I wish apathy was the refuge it used to be.
Liana
Every part of the ”weed”, Epilobium (Chamerion) Angustifolium, aka fireweed and willowherb, from its roots to its flowered tip, can be used. It can, among other things, provide food (rich in vitamins A and C), medicine (both internal and external) or woven (the silk-like seed strands) into exquisite cloth.
You have probably never seen fireweed cloth. It is not commercially doable; no profit, no product. In other words, the prevailing order cannot afford exquisite (= beautiful, intense and sensitive) cloth, not for Armani Ts nor Victoria Secret thongs. Nor can this generous plant share its other gifts due to commercial dictates.
Fireweed is a pioneer species. It takes root under harsh conditions and prepares the soil for other vegetation.
I wish anything about this country felt as reliable and strong as I once thought it was.
Liana
The two quotes stem from Liana’s blog at The Hour of Soft Light. She’s as good with words as photos. You’ll have to visit her site to see the photos, but the two quotes testify to her ability with words, and why I dedicate this bouquet of fireweeds to her.
I believe the two quotes capture the sentiments of many people, not only Americans. We’ve passed the point of pretending we can avoid the approaching dangers, and what we ”once thought” no longer applies to the reality raining down upon us. The time to learn from the fireweeds has arrived.
We are not commercial! We are viable forms of life, not commodities. The dictates of money threaten us and life in general. We, like fireweeds, must nourish one another, care for one another and weave our beauty, intensity and sensitivity into a cloth of unity capable of resisting the storm of money’s dictates while clothing our needs in dignity.
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”Beauty expresses the harmony of form embracing function.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
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”Decadence is a symptom
with teeth.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Let’s vote for nicer wars,
elect a better class of money’s whores.
Bullets and bombs from recycled old cars,
how proud the survivors will be of their scars.
Guaranteed flowers on the coffins of kids
with their names embossed upon the lids.
Those who are raped should never lack
a choice of positions, front or back.
Let’s vote for nicer wars,
elect a better class of money’s whores.
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”How often we hear of a brutal murder.
What’s a non-brutal murder?”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Pentagon Warns Assad Regime to Avoid Action Near U.S. and Allied Forces
That is a headline from the The Wall Street Journal (Aug. 19, 2016). Newspapers and journals throughout the world carry the same headline, including subtext and body text word for word. As this ”news” comes straight from the ass of the empire don’t expect anyone to question the right of the Pentagon to tell Syria what and where they may conduct ”action” in their own country.
Foreign forces ”warn” the native country to keep clear of the foreign forces.
Were we not relentlessly bombed with the perspective of the empire, we would LOL or VE (vomit excessively). But when the empire speaks, no matter what it says, the flunkies must answer, ”Yes, master.”
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”Right and wrong often disobey both reality and truth
when a steel fist points to where they must stand.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The wide-eyed, non-talking heads stare through the glass, proud of the color and shape of their hair. What goes on behind them, stays behind them. Thirteen heads. The bodiless figures need no supper. The last view?
Two of the heads outside the mainframe whisper.
Ms. Orwell, “Democracy is conformity.”
Ms. Huxley, “There will be no new world, and besides it wouldn’t be brave anyway.”
No head looks up, not for sunshine nor when rain smatters the glass.
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“Well-written banalities
by titled authorities
thru media agencies
of controlling minorities
hide key realities
and viable possibilities
from disillusioned majorities.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
”The invasion of Iraq was illegal.”
– Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
”The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.”
– William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor
“a prima facie case (the invasion of Iraq) can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity — that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation.”
– Benjamin Ferencz, former chief Nuremberg prosecutor
Note ”the supreme crime against humanity”. The Nuremberg prosecutors stipulated in clear text that ”a war of aggression” is the ultimate crime because war embodies all other crimes
There can be no doubt that the USA has committed the supreme crime against humanity when it invaded Iraq. We need no other evidence (although much more is available) to know that the country is run by criminals, supreme criminals, murders and thieves of the first and worst order. This isn’t heavy science. The supreme crime was committed by supreme criminals.
Although 100s of millions of people are aware of the criminal nature of the magnificent bastards determining policy for U.S.A.’s imperial enterprise, many people, intellectuals in particular, seem incapable of connecting the dots despite only two dots, supreme crime and supreme criminals.
