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Reflections on Standing Rock

“The battle has just begun. I will stand to protect the water, the land. I am asking each of you to come stand with us.” -LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

what it was like

I came to Standing Rock in answer to this call. I wanted to lend my energy to the beautiful movement that is being borne out of the glaring act of violence which is the Dakota Access Pipeline. I wanted to learn from those who were standing up to the environmental status quo. I wanted to spend my Thanksgiving in honor of native people rather than over a full plate of willful avoidance back home. The trip was less than a week, with two full days’ driving time, and yet it was a transformative experience. I have the tendency to romanticize and I don’t want to create the idea that it was some sort of fairy tale but in so many ways the place and the movement that is Standing Rock is entirely beautiful. The people, the attitude of work and service, the prayers, the songs, the hope, the solidarity, the reverence to the natural elements- it was all beautiful. I and many others came by choice but, at its heart, this movement is an obligatory act of self-preservation for the Dakota/Lacota/Natoka people. The camp and the movement that drives it is borne out of the very real threat that is the Dakota Access Pipeline. What follows are my observations from my short time at Oceti Sakowin camp.

Oceti Sakowin camp splayed out in a valley along a winding river and onto a few rolling hills filled with tepees and tents and cars and flags and people. It was geographically disorienting but there were prominent visual markers including a white dome, the Sacred Fire, flag road, and the road, blocked off, which marked pipeline territory. It was also socially disorienting; it was hard to be sure what my role would be and where I would fit into this place.

The daily structure was kicked off with a morning prayer at 6:30 or 7:00 that started at the Sacred Fire and ended with a water ceremony at the muddy banks of a tributary of the Missouri River. From there on there was work and meetings and meals. The work was the daily running and building of camp- chopping wood, sorting donations, erecting structures, digging structures, and chopping firewood. The meetings included orientation, nonviolent resistance training, media training, legal training and decolonization worksops. Most events began and ended with a prayer led by an elder. All my meals were shared in the kitchen of the Michigan camp along Flag Road and others ate at their own small lodgings or at the main kitchen.

My group connected with a Michigan camp in advance and we met with them upon arrival. There were indigenous and non-native Michiganders arriving and departing every day, bringing donations, sharing meals, discovering common friends and sleeping side-by-side in dark but warm bivouac tents.

There was a loudspeaker that I couldn’t hear very well from the Michigan camp so a lot of what I learned was through word of mouth or signs. There were signs everywhere! Some were declarations of support and solidarity from other groups, artwork and strong short declarations like “No DAPL”, “Stop the Black Snake”, “Water is Life”. Others were instructions: “Non Violent Action Principals”, “No Parking Here at Any Time”, “All Campers Must attend orientation- Daily at 9am at the white dome”.

The Michigan camp and hundreds of others were part of the larger settlement known as Oceti Sakowin camp. It is one of many that have grown in response to the pipeline opposition. Along with Red Warrior Camp, it lies off of the official reservation on contested land. Those at the camp call this “treaty land” referring to the treaty of 1868, which granted the Black Hills to the “Sioux,” but which was stolen shortly thereafter in an illegal breach of the treaty. A few months ago, these hills were pristine and untouched as the sacred hills that surround them, and now a bustling settlement is underway. Oceti Sakowin camp is not merely another protest or spontaneous gathering, it is a massive sacred occurrence: its presence, all actions that take place within it, and all people who visit are a part of the sacred ritual.

Peacefulness was taken seriously. There were no weapons, no weapon substitutes, no drugs nor alcohol, no swearing, and no violent language. Not even gossip was welcome. Overall, the energy was peaceful but purposeful, loving but strong. All of this spreads, and it takes awhile to sink in. It is only part of why I wish I could’ve stayed longer.

camp culture

The culture of the camp was dominantly Dakota/Lakota/Nakota but its very newness made it subject to improvisation. It was a mix of indigenous cultures, “mainstream” Americans of every race, and foreigners.

To be a white person there and a newcomer was to be a demographic majority but a cultural minority. It was important for the integrity of the camp that all actions and decisions be indigenous-centered and indigenous-led. I tried to make my whiteness as unobtrusive as possible although my very presence surely had an impact.

The learning curve was steep. I cringe to consider what offenses I may have committed due to my lack of knowledge of proper protocol. Did I look around to see if an elder was waiting to eat before I did? Did I speak out of turn? Did I take more than I gave? Was I willing to do the unglamorous drudge work? It required constant vigilance. One group of visitors burst out singing “Hey Jude” oblivious to the fact that it was too late to be so loud and that, more to the point, this was one singular space in a million where mainstream white American culture was not appropriate.

There was a fine line between respect and appropriation- wear a skirt but not a feather, join the calls “mni wiconi!” (“water is life!”) but not the trills and whoops of celebration, attend the prayer but don’t enter the center ring of the fire, ask questions but don’t assume you deserve an explanation, take advantage of the learning opportunities but don’t take more than you give, come but don’t assume you can go everywhere, come but don’t assume this is your fight, fight but don’t assume you have the solutions. The unspoken truth for visitors to the camp was that, even though you are there in service and you deserve nothing, you will still be given an abundance of love and wisdom and support.

On my last morning at camp, I stood in a ring of hundreds of people around the Sacred Fire. Some women were preparing for the water ceremony and the leader pointed to me and asked me to carry a bag with some of her utensils as they led the procession to the river. My mouth dropped open. I was stupefied with honor to be included in the ceremony. As we walked, the woman instructed other women to take turns holding the copper urns and led us in a song of respect for water. She taught us the words and encouraged us to join in. It was more than I could’ve hoped for. I approached her afterward and told her how much this meant to me and she said that a woman is not a woman until she carries the water.

I was not there to learn, I was there to serve, but I wanted to learn and I was fortunate enough to have a direct and indirect education from trainings to observation of others.

