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Consumption America: How Maximum Profits Are Depleting Health, Food Systems, and the Planet
Tracy Turner
Abstract:
The building blocks of 21st century American life, from suburban homes and lawns to gas-guzzling SUVs that clog roadways, have been rooted in excess. Today's culture of consumption controls almost every phase of our lives; excess is now not only deemed normal but actively celebrated. While encouraged at all costs to consume, we are simultaneously expected to look away from the outcomes of those behaviors.
Yet, this is fundamentally an unsustainable consumption culture that in many ways gives women a sense of empowerment. And the corporations facilitating the vicious cycle of consumption with this trend have prospered from the base of ignorance and apathy among us while agricultural livelihoods, biodiversity, and our health—that nurturing touch to life—continue to buckle under such exploitation. This system is based on the principle of maximum profit, a principle that often works directly against the environment and the very systems of life we rely on for survival. As will be outlined in these following sections, this destructive, profit-driven model is taking humanity—and the planet itself—into extinction.
Israel's Widening Reach: A Geostrategic Melange of Diplomacy, Resource Extraction, and Imperialism
Chris Spencer
The State of Israel is an intricately interlinked part of the geopolitics of the region, largely through its special relationship with the United States, complemented by that with Russia, and now spreading toward Africa, Latin America, and beyond. This complex geopolitics at the core represents the struggle for military and economic hegemony, ensured through resource extraction, diplomatic manipulation, and covert operations. It's not just a question of influence but of siphoning the wealth and resources of the most vulnerable regions, using military power to enforce such domination. In this model of imperialism, it might be observed side by side with the tactics of Russian and U.S. actions where countries all over the world act as pawns in a greater competition for global domination.
Mathematical Analysis of Military Spending and Resource Drain
Global spending on military budgets includes direct military aid, projects of resource extraction, and covert operations-all exposing a wide net of transferences of wealth from the South to the masters of imperialism. Herein follows an overview of selected financial figures and the overall implications.
Judaism: From Psalms to Surveillance Mind Control
By Cathy Smith
God, my blade-server, encrypts my soul in the fortress of His protection, shielding me from the firewalls of fear. His commands are my protocols, sharpening my spirit like a flawless algorithm in the face of battle. Though the route of my VPN may be long, My Bladeserver runs a checksum on every transaction of Death and Mind Control
The Descent of the Judaic Faith -- From David's Psalms to Modern Surveillance,
Genocide and Mind Control
Once having come from profoundly spiritual and a strong dependence upon God's protection, the Judaic faith has transformed through quite remarkable, deeply troubling means. The biblical legacy, based on divine trust and humility, has been replaced by a modern nuclear Israel of high-tech military power, pervasive surveillance, and psychological mind control manipulation.
This trajectory from the Psalms of King David to the Surveillance Mind Control World-Domination State of 2025 tracks the decline of Israel's spiritual ideals and the rise of technological control. What once was a kingdom grounded in divine faith is now a state led by military and intelligence networks, mind control, and genocide. With Israel becoming the high-tech superpower that it is today and the complicated geopolitics it's playing out, the spiritual realm of King David appears to grow ever more far away, muffled by algorithms, drones, and genocide.
This timeline charts the evolution of Israel from David's psalms of refuge to the modern state's dominance through intelligence, technology, and psychological manipulation. It outlines the decline of Israel's foundational ideals and their replacement by military prowess, surveillance, and psychological strategies aimed at both global dominance and control over its citizens and occupied populations.
SUV Crisis: Urgent Global Energy Consumption, Resource Depletion, and Looming Starvation of Billions
Tracy Turner
Governor Gavin Newsom's recent executive action to ban the sale of gas-powered string trimmers and leaf blowers in California is generally considered a 'good' start for emissions reductions from small engines. But the initiative puts into sharp focus a paradox in a state--and a world--where an increasing number of people are opting for high-horsepower, gas-guzzling SUVs. And though the effort to reduce small-engine emissions might produce some modest environmental dividends, the more significant problem--the massive fuel consumption and resource depletion triggered by the SUV culture--remains essentially unaddressed. While California is at the forefront of all environmental policies, there is a complete disconnection from small-engine environmentalism to large-scale ecological impact with the same kind of vehicles their citizens cherish.
This problem is not confined to California or even the United States.
