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Guest Post: Ukraine Crisis - Just Another Globalist-Engineered Powder Keg
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,
When one studies history, all events seem to revolve around the applications and degenerations of war. Great feats of human understanding, realization and enlightenment barely register in the mental footnotes of the average person. War is what we remember, idealize and aggrandize, which is why war is the tool most often exploited by oligarchy to distract the masses while it centralizes power.
With the exception of a few revolutions, most wars are instigated and controlled by financial elites, manipulating governments on both sides of the game to produce a preconceived result. The rise of National Socialism in Germany, for instance, was largely funded by corporate entities based in the U.S., including Rockefeller giant Standard Oil, JPMorgan and even IBM, which built the collating machines specifically used to organize Nazi extermination camps, the same machines IBM representatives serviced on site at places like Auschwitz. As a public figure, Adolf Hitler was considered a joke by most people in German society, until, of course, the Nazi Party received incredible levels of corporate investment. This aid was most evident in what came to be known as the Keppler Fund created through the Keppler Circle, a group of interests with contacts largely based in the U.S.
George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, used his position as director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation to launder money for the Third Reich throughout the war. After being exposed and charged for trading with the enemy, the case against Bush magically disappeared in a puff of smoke, and the Bush family went on to become one of the most powerful political forces in America.
Without the aid of international conglomerates and banks, the Third Reich would have never risen to power.
The rise of communism in Russia through the Bolshevik Revolution was no different. As outlined in Professor Antony Sutton’s book Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution with vast detail and irrefutable supporting evidence, it was globalist financiers that created the social petri dish in which the communist takeover flourished. The same financiers that aided the Nazis...
The two sides, National Socialism and communism, were essentially identical despotic governmental structures conjured by the same group of elites. These two sides, these two fraudulent ideologies, were then pitted against each other in an engineered conflict that we now call World War II, resulting in an estimated 48 million casualties globally and the ultimate formation of the United Nations, a precursor to world government.
Every major international crisis for the past century or more has ended with an even greater consolidation of world power into the hands of the few, and this is no accident.
When I discuss the concept of the false left/right paradigm with people, especially those in the liberty movement, I often see a light turn on, a moment of awareness in their faces. Many of us understand the con game because we live it day to day. We see past the superficial rhetoric of Republican and Democratic party leadership and take note of their numerous similarities, including foreign policy, domestic defense policy and economic policy. The voting records of the major players in both parties are almost identical. One is hard-pressed to find much difference in ideology between Bush and Barack Obama, for example; or Obama and John McCain; or Obama and Mitt Romney, for that matter.
When I suggest, however, that similar false paradigms are used between two apparently opposed nations, the light fades, and people are left dumbstruck. Despite the fact that globalist financiers shoveled capital into the U.S., British, German and Soviet military complexes all at the same time during World War II, many Americans do not want to believe that such a thing could be happening today.
In response, I present the crisis in Ukraine versus the crisis in Syria...
Ukraine Versus Syria
It seems as though much of the public has already forgotten that at the end of 2013, the U.S. came within a razor’s edge of economic disaster — not to mention the possibility of World War III. The war drums in Washington were thundering for “intervention” in Syria and the overthrow of Bashar Assad. The only thing that saved us, I believe, were the tireless efforts of the independent media in exposing the darker motives behind the Syrian insurgency and the bloodlust of the Obama Administration. The problem is that when the elites lose one avenue toward war and distraction, they have a tendency to simply create another. Eventually, the public is so overwhelmed by multiple trigger points and political powder kegs that they lose track of reality. I often call this the “scattergun effect.”
The crisis in the Ukraine is almost a carbon copy of the civil war in Syria, culminating in what I believe to be the exact same intent.
The Money
Money from globalist centers has been flowing into the Ukrainian opposition since at least 2004, when the Carnegie Foundation was caught filtering funds to anti-Russian political candidate Viktor Yushchenko, as well as to the groups who supported him.
The Ukrainian Supreme Court called for a runoff due to massive voter fraud and the rise of the pro-Western Orange Revolution, determining the winner to be Yushchenko over none other than Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych went on to win the 2010 elections, and the revolution returned to oust him this year.
It has been discovered that the current revolution has also been receiving funds from NATO and U.S. interests, not just from the State Department, but also from billionaires like Pierre Omidyar, the chairman of eBay and the new boss of journalist Glen Greenwald, the same journalist who is now famous for being the first to expose National Security Agency documents obtained by Edward Snowden.
Much of the monetary support from such financiers was being funneled to men like Oleh Rybachuk, the right-hand man to Yanukovych during the Orange Revolution and a favorite of neoconservatives and the State Department in the U.S.
The International Monetary Fund has also jumped at the chance to throw money at the new Ukrainian regime, which would prevent default of the country and allow the opposition movement to focus their attentions on Russia.
The revolution in Syria was also primarily driven by Western funds and arms transferred through training grounds like Benghazi, Libya. There is much evidence to suggest that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was designed to possibly cover up the arming of Syrian rebels by the CIA, who had agents on the ground who still have not been allowed to testify in front of Congress.
After this conspiracy was exposed in the mainstream, globalist-controlled governments decided to openly supply money and weapons to the Syrian insurgency, instead of ending the subterfuge.
The ‘Rebels’
Some revolutions are quite real in their intent and motivations. But many either become co-opted by elites through financing, or they are created from thin air from the very beginning. Usually, the rebellions that are completely fabricated tend to lean toward extreme zealotry.
The Syrian insurgency is rife with, if not entirely dominated by, men associated with al-Qaida. Governments in the U.S. and Israel continue to support the insurgency despite their open affiliation with a group that is supposedly our greatest enemy. Syrian insurgents have been recorded committing numerous atrocities, including mass execution, the torture of civilians and even the cannibalism of human organs.
The revolution in Ukraine is run primarily by the Svoboda Party, a National Socialist (fascist) organization headed by Oleh Tyahnybok. Here is a photo of Tyahnybok giving a familiar salute:
So far, the opposition in Ukraine has been mostly careful in avoiding the same insane displays of random violence that plagued the Syrians’ public image. It is important to remember though that mainstream outlets like Reuters went far out of their way in attempts to humanize Syrian al-Qaida. Their methods were exposed only through the vigilance of the independent media. With the fascist Svoboda in power in the Ukraine, I believe it is only a matter of time before we see video reports of similar atrocities, giving Russia a perfect rationalization to use military force.
John McCain?
