V. Arnold
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But because today’s American is simply a shell of a citizen none of the criminal atrocities creates even a stir from us. Sure we all read about these atrocities and we are angered in the moment but it passes rather quickly and we fall back into our self induced ignorant bliss.(Thad Beversdorf)
Best description I’ve ever heard; …because today’s American is simply a shell of a citizen…
But then; doesn’t that speak to the west in general?I see no, zero, nada reason for optimism. Optimism is an infantile failure to recognize the reality of day to day life on planet earth. Infantilism is the curriculum of modern education; the end product of 12 years of forced education.
Being a hearing human who also can read makes it doubly difficult to fight off the onslaught of lies designed to keep “us” in the system. And pliant subservience as well.
See it or don’t; it no longer matters, except on an individual/personal basis…@ Formerly T-Bear
Nice post, very well said.
Unfortunately, nobody presently in charge (mostly), is looking for solutions. Solutions run counter to intentions.
I think very shortly, we’ll see if those with solutions will be allowed a place to effect change. Tsipras and Varufakis are already running into interference from within.Thank the gods I live in a cash society; and it’s not likely to change for decades. The initial attempt at credit cards was disastrous. Besides which; outside of major cities they’re not normally usable.
I love the bit about Governmentium 312; a good chuckle for sure.
The New Nothingness (Steen Jakobsen)
Is this like the “Great Nothing” in “The Never Ending Story”?
It sucks up every living and non-living thing in existence, creating nothing.
Sure sounds like it. Because the resultant reality will be the same…
Not even the ultra-rich can escape the “Great Nothing” (after all, the princess couldn’t)…
Yes, I believe in fairy tales…@ DS
I don’t know you, thus have no expectation on a personal level.
Communication between strangers, using this media, is iffy at best, but I make attempts.
Based on your reply it seems you expect rhetorical to be easily understood. Like irony and sarcasm, it’s not easy to discern without context or familiarity or skill.
Cheers@ jal
Re: drone killings
Our illustrious president said he takes full responsibility for killing the hostages…
What the fuck does that mean? Taking full responsibility?
Words of a hollow suit!!!!!!!!!@ Diogenes Shrugged
That’s the extent of your response to my post?
Wow, why the fuck did I waste my valuable time for that?@ Diogenes Shrugged
Wow, you sound thoroughly depressed. I would suggest if one isn’t at least a little depressed then that one doesn’t get it.
As to where to put money? Probably the only safe place is a credit union.
It’s a big world and I made my decision more than a decade ago. Am I safe? Probably more so than the U.S.. Safety is largely lifestyle and judgement choices. I have never felt threatened in my time here.
Free? I can’t help you there; basically because I never understand what people mean by freedom. In many ways I feel more free here, in my day to day life, than I did stateside; but that’s a very subjective sense.
Regardless what you decide, get a passport asap; nothing is for sure…I liked the answer; I want to see what happens next. As far as I know; this is it; one shot.
A life lived without risk is a life wasted, IMHO.What’s missing is common sense things ordinary (?) people can do to cushion the final blow.
I know what we’re doing; heavy on cash, with “other stuff” in proportion and absolutely no “investments” in any stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or anything else outside of actual possession of assets.
Oh, and zero debt; that being a critical component of fiscal security.
Am I missing anything?@ FT-Bear
Well put; and Varoufakis seems the only one (outside of Greece) who gets it.
Why is that? Ah, but of course; stupid human tricks…By Thad Beversdorf – “330 Million Citizens And We’re Down To Another Clinton And Another Bush”
What a beautiful illustration that 330 million citizens; don’t learn nuthin!!!!
I guess they’re waiting for Klatu…@ Ex-PFC Chuck
Yes, but ask most Americans (north Americans) who won WWII and they will say “we” did.
Thus history according to the least injured on the side that wasn’t defeated; but certainly not the true victors…
Just the vultures cleaning up…@ Variable81
As far as understanding the Russian mindset, I suspect many of today’s Russians aren’t that far a cry from today’s Western cultures.
Suspect? Interesting word. One can be modern and still a child of one’s culture.
I suggest you greatly over estimate the west effect.
Read the Saker, Sputnik, and Fort Russ; just to name a few sources.
