Since Colin Powell lied to the world about Iraq, the US dug such a deep hole of debt it can no longer get out. The increase — $29 trillion — is almost exactly equal to the amount spent on the Empire.
What is so striking to me is the complete lack of consequences to any of these people as far back as when the Federal Reserve was set-up. They lie, they cheat, and they steal and life goes on. No transparency whatsoever. They truly are so egregious (using one of Bill's words) that it is hard to comprehend. Apparently, it is the pattern of humans and empires. For us poor proles (much better word than lemmings) we need to prepare for the expected as well as expect the unexpected. Life goes on but what a shitshow. Time to reflect and then stock up on good wine, bourbon, beer, sodapop and toast each sundown with whatever makes your day.
Who is going to mete out the consequences? People didn't understand or acknowledge that self-government requires work and input. So, we delegate. Those to whom we delegate have figured out that we don't follow up. Why are we surprised everything went bad? Best always. PM
Initially there were three (3) branches of the Federal Government: Executive, Judicial, and Legislature. Each at certain powers to check on the other two (2). They were to be separate and independent. Two (2) of the branches get their by voting and the third one (Judiciary) gets nominated by one and approved by the others. Checks and Balances. Unfortunately, it has not turned out that way. Humans and Empires - as ol' Bill repeatedly says - you don't have to connect the dots to see the Pattern.
There is no system that can be designed to run without oversight. Oversight in a situation like ours that is so big is nearly impossible. The Founding Fathers never foresaw a behemoth on the scale of the USA. It's not their fault. There was nothing in their experience to indicate such were possible. As my executive son says, "It's not scalable." Best always. PM
so, what does one do? I wholeheartedly agree - the behemoth the US has become is far and away unprecedented. And, because of that it has enabled the rise and continued growth of the deep state peppered with all sorts of elites. Apparently, a sign of our time. Now since voting isn't the answer - what are our choices? Media bought, Government agencies bought (through bribes and the swingin' door), MIC out of control - just total corruption. The East (which will eventually be most of the World except USA/Canada/EU) splitting with the West to get out from under the thumb of the deep state. The sinking US$. Such a mess........think it is time to think about what to have tonight as I celebrate another sundown..............
Personally, I'm not sure we have choices, as in, we do this or that, we save everything and everybody. For me, Ayn Rand is a little preachy and heavy-handed, but Atlas might shrug. Someone somewhere along the line is going to rediscover the merits of a former Vice President's legacy: nullification. Somebody somewhere will challenge this nonsense and, as Nancy Reagan encouraged us, just say "No."
Paul, do thoroughly enjoy your optimism! From my perspective the “someone somewhere” will be after the U.S. blows itself up and the empire crashes into an inferno of fiat currencies and sloth. The deep state is so all encompassing to be unable to be unseated without a huge disaster tearing it asunder. Not nice. Not optimistic. So hope you are right!
As I read your banter, I recall these lyrics from Paul Simon’s “I Am A Rock:
“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me”
My womb (room) is my sometimes Stoic mind where I think about what I can & can’t control. My larder is full for the moment knowing, however, that change comes regardless of what I do.
I had that LP, the two of them, Simon and Garfunkel (who, unlike Garland, didn't see the need to change his name) looking back over their shoulders. I listened to it a lot. I don't have it anymore, sadly. Likely that I gave it to some girl while trying to plead my case...Best always. PM
Wonderful, rKf. Good ol' Paul Simon. Unfortunately my mind (some discussion whether I still have one) doesn't allow me to recede into a "womb" and, frankly, do not want to live out my years hiding. Go forward and do Good Deeds. However, besides being a dyed in the wool Stoic and listing heavily from skeptic to cynic these days. It is adopictic that change and chaos lie ahead.
I'll jump in: I love guessing games! Let's look at "Sea Eye Ayes" and do it phonetically. Oh, Wow! We've got CIAs, as in individuals from the CIA. Not those bastions of virtue. "Zios?" Well, that might be a little politically sensitive. I'm sure if you supply some extra letters you can come up with a word that refers to a controversial group of non-apologist , 4-letter ethnics that have been accused of rigging things in the world. Mind you, these are only guesses. Best always. PM
No push-back by the seekers and proponents of the truth.. As someone mentioned, the "Left" has "s--t" on most all of their opponents and are not afraid to invoke it by any means if they don't toe-the-line.
