The U.S. and Israel exploit UNESCO when they want academic cover to extend their authority over cultural heritage sites, to legitimize their spheres of interest in lands they don't belong. Now that Palestinians are poised to use UNESCO to protect and preserve their own patently obvious ancestral claims, in contradiction to those of usurpers, the bullies want to take their ball and go home.
Tag: United States
A real democracy would elect Trump
A friend of mine used to say "You know who has their finger on the pulse of America? Walmart." Materialism on the cheap, zero social responsibility. It's true of American television, fast food, urban planning, everything USA. We sell immediate gratification, that's it. Success in America under declining capitalism has become courting only the lowest common denominator. I can wish it was otherwise, you can lecture it to death, but Cracker culture: insipid, racist, xenophobic culture is American culture. Love yourself, hate everybody who isn't you. For many successive Me-Generations, narcissism is WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT. The American mass doesn't want an Obama hued panel of multiculture-splainers saying America must be anything but stupid indulgent. An intelligencia's repulsion at Donald Trump and his common denominator campaign goes without saying, but it can't fault his sales pitch. Trump is tuned to win. Feel rueful about the lumpen masses, but you're being undemocratic.
U.S. SOLDIERS ARE READYING FOR A MASSIVE DEPLOYMENT
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO- You thank them for their service. You support them, they're only following orders. You know they're not at liberty to divulge everything they do or WHERE. As their supporters you are complicit, but whatever. Now your soldiers are keeping a HUGE secret from you. They're GOING TO WAR. You'd think that would be too controversial to be a state secret. If you leave in a military town, near a base, fort or camp, you need only ask around. Pawn shops and car dealerships seem to have their finger on the pulse of troop movements for some reason. In Colorado Springs, everybody knows. Friends and neighbors have already deployed overseas to establish contractor services. Others in readiness training. Of course the big secret for awhile has been Africa. American soldiers have been involved in covert operations across Africa which none are still allowed to talk about. Those aren't undeclared wars, just police actions. This time, again, it's Iraq. Going back. I shall return. Are they waiting on Spring? Summer weather? The election? Commander in Chief Clinton? Likely. It used to be soldiers didn't talk about mobilization. "Loose lips sink ships" etc. Of course in those days the public knew the nation was at war. War had been declared on us, or a fascist belligerent attacked. Today when the US launches offensive wars, illegal wars they're called in the Hague, its troop movements have to be extra covert. Or not, actually, when mobilization is prelude to Shock and Awe. Troop sneakiness seems to be all about sneaking past the American pulbic. Sneaking past us to unknown conflict zones in Africa and Asia, sneaking past us to redeploy to Iraq. At some point those soldiers have to understand what they're doing is not only unpopular, it's likely wrong.
OMG. Trump is not the Fourth Reich. You are!
The face of American Fascism is ugly ugly ugly, by art deco spiffy uniform standards. To pluralist, multicultural tastes, it's warm and fuzzy. You probably find it palatable, you don't mind it telling you why we must settle for war, poverty and injustice. You recoil in fear when its faces tell you that Donald Trump is Fascism on the rise. American Fascism has been in high gear since consolidating everyone else's trading monoplies, resources, and colonies. It began with the Louisiana Purchase and lept from the continent gobbling Spain's former possessions. Our Veterans of Foreign Wars were the Nazis before the Nazis. Instead of targeting the Jews, the scope of Western genocide has been much broader. Today our Mandarins have friendly faces but their final solution is merciless and straddles the planet. On their domestic list are the homeless, the healthcare-less, the zero-stakeholders, essentialy the 99 percent. Internationally it's everybody who doesn't serve a purpose, for example, refugees. If you are complicit in this exceptionalism, you are the "Fourth Reich" everyone is warning you about. Donald Trump is an egomaniac with a Napoleon complex. Maybe he wants to liberate the common people from the old guard, cut the purses of the bankers, and crown himself emperor. The US presidency isn't a dictatorship, but Trump's foes sure are worried about him succeeding. This time round there might remain no monarchs to banish Napoleon to Elba. Trump has got no friends, and don't be fooled, neither do you.
Who spends so much on weapons that they can’t feed or house their people?
