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Paul Craig Roberts: The Eroding Character Of The American People
Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts,
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.—Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”
Attorney John W. Whitehead opens a recent posting on his Rutherford Institute website with these words from a song by Bob Dylan. Why don’t all of us feel ashamed? Why only Bob Dylan?
I wonder how many of Bob Dylan’s fans understand what he is telling them. American justice has nothing to do with innocence or guilt. It only has to do with the prosecutor’s conviction rate, which builds his political career. Considering the gullibility of the American people, American jurors are the last people to whom an innocent defendant should trust his fate. The jury will betray the innocent almost every time.
As Lawrence Stratton and I show in our book (2000, 2008) there is no justice in America. We titled our book, “How the Law Was Lost.” It is a description of how the protective features in law that made law a shield of the innocent was transformed over time into a weapon in the hands of the government, a weapon used against the people. The loss of law as a shield occurred prior to 9/11, which “our representative government” used to construct a police state.
The marketing department of our publisher did not appreciate our title and instead came up with “The Tyranny of Good Intentions.” We asked what this title meant. The marketing department answered that we showed that the war on crime, which gave us the abuses of RICO, the war on child abusers, which gave us show trials of total innocents that bested Joseph Stalin’s show trials of the heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the war on drugs, which gave “Freedom and Democracy America” broken families and by far the highest incarceration rate in the world all resulted from good intentions to combat crime, to combat drugs, and to combat child abuse. The publisher’s title apparently succeeded, because 15 years later the book is still in print. It has sold enough copies over these years that, had the sales occurred upon publication would have made the book a “best seller.” The book, had it been a best seller, would have gained more attention, and perhaps law schools and bar associations could have used it to hold the police state at bay.
Whitehead documents how hard a not guilty verdict is to come by for an innocent defendant. Even if the falsely accused defendant and his attorney survive the prosecutor’s pressure to negotiate a plea bargain and arrive at a trial, they are confronted with jurors who are unable to doubt prosecutors, police, or witnesses paid to lie against the innocent defendant. Jurors even convicted the few survivors of the Clinton regime’s assault on the Branch Davidians of Waco, the few who were not gassed, shot, or burned to death by US federal forces. This religious sect was demonized by Washington and the presstitute media as child abusers who were manufacturing automatic weapons while they raped children. The charges proved to be false, like Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” and so forth, but only after all of the innocents were dead or in prison.
The question is: why do Americans not only sit silently while the lives of innocents are destroyed, but also actually support the destruction of the lives of innocents? Why do Americans believe “official sources” despite the proven fact that “official sources” lie repeatedly and never tell the truth?
The only conclusion that one can come to is that the American people have failed. We have failed Justice. We have failed Mercy. We have failed the US Constitution. We have failed Truth. We have failed Democracy and representative government. We have failed ourselves and humanity. We have failed the confidence that our Founding Fathers put in us. We have failed God. If we ever had the character that we are told we had, we have obviously lost it. Little, if anything, remains of the “American character.”
Was the American character present in the torture prisons of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and hidden CIA torture dungeons where US military and CIA personnel provided photographic evidence of their delight in torturing and abusing prisoners? Official reports have concluded that along with torture went rape, sodomy, and murder. All of this was presided over by American psychologists with Ph.D. degrees.
We see the same inhumanity in the American police who respond to women children, the elderly, the physically and mentally handicapped, with gratuitous violence. For no reason whatsoever, police murder, taser, beat, and abuse US citizens. Every day there are more reports, and despite the reports the violence goes on and on and on. Clearly, the police enjoy inflicting pain and death on citizens whom the police are supposed to serve and protect. There have always been bullies in the police force, but the wanton police violence of our time indicates a complete collapse of the American character.
The failure of the American character has had tremendous and disastrous consequences for ourselves and for the world. At home Americans have a police state in which all Constitutional protections have vanished. Abroad, Iraq and Libya, two formerly prosperous countries, have been destroyed. Libya no longer exists as a country. One million dead Iraqis, four million displaced abroad, hundreds of thousands of orphans and birth defects from the American ordnance, and continuing ongoing violence from factions fighting over the remains. These facts are incontestable. Yet the United States Government claims to have brought “freedom and democracy” to Iraq. “Mission accomplished,” declared one of the mass murderers of the 21st century, George W. Bush.
The question is: how can the US government make such an obviously false outrageous claim without being shouted down by the rest of the world and by its own population? Is the answer that good character has disappeared from the world?
Or is the rest of the world too afraid to protest? Washington can force supposedly sovereign countries to acquiesce to its will or be cut off from the international payments mechanism that Washington controls, and/or be sanctioned, and/or be bombed, droned, or invaded, and/or be assassinated or overthrown in a coup. On the entire planet Earth there are only two countries capable of standing up to Washington, Russia and China, and neither wants to stand up if they can avoid it.
For whatever the reasons, not only Americans but most of the world as well accommodate Washington’s evil and are thereby complicit in the evil. Those humans with a moral conscience are gradually being positioned by Washington and London as “domestic extremists” who might have to be rounded up and placed in detention centers. Examine the recent statements by General Wesley Clark and British Prime Minister Cameron and remember Janet Napolitano’s statement that the Department of Homeland Security has shifted its focus from terrorists to domestic extremists, an undefined and open-ended term.
Americans with good character are being maneuvered into a position of helplessness. As John Whitehead makes clear, the American people cannot even prevent “their police,” paid by their tax payments, from murdering 3 Americans each day, and this is only the officially reported murders. The actual account is likely higher.
What Whitehead describes and what I have noticed for many years is that the American people have lost, in addition to their own sense of truth and falsity, any sense of mercy and justice for other peoples. Americans accept no sense of responsibility for the millions of peoples that Washington has exterminated over the past two decades dating back to the second term of Clinton. Every one of the millions of deaths is based on a Washington lie.
When Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, was asked if the Clinton’s regime’s sanctions, which had claimed the lives of 500,000 Iraqi children, were justified, she obviously expected no outrage from the American people when she replied in the affirmative.
Americans need to face the facts. The loss of character means the loss of liberty and the transformation of government into a criminal enterprise.
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So if he was not a Nazi then who the fuck built the Nazi war machine the easter bunny.
Ford also built and operated the largest auto manufacturing plant in the world in the USSR in 1926. In the 50s near the height of the staged Cold War Ford set up a massive 'heavy truck' plant in the USSR. (Heavy truck as in armored vehicles and tanks.) The whole show has always been a staged red team/blue team both sides run by the Globalists.
You mean the same Henry Ford who was a Nazi Sympathizer and enabler?
And Steve Jobs who stole the idea of the Mac with its GUI and mouse from Xerox, turning mass produced Chinese made computers into overpriced, fetishistic, fashion accessories for the elites and Hollywood and then prepped a butt fucker to take over the company after he shuffled off his mortal coil only to have said butt fucker do nothing to progress what had been done in the past except for one thing. A so called "Smart Watch" that looks like a 1979 Armitron LED watch that burns people and needs to be charged every day.
Yeah....American dream, baby.
You are disurbed.
In Accordance with the Masters, we'll need to take away your guns.
>>>You are disturbed.
FWIW, if the US State Department deems that you are disturbed, senile, or otherwise not quite right in the head, THEY WILL NOT PERMIT a renunciation of your US citizenship.
Guess I'd better get cracking....
But Steve invented the ipod!
Errr... nope...stole that too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Kramer
In the late '70's I had a new, high tech, digital watch that cost something like $20. It had red digital numbers and an alarm! I was visiting cousins in Kansas City, Kansas and they invited me to a pool. So I went. I forgot I had the watch on and dove into the pool. As I hit the water, I felt my wrist burn, so I immeditely surfaced and started to unhook the watch. The thing started to make a whining noise and the burning intensified. I got the strap off and tossed it up to the concrete along the pool. Mid-air it essentially exploded like a Maxwell Smart bomb. Had plastic embedded in my forehead, cheeks and nose.
The greatest thing at that time was the new calculator. I stayed with the sliderule after the explosion for another three or four years.
My dad brought a calculator home from work in the 1970's. It cost $500 which would probably put it at least 3 time that cost in todays dollars. It could add, subtract, multiply and divide. Nothing else. less that 10 years later I could buy one that did so much more for less that $15.