I am now thoroughly convinced that John McCain is a pasty ghoul of the highest order. He claims to be conservative yet supports almost every action of the Obama Administration. He is constantly defending anti-Constitutional actions by the Federal government, including the Enemy Belligerents Act, which was eventually melded into the National Defense Authorization Act; NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens; and even gun control.
And for some reason, the guy makes appearances like clockwork right before or during major overthrows of existing governments. McCain was in Libya during the coup against Moammar Gadhafi.
McCain showed up to essentially buy off the rebels in Tunisia.
McCain hung out with al-Qaida in Syria.
And, what a surprise, McCain met with the Ukrainian opposition movement just before the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych. Here is a photo of McCain giving a speech to the opposition with none other than Neo-Nazi Oleh Tyahnybok standing over his left shoulder.
Why McCain? I have no idea. All I know is, if this guy shows up in your country, take cover.
Russia In The Middle
The great danger in Syria was not necessarily the chance of war with Assad. Rather, it was the chance that a war with Assad would expand into a larger conflagration with Iran and Russia. Russia’s only naval facility in the Mideast is on the coast of Tartus in Syria, and Russia has long-standing economic and political ties to Syria and Iran. Any physical action by the West in the region would have elicited a response from Vladimir Putin. The mainstream argument claims that the threat of Russian intervention scared off Obama, but I believe the only reason war actions were not executed by the White House and the globalists was because they didn’t have even minimal support from the general public. For any war, you need at least a moderate percentage of the population to back your play.
In Ukraine, we find the globalists creating tensions between the West and the East yet again. Russia’s most vital naval base sits in Crimea, an autonomous state tethered to the Ukrainian mainland. Currently, Russia has flooded Crimea with troops in response to the regime change in Ukraine. The new Ukrainian government (backed by NATO) has called this an “invasion” and an act of war, while Western warmongers like McCain and Lindsay Graham spread the propaganda meme that Russia made such a move only because Putin believes the Obama Administration to be “weak.”
Clearly, the idea here is to engineer either high tensions or eventual war between Russia and the United States. Syria failed to produce the desired outcome, so the Ukraine was tapped instead.
Energy Markets And The Dollar At Risk
In Syria, any U.S. led military action would have resulted in the immediate closing of the Straight of Hormuz by Iran, threatening to obstruct up to 30% of global petroleum shipments. Foreign resentment could have easily led to the abandonment of the U.S. dollar as the petro-currency. Both China and Russia implied the possibility of an economic response to American intervention, though they did not officially go into specifics. In all likelihood, the dollar's world reserve status would have been damaged irrevocably.
In the Ukraine, the chance of intervention has been countered with VERY specific threats from Russia, including a freeze on natural gas imports to the European Union through Gazprom, which supplies approximately 30% of the EU's fuel. In 2009, a temporary Ukranian pipeline closure led to widespread shortages across Europe. While some in the mainstream claim that Russia's influence over EU energy has "diminished" the fact is a loss of 30% of natural gas reserves for an extended period would inflate energy prices wildly and cripple the EU's economy.
Another specific reaction given by Russia is the dumping of U.S. treasury bonds. Russia's bond holdings may not seem like much leverage, except for the fact that China has now publicly backed Russian efforts in the Ukraine, just as they backed Russian opposition to U.S. activities in Syria. A dump of bonds by Russia would invariably be followed by a Chinese dump as well. In fact, China and Russia have been setting the stage for a global dollar decoupling since at least 2008. I have been warning for years that globalists and central bankers needed a "cover event", a distraction or scapegoat imposing enough to provide a veil of chaos in which they could then destroy the greenback as the world reserve and usher in a global currency system. The Ukraine crisis offers yet another opportunity for this plan to unfold.
The False Paradigm And The Globalist Chessboard
So far, I have outlined what appears to be a correspondence of conspiracy between Syria and the Ukraine and how each event has the continued potential to trigger regional conflict, dollar collapse, or world war. But is this conspiracy one-sided? Are only the West and NATO being manipulated by globalists to box in Russia and provoke a conflict? And what do globalists have to gain by sparking such disaster?
As with every other catastrophic fabricated war, the goal is the erasure of sovereign identity while consolidating economic, political and social power. It is not enough that global financiers dominate the banking industry and own most politicians; they want to transform the public psyche. They want US to ask THEM for global governance. This manufacture of consent is often achieved by pitting two controlled governments against each other and then, in the wake of the tragedy, calling for global unification. The argument is always presented that if we simply abandoned the concept of nation states and reform under a single world body, all war would “disappear.”
The question is whether Russia’s Putin is aware of the plan. Is he a part of it? Are we seeing repeat theater of a puppet Russia versus a puppet NATO like that witnessed during the Cold War?
What I do know is that Putin has, a number of times in the past, called for global control of the economy through the IMF and the institution of a new global currency using the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR).
Loans from the IMF are what saved Russia from debt default in the late 1990s. And Putin has recently called for consultations with the IMF concerning Crimea. Remember, this is the same IMF that is working to fund his opponents in Western Ukraine.
Bottom line, if you believe in national sovereignty and decentralization of power, Putin is NOT your buddy. Once again, we have the globalists injecting money into both sides of a conflict which could morph into something nightmarish. Putin wants global economic governance and consolidation under the IMF just as much as the supposedly "American-run" IMF wants consolidation. Global governance of finance and money creation ultimately means global governance of everything else.
Is a war being created through the false paradigm of East versus West in order to pave the road for global government? Are East/West tensions being exploited as a smokescreen for the final destruction of the dollar's world reserve status? It is hard to say if the Ukraine will be the final trigger; however, the evidence suggests that if a conflict occurs, regardless of who “wins” such a scenario, the IMF comes out on top.
Imagine you are playing a game of chess by yourself. Which side wins at the end of that game: black or white? The answer is it doesn’t matter. You always win when you control both sides.
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Your argument makes little sense. Show me a where Sutton ever stated that there was a division amongst international financiers in the manner you describe. Provide a quote at least, instead of just more unbacked opinion. Quigley also cited a global conspiracy to control governments around the world:
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." - Carroll Quigley, Tragedy And HopeAs far as Smith's position is concerned, where is your evidence to contradict his evidence showing that Putin works closely with the IMF and has suggested global governance of economy under the IMF? The article asked questions, like why would Putin take on debts through the IMF if the IMF is supposedly an American controlled entity? Why would he call for the IMF to control the world's economy and reserve currency if he is actually opposed to Western interventionism and banker dominance? These are valid questions. Smith is suggesting the possibility that Putin's interests are the IMF's interests, and I tend to agree.
