Sunday, December 14, 2025

I'm 9% Irish! the same ratio as my birthday! Wow

 Sarah Shier (100% Irish) married Edward Switzer (palatine in Ireland)

Henry Adam Switzer and he marred Emma Hanley (100% Irish) in Canada
75% Irish Alvina Switzer....married Thomas John Chappell (100% English)
37% Irish Cecil Chappell marrying 100% German (Engel)...
18% Irish is my mom.... so I am
9% Irish or 1/11
 
 

Saturday, December 13, 2025

estimated 300 million deaths by U.S. Imperialism and Never Again Action with David Michael Smith

 https://monthlyreview.org/american-exceptionalism-on-trial-endless-holocausts-reviewed-in-covert-action/

  David Michael Smith, Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), estimated that the U.S. empire is responsible, or shares responsibility, for close to 300 million deaths.

 More broadly, Endless Holocausts implicitly poses a question: If the U.S. capitalist-imperialist system is dependent upon such mass death, as the book documents in detail, then what happens when climate change begins upending the basic contours of human life as it has existed for many millennia? For example, the U.S. government has allowed more than one million people in the country to simply drop dead from COVID over the last three years, and such new epidemics are only going to become more frequent as ecocide accelerates. Human populations have increased since 10,000 B.C., and significantly since around 1800 A.D., but that is going to reverse in the coming years – at least in the absence of a dramatic overturn of the existing system. Such a system that cavalierly discards millions of workers – because a simple mask, a vaccine, a day of sicktime, a doctor visit, a living wage, a solar cell or wind turbine, etcetera is not profitable – is not viable in the grim new world coming into being. It is worth noting here the argument that the Black Death of the fourteenth century, which wiped out up to half of the European labor force, facilitated such a transformation in the economic mode of production: the decline of feudalism and the ascendancy of capitalism itself and the new bourgeoisie.

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Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire by David M Smith is an encyclopaedic overview of the atrocities and the destruction of human lives committed under the rise of American imperialism. The US government has always portrayed itself as a fighter for democracy and human rights, “a unique force for good in the world.” Endless Holocausts proves that this is not so. The US Empire is maintained by a network of client states that “encompass 40 per cent of the world’s countries.” It is supported by 800 foreign bases, with 200,000 military staff and contractors deployed in 140 countries, including Australia.

Smith begins with the genocide of America’s native peoples, which had a pre-contact population of at least 2 million, declining to 600,000 by 1800. The genocide continued as the US government carved out its territory, with the indigenous population reduced to 237,000 by 1900. US police kill around 20 Indigenous people every year. Smith argues convincingly that the “Indigenous Peoples Holocaust” amounts to thirteen million lives and is ongoing.

Smith examines the treatment of Hispanics and immigrants before moving on to the US’s numerous invasions and assisted toppling of governments. In 1954 the CIA overthrew the Arbenz government in Guatemala, followed by coups in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and the low intensity wars in Central America in the 1980s. The direct result of US military intervention was the death of over 700,000 people.

The US invasion of the Philippines and Cuba in 1898, intervention in the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution and the Mexican Civil War (1910 to 1920) implicated the US in 12 million deaths. The US support of the Guomindang in China, Italy’s colonisation of Libya, the war against Ethiopia and support for the Fascists in Spain resulted in the death of 3.5 million people. Between 1950 and 1980 the US was involved in wars in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia which killed 12 million people. If the anti-communist wars during the Biafran War and the Bangladesh War are included, then this is another 11 million dead. The US proxy war in Afghanistan killed 1.5 million. Thus, in first 35 years of the Pax Americana following World War II, the US was involved in the death of 29 million people.

African Americans have faced terrible treatment at the hands of the US government since the 19th century, living under a stereotyped social identity that has had a devastating cumulative psychological impact on the disenfranchised population. Deprivation and living in slums has had led to high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and other disabilities, as well as gun violence; harassment by police; and hunger.  In total 9 million preventable deaths have occurred amongst the African American population since 1900.

