come up it every year, but the stream was damaged by logging (which I'm sure you can explain that it wasn't), and the salmon runs were reduced to zero. In the third year of the clean-up process, they got some 400-500 salmon. It was crazy watching the salmon follow the three men up the stream as they cleared the way for them. It was like their memory was returning. Most amazing thing. Last I heard they were getting runs up to 40,000. There is a river near Chico, California that many activists keep industry away from and it is the only river that has runs in the tens of thousands every year in California.

Statistical sample? What statistical sample? I do remember about 20 years ago when I first started hearing about climate change, then called global warming, that the temps were rising rather slowly, blah blah blah. I didn't give a shit. Didn't sound like anything to me. What I did know, however, is that industrialization does have an effect on the environment to its detriment. Dams on the Columbia for example. Global blah blah blah...WHATEVER! However, the science I'm reading has nothing to do with the statistical sampling. It has to do with the shit in the atmosphere, and not just the excess of carbon, but far more serious shit up there as well. This shit has an effect on the climactic weather. I listen to what the sceintists say because I've heard how their data is gathered, what they do with it, how they figure out what it means, etc. Then I listen to the stories of the people. Some streams in Virginia folk used to be able to feed themselves off of from the fish 30 years ago. Those fish are GONE! now. Floods in Nepal where the folk there have only memories of snow in the winter, they now have rain. This, too, in the last 30 years. I've read stories of the old Indian folk from the Siletz rez that state it used to snow heavily every year, it is a rare year to have snow and even rarer for it to stick in the area these days. I watch the receding glaciers. etc.

You come here and say that climate change has happened allegedly naturally in the past, therefore the current climate change is not happening, and if it were, it is not manmade. You state that the statistical sampling is too small. Let me remind you of a statistical sampling you did fairly recently. Remember my post about the LOL woman being on her knees was sexist. Your statistical sampling to prove me wrong...you asked two women friends. You did not take into consideration the way their lives are lived or how they perceive the world and how it influenced their decision to inform you that a woman on her knees is not sexist, but that is what they told you. How many women are their in the world? A couple of billion? Yet I'm wrong because two women you know whose lives I know nothing about tell you it is not sexist. Did you ever ask them to get on their knees before you? I'm kinda curious if they did and whether or not they still considered a woman on her knees (notice that men in advertising are never on their knees) is not sexist.

There are questions that I have repeatedly asked that you are not answering. Why are there meetings like that in Copenhagen? Why are polticians wasting their time and our tax dollars trying to gain dominance over this issue to protect the environmental destruction they are going to continue to do? Why, if climate change is a lie or if it is NOT manmade as you seem to allege, are they even having these meetings? Why? Can you tell me, kk, why they are having meetings about a LIE!? I've looked into the information you've passed on to me, will you offer me the same consideration, or is your intellect so superior that your conclusions are simply unchallengeable?

Why are there so many scientists coming out that climate change is real and caused by industry for the most part because of the actual shit in the atmosphere is there because of industrial output? How can they be so wrong and you be so right? You insinuate that scientists are so stupid that they base their whole study on a statistical sampling. However, the scientists I read about and listen to haven't even discussed a statistical sampling. They discuss what is in the atmosphere, how it got there, and the effect it has or can possibly have. You state that scientists have found climate changes historically and your conclusion, not theres from what I can see, states that therefore climate change does not exist today or if it does it is not manmade. It happened in the past, therefore todays alleged climate change is a lie or at the very least not caused by industrialized civilized humanity.

Then there are the issues of how climate change is effecting folk, communities that live much closer to the land than I, are now having greater difficulties in sustaining themselves. They say that weather patterns have changed so drastically that these changes have damaged villages, killed people, effected animal and plant species, etc. All of this in the last decades especially. Either they are lying, or it is just a natural occurrence and all the data scientists and that these folk are stating is either wrong or fabricated.

The receding glaciers on Iceland, in the mountains, etc., not proof, at least not to you. The fact that scientists state that the Antarctic ice increase is part of climate change, you aren't listening to. The fact that parts of the Antarctic have melted means nothing to you. The fact that the Arctic ice has receded so much that ships can now pass over North America from one ocean to the other means nothing to you.

Your main insinuation which you have thus far backed with very little evidence other than historical information with no studies into the possibilities of why said climate changes occurred, are the basis of your conclusion that civilized/industrialized humanity has nothing to do with the current climate change (should it actually exist) and that it is a completely organic incident. Personally, I need something more, but I don't believe you will come to this discussion with more.

I do take these things personally, and I apologize for that. That will change soon enough because, really, kk, if you're right, no big deal, if I'm right, those scientists are right, those politicians are right, those living closer to nature are right, there ain't nothin' gonna be able to be done about it anyway.

Last night Shusli and I had a discussion that we believe that nothing can be done anymore. We believed, even up to a few years ago, that we could change the world, turn it into a better place. Now, we see that there is nothing to be done. Climate change is still gonna happen. Genocide is still gonna happen. Economic collapse is still gonna happen. There will probably be a massive die off of humans and all forms of flora and fauna. Now, we are trying to figure out the best ways to survive this when it happens. All we have to go on is that it is gonna happen. The U.S. economy and thus the global economy is in a shambles, the natural world is being destroyed, the U.S. is going to continue its genocidal behavior until the very end. If we survive this shit, how do we survive it? What do we do now? And I am hearing the tales of more and more one time hardcore activists that they have stopped because they believe the same way. I wonder if that is why there are hadly any protests (in the states anyway) anymore? I don't plan on making a study of it, but I do plan on gathering the stories of more and more folk that have and have not given up the fight.

So, like Mike Ruppert, there will come a time when I will just stop arguing. It's coming, It will be here soon, but I still cling to that crazy idea a bit that I can somehow make a difference. That we can all somehow make a difference and create some sort of positive global change, but really...ain't gonna happen.

So, there you go, kk, my long response to your comment.

One last thing, the science on the hurricanes, I haven't looked into, and neither, obviously, have you. I listened to it at one point a few years ago, but it became a blah blah blah issue to me. Personally, I do believe you can have it both ways. I do believe nature can be effected by humanity. We are all connected. "Mitakuye Oyasin," everything is related. But there again, I don't dismiss them out of hand. To me, that is like someone coming to me stating that their spouse beats them on average once a month, but most of the rest of the time they are rather nice. Can they have it both ways? Can they be treated nice and beaten by the same person? The answer is yes. So I don't simply dismiss shit out of hand because it doesn't seem to make sense to me. I could look into, but I probably won't.

Eugenics

2009-12-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

I have always been fascinated by eugenics since I first heard about it. My knowledge has always been limited, mostly to the race hygiene movement of the Nazis and Americas work to eradicate its indigenous nations, but not much beyond. As I grew older, I realized that there were many more victims of eugenics and genocide than I ever wished to imagine, and have made a rather laymans study of the subject. Mostly I am curious about the intergenerational effects of genocide on my fellow humans and genocides that occur historically and today.

"Mitakuye Oyasin Radio Collective" member, James Craven (Blackfoot Solicitor General to the Traditional Government and Economics Head at Clark College) made mention on the program of the book by Edwin Black (author of "IBM and the Holocaust," a must read) called "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's campaign to create a Master Race."

I have heard and read some about the eugenics movement. In Oregon, there were many sterilization programs for various races, handicapped, and those deemed "feebleminded." Thus far, some five years ago, Oregon apologized to the folk with down syndrome for sterilizing them for the "master race," so far...not to Indians or the others they attacked with eugenics, at least not that I recall. No reparations, no taking of responsibility, no justice, no healing, no making amends... "Sorry about trying to wipe you people off of the face of the earth so we of the master race wouldn't have to deal with you. There, all better (for us of the master race)."

Anyway, the introduction and first chapter of the book are rather disturbing! One thinks they know a rather lot about the disgusting behavior of the nation they live in when they make a study of it can still be shocked and disgusted at new discoveries they make. Example: It is mentioned that the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations heavily funded the eugenics movement even during the Nazi regime. Harvard and Yale universities and many other institutions of academia were involved in this alleged pseudoscience.

The first chapter, and maybe if white folk read it they can get an understanding of what I've been talking about all these years, is called "Mountain Sweeps." It deals with the "hill billies" being rounded up in Virginia in the '30's by the sheriff, taken to various hospitals, and sterilized. Many of them were not told what was happening, just that it had to happen. These poor folk were seen as "feebleminded" and thus were slated for sterilization.

Over 50,000 documents were studied in creating this book with more researchers helping on this project than can fit in the ackowledgements section. The research was so thorough, that they checked it with other well known research and found that there were many errors in the research already done.

Edwin, in the intro, has asked that his book be taken as a whole, not picked at and bits of info used to create points of discussion in favor or against one thing or another, thus, until I am finished with this book, you will find occasional reviews of it here and there on this blog.

Hey Climate Change Deniers!

2009-12-14T13:00:00.000-08:00

I heard on "Democracy Now" that the Nepalese are having villages wash away by heavy rains because, well, they used to get snow. Must be a left wing conspiratorial lie according to many folk who believe climate change to be a lie.

I am bringing this issue to the forefront again because on a previous post, "Climate Change Ain't Real?" kk posted a comment that Antarctic ice is on the increase, and thus, I looked it up on one of them there internet thingys and came up with this:

Objection: Sure, sea ice is shrinking in the Arctic, but it is growing in the Antarctic. Sounds like natural fluctuations that balance out in the end.

Answer: Overall, it is true that sea ice in the Antarctic is increasing.

Around the peninsula, where there is a lot of warming [PDF], the ice is retreating. This is the area of the recent and dramatic Larsen B and Ross ice shelf breakups.

But the rest of the continent has not shown any clear warming or cooling and sea ice has increased over the last decade or so.

This is not actually a big surprise.

In fact, it is completely in line with model expectations that CO2-dominated forcing will have a disproportionately large effect in the north. The reasons lie in the much larger amount of land in the northern hemisphere and the fact that the ocean's thermal inertia and ability to mix delay any temperature signal from the ongoing absorption of heat. The local geography also plays a dominating role. The circumpolar current acts as a buffer preventing warm water from the tropics from transporting heat to the South Pole, a buffer that does not exist in the north. You can read some more details about that here.

Does it "balance out" in the end? Not really. Sea ice in the Arctic is reaching dramatic record lows. There are other components of the cryosphere that we can look at as well, permafrost, the Greenland ice sheet, global glacier mass, and these all carry the Global Warming signal.

One must look at the balance of evidence, not just those bits one likes. And this balance is clearly in agreement with all other indicators that warming is real and rapid.

So all you climate change deniers best get your butts over to Copenhagen and expose the lies them there indigenous folk are spreading around about their subsistence being damaged because of climate change. It must be their own damned faults, right? Maybe there were doing too many drugs are they are a buncha alcoholics maybe, you think? Maybe they ate some hallucinogens and dreamed it all because deniers say climate change is a lie because Rush, Hannity, and Colmes have told them so, and we all know them good ole white guys (except Hannity, being Irish, which wasn't considered white by white folk until recently) don't need to back up anything they say with facts. In that way, they is like duh Pope!

And again, reality check...Why where there those meetings in Japan and Brazil prior to this one in Copenhagen? If it is a lie, why the heck is the U.S. government wasting our tax dollars on going to these things? Why did the U.S. fix it so developing nations have to take the brunt of the climate change issue? Of course, we all know the U.S. government doesn't want to take any responsibility for its actions, especially those that are criminal, or worse yet, may reduce the wealth of a billion by $.25. Why, climate change deniers, is the U.S. government wasting our tax dollars on a lie instead of just handing our money over to billionaires like they did the bankers? Why?

DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!

2009-12-14T01:29:00.000-08:00

Shusli and I have seen several gloom and doom movies recently.

"The Road," based on the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, is about a catastrophic event that leaves a family of 3 intact. The father and son survive, and it is a story about their journey down the road to get to the coast where, for some reason, they believe that they will be safe. Very dark and cruel, it gives one ideas of the possibilities of worst case scenario. Things to think about. How does one survive such a thing.

"2012" had John Cusack in it, and Woody Harrelson as a doomer living in the woods. The special effects and Woody are what made this movie for me, other than that, it sucked. It was fun watching the crazy special effects and Woody as the crazy doomer. It is about a government program to save the wealthy and the master race (eugeneics is slightly mentioned near the end) in order to stave off the complete annihilation of humanity. Did I mention the special effects and Woody Harrelson?

Speaking of Woody Harrelson, Shusli and I went to see "Zombieland" at the Laurelhurst Saturday. If you want your gloom and doom with a lot of fun and zanyness, this is one heckuva film and we enjoyed it a lot. It not only had the Twinkie searching Woody Harrelson, but also Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin. This movie was a hoot and absolutely fun. The Big BM himself, Bill Murray made a special appearance in the film. I highly reccomend this movie.

"Religulous" is a film by Bill Maher. I believe I reviewed this film before on this blog, but even so, Shusli and I watched it last night, Shusli for the first time. It is a documentary film by Bill Maher which preaches doubt. He has doubt in all religion. He questions. He questions heavily many folk from the big 3 (christian, islam, and jew) and expresses his doubts. My favorite was his conversation with Jesus, the man playing Jesus anyway, at the christian theme park in Florida. He starts the film by standing in the exact spot where he says christianity claims that the world will end and Jesus will come down and save the worthy and let the rest of us burn.

So, there are some excellent and not so excellent (2012) gloom and doom films for you all to see. Have fun before the real stuff hits, anyway.

Baby, It's Cold Outside

2009-12-11T08:07:00.000-08:00

Rubbing the sleep from my eyes
as I hurtle down the early morning freeway,

a single icicle hangs
from an overpass
like the last
cold, wet, slippery,
handhold
of civilization.

and the sun will soon rise
on another day,
give rise,
rise up,
give rise,
to another day,
sunrise
on the last
cold, wet, slippery
handhold
of civilization

2.

everytime I step from my truck
the cold surrounds me
weaves its way through my clothes
and wraps around my skin
like a warm blanket

"the cold will make you tough,"
I've heard it said.
"the cold will make you tough."

Human Rights and Allegations of Peace

2009-12-10T12:56:00.000-08:00

Today is the anniversary of the signing of the UN Declaration on Human Rights.

Article 23 is one of my favorites because it illustrates that the United States Government, since it is a union busting organization, has no right to lecture others on human rights. Not to mention the violation of all the others against folk at home and abroad as well as complicity in so many violations as well.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Another thing that tickles me is the Obama acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize, stating that, and hopefully I didn't write the quote down incorrectly: "The instruments of war do have a role to play in the role of peace." I guess that means folk can run rampant in the streets screaming "PEACE" while shooting one and all with a shotgun or some such weapon. The book "1984" was becoming highly recommended by many folk on the BOO concerning this speech.

Of course, Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Here is some of what was read in Henry's absence in acceptance for the prize (read by Thomas R. Byrne, ambassador to Norway from the U.S. at the time):

The Nobel Peace Prize is as much an award to a purpose as to a person. More than the achievement of peace, it symbolises the quest for peace. Though I deeply cherish this honour in a personal sense, I accept it on behalf of that quest and in the light of that grand purpose.

Carpet bombing Vietnam and Cambodia, "grand purpose." Increased slaughter of Afghanis for the drug trade and Wall St., "grand purpose."

Kissinger is also wanted for war crimes.

Tom Watson, former CEO of IBM, whose technology helped the Nazi's in their genocide of the Jews, Sinti, Roma, mentally handicapped, etc. (and he knew it), was the head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and his quotes are still recited today.

Well, US, violator of human rights. Nobel Peace Prize and Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, BULLSHIT! Time for the people to take over the world and stop these genocidal bastards giving each other pats on the back for their criminal behaviors.

Climate Change Aint Real!

2009-12-09T02:03:00.000-08:00

That's why all those nations are having that big huge conference in Copenhagen, because climate change aint real. Rush Limbaugh and corporate owned scientists have said so, and we all know they wouldn't lie!

That's also why the U.S., U.K., and Denmark are trying to be top dog in the climate change arena giving most if not ALL the power to the wealthy nations to do whatever they want to the world...humanity be damned.

Thank you all you deniers for saying its not real. That means all the glaciers and polar ice caps are still in place and all that information is just propaganda from the left, enit.

Anyway, here is part of the article from Commondreams about the leaked document where next week the U.S. and its corporate owners can run completely amok with pollution and emissions because armageddon is just around the corner anyway, eh!

Copenhagen Climate Summit in Disarray after 'Danish Text' Leak

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol

by John Vidal in Copenhagen

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations.

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents. (Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

The document also sets unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.

The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" - but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark - has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.

To read the whole article, click here.

The Phillipines

2009-12-08T02:14:00.001-08:00

Today commemorates the December 8, 1941 attack on the U.S. occupied Philippines by the Japanese which eventually lead to the Bataan Death March. Douglas Macarthur, aka "Dugout Doug," managed to escape to Australia protecting his own hide at the expense of his men and the 99 nurses he left behind on Corregidor. Thankfully, especially to those who Love torture like that I hear is shown in the popular show "24" (which I've never seen), Doug had the foresight to incorporate Japan's famous "Unit 731." Unit 731 used to torture folk to death to see how much they could endure before they died. Now we have torture in Iraq, Guantanamo, Afghanistan, in U.S. prisons. Doug abandoned his men and women to go on and have a long life and career.

Yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day, a day I figured everyone else would remember so I made no mention (I used to work for two survivors of Pearl Harbor; Dan Mercer and Ken Hewlett). Today is the anniversary of the attack on the Philippines.

Thanks, Doug.

Gulag: A History

2009-12-06T13:36:00.001-08:00

"Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him."

--Fyodor Dostoevsky
The House of the Dead

I finally finished Anne Applebaum's Pultzer Prize winning book, "Gulag: A History."

It is the story of the Gulag slave labor/prison system set up after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was made even more horrific under Stalin. She follows the Gulag system to its official end in 1991.

I Love the darker side of history because so many people refuse to look at it. Maybe they're scared of it, I don't know. Folk refuse to look at the real history of the U.S. dealing with the indigenous.

This amazing book taught me a lot of history I never knew.

After WWII, there were many prisoners Russia wanted back that were no longer in their territory. In Austria, for example, there were 20,000 Cossack prisoners. The Brits forced marched them to the trains at bayonette point (mostly women and children). The Cossacks knew what awaited them in Russia under Stalin, execution or the Gulag. When crossing a bridge, women were throwing their children into the water then jumping to their deaths behind them. One man in a park killed his wife, children, then committed suicide himself. The Brits didn't have to force the Cossacks back, but you know how they are.

