The Cringe and the Criminal and the Corrupt -- Valorizing a Nation of Indian Killers
“Are you with me or against me?”
In his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann describes how white people in the area conspired to kill Osage members in order steal their oil wealth, which could only be passed on through inheritance.
"This was a culture of complicity," he says, "and it was allowed to go on for so long because so many people were part of the plot. You had lawmen, you had prosecutors, you had the reporters who wouldn't cover it. You had oilmen who wouldn't speak out. You had morticians who would cover up the murders when they buried the body. You had doctors who helped give poison to people."
It’s a f*cking DNA thing! In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money
What makes these crimes so sinister is that it involved marrying into families. It involved a level of calculation and a level of betraying the very people you pretended to love. And the way these murders would take place is that people would marry into the families and then begin to kill each member of the family. ... That's exactly what happened to [Osage woman Mollie Burkhart]. She had married a white man, and his uncle was the most powerful settler in the area. He was known as the King of the Osage Hills ... and he had orchestrated a very sinister plot played out over years where he directed his nephew, who had married Mollie Burkhart, to marry her so that he could then begin to kill the family members one by one and siphon off all the wealth.
And so the fucking CEOs continue destroying pensions. Imagine this, on the Coast of Oregon, but throughout Oregon — drivers on strike for months now:
This is what the c*cks*ckers want — automization AKA death of every human agency:
But first, a little philosophy: Junji Ito's Uzumaki and societal collapse: On the contemporary strangeness of life
Like a conversation with a moron that only repeats your questions and remarks back at yourself. The cosmic AI that’s only ineffable because it contains so much meaningless bullshit that our minds cannot fathom the quantity.
And I kind of get the feeling that it’s something like this that these kids are expressing when they lament that nothing makes sense anymore. That there’s not only way too much shit going on in the world around them, but that there’s no real framework of meaning to make heads and tails of it, even in principle.
I don’t think any previous generation had it quite as bad as them in that regard. There’s literally nothing left for them, collectively speaking, in the sense of a cohesive cultural, ideological or existential framework.
They have had everything taken away. There’s no religion. There are no ideologies left. There are no cultural or artistic movements of any substance. All is spectacle and simulacrum. Even the legacy utopias of scientific materialism that used to provide some semblance of comfort and a notion of a grander future to hope for have been washed away in this deluge of nonsense, lies and digital tedium. Substituted by the ubiquitous, vague dread of an imminent collapse.
And so now David Lynch is dead. What the fuck are we going to do? (source)
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Who was at the forefront of the poison machine? One name that kept coming up was Yinon Magal. Magal hosts a popular roundtable show on a Netanyahu-friendly network called Channel 14. A self-proclaimed “Bibi-ist,” Magal has described himself as a “vessel” for conveying messages from Netanyahu to the public. And so, at a time of ongoing war, growing international isolation, hostage crisis, and social rupture, I decided to enter the parallel universe of Channel 14—a place where, as one observer put it, “We are winning, and everything is honey.” I started by asking Magal whether we could meet. “Are you with me or against me?” he wrote back, with a winking emoji, and invited me over.
Dead eyes, big f*cking mouth, yelling at someone, even in the machine next to his r*t’s ear.
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Imagine how f*cking latte calm we are with these/this topics:
The Trump Admin is returning to the White House next week with threats of tariffs and warnings of a full scale war with China before 2030. But with Beijing announcing a $1 Trillion trade surplus (the exact opposite of Washington’s nearly $1 Trillion trade deficit), it raises question of whether the U.S. is once again underestimating the power of its opponent.
KJ Noh, a geopolitical analyst and Co-Host of ‘The China Report’ on Breakthrough News, noted that preparations for war with China have been underway in Washington since the Obama Administration and its ‘Pivot to Asia’, and with the U.S. obsession with Taiwan, we could be in for World War 3 in the coming years.
So, yes, the youth and semi-youth, some of them, most of them, but not another 50 percent or more doing the AI and drone and financialization thing, that is, are confused and unwilling to take the plunge into calling out this f*cking putrid country as a f*cking putrid country whose grandparents and parents have allowed for the DOA status of the just born and unborn.
Imagine, a small coffee/cafe shop in Waldport, on the coast, and the proprietor is talking about dynamic pricing. “Just last year, it was $28 for 10 dozen eggs, and now I’m paying $120. I don’t think people realize the burden on small businesses with this outrageous inflation,” she said.
