Mishandling immigration will cost Biden the congress in 2022.... and the election in 2024. Mishandling brown skinned children will feed our mad dog white racists the red meat they crave. Compassion is not in their lexicon. The not golden triangle will not be solved with foreign aid or investment. This area is at war with itself. The crim…
Mishandling immigration will cost Biden the congress in 2022.... and the election in 2024. Mishandling brown skinned children will feed our mad dog white racists the red meat they crave. Compassion is not in their lexicon. The not golden triangle will not be solved with foreign aid or investment. This area is at war with itself. The criminal element in Guatemala in coffee is brutal. Families will not let their children walk alone. Too many end up dead by the road side, their organs cleaned out - and for sale. Catherine Goulet Ramirez, born in Guatemala February 24, 1991, and her 5 year old son David, are nearby in The North Country... good mother, nice boy... unable to return. Terrified. Their whole family is honest, but they are pressed to serve in the drug trade. There are many. Who buys the drugs? Of course, Americans. Who threatens the coffee we buy? Thugs threaten everything. The honest are scarce down there. Dreaming off about cleansing without invading is an illusion, and we are not going it. We prefer places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, and all those places that brought a strange smile to John Foster Dulles and the DOD, as we ramped to get trashed and changed this nation.
I know Mexico, while we are on the subject. Acapulco was and is no more. The Americans led by the CEO of Braniff, Ford, Sears and a few others set up there on the coast with a 36 hole golf course and a private club with an admission fee of $36,000. Many joined. It has been trashed. There is not a member left... and the most beautiful architecture has been ravaged by the mob. Mexico talks the talk. That's all.
We are kidding ourselves with business as usual. The Monroe Doctrine needs an upgrade. Antony Blinken will have his hands full. Jews fled Hitler and FDR turned them away. No one cared till we opened Auschwitz and learned that 200 camp were scattered all over Europe, Poland and Russia were indifferent, the French were complicit, Waldheim ruled Austria, and our values were the talk, not the action. Jews today are not safe in many parts of France. Hungary is a disaster, Poland is a mess, Germany is the bulwark and may fail without Angela Merkel, and we see what happens to color in Buckingham Palace.
Mankind's number one issue is color... and America must lead - and face the music. $27,000,000 to solve the mess in Minnesota will not solve it. What about thousands of others? The cop with the knee is the white cop, and many not white, that would prefer violence and took the badge and the gun to take aggression for a walk. The term peace officer went the way of the Model T.
Look what The New York Times wants to do with substack. Free speech is threatened by our leader... simply because Letters from an American is siphoning off readership - that simply wants the facts in a manageable format, not $6.50 on Sunday with selective news that spins where it should dig, and digs where is should think first, and then decide if all the litmus issues are what need attention.
Heather Cox Richardson is unique. I am learning about substack. Matt Taibbi and I were introduced at Bard College where we appeared together. I found him a bit raw, but there is no question about his integrity - and today I do not find him raw. I find him right.
Frankly, I'd like to see HRC thrive and Matt thrive... and more of them. We must reach to every kitchen, board room, church, the Grange, high school, college, hardware, bar and restaurant, and get the dialogue up to speed... and we must learn why 70,000,000 find a fascist attractive.
Letters from an American must draw the linkage... of color to fascism. Mussolini and Hitler played Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and freedom loving citizens that would not say yes to Hitler, fist in the air. Well, Josh Hawley has said yes to Trump, fist in the air.
Do any of you need to know more. Call every one you know in Missouri and give good phone. We must find the way to pull this nation back from the edge.
Doudna and CRISPR will not implant character. We must do this with dialogue lest we be forced to do it with Allied Forces a la WW II... when we ignored Hitler for a decade and he took over.
The Crash, Spanish Flue and Woodrow Wilson's Jew hating tribe of patriots were a problem. Pearl Harbor got Senator Vandenberg to say yes... and we hired IKE to do lead D Day.
What can we do about a world gone mad tonight?
I have many thoughts... but it's time for me to hit the hay.
