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"America's Ship Is Sinking" Former Bush Official Exposes The Unfixable Corruption Inside The Establishment
"This ship is sinking," retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson tells Abby Martin, adding that "today the purpose of US foreign policy is to support the complex that we have created in the national security state that is fueled, funded, and powered by interminable war."
The former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations reflects on the sad but honest reflection on what America has become as he exposes the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.
"It's never been about altruism, it's about sheer power."
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Never meant to be a empire. Just a republic
The problem is folks allowed the empire to take over...now its more of a banana republic.
What they would do to "the other" they would do to us. Off-shoring US manufacturing jobs is as clear an example of this as I can think of.
Republics are easy to corrupt.
It is worth it to watch the entire interview, especially the very end. He is asked what it would take to stop the bullshit, and he responded along the lines of "It would take a substantial minority, or even a majority of the people to stand up and say no more. Does that mean revolution? Possibly."
white americans, move to downtown Detroit.
jews move to Dearborn
that'll bring an end to the MIC
Palace Coup, Nov 22, 1963
Funny how these types always become outspoken about the MIC or crony capitalism after they're retired.
Petreus... get inside the evil and you will be aghast.
http://thegroundtruthproject.org/afghanistan-petraeus-should-be-ashamed-...
Let's hope he will arrange to lead "a substantial minority, or even a majority of the people to stand up and say no more"....or it will be not more effective than rants/comments on ZH (yeah, sad but true).
Sad? What are comments on a blog site supposed to do? Govern a society? Start a revolution? Did you actually think you were contributing something here besides whiling the time away in lieu of reading a book? Sad, but true.
And "let's hope"? Hope... that's your (y'alls) first problem.
Fair enough comment.
Personally, I'm doing what I can to pass the message on; perhaps it will hit the right note for the right people down the line. It's not easy when the majority is like you suggesting to look the other way and enjoy life (possibly by reading 50 shades??).
Lawrence Wilkerson was part of the establishment, so I do hold him responsible too to lead the change. Not everyone is a born leader. He seems to have what it takes....only if he truly means what he says.
I have my reservations too after hearing what he said. He didn't name names. It's difficult when they still cover each other's ass even after retirement or are still afraid for their own well-beings doing so.
Republics are easy to corrupt.
Correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic
End of life clarity, once they realize they can't take their ill gotten wealth to the other side. Die, you fuckers.
Yet Soros and Buffet are as evil as e ever. Probably more so now than before.
Self preservation is a powerful motivator, especially when you have Family depending on you. These guys who refuse to go quietly into the night, who sing to anyone willing to listen after they've broken free from the entanglements of their slavery, or "Job", are needed if we're ever going to expose the evil in Washington.
I for one am glad to see these insiders coming out and turning on the establishment after retirement. I hope more of the Generals who Obama kicked to the curb during his purging of descent in the Military will throw caution to the wind and begin to expose the Truth about who manipulates and enslaves the People of the world!
I agree. Societies depend on their elders, people retired from active life and judging from wide experience, to point out these problems of direction and emphasis.
Our officer corp is silent. The military didn't notice 9/11, the intelligence services didn't notice 9/11, the police forces didn't notice 9/11 all around the world. Even after we have spent so much effort point it out.
This uniformity is the danger, how did we put such a mono-culture into our world? Mono-cultures are susceptable to viruses and groupthink.
Take your kid out of school, give them a computer, stand by to help them grow up. End the monoculture.
"..are still afraid for their own well-beings doing so."
Thats what the NSA spying thingy is all about
Unfixably peaceful means he meant to say?
BINGO! DJ,
This dick like countless others is still pulling at the public teat. To put it quite simply, we have a government we can no longer afford.
Spoctor Din
1913 was a pretty bad year for the republic too...
Secession anyone?
Assad using chemical weapons on his people...BULLSHIT! He didn't believe it from the moment he heard it.
E.V. Spot On! Probably one of the most well placed interviews I've seen in years.
I had my family down for an early Christmas (the oldest grandson stayed) and we will watch this Vid. together. It will be the basis of our conversation on the way home.
Yep, he got his XBox One, but it wasn't loaded with war games, as I just see those as a training tool of the MICC, in that they 1. teach the bravery of being out of range. 2. push the dehumanization of the "enemy".
Hell of it is, at 10 years of age, I bet he'll understand. So many 2, 3, 4, and even 5 times his age never will.
