The global south, or the global majority as they're now called, understands this because of past wars. Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries have been destroyed for no reason, and that doesn't take into account the coups, sanctions and assassinations of people in the way of the the global north.
We in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia need to understand this, and soon. All this destruction, death and waste of oodles of money comes at the worst possible time for humanity and all of life on earth. We're in an existential climate crisis, and that money needs to go towards a truly just transition to a green and caring future.
Not only are the powers that be evil, but they're also insane. Destroying the planet and all the life that depends on her is the hight of insanity and irresponsibility.
I am sorry to be "that guy" but the truth of climate change is that it is just another information-war pysop against the people. When I became a an atheist it was because I studied a variety of religions and found almost all western religions had a common feature, guilt based social manipulation causing peers to attack and shame each other in pursuit of the institutions goals.
Climate change in the form of information warfare is the same religious manipulation model, peers using guilt to shame each other because their faith in the institution is not strong enough. Climate change is a neo-religion, a sciency based belief system that uses all the old trapping to manipulate the congregation through guilting each other. This does not mean that I don't think the world is being polluted and violated at every turn but the climate change religion will not fix any of those spoilings of the natural world, it will only distract the congregation into self enforced conformity .
The faithful have spoken and are trying to coerce me into the congregation. The neo-priests have written a religious tome with evidence for the existence of god oops I mean climate change.
I do indeed prize evidence, logic, rationality and integrity very highly. I'm not sure I would say I worship them or allow myself to be led by them. I mostly follow my gut; but I do enjoy it when this is backed up by the gods of intellectual pursuits.
There are no gods of intellectual pursuits, there are humans that are well educated, they are not morally or ethically superior just intellectually. The Catholic church's pedophilia problem should be a huge glaring example of why we should not look to humans to have the best interest of humanity in their hearts regardless of the number of degrees they have.
Wrong. Climate change is real and tangibly affecting everyone. 200 million people per day, and more than 90% of global population per year physically affected by effects of climate change in the past year:
And the capitalist psycho cult treats it like it treats everything else: a moneymaking opportunity for a couple hundred people, at the cost of the other several billion people on the planet.
How utterly condescending of you, the IPCC report is a political document not a scientific one. The past versions I read were full of half truths and disinformation. Name a single measurable prediction from a any IPCC report that came true because of CO2?
Positions are not "religion", and shame and guilt are not the worst features/outcomes of life on Earth. We in general have caused global warming: it isn't "natural but the result of our greed, carelessness and lack of responsibility. Who/what is responsible for war? Is it just a natural phenomenon and uncontrollable? Your argument is not cogent. There are real agents of wrong-doing, and they need to be identified and condemned.
I don't understand your point: science is not counter to politics, by any means. Science, the real thing, can be a productive, positive component of politics. But if you mean that human concerns are subjugated to science, and that is wrong - I'm with you there.
It's not *just* another information operation. Like most information operations, the goal is to control *both sides* of an existing conversation and construct passionate "defensive" movements that will never resolve. Thus, people who don't participate in the narrative can work on the basis of material reality and exploit either one to improve their material position.
Climate change is a drama so that pollution can be normalized.
notBob, I'm really curious about where you're getting the information you're sharing. I've been paying attention to environmental issues and climate change for decades, and that includes the disinformation campaigns that are so often started by the fossil fuel industry so that their profits aren't affected. Are you familiar with the Sue Big Oil campaign? It's based on the fact that they knew their products cause climate change, lied about it and will be taken to court for all the damages this has caused. How's the weather where you are? Where I live we have go bags prepared because of the massive forest fires that could have taken down any of our towns this summer. I'm not religious, but I really want to see all of us have a liveable future, and to me that means transitioning away from fossil fuels among other things.
Start with Dr. Singer, he wrote a clear, hard science based take down of the lies years ago, it has recently been updated. Your comment shows a mental programming, you automatically assume that wild fires are climate change related, that is specious on its face.
The IPCC report is a joke, it is nothing but politicized science, you cannot run an actual study on the climate to prove the theories in any meaningful way. Start your study with the Falsification Principle. There is no way to prove climate change theories wrong, its non falsifiable and therefor its not science, its religion.
Based on my unscientific interviews with a large number of people of different classes, castes, colors, ethnicities, and so forth, I'd say that most people in the US don't like the war but are not very interested in who started it and in the various moralizing arguments surrounding it. Poor and working-class people know they have no voice in the government, so it doesn't matter what they think, while the very rich live mostly above it all and the überrich have their hideaways in New Zealand. It is the PMC who care, either because they're schoolish and have been told what to think, or because they are reasonably aware that the Empire as you call it produces tangible if short-term benefits for them personally, mostly in the form of comparatively well-paying jobs that do not involve heavy lifting or getting their hands dirty. Some of them probably aspire to mandarin-level jobs. The truly ambitious among them want to send their sons and daughters to Yale. Essentially, these people are hopeless. Sauve qui peut!
And devil take the hindmost! Yes, one would hope deprivation might bring on clear thinking, but it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it's counterproductive.
Greenies are Bolsheviks destroying Life as well. DeCarbonization is Insanity, People's bodies are Carbon Oxygen. Killer Bill Gates is cutting down American Forests reprocessing Carbon into Oxygen. Plus the Covid Plandemic and VaXXXes are being resurrected in the next month to enable more deaths and mail in ballots for democRats.
GenEarly, I don't know how you get that people who want clean air and to protect animals and the environmental are bolshies destroying life. This is deliberate dehumanising, insulting and lumping in with evil globalist's agenda, of anyone with any 'left' wing views. Emitting less, consuming less, cutting down less trees is not insanity. The plandemic and the vaxxs (which killed many though the population in the US is still rising) primed us for this imperialist global industry neocon propaganda that everything is A OK with all industries continuing unregulated and that the environment has not been buggered.
I think the issue was with the words "we are in an existential climate crisis". We are not, there is no evidence that we are. It is rhetoric like this that encourages people to accept being impoverished by globalist technocratic psycholaths. Sure, many humans are dirty materialist bastards and could do with cleaning up their act. But that is not the point that such rhetoric implies.
The globalist myth wants us to think we're being impoverished but really it's the global elite who don't want to be impoverished. They don't want us insisting that they stop flying around in jets and into space; the 1% are responsible for 25% of emissions so if we just stopped them doing it we'd be well on our way. They also don't want to be impoverished by regulation nor by our ceasing to buy the products that made them rich.
I'm sorry guys, i do like you, but you we see this from very differring perspectives. I came to my perspective after decades of research. Im not going to be swayed to yours, as i used tobe there i got to where I am now.
"We" expands and contracts to fit whatever needs to be packaged.
Spiritualism is just another slave ideology generated by Greek culture. If we were all more materialistic (in the philosophical sense) there would be less drama and bullshit shoved in our faces because there would be no reason to care about others' need for drama.
I think that there is evidence of an emergency, especially for the global south (the global majority) who have contributed least and who will be most affected by changes in agriculture and may wish to migrate north to the luckier latitudes - good luck with that.
I think poor land management, weather modification and DEW probably explains the more extreme situations. Not to mention the increased populations to witness extremes and the mass media making people aware of stuff that's alwayd happened.
I wouldn’t call it climate change . I call it climate manipulation . Geo-Engineering /Bio-Engineering . Weather warfare . This is a direct assault against all life on Mother Earth . And most governments including USA , Russia and China are all in lockstep in this process . Which leads me to believe that these are all actor states playing their roles in these wars and political facade of separation . What is the end goal . I thing Agenda 2021 and Agenda 2030 lay out their plans for all to see and manifest .
While I agree so much with what you are saying the first part of your post believing that if the knowledge being widespread of this fact of the actual reason for US warmongering I have to take some (minor) disagreement with. When presented with the truth and providing evidence to support it I have been told (by my only remaining family member) without any type of calm rational discussion to "go fuck yourself" and "shove that spittle up your ass"! Now as a bit of detail this comes from someone who the day before said love ya! Additionally has a PhD and a few other degrees so not a dumb person. It is a sad situation I find we are in as I am calm, did not get all aggressive and I believe it is the very truth itself that allows me to not start the name calling or violent reaction that would perhaps have been something that I would have done some 20 years ago. People now can no longer see the truth they are lost in the black hole of propaganda.
It is impossible to get a man to understand something when their social and symbolic capital depends on not understanding it.
Have you read Simone Weil's "On the Abolition of All Political Parties"? The case she makes about parties explains why I can't buy in to the attachment to aspects of the current "system" or of system at all. It is competition *itself* that is at fault. It legitimizes the ideas of prize and spoils and surrender. It generates and selects for the pathological behaviors that we (ostensibly) say we don't want in government. It creates a privileged class that, to prove/construct their suitability as "rule creators", regularly flout their own diktats and grant themselves privileges. It rehearses the idea that contest is not only a valid divination ritual, but a real substance that has "actually" constructed the universe.
When enough people are starving, sick, suffocating and generally failing, that "capital" can shift. I think your first sentence is the real deal. Probably everybody reading here can place him/herself on a spectrum that tells us just how far each would go in order to push changes. I confess there is plenty I will not give up...not today.
Additionally I always hear oh we can't do something like this it would be chaos and it is more important to rebuild the system. As if you could fix a historically corrupted system. That's like killing one ant and expecting the ant hill to just go away!
"Historically corrupted" I like that, in the same sense as I like "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." But really, none of these schemes are ever conceived with a "pure" heart. Everything since Plato's *Republic* has been conceived to continue Platonic cosmic doctrines of totalitarian aristocracy and submission to others' will. Even Marxism reveals a certain continuity with Marx's own German Lutheran upbringing and prejudices that influence his revolutionary theory and situate it in time and place.
The truth as you can't not get "born into it"! Everyone had or some have parents and a place/environment in which they have been "engraved". Can't get away from it without serious introspect!
The efficacy of war propaganda is real - it is almost like we too have become victims of these unrelenting, war pigs. Not just the pile of corpses they hide from the world. Why are mass murderers who live in DC - always considered national heroes?
