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ohprettyweeper-moved · 6 years ago

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Open Your Eyes (Part 2)

Chapter Summary: Old friends and new friends come together for a photo shoot for Frank’s and Tyler’s collabs with Vans. Pairing: Tyler Joseph x OFC, Frank Iero x OFC Word Count: 1885 Warnings: None? A/N: I needed something fun and cute to write with low pressure so that I could stop worrying about a more serious piece I’m working on for a bit. This five-part crossover series was the result! It’s cheesy and fluffy and is probably akin to something you’d see on the Hallmark Channel, but that’s how I intended it to be. Thanks to @razor-tothe-rosary for your help and encouragement! Enjoy reading, everyone!

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Five musicians had been chosen to collaborate on a shoe and apparel design with Vans, and Emerson wasn’t sure whose design she would be modeling, but she wasn’t surprised that she had one of the earliest call times that day.

She had been in hair and makeup for about five minutes when Americus walked in and took the seat next to her. Emerson was only slightly in awe, since she was used to meeting other models with longer resumes, but Americus was on a higher level than Emerson.

“Are you okay?” Americus asked.

Emerson cleared her throat and apologized. “Sorry, didn’t mean to stare. It’s just -- well, I thought since I’m newer in the industry, that’s how I drew the short straw and got such an early call time.”

“I think they’ve got two photographers, and the musicians had first dibs. Some of them like to get it over with early so they can relax the rest of the day,” Americus explained. “I’m sorry, you’ll have to tell me your name. I don’t think we’ve met before.”

“Emerson,” she replied. “Americus, right?”

The other woman nodded. “You’ve got a unique name. That’s good in this industry -- you’ll stand out in people’s memories. Where are you from?”

Emerson launched into her background and growing up in Jersey. Americus shared similar stories about her life in Columbus, and they both talked about how they had gotten into the modeling business. Their stories weren’t that different, starting local and growing from there. Americus had simply started earlier than Emerson.

By the time they were on to wardrobe, Emerson and Americus were like old friends. They had traded contact information and were looking forward to getting together next time both of their schedules allowed for it.

“I swear, the plan for my butt to hang out of the shorts they put me in,” Americus sighed, tugging the denim shorts down as far as they would go. She turned and surveyed her backside in the mirror. “That’s better I guess. You lucked out with jeans, Em.”

Emerson nodded. “Can’t argue that. I haven’t had to do anything with shorts in a while, but the last dress I had to model was more like a long shirt. Yikes.”

An assistant came to take them to set where the girls waited in between the two backdrops while the photographers did lighting checks and the musicians finished up in hair and makeup.

“All right, ladies, I think we’re ready,” the shoot director announced.

“Good luck!” Americus called to Emerson as they parted.

“You too,” Emerson returned, cheekily adding, “Watch that backside!”

Americus laughed as she walked to take her mark on the red backdrop. She looked up at the man walking towards her and gasped.

“Ty?” she exclaimed.

The man with the yellow tape on his jacket and fingers looked just as surprised as she was, but was fully expecting the hug Americus launched herself into. He held her tight, picking her up off the ground.

“Americus? I can’t believe it’s really you!”

“Same,” she chuckled, wiggling back down to the floor. “How have you been? Congrats on all this, and the band -- everything.”

“You too,” he returned. The photographer cleared his throat, and Tyler waved an acknowledgement. “Sorry, we’re old friends, from before anyone really knew who we were. Give us just a second, we’ll be ready.”

“Are you in town for long?” was Americus’s next question.

Tyler shrugged. “Today and tomorrow. Staying with a friend.”

“Well, I’m free after this, if you are. We need to catch up.”

“Count me in,” Tyler agreed eagerly.

“I’m Frank Iero,” the hazel-eyed man greeted Emerson.

She returned his handshake and his smile. “Emerson. I love this design, by the way. Kind of hoping they’ll let me keep everything.”

His smile grew at her half-joking statement. “I’m glad you like it, and it looks good on you. If they don’t let you keep it, I’ll make sure we send you a box of stuff.”

“Thanks,” Emerson grinned. “Ready?”

Frank nodded. “I think so. Let’s take some pictures.”

It was one of the most fun shoots Emerson had done so far. Frank made her feel super relaxed, joking around with her and making the shoot feel nothing like work. She genuinely enjoyed being around him and hoped that, somehow, they would have the opportunity to work together again in the future.

A few hours later, after shooting almost every pose from almost every angle imaginable, the photographer called it a wrap. Emerson saw that Americus was still working, so she waved briefly and motioned that she would call her new friend soon.

After the makeup artist removed her makeup, Emerson washed and moisturized her face, packed up the clothes and shoes they had in fact allowed her to keep, she checked her phone. She had a couple of missed calls from her boyfriend, so she rang him back on speakerphone while she had time.

“I called you twice,” he replied, once the call connected. “I had time to talk then. I don’t have a lot of time now, Em.”

Emerson sighed. “I was working, Jeff. I’m sorry. Had the Vans photo shoot today.”

“Well, I’ve been in the DFW airport for three hours, dealing with a delayed flight. This whole debacle is setting me back two days on work.”

“The shoot went great, thanks for asking,” she mumbled sarcastically.

Jeff scoffed. “I’ll bet you got your hair and makeup done, stood there while someone snapped a camera, and got some free stuff out of it. I figured it went well. Can we get back to talking about my day?”

“No, we can’t,” Emerson snapped, tired of Jeff constantly being gone and not caring one bit about her life. “I’ve got to finish packing up and get out of here. Just call me when you have more time.”

She hit the red button on the screen before he could say anything else and blinked back the tears in her eyes. The relationship with Jeff had started out really well but lately, that just wasn’t the case.

“You shouldn’t let him talk to you like that, you know.”

Wiping at the few tears that had fallen, Emerson turned to see Frank standing just inside the dressing room door, arms crossed over his chest and a concerned look deepening his frown.

Emerson waved it off. “Jeff’s an investment banker. Amazingly smart man, not always the best at handling his frustrations. We’ve been spending a lot of time apart lately, since I’m working on my career, and he isn’t exactly freelance, but he works for a nationwide service. He travels for business a lot.”

“Distance can be hard, I know. My ex is an actress and we just split up at Thanksgiving.” He dropped his arms. “I don’t mean to be forward or anything, and don’t take this the wrong way, but maybe, if you’re not busy, I can take you out for something to eat. Lift both of our spirits.”

“You really don’t have to do that.”

Frank put his hands in his pockets. “This is just as much for you as it is for me. Really. C’mon -- we had a fun shoot, let’s go let off some steam.”

Though she wasn’t entirely sure it was the best idea, as she had always been adamant she wasn’t going to associate with anyone just to bolster her credibility in the industry and she didn’t want it to appear that way, either, Emerson agreed.

“I am a little hungry, I guess.”

Frank smiled. “Good. C’mon, I’ll take you to one of my favorite places around here.”

Emerson shouldered her bag, feeling a little better already.

Americus was laughing as she and Tyler entered her apartment. “It’s really nothing to be impressed by, I promise.”

“I’m impressed by how clean and tidy it is,” Tyler admitted, looking around in awe.

“Eh, don’t be impressed by that, either. I’m gone so much, the cleaning lady comes every other week to keep up with things. Thirsty?”

Tyler asked for water, and after dropping her bags, Americus went to the kitchen for a bottle of water for each of them. They sat on her couch, and she shook her head.

“I still can’t believe, after all these years, this is how we meet again.”

“Me either,” Tyler agreed. “How long has it been? Ten years? Twelve?”

Americus did the mental math. “Almost fourteen. I came out here just before junior year started, finished high school online.”

Tyler nodded like a sudden realization had hit him. “That’s why I never got to take you to prom.”

Americus rolled her eyes. “You weren’t going to take me to prom! Not so long as Mariann was interested in you.”

“Nah, it still would have been you. Would have been way more fun.”

Americus smiled. “Well, thanks. How’s Columbus? Or do you get back that way very often?”

“As often as I can,” Tyler nodded. “Just spent Thanksgiving back home, actually. Was there for a week or so. I didn’t see your family, but I think my parents do every now and then.”

“Good. I talk to my dad at least once a week, to catch up. My schedule … it’s hectic.”

“Not that I know much about the modeling business, but I know about entertainment. Can’t you turn some jobs down to spend more time at home?”

Americus shrugged and let out a deep breath. “It’s just not that easy, Ty. I wish it was -- every time I come home from some party or appearance, I wish it was much simpler. I miss a quiet life. When I started modeling, I was young. I didn’t know where it would lead, you know. Didn’t know it would take me so far from home, from people I love. I rode the wave because I didn’t know what else I would do, and it was stable. But, it won’t be stable forever. I guess that’s why I stay, so I have my little nest egg when they’re done with me.” Her voice was shaky at the end, so she cleared her throat. “Sorry. I didn’t mean to get that deep. You’ve always been someone I could talk to.”