Substack will challenge the best... and we can all contribute our two bits... if that matters.
Sandy, you said:. "I know Mexico, while we are on the subject. Acapulco was and is no more. The Americans led by the CEO of Braniff, Ford, Sears and a few others set up there on the coast with a 36 hole golf course and a private club with an admission fee of $36,000. Many joined. It has been trashed. There is not a member left... and the most beautiful architecture has been ravaged by the mob. Mexico talks the talk. That's all."
If white corporate colonialism and a failed private club catering to white non-Méxicans, (and employing Méxicans at whatever the horrifyingly low minimum wage was, and still is), is your yardstick for knowing México, you don't know México. Period. If you visited or lived as a corporate colonial in Acapulco and thought your a mostly white private club was the real México you were part of the problem. If you are unaware of the relentless bigotry European Méxicans have for the indigenous peoples, your viewpoint is part of the problem. Not just in México but throughout Latin America. Most white Europeans and Americans who come to México love to pay as as little as possible to employ Méxicans, whether it's in a factory, a service industry or in a home.
No. A failed private club in Acapulco, is not a the yardstick by which to measure México. White corporations are not here to help México they are here to help themselves.
And does México have problems? Yes, indeed, it does. But you are never going to have a good idea what those problems are as long as you are plunking your white rear end down in the middle of a white enclave or luxury hotel anywhere in México. Or the world for that matter.
I wrote a rant earlier today and wondered if it referred enuf to the subject in the "Letter." Then when I came here and saw only posts about location (I'm in Miami Beach) I never posted. But, just scrolled yards down and found an actual discussion.
Here is what would have been my post it only deals with what I find to be a major problem with Centro & South America - Drug Trade:
Blatant Dishonesty is our major problem in the U.S. That and the huge masses of absolutely stupid ppl we have who believe any lie and conspiracy of the Repugnant Party. This denigration of “others” is also right out of Hitler’s playbook, which we had to endure with the other guy and his complicit enablers. And even with him out of power, the Repugnant Party continues the same lies.
However, if we were honest with ourselves we could end the Drug Cartels in Latin America in a day. MAKE ALL DRUGS LEGAL. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN EFFECTIVE. The proof is in The Great Experiment that failed miserably in the U.S. when we made the drug Alcohol illegal, which gave us organized crime to supply it at inflated profit. Heroin & Cocaine are no more dangerous or addictive drugs than Alcohol. Marijuana should never have been illegal, especially compared to tobacco. But too many ppl in the U.S. buy the lie and the Cartels get so wealthy they can defy the military in some nations.
Oh and while I am ranting on STUPIDITY. You cannot save daylight. All you can do is upset everyone’s biorhythm twice a year by moving the artificial construct of “time” forcing everything off by an hour. That too has been quantified in more accidents, heart attacks and other stresses. But no one can stop the stupidity.
Daria, I have been to Merida two times, once with my partner Jim in 1975, where we were accosted by the police for suspicion of being druggies (we were Hippies) and then had to leave Mexico shorter than our original visa.
I have that account written and in jpg form, but can't attach those here. You got an e-mail address? Send it to roboyte@att.net and I can send that narrative of my first trip to Merida & thru Mexico to Guatemala. My second trip was with my wife Brenda & stepdaughter who seemed to be the only black ppl in Merida in 1981 by the stares we got. Brenda could handle it but the 13-year-old girl was self-conscious & only wanted to stay in the hotel. But, we dragged her around and to the ruins at Chichen & Uxmal.
Rob, I remember you telling a little about your Mérida adventures several months ago. There are still very few Black people in Mérida, I know 2, both expats, one from the US and one from England. There has been a little bit written recently about Afro-Mexicans, I'll have to dig around to find it but will post when I do. I am a much bigger fan of Uxmal. Chichen has turned into a zoo with so called artisans selling junk within the site.
I will e mail you so you can send your account. Thx.
Well said, Daria; country clubs do not a nation make.
