Take five minutes to reflect . . . and then go on with the demands of life.
Bumper sticker of the week:
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” MLK, Jr.
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K “No one gets it. How do I get folks to get it.”
J “You don’t. No one wants to get it.”
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K “This is the real thing. Everything before August 6, 1945 was pre-nuclear. Everything since is post-nuclear.”
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K “Someone once observed: ‘All wars are bankers’ wars’. That is true. The Banker Boys are the real force driving the United States foreign policy. The BRICS+ team is the first serious threat to their veiled but complete control of the United States and most of the world. The BRICS+ team could co-exist with the Bankers; the Bankers will not tolerate the existence of a viable and thriving BRICS+. However, the BRICS+ will not be deterred. If the BRICS+ capitulate now, they are done and done forever. They know that. The Banker Boys know that. The Banker Boys are still driving toward a nuclear show down if necessary to maintain their dominance.”
J “One group is going to win big. One group is going to lose big.”
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J “The big players are a big problem, yet the little players are also a big problem. So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”
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K “No one can back down in the Middle East. If Israel quits or is defeated, it is over for them. If the Palestinians quit or are defeated, they will never regain their homeland. It truly is life or death. This may be the big showdown.”
J “They have killed and are killing and will continue to kill. If there is one Israeli standing, he or she will kill a Palestinian. If there is one Palestinian standing, he or she will kill an Israeli. It is a way of life. Yet it is no way to live.”
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K “Yellen says the United States can afford to fight two wars. The United States cannot afford to fight one war. We shall see soon. Very soon.”
J “No one in power is admitting that ramping up another War will ramp up hyper-inflation to a level that will provoke a public outcry. Or worse.”
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K “The grand irony in the War on Terror is that the United States is the single largest sponsor of terror in the world and in the history of the world.”
J “I cannot disagree.”
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J “I’ll say it again. So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”
K “We are deep into what will be known later in the vernacular rather uncreatively as World War III for want of a more insightful description. But only a few dozen folks recognize that reality and the scope of the expanding skirmish.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
When your very existence is at stake, it becomes existential.
Defund The Department Of State [War]
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K “Something is not right.”
J “Something is wrong.”
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K “Something is wrong.”
J “Something is not right.”
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J “Stay tuned.”
K “Stay attentive.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Is it time for clear and honest reflection and thinking?
He who has the drones makes the rules.
Cui bono?
Bumper stickers of the week:
“No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt from fighting should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war. The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. . . . The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.”
Ernest Hemingway, “Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter,” Esquire, September 1935
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[See “The Rise of China (and the Fall of the U.S.?)” by Alfred McCoy in “TomDispatch.com” posted on April 27, 2023 and “The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians” by Thierry Meyssan in “Voltaire.net” dated September 13, 2022.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Mom
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Lesley Stahl: “We have heard that a half million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it.”
The same venal and vile sociopath/psychopath also decreed that if women do not vote for a fellow war criminal – Hillary (“It Takes A Pillage”) Clinton – they will find a place in Hell. God willing, Ms. A. may be in a place to assay her hypothesis.
“Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.” Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland. January 26, 2023
McCain: 1999 Kennedy Profile in Cowardice Award winner
Albright: 2012 Presidential Medal of Bondage winner
Nuland: 2023 John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Public Pest Award winner
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” Charlie Munger
Remember Military Appreciation Month
K “Russia is PLANet B! At every environmental rally, someone sports a sign proclaiming: ‘There is no PLANet B’ for us (the US?) to exploit. The letters ‘PLAN’ and ‘B” are in capitals and usually in a contrasting color. But there is a ‘PLANet B’! It is Russia. The West is not attacking Russia because Russia is a threat, the West is attacking Russia to purloin its resources. The current Western aggression lead by the Big Uncle is another chapter in the history of colonial oppression of the world by the West. It is so obvious when it is obvious.”
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J “In a moment of unguarded weakness, I admit that the West would like to dismember and distribute Russian resources that was started when Yeltsin was in office. The U.S. must counter China’s control of world resources. It is not always pretty.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
There is no PLANet B!
There is no PLANet B Russia!
Save the Planet! It’s the only one with beer!
“West” / “North”: $98.1 Trillion in resources ???
“East” / “South”: $211.7 Trillion in resources ???
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J “Putin is desperate.”
K “Biden is desperate. The speakers yesterday proclaimed a word that has almost been expunged from the American lexicon – peace. And look at his latest desperate theatrical antic. The puppet flies to meet the marionette.”
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K “Russia is subtly and methodically winning the ‘economic war’ and is slowly and patiently winning the ‘kinetic war’ and ceaselessly and unrelentingly losing the ‘propaganda war’ . . . at this time. The unprovoked Western sanctions are destructive and counterproductive. The truth is emerging. The West is very, very slowly unraveling.”
J “The West will prevail.”
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K “One of the tectonic shifts on the journey from illusionment to disillusionment was the gradual realization that the United States of America since 1945 was not the world’s policeman as I was directed in grammar school . . . it is the world’s bully. After that realization was confirmed by a thousand historical footnotes, nothing is or can ever be the same.”
J “Policemen need to be bullies at times.”
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K “The bourse is the battlefield; the battlefield is the bourse. The PetroDollar is supported by violence; the violence is funded by the PetroDollar. The de-dollarization efforts may not dethrone the PetroDollar, but little by little they are moving the PetroDollar to a highchair at a table with other currencies.”
J “Some two-party commercial transactions are being undertaken without the PetroDollar. However, the PetroDollar still has a long shelf life and a long half-life. For better and for worse.”
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K “Biden will instigate a false flag event to go nuclear.”
J “Putin will instigate a false flag event to go nuclear.”
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K “Biden’s war is not going to end well.”
J “Putin’s war is not going to end well.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“The other thing I will say is that the war didn’t start in February last year. The war started in 2014. And since 2014, NATO Allies have provided support to Ukraine, with training, with equipment, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces were much stronger in 2022, than they were in 2020, and 2014. And of course, that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
“They’ve lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically. . . . What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at. The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley
Desperate people do desperate things
Dragon < Eagle > Bruin; Dragon + Bruin > Eagle; Eagle + Bruin > Dragon
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J “Just when I thought it was safe to exist.”
K “Just when I thought I could rake a few leaves in peace.”
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K “The U.S. bombed or caused to be bombed or allowed to be bombed the Nord Stream Pipelines. That is an act of war against Germany and Russia and the world. But the U.S. does not adhere to international law. A NATO country attacked a NATO country. What do they do with Article 5?”
J “The U.S. bombed or caused to be bombed or allowed to be bombed the Nord Stream Pipelines. We agree. Nothing big goes on here on Plant Earth without Uncle Sam making the decision or at least approving it. The decision will be seen to be unwise.”
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K “When former spook and torture monger John Brennan went on CNN to proclaim that Russia bombed itself, I knew beyond a reasonable doubt that the U.S. was in front of or at least behind the pipeline terrorism.”
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K “Late last week, some major over-leveraged British pension plans started to wobble which forced a diametric change in BoE policy within a few hours.”
J “Those pesky ‘gilts’ misbehaving again.”
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J “And today the gang is collecting at the ‘judicial legislature’ on First First Street to impose their religion and ideology on the populace.”
K “The Democrats are doing nothing to counterbalance the crusading Corporatists on the Court except bombarding me with e-mails demanding money and promising to do something about the Court.”
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[See e-commentary.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Remember The Nord Stream!
Bombs away
There is no law, there is only ideology
The real the purpose of NATO is to keep the “Russians out, Americans in, Germans down”. British General Hasting Ismay