It's just more proof that having tertiary qualifications doesn't mean one knows everything or that they are actually intelligent or wiser than everyone else. Also, the higher the qualification, the more arrogant and close-minded some of these people are likely to be. An example of this, is an interview I watched on one of the mainstream channels here in Australia that featured a Professor from Sydney University. For a guy his age and standing, he proved to be a very arrogant, defensive and evasive character who failed to both keep his composure and offer intelligent responses to the questions he was given. So yeah, earning a tertiary qualification is great, but don't put such people on a pedestal; they are not omnipotent or infallible.
I wanted to add another observation in this conversation. I have had a few different attempts and approaches in shining the truth light on this family member and a few friends in which one major common occurrence happens called "Buzzwords"! I have shown pictures, post and articles or during conversation mentioned a name. This is like shutting off the light! No matter what is in the picture or evidence in writing after this "Buzzword" there is an immediate vile response.
They are in an intellectual coma. The route of awakening for these kind of people requires time. The good thing is that you are awake, and therefore you are ahead of them. Whatever superiority they may think they have over you has been squandered by their close-mindedness and cognitive biases. Remember, they have the problem, not you!
Thank you for that. I have actually been going over this in my mind because I am truly concerned for the very life of our planet. Trying to go over different ways to portray the horrible situation we are all in? For me is this very apparent arrogance perhaps bordering on pompousness? of the people who I truly care about in their belief that they are somehow better/above? someone who they have never met on the literal other side of the planet!? It is a very scary thing to witness such closed minded thoughts from as I said before a family member who just the day before said "love ya" at the end of the conversation! It is really evident the deep embedding of this propaganda as you don't get an argument or countering belief but an immediate "go fuck yourself" and believe me it is not just from family I hear this. This is by far the greatest means of defeating an enemy by having them fight against themselves for you.
The reading audience here is "the choir" (as in "preaching..."). It's not us who need to be reached.
The problem, as I've witnessed it, is that the people who don't know what you've laid out so clearly here don't know because they actively don't want to know.
I know some of these people personally. They resist in all manner of ways, but eventually say something like "If what you're saying is true, then I'm too frightened, and I don't want to be frightened (I'm too old, retired, just want to live comfortably, etc.). Also, "how are you not chronically depressed when you immerse yourself in this kind of news?"). And sometimes: "Lighten up! Life is too short!".
And then there are those on social media (I don't use much, and will use less going forward) who employ all kinds of evasive tactics, of the kind that skip over evidence and reach into moralizing and gaslighting. Sometimes "we" try to double-team these imbeciles publicly, so the more silent members can get a clue, but I've seen to evidence of ground gained.
So, the toughest barriers remain. I learned recently that a lack of daily physical activity can render the hippocampus physically unable to displace old ideas with new ones. I suspect that there are many other aspects of physical poor health (the US, despite it's hollow claims, has poorer health than most of the other non-Third World nations) that help enforce this outcome. Yelling at these people is about as useless as sitting them down and inviting them to reason. And both are as useless as petitioning the biceps in your arm to curl a weight which it cannot.
I live in Maine, so I feel entitled to say the following about this problem: "You can't get there from here." But there is a spot somewhere down the road which, if you can get to that spot, you can get there from there. Or, quoting the Wicked Witch of the West: "That's not what bothers me; it's HOW TO DO IT!"
Don't kid yourself, most Americans know instinctively what's going on, they just refuse to admit they don't care and can't be bothered to do anything about it. It's called plausible deniability. People who don't act when they see such evil are cowards plain and simple. That is how the world really views Americans and rightfully so.
That's not even close to what "plausible deniability" is, Bob. I find myself agreeing that motivation for taking major change is below threshold, largely. I might even agree that many (how do you claim "most", did you do a survey?) have good instincts generally about how governments lie and steal. However, without concrete details on a given issue (like the war in Ukraine) these people are suckers for narratives like "China is our biggest threat." Let's be honest; neither of us knows how "the world really views Americans", yet you have your belief. And even if we knew that, a collective belief about something does not constitute evidence. So, I have to reject your dead end conclusion that plain and simple cowardice is the problem. Unless you can spell out how to propose to take that as a starting point for some meaningful change. Actually, I wrote my piece precisely because I hoped people would read it and muse some on how to start to untangle a really tight, complicated knot, as opposed to pointing the finger and accusing everyone of character weakness.
Here they are greatly aided by no shortage of distractions to throw themselves into: NFL, NBA, “reality TV”, “Influencers” on InstaFaceSnapTok, latest identity politics weather balloon - you name it
Once you start down that road, you have to start making choices. If the society and system that we live under does so much evil, how much will I compromise with it?
These choices can have very real personal and professional consequences. Try not paying taxes and see what happens. "Bartelby the Scrivener" it ain't.
Even if you do compromise, you are left with a guilty conscience.
By contrast, if you go along with the crowd, you can avoid those tough choices and face no consequences, and your conscience stays relatively untroubled, for the time being at least. Even in the worst case, you can say to yourself that you did what every other Good German did under the circumstances.
I agree,peaching to the choir. I too am in maine, a conversation such as yours is not optional. Those who ignore reality, might be thinking it is a ploy,remember,many still think climate is a manipulation. Old wars can now be looked on as mistakes but new ones are fostered by the media. While media is not solely to blame it contributes heavily. So,what if we went back to the daily horror photos for the masses. Or have we lost all empathy from daily overload encompassing all things? The brain function might be a thing,I have no meaningful exercise and i am hyper aware and very angry about the status quo.
Really interesting, Walden!BTW, Caitlyn, this is a wonderful essay. I do feel I need to mention two thing that contribute to our passivity and ignorance: 1. The media--not just mainstream news sources; not just movies, TV, and social media, but our universities and publishing houses. The military industrial complex has its claws into both of these.
2. Still more pernicious is learned helplessness. Take the climate crisis--which, based on what I know and have observed, is real. Well, we’ve all been bombarded with information, images, ads--all asking us to reduce, reuse, recycle, etc, etc. And I do! I have done, for decades. But what do the 1% do? Our government? The military-industrial complex? As far as I can see, absolutely nothing. And what difference have my individual actions made? None, or almost none.
It’s easy to see why people just give up. As to the first thing, I have a LOT to say. Will get to it soon, I hope.
Interestingly Americans when confronted with many of the facts and observations you catalogue and comment on immediately retreat to the Navalny Skripals cases.
So here’s my brief summary.
Navalny, a vocal critic of the regime and direct political opposition to Putin, who could have been silently murdered any old time, falls ill.
1) it happens in the most public place possible, an airport and passenger flight, guaranteeing international publicity whereas he could just have gone missing.
2) he is cared for in Russia where he survives
3) he and his family ask for a second opinion and Russia unhesitatingly sends him to Germany
4) Novichok, a poison associated with Russia is detected.
5) he recovers but asks to return to Russia
Novichok is very powerful and there is very little tolerance to it, there being a narrow dosage difference between illness and death. It’s unlikely to have been accidental that he was given what had to be the precise amount that was sub lethal.
Although it was developed in Russia, it is also made in Porton Down, right next to Salisbury in England.
Salisbury is where the Skripals were poisoned. The Skripals also received sublethal doses, guaranteeing maximum publicity, and an enduring media preoccupation. Not only did they recover completely as far as is known but just like Navalny they asked to return to Russia.
If the Russians had poisoned Navalny they would have known it would be detected in Germany.
So the Americans want it both ways. Russia is a global uberdangerous threat to the world , justifying bloated military budgets, invasions, arms sales, putting NATO on steroids, and corrupting its members, but they are incapable of killing an unarmed Navalny at home where all is under their control.
So both Skripals and Navalny get sublethal doses which implies intent to disable and more importantly intent NOT to kill. Novichok is manufactured in Porton Down by the British within shouting distance of where the Skripals were poisoned.
This reeks of false flag. And Navalny’s imprisonment may simply suggest the Russians concluded he must have been colluding with the poisoners.
1. Thank you for the information on the Navalny and Skripals cases. I note that even if the Western propaganda were true--"Putin kills anyone who threatens his rule"--it would still not come close to justifying the horror the US Empire engineered in Ukraine, which is what that propaganda is intended to do. It's sad that so many fall for this flawed reasoning.
2. So many oddities associated with the US Empire seem to have British hands involved. From Trump-Russia collusion stories to poisonings or killings of Russian "dissidents" to the more terroristic type operations carried out by Ukraine in the war.
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"The Rich Men North of Richmond" NeoCons are democRats & rinoRats. The only reason that there is a little hope is that People are finally beginning to Awaken from their slumber. Enough People??? Enough Time ??? Who Knows.
The Only General on the Domestic Field of Battle is Trump, like it or not, the MAGA Populist America First Movement is Anti-War AND the only Real Political Chance of vanquishing the Deep Statist NWO Mother WEFers in the Feral DC Coup gov.
Tilt at windmills with other political entities if you want, but Reality is Reality. I for one am only somewhat thinking there will even be an election by 2024 and expectinting it to be somewhat honest after 2020 and 2022 is also illusionary.
WW 3 Looms Ahead IF We Do Not Replace this Illegal, Criminal, Traitorous DC Cabal.
The right wing needs to come to grips with the people their hero represents. It isn’t the former patriots who worked in the manufacturing plants and factories, the angry workers who had their worlds rocked by job migration. Those
pissed off multitudes have lost their faith in the two fake parties and Trump is their rhetorical champion.
He doesn’t give a toss for victims, he loves winners. He had an opportunity to get behind policies to ease the pain of the throngs who helped him into office, and his whole ouvre as president was dedicated to the banks, the stock market, the corporate privileged, and the religious right. The one concession to the working poor was the photo op when he bought the cooperation of Carrier to keep their manufacturing plant in the rust belt. I think Carrier picked up and bolted at some point later and quietly.
So Trump may threaten the bureaucracy that invades personal privacy, and the neocons who dream of global domination, but his vision doesn’t elevate the dregs who love him. And leftists who recognize that capitalism is not up for discussion need to think long and hard before going all in on the Republican hero.
