My brother and I served in Germany in the 80s when the Wall was up. We operated under very serious rules and one of them was that nuclear capable aircraft had to remain visible and uncovered.
Ukraine - meaning the United States - just violated those rules.
This is very scary stuff as our Blob has gone rogue. We must support the Trump administration at all costs. Hell, support Putin(more importantly, the Russian and Ukrainian People).
You're right Miriamnae, Nancy Graham is possibly the world's biggest fairy. I have always only guessed he has the goods on someone, or a few someone's, if you know what I mean.
Nancy Graham. If a ring bologna came to life and put on a suit...
I'm sure somebody - probably lots of somebodies - have something - container ships full of something on Ol' Nancy. And he doesn't care. He's on the bad boy's list and he likes it there. He happily dances to their tune as long as they feed his addictions.
is there any other way to be in power now? my base assumption is that every one of the so-called elite worldwide are ticket takers. they are forced to take turns soiling themselves on the critical issue of the day.
the fact that graham does it on the regular must mean he has a real wonka golden ticket - imagination fails me...
Don't mind me. I'm just going to tuck this under your 45-Likes-and-counting comment here...
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"The following seems to me to be an appropriate unfolding response to the vicious attacks on United States territory.
It would seem appropriate, first, to demand that the Taliban government of the poor and wretched nation of Afghanistan produce the terrorist Osama Bin Ladin and his assistants and place them in the hands of NATO authorities within a very brisk time frame. Failure to comply ought to result in the complete destruction of Kabul and other Taliban-controlled towns.
Second, the people of Iraq should be warned to depart their capital city, Baghdad, which should then be completely destroyed.
The nation of Israel should begin immediately the deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank to the Kingdom of Jordan. The people of Gaza Strip should be transported to Egypt, and the Gaza incorporated into the state of Israel.
The government of Syria should be notified to begin evacuations of Damascus pending its destruction within a short time frame. Ditto Tripoli, capital of Lybia.
Americans must face the harsh fact that it is now necessary to put Jihad out of business.
The events of Sept 11th will only accelerate the problems Americans face vis-a-vis our inordinate use of oil, and our hyper oil-dependent living arrangements.
"hi Jim, I am Mindy and I am now a sophmore at the u. I read the zesty, nazi hate mail section of your self funded website and you are one insecure little guy. alot of your readers like some but not all of your drivel but that doesnt mean that they go to neo nazi meetings in Idaho. You are a Zionist Jim and you know it. Just as Israel over reacts to Palestinians, Lebanese and lets not forget peace flotilla humanitarians =========== everyone who gives negative feedback to JHK is to be outed as a Jew hater. Not so you slimy little no talent poseur. One does not have to hate jews to dislike you. PS, I like your pouf take on architecture. Very piss elegant."
~ Mindy Grater
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"You know what you sound like? Just another dumb fucking American who thinks its government’s primary interest lays in something other than self preservation – no matter how many people get slaughtered along the way."
I would say no. How can a country that have no right to exist have a right to defend itself?
You know very well what happened in 1948. Or should know. I refer you to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
The Jews massacred and expelled 800 000 Palestinians, the rightful owners of the country. Therefore Israel has no right to exist. It is built on a crime.
Of course, ordinary dumbass Yanks don’t have a clue about this. How could they? Living inside the Jewish owned American media bubble.
Oh, so that’s a conspiracy theory? With no basis in reality?"
Ok, Sox, here's the reply I 'promised'. It may be less of a one-to-one, but what the hell...
We have Ziomerica slowly turning the faraway Middle East-- Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen... and whoever/whatever doesn't want to buy what Ziomerica is selling or give what they're wanting-- into a 'geography of nowhere' (it is said it was something like a 5-year plan) while the author of a book of the same title of course advocates that very thing-- you know, leveling of entire cities for one or a few bad-guys-- while asking me something about his own backyard that he's griped about as its own geography of nowhere.
'Can't make this stuff up.'
Let's say we are anthropologists of the future, ten-thousand years from now, managing to decode and read the contents of a storage unit from an apparent server-farm with these contents here. What do we want to say? What do we want to tell them? Like about what happened or what might? Or whatever else?
We have the living counterparts-- the decendents-- of any, maybe every, empire-civilization that has come and gone right here and now of course, some rationalizing away their empire's remote actions, presumably like they always have at every time and place.
Some of them on this storage unit's contents have these little four-leaf-clover sub-icons hanging under their main icons, suggesting, like a sixteen-year old comparing motorbikes, how 'Israel'-- whatever its religiopoliticeconomic raison d'etre excused for its existence-- has the bestest, biggest bombs to 'defend' itself against its surrounding neighbors. Rather neighborly of them, don't you think?
So what do I say to my counterpart reading this? How about...
'The backyards/geographies of others they destroyed were and/or became their own.' (... suburbal sprawls/clusterfucks, gutted flyover-country towns, lost communities, eyesores...)
I, too, was in Germany in the 80s (not mil, GS-12 civ). Six weeks there on a different base or U.S. installation 6 days/wk. I was astounded at the level of American presence. I noticed a common attitude of 'what are we doing here?'. Not sure what you and bro thought but I'm curious to know if either of you got that same vibe from others.
There was some of that complacency, but I was in an Army line unit(first to respond) and we had alerts and field exercises all the time we took very seriously. My brother flew nuclear armed BUFFs when we had a 24/7 worldwide coverage which was very serious stuff; they had to sit on the airfields for a weekly rotation...
The German folks were not that concerned about a Russian invasion back then.
In any case, there's some echoed sentiment, as per this quote from the article:
"Numerous other leading scholars and journalists, both contemporaneous and more recent, have come to very similar conclusions, but they too often suffered severe retaliation for their honest historical assessments. For decades William Henry Chamberlin had been one of America’s most highly-regarded foreign policy journalists, but after he published America’s Second Crusade in 1950, he vanished from most mainstream publications. David Irving quite possibly ranks as the most internationally successful British historian of the last 100 years, with his seminal books on World War II receiving enormous critical praise and selling in the millions; but he was driven into personal bankruptcy and narrowly avoided spending the rest of his life in an Austrian prison."
The Russians are the good guys this time. They attack from the East, we attack from the West. We meet in Berlin with great joy and feasting. If Eastern Europe doesn't want to become the vassal states of Emperor Putin, let them rectify themselves now.
Russian Derangement Syndrome, RDS, has been infecting minds long before Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS. The Europeans and Asians have a multi-millennia history of fighting amongst themselves. We are fools to believe and act like we can resolve their disputes. George Washington recognized the problem over two hundred years ago and advised future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements and treat all nations with benevolence. We should be so wise.
The US is not entangled in the Ukraine to help the Europeans resolve their disputes. If it had wanted to help the Europeans, it wouldn't have blown up the Nordstream pipeline to cripple the German (and wider European) economy (it did less harm to Russia, which was always just going to sell its energy elsewhere). The US is entangled in a proxy war in Ukraine because it wants to break up the Russian Federation and appropriate its natural resources, just as it did in Iraq.
The UK, meantime, has been having a centuries-long hissy fit because, as a naval superpower, it couldn't just take over Russia, as it did so many other countries, with gunboats. And trying to do so by land, as Napoleon and Hitler found, doesn't tend to end well.
The US is entangled in a proxy war in Ukraine because it wants to break up the Russian Federation and appropriate its natural resources"...... yep, Sheila you nailed it:
What sounded like a great idea to Neo-cons in the United States has revealed the US's manifold bankruptcies and revolted the rest of the World.
Imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with their genius scheme to knock off Putin, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld
He would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings.
The poor schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “Colour Uprising.”
His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s corrupt leadership.
After 3+ years of America’s genius scheme to maintain world dominance it has all gone to custard. 600,000+ men have been killed. America is broke. US$36-trillion in debt. The West is depleted of ammunition.
And US and European taxpayers are baulking at seeing any more of their tax dollars going to the corrupt Ukrainians.
And Zelensky is hiding, flitting from one country to another begging for money. Because the game is drawing to a close and he may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home front. He has managed to send hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder. And millions more have hightailed it for other countries.
Ukraine will now be a land of mostly women, children, and old folks. With just enough surviving soldiers left looking to hunt down the comedian who turned Ukraine into another one of history’s sick jokes.
All because of the United States meddling in other countries’ affairs. It’s past time to end all foreign entanglements and end all foreign aid. We are fools to borrow money and then give it away to foreigners. Don’t vote for people who are fools.
"We must support the Trump administration at all costs. Hell, support Putin(more importantly, the Russian and Ukrainian People)."
The chance of avoiding an unthinkable outcome -- well, I wish it were unthinkable -- of this pile-on madness increasingly requires the humane (or strategic) restraint of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. We depend on the kindness of strangers.
I hate to say it, but our own Blob - in coordination with the rest of the 'Five Eyes' - is sewing misinformation everywhere and it is hard to figure it out with even dependable sources.
For example, I heard on a podcast a 'news report' claim that Putin is murdering Unkrainian civilians while Ukraine is only hitting military installations. How would we actually know? Putin has done some bad $hit over the years, but common sense tells us he already has what he wants and there is no reason to simply murder his own Russian Ukrainians...
Agreed and I think Trump and his team are on your described path. Putin is only protecting his sphere like any rational leader(not saying he is a great man).
Putin poses no direct threat to the United States or the EU other than perceived mineral rights, etc. which can always be negotiated. This whole thing is exceptionally dangerous and the wrong people are behind Zelensky.
The Really Wrong people always hide themselves and may well be setting up Israel for destruction. Everything and everyone we get to see are potential heroes/victims in the one and only playbook of history scapegoat method.
Israel is a military outpost. And I understand, furthermore, why Israel (and the American religious right) want every Palestinian dead. But it seems to me that your "Really Wrong people" want every Palestinian dead as well. If so, what is their long term plan, and what do "they" do after Palestine and Palestinians are gone?
the people running the palestinians keep maneuvering them to take superficially short term beneficial destructive actions (or appearances of) that are always long term only in the interest of one entity. nov 7? great victory, justifies jennycyde
~ Bombing Others' Geographies To Nothing Or Making Something Out of Our Own Local Geographies ~
What Jim doesn't seem to grok, or maybe he does, is...
1. ...that the American polity's specific interests overseas, like in Israel in particular, means that the polity is less interested in or focused on its own home-geography, which in effect makes it more of a geography of nowhere...
