Encircling China with hundreds of military bases and handing out numerous war guarantees to surrounding nations will almost certainly provoke a war. Anyone who supports this dangerous policy is flat-out insane.
Agree completely. Why the American people tolerate leading the world or Western world in pollution, poverty, child poverty, obesity, divorce. guns, assault weapons, mass murder, racial murder, mass shootings, rape, military rape, incarceration, etc. but are Third World and last in longevity, have crap health care, crap infrastructure, and a democracy rated 26th in the world’s Democratic Index is beyond me. And 26th is where they are in high school educational attainment - see OECD PISA. China is first by an amount equal to the gap between the US and Kazakhstan. But they say they’re going to outcompete China.
The reality is they’ve come to the realization that they’re going to have to win militarily and provoke a war. Their true priorities are known but to a few and those are kept under close scrutiny by autocolonoscopy. But they are emerging in all their ugliness.
Most people know nothing of what you are saying....I'm constantly shocked at how ill-informed otherwise intelligent people are. If it ain't in the NYT, or NPR, it doesn't exist. After all, if it was THAT important (or factual) wouldn't their trusted news source be letting them know?
The national myth is that the USA has the best of everything. This is NEVER deviated from. 'Everybody wants to come here.'
"The reality is they’ve come to the realization that they’re going to have to win militarily and provoke a war"
It seems to me is the best possible result of that would be the world of perpetual war predicted by George Orwell in 1984. It also seems to me that some very powerful agents see this as a highly desirable outcome.
Entering into a war of attrition with a much larger enemy is such a bad idea that it won't happen. I guess the plan -- assuming there is a plan -- is some sort of low bloodshed blockade to isolate China, but this seems like trying to hold back the tide. The USA will try to get more nations to join the sanctions regime, but this has been going badly so far. Saudi Arabia is already gone. Mexico may fly the coop. If the US loses the EU it's game over.
The EU has been very disappointing. It was NATO that “defensive alliance” that invaded Afghanistan, staying ~ 20y after it was clear Bin Laden wasn’t there anyway. What were they thinking? https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_8189.htm
I fear so. Maybe that’s why the us wanted GB to stay in. But the Brits have hardly distinguished themselves by their independence. Blocking those Romanians and Poles from doing jobs Brits won’t do trumped all common sense.
Many of those who voted to Leave did so for the wrong reasons. Some of us voted Leave simply because, while we knew the UK was terrible, and had no enthusiasm for nationalistic feeling, at least the UK was smaller than the EU, and hence less potentially dangerous. Small is beautiful; entangling alliances are always bad.
Today the EU looks very like NATO - a lot moreso than 20 years ago. But it always had that potential.
Here's expert John Mearsheimer's view. I have the feeling he knows what he's talking about. He predicts that the EU will stick with the US as the perceived lesser evil.
BB, you write "...the Chinese have invested $1 trillion USD in Israel infrastructure for silk-road west terminus." Do you have any evidence for that amount?
The Chinese are investing $billions in Israeli infrastructure, and Israel is a participant in the Belt and Road Initiative. But are the Chinese investing $1000 billion in Israel? Unless you've got solid evidence for your $1 trillion claim, exaggeration like that discredits everything you write.
This is in line with much of what I have read myself, though I lack any evidence to support it, it just sounds as though it makes sense. I don't trust that Deagel site though, something fishy there.
Alright BB, we are on the same side here, I just wasn't sure of the role that Daegle was playing. Its depopulation figures are quite shocking. That doesn't mean they are not a representation of a global agenda, and the same could be said of the GGS. I have no doubt that the fuckers controlling this assumed reality are evil and have plans.
I think many journalists have forgotten this: "Journalists should have loyalty to the truth and the truth only."
In other words, if you're best friends with a politician, then you're not doing your job. If people like your fluff stories about how nice or funny super rich people are, then you're not doing your job. If you act like a cheerleader for endless wars for oil instead of exposing the corruption of the military industrial complex behind them, then you're not doing your job.
