1. When it doesn't simply ignore inconvenient laws and that pesky Bill of Rights, the CIA also simply outsources spying on US citizens to its foreign puppets, particularly the British.
2. Re Ukraine. The latest modified limited hangout begs the following questions:
A. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why did the CIA have to change its story so many times?
B. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why didn't they do anything about it? A simple "bitch, cut it out!" would have sufficed.
C. If Ukraine blew up NS, why didn't Germany invoke Article 5 and demand that NATO attack Ukraine, the way the US did after 9/11?
Cats tend to have more earthy and earthly concerns.
Flippant remarks aside, I was thinking of The Dreyfus Affair, which rocked France a little over 100 years ago.
At some point, it became increasingly impossible to contest that Dreyfus was entirely innocent of all charges against him, and that he was an honorable and brave man to boot. Not only that - his accusers were not merely wrong, they were liars, forgers and in fact had committed many of the crimes that Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly punished and humiliated for. Still, a large segment of French opinionmakers continued to insist that Dreyfus must be punished and his sentence upheld, *even* *though* he was an innocent man. Because army, France, patriotism, God, flag, honor, and all matter of tearjerker stuff.
That after he was finally freed form Devil's Island (no lie!), Dreyfus continued to loyally serve in the French Army through WWI and beyond is a testament to something, but I don't know what.
Now that the CIA has duly assured us that it was in fact Ukraine that blew up NS, after the CIA told us something else entirely different for months, why are we so sure that Ukraine didn't blow up the Novaya Kakhovka Dam and not Russia like the CIA is telling us now?
I've tried to reopen my US voter's registration, and look forward to returning to my redneck Cancer Valley, Frackistan to support Dr West, but picture DNC's trying to maintain plausible deniability in what's to ensue? LBJ did! LLM algorithms apparently run US' empire, as our senile kleptocrats fly off to Pluto or Gault's Gulch. As we all inch ever closer to some kid with a SMAW taking out a 1,300' Billionaire Row luxury condo or flattening Zeebrugge, lighting-up a QMax LNG tanker, triggering the next big distraction? I've a number of friends, mostly poor-ass or "minoritized" uppity essentials, who've been losing loved-ones since a few months after COVID, they'd had to work through. Now, they're dying of "natural causes, quietly in their sleep" (seven dear coworker friends, so far for me? A few others, unable to retire, getting re-re-reinfected & it's just the "sniffles, pollen, smoke from Canada's Glyphosate dessicated permafrost... WTF Ever!?"
And, to boot, in connection with 9/11 -sort of- the US attacked two, entirely innocent countries. Killed millions. G.W. called it a boo-boo - or equivalent. JC, tell me, is there anything more indecent, brutal, in the history of the world than the US/Britain? You'd be forgiven for thinking - just for a moment- that it was a prearranged plan. Yeah, the Ukraine thing. You'd almost think the West actually loves Nazis, or at least , has no strong objections. They come in useful at times. Anything Ukraine might blow up has the go-ahead, we may be sure - of team Britain/US and other 3 aye-ayes. Saluters.
I think they do most of all their own dirty work of ignoring Americans rights all by their own damn self, they don't need the UK, except in the limited situations where getting caught is highly likely. But they are protected in all their garbage as much like police and their blue wall of silence there is a red white and blue wall identical AF
Way back, John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia, on returning from time spent at President George W. Bush' ranch pre-Iraq II War, annunciated Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine and troubled his very important self to explain that we reserve the exclusive right to attack another country if, by our exclusive reckoning, they pose an unacceptable threat, however defined. Nuclear armed or otherwise and so, quite ecumenical about who they will kill.
None of these "leaders" are clinically insane, albeit functionally crazy.
This then causes those other countries to give serious thought to the doctrine themselves and Daniel Ellsberg in his book The Doomsday Machine works though the intellectual convolutions that attend this.
Possession of nuclear weapons is one thing. Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine for nuclear armed states invites consideration of a first strike.
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Mr. Anders Rasmussen, economics graduate and tax expert, also a former NATO head, is now boosting (his Washington approved address) for all the weapons systems The Ukraine can use to finish their campaign quickly, so they get to their main threat - China!
No loss of the plot line here.
Functionally crazy or clinically insane?
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Consigliere Victoria Nuland, Capodecina Joe and Family Goombas have nowhere to go except to double down. They are all war criminals in Washington - London - Brussels - Kyiv now.
