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Friday, December 30, 2016

Stick a fork in the "Experiment" it's Done!!!


Ah, the little old Brzezinski has been replaced with Zee Big New Brzezinski.  I guess this is what happens when you're born to parents working Madison Avenue.  Okay! LOL, moving right along then,  The ink barely dry on his "Grand Chess board" tomb when in walks the Donald to slap the board to the floor and scatter the pieces.  Did the Zionist really think that they would be allowed to run America all by themselves?

 After some 400 years of oppression, the colonists had finally enough to be motivated to try something new.  A democratic republic that would be subject to the rule of law.  The problem is that,  under this type of rule,  the general public must have a good idea of what's going on and how things get done,  as well as the reasons therefore.  To fix this problem a scheme of public education was passed into law.  

That worked fine for a while, but the world just kept getting more and more complex as new discoveries were  made.  Radio and Television appeared and were quickly "weaponized".  By Hitler to subdue Germany, then by the U.S. to mold public opinion via Pearl Harbor.  But soon those wars were over and with a military industrial complex, chomping at the bit for the next big production schedule,  Eisenhower had to warn us of things to come, lot of good that did.

Using your tax dollars the CIA seized control of the media and used it for the benefit of the military industrial complex. Fomenting hatred of "others" they managed to sell war after war.  As pols learned from time after time, that no one gets punished for mistakes and blunders, or even for criminal designs, they became ever more increasingly emboldened until 911 became a capstone event. 

This bold thrust onto the pubic,  without evidence, science, equipment or proof,  a false narrative was pushed onto the public and it was swallowed hook line and sinker for many a year.  One reason was because over the years the American educational system has been eroded away almost to the point of being ineffective.  The main thrust of education is to arm students with the ability to think critically and not be easily fooled by fakery.  This made the nation resistant to brainwashing.  But then, Madison Avenue and the Military Industrial Complex decided there was a lot of  money to be made by brainwashing America by themselves.  Thus the brainwashed American became the norm and gov't could and did, get away with whatever it wanted.

Well, as we know things change.  With brainwashed Americans at the mercy of their gov't,  foreign powers began to salivate at gaining access to some of those levers of power,  seeing as America was the most powerful nation on earth.  The trouble is,  when they should have been trying to put "big dangerous America" back on its solid footing,  they all sought to enjoy the short term advantages of running successful missions using a deceived America as the weapon of choice.  

Now the brainwashing has gone too far and Donald Trump is the new infant terrible.   No one can figure what he will do because he has no idea himself.  He doesn't, for example, understand the meaning of "MAD" (mutually assured destruction).  So, when he says that our nuclear arsenal needs to be improved and increased,  he's telling you that:  1) He doesn't know that we already have enough weapons to destroy the world several times over all by ourselves.  The other side doesn't even have to fire a shot and we can sterilize the planet.

2) He doesn't know that a nuclear war is one that cannot be "won",  it is a last ditch effort to make absolutely sure that our enemies go to their graves as surely as they send us to ours.  

3) He might come to conclude as Donald Rumsfeld did, that: hey, maybe we should do the first strike thing?  You know, catch them by surprise so they can't retaliate.  Which may sound reasonable to an ignorant fool.  Any knowledgeable  person is totally horrified by such dangerous thinking.  

Well, with that grand chessboard on the floor and Trump kicking the pieces under the couch.  With foreign powers scurrying for a hand on America's levers of power,  it will be well neigh impossible to carry out any coordinated mission with precision.  So, what we're going to get instead is a good long period of confusion, showing just how goofy our leadership is.  Watch as these clowns run to the right one day, then scramble to the left the next day,  then try to explain that left is right and right is left and that although they agree with all of it, they themselves are part of none of it.  I just pray that no one gets hurt while the meltdown progresses.  

Looking back down the corridors of time, a funny little fact emerges.  The greatest enemy of all great empires it turns out is not poverty but, get this: Prosperity!  It is prosperity that makes people complacent and inattentive to the national state of affairs.  It is prosperity that hardens the hearts of the prosperous against the impoverished,  who rational people, more attentive maintaining their own prosperity, should be devising ways to bring them along.  

When everyone has little to nothing,  they look at their fellow man as a friend, but when lots of people have lots of things, that same fellow man becomes little more than competition.  The "haves" chasing after the "have mores" have little time or interest in the plight of the "have nots".   While the "have mores" use their access to the law to "circle the wagons" against social mobility.  Until finally the entire enterprise becomes one writing such ridiculous,  misshapen and mangled laws that the nature behind them becomes oppressingly apparent and thus compliance becomes increasingly difficult to obtain.  Innovation is squelched, the treasury spent, and gains become difficult if not impossible to obtain.  

