There is a movement underway to create a truly representative political party in the USA that works for the 99%, not for the 1%.
The two major political parties in the USA that currently hold all the power to legislate for the American people are not in any true way representing them. They represent the powerful elites who finance them.
These powerful elites determine the major policy decisions of these two parties and they manipulate those policies to suit themselves.
This is why the USA has no decent universal health care system.
This is why the USA has the highest prices for medicines and treatment of medical conditions.
This is why Americans risk bankruptcy every time they become ill.
This is why Wall Street is booming while Americans lose their jobs and become homeless.
This is why most of America’s GDP goes to the U.S. military.
This is why America foments and engages in regime change wars.
This is why America is on a dwindling spiral of debt and despair.
The crisis point has been reached at a point when America is going through a perfect storm of existential threats to those below the elite threshold. Meanwhile the elites of America are taking full advantages and enriching themselves by $billions.
Each crisis adds to all the others.
1) The current pandemic will inevitably be followed by others and it is clear the USA is totally unprepared to face them.
2) Trump and others continue to ignore the threat of human-caused climate change and work to reduce the safeguards, agreements and policies that would mitigate against it.
3) Unemployment and homelessness are growing along with reduced lifespans, drug-addiction, suicide and menatl health issues in the USA. The indicators are that all of these issues will only grow, not decrease.
4) The present outcry against police brutality which ought to have stopped it, at least for now,seems only to have encouraged some racists in the U.S. police forces to engage in even more violence. Only in the last few days man of color Jacob Blake was hit by four of seven shots aimed at his back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The political system as it stands in the USA is not working. In almost every way it is acting to exacerbate each and every aspect of the nexus of negative indicators afflicting the country.
America has the potential to act as a major player in combating the afflictions the world is facing and will face in future. It’s scientists, engineers, technicians and researchers are second to none. But currently many are either under-used or incorporated within the agencies making life worse for Americans and for those of outside its borders. They are working within the political sphere as analysts and lobbyists, they are working within Big Pharma and they are working within the mammoth military industrial complex.
If research and engineering in America don’t pay they don’t stay. A grant will run out sooner or later and if the project is an attempt to solve one of the crises above and is not about raising the bottom line of some favored corporation it is almost certain to be cancelled by the Trump administration. Unbelievably Trump cancelled a group of experts devoted to research into the threat from pandemics.
Western politicians are failing humanity. U.S. politicians are failing humanity most of all.
The saying goes, ‘When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.’ The world cannot ignore what goes on in America.
The USA’s regime change wars have destabilized the Middle East. Its sanctions policy against Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia and others plus the tariff/propaganda war against China is nothing more than economic warfare, creating a divisive global environment at a time when the world needs unity of purpose more than ever before.
Time is growing short. We perhaps have ten years to turn things around. Decades come and go and you will know it has been a very long time since the danger from climate change was recognized. Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, every country on earth is treaty-bound to "avoid dangerous climate change", and find ways to reduce greenhouse gases. We are now in a worse situation than ever... and for many it is simply a case of ‘business as usual’. And for Trump and those like him it is a case of disregarding all such notions of safeguarding our common future for the sake of ever-greater profits.
In the last few days a virtual convention took place where socialists, progressives and independents in the USA gathered online to state their case for change.
There can surely be no doubt that change is desperately needed, doesn’t every sign show this on a daily basis now?
But so many politicians appear to be saying that the barriers to that change are too great, that they cannot make them because their corporate donors would be upset and might stop funding them, because they need a strong economy and a strong economy is built on producing and selling, promoting consumerism... irrespective of the suicidal effect on all of us it will ultimately have.
We are currently in an obvious Catch-22 situation. The changes are obvious. The result of not making them will be catastrophic. But the logjam of barriers to making them is enormous within the current political system in the USA.
Therefore the crying need for some means to break this logjam of inaction.
The forming ‘People’s Party’ is an attempt to do just that.
Continuing to rely on the Democratic or the Republican Party to make the changes necessary is an act of supreme and willful ignorance. It is completely obvious they are unable and unwilling to make them.
It is said that Albert Einstein made this observation:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
If North Americans wish for their children and their children’s children to have a decent life on a reasonably healthy planet not riven by poverty, disease, was and environmental threat they will need not only to envisage the changes need but also get behind agencies that have integrity and fully intend to make those changes.
Those people speak in the video below, the first convention of the forming People’s Party.
Be part of this movement. Help make things change.
Time is running out...
Monday, 31 August 2020
FOR THE USA & OUR WORLD TIME IS RUNNING OUT
Saturday, 29 August 2020
THE WESTERN THREE-RING MASS MEDIA CIRCUS
Ring #1
The BBC, CNN, MSNBC and the rest serve as a protective ring around the required narratives of their state elites.
If Syria is the current target their tongues start wagging in support.
If Russia, likewise. China, same deal.
Any target signaled from above gets an immediate response.
This tends only to occur during the Trump administration on bi-partisan regime change targets however. If its Julian Assange then no problem, all guns fire in the same direction, all narratives align with the telegraphed agenda. The same goes for Edward Snowden or any other whistleblower.
Word need only come down from above or via compliant human rights agencies ever ready to amplify the needed scare, false flag or Psyop such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty of UNHCR and sometimes even the OECD or OPCW. Western mass media will amplify further through their talking heads containing ONLY state narrative talking points.
Ring #2
The U.S. military is sacrosanct and never to be criticized.
No rapes, murders, torture or inhuman behavior of any kind is to be discussed. The saintly troops are protected by an impermeable bubble of sanctity that may never be breached. They are ringed in halos each and every one... at least according to western mainstream media, and if some heinous act is too gross to leave unmentioned it is swiftly covered in passing and not dwelt on.
Nothing should ever get in the way of encouraging bright young kids who have nowhere much else to go from volunteering to travel overseas, meet interesting brown-faced people and kill them.
Ring #3
No business will ever find itself being criticized on mainstream media, especially so in the USA. Corporate sponsors are worth their weight in gold monthly. Make them unhappy and you’re sunk as a broadcaster. In most cases in the USA you will in fact be owned by one of them. No matter that the world is being exploited with multiple psychological techniques to make them endlessly buy the products destroying the world. No matter that Wall Street is infested with Masters of the Universe that have a habit of destroying this planet and livelihoods of tens of thousands with it. If you want to stay in business as a broadcaster you need to kiss those corpulent corporate asses.
Woe betide you if you speak out against any of those legalized gangsters within the military industrial complex or be too harsh in attacking those Big Pharma conglomerates who get filthy rich addicting people to Opioids.
You are looking for trouble if you criticize the high price of medicine or appear enthusiastic (or even report too much) om Medicare for All and how the USA is the only industrialized nation to bankrupt many of its populace to punish them for being sick... or mention that a huge percentage have no health care cover at all.
These are the three protective rings of western mainstream media.
These are the three sacrosanct areas that makes a mockery out of what used to be known as journalism in the USA.
All three form to guard in composite form the status quo. The comfortable for them elite status quo where they and their clients all make money... the politicians get their donations as do the media elites and the media elites cosset and protect the narrative of the corporations while they fleece the public.
It’s all very cozy... for them.
While the USA and UK populations sink ever deeper in debt, lose their homes, get sick and find healthcare difficult or impossible to obtain.
It’s a three ring mainstream media circus... and the clowns are all exceptionally evil.