Where do American citizens go to get actual facts? The media is a total wreck and reflects Mark Twain's comments on " uninformed vs misinformed". The various statistics we receive are questionable at best and misleading at worst. Economists are regarded as scientists. Politicians are self-serving at best and crooked at worst. Who do you believe?
And yet, like drug addicts hooked on BS and handouts, we re-elect these people. This says much more about our decline than the unaccountable deep state, biased media, questionable government data, idiot economists, and crooked politicians. There are those among us who see the patterns and sound the alarms, but we are guided like sheep and lack the thinking skills to recognize the trouble and set things right. This has been true now for decades. We, the American citizens, are to blame for what is to become.
How 'bout we make election day the day after tax day? How 'bout we do away with all withholding and everybody has to pay in full, cash on the barrel-head, right then on tax day? And next day is election day? Best always. PM
I do like the idea of joining election day and tax day, but I also like term limits and balanced budgets. The abuse will continue until the powers, benefits, and dependencies that government has bestowed upon itself are sharply curtailed. This must happen smartly, otherwise it will happen badly. I think it's way to late for smartly, so badly has my vote (ha-ha).
Your point, in general, is that our current system, while praiseworthy in its genius and origins, is now wholely unsuited for modern times and needs a total overhaul. Given that we can't agree even on the simplest things (for example, babies should not be slaughtered in the womb at whim), how are we going to agree on effective government? Best always. PM
Americans vote on what is best for them. Our country has used ‘welfare’ to make people slaves of the federal government. They will vote to maintain those ‘freebies’. I believe that comes close to 50% of the population. We need a leader with ‘pelotas’ that will get rid of government departments that are worthless. I.e. department of energy and education as a start. We need to increase the retirement age to 70. We need to start by cutting all remaining departments by 10% (including the military industrial complex). We also need to hire/appoint the best qualified people to run the government; not based on DEI. Unfortunately, it is wishful thinking. AP
Americans vote on what they THINK is best for them. So, the challenge for the "government" is to present their poison in such a way that it appears to be champagne. Best always. PM
Okay Bill reading your constant diatribes on Trump I guess the only path is total surrender to the left and their minions. You always make everything about money and power but there are alot of people in this world who believe in the creator of us all. I think He may have a hand in the outcome.
We vilify China endlessly for wanting to take back Taiwan. Can anyone remember how our own feds responded the last time part of our country chose to go it's own way? I vaguely recall some kind of unpleasantness . . .
I have been reading your posts for sometime now. Do you have anything good to say about anything or anyone, hmm? I have always said that if one continually says negative things about people or things, they also should opine what they might do differently themselves, if they had a chance. So, for a start ole sage, what is your solution to what is happening at present in our mixed up political environment?
Anthony Blinkin, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger are all so erudite, convincing, serious empathetic. Where do they come from.
All wars are the same as the Civil War; it takes a great deal of shuffling to get a general that is any good. The war must be major; we never found a good general in Vietnam. In WW2 there were two: Patton and McArthur and both were fired.
Eisenhower was a good image; he was good at waiting while the Russians and Germans slaughtered each other then he opened a 500-mile front instead of spearheading straight to Berlin.
He did warn of the MICC.
The demise of the US started with greed, the production of weapons for profit until it became the American economy, the American government was perpetual war, always against backward defenseless people. It was evil and evil is lies and lies produce stupid.
I am reading the latest Jack Carr book; in it, a Chinese postulates on the ruthlessness of Americans, the firebombing of Japanese cities, even erecting models in how to do it best and the two atomic bombs as a political statement to Russia.
The book is a veritable advertisement of gear and when you look it up you realize the military pays three times the value for the same thing that it’s all corrupt.
You wonder how stupid they can get, and they seem so intelligent. Then you read Solzhenitsyn; Stalin and his utopia killed 40 million of the best Russians. Some of the very people sacrificed were joyful about their part in bringing about a better world.
It can get very very stupid, so stupid as to make the reality of stupid unbelievable.
Eisenhower was a staff officer to Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. When the Japanese were closing in, MacArthur sent his ace to Washington to lobby for more help. Once Eisenhower got stateside and inside the government in DC, he started promoting himself as the next great thing and "dissing" his boss. Nice guy. With friends like that, who needs enemies? Best always. PM
I HATE CNN. And yes I’ve listened to Putin’s speeches.. sometimes he makes valid points and I’m not a U.S. government fan either.. but Putin lies like every politician but his lies destroy countries and thousands of lives. Where my 10 grand smarts?