It's a global issue. Increased demand for gas-guzzling SUVs worldwide and massive pollution due to lithium battery production and disposal add to global energy crises and increase starvation risks by removing crucial agricultural resources.
Although SUVs are marketed as rugged outdoor individualists’ vehicles, they are mostly purchased by the Pringles/Mountain Dew/Cheetos Diabetes Crowd. Insecure women driving around alone, with visions of soccer moms dancing through their heads. Even the movie Robocop took a swipe at the aggressive, intimidating, consumptive crowd (in the movie the vehicle SUX 6000 and the board-game Nuke’em, you nuke them before they nuke you. SUV drivers throttle you before you can throttle them, a sadistic addiction from the SUV Clotaire Rapaille Reptilian Brain, fight or flight syndrome. The thrill of cutting someone off in a 6,704 lb. Jeep Grand Wagoneer via throttle addiction (the SUV Clotaire Rapaille Reptilian Brain) is more important than eating tomorrow.
The unexpected consequence of our worldwide addiction to SUVs, put together with the waste of electric vehicle batteries in the future, is a perfect storm that imperils food security and, by extension, the survival of billions of people.
Trump’s Cabinet Selections Shows Us He Is An Israel Firster And His Subservience to Zionist Censorship (Part 1)
By Mark Aurelius
Many people today believe Donald Trumps’ first term 2017 cabinet/ advisor/ staff selections were a disappointment, especially since he was going to drain the swamp. In fact, some were working against him. One more of his important campaign promises never achieved.
But this new round of nominees for this upcoming 2025 term are even more alarming, especially since some do not seem to be especially qualified (except they are all pretty much pro-Israel no matter what—the apparent criteria which trumps all other consideration).
Too many reflect the rabid zealousness of Zionist domination already reigning in the U.S. Government, and its willingness to destroy our American 1st Amendment birthright, that is if speech happens to be critical of Jews, Zionism, and Israel, particularly Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians.
A half a year ago Joachim Hagopian wrote in an important statement:
“On Wednesday May 1st, the House overwhelmingly passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a 320-91 vote, … Expanding the scope of what is legally considered antisemitism, … another bipartisan Uniparty trap to ensnare the thousands of protesters exercising their free speech against the apartheid Israel’s extermination of Palestinians, in effect criminalizing those that are critical of the genocide. … a betrayal of our First Amendment rights and a betrayal of the American people, and a testimonial how AIPAC Israel through bribery and blackmail have turned our constitutional republic into a totalitarian technocratic police state.”
New US Antisemitism Law Turns Critics Against Israeli Genocide Into Criminals
Techno-Colonialism: The New Digital Conquest of the South
Cathy Smith
The digital era has made the Western techno-companies and international organizations regard technology as the ultimate solution for the Third World, from Africa, Asia, to Latin America. This perception of 'progress' reinforces the current status quo of global power dynamics and erodes cultural sovereignty and further entrenches inequality. The techno-colonialism, if it might be described, is a digital takeover of the Global South, not something over the horizon but already upon us.
This is not an abstract debate; it is real in the lives of villagers and city dwellers of the Global South. There are very deep impacts felt here, ranging from the digital divide, enforced dominance of Western tech platforms, to eroding local cultural practices. An example in coastal villages of Kenya indicates how patterns of communication and tradition have taken a downward shift as they gradually embrace more aspects of the West. This pattern is reflected equally in highland Guatemala with a changed face for the economy and social systems of the community. This is a development name given to the people, being exposed to such a nature of 'prosperity' at the cost of the autonomy and identities
Another World Is Already Here
By David Swanson, Progressive Hub
I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. I think the lessons could be for anywhere on Earth. They are stories of what is possible for the United States (or in some cases a single state thereof) or most anywhere else. But they are also stories of what is already real in certain parts of the world.
To some limited and shrinking extent, states within the United States model successful policies that other states learn from and emulate. If you scroll down this website, you find a growing number of states banning the death penalty, fixing the minimum wage, etc. But the models of successful public policies have always been most dramatic at the level of nations, and the learning of lessons by other nations amazingly limited. Instead of the United States, for example, learning from European investment in human and social needs, Europe is "learning" to shift its resources into war and war preparations on the U.S. model.