2. ...that he writes about the large-scale centrailized State, yet ostensibly does it from his local, small-scale home-town of Greenwich, NY.
We hear little of it, though, except where it is used as leverage for personal commodification and/or virtue-signaling, such as through his paintings, bi-weekly Substacks or eyesores-of-the-month.
IOW, Jim seems to want to eat his cake and have it too, wants it both ways, while talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Does he want USA out of Ukraine? Then he wants it out of Israel, etc., too.
Does he want relocalization, good towns, good architecture and real community? Then he wants to truly focus on that, on the home-front, under his nose, not thousands of miles away.
As for our ex-military commenter, Ben, ditto, insofar as if he wants Israel and the Middle East to go his way:
Then he should wrap up his local USA citizenship/location and 'geographies of elsewhere' USAid-esque funding and 'flock-off like the birds' and go see if he can, by himself, live/fight/bomb/fund their geographies to nowhere (i.e., Gaza) and leave the rest of we locals-- tax-hostage funders of *their* wars, not ours-- alone.
That way, too, there is less of an incentive for angry Middle Easterners/Jihadists to go the other way and threaten America's security/geography. Or Europe's.
Hey, Ben, lose the chick appeal, be a cock-of-the-walk with your flock, take your 'chickenhawk necks' and walk the talk in your geographies of elsewhere.
That way, the rest of us can focus on ours, take back that bottomless funding and use it, and more, to make a go for the betterment of our own geographies here at home. Make them something and somewhere.
Maybe there's a bit more truth to Jim's published 'hate-mail' than meets the eye.
~ 'Horrified Bystander'?: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Israel ~
"Were a conventional catastrophic escalation to occur, the Israeli military is capable of defeating the armies of its immediate neighbors: Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan (though I do not believe their governments want to engage Israel in a big hot war). Who knows what Iraq might do. Or Iran. Who knows what kind of biological or nuclear devices militant Islam is capable of setting off in Israel in the days ahead. It may not be necessary for the other Muslim governments to engage their official militaries against Israel. The masses themselves might just conveniently bypass their governments, travel to Israel by any means necessary, jihad-style, by Toyota or on foot or by camel, armed with the stock-in-trade of asymmetrical warfare, small arms, kalashnikov automatic rifles, shoulder-launched rockets and grenades, and join the Palestinians in what would turn out to be a horrendous urban insurrection.
I am not convinced that the US can accomplish anything besides acting as a horrified bystander.
Even in a conventional war scenario -- governments against governments using soldiers and advanced weaponry -- it is hard to imagine any role that the US might play. We are a powerful nation, but we're not omnipotent."
Your last paragraph? I am not even sure that all those weapons are even relevant anymore.
The reason why you will never see a Muslim device in Israel is MAD, the same MAD as the US - Russia Cold War succumbed to. Both sides will be ashtrays if either tries to nuke the other.
Big bad Israel, who have never invaded a neighbor without prior provocation, who time and again has tried to create peace through returning war bought territory. The same cannot be said about their neighbors who, one by one, have been beaten by the Israelites.
Putin made an agreement brokered by Israeli not to assinate Zelensky in 2022, with the implied meaning the Ukrainians would not try to assinate him. But since the Ukrainians recently tried maybe all bets on Zelensky's surviving the war are now off the table.
And why? Returning a favor. During the War of 1812, the British had erected a naval blockade of Russia, in order to seize Russia's precious cargoes: hemp, the Oil of the seafaring age.
Cotton ropes and sails rot quickly in seawater; hemp rope and sail is impervious to saltwater. Without hemp, the deep bluewater navies could not have sailed, and global trade would have ground to a standstill.
The Islamic Age had ended as Columbus' use of a Zheng Ho map to find the New World and Vasco de Gama's charting a course around the Horn of Africa had opened up routes and products beyond the Silk Roads; as the Silk Road revenues had slipped, and slipped, Islam's great Universities could no longer be funded, and even slavery was not profitable enough to sustain the caravan civilization.
Meanwhile, Europe was duking it out in the science wars of the naval Spice Wars (aka the Pirate Age), advancing faster and faster in both new riches and technologies such as longitude tables, the telescope, the sextant, and the rudder.
Forwarding to 1812, Russia produced up to 90% of industrial hemp. America itself had grown rich on tobacco, hemp and marijuana, and charred potash (burnt oak) used for fertilizer. The British blockade had been seizing Russian cargoes of precious, necessary hemp.
American Yankees invented the clipper ship, the speedboat of its time, in order to slip past that quarantine and the British Navy. Grateful for American help, Russia returned the favor in the Civil War, as the British hoped to gain Southern cotton without the Northern Morill tariffs- and, possibly, get some of their colonial land back one day.
Set his legacy aside? This would be his legacy if he were to end "Biden's war" - which is now his. But instead he dithers, constantly reversing himself. As Colonel MacGregor said just before the drone strike on Russia: He is saying the exact opposite of what he said 90 days ago. He has no power to stop this war even if he wanted to, as he publicly states.
This is how I see it now as well. We don't really know who Trump is. He may have no real viewpoint about this or much of anything else. What he does have is a knowledge of how the world works and his role in it - and of course a great ability to play that role.
Harris wasn't a legitimate candidate, neither was Biden. Get that through your thick skull already, John. And guess what - we're still exactly where we were always gonna be - even with Trump.
The escalation of War, not end.
The ongoing Big Beautiful hallowing of the American Middle Class and Global Reset.
No serious homeland reform (e.g., no meaningful prosecution - and more importantly - no imprisonment or execution of treasonous top-tier Elite criminals.
John masturbates with his Right instead of his Left - merely to fantasize about getting fucked by someone more desirable - he only ever ends up with yet another ordinary slimy nut in his hand just the same.
And to think, this is one of your classier moments. Pardon us for having a little optimistic moment with Trump, as just about everything else points at the collapse of the USA we were raised in. By the way, in my more cynical moments, I agree with everything you wrote, it is what is going to happen if Trump makes no difference.
Ask a Harris supporter about Harris and they'll start raving about Trump. Ask a Trump supporter about Trump and they'll start raving about Harris. Cultists are all the same. And the lesser of two evils is still evil.
During his previous term, if recalled, Trump took credit for the assassination of Iran's general, Soleimani. Trump also has a Jewish son-in-law, apparently with Zionist connections and there appear to be circulating images of Trump wearing a kippah.
Personally, I like a warm kibbeh on the go with a 50-50 mixed dip of garlic sauce and hummous.
“World War III flutters over the continent like an answered prayer coming in for a landing.”
The average person does not want war. A nice life filled with supportive people... a couple kids to leave your property to... meaningful work... a roof over our heads... food in the belly... and a little fun on the weekend is all most ask for. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong that is – except for the Ruling Class that seems to have a perpetual death wish for the Planet. Not for themselves of course because they are basically sore-afraid cowards who hide behind heavy office doors and thuggish security people so their mostly wasted lives are kept safe and secure. No, it is death for a great deal of humanity that they seek.
And why? Because they hate what they are – human beings. They are a human-species-hating deformity in the human family. They do not even see themselves as human but more like faux gods that rule over the collection of The Worthless as just so much garbage.
They hate everything human so much that they are committed to either cleansing the Planet of humanity – or fully merging us with machinery so that we become better and more compliant slaves for Them. How nice for them.
They seem to have no souls. And so, They do not want the rest of us to have any, either.
We did not sign up to live out our lives among such Madman and Madwomen but here we are. We stubbornly refuse to accept the hellscape that They have planned for us and we go about our lives anyway... finding as many supportive people as we cam... having kids if we so choose... engaging in meaningful work (or deciding to waste our lives with eyes forever glued to the screen of the Little Magic Box of Dancing Pixels)... finding food for our belly... and as much fun as we can squeeze out of life in between the madness and hellscape that we find ourselves in.
No one promised us a Rose Garden. But it could be said that neither did they promise us lives filled with nothing but Thorns and Pests constantly eating away at us.
Where there’s Life there’s Hope, so they say. Let’s hope so... because living without Hope doesn’t seem to bring happiness... or food for our bellies.
The War Mongers are the Thorns and Pests of this World. Ignore Them as much as possible.
Excellent post RS. You said, "They do not even see themselves as human but more like faux gods that rule over the collection of The Worthless as just so much garbage."
Why do they see themselves this way? Because of we the people. The people have a bad habit and that bad habit is to put people of great wealth and prominence on a pedestal and then worship them, assuming that because they made a great deal of wealth, that they know everything there is to know about....well........everything.
Take Bill Gates for example. The man made his wealth creating computer software operating systems. He's a computer geek. That's all. Yet, he is involved in and treated as an expert in human vaccinations, human food production, population control. Why? What official training has he earned in these areas to qualify as an expert in these matters? No, he's wealthy, extremely wealthy and as such he is treated and viewed as a god by we the little people. He knows all. He sees all.
We do it with all wealthy people. We do this with all celebrities. We do this with all prominent people. As people continue to reject religion and the concept of God they must replace that desire to worship with something else. Some worship the Earth. Some worship cars. Some worship money. Most people, it seems worship the elite.
When in reality these prominent wealthy elites eat, drink, sleep and shit the same way everyone else does. They may shit in a golden toilet and they may eat their food with golden forks but they are no different.
If 5% of the people own 95% of the country, then “national security“ takes on a whole new meaning. Is the government/military protecting us debtors and consumers, or are they protecting the assets of the top 5% that own the assets? We, and our children, only receive protection because we live on or near the assets that the military protects.
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
"It’s so bad, and Democratic leadership is so demented, that they are liable to turn Donald Trump into another Abe Lincoln."
They've tried to do this twice already, so the crazy train has long since left the station. I do agree that at this point the engine is picking up steam going full throttle. That the party of death, the same one that declares that democracy is under attack -- so they seek to destroy it in order to "save" it, seeks to add assassination as another jewel in their ruinous crown is of little surprise. In a sane world these unhinged lunatics would be rounded up en masse and given the psychiatric treatment they so desperately need.
Make mental hospitals great again. Fill them with the hysterical homicidal left wing lunatics. Deprive them of their hallucinogenic media until they regain their senses. Teach them the skills to live in a civilized society and only then let them venture forth again.
This topic is definitely a problem, but not just with the politically motivated insanity. There is a significant percentage of the population that's addicted to drugs, mostly prescribed, that can't function as a "civilized" citizen. Many also are stricken with physical disease that creates more mental stress. Restoring mental hospitals, funny farms and poor farms is desperately needed, and very expensive to implement.