“Likewise,” Tyler returned, reaching out to squeeze her hand. “Remember when we were kids and we’d go to the field down from my parents’ house and just be there all day? Maybe you need to come home and we need to do that again.”

She took a deep breath and let her head fall to the back of the couch. “That would be amazing. I’ll be home Christmas and Christmas Eve, then I’m off to Europe, actually.”

Tyler nodded. He was disappointed, but he did his best not to let it show. “Then I guess we’ll have to make the best of tonight. You order the pizza, I’m going to grab my stuff from Josh’s. I’ll get some soda while I’m over there.”

“You bring back Coke and I’m not going to be happy.”

“Don’t worry,” Tyler smiled, heading for the door, “I’ll bring back some of that nasty Pepsi you drink. I remember.”

Americus smiled at the doorway, even after the door was closed behind Tyler. She bit her lip and forced the nostalgic butterflies of her childhood crush to calm themselves.

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projektfealty-blog · 7 years ago

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Thanksgiving

THE POPULAR THANKSGIVING STORY

On Thanksgiving Day in many American schools, children re-enact the events that took place during the “first Thanksgiving”. It is usually portrayed as a dinner party in celebration of the first successful harvest where the pilgrims “settlers” and the Native Americans who initially inhabited the land ate together in peace.

According to popular knowledge, these pilgrims were visitors from England, on a mission in 1620, to further explore the new world (West of Europe) and secure religious freedom.

There were about 100 men on the voyage, a mixture of different Europeans, and they journeyed for 65 days before getting to shore. They came and settled in Plymouth (Patuxets) and built a community there without the feared disturbances from the Native Americans.

Photo credit:https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-pilgrims-first-winter-1620-granger.html

Their first winter the Pilgrims witnessed the death of over half of their men due to poor coverage and adverse health conditions. When winter was over and they were facing a damning period, they had a turn of fortune. They met a Native, Samoset, who could speak English alongside his friend, Squanto.

Squanto helped the pilgrims survive the rest of their stay in the land. He taught them how to tap maple tree sap, taught them to differentiate the medicinal trees from the poisonous ones, and educated them on planting corn and vegetables as well as teaching them to fish and hunt.

When October came, with the guidance of their new friend Squanto, the Pilgrims cultivated corn, fruits, vegetables, and fish to salt and store. It provided them with enough food to survive the winter.

In thanks and celebration, the pilgrims had a bountiful harvest that lasted three days. The native Americans joined them for this feast bringing their native dishes to share. They ate and danced.

Many people consider this the origin of Thanksgiving.

Some continue on with the story, claiming one summer two years later, the pilgrims held a day of fasting and praying to ask for rain and a bountiful harvest. When the rains came and the harvest was once more plentiful, they celebrated their thanks in a festival held on the 29th of November.

THE OMITTED STORY

The Native Americans had encountered the English before the pilgrim's voyage. Early arrivals of Europeans resulted in the deaths of 10- 30 million native Americans. These deaths span several centuries, from Christopher Columbus’ 1492 arrival through the late 19th century. The majority were victims of diseases brought by Europeans for which the native people had no immunity.

Prior to the Pilgrims’ arrival, the local tribe had already lost perhaps 90 percent of its people from possible transmission of bubonic plague by European fishermen.

Tisquantum “Squanto” was one Native American who had previously been in contact with the English. He was kidnapped and enslaved in 1614, only to return to his homeland in New England in 1629 to find his entire Patuxet tribe decimated by smallpox and the English living in their settlement.

It was as a slave that Squanto learned the English that allowed him to interpret for the natives and communicate with the Pilgrims who were living on the land his tribe once thrived on. He and a native named Samoset were able to help their Chief Massasoit negotiate a peace treaty that guaranteed the survival of the Wampanoag people. In exchange for peace, and a promise to fight together in the event of an attack from a warring tribe, or new settlers, the Wampanoag agreed to teach the Pilgrims how to survive on their land.

Schools teach that Pilgrims settled in the wilderness but this is far from the truth. The native people had built a lively settlement with clear fields and clean springs-- which the pilgrims settled in after the original inhabitants had been wiped out due to diseases brought by previous Europeans.

Many references, especially from the settlers journals, show that in their initial interactions, when the Natives went out during the day, the Pilgrims robbed their houses and took things varying from fruit and meat to tools and weapons. They raided their storage houses and their fields. Many were killed during skirmishes. Settlers also allegedly raided graveyards for things they could barter or sell back.

Their relationship was hostile and their peace was forged not assumed.

In fact, of the many diaries recovered, all but one--Winslow’s-- account said that during the infamous feast, the settlers in their exuberance fired gunshots in the air. And it was in response to these gunshots--which the Natives thought were distress calls, that they came upon the feast. There is no historical evidence proving the Native Americans were invited, or sat down and ate with the Pilgrims.

They did not live happily ever after, Their relations eventually deteriorated, culminating in a war between the tribe and colonial forces in 1675.

THE TIMELINE

Both Native American and European societies had been holding festivals to celebrate successful harvests for centuries before the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, and for centuries after.

The culmination of popularity with the English Thanksgiving festivals came when English soldiers held feasts to celebrate victorious battles and conquered villages and tribes.

In fact, many people believe that the first Thanksgiving stemmed from the feast held to commemorate the end of the Pequot war.

When the Pequot tribe of Connecticut gathered for their annual Green Corn Dance ceremony in 1637, mercenaries of the English and Dutch surrounded their village and attacked them; burning down everything and shooting whoever tried to escape. The next day, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony declared: “A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children.” The massacre all but wiped out an entire tribe of people who had been thriving for over 1300 years. Those who escaped were later hunted

It is important to note, that the holiday itself wasn’t made official until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared it as a ‘thank you’ for the Civil War victories in Vicksburg, Miss., and Gettysburg, Pa.

“Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed”

--President Abraham Lincolns Thanksgiving Proclamation..

THE IMPLICATIONS

When one looks at the happenstances: the true experience of the relationship between the Native Americans and the pilgrims, it is not hard to see why Many Native Americans see it as a “day of mourning” due to its popularity during the raids and enslavement of Natives.

The modern-day thanksgiving celebration is a mix of confused traditions and historical stories, resulting in the rendering of a historical event that is more fiction than fact.

With regard to this, many non-natives who understand the cultural implications of the domination of the tradition and villages of welcoming Natives, do not celebrate Thanksgiving. Others celebrate the holiday in blissful ignorance. They use it as an excuse to give thanks for their yearly blessings, to spend the day with their family and friends, play games during the day and eat a popular Turkey dinner in the evening.

painting by Norman Rockwell

As time passes more people are contemplating the historical implications and wondering what exactly it is that they are celebrating, is it a commemoration of the land conquered? a familial gratitude for a successful harvest? a "thank you" to the specific people who ensured 2 victorious battles during the civil war? Or a national holiday that you partake in “just because”?

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October Holidays

For all month long, not a complete list that includes every country with no exceptions, but... it’s pretty long.

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1st - World Vegetarian Day

International Coffee Day

Children´s Day (El salvador)

National Day of the People's Republic of China

International Day of Older Persons

Mid-Autumn Festival Day 2 (S. Korea)

Armed Forces Day (S. Korea)

Teachers Day (Uzbekistan)

German Food Bank Day (Germany)

Black History Month (UK)

National Hair Day

Fire Pup Day

National Homemade Cookies Day

2nd - International Day of Non-Violence

Mid-Autumn Festival Day 3 (S. Korea)

Day after Mid-Autumn Festival (Hong Kong/Macau)

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

National Produce Misting Day *

National Custodial Worker’s Recognition Day

National Name Your Car Day

National Fried Scallops Day

National Manufacturing Day

National Body Language Day

World Smile Day

3rd - National Foundation Day (S. Korea)

Iraqi Independence Day (Iraq)

Daylight Saving Time starts (Australia)

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

Wine Day (Day 1) (Moldova)

Day of German Unity (Germany)

National Boyfriend Day

National Techies Day

4th - Teacher's Day (Ukraine)

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

Wine Day (Day 2) (Moldova)

World Animal Day

National Vodka Day

National Taco Day

National Golf Lover’s Day

5th - World Teachers' Day

World Habitat Day

Queen's Birthday (Queensland, Australia)

Labour Day (Australia)

Child Health Day (US)

Peat Cutting Monday (Faulkland Islands)

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

National Get Funky Day

National Rhode Island Day

National Do Something Nice Day

National Apple Betty Day

National Consignment Day

6th - Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)

Armed Forces Day (Egypt)

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)

National Orange Wine Day

National Plus Size Appreciation Day

National Mad Hatter Day

National German-American Day

National Noodle Day

7th - World Cerebral Palsy Day

National Day Golden Week holiday (China)

