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Today it is clear that on both the Ukraine and Gaza fronts, the situation of World War 3 has not developed necessarily to the West’s advantage.
Due to funding cuts, Ukraine is reportedly running short of artillery shells. Drones spotting armor concentrations and directing artillery fire quickly and accurately on target stopped earlier attempts at maneuver warfare dead and led to an extended trench war. If Ukraine can’t destroy Russian tanks and personnel carriers anymore, a successful winter offensive to take Odessa and the Black Sea Coast would finish off Ukraine as a nation and result in splitting apart of EU and NATO. Joe Biden would be the “losingest” President of all times.
The Houthi’s targeting of ships with drones in the Red Sea is shutting down traffic through the Suez Canal. The Israeli fanatical bombing of Gaza Strip will continue until all of the Palestinians are driven into the Sinai Peninsula. The USA is incapable of encircling Yemen and pacifying the Houthis. This must be a given since the Pentagon wasn’t tasked to plan an invasion. As long as the Gaza war continues, the only alternative to going around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to Europe by ship is through Russia by train or air transport. Shortages and inflation will continue and accelerate despite the propaganda that this is the best of all possible economies, ever.
The code for today’s Neo-feudal mercenary armies is “Kill them all and let God sort them out”. Before, in the previous Dark Age, it was “Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His.” WWIII, so far, is a war of attrition with two fronts in Ukraine and Gaza. The victor will be the one who kills all males of military age on the other side.
Mercenaries fight for money. Cut funding to Ukraine and Israel and the world war stops. The tribal religious wars will continue but must be isolated like a contagion with DMZs to keep them from spreading.
It is this century’s corporate states who are fighting the endless wars for profit. Sovereign nation states that protect and serve their citizens are no more. North American is simply a collection of Globalist’s Neo-colonies. If there were no atomic weapons, this world war would end with a punitive armistice like WWI to be re-fought with the next generation of males.
However, the current world leadership is so incompetent and divorced from reality (worse than WWI) that a nuclear exchange is likely by mistake or even intentionally.
Human beings must learn to live within their means and to share, in peace, if they want their offspring to continue to inhabit this finite planet; especially, as resources decline, and pollution accelerates.
Who is Mike Johnson? Corporate Media is not reporting the news until it slaps them in the face.
He is participant in all five fronts in the ongoing stealth WWIII:1) The splintering apart of the North American neo-colonies. Mike Johnson is now in charge of the House of Representatives’ drive to bury secular constitutional working government. Americans are on the own. Public health, public safety and public education are terminated. The USA has 33 trillion dollars in debt it will never pay off.
2) The NATO Russian Ukraine War. If NATO is invaded or Ukraine retakes Crimea, tactical nuclear weapons will be used. Only an armistice and new Iron Curtain can end Russia’s military threat.
3) The South China Sea turmoil, the Koreas, and economic sanctions on China are causing shortages and shipping upheaval.
4) A Muslim genocide in Gaza will trigger a regional Holy War.
5) The BRICS nations have killed globalism. This is a now multinational world. Europe and North America have to learn to live on a third of the world’s resources and labor plus share the wealth equally among its population. If not, an Apocalypse.
Talking about Dwight Eisenhower and the 1950’s; it has been seventy years since the US Army and Marines, who defeated Imperial Japan, fought Red China to a draw in Korea on the 38th parallel. Now the crazies want a repeat of that war with both nations armed with hydrogen bomb carrying ICBMs and expect a better outcome with a western leadership who are incapable of signing a UN armistice or building a new Bamboo Curtain between the West and Eurasia. The Ukraine War between NATO and Russia would have been over with an armistice in March 2022 but Boris Johnson vetoed it. The stealth World War III now has two fronts. These conflicts are escalating unhindered towards the brink of a nuclear war.
When the Oligarchs in the Reagan/Thatcher counter-revolt took away government by and for the people in the West and made the over-class global rulers, they naturally gave power to the ethnic right-wing politicians. Empires survive by putting minorities into power. The Neo-overseers are dependent on the Empire to stay alive and to get a cut of the money. The decline of the working Western middle class due to exploitation is causing the unrest in Europe and North America. Without a new Western Restoration of morals, law, and good government, the decline and fall of the Empire is certain. NATO/Russia in Ukraine and Israel/Hamas Gaza in the Middle East are two fronts already open in WWIII.
The Naomi Klein’s “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” basically describes the incremental steps that started on November 23, 1963 to seize the middle class wealth from the North American victors of WWII and transferring it to the wealthy global high castes by the now ascendant corporate-states. First the Vietnam War and then the War on Terror and now the proxy WWIII in Europe are examples of the forever wars for profit. This could only be done with lies and denial. The disasters (wars, climate change, and pandemics) are real but the propaganda makes them seem to be imaginary illusions. Denial assures that the apocalypses aren’t addressed and the stolen money is not taken back to restore democratic governments that work for the people and prevent catastrophes like the 20,000 dead in Derna Libya caused by NATO’s war against Gaddafi (Hillary Clinton; “We came, we saw, he died”), the resulting civil war that continues today, crumbling infrastructure, and extreme weather.
Proud Boys Lieutenants were just sentenced to 17 years and 15 years respectively for the January 6th Riot. The global ruling class is taking this seriously. Donald J Trump will not be the next President for challenging their power. But unlike the Russian Wagner Group, he and his family has Secret Service (State) protection. If it is withdrawn he is a goner but then so is the USA.
The Persian Gulf oil producers joining BRICS has put the nail in the coffin of the western hegemon. The US dollar is no longer the reserve currency. The currency’s supporting energy is now supplied by only 25% of the world’s petroleum production in the USA and Canada and its coal reserves. World War II was fought over petroleum. NATO simply cannot afford World War III. Today, this conflict is a replay of the Vietnam War that was funded with gold. Nixon took the USA of the Gold Standard back then because North America/Europe cannot afford both guns and butter.