We are already spending billions on these sub-humans. And 90% of it goes into the pockets of the grifting class of bureaucrats who have learned from the politicians how to rob the middle class tax payers. Figure out how to get it away from them and develop poor farms and mental institutions.
The tent residents existing in garbage on our streets. The drug addicts bent double shuffling along our sidewalks. Perhaps at one point they were human. And perhaps they could one day achieve humanity again. Right now they are most definitely sub-human.
Trump survived faux assassination - just barely - but if "they" surely intended him dead - just poison his McDonald's - done deal.
Instead, round his voters up - give them the AMMOTHERAPY & drone treatment they so desperately deserve. Putin sees this fact, too. Oreshnik soon to come. Ameriguns soon to pony up or shut dafuq up.
Matthew 7:1-5 (KJV): "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Not sure how supposedly sane people in Western Europe could go so bat shiff crazy. People being put in jail because they comment on social media that jihadists in their neighborhoods are not a good thing ? Maybe we can start having pedos start teaching all of our Kindergarten students?
All of these illegals somehow get seats in boats coming to the UK and W. Europe? My guess is that these wonderful NGOs are getting 100% of their funding from the taxpayers of the EU. I could be wrong but that is exactly what was found out when DOGE started digging into USAID. The radical left has no plans of any kind to make things better for taxpayers but the people still vote for them? Same thing here in the US where the marxists Dems have been controlling most big cities not just for a couple of election cycles but for multiple generations and the Blacks are too ignorant to see that nothing has gotten better?
Trump needs to call Putin and tell him (hopefully it would be true) that we had nothing to do with the destruction of his planes and if he retaliates, he should do so against the proper parties. These idiots in NATO are playing with fire and it is either intentional so as to cause even more destruction and more ways to skim money or.....being so nuts that they really seem to think they are in the right? Either way it is treason.
Pathetic and ignorant/stooopid to say the least. And these are the best that the UK , France and Germany can find to run their country?
At least with Biden we could say that his party stole the election so......it is doubtful he actually/legally got elected.
The media has so successfully polarized us that anything is better than the treasonous criminal on the other side. And any solution is acceptable in order to end their reign of terror.
Yes, correct, Blackbird. In the meantime most people don't even bother to pay attention to the Congress. This is by design. The Congress, or, shall I say, the lack of a US Congress is the source of all of our problems. More people need to understand this.
Why? Is it because the USA is split between people that treasure the US Constitution and those that hate it?
I read the evaluation of the vote on the BBB in the Senate and I again realize the problem, a bunch of ego driven assholes, each with their own agenda to get votes at home, being devil’s advocates to any suggestions to solve problems.
The FF wanted a Congress that worked out problems as a think tank for the country. What we have today, thanks to party politics, is a clown show.
I agree with you, JohnAZ but I don't understand your question. My comment stems from the fact that the FF wanted the Congress to be the sovereign because it, the House especially, was more close to the people from whom the money came. Americans need to regain their Congress and Congress needs to re-establish itself as the sovereign. Checks and balances are important but the FF provided the Congress with the means to override Presidential vetoes if necessary.
Blackbird, have you considered that maybe there is no solution, that things are out of control. If you have read “TLE” and “Magic”, we are just following the route of diminishing resources shown by JHK through the years. Neither political extreme have a clue of what to do, hence the impasse in DC. Dems just ignore the problems and spend, spend, spend to maintain their voter base. MAGA believes that austerity will cause the problems to abate, with little proof of that premise.
The answer is a change in the public’s belief systems, becoming more concerned about humanity and less about things.
JAZ, in my opinion, there is no solution - at least not for We the People. I think the PTB/Globalists/Plutocrats/Whatever-you-want-to-call-them have everything too nailed down for us to effect the necessary change.
I don't think that things are out of control - they are out of our control, but firmly in the control of the Plutocrats. Out of control would be an improvement.
But I agree that no useful change can come from us until we evolve beyond our short-sighted materialist mindset.
There is much truth in what you say. Another obstacle is those who "want to believe".
There are a lot of decent, well-intentioned people out there who want to believe that Trump (or any other rich savior of the working class) is on their side. And so they believe. And so they can't be convinced, despite the preponderance of evidence, that they are supporting someone who is stealing their wealth and their freedom.
But did the US have anything to do with the destruction of the Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany a few years ago? I think it did but I don't think the little people will ever be told the full story.
Mr. Mike, I can say with about 100% accuracy that YES !!!! The US ...... meaning Biden and his henchmen (who were probably in our gov't for the last 30 years) were responsible for the Nordstream #1 and #2 blowing up. Clearly an act of war against Germany and Russia. We are lucky that Putin had the patience and clearheadedness to keep Russia's finger off the Big Red Button. Not sure whether the Brits, French and Germans are too stupid to know what they are messing with or they want it to happen. Either way, the citizens of those countries need to vote for somebody else. No way
WW I should have happened but........idiot politicians got 10s of millions killed. Not sure that WW II really should have happened either but that got even more killed. You are correct in that we will never be told the truth because that may be embarrassing to some of our so called "elites" who are really dumber than dog shiff.
Yes, the USA administration fears any mutual relationship between Russia and Europe. In their typical divide and conquer mentality, the pipe line hit was a no-brainer.
Well, when the Middle East attacks the USA using “underhanded” methods, it is terrorism. But when Ukraine uses the same type of warfare, they are made heroes by the West. Bin Laden used hi-jacked aircraft as weapons. The UKes used drones. Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee.
I made a comment on another platform after the drone attack on Russian aircraft. I just said that all the $$$ the military industrial complex makes from this war will be worthless if it and everything else was radioactive!
You'd have thought that I was a Putin puppet or Putin himself for such blasphemy. So many crazy people in these crazy times!
Speaking of radioactivity, did you know that the Chinese have been pirating steel off sunken WWII warships? Those vessels are internationally recognized as cemeteries, but hey, gotta make a buck.
China, on the far side of the world where unrestrained communism and capitalism run into each other.
What's going on in Communist China is not "unrestrained communism and capitalism"--it's not capitalism at all. What is really going on--both in Communist China and in the American "left"--is the ugly marriage of Communist/Socialism and Fascist/Socialism. Hitler figured out that his dream of pure "Nationalist" (Fascist) Socialism could not succeed without some of the short-term benefits of private enterprise, so he embraced Socialist corporatism, where private corporatists would be allowed to exist and even prosper--BUT only so long as they pledged their total allegiance to the Socialist regime. Part of the benefits that those corporatists gained in the deal was elimination of true free market capitalist competition, access to near or de facto slave labor, favorable government regulatory treatment, and lucrative government contracts. What Hitler did not tell the corporatists (but that he later admitted) was that he viewed the corporatists existence only as temporary and that eventually (as in when the Reich won the war) they would find their property expropriated and the corporatists themselves likely "eliminated." This whole toxic Socialist/Fascist/Communist model is now the basic ChiComm model, and--frighteningly--is the basic socio-economic-political model now embraced by the modern American Democrat Party. Had the Democrats won the 2024 election, we would be living under a Socialist/Fascist/Communist de facto dictatorship in the U.S. within likely 4 years. That is still the Democrat plan, and it is behind every single thing that they continue to try to do to wreck the U.S. as a functioning Constitutional Republic operating under a free-marker capitalist system.
Your answer, government, is the worst solution as their divide and conquer techniques just feed the lack of responsibility. People actually believe that the answers to problems belong in the government. That is a laugher.
Actually, it is a good idea to keep grease out of sewers. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese "repurposed" sewer grease - probably selling it to us as high-priced massage oil.
I'm sure you've read about the UK fatbergs? Our cities' arteries are clogging up just like those of their residents.
Poorly put putt there. The State needs to control and direct the insatiable greed of the Capitalists for the good of all. This is the ideal of both Fascism and National Socialism, China being the latter. It works. As the alchemists say, Nature (Capitalism) unaided, fails.
It works? My ass it works, China is just as overextended as America with a much smaller economy to weather the shocks with. The State is just as greedy as the Capitalists, they are competitors. What is better for Joe Average? Investing in the stock market, betting on Corporate America, or paying taxes to a incompetent government?
Here is another one, being investigated right now.
Two CCP supporters bringing in a Fusarium fungus to the USA that could possibly devastate US agriculture. Keep an eye on this one, it will affect China relations and the acceptance of Chinese immigrants.
War is almost always about money. There may be a few exceptions but the reality is a few corporations and elites make astounding wealth as they use our young men as cannon fodder. It's sickening to consider the waste.
The world today is full of surplus populations. However, unlike previous times humanity, it seems, is going to rectify the situation by simply refusing to have enough babies to replace the dying. Demographic winter approaches.
The rising violence against Jews in the US is sad, and was entirely predictable. Prominent antisemites like Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart, the Ben & Jerry's guys, Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow have been promoting extreme jew-hatred for a very long time. Self-hatred has consequences, and I wonder if the Jewish people promoting Jew hatred will find themselves targeted, int time?
I am a Jew who dearly loves my people and our national/ethnic purpose to "be a light onto the world." I am outraged over the disgrace of such a purpose by Gaza genocide.
Respectfully, I do not think you understand what is actually going on here. "Gaza" is being used as an excuse to legitimize, practice, and promote Jew hatred. Jew haters may pretend that their hatred is "all about Israel" but it isn't, and it never was. . .they will continue to attack Jewish people, with rising levels of violence, and saying "but I don't support Israel either" won't deter the attackers.
Yes, Thomas, the masonic Mazzini letter from the mid-1800's said that the plan was for a world war to destroy Russia, then another to run the Jews out of EU to concentrate them in "Palestine," then another WW to pit Jews and Muslims against each other to obliterate both, then Christians V. Atheists to eliminate those, followed by the wonderful revelation of the real savior--Satan! Ugh. Dunno whether that letter was real, though.
But I do know Satan's side in the Gaza war is hatred of EITHER Israel or Gaza as a threat to the other. God's side is to love both, and work to bring awareness of Truth. The Truth will set us free.
That was Mohammad's point. He admitted that the Jews had been favored by God with more great prophets than any other people. He simply asked: What have they done with this favor? Have they become a light unto the world? His answer: Hardly.
You are right here, Lugh. The Jews were created by a God that wanted to spread knowledge of Himself through the world. Yet He gave them instructions not to partake in the world, to isolate themselves and remain “purity”. How are the Jews supposed to “be a light to the world” if they congregate to themselves exclusively?
