Our Secret War With Africa

American special operations teams are playing a more direct role in military actions against suspected terrorists in Africa than the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged, planning and participating in combat raids by African troops in multiple countries including Somalia, Kenya, Tunisia and Niger, under a set of classified programs.

In repeated public statements, military spokespeople have said the American role in Africa is limited to “advising and assisting” other militaries. But for at least five years, Green Berets, Navy SEALs and other commandos operating under a little-understood authority have planned and controlled certain missions, putting them in charge of their African partner forces.

You can read the rest @
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/02/secret-war-africa-pentagon-664005

I have not ever heard of even one credible threat to the USA from Africa. Have you?

So what the hell are we doing there?

If everyone left Africa alone, it could be the richest place on earth.

There Is No Shame In Cleaning Toilets

Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has responded to criticism of her alleged background by stating that her mother cleaned toilets so she (Ms. O-C) could go to college.

My mother cleaned toilets, too. Hell, ALL of our mothers did.

I also cleaned toilets. Just about everyone who ever went to military boot camp did. It helps show one their place in the overall scheme of things.

Dear Alex - The issue for me is not what your mother did. I want to know if YOU have ever cleaned someone else's toilet. In my opinion, we need a congress filled with people who have cleaned toilets, not one filled with rich people who pay others to clean theirs.

And somehow I just cannot visualize you with a toilet brush in your hand.

G-Men Israeli-Saudi Stooges

Here is a report about two prominent US citizens who are acting as stooges for the Israelis and the Saudis:

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/07/01/gingrich-giuliani-visit-mek-conference-to-push-for-iran-regime-change/

Or, you could argue they're representing the fossil fuel industry.

Whatever the case, I fail to see how We the People have ANY beef with Iran. If your argument is based upon the Carter era hostage event, you might want to consider what the US has done to Iran before you criticize their response.

How do you spell S-A-V-A-K?

Peace, If You Really Want It

Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby - the Deep State of the military/security complex - there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will make an agreement that will bring to an end the demonizing of Russia that serves to protect the enormous budget and power of the military-security complex.

You can see the Deep State’s fear in the editorials that the Deep State handed to the Washington Post (June 29) and New York Times (June 29), two of the Deep State’s megaphones, but no longer believed by the vast majority of the American people.  The two editorials share the same points and phrases.  They repeat the disproven lies about Russia as if blatant, obvious lies are hard facts.  

Both accuse President Trump of “kowtowing to the Kremlin.”  Kowtowing, of course, is not a Donald Trump characteristic.  But once again fact doesn’t get in the way of the propaganda spewed by the WaPo and NYT, two megaphones of Deep State lies.

You can read the rest @
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/06/30/the-two-superpowers-who-really-controls-the-two-countries/

No, the US is obviously NOT a democracy.

Yes, the deep state will do whatever it takes to keep peace from breaking out.

Haven't you had enough of this crap? I know I have.

Just Another Limousine Liberal ???

Apparently Ms. Ocasio-Cortez isn't exactly what she claims to be. You can read about it here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-29/girl-bronx-ocasio-cortez-called-out-fact-check-actually-grew-wealthy-enclave

Kinda reminds you of Ted Kennedy, no? Or maybe Obama ad-Dajjal.

A Fatal Incompatibility Affecting Us All

Here are some important observations from Luke Eastwood:

A Fatal Incompatibility: Big Business and Human Survival

Dramatic as the title of the article is, it is becoming increasingly clear that this is not hyperbole or hysterics. It is the only logical conclusion one can arrive at if one analyses the facts of our current situation as a species.

Commerce has existed for thousands of years, with private and government-owned companies providing goods and services for sale, largely unregulated for most of that time. Of course, government has always had the capacity to intervene where business practices have been found to be unsafe or unethical, for the protection of society.

As economies have developed beyond a mostly agricultural foundation into a consumer-driven industrial system, corporations have gained increasing economic, social and political influence. Although there is now an enormous quantity of legal regulation in relation to the conducting of business (in the developed world particularly) corporations exert such a huge influence on countries (democratic or otherwise) that we could accurately be described as living in an age of corpocracy. The infiltration of governments by corporate interests is so severe that governments are almost powerless to prevent the wholesale destruction of our environment and huge damage to humanity without causing a worldwide economic collapse.

You can read the rest @
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/06/a-fatal-incompatibilty-big-business-and-human-survival/

I seriously question whether individuals really have any effective tools for fighting big business. The power of US corporations taken as a whole DWARFS the power of Israel, and it is IMPOSSIBLE for US citizens to band together to BDS the Israels for their perceived illegal and inhuman acts in the Middle East. Considering that, please tell me how we could EVER do the same to "our" corporations.

It just ain't gonna happen. That "in a decade or two it may already be too late" mentioned by the author has come and gone.

The World's Rubbish Dump

At a deserted factory outside Bangkok, skyscrapers made from vast blocks of crushed printers, Xbox components and TVs tower over black rivers of smashed-up computer screens.

This is a tiny fraction of the estimated 50m tonnes of electronic waste created just in the EU every year, a tide of toxic rubbish that is flooding into south-east Asia from the EU, US and Japan.

Thailand, with its lax environmental laws, has become a dumping ground for this e-waste over the past six months, but authorities are clamping down, fearful that the country will become the “rubbish dump of the world”. The global implications could be enormous.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/28/deluge-of-electronic-waste-turning-thailand-into-worlds-rubbish-dump

And I bet you thought the "new" economy wasn't all that wasteful. Well, you thought wrong.

Have you noticed that most of the canned tuna sold in US stores comes from Thailand? I wonder if any of this e-waste might be leaching out into their fishing grounds and on to our dinner tables.