Please correct as needed, but I believe Merida has an intense history of racial and ethnic conflict that still persists. The city survived a harrowing siege during the Caste War, Mexico's largest peasant rebellion between the 1810 Hidalgo Revolt and 1910 Revolution.
TPJ, indeed it is still a problem. I've drafted several long responses but have decided, for the time being, to simply let it go. It's frustrating that people continue to parrot half truths to downright lies. Until people step out of their comfort zones and do more than watch/read news that addresses caste, class and race dishonestly, things will not change significantly. Not here in México, not in the US or anywhere else. Thanks for posting the resources.
A point of reference:The DAILY federal minimum wage for México is $141.70 pesos. That is equal to $7.42 USD per day, (using 19 pesos to a dollar). This means that the minimum a worker can be paid for a full day's work is the equivalent of $7.42. You can bet your bottom dollar there are a good many corporations, businesses, and individuals that pay their employees not a peso more.
Visited Tres Vidas in Acapulco December 15-25, 1970, studied the poverty. Agree. In 1960 visited new Brasilia, Rio, Santos, San Paolo, incredible poverty, BA, Vina del Mar, Santiago, Portillo, Chile, Lima, Panama, fascistic oligarchies, typical contradictions. Was 21 and 31. Met the power structure. Plutocracy. Never returned. Liquidated DELTEC and IBEC in SLL’s estate, May 1978. Columbia is dangerous. Julio Mario Santo Domingo a family friend. Same deal.
Could you give us a bit more here? "Look what The New York Times wants to do with substack." I am sure the Republican politicians hate and fear Heather (and all of us).
I am not convinced that Republicans (voters) are big readers.
I replied. Elsewhere. Matt Taibbi is well known. A decent young man. Has all the right concerns. Is without the tools to accomplish his objectives. He tries.
Mishandling immigration will cost Biden the congress in 2022.... and the election in 2024. Mishandling brown skinned children will feed our mad dog white racists the red meat they crave. Compassion is not in their lexicon. The not golden triangle will not be solved with foreign aid or investment. This area is at war with itself. The criminal element in Guatemala in coffee is brutal. Families will not let their children walk alone. Too many end up dead by the road side, their organs cleaned out - and for sale. Catherine Goulet Ramirez, born in Guatemala February 24, 1991, and her 5 year old son David, are nearby in The North Country... good mother, nice boy... unable to return. Terrified. Their whole family is honest, but they are pressed to serve in the drug trade. There are many. Who buys the drugs? Of course, Americans. Who threatens the coffee we buy? Thugs threaten everything. The honest are scarce down there. Dreaming off about cleansing without invading is an illusion, and we are not going it. We prefer places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, and all those places that brought a strange smile to John Foster Dulles and the DOD, as we ramped to get trashed and changed this nation.
I know Mexico, while we are on the subject. Acapulco was and is no more. The Americans led by the CEO of Braniff, Ford, Sears and a few others set up there on the coast with a 36 hole golf course and a private club with an admission fee of $36,000. Many joined. It has been trashed. There is not a member left... and the most beautiful architecture has been ravaged by the mob. Mexico talks the talk. That's all.
We are kidding ourselves with business as usual. The Monroe Doctrine needs an upgrade. Antony Blinken will have his hands full. Jews fled Hitler and FDR turned them away. No one cared till we opened Auschwitz and learned that 200 camp were scattered all over Europe, Poland and Russia were indifferent, the French were complicit, Waldheim ruled Austria, and our values were the talk, not the action. Jews today are not safe in many parts of France. Hungary is a disaster, Poland is a mess, Germany is the bulwark and may fail without Angela Merkel, and we see what happens to color in Buckingham Palace.
Mankind's number one issue is color... and America must lead - and face the music. $27,000,000 to solve the mess in Minnesota will not solve it. What about thousands of others? The cop with the knee is the white cop, and many not white, that would prefer violence and took the badge and the gun to take aggression for a walk. The term peace officer went the way of the Model T.
Look what The New York Times wants to do with substack. Free speech is threatened by our leader... simply because Letters from an American is siphoning off readership - that simply wants the facts in a manageable format, not $6.50 on Sunday with selective news that spins where it should dig, and digs where is should think first, and then decide if all the litmus issues are what need attention.