"Rich men north of Richmond" is geographical tribalism. Tribalism is fun, but it precludes clear thinking, which may become necessary in the near future just for personal survival. If you think all the rich men are conveniently located north of Richmond, you better look around some.
It's American culture and American people who have unleashed this evil not some mythical, supernatural "American Empire" that exists seperate from the rest of society.
A People ARE Responsible for the Government they Get and unleash upon the World. We have become the "Good Germans" of the 21st century. Not that there aren't Evil in other countries as well, But We will be held responsible by the World for Our own tolerance of Our Domestic Evil.
BullShit! I have been fighting against this corrupt system as best I can and the Americans on this site I can't imagine have ever been involved in creating this corrupt government. Elections are rigged and the people propagandized to this day we find ourselves in.
I understand. "A People" as I used the term and meant it, is All of Us or a "meaningful" majority to steer the ship.
I have also thought I had been fighting against Tyranny as well, but it's beyond obvious, Not effectively and certainly not winning for Liberty.
Me/We/You will pay for it, the system isn't concerned with "justice" as Americans are sent to the Feral Gulags for up to 17 YEARS for daring to "Tresspass" on "their" capitol 1/6/21.
I wish you well, and I hope you are pre-pared for the travails to come.
I don't buy this old line for an instant. We did not have any choice in this insanity we have been forced to endure. If you did you must be one of the Criminal Elite and so why are you here?
They are your people, produced by your society, held in high esteem by your people who happily celebrate the empire every July 4th. If all those flag waving Americans are not your people then who the hell are they?
I agree that if a reckoning does come for the US Empire, the Americans reading and agreeing with Caitlin's essays are unlikely to be separated from the Empire supporters.
(Ironically and unfortunately, if the reckoning does not come, there is a too great chance that they WILL be separated, by the Empire as it seeks to suppress "wrong thinkers" or "traitors".)
Do you know that Carnegie, Rockefeller J.P. Morgan and a few others bought all of the media in 1903? Rockefeller started vaxing and killed millions! They have been in control a very long time not the people of this country. Voting is a lie and always has been. They were still euthanizing and sterilizing people in America clear into the 70's! There has never been a government by the people for the people period.
Ep. 15 – Aug 10 -- Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back.
A reader recently asked me how do we go about saving nothing less than Western Civilization- a daunting challenge to say the least! A good starting point is to stop hating. The American military warfare junta is based on generating hate against others... without it they cannot justify their criminal warfare. For decades the US has selectively designated enemies as needed to justify their war mongering and they have been getting away with it for too long.
Before the American empire the greatest empire was the British, and the American empire is very much a clone of the British . Both empires have killed millions of people world wide. The greatest IMPERIALIST powers which is by definition is racist.
We fail to realize we internalize into our societies the hate and violence our governments direct at others. It is no coincidence the USA has the pathetic social indicators it has.
Our elites deliberately want to destroy the cohesion and solidarity of our societies as this allows them freely practice their despotism.
Political and historic literacy and moral fortitude are essential in the fight for our existence.
Where we ignore the truths of our times and allow them to be propagandized out of existence the consequences are dire .... just as we are seeing now.
I really think we should all take this to heart. Number one these people in control of our lives are the enemy not some people in another country trying to survive just as each of us is and by the way having directed attacks done on them daily by these Mass Murdering Sociopaths! We all have disagreements but they are not something to go to war with each other over and all of us wish for a better life for ourselves and our family so let's agree to disagree but agree that We The People are the only ones who united can win against our mutual oppressors!
“If there was widespread awareness of these facts, the US war machine would lose support around the world — not just for its actions in this one war, but for all future wars as well.”
It seems to me that many normies are *aware* of this, but that they engage in a type of doublethink/ rationalization such that they don’t internalize its full implications
Which on one level is fair enough given that most people just want to live their lives and are anyway propagandized up to their eyeballs
Most people don’t want to spend time worrying about things that they can’t control. And if there’s one thing we can’t control it is the psychopathic elite
If people would assume Full Responsibility for themselves and their actions, not kowtowing to their "superiors"; then the psychopathic elite would be powerless.
Just say No, and more importantly Do Not Comply wither their orders and mandates. If they try to enforce them, then Enforce back face to face. Start by shoving their masks up their a$$es.
There is no non-psychopathic elite. Social orders cannot exist without "psychopaths" transcending right and wrong and creating one. History is rife with kings killing their retainers or slaves or chief executives/PMs/Presidents firing their department/agency heads to demonstrate their cosmic power and worthiness to wield justice. We could simply not have an elite and reduce the possibility of "psychopathy" to zero. It's a habit that people were trained into and can be trained out of. Other forms of human organization exist and have or could work.
The Anglo-American is still the invasive species around the Globe. It's an old game by now, but the elite kids all get trained up in it (they call it an "Education"), so it perpetuates itself, even though the stone-cold reality is as brilliantly clear as this article. War is Madness by any means, just to update Clausewitz, who thought it was about politics. Funeral Home Director's assistant Blinken just dropped in, "unannounced," to let Zelensky know the West's War forecast for the Fall--"but you don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"--Bob Dylan
The operative word here is "elite" kids. The WEF GLOBALISTS who are descended from KM, Freemasons, Illuminati, whatevs, have made the West, the focus being US, their main delight in destructing and infiltrating. So if you look around at the playing field here it is clearly comprised of the "elites" at the top. They are evil incarnate. Anyone else seen GHW w his snake slit eyes?
I read somewhere that there have been only 20 consecutive years of peace since the beginning of what we ironically like to call civilization. I don't know what exactly is meant by this, or what the evidence is. I do know - we like war - a lot, and can reconcile it with the most refined thinking and activity - like art and philosophy, philanthropy, religion - with no qualms, no confusion, no feelings of guilt or logical/emotional dissonance.
The Nazis used to eat the best food on the best china, while listening to Beethoven or Wagner. We did the equivalent on our end , that is, the officers, those in command did, and have done ever since. We literally kid ourselves into thinking we are on the right side in Ukraine, that we, they, are getting somewhere, when it is palpably not the case. Ukraine is an oozing, bleeding obscenity and we brought it on, and feed it still. Who is condemning this? The churches? The Think Tanks? The intellectuals? What the fuck is wrong with us? No, it isn't that both sides are wrong. Only the side we support and are apparently madly, blindly driven to support, is.
Not sure if anyone can answer your question but consider this.
Humans are animals and evolved by the same principle as all other animals. Nature (our DNA) has a built in mechanism for controlling and preventing overpopulation. Plagues and wars are two methods that control population of humans. Right now humans are like lemmings running towards the cliff. We should be able to control it but can't. It's in our genes and that's just the way it is.
If we could get over our arrogance as a species that we are superior we could probably change the outcome. Mother nature will always win, for better or worse.
So I guess my answer is, there's nothing wrong with us-it's just what we are. It's also a miracle we've made it as far as we have.
I'm not sure what you mean by pushing the narrative. Darwinism?
I read all the links and am going to download the rest. Thanks. We're in a trio of brave new world, animal farm and surpassed 1984 to varying degrees. Wonder if these are on the banned book list?
Given the links, do you think it's coincidence that John Hopkins is "researching" psylocibin as a cure for PTSD, anxiety and depression, and it's function is to "enhance suggestibility"? And psylocibin is being legalized as well as cannabis and the country was flooded with Rx opioids?
I'm surrounded by people who use hallucinogens (Ayahuasca LSD and mushrooms) and if we get the entire country on them we're in lots and lots of trouble. Great way to escape from reality. I just wish the blue aliens or talking trees would give us some solutions to our problems. Haven't heard any tho.....
Course I might be wrong, maybe Einstein, Oppenheimer and all the rest used mushrooms.......
We're nothing but animals, living a slightly advanced animal existence.
It's a dog eat dog, eat or be eaten world out there and that's all we have to look forward to. So go for the gusto! Grab as much as you can while you are still able to. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.
There is no God. You have no soul. There is nothing beyond this extremely limited framework. The Perennial Philosophy passed down through the ages is nothing more than naive superstition not worth looking into...
Maybe your children's, children's, children will live in the Technological Utopia we promised you but maybe not.
That's the narrative that's been foisted on us.
Darwinism works to explain a certain segment of life on earth but as a means of explaining all of existence, it falls decidedly short.
I hope you take no offence, but that sounds like a cop-out. Every species has the means to survive - unless there is a sudden negative change in the ecosphere. We are responsible for sudden changes in the environment and are intelligent enough to know it. It is a matter of special interests : the extremely wealthy - but not over-smart - who think they can build their own, protective ecosphere are the main problem, along with those who profit directly from this agenda.
No, I don't take offense. But I think you should give it some more thought and consideration. Would you feel better if I had concluded with "But we shouldn't give up trying to change things for the better." ? You asked a question and I supplied an answer which is probable. I could say that we are being led by psycho paths and leave it at that but I ask, if this is true why are the majority following them? Propaganda? Lack of intelligence or inability to think for themselves? Don't confuse intelligence with psychopathic tendencies. Psychopaths can be extremely intelligent. "Human nature" for lack of a better term is what it is. Capitalism by definition will bring about it's own collapse. "Human nature" may do the same to humans.
As far as climate change or whatever you like to call it, my stance is we live on a planet with finite resources and should be conserving rather than raping. Eventually we run out of resources. Lowering co2 emissions will not stop pollution, it may increase it. Humans evolved on this planet and are adapted to it. Paradise in a word. For those who think Mars is a solution, I'd love to see them survive in Antarctica for a few years totally cut off from the rest of the world. And that would be a paradise compared to Mars. So it's best to protect what we have here I think.
"Every species has the means to survive -..." Is partially true but millions have gone extinct for other reasons like overconsumption of food resources for one. And consider that humans have brought all this upon themselves in the last hundred years. The quest for better and more. Science is far from perfect. It's what has brought us to where we are and we keep relying on it to solve the very problems it creates. Enough is never enough.
