What a concept! You mean we could do something so simple, so straightforward like not bombing or genociding or sinking or shooting our way into peace? And even a brainless Congressman can figure that out? I don't know what to think... Could Biden and his corporate paymasters really want a genocide and another war in the Middle East? Could there be money in this course of action? Hmm...
I usually do not read New Yorker interviews, not being a paid subscriber to it, but this interview had an element of sarcasm from the interviewer, Isaac Chotiner, that I found interesting (How the Biden Administration defends its Israel Policy)
Jake Sullivan, national security advisor said:
"The Israelis aren’t waking up every morning, strapping their boots on, and going into the fight with the mind-set that they are deliberately going to kill civilians and that they’re going to reduce civilian infrastructure to rubble for the sake of doing it. That would certainly be a war crime."
I thought: Well, better call it a crime then, because that seems to be exactly what they are doing.
Yep. pursue peace. What a crazy idea. Nope, it is definitely better to kill 23,000 civilians and destroy all their infrastructure. That way they will be dead and gone and there will be peace. Until there isn't anymore.
I sometimes harken back to the War for Southern Independence as well. The lesson there is that the Victors Write the History while the Statues and even the Graves of Confederates are desecrated.
democRat ProgreSSives being led by Jacobin-Bolsheviks Can Not ever be Satisfied. Now William Penn's statue in Pennsylvania is being removed from "Feral Lands."
Most elected rinRats being Eunichs, there is only their bleating sheeple response, if any response at all.
I hope the Removal of the CW "Reconciliation" Monument at Arlington Cemetery may be curative of further pretended allegience to this Feral Coupist DC gov.
2024 will be the End of the Beginning, imo. How long it takes to Restore a Republic is unknown and also irrelevant.
On 10/6, the arabists had a choice. they chose not to pursue peace.
Now the houthis are trying to blackmail the west? - do what we want or we'll attack your shipping.
Fuck them. Seriously, who asked them? Who made the houthis the deciders. hamas made their choice, now they are paying for it and if more 3rd world assholes living in 1st world hotels far away from gaza and yemen want to expand the destruction of their peoples, keep talking.
The west is defending itself and the arabists are martyring their own people, involuntarily. Who do you support there?
That is correct. The problem is simple: rapaciousness and megalomania rule Western Civilization—the solution not so much. The Deep State is not willing to peaceably give up its position of wealth and power; therefore, the electoral process will not work. Revolution is a viable option. Any other ideas?
Watch the BRICS+ slowly destroy the petrodollar by taking over control of the world's petroleum by its majors joining. The current members of BRICS+ control half of the planet's petroleum reserves. It is cheaper for them to deliver product to the eastern half of the planet than to the western hemisphere, largely by pipelines. It has been easy for Russia to skirt the sanctions placed on them by the shrinking SWIFT cartel by sending their crude to India, where the largest refinery in the world converts it into value-added finished products exempt from the sanctions. Since the EU has begun refusing Russian oil, they have been sending it to Saudi Arabia, which marks it up 30% and resells it to Europe.
The power elite are more likely to survive anything than anyone else, if they use their wealth to guarantee their survival. Elites have no need for patriotism or territory.
I voted for Trump in 2014. I didn't vote for Trump or Biden in 2020. MAGA is nothing more than a mass of quasi-conservatives that are grossly ignorant of their own and the country's history. Both of the major political parties began as anti-federalists and have morphed into fascist federalists. Jingoism sells Trump more than anything else.
As you point out, the US does not want peace in any way, shape, form, or location. There's no money or ego-stroking or rush of perceived power in peace.
“The US was a relatively poor nation prior to WW2.” This is untrue, the USA has been wealthy since the 1880’s. It did account for over 50% of global GDP in 1946 but this was due to the huge industrial expansion during the war and also the fact that every industrialized country in Europe including Russia and Japan and China had suffered huge material losses. By the 1980’s USA percentage of world GDP was around 28% and today it is c24% and has been around that for the last 20 years. This is not because the US economy has declined but because Europe etc. has recovered from WW2.
Why? Have you seen what the Green Party did to Germany?
Are you saying this just because it is not Republican or Democrat?
Cornell West abandoned the People's party and as far as I'm concerned setting himself up to be a redux of Bernie.
He ignored jimmy Dore's excellent advice in this video purposely going out of his way to alienate many of the voters he would have needed to win. He continues to fan the flames of TDS as if Biden isn't following the exact same policies that Trump was. Both work for segments of the Oligarchy, which fights amongst itself.
Cornel West Running On Trump Derangement Syndrome & White Supremacy
It started earlier than 1976, at least during the JFK regime, son of a wall street grifter and fanatic anticommunist, when he started lowering the taxes on the most wealthy. No surprise there.
These fuckers must know this is an escalation. We have a corrupt ignorant old fuck for a president, surrounded by a bunch of lunatic warmongers who have been feeding the corrupt US military industrial complex for decades now - because it's all about the billions of dollars being made in military profits.
We really are on a road to ruin now. A lot more lives are going to be lost - and pretty soon it will be American lives - if something doesn't stop this madness soon.
So far their escalations worked. The adversaries backed down. The trick for them is to guess - correctly - when to stop. They gamble every single time. This time, though, the stakes are quite a bit higher given the scale and resolve of the adversaries.
I don't think the Houthis are going to back down. I think this is the beginning of the "spiraling out of control" - unless these Israeli monstrous fucks stop doing what they're doing. But it seems this is exactly what the Zionists want - the widening of the war. I think we're now on a razor's edge - and I am not at all optimistic about the future.
The spiraling is universal. In 2022 when it became clear the West (including Israel) steps in with explicit support of Ukraine I said we're headed towards all out nuclear. And we are - it's a question of not very long time now.
The problem with your thought. It only takes one accidental signal as seen in Hawaii a few years ago to start and simultaneously end the war. When you launch you launch it all. That is their war game. There are no half-measures in nuclear war. One for all, all for one.