Heather Cox Richardson is unique. I am learning about substack. Matt Taibbi and I were introduced at Bard College where we appeared together. I found him a bit raw, but there is no question about his integrity - and today I do not find him raw. I find him right.
Frankly, I'd like to see HRC thrive and Matt thrive... and more of them. We must reach to every kitchen, board room, church, the Grange, high school, college, hardware, bar and restaurant, and get the dialogue up to speed... and we must learn why 70,000,000 find a fascist attractive.
Letters from an American must draw the linkage... of color to fascism. Mussolini and Hitler played Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and freedom loving citizens that would not say yes to Hitler, fist in the air. Well, Josh Hawley has said yes to Trump, fist in the air.
Do any of you need to know more. Call every one you know in Missouri and give good phone. We must find the way to pull this nation back from the edge.
Doudna and CRISPR will not implant character. We must do this with dialogue lest we be forced to do it with Allied Forces a la WW II... when we ignored Hitler for a decade and he took over.
The Crash, Spanish Flue and Woodrow Wilson's Jew hating tribe of patriots were a problem. Pearl Harbor got Senator Vandenberg to say yes... and we hired IKE to do lead D Day.
What can we do about a world gone mad tonight?
I have many thoughts... but it's time for me to hit the hay.
Substack will challenge the best... and we can all contribute our two bits... if that matters.
What can we do about a world gone mad, which ignores science, reason and tolerance over zealots, bigots and racists? That is the question.
Love is the answer.
Not when the man in charge grabs pussies with impunity. I will never let this rest.
HCR is all about crowd sourcing ideas for the betterment of our democracy. You do have a lot, and no personal insults today, well done.
Sandy, you said:. "I know Mexico, while we are on the subject. Acapulco was and is no more. The Americans led by the CEO of Braniff, Ford, Sears and a few others set up there on the coast with a 36 hole golf course and a private club with an admission fee of $36,000. Many joined. It has been trashed. There is not a member left... and the most beautiful architecture has been ravaged by the mob. Mexico talks the talk. That's all."
If white corporate colonialism and a failed private club catering to white non-Méxicans, (and employing Méxicans at whatever the horrifyingly low minimum wage was, and still is), is your yardstick for knowing México, you don't know México. Period. If you visited or lived as a corporate colonial in Acapulco and thought your a mostly white private club was the real México you were part of the problem. If you are unaware of the relentless bigotry European Méxicans have for the indigenous peoples, your viewpoint is part of the problem. Not just in México but throughout Latin America. Most white Europeans and Americans who come to México love to pay as as little as possible to employ Méxicans, whether it's in a factory, a service industry or in a home.
No. A failed private club in Acapulco, is not a the yardstick by which to measure México. White corporations are not here to help México they are here to help themselves.
And does México have problems? Yes, indeed, it does. But you are never going to have a good idea what those problems are as long as you are plunking your white rear end down in the middle of a white enclave or luxury hotel anywhere in México. Or the world for that matter.
I wrote a rant earlier today and wondered if it referred enuf to the subject in the "Letter." Then when I came here and saw only posts about location (I'm in Miami Beach) I never posted. But, just scrolled yards down and found an actual discussion.
Here is what would have been my post it only deals with what I find to be a major problem with Centro & South America - Drug Trade:
Blatant Dishonesty is our major problem in the U.S. That and the huge masses of absolutely stupid ppl we have who believe any lie and conspiracy of the Repugnant Party. This denigration of “others” is also right out of Hitler’s playbook, which we had to endure with the other guy and his complicit enablers. And even with him out of power, the Repugnant Party continues the same lies.
However, if we were honest with ourselves we could end the Drug Cartels in Latin America in a day. MAKE ALL DRUGS LEGAL. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN EFFECTIVE. The proof is in The Great Experiment that failed miserably in the U.S. when we made the drug Alcohol illegal, which gave us organized crime to supply it at inflated profit. Heroin & Cocaine are no more dangerous or addictive drugs than Alcohol. Marijuana should never have been illegal, especially compared to tobacco. But too many ppl in the U.S. buy the lie and the Cartels get so wealthy they can defy the military in some nations.