IT’S SIMPLY A MATTER OF RECORD
There were certain events in recent history that caused mass death, destruction and the fragmentation of nations in the Middle East.
If these events had been initiated and perpetrated by the Chinese or Russians we would hear of their iniquities there on a daily basis. They would never have heard the last of the calls for their leaders to be put on trial. The entire western world would have poured opprobrium onto their heads and it would be demanded their heads be hung in shame if not guillotined and stuck on pikes.
Human rights organizations would have been perpetually outraged. Calls in the United Nations for China and Russia to be expelled from the Security Council would have been heard on a weekly basis.
Comparisons would be made to all the mass slaughtering liars and fiends of the past, Hitler being the primary comparison made.
But the nations in question, decimated, turned into battlegrounds for violent groups of all kinds fighting over the spoils and even the reemergence of slave markets were not attacked and invaded by China or Russia. The lies that preceded the attacks and invasions were not told by China and Russia.
The lies were told and the attacks made and invasions mounted were by the USA, the UK, the French and their allies.
So what became of all the blame, shame and outpourings of anger against them?
#Crickets
The silence was deafening. At least it would have been except for the statements by U.S., UK and French politicians attempting to justify the unjustifiable. And if asked you will hear these same justification rolled out again... how hundreds of thousands died and nations were returned to something much less stable than the Stone Age. You will hear it was all “worth it”.
What would the response have been if the Chinese or Russians had done these deeds then shrugged and said that? Would the elites of the West have taken that with hardly a word, would its mass media?
You bet your last dime they would not.
If you live in the western world you may have taken the silence of mass media about these abhorrent atrocities by your political elites as, if not approval, then at least kindly understanding. A kind of well... it’s tough at the top and all that and I suppose, yes, everyone makes mistakes once in a while. Do better next time.
But next time was about as bad as the time before. Then... the time after that. And... so on.
But nobody cares, no one minds, it’s all par for the course... Some folks died... Oh well.
This is not normal. Something is going on here. Hundreds of thousands die and we discover they died due to a pack of lies... and there are only embarrassed shrugs as a response... if that?
Then, only days ago you have one of the most prominent liars appearing at the Democratic Party’s convention, a certain Colin Powell. Does he express his sincere regret that he lied and hundreds of thousands died? He does not. Is he shamed in front of the virtual millions for his lying to the United Nations? He is not. What then?
He is applauded.
Do you think this is normal?
Something very strange is going on.
It is almost as if the elites of the western world can never do any wrong... even when they do.
But those over there, those Chinese and Russians who opposed the wars of the West... THOSE those are the bad guys!
Yeah, right.
Who exactly has been taking the brain-numbing and virtual rose-tinted eyeball pills around here?
Who is doing propaganda? Who are acting like global overlords who can do no wrong?
And which media is it again that only reflects the narratives of the state? The Russian media and the Chinese media you say? Come on. Open your eyes and your minds. There is only one set of violent murdering elites around here and they don’t speak Russian or Chinese.
It’s a matter of historical record. It all happened just a few years ago. And it is still happening now.
Look at Syria. Look at Yemen. And look at the state of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Just because they are not in your western newspaper or on your nightly news doesn’t mean things are fine there. In fact it means just the opposite.
You’ll only hear about them when there’s some propaganda the CIA wants to share with you. Stuff like bounties for the Taliban. (All the opium millions aren’t enough for them apparently and removing armed foreign invaders from their soil is not incentive enough to kill them it seems.)
Don’t worry, you’ll hear something about these nations next time a false narrative or a false flag is required. Just be patient.
The timeline of U.S. assassinations, financing, training and equipping of death squads, the use of terrorist proxies, the spreading of disinformation, fake news and false narratives instigating coups bringing down democratic governments and much, much more is all in the historical record for all to see.
But who is interested? Who remembers or cares to? Who prefers to be blissfully ignorant or finds beating their chest patriotically to be much more rewarding and life-enhancing?
Why be downbeat? Forget all that stuff, it’s in the past.
We’re going to set some new records now...
DESTROYING THE WORLD TO MAINTAIN POWER
The clique is narrow in focus. It’s aim is to sustain itself at all costs. There are no methods it will not use in this quest. It simply cannot visualize existence outside the context of its present position.
This clique runs virtually everything of note in the West. It is best imagined as a thin layer across the entirety of the western world. Imagine this layer as an almost imperceptibly thin smear of any color you like. Beneath it lies the 99.99% of everyone else currently living on our planet.
This clique controls all that goes on of significance in the western world. Much goes on that is not considered of any significance at all of course and the clique are content to have all such 'bread and circus’ activities continue and expand. The 99.99% of natives should not become restless and certainly should not awaken to certain realities.
This clique eyes the areas of the world it does not yet control with hungry eyes and at times with desperate eyes seeing certain almost insurmountable barriers being raised against their desire to control all they see.
This clique has tentacles. These tentacles, many electronic, many made of flesh and blood, descend into the world below. Through these tentacles and the various gifts and punishments they can wield all is monitored and control is maintained.
The consulting room of the clique contain many types, politicians in power, primary corporate leaders, media movers and shakers, a few of the interested super-rich and a host of high-fliers who advise and report. The consensus is complete. The group-thought universal. The constant reinforcement of memes is always supportive of the status quo.
And the status quo is always the maintenance of the clique,
All those who would in any way criticize the clique or its people are immediately noted enemies or dupes. No criticism of the clique, its agenda or narratives is valid. In the milieu of total agreement such a thing is simply impossible. Those who express anything other than complete agreement are obviously assets of foreign powers out to harm the values and freedoms of the West.
If any of the clique have doubts they never express them. Those that do will feel the brunt of the clique’s power to destroy the reputation of such people. This power, in current western society, is virtually unlimited.
The clique are enclosed in a belief bubble that is doubt-airtight. There can be no possible justification for doubt within it. All is simple, reflected in pure black and pure white, there are the good... them, and all others... the enemy.
Currently the “enemies” of the clique are as follows, they constitute those nations the clique wishes to control and intends to but which are obstinately refusing to comply with the demand.
China
Iran
Syria
Yemen
Russia
Venezuela
Cuba
Nicaragua
Chief among these are China, Iran and Russia.
And far and away most troublesome of these three is China.
China is a hard nut to crack for the clique... but they’re working on it.
Every elite within the highest rungs in the clique are agreed and have been agreed since September 12 2001. The West MUST attain full spectrum dominance across the entire planet. There can be no backing down upon this insistence, no weakening of resolve, no diplomacy, no agreements, no compromise. To do any of these things is to put in jeopardy the entire western world for aeons to come.
For the clique 9/11 represented an existential threat that simply COULD NOT be ignored and which set in motion all we see now regarding the thrust of regime change at all costs in respect of EVERY nation not complying with the order to lay down in submission before the clique.
There will be no retreat from the goal of full spectrum dominance across air, land, sea and space. There will be no weakening of the effort to undermine every last entity that does not relinquish its desire to maintain or assert sovereignty or individual choice of any kind.
All must look to the clique for guidance at all times. Nothing less will suffice.
And if those above don’t then the unannounced war will continue to the bitter end. For it is all or nothing for this clique. There is no half-way house. No quarter is to be given.
And ‘all necessary means’ will be applied. There is no alternative to complete victory or defeat.
Even unto the destruction of the entire planet.