North Korea's leader as a mere toddler -that's rich. Kim Jong Un is the preeminent adversary of our Pentagon. This New Yorker cover is wishful thinking I suppose if also insulting to our own sense of shame. The New Yorker depicts junior Kim's military success as child's play, though he continues to hold Western gunboat diplomacy in abeyance. The old saw is that North Korea has been starved of economic prosperty owing to its regime's unfettered militarism. Sound more like someone else you know? The US can't house its poor, can't feed its children, can't rebuild its infrastructure, nor provide safe drinking water to disfavored urban populations. The US spends more on war than everyone else put together. It can't provide healthcare. Even Kim Jong Un can do that. Likewise Un doesn't start wars, or expend ordnance to require the manufacture of more. North Korea's war footing isn't our capitalist sinkhole for weapons industry profiteers. That baby with the warheads would be better played by an average American preadolescent, shortly to be a PTSD'd amputee.
Whose flag opposes the anti-slavery stipulations in the TPP trade treaty?
We're demonizing the Civil War era Confederate Battleflag for defending slavery while the victorious DC regime profits by slavery and protects it still. Team Stars and Stripes opposes amendments to the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that would prohibit signatory nations from exploiting slave labor. The Rebel flag stood for slavery, the US flag stands for it.
Take down THAT flag
If you think taking down a flag can address the systemic oppression of people of color, have at it, but BOY DO YOU HAVE THE WRONG FLAG. The "Confederate flag" flies over civil war memorial cemeteries and gravestones across America. Veteran and veteran-lovers cling to the notion that soldiers don't give their lives in vain, so they are honored by the flag they fought for, in half the cases, the Confederate States. The Confederacy is as defunct as the sovereign nation of Texas, or the Third Reich for that matter, whose flags and insignia retain a similar appeal, often to the same demographic. Even if we pretend the Rebel flag represented the half of the US which defended slavery, it is not the standard that flew over the slave ships or plantations, or Charleston Bay for that matter, for the hundreds of years before the 1861-65 War of Rebellion. Those flags were many and international but it's safe to say that the nationalist flag that most symbolizes Western racist imperialism is the American Red, White and Blue. Who presided over the retention of slavery, over segregation, over lynching, over genocide, over the continued suppression of African American empowerment? Whose flag assailed the Native Americans, crossed the Pacific, and hasn't stopped yet? To address America's ingrained racism, take THAT flag down! There's an easy fix for our country's Civil War graves and memorials. Replace the rebel flags with the "Stars and Bars" the authentic flag of the Confederate States. It has none of the white klan cache. As for the mistakenly iconic "Battle Flag", BURN IT! If that offends Southerners, too bad, but have some empathy, you're probably clinging to the Stars and Stripes with the same unbecoming nostalgia.
In God We Trust by Eduardo Galeano
Presidents of the United States tend to speak in God's name, although none of them has let on if He communicates by letter, fax, telephone or telepathy. With or without His approval, in 2006 God was proclaimed chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. That said, the All Powerful, who is even on the dollar bill, was a shining absence at the time of independence. The constitution did not mention Him. At the Constitutional Convention, when a prayer was suggested, Alexander Hamilton responded: "We don't need foreign aid." On his deathbed, George Washington wanted no prayers or priest or anything. Benjamin Franklin said divine revelation was nothing but poppycock. "My mind is my own church," affirmed Thomas Paine, and President John Adams believed that "this world would be the best of all worlds, if there were no religion in it." According to Thomas Jefferson, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers were "soothsayers and necromancers" who divided humanity, making "one half fools and the other half hypocrites." -Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) RIP
Have Americans overtaken the Nazis as the real benchmark for Godwin’s Rule?
Funny how Americans think the Nazis are still the ne plus ultra of evildom. Isn't it about time we stop pretending the cruelty of Hitler's machine exceeded ours? The US military has of course blown well past the benchmark of "Godwin's Rule" by any measure of war crime both in quality and quantity, the question is, for how long has this been true? The initiate might think Vietnam marked our trespass into the Ugly American of infamy, our ensuing exploits in Latin America cementing our ignoble national character, but US colonial possessions worldwide know we've applied American moxie to a Final Solution stratagem wherever we've roamed. Before our westward expansion domestically, we settled with genocidal intent under a crown's mentorship. America's plan for its indigenous populations was the model for the Nazi relocation and extermination system, so for the Germans we were the "Nazis". Odd how that perspective got lost in our history of WWII, our "Good War".
