Today’s picture is a detail of graffiti broken with peeled paint.
Many people, particularly those who constantly allow authorities to explain realities to them, suffer damaged imagination. The abstract image confuses them. Instead of trusting their own power of contemplation and engaging in calm meditation, they prey for guidance, unconsciously waiting for the ”correct” explanation.
There is no guidance or correct explanation. What you see is what you get. What YOU see. It’s your picture for your imagination. Nothing to be frightened about. On the contrary, we can relax and submit to an adventure of our fantasy.
(See the result of Dartwill’s contemplation below!)
This trust in official explanations has tragic consequences. It ruptures basic logic.
Everyone suspects or assumes—and can easily confirm their suspicions with numbers available on the net—that the US congress is composed of the 1%, or, accounting for the few strays, 99% of elected government officials belong in the 1% wealth category.
Everyone also knows that the flow of money in the nation runs into the coffers, vaults and accounts of the 1% while the great majority of the people are drained of their resources.
Logically, the people should be looking for ways to stop being drained, and to weaken the forces responsible for the drainage. (The persistent official narrative prevents me from using the correct term structural theft instead of drainage.) The citizens become engaged instead in the antics, struggles and conflicts of the 1% even though the drainage/theft will continue regardless of which group among the rulers/thieves temporarily jockeys to a leading position.
It is illogical to spend energy on projects we cannot influence. We cannot influence the struggle among the 1%, but we can influence our struggle against them. But that demands imagination, logic and adventures of fantasy.
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“All life has roots called DNA
where the secrets of life
are nourished by the force of light.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Luck you
Drop dread
Us yours
Mother tucker
Son of a hitch
Ask hole
Ship
Go to well
…
A little difference can make a big difference.
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If you stop drinking sodas
you improve your economy,
improve your health,
improve the environment
and deprive rulers of profits.
If you encourage other people to do the same
you improve the condition of humanity.
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“Marching goes to war.
Dancing comes to life.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Liars lying about liars.
Fakers exposing fake fakers.
Informers spread confusion.
Smilers radiate fear.
Things fall apart
but first
they fall down,
dry up, shrivel, die
and cover the vision
of a sleeping earth
pregnant with
tomorrow.
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“The unexceptional empire
poses as an exceptional country
telling the truth exceptionally.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
3 200 000 people make up USA’s 1%. This group includes anyone with an income over $400 000/year.
250 000 people earn over $1million/year, the 0,0008%.
540 billionaires account for less than 0,0002%.
Although money and power are not the same thing, and yearly income can not be equated with total wealth, we can assume that the real rulers, those who determine policy, belong to the tribe of billionaires.
Half the congress are millionaires, practically all of the others belong to the 1% and everyone of them plus key officials are lobbytomized.
The absence of billionaires in congress supports the claim that congress serves as the administration of the rulers. This claim gains strength viewing the flow of money that ends up in the hands of the 0002% after the 1% get their cut.
3,2 million people (1%) represent a considerable market. If we add an additional 4% for the people earning at least $200 000/year we’re speaking of an population of 16 000 000 people, the equivalent of the 70th largest country in the world, an extremely upscale country larger than Greece, Sweden, Cuba, New Zealand, Ireland, Belgium and more than 100 other countries.
With another 5% to include the $100 000/year earners, a picture of those committed to perserving the status quo emerges; 10% of the population, 32 million people.
The other 90%, 288 000 000 people, are endangered and in opposition to the prevailing order controlled by the rulers—corporate commanders—among the 0,0002%. To consolidate this opposition we should crop away the upper and lower 10% of the 90%. The upper strata tends to strive toward joining those above them rather than opposing them, whereas the lower 10% contains many desolate and seriously damaged people. The upper 10% can be won to the forces of opposition and the lower 10% can be helped to join as well, but the core of 70% represents the resources of hope. These 224 million people, own the possibility of wrestling control of the nation from the claws of the greed-infected rulers, improving the conditions of everyone and diverting humanity from its trajectory toward extinction.
The 70%, the majority, the heart of democratic reality, need merely to unite. Merely! It is complicated, difficult and dangerous. And glorious on the edge of magic. Regard the merely as an encouragement to turn away from the antics of the rulers, their administration and their hired guns and pens. Unite instead on the basis of mutual help disregarding all superficial trappings of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, etc. The future awaits those willing to build it with love, beauty and justice.
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“Money and power are two different things
that tend to hang out together and often marry.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The provocative title Fuck the Holocaust neither denies the occurrence nor the extent of the atrocious organized murder of millions of people under the Nazi regime. It is used in the sporting sense such as when X claims that Big-toe Bill was the best player ever and Y answers, ”Fuck Big-toe, Nickin Nick was twice the player.”
We are told time and again (and have no reason to doubt) that 6 million Jews met their death in the Holocaust. We are also told never to forget it. Why? Why shouldn’t we forget it? It has not helped the Israeli Zionists show compassion, tolerance, restraint or justice toward the Palestinians. On the contrary, if this is the way the non-forgetters treat others, forgetting seems a blessing.