Oh and while I am ranting on STUPIDITY. You cannot save daylight. All you can do is upset everyone’s biorhythm twice a year by moving the artificial construct of “time” forcing everything off by an hour. That too has been quantified in more accidents, heart attacks and other stresses. But no one can stop the stupidity.
Truth.
Daria, I have been to Merida two times, once with my partner Jim in 1975, where we were accosted by the police for suspicion of being druggies (we were Hippies) and then had to leave Mexico shorter than our original visa.
I have that account written and in jpg form, but can't attach those here. You got an e-mail address? Send it to roboyte@att.net and I can send that narrative of my first trip to Merida & thru Mexico to Guatemala. My second trip was with my wife Brenda & stepdaughter who seemed to be the only black ppl in Merida in 1981 by the stares we got. Brenda could handle it but the 13-year-old girl was self-conscious & only wanted to stay in the hotel. But, we dragged her around and to the ruins at Chichen & Uxmal.
Rob, I remember you telling a little about your Mérida adventures several months ago. There are still very few Black people in Mérida, I know 2, both expats, one from the US and one from England. There has been a little bit written recently about Afro-Mexicans, I'll have to dig around to find it but will post when I do. I am a much bigger fan of Uxmal. Chichen has turned into a zoo with so called artisans selling junk within the site.
I will e mail you so you can send your account. Thx.
Well said, Daria; country clubs do not a nation make.
Please correct as needed, but I believe Merida has an intense history of racial and ethnic conflict that still persists. The city survived a harrowing siege during the Caste War, Mexico's largest peasant rebellion between the 1810 Hidalgo Revolt and 1910 Revolution.
W Gabbert, Violence & the Caste War of Yucatán
E Galeano, Memory of Fire, v2
N Reed, The Caste War of Yucatán
TPJ, indeed it is still a problem. I've drafted several long responses but have decided, for the time being, to simply let it go. It's frustrating that people continue to parrot half truths to downright lies. Until people step out of their comfort zones and do more than watch/read news that addresses caste, class and race dishonestly, things will not change significantly. Not here in México, not in the US or anywhere else. Thanks for posting the resources.
A point of reference:The DAILY federal minimum wage for México is $141.70 pesos. That is equal to $7.42 USD per day, (using 19 pesos to a dollar). This means that the minimum a worker can be paid for a full day's work is the equivalent of $7.42. You can bet your bottom dollar there are a good many corporations, businesses, and individuals that pay their employees not a peso more.
Visited Tres Vidas in Acapulco December 15-25, 1970, studied the poverty. Agree. In 1960 visited new Brasilia, Rio, Santos, San Paolo, incredible poverty, BA, Vina del Mar, Santiago, Portillo, Chile, Lima, Panama, fascistic oligarchies, typical contradictions. Was 21 and 31. Met the power structure. Plutocracy. Never returned. Liquidated DELTEC and IBEC in SLL’s estate, May 1978. Columbia is dangerous. Julio Mario Santo Domingo a family friend. Same deal.
Could you give us a bit more here? "Look what The New York Times wants to do with substack." I am sure the Republican politicians hate and fear Heather (and all of us).
I am not convinced that Republicans (voters) are big readers.
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/substack-new-york-times/ (see my comment above)
Bruce Murray, keep your eye on MSM. Substack and HCR threaten.
So this link explains a little more. Scroll down past the video "entry" to find mention of Heather Cox Richardson. https://www.dollarcollapse.com/substack-new-york-times/
Thanks for the link.
Sandy, could you tell me a little more about Matt Tabia?
https://billmoyers.com/guest/matt-taibbi/
I replied. Elsewhere. Matt Taibbi is well known. A decent young man. Has all the right concerns. Is without the tools to accomplish his objectives. He tries.
Many thanks.