Space Exploration Day (Germany)

National LED Light Day

National Frappe Day

National Inner Beauty Day

National Walk to School Day

National Pumpkin Seed Day

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Canada celebrates Thanksgiving amid coronavirus second wave, mixed messages (Washington Post) TORONTO—With cases of the coronavirus rising this spring, Carole Robert’s “close-knit” family scrapped Easter. A family reunion planned for the summer was also a wash. So when Robert got on the phone with a sister recently to talk Thanksgiving—a holiday she typically celebrates with some 35 family members—she knew what was coming. “It’s completely canceled,” said Robert, who lives in Vankleek Hill, Ontario, roughly 60 miles from Ottawa. “There’s always next year.” Canadian Thanksgiving comes earlier than the American version—families will gather to eat turkey and avoid discussing politics on Monday. But in this pandemic year, authorities across the country are urging Canadians to curtail their holiday plans. Some suggest celebrating only with others who are already living under the same roof. Others advise moving the party outdoors or online. In a rare nationally televised address last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it might be necessary to cancel Thanksgiving to “have a shot at Christmas.” Whether Canadians obey those pleas remains to be seen. Forty percent of Canadians surveyed by the Montreal polling firm Leger this month said they haven’t or won’t change their Thanksgiving plans because of the pandemic.

Humpback whales have made a comeback in New York City (CBS News) A whale sighting in New York would have been almost unimaginable a few years ago. Now, the city is welcoming back whales. The Hudson River, which flows along the western stretch of Manhattan, is a lot cleaner than it was in the past, “and so it’s bringing nutrients out rather than pollution,” said Paul Sieswerda, president of the group Gotham Whale, which advocates for whales and marine mammals in New York City. The Clean Water Act and the Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, likely helped revive plankton levels in the area. Over the years, the food chain has been built up, and humpback whales are now enjoying some New York fine dining. “The whales come here to eat. New York is famous as being a good place to find good food. And the whales have found menhaden, which the local fishermen call ‘bunker,’” Sieswerda said. In 2011, just three whales were spotted in the area. Last year, there were more than 300.

Supreme Court confirmation battle starts Monday (NYT) Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Republicans applaud her as a dazzling legal scholar, while Democrats fear the creation of a conservative majority that would threaten the Affordable Care Act, gay marriage and abortion rights.

In hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, residents dig out, again (AP) LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP)—A blue tarp covered a hole in their roof, torn open when the last hurricane blew through. Friday night, the next hurricane tried to rip the tarp away. Earnestine and Milton Wesley had decided to ride out Hurricane Delta in their Lake Charles home, damaged just weeks earlier by Hurricane Laura. As the wind rustled the tarp above them, they grabbed it through the hole in the ceiling and held on tight. “We fought all night long trying to keep things intact,” Milton said. “And with God’s help we made it.” Delta made landfall Friday evening near the coastal town of Creole with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph). It moved over Lake Charles, a city where Hurricane Laura damaged nearly every home and building in late August. Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter estimated that hundreds of already battered homes took on water, as Delta dumped more than 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on Lake Charles over two days. And people were already exhausted and stressed—for two weeks the Wesleys had been sleeping on their back porch to escape the heat because they had no power.

Brazil reaches 150,000 deaths from COVID-19 milestone (AP) Brazil’s count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 150,000 on Saturday night, despite signs the pandemic is slowly retreating in Latin America’s largest nation. The Brazilian Health Ministry reported that the death toll now stands at 150,198. The figure is the world’s second highest behind the United States, according to the tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

UK at ‘tipping point:’ England braces for more restrictions (AP) Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus. England’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said the U.K. is at a “tipping point similar to where we were in March” following a sharp increase in new coronavirus cases. All across Europe including the U.K., there have been huge increases in coronavirus cases over the past few weeks following the reopening of large sectors of the economy, as well as schools and universities. Although coronavirus infections are rising throughout England, northern cities like Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle have seen a disproportionate increase. While some rural areas in eastern England have less than 20 cases per 100,000 people, major metropolitan areas such as Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham have recently recorded levels above 500 per 100,000, nearly as bad as Madrid or Brussels. As a result, national restrictions such as a 10 p.m. curfew on pubs and restaurants have been supplemented by local actions, including in some cases banning contacts between households.

Dozens stage attack on police station in Paris suburb (Reuters) About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as mortars tried to storm a French police station in the Paris suburbs on Saturday night, officials said on Sunday. “Violent attack last night on the police station of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured,” the Paris police headquarters said on Twitter. The motive for the attack, the third on this police station in two years, was not immediately clear. The police station is located in a housing estate area known for drug trafficking and deemed by authorities as a high-priority district for order to be restored. “It was an organised attack of about 40 people who wanted to do battle,” Champigny Mayor Laurent Jeanne told BFM. “For a few days it has been tense with people who have a certain willingness to do battle with the police. It’s anti-police sentiment. We weren’t far off from a disaster.”

Italian teenage computer whiz beatified by Catholic Church (AP) A 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006 moved a step closer to possible sainthood Saturday with his beatification in the town of Assisi, where he is buried. Carlo Acutis is the youngest contemporary person to be beatified, a path taken by two Portuguese shepherd children living in the early 1900s who were proclaimed Catholic saints in 2017. Already touted as the “patron saint of the internet,” Acutis created a website to catalog miracles and took care of websites for some local Catholic organizations. While still in elementary school, Acutis taught himself to code using a university computer science textbook, and then learned how to edit videos and create animation. “Carlo used the internet in service of the Gospel, to reach as many people as possible,” Cardinal Agostino Vallini said during his homily. Before he died, Acutis told his mother that he would give her many signs of his presence after death. “Before he left us, I told him: If in heaven you find our four-legged friends, look for Billy, my childhood dog that he never knew,” the mother said. One day she got a call from an aunt who was unaware of the mother-son pact, saying “I saw Carlo in a dream tonight. He was holding Billy in his arms.”

Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy (Washington Post) While many Christopher Columbus statues were toppled this year in the United States—dragged into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, beheaded in Boston—the towering marble monument to the explorer in his hometown, Genoa, Italy, is disturbed only by pigeons. As Americans feud over whether Columbus Day should remain a federal holiday—or whether the man who first charted the transatlantic route in 1492 should be remembered as a colonial oppressor—in Italy, Columbus is still held in high esteem. Italians tend to think of him as the sum of their best qualities: ingenuity, courage and resilience. “More than 500 years after his death [Columbus] has to suffer new insults,” Francesco Giubilei and Marco Valle wrote in the conservative newspaper Il Giornale in July. “Thinking that by destroying his statues and eradicating his memory one may solve [U.S. society’s racial tensions] is hypocritical and wrong.”

Police in Belarus crack down on protesters, detain dozens (Reuters) Security forces in Belarus detained dozens of protesters on Sunday and used force, including water cannon and batons, to break up crowds demanding a new presidential election, TV footage showed. Footage published by local news outlets showed police officers wearing black balaclavas dragging protesters into unmarked black vans and beating protesters with their batons at a rally that drew thousands onto the streets of Minsk, the capital. Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by street protests and strikes since authorities announced that veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko had won an Aug. 9 vote by a landslide. People have since taken to the streets every week to demand that Lukashenko step down and allow for a new election to be held. Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager who has been in power since 1994, denies his win was the result of cheating.

A Convicted Kidnapper Is Chosen to Lead Government of Kyrgyzstan (NYT) A man who had been convicted of kidnapping was chosen to be the prime minister of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday after feuding politicians agreed on a new government in an effort to end nearly a week of violent turmoil in the Central Asian country. An agreement to put the government under the man, Sadyr Japarov, who was sprung from jail this past week by anti-government protesters, should help calm street violence. But it stirred alarm in some quarters that criminal elements had prevailed in a power struggle set off by disputed parliamentary election results last Sunday. Russia, struggling with a rash of unrest across the former Soviet Union, including protests in neighboring Belarus and fierce fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, has a military base in Kyrgyzstan but has mostly stood aside from the political chaos in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital. Moscow reached out to a senior security official offering help, but that official was then promptly fired. On Friday, Kyrgyzstan’s embattled president, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, declared a state of emergency in Bishkek, ordering troops onto the streets and confining residents to their homes. “The threat of losing our country is real,” he warned. Violence continued, however, fueled largely by Mr. Japarov’s supporters, who hurled rocks and other projectiles at the followers of a rival would-be prime minister, Omurbek Babanov, and attacked journalists. Several shots were fired. The unrest began with a wave of public anger over the victory of pro-government parties last Sunday in a parliamentary election tainted by credible allegations of widespread vote-buying. Protesters stormed jails and government buildings, sending the president into hiding. The election results were then quickly annulled, opening the way for a new vote, but the turmoil escalated as rival opposition politicians began fighting for government posts, unleashing mobs of young men to confront each other on the street. Arkady Dubnov, a Central Asia expert in Moscow, said the new prime minister, Mr. Japarov, who just days ago was serving an 11-and-a-half-year sentence for organizing the 2013 kidnapping of a regional governor, had prevailed “because his supporters turned out to be the strongest.”

