Behind the Bastards

I'm going to quote from Jacqueline Keeler's book Standoff, which is about the Bundy occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

Quote, on January 19th, 2016, Ryan Payne, a Malheur occupier and founder of Operation Mutual Aid, a militia coalition based in Montana, read the preamble of the Declaration of Independence at a community meeting held at the refuge.

I'm going to quote from Jacqueline Keeler's book Standoff, which is about the Bundy occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Quote, on January 19th, 2016, Ryan Payne, a Malheur occupier and founder of Operation Mutual Aid, a militia coalition based in Montana, read the preamble of the Declaration of Independence at a community meeting held at the refuge.

So many new types of machines were invented and put to use by 1300 that historian John Gimple wrote a book in 1976 called The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

So many new types of machines were invented and put to use by 1300 that historian John Gimple wrote a book in 1976 called The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

actual socialists like Nicole Ashoff, who wrote The New Prophets of Capital, saw the new deal or see the new deal as it was essentially a way for capitalists who were more reasonable and less monstrous than some of the other capitalists to keep the system limping along without a socialist revolution.

Capital's ability to periodically present a new set of legitimating principles that facilitate the willing participation of society accounts for its remarkable longevity despite periodic bouts of deep crisis.

As Bill Gates has wryly noted, they are more interested in cures for baldness than in cures for malaria. Why?

Melinda Gates argues that there is simply no rich world market for products like diarrhea or pneumonia vaccines.

Their solution is to use the Gates Foundation to create such a market in poor countries.

The KIPP schools follow an extended day strict disciplinary regime.

Students learn how to walk, get off the bus and use the restroom in the KIPP way. Students are not allowed to talk at school except to answer questions and they have to earn their desks.

Methodist minister Franklin Monroe Sprague wrote Socialism From Genesis to Revelation in 1892.

There was At The Cafe by Marla Tester and there are some like utopian fictions out there, but, and like less than utopian, but still interesting explorations of anarchist societies like Ursula Killigren's The Dispossessed.

I mean, like, there was At The Cafe by Marla Tester and there are some like utopian fictions out there, but, and like less than utopian, but still interesting explorations of anarchist societies like Ursula Killigren's The Dispossessed.

There was an article in the Atlantic that was, it was actually like about a book from, I think it's Dexter Thomas, Warplay.

And he said, the Pentagon avoids pitiful, expensive efforts to create their own training simulators and developers get fat government checks.

As a result of countless dynastic marriages, by the 20th century, scarcely any Russian blood flowed in the veins of the Russian Romanov czars. Nicholas's mother was the Danish princess, his grandmother the Danish queen. He called his grandmother the mother-in-law of all Europe.

The army meant obedience and diligence above all else, both these qualities which the shy youth already possessed the army would foster ruinously.

encouraged pederasty and heavy drinking.

As a result of countless dynastic marriages, by the 20th century, scarcely any Russian blood flowed in the veins of the Russian Romanov czars. Nicholas's mother was the Danish princess, his grandmother the Danish queen. He called his grandmother the mother-in-law of all Europe.

The army meant obedience and diligence above all else, both these qualities which the shy youth already possessed the army would foster ruinously.

encouraged pederasty and heavy drinking.

Speaking as a guy who's written multiple books that are in libraries every now and then you get some fucking shithead writer on Twitter who is like, well, you're taking money from me by like getting my books from a library. If if you find a writer who has that attitude, stop reading their books and start hitting them with a brick yourself hit him with a brick, give him a brick. You know, that's a brilliant free books or dope. Free books are amazing. And and make sure that you're yeah, you're using your library for all its worth, because that's why it's there.

Speaking as a guy who's written multiple books that are in libraries... If you find a writer who has that attitude, stop reading their books and start hitting them with a brick yourself... You know, that's a brilliant free books or dope. Free books are amazing. And and make sure that you're yeah, you're using your library for all its worth, because that's why it's there.

Speaking as a guy who's written multiple books that are in libraries... If you find a writer who has that attitude, stop reading their books... Free books are amazing. And and make sure that you're yeah, you're using your library for all its worth, because that's why it's there.

... you're taking money from me by like getting my books from a library... If if you find a writer who has that attitude, stop reading their books... Free books are amazing. And and make sure that you're yeah, you're using your library for all its worth, because that's why it's there.

... you're taking money from me by like getting my books from a library... If if you find a writer who has that attitude, stop reading their books... Free books are amazing... And make sure that you're yeah, you're using your library for all its worth, because that's why it's there.

So dairymen began increasing the dose of formaldehyde, seeking to keep their product fresh for as long as possible. Chemical companies came up with new formaldehyde mixtures with innocuous names such as ice lean or preserva lean. The latter was said to keep a pint of milk fresh for up to 10 days.

Fakery and adulteration ran rampant in other American products as well. Honey often proved to be thickened colored corn syrup and vanilla extract, a mixture of alcohol and brown food coloring.

Strawberry jam could be sweetened paste made from mashed apple peelings laced with grass seeds and dyed red. Coffee might be largely sawdust or wheat, beans, beets, peas and dandelion seeds. Scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article.

