Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Wall Street Journal has an article out titled "U.S. Aims to Thwart China’s Plan for Atlantic Base in Africa", subtitled "An American delegation wants to convince Equatorial Guinea against giving Beijing a launchpad in waters the U.S. considers its backyard."
You kind of left out the entire realm of outer space as also somehow belonging to the cretins who steer American policy.
Trump inaugurated a space force headquartered right here in Colorado for that purpose with their own nifty flag for poking into extraterrestrial soil and claiming it as part of our celestial front yard, Vasco da Gama-style, no doubt sanctified by the mumbling of a few Hebrew scriptures, the admonitions of which -- like covid measures -- are meant for the rest of us to follow but noticably not them.
I'm really hoping China gets that base. If I'm going to be subjected to ancient writ, I'd much prefer it be Confucius.
Indeed. Much better to live under the Mandate of Heaven than a "democracy" controlled by money, especially when that "democracy" has abolished the Bill of Rights.
Oh, there's an actual mandate from an actual heaven? Nice. I'm sure you'll explain how that one works, once all you believers get your thousands of beliefs straightened out. I won't hold my breath. True, our current gang of idiots are chipping away at our secular Bill of Rights; it's notable that Christianity never thought to provide one to us in the first place.
The Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese belief that rulers are given a conditional mandate to rule. The condition is that they must rule for the benefit of the people. If they do not, then the mandate is withdrawn and the people are justified in revolting. I was not saying I believe it myself, but I think the CCP does believe it.
OK, my bad. I misread that one entirely. LOL That strikes me as not too different from the idea that power flows from THE PEOPLE and without it, rule is unjust. This Constitutional nugget seems to have been kicked to the gutter of late. Simps like Trudeau have shown themselves to be completely unworthy of their stations.
Empires expand until they are stopped, and then they start declining. Usually they overreach at that point. The American Empire has already done that several times, and its decline is demonstrated to its citizens every time their car hits a pothole or another bridge collapses.
Power, the accumulation and expression of power is natural to humans. America is not uniquely evil, it is altogether banal, ordinary in it’s hegemonic ambition. What is unique about America or at least our time, is that we have cloaked it - power - so very well. Endlessly blaming tin pot dictators and using that as an excuse to extract every possible concession, America’s power is draped in a fancy liberal garb, a puerile righteousness which we use a a cudgel. There is no one worse than the lefty, their education and highfaluting specialized language allows them to hide their naked boundless ambition in pursuit of power and money.
I thought the neocons did a pretty good job of it back in the early 2000s, but seeing how they've now all joined the democrats, that probably makes your point better than mine.
You want the plural form of dickhead by adding an S. By using the apostrophe before the S you are using the possessive form, as in "The dickhead's speech was boring." A copy of Strunk & White's Elements of Style belongs on every writer's bookshelf.
now the parasites are ready to privatize medicare, healthcare for the elderly. the elderly have equity (the value of the house they own minus bank loan) to suck dry, and the younger generations own nothing. take away any financial independence, and the population is ready for complete slavery.
"It's just so bizarre watching these imperial spinmeisters try to frame nations like China and Russia as freakish and backwards while working to literally rule the world like a comic book supervillain”.
What an apt description. A supervillian empire.
If we take the Mongol empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish empire, the Russian Empire and the lingering British Empire (now called a Commonwealth), all have come to an end. Besides being the initial conquerors, those “ Emperors”, based also on military might, made some form of contribution to the lands they dominated over time, ending with the British Empire following the end of WWII, with a few remaining countries still hanging on the threads and bowing down to the so-called British Royalty and their archaic traditions in 2022. Hardly an empire any more but something of a pathetic and lingering example of old world decadence.
The USA, on the other hand has used and abused its position of military might after WWII, the unforgivable and inhumane use of evil sanctions together with bribery and corruption to establish an empire in this modern age, creating a minefield of so-called “loyal (pressured)" associates to be used as whipping boys and their lands used as US military outposts as in the 800 bases in existence today and expanding every year. All the countries surrounding Russia, the NATO bunch, sycophants like Australia and Canada, all poised do their bidding.
So as history has shown, empires eventually go the way of all before them. They have had their day, especially those who in the last 80 years have been the cause of multi- millions of deaths through never-ending wars for hegemony, based on a decidedly false claim of “exceptionalism”, presided over by the greatest collection of misfits in history itself. The criminal excesses of Bush and Cheney, the absolute shame in the election of a man like Trump, the moral rectitude of Clinton and his disgraced wife and the warlike nature of Obama, a person in whom so many people had placed their faith. Now Biden, a weak, easily controlled frontman for the BlackRock and Vanguard manipulators, the warmongering military industrial complex and the daily exampled slave of the Israeli stooges in government, now controlling his every move.