I think that's what worries me the most - the "upper crust of society" as you say, believes they have complete control of the situation. How often in human history has this idea been proven wrong - when it comes to human war!
All these US-inspired disruptions around the world have one advantage to America. They are nowhere near the US mainland. Not one even comes close.
As I have been saying for some time, a couple of nuclear armed submarines in international waters off the coast of New York, just sitting there enjoying the sunshine, would do magical things to the 86% Zionist owned Congress in Washington. This could be a prelude for a mass migration out of New York city which would effect the arrogance and remaining popularity and certainly the credibility of the Biden camp of militarists and their Israeli masters.
Now who would ever do anything like that? A submarine?
Most of the world actually, those with such weapons, and nuclear submarines. But not countries like little Australia, dancing to everyone's tune as a vassal state, now warring against Yemen and Gaza as commanded by Biden. We don't get our submarines through a sham project called AUKUS for another twenty years, $365 billion...money for Biden's mates....the military / industrial complex, yet again.
What about a crowd-funding campaign for just one year for just one submarine? Donations in all currencies accepted. But not shekels.
Just a suggestion to bring the world back to a level of realism....and to recover lost humanity.
Jamenta: I doubt many US lives will be lost because the war is not on US soil and attacked are orchestrated from far away. Any lives lost will be forced who have volunteered to be in the job so killing other people is entirely a choice.
David Lewis: The US has a large number of military bases all over the world - 900+ with a trillion dollar a year deep-state/MIC budget - while ordinary Americans are fucked over economically with Wallstreet exploitation and a rigged election process of politicans bought by the top 1% filthy rich Americans - which Republican shitheads do nothing about - screaming for rugged Individualism while they bend over and get fucked in the ass by the billionaire class (including Trump).
Of course if this war escalates in the Middle East - US bases will be easy pickings especially if the violence spreads to Hezbollah, Iran or Turkey. The US bases will be the first casualties - but the slaughter will spread as the US decides to get more involved - and if it decides to just sling interballistic missiles instead - which the US has 10s of thousands of - and Israel it's own nuclear stash - then many more Americans will be fucked - with this gun culture of death that this country has adopted - while millions of American children go to sleep hungry - so we can keep the Pentagon fed with its never ending Wars. A nuclear war is UNWINNABLE. It will be the end of civilizations as we know it.
Caitlin says: "In the end, you get peace by pursuing peace."
Yes, but peace is not profitable. War is necessary (at least in the minds of the ruling elite and corporations) to keep the engine of neo-liberal capitalism going.
Empires don't want peace. It doesn't serve their interests. It doesn't matter how many people die in wars. If peace does not keep the steady stream of money flowing into the coffers of the elite, it serves no purpose.
Changes need to happen at a systems level - at a structural level. Systems of government and ideologies need to change to bring about such changes. And until that happens, war is what we'll always be left with.
There isn't an overpopulation problem - it is a hoarding, allocation, and management of resources problem.
Our capitalistic system of "fake resource scarcity" is the problem. To explain what I mean further -
Our entire capitalist system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money. The more there is of any resource, the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance, and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together, you begin to see that one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor, and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity, are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources or overpopulation. They are products of the creation, perpetuation, and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.
To add to that: as populations increase, demand for resources increases - which means there is more money to be made by the elites that control most of the resources. Also, without consumers to buy all the planned-obselescence products that our capitalistic system continuously churns out, there would be no one for the elites to make money from.
Hence, I would say that the elites don't just want more poeople, but prefer overpopulation - as it allows them to increase their wealth. With this increased wealth, they can enclose themselves in their gated communities and segregate themselves from the rest of society and its problems. Overpopulation is a win-win for the elite.
Yes, completely agree. Unbounded increases in human population in an extremely short time-frame (as we have had over the last 100 years) does indeed have an adverse effect on mother earth.
That's the problem, the exponential increase in population & not actual overpopulation. The likes of the fascist members of the WEF prefer imposing Malthusian remedies such as genocidal wars, famine, [artificial] pestilence & what have you. This dangerous exponential rise can be addressed imo via economic means to remove the imperative of having large families to provide for the dotage of parents in the absence of safety nets in basic welfare. Having said that, children of the prosperous north are the ones who have the biggest footprint of all. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDB837E03BF7E16FF
I'm currently reading 'Regenisis' by George Monbiot, which is about how do you feed 10 billion people without causing the collapse of the entire eco-system. Humans take up approx 1% of the earths surface as habitat but agriculture uses 70%, with most of that being for meat production, either grazing, feed lot, penned or for growing the feed needed. And we're not even at 8.5 billion yet.
Under Neoliberalism no other way can function, so the only option left is to dismantle the capitalist system - it cannot be tweaked or corrected.
I totally agree. It is only a problem in their eyes not anyone else's. I was responding to the people who didn't understand that they want people to die. Same with the virus protocols, lockdown, and vaxx mandates. They see population as a problem
2024 is going to be a very hot year as the only way Biden can win the presidency is to use war as a weapon of mass distraction, as so many presidents have done before. The US is a kakistocracy where war prevails regardless of consequences.
If they were going to call a cease fire they would have done it by now.
This is the War/Genocide for the Greater Israel, and who gets to dominate the Middle East. After decades of meddling in the ME this is Washington's last chance to control it hand in hand with Israel.
Totally agree Robert although I don't think it's going to be Biden but rather Hillary! The 3am commercials have already commenced - granted sans Hillary's actual name but you know that's how they'll frame it. They'll also use it as an excuse when they pull the same identical crap they did in 2020. This absolutely boils down to domination of the middle east (new canal shipping lanes and trade) and the worlds next super power which I firmly believe will be Russia.