And a final question for you - Do you think we have enough time remaining to "wake people up"? Right now they're in an illusionary dream and when they wake up it'll be to a nightmare. Do you think they want to wake up?
Psychopaths are, by definition, unusual. They are not the norm. If they were we wouldn't notice them because there would be no anomaly: what they do would seem quite acceptable. But that isn't the case. It's our way of life, our educational and belief systems that are at fault. Why do people believe crazy, destructive religious beliefs? Usually out of fear of the next world and hellfire, while this world and life turns into hell. We are intelligent enough to solve and or prevent our problems, but that intelligence is mixed with superstition. They start early instilling bullshit, often even before school age. Do we have the time to reverse all the harm? I hope so, but it doesn't seem likely. That is the tragedy of humanity - and planet Earth.
My pessimistic attitude stems from the fact that I've been trying to "wake" people up for the last 20 years and haven't been able to change one person's mind. Not to say that some haven't been awake out of the people I've known.but they've been few. And not all of those shared the same political or religious beliefs as me. But we could still have a discussion and consider the other opinion and even change opinions after discussing it. That's all changed drastically for the worse in the last 20 years. For the last 40 years things have been on the decline in the US. The driving force was Reaganomics. It goes back further to 1913 and the income tax and federal reserve system. But in 2000 the internet got into full swing and we had y2k when the government tapped all our communication. You are probably old enough to remember party lines for telephones. Well now the old biddy listening in to the gossip is the federal government. Y2K was total bs for the reasons given. It was a fabricated lie to install hardware and software in the network system. Then 1 year later 911 and the Patriot Act and Homeland Security. Homeland=Fatherland (Hitler), the Patriot Act removed all our constitutional rights and 911 as a date to remind people of an emergency. Brilliant word play you have to admit. Shrub2 was selected by the supreme court. Then the AIG economic collapse where everyone's money just disappeared without a trace and the government bailed them out. The Iraq war initially called Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL). Need I go on since it just gets worse? It's all been accomplished in plain sight and literally shoved in our faces. And to point out the obvious you get labeled a conspiracy theorist or a doomsayer. Our country has been turned into an Auschwitz camp with no barbed wire. Enhanced techniques from Hitler and the Third Reich. Welcome to the Fourth Reich, courtesy of the military industrial complex. What else would Nazi fascists want for an industrial base?
Optimism is good but realism is better. Humanity is being shaped and tailored slowly by the powers that be. Eugenics on a massive scale is probably the best description. Maybe genocide is better since it's been done in the past to great success.
Here we are on Caitlins substack where the vast majority agree with everything thing she writes including myself. But I've not seen one plan of action for righting the problems other than waking people up. Talking isn't working. It's time to start planning. Running out of food,fuel and shelter are going to be the wake up and that's soon to come as the US government is doing everything it can to hasten it. So I feel sorry for the younger generation so (and Good Kitty) who will bear the consequences since there is nothing they can do to realistically change it. There are too many barriers in the way and the attacks on Americans are accelerating now by the day.
Superstition? Superstition is just one of the tools used supplemented with fear. Religion is steeped in it. For those who no longer believe in Angels and Demons they have been replaced by space aliens as saviours or the cause of our problems to shift the focus. The National Enquirer and Midnight Globe have been elevated to a congressional committee investigation of UAPs. Reality is whatever the government makes it. A Shrub II agenda. And let's put all the research from mk ultra into practice and flood the US with drugs to help out propagating the propaganda. Legalize them and let the people do it willingly. According to John Hopkins university, psylocibin works best.
Like cellphones so they can track us, know what we say and think and our social network. As Snowden said it's all about control. We're all on a sinking boat and our government is drilling holes in the bottom to let the water out.
So in the end we're not any different than cattle or sheep that have been domesticated for slaughter. A few are still wild and free but the majority are ready to go willingly but unknowingly to the slaughter house. If they were let free they wouldn't know what to do.
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember, and the memories are like a heavy weight on my spirit. Things like 9/11- what was that? Who could believe the narrative? But it's a sacred lie and can't be discussed with any skepticism. Something like the last name, Rich, in connection with some Hillary servers? I was instructed by a blogger online, never to mention that name.
All of the US objectives in provoking this war are failing - with the exceptions of increasing US LNG exports to Europe, expanding fracking everywhere, deindustrializing Germany, and feeding US defense industry profits.
The proxy war is having exactly the opposite effects: Russia is strategically and militarily stronger; Europe is on the verge of fragmenting; China is expanding influence and power via BRICS; the US dollar is being undermined and displaced as the world's reserve currency; US "prestige" is further tainted; and US domestic chaos accelerating as austerity expands.
Yes, in truth, all the BRICS realize the danger posed by the US Empire and are opposed to it, but they fall into two general blocs as to how they play the global situation:
1. China, Russia, and now Iran are in a bloc of declared Empire enemies. They share an interest in working together to directly oppose the Empire.
2. The others, led by India and Brazil, are nominally "neutral" (or in the case of Saudi Arabia, still nominally an Empire "ally"). While having long-term incentives to work with the enemies bloc to ensure that they are free from control of (and possible punishment by) the Empire, this bloc does have incentives to advance its short-term interests by playing between the Empire and the Enemies. This will make the work of the BRICS as a unified force to oppose the global hegemony of the Empire a task requiring careful diplomacy.
A particular area in which we can observe this difficulty is in the formation of financial systems outside those controlled by the Empire. After seeing what was done to Russia, every BRIC nation (and any others currently outside the Empire) have been put on notice that they need to take action to develop systems that protect themselves from the possibility of having the same happen to them. But the pseudo-neutral nations need to advance carefully to avoid being placed in the Enemies bloc before they are ready to fully defend their interests against the Empire.
I completely agree - I was focused more on the strategic advances of Russia and China, and not the specific BRICS members and those in process of joining. And I didn't even mention the US "loss" of Saudi, which destroys the fulcrum of US strategy in the Middle East.
I also agree with you that the BRICS evolution (and decline of US dollar and Empire) will be incremental - unless there is either a climate collapse (e.g. food supply) or nuclear war.
Why are you using Soros watchwords like "open" when the electoral system was never intended to be such, and accordingly is not? If you were half the mythsmith your Jung copypasta would suggest, you would see that elections are a mythical construct in pursuit of particular social objects. Either you are a shitty mythsmith who is incompetent to do the work, or you are a fucking perpetrator shitlib trying to preserve the problem. Which is it?
All three legs need to be present for sociological power to exist. Overt potential for action is not power (it's force). Covert actual action is not power (it's action). Hidden potential for things not action is not power (it's mystery).
Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action. Caitlin seems to be banking on exposure and demystification.
"Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action."
This also is the use of power. What Caitlyn is doing is trying to get people to question the legitimacy of the existing system. Take away legitimacy, and Biden's power extends no further than his reach.
Americans may not realize it but we are some of the most brainwashed people in history. For 80 years we have been fed from the Kool Aid Fountain of Freedom, taught that Capitalism is good, socialism bad, that the voting booth is the best way for change (if voting really changed things they would have outlawed it), to chant my country right or wrong, to support the troops, that we defend freedom around the world, to worship the enlisted men and women on city lamposts. We are conditioned to mutter "thank you for your service" to any military person and not question why they are fighting our endless wars. That we are the Leader of the Free World (whatever that means).
The reality is that we have been ruled by an oligarchy that only cares for itself, in cahoots with the MIC which generates obscene profits for its tight circle of sycophants. This tight knit and secretive group is run like an exclusive club-- who is kept out matters more than who is let in. They engage in coup d'etats around the world and if thousands get killed in the process, they call it collateral damage and wash their hands of it (200,000 Guatemalans were killed in the 30 year military rule after the US sponsored coup of 1954)
How do you get the American public out of its zombie-like slumber to not parrot what they have been force-fed for 80 years? It is a tall order. But keep talking and writing about it even if your interlocutors want to shut you off and switch the topic and react with silence.
First of all, you have to choose your battles. For one thing, write off the professional-managerial class. Either they have already gotten it from the material available, or their salary and their social capital depends on not getting it. In the first case they can be benign and even helpful but keep a polite distance. In the second case they are the enemy and should be fed lies and disinformation and abuse constantly until they tap out.
The global south, or the global majority as they're now called, understands this because of past wars. Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries have been destroyed for no reason, and that doesn't take into account the coups, sanctions and assassinations of people in the way of the the global north.
We in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia need to understand this, and soon. All this destruction, death and waste of oodles of money comes at the worst possible time for humanity and all of life on earth. We're in an existential climate crisis, and that money needs to go towards a truly just transition to a green and caring future.
Not only are the powers that be evil, but they're also insane. Destroying the planet and all the life that depends on her is the hight of insanity and irresponsibility.
I am sorry to be "that guy" but the truth of climate change is that it is just another information-war pysop against the people. When I became a an atheist it was because I studied a variety of religions and found almost all western religions had a common feature, guilt based social manipulation causing peers to attack and shame each other in pursuit of the institutions goals.
Climate change in the form of information warfare is the same religious manipulation model, peers using guilt to shame each other because their faith in the institution is not strong enough. Climate change is a neo-religion, a sciency based belief system that uses all the old trapping to manipulate the congregation through guilting each other. This does not mean that I don't think the world is being polluted and violated at every turn but the climate change religion will not fix any of those spoilings of the natural world, it will only distract the congregation into self enforced conformity .
There is truth in what you say about climate change being used to distract from destruction and to greenwash industry, notBob, but it is real and scientific https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/climate-change-hasnt-been-debunked
The faithful have spoken and are trying to coerce me into the congregation. The neo-priests have written a religious tome with evidence for the existence of god oops I mean climate change.
It’s SCIENCE not religion:
https://www.ipcc.ch/
Save your self lies for another place. Not here.
I do indeed prize evidence, logic, rationality and integrity very highly. I'm not sure I would say I worship them or allow myself to be led by them. I mostly follow my gut; but I do enjoy it when this is backed up by the gods of intellectual pursuits.
