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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Empire

Empire

By Antoinette Muller
October 31, 2017

The empire has fallen
And it will try to rise again
It had the strength of 100 horses
And 1000 armed men

But the empire has fallen,
Will it ever rise again?

The king and the queen
Had to forfeit their crowns
Their empire is burning
And the troops are trying to kill the flames

In time,
A fallen empire will rise again.

And thy kingdom will come
Thy will, will be done
But the men will always hold
The memory of defeat

Monday, October 30, 2017

One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive

One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
October 30, 2017

Before the idiots in Washington get us blown off of the face of the
earth, the morons had better come to terms with the fact that the
US military is now second class compared to the Russian military.

For example, the US Navy has been made obsolete by Russia’s
hypersonic maneuvering Zircon missile.

For example, the speed and trajectory changes of the Russian
Sarmat ICBM has nullified Washington’s ABM system.

One Sarmet is sufficient to take out Great Britain, or France,
or Germany, or Texas. It only takes a dozen to wipe out the
United States.

Why don’t you know this?

For example, Washington’s enormously expensive F-35 jet fighter
is no match whatsoever for Russian fighters.

For example, US tanks are no match for Russian tanks.

For example, Russian troops are superior in their combat readiness
and training and are highly motivated and not worn out by 16 years
of pointless and frustrating wars over no one knows what.

If the US ends up in a catastrophic war with a militarily superior
power, it will be the fault of Hillary Clinton, the DNC, former
CIA director John Brennan and the military/ security complex,
the presstitute media, and the American liberal/progressive/
left, which, made completely stupid by Identity Politics, has
allied with neoconservative warmongers against President Trump
and prevented Trump from normalizing relations with Russia.

Without normal relations with Russia, nuclear Armageddon
hangs over us like the sword of Damocles.

Do you not agree that it is outrageous, astounding, inexcusable,
inexplicable, reckless and irresponsible that the Democratic Party,
the print and TV media, the military/security complex that is
supposed to protect us, and the liberal/progressive/left are
working hand in glove to destroy the human race?

Why is there so much opposition to normalizing relations with
a nuclear power?

Why did even the Greens jump on the anti-Trump propaganda
bandwagon.

Don’t the Greens understand the consequences of nuclear war?

Why is there such a crazed, insane effort to eject a president
who wants to normalize relations with Russia?

Why are these questions not part of the public discourse?

The failure of political leadership, of media, of the intellectual
class in America is total.

The rest of the world must find some means of quarantining
Washington before the evil destroys life on earth.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48124.htm

Saturday, October 28, 2017

The Empire of Lies

The Empire of Lies

By Smaller Than Galaxies
October 28, 2017

Think for yourself they'll tell you,
But you'll never agree,
Because you want no liberty.

Even though it is all or nothing,
A willingness to die by those values,
But they'll tell you that you're incompetent,
While they steal another set of data.

Quietly from the cradle,
And you'll think that's fine and okay,
As you watch another show and simply lay.

They want you to be politically minimal and vote the same,
Because it is cause for a simple aim,
To vote for everything to be as it once was,
The counter will buzz as the state lives on.

The surface level is easy, quick, and enjoyable,
Just 140 characters of freedom are enough.

Everything else is far too hard,
Because propaganda is still easy even in democracy,
Despite the fact that it's all fucking hypocrisy,
We'll never be free until you're willing to see,
That in the empire of lies truth is treason.



Friday, October 27, 2017

Demise of The American Empire

Demise of The American Empire
Pinpointing The Timeline

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Dissident Voice
October 27, 2017

Prior to 2001 and the launch of the War on Terror, the US political
elite adamantly denied (despite massive evidence to the contrary),
that the United States was an empire rather than a republic.

Because their sudden about face (i.e., acknowledgement and
promotion of US imperialism) was so recent, there has been little
opportunity for scholarly analysis of America’s effectiveness as an
empire.

It’s this void Alfred McCoy seeks to fill with In the Shadows of
the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power.

Competition For Control of The Eurasian Landmass

McCoy traces America’s serious global empire building to their
defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898, which
won them Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal Zone and the
Philippines.

He maintains that US strategies for empire-building, like those
of the former British empire, have mainly relied on seeking and
maintaining control of the “World-Island.”

The is a term coined by London School of Economics director
Halford Mackinder’s World Island in 1904.

Under this concept, the World Island consists of the vast European-
Asian landmass that is home to 70% of the world’s population, 75%
of its global energy resources and 60% of its current productivity.

