Listen to a reading of this article: We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible. This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road.
Is Biden stupid enough to think he could get away with a limited nuclear war? Really, he is pretty stupid. The question is, are there enough adults in the room to take this insane posturing off the table?
"This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road."
Well, the US is very experienced at following this course. Look at the Korean “open road", a failed episode. The end result, a small US base on the border of South and North Korea, affectionately known as a DMZ (demilitarised zone) now used as a far flung US outpost, one of 800 + around the world.
Then comes Vietnam, a painful retreat, humiliating with little strategic value as a result. The unforgettable pictures of the US departure being something to add to the children’s history lessons on how not to fail. 1. Don’t start a war in the first place, but if you can’t help yourself,….. 2. Know when to quit.
We don't stop there though. Afghanistan, the epitome of “open roads”, a 20 year failure with no benefit at all to the hegemonic US. Did they learn from British failures there. NO. Did they learn from Russian failures there. NO. Something of yet another failure in objective setting, project (war) management and like the others, leaving behind a house full of people who will hate what the US stands for (whatever that is, other than world power and total control), forever.
Throw into the history book the blustering Bush "shock and awe" great big lie philosophy, "the open road" of Iraq, realistically a real brick wall, with the US as yet unentangled from that quagmire. If Biden continues to use the mental capacity of all the Neocon advisers combined, it never will be unentangled until someone comes along and shows the likes of Biden and his corrupted cohorts that they should leave the area (as well as Syria) as the country is not theirs and there is a far better way to do things. In other words, Butt Out!
But don't count on that one. I did forget we are dealing with the exceptional USA.
PS While you are at it, skip all the others countries that have been, still are, or will be targets for your bored but dangerous Israeli-controlled Neocons and concentrate on getting your own house in order.
Last night's Tucker Carlson had him making many statements that sounded like he's been reading Caitlin, or like she's been watching him. He repeatedly referred to many media outlets as being absolute illusions. The NY Times, PMSNBC, etc., all have small audiences, but politicians of the uni-party are terrified of them, and do what they say. He thinks they are the reason that, time and time again, we land in these deadly situations. If we all just ignore them, they will lose all of their power.
It was unnerving, listening to him sound just like Caitlin. His themes were anti-propaganda, anti-intimidation, thinking for yourself, anti-uni-party, and avoiding war.
You may not like him, but when the apocalypse is at stake, I think we should take allies for life anywhere we can find them.
The World Economic Forum has a plan to save themselves from Climate Extinction by sacrificing the rest of the world.
They are the Elites based in Europe, USA, and other Anglophile countries. They recognise that we are all are about to become extinction within a decade or two, unless a drastic reset is performed.
Their reset is reduce the use of fossil fuel which is driving climate change, and to reduce world consumption by wiping out large swathes of human populations through war, famine, pandemic and loss of habitat.
They are using Ukraine to accomplish their goals.
They will not be successful because extinction through climate change is already to far advanced, not just for humans, but for all life on Earth. But the way they see it, is that the many must be sacrificed to save the few worthy and continue humanity and life on Earth.
Assuring people they aren't crazy in a world that seems crazy in every respect, is a very worthy objective. And it is crazy if human values are a consideration, if valuing human life and all life forms on this planet is sane, then it is crazy. But there is a method to the madness. It is no accident or coincidence. So how do we assess that? Well, the filthy rich are getting filthy richer. That's a clue. And democracy, never that robust, looks like a 90 lb weakling against a gorilla in the ring. It's absence isn't even excused anymore. Elections theft is just an add-on for personal profit. The whole system has been hijacked.