Flooding in Cambodia leaves at least 11 dead (AP) Flooding in Cambodia has killed at least 11 people since the beginning of the month, a disaster official said Sunday. Seasonal rains were made worse by a tropical storm, which caused flash floods in several provinces last week, said Khun Sokha, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.

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Are coyotes moving into your neighborhood?

Late one afternoon, Raphael Kaplan and his family were out walking near their home in Los Angeles, Calif., the second largest U.S. city. He looked through a fence surrounding a golf course and saw two coyotes.

They were “hanging out,” he says, “just lying down and waiting for us to pass.” This wasn’t an unusual experience for Raphael, who is 10 years old. The fourth grader says he sees coyotes all the time, often at that golf course. He’s also seen them walking down his street.

Coyotes look like medium-sized dogs or small wolves with short gray and brown fur. But they are a separate species, Canis latrans. They will eat just about anything and can learn to survive in nearly any environment.

Before 1700, coyotes only lived in the midwestern and southwestern United States and Mexico. But then people wiped out nearly all of North America’s wolves because the predators sometimes kill farm animals. This opened up space for coyotes.

People tried to get rid of coyotes, too. Some considered them to be pests. During the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. government poisoned around 6.5 million coyotes. Killing them is still legal in most U.S. states. Hunters and trappers kill hundreds of thousands every year. Despite all this, coyotes have survived and spread. They have moved into every U.S. state except Hawaii. Some roam only in wild areas. Many, however, make their homes in cities and suburbs. If you live in North America, chances are good that you have coyote neighbors.

Coyotes could be living in your backyard. These pups were born in a den in a backyard in suburban Chicago.Ashley Wurth/Cook County Coyote Project

Encounters with coyotes happen regularly across the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico and parts of Central America. In Chicago, Ill., for instance, coyotes once denned on the top floor of a parking garage across from Soldier Field, the home stadium of the Chicago Bears football team. In 2015, New York City police officers in trucks, cars and helicopters chased a coyote through Riverside Park in Manhattan. They aimed to move the animal out of the city. After three hours, they gave up the chase. The coyote had simply hidden itself too well.

Occasionally, coyotes may bite or attack people or their pets. However, coyotes mostly avoid people. Raphael is glad he’s gotten to see them so many times.

He’s also helped study them. From 2015 through 2019, the National Park Service’s L.A. Urban Coyote Project recruited kids and others without science training. These citizen scientists collected coyote poop and then sorted through it. The goal was to learn what city coyotes eat. Other studies in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago have looked at where city coyotes go and how they behave. Such studies are teaching us how city coyotes thrive amongst people.

Scat party

Raphael poked through a pile of coyote poop. “There were teeth, claws and whiskers,” he reports. “It was parts of rabbits.”

He was at a scat party organized by the National Park Service. (Scat is the technical name for wild animal poop). At tables spread out around a room, citizen scientists of all ages and all backgrounds inspected piles of scat. Justin Brown is a biologist at the National Park Service in Calabasas, Calif. He answered questions and helped identify everything. The group had found lots of rabbit remains. They also found lizard parts, rat teeth, beetles, fruit seeds, cat hair and much more.

Raphael Kaplan dissects coyote droppings at a scat party organized by the L.A. Urban Coyote Project. He presented information at his school’s science fair about coyotes and his experience with citizen science. Charlie Kaplan

Before the scat party, other volunteers had walked along planned routes, searching for coyote droppings. Some looked in a suburban neighborhood near the city. Others looked in downtown Los Angeles. Brown planned to compare the diets of coyotes from these two locations. When the volunteers found scat, they picked it up with gloves. Then they put it into paper bags, which they labeled with the date and location. Later, they’d drop these off with Brown and his team.

What did Brown’s team do with this smelly poop?

The first step was to roast the stuff in the oven for 24 hours at 60° Celsius (140° Fahrenheit). This killed any parasites or harmful microbes. “From there, we’d pour it out of the bags and look at each one,” says Brown. Sometimes, the volunteers collected dog poop by mistake. Coyote scat contains lots of hair from animals the coyote ate. The hair twists together at the end of each dropping. Brown and his team looked for this and several other telltale signs. They tossed out scat samples that probably weren’t from coyotes.

Next, they wrapped each sample in a stocking. They threw the stockings into a washing machine for a couple of cycles. This got rid of almost everything except hair, bones and other food leftovers. Finally, the stockings went into the dryer. By the time the stuff got to Raphael and the other scat party volunteers, it was clean and safe to handle. “It just smelled like dirt a little bit,” says Raphael.

During a series of such parties, volunteers and scientists worked together to identify the food sources in each sample. They had a lot to get through. “We ended up with about 3,000 scats,” says Brown. He noted that his team never would have been able to gather and process so much without community help.

Most coyote scat contains hair and bones from rabbits, voles and other small prey. But the scat of city coyotes also may contain remnants of garbage, fruits from people’s yards, pet food or the hair of pet cats. National Park Service

Some interesting trends emerged from these comparisons of scat from city versus suburban coyotes. Suburban ones mostly ate rabbits. About 50 percent of those scat samples had rabbit remains. City coyotes also ate wild food. But their scat samples were more likely to contain garbage, pet food and fruit from trees people like to grow in their yards. Sometimes there were even the remains of pet cats. Some scats contained fast food wrappers. In fact, human-food sources accounted for as much as 60 to 75 percent of what urban coyotes ate.

Life in the big city

Do city coyotes have it made? Not exactly. Stanley Gehrt is a biologist at Ohio State University in Columbus. He has run the Urban Coyote Research Project in Chicago since 2000. Coyotes respond positively to some aspects of city life and negatively to others, he’s found. The more city-like an environment is, the harder it becomes for coyotes to succeed there.

One good part of city life is protection from hunting and trapping. These activities aren’t usually allowed within cities and suburbs. And cities offer an excellent supply of food, Brown’s research shows. That often includes wild prey.

“Downtown Chicago has an overabundance of rabbits,” says Gehrt. Before coyotes moved in, human trappers had to work to keep rabbit populations under control. Now, coyotes do that job.

Voles and squirrels are other coyote favorites. Squirrels have learned to visit people’s bird feeders, so some coyotes “crouch and hide near bird feeders,” waiting to pounce on a tasty squirrel, says Gehrt. Others munch on the berries and other fruits that people grow in their yards. Human food and garbage also is plentiful in a city.

Some coyotes get used to these easy food sources and lose their fear of people. If an animal begins approaching or bothering people, police or other local officials may kill it. To make sure coyote neighbors stay a safe distance away, people should secure their garbage, pick up fallen fruit and keep pet food inside.

Coyotes usually try to avoid people, but the more people there are, the harder that gets. Coyotes may end up with a very small home territory. It might be limited to a single park. They may cut across roads and highways to get to the different parts of their territory. Car accidents are the leading cause of death for urban coyotes.

Coyotes live in downtown Chicago and in many other U.S. cities. They spend most of their time in natural areas such as parks, but will also cross roads or roam through backyards, parking lots and alleys.Jeff Nelson/Cook County Coyote Project

But the more often coyotes cross roads, the better they get at it, notes Gehrt. He’s observed coyotes wait patiently at the edge of a highway. When they see a gap in traffic, they then run across as quickly as possible. He’s also watched coyotes using traffic lights. “They will wait until the traffic stops, then take their time, often using the crosswalk, to cross the road,” he says. “They know the traffic is going to stop.”

Urban coyotes also tend to spend more time hunting and traveling after dark. Fewer people are out and about then, so it’s easier and safer for them to get around.

Family matters

Coyotes have lived in the Los Angeles and Chicago areas since the early 1900s. So these animals have had more than a century to get used to city life. Coyotes moved into New York City only recently. The first sightings in this city of more than 8 million people took place in 1990.

“Most people don’t realize they’re here,” says Carol Henger. She’s a PhD student in biology at Fordham University who has studied New York City’s coyotes as part of the Gotham Coyote Project. To learn about the animals’ recent expansion into a new city, she studies their genes. Genes are made of DNA. They carry instructions on how the body should grow and behave.

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Dog trainer Ferdie Yau of New York City trained his dog Scout to sniff out coyote scat. After a successful hunt, Yau rewarded her with bits of bacon or a game of tug with a furry sheep wool toy.

Henger got those DNA samples from scat. Once again, citizen scientists stepped in to help. Ferdie Yau from the Bronx, N.Y., was one of them. He had studied wildlife biology in graduate school but decided to become a dog trainer. He realized he could use his skills to help the Gotham Coyote Project.