The ruling elite continue not to comprehend reality and keep escalating the Ukraine proxy world war. A nuclear exchange is almost a certainty. The only alternative is peace. Except, the western empire has always responded to any threat with more war. A UN armistice must be signed now and a DMZ built separating NATO from Russia like Korea in 1953. Sovereign nations must live within their means.
2023 may well be the beginning of the end. The forever wars are simply not the only looming Apocalypse that must be addressed for human beings to continue to inhabit the earth. There is also resource depletion, expanding entropy, overpopulation, pandemics, famine, pollution and the death of society. All caused by the termination of good government by and for the people and replaced with the greed and incompetence of the ascendant global corporate-states that are transferring all of the world’s wealth to themselves.
The AI deleted my comment to Dr. John Day’s post which I agreed with. No links but verboten words; perhaps “uranium” or “Victoria Nuland” and predicting a dismal future. But being an old human being, I am pissed that the time spent writing was for nothing. A bot could care less. They are busy creating an internet of electron generators like bitcoin. Creations that encompass everything but signify nothing.
There is a boatload of denial but basically globalization is the extraction of resources at the lowest possible cost financed with debt used in manufacturing offshore. The proxy world war and mRNA injections for the coronavirus pandemics are additional means for money transfer to the wealthy. NATO is at war with the Russia Federation and is provoking China. Only a handful of old blogs are sources of the truth that aren’t managed for this war effort.
Niger Uranium Yellowcake is infamous in the aftermath of the Iraq Invasion. Nuclear power plants in France generated 361 billion kilowatthours of electricity in 2021, accounting for 68% of the country’s annual electricity generation. 85% of uranium is produced in six countries: Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, and Russia. To keep French electricity turned on may well require an African Invasion. President Joe Biden is closing off areas of the Grand Canyon to uranium mining.
Money markets cannot win world wars. This requires competent government and a military that defends its people not just lining the pockets of the wealthy. When the access to cheap energy ends, so does civilization. Peace, democracy, and managed conservation are the only way out of the looming catastrophes.
I made my second visit to VA Medical Center for healthcare that I couldn’t postpone. I am still surprised by the changes there since the pandemic. I am now an Ancient One. Others my age were killed off. Everyone is friendly. One man saw me looking around and told me how to get to the men’s room. A woman escorted me back to Valet Parking at the Entrance to make sure I didn’t fall down. My take is that everyone has gone through a trauma and is seeking community.
Denial is a way of coping. But this pandemic was directly caused by the corruption and incompetence of the Trump and Biden Administrations and the seizing of the public health response from WHO by drug NGOs led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Together with the proxy World War III in Ukraine and Climate Change’s “Shock Doctrine”; if the financial parasites are not excised, and if the past or present rotating Emperors remain in power; the Western Empire is finished. Either governments that work for the good of people are restored or a global Apocalypse looms. At best, North America becomes another Eurasian backwater like South America (that is if a nuclear war, pestilence, and famine are somehow avoided).
What is so upsetting about the escalating proxy World War III, is that it is obviously following the pattern of WWI. It will, at best, end up with the collapse of one or two Empires, once again, or even worse a global nuclear war. The obvious conclusion is that the same type of autocrat is running things now the same as then. Human lives don’t matter only war profits and regime change.
With New York City air turning orange this summer from wildfires like San Francisco in 2020, the “Blade Runner” future is here now.
The problem with individual greed is that if the lives of others are of no consideration, each individual becomes solely a statistic who has absolutely no idea of any of the risks except the pain and suffering that are guaranteed in this life. Everywhere becomes the front lines, not just Ukraine, for everyone.
There are Hunter Biden and Yevgeny Prigozhin. They are different sides of the same coin — war and corruption for profit. A proxy World War III is being fought by mercenaries, Ukrainian draftees, and Russian prisoners.
There is a reason that the great-great offspring of WW I’s ruling generation are acting the same as a century ago. They are in thrall of the same exploitive economic system, as then, that does not give a damn for human life. In 1916 Imperial Germany would not give up Belgium for an armistice. In 1953 the Korean Armistice worked and saved the world from a nuclear exchange in the First Cold War.
This is a simple matter of life and death. The sooner the armistice is signed and a DMZ established the more lives that are saved and the apocalypse is postponed for a while longer. The current US President just does not see this truth. The Kremlin acknowledges that the Russian nation is under attack by the West. This is their justification for the invasion.
Will human beings be given a chance to live a while longer on Earth, or do corporate/oligarch’s profits matter more?
Today’s clip above is why Tulsi Gabbard is the only politician to whom I’ve ever donated money — $25.
U.S. Grant (The Butcher) learned the hard way that an entrenched opponent can only be defeated by fixing them in place and flanking them. It took a spring, summer and fall of continuous marching and fighting, then a winter in Petersburg’s trenches, before, with sufficient manpower, he flanked Robert E. Lee’s Confederates and forced a surrender at Appomattox.
Tactical nuclear weapons make a repeat of Grant’s Virginia Campaign impossible. This is why Russia has placed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Ukraine (NATO) cannot flank Russia’s defenses to the North or from the Black Sea to the South. The only way is a direct assault against fortifications in depth with satellite and drones locating and directing artillery and missiles on the attacking men and armament. Likewise, the same, if Russia invades Poland to flank Ukraine’s trenches. Tactical nuclear weapons will be used to avoid defeat.
With 1.1 million dead Americans in the coronavirus pandemic, likewise, projections of 70 million US dead in a limited nuclear war are dismissed. The problem that is ignored is that the instant that tactical nuclear weapons are used, the strategic ICBMs in silos become vulnerable to a nuclear first strike and they will be ignited first. Human civilization at a minimum in the Northern Hemisphere is done for. In addition, nuclear winter is dissed but the after effects of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan are projected to kill 2 billion humans.