Caitlin, you've got a huge blind spot. The problem with my friend's kid's pronouns is what it's all linked to. Things you're missing: i) huge #s of kids' healthy bodies irreversibly harmed, ii) schools teaching blatant biological falsehoods and promoting a religious Cult, iii) erasure of women's sex-based rights--e.g. women are being raped in prison by men-claiming-to-be-women locked in their cells--YES, this is happening; iv) erasure of gains of LGB movement...e.g lesbians attacked for genital fetish for refusing sex with men-who-say-they're-women, e.g. training away the gay, e.g. T+ attacks on LGB-focused groups; v) implosion of the Left...enviro groups that say TransWomenAreWomen have lost all credibility and rightfully so, vi) Kids have learned that saving the world entails fixating on their "genders" and organizing mobs to get people fired for stating biological reality. Instead of solidarity and system-change, they're led by the Big Pharma funded Pied Piper of identity. I'm a life-long environmental and anti-war activist who also fights the Gender Identity Cult. Fighting that Cult is connected to making the huge systemic changes we need to prevent ecological and military Armageddons. And so much more.
You are not grasping that the anti-science religious indoctrination on Gender Woo rampant in schools is a prime example of the power of the oligarchs to undermine critical thinking skills. To get people to say War is Peace. You are also unaware that the silly people who just can't seem to keep themselves from objecting to mastectomies on 13 year olds and other outcomes of the Gender Cult....the people who stand up despite the mob attacks on their jobs and lives that will ensue....are meeting and talking about much more than the Gender Cult piece of the picture. Right now, the only hope I'm feeling about taking on the forces leading us towards nuclear and environmental holocausts....is the women and men I've met who are standing up against the gender identity madness. Instead of dismissing something you clearly haven't delved into beyond the narrative allowed by the oligarchs, check out what's happening. It's not about your friend's kid's pronouns; it's about what they're linked to.
Excellent. You have become my go-to on this "war." I'm sure you have, but do you ever listen to Brian Kilmeade's radio progam on Fox radio and his guests? They insist on the only option is "humiliating Putin," breaking up Russia, and destroying its military as the only acceptable results. Total nutjobs, and I'm on the right politically. Like you could topple Russia - Russia - and carve it up into pieces like the west have done in third world countries.
I hope many of you take the following quote from the article and apply it to your ideas about communism, Karl Marx, American exceptionalism, and Tucker Carlson having class interests that align with yours.
"Assuring people they're not going mad when it looks like everything they were told about the world is a lie and everyone they were trained to trust is deceiving them."
Peace in Ukraine is all fine and good, but it neglects the fact that there can be no peace in Ukraine without peace in Europe. This has to start with negotiations between the US and Russia over the security guarantees Russia demanded last December in the form of new treaties. By spurning these then, the US turned its rivalry with Russia into a military one, with Ukraine the country mainly made to suffer, at least for now. Talking only about Ukraine while ignoring the broader context of the conflict means blinding oneself to what is really required to bring peace.
It also bothers me greatly how few seem to be aware what's in Russia's treaty proposals. Their acceptance would be totally win-win: NATO rolls its troops back to their 1997 dispositions, Russia pulls its troops and most threatening weapons well back into European Russia, while the US returns to its territory all the nuclear weapons it bases in Europe (the US of course being the only country to base nuclear weapons on the territory of foreign countries).
* “Mass Psychosis—How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill” by The Academy of Ideas in cooperation with After Skool (22 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
* “Mass Formation Psychosis: 5 Things You Need to Know” by J.P. Sears (12 minutes
Global communism makes as much sense as doing global facism Caitlin. Both do not recognize reality. The next worse experiment in human societal development will be the hybridization of the two.
In China now they currently call themselves the walking dead and the party is in charge. In the USA they are woke and masked and the corporate parties are in charge.
Is Biden stupid enough to think he could get away with a limited nuclear war? Really, he is pretty stupid. The question is, are there enough adults in the room to take this insane posturing off the table?
"This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road."
Well, the US is very experienced at following this course. Look at the Korean “open road", a failed episode. The end result, a small US base on the border of South and North Korea, affectionately known as a DMZ (demilitarised zone) now used as a far flung US outpost, one of 800 + around the world.
