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Vin LoPresti's avatar

They go hand-in-hand: the biosecurity surveillance state for domestic human experimentation, the war machine for the international variety. Each has its fabricated justification: the manufactured pandemic; the manufactured entrapment of the aggressive Communist Russian bear who no longer exists. Each enriches a population of oligarchs who progressively dominate a larger chunk of the global economy: Pharma; Weapons. "Just the warmup". "Wars of the future". I have nothing but sympathy for anyone under the age of 40, wondering how younger folks muster the energy to look forward to another day, another year among this horror show of blustering sociopaths.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Maybe it's even harder for us old folks to muster up the energy to go on! I'm a hippy and we knew back in the 1960s that it would end up this way if we didn't seriously change our ways. And of course we didn't.

This is why I didn't want to live into the 21st century. I knew it would be this dystopia.

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

Speaking of the hippie movement.... Are you aware that it was a COINTELPRO creation?

I'd like to recommend a book: "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon - Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream" (2014) by David McGowan & Nick Bryant

What was Jim Morrison doing on the bridge of the very same ship that caused the Bay of Tonkin false flag op?

What was Papa Philips doing in Havana in 1959 when TSHTF?

Etc., etc., etc.

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Jac's avatar

nahh. the book is a sensationalizing beat up, irresistible temptation to write it I'm sure, with even a ready made title, but nahh, not convincing unless you want to be convinced. I'm sure the fuzz tried to infiltrate hippies with their covert ops but this situation in the canyon is too silly, too visible, too easy to point to and say 'see!' What was Jim doing on the bridge? he must've been about 14 and his father was admiral. Family trip? And John Phillips must've been 10 or 12 if he was in Havana in 1959. Perhaps he was a young marine at BofP? Or his dad was and took him along? Or did the Phillips family have a connection with those revolutionary bums, Castro and Co?

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

Have you read the book, or have you just made up your mind about it? John Edmund Andrew Philips was born on August 30, 1935 in Parris Island, SC. That would make him 24 years old in 1959. They sent kids a lot younger than that to Viet Nam.

Judging by the picture in the book he was in his 20s somewhere. As I said, his father was the captain of the ship that caused the false flag op that started the Viet Nam war. He was 21 years of age when the Gulf of Tonkin incident happened. In other words, the photo was probably taken after that.

Just for comparison, I was 21 years old when I immigrated to the US. Alone.

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

Exactly. The Ukies are not the only lab rats on the planet. The peoples o a long list of countries have been lab rats since the creation of the squatter state, if not longer.

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Little.Lambsie's avatar

Literally SOULLESS

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bill wolfe's avatar

I cancelled my NT Times subscription after the Iraq WMD lies, so was not aware of how blatantly sick they've become. Coincidentally, after reading Media Benjamin's piece on the bipartisan bill too increase weapons spending, I Tweeted out this long forgotten quote from Dr. King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech in. 1967 (read the whole thing!):

"buildup in Vietnam .. . some plaything of a society gone mad on war... I knew that America would never invest... in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

"Beyond Vietnam - A Time To Break Silence"

https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

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Marc Bédard Pelchat's avatar

Apparently we are being monitored. How far will it go? Like kids playing with fire, the very dark bunch of people composing the military-industrial complex has still to burn itself to the ground in order for a resemblance of peace to come back out of this madness.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Holy shit! I winter in the remote Sonoran desert, about 30 miles from the Mexican border in Arizona, just on the edge of the US Air Force's Barry Goldwater bombing range.

Those Ukrainian UFO's in the photo look EXACTLY like the strange lights I've often seen in the sky down here at night! Exactly! (except the ones I see have a yellow sodium vapor light color).

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Luca Baptista's avatar

State-of-the-art and yet they're losing. America in a nutshell.