ALL MUST BOW BEFORE ME.
I had a calculator in 1976 that did multiplication, division, addition, subtraction AND square roots in 1976.
Iwas the envy of hwat is called today the nerd squad. (Back then were known as 'those pussies that need to get their asses beat"
To all, seemed liek the entire world, that beat my ass.
You're making about $10 an hour if you're working, or $28 an hour if on aid...I make the equivalent of $40 an hour to pay you to sit on you rass. You know it, I know it and we're both on the same side these days. When you snap, I may have an extra weapon you can 'steal' from me.
I'm on your side. I want you fully locked, loaded and ready to fire...twelve years in the redneck riviera will change your outlook on 'good ol' boys' and rednecks in general, really fucking quick. These are my adopted people. As an outcast SoCal Desert kid, these people tried to adopt me. Sadly, I was ashamed, in 1979, that I had nothing to offer them
Jobs did not steal anything from Xerox. The dumb fuckers invited him in.
He tyook what was offered. Otherwise, don't you think they would have sued him over it?
The real thief was Gates, who copied and cloned source code from the Mac for Windows.
Get it striaght. Jobs was the inventor. Gates a two-bit thug.
"Jobs did not steal anything from Xerox. The dumb fuckers invited him in.
He tyook what was offered. Otherwise, don't you think they would have sued him over it?
The real thief was Gates, who copied and cloned source code from the Mac for Windows.
Get it striaght. Jobs was the inventor. Gates a two-bit thug. "
Jobs was not an inventor, he was a hustler and a con artist who got damned lucky more than once.
Xerox got had. The Woz got had. Jobs woulda made damned good bones just with those two scores; but, he had more down the line even before we consider offshoring, shirking domicile taxation, and getting into bed with the MIC/Police State apparatuses to sell out his 'customer base'.
...& when Jobs fucked up he fucked up big, and when he fucked up big he didn't understand that he was fucking up or didn't know when to admit he was fucking up and/or stop.
Jobs got his ass totally handed to him during the Clone Wars. He almost destroyed Apple with bad decisions and lack of innovation sans situations like Xerox to appropriate from and people like Wozniak to capitalize on whilst giving short shrift in the pay-packets.
He got ousted from Apple after he ran the Xerox and Woz factors dry, and never got back in until he had manuovered the appropriation of BeOS which had most of the core GUI elements and gesture interpreting of the contemporary OSX and iOS systems to take back with him. BeOS was even better than the OSX and iOS swiping gesture interpretation tricks and file hierarchies: it was predicated on data being in a three dimensional globe that could be spun round and round, burrowed into and introspected with icon perspective, ect..
Fuck Jobs. Good riddance.
Too bad he couldn't have dragged Gates and Balmer and a few dozen others right down into hell with him...
" Jobs did not steal anything from Xerox. The dumb fuckers invited him in.
He tyook what was offered. Otherwise, don't you think they would have sued him over it?
The real thief was Gates, who copied and cloned source code from the Mac for Windows.
Get it striaght. Jobs was the inventor. Gates a two-bit thug. "
Absolutely correct about Gates. A true abomination.
But...BULLSHIT about Jobs. STEVE WOZNIAK, was the inventor. Jobs was just an LSD addled pitchman. There is a DAMN good reason that there is a term for Job's mode of bullshit. " THE STEVE JOB'S REALITY DISTORTION FIELD"
All you Ford-bashers are working for the Zionists. The real reason you attack Ford is that he named the Jew.
Cannot recommend this Ford documentary enough:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2329934360/
Although he was an autocrat (pun intended), his views on banking align with readers here, and his melting pot ceremony is ludacrously entertaining.
Why such a down vote?
Henry Ford and Steve Jobs created nothing of value?
Germans invented the car . not Henry Ford. Steve Jobs didn't invent the smartphone. Palm did. and I had smartphones 5 years before there was a crappy iphone.
Samsung actually was the leader.
iphones are crippled over priced crap. but most people are too tech stupid to know that.
The only Apple I own can be peeled.
iPhone 6?
Henry Ford perfected the assembly line. That was his contribution. Even Ford would not claim inventing the automobile.
Ford also tried to pay his workers a decent wage, but was defeated by Jewish pressure from his corporate board--a lawsuit claiming that the prime reason for corporate effort was the bottom line was won, and Ford's more humane and generous instincts were defeated. Learn something, folks. Catholics who keep wailing about a "living wage" but who ignore the history of Tribal war against the living wage are clueless.
But plenty of idiots think he did invent the automobile. Recorded history is not an accurate picture of the past, its a figment of the majority view. The majority have been getting consistantly more ignorant.
Control the present = control the past. Control the past = control the future.
"Steve Jobs didn't invent the smartphone. Palm did. "
Indeed.
ATT&T was selling fully functional MP3 players for years before Apple got into the game. E-Mu branded devices in the US as well long befor Apple.
It was simply too early: there was not enough bandwidth or access to what existed for online distribution prior to the point Apple jumped in with iTunes.
iTunes is probably Apple's greatest technological and cultural accomplishment. But it was a matter of timing and the concurrent develpement of distribution infrastructure: the www is what iTunes -thus: Apple, rode in on...
IF Apple or E-Mu had managed to generate a distribution platform such as iTunes first Apple would still be a niche player.
" Why such a down vote?
Henry Ford and Steve Jobs created nothing of value? "
< smack on my forehead >..... Son, you must be a product of the public school system.
Here's a little lesson. No, Henry Ford and Steve Jobs did NOT create anything of value. What they created was something that was VALUE ADDED .
God, or if you will, Nature, created everthing in the universe and ONLY those things that have any value whatsoever. Man cannot create anything from scratch. We can only ADD value. And that value is HIGHLY, HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE.
There's an old adage. " One man's paradise is another man's hell ". Another.... " One man's pleasure is another man's poison."
Look what we have done to the world through the industrialization process perfected by Ford and mutated by Jobs.
Sure....you might say we have a better life because of these processes and technologies that Ford and Jobs brought to the world ( and of course many others like them worldwide )
But are we BETTER humans ?
" One man's paradise is another man's hell "
I think I should add to your argument, I recieved a posted item to go get a package at the post office, as I live in a foreign land all is a bit strange to me, but not totally, I went and picked it up, good thing I had the foresight to photograph the barcode with my phone (an old piece of shit phone, not a smart phone) before i left. I got there and was told in this foreign language that I should go down the hall and put my barcode into a machine/give it to a person, I was not sure, well, dealing with a foreign language and looking for another counter (which is what I mis-understood) cost me another 15 min. Then I seen the machines, they were facing me the whole time, I had played with the one for a while, I had no luck, then I chanced on an employee passing who asked if I needed help, I said yes, I needed to get out of there.
He told me to hold my barcode up to this other machine in the centre of the room, not the one I was at. Like I should know which machine to use. Anyway, I got my parcel, he watched me get it and smiled, most likely thinking dumb fuck foreigner. but then I said this is a great machine, to which he said 'NO' it is taking our jobs away ! Did you not notice the empty checkpoints when you went in ? I said yes, and I understand, he carried on then with his job at hand.
It's called 'The American Dream' because you have to be alseep to believe it.
George Carlin
Damn it, George. You died WAY too soon. We need you here more than ever.
He's here on YouTube.
But nobody does anything about the situation, all western men have become too pussyfied as well as pussywhipped.
We're waiting for you to put down the Cheetos and root beer.
Thanks for validating his thought, shovelshit. Why are you waiting for him to do anything ?
I don't know what root beer is, could not bother to look it up, highly unlikely it is even a beer, being an AmeriNazi thing. Cheetos, well I do not buy any products made, backed by izraHELL or the USSA.
Classic cultural marxist bullshit.
Might have something to do with WW2.
Feminized America.... ain't it wonderful all you bi-guys?
Yep Feminism plain and simple. Once the Feminist joined forces with the socialist equal rights movement and then took it over the majority population of America then became a race of people divided down gender lines. Far too many White Women joined their new minority allies in looting, berating and rediculing the White Man and had the numbers to do it from the ballot box.