Do your job, or quit calling yourself a journalist. You're bringing the rest of us down.
They haven't forgotten...."they" are old, and young journalists are not trained to be investative reporters. If they are, they must hope to work for an independent news agency.
Of course, the argument against these positions would be that truth is “what is good in a way of belief”. William James's pragmatism is embedded deeply in the American neoliberal administration, just as popular understandings of French postmodernism in pseudo-intellectual academic circles asserting as true "the relativity of truth". It follows that. when it is good to do everything to save the empire, then we are all supposed to be in it together. ”If you are not with us you are against us”. In that way, pragmatists are even able to persuade themselves that they are acting from morally higher grounds proclaiming people concerned with truth-telling as political “useful idiots”.
They've been taking Foucault too seriously. If there is no truth, then why not just lie your ass off and see what you can get away with? All for a good cause, of course.
George Orwell foresaw a world in which the USA/UK, Europe/Russia, and China were endlessly at war with one another. All three were nuclear powers so none could ever be defeated. If one party became too strong the other two would unite against it.
Citizens were under constant surveillance. The true purpose of the war wasn't victory, it was to maintain the hierarchy by transfer of wealth to the rulers. Political leaders were selected from those who strongly believed the war could be won. Sound familiar yet?
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuck-offs and misfits . . . " - Hunter S. Thompson.
Meanings shift in time and in this time do the politically influential use approved language to manipulate thought for desired outcomes, firstly in conclusions and then to actions, or so intended.
Media technique, Jean, is dealt with here, but not exclusively, as the major theme is Western Decline. Mass Media Programming is a technique used to bind the populations to the leaderships within Western States as they lose to Eurasia, by their own incompetent hands.
Hunter S. Thompson, BTW, spent his life inside US Media, understood what it is and would use phrases that are relevant to the era of their use. Similar critical remarks apply to the film and popular music industries, notorious for their exploitation of people of colour earlier on, children earlier on and women right up to the present.
Language used by a British music producer to me to describe his life inside the popular music industry is not fit for delicate ears. It is not an industry one would want one's children in.
- The personal proclivities of media personalities may be well known. The focus is on broadcast Mainstream Media distortions in accordance with the objectives of their owners, the influence operations of government and the national security state Jean. There is no true independence and they do not function to serve the interests of the populace. They serve other interests.
- Using the term Nazi on someone unknown to you may be inadvisable. I mixed with people who survived that Nazi Germany era. Some survived the death camps and work camps or evaded them - just (my father-in-law) and many came with a tattooed number on their forearm. That was 50 years ago. All gone now.
- Humans have proved themselves thoroughly unfit for the stewardship of the planet.
I don't think Trump and Bernie were puppets of the US Empire.
I think Trump was manipulated by forces that he didn't understand and thought he could control, and I think Bernie woke up one morning with a horse's head in his bed.
Taibbi and Greenwald and you have shown the way on independent media being financially successful. Subscription models work, that’s the way. Just have to keep building it up.
True enough, but I disagree that the subscription model is not the future for independent media, or that its impact necessarily will be as circumscribed as it might seem to be now.
Even now it’s influential. The grotesque treatment of Taibbi during his recent testimony before Congress is a case in point, and the constant vilification of figures like Greenwald, Russell Brand, and Taibbi by left gatekeepers like George Monbiot and mainstream shills alike shows that the establishment is panicking as we speak because of the success of these principled voices. This influence can only increase with the same commitment that already has been brought to bear by these figures growing and multiplying.
Being forced to choose between lesser evils as a matter of course has brought about changes in informal, everyday logic: good and bad never stand alone anymore, to be clearly identified: allegedly, each contain elements of the other so that every issue is clouded, and no action is safely moral or efficacious - unless it serves the interests of power. So we had intellectuals saying: "Yes Russia was provoked, but Russia was wrong to end the provocation (leading , perhaps, nowhere?) by employing a special operation to end the provocation. "Provocation" in this case was made equivalent to giving someone the finger, and that was a misinterpretation made in ignorance or malice. Take your choice.