How The US Maintains Military Control

After the US became the world’s preeminent superpower after
World War II, they have used nine basic strategies to maintain
military control of the Eurasian landmass: mass surveillance (based
on a system of extensive personal data collection that began during
their “pacification” 2 of the Philippines (1898-1907); CIA covert
operations (involving electoral interference, military coups,
installation of compliant puppet dictators, targeted assassinations,
torture, advanced technological weaponry (electronic sensors,
satellite imagery, drones, etc) and, increasingly, cyperwarfare
and space-based weaponry (most information about the latter
two is classified).

Falling Behind China Economically and Militarily

For me the most interesting section of the book examines ways in
which the US is rapidly falling behind China — not only economically
but militarily.

McCoy identifies Bush’s rash decision to invade Iraq as the start
of the American empire’s steady decline.

While the US has spent the last 16 years mired in unwinnable
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, China is busily building alliances
and investing their trade surplus (from selling Americans cheap
consumer goods) in Russia and other countries located in the
World Island.

In Afghanistan alone, they are responsible for 79% of foreign
investment.

Meanwhile China is rapidly creating a single economic zone across
the Eurasian landmass, with a vast network of high speed trains and
pipelines following historical Silk Road and Trans-Siberian Railway
routes – and soon a high speed Southeast Asian and Moscow-Beijing
line.

Even the Pentagon-linked Rand Corporation predicts China’s will
exceed that of the US by 2030 or sooner.

In 2010, China became the world’s leading manufacturing nation.

In 2014, it took the lead in the number of new patents it awards
annually.

Even more concerning is the rapid decline of US educational
standards compared to those of China, which has ominous
implications for the development of high tech weaponry.

Chinese students consistently score first in math, science and
reading, while US students score 27th, 20th and 17th respectively.

By 2025, China is expected to have better long range cruise missiles
than the US, better air defense aircraft, better electronic sensors,
better digital communications capacity, better computer processing
power and better cyber-security.

At the same time, they have a significant strategic advantage
because the US spreads its military resources so thin by fighting
so many foreign wars simultaneously.

According to McCoy, they already have the ability to cripple critical
US infrastructure (electrical and telecommunications grid and
pipelines) via cyber warfare.

Collapse Predicted Between 2030-2040

McCoy predicts (and makes an excellent case for) the demise
of the US empire some time between 2030-2040.

It could happen gradually, as US economic and military prowess
continues its steady decline – or suddenly, if the loss of its
privileged status causes the US dollar to collapse.

The impending implosion may be aggravated by climate change,
especially if the Pentagon is drawn into wars over dwindling food
and water resources or control of massive numbers of climate
refugees.


https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/10/demise-of-the-american-
empire-pinpointing-the-timeline

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Empire

The Empire

By Edward Coles
October 24, 2017

The Empire is built on the soil of a million dead soldiers.

Drug of war, crater covered up by miles of dust and distance;
Cameras cut to graves of the fallen 'brave'
As if bravery can only exist in death.

Meanwhile, cameras forgot
To catch the fall of the still living into poverty
A life of psychological warfare.

How can you fund a disaster
When you have no proof that it is there?

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Proverbs Ten Twenty One

Proverbs Ten Twenty One

By Expotera
October 21, 2017

The pen is mightier than the sword. — English Proverb

It takes a whole village to raise a child. — African Proverb

A child is a bridge to Heaven. — Persian Proverb

Even a small star shines in the darkness. — Danish Proverb

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the
man who knows one. — Turkish Proverb

Begin to weave and God will give the thread. — German Proverb

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. — Russian Proverb

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
— English Proverb

Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.
— French Proverb

The best candle is understanding. — Welsh Proverb

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the
hunter. — African Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because
it has a song. — Chinese Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese proverb

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
— Maori Proverb

If you can't live longer, live deeper. — Italian Proverb

Don‘t go to another monastery with your own rules.
— Russian Proverb

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
— English Proverb

Ashes fly back into the face of he who throws them.
— African Proverb

Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom. — Greek Proverb

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go into the same
box. — Italian Proverb

A picture is worth a thousand words. — English Proverb

Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Journey

The Journey

By Linda Ori
Poem Hunter
October 19, 2017

Oh, I have walked this land before
Have wandered through some hidden door,
Left footprints on a distant shore
Then traveled 'round the bend;

I have appeared in many forms,
And I've encountered many storms,
Lived and died and been reborn
My lifetimes to defend;

There is a purpose so divine
That lets our spirits intertwine
And blossom into vintage wine
Our hearts and souls to blend;

And even though our paths divide,
That soul connection deep inside
Will hold us close though we have died
I'll know you as my friend

When we shall wander back again,
Neither knowing where or when,
No matter where our souls have been
The journey has no end......


https://www.poemhunter.com/poems/journey/page-1/2194018

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Twenty Four

Twenty Four

By Nicholas Gordon
October 14, 2017

Twenty Four is still in preparation,
Waiting for the future to begin.