The only alternative is an Armistice and DMZ, like Korea, that prevented a nuclear exchange in the First Cold War. This is only possible if good government and the rule of law are restored in the West. Neoliberal individual authoritarianism must end. If peace and governing in the best interests of the people are given a chance, again, human beings could continue to inhabit the Earth.
Jake Sullivan, national security advisor, in May, said neoliberalism is dead. In his words, ““In the name of oversimplified market efficiency, entire supply chains of strategic goods — along with the industries and jobs that made them — moved overseas.” He added, “Various reforms combined and came together to privilege some sectors of the economy, like finance, while other essential sectors, like semiconductors and infrastructure, atrophied. Our industrial capacity — which is crucial to any country’s ability to continue to innovate — took a real hit.” Indeed, at the same time, the Russian Federation went from competently defending its ally, Syria, in 2014 and reclaiming Crimea after the Maidan Coup; to now, being stuck in a replay of WWI.
Unless there is an armistice, a DMZ, and the world’s regional powers live within their means, a NATO Russian hot war assures that tactical nuclear weapons will be used to avoid defeat. Simply put the breaching of the Kherson Dam shows that “shit happens in war” and this war keeps escalating. The longer it plays out the more who will die.
Schrödinger’s War has to be seen for what it is; “An Apocalypse Now”. A nuclear winter will kill billions of humans.
A red hazardous air quality alert has been declared for smoke from Canada’s record setting wildfires in the East Coast of the USA. The coronavirus pandemic, the wildfires, and a proxy world war in Ukraine cannot be a coincidence. The death of neoliberalism is the only way this Global Epoch can be addressed and humans can continue to inhabit a finite earth.
Public Schools and Hospitals are frontlines of Endemic COVID-19. Oligarchical capitalism kills humans for profit. The proxy World War III in Ukraine is an existential war between Ukraine (supplied by NATO) and Russia. Unless there is an Armistice and a new Cold War II with the DMZ along the Line of Contact, the Western and/or the Russian Empires will collapse. Debt default date is June 1st. China will be the only winner if a Nuclear Winter is avoided.
This is simply insane. It is no wonder why kids don’t want to go to school or adults get dental care. You have to pay to play Russian Roulette. After serving a year in Vietnam, long ago, this century is the ultimate wartime “Catch-22”. If you realize that this is a crazy world with psychotic rulers that means that you are sane.
It is Twentysomethings who see the new paradigms not Eighty-year-olds. The proxy WWIII in Ukraine is clearly about the birth of the tripartite world that could well become a human extinction event unless one is in denial or is too old.
Saudi Arabia’s switching sides signals the end of the western hegemon with the US dollar as the reserve currency. From this point on, over half of the world’s trade will be conducted in other currencies. Any future issuing by the FED of digital dollars to fight an economic depression will be pointless because the US dollar is supported only by the finite wealth, labor and resources of 43% of North America. This is livable, but it requires planning, sharing, common sense and the rule of law – a constitutional democratic republic. These all vanished with the Reagan/Thatcher counter revolt that founded the current neo-liberal, robber baron, world.
The proxy world war will continue until one side (or both) collapses just like the first world war. The only way out is a peace treaty and building a DMZ between Ukraine and Russia this summer. OG’s leaks show the split in USA within the people, between the government agencies, plus the ideological incompetence of the White House that keeps this war going on and on.
The Minecraft papers posted in support of gamers’ arguments languished in the Intertubes, migrated to 4chan and finally went worldwide months later on telegram and twitter when they were altered to give a more pro-Russian slant. This is not an old geezer operation. Even though it is obvious, the western media ignores the implication that Ukraine is in dire straits; not so much due to Russian prowess, but the Ukrainians are running out of men, armament and munitions.
To be specific, this intelligence release shows that Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland are crazy ideologues. In the real world, there is absolutely no way that Ukraine will retake Sevastopol this summer. But that is their belief. If not, then they still are determined to dethrone Vladimir Putin, no matter what. But, the most importantly hidden reason is that they cannot give up their hegemonic control of the world’s economy or give up trying to gain control of Eurasia’s energy resources. Yet this is all fictional delirium. Three Western banks have already collapsed due to deregulation, overwhelming debt, and financial gambling.
If Germany had given up Belgium, WWI could have ended in 1916. Imperial Germany refused. Instead, two years later the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires were destroyed.
The compromises that would bring peace to Europe are 1) a manned barbed-wire north south DMZ across the Balkans – the Iron Curtain II, 2) allowing the Federation’s annexation of the Russian ethnic areas of Ukraine, 3) a UN Armistice, and 4) a new tri-polar world.
Who’d have thought that Minecraft is really about saving the world from a global nuclear holocaust?
The huge cracks in the Western Empire are evident with the release of the Joint Chief’s March 2023 Intelligence Reports. Either they are real or they are not. They are not Russian Intercepts like Victoria Nuland’s “Fuck EU” telephone call. If they are real, then someone got a hold of original printed papers, folded them up and photographed them. But changing the numbers of casualties, for example, makes this unlikely. More likely this is an updated digitalization of the British WWII Operation Mincemeat that left a tramp’s corpse in a British uniform and papers for the Germans to find that said that the Sicily invasion was a feint. Or, perhaps, this is a crowdsource intelligence operation. The New York Times is simply incapable of reporting the truth in a time of war.
The fundamental problem is that global neoliberal capitalism is consuming itself. Cannibalism is never pleasant. The first rule is never to call it what it is. A conflict that is fought only to make money for war profiteers can never be won; i.e. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Ukraine. Only a UN Armistice that builds a manned DMZ from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, will end the war. But this will legitimize the Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia Axis and create a neo-tripartite world. The establishment of the BRICS commodity currency will devalue the US dollar to the current wealth, labor and resources of 43% of North America.
