The main problem in the U.S. is the unshakable belief of ordinary Americans that the benefits of the "rule of the elite" will "trickle down" to everyone.
They are conditioned to believe that wealth is magically created by the "elite" because the elite knows how to manage capital and it is better to have the crumbs than nothing. Americans at large fail to understand that that most of the wealth of the "elite" is extracted from the working ppl all over the world, including Americans themselves, and the crumbs they enjoy are only an insignificant percentage of what has been taken.
Americans are having REALLY hard time realizing they have been exploited like cattle by their own "Elite".
"Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable, the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not 5000 miles away. They are right here at home."
"Once large numbers of U.S. troops are committed to direct combat, they will begin to take heavy casualties in a war they are ill-equipped to fight in a non-cooperative if not downright hostile countryside. Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process.
Our involvement will be so great that we cannot - without national humiliation - stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Of the two possibilities I think humiliation would be more likely than the achievement of our objectives - even after we have paid terrible costs."
-George Ball, Undersecretary of State, Confidential Memo to President Johnson on Vietnam War. July 1, 1965
What ended the Vietnam 3wsd not the protests. Those were manageable.
What ended the war was the breakdown in army discipline, which began in earnest in around 1970 in units stationed in-country and started to spread rapidly to Marine units and units outside the theater.
When Reagan was governing CA, he started the trend of making college more expensive so he could crush campus protest and prevent poor students from learning anything and getting jobs.
Reagan was the one bringing all the cocaine in America. Them guns were not free.
Nancy Reagan's ultra-right-wing father captured what little there was of Reagan's "Brain" back in the 50s.
BTW Reagan's Secretary Helene Van Damme was a notorious Nazi that brought Nazis into powerful positions such as Otto von Bolschwing - partners to Gavin Newsom's dad.
Otto Von Bolschwing was an advisor to the Nazi Jewish office on Haavara and the final solution. He ended up in business with Gavin Newsom's dad in 1969.
Von Bolschwing also advised Eichmann on the Final Solution.
100%. The real feature of humans is their natural tendency toward stupidity, corruption, and self-destruction. Individual humans can be intelligent and compassionate, but boy when the humans get together, the group overall becomes corrupt, evil, and stupid. The Western "civilization" is the living proof of that.
Yet these are the people who changed the pay systems to percentage rises, which meant they kept getting richer, while there's today us fell behind every pay rise that followed. Not satisfied with that,next thing was to change the tax system in their favour, and then further change the system for businesses to often pay less tax than the poorest workers.
Politicians go along with it because of two things: it's more going into their pockets personally and, from lower taxes on their buiness dealings, you can bet they also know the ways to lower any investment property-gains payments.
BTW It used to be illegal for companies to buy their own shares. Then Thatcher and Reagan (at the behest of banksters' neoliberal Chicago & Cambridge School of Economics) allowed companies to legally buy back their own shares.
Listening to Chris Hedges yesterday doing a Q&A in his library (Chris lives in a library), he talked about (I paraphrase here since I don't have an eidetic memory) - that because humans throughout our entire history have always had a certain percentage of "human predators" that feed upon and exploit other humans (slave owners, business exploiters, corrupt politicians) and could really care less about the fate of humanity, and are pathologically focused on their own lives and own self-serving ends - that a civilized free society must maintain a system of laws and regulations to control these psychopathic predators, or else, as Caitlin writes so well here, they become the plantation slave owners and abusers of an entire society.
Trump is the epitome of such a predator. No respect for the laws of the US. No interest in the fate of humanity. More interested in making money for his billionaire friends (every week the stock market closes) rather than ending the several raging wars in the world.
And let us not forget, we would not have ended up with Trump if it weren't for the pathological corruption of the Democratic party as well.
Yes - and all those blue no matter who folks, until it finally sinks in - that both parties supported a heinous genocide where 10s of thousands of children were butchered for no other reason than an Israeli land grab - Americans will just keep on getting more Trumps in the future.
It's a point that needs to be driven home often: we have a corrupt Uniparty that commits genocide, has maintained mass surveillance on all Americans, and only serves the Oligarchs in this country. The electoral process is a rigged scam.
Change is going to have to come from Americans organizing themselves in Unions etc.- it's not going to come from the two corrupt political parties - that are doing diddley squat for ordinary Americans.
Well what followed was Napoleon. What followed the Russian revolution was a centralized tyranny as well.
So - if we follow history, including the collapse of the Roman Empire to barbarians, well, it's likely not going to be very pretty whatever happens next.
Which makes you wonder a bit about human life itself. Is it all just some kind of mirage of meaning for those who become the hapless victims of these "revolutions"? What is the purpose of any of it? Or is purpose just a delusion of the human mind?
"Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
"When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
"These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
"It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
-Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, (1920-1944) addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, October 1924.
IMO Trump is not a fundamental problem. If not Trump, they would find another asshole and cretin. The West in general is full of despicable genocide-supporting ghouls like Trump or Genocide Joe. The problem is in the western supremacist manifest-destiny ideology, decadent power structure, and deeply corrupt political system.
If only it just required a group of people with firearms... Yes, force is required but the organization and orientation of that force is primary. In other words, we require a revolutionary party. People with guns and no political orientation, leadership, discipline, plan or class consciousness would just serve up another tagedy. We don't need new martyrs. We have plenty now. We need an organization that can actually take power from the tiny Zio Imperialist ruling class. Hint: we do all the work to make their society run.
You are absolutely right, but the left are terrified of guns and prefer to dissipate their energies on word games, Wokemon contests, and endless struggle sessions over minor PC violations.
Brilliant idea, when those prepared to do something and go forward, everyone find someone strong who they know is into gaming, go grab their 🎮 and they'll chase you all into battle and bump up the numbers.
Use your imagination, cats are wise and have to work out how to get certain creatures into the open, nicking their games controller to get them to chase you isn't so different.
Firearms owners as a whole are the most law abiding citizens in the West. WE know that once the bullet starts down the barrel nothing will stop its path. Knowing the magnitude of this keeps us from rash reaction to what is going on in the world. If gun owners are finally pushed over the brink the reaction will be methodically and rationally implemented. This rationality is why governments try so hard to steal our firearms. They thrive on chaos and rationality is their enemy.
Hummm........... That is changing my friend. Many have discovered that was a ploy to divide the power of working people. I hold out the example of Blakeley. She is the Mother Fucker you want standing beside you when the shit hits the fan and the fan is on 11 now.
Realistically your pitchfork isn't of much worth against a man with body armour and an AR15 or AK47. Why do you think they disarmed you?
Here in Canada they are aggressively attacking our legal firearms ownership while basically letting criminals literally get away with murder using illegally acquired firearms. Did you ever stop to think about why these situations exist. Look at the rape of young girls in your country by immigrant criminals and the blatant act of promoting this behaviour. Can you not see what they are doing.? Once the citizens are destroyed using their immigrant henchmen, don't think they won't eliminate them. The "elite" want the whole world just for themselves. When is the last time you saw any attention being given to the WEF? Carney in Canada is talking about joining the EU. This will sell out our rights and is in keeping with WEF policy. When they say "You will own nothin" that includes your own life.
As I'm not personally responsible for them taking away the guns here and a pitchfork is the best I can do, I count it better than absolutely nothing. Besides, how do you know my battle cry doesn't rattle even strong armed soldiers. 😆
Do you enjoy reading propaganda and fake footage of alleged hordes of immigrants running amok, raping , robbing and destroying. Are all immigrants innocent, no , of course they are not, nor are people whose white families have lived here for years, most surely not.