Survival in the Gulag throughout its existence was quite amazing. Folk could make tools from the simplest things. They were also mostly starved, many to death. These forced labor camps did all sorts of things from lumber, creating canals and roads, etc. In the end, however, the maintenance of the system was more costly than it was worth.

There were all sorts of poltiical prisoners. Stalin practiced all sorts of clearances and ethnic cleansings.

Women were often raped, many were gang raped to death on the transport ships in the '30's, and stacked like cord wood at their doorway threshold until the guards decided it was time to stop. Many women whose names are long forgotten were tossed into the sea after being raped to death on these ships.

But the system always breaks, can never take the weight of such constant oppression. After Stalin's death in '53, it all started falling apart.

In '54, there was a revolt in the Kenrig camp that lasted for 40 days. The men broke a whole in the wall that separated the men from the women and one and all actually got along well. The men (especially the criminal sort) didn't rape the women, there was a beautiful cooperation. Couples were getting married if they weren't already. One woman was quoted as saying it was the most free she had ever felt (even after her time was served). Just before dawn on June 26, 1954, the Soviets attacked using 5 tanks and heavily armed personell. First they sent in the tanks immediately claiming the lives of six women by running them over. The soviet official dead is something 45, the witnesses claim well over 500 with over 1000 wounded. The 1 nurse and 1 doctor worked for 13 hours straight when the doctor collapsed. 6 hours into the operations, the nurse, whose hair had only started turning gray, had gone completely white.

In the end, the Gulag system fell. The resistance won, but it took generations...generations.

A must read in my opinion.

Collapse

2009-12-06T07:51:00.001-08:00

On Thursday, Shusli and I went to see Mike Ruppert and the new movie out about him called "Collapse."

With Michael Moore's film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," he tried to get some Wall St. type to describe derivative banking. Mike Ruppert made it almost understandable. You have a physical product, it is work "a". It can increase in value 10 times. That would be 10a. You borrow money on the 10a amount, then bundle your 10a with other 10a's and make a great big package deal on which you borrow more, all the while it is only worth "a" or whatever amount of real "a's" you have. In other words, you can have a billion dollar bank, but it's only real capital could be 50 million.

Mike Ruppert does a great job of describing as simply as possible the banking system. The reality behind it.

Mike has been an LA cop and exposed the CIA dealing in drugs and became a whistle blower. He's been an investigative reporter and had a news letter called "From the Wilderness" to inform folk of such governmental BS. The guy doesn't just pull this stuff out of his ass like say, Hannity and Colmes would. He uses documentation and expresses the facts of these documents and offers his analysis.

The movie's main point, however, is peak oil. That means we have reached the halfway point of oil. We have used up over half of the oil in the earth. With demand increasing and resource decreasing, we don't have a lot of time. Mike points out 80% of everything manufactured requires oil to do so. Food requires transportation. That transportation required oil to be created (some 7gallons of oil in every tire). Plastics. Etc. Welcome to planet earth, have a nice day.

His suggestion is mostly community. We will need each other to stay alive. Things could happen abruptly, we may ease into it, it may be something inbetween, but it is coming. Some areas will do better than others. Who knows what is gonna happen, but it is good to have the information in order to help with the future generations who will be surviving on this planet.

Afterward, Mike had a Q & A. The one thing that sticks out in my head is he was asked about Obama's surge in Afghanistan (war is not humanitarian). Mike said it is for the opium. Wall St. pays the interest on its loans with money from the drug trade. Afghanistan grows some 95% of the worlds opium. The banking system that has a controlling interest in the U.S. government wants control of that money.

I suggest you all see this movie. It is done in the Spalding Gray "Swimming to Cambodia" style and you will learn a lot. You will become aware. You will have information closer to the truth than Rush Limbaugh would give you. Information you can use to move forward, keep aware, help the future generations and each other.

Salesman of the Year [edited 12-05-09 1:30 pm]

2009-12-05T00:18:00.000-08:00

Shusli needed a new car, and unfortunately the car dealer we wanted to deal with didn't have anything she wanted in her price range. On Craigslist, she found a few cars from lots on 82nd. She wound up purchasing one from a place on 1705 SE 82nd. Oddly, it doesn't seem to have a name. The number we have to the place doesn't reverse on yellow pages.

Legally, cars have to pass DEQ when bought off of a lot, and this one doesn't. Shusli made arrangements to take the car in on Thursday for them to take it to a mechanic and was told it would be back on Friday. So, we took it in and I was told again by the young fella who we dealt with that the car would be back in our hands on Friday.

We didn't hear anything by Friday afternoon, so I called and found out that they didn't have an appointment for the mechanic until 5pm that afternoon.

After Shusli was available, she called the fella and told him what she was told. We were both getting rather angry. So, Donnie (or Donny) hangs up on my wife. She calls back, and he again treats her like shit over the phone. I was so pissed, I drove over to the lot and demanded Shusli get her money back. Donnie being the salesman of the year and probably the owner of the lot says he isn't giving the money back. After heated exchanges between us, he yanks off his jacket and calls me out. "C'MON! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW! RIGHT NOW!"

Oddly, I wasn't scared by his behavior, as pissed off as I was, but logic came into my mind and in a timeless moment a voice said in my head, "you are on his property, with his witnesses (some four of his employees) and even if I get bested I would still be the one going to jail and we would still be left in dealing with Donnie in getting Shusli's car fixed, as well as me in jail and who knows how else he'd treat Shusli like shit.

"I don't want that. I want my wife's money back!"

We decided to take the car back when Donnie informed us that the car was still parked where we left it with the keys in it. That's right, folks. Donnie informed us that the car was left on the road with the keys in it overnight. Shusli's car. A car she paid her hard earned money for. What kind of car dealership is this? I think it is pretty obvious to tell.

Shusli, in her anger, went back to Donnie, shoved the keys in his face and demanded he get the car fixed. He stated he wouldn't deal with her (as I was putting myself between them) but he would deal with me. I didn't pay for the car. "I BOUGHT THE CAR WITH MY MONEY YOU'LL DEAL WITH ME AND YOU'LL FIX MY CAR!" is somewhat close to what Shusli said, and we came home.

Car dealerships are known to treat women like shit, and Donnie on his lot at 1705 SE 82nd Ave., Portland, Oregon, with seemingly no name for the lot, seems to treat women rather disrespectfully as well.

Shusli and I discussed this afterward, and it seems pretty clear to us that Donnie treated my wife like shit simply because she is a woman. Since car dealers are known to treat women like shit on a regular basis, I think it is safe to assume that such is true. It is more readily apparent with Donnie telling Shusli that he would deal with me and not her. Why? It wasn't my money that paid for the car. My name isn't on the bill of sale. Donnie would not have liked dealing with me (heck, he tried to get me to fight him on his property) because as I was screaming in his face during our argument he "TREATED MY WIFE LIKE SHIT I WANT HER MONEY BACK!" And that is exactly what I would have kept on stating until he again threatened me with a fight and again, one of his employees would have to stand between us.

Shusli and I both have had to deal with angry people in our jobs. There are ways to handle these situations. Should I have behaved like Donnie at my work toward a customer, when I got back to the warehouse, my boss would simply inform me that I could pick up my last check the next day. What I would have expected from Donnie is, "I'm sorry, Mam. My employee misinformed you and I sincerely apologize for that, but we won't have it into the mechanic until 5pm tonight. I apologize for the inconvenience, what can I do to help you out as your car will be getting fixed longer than you were informed it would be?" Nnnnnnope! Instead, I get threatened with a fight for defending my wife from a fella who is treating her like shit on the phone for his employee misinforming her of the real situation in getting the car fixed. So, he calls me out, on his property, with his witnesses (and who knows what they would have done to Shusli if Donnie bested me and Shusli was upset and swinging too). Not good people in my opinion.

I have one angry customer on one particular route. When they are upset with our product, I make sure they get taken care of. That's my job. Then they may go to a fellow restaurant owner and state, "yeah, we've had problems with these folks, but they always get us taken care of." They like me and my company because we always make sure they are taken care of to the best of our abilities.

Now, on the opposite end, Shusli and I bought our Toyota Camry from Pat Twyman's, around 38th and Powell. These folks are absolutely wonderful and are known for their customer service. They are excellent people, always friendly, and treat you well. They have a strong reputation in the used car market as upstanding folk who will treat you well. If you are looking for a used car in P-Town, go to Pat Twyman's.

Go go Donnie's at 1705 SE 82nd, and it is a good chance you won't be treated too well and maybe, if you don't appreciate his treating you or your loved one like shit, he may even call you out.

Two Dates I Forgot to Memorialize

2009-12-04T11:49:00.000-08:00

The October 10, 2oo6 bombing of Forward Base Falcon in Iraq by the resistance alleging to have killed over 300 U.S. soldiers. The U.S. government says it never happened, despite evidence to the contrary, and has fairly successfully kept it under wraps.

Kristallnacht, November 9-10 1938, the Night of Broken Glass when the oppression of Jews in Germany became truly overt.

Another Date to Remember

2009-11-29T14:43:00.000-08:00

A great big thanks to Brian Johnstone, my favorite Border Scots, for reminding me of the anniversary of the Massacre at Sand Creek. This is the first paragraph from Brian's e-mail to me (sorry for printing it without your permission):

I felt the need, on behalf of my Indian brothers and sisters, to put out this little note which records that this date is without doubt a "day in infamy" and one of the most shameful of many, many bold-faced acts of aggression and slaughter perpetrated on the native peoples of the large land mass now know as the USA and Canada, which has been swept under the national rug for too long.

I heard some twit on NPR the other day say -albeit in another context- "We need to let go of these wrongs and move on", which is typical of the state of amnesia in dealing with the "Indian problem" and the double standard by which it is applied. Have the Jews forgotten the Holocaust (a.k.a. The Final Solution -sounds a bit like how the US military viewed the Indians and in fact which attitude was admired by Hitler and his ilk in "removing cultural impediments" to the supreme race?

On November 29, 1868, Colonel John M. Chivington, a Methodist minister, along with his Colorado volunteers, attacked the KNOWN peaceful encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho, lead by Black Kettle. Black Kettle waved the U.S. flag and one of his chiefs waved a white flag. They were shot down. Women had their fetuses removed (so much for anti-abortion), and when parading around a local town with their war trophies, some of these alleged brave men used women's genitalia for hat band decorations.

Justice, their will be no justice. The Cheyenne and Arapaho will simply be told to get over it and move on. So, get over the Holocaust Jewish folk. Get over it and move on.

Happy Anniversary

If the Economy is Improving...

2009-11-29T07:08:00.000-08:00

...then why aren't folks crowding the parking lots during this Christmas shopping season?

On the Black Friday of 2007, I worked as a driver. At about 4:30 am, I drove past Woodburn, Oregon where there are shopping outlets located right off the West side of I-5. There were so many cars that folk had literally created a parking lot off of the shoulder of the freeway in order to shop for the Black Friday deals. This was one of the most insane things I've seen done in a mass hysteria basis. I found out that the outlets opened at midnight and the crazy American populace was out there and ready to get them some stuff.

Last year there were signs preventing folk from parking on the freeway as in the previous year, but there were long lines of cars waiting to find a spot in the already overcrowded parking lot. I have never understood this behavior, especially when it leads to riots. Folk will riot all over the place to get a limited edition something for their kid, but they won't riot over health care which has a potential of killing their kid.

Since the economy is allegedly improving, at least for the wealthy bankers who were given $700,000,000,000 in our tax dollars, and with Dubai World billions of dollars in debt with the current economic upturn for the wealthy whom the U.S. government gives our tax dollars to, I wondered what the parking lot would look like this year as I headed to Eugene and drove past about 4:30 in the morning. Plenty of parking. Plenty. Good chance you would have not had to walk far.

Furthermore, on a prime shopping day, Saturday, Shusli and I went to Fred Meyer to purchase a few items. There were maybe 2-3 dozen cars in the whole lot. Fred Meyer used to be crowded especially on prime shopping days such as Saturday evenings between alleged thanksgiving and Christmas presents day.

So the government (who would NEVER lie to you), is propagating that the economy is on its upward spiral even with Dubai World coming out as billions in debt and their giving away $700,000,000,000 of our tax dollars to wealthy bankers, and with joblessness continuing to skyrocket and the loads of produce I now deliver a quarter to a third lighter than last year and being reduced to 4 days a week with no overtime, but the parking lot index says otherwise. The parking lot index shows there is more than ample parking even on what should be the busiest shopping days prior to Christmas presents day.

Without jobs, there is little money. With little money, folk cling tighter to what they have and purchase less. With less purchasing power, less profits for the corporations, further job losses, less money, etc. However, it is good to know that the bankers have our tax dollars to insure their continued way of life.

"Thanks, King."

2009-11-28T13:56:00.000-08:00

I listened to Joseph Bruchac's biography of "Jim Thorpe: Original All-American," while driving around for work the last couple of days. For those of you who don't know, Jim Thorpe was probably one of the greatest athletes who ever lived.

Although I knew of Jim's athletic abilities and that he won gold medals in the Olympics of 1912, I didn't know that much about him beyond that.

Joseph Bruchac read the book himself on CD and he told it in novelistic form from the point of view of Jim Thorpe.

Jim was a Sac and Fox boy out of Oklahoma, born late in the 1800's. He was from the same band as Black Hawk, whom the famous 1830's war was named after. His parents figured it would be a good idea for him to get an education in this world, and shipped him off to Haskell, where he ran away some 9 times.

He wound up at Carlisle Indian School because his father didn't want him running away to home again instead of getting an education.

We get a good glimpse into what Indian school was like. The attempts at culture destruction, etc. But after Jim's parents died, he didn't feel like he could go home anymore, so he made the best of his schooling. One day some fellas were doing the high jump. Jim watched as they couldn't make it past 5'9". Jim asked if he could have a crack at it. The guys laughed because they were not only trained athletes and didn't know anything about Jim, but Jim was also in his farming clothes, overalls and such. They let him try and he cleared it with space to spare. He and his buddy ran off to do whatever they were doing. The next day he was called into the office of Pop Warner who was coaching the track and field team and the football team at the time. Jim thought he was in trouble, but he was recruited instead. Jim did, indeed, get into a lot of trouble, as the rules were so strict it was difficult not to, but he loved and excelled at athletics.

I had always heard of Pop Warner Football, but not being into athletics growing up, or now even, I had never associated Pop Warner as the name of an actual human being. Carlisle Indian School also played football with many Ivy League Schools...AND WON MOST OF THE TIME! I neverknew this. Frank Mount Pleasant, the quarterback form many of those her 1900's years, I believe is said to have been the first person to throw a forward pass, even perfected it. More often than not, those Ivy League schools would have more players to choose from, often twice as many as Carlisle, but the Indians still consistently whipped their asses...I DIDN'T KNOW THIS!

I didn't know famous American poet, Mary Anne Moore, had her first teaching position at Carlisle and that her and Jim knew each other pretty well.

The Hopi's refused to send their children to boarding schools in those days, so many were arrested and put in prison and their children shipped off to boarding schools. Louis Tewanima and his fellow Hopis were rather scrawny but kept on watching the runners. One day Louis and the rest went up to Pop Warner and told him they wanted to suit up and run. He thought they were joking as scrawny as they were. He gave them a shot. They ran well for five minutes around the track...10 minutes...half an hour later they hadn't lost a bit of stride.

Tewanima won many races and was called at one time the fastest man for distances between 10 and 20 miles. In 1908 he was ninth in the marthon at the London Olympics and in 1912 won silver in the 10,000 meters and set an American record that wasn't beat for 52 years. I never knew that Indians contributed so much to sports especially in the early 1900's.

Here Louis Tewanima is pictured with, from L to R: Larry Sekaquaptewa, Grace Thorpe and her son, John Adler, with Louis on the right. It was taken in 1968. Louis left Carlisle after his 5 year sentence was up. You see, he did all that running as a prisoner of war living out a sentence at the Carlisle Indian School.

Jim Thorpe won the Pentathalon and Decathalon at the 1912 Olympics. The photo above shows King Gustav of Sweden placing the medal on Thorpe. After King Gustav gave Jim much praise and called him the greatest athlete in the world, Jim simply replied..."Thanks, King."

Jim Thorpe was married three times, had an unimpressive baseball career (some say he was held back), helped start up professional football, was the first president of what would become the NFL (I forget what it was originally called), lectured around the nation for many years, forced the U.S. government to let him join the military when WWII broke out (he was 57 and he became a merchant marine) and passed away from a massive heart attack in 1953.

His Olympic medals were taken from him to massive objections worldwide form major sports writers, athletes, and coaches, with even King Gustav putting in a few words, because he had played professional minor league baseball in the summer leagues, making $15 a month. Pop Warner who encouraged it, wrote up a confession that cleared him and any other official of Carlisle of knowing about it. Although I had admiration for Pop for what he did for the Indians during this horrific time in our history, he was also capitalizing off of what the Indians did for him and was now putting a knife in the back of Jim Thorpe, but Jim did as he was told, even though he had never lied in his whole life.

Besides being an excellent athlete, Jim was also known for other qualities that I admire: He was always kind to others and so generous he rarely had much money.

It was great getting to know Jim Thorpe and other Indians of the past like Gus Welch, Louis Tewamina, and Frank Mount Pleasant, whom I would have never heard of otherwise. Good job Joseph Burchac.

Roots

2009-11-28T13:33:00.000-08:00

I still remember watching "Roots" as a kid, but never got around to reading the book. So, I did the next best thing when I saw it on the shelves of the Hollywood Library in CD form. I Love listening to books when I drive down the road for my work.

This was the 30th anniversary edition produced by the BBC. It is a novelistic approach by the late great Alex Haley to give the world a perspective, a history, of Black life in America rooted in Africa. From Kunta Kinte (born around 1750) all the way to Alex Haley, Alex traces his family history and recreates the characters of his family through his slave roots to the 1960's and '70's when he produced the book.

Kunta Kinte, the strong willed Mandinka turned into a slave, growing through his manhood years on the Waller plantatiion in Virginia and marrying Bell, his equally strong willed wife. Giving birth to Kizzy who is sold away when she is 16 to Tom Lee, a chicken fighting formerly poor white man. The birth of Chicken George who becomes a prize chicken trainer. His son Tom who becomes a blacksmith (which turns out the Kinte family practiced in Mali prior to moving on into Ghana). It is an amazing story that is told better through reading or listening than me reviewing.

