Fixation

 This nation is hell bent on its fixation to destroy what’s left of humanity.

A Little Cosmology

If you look, meaning read, or know, about cosmology, and new theories of universes, and black holes, you'd realize that infinity and God and everything we can see through the lens of both telescopes and microscopes have nothing to do with us. The chances that there is someone like you with almost the exact DNA is both obscure and a surety, that's how random it all is. And how unnecessary any of us are in the real scheme of things. With that in mind, I can say we aren't really a nation of law and order but a cosmology of beliefs, both true and untrue, time worn out traditions and false assumptions and unfortunately there is a small amount of people who are willing to admit this or realize its consequences. Human societies, especially the most authoritarian, those who completely disregard any legitimized law and are skeptical, which they should be, any common sense law have so bound their citizenry with entangled ropes of legalities, making it near impossible for most common people to even justify risking their freedom to protest. Most protests begin with the value of people and end up with evaluating property. The left wing portion of the January 6 right wing portion all mean the same thing to the media. It's news with a hidden message. Businesses themselves think that in this case where their customers are being rounded up and flown out of the country are divesting themselves of their own wealth. By the way, I can hardly wait for ICE to start raiding the mansion class of those working for the wealthy. Maybe even places like Home Depot, a corporation owned by Maga supporters will think twice about how much those day workers who,supply the little contractors who spend their money there, actually contribute to the circle of life. Exploitation is a double edged sword. You can't exploit people by paying low wages, high rents, and then support their eradication or whatever you want to call it. Everyone calls for law and order and the right to protest but no one on the other side calls for legal deportations according to the laws established over decades of immigrants in this society. iCE breaks the law, then someone else breaks the law, and that someone is punished. What kind of sense is that? It's all about theater and who controls the stage? I'm sitting down amidst the fire and ICE of today, Sitting down Sent from my iPad

What does full employment mean, anyway?

 What does full employment mean?

A job for anyone who wants to work. Work should be useful but most of all work should be respected and a working person should be able to see his/ her place in the society and vice versa.

Okay there are a couple of things wrong with that, right.

One, many people who want to work can be taken advantage of because a job is a necessity, it’s how we take care of ourselves, contribute to our families and provide for our community through taxes so its importance can be used by employers for exploitation, low wages, abuse, etc.

Second, our economy and employment is determined by those in control of our economy- local, state, federal governments, corporate elites and others who decide not only what services should be provided but how much money should be dedicated to any particular need. So, if you use homelessness as an example, local governments and communities decided at first that homelessness would go away once the after effects of the Great Recession went away but instead it grew and grew, mainly because governments and unwise community leaders didn’t take into account how nearly impossible it is for people who lost homes, cars, jobs to recoup and recover from such devastating financial collapse. Individuals didn’t get compensated for their losses nor were they given jobs to get back on their feet. No, they were left to struggle and pull themselves up by their bootstraps as that is the way society has already determined what needs to be done. So, here we are a decade and a half later with a problem that again needs addressing, except now it’s a crisis. But no one. wants to put the money or energy into a problem where you have to get your hands and principles dirty as well as overhauled because for the last decade and a half tremendous amounts of money have been invested by local and state governments into building ungreen, high cost housing and unnecessary commercial enterprises, so they can pat themselves on the back, call it progress.

Meanwhile, the federal government has been busy making war and democracy in other countries while voting rights across the country have been curtailed, womens right to choose has been eliminated, gun violence, racial violence, police violence have all increased.

Its priority setting at its most mundane. Priorities are not what the politicians say they are, but what the money actually goes to. If you throw around five dollars to everyone but what is needed is five hundred, you’ve essentially provided only eye candy to the public.

With the way we've accepted things such as limiting the one basic necessity of real life living, taking care of ourselves, we've put ourselves in the same position as domesticated animals. Were led around by the various media platforms into beliefs about what ambition, and need mean, what jobs are important, etc.

Get rid of the slavemaster notion that use of criminals, immigrants, low income wage earners can be had almost free, despite their major contributions, such as in forest firefighting, picking crops, mass production. Full employment should be part of an overall plan to unite communities, work for yourself and community, which familes, friends, working side by side. Full employment should be abling work, satisfactory work as each individual sees what the community needs, as each community sees what individuals need, all working together.

We've let the powers that be control us, divide us, manipulate us with bad economics, bad solutions to pressing societal problems they refuse to fund solutions for, and a host of other restraints placed on us in order to keep us frustrated with each other and isolated from each other.

Make full employment a reality.

 

Happy 250th Birthday to a Divided USA from Frederick Foote

Happy 250th Birthday to a Divided USA

Divided and subdivided was the way our nation started

With a third of us, waving our revolutionary flags and a third of us, siding and fighting with the British, and a third of us saying, I’m Bennett, and I ain’t in it

We were born with a Declaration of Hypocrisy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

A declaration signed by slave owners standing on stolen land.

