Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If you "vote out fascism" and then the president you voted for turns out to have the same effective policies as the previous administration, it's time to start asking who the fascists actually are. ❖ Hoo you've done it now, CIA. You are in
The most egregious gargantuan chunk of hypocrisy of all time has just played out and it shouldn’t go unnoticed. The American MSM has seized on the obscure Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai ( not ranked in the top 200 ) and brayed nonstop about her disappearance. Her quick reappearance was accompanied by disappointment so bloated that it almost evoked sympathy for those poor thwarted media. She had had an affair with a senior Chinese official. Big f’ing deal. As if America did not have the highest divorce rate in the world. And elects pussy grabbers and Free Willy.
But that is baby potato minor league hypocrisy. WaPo recently has published perhaps 50 stories on or mentioning Peng , loaded with scurrilous innuendo. Meanwhile results from America’s own investigations revealed that ~20,000 female soldiers in their Armed Forces were raped last year by one or more of their colleagues. No stories about that. Of course they weren’t rape rapes, the women were all lying, or they consented to their rape. Which will it be, or all of them? Even though their own investigators accepted them, and considered the ubiquitous underreporting. And the career consequences of reporting have been documented to be often near fatal. Spinning this to make it a poster theme for Army recruiters will be a challenge.
The US has created a new 4H club. Hypocrisy, Humbuggery, Hubris and Horseshxx.
I can't keep up. I was told how truckers were heroes keeping vital supplies moving during a deadly pandemic only to find they're actually a bunch of right wing racists I need to fear. I'm so glad we have a state-supporting corporate media to keep things straight.
I'm also glad you mentioned the responsibility of the troops. Once you voluntarily join an organization you become partly responsible for the actions of that organization. The just following orders line went out of fashion in the 1940s.
Caitlin hit a series of points that needed to be made with this one. One of your best.
It was pure, joyous, innocent and quite shocking, even on a quiet dead-end street and a sunny, relatively warm winter afternoon. It danced easily through the trees and found me suddenly hoping, in spite of knowing better, that life is not too hard for those doomed to follow us all down crazy street.
It will not get easier by itself. Understanding is key. And Caitlin makes that unavoidable. Thank you, Dear Stranger.
May the very best that remains in our GMO hearts guide us all.
My Daughter, ma fia, you are right again. When Biden yelled insults at Russia then ran away as fast as he could the CIA must have had such a laugh! Money and machines in motion. Wall Street thrives on instability. A system that is built to fail. Sigh.
One huge example of the US investment in hating anything Russian occured some years ago when William Browder defrauded the Russian government 1/3 billion in taxes and then blamed them for what happened next, and made a hero of himself in a book on the episode. Congress, ever ready to play the game, intiated the Magnitsky Act : sanctions against Russia. A docudrama about this was begun by a filmmaker named Nekrasov, a critic of Putin, who accepted Browder's claim at face value. In a dramatic uturn, Nekrasov followed up on the elements of the story that fell apart as he made the movie. It's longer than the attention span we've ended up with in this society, yet once you read Robert Parry's findings of falsehood you can make up your own mind. "The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes". I had a long, tedious task that took hours and didn't require my full attention, so after finding reference to a deposition in a court case that was filed by a company Browder lied about, I ran the multiple hours of the deposition that is posted on Youtube and watched Browder sweat at critical points. Anyone curious about how far Russophobia will allow a scam artist to go, can have a good long look at the nonsense that even the New Yorker allowed itself to swallow.
The US relationship with the world starts with and is held together in a matrix of words, with the US running the narrative, a monologue of their own mysterious, shape-shifting lexicon. The strategy is to play on natural optimism and endless hope as cover for actions designed to destroy both. The US and others have a history of close collaboration with Nazis, creating jihadists by mass murder of dispensable populations, and in the US training Latin American reactionaries from way back in School of the Americas, later changed to Center for Western Hemispheric Studies? or some such euphemism. Who can recall without squirming Colin Powell's outlandish, outrageous snake-oil presentation of "evidence" the Iraqis had and were using mobile rocket launchers? Wasn't that one of many examples of militarists' utter contempt for the intellectual capacity of average people?
