Thursday, March 28, 2024

NET ZERO, THE DIGITAL PANOPTICON, AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD

      It's always refreshing to find an article online where an author ignores the official narratives and approved counter-narratives of the Uniparty and focuses upon issues that actually are occurring behind the Media smokescreens. It was written by Colin Todhunter whom, in the interests of full disclosure, I know little about; and is titled, Net Zero, The Digital Panopticon, and the Future of Food. The author gives us a good summary of the progress towards the Great Reset---which, despite discreetly being ignored by both Republicans and Democrats---is still ongoing and being put into operation. 

    The World Economic Forum, is the de facto Government of the so-called 'Democratic West.' The Great Reset, their grand plan for tyranny, was unveiled in 2020. The WEF and the Great Reset in general are scoffed at and hooted down by the experts in the Western Media despite having published their intentions clearly and their positions being adopted by nearly every Western Government. The WEF's Board of Trustees is comprised of some of the world's most powerful central economic institutions, political leadership, and major corporations. The WEF's Strategic Partners---now expanded to 120 members---includes the West's most powerful Corporations, banks, and NGOs. The organization is based in Switzerland, the home of various cut-outs and networks of international intrigue. 

  "The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system." Todhunter begins, and goes on to explain the ongoing economic contraction in the West as part of an overall concentration of power.  

   The standard talking-point from American Conservatives---who, like the Marxists they oppose, are economic determinists---is that nebulous market forces lead invariably to an 'economic correction.' The problem with their thinking is that their theories were formulated before the Industrial Revolution when it literally was impossible to create monopolies and concentrations of wealth without centralized government authority. When technology made mass-production possible, it became possible for private entities to control entire economic sectors in much the same way that, in our Founding Fathers era, were only possible with Royal Charters and other special grants from kings. 

   This situation changed in the Western countries about a century ago with initiatives to bring the power of popular governments to regulate economies and ensure that free-market competition could continue. These policies fell into disfavor in the late 20th Century, and we see the results of abandoning them all around us today. As Todhunter notes, the average profit-margin of businesses has fallen from 43% in 1970 to about 17% today. We could add to this that, in 1970, the United States produced over half of the world's GDP whereas in 2024. it is around 15%. 

   Deregulation brought with it Regulatory Capture, turning over the duties of elected governments to unaccountable private contractors, and massive concentrations of economic power in the hands of fewer and fewer entities. The doctrinaire Laissez-Faire theories promulgated by postmodern Conservatives naturally leads them to conclude that we are headed for an 'economic crash.' Nothing could be further from the truth. What we are witnessing economically is something more akin to a controlled demolition. What the Robber Barons---who already hold most of the national wealth---aim to achieve is a switch to Central Bank Digital Currency which they, of course, will control. 

   CBDC is already being introduced by Tienanmen Trudeau in Canada with ties to a 'social credit score.' Trudeau's Vice-Premier, incidentally, is on the WEF Board of Trustees. Despite Corporate Media guffaws about CBDC being a tin-foil hat Conspiracy Theories one of their own mouthpieces recently reported that the SWIFT banking system---which has a virtual monopoly on currency transactions between banks both in the US and abroad---is about to launch such a program (after the US Elections, of course). The overall plan originated in the shady WEF-affiliated Bank of International Settlements during the Scamdemic a few months after the Great Reset was announced. In October 2020, BIS' CEO Agustin Carstens stated:

   "We intend to establish the equivalence with cash and there is a huge difference there, for example in cash we don't know who is using a $100 bill today...the key difference with CBDC is that the Central Bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use regarding that expression of Central Bank liability (note: meaning what $100 can and can't purchase) and also have the technology to enforce that." 

   In 2022, Bo Li, an official at the International Monetary Fund whose CEO is on the WEF Board of Trustees stated: "CBDC can allow government agencies and private sector players {nota bene} to program, to create smart policy contracts to allow targeted policy functions {nota bene}...By programming CBDC these programs can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and for what these monies can be utilized." {nota bene}

  Christine Lagarde, CEO of the European Central Bank and WEF Board of Trustees Member said last year: “[...] you know the digital euro is going to have a limited amount of control. There will be control, you're right, you're completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 Euros, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous, the terrorist attacks on France, uh back, uh 10 years ago, were entirely financed by those very small anonymous credit cards that you can recharge in total anonymity.”

