Who is RESPONSIBLE for the mess?
When I cruise through the blogosphere reading of tales of woe in the environment, politics and economics, I often run across the sad conclusion from the authors how “we” failed to change our carbon burning ways or elect the right leaders or correct the imbalances in our economic system. The results “we” have reaped are “our” fault collectively. “We” live in a Democracy right? “We” could have voted different people into office! “We” could have held them accountable! When the financial crisis took off in 2008, “we” could have stopped the bailouts of the TBTF Banks. “We” could take the power of money creation away from the Federal Reserve and create our own Public Banking system!
So many things we shoulda, coulda, woulda done, if only we weren’t so stupid and so weak. Of course at the same time the same writers will often speak about how INTELLIGENT we are as a species, and how this intelligence should have been used in a vast selection of suggestions on how it would have been better if we just did this or that, or elected this guy instead of that one, etc.
The thing about dumping the blame on “us” is that once everyone is responsible, then nobody is responsible. You can’t blame our political leaders for fucking up, because we elected them! You can’t blame energy companies for destroying the environment, because we buy the gas from them! You can’t blame Da Federal Reserve for destroying the value of the dollar, because we gave them the power to print the money! You can’t blame capitalista pigmen for offshoring jobs, because we wanted cheap toys from Walmart at Low, Low Prices Every Day!
This meme is just GREAT for the managers, politicians and pigmen running the show, because once we are responsible for the mighty mess we are in here, they no longer are. The managers of corporations who load them up with debt and then go bankrupt aren’t held responsible for that either, no rather they get Golden Parachute severance packages and we allow that to happen! Not only that, we are responsible for the fact law enforcement and the judiciary doesn’t prosecute any of the banksters for fraud, because we either elect the judges ourselves or we elect the politicians who appoint the judges!
Democracy was the greatest thing the Elite ever invented for them, because much like the Corporation they no longer could be held personally responsible for any of the shit they rain down on the population at large, it all now becomes the collective responsibility of the people themselves! However, along with the vote and collective responsibility, did the population at large ever get any real power over decision making at the top? Of course not.
Were the Amerikan people ever consulted about sending troops into Vietnam? Afghanistan? Iraq? No, rather they get sold on these things via Bernays style propaganda, and even then you can have a majority of the population against such a war, but the folks in charge go right on bombing anyhow. It doesn’t matter if the population at large would prefer Single Payer Health Care, you get Obamacare instead because that is what the Insurance Companies want, and they make the campaign contributions to get the politicians elected.
When were you ever given a choice insofar as who coins the money in the FSoA and what is used for money? I’m no big fan of Gold as a basis for a monetary system, but at what point have you even had such a choice? About the last time might have been back in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed, so there is not a person alive over the age of 3 when that bill was passed in Congress. The oldest Amerikan alive, Susanne Mushatt Jones died at the age of 116 last week. There might be a 115 year old floating around somewhere though. Even anyone who was alive at the time of voting age didn’t have a choice on this, the Federal Reserve Act was passed after secret meetings on Jekyll Island by powerful politicians and pigmen, then passed quietly just before the Christmas Congressional break, with little in the way of knowledge about this in the public at large. There sure was no referendum on it.
Once you have control over the system of credit and how that credit is sprinkled out, who gets voted into office doesn’t matter worth a damn. In the words of Woodrow Wilson, the POTUS who signed this act into law
Power in a society that is run on money does not come from the Ballot Box, who you vote for doesn’t matter. This has been well known by the Elite going back at least as far as the Amerikan Revolution itself, but in reality likely going back as far as the Babylonians and the first monetary systems. In the words of Mayer Amchel Rothschild
Of course, most of the population at large doesn’t grasp this principle, most people believe they have control through their votes at the ballot box. That is the beauty of the “democratic” system as far as the Elite are concerned, and they most certainly work to keep the ignorance in place, along with the misplaced belief people have in voting as a means to make significant changes in governance. That ignorance comes in two forms, first from the basic intelligence distribution in the population at large, and then is backed up by Bernays style prooaganda pitched out both by our educational institutions and by the mass media, both controlled by the Elite in the same way they control the political system, through the control of the money supply and its distribution. Probably 50% of the population with IQ under 100 (by definition) couldn’t understand this nonsense no matter how carefully you tried to explain it, in large part there also because it makes no sense to begin with. Then the 50% of the population above the mean are generally sold on the ideas and buy them because their critical thinking skills are systematically destroyed. You only end up with a tiny percentage of people who have any grasp of this stuff at all, and most of those people get coopted into the system and it benefits them. Read that Nobel Laureate economistas like Paul Krugman who pitch out even bigger bullshit, but couched in nice Academic prose so it sounds like something only the smartest guys in the room can understand, so you should take their word for it because they are World Class Experts. Why do really SMART Guys like this pitch out such utter and complete BULLSHIT? For the answer to that one, you have to go to Upton Sinclair.
You have an entire cadre of people up at the top of the pyramid who probably do have the brainpower to understand what is going on here, but their livelihoods depend on them NOT understanding it. So they come up with ever more ridiculous justifications for ever more ridiculous concepts like Negative Interest Rates and Helicopter Money, and with a perfectly straight face SELL this nonsense across the Op-Ed pages of the NYT and the WSJ. The Vox Populi then reads this nonsense, and what ensues after that in the Blogosphere is a complete cacophany of ideas on why the nonsense will or will not work. By now, even pretty smart people are completely confused, and the 50% of dumb people out there aren’t even reading it to begin with because they are more concerned with the color of Kim Kardashian’s panties, so they got no clue whatsoever here. All they got a clue on is the latest Sound Bite from some candidate who promises to “Make Amerika Great Again”, usually by some Hocus Pocus involving Bombing Terrorists back to the Stone Age or preventing Transgender people from using the wrong bathroom.