So you listened to (some of) Putins´s speeches. Let´s get some beef on the table. Which ones? Are you fluent in Russian? I´m not. I suppose that´s no different from you. So where did you get the translations? MSM? Were they complete?
Asking so many questions bc it´s the biggest challenge to find honest and precise transcripts/translations, to find them complete and to have the patience to listen -sometimes for hours. That´s where my doubts come from.
First of all:
There´s no leader, no politicians that doesn´t lie. It´s intrinsic. Inevitable.
Second:
Why is it just Putin´s lies that destroy countries and lifes?
There´s a nice picture of Clinton/Bush sen./Bush jun./Obama headlined:
10 Wars, 4 Million deaths and no sentence / Trump 0 Wars, 94 charges.
You´re aware of the 74 wars, attacks, coups, plots, false flags etc. etc. that the US has been orchestrating or at least was involved in since WWII?
I dislike Putin as much as any other Pychopath that rules anywhere; still I am thankful for his ice-blooded strategic patience and excellent poker skills. Something I would love to say about american warmongers.
I doubt that very many people in America worry about WW III. My rather high middle class friends, college graduates, that are Dems don't care about anything but their paychecks and health plans and their evening concoctions. I suppose they think Dems are a more reliable payment source. Never discussed the fact that their retirement is falling in value or the burden is on their grandchildren. I suspect they would get lost if I was to mention those issues. After decades of listening to main stream news they really don't need to consider anything else. They are convinced they know the whole story because you know budget numbers are just the same old same old and fighting the Fed has been a losers game for 40 years. Realistically one should consider it pragmatic. Now it is trillions next thing you know it will be Quadrillions. It is really impossible to discuss these issues with them. Probably why there is no discussion amongst politicians, as absurd as that is. Most likely a consortium like BPR is 1% of society, if that.
Wow, Bill. All that just to tell us that Iran, Russia, and China are benevolent nations led by benevolent leaders! As usual, Bill points to past mistakes (like Iraq, for example) by our "political leaders" to make the fallacious point that the USA is wrong about everything, and of course, that America's leaders are evil. Most of us can acknowledge that we've had some bad political leaders that have made egregious mistakes, but let's not then infer sainthood on other nations who in actuality are much worse. To the extent that our system works however imperfectly, we still have the ability to make a course correction because we still have the ability to advocate for a better path. Not so in Iran, Russia, and China where opinions and the press are tightly controlled, and the opposition is imprisoned or taken out. We are not there yet but could be if we don't turn things around. There is plenty of opposition to where we are going fiscally, socially, and in our foreign policy. We need to speak out and support organizations that are fighting for fiscal responsibility, a better foreign policy, and individual rights as opposed to the welfare state. Bill never mentions these organizations or any solutions.
So, I would say to Bill who characterizes Trump in his column today as "full of bile and bald-faced untruths": look in the mirror.
Untruths that are stated as fact are actually told BOLD-Faced. Not everyone who tells untruths is clean-shaven, but if it makes someone feel better to tell lies "bald-faced", just shave before you do it. Best always. PM
“The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it's the least common. To report otherwise would be a bald-faced lie.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Common use, and preferred use, whatever doesn't make it RIGHT! And besides, you trashed my joke, and I say that while laughing. Best always. PM
P.S. Common, accepted usage today is to use plural possessive adjectives for a singular antecedent. While both offensive and accepted, it doesn't make it right. The other outrage is "media", which is the plural of "medium", but is overwhelmingly and incorrectly used with a singular verb, as in "the media is". Same bold-faced mistake with "data" ("the data says") which is the plural of "datum". Ah, yes, we do love our ignorance in the good, old USA. PM
Interesting… I assumed Harris was who Bill meant with ‘full of bile and bald-faced untruths’. While Trump was ‘empty as a beer can... hollow as a rotten log’
The congressional military industrial complex was warned about by Thomas Jefferson. No one listened then and we are bound and determined to repeat the historical lesson unlearned in every generation.