If history teaches anything it should be that vagaries of prosperity are what should be guarded against.  But, because prosperity is commonly thought to be such a good thing,  who would think it to be the harbinger of a societies downfall, but that is exactly what it is. 

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Putin made a master stroke and few people noticed it.

Only someone, very wise in the ways of the world, could have crafted such an action. Nor is there any need to guess at where this action will take the world, but Putin is jockeying to become a world leader and he's well on his way to accomplishing that task. Read on:

The utility of war and warfare has a long history, steeped, as it were in deception, intrigue and economics. For those who have read the classics you know that at the root of all wars is resources. Tribes held productive lands while nomads wandered from place to place. As these wanders grew in numbers, and as settled people prospered, the wanders, seeking to survive, decided that it was better to die in battle than to simply sit patiently and starve to death. So, first they drove hunter gatherers from productive sections of jungle, then gouged themselves on the fruits of their conquests.

The trouble was, they were not as good at husbanding their newly acquired lands as the former settlers had been. Why should they be any good at caring for the land? They were wanders, when the land they were on gave out, they simply picked up and sought another battle for the resources they needed.

Then came the farmers. With care, and labor they tended their crops and were able to raise more than sufficient produce for themselves and so there was something to trade. Trade allowed people to leave the land and pursue other ideas about creating resources. For example potters and masons. It was no longer necessary to have everyone working at farming and tending animals. But raiders came to take away the farmers production as well as any resources, gold, copper, silver etc., that the non-farmers had earned.

After a while the farmers realized they needed an army to protect their stores and so gov't was born. With gov't came leadership and power in the hands of a few. At first the duties of gov't were rudimentary, simply to protect from invaders and collect taxes, which were gov't's principal source of income. Then they expanded their powers to settle disputes and regulate trade and finally as they became more sophisticated, they began bestowing and removing rights. As a societies ultimate weapon, gov't came to hold the power of life and death over each and every citizen. As the system of governance became more complex, with the growth of the population and trade, a forum of associates, known by various titles, was devised to share these immense powers.

In the course of governing, the immense power of leadership allowed for the public treasuries to be either handled in a proper fashion, or squandered uselessly as the prowess (or lack thereof) of successive leadership provided.

As you can easily see from this “quick and dirty” narrative, the problems faced by governments was the selection of leaders and the matter of ruling by law. In the first instance, the means of succession of leadership was often decided by matter of birthright, this did not work so well as Caligula's two year reign of terror reveals. Still this method continued to be widely used. More modern governments use various voting schemes. These tend to fail because the population of voters isn't fully apprised of what constitutes good leadership.
Those who would be “king” realize that people are attracted to “strong” leaders, thus they hold themselves out to be “strong” by posing in a dictatorial fashion, rather than having some operational plan. At times campaigning for votes becomes more like some sort of movie script or tv commercial, than an actual appeal to be the next leader.

Look at Rome 1000 CE (or AD if you prefer), they had waterwheels and even hydro-dynamically driven piston motors. Now can you imagine what Rome could have become had they invested in that technology? So, the question is “why didn't they?” The answer is: Slavery! Because they had slaves to do the manual labor, they had no need of labor saving devices. Because they had not deemed it wise or prudent to educate the citizenry, there was no effort engaged to take technology to the next step. Slavery held them back, away from a future that would have been more prosperous than anything they could have imagined. That should be a lesson for every nation on earth, but sadly no, it isn't.

The use of steam engines would have been advanced almost a thousand years earlier. They had the metal, they had the means, the early start would have been troublesome without stainless steel to resist corrosion, but they also had glass which might have been used as a coating. Who knows how fast technology would have produced needed solutions. We do know, however, how much a water or steam driven mill can produce. But then, here we are, almost one thousand years of wasted effort, because leaders and public valued “strong” over “smart”.

Today we live in a world that is much more technologically advanced. So much so, in fact, that without our technology a good portion of the worlds population could not survive. Meaning that today, we are more dependent on smart than we ever were on “strong”. Terrorism? The Romans suffered it too. Why you ask? Well, because they wouldn't let people outside come inside and join in their prosperous society. They pressed invidious distinctions to keep “outsiders” out and it became their down fall.