Absolutely NOBODY up at the top EVER talks abot what the REAL problems are, Resource Depletion and Population Overshoot. “Growth” is constantly put forth by EVERY candidate of EVERY political persuation Lefty or Righty as the ULTIMATE solution to all problems! We can GROW our way out of debt! The fact this is a finite planet with finite resources is never discussed anywhere except on fringe websites like this one. The reality is we can only solve our problems if we STOP GROWING and START SHRINKING!
With that in mind, lets move off the topic of incredibly stupid and misconceived notions surrounding our political ande economic systems to the more fundamental problem of our ENVIRONMENT. Are “WE” responsible for the massive trash heap that Planet Earth is turning into? This is “our” fault?
I will start with myself here,, from right after I was born in 1957, about dead center of the Baby Boom in the aftermath of WWII. I was born in NY Shity, and from my earliest years I remember riding the Subways, They were just part of my environment. I had no clue whatsoever at the age of 3 or 4 all the energy it took to make those trains run. Because I rode them though, does that make me RESPONSIBLE for this? By any reasonable measure, no, I was not responsible, first off I had no clue as to how these things were powered and second even if I did know there was certainly nothing a 4 year old could have done to change this system. It EXISTED, it had EVOLVED over time, and as a system there wasn’t anything I could do about that.
The same is true for the Carz, the Interstate Highways, the Suburban Sub-Devleopments, Malls and Ring Roads that developed as I was growing up. Did I ever have a choice here in this? For the first 18 years of my life I couldn’t even VOTE, not that this franchise makes a damn bit of difference anyhow. So HTF am I RESPONSIBLE for this mess? I was born into it, and my imperative is just to SURVIVE. So you make your compromises and do what is necessary to insure that survival. To make it to work in many places I lived, I HAD to have a car! No choice there at all in many locations I lived. I had no ability or knowledge or money enough at the time to even TRY going out to “live off the land”, I was born a City Boy and by the time I graduated college, nicely in debt also though not to the extent the current generation is on this level.
There WAS a brief rebellion against this form of living back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Anti-War and Back to the Land Movement of the period. This brief fling at stopping the Juggernaut was powerfully surpressed and CRUSHED by TPTB and the Deep State, sending the MESSAGE to all that to rebel against the system was to DIE. Do YOU remember the 4 Dead in O-H-I-O? I do.
Off the topic now of how trapped we have all been economically and culturally, let us now move to the area of the Environment & Climate Change, where it has been known for just about my entire life that we have been in the process of destroying the environment we depend on. Rachel Carson wrote her seminal book Silent Spring in 1962 when I was 5 years old. The original Limits to Growth study was published in 1972, when I was 15. In the intervening years, the stories of environmental degradation and damage resultant from Industrialization have been non-stop. Love Canal, the Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl.Macondo, Fukushima etc etc etc and those are just the big ones. All of China is one big industrial sewer now, and we barely hear about the problems there.
Once again here, how could “WE” have ever stopped this inexorable march of destruction across the scope of the planet? When did YOU ever have any opportunity to stop the Chinese from turning their portion of the Global Land Mass into a Global Sewer? In fact, when did even any typical Chinese Chen Rice Wine have any say in stopping the Chinese Oligarchy from selling out to the Western Industrialist Iluuminati? They never could, they never had any power to do this either.
EVERY single country that has ever tried to resist the incursion by the industrial model has had their political system and economy CRUSHED by one means or the other. Sometimes by outright aggression and Warfare as was the case with Vietnam, but more often all sorts of sneaky CIA backed Coups such as the one that installed the Shah of Iran back in the 1950s. This nonsense of course persists and becomes ever more pervasive with “Color Revolutions” all over the world, from Ukraine to Libya to now Brazil. Who among you has any power whatsoever, no matter WHO you elect to stop this ever expanding cycle of CHAOS? Absolutely not a single goddamn one of you could make a difference on this level, not even if you were a Billionaire Debtor Tycoon like The Donald. If he does in fact get elected, there is not a goddamn thing he can do to stop the spin down that is ahead of us either, and pretty much no POTUS in history could have done this because the Locus of Power hs never been in the political systems, rather it is in the MONETARY SYSTEM. Once again here, you and I have NEVER had any choice in how this is run, who gets dished out the credit and who does not, this POWER is controlled by an exceedingly small cadre of people, and that power has been jealously guarded in this iteration of the monetary cycle, beginning more or less with the Medici Banking family in the 15th Century.
So, basically here folks, it is just a lot of HORSESHIT that “we” are responsible, “we” are not. If you want to finger some responsibility here, it lies in the folks who either were born into or maneuvered their way to the top of the food chain and then maneuvered the society down this path, mainly for their own self-aggrandizement. Just like you and me, they too have been exposed to the same stories and have been witnesses to the ever increasing planetary degradation. The difference between “them” and “us” is they are in positions of power where they could effect change. Sadly the only change they wish to effect is to “increase shareholder value” of the corporations they run, and then by extention increase their own compensation packages. It doesn’t matter to them what the consequences are, child slave labor in 3rd World countries, topsoil depletion from unsustainable Industrial Agriculture practices, endangering the safety of the food supply with GMO foods, destroying the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico…none of that matters. All that matters is the bottom line of corporate profits.
These are the folks who control your food supply
Energy companies hire geochemist experts who tell us fracking is safe, and meanwhile you get ever increasing earthquakes in Oklahoma, groundwater increasingly filled with the toxic chemicals used in the fracking process and even rivers going on fire as methane released by frackers bubbles up through new cracks in the ground.
As if we didn’t have enough trouble with methane bubbling up from the permafrost and the Arctic Ocean, we need to add to this problem by making new cracks in the ground for it to leak from?