We know why they remove weapons and certain rights of people.
You living in a country of unarmed citizens should be a very graphic example of how helpless you truly are. Here in Canada they are aggressively attacking our gun rights while blatantly ignoring criminal use and possession of firearms. Other than sowing chaos what other reason do they have for these policies? You pitchfork isn't much of a defense against an enemy with a Kevlar vest and an AR15 or AK47.
I'd do the best I could with what I had to hand, I'd sooner go out with something in my hand than holding my hands up in the air and conceding defeat so easily.
I know about Canada and my advice simply is don't give up the guns. Here it didn't make any difference to gun crime, it was still the favourite weapon of unsolved murders in the UK, though this last couple of years knifes have taken the number one spot. And our government made tracing guns used in murder of nearly a hundred people a year more difficult simply because none of the guns had been registered at any point in time.
So hang on to your guns and I'll do my best with my pitchfork.
That is the exact thing that is happening here. We are well organized but we are fighting against an education (indoctrination system that is focused on the erosion of freedom. Firearms are tools much the same as pitchforks.
The indoctrination is the problem to be sure, saw that happening here decades ago, by the time our two daughters were eight I pulled them out of the education system and taught them at home. Much healthier doing mental arithmetic while walking down a country lane.
True, but people in the past in England didn't have guns either, only the monied people could afford them, so it really was things like pitchforks, laying tripwires for the horses, little things like that. Okay no soldiers on horses going to take us out like in the last successful revolution, so my mind thinks to things like spike strips, potatoes up the exhaust pipes, holes that look like solid ground. No one said it was going to be easy.
Trump (and his ilk*) may have temporarily stepped back from his recent threat of terminating Iranian civilization, but he can still bring the world to the brink of a World War. It's high time for a revolution in the West!
* It is not just Trump: he is just a puppet, as any US President before him. It's a whole global class, the Epstein class. If it was just a matter of one crazy President, we would have never arrived at this point and either US Congressmen or US Generals would have stopped this madness - instead Dems and Reps keep playing kabuki theatre at the Congress and US Generals and troops keep executing orders coming allegedly from above. The people need to take their matter in their own hands!
It’s a gangster. It has been called a gangster state, for just such reasons. And other countries are afraid of what the United States can do, not only under Trump, but what it has been doing for the last 50 years. It is simply confiscating, and destabilizing, and overthrowing.
The US has basically declared war against any attempt to create an international trade and investment system that the Alglo-murican Oligarchy does not control, in its own self-interest, wanting all of the earnings from it, all of the revenue from it, not just part of it.
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
"War Is a Racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
- Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient
At least, centuries ago kings and/or their sons would go to war and lead their armies in the battlefields, putting their own lives at risk: there are plenty of cases of kings and high-ranking generals who were killed or captured in war.
Now it's allegedly "democratically-elected" Presidents and Prime Ministers who wage war against billions of innocent civilians from the comfort of their armchair. I bet they wouldn't do that, if they had ever fought in a war or if they (and/or their children) were forced to go and lead their armies in the battlefield!
The Danish King is the only one I've known to do what all other soldiers do no matter how hard or dangerous. Unlike the Royals here if they join the army or navy in England, the one common complaint by soldiers who have to have them in their unit is that the others have to protect them first, plus a whole host of other privileges they expect. The Danish King has done two separate stints out on the two man dog sledges they take out for six months without expecting food drops or someone checking on them.
As soon as you recognize anyone as King or Queen or Royalty. You are recognizing a class of parasites that serve no useful purpose other than to live a life of luxury while doing nothing. The whole concept of Royalty is absurd!
I agree one million percent, which is what I was kind of saying pointing out about the King of Denmark being the only one I know who doesn't pull on status, come to that he doesn't act in the slightest bit like the ones over here. Unfortunately most people here worship the ground they walk on, bow and scrape, truly sickening.
I think it's a case of pretending to back from any threats he's made, it's the stock markets he's playing and giving a heads up to some of his capitalist friends so they can play it too. It's always about the money.
Yes, that's for sure, but the war has not ended. We are just going through a ceasefire expiring in a matter of days and, as things currently stand, I do not see any extension, actually... it may get ugly (if not uglier!) once again, considering that the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier strike group is on its way towards Iran and is expected to arrive there just when the truce expires!
In addition to the above, earlier today IRGC Major General Naqdi said on Iranian national TV that... "It may be that if the war continues, it’ll become a world war" (source: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31158)
Did you notice they traveled around the Horn rather than the Red Sea hahahha. I loved that and few noticed it. They are scared shitless knowing at any time a volley of Hypersonics could end their stay. Never Fuck with people who invented Algebra. : )
Unfortunately, I have not been able to write a new one yet. Working on it, but I have been busy and sick at the same time and I can barely catch up with the latest developments (running too fast)!
I know, but for Trump it still makes the stock markets shift rapidly. Like Strait of Hormuz open, up they go, because USA didn't remove their blockade and Iran has once more closed the Strait, they'll go down again.
I am holding SP500 Puts for this coming truth over the lie of peace talks. People with big money are making billions. The SP500 is so far over valued beyond 1929, 1987,2001,2007,2020 and now. Any Central banker that was doing their pretend job would have said Alan Greenspan " The markers are in irrational exuberance. : )
So true. I like taking money from the system. I have a trade I make using S/P500 put options, I let the Demented Don lies drive the SP up buy Put Options underneath and wait for the truth, sell the truth. Wait for the lies, sell the truth. This last go around in the Ponzi Scheme has me fooled. I had no idea the Ponzi would ignore the truth far longer than logic. Wall Street has not been connected to anything financial for years now since 2007. I did the same thing buying Puts on Lehman Brothers when the Ponzi was saying nothing to see hear, negative value in a finance co. is a good thing. When the went belly up, I had to call to see how to trade something that no longer existed. I love taking money from Wall Street. Here is something very strange, the brokerage house I use balked at transferring money to my Credit Union. Sounds so banking failure like to me. The Anti Demented Genocide Don trade. : ) I loved taking from Tesla too : ) and the Tariff fiasco : )
I agree “It’s a whole global class” what we have to keep in mind is that this world situation it’s been planned for decades. Look at the super pacs in America, they have an infinity amount of money to buy people in government. How do you fight a giant that. !!
Grassroot revolution - there is no other way. If it starts in the US (and UK), then their system may collapse elsewhere in the West like a card castle as soon as you remove the first from the centre at the bottom; otherwise, it may require more effort and bloodshed, unfortunately.
I will quote Antonio Gramsci:
“Educate yourselves because we'll need all your intelligence. Stir yourselves because we'll need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we'll need all your strength.”
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
The Epstein Class has never been more exposed and vulnerable.. This would be a great moment to change the status quo… enlighten and educate.. the rest would automatically follow
Sometimes the tyrants are us. When we deny each other a right to live and shelter ourselves, we are the tyrants. If we threaten each other by eviction if we don’t pay our pipers, we are the tyrants.
Very true. I just had that discussion about private property and how you can bring equity to a population. Very hard to tell people who worked their whole lives to build a home they have no property. Now that Blackrock and Blackstone own a large fraction of u.s. real estate the time is coming.
I’m not exactly sure I understand what you are saying regarding Blacrock and Blackstone but will assume we are on the same page. .. somewhat.
There exists an interesting space in our thinking that coincides with the notion that, as Chief Seattle once declared when talking to white setters in the 1880s, that:”the earth does not belong to man, but that man belongs to the Earth”. It is a concept and a fact for all species, except our own species.