I attended a “decolonization” discussion which I count as one of the best classes of my life. It was academic and immediately relevant. For three hours we looked directly at the uncomfortable issues of our history and our current surroundings through the lens of awareness and progress.

The facilitator was an incredible woman who navigated us with knowledge and deftness through some deeply uncomfortable issues. She defined “colonial violence,” “genocide,” “entitlement,” “decolonization,” she weaved between historical and temporal issues, she talked about race and culture as well as her own identity. She brought us into focus on the impacts of persistent colonial violence that continues to this day: “Every indigenous suicide is directly or indirectly tied to the fireworks on the 4th of July.”  She taught us “the root of colonial violence at this camp is the centralization of whiteness or centralization of self.”

There were a thousand wincing moments throughout the discussion- mostly from white people. A woman expressed a desire to integrate her group of friends  by “adopting” a person of color into it. People entered the room late but still saw fit to add their voice to the conversation without knowing what it was about. Even the mere eagerness to speak and raise one’s hand rather than to listen was an issue. The end was the worst. After three hours of powerful painful discussion, an elder received a tobacco offering and closed with a beautiful heartfelt prayer. In the silence that followed, one white man raised his fist and shouted “We are all indigenous to planet earth!” After the shouts and groans quieted, the facilitator said “please come back to this class again tomorrow.”

I wanted to raise my hand and tell her that the agony of detailing the obvious (day after day) to well-intentioned but often oblivious white people was not in vain. I have the sincere hope and belief that each of us left that experience with a greater humanity, which we will bring back to our families and friends. The more white people getting an education at camp, the more white people will get an education away from it!

the stuff of it

Then there was the stuff of it- the real reason we all were there, that we had come to show our support, that we had been called to stand with standing rock, and that was the pipeline. Glaring lights penetrated the night with their powerful beams like a barren ski slope. There was razor wire that was put up over the course of my time just across a narrow part of the river which marked the boundary between the occupied treaty land and the furthest reach of the pipeline as it currently stands.

The focal point of this action is a hill called Turtle Island. It is a burial ground where long-dead chieftains and recent decedents risk immediate disinterment. It is sacred to the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota tribes. There were “actions” on at least a daily basis, during which water protectors (not protesters) would gather to pray or hold ceremony or stand to create a front line to try to stop the progress of the pipeline.

At one prayer circle, a young man spoke with arresting vulnerability about why he was fighting to stop the black snake. He said he wants to have children and for his son to one day be able to fish from that river. He wants his son to catch a fish and say “look Dad!” and be proud and eat that fish and have it make him strong. He cried as he said this. So did I.

“Direct action training” was another powerful experience. We were admonished to be peaceful in all ways, we were schooled in chemical weapons and what to expect in jail. We formed a mock action by circling around water protectors and banner holders and lacing arms back to back. I was eager to attend a direct action but, by the time I got the training, it was time to leave. I was willing to go though, I signed the legal paperwork detailing my preferences in the event of an arrest. I’m grateful for the humbling and grounding experience of imagining myself to be arrested, to consider how far I was willing to go, to personalize just a fraction of the dedication of the thousands of people around me. I regret that I was not arrested if that would advance the cause. I regret not joining an action while I was there.

I was told, though, that prayer is an action. By joining the water ceremonies, by praying before I ate, by opening my heart and offering my own words and energy, by sending love and respect and gratitude- that is an action too. I love this idea and it has motivated me to write this down- to retain the prayer in my heart and to share it with others. I understand that each prayer is individual, so, while I can never speak for this cause or for those who are so mightily fighting for it, I hope that my words and prayers can supporting it too.

img_1698the moment we are in

The significance of the historical moment could not be understated. The Seven Council Fire sat at the center of a wide circle surrounded by seven large tepees of the seven coalition tribes come together for the first time since they were forced to stand together against the genocide and banishment threatened by the US Army culminating in the Battle of Greasy Grass back in 1876. In addition to those seven tribes, it was said that over 300 indigenous nations are represented among the water protectors who have joined the stand against the advancing pipeline. At the sacred fire one morning a man spoke: “We are the answer to our ancestor’s prayers.” He described how the four colors of the medicine symbol are black, red, yellow and white, they represent the races of the earth and the North, South East and West. Those colors join in the middle, and we, at that fire in that moment, represent the middle. We who have come from all corners of the county and the earth are the merging of the races and the converging of the directions. “We are the 7th generation.”

Another man’s words brought me to tears. He described that, with so many newcomers to the camp, people keep asking him “how long have you been here?” He would say “Since 1976, I grew up over that hill over there.” He spent his life thinking about visiting to other states, other countries, wishing he could travel and meet new people and then said, incredulously, “…and now you’re all here.”

Almost everyone there was a visitor- whether from another native tribe or a non-native- and most people were not indigenous. Over the time I was there, I was told there were 10,000 – 20,000 people at the camp including representatives of over 400 nations including indigenous tribes and other countries. At two of the events I went to, the attendees organized ourselves by state and the whole area filled in from east coast to west coast and beyond. We met other people from Detroit that we didn’t even know where there. Of the hundreds of attendees, almost all raised their hands in answer to the question “how many of you arrived in the last 48 hours?”

Why were we all there? Probably, because we were asked. For anyone who decries the genocide, the culturcide the erasure of native peoples in our nation’s history, here is an opportunity to stand up to the insidious shadows of imperialism that continue to this day. How, when reparations are due, can we continue to add to our moral debt in this way? It’s impossible to just let it happen, so we are trying to lend support.

