US still has the highest number of known incarcerated and judicially supervised residents of any regime in history, has engaged in more conflicts per year of its existence than any other state in history, regularly flouts international law, and has just banned TikTok because it is "radicalizing" US youth and making Americans "anti-semites". Yet the US accuses China of being authoritarian, belligerent, a scofflaw and engaging in censorship and brainwashing. Perhaps, as a friendly gesture, the world should present Biden with a mirror.
When considering Earth, I try to always factor in Geologic Time, a 4.5 Billion year old planet. There is a Geologic Record, it can be very useful, in making judgments. Throughout this history The Sun has been a major factor. In Geologic Time man is a very recent development. CO2 is not an issue, The Sun is the primary factor in determining Global Temperatures. As to the Military, "Carbon Footprint" does not worry me. However, they have a long TOXIC history. Agent Orange comes to mind, "Burn Pits", spent Uranium. fuel spills, habitat destruction. As to the Greta , et. al. H. L. said it best: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.
I agree totally. John F. Kennedy was the last president not to engage in mass murder somewhere in the world. (Trump claims not to have done so, but he vastly increased the boldness of Israel in furthering its genocidal aims.) Biden is included in this, not only in Gaza, but also in enabling the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine through the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young Christian men under the evil Zelensky, plus the millions of families fleeing the country. I repeat, Biden is a mass murderer. We can also remember his vehement cheerleading for the Bush/Cheney massacres in the Middle East.
trump campaigned on ending the "Forever Wars" and mending relations with The Russians. However, he failed on both issues. trump is the poster boy for: All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
So glad to see the college students leading the way toward morality and decency again in this Western hellhole. Power to the people! #FreePalestine #EndAllWars
The powers that be have gone through the Overton Window. They're going full bore slandering the Palestine supporters as Nazis and terrorists. It's crazy. The powers that be are projecting. Many seem to be going through the Overton Window.
We Americans have to de-Nazify America before it's too late. Americans need to realize we're in the same boat, a canoe in the rapids closing on a very high waterfall. We better get our 💩 together and 🦆 in a row.
DELUSIONAL, indeed! The longer I observe things, the more it seems to me to have been done by design: Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
Barr just endorsed Trump for president after being part of the cabal that set Trump up on January 6 and got him indicted in New York, Washington, and Georgia.
Trump is beating the rap on everything thrown at him. Now the Supreme Court has been greenlighted to overturn the indictments.
Meanwhile, George Soros (& son), longtime Deep State action officer in the regime change department, is doing what he has done in color revolutions around the world by doing same to Biden via the phony pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Exact same deal as BLM except sides have switched.
Biden and the Dems are now permanently tarred as anti-Israel, allowing the Alt-Right (Breitbart, etc.) and Trump himself to pose as pro-Israel all the way. So the Jewish donors are also flipping to Trump.
Anyway, Biden won't be running. The word is that he will be switched out for Gretchen Whitmer at the DNC in Chicago. Whitmer then will pretend to be running in Biden's place and will gracefully accept defeat.
So Trump will be Prez.
And what will Trump pay for the privilege? He's already begun to pay by leaning on Mike Johnson to flip-flop and greenlight the $95 billion war package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This includes getting on-board with abandoning Republican opposition to any funding for border security. Meaning Trump has bought into the Deep State program of massive illegal immigration.
What else will Trump be paying for the privilege of continuing to live a free man and resuming his position as head of state?
To be brief, Trump will fully buy into the launch of World War III against Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. He's already started doing that. And he'll continue.
If you are correct, only time will tell. At 77y/o, overweight, the VP pick may be a tell? However, I'm sticking with Felix: The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
There is a lot to think about in this comment so I cannot reply off-the-cuff. But in general it is obvious that Trump will be the next president. It is obvious also that nothing will change. As Biden was Trump 2.0, Trump could be Biden 2.0....LOL. I will have to think deeply about what you have written. There is a lot there.