Like a Mafia Capodecina, Washington can never lose face and must go to war to avoid so.
One of the bad effects of lying constantly is that the person doing it loses the ability to differentiate between truth and lies. Since a lie, being soft and amorphous, can almost always be generated to fit a problem or situation, it is always easier to make up a lie than to seek out the truth. Habitual liars then not only lose the ability to differentiate between truth and lies, they also lose their sense of self, because lying about everything includes lying about oneself to oneself. In effect the liars no longer know who they are or what they are doing. Such people also lose the ability to form real relationships with other persons and cannot tell their friends from their enemies or adversaries and will find it difficult to defend themselves. They become the enemies of their own people, of themselves.
This process, which we might call "losing oneself", goes by various names in psychiatric literature, and intervention may be invoked, but no one can intervene in the case of persons of great power. Downfall approaches inexorably although it may come as a surprise to many.
Hence the silly foofarah about who blew up the pipeline. We know.
Why I'd despised TV's silly ass SPIN on advertising (Mad Men), politics (BOSS), cops vs mobs (The Wire, Justified), spook-dom (basically ALL of them!) & Cartels (Gomorrah) all pretty great, yet cut vital corners? It's totally necessary for US bourgeois PMC & yuppie liberals to recite ever more preposterously BLATANT horseshit as incantations, to absolve them from painful, contradictory & exponentially terrifying reality; they have people FOR that! Shrinks, media & K Street social networking advocacy solutions firms make shit UP, to provide a calming little hit of dopamine to our betters? My mom's friends all made the jump from daily newspapers to advertising & PR firms; such that EVERYTHING they cherished as truth & beauty, was absolute BS?
The propaganda on blowing up the dam is even worse than the nordstream lies.
In the last 2 days in US media, I've heard variants of the absurdity that the Russians only meant to blow up the road on the top of the dam to block Ukrainian offensive mission. But they made a mistake and blew the whole thing up!
US propagandists are also ramping up on the risks from the nuclear power plant (the one where Russians are bombing their own troops occupying the plant grounds). It is a distinct possibility that the insane Ukrainians will blow that plant up and trigger a nuclear war.
Zelensky knows he is a dead man and that Ukraine is doomed and can not win, so he is playing these insane games to get NATO and the US directly involved in the war. That is his only way out.
Hilarious, to watch Greta buy into intentionally preposterous Bellingcat agitprop, unquestioningly; despite unremitting G7, Atlantic Council lies. We're bamboozled by our bosses, landlords & creditors' nepo intern shills; Google's SEOd their lies from yesteryear down it's memory hole, iPhones send petit-bourgois & PMC investors exclusively to echo-chamber links, unavailable to us piss-poor proles' Android or Huawei phones? Here's a pretty insightful conversation about US excess mortality, where cherry picked, K Street/ libertarian think-tank captured government, media & academia-manipulated data's actually taken into consideration:
Thunberg is a paid-up member of the upper-middle class and its reproductive concerns. She isn't "buying in"; she's asserting her essential qualifications as a righteous and pure moral Judge, and wasting everyone else's time on her self-regarding spectacles as proof of stake.
Don't see what class analysis has to do with the climate emergency. But it is being used to discredit climate science and the need for radical changes (openly falsely claiming that climate policies are part of some elite agenda). Again, I hope you're not duped either - take a look at who's making these arguments - the paranoid style:
Corporate & Republican Manipulation of “Moran” Nation – Green is the New Red
Nothing, but it has everything to do with their focus on futile performances rather than direct action and ending capitalist relations (those might actually hurt the family fortune). See Veblen, "A Theory of the Leisure Class".
AGW has been catastrophe Capitalism's feeding frenzy 101, since before being noted, in 1824; being calculated in 1896 & being admitted by API in 1965? For PMC white-flight suburbanite US commuters, jet-set liberals & Yuppie PMC it was appropriated, co-opted & spun into virtue-signalling MASS rallies, but they'd LOTED in those who've unleashed "our" party's FRACKING, cracking & bitumen champions. Picked WAR to rescue LNG export. Blew up Nord Stream & shorted Asian AGW-mitigating suppliers & are hurriedly converting scores-of-thousands NYC boilers to fracked Marcellus gas. It's ALL about resurecting Obama's 2008 G20 planet-destroying collapsed bridge-fuel scam. https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/15/louisiana-plaquemines-parish-hurricanes-evacuation-venture-global-lng-export-debt-ceiling/
So many other causal factors are operating, in addition to COVID. Gun violence, suicide, drug overdoses, alcoholism, etc have a far larger impact than COVID, especially when you consider the demographics and age distribution of each causal factor, (e.g. gun violence, drug OD's, and suicide happen to much younger people than COVID deaths).
