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Making The World A More Dangerous Place
Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
Without any doubt, the Middle East has been a very long-simmering region of violent religious and tribal enmity.
In that regard, perhaps today is no different than 1,000 years ago. But given the importance of the remaining oil in the Middle East to the next 20 years of global economic health, the violence and chaos seen there recently is hugely important to the entire world.
But it’s also equally without doubt that the US and NATO are inflaming the situation by provoking conflicts and supplying military weapons and training to various extremist groups -- therefore deserving much of the blame for the current tensions, despair and mayhem happening in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.
Forget anything you might read about “brutal dictators” that need to go or the importance of “democracy” to the region. That's dumbed-down pablum for the masses and has literally nothing to do with the motivations of the (clinically insane) external power brokers actually driving the events on the ground and crafting the narrative that is faithfully scribed and re-told by the media. In fact, disturbingly often, the scribed narrative is exactly opposite of the truth.
On The Path To War
If a wider war breaks out between the US/NATO and either Russia and/or China, then massive systemic shocks will result to the economy, oil prices, and the global financial system.
Some comfort themselves with the belief that such a war would not be in the interest of the true powers that now drive the politics of most countries. Others worry that chaotic systems and events sometimes have a life of their own, regardless of what 'the powers that be' may want. We have entered such a time.
While predicting the outbreak of war is not my intent here, I do want you to be appraised of the risks. We all should note that the elevated tensions across the globe are as good a reason as any to get our houses in order. As we reinforce often here at Peak Prosperity: when it comes to such preparations, we vastly prefer to be an entire year early than a single day late.
Good planning begins with good intelligence. But sadly, if you feel relatively well-informed because you read a lot of newspapers or watch a lot of news, you may be among the most misinformed of them all.
Certainly, the events in the Middle East over the past decade have been almost impossible to analyze or understand from a logical perspective.
But the pattern has been clear enough: a rough justification of the need for military force is raised by the US adminstration and, within weeks, money and war material are mobilized to do exactly that. Libya, Iraq, and Syria are recent examples of such.
However, none of this is any surprise to those paying attention. General Wesley Clark warned about the US’s military objectives in the Middle East back in 2007 in an interview with Democracy Now!. It's difficult to read this transcript without concluding that the US was going to manufacture whatever justifications it needed in order to carry out a larger strategy that, inexplicably to rational observers, seemed intent on inflaming and toppling governments across the Middle East -- a monstrous war crime by any historical standard:
About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.”
This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office — “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
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Seven countries in five years.
Poking The Bear – Part IV
Actually, I don’t know how many times the US has poked the bear (Russia) over the past two years, so I thought I’d use “Part IV” to get the point across. It might be a much higher number.
First there was Ukraine, where the US and other western parties conspired to overthrow the sitting elected government and putting in place the current crop of ultra-nationalist thugs and Nazi sympathizers that now infest the halls of power in Kiev. The situation there is an unfortunate mess, one the West fomented.
Naturally the West was none too pleased when Russia, quite predictably, responded and sought to protect the roughly 8 million Russian speaking citizens living in eastern Ukraine with military support. Money and military aid and the ubiquitous US “advisors” flooded in to help the Kiev militarily dominate eastern Ukraine – ironic, as a few of Ukraine's current leaders were caught on tape saying they’d prefer to nuke the region in an ethnic cleansing.
Then, when the people of Crimea voted to rejoin Russia (perhaps you would, too, if your "elected" leaders dreamed of nuking you), the US reacted as if this were some kind of foul play. That's a strange sort of needle to thread for a country that prides itself of on “spreading democracy” (even by force, if necessary). You’d think that people voting and exercising their free rights would top of the list of acceptable things to the US -- but unless the election outcome is exactly in alignment with US wishes, that’s just not the case.
Similarly, an almost comical (were it not so serious) attempt to malign Russia was made by the US State Department this week. In the aftermath of the US’s own bombing of the Afghan hospital in Kunduz, this charge was leveled against Russia:
U.S. believes Russian bombing in Syria hit hospital: State Department
Oct 29, 2015
The United States has "operational information" that leads U.S. officials to believe Russian military aircraft hit a hospital while carrying out bombing raids in Syria, the State Department said on Thursday.
Since the start of the Russian bombing campaign on Sept. 30, various reports from media and civilian groups have charged that Russian warplanes have hit hospitals with their air strikes.
Asked at a briefing whether the United States had evidence that Russian bombing had hit Syrian hospitals, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, "Yes, we've seen some information that would lead us to believe that Russian military aircraft did hit a hospital.
"We have seen some press reporting to that end, we have seen some Syrian civil society groups say that," Kirby said.
"I would tell you that we have other operational information that leads us to believe that Russian targeting has not only not been focused on ISIL (Islamic State) but has, in fact, caused collateral damage and some civilian casualties, to include some civil infrastructure."