Would you care to share an opinion on that premise? If not, I think I have an open mind, so please feel comfortable in your reply, if any of course…
Hello John Turcot. Indeed, we are the champions... The administrative classes have promoted themselves into every nook and cranny of existence. I call these persons: "Administrative twats". You can put lipstick on a pig. But it's still a pig...
At the same time, how many of the 99% protest against those laws, or as they sit in their house and hear the latest gumpf being told them, do they give a sigh of relief inside and think thank goodness I won't have to feel that tinge of guilt about anyone who could do with my spare change.
Well, what choice were the American people given via "election"?
1) Romulans from the planet Zork (Republicans)
2) Klingons from the planet Zirk (Democrats)
And that was it. Well Americans had the Klingons under Uncle Joe Biden and didn't seem too happy about it. Everything was till getting worse - from FISA to Genocide.
I think Caitlin even mentions it here in this post, that the electoral process itself has been hijacked by these human predators.
How can you blame the slave working in the fields for his own slavery when he's only given two choices to represent him? And both those choices are either the Romulans or the Klingons?
You are right in the choices we are given, but only partially. In most states, there were other candidates on the ballot, some of whom offered the electorate with much more favourable options. ?
Stein would have been my choice, but there were others. Some of the “slaves” were given choices.. Yes ?
My next articles (Unbekoming and others) will explore a different perspective on these aspects.
The lockdown is progressing, and it's very real. The control tools are more sophisticated than ever. Yet, history and daily observation show the same thing: no system, however complex, has ever managed to completely stifle human ingenuity. Sometimes, a few moments of lucidity are enough to reveal a flaw. A silent refusal, an unexpected improvisation, a precise observation that changes everything.
Technocracies, past and present, have often been astoundingly stupid, precisely because they believed they could reduce human beings to a predictable variable. The intrinsic nature of humanity—its capacity to think, to adapt, to circumvent, to refuse—remains the greatest weakness of any lockdown system. That's why, even when everything seems locked down, the lockdown is never total. It remains fragile. And it can collapse much faster than we imagine. Human ingenuity has not yet had its final say. When we watch documentaries composed of period footage (unseen images from the Second World War or Soviet archives), we are often struck by the same thing: the incredible stupidity of the technocracies of yesteryear. Grandiose projects, thousands of civil servants, tons of paperwork, total control systems… and yet, everything collapses because a farmer hides grain, a worker discreetly sabotages (The doctor who treated the first Chernobyl patients – before the diagnosis was classified... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zPs2XF9GM), a mother finds a way to feed her children despite the quotas (Gagarin's widow knew the truth – and remained silent for 40 years. Here's why... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMAJvnVP2c), or a soldier simply decides to disobey (Felix Steiner – The SS general who refused Hitler's last order and saved thousands of lives... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBYibYELmw).
The lay of the land is outside of everyone’s window, but until the pain comes, too many people of the West will keep the curtains closed, and just hope that their eyes are lying.
I think these are the walking dead. The young adults all over Europe and the U.S. don’t have interest in converting the duped, because it’s a waste of human energy.
When the cost of maintaining is too high to endure, everyone will be socialists.
Sounds good. When's the revolution. Who's gonna take the lead and a few bullets doing it. But in theory remove the orange freak' and his repellent fascist corrupt amoral fellow thugs and of course the Punk in isrehell. Arrest the ICC indicated war mongering coward now
That is why the ruling class relies so much on the Kool Aid Fountain to dole out fake news and shift our focus to imaginary threats so we remain in serf like conditions. A nation of indoctrinated zombies will never upset the boat -- they will thank their oppressors and support the predatory system they live under.
It won't happen. This idea of revolution is a fever dream. Not because ppl are too scared or too stupid, though there is some of that. It's because we insist on maintaining a fucked up relationship with our own ideas as individuals and nothing in western history has ever taught us to do otherwise.
I don't know. You're already seeing warehouses starting to burn down. Americans now are routinely having to pay over $100 bucks to fill up their gas tanks. There has been no relief from the healthcare industry in the US which is obviously a predatory profit making pariah upon the American people. More and more Americans can barely even afford the housing they live in, from rentals to homes - even while there is an estimated 30+ million vacant homes year round in the US - owned by the top 1%. More Millennials are fed up than ever before - the American dream of just owning a home, a garage, raising two kids, and having a secure job - is pretty much dead now - for a good number of Millennials.
We see more than ever the ruling Wealth class tighten its grip with classic Totalitarian rule - such as the emergence of ICE, and the continued resolutions of mass surveillance via FISA. Both obviously Unconstitutional ongoing power grabs. We see now war abroad become a norm without any real input from the American people.
Cracks are beginning to form everywhere. There will be Americans who will fight back. And there will be anti-establishment leaders that will arise. There will also likely be blood in the streets (eventually). How and when, who knows. But ordinary Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that they are living in an oppressive, corrupt State - that no longer gives a flying fuck about them, or their children.
My career was as a computer geek. I doubt I even know how to throw a punch. And I'm pretty old now too. How long this is going to drag out before Americans really start to rebel - I have no idea. No clear idea where the horizon lies, or if there is anything beyond it.
But I'll keep speaking my piece, even when they try to silence me. Or when ICE shows up at my door (even though I'm a white Italian dude) - an ICE still being funded by the Democrats, who will take over after Trump, despite all their supposed rhetoric about the Constitution and Democracy.
That's why you have to do it the right way and not expect a social media post to call a revolution into being. One individual talks to another individual, those two become three, four, five and so on. Only individuals coming together in that way can get together a trusted fighting force of thousands and it doesn't take as long as you may think. If every one is bringing in another one, it's like a wave turning into a tsunami, but like anything else, if you're not prepared as individuals to be dedicated to the cause, forget it.
Mathematically, groups are formed in four. Only one person knows another group. That way if they are detected the chain is broken and the movement continues. Word is passed and actions happen. This is the kind of matrix leadership Iran is using now. israel/u.s. can not defeat them anymore by cutting off the head. Brilliant people they are. They used that tactic during the French Revolution as well. The Jacobins : ) I invented a Cryoguillotine so the event could be televised. Night of the Cold Knives. No publisher wanted it. : ( 13th Great Grandson of Maximilian Robespierre, Max : ) invents a CryoGuillotine to webcast the end of the 10 wealthiest people all in one night live. My editor charged me 500$ and said I needed a writer : (
I can go with that, my main point was that it is still made up of those individuals to start off the group that then spreads outwards, and yes you have to have protection in place so that if certain individuals get taken out, there remains others to act in your place.
Publishers and editors for some odd reason rarely recognize good work, even masterpieces when it is placed in front of them, take heart from that fact alone. Most well thought out ideas or even books of fiction have authors who had to do the rounds of several of those kinds before they finally one who decided to take a chance on someone's work and left those others regretting they hadn't recognized it themselves.
Knowing you it would have been an interesting piece of work.
Thank you for the inspiration. It was suggested to me, write a cookbook or children's story or don't bother. This last go around the publisher used an AI critique of my work Dirty Dozen to Mars. The protagonist is an Android so perfect it uses a gay persona to hide the fact it's an android commander of the new mining resource colony. They loved the story but demanded the story change to make a human the commander. Ha, I found it hilarious an AI would pan a work of an AI character. A friends Father was the Chairman of the Kyoto Protocols, so I made my friend the antagonist/turned protagonist a character in the novel. The crew, the most brilliant criminals of the resource world on Earth each with a expertise that would allow them to escape life in prison. Mars not Germany : ) I've been thinking of just leaving the story free to read since there are no interested parties other than me ha.