OBAMA AND BIDEN IN THE AGE OF IMAGINARY REALITIES
Obama was able to present an image of handsome racially-acceptable trust. With that trust he shafted all those joyous souls who were so enthused by his election as president.
Instead of ending regime change wars he initiated them. Instead of helping the people he helped Wall Street.
Obama was the smooth PR actor who snowed America by promising change and delivering the same old status quo of elitism and foreign wars.
Biden now attempts to snow America with another image entirely, that of the avuncular old uncle, the grandad you always wanted who you trust implicitly.
It’s yet another PR construct where what you are made to want is never what you get.
Biden is a thug and always has been. His advanced years will not have modified the monster inside one iota. He is a law and order right wing freak who has picked another law and order right wing freak to stand next to him.
In the age of image what you see is definitely not what you get.
What you will see is a somewhat doddery but extremely affable old man with a gentle, smiling liberal at his side.
What you will get is an administration calling for more war and more incarceration of Americans, an administration that pretends to have a kind face but acts with utmost cruelty. You will see war glorified, and those who wage war called undoubted heroes. You will see xenophobic hatred of alternative styles of governance dressed up as resolute defense and patriotism. You will see corporate America, Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex lauded as the eternal bastions of freedom.
You will be told you live in “The Free World” while being ever more enslaved.
You will hear the highly trained and skilled liars of the CIA, NSA, FBI and all U.S. police forces backed to the hilt as the ultimate truth-tellers. The legalized murderers of the U.S. military will be likewise lionized.
A list of “enemies” will be issued once more for you to direct your hate at while your liberties are curtained and removed at home.
But U.S. mainstream media will reflect none of this after emitting the huge sigh of relief on Donald Trump being removed from office is a mass fumigation of Washington. A fumigation which will be distinctly partial. The entire pool of Democratic Party swimmers within the infamous swamp Trump safeguarded will emerge pure as newly fallen snow.
The cavalry will have emerged over the hilltop, the knight-errants will have vanquished the evil dragon and saved the princess. And they will get to work making sure you know it and demonizing anyone who says different.
Image is all in U.S. politics, Obama and Biden show how the fantasy-land that is American “reality” can be adjusted quite easily to suit the required outcome. However, the lesson of Hillary Clinton is that the face needs to fit.
Biden has the face that fits. Harris has the face that fits.
But after November 3rd the masks will no longer be quite so required. Mainstream media will maintain the earlier illusions so carefully established in every article published and news broadcast aired.
Meanwhile Trump’s cohort of angry white men, those deluded by Trump’s anti-war lies and whatever rump of simplistic believers in his moronic statements survive will be shunned and condemned as the new internal enemy of unified America.
And so the merry-go-round starts over where an opposition of hate moves onto the streets to vent its frustration only to meet the cops of Biden and Harris rather than those of Trump.
So the images rotate and shift within the mirror of the society we are all supposed to envy.
We will see the same old smoke and mirrors in revolving political doors as America descends further into the abyss of irrelevancy as China rises to provide voices speaking of a new reality.
WESTERN POWER JUNKIES ARE LOSING THEIR FIX
The elites of the West have held the levers of patrician power for generations. During this time they have been in the position to dominate economically and therefore militarily. However, their era of being judge, jury and executioner is coming to an end.
Friday, 28 August 2020
PUSHING RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE
You could be forgiven for thinking Russian interference is what caused your toast to become burnt this morning... or the headache that appeared out of nowhere last night
They have become so ubiquitous... those Russians are not only lurking under your bed but believably in the very air that you breathe.
And they never take a lesson to heart, do they?
How many times have they been lectured about interfering in elections and how many times has the American population been warned they will interfere in the next and no doubt the one after that?
Wouldn’t it be a good idea with strong public opinion appeal for Russia to simply stop?
But somehow that doesn’t seem to be an option. Which makes me wonder if pushing Russian interference has another goal than stopping this nefarious activity.
I know a large section of the American population absolutely loathe Trump. To millions there is nothing to like and plenty to loathe about him. He’s an inveterate braggart, a foul-mannered thug and an amoral lecher by all accounts, a sociopath who combines being a geopolitical moron with a seeming love of Russia.
Ah... Russia, there we see the first "evidence" of collusion. Why should anyone love Russia or be on first names with the new Vlad the Impaler, Mr Putin?
Trump is very clearly an amoral thug when it comes to business. He is willing to lie, cheat and rob in business as Mike Pompeo equally was regarding geopolitics while head of the CIA.
Trump sees himself as CEO America, that’s clear. He clearly feels an affinity with strong leaders. Putin is certainly that. Most Russian leaders have had to be.
But Putin is a dictator, murderer and thief, isn’t he?
That’s certainly the rap he gets on the journalistic grapevine. You do have to wonder though if he is these things why he has not been called to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. And why many world leaders greet him with smiles and apparently enjoy his company and it seems respect what he has to say? Is this normal for dictators, murderers and thieves?
Getting back to Trump, he is a bit of a quixotic personality, an enigma. He appears to be a very successful showman... but was he a successful business man? From all I have heard it appears not. He seems to have driven each business he owned into the ground leaving his workers high and dry. Some say he has been an extremely successful businessman and a millionaire. Others say he is a bankrupt only saved from penury by banks who bailed him out as “too big to fail”.
His ex-Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson called Trump a “F*****g Moron” who made him want to tear his hair out at the asinine things he said when the subject was foreign policy. Why would he have this soft spot for Russia? Could it simply be, as John Bolton has said, that Trump is only ever interested in what’s in it for him? Could it be the thought of some lucrative business deal, a Moscow Trump Tower... or did he simply enjoy his stays in Moscow when he was there helping judge beauty pageants?
We may never know. I have never heard him say why he feels a special warmth toward Russia. Regarding Putin I suspect he believes all the tales of Putin being a ruthless dictator, murderer and thief. Is it too impudent to suggest Trump sees himself in that personality type? Perhaps not murderer, sociopaths don’t often murder. They act out their amoral lives for gain... murdering others usually doesn’t come into their everyday frame of reference. They use people as a con-artist uses people for they are sociopaths too... they have to be as a conscience and a con-artist simply cannot co-exist.
But we have strayed far from the subject of Russian interference and why it permeates the American political scene. It is a good way to turn undecided Americans against Trump, but is it anything more than that?
The Democrats are the most enthusiastic by far when it comes to Russian interference. That and collusion. In fact the entire package of vitriol they aim at Trump is laden with “Russia, Russia, Russia” and yet more “Russia, Russia, Russia” (!) Is there some actual evidence for what they claim?
The ears of many Russians must certainly have pricked up when they heard Donald Trump talking in friendly and cooperative terms about Russia. There had been a number of years since they had heard similar words from a previous president and his people. That was the time of the reset in relations between the USA and Russia if you remember? Things got decided pally between George W, Bush and Putin and a little later even between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Putin.
But the friendship seen then turned sour. It was around 2007, at the time Putin said Russia would set its own course in the world and did not agree with regime change wars that in his view contravene the sovereignty of nations and international law. He also expressed disagreement with the notion that a unipolar world governed by a single nation or group of nations defined a “Free World”, rather the reverse he opined.
Things soured fast at that point. From “Hail Buddy, Well Met” and glad-handed he went to persona non grata and Public Enemy Number One.
Until Trump stampeded like a bull rushing through a china shop to the White House and began running his mouth off breaking the convention that had been set of Putin as the next Hitler.