Caitlin, good to have you challenging the Two-Winged Political Turkey bred not to fly but only die and feed the Global Predators.
Your words below from this article seem to indicate you might be close to being, or already are, a Voluntaryist? If so, Bravo!
“There are no solutions to America's dysfunction in electoral politics. That doesn't mean there are no solutions, it just means you can't use something that's specifically designed to perpetuate the thing you don't like to end the thing you don't like. Any time you're being told that a major figure in mainstream politics is fighting for you, you're being sold a psyop; you're being sold the false belief that the system works and can be used to achieve positive change. This is done to keep you from dispensing with that system. In 2016 you could be forgiven for thinking electoral politics had some hope, but after watching Trump facilitate every deep state agenda in the book and watching Bernie cave and capitulate at every turn year after year, there's no excuse anymore. Stop buying into the puppet show.”
Towards your adjuration to abandon politics I invite you to read Robert Higgs’ “Participatory Fascism” that for me does one of the best autopsies on the dead corpse of Democracy, here
Then to go to https://voluntaryist.com/ if you have not yet and get a full picture of the Voluntaryism.
“Statement of Purpose: Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends.”
Dr Paul Collets asserts that Baric aersolized HIV by inserting it into Sars. See his interview with Mike Adams on 27 March at Brighteon.com: ZOMBIE AVIAN FLU. Symptoms are neurological damage, hallucinations, swollen flesh. Big Pharma has already shipped the 'cure' (Primavir?) to major cities.
The US is far from perfect and our leadership is full of WEF global elites but think what the world will be like if China is in charge...slavery, social credit scores, imprisonment of your whole family, organ harvesting while you are still alive. If they do that to their own people where does that leave the rest of us?
I think you had better review basic statistics like imprisonment and poverty rates and systemic legal discrimination rates in the US. They are practicing what you’re talking about. Worse yet are steadily promoting it and spreading it abroad in their vassal states.
“…slavery, social credit scores, imprisonment of your whole family, organ harvesting…”
I would argue that these are also practiced in the U.S., we just use different terminologies. In the U.S., slavery = wage slavery. Social credit scores = credit scores + arrest records + school grades + resumes. Family imprisonment = quarantine or lockdowns. And with regard to organ harvesting, if you are young and ride motorcycles do not under any circumstances agree to have “Organ Donor” on your drivers license.
But you make an excellent point. I do not want to live in any empire, whether US, Russian, or Chinese. Global centralization of financial, military, and diplomatic power will always become oppressive and will inevitably slide into totalitarian empire. The great battle of this and every age is the battle for individual sovereignty. If the western empire collapses tomorrow—which appears to be a distinct possibility—the world will be better off…until the next global empire emerges. It’s always something.
The American Journal of Transplantation, the world’s leading transplant journal, published a paper in April that found that brain death had not been declared in many organ retrievals in China, and that retrieval of the donor’s vital organs was the actual cause of death. In other words, these prisoners were being executed by removal of their organs for the purpose of transplantation.
Encircling China with hundreds of military bases and handing out numerous war guarantees to surrounding nations will almost certainly provoke a war. Anyone who supports this dangerous policy is flat-out insane.
The coming war is entirely intentional on the part of the United States and its vassals.
Agree completely. Why the American people tolerate leading the world or Western world in pollution, poverty, child poverty, obesity, divorce. guns, assault weapons, mass murder, racial murder, mass shootings, rape, military rape, incarceration, etc. but are Third World and last in longevity, have crap health care, crap infrastructure, and a democracy rated 26th in the world’s Democratic Index is beyond me. And 26th is where they are in high school educational attainment - see OECD PISA. China is first by an amount equal to the gap between the US and Kazakhstan. But they say they’re going to outcompete China.
The reality is they’ve come to the realization that they’re going to have to win militarily and provoke a war. Their true priorities are known but to a few and those are kept under close scrutiny by autocolonoscopy. But they are emerging in all their ugliness.
