It really is amazing that the common man and woman think that Governments have the publics interest at heart. Bill is right on most counts and as we watch these hucksters in power negotiate their way through the mess of their own creation and pretend that they know what they are doing, it hits me. They do know what they are doing and it is scary and coming fast.
My only beef with Bill, for a well educated well read fellow to remain a Roman catholic verges on the irrational. Especially in the light of living in Ireland where the most recent scandal besides the standard child molestations we have the Magdalene Laundries. At what point does one give up on such a fallacious belief the Pope is the Vicar of Christ? Especially in the light of the Roman church's creation of the entire Christian history narrative by way of Eusebius near 300 years after the fact?
All the great thinkers in Roman catholic history have been telling the greatest fictional story ever told.
It pained me seeing Bill building a chapel in Argentina. The uneducated masses under thumb of the Roman church have an excuse, no other Roman Catholic with access to the world of information can rationally justify their support of such a plague on humankind as is the Roman church.
Anti theist much ~! Would you kindly take your 'sign' that reads "Catholic Church is a Hoax" down a long, long road. Granted, the Pope's across history have not come close to the ideals doctrine and mission. But, I think you have overstepped the boundaries of civility.
I've always been amused at the propensity to ignore or sidestep historical fact while claiming the high ground. If I had made such a statement in 250 years ago I'd be in a world of hurt from all sides including government. If I had made the same statement 300 years ago I have been burnt at the stake.
Every act of terror has been perpetrated upon mankind though religion of one flavor or another.
As humans outside of the Garden apart from God, our history has always been rooted within those ruled and those ruled over. Of those families who have risen to power by force of arms. All have claimed the divine right to rule the masses. This even applies to Communism where their god is a mighty man, much like Pharaoh.
I know; Look at all the good the catholic church has done for mankind.
Let's examine that statement, the many inquisitions, pogroms, purposeful annihilation of entire cultures, with the enslavement of the population.
Ireland is a perfect example, while traveling this small nation, we came across an ancient stone marker it born a rune designating a boundary of some possible warlord's territory.
Carved over the rune was a St Patrick's cross. Our travel guide a very entertaining and knowledgeable fellow explained the history of the marker (or what they believe it to be). He was taken back with my comment this was much the same if I was to chisel a cross over the face of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC or the Pharaoh in Egypt. I'd be trampling on the history of both peoples. Again we traveled to a coastal area where he proudly showed off a large statue of Jesus and the cross placed into a turn in the road overlooking the ocean. Without coaching he said, I guess you think the same about this statue? What harm does it pose to the Irish culture? The fact that you're asking such a question is the harm it has done.
The Easter story is a sham from top to bottom, Roman history from its inception was filled with mostly lies. A battle would be lost, but in history the general was a genius winning the very same. The gods were created to influence the masses and unite these behind the leaders given divine right to rule by the same.
One would point out to Jesus on the cross as a pivotal event in history, and I would agree, but not. for religion. Yahowah promised Abraham one day sin would be put away, no covenant child of God would be judged by their sins. That day came in 33 CE, the lamb arrived just in time, and completed the mission. Period the Passover lamb from the time of Abraham to 33 CE and even to April 14, 2022 did not rise from the dead on the third feast day of First Born Children.
Rome was breaking up, a new emperor saw the way forward, create new religion, new doctrines that by force incorporate the Way with the existing most popular god Mithras.
Sol inviticus Mithras became Sol inviticus Deo. All that was needed would be a fleshing out of the story. The Latin Vulgate was commissioned to bring a new religion out of the old. A letter written by Jerome (the author of the Vulgate) to his pope stating no Greek manuscript was in agreement with another, the old Latin text were wholly unreliable. Under the charge of the holy see, he would fashion a narrative to support Roman catholic doctrines. Constantine could claim a vision a cross (oldest pagan symbol on the planet) was emblazoned over the sun (the god that man has worshipped for 100,000 years) a new religion was born. Under the Edict of Milan all duties formerly carried out on the 7th day of the week would now be transferred to the Day of the Sun or Sunday the first day of the week. Under penalty of death. A religion was born, probably the most successful religion in the history of mankind. This religion went forward and conquered most of the known world. In every nation it took over the duty of education, medicine, charity. It shaped the thinking of all men, those it could not (mostly Jews) were tortured in the what was described as the most exquisite fashion. The folks believed to be thrown to the lions in Rome were in fact mostly Jews or Torah observant former gentiles.