All the players and parties recognized the hypocrisy and sneered, laughed, or cheered.

That includes the 9,000 Africans and African Americans who fought for the new country and the 20,000 Africans and African Americans who fought on the side of the British in exchange for their freedom.

On this foundation, rotten with greed, racism, and deceit, a great, flawed nation was erected.

From eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty five, we fought a war to correct one of our foundational errors, slavery. With over 620,000 deaths, it is our most deadly military conflict.

Over 180,000  Black troops fought for their freedom in this war.

The union prevailed, and the freedmen embraced democracy and voting. They elected their own to the national and local stages.

However, that freedom was short-lived as the Union Army withdrew from the South after twelve years of Reconstruction, and the plantation class ensnared the freedmen in new forms of slavery, including convict labor and tenant farming, all supported by Black Codes, which restricted the freedom of African Americans. And our court systems supported this outrageous demolition of Black rights.

The convict labor system allowed planters to literally work convicts to death. This was due, in part, to the fact that the United States has never fully repudiated and outlawed slavery.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The 13th Amendment provides a constitutional basis for the enslavement of prisoners. Think of Nazi prisoners of war being forced to labor in Hitler's factories.

Today, there are about four million people under the jurisdiction of the US criminal justice system. The largest prison population of any nation today.[i]

Slavery is alive and well in the United States of America on its two hundred and fifty-second birthday.

What more is there to say except happy birthday to us, and we must keep up the good fight and keep present-day slavery in the light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[i] Countries with the most prisoners 2026| Statista

Is democracy a cult?

A cult is a social group or movement defined by unconventional, often extremist, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and practices. They typically feature a charismatic leader demanding excessive devotion, with members often subjected to manipulative psychological control, isolation from society, and exploitation.

Is democracy a cult? Ai, the new boy toy. Good for fake sexual and sensual experiences, used as a weapon against women. And used for strategy and weaponization in war. ManLove and ManWar, two peas in a pod. Technology driven by the same mad and ad men, like the first book coming off the Gutenberg printing press, the bible. In Asia, the first woodcut technology print was The Diamond Sutra, the Asian version of the bible, and thus spoke Zarathustra. Technology is a wonderful thing until the intellectual thugs discover how to beat your brains out, a modernized, democratized version of the good old fashioned club. Printing, they say, democratized the use of books but as we’ve seen, the printing press and now digital, electronic dissemination of information certainly “democratizes” information but does not democratize freedom of information. The powers that control democracy of all types are fascist in principle, that is, they give you the freedom they want you to have. You can only go so far down the road to true freedom before somebody or some thing stops you. The message is clear, stay in the mainstream herd, where information and belief may not keep you free but will keep you secure from fear. True knowledge is only garnered by transgressing fear of the unknown, but even that can be a Herculean task. What is freedom anyway? Freedom doesn’t have anything to do with hate, or ignorance, or power. Freedom isn’t doing whatever you want. It’s not about desire, either. It’s a sense of appreciation of the individual’s need and ability to act with the social, where most individuals live in the world. The social contract necessitates a certain number of conscious limitations or voluntary restraints on the individual in order for cooperation to produce what every individual needs. A social contract (call it work) is necessary, but cooperation is only truly effective if it is composed of individuals who are free to offer and provide their skills and services. The conditions under which individuals freely interact with their environment/society determines the success of every society, community, or nation. Of course, religions, storytelling, myths, and politics (that is, the policymaker's) all tell us freedom needs to be subjugated to the will of the social order, the principles that subjugate are established by the above mentioned anti-free institutions fostered by, once again, self-proclaimed “owners” of those institutions. The owners convince the freedom loving that in order for society to function properly they must give up their freedom (which they would most likely do anyway in order to survive) but only under the owner's directive, permanent, and unquestioned. Democracy is supposedly the owners giving back some of that lost freedom to the individual but the conditions of the democracy such as who gets elected to represent freedom loving individuals are selected beforehand. If the individual refuses to vote say, the individual does not get represented and those not represented are nearly always the majority. A nation which represents itself as a democracy is really a tightly controlled, institutionalized minority bound together by a wide range of illusionary principles, beliefs, and lies. The framers of the modern ideals of democracy and freedom merely represent a conglomerate of minority Views and do not represent the “all.” Democracy becomes a cult, or religion, rather than a universal ideal. Sent from my iPad

More chickens coming home to roost

Now the chickens will come home to roost. It will be the democrats who will aid and abet the critics of the Iran memorandum. Much in the same way they have hindered the Epstein files. The Israel lobby which has been in the background of both parties will make sure Iran does not get nationhood once again. Sovereignty. They didn’t start this, Israel has wanted it for decades, the US has wanted something since the Islamic Revolution. Revenge. Every nation that has nationalized their own resources has paid a similar price. Poor Cuba, which only had sugar got pre-empted really fast, and never got a chance, along with Chile, Iraq, you know the stories, even little Grenada, so remember the democrats were all there in all those places, supporting J Edgar, the CIA, and Israel, military intervention. We don’t have a chance in hell to fix this system. we have to think revolution. Not a power interchange, but acceptance of reality, not supremacy, not the color of our skin, not the gods we have to pray to, not the sexual ids we revere, and certainly not the political parties. 