I think we were raised on far more lies than the gritty realities of Russia’s history. It would be difficult to exaggerate the realities they lived. I heard it first hand for years and it wasn’t bullshit.
My point in the aforementioned post, was to back up Ilargi’s contention that Nabiullina was more than competent. Russia couldn’t possibly see economics with a western eye; unless a sycophant of the west was doing the looking. She isn’t that.
Your closing paragraph is not anything I’d argue against. It’s just evidence of the failure of the human condition and why we are where we are.
Russia hasn’t forgotten…If I may be so bold as to claim some understanding of the Russian mindset (having been married to a non-U.S. born Ukrainian). Both her parents fought in and survived WWII.
That should be the first hint regarding what, especially, U.S. citizens will never be able to understand.
Russia retains that cultural memory, war, dying, privation, and practically, single handedly, kicking Hitler’s ass.
I could go on about how my ex-wife’s parents had two houses (one a rental), a payed for car (new), and owed no money to anyone. Oh, and a garden, the likes of which I’ve never seen before or since. Both were minimum wage earners in 1967.
You, me, and the western world are witnessing THAT, with every move Russia makes.
But, if you do not know history; how could you know the thing staring back at you?
Cheers@ Dr. Diablo
Yes, it should be noted and thank you.
I didn’t mean to be critical; my comment was more about MSM of the western world.
cheers@ Dr. Diablo
I can barely muster enough give-a-shit to even comment anymore.
As things go, the gassing of American (U.S.) troops is old, but not well reported news.
I no longer bother with U.S./western MSM, unless looking for classic examples of bullshit reportage.It’s not an overly complex dance that involves almost everybody.
But in order for there to be a dance requires the music and the dancers to that music.
There is more than enough shirked responsibility to cover almost everybody.
What’s forgotten is that there is always a choice; some of us choose not to dance or even listen to the music.
If it all becomes unbearable we still have choices; one of which is to leave; whatever way you choose to interpretate leaving.
I’m much less sympathetic (as time goes forward) to those employing the whaa factor.
Once a government proves itself intransigent is the moment of truth: Aren’t we past that point now? I thought so back in 2003, and so did some, well before that.Warren Buffet has been marketed as the “Oracle of Omaha”, and to his credit gives away a hell of a lot of his money (in the billions), but a deeper look reveals some very hawkish attitudes in his support of the military.
As to food? Hell, I made conscious choices long, long ago which involved educating myself about food; it has more than payed off to this very day.
Physician; heal thyself…@ Ilargi
Thanks for that Krugman comment; I have never understood his apparent standing in the economic community.
There’s gotta’ be some link, if I could just see it!
There is no link; there is only independence from:
“Knowledge is power”
“Money is power”
“Financial control is power”
“Oil is economy”
“War for oil”
“Truth comes from the end of a rifle”There is only freedom from that mantra; liberation to go where you can.
Fear is a thief; do not let it steal from you. Me.@ Formerly T-Bear
Yes, agree completely.
Varoufakis and Tsipras are not stupid or naive; they know what is what.
What I see going on, is a very masterful uncloaking of the troika and their methods and motives, for all the world to see. Point, counterpoint, and information is revealed.
Podamos (sp) is in the wings and the great unravelling may be about to begin.
One can only hope, no?Buy gold, every month, regardless the price, in what ever amount you can afford. Grains, grams or ounces.
That is a long term strategy. Here, Burmese workers (not payed a lot) buy gold every pay day, in any amount they can afford, and it isn’t much at any given time. But over time it adds up.
Cash is important and there should be a reserve; but if cash becomes inflated and worthless; gold is the only thing that will save you! Sure!That picture of a fishing schooner reminds me of the best sailing movie ever made; “Captains Courageous”.
It features cod fishing schooners out of Halifax; sailing hard to weather heeled over to their gunwales. White knuckle viewing for a sailor.
Holds it’s own to this very day…@ Variable81
I can think of no history, that I was taught, that was factual. None. Nothing. Nada.
The fairy tales were boring when compared with the facts.
The problem begins with those in charge who also control, what is jokingly referd to as education.
With a population fed propaganda from birth, is it any wonder the U.S. citizens never grew up. Infantilized through 13 years of public education.I would say it’s a realistic view, not a romantic view.
The culling began years ago, around 2008, maybe even earlier. Vietnam could have been the beginning; the exact moment is elusive.
Cheers@ Boogaloo
Does that mean they are asking the wrong questions? I’m sorry, but I think this is a more complex issue than you seem to make it out to be.
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If you think that, then you do not understand the question.
The question has profound answers not searched for.
It’s an intended consequence of policies instituted and executed. It was the foetus of the neo-liberal birthing.
We say the U.S. society is broken; the neo-liberal says everything is going according to plan.largi
Therefore, I’m going to have to guess that it’s all down to sheer hubris, to people being so full of themselves they will never ever be able to pass through the eye of any needle, no matter how big or wide.See, my problem is, I don’t want to live in this kind of world. It doesn’t just degrade Greece’s, and San Francisco’s, and the world’s, poor, it degrades me too. And I’m not even a religious person.
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Bravo! Me too…@ Boogaloo
You ask the wrong question.
What is the reason the homeless, drug addicted, and mentally ill are forced to live like that?@ John Day
Yep, one and the same article.
Fort Russ and Sputnik are two very interesting alternative news sources, IMO.I’ve never seen such willful ignoring of a horrific crime and the U.S. is the driver. That the other parties agree to their complicity in covering it up is just an example of what a sick world governments operate within. Just stunning in its evil…
Cheers@ John Day
You might want to give this a read; it’s interesting…
Daniel Hannan resonates with me; Putin resonates with me; Tsipras and Viroufakis resonate with me. Iceland cancelling the process of inclusion in the EU resonates with me.
Almost all non-western aligned countries resonate with me; there’s some serious shit going on “out there” and it’s high time indeed…
This is possibly the last straw;
https://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/stratfor-report-indicates-america-is.htmlStratfor has gone totally rogue and off the rails. But read it; then you’ll understand the real world we’re living in: Scotty, beam me up for the love of the gods…
@ Formerly T-Bear
Janet Yellen, a surviving crone from Burnham Wood, decapitated by a shard breaking through a glass ceiling, replaced by small albino pumpkin (de seeded) with matching white wig, vacuous, without the where-with-all to coherently assemble a simple two word reply to a yes or no question.
Nice touch, very nice…
@ John Day
“Chiang Mai would be my choice, but then, I wouldn’t choose to be where I’d be an outsider, either.”Well, Chiang Mai has a huge expat community; but I choose to steer well clear of that trap.
Even in America I am an outsider: Much better to be an outsider here.
Chiang Mai is troubled by an annual pollution problem and is also horribly expensive when compared to many other areas.
Thailand still produces most (if not all) of its food. Very important given the f**ked up trade agreements being foisted upon it. Fortunately Thais have resisted signing on to such thievery.
And yes, the corruption here is broad in its scope, yet it doesn’t compare to the corruption of the now faux democracy named the United States; the body count being far lower, vastly lower here.
So yes, I’m fairly confident this is a good choice, given my 12 years living here. I even speak the language reasonably well; that goes a long way with the people here.
Cheers@ John Day
Good points.
Last night my wife asked me if we’d be okay if Thailand’s economy crashes. We’re debt free. I told her we’re probably okay, but that not being an economist I’m uncertain of the effects for us. My wife’s job is secure (she’s a government teacher) and my retirement is as secure as the U.S. government. So, if our incomes aren’t affected, I’m thinking we’ll be okay, but, I can’t be sure. There always seems to be a Black Swan about…@ Dr. Diablo
Yes, the very corrupt poker game going on will be busted; and Europe fails.
What’s so hard to understand there?
Failure just means they go back to their borders; which they never should have left anyway, no?
A Failed experiment, somewhat like capitalism ala neo-liberal V.1 = failed!!!
The real question is; what’s next…OT sort of;
Multnomah Falls is very cool and a relatively easy trail takes you across that bridge to the top. The Columbia River Gorge is just stunning with many trails and views. I spent years scrambling up most of the trails; some quite extreme, but rewarding.@ Ilargi
Was that comment (chris1948) aimed at you? Now I’m confused; I thought it was directed at my post???
