re: the latest Trump indictment, & "how will this look to the voters?" What the voters think makes no difference in our completely rigged elections (and Dem primaries). Those In Charge of the vote "count" will swipe enough votes from other candidates & apply them to the candidate of Their choosing to get the "win" They want. This has been SOP for at least 20 years, & all voting does is lend credibility to the farce. http://www.thepolemicist.net/2016/09/strike-vote.html
People have been going along with a gradually worsening status quo since Y2k or so, but to turn it around really DOES require the full-consent and fully-engaged participation of the body politic. It will take 12 - 15 years to reform from this systemic breakdown which is beginning, but cannot be stopped, I think.
We will know within a year. Changes to the imperial-court in Washington will need to take place before elections. If they do take place, I think we will see a Trump vs. Kennedy election, and that will mean that an actual executive will be elected, and will have some (how much?) executive authority to decide and negotiate on behalf of the US.
Otherwise the rest of the world will just walk around the US and move forward.
Totally agree with you. I saw Commiefornia go from a moderate place with a mix of parties in offices to, suddenly in the last 20 years, a hard leftist/progressive/socialist clown show. This is despite the fact that a large part of the state is conservative. This was from 1987 when there were like 3 Republican governors in a row to about 3 years ago when I GTFO. How could this happen? Well, if you like I'll post a link to the Santa Clara county contract with Dominion. That's how.
Resource wars! Things are going to get rough trying to keep the illusion of prosperity alive and well anywhere. The resources that are left will have to be allocated toward the mechanisms of control if control as we now see it is to be maintained beyond this decade. Some can see that the dots are turning into dashes soon to become a direct connection. You can't be fuelling the farmers machinery and have all that military hardware sitting idle to do so. The era of plenty is over and the era of scarcity is opening up. The MIC will do its level best to be the ones that burn the last drop at any cost.
I am surprised by RFK Jr.'s enthusiastic and "unconditional" support for Israel. Also, he seems to characterize Palestinians in a negative light. I really like RFK Jr, but am a little disappointed by some statements he made regarding Israel/Palestine. I think RFK Jr. believed that a Palestinian killed his father for most of his life, though he says that he no longer believes Sirhan killed his father. However, it seems that RFK Jr. still has a deep seeded hatred in his heart towards Palestinians . I hope that he debates Max Blumenthal on the issue like he said he would in the interview with Jimmy Dore.
It is the one stance which is out-of-character, as I see it. I think it was the Glenn Greenwald interview where Bobby Jr was put on the spot and came off as so uncomfortable reiterating his completely pro-Israeli stance. My own suspicion is that he made a deal long ago, perhaps as a teen, and is sticking to it.
JFK Jr. might have been killed for venturing into politics, which he was doing when his plane crashed.
Thanks for posting the RFK Jr. / Jimmy Dore interview. I'm starting to think I'd like to see a Trump/Kennedy 2024 ticket. Together, they have all the right enemies.
One of them could work on fixing the sabotaged economy and the other could work on fixing the many humanitarian issues. Each experienced in their own right, complementary. Could it happen?
re: human trifficking at The Border: it seems to me that the only solution to this is to force the top 2% (you know, the ppl who own 90% of all US wealth) to pay All. The. Taxes. Every single tax there is, plus all the "users' fees" on which so much of state, county, & local gov't relies for funding. As long as the non-rich are paying the tab, there's no limit to the hanky-panky which those who have money to burn will get up to.
How about announcing to the world that the border will be closing, closing it, and interdicting all of the people fromaround the world that bought contracts-for-passage from the cartels, flying them home, and busting some cartels?
Taxation and government funding also need to be revised, clearly so.
IMHO that would be way less effective, if at all. As long as the non-rich are footing the bill, the rich will be buying off the policing efforts, hiring cartels, selling guns & ammo to both sides, etc. etc. etc., & making out like bandits, as always.
I'm just not seeing that "rich" and "non-rich" are the operational categories to engage with intervention. Cartels are doing this brave-new-business, bribing and threatening. People around the world hear that they can get into the US, any city, for $10-15,000, so they make a deal with a cartel in their area and go.
The CIA has long been involved in illegal movements of drugs, guns and people. (Iran-Contra, Illegal wars in Laos & Cambodia, funded by heroin smuggling) Some of the cartels will be CIA-allies. This will be ugly.
Never fear, those doing this stuff are rich. Watch "JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick", on youtube; & read Russ Baker's FAMILY OF SECRETS. If foreigners want so badly to come here, it's probably because the CIA destroyed their country.
Really sad to hear that Gonzalo is re-arrested. I hope it's not true.
It was presumable that he was re-arrested. I kept looking for word.
This has been doubly confirmed.
The US State Dept. is not his friend, either.
Doubly sad but not a surprise.
Resist Kakistocracy.