P.S. Thanks to Wifey for the reminder not to cave on my moral standard.
Don't worry, that Xbox will be filled with war games soon enough.
....and congratulations on giving money to one hell of an evil corporate entity.
You should see my check stubs. I give a shitload more $$ to a far more evil organization...
Maybe someday we will see on the news that a division with tank and air support took over Washington and the White House, charging the Commander-In-Chief with treason. Don't hold your breath. Today's volunteer army is made up of the people who had no better option in life than the military. It's made up of poor white trash and ghetto blacks.
And of course it should be made up of Decent White Folk and Blacks who are a credit to their race. So I'm guessing you never supported any of the wars post WWII from your upper middle class loft.
sadly, bullshit ends only with total human extinction
just like the 'market', the game's fundamentally rigged
@EV,
IMO if folks had the essentials needed & literally boycotted spending so much as 1 red cent for a week, maybe 2, that alone would go further than any words spoken.
Don't feed the beast.
With blood nor fiat.
He is asked what it would take to stop the bullshit, and he responded along the lines of "It would take a substantial minority, or even a majority of the people to stand up and say no more. Does that mean revolution? Possibly."
I say no more... and I got all your backs for as long as I can hold the line.
I am done with the bullshit.
There is no such thing as a “Republic”.
Who were the first to turn troops against the fledging Americans, the very ‘Founders of the ‘Republic’”, that’s who.
We are a republic all right. It's just that we also got a banana in front of it...
That's what happens in a Republic. Unfortunately, while better educated than today, the peanut gallery in 1786, were knuckle dragging troglodytes vis-a-vis the elite.
A Republic is rule by the elite. It has been for over 2000 years, and that did not fundamentally change during the Enlightenment.
The American Republic was founded by a faction of the Colonial elite.
Until the masses successfully educate themselves (because the State WILL NOT) the elite will continue to rule.
People need to read actual texts (preferably annotated if they aren't literate in the language of the original text), and certainly not just summaries and interpretations contained in textbooks.
Then they need to actually think and properly reason.
When you try and shortcut that process you wind up with teabaggers attributing the Constitution to divine intervention, and niggers, cunts and other SJW untermenschen who think that they will be the beneficiaries of an empowered State.
"People need to read actual texts"
Which texts would you recommend ?
If limited to one book, then Aristotle's Politikê (Politics). It's expounds upon the arguably mistitled Republic of Plato. Plato was actually a fascist, (and thus his idealized Politeia, was fascist, and strikingly similar to what the US has today) which probably explains why the disciples of Leo Strauss (both left & right, Jew & non-Jew alike) get so far with his nihilist interpretations, which also conveniently disregard the evidence the reason Machiavelli's Prince was written in Italian, instead of Latin, was because the work was satire (e.g. Rousseau's interpretation), and actually intended as a warning to the masses, as opposed to strictly a how to manual for the elite.
The various definitions and usage of Politeia are critical though. The Wikipedia link above is as fine as two minute introduction, but the various historical usages of politiea coupled with the limitations of available corresponding words in Latin or English plague translations of both Plato and Aristotle. Plato's ideal politeia was a benevolent oligarchy for the common good, Aristotle's response was that the ideal politeia was a benevolent democracy for the common good (the notion of universal suffrage did not exist in Ancient Greece, so the pool of voters was smaller).
So in modern English we have a word from Latin (Republic) that was used to translate benevolent oligarchy, but no word for benevolent democracy, and in fact Democracy has been systematically denigrated as mob rule, when a prerequisite for that actually is actually democracy in pursuit of self interest, whereas oligarchy in pursuit of self interest gets a pass from those who control the education of the masses.
Seneca is far better reading than Plato. The readings of Cicero are also pretty good.
Thank you. I will have a look at that book. I am not really schooled in the subject matter, but I have come to understand that "democracy" has a different meaning for different people. While the elites present democracy to the common people as an end, in reality for them it does not seem to be an end but a means. Basically, the end is to obtain or retain power, and the democracy narrative forms part of the legitimization process that is required to reach that end.
(just realise that to many old cunning bastards around here this probably sounds like a child calling out Santa Claus for a fake).