This busted the ass of a lot of people. Consternation ran rife. Something had to be done.
What better tactic could there be than to attack both Trump and Putin and Russia with one blunderbuss of a campaign that through endless repetition would permeate every brain?
In Russia people were happy to hear Trump talk nicely about their president and country. Why would they not? Russians have suffered terribly through war... they want nothing to do with it and the death and suffering it epitomizes for them.
Some of them, organized by some flaky business types do appear to have generated some particularly wacky and off-subject Facebook ads that some claim were designed to confuse Americans rather than promote Trump. Even if these 90k or so of ads had promoted Trump could they really compete with $100M+ spent on nightly, very professional ads paid for by Democrats?
That leaves Russian interference through collusion. Though some still say there is evidence for this the Mueller investigation was a long one and could find no hard evidence that anything major occurred. The Democrats of course made the most of what was available by hyping up this meager offering and ended up going off on another track over a Trump phone call and his usual thuggish efforts to attack his attackers and refuse any cooperation with them.
On another front the Russian Interference meme took some of the heat off Hillary Clinton and the DNC who had somehow let an orange-faced reality TV host beat them to the presidency when every poll showed it was theirs for the taking. What better way to mitigate your responsibility than to cry foul and consistently point over there at those Russians who stole the presidency from them? A nice out, no?
So now we approach the next U.S. presidential election and we are hearing those clarion calls again, “Russia, Russia, Russia!” You do have to wonder what would be in it for Russia to do anything in November. What COULD it do in fact? It surely would not risk anything that looked like collusion. And it is somewhat unlikely that Facebook ads, no matter how fabulously slick they were (and the ones in 2016 were not at all) would have such a devastating effect as Democrats appear to insist may be the case. I wonder, does anyone, anywhere recall seeing one of these of so fabulously convincing ads? Personally I have never looked at a Facebook ad for more than a few nanoseconds as I looked for what I was there for. Have you?
But undoubtedly we will hear of the ubiquity of Russian interference all the way up to November 3rd. But will some actual evidence of it be shown we can all see? Or will the assertion of its presence be enough for those doing the asserting, over and over and over again... (as you would do if it were simply useful propaganda)?
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DIVISION
Just look at the country. It’s tearing itself apart.
What’s going on?
The same country that’s coming apart at the seams is the one where its elites tell the rest of us to copy its "perfection".
The devil is not in the detail this time, it’s in the division.
Most of the factors involve division in some shape or form.
RACISM
The racism in America runs deep. It is embedded in the souls of the majority white population. Those affected would most likely energetically deny they are racist. Many will assume racism means active denial of the same rights to people of color as to those a whiter shade of pink. They would not even know their attitudes were racist because they never inspect them, there attitudes and acts of avoidance however mark them as deeply racist because the society is set up to be so. The divisions of racism go deep into the subconscious and are denied while being applied.
POLICE BRUTALITY
Much of the American police force is rooted in a fascistic macho mentality, even more so since Obama authorized the use of ex-military gear and weaponry. Put a simple uniform on someone and you will see their personality change immediately. Make that uniform mirror the black tactical gear of special forces with Kevlar invulnerability, add sophisticated hand guns and a culture of cold-blooded, testosterone-fueled, fascist-minded callousness and you soon get an 'us and them' aura over a personality. An unfeeling brutish reliance on aggression as the best and constant solution. Add in the shared stories of “heroic” beatings given to hapless black victims in the locker room with attendant hilarious laughter and you get a culture divided from the districts and communities they police.
THE ELITE DIVIDE
America has a society strictly divided into social classes with a large minority of wealthy elites who use the law to protect themselves from the underclass they sniff at all around them. Whether that underclass is criminal or merely poverty-stricken and uncool they will continue to avoid them like the plague and use security systems to divide themselves from them. Each financial class guards itself from the one below down to the ultimate drug-ridden underclass that control the mean streets of America.
MONEY DOESN’T SPEAK, IT SWEARS
Without money in America you are nothing... or at least regarded as nothing. You are identified by your appearance which denotes your status. This is an even greater divide that the one above as it is ubiquitous in every American mind all the time. Others are competitors and potential enemies. Assessments are continual and as much subconscious as conscious. Trust is in short supply when you must always be on the lookout for those not like you who present a potential danger to you. The mind constantly works overtime scanning faces and clothes, identifying risks and alerting the brain to the need to move this way and that to avoid connecting with misfortune.
THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
In the past there was a divide between the two main political parties that ran roughly across the various differentiations of class. The Republicans were for the business owners and corporate America, share owners who dominated Wall Street and the mega-corporations within it. The Democrats were more for the working man and woman on the street, for their rights and for the downtrodden. Now things have become more complex. Trump more and more focuses on both everyday working Americans while providing the traditional Republican base in Wall Street with endless donations and hand-outs. The Democrats have moved to outflank the Republicans in some instances, now becoming the party of regime change war, preemptive strikes and condemning whistleblowers.
Each elements in American society seems to be fighting every other element currently and there is no limit to their desires... therefore no limit to the extent of their division.
The result is chaos and an anarchy of demands that threaten to undermine what little stability remains in the country. When everyone demands what they want no one gets what they want. It’s as simple as that. Without a high degree of unity you get division. Endless division.
The USA is a nation at war with itself. And the devil is very definitely in its division.
HOW THE MIGHTY WEST WILL FALL
What we can loosely call The West has been an evil scourge upon our planet.
The USA, founded on genocide & slavery continues its murderous acts up to the present day, evilly scarring the geopolitical landscape
The UK with its obsessional lust for resources colonized and subjugated half the world.
The West’s aggressive and acquisitive nature has served to spread a noxious tyranny of oppressive bullying and fear of imminent attack across the planet.
In gaining power over others the West then awarded itself the position of warden, using its might to punish offenders who sought to establish sovereignty in protection of their citizens.
Nations were plundered of their resources and skills always to the benefit of the West and the detriment of nations they kept in virtual slavery to its will.
The USA, with its powerful economy made aggressive use of its clout to enforce its will, especially so in Europe, Latin America and in the Pacific where its overwhelming might was used to cow and abuse others with impunity, holding them hostage by force of arms and financial superiority. The bullying bludgeon of wealth enabled the realization of its psychopathic determination to always be master to its cowering servants.
Operation Paperclip. Operation Mockingbird. The Monroe Doctrine. Project Sunshine. Operation Northwoods. Operation Crossroads. Operation Castle. Operation Chaos. Project MKUltra. The Stargate Project. Operation Merlin. Operation Timber Sycamore. All means to the same end, the continued domination of the planet by the USA to the benefit of the USA and the West in general. All collectively part of the ongoing, ‘Project Fear’.
Operation Crossroads and Operation Castle using the Marshall Islanders as experimental guinea pigs during and after detonation of 23 nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll between 1946 and 1958 typifies the attitude of U.S. elites to the rest of humankind. The attitudes collectively are part of a superiority-based narrative of extreme exceptionalism and self-regarding fascistic racism known as ‘America First’. The slogan ‘America First’ and presumably foremost has been used at various times by both Democrat and Republican Parties at least since the nineteen twenties.
Collectively the West has time and time again asserted its right to undermine others for its own self-interest and acquisition of power and the power to further dominate.
The USA has interfered time and time again in Latin America, assassinating democratically-elected leaders, organizing and financing death squads and fomenting coups to overturn governments. This began with the Monroe Doctrine signalling that the USA considered the entirety of Latin America to be its feifdom and perpetual resource larder for its corporations to exploit at will.
