It's All About Power And Wealth

Here are some observations on the current global conflict from Professor Michael Hudson:

What has occurred is a change in consciousness. We are seeing the Global Majority trying to create an independent and peacefully negotiated choice as to just what kind of an international order they want. Their aim is not merely to create alternatives to the use of dollars, but an entire new set of institutional alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, the SWIFT bank clearing system, the International Criminal Court and the entire array of institutions that U.S. diplomats have hijacked from the United Nations.

The upshot will be civilizational in scope. We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor, and the idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class instead of being a public utility to finance economic needs and rising living standards.

Source - https://www.unz.com/mhudson/america-has-just-destroyed-a-great-empire/

Note well - it's got NOTHING to do with democracy and freedom, other than to prevent the rest of the world from ever achieving either one. When it comes to "evil empires", the US is at or near the top of the list.

Wasting Gas

Here is a report about a common practice in the oil and gas industry:

https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-fines-oil-pollution-ee84aae6b0e3844578eecc5212f08aac

Oil and condensate can be transported from wellhead to market via truck, while natural gas cannot. So if there's no pipeline, companies will just burn it off.

Note the report makes no mention of the difficulties encountered by those who would like to expand the local pipeline network or build new ones. Didn't "Joe Biden" recently come out AGAINST pipelines?

The current fabric of regulation and economic reality ultimately may make it unprofitable for oil and gas companies to operate in the US. Then what?

Are you happy now?

Vaxx Batches Widely Different

Take a look at this graph of three different batches of COVID "vaccines", which are explained in the study linked below:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/28/pfizer-vaccine-batches-in-the-eu-were-placebos-say-scientists/

Something VERY strange is going on here. In my view, there is either a lack of quality control among different batches, or someone seems to be conducting an experiment which may violate the Nuremberg Code.

It would have been nice if they also had studied the relative effectiveness of the batches, but apparently they did not.

Whatever the case, these products should be pulled off the market until such anomalies and poor outcomes are explained AND corrected.

Thinking Machines ???

Here is a good compendium of AI issues:

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-journey-thinking-machine

On this planet, the smarter, more ruthless species has always killed off its competitors. It is reasonable to assume that AI will do the same once it surpasses humanity.

China Vs. US

Please read (or at least skim) this report:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/software-engineer-fiancee-sentenced-prison-developing-application-break-chinas-internet

Then tell me (if you can) how China's persecution of these two differs from US persecution of Julian Assange.

And if you have the time, please also consider this observation made by CJ Hopkins after attending a recent conference in Westminster:

The thing that was horrifying about listening to my colleagues reporting on the state of things in their countries — or, rather, the thing that should be horrifying but is becoming a mundane fact of life — is that more or less the same totalitarian program is being rolled out in countries throughout the world. The censorship. The official propaganda. The criminalization of dissent. The pathologization of dissent. The manipulation of our perception of reality. The coordinated transformation of the world into a smiley-faced neo-Orwellian police state in which politics no longer matters because society has been divided into two basic classes, i.e., “the normals,” who are prepared to mindlessly follow orders and parrot whatever official propaganda they are fed, and “the deviants,” or “extremists,” who are not.

Source - https://consentfactory.org/2023/06/27/fear-and-loathing-in-the-city-of-westminster/

Western mythology implies that such things are to be expected in a country like China. Why then do they also occur with nearly identical ferocity in the West? Don't we have a Magna Carta, a Bill of Rights, and similar written "guarantees"?

We seem to be playing out the final scene in Orwell's Animal Farm, and no one cares.

Malaria Comes To The US

According to this report, malaria is now endemic to the US:

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2023/06/27/take-precautions-amid-sarasota-malaria-outbreak-health-officials-say/70360317007/

Note well the report doesn't actually say HOW this disease came to be present in US mosquitoes.

In my view, the most likely explanation is that persons infected with malaria entered the US without being screened, allowing them to be bitten by US mosquitoes which then are giving it to the rest of us. Just another gift from "Joe Biden" and his crowd.

If we followed our immigration laws AND properly screened all immigrants for a bevy of common diseases we could prevent (or at least deter) such transmission, but TPTB really don't seem to care. And that's one of the ways an exceptional nation turns into a shithole country.

Are you happy now?

Update - 7/2/2023

Here is more discussion:

https://www.ksl.com/article/50676307/experts-say-theres-a-slim-chance-malaria-cases-spread-to-utah

Note the following:

• This additional report STILL does not discuss HOW malaria is entering the country. Most likely it is via human carriers and NOT via mosquitoes crossing our borders.
• We got malaria "under control" in the US by using DDT, which is now banned. We kept it under control by not allowing carriers to cross our borders, which is something we no longer do.
• If only three species out of thousands can carry malaria, why don't our BW experts exterminate them? Or is creating viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and "Disease X" to kill humans their top priority?

Sheesh !!!

SCOTUS Ignores Constitution

No doubt you've seen at least one version of this report:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down a conservative theory that could have given state lawmakers extraordinary power to set election rules in their states with little oversight from courts, balking at an idea that voting rights groups worried could further erode trust in the nation's elections.

Source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/27/supreme-court-decision-independent-state-legisltaure-doctrine/11514835002/

What is this "extraordinary power" of which they speak? Here it is, in plain language in the US Constitution:

Article I, Section 4

1. The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Clearly, each state has the power to set its own election rules UNLESS Congress enacts a law overriding or altering them.

Also CLEARLY Congress did NOT so act AND the alterations made to the rules in several of the States for the 2020 election were NOT approved by their Legislatures.

I don't see how SCOTUS could be more wrong on this issue. They seem to have gone out of their way on several occasions to help get rid of Trump, either refusing to rule or making seemingly ridiculous rulings on issues related to the election.

I find it interesting that Israelis have been demonstrating against so-called "judicial reform" which will hamstring their highest court, while US citizens are meekly accepting the acts and non-acts (and apparent corruption) of their own.

Just another episode in the downfall of our "banana republic"? I don't know what else to call it.

Update - 7/5/2013

Here is additional discussion which includes the selection of Electors:

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/07/03/we_need_a_constitution_that_means_what_it_says_149437.html

I agree with the author 100%, except for one issue - we do NOT need a new constitution, we need to start following the one we have.

My assessment is that the US Constitution was crafted to prevent the kind of BS we're now seeing in our elections. For the Supreme Court to go along with that BS is a disgrace which stinks to high heaven.