No idea what you're driving at with the Greta remark, but I hope you're not duped by the corporate climate deniers' lies about WEF, Soros, and elites seeking to make us all eats bugs and take our gas stoves and hamburgers away - these are the same folks who said UN black helicopters were going to invade and impose one world government to implement Al Gore's Sustainable Development Program.
In regards to Ukraine I once got into a text argument with some of my friends from a military college we all went to and asked, "If we were being lied to about Afghanistan for almost two decades how can we trust the information we're being given now?"
Exactly. Moreover, many people are becoming aware of the government’s actions so the new propaganda twist is to get the Sheeple to blame the private sector for spying, and trust the government to tell us the truth. It’s 1984 upside down and then upside down again. The minute we start discussing information that comes from the Washington Post f’r chrissake, we’re lost. It’s called co-opting and is as old as the hills.
Exactly - people are now hearing about abuses of digital facial recognition, cameras, AI, and police surveillance.
It's been going on for over a decade. For example, take a look at the police surveillance videoing anti-fracking protesters in Philadelphia on 9/20/12 (scroll down to see photo exposing this abuse):
One of the premier problems with "brinkmanship", is that it doesn't have and end game. It's a deliberate and intentional ride down the slippery slope, and it's primarily predicated on the idea that "the other guy" will turn away first in this deadly game of international "chicken".
In this case, it's especially foolish because Russia and Putin clearly see this entire affair for what it is,; An existential threat to their sovereignty and future existence. Basically, for the US it's a fun, low risk "away game" whereby they can try things they'd never try in a home game. For Europe, "away" isn't nearly as far, and for Russia, this is a home invasion at 3:00 in the morning.
Brinkmanship isn't going to work, because for Russia, it's zero sum, binary- continue to prevail and exist, or lose, and cease to be a nation state.
There is no scenario where Russia will "lose", because losing isn't an option for them. Pushed to the brink, they will nuke Ukraine, whole or in part, and if that doesn't "sit well" with some, probably, every capitol in Europe.
Love them or hate them, but never forget what they sacrificed in WWII, and the lesson it teaches us; They will go to maximum lengths to ensure their survival! They've done it before, and they WILL do it again.
Whereas here in the US, for all intensive purposes, we've never even been invaded.
The stark difference in the collective psyche of the two nations, cannot even be compared.
When The Wall fell and H.W. Bush declared a New World Order, I knew right then it was only a matter of time. There would be no stopping Washington. It will be interesting to see if Russia can. You can guess whom I'm pulling for. :)
When the whole world comes to the realisation that a hundred American dollars is actually worth around ten British pennies, the USA will probably fire every working nuke in its arsenal, just because the second biggest lie in the world has been exposed.
Well, going through difficult times in personal lives is considered good for "growing up" and strengthening one's character. For the world as a whole it's somewhat similar.
The problem is that often people waste that gained knowledge, and the world as a whole appears to do it every single time.
The famous Christian Sigmund Freud is credited with the following: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
Why am I supposed to care about the feelings of some PMC ass who had some interesting models of the human mind of his time? What kind of ontological error makes you care about the feelings of dead people?
“…..A disturbing new Responsible Statecraft piece by Branko Marcetic notes that the civilian leadership roles in the US government which have historically been responsible for reining in the more dangerous impulses of the US war machine have actually been far more hawkish and aggressive on Ukraine than the Pentagon’s professional warmakers. According to a recent Washington Post report, inside the Biden administration “the Pentagon is considered more cautious than the White House or State Department about sending more sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine.”…..
I think this remark skips over an important point about the composition of what is described as “White House and State Department”.
Why?
Well first remember that Biden is a stooge. He came into office because the warmongers in the three latter egencies wanted Trump out and once they saw the GOP would not remove Trump they threw all kinds of accusations including false “intelligence” like “Russiagate” at him, and supported Biden. I have never seen any Dems candidate get mass support of warmongers like Biden and Clinton.
Second, understand that for many years, career diplomats have been LEAVING State Dept in droves. Why? Because they could no longer get anywhere.