I say let the conflict begin - but especially if it leads to the destruction and removal of power and hegemony of the US and Israel. There is sadly and unfortunately no other way this will ever, ever, stop. If it means even one less child, toddler, infant or newborn being slaughtered ever again then I am willing to sacrifice my own life and hope they finally bomb the shit out of us instead. How many more millions upon millions of innocent people will the US savagely murder and displace before someone finally stands up and says enough is enough? Go after Iran and Russia will come after us!
Perhaps then we won’t be so eager to be armchair generals.
The United Snakes deserves everything it has inflicted upon the rest of the world.
I would hope the Revolution would occur first, but Murkins are a stupid, complacent lot, largely content with the status quo. What a fucked up regime we are.
How many times have we heard America has never been attacked (until 9-11 of course)?
America needs to reap when they have sowed! Forced into surrendering once and for all. Anyone who believes we still have the greatest military is a fool. How much have we just expended to Ukraine and now Israel? It was a trap!
It's over, it's here and now it's coming. Russia goaded everyone into Ukraine and now has all the means (with the Middle East and China) to obliterate the West along with Western Civilization. It's done. You cannot tell or convince me the total and entire destruction of the US in the past two years was not deliberate and intentional. NYC - GONE! It has become a total cesspool of migrants! San Francisco - GONE! Chicago - GONE
Agreed. What I find even more interesting, it took until 2022 for Putin to state I was fooled by the u.s./NATO into believing you can enter into agreement with them. He said that out loud.
That same thought should be entering every country in the Middle East minus israel. How is it possible they haven't realized they are ended standing alone.
Naivete or whatever else - he'll definitely have to provide answers for the history books.
I also suspect vanity. They pumped him up and he indeed thought that if he was promised something - he, as in "I am mighty PUTIN as they keep saying" - then those promises will be kept. Whereas behind the scenes they were laughing at the way they fooled him, like a conman would a simpleton.
So, unless something comes up that exonerates him in that regard - like, say, Russia was really unprepared in some ways to take on the West earlier - then he's fully responsible for letting things slide to such an extent that the war was necessary.
Yes, I was shocked and I know it was genuine expression. Obviously he believes in government in the u.s. that works and works for it's people. That is why Ukraine will no longer exist East of the Dinpro or Odessa. Russia can not trust any us./nato agreement that would allow a rebuild of Ukrainian military. Ukraine will be a neutered state without power, a farm field and not owned by Blackrock or Bill Gates. I know when I read his speech I was stunned. I actually think that means he is a person of intelligence and trust. Intelligent people are easily fooled. I am not easily fooled ha.
People who head states have no right to be gullible. They must be cynical in their role and work for the interests of their country and not their own values, whatever they are.
One can and should be a good person in their personal life, but when one is responsible for lots of other people - better work for the interests of those people or get the hell out if you can't handle schizo mode required for the role.
I agree, and he thought the u.s. was doing the same which would be peace not spending 22TRILLION on offense. I believe he thought we in the u.s. were working for the people of the u.s. not the Billionaire few. Agreed shockingly ignorant of the depth of greed in the u.s. considering what we know of Russian oligarchs of which he is one. Shocking, maybe he believed the campaign speeches ha.
Yes, and if that's indeed true (his ignorance, negligence, etc) then he is fully accountable for those 100s of thousands deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Not to say that it wouldn't have to happen anyway, but Russia's non-actions in those years he was at power speak for themselves. He spoke the right words, and openly - starting with 2007 Munich conference - but in practice not much, or close to nothing, apparently was done.
We must vote out ALL Democrats and the equally-war and fear mongering Republicans this year. There is no excuse that we can't kick out the duopoly out of the White House. No more blue or red maga. #Vote3rdParty #VoteIndependent
I reckon Biden's doubles will fade away and Biden himself will croak/retire before the big day which will allow the installation of the warpig maniac, Killary Clinton. She will probably rabidly pump away at identity politics and postal votes for victory over us all in the rest of the world. After all, she has enough [imaginary] money to buy the election outright if she so wishes in the very best democracy that [imaginary] money can buy.
BTW, the spokesperson of the experiment I am on now is a relative of Che the great Argentine hero of many of us : ) I wish I could have had dinner with Che.
The detector no longer looks like this with budget cuts. We need more bombs.
If you use a bit of detective work you'll see my name in the list of authors ha.
People wouldn't like me saying this. So I am indeed a chicken shit.
Nope, I am a minority thankfully, old white guy from the u.s. ha. We laugh how there will have to be an HR intervention. Seriously though, I love working in an environment that is global. I lived on a telescope on Tololo Chile (DES) for 3 months and five years off an on. Worked with friends on an experiment in (yes in) a nuclear reactor in Argentina. SnoLab in Canada. Even though the Canadians it seems applaud Nazi's many nice people in at a Nickel mine you would love ha. I am headed to a very small telescope in San Juan Argentina month or two once we make this new type of imager work.
I don't know how much she weighs but if she gets in she'll be the fat lady who sings at the end of the performance of the Human Race opera with or without any supporting choir boys!
Sadly I am afraid your username says it all when it comes to clinton, I refuse to capitalize her/his last name. clinton would have launched on Moscow there is no doubt in my mind. Funny how she considers biden a chicken shit. The end is always the most fascinating part.
I likewise refuse to capitalise the Rothschild Zionist project, (((israel))), as I consider it has no meritorious basis to exist on the map of the world that I inhabit. Palestine and not israel is the correct name for that part of the world that the Zionists lust after. Pre-1948 maps show this well.
Interesting thought. When will the old war is a winner vote end. 34 TRILLION in debt most of which is tied to military and no end in sight. I work in Astrophysics and dream of what could have been if nothing but to distract people from killing themselves what we could have had. I thought I knew how this chapter of the story ends but............................
Biden is not smart enough or caring enough to take this path, neither are Democrats or Republicans in any numbers that matter unless we unite and show up with large numbers ready to riot. I'm pretty sure that vanity and protecting his war crimes in Iraq, Yugoslaviare are his motivating reasons for being president. And now add Palestine to the list.