The never-forgetters also tell us that the Holocaust was the worst crime ever. Fuck the Holocaust. It isn’t even close. At least 10 million Africans died in the Congo alone under Belgium’s rule a half century earlier. The same forced labor (de facto slavery), torture, displacement and widespread murder occurred in the British, French and German colonies as well. The number of Africans who fell victims during the theft of ivory, rubber, gold, diamonds and other resources probably equals the total number who died as the result of WW2. But, hey, they were only Africans. Nothing to get upset about. Or remember. The colonial powers assured us that they were bringing enlightenment, democracy and progress to the savages. They forgot to mention what they were taking. The corporate powers of today are still taking.
And forgetting to mention it.
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The well-written book King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild gives a clear picture of the colonial greed-generated terror that brought so much suffering and death to the Africans. A great (mandatory if possible) read.
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“Ruling powers always dress their greed and crimes
in noble clothes and humanitarian jewels. ”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Experienced big mouth shouting nothing.
What’s worse than evil?
Evil mixed with stupidity.
War rages in many parts of the world.
Real war!
War with fast flying steel and furious fire.
And atomic weapons.
Mini atomic weapons
with highly destructive and often deadly
radiation residue.
Dust actually
with tiny radioactive particles
100 times smaller than a cell.
They can enter a body
through the skin,
or by breathing, drinking or eating
and rip through a link of DNA
as easy as a bullet through a lung.
These DU weapons
—
D for depleted
U for uranium
—
concealed in plain sight
on the tip of missiles
rip super-hot effectively
through tank steel and wall concrete
leaving leukemia causing
and baby deforming
radioactive poison power
to fly on the wind
and land on any
disinformed dis-innocent
miniminded major military
or lobbytomised psychopath
anywhere in the world.
These DU weapons
officially UN-designated
weapons of mass destruction
have been used
and are being used today
in countries with celebrity war status.
Empires
dressed as exceptional nations
may use these weapons at their own discretion
and hide their use by silent deception.
What should we call
evil mixed with stupidity?
How about DS potentiality.
—
D for depleted
S for survival
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“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed.
If you do read it, you’re misinformed.”
Denzel Washington
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Parallel with environmental fever and biological degradation runs intellectual decay.
Environmental fever. Biological degradation. Intellectual decay.
Heavy truths
in a world of big, little, soft, hard, white, gray, black, simple, complicated, ridiculous, official, new, old, vicious, comforting, deadly, helpful, ancient, trendy, academic, serious, funny, medical, conventional, political, economic, religious, racist, national, personal, public, pure, sacred, holy and professional lies. Among others. Particularly silent lies.
Lies surround us like fog.
The fog is also a lie. It’s really a diluted polluted smog, contaminated intellectual air. Another lie, a metaphorical lie. It’s not really air.
Ain’t nothing natural about it.
We, the people, are drenched in lies. Saturated with lies. Degraded by lies. Endangered by lies
in a storm of diversion with heavy winds of entertainment
and electrified bolts of sensational nothings.
Environmental fever – an unspoken truth hidden under the euphemistic lie ”global warming”.
Compare: The boy is ”warming”, his temperature is 39 degrees.
Biological degradation – another unspoken truth that would explain the explosive increase of many diseases, sicknesses and mental ailments caused by the billions of tons of harmful chemicals released into the environment by corporate products.
Intellectual decay – the general state of ignorance resulting from the persistent storms of lies and disinformation. This ignorance mixed with confusion and fear causes stupidity.
An example of mass stupidity
Week after week millions of people eat a thin piece of tasteless wafer dipped in cheap wine symbolizing the flesh and blood of a prophet who lived 2000 years ago. This is not the stupid part. There’s nothing wrong with symbolic ceremonies. The stupid part comes after, ”So what?” What’s the point? Where’s the discussion about how to act in today’s world, in our daily life, to honor to the teachings and promote the aspirations of the prophet? No discussion. Not before, during or after the mass. ”Swallow the tasteless soggy bite of wafer, sit down and shut up!”
Note: This year at least 80 000 people will cancel their membership in the Swedish church—as do many people in all countries with large Christian populations. A reaction to stupidity? Something is causing the bloodless organization to bleed members.
An example of professional lies
Paul C. (Trump-is-a-victory-for-the-working-class) Roberts constantly, DAILY, talks about how Trump has defeated the oligarchs. I wish someone would ask him if the Koch brothers are among the oligarchs. Roberts, who has been a Distinguished Fellow at their Cato Institute never mentions these billionaires. His knowledge of what is good for the working class must be grounded in the major role he played in forming the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 under Reagan’s presidency. For this work which cut $150 billion in corporate taxes he was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.” How have the oligarchs been doing under US economic policy?
As a professional liar
(I assume that he is a liar because nobody can be so stupid to claim that the election of Trump is a victory for the working class.)
Roberts has been parading in progressive clothes criticizing the government, media lies, Israel, 9/11 and other ”progressive” issues. During the election circus he performed a lion task roaring approval of Trump. He’s still drumming up support for him as champion to fight the oligarchs. Progressive?