Why is that, if you look closely the top ranks of what used to be diplomatic core is now filled with obvious three letter agency head of station types. Go around most countries in the world where the US is meddling or spying and look at the career CV of the “ambassador” - they are rather obviously spooks. Its not like William Burns or George Bush was any kind of exception. This has been a growing trend for years.
Furthermore, the White House and State Deparment’s political appointees, also stuffed with three letter agency types like Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan etc. These are the war hawk faction of Langley, not “diplomats”.
The three letter agencies are not civilians, they are military actually. They are part of the pentagon, just not in uniform..
News noted by Seymour Hersh in his column recently: Deputy Sec of State Wendy Sherman just “resigned “ today, tipped to be replaced by none other than….Victoria Nuland. Yes, Victoria “F…the EU” Nuland. Need we say any more?
America does not have diplomats or a diplomatic core. A bunch of rabid spooks used Biden as a cutout and they are running the show. Spooks so rabid that the in-uniformed side of the pentagon is scared of the damage they are wiling to do, planning to do, and DOING.
Dont talk about diplomats or whatever. There are not. America is a country with rogue faction of the military as their national “leadership”, is the problem. Biden is just a frontman so that people do not understand a coup has happened.
Indeed, 'What a time to be alive' - eat, drink and be merry.....SBS TV here in Australia recently ran 'Dr Strangelove' but perhaps it's time for Hollywood to do a remake of On The Beach.
Don't know if you know this but it started out as a serious anti war movie like "Paths to Glory", but when he started writing the script realized the absurdity of the whole thing and changed it to a satire.
If you look closely at the scene of the b52 flying over Alaska you can see shadows of propellers on the ground. He decided to leave it in. My favorite scene was Slim Pickens riding the Hbomb down strapped between his legs. The ultimate phallic phantasy.
From what I've seen in the people around me is the expanding awareness leads to expanding all encompassing stupidity.
Google?
If the government is truly a plutocracy then google is an arm of the government . There was a recent article about police departments purchasing information to prosecute women online talking about getting abortions. Personally I think that "go ogle" IS the NSA or CIA and always has been.
My question about COVID is "Why was the gain of function research being done in China?" All with Faucis approval. What were the effects?
- Killed over 2 million Americans (the highest number in the world).
- Shut down the economy and put small businesses out of business.
- Enriched pharma companies.
- Transferred more wealth upwards.
- Increased the debt with $2000 relief checks (one months rent maybe?).
- Created the current economic crisis.
- Isolated people from each other.
- Lost education of children.
- No accountability for the "accident" since it was in China ( and you can't trust the Chinese.)
- COVID is not over yet. There are still cases appearing- John Hopkins has shut down its tracking and monitoring.
And much more.
I've read the ridiculous reason as to why China was chosen and they make no sense. Fauci flip flopped on everything he said and was never investigated and was portrayed a savior.
I believe that the constitution is basically a sound document as it can be amended. However it's founders never foresaw that Americans would sink to the level of gullibility and stupidity we have achieved.
Trump running for president again after flaunting too secret documents to his golfing buddies says it all. Now it's being discussed "Can he pardon himself if elected?". Are these people serious? And everything is being done for our SAFETY.
This is what happens when the leaders of the country you live in - hate and care little for their people. They can go hide in their new underground bases and push the buttons . But this also is very very dangerous because other countries are thinking - maybe we should bypass our Nuke agreement - to never use nukes offensively, and think of taking these major targets out while these psychopaths are above ground. If you think Russia isn't Re-Thinking their options against an insane Washington DC, London, BruSSels and the rest - think again.
1. When it doesn't simply ignore inconvenient laws and that pesky Bill of Rights, the CIA also simply outsources spying on US citizens to its foreign puppets, particularly the British.
2. Re Ukraine. The latest modified limited hangout begs the following questions:
A. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why did the CIA have to change its story so many times?
B. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why didn't they do anything about it? A simple "bitch, cut it out!" would have sufficed.
C. If Ukraine blew up NS, why didn't Germany invoke Article 5 and demand that NATO attack Ukraine, the way the US did after 9/11?
Now Zelensky can blame aliens for the pipeline attacks.
And that will be the ultimate proof of their existence for the West.
You have failed to adapt to the post-truth world.
Cats tend to have more earthy and earthly concerns.
Flippant remarks aside, I was thinking of The Dreyfus Affair, which rocked France a little over 100 years ago.