Their own prosperity had weakened them to the point where they could no longer raise armies, they fell to hiring mercenaries. Mercenaries are loyal only to those who pay their salaries. Who pays the most, or offers the most, gets their support. When Rome fell under siege they could no longer trade, they could no longer pay and they were starved into submission by a horde with no education at all, just an ability to kill more and quicker than anyone else. Nature abhors a vacuum, to be of greatest use, education must flow to the masses or be rendered useless. If people cannot understand the intricacies of the systems that support the social/economic structure they survive by, they'll senselessly trash it without a care, only to face the consequences later. And “later” does nobody any good.

Which brings us back to today. Today where the Bush administration wildly sold the nation on the futile utility of war, in an effort to appear to be strong, he squandered both human and economic resources and gave the world reason to pause and reflect on US leadership. One doesn't lead by going around kicking people in the head. One leads by convincing others that their plans are good and/or better than what has gone before. In that light, the PNAC seems so outrageously silly, it appears to have more likely been crafted in an insane asylum than in some lofty “think tank”, by people of high caliber. The notion that one can stop terrorist attacks from occurring by the willful and wanton, randomized killing and displacement of millions of people, is something for psychiatrist and mental health professionals to behold. For example, the PNAC hadn't a clue that the oil they intended should pay the costs of the war, was already under contract to US oil companies. Thus, we wound up, in effect, taking possession of oil we had already brought and paid for. Worse, our European allies also had contracts for that oil, which, it turns out had to be honored as well. So “Mr and Mrs “PNAC” no war spoils oil for you! It should not have taken a genius to figure that out, long before the first shot was fired.

So here we have Donald J. Trump, planning to write some invidious distinctions into law. Yet another simplistic solution to a problem that, in reality doesn't exist, except in the minds of “supremacists” who seem to believe that, no matter your schooling or intelligence level, no matter your commitment to hard work, somehow the color of ones skin or their state of origin somehow makes them better suited to enjoy life, liberty and the right to peacefully pursue happiness. Go figure.

The gravest danger to the republic is that, like nations of old, a leader, untutored in governing will make an ungovernable mess of things. Putting into high office, officials whose main calling is some ideological bend, rather than people with a good grasp of the paradigms in operation therein, we get mangled decisions that either require constant correction, or that block the deployment of critical resources to fix problems while they're still small enough to be fixed. Try to imagine what a Clarence Thomas or an Antonin Scalia would have been at The First Continental Congress. At a time when a word here, a phrase there could have altered the course of U.S. History for the millions of people we have today.

But no, I won't say what Putin's masterful stroke was, if you didn't get it, don't worry you will eventually. I just don't want it's effect to be minimized by premature attention. It's already made the news once, fear not, it will again.


Thursday, November 17, 2016

What a mess we've lived through...

Bush and Cheney are given a pass!  They did not respond to warnings of a terrorist attack, in fact they hamstrung anyone who attempted to concentrate identification, prevention or who even theorized that an attack might be coming.  Instead of listening to their security advisors and putting their intelligence people and forces on alert status, they simply went fishing.  When the attacks happened it found our agencies in disarray, hamstrung my new rules that confounded the ability to respond.  Even down to the last few minutes, after two crashes in NYC, Cheney sat in the EOC getting reports on the whereabouts of an incoming skyjacked airliner and he did not call around to see what was being done or to ensure that key people were warned and taking steps to protect lives.  

Then, after the attacks were over, the Bush administration wanted us to believe that Saddam was somehow involved, when our own intelligence people knew that he wasn't.  They knew, for example that Saddam and OBL were enemies.  But, on top of that, they wanted us to believe tha Iraq, after taking a beating with bombings over a decade long and suffering sanctions that were causing starvation.  The told us he was making weapons of mass destruction and that our intelligence services got it all wrong.  Well,  you don't refine uranium with a single centrifuge, you need hundreds of them and that requires several buildings to house them.  While biological and chemical weapons programs require a huge research and development campus.   You'd think our intelligence people would know this and of course they did.  Meaning that this information was imprisoned by someone with the authority to do so.  Which explains the U,N. voting no. 

Then Bush sends our troop to fight an unnecessary war and suffer the injuries that come with warfare.  But, he cuts their benefits and pay while they're fighting,  So they're coming home homeless and suffering PTSD and Bush is unconcerned with their plight. Our troops were committing suicide in record numbers.  But all the Republicans can find to scream about is Hillary's emails and ObamaCare.    

Well, now they've got it all, the White house, the Senate and the House,  let's see if they have anything approaching a realistic view of how a government works.  This is not some childish game where he who can scream the loudest wins.  This is about running a nation, if they fail to do it right the nation will cease to follow, or worse.