   This week, financial octopus BlackRock whose CEO is also a WEF Board of Trustees member, announced a digital platform for its money-market accounts. So it goes; and lest anyone believes that a Red Wave in November will stop all of this, be advised that the Republican Party is wholly on board with it all

   Todhunter goes on to explain how climate hysteria (on the Left) and National Security paranoia (on the Right) are being utilized to drive this agenda. Once the Global Oligarchs have control of the currency to this degree, they will control both production and consumption and our Constitutional Rights will be more of a dead letter than they already are. This is why it is important for us today to build strong networks of our own because we'll need Parallel Economies in the future. The idea must be gaining some traction because the Whacko Left has noticed such things arising, but our freedoms will depend largely on how much we can disconnect from the System itself. 



Wednesday, March 27, 2024

LAWFARE'S BACK CHANNELS

       With the two permitted American political parties spending an Election Year by clogging our already broken-down legal system suing and investigating each other, we haven't given much discussion here to these soap operas. It's important to focus instead upon the internal forces which have already seized the social, economic, and political power in the United States. None of these people are up for any kind of election or subject to the popular will in any way. 

      The abuse of the Legal System aimed at President Trump since he was removed in a putsch four winters ago is fairly typical of how the US Deep State mobilizes to destroy its enemies. Trump has proven a tougher challenge than most because of his popularity. The problem---which Trump seems unwilling to believe---is that his base is a paper tiger. The 73 million people who voted for him in 2020 slunk back into the shadows and did nothing while he was removed from power. In fact, 2020 in general showed us all what the American Right was really made of. 


     Now, voting is one of the few freedoms that the Elites have allowed the American people to retain---they tolerate it because it maintains the illusion that people actually participate in the government while distracting the public so that they don't start asking questions about who actually runs things. Nonetheless, Trump poses a problem for them; but Trump is only one man, so question becomes how to deal with him. The Oligarchy isn't concerned about his supporters---the Elites have learned from experience that the American Right is too vitiated to fight much harder than complaining online.

    This sad state of affairs has presented a golden opportunity for the vested interests to the control of the Republican Party that they enjoyed during the Bush years. Leaders of High Finance and Commercial Cartels seem to be warming to Trump and today we learned that a trio of billionaires; namely John Paulson and Harold Hamm along with an unnamed third party have raised money to cover the extortionate bond imposed on Trump by a  New York judge

    If the names of Paulson and Hamm sound familiar; it's because we had occasion to profile these two shining examples of humanity less than a week ago. That these two creatures are circling the Trump Campaign like a pair of vultures (their bird-droppings coming in the form of seven-figure donations) ought to give us all pause for concern. Unfortunately, it probably won't concern anybody too much: a Conservative Movement that doesn't mind having  LGBTQs, pro-abortion activists, and WEF Young Global Leaders in their ranks so long as such people are based and Red Pilled isn't going to fret about Corporate Robber Barons getting on board too. 

   The reasons that this should be concerning is that what these money-men obviously are up to is buying influence; specifically putting their own men in key positions in a potential Trump Administration---especially that of Vice-President. 'Rainbow Rex' Tillerson and Steve Mnuchin were examples of the kinds of people whom they installed in the last Trump Administration. Given Trump's advanced age, who could take his place is their overriding interest.

    Despite the fact that the Republican Party undermined Trump as much as they could during his tenure in office; did nothing to stop the Democrats from hijacking both Congress and the White House; haven't lifted a finger to push back on the legal challenges to Trump (in fact, openly participated in them) doesn't factor into the average Conservative's thinking. Like the 'Red Waves' in 1994 and 2010, the 2022 Congress has done little more than rubber-stamp all of the Democrat Administration's policies---that doesn't factor into their thinking either. That's what the purpose of elections are today: to put on a show, to keep up the illusion of popular sovereignty, and most importantly of all---to maintain the status quo. The American people fall for it, too. 

    Nothing is actually going to change until and unless Americans start forgetting about Party Politics and start focusing on the unelected Corporate hierarchies and bureaucracies who really are, in fact, the Government. The chances of that happening though are not high. Decades of neglect and apathy have sapped America's collective will to resist and, in the end, the 2024 Elections aren't going to accomplish anything except to give one group or another to push the Great Reset forward.