Of course it was White Men who allowed Feminism to get a foot hold, universal suffrage, all the time saving technlogy, greed for more workers, etc. so in the end perhaps it was our own Male hormones that did us in.
work for reform, however small, wherever possible.
be ready for, be able to recognize, the moment of irrevocability.
good luck.
I am usually just cusing on here blowing steam but your's is a solid comment. fino or manzanilla
I have always liked Mr Roberts. Waco WOKE me up I can tell you that. It was a BIG LIE and after the Holocaust at Waco Bill Clinton, at the end of the News Coference the camera followed him for a bit and it showed him LAUGHING with Ron Brown. That is why the late Anthony Jacob said our enemies are DEVILS, not angels. (WHITE MAN, THINK AGAIN! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965)
But I might disagree with the learned Mr Roberts when he says the American people failed. I don't think so, let me give an example and then just adjust it to politics and all the rest,
Jenji Kohan and the Jewish Hyper-Sexualization of Western Culture
Hollywood is for the masses who simply dont read.
If you are too lazy to find information for yourself and let someone spoon-feed it to you, they'll feed you what will benefit themselves, not you.
Books? Who said books? You mean reading books? Let me throw a couple out there:
I read 'The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America' last year, it was published 50+ years ago by a very recommended writer and accomplished historian. Boorstin's observations are truer today and even more concerning thanks to our modern, ubiquitous "connectivity".
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159979.The_Image
Another by Boorstin, The Discoverers was my fav, like Bryson's 'Short History' on steroids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin
I'm currently trying to fathom all of the historical implications of the claims Menzies is making in his book '1434', where apparently everything I learned about history is a lie. While he's making a lot of claims(hoping some sticks?) I'm not truly convinced. It is a very good, believable thought experiment. It almost makes perfect sense given the anglo/euro history of deceit & dishonesty, but I digress:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies
This one took a long time to grok, Dr Mandelbrot tried to warn us:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665134.The_Mis_Behavior_of_Markets#
Benoit's friend & protege tried to warn us too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_%282007_book%29
Put them together and you get the financial meltdown's 'Don't say we didn't warn you' manifesto from 2006(not a book, but a compelling read):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5372968a-ba82-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html
OK, I'm tired. Time to unplug.
Boorstin is an American Treasure. The Discoverers was my favorite as well.
Dad's gone now. But listen to this logic. Think I'm not fucked up?
" Did you know Jerry Lewis is a Jew? No. Well he is. Most of them are Jews. They change their names, to blend in. Really? Yup. You know why he does that telethon? He wants to help kids? Yes he does, Jewish kids. What? Yeah, Jews intermarry, to keep the money in the family. Marry their cousins and such. They would marry their sisters if they could get away with it. And inbreeding causes physical problems. Magnifies the probability of genetic defects. ( where did he learn this shit?!) most of these fucked up kids are Jews. So Jews are bad? No, they just love money. They will will fuck you sideways to get a buck. And you've got no choice but to deal with them. They own everything. Just know going in, your gonna get fucked. And cover your ass. Thanks, Dad, I think?"
I don't "hate" Jews. Hell, I dont " hate " anyone. I just like to know the score going in, and adjust my game. That's why I don't mingle in the ghetto.
I suppose I'm one of the old white guys that needs to die off, so the world is a better place.
Soon enough, I suppose.
You have missed the most important failure; the American people have collectively failed God. Mengele never dreamed of "baby parts harvesting" on a scale of Planned Parenthood. And yet, apologists galore on the left trash the film makers without ever questioning the orthodoxy of killing baby's because it is "convenient" for progressives. Go ahead, talk your way out of this one for the sake of convenience. Words mean nothing anymore and morals mean nothing anymore; secular humanism all the way to hell baby!
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Do you need an invisible man in the sky looking down at you with a threat of eternal damnation before you will refrain from hurting others?
Shame on you.
It's more complicated than that. Everyone who has ever lived is still alive, most have lived several times. Those of us wearing the flesh at the moment have mostly forgotten that because that is one of the basic rules of the incarnation game. Those who are out of the game at present are watching us, and when we exit the game, we get a grade for our behavior.
As for the great spirit, it probably is not particularly aware of our galaxy, much less earth or the actions of individuals. But we do have a local audience and what we do does matter. Materialism, the denial of spatial dimensions beyond the three matter is confined to, is the greatest lie. The so called "enlightenment" was inspired by tribesmen. For good reasons, it was the worst dumbing down of all time. When one truly understands that one is immortal, fear vanishes, and one becomes much harder for tribesmen to control.
Nice thought.
Can you prove it?
So, it's just an opinion then.
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/section...
But logicalman, what if the invisible man in the sky is looking down at me because he needs money? Like, ten percent of my income? I can get eternal life in Happilyeverafterland for just ten frickin' percent? Sounds like a deal to me! Can the IRS do any better?
Everything already belongs to God:
"FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS." - 1Corinthians 10:26
The IRS does far better than 10%. And there is no happiness unless it's alcohol or pharmaceutically induced.
10% actually seems like a bargain these days.
Perhaps you could then explain why the so-called-ass-tro-fake-naughts would not swear on the bible when asked about the moon, as well as that pretty shitty media reception after the moon landings, what? Did CIA stop giving them drugs ? Go figure asswipe.
I mean, if it was me, I would be fucking exstatic.
PCR has is pretty much on the nut. I have two siblings which I refer to as "failed human beings."
Ironically, they are both teachers.
Signficantly, they are both numbskulls, absolute dunces, and care only about themselves.
Our parents didn't raise us to be that way, and I no longer speak with either of them (we're all 55+)
I can only imagine that people of conscience are feeling much the same as I am, but, sadly, there are very few of us.
My solutions has always been to speak my mind, stick to my convictions and face the consequences.
Most people are too afraid of consequences to have a sound moral foundation.
A few years ago I came to work and found my Persian lab assistant crying. For years she helps organize an event every year in Tehran where a group of women take off their burkas in public protest. The last year one woman was jailed and beaten so badly for 3 days she was confined to a wheelchair with palsy. My friend told me she was determined to participate again and nothing could dissuade her determination. She turned to me and asked " Why do Americans have no courage?" I will never forget this. My stammering stream of excuses and empty platitudes sounded so weak I just fell into silence.
There simply is no excuse to allow fear to take such a stranglehold enabling evil to rule the day. If society in USA approaches that of Iran will none of us have the courage to say no? Maybe our narcissistic society is just too far distracted and asleep.
Miffed
It's prime-time for a tyrant to take over the US.
Obama and the other republicrats have ripped up the constitution.
The sheeple are grazing,
Iranian women don't wear Burkas, its a bullshit story.
I watched that video about solar power. It was pretty much bullshit as well.
If society in USA approaches that of Iran
Don't kid yourself.
More denial.
Iran hasn't mass murdered, bombed and destroyed nation state after nation state across half the planet.
Innfiltrated and destroyed whole governments and nations.
And is planning WW3, if that is what it takes, to expand its fascism and corporatism, itscorrupt and rapacious hegemony across every country on the globe..
Iran has its faults but its not a fascist police state - with its prisons bulging.
Whatever happens in Iran - at least they don't export it with brutality and barbarism - as does the great Satan, the new Rome indeed.
In fact the 'sins' of Iran are are nothing to the sins of the most evil empire without parallel, without humanity, in our known history.
The US os A and its puupet master Israel.
Paul Craig Roberts at hi finest.
Iranian women rarely wear burkas. That is primarily a Persion Gulf Coast dress style. They wear chadors (long coats) and hijab (headscarves). The older more conservative women wear black, but the younger women wear any color. The modern chadors have a figure hugging cut leaving little (but just enough) to the imagination. The headscarves are worn as far back as possible revealing as much hair as possible. All in all, a devastating combination. FYI Tehran is also a major center for nose job operations.
We have it good in America for the most part. The most dangerous person is one that has nothing left to lose.
Our secular philosphy of the last 50??? years makes us think that the here, the now, and our lives is all there is. That living a long peacful live trumps living a purposeful, punctuated short one.
We do not realize that everything we say and everthing we do ripples through our world and effects others both good and bad. That message has been replaced by the indoctrination of the philosophy of self and collecting shiny beads.