Juan-Argentine, Rolando-Mexican,Marco-Chilean etc. I love all three of those people in real life, brilliant kind and caring people. I balanced the crew 6 women, 5 men, and one Android : ) Oh and the comment sex, where is the sex hahaha.
I would have left the women out completely, that's one of the reasons even I love "The Thing" John Carpenter version, he cut out all the females that were in the older version, possibly in the newer version, created one of the best movies ever. It's why the book "Man On Mars" works so well and his following book , single man, on his own, who needs sex scenes to make a book work, people and how they handle certain situations are much more interesting than sex any day. and for heaven's sake leave your android as Commander, just because some insecure person in publishing can't handle the thought of an android being better than them, I think it's a good idea.
I don't like androids in real life so much but in books I have no problems at all, I mean that's why it's called fiction isn't it.
Just realized you said publisher used AI critique, well, as you can easily tell AI has been used to write a book, it's the last thing I would use to critique someone's work, not much of a publisher and an insecure AI.
More so, they are caught in the terror they created for themselves. So ignorant and jumping into a situation they had no experience or qualifications to deal with. Now the whole entourage is showing themselves to be the vacuous clowns they are, their hysteria is reaching a fevered pitch. In lock step they are drifting toward total collapse.
The point is, Robert, that we know this and have known it for years. We have the power, we are the ones who could stop it yet don’t, so what does that make us? What does that make you? What does that make me? The challenge is that trying to stop it with mere guns is an illusion, violence alone will only be co-opted and backfire on us. Our only hope is the hard work of building the replacement for capitalism/imperialism ourselves. Starting now. Democratic enterprises and citizen assemblies, federated locally, then bioregionally. We must learn how to do democracy, at last.
Right. So, what's keeping us? Being cowards. And the old story: "First they came for the immigrants."--- "But I wasn't an immigrant, so I let it go."
If we don't start thinking like islanders, as parts of a community, we're done. They pick us off one by one.
Same with 'izrael': Too many people think"Horrible!" "But there are others to take care of it."
We are in a crunch position now. The zioNazi Jews have every intention to control us all, like they already do the US. Germany. UK... If we don't kill them, they'll kill us. They already got to our Free Speech right! It's illegal to criticize 'izrael'!!!
Illegal! We're supposed to be Democracies!
They have an estimated 400 to 500 nuclear warheads.- In 2003 they had "several hundred ", according to a scientific consultant insider in TelAviv.-
The worst possible thing the Germans did: They built and gifted the terrorists 6 Dolphin Class submarines!
These are loaded with ca. 40 nuclear missiles! Ready to deploy. Nobody knows WHERE THEY ARE. Does that make you think of BenGvir? National Security Minister!? N'yahoo? - So, we must do something. It's very late.
I can think of many things I feel about tyrants, disgust, intense dislike etc; the one thing I will never do is fear them. I learnt that lesson very young, if someone knows you fear them, you might as well give up without trying, they thrive on your fear, they own you if you fear them. Fear is the one emotion you should never hand over to them.
Even if you're trembling deep inside, put your brave face on, stand up straight and look them in the eye. Once you've done it a few times you will suddenly find they no longer have any power over you. Fake it until you make it if you have to.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed once again because of more lies dripping from Trump's mouth who to the Iranians had said the USA blockade would end, not that I suppose they had any faith in anything he says, so they're not exactly surprised. Someone should fill the centre of those gummy bears he likes with super glue and hope that finally shuts him up.
Actually my friend, when someone is destroying the Empire for you let them keep speaking. Every word Demented Don utters is another nail in the Empires coffin. I had doubted the Iranian judgement of opening the Strait of Hormuz knowing that is their collective power of the resistance. I said some horrible things in questioning their capitulation, like, Iran had them (us) by the balls. They are so much smarter than I am. They understood the liar Demented Don would not let that sit, he would counter each move they made. The Iranian people have Demented Don circling the toilet with each lie. Damn, Never Fuck with People who Invented Algebra : )
I have not even for one second questioned what the Iranians were doing, They know they are not only fighting Israel and the USA but the Western world in total. They attend negotiations with full knowledge that the USA are trying to play them for fools while remaining aware if they don't make a certain effort they would be criticized for not making any attempt.
They also have another big thing to think about, one that wouldn't even cross Western minds and that has to be taken into consideration. They follow the "real" Islam not the made up Western spouted nonsense, which is why for now, they asked Ansrallah not to close the Red Sea waters unless it became strictly necessary. They do not have the luxury of being concerned only with Muslims, God or Allah, same difference created all and they have certain religious rules in place that they should not deprive those they are not fighting ( civilians of the West in this case) of what they need to live on. The Strait of Hormuz affects 20% but if the Red Sea was closed off then the effects would magnify horrifically. It will only be closed if there is absolutely no other way of putting a stop to what is going on.
Wherever there is human abuse and sordid exploitation, the stench of fear is everywhere. The entire premise of an out-of-control "security state" and of "tyrants" throughout history - has always been about fear. Fear of the other. Fear of not being safe unless you give up more of your human rights. The abuser almost always rules with fear.
I agree but if you decide not let them make you live in fear or at least make a good pretence of it to start with, you take away their power.
It's like Trump, he can't stand being laughed at, instead of reacting with words to crappy statements like they've knocked out all Iran's Navy, people laughed at him when he said it, he'd be a lot more wary of telling lies so quickly. The trouble there is, he has so many around him kissin' ass.
Ah ha ha ha. And some people believe we can achieve this without a revolution involving firearms.
Do y’all wanna live on your knees or die on your feet?
The main problem in the U.S. is the unshakable belief of ordinary Americans that the benefits of the "rule of the elite" will "trickle down" to everyone.
They are conditioned to believe that wealth is magically created by the "elite" because the elite knows how to manage capital and it is better to have the crumbs than nothing. Americans at large fail to understand that that most of the wealth of the "elite" is extracted from the working ppl all over the world, including Americans themselves, and the crumbs they enjoy are only an insignificant percentage of what has been taken.
Americans are having REALLY hard time realizing they have been exploited like cattle by their own "Elite".
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Don't let them kill kids for the Epstein Class. Blowback is not a Beach.
"Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable, the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not 5000 miles away. They are right here at home."
"The Real Terrorist Was Me"
- Michael Prysner, U.S. Army veteran
When will the USA troops do an About Face to stop Machine?
"Once large numbers of U.S. troops are committed to direct combat, they will begin to take heavy casualties in a war they are ill-equipped to fight in a non-cooperative if not downright hostile countryside. Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process.
Our involvement will be so great that we cannot - without national humiliation - stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Of the two possibilities I think humiliation would be more likely than the achievement of our objectives - even after we have paid terrible costs."
-George Ball, Undersecretary of State, Confidential Memo to President Johnson on Vietnam War. July 1, 1965
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What ended the Vietnam 3wsd not the protests. Those were manageable.
What ended the war was the breakdown in army discipline, which began in earnest in around 1970 in units stationed in-country and started to spread rapidly to Marine units and units outside the theater.
That put a scare into the generals.
History of Empire does repeat doesn't it.
I think I fear that About Face will be against working people who refuse the detention camps.
Correct. Those who choose military employment are the lowest scum of society and always have been. Those who support ANY military agenda are complicit in their own destruction. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_sites_in_the_United_States#:~:text=List%20of%20immigrant%20detention%20sites%20in%20the%20United%20States
Read the list. Many "detention" camps were built by civilian contractors.
