US Nuclear Insanity

Here is a good report, including a video, concerning the latest US moves which are destabilizing the world's nuclear weapons posture:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-us-nuclear-missiles-deployed-in-italy-against-russia/5657294

The video makes an important point: the Russian missiles are in defensive positions, while the US missiles are in OFFENSIVE positions (although they allegedly "defend" NATO). Russia is NOT the aggressor here.

This is the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, only this time there is no JFK to get in the way of what the warmongers apparently want - a nuclear war with Russia.

G-d help us all.

Stealing Our Pensions - Part 2

Here is more on how they did it:

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/21/kentucky-pensions-crisis-hedge-funds/

This sounds a lot like what happened to Europe, especially Greece, and to Argentina. You'd think we'd all be smarter than this, but apparently no one is.

Why do we have stock markets which are basically casinos and a haven for swindlers?

Nobody To Vote For

Excellent analysis from David Swanson:

When I say there is nobody to vote for, I don’t just mean the familiar complaint that the candidates may be different shades of evil but are all too evil to support, that the earth’s climate does not recover one iota because some even worse policy has been averted, that sadistic bombings and humanitarian bombings actually look identical. I do mean all of that. But I also mean that candidates are campaigning as and being presented as nothing, as empty figures with no positions on anything.

What is the most common foreign policy position on the websites of Democratic candidates for U.S. Congress? Quick! It’s not hard! You got it? You’re wrong. It was a trick question. Most of their websites do not admit to the existence of 96% of humanity in any way shape or form — although one can infer that the world must exist, because so many of them express such deep love for veterans.

You can read the rest @
https://washingtonsblog.com/2018/10/nobody-to-vote-for.html

I seldom vote any more. Even when candidates DO take positions or make promises, they never keep them.

Google Should Be Paying Us To Use Our Data

And so should Facebook:

In using Big Tech’s services, we manufacture a portion of its capital in real time. Property rights over that portion – for all of us, rather than for any of us – should be the basis of a universal basic income.

You can read the rest @
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/social-ownership-of-google-big-tech-by-yanis-varoufakis-2018-10

I like this idea. Why shouldn't we be paid? After all, it IS our data they're using to get rich.

By the way, Yanis' ideas didn't work so well in Greece. Should we listen to him, or not?

Nikki Vs. Tulsi 2020 ???

There are indications that former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wants to run for president in 2020:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/outgoing-ambassador-nikki-haley-introduced-president-us-charity/story?id=58601487

Now Representative Tulsi Gabbard apparently may run, too:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-bid-917418

Tulsi, yes. Nikki, no. And G-d forbid that Hillary should run again:

https://nypost.com/2018/10/20/count-on-hillary-clinton-running-again-in-2020/

Whoever it is, please have an agenda which leaves China and Russia alone and which repairs what is left of the USA. Could either of these two do the trick?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/20/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-2020-919825

PLEASE FIX AMERICA FIRST.

How Wall Street Stole Our Pensions

Here is Part 1 of a series explaining how the rich stole our pensions:

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/20/public-pensions-crisis-wall-street-fees/

And now we're letting hedge fund billionaires further manipulate our political system, mainly for their own benefit.

Why are we tolerating this? Are we so brainwashed that we no longer can distinguish right from wrong, good from evil?

The Thinning

Some call it "thinning", while I call it culling the herd:

The elite have worked very hard to slow down birth rates all over the world, and their efforts appear to be working. Just as we have witnessed in so many other countries, the birth rate in the United States continues to fall. In fact, it just plunged to yet another new all-time record low. So why would the elite want this to happen? Well, they believe that climate change is the greatest threat that our planet is facing, and they also believe that humans are the primary driver of climate change, and so they are convinced that if they can get people to have fewer babies they are actually "saving the world".

You can read the rest @
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/their-population-control-agenda-is-working-the-birth-rate-in-the-united-states-has-fallen-to-another-all-time-record-low

I agree there are FAR too many humans on this planet. But don't for a minute believe the rich are doing this for anyone's benefit other than their own.

And take a close look at our overall situation. There are DOZENS of other indicators which suggest this planet is going to die no matter what we do. I hate to be negative all the time, but we have destroyed this place FAR beyond its ability to recover.

But if you can prove me wrong, please do so. I'd really hate to see humanity die out, and I bet you would, too.