I can't see why she would think it's an American problem.
I would venture that it's an Iranian problem that they need to address.
In reality, it's a Muslim problem but no one will go against the radical Muslims because they would rather be alive than dead.
And America being the guys in the white hats is more myth than fact.
I say it is more of ignorance and fear.
Ignorant of what freedoms they are giving up because the fear of losing what they have gained in their lives to avoid living in chaos like war torn countries.
Only when the American lifestyle changes drastically will something happen, until then back to your regularly scheduled program...
@ FreeNewEnergy thank you
"The loss of character means the loss of liberty and the transformation of government into a criminal enterprise."
I agree with the first part. As for the latter, "government," by definition, is a criminal enterprise. It doesn't start out pure as the driven snow and then change into something nefarious over time. Its very essence requires the initiation of violence or its threat. Government without the gun in the ribs is a contradiction.
The fact that those in power got more votes than the losing criminals does not magically morph these people into paragons of virtue. They are almost without exception thoroughly deranged human beings. Lying is second nature to them. Looting is part of the job description. Killing is an end to their means: the acquisition and aggrandizement of power over others, no matter how much death and destruction results.
These people are sick bastards. To expect something virtuous from them after an endless string of wanton slaughter, theft and abuse, is simply wishful thinking.
Glad to see others who are in on this little secret. Hopefully this truth will spread.
The last person who should be given power over others is he who wants it.
Government is, by nature, violent and coercive. it is, therefore, criminal.
I couldn't agree more, thanks for posting that.
Mission Accomplished.
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility."
- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
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I agree with Paul Craig Roberts. He asks "Why" and "How." Well, Paul, here is my answer. Decades of Public Education and over 50 years of mass media monopoly. In an age where FOX is the top rated News station and CNN is considered liberal? Where kids in Public school are offered Chocolate milk and frozen pizza for school breakfast before going to class rooms with 30-40 kids. When Texas political appointees chose school text book content for the nation? A nation where service has ended, replaced with volunteer soldiers signing up for pay and benefits, instead of just serving as service, like we did in the 70's?
Paul Craig Roberts points out the police war against the people. That comes right from the very top, orders filter down to street cops. Street Cops are recruited from groups of young men our fathers generation would have labeled mental! But now they are hired across the board, shaved heads, tatoos, and a code of silence and Cops Above Justice.
Schools
Media
Crazed Cops
And a corporate owned government.
The people have allowed the elites to rule in their place, never bothering to question the two fake candidates we are allowed to vote for.
How else could "Democracy" be?
You served as a volunteer and turned down your pay in the service because you were altruistic?
I'm impressed.
JB: we need the NONE OF THE ABOVE selection on ballots. Nullification by ballot.
"We have failed God." --Paul Craig Roberts
...Aaaaaaand that's a wrap. Nice knowin' ya PCR. Best get back to your Sputnik column or prep for your next RT hit, where you can tell audiences that Russian media doesn't do propaganda... they only tell the truth.
P.S. My god can beat up your god.
As opposed to "the goo to you via the zoo" or "nothing plus nothing = everything"; you don't believe that lie, but rather just hate the God of Scripture, just as Darwin did and you will share the same hot room unless you are radically changed.
No, no, no, I have a god, too. And unlike yours, my god is the only true god. Yours is false, and you will pay for your incorrect religious choice by spending an eternity in agonizing muthafuckin' pain. I get to laugh at you and lick ambrosia off angels' teats.
The attack on the things God has ordained and approved by a society is THE recipe for destruction. The attack is focused on the family via, feminism, murder of the unborn, masculinisation of women & feminization of men, and redefining marriage, & no restraints on how to have children...the first and last victims of the destruction of the God-given family covenant. Rome suffered a similar fate. Sodom and Gomorrah were totally destroyed. As the NATURAL family structure goes, so goes the nation because to get there a lot of moral relativism with emotional bias has to be substituted for rational thinking by the masses and it has.
Internet is filled with Christian posts. They all say the same thing. "Do Nothing." Here is one of them:
Gilbert Sanchezcommented on a video on YouTube.
Shared publicly - Jul 22, 2015 Who cares people about this crap , Trust in Jesus Christ . That's all you need to do . Don't worry about this garbage , and don't let this stuff scare you . For these things have to come to place ...
Allah wills it.
I learned quickly down South that when a man tells you unprompted he is a Christian, you can count on him being a liar and a thief.
Same thing in the north, Slick.
Boobus Americanus has always been this way. Just look at the Civil War, the militarism at the turn of the 19th Century and WWI, and the fanatical jingoism of WWII and after.
But the truth is that this has been on the decline and things are changing. Still, it is amusing to see true believers in the State like Paul Craig Roberts trying to blame "the people" (330 million individuals collectively) for the ills caused by the aristocratic class of the USA.
Adorno famously pointed out in 1940 that the "Mass culture is psychoanalysis in reverse." It takes 75 years for someone such as PCR to reiterate. He doesn't blame the masses because he simply points out the fact that Americans are completely ignorant and blindly believe anything MSM spoon-fed to them. George Orwell once remarked that the average person today is about as naive as was the average person in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of what Adorno called Culture Industry and MSM, no matter what. Today we are indeed in another Dark Age
"Americans" are not one person. Individuals are not fungible.
Reasoning from the "average American" leads to false conclusions.
Jacques Derrida says, "The individualism of technological civilization relies precisely on a misunderstanding of the unique self. It is the individualism of a role and not of a person. In other words it might be called the individualism of a masque or persona, a character [personnage] and not a person." There are many Americans but they all play the same role in the Pursuit of Happiness, aka wage slaves, career slaves, debt slaves, information junkies, and passive consumers.
Derrida and Adorno--two Jews who loathed and deprecated the West.
I thought information junkies were the core participants here. People who (with varying degrees of success) are trying to ascertain what is beneath the turtles, or if it is turtles all the way down.
The last turtle is standing on a rock.
I looked.
Paul Craig Roberts believe that the people are capable of creating a better and more just society. Instead the people have voted against their own best interest and overwhelmingly believe the propaganda. When do the people or the society take responsibility for its greater good or own the crimes of those they put into power? Blaming the aristocracy or the oligarchs seems like a scapegoat when the people have never stood up to the corruption in a cohesive or concerted way. imho, After a few generations of abuse and corruption the people need to take responsibility for their future. I expect that most will just buy into the charade and live the lie, on that basis as a society we are doomed to live in a corptocracy fascist state. Aldous Huxley called it a scientific dictatorship, Edward Bernays referred to us as a herd.
Protecting the heroes from a sniper's bullet, poison, the devious methods creatively designed to destroy....is all we need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM Hurry it up (50 sec - R. Reagan speech)
The cause of this is due to foreign influence from the dual citizens. Nothing else.
Keep telling yourself that.
Oh, yes. TV. Oprah who encouraged the dysfunctional, those with personality disorders and a penchant for bad behavior to be proud and tell us every detail of our weaknesses and slip ups.
It is nice to read the writing of a patriot who is also a critic. Paul Craig Roberts is a rare breed of dissenter, he is monied, white and lived a life of privledge. All this dissenting truth must make his critics shit their diapers.
Would he be more creditable if he was a crackhead in Brooklyn?
Priviledge implies something being granted that was unearned. What would that be?
In the USA being white, monied and having the capacity to afford a good eduction is privileged. To his credit he speaks to the greater population, the 'average citizen' and not the plutocratic class.
"Paul Craig Roberts" can take his so called "American Character",wrap it up in an American flag.and ram it up his ass with Bob Dylan's harmonica..
Seriously, what the fuck are you doing here?
Hold on henry, Dylan spread the word in a simple format that even the most uncouth Americano could grasp. The ROW could point to him as one of the few positive imports from the warmongering bastard empire.
You reap what you sow has never been more clear and few tears will be shed when the merde that Vichy DC has been dishing out to every corner of the world returns home to roost.
The answer my friend is blowing up your asses.
I always vote innocent if I'm a juror and I always file my lawsuits first.
What we have is the result of conditioning and commoditizing a population.
The country is filled with consumers, not citizens.
Teach the acquisition of money and goods as the main goal and individualism as the only acceptable social unit.