(Btw, great website archives.org, is new to me )
UR's advice is very good. don't agree with everything, but generally... yes
ancient Athens is a very good ancient example of why democracy has a different meaning. because you had to belong to the "Demos", first
roughly 100'000 souls in total, the question of the demos was how many. ranging from 400 to 4'000 to 20'000 being allowed to vote
that you had to be free, male and adult, on this everybody agreed. but you had to be useful for war, too. and a marine power needed... rowers
Ghordius' insight below is also very important neither "Democracy" nor "Republic" nor "Constitution" belong to the United States of America... alone.
My interest lies in starting with the valid critiques of the American founding fathers and their work and tracing the evolution of process through the rise of the Federal government and its capture and manipulation by monied interests to the corporatist mliitarist empire that is basically unrestrained in the US today. So there's material I'm leaving out (including most of the Enlightenment), and I'm oversimplifying the classics in a particular fashion (although IMO better than the publisher's of Cliff's Notes oversimplify).
The Newburgh Incident
In 1783, with the Revolutionary War nearly over, the American dream of an independent republic almost died at the hands of the army that fought for it. While Continental Army officers waited in camp at Newburgh, New York, for negotiators to end the conflict, their long-simmering frustration with Congress finally boiled over. Anger swept through the corps from the lieutenants to the generals. These men had had enough—enough of inedible rations, inadequate clothing and supplies, and, most important, years of foregoing pay. A coup was in the making. Even the British knew it. As one of their spies reported, military contempt for congressmen meeting in Philadelphia was so fierce that the army was “ripe for annihilating them.”
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Autumn14/civilian.cfm
Democracies are even easier!
I was looking for a place to say the same thing Stycho. That's why the FF's started off with a republic, which the banksters have gradually whittled down to mob rule by a dependent majority of LIVs, Low Information Voters.
You fundamentally misunderstand the means of control. Mob Rule is the antithesis of what the elite seek. Their designs benefit from an ignorant citizenry, but their designs are WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON A FUNCTIONING REPUBLIC.
Take it easy with the fundumentally misunderstands. You fundimentally misunderstand pendantic.
Mob rule via LIVs is the banksters beard.
I don't think the fundamental power structure in society is pedantic. The mob does not rule. It is a puppet of the elite for waging intra-class warfare against political opposition. The same as it has been for thousands of years. The fucktards in the mob not realizing they are being played is why we have one party corporatist rule today. Little Barry, who couldn't even make partner in an irrelevant law firm in Chicago sues Citibank to give the niggers cheaper houses, then he lets Linda Green take whatever minuscule equity the fools thought they had built. Then the mob clamors for free healthcare, and suffocates under increased taxes. The other side is just as gullible, they clamor for an end to State propaganda masquerading as education and get "no child left behind" edumacation, and corporatist fascist Chief Justice. Organized Labor, however, is the biggest bunch of fuckwits, they actually have a seat at the table, and in return for wielding the mob relatively successfully, they have gotten NAFTA, TPP and TTIP. The elite rule, the mob are slaves.
Go take a look at Ukraine. Specificly, the bankster financed Maidan mob. SOP, except a little too obvious.
Neither George Soros, nor Victoria Nuland is a member of the Maidan mob. Poroshenko is a slave to his creditors, and his creditors aren't interested in distributing their wealth to the untermenshen. Which reduces the various factions in western Ukraine to distributing table scaps to mobilize their respective mobs for political advantage. Who gave the order to shoot? In my experience that order has always come from a member of the political elite trying to achieve political ends, not a member of the mob. I see no evidence that Ukraine was any different.
"Neither George Soros, nor Victoria Nuland is a member of the Maidan mob." Huh? What constitutes 'part of the mob'? Does picking the winners, the strategy and handing out cookies count? You're not a bankster shill are you? Nuland/Soros et.al. orchestrate the mob and use it as a tool to further the bankster cause. Surely you can figure that out? The new mob installed government, ie. From a Soros color revolution wiil for example create a central bank as part of the BIS system if such bank did not exist pre-mob. Yes or no?
One person's wealth transfer is another's subsistence bread crumbs. The mob or untermenschen as you call them get peanuts, not wealth so they are always dependent and ready to explode when necessary. What is an EBT card?
This is not hard to understand. It's at least as old as the Romans. You have heard of 'Bread and circus' haven't you?