The USA, UK with support from the European Union and allies elsewhere in the world took the ambitions of the West to a new and brutal level with a preemptive regime change policy after the events of 9/11. In defiance of international law sovereign nations who had never attacked these nations were subjected to sustained propaganda and subsequent bombardment and invasion.
The crimes of the West are obvious for all to see. Yet its elites posture as collective knight-errants out to save the world from evil-doers. The bitter irony of this lie is that they have far and away been the primary evil-doers down through history and continue to be so to this day.
The litany of murderous activity, lies and state terrorism perpetrated by the USA and its co-conspirators is long and ongoing. Currently China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela are its current targets and everything possible both overtly and covertly is being done to undermine them.
This litany of destructive ambition mixed with racist and fascistic notions of superiority is however, under threat. One nation in particular has risen exponentially to challenge the dictatorship of the West and its allies. That nation is China.
The West for all its bullying of others is in decline. Riven by debt and internal division, exposed as a criminal enterprise and now plagued by the corona virus it is experiencing a karmic death spiral. This while China rises out of the grip of Covid-19 with hugely effective counter measures and proceeds to continue its exponential rise seen in previous recent decades.
China will lead her allies to an inevitable and highly crucial tipping point. That tipping point is where economic power translates forcefully to political and military power. Not that China has political and military ambitions, her focus is on trade and bringing many more millions of her citizens out of poverty. But economic might at high levels ultimately and automatically translates into political and military might. The significance of this is enormous for the West and its elites who have become addicted to being in control.
China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative will establish China as the preeminent economic power globally. This new Silk Road to Europe and beyond plus China’s massive purchases of companies and industries across the western world will automatically transfer power from west to east.
Currently the elites of the West are instigating wrecking ball tactics in an attempt to halt China’s progress. They will not succeed. China WILL be the dominant powerhouse of the world economy and as such will be a mighty and formidable barrier to the irresponsible and highly destructive attitudes and activities of western elites.
The West is about to be quarantined. This result is inevitable and is why it fights like a terminally wounded animal now. It’s lashing out at “enemies” it sees all around it is indicative of its diseased and failing power. Time is hugely against the USA as it slips ever further into its internal delusionary state by creating a surveillance society, breeding a toxic and divisive totalitarianism and noxious self-inflicted paranoia of illusory ‘foreign interference’.
The mighty of the West have been vile in their approach to other nations, evil in their acts of murderous attack and invasion, terminally harmful in their fascistic and racist attitudes to those of other colors and totally blind to their own corruptions which have become legion over countless years.
The mighty of the West are falling and from this point onward we will see them fall ever faster as cleverer, wiser heads rise to bring a safer, saner world into being.
Thursday, 27 August 2020
WESTERN ELITES ARE OF COURSE CRIMINAL
They will say they fight for what’s right. They will tell you they fight for you. They will insist you obey the law of face severe consequences. They will say they tell the truth.
But the stone cold reality is that western elites are liars and criminals who fight for themselves alone.
If you rise to the point of threatening their criminal schemes and acts they will find a way to persecute you, demean you, jail you and destroy you if they can.
Ask Scott Ritter. Ask William Binney. Ask Edward Snowden. Ask Julian Assange.
Western elites are criminal. They work on a similar basis to any criminal mob. They are an elite mafia. And they will murder without a qualm knowing they are impervious to justice. They will initiate wars where hundreds of thousands die and they will use the dirtiest weapons available to them in doing so.
There is not an iota of conscience or caring at the elite level of western society. There is only a cynical aura of callous deliberation, one where any tactic will do that proves effective. They will use terrorists and drug dealers, head-chopping demagogues and street criminals. There are no boundaries to their crimes, no limit to their murderous activities and no comeback when they are the ultimate authority.
Their primary instruments of death-dealing are the CIA and U.S. Army, Navy and Airforce. Lesser weapons of the security state are the myriad enforcement and intelligence agencies under their control.
They are a cancerous web covering the western world. They snake within the halls of power in Europe too. And they will coil within U.S. embassies worldwide just as they do in their many hundred bases.
These criminal entities strange our world and suck all hope from it.
There is no true diplomacy now if there ever was. There is only Machiavellian deception within a chess game of ice-cold deliberation.
Never read a newspaper or watch mainstream news in the west unless you enjoy Disneyesque fantasy served up in the guise of information or insight. There is no true information or insight in the West regarding any even remotely geopolitical aspect. What there is, is a carefully controlled one-sided info-stream that solely reflects western state narratives. Westerners swim within a propaganda soup that seeps its way into their minds by osmosis and perpetual repetition. There is no escaping it while dwelling within the mainstream. never for a second believe you are doing anything but being snowed by these state criminals.
The theater of the absurd surrounds every westerner. It’s show-stoppers and comedic elements are designed to keep you from exercising your most important muscle, your brain. The ersatz information they convey from the stage of this theater wraps you in a dreamlike state of misinformation, fraudulent talking points and a world view skewed exactly to the degree that keeps your attitudes and beliefs firmly in line with state requirements.
Show trials are conducted daily where individuals have been identified as state enemies requiring undermining and destruction if at all possible. They are pilloried, tied to the media stake and offered up for sacrifice to the multitude as evil-doers. Not a word will be said in their defense. And these elites, whether they be political or within mass media are supposed to be adherents of law? Guilty as charged. No trial required.
George Orwell would nod sagely if he were alive today. Double Speak is ubiquitous. History is adapted and altered to suit whatever narrative is deemed necessary... and inconvenient facts are simply written out of history.
The attack upon and invasion of Iraq with hundreds of thousands dead gets barely a mention while we can hear on almost a daily basis of all the many iniquities of Russian and China. Who but an elite criminal fraternity would have the temerity to create a conscience bypass for their own lies, atrocity and mass murder?
The populations of the West appear to be mostly oblivious to the fact that they live within a dictatorship run by murderers guilty of the most horrendous crimes against humanity seen since the Second World War. Most have been infected by the constant barrage of 'look over there’ agendas with which western states escape all inspection. The meme that they are 'the good guys’ is in almost every article written or mainstream news broadcast. No commentator, observer or journalist (or whatever they deign to call themselves within mainstream news and media) will ever comment, appear to observe or create any text that criticizes the bloody trail western elites have left across the world.
The blindfold is firmly in place. The blinkers likewise. All must only “look over there” at all times at those evil “enemies” who do awful things, and keep their creative juices flowing in order to write about how they deserve all the sanctions, tariffs or regime change wars the criminal elites of the western world have in store for them.
CAN WE EVER ACHIEVE GLOBAL BALANCE?
Most humans attempt to get along with other humans as best they can. Things get fraught when vital resources are scarce or become totally unavailable.
People need an income in modern societies. Without an income how do they pay rent or a mortgage, how do they feed themselves or their families?
In tribal societies the entire community worked together to ensure all members had shelter, food and whatever health care was available. Some few still exist here and there in the world but they are becoming fewer with each passing year. The modern, industrialized world is inexorably approaching their habitats. Human greed is far outstripping the human need for the world’s resources and ultimately it appears we will all be losers as pandemics and climate change inflict their wounds upon us.
Where do we go from here?
