The Results of Russiagate

Although Russiagate should be over now, desperate delusional dems seem determined to hang on to their hope that the president of the US is a puppet of a foreign government. It seems to provide them with comfort somehow.

But this country is much worse off than it was 2 1/2 years ago, when the DNC tried to divert attention from the contents of its emails, (which proved that they had rigged the primaries for Hillary Clinton) by accusing Russia of hacking the emails in an attempt to sway the election by providing voters with information.

This was always a bizarre claim. Putin pointed out in an interview that it didn't matter to Russia who the US president was, since the policies never really changed and Russia deals with them as they come.

He was too polite to state the blaringly obvious...that Americans don't vote based on facts or information, so releasing information is about the least effective way to influence an election. Do you think that the $2 billion spent on the 2016 election by the duopoly parties was about giving facts and information to the voters???? Oh, please. Look at the ads, look at the fliers, look at the speeches. You would have to be a fact-free non-thinker to believe that the Russians thought that Americans could be swayed by giving them information.


The Mueller Report itself is absolute proof that Americans are unmoved by facts and information, since we are watching half of America, the half that has confidently been waiting for it for 20 months, now utterly and hysterically rejecting it, since its facts do not support their delusions. But those same Americans used the DNC emails to inform their vote? It is to laugh.

But here we are, almost 3 years later, and Democrats now scream with outrage at any attempts at peace-making, not just with Russia, but also in Syria and North Korea. They even complain about stopping oil-burning military exercises on DPRKs border, while at the SAME TIME complaining that nothing is being done about climate change.

Worse, they support increased provocations to Russia, including troops and missiles and war games on Russia's borders, and bombing and invasion of Russia's allies. It seems that Dems would prefer thermonuclear war to peace, if that would get rid of Trump.

The Dems now laud the spy agencies and call any criticism of them "treason".

They insist that the internet needs censorship and that free speech is "outdated", and they are happy to have the spy agencies collude with Silicon Valley to stomp out dissent, in the name of "fake news".

If there is anything we don't need in this country, it is censorship, hero worship of the MIC, division of the working class, or outright war. But these are exactly the results of this Russiagate hysteria.

It is almost as if we have two realities in this country now. We have the Fox News version and the CNN version, and the followers of each refuse to listen to facts, instead sticking to their preferred narratives. The two groups hate each other with a passion, but only the CNN watchers blame this deep division on "Russia". All you have to do is look at the 24/7 propaganda spewing on the TV and radio to see that division is being sown. It is incredible that people could possibly believe that Russia is doing this. There are 5 media corporations which own almost every media outlet in this country, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, internet corporations, and none of them are Russian.

As people are pointing out, Jessie Smollett filed a false police report, which led to a couple of weeks of increased division in this country, and he is now being charged for it.

Will the Russiagate propagators be charged for putting out 2 years of false reports, leading to division, censorship and increased threat of war?

Don't hold your breath.

Spin Control

This is going to be interesting.

Remember how Democrats were taught that Comey was evil, but then their overlords changed the rhetoric, but most of them didn't notice, so that when Colbert said Comey had been fired, they all cheered, and he had to tell them that no, that was Bad now? And then they all booed, obediently?

I see that this latest tragedy is getting the Dems to yell about gun control, the way they usually do, but they haven't noticed that the spin is different for this one. This one is about censoring social media.

It will be interesting to watch how fast they fall into line. I'm predicting no more than a couple of days.

Body Appreciation

It seems you appreciate things more when they are gone. I have a cold, and it made me realize how nice good health is and how much I really like my body. I rarely get sick, I have no chronic pains or illnesses, and it usually works well.

Then I realized that we are not supposed to like our bodies, in today's society, mostly because of how they look. We are supposed to be dissatisfied.

It occurred to me that when I was a kid, the Establishment was big on physical fitness. You were supposed to eat balanced meals and you were supposed to exercise, for fitness. They really pushed it, as I recall. Your body was your temple, and you were supposed to take good care of it.

The goal was "vim and vigor", not looks.

My mom exercised to Jack LaLaine, on the TV, my dad did Royal Canadian exercises, and my schools made us do push ups, and sit ups, and jumping jacks, and run laps around the field.