The ascendency of US Imperialism has been accompanied by the most violent labour history in the industrialising world. Between 1850 and 1855, the US building the Panama Railway in what was then Colombia, saw the death of 12,000 workers from Colombia, Jamaica, Ireland, and China. Thousands of workers died in mining, canal building, textiles and other industries by 1900. In 1891 the New Jersey Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industry reported that “the destruction of human life is much greater in the peaceful pursuits of industry than in war”. Eric Forner has estimated that 700,000 workers died in the US between 1880 and 1900. John F Witt in Accidental Republic (2006) finds that by the early 1900s, “accidents were the leading cause of death among workers in hazardous industries as diverse as railroads, mining, metalwork, rubber work, shipping and canals, quarries, telegraph and telephones, electric lighting, brick- and tile-making, and terra-cotta work.”

Between 1930 and 1970, 3.3 million workers died from work related diseases. In 2019 the National Safety Council and the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that between 1990 and 2018 there were 170,000 work related fatalities. When all the deaths due to US corporations are totalled, inside the US and abroad, it equates to 13.5 million workers.

Michael Parenti writes in America Besieged (2001): “There is no social formation more profoundly immoral than a big capitalist corporation.” Total deaths in the US from drug overdoses, tobacco, automobiles, dangerous consumer goods, medical experiments, public health crises, and environmental pollution come to 60 million, all  preventable.

Smith concludes that the US created holocausts at home and abroad amounting to more than 74 million dead. That US imperialism and big business have caused such destruction and loss of human life is staggering. Unfortunately, the US government has learnt little in its pursuit of Empire and Capitalism.

Smith has written a scholarly yet digestible work showing clearly how great is the tragedy of US imperialism – the highest stage of US Capitalism. This raises the question of why the Australian government is pursuing an ever closer alliance with a nation with such a savage history, a nation which persists in its violent acts around the world?

 https://nyupress.org/author/david-michael-smith/

David Michael Smith

David Michael Smith has a doctorate in political science from the City University of New York Graduate Center, is a former professor of government and union president at College of the Mainland. He has also taught at the University of Houston–Downtown, York College, Brooklyn College, Stevens Institute of Technology, and other institutions. His writings have appeared in Peace Review, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, Socialism and Democracy, Vanguard Dossier (Spain), Countercurrents (India), and other publications.

David Michael Smith was a Jewish activist in Houston involved with
Never Again Action, a group protesting U.S. immigration policies, particularly against detention centers, leading to his arrest in a 2019 action with other activists like Beth Moore. Never Again Action uses Jewish history and the "never again" slogan to highlight contemporary injustices, seeing parallels between past atrocities and current migrant treatment, urging action against detention centers and complicit corporations, a movement that connects deeply with anti-immigrant policies in Texas and nationwide.........

 https://www.neveragainaction.com/

 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-05-05/ty-article/.premium/in-coronavirus-era-jewish-activists-get-creative-protesting-americas-injustices/0000017f-dbd7-d3a5-af7f-fbffdd470000

 https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4821&context=open_etd

 “About Us,” Never Action, https://www.neveragainaction.com/, Last accessed, Dec 2, 2021. Never Again Action is a Jewish-led organization mobilizing “against the persecution, detention, and deportation of immigrants in the United States as part of the broader fight against white supremacy, fascism, and racial capitalism.” Never Again Action coalesced and gained traction through its direct-action rallies and protests after Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez visited detention sites along the U.S-Mexico border.

 For many, including Jewish organizations such as T’ruah (The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights), HIAS, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (along with congregations from diverse streams of Judaism) and youth with Never Again Action across the U.S, the humanitarian crisis became a “moral crisis” that needed a response.
Many Jews who acted were themselves inspired by the long tradition of American Jewish
organizations and rabbis involved in welfare programs, social, racial, and economic justice, the Civil Rights movement, and the sanctuary movement of the 1980s. 