We end up with a nation of insatiable sociopaths, ruled by power-hungry psychopaths.
Divisive politics, jackbooted authority from the DC scumpond down to the cop on the beat, the constant preaching of the cult of the individual as a sustitute for true liberty...
all of these have served to destroy a sense of community and decentness between Americans.
The ONLY thing that could threaten the ruling class is a banding together of the people - in large numbers.
'They' have purposefully and effectively quashed that.
Sadly true but hilarious if you think about it.
It is a cyclical thing I suppose: Sodom and Gomorrah?
You can go as far as the bible to see these patterns in human development. I am not a religious guy of course. Unfortunately (or fortunately) they do not end up well...
I do not think they can be stopped either. We can disapprove of what we witness, we can try to fight it, yet there is absolutely NOTHING we can do succesfully to reverse these trends.
Just wait for the angels and run away beyond the hills without looking back when they come!!!
;-)
You are a poster child for cognitive dissonance.
He he he, Truth seeker, you should open your eyes and just see, then and only then you might find what you seek!!!
I am just realistic, the deterioration of character is pretty much all over, not just in the USA, spreading like a contagion. Not just the character deteriorates. The ability to process information of the human brain is thinning, individual knoledge is shrinking dramatically from one generation to the next, quite facinating. Just confront yourself with a previous generation peer, someone that has a similar background to yours, and remove your pride from the judgement. You will be amazed in detecting how much backward we are going! Almost as if we were loosing depth... I travel a lot, and I do not belong to specific places nor groups, and as an outsider I have a very hard time to explain to insiders the changes I see in their systems everytime I come back.
It is like seeing kids growing up visiting a family at different time intervals. The parents do not see the growth, because they are living it gradually.
Well what we are living as a society is the opposite of growth, no idea why it happens, but you must be blind not to see it, or maybe just too close to it to realize it, just like the parents with their kids changing...
I used to think I had the power to make positive changes in people, even if I had to operate on them one by one, then I realized everything is perfect just as it is.
Humanity goes through cycles like everything else in the universe, I am afraid it will have to get worst before it can get better!!
The bible reference was ironic, I didn't mean to offend anybody by it...
:-)
Ring, ring
Voice: hello I'm calling about your ad for the house in Strongsville for rent.
Me: how can I help you.
Voice: Well my husband and I live in Parma. We rent a two bedroom duplex for $650/month. Your home is beautiful. How much are you asking again?
Me: $1800/month. 3 bedroom Colonial, 2-1/2 bath, with finished basement.
Voice: Oh, that's too expensive, it's just my husband and myself. Can we negotiate a price?
Me: What is your minimum affordable monthly expenses.
Voice: We can swing $950/month.
Me: You have just consumed your utility expenses which is not included in your monthly payment + first and last deposit. Thank you for your call.
Fucking taking calls from Obama tramps (2 weeks long) looking for entitlements. We found a diamond rental catch. Flying back home. Thank God.
Thanks for the downvotes Obama skanks. When you own the deed to a house, we make the rules. We don't live in that home. Go to bank and get a mortgage and play off your 30 year debt with interest.
It'll be great when no one responds to your rent requirements and you have to beg for tenants. It's not too far off.
Fucking rentier.
Damn straight....fuck all rentiers.
He's just a little version of the Bankers. Fuck him and his kind.
I Call You My Base - Nothing wrong being in the property rental business in my eyes. A nation becoming "rentier" is a symptom not a cause. I only have issue with individuals or corps buying out our government and those politicians selling people down the river.
I agree with the Dragon commentator about cycles. Reaching this stage is inevitable and it isnt the first time in US history. I notice a lot of frustration by alternative media folks. I did it myself for awhile. People get burnt out.
I do thank writers and commentators here and elsewhere educating those with an ear. I also try to have some fun these days in this dark carnival cycle. If we are the new Roman empire perhaps one of the Roman's slogans makes sense: "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die."
One can and should look after others in a time of suffering and do what we can. That is enough religion for me and if I helped a few folks thats good enough for me.
All I really want is to all operate with the same set of rules. If as a nation we are not going to there are many other similar places, they nust have an advantage of costing less to live in. But for now staying with the devil I know.
Mainstream monster media the menace of modern mind
Shall propagate then terminate
The hand of death it touches me right between the eyes
You will learn to watch it burn
https://youtu.be/9gfeTsUMJxs
I'm too busy slaving for my wages so I can pay my bills and debts. Don't have time to be superman. The best I can do is make comments on internet articles.
if you can pay your bills in this economy you are a hero
Or a Govenment "worker".
Good for you-
Step one is admitting you have a problem of your own creation.
Step two is getting off the hamster wheel, getting out of debt.
Step three is never getting in debt again- Never buy anything you can't pay for with cash.
The US has become a population of mass degenerates.
Where transgendering is normal thanks to Hollywood, media and the insane liberals running the country.
The MI/bankster complex runs the country with the tacit consent of the sheeple. Last I checked these people were insane neo con fascists, including of course all that upvoted your post.
When you let jews run your society this is what happens.
Go Goy go!!!!!
Shifting responsibility to the usual suspects is simply a manifestation of the American moral collapse. Man up and do some self evaluation.
But we have environmental protection, a lot of "safety", and diversity is our greatest strength.
"what I have noticed for many years is that the American people have lost, in addition to their own sense of truth and falsity, any sense of mercy and justice for other peoples"
Unfortunately, Paul, the American people have lost any sense of mercy and justice for their own people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRDq9nKJ0U
America has given up Christianity - of course Americans are confused and corrupted. They have no moral core any longer.
Don't look for conspiracies of others, or changes to come from above - change yourself.
Huxley described this situation back in 1962, at a Berkley University speech, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, titled The Ultimate Revolution. Google it.
Painful as it may be, we need to rationally look at US history/society. The nascent US was formed by stealing land from the native population and using human capital (read African Slaves) to generate wealth (it took a civil war with circa 500K casualties to stop this- one could argue the US “civil war” never ended). More recently, the US has been almost continuously at war since 1940, we dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Currently, the US/NATO war theater extends from the Levant, to Caspian Basin, Persian Gulf, China Sea, Indian Ocean, Horn of Africa (Saudi/US war on Yemen), the Maghreb and E Europe and Russian Border.
ARRRGGG
Even on here the fucking blame is shifted, For fucks sake wake up, apart from being a good article regarding muricans, it is still fucking garbage to blame MS and corrupt and propagandized schools and the fuck witted retards called politicians.
Fucking tell me I am influenced by the fucking MSM, tell me I can't fucking think for myself, tell me I can't work things out and research, go on fucking tell me, I dare you, I fucking double dare you.
No Americans have turned in fucking 250 lb balls of lard and shit and dribbling fucking faggotry all by themselves, w1ith fucking weak minds and more fucking hysterical female hormones clotting their sotted blood now than you would find in whale ovaries.
Face it, the average American is so fucked up, so weak and fucking helpless they vote for a fucking Kenyan faggot not once but twice.
Real American men would have gone to the neighbors house and dragged the cunt out on the stoop kicking and screaming to give the fucker a lesson on who NOT to vote for, a lesson the cunt wouldn't forget.
When Americans put up with fat smarmy PC raddled faggot obsessed bloated balls of shit whining all day then what the fuck do you think America would turn into.
The fucking irony
They are burning the confederate flag now instead of hoisting over the Whitehouse, now they all volunteered for lifelong grovelling servitude to a fucking faggot monkey.
At least the real men who flew the flag before had the fucking balls to tell the world they were the master.
Who would you rather have at your back, a fucking whining shit for brains academic from Harvard full of his turgid drivel or someone with a fucking backbone.
And if you just happen to be one of those 250 lb balls of lard and shit who wandered over , then get this message too.
Until such time as you wake up and smell the coffee, and start to kick the fucking shit out of every neocon and whining cunt in Washington, then you too can fuck off and die. because I wouldn't lift a fucking finger for you.
And that is why i no longer give a fuck if you do get butchered in your malls and fucking Hollywood propaganda mills.
And to make it doubly clear, I poay no taxes nd will pay no taxes, either to support your fucking stinking waste of oxygen, or the cunts who sell you the shit in your heads.