Bail denied for political dissenters who didn’t want to relenquish their children
The news headlines should read "Bail denied for couple who kidnapped THEIR OWN CHILDREN." Let the public wrap its libertarian-leanings around that one. We presume a custody battle has its he-said she-said, the merits of which a family must work out. But the case of the mother and father who reclaimed their own small boys and vainly sought refuge in Cuba, is about a custody battle with grandparents who got court protection for their grandchildren based on judging the parents unfit --because they were attending activist rallies! I know absolutely nothing about the political leanings in question, the parents might have been gun-toting teabags and perhaps in private details irredeemable, but the press certainly isn't elaborating, and evidence might suggest the contrary. Piloting a small day-sailer 300 miles along the Florida coast then navigating to Cuba is not for simpletons. In essence, the children were confiscated based on political beliefs and now the "kidnappers" face criminal charges for trying to save their own kids.
UN military units ready to take over for the US and Israel in Syria
The head up its own ass Empire USA has well earned getting itself nuked by North Korea
--- Let's see now? The US government ignores threats from a country it has waged war against continuously now for 6 and 1/2 decades and so do the American people themselves??? Are we collectively stupid or what? It is the all brainwashed, head up its own ass Empire USA versus the 'Hermit Kingdom', as the corporate war mongering US press likes to call North Korea. And Dennis Rodman seems to be the only person with half a brain about him in this potentially highly radioactive basketballed out fiasco! We are a comic book Empire on the flop. I don't know about you, but I think that the North Korean Head of State might just be about to demand an end to the endless war the American people and their multiple governments have waged against his people. It all started way back when the US beat Japan in WW2 and then immediately put the Japanese occupiers of Korea in charge of the US puppet government set up by the US military on that peninsula for the already enslaved Koreans. Seems like Americans couldn't speak Korean but some of the Japanese mass murderers could, so that meant the world to our US 'boys' back then. Boy were we really democracy promoting folk???? Hardly. 'Our' troops were into PERMANENTLY occupying the Korean Peninsula though we have never belonged there even one second at all. After waging war on Koreans for all this time killing millions of them, perhaps we might take seriously that some Koreans might just be beginning to now be getting a little bit pissed off about what we enabled the US government to do, and that they might even actually send some nuclear bombs to Seoul and Tokyo, huge US government allied populations, and maybe even send a nuclear warhead or two to Honolulu and Seattle just for ourselves... perhaps? I would take this possibility much more seriously than the US public seems to be doing, as American sheeple are always in the lead to not noticing a thing about current events in the world we all inhabit together. How to solve the Korean-US governments nuclear standoff? It is simple. Just stop waging war on Korea, Americans. Go figure.... but it's simply the right thing to do. Get on board a little gun control, Dopehead America! Don't let your guns do you in.
Gun Control for weapons makers not users, for war mongers not hillbillies
I'm really not big on this call for gun control, mostly because it means to further restrict individual liberties, and especially because the outcry is a media induced hysteria of disreputable provenance, aimed at America's violence junkies instead of its dealers. Really? Is Going Postal the result of a citizenry not having laws enough to control itself? US prisons reflect a conflicting diagnosis. In tragic synchronicity with the Sandy Hook school shooting which prompted US public calls for gun control, a knife-wielding madman in China assailed twenty schoolchildren with no resulting fatalities, giving rise to perhaps the first time the non-Mongol West has ever thought it glimpsed greener pastures over the Great Wall. My takeaway from Bowling for Columbine was not "Gun Control Now!" but the toxic volatility of America's culture of fear-of-violence-mongering and its gun-ho idolatry. Michael Moore called for a stepping up to our responsibilities, not a surrender to dumbassedness. I hold our national arrested adolescence to be a character flaw of pioneer, frontier provincialism, an adaptation of the civilian contractor settlers conscripted for the Westward Expansion, shock troops of the Enlightenment which became the onslaught of industrial capitalism. Americans are hicks --we celebrate it-- who define our personal space with armed borders. For us it's bombs not education, simplistic fraternal evangelism over scientific sibling-hood, our pretended easy camaraderie really armed detente: trust but verify. Because of course, American frontierism, yet unable to see itself as invasive, from Columbus to Manila Bay, has been imperial for as long as "Yankee" has been a pejorative; Americans blissfully, Disneyfically unaware. America's gun problem isn't just domestic, it's export. For gun control I'd like to see a ban on production, not consumption. Unlike drugs whose source is organic, the manufacture of weapons is a centralized racket, easily constricted and regulated. The "Gun Show Loophole" is a stop gap for small fry; let's muzzle the beast itself. And if you think reining in the weapons industry is improbably Herculean, why-ever