Peace in the Middle East would mean the end of US interference on the Eurasian continent, with relative loss of political and economic hegemony. But, it would also and above all mean the end of the hegemony of the dollar as an international currency since this hegemony is based on the denomination of raw material prices (not just oil) in dollars. To prevent this end, the US, among other things, provoked and supported the ten-year Iran-Iraq war, waged two wars against Iraq and Libya, provoked the war in Ukraine and seeks to maintain the Jewish conflict -Palestinian. But, now, with the BRICS +, the situation is becoming desperate and therefore we are witnessing the famous "backlash". The key is the dollar. Without the dollar as an international currency, the US could no longer support its military bases and could not continue to purchase the goods and services of other countries in exchange for "unexpired bills". If the dollar is the key, it must be brought back to the national currency. Those who buy from the United States pay in dollars and those who sell to the United States get paid in their own national currency. How to achieve this result? The only way is to form an alternative payment system to the banking system with which the dollar is managed. But, that's another story. That there will be.
If Blinken intends to bomb Yemen into submission, we’ll see the USA concurrently mirroring Israel in the use of bombing to destroy the infrastructure of a targeted population. This approach to foreign policy would not exist if the US were not the world’s hegemon. If killing civilians for political purposes is the definition of terrorism, the US is far and away the biggest terrorist nation in modern history.
Destroying a country’s infrastructure causes untold harm and suffering. Massive bombing and its consequent effects have become the hallmark of US foreign policy going back to Kissenger’s bombing frenzy of populations in South East Asia, McNamara and Lemay’s firebombing of Tokyo, Truman’s nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most prescient precedent for the US foreign policy of bombing is the bombing in 1937 of Guernica by Hitler and Mussolini. Bombing as foreign policy destroys the target population without taking on casualties when the target population does not have the capability to retaliate with bombing of its own.
Bombing as foreign policy will not lead to a future world of international peace and cooperation. It will lead to nuclear armageddon and the end of human existence as we know it.
Considering the timing it seems to be an F. YOU not only to the Houthis and Iran, but to South Africa and it's genocide case against Israel and basically telling all, Israel can do anything she wants and no one will stop her.
Yes. The blood drinkers, the cabal want war. This is what they want. Also, do you remember General Wesley Clark comment about war in the Middle East. The last country was Iran.
¨So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." Read More
General Wesley Clark Wars Were Planned Seven Countries In Five Years 2:12 min
The powers-that-be WANT a wider war in the Middle East. "Israehell" wants "justification" to get rid of most of their Muslim enemies, enemies which "Israehell" intentionally created through stealing their lands, attacking their countries, and "living" like aggression is "unavoidable", etc.. Why? Because mass- death and destruction are so obscenely profitable. Parasites like the Ashkenazim and "Israehell" will not be satisfied until they have fulfilled their lord and master, Satan's, desire for the eradication of all humankind. So, for Satan's primary minions, the Ashkenazim, their prime goal is right now exterminating most of humanity that was entered into in earnest with "Covid", the scamdemic(s), and the "vaccines". The Ashkenazim "Fourth Reich" is in an all-out attack against all of us the world-over at this very moment, and most are clueless, believing the poison-shots to be "safe". So, what are we going to do, for it appears we're just going to mostly go on being clueless?
"You get peace by pursuing peace."
What a concept! You mean we could do something so simple, so straightforward like not bombing or genociding or sinking or shooting our way into peace? And even a brainless Congressman can figure that out? I don't know what to think... Could Biden and his corporate paymasters really want a genocide and another war in the Middle East? Could there be money in this course of action? Hmm...
I usually do not read New Yorker interviews, not being a paid subscriber to it, but this interview had an element of sarcasm from the interviewer, Isaac Chotiner, that I found interesting (How the Biden Administration defends its Israel Policy)
Jake Sullivan, national security advisor said:
"The Israelis aren’t waking up every morning, strapping their boots on, and going into the fight with the mind-set that they are deliberately going to kill civilians and that they’re going to reduce civilian infrastructure to rubble for the sake of doing it. That would certainly be a war crime."
I thought: Well, better call it a crime then, because that seems to be exactly what they are doing.
Yep. pursue peace. What a crazy idea. Nope, it is definitely better to kill 23,000 civilians and destroy all their infrastructure. That way they will be dead and gone and there will be peace. Until there isn't anymore.
It is impossible to war ones way to peace.
"Peace" being that brief period of time while everyone reloads for the next War.
I'm as anti-war as you, but quite willing to Domestically fight for a Republic, as in the Constitution, as opposed to the current Feral DC Demoncrazy.
2024 is going to be a crazy year for sure.
The MICIMATT complex's profits depend on continuous war.
America ceased being a constitutional republic in Lincoln's treason.
The only way that the Constitution can be restored is for the majority to learn everything about it they have been kept ignorant of, deliberately.
I sometimes harken back to the War for Southern Independence as well. The lesson there is that the Victors Write the History while the Statues and even the Graves of Confederates are desecrated.
democRat ProgreSSives being led by Jacobin-Bolsheviks Can Not ever be Satisfied. Now William Penn's statue in Pennsylvania is being removed from "Feral Lands."
Most elected rinRats being Eunichs, there is only their bleating sheeple response, if any response at all.
I hope the Removal of the CW "Reconciliation" Monument at Arlington Cemetery may be curative of further pretended allegience to this Feral Coupist DC gov.
2024 will be the End of the Beginning, imo. How long it takes to Restore a Republic is unknown and also irrelevant.
All the best to you and yours.
On 10/6, the arabists had a choice. they chose not to pursue peace.
Now the houthis are trying to blackmail the west? - do what we want or we'll attack your shipping.
Fuck them. Seriously, who asked them? Who made the houthis the deciders. hamas made their choice, now they are paying for it and if more 3rd world assholes living in 1st world hotels far away from gaza and yemen want to expand the destruction of their peoples, keep talking.