The most amazing parts for me were near the end when Alex was researching the book. He wanted to find the record of the ship that brought his ancestor to America. He searched thorugh over a thosand documented voyages before he found the one he was looking for, 1767 heading to Annapolis, Maryland. Over a thousand ships around the year 1767 carrying slaves...over a thousand... It hit me like a brick when he said it, it hit Alex far harder.

My wife remembers a whole lot of her family history. Far back longer than I remember mine. Shusli's family obviously survived the holocaust beget upon the people of Northern California and Southern Oregon. She has a strong sense of who she is. I don't recall mine all that well, only being able to go back as far as my grandparents, Louis and Violet (Smith) Johnson. But everytime we drive through the Umpqua Valley, I know where I'm from. Everytime we go to the Rogue River, Shusli knows where she is from. We remember where our connection is.

Although many folks are connected here, I can only imagine what it must feel to have your family history stolen through slavery. To have that history connected to another part of the world that has been stolen.

And here we are now, together. Many of us have histories where some part of us has been stolen. Blacks stolen from Africa. Indians stolen then their culture beat out of them and also enslaved as servants to white folks as what happened in the boarding schools.

And here we are together. Here we are, together. Here we are, together. Welcome.

Alex Haley also has Indian ancestry. I believe his great grandmother was half Indian. Her mother had been captured by the Indians and she married one. The whites killed the people of their village and enslaved his great grandmother (who was born with the Indians) and her mother.

And here we are, together...WELCOME!

Soft Targets 2

2009-11-28T00:47:00.000-08:00

Urban Scout is under attack again.

Knowing Peter, I find him to be a very pleasant clear minded young fellow.

Folk in the community, especially alleged anarchists, really enjoy attacking him because, at least in my opinion, he gets more attention than they do. I could be wrong, but these folk who no doubt think they are brave are NEVER brave enough to come out in the open and discuss their understanding of the world with others and communicate openly and honestly. Coming out from behind the shield of anonymity does not seem to be the method of these folk. However, what does seem to be true about these folks, as well as the peace community and veganism, is that most will demand to be your king if they had the chance.

Take for instance the current attempt at an anonymous terror campaign against Urban Scout. Someone sends him a 23 pound rock using The Gap to pay for it (most likely EMPLOYED there). Scout files a police report, and all the ALLEGED anarchists now go on the attack of urban on his blog and on Portland ("We Don't Censor") Indy Media. They don't use their real names. They don't sit down with Urban Scout and talk and try to find common ground. They take the route of an attempt to terrorize him to shut him up. Terror? Isn't that a tool governments and other organizations enjoy using? Aren't alleged anarchists supposed to be against government and organization? Well, it is apparent they certainly know how to organize when it comes to terrorizing a single person.

Take, for example, what I've been hearing lately. Because of John Zerzan and probably others, there is a current campaign to go after Derrick Jensen...'s MOTHER! That's right. Many brave most likely anarchist types are attacking soft targets like Derrick Jensen's mother because Derrick Jensen refuses to see the alleged anarchists, or as the self-proclaimed great John Zerzan would put it, "anarcho primitivists" as his own personal savior. In other words, Derrick is garnering more attention and therefore must be attacked...through is mother...in order for folk like John Zerzan to be our great and glorious king.

One thing I NEVER trust is someone who tells me they have the only way to save the world, and John Zerzan has done that stating that the only way to save the world is if you are an anarcho primitivist, which he is, and is the king because he coined the phrase. Any time anybody tells me anything is "the only" way, I immediately know they are liars. There are many ways as there are people to save the world. Those ways may change at any moment. And quite possibly, ain't none of it gonna save the world.

Unite! Help one another! WTF! Those things won't happen until we recognize someone like John Zerzan as our king, or a vegan, or an alleged peace activist, or put your favorite ruler type here.

Vegans as well give themselves the great dictatorial right to rule over the lives of meat eaters. I'm told that many alleged anarchists are vegans, thus making them ultra holy by simple political ideals (which they often do not practice) and dietary choice. Vegans will often talk of the glories of millions dying because they eat meat. More directly, they often talk of meat eaters being killed. Mind you, like most American citizens, they won't do their own killing themselves, they'd rather others do it for them.

Here is a funny story about anarchists. Ward Churchill was talking on Genocide Cover-Up Day how he was approached by an anarchist. Of course, they got to talking politics, and Ward expressed his appreciation that the anarchists would be going after the new smoking ban (him being a smoker and all). Afterall, the government is targeting a specific group, smokers, and regulating their behavior, which goes completely against alleged anarchists principles. "Oh no!" exclaimed the alleged anarchist, "I like that rule."

Will we ever unite and help each other? I doubt it. There are just too many people who want to be our kings and are willing to terrorize others (not using the U.S. definition, but using the dictionary definition of purposely striking great fear [or attempting to] into the hearts of one or many) in order to gain a foothold onto their path of being our king.

Example, Israel used a lot of terrorism in order to become the nation state they are today. Now they continue to terrorize others to maintain that position. The U.S. uses terrorism all over the world in order to insure that any and all nations remain subservient to their master, the corporate owned U.S. government. Since terrorism is governmental, and this current attack can be alleged to be micro terrorism, wouldn't that make such folk who are going after Scout and Derrick Jensen's mom like the U.S. government?

Have You Seen This Indian?

2009-11-27T00:35:00.000-08:00

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS INDIAN?

On the "Genocide Cover-Up Day" program yesterday, Russell Means mentioned that the day after alleged thanksgiving is "Native American Recognition Day." Russell said something like, "Just like America, giving the Indians the leftovers." I said something like, "Is Native American Recognition Day the day they identify the bodies."

Research be done, I found out that in March of 2008, the U.S. passed or at least thought about passing a bill calling the day after alleged thanksgiving "American Indian Heritage Day." There are no specifics about it, the whys and wherefores, but there you go.

American Indian Heritage Day that allegedly recognizes Indians. ...for what? Allegedly the bill is supposed to make the day after alleged thanksgiving a paid holiday for state and federal employees. How is that recognizing American Indian Heritage?

To be honest, the only way I have known the masses of Americans honoring American Indians, Native Americans, whatever the f*** you want to call us, is with racist imagery like that above.

Other than a paid day off for federal and state employees, what the f*** does "American Indian Heritage Day" mean? Will reservation Indians suddenly find themselves out of forced poverty? Will the U.S. government get their boot off of the necks of our economies? Will our health care improve so that we don't have the largest per-capita death rate in diabetes? Will our children stop committing suicide?

Until yesterday, I didn't even know there was such a day. I don't even know for sure if the bill passed in 2008 or if it passed at all. So all I have to say about is this...

BIG F***ING DEAL!

The Afghan Question[s]

2009-11-25T07:07:00.000-08:00

Looks like Obama is gonna get his wish for increasing the death rates of Afghani's in the months and years to come with an increase in troops and bribes of Afghani war lords and war lord types. With this increased effort a few questions come to my mind: Will the corporate owned U.S. government be able to break the backs of the Afghani's and the Afghan Nation? Why does the U.S. wish to break the backs of the Afghans and the Afghan Nation? Could it be the Central Asian oil pipeline to get the oil to the markets so oil wealthy billionaires can have more money at the expense of thousands upon thosands of Afghans being murdered and a few American soldiers? With the U.S. economy in a potential free fall because of masses of debt both of its citizens and its government and the increased billions of debt this increase in slaughter will cause, how will it effect the economy here with job loss on the rise? When it is found that the Afghan backbone doesn't snap under the U.S. military might, and we still have a prolonged war, what will be happening to the people of Afghanistan? Hearing stories of U.S. troops being terribly demoralized in the Iraq and Afghan wars, how will this effect them and how will it effect them? When I wake up in the morning after a mass slaughter of Afghanis, will I find a raise in my paycheck and an increase in my hours back to a little over 40? Will I feel more free? Will the movie prices at Regal cinemas be cut in half? Will there be a lightness in my step? Will the jobless have jobs? Will the homeless have homes? Will those suffering from cancer whose insurance carriers refuse to allow them to have life saving operations suddenly find themselves under the knife and saved without any money coming out of their pockets? Will marijuana be legal? Will all the folk in prisons for marijuana offenses be released and find jobs? Will no Americans ever go hungry again? Will tobacco prices drop? Will breast cancer rates fall? Will Indian reservations receive funding for decent housing and development? Will the U.S. get their oppressive hands of of Indian economies? Will Indian suicide rates fall? Will Indian health increase? Will the Olympic committe and the government of Canada stay off of Indian land?

These are only a handful of questions I've been asking myself since hearing about the glorious increase of Afghani deaths about to be obtained by the Obama government.

The First Annual Thanksgiving in America

2009-11-24T02:19:00.000-08:00

The First Annual Thanksgiving Documented

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - JUNE 20, 1676

"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series
of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr
with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought
to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this
wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst
of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered
his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for
our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion,
and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened,
and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with
many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them,
without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been
sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed,
It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies
are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the
Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his
returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as
not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading
him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:

The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the
29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving
and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many
Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not
those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent
to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as
a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council
doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people
of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same
Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all,
even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a
living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."

------------------------------------

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)

On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown,
Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express
thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community
securely established. By unamimous vote they instructed
Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of
thanksgiving, our first. That proclamation is reproduced here
in the same language and spelling as the original.

Articles 2 and 3 from the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3

The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

Thus..."Genocide Cover-Up Day."

Genocide Cover-Up Day

2009-11-23T18:13:00.000-08:00

On November 26, from 8am to noon PST, tune in for another Genocide Cover-Up Day on KBOO, 90.7fm in Portland.

In studio will be Jim Craven, Louis Sowa, Dean Lookinghawk, and myself.

On the phone we will have David Boyajian to discuss the Armenian genocide and Russell Means to discuss the Native American Genocide.

It will be a phone in, of course.

The Yes Men Get Strangled in Bhopal

2009-11-23T01:58:00.000-08:00

The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, in 2004, made a statement to 300,000,000 people on BBC that Dow Chemical, owners of Union Carbide, were going to liquidate Union Carbide and use the 12 billion in assets to help the people of India where Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide, got away with one of the biggest mass murders in history.

When it was found out that this was a hoax, the BBC chastised the boys for hurting all those Indians in Bhopal by getting their hopes up only to dash them on the rocks. Oddly, however, the media prostitutes did not say anything about mass murderer Warren Anderson, his killer corporation Union Carbide, nor the killer corporation that owns it now Dow Chemical, and the GREAT SUFFERING they have caused the people since the mass murder on December 3, 1984 (3,000 initial deaths with 15,000 more added on in the passing years). But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of corporate loving whores anyway.

So, Andy and Mike went to Bhopal India to meet the survivors. As they sat innocently before a large crowd of Bhopal Survivors chants of "STRANGLE THEM! STRANGLE THEM!" were screamed by the crowd. The boys apparently didn't understand as they did not speak the language, and they were promptly strangled by the people.

Actually, Shusli and I went to see "The Yes Men Fix the World" yesterday which is playing at Cinema 21.

These two hoaxsters manage to get themselves invited to some heavy hitting places where they put themselves off as corporate execs then say things that corporations should be saying. Their hoaxes are ways of bringing attention to things that folk don't really pay attention to using humor. Folk no longer care about the survivors of Bhopal, Katrina, nor global warming. These fellas have pulled off some elaborate hoaxes that brought the focus back on to folk still suffering by the actions of the like of mass murderer Warren Anderson.

It is a must see film. Shusli and I had a wonderful time, but since we were foolish to eat at Laughing Planet just down the street prior to seeing the film, we barely had enough room for the popcorn and soda.

Hoaxters don't harm people, CORPORATIONS HARM PEOPLE!

AckuhDUMMY* uh

2009-11-20T17:22:00.000-08:00

Jim Craven, a friend of mine, has authorized me to write about a case he is currently going through at Clark College where he is the Economics Head.

Jim has recently been sentenced to some two terms off without pay or health care. But wait, there is more. Today is the hearing, even though he had already been convicted and the sentence passed down. I know what you're thinking out there dummies: How can he be sentenced and convicted BEFORE HE HAS EVEN HAD A HEARING? Simple. That's Acadummya.

Jim has been teaching for thirty years now. He has a Ph. D. in economics and has been at Clark College for 17 years. Jim Craven is a fully tenured professor.

A few things about Jim. He was on the Lewis and Clark committee back in 2002 prior to the big celebration of the commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Jim, who is also the Blackfoot Solicitor General, in his five minute speech to the council Jim stated that what followed Lewis and Clark was genocide. The council promptly had him kicked off. Honesty has no place in the celebration of the point men for genocide.

Jim has also taught economics at Xinhua University in China to Ph.D. students. He has been offered a rather high position to teach at Xinhua (sp?). It is a position offered to only 4 persons in the world annually. You can't be just some chump off of the streets to teach there (a fore shadowing of statements to come).

Jim is also listed in "Who's Who." At one point he had tried to get himself de-listed because he couldn't stand being mentioned in a book with genocidal maniac Henry Kissenger, and others. They wouldn't de-list him, so he uses it as a tool to get into doors where folks would rather not have him.

The reason Jim is getting shit at Clark College is because he exposes corruption. As a fully tenured professor, he is an employee of the state and is required by law to expose any crimes being committed by the organization for which he is working. He has exposed professors getting hired without the proper vetting, pedophilia, and other crimes. The members of academia don't like to have their criminal behavior exposed because they are trying to protect their "phoney baloney jobs." They make damned good money at the expense of students for doing LAZY work. Example:

A fella was hired in the economics department to teach economics. The academia of Clark College bypassed the process of the teacher being vetted by the head of the department, James Craven. Vetting is the process of making sure that the teacher is qualified in the subject for which he has been hired to teach. In this case, the man in question has a degree in Human Resources and has been hired to teach advanced economics to students without having been properly accredited. That means that a second rate teacher is teaching students a subject he is not qualified to teach. This is NOT unusual in academia. Jim has never met this man nor does he even know what he looks like, but the fella is documented and has admitted to having had two conversations with Jim and has stated that he "doesn't want anything to do with that Indian!"

The academia of the college has also admitted to a documented statement that "Morale at the college will improve when we get rid of Jim Craven." What that proves is conspiracy. The college has not enjoyed Jim's honesty and concern for students instead of them just raking in money and prestige for themselves at the expense of the students. What the hell is Jim thinking? Oh, yeah, he is thinking of the students and the quality of their education.

Jim is also the Blackfoot Solicitor General to the traditional government and has written the Blackfoot Constitution and the indictment of the United States and Canada for the crimes of genocide against the Blackfoot nation. He also speaks some 8 languages which and is currently adding Mandarin Chinese, I believe he said Mandarin. A Chinese dialect anyway.

Speaking of students, and Afghanistan war vet who was wounded twice was going to college at Clark as well. He has a lawsuit pending against the organization. Clark has expelled him because of his lawsuit.

This type of behavior is not unusual in American academia. This is NOT the only college that behaves in such a manner.

I asked Jim yesterday where one can get the best education. He said China. The reason being is that there are limited spaces for the masses of the population that want to get a higher education. Thus, they don't f*** around with BS as their students have to be on it, instead of getting drunk and partying regularly, going to sporting events, behaving criminally, etc. The education has to be top notch there and the students have to be on it.

Maybe it's time to learn a new language.

A Monkey Story

2009-11-19T01:31:00.000-08:00

At the end of Ishmael Beah's book, "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," he relates an interesting story that he and all the other kids were told by a story teller:

A hunter was hunting monkeys in the forest when he spotted one sitting in a low branch with his back to him eating some food. The hunter walked slowly and quietly, not snapping any twigs or rustling any leaves. He was amazed that the monkey was sitting in a low branch, but that didn't concern him much as it was an easy target and would be good food. He managed to get fairly close to the monkey, which still had its back to the hunter and was still eating. The hunter raised his gun, got a bead on the monkey, and was just about to pull the trigger when the monkey spoke.

"If you shoot me," the monkey told the hunter, "your father will die. If you don't shoot me, your mother will die."

"...and the Red Red Crovvy Poured Out Like an Old Friend."

2009-11-16T01:24:00.000-08:00

I haven't been writing much lately. I haven't been as inspired to write as I have been to read, listen to books on CD, and watch movies with Shusli. I haven't even been reading much news lately. Must be the new move. I really Love this new home we live in.

Our friend Chuck let me borrow a whole bunch of his movies. He had a Tennessee Williams collection. Shusli and I watched "A Street Car Named Desire" and "The Fugitive Kind" all the way through together. Shusli has seen all but "South." I have seen bits and pieces of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are HOTTT! together!), "The Sweet Bird of Youth," "Night of the Iguana," and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone." All of these old movies are great, but I'll tell a little of the two I saw all the way through.

"A Street Car Named Desire" seems to really have been the stresses of the world driving a young woman insane. Tennessee has a way of describing sex in his plays and movies that is extremely hot and steam without porn like qualities. Vivien Leigh, who plays Blance du Bois moves in with her sister and brother-in-law under extreme duress and the guise of just staying for a few days. Doesn't happen that way, and we watch as she gently goes insane under the weight of the reality of her world. The famous "STELLA!" scene...HOTT!

The other night, Shusli and I watched "The Fugitive Kind," also with Marlon Brando in it. He plays a night club musician trying to stay straight and out of trouble. He moves to a small town to get a job and two women try to seduce him. This film deals with the raw racism of the South at that time. It is a beautiful and ugly story at the same time. Tragic, and so human. SEE IT!

"2012" SUCKED! Shusli and I went to see "2012," and it sucked. We are, however, into the doomsday stuff and the special effects were fun and took away from the cliche and formulaic and rather uncreative story. Woody Harrelson was a fun part of the film as well. His gloom and doom crazy character kinda made the film for us. It is a fun film, but really, all in all, a piece of shit. Shusli pointed out that the end of the world in the film is not at all the fault of humans and what we have done to the earth, but because it is 2012. Mayans hear 2012 stuff like tall men are asked if they play basketball and like folk joke with me about going to Eugene. "Eugene to Eugene, funny, huh huh."

"Paranormal Activity" gives you a few good startling moments, but there again, the plot was pretty predictable and you get the same effect if you watch "Doom House" on Youtube. It seems to be getting much praise in the press and with reviews, but really, POS.

"Midnight Cowboy" was a well acted and odd film. It is about a young man who goes to New York in '69 to work as a cowboy gigalo. He becomes friends with Rico Rizzo who is living in a condemned building, and they have a crazy adventure in the big city. It is a movie of friendship and caring for one another. A classic which came out in '69, I can see why it is still talked about and watched.