Their ethnocentrism has created hatred toward themselves throughout the world.
God sent an answer to this conundrum with Jesus. Jesus’ followers converted Europe, becoming “a Light for the world” as the Jewish group retreated into their ghettos refusing to share in the light. It is still going on today.
"Religion poisons everything! - The famous atheist Christoper Hitchens.
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"- Thomas Jefferson
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."- Ben Franklin
"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams
"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine
Hmmm, Lugh? If today’s Jews are European and Whites are European???????
What makes a Jew non-White except your bigotry. Same question about Blacks, they are so integrated into society today that the line between Black and White is nebulous at best. Bigotry hates logic.
Scientifically, no. But Socially, in terms of their attitude, actions, and politics, yes it does. Two truths. Can you handle it? One does not cancel out the other.
During the breakup of the uSSR, the USA promised Russia, Gorby, that NATO would not grow in Eastern Europe. We also promised that we would aid Russia in its re-building efforts to bring in a capitalist intensive economy. Surprise, the USA lies.
You never read the part where Bush 41 overruled his Secretary of State James Baker and refused to sign an agreement with Gorbachev that NATO would not expand to the east. I guess an oral promise by a Secretary of State is not worth a pitcher of warm spit.
Too bad that the Nobel prize committee did not wait until Obama left office in Jan. 2017 to consider him for a Nobel peace prize. They might have reached a different decision. You might recall that the Maidan Revolution of 2014 took place in Kiev with the strong support and encouragement of Obama's expert in the area, namely Victoria Nuland. Nuland did not serve in the first Trump administration but was brought back at the beginning of Biden's term. Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022 can be blamed at least in part because of Victoria Nuland's role in the State Department. As far as I know, she was the highest ranking neo-con (anti-Russia) to serve in either the Obama or Biden administrations.
Good history, Mike. Thanks. Glenn Beck did a chalkboard history a few years ago that is still on You Tube and really does a good job describing the Obama, Biden, Nuland actions in Ukraine up to 2016. If people would just see the real story on Ukraine, they would understand why Putin eventually invaded it.
As Lincoln may Trump be and become and of course not to suffer the same ultimate fate…
Thank you for the excellent post and wrap up on the weekend news!
Meanwhile MAGA under Blob siege after the hostage video with Kash and Bongino. I’ll mention that Bongino was visibly constrained relative to his frustration at his let’s say inability to act, also some crestfallen emotional deflation.
Politics the art of the possible… counter revolutionary anti racketeering war even more so.
And MAHA may be worse… holding pattern to September, funding for MRNA and a possible bait (close down COVID jabs) and switch: ALL vaccines to MRNA platform AND self- replicating by the Vaccinated of the MRNA toxin. With shedding
mandates are made moot.
Power from the people or else NOW. I still trust Patel, Bongino (and RFK) but did they HAVE to tell the public to chill out and be patient? They should ask for support AFTER acknowledging our interests and impatience.
As for Mr. Trump let’s keep him in our prayers and intentions that he be subject to Grace and his heart (and need for adulation if need be) be given to goodness, the next right move and We the People.
Mary, the DOJ has a lot of sins to pay for, Bongino is just a part. Maybe the FBI under new leadership will spend its time searching for criminals rather that playing politics.
Leading with “The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” offers a graphic and very real vision of the horrific reality in England right now, across Europe, and coming here to America very soon. In its present form, Islam is an evil cult that is spreading death and darkness across the world; is has not one redeeming feature and should be eradicated.
Transtifa? I love it when these ideologies are replication defective to steal a term from the bio weapons labs that gave us the ultimate injection. I’m happy to see these people removing themselves from the gene pool voluntarily but lest we get too complacent, Bill Gates is still at large and in spite of RFK’s efforts he’s planning on vaccinating your hamburgers and hotdogs in time for the July 4th weekend. Did I hear that HHS is halting this plan? Hope springs eternal but here in the Happy Valley there are still people who wouldn’t let a GMO cornflake touch their lips but are still genetically modifying themselves.
Hopefully not…I hear ya but hang on. I parsed and sliced and “I’ve seen the paperwork and it’s suicide…” Deep state paperwork, shades of Warren Report.
One can have common sense and perceive everything wrong based on the erroneous input from others something that is very apparent with the Anti-Israel pro-Palestine groups.
Palestine is Hamas you can't support one without supporting the other.
You can say you support the kids and for lack of a better word normal people but until Hamas is removed from power you still support Hamas, their violence, terrorism and propaganda against their own people as much as against Israel.
The Ukrainian war is going to conclude far more quickly than most people believe. The Ukrainian military is collapsing without the ability to replace lost troops. Russia is grinding their foe down with sheer numbers just as they did the Germans in WWII. Some reports have desertion rates in Ukrainian units approaching 50%. NATO neo-cons are aware of this, which is why they are trying to provoke a Putin response that would justify NATO intervention. As if the paper militaries of the EU could actually do anything without the US, and Trump won't cooperate with that deluded fantsy. Putin will show restraint becouse Russian forces will occupy the Ukrainian territory he wants plus a 10-12 mile buffer zone by the end of the Russian summer offence.
My brother and I served in Germany in the 80s when the Wall was up. We operated under very serious rules and one of them was that nuclear capable aircraft had to remain visible and uncovered.
Ukraine - meaning the United States - just violated those rules.
This is very scary stuff as our Blob has gone rogue. We must support the Trump administration at all costs. Hell, support Putin(more importantly, the Russian and Ukrainian People).
Amen. In a nutshell. Putin has been gracious while Lindsay whores around on his border.
You're right Miriamnae, Nancy Graham is possibly the world's biggest fairy. I have always only guessed he has the goods on someone, or a few someone's, if you know what I mean.
Nancy Graham. If a ring bologna came to life and put on a suit...
I'm sure somebody - probably lots of somebodies - have something - container ships full of something on Ol' Nancy. And he doesn't care. He's on the bad boy's list and he likes it there. He happily dances to their tune as long as they feed his addictions.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-widening-gyre/comment/122246991
is there any other way to be in power now? my base assumption is that every one of the so-called elite worldwide are ticket takers. they are forced to take turns soiling themselves on the critical issue of the day.
the fact that graham does it on the regular must mean he has a real wonka golden ticket - imagination fails me...
~ Gyrescope: Statism, Israel, False Flags, Ethnic Cleansing, War & Austerity ~
Don't mind me. I'm just going to tuck this under your 45-Likes-and-counting comment here...
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"The following seems to me to be an appropriate unfolding response to the vicious attacks on United States territory.
It would seem appropriate, first, to demand that the Taliban government of the poor and wretched nation of Afghanistan produce the terrorist Osama Bin Ladin and his assistants and place them in the hands of NATO authorities within a very brisk time frame. Failure to comply ought to result in the complete destruction of Kabul and other Taliban-controlled towns.
Second, the people of Iraq should be warned to depart their capital city, Baghdad, which should then be completely destroyed.
The nation of Israel should begin immediately the deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank to the Kingdom of Jordan. The people of Gaza Strip should be transported to Egypt, and the Gaza incorporated into the state of Israel.
The government of Syria should be notified to begin evacuations of Damascus pending its destruction within a short time frame. Ditto Tripoli, capital of Lybia.
Americans must face the harsh fact that it is now necessary to put Jihad out of business.
The events of Sept 11th will only accelerate the problems Americans face vis-a-vis our inordinate use of oil, and our hyper oil-dependent living arrangements.
Prepare for war and austerity."
~ JHK, https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-clusterfuck-nation-chronicle-240?utm_source=publication-search
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Plus, Read Zesty Antisemitic Hate Mail I’ve Received *
https://www.kunstler.com/p/plus-read-zesty-antisemitic-hate-mail-ive-received?utm_source=publication-search
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"hi Jim, I am Mindy and I am now a sophmore at the u. I read the zesty, nazi hate mail section of your self funded website and you are one insecure little guy. alot of your readers like some but not all of your drivel but that doesnt mean that they go to neo nazi meetings in Idaho. You are a Zionist Jim and you know it. Just as Israel over reacts to Palestinians, Lebanese and lets not forget peace flotilla humanitarians =========== everyone who gives negative feedback to JHK is to be outed as a Jew hater. Not so you slimy little no talent poseur. One does not have to hate jews to dislike you. PS, I like your pouf take on architecture. Very piss elegant."
~ Mindy Grater
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"You know what you sound like? Just another dumb fucking American who thinks its government’s primary interest lays in something other than self preservation – no matter how many people get slaughtered along the way."
~ aaron.horne@shaw.ca
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"Israel, right to defend itself?
I would say no. How can a country that have no right to exist have a right to defend itself?
You know very well what happened in 1948. Or should know. I refer you to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
The Jews massacred and expelled 800 000 Palestinians, the rightful owners of the country. Therefore Israel has no right to exist. It is built on a crime.
Of course, ordinary dumbass Yanks don’t have a clue about this. How could they? Living inside the Jewish owned American media bubble.
Oh, so that’s a conspiracy theory? With no basis in reality?"
~ lennart080@hotmail.com
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In The Wake Of Poseidon
https://youtu.be/J1JjOpXsJ7A?si=l3YbgRfBJp55SoVt
"Whilst in the aisle the mad man smiles
To him it matters least..."
~ NIMBY? ~
Ok, Sox, here's the reply I 'promised'. It may be less of a one-to-one, but what the hell...
We have Ziomerica slowly turning the faraway Middle East-- Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen... and whoever/whatever doesn't want to buy what Ziomerica is selling or give what they're wanting-- into a 'geography of nowhere' (it is said it was something like a 5-year plan) while the author of a book of the same title of course advocates that very thing-- you know, leveling of entire cities for one or a few bad-guys-- while asking me something about his own backyard that he's griped about as its own geography of nowhere.
'Can't make this stuff up.'
Let's say we are anthropologists of the future, ten-thousand years from now, managing to decode and read the contents of a storage unit from an apparent server-farm with these contents here. What do we want to say? What do we want to tell them? Like about what happened or what might? Or whatever else?
We have the living counterparts-- the decendents-- of any, maybe every, empire-civilization that has come and gone right here and now of course, some rationalizing away their empire's remote actions, presumably like they always have at every time and place.
Some of them on this storage unit's contents have these little four-leaf-clover sub-icons hanging under their main icons, suggesting, like a sixteen-year old comparing motorbikes, how 'Israel'-- whatever its religiopoliticeconomic raison d'etre excused for its existence-- has the bestest, biggest bombs to 'defend' itself against its surrounding neighbors. Rather neighborly of them, don't you think?
