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Brilliant Whitney Webb on Jimmy Dore’s show.
If one feels like being depressed at the end.
It’s that bad – the theme and overall summary reached on the interview, that is.
Week from now, next Saturday I’ll be at the Munich airport. Few hours overlay is just enough to slip into Airbräu and have taste of liquid piece of art – Bavarian beer
Kunstler’s bravura with the words, as always is impeccable.
Interesting that Aron Mate’s quote crowns the post, given that he, just like me, cringes on excessive use of “cultural Marxism” contraption that Jim is not in shortage of.
World is much more complex than hard ideological divide into B&W.Next thing someone here will propose is that the Peloponnesian War was nothing more than communism and socialism steeped in Marx’s dialect at work. Dunno could a been fascism
There you go.
because unless I see people goose-stepping down the street, surely there is no fascism. That’s how you can tell when there is fascism.
I am a simple man, who also knows thing or two about living in socialism/communism.
Let’s call it off. You’re fighting on two fronts,with AFKTT and me. Must be tiresome.jb-hb
Yep, all 4.
At #3 I would not call you a conspiracy nut job but would think that, more likely, you were fed with McCarthy brand baby formula.
Call me when flags with hammer and sickle are on the Capitol building, crowned with Kremlin-like huge red star.Dr D
Ten Men, 1 Trillion… tells the story.
You think that “Marx” will take away your retirement.
I think that “10 men” will take mine.
Whos’ pocket is emptier?Ten Men, 1 Trillion…
Great article and somehow the right follow-up to my parting sentences on my last post yesterday.
I think that wast majority of people are realistic enough to view “American dream” as: Sure it would be nice to be a millionaire but I am content to work hard and get payed that offers me comfortable life of a quintessential middle class. However even that little has been siphoned from them by the massive wealth transfer starting somewhere in the 70’s.
Even the people that we bought the house from were more rich by the prudent finances and shifted priorities.They purchased the house 5-6 times cheaper than what they could have afforded, by the prevailing standards as what others wold have done and settled in ordinary middle class neighborhood. Otherwise we would have never known them. Prudence, I think,is something that their generation learned by living through the Economic Depression, but in their case it paid off in many ways.
Clicking on the article link gets one greeted with the dead eyes of a psychopath.jb-hb
Since you touched generational divide.
I have not experienced “American dream” personally (far from it), but pretty close in this way:
When we bought our house in 2003, previous owners left, among old tools, a box with the house paperwork that included their mortgage application in 1975. Three sheets of paper revealed that they were born 1918 and 1923, respectively. Could not guess as what happened during the great depression and WWII. Back to the papers, he was a hi-ranking manager in the Co. making actual products – building material. She was a housewife. They had a saving account of $145,000. His monthly income was about $3,000 (I think) in addition to $2,000+ on bonds and dividends. House was purchased for $51,000, with @25,000 down + (realtors fee?) of $500 and $26,000 was mortgaged. It was the life of world travels and house was overflowing with native sculptures and artifact from exotic places like So Pacific and Africa. Most of it they donated to the local museum before living CA .
In Florida, they purchased two corner units in luxury senior complex where their cat had a better medical care than most of Americans. They were staunch Republicans so their Christmas cards were photo-ops with Bush and Laura and later were in the form of, then popular, Family Journal with the photos of many happy faces.
They departed the Earth, him 2009 and her at 2015, just in time before all the mess that we’re in while, in general, their all lives were without “troubles” in a sense as what we think the troubles are.
I am mentioning this story because they were, in many ways, still an “ordinary Americans” – aka not filthy multi-multi-million dollar rich but rich enough that they had life that many kings and queens of the past would have envied.Well, that kind of opportunity and life is forever closed for many.
Blame the Marx if that makes you feel better.Film masterpiece, bit long so is divided into four parts and may be too slow at the moments for the Western sensibilities. Chasing Russian names and figuring out as who is who could be a problem too, so knowing the Tolstoy’s book may me a big help.
I have to admit that when it comes to scenes of large cavalry clashes Hollywood is at the top.
Dr D
The only thing people like better than denial is being stupid, I guess. I thought private people weren’t supposed to have rockets, warships, nuclear materials?
If I am not mistaken arm industry, or better yet – the entire MIC, is in the private hands – all the way to the last maker of non-combat military supply, be it cereal and of olive-green shoe laces.
The system where all natural resources, even of a strategic importance, are also in the hands of a private citizens, is also “defined”, as I do recall your rumblings, as enabling the two people to shake hands in mutual exchange agreement and walk away in win-win sound of dog bark and laughter.If you mean specifically CO2 will destroy the planet via cars, welcome to the party, make the case.
As I’ve said I know nothing about AFKTT’s assertion, so CO2 back-and-forth is not in my equation, but I am certain that we simply do not know how to clean after ourselves. Earth is not yet, but on a way to become one large toxic garbage can.
I can not approve or disapprove AFKTT‘s assertions since I know next to nothing on the subject.
However, I think, that I am pretty much in tune with Red‘s post few scrolls up. At one point shit has to stop.
His opponents are using so many words and go on and on just to express one single (proverbial) sentence: “I want to drive my car forever” or better yet, Dick Cheneys’s crooked mouth rumble: “American lifestyle is not negotiable”.
Well, I don’t know about that.jb-hb
As for the “Marx themed”, I still stick to my hypothetical image of you and Dr D preaching “your shtick” somewhere in the former communist block countries and being laughed-off by the people who actually lived in that system.
Tyranny existed in many forms before 1917 and is evolving into something different and new post 1990.
otherwise what were the Korean and Vietnam wars for? Or the destruction of Easter block. Why destroy the ” good stuff”
that is already secured in place?
I could go on but is getting tiresome.jb-hb
Thanks for the “Capricornia”. Great tune while I never heard of the band before.
One think that I may add that all (8 mm) films are proverbial footage of their parents if not grandparents.Negative connotation, as reaction to this new lunatic plan, is on 15 minutes instead being clear that problem is restricted or forbidden movement beyond 15 minutes range. In addition to a small comment that I placed yesterday, one more time: there is nothing wrong and it is actually beneficial to have most of the basic needs covered within that range.
To crank a car, again, just you forgot the carton of milk is becoming evidently more and more ridiculous.15 minute city
Every ancient city in Europe that we “fall in love with” is “15 minute city”. All the basic groceries shopping is at walking distance. That may include local barber/hair dresser, baker and meat, pastry and coffee shops. Which, by the way, is not too different than concept that Ottomans had in Balkans and elsewhere, where smallest residential district in order to have it’s own name must have a Mesdžid (modestly built mosque), bakery and the barber shop. Homes with the walled courts and gardens provided the basic vegetables and fruits and means to keep poultry. All other major shopping took place in the city center market place and is associated as being “special event”. Pretty much in tune with current thinking of what the meaningful life is, expressed in the comment sections.
Being forbidden to venture beyond the 15 minute range is a new concept and totally different story.Graph of correlation between GDP and population income in the US, from 1900 to present is telling story of the “theft”. It started in the 70’s where, unlike before where the two appeared pretty congruent, the former took at almost 45 degree upward trajectory while the latter barely budged at about 7-8 degrees. We are talking about “38 degrees” , if you will, of massive theft from the workers.
In it’s late-stage accumulated contradictions of capitalism (Marx again), which is NOW, it is becoming more apparent and the working class in the USA are going: “Wha….who…what!!!”DBS (from yesterday)
I’ve never read any Marx.
Followed by:
That’s why “profit” is theft.
Well, you just (pretty close) quoted Marx.
Bit of art trivia for this Friday for those interested in art..
In the Church of Gesu in Rome there is a large canvas with scene of “Deposition” painted by the Bosnian artist Safet Zec.
He is secular Muslim who left the country marred in civil war and lives near Venice in Italy.
Just a prep studies, as shown at the beginning of video, are tour de force of contemporary realistic painting.
Formidable size canvas had it’s partial trip via Venice canal to it’s final destination.
Church itself is a sample of clear departure from Renaissance style and is considered as the first Baroque structure.
https://vimeo.com/105437972My reply did not go through so here it is again:
@hb-jbkultsommer, what point are you making though?
My puzzlement with your obsession with the Marx/comm taking over the US would be a good start.
All former socialist countries in Europe by now pretty much adopted Western capitalist system.
They dealt or may be still dealing with the remnants of an old system obligations like pensions. Transfer of former government owned production facilities was usually associated with shady privatization deals. New owners are pretty much in full sync with the Western oligarchs so, all in all, the new system is not socialist/communist any longer.
Now, if you or Dr D would stand at the street corner somewhere in the Budapest, Prague, Belgrade… and start giving a speech how the Marxists and communist, just like in the US, are taking over their countries you would not end up in the gulag but would definitely be institutionalized in mental health facility.jb-hb
That was early on – 20’s and 30’s – later, sending people to concentration camps was essentially administrative
“Later”, oddly, lasted until March of 1953, more or less, while the system continued into late 80’s.
