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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.
I ask this as well - is a baby born in Turkey - the country of it - is that baby any less important than a baby born in Gaza? Is said baby any...
The debt of the place is not the debt of citizens nor the peasants - this the debt of the Federal Reserve - which ironically is not federal and...
OK So they intentionally or accidently (allegedly) released a virus that was about as dangerous as a moderate flu, with some severe consequences...
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I mean, it could be said that even he can't control what comes out of his mouth, or over the Twittersphere at times, so they have buckley's chance of predicting what he's going to say next.
Right after he was elected, Niall and I* commented about how it appeared most likely that they couldn't rig the election enough and that what was likely a record victory turned into something like 58%.
R.C.
*I forget if he or I wrote the first comment.
RC
it is SUCH a pleasure watching them squirm!
People who live on eating dirt cookies have the mental capacity to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Oligarchs will always take advantage of others. That's what they do. No big deal. They just have to learn.
In the battle between the false extremes of cold ideology and tear-jerking sympathy, neither of which enable understanding, and both of which are highly manipulable, we know where you all stand. Enjoy your crude and rude president. It is true that you deserve him.
Of course the "given", the assumption, is that Western "culture", Western "civilization", must naturally be assimilated to, right? So it's entirely irrelevant to any conversation that Amerikans and Europeans have ridiculously miniscule comprehension of the cultural depth and spiritual values of the indigenous societies surviving through centuries of colonial cultural and literal genocide? Like, Haitians should get their shit together after 200 years? Their revolution has been continuous since the 1800s, with a fierce hatred from TPTB for having freed themselves, having to pay millions in "reparations" to France, having Western-installed psychopathic dictators, a kidnapped democratically-elected President, capitalist predation, natural disaster capitalism, let alone the reality of generational trauma - which doesn't even enter the consciousness nor the conversation. Why doesn't the Congo get their shit together? Why don't the Lakota people get their shit together? What's wrong with those people? Why don't they take "personal responsibility"? Do you see how absurd that is? I guess not.
Wanna give Trump the "benefit of the doubt"? Think he "really cares about Americans/the country"? Think the attitude has anything to do with THE COST of "illegals" - schooling, food-stamps, health-care - when those "illegals" actually pay taxes, many get college degrees and contribute to society and the beauty of our diverse country? The "costs" are infinitely miniscule compared to the MIC and corporate welfare. Amerika is racist to the core, always has been, despite your flawed perception that they're only a small minority. There's a Deep South, and a Deep North, and a Deep Midwest, and a Deep Northwest...in case you didn't know. Racist shit spews from the mouths of Amerikans everywhere, all day long. And incredible violence. Trump, the Repugs, the Dems, the financial mafias, the fake progressives, all contribute to, infiltrate, destroy, and manipulate true social justice, environmental, academic, health, legal, labor, educational advocates so they can all be painted as "enemies of progress", and the current favorite: SJWs. Meanwhile, ecocide, omnicide continues apace, and people actually believe the psychopaths "care", and that the normie amerikans too should just get their shit together and figure out how to "fix" the system. Wow!
There were a couple of things I disagreed about that were discussed.
1. That people in countries that are kept deliberately impoverished by colonial powers (the USA at this point in time), need to take responsibility for that. I think more that SJWs need to take responsibility for NOT SEEING or believing that 'their country' could possible do such a thing to other countries when it's been going on for so long. The USA is not adverse to using any tactic to keep nations around it impoverished. Including assassination.
2. The MSM report on an elderly lady who died because the ambulance didn't get to her on time. It hides the absolute catastrophe that is the NHS in Britain. It's in a state of crisis and people are STILL putting their faith/expectations in it an on it. If the NHS was a patient, then is about to die. The question is why and what will be the consequences of this?
