Here is the original version by Gil Scott-Heron:
https://youtu.be/vwSRqaZGsPw
And here's an update from Pepe Escobar:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55175.htm
So, what is that crap we keep watching on the tube?
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Demonstrations, Paradoxes, And Suggestions
The past few months have demonstrated at least two things:
(a) It's fairly easy to lock down an entire nation. All you need is a believable pretext (a virus), an apocalyptic prediction from a few "scientists" (even though they were wrong), and a willing MSM completely detached from reality.
(b) It's more difficult (though not impossible) to totally destroy the social fabric of an entire nation by following an eight step process (h/t Jeremy Boreing of the Daily Wire):
The "match" of course was the death of George Floyd.
As I think about these two demonstrations, I am puzzled by three paradoxes:
(a) What Minneapolis police did to George Floyd happens nearly every day in the United States. Why did we wait so long to do anything about it?
(b) What America did to George Floyd we have been doing to millions of people around the world for decades. Why do so few of us realize that, and why are even fewer willing to do anything to stop it?
(c) It is US oligarchs, bank gangsters, corporate CEOs, and their accomplices in the one percent who are responsible for most of this wickness. Why do the so-called "demonstrators" believe attacking local, state, and federal authorities will make a difference if the real powers that be aren't going to change?
I don't have the answers to these questions, but I do have some suggestions:
(a) The current demonstrations appear to be well organized and directed by someone (or more than one entity). Identify them and their true agenda before tearing anything down.
(b) For the last 3+ years we've been treated to Russiagate, the intimidation of General Flynn, the impeachment of Trump, continual attacks on the administration, and now a state of national upheaval - all of which seem to be aimed at derailing the so-called MAGA agenda. Assuming that this campaign is successful, ask yourself what comes after Trump. If the answer is "war", with China, Iran, Russia, or anyone else, will it have been worth the effort?
(c) Many of the current demonstrations have resulted in vandalism. Keep in mind the original Vandals helped cause the eventual collapse of the Roman Empire. When their namesakes do something similar to the USA, what will we become? If you don't know the answer, I suggest you figure it out before it's too late to do anything about it.
(a) It's fairly easy to lock down an entire nation. All you need is a believable pretext (a virus), an apocalyptic prediction from a few "scientists" (even though they were wrong), and a willing MSM completely detached from reality.
(b) It's more difficult (though not impossible) to totally destroy the social fabric of an entire nation by following an eight step process (h/t Jeremy Boreing of the Daily Wire):
- Instill fear
- Lock people in their houses
- Drive tens of millions out of work
- Remove the pressure valves: Sports, Concerts, Bars, Theaters, Lunch with Friends
- Close the churches
- Dehumanize through masking the healthy
- Wait
- Strike match
The "match" of course was the death of George Floyd.
As I think about these two demonstrations, I am puzzled by three paradoxes:
(a) What Minneapolis police did to George Floyd happens nearly every day in the United States. Why did we wait so long to do anything about it?
(b) What America did to George Floyd we have been doing to millions of people around the world for decades. Why do so few of us realize that, and why are even fewer willing to do anything to stop it?
(c) It is US oligarchs, bank gangsters, corporate CEOs, and their accomplices in the one percent who are responsible for most of this wickness. Why do the so-called "demonstrators" believe attacking local, state, and federal authorities will make a difference if the real powers that be aren't going to change?
I don't have the answers to these questions, but I do have some suggestions:
(a) The current demonstrations appear to be well organized and directed by someone (or more than one entity). Identify them and their true agenda before tearing anything down.
(b) For the last 3+ years we've been treated to Russiagate, the intimidation of General Flynn, the impeachment of Trump, continual attacks on the administration, and now a state of national upheaval - all of which seem to be aimed at derailing the so-called MAGA agenda. Assuming that this campaign is successful, ask yourself what comes after Trump. If the answer is "war", with China, Iran, Russia, or anyone else, will it have been worth the effort?
(c) Many of the current demonstrations have resulted in vandalism. Keep in mind the original Vandals helped cause the eventual collapse of the Roman Empire. When their namesakes do something similar to the USA, what will we become? If you don't know the answer, I suggest you figure it out before it's too late to do anything about it.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Blueprint For Revolution ???