The meaning of words are being changed in an attempt to make the corporate/state marketing propaganda work. The “cancer vaccine”, above, is a prime example. This is a description of the cancer immunological gene therapy that gave my Ex her Christmas Present, her metastasized breast tumor disappeared. This is modern medicine, if it makes money, if it can be charged on a credit card, or if the government pays for it; then the treatment is pushed — damn the consequences. But, if it requires taxes from corporations and the wealthy to work, it is dismantled. Public health, public education, and public safety are no more.
The Conflict in Ukraine is definitely being fought to prevent the reemergence a multi-polar world. However, the USSR/USA 1st Cold War will never repeat. Instead, the signing an UN Armistice and manning a DMZ between Ukraine and Russia would legalize a new multi-polar world of global businesses empires. The year long Ukraine trench war signifies a WWI level of incompetence and shows that the current rulers could care less about the hundreds of thousand war casualties (let alone, the seven million coronavirus victims).
Indeed, this war is not about changing the current neoliberal global capitalistic system. BRICS simply want to stop Wall Street and City of London’s extortive cut of their businesses’ profits. Even the Communist Party ended China’s coronavirus public health campaign when it became clear that it put their economy at jeopardy.
The WWI aristocracy’s flat-earth descendants who took down Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels continue to rule the world and are getting hugely rich at the expense of everyone else. But there are those who see the Earth as a planet in an expanding universe with finite resources. If true, there will never be portable safe thorium reactors. The West will not have the resources, the energy, to fight a second Cold War. Either reality is acknowledged and humans learn to cooperate and live within their means, or a global apocalypse will occur.
1789 and 1917 People Revolts happened when working former middle-class had nothing left to lose — the autocracy has plundered everything of value.
This post is straight forward and really close to reality. My guess is that thousand-year-old hatreds will prevent détente between the tri-polar world. Million years old human instincts will never let elite high caste corporate Westerners play second fiddle to the Russians or Chinese, let alone, East Indians. The question is will there be an extinction event on Earth that kills off human beings in a global nuclear war or will it be by climate change?
On the other hand, instead, an armistice could be signed and a new barbed wire iron curtain could descend north and south across Eurasia. Europe and North America being resource depleted and broke will sink into third world irrelevance without middle eastern energy and Asian supplied goods. Surviving humans will continue to be exploited as always but North and South America will try to isolate from Eurasia with the end of fossil fueled air travel and the return of wooden sailing ships with updated 17th century technology that uses only renewable energy and salvaged resources. Just maybe, 18th century constitutional democracy and mankind’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be restored in the Americas.
Yes, there are similarities between genetically modified food and the mRNA gene therapies. They rely on understanding life, cells and genetics; modifying natural chemical reactions within cells to produce an outcome that are profitable for corporations. In this century, through fees for service, revolving doors, and NGO/research funding, corporations and regulators have merged.
The basic premise is that if the modified organism lives and does what the researchers wants it to do, it is safe. The long-term testing for genetically modified corn, soybeans or cotton, is the vegetable oils consumed by Americans. Similarly, half of all Americans were the guinea pigs for mRNA coronavirus gene therapy injections. There was no efficacy data which would have shown that the chimera spike protein produced in human cells does not halt coronavirus transmission. Apparently, there are adverse reactions in roughly one in 10,000 injections and excess deaths associated by the vaccine campaigns but to save corporate money monitoring of the injections were not required. The precautionary principal should have limited injections to the old who are at most risk and have lived most of the lives and would have spent tax money on public health procedures that have been proven to work to make nursing homes, schools and work places safe and to eliminate the virus. But then, the pharmaceutical industry would not have received billions of dollars in government contracts and taxes on the wealthy would have had to be raised to keep the public healthy. Instead, American life expectancy is crashing.
The current ruling western theology is very simple; profits over human lives.
The blows to the Western Empire are coming fast and furious:
The US occupation of Syria and Iraq is untenable with China brokering peace with Iran and Saudi Arabia. From now on, to get Middle East oil and LNG, Europe and North America will have to pay full price. China assures its future energy supplies can bought with renminbi, (Chinese: “people’s money”). The hegemon is dead.
Russian oil and the sanctions are triggering alternative currency trades. The off shore 2.1 trillion Euro-dollar trading, each day, is at risk. The US dollar inevitably will be discounted. Instead of the global economy, it will be pegged only to North America’s depleted resources, the sick work force, and the failed governments.
The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, puts lie to “this is the best of all possible world” propaganda. Unless a buyer is found to take on the bank’s debt, the tech world, the UK subsidiary, and California grape growers will have lost a major source of money. $250,000 is not much solace to millionaire depositors. We shall see if FDIC will prevent future runs on other banks. I’d open accounts at other banks if I had more than $250,000 in one bank account.
The proxy WWIII in Ukraine is unsustainable. The Kremlin is not going to crumble. An Armistice and a DMZ – peace – is the only alternative.
Once trust is lost and everyone realizes that they are on their own, civilization is finished.
Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson plus Donald Trump are now identifying that the USA is run by overseas Globalists. This is weird since Fox News is owned by the world spanning Australian Murdoch family. The TAE coronavirus charts above, the toxic train crash, and the one-year anniversary of the proxy WWIII in Ukraine are all indications that the best interests of the American people are of no more concern to current ruling Davos aristocracy than Bengalis were to the English Empire in WWII. This is true of Canada too, if you go against current Thought, your bank accounts will be seized.
I had a touch of a Mind Fog the other day. Boy that is disconcerting. I don’t know if it is anxiety, cognitive dissonance, a virus, or old age. I even called the VA medical advice line. That may turn out to have been a mistake by being put on a myriad of lists in US medical computers. Two US Senators out of 100 have admitted that they have long-COVID.