So what do I say to my counterpart reading this? How about...
'The backyards/geographies of others they destroyed were and/or became their own.' (... suburbal sprawls/clusterfucks, gutted flyover-country towns, lost communities, eyesores...)
Ya, life is tragic, Jim, as you've said.
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I, too, was in Germany in the 80s (not mil, GS-12 civ). Six weeks there on a different base or U.S. installation 6 days/wk. I was astounded at the level of American presence. I noticed a common attitude of 'what are we doing here?'. Not sure what you and bro thought but I'm curious to know if either of you got that same vibe from others.
There was some of that complacency, but I was in an Army line unit(first to respond) and we had alerts and field exercises all the time we took very seriously. My brother flew nuclear armed BUFFs when we had a 24/7 worldwide coverage which was very serious stuff; they had to sit on the airfields for a weekly rotation...
The German folks were not that concerned about a Russian invasion back then.
Why Everything You Know About World War II Is Wrong
https://www.unz.com/runz/why-everything-you-know-about-world-war-ii-is-wrong/
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I am not 100% sure this is the article I read some time back, but it most likely is (although it could also be this one: https://www.unz.com/runz/the-true-history-of-world-war-ii/)... or both... FWIW...
In any case, there's some echoed sentiment, as per this quote from the article:
"Numerous other leading scholars and journalists, both contemporaneous and more recent, have come to very similar conclusions, but they too often suffered severe retaliation for their honest historical assessments. For decades William Henry Chamberlin had been one of America’s most highly-regarded foreign policy journalists, but after he published America’s Second Crusade in 1950, he vanished from most mainstream publications. David Irving quite possibly ranks as the most internationally successful British historian of the last 100 years, with his seminal books on World War II receiving enormous critical praise and selling in the millions; but he was driven into personal bankruptcy and narrowly avoided spending the rest of his life in an Austrian prison."
The Russians are the good guys this time. They attack from the East, we attack from the West. We meet in Berlin with great joy and feasting. If Eastern Europe doesn't want to become the vassal states of Emperor Putin, let them rectify themselves now.
Russian Derangement Syndrome, RDS, has been infecting minds long before Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS. The Europeans and Asians have a multi-millennia history of fighting amongst themselves. We are fools to believe and act like we can resolve their disputes. George Washington recognized the problem over two hundred years ago and advised future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements and treat all nations with benevolence. We should be so wise.
The US is not entangled in the Ukraine to help the Europeans resolve their disputes. If it had wanted to help the Europeans, it wouldn't have blown up the Nordstream pipeline to cripple the German (and wider European) economy (it did less harm to Russia, which was always just going to sell its energy elsewhere). The US is entangled in a proxy war in Ukraine because it wants to break up the Russian Federation and appropriate its natural resources, just as it did in Iraq.
The UK, meantime, has been having a centuries-long hissy fit because, as a naval superpower, it couldn't just take over Russia, as it did so many other countries, with gunboats. And trying to do so by land, as Napoleon and Hitler found, doesn't tend to end well.
The US is entangled in a proxy war in Ukraine because it wants to break up the Russian Federation and appropriate its natural resources"...... yep, Sheila you nailed it:
What sounded like a great idea to Neo-cons in the United States has revealed the US's manifold bankruptcies and revolted the rest of the World.
Imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with their genius scheme to knock off Putin, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld
He would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings.
The poor schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “Colour Uprising.”
His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s corrupt leadership.
After 3+ years of America’s genius scheme to maintain world dominance it has all gone to custard. 600,000+ men have been killed. America is broke. US$36-trillion in debt. The West is depleted of ammunition.
And US and European taxpayers are baulking at seeing any more of their tax dollars going to the corrupt Ukrainians.
And Zelensky is hiding, flitting from one country to another begging for money. Because the game is drawing to a close and he may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home front. He has managed to send hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder. And millions more have hightailed it for other countries.
Ukraine will now be a land of mostly women, children, and old folks. With just enough surviving soldiers left looking to hunt down the comedian who turned Ukraine into another one of history’s sick jokes.
All because of the United States meddling in other countries’ affairs. It’s past time to end all foreign entanglements and end all foreign aid. We are fools to borrow money and then give it away to foreigners. Don’t vote for people who are fools.
How about ramping up US arms industry, putting people to work sending weapons to the citizenry in EU?
That was a bit understated. Can I reframe it as putting power into the hands of the people?
😎 🙏 I I am assuming you Did not miss I was suggesting arming the citizenry.
Did not miss I was suggesting arming the citizenry.
Van derleyen in vanderlland Huffing her own farts as fearful do
Even if all the gaslighting energy went to industry what weapons?
Not the Swiss!
The CIA/ MI6/ Mossad is NOT the US government. Or the US people.
I suspect that if you asked most people in the US, they would want the war to end and for the US to stop our involvement in it.
America is a hijacked bus, commandeered by Freddy Kruger.
"We must support the Trump administration at all costs. Hell, support Putin(more importantly, the Russian and Ukrainian People)."
The chance of avoiding an unthinkable outcome -- well, I wish it were unthinkable -- of this pile-on madness increasingly requires the humane (or strategic) restraint of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. We depend on the kindness of strangers.
I hate to say it, but our own Blob - in coordination with the rest of the 'Five Eyes' - is sewing misinformation everywhere and it is hard to figure it out with even dependable sources.
For example, I heard on a podcast a 'news report' claim that Putin is murdering Unkrainian civilians while Ukraine is only hitting military installations. How would we actually know? Putin has done some bad $hit over the years, but common sense tells us he already has what he wants and there is no reason to simply murder his own Russian Ukrainians...
"...our own Blob..." ~ Danimal28
Sounds affectionate, like a pet or something. How often do you feed it?
Every day with your tax money
Agreed and I think Trump and his team are on your described path. Putin is only protecting his sphere like any rational leader(not saying he is a great man).
Putin poses no direct threat to the United States or the EU other than perceived mineral rights, etc. which can always be negotiated. This whole thing is exceptionally dangerous and the wrong people are behind Zelensky.
The Really Wrong people always hide themselves and may well be setting up Israel for destruction. Everything and everyone we get to see are potential heroes/victims in the one and only playbook of history scapegoat method.
Israel is a military outpost. And I understand, furthermore, why Israel (and the American religious right) want every Palestinian dead. But it seems to me that your "Really Wrong people" want every Palestinian dead as well. If so, what is their long term plan, and what do "they" do after Palestine and Palestinians are gone?
The Palestinians keep putting in leadership that does all the wrong things at the wrong times to the wrong governments and people.
Black September and the Lebanese civil war have made the Palestinians pariahs in the region.
The need to remove Hamas from leadership and find a Ghandi type to replace them.
They are now being used not only as human shields and cannon fodder but as a propaganda tool of the extreme Marxist left and IslamoFascists.
No good can come from this.
The IDF and some American military goons just lured Palestinians with food and then slaughtered them.
the people running the palestinians keep maneuvering them to take superficially short term beneficial destructive actions (or appearances of) that are always long term only in the interest of one entity. nov 7? great victory, justifies jennycyde
~ Bombing Others' Geographies To Nothing Or Making Something Out of Our Own Local Geographies ~
What Jim doesn't seem to grok, or maybe he does, is...
1. ...that the American polity's specific interests overseas, like in Israel in particular, means that the polity is less interested in or focused on its own home-geography, which in effect makes it more of a geography of nowhere...
2. ...that he writes about the large-scale centrailized State, yet ostensibly does it from his local, small-scale home-town of Greenwich, NY.
We hear little of it, though, except where it is used as leverage for personal commodification and/or virtue-signaling, such as through his paintings, bi-weekly Substacks or eyesores-of-the-month.
IOW, Jim seems to want to eat his cake and have it too, wants it both ways, while talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Does he want USA out of Ukraine? Then he wants it out of Israel, etc., too.
Does he want relocalization, good towns, good architecture and real community? Then he wants to truly focus on that, on the home-front, under his nose, not thousands of miles away.
As for our ex-military commenter, Ben, ditto, insofar as if he wants Israel and the Middle East to go his way:
Then he should wrap up his local USA citizenship/location and 'geographies of elsewhere' USAid-esque funding and 'flock-off like the birds' and go see if he can, by himself, live/fight/bomb/fund their geographies to nowhere (i.e., Gaza) and leave the rest of we locals-- tax-hostage funders of *their* wars, not ours-- alone.
That way, too, there is less of an incentive for angry Middle Easterners/Jihadists to go the other way and threaten America's security/geography. Or Europe's.
Hey, Ben, lose the chick appeal, be a cock-of-the-walk with your flock, take your 'chickenhawk necks' and walk the talk in your geographies of elsewhere.
That way, the rest of us can focus on ours, take back that bottomless funding and use it, and more, to make a go for the betterment of our own geographies here at home. Make them something and somewhere.
Maybe there's a bit more truth to Jim's published 'hate-mail' than meets the eye.
That was a really incoherent screed. Are you saying I should confine my remarks to what's happening in my own back yard?
~ 'Horrified Bystander'?: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Israel ~
"Were a conventional catastrophic escalation to occur, the Israeli military is capable of defeating the armies of its immediate neighbors: Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan (though I do not believe their governments want to engage Israel in a big hot war). Who knows what Iraq might do. Or Iran. Who knows what kind of biological or nuclear devices militant Islam is capable of setting off in Israel in the days ahead. It may not be necessary for the other Muslim governments to engage their official militaries against Israel. The masses themselves might just conveniently bypass their governments, travel to Israel by any means necessary, jihad-style, by Toyota or on foot or by camel, armed with the stock-in-trade of asymmetrical warfare, small arms, kalashnikov automatic rifles, shoulder-launched rockets and grenades, and join the Palestinians in what would turn out to be a horrendous urban insurrection.
I am not convinced that the US can accomplish anything besides acting as a horrified bystander.
Even in a conventional war scenario -- governments against governments using soldiers and advanced weaponry -- it is hard to imagine any role that the US might play. We are a powerful nation, but we're not omnipotent."
~ JHK, https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-clusterfuck-nation-chronicle-223?utm_source=publication-search
Your last paragraph? I am not even sure that all those weapons are even relevant anymore.
The reason why you will never see a Muslim device in Israel is MAD, the same MAD as the US - Russia Cold War succumbed to. Both sides will be ashtrays if either tries to nuke the other.