Ronald Fucking Reagan an excellent sales pitch of trickle down. I think working people are tired of the taste of piss, not urine, piss.
When Reagan was governing CA, he started the trend of making college more expensive so he could crush campus protest and prevent poor students from learning anything and getting jobs.
Reagan was the one bringing all the cocaine in America. Them guns were not free.
Nancy Reagan's ultra-right-wing father captured what little there was of Reagan's "Brain" back in the 50s.
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BTW Reagan's Secretary Helene Van Damme was a notorious Nazi that brought Nazis into powerful positions such as Otto von Bolschwing - partners to Gavin Newsom's dad.
Otto Von Bolschwing was an advisor to the Nazi Jewish office on Haavara and the final solution. He ended up in business with Gavin Newsom's dad in 1969.
Von Bolschwing also advised Eichmann on the Final Solution.
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Never underestimate the awesome power of stupidity!
100%. The real feature of humans is their natural tendency toward stupidity, corruption, and self-destruction. Individual humans can be intelligent and compassionate, but boy when the humans get together, the group overall becomes corrupt, evil, and stupid. The Western "civilization" is the living proof of that.
What 'trickles down' is neither wealth or other benefit.
Yet these are the people who changed the pay systems to percentage rises, which meant they kept getting richer, while there's today us fell behind every pay rise that followed. Not satisfied with that,next thing was to change the tax system in their favour, and then further change the system for businesses to often pay less tax than the poorest workers.
Politicians go along with it because of two things: it's more going into their pockets personally and, from lower taxes on their buiness dealings, you can bet they also know the ways to lower any investment property-gains payments.
BTW It used to be illegal for companies to buy their own shares. Then Thatcher and Reagan (at the behest of banksters' neoliberal Chicago & Cambridge School of Economics) allowed companies to legally buy back their own shares.
Things went downhill from there.
"Socialism (bailouts) for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That's the problem."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Austerity for the many and money printing for the very few"
-Yanis Varoufakis
I love Yanis. He is such a gem. Unfortunately, he is one of the few in a sea of stupid and evil people.
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Listening to Chris Hedges yesterday doing a Q&A in his library (Chris lives in a library), he talked about (I paraphrase here since I don't have an eidetic memory) - that because humans throughout our entire history have always had a certain percentage of "human predators" that feed upon and exploit other humans (slave owners, business exploiters, corrupt politicians) and could really care less about the fate of humanity, and are pathologically focused on their own lives and own self-serving ends - that a civilized free society must maintain a system of laws and regulations to control these psychopathic predators, or else, as Caitlin writes so well here, they become the plantation slave owners and abusers of an entire society.
Trump is the epitome of such a predator. No respect for the laws of the US. No interest in the fate of humanity. More interested in making money for his billionaire friends (every week the stock market closes) rather than ending the several raging wars in the world.
And let us not forget, we would not have ended up with Trump if it weren't for the pathological corruption of the Democratic party as well.
The Uniparty is always successful. Until it isn't.
Yes - and all those blue no matter who folks, until it finally sinks in - that both parties supported a heinous genocide where 10s of thousands of children were butchered for no other reason than an Israeli land grab - Americans will just keep on getting more Trumps in the future.
It's a point that needs to be driven home often: we have a corrupt Uniparty that commits genocide, has maintained mass surveillance on all Americans, and only serves the Oligarchs in this country. The electoral process is a rigged scam.
Change is going to have to come from Americans organizing themselves in Unions etc.- it's not going to come from the two corrupt political parties - that are doing diddley squat for ordinary Americans.
Do you think this movement is best started at the core of the Evil Empire? The French were effective for a very short time.
Well what followed was Napoleon. What followed the Russian revolution was a centralized tyranny as well.
So - if we follow history, including the collapse of the Roman Empire to barbarians, well, it's likely not going to be very pretty whatever happens next.
Which makes you wonder a bit about human life itself. Is it all just some kind of mirage of meaning for those who become the hapless victims of these "revolutions"? What is the purpose of any of it? Or is purpose just a delusion of the human mind?
Your final question is more than germane. Non-achievable "purpose"
has been utilized in propaganda technique for at least a thousand years. "Purpose" IS delusional. I've never met a depressed chipmunk.
"Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
"When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
"These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
"It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
-Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, (1920-1944) addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, October 1924.
IMO Trump is not a fundamental problem. If not Trump, they would find another asshole and cretin. The West in general is full of despicable genocide-supporting ghouls like Trump or Genocide Joe. The problem is in the western supremacist manifest-destiny ideology, decadent power structure, and deeply corrupt political system.
Yes my friend that was fascinating and scary.
If only it just required a group of people with firearms... Yes, force is required but the organization and orientation of that force is primary. In other words, we require a revolutionary party. People with guns and no political orientation, leadership, discipline, plan or class consciousness would just serve up another tagedy. We don't need new martyrs. We have plenty now. We need an organization that can actually take power from the tiny Zio Imperialist ruling class. Hint: we do all the work to make their society run.
Sounds like 1787 just before the real action : ) Or 1773.
You are absolutely right, but the left are terrified of guns and prefer to dissipate their energies on word games, Wokemon contests, and endless struggle sessions over minor PC violations.
Brilliant idea, when those prepared to do something and go forward, everyone find someone strong who they know is into gaming, go grab their 🎮 and they'll chase you all into battle and bump up the numbers.
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Use your imagination, cats are wise and have to work out how to get certain creatures into the open, nicking their games controller to get them to chase you isn't so different.
Firearms owners as a whole are the most law abiding citizens in the West. WE know that once the bullet starts down the barrel nothing will stop its path. Knowing the magnitude of this keeps us from rash reaction to what is going on in the world. If gun owners are finally pushed over the brink the reaction will be methodically and rationally implemented. This rationality is why governments try so hard to steal our firearms. They thrive on chaos and rationality is their enemy.
Hummm........... That is changing my friend. Many have discovered that was a ploy to divide the power of working people. I hold out the example of Blakeley. She is the Mother Fucker you want standing beside you when the shit hits the fan and the fan is on 11 now.
Well also Bethseda's latest DLC release for Starfield, which was atrocious.
Heh, heh... It's hard to hold a taco in one hand, whilst shooting with the other...
Or a Big Mac.
As a vegetarian I can still smoke a very nice cigar while taking aim : )
Pitchforks are a grand implement with well sharpened points, if you live in a country like mine with no guns. They also have a good long reach.
Veronica: I believe you and I may have been burned at the stake together at one point 😉
😆 Once burnt, twice shy in our case it would seem. Why do I get this feeling my sister in arms is adding a pitchfork to have handy.
Veronica, as a horse owner I have pitchforks to spare and am willing to loan some out 😁
Sorted. 👍😄
Don't forget guillotines.
I'll bring you one. I will fight by your side.
Realistically your pitchfork isn't of much worth against a man with body armour and an AR15 or AK47. Why do you think they disarmed you?
Here in Canada they are aggressively attacking our legal firearms ownership while basically letting criminals literally get away with murder using illegally acquired firearms. Did you ever stop to think about why these situations exist. Look at the rape of young girls in your country by immigrant criminals and the blatant act of promoting this behaviour. Can you not see what they are doing.? Once the citizens are destroyed using their immigrant henchmen, don't think they won't eliminate them. The "elite" want the whole world just for themselves. When is the last time you saw any attention being given to the WEF? Carney in Canada is talking about joining the EU. This will sell out our rights and is in keeping with WEF policy. When they say "You will own nothin" that includes your own life.