To ever more individualism where ever-increasing materialism and rabid competition between manufacturers of luxury goods entice us ever more seductively to our common suicide? In this scenario the elites of our planet become ever more elitist and those just below them in wealth and status spend increasing amounts of their income on the last million good lives to be had before the end. The vast majority of us will see our incomes and the resources available to us reduce year by year. Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics are going to decimate employment just as the race to grasp those million last good lives intensifies.
What kind of a world will that be?
What chance of balance in our lives will there be?
What horrors will emerge from competing for those last million good lives?
The kind of rabid, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism exemplified by that seen in the USA will drive all wealth up to the 1% elite who own 99% of everything below them. The rest of us will be work slaves even if we find some employment in their online, artificial intelligence empires.
Is this the world our parents hoped for?
Is this the world we want?
We have been enticed by hopes of enough income to provide us with stability, enough to have a family and a family home without risk of it all being taken away from us at a moment’s notice. But the Covid-19 pandemic is going to shatter those hopes, take away our source of income in many cases and make it much more likely we will lose our homes and perhaps even the cohesion of our family.
Rough times are ahead.
Business owners are going to look for ways to ensure they can carry on if disease threatens their income by decimating staff. You needn’t look far for the solution they will find, no degree in rocket science is required and there will be plenty of technicians happy to earn a buck giving them what they want.
We are looking at a future online world.
Online food delivery. Perhaps by drone.
Online electronics (already up and running).
Online everything that can go online: healthcare, education, banking, media, you name it... much is already in existence or in nascent form.
What are people going to do for a living? Simply maintain the system for their masters?
Meanwhile, as the environment begins to crumble around those with less and gated-communities isolate themselves what world will this be?
A world of armed guards and vigilantes?
A world of exclusivity for the few and misery for the many?
Is that a world to look forward to?
Is there a route to change that future and bring balance and benefit to all?
To all of the above we must add the growing competition between nations. The divide between West and East is growing and approaching ever-greater economic warfare inevitably leading to the risk of a global hot war.
The world is unbalanced in so many ways.
The elites fight for themselves, to retain their wealth and power... while we suffer the consequences.
The vectors of imbalance are many and growing. There will come a time of resource psychosis when the end is in sight and those last million good lives are seen beckoning at the finish line. Don’t think the elites won’t push, shove, manipulate, rob, attack and oppress all others to get them.
There needs to be fundamental change.
Rabid capitalism and the elites it has produced are killing us.
A rising tide of protest is needed. Mass non-violent civil disobedience to demand things change.
The most powerful change possible within the shortest time is the implementation of a universal basic income planet-wide. It would not be at the same rate everywhere of course, each nation would be designated its monthly rate from a centrally-trusted source. There would need to be a world income pool to distribute this income fairly, predictably and honestly.
There is no alternative to planning our common future in a way common to us all. Nothing less will do.
We have suffered the extremes of capitalist anarchy and see that to go further will create a global hell.
Socialism in its kindest and most responsible and democratic form is needed now. We need to build trust between us and the soul-to-soul solidarity which builds unity of purpose and the hope for a new world built on sharing this beautiful world, not carving it up into regions of 1% haves and 99% have-nots.
Only in this way can balance be achieved.
Balance, where being not having, is the road ahead to better lives for all.
Low maintenance lifestyles where income is guaranteed, where a solid foundation is under every foot, a default condition of healthcare and education supplied, a life where we can all feel secure, not under threat.
A life where our natural instincts to get along with our neighbors are not negatively affected by any risk of collapse in our income or ability to feed, shelter and protect ourselves and our families.
Then, at that point, the question of whether we can achieve global balance will have finally been answered, and permanently solved.
SOCIALISM
Socialism is, as the term implies, about being social, about caring for the well being of others who are not in your direct circle of friends, colleagues or family members.
It is characterized by a natural compassion for others and it is displayed by those leaders who feel an instinctive bond with their fellow citizens and are driven by an urgent wish to protect them and improve their life chances. Such leaders require much of their colleagues and demand high quality decision-making and successful outcomes in the fields of health, education and social welfare.
A socialist doesn’t leave such vital services to the mercies of the private sector but endeavors to unite in hybrid form all the best solutions most guaranteed to deliver the best outcomes.
Such a person may not even call him or herself a socialist.
He or she may think themselves a patriot if they think in terms of titles or -isms at all. In this modern age where both right and left have positive elements to them which contribute to overall well being the idea one must stick to one particular -ism has become anachronistic and damaging.
A socialist can also be a conservative in certain circumstances. Being a socialist does not preclude someone from being conservative in attitude. Socialism at its best is not extremist in the least.
The most idealistic and practical of men and women transcend the boxes we try to fit them in.
They have the nous and skills to better conditions for their people and that is what their instinct tells them they must do. These are the few, those with that combination of high intelligence and remarkably practical skills plus a dedication to their people that surpasses all others. They also tend to be inherently honest. Integrity is something they exude, obvious to those around them and relayed constantly and unfailingly through their actions across their entire lives.
They are social. They intend good and this can be felt in their bearing, manner and speech.
Such social-minded men and women involve themselves at the deepest and highest levels, their attributes become recognized and where an opening exists they feel compelled to take on the hardest societal tasks for the sake of others.
Such people are selfless, not selfish. They will not take advantage of others or of their high position and they will seek others like them to join them and act in the same way.
Socialism at its heart is when you feel an inner wish to end injustice, to bring better lives to all around you and all with no intent to benefit yourself or take any advantage of any by others your actions.
In this modern age dogma should have no place. Socialism should not be defined by a strict agenda containing dogma such as universal nationalization. The fundamental impulse is instead to benefit others no matter what the best solution might be from right or from left. If this entails the creation of a hybrid mix of state and private ownership then so be it. If it is the case that resources such as electricity and water used by all would in private hands be exploited to endlessly increase profits then there is a strong case for state-ownership over privatization. Each case should be looked at on its merits, not according to any fixed dogma.
China has a governmental system which has brought many millions out of poverty by combining socialist leadership with private enterprise. The efficiency of this system cannot be denied as an engine to improve the life chances of all Chinese citizens. And the work goes on daily using the income from economic growth for the benefit of all, not just for the few as elsewhere.
Russia has a system of governance much closer to the western model of democracy and multiple parties vie for power and the ability to put their plans for the betterment of Russia into operation. It is led by a president who personifies socialism without being bound by the term. He is one of that rare group described above who are above political labels where the motivation to simply do good for his people is paramount to him. His impulses are naturally socialistic without dogma being involved. He has the intent to do good plus the intelligence and insight to bring that desired good into fruition through overwhelming dedication and determination.
Such is socialism in the modern age... a combination of innate compassion along with a dedication to doing good for all, the determination to seek the very best route to that goal without recourse to any fixed dogma.
Justice flows from the above. All justice comes from good and insightful men and women with an unchanging and undiminishing wish to do what’s right and the knowledge and insight to bring all existing conditions to a higher, better place through the predictable systems of law.
Socialism free of unjust dogmas will always succeed over the selfish concerns inherent in capitalism where exclusion of others is emphasized as it divides the haves from the have-nots in an often brutally unjust and increasingly segregated society. The overwhelmingly capitalist system of the West emphasizes individualism and competition to the exclusion much of the time of unity, solidarity and cooperation, negating the compassionate interweaving of lives.