There is definitely global influence by the bankers, but not official global "governance". The goal of the elites is to influence the masses to accept open global administration and to give up the idea of sovereignty, not just rule from the shadows. The fact that you refuse to make this distinction suggests that you are being deliberately obtuse (playing dumb) in order to cling to an argument that has no weight to it. So far, Smith's paper makes perfect sense, while you have presented a series of opinions and angry rhetoric. Just because you happen to disagree with his method of laying out the problem doesn't make his points any less valid. In fact, your extreme animosity seems personal rather than constructive, and makes you appear childish.
Wall Street & Hitler Chapter 1
In brief, American companies associated with the Morgan-Rockefeller international investment bankers — not, it should be noted, the vast bulk of independent American industrialists — were intimately related to the growth of Nazi industry. It is important to note as we develop our story that General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont and the handful of U.S. companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were — except for the Ford Motor Company — controlled by the Wall Street elite — the J.P. Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and to a lesser extent the Warburg Manhattan bank.18 This book is not an indictment of all American industry and finance. It is an indictment of the "apex" — those firms controlled through the handful of financial houses, the Federal Reserve Bank system, the Bank for International Settlements, and their continuing international cooperative arrangements and cartels which attempt to control the course of world politics and economics.
2010 IMF Quota & Governance Reforms
As far as "official" global governance perhaps you read should some of the UNDP's sector development plans for individual sovereign states, and then review the corresponding Ministries' OFFICIAL development plans... the US healthcare lobby writing Obamacare was AMATEUR HOUR. Then there are the IMF reform and development frameworks, while debt reduction and tax hikes for the poor get all the attention, perhaps you might want to look more closely at "Export Development Zones" and "Tax Holidays" ... Dutch Sandwiches are for dykes, real kleptocrats outsource and get an IMF approved 0% tax rate. Then look into how Multilateral and ECA Finance Institutions act as 1) feeder funds to Private Equity and 2) guarantors of profit to the major commercial banks.
As to Quigley and the BIS, in order for his theory to hold, the Rockefeller and Morgans (and the FRB) would have had to been more active in the BIS before Bubba sent Alan Greenspan to set up shop (and certainly Before Basel I). The majority of 400,000 shares in the first two tranches went to Old World Banks, even though the US has 2 of the 12 ex officio Board seats a majority is always held by Europeans (and a vote of either 18 or 2/3 are required for a change in the bylaws, although it's the appropriately names working committees where the real work is done.
You can toss out all the ad hominems you want if you don't like my style, but you are out of your league and in over your head, since I'm both well read and well experienced in these areas.
And as long I'm being obnoxious -- John Perkins is another clown who couldn't find his ass with both hands, or even the name of whom he was actually working for... yet he can sex up a story line and sell a few books to the feeble minded. Unfortunately, he also constructs faulty arguments, introduces ideological bias, and actually doesn't quite understand or express how dastardly and advanced the great Frankenfreak creation actually is.
Did you read that quote before posting it? Sutton is saying exactly what the article above said. There is nothing in there about the elites having separate motivations or goals, separate coalitions, nor any conflicts of interest. How exactly does that quote support your argument that there are conflicting groups of "globalists"?
The quote from Quigley isn't a "theory", by the way. The guy was a member of the CFR and had full access to the private records of the Rockefeller family while writing Tragedy And Hope. As an insider, his observations were based on fact, not theory.
You also seem to be confusing the role of the Rockefeller Family and JPMorgan with the role of Central Banks. The Central Banks are front groups for the international financiers, which Quigley aptly described in Tragedy and Hope. Because Central Banks are never fully audited, there is no way to know who the primary shareholders are beyond what men like Quigley openly wrote about. The BIS was just a condensed association for the Central Banks which are, as stated, run by elitist families. Therefore, the Rockefellers and the Morgans could very well have been heavily involved in the BIS, just not publicly. You seem to be a bit confused as to how this all works, son.
The role of the BIS has been extended into the IMF and the World Bank. It is far more important to focus on the actions of those institutions, which carry on the BIS mission which Quigley described, rather than regurgitating factoids about the BIS which have nothing to do with the discussion at hand.
I'm sorry but it would seem that you are not even in a "league" given your inability to form a coherent argument. I haven't used "Ad Hominems", I've only pointed out the terrible inadequacy of your position. So far, you haven't even presented a cohesive position, except to say that the author and the rest of us "just don't get" how "complex" the situation is, and you supposedly do. If that were actually the case, it's unfortunate that you are completely inept as to how to present your vast knowledge in a meaningful way, otherwise we might actually be able to learn something from your "superior intellect". Anyone who feels the desperate need to boast about how "ingenious" they are is usually trying to compensate for how truly ignorant they are. I suppose there is a difference between being "well read", and having reading comprehension.
Actually what Quigley wrote was a theory, which you're poorly construing in a blatant appeal to authority. Moreover, it is demonstrably wrong in some respects. Domination of the global financial system was not begun in earnest until the founding of the Basil Committee the 1970's after the Bretton Woods breakdown. What the BIS offered that Brooks's, Boodle's, the Reform Club, and the City of London Club couldn't (or the Union, Union League, and Knckerbocker in the US) was the free movement of (banking) persons with immunity for themselves and their papers (which was a very "big fucking deal" given the history of war on the Continent, and how bank settlement and clearing often failed during wartime).
In terms of "dominat[ing] the political system" they were a failure-- they failed to ressurect the LMU or the gold standard, the gold bloc was an equally stunning fauilure of dominance, only to be surpassed by the gold pool (the EPU and the snake were comparatively resounding successes). Your assertion that central banks are "never fully audited" is 1) demonstrably FALSE, and 2) is indicative a US-centric perspective on banking (which would explain why you fail to grasp the larger picture). Then you pull pure bullshit speculation of your ass about the "possibility" of the significant unknown Rockefeller and the Morgan involvement in the BIS - perhaps you should read Swiss Law (in the case of the BIS you really need GERMAN because that is the language of BIS filings in the corporate register, if you just want to dig through their archives English is OK since it's the working language, but then you would be demonstrating that you don't understand how the legal framework within which the BIS operates really works).