“I practiced with my own dog and was able to train her to find coyote scat,” he says. “She became really good at it.” His dog, Scout, was seven at the time. She retired from scat hunting last year at the age of 11. She’d sniffed out more than 100 scats, Yau guesses.

Henger and her team extracted DNA from all of the scat found by volunteers like Yau and Scout. They then tested to check whether each sample came from a coyote. If the DNA of several samples matched exactly, the researchers knew they came from the same individual. If several samples were very similar, those coyotes had to be part of the same family. “I was able to figure out that we had about five to six family groups in the city, all related to each other,” says Henger.

Alexandra DeCandia studied the genetics of New York City’s coyotes. To do that, she had to get DNA out of scat samples. That involves mixing the sample with chemicals that separate DNA from other cell parts. Edward Schrom

Most likely, all of these coyotes descended from the first few who ventured into the city. “They don’t seem to be getting in and out of the city to go find partners,” says Alexandra DeCandia. She’s a PhD student in genetics at Princeton University, in New Jersey, who also worked on the study.

This lack of movement in and out of the city isn’t good news for the coyotes. A healthy population of animals has high genetic diversity. That means that any two animals are likely to carry very different sets of genetic instructions. If something bad happens, such as a disease or a lack of food, there’s a higher likelihood that some of the animals will carry genes that will protect them or help them adapt.

New York’s coyotes “still have decent levels of genetic diversity,” says DeCandia. But if the population stays small and doesn’t get in and out of the city, genetic diversity will fall. This could eventually leave it at risk of diseases or other problems.

What prevents city coyotes from mixing with their rural neighbors? Highways act as barriers. But the coyotes also may not want to leave. Like the fable of the city mouse and the country mouse, a city coyote may feel very uncomfortable in the country, and vice versa, guesses Javier Monzon. He is a biologist at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. “An animal born in the city, raised in the city and adapted to eating things in the city may not want to go [into the mountains],” he says.

In a genetic survey of the coyotes of Los Angeles and surrounding natural areas, he and his team found four distinct populations. One population lived in the mountains. These country coyotes were all more related to each other than to any of the city coyotes — even though some of the country coyotes lived on opposite sides of Los Angeles. Monzon and his colleagues shared their findings May 4 in the Journal of Urban Ecology.

This pup is hanging out on a front doorstep in Los Angeles. “I’ve seen whole litters of pups under people’s decks,” says Justin Brown, a biologist with the National Park Service. “I’ve seen them in downtown L.A. next to big buildings.” National Park Service

Cities may not be the best home for coyotes. People get nervous when the dog-sized predators hunt and forage in their backyards. And coyotes may have trouble finding mates or avoiding cars. But despite these difficulties, city coyotes persist. We know from history that trying to get rid of them won’t work. Instead, today’s coyote experts focus on finding ways to help people and coyotes thrive safely, side by side.

Leave coyotes alone — they can be dangerous

Coyotes are wild animals. If you see one, don’t approach it or try to feed it. But don’t run away, either. “Yell at it. Wave your arms,” says Stanley Gehrt. “The coyote should run away.” If it doesn’t, you should report the animal to your local wildlife control agency.

On January 8, 2020, a coyote attacked a six-year-old boy in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Ill. The boy’s caretaker was able to scare the animal away and the boy survived. Such attacks on humans are very rare. This was the first in the city for decades. But young children especially should be very careful around these animals.

Pets that roam outdoors also could be in danger. Coyotes may hunt and eat cats or small dogs. Justin Brown’s study of coyote diet found that 20 percent of the scat samples from city-dwelling animals had cat hair in them. This was higher than Brown had expected. Still, pets are not a main food source.

Gehrt has been studying urban coyotes for 20 years. He says, “They’re not living off people’s pets at all.” In his studies of coyote diets, he’s rarely found remains of pets or signs of human food, pet food or garbage. Most coyotes — even ones that live in cities — prefer wild prey, he says.

It’s very unlikely that a coyote will attack you or your pet, but you should still be very careful around these wild animals.

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Here are 9 monuments liberals targeted in ISIS-style attacks

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Since the awful riot that took place at the base of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month, activists and vandals have responded throughout the country by looking for 100-year-old monuments to destroy.

While it may be bad enough to strip down history, the process should rightly remain in the hands of local communities and be done through a legal and democratic process. Many of these statues are indeed of great men, but what truly makes America great is that we are a nation of laws and not men.

The monuments targeted for destruction are not just of Confederates—they are of Founders, explorers, emancipators, and religious men as well.

While polls have shown that most Americans want to keep the Confederate statues, lawless mobs and vandals have decided for us that history must be destroyed and dumped, perhaps literally, into the ash heap of history.

The following are some of the most egregious examples of monument defacement and destruction that have taken place in just a single week.

1.) Columbus Monument Smashed in Baltimore

A 225-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus, the famous explorer who opened up the New World to colonization, was smashed by an individual wielding a sledgehammer in Baltimore, Maryland.

The act of vandalism was filmed, narrated, and posted on YouTube.

The pieces of trash who destroyed Columbus memorial made a video of it & put it up on @YouTube. Youtube condones it https://t.co/RWx2fnD2jf

— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) August 21, 2017

In the video, the narrator said:

Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation, and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas.

A sign was placed in front of the monument that read, “The future is racial and economic justice.”

2.) Durham Statue to the ‘Boys Who Wore Gray’ Toppled

Immediately following the Charlottesville incident, a crowd assembled in front of a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated to the young men who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.

The protesters tied a rope to the bronze statue and pulled it down as police looked on.

Video shows people kicking Confederate statue after it was toppled by protesters outside courthouse in Durham, NC https://t.co/SMPqnTZaYe pic.twitter.com/vZKZhLSydX

— ABC News (@ABC) August 14, 2017

Once the statue had been brought down, the gathering kicked and spat on it.

A number of the activists who participated were arrested afterward. One of those arrested, Taqiyah Thompson, a student at North Carolina Central University, is a member of the Workers World Party, according to The Daily Caller.

The Workers World Party is a Marxist-Leninist organization that defends the North Korean regime.

3.) Atlanta ‘Peace’ Monument Attacked

A mob in Atlanta attacked and damaged a monument constructed in 1911. The “Peace Monument” depicts a Confederate soldier laying down his arms.

The memorial wasn’t devoted to the Confederacy. It was instead built to pay tribute to unity between North and South as the Civil War generation faded from memory.

That didn’t matter to the activists who unsuccessfully tried to tear it down.

4.) Lincoln Memorial Spray Painted

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was defaced with spray paint.

The vandal, or vandals, painted the words “F— Law” on one of the stone columns that adorns the front of the structure.

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The National Park Service began cleaning up immediately, but so far, no arrests have been made in connection to the incident.

Sadly, this wasn’t the only tribute to the Great Emancipator that was attacked in the days following Charlottesville.

5.) Abraham Lincoln Bust Vandalized in Chicago, Twice

A giant bust of Lincoln that had been sitting in a Chicago neighborhood for 100 years was burned and badly damaged.

“What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism,” Alderman Ray Lopez wrote, according to The Epoch Times.

#LincolnMemorial defaced with explicit graffiti // They will never stop destroying everything in their path… https://t.co/sie9ALdkpo

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 16, 2017

But shortly thereafter, the bust was vandalized again when someone slacked thick tar on it.

City officials are now looking to remove the piece of history to a safer location.

6.) Father Junipero Serra Covered in Red Paint

A statue of Father Junipero Serra was plastered with red paint and the word “murder” in a Los Angeles park.

Serra was a key figure in building a series of Spanish Catholic missions in California in the 1700s and was declared a saint by Pope Francis in 2015.

“Junipero sought to defend the dignity of the native community, to protect it from those who had mistreated and abused it. Mistreatment and wrongs which today still trouble us, especially because of the hurt which they cause in the lives of many people,” the pope said at the canonization ceremony.

7.) Glass of Boston Holocaust Memorial Shattered Again

A teenager allegedly threw a rock through a glass pane of the Boston Holocaust Memorial.

The glass shattered, but the vandal was detained by bystanders who said they saw the incident take place.

Though the statue had been unmolested since its construction in 1995, this was the second such incident since June.

8.) Robert E. Lee Statue Attacked, Removed at Duke University

A visage of Lee carved into limestone at Duke University was badly mauled.

The statue, which was above the entryway of Duke Chapel, was carved up and had a chunk of its nose removed.

Instead of repairing the statue, the school simply removed it.

“I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Duke University President Vincent Price wrote in a letter to students and faculty, according to the Associated Press.

9.) Man Tries to Bomb Confederate Monument in Houston

An attack on a Houston statue was fortunately thwarted by police before it could be carried out.