And I do not fucking work to have the fruits of my labor taken by the fucking IRS gangsters to fucking lend to fucking thieving corrupt scamming fuckers on Wall St at 0.25 % a year.
My fucking labor is worth more than 0.25 % and until such time as these cunts start to treat my fucking labor with a realistic value then they will have none of it.
Okay, now get me that Big Mac I ordered
I noticed a lot of Americans are still hypnotized by the matrix belief that Jesus existed and was mankind's savior.
Yep, and ask anyone why they believe that and they will just cite babblical passages.
Ask anyone on the street , WHEN they decided what religion was best for them and you get a blank stare.
Very few children growing up make a conscious decision about that. They are pushed Buybull fairytales and told ''do not question'' just BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!
"... the transformation of government into a criminal enterprise ..."
Governments were created by the history of warfare, which was always organized crime developing on larger and larger scales. In the context, the greater problem is that people like Paul Craig Roberts are reactionary revolutionaries, who provide relatively good analysis, followed by bogus "solutions" based upon impossible ideals.
The "American People" are the victims of the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy. As Cognitive Dissonance has previously stated on Zero Hedge: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
It is practically impossible to exaggerate the degree to which that is so, on such profound levels, because of the ways that most people want to continue to believe that false fundamental dichotomies and impossible ideals are valid, and should be applied to their problems, despite that those mistaken ideas cause the opposite to happen in the real world, because those who promote those kinds of false fundamental dichotomies and their related impossible ideals, ARE "controlled opposition."
Rather, the place to begin would be by recognizing that all human beings and civilizations must necessarily operate as entropic pumps of energy flows, which necessarily are systems of organized lies operating robberies. Everyone has some power to rob, and power to kill to back that up. Governments assembled and channeled those powers. There was never a time when governments were not organized crime. There could never be any time when governments were not organized crime. The only things that exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. Those dynamic equilibria have become extremely unbalanced due the degree that the best organized gangs of criminals were able to control their opposition.
Paul Craig Roberts, as well as pretty well all of the rest of the content published on Zero Hedge, are presentations of various kinds of controlled opposition groups, most of which do not recognize that they are being controlled by the language that they use, and the philosophy of science that they take for granted. THAT is the greatest failure of the American People, as well as most of the rest of the people everywhere else. They believe in false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, and therefore, their bogus "solutions" always necessarily backfire badly, and cause the opposite to happen in the real world.
After all, the overwhelming vast majority of the American People operate as the controlled opposition to the best organized gangs of criminals that most control the government of the USA. Therefore, the FAILURES of the American People are far more profound and problematic than what is superficially presented by guys like Paul Craig Roberts, and also, of course, his suggested bogus "solutions" are similarly superficial.
The ONLY things which can actually exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. The degree to which the American People, as well as most of the rest of the people in the world, FAIL to understand that is the degree to which they enable the best organized gangs of criminals to control them, due to the vast majority of people being members of various controlled opposition groups. Controlled opposition always presents relatively superficial analysis of the political problems, which are superficially correct. However, they then follow that up with similarly superficial "solutions." Therefore, magical words are bandied about, that express their dualities, through false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals.
Governments must exist because organized crime must exist. Better governments could be achieved through better organized crime. However, mostly what get presented in the public places are the utter bullshit of the biggest bullies, who dominate the society because they were the best organized gangs of criminals, who were also able to dominate their apparent opposition. Therefore, instead of more realistic, better balancing of the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies, we get runaway developments of the best organized gangs of criminals being able to control governments, whose only apparent opposition is controlled to stay within the same bullshit frame of reference regarding everything that was actually happening.
The mainline of the FAILURES of the American People have been the ways that the international bankers were able to recapture control over the American public "money" supply. After that, everything else was leveraged up, through the funding of the political processes, schools, and mass media, etc., being more and more dominated by that fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system. Of course, that FAILURE has now become more than 99% ... Therefore, no political possible ways appear to exist to pull out of that flaming spiral nose dive, since we have already gone beyond the event horizon into that social black hole.
Most of the content on Zero Hedge which is based upon recognizing that set of problems still acts as controlled opposition in that regard too. Therefore, the bogus "solutions" here continue to deliberately ignore that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder. Instead of accepting that, the controlled opposition groups like to promote various kinds of "monetary reforms." However, meanwhile, we are actually already headed towards the established debt slavery systems having generated debt insanities, which are going to provoke death insanities.
In that context, the only realistic resolutions to the real problems would necessarily have to be monetary revolutions, that may emerge out of the future situations, after the runaway debt insanities have provoked death insanities. Indeed, the only genuine solutions to the problems are to develop different death control systems, to back up different debt control systems, which must necessarily be done within the context that governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals.
The various controlled opposition groups do not want to face those social facts. Rather, they continue to want to believe in the dualities expressed as false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals, which is their greatest overall FAILURE. In my view, the article above by Roberts contained a lot of nostalgic nonsense. There was never a time when there were any governments which were not based on the applications of the principles and methods of organized crime, and there could never be any time in the future when that could be stopped from being the case.
The greatest FAILURE of the American People, as well as most of the rest of the world's people, has been to become so brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, that there is no significant opposition that is not controlled by thinking inside of the box of that bullshit. The government did NOT transform into a criminal enterprise. The government was necessarily ALWAYS a criminal enterprise. That criminal enterprise has become more and more severely UNBALANCED due to the FAILURE of the people to understand that they were actually members of an organized crime gang, called their country. Instead, they were more and more scientifically brainwashed to believe in bullshit about everything, including their country.
The ONLY connection between human laws and the laws of nature is the ability to back up lies with violence. The development of the government of the USA has been the developed of integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. Those systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS have been able to become more extremely unbalanced because there is almost nothing which is publicly significant surrounding that core of organized crime but various controlled opposition groups.
Of course, it seems politically impossible for my recommendations to actually happen within the foreseeable future, as the current systems of debt slavery drive through debt insanities to become death insanities, but nevertheless, the only theoretically valid ideas to raise to respond to the real problems would have to based upon a series of intellectual scientific revolutions. However, since we have apparently run out of time to go through those sorts of paradigm shifts sufficiently, we are stuck in the deepening ruts of political problems which guys like Roberts correctly present to be the case
... HOWEVER, ROBERTS, LIKE ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE, CONTINUE TO PRESUME UPON DUALITIES, AND THEREFORE, HAVE THEIR MECHANISMS REGARDING "SOLUTIONS" ABSURDLY BACKWARDS.
Rather, we should start with the concept of SUBTRACTION, which then leads to robbery. We should start with the recognition that governments are necessarily, by definition, the biggest forms of organized crime. Governments did NOT transform into being that. Governments were always that. The political problems we have now are due to the best organized gangs of criminals, which currently are primarily the biggest gangsters, which can rightly be referred to as the banksters, having dominated all aspects of the funding of politics, enough to capture control over all sociopolitical institutions, so that the American People would more and more be subjected to the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy, which was built on top of thousands of years of previous history of Neolithic Civilizations being based on backing up lies with violence.
The runaway systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS, or the integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, that more and more dominate the lives of the American People are due to the applications of the methods of organized crime, and could not be effectively counter-balanced in any other ways. However, the standing social situation is that there is no publicly significant opposition that is not controlled to stay within the same frame of reference of the biggest bullies, which is now primarily the frame of reference of the banksters. Indeed, to the degree to which people's lives are controlled by the monetary system, they are debt slaves. Moreover, the degree to which they do not understand, and do not want to understand, that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder, then they think like controlled opposition groups, who have their mechanisms absurdly backwards, when they turn from their superficial analysis of what the political problems, to then promote their superficial solutions of those problems.
I AGREE that "Americans need to face the facts." However, those facts are that citizens are members of an organized crime gang, called their country. "Their" country is currently controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. However, there are no genuine resolutions for those problems other than to develop better organized crime. Since the controlled opposition groups that are publicly significant do not admit any of the deeper levels of the scientific facts regarding human beings and civilizations operating as entropic pumps of energy flows, but rather, continue to perceive all of that in the most absurdly backward ways possible, the current dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies continue to become more and more extremely UNBALANCED.