Then you go full retard with arguing that the IMF and World Bank is where the "action" is now - the IMF served to reduce clearing and settlement risk that the BIS was exposed to, while the part of the part of the World Bank/Hedge Fund that actually is relevant to control isn't the funding arm its the legal frameworks- ICSID and MIGA (which again reduce BIS risk, and do nothing to impede the BIS's (G10) growth of control -- the Basel Committee, Committee of Governors, CPSS and the FSB). The BIS is absolutely G10 gontrolled, unlike the IMF and WB. Perhap's if Quigley had been able to write about what Clinton, Rubin, and Greenshits did following Quigley's tuteledge of Clinton it would all be more apparent... Al Gore may be dumb as a brick (he is), but he was absolutely correct that the fucktarded sheeple don't have any idea about 99% of Bubba's "accomplishments" -- even on ZH the 99% sort of give up after exhausting the Glass-Steagall repeal, CFMA, and NAFTA...
You've apparently read a couple conspiracy oriented texts on the banking system and think you understand it. You obviously don't. Banking evoles and those who attempt to draw larger conclusions from limited episodes usually demonstrate their ignorance of 1) the industrial engineering side of banking 2) the legal frameworkS involved and 3) the history of banking -- since none of this new and we're caught in and endless rinse, repeat cycle. For example, while regulatory capture in the US dates to at least the 1880's (conveniently after Union Club schism), in Europe, regulatory capture (and moral hazard ridden TBTF banking) dates the mid 14th century - 300 years before Mayer Rothschild was a cum load in his momma's cunt, or Jews were allowed anywhere polite society on the Continent (or its institutions of control). Non-circulating banker's settlement currencies date to the early 1600's and the early (failed) attempt at a BIS SDR and the current IMF SDR are reflection of timeless issue of CLEARING & SETTLEMENT risk in banking. What is new is that is that private commercial bankers exploit CLEARING & SETTLEMENT risk to create emerging market currency crises and bring emerging central banks into the BIS fold where they are only offered a couple thousand shares out of the third tranche (while the G10 banks maintain their shareholder right of subscription non-dillution, effectively giving them almost no "vote" in exchange for their sacrifice of sovereignty).
Stop trying passing off two or three pieces of a real de ocho as the solution to a thousand piece puzzle, it does nothing but keep the sheeple in the ignorant position that TPTB desire.
Thanks for that link, Urban Redneck. I do not understand why you got more down votes for providing that substantial comment:
"These banking gentlemen — who are here identified — had a financial stake in, and were rooting for, the success of the Bolshevik Revolution."
P.S.
Hah! Under slightly different circumstances, I could have signed up to Zero Hedge under the name "Redneck Radical," which would have been another fair handle for me to to grasp at.
P.P.S.
I would admit that I am usually one of those fools clinging to irrational hopes for some series of political miracles, because I would rather have some irrational hope than none at all. However, I still make the intellectual effort to recognize and remember that I am being irrational when I do that for emotional reasons.
He got thumbs down for his lazy ad hominems, rather than providing a concrete argument and evidence to support his view. Zero Hedge readers know a nonsensical debate presentation when they see one.
Lazy Ad Hominems? Evidence? It was the intellectual niglet Brandon Smith who wrote, "Why McCain? I have no idea. All I know is, if this guy shows up in your country, take cover."
Zerohedge has a contingent of groupthink addicts who can't accept that the world is slightly more complex that bite-sized spoon-fed blog posts. They don't like their little fantasy being challenged-- nothing more. It's no different than when I point out to people that fractional reserve banking actually has reserves and does not result in infinite money creation and that their paycheck (or lack thereof) is irrelevant, they get a little ornery... BFD
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-07/walk-thru-first-shadow-bank-run...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-17/hidden-secrets-money-part-4-big...
You sound like an angry little kid lashing out at anyone with a view outside of your own. And so far you have not once produced a single fact to support your arguments or contradict the arguments of the other posters, which maybe, just maybe, is the reason why you get a bunch of thumbs down. Just sayen'....
I don't know why the three volumes of Sutton's magnum opus is such a pain to find on archive.org (having to search by title, since it's not linked to his author record). Perhaps it's a conspiracy...
But having racked up over a dozen marriages of big money to orchestrated destabilization (a few with front row seats instead of peanut gallery tickets) I'm certainly clinging to an irrational hope that something will turn out different this time. Perhaps it's insanity...
On the bright side, the Russians seem to have better record recently in hunting down rear-guard participants than most others. But whether this success is causal and based on methodically tracking the dollars, or a coincidental retribution, I do not know.
Matt Stoller provided that information last week. There is nothing new here, and it has been ongoing since at least the late 1960's. everything is proceeding just as the Oligarchs have planned.
Fear not. We have congressional elections to look forward to in the Fall. We can all play pretend and feel better.
Where did Stoller provide it (got a link)? I've checked his usual hangouts and see nothing.
Ugh. I wonder what the capacity for mutiny is in the NATO c-o-c. How many James Blunts are in the US military, or more importantly, the CIA paramilitary units?
How is it the people of the world are letting these same fucking idiots stay in power and make endless war? How is it the largest international banksters are not only safe in their lairs, bu tspreading private central banking which may, in fact, be largely owned by the Rothschilds and other European {well, mostly Jewish, apparently} banking dynasties?
But I think all this Ukraine stuff is overblown. USraeli assets need to be free for that Iran war. Zbig's crew hasn't vanquished the neocons...and the heavy neocon presence in the Ukraine shit indicates to me that they intend to "tie russia up" then ramp up assistance to terrorist mercenaries in Syria, and then going for Iran's nuclear energy sites as cover while trying to engineer a coup in Tehran.
We'll see. The Realists, so called, may have the upper hand, and they may go full court press on Ukraine to simply focus on Russia as the only US rival, but I think the Jewish/Zionist cabal's Israel-centric focus simply views Russia only relative to Israel's regional hegemony, and could well live with merely tying Russia up enough to limit its ability to assist Syria or Iran.
either way, it's bad for the rest of us.
Israel tried to provoke US war against Russia in Syria,
but perhaps realized Israel could lose that war in Syria,
too uncertain and dangerous, so close to Israel, so,
Israel now trying to provoke US war against Russia in Ukraine.
Presumably all for the purpose of weakening Russia,
making subsequent war in Syria less dangerous for Israel,
before US and Israel attacking Iran.
Now, MAYBE to divert attention from this:
The Public Be Suckered
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1230886
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nice try!!!
now go back to your cave in foggy bottom,...
"Every major international crisis for the past century or more has ended with an even greater consolidation of world power into the hands of the few, and this is no accident."
He could have been talking about the FED
Can anyone here name a war that wasn't started by bankers, politicians, or elite family's?
We all know what the problem is, we really should do something about it.
Duh, Since everybody including some nations that actually still have governments operating them know that the globalists at the top of the pyramid are the enemies of their nations and persons don't ya think they and their family members, relatives, assets and so forth, will be targeted individually in a hertbeat next time things erupt.