At some point, it became increasingly impossible to contest that Dreyfus was entirely innocent of all charges against him, and that he was an honorable and brave man to boot. Not only that - his accusers were not merely wrong, they were liars, forgers and in fact had committed many of the crimes that Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly punished and humiliated for. Still, a large segment of French opinionmakers continued to insist that Dreyfus must be punished and his sentence upheld, *even* *though* he was an innocent man. Because army, France, patriotism, God, flag, honor, and all matter of tearjerker stuff.
That after he was finally freed form Devil's Island (no lie!), Dreyfus continued to loyally serve in the French Army through WWI and beyond is a testament to something, but I don't know what.
And D. comes to mind:
Now that the CIA has duly assured us that it was in fact Ukraine that blew up NS, after the CIA told us something else entirely different for months, why are we so sure that Ukraine didn't blow up the Novaya Kakhovka Dam and not Russia like the CIA is telling us now?
I've tried to reopen my US voter's registration, and look forward to returning to my redneck Cancer Valley, Frackistan to support Dr West, but picture DNC's trying to maintain plausible deniability in what's to ensue? LBJ did! LLM algorithms apparently run US' empire, as our senile kleptocrats fly off to Pluto or Gault's Gulch. As we all inch ever closer to some kid with a SMAW taking out a 1,300' Billionaire Row luxury condo or flattening Zeebrugge, lighting-up a QMax LNG tanker, triggering the next big distraction? I've a number of friends, mostly poor-ass or "minoritized" uppity essentials, who've been losing loved-ones since a few months after COVID, they'd had to work through. Now, they're dying of "natural causes, quietly in their sleep" (seven dear coworker friends, so far for me? A few others, unable to retire, getting re-re-reinfected & it's just the "sniffles, pollen, smoke from Canada's Glyphosate dessicated permafrost... WTF Ever!?"
And, to boot, in connection with 9/11 -sort of- the US attacked two, entirely innocent countries. Killed millions. G.W. called it a boo-boo - or equivalent. JC, tell me, is there anything more indecent, brutal, in the history of the world than the US/Britain? You'd be forgiven for thinking - just for a moment- that it was a prearranged plan. Yeah, the Ukraine thing. You'd almost think the West actually loves Nazis, or at least , has no strong objections. They come in useful at times. Anything Ukraine might blow up has the go-ahead, we may be sure - of team Britain/US and other 3 aye-ayes. Saluters.
I think they do most of all their own dirty work of ignoring Americans rights all by their own damn self, they don't need the UK, except in the limited situations where getting caught is highly likely. But they are protected in all their garbage as much like police and their blue wall of silence there is a red white and blue wall identical AF
Such matters examined further from a geo-strategic perspective . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/
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Way back, John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia, on returning from time spent at President George W. Bush' ranch pre-Iraq II War, annunciated Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine and troubled his very important self to explain that we reserve the exclusive right to attack another country if, by our exclusive reckoning, they pose an unacceptable threat, however defined. Nuclear armed or otherwise and so, quite ecumenical about who they will kill.
None of these "leaders" are clinically insane, albeit functionally crazy.
This then causes those other countries to give serious thought to the doctrine themselves and Daniel Ellsberg in his book The Doomsday Machine works though the intellectual convolutions that attend this.
Possession of nuclear weapons is one thing. Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine for nuclear armed states invites consideration of a first strike.
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Mr. Anders Rasmussen, economics graduate and tax expert, also a former NATO head, is now boosting (his Washington approved address) for all the weapons systems The Ukraine can use to finish their campaign quickly, so they get to their main threat - China!
No loss of the plot line here.
Functionally crazy or clinically insane?
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Consigliere Victoria Nuland, Capodecina Joe and Family Goombas have nowhere to go except to double down. They are all war criminals in Washington - London - Brussels - Kyiv now.
Like a Mafia Capodecina, Washington can never lose face and must go to war to avoid so.
One of the bad effects of lying constantly is that the person doing it loses the ability to differentiate between truth and lies. Since a lie, being soft and amorphous, can almost always be generated to fit a problem or situation, it is always easier to make up a lie than to seek out the truth. Habitual liars then not only lose the ability to differentiate between truth and lies, they also lose their sense of self, because lying about everything includes lying about oneself to oneself. In effect the liars no longer know who they are or what they are doing. Such people also lose the ability to form real relationships with other persons and cannot tell their friends from their enemies or adversaries and will find it difficult to defend themselves. They become the enemies of their own people, of themselves.
