Dear Readers: It is December and time for my quarterly call for
your support of your site. I do this site for you. I have no ego reasons for
the website. In fact, it uses up my retirement years when I could otherwise
relax.
From time
to time some of you admonish me for describing our plight without providing a
solution. Possibly, there is no solution. If there is a solution, it won’t be
found until enough Americans arise from insouciance and escape from the Matrix
to be concerned. My job is to inform. In my column below, I cite former Defense
Secretary William Perry who says, “If we are to prevent this catastrophe, the
public must understand what is happening.”
First
comes the understanding part. Then the solution part. We are far from
sufficient understanding, and we might be prevented from achieving an
understanding. When the Clinton regime concentrated 90 percent of the US media
in six mega-corporations, it gave the ruling elite control over explanations.
The only information diversity that we have is provided via the Internet, and
there is plenty of unreliable information on Internet sites. It is a big effort
and takes time to learn what sites are trustworthy.
Moreover,
the elites are now moving against the Internet. One effort was to create the
anonymous PropOrNot site and to use it to brand this one and 200 others
“Russian agent/dupe.” But the elites have moved far beyond going after individual
sites into controlling the Internet overall. The plan that is unfolding is to
destroy “net-neutrality.” If you don’t know what that means, look it up. What
they intend to do is to make it difficult to use google to find disapproved
articles and sites such as this one. If you do find the sites, they will open
very slowly. They will discredit legitimate news sources, such as RT, by
branding them “foreign propaganda” and forcing them to register as “foreign
agents.” They can intimidate sites and push them in a “mainstream” direction.
They can intimidate readers who persist in searching for truthful explanations.
Once the ruling elite takes control of the Internet, they will control all
expanations.
Most
readers think this site should be free provided at my expense. The monetary
expense of the site is the least expense. A site such as this one makes me a
target. Sites that repost my columns and have comment sections expose me to
slander by trolls hired to discredit me as a conspiracy theorist, a Russian
agent, an anti-semite, an anti-American, a Reaganite servant of the One
Percent. Social media is used for the same purpose.
For
someone who could be walking on the beach with a lovely woman or enjoying a
week-end on the track in a sports car, serving this site is not an enjoyable
use of my remaining time on earth.
So, don’t
bring me any complaints. If you can do a better job than I am doing, start your
own site. Bring me your support. If you do, the site will continue.
Walking
into Armageddon
The
orchestrated hostility toward Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea protects the
$1,000 billion annual budget of the military/security complex by convincing the
American public that the US is threatened by enemies. It also keeps alive
Democratic Party hopes that Trump can be removed from office, and it has
prevented President Trump from normalizing relations with Russia. I have
emphasized for some time that Washington’s gratuitous and aggressive actions
against Russia and the constant barrage of false accusations against Russia and
its government have convinced Russia that Washington is planning a military
attack. There is nothing more reckless and irresponsible than to convince a
nuclear superpower that you are preparing an attack on them.
One would
think that such irresponsible and reckless behavior would have the citizenry
aroused and the media reporting the risk. Yet, there is only silence. It is
more important to the media whether NFL players stand for the national anthem
and that some male politicians show sexual interest in women in inappropriate
ways. Insouciant America is walking into Armageddon.
A few
days ago former US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry added his voice to
mine and to those of the few who understand the danger. Perry said:
“When the
Cold War ended, I believed that we no longer had to take that risk [nuclear
annihilation] so I put all my energy into efforts to dismantle the deadly
nuclear legacy of the Cold War. During my period as the Secretary of Defense in
the 90s, I oversaw the dismantlement of 8,000 nuclear weapons evenly divided
between the United States and the former Soviet Union. And I thought then that
we were well on our way to putting behind us this deadly existential threat,
But that was not to be. Today, inexplicably to me, we’re recreating the
geopolitical hostility of the Cold War, and we’re rebuilding the nuclear
dangers. … We are doing this without any serious public discussion or any
real understanding of the consequences of these actions. We are sleepwalking
into a new Cold War, and there’s very real danger that we will blunder into a
nuclear war. If we are to prevent this catastrophe, the public must understand
what is happening.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-03/former-us-defense-secretary-explains-why-nuclear-holocaust-now-likely
How can
the American public understand when they do not know, because the few voices
telling them are not reported. Indeed, the military/security complex, the
Israel Lobby and the lobby’s American agents among the neoconservatives are
actively working to discredit those who are aware of the dangerous situation.
The power
of the military/security complex and the Israel Lobby, the two prime
war-mongers of the 21st century, have immobilized the President of the United
States. Trump is helpless in the face of a special prosecutor who is
“investigating Russiagate,” a hoax created for the express purpose of
preventing President Trump from restoring normal relations with a nuclear
superpower.
Experts
including William Binney, who developed the universal spy program for NSA
thinking mistakenly that it would not be used against American citizens, have stated
publicly that, if Russiagate were real and not an orchestrated hoax, the NSA
would have all the evidence, making special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s
“investigation” completely pointless.
One would
think that even those who comprise the presstitute media would be able to
figure out that NSA has the evidence if it exists. Instead, the presstitutes
cooperate with Mueller in creating a fake news story, one that has been kept
alive for over a year.