There are two groups of people that have suffered under the Roman church or the bastard step child of the same church known as Protestantism to a degree that is almost hard to believe. The Irish to a high degree, with the Jews to an unimaginable degree.
But let's forget history and look at all the good religion has done in the last 100 years. Oh, never mind enslaving young girls into manual labor, killing some, pimping out others. While allowing an unknown amount of children to be molested in a systematic fashion with the second in command to the pope being accused for doing the same.
Let's imagine a world where instead of creating a false narrative around the teaching, instructions and guidance of Yahowah (errantly called the 10 commandments) had been incorporated into the world of man. There would be no elites, no prisons, no judicial system, no prisons, no generational wealth, no war, no vice, no child molesters, no need for charitable organizations, perfect peace actually world peace.
But man is weak and we seek to control our neighbor, governments and religions are the only vehicles that can employed to control the masses so we created these.
The road to life is narrow and exacting and few find it or walk upon it. The path to destruction is broad, and popular and most walk this way.
Canadian and US governments do not reflect the will of the people, but the views that they are trying to sell to the people by controlling the press. Both are for the new World order. The people becoming the slaves of the government. ..JJ
So I wonder what’s going to happen when the “Ukraine is winning the war” narrative being pushed by NATO members and MSM is revealed to be patently false?
Without making any judgements or political statements, Ukraine cannot win this war…even if the NATO decides to
(🎉SURPRISE🎉)
put boots on the ground and take on Putin directly.
That’s what concerns me. Hasn’t the US already wasted enough blood and treasure on unwinnable ground wars in Asia?
You are lost in the wilderness of your own delusions. If we and I do mean you could just admit defeat, admit we were wrong and had made a massive mistake, we could then stop and rethink. What place do we make for ourselves on the massively overpopulated planet? I'll say this again, 20 years and 2+ trillion in Afghanistan, Trump made the deal with the Taliban, Biden postponed but honored, and we left and in that 20 years their population doubled from 20 to 40 million and now we are told there are 20 million facing starvation. How does anyone wrap their head around that solid piece of malfeasance?
I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out (sorry) that points are (or were) found in the distributor, not the carburetor. But your point is well taken.
I've long pondered the huge gap between data and information. We've got way too much of the former that doesn't get processed into the latter. And way too many people who think they're informed because of all the trivia they absorb. Your writing is one of the rare places one can find actual information and it is much appreciated.
What I have read in Bill Bonner's publications over 10 years, and certainly all of BPR's writings, is compassion for common people all over the world, including the Ukraine, based on their global life experience all over the world. And coupled with practical, usable action steps for those who wish to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Fake news is a big part of the problem - as BPR reminded us yesterday.
I agree with PG V, Ohimbo and Moondog's expressions of compassion for the Ukrainian people. So does Bill Bonner. I find no support whatsoever for their strident criticisms in either today's commentary or anywhere else.
Oh, well. "Man sieht nur was man weiss" said Goethe. One can see only what one already knows.
"A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
In future when I see PG V at the beginning of a comment, I'll skip it. Mac Ohimsa and Moondog I'll watch closely for a while.
Amen to moondog, that beautiful country is a smoking rubble heap and the war crimes are unconscionable. And Bill is right to be concerned that our primary weapon of choice is: sanctions and that they WILL cost us here.
Fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The U.S. adopted economic fascism back in the 30's and never looked back. Mussolini and Hitler didn't have the monopoly on Fascism; FDR made sure of that.
Again, PG V, name calling and careless with the truth. Oh well, I can relate. My mother said my middle initial should have been "O" for OftenWrongButNeverInDoubt.
But "morons and children or sensitive superficial sycophants"??? ..."if you paid any attention (you dont)." ..."wokist convention of school children...dont get your panties in a bunch."
OLD LINE conservatives are United Empire Loyalists, supporting geniocratic dictatorships (not regal/right/straight/rulers, but crooked oligarchies) who kept most of their "subjects" in serfdom by force. I've heard Europeans recently use LIBERAL to refer to the wing that supports liberal freedom for the common man.