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GordM's avatar

One might also observe that the theater is also a testing ground for illegal bioweapons, if reports about testing a virulent strain of TB in the eastern oblasts and on mental patients are true. Very, VERY reminiscent of WWII era Nazi medical experiments that, but unsurprising and highly credible, given the US history of nuking civilians in the 40s, deploying Agent Orange in Vietnam in the 60s and allegedly infected insects against the Koreans and the Chinese in the 50s.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Lab rats. That's all we are to the military-industrial-complex (or the military-industrial-Congressional-complex, if you like). It's time for we "rats" to get out of our "cages" of bread and circuses and bite the hand that feeds us. Our owners will only dissect us later to see how effective their biological weapons are. What have we got to lose but our cheese (chains)?

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Richelle Steyn's avatar

How did we get here? Who are these warmongers? Sometimes I think humanity has a real-life invasion of the body-snatchers problem.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Sociopaths. We are led by sociopaths.

This is not a uniquely American problem. All systems, however well-intentioned at their founding, will eventually come to be led by sociopaths, for power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.

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Fran's avatar

I always thought that many people who are in positions of power in the corporate world or the political world where power prevails are psychopathic at some level. How do American presidents drone knowing they will likely kill innocents, children, fathers mothers sisters and brothers. How do you go to war on a lie to establish world dominance knowing that will be at the cost of millions of lives. They tell gruesome stories of psychopaths and the many lives they take, and people are horrified at their cruelty, but how are these people any different?

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” – John Lennon

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism created the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrator."

- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn -

https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/nothisone.jpg

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Fran's avatar

My comment referred to our Middle Eastern wars and nothing in regard to what you reference.

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

John Lennon and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn were talking about the same insane people.

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Fran's avatar

I know.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

Those who narcissistically seek power should be the last ones to have it; Those that don’t seek power are probably the ones who should be given that responsibility. But of course that’s just not how humans and societies work. Sigh.

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Moen Aslam's avatar

'Seek and ye shall find'... Skull & Bones is too much of an obscure puzzle? Check your dollar bills, The EYE, etc? Expand your awareness. It is a fact that anything they do they forewarn out in the open, in plain language. They always do. Drives those aware who got to know crazy. They are ridiculed by the system's media as conspiracy theorists helped by the simpletons like you. Just like they are doing now. Though, this time they have added formidable tech tools and tested their propaganda etc with many wars and interference in other countries without your hindrance or resistance is a testament to their ability to control your mind, your actions and thus they have empowered themselves to be able to come out of shadows in broad daylight. Many a derogatory thrown at them here are merely helpless old fools' inanities.

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tjfratello's avatar

Star Trek : "A Taste of Armageddon" (Season 1, Episode 23)

two planets are engaged in a completely computer-simulated war

treaty requires "victims" to report to disintegration chambers

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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

The new York slime.

You don't mention that newkraine nUkraine

Has already lost most of her men to this test.

Those newkraine nUkraine folks didn't know they had agreed to throw away their country to the US of Arrogance.

Do they know now¿

Nope.

Russia knows and stopped trying to oppose their folly in newkraine nUkraine and instead will eliminate that country.

Newkraine nUkraine.

Running all around my brain

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

I stand with PEACE!

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

Maybe the aliens will save us.

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

Or maybe our better angels.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Or maybe we'll just have to stop wishing that someone else will do the job for us and get up and fight for change.

No buffalo hat necessary. You can do it right in your own community.

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

Advocating war reflects emotional immaturity and a lack of communication skills. When I see pictures of leadership around the world it is mostly little boys and bullies.

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Ramakoba Ramakoba's avatar

The US cares more about it’s superiority status than it does for the future of humanity. In the recent past, they have produced a plethora of Films and TV Shows which are more or less about the extinction of life on Earth. Perhaps, they have covered their backs, hence, they do not care about the rest of us. That’s the only logical conclusion one can arrive at wrt their actions.

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GordM's avatar

"the wars of the future will be about maximum drones and minimal humans."

Presumably because the maximum drones will have killed all the 'minimal' humans.

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