As I see it, this movement is about many things. It is about water and the importance of keeping that life source pure. It is about abuse of a common resource for the benefit of a few. It is about representation and the disparity that leaves native people voiceless in decisions that affect their well-being. It is about land and the historical encroachments that continue to the present. It is about environmental racism and the continuation of practices where the worst environmental hazards are co-located with the poorest and least represented people. It is about energy infrastructure and the need to disinvest in dirty extractive sources to reduce energy consumption and increase renewable and sustainable sourcing. It is about a holistic approach to the environment, as embodied by ancient indigenous cultures that respect and limit what they use. It is about current indigenous realities that recognize that recognize their remaining land as finite, non-transferrable and non-expendable. It is about the militarization of business interests, which show extensive police and National Guard support for an illegal private investment over individual human rights. It is about stepping up for what we believe in when it becomes clear that the threat is real and that our government leaders are not going to save or solve us. It is about taking one small step toward ending the paradigm of colonizer/victim by creating solidarity and unity for a clear and obvious good. It is about learning another way to do things. It is about being better people.

At one prayer a man listed a series of gratitudes and ended by saying “thank you even for the black snake, for bringing us together, for teaching us a valuable lesson.”

In this writing, I have attempted to share my own experience and understanding with care for the sensitivity of the subject and my very amateur relationship to it. I request corrections for any errors as well as forgiveness for any unintentional offenses.

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The tinge of drama characterizing the political hemisphere in Imo State took another shape on Tuesday when the much awaited judgment to decide the fate of the embattled Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere was delivered.

After hearing parties involved in the case, two weeks ago, the judge reserved date for the judgment.

Recall that few months ago, after a battle to survive impeachment failed, Madumere was removed by the members of the Imo State House of Assembly. His position was about to be taken over by Callistus Ekenze, who until his nomination as the Deputy Governor designate, was the Head of Service of the state, before the Chief Judge and judicial officials of the state government avoided to administer the oath of office on him due to an earlier court order barring the Members of the House and the 7-man Committee from going ahead with the impeachment process. The CJ of the state cited the earlier court order prompting the Imo State Government, led by Governor Rochas Okorocha, in spite of high level preparations, to cancel the swearing in of Ekenze nominated to take over from Madumere.

However, the climax of the continued court case concerning the impeachment was Tuesday’s decision of a High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, which nullified the lawmakers impeachment of the Deputy Governor on the ground that Mr Madumere’s impeachment did not follow due process, therefore it is illegal.

The presiding judge, Justice Benjamin Iheka, who made the announcement, insisted that he (Madumere) remains the Deputy Governor of the state.

Justice Iheka faulted the Chief Judge of Imo state, Pascal Nnadi and the Attorney General the state, Miletus Nlemadim, of the process of the impeachment.

According to Justice Iheaka, the Chief Judge did not comply with section 188 subsection 5 of the 1999 constitution as amended. It (constitution) stipulates that the Chief Judge must set up a 7-man panel of inquiry within 7 days but on the contrary, the Chief Judge did after 9 days, according to the constitution, makes the impeachment process invalid, null and void.

Since the botched swearing in of the nominated Ekenze July ending, a kind of constitutional crisis has been entrenched in Imo State with no one holding the position.

19 out of the 27 State lawmakers, mainly of the Deputy Governor’s APC party, led by the Speaker, Acho Ihim, after axing from the House about five Members believed not to be in support of the impeachment, who were handed indefinite suspension, removed Madumere on July 30, 2018, based on allegations of absence without reasons for a period of three months and a failure to perform constitutional duties like attending state executive and state security council meetings.

Others included his alleged failure to attend meetings with the governor and other government functionaries as well as an alleged concealment of felonious acts in the United States.

Though that of alleged concealment of felonious acts in the United States could not be substantiated as report of the House made public indicated one other unknown Madumere not Eze Madumere was involved, the Members went ahead with the impeachment based on other accusations.

More worrisome in the impeachment episode was the decision of the state government to bar Madumere from executing his duties as the number two citizen of the state when the swearing in process of the new Deputy Governor designate failed.

Reports available had it that Madumere and his staff were stopped from gaining entrance into the official quarters in Commissioners’ Quarters on Concorde Road, New Owerri as well as the Twin House office of the Deputy Governor.

Official assignments from the state government and other paraphernalia of office due to the second in command were not extended to Madumere any longer.

For the month of August and this September that is coming to an end, Imo State operated without a Deputy Governor as the nominated Ekenze could not also be involved officially since his scheduled swearing in was aborted.

It was also observed that in the absence of Madumere, Ekenze has been making appearances in Government House, Owerri for official functions of government whereas Madumere was shut out from the scene.

During the swearing in of the newly elected Council Chairmen of the 27 LGAs in Imo State, the Deputy Governor Designate, Ekenze who also hails from Madumere’s Mbaitoli LGA in Owerri Zone was spotted in a group picture between the Council bosses and the state governor. In the said picture Ekenze appeared, that went public courtesy of Government House media officials, only Okorocha, the LGA chairmen and top political appointees serving the state government were captured. The picture depicts that despite the failure of the swearing in of the Deputy Governor designate, Ekenze may have been co-opted as a state government official other than of his former position as the Head of Service job.

A statement from the media office of the governor authored by his chief press secretary once tried to advance reasons why the state government closed its doors against Madumere after the impeachment.

Details of the statement entail that since he has suffered an impeachment from the House Members and a Deputy Governor designate emerged, the right to serve as second in command to Okorocha has been lost, the government mouthpiece stated.

With the court quashing the impeachment and declaring the action of the state lawmakers null and void, the question on the lips of many watchers of the development in Imo remains the possibility of the Okorocha’s government reconsidering another working relationship with Madumere?

Following the outcome of the court nullification of the impeachment, will Madumere be allowed back into DGOVs Lodge at the Commissioners’ Quarters and made to return to the Office of the Deputy Governor that is within spitting distances to the High Court premises where Justice Iheka delivered the judgment for him resume functions as the second in command in the state?

One other pertinent question that must arise is the issue of compatibility. With regards to political differences ahead 2019 elections and considering deep rooted animosity emanating from the impeachment saga where the governor was accused of inducing the palace coup against his deputy, can the former political soul mates experience another harmonious working relationship again?

What of funding of the office of the Governor? Before now, cries of abandonment had been the lot of Madumere office as allegations that impress to run the office had not been forthcoming. Will Madumere’s office get any allocation again?