The reason so many people have such difficulty seeing blatant criminality stems from the power of the criminals to invade minds with aggressive and relentless sophisticated disinformation. The occupied minds play obediently, work desperately and fear passionately that any threat to the prevailing order threatens them. Saturated with flowery indoctrination, the people turn against each other and blame the weak and the victims for the ills endangering them all.
The world is ruled by criminals. Deal with it!
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“Money can’t buy peace. Its price must be paid with a united struggle.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The election circus must be admired for its tenacious persistency.
Like a tyrannosaurus bulldog it bites into the public
bleeds them of reason
promotes the illusion of democracy
diverts from significant events
deteriorates chances of improving the lives of the citizens.
The circus has clowns instead of gladiators.
Extraordinary clowns.
They’re not funny and they don’t kill each other.
They kill the public,
kill their dignity, knowledge and possibilities.
The script was written years ago.
The outcome is as certain as the last chapter of a book.
It’s a show, a tragic non-comic farce.
It means nothing. NOTHING.
The rulers,
driven by their greed,
will continue their policy of conquest and control
regardless of who is ”chosen”
to administrate their dictates.
But such is the pull of the election storm
it sucks otherwise intelligent people into its vortex,
dizzies them
and has them screaming nonsense about nothing
into the wind.
Vote! is all they have to say.
Vote! Play your part in the prevailing order. Vote!
Vote and prove your obedience to the status quo!
Vote and prove your ignorance of social, political and economic realities!
Vote and show the rulers they have nothing to fear!
Vote! Demonstrate your subservience!
Vote! Illustrate the consolidation of your indoctrination!
Vote and feel free to whine as much as you like!
Vote and indulge in as much decadence as you can swallow!
Vote and solidify the fixation of your frustration!
Vote, just as you’ve done time and time again,
and experienced how things have gotten worse and worse,
the rulers have grown richer and richer
the voters poorer and poorer
the environment dirtier, angrier and hotter
the conflicts broader and bloodier
with hate growing deeper and darker
again and again
and tell yourself that this time it will be different
because this time
the circus is showier and the clowns are clownier.
Vote!
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“Obviously, the obvious isn’t always obvious.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
See origin of this photo below!
They call themselves the smart ones.
The smart ones!
Can you believe it?
Their prayers increase and climb on the waves
of global warming.
Even now when the heat has already been turned on
they laugh and pout, twist and shout
and haven’t a clue what it’s all about.
What did they expect, a big match?
Did they expect me to breath fire?
The smart ones!
They’ve got as much sense as boiling frogs
and know nothing about me.
I never had any intention of destroying them with fire.
They are going to destroy themselves with fire.
The smart ones!
Continued warming eventually bursts into flames.
Even human-like apes knew that a couple of million years ago.
Me? I’m just following their dictates.
I’m within them all,
the living heart of the soul in the body of humanity.
As long as they fight among themselves
and embrace their differences
I’m powerless.
Should they unite
and concentrate my strength,
they would witness the miracle
of holy power
strong enough
to tame the sun.
Unfortunately,
that day may never come.
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“Of course they have big brains.
They couldn’t be this stupid with less.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The MSM (mainstream media) could be described as Abstract Surrealism with experts, pundits and journalists explaining the fantasy of portrayed events.
Confusing? Concentrate on ”fantasy of portrayed events”?
The MSM showers citizens with fantasies (illusions and delusions) daily. An informed public would not tolerate the prevailing order in which a handful of people determine the course of events affecting billions of people, a handful who terrorize the world with economic exploitation and military confrontation while deteriorating the conditions of the earth and threatening the fate of humanity. Consequently, the handful of people whose rule depends on maintaining the prevailing order must disinform the people with fantasies and myths glorifying the unseen forces maintaining the status quo.
The main myth/fantasy/disinformation:
The US is a freedom-loving democracy. It has some faults, makes mistakes and struggles with problems, but it’s basically a great and good country fighting evil and terrorism in the world.
Of course it is. And the Mafia is a crime-fighting organization, rapists struggle to spread love, drug dealers are concerned with mental happiness and pedophile priests try to instill the love of god in children.