No, they are not part of the mob. They do not act for the mob's benefit. They act for their own benefit. The mob a tool, and a means to achieve an end. Whether a BIS member central bank exists in Ukraine is irrelevant, the corporatist goal in Ukraine is expropriation under the guise of fighting corruption, and then resale of heavily discounted assets through corruption, same as it always is (see comments 5368754 & 5369621 since Tyler's craptastic archiving process ate a more explicit summary of Soros MO in Guinea) Greece already has central bank that is a shareholder in the BIS, so membership cannot be the determinative motivation.
Mob rule is ochlocracy (there actually an esoteric English word, which Ghordius could likely provide the Latin root of, hence my oversimplification above). Plato was all for rule by philosopher kings (aka technocrats)- Krugman, Bernanke, Brzezinski, Perle, et al. would be philosopher kings in Plato's contemporary Republic. The death of Socrates drove Plato to despise Democracy and declare it to inevitably end in ochlocracy. However, Socrates (an oligarch and philosopher king himself) was judged guilty by jury of hundreds of Demos out of a citizenry of only a few thousands. Paul Cartledge actually puts forth a strong argument that the conviction of Socrates was anything but mob rule, regardless of his previous incidents of offending other oligarchs.
if republics are "easiest to corrupt" and democracies are "even easier", then tyrannies (aka absolute monarchies without religious setup) are the easiest, then you have to corrupt ony... one
the debate on this is really old, already the ancient Greeks and Persians were engaged in it, see Plato's works
the one, the few, the many. those categories denote by whom the whole is ruled... without taking the law into account
independently from that, the Rule of Law... (instead of the Rule of Men) trascends all that, aided by the concept of a constitution with a bill of rights equivalent
corruption is always present in human affairs. the question is how much. a sole supreme ruler has to fight corruption as much as an oligarchy or a People ruling supreme
meanwhile it's still a republic based on a constitution, the rule of law and democratic principles with an alert and franchised electorate that has the best chances to keep corruption in check
why? well, easy: an absolute ruler can only be at one place at the same time. similarly, oligarchs are limited, being few, by definition
is only the (co-sovereign, republican and democratic) citizen that is ubiquitous, and can remind the servant of the state, the civil servant that he is his servant, too
of course this needs the right... attitude. paired with the right knowledge, and some willingness to shoulder the workload of the whole
a properly and throughly indoctrinated consumer... is too lazy for that. and so happy to have someone else to shoulder that burden
so the whole fight about the one, the few or the many is about... citizenship. one citizen, few citizens, many citizens. it is about how many... care
Do you get an orgasm posting this pseudo intellectual crap on here, because frankly I see no other reason why you'd choose this method of humiliating yourself?
p.s I bet you ejaculated all over the place when you told us all to read....Plato. LMFAO
and a good morning to you, too, "back to basics". oh, and Merry Christmas
this conversation/thread was started by "NoDebt" with "Republics are easy to corrupt", to which "StychoKiller" replied "Democracies are even easier"
so the logical counterpoint was... nothing new under the sun. then this discussion is using the very terms coined by ancient Greeks and Persians
if they were using purely American and original terms... I could understand your point. if they were talking about concepts invented in America... you'd be right
but neither "Democracy" nor "Republic" nor "Constitution" belong to the United States of America... alone
you are just... louder, more often then not "in your face" and sadly very often ignorant of your own vocabulary, politically and otherwise
but go on, since we started so well. which part of the argument did you not like, exactly?
Plato is btw easy reading. all stories about a few blokes eating, drinking and having conversations. and some of them drinking state sponsored poison, like Socrates
some of his friends were Tyrants, as in "The Thirty Tyrants", some of them wanted to become tyrants, as one of his pupils, others were Oligarchs
and Socrates was a veteran, and witnessed how the very first well documented Democracy worked, one that was a Republic and a a commercial and military Empire, too
that's the time when Sparta was having it's Hegemony and fighting Athens, the first "helping" oligarchies and the other "helping" democracies
no, I actually expect you to read Plato. it's free, and freely available, and it's the very primary source of this conversation above, one of the earliest discussions about all those terms
you don't have your Founding Fathers around anymore. they would disagree with you, and they would not have called it "pseudo intellectual crap"
they would have called reading Plato... going "back to basics"
Plato's Republic is a very easy read...its pretty much all downhill from there, until you hit Hobbes' Leviathan, but that's just me...worst has to be Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"..