A 25-year-old man, who was allegedly carrying materials that could be turned into explosives, was arrested near the statue of a Confederate soldier.

The man had previously been arrested and convicted for improperly storing explosives.

According to the Associated Press, when asked why he was targeting the statue, the accused said he didn’t “like that guy.”

The statue was dedicated to Irish immigrant Richard W. Dowling, and was “erected in 1905 to honor rebel soldiers who died at the Battle of Sabine Pass,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

Report by The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman. Originally published at The Daily Signal.

#statues attacked #BLM

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THE LAND OF DREAMS AND OATHS

One thing every citizen of the US should do, at least once, is attend a naturalization ceremony for new citizens. As part of that event, those seeking citizenship need to take an oath of allegiance. By taking the oath, the person makes a set of promises and those promises have been part of the ceremony since the 1700s. The promises are duties that include:

· Support and defend the constitution of the United States and its laws; particularly those laws formulated to protect the nation from its enemies;

· Forego any allegiance to other nations or sovereigns;

· Renounce any hereditary – such as those of nobility – titles;

· And submit to military and civilian service when the government calls for such service.

This oath is taken from a person’s volition – he/she chooses to take it; no coercion involved.

This step in becoming a citizen reflects a federal bias. To remind the reader, previous postings have outlined the central concept of that construct; a federal union is one in which a group of people come together and inviolably promise to do something. At times, this might have called for a promise to be witnessed by God and, if so, the promise is a covenant. Or it might not have, in which case the promise is a compact. The word federal is derived from the Latin word, foedus, which means covenant.[1]

Some might argue that this oath should not be limited to immigrants who are seeking citizenship but one in which natural born citizen be called upon to take. As it is, just being born within the borders of the nation ascribes to a person the status of citizen. Of course, such a person, if he/she does not want to be part of the union compact, can renounce his/her citizenry. That person can seek citizenship in another country. The assumption here – both culturally and legally – is that if a citizen resides here, he/she voluntarily agrees to that promise or oath.

But beyond the legality, one can, this writer believes, endow that oath with a spirit. The promise is a minimum. One can reasonably read into that promise a commitment for a citizen to express allegiance in a pro-active fashion, not because he/she is forced, but because he/she loves that union.

To describe this spirit, in an earlier posting, this blog shared an extended quote by the political writer, Alexi de Tocqueville. To remind the reader, here is a short excerpt of that more extensive quote describing America in the 1830s:

… [T]he political activity which pervades the United States must be seen in order to be understood … Everything is in motion around you; here, the people of one quarter of a town are met to decide upon the building of a church; there, the election of a representative is going on; a little further, the delegates of a district are traveling in a hurry to the town in order to consult upon some local improvements; or in another place the labourers of a village quit their ploughs to deliberate upon the project of a road or a public school … Societies are formed which regard drunkenness as the principal cause of the evils under which the State labours, and which solemnly bind themselves to give a constant example of temperance … [2]

This, according to Tocqueville, represented common scenes of those years.

America has changed. One would be hard pressed to describe this nation in this fashion today. This blog has offered ample evidence of the general reluctance Americans have in becoming politically engaged. Yet structurally, Americans are still a federalist union. This blog is dedicated toward informing and encouraging a more general understanding and commitment to a federal disposition among students and citizens, in general. Is there any evidence indicating a move toward a more involved citizenry?

This blog has also provided a general description – as a topic for students to investigate – of the opioid crisis. To use a more concrete issue to describe what is happening in terms of citizen involvement, this crisis is helpful. In that light, this posting will now describe a more current instance of how this issue of non-involvement has played a role in this crisis.

One aspect of this crisis is the role Mexican heroin dealers have played. This blog has been reluctant to report on this aspect due to a generally perceived prejudice some Americans have voiced against Mexican immigrants. But to be complete, this blog should report on the role a small percentage of Mexicans have filled.

As it turns out, this drug trade originates from a small town, Xalisco, Nayarit, in Mexico. The town’s name is pronounced as another Mexican city, Jalisco, but is spelled with an “X.” Near that town, the opium poppy plant grew extensively. The plant was harvested, and its milky fluid was extracted and cooked into a substance resembling a black tar. This, in turn, was molded into small round shapes – marble type balls – and were smuggled into the US. In the US, Xalisco dealers set up, across the nation, effective and extensive distribution systems using non-descript cars and an army of drivers with cell phones.

One aspect of the distribution was its actual delivery service. All a user or addict had to do was make a call and a driver showed up with the requested drug. These deliveries were cheap and convenient. They were particularly attractive to people – many of them young – who were hooked on pain pills, such as OxyContin, that were usually more expensive and harder to get. This blog, in a previous posting, described this “medical” aspect of the opioid crisis.[3] The point here is the victims were hooked on pills and shifted to heroin via these Xalisco distributors.

While the epidemic has affected most regions of the country, one state has been particularly hit; that was/is Ohio. One town in Ohio, Portsmouth, is highlighted by the journalist, Sam Quinones, in his book, Dreamland.[4] He begins the book by describing a recreational area in Portsmouth that apparently was the center of the town back in the sixties. It had a large pool and adjacent recreation area, called Dreamland, where the town “hung out” during the warmer days of the year.

In those years, the town was relatively doing well with a strong manufacturing base. But as with many manufacturing towns since those earlier days, Portsmouth lost those factories to mostly foreign competitors. The results of such a development was obviously devastating. But that is only the backdrop to the tragedy. Then, as this blog has described, the selling of opioid in the form of pain pills took hold. As the earlier cited posting describes, many otherwise average Americans became victims to the opioid epidemic:

They – the Mexicans – devised effective, on-demand distribution arrangements in numerous communities around the US. Their customers are not inner-city junkies, as the heroin trade of old was and found in major urban centers, but among, in many cases, middle class whites who have gotten themselves hooked on opioids.

Oftentimes, these middle-class customers became addicted after they were exposed to some chronic pain management protocol under the supervision of legitimate doctors. A lot of this, in turn, was based on an underestimation of the addictive quality of the drugs prescribed and aggressive drug company strategies in marketing opiates. Once hooked, these people became desperate to find cheaper and unlimited supplies of a substitute drug – heroin, a type of opioid – to satisfy their cravings.[5]

But times move on and many aspects of the story have changed since the early years of this century.

One, the cartels of Mexico, earlier not interested in cheap drug sells, eventually moved in and has disrupted the Xalisco system. Also, the general reaction to opioids in the US is taking a toll on the trade and there seems to be some improvement on meeting the crisis. In this, Portsmouth has gone through some positive changes. These changes remind this writer of the above cited Tocqueville quote describing an involved citizenry.

Here is another quote offered by Quinones:

Angie Thuma, the veteran Walmart shoplifter [to pay for her addiction] … told me the last time we spoke, “when I think about all the things I went through and I’m still alive, it gives you courage to keep bettering yourself.”

That seemed to be Portsmouth’s attitude. The town still looked as scarred and beaten as an addict’s arm. Wild-eyed hookers strolled the East End railroad tracks, and too many jobs paid minimum wage and led nowhere. Portsmouth still had hundreds of drug addicts and dealers. But it also now had a confident, muscular culture of recovery that competed with the culture of getting high – a community slowly pitching itself.

Proof to that was that addicts from all over Ohio were now migrating south to get clean in Portsmouth. No place in Ohio had the town’s recovery infrastructure.

On my last trip to Portsmouth, I met a young woman from Johnstown, a rural town northeast of Columbus that from her description sounded a lot like the 740 that RWR rapped about. She had been buying heroin from the Xalisco Boys in Columbus for a couple years. When she tried to quit, a driver who spoke English called her for a week straight.

“But, senorita, we have really good stuff. It just came in.”

Finally, she threw away her phone. There wasn’t much on it but dope contacts anyway. She was twenty-three, alone with a ten-month-old son, and – seeking to get clean with nowhere else to turn – she found refuge in Portsmouth.

“I love it here. I’m really afraid to go back,” she told me in the lilting drawl of rural Ohio, when we met at a party for a woman celebrating her first year clean.

So the battered old town had hung on. It was, somehow, a beacon embracing shivering and hollow-eyed junkies, letting them know that all was not lost. That at the bottom of the rubble was a place just like them, kicked and buried but surviving. A place that had, like them, shredded and lost so much that was precious but was nurturing it again. Though they were adrift, they, too, could begin to find their way back.

Back to that place called Dreamland.[6]

Is there a silver-lining? Perhaps. Maybe the bottom of a nightmare offers enough motivation to rekindle the communal base of a spirited federal union. Sadly, if so, what a price to pay. Perhaps a more proactive civics program can help avoid such a price. Of course, neither the nightmare nor a proactive educational program can make the total difference, but they can be exploited toward helping.