 

     

Monday, March 25, 2024

LESSONS FROM TEXAS AND RUSSIA

     A pair of major incidents in the United States and Russia this weekend provide us with an interesting contrast between Governments that function and ones that don't. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin recently won a sixth term with 88% of the vote, higher numbers than both Biden's and Trump's approval ratings combined. February polling shows that public approval for the US Congress---upon whom the GOP is relying for this year's Red Wave---is hovering around 12%. Those numbers themselves are about 75% lower than Biden's much-ballyhooed historically low approval ratings. Americans don't care much for the Ruling Elite, but they seem to like bullies and poseurs even less. 

    Texas Governor Greg Abbott---an obvious neurotic---has grabbed headlines among the Controlled Opposition as symbolic of the Alpha, tough-guy that America supposedly needs. Abbott has made xenophobia Border Security a centerpiece of his administration's policies even though the Border is entirely out his jurisdiction and Texas has many other problems which are being ignored while Abbott diverts resources to focus on his personal phobias. His rump-parliament passed a law which is being debated in the Courts expanding Police State and Surveillance powers allegedly to combat the invasion of America. 

    Abbott seized Border checkpoints a few months ago, claiming (falsely) that the Biden/Harris Junta was doing nothing to stop illegal immigration. His goons in the Texas National Guard put up razor-wire, brandished their weapons, while being widely photographed in the Controlled Opposition Media. Stand With Texas signs were going up everywhere; even an armed group calling itself God's Army showed up to help out. 

    Well, as it happened this weekend, Abbott's forces faced its first migrant surge. Apparently unintimidated by Texas' tough new laws, thousands crashed across the Border, cutting down the razor wire and destroying barricades. What did the Texas National Guard and 'God's Army' do? They did what our brave xhes in uniform always do when faced with a real fight: they fled. The supposedly impotent Border Patrol---which had been banned from the area---moved in and eventually restored order. Predictably, this was a Border Surge that the Conservative echo-chambers discreetly decided not to publicize too much.


      In contrast to this rather disgraceful display, Russia was really attacked by actual armed foreign criminals and Russians really did lose their lives in the incident. However, instead of rushing to the podium within 3 minutes for a photo-op like American presidents and governors do, President Putin waited until he had facts and spoke reassuringly to the Russian people. Putin stressed that the attack was an attack upon all Russians. Likewise, there were no immediate calls for tough new laws; instead the Russian Government urged the people to help the victims. Instead of being locked-down in their homes hiding under their beds, there were long lines at area hospitals with blood donors and others bringing food and water to the rescue workers.

    Tellingly, too, the Russian people weren't bombarded with endless press conferences from Affirmative-Action hired local police chiefs---in Russia, the police were actually out doing their jobs and captured 11 of the responsible parties so far. Two of the actual assassins were captured the next day by police who stopped them escaping in their car. The other two fled into the forest, where, according to some reports, they were captured by local farmers who held them at bay with pitchforks until the authorities arrived. 

    Reading the Russian Media coverage of this tragedy has been a refreshing change from how these events are handled in the United States. It's been remarkable for its lack of grandstanding, sensationalism, and fanning of mass-hysteria that accompanies far less drastic things that happen here. The focus in Russia has been to appeal to people's better natures: concentrating on helping the victims, identifying the responsible parties, and taking appropriate action: not focusing on selling media stories or capitalizing on the tragedy for political gain. 

    The lesson here speaks for itself. This is why Putin and his Party win by landslides while characters like Abbott are international laughing-stocks. The best that American politicians can offer is "hold your nose and vote for me because I'm not as bad as the other guy." The Russian people expect---and get---better. 



Saturday, March 23, 2024

THE FLORIDA SWAMP BUBBLES TO THE SURFACE

       Yesterday, there was a horrific terrorist attack in Russia, which got some passing mention by the American Government-Media Complex in between stories about the British Princess of Wales, a missing frat-brother in Nashville, and the Women's College Basketball Championships. The Official Narrative coming from our various government spokesxhes and media 'experts' are about as believable as Official Narratives typically are. We'll certainly have more to say about this in the upcoming days as we get more reliable information from the Russian authorities. In the meantime, one can check out InsanityBytes' post on Invermectin study cover-ups and Pacific Pundit's article on some of the hidden gems that Congress gave us in the new $1.3 trillion Spending Bill, for some specimens of the Official Narrative's reliability. 