I doubt Putin is a buddy for the global financial rulers. He wants to do away with the U.S. dollar, which might fit their plans, but he keeps talking this "Rule of Law" nonsense. You know that he means a representative from each country, in something like the United Nations, would make rules that would effect the financial elite. I see Putin getting shot by a sniper, he better have something like the Pope-mobile.
great youtube clip from anthony sutton above.
a great mind sharp and died of a mossad heart attack?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1_yL9dZ8uk
...When one studies history, all events seem to revolve around the applications and degenerations of war....
When one studies history all events revolve around the application and degeneration of POWER plays, and war is an expression of that as the ONLY outcome that suits those WHO BELIEVE in social darwinism; aka Manifest Destiny as White Man's burden. (Or yellow man's burden tomorrow, I am not colour fixated.)
I'm sure Caesar felt that way when he herd thinned Gaul and couldn't undestand WHY ROme's Oligarchy didn't accept his "fait accompli" won on field of battle; as the new God of War.
Until the Ides of March reminded the original Potus that what was top dog lay bleeding on the floor in front of the effigy of previous top dog. (Its a dog's world for sure at the top of that stinking heap of "devil take the hindmost" amongst the Dons; dirty dogs of war of this world).
As Clausewitz said very appropriately war is diplomacy by other means. As the Popes said before him : war is the expression of God's will so that good triumphs over evil. You can't go wrong when God rides besides you. (You can, as history proved.)
So when you are God's representative on earth or of Secular God of Nation State, which is the expression of ultimate good that tolerates no contradiction like the Ecclesiatic Pope of old (or the Ayatollah today), you have JUSTICE on your side, as you incarnate it : Unversal rights of man...(or of the Sharia if you are that-a-way bent).
Double mystification "God wills it" is now replaced by : Humanity wills it!
And, Potus is Pope of Humanitas (don't confuse the issue by raising Patriot act and examples of wanton disregard of human rights like in 'Nam, in Iran of Shah, and in Iraq of ultimate scourge of NWO's mantra all mystified by WMD dictat of GWB.
We are now going down a road from which there is no fall back position. That is the ultimate sin of the sons of Chrisopher Columbus's discovery of new continent who thought they had inherited the "land of the free".
great post.
but, where's your optimism!?!
if it's going to get bad soon, that only means it's good now (so enjoy it while you can) and it will get better eventually (after the worst is over).
I love your irrationally optimistic way of looking at possible mass murders that we probably would not survive, trader1. I sympathize with finding ways to not emotionally accept otherwise compelling logical conclusions! I find I tend to do that a lot of the time too!
Attempts to PRIVATIZE GOD were at the root of all the rest of the runaway social pyramid systems, which have resulted in psychopathic and sociopathic ruling classes being able to force debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, to dominate human history more and more, at an exponentially accelerating rate, throughout all known human history.
As another comment of mine here argued, the psychotic Privatization of God, led the way to attempts to privatize the environment, in ways which end up killing planet Earth. However, those people who were the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, have been able to control civilization! Following through their agenda is what we were all born into, and have mostly supported, to the degree that our own personal lives would be "successful" within those social pyramid systems.
In my view, all human realities are always organized lies, operating organized robberies, and the only real solutions are better dynamic equilibria between those systems. However, at the present time, and for quite a while, the international banksters have become so overwhelmingly successful in controlling civilization through legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, that there is barely any good balance left with respect to the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut that they have been able to make and maintain. (However, I also believe that monster has become magnified by so many orders of magnitude, due to advancing technology, that the banksters are now way too criminally insane, and so, have lost effective control over the systems that they originally created.)
+1
but, what is the root at the attempts to privatize god?
Render unto Caesar
are not the international banksters simply a mirror of (a certain fraction of) humanity's desires? who or what enables them to continue performing "god's work"?
in my "irrationally optimistic way", i find it difficult to accept that the usual suspects alone wield power and control over their fellow brothers/sisters and children. we are all an accessory and interdependent part of that game, allowing it to unfold in both "good" and "bad" ways. we can trace these roots back to the early developments of agriculture.
It is all bankster collectivism: We pay, they collect.
Time to make them pay the head collection basket.
The American people's first and foremost weapon is to just quit paying, Let them try to maintain their house of cards ponzi without the stolen labor and wealth of their victims, the American people. They can't.
Then just quit obeying and playing.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying , quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: Is there really any place for these sociopaths and criminals in a restored civil and Constitutional society?!
Restoration: Restore the Constitutional republic.
Fantastic article Brandon!
You nailed it. This article deserves to go viral.
Your analysis of the Globalist's template and their current criminal acts needs to be distributed everywhere. Well done.
Yeah, I agreed with almost everything that this article stated, but then it did not attempt proposing much in the way of "solutions" to these problems, which would have then revealed that Brandon Smith is another classic reactionary revolutionary, or one of the Black Sheep, who try to lead the masses of Zombie Sheeple towards becoming better Sheeple, as the way to resolve the problem that they are controlled by the Vicious Wolves operating within the current human ecology and political economy systems.
A deeper analysis of the history of warfare, which created the War Kings, and their sovereign states, whose powers are controlled by the Fraud Kings, reveals that money is necessarily backed by murder, because the debt controls are backed by the death controls. Such a deeper analysis leads towards recognizing that governments are the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, and therefore, the ONLY genuinely possible better resolutions to these kinds of current runaway problems would be for human ecology and political economy to develop better death controls, through the unitary mechanisms of better organized crime.
It is the history of militarisms which made and maintained the kinds of situations we currently see in Syria and the Ukraine, as the most recent examples of flash points for those forces to ignite. The PARADOXES we face are due to progress in science and technologies driving social pyramid systems, controlled by the people who were the best at being dishonest and backing that up with violence, to become runaway CRIMINALLY INSANE! However, at the same time, almost all of the different kinds of Black Sheeple, as illustrated by the kinds of reactionary revoutions that guys like Brando Smith promote in his series of articles, never come within a light year of providing better death controls, to replace the current murder systems, as operated by the current human ruling classes.
