No matter who's in power, the military/industrial complex is STILL calling the shots in the land of the free, along with big funny-money/big tech/big oil. The Don will suck up to them, they will suck up to him, and they'll be deliriously happy. That tRump will always govern for the 0.01% still hasn't dawned on his fawning, thick-as-brick acolytes chanting 'U-S-A!' is mind-bending. That the god-botherers across the land believe that mentally challenged Donny was chosen by their saviour to save America, beggars belief. That a majority of voters are happy with a flash-as-a-rat-with-a-gold-tooth, self-absorbed, lying son-of-a-bitch conman, speaks to the ongoing decline of Uncle Sam and its society. The Dems and Reps are two sides of a coin, one slightly more presentable but still driven by the big end of town. Sadly, poor old Aussies have a leadership which will pay obeisance to The Orange One and his minions, even though it's patently not in our interests. I want a divorce.
I understand all you have said, David. It is the system in the USA that creates these monsters from the likes of Johnson onwards. All warmongers extraordinary and it is they who have created the standard climate we have just seen in this circus election and for all Presidential candidates since 1963.
However, once upon a time, you didn't have Israelis with their heavy bankrolling of candidates, 86% that bow to the Star of David or Bibi, your choice. That's the disgrace.
If you are familiar with Australia as well, both candidates now the image of the other. Graft soon to be a standard component as in the USA and with a one-sided grovelling relationship to the likes of Trump. Save us.
Two party politics is the danger.......everywhere.
Have you ever seen a more ridiculous way to determine a government than the current system where through PACS and graft centres like AIPAC and straight out open publicly aware bribery, a country of 330 million can end up two people running for office, allowing those two people to populate their senior ranks with militarists, warmongers, often criminally minded advisers for 48 months and who can, as a result, make that country into a hated state. The USA has dome it. No improvement since JFK, Lyndon Johnson setting the standard.
They also allow dual citizenship, promote wars and hegemonic pursuits and 329,999,999 people go on with life for 4 more years while he can do almost anything imaginable, as is the case today.
The USA today, owned lock, stock and barrel by a foreign, hated , stolen state of 9 million people.
So much for the US Constitution, once a lauded document, rightly so. But no more. Just two examples......freedom of speech, a joke in some states; freedom of choice for women, varying from state to state and with the current President bashing the idea to death one day and sitting on the fence the next.
Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
You and a lot of other folks - speaking from western Canada. The best we can hope for is he shuts down the NATO provoked war in Ukraine. He wont stop the ethnocide in the Middle East - given he is such good buddies with Netanyahu. People in the USA are hurting but few analysts look at the record corporate profits still being made particularly by global food conglomerates and manufacturers of weaponry.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Money? We haven't had money in circulation since the mid 1960's.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. …Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. —Elbridge Gerry, Fifth Vice President of the United States
"The army...is a dangerous instrument to play with."
George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, April 4th, 1783
"A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen."
James Madison, Debates, Virginia Convention, 1787
“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.”
No matter who's in power, the military/industrial complex is STILL calling the shots in the land of the free, along with big funny-money/big tech/big oil. The Don will suck up to them, they will suck up to him, and they'll be deliriously happy. That tRump will always govern for the 0.01% still hasn't dawned on his fawning, thick-as-brick acolytes chanting 'U-S-A!' is mind-bending. That the god-botherers across the land believe that mentally challenged Donny was chosen by their saviour to save America, beggars belief. That a majority of voters are happy with a flash-as-a-rat-with-a-gold-tooth, self-absorbed, lying son-of-a-bitch conman, speaks to the ongoing decline of Uncle Sam and its society. The Dems and Reps are two sides of a coin, one slightly more presentable but still driven by the big end of town. Sadly, poor old Aussies have a leadership which will pay obeisance to The Orange One and his minions, even though it's patently not in our interests. I want a divorce.
I understand all you have said, David. It is the system in the USA that creates these monsters from the likes of Johnson onwards. All warmongers extraordinary and it is they who have created the standard climate we have just seen in this circus election and for all Presidential candidates since 1963.
However, once upon a time, you didn't have Israelis with their heavy bankrolling of candidates, 86% that bow to the Star of David or Bibi, your choice. That's the disgrace.
If you are familiar with Australia as well, both candidates now the image of the other. Graft soon to be a standard component as in the USA and with a one-sided grovelling relationship to the likes of Trump. Save us.
Two party politics is the danger.......everywhere.
Have you ever seen a more ridiculous way to determine a government than the current system where through PACS and graft centres like AIPAC and straight out open publicly aware bribery, a country of 330 million can end up two people running for office, allowing those two people to populate their senior ranks with militarists, warmongers, often criminally minded advisers for 48 months and who can, as a result, make that country into a hated state. The USA has dome it. No improvement since JFK, Lyndon Johnson setting the standard.
They also allow dual citizenship, promote wars and hegemonic pursuits and 329,999,999 people go on with life for 4 more years while he can do almost anything imaginable, as is the case today.
The USA today, owned lock, stock and barrel by a foreign, hated , stolen state of 9 million people.
So much for the US Constitution, once a lauded document, rightly so. But no more. Just two examples......freedom of speech, a joke in some states; freedom of choice for women, varying from state to state and with the current President bashing the idea to death one day and sitting on the fence the next.
Where did you find someone like him?
Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
You and a lot of other folks - speaking from western Canada. The best we can hope for is he shuts down the NATO provoked war in Ukraine. He wont stop the ethnocide in the Middle East - given he is such good buddies with Netanyahu. People in the USA are hurting but few analysts look at the record corporate profits still being made particularly by global food conglomerates and manufacturers of weaponry.
and drug companies and banks and hedge funds and oil companies. And Trump has not yet taken office!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Same in Canada
Not quite as bad north of the border - however tending that way. Follow the money folks; follow the money.
Money? We haven't had money in circulation since the mid 1960's.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Well said David Baird!
It is the main reason we need the state militias back in force and effect. So we don't HAVE an unconstitutional standing army playing all over the world with other peoples lives and property. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/those-forgotten-and-ignored-13-words
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. …Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. —Elbridge Gerry, Fifth Vice President of the United States
"The army...is a dangerous instrument to play with."
George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, April 4th, 1783
"A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen."
James Madison, Debates, Virginia Convention, 1787
“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.”
James Madison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809
“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.”
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, 1787