     Just as a reminder, the studies about Ivermectin began under Operation Warp Speed in 2020 through a task-force headed by Mike Pence, Alex Azar, Mark Esper, Jared Kushner and several other of the unsavories in the Trump Administration who later sold Trump out. Nothing in the Budget Deal though about investigating all of these mysterious sudden deaths among those Americans who took the Loyalty Vaxx. Another little detail about the Budget Deal is that---not only does it subsidize many woke projects and initiatives that Conservatives are supposedly against---the funding for it is largely being underwritten by WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, the very 'woke' financial octopus, BlackRock. A Red Wave in November no doubt will change all of this, at least according to the Official Counter-Narrative. 

     President Trump overall did a good job when he was making executive decisions and intervening in policy, but his main defect clearly is that he is a terrible judge of character. This is evident from the kinds of advisors and officials he had, who often led him into one blunder and betrayal after another. These advisors often connived to force out of positions the very people whom Trump should have relied upon the most. From what I've seen so far of his 2024 Campaign, this tendency hasn't changed: in fact, it may have gotten worse. In 2016, the Deep State miscalculated Trump's chances of being elected: this time, they're more carefully planting their operatives in his inner circle in case he does win in November. Trump is 77 years old, and accidents can happen to man that age---if they do, the Machine is in place with the charismatic populist leader gone. 

     To underscore the Republicans' wholehearted commitment to the working man and their complete disinterest in Corporate dollars and machine politics, the President-in-Exile was invited to attend a gala fundraiser in Florida on April 6th. According to the Financial Times, the production is being orchestrated by "billionaire hedge fund boss John Paulson, co-chaired with real estate “investor” Robert Bigelow, previously the biggest donor to the abortive presidential campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Shale gas and oil billionaire Harold Hamm, a previous opponent of a Trump reelection bid, has also agreed to co-chair." Just coincidentally, about the same time that this event was announced, GOP voters picked Ron DeSantis as Trump's preferred choice for Vice-President, while WEF Young Global Leader and billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy finished second. DeSantis (for now) says he isn't interested, but organizing this event in Florida with three of DeSantis' richest friends doesn't look especially promising. 

   Florida is a state completely under the thumb of the Bush Machine. John Paulson made billions under the Bush bailout programs in 2007 and backed Mitt Romney, Bigelow is a complete fruitcake who broke with DeSantis and switched to Trump because he thought the rather tepid Abortion restrictions that DeSantis promoted in Florida were too mean. Harold Hamm is the sole owner of oil conglomerate Continental Resources who backed WEF Young Global Leader Nikki Haley in the Republican Primaries. Continental Resources has its own Beltway PAC, conspicuous for donating to numerous RINOs


     Another prominent donor is Floridian Jose Fanjul, owner of Domino Foods, which has a de facto monopoly on American sugar. Johan Norberg, an author who wholly supports the Free Market said of Domino in 2023: "
Among the most successful American welfare queens are the brothers Alfonso and José Fanjul in Florida, who receive around $65 million in subsidies for their sugar empire annually. They use part of that money to buy political support for a continued stream of subsidies in their direction. The best that can be said about them is that they don't contribute to political polarization. During the irreconcilable presidential election campaign in 2016, the Fanjul brothers protected themselves by holding one fundraiser for Trump and one for Clinton."

   A list of other worthies involved in the set-up can be found at The Financial Times, for those who are interested. It costs $814,600 to dine at the same table with the President-in-Exile (I'm not sure why this odd number was chosen); and a quarter-million to attend the event at all. 

  Yet our side complains that the Democrats are the only ones bowing to woke Corporatism and are the only ones dominated by a moneyed, out-of-touch Elite. 

