The Three Musketeers Revolution

 It would be easy to bring these heathens to their knees, if we were united. A simple walkout by the air traffic controllers. The simple stopping of any major agency's contribution to our society, such as teachers, or social security/medicare workers, or farm workers, food processors. stopping this puffer revolution because it can only be stopped by counter revolution.

Yet, it won't be stopped because progressives and liberals, those who supposedly oppose all that is happening (up to a point) is reprehensible to them, at least that's what they say. A year ago they were all saying Israel has the right to self-defense, but its not a universal principle. I liked it better when the 1776er's were at least saying the people have a right to resist, fight, and defeat any obstruction of the freedoms guaranteed by God.

And many put down their plowshares and took up their musket. We dont know, because it's not in the history books, how many british citizens living and working here at the time or how many british supporters were hung, shot, murdered, driven away by the newly formed american revolutionary cadres.

Americans are taught by mostly omission, as if their very own revolution, was some sort of "bloodless' coup with a few heroic military skirmishes with stiff british marching band type of fighting and sneaky "guerilla" stye, hiding behind a tree, maneuvers spreading the tales around the campfires.

Then came the civil war, another example of how americas troubled past was ultimately determined by uprisings, war, militant slave activists, boycotts, everything you can imagine but what america got was the second american revolution. Over decades the political revolved around red and blue states, slave and not slave, ethnic cleansing in the west, mexican war in the southwest, and, for the most part, it was just like today.

Throughout americas history, the history we are suckled on, has been the curtain we, as citizens, have wanted to believe that at the end of americas purposes, there are real world victims, both inside and outside the normal divides that come about in every society. Folk tales, morality stories of heroics (depending on what side you're on) and tales of atrocity (depending on what side you're on). For a cause.

Its ironic, and perhaps irony is what revolutions are made of, that what trump does now, what the conservatives of both parties have done, worked on relentlessly, such as the education system, such as social security, such as the national defense, such as privacy and the right to a peaceful life, all these assaults on those themes, are now being put in a new light. They've been privatizing and desecularizing the education system for centuries, they assaulted and siphoned the treasury and social security since its inception, they've turned the military over to the intelligence services, essentially making it impossible to promote and defend a "peace" formula and transparent decision making for international issues. 

Both parties have adopted over the course of our lifetimes (and before that) the support for not one man (sic), one vote, but one man, a thousand executive orders. How can voting mean anything when once we get the man, we get democracy without representation, we get to watch as each successive political party turns the table on the other, reversing what came before, changing? They certainly must play in the fields of the lord while we graze the grasstop, mindful of what mental and physical borders contain either our enthusiasm or our freedoms.

They've dug their own graves, shown their hand but they will certainly ride out their vindictiveness against us because, believe it or not, it is US who will suffer, some of US more than others. On the day I don't get my social security check I will certainly be dismayed but I will also know for sure the fear is over, and that I'm not the only one, and the american system that's caterwauled along for centuries has come to its natural, karmic conclusion.

There is no longer one for all, all for one. 

Alexander Dumas wrote the Three Musketeers in 1844.

Technological advancement is not an indicator of improving human advancement for anything but convenience and profit. No one should believe that when the shit hits the fan that their car nor their refrigerator are going to work. When you strip modern technology away from anyone, all thats left is the vulnerability of a turtle on its back, all become overseen and managed by vultures on the wing.

Fw: I am part of a mixed race family

I am part of a mixed-race, multi-ethnic family made of those who are young and old, middle class, working class, alcoholics, drug addicts, and multi-sexual, right and wrong, feminist and strong, hidden and out in the open. According to 23 and me i have thousands of 4th generation cousins, most of whom I have no idea who or where they came from or what they believe or hold sacred. In other words, I belong to a typical american family, if you want to call such a conglomeration of people a family.

The most revolutionary thing i feel I can do at this point in my life is try not to believe I am making progress in a world that I believe is going backward. 

My own politics are sometimes mean and impatient. Sometimes i want to kill the intellectual in me and murder the powers that are not in me that be. I am frustrated with my isolation (being a retired senior, i am as invisible and unheard as anyone can be) and tired of watching while the world burns, like some sort of small-time arsonist wanna be.

My thoughts trend toward revolution which if it happened i would most likely end up being just as much a victim as anyone will be, as the destruction of dreams is a messy business and a necessary one, but i would also be a cohort of what could come out of all of the rubble, as long as it's not more of the gun that historically has brought about and what guarantees what always happens next.