So so true about a Nation gone Ballistic and where all the graft is heading. Got to keep up those 6-figure salaries (some 7 or even 8) for the million or so hangers-on that darken the MIC hallways (though many now "work" at home).
Please check out my own book on how things got this bad.
I think more and more about how to shut this missile down.
Yes, ultimately tyranny always ends in violence; it would be nice to avoid that. All of these so-called "elites" that command the mind space have to be eliminated; their presumed privilege has to be put to final rest. Used to be I could get a letter to the editor published; not so any more.
Nina Jankowicz is making a return. Paid for to mess with me by my own tax dollars. Russia, Russia, Russia. No, the Russian MOD isn't going to listen to me, but I sure wish they could drop a few missiles on Washington DC.
Ultimately, Big Picture, it seems we have reached the end of the road, the place where working together is abandoned for beggar-thy-neighbor looting, grift, destruction. The realm of civilized action will continue to shrink - first goes international law, then international trade, law in general, culture. The "tribe" will get smaller and smaller; one cannot trust anyone one does not know well personally.
Those who follow the "elite" messaging are in the way.
So sad, but wishing it were otherwise is not going to make it so. Time to start building the monasteries and the sacred communities..
I really like that name Oracle! And I think you are present really. I used the name Oracle for a blog I began years ago mostly on propaganda, persuasion, social deception and the like. Mostly written to vent since I was working selling my soul in the media industry. Lots of articles nobody read in which I never bothered to proofread. Https://asianintelligencereview.blogspot.com/ I think you are better "Oracle" than I was....LOL. I am just now learning to use the weather forecast app on my smart phone....
Oracle is the name of the software company that made the odious Larry Ellison (despite the name a full fledged Zionist) the multibillionaire he is. Bro of Bill Gates, as is of course Warren Buffett the “plain-spoken billionaire that still lives in his original house in Omaha and drives his old ‘56 Oldsmobile”….falsehoods of course. A friend who lives near the Omaha house says Buffett hasn’t been in town for 20 years.
It's a difficult name to live into. I find myself hiding when someone wants me to "oracle" for them. Historically, never seems to end well for the Oracle, does it?
The flight of US is "bullshitistic", designed to rocket straight up in a ball of fire and smoke of burning trillions before the transfixed, orgasmic thrill of the population. Once high above the atmosphere it will -- as it is now doing -- falter, stall ... and plummet straight back onto the launching pad ... KaBOOOOM!
In a way, it will be well-deserved justice. Or as we like to spell here in the United States: "JUST-US".
Oh I like that term "bullshitistic"-- which I will steal and pretend is mine and hope to get out of my elementary school group – the turtles – the slowest of the slow. Also "JUST-US"., which of course, also defines US JUST-ice. As a Canadian, I wish I could say that Canada was better. But what can you say about a country whose parliament gives a standing ovation to Nazi killers?
Back in Bush II days, when bullshitistic stuff happened, four of us would break into, "Oh Canada." I would go there now to visit. I suppose they were always an obvious lapdog, but somehow, like EU leaders, Trudeau has managed to take it to an all new level.
America first. But in almost every category of OECD ratings, America is below the norm. Turkey was once the Sick Man of Europe. Now all of Europe is sick with the American Disease. America is The Sick Man of the World. And America includes the US is political appendix--that useless adjunct attached to its: colon and inflamed by US digestive problems -- Canada!
Ooh, too correct and graphic (since I just had intestinal surgery ;-)) LOL. But you're right.
All of these countries that had partnered up after discovering the Vatican's Rat Line then agreed to divid the German professionals/scientists, architects, etc. between themselves are inextricably tied to the same unsound raft.
I wonder how much different our countries would have turned out had they not installed a bunch of Nazis and the like in influential posts within our governments and institutions. Well that may be fodder for an alternative fiction.
I'm sure you've read Chalmers Johnson and know how tight this group of countries are in their criminality.