What the criminals in charge of these organizations will tell you is that this is not THEIR fault, it is OUR fault because of our insatiable desire for more energy to run the industrial culture. You see, if we just would stop buying their gas, they would go out of bizness. Isn’t that just brilliant logic? Precisely how are we supposed to stop buying this stuff when the entire infrastructure we live with requires it in order to keep functioning? The gas powers the thermal electric plants which power the lights and the water pumps and sewage systems, which if you shut all that shit down the society goes to Mad Max in a matter of days. When the entire housing stock has been built around ring roads requiring carz to make the commute to work if you still have a job, precisely how do you just give up your SUV out of consideration for the environment?
Then we have dropping into the toxic stew of criminals in charge of this show Con Men and Snake Oil Salesmen like Elon Musk, promising us a Clean, Green High Tech future of EVs and Vacations on Mars in their Rocket Ships. Just replace your old nasty Fossil Fuel burning EV with one of Elon’s Teslas and help stop Climate Change today! MORE HORSESHIT!
First off, nobody explains how more than half the population who has less than $1000 in the bank is going to afford a nice new $35,000 Tesla, and that is the “cheap” model for the masses supposedly. Then since it is mostly occuring over in China, nobody seems to notice that these supposedly Clean & Green Carz require massive rechargeable Li-I batteries, which require massive mining and refining of Lithium for their manufacture. Such mining and refining operations always produce copious quantities of toxic waste, which is why we shipped such operations over to China where they don’t have all those nasty regulations against polluting the water supply, thus making manufacture of such goodies a whole lot cheaper over there than it would be here. On top of that you have a workforce of 1.3B people willing to work at slave wages a fraction of the cost of even minimum wage workers over here. How do “we” stop the pollution when the vast majority of the world population lives in 3rd World countries where the people are just looking for a means to eke out survival, by whatever means possible within their own societies? Just like when I was born back in 1957 in New York Shity, these folks were born into and trapped into a style of living they never had any real choice in at all. The Industrial Bandwagon inexorably moved it’s way around the globe, and even if your society did not willingly jump on the bandwagon, the industrialists in charge of the War Machine of the Military-Industrial-Banking complex brought in the Death from Above to make sure you had to leave your little villages and head for the Big Shities of your country to work in factories making toys to sell for Low, Low Prices Every Day at Walmart.
So, even if “we” as in the entire population of the 1st World countries could by some magical means stop burning all the fossil fuels that it takes to run these cultures, who is going to stop the juggernaut from continuing onward in 3rd World countries, where most of the population just wants to have the wonderful Happy Motoring lifestyle that Amerikans and Europeans got for the last century? It’s THEIR turn to live the High Life they got sold over the TV and Movies, just like the ‘Murikans before them were sold this bill of goods.
The Sales Job of the Industrial Lifestyle and endless progress and growth of the techno-society has been ongoing and pervasive since the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 kicked off this Sales Job, financed by the World Class Robber Barons of the era, beople like Cornelius Vanderbilt & JP Morgan.
Many prominent civic, professional, and commercial leaders from around the United States participated in the financing, coordination, and management of the Fair, including Chicago steel tycoon Charles H. Schwab, Chicago railroad and manufacturing magnate John Whitfield Bunn, and Connecticut banking, insurance, and iron products magnate Milo Barnum Richardson, among many others.[6]
The fair was planned in the early 1890s during the Gilded Age of rapid industrial growth, immigration, and class tension. World’s fairs, such as London’s 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition, had been successful in Europe as a way to bring together societies fragmented along class lines.
The first American attempt at a world’s fair in Philadelphia in 1876, drew crowds but was a financial failure. Nonetheless, ideas about distinguishing the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ landing started in the late 1880s. Civic leaders in St. Louis, New York City, Washington DC and Chicago expressed an interest in hosting a fair to generate profits, boost real estate values, and promote their cities. Congress was called on to decide the location. New York’s financiers J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor, among others, pledged $15 million to finance the fair if Congress awarded it to New York, while Chicagoans Charles T. Yerkes, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Cyrus McCormick, offered to finance a Chicago fair. What finally persuaded Congress was Chicago banker Lyman Gage, who raised several million additional dollars in a 24-hour period, over and above New York’s final offer.[7]
The exposition corporation and national exposition commission settled on Jackson Park and an area around it as the fair site. Daniel H. Burnham was selected as director of works, and George R. Davis as director-general. Burnham emphasized architecture and sculpture as central to the fair and assembled the period’s top talent to design the buildings and grounds including Frederick Law Olmsted for the grounds.[2] The temporary buildings were designed in an ornate Neoclassical style and painted white, resulting in the fair site being referred to as the “White City”.[7]
The Exposition’s offices set up shop in the upper floors of the Rand McNally Building on Adams Street, the world’s first all-steel-framed skyscraper. Davis’s team organized the exhibits with the help of G. Brown Goode of the Smithsonian. The Midway was inspired by the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition, which included ethnological “villages”.[8]
All the marvels of the era were presented, the first “moving sidewalk”, the first big Ferris Wheel, designed by George Ferris himself. Architecture by Frederich Law Ohlmstead, the same dude who designed Central Park in New York Shity. They didn’t have any city models with Flying Carz yet in that one, since the Wright Brothers had yet to get their first airplane off the ground, but by the time the next World’s Fair in Chicago showed up in the 1930s in the heart of the Great Depression, that idea was already being pitched to the masses, who were mostly unable to afford food to eat much less a land based car, forget the flying models. They could however afford a Nickel for entrance to the Fair and escape into this wonderful fantasy world of the Future the Industrialists had planned for them.
This period of course is contemporaneous with the period I began this article with, when powerful Industrialists took final and absolute control over our monetary system with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. This however was just the culmination of a long battle that began right with the end of the Amerikan Revolution, with Alexander Hamilton selling out to the Banksters in Europe, mainly the House of Rothschild and chartering the First Bank of the FSoA, to be followed later by the Second Bank of the FSoA, famously squashed by Old Hickory Andrew Jackson, himself famous also for massacre and genocide of numerous First Nations people.