[1] Daniel J. Elazar, “Federal Models of (Civil) Authority,” Journal of Church and State, 33, (Spring, 1991): 231-254.

[2] Alexi de Tocqueville, “Political Structure of Democracy,” in Alexis de Tocqueville: On Democracy, Revolution, and Society, eds. John Stone and Stephen Mennell (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1980/1835), 78-101, 78-79.

[3] See Robert Gutierrez, “And Then There Is Law-Abiding Behavior, Part II,” Gravitas: A Voice for Civics, May 21, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019, https://gravitascivics.blogspot.com/2019/05/and-then-there-is-law-abiding-behavior_21.html .

[4] Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid., 344-345.

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Here are 9 monuments liberals targeted in ISIS-style attacks

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The monuments targeted for destruction are not just of Confederates—they are of Founders, explorers, emancipators, and religious men as well.

The following are some of the most egregious examples of monument defacement and destruction that have taken place in just a single week.

1.) Columbus Monument Smashed in Baltimore

A 225-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus, the famous explorer who opened up the New World to colonization, was smashed by an individual wielding a sledgehammer in Baltimore, Maryland.

The act of vandalism was filmed, narrated, and posted on YouTube.

The pieces of trash who destroyed Columbus memorial made a video of it & put it up on @YouTube. Youtube condones it https://t.co/RWx2fnD2jf

— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) August 21, 2017

In the video, the narrator said:

A sign was placed in front of the monument that read, “The future is racial and economic justice.”

2.) Durham Statue to the ‘Boys Who Wore Gray’ Toppled

The protesters tied a rope to the bronze statue and pulled it down as police looked on.

Video shows people kicking Confederate statue after it was toppled by protesters outside courthouse in Durham, NC https://t.co/SMPqnTZaYe pic.twitter.com/vZKZhLSydX

— ABC News (@ABC) August 14, 2017

Once the statue had been brought down, the gathering kicked and spat on it.

The Workers World Party is a Marxist-Leninist organization that defends the North Korean regime.

3.) Atlanta ‘Peace’ Monument Attacked

A mob in Atlanta attacked and damaged a monument constructed in 1911. The “Peace Monument” depicts a Confederate soldier laying down his arms.

The memorial wasn’t devoted to the Confederacy. It was instead built to pay tribute to unity between North and South as the Civil War generation faded from memory.

That didn’t matter to the activists who unsuccessfully tried to tear it down.

4.) Lincoln Memorial Spray Painted

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was defaced with spray paint.

The vandal, or vandals, painted the words “F— Law” on one of the stone columns that adorns the front of the structure.

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The National Park Service began cleaning up immediately, but so far, no arrests have been made in connection to the incident.

Sadly, this wasn’t the only tribute to the Great Emancipator that was attacked in the days following Charlottesville.

5.) Abraham Lincoln Bust Vandalized in Chicago, Twice

A giant bust of Lincoln that had been sitting in a Chicago neighborhood for 100 years was burned and badly damaged.

“What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism,” Alderman Ray Lopez wrote, according to The Epoch Times.

#LincolnMemorial defaced with explicit graffiti // They will never stop destroying everything in their path… https://t.co/sie9ALdkpo

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 16, 2017

But shortly thereafter, the bust was vandalized again when someone slacked thick tar on it.

City officials are now looking to remove the piece of history to a safer location.

6.) Father Junipero Serra Covered in Red Paint

A statue of Father Junipero Serra was plastered with red paint and the word “murder” in a Los Angeles park.

Serra was a key figure in building a series of Spanish Catholic missions in California in the 1700s and was declared a saint by Pope Francis in 2015.

7.) Glass of Boston Holocaust Memorial Shattered Again

A teenager allegedly threw a rock through a glass pane of the Boston Holocaust Memorial.

The glass shattered, but the vandal was detained by bystanders who said they saw the incident take place.

Though the statue had been unmolested since its construction in 1995, this was the second such incident since June.

8.) Robert E. Lee Statue Attacked, Removed at Duke University

A visage of Lee carved into limestone at Duke University was badly mauled.

The statue, which was above the entryway of Duke Chapel, was carved up and had a chunk of its nose removed.

Instead of repairing the statue, the school simply removed it.

9.) Man Tries to Bomb Confederate Monument in Houston

An attack on a Houston statue was fortunately thwarted by police before it could be carried out.

A 25-year-old man, who was allegedly carrying materials that could be turned into explosives, was arrested near the statue of a Confederate soldier.

The man had previously been arrested and convicted for improperly storing explosives.

According to the Associated Press, when asked why he was targeting the statue, the accused said he didn’t “like that guy.”

The statue was dedicated to Irish immigrant Richard W. Dowling, and was “erected in 1905 to honor rebel soldiers who died at the Battle of Sabine Pass,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

Report by The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman. Originally published at The Daily Signal.

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Silva Cossa, the caretaker, looks up as he ties ribbons onto the fence to represents a South African who has died from Covid-19, at St James Presbyterian church in Bedford Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

Volunteer Malka Rodrig unpacks meals at a kosher food drive-thru distribution site, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation building in Miami.

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FILE – In this Tuesday, July 28, 2020 file photo, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to local people at the Canal Side Heritage Centre in Beeston near Nottingham, England. Johnson is looking for a spokesperson with broadcasting experience— and a thick skin — to become the government’s face at televised media briefings. The government placed a job ad Wednesday, July 29 on the governing Conservative Party’s website seeking applicants with news judgment, the ability to remain calm under pressure and “excellent risk management and crisis communications skills.”

A man sunbathes at a park in Hong Kong Thursday, July 30, 2020. As of Wednesday, Hong Kong reported over 3,000 coronavirus infections, with dozens of deaths. Businesses such as bars, karaoke bars and amusement parks remain temporarily closed.

A new work of art entitled ‘The End’ by artist Heather Phillipson newly unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Described as representing “exuberance and unease” and a “monument to hubris and impending collapse”, The End, by British artist Heather Phillipson, will stay in place until spring 2022.

People riding the subway wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, July 30, 2020.

A medical staff takes a sample for a voluntary coronavirus disease test (COVID-19) at the new corona test station at the ‘Hochfelln’ service station on the A8 motorway between Salzburg and Munich near Bergen, Germany, Thursday, July 30, 2020.

Dr. Deborah Birx, U.S. Global Aids Coordinator & U. S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, left, speaks with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, right, and a roundtable of community and state health officials inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va. Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

FILE – In this June 26, 2020, file photo Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, left, listen during a news conference with members of the Coronavirus task force at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. Fauci has warned that the United States could soon see 100,000 infections per day. “We haven’t even begun to see the end of it yet,” Fauci said during a talk hosted by Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

Employees disinfect a closed mall in Mumbai, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Malls and market complexes will reopen on Aug. 5. However theaters, food courts and gyms will remain closed.

Dr. Yomaris Pena, of SOMOS Community Care in New York, disinfects chairs at the new COVID-19 testing site at Pinellas Community Church on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in St. Petersburg, Fla. A new free testing site opened Wednesday in south St. Petersburg with the help of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo sent 7,500 tests to seed the site at the church. Tests are by appointment only, but don’t require symptoms or exposure. And since appointments are required, the testing site doesn’t require those seeking a test to wait in line or come in a vehicle.

Wearing masks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, arrive to attend the launching of a rights guarantee program for rural women, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

People wearing face masks line up to have their coronavirus rapid tests as they hope to use the government’s transportation assistance program to return to their outlying provinces on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at a stadium in Manila, Philippines. Hundreds of people who were stuck in the capital due to travel restrictions during the lockdown stayed at a crowded stadium as they wait for free rides back to their provinces.

An Indian worker crosses a street holding a shovel during monsoon rains in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

A man carries milk vessels and rides a bike in the monsoon rains in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

Women wearing face masks wait to join a parade in Bali, Indonesia, on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Indonesia’s resort island of Bali will reopen for domestic tourists on Friday after months of virus lockdown.

A woman wearing a face mask carries an offering to local deities on her head during a parade in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Indonesia’s resort island of Bali will reopen for domestic tourists on Friday after months of virus lockdown.

Residents sit spaced apart to practice social distancing as a precaution against the new coronavirus outbreak as they access free wifi on their mobile phones at Jatirahayu village office in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

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In this July 29, 2020 photo made available by the Monroe County Sherif’ss Office, Fla., shows Yohana Anahi Gonzalez. Gonzalez and her partner Jose Antonio Freire Interian, both COVID positive, were arrested, Thursday, July 29, 2020, in the Florida Keys after authorities said they violated quarantine rules. The rare arrests underscore the fervent national debate over how to enforce rules on masks and self-quarantines.