This process, which we might call "losing oneself", goes by various names in psychiatric literature, and intervention may be invoked, but no one can intervene in the case of persons of great power. Downfall approaches inexorably although it may come as a surprise to many.
Hence the silly foofarah about who blew up the pipeline. We know.
Why I'd despised TV's silly ass SPIN on advertising (Mad Men), politics (BOSS), cops vs mobs (The Wire, Justified), spook-dom (basically ALL of them!) & Cartels (Gomorrah) all pretty great, yet cut vital corners? It's totally necessary for US bourgeois PMC & yuppie liberals to recite ever more preposterously BLATANT horseshit as incantations, to absolve them from painful, contradictory & exponentially terrifying reality; they have people FOR that! Shrinks, media & K Street social networking advocacy solutions firms make shit UP, to provide a calming little hit of dopamine to our betters? My mom's friends all made the jump from daily newspapers to advertising & PR firms; such that EVERYTHING they cherished as truth & beauty, was absolute BS?
I found The Wire, with its successive tales of institutional corruption, to be most instructive.
The propaganda on blowing up the dam is even worse than the nordstream lies.
In the last 2 days in US media, I've heard variants of the absurdity that the Russians only meant to blow up the road on the top of the dam to block Ukrainian offensive mission. But they made a mistake and blew the whole thing up!
US propagandists are also ramping up on the risks from the nuclear power plant (the one where Russians are bombing their own troops occupying the plant grounds). It is a distinct possibility that the insane Ukrainians will blow that plant up and trigger a nuclear war.
Zelensky knows he is a dead man and that Ukraine is doomed and can not win, so he is playing these insane games to get NATO and the US directly involved in the war. That is his only way out.
Hilarious, to watch Greta buy into intentionally preposterous Bellingcat agitprop, unquestioningly; despite unremitting G7, Atlantic Council lies. We're bamboozled by our bosses, landlords & creditors' nepo intern shills; Google's SEOd their lies from yesteryear down it's memory hole, iPhones send petit-bourgois & PMC investors exclusively to echo-chamber links, unavailable to us piss-poor proles' Android or Huawei phones? Here's a pretty insightful conversation about US excess mortality, where cherry picked, K Street/ libertarian think-tank captured government, media & academia-manipulated data's actually taken into consideration:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/06/annual-numbers-of-excess-deaths-in-the-us-relative-to-other-developed-countries-are-growing-at-an-alarming-rate.html#comment-3897160
Thunberg is a paid-up member of the upper-middle class and its reproductive concerns. She isn't "buying in"; she's asserting her essential qualifications as a righteous and pure moral Judge, and wasting everyone else's time on her self-regarding spectacles as proof of stake.
Don't see what class analysis has to do with the climate emergency. But it is being used to discredit climate science and the need for radical changes (openly falsely claiming that climate policies are part of some elite agenda). Again, I hope you're not duped either - take a look at who's making these arguments - the paranoid style:
Corporate & Republican Manipulation of “Moran” Nation – Green is the New Red
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2009/09/corporate-republican-manipulation-of-moran-nation-green-is-the-new-red/
Nothing, but it has everything to do with their focus on futile performances rather than direct action and ending capitalist relations (those might actually hurt the family fortune). See Veblen, "A Theory of the Leisure Class".
Got it. Agree.
AGW has been catastrophe Capitalism's feeding frenzy 101, since before being noted, in 1824; being calculated in 1896 & being admitted by API in 1965? For PMC white-flight suburbanite US commuters, jet-set liberals & Yuppie PMC it was appropriated, co-opted & spun into virtue-signalling MASS rallies, but they'd LOTED in those who've unleashed "our" party's FRACKING, cracking & bitumen champions. Picked WAR to rescue LNG export. Blew up Nord Stream & shorted Asian AGW-mitigating suppliers & are hurriedly converting scores-of-thousands NYC boilers to fracked Marcellus gas. It's ALL about resurecting Obama's 2008 G20 planet-destroying collapsed bridge-fuel scam. https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/15/louisiana-plaquemines-parish-hurricanes-evacuation-venture-global-lng-export-debt-ceiling/
So many other causal factors are operating, in addition to COVID. Gun violence, suicide, drug overdoses, alcoholism, etc have a far larger impact than COVID, especially when you consider the demographics and age distribution of each causal factor, (e.g. gun violence, drug OD's, and suicide happen to much younger people than COVID deaths).
