Free Speech, RIP

"Yes, the US spent $5 billion to overthrow the elected Ukrainian government, according to Victoria Nuland, who should know, since she was there, passing out cookies and picking the next dictator.
"Yats! Yats is the guy".
Now Ukraine has open Nazis in the government, glorifying their Nazi ancestors, killing over 10,000 civilians in eastern Ukraine, and attacking gays, Russians, Roma and political opponents in the rest of Ukraine.
But we're supposed to send those brutal Nazis more weapons?
On what planet is that a good idea?"


I made this comment on a Facebook thread in which Dems were complaining that Trump insisted that the Reps take out a plank in the Republican platform supporting sending more military aid to Ukraine, which the Dems were saying was a bad thing to do. Someone else pointed out that Ukraine has a fascist government, put in by the US in 2014, after the US supported a coup to overthrow the elected government. I then added my comment.


Facebook then informed me that I was banned for 24 hours, because my comment did not uphold "community standards".

Community standards? The community doesn't approve of anti-Nazi statements? What kind of community are you people running here?


On second thought, it is perfectly logical that the community supports Nazis, and censors truth-tellers. This is what the US has devolved to.

When I was a kid, snitches were frowned upon and free speech was upheld. It was not the First Amendment that guaranteed free speech as much as the widely held belief among Americans that everyone had a right to express their opinion.

From the "I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it", to the frequently expressed saying, when someone said or did something uncommon or bizarre, "Hey! It's a free country" (usually accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders).


But, no more. Starting with the indoctrination that "offensive speech" was not to be allowed, through safe places for the easily offended, right up to the rousing of the social justice warriors to violence, with the battle cry "Punch a Nazi!", the idea that bad words were to be stopped, by rules or by violence, has been widely accepted by those who formerly would have been in the forefront of defending people's rights.

After Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of Congress, and sternly lectured that Facebook could no longer allow people to say whatever they wanted, (what kind of nonsense is this "free speech"?) because, as they put it, they didn't want the Wild West (i.e. freedom) to continue, those sniveling snowflake snitches who can't stand to see someone express an opinion, or give facts, of which they disapprove, have been given immense powers to simply banish people to the cornfield.


What a gift to bullying goons! You don't like another person's ideas? You disapprove of their facts? Report them to the authorities, and they are gone, banished, disappeared. You have turned the Wild West into something more to your liking, Oceania. And any Winston Smiths still around will be dealt with appropriately.

National Sovereignty

After the 30 Years War, in 1648, Europeans decided that going to war over other people's internal affairs was no longer fun, and they signed the Treaty of Westphalia, which guaranteed that every country had a right to determine for themselves their own form of government.

National sovereignty is also the basis for the United Nations Charter.

For some reason, 370 years after the Treaty was signed, Americans have been persuaded that the USA has the right to tell other people how to run their own countries, and simpleton Americans can be convinced into attacking other countries, or even attacking diplomacy, in the name of Indignation At Those Bad People Over There.

This is medieval thinking. It is time to get past it.

Endless War and the Democrats

The anti-Green Dems never shut up about their sense of entitlement to people's votes. They scream, they insult, they smear voters who care about the issues of war and peace, and the environment.

Let me try to reach any Dems one more time.

There are a small minority of Americans for whom both duopoly death cult war parties are odious. To us, the pain, misery and death the US spreads around the world are issues of important priority.

I understand Dems. The massive deaths, human misery and environmental destruction caused by your owners destroying yet another country is not as important to you as your Fantasy Supreme Court. Gotcha.

Crying children maimed or orphaned by US bombs, desperate refugees fleeing for their lives, destroyed infrastructure and depleted uranium killing long after the bombs stop, I get it, you don't care. Only 5% of Americans seem to care.

So leave us alone, and go try to recruit some of your own kind to vote for your corrupt war mongering favorite candidate. There are far more of you than there are of us. (Although, maybe that's why you prefer to bully us, rather than go out and get other people to the polls. Just like your rulers prefer to blow up countries that are not capable of mounting an effective defense. That's how bullies do.)

Mind worms

One time, in the ER, a man from Mexico came in complaining of a severe headache. We did a CT scan, and put it up on the viewing screen, and there, plain for anyone to see, were the trichinosis worms in his brain. Anyone walking by reacted the same. "Eeeewww. No wonder his head hurts".

Social media like Facebook and Twitter are the way that our ruling overlords scan the body politic and see how our minds work.
If they put out a particularly ridiculous brain worm, say....
"If an American president meets with a foreign leader, that bestows legitimacy upon that leader'',
or ''$40,000 in ads on Facebook can overcome a $2 billion election'',
and millions of people accept that as some sort of credible idea and immediately start repeating it to their friends, as if they are being logical, then our monitors can see that, right there on their viewing screens.

And then they know that a certain percentage of Americans are idiots, and they react the same way...
"These people will fall for anything! Let's tell them again that 'Assad is gassing his own people'! and then go bomb Syria again. They'll believe it, they believe anything".

"If they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities". Voltaire

Charlotte's Web

In the book ''Charlotte's Web'', a pig is scheduled for slaughter, and a spider decides to help him.
Every night, she spins a web with a word praising him.

As people come by, they internalize the message and crowds of admirers are soon thronging the pen, murmuring to each other about his awesomeness.