Then comes Vietnam, a painful retreat, humiliating with little strategic value as a result. The unforgettable pictures of the US departure being something to add to the children’s history lessons on how not to fail. 1. Don’t start a war in the first place, but if you can’t help yourself,….. 2. Know when to quit.
We don't stop there though. Afghanistan, the epitome of “open roads”, a 20 year failure with no benefit at all to the hegemonic US. Did they learn from British failures there. NO. Did they learn from Russian failures there. NO. Something of yet another failure in objective setting, project (war) management and like the others, leaving behind a house full of people who will hate what the US stands for (whatever that is, other than world power and total control), forever.
Throw into the history book the blustering Bush "shock and awe" great big lie philosophy, "the open road" of Iraq, realistically a real brick wall, with the US as yet unentangled from that quagmire. If Biden continues to use the mental capacity of all the Neocon advisers combined, it never will be unentangled until someone comes along and shows the likes of Biden and his corrupted cohorts that they should leave the area (as well as Syria) as the country is not theirs and there is a far better way to do things. In other words, Butt Out!
But don't count on that one. I did forget we are dealing with the exceptional USA.
PS While you are at it, skip all the others countries that have been, still are, or will be targets for your bored but dangerous Israeli-controlled Neocons and concentrate on getting your own house in order.
It’s in a mess.
Last night's Tucker Carlson had him making many statements that sounded like he's been reading Caitlin, or like she's been watching him. He repeatedly referred to many media outlets as being absolute illusions. The NY Times, PMSNBC, etc., all have small audiences, but politicians of the uni-party are terrified of them, and do what they say. He thinks they are the reason that, time and time again, we land in these deadly situations. If we all just ignore them, they will lose all of their power.
It was unnerving, listening to him sound just like Caitlin. His themes were anti-propaganda, anti-intimidation, thinking for yourself, anti-uni-party, and avoiding war.
You may not like him, but when the apocalypse is at stake, I think we should take allies for life anywhere we can find them.
Caitlin exemplifies how using the brains we're born with one can become a force of nature.
Love your writing but communism has never worked and never will
The World Economic Forum has a plan to save themselves from Climate Extinction by sacrificing the rest of the world.
They are the Elites based in Europe, USA, and other Anglophile countries. They recognise that we are all are about to become extinction within a decade or two, unless a drastic reset is performed.
Their reset is reduce the use of fossil fuel which is driving climate change, and to reduce world consumption by wiping out large swathes of human populations through war, famine, pandemic and loss of habitat.
They are using Ukraine to accomplish their goals.
They will not be successful because extinction through climate change is already to far advanced, not just for humans, but for all life on Earth. But the way they see it, is that the many must be sacrificed to save the few worthy and continue humanity and life on Earth.
Assuring people they aren't crazy in a world that seems crazy in every respect, is a very worthy objective. And it is crazy if human values are a consideration, if valuing human life and all life forms on this planet is sane, then it is crazy. But there is a method to the madness. It is no accident or coincidence. So how do we assess that? Well, the filthy rich are getting filthy richer. That's a clue. And democracy, never that robust, looks like a 90 lb weakling against a gorilla in the ring. It's absence isn't even excused anymore. Elections theft is just an add-on for personal profit. The whole system has been hijacked.
Russia my land of birth is either male or female pronoun, but not an ...it... please
.
Respect is to say mother or fatherland, her or his.
She or he.
Usually her.
Caitlin, you've got a huge blind spot. The problem with my friend's kid's pronouns is what it's all linked to. Things you're missing: i) huge #s of kids' healthy bodies irreversibly harmed, ii) schools teaching blatant biological falsehoods and promoting a religious Cult, iii) erasure of women's sex-based rights--e.g. women are being raped in prison by men-claiming-to-be-women locked in their cells--YES, this is happening; iv) erasure of gains of LGB movement...e.g lesbians attacked for genital fetish for refusing sex with men-who-say-they're-women, e.g. training away the gay, e.g. T+ attacks on LGB-focused groups; v) implosion of the Left...enviro groups that say TransWomenAreWomen have lost all credibility and rightfully so, vi) Kids have learned that saving the world entails fixating on their "genders" and organizing mobs to get people fired for stating biological reality. Instead of solidarity and system-change, they're led by the Big Pharma funded Pied Piper of identity. I'm a life-long environmental and anti-war activist who also fights the Gender Identity Cult. Fighting that Cult is connected to making the huge systemic changes we need to prevent ecological and military Armageddons. And so much more.