This time around we are capable of killing billions and billions will in fact die. This time around life has no meaning to the major player, the West has engaged with the largest growing religion. A religion that was created by a murdering, pedophile, pirate in the 6th century. The religion he created is in fact a political movement shrouded within a death cult. Who's sole doctrine is to subdue the entire world by violent means for the purpose of bring the end of the world for all human life. Because this is what his god wants.
1400 years ago Muhammad declared war on the Jews, and the rest of the world. Islam exterminated all the Jews in Arabia, the following 100 years after the death of Muhammad the religion was responsible for murdering half the world's then population.
Now from this one lie told about Iraq, the West has armed Islam, and with our further harassment of the religion and their cosponsors we have set the stage for WW3. This time around Europe has no chance of surviving. Trump for all his flaws was correct, Europe has for all intents and purposes disarmed allowing USA in the guise of NATO to carry the burden. It is estimated the entirety of the UK would run out of arms after engaging with Russia for 7 days. Germany would last 2 days. Ukraine was a lost cause on day one. Russian currently has the largest standing army in the world larger than China and better armed. Regardless the battle would be fought in Russia where no army has ever won a victory. Russia was conquered by Communists from within and by it's own people. China the same, the USA is on this same road to destruction and our people own citizenry is our worst enemy.
When WW3 erupts the food chain and stymie money will end, the markets will collapse. There is speculation that most large cities will see up to 50% population death toll in the first 2 weeks. Gauging from the BLM and Antifa riots, but with this time a complete stand down of the police, replacing with a military presence I would bet 60% will be a more accurate number.
The next town over from my own included an armored tank of a vehicle on July 4th. The 'tankster' truck included the logo Mass Casualty Response.
I'm not too hopeful for the world of mankind, but then again I've read the Prophets from the original Hebrew. While some believe the old books are all made up, I have to credit the authors with a 100% accuracy rate dating back 4000 years, and actually dating back to Bare’shyth / Genesis. Wherein Yahowah states a day is a thousand years. 6 days to God, 6000 years to Adam the first child born into God's family. God is not interested in the proceeding 150,000 years of human existence, His timeline started the instant Adam was cast from the Garden. 2033 marks 6000 years, to those following God's narrative this time period will be marked with a return of the king, and 1000 years of peace. There can be no peace with the systems created by mankind. Specifically religion, militarism, and politics. All those supporting and relying upon these human contrivances will be removed from the planet, leaving only those receptive to the system and reliance upon the creator.
Simplistic yes, but it's man who made it almost impossible to know the timing and the author and creator of life and time. Those who walk away and rely upon the guidance of Yahowah will be gathered and harvested before the SHTF, those not will experience the worst mankind can offer, none of what is coming will be authored by God, simply He's going to allow mankind free reign until mankind almost wipes himself out.
I'm just the messenger, simply offering a way out, that few if any will take. Be wise, don't ignore the message, you have nothing to lose but more than you can imagine to gain. There is no donate button, no one wants your money, nor will any personal data be required or collected. Everything on the site is freely given, the author is out of pocket 23 years of work and all costs to provide the site. His is a labor of love to Yahowah.
Bill, I think Colin Powell should of stepped down before he spread Chenney's and Rumsfeld's lies that came out of George W's mouth. That was one of many, many lies that hoodwinked the American People.I wood have voted for Colin Powell if he had chosen to run for President.
Bill, I am an Aussie from down under and admire your regular insight. Perhaps you could enlighten your followers including me why you have criticized Harris the way you have. Regards Ron
Plenty of material out on the internet. Past statist proposals when she ran for President last time and lots of shenanigans when was in office as a prosecuter in Cali. All around awefull
What is so striking to me is the complete lack of consequences to any of these people as far back as when the Federal Reserve was set-up. They lie, they cheat, and they steal and life goes on. No transparency whatsoever. They truly are so egregious (using one of Bill's words) that it is hard to comprehend. Apparently, it is the pattern of humans and empires. For us poor proles (much better word than lemmings) we need to prepare for the expected as well as expect the unexpected. Life goes on but what a shitshow. Time to reflect and then stock up on good wine, bourbon, beer, sodapop and toast each sundown with whatever makes your day.
