Every elected president has to subscribe to the goals of the MIC that is to extend US power over all the world and to quash any nation who dares challenge that. As Americans typically focus only on personalities and not the system (which they are taught never to challenge) they tend to focus on the person and not the Deep State that lords over these so-called Leaders of the Free World. We have been sold a bill of goods that could only be charitably described as fake. Our blind worship of the military combined with our unquestioned faith in its mission of bringing so-called Democracy (read Fascist Neoliberalism) to the world has given the Establishment carte blanche to intervene militarily anywhere they wish. That the public in the US has never tasted real Democracy and is oblivious to being controlled by a small cabal of oligarchs and just goes along with their devious schemes is the biggest tragedy.
David , Right from the start it was government of the oligarchs; by the oligarchs; for the oligarchs. A constitution written by white men of property for white men of property, and that property included slaves. It was never government of the people, by the people, for the people.
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. " - Jefferson
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.
I have a Swedish friend who said yesterday 'the new government (the moderates) are in favour of more police and prisons, rather than helping to develop young people. I am trying to divert things I learnt on the teaching assistant course, such as conflict resolution, leadership, group and developmental psychology, into being a job coach instead. However, they have also cut that budget by 25%, so I am not having much luck at all.'
Money that would prevent people being in prison is spent on prisons. Is that would you mean by countries (seemingly advanced social democracies) going right wing all the time?
Has union membership been dropping in Sweden over time? Loss of organized worker power is a precursor to Right Neoliberals starting to build their prison state.
Shared to FB. Keep heart, dear sister Caitlin. These are indeed troubled and troubling times, in which Orwellian-nightmarish speech is the rule, not the exception. Partisans look no further- and certainly no deeper, past the shallowness of their particular leaders, and the result is that Nazis aren't Nazis after all, or Nazis aren't so bad, if they are willing to kill those the leadership declare to be enemies.
So take some comfort, even in this darkness, that there are many others willing to shine the light on the truth, just as you so regularly do.
The corporate media has scapegoated Canadian Parliament Speaker Rota when Chrystia Freeland was the puppeteer who created this SS incident. Trudeau is just a WEF front man marionette like Biden. Chrystia controls the Labour Party and Canadian foreign policy as both Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime minister. Her staff invited SS Hunka. Media effectively deflects attention from Deputy Prime Minister Freeland.
The grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, worked for a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS — the same division as Yaroslav Hunka, the Nazi who was recently honored by Canada’s Parliament.” Appel, Jacobin
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s electoral base is in Canada’s Ukrainian diaspora community, which has rebranded Nazi collaborators as nationalist war heroes.
“The editorial boards carried out a policy of soliciting Ukrainian support for the German cause,” the Holocaust Museum noted. “It was typical, within these publications, to not to give any accounts of the German genocidal policy, and largely, the editions resorted to silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia. Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish Question in light of the official Nazi propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world conspiracy.”
As I pointed out in my recent article on Canadian politics, not even one member of Parliament in Canada refused to stand to honor a Nazi. . They represent public opinion. In effect The Canadian people rose as one. Are they all brainwashed by the media? Public confidence in the media is at an all-time low. Public confidence in Trudeau is at an all-time low.. But this lack of public morality is nothing recent – it goes back to Canada's beginnings.
The irony being that Russia is arguably the most multicultural state on the planet outside of India.
To give a couple of examples, in Russia, national minorities have the right to educate their children in their native languages, the right to petition the government and hear court cases in national courts using local languages, etc..
Contrast with aggressively galicianizng Ukraine which mandates exclusive use of a language that most of its citizens don't really speak.
"The war in Ukraine is a giant field demo for war profiteering corporations to show prospective buyers and investors how effective their products can be...." Hmm, that doesn't seem to be working out all that well. Seems Challengers and Leopards burn quite well. I suspect Abrams will as well if they can get into battle without running out of fuel.
"It’s just fascinating how everything gets shifted to the right over the decades. Mother Jones is a centrist propaganda rag. Martin Luther King has been historically revised as an innocuous shitlib. George W Bush is just a harmless old painter. Nazis are just brave heroes protecting their homeland."
It is indeed fascinating. Ugh, unfortunatley I think things are going to get worse before they get better.
It really is sad how many well-meaning people just can't get past US Empire's narratives, accepting at face value its 'explanations/excuses' for its murderous actions. It's a 'testament' to imperialism's ability to twist everything to its advantage. The situation in Ukraine is a classic example. They have wiped out every bit of nuance to the discussion. If you question at all, US Empire's actions/words, you are a Putin 'puppet,' no matter how many times you have condemned Russia's invasion.
The current arms exhibition theater for the u s military industrial complex.
Blood Bath and Beyond
As Mussolini pointed out corporatism is fascism -- guess who is running the West right now?
Guess who funded Hitler's military preparations for world ll, Western corporations ( aided by the Dulles brothers).
Guess who is making money hand over fist from the Ukrainian war?
Yup and it matters not whether phony left or phony right.
Are you suggesting that communism has not killed just as many people ?
Are you suggesting that the leadership of communist nations are less evil ?
Bottom line: there are no political structures that will curtail the evils of tyrannical psychopathic leadership.
Every elected president has to subscribe to the goals of the MIC that is to extend US power over all the world and to quash any nation who dares challenge that. As Americans typically focus only on personalities and not the system (which they are taught never to challenge) they tend to focus on the person and not the Deep State that lords over these so-called Leaders of the Free World. We have been sold a bill of goods that could only be charitably described as fake. Our blind worship of the military combined with our unquestioned faith in its mission of bringing so-called Democracy (read Fascist Neoliberalism) to the world has given the Establishment carte blanche to intervene militarily anywhere they wish. That the public in the US has never tasted real Democracy and is oblivious to being controlled by a small cabal of oligarchs and just goes along with their devious schemes is the biggest tragedy.