The west is defending itself and the arabists are martyring their own people, involuntarily. Who do you support there?
Arabists?? What century is this? The 18th? Go home racist 18th century person.
Money?! Not a chance... https://voza0db.substack.com/p/morons-just-dont-get-it-c1f
We do not care about money.
Tell that to 2% of the wealthiest who control half the planet's resource and are willing to do anything to get the other half.
That is correct. The problem is simple: rapaciousness and megalomania rule Western Civilization—the solution not so much. The Deep State is not willing to peaceably give up its position of wealth and power; therefore, the electoral process will not work. Revolution is a viable option. Any other ideas?
Watch the BRICS+ slowly destroy the petrodollar by taking over control of the world's petroleum by its majors joining. The current members of BRICS+ control half of the planet's petroleum reserves. It is cheaper for them to deliver product to the eastern half of the planet than to the western hemisphere, largely by pipelines. It has been easy for Russia to skirt the sanctions placed on them by the shrinking SWIFT cartel by sending their crude to India, where the largest refinery in the world converts it into value-added finished products exempt from the sanctions. Since the EU has begun refusing Russian oil, they have been sending it to Saudi Arabia, which marks it up 30% and resells it to Europe.
Yes, that is a possible lead-in to the downfall of the US, but it will take action by the populace to finalize the end of the power elite.
"All power proceeds from rifle barrels" to paraphrase Mao tse Tung.
That is the Thought Process of the Feral Coupist gov. And mine as Well. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
The Polezi and We/Me/You will have Simple Difficult Decisions in 2024. "CYA" = conduct yourselves accordingly.
The power elite are more likely to survive anything than anyone else, if they use their wealth to guarantee their survival. Elites have no need for patriotism or territory.
Sounding sorta MAGA there Vonu !!!
I voted for Trump in 2014. I didn't vote for Trump or Biden in 2020. MAGA is nothing more than a mass of quasi-conservatives that are grossly ignorant of their own and the country's history. Both of the major political parties began as anti-federalists and have morphed into fascist federalists. Jingoism sells Trump more than anything else.
I tell it to the herds of modern moron slaves... BUT THEY CARE EVEN LESS than the Secular Ruling Families & Billionaires.
Continue To Communicate. Words for now, but not for ever ..... if their/thems' Ears remain closed to Reason.
Quit the genocide in Gaza to stop the Houthis in Yemen? Makes sense to me.
Makes sense, so is completely incomprehensible to the people in Foggy Bottom.
Indeed Diana,
Perfectly sensible and logical ,
Yes.
As you point out, the US does not want peace in any way, shape, form, or location. There's no money or ego-stroking or rush of perceived power in peace.
“The US was a relatively poor nation prior to WW2.” This is untrue, the USA has been wealthy since the 1880’s. It did account for over 50% of global GDP in 1946 but this was due to the huge industrial expansion during the war and also the fact that every industrialized country in Europe including Russia and Japan and China had suffered huge material losses. By the 1980’s USA percentage of world GDP was around 28% and today it is c24% and has been around that for the last 20 years. This is not because the US economy has declined but because Europe etc. has recovered from WW2.
"Vote Green"?
Why? Have you seen what the Green Party did to Germany?
Are you saying this just because it is not Republican or Democrat?
Cornell West abandoned the People's party and as far as I'm concerned setting himself up to be a redux of Bernie.
He ignored jimmy Dore's excellent advice in this video purposely going out of his way to alienate many of the voters he would have needed to win. He continues to fan the flames of TDS as if Biden isn't following the exact same policies that Trump was. Both work for segments of the Oligarchy, which fights amongst itself.
Cornel West Running On Trump Derangement Syndrome & White Supremacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIL8mnxKesY
West should have taken a page out of Obama's play book.
Jill Stein is the only solution. She is against everything I am against. Which is war and the Criminal Elite.
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It started earlier than 1976, at least during the JFK regime, son of a wall street grifter and fanatic anticommunist, when he started lowering the taxes on the most wealthy. No surprise there.
{...Vote Green...} Germany DID.
They're currently being anihilated economically and socially.
by G R E E N
stupidity ...
or hidden agenda to get rid of Germany for good. Morgenthauplan, version 2.0, you know ???...
These fuckers must know this is an escalation. We have a corrupt ignorant old fuck for a president, surrounded by a bunch of lunatic warmongers who have been feeding the corrupt US military industrial complex for decades now - because it's all about the billions of dollars being made in military profits.
We really are on a road to ruin now. A lot more lives are going to be lost - and pretty soon it will be American lives - if something doesn't stop this madness soon.
It's already here . . . .
So far their escalations worked. The adversaries backed down. The trick for them is to guess - correctly - when to stop. They gamble every single time. This time, though, the stakes are quite a bit higher given the scale and resolve of the adversaries.
I don't think the Houthis are going to back down. I think this is the beginning of the "spiraling out of control" - unless these Israeli monstrous fucks stop doing what they're doing. But it seems this is exactly what the Zionists want - the widening of the war. I think we're now on a razor's edge - and I am not at all optimistic about the future.
The spiraling is universal. In 2022 when it became clear the West (including Israel) steps in with explicit support of Ukraine I said we're headed towards all out nuclear. And we are - it's a question of not very long time now.
Man ... it's just ... unbelievable. :(
The problem with your thought. It only takes one accidental signal as seen in Hawaii a few years ago to start and simultaneously end the war. When you launch you launch it all. That is their war game. There are no half-measures in nuclear war. One for all, all for one.
The people who run the Empire would gladly exterminate 99% of life on earth if that were the price of dominion over whatever is left.
n.b. "Don't Look Up!"
I think that's what worries me the most - the "upper crust of society" as you say, believes they have complete control of the situation. How often in human history has this idea been proven wrong - when it comes to human war!
I think you are right, Ernesto.