Aristotle named Democracy (democrateia) and described it "the perversion of popularly elected government." Democracy is a perversion - my dema (neighborhood) voting to take property and freedom away from your dema. Democracy is, by its very nature, legitimized civil war: poor neighborhoods against rich neighborhoods against poor neighborhoods. Democracy is a mob, whipped up by demagogues. A mob is the majority of the moment, sure enough, but it's a lawless majority.
Politeia is the name Aristotle gave to the sustainable form of popularly elected government, where we vote for the benefit of the whole nation (polis). In fact, by definition a poli-tician is a statesman. Is it strange that the word politeia has been erased from our education? The governments today honestly refer to themselves as democracies, then confuse their subjects by referring to their elected promoters as politicians. Listen to your incumbents seeking reelection: "see the booty I brought home for you! Send me back and I'll steal lots more!" You send them out to steal from other neighborhoods who you think are stealing from you. What a shock to find out your own demotician are stealing from you!
All we have today are demoticians, bought and sold like pork bellies.
Democracy is weak men - making unsustainably bad laws - creating poverty and tyranny - which make strong men making good laws... We seem to have reached step 3. BPR is showing me how to be a more effective part of the solution. Can you suggest any improvements on Maximum Safety Mode?
It is true and also as long as we try to understand Putin by American standards and not Russian we will never get it right. We are getting too reliant on technology and have no ability to read a map or basic survival knowledge, this will be our downfall at some point. Rebekah Koffler’s book Putin’s Playbook is quite the eye opener. Bill thanks for being you! Kelly
How comes there is only a "heart" symbol to click for agreeing with a comment?? What about not disagreeing with some kind of symbol?? So I can let PG V know I don't like 2/3 of his comments. (and a few others also). Bill, Dan, Tom, we need an answer to that.
It’s a Substack thing. But I agree there should be a thumbs down option here. The only people who need non thumbs down options are all the Karen’s and snowflakes and woke people on FriendFace and Sh*tter.
Sometimes understanding the story depends on where you start. With this link, the author started with the financial sanctions on Russia. But that appeared in reaction to the Russian intervention in Donbas. Then there’s the ‘NATO’ story and the bio labs story. And the 2014 CIA coup in the Ukraine….https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/thierry-meyssan/the-end-of-western-domination/
It is possible that the Ukraines are not the nicest people on earth but they do not deserve to be murdered by a equally terrible and nasty Russian government and Hitler clone like Putin! No country should be destroyed for any reason!
Bill, spot on! When the final chapter is written the death of the U.S. empire will be the result of suicide. We live in a nation comprised predominately of Statists and our national religion has become Statolatry. Statists have ditched the "Golden Rule" for the "Ends Justify The Means." Unless the U.S. goes through a massive exorcism to rid its self of Statolatry there's no changing the trajectory. Having the world's reserve currency is the Golden Goose and both our elected and unelected miscreants are doing their best to kill it. I believe this quote from G. Michael Hopf is apropos: "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." Future generations will look back at the Baby Boomer generation and rightly blame them for their lower standards of living.
I'm sorry but I'm so sick of drivel and idiot quotes. Hard times don't create anything also true of the rest of that simpleton slop. When you spend more than you earn you're in trouble, when you use more than you have you're in trouble, it's a planetary issue and, as far as I can make out, five billion of us need to get to the exit so the Earth can survive. That's correct folks, at our consumption levels this planet can support sustainably three billion.
LOL NO, I have no interest in picking, it is what it is. As it is my family is heading slowly to self annihilation. That said if it's nuclear armageddon so be it. We don't just like to kill each other we like to kill the land under us, aren't we great?
So the U.S. government has the monopoly for using nukes in warfare. At least Putin is somewhat transparent. That's more than we can say about the Machiavellian Neocons in the State Department.
War should always be the last resort. The Western leaders failed miserably by not engaging in diplomacy beforehand. They had ample opportunities and purposefully dropped the ball. They got the proxy war with Russia they wanted. War might be the health of the state, but its living hell for the common man. Both the Russian and U.S. governments can both proudly don their black hats. As for me, I'm not buying anything these miscreants are selling.