The simple fact is that after WWI and WWII Empires were destroyed. No difference with the current WWIII. NATO cannot directly intervene in Ukraine. It does not have the manpower. US life expectancy is declining sharply. The U.S. Army failed to meet its 2022 enlistment quota. The West does not have the necessary material. USA manufacturing has been offshored to Asia. Europe’s industry is shutting down due to the lack of cheap Russian natural gas. Even through the fog of war, it is clear that the West is running out of artillery shells, the chief weapon of trench warfare. In a war of attrition, Russia, China and Iran Axis have the manpower, resources and industry to defeat their opponents.
But the overriding insanity is clear, nuclear weapons will be used as a last gasp by either side to avoid defeat. An Armistice and a DMZ like Korea is the only way out. The USA, UK and the EU will have to live within their means in a multi-polar world or the Fermi Paradox will be proven to be true.
Seymour Hersh reports that USA took out the Nord Stream pipelines:
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-streamThis appears to be a continuation of his reporting on the Syrian “rat lines”. I didn’t see any glaring errors. It will be interesting to see the responses besides ignoring and denying it. This could bring on corporate-state censorship of the internet; not just social media.
In reality, since Libya, Syria and the Ukraine Coup in 2014, the West has been at war with nations that don’t obediently kowtow to Washington DC’s wishes. What this article indicates is that even before the Ukraine invasion while Russia was massing its troops, the planning went ahead for an operation to rig the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines with C4 limpet mines that would detonate at command by buoys dropped from an airplane. On September 26, 2022, explosions cut off cheap Russian natural gas to Europeans who use it for heating and manufacturing.
It is now clear that WWIII is underway and that will most likely continue to escalate to a nuclear war. Unlike the 1953 Korean Armistice, the USA/UK cannot choose peace because a new multi-polar world means that both nations must live within their means. The West is in decline just like the old Spanish Empire. Likewise, Russia is facing dismemberment if it loses the war. The US dollar will only be supported by the wealth, resources and labor within its part of North America. The 774 billionaires in both nations will suddenly become mostly worthless, only owning what remains in their homelands or nothing at all if workers revolt as a result of a prolonged unwinnable trench world war, like 1917.
Famine and medieval plagues will engulf Europe and the Americas as long as wars and corporate profits have preference over human life.
Social and Mass Media are all part of the Corporate-State. Since the deindustrialization of the West starting in the Clinton Era, financialization of people to pay for education, health, food and shelter plus their sins and exploiting earth’s resources are the only way to make money in the West. The sole goal is to privatize all governmental functions and take a cut like Wall Street and pensions.
Across the world, the ruling castes simply refuse to spend tax money on Public Health to save people’s lives. War is profitable too, like Pestilence, since Insiders get a cut of the profits from selling the stockpiles of armament that kill and maim Russians and Ukrainians.
“US estimates 200,000 military casualties on all sides – BBC”. This is compared to the roughly 130,000 Americans who have died with COVID since March 2022 as Joe Biden says the pandemic is over. The introduction of Western Main Battle Tanks into the proxy world war is basically the final threshold. Building replacements in the next year(s) is simply impossible. US automobile assembly has declined 20% due to worker and supply shortages.
There are really only three outcomes:
1) the trench war drags on until one side or the other revolts like 1917,
2) Ukraine or Russia through combined arms and technology breaks into the opponent’s rear and tactical nuclear weapons are ignited to stop the Ukraine invasion of Crimea or Russia’s overrunning of NATO, or
3) an Armistice is signed like in Korea in 1953.If the US dollar hegemony collapses and a Cold War II starts, the UK/US alliance will play the role of the Soviet Union thirty years ago, too poor to afford the conflict, and falls apart.
Ron Klein who headed the White House response to COVID is taking over as Chief of Staff. The cognitive dissonance is horrid. Americans are intentionally being divided in order to be ruled over by distant globalists. To keep kicking the can down the road, one must wear blinders. No doubt, just as the Omicron wave was blamed on the unvaccinated, the Unchosen will be scapegoated for the collapse of western civilization; rather than the greedy incompetent rich, whose money does the talking these days.
The catastrophe of the coronavirus pandemic is that the lives of the under-castes are of no concern for the Elite. This was first shown by the declining life expectancy in the USA starting in the inflection year of 2014. Propaganda and gene therapy are being used to make the wealthy richer plus avoiding spending tax money on public health. A handful of nations successfully stayed mostly COVID free for a year and China for three years. But, in the end, all the nations across the globe let the virus rip through their populations to keep their economies growing.
The excess deaths are real. But the exact causes are hidden in order to keep accumulating wealth.
The US/UK led Western Empire is splintering apart. It is questionable if Russia can keep pounding through the Ukraine trench lines one after another beyond next summer. Without the industry to make artillery shells and armored vehicles, the West cannot resupply Ukraine beyond this year. The 1917 Russian Revolution was caused by three years of trench warfare. All of these deaths are futile. Another lost generation is being created. If either side breaks through into the rear of the other, tactical nuclear weapons will be used to halt the advance of Ukraine into Crimea or Russia invading into any NATO nation. This would likely trigger a global nuclear war.
Instead the UN and Russia could sign an armistice like the 1953 one in Korea and start a second decades long Cold War. If democratic republics were restored that worked for the good of the people and human beings started to live within their means and cooperate to control pollution, we could continue to inhabit the earth for the foreseeable future.
Yes, it is obvious that World War III has commenced. So far it is still a proxy war but it keeps escalating.
NATO since 2014 has been intent on forcing a regime change in the Kremlin to gain access to Russia’s resources. If the NATO stands down, it will be isolated from the rest of the world’s resources and goods within BRICS. The US dollar will crash due to the trillions in unsupported debts. This war is existential for all the participants. It is replaying like WWI since nuclear weapons haven’t been used yet and the contesting neoliberal empires are too corrupt from exploiting its peoples and assets. The Regimes are incapable of raising mass armies and manufacturing sufficient armored vehicles and air support needed for maneuver warfare. With all of the West’s energy, draftees, and weapons in WWII, and most of the German Army in the East, it still took General George Patton three months to break out of Normandy. It will be years, if ever, before Russia could march again into Berlin.