Maybe care about both. The key word is "care". We talk a lot about "empathy" between individuals--but it really applies only to people we know personally. There should be such a thing as political empathy. Who speaks for the dead in Gaza? Who speaks for those about to die?
I had to teach the pledge this past summer to immigrants who were getting ready to take their naturalization test. The more you read it out loud, line by line, the more you want to vomit. I told them they're expected to say it at their oath ceremony, but if they just stand there with their hand on their chest somewhere and mumble, it'll be okay. (Or claim a religious exemption.)
@ The Rev Continues: My condolences. :-) I lived in a 55+ community for a couple years before moving to Ecuador. Every meeting and gathering had to start with the pledge (hand on heart) and end with singing "God Bless America." My lifetime of punctuality was overtaken by deliberately being late and leaving early to the few things I felt I needed to attend.
The Nazis did a better. They just saluted the Führer .Efficient. Trouble is our Führers are mostly invisible or have names like Mark or Jeff or Bill. Just Folks.
Here in lies the problem, especially, when combined with a generalized DUMBING DOWN: One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.
US still has the highest number of known incarcerated and judicially supervised residents of any regime in history, has engaged in more conflicts per year of its existence than any other state in history, regularly flouts international law, and has just banned TikTok because it is "radicalizing" US youth and making Americans "anti-semites". Yet the US accuses China of being authoritarian, belligerent, a scofflaw and engaging in censorship and brainwashing. Perhaps, as a friendly gesture, the world should present Biden with a mirror.
Funny, that upside down US flag. I have one on the tailgate of my truck.
Good post.
When considering Earth, I try to always factor in Geologic Time, a 4.5 Billion year old planet. There is a Geologic Record, it can be very useful, in making judgments. Throughout this history The Sun has been a major factor. In Geologic Time man is a very recent development. CO2 is not an issue, The Sun is the primary factor in determining Global Temperatures. As to the Military, "Carbon Footprint" does not worry me. However, they have a long TOXIC history. Agent Orange comes to mind, "Burn Pits", spent Uranium. fuel spills, habitat destruction. As to the Greta , et. al. H. L. said it best: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
I find it remarkable how Russia has transformed itself since 1990 as well while the West has remained static, living in the past.
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.
John F. Kennedy
From my perspective 22NOV63 is a watershed date! we are living in it's aftermath.
I agree totally. John F. Kennedy was the last president not to engage in mass murder somewhere in the world. (Trump claims not to have done so, but he vastly increased the boldness of Israel in furthering its genocidal aims.) Biden is included in this, not only in Gaza, but also in enabling the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine through the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young Christian men under the evil Zelensky, plus the millions of families fleeing the country. I repeat, Biden is a mass murderer. We can also remember his vehement cheerleading for the Bush/Cheney massacres in the Middle East.
trump campaigned on ending the "Forever Wars" and mending relations with The Russians. However, he failed on both issues. trump is the poster boy for: All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
See my new book, https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
So glad to see the college students leading the way toward morality and decency again in this Western hellhole. Power to the people! #FreePalestine #EndAllWars
The powers that be have gone through the Overton Window. They're going full bore slandering the Palestine supporters as Nazis and terrorists. It's crazy. The powers that be are projecting. Many seem to be going through the Overton Window.
We Americans have to de-Nazify America before it's too late. Americans need to realize we're in the same boat, a canoe in the rapids closing on a very high waterfall. We better get our 💩 together and 🦆 in a row.
How did we get this way? Please see my new book. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
How true! And repression of dissent at colleges will backfire. Suddenly, the young are forced to think. And act.
The West is looking so delusional one wonders what the collapse will look like.!
DELUSIONAL, indeed! The longer I observe things, the more it seems to me to have been done by design: Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
George Carlin
Sure like George Carlin humour.
Nice relevant quote.
He, along with Eric Hoffer and Hunter S. Thompson seem to be especially relevant in these times.
Another down to earth Eric Hoffer fan!
My go to philosopher.
