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Corona and the animal industry

Emergence of viruses and pandemics and the significance of the animal and agricultural industries

In light of the current situation, we are collecting links to interesting articles that address the correlation between the animal industry and the emergence and spread o f zoonotic diseases such as the new Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2. Although the articles do not always reflect the positions and views of the alliance, the content provides interesting background information.

Current reports and articles on the effects of the global corona pandemic on the animal industry can be found on our watchblog.

We welcome details of other sources and articles on the subject that are not listed here. Contact us regarding this via:

Viruses also thrive in our stables

“New viruses will continue to afflict us in the future. The number of zoonotic viruses that jump from animals to humans has risen steeply in the past 50 years. It is therefore regrettable that research stopped so quickly again after Sars. We are now dealing with a virus that is 78 per cent identical to the Sars virus. Until recently, we have been unsuccessful in trying to get money to research vaccines and therapies for the Sars virus. […] If we could have taken further steps earlier, we might now have antibodies to treat patients and protect people in hospitals.”

“Viruses also thrive in our stables. The more animals that are kept together in a small area, the easier it is for viruses to circulate and the greater the likelihood is that, sooner or later, they will spread to humans. In this regard, factory farming poses a risk to public health.

Aren‘t the security standards here much higher than in Asia?

Sure, but even in well-run businesses, keeping viruses away is almost impossible. You cannot breed cattle under sterile conditions. No matter how clean and hygienic your approach, you cannot rule out such cases.”

Spektrum: The virologist Peter Rottier explains why new coronaviruses keep appearing and, in addition to the significance of the animal industry, also addresses inadequate research.

Published on 9 May 2020

Understanding the reasons for the Covid 19 pandemic: ecological destruction

“Industrial agriculture and in particular factory farming are a very specific reason for the increasingly common pandemics. Breeding genetic monocultures of farm animals removes any immune barriers that may be present which could slow down transmission. A large animal population and density promotes high transmission rates. For example, wild birds can bring flu viruses to poultry farms, where they mutate and become much more dangerous than in the wild. Let us not forget that in order to minimise the risk of bird flu viruses, millions of poultry were culled in Germany in 2006.“ Many infectious diseases originate from animals. However, the destruction of ecosystems and biodiversity, which plays a central role in the transmission of viruses to humans, is seldom mentioned.

Published on 20 April 2020

Corona Fried Chicken – megaviruses, factory farming and cities with over a million inhabitants

“Industrial livestock are therefore ideal populations as carriers of contagious pathogens. Genetic monocultures of animals remove all natural immune barriers that could otherwise slow down transmission.“

Marx21 magazine: If you want to understand why more and more deadly viruses are spreading, you have to turn your attention to global food production.

Published on 1 April 2020

Environmental changes are triggers“

“Due to the loss of natural habitats and the associated drastic decline in populations, genetic diversity is also decreasing. If an animal species becomes rare, the immune system decreases with the reduced gene pool. Stress also plays a role here.“

taz: Interview with the biologist Simone Sommer: the corona pandemic would not have arisen without humans. Nature conservation is also key to our health.

Published on 31 March 2020

New research suggests industrial livestock, not wet markets, might be origin of Covid-19

“In this scenario, SARS-CoV-2 would have evolved to its present form in an animal host before transfer to humans. Like many other scientists, the Scripps researchers think that it is most likely that the initial transmission would have occurred from bats to an intermediate animal host, where the virus then evolved to its current form. […] But hardly any attention has been given to some other animals on this list, which more clearly meet the ‘high population density‘ criteria. Pigs would be an obvious candidate from this list, for several reasons.“

GRAIN: Researchers describe alternative scenarios of how the new coronavirus could have been transmitted to humans and the role the meat industry could have played in this.

Published on 30 March 2020

Is meat consumption to blame for the Coronavirus?

“If we continue like this, we will fail“, Johannes Vogel sumarises the problem in a guest article for the Tagesspiegel. According to Vogel, who is the General Director of the Berlin Museum of Natural History and Professor of Biodiversity and Science Dialogue at Humboldt University in Berlin, we look too little at the fact that an arrogant human-nature relationship fuels many of our problems – and usually causes them. It is just as possible to implement measures against the illegal trade of wild animals as it is to use natural resources for the benefit of all people and to stop climate change: the technology is there; the only thing lacking is the will to act collectively. Vogel concludes: “The economic and value system, which is based on the exploitation of nature and its unsustainable use, will fail. Now we even know it in the western world: regardless of whether the new Coronavirus came to humans via pangolins, bats or other creatures, we have to redefine how we relate to nature. It is time to realise that humans are and remain part of nature and are fundamentally dependent on it for their survival. We need a change in values – for nature.“

veganinfo: Many important scientists agree that the destruction of nature and the animal industry promote the emergence of pandemics like this.

Published on 29 March 2020

What researchers know about the origin of the pandemic

“In early 1918, a doctor in the US state of Kansas documented an illness that caused a high fever and cough and would spread worldwide in the coming years. 50 million people died of the plague known as the Spanish flu. Since then, researchers have been able to locate the probable origin in the US Midwest, where the virus jumped from pigs to humans.

In the decades that followed, the H1N1 viruses continued to lay dormant in pigs and triggered another pandemic in 2009: swine flu.“

Der Spiegel: Meat production increases the risk of pandemics.

Published on 28 March 2020

It doesn‘t come from the outside

“This describes how dependent our system and our everyday lives are on the exploitation of people and nature. Covid-19 and its effects are not simply a threat from the outside, but originate from the system. If we now stand in front of empty supermarket shelves or worry about whether our relatives are treated in the event of an infection, we should understand how existentially vulnerable capitalism is and how closely the ecological and social questions are connected. It is more important than ever to think about how we can change this system. That would really help the environment and the climate – just as much as a fair, global health system.“

der Freitag: What epidemics have to do with the destruction of intact ecosystems by humans.

Published on 24 March 2020

The likelihood of pandemics rises with the increasing destruction of ecosystems“

“Humanity creates the conditions for diseases to spread. We reduce the barriers between humans and host animals, in which such viruses naturally circulate. We had to expect pandemic influenza to spread as well as many deaths. And we can count on the fact that there will be other pathogens, with some of them having even more serious effects. Large changes in land use lead to habitat loss, which leads to higher population densities of some species and also more contact with people. The species that survive change their behaviour and increasingly share habitats with other animals as well as humans.“

Riff Reporter: Interview with environmental researchers Josef Settele and Joachim Spangenberg on the connection between the Corona crisis and environmental destruction.

Published on 23 March 2020

From animal to human

“Habitat loss not only increases the risk of disease outbreaks, but also how we interact with animals intended for human consumption.“

From Le Monde diplomatique: Many pathogens come from wild animals. Habitat destruction plays a key role in the transmission to humans.

Published on 21 March 2020

Virologist Christian Drosten: “In Germany, we have some advantages over other countries”

“The current reason should now be very convincing to make the necessary changes. The problem is the desire for meat in an expanding society.“

Der Stern: Christian Drosten in an interview about the origin of the corona viruses.

Published on 21 March 2020

Tip of the iceberg“: is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?

“In 2008, Jones and a team of researchers identified 335 diseases that emerged between 1960 and 2004, at least 60% of which came from animals. Increasingly, says Jones, these zoonotic diseases are linked to environmental change and human behaviour. The disruption of pristine forests driven by logging, mining, road building through remote places, rapid urbanisation and population growth is bringing people into closer contact with animal species they may never have been near before, she says.“

The Guardian: With the increasing loss of habitat and biodiversity worldwide, the Coronavirus outbreak could just be the beginning of massive pandemics.

Published on 18 March 2020

Social contagion

“In fact, the ‘natural‘ sphere is already subsumed under a completely global capitalist system that has fundamentally changed the climate and destroyed most pre-capitalist ecosystems.“

Analysis and critique: abridged translation of the English text Social Contagion from the Chuang blog (

Published on 17 March 2020

Viral capitalism

“On the other hand, profit-driven factory farming promotes the emergence and spread of viruses and epidemics within the animal kingdom, since the animals are raised under the most brutal and unsanitary conditions, which greatly promotes the transmission and spread of viruses, and for ‘efficiency reasons’, a monoculture is preferred for breeding, which additionally reduces the development of resistances in animals.“

re:volt Magazin: A viral crisis of capitalism brings the world to a halt and affects the most vulnerable of us. In light of this, it is important to organise in a solidarity-based way and promote left-wing perspectives.

Published on 11 March 2020

Coronavirus: the agricultural industry would risk millions of deaths

“To limit the outbreak of new viral infections, food production must be changed radically.“

Marx21-Magazin: A conversation with the evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace about the dangers of Covid-19, the responsibility of the agricultural industry and sustainable solutions to fight infectious diseases.