do you think now is the time for Hercules to dispense with his Second Amendment protection? Just because the Right to Bear Arms has come to exclude bazookas or drones, doesn't mean its intent was not to protect our democracy from authoritarianism. If anyone had construed the Second Amendment as a mere hunting license, Theodore Roosevelt's national parks would have been seen as encroachments on our revolution-conferred sovereign's right to poach. Are Americans thinking that democracy is lost because we can't have bazookas -- that the Second Amendment is inapplicable because the high courts adjudge the masses incapable of self-governance? The "well regulated militia" has surely gone the way of the Home Guard or Neighborhood Watch Committee, as our civic nature moved from social to anti, but it doesn't diminish the need to have minute-men insurgents to counter would-be tyrants. Obviously we're not talking about Minute Men privateers to whom police departments can outsource xenophobic vigilantism. If Occupy Wall Street proved anything, it lifted the fog on America's militarized police state. Public gun
Taliban tries to kill 14-yr-old girl in Pakistan, but who is most responsible for setting Women’s Rights back in the Muslim World?
The fact that the Muslim Right Wing fanatics try to kill young women does not mean that the Pentagon and US government's hands are in any way clean in the battle to advance women's rights in the Muslim World. Far from it. The US has been the destroyer of Women's Rights in this broad region, destroying regimes where women had more rights than in their own neighboring countries. This began way back when the US armed Osama bin Laden to fight against the Soviet Union and its pro women's rights Afghan government ally, then continued into the overthrow of the Hussein regime in Iraq, where women had a much higher status and more opportunities than in the Arab countries whose governments ally with the Pentagon. And so it continued in Libya, where Gaddafi despite all his many faults, had much improved the lot of women. Already the elevated status of Libyan women begins to sink back into what the Right Wing Islamic clergy will start to decree.
2,000?
The media today did a casualty count for the war against Afghanistan and its mistreated people, and came up with the magical number 2,000 (Sorry Afghans, nobody in the US hardly cares about your deaths). We are all supposed to ponder and reflect (according to the Pentagon fed corporate US media) about the supposed sacrifices that Americans have made to supposedly benefit the people of Afghanistan. Doesn't it just make you sick, Democrats, to know how 'your' political party, for which you vote constantly, views this war as being a good war? No, I guess it doesn't. First off, the US itself started the war against Afghanistan way back in 1979 when Jimmy the Peanut Bible thumping man was president, and when he decided to use Muslim Right Wing terrorists to battle the Soviet-backed government in that country. Remember, Democrats? Osama and his many friends of that ilk battled the Soviet Union and its Afghan puppet government for ten long years, leading to 14,000 Soviet dead and way over a million easily of Afghan casualties.... who knows the actual number? All this was because the US and its military pumped in billions upon billions of dollars to help keep the killing going nonstop. Then, with the fall of the Soviet Union there was a brief period when the Right Wing Muslim allies of the US took over and tried to recuperate the country from its misery some. Then came 9/11 and the subsequent reentry of the US into the Afghan killing fields of its own USA-made making with the invasion and occupation, where the US led troops slaughtered and tortured their prison held, Afghan soldier POWs taken, ...thousands to the lot. Did any Americans bat an eye? NO. They simply did not. They didn't care. And now of course the count began on march to the magic 2,000 figure (Afghan hundreds of thousands simply are not counted, because the 'civilized community' considers these people to be beasts and not even human). The accounting done in Afghanistan provides us a mirror to see our own sorry American selves, Democrats. You supported the Pentagon because you are a bunch of flag waving numbskulls, just about as out of it as are the Republicans. The Afghans paid the price and remain enslaved by the US government. You don't even tally the figure of who your government kills as you pull the DP lever in the voting booths.... be it Republican or Democrat who sits in presidential office////
US, Britain, France, and Germany versus Russia and China- Battle Zone Syria
Those Americans who tend to see the Syria battle out of its geo-politcal context are playing stupid and mainly fooling only themselves. Here from a news report... 'Another item which the two leaders will most likely discuss is how Russia and China may protect themselves from a network of air defense facilities, which the US is now unveiling in Asia. China’s authorities are very concerned about the fact that the US is deploying missiles and air defense systems in Japan and on the Philippines, because this is obviously done as a reaction to China’s program of developing nuclear missiles.' (from What Russian, Chinese leaders may discuss during APEC summit) All this takes place in the context that the US, Britain, France and Germany may ignore the Russian and Chinese objections to their plans to use their militaries anyway to force regime change on the Syrians, while ignoring the vetoes against this at the United Nations. There is no 'revolution' in Syria freely made by Syrians themselves. The war in Syria was MADE IN USA.