More so, won’t the post Madumere impeachment nullification era become another sad reminder to the indifference approach of the Okorocha regime to court judgments against him since he became governor of Imo State in 2011?

The plight of the sacked Council Chairmen and Councilors elected in 2010 during the Ikedi Ohakim regime who were illegally removed in office by Okorocha remains evergreen. Despite getting court judgments at the Appeal Court levels for reinstatement a year after, the governor never took into reckoning their return into office until he claimed that their tenure had elapsed. No kobo was also paid throughout the period Court returned them to office and till date.

Same goes for the former Chairman of Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Cletus Ilomuonya. Several courts had declared invalid his removal by Okorocha, but all manners of shenanigans were deployed by the state government to frustrate his return to office until his tenure as Eze Imo elapsed. It is on record that Ilomuanya has won several cases against the Okorocha government which reports say have not been honoured. Even cases of payments secured against Okorocha but won not honoured are in excess.

Cases of the present administration being livid about court decisions concerning it are enourmous, thereby instilling fear that the Court decision quashing Madumere’s impeachment may end up to became a wishy-washy judgment before eyes of the Imo State

Kelechi Mejuobi, a writer, commentator on contemporary issues is an Owerri based journalist and co-publisher of Trumpeta newspapers

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There is no such thing as a ‘resource curse’ and Africans are no more corrupt than others.

There have been protests in Dakar, Senegal after the broadcast of a documentary alleging financial impropriety by Aliou Sall, brother of President Macky Sall

Late last month, the Senegalese government made it clear it was not going to cave in to pressure to revise state energy contracts. This was despite weeks-long protests and calls from the opposition and civil society to take action against graft in the wake of a large corruption scandal.

In June, the BBC released a documentary alleging financial impropriety by Aliou Sall, brother of President Macky Sall, in connection to a $10bn fraudulent energy deal with predatory entrepreneur Frank Timis, the owner of energy company Petro-Tim. The exposé stirred anger across the country.

According to the BBC investigation, the president’s brother, former country manager of Petro-Tim in Senegal, has received a $250,000 lump sum payment and a $25,000 monthly salary over a five-year period from Timis.

Timis’s strategy is simple and it works. It consists of getting into business with corrupt African presidents and their families to win tenders that are ridiculously unfavourable to African countries.

In recent years West Africa has become his favourite stomping ground. Timis has been reportedly linked to dirty mining deals in Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Burkina Faso.

This, like other corruption stories in Africa, are often brushed off as the natural consequence of the “resource curse” and greedy elites, but what lies beneath it is a much grimmer reality.

What enables people like Timis to profiteer with impunity is a centuries-old malaise which has afflicted the continent ever since European powers embarked on its colonisation.

Extractivism: An economic model

The popular theory of “the resource curse” – that natural resources might be more of an economic curse than a blessing – is commonly used in academic and policy discourse to explain away the paradox that resource-rich countries tend to have less economic, developmental and even democratic growth than countries with fewer natural resources.

The theory, however, downplays global structural imbalances and ignores the adverse effects predatory capitalism has on resource-rich countries with export-oriented economies.

It rests too problematically on assumptions about “African greed” and tropical fatalism. But corruption is not some virus that infects some predisposed to it and spares others with stronger immunity.

Africans are no more corrupt than others.

In fact, there is no such thing as a “resource curse”, only bankrupt policy choices. Resource-rich countries more often than not support economies that are heavily dependent on extraction – an economic model which encourages foreign patronage and rent-seeking behaviours that naturally lead to corruption.

Extractivism remains the most enduring economic model in Africa. The continent procures the world with bodies and brains, copper and cobalt, oil and gas, diamonds and gold, wood, fish, artifacts and cultural heritage. The model not only drains resources, it also blocks Africa’s capacity to create, produce and develop. It bleeds it dry at the expense of its populations already blighted by extreme poverty.

The foundations of this model were laid during colonialism, when imperial powers, through conquest and coercion, acquired sovereign prerogatives, from levying taxes and imposing customs duties to signing treaties and administering justice.

The infrastructure for extraction was a mechanism perfected by chartered companies such as the British East Africa Company, a precursor to modern-day multinational corporations. The co-opting of a docile elite trained in colonial schools ensured continued loyalty to old colonial powers in lieu of real decolonisation.

Colonialism faked its own death in Africa.

In French-speaking Africa, France also developed such an extractive infrastructure. From Cote d’Ivoire to Niger, from Gabon to the Congo, France has deployed a geopolitical arsenal based on secret defence agreements and retrogressive interventionism. In fact, French colonialism faked its own death in “partnerships” that depoliticised postcolonial transactions.

In reality, a (post)colonial pact continues to govern Franco-African transactions.

This pact maintains African states’ dependence on France by enforcing a system in which the former provides natural resources exclusively for the benefit of metropolitan France and imports, almost exclusively, manufactured products from the latter.

This configuration is sustained by economic, military and political mechanisms that are not subject to any democratic control. One of the most prominent symbols of enduring imperialism in French-speaking Africa is the CFA Franc cooperation, which is an arrangement that requires its West and Central African members to deposit fifty percent of their foreign exchange surpluses into a French operations account in exchange for currency stability.

The maintenance of corrupt leaders was always a condition for continued business for colonial powers in Africa. To this day, France continues to do everything in its power, including deploying its military, to protect Africa’s corrupt strongmen and the access they provide to the continent’s resources.

In the last few decades France took some unprecedented steps to protect its interests in Africa, including deploying Special Forces to protect a private French corporation’s mining operations in Niger. Since 1960, the French military has intervened over 40 times in Africa.

The most recent interventions such as Operations Serval and Barkhane in Mali and a rescue mission to save Chad’s president from a coup are testimonies that France is still acting like a colonial power in Africa.