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Um.... “some press reporting” and “other operational information?” Good grief, that’s lame. Is that all the State Department has? How about some pictures? Ballistics evidence? Satellite photos? Anything??
Watching this RTTV reporter trying to get something credible out of a State Department spokesperson on the matter is simply cringe-worthy:
The video is also notable for the arrogance on display. Assertions are useless without evidence, and in this age of satellites and drones, evidence of a destroyed hospital should be remarkably easy to come by. Yet not only did the State Department not share any such evidence, it went on to further claim that Russia had been targeting civilian infrastructure, which was another awkward charge for to lob given the news of the week prior:
Warplanes of US-led alliance attack power plant in Aleppo
Oct 18, 2015
A military source told SANA that warplanes of the Washington alliance violated Syrian airspace and attacked civilian infrastructure in Mare’a, Tal Sha’er, and al-Bab in Aleppo countryside on Sunday.
The source added that the warplanes attacked the biggest electric power plant that feeds Aleppo city, which resulted in cutting off power from most neighborhoods in Aleppo city.
This transgression comes only 8 days after two F-16 warplanes belonging to the alliance targeted two power plants in al-Radwaniye area east of Aleppo city, cutting off power from the area.
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I’ve seen this information presented in various sources and nobody has denied it yet. But neither have I seen pictures, so perhaps this is disinformation too…though Putin is on record as saying "On Sunday, the American aviation bombed out an electrical power plant and a transformer in Aleppo. Why have they done this? Whom have they punished there? What’s the point? Nobody knows,"
Given that charge, you’d think at least a denial from the US was in order. But none has been made. If the allegation is true, though, then it fits a larger pattern of the US criticizing other countries for doing the very same things it does.
Even more seriously, back in June the US rattled its sabers by announcing this:
U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe
Jun 13, 2105
RIGA, Latvia — In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, American and allied officials say.
The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine have caused alarm and prompted new military planning in NATO capitals.
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These moves are indicative of worsening relations with Russia. They show an over-reliance on military options and a woeful lack of diplomatic outreach, at least any that are being reported in the news. Of course, the risk of all this being interpreted by Russia as 'overtly hostile' is pretty much 100%.
“The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend”
If you are having similarly hard time trying to understand the US’s policy in the Middle East, you're not alone. The shifting alliances in play there are really hard to keep track of.
Turkey has been aiding the so-called Syrian rebels (more on those rebels in a minute) but maintaining its long-standing hatred of the Kurdish people. The US has been arming the Kurds and Syrian rebels while maintaining a mutual relationship with Turkey.
Iraq has been struggling with ISIS and accepting help from Iran to deal with them. This puts the US and Iran on the same side of the battle, if you believe that the US is actually trying to stop ISIS rather than covertly helping it. Why would it possibly help ISIS? Because ISIS is battling Assad’s government in Syria.
Crazy, huh?
Now, let’s talk about those so-called “Syrian rebels.” The term "rebels" implies that these are Syrians fighting their own government. That’s significantly untrue. Consider this:
20,000 Foreign Fighters Flock to Syria, Iraq to Join Terrorists
Feb 10, 2015
WASHINGTON -- Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate of a top terrorism concern.
Nick Rasmussen, chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is without precedent, far exceeding the rate of foreigners who went to wage jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia at any other point in the past 20 years.
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There are dozens of reports indicating that the US, through the CIA and other outfits, has been responsible for a big part of both recruiting and training these foreign fighters, who draw from such nations as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Qatar (among many others).
In short, anyone and everyone who could be used to topple the government of Syria is being drafted.
I knew how ridiculous the claim of “Syrian rebels” was when I saw this picture showing the prominent ISIS leader Shishani, a well-known Chechen who was reportedly trained and backed by the US while in Chechnya.
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But sharp eyes will also easily pick out the fact that he’s surrounded by people clearly not of Syrian origin. In fact, it looks more like a UN diversity conference than a Syrian rebel group.
For the sake of appropriate context, imagine if China were funding “rebels” to attack and fight inside the US, and that these “rebels” were sourced from Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Peru.
These images and reports clearly show the pattern in play: the US and Turkey have been funneling vast amounts of arms, money and training to so-called opposition groups that, in many cases, consist of mercenaries and jihadists from a very wide range of different countries. Therefore, the US has directly supported and incubated some of the most brutal terror organization on the face of the planet -- a list including ISIS and the Al Nusra front, both of which are well-documented for having committed horrible civilian atrocities.
That this happened was not exactly news to those inside the beltway. A secret 2012 Pentagon report, since uncovered, detailed exactly this dynamic and predicted the rise of ISIS:
Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
May 22, 2105
A declassified secret US government document [a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document then classified as “secret,” dated 12th August 2012] obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, and that these “supporting powers” desired the emergence of a “Salafist Principality” in Syria to “isolate the Syrian regime.”
According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of this strategy, and warned that it could destabilize Iraq.