 The “Never Again
Havdalah” service and the “Never Again Action” group in El Paso were initiated by Alison
Westermann, activist, LGBTQIA advocate, and transplant to El Paso from Naperville, Illinois,
and Jordyn Rozensky, writer/photographer living in El Paso.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsePtCg6Gpg

 

The United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) was an anti-fascist conference organized by the Black Panther Party and held in Oakland, California, from July 18 to 21 ...
The United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) is a broad-based coalition of groups and individuals united in opposition to racism and bigotry.
The United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) was a coalition formed in the Pacific Northwest in December 1988 in response to rising neo-Nazi and white ...
Jun 3, 2020The US Antifascism Reader ... Since the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United ...

 https://socialism.com/fs-article/united-front-against-fascism-principles-of-unity/

  Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party organized a counter-demonstration, which led to the establishment of UFAF.

 

Year 2026 predictions from original qigong master: Fire is dominant energy, take three deep gentle breathes, 60 yr chance

 Lots of risk of damage from Fire this year 2026

Lots of risk of misinformation on the internet....

Fire represents the heart emotions....  take three deep gentle breathes to sink the energy....

take three seconds before bursting out passionate anger emotion...

the stock market will have "another huge development across the world" due to AI and space and medical innovations.... and spiritual methods and modern quantum physics technology....

 "your product"...... "you're going to do fabulous..."

beauty and art will be very important....

"wrap your product in a beautiful design."

 energy sectors.... fire represents power... and light....

Condense your qi (in your lower tan t'ien) - to attract positive energy - and have more energy to work with daily activities....

 Education becomes more important because the knowledge is so huge from explosion of information...

WHY does massaging a center point help to clear energy blockages....

Customized coaching service because everything is individual....

New theories, new frameworks, new explanations are going to develop....

What's the difference between Qi and energy medicine?

there is something we need to understand deeper - energy can not direct itself? The Qi, the intelligence....that has the "vitality code" that can "direct the energy flow."

 Yin is the spirit, yang is the physical body....

 So you have to work on the emotions to heal the physical body...

Longevity and wellness will be a huge business across the world. People have more money, the living condition is better, you have more time, so you want to enjoy your....great-granddaughter's party and live longer, happier and healthier....

Cosmetics, beauty saloons, clothing and fashion design, jewelry design, gardening and landscaping.... LOTS of business will be growing, developing.

 It's because of the energy of the universe....

The sunlight, the moonlight affects the energy... Saturn and Jupiter "Meet" every 20 years and this year they come very close to the Earth....that's why there's lots of fire related energy on Earth....

Yes, Jupiter and Saturn appear to "meet" in the sky,
an event called a Great Conjunction, roughly every 20 years because Jupiter laps Saturn in its orbit around the Sun; Jupiter takes ~12 years, while Saturn takes ~30 years, leading to a conjunction every two decades as Jupiter catches up and overtakes it from Earth's perspective, creating a spectacular sight that was especially close in 2020, the tightest in nearly 400 years..

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ijgEtDOOU

 This year is the best opportunity in 60 years to open the third eye!!

 why qigong? Health, Wealth and attraction are combined with physical movement all together...attract wealth, prosperity, attract the right people to you...qigong does the work!

November 25.... 

  • Jupiter-Saturn Trine: The two planets will form an exact trine aspect (120 degrees apart from an astrological perspective) on August 31, 2026. A trine is a harmonious alignment in astrology, not a "meeting" where they appear close in the sky.
  • Opposition and Visibility: Around November 25, 2026, both planets will be well-placed for viewing but in different parts of the sky:
  •  a good month to do INVESTMENT - and travel (as sun bath) is from January to May and then September to December.... 

    the months from June to August and then Dec 2025 to Feb next year 2026 - the energy is a bit challenged.... when you develop your company and do investment and you travel - you still do them but avoid doing something which might trigger negative energy....

     A great opportunity to transform your destiny - a 60 year opportunity to change your fate!! 