We all, and i mean all, are at a crossroad that either road taken will change the course of western history.

The infestation of fascism has been inbred and nurtured in america and the western "civilized" world for decades, if not centuries. Entertainment and sports celebrity idolatry, an american dream of making more money than your parent's ever did are unrealistic dreams based on worship of money as the primary value and consumerism the principle which human beings are based. Is that what humanity has come to, an insipid acceptance of the trivial which is not even true? 

My parent's and my generation had a low inflation/recession, low interest rates and value-built system integrated into a cold war acceptance of division and animosity (over the difference between capital and community-i.e. money). Yes, there was a cost to this- low wages (remember low inflation) and racist economics, but certainly no worse than now, simply because despite slow change on the social front, there was never going to be an anti-capitalist economic in america, except for social security and medicare, which has survived to this day ( maybe not beyond) despite the onslaught of privatization and spoilage raiding. 

In those days, despite segregation, education was public, though as usual, dedicated to the american dream. Now, again, privatization, religious usurpation of secularization by religious belief systems, has rendered education nearly extinct as a means of developing children to be good people as well as citizens.

This puffer revolution of today will eventually go away, leaving behind generations of repair but not necessarily repaired. If there is a comparison between now and then, what the puffers can do in four short years is enable an ideology, intellectual and common-sense destruction comparable to the irreparable physical destruction of gaza.

Let's face it, the world as we know today it will change and the only question, we are left with to ask ourselves, is what are we going to do about it? Together. Get off the streets and get into communes(communities).

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death #1

Allred-Be careful what you'll die for.

Imagine, one breath more, is all he wanted, this fear, this colorless slime, this death passing before his eyes,

Invisible wisps of a life repulsed,

Hearkening us to return to our rituals,

Water on the forehead, shoulders, lips

Washing of our hands in absolution,

silent prayers of salvation, Sacrifices and retributions.

i doth confess,

Whateth now do i live for?

To merely survive? Pray for one more dawn to draw breath upon,

One last toast, held high, salutations

Regrets, none. Right now Life still abides willed strong,

Moments left to memorialize what I leave behind,

What Days ahead can i count on? Worship.

None are solidly promised, languid and ethereal hopes and fears, what any of us can dream,

What am i forgetting? What can I take with me?

Appreciate love I've been given, have never seen, forgive the lack of universal reconciliations,

Decide who to see one last time, if that moment arrives, To say goodbyes.

why are there these doubts about my living?

About These bluest skies i can remember,

With too little time left to say it all.

 

Who will walk the dog?

If its me who takes the last lonely ride,

Away from everything I've ever tried and failed, promised to live by, looked for and lost,

feared and loved at the cost

of my own selflessness and selfishness, the entire time believing Life is Beautiful. Less

And if it's any of you, life eternally missed,

I no longer contain my grief.

The end cometh, expect nothing less, 

Though i never will be ready. Never invited it, wanted it, expected it. It just came, like the wind,

Far off, silent and invisible,

Except for the whispering trees.

Fw: Open letter

Open letter

This should be copied and sent to your least favorite politician, priest, president, non-elected official, org donation request, or all of above.

Here's a fact. The democrats controlled the house, senate, and/or the presidency twelve years in the last sixteen years. This fact alone should give any reasonable person a moments pause when it comes to blame for our current political predicament. In those twelve years the israel lobby made sure that whichever party ( which is a complete misnomer, isnt it?) maintained its anti-two state solution and worked american guilt over the holocaust of world war two. Blaming the  palestinians for Israel's placement in the palestinian homeland by the western powers, including the united nations, is like blaming the iraqi and afghani people for 9/11.

Even that bit of reasoning should be enough to convince liberals that it doesn't make sense for them to maintain a political distance from the republican stance while the future holds no possibility of the two-state solution simply because Israel didnt and doesn't want it.

It has long been apparent to me that the government has always been, not just influenced by, but controlled by certain individuals, organizations, departments, corporations and not by the democratic process. This serious dysfunction is not fully the fault of elected officials, at least in the beginning, but a continuous misuse of representative democracy has literally left the door open for anti-democratic forces to emerge as dominant benefactors of american dollars, taxpayer dollars.

Trump has made it look so easy, dismantling constitutional privilege and standard. The democrats spent the entire first trump presidency trying to convict, impeach, and disrupt but did nothing to put their justice to work and make it stick. The public and republicans were confused and confused the issue. Nothing was accomplished and four years after that we're in a worst position because the four years biden harris pretended they were riding the high tide to a new democratic era.