The 7-page DIA document states that al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the precursor to the ‘Islamic State in Iraq,’ (ISI) which became the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,’ “supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media.”
The formerly secret Pentagon report notes that the “rise of the insurgency in Syria” has increasingly taken a “sectarian direction,” attracting diverse support from Sunni “religious and tribal powers” across the region.
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Well, of course the Defense department knew that arming and funding violent jihadists was going to lead to some crazy sectarian unpleasantness. How could they not? 14 years in Afghanistan and Iraq taught them plenty about the region and its sectarian dynamics.
But make no mistake: the US worked hard to attract regional jihadists to Syria to fight their war for them. That was not an oddity to be curiously noted, but a feature of the program. Why? Because there was not enough legitimate internal Syrian opposition to Assad to get the job done. An angry mob had to be recruited.
Said another way: Syria’s bloody civil unrest is not entirely the result of a natural social uprising, but was fostered with a great deal of external meddling.
Why This Is Worth Our Full Attention
Tensions are as high as they’ve been in decades. Neo-con hotheads with a track record of shooting first and not caring to ask questions later are still driving US foreign policy. Russia is signaling that it has had enough of American intervention that destabilizes volatile parts of the world. China is flexing its muscles as well.
This is all happening while global economic system is not nearly as robust as advertised. And history shows that nations always react more aggressively during leaner times.
With so many sensitive flash points that the West has its fingers in these days, the risk of one or more of them erupting into a full-scale war between the major world powers is not dismissible. And given the huge cost should that come to pass, it makes all the sense in the world to take precautionary measures in advance.
In Part 2: How Things May Well Get Ugly Quickly we zero in on the largest risks to monitor and the likely range of forms of retribution the US could face (from financial and cyber war to a full-blown shooting war) should the situation worsen.
We're not trying to drum up fears that war is imminent. But what we are saying is that the risk is substantial enough, and the potential cost high enough, that it's worth making some pre-cautionary preparations at this time.
Click here to read Part 2 of this report (free executive summary, enrollment required for full access)
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More dangerous than what? Americans see danger differently than someone from just about anywhere else in the world. "We the People" are conditioned to see boogiemen under every bed.
I checked under mine and nothing was there. Rumor has it the DC area is full of them...
It's about the petrodollar and maintaining dollar denominated oil markets, so they can print more oil and assets. QE forever
"A storm is coming-you must hurry.." Grandma Death
Better check again, they might be disguised as leprechauns.
humans are very dangerous animals
This State Department spokesperson is so full of crap her eyes and hair are brown.
Say, dakota: ever notice how State always trots out a new and unknown spokeswhatever when the shit gets truly laughable? I am becoming a big Matt Lee fan. I just don't know how he does it, trying to reason with someone who feigns ignorance and insanity.
Psaki is gone (promoted, I hear) and Harf is gone (promoted above the rank of swill dispenser), to be replaced by ex-Admiral Kirby, who seems more than happy to sing the praises of State.
Think about that one, USSA: the point of the sword consists of Admiral Kirby dildos.
A lot of people do realize, but a lot don't that the militia forced the feds to change their rules of engagement not long after the feds murdered dozens, including about two-dozen children in Waco. It was one of the most under-reported, major news events of the decade. It ALL blew the feds away, literally, almost figuratively. The entire standoff had been staged by the Govt. for yet another dramatic slaughter, for obvious reasons, replete with fed-militia posers (Olson, Southwell and Trochmann, etc.), alphabet-agency - reporter and "local" - infiltrators, not to mention spy satellites, night-stalking gunships, tapped phone lines and bugged and scoped vehicles and shelters.
Don Vos and the Columbiana County, Ohio Militia with the help of thousands of others all across the Country - at least according to the phone-tree screen flashing inside NSA headquarters - shut down the Blood Games in Montana in 1996; and even sent a pro bono lawyer to represent one of the Freeman at their Federal criminal trial in 1998. Ultimately though, no one beats the emperor, especially in the naked emperor's court. And, there's even a book about the standoff Vos can provide, but he would most likely rather tell you the whole story. I highly recommend it, fascinating.
The militia weren't setting up camp, they had arrived on April Fool's day, many weeks before the stunned feds thought to try to bring the Freeman to the negotiating table. The militia was the reason they did. Militia in Montana, and many groups of militia in thirteen States promised a violent rebellion if any Freeman died. The authorities had been notified and Vos and crew had gone on air, both radio and TV.
http://tech.mit.edu/V116/N16/militia.16w.html
Additionally, a "Declaration of Intent To Defend" - signed by militia leaders from over a dozen States, and copies of which that were simultaneously hand-delivered to the Feds in each and every represented State - left the feds no doubt as to the shit-storm to ensue. The only death was of a fed who rolled his truck on a wash-board road.