Who is going to mete out the consequences? People didn't understand or acknowledge that self-government requires work and input. So, we delegate. Those to whom we delegate have figured out that we don't follow up. Why are we surprised everything went bad? Best always. PM
Initially there were three (3) branches of the Federal Government: Executive, Judicial, and Legislature. Each at certain powers to check on the other two (2). They were to be separate and independent. Two (2) of the branches get their by voting and the third one (Judiciary) gets nominated by one and approved by the others. Checks and Balances. Unfortunately, it has not turned out that way. Humans and Empires - as ol' Bill repeatedly says - you don't have to connect the dots to see the Pattern.
There is no system that can be designed to run without oversight. Oversight in a situation like ours that is so big is nearly impossible. The Founding Fathers never foresaw a behemoth on the scale of the USA. It's not their fault. There was nothing in their experience to indicate such were possible. As my executive son says, "It's not scalable." Best always. PM
so, what does one do? I wholeheartedly agree - the behemoth the US has become is far and away unprecedented. And, because of that it has enabled the rise and continued growth of the deep state peppered with all sorts of elites. Apparently, a sign of our time. Now since voting isn't the answer - what are our choices? Media bought, Government agencies bought (through bribes and the swingin' door), MIC out of control - just total corruption. The East (which will eventually be most of the World except USA/Canada/EU) splitting with the West to get out from under the thumb of the deep state. The sinking US$. Such a mess........think it is time to think about what to have tonight as I celebrate another sundown..............
Personally, I'm not sure we have choices, as in, we do this or that, we save everything and everybody. For me, Ayn Rand is a little preachy and heavy-handed, but Atlas might shrug. Someone somewhere along the line is going to rediscover the merits of a former Vice President's legacy: nullification. Somebody somewhere will challenge this nonsense and, as Nancy Reagan encouraged us, just say "No."
Paul, do thoroughly enjoy your optimism! From my perspective the “someone somewhere” will be after the U.S. blows itself up and the empire crashes into an inferno of fiat currencies and sloth. The deep state is so all encompassing to be unable to be unseated without a huge disaster tearing it asunder. Not nice. Not optimistic. So hope you are right!
As I read your banter, I recall these lyrics from Paul Simon’s “I Am A Rock:
“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me”
My womb (room) is my sometimes Stoic mind where I think about what I can & can’t control. My larder is full for the moment knowing, however, that change comes regardless of what I do.
I had that LP, the two of them, Simon and Garfunkel (who, unlike Garland, didn't see the need to change his name) looking back over their shoulders. I listened to it a lot. I don't have it anymore, sadly. Likely that I gave it to some girl while trying to plead my case...Best always. PM
Wonderful, rKf. Good ol' Paul Simon. Unfortunately my mind (some discussion whether I still have one) doesn't allow me to recede into a "womb" and, frankly, do not want to live out my years hiding. Go forward and do Good Deeds. However, besides being a dyed in the wool Stoic and listing heavily from skeptic to cynic these days. It is adopictic that change and chaos lie ahead.
Ol’ LSO, afraid I’m making that shift too.
?...Apodictic...?
Well, it is apodictic in this ol' man's opinion. I might be wrong but, obviously, I don't think so.
Lying, cheating, and stealing is the Zios and Sea Eye Aye's ... M.O. !!
Ol' C Eti you have me there. What is "Zios and Sea Eye Aye's"?
I'll jump in: I love guessing games! Let's look at "Sea Eye Ayes" and do it phonetically. Oh, Wow! We've got CIAs, as in individuals from the CIA. Not those bastions of virtue. "Zios?" Well, that might be a little politically sensitive. I'm sure if you supply some extra letters you can come up with a word that refers to a controversial group of non-apologist , 4-letter ethnics that have been accused of rigging things in the world. Mind you, these are only guesses. Best always. PM
Spot-on, Paul! You are a much brighter prole than I. Thank you. I get it now!
Very Good Paul
No push-back by the seekers and proponents of the truth.. As someone mentioned, the "Left" has "s--t" on most all of their opponents and are not afraid to invoke it by any means if they don't toe-the-line.
The empire will eat itself. We won’t need any assistance thank you
Colinn was the zios 'House Jogger' proving once again that DNA, is not a determining factor for cultural appropriation !!
Nudland, and hubby are both murderous, genocidal Socio-psyco , zio-neoCONs.
Meanshile, Blinken has borrowed, Bibi Mileikowski's bs line's, and childlike drawings.
As 10% Pedo Joe would say ... " Go finger" !!