In the case of the article above, Roberts does NOT "face the facts" that governments were always forms of organized crime, and must necessarily be so, because human beings must live as entropic pumps of energy flows. Rather, Roberts tends to illustrate how the controlled opposition takes for granted certain magical words and phrases, such as "Liberty" or "Constitution," that have no adequate operational definitions to connect them to the material world.
We are living inside of an oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, which has applied the progress in science primarily to become better at backing up lies with violence, while refusing to allow scientific methods to admit and address how and why that has been what has actually happened. Therefore, almost all of the language that we use to communicate, as well as almost all of the philosophy of science that we take for granted, was based on the biggest bullies' bullshit, which is now primarily manifested as the banksters' bullshit, as that bullshit developed in America to become ENFORCED FRAUDS.
ALL of the various churches, corporations, and countries are necessarily various systems of organized lies operating robberies. Those which are the biggest now were historically the ones that were the best at doing that. The INTENSE PARADOXES are due to human systems necessarily being organized lies operating robberies, wherein the greatest social successfulness has been achieved by those who were the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. That flows throughout ALL of the established systems, which are a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups.
The degree to which the American People, as well as the rest of the world's people, have been more and more scientifically brainwashed to believe in bullshit about governments in particular, and human beings and civilizations in general, is the degree to which the established systems based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS are headed towards some series of psychotic breakdowns. For all practical purposes, it is politically impossible to get enough people to stop acting like incompetent political idiots, and instead start acting more like competent citizens, because they do not understand, and moreover have been conditioned to not want to understand that governments are necessarily organized crime.
Roberts ironically illustrated the deeper nature of the political problems that he also shares, when he perceives that governments have somehow transformed into being criminal enterprise, when governments were always necessarily criminal enterprises. Similarly, with those who recognize that, but then promote the impossible solutions based upon somehow stopping that from being the case, which is as absurdly backwards as stopping human beings from operating as entropic pumps of energy flows, which then also presumes that it would be possible to stop human civilizations from being entropic pumps of energy flows.
Rather, the deeper sorts of intellectual scientific revolutions that we should go through require becoming much more critical of the language that we use to communicate with, and more critical about the philosophy of science that we presumed was correct. Actually, we were collectively brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit, which is as absurdly backwards as it could possibly be. However, due to the collective FAILURES of people to understand that, as reflected by the ways that the core of organized crime is surrounded by nothing which is publicly significant than layers of controlled opposition, there are no reasonable ways to doubt that the established debt slavery systems will continue to drive even worse debt insanities, which will provoke much worse death insanities. Therefore, to be more realistic about the foreseeable future, the development of new death control systems will emerge out of the context of crazy collapses into chaos, wherein the runaway death insanities provide the possible opportunities for new death controls to emerge out of that situation.
Of course, the about 99% FAILURE of the American People to want to understand anything that I have outlined above indicates that the foreseeable future for subsequent generations shall not too likely be catalyzed transformations towards enough people better understanding their political problems, in order to better resolve those problems. Rather, what I mostly expect is for the psychotic breakdowns of the previous systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS to give opportunities to some possible groups of controlled opposition to take advantage of that, to perhaps emerge as the new version of professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, who will be able to operate some new version of organized lies, operating robberies, who may mostly still get away with being some modified versions of still oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, due to social success still being based upon the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, who were able to survive through those transformations, so that the new systems arise from some of the seeds of the old systems.
At the present time, it is extremely difficult to imagine how the human species could possibly reconcile progress in physical science by surpassing that with progress in political science. Rather, what mostly exists now is the core of organized crime, which gets away with spouting the bullshit about itself, such as how the banksters dominate the mass media, and the lives of everyone else who depend upon the established monetary system (which is dominated by the current ways that governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks), while that core of organized crime has no publicly significant opposition that is not controlled by the ways that they think, which ways stay within the basic bullshit world view, as promoted by the biggest bullies for thousands of years, and as more and more scientifically promoted to brainwash the vast majority of people to believe in that kind of bullshit so completely that it mostly does not occur to them that they are doing that, and certainly almost never occurs to them that they are doing that in the most profoundly absurd and backward ways possible.
That is how and why it is possible for an author like Roberts to correctly point out the ways in which the government of the USA is transforming into being more blatantly based on organized crime ... HOWEVER, Roberts is not willing and able to go through deeper levels of intellectual scientific revolutions, in order to recognize how and why governments were always necessarily manifestations of organized crime. Therefore, as is typically the case, Roberts does not recognize how ironically he recommends that Americans should "face the facts," while he himself does not fully do so.
The whole history of Neolithic Civilizations was social pyramid systems based on being able to back up lies with violence, becoming more sophisticated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which currently manifest as the globalized electronic frauds of the banksters, were are backed up by the governments (that those banksters effectively control) having atomic bombs. Those are the astronomically amplified magnitudes of the currently existing combined money/murder systems. Therefore, it appears to be politically impossible at the present time to develop better governments, due to the degree that almost everyone is either a member of the core groups of organized crime, or members of the surrounding layers of groups of controlled opposition, both of which want to stay within the same overall bullshit frame of reference, because, so far, their lives have been socially successful by being professional liars and immaculate hypocrites.
Ironically, I doubt that someone like Roberts, or pretty well everyone else whose material is published on Zero Hedge is able and willing to recognize the degree to which they are actually controlled opposition. Indeed, even more ironically, as I have repeated before, even Cognitive Dissonance, when he previously stated on Zero Hedge: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled." DOES NOT "GET IT" regarding the degree to which he too is controlled opposition, even while superficially attempting to recognize and struggle with that situation. (Indeed, of course, that includes me too, since I am still communicating using the English language, which was the natural language that most developed to express the biggest bullies' bullshit world view.)
Overall, I REPEAT, the deeper problems are due to progress in physical science, NOT being surpassed by progress in political science. Instead, while there EXIST globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, practically nothing regarding the ways of thinking that made that science and those technologies possible has found any significant expression through political science, because political science would have to go through even more profound paradigm shifts within itself in order to do that.
The INTENSE PARADOXES continue to be the manifestation of the oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, that deliberately refuses to become any more genuinely scientific about itself. Therefore, the banksters have been able to pay for the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy, for generation after generation, in order to more and more brainwash most of the American People to believe in the banksters' bullshit world view. While there exist electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, practically nothing regarding the physical science paradigm shifts that made that possible have even the slightest degree of public appreciation within the realms of politics today, which are almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, despite that being as absurdly backwards as possible, while the controlled opposition groups, mostly in the form of old-fashioned religions and ideologies, continue to stay within that same bullshit world view, and adamantly refuse to change their perceptual paradigms regarding political problems.
However, I REPEAT, the issues we face are NOT that governments have transformed to become criminal enterprises, but that governments were always necessarily criminal enterprises, which had the power to legalized their own lies, and then back those lies up with legalized violence. Thereby, the best organized criminals, the international bankers, as the biggest gangsters, or the banksters, were able to apply the methods of organized crime through the political processes. Meanwhile, the only "opposition" that was allowed to be publicly significant was controlled, to basically stay within the same bullshit world view, which is what Roberts has done in his series of articles, as well as what is almost always presented in the content published on Zero Hedge.
The NEXT LEVEL of "the need to face the facts" is to recognize that the political economy is based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS, or systems of debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits. However, the NEXT LEVEL "the need to face the facts" is the that the only possible changes are to change the dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies, i.e., change those ENFORCED FRAUDS, in ways which CAN NOT STOP THOSE FROM STILL BEING ENFORCED FRAUDS, because of the degree to which money is necessarily measurement backed by murder.
For the American People, as well as the rest of the world's people, to stop being such dismal FAILURES would require them to become more competent citizens. However, at the present time they appear to be totally unable to do that, because they are unwilling to go through the profound paradigm shifts that it would take them to become more competent citizens inside of world where there exist globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs. The vast majority of the American People would not like to go through the severe cognitive dissonance that would be required, to not only recognize that "their" government was a criminal enterprise, but that it also must be, and that they too must necessarily be members of that organized crime gang. However, without that degree of perceptual paradigm shifts of the political problems, then enough of the American People could not become more competent citizens.