Published on 11 March 2020

Connecting the Coronavirus to agriculture

“So while the distinction between factory farms and wet markets isn‘t unimportant, we may miss their similarities (and dialectical relationships). […] Spreading factory farms meanwhile may force increasingly corporatized wild foods companies to trawl deeper into the forest, increasing the likelihood of picking up a new pathogen, while reducing the kind of environmental complexity with which the forest disrupts transmission chains.“

Counterpunch: Evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace on the emergence and spread of viruses such as the novel Coronavirus and the importance of capitalist food production and environmental destruction for this.

Published on 24 Februar 2020


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Report of our last alliance meeting

Dear friends and comrades!

On the weekend before last (10th-12th January) we had another alliance meeting. This time we met in Berlin and to our excitement many new people joined us! Together we discussed several points, made decisions and networked in the different working groups.

Here are the most important points:
– We have decided on the whole 8-day-period from 13th to 20th June 2020 for our camp. We will announce the exact action period within this period as soon as possible.
– Soon the first mobilization events will take place in different cities. When and where we will publish regularly on the website and here in the newsletter!
– Before the next meeting in Hamburg we want to decide on a logo so that flyers etc. can be printed
– we are looking forward to presenting it soon on the website and all further publications!
– During the meeting in Berlin, a new working group has also been networked, which will now take care of the design of the exciting camp program, which will take place alongside the planned mass action.
– Furthermore, since the last meeting, there is a working group Awareness, which is working out a concept to create a safer, less discriminating and more solidary space both at the meetings and during the camp.

Soon we will also be sending out our participation newsletter, in which we will report in more detail about the alliance and call for cooperation! Meanwhile here are the dates and cities for our next alliance meetings:
– 14-16 February: Hamburg
– 20-22 March: Kassel
– 17-19 April: likely Cologne / Bonn area
– 15-17 May: not yet determined

We look forward to seeing you at the next meetings and/or the action!

Love and Rage,
Alliance “Together Against the Animal Industry” (Ger. “Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie”)

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Things I’m Loving Lately (October)

Where is the year going?
October finished and here we are on Bonfire Night….
Now we only have 2 months left till Christmas and the end of 2015.

Ok you can hardly call these fashion
but man have i been loving getting cosy and christmassy with my slippers that my parents in law bought me last year!

IMG_9831-0When your husband notices there is a hole in your trainers and goes and gets you a new pair!
A definite keeper I say!
I’m usually a Nike Girl so was a bit bemused by his Adidas choice but they are so comfortable,
unfortunately not even remotely waterproof and I just have to walk through wet grass to get damp toes!

IMG_0126Loving putting my NorthFace Gilet on daily.
This was a Christmas Pressie form B last year and comes in so handy this time of year.

IMG_0118My River Island Boots.
They are getting really old and battered now but still so comfortable-they must be about 8 years old
so think i might need to start looking for a new pair.

Reminiscing about our trip to Disneyland last October!

It was such a magical time for both me and Little B, so many happy memories made.
Meeting all the characters, exploring Paris, standing under the eiffel tower, eating from patisseries (trying my first macaroon)IMG_1245IMG_1418

Half Term
It was so lovely to have some time off with my boy after 7 weeks of running around for work.  We took our time and just saw where the time was going to take us.

Baking was a new and fun experience I had with my boy.
He loved licking the bowl and for a non baker i was quite impressed with our attempt.
This is definitely something i want to try and do more often.IMG_0353

I’ve been looking around for home decor ideas as I was hoping to get some done before Christmas however time and finances don’t seem to be on our side.

Some of my loves are from the Luna Collection at Asda

Also loving the Christmas Decorations at Country Baskets and I am lucky to have discovered one at the bottom of my hill.

I’m linking up with the lovely Emma over at LifeAtTheLittleWood

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First Shoes, Lists and the end of Preschool #LittleLoves #31

Well Hello Summer Holidays-Today is officially the first day and I’ve been up since 5.30am and if I’m honest it has not gone that well, as well as having to cancel our trip to the farm tomorrow as the weather is going to be rubbish!! I’m not going to let that get us down though as Me and LB have spent some time the last few weeks coming up with some ideas for our Summer Family Fun and  we are getting rather excited.

This week has been crazy and emotional and we’ve hit numerous milestones.
LB has had his Sports Day and last day at Preschool ever-sob, P has got his first pair of shoes and I’m sure more teeth coming through as he is not a happy boy.  I’ve had brunch with my grandparents and cousins, been to a village fete with friends, had a full day of Panto Auditions, booked more places for my summer school and caught up on some work, had lunch out with a  friend and today is our 6th Wedding Anniversary.  I can feel a chinese and bottle of fizz coming up-do you think  he’ll allow me to put on a romantic film? I can dream right!
As you can imagine my house is a complete pigsty though!

img_2230Anyway grab yourself a cuppa or a glass of something alcoholic (it is the start of the summer after all) and enjoy my Little Loves for this week.

I have continued with Eat Pray Love though haven’t picked it up every night as last week.  I’m still in the second section while she spends time at the Ashram in India but I’m still really enjoying it-even 2nd time round. I really am going to try and get some reading in this summer.

LBs amazing report! Oh my goodness.  I remember writing these reports for other children when I worked as a preschool assistant but being on the receiving end of such beautiful words about your child – how polite, caring, kind, humorous, popular, friendly and surprisingly good at tennis he is is simply overwhelming. We are very proud parents and to think that this report will be making its way to his new school so they have a better idea of the person he is just makes me so happy.

How missed LB will be from preschool. It was lovely to hear how his teachers were going to miss him and he’d certainly made a few cheerleaders from some younger boys there.  Literally they jumped around at the side of sports day cheering LB on in his races.  So cute! img_2280

‘Is the next day Elliott’s Party?’ Seriously thank god it’s on Sunday! He’s been invited to a couple of parties this year but unfortunately we’ve had plans every time so although we have a christening this sunday morning we’ve promised he can make it to this one. He’s also asking about playdates with various friends from preschool so i’ve certainly got some organising to do.

I caught up on about 5 episodes of Quantico (still massively behind) but its a series that I really have enjoyed.  I don’t know if there’ll be any more than this second series but I do hope so. The weather has been rubbish so i haven’t been sitting outside with B so much so I’ve taken that opportunity to curl up on the sofa.

LB win the potato and spoon race at sports day and receive his gold medal that he’d made! Man does he melt my heart-when he’s not driving me crazy of course.

Lists in my new book B got me. I love a good list but now I’ve got a special book for all those non ‘daily to do’ ones. With lists like…..things that make me happy, 5 year goals, accomplishments, favourite places, films to watch or books to read and many more. I can’t wait to keep adding to it and use it as a reference.

Food wise at home nothing exciting but I believe I made a fab brunch choice when I went out with my grandparents and cousins last Saturday!  Creamy mushrooms on toast with bacon and scrambled egg and then we were all naughty and had pastries too.  The scones were amazing but as you can see i wasn’t sure what should come first jam or cream?!

And what a view it was!
We had such a wonderful morning chatting, catching up and giggling.
Definitely something we should do more often! img_2188

My hair in a side plait. Wish I could do French or Dutch plaits on myself like my sister can but nope.  I also managed to wear a necklace as I went out free of the baby-now thats exciting!

And Lastly

On Thursday P got his first pair of shoes from Clarks and we got the bigger shock that my 4 year old is now a size 12 I mean seriously??!!
I can’t believe we seem to be hitting milestones by the day at the minute and its so wonderful to be able to watch as these two take their next steps.

I hope you all have a fabulous week and enjoy the first part of your summer holidays.  My summer school starts next week so there aren’t going to be too many family adventures happening for a couple of weeks unfortunately, but we shall be having lots of fun putting together our show!

6 thoughts on “First Shoes, Lists and the end of Preschool #LittleLoves #31

  1. coffeeworksleep says:

    Well done LB on all those races, and how cute is that medal?! Love it.
    I cannot believe that P is old enough for shoes! Where on earth is time going? LB sounds like my girls with his big feet. My six year old is a size 1 and a half!! Crazy! xx

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Momo means peach in Japanese. Perhaps this tawashi looks more like a pumpkin than a peach, but momo is a cuter name :)

I’m going to show you how to make one with tulle, using the pattern from Pierrot (link via Ravelry, with slight modifications explained below). Tulle makes for a scrubbier tawashi than acrylic or cotton yarn, I think.

A roll of this decorative tulle from Michaels makes 2 tawashi’s! It’s 6 inches wide by 20 yards. Here’s how we transform the roll of tulle into balls of yarn :D

  1. Roll of Tulle.
  2. Pop off the plastic caps on both ends of the roll, then remove the inner paper tube.
  3. Using fabric scissors, cut roll in half through all layers (it would be a bit tough to cut through but just keep nudging forward)
  4. Roll half of the roll into a ball. Repeat with the other half.