In Another World Is Possible, we have not just the positive trends among wealthy nations, from which the United States is usually a sad outlier, but the very best of the best from anywhere on Earth. The examples, surveyed in detail, flaws and all, include: the UK's healthcare system, Norway's family leave, Singapore's housing, Finland's schools, Portugal's drug policies, Estonia's internet policies, Uruguay's renewable energy, Costa Rica's biodiversity law, and Aotearoa New Zealand's pensions. These stories of success, of the struggles that were needed and of the benefits that have resulted, are absolutely stunning. And while we ought to be capable of knowing that even better is possible, people are often best persuaded by the established fact of something having already been done. And there are many lessons to be learned here about the details -- where the wonder or the failure often lies.
The Dark Side of Greenwashing: Corporate Environmentalism in 2025
Fred Gransville
In 2025, globally, corporations will continue milking the rising tide of environmental awareness. By publicizing green projects and declaring themselves sustainable, many firms portray themselves as saviors of the planet. However, all that green talk hides a very different scenario—not quite pretty: greenwashing. This insidious practice has allowed companies to appear environmentally conscious without changing those core practices that kill the planet. This is seen through corporations avoiding substantial change, lying to consumers, and subverting real environmental advancement by exposing their discrepancies.
That also means the pressure to appear sustainable has resulted in an explosion of "green" marketing. While some firms are changing, others cynically exploit the new public mood by deploying words such as "carbon neutrality," "net zero," and "sustainable" in the service of a myth of responsibility that their actions frequently contradict.
Contrasted with corporate greenwashing is a remarkable movement of farmers and ranchers in the U.S. Midwest who plant prairie grasses and wildflowers to counteract soil erosion, enhance biodiversity, and raise crop yields. These farmers aren't going green just because it is trendy; they understand that sustainable agriculture is necessary for environmental and economic health. The stark contrast between these genuine sustainability efforts and corporate greenwashing enlightens us about the true meaning of sustainability and its potential to contribute to the preservation of the planet and local communities.
The Nazi Salute Has U.S. Origins
By David Swanson
An imperial presidency, a cult of idiocracy, and a team of hateful oligarchs is the problem.
A salute is just a symbol.
If you do a web search for images of “Bellamy salute” you find countless black-and-white photographs of U.S. children and adults with their right arms raised stiffly out in front of them in what will strike most people as a Nazi salute. From the early 1890s through 1942 the United States used the Bellamy salute to accompany the words written by Francis Bellamy and known as the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1942, the U.S. Congress instructed Americans to instead place their hands over their hearts when swearing allegiance to a flag, so as not to be mistaken for Nazis.[i]
Doing both — placing your hand over your heart followed by a stiff-arm salute — still gets you (mis-)taken for a Nazi.
Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting The Oath of the Horatii is believed to have begun the fashion that lasted for centuries of depicting ancient Romans as making a gesture very similar to the Bellamy or Nazi salute.[ii]
A U.S. stage production of Ben Hur, and a 1907 film version of the same, made use of the gesture. Those using it in U.S. dramatic productions of that period would have been aware of both the Bellamy salute and the tradition of depicting a “Roman salute” in neoclassical art. As far as we know, the “Roman salute” was never actually used by the ancient Romans.
From the Dawn of Weaponized Government to President Trump's Promise to Dismantle It
Chris Spencer
Draining the Swamp? Is that even possible?
An Analysis of Dwight Eisenhower's and Joe Biden's Ominous Warnings, Assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK
Eisenhower's farewell address was less a goodbye and more a dire warning wrapped in a well-tailored suit beware the military-industrial complex, or it will eat democracy for breakfast. If you've ever wondered why we've got a massive military, a gargantuan intelligence apparatus, and endless wars, Ike wasn't just whistling past the graveyard. The deep state was born on his watch, as the Cold War made paranoia the new national pastime, and every shadow was a communist. But Eisenhower knew that once the gears of war and surveillance are oiled, they start grinding democracy into dust.
Then came the JFK, MLK, and RFK murders trifecta of political assassinations aimed at rocking the nation to its knees and pointing out the seamiest aspects of the U.S. government. If you like the official version of history, JFK was killed by a lone nut with a rifle, and so was MLK, while RFK was stopped by another lone nut with a grudge. Scratch that surface, and you realize perhaps, just perhaps, that something's a bit too tidy. How handy for the powers that be when those annoying men with ideas like civil rights and anti-war start keeping their mouths shut permanently. Coincidence? Or textbook case of weaponized government?
