The latest MSM brain blitz revolves around Trump's alleged questions about invading Venezuela. You can read about it here:
http://theantimedia.com/trump-military-invasion-venezuela/
I have no idea why this is such a big deal, when the following equally stupid ideas don't seem to bother anyone:
- the phony Novichok "attacks"
- the phony Russian election interference
- the phony economic war against Iran
- the phony war on drugs
- the phony war in Afghanistan
- the phony battle over SCOTUS
- the phony economic recovery
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And this is NOT Trump's doing, since all Congress has to do to stop such things is cut funding to the military.
When a baby is born, its parents teach it how to eat solid foods and walk and talk, which generally works out fine. Then they start teaching the baby all the lies their parents taught them, and things start to get messy.
When the baby is old enough, they send it to school, where it spends twelve years being taught lies about how the world works so that one day it will be able to watch CNN and say “Yes, this makes perfect sense” instead of “This is ridiculous” or “Why does this whole entire thing seem completely fake?” or “I want to punch Chris Cuomo in the throat.”
The baby is taught history, which is the study of the ancient, leftover propaganda from whichever civilization happened to win the wars in a given place at a given time.
You can read the rest @
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/babies-928c37e1bfbc
Is this cynical, or the way things really are?
I vote for the latter.
You can read about it here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5920747/New-AI-powered-robot-mimic-action-watching-just-once.html
We are witnessing a form of evolution, and in nature the creature which loses such a contest usually dies out. This does not bode well for humanity.
As I have surmised before, this is how the powers that be intend to cull the human herd.
Trump is said to have complained about "shithole countries", but we have at least one big shithole right here in the US:
https://newswars.com/san-francisco-logs-over-16000-feces-complaints-in-one-week
And if I am not mistaken, it's run by Democrats.
Face it - no one yet has a solution for fixing this country. Any guesses as to when someone will?
That is the thesis of this report. Here is its conclusion:
They have managed to achieve only the destruction of the Levant ($300 billions are needed to rebuild Syria), the death of around 400,000 persons, and millions of displaced persons and refugees.
You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49785.htm
Syria now is a threat to no one, especially Israel. And maybe that's all they wanted to achieve.
After having observed Donald Trump’s historical references (the constitutional compromise of 1789, the examples of Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon) and the way in which his partisans perceive his politics, Thierry Meyssan here analyses his anti-imperialist actions. The US President is not interested in taking a step back, but on the contrary, abandoning the interests of the transnational ruling class in order to develop the US national economy.
You can read the rest @
http://www.voltairenet.org/article201778.html
If this is true, I am 100% in favor of it.
The most fundamental right asserted by the Declaration of Independence is the right of the people to revolt against tyranny and despotism, a right that this generation will be called on to exercise.
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Any reading of the document today stands as a condemnation of the ruling class that presides over American society. Every basic right enumerated in it is openly flouted. The elementary principle of due process is a dead letter. The Fourth of July is being marked under conditions of the mass roundup of immigrants, openly fascistic declarations from President Trump, and the construction of modern-day concentration camps.
It is worth noting, in the aftermath of the June 30 protests against Trump’s persecution of immigrants, that one of the wrongs alleged against King George in the Declaration of Independence was his effort to prevent immigration to the 13 colonies by “obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners” and “refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/04/pers-j04.html
While I agree with much of what this essay alleges, I have to ask this question - "what is the purpose of immigration in our time?"
In 1776, our new nation wanted to grow. Workers and settlers were needed to help exterminate the natives, to sink our ravenous claws into the land, and to build fortunes for the benefit of the ruling class.
Does the USA still want to grow? We already have more than 95 million people not in the work force, and our "safety net" programs are spending more than they take in. The expansion of robots and AI will worsen these problems as time progresses.
We seem to have two basic choices:
- become "the camp of the saints" (Trump's alleged solution), or
- turn into what Venezuela has become (or worse).
The Founders had an entire continent to plunder, and they did. Those riches are gone, and the massive debt with which we now are saddled can NEVER be paid. The world needs a complete "reset" and a debt jubilee.
Those should be the fundamental basis of a NEW declaration of independence which MUST benefit We the People and NOT merely the ruling class.