Socialists in high places, whether they call themselves by this name or not, work to bring people together in harmony, they seek to instill a unity of being and initiate goals that have the aim of improving the lot of all, both high and low. And of course to ease the suffering and lack of life chances experienced by those at the lowest rung of society’s ladder.
This is why the east is the new model of socialism for humanity waiting to be introduced to the west and why the red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism of the West is a failing system leaving so many out in the cold.
In the east there is a long tradition of extended families where all generations are cared for. There prevails a strong sense of community and individual responsibility and worth within communities. Honesty and diligence are rewarded, dishonesty and irresponsibility are not. The socialism within these communities is deep and serves as an abiding solid foundation for each and every life lived within them.
As a species we are learning that having though important and at time vital is not as important or as vital as being. We see that being is enhanced enormously by our relation to others, working with them, sharing life’s possibilities, pleasures and hardships to further enhance the former and greatly minimize the latter.
As we move forward we will need the unity, compassion and sharing of socialism more and more.
There are significant threats on the horizon from future pandemics to the disasters sure to come from human-caused climate change.
We will need to work together in a spirit of unity, compassion and cooperation if we are to survive with our integrity and honor intact.
We will survive best and with our pride and dignity intact through preserving our innate socialism. Any other course will see us emerge with a guilty conscience due to leaving others behind, unable to truly say we did our best for all.
We need sustainable, caring socialism now.
Without a socialism of the spirit there can be no future truly worth living where our personal and collective honor have not survived.
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE : MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
The mission of U.S. elites, especially since 9/11 has been to achieve a comprehensive system of global overview and control commonly known as 'Full Spectrum Dominance'.
This mission was doomed to failure from the start but nonetheless it was given the highest priority possible.
Why?
Because 9/11 was the ultimate wake-up call.
The U.S. elites had been caught napping. Their duty of care had been seen to be wanting. They had been asleep on the job, obviously complacent and very far from the state of alert required.
It was one thing to strike out in response as they did, attacking first Afghanistan then soon after the soft target of Iraq, but this still left their failure to monitor for attacks at home and this had cost their reputation dear.
They saw that it in order to keep the USA safe to the nth degree they would have to create an overarching system that would enable them to spy into each nook and cranny of global space, air, sea, space and land.
At home they created the NSA which would monitor the telecommunications of Americans using a variety of means from cell phone calls to emails to social media interchanges. All the myriad software devices as exposed by Edward Snowden, William Binney and other whistleblowers.
Abroad they would extend the already existing snooping device systems across allies and where possible those now considered enemies. If you recall Angela Merkel was shocked to find the NSA was also monitoring her calls. And, as Edward Snowden revealed, the NSA/CIA had the capacity to do more than monitor calls, they could also shut down electricity generating networks, insert malignant software into multiple other systems plus having the capacity to make it appear other nations had done the implanting work.
A list of nations was created that were to be treated as enemies, though no nation other than their own was to be entirely without suspicion to the U.S. elites.
Certain nations were regarded as immediate cases for attention. These were regarded as the first and weakest targets for regime change elimination. In targeting some of these there was a positive knock-on effect of engendering support from other neighboring countries such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia even though the impetus and personnel required for 9/11 came from there.
Afghanistan and Iraq were seen as easy targets of choice. Libya also. Syria was next on the list but due to the enormous and ongoing expense of the attacks upon and invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq new tactics were required. Libya was destroyed via an aerial campaign by NATO. In Syria the same techniques were used as against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the Eighties, proxies were used and manipulated wherever possible. After Afghanistan and Iraq a terrorist military, ISIS was born. Through overt and covert means ISIS was used as a tool to bring Syria to its knees. Operation Timber Sycamore had scant cover for its operation. No fig leaf of PR and lies could cover its primary purpose, to make Syria ungovernable, to weak it and its bonds to Iran, to wreck it, fracture it and use every available means to do so.
In Syria Russia spoiled the plan. After four years of the U.S. operation going to plan and Syria about to descend to unrecoverable hell Russia stepped in and did what the U.S. had been pretending to do for all those four long years. Russia’s success along with an incredibly heroic Syrian Arab Army meant that the Syrian state would survive and a war of disparate forces would not take place across a weakened Syria leading to an Islamic caliphate.
The U.S. goal of full spectrum dominance worldwide took a hit.
A further, even greater hit was a China that showed no sign of its incredibly economic growth ending. In fact every indicator was that China was going to expand its economic potential to as yet undreamed of heights due to its Belt and Road initiative which would create trade corridors to Europe by both land and sea.
But the mission to gain full spectrum dominance was not subject to being countermanded. It HAD to be implemented to its fullest extent and it was now clear it had to be expanded to include such means as economic tariffs and an array of other economic weapons to weaken the now primary target, China.
The effort to achieve full spectrum dominance naturally is not a single-pronged attack. Other nations too would be subject to economic attack, Venezuela and Cuba, later to be joined by Nicaragua. Israel was to be assisted wherever possible against the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia against the Houthis in Yemen and of course the ongoing economic war against Iran.
But China remains the long-term obstacle to the elites of the USA gaining the full spectrum dominance of our planet they seek.
The attacks on Putin and Russia are a sideshow. In the eyes of western elites a necessary but largely inconsequential war needed to weaken an ally of China that could act as a major chess piece at a later date.
The move into space should surprise no one. The U.S. eyes in the sky can monitor much and at a later stage carry missiles to enforce global obedience.
At this point we must realize there are two scenarios occurring which boost the fears and thus the aggressiveness of western elite activity.
One is the urgent quest for full spectrum dominance.
The second is the frantic effort to maintain western patrician dominance over all other nations.
Both intents merge into one, to gain and maintain the West and particularly the USA as world hegemon.
China stands full square ahead as a vastly formidable barrier to both.
The mission IS impossible... yet it MUST be taken to absolute success.
Why is this paradoxical statement true?
Because as seen by U.S. and western elites, the USA cannot be safe and thus western Europe and allies further afield such as Israel and Saudi Arabia cannot be 100% safe unless full spectrum dominance is achieved 100%. A risk from even 1% left not monitored and uncontrolled is unacceptable. No risk is the only level of risk acceptable. And all efforts will be made and all risks taken, all casualties up to the millions will be seen as “worth it” to achieve the 100% success required.
This is where we stand. At the diplomacy-free Cold War II precipice where only onward is contemplated.
As a pandemic rages, as climate change approaches, as a world desperately requiring unity, stands more divided than ever... a totally impossible mission holds unassailable pride of place, never to be questioned until the very last man standing.
NATO : MAKING FEAR PAY
NATO lost its purpose when the Soviet Union fell apart but its influence was so strong across the elites of Europe that envisaging its demise was unthinkable for them.
This was a failure of courage, leadership and responsibility.
Instead of disbanding NATO the decision made was instead to expand it.
But who was the enemy? NATO needed an enemy. Otherwise what was the reason for its existence?
Soon enough an enemy was found. It was to be Russia, a Russia making its way toward a new system of governance after the chaos that followed the dissolution of the USSR. This was to be the new target for NATO where career structures rewarding men and women with sky-high salaries needed to be preserved.
Russia, humbled and in total disarray with a drunk in charge was to be the new enemy required to keep NATO in existence. But its very emergence from its various miseries was to be the primary source for NATO’s continuance.
How did this come about?