Most people know nothing of what you are saying....I'm constantly shocked at how ill-informed otherwise intelligent people are. If it ain't in the NYT, or NPR, it doesn't exist. After all, if it was THAT important (or factual) wouldn't their trusted news source be letting them know?
The national myth is that the USA has the best of everything. This is NEVER deviated from. 'Everybody wants to come here.'
"The reality is they’ve come to the realization that they’re going to have to win militarily and provoke a war"
It seems to me is the best possible result of that would be the world of perpetual war predicted by George Orwell in 1984. It also seems to me that some very powerful agents see this as a highly desirable outcome.
Entering into a war of attrition with a much larger enemy is such a bad idea that it won't happen. I guess the plan -- assuming there is a plan -- is some sort of low bloodshed blockade to isolate China, but this seems like trying to hold back the tide. The USA will try to get more nations to join the sanctions regime, but this has been going badly so far. Saudi Arabia is already gone. Mexico may fly the coop. If the US loses the EU it's game over.
The EU has been very disappointing. It was NATO that “defensive alliance” that invaded Afghanistan, staying ~ 20y after it was clear Bin Laden wasn’t there anyway. What were they thinking? https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_8189.htm
Think of the EU as a sort of leash for Europe.
Far easier to give Brussels the orders than it is to give orders to a couple dozen satrapies.
I fear so. Maybe that’s why the us wanted GB to stay in. But the Brits have hardly distinguished themselves by their independence. Blocking those Romanians and Poles from doing jobs Brits won’t do trumped all common sense.
Many of those who voted to Leave did so for the wrong reasons. Some of us voted Leave simply because, while we knew the UK was terrible, and had no enthusiasm for nationalistic feeling, at least the UK was smaller than the EU, and hence less potentially dangerous. Small is beautiful; entangling alliances are always bad.
Today the EU looks very like NATO - a lot moreso than 20 years ago. But it always had that potential.
Here's expert John Mearsheimer's view. I have the feeling he knows what he's talking about. He predicts that the EU will stick with the US as the perceived lesser evil.
https://youtu.be/MiqFFuVaIGk
Yes I’ve seen that and agree. But it’s corrupting the EU.
BB, you write "...the Chinese have invested $1 trillion USD in Israel infrastructure for silk-road west terminus." Do you have any evidence for that amount?
The Chinese are investing $billions in Israeli infrastructure, and Israel is a participant in the Belt and Road Initiative. But are the Chinese investing $1000 billion in Israel? Unless you've got solid evidence for your $1 trillion claim, exaggeration like that discredits everything you write.
This is in line with much of what I have read myself, though I lack any evidence to support it, it just sounds as though it makes sense. I don't trust that Deagel site though, something fishy there.
Alright BB, we are on the same side here, I just wasn't sure of the role that Daegle was playing. Its depopulation figures are quite shocking. That doesn't mean they are not a representation of a global agenda, and the same could be said of the GGS. I have no doubt that the fuckers controlling this assumed reality are evil and have plans.
Carry on zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I think many journalists have forgotten this: "Journalists should have loyalty to the truth and the truth only."
In other words, if you're best friends with a politician, then you're not doing your job. If people like your fluff stories about how nice or funny super rich people are, then you're not doing your job. If you act like a cheerleader for endless wars for oil instead of exposing the corruption of the military industrial complex behind them, then you're not doing your job.
Do your job, or quit calling yourself a journalist. You're bringing the rest of us down.
MSM journalists are fluffers to power, playing the role of smirking Renaissance courtiers, but without the colorful outfits.
Journalists have loyalty to their paycheck. They are cheerleaders for a defunct system and don't care about anything else.
Not all of us. Some of us still care. ;)
They haven't forgotten...."they" are old, and young journalists are not trained to be investative reporters. If they are, they must hope to work for an independent news agency.