A good question. Empires are like people. All different. And they as people do, they fail differently. Russia's rise from the ashes was remarkable.
Mark my words. The Deep State has shifted its support to Trump for president. Biden is being thrown under the bus.
William Barr is the deepest of the Deep State; the ultimate covert operator. Check out his resume on Wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr
Barr just endorsed Trump for president after being part of the cabal that set Trump up on January 6 and got him indicted in New York, Washington, and Georgia.
Trump is beating the rap on everything thrown at him. Now the Supreme Court has been greenlighted to overturn the indictments.
Meanwhile, George Soros (& son), longtime Deep State action officer in the regime change department, is doing what he has done in color revolutions around the world by doing same to Biden via the phony pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Exact same deal as BLM except sides have switched.
Biden and the Dems are now permanently tarred as anti-Israel, allowing the Alt-Right (Breitbart, etc.) and Trump himself to pose as pro-Israel all the way. So the Jewish donors are also flipping to Trump.
Anyway, Biden won't be running. The word is that he will be switched out for Gretchen Whitmer at the DNC in Chicago. Whitmer then will pretend to be running in Biden's place and will gracefully accept defeat.
So Trump will be Prez.
And what will Trump pay for the privilege? He's already begun to pay by leaning on Mike Johnson to flip-flop and greenlight the $95 billion war package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This includes getting on-board with abandoning Republican opposition to any funding for border security. Meaning Trump has bought into the Deep State program of massive illegal immigration.
What else will Trump be paying for the privilege of continuing to live a free man and resuming his position as head of state?
To be brief, Trump will fully buy into the launch of World War III against Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. He's already started doing that. And he'll continue.
Like I say, mark my words.
Richard Cook
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
http://www.kober.com/books/978-0-915034-22-2_txt.pdf
If you are correct, only time will tell. At 77y/o, overweight, the VP pick may be a tell? However, I'm sticking with Felix: The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter
Frankfurter would have known. He was one of them.
There is a lot to think about in this comment so I cannot reply off-the-cuff. But in general it is obvious that Trump will be the next president. It is obvious also that nothing will change. As Biden was Trump 2.0, Trump could be Biden 2.0....LOL. I will have to think deeply about what you have written. There is a lot there.
So so true about a Nation gone Ballistic and where all the graft is heading. Got to keep up those 6-figure salaries (some 7 or even 8) for the million or so hangers-on that darken the MIC hallways (though many now "work" at home).
Please check out my own book on how things got this bad.
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
Will definitely check it out.
I think more and more about how to shut this missile down.
Yes, ultimately tyranny always ends in violence; it would be nice to avoid that. All of these so-called "elites" that command the mind space have to be eliminated; their presumed privilege has to be put to final rest. Used to be I could get a letter to the editor published; not so any more.
Nina Jankowicz is making a return. Paid for to mess with me by my own tax dollars. Russia, Russia, Russia. No, the Russian MOD isn't going to listen to me, but I sure wish they could drop a few missiles on Washington DC.
Ultimately, Big Picture, it seems we have reached the end of the road, the place where working together is abandoned for beggar-thy-neighbor looting, grift, destruction. The realm of civilized action will continue to shrink - first goes international law, then international trade, law in general, culture. The "tribe" will get smaller and smaller; one cannot trust anyone one does not know well personally.
Those who follow the "elite" messaging are in the way.
So sad, but wishing it were otherwise is not going to make it so. Time to start building the monasteries and the sacred communities..
I really like that name Oracle! And I think you are present really. I used the name Oracle for a blog I began years ago mostly on propaganda, persuasion, social deception and the like. Mostly written to vent since I was working selling my soul in the media industry. Lots of articles nobody read in which I never bothered to proofread. Https://asianintelligencereview.blogspot.com/ I think you are better "Oracle" than I was....LOL. I am just now learning to use the weather forecast app on my smart phone....