No idea what you're driving at with the Greta remark, but I hope you're not duped by the corporate climate deniers' lies about WEF, Soros, and elites seeking to make us all eats bugs and take our gas stoves and hamburgers away - these are the same folks who said UN black helicopters were going to invade and impose one world government to implement Al Gore's Sustainable Development Program.
Beautifully said!!!
Yet, it had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING I'd written?
Is this to me? It ended up in my inbox. But no, I never read what you write.
In regards to Ukraine I once got into a text argument with some of my friends from a military college we all went to and asked, "If we were being lied to about Afghanistan for almost two decades how can we trust the information we're being given now?"
We are not marching towards dystopia, we have been living in it for quite some time.
Exactly. Moreover, many people are becoming aware of the government’s actions so the new propaganda twist is to get the Sheeple to blame the private sector for spying, and trust the government to tell us the truth. It’s 1984 upside down and then upside down again. The minute we start discussing information that comes from the Washington Post f’r chrissake, we’re lost. It’s called co-opting and is as old as the hills.
Exactly - people are now hearing about abuses of digital facial recognition, cameras, AI, and police surveillance.
It's been going on for over a decade. For example, take a look at the police surveillance videoing anti-fracking protesters in Philadelphia on 9/20/12 (scroll down to see photo exposing this abuse):
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2012/09/from-the-corporate-suites-pennsylvania-gov-corbett-attacks-thousands-in-the-streets/
I forgot to mention digital license plate scan technology. I have personal experience as a victim of that.
Also:
Western Governments: We would like to introduce digital vaccine passports...
People: NO!
WHO: And now we have just recently introduced digital vaccine passports.
People: *silence*
I was expecting "science" there.
One of the premier problems with "brinkmanship", is that it doesn't have and end game. It's a deliberate and intentional ride down the slippery slope, and it's primarily predicated on the idea that "the other guy" will turn away first in this deadly game of international "chicken".
In this case, it's especially foolish because Russia and Putin clearly see this entire affair for what it is,; An existential threat to their sovereignty and future existence. Basically, for the US it's a fun, low risk "away game" whereby they can try things they'd never try in a home game. For Europe, "away" isn't nearly as far, and for Russia, this is a home invasion at 3:00 in the morning.
Brinkmanship isn't going to work, because for Russia, it's zero sum, binary- continue to prevail and exist, or lose, and cease to be a nation state.
There is no scenario where Russia will "lose", because losing isn't an option for them. Pushed to the brink, they will nuke Ukraine, whole or in part, and if that doesn't "sit well" with some, probably, every capitol in Europe.
Love them or hate them, but never forget what they sacrificed in WWII, and the lesson it teaches us; They will go to maximum lengths to ensure their survival! They've done it before, and they WILL do it again.
Whereas here in the US, for all intensive purposes, we've never even been invaded.
The stark difference in the collective psyche of the two nations, cannot even be compared.
When The Wall fell and H.W. Bush declared a New World Order, I knew right then it was only a matter of time. There would be no stopping Washington. It will be interesting to see if Russia can. You can guess whom I'm pulling for. :)
Great analogy on Will Smith's hand!
When the whole world comes to the realisation that a hundred American dollars is actually worth around ten British pennies, the USA will probably fire every working nuke in its arsenal, just because the second biggest lie in the world has been exposed.
And this is why the phrase "May you live in interesting times" is actually a curse.
Well, going through difficult times in personal lives is considered good for "growing up" and strengthening one's character. For the world as a whole it's somewhat similar.
The problem is that often people waste that gained knowledge, and the world as a whole appears to do it every single time.
No, that's just Christian sadomasochism. Faith is nothing more than the love of error, nothing to be proud of.
The famous Christian Sigmund Freud is credited with the following: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
Why am I supposed to care about the feelings of some PMC ass who had some interesting models of the human mind of his time? What kind of ontological error makes you care about the feelings of dead people?
Who said you were? I'm just glad I gave you an opportunity to show off your eloquence.
“…..A disturbing new Responsible Statecraft piece by Branko Marcetic notes that the civilian leadership roles in the US government which have historically been responsible for reining in the more dangerous impulses of the US war machine have actually been far more hawkish and aggressive on Ukraine than the Pentagon’s professional warmakers. According to a recent Washington Post report, inside the Biden administration “the Pentagon is considered more cautious than the White House or State Department about sending more sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine.”…..