Post revolutionary “clean-up” in 20’s, with momentous zeal, was similar to post French revolution and often associated with personal vendetta that was resolved under the cover of a new “law” put in place. Nothing new under the sun.
Carnage in 30’s was under the conductor stick of Stalin, also well documented way how to get rid of potential rivals throughout the history. Power for a psychopath is no guess game.
You love to live in the past, like in that movie “Midnight in Paris”.
To be an adjutant to Tsar Nicholas II? Car driver of archduke Ferdinand?
Ah the joy!COMMUNIST RULES FOR REVOLUTION
The list was aimed, as it appears to me, for the Western audience, since all the Countries that were communist became that in old and boring fashion way – rugged revolution. No Club 54 for them. I can imagine the price of Soviet porn, if existed, that it would have commanded now days!
Some other snippets:
Promotion of athletics. What’s wrong with that?
Promotion of democracy. They never did – it was always proudly stated that there is one and only system to be obeyed.
Now, there is that Tweeter entry right above – the polar opposite of the “List”.
The way some are capable to consolidate the two is nothing short of miracle.At Kunstler’s blog, at comments, one is asking Jim to provide him with PO Box address so he can send him postal money order as a support and appreciation for his bi-weekly writings. The way he explained, he does not want the domestic spy agencies to associate him as a supporter of host’s potentially controversial writings.
At replies to that trembling post nobody was appalled, yet. I was not sure weather to laugh or cry.Powerful poem – “democide”
Entire poem and especially this line is something for Dr Mattias Desmet lovers to ponder about:It was not spontaneous mass hysteria.
@jb-hb
With loss of one income, married couple sits in the kitchen and acknowledges the problem. That does not mean that they want their kids to “disappear” or, God forbid, that they were newer born.
Sample parabola should be easy to translate to the current global issues.
Something will need to give or crumble since we live in the monetary system that requires endless growth. We can not support that model and laugh on “Walmart people” at the same time. Or to scold on “Bullshit jobs”, term that David Graeber introduced us to, that are the only mean for existence for millions of people but created to support the mentioned economic model nevertheless.
Personally I would settle if people would stop throwing garbage just to about anywhere. It is easy and “free”.
My take.Listening to Jim at USwatchdog, I could not resist to Naomi Wolf’s apology.
So here it is:
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry
Compared to her berating of Twitter employees it seems odd to me, and rather sad:
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/oh-ok-its-over?s=rUS is psychotic society. Watching absolute human wretches becoming insanely rich in just about any scheme, educated and smart, but not nearly as payed I guess, could not resist to a pull of power and money. As to answer Jim’s question as how in the world that she ended to be associated with Clinton’s shenanigans in the first place.
In another words, do be in rush too declare anybody as a hero.Yugoslavia.
Right after the Tito’s death country was swamped with “individuals” from the US that are suddenly immensely interested
in just about anything “Balkan” (read, probably, CIA assholes).
It is a long story, one of those was in our apartment. His interest, and apparent thesis, was Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina between the two wars. He, “David”,ended up drinking with my father, an retired officer of YU-army. Both of them drunk bullshitting and not understanding the word that each was saying – an alcohol was unifying factor. Not to say that CIA pos ended dead drunk and unmovable for the following day and good part of the night. My father was worried as what was wrong with him..
True story.
AFKTT
Your YT post about Depleted Uranium describes how Col Douglas, happy smile contributor at the top of today’s blog, achieved a “swift victory” in both the Iraq and Kosovo. It would be impossible to believe that he had not known what kind of ammo is used and that soldiers under his command are equally exposed to it’s effects. Labeled a “star colonel” at wiki-pee and raking good $$ as war commentator by downgrading his own army, in a way, and glorifying the opponent is my view an act of treason, even though he’s right.https://www.shorpy.com/node/27010
Today Shorpy site batch offered this. People on the photo (or that era) would hardly have a need, or at least not in the capacity that we do, to visit the TAE. We, I think, congregate on this site and similar others, because there is a profound sense that “things are not right” out there. There is a hope that through the host’s offering(s) and even more so visitor’s comments that some kind of consensus about the predicament and possible solutions that may be reached.
Our opinions are expressed in various writing skill levels,although I would like ti point out that that hi or low skill level comes at the expense of something else that the person is good at.
One thing is for sure, we are all capable of posting a simple question to someone of opposing view. If that question does not get answered directly, given the limits of writing debate, than, I think, the discussion goes nowhere.
My 2c.