There are no gods of intellectual pursuits, there are humans that are well educated, they are not morally or ethically superior just intellectually. The Catholic church's pedophilia problem should be a huge glaring example of why we should not look to humans to have the best interest of humanity in their hearts regardless of the number of degrees they have.
Do not trust the neo-priests
Wrong. Climate change is real and tangibly affecting everyone. 200 million people per day, and more than 90% of global population per year physically affected by effects of climate change in the past year:
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/introducing-the-global-climate-shift-index#
And the capitalist psycho cult treats it like it treats everything else: a moneymaking opportunity for a couple hundred people, at the cost of the other several billion people on the planet.
Agree. But wonder how the change multi-lateralism and de-dollarization affect this dynamic if at all?
That sounds like the claims of a faithful member of the flock.
Sounds like you would rather tell yourself lies, than take the time to read the summaries of the IPCC studies.
They are not secret.
And the summaries are published at a level readable by an adult with a standard education and an adult attention span:.
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Reading the reports takes more time than tossing random lies in comments fields though….
How utterly condescending of you, the IPCC report is a political document not a scientific one. The past versions I read were full of half truths and disinformation. Name a single measurable prediction from a any IPCC report that came true because of CO2?
Positions are not "religion", and shame and guilt are not the worst features/outcomes of life on Earth. We in general have caused global warming: it isn't "natural but the result of our greed, carelessness and lack of responsibility. Who/what is responsible for war? Is it just a natural phenomenon and uncontrollable? Your argument is not cogent. There are real agents of wrong-doing, and they need to be identified and condemned.
My argument is that you intermix science with your political beliefs which makes it religion not science.
I don't understand your point: science is not counter to politics, by any means. Science, the real thing, can be a productive, positive component of politics. But if you mean that human concerns are subjugated to science, and that is wrong - I'm with you there.
Yes, humans have many significant impacts on the planets, and these cannot simply be solar panelled or windmilled away.
[Minor edit made within a minute of original posting.]
It's not *just* another information operation. Like most information operations, the goal is to control *both sides* of an existing conversation and construct passionate "defensive" movements that will never resolve. Thus, people who don't participate in the narrative can work on the basis of material reality and exploit either one to improve their material position.
Climate change is a drama so that pollution can be normalized.
Sounds like you’ve reasoned yourself into a corner...
notBob, I'm really curious about where you're getting the information you're sharing. I've been paying attention to environmental issues and climate change for decades, and that includes the disinformation campaigns that are so often started by the fossil fuel industry so that their profits aren't affected. Are you familiar with the Sue Big Oil campaign? It's based on the fact that they knew their products cause climate change, lied about it and will be taken to court for all the damages this has caused. How's the weather where you are? Where I live we have go bags prepared because of the massive forest fires that could have taken down any of our towns this summer. I'm not religious, but I really want to see all of us have a liveable future, and to me that means transitioning away from fossil fuels among other things.
Start with Dr. Singer, he wrote a clear, hard science based take down of the lies years ago, it has recently been updated. Your comment shows a mental programming, you automatically assume that wild fires are climate change related, that is specious on its face.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/hot-talk-cold-science-global-warmings-unfinished-debate_s-fred-singer_frederick-seitz/628199/#edition=58490368&idiq=44712641
The IPCC report is a joke, it is nothing but politicized science, you cannot run an actual study on the climate to prove the theories in any meaningful way. Start your study with the Falsification Principle. There is no way to prove climate change theories wrong, its non falsifiable and therefor its not science, its religion.
The science is there: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Only cultists look at science and start lying to themselves about it being “politicised”. Pull yourself together man.
Based on my unscientific interviews with a large number of people of different classes, castes, colors, ethnicities, and so forth, I'd say that most people in the US don't like the war but are not very interested in who started it and in the various moralizing arguments surrounding it. Poor and working-class people know they have no voice in the government, so it doesn't matter what they think, while the very rich live mostly above it all and the überrich have their hideaways in New Zealand. It is the PMC who care, either because they're schoolish and have been told what to think, or because they are reasonably aware that the Empire as you call it produces tangible if short-term benefits for them personally, mostly in the form of comparatively well-paying jobs that do not involve heavy lifting or getting their hands dirty. Some of them probably aspire to mandarin-level jobs. The truly ambitious among them want to send their sons and daughters to Yale. Essentially, these people are hopeless. Sauve qui peut!
And devil take the hindmost! Yes, one would hope deprivation might bring on clear thinking, but it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it's counterproductive.
Greenies are Bolsheviks destroying Life as well. DeCarbonization is Insanity, People's bodies are Carbon Oxygen. Killer Bill Gates is cutting down American Forests reprocessing Carbon into Oxygen. Plus the Covid Plandemic and VaXXXes are being resurrected in the next month to enable more deaths and mail in ballots for democRats.
GenEarly, I don't know how you get that people who want clean air and to protect animals and the environmental are bolshies destroying life. This is deliberate dehumanising, insulting and lumping in with evil globalist's agenda, of anyone with any 'left' wing views. Emitting less, consuming less, cutting down less trees is not insanity. The plandemic and the vaxxs (which killed many though the population in the US is still rising) primed us for this imperialist global industry neocon propaganda that everything is A OK with all industries continuing unregulated and that the environment has not been buggered.
I think the issue was with the words "we are in an existential climate crisis". We are not, there is no evidence that we are. It is rhetoric like this that encourages people to accept being impoverished by globalist technocratic psycholaths. Sure, many humans are dirty materialist bastards and could do with cleaning up their act. But that is not the point that such rhetoric implies.
The globalist myth wants us to think we're being impoverished but really it's the global elite who don't want to be impoverished. They don't want us insisting that they stop flying around in jets and into space; the 1% are responsible for 25% of emissions so if we just stopped them doing it we'd be well on our way. They also don't want to be impoverished by regulation nor by our ceasing to buy the products that made them rich.
I'm sorry guys, i do like you, but you we see this from very differring perspectives. I came to my perspective after decades of research. Im not going to be swayed to yours, as i used tobe there i got to where I am now.
"We" expands and contracts to fit whatever needs to be packaged.
Spiritualism is just another slave ideology generated by Greek culture. If we were all more materialistic (in the philosophical sense) there would be less drama and bullshit shoved in our faces because there would be no reason to care about others' need for drama.
I think that there is evidence of an emergency, especially for the global south (the global majority) who have contributed least and who will be most affected by changes in agriculture and may wish to migrate north to the luckier latitudes - good luck with that.
I think poor land management, weather modification and DEW probably explains the more extreme situations. Not to mention the increased populations to witness extremes and the mass media making people aware of stuff that's alwayd happened.
Exactly! Thank you!
Yuck, word salad with American dressing.
Can't double under line this statement enough times!
I wouldn’t call it climate change . I call it climate manipulation . Geo-Engineering /Bio-Engineering . Weather warfare . This is a direct assault against all life on Mother Earth . And most governments including USA , Russia and China are all in lockstep in this process . Which leads me to believe that these are all actor states playing their roles in these wars and political facade of separation . What is the end goal . I thing Agenda 2021 and Agenda 2030 lay out their plans for all to see and manifest .
While I agree so much with what you are saying the first part of your post believing that if the knowledge being widespread of this fact of the actual reason for US warmongering I have to take some (minor) disagreement with. When presented with the truth and providing evidence to support it I have been told (by my only remaining family member) without any type of calm rational discussion to "go fuck yourself" and "shove that spittle up your ass"! Now as a bit of detail this comes from someone who the day before said love ya! Additionally has a PhD and a few other degrees so not a dumb person. It is a sad situation I find we are in as I am calm, did not get all aggressive and I believe it is the very truth itself that allows me to not start the name calling or violent reaction that would perhaps have been something that I would have done some 20 years ago. People now can no longer see the truth they are lost in the black hole of propaganda.
It is impossible to get a man to understand something when their social and symbolic capital depends on not understanding it.
Have you read Simone Weil's "On the Abolition of All Political Parties"? The case she makes about parties explains why I can't buy in to the attachment to aspects of the current "system" or of system at all. It is competition *itself* that is at fault. It legitimizes the ideas of prize and spoils and surrender. It generates and selects for the pathological behaviors that we (ostensibly) say we don't want in government. It creates a privileged class that, to prove/construct their suitability as "rule creators", regularly flout their own diktats and grant themselves privileges. It rehearses the idea that contest is not only a valid divination ritual, but a real substance that has "actually" constructed the universe.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-on-the-abolition-of-all-political-parties
If people must have a representative republic, the aristocratic mode of election must be abolished and replaced with sortition.
When enough people are starving, sick, suffocating and generally failing, that "capital" can shift. I think your first sentence is the real deal. Probably everybody reading here can place him/herself on a spectrum that tells us just how far each would go in order to push changes. I confess there is plenty I will not give up...not today.
Oh I couldn't agree with this enough times!
Additionally I always hear oh we can't do something like this it would be chaos and it is more important to rebuild the system. As if you could fix a historically corrupted system. That's like killing one ant and expecting the ant hill to just go away!
"Historically corrupted" I like that, in the same sense as I like "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." But really, none of these schemes are ever conceived with a "pure" heart. Everything since Plato's *Republic* has been conceived to continue Platonic cosmic doctrines of totalitarian aristocracy and submission to others' will. Even Marxism reveals a certain continuity with Marx's own German Lutheran upbringing and prejudices that influence his revolutionary theory and situate it in time and place.
The truth as you can't not get "born into it"! Everyone had or some have parents and a place/environment in which they have been "engraved". Can't get away from it without serious introspect!
The efficacy of war propaganda is real - it is almost like we too have become victims of these unrelenting, war pigs. Not just the pile of corpses they hide from the world. Why are mass murderers who live in DC - always considered national heroes?
It's just more proof that having tertiary qualifications doesn't mean one knows everything or that they are actually intelligent or wiser than everyone else. Also, the higher the qualification, the more arrogant and close-minded some of these people are likely to be. An example of this, is an interview I watched on one of the mainstream channels here in Australia that featured a Professor from Sydney University. For a guy his age and standing, he proved to be a very arrogant, defensive and evasive character who failed to both keep his composure and offer intelligent responses to the questions he was given. So yeah, earning a tertiary qualification is great, but don't put such people on a pedestal; they are not omnipotent or infallible.