In Senegal, French companies run virtually all infrastructural services, from the Dakar harbour (Bolloré) to the highways (Eiffage), from the train system (Eiffage, SNCF, RATP, Alstom) to oil exploration (Total). Macky Sall has turned Senegal into an investment heaven for French companies. In the process, he has become a staunch guardian of the French neocolonial order.

This colonial infrastructure and extraverted politics make it easy for predatory businessmen like Timis to exploit the resources of Senegal. He is easily able to do business navigating networks of corrupt officials who have already been conditioned to give concessions to foreigners in exchange for personal profit.

Need for a paradigmatic shift.

However, none of the main protagonists in the extraction scheme has an interest in systemic reform. The only way out of this dilemma is a paradigmatic shift.

As the anti-CFAcampaign has shown, only a pan-African, grassroots movement is able to push for the decolonisation of African economies.

Thanks to the anti-imperialist front FRAPP-France Dégage and other pan-African civil society movements, West African states have recently pledged to adopt a single currency.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance

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Sunday August 1, 2021

Apple Releases Earnings Report

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) reported quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 27. The company's stock fell 2% following the earning report's release, despite exceeding revenue expectations.

Revenue for the third quarter came in at $81.4 billion. This was up 36% from $59.7 billion during the same quarter last year and exceeded the $73.3 billion expected by Wall Street.

"This quarter, our teams built on a period of unmatched innovation by sharing powerful new products with our users, at a time when using technology to connect people everywhere has never been more important," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. "We're continuing to press forward in our work to infuse everything we make with the values that define us — by inspiring a new generation of developers to learn to code, moving closer to our 2030 environment goal, and engaging in the urgent work of building a more equitable future."

Apple's quarterly net income was $21.7 billion. This was up from $11.3 billion in net income at this time last year.

The company reported an increase of 50% in iPhone sales to $39.6 billion for the quarter. Apple's Services segment's sales increased 33% to $17.5 billion. The company's Services segment includes subscription services, such as iCloud and Apple Music as well as the App Store, AppleCare and Apple Music. The Wearables, Home and Accessories segment posted revenue of $8.8 billion in revenue. Mac and iPad sales brought in $8.2 billion and $7.4 billion respectively.

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) shares ended the week at $145.86, down 1.6% for the week.

Alphabet Reports Earnings

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) released its latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 27. The tech titan reported revenue that exceeded expectations.

The company reported revenue of $61.9 billion, up 62% from $38.3 billion during the same quarter last year. This beat analysts' expected revenue of $56 billion.

"In Q2, there was a rising tide of online activity in many parts of the world, and we're proud that our services helped so many consumers and businesses," said Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. "Our long-term investments in AI and Google Cloud are helping us drive significant improvements in everyone's digital experience."

Alphabet posted net income of $18.53 billion, or $27.26 per share for the second quarter. This was up from $6.96 billion, or $10.13 per share during the same time last year.

The parent company of Google saw shares jump 3% following the earnings release. Advertising revenue from Google came in at $50.4 billion for the quarter. This was up 69% from the prior year's quarter. The company attributed the revenue growth to its Retail segment. Google Cloud's revenue increased to $4.63 billion, up from $3.01 billion.

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) shares ended the week at $2,694.53, up 1.0% for the week.

Amazon Posts Earnings

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) reported its latest quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 29. The online retail giant reported slowing sales growth.

The company's net sales reached $113.1 billion for the second quarter. This was up 27% from $88.9 billion in sales last year at this time.

"Over the past 18 months, our consumer business has been called on to deliver an unprecedented number of items, including PPE, food, and other products that helped communities around the world cope with the difficult circumstances of the pandemic," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. "At the same time, AWS has helped so many businesses and governments maintain business continuity, and we've seen AWS growth reaccelerate as more companies bring forward plans to transform their businesses and move to the cloud."

The company's net income for the quarter was $7.8 billion. This was down from $5.2 billion at the same time last year.

Andy Jassy became CEO of Amazon on July 5, while founder Jeff Bezos stepped into the role of Executive Chair. The company forecast sales growth may increase 16% in the third quarter. Amazon attributed slowing sales growth to changing consumer behavior as many COVID-19 related restrictions were lifted during the second quarter.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) shares ended the week at $3,327.59, down 9.4% for the week.

The Dow started the week at 35,056 and closed at 34,935 on 7/30. The S&P 500 started the week at 4,410 and closed at 4,395.26. The NASDAQ started the week at 14,821 and closed at 14,673.

Treasury Yields React to GDP Release

U.S. Treasury yields rose on Thursday following the Commerce Department's release of the second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report. Yields remained relatively steady despite job growth missing expectations.

On Thursday, the national GDP was released indicating annualized growth of 6.5% for the second quarter. Economists expected GDP growth of 9.2%. Treasury yields increased slightly in response.

"Growth has peaked, the economy will slow a bit in the second half of this year, then much more noticeably in the first half of 2022 as fiscal support fades," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "The contours of growth are going to be shaped largely by fiscal policy over the next 18 months. The tailwind just blows less strongly, and may stop altogether by this time next year."

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor released its weekly initial jobless claims report. The report showed 400,000 first-time claims, down 24,000. This was higher than the 380,000 expected by economists.

"Beyond weekly ups and downs, the trend in total [unemployment] filings should remain downward over coming weeks," said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. "Overall, job growth should pick up and labor shortages should ease as near-term constraints – virus concerns, child-care issues and enhanced unemployment benefits – diminish. But rising virus cases could be a headwind for the labor market and the economy."

The 10-year Treasury note yield closed at 1.24%, while the 30-year Treasury bond yield was 1.90%.

Mortgage Rates Hold Below 3%

Freddie Mac released its latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey on Thursday, July 29. The report showed an increase in the 30-year fixed rate mortgage.

This week, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.80%, up from last week's average of 2.78%. At this time last year, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.99%.

The 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.10% this week, down from 2.12% last week. During the same period last year, the 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.51%.