FILE – In this Dec. 13, 2019, file photo, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks about his plans for the coming year during an interview at the Governor’s Residence in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio’s Republican governor was hailed as prophetic for his decisive steps to shut down schools and stop the state’s presidential primary election early during the coronavirus outbreak. Since then, he’s found navigating a path out of the state’s pandemic shutdown to be a bumpy one.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during an announcement that District of Columbia public schools will be all virtual through Nov. 6, during a news conference, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Washington.

Rob Glassman, general manager of the Over the Top rental linens company, protests in support of the live events industry receiving federal aid outside of the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Miami. Many small businesses in the events industry have been shut down since March due to the pandemic.

In this July 29, 2020 photo made available by the Monroe County Sherif’ss Office, Fla., shows Jose Antonio Freire Interian. Interian and his partner Yohana Anahi Gonzalez, both COVID positive, were arrested, Thursday, July 29, 2020, in the Florida Keys after authorities said they violated quarantine rules. The rare arrests underscore the fervent national debate over how to enforce rules on masks and self-quarantines.

A couple of tourists, one wearing a mask, walk towards the fountains in Trafalgar Square in Trafalgar Square in London, Thursday, July 30, 2020.

A sign is posted on a pole along the main street to encourage visitors and residents to wear face coverings while walking around Monday, July 27, 2020, in the mountain tourist town of Georgetown, Colo.

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Washington.

A woman in a face mask speaks on the phone on a sidewalk during the coronavirus pandemic in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, July 24, 2020.

FILE – In this March 31, 2020, file photo, a sign applauding health care workers is displayed outside the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The head of coronavirus response at the university medical center says an increase in the number of younger Oklahomans dying as a result of the illness caused by the virus has become a worry. Dr. Dale Bratzler said Friday, July 24, 2020, that even though most deaths remain in the 65 and older age group, the increase in deaths among those 36-49 years old shows it can kill younger people as well.

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Visitors to Karmel Plaza wear face masks as they gather Wednesday, July 22, 2020 in Minneapolis. Gov. Tim Walz issued a statewide mandate Wednesday requiring Minnesotans to wear masks in indoor public spaces.

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BEIJING — China is tightening travel restrictions in the capital of the Xinjiang region amid a COVID-19 outbreak in the northwestern city.

People arriving in Urumqi from regions considered to have high infection risk must undergo a two-week quarantine. Others arriving from less risky areas most show proof of good health. Locals “in principle” must stay in the city or show proof of health to be allowed to leave.

Hong Kong, meanwhile, continues to see a third wave of infections, with almost 150 new cases reported Friday to bring its total to 3,151 cases and 25 deaths.

Despite that, authorities issued an order Thursday allowing restaurants to operate under limited hours and with limited capacity. But businesses such as bars, karaoke bars and amusement parks still must remain closed.

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:

— Florida tallies another record high daily deaths

— India says herd immunity won’t work, need vaccine

— Health officials Birx, Fauci recommend face shields, masks

— Deaths are mounting rapidly in the U.S., and cases are rising in close to 30 states in all. The outbreak’s center of gravity seems to be shift from the Sun Belt toward the Midwest.

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liliannorman · 4 years ago

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Are coyotes moving into your neighborhood?

Coyotes could be living in your backyard. These pups were born in a den in a backyard in suburban Chicago.Ashley Wurth/Cook County Coyote Project

Occasionally, coyotes may bite or attack people or their pets. However, coyotes mostly avoid people. Raphael is glad he’s gotten to see them so many times.

Scat party

Raphael poked through a pile of coyote poop. “There were teeth, claws and whiskers,” he reports. “It was parts of rabbits.”

What did Brown’s team do with this smelly poop?

Life in the big city

“Downtown Chicago has an overabundance of rabbits,” says Gehrt. Before coyotes moved in, human trappers had to work to keep rabbit populations under control. Now, coyotes do that job.

Urban coyotes also tend to spend more time hunting and traveling after dark. Fewer people are out and about then, so it’s easier and safer for them to get around.

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Dog trainer Ferdie Yau of New York City trained his dog Scout to sniff out coyote scat. After a successful hunt, Yau rewarded her with bits of bacon or a game of tug with a furry sheep wool toy.

Leave coyotes alone — they can be dangerous

It’s very unlikely that a coyote will attack you or your pet, but you should still be very careful around these wild animals.

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American Foreign Policy: Populism’s Racist Roots America’s military adventures, domestic and foreign, have had racist components, with frightening consistency for well over two centuries. Ethnically cleansing the continent of its indigenous population of up to 10 million, allowed America to spread from Atlantic to Pacific. Once on the Pacific shore, the drive to make that ocean an “American lake” began. War with Spain in 1898, with Japan in 1941, followed by Korea and then Vietnam, America’s military history was strewn with racist stereotypes, polluting the language with terms best forgotten. The only exception has been Germany and Russia, nations of origin for much of America’s white population. There programs of demonization created a century of conflict. Though controversial, an examination of America’s role in nurturing two world wars and a half century Cold War is more than supportable, once one looks behind the fabricated historical narrative foisted on the public. With these exceptions, a major component of global policy has been not just racist propaganda. It goes much further, dehumanization of a majority of the world’s population of color and vilification of an increasingly comprehensive list of ethnicities, nationalities and religions. Trump, it seems, has taken it all to a new level, but he didn’t invent racism, not in America. He simply tapped, under the guise of “populism,” something long instilled into the psyche of a nation that was created by ethnic cleansing. One might note that the world had already been divided by the colonial powers of Portugal and Spain, in accordance with the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. You see, after Columbus returned from the New World, it was necessary for the Catholic powers to come to agreement or descend into conflict. It was Rodrigo Borgia, known as Pope Alexander IV, who established a meridian, dividing the planet between the two small Iberian nations. By 1580 the two nations became one and in 1588, with the destruction of the Spanish Armada, world conquest had slipped away. Still, Latin America, with the exception of Portuguese Brazil, would remain Spanish, a Latin America that included Florida, Texas, California and the entire Southwestern United States. As an aside, Spain’s northern neighbor on North America’s Pacific Coast was Russia. On March 31, Fox News, owned by Rupert Murdoch, whose real background as one of the crown princes of the Deep State known only by a very few, flashed a bizarre headline on the screen during one of their broadcasts. The show was “Fox and Friends,” where Donald Trump is a regular guest. The headline, even by Fox News standards was a serious gaff, goes as follows: “Trump Cuts US Aid to 3 Mexican Countries” Trump didn’t say this, but he had said worse. The nations referred to, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, are and have been politically unstable for decades, mostly due to American interference in their governments. In 1933, Major General Smedley Butler, two-time winner of the Medal of Honor, made the following statement during a speech: “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” Butler may have been the only 20th century military commander ever to speak out openly with the exception of General George Patton. Crushing the military careers of each became a major goal of Washington’s “fat backside” ruling order. Butler was, at one time, put under arrest for citing an incident where Italy’s Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ran down a child with his automobile, thinking little or nothing of it. You see, Mussolini was quite popular in Washington as was Adolf Hitler, Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1940. Patton, sharing the title of “America’s Greatest General” with Robert E. Lee, was repeatedly removed from command and, in all probability assassinated, most likely for his open defense of the German people who he was ordered to starve to death under American occupation. With Mexico, South and Central America, the air of racism that now floods Washington, wildly inaccurate stories about massed assaults on America’s Southern border, are little more than a distraction from America’s targeting of nation after nation in that region, a follow up to America’s dismal failures in Afghanistan and Syria. When we add this to fake reports of “no go zones” in America’s cities where imaginary Sharia Law is enforced by an Islamic population made up largely of business owners and highly educated professionals, the majority of whom are conservatives with ties to Trump’s own party, and the newfound war on, well whom? One might ask why the continual focus on transsexuals. In 70 years, I haven’t knowingly met one yet I am warned, on a daily basis, of the threat they pose to my moral wellbeing. For those of us, the “baby boomers,” born during or after the Second World War, born in an America that was over 90% “whites only,” few accurately remember the highly charged atmosphere of our youth, race hatred and fear permeated everything. “Good negroes” swept our floors, cleaned our homes, those of us, and I was hardly one of “those,” who could afford such things. The “rest,” were purported to be “layabouts” or violent criminals. Few of us ever met these criminals who did exist, but not in the numbers or under the circumstances alleged. In fact, the most radically racist states, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, I could add a dozen more to the list, had no African American population whatsoever. What residents of these Red States knew then and know now is based on what they see on television. A reminder, much of what is on television or even the print media, is made up by people working for Rupert Murdoch. In fact, Donald Trump watches nothing that isn’t Rupert Murdoch approved. Donald Trump doesn’t read anything at all, ever. Conclusion A question, can we look back to 9/11 as a watershed event, replacing the hatred of African Americans with fear and hatred of Muslims? Was this done to polarize a sector of America voters, one sector motivated by fear and hate, while other sectors drown in ambivalence and hopelessness? Is this how America is ruled, though fear and racism fed “populism?”

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