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out.”– Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Nowhere along this sad and sordid story of the progress of industrialization around the globe have “we” ever had a real choice here. Industrialization is like a Tsunami that washed over our world, beginning with the first Steam Engines used to pump water out of Coal Mines in Jolly Old England at the beginning of the 18th Century. It matured and “gathered steam” (sic) with the discovery of Oil in Pennsylvania in the mid 19th Century, and by the beginning of the 20th Century with the Chicago World’s Fair, it was in Full Swing, the tide was rolling in fast and there was no stopping it, at least not by the population at large anyhow. As a society and civilization we were well and truly captured, totally at the mercy of the “Den of Vipers & Thieves” Andrew Jackson fought his battle against and briefly won that one, but in the end the War was lost when Woodrow Wilson put the final signature on the Slavery Contract of the Federal Reserve Act.
In assigning responsibility for what the state of the world is, it must be placed on the people in charge, not the essentially powerless victims of their criminality and greed. When a family gets in a car and they all get killed because Dad was driving drunk, are the kids in the car responsible because they had to ride in the backseat while he was driving? Could the kids wrest control of the car from dad? Of course not, and no one would blame the kids for the accident. Reading many pundits and commenters through the blogosphere though, that is precisely what they do when looking at our economic, political and ecological disasters and then draw the conclusion “WE are responsible”. Speak for yourself there dude, I for one will not take responsibility for a clusterfuck I had no part in creating and never could do a damn thing to stop at any point in my lifetime.
Is there any HOPE then for the “We” of our society, controlled as it is by a corrupt criminal racket run by the Elite and their minions and overseers? Yes, I believe there still is Hope. A day will come at some point in the not too distant future when the Jets will no longer fly and the Death From Above will no longer rain down from the Heavens. That day is not today, but it will come. A day will come when the monetary system used to control our lives will no longer function, and we will be set free. That day is not today, but it will come. A day will come when true JUSTICE is served on those responsible for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. That day also is not today, but it too will come.
In the words of Anonymous:
makati1 on Sun, 22nd May 2016 7:30 am
“WE” are doomed by our own stupidity, sloth, and greed. A long article saying nothing new. We had choices. Hundreds of them, but we always take the easy way out. The one that gives us something for free. The one that promises a unicorn in every yard. “WE” are responsible for our coming extinction. After all, “WE” have always outnumbered our masters.
bug on Sun, 22nd May 2016 7:51 am
Yes Mak, exactly.
Again, said by John Adams .
“When the heads of government are rotten, that means the body and tail are similarly as rotten”.
When the termites destroy your house it is not just the head termites, it is all the little bugs together. Like “we”.
onlooker on Sun, 22nd May 2016 8:34 am
While I do not deny that humans are made up of ample amount of stupidity, sloth and greed, it took insatiably greedy and power hungry psychopaths to drive us to this existential crisis. So yes humans in general have unattractive vices but not to the level of those bestriding the world now or who did so in the past. What do they say “power corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Just substitute also into that equation wealth.
penury on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:05 am
Remember the quote,”whom the Gods would destroy they first drive crazy” it appears that humans are rapidly reaching peak insanity. Mission accomplished,
Outcast_Searcher on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:37 am
Great. Gee, how original. Blame someone (anyone) else. As though “we” can’t consume less, drive less, heat and cool less, or make more earth friendly decisions in general.
As though “we” can’t choose to have fewer or no children. As though “we” can’t choose to support green energy and high FF taxes to incent moving toward more green energy.
Yes, none of us are to blame and look how perfect the world is as a result. No capacity problem, no pollution, no AGW, no resource depletion. (Give me a break!)
Brilliant (NOT).
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:53 am
If not for the decades long ongoing multi billion dollar AGW denial campaign by the oil industry and similar propaganda and lies by many many pro cancer think tanks and economists, politicians we could have made an attempt to slow it down and extended our run instead of sentencing the younger generations to a dystopian future and most likely ending the species. They also fucked up my retirement plans to – mother fuckers. The fact is they lied and cheated and corrupted to maintain and acquire power, wealth and status. That’s a fact and that fact negates all other arguments regarding “blame.” The debate ends there.
onlooker on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:58 am
Yes Outcast we could have done anything of those things but under the right circumstances. Just like a black poor kid could have become a Ivy League graduate and outstanding businessman. It is about the environment. We do have a selfish orientation and combine that with the lazy, stupid and greedy attributes we have and presto you have us now in this situation. But I still say that under the right leadership and conditions we could have taken a somewhat more benign trajectory. Instead we were fed lies about our trajectory about how bad fossil fuels were and our greed was satiated with an Economic system cleverly devised by the Elites for that precise purpose as they would in the end reap the most benefits in power and wealth. We are all guilty above all of one thing SHORT SHORTSIGHTEDNESS. Very few really wanted to look where our trajectory was taking us.
Chris Hill on Sun, 22nd May 2016 11:04 am
That’s the problem, nobody wanted or wants to look where it is taking us. Also for some who can think about this stuff to some extent, they don’t want to give up the possibility that civilization may be able to give them years of life they wouldn’t have without it.
One byproduct of civilization which helps maintain the status quo is the advances in military technology civilization brings. People may think of revolution if the government isn’t much better armed than they are, but what civilization has brought is a very well armed government, and automation has allowed fewer and fewer people to effectively control more and more firepower. Good luck getting any sort of revolution going in a first world country.