Now we have 2 balls of tulle yarn!

For the tawashi, I also used 5mm and 3.5mm crochet hooks, tapestry needle, and a small amount of green yarn.

I followed the pdf pattern from Pierrot (it’s charted, but very easy to understand), but with the following stitch counts:

  1. Using 5mm hook, ch 16.
  2. Row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in each ch across (15 sc).
  3. Starting at row 2, work in pattern for 18 rows, it’ll be close to the end of the ball of yarn. Fasten off, don’t cut off the yarn, and there should be a long tail enough to do all the sewing described below.

To finish:

  1. Sew the two short edges together with the long tail, don’t fasten off.
  2. Thread the tail through the stitches at one edge around, cinch.
  3. Then thread the yarn tail to the other edge, and thread the tail through the stitches around. Cinch, and tie off to secure.
  4. Using green yarn and 3.5mm hook, tie yarn to the middle of the tawashi through all layers, ch 15, sl st to where the yarn was attached in the middle of the tawashi, fasten off, weave in ends (I hid the ends inside the tawashi).

And there we have it, quick homemade gifts one can make a handful in a couple of evenings!

Happy autumn!

this week’s awesome finds

Cute glowing ghosts! Easy pattern from Red Heart, link via Ravelry.

How awesome is this rain cloud costume? :D From Make It & Love It.

And purple rain for awesome grown-ups. From Curbly.

And the most scared jewelry — petrified wood! Learn how to wire-wrap them on Doodlecraft.

These cute triangular bean bag chickens :D from Petals to Picots.

These hedgehog mitts are super adorable and oh they’re knitted flat!! From

Make a toasty waffle blanket! Maybe the stitch will work for a sweater too… From Lu North, Strong and Free.

Elegant sweater, reminds me of falling leaves, from Nurturing Fibres.

Have a lovely rest of the week, everyone!

It’s been a very busy fall so far, haven’t had a lot of time to update here. But here are some fun local adventures from the start of the fall :)

We visited a new cat cafe in the city one weekend, aptly named Meow Cat Cafe. All the cats live with the owner of the cafe. photo-2016-09-24-12-29-09-pm

When we got there a very fluffy cat made sure that we were reading the rules.

They’ve got very cute cup sleeves :D

It was a warm, sunny afternoon. The cats were quite relaxed. Look at that paw~

*heart eyes x1000*

The shop owners are very friendly, looks like they have a few locals visiting regularly with the cats, which makes for a very homey environment. Though I started sneezing quite a lot while I was there and had to leave (reluctantly).

One might ask why I like visiting cat cafes if I were allergic. The answers being: 1) I’m allergic to some cats but not others. I’ve visited other cat cafes but haven’t had allergic reactions that was severe enough that made me need to leave, so having allergies doesn’t stop me from being with cats; 2) I love cats, but I don’t have the time or space or experience to make me feel comfortable about committing to caring for a cat.

But sometimes I do wonder about visiting cat cafes. I wonder whether I was intruding on the cats’ space, disturbing them when they just want to relax or sleep. And I don’t know how to play with cats, because I’ve never had pets (aside from my office beta fish, who died an unexplained death and made me vow to never have beta fish pets again, but I digress), but sometimes feel weird about sitting and just looking at the cats when other people are enthusiastically trying to get the cats to play.

My favourite cat cafe was one we visited in Montreal. The cats were just wandering about as people chatted. People would pet them if they happened to walk by under the table, or if they were sitting still somewhere. It was like sitting at a cafe that happened to have a few cats in it, rather than visitors chasing the cats to coax the cats to play. Much more relaxed.

Anyway, maybe one day we’ll meet a cat that wants to live with us.

We decided not to go to Nuit Blanche (annual overnight art event in Toronto) this year because the past couple of years have been disappointing. There were just so many people and many of the installations took hours of lineup to see. But we visited a couple of exhibits at Toronto City Hall, which stayed up for a week or so after the event. This one was called Death of the Sun by Director X.

The sculpture changed as it goes into different phases. Here it looks like a giant lantern (or pearl onion, I kept thinking).

And eventually it turned dark.

Which reminds me that nothing is forever. Not our impressive buildings, not our earthly achievements, not even our sun.

Across the square there was a video projected onto the water fountain, called Pneuma by Floria Sigismondi. My favourite part was when the owl emerged.

Because it reminds me of the magical Hedwig.

Hoping to have more time to spend here now that my busiest week is over. Wishing you an awesome start to the week!

more sparkles sparkles sparkles

I have a weakness for sparkly things. A couple of years ago I shared a tutorial for making sparkly earrings with buttons. After being inspired by these earrings by Happiness is Creating, AND finally buying myself a bottle of Mod Podge Dimensional Magic (with a Michaels 50% off one regular item coupon), I found a new and improved way of making sparkly earrings :D

I used:

1 clean kitchen sponge

4mm earring posts with backings

sparkly nail polish (I got a Sally Hansen “Ice Queen” and a “Big Teal” from the dollar store)

Mod Podge Dimensional Magic

a dash of patience

1. Stick the earring posts into the sponge so it stands upright

2. Apply a coat of sparkly nail polish to the posts (I put the teal one on first). Let dry for half hour (this is where the patience comes in… there’re lots of small steps with long stretch of waiting in between)

3. Repeat step 2 a couple more times.

4. When the nail polish is completely dried (I suggest drying overnight after final coat, because the nail polish does build up to a bit of a dome on its own, and while the top layer has harden, the layers underneath may remain soft and take a while to dry), apply dimensional magic, wait a couple of hours, apply second coat to create as full of a dome shape as possible without the glaze running over.

5. Let dry overnight, and it’s done! :D

Here’s a super macro picture of them…

I’m not sure if Mod Podge is waterproof so I would avoid wearing them in the shower. But I’m quite happy with how they turned out :) I like that they’re a lot smaller than my other sparkly earrings tutorial.

Have a bright and beautiful weekend!

this week’s awesome finds

gift-making season (aka Christmas elfing season) is here! :D :D :D

Really like this cardigan from Lion Brand Yarn. It’s loose-fitting so the measurements don’t need to be super exact, which makes it a nice gift to crochet :)

Sweet origami brooches from Lana Red Studio.

A bit steampunk and very festive, must give this a try. Earrings made from hex nuts from Cafe Craftea.

More hex nut goodness from Hello Glow. A trip to the hardware store is in order.

These are the sweetest. From Petit Bout de Chou.

Stumbled upon something similar on a Japanese Instagram account. Could not for the life of me find that account again, but found a resin tutorial that looks very similar. Aren’t these gorgeous? From Nunn Design.

A beautiful pine cone pattern using corner to corner crochet — something I have yet to try! Would make a lovely pillow. From Make & Do Crew.

Also from Make & Do Crew, this stylist hexagon shelf! Made using the humble popsicle sticks!

Made from prints found in magazines. One could also use newspaper, fabric, washi tape, origami paper, pressed and dried leaves… the possibility is endless! From Happiness is Creating.

Say “I love you” in ASL and shrink plastic :D From Greenbean’s Crafterole.

Happy crafting! :D

friendship and hospitality

I was thinking of making some practical Christmas gifts for family. I thought of making wash cloths. Because everyone can use more wash cloths. And I made a couple using this excellent pattern from Hakucho. It’s a lot of fun to knit using variegated yarn!

And then I thought I could modify the stitch pattern a bit and make some hand-drying towels. I know that the specific gift recipients I’m thinking of are always inviting people over and hosting gatherings for family and friends. And the hexagon pattern lends itself easily to the making of a pineapple, and pineapple is a symbol of warm welcome, friendship and hospitality (read more here if you’re interested!). So the pineapple hand-drying towel pattern was created. And since it is a symbol of friendship, it must be shared ^_^

I used Bernat Handicrafter Cotton in “Lemon Swirl” and “Sage Green”. I wish I could find a brighter yellow and a lighter green, but there weren’t any other kind of worsted cotton at the Michaels I visited. But I think overall it still looks like a pineapple.

This pattern uses both knitting and crochet. Crochet is only used in the top (green, hanging) part. It’s not complicated, just involves making chains, single crochet and slip stitch.

I used two 4.5 mm straight needles and a 3.5 mm crochet hook. Also used tapestry needle for sewing and a 1‑inch button.

Knit — pineapple body:

First, download the free Circle Cloth pattern from Hakucho. (I know it’s a bit annoying to go back and forth between two patterns, but the knitting pattern isn’t mine so I don’t want to reproduce it here — so please bear with me >_<)

With green, CO 14.

Row 1: p all stitches.

Row 2: kfb all stitches (28 st).