One of the books I listened to on CD is the classic, "A Clockwork Orange," by Anthony Burgess. It had an intro by Anthony about why he hates the work so much because it constantly haunts him and shadows all of his other work, much of which he considers much better. It was written in 1961, if I remember correctly, and in the U.S. and only in the U.S. (as well as the Stanley Kubrick film) the last chapter, chapter 21, was left out. Why? Becuase the main character becomes bored of violence. He grows up. I thought it would be kind of a cop out, but it actually seemed more an inegral part of the story. The book is about raw violence of youth gang members and follows the life of the main character, Eric (if I remember correctly), and three of his droogies through the violence they enact upon their community for fun. They rape, beat, murder, fight other gangs, rob, etc. Eric gets caught and goes to prison. He goes through a program that makes him sick anytime he even thinks of violence. (The funniest part to me was when he tried to read the bible after he was cured, as it were, and he got sick from all the violence.) A great book on CD, and listen or read it with the last chapter in.

"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" is another book I listened too recently. Ishmael Beah was a boy soldier in Sierre Leone. I read the book a few years ago and interviewed Ishamel twice, once last year. If you read the book, and meet the man, you would be amazed at the transformation. As a young soldier, he killed many people and was wounded many times. He first ran from the war until it was fight or run for the rest of your life. Then rehabilitation, then UN Conferences about children in war. Then back home. Then war catching up to him again. He finally made his way out of the country in a rather dangerous journey to Ghana. Having met the young man and hugged him, he seems rather tiny, but you can feel the toughness. But he smiles, his joyous smile, a young man who lost his whole family, who witnessed so much suffering, who was used as a tool for war, a child. READ IT!

"I Like You: Entertaining Under the Influence," by Amy Sedaris, was very funny. How to entertain guests in your home by Amy is funny. This how to book is HILARIOUS! How to entertain the elderly, drunk and disorderly, out of town guests, alcoholics, etc. She knows it all, and if you have questions, go to her book.

I am currently reading three books at once, almost done with two, and half way through one.

"Gulag: a History," by Anne Applebaum and winner of the Pulitzer Prize is a detailed history of the Gulag system in the Soviet Union mostly under Stalin. Anne goes through all the details, male prisoners, female prisoners, executions, rapes, freezing, starving, shock workers, system changes, arrests, all of it. She covers all of it. I recently heard some interviews with Russians who miss and admire Stalin, young Russians, on NPR. They excuse Stalin at worst because he brought Russia to a modern age. I do not agree. Stalin was cruel and unjust and did not NEED to be in order to bring Russia into a modern age. In fact, by Anne's assertions, it probably would have progressed quicker and better without all the cruelty. But what do I know? I'm not Russian. I do know that U.S. cruelty against Indians has held back progress on our reservations, however. A must read especially since the U.S. is starting up a Gulag system of its own.

"A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemmingway is a Love Story during war time. Set in Italy during the first world war, an ambulance driver falls in Love with a nurse whom he first just wants to get in the sack. The culture of that time is interesting to read. Love is always sweet and juicy when experienced. The adventures the two go through is sweet and exciting. The descriptions of the war are rather disturbing. Lots of dialogue, and it is interesting to listen to the relationships between friends and Lovers and compare them in my mind to the culture of today. My favorite line come from pages 224-5. The set up is during the big retreat from the Austrians and Germans. The masses of people are crossing a bridge, civilian and military alike. Guards that had been set up on the far end of the bridge are pulling out any officers, questioning them, and killing all who are major or above pretty much instantly. "Why are you not with your men?" "It is your fault we are retreating." But that line amongst this cowardly style of killing is this: "The questioners had that beautiful and devotion to stern justice in men dealing in death without being in any danger of it." It is one thing to fight, another altogether to murder.

"Alice in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll is an excellent psychedelic children's classic. It is indeed a fun book with many odd twists and turns to keep not only the interest of a child, but my interest as well. Fun!

Soft Targets

2009-11-09T17:05:00.000-08:00

The recent shootings at Fort Hood will not doubt spark backlash from racist American's looking bravely for soft targets to kill. Many already believe that the reason Hasan killed those people because he is a terrorist. BULLSHIT! Besides being harassed regularly for being Muslim, not doubt from the Christians, his brother mentioned the following which I gleaned from Democracy Now:

MOHAMMED HASAN: About a week before the incident, he hired a lawyer in order to leave the Army, get married, and live his life. But they rejected his request and asked him to go to Afghanistan. This was the biggest shock for him. So, there’s another reason why he did what he did, not just because of the harassment of the soldiers. There is another reason.

America Loves soft targets. Insurance companies get away with killing thousands of people across this nation, and your average white male racist isn't gonna take up his gun and start shooting insurance company execs. They have security guards and people who will fire back. The court systems protect wealthy folk who kill and not the poor bastards who should be killing them. Too much bravery required for that action. Best to kill blacks during a hurricane like happened in Katrina. Best to attack Muslims who don't have guns.

Instead of looking into what really happens in the world, such as the U.S. government illegally slaughtering millions of Iraqi's and Afghani's. The U.S. military oppression of said peoples. The U.S. military male raping his female comrades, and Iraqi children like Abeer Qasim al Janabi.

But the U.S. honors folk like Phil Sheridan who stated about us Indians to "kill the women and children first, they are easier to kill and it strikes terror into the hearts of the men."

So, as the stupid stupid stupid americans find more soft targets to hit, what are we gonna do about it? Me, I'm brining attention to this. Stupid Stupid Americans are gonna kill and oppress easy targets to prove to themselves, and themselves alone, they are allegedly brave. They will not bravely fight hard targets, like insurance companies. They won't take up arms and join the military, they would rather other folk do their killing for them because, really, they ain't nothin' but racist chickenshits who would NEVER go up against a target bigger than them. It's a little difficult to rape a 250 man on steroids, got go after the easy ones. Then go home and praise themselves up for the brave glorys of hurting unarmed or undefended folk.

Still, insurance corporations are gonna continue to kill Americans at approximately 100,000 a year. GET 'EM RACIST SOFT TARGET CHASING TYPES... I didn't think so. Ain't so brave afterall, are ya, ya racist types?

I Love Our New Neighborhood

2009-11-05T08:47:00.001-08:00

"...of men and women, of women and men...

2009-11-01T08:08:00.000-08:00

...and that thought makes me smile again
because you and I are 99% alike,
you and I are 99% alike."

--Sherman Alexie from his poem "99% Alike."

I have just finished listening to Susan Faludi's book on CD, "The Power Dream." The book discusses the attacks on feminism after the 9-11 attacks, many MEN placing the blame on women for what happened because, as they allege, women have emasculated their men and thus made us innefectual in our roles as brave protectors. Susan goes through the history of this male fantasy of the male and female roles in American society, then tears them apart using such crazy things as...FACTS!

According to the American male fantasy of gender roles, men are to be the protectors of women and women are supposed to be the domestic fragile beings whose main desire is to have a male protector (pardon me, but I have to go vomit now... Back in a minute).

Daniel Boone, the American male fantasy man, was supposed to be a strong, powerful, all knowing, wise, male protector and provider figure, and his wife, Rebecca, was supposed to be the fragile damselle in distress unable to do much of anything other than cook, sew, and spread her legs for her man. In truth, Daniel was a failure in many things, killed (and regrettably so) only 3 Indians in his life, and though a good hunter, his wife, it is alleged, was even better. Daniel wasn't pleased to hear how his wife was put as least supporting actress to his lead in the story, but the authors of the fantasy didn't care. These were roles assigned to them, the reality (probably much more fascinating than the lies) was not conducive to the American male fantasy of the gender roles.

Hannah Dustin, a woman who was captured by the Abenaki Indians, escaped with her fellow captors by killing 10 Indians, 9 of which she killed; 2 men, 2 women, and six children. In more current efforts to bring her history the the forefront of brave historical women have been shot down repeatedly. However, a town just west of Portland, Oregon, is called Sheridan. It is named after Phil Sheridan, a well known white male American baby killin' machine who is said to have coined the phrase, "Kill the women and children first, they are easier to kill and it strikes terror into the hearts of the men." This genocidal maniac is celebrated annually with "Phil Sheridan Days." Phil is also in part responsible for the decimation of the buffalo. Why is Phil celebrated and Hannah not? Could it be because Phil has dangly bits while Hannah's bits are tucked away neatly inside? Can it be because Hannah doesn't fit her preconceived role as a woman?

Susan also talks about the Jessica Lynch fantasy, including the fantasy male rescue of said damselle in distress. When Bragg wrote his books about her, he made allegations that she was butt raped. Turns out to be a complete fabrication even with Jessica's own admissions. Jessica was asked about her admiration for her unit and if she thought they were heroes. She stated the person she admired most in her unit was Lori Piestewa, her Dine roommate and friend. She mentioned how in Iraq her humvee broke down and everyone in her unit just passed her by, except Lori, who picked her up. All the rest would have left her to die. Hows that for the American Male Fantasy of rescuing the damselle in distress. In reality, they could have cared less.

Let me tell you a personal story of bravery. Shusli and I went to one of the annual anti-war protests here in Portland several years ago. At the end, a large group of young folk were confronting the Cops who were dressed bravely in their military riot gear, creating anonymity for themselves, heavily armed, facing all these unarmed youth at the park in front of the federal building. Shusli, being the glorious anti-authoritarian that she is, drove the car around to the other side of the park and we joined in. I was scared at first. The Pigs had us surrounded and were all heavily armed and would definitely get away with any crimes they decided to commit against the people. Shusli did not drag me into this fracus, she lead me. She taught me bravery that day, a bravery I wasn't aware was within me. I have done some brave things in the past, but not face an immediate threat to my personal safety such as this. I did not feel emasculated by her bravery, I admired her bravery. I admired her as a human being and a WOMAN, and I stood beside her in the middle of a dangerous situation where many unarmed peacenecks faced a heavily armed military force ready and willing to silence them.

Part of the American Male Gender Fantasy is the RAPE FANTASY. Women have to be so vulnerable as to be regularly raped by non-American (non-white) males and thus their virtue also has to be protected by the white American male. Even historically this has been proven a fantasy. Heck, the reason why Hannah Dustin was captured was because her husband RAN OFF and abandoned her. Subsequent fantasies of Indian capture of women are that women in their fragility were supposed to be raped or forced married by we red nigger types. Oddly, however, none of this has ANY historically substantiated merit. All the FACTS state that no women were raped or FORCED to marry their red nigger captors. But the wild west fantasy of the Bush administration propagated (even using the alleged news and media conglomeates) that the masculine American Man is supposed to protect the fragile domestic American woman. Odd, because as posted previously, we all know that 30 Republican U.S. senators state it is fine for employees of corporations contracted by the government to rape women with impunity and not have to face any form of justice for their crimes. The recent gang rapes (one in California, one in Australia) many are blaming on the women victims for being promiscuous (or put whatever bullshit excuse you want to here). Men aren't responsible for their behavior (another excuse for bad male behavior, as Shusli pointed out, is that we can say we are only 12-years-old). Men in the military are regularly sexually harassing and raping their female comrads in arms. Men in the military raped Abeer al Janabe (13) and murdered her whole family. Obviously men aren't gonna protect women from rape, they're gonna rape them. Who are currently protecting women from rape? Other women. We as men have left it up to women to deal with our BULLSHIT BAD "I'M ONLY 12-YEARS-OLD" BEHAVIOR!

I have shown here that Shusli, my wife, is a powerful and brave woman. She is also vulnerable, sweet, kind, and amazing. She can be a fierce opponent if you confront her and try to tell her what she can and cannot do. I am brave, vulnerable, kind, etc., like Shusli, even more so because of Shusli, my wife. I am not her bodice ripping red nigger sex god protector, and she is not my fragile domestic red nigger wife. We are human beings together in a crazy and insane world who teach each other about life and live and love together and live and love life together. Mothers fight fiercely for their children. Men often turn and run, like Hannah Dustin's husband.

In Susan Faludi's "The Terror Dream," she also describes how men and women came together as human beings because of their mutual vulnerability. Shusli and I are powerful and vulnerable together as human beings who have chosen to walk through life together, who have chosen to stay and fight.

What I'd like to do here is open up a discussion about women and men, fantasy and reality.

The Great Pumpkin

2009-10-31T18:10:00.001-07:00

Is that a pumpkin stem?
Or are you just...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

MAD MOCHA MAN
(aka; Angry Soviet Mocha
by a barista at
Jim and Patty's
on Fremont St.)

...OOOOOOO...
SCARY!

It's Fall

2009-10-31T18:05:00.001-07:00

...from one place...

...to another...

Around the New Homestead

2009-10-31T17:59:00.001-07:00

KBOO Face Lift in Progress

2009-10-31T17:55:00.000-07:00

30 Rape Loving Senators Who Still Hold Seats in the Senate

2009-10-26T02:42:00.000-07:00

Heddy ("That's Hedley!") Hedley: "Crimes?"

Criminal: "Rape, cattle rustling, general mayhem, and rape."

Hedley: "You said rape twice."

Criminal: "I like rape."

Here are the names of 30 senators who believe that corporations hired by the U.S. government should be allowed to get away with raping our sisters, friends, mothers, aunts, daughters, etc.

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)

Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)

Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Al Franken recently introduced a defense bill "amendment [that] calls for withholding defense contracts from companies like KBR (a former Halliburton subsidiary) if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." Read the article.

The amendment was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones who was gang raped by her fellow KBR (a Halliburton [headed fomerly by Dick Cheney] subsidiary) employees and locked in a container for 24 hours.

The 30 above senators voted against it, basically stating that the U.S. should protect rapist corporations from litigation, thus making the illegal legal. These senators are stating that corporations hired by the occupational government of the U.S. should be allowed to commit rape as often as they enjoy doing so.

Whaddya say, men? Do you think it is OK for corporations to rape your mothers, sisters, wives, lovers, friends, etc., like these 30 senators do?

Our First Guests

2009-10-23T01:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had our first guests at our house, Dean Lookinghawk and his wife Mary, and Russell and Pearl Means.

Russell is a longtime activist. He's been around a long time. He was at the occupation of Wounded Knee in '73, has a book out, a website, etc.

He was on "Mitakuye Oyasin" radio program, with Dean, Louis Sowa, and I. He had a lot of important things to say about the state of America. With the help of Louis, that show may be up on the KBOO website sometime in the near future.

Afterward, they all came to our new house and Shusli and I enjoyed all of their company, we had a good time.

Russell said he had forgot to say something to the women out there. He had asked some elder women who had been in long term relationships how they made it work. They told him that they treat their husbands like they are 12-years-old. Men, they said, will do three things: pout, throw tantrums, and want their moms. If women can understand that, then their lives will be much easier. Shusli almost choked on her water when he said this. OK, I admit it, it works, so before you guyst start whining and throwing tantrums...Pearl made mention of how he had called her in New Mexico to ask where something was in their house in South Dakota, and she told him. We all had a good laugh. It was fun!

Shusli's knee isn't so good at the moment, so when we offered food, Mary and Pearl got up to help. After showing them where things were, and Pearl finding a bread knife that I wasn't able to, I was basically kicked out of the kitchen and they prepared a wonderful little feast.

Shusli gave them some of her wonderful Huckleberry Jam, which Russel opened a jar and we ate half of before they left. Good times were had by all.

[side note: Hey U.S. I am hearing a few rumors that, if like you wonderful idea of the '60's, Operation Northwoods, will hopefully not come true. There are a few possible consipiracy theories out there that in the next couple of weeks, you government types want to be at war with Iran. Is that true? As well, there is an alleged operation Northwoods type activity goin' on stating that you, the U.S. government, plan on staging attacks on the American people in shopping malls so you all can instate martial law and a few other delicious oppressive laws. Is that true?]

I guess that's about all for now. Thanks, folks. Sorry I haven't been writing more, we've been busy moving.

DON'T BOTHER ME!

2009-10-13T16:41:00.001-07:00

I'M BUSY MOVING!

Yes, we've moved from Sellwood to East of Hollywood in the Rose City Park neighborhood.

Gotta Love It!

Obama Won the Peace Prize?!!!!!

2009-10-09T17:34:00.000-07:00

Wait a minute. Isn't Obama attempt to escalate the war with Afghanistan? So, he is a man of war (including the continued war in Iraq), and wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Well, Henry Kissinger won it, too. Hank is only wanted in 3 countries for war crimes. You're gonna have to work hard to catch up, Barack.

Oh, yeah, and Archbishop Stepinac was going to be cannonized as a saint by the Vatican Crime Organization. There were lots of protests over that though considering his genocide against the orthodox Serbs during WWII.

Histerical Fiction

2009-10-09T17:09:00.000-07:00

I hate the historical figure, Vatican Crime Boss, Pope Pius XII. I have in my lineup, next on my list in fact, "Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII," by John Cornwell.

I saw at the library a CD copy of "A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII," by Dan Kurzman. I have only listened to the first of the 8 cd's, and find it very fascinating. I don't find what Dan says fascinating, but more what he doesn't say.

Allegedly, Karl Wolff was supposed to kidnap and steal the Vatican's stolen wealth when they occupied Rome after Mussolini was ousted. Dan's writing makes one feel sympathy not only for the Nazi's he talks about, but also for the misunderstood Torquemada. What Dan doesn't mention are some very relevant facts to the case. Eugenio Pacelli, better known by his Vatican Crime Boss name, Pope Pius XII, signed the Lateran treaty with Mussolini and the Reichskonkordat with the Nazi's, putting the full force of the Vatican Crime Organization behind the fascists because he recognized that he could ride on their power to gain global power.

Allegedly, John Cornwell took back some of his allegations, however, Arvo Manhattan never has.

For those of you who have been reading this blog, you know that Eugenio Pacelli oversaw the Ustashi in Croatia with a VCO crime boss by the name of Archbishop Stepinac. You've undoubtedly read my posts about Jasenovac and Arvo Manhattan. If not, search them out and read.

Pacelli was also helpful with The Rat Line, in which the Vatican Crime Organization helped get Nazi's and Ustashi to such friendly nations as the U.S., Australia, and Argentina. So, to fantasize that this criminal bastard helped and saved many Jews is a bunch of BULLSHIT! He did, however, help in the slaughter of many orthodox Serbs, such as the one pictured below. My understanding is that the saw is in a museum near Gradina.

Love the VCO Crime Boss, Pope Pius XII, or some good Catholic Ustashi boys may just saw your head off.

KBOO Pledge Drive

2009-10-06T18:43:00.001-07:00

It is KBOO's semi-annual pledge drive, which ends October 17, 2009. We always work hard doing Indian radio at KBOO and need your support. You can call 503-232-8818 or toll free 877-500-5266 or pledge online at kboo.fm.