The US perpetrated the invasion and war in Iraq. This alone exceeds all crimes by all terrorists in the past generation. ISIS, Boko Haram and Al Queda together look like a high school cheer leader squad compared to a monsterous military machine with heavily armed psychopath mercenaries in all corners. The military-grade MSM fantasies however succeed in twisting murder into a politically correct and incorrect boxes. Slitting the throat of a journalist (who was probably a spy), for example, falls with a resounding thud into the politically incorrect box and the MSM can call out the expert herd to bray horrible adjectives and damning invectives over those behind the knife. Destroying a few houses and ripping kids, grandmas, neighbors and a suspected militant to shreds however belongs to the politically correct form of murder and need not be mentioned at all or merely named in conjunction with the success of removing a suspected militant. Questioning the right to murder a ”suspect” in a sovereign, even friendly, country is of course politically incorrect. As is mentioning the bombing 10s of thousands of homes and infrastructure facilities while murdering and maiming 100s of thousands of people. It is also incorrect to report that a family in a car was wiped out by a storm of 50 cal. bullets. If such an incident does get mentioned it should be called a mistake and no nasty names are to be attached to the gunners.
This standard MSM protocol for describing the few murders committed by the enemy while ignoring, toning down and even justifying the mass murders committed by our good-guys is embraced by the un-intelligensia, professed progressives and intellectuals in general within the empire.
Just another day in blue glow of the MSM.
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“Sticks and stones can break your bones
and words can justify it.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Perception management controls the orientation of attention. It’s psyops’s tool of choice. If Mr. Smith’s attention is locked on Miss Curvy’s shower preparations in an apartment across the street, he won’t notice a thief behind him taking his laptop and kissing his wife on the way out. What we look at determines what we see AND what we don’t see.
Imagine a sophisticated psyop in which Miss Curvy is part of the operation along with Mrs. Smith who receives generous compensation for her cooperation.
If your mind isn’t too perceptually managed you might be able to visualize the election circus as Miss Curvy and the msm as the cooperative Mrs. Smith. Psyops is the thief removing significant events behind the back of Mr. Smith who represents the citizens.
Significant events managed away from perception:
Beyond Misinformation
Months ago over 2000 professional and experienced architects and engineers published their findings on the collapse of the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers. These PhDs and professors cannot be dismissed as conspiracy nerds, nor can the physical laws they applied to come to their conclusions.
The publication of their report Beyond Misinformation demolishes the official story about the events of the great 9/11 crime. It also demolishes trust in the msm that exhibits no resistance to hiding this information. The election circus owns de facto priority over exposing a great crime. Or should I say, the clowns trump the criminals.
Poisoned Flint
Compare the media coverage of the polluted water system in Flint to the wiggling words of candidate clowns. Tons of commentary about 100s of aspects of the clowns while a few grams of comments barely touch on the poisoned bodies of 100s of children. Complete silence surrounds the source of the problem, the tax-break money given to the giga-wealthy. While screams of the dangers of the scary clowns echo throughout the media daily, news drips out to the public (all channels of the media saying the same thing) for a day or two about Flint and then disappears. A governor, for example, proclaimed that Snyder should resign. Isn’t that cute, cute as lead-laced sludge pouring out of the kitchen faucet. The man responsible for devastating a 100.000 lives, permanently damaging 100s of children and killing at least 10 people with legionnaire sickness should resign. Resign! That’ll teach this poisoning murderer a thing or two.
Foxes determined to help chickens
The US is trying to force India to abandon an extensive solar energy project. Trade Representative Michael Froman said that India’s rules for locally made products for its solar power program “discriminate against U.S. exports” and break WTO rules. “We are determined to stand up for U.S. workers and businesses.” Don’t you get teary eyed thinking about how the U.S. stands up for its workers?
War on the horizon
The military build up along the borders of Russia and the provocations against China is regulated to a lower corner of a deep page of ”news” so as not to disturb the front pages and fat texts dealing with the election circus. The possibility (probability) of nuclear war should not distract from the antics of the clowns.
And the show goes on. And on …
Oh, look, Miss Curvy just exposed another spot of flesh.
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“Along the path to extinction grow weeds of virtual reality.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
System Humanity 