The Great Crippling Lie (GCL)
P.C. Roberts is an example of an intellectual warrior in the battle for control of the empire. This battle has no more concern for the people (the working class) than a knight has for the shit of his horse. It’s a battle among the ruling players, involving think tanks, charities, political parties, university departments, institutions, trolls, net sites, elections, lobbyists and the mainstream media. The people are made to believe that they play a part in the battle. Horse shit! We are constantly and persistently bombed and stormed with this great lie crippling our ability to unite against the ruling players threatening our existence by perpetuating a money-oriented system of government instead of a people-oriented one. This GCL puts the people in conflict with each other instead of their real enemy, the few giga-wealthy growing ever richer while the great majority of the people grow poorer, weaker and sicker.
We could improve our intellectual health instantly by regarding the prevailing flow of information in general to be a lie, the words of the rulers telling us how we should think. Think about it.
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“Many people are proud of their disinformed intellects.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
I first heard the expression ”polluting children” from Penelope Chaffer in a TED talk entitled The Toxic Baby. Horrible? The extent of the pollution should rattle your genes. In fact it does rattle your genes (and children’s genes even more) whether you feel it or not. No pure blood flows from a mother to the child in her womb, no sample of fetal blood has been found to be free from contaminants. The pollution continues to flow into the child as it sucks milk from mom’s breasts. The process picks up speed as the child enters the stage of solid food.
We all carry 10s of 1000s of chemicals in our bodies that haven’t been present in Homo sapiens up until the most recent times. Although the level of pollution in children is lower than in adults, children are far more vulnerable to the toxins. Childhood diseases and ailments have skyrocketed in recent decades.
Cancers, particularly leukemia, asthma, autism, diabetes I, brain tumors, allergies and a smorgasbord of mental and emotional disorders afflict the young as never before and the frequency of the maladies continues to accelerate.
We’re alarmed at global warming, its devastating effects and its threat to the survival of humanity, yet we endure biological poisoning and the deterioration of humanity’s condition barely raising an eyebrow.
We don’t know all the sources contaminating our bodies as well as we know about those heating our environment, but we know a great deal. We know that the ingredients atrazine and glyphosate in the pesticides spread on our agricultural products help sicken, disable and kill us. Together with additives in processed foods, particularly artificial sweeteners, they act as the bullets and bombs attacking our biology and ravaging nature in general. We also know that mighty chemical and pharmaceutical corporations can lobby-bribe any official or organization to allow their products to poison our bodies while fattening their profits.
It’s war, Dorothy, and we’re being contained, weakened and killed with chemical weapons of mass destruction. How dare we allow them to pollute our children?
Let’s shut down the empire, the money-oriented enterprise of conquest generated by consumption. Avoid all food and drinks from corporate sources. Avoid as many corporate products as possible. All.
Or…
allow them to pollute our children.
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“You know they’ve been painting over the hard greys with their smooth green,
so why are you surprised to find a rat when the paint peels?”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
When the Beatles sang All You Need is Love they struck at commercial interests and sent them reeling. The message of love was exemplified with hair styles that were not styles and outrageous clothes that ridiculed the fashion industry. Appearance lost value while love stocks soared. The dictates of the fashionistas and trend commendantes found fewer and fewer ears. Forget the trimmings, all you need is love. It worked. The youth walked on petals of flower power in comfortable shoes with hair growing naturally wild. They wore recycled clothes adorned with homemade beads and naked smiles. Love had knocked fashion to its knees. Consumerism was bleeding. Panic spread through the corridors of power.
Corporate power survived and struck back with vengeance. Not only did fashion, beauty contests and high-heel shoes make a comeback, skin had to be decorated and pierced and body parts surgically enhanced. The dancers and lovers in fields and parks became herds roaming the shopping centers.
Progress, I guess, means hiding love under a designer-brand logo.
“Have you noticed that the heating of the atmosphere
parallels floods of texting
and increased dried-up relationships.”
Dartwill Aquila
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(The re-known organization now known as Stoic Autodidacts Transcending Intrinsic Rhetorical Efficiency has published a report from an unnamed official of the Dental Pixie Fond whose well documented financial support to children experiencing a loss lends high veracity to the following story.)
Mr. and Ms. Amica were given a choice between two people to rape their 12-year-old. The one candidate promised to do it properly. In democratic tradition she would allow the child to choose between a selection of procedures. She pointed out that as a woman she had good knowledge of rape. The other candidate said that he would cut through the conventional niceties and teach the child the real meaning of tough love. He would make the child a child again.
For months both candidates showered the Amicas with promises and threats of what would happen if their opponent performed the rape. The entire Amica family, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and even friends and neighbors, were allowed to take part in selecting one of the two prestigious rapists. The gardeners and garbage collectors however were not included, and, if the one candidate were selected, would be sent beyond the wall of the community which would eventually be built.
The siblings tried to prevent the family from voting but were brushed aside as naive and unfamilyistic. The rest of the family argued and fought with each other over who they would vote for. The Amica house became divided in internal conflict. The child of course did get raped. Democratically.
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“Laughter with a sharp edge can be serious.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
System Humanity 