As the twentieth century dawned Russia was in a mess. Its social net designed to maintain the population in good health and with a decent education had collapsed and almost ceased to exist altogether. A criminal network, the Russian mafia had arisen which threatened to take over as a ruling power nationwide it built its wealth through extortion, robbery and corruption. In parallel with the Russian mafia a group of predominantly men began to rise in wealth and power via Yeltsin’s privatizations. These would become Russia’s infamous oligarchs. They snapped up the privatization shares that the everyday Russian citizen had been issued with but had no experience in and had no clue as to their value or what to do with them.
In the Kremlin western advice and influence had prevailed while a series of advisers had come and gone as Yeltsin and his people haplessly tried to cope with what must surely have seemed an insurmountable problem... how to get Russia back on her feet.
Meanwhile in the Caucuses Islamists attempted to wrest Dagestan and Chechnya from Russia by force of arms and were on the brink of succeeding. Apartment blocks were being targeted in terrorist acts. There were terrorist outrages such as in Beslan in 2004 where Islamists held over a thousand including almost eight hundred children hostage in a school with tragic results.
There appeared no way that Russia could emerge from its misery, the task seemed impossible with so many negative factors working to create an unmanageable chaos across the entire nation.
In these years life expectancy fell massively in Russia as factories closed and whole industries disappeared. Almost the entire society had to be built from scratch and as in every society there were those determined to take full advantage.
The prospect of dealing with all the problems involved in this goal became too much for Yeltsin and he began the task of choosing a successor from among around twenty candidates.
As we know, he eventually chose Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Putin was given the task of turning round what appeared to be an almost impossible situation. Putin at first refused feeling inadequate to the task (and how many would not feel exactly the same emotion?) Eventually however Putin accepted this poisoned chalice and set to work.
His first tasks were to win the wars in the Caucuses and deal with the rising tide of the oligarchs who were seeking political power through their wealth. Western elites had convinced Yeltsin to invest the Russian presidency with much greater power than before and these powers he had passed to Putin.
He flew to the Caucuses where Russian military morale was at an all-time low and brought together the generals in charge of the campaign. His bearing at that time and his obvious determination to bring the war to the right conclusion convinced them to fight on with renewed hope. Within weeks they had prevailed. One of Russia’s massive problems had been solved.
Putin then turned his attention to the massively wealthy and influential oligarchs who were at that time seeking political power with which to further enrich themselves. Another negative factor in relation to the oligarchs was that they were paying no taxes in the increasingly lawless Russia that had followed the country’s collapse. This, even as the citizenry of Russia suffered all around them.
Putin knew it would be no easy task to deal with this next problem but called the oligarchs to the Kremlin for a meeting. The oligarchs felt invincible and threatened him saying they could destroy him if he moved against them. But Putin was determined and knew what he must do to get Russia on the road to recovery and slowly, step by step he was able to pressure them them into paying taxes. He was also able to dissuade them from seeking political office.
Progress was slow in retrieving a Russia on her knees toward the once again proud and strong Russia of the present day. But taxes from the oligarchs and the income from a recovering oil industry led the way. The debilitating and expensive wars in the Caucuses were resolved. The foundations of future economic growth were laid and a determined man led the country. The effect of Putin’s leadership cannot be discounted as the primary factor in all this. Without this man with an indomitable will in command the country would surely have fallen to the oligarchs and the Russian mafia and a failed state would have ensued.
One primary accusation is repeatedly levied against Putin, that he did not create western-style democracy in Russia. This is true, but what would have been the effect of this if he had pursued that goal before now? There would have been a diminishing of the until now much needed power of the presidency to do what he had done. It would have put at risk the whole project of restoring the quality of life of Russians that had been so decimated in these terrible years. It would have risked criminal elements coming to power and stealing the remaining wealth of the country, either at the hands of the Russian mafia or the oligarchs.
In recent months Putin has seen that the time has come to move more quickly toward a less powerful presidency and greater democracy. However, none of this has been recognized in the West where its elites continue to point to Putin as a net negative in Russia, a claim that considering his massive achievements there is such a travesty of justice and so obviously wrong.
It was in 2007, in Munich however that Putin became enemy number one of western elites. From 2000 to 2007 it had seemed Putin would be accepted as a sober Yeltsin figure, easy to predict and manipulate. His speech in February of that year at the Munich Security Conference disabused them of this idea.
In Putin’s speech he spoke of his disagreement with the concept of a unipolar world where one nation’s demands were always to be met and where that nation felt it had the inalienable right to inflict destabilization and violence against other sovereign states at its will. He made clear that Russia would follow her own path and not be forced by others to obey their demands. At the same time he said Russia would work in close cooperation with all other responsible states against the great threats to them all such as international terrorism and the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
The speech did not go down well at all. From that day onward Putin became the enemy of the western elites. His name was vilified in every article and book written.
Putin being the first world leader calling George W. Bush after 9/11 offering Russia’s assistance didn’t help, neither did him broaching the idea of Russia joining the European Union and NATO. He had deigned to contemplate Russia being a fully sovereign nation with her own foreign policy and national interests and he was subsequently damned.
This is the backdrop to Russia, led by Putin being the most compelling reason for NATO’s continuing and expanded presence. The NATO leadership must surely have rubbed their hands gleefully as Putin was demonized relentlessly and their press coordination teams were not slow to add their warnings.
As the West saw the great advantages involved in taking ex-Warsaw Pact countries into both the EU and NATO the future Cold War was assured. As was the future of NATO.
Then, the large protests on Kiev’s Maidan Square were fixed upon as yet another opportunity to bring pressure to bear on Russia. American officials and politicians were galvanized to appear in front of the crowds bearing every type of weapon from revolvers to hunting rifles, to toxic sprays, heavy chains, wooden bats laced with nails, bricks and Molotov Cocktails. These were the “peaceful protestors” the then President Obama warned the lightly armed police not to harm.
The gaining of Ukraine into the western fold potentially put NATO right on Russia’s doorstep. This was intolerable for Russia as the main architect of the West’s containment policy regarding the Soviet Union, George Kennan, had accurately forecast in 1998 as the first few ex-Warsaw Pact nations joined NATO. In his Nineties, shortly before he died, he said the following:
''I think it is the beginning of a new cold war.''
I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a lighthearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.''
''What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was. ''I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don't people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.
''And Russia's democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we've just signed up to defend from Russia. It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are -- but this is just wrong.''
''This has been my life, and it pains me to see it so screwed up in the end.''
And so it has been as Mr Kennan predicted.
NATO has survived and an enemy has been created which massive resources are continually expended upon in ensuring people continue to believe in. The level of propaganda permeating the West regarding the various supposed evils of the Russian state have never been greater, not even during the first Cold War. We are asked to believe that almost everything negative is due to a Russian plot or influence. Russian interference is described as near universal, ongoing and never-ending.
The fear generated is constant. It will never abate no matter the objective reality. It matters not that that evidence is in great short supply. The supply of mere assertions, rumors, accusations opinions, theories and suppositions regarding the evils of Putin and the Russian state have become an industry in and of themselves. They stoke the endless fear that must remain in place to maintain the new and even harder global division that western elites need to maintain their status, power and influence.
Fear, as ever, is the key. It maintains a status quo benefiting elites with little to no interest in the lives of the 99%. The maintenance of the status quo of wealth and power among western elites is the paramount goal far above all others, including the possibility of global cooperation and peace.
And one of the primary entities ensuring the status quo remains is NATO.
And it is kept in place through one primary emotion, fear.
NATO : MAKING FEAR PAY.
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