Egypt’s Revolution is now stalled by the control of the US government over the Egyptian military
Sure the Egyptian military jettisoned Mubarak under pressure to do so, but he was/ is dying anyway. What they did not jettison is their direct control over about 1/3 of the Egyptian economy. How did they get that huge a portion of control over employment and salaries in Egypt? Time Magazine, in a moment of rare honesty, mentioned just how in an article dated a year and 1/2 ago. Here is what was said in brief.... 'But despite the military's predominant role, the Egyptian public knows remarkably little about how the military actually operates. That's because writing about the military has long been off-limits to the press. The secrecy begins with the military budget, which Jane's estimates to be about $5 billion. However, one independent researcher has calculated that actual military expenditures could be four or five times larger. Part of the budget is made up of U.S. military assistance of $1.3 billion annually that provides financing for Egypt's major weapons systems. (The funding must be spent on U.S. goods and services and is therefore effectively a subsidy for U.S. defense contractors.) Read more: Time article. He who pays, controls. And the US Pentagon has paid to control Egypt's military, as it in turn controls affairs in the Arab country with the largest population in the Arab World. So we can see how Egyptians face the same problem that Americans face, which is just how can democracy be restored in our respective countries? And the answer is the same for Egyptians as it is with Americans. We have to dismantle military control over our respective national economies. Egyptians, over 85 million of them, all know where the money came from to establish a military dictatorship over them. It came from the USA. Our US population is responsible for their suppression. For more info about this issue, see Some Egyptians Leery of U.S. Military Money’s Impact on Their Election -'Like Pakistan and Turkey, the Egyptian military controls a significant part of their country’s economic activity, and benefits from continuing subsidies from the U.S. government.' Indeed, this is so.
Obama Administration reaches agreement with itself to have US occupy Afghanistan forever
What a total fraud of a 'withdrawal'! 'After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after the withdrawal of combat troops at the end of 2014.' Further about this 'agreement' between the US government and itself at the New York Times article titled... With Pact, U.S. Agrees to Help Afghans for Years to Come ...It's time to throw the Republicans out of hte White House! Oh, wait? In our 'democracy' the US population only has a choice between two sets of Republicans- Republicans or Republicrats.
Behind the UN’s messing over Somalia and Haiti, lies the US government
The UN, with the US behind them, just can't stay out of the news completely about how the two together are royally screwing over the people of both Somalia and Haiti. In Haiti, the UN has had continually been involved in the sexual abuse of Haitians and also in bringing them a virulent strain of cholera from Nepal. See Peacekeepers in Haiti face sex attack inquiry, and Two peacekeepers sentenced to a year in prison with hard labour after a trial found them guilty of sexual abuse. Wow! A whole year in jail? The UN soldiers wouldn't have gotten that if they had been stationed as 'piecekeepers' inside Congo! But let the Haitian OCCUPATION go on and on and on! And in Somalia, the UN has been very busy spreading widespread hunger and chaos, too, Haitians. So the US and UN together love other peoples just as well as they are screwing yourselves! An odious affair: The UN in Somalia Makes one proud to be an American doesn't it? And so very proud to be backing up the US corporate government's 'United Nations'! The UN- the Pentagon's clean up squad!
How many children are stolen from Mexican parents and kept in the US?