Transportation in North America is collapsing. There are shortages of medicine and food. Millions no longer can work due to Long-COVID. California is flooding in an extreme drought. Public health systems worldwide have collapsed. Corporate propaganda hides all of these inconvenient truths. Change is inevitable. The question is will good government by and for the people be restored or will chaos and lies prevail.
The privatization of the world’s governments has been so successful that the current Empires (corporate-states) can no longer win wars, control pestilence, or prevent famine. They are too corrupt and incompetent. To date, Russia has been incapable of conducting maneuver warfare to break through Ukraine’s trench lines. Ukraine with NATO help is effective enough to force Russian withdrawals. 2023 will determine if Russia has been mobilized sufficiently to fight back. There are reports of the coming offensive. After losing its Black Sea Flagship, Moskva, a left flank amphibious invasion of Odessa and/or liberating Transnistria is near impossible. A right flank attack similar to Desert Storm’s would have to pass through Belarus or Poland. The invasion of Poland will result in the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Likewise, a Ukraine invasion of pre-war Russian territory will be countered with nuclear weapons.
This is like Korea in 1953. The West cannot force a regime change on Russia, China or North Korea. Instead, an armistice needs to be signed and the invaded land east of the Dnieper River demilitarized. The Cold War 2 will commence. USA, Canada, UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand along with the EU can survive the loss of outside resources only if the corporate-states are dissolved and governments by and for the people are restored.
Only peace and cooperation can save the earth for human habitation.
The IgG4 narrative is frightening. If the spike protein in the mRNA vaccines can induce the human immune system to accustom itself to their presence and to other respiratory viruses, then this will also occur with each new COVID infection. If a new mutant virulent variety of the Wuhan Coronavirus arises, it will run wild through the vaccinated and essential workers who have already been exposed to the virus.
It is said that a COVID infection ages one’s body by twenty years and is additive with each new infection. In June, Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, caught COVID. Check out his comments on the collapse of Southwest Airlines due to IT problems, worker shortages, and the Polar Vortex. He has lost his “baby fat”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/buttigieg-calls-for-accountability-as-southwest-cancellation-meltdown-worsensWith the end of Zero-COVID in China, there are no functional national public health systems left on earth.
Thanks Figmund Sreud for yesterday’s comment #124326
“Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay
We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/It put my thoughts into words.
The Twitter dump shows that western media and social networks are manipulated by the corporate-state to hide the truth. One reality that is avoided is that the Wuhan coronavirus and its variants appear to be a human immunodeficiency virus. The article references a pre-print study that children who had been infected by COVID had a much higher incidence of RSV infection than children not infected by the virus. The fact that the number of deaths is rising each year since 2020 in Canada shows that the mRNA vaccines alone as the sole public health measure are ineffective.
Approximately 70,000 U.S. Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battle of Iwo Jima. In thirty-six days of fighting on the island, nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines were killed. Since March 2022, approximately 13,000 Americans are dying each month with COVID due to endemic coronavirus. This is the equivalent of two of the bloodiest US battles in WWII each month. In addition, millions of Canadians and Americans are suffering from Long COVID and depleting the work force.
From the article:
“There is only one way out of our COVID mess. It is not denial. And it is not passivity.It is masking, testing, social distancing and clean air engineering via ventilation and filtration.
Public health officials and politicians aren’t telling us this because they are afraid to take on the responsibility for implementing these changes. Or they are too ashamed to admit the scale of their mistakes.
That means each and every citizen must send them a signal that we refuse to surrender to an immune evasive virus. And that the prospect of massive ill health of our children is not acceptable collateral damage.
The pandemic will not end until we consciously and collectively act.
We can only do that by systematically changing conditions of modern life to starve this wildfire of its fuel and oxygen.”
Human beings will only survive on the planet earth if they can acknowledge reality, give peace a chance, share resources, and mitigate pollution. 2023 is the year to start to cooperate or die off.
There are definitely anomalies in the force field that binds human politics and economies together into a civilization; in addition, to the ruling western ideology that declares that there is no such thing as society.
The Ukraine proxy world war is an obvious case because unless someone stands down, either NATO or the Russia/China/Iran Axis will win by force of arms. The problem is that current leaders who are unfazed by the loss of a million Americans in the coronavirus pandemic aren’t the least bit bothered by the estimated 51 million dead in the NATO nations and 75 million deaths in Russia in a nuclear war.
Another recent aberration, I’ve noticed, is that recent TV program credits indicate that the production was filmed under COVID Protocols and the script portrays it as the present time but there are no masks, disease or deaths in the shows. COVID-19 is adding around 6% to the production costs but the pandemic is ignored.
These are conscious decisions, across the board, not to deal with reality.
Tony Fauci is a good example of a narrative, a story. They are all narratives. Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post. Elon Musk bought Twitter. Corporate Media simply tells stories that benefit their owners. There was a counter coup by global oligarchs to seize control that is spectacularly effective since no one, to date, admits that it occurred and that democracy is dead. For example, since the AIDS pandemic and the regulatory capture of government, the intent of pharmaceutical research is simply to develop treatments that will make money for corporations, stockholders, and their overseers. Unprofitable cures and the public’s health are of no matter. Opioids killed tens of thousands to make billions of dollars. Likewise a million Americans died in the coronavirus pandemic and China is now reopening and the contagion is spreading to keep its economy from collapsing.
21st century wars are profit centers to maintain financial dominance. WWI plays out in the trenches of Ukraine. The lives of others are of no matter. Yes, the narratives are lies papered over reality. A simply alternative is taxing billionaires and corporation income at progressive taxation rate of 75% to spend on the public good, give peace a chance, or western civilization will bite the dust.