Y'all would have liked the Freeman as they had perfected judgment liens against non-bonded State and Federal officials who had ignored the Freeman's Justus township court. Once the judgments were recorded creating liens against the corporations, the Freeman created and began widely circulating certified money orders (drafts) that even the IRS honored for a time; at least until the Federal Reserve got wind that these Montana ranchers had made it to the game-table of the money-printing racket.
Their ultimate desire, as related by Sovereign, Freeman of Character, Lyle Chamberlain was to restore the Republic and to send U.S. Special Forces to reclaim our Nation's gold from The City of London. Truly a lofty idea, and seemingly doable.
They understood to a very high legal degree, the nature of fiat, "The Bankers Handbook," the banking history of the corporate USA; and, Rodney Skurdal among other so-called Freeman were lucid and proliferate paper "tear-r-rysts." They are great patriots who truly care for what this Country is supposed to be.
Like rust that never sleeps though, it was just a hop to the staged Ft. Davis standoff where second in command, White Eagle was identified as a fed, who along with thousands of foreign military in south Texas and along the Mexican border prepared to call out and destroy this militia, but ended up only offering up Professor Applegate and his crew to the gods of blood when the Militia called this bluff, stating "it" could start anywhere and there was no longer a need to travel. The puppet master had even tweaked the program to include queing their own attorney - smooth. The zionistas knew the puppets were outnumbered by thousands to one, and they knew they needed something more. So, it was just a skip until they pulled the towers. You are here; make US proud. You are not alone.
The III% Militias have discussed the list of people who will be assassinated if authorities start enforcing gun laws, etc.
We need to do it again for the stupid war these idiots are trying to make bigger.
Congress is failing in its duty to represent the people rather than our oligarchies.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/why-patriots-can-win/
There is no possibility that our government can win, for example :
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/operation-afghanistan-1000...
And that is much more active than necessary. Patriots can run sabotage operations so that every oligarch goes broke and nobody gets hurt.
This system of government is the largest kleptocracy in history, skimming more $ from the 99% to 1% bank accounts than ever, and that number increases every year as they perfect their methods.
War Pony, thanks a lot for reminding us of the origins of the world today. Waco, Ruby Ridge and GHW Bush's announcement in 1992 of a "new world order"--these were the foundation events of this new whirled ordure, stirring up shit like never before.
There's a storm coming. May you hedge accordingly.
That's not true!
You fucks are conditioned to NEED a boogieman under your bed!
And a closeted homo, called SUPERHERO, to make you feel safe.
Pathetic american assholes
Don't blame me, blame the boogieman.
I was born, raised, and still live in the U.S. but am an American in name only, having long ago dispensed with any allegiance to the central government and despaired of the American sheeple. I'm not alone, of course, but we are still very much in the minority. Insofar as a sufficient percentage of this minority prepares as needed, however, we will come out on the other side not as "Americans" but as a remnant with the means to build a new civilization devoid of an American Imperium that will have followed its Soviet predecessor into the dustbin of history.
There aint no gum on your dick...Dick.. Bravo..fuck 'em
http://youtu.be/EZCuslyH8uk
Humans want to be slaves.
Wrong.
I got a few dustbunnies under my bed. With my undusty Baretta shotgun.
C'mon in, make yourself at home...
But you're gonna hate what happens next.
oops
Says the clown who uses America as his "boogieman".
While that is correct, it is much more profoundly so! The degree to which we live inside of a Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World is BUILT INTO the dominate natural languages and philosophy of science.
The degree to which the biggest bullies' bullshit world views have been the dominate social stories for thousands of years has made it so that people tend to think about everything in absurdly backward ways, and therefore, can not communicate with each other, except those sets of presumptions which are absurdly backwards.
Neolithic Civilizations' social pyramid systems have always been based on backing up lies with violence, which have been developing at an exponential rate, due to progress in physical science. Of course, the Middle East, where the currently dominate systems started, has become the most intensely psychotic manifestation of those systems' self referential paradoxes.
We still measure time in Babylonian ways. We still think about time and space in absurdly backward ways, and yet, still take that almost completely granted: "the scribed narrative is exactly opposite of the truth."
"We still measure time in Babylonian ways."
Or as physicist Albert Bartlett said, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Exponentiality is the world we increasingly live in, yet the vast majority are constrained by an "intuitive linear view" — http://www.businessinsider.com/ray-kurzweil-law-of-accelerating-returns-... — that condemns them to ruin.
Which includes, thankfully, the ruling elites: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/18/article-0-04244A1B0000044D-450...
That is the way that I see it too, Dick Buttkiss, EXCEPT that I would emphasize that the ruling classes have waged war against the consciousness of those they ruled over, in order to try to make sure that those who were ruled over would not understand, because they had been conditioned to not want to understand.