All these US-inspired disruptions around the world have one advantage to America. They are nowhere near the US mainland. Not one even comes close.
As I have been saying for some time, a couple of nuclear armed submarines in international waters off the coast of New York, just sitting there enjoying the sunshine, would do magical things to the 86% Zionist owned Congress in Washington. This could be a prelude for a mass migration out of New York city which would effect the arrogance and remaining popularity and certainly the credibility of the Biden camp of militarists and their Israeli masters.
Now who would ever do anything like that? A submarine?
Most of the world actually, those with such weapons, and nuclear submarines. But not countries like little Australia, dancing to everyone's tune as a vassal state, now warring against Yemen and Gaza as commanded by Biden. We don't get our submarines through a sham project called AUKUS for another twenty years, $365 billion...money for Biden's mates....the military / industrial complex, yet again.
What about a crowd-funding campaign for just one year for just one submarine? Donations in all currencies accepted. But not shekels.
Just a suggestion to bring the world back to a level of realism....and to recover lost humanity.
Right Che. IsraHell has been wanting Amerikkka to go to war with Iran, for like forever.
And use the Amerikkkan military in order that the precious little IDF don’t have to dirty their own already filthy hands.
Thing is, I can plausibly see Kim Jong loaning a nuke or two to Iran. Buh- bye, IsraHell.
Boom.
Lol Che: I think I LOVE IT! 😁
Jamenta: I doubt many US lives will be lost because the war is not on US soil and attacked are orchestrated from far away. Any lives lost will be forced who have volunteered to be in the job so killing other people is entirely a choice.
David Lewis: The US has a large number of military bases all over the world - 900+ with a trillion dollar a year deep-state/MIC budget - while ordinary Americans are fucked over economically with Wallstreet exploitation and a rigged election process of politicans bought by the top 1% filthy rich Americans - which Republican shitheads do nothing about - screaming for rugged Individualism while they bend over and get fucked in the ass by the billionaire class (including Trump).
Of course if this war escalates in the Middle East - US bases will be easy pickings especially if the violence spreads to Hezbollah, Iran or Turkey. The US bases will be the first casualties - but the slaughter will spread as the US decides to get more involved - and if it decides to just sling interballistic missiles instead - which the US has 10s of thousands of - and Israel it's own nuclear stash - then many more Americans will be fucked - with this gun culture of death that this country has adopted - while millions of American children go to sleep hungry - so we can keep the Pentagon fed with its never ending Wars. A nuclear war is UNWINNABLE. It will be the end of civilizations as we know it.
Agree! It's a nightmare waiting to happen - unless cooler heads prevail somehow and the US is able to reign in Israel (in order to save itself).
David:
Many Amerikkkan lives will be lost in the coming Revolution. Both among the higher echelons to be targeted, and among the footsoldiers.
This is not something we should fear. During the first American Revolution, men and women were proud to die for their cause.
Arm yourself.
I’m totally disgust with “ I am a Zionist “ Biden! The American Congress, the complacent, ignorant American people! Sorry World! Sorry Human Race!
Caitlin says: "In the end, you get peace by pursuing peace."
Yes, but peace is not profitable. War is necessary (at least in the minds of the ruling elite and corporations) to keep the engine of neo-liberal capitalism going.
Empires don't want peace. It doesn't serve their interests. It doesn't matter how many people die in wars. If peace does not keep the steady stream of money flowing into the coffers of the elite, it serves no purpose.
Changes need to happen at a systems level - at a structural level. Systems of government and ideologies need to change to bring about such changes. And until that happens, war is what we'll always be left with.
Actually, they want more humans to die -- to help with the overpopulation problem
There isn't an overpopulation problem - it is a hoarding, allocation, and management of resources problem.
Our capitalistic system of "fake resource scarcity" is the problem. To explain what I mean further -
Our entire capitalist system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money. The more there is of any resource, the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance, and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together, you begin to see that one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor, and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity, are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources or overpopulation. They are products of the creation, perpetuation, and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.
To add to that: as populations increase, demand for resources increases - which means there is more money to be made by the elites that control most of the resources. Also, without consumers to buy all the planned-obselescence products that our capitalistic system continuously churns out, there would be no one for the elites to make money from.
Hence, I would say that the elites don't just want more poeople, but prefer overpopulation - as it allows them to increase their wealth. With this increased wealth, they can enclose themselves in their gated communities and segregate themselves from the rest of society and its problems. Overpopulation is a win-win for the elite.
But a huge loss to the nonhuman inhabitants of our planet due to destruction of natural habitat, pollution, etc.
Yes, completely agree. Unbounded increases in human population in an extremely short time-frame (as we have had over the last 100 years) does indeed have an adverse effect on mother earth.
That's the problem, the exponential increase in population & not actual overpopulation. The likes of the fascist members of the WEF prefer imposing Malthusian remedies such as genocidal wars, famine, [artificial] pestilence & what have you. This dangerous exponential rise can be addressed imo via economic means to remove the imperative of having large families to provide for the dotage of parents in the absence of safety nets in basic welfare. Having said that, children of the prosperous north are the ones who have the biggest footprint of all. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDB837E03BF7E16FF
Humans are like a plague of locusts upon the earth. Free birth control for all who want it.
I'm currently reading 'Regenisis' by George Monbiot, which is about how do you feed 10 billion people without causing the collapse of the entire eco-system. Humans take up approx 1% of the earths surface as habitat but agriculture uses 70%, with most of that being for meat production, either grazing, feed lot, penned or for growing the feed needed. And we're not even at 8.5 billion yet.
Under Neoliberalism no other way can function, so the only option left is to dismantle the capitalist system - it cannot be tweaked or corrected.
I totally agree. It is only a problem in their eyes not anyone else's. I was responding to the people who didn't understand that they want people to die. Same with the virus protocols, lockdown, and vaxx mandates. They see population as a problem
I agreed at least a large subset do, the bunker builders and most of CONgress. Neutrons are the most effective way, the real estate weapon.