Fast forward. Now today america is contemplating dismantling the education department (public education), breaking the treasury piggy bank, making ukraine pay, making a riviera in gaza, and establishing a christian zealotry state.

This is the puffer revolution. The exaggeration, the heads and tails revolution, throwing decisions out like gazans needing to have a time of peace and freedom from the catastrophe that somehow was simply fate, their ethnic group suffering and while they're away enjoying their new peace and love brought to them by america and israel, in a new tent city, a new trump tower or two will grow on the old trashed beaches of gaza, just like at atlantic city. But perhaps that will be the only way gazans will ever to be able to have their homeland rebuilt, though it will just be a memory and they'll be able to see the travel postcards and dream of a vacation in gaza. Give trump enough room and perhaps both gaza and ukraine will become the next two us territories, along with puerto rico, another example of us deceptualism.

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If we look at the two current primary issues in ame

If we look at the two current primary issues in america today, migration/immigration and israel/palestine, historians should note, as well as we, that these issues convey a sense of futility and weakness in the capitalist form of democracy that exists here. We live in a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy, which has deteriorated into corporations not only being "registered" as individuals/persons who wield tremendous "representative" types of influence on our democracy.
The issues between technological advancements such as deepseek and openai are consistently running up against the cold war formula of always remaining stagnant because of the differences in any particular country's current relationship to another's.
The cold war formula is the basis for stagnancy in most of the world's economic and political discourse and action.
As i mentioned above, issues like israel/ palestine are complex but because certain national factions are indulging in a one-dimensional dialogue with themselves based on military and economic strategy, solutions based in a far more diverse conversation are impossible. You can bet that when you have a group of powerful nations gathered together with absolutely no dissent amongst them, there is little that will be accomplished.
I think that with israel/palestine for seventy odd years there has been one consistent, unstated position among the supporters and benefactors of the israel state that Palestinians were never going to be part of the "free will" landscape, both literally and figuratively.
With immigration, american history has provided another disembodied from reality. From native genocide (a version of immigrant overthrowing indigenous) to chinese celestials, to settlers, to european escapes, all the way to mexico-central america migrations, the prominent disarray of the american political system is strongly evident.
The inability of warring nations to reconcile what they feel is irreconcialable is the largest single block to the prospects of world peace, it becomes more imperative for we to change ourselves to beings who are less and less influenced by the world they created for themselves and listen more to the world that's been around for billions of years.
It's not back to nature we must go but more to realize our own nature in a future of climactic and social change. It's obvious that change is going to come and at this moment, it will not be good, all the more reason for us to act now. Life will never be perfect but it can be better when we understand our place in it. We are not the center of the world nor are we unable to make our own way. We are builders, creators, community/social oriented, conscious, intuitive but also, we are animals-both predator and growers, both lovers and haters, both kind and cruel, so how do we change?
First of all, we can stop letting the haters tell us how and who to love, stop the predators from telling us we must kill to live, stop the cruel from keeping us from each other.
Stop! Ignore! Resist by non-compliance!


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Enough said

I liked this article, maybe you will too.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-gaza-takeover-comments-are-meant-to-shatter-the-overton-window/ar-AA1ywe0T?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=c49e8a3a4d954167d2be6d334d3edea6&ei=44

Trump's Gaza 'takeover' comments are meant to shatter the Overton Window - MSN Trump may or may not have been "serious" with his comments about a U.S.-led "takeover" of Gaza (his national security adviser indicated he is serious, while his press secretary insisted no ... www.msn.com

As we get further and further along in this particu

As we get further and further along in this particular genocide, the emergence and reemergence of anti- holocaust and hero worship over resistance against the nazis, we, once again, slip into some sort of historical nostalgia that hardly anyone alive today lived through nor experienced.
The holocaust was horrible and those who survived or resisted it, especially in those countries who initially did nothing about it, or supported it, are brave indeed.
But as we witness the anti-semitic state of israel supported by the anti-semites of america, western nations, I'm wondering if there will be a day when all those gazans murdered not over the last year, but the decades preceding Oct 7th, 2023 will be seen as victims too. Thats history for you. You can't trust it but we got to have it, it's our memory.
Of course, americans will confuse the issue by some harming innocent jews in synagogues and others just trying to get some justice for gazans, which will be a lifelong project. If there is any "good" in all this it's that old joe biden, old donald trump have been thrown together into the same pot and will henceforth be going forward into the past together, hand in hand  walking through the rubble of all they've done.
Just like slavery, native genocide and ethnic cleansing, anti-humanitarian practices, there will be some reconciliation but not enough to satisfy anyone.
This, of course, is not just an american problem because everything that happens is wrapped around the craving for money and resources. Look at the countries that thus far stood up initially to trumps deportation planes. There was bluff but once trump threatened sanctions and other economic punishments, capitulation was easy.
Believe me, there is not one blessed humanitarian nation on earth that can stand on its own against the international banking and corporate/fascist complex.