What a comic book scenario.
A Brontosaurus alive and well…the big ( 330 million ) dangerous USA tail ....driven by a small Israeli ( 9 million ) brain. A comic book indeed.
If that is even close to being an apt description of the USA today, then it is on its way downhill fast, but not before one last burst of evil in the form of a nuclear show for which there will be nothing in the way of justification. A supervillian show as the final curtain.
You mean to say, the US doesn't own the planet? I thought they had an ironclad, signed, sealed agreement with God in exchange for unrelenting opposition to abortion, opposition to equality of and inviolability of sovereign nations, and progressivism generally? So George W Bush, predecessors and antecedents got it wrong?
Well, sure! US Empire is in decline, headed towards collapse. Good riddance! Let's just hope it collapses without a nuclear war.
Another group that ALSO believes it owns the entire planet, including all living beings, is the World Economic Forum. It has a an explicit plan for global totalitarian domination of the entire planet. Part of its plan is to accelerate the collapse of the US empire and then gather the pieces, disaster-capitalism style.
the parasites, literally since they live by sucking the blood and sweat of humanity, own and run the United Slaves of Israhell. start from there, to understand what they say and do.
With all due respect, the US government is only a marquee for the domination of foreign nations. William Blum and John Perkins [and others] have identified Wall Street, via the IMF and WB, use the CIA and US military to control nations. The IMF loaned credit to 86 nations since the March pandemic declaration. The planned pending economic collapse will end in foreclosure. Refusal to allow domination results in US military invasion. Collection on the US $30++ trillion debt will follow.
True. Though I would say it's more the oligarchs who own the US government which is mainly just there to legitimize and provide muscle to implement their agendas.
You kind of left out the entire realm of outer space as also somehow belonging to the cretins who steer American policy.
Trump inaugurated a space force headquartered right here in Colorado for that purpose with their own nifty flag for poking into extraterrestrial soil and claiming it as part of our celestial front yard, Vasco da Gama-style, no doubt sanctified by the mumbling of a few Hebrew scriptures, the admonitions of which -- like covid measures -- are meant for the rest of us to follow but noticably not them.
I'm really hoping China gets that base. If I'm going to be subjected to ancient writ, I'd much prefer it be Confucius.
Indeed. Much better to live under the Mandate of Heaven than a "democracy" controlled by money, especially when that "democracy" has abolished the Bill of Rights.
Oh, there's an actual mandate from an actual heaven? Nice. I'm sure you'll explain how that one works, once all you believers get your thousands of beliefs straightened out. I won't hold my breath. True, our current gang of idiots are chipping away at our secular Bill of Rights; it's notable that Christianity never thought to provide one to us in the first place.
The Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese belief that rulers are given a conditional mandate to rule. The condition is that they must rule for the benefit of the people. If they do not, then the mandate is withdrawn and the people are justified in revolting. I was not saying I believe it myself, but I think the CCP does believe it.
OK, my bad. I misread that one entirely. LOL That strikes me as not too different from the idea that power flows from THE PEOPLE and without it, rule is unjust. This Constitutional nugget seems to have been kicked to the gutter of late. Simps like Trudeau have shown themselves to be completely unworthy of their stations.
Empires expand until they are stopped, and then they start declining. Usually they overreach at that point. The American Empire has already done that several times, and its decline is demonstrated to its citizens every time their car hits a pothole or another bridge collapses.
Thanks. Well said as always. I will now go back to trying to find out where in the USA is the South China Sea.
Power, the accumulation and expression of power is natural to humans. America is not uniquely evil, it is altogether banal, ordinary in it’s hegemonic ambition. What is unique about America or at least our time, is that we have cloaked it - power - so very well. Endlessly blaming tin pot dictators and using that as an excuse to extract every possible concession, America’s power is draped in a fancy liberal garb, a puerile righteousness which we use a a cudgel. There is no one worse than the lefty, their education and highfaluting specialized language allows them to hide their naked boundless ambition in pursuit of power and money.
I thought the neocons did a pretty good job of it back in the early 2000s, but seeing how they've now all joined the democrats, that probably makes your point better than mine.
Thank you for giving me an excuse to make the following statement: The American right are a bunch of dickhead‘s
Totally agree, but a strange use of the possessive.
Possessive: grammar lesson, please explain 😀
You want the plural form of dickhead by adding an S. By using the apostrophe before the S you are using the possessive form, as in "The dickhead's speech was boring." A copy of Strunk & White's Elements of Style belongs on every writer's bookshelf.
Cool I didn’t notice that that’s actually more of a typo but I am in love with language so any advice on how to write I just enjoy endlessly
now the parasites are ready to privatize medicare, healthcare for the elderly. the elderly have equity (the value of the house they own minus bank loan) to suck dry, and the younger generations own nothing. take away any financial independence, and the population is ready for complete slavery.
