Dying For An iPhone

Here is an essay by Chris Hedges about China's repressive labor system:

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/01/chris-hedges-dying-for-an-iphone/

If you've been following Chris for a while, you will have noticed that his essays are always depressing, but wholly realistic. I wish he could be more upbeat, but after all this IS our world.

And it looks increasingly like the US is converging to the Chinese path. Now THAT should never have happened, but Amazon-Apple-Facebook-Google-Microsoft-Twitter and their cheerleaders at the WEF are the functional equivalent of the CCP.

Do you recall the closing lines of George Orwell's Animal Farm?

"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

We're there, folks. What are you going to do about it?

How To Save A Sinking Ship

Here are some observations by Lawrence Kadish:

To be clear, [Joe Biden's] spending bill is actually the creation of a national debt so massive that it has the means to destabilize a democracy dependent on a functioning economy.

For the Chinese Communist Party, seeking to master the 21st Century as the one global superpower, it represents a strategic victory without so much as firing a single bullet. They know that an economically weakened America cannot possibly sustain its military leadership when it is burdened with paying down a massive debt. Our allies and unaligned nations recognize this threat as well, and will reinvent their relationship with China if they believe America's best days are in the past.

You can read the rest @

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17415/sinking-ship-of-state

No one in Biden's wrecking crew has successfully operated anything on a balanced budget for quite some time, if ever.

When you're broke, you cannot spend your way out of poverty. One has to ask - is this just Phase Two of the lead-up to the Great Reset, Phase One having been the engineered pandemic response which destroyed our economy? If it is, we must hold a nationwide recall election and get these bastards out of power.

The Nutty Gates Reactor

Here is a report about a nuclear reactor which Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would like to build:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium

The US Navy once used a sodium-moderated reactor, in USS Seawolf (SSN-575), but replaced it almost immediately and abandoned the concept. According to ADM Hyman Rickover, such reactors were "expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair."

Perhaps Messrs. Gates and Buffett will have better success than ADM Rickover, but I doubt it. Neither man is fit to even shine Rickover's shoes.

By the way, the Navy buried the original Seawolf reactor at sea off the Atlantic coast of the US. Two decades later they searched for but could not find it.

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)

Something tells me the Natrium reactor may suffer a similar fate.

The Feds Role In Just About Everything

Here is a great analysis of the falling US birth rate and its potential causes:

https://econimica.blogspot.com/2021/04/federal-reserve-induced-inflation-has.html

Makes sense to me.

And as long as we maintain an open southern border, it's really no big deal ... right?

I really think the one hand DOES know what the other is doing, don't you? Would billionaires who want to be trillionaires leave all this to chance?

The New Stalins

Here is a description of how Stalin's paranoia helped destroy the Soviet military in the years before WWII:

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-woke-purge-is-coming-for-the-military-32390/

Clearly, wokism may do the same thing to the US military.

In my view, "our" government has decided there is no longer any role for a conventional army or navy. Anything such forces could do before can now be privatized and contracted out. And any advantage we could gain from their warmaking experience can be replaced with AI and autonomous killer robots.

Of course, being dumbasses like Stalin, they won't realize the error of their ways until the Skynet they are creating turns on them, too.

War is stupid, and all attempts to make it unstupid will fail. But I think that is a lesson we shall never learn.

Bashar al-Assad Vs. Joe Biden

Consider the recent election in Syria:

President Bashar al-Assad was re-elected for a fourth seven-year term after winning 95 percent of votes cast. The achievement is stunning. It completely refutes – indeed makes a mockery of – the Western narrative depicting Assad as a "tyrant". 

Despite all the grueling hardships, the Syrian people turned out in droves to vote on Thursday. The turnout was over 78 percent with more than 14 million votes cast out of an eligible 18 million electorate.

Source - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56554.htm

Meanwhile in the US, Mr. Biden allegedly won by a slim margin in what many believe to have been a rigged election.

Which of these men, if either, is a legitimate president?

To the best of my knowledge, no one in Syria is threatening or attacking the US; while it seems the US is threatening and attacking Syria on a near-daily basis. Which has a more legitimate foreign policy? Syria wants to survive, while the US wants to destroy. Which do you think is right?

We Should BDS Each And Every Terrorist

If some person or group is known to be "terrorist", then we should apply sanctions to them equally with each and every other terrorist.

But somehow that's never done with Israel:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/american-money-entwined-with-jewish-terrorism-israel/277432/

Why is that? Because G-d loves them?

I don't know about you, but my personal belief is that G-d does not tell people to terrorize or kill other people. This should be obvious to anyone who calls themselves "Christian".

If G-d wants to punish people, I think He's more than capable of doing it Himself. Consider the plagues He brought upon Egypt: they all were done by His hand, not by or through Moses or the Hebrews following Moses.

We should not be supporting Israeli aggression. Doing so is constitutionally and Biblically unsound.

Update - 6/2/2021

Here is a good opportunity for us to make a statement - Israel wants more money:

https://original.antiwar.com/Dave_DeCamp/2021/06/01/after-gaza-slaughter-israel-wants-another-1-billion-out-of-the-us/

JUST SAY NO. There is no "emergency". If G-d wants you to bomb Iran, He'll provide you the means to do so. It doesn't have to come from the American people.