You are not grasping that the anti-science religious indoctrination on Gender Woo rampant in schools is a prime example of the power of the oligarchs to undermine critical thinking skills. To get people to say War is Peace. You are also unaware that the silly people who just can't seem to keep themselves from objecting to mastectomies on 13 year olds and other outcomes of the Gender Cult....the people who stand up despite the mob attacks on their jobs and lives that will ensue....are meeting and talking about much more than the Gender Cult piece of the picture. Right now, the only hope I'm feeling about taking on the forces leading us towards nuclear and environmental holocausts....is the women and men I've met who are standing up against the gender identity madness. Instead of dismissing something you clearly haven't delved into beyond the narrative allowed by the oligarchs, check out what's happening. It's not about your friend's kid's pronouns; it's about what they're linked to.
Excellent. You have become my go-to on this "war." I'm sure you have, but do you ever listen to Brian Kilmeade's radio progam on Fox radio and his guests? They insist on the only option is "humiliating Putin," breaking up Russia, and destroying its military as the only acceptable results. Total nutjobs, and I'm on the right politically. Like you could topple Russia - Russia - and carve it up into pieces like the west have done in third world countries.
"a big part of my job here is just being the voice that says "You're not crazy. I see it too."" - and this is extremely appreciated.
One thing I wonder re this forum's participants - how many people are there around you that share this vision?
I hope many of you take the following quote from the article and apply it to your ideas about communism, Karl Marx, American exceptionalism, and Tucker Carlson having class interests that align with yours.
"Assuring people they're not going mad when it looks like everything they were told about the world is a lie and everyone they were trained to trust is deceiving them."
Peace in Ukraine is all fine and good, but it neglects the fact that there can be no peace in Ukraine without peace in Europe. This has to start with negotiations between the US and Russia over the security guarantees Russia demanded last December in the form of new treaties. By spurning these then, the US turned its rivalry with Russia into a military one, with Ukraine the country mainly made to suffer, at least for now. Talking only about Ukraine while ignoring the broader context of the conflict means blinding oneself to what is really required to bring peace.
It also bothers me greatly how few seem to be aware what's in Russia's treaty proposals. Their acceptance would be totally win-win: NATO rolls its troops back to their 1997 dispositions, Russia pulls its troops and most threatening weapons well back into European Russia, while the US returns to its territory all the nuclear weapons it bases in Europe (the US of course being the only country to base nuclear weapons on the territory of foreign countries).
I thought people would like to know other people's theories as to how propaganda works:
HOW DID A MOSTLY NORMAL NATION LIKE GERMANY FALL UNDER HITLER’S SPELL? AND CAN WE GET OUT OF IT?
* “Is A Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?” by The Academy of Ideas (12 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPcF-oLABE&t=608s
* “Mass Psychosis—How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill” by The Academy of Ideas in cooperation with After Skool (22 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
* “Mass Formation Psychosis: 5 Things You Need to Know” by J.P. Sears (12 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQChw_Rk1Kk
* The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis - Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? by The Academy of Ideas (22 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdzW-S8MwbI
Your analysis on Ukraine is 100% correct.
Also agreed, we treat our planet like garbage.
Communism, however, is never the answer.
And this woke bullshit *is* a huge problem that needs calling out.
Global communism makes as much sense as doing global facism Caitlin. Both do not recognize reality. The next worse experiment in human societal development will be the hybridization of the two.
In China now they currently call themselves the walking dead and the party is in charge. In the USA they are woke and masked and the corporate parties are in charge.