2024 is going to be a very hot year as the only way Biden can win the presidency is to use war as a weapon of mass distraction, as so many presidents have done before. The US is a kakistocracy where war prevails regardless of consequences.
If they were going to call a cease fire they would have done it by now.
This is the War/Genocide for the Greater Israel, and who gets to dominate the Middle East. After decades of meddling in the ME this is Washington's last chance to control it hand in hand with Israel.
Totally agree Robert although I don't think it's going to be Biden but rather Hillary! The 3am commercials have already commenced - granted sans Hillary's actual name but you know that's how they'll frame it. They'll also use it as an excuse when they pull the same identical crap they did in 2020. This absolutely boils down to domination of the middle east (new canal shipping lanes and trade) and the worlds next super power which I firmly believe will be Russia.
I say let the conflict begin - but especially if it leads to the destruction and removal of power and hegemony of the US and Israel. There is sadly and unfortunately no other way this will ever, ever, stop. If it means even one less child, toddler, infant or newborn being slaughtered ever again then I am willing to sacrifice my own life and hope they finally bomb the shit out of us instead. How many more millions upon millions of innocent people will the US savagely murder and displace before someone finally stands up and says enough is enough? Go after Iran and Russia will come after us!
You got my vote!
Thank you kindly!!
Well said BJ!
War needs to come to Amerikkkan soil.
Perhaps then we won’t be so eager to be armchair generals.
The United Snakes deserves everything it has inflicted upon the rest of the world.
I would hope the Revolution would occur first, but Murkins are a stupid, complacent lot, largely content with the status quo. What a fucked up regime we are.
How many times have we heard America has never been attacked (until 9-11 of course)?
America needs to reap when they have sowed! Forced into surrendering once and for all. Anyone who believes we still have the greatest military is a fool. How much have we just expended to Ukraine and now Israel? It was a trap!
It's over, it's here and now it's coming. Russia goaded everyone into Ukraine and now has all the means (with the Middle East and China) to obliterate the West along with Western Civilization. It's done. You cannot tell or convince me the total and entire destruction of the US in the past two years was not deliberate and intentional. NYC - GONE! It has become a total cesspool of migrants! San Francisco - GONE! Chicago - GONE
Agreed. What I find even more interesting, it took until 2022 for Putin to state I was fooled by the u.s./NATO into believing you can enter into agreement with them. He said that out loud.
That same thought should be entering every country in the Middle East minus israel. How is it possible they haven't realized they are ended standing alone.
For someone who is depicted as some kind of evil genius puppetmaster, Putin's naivete astounds me.
Naivete or whatever else - he'll definitely have to provide answers for the history books.
I also suspect vanity. They pumped him up and he indeed thought that if he was promised something - he, as in "I am mighty PUTIN as they keep saying" - then those promises will be kept. Whereas behind the scenes they were laughing at the way they fooled him, like a conman would a simpleton.
So, unless something comes up that exonerates him in that regard - like, say, Russia was really unprepared in some ways to take on the West earlier - then he's fully responsible for letting things slide to such an extent that the war was necessary.
My SWAG has nothing to do with flattery or ego and everything to do with wanting to believe.
Yes, I was shocked and I know it was genuine expression. Obviously he believes in government in the u.s. that works and works for it's people. That is why Ukraine will no longer exist East of the Dinpro or Odessa. Russia can not trust any us./nato agreement that would allow a rebuild of Ukrainian military. Ukraine will be a neutered state without power, a farm field and not owned by Blackrock or Bill Gates. I know when I read his speech I was stunned. I actually think that means he is a person of intelligence and trust. Intelligent people are easily fooled. I am not easily fooled ha.
People who head states have no right to be gullible. They must be cynical in their role and work for the interests of their country and not their own values, whatever they are.
One can and should be a good person in their personal life, but when one is responsible for lots of other people - better work for the interests of those people or get the hell out if you can't handle schizo mode required for the role.
I agree, and he thought the u.s. was doing the same which would be peace not spending 22TRILLION on offense. I believe he thought we in the u.s. were working for the people of the u.s. not the Billionaire few. Agreed shockingly ignorant of the depth of greed in the u.s. considering what we know of Russian oligarchs of which he is one. Shocking, maybe he believed the campaign speeches ha.
Yes, and if that's indeed true (his ignorance, negligence, etc) then he is fully accountable for those 100s of thousands deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Not to say that it wouldn't have to happen anyway, but Russia's non-actions in those years he was at power speak for themselves. He spoke the right words, and openly - starting with 2007 Munich conference - but in practice not much, or close to nothing, apparently was done.
We must vote out ALL Democrats and the equally-war and fear mongering Republicans this year. There is no excuse that we can't kick out the duopoly out of the White House. No more blue or red maga. #Vote3rdParty #VoteIndependent
I reckon Biden's doubles will fade away and Biden himself will croak/retire before the big day which will allow the installation of the warpig maniac, Killary Clinton. She will probably rabidly pump away at identity politics and postal votes for victory over us all in the rest of the world. After all, she has enough [imaginary] money to buy the election outright if she so wishes in the very best democracy that [imaginary] money can buy.
BTW, the spokesperson of the experiment I am on now is a relative of Che the great Argentine hero of many of us : ) I wish I could have had dinner with Che.
The detector no longer looks like this with budget cuts. We need more bombs.
If you use a bit of detective work you'll see my name in the list of authors ha.
People wouldn't like me saying this. So I am indeed a chicken shit.
Nope, I am a minority thankfully, old white guy from the u.s. ha. We laugh how there will have to be an HR intervention. Seriously though, I love working in an environment that is global. I lived on a telescope on Tololo Chile (DES) for 3 months and five years off an on. Worked with friends on an experiment in (yes in) a nuclear reactor in Argentina. SnoLab in Canada. Even though the Canadians it seems applaud Nazi's many nice people in at a Nickel mine you would love ha. I am headed to a very small telescope in San Juan Argentina month or two once we make this new type of imager work.
https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/instrument/the-camera/
We built this camera in the u.s. my avatar ha.