Ukraine was not going to become a NATO member due to their terminally corrupt government. This would have been an easy give. Getting the Ukraine to stop killing its citizens in the Donbas would have been another easy give. Even a no nothing Neocon could have sold this to Putin. They wanted their proxy war with Russia.
While I agree that current sanctions yield unknown and unintended consequences, I find fault with Bill's apparent position as stated........."Do the Canuck feds or their American counterparts know what Russia is doing and why; are they really such evildoers? And how about the Ukraine? Is it really a valiant defender of liberty and democracy… or a bunch of neo-Nazi thugs eagerly egged on by the west’s warmongers? How do the feds know which side is right? Is either side right?". I take the position that the above quote is irrelevant. What really matters is that the "Ruskies" are killing innocent people by the thousands. If the civilized and "free" world means anything at all, then the Russian military and it's leadership need severly punished as of "yesterday".
Bill, on this you're not totally correct, there's folks who think they know everything about everything. So enlightened are these if you suggest another point of view the war is on. These wars always seem to include the ad hominem attack along with argumentum ad verecundiam. As my father a salesman by profession used to say; "You know what you know, maybe more to the ignorant, but don't go thinking you're the smartest guy in the room."
It really is amazing that the common man and woman think that Governments have the publics interest at heart. Bill is right on most counts and as we watch these hucksters in power negotiate their way through the mess of their own creation and pretend that they know what they are doing, it hits me. They do know what they are doing and it is scary and coming fast.
If you don’t like Bill and his missives, why are you subscribers? Love you Bill. Ayn Rand and Libertarians too😊
Neocons are going to Neocon :-)
Rants gonna rant.
My only beef with Bill, for a well educated well read fellow to remain a Roman catholic verges on the irrational. Especially in the light of living in Ireland where the most recent scandal besides the standard child molestations we have the Magdalene Laundries. At what point does one give up on such a fallacious belief the Pope is the Vicar of Christ? Especially in the light of the Roman church's creation of the entire Christian history narrative by way of Eusebius near 300 years after the fact?
All the great thinkers in Roman catholic history have been telling the greatest fictional story ever told.
It pained me seeing Bill building a chapel in Argentina. The uneducated masses under thumb of the Roman church have an excuse, no other Roman Catholic with access to the world of information can rationally justify their support of such a plague on humankind as is the Roman church.
Anti theist much ~! Would you kindly take your 'sign' that reads "Catholic Church is a Hoax" down a long, long road. Granted, the Pope's across history have not come close to the ideals doctrine and mission. But, I think you have overstepped the boundaries of civility.
I've always been amused at the propensity to ignore or sidestep historical fact while claiming the high ground. If I had made such a statement in 250 years ago I'd be in a world of hurt from all sides including government. If I had made the same statement 300 years ago I have been burnt at the stake.
Every act of terror has been perpetrated upon mankind though religion of one flavor or another.
As humans outside of the Garden apart from God, our history has always been rooted within those ruled and those ruled over. Of those families who have risen to power by force of arms. All have claimed the divine right to rule the masses. This even applies to Communism where their god is a mighty man, much like Pharaoh.
I know; Look at all the good the catholic church has done for mankind.
Let's examine that statement, the many inquisitions, pogroms, purposeful annihilation of entire cultures, with the enslavement of the population.
Ireland is a perfect example, while traveling this small nation, we came across an ancient stone marker it born a rune designating a boundary of some possible warlord's territory.
Carved over the rune was a St Patrick's cross. Our travel guide a very entertaining and knowledgeable fellow explained the history of the marker (or what they believe it to be). He was taken back with my comment this was much the same if I was to chisel a cross over the face of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC or the Pharaoh in Egypt. I'd be trampling on the history of both peoples. Again we traveled to a coastal area where he proudly showed off a large statue of Jesus and the cross placed into a turn in the road overlooking the ocean. Without coaching he said, I guess you think the same about this statue? What harm does it pose to the Irish culture? The fact that you're asking such a question is the harm it has done.