It could be just a matter of time until this fake freedom convoy is unmasked as a right-wing attempt at a takeover, perhaps prompted by the fear that progressive taxes to make up for lost government revenue - as with The New Deal - will affect the filthy rich's obscene profits, especially throughout the pandemic. Shortly after, if previous actions are predictive, employing US and international Deep State monopoly over the narrative, the convoy should be interpreted as a left-wing revolutionary attempt with direct connections to the Kremlin. And what "democratic" government would dare challenge that?
Why would a stateless civilization be classless or moneyless?
A stateless civilization would be stateless, so it rules out the empire definitively. The definition may be absurdly unrealistic, but asserting absorption of this civilization by the empire only denies its premises. Eliminating slavery may only encourage states to reinvent the practice by another name, but opposing slavery doesn't seem futile to me.
If you wanna get the visceral sense of the horror and stupidity of our intelligence services, check out "Harlot's Ghost" by Norman Mailer.
It's called the "War and Peace" for the Cold War, but, spoiler alert, it's really just volume 1 for such a thing, and he never wrote volume 2. Still over 1,000 pages, and if you follow the CIA's bullshit, you may not learn that many new facts, but you get steeped in the insanity.
You go on and on about the "status quo", but it's not just the status quo. We are in the midst of a revolution unlike anything humans have ever experienced before brought to us by the people who benefit from this "status quo" you are always going on about which I will grant you is already radically evil, but it's evil most people are accustomed to ignoring and/or have come to think of as benign.
I guess what I am saying is that by ignoring/downplaying all of this and being dismissive of people's primordial fears that are screaming something's amiss I feel you are sidelining yourself and missing a golden opportunity to craft a narrative that actually mobilizes people to oppose the very status quo you are railing against.
The most egregious gargantuan chunk of hypocrisy of all time has just played out and it shouldn’t go unnoticed. The American MSM has seized on the obscure Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai ( not ranked in the top 200 ) and brayed nonstop about her disappearance. Her quick reappearance was accompanied by disappointment so bloated that it almost evoked sympathy for those poor thwarted media. She had had an affair with a senior Chinese official. Big f’ing deal. As if America did not have the highest divorce rate in the world. And elects pussy grabbers and Free Willy.
But that is baby potato minor league hypocrisy. WaPo recently has published perhaps 50 stories on or mentioning Peng , loaded with scurrilous innuendo. Meanwhile results from America’s own investigations revealed that ~20,000 female soldiers in their Armed Forces were raped last year by one or more of their colleagues. No stories about that. Of course they weren’t rape rapes, the women were all lying, or they consented to their rape. Which will it be, or all of them? Even though their own investigators accepted them, and considered the ubiquitous underreporting. And the career consequences of reporting have been documented to be often near fatal. Spinning this to make it a poster theme for Army recruiters will be a challenge.
The US has created a new 4H club. Hypocrisy, Humbuggery, Hubris and Horseshxx.
I can't keep up. I was told how truckers were heroes keeping vital supplies moving during a deadly pandemic only to find they're actually a bunch of right wing racists I need to fear. I'm so glad we have a state-supporting corporate media to keep things straight.
I'm also glad you mentioned the responsibility of the troops. Once you voluntarily join an organization you become partly responsible for the actions of that organization. The just following orders line went out of fashion in the 1940s.
Caitlin hit a series of points that needed to be made with this one. One of your best.
I heard a child’s laughter yesterday.
It was pure, joyous, innocent and quite shocking, even on a quiet dead-end street and a sunny, relatively warm winter afternoon. It danced easily through the trees and found me suddenly hoping, in spite of knowing better, that life is not too hard for those doomed to follow us all down crazy street.
It will not get easier by itself. Understanding is key. And Caitlin makes that unavoidable. Thank you, Dear Stranger.