When did that change? I remember in the 80s, as Big Ag took over and fossil fuel use skyrocketed, obesity also grew in the US. And then the main talk was about eating and exercising to lose weight, not for good health.

And now, do they even do that? It seems to have lessened. The big push now by the Establishment seems to be to tell kids that ''you might have been born in the wrong body''. Say what? That is nuts. Why would they tell children such things?

The whole damn society has gone insane.

Unsustainable Capitalism

More and more people are catching on to the fact that our monetary system is unsustainable and insane.

Having a debt-based monetary system means that more money must constantly be borrowed, to pay the interest, or the whole thing collapses.
This causes inflation, which is viewed by most citizens as a Bad Thing, so people are speaking out for a non-debt-based monetary system.

But the economic system is also unsustainable. Having a profit-based system means that production must continually grow, and be sold,or the whole thing collapses. This causes trade wars, environmental destruction, labor exploitation, massive waste, and eventually, hot wars.

Profits, unlike inflation, are viewed by most citizens as a Good Thing, so very few people speak out for a needs-based production system.

Both systems are Ponzi schemes, which can only function with continual growth, and which lead to bubbles, which pop regularly. Either we change both, or we perish.

The War On Social Media

In the 60s and 70s, for a brief time, Americans experimented with freedom and rebellion, with movements for peace and civil rights, as well as women, gays, African Americans and Native American rights, until the Empire fought back with repression. The left never recovered. The increasing austerity meant that very few had the time to engage in political activity and the solidarity of the freedom struggles was turned into identity politics, which served to divide instead of unite.

But then, for a few years in the 2010s, social media allowed a kind of networking the world had never before known. People from all over the world used the platforms of the social media companies to share information and news with each other, horizontally, without running it through the filter of the major "news" corporation of the imperial world media.
Ever since radio, and then TV, were invented, the "news" was beamed into each house or car, individually, top down, with no way for each recipient to fact check the information, or to find out what other people thought it. There was no way to share our feelings, our skepticism or our ridicule, with anyone but the people around us, who probably would say "Shut up! I can't hear what they are saying".

But with Facebook and Twitter, we could post our take on whatever talking points the talking heads were spewing each day. We could counter it with facts from other sources, point out flaws in logic or common sense, and laugh at the memes that clever people immediately made when the "news" was particularly scorn-worthy. Google made it possible to easily find other information and YouTube made it possible for anyone to become a talking head, and intelligent and informed people gained large followings.

I think that social media was supported by our rulers, at first, as a way to monitor our reactions and finetune ways to make their propaganda more believable. They were shocked, shocked! when people turned it around and used it to overcome the propaganda and spread counter-information.

They began complaining about the freedom of the internet, increasing exponentially during the 2016 election season, when people in the US began compiling evidence of the stolen Democrat primaries, and posting it online, where others spread it to their friends.

People in high places began talking about "Fake News" and "undermining democracy". It is an impudent reversal of the truth for our rulers to tell us that access to information and lively debate about issues of importance are undermining democracy, when it has been understood for centuries that democracy is impossible without access to all facts and opinions, hashed out in the marketplace of ideas.

The Democrats were particularly incensed when Wikileaks published DNC emails, leaked to them by a DNC insider, Seth Rich, who was murdered shortly afterward.
Clearly, social media cannot actually overcome the power of the legacy imperial media, with its worldwide reach, still into each house and car, as well as public places. Even my gas station pump feeds me propaganda, as I wait for the gas to flow.

The imperial media, (as Chris Hedges points out in the meme beginning my post), told us that Russia was responsible for the leaked information, and the 24/7 Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda managed to turn the vast majority of Americans' attention away from the contents of the leaks (which showed that the primaries were stolen from Bernie Sanders). More seriously, they used the fake news of Russiagate to push for censorship of social media, which started in early 2017, with the changing of Google algorithms to push mainstream sources and censor sources which offered countervailing information. Alternative news sources reported an immediate drop in traffic to their sites.
But that was not enough for our ruling overlords. (I didn't invent that term, I got it from the Onion, which shows how irreverent memes can be spread horizontally).
People still insisted on rebelling against the constant pro-war propaganda spread by the imperial media. The attack on Syria, for instance, was stymied by ordinary people sharing information from the citizens of Syria, as well as westerners who traveled to Syria and reported from there. The imperial reporters, who stayed in hotels in Lebanon and "reported" what press releases were given to them by NATO sources, were being undermined by citizens of the world sharing the truth horizontally, instantly and without censorship.
Furious, the ruling class stamped its feet and put out lists of Forbidden Truth Websites. The more compliant among the subjects obediently refused to even look at the heresy, but the rebellious deliberately checked out that they were told to avoid.
So, in 2018, the censors struck harder, and entire libraries of information were struck from YouTube, pages with millions of followers were removed from Facebook, and people were banned from Twitter.

