One has to wonder whether ANYONE in DC is still among the sane. Certainly the people who authorized this are not:
https://news.antiwar.com/2021/07/04/black-sea-nato-drill-practiced-strafing-russian-ships/
If this blows up in our faces, which it almost certainly will, what will happen when the Russians sink one (or more) of our aircraft carriers?
Yes, nuclear winter may cool down the planet, but at what cost to humanity?
Here we go again:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/vanessa-williams-sings-black-national-011944138.html
I cannot speak for Vanessa's motives, but it seems clear to me that PBS is promoting national division. Them vs. us - everyone pick a side, and the more sides the better.
If our tax dollars are being used to fund PBS, I'd like them to be cut off. How about you?
How do you hold this kind of mess together? Or do they even care?
Our home air conditioners will be sacrificed to save the planet. You can read about it here:
In spite of how the subject is portrayed in the report, this is not a new initiative. The so-called Club of Rome discussed a version of it in their 1972 book The Limits to Growth. It is a bit surprising it took so long to move it to the front burner, so to speak.
By the way, this dovetails nicely into the federal takeover of zoning regulations, as discussed here:
https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-devils-in-details.html
Remember the scene in Dr. Zhivago where he comes home to discover a mob of poor people living in his family's former apartment? Something like that will be an essential feature of the "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" economy.
The rich of course will continue to own their own homes. And probably your former home, too.
Are you happy now, or are you waiting until they steal all your property?
Dumb question - Tell me again why we fought the Cold War? Was it to defeat communism, or to embrace it?
If you've been noticing reports about graveyards at Indian residential schools in Canada, I suggest you read these words from Kevin Annett:
For in truth, there is not now, nor has there ever been, an “Indian problem” in Canada. Rather, the problem is a “white” one. The problem is with us.
I won’t point to collapsing eco-systems or troops in Afghanistan to prove this point. Nor need I pose the paradox of how educated men and women, with families of their own and a professed “Christian morality”, could drive needles through infants’ tongues at Indian residential schools, throw three year olds down stairs, sterilize healthy kids, and deliberately allow children to cough their lives away from tuberculosis, and then bury them in secret graves.
The evidence of the problem is more immediate, and far closer to home, in our continued segregation of aboriginal people into a lower standard of humanity that allows them to die at a rate fifteen times greater than other people of this country.
After all, if we Canadians are who we imagine ourselves to be – an enlightened society that “assimilated” native people into our ranks, and made them our equals – then why has not a single person ever been brought to trial for the death of a residential school child? Why is the disappearance of tens of thousands of native children in these schools not the subject of a major criminal investigation? And why is there an Indian Act, and not an Irish or an Italian Act?
Being, in reality, an unofficially apartheid society that operates, in practice, with two standards of justice – one for native people, and one for the rest of us – Canada can no more cure the legacy of the residential schools than it can stop chewing up the earth for short-term comfort and profit. At least, not this side of a fundamental moral and social revolution.
You can find the rest @
Unknown to many, we have a similar situation here in the US. Yes, our ancestors neglected, tortured, and killed Indian children, too. And just like our northern neighbors, we have been sweeping the problem under the rug for centuries.
By the way, a while back I read one of Kevin's books. It was a real eye-opener. Search him on the Internet; you'll find both good and bad. In my view he is more credible than any official in any of the Five Eyes countries, all of whom have abysmal records WRT their indigenous populations.
Here is a recent example of the foolish beliefs held by some of our neighbors:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/heavily-armed-men-standoff-massachusetts-100850078.html
Apparently, a "sovereign citizen" is someone who believes the US Constitution means what it says, especially with regards to the so-called Bill of Rights.
How dumb is that?
In reality (whatever that is), we have few if any rights but many obligations. It has become foolish (and dangerous) to believe otherwise.
And what better time to reinforce that new reality than during the Independence Day holiday ... and in Massachusetts, of all places. Were they driving to Lexington, Concord, or the Boston Common?
By the way, would the outcome have been the same if the 11 were members of Antifa, and/or members of BLM? Or are we to believe such groups don't travel on interstate highways to places where they "train"? Trust me, the FBI knows everything and if they feign ignorance it's just to make you think they don't know.
Finally, a scientist has penned a letter outlining some of the real costs of going "green". You can see his findings here:
In my view, this "conversion" would be a disaster. Perhaps it would slow down the rise in atmospheric CO2, but the impact of mining, smelting, milling, and manufacturing all these metal products would be MASSIVE ... in itself representing an environmental catastrophe.
Eventually TPTB may recognize that the only way to "save" the planet is to cull the human herd. Perhaps they already have ...
You may have seen reports like this one which paint President Trump in a negative light:
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-organization-indicted-allen-weisselberg-tax-fraud-scheme/
But somehow we've forgotten about the Clinton Foundation allegations:
Bottom line? ALL our politicians appear to be criminals. The only choice we are given is whether to participate in the phony selection process we call "elections".
The Swamp will NEVER be drained. It is far too vast and powerful.