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 11:13 am
Outcast_Searcher, plenty of people and organizations have done that and have been promoting those changes in their free time or as their job but were and still are blocked at every turn by some of the most powerful people and industries on the planet and their bought and paid for politicians. David and Goliath. They have been out spent on the propaganda battle by orders of magnitude. Humanity is a cancer and would have killed itself eventually anyway IMO, but these power hungry people did everything they could to promote uninhibited growth – consequences be damned. It’s how power has always worked. It’s not that they want to see the planet become uninhabitable for the humans, it’s just that getting and maintaining power trumps all other concerns.
techkno on Sun, 22nd May 2016 11:19 am
Makati1 says ‘After all, “WE” have always outnumbered our masters.’ Many wild animals travel in herds following an alpha male. Naked apes are only a little different. We are kinda smart, and sometimes we read and study intellectuals who try to explain stuff but too often we are emotionally driven by our neurophysiological demons. Acquisition of wealth and power has been called an aphrodisiac, it is also an addiction. At some point the rewards like endorphins drive the robber barons just like a drug addict will do anything for a fix. Those of us that follow blindly do so out of fear as well as satisfaction with the status quo. Occasionally enough of the masses will throw their lot in with revolutionaries and if lucky, humanity takes two steps forward. Ultimately we end up taking one step backwards or in the case of The United States, we have taken several steps backward recently and are about to take a “giant leap” backward for mankind, (sorry Neil). Choose Trump? Choose Hillary? either way we’re screwed.
We can take two steps forward and halt the descent by choosing someone who understands ‘overshoot’ and has a plan to wrest control from the “den of vipers and thieves”.
Vote Green Party, “The power to create this world is not in our hopes, it is not in our dreams. It’s in our hands!
Jill Stein 2016
GregT on Sun, 22nd May 2016 11:41 am
Very good article which hits the nail squarely on the head. Most people do not understand how their monetary system works. The very tiny minority who do, are either reaping benefits from it, or have no possibility of opting out of it. It is fiat money itself which demands exponential growth. The monetary system being used to control much of the world today, is the USD. The Creature from Jekyll Island.
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”- Thomas Jefferson
“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.” — Rothschild Brothers of London
“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States” — Sen. Barry Goldwater
“This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.” — Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.
“We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it”. — Congressman Louis T. McFadden
“The regional Federal Reserve banks are not government agencies. …but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations.” — Lewis vs. United States, 680 F. 2d 1239 9th Circuit 1982
“A great industrial nation is controlled by it’s system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world–no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” — President Woodrow Wilson
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance.” — James Madison
“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.” — SIR JOSIAH STAMP, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920’s, the second richest man in Britain)
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest …But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.” — THOMAS A. EDISON
The Money Power! It is the greatest power on earth; and it is arrayed against Labour. No other power that is or ever was can be named with it… it attacks us through the Press – a monster with a thousand lying tongues, a beast surpassing in foulness any conceived by the mythology that invented dragons, were wolves, harpies, ghouls and vampires. It thunders against us from innumerable platforms and ,Yes, so far as we are concerned, the headquarters of the Money Power is Britain. But the Money Power is not a British institution; it is cosmopolitan. It is of no nationality, but of all nationalities. It dominates the world. The Money Power has corrupted the faculties of the human soul, and tampered with the sanity of the human intellect… Editorial from 1907 edition of The Brisbane Worker (Australia)
“…I am convinced that the agreement [Bretton Woods] will enthrone a world dictatorship of private finance more complete and terrible than and Hitlerite dream. It offers no solution of world problems, but quite blatantly sets up controls which will reduce the smaller nations to vassal states and make every government the mouthpiece and tool of International Finance. It will undermine and destroy the democratic institutions of this country – in fact as effectively as ever the Fascist forces could have done – pervert and paganise our Christian ideals; and will undoubtedly present a new menace, endangering world peace. World collaboration of private financial interests can only mean mass unemployment, slavery, misery, degradation and financial destruction. Therefore, as freedom loving Australians we should reject this infamous proposal.” — Labor Minister of Australia, Eddie Ward, during the inception of the World Bank and Bretton Woods
onlooker on Sun, 22nd May 2016 12:51 pm
Thank you Greg for those illuminating quotes on the power of money and those who control it. I would add one more quote from a Rothchild family member
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws” — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
sunweb on Sun, 22nd May 2016 1:01 pm
Just say I.
I am polluting our ground water by using the natural gas from fracking. I am creating havoc in the oceans by spilling life-killing oil. I am also plasticizing the oceans. I am also limiting or eliminating species after species in the ocean, on the land, in the air. I am putting my medicines into the rivers and the water supply. I am greedily creating food sources that only I control. I am removing the topsoil. I am gouging huge holes in the earth. I am burning coal and creating nuclear waste for thousands of years to come for my flat screen television, my computer and my DVD player. I am putting mercury and acids into the air, water and life. I am melting the ice caps and the glaciers. I am heating the planet to drive my snowmobile, my wave runner, and my four-wheeler and to drive to any damn place I want. I am using many people to cater to my many whims.
I saw the DVD “What a Way to Go” yesterday. It was very well done in listing the freight train laden with our woes coming straight at us. The many speakers continually said, “we are doing this” and “we are doing that”. They must have been talking about me. Because I am aware of these things and more and I keep doing it.
http://sunweber.blogspot.com/2011/05/just-say-i.html
John Weber
Busy in Northern Minnesota doing all these things and more.
onlooker on Sun, 22nd May 2016 1:09 pm
Well, Sun then we have reached a point when all we can do is point out the futility of it all. Just like a cigarette smoker whose been told over and over again how bad the habit is, yet his/her addiction does not allow them to change course. Even though they know where it all leads. Well, humanity cannot change course, people in rich countries and not going to wake up one day and forfeit what they still have. People in poor countries will not stop procreating. This trajectory is inevitable by all reasonable measurements. And even if much of this happened it may not save us because runaway global warming seems now to have been activated. We are like the passengers on the Titanic after hitting the iceberg, too late to do much and not much that will or can be done.
Davy on Sun, 22nd May 2016 1:49 pm
Yea, Sunweb, I think the same way. Just being alive as a westerner I am killing mother earth. I am not sure it matters in macro because the whole global world is out of control and going in the wrong direction. Yet, at the local and individual level I think it does matter practicing relative sacrifice for a number of reasons. One reason is just self-interest. An individual and small community that make efforts at sustainability and resilience by practicing a separation and detachment from the status quo are more apt to survive a collapsing global system process. These actions are sacrifices because they are efforts over and above what must be done in the status quo. You have to make a living and try to do your changing and this is double duty. Relative sacrifice can be personally rewarding as an individual and a community. Being able to say I am doing less because I want to be less responsible for the destruction is honorable. So it is a survival thAng and a moral/ethics thAng.