Big bad Israel, who have never invaded a neighbor without prior provocation, who time and again has tried to create peace through returning war bought territory. The same cannot be said about their neighbors who, one by one, have been beaten by the Israelites.
U.S. exit Nihilist Authoritarian Trans Overseers!
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-widening-gyre/comment/122246991
Putin made an agreement brokered by Israeli not to assinate Zelensky in 2022, with the implied meaning the Ukrainians would not try to assinate him. But since the Ukrainians recently tried maybe all bets on Zelensky's surviving the war are now off the table.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
And speaking of president Lincoln it was the Russians blockading the US vs. British shipping that helped save the union.
And the Elite of the world have never forgiven Mother Russia.
And why? Returning a favor. During the War of 1812, the British had erected a naval blockade of Russia, in order to seize Russia's precious cargoes: hemp, the Oil of the seafaring age.
Cotton ropes and sails rot quickly in seawater; hemp rope and sail is impervious to saltwater. Without hemp, the deep bluewater navies could not have sailed, and global trade would have ground to a standstill.
The Islamic Age had ended as Columbus' use of a Zheng Ho map to find the New World and Vasco de Gama's charting a course around the Horn of Africa had opened up routes and products beyond the Silk Roads; as the Silk Road revenues had slipped, and slipped, Islam's great Universities could no longer be funded, and even slavery was not profitable enough to sustain the caravan civilization.
Meanwhile, Europe was duking it out in the science wars of the naval Spice Wars (aka the Pirate Age), advancing faster and faster in both new riches and technologies such as longitude tables, the telescope, the sextant, and the rudder.
Forwarding to 1812, Russia produced up to 90% of industrial hemp. America itself had grown rich on tobacco, hemp and marijuana, and charred potash (burnt oak) used for fertilizer. The British blockade had been seizing Russian cargoes of precious, necessary hemp.
American Yankees invented the clipper ship, the speedboat of its time, in order to slip past that quarantine and the British Navy. Grateful for American help, Russia returned the favor in the Civil War, as the British hoped to gain Southern cotton without the Northern Morill tariffs- and, possibly, get some of their colonial land back one day.
Amen.
Set his legacy aside? This would be his legacy if he were to end "Biden's war" - which is now his. But instead he dithers, constantly reversing himself. As Colonel MacGregor said just before the drone strike on Russia: He is saying the exact opposite of what he said 90 days ago. He has no power to stop this war even if he wanted to, as he publicly states.
This is how I see it now as well. We don't really know who Trump is. He may have no real viewpoint about this or much of anything else. What he does have is a knowledge of how the world works and his role in it - and of course a great ability to play that role.
Indeed. Trump has a few cards in his presidential hand, yet he constantly forfeits his move.
TACO replaces MAGA as his new brand name nickname - Trump Always Chickens Out.
Here we go, same old, same old from the Trump haters.
Just one question, where would we be right now if Harris won?
The silence is deafening.
Harris wasn't a legitimate candidate, neither was Biden. Get that through your thick skull already, John. And guess what - we're still exactly where we were always gonna be - even with Trump.
The escalation of War, not end.
The ongoing Big Beautiful hallowing of the American Middle Class and Global Reset.
No serious homeland reform (e.g., no meaningful prosecution - and more importantly - no imprisonment or execution of treasonous top-tier Elite criminals.
John masturbates with his Right instead of his Left - merely to fantasize about getting fucked by someone more desirable - he only ever ends up with yet another ordinary slimy nut in his hand just the same.
And to think, this is one of your classier moments. Pardon us for having a little optimistic moment with Trump, as just about everything else points at the collapse of the USA we were raised in. By the way, in my more cynical moments, I agree with everything you wrote, it is what is going to happen if Trump makes no difference.
Do you get off with your childish name calling?
Projection at best.
You really are a crude piece of work and a very poor troll.
Do try harder and get better at it.
Ask a Harris supporter about Harris and they'll start raving about Trump. Ask a Trump supporter about Trump and they'll start raving about Harris. Cultists are all the same. And the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Harris is irrelevant there is nothing to rave about.
Says the guy that raves about Israel and jews.
What cult are you part of again?
I like tacos even chicken ones.
This is a stupid meme.
The left is terrible at it.
During his previous term, if recalled, Trump took credit for the assassination of Iran's general, Soleimani. Trump also has a Jewish son-in-law, apparently with Zionist connections and there appear to be circulating images of Trump wearing a kippah.
Personally, I like a warm kibbeh on the go with a 50-50 mixed dip of garlic sauce and hummous.
“World War III flutters over the continent like an answered prayer coming in for a landing.”
The average person does not want war. A nice life filled with supportive people... a couple kids to leave your property to... meaningful work... a roof over our heads... food in the belly... and a little fun on the weekend is all most ask for. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong that is – except for the Ruling Class that seems to have a perpetual death wish for the Planet. Not for themselves of course because they are basically sore-afraid cowards who hide behind heavy office doors and thuggish security people so their mostly wasted lives are kept safe and secure. No, it is death for a great deal of humanity that they seek.
And why? Because they hate what they are – human beings. They are a human-species-hating deformity in the human family. They do not even see themselves as human but more like faux gods that rule over the collection of The Worthless as just so much garbage.
They hate everything human so much that they are committed to either cleansing the Planet of humanity – or fully merging us with machinery so that we become better and more compliant slaves for Them. How nice for them.
They seem to have no souls. And so, They do not want the rest of us to have any, either.
We did not sign up to live out our lives among such Madman and Madwomen but here we are. We stubbornly refuse to accept the hellscape that They have planned for us and we go about our lives anyway... finding as many supportive people as we cam... having kids if we so choose... engaging in meaningful work (or deciding to waste our lives with eyes forever glued to the screen of the Little Magic Box of Dancing Pixels)... finding food for our belly... and as much fun as we can squeeze out of life in between the madness and hellscape that we find ourselves in.
No one promised us a Rose Garden. But it could be said that neither did they promise us lives filled with nothing but Thorns and Pests constantly eating away at us.
Where there’s Life there’s Hope, so they say. Let’s hope so... because living without Hope doesn’t seem to bring happiness... or food for our bellies.
The War Mongers are the Thorns and Pests of this World. Ignore Them as much as possible.
You are the Rose.
Excellent post RS. You said, "They do not even see themselves as human but more like faux gods that rule over the collection of The Worthless as just so much garbage."
Why do they see themselves this way? Because of we the people. The people have a bad habit and that bad habit is to put people of great wealth and prominence on a pedestal and then worship them, assuming that because they made a great deal of wealth, that they know everything there is to know about....well........everything.
Take Bill Gates for example. The man made his wealth creating computer software operating systems. He's a computer geek. That's all. Yet, he is involved in and treated as an expert in human vaccinations, human food production, population control. Why? What official training has he earned in these areas to qualify as an expert in these matters? No, he's wealthy, extremely wealthy and as such he is treated and viewed as a god by we the little people. He knows all. He sees all.
We do it with all wealthy people. We do this with all celebrities. We do this with all prominent people. As people continue to reject religion and the concept of God they must replace that desire to worship with something else. Some worship the Earth. Some worship cars. Some worship money. Most people, it seems worship the elite.
When in reality these prominent wealthy elites eat, drink, sleep and shit the same way everyone else does. They may shit in a golden toilet and they may eat their food with golden forks but they are no different.
If 5% of the people own 95% of the country, then “national security“ takes on a whole new meaning. Is the government/military protecting us debtors and consumers, or are they protecting the assets of the top 5% that own the assets? We, and our children, only receive protection because we live on or near the assets that the military protects.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
They resent and hate us because we are breathing THEIR air.
Polluted air at that...
Armed Rosies this time.
Yes, screw the rivets! Give the girls something fully automatic.
Ron,
The only thing I remember from my youth that was fully
automatic was...morning wood.
And yeah, I tried....
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
-George Orwell, 1984
"It’s so bad, and Democratic leadership is so demented, that they are liable to turn Donald Trump into another Abe Lincoln."
They've tried to do this twice already, so the crazy train has long since left the station. I do agree that at this point the engine is picking up steam going full throttle. That the party of death, the same one that declares that democracy is under attack -- so they seek to destroy it in order to "save" it, seeks to add assassination as another jewel in their ruinous crown is of little surprise. In a sane world these unhinged lunatics would be rounded up en masse and given the psychiatric treatment they so desperately need.
Thomas - the psychiatric treatment you mention is called ammotherapy.
LOL!
Make mental hospitals great again. Fill them with the hysterical homicidal left wing lunatics. Deprive them of their hallucinogenic media until they regain their senses. Teach them the skills to live in a civilized society and only then let them venture forth again.
This topic is definitely a problem, but not just with the politically motivated insanity. There is a significant percentage of the population that's addicted to drugs, mostly prescribed, that can't function as a "civilized" citizen. Many also are stricken with physical disease that creates more mental stress. Restoring mental hospitals, funny farms and poor farms is desperately needed, and very expensive to implement.
We are already spending billions on these sub-humans. And 90% of it goes into the pockets of the grifting class of bureaucrats who have learned from the politicians how to rob the middle class tax payers. Figure out how to get it away from them and develop poor farms and mental institutions.
Subhumans? I do have reading skills, and you were not applying that term to bureaucrats or I wouldn't be writing this.
"Sub - humans," whom you even concede are sick people. But they're sub - human? Why?
The tent residents existing in garbage on our streets. The drug addicts bent double shuffling along our sidewalks. Perhaps at one point they were human. And perhaps they could one day achieve humanity again. Right now they are most definitely sub-human.
How do you imagine God sees you as you are apart from His Son, The Lord Jesus Christ?
Evaluating people can come with its share of surprises. The Lord God Incarnate was born in a stable.
Trump survived faux assassination - just barely - but if "they" surely intended him dead - just poison his McDonald's - done deal.
Instead, round his voters up - give them the AMMOTHERAPY & drone treatment they so desperately deserve. Putin sees this fact, too. Oreshnik soon to come. Ameriguns soon to pony up or shut dafuq up.
Stupidest comment of the day.
Keyboard warrior syndrome on display.
Whoa Ben, so well said. The advance of the keyboard warrior syndrome is destroying the blog, IMHO.
Matthew 7:1-5 (KJV): "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Not sure how supposedly sane people in Western Europe could go so bat shiff crazy. People being put in jail because they comment on social media that jihadists in their neighborhoods are not a good thing ? Maybe we can start having pedos start teaching all of our Kindergarten students?