Thanks to Kevin, pictured here with the mural he is making in front of KBOO, KBOO is getting a facelift from the horrifically bland beige without a logo (who the heck thought that up has a non-creative mind) to the fantastic eye catching beauty that Kevin is creating. I'll update that photo tomorrow.

KBOO, Totally Tootsome Radio, 90.7fm in Portland, 100.7fm in the Willamette Valley, 92.7fm in the Gorge. Or listen online at kboo.fm.

Thanks for listening. Thanks for your support.

It Is Time To Upset Your Status Quo

2009-10-05T02:03:00.000-07:00

"Anytime anyone upsets the status quo
you're stabbed in the back
by the so called liberal hos.
I know this much,
this much I know,
people are dying
It's time to go!"

--Black 47 from their song "It's Time to Go!"

Shusli and I had a very interesting weekend. Seeing Derrick Jensen again was great. I'd like to get some time to just sit and BS with him. He is an awesome, clear minded fella.

Sunday, Shusli and I went to a panel at the Econvergence conference about "Radical Sustainability." John Zerzan, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Frodo Okulam, and A. C. Keefer were supposed to be the speakers, but Zerzan didn't show up and Urban Scout took his place. Shusli and I went specifically to see John Zerzan because of the BS he is spreading about Derrick Jensen. John has taken out of context what Derrick said about laws. Oddly, when you listen to John and read the transcript of what Derrick actually said, it is easy to realize that John Zerzan is either deliberately lying or at the very least distorting the facts. I've seen his comments on Youtube and read the actual transcript of what Derrick said, thanks to Shusli.

I hate it when people NARROW the path to saving the world to ONE ideal because it makes all others out as not being helpful. John Zerzan has stated that one CANNOT be anti-civilization unless you are an "anarcho-primitivist," and he is one. What he seems to believe is that there is ONE path to the salvation of the world and he is on it and if you aren't, you are pro-civilization. WRONG ANSWER! In my opinion, we all have our own tools to use in the salvation of the world. Are we brave enough to dig them out and use them? What will it take to get us to that point?

I'm not sure why Zerzan is saying these things. It suggests jealousy. It suggests he is upset with Derrick for getting more attention than him. This happens when folk consider themselves more important than their message.

Shusli informed me that Zerzan made a post on Indy Media stating he was not invited to the Econvergence. [I don't read Indy Media because they censor. They claim not to, but Shusli and I both as well as many others have been censored on that site.] I've heard that John was not initially invited, maybe due to an oversight. John brought this discrepancy to the eyes of the Econvergence organizers. So he was invited to speak on the panel of "Radical Sustainability." He didn't show.

I've heard of the good works of Judy Blue Horse Skelton. She is well known and has done much to help the people according to the vast amount of word of mouth I heard about her. I liked most of what she said except for two things. Judy was talking about indigenous lifeways and stated that Derrick Jensen called these "magical thinking." In discussions with Shusli afterward, who has read more of his work than I, we could not think of ANY time Derrick spoke of indigenous lifeways as magical thinking. Derrick has been more supportive of indigenous lifeways as a non-Indian than any other person I know of or have met. Even more so than some Indians I know as. I have NO idea where that came from.

Judy also mentioned that Mother Earth will take care of herself. In a discussion with Shusli afterward, she told me that was actually the "Gaia Theory." That mother earth, when tired of us, will scrape us off and begin anew. I have two problems with this. It gives a carte blanche rape and destruction excuse to coporations as they will be scraped off at sometime so they might as well get all they can. Another thing is that the extinct species are not gonna come back after we get scraped off. The salmon are not going to magically reappear after we get scraped off.

One fella stated "we all know Derrick Jensen is a great divider." This is a blanket statement designed to legitimize the speakers comments without any question. It gives the look of legitimacy without actual content. I have never heard Derrick state nor insinuate that he wants to divide us. I have never heard him attack folk on a personal level. I have never heard him say anything in a separatist form. I have never heard him be divisive and have never read any of his work as divisive. I have never heard him state that his way is the only way. Where did this come from other than to mis-inform and divide the people?; to be exactly what he claims Derrick is. Plus, it is rather presumptive, arrogant, and imperialist, in my opinion, to assume that we all think like he does.

One woman stated she believes that civilization can continue in its current form without using violence. Does she think the Nigerians are gonna give up the oil they want to stay in the earth and are willing to fight to keep there? That resource will have to be taken by force so we can continue to drive cars.

One fella stated that we are all the corporations and goverment etc., and therefore must Love them and treat them with respect because they are like us. WRONG ANSWER! Two women in the back didn't identify with that and neither did Shusli and I. It is like saying that since you are a participant in your rape by being there to be raped, you are just like the rapist and must Love and respect your rapist. No! You must kill your rapist, in my opinion. Stop them by "any means necessary."

Listening to these liberals wax on about how they want to continue to live the same privileged existence without making any changes that might inconvenience them made me shut off after a while. We left when one woman stated that the Dalai Lama was violent because he ate meat (did I mention I hate imperialist vegans?). I do agree that the Dalai Lama is violent, but because he was a slaver. The Lama system in Tibet practiced a rather brutal form of slavery. Peace Love and Joy just sells better than slaves to the public that has little idea of the history of such folk. But the holier than thou vegans are willing to tell us how it is rather than ally and discuss with us how to save the world. After Sunday, Shusli and I both have come to realize that we have a long way to go. There are few people we are willing to ally with.

At home, Shusli brought to my attention that some white folks are taking it upon themselves to redefine what is and isn't indigenous on the Derrick Jensen Forum. When Shusli and Derrick offer a different point of view, these folk whom you'd think would be more intelligent, close their minds. I have a theory about this:

When the current war with Iraq was started, I was working at Boydstun Metal Works. I told my boss my objections to the war the next morning. I had been speaking out against the impending war since the day I had started working there three months previous. My boss told me she believed that every living Iraqi should be killed because SHE WAS SCARED! She didn't have anything to be scared of. The Iraqi's did and still do. For her own peace of mind she was willing to let others commit genocide against the Iraqi people so she could sleep better at night. Not so America could sleep better, her family, her friends...just her. I was fired later that afternoon.

Many white folk are TERRIFIED of being treated like the rest of us or like they know we have been. We had genocide and many other crimes committed against us so many white folk can enjoy they privileges they now have. What if they face genocide? What if they face racism? What if they get treated like second class citizens? More to the point: WHAT IF THEY LOSE ANY OF THEIR ILL GOTTEN PRIVILEGES?! "WHAT ABOUT ME?"

Many white folk also feel guilt. So many hundreds of white folks have told me such. Many even telling me they don't want to feel guilty. My therapist told me I cannot control the feelings of others. I am not making you feel guilty, you are. Guilt is an excuse to do nothing. Get off your lazy white ass and do something for the people. Don't leave it up to me, Shusli, Derrick, or anyone else to tell you what to do. FIGURE IT OUT!

There are some common offensive and racist techniques used mostly by liberals to legitimize their occupation of our land. Here are a few:

In dealing with Indians, white folk know they don't have a leg to stand on. Their privilege is gained through an occupation of our land, as well as other unpleasant activities to the lesser privileged. The occupation came through genocide. They suck the resources out of the land to create their civilization. They continue to oppress the indigenous. They can't slaughter us like in the good old days, so they take it upon themselves to redefine who we are so they can legitimize their illegal and occupation of our land.

White folk say they are indigenous to Europe. Being indigenous, they tell us they stand on equal footing with us Indians as to having a right to occupy our land. This is stated to dismiss out of hand that Indians were here to begin with. They simply win the argument and no further discussion is needed. As Indians we have an ancient relationship with this land. Our ancestors were here since time immemorial. Why don't white folk head on back to Europe if that is how they truly feel and reoccupy their own land?

The United States Signed some 800 treaties with Indian nations. Article six, section two of the U.S. constitution states treaties are the supreme law of the land. Treaties are contracts between nations. You may have signed a contract to buy a car on payments. What happens when you don't live up to your contract? The conditions return to what they were prior to the signing of the agreement and your car gets reposessed. The U.S. violated ALL treaties signed with the Indian nations. Even according to your own laws this is OUR land.

White folk like to say that according to science, Indians came from China 11,000 years ago, thus Indians are not indigenous to this land. They dismiss out of hand what Indians have to say about this because Indians are perceived as inferior. If you walk up to someone and tell them how it is and don't discuss it with them, in my opinion, you see them as inferior. Vine Deloria, Jr., wrote a book exposing the Fantasy that is American archaeology/anthropology in its view of Indians. It is titled "Red Earth, White Lies." What he shows in that book will disturb all you who believe in the science religion. Archaeology/anthropology is treated more like a religion than a science. Vine talks about sites that were over 150,000 years old, but since they didn't fit the hierarchical structure of the alleged scientific knowledge, these scientists were dismissed to an extent and the sites buried, as it were. Vine also points out that there is no basis, NONE, for the Bering Land Sea Bridge crossing. Are you getting scared your fantasies may crumble?

White folk like to state all life originated in Africa, thus the only people who are really indigenous are blacks who are still in Africa. Again, read "Red Earth, White Lies," and question the science religion. Besides, all that crap doesn't mean that you can keep your ill gotten privilege. You'll have to come up with a more comprehensive argument than that.

It is also argued that the Jews used their Indigenousness in Israel to regain the occupation of their land base and look at the horrible things they are doing. Israel is a nation for two other reasons than Jewishness. Christian fundamentalists had tried for at least 150 years to get the Jews back to Israel in order to bring about Armageddon. As well, the U.S. needed a military might that wasn't their own to help control the Middle East and the flow of oil. Here in the U.S., they just take our resources because we have no military might nor is it helpful for them to supply us with one. The nation of Israel should indeed face justice for their crimes, but so should all the other nation states, like the U.S. for what they have done to Indians past and present.

Archaeology/anthropology was founded on the racist principles of proving white folk to be the master race.

My theory is thus:

Many white folk, those that practice defining what is and isn't Indian in ANY FORM, do so because they need to feel comfort within their own privilege because they are scared and or feel guilt. They are scared of being treated the same (in whole or in part) as the others and or losing any of their privileges (especially the latter). Instead of talking with Indians and working with Indians, it is easier to redefine what is and isn't Indian to suit their own desires.

They feel guilty, which is based in Christian dogma, whether or not they are Christian. They feel guilty for what has happened to Indians and thus want to feel comfort from that guilt. Instead of talking with Indians and working with Indians, it is easier to redefine what is and isn't Indian to suit their own desires.

Let me make it perfectly clear to all non-indigenous who practice defining who and what is indigenous...YOU HAVE NO RIGHT! Do not believe we think the same way you do. How ARROGANT! Because your people did and do what they do does NOT mean we would do the same to you. We are not you! Face that fact! Work with us! Stop working against us!

Since you give yourself the power to define what is and isn't indigenous, do we Indians get the power to define who and what you are?

Derrick Jensen

2009-10-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Saturday, October 3, 2009, Shusli and I went to see Derrick Jensen speak at the First Unitarian Church in beautiful downtown Portland. He was here as part of what is called Econvergance.

Derrick is a well known "anti-civ" author. His books include "Endgame," "The Culture of Make Believe," "A Language Older Than Words," "Walking on Water," and about 10 others. Shusli and I highly recommend reading all of them.

Prior to his talk, I watched Derrick walk in down the aisle like he was part of the audience. He talked with folks he knew like all the audience members were doing, and there was no crazy fanfare as is usually involved with celebrity and semi-celebrity types.

Derrick is a strong non-indigenous ally of us indigenous types, one of the strongest I have ever met. He is a rare clear thinker who sees things for what they are and writes about them as such. Civilization is killing the planet. He points out the polluted rivers, air, landbase. He points out the slaughter of millions and that the U.S. is a nation of occupation. He is a teacher of this knowledge. And he asks that all important and rather dangerous question: What are we going to do about it?

If corporations were poisoning your kids, what would you do? If corporations and the government they own were putting toxins in the breast milk of women, what would you do? If corporations were posioning our rivers and making our salmon go extinct, what would you do? And coporations are doing just that and so much more, and what are we going to do about it? What is your threshold? What is the final straw before you do your part? Not an easy question to answer. Not black and white at all.

A young woman stood up during the Q and A and stated she doesn't want to go to prison or die or anything like that, so who is gonna do any of the things that need to get done (such as taking out a dam or two so the salmon and other species and humans can live)? Derrick pointed out that only 2% of the Irish Republican Army took up arms. The rest were support folk protecting those that did so and helping them as best they could. She can do support for those of us who are willing to stand on the front lines.

"We are living in occupied territory..." Derrick stated at one point of his talk. Only three of us appluaded, Shusli, me, and a powerful writer and thinker from BC named Waziyatawin. We must have been the only three indigenous types in the church. It is telling of the "convergence" of native and non-native resistance and understanding.

So, the question is: What are we gonna do about the destruction of the salmon and all of the natural world? What is our threshold before we finally do something, anything?

Ponzi's Scheme

2009-09-29T14:44:00.000-07:00

I just finished listening to "Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend," by Mitchell Zuckoff. I found the unabridged book on CD at the library, and having heard so many financial schemes referred to as such, I decided to have a listen.

Wikipedia's definition of "Ponzi Scheme" is as follows: A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned.

Charles Ponzi was always trying to find ways to make lots of money and make his mother proud. Having left Italy, he traveled throughout Canada and the U.S. doing prison terms in both nations, Canada for forgery and the U.S. for helping illegal Italian immigrants.

He wound up marrying and then wanting more than the decent salary he was getting to create of life of extravagance for his wife, which she didn't want (Rose, his wife, just wanted a simple unassuming life). He came upon an idea using foreign exchange and postal exchange coupons with the promise of a 50% return in 45 days to investors.

When the money started rolling in like crazy, he wound up doing a "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" scheme, now referred to as a "Ponzi Scheme." It was not a new scheme in 1919-20 when he made his run, nor was it the last, but it is the most famous because of the vast amounts of money that changed hands in such a short amount of time. This was mostly due to his personality.

Ponzi tried to go legit, but his scheme unravelled, and unlike most scam artists, he chose to stay and fight because, I believe, he wanted to be an honest person but it just wasn't turning out that way. He got caught up in the money, but he refused to run. He was a rather decent fella.

He died with enough money to bury him in Brazil in 1942.

Oddly, I really like Charles Ponzi. As a dishonest financier and banker, he was truly a decent fella and I believe that he truly at least desired to come clean on his investments and really help the people.

Quite unlike Ken Lewis, whose current scams inlcude robbing the people blind to pay for his banking mistakes and fill his own personal accounts. With the massive overdraft charges, interest rate hikes, and various fees, this scam enacted by Ken Lewis and other shifty bankers is actually legal. Why is it legal? Because they used their vast sums of money to place banking execs in governmental positions to make such things legal. They also have control of vast lobbying firms and own a few congressional types. All this amounts to creating what should be illegal to being legal.

The current banking lobby is working hard on keeping consumer protection out of the equation. Why? Because the banking system may then no longer illegally/legally be able to rob the people to fill their own pocket books and cover up for their illegal/legal bad decisions (like Ponzi's, except Ponzi didn't really want to rob the people like Ken Lewis and other banking CEO's and execs do).

Folks like Ken Lewis aren't so likeable. They don't care about the people. They want to rob the people, and they get away with it. Ponzi went to prison and died, sadly, with only enough money to bury him. Ken Lewis will die carried in a gold chariot created by the money he robbed from the people, people like us. He will die with great praise from the government in which he is part owner (unlike us beasts at the bottom).

Personally, I think it is time for a revolution.

Heaven

2009-09-28T01:37:00.001-07:00

Road to HeavenFrog in Heaven

Making Love in Heaven

Indians Got a Fair Shake at Least Once

View of Pahto from Heaven

Pahto, Up Close and Personal

Glacier

I played with this photo so you could get an idea of where the lava flowed so many years ago.

Indian Paintbrush in Heaven

Microcosm of Life in Heaven

Out Back and Out Front

2009-09-28T01:31:00.001-07:00

Jim the Jar Man

2009-09-26T19:42:00.001-07:00

To the left, a really old jar (circa 1920).
To the right, a really old jar of pickles (the number 94 on the lid is the year it was canned).

Shusli and I had a really great afternoon and evening together. It has been so great, in fact, that it is hard for me to remember that I had actually worked this morning.

The only interesting thing about work was some huge fiery thing happening on Columbia Boulevard when I was heading home, prompting me to take a different route than I-5.

When Shusli got home not much longer after I did, she informed me that her canner had a hole in it. She had priced them around town for $60 and $65. Off to Craig's List she went and found a man whom I'll call "Jim the Jar Man."

When we got to Jim's house, he was making tomato puree. He gave us a wonderful smelling lesson on just what to do and the proper equipment. Did I mention the numerous shelves throughout his garage stacked with jars? Jim has had an at home jar business going for three years. During the major canning seasons, there is a long line leading to his house.

A few days ago, Shusli got many pounds of tomatoes from her mother's garden (good year for tomatoes, except for Jim whose yard is too shaded) and she wanted to can them. A holy canner makes canning a little difficult.

Jim had to get the canner out of his car as it was part of this morning's haul. Jim hits mostly estate sales and picks up all the jars, including jars of food and all other canning type supplies, then sells them from home through Craig's List. With all the labor he puts into it he says he averages out to about $3 an hour. We got the cool 1920 jar and the pickles shown above from Jim's morning haul. I do plan on eating those 15-year-old pickles, too. Jim said that with vinegar, food can go on for decades. I'll let you know what they were like.

Shusli told Jim that she reminded him of the guys on car talk, except she called it "Jar Talk." Jim has a vast, and I do mean VAST, knowledge of jars. He showed us all sorts of jars, some just amazing pieces. He showed us jars whose manufacturer had over 300 different styles (they went out of business some 50 years ago) and they are hard to find. Though they manufactured over 2 million jars throughout the life of the business, Jim had never seen any two alike in his three years of doing this.

It was absolutely fun and interesting to talk with Jim about all these canning and jar facts. He is quite the amazing fella.

Shusli mentioned how she wanted to make sauerkraut. Jim said he was Italian and never made kraut, but he knew a lot about it and gave Shusli some sound advice. Shusli asked if he had any crocks, and he showed us his collection for sale 10-15 gallon sizes manufactured between 1905 and 1950. I'm trying to talk Shusli into getting one of the 10 gallon sizes, but it is not cheap. Some were manufactured in Portland, I'm trying to talk her into getting the one made in Ohio, however. It had a nice sound.