We are stuck in our socio-economic slots so we can practice relative sacrifice per that life status making some kind of a difference. Just say “No” where you can say no. Do something to say “No”. Do less and say “No”. Don’t bother making it into an extreme effort yet because it won’t mean shit in the “here and now” in the status quo. We are already doomed but don’t know it so consequently any sacrifice you make will be sucked up by someone else who could give a shit. It is far better to feel good about yourself and increase your survivability than to make extreme changes that actually make you and your family less resilient, sustainable, and having your extreme sacrifice taken advantage of by those who could care less.
That is pre-crisis once a full blown crisis is a reality then we may be in a new stage where much more is going to be asked of us or forced upon us. We don’t know what kind of measures governments are going to take when civilization starts to break down because of food shortages, fuel shortages, and economic collapse. At this next stage your efforts are going to be much more significant and important because our survival is going to be much more at risk. When we get to this stage is when you can get extreme because you may be forced into it.
Sissyfuss on Sun, 22nd May 2016 3:48 pm
I guess George Bailey was not born after all and now we find ourselves living in Pottersville instead of Bedford Falls. If everyone keeps trying to play it safe, in the end no one will be.
Anonymous on Sun, 22nd May 2016 4:48 pm
The thing about dumping the blame on “us” is that once everyone is responsible, then nobody is responsible.
This is a favorite trope of a certain militant exceptionalist here. He likes to dress up the diffusion of responsibility, as its more formally called, by saying ‘We all live in a interconnected complex world’. While that sounds….like words, what it really means, is, the uS is never responsible for *anything* to any great degree, rather it simply responds to, and gets pulled along by the actions of ‘others’. Its always ‘others’ with him though, the uS is seldom identified as the prime mover in any significant negative event.
The author understand the pitfalls of assigning blame to ‘complex’ systems very well.
Davy on Sun, 22nd May 2016 5:32 pm
Anonymity, have I got under your skin finally, lol lol. We do live in a diluted world of smoke and fog when it comes to blame. It is clear the Western European white man is the reason for most of the what is wrong in life today. This putrid European legacy is most fully manifested in the decaying American empire. Anonymous, you as a Canadian are complicit in these sins. You yourself are an accomplice in the crimes against humanity being so connected to the Americans as Canada is. Try that on for size youngster and tell me how it fits.
JuanP on Sun, 22nd May 2016 7:19 pm
Who are we? We are our worst enemy, is what we are.
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 8:10 pm
The cancer industry is never going to stop – whatever it takes to keep going, they’ll do it. Maybe it is just biologly. Programmed through evolution to degrade as much energy as is possible until extinction. Perhaps that is a universal law that has played out on millions of other planets with life and civilizations.
Top Democrats Ally With Oil and Gas Industry to Fight Colorado Anti-Fracking Ballot Measures
“Oil and gas companies are spending heavily to crush three Colorado ballot initiatives that would limit fracking. And some of the state’s most powerful Democrats are helping them.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/21/top-democrats-ally-with-oil-and-gas-industry-to-fight-colorado-anti-fracking-ballot-measures/
Oil industry money flowing into Silicon Valley state Senate race
“A coalition of oil companies, including Chevron, Valero and Tesoro, this month contributed $339,000 to fund TV ads and website work for Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, who is challenging state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, for the 15th District seat. The industry group, which calls itself the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, is seeking to oust Beall.”
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_29918520/oil-industry-money-flowing-into-san-jose-state
I love how they name these coalitions.
“the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class”
the Coalition of fluffy bunnies, cute puppies and rainbows and unicorns.
cause we care
Boat on Sun, 22nd May 2016 8:40 pm
Davy,
It is clear the Western European white man is the reason for most of the what is wrong in life today. This putrid European legacy is most fully manifested in the decaying American empire.
Lol, why do you wast time trying to access blame. It is what it is.
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 8:42 pm
Record-Breaking Heat Grips India Amid Rash of Farmer Suicides
“Temperatures in India reached a record-breaking 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit today, according to the Associated Press, suffocating parts of the country, and drawing further attention to a tragic rash of suicide deaths among the nation’s impoverished farmers, who are battling drought and other environmental conditions that stifle agricultural production.”
“This is the first effect of climate change, I must say. Because of it, there is no water, there is no agricultural development, and that is why farmers commit suicide,” Maharashtra’s Rural Development and Water Conservation minister, Pankaja Munde told an Indian cable news network in December 2015.”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/record-breaking-heat-grips-india-amid-rash-farmer/story?id=39263639
Davy on Sun, 22nd May 2016 8:44 pm
Boat, why don’t you and Anonymous hitch up and talk over these issues then get back to me with your results.
GregT on Sun, 22nd May 2016 9:20 pm
“It is clear the Western European white man is the reason for most of the what is wrong in life today. This putrid European legacy is most fully manifested in the decaying American empire.”
Holy shit Boat, you actually said something that makes sense!
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:01 pm
Arctic Sea Ice Goes Far Beyond Record Low Extent for May
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/arctic-sea-ice-goes-far-beyond-record-low-extent-for-may
Apneaman on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:05 pm
50 million Africans face hunger after crops fail again
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/22/africans-face-famine-after-crops-fail
GregT on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:11 pm
Oops sorry, my bad. I should have known better. You forgot those little ” ” marks Boat. Once again, epic failure.
makati1 on Sun, 22nd May 2016 10:58 pm
Aw GregT, don’t be so hard on him, he is trying. That was a pretty profound statement for him. Unfortunately, there is no way to change or correct mistakes here. Hit submit and it is written in stone. Or at least electrons.
theedrich on Mon, 23rd May 2016 2:17 am
Affluence leads to “affluenza.” Homo sapiens evolved in an environment of scarcity and desperation, one with little respite from difficulties of all types internal and external. So he has an innate urge to grasp after more of everything, regardless of whether he needs it or what the costs are to the rest of society.