The Easter story is a sham from top to bottom, Roman history from its inception was filled with mostly lies. A battle would be lost, but in history the general was a genius winning the very same. The gods were created to influence the masses and unite these behind the leaders given divine right to rule by the same.
One would point out to Jesus on the cross as a pivotal event in history, and I would agree, but not. for religion. Yahowah promised Abraham one day sin would be put away, no covenant child of God would be judged by their sins. That day came in 33 CE, the lamb arrived just in time, and completed the mission. Period the Passover lamb from the time of Abraham to 33 CE and even to April 14, 2022 did not rise from the dead on the third feast day of First Born Children.
Rome was breaking up, a new emperor saw the way forward, create new religion, new doctrines that by force incorporate the Way with the existing most popular god Mithras.
Sol inviticus Mithras became Sol inviticus Deo. All that was needed would be a fleshing out of the story. The Latin Vulgate was commissioned to bring a new religion out of the old. A letter written by Jerome (the author of the Vulgate) to his pope stating no Greek manuscript was in agreement with another, the old Latin text were wholly unreliable. Under the charge of the holy see, he would fashion a narrative to support Roman catholic doctrines. Constantine could claim a vision a cross (oldest pagan symbol on the planet) was emblazoned over the sun (the god that man has worshipped for 100,000 years) a new religion was born. Under the Edict of Milan all duties formerly carried out on the 7th day of the week would now be transferred to the Day of the Sun or Sunday the first day of the week. Under penalty of death. A religion was born, probably the most successful religion in the history of mankind. This religion went forward and conquered most of the known world. In every nation it took over the duty of education, medicine, charity. It shaped the thinking of all men, those it could not (mostly Jews) were tortured in the what was described as the most exquisite fashion. The folks believed to be thrown to the lions in Rome were in fact mostly Jews or Torah observant former gentiles.
There are two groups of people that have suffered under the Roman church or the bastard step child of the same church known as Protestantism to a degree that is almost hard to believe. The Irish to a high degree, with the Jews to an unimaginable degree.
But let's forget history and look at all the good religion has done in the last 100 years. Oh, never mind enslaving young girls into manual labor, killing some, pimping out others. While allowing an unknown amount of children to be molested in a systematic fashion with the second in command to the pope being accused for doing the same.
Let's imagine a world where instead of creating a false narrative around the teaching, instructions and guidance of Yahowah (errantly called the 10 commandments) had been incorporated into the world of man. There would be no elites, no prisons, no judicial system, no prisons, no generational wealth, no war, no vice, no child molesters, no need for charitable organizations, perfect peace actually world peace.
But man is weak and we seek to control our neighbor, governments and religions are the only vehicles that can employed to control the masses so we created these.
The road to life is narrow and exacting and few find it or walk upon it. The path to destruction is broad, and popular and most walk this way.
Canadian and US governments do not reflect the will of the people, but the views that they are trying to sell to the people by controlling the press. Both are for the new World order. The people becoming the slaves of the government. ..JJ
So I wonder what’s going to happen when the “Ukraine is winning the war” narrative being pushed by NATO members and MSM is revealed to be patently false?
Without making any judgements or political statements, Ukraine cannot win this war…even if the NATO decides to
(🎉SURPRISE🎉)
put boots on the ground and take on Putin directly.
That’s what concerns me. Hasn’t the US already wasted enough blood and treasure on unwinnable ground wars in Asia?
Rarely is a war actually won, USA has not won a war since WW2.
Whew! I have put PG V on my "don't bother reading it" list, and recommend you do the same.
You are lost in the wilderness of your own delusions. If we and I do mean you could just admit defeat, admit we were wrong and had made a massive mistake, we could then stop and rethink. What place do we make for ourselves on the massively overpopulated planet? I'll say this again, 20 years and 2+ trillion in Afghanistan, Trump made the deal with the Taliban, Biden postponed but honored, and we left and in that 20 years their population doubled from 20 to 40 million and now we are told there are 20 million facing starvation. How does anyone wrap their head around that solid piece of malfeasance?
LOL
I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out (sorry) that points are (or were) found in the distributor, not the carburetor. But your point is well taken.