Each moment is an infinite regress,
Neither more sustainable nor less,
Transforming what will be to what has been.

Yet the heart is fierce with speculation,
For now, so much depends on each sensation.

Opening a vista to the west,
Upon which one might choose which route is best,
Reckoning which wagers one might win.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

American Psycho

American Psycho

By Expotera
October 11, 2017

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate
to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
-- Sydney Schanberg

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones,
are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves
into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives,
as not to be perceived as tyranny. -- Michael Parenti

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles de Gaulle

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard,
are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,
when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and
devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science,
while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher,
hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing
the profits of a siege or tempest. -- Samuel Johnson

In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners,
it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
executioners. -- Albert Camus:

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and
civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
-- Abraham Flexner

The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic
war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because
most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and
the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts
that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial
patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man
objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
-- Clarence Darrow

A tyrant has succeeded in his search for absolute power when
his own people fear to question his actions. -- Ramman Kenoun

The, "civilized" have created the wretched, quite coldly and
deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; they are
responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; they rain down
bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide
that their, "vital interests" are menaced, and they think nothing
of torturing a man to death; these people are not to be taken
seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the
conscience of the civilized world. -- James Baldwin

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up
to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of
only one day, only one day, of modern warfare. -- Peter Ustinov

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it
so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside
ourselves. -- Albert Camus

I believe in liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms
and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the
freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine and ride on
the railroads uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as
they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. -- W. E. B. Du Bois

War is the business of barbarians. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who
are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
-- Frederico Garcia

When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the Flag.
-- Sinclair Lewis

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Psych Ward

Psych Ward

By John Davis
Counterpunch
October 7, 2017

It started at the end of the fifteenth century.

A cohort of brutal, sociopathic Europeans, fresh from the torture
rooms of the Spanish Inquisition, and later from duty in the
religious wars, arrived on American shores to kick butt.

By 1610, they and their successors, by steel sword, axe, knife,
pike, biological pathogens and very occasionally by blunderbuss,
had killed fifty million largely stone-age indigenous people.

In the northern temperate zone of this vast continent, some
of those mass murderers became the founding patients of the
Psych Ward; others followed, less blood thirsty perhaps, but
they too quickly adopted the deadly imperial ethos established
by those first conquerors.

This is the institution in which we Americans now find ourselves
immured.

Today, we continue to condone, as we whimper in our cells,
condos or McMansions, institutional killing at an industrial scale.

We continue to countenance the training of thousands of killers
(otherwise known as ‘our boys’) in ‘boot camps’ where their
sensitivities towards evisceration and ensanguining are blunted,
and many thousands more men and women who directly support
them logistically, nutritionally and medically.

We continue to revere the executives who command them and
who themselves train in elite colleges where they are taught the
fine arts of chemical, ballistic, incendiary and steel-edged death.

They are taught both the mastery of their death cadres and of
elaborate technical methods for the destruction of transportation
networks, food production, water supplies, shelter and culture;
some may graduate with minors in wreaking political mayhem,
plundering and the practice of torture and mind control.

From 1610, a year now marked in honor of the fact that native
cultures had been destroyed to the point where vast acreages of
temperate and tropical forests had replaced their seasonally burnt
hunting and gathering fields and thus established the benchmark
for the global encapsulation of CO2 behavior within the Psych Ward
changed little.

The patients’ mission to destroy lives, settlements, agricultures,
self-sufficient cultures and their ecosystems remained in place
rationalized by their desire for treasure and the satiation of their
blood lust.

At the end of the century, as their psychoses began to metastasize,
the patients turned in on themselves and murdered, by hanging,
twenty women who spoke against the Ward’s ethos and established
themselves as people of peace, or who embraced their sexuality
or who declared their independence from the domineering men
who exemplified the prevailing, and much honored, sicknesses of
the mind.

Although partly peopled by those in search of the freedom to
worship their monotheistic deity, increasingly, the population
of the Ward transferred their religious allegiance to the Market,
where the bounties reaped from the spilling of blood were traded
one against the other in a downwardly spiraling death frenzy of
exploitation.

Nothing remained sacred except the Market.

Man and beast, ecosystems and mineral deposits were sacrificed to
this deity’s ceaseless demands for more, ever more, of everything.

In the eighteenth century, this ‘everything’ began to include the
trafficking of Africans stolen from their homes, families, and
cultures, and shipped to the burgeoning plantation economies
of the Ward.