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Selfishness and happiness

If all this seems happening a little too fast, i can remind you again, that donald t-rump did not invent fascism nor did he begin the long draught of nation state toxic swigging thats been going on WORLDWIDE forever. Kings, queens, popes and preachers have been fostering the kill the messenger message for as long as they've written the history of the world.
I was watching an old, old like meaning before most americans today were neither born nor escaped and migrated from foreign lands, by the way, carrying a false american dream around their heads like halos, a tape of a young mike wallace interviewing ayn rand. Ayn rand wrote, maybe, two significant books in her lifetime, the fountainhead and atlas shrugged and far be it for me to divulge the meaning to any young, wistful for the past, person or wanna be dreamer of the american dream (without socialism).
Basically, her outlook on life was called selfishness (self interest) by her detractors and "objectivism" by her intellectual cohorts.
Her beliefs took in everything from loving to politics but the books conveyed wealth and success as the main function of Man. In other words, happiness comes from self-satisfaction and freedom from making as much money as one can, money being the main mover of all freedom. In her world, freedom shouldn't be bought but neither should it be sold.
I can agree with that part, but the basis of her argument is that freedom does not buy bread so freedom actually becomes the value upon which we must live, giving up our freedom in order to secure our own self-interest which for most people, normally, is survival.
Where ms rand is right is that the principles of revolutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were based on that value of trading freedom for survival. The idea that so called free will is meant to be every person's coin.
Free will is the creation of church and state to justify the decisions of any person giving up their freedom in order to survive. Free will is not a pure conceptual type of freedom because as we all know one cannot act one way when there are natural or social obstacles making it impossible to be free. In other words, slaves can be freed but can they, once freed, act contrary to the restrictions imposed by the social standards and laws already established? To her, freedom and free will are attributes of those who have wealth, ownership, and chutzpah to go out and get what they want because they can.
To believe that everyone has free will and the freedom to act even under the most adversarial conditions is absurd.
Yes, we are free and are by free will able to resist but resistance has its price, and we have to decide what price we will pay.
Looking at those who rule today we dont see ayn rands "happiness" among billionaires, as she suggests what happiness is. They are not satisfied with doing what they want but, instead, are determined to make sure everyone else is unhappy, a condition she insists shouldn't happen. They, according to her, should really be uninterested in the happiness or unhappiness of others. Self-interest is supposed to lead to a sort of happiness and its only when we start wanting good things for others, do we get unhappy because we are no longer thinking of just ourselves. Topsy turvy philosophy.
Where individualism beaches itself is the denial that we are social animals. No one person, whether inventor, billionaire, king nor anyone else is an island unto itself, an appropriate phrase.


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Nothing i write nor say

Nothing i write nor speak today says what needs to be said.

It's all outrage, words cannot be felt, nor healed nor swayed. Words forbidden, chained by bad faith reason nor able to flow like a wild blue river ribboned and wound into a sea of dreams.

Yesterday, the apocalypse came to a small israeli desert town,

Then went on to savage a world with the name of revenge.

The day of the apocalypse came and went, came and went.

The apocalypse came to a ukranian town, stayed around, what goes around, has not gone away since.

The self-proclaimed geniuses who run this world by their moral absence, 

Take their turns as their moment arrives, peace offered on a platter, 

Like the head of john the baptist,

To play the warning bells, many will suffer.

Oh, if only those bright boys would turn the guns upon themselves,

We can praise the dawning of a new day,

Instead' we allow them taking us to the edge,

of the vulture's land, the entrance to hell,

For those who cannot walk away, be carried or have to stay,

They be left to pray, "never again", they will say,

Too late, more hate is already on the way, dressed in their killing clothes

Redemption, be not thy name. Revenge, thou art not sane.

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