We left with our booty, a case of wide mouth jars, canner, old jar, and old jar of pickles approximately an hour after we got there. It was so cool. An experience I'll never forget.

PROTESTS

2009-09-26T03:15:00.000-07:00

The G-20 is addressing their supreme rule of the world at us lessers expense in Philadelphia. You are not seeing much about the protests in the news, because the media wants you to believe that all is fine. However, there are a lot of videos about the use of sound cannons and terrorism tactics used by the police, riot police, and military police, to protect the most horrific crime bosses in the world, our alleged world leaders. The message is basically, shut up or we'll beat you, imprison you, kill you if necessary, rape and humiliate women. Oh, yeah, one of the videos a couple of young women put themselves on the line in the "Police Beat Students" video, and guess what, these heavily armed thugs witout faces or badge numbers attack them. Ah, what a show of power. Democracy, it is coming to a town hear you.

Here is the link.

Exit 290

2009-09-24T09:42:00.000-07:00

The memorial flowers
flipped upside down
scattered on the graveled edges
of the freeway
where spirit left body and earth
in fire and flame
leaving ash
and disintegrating flowers
in its wake

...wake...

"What's grandpa doing?"
I ask my father
5 years of age
sitting on his shoulders
staring into the casket
at the man who was my hero.

"He's sleeping,"
my dad tearfully explains to me.

"Well, wake him up.
I want to play."

"Wake up grandpa!
I want to play!"

"Remember always, mighty king,
that gods decreed the fates of all
many years ago. They alone are let
to be eternal, while we frail humans die
as you yourself must someday do.
What is best for us to do
is now to sing and dance.
Relish warm food and cool drinks.
Cherish children to whom your love gives life.
Bathe easily in sweet, refreshing waters.
Play joyfully with your chosen wife."
"It is the will of the gods for you to smile
on simple pleasure in the leisure time of your short days."

From the epic poem, "Gilgamesh," Tablet 10, column 3, spoken by Siduri, the tavern keeper, to Gilgamesh in his journey to the underworld to try to overcome death in his grief for the death of his best friend, Enkidu.

If the economy is improving...

2009-09-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

...why is the pentagon doing economic warfare exercises?

The article, "Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare," by Eamon Javers for Yahoo's Politico, starts:

The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.

The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants.

“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO.

For anyone who knows anything about war games, these things are not done if there is something serious behind the idea. For example:

From 1987 until prior to Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Norman Schwarzkopf enacted 7 military exercises for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, 4 of which included an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

So, if the economy is on the up and up and only getting better, why is the pentagon performing these types of war games?

A Root of Racism

2009-09-17T11:41:00.000-07:00

Shusli has been letting me in on a rather heated discussion about race and land on a forum in which she is a participant. There are a few folks who take the stand of your regular institutional racist. That stand is usually, "What about me [the white American male]?" This is an argument that comes in many forms in discussions about race and is designed to step away from any true discussion on such using alleged superior intellect of alleged civilized society. It is manipulated, twisted, and folded into whatever form best suits the situation for any person wishing not to truly discuss race and racism. (It might make them feel uncomfortable, not that those who experience racism would feel uncomfortable being of lesser value than...well...you know). The ideas that come forward in such discussions like not wanting to deal with reparations to blacks nor the fact that the U.S. is all stolen land from the Indians, is meted with intellecutual discussions legitimizing these events. This goes from left to right. Not all folks of white decent believe in the same manner as those who enjoy perpetuating such arguments. Many white folks are rather persistent in acquiring justice for Blacks and Indians, etc. However, in discussions of race, there are always those folks, usually white males, who want to bring the discussion back to them. It was best displayed in a Ward Churchill lecture at Reed College, a school I informed my daughter she will NOT be going to even if she gets a full scholarship. Ward brought up the fact that legally some 60% of the land in the U.S. belongs to the indigenous. A young white male student stood up and upon explaining his fears of deportation and other such bullshit just came out and stated plainly and openly..."WHAT ABOUT ME?" Not what about my family, friends, and all other such folks, just "WHAT ABOUT ME?" Here I will tell all you white folk and others who believe is such BS this...What about us? This young fella was dealing with his fantasy of not wanting to be treated like his folk treated us and why he has such enormous privilege that he does not want to lose (Reed is not a cheap school).

That said, I am reading a Pulitzer Prize winning book called "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum. I guess I'm reading it because of the yet unused U.S. Gulag system set up by King Dick and co-King George and definitely not discarded by the Obama administration. Because of the discussion Shusli has been having on the forum of which she is a participant, I read her this quote from the book:

"In 1912, a best-selling German book, German Thought in the World, claimed that

nothing can convince reasonable people that the preservation of a tribe of South African kaffirs is more important for the future of humanity than the expansion of the great European nations and the white race in gerneral...it is only when the indigenous people have learned to produce something of value in the service of the superior race...that they can be said to have a moral right to exist."
(from "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum, pg. xxxv of the introduction)

Sound familiar? Sound like America? Sounds like America to me? It is institutional in America. It is a basis of the framework of the founding fathers and deeply ingrained in those who benefit most from the privileges they have in this alleged nation. It also sounds like Austrailia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, and pretty much all colonized nations. The indigenous are not important to the framework of the white society unless they can produce something useful to the white society. The "extermination" (using the words of American founding father Thomas Jefferson, beloved American alleged hero) of the indigenous races of folks in America is just a natural extension of the master race, white.

Do not play the blood quantum bullshit game with me either. That is a colonizers definition of Indian. It was done that way in order to further destroy our nations here in what is currently known as the United States. The Nazi's defined "Jew" by their blood quantum, an idea, oddly enough, gained from the U.S. (as well as birth prevention programs of the Jews were gleaned from the sterilization programs of Indians in the U.S.). I am not Indian by your definition. My wife, Shusli, is not an Indian by your definition. We are Indian...PERIOD! This is our land...PERIOD! Our land is currently occupied by a brutal force which gained its power through a bloody and horrific genocide that continues to this day with a kinder and gentler hand.

If you wish to discuss these things on this post, don't come here with your "What about me?" bullshit. Let's have an honest discussion of race and racism. Don't give me your superiority light bullshit of "race is a construct of the mind and thus those of lesser races...er...I mean non-white races are really oppressing themselves..." Doesn't work here. Take that discussion to the blacks incarcerated in prisons, the Indians incarcerated on the reservations, into the self-segregated neighborhoods throughout all major cities in America.

Whaddya say? Wanna have a real discussion on race and racism?

Robber Baron, Ken Lewis

2009-09-16T09:25:00.001-07:00

I would like to add to the post on Dade Cariaga's Blog of the video of Ann Minch deciding to no longer pay her credit card bill as a form of protest because of the increased interest rate imposed by Bank of America. Ann mentions the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis (she actually calls him Ken Ley by mistake).

Here is a photo of Ken Lewis, the thieving bastard himself. After participating in making bad banking decisions, he was rewarded for his bad behavior by receiving part of the $700,000,000,000 banking bailout in the form of our tax dollars. Now, not only does he ravage us lesser folks (referred to as "beasts" by founding father James Madison and many others of our wealthy white elite alleged founders) by charging folks exorbitant overdraft fees, but they have also increased the interest rates on credit cards (and no doubt, in other arenas as I'm sure there is a pattern to this). So, not only is Ken Lewis participating in robbing the government that ALLEGES to represent us of OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS, they are also getting what they can right out of our pockets, as it were.

So, here is a picture of one of the handful of brutal criminals, CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. See how happy he is? It is because he doesn't have to pay overdraft charges or increased interest rates, he gets that money that he stole from us stuffed into his salary, bonus package, and no doubt his golden parachute. Heck! I'd be pretty damned happy if I could get away with such mass robbery and have GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR IT! For some reason, his smile makes me appreciate bank robbers all that much more.

Bonnie and Clyde were robbing banks back in the day when banks were doing the same thing, robbing the people in order to help pay for their bad banking decisions, complete with government support back then as well. But the ROBBER BARONS, like Ken Lewis here, are praised and supported as good businessmen and will never...NEVER...see a day behind bars or the gallows like they should.

Heck! I'd be smiling too if I could get away with such crimes. Heck, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank.

What? Are You Nuts?

2009-09-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kesey, is a book about a bunch of nuts in the good old days of the state system for the allegedly insane.

It is written from the perspective of Chief Bromden, and has rather excellent views of insanity and how it was treated back in the good ole days.

Throw in a lusty and loud raucous fella, Randle Patrick McMurphy, and oddly, the system, which kept people in horrifically long, suddenly has shortened time served for being not as nuts as the system made them think they were.

McMurphy seems to be a metaphor for the trickster. Here comes the trickster playing his tricks, having a good time, and reawakening the people to what they actually are, only to be bitten back by his tricks in the end, but not until he reaches the end, which seems to be, in this story, a reawakening of the people who are in distress. It's a trickster story!

Now I'm off to read, "Gulag," by Anne Applebaum, which won the Pulitzer Prize. It is a history of, have you guessed? That's right! The Gulag system in the U.S.S.R. I also plan on reading Alexander Schotzenytsn's (sp?) "Gulag Archipelago" sometime in the months or years to come.

The Tribal Law and Order Act

2009-09-13T09:22:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know what this bill is about (s. 797)? I never trust the U.S. government in ANY of its dealings with Native Americans, and again, it is an INVASION of sovereignty. To me, this is an addition to the conquest of Indians. If it looks all sweet and official and helpful, once it is implemented, it won't be, I'm sure. I could be wrong, but everything in my body and soul says NEVER trust the federal government in ANY dealings with Natives. How are they gonna fund such a thing with the federal, state, and tribal budgets being in the current shape they are.

BANK ROBBERY!

2009-09-12T18:03:00.000-07:00

WE'RE BEING ROBBED BY THE BANKS! As if a $700,000,000,000 unaccounted for bailout wasn't enough, the banks are robbing the poor left and right. Read the article.

Overdraft charges! And they do some nifty tricks in order to make sure you overdraw EVEN IF YOU HAVE DEPOSITED MONEY! And the tellers are trained not to give an inch because BILLIONAIRES NEED THAT MONEY! You don't need it. What the fuck are you gonna do with it? Eat? Pay rent? Fuck you! Those billionaire and millionaire bankers need to maintain those spendy apartments for their mistresses and keep up the taxes and such on their numerous properties.

Remember 9-11

2009-09-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

It has been 360 years since the genocidal Oliver Cromwell set his troops upon the folk of Drogheda in Ireland, slaughtering every man, woman, child, elder, and every bit of livestock. He was slaughtering them for jolly old england. Let us never forget.

Green Grasshopper in a Rose

2009-09-09T20:21:00.001-07:00

Questions

2009-09-09T19:40:00.000-07:00

I guess now would be a good time to ask ourselves some questions.

Recently a young man, a marine, was killed in Afghanistan and a photograph was taken of him shortly before he died. The family didn't want it used, but the media showed it anyway, a desire to show the disgustingness of war. Our children dying. Other peoples children dying. Now we should ask ourselves some questions as it has come out that many heads in the military are questioning the motive of the increase of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. There are no clear goals, as they put it.

What is the war in Afghanistan about?

Many here in the states say it is for "freedom," but I don't feel more free. The economy is tanking. I just heard a story on Democracy Now of how a young woman was killed by her insurance company when they denied her transplant, then rescinded in time for her to die on her 17th birthday. Homelessness and unemployment are on the rise. The list goes on and on, so I can't really believe that the military is fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq for our "freedom." Just because we aren't quite slaves doesn't mean we are free.

No doubt that young man was brave, Loved, and vital to his family and community. Robert Gates had this to say about it:

The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, condemned the decision by the news agency Associated Press to publish. "I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard's death has caused his family. Why your organisation would purposefully defy the family's wishes, knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish, is beyond me.

"Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling."

Ok, good question Mr. Gates. Here's some for you. Why did you send these folks son over to Afghanistan? What is the U.S. military there for? What are they trying to accomplish? What kind of compassion do you feel for folks when you send their children to die in a war that there is no clear reason why we are fighting it?

Afghanistan, like Iraq used to be, was rather progressive. In the '70's women were even wearing mini-skirts. Then the U.S., with the help of Zbignew Brzinski lead Russia to a prolonged war with Afghanistan which eventually led to Russia's economic collapse. The U.S., through the CIA helped finance the Mujahadeen, who became the Taliban and Al-Queda. Even helped train them. Ronald Reagan even called these folks the U.S. now calls enemies the equivalent of the founding fathers of this nation.

Prior to 9-11, as it were, Colin Powell made the joke we are running out of enemies.

9-11 happens with a lot of unanswered questions around that, and now Colin Powell has found lotsa enemies.

King Cheney and co-King Bush, Oil folks, decide to go to war with Al-Queda, and might as well bomb the folks of Afghanistan along with them, or instead of then. Soft targets are easier kills, as Reagan demonstrated in Central America in the '80's. Oddly, folks want to build a pipeline from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan through Afghanistan. Could this be why the U.S. is slaughtering the children of others by putting the children of its citizens lives on the line?

War is not pretty. There is nothing romantic about it. There is nothing adventuresome unless you are not taking up arms like Gates, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Bush, Cheney, etc., but profiting heavily from it.

The Oregonian had a headline the other day that with so many businesses heading downward, the only upward business turns out to be arms. Could this be why the U.S. is sending folks off to kill and be killed or otherwise damaged in Afghanistan and Iraq? What hell...HELL...has the U.S. put the people of these nations through with such genocidal business practices?

Can you tell me, Mr. Gates, why you sent this young man to his death? It certainly wasn't freedom? We can see that by just looking around us. We all know there is a lot of money to be made in killing the folks of other nations. Is that why you sent this young man off to be killed? Is that why you sent off all the others to kill and be killed? Are our soldiers still raping their female comrades? Are their female comrades still occasionally dying from dehydration by not drinking water in the evenings not wanting to go to the latrine during the night for fear of getting raped? What about Forward Base Falcon? I believe 10-10 will be the 3rd anniversary. I'll have to check my math.

"Land O Racism" Revisited

2009-09-08T06:21:00.000-07:00

These are photos from a post I wrote on August 15, 2007 called "Land O Racism." It wasn't until about May of this year that I have started moderating comments and just a few days ago I received a comment on this particular post. This, I've discovered, happens fairly frequently, and I often have to research my own blog to find where the discussions are happening. Since I posted the comment and looked for the post it was attached to, I found a few other interesting comments. Since I wasn't moderating at the time, I had no idea these discussions were going on. If you wish to read all the comments, click on the link then click onto the comments at the bottom of the link.

The first one here is extremely sexist and racist and, of course, posted with a false name because few who spew this type of shit RARELY are brave folk:

Female Indianas were submissive in that period, their culture, not ours. Plus they did not have chairs in the plains so standing or kneeling is kind of common. Plus it makes it easier to get the land and lake in the frame. Get it. Land 0 Lakes?
If you hadn't cropped the picture you would notice that she is on elevated ground. Showing respect maybe?

Don't try to find racism or you create it.

Looking
Just Looking | 01.17.09 - 3:11 pm | #

The second is from a fella who claims that the model for the picture was his great grandmother who is Cherokee and thus I am full of shit when I say such stereotyping images are racist:

The lady on the Land o' Lakes logo is my great grandmother. Before you start throwing around incorrect statements, you should get your facts straight. First of all, she is Tsalagi, or "Cherokee", not plains. Second of all, she's a full blood Native American, not mixed. She was asked to model for Land o' Lakes because she was a very beautiful lady. I have the photos of her in her dress during the Land o Lakes photo shoot to prove it. Stop trying to create racist gossip, you clearly have no idea what your're talking about.
Nick | 04.13.09 - 10:47 am | #

This was my comment on the above comments:

Like your post, Nick. It is nice to know this is your grandmother and thank you for the history. It is still racist. Did the Tsalagi, Cherokee, truly dress in this manner traditionally? Are they really from the Minnesota region, or am I mistaken in thinking that it is Georgia or Florida that is the actual Land O Lakes area of the U.S.? Just because the model is Indian doesn't mean it is not racist. I'm sure the model for the "Redskins" logo was Indian. However, your grandmother is rather pale for a full-blood.

Female Indians were submissive?!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Eugene | Homepage | 09.07.09 - 5:52 am | #

Hattie McDaniel, the first African American Woman to receive an Academy Award, was constantly stereotyped as a maid. I don't judge her for this. As she put it one time when her community would complain about the racism involved in such stereotyping of black women she stated something like; better to be paid $500 a week portraying a maid that $5 a week actually being one. However, the manner in which she was portrayed on the movie and television screen were indeed stereotypical and racist. Just like an Indian woman from a Southeast tribe is used to portray an Indian woman from a great lakes tribe and is wearing a dress which is an attempt to look like a plains tribe. I mean, like the old saying goes, "We all look alike." One Indian is JUST like another. Thus, it is not racist when Umpqua uses a plains Indian head for their product when we Umpquas are from the coast and its river and wore different headresses altogether. But, since it is a plains Indian, and no doubt, modeled after a "real" Indian, it is thus not racist. I mean, who in their RIGHT MIND would use modern portrayals of Indians to sell products. I mean the racist Black Sambos and Frito Bandito were removed because they were racist. No doubt, they were modeled after people of those actual races. But, just like usual, it is OK to do this to Indians, and many Indians will approve of it. This is not unusual either. It is still racist. It is still sexist. It is still bullshit and dehumanizing.

Cuckoo?

2009-09-07T03:13:00.000-07:00

K...Ken? K...Kesey? JacK...Ken...? NiKolsen...K...? PatricK...K...? Stewart...Samson?...

Will the real Kennewick Man please stand up?

THAT'S IT!

I'VE DISCOVERED THE MISSING LINK!

Jack Nicholson is THE MISSING LINK! He has TOO much hair to be white, and thus, is Indian whose ancestors were orignally Indian from Europe where white folk slaughtered them and stole their land!

Can someone help me write a mutli-million dollar grant for my study? Even if I'm wrong, my theory is absolutely true!

Toothsome Grin

2009-09-02T15:37:00.001-07:00

KBOO!
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Portland is a Real Toothsome Town 1

Portland is a Real Toothsome Town 2

Think You're So Big?
You Can Push That Stone
But Can You Pull This Tooth?

On the Grid

Photos

2009-09-02T15:28:00.000-07:00

Sunflowers on a Cloudy Day 1

Sunflowers on a Cloudy Day 2

Our Newest Roommate

WE'VE WON!

Eli and I ate one of these peppers already.
HOT LITTLE THINGS!

"Uhhhh, can I get off at the next stop?"
"Sorry, mister, with cutbacks from the recession and all...
this is as far as we can take ya."