The average White IQ is (by definition) 100, which, it must be admitted, is only barely enough to support his civilization. However, and again on average, the White man’s genetics-based behavior enables him to live in relatively tidy and orderly social communities. By contrast, most non-Whites around the globe have lower IQs and less civilized behavior, as anyone who has traveled to, say, sewers like Mexico, the Philippines or Bangladesh can see for himself. American Negroes, with perhaps 15% White admixture, average 85 in IQ, with correspondingly animalistic behavior. The political powers like to imagine that if they force Negroes and other non-Whites on the Whites, Whiteness will somehow rub off on the darkies. Of course, the reverse is happening, as we can now see with the narcotics explosion, cultural decay and general collapse in civility.
Meanwhile “our” government is devising ever more devastating means of committing vast war crimes, now developing star wars weaponry to wipe out half of the globe. All to keep truth, justice and the American Way (of stopping evolution through racial miscegenation) humming along. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “death from above.”
The mogul-controlled media, with their canned-laughter-packed sitcoms, their carefully designed “news” and subliminal advertizing, tell us that we need serfs, narcotraffickers and whores from the sewerlands of World3 in order to “do the work Americans don’t want to do.” In reality, this propaganda simply creates more affluenza and its resulting problems. And of course, those much-ballyhooed, pious Judeo-Christian values prevent us from reducing the world’s low-IQ population in any rational way. So “our” government (soon with Hillary at the helm) will eventually obliterate most (or maybe all) of our species helter-skelter in order to save it. A magnified version of FDR and Truman’s holy, Judaically approved slaughters in the “good war.”
Apneaman on Mon, 23rd May 2016 5:52 pm
Douchy, take a million of your average white new borns and stick them in the ghettos of the world to be raised up, then when they turn 18, give them all the western white mans IQ test and watch your stupid hypothesis crumble. When little cracker baby takes the test after 18 years trying to survive the Calcutta ghetto, there is a reason why his algebra skills are not up to par.
Intelligence undoubtedly has a significant heredity/genetic component, but the IQ tests have major cultural bias’s that aren’t all that useful.
Obviously, your intelligence gene number didn’t get called in life’s DNA bingo game. Maybe intelligence does run in your family, but skipped a generation in your case – it happens.
Apneaman on Mon, 23rd May 2016 6:08 pm
Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring
“Abstract
Prior work shows western US forest wildfire activity increased abruptly in the mid-1980s. Large forest wildfires and areas burned in them have continued to increase over recent decades, with most of the increase in lightning-ignited fires. Northern US Rockies forests dominated early increases in wildfire activity, and still contributed 50% of the increase in large fires over the last decade. However, the percentage growth in wildfire activity in Pacific northwestern and southwestern US forests has rapidly increased over the last two decades. Wildfire numbers and burned area are also increasing in non-forest vegetation types. Wildfire activity appears strongly associated with warming and earlier spring snowmelt. Analysis of the drivers of forest wildfire sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring demonstrates that forests at elevations where the historical mean snow-free season ranged between two and four months, with relatively high cumulative warm-season actual evapotranspiration, have been most affected. Increases in large wildfires associated with earlier spring snowmelt scale exponentially with changes in moisture deficit, and moisture deficit changes can explain most of the spatial variability in forest wildfire regime response to the timing of spring.”
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1696/20150178
Apneaman on Mon, 23rd May 2016 6:10 pm
New Orleans area sinking assisted by industry groundwater use
“The pumping of groundwater by major industries, including electric power plants and petrochemical facilities, may be causing soils to sink more quickly in the New Orleans area, and could pose a threat to levees and other flood control structures, including the Bonnet Carre Spillway, a new study concludes.
Scientists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Louisiana State University used a special kind of radar to measure the ground levels in 2009 and 2012, and the amount the ground sank during that time. The results in the article published recently in the “Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth” indicate some of the fastest subsidence, or sinking, rates seem to be in areas where groundwater is being pumped.”
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/05/new_orleans_area_sinking_assis.html
I had to do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZUsCONjIQ
theedrich on Mon, 23rd May 2016 10:23 pm
So the man-ape out near Hongcouver thinks that modern IQ tests are all culturally biased. I guess he thinks that applies to modern electroencephalography. Some years ago neuroscientists devised an “IQ cap” which, when its sixteen electrodes are attached to the scalp, in sixteen seconds give you “an accurate prediction (within one–half of a standard deviation) of what the subject would score on all eleven subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or, in the case of children, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children — all from sixteen seconds’ worth of brain waves.” Of course, the man-ape and other believers in mythology will never be dissuaded by fact or logic, so it is useless to bother with genosuicidists of that ilk.
Given that anti-Whites and despots everywhere are joining the global war on free speech, one can only expect more of such counter-factual jibberish from the stop-evolution crowd. Canada is only one example of the disease. Europe is finished and its future foreclosed due to its pseudo-democratic tyranny in this matter. The Communist and Mohammedan countries have always made sure that only their belief systems are given public airing. In Russia, wrong-thinking journalists are mysteriously murdered and their killers never caught. All of these countries are very much in the same boat with Canada and defectives like the man-ape. Funny that the latter chooses to avail himself of one of the few sites that allow free speech — sites such as are found only in the U.S.A.
Apneaman on Mon, 23rd May 2016 11:08 pm
douchy you want to debate neuro science, yet send me an article (with no link to said study) from 1996. There has been a shit load of brain research done since then. Where is the link to the study?
Well here’s an explainer from 2012 with research that says you’re full of shit………..again.
I know I know, the research team is all part of your “kill the white race” conspiracy……..again.