Is this "suck dry" plan something everyone "knows"? They sure don't seem to "know" who it is that is doing it.
It is the Oligarchy. There are only 600 of them in the USA. How did they gain control and how do they maintain that control?
"It's just so bizarre watching these imperial spinmeisters try to frame nations like China and Russia as freakish and backwards while working to literally rule the world like a comic book supervillain”.
What an apt description. A supervillian empire.
If we take the Mongol empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish empire, the Russian Empire and the lingering British Empire (now called a Commonwealth), all have come to an end. Besides being the initial conquerors, those “ Emperors”, based also on military might, made some form of contribution to the lands they dominated over time, ending with the British Empire following the end of WWII, with a few remaining countries still hanging on the threads and bowing down to the so-called British Royalty and their archaic traditions in 2022. Hardly an empire any more but something of a pathetic and lingering example of old world decadence.
The USA, on the other hand has used and abused its position of military might after WWII, the unforgivable and inhumane use of evil sanctions together with bribery and corruption to establish an empire in this modern age, creating a minefield of so-called “loyal (pressured)" associates to be used as whipping boys and their lands used as US military outposts as in the 800 bases in existence today and expanding every year. All the countries surrounding Russia, the NATO bunch, sycophants like Australia and Canada, all poised do their bidding.
So as history has shown, empires eventually go the way of all before them. They have had their day, especially those who in the last 80 years have been the cause of multi- millions of deaths through never-ending wars for hegemony, based on a decidedly false claim of “exceptionalism”, presided over by the greatest collection of misfits in history itself. The criminal excesses of Bush and Cheney, the absolute shame in the election of a man like Trump, the moral rectitude of Clinton and his disgraced wife and the warlike nature of Obama, a person in whom so many people had placed their faith. Now Biden, a weak, easily controlled frontman for the BlackRock and Vanguard manipulators, the warmongering military industrial complex and the daily exampled slave of the Israeli stooges in government, now controlling his every move.
What a comic book scenario.
A Brontosaurus alive and well…the big ( 330 million ) dangerous USA tail ....driven by a small Israeli ( 9 million ) brain. A comic book indeed.
If that is even close to being an apt description of the USA today, then it is on its way downhill fast, but not before one last burst of evil in the form of a nuclear show for which there will be nothing in the way of justification. A supervillian show as the final curtain.
Thank you - two new very good items:
An OUTSTANDING Richard Hanania’s podcast (Feb. 14, 2022):
Conversation with Steve Hsu on the Russian-Ukraine crisis, the decline of the West, the Chinese system, embryo selection, and much else
The Future of Humanity Is IVF Babies and Chinese Domination (substack.com)
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'The Next Revolution' host discusses a filing from Special Counsel John Durham alleging the Clinton campaign paid money to penetrate Trump's servers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llnIJVy0zME
You lying wretch: Hilton to Hillary Clinton – Feb 14, 2022
You mean to say, the US doesn't own the planet? I thought they had an ironclad, signed, sealed agreement with God in exchange for unrelenting opposition to abortion, opposition to equality of and inviolability of sovereign nations, and progressivism generally? So George W Bush, predecessors and antecedents got it wrong?
Well, sure! US Empire is in decline, headed towards collapse. Good riddance! Let's just hope it collapses without a nuclear war.
Another group that ALSO believes it owns the entire planet, including all living beings, is the World Economic Forum. It has a an explicit plan for global totalitarian domination of the entire planet. Part of its plan is to accelerate the collapse of the US empire and then gather the pieces, disaster-capitalism style.
Let's have NO dominaters!
the parasites, literally since they live by sucking the blood and sweat of humanity, own and run the United Slaves of Israhell. start from there, to understand what they say and do.
With all due respect, the US government is only a marquee for the domination of foreign nations. William Blum and John Perkins [and others] have identified Wall Street, via the IMF and WB, use the CIA and US military to control nations. The IMF loaned credit to 86 nations since the March pandemic declaration. The planned pending economic collapse will end in foreclosure. Refusal to allow domination results in US military invasion. Collection on the US $30++ trillion debt will follow.
Gosh, I was taught in school that our territorial waters ended 3 miles out into the oceans on either side of our coasts.
Silly me. Those old fogies, my teachers, didn't know what they were talking about.
True. Though I would say it's more the oligarchs who own the US government which is mainly just there to legitimize and provide muscle to implement their agendas.
True.
Anybody interested in doing a 'War of the Worlds" In Ukraine? It could be funny! April Fools day! Huh?
Where is Orson Wells when you need him. "We will sell no wine before its time." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM