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    Salvador Dali The knight of death 1934     If you’re Chinese or Russian, and you watch videos of the top three “most powerful” people in the
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    #112635
    Afewknowthetruth
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    Cannon fodder in the 21st century is much the same as it was in the 17th century, the 18th century, the 19th century and the 20th century. It’s just there is now a huge amount of it compared to earlier times -like five times as much- and the cannons tend to be more accurate and more destructive.

    Most wars since around 500BC have been chemical wars, and since 1914 wars have been fought to control energy reserves. It was the construction of the Berlin to Baghdad railway that had the British so worried they had to attack the Ottoman Empire in what is now called Iraq to secure the oil fields.

    History doesn’t repeat, it just rhymes.

    But this time it is rather different for the US and Britain because both have squandered the bulk of their energy reserves on unsustainable consumerism.

    ‘Interesting times’ get ever more ‘interesting’ as we fall off the Energy Return On Energy Invested curve on a planet that is highly polluted, stripped of its natural resources and undergoing the biggest extinction event since the Permian Extinction Event of 252 million years ago.

    Almost all of this ongoing disaster is a direct consequence of allowing banks and corporations and their fake economic theories, along with puppet politicians, to take control.

    We can be certain it will all end catastrophically quite soon, especially for nations attached to, and controlled by, the US and Britain.

    I’m making my preparations for economic-financial meltdown as fast as I can, but no one can prepare for an uninhabitable planet, which is what the maniacs in control of the western world are orchestrating.

    By the way, having grown up in England, I still use the French-derived spelling of theatre, rather than Webster’s.

    #112640
    Dr D Rich
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    It’s (the reason) not alcohol. The rest of the world drinks more than the United States.
    I wrote about this phenomenon several times and the perspective is far beyond anecdotal as the condition is more accurately prescriptive and descriptive.
    Three people closest to me in my life have been or are presently Caterpillar corporation CFO, Harvard MBA, Superintendent U..S. Naval Academy, two 4-star Admirals, Indo-Pacific CINC (or in charge of Nancy Pelosi’s safety), board of trustees as several large medical centers and CEO Beebe Healthcare Delaware. Well, that’s more three.
    None of these friends, classmates and acquaintances demonstrated more than mediocre to middling aptitude for what appears to be superior leadership. Their scholarly efforts were even more deficient. What they did demonstrate falls fairly in the legal category of fraud, yeah, the felony type. Each of the aforementioned never hesitated to undermine, sabotage or discredit a peer-competitor-rival. Each person never withdrew from the opportunity to seize credit for their target’s accomplishments. This misbehavior was routinely greased by alcohol and celebrated by the culture as “ruthlessness the institution expects from its best leaders”.

    And where the misconduct isn’t codified under some law, Medicine accurately labels these acts with terms terms such as projective identification, acquisitive projective identification, Narcissistic personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder, Alcoholic games and then sends our worst out to “reverse engineer it” to torture “folk” naked, bound and powerless…for $81 million.
    The least that can be said is our/my country perfected the method for selecting and concentrating these monsters in the Leadership Class
    Reap the whirlwind.

    #112655
    kultsommer
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    The West and especially Americans: “Former Yugoslavia was Communist, and BTW what was that car? …aaaah Yugo! That’s all that I need to know.” Late Joe Bageant described it brilliantly that Americans view the world through twisted
    “Discovery channel” lenses, aka everything behind the borders they see they compare to some American sh**t where,
    of course, latter wins. Incapable, even for a moment, to put ideological issues on side and view the region of interest
    in it’s own historical contest. In this case former Yugoslavia , that puts one in danger to immediately being labeled as a communist. What a mighty little country it was, with that “lion head” (see the map above)!
    Slovenia, “head of the lion” had an dismay illiteracy rate before WWII! Now it is most advanced Slavic nation! Croatia, Nazi puppet state during the said war, gained peninsula of Istria (see “lions chin” on the map) and half of today’s coast and islands in 1945, that the World goes “Ahhhh” just see it – present from Fascist Italy to Tito’s partisans that they could not say no. Now….Croatia is the only country in the history of the world that, not only pisses over the legacy that gave her additional real estate but outright denounces the leader who made it possible! He’s a commie, you know, and “we were not Fascist but were fighting a Communism” is the new meme peddled recently by them (and the Germans too). Film footage of Sarajevo before WWII and some by Wehrmacht soldiers during the occupation depicts the “early XIX century town”, that miraculously sprung into modern European city with “mini skirts and hot pants” just a few decades later. Open travel allowed Yu-.citizens to have access to “western goodies” just enough not to turn into consumer-zombies. And, even more appalling they were all returning to the jaws of “dictatorship” and using their world-valuable passport over and over! In that “Godless communist country” religious man, in early 70’s, packed his luggage and “normally” boarded the plane to trip to Mecca, like any other free man. Well, he had brought variola vera back in the country upon the return, but that is beside the point. Yu-work place: imagine the company that you are not afraid of the director or v-director and what that does to your sanity? They couldn’t do anything to you as long if you are a good worker and clock on time. You could walk by them and not even nod if you do not like them! But you “pretend to work and they pretend to pay you”, cries the West. Not true! But what if I want to have my own business? You can, but limited, so that the kids of those “business people” are the most normal human beings that one can meet. Compare that to front of 90210 High School where brats in tennis outfits commandeer gray haired drivers dropping them off. That business allowed one to have main house, house on the (former Italian) coast, Mercedes in the garage and allowance for the kids to go to summer school in England and study abroad, aaaand, oddly, no desire to spread just to ruin the competitor. Tomorrow I can fly any place on the Earth, meet Arnold in Thailand and teach him all that he needs to know about art. Price for that is that for two long decades I work for an asshole who hates my guts paying me $50/hr and I hate his guts just looking at him. What a healthy relationship, spread all over the country and that I know by talking to the people of all professions. Ever heard of the “coolest customers/clients” who turn into monsters in time of downturn? I’ve met them.
    Yu-art-architecture-design have so much merit so the MoMa in NY had recent exhibit for that powerhouse of creativity, and many items are in permanent collection. Music. Google “Put na Istok” (Journey to the East) progressive rock-jazz by Korni Grupa. done in 1972, in the “thick of communist iron fist”. Yu-engineers were building bridges and dams all over the Middle East. Marvel of engineering, bridge from the mainland to (former Italian) Croatian island Krk (Wikipedia) done by Yu-engineers and Yu-work force. Bridge on Cratian Peljesac, recently opened, is done by Chinese engineers and workers. Beauty of the “free market”.
    “YU-socialism with the human face” that will never be repeated again. What does that mean? People who did not want to participate in the communist theater were allowed to just be. In my case, most of my friends and later that I’ve heard from others the best defense of joining was “that it Party was so grand for some crazy like me to be part of it.” And… that was it.
    Despite of that, in my growing years, when I would pull my head into the living room to say hi-and-by to my parents it did not escape me on quick glance on our B&W TV how 5-layer carpets were prostrated before Tito anywhere where he went.
    I thought that ALL presidents are like that, true statesman, or the way I see him now archetype of a “Good King”. I need a pause now…..
    I could go on. I realize that system lasted as it did, but it was real nevertheless. Tears on May the 4th 1980 were real and not some NK performance. Tito’s funeral with roster of attendees was real. Don’t tell me how “real” is this where we re now. I do not have to write about it when Jim Kunstler, an American, can say it better then me. Role of the US to expedite Yu-destruction can not be denied, and it’s restless nature is shown in article today.

    #112657
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    If you’re Chinese or Russian, and you watch videos of the top three “most powerful” people in the US, Biden, Kamala and Pelosi, what do you think?

    I should think the Chinese and the Russians would be terrified of the possibilities, given the public personas of those three intellectual cripples…
    Which in itself is a dangerous combination…
    Thank the gods we have people like Lavrov and Xi; both have proven to be competent in their positions…
    I’m also hoping Xi and Lavrov have made it abundantly clear they will not tolerate any nonsense from the U.S. I’m confident they have communicated that position; but have little confidence our intellectual cripples in charge have understood the message…

    #112671
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Here in Taiwan we have endless TV clips – I am at the outlaws, so the TV is always on – of Pelosi when she was younger telling us how she poked her nose into the Tainanmen square protests because they were fighting corruption and a few other buzz phrases like democracy, rights etc. Yes, the super-corrupt Pelosi, the super-anti-democratic Pelosi, the anti-human-rights Pelosi reminds me of Zelensky: he knows he can say anything and that there are enough retards watching to believe him. Pelosi and her “look at me” magic roundabout show is just the same, cut from the same cloth, the absolute opposite of what the average good person aspires to be, but the average good person is a retard, so the snake can hypnotise them.

    At the end of the day, the people here have to go along with it because only the USA is retarded enough to start a war with China over Taiwan – of course, they would fight the war to the last Taiwanese as in Ukraine, but at least the politicians will all get their cut of the weapons sales.

    #112684
    aspnaz
    Participant

    It looks like “Pelosi in Taiwan, Act 1” is the response of the owners to the fact that China backed Russia and therefore ruined their plans to take over the whole world, now having to settle for their imprissonment and enslaving of the west while the rest of the world, BRICS+, live it up. It is such a petulant fit that you have to think that they have run out of ideas and are now just smaking whatever comes to mind.

    I say owners in recognition of Dr D’s great analysis of WEF as scape goat rather than WEF as rulers of the world, a totally credible analysis given the weird tendancy for the owners to hide like cowards while WEF boasts about its ability to “centrally plan” the world and steal all our stuff.

    #112687
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes, the point was they honestly and non-ironically created and used the WEF. But if things get hot, they’re willing to sacrifice it and all their friends for greater goals of staying anonymous and escaping with the heist money. I think it would only be 4-D chess if they created it for the sole purpose of scrapping it later, not that like every billionaire with 10 companies, they’re willing to bankrupt business 2 to save the other 9. WEF is drawing the short straw and is put in the firing line.

    #112689
    Cetzer
    Participant

    As I saw the right half (image) of Blinken’s tweet, my first thought was: A bunch of hungry cannibals, “Would you like some eyeballs with that?”. But then i corrected myself: Just a bunch of politicians bickering over influence, money and cannon fodder.

    #112690
    John Day
    Participant

    Adewknowthetruth said:
    “Interesting times’ get ever more ‘interesting’ as we fall off the Energy Return On Energy Invested curve on a planet that is highly polluted, stripped of its natural resources and undergoing the biggest extinction event since the Permian Extinction Event of 252 million years ago.
    Almost all of this ongoing disaster is a direct consequence of allowing banks and corporations and their fake economic theories, along with puppet politicians, to take control.
    We can be certain it will all end catastrophically quite soon, especially for nations attached to, and controlled by, the US and Britain.”

    Thanks: i like English spellings myself, and sometimes got graded wrong on spelling tests for it as a kid. I don’t think this will “end catastrophically”, because I don’t think this will end at all.
    Those of us planning ahead, and preparing, get to keep doing stuff i a die-off-slowly world until our times eventually also come…

    #112692
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Kultsommer: We liked visiting Croatia, and swimming. seeing ancient Roman sites, in Pula. So much history everywhere. The Croatians were nice and clearly got-things-done. The nice big apartment buildings and public worlks, made under Tito were everywhere and. There were Yugos in 2005, when we were there. “Sloveniais like Austria with a different language” , quoth our German friends, and it sure seemed that way on the trains. Beautiful countrysides…

    #112702
    kultsommer
    Participant

    @ John Day
    You are one open minded traveler. Yugoslavia was an odd ball for sure and many of us loved it just the way it was.
    Now it is obvious more than ever that regular folks really have no say in any system beyond what it allows

    Speaking of traveling, check that “Journey to the East” that I recommended above if you are into prog jazz-rock.

    #112707
    Noirette
    Participant

    I still cannot understand that USA, power groups, Corps, Gvmt., and ppl, supported Biden as Prez, via a kind of National Loyalty Obligation (“it is what it is”..?), neglecting Int’l politics entirely.

    (The election was stolen, imho, Trump was the winner, but that is tangential.)

    Somehow ‘selecting’, then ‘championing’ a head of State who has so many casseroles (F for pans, that are proverbially tied to your feet, you need to walk dragging along all that heavy iron, steel, aluminum, and teflon.. so stumble along, achieving little..) – A man who is senile, can’t even read the teleprompter, can’t walk around on his own, looks and drools like a terminal geriatric patient, has a wife who seems to be a caretaker and abuser, etc., .. would have ..

    NO impact on International Relations. (Plus by ricochet, no impact on US actions in world geo-politics..)

    When Biden was elected many ppl in Europe were shocked, they could not believe the US would do the Politburo thing and put a half-dead body on the ‘throne’. Many ppl predicted the weakening, some said, .. soon, the end, of US hegemony.

    Ppl started to laugh at the US, how could this be? Specially, like, heh, *et alors*, etc. the elections are rigged, so they can’t rig them to put some popular / interesting / smart person to appear in public as the figurehead? Like an Actor?

    Obama was hailed as a superstar, black (fantastic prop), suave, with a black wifey, kiddos, “Democrat”, thus ‘on the side of the ppl,’ etc.

    Trump was seen as ‘from the other side’, a successful entrepreneur, more ‘right wing’ (socially conservative?) and so on, this was judged to be “le retour du balancier”, aka the accepted sway of politics in places with “democratic values.” Btw, Trump was well known in France before his election, via his books, huge popular sellers. Link is just to one bookseller, fnac.

    https://www.fnac.com/ia748620/Donald-Trump

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