As I'm not personally responsible for them taking away the guns here and a pitchfork is the best I can do, I count it better than absolutely nothing. Besides, how do you know my battle cry doesn't rattle even strong armed soldiers. 😆
Do you enjoy reading propaganda and fake footage of alleged hordes of immigrants running amok, raping , robbing and destroying. Are all immigrants innocent, no , of course they are not, nor are people whose white families have lived here for years, most surely not.
We know why they remove weapons and certain rights of people.
You living in a country of unarmed citizens should be a very graphic example of how helpless you truly are. Here in Canada they are aggressively attacking our gun rights while blatantly ignoring criminal use and possession of firearms. Other than sowing chaos what other reason do they have for these policies? You pitchfork isn't much of a defense against an enemy with a Kevlar vest and an AR15 or AK47.
I'd do the best I could with what I had to hand, I'd sooner go out with something in my hand than holding my hands up in the air and conceding defeat so easily.
I know about Canada and my advice simply is don't give up the guns. Here it didn't make any difference to gun crime, it was still the favourite weapon of unsolved murders in the UK, though this last couple of years knifes have taken the number one spot. And our government made tracing guns used in murder of nearly a hundred people a year more difficult simply because none of the guns had been registered at any point in time.
So hang on to your guns and I'll do my best with my pitchfork.
That is the exact thing that is happening here. We are well organized but we are fighting against an education (indoctrination system that is focused on the erosion of freedom. Firearms are tools much the same as pitchforks.
The indoctrination is the problem to be sure, saw that happening here decades ago, by the time our two daughters were eight I pulled them out of the education system and taught them at home. Much healthier doing mental arithmetic while walking down a country lane.
The problem with that is the people that rule you have guns.
Hum, helicopters are the fear. We will need many drones as we have learned from Hezbollah, Russia, and Iran.
True, but people in the past in England didn't have guns either, only the monied people could afford them, so it really was things like pitchforks, laying tripwires for the horses, little things like that. Okay no soldiers on horses going to take us out like in the last successful revolution, so my mind thinks to things like spike strips, potatoes up the exhaust pipes, holes that look like solid ground. No one said it was going to be easy.
I want to die at your side fighting for the Nation of Caitlin. I loved shooting my Uncles 44 mag. damn pity the fool : )
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Well said! I recently urged Americans to do something about it:
https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/christians-living-in-iran-oppose
Trump (and his ilk*) may have temporarily stepped back from his recent threat of terminating Iranian civilization, but he can still bring the world to the brink of a World War. It's high time for a revolution in the West!
* It is not just Trump: he is just a puppet, as any US President before him. It's a whole global class, the Epstein class. If it was just a matter of one crazy President, we would have never arrived at this point and either US Congressmen or US Generals would have stopped this madness - instead Dems and Reps keep playing kabuki theatre at the Congress and US Generals and troops keep executing orders coming allegedly from above. The people need to take their matter in their own hands!
It’s a gangster. It has been called a gangster state, for just such reasons. And other countries are afraid of what the United States can do, not only under Trump, but what it has been doing for the last 50 years. It is simply confiscating, and destabilizing, and overthrowing.
The US has basically declared war against any attempt to create an international trade and investment system that the Alglo-murican Oligarchy does not control, in its own self-interest, wanting all of the earnings from it, all of the revenue from it, not just part of it.
It’s a greedy empire.
That's why Karl Sanchez and I call it "the Outlaw US Empire".
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
-Thorstein Veblen, 1906
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"War Is a Racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
- Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient
At least, centuries ago kings and/or their sons would go to war and lead their armies in the battlefields, putting their own lives at risk: there are plenty of cases of kings and high-ranking generals who were killed or captured in war.
Now it's allegedly "democratically-elected" Presidents and Prime Ministers who wage war against billions of innocent civilians from the comfort of their armchair. I bet they wouldn't do that, if they had ever fought in a war or if they (and/or their children) were forced to go and lead their armies in the battlefield!
The Danish King is the only one I've known to do what all other soldiers do no matter how hard or dangerous. Unlike the Royals here if they join the army or navy in England, the one common complaint by soldiers who have to have them in their unit is that the others have to protect them first, plus a whole host of other privileges they expect. The Danish King has done two separate stints out on the two man dog sledges they take out for six months without expecting food drops or someone checking on them.
As soon as you recognize anyone as King or Queen or Royalty. You are recognizing a class of parasites that serve no useful purpose other than to live a life of luxury while doing nothing. The whole concept of Royalty is absurd!
I agree one million percent, which is what I was kind of saying pointing out about the King of Denmark being the only one I know who doesn't pull on status, come to that he doesn't act in the slightest bit like the ones over here. Unfortunately most people here worship the ground they walk on, bow and scrape, truly sickening.
I think it's a case of pretending to back from any threats he's made, it's the stock markets he's playing and giving a heads up to some of his capitalist friends so they can play it too. It's always about the money.
Yes, that's for sure, but the war has not ended. We are just going through a ceasefire expiring in a matter of days and, as things currently stand, I do not see any extension, actually... it may get ugly (if not uglier!) once again, considering that the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier strike group is on its way towards Iran and is expected to arrive there just when the truce expires!
In addition to the above, earlier today IRGC Major General Naqdi said on Iranian national TV that... "It may be that if the war continues, it’ll become a world war" (source: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31158)
Did you notice they traveled around the Horn rather than the Red Sea hahahha. I loved that and few noticed it. They are scared shitless knowing at any time a volley of Hypersonics could end their stay. Never Fuck with people who invented Algebra. : )
Of course! That was my last article: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-sandal-wearing-houthis-humiliate
Unfortunately, I have not been able to write a new one yet. Working on it, but I have been busy and sick at the same time and I can barely catch up with the latest developments (running too fast)!
I know, but for Trump it still makes the stock markets shift rapidly. Like Strait of Hormuz open, up they go, because USA didn't remove their blockade and Iran has once more closed the Strait, they'll go down again.
I am holding SP500 Puts for this coming truth over the lie of peace talks. People with big money are making billions. The SP500 is so far over valued beyond 1929, 1987,2001,2007,2020 and now. Any Central banker that was doing their pretend job would have said Alan Greenspan " The markers are in irrational exuberance. : )
So true. I like taking money from the system. I have a trade I make using S/P500 put options, I let the Demented Don lies drive the SP up buy Put Options underneath and wait for the truth, sell the truth. Wait for the lies, sell the truth. This last go around in the Ponzi Scheme has me fooled. I had no idea the Ponzi would ignore the truth far longer than logic. Wall Street has not been connected to anything financial for years now since 2007. I did the same thing buying Puts on Lehman Brothers when the Ponzi was saying nothing to see hear, negative value in a finance co. is a good thing. When the went belly up, I had to call to see how to trade something that no longer existed. I love taking money from Wall Street. Here is something very strange, the brokerage house I use balked at transferring money to my Credit Union. Sounds so banking failure like to me. The Anti Demented Genocide Don trade. : ) I loved taking from Tesla too : ) and the Tariff fiasco : )
I agree “It’s a whole global class” what we have to keep in mind is that this world situation it’s been planned for decades. Look at the super pacs in America, they have an infinity amount of money to buy people in government. How do you fight a giant that. !!
Grassroot revolution - there is no other way. If it starts in the US (and UK), then their system may collapse elsewhere in the West like a card castle as soon as you remove the first from the centre at the bottom; otherwise, it may require more effort and bloodshed, unfortunately.