I think this remark skips over an important point about the composition of what is described as “White House and State Department”.
Why?
Well first remember that Biden is a stooge. He came into office because the warmongers in the three latter egencies wanted Trump out and once they saw the GOP would not remove Trump they threw all kinds of accusations including false “intelligence” like “Russiagate” at him, and supported Biden. I have never seen any Dems candidate get mass support of warmongers like Biden and Clinton.
Second, understand that for many years, career diplomats have been LEAVING State Dept in droves. Why? Because they could no longer get anywhere.
Why is that, if you look closely the top ranks of what used to be diplomatic core is now filled with obvious three letter agency head of station types. Go around most countries in the world where the US is meddling or spying and look at the career CV of the “ambassador” - they are rather obviously spooks. Its not like William Burns or George Bush was any kind of exception. This has been a growing trend for years.
Furthermore, the White House and State Deparment’s political appointees, also stuffed with three letter agency types like Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan etc. These are the war hawk faction of Langley, not “diplomats”.
The three letter agencies are not civilians, they are military actually. They are part of the pentagon, just not in uniform..
News noted by Seymour Hersh in his column recently: Deputy Sec of State Wendy Sherman just “resigned “ today, tipped to be replaced by none other than….Victoria Nuland. Yes, Victoria “F…the EU” Nuland. Need we say any more?
America does not have diplomats or a diplomatic core. A bunch of rabid spooks used Biden as a cutout and they are running the show. Spooks so rabid that the in-uniformed side of the pentagon is scared of the damage they are wiling to do, planning to do, and DOING.
Dont talk about diplomats or whatever. There are not. America is a country with rogue faction of the military as their national “leadership”, is the problem. Biden is just a frontman so that people do not understand a coup has happened.
Indeed, 'What a time to be alive' - eat, drink and be merry.....SBS TV here in Australia recently ran 'Dr Strangelove' but perhaps it's time for Hollywood to do a remake of On The Beach.
Are you sure it was Kubricks "Dr. Stranglove" and not reality TV?
At the time of production it was considered high farce. Who was to know that subsequent US warhawks would take it as an instruction manual.
One of the best comments I have ever read!
Don't know if you know this but it started out as a serious anti war movie like "Paths to Glory", but when he started writing the script realized the absurdity of the whole thing and changed it to a satire.
If you look closely at the scene of the b52 flying over Alaska you can see shadows of propellers on the ground. He decided to leave it in. My favorite scene was Slim Pickens riding the Hbomb down strapped between his legs. The ultimate phallic phantasy.
From what I've seen in the people around me is the expanding awareness leads to expanding all encompassing stupidity.
Google?
If the government is truly a plutocracy then google is an arm of the government . There was a recent article about police departments purchasing information to prosecute women online talking about getting abortions. Personally I think that "go ogle" IS the NSA or CIA and always has been.
My question about COVID is "Why was the gain of function research being done in China?" All with Faucis approval. What were the effects?
- Killed over 2 million Americans (the highest number in the world).
- Shut down the economy and put small businesses out of business.
- Enriched pharma companies.
- Transferred more wealth upwards.
- Increased the debt with $2000 relief checks (one months rent maybe?).
- Created the current economic crisis.
- Isolated people from each other.
- Lost education of children.
- No accountability for the "accident" since it was in China ( and you can't trust the Chinese.)
- COVID is not over yet. There are still cases appearing- John Hopkins has shut down its tracking and monitoring.
And much more.
I've read the ridiculous reason as to why China was chosen and they make no sense. Fauci flip flopped on everything he said and was never investigated and was portrayed a savior.
I believe that the constitution is basically a sound document as it can be amended. However it's founders never foresaw that Americans would sink to the level of gullibility and stupidity we have achieved.
Trump running for president again after flaunting too secret documents to his golfing buddies says it all. Now it's being discussed "Can he pardon himself if elected?". Are these people serious? And everything is being done for our SAFETY.
This is what happens when the leaders of the country you live in - hate and care little for their people. They can go hide in their new underground bases and push the buttons . But this also is very very dangerous because other countries are thinking - maybe we should bypass our Nuke agreement - to never use nukes offensively, and think of taking these major targets out while these psychopaths are above ground. If you think Russia isn't Re-Thinking their options against an insane Washington DC, London, BruSSels and the rest - think again.