*investigative
Of course, the argument against these positions would be that truth is “what is good in a way of belief”. William James's pragmatism is embedded deeply in the American neoliberal administration, just as popular understandings of French postmodernism in pseudo-intellectual academic circles asserting as true "the relativity of truth". It follows that. when it is good to do everything to save the empire, then we are all supposed to be in it together. ”If you are not with us you are against us”. In that way, pragmatists are even able to persuade themselves that they are acting from morally higher grounds proclaiming people concerned with truth-telling as political “useful idiots”.
They've been taking Foucault too seriously. If there is no truth, then why not just lie your ass off and see what you can get away with? All for a good cause, of course.
Journalists pursuing truth? How 20th century.
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George Orwell foresaw a world in which the USA/UK, Europe/Russia, and China were endlessly at war with one another. All three were nuclear powers so none could ever be defeated. If one party became too strong the other two would unite against it.
Citizens were under constant surveillance. The true purpose of the war wasn't victory, it was to maintain the hierarchy by transfer of wealth to the rulers. Political leaders were selected from those who strongly believed the war could be won. Sound familiar yet?
However Orwell's Winston Smith had something we don't have. He had socialized health care.
Almost there:/
The RESTRICT Act is being pushed by both Democrats and Republicans, so not necessarily right wing, but UniParty traitors.
Other than that this article is 100% spot on. Love what you said about the state of journalism today...
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuck-offs and misfits . . . " - Hunter S. Thompson.
Not at all true any more. Nowadays you gotta have a degree.
It remains more so and, for what it's worth, I have three . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/
Meanings shift in time and in this time do the politically influential use approved language to manipulate thought for desired outcomes, firstly in conclusions and then to actions, or so intended.
Media technique, Jean, is dealt with here, but not exclusively, as the major theme is Western Decline. Mass Media Programming is a technique used to bind the populations to the leaderships within Western States as they lose to Eurasia, by their own incompetent hands.
. . . https://les7eb.substack.com/
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Hunter S. Thompson, BTW, spent his life inside US Media, understood what it is and would use phrases that are relevant to the era of their use. Similar critical remarks apply to the film and popular music industries, notorious for their exploitation of people of colour earlier on, children earlier on and women right up to the present.
Language used by a British music producer to me to describe his life inside the popular music industry is not fit for delicate ears. It is not an industry one would want one's children in.
- The personal proclivities of media personalities may be well known. The focus is on broadcast Mainstream Media distortions in accordance with the objectives of their owners, the influence operations of government and the national security state Jean. There is no true independence and they do not function to serve the interests of the populace. They serve other interests.
- Using the term Nazi on someone unknown to you may be inadvisable. I mixed with people who survived that Nazi Germany era. Some survived the death camps and work camps or evaded them - just (my father-in-law) and many came with a tattooed number on their forearm. That was 50 years ago. All gone now.
- Humans have proved themselves thoroughly unfit for the stewardship of the planet.
- A reply is not a lecture.
I don't think Trump and Bernie were puppets of the US Empire.
I think Trump was manipulated by forces that he didn't understand and thought he could control, and I think Bernie woke up one morning with a horse's head in his bed.
Taibbi and Greenwald and you have shown the way on independent media being financially successful. Subscription models work, that’s the way. Just have to keep building it up.
True enough, but I disagree that the subscription model is not the future for independent media, or that its impact necessarily will be as circumscribed as it might seem to be now.
Even now it’s influential. The grotesque treatment of Taibbi during his recent testimony before Congress is a case in point, and the constant vilification of figures like Greenwald, Russell Brand, and Taibbi by left gatekeepers like George Monbiot and mainstream shills alike shows that the establishment is panicking as we speak because of the success of these principled voices. This influence can only increase with the same commitment that already has been brought to bear by these figures growing and multiplying.
Being forced to choose between lesser evils as a matter of course has brought about changes in informal, everyday logic: good and bad never stand alone anymore, to be clearly identified: allegedly, each contain elements of the other so that every issue is clouded, and no action is safely moral or efficacious - unless it serves the interests of power. So we had intellectuals saying: "Yes Russia was provoked, but Russia was wrong to end the provocation (leading , perhaps, nowhere?) by employing a special operation to end the provocation. "Provocation" in this case was made equivalent to giving someone the finger, and that was a misinterpretation made in ignorance or malice. Take your choice.