Rows 3–8: Attach yellow, work pattern rows 3–8 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Row 9: Switch to green, work pattern row 9 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Row 10: k2, *k1fb, k1*, repeat from * to * across until last 3 st, k3 (40 st).

Rows 11–12: Work pattern rows 11–12 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Rows 13–18: Switch to yellow, work pattern rows 3–8 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Rows 19–22: Switch to green, work pattern rows 9–12 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Rows 23–28: With yellow, work pattern rows 13–18 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Rows 29–32: With green, work pattern rows 19–22 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Now there should be 3 sections of yellow completed.

Repeat pattern rows 3–22 in Circle Cloth pattern 3 more times. Then repeat pattern rows 3–8 once more. There should be 10 sections of yellow altogether. Fasten off yellow.

Pineapple top row 1: With green, work pattern row 9 in Circle Cloth pattern.

Row 2: k1, k2tog to last st, k1.

Row 3: p1, p2tog to last st, p1. (11 st.)

Row 4: k all st.

Row 5: p all st.

BO all st, don’t fasten off. Insert crochet hook in last remaining loop.

Crochet — pineapple top:

The pineapple top is crocheted in loops. We’ll first make 2 loops attached to the pineapple top, then make 3 longer loops going from the pineapple top and attached together at the top creating a buttonhole tap, and end with 2 loops attached to the pineapple top, like so…

Loop 1: From where we left off in the knitting part, ch 25, sc in same st at beginning of ch. When crocheting into the knit part, be sure to insert hook through both loops in the BO stitches.

Loop 2: ch 25, sc in next BO st.

Loop 3: sc in next BO st, ch 42, sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 5 ch, ch 35, sc in next BO st at pineapple top.

Loop 4: sc in next BO st, ch 35, sc in each sc in the 6‑sc row that was made in loop 3, ch 1, turn (turning ch does not count as a st), sc in first sc, ch 3, skip 3 sc, sc in next 2 sc, ch 35, sc in next BO st.

Loop 5: sc in next BO st, ch 35, sc in next 2 sc at top of loop 4, 3 sc in next ch 3 sp, sc in last sc, ch 1, turn, sc in next 6 sc, ch 35, sc in next BO st.

Loop 6: sc in next BO st, ch 25, sc in next BO st.

Loop 7: ch 25, sl st in same st at beginning of ch, fasten off. Weave in ends.

Sew button to the knit part of the pineapple top. And we’re done! :D

Hope you like the project and have fun if you do give it a try. Have a fabulous first week of October! :D


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A Series Exploring the Last Frontier

Produced by Genvièv and her team, from their Portland, Oregon headquarters, a new series exploring the last frontier of human potential: the power of the mind.

Join the series live at: GenvievTV

The Loss of our Abilities

An ancient tale in the Hindu religion relates that long ago, humans were Gods endowed with divine powers. Men so abused of their powers, Brahma, Reigning God, decided to withdraw their powers and hide them in a location men would never be able to uncover. The counsel of Half-Gods was called forth to determine where to hide the divine powers of mankind, so that men would never again be able to locate them. “Let’s bury the divinity of man into the depths of the earth,” suggested the Half-Gods. “This will not suffice,” responded Brahma, “men will dig as deep as it takes to retrieve their divine powers.” “Let’s sink it down into the abysses of the deepest ocean on earth,” proposed the Half-Gods. Brahma shook his head again: “Sooner or later, men will find a way to explore the depths of the oceans. When this day comes, they will uncover it and bring it back to the surface.” The Master of Gods concluded: “Here is what we shall do: let’s hide the divinity of mankind within the depths of man himself. This is the only place he will never think of looking into.” Since that day, men went around the world again and again, exploring every corner of the globe, climbing the tallest mountains, digging endlessly into the earth, diving to the depths of oceans, relentlessly searching for the treasures hidden within them all along.

Reclaiming our Potential

Most of us go through life using a small portion of the potential of our minds. Imagine suddenly being able to tune into the untapped power of your mind to engage in your life fully and passionately, pursue your dreams, explore your passions and new horizons. When we awaken to our true potential, our path unfolds before us in remarkable ways.

2011 Summary

Live on the Last Frontier this December 2011, Genvièv summarizes her team’s work and extends holiday wishes to everyone: Holidays on Genviev TV

Forensic Hypnosis

In this week’s episode of the Last Frontier, Forensic and Clinical Hypnotherapist Genvièv presents the power of forensic hypnosis. A criminal discovery tool enabling law enforcement officials, legal and insurance professionals to make critical progress on unsolved cases, forensic hypnosis allows the rest of us to recapture elusive memories, gain clearer comprehension of past events and find lost objects. Intro voice, animations and visual effects by Paul Mellender: Forensics on Genviev TV

Heal your Life with Hypnosis

In this week’s episode of the Last Frontier, Forensic and Clinical Hypnotherapist Genvièv uncovers the hidden truth behind the magic of hypnosis: Heal with Hypnosis on Genviev TV

Welcome to the Last Frontier

In this introduction to the Last Frontier, Forensic and Clinical Hypnotherapist Genvièv presents how to tap into the power of our subconscious mind to turn adversity into advantage, unlock our potential, alter our reality and reach for our dreams: Explore the Last Frontier on Genviev TV

Genvièv’s Story

The survivor of multiple life-threatening circumstances, Genvièv had no other choice but to learn, at an early age, to transform every terrifying challenge she faced into fuel for survival and success. Being called to overcome extraordinary adversity time and again through her life forced her to dive into the deepest levels of the mind in order to survive and thrive. The author of numerous books and articles published in the national and international press, Genvièv teaches you to become an alchemist of life and transform adversity into advantage: Genvièv’s Story on The Last Frontier


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Beyond Icebreakers: Bridging the US Polar Icebreaking Gap

A curious Adelie penguin stands near the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Jan. 7, 2016. Photo Credit: USCG

By: Ashley Postler, Columnist

Despite predictions that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free during the late-summer months by 2040,[i] there remains a need for the U.S. to maintain icebreaking capabilities in order to protect its sovereignty and interests in the Arctic. Congressional funding to update the nation’s aging fleet of polar icebreakers has been slow to materialize, prolonging the delivery of new vessels which take approximately a decade to build.[ii] Consequently, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), which undertakes ice breaking missions at both poles, faces a looming gap in its ability to provide maritime domain awareness (MDA) and patrol US territory in the Arctic. Further, this capabilities gap extends to conducting search and rescue (SAR) operations and supporting scientific research. To offset the fleet’s declining capabilities in the wake of delayed delivery of new icebreakers, the US government should explore alternative methods of icebreaking which will likely have outpaced and replaced these new vessels by the time they enter into service.

Currently, the USCG operates one heavy and one medium polar icebreaker, Polar Star and Healy, respectively. Acquired in 1976, the latter is now well beyond its intended 30-year service life thanks to significant repair work and a supply of replacement parts from another heavy icebreaker, Polar Sea, which was decommissioned in 2010 due to catastrophic engine failure. Plans to modernize Polar Star to further extend its service life or to reactivate Polar Sea were deemed too costly.[iii] Consequently, the USCG and U.S. Navy (USN) are collaborating to update the USCG’s polar fleet by investing approximately $9.8 billion in life-cycle costs for the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of three new heavy icebreakers.[iv]

However, icebreaking is no longer the sole answer to providing Arctic MDA, which is partially achieved by USCG patrols conducted on the water. In the Arctic, this necessitates an ice-free path for USCG vessels to traverse. However, MDA can and is being achieved more purposefully under and over the water. The USN states that even the complete loss of icebreaker support would only minimally impact its ability to monitor and provide MDA in the Arctic.[v] This is because, in addition to submarines, the USN already deploys unmanned underwater vehicles/unmanned surface vehicles (UUV/USV)[vi] that utilize swarm AI technology, such as the SwarmDiver,[vii] in support of reconnaissance and MDA.

Research and SAR operations, both of which currently require a physical path through the ice, can also be accomplished either without breaking ice, or breaking it in more efficient and agile ways. For example, amphibious hovercraft can travel over water and ice far quicker than conventional marine vessels and can operate in difficult conditions such as heavy fog. While susceptible to “side slipping forces,”[viii] hovercraft can operate on unbroken ice with far superior maneuverability than can traditional icebreakers moving through ice. There is thus potential for research missions to travel further and faster without even having to break ice. This is especially critical for SAR operations for which expediency is necessary, and when the vessel must get very close to the object,[ix] neither of which are best served by traditional icebreaking.