Oracle is the name of the software company that made the odious Larry Ellison (despite the name a full fledged Zionist) the multibillionaire he is. Bro of Bill Gates, as is of course Warren Buffett the “plain-spoken billionaire that still lives in his original house in Omaha and drives his old ‘56 Oldsmobile”….falsehoods of course. A friend who lives near the Omaha house says Buffett hasn’t been in town for 20 years.
It's a difficult name to live into. I find myself hiding when someone wants me to "oracle" for them. Historically, never seems to end well for the Oracle, does it?
Keep up your good work.
The flight of US is "bullshitistic", designed to rocket straight up in a ball of fire and smoke of burning trillions before the transfixed, orgasmic thrill of the population. Once high above the atmosphere it will -- as it is now doing -- falter, stall ... and plummet straight back onto the launching pad ... KaBOOOOM!
In a way, it will be well-deserved justice. Or as we like to spell here in the United States: "JUST-US".
Oh I like that term "bullshitistic"-- which I will steal and pretend is mine and hope to get out of my elementary school group – the turtles – the slowest of the slow. Also "JUST-US"., which of course, also defines US JUST-ice. As a Canadian, I wish I could say that Canada was better. But what can you say about a country whose parliament gives a standing ovation to Nazi killers?
Back in Bush II days, when bullshitistic stuff happened, four of us would break into, "Oh Canada." I would go there now to visit. I suppose they were always an obvious lapdog, but somehow, like EU leaders, Trudeau has managed to take it to an all new level.
Given the absurdity of the times and cruel idiocy of our "leaders" the language is stretched.
Yeah. America First! It's what the rest of the world wants, too.
America first. But in almost every category of OECD ratings, America is below the norm. Turkey was once the Sick Man of Europe. Now all of Europe is sick with the American Disease. America is The Sick Man of the World. And America includes the US is political appendix--that useless adjunct attached to its: colon and inflamed by US digestive problems -- Canada!
Ooh, too correct and graphic (since I just had intestinal surgery ;-)) LOL. But you're right.
All of these countries that had partnered up after discovering the Vatican's Rat Line then agreed to divid the German professionals/scientists, architects, etc. between themselves are inextricably tied to the same unsound raft.
I wonder how much different our countries would have turned out had they not installed a bunch of Nazis and the like in influential posts within our governments and institutions. Well that may be fodder for an alternative fiction.
I'm sure you've read Chalmers Johnson and know how tight this group of countries are in their criminality.
In tribute to the those brave protesters of genocide:
Care not what your country can do to you,
Care that your country does not do that to others.
Maybe care about both. The key word is "care". We talk a lot about "empathy" between individuals--but it really applies only to people we know personally. There should be such a thing as political empathy. Who speaks for the dead in Gaza? Who speaks for those about to die?
A Stand for Love of Country (by me)
I do not pledge allegiance to the flag
or to the empire for which it stands.
One global oppressor, consumed with greed,
always dividing,
with “liberty” and “justice” for sale.
I like this pledge much better!
I had to teach the pledge this past summer to immigrants who were getting ready to take their naturalization test. The more you read it out loud, line by line, the more you want to vomit. I told them they're expected to say it at their oath ceremony, but if they just stand there with their hand on their chest somewhere and mumble, it'll be okay. (Or claim a religious exemption.)
@ The Rev Continues: My condolences. :-) I lived in a 55+ community for a couple years before moving to Ecuador. Every meeting and gathering had to start with the pledge (hand on heart) and end with singing "God Bless America." My lifetime of punctuality was overtaken by deliberately being late and leaving early to the few things I felt I needed to attend.
The Nazis did a better. They just saluted the Führer .Efficient. Trouble is our Führers are mostly invisible or have names like Mark or Jeff or Bill. Just Folks.
You nailed it, Julian. Let's hope the USA doesn't cause too much damage before it implodes.
Here in lies the problem, especially, when combined with a generalized DUMBING DOWN: One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.
Zhou Enlai
That is why Russia is going slow. Iran and China too
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte