What’s in Your Inbox?

Each morning I crawl outta bed, turn on the Black & Decker one shot coffee maker (I cannot recall the number of the current machine but it is the only one I’ve used for many decades), and take care of business before firing up the Dude (it’s a Dell, dude), and check the email to learn what has come in over the night. This was at the toppa the list this morning:

Andrew D moffjejjerod@gmail.com

Thu, May 4, 11:01 PM (9 hours ago)

“You are white trash illegally occupying stolen indigenous land. As the descendant of solely white Europeans on stolen indigenous land what makes you think you have the right to live on this continent of North America? The only peoples who have a right to live in the Americas are indigenous peoples of the Americas, African descendants of slavery, and their mixed-race descendnats (sic) (i.e. Mestizos, Pardo, Zambos). Check your white privilege and go back to Europe! Take the rest of your kind with you. I look forward to a majority-minority future as the US Census Bureau predicts that non-Hispanic Whites will be the minority in the United States by 2044. Seems like payback for what White colonizers did to Indigenous Americans in which you committed genocide, stole land, broke treaties, spread diseases, kidnapped children, tortured people, and raped indigenous people. Now its time for payback! The United States of America is an illegitimate government built by white Europeans for white Europeans because it occupies stolen indigenous land and has broken countless treaties with the original occupiers of this land. Additionally the US Federal government has violated its own laws and principles for so long and on so many occassions, (sic) including slavery, that it is irredemable (sic) and must be overthrown. By the end of 2150 there will be no White European Americans living in the United States of America because of mass deportation back to Europe and mass sterilization. Already white people are decreasing in number as more non-Hispanic white Americans have been dying than being born.

We will no longer live in a white female centric society where white men, like you, are willing to lynch a 14 year old Black boy because some privileged white woman lied about him whistling at her. White will no longer be the default and white American culture will no longer be the predominant culture. Immigrants will no longer have to assimilate into a culture created by European invaders occupying stolen indigenous land but instead the cultures of Indigenous Americans and African Americans.

It is absurd that white people have the caudacity (sic) to call Mexicans and other Latin American immigrants (who are mostly Mestizo [people of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry] and Indigenous Americans themselves) “illegal” when white people have been illegally occupying stolen indigenous American land for centuries. That land was not only stolen by force also by breaking countless treaties with Indigenous Americans. The US-Mexico border was created by white people on stolen land and is therefore illegitimate. It divides American Indian tribes and was made without any input from Indigenous Americans. Before white Europeans invaded the Americas indigenous peoples were free to cross the imaginary line that is now the US-Mexico border as they pleased. It is absurd that it is easier for White Europeans and Asians to travel to America than Mestizos and Indigenous Americans from Latin America (including Mexico).”

Because of this blog the AW is out there in the public eye, which means, since my email can be easily obtained, I hear from many, shall we say, “wing-nuts.” This one hit home, though, because I lived with a woman for three years who was a Native American, as both of her parents were full-blooded Cherokee. She lived her entire life as an American. She lived not as a Native American, but as an American. She was, like everyone, a human being.

Although I agree with some of what was written I do not know why this was sent. The dude writes about what the future will be like in 2044. I will be long dead if and when that year is reached. As far as returning to Europe is concerned, I have never been to Europe.

Mr. Andrew D gives no last name. Why is that, sir?

Andrew D writes, “Additionally the US Federal government has violated its own laws and principles for so long and on so many occassions (sic) including slavery, that it is irredemable (sic) and must be overthrown.”

I am against slavery in any form.

Although I can empathize with you when it comes to the government because of the needless death and destruction caused by our country in Viet Nam, and southeast Asia, when I was young, calling for the current government to be “overthrown” could bring the wrath of the government you so obviously despise down on you, fella.

Just sayin’…

The Doomsday Clock and The Final Countdown

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Tue January 24, 2023

From left: Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Siegfried S. Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia stand for a photo with the 2023 Doomsday Clock in Washington, DC, on January 24.

The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock.

It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.

On Tuesday, the clock was set at 90 seconds until midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity. From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/world/doomsday-clock-2023-climate-scn/index.html

Ukrainian and Russian Pornhub Performers Protest the War

The Pornhub logo against a Ukrainian flag. Getty/compilation image

Ukrainians are posting videos of the Russian invasion to Pornhub, while Russians are using one of the last online spaces they have to speak against the war.

by Samantha Cole

In a video uploaded to Pornhub on Monday, (https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph621d1c10782e4) Kyiv sits in quiet darkness. Few lights are on in apartment buildings across the landscape, while the camera pans across the city. Kate, behind the camera, breathes shallowly. As the air raid sirens begin to blare in the distance, more lights blink on, people waking up to the sounds of the fifth day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

This week was the first time Kate, an adult performer, has ever heard air raid sirens in her life. Before Russia started bombing her city last week, Kate uploaded videos of herself and a partner having sex on that balcony overlooking Kyiv, playing in nightclub restrooms and naked in the woods. Now, she’s hoping people see her video on Pornhub, hear the sirens, and remember that it could happen to them.

“I’ve never heard an [air raid siren] before. I’ve never been in a bomb shelter,” Kate told me in a direct message. “I live in a city with over three million people. I want to go to restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas. This is how many people live in Europe, America, Asia… With this video, I want to say that even today no one is immune from war.”

Others in Ukraine are using Pornhub to get the word out about their situations.

The Final Countdown

Like many people I have been reading, listening, and even watching the news (BBC via internet) much more often since the obviously mad, as in ‘insane’, Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin

https://curioase.ro/2022/03/03/milionar-rus-recompensa-pentru-gasirea-lui-vladimir-putin-viu-sau-mort/

started World War Three. For those of you who wish to argue the point about this being the beginning of WWIII please consider the following exchange between the Politico senior editor Maura Reynolds

https://www.politico.com/staff/maura-reynolds

and Fiona Hill,

Fiona Hill testifying in an impeachment hearing of Donald Trump. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo

“…one of America’s most clear-eyed Russia experts, someone who has studied Putin for decades, worked in both Republican and Democratic administrations and has a reputation for truth-telling, earned when she testified during impeachment hearings for her former boss, President Donald Trump.”

Reynolds: The more we talk, the more we’re using World War II analogies. There are people who are saying we’re on the brink of a World War III.

Hill: We’re already in it. We have been for some time. We keep thinking of World War I, World War II as these huge great big set pieces, but World War II was a consequence of World War I. And we had an interwar period between them. And in a way, we had that again after the Cold War. Many of the things that we’re talking about here have their roots in the carving up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire at the end of World War I. At the end of World War II, we had another reconfiguration and some of the issues that we have been dealing with recently go back to that immediate post-war period. We’ve had war in Syria, which is in part the consequence of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, same with Iraq and Kuwait.

All of the conflicts that we’re seeing have roots in those earlier conflicts. We are already in a hot war over Ukraine, which started in 2014. People shouldn’t delude themselves into thinking that we’re just on the brink of something. We’ve been well and truly in it for quite a long period of time.

But this is also a full-spectrum information war, and what happens in a Russian “all-of-society” war, you soften up the enemy. You get the Tucker Carlsons and Donald Trumps doing your job for you.

https://oneclickwatch.org/how-tucker-carlson-went-from-a-cia-reject-to-the-most-watched-person-on-cable-news-accused-of-peddling-prejudice-to-millions.html

The fact that Putin managed to persuade Trump that Ukraine belongs to Russia, and that Trump would be willing to give up Ukraine without any kind of fight, that’s a major success for Putin’s information war. I mean he has got swathes of the Republican Party — and not just them, some on the left, as well as on the right — masses of the U.S. public saying, “Good on you, Vladimir Putin,” or blaming NATO, or blaming the U.S. for this outcome. This is exactly what a Russian information war and psychological operation is geared towards. He’s been carefully seeding this terrain as well. We’ve been at war, for a very long time. I’ve been saying this for years.

Reynolds: So just as the world didn’t see Hitler coming, we failed to see Putin coming?

Hill: We shouldn’t have. He’s been around for 22 years now, and he has been coming to this point since 2008. I don’t think that he initially set off to do all of this, by the way, but the attitudes towards Ukraine and the feelings that all Ukraine belongs to Russia, the feelings of loss, they’ve all been there and building up.

What Russia is doing is asserting that “might makes right.” Of course, yes, we’ve also made terrible mistakes. But no one ever has the right to completely destroy another country — Putin’s opened up a door in Europe that we thought we’d closed after World War II.
(https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340)

Trump Decides to Let It All Hang Out and Throw Junior Under the Bus

My off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush, confidential source in the Trump Administration, Deep Doo, reports that Team Trump, led by Rudy Giuliani,

agreed yesterday to a drastic change in defense strategy. Some wanted to go the Nixxonian route of a “Limited hang-out,” but were overruled. The prevaricator in charge decided to “Let it all hang out,” and admitted what most have known for a long time, that Donald Trump Jr. colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election, at not one, as had been the story, but two meetings at Trump Tower. Trump tweeted it was all, “…totally legal and done all the time in politics.” The Trumpster has a point. Consider this:

When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election

It took decades to unravel Nixon’s sabotage of Vietnam peace talks. Now, the full story can be told.

By JOHN A. FARRELL

August 06, 2017

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461

George Will Confirms Nixon’s Vietnam Treason
by
Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason

Then there was Iran Contra…

New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release

By NEIL A. LEWIS

Deep Doo also reports Team Trump decided to release theme music to go with the new “Let it all hang out” policy. One of the older members of the administration recalled a song from the 1960’s, a song originally done by Jonathan King. The original Top 30 UK smash Let It All Hang Out, was a hit all over Europe with sales of over a million.