This case got reported but how many cases similar in nature do not get noticed by anybody at all except by the heart broken left to rot in Mexico away from their own kids? Deported to Mexico, a father hopes for custody with his three boys back in North Carolina, where foster parents want to adopt them.
Building Cross Border Solidarity would lead to more workers rights in both Mexico and the US
An interesting PDF report from those helping to build some Labor Solidarity between workers in Mexico and the US- Cross Border Solidarity. Some excerpts: INTRODUCTION In the period since the North American Free Trade Agreement has come into effect, the economies of the United States and Mexico have become more integrated than ever. Through Plan Merida and partnerships on security, the military and the drug war, the political and economic policies pursued by the U.S. and Mexican governments are more coordinated than they’ve ever been. Working people on both sides of the border are not only affected by this integration. Workers and their unions in many ways are its object. These policies seek to maximize profits and push wages and benefits to the bottom, manage the flow of people displaced as a result, roll back rights and social benefits achieved over decades, and weaken working class movements in both countries. All this makes cooperation and solidarity across the U.S./Mexico border more important than ever. After a quarter century in which the development of solidarity relationships was interrupted during the cold war, unions and workers are once again searching out their counterparts and finding effective and appropriate ways to support each other. This paper is not a survey of all the efforts that have taken place, especially since the NAFTA debate restarted the solidarity process in the early 1990s. Instead, it seeks to set out some questions, and invite responses and contributions from people involved in this cross border movement. Among these questions are the following: What is the history of cross-border solidarity? How can we discard the blinders forged by the cold war, and expand our vision of what is possible? How is the political context changing on both sides of the border? Why is solidarity a necessary response to political and economic challenges? One of our biggest advantages is the movement of people from Mexico to the U.S. and back. What part do migrants and the struggle for their rights play in solidarity between workers of both countries? How can we develop new ways of reaching across the border? The Hidden History of Mexico/U.S. Labor Solidarity The working class movements of the U.S. and Mexico both began in the decades after the seizure of Mexican territory in the War of 1848, its incorporation into the territory of the U.S., and the unequal relationship cemented by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. After the turn of the century, cross-border solidarity became an important political movement, as Mexicans began migrating to the U.S. as railroad workers, miners and farm laborers. The Flores Magon brothers, on the run from the regime of Porfirio Diaz, began organizing what became the uprising in Cananea and the Liberal Party in the communities of railroad workers in Los Angeles, St. Louis and elsewhere north of the border. The two were active participants in the radical socialist and anarchist movements of the day, and were associated with the Industrial Workers of the World. After the Cananea rising, J. Edgar Hoover pursued them in his first campaign of organized anti-labor and anti-left
Vladimir Putin speaks TRUTH to US militarist power and the corporate press hates him for it!
Got to love Russia's Vladimir Putin for one thing at least, and that is he often speaks out and tries to defend his country and the rest of the world from US militarism and expansionism. Here is the latest about that: Putin warns West over Syria, Iran.
Why is the US engaging in war to overthrow Assad in Syria?
Why is the US trying to overthrow both Iran and Syria's governments? And so is al-Qaida evidently, as the Associated Press reports here- In complicating move, al-Qaida backs Syrian revolt... That makes the US government and al-Qaida once again allies in their manipulations against Russia! Remember? That's how the US armed Osama bin Laden once upon a time.
NATO troops kill 8 children in Afghanistan
How long will the US and European populations sit back passively allowing their governments' troops to kill children repeatedly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa? Here is the latest atrocity by US/ NATO troops... NATO airstrike killed eight children: Karzai
Happy ThanksNowFuckOffAndDieGiving
THANKSGIVING would seem to commemorate misplaced thanks. Our thanks are not for the bounty of the New World, or for receiving aid from the indigenous peoples, or for being bequeathed stewardship over their gardens and farms, or God forbid for their joining us for supper. American white folk give thanks that the North American indigenous resistance quite unwisely didn't massacre our settlers to the last man and refute at least symbolically the European invasion of their continent. How many acts of turning the other cheek have been rewarded with a victor's treachery? It's become fashionable among environmentalists to think of mankind as a parasitic scourge soon to overrun the Earth its host, but that's only Western Man isn't it? Indigenous anarchist man has led a sustainable existence for longer than we celebrate our HAPPY history.