All of these illegals somehow get seats in boats coming to the UK and W. Europe? My guess is that these wonderful NGOs are getting 100% of their funding from the taxpayers of the EU. I could be wrong but that is exactly what was found out when DOGE started digging into USAID. The radical left has no plans of any kind to make things better for taxpayers but the people still vote for them? Same thing here in the US where the marxists Dems have been controlling most big cities not just for a couple of election cycles but for multiple generations and the Blacks are too ignorant to see that nothing has gotten better?
Trump needs to call Putin and tell him (hopefully it would be true) that we had nothing to do with the destruction of his planes and if he retaliates, he should do so against the proper parties. These idiots in NATO are playing with fire and it is either intentional so as to cause even more destruction and more ways to skim money or.....being so nuts that they really seem to think they are in the right? Either way it is treason.
Pathetic and ignorant/stooopid to say the least. And these are the best that the UK , France and Germany can find to run their country?
At least with Biden we could say that his party stole the election so......it is doubtful he actually/legally got elected.
"The radical left has no plans of any kind to make things better for taxpayers but the people still vote for them?"
Yup. Why? Because, "Ugghhh! Ugghhh!! Ugghhh!!! TRUMP!!!!"
The media has so successfully polarized us that anything is better than the treasonous criminal on the other side. And any solution is acceptable in order to end their reign of terror.
"reign of terror" interesting choice of words. History rhymes, it is a cycle.
I chose that phrase because I think it accurately reflects the perspective of most US voters these days.
Trumpsters: "Biden is a treasonous pedophile grifter and needs to be put down with extreme prejudice!"
Bidenistas: ""Trump is a Russia-loving dog-faced dictator and needs to be put down with extreme prejudice!"
Yes, _____ Derangement Syndrome (fill in hated pres name in blank spot) has been rampant and ramped up 1000% since 2000.
I remember being a victim of Bush Derangement Syndrome until I broke free from that quite silly mindset.
Yes, correct, Blackbird. In the meantime most people don't even bother to pay attention to the Congress. This is by design. The Congress, or, shall I say, the lack of a US Congress is the source of all of our problems. More people need to understand this.
Why? Is it because the USA is split between people that treasure the US Constitution and those that hate it?
I read the evaluation of the vote on the BBB in the Senate and I again realize the problem, a bunch of ego driven assholes, each with their own agenda to get votes at home, being devil’s advocates to any suggestions to solve problems.
The FF wanted a Congress that worked out problems as a think tank for the country. What we have today, thanks to party politics, is a clown show.
I agree with you, JohnAZ but I don't understand your question. My comment stems from the fact that the FF wanted the Congress to be the sovereign because it, the House especially, was more close to the people from whom the money came. Americans need to regain their Congress and Congress needs to re-establish itself as the sovereign. Checks and balances are important but the FF provided the Congress with the means to override Presidential vetoes if necessary.
Blackbird, have you considered that maybe there is no solution, that things are out of control. If you have read “TLE” and “Magic”, we are just following the route of diminishing resources shown by JHK through the years. Neither political extreme have a clue of what to do, hence the impasse in DC. Dems just ignore the problems and spend, spend, spend to maintain their voter base. MAGA believes that austerity will cause the problems to abate, with little proof of that premise.
The answer is a change in the public’s belief systems, becoming more concerned about humanity and less about things.
JAZ, in my opinion, there is no solution - at least not for We the People. I think the PTB/Globalists/Plutocrats/Whatever-you-want-to-call-them have everything too nailed down for us to effect the necessary change.
I don't think that things are out of control - they are out of our control, but firmly in the control of the Plutocrats. Out of control would be an improvement.
But I agree that no useful change can come from us until we evolve beyond our short-sighted materialist mindset.
People like John IDENTIFY with the super rich. Thus they can never be brought to justice since a huge proportion of the public wants to be them.
There is much truth in what you say. Another obstacle is those who "want to believe".
There are a lot of decent, well-intentioned people out there who want to believe that Trump (or any other rich savior of the working class) is on their side. And so they believe. And so they can't be convinced, despite the preponderance of evidence, that they are supporting someone who is stealing their wealth and their freedom.
Supposedly sane? Europe has been the most dangerous place on Earth for the past 500 years.
They DID manage two world wars in less than 50 years... they're overdue, I guess.
"Maybe we can start having pedos start teaching all of our Kindergarten students?"
Too late
Just watched this: Gutfeld's joke on Friday led me to Fearless With Jason Whitlock and ultimately to...
https://rumble.com/v40sayj-the-trayvon-hoax-2019-full-documentary-.html
Hard to keep up with the ingredients of history at this pace.
But did the US have anything to do with the destruction of the Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany a few years ago? I think it did but I don't think the little people will ever be told the full story.
Mr. Mike, I can say with about 100% accuracy that YES !!!! The US ...... meaning Biden and his henchmen (who were probably in our gov't for the last 30 years) were responsible for the Nordstream #1 and #2 blowing up. Clearly an act of war against Germany and Russia. We are lucky that Putin had the patience and clearheadedness to keep Russia's finger off the Big Red Button. Not sure whether the Brits, French and Germans are too stupid to know what they are messing with or they want it to happen. Either way, the citizens of those countries need to vote for somebody else. No way
WW I should have happened but........idiot politicians got 10s of millions killed. Not sure that WW II really should have happened either but that got even more killed. You are correct in that we will never be told the truth because that may be embarrassing to some of our so called "elites" who are really dumber than dog shiff.
Yes, the USA administration fears any mutual relationship between Russia and Europe. In their typical divide and conquer mentality, the pipe line hit was a no-brainer.
Well, when the Middle East attacks the USA using “underhanded” methods, it is terrorism. But when Ukraine uses the same type of warfare, they are made heroes by the West. Bin Laden used hi-jacked aircraft as weapons. The UKes used drones. Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee.
I made a comment on another platform after the drone attack on Russian aircraft. I just said that all the $$$ the military industrial complex makes from this war will be worthless if it and everything else was radioactive!
You'd have thought that I was a Putin puppet or Putin himself for such blasphemy. So many crazy people in these crazy times!
Speaking of radioactivity, did you know that the Chinese have been pirating steel off sunken WWII warships? Those vessels are internationally recognized as cemeteries, but hey, gotta make a buck.
China, on the far side of the world where unrestrained communism and capitalism run into each other.
What's going on in Communist China is not "unrestrained communism and capitalism"--it's not capitalism at all. What is really going on--both in Communist China and in the American "left"--is the ugly marriage of Communist/Socialism and Fascist/Socialism. Hitler figured out that his dream of pure "Nationalist" (Fascist) Socialism could not succeed without some of the short-term benefits of private enterprise, so he embraced Socialist corporatism, where private corporatists would be allowed to exist and even prosper--BUT only so long as they pledged their total allegiance to the Socialist regime. Part of the benefits that those corporatists gained in the deal was elimination of true free market capitalist competition, access to near or de facto slave labor, favorable government regulatory treatment, and lucrative government contracts. What Hitler did not tell the corporatists (but that he later admitted) was that he viewed the corporatists existence only as temporary and that eventually (as in when the Reich won the war) they would find their property expropriated and the corporatists themselves likely "eliminated." This whole toxic Socialist/Fascist/Communist model is now the basic ChiComm model, and--frighteningly--is the basic socio-economic-political model now embraced by the modern American Democrat Party. Had the Democrats won the 2024 election, we would be living under a Socialist/Fascist/Communist de facto dictatorship in the U.S. within likely 4 years. That is still the Democrat plan, and it is behind every single thing that they continue to try to do to wreck the U.S. as a functioning Constitutional Republic operating under a free-marker capitalist system.
The American Ideal here: Individual freedom is all. Never a moments thought about what you do with it. That would be tyranny!
You would look in vain in the writings of the Founders for any such nonsense as this.
With freedom goes responsibility. That is what is missing today. We have constructed a society of “Me” thinkers who despise social responsibility.
Your answer, government, is the worst solution as their divide and conquer techniques just feed the lack of responsibility. People actually believe that the answers to problems belong in the government. That is a laugher.
Who else will bring the Elite to justice? Enforce the accountability you glibly talk about?
China has grease traps in their sewers.
So one would think?
Gutter oil!
So they can collect the digested cooking oil from said grease traps in their sewers filter it super heat it and resell it.
Literally anything to make a buck.
Actually, it is a good idea to keep grease out of sewers. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese "repurposed" sewer grease - probably selling it to us as high-priced massage oil.
I'm sure you've read about the UK fatbergs? Our cities' arteries are clogging up just like those of their residents.
But they are actually selling it as cooking oil after some basic clean up.
No WONDER I see so many won ton people riding the handicap carts at Wally world these days...the recycled Chinese sewer grease explains it all-
Poorly put putt there. The State needs to control and direct the insatiable greed of the Capitalists for the good of all. This is the ideal of both Fascism and National Socialism, China being the latter. It works. As the alchemists say, Nature (Capitalism) unaided, fails.
It works? My ass it works, China is just as overextended as America with a much smaller economy to weather the shocks with. The State is just as greedy as the Capitalists, they are competitors. What is better for Joe Average? Investing in the stock market, betting on Corporate America, or paying taxes to a incompetent government?
Here is another one, being investigated right now.
Two CCP supporters bringing in a Fusarium fungus to the USA that could possibly devastate US agriculture. Keep an eye on this one, it will affect China relations and the acceptance of Chinese immigrants.
A line has been crossed. Per reports, some of the airplanes were nuclear capable.
40 airplanes damaged or destroyed? Out of how many?
Strange that Lindsey Graham was in Ukraine and war escalated. Lindsey Graham loves war.
He loves money and war provides him the lucre through kick backs and money laundering schemes.
War is almost always about money. There may be a few exceptions but the reality is a few corporations and elites make astounding wealth as they use our young men as cannon fodder. It's sickening to consider the waste.
Yes, you are right. WW2 dragged us up by the bootstraps from the Great Depression, killing a human surplus and making a powerful industrial base.
Look at history, good times follow human death traps. One good example is that Europe bloomed, the Renaissance, after the disaster of the Black Death.
The world today is full of surplus populations. However, unlike previous times humanity, it seems, is going to rectify the situation by simply refusing to have enough babies to replace the dying. Demographic winter approaches.