I've long pondered the huge gap between data and information. We've got way too much of the former that doesn't get processed into the latter. And way too many people who think they're informed because of all the trivia they absorb. Your writing is one of the rare places one can find actual information and it is much appreciated.
What I have read in Bill Bonner's publications over 10 years, and certainly all of BPR's writings, is compassion for common people all over the world, including the Ukraine, based on their global life experience all over the world. And coupled with practical, usable action steps for those who wish to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Fake news is a big part of the problem - as BPR reminded us yesterday.
I agree with PG V, Ohimbo and Moondog's expressions of compassion for the Ukrainian people. So does Bill Bonner. I find no support whatsoever for their strident criticisms in either today's commentary or anywhere else.
Oh, well. "Man sieht nur was man weiss" said Goethe. One can see only what one already knows.
"A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
In future when I see PG V at the beginning of a comment, I'll skip it. Mac Ohimsa and Moondog I'll watch closely for a while.
Oh, goodness. I don't read Goethe. I just read geniuses like BPR, Stephen Covey, et al, some of whom read Goethe.
How do you translate, "Was der Mensch nicht freiwillig ergibt dass kann mann nicht erzwingen“?
The Ukrainians have their Azov Neo-Nazis and the U.S. government has their Neocons. Birds of a feather flock together.
Amen to moondog, that beautiful country is a smoking rubble heap and the war crimes are unconscionable. And Bill is right to be concerned that our primary weapon of choice is: sanctions and that they WILL cost us here.
Nazis and Neocons are both Fascists. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck .....
More name calling by you know who.
Fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The U.S. adopted economic fascism back in the 30's and never looked back. Mussolini and Hitler didn't have the monopoly on Fascism; FDR made sure of that.
Yes, indeed!
Again, PG V, name calling and careless with the truth. Oh well, I can relate. My mother said my middle initial should have been "O" for OftenWrongButNeverInDoubt.
But "morons and children or sensitive superficial sycophants"??? ..."if you paid any attention (you dont)." ..."wokist convention of school children...dont get your panties in a bunch."
OLD LINE conservatives are United Empire Loyalists, supporting geniocratic dictatorships (not regal/right/straight/rulers, but crooked oligarchies) who kept most of their "subjects" in serfdom by force. I've heard Europeans recently use LIBERAL to refer to the wing that supports liberal freedom for the common man.
Aristotle named Democracy (democrateia) and described it "the perversion of popularly elected government." Democracy is a perversion - my dema (neighborhood) voting to take property and freedom away from your dema. Democracy is, by its very nature, legitimized civil war: poor neighborhoods against rich neighborhoods against poor neighborhoods. Democracy is a mob, whipped up by demagogues. A mob is the majority of the moment, sure enough, but it's a lawless majority.
Politeia is the name Aristotle gave to the sustainable form of popularly elected government, where we vote for the benefit of the whole nation (polis). In fact, by definition a poli-tician is a statesman. Is it strange that the word politeia has been erased from our education? The governments today honestly refer to themselves as democracies, then confuse their subjects by referring to their elected promoters as politicians. Listen to your incumbents seeking reelection: "see the booty I brought home for you! Send me back and I'll steal lots more!" You send them out to steal from other neighborhoods who you think are stealing from you. What a shock to find out your own demotician are stealing from you!
All we have today are demoticians, bought and sold like pork bellies.
Democracy is weak men - making unsustainably bad laws - creating poverty and tyranny - which make strong men making good laws... We seem to have reached step 3. BPR is showing me how to be a more effective part of the solution. Can you suggest any improvements on Maximum Safety Mode?
It is true and also as long as we try to understand Putin by American standards and not Russian we will never get it right. We are getting too reliant on technology and have no ability to read a map or basic survival knowledge, this will be our downfall at some point. Rebekah Koffler’s book Putin’s Playbook is quite the eye opener. Bill thanks for being you! Kelly
How comes there is only a "heart" symbol to click for agreeing with a comment?? What about not disagreeing with some kind of symbol?? So I can let PG V know I don't like 2/3 of his comments. (and a few others also). Bill, Dan, Tom, we need an answer to that.
I'm OK with just a heart. Hopefully I did not encourage a shift toward Facebook/Twitterdom at BPR.