The most important thing that the vast majority of people have been conditioned to not want to understand is how the MAD Money As Debt systems REQUIRE exponential growth of debts. That monetary system, which is based upon governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks, DEPENDED on being able to make exponentially more "money" out of nothing as debts, which, prima facie, violates the most basic laws of nature. However, the social successfulness of the accumulating wealth and power of those who are the primarily beneficiaries of that sort of system making "money" out of nothing were then able to reinvest their profits from frauds in more frauds, through the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS.
At the bottom, there is a struggle over the control of natural resources. However, the social access and utilization of those resources is through the symbols of the monetary systems. Primarily, what has been happening in the Middle East has been the Western's World's international bankster controlled countries invading and taking control of the natural resources in the Middle East, through those people there which would agree to operate through the Western World's bankster made and maintained monetary systems.
Most of the current events in the Middle East are about advancing the interests and agenda of the international banksters, by imposing "regime changes" on countries there, which would not otherwise play ball within the banksters' long political games. The 1953 overthrow of the government of Iran by the combined intelligence services of Britain and the USA was one of the most significant historical events, leading up to the current situation. However, it all goes back to before the start of the First World War, which started primarily as a sort of European Civil War over which European countries were going to end up controlling the development of the Middle Eastern natural resources.
As above, so below.
As within, so without.
The lies are different at every level.
Since 1971, when the last connections to the physical world of the monetary system were severed in the USA, the total overall debts of the USA have been on a nearly perfect match to an exponential growth curve, since the MAD Money As Debt systems were inherently designed and structured to do that. Overall, around the world, exponentially more and more "money" was made out of nothing as debts, in order to "pay" for strip-mining the planet's natural resources at an exponential rate. The underlying features of current BIG PROBLEMS are running into diminishing returns from being able to continue to strip-mine the planet's natural resources an exponentially accelerating rate, through exponentially increasing debts, in the form of "money" made out of nothing in order to "pay" for doing that.
Although the second link you gave does not work for me, the first link was typical regarding how it focuses on the good aspects of the "gee whiz" technologies, without recognizing that every technology necessarily has a flip side, which are the bad things which could be done. In general, the potential bad things are at least double the potential good things. However, those technologies tend to developed by the best professional hypocrites, who are able to persuade those controlling the creation of "money" out of nothing to "lend" them those funds, in order to be able to build their businesses.
Since we operate through fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems, the exponential progress in physical science and technology has actually been channeled through the exponential growth of social pyramid systems based upon being able to back up lies with violence. Civilization always operated according to the principles and methods of organized crime, and necessarily must have done so. The excessive successfulness of those methods of organized crime made and maintained the civilization that we are living inside of now. The exponential growth of the triumphs of controlling civilization through the applications of the methods of organized crime (I.E., VICIOUS SPIRALS OF POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS) has driven the exponential growth of the "Law of Accelerating Returns" to manifest as the runaway criminal insanities of that civilization.
To quote from the first article you linked:
Since what now EXISTS are globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs, those runaway systems of ENFORCING FRAUDS currently appear to "explode into infinity, at least from the limited and linear perspective of contemporary humans," most probably in the form of the mass murders of the majority of the human population, because money being measurement backed by murder has changed from paper frauds backed by gunpowder weapons, to become electronic frauds, backed by nuclear weapons, which are many orders of magnitude BIGGER, whose astronomically sized amplifications are not understood by human beings, who continue to think about that through a "limited and linear perspective."
The most important things which have been growing at an exponential rate have been systems of lies backed by violence. Since backing up lies with violence is socially successful in each short to medium term increment, but in the longer term never stops those lies from being false, there is more and more the threat of final failure from too much of that kind of social success. The entire political economy is based upon governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks, which operates through the feedback of the funding of the political processes, within which context, the Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire has been attempting to consolidate its global hegemony in the Middle East. The Western State Religions, namely its monetary systems and national security systems, (which are based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits) are in conflict with more old-fashioned forms of State Religions, such as Islamic states, (based upon old-fashioned systems of lies backed by violence.)
To over-generalize and over-simply, the current conflicts in the Middle East are about which State Religions are going to dominate, in order that those control the access to the natural resources in the Middle Eastern areas. Since those various State Religions are actually based upon organized lies operating robberies, the conflicts in the Middle East are between the currently most dominate and biggest organized crime gangs. However, as the article above pointed out, that takes place through the Number 1 organized crime gang fighting against the Number 2 organized crime gang, taking the form of Number 1 based upon "the motivations of the (clinically insane) external power brokers actually driving the events on the ground."
While that is certainly correct, that kind of analysis is still too superficial. Therefore, I promote the same package of criticisms of most other articles republished upon Zero Hedge from Hugh-Smith, as I tend to do regarding almost all of the other content published on Zero Hedge, namely that that content tends to still be manifestations of controlled opposition, which is controlled by thinking in the same basic ways that were originally promoted by the biggest bullies, as their preferred bullshit dualities, manifesting as various false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals.