     Attract Good Fortune and transform your karma... and clear generational karma...

     Tibetan monk chanting will help clear ancestral karma to burst energy to another level as a new orbit....

     If you do business, company, stock markets, you need to be careful....[in certain parts of the globe]

     in East and southeast - 

    "prosperity is pretty good...when you buy stocks, make sure the original company is from this region, the headquarters of the company is from this part of the world...Energy, investments, property, land buying...."

     when making decision about "investment and design" sit in the East and southeast side or middle of the house - ...

     Once you KNOW something is going on then you can find a way to balance the energy.... and avoid negative activities....

     using black crystal ball... with the hexagram... glass of water with 8 pennies....

    when you gaze at the hexagram/black crystal ball - the brain wave will change and connect you to the divine source, the parallel universe, the omnipotent power to support you....

     

     

     

    Friday, December 12, 2025

    Ilhan Omar should have filed a defamation lawsuit a long time ago: The lie lingered

     A false accusation is an accusation with NO evidence. No one should be forced to prove a negative - that's the very definition of a "witch hunt."

    “In 2018, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Omar showed a reporter cellphone images of documents from her family’s entry into the United States in 1995. They listed her father and siblings by order of birth, with Ms. Omar listed as the youngest of seven children. Mr. Elmi’s name did not appear in the documents.

    According to the couple’s marriage certificate, he is also three years younger than Ms. Omar, whose mother died when she was 2 years old‚" the Times’ reporting on the claims went on to say.

    https://www.al.com/politics/2025/12/trump-claims-democratic-congresswoman-married-her-brother-let-her-go-back-to-somalia.html

     Cargill is the world's largest private corporation controlled by 14 billionaires yet Cargill is dependent on tax welfare to "store" grains for U.S. imperialism. Cargill dumped grains at 1/6th the local farm price into Somalia when the farmers had controlled Mogadishu. That's why the Somalians got controlled by the U.S. with refugees coming to the Twin Cities - so you obviously had no idea what you're talking about. When farmers are being shut out by China and China buys from Brazil instead - it is the SAME Cargill buying from Brazil from illegal soybean elevators in the equatorial rainforest! Cargill has offices in 70 countries worldwide that all trade through Switzerland as derivatives. Cargill profited 1 billion by shorting the 2008 collapse. hahaha. You're fixated on 80,000 Somalians who are the victims of the world's largest private corporation controlled by 14 billionaires in the Twin Cities Minnesota! Hilarious.

    Thursday, December 11, 2025

    What's the Secret Sauce of Valvoline Restore and Protect engine oil?

     

     My playlist of yt reviews of this new product

    That's the oil geek (giving that look of disbelief selfie stare at his camera) at Ashland Kentucky valvoline engine test lab - very fascinating stuff!!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Weeping Madonnas: tears from statues of Mary

     Alfonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) was a principal proponent of the Marianist Movement, which glorifies Mary.  He wrote a book entitled The Glories of Mary which is famous, influential and widely read.  In this book, de Liguori says that Mary was given rulership over one half of the kingdom of God; Mary rules over the kingdom of mercy and Jesus rules over the kingdom of justice.  De Liguori said that people should pray to Mary as a mediator and look to her as an object of trust for answered prayer.  The book even says that there is no salvation outside of Mary.

    Apparitions, Healings, and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal

     
     explained by psychokinesis....
     She intimates that virtually all "miraculous" events are likely effected through psi abilities, not any kind of intervention from God or spiritual beings. This is part of an attempt to avoid a radical dualism which defines miracles as a "violation" of natural laws, yet in my opinion she goes too far in this. In her view, even Jesus' healings recorded in the Gospels are said to be the result of bio-psychokinesis.

    Her redefinition of "miracle" to be based on the subjective transformative power of an event rather than its special divine origin really saps all the meaning out of the word, and I find it incompatible with the New Testament's definition of "signs and wonders."
     