The only question remains: which sociopathic-psycopathic, genocidal zionist are you going to 'select' in November?
Where do American citizens go to get actual facts? The media is a total wreck and reflects Mark Twain's comments on " uninformed vs misinformed". The various statistics we receive are questionable at best and misleading at worst. Economists are regarded as scientists. Politicians are self-serving at best and crooked at worst. Who do you believe?
And yet, like drug addicts hooked on BS and handouts, we re-elect these people. This says much more about our decline than the unaccountable deep state, biased media, questionable government data, idiot economists, and crooked politicians. There are those among us who see the patterns and sound the alarms, but we are guided like sheep and lack the thinking skills to recognize the trouble and set things right. This has been true now for decades. We, the American citizens, are to blame for what is to become.
What if at the election time nobody showed up?
What if on April 2025 “tax day” nobody paid up? Nobody!
How 'bout we make election day the day after tax day? How 'bout we do away with all withholding and everybody has to pay in full, cash on the barrel-head, right then on tax day? And next day is election day? Best always. PM
I do like the idea of joining election day and tax day, but I also like term limits and balanced budgets. The abuse will continue until the powers, benefits, and dependencies that government has bestowed upon itself are sharply curtailed. This must happen smartly, otherwise it will happen badly. I think it's way to late for smartly, so badly has my vote (ha-ha).
Your point, in general, is that our current system, while praiseworthy in its genius and origins, is now wholely unsuited for modern times and needs a total overhaul. Given that we can't agree even on the simplest things (for example, babies should not be slaughtered in the womb at whim), how are we going to agree on effective government? Best always. PM
GF: Great! I’ll vote for that.
Lee. Zerohedge!!
Bill:
Americans vote on what is best for them. Our country has used ‘welfare’ to make people slaves of the federal government. They will vote to maintain those ‘freebies’. I believe that comes close to 50% of the population. We need a leader with ‘pelotas’ that will get rid of government departments that are worthless. I.e. department of energy and education as a start. We need to increase the retirement age to 70. We need to start by cutting all remaining departments by 10% (including the military industrial complex). We also need to hire/appoint the best qualified people to run the government; not based on DEI. Unfortunately, it is wishful thinking. AP
Americans vote on what they THINK is best for them. So, the challenge for the "government" is to present their poison in such a way that it appears to be champagne. Best always. PM
Okay Bill reading your constant diatribes on Trump I guess the only path is total surrender to the left and their minions. You always make everything about money and power but there are alot of people in this world who believe in the creator of us all. I think He may have a hand in the outcome.
We vilify China endlessly for wanting to take back Taiwan. Can anyone remember how our own feds responded the last time part of our country chose to go it's own way? I vaguely recall some kind of unpleasantness . . .
Yeah, self-determination is a good thing even virtuous, until it isn't. Best always. PM
I have been reading your posts for sometime now. Do you have anything good to say about anything or anyone, hmm? I have always said that if one continually says negative things about people or things, they also should opine what they might do differently themselves, if they had a chance. So, for a start ole sage, what is your solution to what is happening at present in our mixed up political environment?
Good point. And the huge contradictions in these statements....
Anthony Blinkin, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger are all so erudite, convincing, serious empathetic. Where do they come from.
All wars are the same as the Civil War; it takes a great deal of shuffling to get a general that is any good. The war must be major; we never found a good general in Vietnam. In WW2 there were two: Patton and McArthur and both were fired.
Eisenhower was a good image; he was good at waiting while the Russians and Germans slaughtered each other then he opened a 500-mile front instead of spearheading straight to Berlin.
He did warn of the MICC.
The demise of the US started with greed, the production of weapons for profit until it became the American economy, the American government was perpetual war, always against backward defenseless people. It was evil and evil is lies and lies produce stupid.
I am reading the latest Jack Carr book; in it, a Chinese postulates on the ruthlessness of Americans, the firebombing of Japanese cities, even erecting models in how to do it best and the two atomic bombs as a political statement to Russia.
The book is a veritable advertisement of gear and when you look it up you realize the military pays three times the value for the same thing that it’s all corrupt.
You wonder how stupid they can get, and they seem so intelligent. Then you read Solzhenitsyn; Stalin and his utopia killed 40 million of the best Russians. Some of the very people sacrificed were joyful about their part in bringing about a better world.