I wanted to add another observation in this conversation. I have had a few different attempts and approaches in shining the truth light on this family member and a few friends in which one major common occurrence happens called "Buzzwords"! I have shown pictures, post and articles or during conversation mentioned a name. This is like shutting off the light! No matter what is in the picture or evidence in writing after this "Buzzword" there is an immediate vile response.
They are in an intellectual coma. The route of awakening for these kind of people requires time. The good thing is that you are awake, and therefore you are ahead of them. Whatever superiority they may think they have over you has been squandered by their close-mindedness and cognitive biases. Remember, they have the problem, not you!
Thank you for that. I have actually been going over this in my mind because I am truly concerned for the very life of our planet. Trying to go over different ways to portray the horrible situation we are all in? For me is this very apparent arrogance perhaps bordering on pompousness? of the people who I truly care about in their belief that they are somehow better/above? someone who they have never met on the literal other side of the planet!? It is a very scary thing to witness such closed minded thoughts from as I said before a family member who just the day before said "love ya" at the end of the conversation! It is really evident the deep embedding of this propaganda as you don't get an argument or countering belief but an immediate "go fuck yourself" and believe me it is not just from family I hear this. This is by far the greatest means of defeating an enemy by having them fight against themselves for you.
Yes, of course.
The reading audience here is "the choir" (as in "preaching..."). It's not us who need to be reached.
The problem, as I've witnessed it, is that the people who don't know what you've laid out so clearly here don't know because they actively don't want to know.
I know some of these people personally. They resist in all manner of ways, but eventually say something like "If what you're saying is true, then I'm too frightened, and I don't want to be frightened (I'm too old, retired, just want to live comfortably, etc.). Also, "how are you not chronically depressed when you immerse yourself in this kind of news?"). And sometimes: "Lighten up! Life is too short!".
And then there are those on social media (I don't use much, and will use less going forward) who employ all kinds of evasive tactics, of the kind that skip over evidence and reach into moralizing and gaslighting. Sometimes "we" try to double-team these imbeciles publicly, so the more silent members can get a clue, but I've seen to evidence of ground gained.
So, the toughest barriers remain. I learned recently that a lack of daily physical activity can render the hippocampus physically unable to displace old ideas with new ones. I suspect that there are many other aspects of physical poor health (the US, despite it's hollow claims, has poorer health than most of the other non-Third World nations) that help enforce this outcome. Yelling at these people is about as useless as sitting them down and inviting them to reason. And both are as useless as petitioning the biceps in your arm to curl a weight which it cannot.
I live in Maine, so I feel entitled to say the following about this problem: "You can't get there from here." But there is a spot somewhere down the road which, if you can get to that spot, you can get there from there. Or, quoting the Wicked Witch of the West: "That's not what bothers me; it's HOW TO DO IT!"
Don't kid yourself, most Americans know instinctively what's going on, they just refuse to admit they don't care and can't be bothered to do anything about it. It's called plausible deniability. People who don't act when they see such evil are cowards plain and simple. That is how the world really views Americans and rightfully so.
That's not even close to what "plausible deniability" is, Bob. I find myself agreeing that motivation for taking major change is below threshold, largely. I might even agree that many (how do you claim "most", did you do a survey?) have good instincts generally about how governments lie and steal. However, without concrete details on a given issue (like the war in Ukraine) these people are suckers for narratives like "China is our biggest threat." Let's be honest; neither of us knows how "the world really views Americans", yet you have your belief. And even if we knew that, a collective belief about something does not constitute evidence. So, I have to reject your dead end conclusion that plain and simple cowardice is the problem. Unless you can spell out how to propose to take that as a starting point for some meaningful change. Actually, I wrote my piece precisely because I hoped people would read it and muse some on how to start to untangle a really tight, complicated knot, as opposed to pointing the finger and accusing everyone of character weakness.
Here they are greatly aided by no shortage of distractions to throw themselves into: NFL, NBA, “reality TV”, “Influencers” on InstaFaceSnapTok, latest identity politics weather balloon - you name it
Once you start down that road, you have to start making choices. If the society and system that we live under does so much evil, how much will I compromise with it?
These choices can have very real personal and professional consequences. Try not paying taxes and see what happens. "Bartelby the Scrivener" it ain't.
Even if you do compromise, you are left with a guilty conscience.
By contrast, if you go along with the crowd, you can avoid those tough choices and face no consequences, and your conscience stays relatively untroubled, for the time being at least. Even in the worst case, you can say to yourself that you did what every other Good German did under the circumstances.
I have Amazing Agreement on your post. The Devil is in the "Solutions" as usual.
I agree,peaching to the choir. I too am in maine, a conversation such as yours is not optional. Those who ignore reality, might be thinking it is a ploy,remember,many still think climate is a manipulation. Old wars can now be looked on as mistakes but new ones are fostered by the media. While media is not solely to blame it contributes heavily. So,what if we went back to the daily horror photos for the masses. Or have we lost all empathy from daily overload encompassing all things? The brain function might be a thing,I have no meaningful exercise and i am hyper aware and very angry about the status quo.
Really interesting, Walden!BTW, Caitlyn, this is a wonderful essay. I do feel I need to mention two thing that contribute to our passivity and ignorance: 1. The media--not just mainstream news sources; not just movies, TV, and social media, but our universities and publishing houses. The military industrial complex has its claws into both of these.
2. Still more pernicious is learned helplessness. Take the climate crisis--which, based on what I know and have observed, is real. Well, we’ve all been bombarded with information, images, ads--all asking us to reduce, reuse, recycle, etc, etc. And I do! I have done, for decades. But what do the 1% do? Our government? The military-industrial complex? As far as I can see, absolutely nothing. And what difference have my individual actions made? None, or almost none.
It’s easy to see why people just give up. As to the first thing, I have a LOT to say. Will get to it soon, I hope.
Interestingly Americans when confronted with many of the facts and observations you catalogue and comment on immediately retreat to the Navalny Skripals cases.
So here’s my brief summary.
Navalny, a vocal critic of the regime and direct political opposition to Putin, who could have been silently murdered any old time, falls ill.
1) it happens in the most public place possible, an airport and passenger flight, guaranteeing international publicity whereas he could just have gone missing.
2) he is cared for in Russia where he survives
3) he and his family ask for a second opinion and Russia unhesitatingly sends him to Germany
4) Novichok, a poison associated with Russia is detected.
5) he recovers but asks to return to Russia
Novichok is very powerful and there is very little tolerance to it, there being a narrow dosage difference between illness and death. It’s unlikely to have been accidental that he was given what had to be the precise amount that was sub lethal.
Although it was developed in Russia, it is also made in Porton Down, right next to Salisbury in England.
Salisbury is where the Skripals were poisoned. The Skripals also received sublethal doses, guaranteeing maximum publicity, and an enduring media preoccupation. Not only did they recover completely as far as is known but just like Navalny they asked to return to Russia.
If the Russians had poisoned Navalny they would have known it would be detected in Germany.
So the Americans want it both ways. Russia is a global uberdangerous threat to the world , justifying bloated military budgets, invasions, arms sales, putting NATO on steroids, and corrupting its members, but they are incapable of killing an unarmed Navalny at home where all is under their control.
So both Skripals and Navalny get sublethal doses which implies intent to disable and more importantly intent NOT to kill. Novichok is manufactured in Porton Down by the British within shouting distance of where the Skripals were poisoned.
This reeks of false flag. And Navalny’s imprisonment may simply suggest the Russians concluded he must have been colluding with the poisoners.
1. Thank you for the information on the Navalny and Skripals cases. I note that even if the Western propaganda were true--"Putin kills anyone who threatens his rule"--it would still not come close to justifying the horror the US Empire engineered in Ukraine, which is what that propaganda is intended to do. It's sad that so many fall for this flawed reasoning.
2. So many oddities associated with the US Empire seem to have British hands involved. From Trump-Russia collusion stories to poisonings or killings of Russian "dissidents" to the more terroristic type operations carried out by Ukraine in the war.
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"The Rich Men North of Richmond" NeoCons are democRats & rinoRats. The only reason that there is a little hope is that People are finally beginning to Awaken from their slumber. Enough People??? Enough Time ??? Who Knows.
The Only General on the Domestic Field of Battle is Trump, like it or not, the MAGA Populist America First Movement is Anti-War AND the only Real Political Chance of vanquishing the Deep Statist NWO Mother WEFers in the Feral DC Coup gov.
Tilt at windmills with other political entities if you want, but Reality is Reality. I for one am only somewhat thinking there will even be an election by 2024 and expectinting it to be somewhat honest after 2020 and 2022 is also illusionary.
WW 3 Looms Ahead IF We Do Not Replace this Illegal, Criminal, Traitorous DC Cabal.
The right wing needs to come to grips with the people their hero represents. It isn’t the former patriots who worked in the manufacturing plants and factories, the angry workers who had their worlds rocked by job migration. Those
pissed off multitudes have lost their faith in the two fake parties and Trump is their rhetorical champion.
He doesn’t give a toss for victims, he loves winners. He had an opportunity to get behind policies to ease the pain of the throngs who helped him into office, and his whole ouvre as president was dedicated to the banks, the stock market, the corporate privileged, and the religious right. The one concession to the working poor was the photo op when he bought the cooperation of Carrier to keep their manufacturing plant in the rust belt. I think Carrier picked up and bolted at some point later and quietly.
So Trump may threaten the bureaucracy that invades personal privacy, and the neocons who dream of global domination, but his vision doesn’t elevate the dregs who love him. And leftists who recognize that capitalism is not up for discussion need to think long and hard before going all in on the Republican hero.
Typical Rhetoric with No Plan, No Viable Candidates, just more blah that "Trump Bad".
You should just go ahead and advocate that sElections are beyond Corrupt and Ridiculous.