The Don of the Trump Crime Family could not recall the song, saying, “That’s not the song I remember! Everyone knows I love Great England, but I’m trying to Make America Great Again. Find the American version!” When found the song was played, prompting the Trumpster to say, “Now you’re talking my language. I LOVE this version!”

Then a newer version by John Cougar Mellencamp was located and it was viewed:

After the viewing it was decided by the Don to use the earlier version, by the Hombres, as the “official” song to go with the new “Let it all hang out” policy.

On the MSNBC show A. M. Joy, Sunday morning attorney Ellie Mystal (https://abovethelaw.com/) said, “I’m a father. I do not know what it takes to throw your own son under the bus on Twitter “cause you’re angry at nine o’clock in the morning.” This can be found around fourteen minutes into the program.

http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-tweet-on-meeting-with-russians-totally-legal-i-did-not-know-1292682307687

There have been reports of the Trump Crime Family turning on each other as the Mueller probe causes the walls to close in on the Trumpsters.

Trials of Donald Jr turn Russia scandal into another Trump family affair

Though the president is fiercely loyal to his children, some observers wonder if deepening and dangerous controversy might test such bonds to breaking point.

It was an unseasonably cool day in New York. At 1.50pm on 9 June, Hillary Clinton tweeted that Barack Obama was backing her for US president. Half an hour later, Donald Trump tweeted: “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary.” At 2.27pm, Clinton replied: “Delete your account”. It was the most retweeted post of her campaign.

Just before 4pm, several figures passed through the shiny marble atrium of Trump Tower and took the elevator up to the office of Donald Trump Jr on the 25th floor, one below that of his father. Among them was Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer, and Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer.

What passed between them remains a matter of uncertain recollections and international intrigue. The meeting was kept secret for more than a year. When news of it first emerged last Saturday, the world was provided with the first public evidence that Trump campaign officials met with Russians in an attempt to swing the election – the political crime of the century. A steady drip of damning details followed.

It also showed that a scandal frequently compared to Watergate goes right to the heart of the Trump family business. The president’s oldest son had handed investigators and journalists the much sought-after smoking gun. The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, also attended the meeting and failed to declare it. The president’s daughter, Ivanka, faces continued scrutiny over her own role in the White House.

Like everything else, Trump does not do nepotism by halves. His three sons and two daughters have been seen as a political asset – even Clinton once said during an otherwise rancorous presidential debate: “I respect his children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald.”

But recent events beg the question of whether they are becoming a liability. And, some ponder, is Trump certain to remain loyal to them, or would he throw his own son under the bus if it was politically expedient?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/16/donald-trump-jr-russia-scandal-ivanka-jared-kushner

Donald Trump Jr is hawking a book. The Art of the Plea Deal, anyone?

By Arwa Mahdawi

The president’s son wants to make literature great again. But considering his legal troubles, I would not be surprised to find that his tome throws his dad under the bus

Wed 13 Jun 2018 01.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 13 Jun 2018 05.59 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-jr-is-hawking-a-book-the-art-of-the-plea-deal-anyone

It was obviously a matter of time before someone from the Trump Crime Family

was thrown under the bus. The only question seemed to be which Trumpster?

When asked what he thought about his father throwing him under the bus, the Junior Don said, “I am reminded of a line from a song by Iggy Pop and The Stooges.”

“The Departed”

Where is the life we started?
Yesterday’s a door opening for the departed.

The life of the party’s gone
The guests are still remained,
Know they’ll stay a little longer.

Party girls will soon get old,
Party boys will lie them.
Both the sexes soon grow cold
And tears caught to their eyes

Serious talks, no fun,
And when the lights go out
You feel like you wanna run.

Cause there’s no one here but us,
By the end of the game we all get thrown under the bus.

I can’t feel nothing real,
My lights are all burned out.
I can’t feel nothing real.

What is the point of friendship?
It’s nobody’s fault, but this nightlife is just a death trip.
You think you’re getting hot steel
But in the light of day everything’s a dirty deal.

And yesterday’s a door that’s opening for the departed
Yesterday’s a door that’s opening for the departed
So where is the life we started?
Where is the life we started?

There have been many twists and turns in the saga of the Trump Crime Family, but who would ever have guessed Donald Trump Junior listened to Iggy Pop? Maybe he just liked the movie?

Kim Versus Trump Summit: The Final Countdown

‘Fox & Friends’ Host Calls North Korea Summit A Meeting Of ‘Two Dictators’

Abby Huntsman’s apparent slip-up about President Donald Trump set Twitter ablaze Sunday.

By Hayley Miller

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-abby-huntsman-north-korea-dictators_us_5b1d4727e4b0bbb7a0de46ca?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313