"As the economy works to get back to its pre-pandemic self, and the fight against COVID-19 variants unfolds, owners and buyers continue to benefit from some of the lowest mortgage rates of all-time," said Sam Khater, Chief Economist at Freddie Mac. "Largely due to the current environment, the 30-year fixed-rate remains below 3% for the fifth consecutive week while the 15-year fixed-rate hits another record low."

Based on published national averages, the savings rate was 0.06% as of 7/19. The one-year CD averaged 0.14%.

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Kids, Sex, Energetically Charged

Guest Post by Rachel Fiske (did you know Rachel was on Oprah?)

In one of the “best” private high schools in Chicago, girls are making out with each other and exposing each others’ breasts to willing boys, at parties, for the boys’ viewing pleasure. Boys record these make-out sessions on their phones. Shyer girls record them themselves for shyer boys. What luck, that kids were born at this time in history when such amazing technology exists! How clever! How convenient! No longer do boys need to find their dad’s stash of boring old still shots; they can keep live action in their pockets! And no longer do girls have to pretend that they are not sexual beings! They are! Not only are they sexual beings, but stars, emailed from boy to boy for unlimited exposure! Fifteen minutes of fame, indeed! We are living in a new age! What freedom! What clueless parents!

I’m stunned, that with all this evolution on so many other levels, we—parents of the new millennium–have allowed our kids to become live porn for each other, instead of teaching them to be heart connected. It’s not that I’m sexually naïve. If I haven’t done it myself, I’ve read about it; but years have gone by since the last time I heard of a sex act that jarred my world as much as the news that high school girls are making alcohol-fueled soft-core porn videos for boys.

What does a girl need to ignore in order to let herself be filmed at a party? How desperate to be loved and seen must she be? When did women start to disassociate like this, and create disassociated daughters? With all the evolution and awakening and access to information and technological wizardry of the last 20 years, sex is still in the dark. Disassociated from love, from a heart connection, and universally unrecognized as a union of SOULS, of spirit shared, it is passed on to kids in ways that allow them to dishonor one another. How can we teach this honoring, though, if we don’t embody it ourselves?

How on earth do we do this? How do we walk our talk, rather than leaving our own sexuality in the dark and commenting woefully on the de-generation of this generation of teenagers? Can we fully embody our own sexuality in a way that honors it as the creative force it is? Can we celebrate it in ourselves and revere it in our partner, our mirror? When will NOW be the right time to make a change?

We average everyday people have squished sex into this tiny category, moved it to the end of the day, and only if our partner deserves it; we’ve kept the energy of sex so locked up in the genitals for so long, that we have culturally forgotten what it truly is: the energy of transformation, the energy of creation. Meanwhile kids, in an effort to discover what sex is, in an effort to actually feel something in this world of digital media, have learned to use our magnificently evolved electronic technology for sex play, without an evolved spiritual perspective. Why not? What do they know? We have never known how it feels to liberate this energy from its conventional pathway and send it throughout and around our body, throughout and around our partner, throughout and around our lives. We’ve never learned how to embody it without shadow and secrecy and shame.

What if? What if instead of the “don’t do what I do, do what I say” perspective, we evolved ourselves? What if we boring old adults with mortgages experienced the way that when this supercharged energy flows through the rest of our cells we feel and look more youthful and live from a joyful, conscious place? What if?

Have you ever tried to promote a tantric sex workshop? A whole weekend, people wonder. A whole weekend, about sex? What are we gonna do? We can’t take time from soccer games and birthday parties and bar mitzvahs and our Netflix queue to be sexy!

It’s about time.

It’s easy to say there’s not enough time. Especially for that! But this creation energy, sexual energy, is the same energy that makes the world go round; it’s life force, it’s the same energy that fuels the people and situations around us; liberating it makes our lives more synchronistic and easier to navigate. That’s the biggest draw for me: tantric sex, conscious sex energy, fuels my life. I am able to create my life, able to create happiness. Plus! I can see karma coming several miles away, without needing to interact with it. I can see illness coming a mile away, rarely needing to embody it. It’s not just about sex. It’s about living life from an awakened, happy state. It’s about evolving sex at the same rate of speed that the rest of the world is evolving.

There is no reason why we all can’t be ten times happier than we are. We have everything else we need. Don’t we? Our needs are so well met, better met than at any given historical time period, and American needs are met more easily than anyone else’s on the planet. We now have plenty of time for the world’s most blissful, most misunderstood activity—but we can’t, we can’t do it in the middle of the day, or move evolved, conscious, life-affirming sex to the top of the to-do list, because it’s been so culturally repressed. Or we can’t, because our partner was irritating that morning. Or we can’t, because we don’t have a partner—the second most used reason for avoiding addressing sexual energy.

What is the point of all of this ease and comfort and abundance? So we can have more time to watch movies? Surely it’s not to evolve our perception of sex so that we can raise sexually enlightened children.

There is no known cultural or spiritual permission to have spiritual sex. It is not held within the language and comprehension of the sacred. But it is, indeed, sacred. It is ready to evolve, into the Light. And Now is the time.

The Tantra Heart beginning level workshop in Chicago October 8-10 is the place, a sacred space, to begin awakening to the light behind the darkness that has shrouded sex. It is a safe time and place to let your own inner light shine, to awaken yourself to the abundance of Universal Love that is ready to come forth on the New Earth. Imagine a world in which you were honored simply for showing up, for seeing and being seen, in the Light. This is the world—this is the community, at least—that is being created Here, Now. Join us to get a taste of the future.

Let’s be a living example for the next generation, by learning to fully embody sex-heart-consciousness, so that kids have real live role models for how to live as fully connected, enlightened sexual beings.

Tantra is where yoga was 20 years ago: edgy, unknown. So be a pioneer. The unknown frontier is so much better than what we have inherited and what we are passing on to our kids, because we have an opportunity to create it, consciously. I’m in. Are you?

