The Ukraine Strikes Back

When I turn on my computer some entity pushes "news" stories on me. They somehow have access to my computer, which I find disturbing.

Today my ruling overlords want me to know that Ukraine is going to take back Kherson. Oh good! Now the citizens of Kherson can give up their pensions, their infrastructure, their food and their water, so that they can be "free" to live in a US-proxy-controlled country again.

Things weren't going that well for Ukraine until today. They were reduced to trying to blow up a nuclear power plant and assassinate civilians for a while, but then the Ghost of Kiev came out of retirement, just like in the movies. He was living the quiet life in a small town near Lviv when he was approached by agents imploring him to return and take up the Nazi cause again. He reluctantly agreed, resolutely putting on a helmet and strapping a missile to his manly thigh. (I made that last part up. I'm auditioning for a top "news" reporting job in US media.)

So now, according to my "news" feed, the Ukies are triumphantly marching into downtown Kherson. Or something like that. I am absolutely sure that they are not lying this time.

It Isn't Censorship If A Police Agency Tells You To Do It

Mark Z told Joe R that fb did not expel people for telling the truth, the way that Twitter did, they just shadow banned them instead. He seemed proud of that.

To be fair, he is right, it is less repressive to shadow ban than to completely ban and censor.

The interesting thing is that he clearly thinks that it is justified by the fact that the FBI, the enforcement wing of the now misnamed Dept. of "Justice", told them to do it.

Most Americans used to know that when the government and the corporations combine to repress the population, the proper term for that combo is "fascism".

Like other words I can't mention without risk of being banned, (and the word for that is "irony"), the F word has been deformed in recent years by the Woke Totalitarians.

They use it for their domestic political opponents at the drop of a hat, but show them Azoz soldiers literally tattooed with swastikas, with their arms outstretched chanting slogans from the 30s, and they will deny, deny, deny.

"No, no, no, you can't go by swastikas, silly. That means nothing. It's a MAGA hat that is the giveaway. And the hat also gives you the right to sucker punch the elderly."

It is incredible (and scary and sad) to watch the devolution of millions of formerly capable minds.

Stealing Afghan Money

What does it say about American mentality that the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is considered embarrassing and the abandonment of US weapons there is considered outrageous, but the US theft of $7 billion dollars in Afghan reserves is considered not worth mentioning, even though there is a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan which could be alleviated if the US would give back the money it stole?

I am more embarrassed and outraged about the blatant theft than I am about the removal of troops. That makes me an oddball in US mainstream opinion.

The International Community Steps Up

1990s Destruction of Yugoslavia

International Community: We see nothing.

2001 Invasion of Afghanistan

International Community: They probably deserved it somehow.

2003: Attack on Iraq

Internaional Community: Um, OK, but do you really need to use depleted uranium weapons?

2011: Attack on Libya

International Community: Can we have some of that gold and silver?

2011: US-backed Terrorists Invade Syria

International Community: Here's our jihadists. Please get them off our hands and send them to terrorize Syrians instead.

2014: US-backed coup in Ukraine

International community: "Fuck the EU?" Is that how you talk about your friends?

2022: Russia enters war in Ukraine

International community: This has gone too far! There are some things up with which we will not put! We are going to cut off our gas and oil, starve the world and send weapons to kill the Last Ukrainian, in order to show our strong disapproval of this sort of behavior. Also we will sanction Russian cats, trees and teenagers. There is no response too strong to such outrageous disregard for borders!

The Last Ukrainian

Why did Lindsey Graham call for wiping out Ukraine's population to the last Ukrainian, by sending more weapons and ammo?

Why did Lech Walesa call for reducing Russia's population to 50 million?

Some facts: The Federal Reserve is in the red by $8 trillion.

Outstanding derivatives are estimated at $700 trillion+.

The US debt is at $30 trillion. EU countries are not far behind.

None of this is based on anything real, none of it can be repaid. It is worthless and must be written off as worthless, in some sort of great reset.

Why is land called REAL estate? Because it is real, unlike debts made up of computer bits.

Now look at Russia and Ukraine from the eyes of greedy psychopaths used to killing, looting and stealing.

Vast hectares of fertile land, forests, water, oil, gas, gold, titanium and more.

The only thing standing between you and all those riches is a bunch of Slavs and their laws protecting their homelands.

What to do?

Double Think

So people who were forbidden to go to work, school, church, restaurants, bars, gyms, concerts, plays, movies, parties, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, nursing homes or hospitals (even when loved ones were dying) and even parks and beaches(!), are now being told that gay men cannot be told to temporarily avoid orgies, because......"that's oppressive".

Clown World

Today's Clown World Announcement:

Trump was going to give nuclear secrets to the country that already has hypersonic missiles and silent submarines.

Because, see, the president gets nuclear bomb diagrams in his daily briefing, so Trump put them in Melania's underwear drawer so that someday he could hand them over to Russia.

Luckily our crack teams of ace FBI agents were on it! It only took them 20 months to break into Trump's mansion, crack his safe and riffle through Melania's unmentionables.

Jedi Mind Control - Originally published 8-08

The whole world watched in 2002 as Bush tried different ways to justify an attack on Iraq. Remember how he kept demanding that Saddam Hussein submit to inspections? And how Saddam would stall until the last minute and then comply? Remember?

Cause if you do, you're resisting the revisionist history. A few months after the Iraqi invasion, the US ruling class started asserting that the reason the US invaded Iraq was that Hussein refused to allow inspections! I was amazed at the gall of those who believed that they could impudently reverse the truth that so many had witnessed!

But this week has been even more amazing. Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, killing thousands of civilians and Russian soldiers, and the Russian response was turned in 2 days into an unprovoked attack by Russia on Georgia.

And I watched it happen on CNN. Friday night my co-worker's husband called, very upset, telling us that Georgia had invaded South Ossetia. Saturday morning I turned the TV on to see what was happening. There was a reporter talking with the US puppet Saakashvili. Saakashvili, like a focused, if buffoonish, Jedi master, simply repeated to every question, "Russia attacked my country, Georgia." The reporter tried to get him to admit that Georgia had attacked South Ossetia first, but Saakashvili stuck to his talking point. And it worked. The first reporter fell away during a commercial, and the next reporter seamlessly fell into the approved line "Russia attacked Georgia". And the entire US corporate media has stayed on message since.

The Jedi could only control one being at a time. Our masters can control the minds of millions! And the truth can be reversed in 2 days. On Monday I went to work and mentioned to my co-worker that the script had changed. "No!" he said "Russia attacked Georgia". I was like "Don't you remember your husband calling Friday night? Don't you remember who attacked whom?" Finally he admitted that that phone call had happened, but his husband never did. He was the one who was so upset that he called at work (which he never did) but in 2 days of propaganda the whole episode was down the Memory Hole and he repeated the official propaganda.

Some on the left are sternly poxing both houses. "Why didn't Russia go to the Security Council?" they say.

How can something one week ago already be down the memory hole? Russia did go to the Security Council, early Friday morning. The US and Georgia refused to agree to a ceasefire, prefering to issue statements to the press calling for peace to actually pursuing it.

Bush, Rice and McCain have all denounced the invasion of a soverign country as unacceptable in the 21st century, while intelligent people gasp at the brazenness of imperial invaders pointing fingers at others. They have no shame.

Well, I have enough shame for them all. I am ashamed of the power of the corporate media and the evil ends for which it is used. I am ashamed of my country and what it is doing to destroy the possibilities for peace and justice on this planet. I am ashamed of the misery and death that we are bringing to so many people and animals. I am ashamed of the lies that are told and the hypocrisy that reigns supreme.