I will quote Antonio Gramsci:
“Educate yourselves because we'll need all your intelligence. Stir yourselves because we'll need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we'll need all your strength.”
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
The Epstein Class has never been more exposed and vulnerable.. This would be a great moment to change the status quo… enlighten and educate.. the rest would automatically follow
The Achilles heel of Pedophiles : )
Sometimes the tyrants are us. When we deny each other a right to live and shelter ourselves, we are the tyrants. If we threaten each other by eviction if we don’t pay our pipers, we are the tyrants.
Very true. I just had that discussion about private property and how you can bring equity to a population. Very hard to tell people who worked their whole lives to build a home they have no property. Now that Blackrock and Blackstone own a large fraction of u.s. real estate the time is coming.
I’m not exactly sure I understand what you are saying regarding Blacrock and Blackstone but will assume we are on the same page. .. somewhat.
There exists an interesting space in our thinking that coincides with the notion that, as Chief Seattle once declared when talking to white setters in the 1880s, that:”the earth does not belong to man, but that man belongs to the Earth”. It is a concept and a fact for all species, except our own species.
Would you care to share an opinion on that premise? If not, I think I have an open mind, so please feel comfortable in your reply, if any of course…
Hello John Turcot. Indeed, we are the champions... The administrative classes have promoted themselves into every nook and cranny of existence. I call these persons: "Administrative twats". You can put lipstick on a pig. But it's still a pig...
Who writes the by-laws about what to do about homeless encampments? The rich, or the 99%?
At the same time, how many of the 99% protest against those laws, or as they sit in their house and hear the latest gumpf being told them, do they give a sigh of relief inside and think thank goodness I won't have to feel that tinge of guilt about anyone who could do with my spare change.
“How many of the 99% protest against these laws?”
Exactly!
Exactly! The trouble with democracy is that it sometimes shows what people want. Trump and his ilk were not elected by Romulans from the planet Zork.
Well, what choice were the American people given via "election"?
1) Romulans from the planet Zork (Republicans)
2) Klingons from the planet Zirk (Democrats)
And that was it. Well Americans had the Klingons under Uncle Joe Biden and didn't seem too happy about it. Everything was till getting worse - from FISA to Genocide.
I think Caitlin even mentions it here in this post, that the electoral process itself has been hijacked by these human predators.
How can you blame the slave working in the fields for his own slavery when he's only given two choices to represent him? And both those choices are either the Romulans or the Klingons?
I can tell you from experience here in England, the more parties, the more lies you're told.
Jamenta,
You are right in the choices we are given, but only partially. In most states, there were other candidates on the ballot, some of whom offered the electorate with much more favourable options. ?
Stein would have been my choice, but there were others. Some of the “slaves” were given choices.. Yes ?
So true… how often can you hear this phrase: “I’m just doing my job” ?
Really?
Here they say " it's more than my jobs worth".
That's absolutely right.
My next articles (Unbekoming and others) will explore a different perspective on these aspects.
The lockdown is progressing, and it's very real. The control tools are more sophisticated than ever. Yet, history and daily observation show the same thing: no system, however complex, has ever managed to completely stifle human ingenuity. Sometimes, a few moments of lucidity are enough to reveal a flaw. A silent refusal, an unexpected improvisation, a precise observation that changes everything.
Technocracies, past and present, have often been astoundingly stupid, precisely because they believed they could reduce human beings to a predictable variable. The intrinsic nature of humanity—its capacity to think, to adapt, to circumvent, to refuse—remains the greatest weakness of any lockdown system. That's why, even when everything seems locked down, the lockdown is never total. It remains fragile. And it can collapse much faster than we imagine. Human ingenuity has not yet had its final say. When we watch documentaries composed of period footage (unseen images from the Second World War or Soviet archives), we are often struck by the same thing: the incredible stupidity of the technocracies of yesteryear. Grandiose projects, thousands of civil servants, tons of paperwork, total control systems… and yet, everything collapses because a farmer hides grain, a worker discreetly sabotages (The doctor who treated the first Chernobyl patients – before the diagnosis was classified... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zPs2XF9GM), a mother finds a way to feed her children despite the quotas (Gagarin's widow knew the truth – and remained silent for 40 years. Here's why... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMAJvnVP2c), or a soldier simply decides to disobey (Felix Steiner – The SS general who refused Hitler's last order and saved thousands of lives... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBYibYELmw).
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-silent-drift-of-western-institutions
The lay of the land is outside of everyone’s window, but until the pain comes, too many people of the West will keep the curtains closed, and just hope that their eyes are lying.
I think these are the walking dead. The young adults all over Europe and the U.S. don’t have interest in converting the duped, because it’s a waste of human energy.
When the cost of maintaining is too high to endure, everyone will be socialists.
Sounds good. When's the revolution. Who's gonna take the lead and a few bullets doing it. But in theory remove the orange freak' and his repellent fascist corrupt amoral fellow thugs and of course the Punk in isrehell. Arrest the ICC indicated war mongering coward now
Definitely past time to oust the Pathocracy currently in power.
That is why the ruling class relies so much on the Kool Aid Fountain to dole out fake news and shift our focus to imaginary threats so we remain in serf like conditions. A nation of indoctrinated zombies will never upset the boat -- they will thank their oppressors and support the predatory system they live under.
It just might take $10 gasoline and a 10's of millions starving for food before people get upset. By then, the depopulation agenda is in full go-mode.
It won't happen. This idea of revolution is a fever dream. Not because ppl are too scared or too stupid, though there is some of that. It's because we insist on maintaining a fucked up relationship with our own ideas as individuals and nothing in western history has ever taught us to do otherwise.
I don't know. You're already seeing warehouses starting to burn down. Americans now are routinely having to pay over $100 bucks to fill up their gas tanks. There has been no relief from the healthcare industry in the US which is obviously a predatory profit making pariah upon the American people. More and more Americans can barely even afford the housing they live in, from rentals to homes - even while there is an estimated 30+ million vacant homes year round in the US - owned by the top 1%. More Millennials are fed up than ever before - the American dream of just owning a home, a garage, raising two kids, and having a secure job - is pretty much dead now - for a good number of Millennials.
We see more than ever the ruling Wealth class tighten its grip with classic Totalitarian rule - such as the emergence of ICE, and the continued resolutions of mass surveillance via FISA. Both obviously Unconstitutional ongoing power grabs. We see now war abroad become a norm without any real input from the American people.
Cracks are beginning to form everywhere. There will be Americans who will fight back. And there will be anti-establishment leaders that will arise. There will also likely be blood in the streets (eventually). How and when, who knows. But ordinary Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that they are living in an oppressive, corrupt State - that no longer gives a flying fuck about them, or their children.
Looking forward to fighting alongside you : )
My career was as a computer geek. I doubt I even know how to throw a punch. And I'm pretty old now too. How long this is going to drag out before Americans really start to rebel - I have no idea. No clear idea where the horizon lies, or if there is anything beyond it.
But I'll keep speaking my piece, even when they try to silence me. Or when ICE shows up at my door (even though I'm a white Italian dude) - an ICE still being funded by the Democrats, who will take over after Trump, despite all their supposed rhetoric about the Constitution and Democracy.
Watch what they do, not what they say!
That's why you have to do it the right way and not expect a social media post to call a revolution into being. One individual talks to another individual, those two become three, four, five and so on. Only individuals coming together in that way can get together a trusted fighting force of thousands and it doesn't take as long as you may think. If every one is bringing in another one, it's like a wave turning into a tsunami, but like anything else, if you're not prepared as individuals to be dedicated to the cause, forget it.