Containers of pepper, cinnamon or nutmeg were frequently laced with a cheaper filler material such as pulverized coconut shells, charred rope or occasionally floor sweepings. Flour routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender. Ground insects could be mixed into brown sugar, often without detection.

So dairymen began increasing the dose of formaldehyde, seeking to keep their product fresh for as long as possible. Chemical companies came up with new formaldehyde mixtures with innocuous names such as ice lean or preserva lean. The latter was said to keep a pint of milk fresh for up to 10 days.

Fakery and adulteration ran rampant in other American products as well. Honey often proved to be thickened colored corn syrup and vanilla extract, a mixture of alcohol and brown food coloring.

Strawberry jam could be sweetened paste made from mashed apple peelings laced with grass seeds and dyed red. Coffee might be largely sawdust or wheat, beans, beets, peas and dandelion seeds. Scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article.

Containers of pepper, cinnamon or nutmeg were frequently laced with a cheaper filler material such as pulverized coconut shells, charred rope or occasionally floor sweepings. Flour routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.

Ground insects could be mixed into brown sugar, often without detection. Their use linked to an unpleasant condition known as grocer's itch.

According to the book, Wilderness of Mirrors, a report, which is a book about Gerald bull, a Canadian army intelligence report on bull that came out after his death later analyzed this incident that led to him quitting card and concluded his tempestuous nature and strong dislike for administration and red tape constantly led him into trouble with senior management.

Apart from his physique, the Britisher has no particular qualification as a cavalier and he lacks the quick intelligence of the born artillerymen. But give him a rifle and a bayonet and let him have two years training to make a man of him and yet two more to remind him that he cannot be one without the other.

Apart from his physique, the Britisher has no particular qualification as a cavalier and he lacks the quick intelligence of the born artillerymen. But give him a rifle and a bayonet and let him have two years training to make a man of him and yet two more to remind him that he cannot be one without the other.

Like a beautiful like not to get your head out of that one of the things I'm really passionate about is plants and I have this beautiful book called the planet Pedia and It's really helpful for caring for your houseplants And it's just like aesthetically just so the photographs are beautiful and it's one of my favorite things to give friends and family Check that one out as well

I have this beautiful book called The Planet Pedia and It's really helpful for caring for your houseplants And it's just like aesthetically just so the photographs are beautiful and it's one of my favorite things to give friends and family Check that one out as well

And so we started a book group kind of in the interim reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Setting Sights, which is a really good book on community self-defense does is set out that a key aspect of community self-defense as you said is that you're like a member of the community.

One of the things that Scott Crow in his uh in Setting Sights which is a really good book on community self-defense does is set out that um a key aspect of community self-defense as you said is that you're like a member of the community and I think I guess the question I have is because guns are what they are and have the kind of cultural weight that they have it's you you people are always people who accept being armed as an aspect of their personality are always going to be kind of fighting having that dominate their personality and it wouldn't it it's clearly something that a lot of people have an issue with the thing that is important is to be a member of the community who happens to be armed as opposed to an armed activist whose whose role is being armed right like I I I mean do you agree with what I'm saying or kind of like I'm wondering how you think about it because this is something that I'm kind of going around in my head about as well because it's it's it's clearly where a lot of the problems happen right that the gun becomes central to the identity of the people who bring it which is something that happens to the cops yes and also the mentality of separating yourself from the community and not being part of the purpose of being there and so I'll defer to my my uh comrades here to go a little bit further with it but I would just say that there's a significant difference between armed community defense and having a intentional presence of armed community defense at an event or a protest and being a person who shows up with a gun those are two really different things and so I think that's the that's one of the benefits of being part of an organization that does this collectively with accountability with training with a known role in the community so that there is consistency among what we do and why we do it and a history of folks understanding that if we're present somewhere it's because we've been asked to be there and that what we're doing there is aligned with and approved of by the people who are organizing the event and then I'll I'll let somebody else who's more eloquent than I am uh answer that further if they feel like they can

I have read Lorenzo Veracini's book On Settler Colonialism.

I have read Lorenzo Veracini's "Settler" book On Settler Colonialism. Um, that's really helpful when you're trying to understand that framework.

In 1996, he produced a book, Draining the Swamp, Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform.

Frustrated, he published his book online under a new name, Draining a Swamp, the Nesera story, money and fiscal policy.

Frustrated, he published his book online under a new name, Draining a Swamp, the Nesera story, money and fiscal policy.

Get Props beautiful book.

Get Props beautiful book.

Yeah, Get Props book is delightful and aesthetically beautiful.

In his book, 'See, I Told You So', he declared that quite a few scientists are now backtracking on their once dire predictions of melting ice caps and worldwide flooding cut to Texas being submerged in a layer of snow that destroys civil society.

Warren Farrell, for example, led a men's group within the National Organization for Women. He then in 1993 wrote The Myth of Male Power.

Farrell's work is generally seen as like simplistic and insensitive and inaccurate and bullshit and also the foundational text of what we now know as the men's rights movement.