Ghordius, I think you do yourself a disservice, as Plato/Socrates (or is it Aristotle) lay out the 6 types of governments. The one, the few, and the many, and their "evil" opposites. A kingship/tyrant, Representative Government/Oligarchy, Democracy/Mob Rule. Funny, government is a perpetual cycle...though this isn't a college level political philosophy class.
That's funny, I thought was more like a juvenile civics class (as in junior high school in the US system)... If they're pushing off the basics and foundation of knowledge upon which everything else rests until college, and then replacing the traditional liberal arts with basket weaving and untermenschen studies, that would explain some things. What is the point of studying the actions of governments and history if one cannot grasp how and why they operate? One would literally have to re-learn everything later just to have a modicum of knowledge, much less wisdom .
that's the kernel in many SF stories, having to relearn everything
btw, who am I to judge what is evil and what isn't? I prefer the bashing of corruption over the bashing of evil
Bravo! For 'corruption' is discreetly definable whilst 'evil' is not so easily pinned down.
Personally, I prefer Harpoon's Leviathan. After 6-8 you will forget this whole sordid mess.
as are unions.
ok, just about any form of representative governance.
guess it's time to replace the ballot box with the blockchain.
Self implosion is the only way to end this hydra
Finally. A decent comment.
Remember: a lit cigarette into every trash can. Metaphorically speaking.
Let those firefighters take a break from the barbeque grill, and work for those pensions they think are heading their way.
We're not even doing empire right.
"so zealous of their own power that they actually decrease their power" l. wilkerson
obama seems like a mole, so bad is he at his job.
America is the most successful empire in modern history. Its "culture" has spread throughout the world. Non-Americans might not speak English or fly the American flag, but they sure as hell know what McDonalds, Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
but not all.
Eirik - that was awesome and true and really funny about goofing on the faked Moon landings. That was like your best post evah [ever]. Much easier to propagandize the subject populations if they can all be made to adopt the fetishes of the already captured imperial population. Much easier for the puppet master when all the puppets' strings are all hooked up the same way.
Question, are you now or have you ever been anti-Putin? [Note the accusitory similarity of the phraseology to something the late Senator Joseph McArthy would use. Just for grins.] If so, how do you reconcile Ramstein's Amerika with an anti-Putin bias? If not, never mind. Anyhow, das war wunderbar. In the meantime, back to my JaegerMeister mit eis.
It will be one of the shorter lived ones too. If we were going to be a real empire, we wouldn't have made a defense-petro-dollar treaty with the Saudis; we would have subjugated the entire Middle East and killed anybody over there who protested our rule. I don't mean subjugate like what we did to Iraq. No puppet governments. Any "self rule" wouldn't be under the illusion of independence, it would be some degree of autonomy, but ultimate fealty to the Empire, or else, and everybody would know it because we said so, publicly. We also would have rewarded those over there who were willing to cooperate with us. We would be sucking every last ounce of oil out from them that way. We would be making it clear that people who accept the empire get the benefits of empire.
We're a faux-empire.
No, I don't like empire, but if you're going to do it, you had better be willing to be brutal and generous at the same time. That is what empire is.
there's only one way out for your faux-empire now, but since you cannot subdue the planet without our entire destruction you are going to receive what you gave others.
There's always more than one way out. Unfortunately, we've taken it to the point where the nice ones are no longer an option.
Yeah, I don't know Fudge. Everyone else, but the Russians are pussies and the Russians just really want to be left alone with their own giant space and their own intact culture. So, no, in away unfortunately, I don't see much retribution from external parties. Now internally, retribution from internal parties, that could happen.
"the Russians are pussies and the Russians just really want to be left alone with their own giant space and their own intact culture"
I don't even know where to start. bah. possibly even a good example of... projection of own wishes or something
"Everyone else but the Russians are pussies"
I think that was what he was saying.
I think that is what I did say.
'pussies' is one-dimensinal. Howbout we add some dimensions? Like an estimate of what is actually possible for a leader of a country?
Suppose Merkel actually wanted to do the best for her people? (Yes, etc., but just suppose.)
If that differs from the US's view of the situation, we dump a million ME refugees on her. Her BND doesn't bother to tell her all of its arrangement with America's NSA, so her phones are all tapped, and her cell phone has been listening in on all her meetings.
The EU's CBs answer more to America than to anyone in Europe. Their militaries have warm relations with the US militaries, and NATO is most of their military. We set all the internet standards, which happen to have enabled our spying over the years. All US equipment is permanently bugged.