A country
in which the media lack integrity cannot be a democracy as the people have no
accurate information with which to make decisions and hold government
accountable. The American presstitute media functions as a control arm for the
powerful vested interests that are turning the United States into a police state
that serves only a few hundredths of One Percent.
Americans
have been lied to about everything. I agree that the lies go back a long way.
To keep this column to a readable length, we can start with the many lies of
the Clinton regime. The war on Serbia was done in order to humiliate Russia by
proving that Russia was helpless in the face of American might to come to the
aid of its ally, and it was done to establish the use of NATO as an arm of, and
cover for, US military aggression.
Then we
come to 9/11, the official explanation of which is rejected not only by Osama
bin Laden but also by every expert unafraid to open his/her mouth.
Then we
have the fake reason for the US invasion of Afghanistan, a disaster for America
as it was for the Soviets. A handful of lightly armed Afghans defeated “the
world’s only superpower,” just as they defeated the powerful Soviet army.
Then we
have the fake charges of Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” hyped
to the heavens by the corrupt American presstitutes. This amazing lie,
disavowed by the UN weapons inspectors, was used despite the evidence to the
contrary to invade Iraq and to destroy a country. This lie was later repudiated
by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who regretted the stain on his
reputation caused by the George W. Bush/Dick Chaney regime’s misuse of his
credibility before the UN.
Then we
have the fake charges against Libya’s Gaddafi that were used to murder Gadaffi,
to Hillary’s great delight, and to destroy the most successful country in
Africa.
The ISIS
mercenaries that Hillary and Obama used to destroy Libya were sent to destroy
Syria when Russia and the British Parliament blocked Obama’s plan to send
American troops to invade Syria. We have been subjected to years of lies from
Washington and the presstitutes that Washington is fighting ISIS, when
Washington sent ISIS to Syria to destroy Assad and the Syrian government.
And there
is Somalia, another packet of Washington/presstitute lies. And the violation of
Pakistan with the bombing of tribal areas falsely claimed to be al-Qaeda or
Taliban supporters.
And there
is Yemen devastated by Washington’s puppet Saudi Arabia.
And there
are the false news reports of “Iranian nukes” and Iranian belligerent actions
against Israel.
And
“Russia invaded Ukraine” when in fact Washington overthrew with its financed
NGOs the democratically elected Ukrainian government.
And now
we hear that those who dare to tell the truth to Americans are “Russian agents”
and “fake news purveyors.”
When a
country’s government and media do nothing but lie 24/7, how can democracy
exist. Clearly, it cannot.
Environmental
organizations are reporting that President Trump intends to abolish two
national monuments by executive order in order to open protected lands to rape,
ravage, and ruin by corporations. The two national monuments are Bears Ears and
Grand Staircase-Escalante.
If Trump
has the power to turn national monuments over to corporate campaign donors, he
most certainly can have his Attorney General open an investigation of Hillary
Clinton or even indict her on the already known evidence. He can issue a pre-emptive
pardon of General Flynn, who is being framed on charges that do not relate to
Russian influence in the presidential election. Indeed, he can have the
Attorney General investigate or arrest Mueller for sedition and an attempt to
overthrow the government of the United States. These charges are far more
realistic than the charge Mueller has brought against Flynn.
But what
does President Trump do? He twitters, complaining that Gen. Flynns life is
being destroyed while “Crooked Hillary Clinton” walks around free.https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/12/no_author/crooked-hillary-walks-free/
Trump is
correct, so why doesn’t he do something about it? What Flynn did was to ask the
Russians not to over-react to the new sanctions that Obama placed on Russia in
an effort to create such bad relations between the US and Russia that Trump
would be unable to normalize them. What Flynn did was entirely appropriate and has
nothing to do with the hoax story of Russiagate. The real reason that the
military/security complex is after Gen. Flynn is that he is the former director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency and he said on a TV news show that the
decision by the Obama regime to send ISIS to overthrow Syria was a “willful
decision” that went against his recommendation.
In other
words, Flynn let the cat out of the bag that ISIS was not an independently
formed organization but a tool of US policy.
The
presstitutes, of course, ignored Gen. Flynn’s statement. The only effect of
Flynn’s statement was to set him up for retaliation, and that is what Mueller
is doing.
What
Mueller is doing is so corrupt that he really should be arrested and
renditioned to Egypt.
Private
interests and agendas have control over the US government.The people have no
control. Washington works by selling legislation to the interest groups in
exchange for campaign contributions. The private interests that provide the
money that elects politicians get the laws that they want. For example,
President Trump is giving the environmental despoilers two protected national
monuments, but he is powerless to protect himself and has advisers.
The
ruling oligarchy is making an example of Trump in order to ensure that no
future presidential candidate makes a direct appeal to the people. When Trump
said that he was going to govern in the interest of the people by bringing the
offshored jobs home, he attacked the profits of the global corporations, and
when he said he was going to normalize relations with Russia, he attacked the
power and profit of the military/security complex. He is now paying the price
for his rashness.
The
larger question is: what price will the American people and the rest of the
world pay for the constraints the military/security complex has placed on
Trump’s ability to normalize relations with Russia?