  It is fairly clear---or should be by now---that the Oligarchy couldn't break Trump or his popularity so they've resorted to doing what they are best at doing: they're subverting it. As that old philosopher of Realpolitik Joseph Stalin used to say when given a complex of problems by his functionaries, "One man, one problem. Get rid of the man, problem solved." If these hoodlums succeed in planting one of their own as Trump's running-mate, the die will have been cast, and the 2024 Elections will be even more irrelevant to America's future course than they are now. It's no argument to claim, as many Conservatives do, that Trump has learned from his mistakes: it may so; but so has the Deep State. The Deep State intends to win and push the Great Reset forward, the rest is just show for public consumption.  

    

Thursday, March 21, 2024

SO WHY DO CHRISTIANS LISTEN TO THIS GUY?

       With the genocide in Gaza now in its sixth month, and breaking news emerged about a Zionist attack on one of the Palestinians' last remaining hospitals---resulting in a massacre of about 100 people in cold blood---Arch-Neocon Dennis Prager has penned another article portraying the Zionists as something like the heroic Defenders of the Alamo. Like any good Liberal, Prager plays the Victim Card, even going so far as to criticize Chuck Schumer of all people for even questioning Netanyahu's ability to lead Israel. The Corporate Oligarchs who run both the Israeli Government and ours wouldn't allow Schumer an independent thought: the reality is that they are frustrated with Netanyahu's management, not his policies. 

       I had thought about writing a refutation of Prager's absurdities and blatant hypocrisies, but the question came into my mind: why do Christians even listen to this guy? Prager is a Jew, not a Christian, and his whole enterprise is funded by a Texas megachurch headed by a billionaire. The Church itself is an Adventist Cult that holds, it's own words: "the true religion is Jewish, not a Gentile religion," and observes Jewish laws and festivals in contradiction to the teachings of the New Testament and centuries of Christian theology. Though on his third marriage, Prager is considered by many Christians an expert on family and relationship issues and has even written a commentary on the Torah and various Jewish festivals as moral guides for Christians. Quite tellingly, Prager highlights his favorite passage from the Pentateuch on his website:


     Which does seem to contradict certain things that Jesus said at The Sermon on the Mount. Most of what Prager writes contradicts Christianity and Reason in general; which again begs the question---why is this guy taken seriously by Christians? When we hear an alleged Conservative saying things like "f
ew non-Jews have a clue how much the Holocaust has affected Jews—including those born after the Holocaust and those Jews who lost no relatives in the greatest genocide in modern history. Most Jews suffer from a form of collective PTSD" ---a statement that's just a variation of the 'systemic racism' and 'collective trauma from slavery' nonsense that Black Militants push---one has to wonder.

     Prager's popularity probably has a lot to do with the fact that Prager has an excellent marketing machine with a patron wealthy enough to fuel it. Jeremy Boreing, one of the ringleaders of media group funding Prager is a product of Hollywood---where, sadly, most Christians today seem to derive both their theology and their moral value systems. Prager U is actually still produced in Hollywood, at a studio there. Echoing Vox Day, Boreing refers to his position as that of god-king, which doesn't sound especially appropriate for Christian. Even some Old Testament prophets like Samuel and Hosea didn't seem to have very high opinion of either false gods or kings.

     Part of the problem too is a failure of American Christian leadership to call out such characters. The reason for this failure is because many pastors---for wholly political reasons---see these Megachurches as allies against the Churchianity on the Left and overlook many of the Megachurches' glaring flaws. Another problem is that, like much of American society in general, the churches have become corporatized: seeing Big Business models as the operating procedure for everything. Megachurches have scores of thousands of communicants, a major media presence, unlimited wealth, celebrity preachers---wealth, power, and success are believed by most Americans today to be a measure of human morality. The average local pastor or parish priest probably sees himself in relation to the Megachurch in much the same way as a local grocery store stands in relation to Amazon or Wal-Mart. 

    Christians ought to reflect that America grew largely from immigrants who were escaping the grip of Megachurches which---like their modern counterparts---had a very close relationship with the political and economic establishments in the countries from which they fled. Our Founding Fathers separated Church and State for this very reason. I would never support someone like Prager being censored; but I have serious doubts that if he, or his followers, came to power that I would get the same consideration. That is where the danger of such people lies: not in what they say, but their power for subversion. If we actually an independent press and investigative journalists any more, such characters would be exposed like they were in the 1980s when none of them were too big to fail. But like Prager himself says, "You vote for the guy who votes the way you would—character is secondary," and, thus today, so as long as they say the right things, these charlatans get a free pass.





