I love your Blog, Dr. John. It is so meaty and I get info here that I never hear about anywhere else. I also appreciate that you carry Scott Ritter's comments on Putin's Russia. I am leaning more and more in that direction and appreciate his and Alex Krainer's perspective. Is Putin perfect? Far from it, but he appears to have worked a minor miracle through imprisoning and getting rid of many oligarchs who ruled Russia in the 1990's and has now made it possible for Russians to have a good life. Is it a Democracy? No--but neither is the USA at this point. Will we be able to return to 1776? No--but can we remake our country with blood, sweat and tears into a place we will be proud to call home? Maybe. It remains to be seen, but it won't happen without the effort of each individual. This is the era of individual responsibility. You are one who is taking individual responsibility, Dr. John. :)
Get ready to be Tom.Paine. You cannot bypass the MSM and the internet Snowden warned about controls without yer own printing and unhackable platforms such as Bill Binney is working on with Panquake. Invest in this and alternative means of communications.
Collective guilt, tax dollars at work and not one peace group even suggests a symbolic stand on taxes like not not pay the WW1 temporary phone excise tax. Nor to go a bit further are billboards detourned with protest images. Maybe it is not guilt but a common failure of nerve and imagination created by cubicle culture.
"Shale Merger Wave Fizzles" Stunning really, watching the bigger is better idea fail time and time again the PTB still believe it will produce more of anything physical just by consolidation. All this method has produced so far is more management, not production. The cuts it causes are mostly to the grunt sector which ends up looking good on the books as it shows up as both a reduction in overall costs and a higher per unit produced return. Zero net benefits to the consumer in the long run, just fewer jobs over all.
I love your Blog, Dr. John. It is so meaty and I get info here that I never hear about anywhere else. I also appreciate that you carry Scott Ritter's comments on Putin's Russia. I am leaning more and more in that direction and appreciate his and Alex Krainer's perspective. Is Putin perfect? Far from it, but he appears to have worked a minor miracle through imprisoning and getting rid of many oligarchs who ruled Russia in the 1990's and has now made it possible for Russians to have a good life. Is it a Democracy? No--but neither is the USA at this point. Will we be able to return to 1776? No--but can we remake our country with blood, sweat and tears into a place we will be proud to call home? Maybe. It remains to be seen, but it won't happen without the effort of each individual. This is the era of individual responsibility. You are one who is taking individual responsibility, Dr. John. :)
Thank You, Dariel. I'm not the only one taking responsibility, and I am glad to know that my efforts are of benefit to you.
Get ready to be Tom.Paine. You cannot bypass the MSM and the internet Snowden warned about controls without yer own printing and unhackable platforms such as Bill Binney is working on with Panquake. Invest in this and alternative means of communications.
"one if by land, two if by sea"
Best explanatory observation yet: "Why does ISIS only attack America's enemies ?" ?
Perps? Jagger told us but no wanted to hear "it was you and me."
But was it "you and me"?
:-o
Collective guilt, tax dollars at work and not one peace group even suggests a symbolic stand on taxes like not not pay the WW1 temporary phone excise tax. Nor to go a bit further are billboards detourned with protest images. Maybe it is not guilt but a common failure of nerve and imagination created by cubicle culture.
Most people only respond to clear threats. We're different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YoVJJmP_60
True. Cavafy has a poem on this.,
“For the gods perceive future things,
ordinary people things in the present, but
the wise perceive things about to happen.”
Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, viii, 7.
Ordinary people know what’s happening now,
the gods know future things
because they alone are totally enlightened.
Of what’s to come the wise perceive
things about to happen.
Sometimes during moments of intense study
their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound
of things approaching reaches them,
and they listen reverently, while in the street outside
the people hear nothing whatsoever.
It is isisK virus upgrade post imperial, brought to you by uncle Samantha
"Shale Merger Wave Fizzles" Stunning really, watching the bigger is better idea fail time and time again the PTB still believe it will produce more of anything physical just by consolidation. All this method has produced so far is more management, not production. The cuts it causes are mostly to the grunt sector which ends up looking good on the books as it shows up as both a reduction in overall costs and a higher per unit produced return. Zero net benefits to the consumer in the long run, just fewer jobs over all.
The US has had a massive managerial jobs program for over 40 years. It'll be a bad bust.
;-(