That’s almost 500 percent increase, math challenged fools.
These are effing sick Caucasian shekel and dollar - suckers:
“The America of our dreams is always closer than we think,” Biden said from the Oval Office. “It’s up to us to make our dreams come true.”
But then you have the first n*g*e*ized president:
For his radio show in the US, he also travelled to the Ecuadorian embassy for an encounter with Julian Assange. Exhilarating, by his account.
"Boy, that was a rich one," he says. "Oh my God, we went on for an hour and a half: about the militarising of the internet and the use of US imperial power. They're trying to squelch any whistleblower who wants to reveal the secrets of the dirty wars of the US empires and other governments. We talked primarily about courage. He is a very smart man and very courageous too."
They found points of contact. "He talked about Martin Luther King's courage and how he has been inspired by Martin Luther King. We talked about the 3 June case with brother Bradley Manning and the witnesses the US government has lined up. I wanted people to hear his voice and to revel in his humanity; revel in his wrestling with his situation and to see what his vision is."
"We elected a black president and that means we are less racist now than we used to be. That's beautiful. But when you look at the prison industrial complex and the new Jim Crow: levels of massive unemployment and the decrepit unemployment system, indecent housing: white supremacy is still operating in the US, even with a brilliant black face in a high place called the White House. He is a brilliant, charismatic black brother. He's just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal. You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: 'I shouldn't have done that, I've got to stop.' But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of behaviour. I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people."
Can you not cut the president some slack? Think of what he faced. What did you expect?
"I worked to get him elected," he says, almost indignant. "And I would do it again because the alternative was so much worse. But at the same time, I have to be able to tell the truth. I thought he was going to be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal rather than a weak centrist. I thought he would actually move towards healthcare with a public option. I thought he was going to try to bail out homeowners as he bailed out banks. I thought he would try to hit the issue of poverty head-on."
Race matters, West famously wrote. Does race still matter?
"I think race matters deeply but it is in many ways denied," he says. "The form of institutional racism and informal racism is very much there. White supremacy is very much alive in Britain. If you scratch below the surface you can still see how race matters. It is not as raw and coarse as it is in the US. You have 10,000 professors in Britain and 50 professors of colour. Ten women. This is pathetic; this is ridiculous. The 'meritocratic' brothers and sisters say: 'It's just a matter of merit and if they were doing the work you would have a higher percentage.' And you say: 'Please, get off the crack pipe.' There are brilliant black and brown people who could gain access to these professorships. Something is happening."
Are we really shocked?
Sam Hussani: My intention was to ask tough questions at every opportunity during the news conference. State personnel obviously cut this short. The questions I had before me are below with minor edits. I’ve linked to pieces or even past questioning I’ve done on each question—
Was the point of the May 31 announcement to block implementation of the May 24 ICJ order? (This is what Biden and Blinken have been touting this week.)
Why do you refuse to recognize the Geneva Conventions as applying to Gaza? (This is especially ironic with Blinken claiming he would answer questions today when Liam Cosgrove attempted to follow up on my questioning on this, Blinken refused to comment on the record, see video. I chimed in with this questioning early, not sure if anyone caught it on video, and that might have especially compelled them to get me out of the room; they don’t want people to realize they refused to apply the Geneva Convention to the Palestinians. See my piece: “Is ‘Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself’ Code for ‘We Are Killing the Geneva Conventions’?”)
Everyone from Amnesty International to South Africa accuses Israel of extermination and genocide. Why are you not in the Hague?
Why was your step father Pisar connected to both Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein?
You have got to be kidding! Zyklon Blinken? Wait for the next Rapist in Chief’s pressers.
Yeah? Lawsuits and Private Mercenary security suits.
Later that day, he followed through on his pledge: He sued the Des Moines Register and its veteran pollster, Ann Selzer, over a preelection poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in Iowa shortly before last month’s election.
“I feel I have to do this,” Trump said in a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. “I shouldn’t really be the one to do it. It should have been the Justice Department or somebody else. I have to do it. It costs a lot of money to do it. We have to straighten out the press.”
Get real, fascists and, well, white ghouls. We should just hammer these criminals daily. In a phalanx move. Daily. THousands of Substacks, blogs, even Podcasts and news organs.