Then quote the only truth Mao ever uttered that All Power proceeds from the barrel of guns.
Go Full Bolshevik, don't be namby pamby about it, comrade.
"Rich men north of Richmond" is geographical tribalism. Tribalism is fun, but it precludes clear thinking, which may become necessary in the near future just for personal survival. If you think all the rich men are conveniently located north of Richmond, you better look around some.
The ones who generate policy do, though.
Technically, I suppose Langley and Arlington are north of Richmond, but they're not very far north, are they?
Completely agree 👍
It's American culture and American people who have unleashed this evil not some mythical, supernatural "American Empire" that exists seperate from the rest of society.
A People ARE Responsible for the Government they Get and unleash upon the World. We have become the "Good Germans" of the 21st century. Not that there aren't Evil in other countries as well, But We will be held responsible by the World for Our own tolerance of Our Domestic Evil.
BullShit! I have been fighting against this corrupt system as best I can and the Americans on this site I can't imagine have ever been involved in creating this corrupt government. Elections are rigged and the people propagandized to this day we find ourselves in.
I understand. "A People" as I used the term and meant it, is All of Us or a "meaningful" majority to steer the ship.
I have also thought I had been fighting against Tyranny as well, but it's beyond obvious, Not effectively and certainly not winning for Liberty.
Me/We/You will pay for it, the system isn't concerned with "justice" as Americans are sent to the Feral Gulags for up to 17 YEARS for daring to "Tresspass" on "their" capitol 1/6/21.
I wish you well, and I hope you are pre-pared for the travails to come.
I looked at your earlier post and knew that you understood so it was just a gut reaction!
I don't buy this old line for an instant. We did not have any choice in this insanity we have been forced to endure. If you did you must be one of the Criminal Elite and so why are you here?
They are your people, produced by your society, held in high esteem by your people who happily celebrate the empire every July 4th. If all those flag waving Americans are not your people then who the hell are they?
I agree that if a reckoning does come for the US Empire, the Americans reading and agreeing with Caitlin's essays are unlikely to be separated from the Empire supporters.
(Ironically and unfortunately, if the reckoning does not come, there is a too great chance that they WILL be separated, by the Empire as it seeks to suppress "wrong thinkers" or "traitors".)
Do you know that Carnegie, Rockefeller J.P. Morgan and a few others bought all of the media in 1903? Rockefeller started vaxing and killed millions! They have been in control a very long time not the people of this country. Voting is a lie and always has been. They were still euthanizing and sterilizing people in America clear into the 70's! There has never been a government by the people for the people period.
Nobody cares about your heroic will mythology either
Thank you.
Same for January 6 "armed insurrection:
Ep. 15 – Aug 10 -- Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1689783814594174976?s=20
Yeah, I knew the J6 narrative was b.s. as it was happening in real time...
A reader recently asked me how do we go about saving nothing less than Western Civilization- a daunting challenge to say the least! A good starting point is to stop hating. The American military warfare junta is based on generating hate against others... without it they cannot justify their criminal warfare. For decades the US has selectively designated enemies as needed to justify their war mongering and they have been getting away with it for too long.
Before the American empire the greatest empire was the British, and the American empire is very much a clone of the British . Both empires have killed millions of people world wide. The greatest IMPERIALIST powers which is by definition is racist.
We fail to realize we internalize into our societies the hate and violence our governments direct at others. It is no coincidence the USA has the pathetic social indicators it has.
Our elites deliberately want to destroy the cohesion and solidarity of our societies as this allows them freely practice their despotism.
Political and historic literacy and moral fortitude are essential in the fight for our existence.
Where we ignore the truths of our times and allow them to be propagandized out of existence the consequences are dire .... just as we are seeing now.
I really think we should all take this to heart. Number one these people in control of our lives are the enemy not some people in another country trying to survive just as each of us is and by the way having directed attacks done on them daily by these Mass Murdering Sociopaths! We all have disagreements but they are not something to go to war with each other over and all of us wish for a better life for ourselves and our family so let's agree to disagree but agree that We The People are the only ones who united can win against our mutual oppressors!
“If there was widespread awareness of these facts, the US war machine would lose support around the world — not just for its actions in this one war, but for all future wars as well.”
It seems to me that many normies are *aware* of this, but that they engage in a type of doublethink/ rationalization such that they don’t internalize its full implications
Which on one level is fair enough given that most people just want to live their lives and are anyway propagandized up to their eyeballs
Most people don’t want to spend time worrying about things that they can’t control. And if there’s one thing we can’t control it is the psychopathic elite
If people would assume Full Responsibility for themselves and their actions, not kowtowing to their "superiors"; then the psychopathic elite would be powerless.
Just say No, and more importantly Do Not Comply wither their orders and mandates. If they try to enforce them, then Enforce back face to face. Start by shoving their masks up their a$$es.
There is no non-psychopathic elite. Social orders cannot exist without "psychopaths" transcending right and wrong and creating one. History is rife with kings killing their retainers or slaves or chief executives/PMs/Presidents firing their department/agency heads to demonstrate their cosmic power and worthiness to wield justice. We could simply not have an elite and reduce the possibility of "psychopathy" to zero. It's a habit that people were trained into and can be trained out of. Other forms of human organization exist and have or could work.
The Anglo-American is still the invasive species around the Globe. It's an old game by now, but the elite kids all get trained up in it (they call it an "Education"), so it perpetuates itself, even though the stone-cold reality is as brilliantly clear as this article. War is Madness by any means, just to update Clausewitz, who thought it was about politics. Funeral Home Director's assistant Blinken just dropped in, "unannounced," to let Zelensky know the West's War forecast for the Fall--"but you don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"--Bob Dylan
The operative word here is "elite" kids. The WEF GLOBALISTS who are descended from KM, Freemasons, Illuminati, whatevs, have made the West, the focus being US, their main delight in destructing and infiltrating. So if you look around at the playing field here it is clearly comprised of the "elites" at the top. They are evil incarnate. Anyone else seen GHW w his snake slit eyes?
Colonialism and imperialism are age old. Never needed WEF. Will still be a problem when WEF is gone.
No, the Puritan elites of England and all other aristocrats are the same picture.
Thank you Caitlin🙏
I read somewhere that there have been only 20 consecutive years of peace since the beginning of what we ironically like to call civilization. I don't know what exactly is meant by this, or what the evidence is. I do know - we like war - a lot, and can reconcile it with the most refined thinking and activity - like art and philosophy, philanthropy, religion - with no qualms, no confusion, no feelings of guilt or logical/emotional dissonance.
The Nazis used to eat the best food on the best china, while listening to Beethoven or Wagner. We did the equivalent on our end , that is, the officers, those in command did, and have done ever since. We literally kid ourselves into thinking we are on the right side in Ukraine, that we, they, are getting somewhere, when it is palpably not the case. Ukraine is an oozing, bleeding obscenity and we brought it on, and feed it still. Who is condemning this? The churches? The Think Tanks? The intellectuals? What the fuck is wrong with us? No, it isn't that both sides are wrong. Only the side we support and are apparently madly, blindly driven to support, is.
Not sure if anyone can answer your question but consider this.
Humans are animals and evolved by the same principle as all other animals. Nature (our DNA) has a built in mechanism for controlling and preventing overpopulation. Plagues and wars are two methods that control population of humans. Right now humans are like lemmings running towards the cliff. We should be able to control it but can't. It's in our genes and that's just the way it is.
If we could get over our arrogance as a species that we are superior we could probably change the outcome. Mother nature will always win, for better or worse.
So I guess my answer is, there's nothing wrong with us-it's just what we are. It's also a miracle we've made it as far as we have.
Well, that's the narrative that's been pushed on us for the last hundred years or so.
I guess they've done a pretty good job of convincing us...
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/who-will-be-brave-in-huxleys-new
I'm not sure what you mean by pushing the narrative. Darwinism?
I read all the links and am going to download the rest. Thanks. We're in a trio of brave new world, animal farm and surpassed 1984 to varying degrees. Wonder if these are on the banned book list?
Given the links, do you think it's coincidence that John Hopkins is "researching" psylocibin as a cure for PTSD, anxiety and depression, and it's function is to "enhance suggestibility"? And psylocibin is being legalized as well as cannabis and the country was flooded with Rx opioids?
I'm surrounded by people who use hallucinogens (Ayahuasca LSD and mushrooms) and if we get the entire country on them we're in lots and lots of trouble. Great way to escape from reality. I just wish the blue aliens or talking trees would give us some solutions to our problems. Haven't heard any tho.....
Course I might be wrong, maybe Einstein, Oppenheimer and all the rest used mushrooms.......
We're nothing but animals, living a slightly advanced animal existence.
It's a dog eat dog, eat or be eaten world out there and that's all we have to look forward to. So go for the gusto! Grab as much as you can while you are still able to. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.
There is no God. You have no soul. There is nothing beyond this extremely limited framework. The Perennial Philosophy passed down through the ages is nothing more than naive superstition not worth looking into...
Maybe your children's, children's, children will live in the Technological Utopia we promised you but maybe not.
That's the narrative that's been foisted on us.
Darwinism works to explain a certain segment of life on earth but as a means of explaining all of existence, it falls decidedly short.
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/who-will-brave-in-huxleys-new-world
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-the-counterculture
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle
We have been intentionally led to believe... whatever they have wanted us to believe.
But perhaps, just perhaps, there is much more to us than meets the eye...
I hope you take no offence, but that sounds like a cop-out. Every species has the means to survive - unless there is a sudden negative change in the ecosphere. We are responsible for sudden changes in the environment and are intelligent enough to know it. It is a matter of special interests : the extremely wealthy - but not over-smart - who think they can build their own, protective ecosphere are the main problem, along with those who profit directly from this agenda.