Somehow, most people continue to count on themselves never having to think about how and why progress was achieved in physical science, by going through series of profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceived the world. Most people continue to presume that it is not necessary for their perception of politics to go through profound paradigm shifts, that surpass those which have already been achieved in physical science. We continue to live in an oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, that employs science and technology to become better at being dishonest and violent, but does not apply science and technology to "face the facts" about that scientific dictatorship as a whole.
At the present time, technologies which have become trillions of times more capable and powerful are primarily used as special effects within the context of repeating the same old-fashioned, stupid social stories, such as promoted by the biggest bullies, and their surrounding controlled opposition groups. Ironically, especially when it comes to politics, that tends to manifest the most atavistic throwbacks to old-fashioned religions and ideologies being relied upon to propose bogus "solutions," despite that those kinds of social stories adamantly refuse to change their paradigms in light of the profound paradigms shifts which have been achieved in physical science.
The article above was another illustration of the ways that the typical reactionary revolutionaries, Black Sheeple, or controlled opposition groups, respond to recognizing the more and more blatant degrees to which there has been an accelerating "transformation of government into a criminal enterprise." THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY CONTINUE TO STAY WITHIN THE SAME OLD-FASHIONED BULLSHIT-BASED FRAME OF REFERENCE, INSTEAD, AROUND AND AROUND WE GO, STUCK IN THE SAME DEEPENING RUTS, since they do NOT more fully "face the facts" regarding how and why the only realistic solutions to the real problems would require developing better organized crime. INSTEAD, they continue to promote the same dualities based upon false fundamental dichotomies, and the associate bogus "solutions" based upon impossible ideals ...
Given that overall situation, that there there almost nothing which is publicly significant than the core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, I see no reasonable hopes for the foreseeable material future of a civilization controlled by ENFORCED FRAUDS, since there is no publicly possible ways to develop better dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies, since the biggest forms of doing that were most able to get away with pretending that they are not doing that, which was facilitated by their controlled opposition promoting the opinions that nobody should do that, while actually everyone must be doing that.
Roberts' article above, to me, was another typical example of superficially correct analysis, which implies some bogus "solutions" because those are based upon the same superficiality. It is NOT good enough to recognize "transformation of government into a criminal enterprise," unless one goes through deeper levels of analysis regarding how and why that is what actually exists, and then, one should continue to be consistent with that deeper analysis when one turns to proposing genuine solutions to those problems, namely, I REPEAT THAT the only realistic resolutions to the real political problems requires the transformation of government into a better organized criminal enterprise, which ideally should be based upon enough citizens who are competent enough to understand that they are members of an organized crime gang, which should assert themselves to make sure that their country becomes better organized crime.
What existed before Governments?
Absolute monarchs who were above the law, remember the Magna Carta on which the US constitution was founded.
Psychopaths always get to the top who fight each other for wealth and power, this is human history (the US doesn't have much history, this is the history of the old world).
Governments were supposed to give some power to the people through elections.
Unfortunately, the elites have worked out hoe to usurp democracy by giving choice, which is no choice.
Democrats and republicans are the two sides of the Wall Street and oligarch coin.
How is an absolute monarch not a government?
The Magna Carta granted powers to aristocrats.
You might enjoy Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
I certainly enjoyed that music!
The best read of the day for me, perhaps the year ! Well said, and the shit you say is true, basically to sum it up, the system needs destroying, and if anybody shows ambitions to rule, hang them straight away. Anybody who thinks they are special just by birth needs a special death I think, slicing and dicing would be good.
I have saved it Rasta (as a word docu, word up mother fucker), would you mind if I used it? I will refer, but Fuck, you speak a rare truth man. Thank you.
Entropy... yes. It was an informative (if not pleasant) 30 minutes with your article. I realized that govs are criminal orgs but didn't extrapolate out to the rest. I pretty much agree w/y.
I see lots of people talking about ''God'' but when you asked them what 'god '' is. they start babbling and say HE this and HE that.
Asked to furthur explain what HE is, and you get a stream of babblical passages. NOT ONE time do they actually use their own brains.
When you have people that can spew babblical passage pushed into their heads but can't point to Iran on a map of the world, you have a problem.
When you have people willing to pay Starbucks Jews 5 bucks for a cup of coffee and they are too lazy to cook their own food and are maxed out on credit cards, then you have a real problem
What is funny is those same people will try and lecture others .
When you have people saying ''Seek the Truth'' and then they stop at the Buybull and say that is the truth, then you have a problem. It has 'partial truths'' but not the whole truth. Most people aren't ready for the WHOLE TRUTH.
its here now but people won't start waking up to it for about another 200-300 years .
http://www.sgi-usa.org/2015/07/23/with-appreciation-comes-happiness/
What existed before Governments?
Absolute monarchs who were above the law, remember the Magna Carta on which the US constitution was founded.
Psychopaths always get to the top who fight each other for wealth and power, this is human history (the US doesn't have much history, this is the history of the old world).
Governments were supposed to give some power to the people through elections.
Unfortunately, the elites have worked out how to usurp democracy by giving choice, which is no choice.
Democrats and republicans are the two sides of the Wall Street and oligarch coin.
The people have had power before in history, when they work collectively.
The Russian and French revolutions.
The unions that bought better working conditions to the attractions factories of 19th Century Britain.
What are the messages from the elite?
"You are an empowered individual"
"Unions are bad" (with legislation to make unions totally ineffective)
They know their enemy, people working together.
Warren Buffet's 0.01% have gone to war and they are winning.
The 0.01% are winning against the 99.99%, impossible odds.
But when the 99.99% are all individuals, the odds get much better.
The 0.01% against the lone individual, who foolishly believes he is empowered.
The first government was when a caveman picked up a club and threatened other people with violence if they did not obey.
Nothing has ever changed.
"The people have had power before in history, when they work collectively. The Russian and French revolutions."
Alright, Mr. Communist.
Explain the millions that died at the hands of your Communist 'leaders'.
Don't fall for this new-fangled Communist B.S. They're the ones who've used their tactics to subvert and destroy the US Constitution, namely, per their Communist American Leaders, aka Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett.
Before Zionism there was no such word as Communism.
Most people don't know that Zionist Jews were behind the Bolshevik Revolution and had people in the Kremlin for years untill the USSR fell, then they escaped to Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8i-QriYIU
There are still twenty or perhaps fifty million real Americans. We know you are out there.
If judges were subjected to free market conditions and not, like today, in the hands of a monopolist, they would be of a better quality.
Nothing than selfinterest will drive the producer of goods and services to produce better goods... in a free society.
There is no better idea than to abolish state sponsored judges.
And on the other hand there is the problem of sheeple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L46vOAgH40
The indifference to other human being, hopelessness, criminalization of civilian life of poor or disadvantaged as well as outrage and isolation instigated mass shootings are not only problems in themselves but symptoms of wide spread societal troubles, which nobody wants to see or touch.
In US nobody really wants to touch social problems of epidemic proportions related to lawlessness reaching up to highest echelons of the state and corporate world, rampant institutional immorality and social discrimination against poor, weak or those with independent worldview, collapse of social cohesiveness devastating fall down in family formation and standard of living as well as shocking collapse of value of human bond deflated by fake social media fallacies of social relations.
Those horrible events of neglect, abandonment that often result in violence, above all personal contexts, are messages to our blind and deaf American society to stop ignoring open wounds gushing with our blood and start healing fundamental social ills caused by ruling elite’s policies of slow motion genocide, such as praying on our fear of social isolation or alienation or inducing massive depression state in millions, rejecting from family and society into joblessness and homelessness, complete lack of basic human compassion, attitudes which are incessantly promoted by MSM propaganda under guise of rampant individualism, egotism and rat race to gluttonous consumption.
It is the social alienation that is the core of mental instabilities or disorders resulting in violence or depression, disenfranchisement from family, community or society at large as it is poignantly put at:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/loss-of-beautiful-min...
Maybe it's drugs. SSRI legal drugs.
You forgot one - We have failed at journalism
That one occurred to me while reading this shit
Failed at ''INVESTIGATIVE journalism, which is a dangerous business. Ask Michael Hastings.