Caitlin, good to have you challenging the Two-Winged Political Turkey bred not to fly but only die and feed the Global Predators.
Your words below from this article seem to indicate you might be close to being, or already are, a Voluntaryist? If so, Bravo!
“There are no solutions to America's dysfunction in electoral politics. That doesn't mean there are no solutions, it just means you can't use something that's specifically designed to perpetuate the thing you don't like to end the thing you don't like. Any time you're being told that a major figure in mainstream politics is fighting for you, you're being sold a psyop; you're being sold the false belief that the system works and can be used to achieve positive change. This is done to keep you from dispensing with that system. In 2016 you could be forgiven for thinking electoral politics had some hope, but after watching Trump facilitate every deep state agenda in the book and watching Bernie cave and capitulate at every turn year after year, there's no excuse anymore. Stop buying into the puppet show.”
Towards your adjuration to abandon politics I invite you to read Robert Higgs’ “Participatory Fascism” that for me does one of the best autopsies on the dead corpse of Democracy, here
https://blog.independent.org/2018/08/27/on-the-participatory-part-of-participatory-fascism/
Then to go to https://voluntaryist.com/ if you have not yet and get a full picture of the Voluntaryism.
“Statement of Purpose: Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends.”
Stay safe and free.
I'm probably more of a commie. Voluntaryists have no good answers for things like caring for the needful or ending ecocide.
Dr Paul Collets asserts that Baric aersolized HIV by inserting it into Sars. See his interview with Mike Adams on 27 March at Brighteon.com: ZOMBIE AVIAN FLU. Symptoms are neurological damage, hallucinations, swollen flesh. Big Pharma has already shipped the 'cure' (Primavir?) to major cities.
Dr Collets' website Thestudio-Rijkavic.com
Beautifully written. Bravo.
Worth a listen. Assange type evidence.
https://rumble.com/v2fu1lk-savage-reveal-of-american-cartels-micheal-flynn-james-okeefe-drug-money-tre.html
very very smart man!....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duhYPgdEMW8 100% right!!
TikTok isn't even mentioned in the RESTRICT Act....It does however have itself immune from any FOIA request....and anyone may be targeted.
The US is far from perfect and our leadership is full of WEF global elites but think what the world will be like if China is in charge...slavery, social credit scores, imprisonment of your whole family, organ harvesting while you are still alive. If they do that to their own people where does that leave the rest of us?
I think you had better review basic statistics like imprisonment and poverty rates and systemic legal discrimination rates in the US. They are practicing what you’re talking about. Worse yet are steadily promoting it and spreading it abroad in their vassal states.
“…slavery, social credit scores, imprisonment of your whole family, organ harvesting…”
I would argue that these are also practiced in the U.S., we just use different terminologies. In the U.S., slavery = wage slavery. Social credit scores = credit scores + arrest records + school grades + resumes. Family imprisonment = quarantine or lockdowns. And with regard to organ harvesting, if you are young and ride motorcycles do not under any circumstances agree to have “Organ Donor” on your drivers license.
But you make an excellent point. I do not want to live in any empire, whether US, Russian, or Chinese. Global centralization of financial, military, and diplomatic power will always become oppressive and will inevitably slide into totalitarian empire. The great battle of this and every age is the battle for individual sovereignty. If the western empire collapses tomorrow—which appears to be a distinct possibility—the world will be better off…until the next global empire emerges. It’s always something.
It’s no laughing matter Jean https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-killing-prisoners-for-transplants-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china/.
The American Journal of Transplantation, the world’s leading transplant journal, published a paper in April that found that brain death had not been declared in many organ retrievals in China, and that retrieval of the donor’s vital organs was the actual cause of death. In other words, these prisoners were being executed by removal of their organs for the purpose of transplantation.