Western University research team turning the idea of intelligence testing on its head
“No worries — the most comprehensive research study ever done says standard intelligence tests are far dumber than you are, with a Western University research team turning the idea of intelligence testing on its head.
IQ tests simply can’t measure the many ways people can be smart, say Adrian M. Owen and Adam Hampshire from Western’s Brain and Mind Institute.”
“Owen emphasized the research findings don’t suggest traditional IQ tests be replaced with better tests; rather, that intelligence as defined by any IQ test is bunk.
In what Owen calls a double-whammy against IQ testing, researchers also used functional magnetic resonance imaging to map the brain paths where all these different types of thinking take place.
Images of the brain at work show high-level skills happen in different brain circuits: there’s no evidence for an “IQ node” that unifies them all as a master control for all these different smarts.”
“Owen admits to having “an appalling memory.” Yet, he’s widely regarded as one of the brightest minds in brain research.”
http://www.lfpress.com/2012/12/19/iq-tests-too-incomplete-to-measure-intelligence-western-researchers-find
As for your consistently unsupported free speech claims (not one link yet), I have been permanently banned from 6 different sites (go figure?) 1 was Canadian and 5 are American – let freedom regin fuck head.
Dredd on Tue, 24th May 2016 5:34 am
Crazy is as crazy does (Etiology of Social Dementia – 14).
Davy on Tue, 24th May 2016 5:34 am
I would agree IQ is a poor metric and one abused and used for private gain. I would also call into question intelligence at least modern man’s intelligence with facts, science, and math. None of this is any good if you are not first a good person to yourself, family and a citizen of nature. If you are not connected, oriented, and guided by our mother earth then your intelligence is just separating you from what gives you life and allows life. Intelligence is anti-life in its modern form.
We act like intelligence is so important but look where it got us. A Taoist saying goes “the clever will be deceived”. Today it is all about being clever and what does that tell you? Right we are a deceived species believing in our unnatural exceptionalism. The Native Americans were superstitious and savage but that had a place in their tribe and clan. They were connected to their ecosystem. They were not floating around in the fantasy and abstraction of modern man.
We would do good to end education as we know it. We need to go back to a natural education based upon the basics of survival which revolve around home economics and food production. Religion needs to be done away with but not spirituality. Religion has been shown in almost all cases to be a corruption of trust and knowledge pushing a false connection that stresses separation of the faithful. I am not calling into question all religious theology just the application of it as a system.
If all this sounds new age tree hugging, and anti-intellectual it is in the sense that something radical needs to be considered. What we are doing is wrong currently and in our recent history or we would not have what we have today. Today we are paradox species caught in catch 22 traps of our own constructions. Right is wrong and wrong is right. No, right and wrong are universal what I am pointing to is the trueness of attitudes and lifestyles need to be turned on their head because we are in a new paradigm. We are back to the old paradigm of pre modern. We just started this pole shift so we will be in a time of destructive change, self-delusion, and drift. We should learn a lesson from our epic mistake. What was modern man for the last many thousands of years is proven to be a wrong turn for our species. Of course not everything is wrong but enough to say our big brain is a poor example of evolution in its current application as modern.
Sadly nothing can be done beyond acceptance. If turn your back on modernity this action means putting yourself and your family at risk of poverty. A few can manage it and they are the chosen people in the sense that this spiritual DNA will be the spark of a new man.
Most have no choice but to embrace the status quo of competitive cooperation. We have to be smart and productive to survive. I would just say have a deep and spiritual awareness of the farce of it all. If you can withdraw from the radar screen and go guerilla do it. Hide in broad daylight and come out only at night. What does this mean? Don’t contribute and sacrifice yourself for what is an insane asylum of human folly. Use the status quo where you must and where you can without compromising your dignity. Use the status quo as a tool to exit the status quo. Downsize with dignity and humility for your place with Mother Nature.
When I say respect Mother Nature it is because we are going to get a healthy dose of what she can do soon. Abrupt climate change is going to render society dysfunctional with in wide spectrum of areas. One of the most difficult will be food and location. We are going to disrupt our delicate food chain by profound climate instability. The location of many people will change such that they are not acclimated to the new climate regime. An example is the huge population in the South West US. Those people will be migrants eventually. Our economy that provides the complexity and intensity of energy driven transport and production is and will break down. It is clear it can’t handle limits of growth and that is where we are at.
What does this mean? This is a new relationship with nature and ourselves based upon a new age. If the “new age” turns you off tell me another term just try to get the point that what was is no longer. Call it pink if you like. We are going to have to adjust and adapt to the nature of our local. No longer will we be able to separate ourselves in a modern envelope of support that comes from the tentacles of globalism. We are going local and we are coming back to nature unprepared and naked. This will require humility and acceptance of how great nature is and how insignificant we are.
Dredd on Tue, 24th May 2016 6:04 am
The Oilfluenza and Affluenza ooze from the Oil-Qaeda minions like a cloud of dementia fogging up a brain (Oilfluenza, Affluenza, and Disgorgement).
Boat on Tue, 24th May 2016 8:38 am
ape,
I have been permanently banned from 6 different sites (go figure?) 1 was Canadian and 5 are American – let freedom regin fuck head.
You know why it’s hard to leave this site? Where else can one read such raw comedy. You ought to go on the road ape. Your humor comes natural to you.
JuanP on Tue, 24th May 2016 10:00 am
Boat, I have had my comments blocked for the first time in my life in the last month. Russia Today, or RT as it is known, doesn’t allow me to post comments there any longer. It seems I am too intense, honest and truthful for them. Their loss!
I do like swearing when I think it serves a useful purpose, so I don’t know whether it was my ideas or my language that they objected to. Most of my comments they deleted before blocking me, though, were critical, well thought out, and courteous, so I think I was politically censored.
Dredd on Tue, 24th May 2016 1:17 pm
Blaming the victim is the cowardly province of Oil-Qaeda (The Psychology of the Notion of Collective Guilt, 2).