Rachel would love to hear from you in the comment section of this blog, or on Facebook or Twitter! Glad you were in my Odd neighborhood. Feel free to drop by any time. Odd Loves Company and odd loves you and you and you!!

Other Guest Posts by Rachel:

Tantra Heart-Rachel’s Story

Food Blessing a National Health Care Plan

10 thoughts on “Kids, Sex, Energetically Charged

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  2. I would totally be there if I wasn’t going out of town that week. You have sold me, Rachel. Bravo on this post and all your hard work! ♥

  3. I am not sure what to say. I know the kids are doing the things you wrote about. But trying to find away to say its okay is not what I would like to do. I may have misunderstood the message but I am not on board with the New Age, One World, enlightened group. I am though a mother whos daughter started having children at 16. She had 4 chilren and is only 26. I am all for teaching them about love and respect and if and only if I cant convince them to wait for love, I will be the first to get them birth control. I am convinced that what they say to please you and keep peace is not always what they will do. They will unfortunately allow themselves to think sex means nothing and like everything else, it is okay to act as long as it hurts no one. But it hurt the 2 chilren I raised until they turned 10 and 8 and then I reluctantly gave them back to Mom to be part of the family. My daughter had a strange notion that having these children would give her some kind of unconditional love. She didnt think that kids are takers 1st than givers 2nd. Our children are looking for love and exceptance. They are misguided on how to get it. To me this is the tragedy in the world today. Good luck with your workshop. Enteresting article. Thank you for the thoughts.

  4. Kathy, I agree: our kids are looking for love and acceptance. There are many ways to approach that. My path is not necessarily for everyone, that’s for sure! To clarify, in my first paragraph, I wasn’t being serious–not meaning to say it’s ok, but quite the contrary! The article is an effort to speak to people who think material things can provide can replace “real” in a kids life. Seeing their parents genuine love for each other for instance, or passion from really loving their life. The kind of passion that propelled you to love your grandchildren even if you were at odds with your daughter. Thanks so much for your comments. I appreciate your taking time to share your experience with us.

    • Thank you for your reply. Hope you can make a difference. Lord knows I don’t have the answer. I never was at odds with my daughter, she is just confused about love and responsibility. She does not think, even now about how the things she does effect the one’s around her This is the generation. Responsibility for one’s actions is missing. I grew up in the me generation but today’s generation can really can tell us what being selfish . You may have the answer and I honestly wish you well with your method and message.

  5. I respect your thoughts and ideas but I choose the old fashioned traditonal belief system and that is to follow the strict guidelines given to us in the book of Genesis. It worked for me and I pray it works for my children. Sex is a blessing when it is performed between a man and a woman within the boudaries of a Holy covenant between God and the married couple. Mutual respect and love for one another is God’s design. We discuss our beliefs with our children and one accepts it and one does not. I do not judge others who take a different path but I can tell you this I am blisssfully happy with my spouse and I honor him. I pray my children will know this complete sexual happiness. I believe it only comes when we follow the will of the Lord. Old fashioned and silly to most but it works for me. But I will say it loud I respect every adults choice to live and love in their own way. As for the youth of today, conversation is needed with parents and children and prayer that they will know the sexually happiness from intimacy that the Almighty desires for their lives. Pornography is a absolute Satanic trap designed to steal our children’s joy and health ! Any instruction given by Rachel for the young people living a different path than our family’s I celebrate and encourage.

  6. Ok I agree….but who’s the guy on the cover of that bag????? Just kidding:-) Loved Rachel’s thoughts in her blog. It’s a must read:-)

  7. The guy on the bag is the naked Abercrombie guy. He stands in the doorway of most Abercrombie stores during the winter holidays when the malls are crowded. He wears low slung jeans with the band of his Abercrombie boxer briefs peeking out above them and nothing else. He stand in the doorway, half naked and he is supposed to draw people into the store. If you want to take a picture with him you pay a donation to some cause or other. I’m sure it is not the exact same guy, but during the holidays this guy is like the Santa on every corner. Every Abercrombie has a naked guy out front.

    As for the guest blog, I found it interesting. I have always been the outcast in our community because our family was very honest and open about sex but completely opposed to violence. My kids saw movies with bad language or nudity long before they saw movies where people were killing, maiming, disemboweling, beheading, raping, torturing, etc. I often defended myself by saying that my kids probably heard worse language at school and they were old enough to know what was appropriate to say and what wasn’t. As for the sex, I felt assured that my kids would each eventually have sex and that the movies brought up topics for our conversation. Topics like what happens when teens have unprotected sex, what constitutes date rape, the problems that arise from sex without feelings, etc. I don’t think it is especially important for everyone to wait to get married before having sex. In fact I would encourage everyone to “test drive” before buying. However I do believe that love certainly makes things better.
    I have no idea about the tantric sex thing, as I live in Mayberry RFD but it does sound interesting.

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Walter White, working-class hero

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Last week the Philadelphia Daily News ran a story about unemployment with a photo of a middle-aged man in a business suit — a former office worker out of luck and money — begging for a job on a streetcorner in Center City.

Reading the story at my shack in the Tinicum swamp, I thought: 1) There but for the grace of God and a few thousand bucks go I, and 2) The only thing worse than having a soul-killing office job is having no job at all, and 3) the guy in the DN story needs to make a survival plan, as Walter White did in the TV series Breaking Bad.

At that moment my friend Swamp Rabbit swam up to me and said, “What’s your plan, Odd Man?”

Good question. I confessed to the rabbit that I’m too ignorant to make a go of it in the digital world and not a good enough thief to prosper in financial services. I don’t have the commercial instincts to make money writing fiction, the racket in which I’ve invested most of my time and energy, and I don’t know enough chemistry to cook high-quality methamphetamine, the substance that has saved Walter White from bankruptcy and worse. The next time I get hit with a serious health- or housing-related expense, I’m busted.