Furthermore, although hovercraft have less icebreaking capabilities compared to traditional icebreakers,[x] along icy surfaces, the former propel at speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour.[xi] The resulting vibrations create waves, known as flexural gravity waves,[xii] which form below the surface and oscillate across the bottom of the ice, causing it to snap.[xiii] Also, importantly, given that hovercraft leave no underwater pressure signature, marine life is undisturbed.[xiv] The Resonance method of ice destruction, whose origins for use in amphibious hovercraft date back to the 1980s,[xv] is currently employed by the Canadian Coast Guard to break ice along the St. Lawrence River.[xvi]

Additionally, submarines have been able to break through surface ice since at least the 1950s,[xvii] and are currently capable of breaking through approximately three meters of ice[xviii] by slowly rising to apply continuous and firm pressure upon the ice from below until it breaks.[xix] While still in the early stages, there is much potential for submarine icebreaking to play a critical role in situations that necessitate carving a path through the ice, such as for military and SAR operations. The surface ice’s reflective contoured canopy compounds the effects of the undersea marine environment.[xx] These unique acoustics provide an opportunity to further explore resonance icebreaking as an alternative to traditional icebreaking. In this regard, researchers at Russia’s Sholem-Aleichem Priamursky State University[xxi] aim to generate flexural-gravity waves from below the surface[xxii] to break ice, rather than from above like hovercraft.

Such research indicates that submarine pathbreaking through ice is possible. Submarines traveling at a depth of 30 meters below the surface can break ice up to one meter thick; at a depth of 20 meters, a submarine is capable of carving a path through two meters of ice, the same as the US heavy icebreaker Polar Star moving at three knots, but at ten times that speed.[xxiii] Outfitting submarines to not only break ice but also carve a path through it is a meaningful step toward replacing traditional icebreakers.

The strength of other nations’ traditional icebreaking fleets are often compared to that of the U.S., which is obviously aging and quickly diminishing. This comparison, which falls prey to “icebreaker envy”[xxiv] is used to argue for the addition of new—and expensive, time-consuming and cumbersome—icebreakers to the US polar fleet.[xxv] Such arguments obscure the reality that although the need for unrestricted access to US Arctic territorial waters regardless of ice conditions remains, despite global warming trends, traditional icebreaking is potentially becoming an outdated method of doing so.

[i] Kate Ravilious, “Late-summer Arctic sea ice could disappear by 2040,”, November 8, 2018,

[ii] Heather A. Conley, “To Build or Not to Build an Icebreaker? That is the $1 Billion Funding Question,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 1, 2015,

[iii] Ronald O’Rourke, “Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, October 26, 2018,

[iv] “Coast Guard Acquisitions: Polar Icebreaker Program Needs to Address Risks before Committing,” Government Accountability Office, September 2018,

[v] “Acquisition Chief: Loss of Icebreaker Would Have ‘Minimal Impact’ on Navy,”, DoDBuzz,         September 7, 2016,

[vi] Shane Hickey, “The innovators: the swarm of sea drones sniffing out drugs and mines,” The Guardian, January 31, 2016,

[vii] Geoff Fein, “Navy League 2018: Aquabotix adds the SwarmDiver USV to its family of systems,” Jane’s 360, April 10, 2018,

[viii] Griffon Hoverwork, “Why Hovercraft? Access to inaccessible areas,” 2013,

[ix] Neoteric Hovercraft, “How do airboats compare to hovercraft?” Neoteric Hovercraft Blog, May 7, 2012,

[x] Griffon Hoverwork, 2013.

[xi] CTV Montreal, “Hovercraft takes aim at thick St. Lawrence ice,” April 4, 2015,

[xii] P.A. Milewski and Z. Wang, “Three Dimensional Flexural–Gravity Waves,” Studies in Applied Mathematics, pp. 1-14, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2013),

[xiii] CTV Montreal, 2015.

[xiv] Griffon Hoverwork, 2013.

[xv] Kornev, A.A., Krestyaninov V.F. Levschanov L.P. Ryabinkin A.B. Full-scale study of ice fracture resonance method amphibious hovercraft / Design Considerations vessels in ice. Intercollegiate Sat Scient. Proceedings .- 1988 .- Gorkiy p. 107-117.

[xvi] CTV Montreal, 2015.

[xvii] Dan Joling, “Navy starts under-ice submarine exercise off Alaska’s coast,”, March 8, 2018,

[xviii] David Hambling, “How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice,” Popular Mechanics, April 5, 2018,

[xix] “Submarines Surface Under Arctic Ice: ICEX 2018,” March 26, 2018,

[xx] Cmdr. Corey B. Barker, “Submarines USS Hartford, USS Connecticut Surface Together in the Arctic Circle,” US Navy, March 13, 2018,

[xxi] “The quickest way to break the ice is by submarine,” The Economist, April 12, 2017,

[xxii] Kevin MgWin, “Wave technology is one-two punch for ice-breaking,” Arctic Today, April 5, 2018,

[xxiii] The Economist, 2017.

[xxiv] Craig H. Allen Sr., “Addressing the US Icebreaker Shortage: Part 2,” Pacific Maritime Magazine, December 1, 2017,

[xxv] Ronald O’Rourke, “Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, August 15, 2017,

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A Discussion on ICE Detention Centers and Forced Gynecological Procedures

Dawn Wooten (left) the whistleblower who filed a complaint about the conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center, accompanied by protestors at a news conference in Atlanta. Photo Credit: Jeff Amy/AP

On November 9th, the Georgetown University Gender Justice Initiative hosted a virtual event entitled: Forced Gynecological Procedures and Other Gender Abuses in Detention. Moderated by Denise Brennan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, the event featured a panel of three women who represented various perspectives on the issue of immigration detention and recent reports of forced hysterectomies of ICE detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. The panel included: Silky Shah, Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network (DWN), an NGO focused on abolishing immigrant detention centers in the U.S.; Alejandra Pablos, a social justice activist, organizer, and writer who works on reproductive and immigration justice; and Azadeh Shahshahani, a human rights attorney and the Legal & Advisory Director for Project South, an NGO based in Atlanta that focuses on a variety of social issues in the Southern United States.

Brennan began the discussion by asking each of the panelists to address the reports of ongoing brutality at border detention facilities, which many are calling “concentration camps” and “torture facilities.” Brennan referenced some of the reports, underscoring the fear many detained women reportedly felt in the centers. One woman was purportedly so afraid of being forced to undergo a procedure that she requested deportation because she did not want to lose her reproductive system. Other women were threatened with psychiatric procedures.

Shah responded first, and she began by providing an overview of detention facilities. Shah’s work at DWN focuses on detention because her organization opposes the punitive, American model of incarceration. Shah’s organization condemns the use of detention as a driver of deportation, as the system exists merely to facilitate deportation. According to Shah, detainees come from various backgrounds: many are legal permanent residents, some are seeking asylum, and some are undocumented individuals. ICE and other law enforcement officials continue to target an array of individuals. There are about 215 detention centers in the U.S., and about 80% of these facilities are operated by private prisons. Shah points out that there are over 50,000 migrants in detention, and that the number of detained migrants has increased drastically under the Trump Administration. Shah attributes this growth to President Trump’s nativists policies and rhetoric which often frames immigration as a national security threat. Shah asserts that detention centers deserve greater awareness among the American public because of the negative impact of COVID-19 on the livelihood of detained immigrants. Indeed, our responses and immigration policies should not be punitive, but protective.

Pablos spoke next, reminding the audience to remain active and engaged on immigration reform, despite the outcome of the election. After all, detention centers will still exist under the Biden Administration. Pablos talked about her experience going in and out of the court system and being detained by ICE in Arizona. Experiencing the detainment process first-hand made Pablos realize how many people, including the government, view non-White immigrants as enemies. According to Pablos, ICE agents are trained to see immigrants as an enemy, and the prison system’s collaboration with ICE makes the system highly complex. While Pablos was detained for two years, her mother did not share the news of her detainment with her family because of the shame it would have brought them. Pablos proceeded to discuss how people inside detention centers are too scared to ask for healthcare—for example, asking to go to a hospital usually necessitates being handcuffed and accompanied through the city, which would itself be a shameful experience. Pablos witnessed, through her experience, the lack of autonomy that detainees have over their bodies and the poor conditions immigrants are forced to endure. For example, she described sleeping on metal and a one-inch pad for two years with overhead fluorescent lights that kept her awake during the night.

Shahshahani was the last of the three women to speak.  She discussed her work at Project South and the conditions the organization has documented at detention centers in Georgia, like the Irwin Detention Center. They have always known about the inhumane treatment of prisoners in detention centers, but Project South was able to acquire actual evidence of sexual abuse at the Irwin Detention Center in Atlanta. In addition to sexual abuse, detainees were deprived clean water and ICE was found to use solitary confinement excessively. After hearing reports from detained women and those of the whistleblower, Dawn Wooten, Project South submitted a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Some documented issues included medical staff deliberately not testing detainees for COVID-19, despite having symptoms. Notably, detention centers only started testing detainees after Project South issued a complaint.  Other findings included reports that detention center management was lying to detainees about how many COVID-19 cases existed in the facilities. Shahshahani emphasized how ICE has not been forthcoming with information about COVID-19 and the treatment of women in the centers. In fact, ICE is actively working to deport witnesses and survivors of medical abuse to hide evidence of wrongdoing. Shahshahani ends with a call for the U.S. government to be held accountable for the widespread abuses and for the detention centers to be shut down. Project South intends to push for a full congressional investigation into the matter and to expose humanitarian violations to the UN.