The democrats are already saying the memorandum merely puts Iran right back where they were before Israel masterminded an attack. Well, yeah, it should because there’s no reason it should have been attacked in the first place. Schumer says we’re worse off. Deep down nearly everyone, including many so-called progressive podcasters that Trump was inept, keep on baiting trump, and he’ll get shit for all of it but make no mistake about it, everyone wants Iran to lose. Unfortunately, Iran doesn’t know when to keep its mouth shut because there are no victories here. This is an example of a world war that benefits no one. 

If Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, neither should Israel and many others who should be able to see how ineffective nukes are. Like if you can't use it except when you're backs against the wall and complete moral annihilation is the only way a nation can see fit to use one.

Iran did show that it could take a punch (trump should respect that). We can thank Muhammad Ali for that tactic.

Again, everyone listens to their own interna, hateful monologue on this one. Let's see what Albania does, another possible, fruitful example of more David against Goliath (Netanyahu should appreciate that one).

Hidden retrograde motion. Check out Israel's kissing up the new president of New Somaliland (right across from Yemen, another thorn in Israel's side), though we can probably learn something from Israel's ability to find new or old enemies, then park themselves nextdoor, looking forward to a future fight.

 I’m telling you all. We are so close to the end of something, my skin is tingling. 

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What Trump doesn’t understand about Netanyahu

What Trump doesn’t understand about Netanyahu is that N is Trump doubled down. Whether or not Iran has a nuclear weapon is not Israel’s goal and never has been. Of course, it’s goal, is the greater prophesied Israel project. It’s bigger than ego or even money, it’s historic, in the same vein as genghis khan or Robert e Lee. Leaders riding an abuse of power because of ignorance, arrogance, or because they can. One time I met a minor author who came from Iran and then later wrote a book about her experience as a young girl at the beginning of the Iranian revolution. It was a good book as far as I was concerned and probably there were many like it, written by refugees or immigrants who come to America from negligent countries, either to escape repressive situations or to seek freedom, where they didn’t think they got it before. There’s likely many reasons people come here to the land of the free, home of the brave. At the time I met this young woman writer with a nice husband and promising son, I already knew that Iran had been exposed to Americas CIA in such a way, much like Cuba or Vietnam, or Indonesia or any number of smaller nations worldwide that had been exposed, by treachery, subterfuge, assassination, overthrow of democracy, and, finally, a reliance on dictatorships to do the dirty work. 

I bring this up because of the ongoing protests by this Iranian diaspora against the Iranian football team trying to play in the worldwide World Cup. I think it’s funny that all these diasporas we’ve amassed here in America as refugees from the dirty wars we’ve instigated have, for the most part, become the very essence of an anti-American progressive movement. Many but not all, it’s never all, bring not only their hatred of anything progressive here to America because but also their antagonisms and acceptance of authority, as if our president, our ideals are more than just ideals but a magical reality. They don’t care about Americas history, that most of America is composed of, not people who were born into freedom, democracy, and the American way, but most of us or our ancestors had to fight, die, be oppressed, segregated, murdered, or kill or be killed on the battlefields, to preserve what others maintain is guaranteed. All the Cubans that fled the revolution brought what they could, which was their money, influence, and dictator ship politics before the Castro's could even start. Yet, the Cuban diaspora, bitches and moans, even three generations away from Cuba. They vote dictator, they live overthrow, they act like they wished they never left Cuba because they’re not doing any better here than there. Basically, they’re losers, if they’re still wanting to go back, especially if they want others to die for them so they can go back. Go back to what? The colonial homes are trashed, the economy is poor, not as if that’s what they want, but because America can’t ever just go on and be as good as they think they are. I think we can look at the lack of success of Israel if we want an example of what happens when America (and all the western power mentality nations) who have control of a small, nothing nation. Israel is a warrior nation, much the same, but still different from the United States. Israel is also a cruel, arrogant nation whereas the United States is a sadistic nation. It uses its power in the modern world as a hammer on a nail. It believes it is constructing an eternal legacy, essentially it refuses to accept natural and political change. Change is reality. That’s where Israel and America are similar, they both believe they are destined; thus cruelty, greed, arrogance and supremacy are effective as fear. So, the world, or the world controlled by America and slow thinking thugs and gangsters hasn’t progressed very far. I’m sure black people, women, everyone in America can or will claim how much better off they are than in Cuba, Iran, Russia, china, Venezuela, I could go on and on, but lifestyle is different than quality of life and some freedoms are better than none but what is freedom when there is no future? 

We’re all going along for a ride in a circle game of musical chairs, and once you’re out, you’re out. Sent from my iPad