50 years ago the West was locking people up and destroying their lives if they were gay .... now, if anywhere in the world does not promote metro-sexuality then they are deemed despotic and ignorant
There are reasons galore to oppose Trump. Foreign policy (I'm as disappointed in Trump as I am of Sanders on that), at least briefly against free speech (some stories about him wanting to sue people for saying he must prove he does not come from orangutans), strange/immature comments (channeling Howard Stern for no reason; only Rosie's a fat pig; weird comments about his daughters). But because of ideologues Trump will say completely normal things and somehow be portrayed as a lunatic.
"Curb immigration!" That cannot by any means be allowed to happen in a sovereign country because my favorite comedian (or politician) said it shouldn't happen.
"Lower taxes!" My goodness, traditional economic theory. The nation is doomed. Doesn't he know only raising taxes will ever make things affordable? Sanders said so.
"Sorry this happened. Let's not forget there are some violent leftists, too, and we can all try to work together." Oh how offensive and not at all true (?)
"S*hole countries" So? Honestly, call any country a s*hole, it probably is in some way. How can this possibly be construed as some violent statement? You might say it is an inarticulate statement, at best. Ask anyone who is not a cultural relativist; Trump didn't get to this idea out of racism or some nonsense.
This is simply bogus – there is substantial evidence to suggest that many components of the deep state (with which Trump has been adjoined his entire adult life) are bolstering Trump and that the media circus surrounding this apparently weak and ineffectual coup against him is merely a smokescreen orchestrated by various deep state elements to hide Trump’s insider credentials and establish him as a political outsider to the masses."
- Deep State misappropriation and the cryptocratic clique behind Trump [Link]
‘Wikileaks and its odd frontman Julian Assange are part of the constellation of knowing and unknowing propagandists making up the Trump media complex, which miraculously succeeded in parlaying a deep state auxiliary into the White House by snookering the majority of the United States into believing he was a “political outsider” and “non-politician”. It has cloaked its relatively blatant political motivations and maneuvering in the robe of a dissident hactivist leak conduit and internet privacy advocacy group. As a kind of afterthought it endlessly advertises Tor (making it just as part of the phony internet privacy marketing infrastructure luring people into an NSA-FBI honeypot honeypot as Snowden & friends), but at this point its main calling is sentiment manipulation on behalf of Trump and his underwriters judging by the steady and unwavering drip of leaks damaging to Hillary Clinton. But before discussing Wikileaks, its bolstering of Trump and the myriad of indications that it’s an intelligence operation and/or proxy, it’s important to establish the mainstream media as part of the Trump media complex – keep in mind that Wikileaks and Wikileaks-seeded narratives have been frequently mentioned even in the mainstream media (and in particular Fox News)…..
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Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are similar in that they are these supposed digital anti-establishment crusaders revealing the most damning of deep state secrets, yet they’re trotted out, paraded around and given all the publicity they could ever want by the fourth estate on a regular basis (as opposed to being suicided, almost entirely ignored or eternally imprisoned, as the vast majority of whistleblowers end up), indicating that they’re either controlled assets or simply unknowing dupes being used by the deep state or a deep state faction (read: the ultra nationalist right-wing national security and Israel boosters behind the Trump presidency) to advance some kind of agenda in return for free advertising and likely large sums of money.
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Snowden, Wikileaks, Assange, Trump – what do they all have in common? They’ve all been undeniably built up by both the controlled fourth estate/mainstream media and alternative media, which, contrary to what many of the phony digital marketers and publicity seekers in the altmedia would have you believe, is highly manipulated by behind the scenes characters like Robert Mercer and completely vulnerable to digital traffic-engineering campaigns which are, unbeknown to most, regularly coordinated by political campaigns, intelligence agencies/assets, digital marketing groups, corporations, PR firms, etc. Anyone with a sense of discernment would notice the contradiction between these kinds of characters’ purported political outsider renegade anti-establishment status and the fact that they’re perpetually broadcast in the media to the public. While it is true that a large part of the reason for this is the fact that the public loves a hero, but the question must be asked – why are these people and groups specifically so favored while others are shut out of public discourse entirely? My answer is that the ones who do somehow make it through the filter are always in some way sanctioned because all of them without exception have covert deep state ties which are always buried by the media itself.