THE BIG PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO EXPONENTIAL PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE, WITHOUT THAT BEING MATCHED OR SURPASSED BY PROGRESS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE.
There have been series of profound paradigm shifts in physical science, enabling awesome technologies, like electronics and atomic energy to be developed, but only through social pyramid systems, whose pyramidion people are the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, since their social successfulness depends upon operating inside of systems based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS, which automatically became exponentially more psychotic, the more successful those were, since no amount of enforcing frauds ever stops those frauds from still being false.
Therefore, we are living inside of an oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, which are sociopolitical systems pumped up and UP by exponential progress in technologies, which are primarily employed to back up legalized lies, with legalized violence, and which therefore, become more and more criminally insane, at an exponential rate. Progress in physical science has totally changed our concepts about time and space, in ways which have reconverged with those of ancient mysticism. However, none of that has been allowed to change our political science. Politics continues to be almost totally dominated by old-fashioned religions and ideologies, which is the worse of all in the Middle East. Thus, there are globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, while developing those technologies to become trillions of times more powerful than ever before in human history has resulted in Neolithic Civilization becoming out-of-control forms of criminal insanities, which are certainly "Making The World A More Dangerous Place!"
I REPEAT what I have been asserting for several years, after attempting to wrap my head around that facts that 9/11 was an inside job, false flag attack, deliberately designed to start the "War on Terror" as a self-fulfilling prophesy, that would enable starting more genocidal wars, along with preparing to impose martial law. The actual pyramidion plan behind superficially perceiving that Obama's Syria Strategy Is An "Illegal Embarrassment" is to deliberately drive those conditions to get worse, so that, it will become possible to change gears to start using weapons of mass destruction, in order to mass murder at least hundreds of millions, if not billions of people.
Washington IS Preparing For World War III!
Of course "Washington" is code for the international banksters, operating through the Deep State Shadow Government, which covertly controls the public governments presented in Washington DC. The public government is nothing more than political puppets voted for by muppets. As numerous excellent articles republished on Zero Hedge have demonstrated, these days it is possible to learn more about what is really going on, however, it continues to mostly appear that the majority of people feel that do not want to, for a wide variety of personal reasons, all of which operate inside of the overall context that the ruling classes have waged war against the consciousness of those they ruled over, for a long, long time, resulting in people mostly becoming the victims of the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy.
The ruling classes have become psychotic psychopaths. Those pyramidion people at the top of the established social pyramid systems appear to believe, probably correctly, that the only way for them to continue to control the planet is that they have to arrange conditions such that there will be mass murders of the majority of the world's population, mostly through various groups killing each other.
IF, IF, IF one is going to propose a genuinely better long-term strategy, then that would have to be based upon better death control systems, with the human murder systems as the most extreme forms of that. In my opinion, the ruling classes are preparing to resolve the world's problems in their ways. THE BIG BACKGROUND PROBLEM is that everything has been based upon being able to apply the technologies provided by the industrial revolutions to strip-mine the planet's natural resources at an exponential rate, which processes were "paid" for by "money" made out of nothing as debts by the banksters, which frauds were enforced by governments. Therefore, as we reach the turning and tipping points where there start to manifest real limits of diminishing returns from being able to continue to strip-mine the planet's natural resources at an exponential rate, we have already gone deeply into the zone of overshoot in a nutshell.
The exponential growth of the total human population and human activities can NOT continue endlessly. It has to stop, one way or another, sooner or later ... By definition, what will stop that exponential growth shall be changes in the death control systems, with the most extreme forms of those being changes in the murder systems. While there are theoretically an abundance of possible alternatives, the actually existing systems have actually prepared to do what they have actually been doing, which are their systems of debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, starting more genocidal wars, along with preparations for imposing democidal martial law.
Inside of that overall context, the only realistic resolutions to the real problems must be ways to stop the exponential growth of the total of the human population and activities. Given that the currently established social pyramid systems are operated by relatively tiny minorities, by their pyramidion people, controlling vast majorities of other people who are ruled over, through backing up lies with violence resulting in ignorance and fear, there do not appear to be any other politically possible resolutions to the underlying issues of EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OVERSHOOTING than the mass murders of the majority of the human population.
That is the actual strategy being implemented, through various tactics, which appears at first glance to be due to incompetent stupidities perpetrated by political puppets. However, that kind of application of the presumptions of Hanlon's Razor is wrong, because it is too superficial a perception of the situation. In my view, the background strategy being implemented is to deliberately drive conditions to deteriorate sufficiently, so that it will be possible to change gears to start using weapons of mass destruction. The psychotic psychopaths devising and implementing that strategy are able and willing to "let the chips fall where they may," both in foreign affairs, and in the domestic blowback that causes.