In those positions, all of us would become resentful, so running an empire must require ever-larger pnishments and rewards, have ever-more conflicts from ever-more sources.
Basics of a less philosophical nature, it seems to me, govern our futures in addition to Plato et al.
If Merkel was really for the German people, she would just pick up the phone and call Vlad to say she was switching sides and needs some back up.
McDonalds, Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse
The Peak of civilisation...no less
And for the slow ones.....Yes, I am being sarcastic
or </sarc>
If bruce jenner saw mickey mouse in a mcdonalds drinking a coca cola he'd probably wet his panties.
Right? For who? Some folks are doing quite well thanks to empire building.
Once the financial empire collapses the army empire will take by force.
Just wait till Hilary take over.
Then, it will all be over.
“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”— Garrett Hardin
Which means, by definition, that the death control systems are the most important!
Until humanity evolves to from Primitive Unconscious Procreation to Civilized Conscious Procreation nothing fundamental will change.
from my observations we be one generation(or less) from barbaric self destruction.
i see 62 % retrace, so take your planned parenthood stik and fuck off. it don't matter...
Radical, when I was a little tyke, I had a little epiphany that went like this. In my little village, there were maybe ten different shops and a bank. Only the bank had serious physical barriers to interaction. Which gave me the conclusion that there was something about the bank that the people did not accept or appreciate and that the bank's existance had to be enforced by what you rightly call "death controls".
Bright kid.
Tell that to the Muslims.
Naw, let Mother Nature tell them.
The army empire sits atop the financial empire. If one is toppled, the other will fall with it. There was the post bronze age dark age, there were the dark ages that most people are familiar with, and we are staring at the beginnings of a modern dark age.
Dark age? For some maybe, but not for you, not for me El Vaquero. The rest of the World will rebound nicely, flourish even, when the hedgemon takes his boot off the global collective neck.
then what? china style existence? eco systems determine the human fate...
look to the oceans first...
Grow you're own. Or, not my thing, but get a 3D printer going. If you are self-sufficient and have access to the mass of information now available, life can be very good and free. Most people need a lot of structure. Learn to do without [it]. Find like minded, capable people. And read Walden Pond by Thoreau.
No. We are on the edge of such a flowering the world has never seen. Get the boot off humanity's neck even a little bit, and watch.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/the-technological-palette-...
Go explore on Youtube. The world's culture is amazing, and the rate of expansion and change is at an all-time high, and so much is good and so much so very superior.
There is no reason to diss humanity, we are doing fine. Our leaders are failing.
Demdere, you are really an Ok guy. If you are ever in my kneck of the woods, look me up. I'll show you what I have going.
I seriously hope you are correct, El Vaquero, because I would like to get back to the kind of world that existed when I knew nothing, when I was a kid, in the early 60s, before the MICC (Wilkerson's inclusion of "Congressional" to the standard MIC is essential and poignant) killed JFK.
Yeah, maybe America wasn't innocent and perfect, but it was miles ahead of what we have today. Anecdotally, my neighborhood, suburban Rochester (Irondequoit) was still largely a farming center. There were huge greenhouses just four doors down the street from me. And fruitstands, and kids riding bikes with no helmets, and cars without seatbelts and cops would would "give you a break" instead of "breaking your face."
Gradually, the farms were replaced with apartments, more apartments, stores, new homes, and the local government got bigger, and bigger and bigger. The town today is mostly still middle class, but the folks from the 60s and 70s have moved on. There are many more rentals, the shopping plaza that used to be all white shoppers is now 60-70% minorities, many of them on public assistance. The government is enormous. The school superintendant makes $285,000 a year, with golden pension, super health benefits, etc. The teachers make more money and have better benefits than 80% of the people they "serve."
It's all gone backwards. Our current system must come to an end, either by financial degradation (our best case) or armed conflict of private sector citizens against the "public servants." The government must be reigned in, and we must take our country back, because if we don't, there will be nothing left to salvage. We can start by opposing every school budget proposal and knocking school systems back to 1960s levels.
There will be great pain, so be on the right side. Private industry. Smaller government. Live and act without fear. It is the only way.
Re schools. If we are going to have to have public schools, I thought vouchers was a great idea. What's wrong with competition and choice?
You're mixing up your so-called ideologies.
You're also presuming the citizenry will stand down, and let liberty go...
you are mistaken.