– Hidden Agendas Part Two: Wikileaks and the Trump propaganda infrastructure [Link]
Trump will continue his role as limited hangout stooge and Deep State asset. Anyone with some research would have noticed Trump’s undeniable Mossad connections a long time ago: Trump Dossier 2018 [Link]
Trump is the mainstream executive version of Alex Jones, both controlled opposition, both gate-keeper hangouts speaking (limited) truth. Both Anglo-Ziofronts. (Alex Jones is a well-known traitor [Link] )
A Divide & Conquer scheme – Trump’s handlers copy-cat’ed some of the bullet points of the awakening crowd and the unstoppable truth movements during Obama’s reign - in order to suck them in via new morphing (the ‘people’s man”, the ‘new’ candidate’ (just like Bush II & Obama-abomination). Meet the new boss – same as the old inverted on the surface, now with limited hangout distractions…every god damn 8th year the same…looks different, sure..that’s the point…..but ultimately the same Deep State actor…
It’s social science PSYOP perception management morphing the ‘people’s’ spokesman dynamically in place in front of the crowds to whatever is sensored by social science management and needed for the Anglo-Zionist elite at any given time – COINTEL and controlled opposition on a national level. Using limited hang-out bullet points and smoke and mirrors.
The internal bickering is a ruse with a purpose; to make it look real, Divide & Conquer. Manufactured Dissent * and distraction (both among the population and most of the intel community) – with unwitting actors in the Intel community playing their part so it becomes real at the lower levels (99% of which don’t know what’s going on – compartmentalization – part of the hypnotic majority fallacy), and present the B-plan at a later stage if or when Trump crashes, OR not...so we also then will buy their B-blan as ‘real’.- which in fact is just part of the A-plan all long…the house always takes it all….
Most of the Truth movements have been conned…. Don’t say it can’t be done, look at Iraq 2003, let alone the fact that most economists and Ph.D’s through 40 years of education and study don’t know that money is created out of thin air via debt hidden in plain sight…let alone that everything we think we ‘know’ is wrong….what a giant mind clusterfuck and time we live in…Philip K. Dick could not have done a better job…reality beats Sci-Fi…
Here is Putin speaking:
“I have already spoken to three US presidents. They come and go, but politics stays the same at all times. ….When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits…These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.”
— Putin to Le Figaro, RT – May 31, 2017
* In an article written by professor Michel Chossudovsky called “Manufacturing Dissent” he focused on a related concept, namely the subtle process of “manufacturing dissent” (rather than “consent”), which plays a decisive role in serving the interests of the ruling class. Prof. Chossudovsky argues that it is in the interest of the corporate elites to accept dissent and protest as a feature of the system inasmuch as they do not threaten the established social order. The purpose is not to repress dissent, but, on the contrary, to shape and mold the protest movement, to set the outer limits of dissent. To maintain their legitimacy, the economic elites favor limited and controlled forms of opposition, with a view to preventing the development of radical forms of protest, which might shake the very foundations and institutions of global capitalism. In other words, “manufacturing dissent” acts as a “safety valve”, which protects and sustains the New World Order according to Prof. Chossudovsky.
Trump is the mainstream executive version of Alex Jones to shape the dissent and Divide & Conquer. Everybody screams ‘it can’t be’ cause there is ‘too much opposition from the Deep State’. Right, that’s part of the perception management so you buy into that fabricated narrative!
+80-90% of the alt-media and Truth movements have been conned and infiltrated, and they are now suffering from the same Stockholm Trump syndrome and cognitive dissonance as the sheeple did during Obama's 'reign'.