It can get very very stupid, so stupid as to make the reality of stupid unbelievable.
Eisenhower was a staff officer to Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. When the Japanese were closing in, MacArthur sent his ace to Washington to lobby for more help. Once Eisenhower got stateside and inside the government in DC, he started promoting himself as the next great thing and "dissing" his boss. Nice guy. With friends like that, who needs enemies? Best always. PM
I’m not a U.S. GOVERNMENT fan but you’re taking Putin at his word… pretty stupid Bill.
Did you ever - just once in your life - listen to a speech of Putin?
Not what was "reported" in quality media like CNN and the likes? Did you?
I would bet 10k bucks you didn´t, dear fellow reader.
I HATE CNN. And yes I’ve listened to Putin’s speeches.. sometimes he makes valid points and I’m not a U.S. government fan either.. but Putin lies like every politician but his lies destroy countries and thousands of lives. Where my 10 grand smarts?
Hi Richard, was travelling.
So you listened to (some of) Putins´s speeches. Let´s get some beef on the table. Which ones? Are you fluent in Russian? I´m not. I suppose that´s no different from you. So where did you get the translations? MSM? Were they complete?
Asking so many questions bc it´s the biggest challenge to find honest and precise transcripts/translations, to find them complete and to have the patience to listen -sometimes for hours. That´s where my doubts come from.
First of all:
There´s no leader, no politicians that doesn´t lie. It´s intrinsic. Inevitable.
Second:
Why is it just Putin´s lies that destroy countries and lifes?
There´s a nice picture of Clinton/Bush sen./Bush jun./Obama headlined:
10 Wars, 4 Million deaths and no sentence / Trump 0 Wars, 94 charges.
You´re aware of the 74 wars, attacks, coups, plots, false flags etc. etc. that the US has been orchestrating or at least was involved in since WWII?
I dislike Putin as much as any other Pychopath that rules anywhere; still I am thankful for his ice-blooded strategic patience and excellent poker skills. Something I would love to say about american warmongers.
Have a good evening.
full
If you think I believe US politicians are any better you are mistaken.
No I didn't and don't believe so. Probably we are much closer than it seems. Have a good day
I doubt that very many people in America worry about WW III. My rather high middle class friends, college graduates, that are Dems don't care about anything but their paychecks and health plans and their evening concoctions. I suppose they think Dems are a more reliable payment source. Never discussed the fact that their retirement is falling in value or the burden is on their grandchildren. I suspect they would get lost if I was to mention those issues. After decades of listening to main stream news they really don't need to consider anything else. They are convinced they know the whole story because you know budget numbers are just the same old same old and fighting the Fed has been a losers game for 40 years. Realistically one should consider it pragmatic. Now it is trillions next thing you know it will be Quadrillions. It is really impossible to discuss these issues with them. Probably why there is no discussion amongst politicians, as absurd as that is. Most likely a consortium like BPR is 1% of society, if that.
Wow, Bill. All that just to tell us that Iran, Russia, and China are benevolent nations led by benevolent leaders! As usual, Bill points to past mistakes (like Iraq, for example) by our "political leaders" to make the fallacious point that the USA is wrong about everything, and of course, that America's leaders are evil. Most of us can acknowledge that we've had some bad political leaders that have made egregious mistakes, but let's not then infer sainthood on other nations who in actuality are much worse. To the extent that our system works however imperfectly, we still have the ability to make a course correction because we still have the ability to advocate for a better path. Not so in Iran, Russia, and China where opinions and the press are tightly controlled, and the opposition is imprisoned or taken out. We are not there yet but could be if we don't turn things around. There is plenty of opposition to where we are going fiscally, socially, and in our foreign policy. We need to speak out and support organizations that are fighting for fiscal responsibility, a better foreign policy, and individual rights as opposed to the welfare state. Bill never mentions these organizations or any solutions.
So, I would say to Bill who characterizes Trump in his column today as "full of bile and bald-faced untruths": look in the mirror.