When they came for Alex Jones, you knew they were serious. He had a vast following, which started even before social media. Taking down Alex was a major free speech test. It was like the Niemoller saying "First they came for the socialists...." Only the most hardcore First Amendment people spoke out.

Now Facebook is banning more and more people from posting for long periods of time. The purpose is to strike fear into the others, and encourage self-censorship.

They have tried, for over two years now, to stop people from using social media to spread news horizontally. They have warned us of dire consequences, harangued us about Fake News, told us it was our Moral Duty to Quit, dragged out "Hi, I'm a Facebook Founder, but now I have seen the Light, and I want you to stop", and still we persist.

They have disappeared whole pages, with millions of followers, and permanently banned influential voices.

What is the point of the capricious enforcement of Secret Rules? To spread fear and paranoia, no doubt.

This is Cointelpro Two, in action.
Conintel Pro used murder and imprisonment to silence people, but they also used suspicion and paranoia.
And that is what these bans do, sow suspicion and paranoia, as well as cause people to endlessly speculate about what magic words or phrases or ideas triggers the censorship.

Rather than spell it out, they encourage us to self-censor, trying to ward off the punishment arbitrarily handed out to skeptics and truth-spreaders.

Like knocking on wood, or throwing salt over our shoulders, or never, ever saying the words "It sure is quiet" in the ER, we avoid certain ideas, certain words and certain pushbacks to ruling class agendas and propaganda. But we have no way of knowing why some individuals are targeted and some are not, even if they post the same things. Therefore, I can only conclude that it is arbitrary, like snipers picking off random people in a crowd in Ukraine or Syria, in order to sow terror among the survivors.

The US Makes The Rules

What I have learned about governments, from the media.

1) It is the responsibility of the government and the leaders of a country to make sure that everyone in the country has food and shelter.
This rule applies even if food silos, supply lines and homes are being bombed by outside forces.

2) It is the responsibility of the government to allow peaceful protest, and to negotiate concessions to protesters. If they don't do that, they should step down, and hold new elections, even if they were just elected last year.

3) No government can defend its borders from invasion, even by soldiers or weapons, as long as the invaders say the Magic Words "We are humanitarian invaders". If the soldiers set up military bases inside the country, it is OK, as long as they are Humanitarian Military Bases.

4) If a government uses police, or tear gas, or anything else to stop protesters, the leader must immediately step down, and the leader of the protesters becomes president.

6) The resources of a country must be used for the good of its citizens, not siphoned off to increase the wealth of a few oligarchs.

6) These rules do not apply to the US or any of its vassal states.

Psychopath in the Senate -where is the Outrage? Rubio Should be Thrown Out

It's still Black History month, so here is some history. Libya had the highest standard of living of any country in Africa, and Ghaddafi was using oil money to lift other countries out of debt and poverty.

So the US and NATO attacked Libya, first with their armed jihadi death squad terrorists, and then with bombs and tanks.
Ghaddafi was caught by terrorists, and beaten in the streets. They sodomized him with a bayonet, and he died.

Hillary Clinton thought this was hilarious, and was caught on video cackling "We came, we saw, he died".

Libya is no longer the African country with the highest standard of living. It is now a terrorist-infested hellhole, with poverty and misery driving hundreds of thousands to try to escape.

Yesterday, Marco Rubio, a US Senator, formerly a Republican candidate for president, tweeted out a picture of Ghaddafi being tortured in the street, and threatened Maduro with the same treatment.

Where is the outrage? We have a flaming psychopath in the Senate. Why is the imperial media silent about this?

Now you can see why they are so determined to silence social media. Except for the psychopaths, of course. Rubio has not been banned from Twitter for breaking Community Standards. It really makes you wonder what those standards are, right?