In a vicious triangular trade between Britain, Africa and America
from whence flowed mostly the drug crops of sugar and tobacco
those that survived the Middle Passage slaved for their enslavers
and bred new slaves for their master’s sexual and economic
gratification; from Europe came the fine goods that fell into the
maw of the Ward’s omnivorous Market.

The by then ritualized killing of natives and the stealing of their
lands continued through the years in desultory fashion.

Towards the end of the century there was occasion for more
bloodletting as the Ward patients rose up against their imperial
master, the dotty King of England, to demand full control in their
worship of the Market and so gain revolutionary freedoms in the
practice of new liturgies in service to their God.

A further skirmish at the beginning of the nineteenth century
confirmed in the patients the dark desire to press on in the
annihilation of the indigenous people and to fully occupy what
they had come to imagine as their God-given, rightful swathe
of temperate North America.

Cotton shortly became the economic driver of this blood-thirsty
expansion.

Europe outlawed the slave trade in 1807, and the Ward was
forced to rely on their own production of enslaved Africans.

They bent to their task with a will, shipping coffles of shackled
slaves south and west to tend the new fields of cotton – now the
world’s most valuable commodity.

There they were forged by what Edward Baptist calls the whipping
machine into an army of scourged bodies, a cotton-picking
industrial machine of ferocious efficiency.

For six or more decades, this machine produced the great wealth
of the Ward that enabled it to create the world’s second industrial
revolution; its sickest patients becoming some of the richest people
in the world.

Even now, the red stripes of the Ward flag evoke the bloody
striations of the whipped slave’s back and the box of stars in
its corner the miss-firing synapses of the black man’s brain,
beaten about the head by the overseer’s cudgel for missing
his ever-growing quota of picked cotton.

African Americans were finally emancipated in the first war
in which automatic weapons played a significant part, and
in which over 600,000 patients lost their lives.

In time, the freed slaves adopted the arts and culture of death
and they too became patients of the Ward.

Because of the color of their skin, many were at first hung by the
neck from trees on the slightest pretext, but over time the many
were more mercifully, but equally unjustly, quarantined in the vast
infrastructures of incarceration that have since become a vital part
of the Ward’s culture.

Towards the end of the 1800’s, the generals mandated the
destruction of the Buffalo because it served as life-support
for those few remaining Native warriors and their families
who stayed outside of the Ward – their extirpation promising
in return, the rich breadbasket of the Prairies.

The beasts were piled high on the plains, machine-gunned to death
with only the tongues removed from the carcasses, as demanded of
the fickle marketplace.

Meanwhile, civilian patients shot millions of passenger pigeons
out of the sky and out of their roosts in a vast butchery that
resulted in a tiny fraction of the birds reaching market and
ending up on a patient’s table, whilst ensuring the extinction
of this once ubiquitous bird.

This was a time, against a background of great technological
progress, of the railroad and telegraph, of oil wells and mechanized
mining, when the endemic psychosis of the Ward sunk deeper and
deeper into the land and forever blighted its indigenous people, its
flora, fauna, and earthen crust.

It is redundant to list the wars of empire in which, over the last
century and a half, the Ward has participated.

The dead are numberless.

The technologies of death are ever more efficient and they
are spread ever more carelessly beyond the Ward to release
the toxic spores of its psychoses.

As unregulated patients, outside of the organized death squads,
we are permitted to possess weapons which are, it seems,
necessary implements for the expression of our primal, psychotic
urges.

Remarkably, for the most part, we don’t just kill each other; but
within the Ward, guns claim the lives of over 30,000 patients a
year, many are children, most are suicides.

Gun violence is the dark cloacal river that runs through the Ward
and expels the waste of our deepest mental disturbances.

Last week a patient killed almost sixty people and injured five
hundred more as he fired automatic weapons into a crowd of
country music fans dancing in an arena below his hotel window.

It was much remarked upon by the Ward media.

We were instructed by our leaders to pray for the loved ones of
the patients who had died.

I deeply regret their deaths: but it was just another night in the
Psych Ward.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/psych-ward

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Las Vegas

Las Vegas

By Expotera
October 4, 2017

On Sunday, October 1, 2017 the deadliest mass shooting in the
modern history of the United States of America occurred in the
city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Over 500 people ended up being shot and injured and
58 people were killed as a result of this very clear act
of, "Domestic Terrorism" in Las Vegas.

In America, no one wants to talk about, "Domestic Terrorism"
just like no one wants to talk about the, "National Debt" as well.

So down the proverbial, "Rabbit Hole" me and my fellow American's
shall continue to go, because no one wants to change or challenge
the current status quo.