Untruths that are stated as fact are actually told BOLD-Faced. Not everyone who tells untruths is clean-shaven, but if it makes someone feel better to tell lies "bald-faced", just shave before you do it. Best always. PM
The concluding paragraph from the article at https://bit.ly/4cQzanp:
“The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it's the least common. To report otherwise would be a bald-faced lie.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Common use, and preferred use, whatever doesn't make it RIGHT! And besides, you trashed my joke, and I say that while laughing. Best always. PM
P.S. Common, accepted usage today is to use plural possessive adjectives for a singular antecedent. While both offensive and accepted, it doesn't make it right. The other outrage is "media", which is the plural of "medium", but is overwhelmingly and incorrectly used with a singular verb, as in "the media is". Same bold-faced mistake with "data" ("the data says") which is the plural of "datum". Ah, yes, we do love our ignorance in the good, old USA. PM
Interesting… I assumed Harris was who Bill meant with ‘full of bile and bald-faced untruths’. While Trump was ‘empty as a beer can... hollow as a rotten log’
Ha, ha! While I don't agree with your interpretation, either way my last sentence still stands!
All this crazy stuff is scarry enough to run for cover. Unfortunately, there is none.
The congressional military industrial complex was warned about by Thomas Jefferson. No one listened then and we are bound and determined to repeat the historical lesson unlearned in every generation.
This time around we are capable of killing billions and billions will in fact die. This time around life has no meaning to the major player, the West has engaged with the largest growing religion. A religion that was created by a murdering, pedophile, pirate in the 6th century. The religion he created is in fact a political movement shrouded within a death cult. Who's sole doctrine is to subdue the entire world by violent means for the purpose of bring the end of the world for all human life. Because this is what his god wants.
1400 years ago Muhammad declared war on the Jews, and the rest of the world. Islam exterminated all the Jews in Arabia, the following 100 years after the death of Muhammad the religion was responsible for murdering half the world's then population.
Now from this one lie told about Iraq, the West has armed Islam, and with our further harassment of the religion and their cosponsors we have set the stage for WW3. This time around Europe has no chance of surviving. Trump for all his flaws was correct, Europe has for all intents and purposes disarmed allowing USA in the guise of NATO to carry the burden. It is estimated the entirety of the UK would run out of arms after engaging with Russia for 7 days. Germany would last 2 days. Ukraine was a lost cause on day one. Russian currently has the largest standing army in the world larger than China and better armed. Regardless the battle would be fought in Russia where no army has ever won a victory. Russia was conquered by Communists from within and by it's own people. China the same, the USA is on this same road to destruction and our people own citizenry is our worst enemy.
When WW3 erupts the food chain and stymie money will end, the markets will collapse. There is speculation that most large cities will see up to 50% population death toll in the first 2 weeks. Gauging from the BLM and Antifa riots, but with this time a complete stand down of the police, replacing with a military presence I would bet 60% will be a more accurate number.
The next town over from my own included an armored tank of a vehicle on July 4th. The 'tankster' truck included the logo Mass Casualty Response.
I'm not too hopeful for the world of mankind, but then again I've read the Prophets from the original Hebrew. While some believe the old books are all made up, I have to credit the authors with a 100% accuracy rate dating back 4000 years, and actually dating back to Bare’shyth / Genesis. Wherein Yahowah states a day is a thousand years. 6 days to God, 6000 years to Adam the first child born into God's family. God is not interested in the proceeding 150,000 years of human existence, His timeline started the instant Adam was cast from the Garden. 2033 marks 6000 years, to those following God's narrative this time period will be marked with a return of the king, and 1000 years of peace. There can be no peace with the systems created by mankind. Specifically religion, militarism, and politics. All those supporting and relying upon these human contrivances will be removed from the planet, leaving only those receptive to the system and reliance upon the creator.
Simplistic yes, but it's man who made it almost impossible to know the timing and the author and creator of life and time. Those who walk away and rely upon the guidance of Yahowah will be gathered and harvested before the SHTF, those not will experience the worst mankind can offer, none of what is coming will be authored by God, simply He's going to allow mankind free reign until mankind almost wipes himself out.
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Bill, I think Colin Powell should of stepped down before he spread Chenney's and Rumsfeld's lies that came out of George W's mouth. That was one of many, many lies that hoodwinked the American People.I wood have voted for Colin Powell if he had chosen to run for President.
Bill, I am an Aussie from down under and admire your regular insight. Perhaps you could enlighten your followers including me why you have criticized Harris the way you have. Regards Ron
Plenty of material out on the internet. Past statist proposals when she ran for President last time and lots of shenanigans when was in office as a prosecuter in Cali. All around awefull