     

     

      

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

NEOCONS GRAB SLICES OF THE POLICY PIE

      We've documented here many times the ongoing collusion between the Democrat and Republican Political Establishments and their abject subservience to the Corporate Deep State ongoing behind the scenes in 2024's most important election of our lifetime which will decide the future of America. I can't recall a single election in the US that wasn't billed exactly the same way; although I somewhat recall the elections of the mid-20th Century when actual Liberals and actual Conservatives were still campaigning over actual issues and the US Government still had some actual power of enforcing laws. Probably 1984 was the last such election, meaning that now a whole generation has grown up in this poisoned political atmosphere and don't remember anything but today's conditions as normative. 

     


     Some recent Supreme Court decisions have highlighted this type of collusion, although the Controlled Opposition wing of the Corporate Media discreetly has been passing over them in silence---focusing instead on the political-legal persecutions of President-in-Exile Trump and his supporters while the Republican leadership is making absolutely no effort to stop any of it. The Court recently ruled against States excluding Trump from the ballot---a policy which we've noted was wholly instigated by Republican operatives. Immigration---one of the few issues that the GOP actually has left in its campaign---has also been discussed, though it's noteworthy that the Republicans not only have blocked any attempt to secure the Border; some of their members are actively encouraging illegal immigration

   A case regarding censorship also came up before the Court. We regularly hear complaints in the Controlled Opposition about public officials censoring opposing viewpoints. Any guesses as to who was on the pro-censorship side? "The Biden administration and a bipartisan group of 17 states and National Republican Senatorial Committee sided with officials, arguing in favor of their blocks."

   What a surprise---just as we learned this week that a consortium headed by GOP operative Steve Mnuchin is planning to cash in if the State-sponsored seizure of Tik-Tok becomes law. Mnuchin was one of the continual revolving-door personnel from WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner Goldman-Sachs, which effectually has captured the US Treasury Department. Mnuchin attended the 2019 and 2020 World Economic Forum meetings where the Great Reset was devised; and was one of a group of Trump Cabinet officials to abandon the President during the Electoral dispute that year. Mnuchin hasn't disclosed his partners, but I think that we can guess about what they'll look like. 

    It's not just time for cashing in on domestic issues: foreign policy is a ripe field for investment, according to former White House top advisor Jared Kushner. Kushner sees tremendous real estate development potential in Gaza once it's ethnically cleansed. "The thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev. I would try to move people in there. I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job… Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable," Kushner remarked recently. The Zionist Government---which has a full monopoly on real estate throughout Palestine---already has been angling to sell off the prime properties. Kushner is a real estate mogul in his own right, who married into the Trump family. He took over the company from his father who was sentenced to the Penitentiary on 18 counts of corruption in connection with illegal donations to the Democratic Party

    Ukraine, too, is coming back as a potential cash-cow. After some grandstanding, the GOP-controlled Congress is relenting on continuing propping up Zelensky's Regime. This isn't surprising considering the fat donations that Republican Senators rake in from the Ukraine lobby while Congress frets over Hunter Biden's dealings with that country. Another top GOP operative, Mike Pompeo, recently grabbed a share of Ukraine's telecom industry; hence it's important to keep those arms sales up in exchange for these kinds of Corporate perks; not to mention all that cash up for grabs if the Republicans succeed in seizing frozen Russian assets. One of the new heroes of the West's War for Existence, WEF Young Global Leader and French strongman Emmanuel Macron, has been inciting tensions by suggesting direct involvement of NATO troops in Ukraine. Macron has become a hero to the New Right despite his recent despotic moves against protests and the enshrinement of Abortion as a constitutional right. Macron has been increasingly dictatorial under the influence of his new President, homosexual activist Gabriel Attal who, in turn, appointed his non-binary lover to be Foreign Minister.  

     This are examples of what we're told on a regular basis are better than the Democrats, and that our survival as a nation depends upon giving them more power. Anyone who believes this seriously is either not well-informed or is deceiving themselves. We certainly don't need any more of the Democrats, but I've yet to hear a solid reason as to why the Republicans are suitable replacements. 