Pushers and Stoners

I SPOKE TOO SOON!

2009-09-02T10:48:00.000-07:00

Having just got off the phone with Dean Lookinghawk, I discovered that Russell had to postpone until the 9-10 show as he will be on the road. If things work out and we have the Christopher Cornstalk folks on as well, I believe it will be an absolutely excellent show. My blood is starting to boil already.

So, it will be Martin Prechtel live and in the studio on Thursday 9-3, because his plane will show up on time. IT WILL SHOW UP ON TIME! (I hope that isn't just wishful thinking).

Otherwise, it will be the FCC and Supreme Court are Liars exercises.

Martin Prechtel and Ruseel Means

2009-09-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

Since no one will argue with me about how the great science god has proven Kennewick Man to be white, excuse me, a white-lie; Since no one is explaining to me how their experiments went saying the word "fuck" to their children to prove the Supreme Court and FCC to be liars (maybe they are afraid the word may actually kill their children, or give them brain cancer), we shall move on.

[note: Speaking of how great children are treated in this country by the government which is so concerned about their welfare that they have made it law that the FCC can bring down community radio stations if they utter the word "fuck" or even insinuate it's existence (I am not kidding, I've had the FCC training at KBOO), I found this article from Common Dreams, "U.S Fairs Poorly in Child Welfare Survey." It turns out the U.S. spends $140,000 per child for education, etc. My question are: Where does that money go? How much goes to private corporations? How much to corruption? How much to bureaucratic red tape? What are the rules on spending this money? Sure, the U.S. spends that much per child, but I seriously doubt that even 50% goes to the child's actual welfare. I'd like to see an analysis of the books on this number. Not that anyone would actually do anything about it, but I'm sure it would be rather interesting considering how the U.S. ranks amongst the lowest of the "31 industrialized nations" in child welfare.]

On Thursday, September 3rd, KBOO's "Mitakuye Oyasin" will be interviewing Martin Prechtel and Russell Means.

Martin Prechtel will be live and in the studio. He is a Mayan medicine man who survived Reagan's holocaust against the Guatemalan's and other Central American nations back in the '80's. He is the author of many books including "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar," and more recently, "Stealing Benefacio's Rose." Plus he is an all round awesome fella.

Russell Means, if you don't know, and please don't tell me you don't know, is a long time activist and actor of the Lakota nation. He is an AIMster from back in the day, involved in Wounded Knee II and the first Indian takeover of Alcatraz. He also authored the book "Where White Men Fear To Tread." We will be interviewing Russell on the phone.

So tune on, Thursday, September 3rd, from 6-7pm PST and listen to our interviews and try some of the new "Prove the FCC and Supreme Court Liars Exercises."

We'll be speaking at you then!

"Mitakuye Oyasin" is a collective of alleged Native types who get together once a week and bend and twist your ears until you pay attention. We are currently: Dean Lookinghawk, Louis Sowa, and Eugene Johnson. We are always actively recruiting with very little success. However, Dean may have a few regular phone guests lined up.

Next week, on the 10th of September, thanks to the work of Dean Lookinghawk, we may be interviewing a few folks from the Christopher Cornstalk issue, I believe a family member and the person who started the website to end the professionals racist website against this man who has passed on.

DAMMIT!

2009-08-31T02:19:00.000-07:00

California has what amounts to a giant garage sale in order to make money to run the state government?????? What the fuck is going on here!

Over 10,000 non-Bureau of Reclamation dams (only 350 of U.S. dams are controlled by the Bureau) are considered high hazard dams????? WTF!

Experiment

2009-08-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

Before I request you to do a certain kind of experiment, should you be willing to put the lives of one or more children in danger, I request that you read the following quotes about the Supreme Court and the FCC.

Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Fine for 'Fleeting Expletives'

By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Supreme Court said yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission may penalize even the occasional use of certain expletives on the airwaves but left for another day the question of whether such a policy is constitutional.

The court's narrow ruling said the FCC -- prompted by Cher's use of the F-word during a 2002 live broadcast and similar remarks by what Justice Antonin Scalia called "foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood" -- was justified in changing its policy in 2004 to fine broadcasters up to $325,000 every time certain words are allowed on the air.

"The commission could reasonably conclude that the pervasiveness of foul language, and the coarsening of public entertainment in other media such as cable, justify more stringent regulation of broadcast programs so as to give conscientious parents a relatively safe haven for their children," Scalia wrote for the five-member conservative majority.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al. v. FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC., et al.

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit

No. 07-582. Argued November 4, 2008--Decided April 28, 2009

Federal law bans the broadcasting of "any ... indecent ... language," 18 U. S. C. §1464, which includes references to sexual or excretory activity or organs, see FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U. S. 726. Having first defined the prohibited speech in 1975, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a cautious, but gradually expanding, approach to enforcing the statutory prohibition. In 2004, the FCC's Golden Globes Order declared for the first time that an expletive (nonliteral) use of the F-Word or the S-Word could be actionably indecent, even when the word is used only once.

Now that you have read these quotes, here is the experiment I wish you to participate in, should you be a person of 18 years of age or older:

If you are 18 years of age or older, I want you to find a child who is 17 years and 364 days or younger all they way to just born. One will do, but you can find more if you like. Now, take this person who is legally described as a child and say a few words and phrases to them. The words and phrases I suggest are thus:

Fuck.

Shit.

I'm taking a shit.

You're parents had sex and that was how you were actually created. It wasn't the stork like your parents have lied to you.

Play them a blues song or a rock and roll song that has sexual references in it without using the deadly "f-word" or "s-word", referring to words so deadly the Supreme Court couldn't even write them in their decision. The words are, of course, fuck and shit.

If you have actually done this experiment, even if you used only one of the deadly words, I request that you observe what has happened to the child. Have they fallen down dead? Have they contracted a terminal cancer? Has their IQ points dropped BELOW zero? Has the child been otherwise traumatized by the use of the words or songs played or excretory functions described? Does the child seem normal? Has nothing harmful happened to the child with your "fleeting utterances" or song playing?

Now, since no harm has come to the children you have tried this experiment on, what conclusions can you make from the Supreme Court Case and the FCC? Children are not being harmed but the FCC and Supreme Court are claiming that such language which THEY deem indecent indeed do harm to children. Wouldn't that make them...LIARS? If they are lying (unless, of course, after uttering the word fuck to someone 17 years 364 days or less actually has hamred or killed them) why was such a decision made? Who can actually be hurt by a $325,000 fine? How is this related to "free speech"? *thinking* *thinking* *head ache forming*

I know that such public institutions like community radio or televion can be easily destroyed by allegations of indecent language. If they get destroyed, corporations could help relax regulations (as they've been attempting for years) and possibly purchase our public airwaves (all of which are legally public, but the FCC was formed in order to sell OUR airwaves to corporations). I wonder if it is actually the safety of children the FCC and Supreme Court have in mind, or maybe helping their profit motivated corporate pals in acquiring more of our public airwaves?

Since there are 8.6 million children in the U.S. without health care and the Supreme Court and FCC does nothing about that, I'd have to say that they are, AT BEST, disingenuous in stating their "fleeting expletives" decision has ANYTHING to do with the interests of children.

Nor does the U.S. and its various organizations, such as the Supreme Court and the FCC, give a RATS ASS about the systematic rape of children within various church organizations and other governmental style organizations. I mean, fuck, they don't even do a thing about the UN pedophile ring.

My conclusion (and yours possibly, too, should the child you experimented with not suddenly fall dead or have some serious trauma enacted upon them because of your utterance or song) is, the Supreme Court and FCC are FUCKED UP AND FULL OF SHIT! That the real reason, as stated in my conclusions of my "Guilt Ridden Catch Phrases" post, is "GOLD!" It is always about gold.The government doesn't give a fuck about children. If they did, those children would have health care and their systematic rape within various organizations like churches, boy scouts, the UN, various governmental organizations, etc., would be prevented and stopped. But it aint, is it?

Hmmm. I wonder what else the Supreme Court, FCC, and other such governmental organizations might be lying about?

Guilt Ridden Catch Phrases

2009-08-30T06:54:00.000-07:00

Imagine...

I'm beating the living crap out of someone you Love, and for some reason you cannot stop me. I beat your Loved one so severely, they are left unconscious on the ground, possibly dead, and for whatever reason, there is nothing you can do about it.

Imagine a car pulls up and a man in a suit jumps out and examines the bloody body I left on the ground.

"There is no relationship between this bloodied human and that human that claims to Love them. In fact, as a scientist, I claim there is no relationship at all between this person and the one who claims to Love them, nor have they ever had a relationship. I should know! I'm a scientist, and scientists never lie. I have letters after my name and an office in a university."

He pulls out a pad and starts scribbling. "Thus," he says as he continues scribbling, "I am as infallible as the Pope. Heck, if the Pope can declare he can say and do no wrong because he is the Pope, then I, as a scientists, given the laws of universality, can claim that I can say and do no wrong and thus you all have to believe me without question.

"Now," he says as he finishes writing, "I claim this bloody mass as my own in the name of science and have just written a grant in which I will collect millions to do a study to prove that this person has NO connection to the person that claims to Love them."

I stand, overjoyed at this crazy justification of my bloody brutality.

Just then, another car pulls up. A person who knows something bad, something mean, just happened jumps out of their car, runs up and tells us all, "Can't we all just get along?"

GREAT! I smile to myself, further justification for my horrific and brutal actions. It doesn't get any better than this. Science man gets his money, guilt man gets to have his guilt alleviated by making his simplistic catch phrase. I get away with my crime. It just doesn't get any better than that!

The above story is motivated by a post I made almost two years ago on this blog about the fallacy and the bullshit of the Kennewick Man case. Folks just plain believe that: a) science does not lie, b) Kennewick Man was aged at 9,300 years old with radio carbon dating which is the most accurate dating system known to man, c) that Jamie Chatters did archaeology at the site, d) that Kennewick Man was white.

In a previous post with a link to the article there has been a study that states people are willing to believe big lies much more than small ones. Example: Many people did, and still do, believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the commercial jet liners being flown into the two towers of the world trade centers in 2001. People will take the first statement made, usually for propagandist purposes, and believe it until the day they die. The Hitler Youth are another good example. They couldn't believe that their beloved lord and master would do such horrible things to the Jews, Sinti, Roma, gays, lesbians, trade unionists, insane, etc. But, Hitler did.

Science, like everyone and everything else, is ran by folks we like to call...human beings. Humans have a tendency to be fallible. Humans make mistakes. Humans lie for their own gain. Humans believe lies even when they find out they are lies. Humans Love. Humans create beauty. Humans can be factual. Humans are curious. etc. Science is not the great omnipotent god so many folks enjoy believing it is and thus either corroborating or replacing the great infallible christian style god with another.

The truth about Kennewick Man is that THERE WAS NO SCIENCE DONE AT THE SITE! There were no careful digs, no mapping, no site report, no layer by layer study to corroborate the RC dating, nor any of the other glorious trappings required for the science of archaeology. Chatters did none of that, nor did anyone else. (Would you like to talk about the FELONIOUS permit Chatters was issued by the Corps of Engineers?) Vast amounts of evidence have thus been DESTROYED or CONTAMINATED by this man folks hold up as an archaeologist, when he is, if I remember correctly, a pre-historic climatologist or something like that. Tell me, all those who believe that this has been a TRULY scientific experiment, have you seen the photos of the dig? Have you seen the site report? Have you seen drawings of all of the other artifacts and the layers of sediment that went along with the remains? If you have, then you are dreaming and having some sort of fantasy life as NONE OF THIS SCIENCE HAPPENED! HELLO! SMART PEOPLE! HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID?

What was the science done around Kennewick's race? Well, the science with the study that has been done, which included three DNA tests, has come up INCONCLUSIVE! Hello, stupid fucking smart people! How can you all still CLAIM, alleging through SCIENCE, that Kennewick Man is white? HOW? Truth is...YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA! What was Chatters science? Chatters was watching Star Trek: Next Generation, saw Patrick Stewart, and thus concluded that K-Man was white. How is that for some fucking science smart people? (By the way, the bust Chatters did that is commonly accepted as Kennewick Man was not done using the actual skull nor a replica of the actual skull, it was done, as Chatters admits, as a replica of none other than Patrick Stewart). What has been shown to be desired, here, is a scientific backing of the THEORY that is out there stating that white folks came to this continent first and were killed by us Red Niggers when we invaded from Asia. There is NO scientific evidence for this theory, but the K-Man case will be bantered about by such types as proving this theory true. What if Chatters saw a bald black man, asian, aborigine, indian, or some other race of person on the TV instead of a bald white guy? Have there been any scientific studies done around that theory?

I did something any critical thinking type of person would do. I asked a buddy of mine who was a former Ph.D. candidate in the field of archaeology. Six months from his dissertation, he resigned from the program at the University of Oregon (where he worked with Bonnichsen, the head scientist in charge of the Kennewick Man case) because of what he called the blatant racism around the Kennewick Man case. So I asked him, how can one tell the race of a person by the shape and size of their skull. You know what he told me? He said that skull variance in shape and size VARIES MORE within the group than between the groups. In other words: Skull shape and size within Indian country would vary more amongst its peoples than between those of other nationalities or races. Hmmm. Ask a scientist. Not all of them lie to protect their grant money.

If one reads such books as "Red Earth, White Lies," by Vine Deloria, Jr., one learns that radio-carbon dating is highly inaccurate. It dated a living tree at 9,000 years old. Why? Because the tree was near an area with a high carbon output, an airport. Whaddya know? Science ain't infallible afterall. However, I know you stupid fucking smart people will prove me wrong, enit? Several things come out in the Patrick Stewart...er...I mean Kennewick Man case: The site had already been disturbed at least once prior to Chatters. It was near where boat racing was taking place (high output of carbon). I have no idea but maybe the carbon output of years of aluminum smeltering in the area could have increased the carbon rate. The Columbia River is second only to the river going through Chernobyl in its radioactivity (another factor in "radio"carbon dating), the site being down river from Hanford. Combine these factors with the fact that radio carbon dating is highly inaccurate, and whaddya know, another scientific inconclusive report. However, again, stupid fucking smart people will just accept the dating as fact, even without the corroborating scientific evidence of an actual site report. Again, I asked my former archaeological candidate friend about radio carbon dating. Know what he said, something like, "There is no real way to measure the accuracy of any dating system." Stupid fucking scientists. What the fuck do they know, anyway?

Do I have to mention the millions in grant money that Bonnichsen and others received to do the study, which came up INCONCLUSIVE you stupid fucking smart people? "Gold," my sister mentioned in reading the log of Christopher Columbus, which I keep a copy of. "It's all about the gold!"

I am watching Terry Jones' "Barbarians." It is a documentary about the Barbarians that the Romans slaughtered to further their great and glorious civilization. Turns out, using ACTUAL archaeology, that the "Barbarians" were rather intelligent and human folks with their own cultures and societies. However, they lost the war and their history was thus written by the victor. The victor, of course, stated that these folks were cruel and in-human, and thus needed civilizing. Sound familiar? I think I heard that about Iraq and Afghanistan recently, except the word civilizing wasn't used, I think it was "democratizing." Still, it was/is all really about the gold (not necessarily a scientific study).

You should see the column about the genocide the Romans committed against Dacia (now Romania). Dacia, it turned out was rather civilized by Roman standards and fairly peaceful (unlike the Romans). But they had something the Roman emperor wanted. Can you guess what it was? That's right. GOLD! Thus, the Dacians became Barbarians in the history books and were brutal, cruel, slavers and slaughterers, even though the column in Rome GLORIFIES Roman attrocities committed against the Dacians in order to steal Dacian gold. Huh, whaddya know? This proven through archaeological digs where scientists have done actual science.

So, there is actual science, and then there is Kennewick Man style science.

It doesn't matter what I say here, there will ALWAYS be folks who BELIEVE that Kennewick Man was "proven" white by the great science god and their theory that Whites were here first and that we imperialist Red Niggers wiped them off the face of the earth and stole what is really white land are true. All this proven by what is ACTUALLY INCONCLUSIVE science. But there are so many stupid fucking smart people out there who will tell me otherwise no matter how much I explain the facts of the case.

Then, some asshole with their white guilt will come along and say something like, "Can't we all just get along?" I thought we were. We're not killing or fighting each other. We're not stealing from each other. We aren't trying to conquer each other. We aren't rioting in the streets. We are having a discussion. Folks are telling me their great science god has stated whites were here first and we reds slaughtered them and stole their land. Thus, the more recent whites slaughtering reds is scientifically justifiable and whites no longer have to feel guilty. A complete lie, but that's beside the point, it helps alleviate that great white guilt. And I'm telling them that the science they "believe in" has actually come up inconclusive and that there are tremendous inaccuracies and misinformation happening around the case. It gets rather intense as I present science god believers with scientific fact and they refuse to listen nor investigate. Much easier to believe what they've been told by fellas with lotsa letters behind their names and offices in universities and colleges.

Do you want to know something else? I don't give a fuck about your guilt. Your guilt is not my responsibility, nor the responsibility of Indians, nor the responsibility of the assholes that have and continue (with kinder gentler hands) to slaughter Indians and MANY OTHERS including their fellow whites world wide. As I'm sure my therapist would say: "Your guilt is your responsibility. It is not the responsibility of any one else. You can't control others and others can't control you." Your guilt is not my fault, it is yours, and it is, in my opinion, FUCKING STUPID!

I don't want you to feel guilty, as I've been told face to face by a white person that I do. Guilt is useless. It is stupid. It is an excuse, in my opinion, for you to sit around and feel sorry for yourself instead of actually doing something. Not necessarily something for us reds, maybe even something for women, the poor, other oppressed folks, etc. Fuck your guilt! Not my problem. It's your problem.

I know there are folks who won't stop attempting to feed me the bullshit that Kennewick Man was white and that it has been scientifically proven, even though the ACTUAL science has come up "inconclusive." What has been PROVEN is that there was no science at the site, radio-carbon dating is inaccurate and there are possibly high levels of radiation and carbon at the site with no studies done about that either. The DNA studies on K-Man came back INCONCLUSIVE. So, unless you have ACTUAL scientific evidence surrounding this case, and not just the words of Bonnichsen and Chatters or something you pulled out of your very own anus, I'd like to see the proof. I'd like to see the evidence. Because the evidence I have actually seen states, "INCONCLUSIVE." That is an actual scientific FACT!

I'm hoping that what Ward Churchill stated in an interview on "Mitakuye Oyasin" collective radio program on KBOO radio is true. Ward stated he plans on writing an expose about the world of academia. That should be pretty interesting, and pretty scary to you science god believers.