It’s a Substack thing. But I agree there should be a thumbs down option here. The only people who need non thumbs down options are all the Karen’s and snowflakes and woke people on FriendFace and Sh*tter.
Sometimes understanding the story depends on where you start. With this link, the author started with the financial sanctions on Russia. But that appeared in reaction to the Russian intervention in Donbas. Then there’s the ‘NATO’ story and the bio labs story. And the 2014 CIA coup in the Ukraine….https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/thierry-meyssan/the-end-of-western-domination/
It is possible that the Ukraines are not the nicest people on earth but they do not deserve to be murdered by a equally terrible and nasty Russian government and Hitler clone like Putin! No country should be destroyed for any reason!
Bill, spot on! When the final chapter is written the death of the U.S. empire will be the result of suicide. We live in a nation comprised predominately of Statists and our national religion has become Statolatry. Statists have ditched the "Golden Rule" for the "Ends Justify The Means." Unless the U.S. goes through a massive exorcism to rid its self of Statolatry there's no changing the trajectory. Having the world's reserve currency is the Golden Goose and both our elected and unelected miscreants are doing their best to kill it. I believe this quote from G. Michael Hopf is apropos: "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." Future generations will look back at the Baby Boomer generation and rightly blame them for their lower standards of living.
I'm sorry but I'm so sick of drivel and idiot quotes. Hard times don't create anything also true of the rest of that simpleton slop. When you spend more than you earn you're in trouble, when you use more than you have you're in trouble, it's a planetary issue and, as far as I can make out, five billion of us need to get to the exit so the Earth can survive. That's correct folks, at our consumption levels this planet can support sustainably three billion.
You might get your wish if the Ukraine conflict goes nuclear. If you want to pick and choose who stays and goes join team Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
LOL NO, I have no interest in picking, it is what it is. As it is my family is heading slowly to self annihilation. That said if it's nuclear armageddon so be it. We don't just like to kill each other we like to kill the land under us, aren't we great?
aren't our Governments great!
Aren't WE our governments?
That would be a Hell No! If you don't belong to either Tribe you're disenfranchised. Count me as disenfranchised.
So the U.S. government has the monopoly for using nukes in warfare. At least Putin is somewhat transparent. That's more than we can say about the Machiavellian Neocons in the State Department.
Do you mean shot, bombed, executed - Obama style?
War should always be the last resort. The Western leaders failed miserably by not engaging in diplomacy beforehand. They had ample opportunities and purposefully dropped the ball. They got the proxy war with Russia they wanted. War might be the health of the state, but its living hell for the common man. Both the Russian and U.S. governments can both proudly don their black hats. As for me, I'm not buying anything these miscreants are selling.
Ukraine was not going to become a NATO member due to their terminally corrupt government. This would have been an easy give. Getting the Ukraine to stop killing its citizens in the Donbas would have been another easy give. Even a no nothing Neocon could have sold this to Putin. They wanted their proxy war with Russia.
You know, sometimes you can be a bit silly.
If you truly think Biden is making any decisions then you better go get that exorcism and fast.
With a kindergarten teacher as Prime Minister and a Finance Minister with a nasty skeleton in her closet. we need regime change in Canada.
GH
While I agree that current sanctions yield unknown and unintended consequences, I find fault with Bill's apparent position as stated........."Do the Canuck feds or their American counterparts know what Russia is doing and why; are they really such evildoers? And how about the Ukraine? Is it really a valiant defender of liberty and democracy… or a bunch of neo-Nazi thugs eagerly egged on by the west’s warmongers? How do the feds know which side is right? Is either side right?". I take the position that the above quote is irrelevant. What really matters is that the "Ruskies" are killing innocent people by the thousands. If the civilized and "free" world means anything at all, then the Russian military and it's leadership need severly punished as of "yesterday".
Bill, on this you're not totally correct, there's folks who think they know everything about everything. So enlightened are these if you suggest another point of view the war is on. These wars always seem to include the ad hominem attack along with argumentum ad verecundiam. As my father a salesman by profession used to say; "You know what you know, maybe more to the ignorant, but don't go thinking you're the smartest guy in the room."
Thanks, Bill. A good dose of home truth.
I thought this was about money and investments not distractions.