"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you."
Here are some observations and good advice from John W. Whitehead:
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.
The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.
You can read the rest @
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/this_is_not_a_revolution._its_a_blueprint_for_locking_down_the_nation
You may think of Antifa and the other violent demonstrators as "terrorist groups", but they're either playing into the government's hands ... or they're actually working for TPTB.
And if you think about it, so are most of the other "terrorist groups" around the world.
John Lennon
Here are some observations and good advice from John W. Whitehead:
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.
The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.
You can read the rest @
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/this_is_not_a_revolution._its_a_blueprint_for_locking_down_the_nation
You may think of Antifa and the other violent demonstrators as "terrorist groups", but they're either playing into the government's hands ... or they're actually working for TPTB.
And if you think about it, so are most of the other "terrorist groups" around the world.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Great Dictator Speech
Here a movie speech given by Charlie Chaplin which appears to be pertinent to today's problems:
https://youtu.be/-HA8kSdsf_M
You can find a transcript here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55160.htm
Todays' "machine men with machine minds and machine hearts" are the titans of Big Tech (like Google) and Big Corp (like Amazon). Do you really think they're going to abolish greed?
It's quite possible they may "do away with national barriers" and "do away with hate and intolerance" and perhaps even with OUR greed, but certainly not with THEIRS.
The concept of "a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness" is enticing, but it's a false hope. The world to which we are being led is one in which science and "progress" will enslave us, promote culling of the human herd, and TELL you what sort of "happiness" you will be allowed to enjoy.
That's not something I want, but at this point the choice is yours.
Or is it? When Big Tech and Big Mediacontrol influence your minds and flash mobs sow chaos all around, do you really have a choice?
We're being conned, and considering all I'm seeing and reading, it's no surprise. We're succumbing to the lies and distortions of those who want us to hate ourselves and our nation. And none of this happened accidentally.
https://youtu.be/-HA8kSdsf_M
You can find a transcript here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55160.htm
Todays' "machine men with machine minds and machine hearts" are the titans of Big Tech (like Google) and Big Corp (like Amazon). Do you really think they're going to abolish greed?
It's quite possible they may "do away with national barriers" and "do away with hate and intolerance" and perhaps even with OUR greed, but certainly not with THEIRS.
The concept of "a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness" is enticing, but it's a false hope. The world to which we are being led is one in which science and "progress" will enslave us, promote culling of the human herd, and TELL you what sort of "happiness" you will be allowed to enjoy.
That's not something I want, but at this point the choice is yours.
Or is it? When Big Tech and Big Media
We're being conned, and considering all I'm seeing and reading, it's no surprise. We're succumbing to the lies and distortions of those who want us to hate ourselves and our nation. And none of this happened accidentally.
The New Bat Virus Study
Here is a report about a comprehensive analysis of bat-borne viruses:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/nih-halted-study-unveils-its-massive-analysis-bat-coronaviruses
It contains these interesting claims:
They found a Rhinolophus coronavirus that was 96.2% identical in sequence to SARS-CoV-2, the closest relative yet found, but calculations suggest it would take decades for that bat virus to mutate into the new human pathogen.
The leading theory for the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is that a bat virus long ago jumped into another species, where it then mutated into a variant that later infected humans.
Is that believable?
Or is it more likely that one or more of these viruses was manipulated in the lab and then "escaped" into the human population?
It would be much easier to believe Shi Zheng-Li if the original virus samples had NOT been destroyed and if China wasn't known for punishing whistleblowers.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/nih-halted-study-unveils-its-massive-analysis-bat-coronaviruses
It contains these interesting claims:
They found a Rhinolophus coronavirus that was 96.2% identical in sequence to SARS-CoV-2, the closest relative yet found, but calculations suggest it would take decades for that bat virus to mutate into the new human pathogen.
The leading theory for the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is that a bat virus long ago jumped into another species, where it then mutated into a variant that later infected humans.
Is that believable?
Or is it more likely that one or more of these viruses was manipulated in the lab and then "escaped" into the human population?
It would be much easier to believe Shi Zheng-Li if the original virus samples had NOT been destroyed and if China wasn't known for punishing whistleblowers.
