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The (No) ‘Establishment’ Clause

* The (No) ‘Establishment’ Clause There is little question the American founders were, without exception, ‘believers’ in a supreme deity or that is to say “God.” Their commonality of belief ends with...

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Our Vital National Interests

a Ronald Thomas West assessment * Our Vital National Interests It’s pretty simple actually. The USA’s ‘vital national interests’ (and western democracies generally) is euphemism for corporate welfare,...

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Napi in the New Age

A Modern Napi Story * The Great Oxymoron Lester Log Roller was from a family of Indians named for a drunken forebear who had been ‘challenged’ by some White loggers in the Pacific Northwest to...

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Michelle Bachmann & Wild Indians

A Mephisto Assessment of Reality Morality masks a plethora of behaviors ethics cannot. Native American humor was all about ethics, that is no matter how harsh a truth, it must be out in the open at...

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Essay on Native American Humor

Dreamt up at an out of doors café in Sant Feliu de Guixols * Napi. Just who is this guy? Napi is many things. Napi is a teacher, an archetype, our Blackfoot ancestor and much more. Napi is a god, he...

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A Spy in the House of the Unloved

If Sabina Had a Child You say you are married, you have a nine year old son you are devoted to and freely state you cheat. You say your husband is clueless. In conversation you easily express...

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A message for my readers

A gesture of appreciation from Ronald * For my European readers, think about this: Certain nations emptied their jails of criminals, emptied their asylums of lunatics and stirred banished religious...

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Enlightenment: The Automated Death Machine

For Your Personal Enlightenment * I’ve had a number of people over these several years tell me ‘the world will change when people change themselves’ Many people are not equipped to change their...

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Recreating a Hot Spring in Your Bathtub

* In the Summer of 1976 I was walking alone in the forest outside of my hometown (West Glacier, Montana USA) returning to my house from a visit to some Blackfeet Indians staying in a tipi a mile or so...

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Color of Law Star Chamber FISA & PRISM

John Roberts appoints the FISA Star Chamber * In the United States theory of law there is a known and in the past prosecuted concept called ‘color of law.’ Color of law is when the apparatus of state...

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How Jesus Gets Kicked Out Of Heaven

Free Speech Clown Series * How George Carlin Gets Jesus Kicked Out Of Heaven George Carlin: So, where are we? Jesus: The Native Americans call it the ‘Wolf Trail’ Carlin: Well, anyway, I like it...

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Introduction to Napi Mephisto

Napi Mephisto * I’m one of the nicest and most unassuming people you’d ever meet. All I wanted was a simple life with a woman who loves me, kids, a garden, a dog, and to be happy. I’d worked hard, for...

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Ron’s Conspiracy Theory

A Mephisto Assessment of Reality * I think it is quite possible that groups of people create collective realities quite unconsciously, and via their collective beliefs cause events to take on an...

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Reminiscing Life In Blackfoot Country

Floyd ‘Tinyman’ Heavyrunner * This retrospective had been originally penned in 2004. It is a chapter from my book ‘Penucquem Speaks’ (graciously ranked five stars by Howard Zinn at amazon.com.) Today...

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Reflections on a Snowden Rally

At a rally in Berlin Courage is contagious. Well, apparently not. Greens member of Parliament Hans Christian Stroebel was present and gave an eloquent speech on behalf of Snowden (which I applaud) but...

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Retort of the Iceman

* Reminding myself I am a poet… this is a work from several years ago, exploring my (then) new surrounding by fantastic assumptions of  western reality encountered; when leaving a so-called...

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Scooby Doo is Lyndon LaDouche

^ LaRouche undercover at Buckingham Palace Ok, so Glass-Steagall was a good thing and the Queen of England presides over a historically murderous race of people, the Anglo-Saxon. Then, somehow the end...

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Free Speech Clown Gallery

Dedicated to the ongoing frustrated fantasies of all the would-be assassins that have missed me in Berlin particularly, and elsewhere generally. You all must enjoy a life that sucks… (click on images...

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Outline of a Snowden Legal Defense

Use of ‘The Espionage Act’ to prosecute whistle-blowers by the Obama administration is unfortunate reality. It is unprecedented persecution by a sublime neo-liberal political liar & cohorts, but it...

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John Le Carre’s ‘A Delicate Truth’

A book review by Ronald A former intelligence officer, Le Carre presenting a proposed corporate ‘Deep State’ is refreshing in and of itself. Le Carre’s proposal has individuals in the intelligence and...

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