Anyone who is SERIOUS about any better STRATEGY should admit and address the underlying issues that the limits to the exponential growth in the strip-mining of the natural resources of a fresh planet demand the development of radically different human, industrial and natural ecologies, which primarily means radically different death control systems, with the most extreme forms of that being radically different human murder systems. Doing that requires radical paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive those death control systems, in order to possibly making operating those systems be done in radically different ways. However, at the present time, the most probable ways that will actually happen is that the ruling classes will arrange for the vast majority of those they rule over to be mass murdered, mostly by murdering each other. Furthermore, the only genuine alternatives would have to be to do that differently, in some better ways, that accomplished the overall purposes in better ways. Otherwise, we continue to head, faster and faster, towards the ruling psychotic psychopaths being able to continue to fleece the Zombie Sheeple that they rule over to exhaustion, until they are slaughtered.
All of the surviving, successful politicians in NATO countries have long ago become the puppets of the international banksters, who are voted for by enough of the masses of muppets, who have been mostly brainwashed to believe in the banksters' bullshit. The best professional hypocrites (who may well believe their own bullshit) continue to win elections. Therefore, the apparent incompetent stupidity of the politicians is due to their careers having been based upon their actually being puppets, voted for by muppets. MEANWHILE, those who focus upon the political puppets, voted for by the masses of muppets, will indeed perceive their apparent incompetent stupidities, and increasing illegalities, HOWEVER, that is NOT a deeper analysis, which results in recommending deeper resolutions of the deeper problems: that natural selection pressures have driven the development of artificial selection systems based upon the maximum possible deceits and frauds, which includes the degree to which is publicly impossible to have any rational debates regarding what should be the death controls to back up the debt controls, since the actually existing systems that already do that are already based upon the maximum possible deceits and frauds, and already being operated by the best professional hypocrites, and that includes those in the controlled opposition groups just as much as those more deeply embedded inside of the established systems.
The vast majority of people continue to almost totally take for granted various DUALITIES in the form of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals. The languages that they use to think and communicate with tend to automatically reinforce them doing that, to the degree to which they are barely aware of actually doing that. Theoretically speaking, "we should" start using more UNITARY MECHANISMS to understand and resolve political problems, because it is all the same energy operating through general energy systems. HOWEVER, all of the established systems, which have their core of banksters controlled governments, surrounded by layers of controlled opposition, are operated by various sorts of professional hypocrites, who continue to almost totally take for granted the ENORMOUS ERRORS they are making through the basic ways that they think about all political problems.
That is WHY I point out that authors like Hugh-Smith continue to tend to be reactionary revolutionaries, or manifestations of controlled opposition, that suffers from what was previously stated by Cognitive Dissonance on Zero Hedge, that: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
On the one hand, there exist electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs, which exist because physical science went through series of profound paradigm shifts, which radically changed the ways that physicists thought about time and space, etc., while, at the same time, the political systems that have harnesses that prodigious progress in physical science have deliberately done nothing like that to change the paradigms through which those political systems were operating. Hence, the runaway, criminally insane, systems of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs, automatically becoming more and more unbalanced and psychotic, at an exponentially accelerating rate, while the only publicly significant "opposition" to that continues to also stay within the same bullshit world views that the biggest bullies originally made and maintained ...
Let me cut to the chase, RM: It's not a question of whether our species expires; it's a question of whether it transcends itself before its expiration.
Thus is it a question of whether we overcome material scarcity in the realization of genuine abundance (overcoming our slavery to the state in the process: http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/state1.htm) and free the mind to overcome its attachment to matter.
Is this not what "the universe" is striving for, i.e., mind over matter?
Yes,
I like to refer to that potential as
Translithic Civilization.
I.e.,
old stone man, Paleolithic
new stone man, Neolithic
and
beyond stone man, Translithic
P.S.
Thanks for that link to
If not outright homo luminous
https://remnant13.wordpress.com/
Mofo Rad ! Yeh.. but the real issue is .. when it fails can we penalize the guilty ? That is what should be debated right feckin now.... Tghey are giutly what are the sentences?
Lets concentrate ... on this...
Take part 2 and shove it up your butt you pathetic opportunist.
Take part 2 and shove it up your butt you pathetic opportunist.
i wonder if she ever got back to the RT reporter
shit -she was caught in a bald face lie-she had no way to back her facts up-policy wonk gobbledegook
...and then there's this guy - certifiable.
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Obama: Our “measure of strength internationally is not simply how many countries we’re occupying and bombing”
"We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace..."
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=535294
The good ol' USSA has been attempting to start WW III for decades and now it looks as though they may get what they wished for, which generally turns around to bite you in the ass. These .gov folk have no shame and are all hubris, all the time. And mendacity. Between no healthcare, no jobs, etc., if you were a 'thinking' American you might actually come to the conclusion that TPTB are attempting to do a little "population control" using the lack of healthcare, jobs and endless war(s) as their tools. After all, we keep hearing about how the elite are griping about population numbers and what they're gonna 'do' about it. Well, this is what they're gonna do about it. They really do want us all dead, sheeple. Are you just going to lie down and die? I ain't.