David , Right from the start it was government of the oligarchs; by the oligarchs; for the oligarchs. A constitution written by white men of property for white men of property, and that property included slaves. It was never government of the people, by the people, for the people.
I do think Jefferson at least genuinely hoped that over time, slavery would be abolished and we'd have far less inequality.
This is very worth reading carefully, if you've never seen it before.
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. " - Jefferson
Yes. Never. Pascal Said that if one wants to develop a concept of the infinite, 1 merely needs to meditate on the depth of humans stupidity.
100 miles an hour. Yup
"the system (which they are taught never to challenge)"
I'd say people cannot conceive of any other system.
Many USA citizens love weapons and are pretty happy with war.
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.
Agreed
"...trauma, poverty, inequality and despair."
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"The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And watch the men at play"
~Sarah Cleghorn
I have a Swedish friend who said yesterday 'the new government (the moderates) are in favour of more police and prisons, rather than helping to develop young people. I am trying to divert things I learnt on the teaching assistant course, such as conflict resolution, leadership, group and developmental psychology, into being a job coach instead. However, they have also cut that budget by 25%, so I am not having much luck at all.'
Money that would prevent people being in prison is spent on prisons. Is that would you mean by countries (seemingly advanced social democracies) going right wing all the time?
Has union membership been dropping in Sweden over time? Loss of organized worker power is a precursor to Right Neoliberals starting to build their prison state.
I don't know. I'll ask.
Shared to FB. Keep heart, dear sister Caitlin. These are indeed troubled and troubling times, in which Orwellian-nightmarish speech is the rule, not the exception. Partisans look no further- and certainly no deeper, past the shallowness of their particular leaders, and the result is that Nazis aren't Nazis after all, or Nazis aren't so bad, if they are willing to kill those the leadership declare to be enemies.
So take some comfort, even in this darkness, that there are many others willing to shine the light on the truth, just as you so regularly do.
So let’s recap:
Everyone is a Nazi who the neoliberal propagandists don't like. But of course:
Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi insignia and Nazi ideology: not Nazis.
Actual SS Nazis: not Nazis.
You gotta wonder what drugs/drinks the neolibs consume to come up with such horrible nonsense.
"So let’s recap.
Jeremy Corbyn supporters: Nazis.
Palestinian rights activists: Nazis.
People who criticize Israel: Nazis.
People who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton: Nazis.
Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi insignia and Nazi ideology: not Nazis.
Actual SS Nazis: not Nazis."
This is GOLD!
Chrystia Freeland
The corporate media has scapegoated Canadian Parliament Speaker Rota when Chrystia Freeland was the puppeteer who created this SS incident. Trudeau is just a WEF front man marionette like Biden. Chrystia controls the Labour Party and Canadian foreign policy as both Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime minister. Her staff invited SS Hunka. Media effectively deflects attention from Deputy Prime Minister Freeland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
The grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, worked for a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS — the same division as Yaroslav Hunka, the Nazi who was recently honored by Canada’s Parliament.” Appel, Jacobin
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s electoral base is in Canada’s Ukrainian diaspora community, which has rebranded Nazi collaborators as nationalist war heroes.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/chrystia-freeland-needs-to-come-clean-about-her-nazi-collaborationist-grandfather
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation
“The editorial boards carried out a policy of soliciting Ukrainian support for the German cause,” the Holocaust Museum noted. “It was typical, within these publications, to not to give any accounts of the German genocidal policy, and largely, the editions resorted to silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia. Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish Question in light of the official Nazi propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world conspiracy.”
As I pointed out in my recent article on Canadian politics, not even one member of Parliament in Canada refused to stand to honor a Nazi. . They represent public opinion. In effect The Canadian people rose as one. Are they all brainwashed by the media? Public confidence in the media is at an all-time low. Public confidence in Trudeau is at an all-time low.. But this lack of public morality is nothing recent – it goes back to Canada's beginnings.
So, pretty much everyone is a Nazi, except, of course, the Nazis.
The irony being that Russia is arguably the most multicultural state on the planet outside of India.
To give a couple of examples, in Russia, national minorities have the right to educate their children in their native languages, the right to petition the government and hear court cases in national courts using local languages, etc..
Contrast with aggressively galicianizng Ukraine which mandates exclusive use of a language that most of its citizens don't really speak.
Thank you Caitlin🙏
"The war in Ukraine is a giant field demo for war profiteering corporations to show prospective buyers and investors how effective their products can be...." Hmm, that doesn't seem to be working out all that well. Seems Challengers and Leopards burn quite well. I suspect Abrams will as well if they can get into battle without running out of fuel.
"It’s just fascinating how everything gets shifted to the right over the decades. Mother Jones is a centrist propaganda rag. Martin Luther King has been historically revised as an innocuous shitlib. George W Bush is just a harmless old painter. Nazis are just brave heroes protecting their homeland."
It is indeed fascinating. Ugh, unfortunatley I think things are going to get worse before they get better.
It really is sad how many well-meaning people just can't get past US Empire's narratives, accepting at face value its 'explanations/excuses' for its murderous actions. It's a 'testament' to imperialism's ability to twist everything to its advantage. The situation in Ukraine is a classic example. They have wiped out every bit of nuance to the discussion. If you question at all, US Empire's actions/words, you are a Putin 'puppet,' no matter how many times you have condemned Russia's invasion.