     
    Oxford University Press, 2016 - History - 219 pages
    Our Lady of the Nations is a detailed and scholarly overview of the apparitions of Mary in 20th-century Catholic Europe. Chris Maunder discusses apparitions in general and how they are interpreted in Catholicism by, for example, Karl Rahner and Benedict XVI. The role of women and children as visionaries is considered, including issues concerning changing views of gender, children's spirituality, and the protection of minors. He covers cases that are well known and approved by the Church (Fatima, Beauraing, Banneux, and Amsterdam), others that are well known but not approved (such as Garabandal and Medjugorje), and many that are neither well known nor approved, such as those in Belgian Flanders or Nazi Germany in the 1930s, or in France, Italy, or Germany after the Second World War. Resources include academic studies of particular apparitions, some Catholic theological and devotional literature, and occasionally travel writing. There is also coverage of material in French which is not known to the English reader.Shrines and visionaries are believed to be indicators of the presence of Mary. In the visionary perspective, she has appeared in order to reassure her followers and to warn of divine judgement. Her messages echo doctrinal Catholic Mariology with some innovations, but also express a deep dissatisfaction with the events and trends of the 20th century, from communism to Nazism to liberalism and religious indifference. While the Marian cult evolves according to new templates for apparitions and developments in Mariology, the fundamental message of presence, consolation, and admonition remains constant.

    Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in Twentieth-century Catholic Europe

     

    Tears and Saints

    Front Cover
    University of Chicago Press, Jul 6, 1998 - Philosophy - 154 pages
    By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran "searched for the origin of tears." He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light."

    "Who can tell?" he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. "To be sure, tears are their trace. Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise." By following in their traces, "wetting the soles of one's feet in their tears," Cioran hoped to understand how a human being can renounce being human. Written in Cioran's characteristic aphoristic style, this flamboyant, bold, and provocative book is one of his most important—and revelatory—works.

    Cioran focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics—primarily female—famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional, and based solely on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Saint John of the Cross, have produced classic works of mystical literature; but Cioran celebrates many more minor and unusual figures as well.

    Following Nietzsche, he focuses explicitly on the political element hidden in saints' lives. In his hands, however, their charitable deeds are much less interesting than their thirst for pain and their equally powerful capacity to endure it. Behind their suffering and their uncanny ability to renounce everything through ascetic practices, Cioran detects a fanatical will to power.

    "Like Nietzsche, Cioran is an important religious thinker. His book intertwines God and music with passion and tears. . . . [Tears and Saints] has a chillingly contemporary ring that makes this translation important here and now."—Booklist
     
     
     Beginning in 1948 there was a series of apparitions of Mary in the city of Lipa.  These apparitions were sometimes accompanied by showers of rose petals and other supernatural phenomena.  They occurred in a convent.  The local bishop personally experienced a shower of rose petals and thereafter supported the apparitions.  The media mocked the supernatural events in Lipa and street vendors sold phony “holy rose petals.”  In response to the bad publicity, the Vatican sent a Papal Administrator to take over the diocese where the apparitions occurred.  He replaced the bishop and the mother superior.  The nun who saw the apparitions was forced to leave the convent.  The nuns were ordered to destroy all materials associated with the apparitions, including a statue.  The convent was sealed and the nuns were not allowed to talk to anyone outside the convent.

    Wednesday, December 10, 2025

    Why resistance training increases nitric oxide as blood vessel dilation

     https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5463976/

    Resistance training boosts nitric oxide (NO) primarily by
    increasing shear stress on blood vessel walls due to higher blood flow during muscle contraction, activating endothelial cells to produce NO, which signals for vasodilation (vessel widening) for better nutrient delivery and waste removal, and improving overall vascular health with chronic training

    Caffeine addiction stopped the ability of the vessel to dilate, thereby tearing the heart aorta artery from a 500 lb squat 

     caffeine causes adrenaline to increase for 4 hours - keeping the body study in the sympathetic nervous system....increasing blood pressure....