Some will resist. Some already are.
the only question is will enough resist.
fudge, I've seen numbers that say, in the original revolution, only 3% actually took up arms. Look into Lexington and Concord. At first, the Minutemen had a hard time shooting their English RedCoat cousins, but after taking a few hits, Lexington Green, they got the hang of it and gave it back in spades, Concord Bridge, all the way back to Cambridge.
Culpeper Minutemen flag from Viginia.
If we do it right, it doesn't even take many.
Sabotage is the way to go. Quiet and clever beats shooting people. Assymetric warfare.
If they can't run airlines, they can't run a modern civilization and will look bad, people will laugh at their impotence.
How hard is it to stop airlines?
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/ghandis-terrorists/
When Hitlery takes over it will be all over. This country won't survive one term of that bitch.
If you're in the military, and that fucking bitch is your CINC (Commander-in-Chief), you're going to have to ask yourself, "Would I take a bullet for this lying cunt? Would I give up my life for the personal glorification of this hound of hell?"
My guess is that most of the military rank-and-file will simply muster out of the military ASAP, and their replacements will be the bulldykes who just adore Hitlery.
Do you think Mr. Putin is going to be afraid of Hitlery's bulldyke army? I sure don't.
Hillary Clinton for TEOTWAWKI 2016!
Population growth is already zero in the most advanced countries. That is, ones with prosperous and secure economies where survival does not depend on the number of hands you have to plant rice, or the number of children you have to support you in sickness and old age. When a country reaches a certain stage of development, and goes from third world to first world status the population stops growing and starts to drop. It has happened over and over again around the world.
The only thing stopping this trend from spreading to every country in the world, are the forces of chaos and destruction now lousing everything up.
why don't you take the first step towards that zero growth and kill yourself? oh that's right, you want me to do it. hypocrite.
No, stupid. We're talking about the Third World here. Like Haiti, or Zimbabwe, or even Detroit, where low IQ people reproduce like rabbits.
Nah. Recall before the current scenario America was an underdog. Peeps were black-lunging it in coal mines and smelts.
The Monroe Doctrine worked.
The Containment Policy worked.
How soon we forget the wise Michael Jackson;
We are the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
Titanic, full steam ahead.
My only question is why now? Does he have a memoir coming out or is he dying of some bone wracking type of incurable cancer? Too little, too late IMHO. If this guy was really as altruistic and chest thumping good as he wishes he was, then he would have quit back in the day and laid it all out long before now. I don't trust him ....
Good to have critical thinking skills, but just looking around yourself and what you have seen and experienced in America (the older your age, the better), as well as human nature in general. Wouldn't you say that he is more likely to be right than wrong?
There's that and this:
Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
"The Merovingian": Focus on the message, not the messenger. The man is irrelevant. What is relevant is his message.
The message is that they are destroying jobs so that more people will join the military, which would make it that much harder to form a revolutionary force.
Cyclical.
He has been doing this for a long time. Lookitup!
"Since his retirement from the public sector Wilkerson has on several occasions spoken out against what he perceives as the poor planning and execution of the Iraq War as well as the global politics leading up to and following it. In particular he has denounced the decision-making process of the Bush Administration and Vice President Dick Cheney's and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's parts in it." - Wikipedia.
I think the question was why only after retirement when he could do little? Was it to detach himself from all the fiasco?
But in all honesty, I would rather that he spoke up late rather than never. I don't care if it's for a book or clearing his conscience or any other selfish reason.
"I think the question was why only after retirement when he could do little?"
Soooo, you've never heard of the UCMJ? You talk shit about your boss and you're likely to get fired and you just move on with no real effects on your career. Those guys talk shit about the boss and it could land them in prison and it ruins their career. Yea, you'd be eager to do that to yourself.
Nobody can deal with 9/11, so he has no explanation for the continuous making everything worse.
Israeli-Neocons are treasonous criminals, and this is all keeping their heads out of nooses.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-our-dreyfus-affair/
Its easier to understand post WW II USSR and Stalin when one realizes he and his henchmen saw what was happening at Nuremburg-and dropped the Iron Curtain
After watch the interview i reached to one conclusion: Abby Martin is hotter than ever we need her back on RT
Never happen. Her Putin is the devil moment has been busted over and over and over... besides that, vegans don't eat crow.