No, I don't take offense. But I think you should give it some more thought and consideration. Would you feel better if I had concluded with "But we shouldn't give up trying to change things for the better." ? You asked a question and I supplied an answer which is probable. I could say that we are being led by psycho paths and leave it at that but I ask, if this is true why are the majority following them? Propaganda? Lack of intelligence or inability to think for themselves? Don't confuse intelligence with psychopathic tendencies. Psychopaths can be extremely intelligent. "Human nature" for lack of a better term is what it is. Capitalism by definition will bring about it's own collapse. "Human nature" may do the same to humans.
As far as climate change or whatever you like to call it, my stance is we live on a planet with finite resources and should be conserving rather than raping. Eventually we run out of resources. Lowering co2 emissions will not stop pollution, it may increase it. Humans evolved on this planet and are adapted to it. Paradise in a word. For those who think Mars is a solution, I'd love to see them survive in Antarctica for a few years totally cut off from the rest of the world. And that would be a paradise compared to Mars. So it's best to protect what we have here I think.
"Every species has the means to survive -..." Is partially true but millions have gone extinct for other reasons like overconsumption of food resources for one. And consider that humans have brought all this upon themselves in the last hundred years. The quest for better and more. Science is far from perfect. It's what has brought us to where we are and we keep relying on it to solve the very problems it creates. Enough is never enough.
And a final question for you - Do you think we have enough time remaining to "wake people up"? Right now they're in an illusionary dream and when they wake up it'll be to a nightmare. Do you think they want to wake up?
Psychopaths are, by definition, unusual. They are not the norm. If they were we wouldn't notice them because there would be no anomaly: what they do would seem quite acceptable. But that isn't the case. It's our way of life, our educational and belief systems that are at fault. Why do people believe crazy, destructive religious beliefs? Usually out of fear of the next world and hellfire, while this world and life turns into hell. We are intelligent enough to solve and or prevent our problems, but that intelligence is mixed with superstition. They start early instilling bullshit, often even before school age. Do we have the time to reverse all the harm? I hope so, but it doesn't seem likely. That is the tragedy of humanity - and planet Earth.
My pessimistic attitude stems from the fact that I've been trying to "wake" people up for the last 20 years and haven't been able to change one person's mind. Not to say that some haven't been awake out of the people I've known.but they've been few. And not all of those shared the same political or religious beliefs as me. But we could still have a discussion and consider the other opinion and even change opinions after discussing it. That's all changed drastically for the worse in the last 20 years. For the last 40 years things have been on the decline in the US. The driving force was Reaganomics. It goes back further to 1913 and the income tax and federal reserve system. But in 2000 the internet got into full swing and we had y2k when the government tapped all our communication. You are probably old enough to remember party lines for telephones. Well now the old biddy listening in to the gossip is the federal government. Y2K was total bs for the reasons given. It was a fabricated lie to install hardware and software in the network system. Then 1 year later 911 and the Patriot Act and Homeland Security. Homeland=Fatherland (Hitler), the Patriot Act removed all our constitutional rights and 911 as a date to remind people of an emergency. Brilliant word play you have to admit. Shrub2 was selected by the supreme court. Then the AIG economic collapse where everyone's money just disappeared without a trace and the government bailed them out. The Iraq war initially called Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL). Need I go on since it just gets worse? It's all been accomplished in plain sight and literally shoved in our faces. And to point out the obvious you get labeled a conspiracy theorist or a doomsayer. Our country has been turned into an Auschwitz camp with no barbed wire. Enhanced techniques from Hitler and the Third Reich. Welcome to the Fourth Reich, courtesy of the military industrial complex. What else would Nazi fascists want for an industrial base?
Optimism is good but realism is better. Humanity is being shaped and tailored slowly by the powers that be. Eugenics on a massive scale is probably the best description. Maybe genocide is better since it's been done in the past to great success.
Here we are on Caitlins substack where the vast majority agree with everything thing she writes including myself. But I've not seen one plan of action for righting the problems other than waking people up. Talking isn't working. It's time to start planning. Running out of food,fuel and shelter are going to be the wake up and that's soon to come as the US government is doing everything it can to hasten it. So I feel sorry for the younger generation so (and Good Kitty) who will bear the consequences since there is nothing they can do to realistically change it. There are too many barriers in the way and the attacks on Americans are accelerating now by the day.
Superstition? Superstition is just one of the tools used supplemented with fear. Religion is steeped in it. For those who no longer believe in Angels and Demons they have been replaced by space aliens as saviours or the cause of our problems to shift the focus. The National Enquirer and Midnight Globe have been elevated to a congressional committee investigation of UAPs. Reality is whatever the government makes it. A Shrub II agenda. And let's put all the research from mk ultra into practice and flood the US with drugs to help out propagating the propaganda. Legalize them and let the people do it willingly. According to John Hopkins university, psylocibin works best.
Like cellphones so they can track us, know what we say and think and our social network. As Snowden said it's all about control. We're all on a sinking boat and our government is drilling holes in the bottom to let the water out.
So in the end we're not any different than cattle or sheep that have been domesticated for slaughter. A few are still wild and free but the majority are ready to go willingly but unknowingly to the slaughter house. If they were let free they wouldn't know what to do.
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember, and the memories are like a heavy weight on my spirit. Things like 9/11- what was that? Who could believe the narrative? But it's a sacred lie and can't be discussed with any skepticism. Something like the last name, Rich, in connection with some Hillary servers? I was instructed by a blogger online, never to mention that name.
All of the US objectives in provoking this war are failing - with the exceptions of increasing US LNG exports to Europe, expanding fracking everywhere, deindustrializing Germany, and feeding US defense industry profits.
The proxy war is having exactly the opposite effects: Russia is strategically and militarily stronger; Europe is on the verge of fragmenting; China is expanding influence and power via BRICS; the US dollar is being undermined and displaced as the world's reserve currency; US "prestige" is further tainted; and US domestic chaos accelerating as austerity expands.
I'm somewhat less optimistic than you.
Yes, in truth, all the BRICS realize the danger posed by the US Empire and are opposed to it, but they fall into two general blocs as to how they play the global situation:
1. China, Russia, and now Iran are in a bloc of declared Empire enemies. They share an interest in working together to directly oppose the Empire.
2. The others, led by India and Brazil, are nominally "neutral" (or in the case of Saudi Arabia, still nominally an Empire "ally"). While having long-term incentives to work with the enemies bloc to ensure that they are free from control of (and possible punishment by) the Empire, this bloc does have incentives to advance its short-term interests by playing between the Empire and the Enemies. This will make the work of the BRICS as a unified force to oppose the global hegemony of the Empire a task requiring careful diplomacy.
A particular area in which we can observe this difficulty is in the formation of financial systems outside those controlled by the Empire. After seeing what was done to Russia, every BRIC nation (and any others currently outside the Empire) have been put on notice that they need to take action to develop systems that protect themselves from the possibility of having the same happen to them. But the pseudo-neutral nations need to advance carefully to avoid being placed in the Enemies bloc before they are ready to fully defend their interests against the Empire.
I completely agree - I was focused more on the strategic advances of Russia and China, and not the specific BRICS members and those in process of joining. And I didn't even mention the US "loss" of Saudi, which destroys the fulcrum of US strategy in the Middle East.
I also agree with you that the BRICS evolution (and decline of US dollar and Empire) will be incremental - unless there is either a climate collapse (e.g. food supply) or nuclear war.
Biden and the democrats will be able to suppress these truths until after the '24 elections.
The only check on power is power.
And the two party electoral system in the US is dead as a door nail. The entire POTUS election cycle is a mockery of an open democracy.
Why are you using Soros watchwords like "open" when the electoral system was never intended to be such, and accordingly is not? If you were half the mythsmith your Jung copypasta would suggest, you would see that elections are a mythical construct in pursuit of particular social objects. Either you are a shitty mythsmith who is incompetent to do the work, or you are a fucking perpetrator shitlib trying to preserve the problem. Which is it?
What do you mean. "dead"?
As in - anyone who the oligarchs really don't want as POTUS will end up dead if they even happen to manage to win the primaries.
From the oligarch perspective, from the perspective of keeping and wielding power, the system is working jimdandy.
What is "jimdandy" ?
"Jim dandy" = "peachy" "ducky" "just great".
No, this is slave talk. Power is the
1) hidden
2) potential for
3) action.
All three legs need to be present for sociological power to exist. Overt potential for action is not power (it's force). Covert actual action is not power (it's action). Hidden potential for things not action is not power (it's mystery).
Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action. Caitlin seems to be banking on exposure and demystification.
"Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action."
This also is the use of power. What Caitlyn is doing is trying to get people to question the legitimacy of the existing system. Take away legitimacy, and Biden's power extends no further than his reach.
Americans may not realize it but we are some of the most brainwashed people in history. For 80 years we have been fed from the Kool Aid Fountain of Freedom, taught that Capitalism is good, socialism bad, that the voting booth is the best way for change (if voting really changed things they would have outlawed it), to chant my country right or wrong, to support the troops, that we defend freedom around the world, to worship the enlisted men and women on city lamposts. We are conditioned to mutter "thank you for your service" to any military person and not question why they are fighting our endless wars. That we are the Leader of the Free World (whatever that means).
The reality is that we have been ruled by an oligarchy that only cares for itself, in cahoots with the MIC which generates obscene profits for its tight circle of sycophants. This tight knit and secretive group is run like an exclusive club-- who is kept out matters more than who is let in. They engage in coup d'etats around the world and if thousands get killed in the process, they call it collateral damage and wash their hands of it (200,000 Guatemalans were killed in the 30 year military rule after the US sponsored coup of 1954)
How do you get the American public out of its zombie-like slumber to not parrot what they have been force-fed for 80 years? It is a tall order. But keep talking and writing about it even if your interlocutors want to shut you off and switch the topic and react with silence.
If I had a cure for cognitive dissonance, I would have shared it a long time ago....
First of all, you have to choose your battles. For one thing, write off the professional-managerial class. Either they have already gotten it from the material available, or their salary and their social capital depends on not getting it. In the first case they can be benign and even helpful but keep a polite distance. In the second case they are the enemy and should be fed lies and disinformation and abuse constantly until they tap out.
People who know these facts, don't know what to do about it. "Vote" you say. Been there; done that.