I’m not alone, I added. In my rare unselfish moments, I wonder what will happen to the hordes of recent college grads in debt up to their ears, fighting to land jobs in a country run by a small group of self-obsessed jerks who grow their personal fortunes, and those of their investors, by cutting wages and killing good jobs. And what about the older workers being fired left and right and, in many cases, robbed of their pensions?

A recent piece in AlterNet summed up the situation:

We are living in a zero-sum economy – in which a handful of investors and owners win at everyone else’s expense. But ultimately, it will catch up with investors, too. The U.S. economy is engaged in a vicious cycle in which low-wage jobs and under-employment stimulate little demand, giving companies little reason to hire workers. Would-be workers then get discouraged and drop out of the workforce. They lack money to buy things, so consumer spending sags and companies don’t hire or offer raises to workers they know they can keep. Repeat.

Meanwhile, our elected officials, who are owned by the corporate bosses and the financial wizards who wrecked the economy, are working to put home ownership, higher education and decent medical care out of reach for most Americans. The deck is stacked against us.

The Breaking Bad writers knew this was the key to making Walter sympathetic — show the deck was stacked against him. He’s a family man who had worked hard at a regular job and had always paid his taxes but ended up, because of lung cancer, with debts he couldn’t repay without becoming an outlaw. Who in Walter’s situation wouldn’t break bad to save their families and homes, if they thought they could get away with it?

More importantly, how bad is the drug kingpin Walter compared to the kingpins who created and nurtured our zero-sum economy — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, and so on. In the same room with such swine, Walter would smell like a hero.

The rabbit shook his head and ducked underwater for a minute. “Nice speech,” he said, resurfacing. “But what’s your plan, Odd Man?”

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1 Response to Walter White, working-class hero

  1. Long live walter white, if i knew how to cook high quality meth, I would give ir a try as well.

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JOHANNESBURG – Ogilvy has ushered in the new year with two powerhouse appointments to further strengthen the agency’s impressive PR capability – ENCA co-founder Patrick Conroy and content editor Lerato Tshabalala.

With their deep industry experience and abilities, the two join the leadership of Ogilvy’s Public Relations and Influence division, boosting Ogilvy’s ability to make brands matter for industry-leading clients across sectors.

The announcements follow last year’s appointment of Lebo Madiba, who currently heads up Ogilvy PR.

This strong leadership group reflects Ogilvy’s increasingly diverse and experienced client offering of specialist skills fundamental to the evolving marketing and communications landscape.

Coming into his new role as Head of Strategy, Conroy said he was “highly motivated” to get going on developing Ogilvy’s PR & Influence capability as part of the group’s integrated client offering.

Conroy is a respected industry innovator who launched ENCA, South Africa’s first 24-hour news channel, in 2008 and helped run it until 2015, building it into one of the country’s most credible media platforms.

He began his career at Talk Radio 702 and gained agency experience at the Jupiter Drawing Room before moving into television. In 2016 he became managing director of entertainment satellite platform OpenView, taking the service from 300 000 viewing households to more than a million within 17 months.

“I’m excited to be at Ogilvy, a modern marketing agency with a passion for making brands matter,” said Conroy. “I’m looking forward to achieving that for our clients in my new role, and working with some of the best talent in the industry.”

Conroy has spent the past two years consulting to a wide range of companies on strategy, content and communications.

Lerato Tshabalala, Ogilvy’s new Content Director for PR & Influence, has almost 20 years’ experience in media, and has held several top positions at leading print publications.

She became women’s editor of Drum magazine at only 22 and edited the Lifestyle supplement at South Africa’s largest Sunday paper, Sunday Times, for five years.

She edited iconic women’s title True Love before leaving to take up a Mandela Washington fellowship in the United States. Most recently, Tshabalala has been a creative director in digital and social media, establishing content studios for major clients like Vodacom and AB InBev.

“As Content Director, I will oversee content strategy, and shape Ogilvy’s vision for their offerings,” said Tshabalala. “I’m already finding it highly rewarding and I look forward to further collaborations with the Ogilvy teams to add value.”

Ogilvy Managing Partner for PR, Lebo Madiba said she looked forward to working with Conroy and Tshabalala in refining Ogilvy’s PR & Influence capability.

“It’s all about building even greater strategic effectiveness for the group,” she said. “We are excited to have people of Patrick and Lerato’s ability on board, to help shape the future of Ogilvy and deliver effective results for clients.”

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It’s time. Put Harriet Tubman on the $20

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The ugly saga of alleged corruption, bribery, money laundering and racketeering on the part of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four political operatives in Ohio lays bare a nasty truth in the Buckeye State: Unaccountable dark money has corrupted our politics, so now we must demand the legislature act to require disclosure. The mechanism […]


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Bull Arm Fabrication Center

Bull Arm Fabrication, Atlantic Canada’s largest industrial fabrication site, is located 150 kilometres from St. John’s in Trinity Bay.  It is the primary construction site for the Hebron Project’s gravity base structure (GBS) and the topsides living quarters (LQ) module.

The Hebron GBS consists of a reinforced concrete structure designed to withstand sea ice, icebergs and meteorological and oceanographic conditions and can store approximately 1.2 million barrels of crude oil.

The individual modules that make up the “topsides” of the GBS will be put together at Bull Arm. These modules, which are constructed separately and brought to Bull Arm, include:

  • Utilities process module (UPM)
  • Drilling support module (DSM)
  • Drilling equipment set (DES)
  • Living quarters (LQ) module *
  • Helideck
  • Lifeboat stations

Once complete, the integrated topsides and the GBS will be floated individually to a deepwater work site where the topsides will be installed on top of the GBS.

Fabrication and other work associated with the Terra Nova FPSO, the White Rose project, the Hibernia project, the Voisey’s Bay nickel project and the Henry Goodrich drill rig has been completed at Bull Arm Fabrication. It was also the construction site for the Hibernia GBS in the mid-1990s.

*the Living Quarters (LQ) module is already at Bull Arm, as it was constructed there.