This will look like a cake walk.
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Anxiety anxiety neuturing neuturing fear fear.
Nah, no two-plus-two equals, hmm, cause and effect, effect now the cause?
Nah, no billionaire masked and caped pedophile to the rescue?
A 2017 study found that Americans’ exposure to glyphosate grew by about 500 percent since Roundup® Ready GMO crops were introduced in the U.S. in 1996, and there has been widespread detection of glyphosate in human urine and blood, including in pregnant women. Federal regulators have maintained “there are no risks to human health from the currently registered uses of glyphosate,” despite a lack of large studies, Reynier and Rubin say.
The new report, however, is consistent with a growing body of scientific literature and recent litigation documenting glyphosate’s harmful impact on the environment and fetal development, the endocrine system, the reproductive system, and the brain. Recently, the first large-scale, population-level studies linked glyphosate exposure—driven by GM seed expansion and transported through rivers—to increased infant mortality and pediatric cancer in Brazil.
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We are FUCKED. Afraid now?
Everything is political, everything is what the billionaires and their millionaires and rich Eichmann’s want us to suffer under.
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Hmm. Ceasefire? What the fuck does that mean? Gigantic rubble and toxin clean ups? Chinese coming in and rebuilding hospitals and schools and bakeries and homes?
Cease Fire? These IOF/IDF/Israeli Politicians/Society Gurus need to be bulldozed into the river and the sea.
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Many rightly believe they (you know who) all should be put up against “the wall,” shot, but here’s one satanic criminal maybe first in line.
Portugal and its migrants: Put the government against the wall! It’s a start in that former slaver/ former colonial shadow of itself Portugal, my first home, the Azore, when I was in diapers:
The government aims its repressive efforts to divert attention away from its dismantling of the National Health Service, from the thousands of workers who have been thrown out of their jobs collectively, from the colossal fortunes the banks amass daily, from the hoarding of homes by wealthy emigrés, whom the authorities welcome cap in hand, Having health care, work and a house to live in are common causes for all workers.
[Non-Portuguese — French, German, U.S. citizens, many of them retired — come to Portugal attracted by low prices (for them) and exemption from taxes; some of them are really wealthy; others are rich compared to the Portuguese.]
The government threatens immigrants with expulsion and frightens locals with “insecurity,” with the aim of creating a rift between workers. This is the crux of the matter. The answer can only be found through building unity in the workplace, mobilizing residents of poor neighbourhoods, unionization and joint participation in struggles of common interest.
The myths created around immigration must be dismantled. The right-wingers lie, the fascists lie.
More dead white lies, and this dude makes the rounds, no, always the white guy telling the world, with smirk and smile, that Palestinians won?
On 16 January 2025, I appeared on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano.
We spent much time talking about the Gaza ceasefire agreement that Hamas and Israel just signed.
I made the case that Israel has failed in Gaza and the terms of the agreement make that clear.
Israel has not defeated Hamas by its own admission, Israel has agreed to completely leave Gaza, Israel has agreed to abandon the Philadelphi Corridor that separates Gaza from Egypt, Palestinians are free to return to their homes (including those in northern Gaza), and aid will begin flowing into Gaza.
Israel is getting the hostages back, but many of them are dead and far more Palestinian prisoners in Israel will be released than hostages returned.
There is no guarantee that the ceasefire will hold and it’s no substitute for a sustainable peace. But even if it fails, Israel still has no way of winning the war in Gaza, save for driving all the Palestinians into Egypt, which is unlikely to happen.
It's all very, very depressing.
This is an important observation. The semblance of beauty produces a beautiful soul not the other way round. I take this to mean that discernment, the attention to aesthetic choice, creates a kind of beauty, or harmony in our interior lives. It is a re-balancing of the psyche. And that enriches out lives, and begins a kind of cultural infrastructure. It mediates ideology, too. And this is exactly where kitsch and sentimentality and forced inauthentic smiley face culture robs the society of exactly this beauty. It is exactly why ‘truth’ matters. In a society as narcissistic as that of the U.S. today, this matters more than ever. The cultic spell of advanced capitalism is only broken by speaking the truth. The truth on a stage and not on a screen.
John Steppling
https://john-steppling.com/2025/01/the-discovery-of-fire/