Mathematically, groups are formed in four. Only one person knows another group. That way if they are detected the chain is broken and the movement continues. Word is passed and actions happen. This is the kind of matrix leadership Iran is using now. israel/u.s. can not defeat them anymore by cutting off the head. Brilliant people they are. They used that tactic during the French Revolution as well. The Jacobins : ) I invented a Cryoguillotine so the event could be televised. Night of the Cold Knives. No publisher wanted it. : ( 13th Great Grandson of Maximilian Robespierre, Max : ) invents a CryoGuillotine to webcast the end of the 10 wealthiest people all in one night live. My editor charged me 500$ and said I needed a writer : (
You need some book doctoring or substantive editing? Give me a DM.
I can go with that, my main point was that it is still made up of those individuals to start off the group that then spreads outwards, and yes you have to have protection in place so that if certain individuals get taken out, there remains others to act in your place.
Publishers and editors for some odd reason rarely recognize good work, even masterpieces when it is placed in front of them, take heart from that fact alone. Most well thought out ideas or even books of fiction have authors who had to do the rounds of several of those kinds before they finally one who decided to take a chance on someone's work and left those others regretting they hadn't recognized it themselves.
Knowing you it would have been an interesting piece of work.
Thank you for the inspiration. It was suggested to me, write a cookbook or children's story or don't bother. This last go around the publisher used an AI critique of my work Dirty Dozen to Mars. The protagonist is an Android so perfect it uses a gay persona to hide the fact it's an android commander of the new mining resource colony. They loved the story but demanded the story change to make a human the commander. Ha, I found it hilarious an AI would pan a work of an AI character. A friends Father was the Chairman of the Kyoto Protocols, so I made my friend the antagonist/turned protagonist a character in the novel. The crew, the most brilliant criminals of the resource world on Earth each with a expertise that would allow them to escape life in prison. Mars not Germany : ) I've been thinking of just leaving the story free to read since there are no interested parties other than me ha.
Juan-Argentine, Rolando-Mexican,Marco-Chilean etc. I love all three of those people in real life, brilliant kind and caring people. I balanced the crew 6 women, 5 men, and one Android : ) Oh and the comment sex, where is the sex hahaha.
I would have left the women out completely, that's one of the reasons even I love "The Thing" John Carpenter version, he cut out all the females that were in the older version, possibly in the newer version, created one of the best movies ever. It's why the book "Man On Mars" works so well and his following book , single man, on his own, who needs sex scenes to make a book work, people and how they handle certain situations are much more interesting than sex any day. and for heaven's sake leave your android as Commander, just because some insecure person in publishing can't handle the thought of an android being better than them, I think it's a good idea.
I don't like androids in real life so much but in books I have no problems at all, I mean that's why it's called fiction isn't it.
Just realized you said publisher used AI critique, well, as you can easily tell AI has been used to write a book, it's the last thing I would use to critique someone's work, not much of a publisher and an insecure AI.
More so, they are caught in the terror they created for themselves. So ignorant and jumping into a situation they had no experience or qualifications to deal with. Now the whole entourage is showing themselves to be the vacuous clowns they are, their hysteria is reaching a fevered pitch. In lock step they are drifting toward total collapse.
The point is, Robert, that we know this and have known it for years. We have the power, we are the ones who could stop it yet don’t, so what does that make us? What does that make you? What does that make me? The challenge is that trying to stop it with mere guns is an illusion, violence alone will only be co-opted and backfire on us. Our only hope is the hard work of building the replacement for capitalism/imperialism ourselves. Starting now. Democratic enterprises and citizen assemblies, federated locally, then bioregionally. We must learn how to do democracy, at last.
Right. So, what's keeping us? Being cowards. And the old story: "First they came for the immigrants."--- "But I wasn't an immigrant, so I let it go."
If we don't start thinking like islanders, as parts of a community, we're done. They pick us off one by one.
Same with 'izrael': Too many people think"Horrible!" "But there are others to take care of it."
We are in a crunch position now. The zioNazi Jews have every intention to control us all, like they already do the US. Germany. UK... If we don't kill them, they'll kill us. They already got to our Free Speech right! It's illegal to criticize 'izrael'!!!
Illegal! We're supposed to be Democracies!
They have an estimated 400 to 500 nuclear warheads.- In 2003 they had "several hundred ", according to a scientific consultant insider in TelAviv.-
The worst possible thing the Germans did: They built and gifted the terrorists 6 Dolphin Class submarines!
These are loaded with ca. 40 nuclear missiles! Ready to deploy. Nobody knows WHERE THEY ARE. Does that make you think of BenGvir? National Security Minister!? N'yahoo? - So, we must do something. It's very late.
I can think of many things I feel about tyrants, disgust, intense dislike etc; the one thing I will never do is fear them. I learnt that lesson very young, if someone knows you fear them, you might as well give up without trying, they thrive on your fear, they own you if you fear them. Fear is the one emotion you should never hand over to them.
Even if you're trembling deep inside, put your brave face on, stand up straight and look them in the eye. Once you've done it a few times you will suddenly find they no longer have any power over you. Fake it until you make it if you have to.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed once again because of more lies dripping from Trump's mouth who to the Iranians had said the USA blockade would end, not that I suppose they had any faith in anything he says, so they're not exactly surprised. Someone should fill the centre of those gummy bears he likes with super glue and hope that finally shuts him up.
Actually my friend, when someone is destroying the Empire for you let them keep speaking. Every word Demented Don utters is another nail in the Empires coffin. I had doubted the Iranian judgement of opening the Strait of Hormuz knowing that is their collective power of the resistance. I said some horrible things in questioning their capitulation, like, Iran had them (us) by the balls. They are so much smarter than I am. They understood the liar Demented Don would not let that sit, he would counter each move they made. The Iranian people have Demented Don circling the toilet with each lie. Damn, Never Fuck with People who Invented Algebra : )
I have not even for one second questioned what the Iranians were doing, They know they are not only fighting Israel and the USA but the Western world in total. They attend negotiations with full knowledge that the USA are trying to play them for fools while remaining aware if they don't make a certain effort they would be criticized for not making any attempt.
They also have another big thing to think about, one that wouldn't even cross Western minds and that has to be taken into consideration. They follow the "real" Islam not the made up Western spouted nonsense, which is why for now, they asked Ansrallah not to close the Red Sea waters unless it became strictly necessary. They do not have the luxury of being concerned only with Muslims, God or Allah, same difference created all and they have certain religious rules in place that they should not deprive those they are not fighting ( civilians of the West in this case) of what they need to live on. The Strait of Hormuz affects 20% but if the Red Sea was closed off then the effects would magnify horrifically. It will only be closed if there is absolutely no other way of putting a stop to what is going on.
Wherever there is human abuse and sordid exploitation, the stench of fear is everywhere. The entire premise of an out-of-control "security state" and of "tyrants" throughout history - has always been about fear. Fear of the other. Fear of not being safe unless you give up more of your human rights. The abuser almost always rules with fear.
I agree but if you decide not let them make you live in fear or at least make a good pretence of it to start with, you take away their power.
It's like Trump, he can't stand being laughed at, instead of reacting with words to crappy statements like they've knocked out all Iran's Navy, people laughed at him when he said it, he'd be a lot more wary of telling lies so quickly. The trouble there is, he has so many around him kissin' ass.
And we need to figure out how to get organized. Aren't we all fed up with these tyrants holding us all hostage?