The game of discernment of Conspiracy research was much easier 10 years ago. Today the PSYOP social engineers have beefed and rigged most of the Freedom/Justice/Truth-movements with sophisticated disinfo booby traps, limited hang-outs, advanced COINTEL and Divide & Conquer. etc. Most people today - both lamestream and alternative - regard Assange and Wikileaks as true opposition fx. although Assange and Snowden are limited hang-outs, wittingly or unwittingly....(Tarpley, Rappoport, Cryptome, Chossudovsky et al have shown this)
There are many avenues, side venues, rabbit holes, etc. in this research. I am not sure what conspiracy 'class' I am in, but I am sure there are say 10 levels for argument's sake, and what looks clear-cut on the first 'floors' look different on the upper floors (Wikileaks fx).
For the listener, this also creates the problem of having to take the baby and leave the bathwater, which most people, especially newbies to the infiltrated and gatekept (direct agent or useful idiot/ego, the result is the same: disinformation or the creation of enough confusion so that everything becomes believable and nothing clearly knowable) half-truth bowel-movement are not willing to do. .....and the entire baby of that “truther” source of information is likely to be abandoned into the outer regions, along with all its allegorical and “misinterpreted” bathwater. It takes many long years of listening, observations and reading, as I have, to even learn to locate the developing infants in the swampwaters of trooferism and pull them out and salvage them in parts and later integrate them into a whole. Extremely rare are the people who have all their views integrated without contradiction outside a realm where a different “interpretation” of a certain given narrative magically renders the contradiction non-contradictory
Another wrote this: One of the most amazing aspects of Trump apologia as practiced by many is the inability or unwillingness to look at the “big picture”. Rather than try to connect the dots, they seem to consider each Trump-related “incident” on an isolated basis, thus making it easier to rationalize and minimize: “well, the Jerusalem thing is only symbolic”; “he’s probably only doing it because he’s being blackmailed”; etc., etc., etc. But what about everything else going on? For example, Trump still refuses to get the U.S. military out of Syria, supports ISIS and this (even though it hasn’t been in the spotlight very much recently) represents a “tripwire” for a major war, potentially a world war, that could happen at any time. Then of course there’s the ongoing “crisis” on the Korean Peninsula that could also become a devastating war at any moment. Thanks to Trump, we’ve got “tripwires” X 100 all over the place.
AND the mainstream narrative about Bannon's new book omits the following:
'The book claims that one key source of reported tension between Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump on the one hand, and Bannon on the other, is that “Kushner had concluded that Bannon was an anti-Semite.”
Yet that anti-Semitism has not prevented Bannon from pursuing a stridently pro-Israel agenda: ironically one of Bannon’s reported accusations against Kushner – whose family has made donations to support Israeli settlements – was that Kushner “was not nearly tough enough in his defense of Israel.”...
Adelson even told Trump that Bannon was the only person in the White House he trusted on Israel...
Wolff’s book confirms that Trump’s presidency has helped revive the historic alliance between anti-Semites and Zionists to drive a far-right pro-Israel agenda. (see: 'The Zionist-white supremacist alliance in Trump’s White House')'
- What Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” says about Trump’s collusion with Israel
"Cognitive dissonance is a powerful drug. It makes otherwise-very-intelligent people goofy and incoherent in their thinking and blinds them to certain realities that they should normally see right in front of their noses....I could write a list 20 pages long on all the geopolitical and fiscal developments most people missed because they were clinging to assumptions rather than evidence. Unfortunately, the liberty movement is also sometimes vulnerable to such assumptions"
- ‘ Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him’ - by Brandon Smith, Zero Hedge - Dec 30, 2016
Slowly but surely more are being awakened from the false awakening:
When Will Trump Supporters in The Freedom Movement Realize They Were Duped?
- Activist Post, January 4, 2018
R.C.
PS, Good on you, HFL.
RC
He's a cover up all right, but for government malfeasance and mismanagement and outright corruption of the public expectation of fairness promised by capitalism. We have become a militarized bully getting what the secret cabal of corporations want from the rest of the world!!
As a corollary, however, there is such a thing as absolute truth, and the proper goal of our efforts at justice must remain aware of that. (I am not saying you are disagreeing with this point, nor being a moral relativist; I'm just expanding on your point.)
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