George Clooney And The Greatest Pandemic
According to actor George Clooney, the greatest "pandemic" is anti-black racism in the US:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-clooney-on-the-murder-of-george-floyd-americas-greatest-pandemic-is-anti-black-racism
While this is certainly a major problem, it is NOT the greatest pandemic.
No, that title belongs to the anti-US, anti-Western values campaign being waged by the "Resistance", the corporate media, the DNC, and cowardly billionaires like you who are hiding on their yachts, in their fortified compounds, or in their Italian villas. You can read about that campaign here:
https://consentfactory.org/2020/06/01/the-minneapolis-putsch/
Let's say we were to do what the Resistance appears to want - things like overthrowing the US government, wrecking all US infrastructure, and handing out trillion$ in "reparations". What then? My prediction is the total collapse of the US economy, the loss of even more jobs, famine, and a way of life on a par with the worst third world countries.
What kind of "improvement" would that be?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-clooney-on-the-murder-of-george-floyd-americas-greatest-pandemic-is-anti-black-racism
While this is certainly a major problem, it is NOT the greatest pandemic.
No, that title belongs to the anti-US, anti-Western values campaign being waged by the "Resistance", the corporate media, the DNC, and cowardly billionaires like you who are hiding on their yachts, in their fortified compounds, or in their Italian villas. You can read about that campaign here:
https://consentfactory.org/2020/06/01/the-minneapolis-putsch/
Let's say we were to do what the Resistance appears to want - things like overthrowing the US government, wrecking all US infrastructure, and handing out trillion$ in "reparations". What then? My prediction is the total collapse of the US economy, the loss of even more jobs, famine, and a way of life on a par with the worst third world countries.
What kind of "improvement" would that be?
Monday, June 1, 2020
Rotten To The Core
Here are some thoughts from Charles Hughes Smith:
Our ruling elites, devoid of leadership, are little more than the scum of self-interested, greedy grifters who rose to the top of America's foul-smelling stew of corruption.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
If any of America's "leadership" over the past 30 years had an ounce of concern for the common good, why did they enable financialization and globalization to hollow out the nation's economy and social order? Why did they enable the frauds, skims, scams, cartels and monopolies that are the foundation of virtually every American billionaire's "we pay no taxes" empires of greed?
The tyranny of corruption thrives in an amoral cesspool of anything goes and winners take all.
You can read the rest @
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/06/were-living-founding-fathers-nightmare.html
In a very real sense, this is why we're in the mess we're in - our ruling elites are more interested in personal gain than in the public good. Perhaps COVID-19 and racial strife are just the latest "big shorts". Here are links to some reports suggesting that's precisely what has been happening:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/31/its-all-bullsht-3-leaks-that-sink-the-covid-narrative/
and
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PiBS52P7Rds0/
and
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-05-30/rage-against-wrong-machine
Note well the "demonstrators" are not attacking the ultra rich or their assets (e.g., the Federal Reserve System, Amazon warehouses, etc.). Is that a coincidence, or do they just not know who is really in charge of the USA?
Our ruling elites, devoid of leadership, are little more than the scum of self-interested, greedy grifters who rose to the top of America's foul-smelling stew of corruption.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
If any of America's "leadership" over the past 30 years had an ounce of concern for the common good, why did they enable financialization and globalization to hollow out the nation's economy and social order? Why did they enable the frauds, skims, scams, cartels and monopolies that are the foundation of virtually every American billionaire's "we pay no taxes" empires of greed?
The tyranny of corruption thrives in an amoral cesspool of anything goes and winners take all.
You can read the rest @
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/06/were-living-founding-fathers-nightmare.html
In a very real sense, this is why we're in the mess we're in - our ruling elites are more interested in personal gain than in the public good. Perhaps COVID-19 and racial strife are just the latest "big shorts". Here are links to some reports suggesting that's precisely what has been happening:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/31/its-all-bullsht-3-leaks-that-sink-the-covid-narrative/
and
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PiBS52P7Rds0/
and
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-05-30/rage-against-wrong-machine
Note well the "demonstrators" are not attacking the ultra rich or their assets (e.g., the Federal Reserve System, Amazon warehouses, etc.). Is that a coincidence, or do they just not know who is really in charge of the USA?
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