2 out of 3 ain't bad. Abby Martin on 911 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmnMEOsuj58
Meatloaf - 2 outta 3 ain'd bad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s :)
this is what happens when gangsters take over a nation. it is no long a democracy or a republic. it is now a facistic oligarchy.
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is the real man petraeus democrap vote them out
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/1227/20121227_0...
Better spend another trillion that doesn't exist on defense products while the country rots.
Don't worry, it's not really money, besides, Obama says all spendg is stimulative....unless its done by Republicans.
You know Trump made the statement in the last debate that we (Meaning the gov) spent over 4 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan and we haven't got a thing to show for it. He should be driving that point home every f-ing day. That's something even the sheep can grasp.
he should know. some of his real estate ventures produced the same result, albeit on a smaller scale.
I swear, I was just saying today, "where is that benb?" A slight change to your comment, Better spend another trillion that doesn't exist on defense products that don't even work, F35 while the country rots.
Blackrock bought the store across the street
The MIC is working on concepts for 'sixth generation' fighters. Target price - $100 billion each?
Let's just skip the fifth - it is the Microsoft Bob of the aviation world.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-us-militarys-6th-generatio...
Paula Broadwell is my idea of smoking hot.
Paula, yes we can, soon as you ditch the doc.
You have awful taste in women.
Funny name though. For a chica. Broadwell.
Paula Dean Kranz
Fucking festering cesspool
She has a motor boatable set of tits...that's for sure.
Sure, but not worth your honor or the Nation.
Where is the military in defending the Constitution?
Dicks & brains are somewhere else, apparently. My apologies to any true Patriots.
"Where is the military in defending the Constitution?"
Obviously, not where they should be... I have these fantasies sometimes that loyal Americans in the military arrest the treasonous jack-ass in the WH along with the lead congressional whores and publicly try them for treason... Oh Well.
if you think it's your military's job to defend your constitution... then you deserve "the military's version" of the thing
then in history, whenever a military had to... let's call it defend... a constitution alone... it became a military constitution only
it kind of works, but it isn't for civilians anymore. oh, and that "civilian" isn't an endearing term, then
Maybe the right thinking milititary will just join in on the right side, once the ball gets rolling.
the "right" side is the one side that wins, isn't it? the one fact about the use of force is that the winner is "right", after the conflict
Its a moral issue Ghordius, something you would have trouble understanding.
I would cringe if the military were to pull off a coup. We're better off doing this ourselves.
"We're better off doing this ourselves."
I've been wondering about that very thing, but each potential spark of such a revolution soon cools and is forgotten. There must be something in the water.
Think about all of the shit that led up to the American Revolution. What it finally took was the Brits coming to take the guns, and a shot getting fired. How many years before the Revolution was the Boston Massacre? How long was Boston occupied by Red Coats before that shot was fired? It took a lot of shit to get us to rebel back then, and the same is true today. And you know what is the same today? Those in power did not believe that it could happen until a full fledged war was in progress.
I've made it clear, both publicly and anonymously to a lot of people that gun confiscation means civil war.
Imagine multiple terrorist attacks across the country at once and the govs response...gun confiscation.
Good luck.
The volunteer Army is manned by citizens who have no better financial option in life than the military. It is comprised of low income, poorly educated whites and urban blacks. White trash and ghetto blacks. That's why the military is not "defending the Constitution" They have never read it.
I upvoted you, but let me refine your comments a bit. My 2nd son, against my advice, joined the Marines. He is 3 years in to a 4 year commitment. I was never in the military so he was not following in his father's footsteps. He did grow up hearing his father speak with reverence about the Constitution. He is caucasian and is not of low income, nor poorly educated, so generalizations like yours do not always hold true. Sometimes children, upon reaching adulthood, do not listen to their parents. That's my son's case.
Even though I strongly opposed him joining the Marines, am I proud of him? Button-bustingly so. Fortunately, his MOS is not infantry. My prayer is that he will not be drawn into the mess that the Nobel Peace Prize winner would submit his mates to.
That 170 pound boy of mine who went away to San Diego for boot camp now weighs 205. He has gained some muscles and some skills that make me glad he is on our team, should the time come. Please don't think of him as white trash.
One other thing: I noticed when I attended his boot camp graduation in San Diego that there are many hispanics in the Marines. If a recruit lives west of the Mississippi, they go to San Diego. There were lots of Marines from Texas (our state) and Cali, both of which have considerable hispanic populations.