Of course, I somewhat sympathize with getting stuck at that relatively superficial level of analysis, because then one can continue to offer simplistic solutions, in the form of promoting impossible ideals. AFTER one does a deeper analysis, then the prospects for genuinely better resolutions to human problems become trillions of times more difficult to consider, since there is nothing else than better death controls which could make that possible, while those would continue to many orders of magnitude more difficult and dangerous that are even possible to comprehend, given that THE REAL WORLD IS ALREADY GLOBALIZED ELECTRONIC FRAUDS, BACKED BY ATOMIC BOMBS, WHICH IS ENGAGED IN THE CRIMINALLY INSANE PROJECT OF ATTEMPTING TO CONSOLIDATE ITS HEGEMONY.
Death Controls? What is your solution to the problem, specifically...?
I'll second that.
runningman18, I have replied at least a dozen times to that same question asked previously on Zero Hedge, and so, I will copy and paste the last time I answered:
"Death controls" are the production of destruction, that includes everything from weeding a garden, to cold-blooded, calculated murder on a battle field. Overall, true birth control is to encourage a process to develop, by saying "yes" to it, and backing that affirmation up. Real death controls are to discourage a process to develop, by saying "no" to it, and backing that negation up.
For the sake of "better death controls," better perceptions and language about that would be a first step. For instance, most of what we call "birth controls" are actually forms of death control, because those stop something happening. That is, what we call "birth control" is mostly a deliberate production of destruction, that stops processes that otherwise would happen. Birth controls are the most efficient and effective forms of death controls. However, since our language tends to talk about everything backwards, we talk about those backwards.
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE PERCEIVED IN THE OVERALL CONTEXT OF THE SUPREME IDEOLOGY OF MILITARISM. That includes "family planning" which is now discussed through the bullshit language of "human rights," rather than through more realistic human ecology. In that context, I recommend a "democratization of the death controls," or a "decentralization of the death controls," however, that is mostly pie-in-the-sky day dreaming, since we are headed in the opposite direction, with all our ecologies becoming more damage and distorted, rather than improved. The GRAND CANYON GAP between advancing science and technologies, versus societies still controlled by obsolete ideologies and religions is GROWING, while there are no politically possible ways to stop that getting worse, faster.
People becoming more aware of what they kill to live, to provide their food, would be good ideas. An approximate ideal is that one should kill the minimum necessary to stay alive. However, as with all ideals, when one examines that more closely, there opens up infinite tunnels of self-referential problems through itself, which make that quite complex to consider.
What I mean by the phrase "death controls," manifests inside the context of a general theory of artificial selection, as that exists when human beings operate relatively more self-aware natural selection processes. Natural selection always existed, and as human beings build better mental models of their world, with a model of themselves within their model of their world, they more and more live inside of an artificial environment, inside of the surrounding natural environment, and that human made and maintained artificial environment then operates an artificial selection, inside of the greater context of natural selection. What I try to do is apply the concepts of general energy systems, and evolutionary ecologies to human politics.
Clearly, financial investing is an expression through political economy of both true birth controls, and real death controls. However, the language about that has tended to be deliberately divorced from the reproduction of human beings. In general, the bigger problem is that our current political economy is dominated by frauds, which get away with their political economy ignoring the overall environmental ecology as much as possible. For instance, the air in the atmosphere is still mostly treated as a free resource, and water was too, for a long time, until that is not so much the case now. We are backing up into a collision with the limits of the environment in crazy ways, because we operate a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, in which context the banksters are the masters of that Bizarro Mirror World way of thinking.
Since, in our currently crazy kind of Neolithic Civilization, the air we breathe is treated as a free resource to consume and to pollute, our civilization places almost no value on the ecologies of the oceans, despite the fact that more than half the air we breathe is produced by the phytoplankton in the seas. Therefore, we are collectively destroying the oceanic ecologies, and thereby seriously diminishing the ability of the phytoplankton to live. However, as is typically the case, since there is more than a Century of abundance of air stored up in our atmosphere, we act with evil deliberate ignorance towards the eventual destruction of the ability to renew our air supplies, as well as act with evil deliberate ignorance towards the longer term consequences of polluting the atmosphere. Since the air we breathe, and the water we drink, are even more important than the food we eat, the same concepts as apply to the ethics of food production, and killing to live, apply to the air and water supplies, and so too, the general ways that our current civilization acts with evil deliberate ignorance towards all those facts is typical of our times. After all, the banksters are the best organized gangs of criminals, who most get away with separating the murders that the money system causes from the profits and bonuses those processes distribute.
In particular, the international banksters are constantly engineering and promoting wars based on deceits, which are designed to advance their debt slavery systems. Mostly, the public is not aware of that, and those international banksters usually get away with doing what this article by Brandon Smith correctly outlined is the real situation behind the scenes, as those are presented by the mass media to the majority of manipulated muppets, by the political puppets whose strings are being pulled by the international banksters. As a couple of famous saying go: "War is a racket." And, "War is the harvest of the bankers."
Money is measurement backed by murder, because the debt controls depend on the death controls. The banksters are the biggest gangsters, who get away with operating the real death control systems, in ways that the majority of people are never aware of. However, there ARE chronic political problems, which DO require some resolutions. The banksters have provided the most expedient sets of solutions, which benefit them. But nevertheless, since the chronic political problems always necessarily still exist, as long as any human beings survive, and since there has been progress in science and technology, we "should" go through profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we think about our death control systems. BUT, that is practically impossible, given that the current systems are operated by people who are the best at lying about what they are actually doing, while they are opposed by people who say that nobody should do that.
"Better death controls" are theoretically based on a greater use of information, enabling a higher consciousness, about how human being operate their artificial selection systems with natural selection systems. However, it is practically guaranteed that what we are actually going to get instead are runaway death insanities, as the consequences of the banksters driving runaway debt insanities.
The situation is fairly straightforward.
The accused are perpetrators of crimes against humanity. They need to be arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced. There is precedence in the Nuremberg trials.
This is a war being waged against the people and resources of the entire planet.
The key is understanding that these are early stages of awareness of an immense and devious crime. It appears to go to the root of most of humanity’s misery and destruction for the last 200 years or more. The enemy is only now being identified. It cannot be apprehended until it is clearly identified, revealed, isolated and confronted.
A continual broadcast of how they effect their criminal destruction is essential to achieving the critical mass of awareness needed to effect a viable arrest and prosecution by their past, current and intended victims. This article is an excellent tool in expanding this awareness by both identifying the perps and preventing target victims from being further drawn into the manipulative scam.
These vicious wolves need to be identified and put down by the ranchers that we are because we are no longer sheeple, nor will be all the victims freed by an ever-expanding awareness.
The voice box, the soap box, the ballot box or the ammo box. The rule of law is embraced and protected by the righteous through the entire spectrum of defense.