I helped build this experiment however not an author.
https://www.snolab.ca/experiment/sensei/
Now holds the lowest mass measurement for Dark Matter .0000002 EEV
I did however bring it back from death my colleagues thought not possible ha.
Two weeks later they had a record measurement..
I am more impressed with geologists, down to the hard core of the matter.
Couldn't resist the pun.
I wrote a story 10 years ago, Dirty Dozen to Mars about resource depletion.
With a twist on the Kyoto protocols. Our spokesperson's father was the chairman.
So thank you for the science : )
I don't know how much she weighs but if she gets in she'll be the fat lady who sings at the end of the performance of the Human Race opera with or without any supporting choir boys!
Sadly I am afraid your username says it all when it comes to clinton, I refuse to capitalize her/his last name. clinton would have launched on Moscow there is no doubt in my mind. Funny how she considers biden a chicken shit. The end is always the most fascinating part.
I likewise refuse to capitalise the Rothschild Zionist project, (((israel))), as I consider it has no meritorious basis to exist on the map of the world that I inhabit. Palestine and not israel is the correct name for that part of the world that the Zionists lust after. Pre-1948 maps show this well.
Interesting thought. When will the old war is a winner vote end. 34 TRILLION in debt most of which is tied to military and no end in sight. I work in Astrophysics and dream of what could have been if nothing but to distract people from killing themselves what we could have had. I thought I knew how this chapter of the story ends but............................
A most logical approach:
Not a “politically plausible” one (?), :
But certainly the most principled, compassionate, and honest one.
Biden is not smart enough or caring enough to take this path, neither are Democrats or Republicans in any numbers that matter unless we unite and show up with large numbers ready to riot. I'm pretty sure that vanity and protecting his war crimes in Iraq, Yugoslaviare are his motivating reasons for being president. And now add Palestine to the list.
Peace in the Middle East would mean the end of US interference on the Eurasian continent, with relative loss of political and economic hegemony. But, it would also and above all mean the end of the hegemony of the dollar as an international currency since this hegemony is based on the denomination of raw material prices (not just oil) in dollars. To prevent this end, the US, among other things, provoked and supported the ten-year Iran-Iraq war, waged two wars against Iraq and Libya, provoked the war in Ukraine and seeks to maintain the Jewish conflict -Palestinian. But, now, with the BRICS +, the situation is becoming desperate and therefore we are witnessing the famous "backlash". The key is the dollar. Without the dollar as an international currency, the US could no longer support its military bases and could not continue to purchase the goods and services of other countries in exchange for "unexpired bills". If the dollar is the key, it must be brought back to the national currency. Those who buy from the United States pay in dollars and those who sell to the United States get paid in their own national currency. How to achieve this result? The only way is to form an alternative payment system to the banking system with which the dollar is managed. But, that's another story. That there will be.
Well said Rodolfo
And spot ON.
If Blinken intends to bomb Yemen into submission, we’ll see the USA concurrently mirroring Israel in the use of bombing to destroy the infrastructure of a targeted population. This approach to foreign policy would not exist if the US were not the world’s hegemon. If killing civilians for political purposes is the definition of terrorism, the US is far and away the biggest terrorist nation in modern history.
Destroying a country’s infrastructure causes untold harm and suffering. Massive bombing and its consequent effects have become the hallmark of US foreign policy going back to Kissenger’s bombing frenzy of populations in South East Asia, McNamara and Lemay’s firebombing of Tokyo, Truman’s nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most prescient precedent for the US foreign policy of bombing is the bombing in 1937 of Guernica by Hitler and Mussolini. Bombing as foreign policy destroys the target population without taking on casualties when the target population does not have the capability to retaliate with bombing of its own.
Bombing as foreign policy will not lead to a future world of international peace and cooperation. It will lead to nuclear armageddon and the end of human existence as we know it.
Well spoken Phil,
and Spot On.
Considering the timing it seems to be an F. YOU not only to the Houthis and Iran, but to South Africa and it's genocide case against Israel and basically telling all, Israel can do anything she wants and no one will stop her.
Yes. The blood drinkers, the cabal want war. This is what they want. Also, do you remember General Wesley Clark comment about war in the Middle East. The last country was Iran.
¨So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." Read More
General Wesley Clark Wars Were Planned Seven Countries In Five Years 2:12 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4
General Clark on the Iraq Invasion | American War Generals 2:59 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs4TFSjrY
We could see it happening, but somehow to see it spelled out and confirmed as their plan is horrifying.
Yes indeed, it is horrifying but there are people on earth now with a lot of inner power holding space to avoid WW3.
I hope that's true.
Peace! But the WMD in the White House is the lap dog of the weapons industrial congressional complex
The powers-that-be WANT a wider war in the Middle East. "Israehell" wants "justification" to get rid of most of their Muslim enemies, enemies which "Israehell" intentionally created through stealing their lands, attacking their countries, and "living" like aggression is "unavoidable", etc.. Why? Because mass- death and destruction are so obscenely profitable. Parasites like the Ashkenazim and "Israehell" will not be satisfied until they have fulfilled their lord and master, Satan's, desire for the eradication of all humankind. So, for Satan's primary minions, the Ashkenazim, their prime goal is right now exterminating most of humanity that was entered into in earnest with "Covid", the scamdemic(s), and the "vaccines". The Ashkenazim "Fourth Reich" is in an all-out attack against all of us the world-over at this very moment, and most are clueless, believing the poison-shots to be "safe". So, what are we going to do, for it appears we're just going to mostly go on being clueless?
Just what the plan was all along
Who'd have thought that Ronald Reagan had more of a moral compass than Biden?
Our morally bankrupt president will sacrifice thousands more innocents on the Altar of Re-election.