He loves getting rich
The rising violence against Jews in the US is sad, and was entirely predictable. Prominent antisemites like Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart, the Ben & Jerry's guys, Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow have been promoting extreme jew-hatred for a very long time. Self-hatred has consequences, and I wonder if the Jewish people promoting Jew hatred will find themselves targeted, int time?
I am a Jew who dearly loves my people and our national/ethnic purpose to "be a light onto the world." I am outraged over the disgrace of such a purpose by Gaza genocide.
Respectfully, I do not think you understand what is actually going on here. "Gaza" is being used as an excuse to legitimize, practice, and promote Jew hatred. Jew haters may pretend that their hatred is "all about Israel" but it isn't, and it never was. . .they will continue to attack Jewish people, with rising levels of violence, and saying "but I don't support Israel either" won't deter the attackers.
Your government is not your nation or people. My nation right or wrong is wrong.
The corrected version:
My nation right or wrong
If right, to be kept right
If wrong, to be put right.
Yes, Thomas, the masonic Mazzini letter from the mid-1800's said that the plan was for a world war to destroy Russia, then another to run the Jews out of EU to concentrate them in "Palestine," then another WW to pit Jews and Muslims against each other to obliterate both, then Christians V. Atheists to eliminate those, followed by the wonderful revelation of the real savior--Satan! Ugh. Dunno whether that letter was real, though.
But I do know Satan's side in the Gaza war is hatred of EITHER Israel or Gaza as a threat to the other. God's side is to love both, and work to bring awareness of Truth. The Truth will set us free.
It Is. Not. Genocide. Sorry.
You're totally krekt, Casey Bones. It's merely birth control - huh, huh!
You see the first step is define what genocide is, not keep saying yes or no about something you can't even define.
That genocide is going so well there will be 6 million of them in a couple more years.
It's called war with a nice side order of ethnic cleansing.
That was Mohammad's point. He admitted that the Jews had been favored by God with more great prophets than any other people. He simply asked: What have they done with this favor? Have they become a light unto the world? His answer: Hardly.
You are right here, Lugh. The Jews were created by a God that wanted to spread knowledge of Himself through the world. Yet He gave them instructions not to partake in the world, to isolate themselves and remain “purity”. How are the Jews supposed to “be a light to the world” if they congregate to themselves exclusively?
Their ethnocentrism has created hatred toward themselves throughout the world.
God sent an answer to this conundrum with Jesus. Jesus’ followers converted Europe, becoming “a Light for the world” as the Jewish group retreated into their ghettos refusing to share in the light. It is still going on today.
"Religion poisons everything! - The famous atheist Christoper Hitchens.
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"- Thomas Jefferson
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."- Ben Franklin
"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams
"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine
True words never spoken.
You mean the mass murderer and pedophile?
Shit that guy was hardly a light to the world.
Esther, how can you have bought into such lies?You really do seem to epitomize the stereotype of the self hating Jew.
Go to First Things and read Gerald McDermott's article, "Genocide in Gaza?"
How does one tell a Jew from a non-Jew?
They don't all wear funny little hats or have weird hair curls and funny looking beards.
The blowback from this is going to be astounding.
So Jews don't exist either - just like Whites? Jared Diamond said the opposite: That Jews existed but Whites did not.
Hmmm, Lugh? If today’s Jews are European and Whites are European???????
What makes a Jew non-White except your bigotry. Same question about Blacks, they are so integrated into society today that the line between Black and White is nebulous at best. Bigotry hates logic.
That they don't acknowledge any kinship with us? Mike Wallace Sr: I'm not White. I'm Jewish.
Ethnocentrism on their part does not make them non-white.
Scientifically, no. But Socially, in terms of their attitude, actions, and politics, yes it does. Two truths. Can you handle it? One does not cancel out the other.
Ditto Muslim blondes and red beards.
White = Christian?
You said that.
Read the comment again and again till you understand it.
The Europeans are certifiably insane. Get out of NATO now. We should have ended it in 1992.
During the breakup of the uSSR, the USA promised Russia, Gorby, that NATO would not grow in Eastern Europe. We also promised that we would aid Russia in its re-building efforts to bring in a capitalist intensive economy. Surprise, the USA lies.
You never read the part where Bush 41 overruled his Secretary of State James Baker and refused to sign an agreement with Gorbachev that NATO would not expand to the east. I guess an oral promise by a Secretary of State is not worth a pitcher of warm spit.
Too bad that the Nobel prize committee did not wait until Obama left office in Jan. 2017 to consider him for a Nobel peace prize. They might have reached a different decision. You might recall that the Maidan Revolution of 2014 took place in Kiev with the strong support and encouragement of Obama's expert in the area, namely Victoria Nuland. Nuland did not serve in the first Trump administration but was brought back at the beginning of Biden's term. Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022 can be blamed at least in part because of Victoria Nuland's role in the State Department. As far as I know, she was the highest ranking neo-con (anti-Russia) to serve in either the Obama or Biden administrations.
Good history, Mike. Thanks. Glenn Beck did a chalkboard history a few years ago that is still on You Tube and really does a good job describing the Obama, Biden, Nuland actions in Ukraine up to 2016. If people would just see the real story on Ukraine, they would understand why Putin eventually invaded it.
1952
As Lincoln may Trump be and become and of course not to suffer the same ultimate fate…
Thank you for the excellent post and wrap up on the weekend news!
Meanwhile MAGA under Blob siege after the hostage video with Kash and Bongino. I’ll mention that Bongino was visibly constrained relative to his frustration at his let’s say inability to act, also some crestfallen emotional deflation.
Politics the art of the possible… counter revolutionary anti racketeering war even more so.
And MAHA may be worse… holding pattern to September, funding for MRNA and a possible bait (close down COVID jabs) and switch: ALL vaccines to MRNA platform AND self- replicating by the Vaccinated of the MRNA toxin. With shedding
mandates are made moot.
Power from the people or else NOW. I still trust Patel, Bongino (and RFK) but did they HAVE to tell the public to chill out and be patient? They should ask for support AFTER acknowledging our interests and impatience.
As for Mr. Trump let’s keep him in our prayers and intentions that he be subject to Grace and his heart (and need for adulation if need be) be given to goodness, the next right move and We the People.
I hope Bongino breaks free and can atone. But he's up too far now, his life or his family's must certainly be a concern.
Mary, the DOJ has a lot of sins to pay for, Bongino is just a part. Maybe the FBI under new leadership will spend its time searching for criminals rather that playing politics.
😂😂😂Thanks for the laugh, JAZ!
Leading with “The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” offers a graphic and very real vision of the horrific reality in England right now, across Europe, and coming here to America very soon. In its present form, Islam is an evil cult that is spreading death and darkness across the world; is has not one redeeming feature and should be eradicated.
Has anyone uncovered a cogent reason for the recent Senatorial visit to Ukraine?
Why is Zelensky treated like some kind of errant house pet, who makes messes that others clean up, and then its all lovey-dovey again?
Lindsey took him fresh sweat-suits for the summer season.
Transtifa? I love it when these ideologies are replication defective to steal a term from the bio weapons labs that gave us the ultimate injection. I’m happy to see these people removing themselves from the gene pool voluntarily but lest we get too complacent, Bill Gates is still at large and in spite of RFK’s efforts he’s planning on vaccinating your hamburgers and hotdogs in time for the July 4th weekend. Did I hear that HHS is halting this plan? Hope springs eternal but here in the Happy Valley there are still people who wouldn’t let a GMO cornflake touch their lips but are still genetically modifying themselves.
Did Lindsey Graham give the go ahead signal???
He better not have, he still has some explaining to do upon his return to the States along with his UniParty Comrade!
The only go ahead signal Miss Lindsey is authorized to give is the signal to rush the buffet at Golden Corral.
No way to low brow for a guy like Lindsay.
Can't you just see him rolling around in the scrambled egg tray, bacon bits clinging to his hair, like a dog on a dead 'possum? I can...
Hmm as a weird kink I guess so.
He seems like the type would not be caught dead at a Golden Corral.
To many dirty unwashed blue-collar types.
He's a Zionist warmonger. All things are forgiven!
It's called slummin'. Our Masters like to come down from Olympus in disguise once-in-awhile and walk among the unwashed masses.
Yes, he's a Zionist warmonger.
Exactly.
It would also appear that Damn MalGino and Cash Pastel over at the FBI have been compromised.
Hopefully not…I hear ya but hang on. I parsed and sliced and “I’ve seen the paperwork and it’s suicide…” Deep state paperwork, shades of Warren Report.
Trump and his team are all compromised. Tel Aviv holds the stick and the carrot.
Prove it.
This retarded meme again?
So many people hear something and then spew it forth as truth.
There's a thing called common sense and another called perception; if you indeed care to perceive.
Common sense and perception are very different.
One can have common sense and perceive everything wrong based on the erroneous input from others something that is very apparent with the Anti-Israel pro-Palestine groups.
Palestine is Hamas you can't support one without supporting the other.
You can say you support the kids and for lack of a better word normal people but until Hamas is removed from power you still support Hamas, their violence, terrorism and propaganda against their own people as much as against Israel.
That is a basic truth many refuse to see.
"It would also appear that Damn MalGino and Cash Pastel over at the FBI have been compromised."
Yeah...what HE said....
What is Bongo? He don't look Eye-talian to me.
More American than you Lugh.
Patel too, right? Two non-White Zionist warmongers put in charge of the FBI. What could go wrong?
Never said a thing about Patel I don't know much about him.
The Ukrainian war is going to conclude far more quickly than most people believe. The Ukrainian military is collapsing without the ability to replace lost troops. Russia is grinding their foe down with sheer numbers just as they did the Germans in WWII. Some reports have desertion rates in Ukrainian units approaching 50%. NATO neo-cons are aware of this, which is why they are trying to provoke a Putin response that would justify NATO intervention. As if the paper militaries of the EU could actually do anything without the US, and Trump won't cooperate with that deluded fantsy. Putin will show restraint becouse Russian forces will occupy the Ukrainian territory he wants plus a 10-12 mile buffer zone by the end of the Russian summer offence.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
The Leftists and their EU partners are not the European Citizens friend.
The craziness and unreliability of NATO Countries, is it time for The USA and Russia to Form a Protective Alliance to protect ourselves from Europe!
It's long past time. The post Bolshevik new Russia should be our ally, not Israel.
The Great Northern Alliance from Galway to Vladivostock with Peoria in the middle. Lindbergh's dream.
Lindbergh's wife wanted to be popular and was against this. She was unworthy of this great man.
Agree 100%.
This right here