With the obvious intent for wealthy families to take everything of value for themselves, the fragility of the corrupt Western Empire is kept hidden by corporate/state propaganda and the ruling radical autocratic neo-liberal ideology. Basically, the USA became the leading producer of petroleum by passing the costs of fracking onto the hegemon’s globalized financial system. If the costs of producing, shipping, refining, and the environmental degradation of shale oil and tar sands was paid by North Americans only and China has unfettered access to Russian lower cost energy resources, the splintering apart and the fall into a 3rd world economy is inevitable for the Western Hemisphere unless there is peace and sharing.
The DMZ that zerosum cited at #122122 is what Russia wants and is to the west of the Dnieper River where they’ve already retreated from. This means they are planning a winter offensive to retake the lost land and Odessa to make Ukraine a rump state. The darkness from the lights being out all over Ukraine will engulf Western Europe when the energy shortages and the war come to their doorsteps.
What corporate media and neo-liberal ideology ignore is that Russia is just as greedy, incompetent and arrogant as the West. Both Empires could care less about the well being of their subjects as shown by the USA being first and the Russian Federation fourth in the number of deaths with coronavirus. China is at 142th position.
To keep the lights on in the West, it has to acknowledge that this is a multi-polar world again. This means the DMZ has to be put in place now on the East Bank of the Dnieper River. Otherwise, the non-stop escalation of the war will continue until the collapse of human civilization is inevitable either from a catastrophic economic/environmental failure or a global nuclear war.
Now that the mid-term elections are over and Taiwan is shown to be essential for the production of IT goods in order for western corporations to continue to make profits, the question becomes is this WWI; all over again, or not?
The Western Elite are greedy, incredibly ignorant, plus arrogant. But clarity has been gained by the Kremlin’s starkly stupid invasion of Ukraine which almost matches the Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack reportedly wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Yes, the Kremlin was provoked but every single neo-liberal corporate/state empire to date, ignores reality, the truth, and relies on full-blown propaganda and surveillance to make the rich richer.
The continued existence of German industry is at stake. A global nuclear war will kill everyone but most importantly a bomb shelter in New Zealand is not a long-term survival bet. To stay alive, I’m hoping that the armistice that UK PM Boris Johnson scuttled in April is back on table. A cease-fire and a DMZ on the East Bank of the Dnieper River would bring peace to Europe.
Basically, are the global high caste wealthy bright enough to realize that this is a multi-polar world again? North America living within its means is better than a blackened irradiated earth.
If you are wondering why things are not the same as they once were, this is intentional. Things aren’t better. But today is sold as the Best of All Possible Worlds. Barrack Obama asks “do you want to go back 50 years?” If the Republicans sweep Tuesday’s mid-term elections, it is because, yes, Americans want to go back to the end of 1972 when there was still an attempt to obtain equality, preserve the environment, and provide family supporting jobs. Most of the combat troops were out of Vietnam. The energy crises started in 1973. Today there is a world war, inflation, pandemic death & illness, and supply shortages. Fifty years ago, everyone joked about how bad French phones were. Now many no longer answer the phone due to robocalls. Each day is a question if the outgoing mail will be picked up or not. Media, ideology, and religion cannot hide the truth or reality forever.
A mostly hidden fact is that Hollywood can complete their entertainment projects without COVID shutdowns. The COVID protocols add about 6% to the production costs. Yet what they make hides the fact that the pandemic still exists and that the public health interventions that they practice do control coronavirus outbreaks. Public schools and other workplaces could be safe too. Except, the top One Percent Profiteers (the Global Elite Caste) who run the West and the Four Percent Managers simply won’t spend their wealth to save the lives of others. Wars, full hospitals, charter schools, and pharmaceuticals make money. After all, they are profiteers. Unless there is a second Reformation to restore secular democratic constitutional republics and peace, western civilization will cease to exist.
What is clear is that science, truth, and facts are no more. This is all ideology. Through the waves of “big lie” propaganda, all one can do is figure out what makes sense. What is repeatable.
A World War between NATO/Ukraine and the Russian Federation is underway and it is no coincidence that the USA “Will No Longer Rule Out Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat”. A first nuclear strike against Russia, China, and/or Iran is no longer excluded.
Corporate profits outweigh human lives. More Arctic Ice melts each summer and is predicted to be completely gone by 2035. The Mississippi, Rhine and Yangtze Rivers are so low due to droughts that shipping was halted. Jet Streams are stalling causing rain deluges, droughts, wildfires, heat domes, and polar vortexes. Seattle Washington on Oct. 20th had the worst air quality in the world with a heavy mix of fog and smoke blotting out the horizon, the surrounding mountains and the Space Needle.
Democracy is no more. Progress has ended. Human beings were lucky to survive the first Cold War. Russian military officers disobeyed orders to fire their nuclear weapons. Possibly, because they were communists. Now in the West and Russia the military are paid to their jobs. Mercenary armies are fighting to determine which Overlord will control the last of the dwindling supply of resources and energy on earth. “There is no such thing as society.” This is a new Dark Age that is hardly illuminated by Twitter. Progress has stopped. Peace is gone. Most dare not admit it but War, Pestilence, Famine and Death are again stalking the earth and everyone, including the wealthy, are in the bulls-eye.
All of Europe this winter is facing energy shortages, inflation, bankruptcy, and industrial shutdowns due to unknown state operatives who blew up three of the four natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany.
Several things are absolutely clear; 1) A World War is underway to destroy the Russia, China and Iran Axis, 2) The effects of this on the lower classes are of no concern, 3) Propaganda and ignorance work, 4) A Color Revolt is underway in Iran, and 5) Clearly, Europe is being de-industrialized.