   

Sunday, March 17, 2024

PUTIN SWEEPS TO VICTORY, MSM PUNDITS HUNT FOR DISTRACTIONS

       The self-appointed 'expert' class of American pundits and academics are dining on crow again this weekend. Beginning two years ago, and up until just recently, the smart boys were assuring us all of the imminent Russian economic collapse and the downfall of President Putin. With the polls nearly closed in Russia, Putin routed his opponents and currently has around 88% of the popular vote (contrary to popular belief, Russia actually does have multi-party elections). The results were no surprise to anyone reading Media outside the influence of the US Corporate Deep State. Polls in Russia were showing Putin's approval ratings at between 81 and 89 percent: higher than both Biden and Trump combined. 

     I'm anticipating listening to Putin's victory speech tonight. Putin is one of the few world politicians who actually talks to, rather than down to, the people and understands the issues. That's why he wins by landslides while the best our candidates can do is to pose as the least objectionable alternative.


    The jackals in the Media are flummoxed by these developments, but not so much because they were exposed as complete fools yet again. The Corporate Media can spin the narrative to the polar opposite of what they promoted only days before, and the public buys into it. In our last presidential 'election' for example, the Media cracked down upon and dismissed anyone who questioned the results only a few days after they were hyping Congressional hearings and producing documentaries about the alleged 'Election Steal' in 2016. The Media's main problem is diverting attention from the Russian Elections in case people start questioning why Putin is so popular and what his Party is doing for Russia that keeps winning elections by wide margins. 

    Thus, the Media this weekend seized up some remarks made by President-in-Exile Trump during a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump referenced a "bloodbath" if Biden were re-elected, and vowed to save the US auto industry from China. 

   “He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge!" proclaimed a spokesxhe for the Junta---as if they wouldn't turn Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs loose on the public again if Trump wins. Trump's team responded on CNN by saying "Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are engaging in deceptively out-of-context editing,” which is true, but context deserves some consideration here. 

   The strange context to my mind was Trump's apparent beliefs that American Elections are actually fair; and that America actually still has an auto industry. The Controlled Opposition would prefer us all to forget that previous Republican politicians allowed their corporate masters to sell off the auto manufacturing industry to countries like China. Nearly all auto parts are manufactured abroad and merely assembled here in the US, Canada, and Mexico since Bush, Clinton, and GOP Congresses gave us NAFTA, GATT, fast-tracked China into the WTO, busted unions, and repealed laws that protected American jobs and industries. As an interesting contrast here, but one of Putin's campaign themes was that Russia had become more economically self-reliant after the imposition of sanctions.

   Vandalia, where the speech occurred, has seen its population growth crash since the 1980s, and its population steadily aging. Its major auto component plant, Delphi Automotive, was sold off to German industrial conglomerate Mahle GmbH about a decade ago. Among auto manufacturers still with brand names, Ford motors is owned about 8% by WEF linchpin BlackRock, which also owns about 10% of General Motors. Chrysler is not even owned by Americans any longer

    Trump vowed during his speech to bring back manufacturing jobs, although where the skilled workers or needed infrastructure to accomplish this are going to come from hasn't been explained. It seems much like Congress' recent grandstanding about Chinese-made cranes, which was supposed to be about bringing back American jobs but ended up benefiting foreign consortia instead

   Talking about rebuilding America's manufacturing base sounds good and plays into the fantasies of the Electorate, but it isn't simply a matter of re-imposing protectionism and hoping that industries will sprout up again out of thin air. 40 years ago, we still had schools producing engineers and managers, a trained workforce, factories and facilities, and a modern industrial and transportation infrastructure. We lost all of things too when the Robber Barons on Wall Street sold industrial workers out and the Media told us how to learn to code.

   It is possible to bring an industrial base back, as Russia has done. But it will take decades of investment and determination which, unlike the Russians, Americans are unwilling to do. The whole point of American politics today is to sell illusions and not disturb the public too much with hard facts---and certainly not to impress upon them the necessity of hard work for the benefit of the Nation as a whole. That's why Russia will continue to triumph on the global stage as world leaders, while we sink further into the clutches of the Corporate Deep State.