Well they want most of us dead but will repoplulate the seed group with mind slaves.
De-population and rebuilding infrastructure ($) are key reasons also
Oh! This one made me raff!
"But sharp eyes will also easily pick out the fact that he’s surrounded by people clearly not of Syrian origin. In fact, it looks more like a UN diversity conference than a Syrian rebel group."
that picture showing AK 7.62x39 rounds is steel FMJ type of ammo made by Wolf in former soviet republic of Ukraine.
I find it quite funny that you posted an antiwestern propaganda article furnished with a picture showing eastern made ammo.
Israel has stocks of it. US supplies weapons and ammo from such stocks to terror groups
U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe
RIGA, Latvia — In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, American and allied officials say.
A simple look at a map shows the military madness of putting NATO front line forces is a postion in the Baltics. While a drive on St. Petersburg looks tempting, in fact, the NATO force is pre positoned to be massacred, even in a totally defensive Russian posture. But the Pentagoons have no common sense, having not a one of them nevr engaged in a real war with a modern opponent. They are stuck in the world of thrird world enemies with AK's and RPG's, not the forces Russia deployes in it mobile and fixed western defense positions. NATO in the Baltics would just kiss their asses goodbye as a simply thrust encircles them all, just like the Ukrainian Army did Three Times in a year.
Yeah, but a lot of unemployed young men would get killed, and that is the point isn't it?
And think of the weapons sales!
Sounds eerily similar to the British military in the leadup to WWI -- all sorts of brushwars against tribesmen armed with spears and swords; no experience dealing with another modern power. The result was that they "misunderestimated" the risks of encouraging their Serbian proxies to start a war with Austria and thereby Germany so that they could knock off the up-and-coming industry of Germany before it got too big for its pajamas. The costs of WWI, as we know, spelled the end of the British Empire, in fact if not in legal fiction.
Not true. NOONE expected war. The German General Staff went on holiday in Summer 1914. It was Austrian Incompetence. Real problem was collapsing Ottoman Empire which overlapped in Bosnia and Kosovo with Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia. Serbian Intelligence worked with Okhrana in Russia not with British. "Black Hand" was linked to Okhrana.
The problem is still wherever Ottomans were - Kosovo, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Middle East......now Turkey is imploding it will see NATO blow up
It is simply to keep Latvia from defecting. It is to hold the population. It has no military value otherwise. Like the secret US-German Treaty of 21 May 1949 keeping Germany under US control until 2099, there will be some secret Latvian-US Treaty holding them hostage. They forget Latvians were heavily involved in the German-inspired Bolshevik coup in 1917 and had three governments simultaneously. These Baltic states are not worth the effort for Russia or NATO and their educated young have already left for Western Europe as the number of attractive blonde women moving west makes evident.
US is drunk and looking for a fight. When it comes US town planners will have Fukushima Zones to work with across the Eastern Seaboard
It really is astonishing. How many Americans have been killed by either cops or gun crime since 9/11.
Seems to me the biggest danger to Americans.......are Americans. fact.
That's without debating the "facts" surrounding 9/11.
The wool is being pulled over everyone's eyes in the name of democracy and freedom. Shameful.
Cheers wattie
One up there for ya Wattie, but please not so loud. The answer to all this admin's problems is remote control drones.
Freedom is the culprit.
The bar was set far too high.
Those with real power knows this.
its called illegal immigration. Duh mofo...ya stupid?
Vladimir Putin,
You are a liar and a fraud who is a lackey of the bankers.
If you weren’t,
1) The Russian central bank would not be a private treasonous institution controlled by City of London/Western ruling class interests.
2) Russia would not accept fraudulent (unconstitutional, illegal) and not-even-worthless [because FRNs are not even defined as to exactly what they are worth] US dollars or Euros for Russia’s real and valuable oil and other natural resources, or for its arms sales.
3)Russia would vehemently have denounced the fact that Americans and Europeans are manipulating the price of gold, silver and platine lower by selling precious metal that they don’t have in fraudulent paper markets only, to the tune of several hundred ounces MORE than each ounce the West actually have available for delivery. [For each ounce of eligible & registered gold in Comex warehouses, the Americans already have sold several hundred ounces on paper.] Like all IMF member countries, Russia acquiesces that it’s forbidden to use gold as money…
Putin,
You’re a fucking traitor to mankind.
If not,
You’d have used fuel-air bombs on Raqqa (the de facto capital of the Islamic State) and exterminated these American agents before they tortured, raped and killed hundreds of thousands of human beings.
You would have hit the oil fields controlled by ISIS which finances their rape, torture and mass murder of human beings in the name of American- and European-aligned interests. You would have denounced and attacked the parties that buy this oil from them and destroyed their oil trade routes.
Putin,
You’re not a chess player. You’re a piece of shit.