Here is an interesting quote from Tacitus putting words into the mouth of a Briton back in the good old days of Rome. I gleaned it from Terry Jones' "Barbarians:"

"If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcome enslavement? To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name 'freedom.' They make a wilderness and call it peace."

Now, where the hell have I seen that before?

81

2009-08-26T08:59:00.000-07:00

Hey, did you know that 81 banks have failed so far this year in our economic recovery? But wait...THERE'S MORE! It is expected that a total of 150-200 banks will fail this year, in our year of recovery. Hmmm!

In other exciting econimic recovery news, the auto industry with its recent boon from the cash for clunkers program is expecting a LARGE DOWNFALL IN SALES for the rest of the year as most folks who would have bought cars anyway during this year did so under the cash for clunkers program.

For more interesting easy to understand analysis about the fallacy of alleged economic recovery, here is an article by Robert Kiyosaki you might find interesting.

The most interesting article of all that I have read this morning is a study as to why people believe big lies, such as economic recovery and Iraq being responsible for 9-11.

Calla Lily

2009-08-25T12:43:00.000-07:00

Recent Photos

2009-08-25T06:47:00.001-07:00

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole

2009-08-25T06:07:00.000-07:00

As you all know by now, I'm sure, Leonard Peltier was denied parole. According to Eric Seitz, Leonard's parole lawyer, the parole board took the FBI's side which basically states you kill an FBI agent, you get life in prison. This comes as no surprise to me. I would have been shocked and surprised had they let him out.

In my opinion, folks whose lives are put on the line for their work should not be considered more valuable than those who don't. Their is always the potential that FBI agents will get killed in their line of duty. They likelyhood is minimal for most, but it is there and they know it. They know they could be putting their lives on the line. Would there be as much fanatical fervor for a rock climber who falls to their death? Would folks want to tear down the rock the climber fell from for killing their friend?

That said, truth is, Leonard didn't kill those agents, but the coppers needed to put someone behind bars and he was the only one they had left. You see, the other two who went through a trial were found not guilty for reasons of self-defense. Truth is, they don't know who killed those agents. Truth is, during the firefight, the folks in the camp assumed the folks shooting at them were goons and had no idea they were FBI agents until after they checked their wallets after they were dead. Truth is, U.S. government supported goons were terrorizing traditionalists like those in the camp at that time. Truth is, there were over 400 federal agents and other heavily armed U.S. government types at the camp within 45 minutes, the first arriving 15 minutes after the first shots. The truth is, the Jumping Bull Ranch where the firefight took place is hours from anywhere so why were all those heavily armed assholes in the area? Truth is, heavily outgunned, 13 of the campers escaped and one was killed. Truth is, the bullets didn't match Leonard's gun. Truth is, Lynn Crooks, the prosecutor, stated that they couldn't prove Leonard did the killing, nor what role he played in it, but someone has to pay for the crime. Truth is, there are millions of crimes that have been committed that someone should pay for and yet no one does, guilty or innocent. There are thousands of crimes many innocent pay for.

You can read all about this in, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," by Peter Mathiessen.

I saw a documentary about a Chechen terror action in Russia. It took place at a childrens school. One Chechen rebel/terrorist was standing on a switch in the open. The switch was to a bomb that would go off if he was taken from it. A Russian sniper shot the Chechen, thus setting off the bomb and killing many children. Many of the children who were killed with bullets were killed by Russians in the ensuing firefight. The official Russian story is something like the fella on the switch got tired and stepped off the bomb and the Chechen's then killed all those children despite the fact that a shot was heard and the window in front of him broke prior to him stepping off of the switch. However, the parents of the killed children don't buy the story. They seek out the truth. They want to know who really killed their children and why the Chechen rebel/terrorists did what they did. Of course, it isn't America over there. In the U.S., most governmental stories are accepted without thought. These Russian parents want the truth, unlike in the U.S. The truth is hard, complicated, and can paint the U.S. government and its employees in a rather ugly light. Such as the case of Leonard Peltier and, truthfully, so many others.

Now That's Funny!

2009-08-21T07:54:00.000-07:00

Through the winding trail leading from John Talley ("Indian World") and Louis Sowa, "Mitakuye Oyasin" (Dean Looking Hawk, Louis Sowa, and I) manged to hook up with one Gilbert Brown who is touring with a bunch of goof balls who call themselves the "Pow Wow Comedy Jam," to bring laughter to the world Indian Style.

It was a good radio show, but more importantly, this is going to be a good comedy show. They will be bringing their humor live to Portland, Oregon at the Jubitz Truck Stop off of exit 307 on I-5.

The crew of the "Pow Wow Comedy Jam" are Marc Yaffee, Vaughn Eaglebear, J.D. Redwater, and Jim Ruel, with Special guest Gilbert Brown. We interviewed Marc and Vaughn on the phone and Gilbert was in the studio LIVE AND IN PERSON. We had a great time!

These folks also have their own website called...wait for it...Joke Signals. Check it out. Then come on out to Jubitz Truck Stop, 33 NE Middlefield Rd. in Portland, Oregon on August 26 at 7pm and let some Indians make you laugh.

I don't know if they will be supplying frybread, so you may just want to bring your own.

Christopher Cornstalk

2009-08-16T09:57:00.001-07:00

[Shusli related a story to me last night that she had read on the Derrick Jensen forum about one Christopher Cornstalk.]

Christopher Cornstalk was a member of the Odawa Nation, Turtle Clan.
His difficult life journey brought him to the streets of Chicago, and the surrounding suburbs. Christopher struggled with the alcoholism that lead to his homelessness. During this time he had many dealings with Police Officers, Firefighters, Ambulance Drivers and Hospital Personnel.

Christopher lost his battle on July 17, 2006 and joined his Ancestors.

Then, in an act of unspeakable offence and racism, a NURSE started a Facebook Group under the category of "JUST FOR FUN" called "Did you Know this Alcoholic Indian?"
She then requested that people join, so that they may regale each other with stories of encountering Chris during the course of their PROFESSIONAL DUTIES.
Unflattering photos of Chris in his hospital bed, racist images of Natives and some of the most disgusting comments ever were then posted to this site.

Over 600 people joined, many of them Nurses, EMT's, Firefighters, and Police Officers.

Many of these PROFESSIONALS violated their own codes of ethics, and in some cases criminal law by posting intimate, private information about Mr. Cornstalk's struggles, and medical conditions.

Many comments were blatantly racist.

All of this was done without the knowledge or consent of Mr. Cornstalk's family. And of course, since Chris himself had passed on, he could certainly not defend his dignity and rights.

On July 17th, 2009, online Anti-Racist Activists discovered this profoundly disturbing site.

Facebook was contacted immediately, and the group was deleted.
The Activists took screen shots of the group before it was pulled, and then forwarded that information to media outlets in Chicago and area. The Mayor of Chicago was contacted and a search for Cornstalk family members was launched.

The Activists facebook pages came under attack immediately - Making Change Streetpapers account was unceremoniously, and without notice, deleted. Barbara Low's account was seized for a day, and has had glitches and problems since.

This group was formed to see to it that the members of that heinous group are held to account for their racism, and many breaches of their Professional duties.

We intend to honour Mr. Cornstalk and his family, by
standing by them as they seek JUSTICE AND DIGNITY for
their lost Brother.

[Another interesting link to this form of racism is this one which shows some of the pages these wonderful professionals put up on their racist forum.]

2009-08-15T01:18:00.001-07:00

While listening to Democracy Now on Thursday, the discussion went to health care and health care reform. There was discussion on how all those morons are disrupting the town hall meetings being held around the nation about health care reform. My favorite stupid quote from the audience when asked why the person atteded was they wanted to make sure that "the government didn't touch their Medicare!"

Anyway, it is almost transparent that this alleged health plan coming from the Obama administration is going to fail. It was designed to fail to begin with in my opinion. It is not enough. It is not single payer like Canada, France, etc. Nothing will really change. If it passes (which it won't), it would be enough of a failure to make even more stupid and intelligent Americans alike think that single payer must be the most horrific health care plan ever and will never be implemented. Thus, like usual, all our health care dollars will being going to insurance company execs. Got to keep those billionaires rolling in all that free money note matter how horrific health issues get for folks ("beasts" as James Madison would refer to us).

I know I know I know, this comment will most likely open a ton of useless arguments, but I'm telling you that in my opinion, in having paid attention to the general patterns of the U.S. government, this plan is doomed to fail EVEN IF it passes, which it won't. We will not get single payer in this nation. It is just not going to happen. It will be business as usual and folks will die uselessly and even more will go bankrupt. But the good news is, BILLIONAIRES WILL HAVE MORE MONEY!

VIVA MEXICO!

2009-08-13T01:48:00.001-07:00

I went to a friends house to have him fix something for me and he had the World Cup qualifier soccer game between Mexico and the USA on. I'm not a big fan of any sports anymore, but I watched as he went to work on by case.

My friend said he was at the bar the day before and said loudly to his friend that he was going to watch Mexico kick the U.S. ass in soccer on Wednesday. All the Mexicans in the bar, he said, got rather excited by his comment.

I started getting into the game and got to see the spectacular footwork of Miguel Sabah as he kicked the winning goal near the end of the second half. Unfortunately, my friend was working on my case and missed it (but got to see it in rerun).

CONGRATULATIONS MEXICO AND MIGUEL SABAH AS WELL AS THE WHOLE MEXICAN SOCCER TEAM!

oh, wait...THERE ALREADY IS A DEPRESSION

2009-08-11T01:15:00.001-07:00

Pardon my arrogance, folks, as I, like so many other americans, sometime see the world only through my own country's eyes.

A friend of mine is moving to Mexico, and Shusli and I have been the recepient of many fine gifts from this wonderful man. One of those gifts was a 2004 (approx.) documentary film from Ironweed Films by Arturo Perez Torres and Heather Haynes called "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary." It is a film about immigrants from Central America and Mexico trying to cross the border into America to "live the American Dream."

Their nations, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico, have been devastated by trade agreements like NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA and others. These trade agreements, billions to billionaires programs, have created conditions for the poor that leave virtually no opportunities in their own countries. Thus, the devastation of immigration.

In this film you watch these folks leave their friends and families in a desperate attempt to come to the U.S. and get work. Many people are murdered along the way for any money they may have, women are raped, they have to face gangs and police who rape and rob, etc.

There is a train called "The Train of Death." It is a train that runs from South to North in Mexico and thousands of folks hop the rails everyday in an attempt to get to the border and get their chance to cross where there is work. Many folk get sucked under the train where often they are killed. Most, however, get their legs ran over and thus, lose one or both of them in the process.

These folks are determined to come to the U.S. because their nations are economically depressed thanks to billions to billionaires programs that help take the wealth of nations and put it in the pockets of the wealthy.

I have a GREAT RESPECT for these people, much more than your average American born into this privilege. These folk face horrific perils and uncertain futures. They risk it all to get to this nation so they can have some sort of opportunity.

Then you get these stupid redneck MOFO's who say shit about these folks and they have no idea what the fuck they are even talking about. Youz all can kiss my flat been here for thousands of years ass.

One of the most STUPID statements I heard from those fuckin' minutemen assholes was that these folk are the dregs of Mexico and Central America. He even said many are child molesters. However, no talk about how most child rape happens from relatives within the home, nor the FACT that many religious organizations have pedophiles galore, I mean, afterall, most of those folk were born into this privilege.

See this film. I have always had a great respect for many of the immigrant folks, but now that is even greater. I haven't always had a great amount of respect for those born into the privilege of the U.S., now I have even less.

WELCOME MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM THE SOUTH TO THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES CURRENTLY KNOWN AS THE UNITED STATES!

WELCOME!

Nagasaki

2009-08-10T02:59:00.000-07:00

I almost forgot to mention Nagasaki. For a good history on that event you all should read George Weller's "First Into Nagasaki." George was the first American into the city after the bombs fell. His words, however, were silenced by that horrific piece of shit Douglas McCarthur for political reasons in dealing with the government of Japan.

8-6-9

2009-08-06T16:12:00.000-07:00

8-6-9

by Eugene Johnson

Do you kow what day it is,
son?
Sun.
Do you know what day it is,
son?
Do you remember the sun,
son?

I am the son of my father
who would have been 76
and it has been 64 years
since they harnessed the power of the
sun
and used it to burn the people,
burn the earth,
like a deadly parady
of "The Republic"
by Plato.

Half of the power of god
is in the hands of man.
Pius XII kisses the fins
of the rockets of death.

Half of the p;ower of god
is in the hands of man
like a butcher knife
in the hand of
Peter Brzica.

At least Dr. Frankenstein
created life
the other half
of the power of god.
Dr. Frankenstein created a monster,
man has created a monster.

Do you know what day it is,
son?
Do you remember the sun,
son?

All war is slaughter.

Do you remember
the death marches
of Bataan
and the many
Trails of Tears?

Do you remember the
Death ships
Luzon and the slavers?

Do you remember
Dresden and Tokyo?

Do you remember
the crusader
wallowing joyously
in the ankle deep blood
of the temple?

Do you remember the two nuns
and the priest
tied to posts
sheathing steel with their
anguished flesh
as soldiers practiced
bayonette thrusts?

Now, son,
they can kill thousands
in an instant.
Sun.
More impersonal
than Peter Brzica's knife, son.
More impersonal
than a crusaders sword
or a soldiers bayonette,
sun.

Half of the power of god
is in the hands of man, son,
death

Man can destroy the world
in less than a day, son.

Man can destroy the world
in less than a day,

less than a day.

And still,
in my insanity of Love,
son,

IN MY INSANITY OF LOVE

I still

Love

Humanity.

Health Care? C'MON!

2009-08-04T01:47:00.001-07:00

If you are a not so stupid American to a genius, about 7% of ya, by my reckoning, you all know that we ain't gonna get a decent health care in this nation. It ain't gonna happen. Folks don't want it.
I mean, FUCK, if you've seen Michael Moore's "Sicko," you would have noticed that a walk-in patient to a doctors office in Canada (the backwoods nation to our North) had to wait up to 45 minutes to see the doctor instead of the 6-8 WEEKS here in America. FUCK! We can't have any of that shit here in the greatest nation on earth. I mean, what the fuck do you think we are, Civilized?

Reality Check! The American government is corporate owned. That means all of our congressfolk (with a few exceptions) and definitely the president...are corporate owned. That means that our government is not really ours, but the property of corporations. Corporations don't care about people, ESPECIALLY AMERICAN PEOPLE, because there are NO PROFITS in giving a shit. There are, however, GREAT PROFITS in things like "pre-existing conditions." Say you're a woman and had a child. Now, 20 years later, you have operable cancer. Will your insurance pay for your operation? FUCK NO! You're pre-existing condition of giving childbirth will prevent you from stealing money from billionaires who need it much more than you need some silly life saving operation.

Folks, you can all fantasize all you want that things will change, but the government doesn't give a shit about you unless you are involved heavily in a corporation. Let's stop fantasizing, here. If you want real health care, real change, we as a mass movement would have to TAKE IT! But here in America, folks are so vested in the FANTASY of freedom, they lay down and take oppression just like they are supposed to. I mean, if we all stood up and TOOK OUR RIGHTS, that would cut into corporate profits, and we all know billionaires are more important than our relatives who have operable cancer. I mean, Billionaires need that money more than some ordinary money demanding asshole that works needs a life saving operation. I mean THINK! Who is more important, someone in need of health care, or billionaires in need of more money?

Whirlwind

2009-08-02T16:31:00.001-07:00

Whirlwind

by Eugene Johnson

The first one I saw
this season
gently twisted
in a clockwise motion
in the mowed grasses
of the field,
picking up the brown blades gently
and attempting to weave them
into a basket
to carry the spirits
of the people up
into joy and happiness.

Whirldwind

Spirits travel
in the whirlwinds
I have heard

A whirlwind traveled through
our camp
after I lived on the mountain
for four days.
It was wound
so tight
it looked like brown celophane
with a dusty mop of hair
atop.
I knew where it was going
without malice or anger,
with a ferocity of Love
it lifted the red cloth
of our souls
from the altar
and tossed them to the earth
as a young man
fruitlessly attempted
to catch them.
There,
it disappeared.

I laughed at the beauty
at the message
that I knew then
but didn't heed until later.

In the hot desert sun
of ceremony
a whirlwind came
large and dusty
swallowed the whole arbor
lifting violently
the brown blades of grass
and dust
creating a basket
of angry Love.
It drained the last bits
of moisture
from the dry
hot
earth
and the bodies.
For the brief moment
of its violent Love
without anger or malice
it lifted the spirits
to joy and happiness.

Every year
I look forward to the whirlwinds
brown and dusty
in the mown and plowed fields
of the Willamette Valley.

Are they spirits come
to remember the earth,
to send us a message?

I lift my soul
into a brown dusty carriage
and am carried into
the world of imagination.

MAN! IT'S HOT!

2009-07-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

Currently, it's 104 degrees out. They said it would possibly get up to 107, but it didn't. It is supposed to be just as hot tomorrow. I couldn't handle the current wave which started about 2 weeks or so ago (high 80's and low 90's at the time) at first. Now, I'm drinking tons of water and sweating like a pig and doing just fine.

We don't have AC at home. We are using lots of fan and doing a swamp cooler thing. We are also sleeping in the living room because our bedroom doesn't cool down.

Shusli joked this morning, saying she'd much rather live in Phoenix, AZ than endure this heat. Then she looked their weather up for Phoenix, AZ on the internet and they are 112 today. They'll be over 100 for about the next two weeks. We thought better of that idea.

So, how are you all faring in this weather?

PS The kitties say it's hot, too. It must really suck to have fur in this kind of weather, but GREAT when it's colder than a well diggers ass.

Ham you rarely find moving in this weather (or for that matter, any weather). Jake is up and about less than usual, but still active and crazy about being outside.

STAY COOL, FOLKS!

2009-07-23T06:35:00.001-07:00

"What's your favorite restaurant?" Shusli asked me a few days ago.

"Hoda's," I answer almost immediately.

"Mine's the Jack in the Box on 105th and Stark," she says, trying to keep a straight face. "Not any of the others, just the one on 105th and Stark."

It is amazing the treasures one sees in the world. Last night we went to Hoda's on 34th and Belmont and ate ourselves happily stupid, the food is so good their. On the way there, we found these sidewalk chalk drawings. There are artists in our midst. Enjoy them!

I assume the artist is Audrey Angel, since there is a website listed. I just visited there, and the woman has talent.