Hopelessness and confusion are merely distracting pylons thrown up by the weak or disingenuous on the path to justice.
And justice will be served on the death controllers.
palmereldritch:
The situation is NOT "fairly straightforward" due to the paradoxes inherent in people resolving their conflicts through fighting, which makes deceit become the most important key to success in that context.
I agree with your basic analysis, and the ideals regarding what should be done. However, in practice the banksters are who they are because they descended from the long line of the people who were the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. They have been able to apply the methods of organized crime, to take over control of the political processes, so that we were already born into a deeply entrenched and well-established system of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.
What your comment was recommending is what I refer to as "better death controls" by robbing the robbers back to better balance. However, that drives the paradox that anyone who can rob the robbers, or kill the killers, are then too robbers and killers, which opens up infinite tunnels through that self-referential problem.
Right now, the tragic "justice" that may come is the almost total extinction of the human species, due to its evil deliberate ignorance towards the natural world. The runaway social polarization works together with the destruction of the natural world, and that destruction of the natural world is worse, because "nature bats last:"
http://guymcpherson.com/
The criminal enforcement of the rule of law does not also make the prosecutor a killer or robber.
Your equivalence here appears to be pointless sophistry.
Identify the bad guys and let their deeds speak to their guilt.
Arrest, prosecute and sentence the guilty for crimes against humanity.
It's been done before and can be done again. Except this next time it will be more complete and comprehensive.
Simple.
The paradox of enforcing the rule of law is NOT pointless sophistry.
It is a very practical political problem that nobody guards the guardians. After the methods of organized crime have been applied to take over the political processes, and therefore, capture control of the government that operates the "rule of law," the main problem is that the best organized gangs of criminals give themselves a free pass to break the law, or not be prosecuted. It is easy to get away with crimes when one can control the investigations, and/or prevent the prosecutions of those laws.
Furthermore, after more than a Century of some of the profits from frauds being reinvested in more frauds, through legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, the system as a whole has become terminally sick and insane. The only "fix" requires that that system continue to drive itself through mad self-destruction, after which, MAYBE, some new system could emerge. Otherwise, the established systems are too deeply entrenched for anybody else outside of them to arrest them.
The problem is that a good rule of law requires that the sovereign power be sane and stable. However, we already are inside of a system where the sovereign power in insane, and therefore, extremely unstable. Anybody who attempts to arrest the criminals that control the system is going to automatically be called and treated as a "terrorist" by the criminals that already control the government. The real "rule of law" has already been almost totally subverted by the government being the biggest terrorist organization, rubber stamping unconstitutional laws for it to engage in more terrorism, under the false pretext of fighting terrorism.
It is not pointless sophistry to appreciate that we are already traveling through infinite tunnels of deceits. Rather, facing those paradoxes is necessary to begin to comprehend how much worse are problems really are than any impossible ideals may present themselves as the solutions for.
I said the equivalence in your argument was pointless sophistry and I advocated a rule of law based on criminal prosecution precedence as demonstrated at the trials of Nuremberg.
Don't conflate my criticism of your argument with my proposition to paint me as the hopeless fatalist. I think you have that covered.
I am confident that when enough people see the crime being imposed upon them and have the criminals properly identified then they will act appropriately.
I agree it is insane but the craziness will only end and justice possible when the reality is exposed.
And for the reality to be apparent we need less illusion and more clarity.
This is an infowar not an existential philosophy war.
Like I said before, confusion and hopelessness in this battlefield is a product of the weak or the disingenuous.
Oops, again, another double post.
NICELY DONE SIR.
John McCain is a laughable POS with a life built on cowardly lies. He is a disgrace to the uniform he wore, and to the country he claims to serve. He is living proof that the more gas in a turd, the higher it floats.
There's a saying that 'it takes all kinds to make a world'
He is an example of a kind the world would be better off without.
Finally, an article that makes some sense besides WB7s thread. I think I should add some pertinent perspective. I didn't even recognize ZeroHedge yesterday and I didn't recognize many of the posters. Sure, there were a few folks whom I know to be genuine to ZH and they were basically asking, "Who the fuck are you and where did you come from?" I think those folks were asking the right question? A great many of the long time post contributors have fallen silent. I can appreciate why.
Do you want to know what Russians care about today? Do you want to know what is on their minds? Today is Woman's Day in Russia and they are busy sending each other pictures of flowers.(sort of like Mother's Day in the U.S.) There is no mention of Ukraine or Crimea from my sources. I have tried to broach the subject several times in my own household where a Russian happens to reside but there is not much concern. We seem to be the one's making a big deal out of the whole situation. It seems to be self-loathing manifesting itself in us.
So what to do with ourselves? I suggest that if our "leaders" order us to fight that we refuse to do so. Our Servicemen and women swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about Russia, Ukraine or Crimea or anywhere in the Middle East, or Asia or... What the powers that be fear the most is that we could refuse to fight and kill one another. Sometimes refusing to fight is more dangerous than fighting itself. Only two men to a fight. Those two men would be Obama and Putin and not you or I so let them go to the Octagon. We will watch.
Brandon states, "Putin is NOT your buddy". Brandon is correct and I am glad he said it because it needed to be said and especially around here of late. Many Russians hate him and consider him the biggest crook in the history of their nation. Brandon brings up John McCain.
"Why McCain? I have no idea. All I know is, if this guy shows up in your country, take cover."
I'll say! The problem is that this asshole McCain is always showing up in our country and in our CONgress. He's like a mutating virus. Do these people ever die and just go away? How do these people live such long lives? Are they androids?
We have our own problems here at home to deal with. We know we have problems but what are we going to do about it? Therein lies the rub. There is no easy answer for that is there? Certainly, getting involved in Ukraine is not going to help anything is it? Not unless it triggers a UST dump. This poker hand has been going on for far too long. So, Russia and China, dump your UST and let the chips fall where they may and stop talking about maybe doing it. Collapse the dollar then already. Veteran ZHers know exactly what I am implying.
I think what I learned fom being part of the Ron Paul campaigns and political parties is that you can't fix just part of the system we currently have and say, "There, we fixed it!". No, not at all, it all has to go. So you have cockroaches in your house and you eradicate only half of them. What do you think will inevitably happen? I feel bad for having to say it but given the evidence I would be lying to you if I said we can fix the old broken down hunk of shit we call U.S. Federal government. So what, we have an election and we switch cockroaches?