Brennan started the Q&A session with a question regarding the relationship between the forced procedures and the long history of genocide against native, black, and brown women in the U.S. and the West. Pablos responded first, emphasizing how ironic it is that she, a native Mexican, was fighting a deportation case on land historically stolen from Mexicans (Arizona). She believes that the forced procedures are inextricably tied to the history of White supremacy in the United States and the ability of the government to control the immigrant population and decide who gets to have children. Bodily autonomy is key, but the biggest threat to the freedom of immigrants is the prisoner industrial complex and policing.

Shah then highlighted a key question for everyone to consider: “What does reproductive justice mean in detention?” Quite frankly, it means no detention. Reproductive justice, according to Shah, cannot exist in a system of incarceration. FY20 saw the most deaths in ICE custody in 20 years. According to Shah, there is no scenario where detention is good—the U.S. must move in a direction where all people have agency over their bodies.

Shahshahani believes that the fight to abolish the detention centers is currently in favor of the abolitionists, but the scope of the work cannot focus solely on detention of immigrants. This is part of a larger system of incarceration in the United States. One victory Shahshahani highlighted is the Atlanta mayor’s decision to sever ties with ICE. Project South drew attention to the hypocrisy of the city of Atlanta’s collaboration with ICE, with the help of trans and black women working to shut down the Atlanta detention centers. Project South aims to turn detention centers into community centers. Shahshahani insists that progress can only be made when people join forces.

Brennan concluded the session with one final question for the panelists, asking what they would like to see from the Biden Administration regarding immigration reform, specifically as is it relates to detention facilities. Shah pointed out how much power Biden will have as president when it comes to the issue of detention. Indeed, the executive authority on immigration is enormous. The U.S. has invested substantially in ICE and detention centers across the U.S. since 9/11, primarily through the creation of DHS under Bush. Under the Obama Administration, President Obama consolidated facilities and tried to create a “better” system, but he did not reduce the number of detention centers. Moreover, President Obama eliminated family detention, but Trump reintroduced it. In fact, Trump took the system a step further. Therefore, according to Shah, Biden has to do more than simply “roll back” Trump’s policies. President-Elect Biden must ensure that ICE’s funding is cut and that they are held accountable. Executive power can reduce the amount of money allocated to ICE and can shut down the facilities, both of which should be done.

Pablos believes the new administration should focus on freeing those detained. Americans have to fight for everyone affected by the system—the conversations about defunding and decarceration must continue. Shahshahani responded by encouraging the audience to join their local fights. She referenced the achievements in Georgia as a result of the coalitions formed. The Biden Administration, according to Shahshahani, must discuss abolition first and foremost. Eliminating private prison corporations is a positive first step, as this was nearly achieved under the Obama Administration; however, widespread change did not occur.

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Woke Xenophobia and the Left-Liberal Cromwellians

‘Yikes sweaty validate my trauma. Popery is triggering and the Irish are #cancelled’

In the Civil Wars that rocked Britain in the 17th Century a certain pattern emerged that may seem familiar to people today. Calls for reform went ignored for too long leading to an explosion of violence. New values came as a result of that but the people who most strongly voiced those values in positions of power went on to advocate for cosmetic retooling of social issues at the expense of actually changing anything when it came to social organization or fairness. Oliver Cromwell’s reign over ‘The Protectorate’ kept or even re-invigorated all the old institutions and preferred to focus on creating a ‘Kingdom of God’. Largely inward looking, Puritan rule left no great monuments (such would be prideful) nor works of infrastructure. It did not increase the living standards of anyone in any measurable way. But it was revolutionary in a purely social sense. Now England and Scotland were ‘free’ to ‘contemplate God’ and ‘perfect themselves.’ Free from the past and dangerous foreign ideas they were now nothing but slaves to the present. A serfdom belonging to a ruling class obsessed with chasing virtue and then creating a scarcity of it so that they could retain a monopoly over it. Pure Protestant pathology distilled. It was probably the most oppressive government that British Isles had ever been subjected to, and despite all of this it changed so very little in the long term.

Cromwell’s legacy is strong in all societies culturally descended from England. Especially in America. Wokeness thrives in the Anglosphere and most influences places with strong socio-economic ties to it. There is even a great Chinese term for it.

Just two entries ago I wrote about how vital and necessary the George Floyd protests are. That is still true. But unsurprisingly, they have opened up a vast power vacuum that grifters and charlatans have been all too happy to walk right into. Promising not meaningful change but self-flagellation, serious conversations on structural issues can be made palatable to certain demographics without actually threatening their pocketbook.

In no way is this more overt than in meaningless genuflections such as companies pulling past content as if the past can be edited to fit perfectly with the present along some invented concept of universal and eternal values. Animated fictional characters voices must now match their real world ethnicities because…reasons? Victorian racial essentialism has been re-tooled and repackaged by corporate HR grifters like Robin Diangelo so that companies can better divide their workers but do so with a woke veneer. Such were the tactics of the English puritans and such are the tactics of their cultural descendants today. It is not a coincidence that the most militant of the woke puritans come from above average incomes and often originate in parts of the country that are utterly homogeneous in a cultural sense. They move to large cities only to find their views are no longer edgy or revolutionary and they must invent new competitive standards to stay atop their the pyramid of self-regard they have been creating since their time in debate club or musical theater.

The weirdest thing of all about this purely academic and media driven ‘anti-racism’ is that its bizarrely xenophobic. Woke culture, a decidedly Anglo-phenomenon, is considered to be world culture. Much like the neoliberal economic models who they find themselves in company with, this is a project of world conversion. Starting with the now infamous Kony 2012, the general trend has been for large business and government interests to weaponize the ‘we must do something’ sentiment to increase military and market penetration abroad. The Christian delusion of one universal set of right and wrong and a grand struggle towards redemption lives on in the campuses, HR departments, and mass media. Management has more tools to divide workers below them. Whatever you do, the implied message to workers goes, don’t look up.

One of the reasons I suspect this is so xenophobic is because among the bien pensant posers who make up the followers-of-the-elite classes there are constant demands for ‘representation’ from fictional genres that are plenty diverse…but not necessarily in the English language. Film is global yet people who only watch Hollywood blockbusters and British twee-comedy are angry that they don’t see enough of the world reflected in that. This is because they are assuming that English language culture *is* world culture and are too lazy and nativistic to seek out and watch foreign films from across the planet. Something it is easier to do now than ever before.

Fiction writing seems the most relentless assault from these people. Despite regularly reviewing on goodreads, I tend to avoid most of that site’s culture because 80% of the users don’t read anything overlapping with what I read. This is good because on the occasion that I catch a glimpse of what is going on outside my areas its inevitably horrifying. The cultural dominance of crunchy wine moms in their 40s who still read young adult fiction is stultifying, and one can see many behaviors such as what I deem ‘checklisting’ or making sure they read things where the narrative includes only characters with a requisite of diverse backgrounds.

Almost none of these diversity-upholding authors are from outside of Britain and its majority white ex-colonies. The stories are often formulaic and an unspoken agreement seems to be that a woke present neoliberal veneer is to be applied to preexisting genre tropes. The only innovation is in casting *not* in storytelling. Since fiction is expected to uphold liberal values along with fantasy moral ones.

For just one particularly striking example of how this perforative diversity is actually nativistic in nature, read the negative reviews of Marlon James’ ‘Red Wolf, Black Leopard’ to see this phenomenon in microcosm. Here you have something that on the surface meets the criteria for woke checklisters (gay Carribean author, African influenced fantasy setting) that is aggressively hated by moral guardians/ex theater nerds and woke white women. They hate it because it is experimental, transgressive, and morally ambiguous. It is diversity in storytelling, not just in checklisting. And the virtue demographic loathes it.

Marlon James (and others less noticed by the mainstream) pull from real history and mythology to tell unique fantasy stories from across space and time. Currently, China is producing tons of new and vibrant science fiction. Horror writers from the Middle East and Africa are making waves and Japan has been plugging along since Edogawa Rampo. But if it makes McSkaleighlough Connecticut-Kaleton uncomfortable by breaking Anglofied expectations than it must be of the devil. What these people really want is simple good vs evil narratives, Lord of the Rings in blackface. The Christian narrative secularized into liberal gruel. An affirmation of norms highly specific in time and place but assumed to be desirable to the entire world. After all, without these norms wokeness would be impossible.