"Cacastocracy"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
"Caca" means poo-poo, so about the same. :-D
re: the latest Trump indictment, & "how will this look to the voters?" What the voters think makes no difference in our completely rigged elections (and Dem primaries). Those In Charge of the vote "count" will swipe enough votes from other candidates & apply them to the candidate of Their choosing to get the "win" They want. This has been SOP for at least 20 years, & all voting does is lend credibility to the farce. http://www.thepolemicist.net/2016/09/strike-vote.html
People have been going along with a gradually worsening status quo since Y2k or so, but to turn it around really DOES require the full-consent and fully-engaged participation of the body politic. It will take 12 - 15 years to reform from this systemic breakdown which is beginning, but cannot be stopped, I think.
We will know within a year. Changes to the imperial-court in Washington will need to take place before elections. If they do take place, I think we will see a Trump vs. Kennedy election, and that will mean that an actual executive will be elected, and will have some (how much?) executive authority to decide and negotiate on behalf of the US.
Otherwise the rest of the world will just walk around the US and move forward.
Totally agree with you. I saw Commiefornia go from a moderate place with a mix of parties in offices to, suddenly in the last 20 years, a hard leftist/progressive/socialist clown show. This is despite the fact that a large part of the state is conservative. This was from 1987 when there were like 3 Republican governors in a row to about 3 years ago when I GTFO. How could this happen? Well, if you like I'll post a link to the Santa Clara county contract with Dominion. That's how.
Resource wars! Things are going to get rough trying to keep the illusion of prosperity alive and well anywhere. The resources that are left will have to be allocated toward the mechanisms of control if control as we now see it is to be maintained beyond this decade. Some can see that the dots are turning into dashes soon to become a direct connection. You can't be fuelling the farmers machinery and have all that military hardware sitting idle to do so. The era of plenty is over and the era of scarcity is opening up. The MIC will do its level best to be the ones that burn the last drop at any cost.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2023/08/03/our-oil-predicament-explained-heavy-oil-and-the-diesel-fuel-it-provides-are-key/
Thanks Red.
Gail Tverberg's analysis is always discerning.
I'll read it.
I am surprised by RFK Jr.'s enthusiastic and "unconditional" support for Israel. Also, he seems to characterize Palestinians in a negative light. I really like RFK Jr, but am a little disappointed by some statements he made regarding Israel/Palestine. I think RFK Jr. believed that a Palestinian killed his father for most of his life, though he says that he no longer believes Sirhan killed his father. However, it seems that RFK Jr. still has a deep seeded hatred in his heart towards Palestinians . I hope that he debates Max Blumenthal on the issue like he said he would in the interview with Jimmy Dore.
It is the one stance which is out-of-character, as I see it. I think it was the Glenn Greenwald interview where Bobby Jr was put on the spot and came off as so uncomfortable reiterating his completely pro-Israeli stance. My own suspicion is that he made a deal long ago, perhaps as a teen, and is sticking to it.
JFK Jr. might have been killed for venturing into politics, which he was doing when his plane crashed.
I don't know, though.
Thanks for posting the RFK Jr. / Jimmy Dore interview. I'm starting to think I'd like to see a Trump/Kennedy 2024 ticket. Together, they have all the right enemies.
One of them could work on fixing the sabotaged economy and the other could work on fixing the many humanitarian issues. Each experienced in their own right, complementary. Could it happen?
Trump could be an effective Secretary of State, negotiating for the US in the world.
re: human trifficking at The Border: it seems to me that the only solution to this is to force the top 2% (you know, the ppl who own 90% of all US wealth) to pay All. The. Taxes. Every single tax there is, plus all the "users' fees" on which so much of state, county, & local gov't relies for funding. As long as the non-rich are paying the tab, there's no limit to the hanky-panky which those who have money to burn will get up to.
How about announcing to the world that the border will be closing, closing it, and interdicting all of the people fromaround the world that bought contracts-for-passage from the cartels, flying them home, and busting some cartels?
Taxation and government funding also need to be revised, clearly so.
IMHO that would be way less effective, if at all. As long as the non-rich are footing the bill, the rich will be buying off the policing efforts, hiring cartels, selling guns & ammo to both sides, etc. etc. etc., & making out like bandits, as always.
I'm just not seeing that "rich" and "non-rich" are the operational categories to engage with intervention. Cartels are doing this brave-new-business, bribing and threatening. People around the world hear that they can get into the US, any city, for $10-15,000, so they make a deal with a cartel in their area and go.
The CIA has long been involved in illegal movements of drugs, guns and people. (Iran-Contra, Illegal wars in Laos & Cambodia, funded by heroin smuggling) Some of the cartels will be CIA-allies. This will be ugly.
Never fear, those doing this stuff are rich. Watch "JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick", on youtube; & read Russ Baker's FAMILY OF SECRETS. If foreigners want so badly to come here, it's probably because the CIA destroyed their country.