In the entire book, there is only one man who reads the words ''Some Pig'' and says "I'd say that is some spider''. No one else listens to him, of course.

Today we have an unprecedented situation, with social media, in which the man can share his observations to a wider crowd. Most people, of course, still accept the spin as presented, but there are those whose eyes are opened, and who say, ''Yes, indeed, it is the spider who is the radiant one''. Not many, but some.
Sure, most of the crowd will turn on those people, sneering and jeering and saying ''Some spider???? What the hell are you talking about? Damn conspiracy theorist. Quit being so divisive".

But, clearly enough people are sharing dissident ideas to make our rulers nervous. Hence, the censorship.
Sure, the dissidents complain, but the throngs are fine with it.

Who wants to hear about spiders, when you have a terrific pig to focus upon? Shut them down!

Pulling the Plug

Like many people, I have viewed the demonization of Trump for the last year and a half at face value, drawing the conclusion that the ruling class hates him and wants him gone.
That conclusion has baffled me, however, because I could not see why they hated him so. But, clearly, they did. I, like many other people, was hopeful that it meant that he was secretly an agent of peace, or maybe a threat to the pedophile rings that run rampant among the elite.
But, maybe not.
Watching John Stockwell speak in the 80s about the fact that the elites were ready to let us sink, listening to Catherine Austin Fitts say that she was told the same thing in the 90s, having a friend of a friend post a graph on Facebook showing the increasing debt and decreasing wages of the working class over the last 40 years.....
I now think that Trump is the face of the final collapse, the hated scapegoat that will be blamed for it all.
Why the hell would Angela Merkel blow off the revelation that the NSA was spying on her, in the Obama years, but now come out and say that Trump was so personally horrendous that Germany couldn't put up with the US anymore? (Paraphrased, obviously).
And England, which was said to be playing footsie with the BRICs, now suddenly so shocked, shocked! that Trump said something racist that they have disinvited him to visit. (Really, England? Who the hell do you think you are fooling?).
Another friend of a friend posted this, and I agree....
''We are living through a time when lies and corruption are being exposed on a daily basis and the 'gloves are off' at this point through Trump. No need to pretend any more. No need to slow dance, any more. I am personally encouraging my children to remain childless and enjoy their lives as long as possible. We are at a tipping point and soon our complacency will the ultimate contributing factor in our own enslavement.....Just like in film we are slowly being shepherded back to a time when mere existence was a struggle for most, when few had the means to live extraordinary lives.''
I am absolutely NOT saying that they are going to kill us. I find that paranoid and ridiculous. They DO need plenty of cheap labor and cannon fodder. I am just saying that they are no longer going to provide a safety net, or public amenities, or health and education.
They are going to let us breed as usual, but only the strongest and healthiest will survive, and those will be the ones who provide the labor and the cannon fodder.
I assume that we will be like India or Indonesia, except, most likely, still will provide the world-wide killing teams necessary to keep the world down.
That is why I don't want my kids to breed. No point in bringing more human chattel into this world, and I certainly don't want any descendants of mine to live in the dystopia.

Fires in California

Many people have noted the very odd pattern of burned houses in some of the suburbs of LA.
There seem to be two reactions to this pattern.
One is the blowing off of the visual evidence, by claiming that the patterns are usual, sometimes accompanied by the smug assertion "I live in California, so I am a fire expert''.
Huh. I was born and raised in California, and I never once fought a fire, nor sat in a fire tower and watched a fire burn, nor saw a burned out area, (since I consider fire tourism gauche).

I saw the fire damage the same way everyone else in the country did, on TV. So I am an expert on TV videos of fire damage, and this is weird.

The other common conclusion is ''They are trying to kill us all, and depopulate some areas''.
This conclusion ALSO ignores the visual evidence. For one, the people were evacuated, not killed, and the very weird pattern of only scattered houses being affected is clearly NOT a depopulation effort, since people can move right back into the unburned houses.

Let's talk about what we all should know about...rich people getting richer.
The crash of 2008 was caused, (remember?) by the housing bubble and the mortgage speculation among the wealthy. McMansions were being built all over the country, in a pattern of extreme sprawl, and in inappropriate places.
After the crash, when Obama came in, the banks and Wall Street were bailed out, but millions of Americans were forced from their homes, (most illegally, but that's another story).
What happened to those houses?

Well, we know that a lot of them, sometimes entire blocks of them, were bought for pennies on the dollar by hedge funds, and rented out.

Here we are again, with a housing bubble, as well as a student loan bubble and a car loan bubble.
Let me quote Rahm Emmanual here "Never let a good crisis go to waste''.

Look at this video. Do you see high winds, roaring through entire neighborhoods, pushing great walls of flames and fire?
Yeah, I didn't think so.

As the hurricane in New Orleans was used to push out people from houses that were not originally affected, could the traditional method of rich landlords for recouping money on failed investments be being used, under cover of the wildfires going on?

Also note that the media tells you that you are seeing ''entire neighborhoods'' being burned at the SAME TIME that their camera is showing you something totally different.

As for entire stables of racehorses being left to burn, maybe someone should look at the new tax bill to see if race horses are still a tax deduction for the rich.

crack investigative reporter should check out the owners of the burned houses, and see if there is a pattern. crack investigative reporter should check out the owners of the burned houses, and see if there is a pattern.