Mainstream Anglosphere conservatism could be described as an attempt to defend the honor of high school history teachers to never move beyond the level of understanding they impart. Now, mainstream American liberalism finds itself in the same boat but for topical culture. They can diversify all they want, but the message remains the same: There is only one way, the way we grew up. The deviate from received wisdom is dangerous. Everything works fine if the cast is diverse enough. Please don’t look for alternatives outside of Cromwell’s Protectorate.

This is a new version of the ruling class, but its still a ruling class every bit as out of touch and irritating as the one it is replacing. They don’t wear top hats anymore and they are very aware of racial injustice. But they aren’t interested in doing anything but mining it for their own social prestige and holding people far below their income level accountable for the problems that they themselves support and create. And if you fall for this, you are dupe. The mud-stained peasant who thinks Cromwell’s social purity and witch trials will lead to a better world for him and his family. Never mind that the neighbors were just denounced for breaking the Sabbath.

Here is hoping we can at least make it through this phase and live long enough to see whatever our cultural equivalent is to the restoration of Charles II.

A Speculative Realist Review of ‘History of the Tantric Religion’

Those who have followed this blog since its inception in late 2015/early 2016 know that while it is mostly an international relations, politics, and history blog it has also gradually become a place to explore my journey into the new philosophical school of speculative realism. I have been gradually working my way through constructing a geopolitical take on speculative realism. In so doing I have also been inspired to engage with philosophical positions that come from South and East Asia as I have seen some obvious parallels between some of those schools of thoughts and the rebirth of metaphysical materialism in some sectors of ‘western’ philosophy. Above all, the worldviews with a Tantric side seem to offer the most interesting overlap.

Tantra is not in fact what most westerners who hear the term believe it to be. According to the school of Californian Buddtology, Tantra is feeling all mystical about having sex in weird postures. While it is certainly true that contemporary Tantra has some optional sex practices as part of its ritual culture, I have a feeling your average Cilantro-Botoxian from the Hollywood Hills would find little in common with the philosophy behind the movement if they ever actually bothered to read about it.

As an atheist and hard materialist myself, I naturally wanted to read about Tantra from as secular and scholarly a source as I could find. Fortunately, I was able to locate the second revised edition of N.N. Bhattacharyya’s ‘History of the Tantric Religion.’ I am not interesting in converting, after all, but rather understanding more fully this school of thought that presaged speculative realism by thousands of years. And this book delivered.

It is both a history of the thought trend and also an exploration into its themes. Many of these themes have been diluted or merged with more mainstream thought over time, leading Tantra today to have the reputation of something that is more about technique rather than a distinct world view on its own.

In its beginning, Bhattacharyya shows us that Tantra was an anti-establishment impulse that came from women and the lower castes of society. In direct opposition to Brahmannical divorce from the real world to follow abstract ideology (insert joke about woke neoliberal overlords here) an organic take on Hinduism and Buddhism arose which centered not the abstract goals of a priestly caste but rather the physical, real, and material. This was most evident in the relationship between physical objects-especially that of the human body, the natural world, and substances both foul and delightful- what could be consumed (meat, alcohol, bodily fluids, etc). Many Tantra-aligned schools of thought dabbled in atheism, skepticism, and controlled ritualistic hedonism. The violation of preexisting social taboos was important to challenge complacent thinking and transcend the rote wisdom we are saddled with that stops us from seeing the flow of nature as it really is. All of these schools were interested in the natural world and how the human body and the gods reflected this material existence. When gods were used they were explicitly stated to be symbols of natural forces to which we are only separated from by the illusion of human difference.

Sadly, over time most of these traditions would end up weakening and merging with the greater normie culture of medieval and early modern India. Others, such as Vajrayana Buddhism (who longtime followers of this blog know I have an obsession with the aesthetic of) effectively came to rule entire regions in the Himalayas. But having become the establishment those too largely lost the contrarian and material nature of the original school of thought as they degenerated into Llamaist theocracy.

Still, several core elements of this rebellious and wonderfully base philosophy still survive in many various deity cults and practices in South and Himalayan Asia today. These could be summed up (my own take here, be warned) as ‘the only way out is through.’ In other words, the way for a human to recognize their place as part of an unfolding natural process is to de-emphasize socially constructed protocol (caste, class, moralism, absolute idealism) for confronting the base nature of everything head on. Afraid of death? Spend time meditating upon the charnel grounds. Afraid of becoming a slave to the passions? Indulge in all of the passions in a disciplined manner so that you eventually grow tired of excess and regulate them in a rational manner. Afraid of violence and strife? Adopt the iconography and terms of war and slaughter in the form of wrathful deities, whose fearsome aspect is then turned from something shocking potentially directed against you into something powerful that is now on your own side. The practice of focusing on ones personal selection of deities is often a major part of this, as the gods most associated with Tantric practice (such as Chinnamasta, pictured above) are often grotesque, their power overflowing in fountains of gore, limbs, bones worn as decorations, and yet dancing through it all. They show that the most terrifying things can be internalized into something powerful and helpful, and turning fear from something to avoid into something to co-opt into bravery and critical thinking.

When I think of people around the speculative realist movement who do this Graham Harman and Ray Brassier come to mind, if in different ways. Harman wants to rub the fact that you are an object, and therefore that ‘objectification’ is not only not a bad thing but an honest and true claim, in your face. Brassier wants to bring philosophical nihilism out from the edgy teenager/depressive persons territory and claim it as simply objective truth to be confronted directly as fact before moving on to anything else.

In a way we all do this to some level without realizing it. People enjoy horror movies for cathartic or thrill seeking reasons even if (and sometimes especially if) they are the kinds of people who shrink from conflict and danger. I professionally advocate for tearing down the perpetual war state for strategic reasons but love military history and war movies. I can also speak from personal experience that the most effective means I ever came across for confronting and managing my situational depression when it flares up was to indulge it critically. This meant  treating it more like an annoying acquaintance than an enemy, indulging it just enough to integrate myself with the experience before realizing it didn’t really matter because it was just systems responding irrationally. Interestingly, the most effective way of speeding up this process is very Tantric…I watch as many depressing movies and read as many depressing books as possible. Eventually, by charging directly through you end up punching right past being stuck. It becomes a challenge of a sorts, ‘oh you think that is bad? I’ll show you worse!’ By the end of it you sort of win the game or you get sick of playing. Either way, crisis averted because now you are thinking entirely differently from when you started. In the process you learn self-discipline so the potential for even gaining knowledge is there too.

In an era where shrinking violets control the discourse and seek to avoid uncomfortable topics is a moralizing version of anti-intellectualism, I can think of no better way of thought to counteract this Tipper Gore-ish trend than that of subversive Tantric methods of thinking.

Guess that explains my love of black metal. If there is one genre of music that could fit this topic, its surely that.

Geostrategic Vamachara: The Case for a Left-Handed Strategic Art

Its common in international relations history to refer to historical figures like Kautilya and Han Feizi as their societies’ version of Machiavelli. This is a somewhat strange order of comparison as both of these figures as well as many others in the global realist tradition predate Machiavelli by numerous centuries. It does show one thing, however…that Machiavelli stands out first and foremost in the European (and Euro-American) mind. This is because he has a reputation for transgressiveness while the other realists have one for sound statecraft. Because he lived and was first disseminated in Christian cultures, the societies where his works arose were morally incapable of seriously dealing with him until mass secularization started to make inroads.

Briefly skimming through my more recent posts here to see if there was an organically unfolding theme to my thinking that I hadn’t yet explicitly addressed, I realized that it must be this: Material concerns should dominate the thought of any serious political thinker and culture war is largely a secondary front-*but*-its a secondary front that can be worth fighting if for no other reason than to open up the possibilities of discourse and have a propaganda wing and aesthetics that help you win the battle. This means that even those who are materialists first are unwise to just entirely cede the cultural front lest they suddenly find themselves swamped in a realm of discourse filled with preaching, sanctimony, moral panic, reactionaries, and the reactionary-progressives I have come to know as wokecels. As one of my favorite cultural critics, Anna Khachyan, once said on the Red Scare podcast, ‘the internet has just made men more autistic and women more hysterical.’

Nothing made this more immediately apparent than this past week’s war scare. (I imagine many regularly readers of this blog probably expected my next post to be about that. Sorry to disappoint you, though you can read my prior thoughts on war with Iran here and an op-ed I wrote about the issue elsewhere just this week here.) Discourse immediately degenerated into flag-humping on one side and humanitarian whimpering on the other. There was little true discourse on the strategic wisdom of the act of assassinating Qasem Souleimani that did not dip into whether or not assassination itself is wrong or hand ringing about the internal structural of the Iranian government.