I will come right out and say it, we need to get rid of the United States federal government as it is. When Treasury defaults, it is going to happen anyway, unless Fort Knox is full of gold. The largest goverment entity I could envision needing is at the state level but even that might be too big in some cases. Whatever the case may be, heading in the opposite direction of global government is the direction we need to go. We can debate that until we are blue in the face but that would be putting the cart before the horse. We would have to discuss the merits and deficiencies of the U.S. Constitution. I find that the Constitution enabled the situation we now have occurring. I know that isn't going to be popular but somebody has to say it.
Forget about Ukraine for a moment. Our problems seem to start right here. We should be able to make the government do what what we want it to do and not have a goverment making us do things we would not normally do, imposing diktats and taxing us all the way to oblivion. That is not what government is supposed to do nor should it be able to be bribed but that is exactly what happens every single time. How do we change that? It would require honor. Do we have any honor left? I think we do here at least otherwise we would not see the frustration we all share.
The frustration has spread though thanks to us. More and more sheeple are starting to turn into people but not nearly enough or at a fast enough rate for our liking. We can't vote or caucus our way out of this current establishment. For all I know our votes do not count anymore anyway. What is that Diebold voting machine? Is it a paper shredder? I know that I have not received a convention call for the DFL Senate District endorsing convention to which I was elected delegate. Even more interesting, all correspondence with the GOP, of which I still technically am an officer of, has stopped. Are you telling me they are not sharing information? I am supposed to believe that they are not the same party? They aren't even asking me for money!
Maybe I don't even care anymore and I am heading in that direction. Maybe I want them to think I don't care.
War, always and everywhere is the people vs their leaders.
I don't disagree. Governement is force and therefore a declaration of war on ourselves. I posed some philosophical questions in that post. I keep asking folks what they want me to do to try to fix it but I have yet to ever hear an answer that makes any sense. We know what we need to do and what needs to be done will not be enjoyable for anyone involved. I do not see another way unless everyone on ZeroHedge decides that enough is enough and just starts harrassing every politician they can get a hold of. That would be a better option but we are going to have to go like never before.
When I started in politics, a lot of Gen Y was pretty young and likely just trying to get a driver's license. Maybe they are ready now? I am Gen X and I have the experience but we never had any numbers and we failed. Gen Y seems to be pretty large. I am willing to consider any other option.
"Today is Woman's Day in Russia and they are busy sending each other pictures of flowers. (Sort of like Mother's Day in the U.S..)"
Thanks for pointing that out, Manipulation.
The gist of your comment I take to be that our ruling classes are using their mass media in NATO countries to try to whip up public hysteria. I know that when I look at the mass media in Canada, there is not the slightest hint about the agenda of the international banksters being behind everything. Rather, every mass media article that I look at is about demonizing the Russians. (Meanwhile, as usual, most Canadians, as well as most Russians, are not yet directly affected, but go on with their normal lives, as best they can.)
Agreed. It is good to see you back RM. It is time to reel ourselves back into the shores of reality. If you are Canadian and I am Minnesotan/Wisconsinite then we can agree that this whole thing with Ukraine is a huge pile of bullshit. The fuckers are trying their damnedest to make it into a huge issue. That's about like starting a shooting war over a U.S. and Canada hockey match. It isn't even our business. I have a Russian wife and it is STILL not my business. Our business is to consider what to do with the cocksuckers who run the central banks of our two nations.
One thing that has never been discussed before is how well folks who live in northern climes actually get along with each other whether it is US or Canada. They want us to hate one another but that is not going to happen. I am not going to hate because some cunt on TV told me I had to think a certain way.
Maybe we ought to fuck with the Canada/U.S. statists? Let's go to Lake of the Woods and set up like we are fishing and do it right on the border. We could just grill out together and have a beer. We could even fish. If we caught a fish, which state would claim it as theirs and require a license? What if the fish swallowed the hook on the Canadian side and I pulled it up on the U.S. side? Does that mean I am breaking the law? Not only that, am I violating international law?(whatever that is) I bet I would be in some sort of violation.
I have no problem with the Canadians I know and consider them friendly and reasonable.
The part that really (t)roubles me, is that Obama was so damn fast in issuing an EO* on 3/6/2014, which sets the stage for a host of moves by the US LEAs -- which, when intrepreted by a Federal Judge 'ad fiat' (as he wills it) to include First Amendment muzzling, or repercussions to select "statements" made by targeted people.
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/06/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-contributing-situation
IOW, not only does this give license to "shut down" or "punish" select individuals, but also organizations -- be they real (in US) or virtual (online) -- that they "don't like".
This is worse than Fascism. It's neo-Feudalism... when you stop to think, and realize that corporate "shares" are transferable to descendants, and thus lead to perpetual trans-generational power and wealth.
J. Edgar definitely pointed the finger the the Bush crime family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSRKenvsMYg
Did 0 Just Declare Martial Law Seizures, Bill of Attainder, Declare Himself Above the Law and Go on Vacation?http://usnvrepcan.blogspot.com/2014/03/did-0-just-declare-martial-law-se...
The only 'war' that is taught in schools today is the American Revolution. There is nothing taught about Napoleon, WWII, Korea, or Vietnam. There may be a bit about pre-WWI, but after the class gets to that point, it is usually late in the year and the teacher no longer has any interest in modern wars. (Not that the books they use over the subjects that well). If we do not teach the lessons of war (and of starting conflicts), we must keep repeating.
until we have a planet where wealth is shared, and poverty and war are ended, and people have a say over their own lives and not some asshole bureaucrat sucking the blood out of them, we wont have peace. will we ever get there. i dont know but if we do it will be thru struggle and fighting for our freedom. not by being passive and expecting things to change on their own. the last thing we need is more managers the last thing
Just beware Ides of March!
This article is fucking awesome.
So there was really no difference between National Socialism and the Bolsheviks. That's awesome
One of the best articles i have read for a while Brandon, thanks for this.
On the face of things as they stand, i do not think they will be a war. It needs to escalate significantly before any real military fire power starts or.......this is a racket which is distracting the masses for something else happening in its wake.
Neither scenario is good......A war does need public backing, so watch for some sort of 9/11 event that creates emotion for the sheeple to back the war.....
Or watch for some sort of significant economic event happening through this distraction.
Here's a mystery: many ZH articles would seem to support Brandon's point of view, and yet a great many are presented from a largely crypto-statist perspective. The recognition of large-scale criminal activity seems to be about as far as The Tyler is willing to go. This is far more than the hoi polloi media offers, true, but the overall impression is that I get is of an individual or organization that is still half-asleep during what may be one of mankind's most pivotal moments.
H. E. Barnes explained all this a long time ago.