May the very best that remains in our GMO hearts guide us all.
My Daughter, ma fia, you are right again. When Biden yelled insults at Russia then ran away as fast as he could the CIA must have had such a laugh! Money and machines in motion. Wall Street thrives on instability. A system that is built to fail. Sigh.
One huge example of the US investment in hating anything Russian occured some years ago when William Browder defrauded the Russian government 1/3 billion in taxes and then blamed them for what happened next, and made a hero of himself in a book on the episode. Congress, ever ready to play the game, intiated the Magnitsky Act : sanctions against Russia. A docudrama about this was begun by a filmmaker named Nekrasov, a critic of Putin, who accepted Browder's claim at face value. In a dramatic uturn, Nekrasov followed up on the elements of the story that fell apart as he made the movie. It's longer than the attention span we've ended up with in this society, yet once you read Robert Parry's findings of falsehood you can make up your own mind. "The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes". I had a long, tedious task that took hours and didn't require my full attention, so after finding reference to a deposition in a court case that was filed by a company Browder lied about, I ran the multiple hours of the deposition that is posted on Youtube and watched Browder sweat at critical points. Anyone curious about how far Russophobia will allow a scam artist to go, can have a good long look at the nonsense that even the New Yorker allowed itself to swallow.
"There used to be cannibals" Things are not so bad.
Depuis sa création, les États Unis n'auront connu que 12 ans de paix. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_guerres_des_%C3%89tats-Unis#Guerres_au_XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle
The US relationship with the world starts with and is held together in a matrix of words, with the US running the narrative, a monologue of their own mysterious, shape-shifting lexicon. The strategy is to play on natural optimism and endless hope as cover for actions designed to destroy both. The US and others have a history of close collaboration with Nazis, creating jihadists by mass murder of dispensable populations, and in the US training Latin American reactionaries from way back in School of the Americas, later changed to Center for Western Hemispheric Studies? or some such euphemism. Who can recall without squirming Colin Powell's outlandish, outrageous snake-oil presentation of "evidence" the Iraqis had and were using mobile rocket launchers? Wasn't that one of many examples of militarists' utter contempt for the intellectual capacity of average people?
It could be just a matter of time until this fake freedom convoy is unmasked as a right-wing attempt at a takeover, perhaps prompted by the fear that progressive taxes to make up for lost government revenue - as with The New Deal - will affect the filthy rich's obscene profits, especially throughout the pandemic. Shortly after, if previous actions are predictive, employing US and international Deep State monopoly over the narrative, the convoy should be interpreted as a left-wing revolutionary attempt with direct connections to the Kremlin. And what "democratic" government would dare challenge that?
Why would a stateless civilization be classless or moneyless?
A stateless civilization would be stateless, so it rules out the empire definitively. The definition may be absurdly unrealistic, but asserting absorption of this civilization by the empire only denies its premises. Eliminating slavery may only encourage states to reinvent the practice by another name, but opposing slavery doesn't seem futile to me.
If you wanna get the visceral sense of the horror and stupidity of our intelligence services, check out "Harlot's Ghost" by Norman Mailer.
It's called the "War and Peace" for the Cold War, but, spoiler alert, it's really just volume 1 for such a thing, and he never wrote volume 2. Still over 1,000 pages, and if you follow the CIA's bullshit, you may not learn that many new facts, but you get steeped in the insanity.
You go on and on about the "status quo", but it's not just the status quo. We are in the midst of a revolution unlike anything humans have ever experienced before brought to us by the people who benefit from this "status quo" you are always going on about which I will grant you is already radically evil, but it's evil most people are accustomed to ignoring and/or have come to think of as benign.
I guess what I am saying is that by ignoring/downplaying all of this and being dismissive of people's primordial fears that are screaming something's amiss I feel you are sidelining yourself and missing a golden opportunity to craft a narrative that actually mobilizes people to oppose the very status quo you are railing against.
In essence you are working against yourself.