Having transformed itself from transgressive outlet to moral fad arbiter, the internet itself has created an echo chamber that abolishes discussion of strategy for strategies’ own sake. To admire the achievements of Souleimani is to be an apologist for a hostile theocracy in the mind of the public, not simply someone who appreciates a general who was good at their job in an era where few of any nation meet that criteria. We live in an era that, like Machiavelli’s, is going to try to suppress strategic and critical thought in order to uphold the pieties of the day. It is truly a new Great Awakening and also a potential new dark age. People are often shocked by my admiration of certain people in history who I obviously politically disagree with, but an admiration of ones strategic political skill is not the same as an endorsement of their beliefs or even the net impact they had on the world at large. This should be obvious but in our society it is not by most-including (and sometimes especially) the highly educated commentator class. This is particularly strong in the case of Protestant-derived societies like that of northern Europe and North America. So it must be admitted that those who wish to have real strategic discussions in these societies have to think of new ways to connect with each other among a hostile landscape.

Obviously, those with high rank and power probably (and hopefully) have frank and honest discussions with each other away from the public. But its sad that public discussion of strategy among lay people is so suppressed by the inherited cultural baggage of Christian, post-Christian, liberal, nationalistic, and other forms of discourse. It is my belief that a secular ‘left handed path’ of strategic discourse should be made so that the wisdom and art of various geopolitical and military decisions can be discussed among non-practitioners in order to provide an outside but non-idealist form of criticism not dissimilar to (good) art and cultural criticism. While, no doubt, niche groups online and in real life do this, they are small and highly atomized and still vulnerable to ideological partisanship. One still has to walk on eggshells and insert truly endless amounts of quantifiers to have any kind of opinion extolling the skill of a ruthless commander lest any comments be immediately redirected into one’s own sympathies.

So, to open up the space for this left handed path of strategic analysis a secondary culture war, like was alluded to above, must be waged. But it is not a conventional war targeting the masses by any means, but rather one targeting people with niche interests. More of a shadow war that remains above the mainline of culture and solidly with the recruitment of the outsider in mind. It would have to be subversive, transgressive, and for people deemed worthy. In many ways like the esoteric and left hand paths of tantric thought in South Asian philosophy. Despite being inclusive to ideological and cultural background, such an approach still has as many do-nots as dos in order to keep its core character intact and to remain useful as a network.

Below I will outline some things I think such a practice would entail:

-The rejection of monotheism and its secular descendants. If a person believes that one political, spiritual, or economic system holds all the keys to bettering society and policy than they lack the ability to appreciate good strategy wielded by people they do not like and will forgive bad strategy wielded by people they feel kinship with. If someone believes in these things but can separate these beliefs from their appraisal of the art of politics, however, than its fine. Its just that I believe this combination to be much more rare than its claimed to be.

-The rejection of absolute relativism. While some relativism is good for analyzing the art of power and strategy, absolute relativism will mask successful applications of strategy from less successful ones. Some standards are needed, even if they are flexible.

-Ignoring people with aggressively basic and uncritical opinions. People have been trying to work on these forever, they are just marks waiting for the next grift or fad. Don’t bother.

-People who show a capacity for critical self-reflection are always good recruits, but not those who are self-flagellates and guilt mongers, they are just waiting for a chance to make any discussion a morality play.

-It is important to place yourself in the circumstances of the strategist you are examining, to be able to judge them based on the criteria for a job well done that they were given by their superiors or constituents, not on the opinions we have about them today from whatever society you personally hail from. This includes transgressive thought experiments like ‘if my job is to eliminate my rivals so thoroughly they all die or leave forever, what is the best way to go about it?’ Thinking about some of the worst things you can find in history is often illuminating as to how and why the bizarre things that happen unfold.

-In order to expose more people who might be receptive to these kinds of thought experiments it becomes important to bring in the ‘culture war’ aspect. Never let this take over your primary goals but always plant the seeds of doubt in your audience about how limiting to intellectual growth certain dominant trends (from mass consumerism, wokeness, racism, religion, individualism, and other forms of stultifying identity politics) are to those who want to take their explorations to the next level. Always be aware of historical examples that debunk the placid assumption of inherited popular ideologies. Be an agent of casting doubt in received wisdom. Battle sanctimony like it was robbing your house, because in a way that is exactly what it is trying to do.

-Reject the self as the arbiter of analysis. Even the most powerful actor you find was still part of a geographic, institutional, historical, and technological assemblage. Individuals are just another cog in a process known as strategy and that goes for oneself as much as it goes for other actors. The most important thing is the process itself, not its separated out components.

-Never give up the detachment necessary to remain an outsider. If you want to really understand the strategic forces that make our world work it simply requires some level of nihilism vis-a-vis value judgement and the morality of actors. We all have enemies and friends and we all make moral judgements as to where we stand, of course, but this should never be conflated with sober analysis.

-And that brings me to the final point (for now). Treasure your rivalries. If you forget you have enemies then you forget why it is so important to know and learn from strategy. If you don’t think you have any I have news, you do…you just don’t know it yet. They might be institutions rather than specific people. You do not want to be caught unprepared, so if you don’t have any, make some. To be unprepared leads to a slowing or stopping of self-improvement through adaptation. You were born into a species of apex predators who have spent all of their recorded history and much of their prehistoric time on this planet being its own biggest threat. Our social bonds are strongest when they have something to exclude, and not everyone can get along. This isn’t a tragedy, its a strength.

Two Birds, One Stone: Using Demographic Replacement to Destroy the Woke

What follows is a proposal guaranteed to displease both the woke left and the racist right…and most likely please nearly everyone else if they think about it.

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It should be beyond doubt at this point that the worst, most anti-intellectual, and loudest segments of the left and liberals alike have far more in common with right-wing reactionaries on a psychological level than they do with anyone else. This is not some lazy horseshoe theory on my part, as I have on multiple past posts made my scorn for the alt-center neoliberals quite clear. It is, however, a recognition that similar cultural, class-based, and other factors create Extreme Culture Warriors. These ECW’s are the dumbest people of left, center, and right alike and get in the way of anyone’s ability to have rational and productive conversations. This decade’s current epidemic of call-outs, scolding think pieces, and ‘canceling’ mirror the right-wing evangelical revival of the 80s, 90s, and early oughts. That one came as a reaction to the 60s and then was briefly recharged by 9/11, whereas the current one is a reaction to the 2016 election (liberal 9/11) and the failures of the Obama years to amount to much of anything. Both are entirely the wrong response to serious problems in need of addressing. Both, therefore, get in the way of finding solutions.

Both of these similar movements are also overwhelmingly demographically dominated by white people. Specifically, middle and upper-class white people.

Much as I loathe identity politics this class and ethnic overlap on widely different parts of the political compass cannot be ignored. But seeing as these ideologies often rub off on second and third-generation descendants of Asian immigrants who have mostly white friends it perhaps behooves us to refer to this faction collectively as ‘Anglo-Protestants.’ Besides, we all know that white Euro-Catholics in America are basically culturally Protestant anyway so it works. As it is, both come from the same original strain in North Atlantic history. And it is worth remembering that the whitest large city in America is Portland, Oregon. The very place the right hates the most. So if the far right got its own white ethnostate it would take about 1 generation for it to become overrun with SJWs.

What to do about this problem? Well, fortunately, present trends have already shown us some facet of the answer. Demographic Displacement. That’s right, the worst fear of the far right! This introduces a delicious irony…if the right wants to prove that they are in fact not racist than surely they will be able to commit to the destruction of ‘SJWs’ by acknowledging that the most effective way to get rid of them is to fundamentally undermine the white majority in North America. Meanwhile, on the other side of irony, both liberals and leftists of woke-persuasion will at first champion taking more Hispanic and Asian immigrants…until they begin to realize that this is swamping out their assimilationist tendencies and attempts to colonize other people’s language.  Speed is the key. If the amount of immigration is too low then the Anglo-Protestantified second and third generations will also grow up surrounded by such people and be tainted by their moralism. The only choice to combat this scourge is to smash white supremacy with numbers. Open the borders to countries with non-protestant cultures, do not open them to countries with huge strident revivalist religions of all stripes.

So, righties, if you are serious about confronting the menace of the woke its time to step up and stick it to whitey. And lefties, if you really want that super-diverse world you claim to crave its time to accept that such a world will likely bury your ideology and make your performative politics irrelevant. Because when demographics kill off Luther and Calvin, they will also kill off Richard Spencer and Lena Dunham.

But time is of the essence lest we end up with more Kamala Harris-types.

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Vision impairment is primarily the active phase of fear in the neck of the predator, concerning the vitreous body. The biological sense is to block out this predator. In the healing phase follows the increased eye pressure (glaucoma).

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