Indeed, the destruction of three of the four pipelines from Russia to Germany and Sweden’s cleanup of the evidence is a spectacular “Whodunit?” Likewise, the preparation of the Semi-trailer with twice the explosive power of a bunker busting bomb in Odessa and its transfer through the Balkans, Turkey, Georgia into Russia is a professional job by experienced operatives that precisely exploded to damage both the rail and road Crimea Bridges. So far, the USA has avoided a direct confrontation with Russia while using Ukraine to its advantage. Except, its partner in the Western Empire, the UK has a PM, Liz Truss, who has the shelf life of a head of lettuce and Joe Biden doesn’t know stage left from right.
An economic war is also now underway with China. The transfer of semiconductor technology is halted and Americans working in China in that field fired. Due to the crash of PC & IT sales, Intel is firing thousands of its employees. In addition, due to the failure of public health to mitigate Coronavirus except by China, there is a serious worker shortage in the West that remains hidden unless you are directly affected.
Jamie Dimon, Chase, blasts Joe Biden on energy. Elon Musk, Tesla, is added to Ukraine’s hit-list for his peace plan. Washington Post reveals that 15 retired US Generals and Admirals were hired by Saudi Arabia as consultants since 2016.
In reality, corruption has a mind of its own. When money is absolutely the only thing of value and crimes go unpunished, a corporate/state super-mob (the Empire’s deep state) is in charge. This means the war is fought with tactical competence but no strategic leadership. They all are in it for themselves. It is not a people’s war though it was initiated as an ethnic conflict. It is a medieval war in the nuclear age. This is why Russia is on its back foot. The conflict will keep escalating, until the generals in control of the nuclear weapons, ignite their ICBMs or not.
There is no doubt that WWIII between the Russian and Western Empires has started. The conflict is escalating and is probably approaching the “no holds barred” stage. There is no diplomacy. There is no way out. One side or the other will lose, or everybody loses in a global nuclear war including China that is the last functioning Empire left.
Ukraine is carrying the war to Russia now. Russia must mobilize and create a new Red Army to defend of the Motherland. The Western Empire is so wrapped up in money, individualism and profiteering that they simply do not see the energy shortages and the collapse of the financial debt pyramid coming this winter. The West has nothing to mobilize. Industry is gone or shutting down due to energy shortages/high prices. Westerners are overweight, sick, and broke. The only alternative to the looming use of tactical nuclear weapons is an armistice and DMZ. The current politicians who got us into this mess are not going to get us out of it. All I can do, personally, is vote against all incumbents in this November elections.
The Coronavirus & Monkeypox Pandemics, WWIII, and the Food and Energy Shortages all have the same root cause. A death cult that thinks that they will always be safe and wealthy are pulling the strings. Russia is the last source of cheap available energy and resources left. They cannot profit without it.
There are no governments remaining that are run by and for the people.
The Goths and Vandals homeland is Ukraine. The Balkans are the cradle of war.
History does more than rhyme. The past puts us in the place where we are today with the things, people and society around us. “The past is not even past.” Old, unhinged, autocratic, ideologies that grab others’ wealth are still very much with us. An Empire creates its own reality that the minions must believe if they are to be Insiders.
But the truth intrudes. Isolated in suburbia, tomorrow is an energy saving day with the highs reaching the mid-70s. Chip-maker AMD stock crashed and rebounded halfway on its failure to meet expectations by billions of dollars because the PC & IT industries have crashed. Gasoline costs are rising and OPEC is cutting production. The USA is in the same position it was in the energy crises of the 1970s except with no undeveloped cheap petroleum fields remaining to be developed. Russia does have reserves and with Saudi Arabia joining the Russia China Axis; cheap energy – warmth in the winter and cooling in the summer and door to door delivery with a $35 purchase – all will be long gone, shortly.
The simple fact is that the US/UK – the Western Empire and NATO are in an existential war with the Russian Federation but they are acting like everything is normal and then go destroy three of the four pipelines carrying energy into Germany, France, Netherlands etc. (the EU). This is too crazy to the sane. A realist would say that a rational response is an armistice and a DMZ separating Ukraine and Russia. But like the last world war, an unconditional surrender is now the default future. As a result of this, it is inevitable that tactical nuclear weapons will be used by one side or the other to avoid defeat. Once the nuclear threshold is crossed, escalation into a global nuclear war that will destroy western civilization and most likely will drag China into the apocalypse is unavoidable.
Everyone has biases. Elon Musk’s peace proposal needs a DMZ added so a second round of ethnic warfare can be avoided. But whoever ordered the bombing of Nord Stream 1 & 2 wants war not peace and is willing for Europeans to suffer a dark, jobless, and frozen winter. Elon is US oligarch #1, a globalist, with manufacturing plants in California, Germany and China that will take hits if the war keeps escalating.
The Navy P8 Poseidon scheme is one step beyond a 9/11 like terror attack. Besides the pilot, crew, wing commander and Admirals, to get it in the air requires a Presidential sign-off. The Pentagon has avoided triggering a nuclear war for eight years in Syria. They are not about to start now unless the COVID infected crazies, who have lost all inhibitions for one’s safety, are now in charge. One can only hope it was a rouge operation because if not that means a nuclear war is certain.
Europeans and Radicalized Muslims are not culprits. The only hopeful scenario left is that it was instigated by whoever profits from cutting off Russian piped natural gas. Much like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and three other NGOs took over the world’s response to COVID (except for China) and profited hugely from the sale of mRNA vaccines and keeping for-profit hospitals open. If true, the rotating national security, intelligence, and state department denizens (the Blob) likely winked and nodded the operation to being with a private/public partnership of USA, UK, Poland and/or Ukraine special operators and military equipment suppliers. Getting the mines planted and effectively destroy three pipelines, undetected, needed some true incompetence by the German State and NATO members looking the other way while the submersible and divers did their job.
